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9 OCTOBER 1415.
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PEBFACE.
More than a quarter of a century has elapsed since
The Genealogist first made its appearance under the
auspices of Dr. Marshall. The New Series, for which the
late Mr. Walford D. Selby, Mr. Keith W. Murray, and I
have been responsible, was commenced in 1884, and has
been continued with unbroken success to the present time.
During this long period all work carried on in connection
with the Magazine, both on the part of editor and con-
tributors, has been without fee or reward, and no attempt
has been made by the introduction of light and ephemeral
matter, not having a direct bearing upon genealogical studies,
to attract the outside public, to whom a well worked out
pedigree is and always will be utterly without interest.
This is a record of which we may be justly proud, and
I feel confident that the comparatively limited number of
students who are interested in genuine genealogical research
will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder, and do their
utmost to maintain the literary excellence of the Magazine
and to extend its circulation. I need not say how gladly
I should welcome an addition to the ranks of those who are
willing to contribute papers of genealogical and heraldic
interest.
In the able article with which this Volume opens Mr.
Round has given us another example of his unrivalled skill
in following up the threads of an intricate pedigree and
iv.
has succeeded in carrying the ancestry of the royal house
of Stewart a generation further back than he was able to
do in his recently published book. He has also raised
some questions of considerable importance, as, for instance,
the identity of the " Simon de Caisneto " to whom he refers
on p. 11. Sir James Balfour Paul's " Abernethy. Pedigree"
is all the more welcome from the fact that the papers we
have received dealing with Scottish genealogy have not
been numerous of late. Major Poynton's " Fee of Creon "
relates to an early Lincolnshire family, and contains at
p. 165 a most interesting fine, printed from the Harleian
Charters. Mr. Scott-Gatty in his paper upon King Arthur
deals with a crucial date in the remote history of this island,
and brings into far clearer light a problem which some
of our greatest scholars consider worthy of their closest
attention. To all other contributors who have so loyally
and kindly supported me during the past year in what is
by no means an easy task, I desire to convey my warmest
thanks, and especially I must acknowledge my sense of
obligation to General Wrottesley, Mr. Cokayne, Mr. J. W.
Clay, Mr. G. W. Watson, and Mr. A. J. Jewers.
I am indebted to the Rev. Roland de Cerjat for the loan
of an early original grant of arms to his family by Sigismund,
Emperor of Germany and King of Hungary, which has
been excellently reproduced by the Graphotone Company,
and forms the frontispiece to this Volume.
H. W. FORSYTH HARWOOD.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
The Origin of the Stewarts and their Chesney Connexion. By J. H.
Round ... ... ... ... ... ... 1
The Abernethy Pedigree. By Sir James Balfour Paul, Lyon King
of Arms ... ... ... ... ... 16, 73
An Early Grant of Arms. Contributed by J. Paul Rylands, F.S.A. 35
William Bentinck, first Earl of Portland. By J. H. Round ... 36
Pedigree of Dabzac. Contributed by Henry Wagner, F.S.A. ... 57
Coronation Letters. Contributed by Keith W. Murray, F.S.A. ... 65
"A Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Suffolk." By Walter Bye ... 69
The Austrian Branches of the Family of Walsh. By V. Hussey
Walsh ... ... ... ... ... ... 79
The Kirkstead Chartulary. De Tateshale. By W. IT. B. B. ... 89
The Nuns of Sempringham. Contributed by Major E. M. Poynton 110
The Ports of Basing and their Priory. By J. H. Round ... ... 137
The Baronetcy of Stapley. By H. W. Forsyth Harwood ... 140
The Fee of Creon. By Major E. M. Poynton ... 162, 219
The Countess of Ireland. By J. H. Round ... ... ... 166
King Arthur. By A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A., York Herald ... 209
The Pedigree of Ringesdune. By J. H. Round ... ... 216
License to John Forster, to wear his bonnet in the Royal Presence,
1520. Contributed by the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, F.S.A. ... 21S
Pedigree of Knowlcs of London. By G. E. C. ... ... 225
Willoughby of Willoughby, co. Lincoln. By the Rev. W. O. Massing-
berd, F.S.A. ... ... ... ... ... 230
Pedigree of the Family of Cruso. Contributed by George W. (!.
Barnard ... ... ... ... ... 246
Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls. By Major* General the Hon.
George Wkotteslky ... ... ... ... 25,92, L80, 284
vi.
PAGE
Dugdnle's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions. Edited
by J. W. Clay, F.S.A. ... ... ... 37,111,168,253
The 4(396 Qnnrtiers of King Edward VII. Compiled by
G. W. Watson ... ... ... ... 52, 104, 196, 26S
Grants and Certificates of Arms (Hinchliff to Humphrey).
Contributed by Arthur J. Jewers, F.S.A. ... 60, 125, 191, 274
lnquisitiones Post Mortem, temp. Henry VIII. to Charles I.
(Fisher to Foster) ... ... ... .., 66, 129, 204
Notices of Books : —
Fall Abstracts of the Feet of Fines relating to the County of
Dorset. (Richard I. to Edward II.) Edited by Edw. Alex.
Fry and George S. Fry ... ... ... ... 70
Memorials of the Duttons of Dutton, in Cheshire, with Notes
respecting the Sherborne Branch of the Family ... ... 133
Shakespeare's Family, being a Record of the Ancestors and
Descendants of William Shakespeare, with some Account of
the Ardens. By Mrs. Charlotte Carmtchaf.l Stopes ... 133
Domesday and Feudal Statistics. By A. H. Ixman ... ... 135
The History of Part of West Somerset. By Charles E. H.
• Chadwyck Healey, K.C., F.S.A. ... ... ... 205
The Parentage and Kinsfolk of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. By
Sir Robert Edgcumbe ... ... . ... ... 207
Annuaire De la Noblesse de Russie. Troisieme Annee ... 207
A History of the House of Douglas from the earliest times down
to the Legislative Union of England and Scotland. By the
Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., M.P.. F.R.S., LL.D. 277
Une Famille Royaliste, Irlandaise et Francaise, et Le Prince
Charles-Edouard ... ... ... ... ... 279
Publications of the Clan Lindsay Society, No. 1. Edited by W. A.
Lindsay, K.C., Windsor Herald ... ... ... 279
An Index of Names of Winchester Scholars in the Dictionary of
National Biography. By Herhert Chitty, M.A. ... ... 280
Notes and Queries: —
Petley Garnhnm ... ... ... ... ... 72
Redmnvne, of Thornton-in-Lonsdalt\ Yorkshire ... ... 72
Arms of Poynton and Boynton ... ... ... ... 135
Culpeper Family ... ... ... ... ... |3Q
VII.
Notes and Queries — continued. page
Halley ... ' ... ... ... ... ... 136
Abernethy Pedigree ... ... ... ... ... 208
Pedigree of Lord Palmcrston ... .. ... ... 208
An Early Grant of Arms ... ... ... ... 280
Curfcois Family ... ... ... ... ... 280
Illustrations : —
A Grant of Arms to the family of Cerjat of Moudon in Switzer-
land, 9 Nov. 1415 ... ... ... Frontispiece
Arms of Boynton of Rawcliffe ... ... ... ... 37
„ „ Nevill of Cbevet ... ... ... ... 39
„ „ Rawson of Pickburne ... ... ... ... 46
„ „ Brandling of Leathley ... ... ... ... 48
„ „ Mountaigne of "Westow ... ... ... ... 49
„ „ Middleton of Stockheld ... ... ... ... Ill
„ „ Ferrand of Harden-Beck ... ... ... 117
„ „ Marwood of Little Buskeby ... ... ... 123
„ „ Currer of Skipton ... ... ... ... 168
„ „ Fairfax of Oglethorpe ... ... ... ... 172
„ „ Cruso ... ... ... ... ... 246
„ ., Fairfax of Mensington ... ... ... ... 253
„ „ Bland of Kippax Park ... ... ... ... 255
„ „ Jennings of Kipon ... ... ... ... 259
„ „ Horsfall of Stortheshall ... ... ... 261
„ ' „ Weddell of Earswick ... ... ... ... 264
„ „ Hcwley of York ... ... ... ... 266
gjietorjj of the Jfamilj) of c&Jtotteslcn of aMiottcsIej. By
Major-General the Hon. George Wrottesley.
JHavnaije gicenrcs in the ^iocest of i&itli anb SHells.
Edited by Arthur J. Jewers, F.S.A.
Index of Persons ... ... ... ... ... 181
Index of Places ... ... ... ... ... ... 294
VU1.
CORRIGENDA.
Page 51, line 2, for 1699, read 1669.
„ „ „ 7, „ 1688, „ 1668.
„ „ „ 15, delete They had issue —
„ „ lines 16, 17, 18, bring Anne, Mary and Margery into line with
Elizabeth and Catherine, as daughters of George Mountaigne.
„ 95, line 7 from bottom, for Widmor, read Wichnor.
„ 172, „ 13 (Quartering of Etton), for crown, read cross.
THE OIUGIN OF THE STEWARTS AND THEIR CHESNEY
CONNEXION.
Alan Fitz Flaald the First.
Since the publication in my last book1 of the paper on " The
Origin of the Stewarts," certain additional facts have come or
been brought to my notice. 1 propose in the following pages to
put these together as supplementing the information there given.
The chief novelty produced in my paper was the appearance of
a "Float films Alani dapiferi," as a "baron" of William Fitz
Raderon, the Breton Lord of Monmouth, together with the explana-
tion that I offered for their appearing in conjunction. I showed
that the Lords of Monmouth came from the two adjoining com-
mune* of Epiniac and La Eoussac, close to Dol, while the family
of Alan Fitz Flaald were dapiferi of Dol, and that the two families
are found, in England, as benefactors to the Abbey of Sr. Florent
de Saumur, which had enlisted the sympathies of the Lords of
Dol. It was at the dedication of Monmouth Priory as a cell of
that abbey that William Fitz Raderon and "Float filius Alani
dapiferi " appear in conjunction.2
Now a charter relating to the nunnery of St. George of Rennes,
which was granted by William's father Raderon, has " Alarms
nlius Flaaldi " for its first witness. Here then we have not only
the two families brought into conjunction in Rritanny as in England,
but, it would seem, the respective fathers of the men named in
the Monmouth charter.
Anno 1040.
. . . Baderon villam Beren cum fiiia st«a Saneto Georcrio tribuit. in cujus
servitio pro salute ejus anitnc illam monialem dedicavit, annuente Guillelum
ejus filio, in presentia Rivalloni filii Johannis, lladulfi Filieensis. ex quorum
dominio terra erat. . . . Huic dono sunt testes: Alanus filius Flaaldi; Herveua
])incerna : Juhellus filius Trvodii ; Aufredus cervus ; Bernardus ; Rivallonus
dulcet et filius ejus ; Hubertus : FTerveus filius Hubert! ; Brieneius nepoa
Fulconii ; Obertus nepos Gurhaudi ; Garinus presbyter ; Bernardus nepoa
Ricnladri.3
It will be observed that William Fitz Raderon, the Domesday
Raron, gives his consent to his fathers donation, and that those
1 Studies in Peerage and Family History.
- Calendar of Donwuntn Preferred in Franee, Xo.
5 Sori'V* Arch dol ogiqu<* d'lllc et Vilaiin*, vol. xi, pp. 251*2,
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THE ORIGIN OF THE STEWARTS
iti whose presence it is made are the Lords of Dol1 and of
(Pleine) Fougeres in the northeast corner of Britanny. Further,
among the charters I selected, when in France, as throwing light
on the Origin of the Stewarts, we have one, which I date circa
1080, concerning tithes at Pleine Fougeres, which has among its
witnesses " Badero ; Guillelmo (gin) films ejus ; . . . Herveus
pincerna,*' while another, which is actually dated 23 December
108G, is witnessed by " Kadulfus de Filgeriis Alanus dapifer:
Herveus bbtellarius." Yet another, which I also date circa 10S0,
has for its first two witnesses "Alanus siniscallus ; Badero.":;
Although the editor of the above charter gave its date as 1040,
he did not mention from what source this date was derived,
and putting together the evidence I have given, we shall be
strongly disposed to date it as circa 1080 — 1090. But the all-
important question is — VTho was its "Alanus filius Flaald i 1
am forced to. the conclusion that he must have been the man
whom I placed at the head of the pedigree as "Alan Dapifer
(Dolensis)/'4 If I am light in this conjecture, he was the
grandfather and namesake of the well-known Alan Fitz Flaald
temp. Henry I, and the name of his father carries the pedigree
a generation further back.0
Before leaving the ancestors of the Stewarts I should like to
add one detail to the information in my book. I there explained
that Jordan Fitz Alan, Lord of Tuxford, Xotts, and dapifer of
Dol, held some land in Lincolnshire (pp. vii, 127). This hind I
have now identified as at Broughton-on-Brant (to the east of
Newark-on-Trent), which is found in the hands of his grand-
daughter Olive, wife of Roger de Montbegon (Testa, p. 369),
Two fines relate to this estate in .Mi*. Massingberd's Lincolnshire
Final Concord* (pp. 1)7, 176), and the first of these records the
exchange, by Olive, of the advowson of Tuxford for that of
Broughton.e
The Second Marriage of Avelixa, Wife of Alan Fitz Flaald
the Second.
Mr. Eyton was aware that Alan Fitz Flaald was survived by
his widow Avelina, daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin, although he
identified her with (as I have shown") an entirely different person,
Adeliza, wife of Hubert Baldran, and mother of Sybil, Lady of
1 " Rivallonius dominus Doli castri, filius Johannis archicpiscopi " gives his
consent to a charter of 1095 (see my Studies, p. 122).
2 The Ralf " Filicensis " of the document in the text. He occurs as a tenant-
in-chief in Domesday at the same time.
3 Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, Nos. 1152-4.
4 See my Studies, p. 129.
5 In this case it would be he. and not the crusader Alan of 1097, who occurs
as "Alan dapifer" in the documents of circa 1080.
0 As this Broughton was in Loveden Wapentake, we are enabled to connect it
directly with her grand father Jordan Fits Alan by an entry on p. 110 ot the
Pipe Roll of 1130 :—" Idem Yicceomes debet xx maivas argenti pro pace fracCft in
Lovendene Wapentac de huminibua Hadulfi de Albini ct Jordan! tilii Alani."
7 Studies in Pierage and Family History, pp. 128*131.
AND THEIR CHESNEY CONNEXION.
3
AVolston (Warwickshire), which Sybil he made accordingly a daughter
of Alan Fit/. Flaald.1 Since, then it has been discovered that
his widow Avelina became the wife of Robert Fitz Walter, who
joined with her in confirming to St. Peters Abbey, Gloucestershire,
in 1126, the church of (Chipping) Norton, Oxfordshire, which had
been given long before by her mother Emmeline, wife of Ernulf
de Hesdin.2 At this point our knowledge stopped. But a .striking
confirmation can now be adduced. Ernulf- de Hesdin's Oxfordshire
possessions consisted, in 1086, of Norton (15 J hides) and Ledwell
(I hide) in the north of the county, and Black Bourton (o hides)
in the south."' Now the list of remitted contributions to Danegeld
in 1130, under Oxfordshire, is headed "Roberto filio AValteri
xxxii s. et vj d."4 This represents the amount due on IGj hides,
which was exactly the joint total of (Chipping) Norton, and
Ledwell. Black Bourton, we see, is omitted. Why 1 Because, as
the testa proves, it belonged to that portion of Ernulfs lands
which passed to Patrick " de Cadiircis. Nothing could well be
neater.
But who was this Robert Fitz Walter, the husband of Alan's
widow I He was a man of some consequence, who enjoyed the
favour of FTenrv T. One of the few real students of early feudal
genealogy, Mr. H. J. Ellis, of the British Museum, has drawn my
attention to the cartularies of Castle Acre Priory and of St. Johns
Abbey, Colchester. The former contains a charter granted by
William Bardulf " pro anima Alani filio Flahaldi et pro annua
(a) Roberti fdii Walteri et (b) Johannis filii ejus et pro anima
(c) Willelmi de Chaineto,"5 which is confirmed by " Willelmus til i us
Robei'ti filii Walteri."0 The Colchester cartulary contains mention
of Robert Fitz Walter and Aveline, his wife. I shall hope to
combine this evidence below.
1 Shropsldre, vii, 221— 223, 228.
2 I subjoin the relevant passages from the charters in vol. ii of the Gloucester
Cartulary (Rolls Series) :—
Sciant present es et futuri quod ego Emelina uxor Ernulfi de Hestink pro
salute doniini mei et mea et patris et matris et antecessonim meoruin dedi
Deo et Sancto Petro et monacliis Gloueestrkc ecclesiam de Northona, etc. . . .
(p. 45). ... !.;;•
Robertas Dei gratia Lincolniensis episcopus . . . Notum sit quod concedimus
et episcopal i aueturitate contirmamus donationem quam fecit Emelina uxor
Ernulfi de Hesdiue abbati et monachis Sancti Petri Gloucestria?, scilicet ecclesiam
de Northona (p. 40).
(112(5) Ego Rodberfus ftlius Walteri et Avelina uxor mea concedimus Deo et
Sancto Petro et Willelmo abbati et conventui de Gloucestria ecclesiam de
Nortuna . . . sicut Emelina mater Avelhue cis donavit (p. 48).
Stephanus rex Anglorum Roberto filio Walteri et ministris puis s.dutem.
Precipio quod juste resaisiatis abbatem de Gloucestria de eccleeia sua de Nor-
thona de terris et deeimis, etc . . . sicut fuit die qua rex Henrieus novissime
mare transivit ad euudeui in Nonuanniam. Et nisi feeeris Waherus aivhi-
diaeonus de Oxonia faciat nc hide amplius clamorem audiam pro penuria plcni
recti (p. 40).
a Domesdav. to, 100.
4 Rot, Tip'.. 81 lien. T, p. R.
s Harl. MS. 2110, fo. S. I have inserted the bracketed capital letter* for
identification.
0 Ibid., fo. 12.1.
4
THE ORIGIN OF THE STEWARTS
Let us meanwhile turn to another quarter, where I find definite
evidence on Robert Fitz Walter and his sons, namely the Norfolk
Carta- Baronwn of 11GG.
Carta Roberti Filii Waltevi.
Robertus (a) fUius Walter! tenuit Mor et Fileby dono Regis Henriei anno
et die que ipse Rex Henrieus fuit vivus et inortuu.s per *ervitium j militia et
Johannes (b) filius ejus post eum ; et postea Willelmus (c) . . .
Et Willelmus (c) habet, tie dono domini Regis, Blieburctim in Suthfoleia
per servitium j militis.1
Tlie persons named have not, so far as I know, been -identified,
nor has it been pointed out that the heading of the return is
misleading, as Robert Fitz Walter lived in the days of Henry 1
and was dead many years before 116G. Nov.- when we compare
the three names in the Castle Acre charter above with the three
in this return, we find that the order is the same, for they are,
I may add, identical. And this identity is clinched by an entry
in the Testa de ITevUl, which records that Henry IT gave Blyfourgh
to William "do Kesnet," the William of the above Carta of 11GG.-
Let us now turn to another source. In the Ramsey cartulary
(i, 148) we have a document of "1111 — 11.°).')," which shows us
Robert (a) Fitz Walter acting as Sheriff of Norfolk, and one of
the witnesses to which is John (b), his son. With this clue we
at once recognise Robert Fitz Walter as Sheriff of Norfolk and
Suffolk in the Pipe Roll of 1130, where we find he had gone
out of otiice at Michaelmas 11*2!) (p. 90). That In4 lived on into
Stephen's reign is shown by a charter of that king being addressed
to him.3 His son John is subsequently found in possession of his
office of Sheriff, a fact which we learn from " The Life and
Miracles of St. William of Norwich."4 He died in or about
11 40 — by the judgment of God, it was alleged, for protecting
the Norwich Jews."'
William de Chesney, Avelinas Stepsox.
AVilliam de Chesney, the next brother, who succeeded to the
lands 'of the family, is found as Sheriff0 from Easter 1157 to
Michaelmas 1163. He must have received Blvburgh about Christmas
1157, for the Michaelmas Roll of 1158 shows that he had been
in possession of it for three quarters. Now Blomefield says that
the charter granting it passed at Lincoln, and as Henry II, we
know, was crowned there at Christmas 1157, the evidence fits to
perfection. In addition to the small fief which William held in
capite, as recorded in the Carta of 11 GO, he was an under-tenant
1 Red Booh of the Exchequer, p. 402.
2 "Bliburgti fuit dominicum domini Regis H. patris domini regis J. et dominua
Rex Henrieus dedit m.uierium illud VViTlelinh de Kesnet per scrvieium feodi
unius militis et modo tenet Robertas filiua Kogeri manerium illud per idem
servicium " (Return of 1212 in Testa, p. 294).
:! See p. 3, note 2 above.
4 Ed. Jessopp and James (1896), pp. xxxiii-xxxiv, 20. 4G, 111-2.
» Hid.
6 Ibid., pp. 128, 172.
A XL> THEIR CilE-NT.Y CONNEXION.
5
on a very large scale. Of Robert de Stafford lie held one fee.
of Karl de Ferrers one. of Ha-scuil Musard a half, of the
Abbot of St. Edmund's one, of the Karl of Hertford one, of
Hubert de live one.1 and of Roger de " Cheneteswelle ~ (as William
de Cbesney, " of Norwich ") one.- But he was also known
(from bis office of Sheriff) as William " de Norwich ' Ami
court." It was under this name that he was entered on the
rolls of 1188 and 1172 as paying scutage on the one fee that
he held as a tenant in capUe, and was also returned as holding,
in 1166, one fee of the Bi>hop of Ely.4 He is also, proved hy
the Colchester Cartulary5 to have held the valuable manor of
Ling in Norfolk, which was Count Alan's in Domesday (ii.
147). Tliis eventually passed to his eldest daughter, and was
included in the '2* fees which her second husband Robert Fi:z
• Roger was returned as holding (in her right, of course) of the
Honour of Britanny in Norfolk and Suffolk.5
But all these holdings are insignificant as compared with the
seven fees that he held of the Honour of Boulogne, six of them
in Norfolk, and one in Essex.7 All thfee passed, with his eldest
daughter Margaret, to her second husband, liobert Fitz Roger,
the Lord of Clavering, Essex, But this ljnin gives us the ciue
by which to identify his even greater holding under the Honour
of Kye. The second entry on the list of its knights, araom th*»
Cortrr in the Liber Rulj?"* (p. 411^ is " Robert us filius Rogeri
x milites,"" and these ten knights* fees must have been inherited
by Robert from his father-in-law William "de Norwich.*"-'
I have now traced William de Chesney as the holder of no
fewer than twenty-seven fees or thereabouts, under sundry " honours "
and borons, a fact which will explain the devolution of a goodly
1 This entry is overlook**! in the index to the Liber Rabat*, so others also
may have been overlooked
■ Liber Rubeux, pp. 2o5. 339, 343, 303.. 400, 404, 410. In the* entries the
name occur? as <: Chain.u," CheUneL"* and " Chei-sncy," or .in iu LatinUed
form) as li de Cai>neto." M de Cliaisneto." It is fouud in an original reiuru
as "de Che.*n[ei]."
3 I hare rejieatedly called attention to this practice of Sheriffs taking their
name from the chief town of their conuty.
4 Liber RuUut, p. 365. The editor, being unaware of this identity, ha*
indexed the name .separately with no cruss-reference.
5 Printed fur the Koxburghe Club.
* Liber Rubeus, p. 479. But compare G*lc'« " Honour of Rk-htnood," pp. 45.
47, where " the heir of Koger de Creasy ■ ;her heir by her fina husband) h
retnrned as holdiug 21 fees in Ling. Fynchain, Neref«*-\L Me'chehaxn and
" Swaphain." while Robert Fitz Roger (her second husband) i* entered a*
holding 1 J fees in Kudhani. Ling, an* I ** Meicbam." The account in ** BloweficM "
(riii, 249) of the desccut of Ling down to the time of William's »Uugbters,
is very IliwtirfacUa I'.
7 " Willclum* de Xorwicho. nv-lo Robert us filius Rugeri vij mi'ito ... in
Xorfok-ia, fcilket. vj milites : in ChUhulle in BhSSU, i " p. 57&)
8 It was, however, "a later tMkkm.m llMSSjh found auxnc the Cmruz of
116»J. In I1M the holding **i Robert Fit/. K>k&t i* cixrti 11 not 10>
fees tLiher ifsiww. p. II*,.
•Ct Lib*r Rmhms, p. 142 fr-mi Pif* R.4I of 1211:: *-tie ' f«»ln K.-herti
lilii i:«»geri de M«.r. oi r.littirglij hereditaU* (s*r; oxori- sue, Ikcmit" WiuViiui Jc
6
THE ORIGIN OF THE STEWARTS
number of manors. Of special interest among these are those
which were represented by the ten fees he held of the Honour of
Eve. For these can be traced back to 1080, when they were
held of Robert Malet by his ancestor Walter de Caen (Cadomo)
in the three eastern counties. His father Robert Fitz Walter is
alleged to have been the son of this Walter dc Caen, nor are
their respective dates incompatible with this. But William de
Chesney1 lived late for the grandson of a Domesday tenant. The
Pipe Rolls prove that he did not die till 117-1.
In a paper destined to appear in the Essex Arcfwoloffic€d Tran-
sact ions (July, 1901),'- I have dealt with the heirs of William de
Chesney, and have shown that his eldest daughter Margery, with
almost the whole of his land, was bestowed by Henry II on a
favoured officer, Hugh de Cressi,:: while the two younger' daughters,
tClemence and Sara, married Jordan de Sackville and Richard
Engaine respectively. Oddly enough it is stated in the pedigrees
of the. Sackville and Engaine families that they were daughters of
an Earl of Oxford ! It is erroneously asserted in the " Founder's
Genealogy of Horsham St. Faiths,'1 as below, that both these
sisters died without issue. Sara left heirs by her husband
Richard Engaine, and the manor of Colne, which she had brought
them, was named from them Colne " Engaine."'
The Family of Chesxkv.
Although the above William bore the name "dc Chesney/' he
derived it not from his father, but from his mother Sybil.
Early in the reign of Henry I. Robert Fitz Walter founded a.
Benedictine house at Horsham St. Faith's, Norfolk, adjoining his
own chief seat at Horsford. His foundation charter proves that
his wife was then Sybil, and their son and heir Roger.4
Ego Robertas Walteri filius et uxor mea nomine iSibilla editieavimus ecclesiam
de Horsham . . . Sciati.s insuper quod predicta iSibilla eisdem concessit
terram suam de Rudham, quam pater .suns dedit in liberum maritagium . . .
ego Robertas filius Walteri, Sibilla uxore mea, Rogero, et ceteris filiis meis
concedentibus, etc. . . .
In this case the " Genealogia Fundatoris " appears to be less
untrustworthy than usual. The pedigree it gives is this:—
1 There are three references to this William in the fragments of the returns
to the Inquest of Sheriffs in 1170 [Liber Jxtibcux, pp. eelxxi, eelxxix, eclxxxi), but
they are all erroneously indexed by the editor as referring, not to William, but
to a ''Walter" de Chesney.
- " The Manor of Colne Engaine. n
3 It is of genealogical interest to note that this Hugh, who founded a
baronial house, and whose parentage was unknown to Dugdale [Baronage
[, 70S), names his father Roger and mother Eustaeia, in a charter entered
in the Blyburgh Cartulary (10th Report Hist. MSS., App. IV, p. 457).
An important charter relating t<> Margery herself will be found in A'.)/.
Chart. I (1), iiO:i. Its date is 22nd December 1214, and by it John grants
her ''jus in curia nostra de bored i tat c sua ijuam pater suns habuit die qmi
obiit et de tota hemlitate quniu viii sui dederunt aliis . . . eastro de Xorwieo
retento in maun nostra." This last clause mu.-t nter t<> the hereditary
shrievalty.
4 Mouasticoti, ill, 6'>'> 7. It was given as a eell to Couches,
AND THEIR CHESNEY CONNEXION.
7
Ralf de Cayncto,
at the Conquest.'
I 1
John de Cayneto.1 Sibil. =j=Robert Fitz Walter.
Roger, ob. s.p. John, " vieecomes," ob. s.p. William de Cayneto.
i 1 1 1
(1) Hugh de Oressy. =fiMar^aret.=f:(2) Robert Fitz Roger. Cletnentia, Sara,
| | ob. s.p. ob. s.p.2
I ' 1
Roger de Cressy.3 John Fitz Robert.
si/
Ralf " do Cayneto," who heads the pedigree, was clearly the
Ralf who is entered in Domesday as holding at Rudham of William
de Warenne. And it is my belief that the land which he gave
there as a marriage portion with his daughter, and which she
gave, as we have seen, to Horsham St. Faith's, is represented by
St. Faith's manor (alias Novthall) in West Rudham, which is
known to have been held by that house. In " Blomefield," it is
true, Ave are definitely told that this was the Rudham manor
held in chief by Peter de Valognes in 10SG, and that "it came
to the Lord Robert Fitz Walter 7' as his heir (vii, 160), and
was granted by him to Horsham. But I believe this to be wholly
an error, based on confusion of two men bearing (at different
epochs) the same name.4
Few families can have been the subject of such genealogical
confusion as that of Chesney. The circumstance that in East
Anglia it was borne by two families — of which one derived it
through male and the other through female descent — would of
itself be confusing enough, and yet is a mere accident ; the real
and quite incorrigible confusion is between the name of Chesney
and that of Keynes derived, of course, from the Norman Cahagnes.
It is Dugdale himself, T fear, who led the way in error by beginning
his account of the Keynes family as follows : —
Ralph, surnamed de Kaineto, who came into England with William the
Conqueror, laid issue two sons, viz., Ralph and William (Regist. Pr. de
Rudham). Of which Ralph (the elder) took to wife the daughter of //tey/i
Afamiuot ; and had, in Frank-marriage, with her, by the gift of King Henry
the First, the Manor of Tarent (Testa de Nevill) . . . afterwards distinguished
by the name of Tarrent-Keynes.5
1 Founder of Coxford Priory on his portion of Rudham. Rut he was grand-
son, not son, of Half de Cayneto.
2 This statement is an error (see above).
3 It may be worth noting that in Foss* Judoes (i, 228), we read, of Hugh de
Cressi's widow, that " According to the Chancellor's Roll of 3 John, her seeoud
husband in 9 Ric. I was fined 100 marks for the marriage of the daughter and
heir of Hugh de Cressi ; but this is probably an error, substituting the feminine
for the masculine, as he clearly left a son named Roger." There is no error
on either roll, but the Record Commission's index to the roll of '6 John has
erroneously extended " niaritando til' et heredc " as "tili<r."'
4 By a similar confusion all the bearers of the name " Robert us tilius Waited "
sue grouped together in the Judex to Tltc Red Hook of the Exchequtr (p. 1390).
That Blomefield was mistaken is further shown by the Papal COD Arm At ion <-t
20th May 1103 (Aug. ii, lot)) of •'Terrain de Ruddahatn cum omnibus perti*
nentiis snis quam Sibilla uxor prefati Robert i robis dedit."
5 liaronaye, i, 127.
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THE ORIGIN OF THE STEWARTS
So subtle is the error that it is not easy to distinguish the
first sentence, which relates to our own family of Chesney, from
the second which concerns the wholly distinct family of Cahagnes.
We shall find below that Dtlgdale was guilty of the same mistake
when dealing, in another place, with the same manuscript.
It is not wonderful that others followed in Dugdale's steps.
Although in Domesday the two names appear as " Caisned " and
" Cahainges," the two names were treated as identical in an
article on the latter family ;1 and in Cussans' Hertfordshire we
similarly read that the manor of Cheynes in Cottered took its
name "from the family of Chahaignes or Cheyney " (i, 174). I
have endeavoured to correct this confusion in a paper on the
Charters of Lewes Priory.2
Let me now attempt to trace the origin of the house of
Chesney, of which the Duchess of Cleveland wrote : " Xo name
that I have, had to deal with has puzzled my poor brains so
effectually as this."3 Of William de Chesney Mr. Stapleton
observed : —
Le Quasnai, near St. Saens!, was apparently the fief from which this family
had name, and was held by Geoffrey dc Say at the lime of the acquisition of
Normandy by the French monarch.4
It seems doubtful whether he had grasped the fact that William
was only a Chesney through his mother, or was aware of the
Sai connexion ; but his identification, whatever its ground, is of
great interest if right. For wherever this Le Quesnai may be,
Saint Saens itself is little more than four miles from Bellencouibrc,
which is known to have been the head of the Warenne lief in
Normandy.5 And it was under William de Warenne that the
founder of these Chesnevs in England held his lands. Domesday
shows us Half (i.e., " de Caisneto ") holding not only Rudham
and its dependencies at Banner, Houghton, Heydon, and Thorpe
Market, but also Gayton, some ten miles south-west of Rudham,
all of William de Warenne. lie was an even larger holder in
Sussex under William, and I have identified his manors in that
county for the forthcoming volume of Snssc;t- ArcJweolotjical Collections.
Keeping, however, for the moment to Norfolk, we may note that
a manor at West Rudham was held by "Lambert" of William
de Warenne, and that he can. be shown to have been identical
with the "Lambert" who held of him at Waterden, a few miles
away, and to have been named Lambert "de Rosei."" Now Rosav
is a "canton of Bellencombre," and lies on the road thence to
Saint Saens. Here then we must have another follower of William
de Warenne at the Conquest settling down at Rudham by the
1 Sussex Archa:olo'jical Collect ions. vol. i.
a Ibid., xl, 72-J3.
8 The Untile Abhcij Roll \, 257.
* Hotuli smcrarii iXormmuiiir, If, cxvii. He cites the record of 1220, to the
effect tint GooffrOV lie Si;ii had owed ''pro ten. 1 de Quosneto dimidium feodum."
•> //,/</.. F, riii. '
,! See the Ciistlc Acre Priory Charter in Monatticon. v. .'0, which motltluUd
his gift of what became. Castleuero Priory manor in lludhatu [Bin via,
159) and of tithes at Wuterclon. And compare Duinodilny ii\ ICS l», V
AND THEIR CHESNEY CONNEXION.
9
side of his old neighbour in Normandy. Moreover, Cressy (en
Caux) also is a " canton " of Bellencombre, and I have seen it
stated that Ansel in and Gilbert de Cressy held AVarenne land
in England under Henry I. Perhaps, then, we may trace the
Cressys also to a follower of William do Warenne.
I have stated above that the Half who held of Warenne in
Norfolk is the Ralf who held of him in Sussex.1 But the proof
has hitherto been wanting (Mr. H. J. Ellis informs me), and
]\udham went to the .Belet family, while the Sussex lands passed
to the De Sais. The missing link, however, I find in the cartulary
of Cokesford (a/ios Iludham), the house founded by John de
Chesney. Unfortunately, this manuscript seems to be known to
us only from what Dugdale says of it. He cites it in his
Baronaye for these statements : —
This hist mentioned Geoffrey (de Sai) took to wife Alice, one of the daughters
and coheirs to .John de Cheney (sic), and confirmed to the Canons of Rudham
in Com. Norfolk all those grants which William de Cayneto (i.e., Cheney),
and John de Cheney, nephew of that William, had made unto them ; and for
the so'.d of Alice his wife, and the souls of his ancestors, etc., did of his own
gift acid the church of »St. Margaret at Thorpe (i, 511).
This Michael (Belet) . . . left is*uc by Emma his wife, daughter and coheir
of John de Keynes (sic), two sons, Hervey and Michael, which Hervcy obtained
from King John the giant of ;t fair yearly at East Rudham . . . and gave
the manor of Kudhuui to the Canons of Cokesford . . . for the soul of Emmc
de Keynes, his mother, etc. (i. 614).
We here have Dugdale, unconsciously perhaps, actually giving
the same name from a MS. which is one and the same, first as
" Cheney " and then as " Keynes."
It has hitherto been supposed that the Belets were the heirs of
the Norfolk Chesneys, while the Sais were the heirs of the Sussex
branch ; and the pedigree in Norfolk for the Norman period seemed
to be somewhat different from that of the Sussex house. .But
now that we can trace the descent of the Sais from the Norfolk
house, we can attempt a pedigree of the Chesneys as a single
family, combining the Sussex with the Norfolk evidence : —
Ralf <; de Caisneto," under-tenant of
William de Warenne in Norfolk and
Sussex lOSS.
r , — 1
Emma.^lvalf " de William " de Sybil.^-Robert Fita
I Cai.sneto." Caisneto." Walter.
r J
John "de Caisneto."- William 11 de Caisneto."
Founder of Cokes- Founder of Sibton Abbey,
ford Priory.
— i 1
Michacl=pEmma " de Alice " (terrGeoffrey de
Belet. vj/Caisncto. " Caisneto." JySai.
1 The Pierreiionts similarly held in both theso counties of Warenne.
8 The Lewe* Priory evidence gives us, at Brighton, a John "de ( uai-iu t
son of Ralf (Cott. MS. . VWn. F. xv. fo. 119) and two Ralfs, father ami mmi,
who respectively married Maud and Kmina. My Ancient Chart erg (Pipe Hull
Society) gives its Kalf " do Quetveto " and Rdf. his son. witKfetiMllg a Waivnnc
charter to Lowes l'riory.
The Cokesford evidence tfivea us Ralf an.l William M .-ids of the t;.r>i Half,
and it makes John speak of his grandfather Half and hid uncle William.
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THE ORIGIN OF THE STEWARTS
It is clear that the Sais eventually succeeded to the Belets'
share as 'well as their own, and that the Chesney inheritance in
their hands was represented by more than a dozen knights' fees
which they held under Warenne. Moreover, Mr. Stapleton's
record implies that they succeeded to the Norman . sfammhaa* of
the Chesneys as well. It should be specially observed that neither
they nor the Belets adopted the name of Chesney, though the
son of Sybil, who was not (as alleged) an heiress, did so. Here
then is a further illustration of the erratic Norman nomenclature.
Robert Fitz Walter, Sheriff of Norfolk.
That Robert Fitz Walter had two wives, of whom Sybil (dc
Chesney) was the first and Avelina (widow of Alan Fitz Flaald)
the second, is proved by an extract from the Thetford Register,
to which Mr. Ellis has drawn my attention : —
Ego Kobertus filiu.s Waited pro salute auiuie race et uxor[um] ineorum
Sibilkc et Avelime et infantum meorum.1
But the assignation of his children to these respective wives is
a matter of great difficulty. There is no reason to doubt the
statement in the "Genealogia Fundatoris " that his sons Roger,
John, and William were his children by Sibyl de Chesney, and
indeed the fact that William bore the name of Chesney confirms
that conclusion. But the Colchester Cartulary contains charters
which prove that he had several other children, of whom avc
cannot speak witli certainty. In a charter dealing with his manor
of Ling, to which William Bardulf'-' is the first witness, William
" de C&siiiteto," as he there styles himself, mentions his brothers
John, Roger, Ifalym, and William, as well as Margaret, his sister. y
Again, as William " vicecomes de Norwieo," he mentions all four
in a charter relating to his manor of "Hou,"4 and among the
witnesses to the charter is " Petrus f rater mous." His sister
Margaret goes further. A series of charters relate to the manor
of " Stokes," which she gave at her death to St. John's, Colchester.
As wife of Hamon de St. Clare (successor of Eudo Dapifer) she
gave circa 11505 this manor "de libero mariagio meo michi a
patre concesso " to the abbey, as a dying woman, " pro . . .
animabus patris mei Koberti et Avclhw matrix m&>, et Johannis
fratris mei et pro salute viri mei Hamonis qui michi banc elemo-
sinam facere concessit.*' She notified the fact to her brother
William "de' Caisneto,'* and the second witness to her charter is
" Symon frater nieus. "*; He was also the first witness to her
husbands charter conlirming the gift;7 and as "Simon de Caisneto-'
he testified to Archbishop Theobald and the Bishop of Norwich
that his sister Margaret had given the manor in her last illness.^
1 find no -evidence that Margaret left issue, and, indeed, such
1 Lansdowne MS. 229, to. 1-ki.
- Sec p, 3 above.
* Colchester Cartutan/, p. ISO.
* Ibid., p. 172.
5 William (cons. H lt>) was Bialtop of Ncvpwicll at the time.
" Colchester Cartulary. ]>[>. loft** 100.
■ /Intl., p. 158,
8 Ibid.. i>. 1 Go. A writ <»f Henry 11 adcll'ttttofftl u Willoluiu de CaUuetu de
AND THEIR CHESXKV CONNEXION.
11
evidence as T have is all against it An interesting pedigree of
►St. Clair mav be ' constructed as follows: —
William de St. Clair (1) Gunnor.-^pHamoir' de St. Clair =(2) Margaret, daughter
living arc. 1120 — of Robert Fitz Walter
1150. by Avelina (widow of
Alan Fitz Flaaldj.
(Mancbe), ob. s p.1
living 1155.
The Mysterious Simon.
But who was the above " Simon de Caisneto," who is brought, as
wre have seen, into close connection with his sister Margaret,
Avelina's daughter, but whom William de Chesney appears to
ignore in his charters ? I look on the existence of this Simon as a
fact of considerable importance. It would seem obvious from his
styling himself, . as above, " de Caisneto/' that he was a son of
Robert Fitz Walter by his first wife Sybil de Chesney. Yet this
was not the case if, as I would suggest, we may identify him
with the M Simon de Norfolk " of an extremely puzzling charter.
We saw that his elder brother William was known both as William
de Chesney and as William de Norwich, and the principles of
Norman nomenclature were so peculiarly erratic that I should not
be at all surprised if Simon also had both these styles. Passing,
however, from conjecture to fact, we approach the charter in
question, which fairly puzzled Mr. EytoirJ and which subsequently
Norwico," bids him give the Monks of Colchester seisin of " Stokes " according
to the fine "quern fecisti cum illis de terra de Stokes coram episcopo Xor-
wieensi in Synodo suo (Ibid., p. 41).
1 Benefactor to Abbeys of Savigny and of St. John'.', Colchester. See my
Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, pp. 290, 299, and Colchester Cartularv,
pp. 153-6'.
2 Colchester Cartulary, p. 156.
5 Benefactor to St. John's Abbey. Placed in charge of Colchester, with Eudo
Dapifer's other lands by Henry I (Pipe Koll 31 Henry 1 and Colchester
Cartulary .passim).
4 He attests Margaret's charter, but not as her son. He was in charge o
Colchester 1155 (Red Book of Exchequer, p. 651).
The name of "Hubert" is of special interest, because the "Hubert" who
held Kingestone in Somerset of the Count of Mortain in 10S6 was, according
to Mr. Eyton, a Hubert de St. Clair. It is noteworthy that this manor was
held in 121 'J by Roger de Vilers (Testa de fteviV, p. 163), for in my Calendar
of Documents /'reserved in France (Nos. 797, 79S, S24) the William de St.
Clair of the pedigree in the text is found making grants at "Vilers" (Yillicrs-
le-Sec, Calvados) to the Abbey of Savigny, by permission of the Count of
Mortain.
5 Mr. Eyton wrote: — "Alan Fitz Flaald's interest in some of the places
wherein he granted to Castle Acre, was not the sole interest. His grants, too,
were afterwards confirmed and augmented by persons whom I cannot make
out to have been descended from Alan. One of these, Simon de Norfole.
mentions his 'ancestors from the time of Alan Fit/. Flaald,' speaks of his
(Simon's) mother Aveliua. and of the day when he (Simon) Required (con-
ffiiisirit) 'the Honour of Milohatn ' *' (vii. 218 Hoie). V>\ *" n«>t the sole interest,"
he meant that in the Castle Acre charter, printed in the Mounfttieon (v, 51 ,
Alan makes a gift at Krmpston ill conjunction with Adelina. his wile. I may
note that "Adelina" is. in the cartulary, interlined over a simple "a." This is
the charter confirmed by Simon do Xorfolc (see Dlouiefietil x, 17). The
12
THE ORIGIN OF THE STEWARTS
puzzled Carthew.* The latter, who had examined it for himself
in the Register of Castle Acre,-' cited the essential portions
thus : —
Sitnon <le Norfofe. etc., etc., de feodo quod modo teneo, — terrain illam quam
Avelina mater mea dedit ecclesie preclicte . . . Hec et alia omnia qmc sunt de
meo feudo uude fuerunt vestiti et seisiti die quo eonquisivi konorem de Melekam
. . . prccterea molendiimm de Neufcone uude haberent x solidos de dono
Willelmi fratris mei {'ri, 123).
How or when this Simon acquired " the Honour of Mileham-.''
which had been held by Alan Fitz Flaald and was subsequently
held by the Fitz Alans— no one has been able to explain. , But as
William and Walter Fitz Alan are found in attendance on the
Empress Maud, it seems to me quite possible that we have here
one of the incidents of the Anarchy, and that Stephen forfeited
"the Honour of Mileham " and bestowed it on this Simon."'
But what I am immediately concerned with is the genealogical
evidence. Here is Simon "de Norwich'' occurring as a son of
Avelina, while Margaret, the daughter of Avelina, was a sister
of Simon " de Caisneto."' Remembering that both are concerned
with Norfolk, and indeed obviously connected with Avelina, wife
of Robert Fitz Walter, we cannot well resist the conclusion that
the two Simons were identical, and represent a son of Robert
Fitz Walter, by Avelina, widow of Alan Fitz Flaald.
The importance of this conclusion consists in the fact that it
provides William and Walter, sons of Alan Fitz Flaald, with a
uterine brother Simon. Now Walters "brother"' Simon is found
as a witness in the Paisley Cartulary, and is claimed as the
founder of the family of Boyd; and William's "brother"' Simon,
according to Mr. Eyton (vol. vii, p. 223) occurs in a charter of
1163. It has been assumed that this Simon was a son of Alan
Fitz Flaald, but I pointed out in my last book that he might, quite
conceivably, prove to be only a utqrine brother of Alans sons.1
And this is exactly what he now turns out to have been.
We may now construct a tentative pedigree embodying the results
of our enquiry.5
matter is further complicated by the place dealt with being Kcmpston, which
only occurs in Domesday as held of William de Warcnnc by Wimcr, his dapifcr,
who left heirs.
1 See the opening pages of his Hundred of Laund'ttch (1S77\ vol. i.
2 Harl. MS. 2110, fu. 112.
3 He must either have lost it subsequently or died without issue, for we
do not find him again connected with Mileham.
4 Studies in Peerni/c avd Fam'dti . II istorii, pp. l*J.">-6.
s I must not deal with a fresh problem at this stage of the enquiry, but
as I have sometimes pointed out that no actual proof has been adduced that
Krnulf de Hesdin left another daughter and coheiress Maud, I may mention
that I have now found (quantum vakat) such proof in Monnsticon. ii. L)-J0,
where, among the benefactions to St. Alban s, wc read : — " MatiMis qiucdam
vidua, filia Krnuldi de HywfyttK (jtte) dedit Sancto Albano dimubam hidam in
villa quo vocatur Hava pro anitna viri RUI Willelmi *' (m'c). As this Matildis is
now well recognised by Keijettlogistsi to have been the wife of Patrick " de
Cadureis" (»,<?., do Sourehes — pi andfuthor (as should have been obvious from
the lirst) of Patrick, Karl of Salisbury — the mention above of her husband
as " William." adds a fresh difficulty to those already surrounding Krnulf de
Uesdiu and his daughters.
AND THEIR CHESNEY CONNEXION. 13
14
THE ORIGIN OF Tin-: STKWAKT.S
The Norfolk " Stewarts.''
I now pass to another subject, on which intieh lias already appeared
in the pages of The (rema/ofj^tf. So numerous are the (partem in
which have been published eomnuinieations on history, archaeology,
and genealogy, that one of the student's greatest difficulties is to
avoid making discoveries which have been made already, and
saying what has been said before. In the case, for instance, of
the "bogus'" descent of the Norfolk Sty wards from the Royal
Stewarts, no one, it would seem, lias been aware of the fact that
it was the subject of communications made to the Society of
Antiquaries in 1 7 7 -~> and 1786.
The remarkable glass window put up by William Steward of
Ely in 1571, to commemorate the above descent, was exhibited by
Mr. Albert Hartshorne, to w hom it still belongs, to the Archa-ological
Institute, G May JSJS,1 and commented upon, on that occasion, by
Mr. Tucker, then Rouge Croix. It was explained that this painted
glass had been given to his grandfather by Mr. Robert Masters,
F.S.A., Hector of Landbeach, Cambridgeshire, in whose possession
it had been when Noble wrote his "Memoirs of the House of
Cromwell"- (1781). liut no one, it Would seem, was aware in
1878 that Mr. Masters had exhibited this painted glass to the
Society of Antiquaries, and read a paper thereon, 7 December
178G." His observations carry back the history of this interesting
relic, which I reproduced, by permission, as the frontispiece to my
recently published Shtdies hi Pee'rtwfe <o>d Family History. Mr.
Masters informed the Society that the glass
" was discovered by me in Cambridgeshire, and obtained from a descendant
of that [Steward] house, who said it came from an ancient seat of the family
at Stuntney in that county, which was pulled down about the beginning of
the present [1 Sth] century."'
He also mentioned that Thomas Stewart, of Stuntney, descended
from an uncle of the above ' William, was living there in 1G84.
The glass, therefore, was well accounted for.
But this was not the first occasion on which the matter had
come before the Society of Antiquaries. On 29 June 1775 the
Dean of Exeter had exhibited an engraved ring . " of exquisite
workmanship belonging to Sir. liichard Worslev, of the Isle of
Wight.4 The design upon it was identical with the centre-
piece of the painted glass (though the shape of the ring required
the encircling double tressure to be oval), which centrepiece is
also reproduced in the margin of Augustine Steward's cartulary."'
The Dean acutely pointed out that the ring had doubtless come
into the Worslev family through Hie marriage of Sir .lames
Worslev with Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Nicholas Stuart, of
Hartley Maudit, and not as the Worsleys believed by gift from
1 Archcvohgicnl Journal, xxxv. 302-3.
2 Jbitf., p. 101.
3 Archuologia, viii, •'V21-f>.
4 Arch(roh>yin, iv I7t> — 181, with plate containing enlargement of the design*
5 See n\v Studies in Pcoar/c an J Family History, p. 139,
AND THEIR CHESNEY CONNEXION.
15
Henry VIII to a previous Sir James Worsley. This latter belief,
by the way, illustrates the value of "family tradition."
The Dean having expressed a hope that some member of the
Society would be able to throw light on the singular design upon
the seal, Mr. Brooke, F.S.A., afterwards Somerset Herald; wrote
from ''Heralds' College, 4th July 1775," explaining the whole
matter.1 He observed that the pedigree of this "ancient family
. . . was entered by Henry St. George, .Richmond Herald, at his
visitation of the county of Cambridge, as deputy to William
Camden, Esq., Clarenceux in anno 1619,'' and that " a book in
this office " contained " a large pedigree of the Stewarts of
Cambridgeshire, which deduces them regularly in a direct line
from Banquo, Thane of Lochaber, in the time of Duncan, King of
Scotland." Moreover, we read : —
"in some books the following crest is given to the family which, before this
ring was produced, could never be accounted for, viz., a sword broken in two,
the pieces in saltire on a wreath, and surmounting a ragged staff erect, or."
This crest, of which a representation is given,'2 is that which
Garter Wriothesley is alleged by Augustine Steward to have con-
firmed to the family as "a ragged stall' standing upon a broken
sword crossed saltirewise," but which, as T have shown, was
eventually not allowed to the family.-"
Mr. Brooke appended a sketch pedigree showing the descent of
the Cambridgeshire family from the royal Stewarts, and added
in language which to-day sounds strangely familiar : —
The arms given to the Stewarts of Harteley Mauduit in all the Baronetages
are wrong, which shews what little dependence is to be had on such vague
publications. In all the entries of this branch of the family in the Heralds'
Office, whose records are of indubitable authority in these matters, their arms
are the same as were given to Alexander Stewart by the French king, and as
:>re represented on the seal ... I must conclude with observing . . . that the
Stuarts' pedigree, from Banquo Thane of Lochaber to Sir Nicholas Stuart, of
Harteley, Bart., whose daughter married Sir James Worsley, of Pilewell, . is
regularly deduced by undeniable proofs in the registers of tins office.4
Which, of course, is decisive.
When Mr. Masters exhibited his Stewart glass to the Antiquaries,
he acknowledged the assistance he had derived from k; Mr. Brooke,
Somerset Herald,'1 and appended a pedigree of the family from
" Banquo."5
1 Arclucologia. viii, 182-9. Brooke was Rouge Croix 1773, Somerset 1777 — 1794.
- Ibid., p. 184;
a See my Studies in Peerage and Family History, pp. 141 — 14H. and compare
the glass window in the frontispiece for the origin of the device.
4 Archevoloyia, iv, 187-8. Compare Betham's certificate to the descent of the
Burkes from Charlemairue as proved by "numerous original documents of
unquestionable authority" ami ' registered in the Archives of Ulster's office"
(Genealogist, xv, 5). And see on the whole subject above my Studies in Peerutc
and Family History, pp. 132 — -146L
5 Archaoloyia, viii, 821, 325. It may amuse the readers of Tkt Gcneale>.fitt
to learn that Banquet's ghost has not yet been laid. In St. Andrew [a Glasgow
paper) of Kith May 1901, there is a lengthy cummuuicatiou from Mr. King
Hcwison (on whom see pp. MS — 120 of n,y book) triumphantly maintaining
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Tlie present learned Dean of Ely, who kindly examined for me
the MSS. of his predecessor, Dean Stewart, temp. Henry VIII,1
has now been good enough to inform me further that " in the
Hall of the Deanery, which is panelled with oak, evidently re-
arranged, there occurs three times in the centre of an elaborately
carved panel" the old coat of the Norfolk Sty wards, quarterly
of four, with no trace of the " augmentation " or the coat of " the
royal Stewarts " ; and twice also on the centre of a similarly carved
panel the crest of " a Roebuck with crown collar," which crest,
oddly enough, was not granted till just after Dean Stewart's death.
He lias also drawn my attention to a paper on the Lambeth Al SS.,
by Mr. Montague James, in which we read that one of the two
unfailing clues to " the identification of Ely books " is " the
occurrence of the name Robert Stewarde [the Dean], which is
usually accompanied by a sketch of the Stuart Arms." This
completes the evidence against Dean Stewart as the person original Ir-
responsible for the now famous fiction of the Norfolk Stewarts'
pedigree.
J. H. Round.
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By Sin James Balfour Paul, Lyon King of Arms.
In the January number of The Genealogist a paper appeared on
the Pedigree of the Abernethy Eamilv, professing to correct the
many errors which occur in the account given in Dowjlas Peerage,
and to supply additional information. While there are points both
of use and interest in the article, the writer has unfortunately
approached the subject without being fully equipped for his task.
He is evidently, for instance, ignorant of the fact that the late
Lord Saltoun included an excellent notice of the descent of the
Abernethies in his work on The Frasers of Philvrtk (privately
printed 1*79). For the period at which it was written nothing
could well have been better : since that time, however, owing to
the number of records and chartularies which have been rendered
accessible, considerably more information may be obtained as to the
family, and Lord Saltoun's pedigree may be added to and corrected
in several ways. May I also be allowed to point out that the
writer of the article above referred to, detracts in a great degree
that the matter is not settled <: because one Mr. Round can take the ancestry
of the Fit/alans back to Alan of Dol in lbitanny in 108t> " : for " Batiquo
and Flcanee lived, according to Soots history, before 1086." It can scarcely
be necessary to say more than that Hauquo and Fleancc were, on the contrary,
the traditional grandfather and father, respectively, of Walter i^Fit;: Alan the
first Steward, who died in 1177.
' Studies in Pctraijc and Family History, p. 13o.
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from the usefulness of liis paper by neglecting in most eases to
give the authorities for the various statements which he makes.
In a genealogical paper it is of the utmost importance that the
reader should be in a position to test for himself the accuracy
of the different facts recorded. In the following pages I have
attempted to set down all the information I have been able to
gather about the Abernethy descent. It is, perhaps, too much to
hope for that every detail in the pedigree will ever be cleared up
beyond possibility of doubt ; meanwhile the available facts may
be put on record, and some future investigator may in his turn
be able to add to, or if necessary, correct them. The one great
tiling in all these studies is to get at the truth, and I make
this small contribution to the genealogical history of the family
of Abernethy not in any spirit of disparagement to the efforts of
previous writers, but with the sole view of trying to elucidate
a descent which is in some points rather obscure.
The actual origin of the Abernethies cannot be stated with any
certainty. Lord Saltoun gives it as his opinion that in the twelfth
century its representatives occupied the position of Lay Abbots
of the Culclee Monastery of Abernethy, in Strathearn, and that it
may, therefore, be concluded that they were not among the
Saxon or Norman immigrants who, at various periods, entered
Scotland from the South, but were descended from some ancient
Pictish or Scottish source, or from some adventurous early Scandi-
navian settler from the North. Be this as it may, the first
person of the family of whom we have any record is Hugh, who
lived during the reigns of Alexander I, David I, and, perhaps,
Malcolm the Maiden, but seems to have died about the middle of
the twelfth century (Beg. Priorat. S. Andree, pp. 130, 132).
Orm "de Abernethy, styled son of Hugh, probably succeeded his
father as Lay Abbot of the Monastery. He must have been born
during the first half of the twelfth century, for he occurs as witness
to a charter by Ernulphus or Arnold, Bishop of St. Andrew's, granted
before 1.161, as Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow, another of the witnesses,
died that year {Meg. Priorat. S. Andree, pp. 131-2). He also
witnessed a charter of William the Lion (Lib. Eccl. S. Trinitat. de
Scon, No. 34). He is the first of the family who is found bearing
the territorial appellation "de Abernethy.'' It is conjectured that
he may have given the name to the lands of Ormiston, an estate
contiguous to that of Sal ton in the County of Haddington, though
Orm was not an uncommon name in early days. He died probably
between 1180 and 1190, leaving a son Laurence, and, according
to Douglas, a daughter married to Henry Rule, of Balmerino
(Dowjlas' Peera<jr, ii, 466).
Laurence de Abernethy, styled " Alius Orm de Abernethy
(Pe<j. Priorat. S. Andree, No. 318), was the last to hold the
office of Lay Abbot. Towards the end of the twelfth century
the King denuded him of all his revenues as Abbot, and
handed them over to the Monks of the recently founded Abbey
of Arbroath. He does not seem to have been deprived of the
"dominium" or lordship, which he held as Abbot, and retained
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his position as Mclopiinits " or Lord of Abernethv (Skene's Celtic
Scotland, ii, 39D). His name and that of liis wife Dcvorguile
are recorded as visitors to the shrine of St. Cuthhert at Durham
early in the thirteenth century: hut it is not known who she
was (Liber Vita-, pp. 91, 112). His name also occurs frequently
in charters. He granted, with consent of his son and heir Patrick,
an annual payment of ten shillings out of his lands of Balnebreich
to the canons regular of St. Andrew's (Meg. Priorat. S. And., p. 268).
He had a charter from Reginald de Waren of the lands of
Coventre in exchange for those of Wester Dron (Pmiylas Book,
iii, p. 349), and another from Gregory, Tiishop of Brechin, of the
land formerly disputed between Dunlappie and Stracathro (Ibid.,
iii, p. 350). As a witness he appears frequently (Erasers of PJrilorth,
ii, p. 1G), and lie sold the lands of Cultrach and others to the
Monastery of Balmerino for 200 marks paid him by the executors
of William the Lion's widow, Queen Ermengarde, who had founded
it. So late as 1244 he accompanied Alexander II to the meeting
with Henry III of England, and was one of the barons that
swore to the ratification of the Treaty of Newcastle (Rymer's
Fadera, i, p. 248). He must have been an old man at the time
of his death, which occurred shortly after this, as he was probably
born somewhere between 11 GO and 1170. We know that he had
a son Patrick, mentioned, as above stated, in the grant of an
annual rent to the Canons of St. Andrew's. But of him nothing
is known save that he died before 1257, possibly, indeed, in the
lifetime of his father. Laurence left several children : — 1, Hugh, who
is found as head of the family at the date just mentioned ; 2,
William, who acquired the lands of Saltoun in East Lothian ; 3,
perhaps Henry, who witnessed a charter in 1260 (Meg* Priorat.
tf. Andree, p. 269), aiid a daughter Marjory who married in
1259 Hugh " Longleg," eldest son of Sir William of Douglas.
The marriage contract, dated Palm Sunday 1259, is still in
existence in the form of an indenture between Sir Hugh de
Abernethy, the brother of the bride, and Sir William de Douglas.
Sir William Eraser, who gives a Jhe-siniih of the deed (Douglas
Booh, iii, p. 1), says that it is the oldest marriage contract
which has appeared in the history of any Scottish family. Marjory
Abernethy is believed to have .been buried in St. Bride's Church,
Douglas, where a sculptured elrigy in the extreme south-west angle
of the church is still pointed out as hers. Sir Hugh de Abernethy
occupies a distinct place in Scottish history: he was one of the
party composed of the Earls of Menteith, Buchanan and Mar.
together with others, who surprised the young King Alexander 111
at Kinross during the night of the 29th October 1257, and carried
him off to Stirling (Eorduivs Gesta Atinalia, 1, li, Iii, hi). lie
was one of the Magnates Scotia1, appointed in 1260 (Kymer's
Fcedem, i, 715), who in the event of the absence or death of
Alexander III, were to receive the child of his Queen, Margaret,
whose accouchement, when it should occur, was arranged to take
place at her father's court.. On the death of Alexander in 1J>~>.
six guardians were appointed to carry Oil the affairs of the killgdoiu :
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three years later one of these guardians, Duncan, Earl of Fife,
was waylaid and murdered by Sir Patrick de Abernetliy (probably
the eldest son of Sir Hugh), and Sir Walter de Percy, instigated,
as Fordun (Annals, lxxxii) and Wintoun (Cronykil, ix) both state,
by Sir William de Abernetliy, who guarded another route by
which the Earl might have travelled. The consequences to the
perpetrators of this outrage were serious. Sir Patrick fled to
France and died an exile : Percy was captured and summarily
executed, and Sir William is stated by the historians mentioned
to have been imprisoned in Douglas Castle for life. This', however,
is a mistake : it was Sir Hugh, in all likelihood, as head of
the family the chief instigator in the whole affair, who
was imprisoned, as is shown by two documents, first, a letter from
him to the King of England in 1288 requesting his intercession
with the Pope respecting certain affairs to be laid before him
by the bearer of the letter, the Bishop of Brechin, (Historical
Documents of Scotland, i, p. 69), and second, an order from
Edward I, dated 28th June 1291, for the transference of Hugh
de Abernetliy to the King's prison from that of William de
Douglas, where he was confined for the murder of the Earl of
Fife (Mbtuii Scotia', i, p. 2). Sir Hugh would appear to have
died in prison as we hear nothing more of him.
The question as to who was the wife of Sir Hugh de Abernetliy
has given rise to much discussion, and Mr. Joseph Bain has treated
of the matter in an article in The Genealogist (N.S., v, p. 105). While
it may not be possible to settle the point definitely, it may not be
out of place to review the evidence concerning it.
There is no doubt that the name of Sir Hugh's wife was
Mary or Maria, as he got a dispensation for his marriage with
her in April 1281: the date at which he married her must
have been not later than 1275, as it is stated in the dispensation
that he had " several ;' sons by her (Calendar of Papal Peyisters,
Papal Letters, i, p. -163). We know that Hugh was alive, on
the testimony of the order for his transference from prison above
quoted, till, at all events, June 1291, so that for a period of at
least sixteen years, from 1275 to 1291, Maria was his wife. In
1293 there is a summons from John Baliols Parliament, addressed
to Maria, Countess of Strathearn, "que fuit uxor Hugonis de
Abernetliy" (xicta Pari., i, pp. 446, 447), and in 1296 there are
two entries ordering by command of the King the restoration of
certain lands, first to " Maria que fuit uxor Hugonis Abernythe,'"
and second to '''Maria que fuit uxor Malisii Comitis de Strathearn''
(Pot nli. Scotia\ i, p. 26). Were these Marias the same persons or
not I Mr. Bain ((r'cneolot/isf, N.S., v, p. 105) thinks they were, upon
the testimony of the Rotuli, and that they were designated
differently in each entry merely because the orders were to
different Sheriffs, the lands, of which restoration was ordered,
lying in different counties and having been acquired through different
husbands ; if this is the case, Maria must have married Malise.
Earl of Strathearn, before 1275, because "Lady Maria, Queen
of Man, and Countess of Strathearn," signed a Homage Roll to
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Edward T on Mth July 1291 (Coin, dor of Documents, ii, p. 1 2 1>,
within a month after the last 'mention wo have of Hugl'i Aber-
nethy, and when, in all probability, lie was still alive. It may
be noted also that Malise, Earl of Strathearn, swore fealty to
Edward only twelve days before his death, on 12th July 1291.
Again, there is another oath of fealty taken at Perth on 8th July
1292, by " nobilis mulier Maria Begina de Man et Comitissa
de Strathearne " (Bymer's l\ed>ra, ii, p. 571). Was this Maria,
Queen of Man, and Countess of Strathearn, identical with Maria,
wife of Hugh Abernethy ? Before dealing with this - question,
however, it is necessary to quote further documents. On the 7th
of April 1299 "Maria, who was wife of William Fitzwaren,"
petitions King Edward I for an exchange of her husband as a
prisoner of war (Calendar of Documents, ii, 1062) ; on the 10th
of the same month she gets a safe conduct to go and see her
husband, as .? Maria de Argayl, wife of William Fitzwaren "
(Calendar of Documents, ii, 1104). That this was the same
person who enjoyed the title of Maria, Countess of Strathearn,
is proved by an obligation by Alan, son and heir of Sir William
Fitzwaren, by which he came under certain liabilities to "Madame"
Marie, Countess of Strathearn, late consort of the said Sir William.
This was on 28th December 1299 (Calendar of Documents, ii, 1117).
She must have died before 13th October 1303, as on that date
her executors appointed an attorney to receive and discharge the
money due to her by Alan (Ibid.). It is, therefore, clear that
Maria of Argyle, one of the de Ergadia family, was wife at
sometime or other of Malise, Earl of Strathearn, and of William
Fitzwaren. The real difficulty of the case is that besides the
first known Earl (c. 1115) there were three Earls of Strathearn
in succession who bore the name of Malise. Skene, on the
authority of Fordun, states that the first of these died in 1270,
but Mr. Bain thinks it must have been earlier, because Malise,
Earl of Strathearn, is mentioned as owing 35/ of the scutage of
Wales in 1261 (Calendar of Documents, i, 2283), while in the
same paragraph mention is made of " Malise de Stratherne and
Emma, his wife," and on 13th October 1267, the names "Malise,
Earl of Strathearn, and Emma, his wife," occur in another document
(Calendar of Documents, i, 2451).. This seems to indicate, according
to Mr. Bain, that the two Malises thus mentioned, were father
and son. It is impossible to dogmatise, but it is quite as likely
that they are the same person. Magnus, King of Man, died
12G5, and Alexander TTT annexed the island 1266 (Chronicle
of Man). So if Emma, the wife of the Earl of Strathearn, living
at that time, died within a year or so, there was still time for
the Earl to marry Magnus's widow and die himself, as Fordun
states, in 1270. The same historian asserts, in addition, that lie
was buried in Dunblane, and there are in the floor of Dunblane
Cathedral two figures of a knight and his lady hewn out of our
block of hard grey stone. They are said to have been discovered
in the choir surmounting a leaden collin. inscribed with the date
1271, and attributed to Malise, eighth ( •) Earl of Strathearn (Pro-
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ceedin</s Soc. Ant. Scot., xxix, p. 350). This may be Malise and
his wife Emma, but can hardly be Maria de Ergadia. Whatever
may be the exact date of the deatli of the first of the four
Earls Malise, there can be no doubt that between 1265 and
1299 there were two Earls of that name, and we know too little
about them to be sure that both of them did not marry someone
of the name of Maria, the widow of the first marrying Hugh
Abernethy, the widow of the second, "who had previously been
Queen of Man, marrying as her third husband, William Fitzwaren.
One circumstance deserves to be pointed out as militating against
the theory that Maria de Ergadia was successively the wife of
Magnus, King of Man, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Hugh Aber-
nethy, and William Fitzwaren, and that is that Hugh's wife or
widow is nowhere described as Queen of Mail, though owing to
Maria de Ergadia being so called in the case of the Earl of
Strathearn and. William Fitzwaren, we are enabled to identify
her as being the wife of those two men. Hugh certainly
married a Maria, who was at one time or other Countess of
Strathearn, but our information does not at present go so far as to
enable us to say positively of which Earl she was the wife.
Sir William Eraser states in his Doiujlas Book (i, p. 83) that
Sir Hugh s widow was Mary, daughter of John Comyn, of Badenoch,
one of the Kegents, and that she was in 1293 the wife of Malise,
Earl of Strathearn, and he quotes in support of his assertion the
summons from Baliol's Parliament referred to above, and which styles
a certain Maria, living in 1293, "Countess of Strathearn que fuit
uxor Hugonis de Abernethy/' But nowhere in the proceedings of
Parliament is it averred that Maria was a daughter of John
Comyn, of Badenoch. In all probability Sir William Eraser took
this piece of information from Craicfnrds Pccr<vje (sub voce
"Strathern, p. 467), but here again there is no identification of
the Maria Comyn said to have been the wife of Malise, Earl
of Strathearn, with . the Maria who married Hugh Abernethy.
Hugh Abernethy left a son Alexander. In 1292 his widow,
Maria, was summoned (Acta Pari, i, p. 446, above quoted) to
declare whether she knew of anything to prevent Alexander,
the son of Hugh de Abernethy, from obtaining possession
of the lands of Ballintrey and others. Tn the same Parliament
(Ibid., p. 447) his lands were given in ward to Alexander
de Menteith, so that as he was not of age in 1292, he must
have been born subsequently to 1272. At the same time
he was not a mere child, as he swore fealty to Edward I
10th July 1291 at St, Andrew's (Ivymer's F&dem, i, p. 570V
He opposed Bruce in the war of Independence, deserting the
national party, perhaps, as Lord Saltoun suggests, on account of
the enmity of many of the Scottish nobles which his father's
crime had provoked. he became liegeman to Edward 1, by
whom he was favoured and trusted, and to whose interests and
those of his son, Edward II, lie steadfastly adhered, during his
life. When Hubert the Bruce succeeded in establishing \u< authority
as Scottish King, the possessions of Sir Alexander Abernethy
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were declared to be forfeited, and he became to all intents an
Englishman. Pie was afterwards largely employed by the English
King in his diplomatic service, and we read of him being sent on
several occasions as Ambassador to France, and in 1313 he visited
the Papal Court in the same capacity (Rymer's Fwdera, iii, p. -136).
His death probably occurred shortly after 1315, in which year he
witnessed a charter granted by the Countess of Atholl (Antiq. of
Aberdecnsh., ii, p. 313). His wife's name is unknown: their only
issue were two daughters, both of whom married and were the
cause of bringing into the arms of many Scottish families the
quartering so frequently met with and so distinctive of Abernethy
descent : — Or a lion rampant {/tiles, debruised by a ribbon sable.
The eldest daughter Margaret married John Stewart, Earl of
Angus, a papal dispensation having been granted for that purpose
in 1329 (Andrew Stewart's Mist, of the Stewarts, p. 430). She
had a son Thomas, whose daughter Margaret married first Thomas,
Earl of Mar, and not Jong after his death, which occurred about 1373, 1
had a son by her brother-in-law William, Earl of Douglas, whose wife
was a sister of her first husband. This son was George Douglas,
afterwards the first of the Douglas Earls of Angus, and on the
resignation of the lands by his mother the Lordship of Abernethy and
other large possessions passed to him and his successors. (Eraser's
Douglas Book, ii, 17).
The second daughter Maria married, first, before 1320, Sir Andrew
de Leslie, son of Sir Norman de Leslie, as is proved by an indenture
between Andrew de Leslie and Mary, his wife, as heirs of the
deceased Sir Alexander Abernethy on the one part and William
Lindsay, Hector of Ayr and Chamberlain of Scotland, on the other
part, whereby Sir Andrew obliged himself to infeft Sir William
Lindsay in twenty -four merks of land in the tenement of Cairncy,
•dated at Dundee 19th June 1317 (Eraser's Douglas Book, iii,
p. 391). Sir Andrew Leslie must have died before 1321, as in
that year Mary Abernethy, his wife, or rather widow, married
Sir David Lindsay, of Crawford, ancestor of the Earls of Crawford.
On 4th December a Papal dispensation was procured for the
marriage of David de Lindesay and Mary, daughter of Alexander
de Abernethy, they being related in the fourth degree (Calendar
of Papal Registers, Papal Letters, ii, p. 241). Lord Saltoun in his
Frasers of Philorth states that there were three daughters of
Alexander de Abernethy, and that the wives of Leslie and
Lindsay were two different persons : but though the occurrence
of the same Christian name amongst brothers and sisters is by no
means unknown, it is out of the question to conceive that of
three girls two of them should be called Mary.
With these daughters then, the eldest male line of the Lords
of Abernethy having become extinct, the representation devolved
upon the representative of Sir Patrick Abcniethv's second son.
William of Saltoun. About him nut much is known. lie granted
two merks out of the profits of his mill in U Ikes tone, in Lauder-
'So Sir William Eraser snys, but M(3.E.C.,M in th* Ctmptttt /Yovr/c. giv«8 tho
dale as between 20 June 137G and 22 July lo77.
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dale, to the Abbey of Dryburgh in 1273 (Cart. Dryburgh, No. 175).
He was, as has been shown, involved in the murder of the Earl
of Fife, and may have been imprisoned in Douglas Castle, but, if
so, was probably dead before 1291, otherwise he would, in all
likelihood, have been included in the order previously referred to
transferring Sir Hugh to the royal prison. He was certainly
dead in 1296, for his widow Margaret received a pension from
the family estates by order of Edward I (Rotuli Seotite, i, p# 26).
His son, William de xVbernethy, swore fealty to Edward I in
1296 (Rax/man. Roll) : he served on an inquest at J3erwick -in the same
year (Calendar of Documents, i, p 824 [2]). He joined the standard
of Robert the Bruce, and was one of the Scottish Barons who sent
from Arbroath the celebrated letter to Pope John XXII, asserting
the independence of Scotland. It may be inferred that he enlarged
the donation of two merks from the mill of Ulkestone made by
his father to the Monks of Dryburgh, into a grant of the whole
mill, for though the charter is not extant, it was continued by
his son and successor. He left two sons — 1, William ; 2, Laurence.
Sir William Abernethy, third of Saltoun, was at the battle
of Halidon Hill in 1333, from which he succeeded in escaping.
He got a grant of the manor of Kothiemay from David II in
1345 (Charter in Rhiforth Charter-room). His confirmation of his
father's grant to the Monks of Dryburgh above mentioned, must
have been made, as Lord Saltoun points out (Fraserx of Phi 'forth,
ii, 31), not later than 1346, and his death probably took place not
long afterwards. It may be noted that Dr. Wallace James in his
article in the January number makes this William and his brother
Laurence, sons of Sir William, first of Saltoun, eliminating there-
fore one of the Williams altogether. There exists, no doubt, a
charter of the lands of MaxpolHe to the Abbey of Melrose, by
Laurence Abernethy about 1320-25, in which he mentions * William
my brother, and William his son and heir my nephew." Douglas,
however, gives three Sir Williams, and Lord Saltoun, in his
account of Laurence Abernethy (Frasers of Rhiforth, ii, p. 158),
gives it as his opinion that he is right, and that Laurence's
nephew William died without having succeeded his father, a
supposition which is strengthened by the change of name of the
next possessor, George. Sir George Abernethy, fourth of Saltoun,
accompanied King David in his invasion of England in 1346,
and was taken prisoner at the battle of Neville's Cross. He was
committed to the Tower of London (Rotuli Scotia', i. p. 678 ;
Fecdera, v, p. 534). What lands were accessible were nominally
forfeited by Edward ITT, and we read that in 1357 wThc barony
of Prendrelath (Plenderleith) fell into the King's hands by for-
feiture of George de Abernethy and his wife Alicia, late the
King's enemies, and has been for eleven years and still is. . . .
The barony is s<> utterly destroyed by the Scots that no profits
can be levied at present for the King. It is Kelt! by the service
of a knight's fee." A memorandum attached states the barony
used to be worth £49 IDs. Id. (Gnfnusktr if D(nw»H!ut*} Hi, 1641).
From this entry about Plenderleith, we may conclude that the
S3 4
THE ABERNETHY PEDIGREE.
surname of George Abernethy's wife Alicia was Wishart, and that
she was the heiress of the lands mentioned, probably the daughter
of that "William Wishart who received them from King Robert I.
This conclusion is also come to by Lord Saltoun (Frasers of
PhUortJi, ii, p. b'l), but he had not the authority of the document
above quoted to support him, as its publication was subsequent
to that of his work. George must have been released from con-
finement previous to 1368, for he is found granting a charter to
John de Kench, which though not dated, can be proved by
internal evidence to have been executed before ' January 1367-8
(Saltan Hall Charter Chest).
George and Alicia are said to have had two sons, George and
John. It is, however, very difficult to distinguish George from
his father. A George Abernethy attended the Coronation of Robert II
on 27th March 1371 (Acta Pari. Scot., i, p. 545), and George de
Abernethy miles, dominus de Sawylton, was a witness to a charter
of the lands of Longformacus 22nd June 1384, and on 8th November
1391 Robert 111 confirmed to Sir William Stewart, of Jedworth,
certain lands in the territory of Minto, resigned iu his favour by
Sir George de Abernethy (Robertson's Index, Kos. 20 and 33).
As George Abernethy, who married Alicia Wishart, was probably
born early in the fourteenth century, the chances are that as Lord
Saltoun states, there were two lairds of his name, father and son.
Of John, the brother of the second George, it may be said that
he appears as Sir John Abernethy, of Balgounie. in Fife, and that
in 1367-8 he received certain grants of land from the King
(Reg. Mag. Sig.). In 1363 he got a safe-conduct to enable him to
pass to England, being styled in the document " valettus " to
David II (Ftrdcra, vi, p. 428). In 1371 he had another safe-
conduct to England (Rotuli Scotia', i, p. 944). In 1377 he got
a similar document to enable him to pass ' 5 versus partes Sprucie "
(Ibid., ii, p. 4), and in 1381 another safe-conduct was issued
enabling him to go on his wav through England en route for
the Holy Land (Ibid., ii, p. 40).
John's brother George left at all events one son, William the
sixth of Saltoun, who must have succeeded his father about the
end of the fourteenth century, but was probably born not later
than 1365, if he is the person -who witnessed a charter granted
by Sir James de Douglas, Lord of Dalkeith, in 1388 {Reg. Hon.
de Morton, ii, p. 165). lie also appears in 1397 as witness to a
grant to George, Earl of Angus, by James Sandilands, of the
wardship of his son and heir (Fraser's Douglas Book, iii. pp. 40 —
43). He married a daughter of Robert, Duke of Albany, and
died of the pestilence in 1420 (Scotoclmaiicon, lib. XV, cap. xxxii).
It was not he, as stated in Dr. Wallace James' paper, who was
killed at the battle of Harlaw in 1411, but his eldest son of
the same name. This is proved by a statement of Bower, who.
in giving the list of the slain in that battle, includes the name
of William Abernethy, son and heir of the Lord of Saltoun, and
" nepos git&eniatorisi9 grandson of the Kegel it. William Abernethy
and Maria, his wife, had, in addition to the al)o\<> mentioned son.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
25
at least two more. There is a charter by Archibald, Earl of Douglas,
to James de Abernethy, of the lands of Theynside and Harwood,
in the barony of Hawick, which belonged to Sir William of
Abernethy, younger, brother of the said James, and were resigned
by him- — dated 20th July 1393 (77aj ScoUs of Mucdettch, ii, p. 17).
Another son, Patrick, was witness to a charter by the Regent
Albany in 14ir>, in which he is styled mptM noster dUectus, and
there is some ground for believing that there was yet another
son, John (Fmmrs of Philo-rth, ii, p. 160).
AVilliam Abernethy, who was killed at Harlaw, married Margaret,
daughter of Sir William Bortbwick, a lady who subsequently became
the wife of Sir James Douglas, of Dalkeith. They had at least
two sons, William who succeeded, Laurence, who succeeded his
brother, and probably a third, Oswald, who was- one of the
witnesses to a truce made by the Wardens of the Marches with
the English in 1449 (Fu.dera, xi, p. 246). This Oswald had a son John
(called William by Douglas), but beyond the fact that he is men-
tioned as a substitute of entail in several charters (28th January
1463-64, 5th August 1464, and 10th January 1482-3, Raj. Mag. Sir/.)
and styled son of Oswald, nothing further is known of him.
William, the eldest son of William Abernethy, who was slain
at Harlaw, and Margaret Borthwick, was one of the Magnates
Scotife who went to meet James I at Durham in 1423, and in
the following year he was one of the hostages for the ransom
of the Scottish King, his estates being valued at an annual
rental of 500 marks (Rot nil Scotia;, ii, pp. 244, 245, 248, 252).
He succeeded his grandfather in 1420, but cannot have lived
long thereafter, and must hasre died without issue, as we find his
brother Laurence styled Dominus de Saltoun in 1428.
(To be continued.)
$£t)tc$rcrs front tfjc Pea Bolls.
By Major-General the Hon. GEORGE WROTTESLEY.
(Continued from Vol. XVII, p. 251.)
De Banco. HWavy. 13. Hen. 6. m. 106 do>*o.
Staff.— James Leveson sued John Pipard, Chaplain, for land in Wolver-
nehampton, which Henry, son of Clement of Wolvernehampton,
had given to Richard Leveson, of Willenhall, and Margery, his wife,
and the heirs of their bodies.
Richard Leveson, seised=y^Margery.
temp. E. 1.
i 1
Geoffrey.
I
Roger.
I
Nicholas.
Jl**ft^+My» J *UiW*b» i • .J*"*? 'Wr;J^~&?Z
James Leveson, the plaintift.
John Pipard called to warranty William Leveson, son and heir
of Richard Leveson.
26
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
De Banco. Trinity. 15. Hen. 6. m. 321.
Line. — Walter Talvboys sued John Ellerker and four others for the
manors of South Elkington, Bannehurgh and Metheryngham, claiming
as heir-at-law of Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Ansros.
Gilbert. Earl of Ai)gos,
ob. s.p.
Verdict for the plaintiff.
Thomas de Umfraville,
ob. s.p.m., temp. Ric. 2.
Elizabeth.
I
Alianora.
I •
Walter.
, I
Walter Taylboys,
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Trinity. 15. Hen. 6. m. 339.
Somerset. — Thomas Stawell, Kt., sued John Bishop of Bath and
Wells, Elizabeth, late wife of John Tuchet, Kt., James Tuchet, Kt.,
and William Lee for the manors of Netherstowey, Honeybare and
five other manors named. Thomas gave the same descent as in
the suit of Hillary term 9 II. 5 (vol. xvi, p. 240), but a verdict was
delivered in favour of the defendants.
De Banco. Trinity. 15. lien. 6. m. 491.
Northampton. — Philip Boteller sued for execution of a Fine levied
in 4 E. 2, between Ralph le Boteller and Hawise, his wife, and
Thomas Paynel and Elizabeth, his wife, respecting the manor of
Hegham Gobyn, co. "Bedford, and other lands specified. The
defendant was Thomas Pveynes, and the land claimed was in Horton.
Ralph le hotelier, seised^Hawise.
4 E. 2. I
Ralph.
Philip.
I
Philip.
Philip Boteller,
the plaintiff.
See suit of Mich. 2 H. 5 (vol. xvi, pp. 92, 93), which gives
another version of the descent from Ralph le Boteller.
De Banco. Trinity. 15. Hen. 6. m. 107.
Bucks. — William Launcclyn sued John Ardorne and two others for
the manor of Thornton, which Hugh, son of Richard Chastilon,
gave to Roes, formerly wife of Richard C hastilon, aud the heirs
of the bodies of Richard and Roes.
PEDIGREES FROM THE RLE A ROLLS.
Richard Chastilon, seised^Roes.
temp. E l. i
r J
Malcolm.
I
John.
John, Margaret,
ob. s.p. |
Richard.
i
John.
I
W illiam Launcelyn,
the plaintiff.
The defendants called to warranty William Purefey, who was to
be summoned by the Sheriff of co. Warwick.
Dc Banco. Trinity. 15. Men. 6. m. 107 dorso.
Bucks. — Thomas Tkenam and Edmund Tomlyns sued Thomas More,
John, son of William Arderne, and Thomas Dod, clerk, for the
manor of West Stratford.
John, son of William, of West=fdsabella.
Stratford, seised temp. E. 3. |
I -1
Joan. Alianora.
I I
Thomas. John.
I 1
Lucy. Edmund Totnlyns
| plaintiff.
Thomas Ikenam,
plaintiff.
De Banco. Trinity. 15. licit 6. m. 308.
Wilts.— William Dyneley, armiger, and Margaret, his wife, sued
Matilda, late wife of John Carpenter, to carry out the terms of a
Fine levied in 19 E. 2 by Matthew fitz Herbert and Margaret,
his wife, respecting the manor of Wolfreton, co. Southampton, a
moiety of the manor of Morehalle, co. Norfolk, and a fourth part
of the manor of Churmditon, co. Wilts.
Matthew fitz Herbert, Renaud fitz Herbert,
ob. s.p. |
Elizabeth.
I
Matilda.
I
Robert.
I
Thomas.
I
Margaret . — William
the plaintiff. Dyaeley,
28 PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
De Banco. Hillary. 15. Hen. G. ml 138.
Hant.i. — John Frampton and Joan, his wife, sued for execution of
a Fine levied in 15 E. 3, between John le Mareschall, of Bonyndon,
and Matilda, his wife, respecting lands and rents in Somerle, Penne
and Asshele. The defendant was Henry Casewyke.
Jolm le Mareschall, seised=j=Matilda.
15 K. 3. |
John,=Katrine. John, 2nd son.
ob. s.p. |
Edmund.
Joan.=
John Frampton,
the plaintiffs.
De Banco. Hillary. 15. Hen. 6. m. 319.
Stiff. — John Brokle sued William Drury, Kt., and three others, for
the manor of Waningford.
Thomas. Agnes.
.1 I
Katrine Cokerell, Alexander,
seised temp. H. 6, |
obiit s.p. Agnes.
I
John Brokle,
plaintiff.
The .defendants pleaded that a moiety of the manor was held by
Thomas Tudenham, Kt., and that the plaintiff was not the right
heir of Katrine Cokerell.
De Banco. Hillary. 15. Hen. 6. in. 319 dorso.
Hertford. — Agnes, late wife of John YVvlby, sued John Exham and
five others for the manor called Goldyngstones Manor, in Saret,
which Peter de Goldyngton had given to John, his son, and the
heirs of his body.
John, son of Peter de Goldington.
r x 1
Thomas, Joan,
ob. s.p. |
Margaret.
I
Agues,— John
the Wylby.
plaintiff.
De Banco. Hillary. 15. Hen. G. m. 327.
Wilts.- -Walter Strikland and Isabella, his wife, sued Nicholas Souda-
rnore, in a plea " de nafivtiatej' claiming him as a fugitive villein
tenant appendant to their manor of Compton C'haumherlayn, and
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
29
they stated that .John Sciidamore, the grandfather of the defendant,
had ))een the villein tenant of Matilda, the great grandmother
(proava) of Isabella, in the reign of Edward III, and from Matilda
they gave this descent : —
Matilda, seised temp. E. 3.
I
William.
I
John.
Isabella, the plaintiff.
From John Scudamore, the villein tenant, temp. E. 3, they gave
this descent of the defendant : —
John Scudamore, living temp. E. 3.
-+ 1
John, the elder. Edmund. John, the younger.
I I
Nicholas, the John Scudamore.
defendant.
Edmund Scudamore and John, son of John Scudamore, were
present in Court, and acknowledged that they were the villein
tenants of Isabella. As the Court were puzzled how the action
should be tried, it was adjourned from term to term up to Hillary,
16 H. G, when the record terminates.
De Banco. Hillary. 15. Hen. G. m. 337.
Derb. — John Jorce, armiger, sued Agnes Annesley, of Burton Jorce,
in the county of Notts, widow, to give up to him a pyx, containing
deeds and muniments.
Robert Jorce, Kt., son of Richard Jorce, was seised of the manor
of Burton Jorce, near Bulcote, and other lands and rents in
Gedlyng and Esterlayk, in County Notts, and lands and rents in
Bakewell, county Derby, and Loughborough, county Leicester, and
gave them to Richard, his son, and the heirs male of his body,
with remainder to Robert, son of the said Robert, and the heirs
male of his body, and witli remainder to William, son of the said
Robert, and the heirs male of his body.
Robert Jorce, Kt., son of Richard Jorce.
t
Richard, ob. Robert. William,
s.p.m. | |
John. Richard.
I I
William. John.
I I
William, John Jorce,
ob. s.p.m. the plaintiff.
By another deed, Robert Jorce, Kt., son of Richard, gave the
manor of Eperstone to Robert, his son, and t lie heirs male of his
body, with remainder to William, son of Robert, son of Richard,
30
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
and the heirs, male of his body. William, father of William,
had constituted the defendant Agues his executor, in consequence
of which she had become possessed of the deeds in 9 Hen. 5, at
Rep ton, co. Derby.
Verdict for the plaintiff.
De Banco. Hillary. 1G. Hen. G. m. 117 dorso.
Wane. — Humfrey Stafford, Kt., sued Robert Catesby foi\the manor
of Harpesford, which Roger Bissliopston and Joan, his wife, had
given to Thomas de Hastyng (ITastang), Chivaler, and Elizabeth,
his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, and he gave this descent : —
Thomas Hastang, Kt ^Elizabeth.
John.
I
John,
i
Matilda.
Humfrev.
I '
Humfrey Stafford,
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Hillary. 1G. Hen. 6. m. 475.
Staff. — The King sued John Sutton, of Dudley, and John Bredhill,
for the next presentation to the church of King Swynford.
John de Sutton, of Dudley,=f-Isabella, presented
living temp. E. 3. j temp. Rie. 2.
r 1
John.
i
, ■ • John.
I .
John.
I
John, died in 7 H. 4. ^-Constance.
I
John Sutton, the defendant.
The King claimed the presentation, because Constance who held
it .in dower, had been wairiata for a debt.
De Banco. Trinity. 16. Hen. G. in. 135.
Derb. — John Thorold, of Repvngton, and four others, sued John
Lathebury for an illegal distress in Neuton Sulnv. The defendant
pleaded that the plaintiffs were villein tenants appurtenant to his
manor of Neuton Sulny.
PEDIGREES FROM THE FLEA ROLLS. 31
Aimed Lathebury, Chivaler,
of Eginton.
I
John.
I
John Lathebury, the defendant.
Verdict for the plaintiffs.
De Banco. Hillary. 1G. Hen. G. m. 116.
Xotts. — Richard Sutton sued the Abbot of Welbek for the next
presentation to the church of Kellom, claiming to be heir of one
Henry Toke, who had presented to the church temp. E. 3, and
he gave this descent :-
i 1
James. Margaret.
.! i
Richard. John.
I I
John. Henry Toke,
| presented to
Roland. the church
| temp. E. 3.
Henry. |
| Simon, ob. s.p.
Richard Sutton,
the plaintiff.
The Abbot denied that Richard was heir of Simon, and pleaded
that he, i.e. the Abbot, had made the last presentation to the church.
Richard admitted this to be true, but stated that at that date
he was under age. Both parties appealed to a jury on this issue,
hut no verdict is recorded.
Be Banco. Hillary. 1G. Hen. G. m. 321.
Devon. — Nicholas Carrewe, Kt., and Joan, his wife, sued Tristan,
the Abbot of St. Mary; of Nyvveham, and William Stephyn, clerk,
for the next presentation to the church of Lovepytte.
Reginald de Mohun seised of the manor of Otry Mohun; temp.
H. 3, granted it to William de Mohun, his son, and the heirs of
his body, from whom it descended to : —
William de Mohun, who
presented temp. E. 2.
Alianora, d.=pJohn de Carrewe. presented
and heir. temp. E. 2.
John de Carrewe.
I
Leonard.
I '
Thomas.^- Elizabeth.
I
Nicholas de Carrewe, the plaintiff.
32
PEDIOREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
Sir Nicholas, apparently not being certain of the accuracy of
the above pedigree, sued the Abbot by another writ on m. 322. Ia
this writ lie gives his pedigree as follows : —
John de Carrewe. =pAlfanora.
I
r-J
John.
I
i 1
Nicholas, John.
ob. s.p.
Leonard.
I
Thomas.
Nicholas Carrewe,
the plaintiff.
The Abbot stated that Reginald de Mohun was the founder and
patron of his Abbey, and had granted to it the church of Lovepytte,
temp. Hen. 3. He admitted that William de Mohun and John de
Carrewe had presented to the church, but stated it was by usurpa-
tion, and that 'his predecessor had recovered the advowson in a
suit against John de Carrewe and Alianora in Banco at Easter
15 E 3, and he pleaded the judgment of the Court. Verdict for
the Abbot.
De Banco. Trinity. 16. Hen. 6. m. 123.
Kent.— Stephen Andreu sued Richard Bruyn and Joan, his wife,
for the manor of Eslyngham and lands in Frendesbury, Hegham
and Shorne, claiming under a fine levied in 22 E. 3, by Walter
Neel, Citizen of Londou, and Alice, his wife.
Roger Andreu^Joan,
feoffee in 22 E. 3. | feoffee in 22 E. 3.
r— J
John. .
I
Stephen Andreu, the plaintiff.
De Banco. Trinity. 1G. Hm. G. m. 137.
Cornwall. — Thomas Neville sued John Colshulle, son of John
Colshulle, Kt., and others, for execution of a Fine levied in 5] E. 3
and recorded in 2 Ric. 2, between Robert de Tresilian and Emma,
his wife, daughter of Richard Huwisshe, Kt., respecting the manors
of Biename, Stratton, Seynt Marowyk, Isle of Sully and other
lands, which Gilbert Talbot and Margaret, his wife, hold for the
life of Margaret, by which, after the death of Margaret, the said
manors, etc., were to revert to Robert and .Emma, and the heirs
male of their bodies, and failing such to William Newlle. of
Pykalle, Kt., and the heirs male of his body, The pleadings give
this pedigree: —
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
33
Guy de Blankemou.<ter, Cecily.
Keetor of Lansalcwc*. I
William de Nevylle.
Robert.
I
Thomas Neville,
the plaintiff.
The defendants stated that Robert and Emma had a son John,
and the)7 claimed under a grant by Guy de Blankemouster. .Emma,
after the death of Robert, seems to have married John Coleshulle.
Verdict for the defendants.
De Banco. Hillary. 17. lien. 6. m. 103.
Sussex. — Andrew Dautre sued John, Earl of Huntingdon, and
Beatrice, his wife, for the manor of Aldesworth, which Richard de
la Roche had given to John Dautre and Cecily, his wife, and the
heirs of their bodies.
John Dautre, seised-fCecily.
temp. E. 3. j
I '
Thomas.
I
John.
John. •
I
John.
Andrew Dautre,
the plaintiff.
Verdict for the plaintiff.
By another suit on the back of the same membrane, Andrew
recovered the manor of Shelve, co. Kent, which Edward Dalyng-
rigge, Kt., and two others named, had granted to Roger Dalyngrigge
and Alesia, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. His mother
Joan was daughter and heir of Roger and Alesia.
De Banco. Hillary. 17. Hen. 6. m. 109.
K&rf. — Geoffrey Querre and Margaret, his wife, sued William Grace
for lands and rents in Narburgh, which John de Drayton had
jrfven to John, his son and Clarice his wife, and the heirs of
their bodies.
John, sou of John de Drayton, =f=Clarice.
seised temp. H. 4. !
r J
John.
Margaret, duughter=(ieoffrey
and heir. Queue,
plaintiffs,
I)
1
34 PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
Dc Banco. IIill<wy. 17. lien. 6. m. 317.
Ebor. — Alexander Ledes sued Ralph PygUt for lands and rents in
Ledes and Hcton, in Bradfordalc, and lie sued Joan, late wife of
William Ledes, for other lands and rents in the same Till.
Roger, son of Roger tic Lede*,=rMalilda.
seised temp. E. 3. |
Roger, Ralph, Thomas, Richard. .
ob. s.p. ob. s.p.m. ob. s.p.m.
Thomas.
* I
Alexander de Ledes,
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Hillary. 17. ITen. G. in. 339 dorso.
Devon. — Baldwin Fuleford sued Edmund Lacy, the Bishop of Exeter,
for the next presentation to the church of Melhuwysshe,
William de Melhuwysshe, seised of the
manor of Melhuwvsshe, temp. E. -3.
"I
r J
John. -f= Joan Stodden.
I
I rJ 1
Thomasia.— Matilda.= Joan.—
Thomas Elyot. William Tumour. Adam Rrounyng.
The three coheiresses had enfeoffed Hentfy Fuleford, the father
of Baldwin.
De Banco. Hillary. 17. Hen 6. m. 503.
Suff.- — William Paston and Agnes, his wife, and Thomas Bardolf and
Alice, his wife, sued William Alnewyk, the Bishop of Lincoln.
William Philip, Kt., aud four others named, for the manor of
Frostyndene and other lands and rents which Henry Posendale had
given to John Byskele and the heirs of his body, temp. E. 3.
John Byskele, seised
temp. E. 3.
I
Richard.
Clemence.
I
John, ob. s.p.
I
Richard.
Thomas,
ob. s.p.
John,
ob. s.p
Agne».=
William Taston'.
»
Petrouilla.
Clemence,
ob. s.p.
Alice.
I
John.
I
Edmund.
i
Alice —
Thomas Bardolf.
AN EARLY OR ANT OF ARMS. 35
De Banco. Hillary. 17. Hen. G. m. 50 L
QtCOtit — Richard Bonho sued Walter Cotton for lands and rents,
and two parts of a Knight's Fee, in Tettes worth, which Simon
Dan vers, of Burton, had given to Geoffrey, son of Geoffrey de
Stokes, the elder, and the heirs of his body.
Geoffrey, son of Geoffrey de Stokes,
seised temp. E. 2.
Elizabeth.
J___
Richard, Joan,
ob. s.p. |
Thomas.
I
Richard Bonho,
the plaintiff.
(To be continued.)
AN EARLY GRANT OF ARMS.
The subjoined extract from the Patent Roll of the 13th Richard II,
A.D. 13S9, will probably interest some of the readers of The
Genealogist. The arms, for English heraldry of the fourteenth
century, seem unusual, and the fact that the King received John
de Kingston into the rank of a gentleman and created him an
esquire, at the same time assigning to him armorial bearings, is
noteworthy.
J. Paul Rylaxds.
Patent Roll, 13 Ric. II, pars 1, m. 37.
Lc Roi a tous ceux as queux cestes Ires viendrount salutz
Sachez q come un Chiualer Fraunceys a ceo q nous sum2 enformez
ad chalange un nostre liege John de Kyngeston a faire cteina
faitx °t pointz darmes ouesq le dit Chiualer Nous a fyn q le dit
lire liege soit le meulz honrablement resceuz ^ faire puisse °t
Irtoui'mir les ditz faitz ^t pointz darmes luy auons reseeux en
lestat de Gentile home °t luy fait esquier T. volons qi] soit
conuz p amies et porte desore enauant cestassauoir dargent oue
une chapewe dazure ouesq, une plume dostrich de goulea E< ceo
a tous ycaux as queux y appcrtient nous notiiions p YCestes En
tesmoignaunce de quele chose nous auons fait faire cesfes no* ires
pah-MtcK Don souz nre g*unt seal a nre Pa leys de Westni. le
I't'im iour de Juyll [1389J p brief de priue seal,
36
WILLIAM DENTING K, FIRST EARL OF PORTLAND.
In I)r. Ward's valuable life of this founder of a great noble
house we read that " He had been thrice married ; his second (sic)
wife was a sister of the Earl of Jersey and of Lady Elizabeth
Villiers, afterwards Lady Orkney, at one time the mistress of
William III."1 It may seem strange that there should be any
doubt as to the marriages of so notable a character, but in the
Complete Peerage (vi, 272), he is said to have "married jirsthj,
in or before 1680, Frances, often (incorrectly) called Anne . . .
sister of Edward, first Earl of Jersey, and daughter of Sir Edward
Villiers," who "died in Holland, November 1688." In a footnote
to this statement, " G. E. C." observes : —
" There seems no reason to question the generally received account (as given
by Collins, etc.) that this first wife was a daughter of Sir Edward Villiers (who
was born in 1620), and that she was mother of the first Duke [of Portland],
who was born 1GS0 . . . The [' Dictionary of J National Biography,' however, states
that the first wife, who died 1688, 'is passed over by Collins,' and speaks of the
marriage of 1700 [with Jane .Martha] as that with 1 his third wife.' This
last may possibly be a true statement, for Luttrell states positively, 12 Dec.
3 692. 'Thursday,! the Lord f'ortland was married to Mrs. Howard, a Maid
of Honour.' This match, if it really took place, would be 4 years after the
deatli of his 1st wife and 8 years before the marriage of 1700."
It is true that under 17th December 1692 Luttrell notes t ho
marriage as having taken place two days before (not on the 12th),
but on the next page (ii, 644) we lind him writing onlv, under
20th December, "a marriage is concluded between Lord Portland
and Mrs. Howard, a maid of honour; her portion £20,000." This
throws doubt on his previous statement that the marriage hail
taken place. But what shows that it had not done so and throws
an altogether fresh light on the problem is a letter of 30th July
1700, from Kichard Barret to his father Dacre Barret, in which
he writes : " My Lord Fasten has shot the Lord Portland for
refusing to marry his sister, Mrs. Howard, to whom he had
promised marriage. My Lord Paston challenged him first, but
he refused, and so was shot."- This enables us to show who
"Mrs. Howard" was, and to explain the relationship of all the
parties.
Theophilus, 2nd Earl
of Suffolk.
r~ L 1
Thomas Howard, Frances^ Sir Edward
2nd son. Howard. | Villiers.
I
I
r-
(1) James Howard, ^p Charlotte Jemima Henrietta— ^ William, William^Fmnees
only son, ob. s.p.m.
Julv Um, rot. 19.
Maria Boyle alias Fitzn
natural daughter of Charles
II.
2nd Earl of 1st Earl Villiers
Yarmouth of Port*
(1US3-173-J). land.
1 ' 1
Stuarta Howard Charles. "Lord Paston "
u Mrs. Howard " Born at Whitehall 29 May
(' d. unm. 170G.') lti? ».
1 Dictionary of National Biography, iv
1 13th Kejw.it Hist. MSS. iv, 305.
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37
It would thus appear that " Mistress Howard " was only two
or three and twenty when Lord Portland, who was much older,
but a very wealthy man, was supposed to have married her or to
be about to do so. What brought matters to a crisis, several years
later, was his marriage to Lord Berkeley's widow (May 1700),
which young Lord Paston seems to have regarded as a breach of
faith towards his half-sister, " Mistress Howard." The episode is
not mentioned in Dr. Ward's life of the Earl.
J. H. Round.
"WITH ADDITIONS.
(Continued from Vol. XVII, p. 2b'6. )
Dickering Wapentake. Kilham, 31° Aug. 1665.
Uojmton
of
Hafodiffc.
Arms :— Quarterly : —
1 and 4. Or, a fess between three crescents Gules (Boyntou).
2. Gules, a cross inoiine Or.
3.. Azure, two bars wavy Argent (De la Sec).
I. Sr CHRISTOPHER BOYXTOX, KnK3 second son of Sir
Thomas Boynton and Isabel Normanvile, mar. Elizabeth,
daughter and coh. fo Sir Robert Concert, of Oi^ncsby, in
com. Ebor., Junior Justice for the Palatinate of Durham.
They had issue —
It CHRISTOPHER BOYXTOX, of Sadboroiujh (Sedbury), in
com. Eborum, mar. first . . . dau. of . . . Wandesford.
They had issue —
• William, d. s.p. (Glover).
war. Elizabeth (Jane), daughter of R<>b,rt Siranytvays, of'
Skcltou, in co. Ebor., widow of Conan Barton, of Wheiiby,
On 2 Dec. 1455 she was allowed an oratory at Sedbury.
She lived afterwards at Yarm, where she desired to be
buried. Will 7 Apr. I ISC, ju\ at York 7 Feb. 1ISN (Test.
Ebor., iv, 13). lnq. P.M. 23 July 4 Hen. VII. They
had issue —
38 DUGDALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Christopher (III).
1. Jane, wife of Sr William Xevill, of Thorncton Briggs,
in com. Ebor,, K'.
2. Elk., wife of Sr Gerard IFiddrington, 10.
Robert (Glover).
Henry.
John.
Margaret (Glover).
III. Sr CHRISTOPHER BOYXTOX, of Sadborough, d.
9 July 1485, mar. Agnes, dan. of Henry, Lord Scrobpe of
Bolton (reinar. Sir Richard Radelyffe, avIio was killed at
Bosworth), commission to veil 20 Sept. 1485. They had
issue —
1. Sr Henri/ Boynton, Kk, of Sedbury, d. 7 Jan. 1531,
bur. at Gilling, M.I., mar. Isabell, daughter <fc heire
of Bertram Lumley, of Raverisworth, mar. contract
1489, iet. tNvent3*-four. They had issue —
Isabell, daughter and sole heire, wife of Henry
Gascoigne, 2d son of Sr \Vm Gascoigne, oj
Gauthropc, in com. Ebor., Kl.
2. John (IV).
IV. JOHN BOYXTOX, mar. . . . daughter of . . Leonard, of
. . . in co. Ebor. They had issue —
Leonard (V).
Agnes.
V. LEOXARD BOYXTOX, of WiUerby, in co. Ebor., died
a° 29 Eliz. Regime, bur. at Snaith 20 Oct. 1587, mar.
Mary, daughter of Dr Stephen Tublny, Phisitian to King
Henry the Sth, bur. at Snaith 9 May 1594. They had
issue —
Stephen (VI).
Michael.
Thomas.
William.
Elizabeth, mar. John Sainter.
Alice, mar. . . . Pasbus.
Mary.
VI. STEP II EX BOYXTOX, of RaWclifr, in com. Ebor., d'od in
a° 1620, bur. at Snaith 10 Mar. 1(>2*, mar. Susan, daughter
and coheir to John Jlarrison, of Pollinaton^ ' in rem. E/>or..
bur. at Snaith 8 Sept. 1620. They had issue —
Thomas (VII),
1. Jane, wife of Will. Xormau, of' llurton Salmon, n\
co. Ebor.
2. Jfary, wife of Fmncis Xuthalf, of Rawcliffe ; after
to Tho. Est oft, of Est, ft.
3. Lucie, icifc of Robert liears. of Scautf6y«
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39
VII. THOMAS BO YXTOX, of Rdwdiffk, in com. Mori, bur. at
Snaith 10 July 1656, mar. Jane, daugh. of John Awnby, of
Sherwood, in com. Ebor., gent., mar. lie. 1619, bur. at
Snaith 5 June 1634. They bad issue —
1. Sir John Boynton., of liaiccUjfe, in com. Ebor., Esqr.,
cet. 4i cinn. 31° Aug. a° 1665, barr.-at-law, d.
s.p.j bur. at Snaith 3 Jan. 168*, mar. Frances,
daughter and coheire of John Bernard, Alderman
of Kingston super Hull (remar. Edward Crofts).
2. Stephen, B.A., Rector of Laeeby, co. Line.'
3. Francis, mar. . . . , sister to Sir John Luby.
Will 1694.
4. Malhciv Boynton, of liawcline, succeeded bis brother,
d. s.p., bur. at Snaith 26 June 1700, mar. Judith,
dau. of Luke Kobinson, of Thornton liiseborough.
1, Anne, ivife of William Ramsden, Alderman of Hall,
mar. 20 Feb. 1650, d. 23 April 1667, bur. at
Trinity Church, Hull, M.I;
£}. Susan, wife of . . . Hodsall, of London, merchant.
3. Mctry, wife of Thomas Appleyard, of Ulseby, in co.
Line. Their son, Boynton Appleyard, succeeding
to the estates of his uncle Mathew Boynton,
assumed the name and arms of Boynton.
He mar. secondly Elizabeth, dau. of John Digby, Esq.,
of Mansfield Woodhouse, wid. of Geo. Walker, of Mansfield,
and Thos. Trigott, of South Kirkby. Will 14 Feb. 1666,
to be buried with her second husband (Hunter's S.Y.).
Stainecrossb Wapentake.
Earnslcy, 15 Sept. 1G65.
of
€hd\ct.
AnMs : — Argent, .1 saltirc Gules.
Curst:— A bull's head erased Sable.
L SIR EDMUND NEVILE, son of Sir John Nevile, of
Hornby, mar. Isoln, dau. of Robert Elambuigh. heiress of
Liversedge, They had issue —
40 DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
II. WILLIAM NEVILE, mar. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John
Harrington. They had issue —
III. SIR JOHN NEVILE, of Liversedge, mar. Alice, dau. and
h. of Henry Sherwood. They had issue —
Sir Thomas (IV).
Joan.
Margaret.
IV. SIR THOMAS NEVILE, of Liversedge." Nunc, will 4 June
1421, pr. at York 27 May 1438, to be bur. at Birstal (Test.
Ebor., iii, 244), mar. Alice, dau. and h. of Richard Gascoignc,
of Hunslet. Will 1 Feb. 1478, pr. at York 24 May 1481,
to be bur. at Leeds (Test. Ebor., iii, 244). They had
issue —
• Sir Robert (V).
John, to have lands in Olton from his mother.
V. SIR ROBERT NEVILE, of Liversedge, mar. first Agnes,
dau. of . . . Scargill. They had issue —
Ellen, mar. Thos. Lacy, of Crommellbothom.
Elizabeth, mar. Richard Beaumont, of Whitley, mar.
cov. 1456.
Mar. secondly Ellen, dau. of Sir Wm. Molyneux, of Sefton.
They had iskue —
Sir John (VI).
William, named in his brother John's will.
Edward.
Alice, (?) mar. John Sothill, of Sothill : • her will
23 July, pr. 21 Aug. 1509 (Test. Ebor., iv, 6).
Jane, mar. Richard Bosvile, of Gunthwaite.
VI. Sr JOHN NEVELL, of Leversegt, in com. Ebor., k\, High
Sheriff, 1488, 1495, d. 22 Oct. 1502. Will 20 Dec. 1501,
• * pr. at York 22 Dec. 1502, to be bur. at Birstal (Test. Eh.,
iv, 198), Inq, P.M. 20 Jan. 18 Hen. VII, mar. Maude,
daughter of Sr Raphe Either, of Either in com. Eborum.
Will 22 Dec. 1505, pr. at York, to be bur. at Birstal (Test.
Ebor., iv, 241). They had issue—
L Thomas Xcvill (VII).
2. Robert Nevill, of Wakefield, "Toman of Crone to the
Kynges Grace," bur. at Wakefield. Will 15 May,
pr. 2 June 1524 (Test. Ebor., v, 175), mar. . . . and
had issue —
John, named in his fathers will.
George, of Liversedge. Adm. 7 Oct. 1508 to Robert
and John Nevilc (Test. Ebor., iv, 211), of Chcvet.
John (A).
Maude, mar. Anthony El tofts.
Elizabeth, mar. Thos. Burton, of Kinsley.
Elizabeth, mar. Wm. Blvthc.
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VII. THOMAS XEVILL, son and hcirc. d. v.p. 20 May 1199,
(?)bur. at Leeds (M.I. formerly there), mar. Isabel, dau. of
Sir Robert Sheffield. Thev had issue —
Sir Robert (VIII).
Matilda, named in her grandfathers will.
Isabel, mar. John Popeley, of Morehouse (Glover).
Edmond (Glover and Flower).
VIII. SIR ROBERT NEVILE, of Liversedge, High Sheriff 1540.
Will 31 July, pr. at York 26 Oct. 1542, to be bur. at Birstal
or Leeds. Inq. P.M. 7 Apr. 31 Hen. VIII ; mar. Helen,
dau. of Sir John Towneley, executrix of her husband.
They had issue —
I Sir John (IX).
Thomas, mentioned in his father's will, d. s.p.
. (Flower).
Robert, mentioned in his father's will, d. s.p. (Flower).
Henry, mentioned in his father's will, d. s.p. (Flower).
Margery, mar. Ralph Bees ton, of Beeston (Glover
322).
Katherine, mar. Richard Beaumont, of Whitley.
Eleanor, mar. Christopher Ratcliffc.
Beatrix, mentioned in her father's will, d. s.p.
Rosamond, mentioned in her father's will, d. s.p.
Elizabeth, mar. Francis Woodrove, of Woolley (Glover
| 381).
IX. SIR JOHN NEVILE, of Liversedge and Hunslet, High
Sheriff 1560 ; attainted and his estates confiscated for
participation in the Insurrection of the North, 11 Eliz.
1569 ;l mar. first Dorothy, dau. of Sir Christopher Danby,
of Masham. Thev had issue —
Robert (X).
Elizabeth, mar. . . . Askew (Glover).
Jane, mar. Roger Cholmelev.
Ellinor (Glover).
Mar. secondly Beatrix, dau. of Henry Brome, of Wren-
thorp. They had issue — .
Matthew.
Edward or Edmond.
p Symon.
Mary.
Grace.
Douglas.
Margaret.
X. ROBERT NEVILE, of Liversedge, had an allowance of £20,
(?) mar. Grace Pickering at Birstal 22 Dec. 1583, and had
issue —
John, bp. at Birstal 1*6 Feb. 1587.
1 In consequence of thU the f.uuily became quite reduced.
42
DUCJDALtt's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
We now come to the younger branch of Chevet : —
A. Sr J011X NEYILL, Kk, son of Sir John Nevile (VI) and
Maude Rither. Of Chevet, ju. ux. High Sheriff 1518-23-27 ;
mar. Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William Bosvile, of
Chevet, m com. Ebor., Esq': Inq. P.M. 29 .May 2 Ed. VI
1546. They had issue —
Henry (B).
Richard, deaf, d. s.p. (Hunter).
William, d. s.p. (Flower).
Francis Nevile, of Barnbv Don, d. 23 Dec. 15S2, ret.
sixty-three, bur. there, M.I. Will 25 Mar. 1582,
pr. at York 30 July 1583, mar. first Elizabeth,
dau. and coh. of Thomas Pigot, of Ripon, rel. of
Sir Charles Brandon and Sir James Strangwayes ;
mar. secondly Isabel, dau. of Richard Longstaff,
of Bilsdale, and had issue —
F rancis.
Elizabeth, mar. first Roger Rocklcy, of Rockley.
14 Jan. 152 secondly James Frankish, and
thirdly Rowland Jackson, of Harleston, near
Grantham.
Ann, mar. first Thomas Drax, of Woodhall, secondly
Thomas Gregson.
Mary, mar. Sir Gervase Clifton 17 Jan. 153".
Edith, d. s.p. (Flower).
B. HENRY NET ILL, of Chevet, Esq-. Will 10 Aug. 1565, pr.
at York 1 Feb. 156», mar. Dorothy, daughter of Sr John
Daumey, of Seazy, in co. Ebor., KnK, 15 Jan. 1533. They
had issue —
Gervase (C).
Francis, mar. Prudence, dau. of George Waterhouse,
of Harthill. They had issue —
Gervase, vat. four, 1585, b. 1581.
Henry, b. 1582.
George, b. 1586.
Cotton, of ... b. 1581, bur. at Conis-
borough 10 Nov. 1632, mar. at Harthill
. . . , bur. at Conisborough 3 . . . 1632.
They had issue —
John, bp. at Conisborough 25 Oct. 1620.
Elizabeth.
Mary.
Jane.
Bridget.
Susan.
Margaret.
Ann.
Mary, mar. I'd ward Drayrot.
Elizabeth} mar. Richard, son of Nicholas Palmes.
Frances, mar. Richard., sou of William Palmes.
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43
GERVASE NEVILL, of Uhevef, Esq'., signed the Visitation
of 1585, mar. Anne, daughter and coheire of Thomas Grecnc-
hahjh, of Teverscdl, in com. Xott. They had issue —
Henri/ (D).
Francis, d. y.
Dorotlyy, d. y. »
HENRY NEV1LL, of CKevet, in com. Ebor., Esq*. ' Was
aged thirteen, 1585; signed the Visitation of -1612; mar.
Eleanor, daur/htcr and coheire of Henry Samford (Sandford),
of Thorpe Sal-vein, in com. Ebor. They had issue —
1. Francis (E).
2. Gervasc (a quo Nevile, of Beeston and Holbeck, see
below).
S. Rofjer Kevill, dyed unmarried.
• Henry.
Hercy, of "Wakefield, bp. at Thorpe Salvin 11 May
1607, bur. at Wakefield 24 Mar. 1648-0. Will
10 Mar. 164|, pr. at York, mar. Isabel, dau. of
William Radclyffe, of Brierley, at Wakefield,
15 Dec. 16-18, exec, of her husband. They had
issue —
Ellen (posthumous), bp. at Wakefield 20 Sept.
1640.
Margaret, mar. John Bodes, of Horbury, lie. 1616.
Mary, mar. Ralph Arthington, of Milnthorp, at Sprot-
borough, 10 Nov. 1629.
Sarah, mar. William Fen wick, of Stanton.
FRANCIS XEVILL, of Chevet, Esq\, ad. 73 aim. 15 Sept.
1665, a Royalist compounder and heavily fined, mar.
Rosamund, daughter of Cyrill Artliinijton of Arthint/ton,
in com. Ebor., Esqr., 1 wife, at Adel, 24 Sept. 1615. They
had issue —
Sandford (F).
1. Mary, wife of S1' Richard Tankard, of Whixley^ in
com. Ebor, K'., bur. at Wragby 16 Feb. 165*.
2. Rosamund, first marr. to Sr Tho. Biand, of fcijtpax-
park, in co. Ebor., Bar1., to Walter Welsh, of
Honf/hfon, Esqr.
Rosamond, bp. 3, bur. 20 Apr. 1616, at Adel.
mar. Anne, da>t(jh. of Tankerd, of Brampton, in com. Ebor.,
Esqr., widow of William Arf/nmjfon, of Arthi m/ton (to whom
she was mar. at Adel 12 Mar. 160£, .2 wife. They had
issue —
Gervase Nevill, of Mihlthorpe ju.rfa Wak>fo hi, mar.
1655 Eli:;., da. to Sr TJio. ilea umont. of Whitbt;,
in co. Ebor., En'., bp. at Thornhill 23 Oct. 1634,
d. May 1657. They hod issue —
Elizabeth, b.*1656, living 1661.
Eleanor.
44
DUGDALES VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
mar. at Royston 1657 Anne, daughter and coheir e of Charles
Jfarkham, of OUerton, in co. Xott., Esq., J wife, widow of
Thomas Waterton and Sir John Middleton.
F. SANDFORD NEVILL, of Chevet and Kildwick, in co. Ehor.,
mat. at Univ. Coll., Oxf., 10 Oct. 1638, bp. at Ecclesfield
15 May 1621, d. 17 Mar. 1672, bur. at Royston, M.I.,
mar. Dorothy, da. to Humphry Shalcrosse, citizen of London,
1st wife. They had issue —
Dorothy, wife to Algernon Cicill, 2l son to WilVm,
Earl of Salesbury.
mar. secondly Anne, da. to Sr John Wolstcnholmc, K'., one
of the Farmers of the Kings Customcs, 2d wife, at Wragby
13 Apr. 1646. They had issue —
1. Francis (G).
2. ' Sandford Nevill, bp. at Wragby 2 Mar. 165 J.
1. Anne, mar. Everingham Cressy, Esq., of Birkin.
2. Rosamund, wife to John Estoft of Estoft in co. Ebor.,
Esqr., bp. at Wragby 1 Mar. 165^.
S. Catharine,
Jf.. Dorothy.
John, bp. at Wragby 5 Mar. 1649-50, bur. 1 June
1652.
G. FRANCIS NEVILE, ESQ., of Chevet, at. 17 ann. 15 Sept.
1665, mat. at Univ. Coll., Oxon, 26 Oct. 1667, bp. at
Wragby 8 Sept. 1640, bur. at Royston 5 June 1707, mar.
Margaret, eld. dau. of Sir John Annytage, Bart., of Rirklees,
bp. at Hartshead 21 Sept. 1650, mar. there 27 May 1672.
They had issue —
Francis Nevile, Esq., of Chevet, bp. at Hartshead
16 Mar. 167 J, d. s.p. July 1707, mar. Ann, dau. of
John Estoft, Esq., of Estoft.
Sandford, bur. at Hartshead 15 Jan. 167?.
. * John (IT).
Sandford, d. s.p. 18 Nov. 1605.
Dorothy, d. y.
Mar. secondly Margaret Webster (remar. George Simpson,
of Gowle, and Thomas Wcntworth, of Horburv), bur. at
Horbury 21 Dec. 1733,
H. JOHN NEVILE, ESQ., succeeded his brother Francis, mat,
at Univ. Coll., Oxon, 10 Oct. 1603, Fellow there : d. L0 Oct,
1720, mar. Ann, dau. of lames Sill, of Wakefield (remar.
Matthew Wentworth, of Wakefield, 3 Aug. 1721, at Hiek-
leton), d. 27 May 1773, bur. at Wakefield. They had issue —
Ann, mar. Harrison, son of Sir Lyon Pilkingtotl,
Bart., of Stanley, d. Aug. 1765, bur. at Wakefield;
she succeeded to Chevet on the death of her
relative, Cavendish Nevile, in 17 10, hut soil it to
Sir L. Pilkington.
DUGDALe's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
45
e was a younger branch : —
GERVASE ME V ILL (son of Henry Ncvill and Eleanor Sand-
ford, see above), oj Beeston, in co. Ebor., ju&ta Leedes, Quarter-
master-General to the Earl of Newcastle 1613, d. 15 Feb.
1G7G, a>t. eighty-five, bur. at Leeds, IM.T., mar. Barbara,
da. to John Bullock, of Derley, in co. Dcrb., Esq., bur.
27 Nov. 1660 at Chesterfield. They had issue—
Gervase (B).
Francis.
John, bp. at Wakefield 5 July 1648, mar. Hannah,
dan. of . . . Taylor.
Barbara, mar. John Wigfall, of Renishaw, co. Derb.
GERVASE NEVILL, of Beeston and Holbeck, first Mayor of
Leeds under the charter of James II, d. 31 May 1696 in
his fifty-seventh year, bur. there, M.I., mar. Dorothy, da.
and coheir® to Francis Cavendis'h, Esq., of Doveridge, d.
15 Jan. 1713, bur. at Leeds, M I They had issue — -
1. William Nevile, Esq., of .Holbeck, High Sheriff of
Yorks. 1710, bp. at Leeds 26 Apr. 1664, d. s.p.
22 Apr. 1713, mar. 15 Sept. 1696 at London,
Bridget, dau. of Walter Calverley, Esq., of Calver-
ley, rel. of John Ramsden, Esq., of Crawstone, bp.
at Calverley 6 Oct. 1665, bur. there 15 Jan. 171 J.
2. Gervase, in Holy Orders, Vicar of Bingley, succeeded
to Holbeck and after to the Chevet entailed
estates, bp. at Leeds 20 May 1667, bur. at Rovston
28 June 1726.
3. Francis, bp. at Leeds 24 Aug. 1670, d. unmar. 6, bur.
9 June 1699, M.I.
4. Henry, bp. at Leeds 27 Dec. 1671, d. y.
5. Sandford, bp. at Leeds 10 June 1674, d. 12, bur.
13 Nov. 1683, M.I. at Leeds.
6. Cavendish (C).
7. Charles, bp. at Leeds 8 Oct. 1683, d. 1 July 1685,
bur. at Leeds, M.I.
8. John, b. 11, bp. 24 June 1677 at Leeds.
9. Sandford, of London, Proctor General to the Earl
Marshal, bp. at Leeds 3 Mar. 168*, d. unmar.
1748, bur. at Hadley, near Barnet.
Dorothy, mar. John Skelton, M.D., bp. at Leeds
29 Mar. 1665, d. s.p 9 Apr. 1714.
Barbara, bp. at Leeds 14 Mar. 166*. mar. first
Michael Portington, Esq., of Portington, by whom
he had a dau. Dorothy, mar. to John Lister, Esq..
of Sysonby, and their son took the name of Nevile.
She mar. secondly Rev. Fetor Robinson, Rector of
Grindon, co. Stair, at Eckington 15 Nov, 1705.
Mary, bp. at Leeds 23 Dec. 1668, d. unmar. 15 Nov.
1 705, bur. there, M.I.
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DUGPALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Rosamond, bp. at Leeds 3 Mar. I67f, bur. at Bceston
Chapel 5 Mar. lG7ft.
Catherine, bp. at Leeds 23 Sept. 1G75.
Henrietta, bp. at Leeds G June 1G82, d. unmar.,
bur. at Leeds.
Isabel, d. unmar., bur. at Leeds 9 June 1G79, M.I.
C. CAVETOISH HE VILE, of Che vet, succeeded his brother,
in Holy Orders, Fellow of Univ. Coll., Oxf., Vicar of
Norton, co. Derb., J.P., mat. 14 Apr. 1G98, bp. at Leeds
27 Mar. 1G81, last heir male, d. 18, tar. 23 'Feb. 17-19
at Norton, mar. Katherine, dau. of Sir Lyon Pilkington,
Bart, (relict of William AVentworth, Esq., of Horbury), d.
4 Aug. 1790. They had issue —
Cavendish, bp. at Royston 14 Mar. 1740, d. aged
about five weeks.
Dorothea, bp. at Royston 7 Feb. 1739.
Anne, bp. at Royston 14 Sept. 1741, d. unmar. at
school, bur. at St. Clement Danes.
Straffop.d and Tickhtix Wapentake.
Doncaster, 14 Sept. 1GG5.
Katoson
prkhuntc.
Arms : — Argent, a castle Azure between three ravens' heads erased Sable.
Chest: — A raven Sable rising from a" castle Or.
Ter me W. Dugdale, Xorroy, coneessa.
I.
JOHN RA WSOX, of Pickburne, in co. Ebor., dud in a* 168:7,
vel circa, bur. at Brodsworth 21 Feb. 102^', M.I., mar. . . .
and had issue —
John (II).
mar. Alice, daw/hfer of Barnaby Vickars, of Scawsbi/, in com.
Ebor., at Brodsworth 14 Oct. 1G00, bur. there 23 Aug.
1630.
IT.
JOHX HA WSON, of Pickburne, died in a° or thereabout,
bur. at Brodsworth 20 Mar. L62J, .M.I. Will IS Mar. 162*
pr. at York 23 Apr. 1029 : mar. Ursula, daughter and >\
DUGDALF/S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
heir of John, Rmvson, of Carcroff, in com. Ebor., at Brods-
woi'fch 1G Feb. 1 6 1 1 . They had issue —
John (LIT).
William, bp. at Brodswortli 5 Feb. 162 2, (?) bur. there
8 Apr. 1644,
Catherine, mar. William Gamble, gent., 21 June 1G17,
at Brodswortli, bp. there 21 Mar. 161f.
Ann, bp. at Brodswortli 3 Apr. 1621.
III. JOHX RAWSORfOf Pickburne, vet. 40 minor. Ut Sept. 1665,
bp. at Brodswortli 10 Oct. 1624, d. 25, bur. 27 Mar. 1G79 at
Brodswortli, M.T., mar. Mary, daughter of Ddrey Wctsh-
iwjton} of Achvick, in com. Ebor., at Ad wick 17 Apr. 1651,
bur. 4 June 1G94 at Brodswortli. They had issue —
1. Richard, vet. 1? an. 14 Sept. a0 1665, bur. 5 July 1G9G
at Brodsworth, M.I.
2. Darcy (IV).
3. Thomas, aft at is 2 annor., bp. at Brodsworth 22 July
1663.
1. Anne, mar. 27 Sept. 1G83 at Hooton Pagnell, John
Marrow, of Worsborough Dale, gent.
£. Sarah.
3. Ursula, mar. 2G Feb. 168 h at Brodsworth, Joseph
Washington, Esq.
William, bp. at Brodsworth 5 May 16GG, (?) bur.
there 11 June, 1686.
(?)Mary, bp. at Brodsworth 8 May 1664.
IV. DARCY RAWSON, of Pickburne, cet. 4 ann., bp. 23 Jan.
166y at Adwick, bur. 13 Jan. 170-£ at Arksey, mar. Sarah,
da. of Richard Adwick, of Ahnholme, bur. at Arksev
. 17 Feb. 170*. They had issue—
Darcy°(V).
John, bp. at Arksey 17 Dec. 1703, bur. there 21 May
. • 1705.
Ursula, bp. at Brodsworth 9 July 1696, (?) bur.
18 Mar. 1737 at Doncaster.
Elizabeth, bp. at Brodsworth 12 Dec. 1699, bur. at
Arksey 19 May 1702.
Mary, (?) mar. Thomas Dev, of Womerslev, at Arksev,
14 June 1720, bp. there 12 Oct. 1701.
V. DABCY RAWSON, of Snaith, sold Newsome Orange, in the
parish of Owston, bp. at Brodsworth 25 Feb. 1 (19;. bur.
4 Oct. 1714 at Snaith, mar. Mary Broughtom, of Almholme,
16 Oct. 1722, at St. Peters, York, bur. 21 Mar. 1 7 7i» at
Arksev. They had issue —
Sarah.
Elizabeth, bp. 9 Mar. 172*, bur. 12 June 1741.
4S DUO DALE S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Claro Wapentake. Knaresborough, 14 Aug. 1605.
IBrnnMhtg
of
ICfRtljku.
Arms : — Gules, a cross flory Argent, in the dexter chief point an escallop Or, a
crescent for difference.
Chest : — The trunk of an oak erased per pale Or and Vert, from the sinister
two sprigs, leaves Vert, fructed Or, from the top flames issuing
proper.
L ROBERT BR AX DUNG, of Felling, in the Bishopric!: of
Durham, Esq., died circa annum 1035, mar. Jane, daughter
of Francis Worthy, in com. Ebor., 1st wife, mar. lie. 1594,
bur. 17 Jan. 1602- at St. Nicholas', Newcastle. They had
issue —
1. Sr Francis Brandling, of Almvick, in co. Northumb., KK
2. Thomas,
3. Richard,
4. John,
5. Ralph,
William, J
mar. Mary, daughter to Thomas Baron Hilton in the
Bishoprick of Durham, %(l wife. Thev had issue —
. 2. Robert (II).
S. Roger Brandling, a Cap1 of Horse in yc service of A'.
Charles ye 1st slayne in those times.
died without issue.
II. ROBERT BRANDLING, of Leathley, Esq., first Cap', of a
Troop of Dragoons, under Colonell Edw. Grey (brother to
ye IA Grey of Warhe), in the service of K. Charles y' first :
afterward a Colonell of Horse under the right ho*** William
Marquesse of Newcastle in the service of ye said King, at. Jfi
ann. lJf. Aug. a0 1005. Will 1 Aug. 1669, pr. at York.
mar. Helen daughter and coheiress of Arthur I indict/, of
Leathley, in com. Ebor., Esq., by . . . dau. of Sir John
Garrett, Lord Mayor of London, and widow of Sr Ingram
Hopfon, of Arndfy, in the county of York?, K'. (who d. 1643),
d. 15 Mar. 1004, bur. at Leathley, M.L They had issue
J. Anne, at. l.~> an. 1J{ Aug. a' 1001, had £1,000 from
her father, mar. . . . Middleton, Will pr. 12 May
1091 by her sister Alathea.
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE. 49
2. Jane, <#t. 13 ami., had £1,000 from her father, (?)mar.
Toby Humfrey, of Askern, at Campsall 8 Dec.
1669, bur. there 4 Mar. 1(576.
3. Eden, ad. 11 ami., had £1,000 from her father.
Jf. Allathea, mt. 9 ann. 1005, had £1,000 from her father,
mar. Henry, son and heir of Robert Hitch, D.D ,
Dean of York. They had a son, Robert Hitch,
M.P., who succeeded to Leathley.
Mary, d. s.p.
Mar. secondly Dorothy, dau. of Lady Vaughan,' mentioned
in her husband's will.
Authorities — Surtees' Durham.
Buckrose Wapentake*
Yorke, 13° Aug. 16C6.
Jftomthitgiie
of
Staffs.
Amis: — Barry lozengy Or and Azure, on a chief Gules three cross-erosslets of
the first.
Chkst : — A crane's neck issuing out of rays, all Or.
I. THOMAS MO TINT A IGNE, 1 of Weslow, in co. Ebor., mar.
. . . daughter to . . . Huiujate, of Saxton, in co. Ebor.
They had issue —
1 Sir Wm. Dugdale is possibly wrong in placing Thomas Mountaigne, of We>tow.
a-* father of the Archbishop of York and Isaac Mountaigne. The genendly accepted
legend is that the Archbishop was born of poor parents at Cawood, or at lea< t went
a poor buy to the University. There certainly was a Thomas Mountaigne,
notary public, of Westow, w ho died in 1596-7, and his wife Fiances, who died in
1001 (gee the following pedigree). They both left wills, but in them no mention is
nude of Aichbishop or of Isaac, who also are not named in the Tan-h RogMtef
of Westow.
How then did the Westow and neighbouring estates (wllicll were mid >u rCCMll
>< \i> Uy Mr. Savile Foljambo, though a small portlOU still remains in tkt possession
Ins brother, Lord Hawkesbury), come to the Mountaigne family ! It may be that
50
DUGUALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
1. George Mountaigne, Arch-Bisshop of Yorke, generally
considered to have been born of humble parents
at Cawood 1569, matriculated at Queen's Coll.,
Oxford, 10 Dec. 1566, removed to • Cambridge,
Fellow 8 July 1592, Chaplain to Earl of Essex at
Cadiz in 1602, Rector of Great Cressingham, co.
Norf. in 1610, Dean of Westminster, consecrated
Bishop of Lincoln 1617, Bishop of London 1621,
Bishop of Durham 1628, Archbishop of York
1 July 1628, but died 24 Oct. same year, bur.
in Cawood Church. M.I. Nunc, will 12 Feb.
1626, pr. 5 July 1630.
2. Isack (II).
II. ISACK MOUNTAIGNE, of Westow, in co. Ebor., obijt
a0 J64$, executor and chief legatee of his brother, mar.
Elizabeth,, dan (jitter to Thomas Bell, of Rochester, in Kent.
They had issue — -
1. George (III).
2. James Mountaigne. had lands at Westow from his
brother, died 2 Nov. 1697, bur. at St. Mich.-le-
Belfrey, York (Drake's York), mar, first Mary,
daughter to William Wiggoner of Whitby, merchant,
mar. secondly Margaret, dan. of William St. Quin-
tin, of Hayton, bp. there 9 Dec. 1653. They had
issue —
Margaret.
S. Richard Mountaigne, of Barugh Major, summoned
3 Mar. 165^- at Mai ton, for proclaiming Chas. II,
bp. at Westow 21 June 1624, bur. there 20 May
1672.
1. Elizabeth, mar. .at Westow, 28 May 1632, Thomas
Fairfax, of Dunsley.
2. Frances, mar. at Westow 17 Jan. 163^, Robert Gere,
of Great Barugh, as second wife.
3. Isabella, bp. at Westow 15 Feb. 162j\ mar. Thomas
Hebblethwaite (son of Thomas TIebblethwaite and
Mary Sotheby), who was slain at Manchester in
service of Chas. I, (?) mar. secondly Peregrine
Lascelles, of Lythe.
III. GEORGE MO TINT A IGNE, of rfestow, in com. Ebor., Esq*.,
cel. Jf6 annor. a0 1066, with his father had to pay a
the Archbishop purchased the property, or that somehow his brother Isaac obtained
possession of it, but us yet no information is obtainable thereon. There might be
no connection between the two families of Mountaigne at Westow.
On the other hand a similar pedigree to that of Dugdale was prepared by Dr.
Nathaniel Johnston in 1701 for Francis Fbljambe, who married Elisabeth Moun-
taigne. It is as in the text, though slightly different. According to this pedigree
Richard Mountaigne, of Westow, gent., had Isaac, of Westow, who married Elisabeth,
daughter of Thos. Bell, of Rochester, by Mary Woodrove, his wife, also the Archbishop.
In the Hungate pedigree there is no mention of a match between a daughter
and a Mountaigne.
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
51
composition of £155 lis. Od., bur. at Westow 12 Sept.
1G99. M.I. Will 6 Sept, 1669, mar. Mary, 4th daughter
to Sr Thomas Gore (Cower), of St it nam (Stittenham), in co.
Ebor., KK & B*., bur. at Westow 17 Iw. 1688. They
had issue —
1. Elizabeth, cet 17° ann. 1666, b. at Westow 25 July
1647, mar. there 17 Sept. 1688, Francis Foljambe,
Esq., of Aldwark and Sfceeton. She carried the
estates of Westow, Meiiethorpe and Hutton Ambo
(which were sold in 1871) into that family. She
died at Aldwark 12, bur. at Ecclesfield 15 Sept.
1703.
2. Catherine, a-tatis IJf an. 1666, mar. at Westow
10 Feb. 16J§, Sir Thomas Rudston, Bart, of
Hay ton. They had issue —
Anne, d. young.
Mary, d. young.
Margery, d. young.
JWountaine of EEcstofo.
I. . . . MOUNTAINS, had issue-
Thomas (II).
James, mentioned in his brother Thomas' will.
II. ' THOMAS MOUNTAINS, of Westow, notary public, bur. at
Westow 9 Feb. 1596-7. Will 8, pr. 14 Feb. 1590-7,1 mar.
first Isabel . . . , bur. at Westow 2 May 1565 They
had issue —
Francis Mountaine, eldest son, named in his father's
will, mar. Anne . . . They had issue—
Katherine,
Elizabeth,
Alice,
Thomas, bp. 21 Apr., bur. 14 Aug. 1558 at Westow.
Agnes, bp. 6 Aug." 1559 at Westow.
Thomas, bp. 4 May 1561 at Westow.
Marmaduke, bp. 8 Mar. 156 J* bur. 25 June 1564 at
Westow.
Hugh, bp. 8 Mar. 156 2 at Westow, named in his
father's will.
Anne, mar. at Westow 15 Jan. 158.1, Wm. Earles or
Charles.
1 He mentions his wife Frances, his brother James Mountaine, his eldest son
rrancia (with Anne his wife, and his three children, Katherine. Elisabeth and
Alice), his sons Hugh and James, his daughter Anno, wife of Wm. Charles, his
hn»ther-indaw George Mountt'orth, [sabel Ruddock his daughter, Margaret his
daughter, Thos. Mountayne and Katherine his wife, of Hull.
52
THE 409G QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
]\Iar. secondly Frances,1 (?) Mountfoith, bur. at "Westow
22 June 160L Will |>r. at York 13 July 1601. They had
issue —
James, bp. at Westow 10 Oct. 1568, exor. of his
mother, named in his father's will, mar. Barbara
. . . , bur. at Westow 10 Apr. 1595.
Margaret, bp. at Westow 28 Sept. 1566, bur. there
12 Feb. 1633-4, named in her mother's will.
Isabel, bp. at Westow 18 Aug. 1567, (?) mar. William
Ruddock, at Westow, 20 Jan. 1596-7,' named in
her father's and mother's wills.
THE 4096 QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
By G. W. Watson.
(Continued from Vol. XVII, p. 272.)
LI 91. Wolfgang XIII, Herr von Stubenberg zu Kapfenberg ; living
1596.
LI 92. Susanna Pogl, Freiin zu Reiffenstein unci Aarberg ; m. (c.
2 Nov. (?) 1554) 21 Apr. (?) 1555 ; d. 21 Jan. 1589.
(ii). Pichler, citing Kainacli, gives 2 Nov. 1576 and 21 Apr. 1 f> 7 7 a* the dates of
the ra. c. and m. respectively ; but these dates are impossible, being some 20 years
too late. Her first husband, Wolf-Dietrich Harditsch (m. 20 June 1553) d. 5 June
1554 (Familienbuch Sigmunds von fferberstein, a contemporary authority, in Archiv
fur osierreich. Gesch., xxxix, 1868, 407), and several of her children by her second
husband were b. before 1561.
L193. Eberhard XV, Count of Erbacb ; b. 23 March 1475; if. 14
Nov. [not 13 Nov.] 1539.
(i) . " 1474 " (Schneider, Luck); 5 June 1474 (Biedermann). (ii). "ifDXXXVini
den'xiiii tag Novembris seines alters lxiiii Ihar vii Monat xxii tag M (M.I., in
Schneider and in Luck).
L194. Maria, Countess of Wertheim ; b. 23 Feb. 1485; m. 7 Aug,
1503; d. 28 Sep. 155-3.
(ii) . " Anno funff/ehenhundert und drew Jar uff Sant Affran der heiligen
Jungfrauen Tag" [7 Aug.] (Contemp. entry in mass-book, given by Schneider,
Urkunden, no. 164,8). (hi). " 1st xxxvi Ihar ii Monat vii tag in der Khe gewese . . .
Starb im Ihar Christi mdliii den xxviii Septeb. Hires alters lxviii Ihar vii Monat
v tag" (M.I., as above).
L195. Philip, Wild- and Rhingrave in Daun ; b. 8 Sep. 1492; d.
27 Aug. 1521.
(i). "Anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo nunagesitno secundo ipsa die
nativitatis Marie virginis mensis Septeinbrifi octava die do sero intra septiniatn
et octavam horam " (Contemp. entry in Ui ass- book, given by Kiviner, 105), (H).
1 She mentions in her will Katherine her daughter, wife of Thos, Mountain^
Margaret her daughter, James her son, Katherine Hutou her water ; Richard,
Hen ry, Elizabeth and Marie, children of Wm. Basset ; James, Phincia and Marie,
children of George Mountfoith.
THE 4096 QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
53
" Anno Domini mdxxi vfTe Dinstag Run* Martiris des xxvii dags des monats AuguHi
intra decimam et undccimam mane aut circa meridiem" {Id., ibid.)) "anno
mvcxxi die mensis Augusti xsvii " (M.I., in Kremer, 106).
LI 06. Antonia de Neuchatel ; m. c. 30 May 1514; living 26 Nov.
1541.
LI 97. Wolfgang I, Count of Barby. Same as K345.
LI 98. Agnes, Countess of Mansfeld. Same as K346.
LI 99. John, Prince of Anhalt Zerbst. Same as L5.
L200. Margaret, Margravine of Brandenburg. Same as L6.
L205. lleinhard I, Count of Solms-lich-liohensolnis ; b. 12 Oct. [not
14 Oct.] 1491 ; d. 23 Sep. 1562.
L206. Maria, Countess of Sayn-Sayn ; b. 4 Apr. 1506; m. (c. 13 Jan.
1524)— Feb. 1524 ; d. 13 May 1586.
(ii). m. c. " 1524, im achten der heyligen dreyer Konig Tage " [13 Jan.] (RccJds-
gcjr'dndetes Bedencken, 140).
L207. John, Count of Mansfeld ; d. 4 March 1567.
(ii). 4 March not 3 March (Bchr suppl.) ; 3 March (Spangenberg, Rittershusius,
Hiibner, Franckeu, Niemann, Cohn).
L208. Margaret, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg in Celle ; b.
10 June 1534 ; m. 14 Aug. [not 4 Aug.] 1559; d. 24 Sep.
1596.
L217. Erasmus I, Schenk von Limpurg zu Limpurg und Sontheim ;
b. 14 Jan. 1502 ; d. 25. Feb. 1553.
L218. Anna, Countess of Lodron ; m. . . . 1533; d. 12 Nov. 1556.
L219. William III, Schenk von Limpurg zu Gaildorf und Schmiedel-
feld ; 6. 12 Apr. 1498 ; d. 9 March 1552.
(i). 12 Apr. 1498 (Eittershusius, Biedermann). (ii). " Visit ann. liii mens, x
dies xx mortem obi it ix Mart, mdlii " (M.I., in Prescher, ii, 148); not 19 March
(Rittershusius, Hubner).
L220. Anna, Herrin von Bern; m. 28 Aug. 1530; d. . . . 1560.
L223. Frederic-Magnus T, Count of Solms-Laubach. Same as LI 31.
L224. Agnes von Bunkel, Countess of AVied. Same as L132.
L225. Botho VIII, der Gliickliche, Count of Stolberg ; b. 4 Jan.
• 1467 ; d. 22 June 1538.
(i). "Im tausent vierhundert vnd sieben vnd scchzigsten jare vff den achten tag
der vnschuldi^en kynder, welcher gewesen vff einen Son tag " [4 Jan.] (MS. as in
K 1 1 3 note — Mulverstedt, Qucllcn, no. 1691); " 1467, dominiea in octaua Innocen-
ttum " (B. Grefenstein, MS. Chron. Thurinrj.,.ibid.) : not "ad diem der unschuldigen
Kinderlein [23 Dec] a. lxv " (Cod. MS. Quidlinburg., edit, T. Eckhard, 1728, 42).
L226. Anna, Herrin von Eppstein zu Konigstein ; b. . . . 1482; m.
(c. 28 Nov. 1409) befcw. 10 Feb. and 21 March 1500 ; d.
7 Aug. 1538.
(i). " Im Tusent vierhundert vnnd zwey vnd aclizigesten Jare geborenn " (MS. as
in K113 note— Mulverstedt, Quellen, no. 1947 : see also no. 23811 (ii). tn. c "1490,
hornstags nach Catharine virginis " [28 Nov.]; the Leibgeding- und Momnvjub-
llritf was confirmed by Duke George of Saxony "am Sonnabent noeh dem Sontag
Hetniniscefe [21 March] . . .im xvLten Jatra " {Idem, DOS. 2861, 2373: see also
»>". 23(37).
'•"-27. Hector I, Count of Gleichen-Schauenforst ; d. . . . 154S.
1/22*.). V\v'ic XI, Count of Regenstein and Blankenburg ; l>. 1 198 or
1499 ; d. 22 March 1551.
54
THE 4096 QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
(ii). " Anno 1551 am Palmsontag [22 March] zwischen eilff vnd zwolff vhr im
Mittag entschlaffen ... Da jr Gnade 52 Jar lang auf dieser Welt gelcbet batten "
(L. Schweigerus, Leichpredigt, 1567, in Zeitsch. des JHarzvereins, xxv, 1S92, 156 : see
also 134, 139) ; "1551 anno aetatis suae 52 Dominica palmarum " (M.I., ibid.).
L230. Barbara, Countess of Mansfeld-Heldrungen ; b. 1505 or 1506 ;
m. ... 1524 ; d. 1528 or 1520.
L231. Wolfgang, Count of Hohnstein-Vierraden-Schwedt.
L232. Catherine [not Anna], Countess of Hohnstein-Lohra-Kletten-
berg ; m. ... 1522.
L233. Henry X, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode. Same as K113.
L234. Elizabeth, Countess of Gleichen-Schauenforst. Same as Kill.
L235. Volrad V, Count of Mansfeld; b. 11 March 1520 ; d. 30 Dec.
1578.
L236. Barbara Reuss, Herrin von Plauen zu Greiz ;■ b. . . . 1528 ;
m. 22 "Nov. 1556 ; d. . . .
L237. John-George I, Count of Solms-Laubach. Same as K73.
L238. Margaret, Herrin von Schonburg zu Glauchau. Same as K74.
L239. George I, der Froinme, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt; b.
10 Sep. 1517 ; d. 7 Feb. 1596.
(i). "A.D. 1547 den 10 Septembr. zwischen 8 uud 9 Ulir " (Contemn, list as
in L90 note, 338).
L240. Magdalena, Countess of Lippc ; b. 24 Feb. 1552 ; m. 17 Aug.
[not 18 Aug.] 1572 ; d. 26 Feb. [not 27 Feb.] 1587.
L245. Joachim-Ernest, Prince of Anhalt. Same as K3.
L246. Agnes, Countess of Darby; b. 23 June [not 23 Jan.] 15 40;
m. 25 Feb. [not 3 March] 1560; d. 27 Nov. [not 17 nor
30 Nov.] 1569.
L*247. Arnold IV, Count of Bentheim, Steinfurt and Tecklcnburg;
b. 11 Oct. 1554; d. 11 Jan. 1606.
L24S. Magdalena, Countess of Neuenahr ; m. 24 June 1573; d.
13 Jan. 1627.
L249. Adolphus IX, Duke of Schleswig and Holstein in Gottorp.
Same as 1163.
L250. Christina, Landgravine of Hesse. Same as 1164.
L251. , Frederic II, King of Denmark. Same as LI 5.
L252. Sophia, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Giistrow. Same as LI 6.
L297. George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Same as L239.
L298. Magdalena, Countess of Lippe. Saw as L240.
L299. Jolm-George, Elector of Brandenburg. Same as K 273.
L300. Elizabeth, Princess of Anhalt. Same as K274.
L353. Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. Same as 121.
L354. Agnes, Countess of Solms-Laubach: b. 7 Jan. 1578; m.
^24 Sep. [not 26 Sep.] 1593 ; d. 13/23 Nov. 1602.
(i). "Den 7 Januarii zwischen 11 vnd 12 vhrn Yormittag anno 157$ " [BUigeti,
61).
L355. Pailip-Ludwig II, Count of Hanau-Miimenberg ; b. 14 or
18 Nov. 1576 ; d. 9 Aug. 1612.
(i). 18 Kal. Xbr. (Hennlnges, Lv, 150); 14 Nov. (Ktttantnnius) ; is Kov.
(Wegener, Donimericli, P.chr).
L356. Catherine-Belgica, Princess of Nassau Orange ; b. 31 July
1578; m. 22 Oct. 1596 ; d. 12 Apr. 1618.
THE 4096 QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII. 55
(ii) . 22 Oct.. (Witzleben, Cohn, Beta) ; 23 Oct. (Vo-el, Oyen).
L357. John-Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg ; b. 8 IS~ov. 1572 ; d.
23 Dec. 1619.
I.35S. Anna, Duchess of Prussia; b. 3 July 1576 ; m. 20/30 Oct.
1591; d. 30 March 1625.
(iii) . 30 March (Ritter.shusius, Pauli, StiiHVied, Bclir) ; not 30 May (Bieder-
nunri, Hiibiier, Cohn).
1.359. Frederic IV, Elector Palatine. Same as K261.
\.M0. Louisa-Juliana, Princess of Nassau-Orange. Same as K262.
L361. Albert-Otto I, Count of Solms-Laubacli. Same as K119.
L362. Anna, Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt. Same as K120.
1.363. Phil ip-Lud wig II, Count of Hanau-Munzenberg. Same as
L355.
L364. Cathcrine-Belgica, Princess of Nassau-Orange. Same as L356.
1-365. Arnold IV, Count of Bentheim, Steinfurt and Tecklenburg.
Same as L247.
L366. Magdalena, Countess of Neuenahr. Same as L24S.
L367. "Wolfgang-Ernest I, Count of Isenburg and Biidingen in Bir-
- stein ; b, 29 Dec. 1560 ; d. 21 May 1633.
L3G8. Anna, Countess of Gleichen-Remda ; m. (c. 26 July/5 Aug.
1585) 26 Sep./6 Oct. 1585 ; d. 3 March 1598.
(iii). 3 March (Fischer ; Simon ; Nedopil as in 146 note, no. 2908) ; not 3 May
(Kittershusius).
1.377. Frederic V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach ; b. 6 July 1591; d.
8 Sep. 1659.
L378. Barbara, Duchess of Wiirtemberg ; b. -4 Dec. 1593 ; m. 21 Dec.
[not 16 Dec] 1616; d. 8 May [not 10 May] 1627.
L379. J ohn-Casimir, Count Palatine in Zweibriicken-Kleeburg. Same
as 123.
L380. Catherine (Wasa), Princess of Sweden. Same as 121.
L393. George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. Same as L239.
L394. Magdalena, Countess of Lippe. Same as L210.
L395. . Christopher, Count of Leiningcn and Westerburg in Schadeck ;
b. 30 Sep. 1575 ; d. . . . 1635.
(ii). 1635 (Brinkmeier) ; 1632 (Spieil. Rillersh., Hiibner. Hopf).
L396. Anna-Maria Ungnad von AYeissemvolf, Freiin zu Sonneck auf
Waldenstein und Berhsdorf; m. 25 Aug. 1601; d. before
1606.
MSI. Henry Reuss, Herr von Plauen zu Gera. Same as 133.
1-182. Magdalena, Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Same as
134.
L485. George-Frederic, Count of Hardegg, Glatz and in Machland ;
b. . . . 1568; living 13 July 1620.
L4S6. Sidonia, Freiin von Herberstein zu Sierndorf ; b. 29 June
1574 ; m. c. 1 Nov. 1592 \ d. . . .
(i). "Den 29 Juni im 71" (Familienbuch Si jnmmi* von Herbcntcin, 322). (ii).
1 Nov. 1602 (Nedopil, as in 146 note, no. 2247).
M87. John-William, Count of Hardegg, Glatz and in Machland ; d
. . . 1635.
56 THE 4096 QUARTIERS OF KING KB WARD VII.
L488. Esther-Elizabeth, Freiin von Herfeerstein zu Pusterwald ; m.
c. 17 Sep. 1506 y living 1/11 March 1612.
(ii) . 17 Sep. 1596 (Nedopil, as in 146 note, no. 2l'66). (iii). Will dated
"Sonntag Invocavit [1/11 March] 1612" {Idem, no. 2245).
L489. Sigismund, Herr von Tattcnbach zum WaliimbI ; b. . . . 1540 :
d. 1504 or 1505.
L490. Afra Gall, Herrin von Gallenstcin zum Lueg ; m. . . . 1571.
L491. 'Valentine, Herr von Hoheneck zu Praittenbruck unci Zell ; d.
1§ May Mil.
L492. Eva Flusshart, Herrin mm Dorf und zu Vesten-Thall ; m. . . .
1594 ; d. 6 May 1606.
L493. Joseph, Frciherr von Prosing zum Stein und Sallau ; d. . . .
1614.
L494. Anna-Maria, Herrin von Tschernembl auf Windeck und
Sehwerdberg.
L495. David Ennenekl, Freiherr auf Hoheneck; d. . . . 1603.
L496. Christina Schiffer, Herrin zu Jrnhartiug ; d. . . . 1597.
L497. Christ oplier-Lud wig, Count of Lowensfcein and Wertheim ; b.
3 May 1568; d. 17 Feb. [not 10 Feb.] 1618,
L498. Elizabeth, Countess of M'anderseheid and Virneburg ; b. *26 J une
1569 ; m. . . . 1592; d. 5 Nov. 1621.
(iii) . 5 Nov. 1621 (Bicdermann) ; not " 1622 " (JStemma Lcostcnianum ; Rittcr-
shusius), nor " 1626 " (Hiibner, Becke-Kliichtzner).
L499. Ludwig-Georgc, Count of Stolberg-Ortenau. Same as K117.
L500. Anna-Maria, Wild- and Khingravine in Morchingen and
Kyrburg; b. 10 Feb. 1576.
L501. George V, Count of Sayn and Wittgenstein in Berlcburg ; b.
30 Apr. 1565; d. 16 Dec. 1631.
(i). "Im Jahre des Heils 1565 am Tage vor Jacobi und Philippi [30 Apr.] kurr.
nach 6 Uhr Morgens . . . als Sonne und Mond in dem Stier stauden, eine Stunde
nach Neulieht " {Sclbstbioyraphie of L21, 98).
L502. Elizabeth, Countess of Nassau-Weilburg ; b. — Apr. 1572 : m.
(c. 20 March 1596) 12 June [not 2 June] 1596 ; d. 28 .March
1607.
L503. Christian, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen. Same as K9.
L504. Elizabeth. Countess of Nassau-Siegen. Same as K10.
L505. Albert VII, Schenk von Limpurg zu Gaildorf ; b. 2 Oct. 1568 ,
& 6/16 Nov. 1619.
"In lueem prodit A. 1568 die 2 Oct. . . . matrimonio sibi social geiicre
illustreni Dn. iJn. Aemiiiam Barontasam a Roggendorff Austriacaui A. 1505 aetatis
27 ultimo Martii qua . . . degit annis 24 melisib. 7 dieb. 6 lucia usuratu qua fciiufo
51 mense uno dicb. 4 fruebatur deponit A. 1619 die 6 Noveinbr." (M.I., in rfeseher,
ii, 149).
L506. Amelia, Freiin von Roggendorf zu Mollenburg ; m. 31 Marc h
10 Apr. 1595.
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60
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
Communicated by Arthur J. Jewers, F.S.A.
{Continued from Vol X VI f, p. 281.)
Hinciiliff, Dorothea, dau. and coll. of Thomas Hinchliff, of the
parish of St. Bridget alias St. Brides, London, merchant, by
Frances, dan. of Sir Michael Wentworth, of Wooley, co. York.
Gr. by J. Anstis, Garter, and K. Ward, Clar., 25 Aug. 1741.
Or, a wyvern betw. three fleurs-de-lis Vert. Crest — A -wyvern's
head couped Or, collared dovetailed Vert, thereon three fleurs-de-
lis of the first. (From an eighteenth century MS.)
Hinckshaw, . . . , of London, silkman. Gr. by R. St. George,
Norroy, 26 June 1611. Arg. a chev. Erms. betw. three moor-
cocks Sa., beaks and legs Gu. ; imp. for his wife — Az. a cross
fleury Arg.- Crest — A falcon Or, beak and legs Sa., belled of the
first, gorged with a coronet Gu., and preying on a wing Gold,
torn off Gu. Harl. MS. 1,359.
HlNDE (or IIvnde), Austin, of the City of London, and Sheriff there
in . ... Gr. by T. Hawley, Oar., 1 Oct., i Edw. VI. Gu.
on a chev. betw. three hinds tripp. Or, a lion's head erased
Az., enclosed by two hurts, each charged with a fleur-de-lys
of the second. Crest — On a wreath Arg. and Az. a hind's head
couped ppr., collared Or, in the mouth a rose Gu., slipped and
leaved Vert, mantled Az., doubled Arg. Harl. MS. 1,359 j
Stowe MS. 676.
Hinde,1 Rowland, of Hedsor, co. Bucks, Esq., s. and h. of Austine
Hinde, of London, Alderman. Gr. by R. Cook, Clar., 1583.
Gu. a chev. betw. three hinds tripp. Or. Crest — From a crest
coronet Gu. a demi cockatrice displ. Or, comb and wattle Gu.
Add. MS. 14,295; Stowe MS. 670; Harl. MS. 1,359.
1 The two coats of Hind, given above, are separate grants not apparently a
substitution one for the other. Stowe MS. 670 gives two crests, over the
shield is — on a crest coronet Arg. a cockatrice Or ; while at the side of the
shield is tricked— on a wreath a staff ragulec fessways Arg., thereon a
cockatrice Or. Harl. MS. 1,359 makes the hinds in the arms Blatant, and
gives the last crest, while Hedsor is corrupted into Hedgeworth. The earlier
grant to Austine Hinde or Hynde does not appear to have given satisfaction.
Of course, the descendants of Rowland, who had the second grant, are
entitled to both. The following will makes some additions to the pedigree : —
Hind, Rowland, of Hedsor, co. Bucks, Esqre. Will dated 3 Dec'. 1659.
(P.C.C., Juxou 64). Prov. IS May 1663. To be buried under the south
side of the chancel of Hedsor Church, over his wife Elizabeth, deceased,
Sister Anne Dethicke, wid., £5. Nephew William Chilcott. 22 s. for a ring.
To Cousin Augustine Hinde, 20s. Niece Elizabeth Palmer's daughters, tii
eaeh. To Master Richard Fortye's children, which he had by one of the
daughters of testator's niece, Klizabeth Palmer, £10 equally between them.
To cousin Augustine Hind's eldest son, £.')0 at twenty years of age. and if
he dies before, then to the next son living of my said COUSttl Augustine
Hind, which said A. Hind lives near Laxtou in the Clay. 00, Notts. Master
John Bell, "my wife's brother, of Arnold's Hill, CO. Pembroke." £60, and
his wife. 22s. for a ring. Mistress Elizabeth Lawson, dau of Mistress
Jane Lawson, "my kinswoman," 40s. Qodsou Rowland Woodyeere, of
London, £;">. Poor of Hedsor, £10. John Carrell, Esq., of Harting, in
Sussex, twenty marks. Mary Pell, sister of Ramkl Bell, I0& Bdwmrd
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
61
Hinxman alias Le Hknchman, Giles. Granted by Sir C. Barker,
Garter, 21 April 1549. Or, a chev. betw. three bugle horns
Sa., on a chief Gu. three lions ramp, of the first. Crest— A
cubit arm erect, vested per cross Or and Vert, cuff Arg., the
hand ppr., holding a stag's antler in pale of the first. Harl. MS.
1,359.
Hippesley, . . . , of Cameley, co. Somerset. Conf. of arms and
gr, of crest by W. Harvey, Clar., 1551. Sa. three mullets in
bend betw, two bendlets Or. Crest — A hind's head erased Or,
gorged with a collar Sa., charged with three mullets of the
first. Add. MS. 16,940.
Hikne, Thomas, of Ingclose (sic). Pat. by W. Dethick, Garter,
22 Nov. 159G. Or, three bars gemell Gu., on a canton Az.
five mascles Arg. in saltiie. Crest — A talbot pass. Sa., collared
and line Or. The said Thomas impales for his wife — Sa. three
bugle horns Arg., stringed and garn. Or, a crescent for diff.
This descent is given : —
Nicholas Hyrne, of Drayton,=y=. . .
co. Norfolk. j
r -1
Clement Hirne, of Hodoringlandj^pAnn, <lau. of . . . Thurston,
co. Norfolk. | of Hopney, co. Suffolk.
r J
Thomas Hirne, now of=. . . . dau. of . . .
Ingclose. Kneat.
Harl. MS. 1,111 ; Stowe MSS. 676, 703.
Hixox, Thomas, of Greenwich, in Kent, Keeper of H.M. Standing
Wardrobe there, descended from Hixon, of Cambridgeshire.
Conf. by W. Camden, Clar., in 1G17. Or, two eagles' legs
erased at the thigh, in saltire, claws in base, Sa. Stowe MSS.
706, 707 ; Harl. MS. 6,140.
Hobbes, Thomas, of St. Clement Danes, co. Middlesex, Surgeon to
the King ; of an ancient family descended out of Norfolk. Gr.
by Sir T. St. George, Garter, 9 June 1687. Gu. a chev. eng.
betw. three fish naient Arg., on a chief of the last three herons
Sa., -beaks and legs of the first. Crest — A demi heron Sa.,
beak and legs Gu., holding in the beak a fish Arg. Stowe MS.
677 ; Harl. MS. 1,172.
Hobby,1 Edward, s. of Sir Edward, who in his lifetime was Ambassa-
dor unto France. Conf. of arms and gr. of crest by Sir (i.
Dethick, Garter, 6 June 1")S0, 22 Eliz. I, quarterly *1 and 4,
Jarrett, Esq., 22s. for a ring. Godson Rowland Woody care, s. of Richard
Woodyeare, of Cookham, 20s. Mrs. Elizabeth YVayhan [tie) widow of Tenant
Waynam (sic) Esq., deceased, 22s. for a ring. Servant Edw. Goodricke and
Elizabeth, his w., and Anno, their dau. Servant John Harris. Neighbour
and friend Gabriel Hipslev, of Little Marlow. to he overseer. Wife's kitiMBM
Randoll Bell, citizen of London, overseer. Residuary legatee and executrix
niece Catherine Chilcott, w. of William Chilcott. of Thistieworth. C V
gentw. Master William Chiloott, s. of said niece. E60.
Ashmolean MS. 868 mentions an exemplification of the arms lo Edu.ud. SOD
of Thomas Hobby, 10 June 1570, Stowe .MS. 676 only fives the crest, the
blazon being unusual, and the name, latinised to Hobyus m the MS., is
easily to be mistaken for Hobyus.
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GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
Arg. a fess Gu. betw. three crows Sa., beaks and legs Or ; 2 and 3,
Gu. three battle axes, staves Or, heads Arg. IT, Sa. an eagle
displ. Arg., beak and legs Or. Ill, Arg. a lion ramp. 8a.,
crowned Or. IV, Sa. a pomegranate, slipped and leaved Or,
seeded ppr. V, Gu. a lion ramp, regard. Or. VI, Arg. a
chev. betw. three boars' heads couped Sa. Crest — A tiger ramp,
.regard. Arg., holding a lily Az., slipped and leaved Vert.
Hail. MSS." 1,441, 5,847 ; Stowe MSS. 676, 703.
Hob letii wait, James, of Malton, co. York, gent. Gr. by Sir G.
Dethiek, Garter, 1570. Arg. two pallets Az., on a canton Or,
a mullet Sa., pierced Gu. Crest — From a crest coronet Or,
a demi wolf Erm. Add. MS. 14,295.
Hoddesdon otherwise Barxet, Robert, of co. Herts. Conf. by
Clar. 1 May 30 Hen. VIII. Being those of the father and mother
of the said Robert, viz., 1 and 4, Arg. a bend nebulee Gu., betw.
two horseshoes Az. ; 2 and 3, Gu. a sinister quarter Or, charged
with two lions pass. Sa., crowned of the second, langued of the
first. Stowe MS. 714.
Hodge, Anthony, of . . . , co. Stafford. Gr. by Sir T. St. George,
Garter, 1614. Arg. on a cross Sa., within a bord. Erms., a
maiden's head couped at the breast ppr., crined Or, enclosed
by an annulet of the last. Stowe MS. 703.
Hodges, Sir AVilliam, of Middlesex, Bart., now a Merchant residing
at Cadiz, in Spain, who married a dau. and coheir of Mr. Joseph
Hall. Gr. by Sir Thos. St. George, Garter, and Sir H. St.
George, Clar., 23 Nov. 1698. Or, three crescents Sa., on a
canton barry wavy of six Arg. and Az., an anchor erect of
the second. Crest — Out of a naval coronet Or, an anchor
erect Arg., entwined by a snake Vert. Add. MS. 14,830;
Stowe MS. 714.
Hodges, William, s. and h. of Owen Hodges, Esq., Steward of
the household to Lewis, Duke of Richmond and Lenox, and
after to his brother Edmond (Esme), Duke of Lenox and Earl
of March, which Owen was s. and h. of Roger Hodges, of
Ilmmster, co. Somerset, Esq. Conf. 31 Dec. 1628. Sa. three
crescents Arg., in chief a crest coronet Or. Crest — A crescent
betw. two wings Or. Stowe MS. 714.
Hodges, . . . , of London. Pat. Oct. 1610. Or, three crescents
Sa., on a canton of the last a crest coronet of the first.
Crest — On a wreath of the colours a crest coronet Or, thereon
a crescent Sa. Stowe MS. 706.
Hodgkinson, Richard, of London. Gr. by Sir W. Segar, Garter.
Or, a cross humcttee Vert, voided of the field, betw. four
cinquefoils of the second. Crest — A cinquefoil Or, betw. two
dragons' wings Vert. Add. MS. 12,225.
Hodgson, Auditor (sic). Pat, from R. Cooke, Clar. A/, three
scimitars fessways in pole, the centre one with the point to the
dexter, the two others to the sinister Arg., hilfea and pommela
Or. Crest — A cubit arm in chain mail, the hand brandishing
a sword, the blade broken, the upper part pendant, all ppr.
Stowe MS. 700.
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
63
Hodgson, .... Gr. 1628. 1 and 4, Erm. on a chief Gu. three
scimitars erect Arg., hilts and pommels Or — for Hodgson ; 2 and
3, Gu. on a chev. betw. three goldfinches Arg., as many crosses
pattee of the first, a chief of the second charged with a lion
pass, of the field — for Goldsmith. Crest— A griffin's head erased
Or, devouring a hand couped Gu. Add. MS. 12,225
Hodson, Christopher, of Cambridge, gent., s. of Henry Hodson,
of Cambridge, gent. Conf. of arms and gr. of crest by R.
Cooke, Clar., 28 July 1590. Sa. a chev. betw. three falcons
volant Or. Crest — A unicorn cour. regard. Arg., gorged with
a wreath of laurel ppr. On the back of the grant is noted
by his own hand that Benjamin Hodson, of Broughton, co.
Hunts, clerk, produced this grant before Sir Henry St. George
at his Visitation in 1684, Harl. MS. 1,359; Stowe MSS. G70,
7U.
Holbech, Thomas, of Stowe, co. Line. Pat. 1586. Or, on a chief
Az. three lions' heads erased of the field, a mullet Gu. for diff.
Crest — From a crest coronet Or, a pelican's head of the same,
vulned Gu. Harl. MS. 1,359.
Holrkch, Roger, of Witehingham, co. Norfolk, s. of Thomas, of
Suffolk. Pat. June 1613. Arg. on a saltire Vert five escallop
shells of the field. Crest — A demi griffin Or, wings Gu., betw. the
claws an escallop shell Arg. Harl. MS. 1,441 ; Stowe MSS. 706,
707.
Holden, Ralph, of Holden. Conf. by L. Pal ton, Norroy. Sa. a
fess betw. two chevs. Erm., betw. the fess and upper chev. a
covered cup Or. Crest — A cock Sa., membered Gu., and charged
on the breast with a cinqnefoil Or. Add. MS. 14,295.
Holden, Robert, of Hockridge, in Cranborne, Kent, gent. Gr.
by Sir E. Bysshe, Clar., 20 May 1663. Erm. on a chief Gu.
three pears Or. Crest — A parrot's head erased Vert, in the
beak a pear Or. Add. MS. 14,293.
Holdip, Thomas, of the Middle Temple, s. of James Holdip, of
K.ingselere, co. Hants. Gr. to the descendants of his said
father by J. Anstis, Garter, 5 June 1725. Erm. on a bend
Az. three griffins' heads erased Or. Crest— On a chapeau Az.
turned up Arg., a griffin's head couped Erm., collared of the
first, in the beak Sa. a broken spear Or. Add. MS. 14,830.
Holdt, John, in ye Stillyard. Arg. a fess wavy Az., from a mount
in base a tree Vert. Crest — A tree as in the arms Vert. Harl.
MS. 5,869.
Holland, John. Conf. 19 May 1601, by Sir W. Segar, Gaiter, and
W. Camden, Clar., of a gr. by Glover in 1583. A/, semee of
fleur-de-lys and a lion ramp. gard. Arg. Crest From a crest
coronet Or, a plume of ostrich feathers Arg., quills Az. Add
MS. 12,225.
Holland, Sir Thomas, of Berave (sir), co. Anglesey. Gr, by Sir
John Borough, Garter. Az. a lion ramp, gard., within an ot ic of
fleurs-de-lis Arg. Crest — A demi lion ramp. gai-d. Arg., supporting
an antique shield A/.., semee of fleurs-de-lis of the first, the
scroll part Or. Add. MS. 1,966.
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GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
Hollis, Thomas, of Mansoll Street, Goodman's Fields, co. Middlesex,
and to the descendants of his father Thomas Hollis, dec, gr. by J.
Anstis, Garter, and Knox Ward, Clar., 10 April 1727. Arg.
on a chew Az. betw. three sprigs of holly, each of three leaves,
Vert, fructed Gu., as many doves Arg., beaks and legs Gu.
Crest — Two swords in saltire Arg., hilts and pommels Or,
entwined with a snake ppr. Add.. MS. 14,831.
Hollis, William, of , . . , co. Notts. Gr. by Sir G. Uethick.
Garter, 24 May 1550. Sa. a bend betw. two hounds pass. Arg.
Crest — An arm in armour emb. ppr. garnished Or, the gauntlet
grasping a bunch of holly Vert, fructed Gu. Harl. MS. 1,441 ;
Stowe MS. 703.
Holloway, Henry, of Newton next Twycross, co. Leic, s. of John,
s. of Thomas, who was of the ancient family of that name at
Maydenhatch, co. Berks. Gr. by Sir E. St. George, Clar. Arms
not. given. Harl. MS. 1,105.
Holloway,1 John, of the University of Oxford, gent. Conf. bv Sir
K. St. George, Clar., 10 Nov. 1G31. Gu. a chev. betw. three
cross crosslets Arg., a canton Erm. Crest — A goat's head couped
Arg., collar and chain Gu., on the collar three crescents of the
first. Add. MS. 14,295.
Holloway, John, Esq., Comptroller of the Customs House, London.
Conf. by Sir W. Segar, Garter. 1 and 4, Gu. a fess Erm. betw.
three crescents Arg. 2 and 3, Arg. a lion ramp. Purp. Crest —
A demi lion ramp. gard. Purp. Harl. MS. 6,140; Add. MS.
12,225.
Hollynside (alias Hollynsiiede), Hugh, of Boslev, co. Chester.
Conf. of arms and gr. of crest by Sir G. Dethick, Garter, 1 July
2 Eliz. Per cross . . . and ... a canton Erm. Crest — A bull's
head erased Gu., horned Or., and gorged with a coronet of the
last. Harl. MS. 1,359.
Holman, George, of London, Esq. Pat. by W. Camden, Clar., 100G.
Vert, a chev. betw. three pheons Or. Crest — On a chapeau Az.,
turned up Erm., an ostrich's head couped Arg. Harl. MS.
1,441.
Holm an,2 . . . , of . . . , in Devon, and of Lincoln's Inn, Counsellor
at Law. Gr. July 1 GOT. Vert, on a chev. Arg. betw. three
pheons Or, five guttes de sang. Crest — A crossbow erect Or,
betw. two wings Gu. Stowe MS. 707 ; Harl. MS. 6,059.
1 Holloway, John, a. of John Holloway, clerk, Hart Hall, matr. 9 Feb. 1651-2,
B.A. from University Coll., 23 Feb. 1654-5. Query held the livings "t"
Barton-on-the-Heath, co. Warw. , Compton, CO. Hants, ami Puddle Trenthide,
co. Dorset, 1603-74. Another John Holloway. s. of Richard Holloway, of
Oxford, Esq., matr. St. John's Coll.. 23 April 1676, aged 16 ; was a Barrister
of the Inner Temple, 1682 j Treasurer in 1717, and was bur. in the Temple
Church 15 Feb. 1720.
* In the church of St. .Andrew. Plymouth, is a tloorslab bearing the above Arms,
with a crescent charged with a tleur -de lis in chief for diff., imp. the
arms without diff. Crest — A demi iiou ramp., with a phton betw, the
paws. Also an inscription for Mary, dan. of William Holman. <>t Havoc
House, Devon, Esq., and wife of Robert Holmaa, Lieut. R.N, She
died at Plymouth 4 Nov. 1840, ttged o'.L Also two of their children,
who died youug.
CORONATION LETTERS.
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Holmden, Anthony, of Tenches, in par. of Lingfield, Surrey. Gr.
by Sir W. Segar, Garter. Gu. a fess betw. two chevs. Erm., a
crescent for diff. Or. Crest — An otter's head couped Or. Add.
MS. 12,225.
Holmden, John, of Surrey, now of London. Pat. 20 June 1577,
19 Eliz., by R. Cook, Clar., to . . . Holmden, of . . . in Surrey.
Conf. to Thomas Holmden, of Thinkles (sic), in Surrey, to bear
the same with a mullet for diff. Sa. a fess betw. two chevronels
Erm., in dexter chief a crescent Arg. Crest — An otter's head
erased Or. Stowe MS. 670; Add. MS. 14,295; Harl. MS.
1,359.
Holme, William, of Overholme, in par. of Leake, co. Stafford, s. of
Thomas, s. of William, s. of Nicholas Holme. Gr. by R. St.
George, Norroy, 1613. Barry of six Or and Az.," on a canton
Erm. a chaplet Vert, flowered Gu. Crest — On a crest coronet
Or, a chaplet Vert, flowered Gu., within it a garb of the first.
Stowe MS. 706; Harl. MS. 6,140.
Holme, . . . , of East Holme, co. Lane, mercer. Gr. by R. St. George,
Norroy, June 1613. Barrv of six Or and Az., on a canton Gu.,
a chaplet Or. Add. MS. 14,295.
Holmes, John. Conf. of arms and gr. of crest by T. Hawley, Clar.,
5 Edw. VI. Barry of six Or and Az. on a canton Erm., a
chaplet Vert, flowers Gu. Crest — A demi griffin segr. Az.,
guttee d'Or, beak and legs Or, the dexter claw brandishing a
sword ppr. Add. MS. 14,295.
Holmes, John, of North Mimms, co. Herts Conf. of arms and gr.
of crest by T. Hawley, Clar., 5 Edw. VI. 1 and 4, Sa. a lion
ramp., bendy of six Arg. and Gu. ; 2 and 3, Arg. a cross Gu.,
fretty Or. Crest — A demi griflin segr. Az. guttee d'Or, in the
dexter claw a sword ppr. Harl. MS. 1,359.
(To be continued.)
CORONATION LETTERS.
Contributed by Keith W. Murray, F.S.A.
The following letters relating to the Coronation of the first two
Georges are of some interest in view of the ceremony announoed
for .June in next year. They are verbatim copies of three original
letters under the Royal Sign Manual addressed to a Peer, of which
the first is a holograph by the Deputy Earl Marshal, the Earl of
Suffolk and Bindon, the other two being signed by Talbot (Yelverton),
Karl of Sussex, who held the same otHee from 1725 to 1T32, From
the second letter it appears that the 4th of October was at one
time the date fixed for the Coronation of King George II.
Gkorge R.
Right Trusty and Wellbeloved, We greet you well, Whereaa
the 20th day of this instant Octlbr is appointed for the Ko\al
P
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INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM.
Solemnity of Our Coronation, These are to will and command you,
(all Excuses set apart) to make your Personal Attendance on Us,
at the time above mention 'd Furnished and appointed as to your
Rank and Quality appertaineth, there to do and perform all such
services as shall be required and belong unto you, Whereof you
are not to fail, And so we bid you most Heartily farewell. Given
at Our Court at S3* James's the 6th Day of October 1714- in the
first year of Our Reign.
By His Maties Command
Suffolk M.
George R.
Right Trusty & well beloved cousen We Greet you well. AVhereas
the fourth day of October next is appointed for the Royal Solemnity
of our and the Queens Coronation These are to Will and Command
You and the Yicountess (sic) your Wife (all excuses set apart) to
make your Personal Attendance on us at the time abovementioned
furnished and appointed according to your Rank and Quality
appertaineth there to do and perform all such Services as shall
be required and belong unto you respectively Whereof you and
she are not to fail And so we bid you most heartily farewell.
Given at our Court at Richmond the 19th day of August 17 27
In the first Year of our Reign.
By his Majestys Command
Sussex M.
George R.
Right Trusty and Well-Beloved We Greet you well. It haveing
been Represented unto us That neither you or the Lady your
Wife can without Great Prejudice Attend at the Royal Solemnity
of Our and the Queens Coronation on the Eleventh of October
Instant We have therefore thought ntt and accordingly do hereby
Dispence with your Respective Attendance upon that Occasion,
And so We bid you heartily Farewell. Given at Our Court at
Sl. James's the Ninth day of October 1727 In the First year
of Our R eigne.
By His Majestys Comand
Sussex M
Inqutstttonrs Post fttartnn.
{Continued from Vol. XV //. p. 281.)
Fisher, John, Gent., ob. 16 March 1630— Inq. at Partington *2S Sept
7 Car. I.— Berks— William, s. & h., aet. 8 ; 2 daughters.
Fisher, John, ob. 10 March 1631 (sir) — Inq. at Partington 28 Sept
7 Car. I.— Berks, Wilts- William, s. \v h., net. 2 (*ic).
Fisher, John, ob. 9 June 1633- -Inq. at Keswick t Sept 9 Car. t.—
Cumberland — Robert, s. & h., set IT yrs. 8 mo.
1NQU1SITI0NES POST MORTEM.
67
Fisher, Michael, Knt., ob. 18 June alt. — Inq. at A'mpthill 14 Jan.
3 Ed. C— Bedford-
John Fisher, ob. v.p.=p
Oliver St. John.=Agnes, d. k h ., k cons. & h. of her
grandfather, act. 22.
Fisher, Richard, ob. 12 April 12 Car. I.— Inq. at Hereford 11 Jan.
12 Car. I. — Hereford — Richard, s. & h., aet. 3 mo.
Fishek, Thomas, Knt. & Baronet, ob. 20 May 12 Car. I. — 1st Inq. at
High Holborn 25 May 13 Car. I. ; 2nd Inq. at Nantwich 31 Aug.
13 Car. I. — Middx., Cheshire, London — Thomas, s. tk h , aet. 14.
Fissher, John, Gent., will 24 May, ob. 1 Aug. 37 Hen. 8. — Inq. at
Winton 29 Nov. 38 Hen. 8. — Southampton — John, s. k h., aet.
. . . ; Cyprian ; Edmund ; Ambrose ; 2 daughters.
Fitch, Robert, ob. 12 May 30 Eliz. — Inq. at Warwick 30 Sept.
• 42 Eliz. — Warwick — John, s. & h., then aet. 40 ; 7 other sons.
Fitton, Dame Mary, widow, ob. 13 Dec. 3 & 4 Ph. k Mary — 1st Inq.
at Nottingham 23 Mar. 3 & 4 Ph. k Mary ; 2nd Inq. at York Castle
12 March same year — Notts, Yorks — Edward Fhtton, Knt., aet. 28
is s. k h.
Fittz, George, ob. 15 Aug. ult. — Inq. at Ampthill 25 July 7 Jac. I. —
Bedford — heir unknown.
Frrz, John, Esq., ob. 9 March ult. — Inq. at East Greenwich 27 May
1 k 2 Ph. k Mary — Kent — John, s. k h. " ad comuncm legem,"
aet. 26; Edward, 2 son ; George, 3 son; Francis, 4 son.
Fitz, John, ob. 9 March ult.— Inq. at Exeter 3 Oct. 2 & 3 Ph. k Mary
— Devon — John, s. k h., aet. 27.
Fitz, John, Esq. — Inq. at Bodmin 14 Jan. 2 & 3 Ph. k Mary —
Cornwall — John, s. k h.
FitzGekald, . . . , Earl of Kildare — Inq. at Birmingham 13 Dec.
8 H. 8. — Warwick, Gloucester— Thomas FitzGerald, s k h., aet. 16.
FitzHekhekt, Eustace, Gent,, ob. 16 Sept. 9 Hen. 8.— Inq. at
Gloucester 8 Nov. 10 Hen. 8 ; Inq. at Stafford 9 Nov. 10 Hen. 8.—
Gloucester, Stafford — 1. Joan, aet. 2 ; 2. Elizabeth, aet. 3 months,
daughters' k coheirs.
FitzHekbert, John, Knt., ob. 5 Aug. 1613 — Inq. at Derby 10 April
21 Car. I.— Derby— William, s. cfc'h., aet. 20.
Fitzhucjh, Richard', Gent., will 12 July 1557, ob. 3 Nov. 4 & 5 Ph.
k Mary— Iraq. 27 Julv 6 Eliz.— Bedford— 1. Richard, s. & h.,
act. 19; 2. Nicholas ; 3. George.
Fitz-Hugiiks, Kenclm, Gent., will 10 May 1625, ob. 25 Jan. 1625
Inq; at Stratford Langthornc 15 Nov. 9 Car. 1. — Essex —
Emanuel, s. & h.,=i=Agnc.s, ob.
ob. v.p. j lb'2S.
r J
Kenelm, s. & h., k cons. & b. of bifl
grandfather, aet, 14 yrs. 11 mo, 14 days.
FitzJames, Alexander, Gent. -—Inq. at Wells 10 Jan. 8 Eliz.—
Somerset.
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INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM.
FitzLewes, Richard, Knt., ob. 12 July 20 Hen. 8. (married Alice
Harleston ob. ante 20 Hen. 8.)— Inq. at Norwich 15 Nov. 21 Hen. 8
ifelnq. at Bungay 18 Nov. 21 Hen. 8 —Norfolk, Suffolk—
Johu, p. & h., ob. v.p.==
r '
John Mordant, s. & h. of— Ela, d. k h., aet. 18 at the death of Alice
John Mordant. Knt. {k she was cons, of Alice Harleston).
FitzRichard, John, ob. 13 Sept. (.sic) — Inq. at Shafton 1 June
2 Hen. 8. — Dorset — John FitzRichard, s. <k h., aet. 22.
Fitzwai/ter, Henry, Viscount, s. & h. app. of Robert, Earl of Sussex,
ob. s.p. 30 Nov. 1621, 19 Jac. L— Inq. at Chelmsford 10 Sept. 22
Jac. I. — Essex.
FitzWarrex,1 Edward, Lord FitzWarren, and Earl of Bath, ob.
2 March 1G36 — Inq. at Exeter 24 Sept. 14 Car.. I. — Devon, Berks,
Cornwall, Gloucs., Somerset, Wilts, Dorset — Lady Elizabeth Bour-
chier, 1 d. & cob., aet. 12; 2. Lady Dorothy, aet. 10; 3. Lady
Anne, aet. 7.
FitzWilliam, Anne, only d. & h. of John Fitz William, ob. in ward of
King Hen. 8, 30 Aug. 5 Hen. 8, aet. 2 — Inq. at Hemmingburgh
9 Dec. 5 Hen. 8. — Yorks — William FitzWilliam, of Sprotburgh,
Esq., cons. & next heir.
FitzWilliam, Anne, only d. & h. of John FitzWilliam, of Athewicke,
Esq., ward of King Henry 8, ob. under age, 30 Aug. 5 Hen. 8. —
Inq. 9 Dec. 5 Hen. 8. — Yorks.
FitzWilliam, Anne, ward of the King, ob. 30 Aug. 5 Hen. 8.— Jnq.
at Hemmingburgh 9 Dec. 5 Hen. 8. — Yorks.
FitzAVilliam, Anne, ob. 9 Sept. 7 Hen. 8, s.p. — Inq. at East Rediford
18 Oct. 20 Hen. 8. — Notts — Thomas Fogge, s. of Thomas Fogge &
cons. & h. [coh.] of Anne FitzWilliam, aet, 32, 20 Hen. 8 ; William
(sic), s. of Cicely Winslow, ik cons. & coh. of Anne FitzWilliam, aet.
80 (sic) ; Richard Laken, s. of Andrew Laken, cons, and 3 cuh. of
Anne FitzWilliam, aet, 11.
FitzWilliam, Humphrey, ob. 18 June ult. — Inq, at Bedford IS Sept.
2 Jac. I. — Bedford — John, s. & h., aet. 24.
FitzWilliam, John, of Atherewick, Esq,, ob 25 Sept, 4 Hen. 8. —
Inq. at Doncaster 15 Nov. 4 Hen. 8. — Yorks — Anna, d. & h., aet.
one year <fc more.
FitzWilliam, Thomas, Esq., ob. die Veneris px post fesjb. nat. Beatae
Mariae 5 Hen. 8. — Inq. at Pontefraet 8 Oct, 6 Hen. 8. — Yorks
William FitzWilliams (sic), s. & h., aet, 3 ; Elizabeth.
FitzWilliam, Thomas, Esq., ob. . . . 5 Hen. 8.— Inq. 18 Oct
6 Hen. 8. — Yorks — William, s. & h., aet. 3 — Alice.
FitzWilliam, William, Esq., ob. s.p. 30 Sept. 8 Hen, 8. — Inq. at
Norwich 14 Jan. 8 Hen. 8. — Norfolk — Margery, wife 61 Thomas
Sotell, Esq., and Dorothy, wife of William Copley, Esq., arc oo&s,
<fc heirs.
FitzWilliam, William, ob. s.p. 7 Hen. 8. — Inq. at York 10 Sept,
18 Hen. 8.— Yorks —Alice Foljamb, 1 sister &, h., act. N ; Marg.
Folyamb, 2 sister & coh., aet. 12. \St6 Ear) of Southampton,
extinct.]
1 This should have appeared sub Bath.
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Fitz Willi am, William, Esq., s. & h. of George, & cons. & h. of his
mother ; ob. 22 Sept. ult. — Inq. at Doncaster 1 1 Nov. 29 Hen. 8. —
Yorks — John, s. & h., aet. 4, 19 Hen. 8.
Fitz William, William, Earl of Southampton, ob. 14 Oct. 34 Hen. 8,
will 10 Sept. 1542— Inq. at East Grinstead 19 Aug. 36 Hen. 8;
Inq. at Godestone 20 Aug. 36 Hen. 8. — Sussex, Surrey —
Thomas FitzNVilliam, brother k heir.^p
Jacobus Fuljamb, Knt^-pAlice, 1 d. & coh. Margaret, 2 d. k coh-, aet. 31.
Godfrey, s. & h., k cons, k h. of William,
Earl of Southampton, aet. 17.
FitzWilliam, William, Knt., will 7 April 2 & 3 Ph. & Mary ; ob.
3 Oct. 1 Eliz. — Inq. at Winton 8 Jan. 2 Eliz. — Southampton —
Mabel, wife of Thomas Browne, Esq., aet. 19, 1 d. & coh. ; Elizabeth
senior, aet. 18, 2 d. & coh. ; Catherine, wife of Christopher Preston,
Esq., aet. 16, 3 d. & coh. ; Elizabeth junior, aet. 14, 4 d. & coheir.
( To be continued.)
"A CALENDAR OF THE FEET OF FINES FOR SUFFOLK."
To look a gift horse in the mouth is always an ungracious act,
but it has been performed with obvious gusto by " W. H. B. B. "
in his review as above. May I explain why I undertook the
Calendar.
Having much to do with Norfolk pedigrees I found myself
greatly hampered through there being no Calendars of the Fines of
the adjoining County of Suffolk. So entirely at my own expense
I had such a Calendar compiled, and arranged for the local Society
to print (just as I had previously done for the Fines of Cambridge),
I contributing to such expense, seeing the book through the press,
and comparing the proofs with the original documents, to the great
interruption of my regular Norfolk work. All this cost a good
deal of money and a great deal of trouble, and I am now blamed
for not having given a more ample Calendar, and for not having
included the " Divers Counties " also, though I gave in my Preface
the reasons why 1 did not do so.
No one could have been more explicit than I was in my Preface
in saying that there were " numerous misreadingx of places and
surnames which I made no doubt had crept into the Calendar,"
or to explain that I had been unable to obtain any help from
those who were better acquainted than I with Suffolk names. 1
do not think my making these plain statements constituted M being
all too eager to disclaim responsibility."
That "W. II. B. B. " has been able to find so few errors in the
393 pp. of text and index is satisfactory to me. Does he seriously
put forward that after working at the Public ReOQffda tor tony
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years, and after having published a Handbook to them which has
reached a second edition, I made through ignorance such obvious
misprints as Eustachim, Yermowth and Olivede Tudeham I That I
ought to have corrected them in the proof I admit, but criticism of
this class is paltry. Others of those he names, e.g., Munchevea
Loveuey and Loneday were detected by me too late for the text,
but he will find them all corrected in the Index. Brokendihs (Brock-
dish) should certainly not be read Brokendihs as suggested, and I
fail to see why " Rielid., nephew of Fre burn," has "also an unsatis-
factory air."
I must, moreover, complain of the disingenuousness of my reviewer's
criticism when he says " it would for instance have been more
exact to say that real property, not land only, passed by fine." My
words were, " the general idea that land only was passed by fine
is erroneous," and cited cases, some referring neither to land nor
to real property.
Again he says, " As for the aspiration expressed in the final
paragraphs of the Preface they savour of a book called the ' Norman
People in England ' " — his idea, no doubt, being to make those
who have not read the Calendar believe I was following the
lines of reckless identification which made that book so ridiculous.
Will my readers believe that all I actually said was that when
the Fines of all England are calendared " it will be feasible to
compile almost a perfect list of all the Normans and French who
at one time or another settled in England," and that then " by
marking the occurence of the names derived from Norman places
on a map of Normandy to see whether the inhabitants of certain
tracts of land did not come over to the exclusion of those from
other tracts."
Minute criticism is always contemptible, but at least it should
be honest and not depend on misquotations or untrue innuendoes.
Walter Rye.
Dorset Records, vol v. Full Abstracts of the Feet of Finos
relating to the County of Dorset remaining in the Public
Record Office, London, from their commencement in the re jii
of Richard I [to Edward TI inclusive]. Edited by Edw. Alex.
Fry and George S. Fry. 1896.
In producing a calendar of this kind the first question an editor
has to face must be how much he is to include. Is lie to give all
information possible, or a mere index of names | On this head lie
must not hope to please everybody; a zealous and learned antiquary
(not a mere genealogist) has been heard to propose the excision of
many names in order to leave space for legal teclinicalittea, Recently,
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71
in noticing a, similar work, we commented on the meagreness of
its contents. In the book before us, Dorset fines filed under Divers
Counties, and one or two as of Counties Unknown, are included, and
everything of moment will be found ; indeed, means could, perhaps,
be suggested of economising space without material loss.
The attempt at completeness involves serious difficulties, among
which questions of mere reading are but the first, and, perhaps, the
least. Let nobody in the habit of dealing readily with fines of
the Elizabethan period imagine that he is therefore qualified to
handle those of the thirteenth century ; and if truth compels us to
say that the book does not reach a high level of scholarship, our
readers will please bear in mind how many problems of ancient
law and social life are involved in the task of interpretation. The
description of language as a means of concealing thought will
certainly apply at times to the language of final concords ; and if
obscurities of one class increase as the system of conveyancing becomes
more and more artificial, others almost vanish during the reign of
Edward III. It would be rash to assume that a later demandant
was an actual purchaser; but it would scarcely be less rash to
assert, for example, that no freehold passed with a fine of neifty
(for instances see pp. 59, G3), or that the term of years assured by
No. 28 (p. 10) was of the nature of a leasehold estate.
Sixty or so of the earliest fines have already been printed in
the original Latin. Comparing the versions, each will occasionally
correct the other. The puzzling unum caseum de meliori ferina,
turns out to be simply for ma; but why " kind " rather than shape?
We know several Gades hills, and de super curiam Gades is, perhaps,
merely Gades Court— curiam much in the sense of curtilayium, a
word ill rendered by "yard," which already does double duty as a
measure of land. Burkedon seems to be right ; it is not a C at
all events.
Faultlessness, no doubt, in a work of this kind, is past praying
for, and accuracy a relative term. At all events the editors do
not make a parade of irresponsibility ; nor are evident marks of
carelessness . and haste to be seen on almost every page. But the
translation might often be improved. Clauses relating to dower
are very loosely rendered ; and several of the more difficult (and
more interesting) fines are far from satisfactory. A few are com-
pletely wrong, e.y., Nos. 45 (p. 15) and 119 (p. 56); in No. 108
(p. 52) there is a serious omission, and in No. 47 (p. 1G) the loss
of a word seems to cast an unmerited slur on ;i defenceless lady.
We can spare little space for contemptible details, but "ten feet
of ground de iiicremento" (p. 21) cannot possibly mean "of improved
ground"; and "recognizance'' will not always do for recoyfiicio.
For "Assome (eo. ?) in the index read Assoure (Ashoyer), CO
Derby; for "Godwyne" (p. 253), Edwyne, There is a suggestion
of well known names about de Panely, de Clanyle, de Abecot,
and Chaceport; " Shafton " should probably be read Sliastoo. The
astonishing statement about a duel (p. 25 and elsewhere) must
not be taken an pied de la Litre, it is merely an unfortunate
rendering of the "wager of battle" in common form. .Mr. SoargiU
72 NOTES AND QUERIES.
Bird, it seems, is responsible for the implied statement (p. vii)
that the term Chirograph applies to the foot only of the fine.
But when the licence to concord on the Plea Rolls concludes, as it
commonly does, Et lit c,yr\ he will probably admit that' this did
not entitle one of the parties to possession of that particular
portion.
To pass from grave to gay, one final conundrum. At what age
did the old bell wether cut his last wisdom tooth? Some data
for the solution may be found on p. 33. W. H. B. B.
We have also received — " The History of Part of West Somerset,"
by Charles E. H. Chadwyck Healey, K.C., F.S.A. ; and " Memorials
of the Buttons of Button," which, together with other publications,
we propose to notice in a future number.
Jiotes antt domes*
Petley Garxiiam (see Genealogist, October, 1899, N.S., vol. xvi,
pp. 96, 97). — The following note will help to complete this pedigree.
In the Admon. Act Book, C.P.C., for 1S00, is found the adminis-
tration of Petley Garnham, heretofore of Chievelev, but late of
Thatcham, co. Berks, Batchelor, a Lunatic, granted 31 July 1800
to Lucy Sampson widow, Cousin German twice removed, and next
of kin: the estate being sworn at .£1,000. This is, no doubt, the
man . who was aged about 13 in 174*), and found a lunatic by
inquisition in '1762 ; the administratrix being, perhaps, a descendant
of Ann Spieer, of Leckhampstead, his aunt, for she is known to
have had issue. W. H. B. P>.
Redmayne, of Thorxtox-ix-Loxsdale, Yorkshire. — T shall l>e
very grateful for any information about the Thornton branch of
the Redmayne or Redman family ; and shall be very pleased to
exchange notes with any subscriber who knows anything of the
pedigree of this branch of the family, and the connection of its
founder, .lames Redman, with the Redmans, of Levons and Hare wood
Castle. I am especially anxious to learn the descent of William
Redmayne, of Burton-in-Lonsdale (1736- 1818), and of Richard Red
mayne, of Holme Head, who died in 1721. 1 shall he lt1.h1 in
return to place much information about the Hare wood and I ,< \ < ■
Redmaynes at the serviee of any gentleman who is kind enough
to correspond with me.
\Y. Ckkknwooiv
Groylands, Spring Grove, Isleworth.
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THE ABERNETHY PEDIGREE.
By Sir James Balfour Paul, Lyon King of Arms.
(Continued from p. 25.)
On the death of William Abernethy, seventh of Saltoun, he was
succeeded by his immediate younger brother, Laurence. He was
in possession of the lands by 1428, and must have been a man
of considerable power and influence, as on 28th June 1445 he was
created a Lord of Parliament by the title of Lord Saltoun of
Abernethy, though for some time the titles of Lord Saltoun, Lord
Abernethy and Lord Abernethy of Rothiemay appear to have been
used indifferently (Frasers of Philorlh, ii, p. 42). He must have
died before 13th March 1460, when his son and heir William
obtained sasine of the barony of Saltoun His wife's Christian
name was Margaret, as in 1448 Margaret Lady Saltoun obtained
a notarial transumpt of a charter granted in 1443, by John de
Haliburton of Sawlyne in Fife to his son and his wife of certain
lands there (Charter at Salton Hall), but to what family she
belonged is not known. They had issue four sons, William and
James, successively second and third Lords Saltoun, George and
Archibald (Antiq. of Aberdeensh., ii, pp. 210-12); of the daughters,
Christian married, as his first wife, in 1468, Sir John Wemyss of
Strathardle ( Eraser's Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss,
i, p. 94); Elizabeth married John Gordon, eldest son of John Gordon
of Scardargue. It is stated in a MS. History of the Irvines of Drum
(Lyon Office) that Alexander Irvine, younger of Drum, married . . .
Abernethy, daughter of Lord Saltoun, by whom he left a son
Alexander, who was served heir to his grandfather 3rd November
1457. This must have been a daughter of Laurence, the first
Lord Saltoun. Another daughter was probably the wife of John
Ogstoun of that ilk (Supplement to the Genealogical J list or y of the
Families of Ogstoun, pp. 45-97).
William, second Lord Saltoun, who succeeded his father, got
a re-grant of his lands from the King in 1463, another the following
year and another in 1482, having the estates then erected into
one free barony of Abernethy in Rothiemay. Between the dates
of the first and the second charters he probably married, as in
the latter his wife's terce is reserved. It is omitted in the third,
so she had perhaps died in the interval; if so he must have married
again, because he left a widow styled Isabella. Lady Abernethy
in Rothiemay (Antiq. of Aberdeensh., ii, pp. 109, 248). * Dr. Wali.uv
James states that her name was Isabella Borthwick ; he does not
give his authority, but no doubt lie satisfied himself that this
wa.s the case. William, second Lord Saltoun. died in June L488,
the period at which the eventful battle of Sauchieburn wa* fought,
but whether he met his death on that held is not known, On
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THE ABERNETHY PEDIGREE.
the 10th October 1488 his brother James was served heir to him
(Original Retour at Salt on Hall).
Of James, third Lord Saltoun, not much is known. He was
for some years prior to 1448 engaged in a lawsuit against Adam
Hepburn of the Craigs and his wife Elizabeth Ogstoun (who may,
as above stated, have been the child of a daughter of the first Lord
Saltoun), and Sir John Wemyss of Strathardle and his wife Christian,
who was certainly a sister of James Abernethy. He was dead
before 23rd July 1512, when his son Alexander appears in possession
of the estate {Meg. May. Big.}. It is not known whom- he married,
but he left at least one son, his successor in the title, and three, if not
four, daughters — 1, Margaret, married John Stirling of Craigbernard,
Comptroller of the King's Household (Reg. May. Sig., 28th March
1503, 7th June 1508); 2, Janet, married Alexander Ogilvy of
Deskfurd (Reg. Mag. Sig., 7th July 1509); 3, Elizabeth, married
Alexander Hay of Ardendracht (Beg. Mag. Sig., 31st May 1510;
Antiq. of Aberdeensh., iii, p. 506). Another daughter, Helen, probably
the eldest, not mentioned by Lord Saltoun in his work, married
Thomas Urquhart of Fishery, Sheriff of Cromarty (Reg. Mag. Sig.,
16th September 1553). On the old Castle of Cromartie, of which
every trace is now gone, were the sculptured figures of a lady
and gentleman. In a description of the castle from the pen of
Hugh Miller it is stated, " Round the entrance itself there jutted
" a broad, grotesquely-proportioned moulding, somewhat resembling
"an old picture frame, and directly over it was a square tablet
"of dark blue stone, bearing in high relief the arms of the old
"proprietors; but the storms of at least five centuries had defaced
"all the nicer strokes of the chisel and the lady with her palm
" and dagger, the bears' heads and the greyhounds were trans-
" formed into so many attenuated spectres of their former selves —
" no inappropriate emblem of the altered fortunes of the house "
(Fraser's Earls of Cromartie, ii, p. 445). These were probably put
up on 25th August 1646 by Sir Thomas Urquhart, the translator
of Rabelais and the writer of a wonderful genealogy of the family ;
at ' all ' events lie caused at that date the following inscription to
be carved below the figures Above are the exact pictures of
" a marry'd pair, no less illustrious by descent than conspicuous
" by their exemplary vertue, .viz., of Thomas Urquhart, baron and
" hereditary sheriff of Cromarty, descended from twenty-four famous
"successive progenitors, and of his most faithful Lady Helen
"Abernethy, Lord Salton's beloved daughter, who, after she hail
" borne to her forsaid most beloved husband thirty-six most comely
"children, lived with him till twenty-five sons respectively came
"to man's estate, and of these six (at least) travell'd Prance,
"and many other foreign countries, with the strictest vie* for
"their education), upon their fathers proper charges, and the rest,
"(passing by none) were handsomely provided : and her elevin
"daughters (of whom severally a numerous of&pring ifl still
"extant) were splendedly matched to their principal neighbours,
"and those of best estates, and tho' their Father lived more
"sumptuously than any of his time, and rode pompously with a
THE ABERNETHY PEDIGREE.
75
11 retinue of fifty domesticks, yet built this Castle, which exceeds
"any in this kingdom (contrived by a French architect), upon his
"own expenses, in the year 1507, and that with so much foresight
" and prudence, though he was cumbered with a numerous family
" of children as Avell as menial servants, equipages and largesses
" to many of his relations in their greatest straits and intricate
" affairs, yet left what land estate or sums of money he had from
" his father to his successors, especially his eldest son, without
" any burden. In remembrance whereof, lest a man of So much
" probity and excellency should be forgotten, his great-great-grandson,
" Sir Thomas Urquhart .... ordered to cut this monument to
"his honour the twenty-fifth day of August 1646" (Red Book of
Grandtully, i, p. 114). Nisbet tell us, too, that this prosperous
life was not unalloyed with sorrow, for no less than seven of the
twenty-five sons met their death on the field of Pinkie (Heraldry,
app., p. 273).
Alexander, fourth Lord Saltoun, was infeft by his father in the
baronies of Saltoun and Glencorse and all his other possessions,
reserving his own liferent, in 1491 (Antiq. of Aberdeensh., iii, p.
154). He wras at the battle of Flodden, but succeeded in escaping
the fate of most of the Scottish nobility on that fatal day. Between
1514- and 1517 he made large purchases of lands in Banffshire.
His name is found as attending Parliament in 1528 (Acta Pari., ii,
p. 322), but he must have died shortly afterwards, for the Dowager
Lady Saltoun, daughter of James Earl of Buchan, uterine brother
of James II, who must have been his widow, is said to have built
the house of Park, in Banffshire, in 1530 (Antiq. of Aberdeensh., ii,
p. 108). He left at least two sons and one daughter ; William,
who succeeded, and Laurence, who is mentioned in the pro-
ceedings of a lawsuit between the Laird of limes and Alexander,
sixth Lord Saltoun ; he is called uncle to the sixth Lord, which
proves that he must have been a brother of William, fifth Lord
(Spalding Club, Family of Innes, pp. 109-11). The daughter
Beatrix- married Alexander Forbes of Pitsligo (Reg. Mag. Sig.,
8th December 1521). There was possibly another daughter for
whose marriage to William Innes of Innes, a papal dispensation
was obtained in 1528 (Family of Times, p. 127).
William Abernethy, fifth Lord Saltoun, succeeded previous to
1530. He married Elizabeth Hay, daughter of John, second Lord
Yester. This marriage did not take place, as alleged by Dr. Wallace
James, in 1536, but long before that date. On 25th July 1512
there is a confirmation of a charter, of date two days previous, by
" Alexander Lord Abernethy " to his son William and his wife,
Elizabeth Hay, of the lands of Dalders in Stirlingshire (Meg. Mag.
Sig.), and he had from time to time charters of other lands which
it is unnecessary to specify in detail. He became involved in a quarrel
with the Crichtons of Frendraucht, and on 15th March 1543-4 was.
with forty-five others, called to account for being concerned in
the slaughter of Q-eorge Oichton of Conzie, and of .lames and
Robert Orichton with a gun "cum uno inagenole lie gwnoe "
(1'itcairn's Criminal Trials, i, p. 104). He may possibly ha\e been
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THE ABERNETHY PEDIGREE.
wounded in this affray, as he must have died within a few days
after the last mentioned date, for he is mentioned as " deceased " in a
lawsuit brought by the laird of Innes against his son, the sixth
Lord, on 4th April 1544 {Family of Innes, p. 108). He left two
sons, Alexander, who succeeded him, and William who was the
ancestor of the now extinct branch of Abernethy of Birnes.
Alexander, sixth Lord, is in the lawsuit alluded to above, termed
" adolescentem " or a youth. He married" in 1550 Alison Keith,
daughter of William, Earl Marischal, and granted her part of the
barony of Saltoun in security for her jointure, though from the
fact that this deed was executed with consent of his own mother
it is evident that he was not even at this time yet of full age
{Reg. Mac/. Sig., 4th September 1550). This is the only wife
mentioned by Lord Saltoun in his account of the family, but
Mr. B. R. Stodart in an article on the Kerrs of Cessfurd, in the
Herald and Genealogist ', vol. vii, p. 410, mentions that William
Kerr of Cessfurd, married before 1589 Jean Johnstoun, relict of
Alexander Lord Abernethy of Saltoun. This statement receives a
certain amount of corroboration from the fact that he had a daughter
of the name of Jean (a name which does not occur previously in
the family), who married first, as his second wife, Alexander Seton
of Meldrum, marriage contract 12th August 1579 (Selon's Family
of Seton, i, p. 466 ; Thanage of Fermartin, p. 690) ; second, again
as a second wife, John, second son of Alexander Urquhart of
Cromarty and Beatrix Innes, his wife (Nisbefs Heraldry, app.,
p. 274). It is a curious fact that this John married as his third
wife in 1610 his second wife's first husband's grandchild by a
former marriage, viz., Elizabeth Seton, only daughter of Alexander
Seton, eldest son of Alex. Seton of Meldrum above-mentioned. By
this marriage the Urquharts became proprietors of Meldrum (Tlianage
of Fermartin, p. 693). Alexander, sixth Lord Saltoun, after an
active though not very long life, died early in 1587, leaving
three sons, 1, George, his successor ; 2, the Laird of Lessendrum,
whose name according to Dr. Wallace James was Alexander (Cf.
Keg. Mag. Sig., 23rd November 1602); and, 3, John, who received
the lands of Barrie from his father. The last married and had
issue, but the branch became extinct in the male line in 1785.
Lord Saltoun had also two daughters; Elizabeth, the elder of these,
married first John Lord Glanimis (Reg. Mag. Sig., 28th April
1587), who died 1578. Caution was found to the extent of
£2,000 by Thomas Lyoun of Baldukie and others, that he shall
not " mak trubill to Dame Elizabeth Abernethy, relict of John
Lord Glammis or to his daughter on the bruiking and possessing
of their lands" (Privy Council Records, iii, p. 249. 17th
December 1579). She married secondly John Innes of Innes ;
there is a contract between Lord Saltoun and Robert Innes for
his daughter's liferent 1580 {Family of I it nr.*, p. 24). The second
daughter, Jean, married as above stated, first, Alexander Seton,
and second, John Urquhart.
George Abernethy, seventh Lord Saltoun, wm served heir to his
father 10th May 1587 (Index of ftefoitr*, \\). lb- marriod before 1584
THE ABERNETHY PEDIGREE.
77
Margaret, daughter of John Earl of Atholl, Chancellor of Scotland.
She got a charter of the lands of Kellie in Aberdeenshire on the
24th of August in that year (Reg. Mag. Sig.). Lord Saltoun died
before 1595 (Douglas says 1600), for in the marriage contract
between his daughter Margaret and Alexander Eraser, younger of
Philorth, dated 1st January in that year, his son appears as Lord
Saltoun, and Margaret is called sister of the latter. Of the marriage
between Lord Saltoun and Lady Margaret Stewart there were issue
one son, John, who succeeded his father, and two, if_ not three,
daughters — first, Margaret married Alexander Fraser, younger of
Philorth ; second, Jean, who married in 1608 Sir John Lindsay of
Kinfauns, eldest son of Sir Henry Lindsay of Caraldstoun (Reg.
Mag. Sig., 25th February 1608). Sir John died during the lifetime
of his father, and she afterwards married George Gordon of Gight
(Register of Kirk Session of Rothiemay, 18th May 1617, quoted In
The Frasers of Philorth, p. 63; Reg. Mag. Sig., 30th July 1618).
There was probably another and elder daughter, Joneta, who
married Patrick Livingstone, and along with her husband got a
charter of the lands of Dalders from John Lord Saltoun, with
consent of his mother, Lady Margaret Stewart, 23rd November
1602 (Reg. Mag. Sig.).
John, eighth Lord Saltoun, succeeded to the title before 1595.
He married first Lady Mary Stewart, second daughter of James,
the " Bonny Earl of Moray/' by his wife Elizabeth Stewart, daughter
of the Regent Moray, but had no children by her (Frasers of Philorth,
p. 64). She died before the end of 1608, and early in 1609 he
married Anne Stewart, only daughter of Walter, Lord Elan tyre, by
his wife Nicholas, daughter of Sir James Somerville of Camsbus-
nethan (Reg. Mag. Sig., 14th February 1609). He got into em-
barrassed circumstances, sold a large portion of his estates and
died in 1617, having had issue one son, Alexander, and two
daughters, Anne, born 1609, died in infancy, and Margaret, born
1613, died unmarried.
Alexander, ninth Lord Saltoun and last of the name of Abernethy,
was born on 26th March 1611, and was only about six years of
age when he succeeded his father. He also fell on evil days, and
not only had to sell more of his estates but became involved in endless
litigation. In connection with this an extraordinary fraud was
perpetrated by James Abernethy, an Advocate and Clerk of Session,
brother of Alexander Abernethy of Auchencloich and Mayen, and
son of Thomas Abernethy of Barrie, whose father was third son of
the sixth Lord Saltoun. He went to London and, gaining across
to the Register of the Decreets of the Court of Session (which had.
with other Public Records of Scotland, been sent to London In-
order of Cromwell), abstracted three leaves which contained a
judgment of the Court reversing a prohibition against burdening
the family estate with debt under which the eighth Lord Saltoun
Had placed himself before 1605. The effect of this was to make
all the sales of land subsequent to that decreet null and void ; but
the actual result was only to increase the amount of litigation going
on. James Abernethy did not destroy the leaves, but evidently
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THE ABERNETHY PEDIGREE.
intended to use them for blackmailing purposes, a game which, how-
ever, he found it too dangerous to himself to pursue. It is impossible
here to give the details of the story which are related by Lord
Saltoun in his work to which I have had occasion so often to refer.
Suffice it to say that long after the death of the ninth Lord Saltoun
(who was in all probability aware of what had been done), Alexander
Abernethy of Auchencloich, before his death in 1683, left the secret
of the stolen leaves to his kinsman James Ogilvie, informing -him
that they were built into the wall of the house of Mayen.
Ultimately an action was brought against Alexander Abernethy's
son to compel the production of the leaves, and it ended in their
being replaced by order of the Lords of Session on 22nd July 1692.
Alexander, Lord Saltoun, died unmarried before the end of
November or during the first few days of the next month, in
1668. There is a curious doubt as to where he was buried. In
the Register of Burials of the Canongate it is stated that "Lord
Saltoun was buried in the Church of Holyrood hous upon the
17th December 1668 in the buriall place of Sir Lues Bannatine,
Baron of Brochtoun and heir of the Earl of Roxburgh," but in the
Greyfriars' Register there is an entry, under 18th December 166S,
1 'Me Loird Sailtin."
Lord Saltoun's sister survived him, but never assumed the title.
After her decease it was claimed by Alexander Fraser, tenth of
Philorth, whose father Alexander, ninth of Philorth, had married
Margaret Abernethy, daughter of George, seventh Lord Saltoun.
His right to the title was confirmed not exactly by a new creation,
but by a Patent ratifying and approving his service as heir of line,
and his taking upon himself the title and dignity (Cf. Acta Pari.
Scot., viii, p. 33).
In concluding this notice of the Abernethies, I may be permitted
to express my sense of obligation to Lord Saltoun's book on the
Erasers of Philorth, to which I have so often referred. Without
its aid this paper could not have been written, and I have quoted
it freely throughout. But I have checked, so far as possible, all
the references, and have added a considerable quantity of information
which the means at Lord Saltoun's disposal at the time he wrote
his account of the family did not enable him to procure.
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THE AUSTRIAN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF
WALSH.
By V. Hussey Walsh.
v (Continued from Vol. XV/I, p. 224.)
II. Yon Wallis of BiipwiTZ.
Franz Ernst, second son of Baron Olivier von Wallis,1 born about
1645, was Captain in his father's Regiment in 1G67 ; he subsequently
remained in the Regiment when it became the property of Count
Strassoldo, and was frequently wounded. He inherited Leskau on
his father's death ■ was Chamberlain to the Emperor ; married
(settlements dated 16th) 17th January 1682, Maria Teresia, daughter
of Jaroslaus, Count von Rican, by Maximiliana, daughter of Johann
Ludwig Nesslinger von Schelchengrab (Lady of the Order of the
Starred Cross, died 1722). He obtained the Hungarian Indigenat
25th January 1688. He died at Leskau 12th December 1702,
leaving issue : —
(I). Anton Ernest, Page to the Emperor Leopold ; Lieut. -
Colonel in Count Georg Olivier von Wallis' Regiment.
After the siege of Melazzo lie took part in the conquest
of the Lipari islands, where he was shot through the
head; he was buried in the Church of San Francisco de
Paula at Melazzo, in 1718.
(II). Carl, Page to the Emperors Joseph I and Charles VI ;
entered the Army in. 171 6, was wounded at the siege
of Melazzo, taken prisoner and died of his wounds at
Troppau.
(III). Franz Wenzel, of whom hereafter.
(I). Eleonora, married Heir von Mittkowsky.
(II). Anna Maria.
(III). Maximiliana.
(IY). Catharina, born 1695; married Count von Gotzen; died at
Prague in 1776.
Franz Wenzel von Wallis, born at Leskau 4th October 1696 : studied
law and philosophy at Leipzig and Prague with the object of entering
the Civil Service. He, however, preferred the Army, and was
Lieutenant in the Jung-Daun Regiment of Grenadiers at the siege
of Freiburg ; he was Lieutenant-Colonel and then Colonel of the
Georg Olivier von Wallis Regiment at the siege of Messina, He
became in 1731 Colonel Proprietor of what is now the 59th Regiment
of Infantry, and was appointed General IVulw aehtmeister in 1733
1 See vol. xvii, N.S., p. 220.
80 AUSTRIAN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF WALSH.
and Feldmarschall-Leutnant in 1734; Master of the Ordnance in
May 1742, and Commander-in-Chief of Bohemia in 1746. He was
appointed one of the Commissioners for the re-organisation of the
Austrian Army on 8th February 1748 ; and Commander-in-Chief
in Siebenbiirgen on 21st October 1751, and was finally made
Field Marshal on 30th June 1754. He was Commander-in-Chief
in Hungary from 17GS to 1770 ; he was also a Knight of the Golden
Fleece. He was created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire on
14th July 1724, and a Count of Bohemia on 10th May 1735. He
also possessed the Indigenat of Siebenbiirgen. He purchased on
17th August 1736, Biidwitz, in Moravia, from Countess Schamburg
for 112,500 guldens, and in 1753 he acquired the neighbouring
estates of Franing Jatzkau and Kincic. He bought Budickowic
and Rotenburg, in Bohemia, from Count Sobek for 150,000 guldens.
He married on 23rd July 1726 Maria Rosa, daughter of Franz
Sebastian, Count Thiirheim, by Maximiliana Ilebekka, daughter of
Gotthard Heinrich, Count von Salburg (born 7th September 1705 ;
Lady of the Order of the Starred Cross; Maid of Honor to the
Empress Elizabeth; died 28th May 1777). He died 24th February
1774, leaving issue : —
(I). A son, born 1727, lived only a few hours.
(II). Franz Ernst, second Count von Wallis of Biidwitz, of whom
hereafter.
(III) . Oliver, born 1730; died 1736.
(IV) . Michael, born in Naples 4th January 1741 ; entered the
Army 1757, in his father's regiment; became Colonel of
the Wallis Regiment 1st April 1758; Major-General 1763 ;
on 1st May 1784 he was made Master of the Ordnance ;
President of the Council of War in 1789, and on
9th October of the same year Field Marshal. On
Count Laudon's death he became Commander-in-Chief of
the Army against the Turks. He was again made on
6th December 1791 President of the Council of War and
Privy Councillor. He held the former position until he
resigned it on account of sickness on 10th April 1701.
He was also a Knight of the Order of Malta. He died
suddenly in Vienna on 7th December 1798, and was
buried there.
(V). Oliver Remigius, the founder of the Hungarian branch, of
whom subsequently.
(VI). Joseph, born 19th July 1747, entered the Church and was
made Canon of Olmutz on 28th April 1762, where he
died 27th November J 793.
(I). Antonia, born 25th June 1732 ; entered the Order of St.
Francis of Sales.
(II). Rosa, born 20th July 1734; Maid of Honor and Lady of
the Order of the Starred Cross.
AUSTRIAN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF WALSH. 81
(III) . Carolina, born 2nd November 1737 ; entered the Order
of St. Francis of Sales, and died 14th February 1761.
(IV) . Maximiliana, born 20th June 1740; Lady of the Order of
the Starred Cross ; was a Chanoinesse at Nivelies ;
married 1763 Count Philip Welsperg, Chamberlain to
the Emperor and Minister Plenipotentiary at Copenhagen.
Franz Ernst, second Count von Wallis of Biidwitz, born 23rd
February 1729; was made Chamberlain 19th April. 1764 ; Vice-
President of the Court of Appeal of Bohemia, 21st October 1780 ;
he was also Chief Justice of Court Fiefs. He married on 17th
October 1759, at Graz, Maximiliana, daughter of Ernst Wilhelm, Count
Schaffgotsche, by Maria Maximiliana, daughter of Johann Maximilian,
Count von Gotzen (born 6th February 1741 ; Lady of the Order of
the Starred Cross; died 16th December 1814, at Hovcic, buried at
Nibrow, near Planitz). He died 18th April 1784, leaving issue: —
(I). Joseph, third Count von Wallis of Biidwitz, who follows.
(II). Franz, born at Prague 28th May 1769; Captain in the
Michael von Wallis Regiment in 1789 ; married 25th
December 1791 Gabrielle, daughter of Count Desfours
(Lady of the Order of the Starred Cross), who married
secondly Josef Anton, Count Wratislaw, and died at
Prague 20th April 1840. He was killed at the battle
of Tournay, on 25th May 1794, and is buried there.
(I). Theresia Maximiliana, Chanoinesse of the Hraschin at
Prague; died there 20th January 1835.
Joseph, third Count von Wallis of Biidwitz ; born in Prague
31st August 1767 ; became a Landrath in 1789; Chamberlain 1790;
on 29th May 1795 he was made Counsellor of the Court of Appeal.
In 1797 he entered the Wallis Regiment as a volunteer. On 21st
August 1798 he was made au Aulic Counsellor by the Court of
Chancery. In October 1802 he became President of the Court of
Common Law for Bohemia, and on 5th May 1804 President of the
Court of Appeal. On 1st January 1805 he was appointed Governor
of Moravia and Silesia, and on 17th June Chief Burgrave of
Bohemia. He was also appointed President of the Government of
Bohemia and Privy Counsellor and Commander of the Order of
St. Stephen. On 24th July 1810 he was appointed Chancellor
of the Exchequer (Hofkammer President). He was also President
of the Board of Trade. Austria was then at the very lowest ebb,
and von Wallis' proposal to make a composition of fifty per eent.
caused considerable uproar. He resigned his post on 1th May
1813, and was appointed Minister of the Interior on 22nd May
1815; he received the Civil Gold Cross of Honor. On 30th October
1817 he was appointed President of the High Court of Justice,
On 7th December 1M7 he received the Order of the Golden Fleets,
The Emperor offered to raise him to the dignity of an Austrian
Prince, but he declined the honor. He had married, 11th September
82 AUSTRIAN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF WALSH.
1788, Maria. Ludoviea, daughter of Count Emmanuel Philibert von
Waldstein-Dux, by Maria Anna Teresia, daughter of Erhard, Prince
Liechtenstein (born 11th June 17G8 ; died 25th September 1826
at Vienna; buried at Biidwitz). He died 18th November 1817,
leaving issue : —
(I). Maximilian, fourth Count von Wallis of Biidwitz, of whom
hereafter.
(II). Michael, born in Vienna 2nd August 1790; Captain in
the Konig von Baiern Regiment ; Chamberlain to the
Emperor; died at Hiitteldorf 20th November 1819.
(III). Ludwig, born in Vienna 13th February 1794; married
Anna, daughter of Edlen von Bohr (born. 1802; died in
Vienna 29th February 1876), and died in Vienna June
1848, leaving issue: —
1. Joseph, born in Vienna 12th October 1820 ; Captain
3rd Uhlans.
2. Ludwig, born 29th November 1822 ; married at the
Stefanskirche, in Vienna, 21st June 1847, Wil-
helmine, daughter of Anton von Miinzberg, by
Josefme Miiller ; Major in the Don Miguel 39th
Regiment of Infantry ; died 20th October 1877
at Marburg in Styria.
1. Maximiliana, born 29th February 1824.
(I). Rosa, Lady of the Order of the Starred Cross ; born in
Vienna 8th October 1792 ; married in Vienna 15th July
1817 Franz Xaver, Count Dietrichstein-Proskau, and died
in Vienna 27th June 1844, buried at Biidwitz.
Maximilian, fourth Count von Wallis of Biidwitz ; Chamberlain to
the Emperor; born in Vienna 27th June 1789 ; married 4th July
1819 Maria, daughter of Johann Ernst, Count von Hoyos-
Sprinzenstein, by Maria Teresia, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm
Ludwig, Count von Schlabrendorf (she was born 22nd July 1800,
and died in Vienna 4th December 1882). He died 30th July 1864
at Budickowic, and was buried at Biidwitz. He had issue : —
(I). Josef, fifth Count von Wallis of Biidwitz, of whom hereafter.
(II). Ernst, born at Budickowic 21st May 1831 ; Lieutenant in
the Hardegg Cuirassiers; died in Vienna 30th September
1849.
(III). Maximilian Ileinrich, born in Vienna 15th November 1833 ;
married there 18th September I860 Anna Maria, daughter
of Wilhelm, Count von Hompesch-Bollheim, by Maria
Adolfme, daughter of Caspar Philip. Count Spiegel KU
Diesenburg (Lady of the Order of the Starred Cross ; horn
7th September 1839 ; died in Vienna 9fch January L899).
He died at Niederlois 18th November 1882, leaving issue:—
AUSTRIAN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF WALSH. 83
1. Ernst, sixth Count von Wallis of Biidwitz.
2. Josef Maria, seventh Count von Wallis of Biidwitz.
3. Maria, born at Niederleis 25th May 1869,
Chanoinesse of Briinn ; married at Vienna 30th
June 1893 R-udolf Altgraf zu Salm-Reifferscheid.
(I). Rose Maria Dyonisia, born 9th October 1828; married
9th December 1854 Major-General Count Bolerta-Kozie-
brodski (who died 5th February 1885), and died at
Podhajczyki-Justinowe 18th July 1899, leaving issue.
Josef, fifth Count von Wallis of Biidwitz, born at Budickowic
7th September 1822 ; Lieutenant-Colonel Birneburg Dragoons ; Cham-
berlain to the Emperor; died in Vienna 15th May 1883, being
succeeded by his nephew
Ernst, sixth Count von Wallis of Biidwitz, born 6th August
1861 at Biidwitz; Chamberlain to the Emperor; died at Budickowic
9th August 1897, being succeeded by his brother,
Josef Maria, seventh Count von Wallis of Biidwitz, born at
Vienna 9th February 1863 ; Knight of the Order of Malta ;
Chamberlain to the Emperor ; married in the Palazzo Mocenigo
at Venice, Amalie, daughter of Aloysius, Count Mocenigo, by
Clementine, daughter of Johann Baptist, Count zu Spaur und
Flavora.
III. Hungarian Branch.
Olivier Remigius, fifth son of the first Count von Wallis of
Biidwitz (see p. 80); born 1st October 1742; Feldmarshall Leutnant,
1744; Feldzeugmeister, 1791; proprietor of what is now the 29th
Regiment of Infantry; married 1795 Walpurga (born 11th June
1763 ; died 21st February 1840), daughter of Johann Marcell,
Baron von Hennett, by Walpurga Franziska, daughter of Franz
Matthaus Giinther von Sternegg, and died 19th July 1799, leaving
issue : —
(I). Michael Olivier, of whom hereafter.
(I). Walpurga, married Baron von Greifenklau.
Michael Olivier, Count von Wallis, born 27th December 1797 ;
Chamberlain to the Emperor ; married at Czakanv-Riesburgcr, Carnid it.
17th October 1829, Maria, daughter of Johann Nepomuk, Count
Batthyany de Nemeth Ujvar, by Maria Anna, daughter of Sigmund,
Baron von Gemmingen (she was born 1797, and died 1st April
1873). He died 14th March 1860 at Odenburg, leaving issue:—
(I) Olivier, born at Guns, in Hungary, 1821 ; Chamberlain to
the Emperor ; joined the Saxe Coburg Uhlans, No. 1 ;
Sub-Lieutenant, 1843-1848; Captain. 1851 ; Major in the
8th Uhlans, 1859 ; Lieutenant-Colonel 4th Cuirassu i s,
84 AUSTRIAN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF WALSH.
21st May 1860 ; Colonel 14 th Hussars, 1868 ; Major-
General, 1873; Feldmarshall-Leutnant ; Knight Grand
Cross of the Royal Saxon Order of " Albert with the
Sword " ; Knight of the Austrian Orders of Leopold and
of the Iron Crown ; Cross of Military Merit ; War
Decoration and Medal ; married at Setfcina, in Galicia,
27 August 1853, Sophie, daughter of Moritz Korwin von
Szymanowski, Lord of Lesno, by Anna von Zawiska (born
at Dresden 13 May 1825), and had issue: — r
1. Maria, heiress of Borek-Stary, etc., born at SeScina
31st December 1859 ; married 23rd April 1881
Adolf Moritz Tadeus, Baron von Brunicky, of
Lubien Wielki (born 4th May 1857), and has issue.
(II). Julius, born 2nd February 1827 ; Chamberlain to the
Emperor and Major; married 24th February 1852, at
Odenburg, in Hungary, Helene, daughter of Josef, Count
Somogyi von Medgyes, by Maria Crescentia Caroline,
daughter of Prince Bretzenheim von Regetz (Lady of
the Order of the Starred Cross; born 20th July 1830).
(I). Irene, born 9th September 1822 ; married 1843 Erhard,
Baron von Puteani, who died 9th September 1896.
(II). Jacqueline, born 15th December 1824; married 29th January
1845, Alfred, Count d'Orsay, who died 26th December
1882; secondly Major General Josef von Beryes, and died
in Vienna 19th March 1889.
(III) . Maria Philippine, born at Gossdang 16th November 1829 ;
married at Prague 1st May 1852, Helmutb, Baron von
Carnap-Barnheim, who was born at Barnheim 16th
February 1820, and died 13 May 1880.
(IV) . Juliette, born 1838; married 1st May 1856, Lieutenant-
Colonel Clot bar Schultz-Leitershofen.
IV. Younger Branch of Walsh op Carrickminks.
Robert, fourth son of Theobald Walsh of Carrickmines,1 married
Mary, daughter of Sieur de Carras, and had issue : —
(I). James, of whom hereafter.
(II). Theobald, married Mary, daughter of . . . Hore, of Kilsal-
chan, and had issue, Robert Walsh, of Bellecarrow, married
the daughter of James Irvine (of the Drum family),
and died s.p.
James Walsh, married Maria, daughter of . . . McDonough, and
had issue,
1 Soo vol. xvii, p. 218.
AUSTRIAN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF WALSH. 85
Philip Walsh, married Eleanor, daughter of . . . Talbot, of the house
of Malahide, and had issue : —
(I). Edward, who follows.
(II). Lucas, Captain in the Austrian Army, of whom hereafter.
(III). Philip.
Edward, created Baron von Wallis, married Brigit, daughter of
James Plunkett, Esq., and had issue : —
(I). Alexander, Captain in Count George Olivier von Wallis'
Regiment, 1733 ; Colonel, 19th March 1744; General-
Feldwachtmeister ; created Count of the Holy Roman
Empire, with his two brothers, 6th February 1767 ;
married Josefa, Baroness von Mitkowsky, and had issue,
Maria Ernestine, Lady of the Order of the Starred Cross,
who married Ferdinand, Count Troyer, Chamberlain to
the Emperor.
(II). Edward, Major in 35th Regiment (that of Count Patrick von
Wallis), mortally wounded at the battle of Steinhausen ;
died 26th November 1796.
(III) . Philip, was Captain in the Baden Regiment, and one of
the hostages for the peace of Belgrade.
(IV) . Olivier.
Lucas von Wallis, second son of Philip Walsh (see above), born
1684; died in Dublin 1726 ; Captain in the Imperial Army; had
issue : —
(I). Philip, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, 6th February
1767.
(II). Patricius Oliver, of whom hereafter.
(III). Robert, Colonel of the Colloredo Regiment ; created Count
of the Holy Roman Empire 6th February 1767.
Patricius Oliver von Wallis, whose life is told in the " Geschichte
des Maria Teresiens Ordens ;" born in Dublin 1723; was Captain in
the 22nd Regiment at the commencement of the Seven Years' War.
Was made a Major on the field of battle at Prague, and was
wounded at Landshut 23rd June 1760. Received the Cross of the
Order of Maria Theresa on account of the capture of Sohweidnitl
(1st October 1761), which was mainly his work ; lie was made a
Major-Goneral in 1771 ; also Inspector of Infantry in Bohemia, whilst
in 1774 he became the Colonel Proprietor of the 35th Regiment
In 1775 he was made Privy Councillor and Imperial Commissioner
for Bohemia. In 1778 he became a FeldmarschaU Leutenant. lie
died at Prague on 14th November 1787.
86 AUSTRIAN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF WALSH.
V. The Spanish Branch.
Chevalier Patrick Mark Walsh1 married at the Church of St.
Martin at Morlaix 22nd November 1728, Mary Anne, daughter of
Mark Cranisborough of Taule and Morlaix ; he died at Rue de
Gorge, Nantes, 19th, and was buried in the churchyard there
20th December 1790.
His eldest son, Don Philip Richard Walsh, was born at Morlaix
13th March 1732 ; married at Cadiz, 17th March 1765, Maria
Luisa, daughter of Don Guillermo Malone, of Cadiz, by his first
wife, Donna Elena Woodlock. He was Danish Consul at Cadiz
from 1754, and died in Cadiz 2nd January 1790, leaving issue: —
(I). Don Jose Guillermo Walsh, born' and baptised at Cadiz
12th April 17G6 ; entered the Spanish Navy in 1779,
and rose to the rank of Captain ; died at Trebujena
14th October 1830.
(II). Don Roberto Walsh, born October 1767.
(III). Don Guillermo Jose Bernardino Walsh, who follows,
Don Guillermo Jose Bernardino Walsh, born and baptised in
Cadiz 7th May 1770 ; married at Puerto Santa Maria, 23rd July
1797, Inez, daughter of Don Toma Lynch, of Cadiz (son of Patrick
Lynch, of Lydicane, County Galway), by Maria del Carmen, daughter
of Don Martin Vaughan of Cadiz (she was born 6th October 1774
at 'Puerto Santa Maria, and died there 16th October 1837). He
died at Puerto Santa Maria 6th November 1819, leaving issue : —
(I). Don Jacobo Rosa Patricio Toma Guillermo Cecilia Maria
de los Dolores Walsh, born at Puerto Santa Maria 22nd,
baptised 24th November 1798 ; married 31st January
1836, at Seville, Donna Dolores Pereira y Armyaga ;
Captain in the Spanish Artillery ; died at Seville
10th September 1854, s.p.
(II). Don Guillermo Walsh, born 28th May 1800 at Jerez
della Frontera ; served in the Cuirassiers of the Royal
Guard, retired with the rank of Colonel ; Knight of the
Orders of Saint Ferdinand and Saint Hermenegilde ;
died, without issue, at Puerto Santa Maria 22nd, buried
there 23rd December 1859.
(I). Donna Maria Luisa Carlotta Josefa Rafaella. born 5th,
baptised 6th November 1802, in the Church of St. John
of Lateran, at Jerez della Frontera ; married at Puerto
Santa Maria, 2nd August 1834, Charles Sutton Campbell,
British Vice-Consul at Puerto Santa Maria, son of
Charles Campbell, Esq., Governor of the Hank of England,
by Frances Domenichetti, daughter of Daniel Sutton,
1 Soo vol. xvii, N.S., p. 39.
AUSTRIAN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF WALSH.
87
Esq.,. of Sutton House. He died in London 21st February
1885 ; buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. She died at
Puerto Santa Maria 30th July 1843, leaving issue: —
1. Charles Louis Campbell, born 19th August 1835 ;
married Mary Ann, daughter of John Nunn,
Esq., and died 3rd February 1899, at Horndean,
Hants ; buried at Eastneye Cemetery, near
Southsea, leaving issue : —
1 Charles Sutton Hastings Campbell, born
at Croydon 17th January 1865 ; married
at San Salvador 10th August 1890,
Alice, daughter of John Carrigan, of
Galway, and died at San Salvador 1893,
having had issue : —
Charles Luis Raffael Campbell, born
10th December 1891 at San Salva-
dor; died there 22nd June 1892.
2. John Alexander Langford Campbell, born
22nd August 1867, at Sutton ; Surgeon,
R.N. ; M.D. (avec distinction), Brussels,
1893;M.R.C.S.;L.R.C.P. London, 1892.
1. Maria Louisa Edith Campbell, born at
Puerto Santa Maria 30th May 1860.
2. Ysabel Wilhelmina Adelaide Campbell,
born at Hampstead 12th April 1862.
2. John Campbell, born 28th September 1839 at
Edmonton, Middlesex ; died unmarried 11th
September 1866 at Sydney, New South Wales ;
buried at Cobbitz, near Sydney.
3. Lewis Alexander Campbell, bom 30th July
1843 at Puerto Santa Maria; married 18th
November 1869 at Christ Church, Lancaster
Gate, London, Rosario, daughter of Don Demetrio
Duarte, by Donna Rosario Perez y Lozano, and
died in London, 29th December 1896, leaving
issue : —
1. Lewis Edward Campbell, born 21st
January 1873; died 13th July 1873.
2. Alexander Victor Campbell, born 27th
September 1874.
3. Noel Dawson Henry Campbell, born 5th
December 1877.
1 Rose Isabel, born 19th September 1870 j
married 18th June 1898 Ernest
Augustus Taylor, K.N., son of Lieut.*
Colonel Taylor, R.A., of Red House,
Wrenthani, Suffolk.
88
AUSTRIAN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF WALSH.
1. Frances "Wilhelmina, born at Puerto Santa Maria
19th June 1838; married 4th May 1865 at
Christ Church, Lee Park, Colonel George B-obert
Stewart Black, 60th Rifles, and has issue.
2. Elizabeth Louisa.
(II). Donna Maria Joaquina Josef a -Rafaela Antonina, born at
Puerto Santa Maria 10th May 1806 ; married at Trebujena
17th May 1841 Don Jose Alvarez, of Trebujena (born at
Trebujena 9th May 1815, son of Don Jose Alvarez y
Mascle, of Puerto Santa Maria, by Donna J uana Varela y
Charril of Trebujena, and died at Puerto Santa Maria
13th June 1895). She died at Trebujena 6th September
1881, leaving issue: —
1. Don Guillermo Alvarez y Walsh, born at Trebujena
11th November 1843; married at Cadiz 12th
November 1865 Maria de la Concepcion, daughter
of Don Jose Garcia by Donna Asuncion Garcia,
of Cadiz, and has issue : —
h Jose, born at Puerto Santa Maria 17th
February 1873.
2. Guillermo, born at Puerto Santa Maria
2nd September 1878.
1. Maria de los Milagros, born at Cadiz
2nd October 1866.
2. Maria Luisa, born at Puerto Santa Maria
19th August 1868 ; died 6th September
1898.
3. Victoria, born at Puerto Santa Maria
17th February 1871.
4. Maria de la Concepcion, born at Puerto
Santa Maria 2nd July 1875.
5. Elena, born at Puerto Santa Maria
13th June 1881.
Addenda.
Antoine Jean Baptists Paulin, second " Earl "Walsh " (sw vol. xvii,
p. 41), died and was buried at the Catholic. Cemetery, Kingston,
Jamaica, 26th April 1798.
Franqoia Etienne Walsh (see vol. xvii, p. 43) married at Nantes
17th February 1813, Julie Adelaide (born 28th January 1793 at
Ecueilles, Seine et Marne), daughter of Francois Hippolyte d'Achon.
89
THE KIRKSTEAD CHARTULARY.1
De Tateshale.
As founders of Kirkstead Abbey, I owe an apology to the Barons
of Tateshale for postponing them to lesser benefactors, the Bening-
worths and Deyncourts. The first of this house, Eudo son of
Spirewic, Spirvic, or Spiruwin, was Domesday tenant of important
fiefs in the counties of Lincoln, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Probably he
was a Breton ; indeed his name, the arms borne by his descendants,
and the extent of his holding, suggest that he may have been
allied to the Counts of Bretagne, Earls of Richmond in England,
who also held large estates in Lincolnshire. To illustrate his father's
name, we find here a Spurewi de Stretun.2 Tateshale itself, as a
place name, seems to have superseded the Torp of Domesday.3
In the chartulary, as in that record, it is almost ignored. As
a family name, we meet with it first in the third generation ; but
it is scarcely established until the thirteenth century.
Hugh son of Eudo — for so he appears throughout in the
chartulary, though the Monasticon calls him Hugh Brito4 —
succeeded his father before 1115, and founded the Abbey, it is
said, in 1139. He is thus another instance of a Domesday tenant's
son surviving at that date. The charter of foundation is witnessed
by Bishop Alexander, and confirmed by King Stephen,5 but not dated.
Mr. Eyton calls Hugh a favourite of Henry I. He had certainly
six sons; Sir Robert, his heir, William, a second Sir William,
surnamed de Denton, Roger, Walter and Andrew. Besides these,
a contemporary Richerus filius Hugonis, elsewhere called Richerus
de Kirkebi, under-tenant of Sir Walter and of Sir William de
Denton, makes a grant to the Abbey, with his body to be buried,
and for the souls of Sir Robert son of Hugh, Sir Walter son
of Hugh, and Sir William my lord of Denton. He was, perhaps,
a natural son of the founder.0
Sir Robert son of Hugh had five sons, viz., Sir Philip, his
heir, Robert, Roger, John, and Walter. Elizabeth, his widow,
was in the King's gift in 1184-5, so he was then dead. She is
described as neptis of Earl Gilbert (de Gant), and of the age of
fifty.7 Probably she was not identical with the Isabella of the
chartulary, though the names are sometimes interchanged ; for
1 Cotton MS. Vespasian, E xviii.
* Stratton 8.
3 See Mr. Eyton's note, Additional MS. 31,030. Other notes by him
»po« this family are to bo found ii> Additional MSS. 31,929 and 31,988.
* Ranulph Brito occurs, Sepewas and Branzton 25; Alexander Brito lis;
SneUealund 33 • Robert Brito, Porgie 2, G, 7, 8, 13, 14, 40. 41 ; Ruald Brit*,
Dunham 21. Also le Bret, or le Breton, Dunham 04; Sorawg DOMun,
3 Abhatia 1, 25.
* Moletidina 35; compare ibid., 25, 2S, 32, 47, Was he identical with
Kn hrrus IMncerua, Repewas and Bran/tun 33 38?
' Rotulua do Dominabus; Ancient Deeds (Rolls Series) A, 1446. The last
Riveg her futher's name.
a
90
THE KIRK STEAD CHARTULARY.
land given with her in frank marriage seems to have descended
to Walter, a younger son; and if the age above assigned to her
is correct, she was, no doubt, much younger than her husband.
Sir Philip, who succeeded, was living in the spring of 1198,1 but
died shortly after. Mr. Eyton assigns to him two wives, Elizabeth
and Alice. The latter occurs in 1207, as the wife of one Ralph
de Trublevill, if we may trust the Abbreviatio Placitorum.'1 In
the record the husband's name is hardly decipherable now.
Eudo son of Spirewic, or^p. . . .
Spiruwin. Domesday tenant
of Torp, etc.
Hugh son of Eudo,(5) 1115 ;=j=.
founder of Kirkstead Abbey,
1139.
Isabella.~Sir Robert (-)=Elizabeth,
son of Hugh
de Tafsale,
temp. Hen. II.
dau. of
William,
son of Wal-
ter [de
Welle].
— -I — i — i
William son
of Hugh.(3)
SirWilliam(4)
de Denton.
Roger (3) son
of Hugh.
SirWal-=
ter(6)
son of
Hugh.
Andrew (")
son of
Hugh.
Sir f Philip (8)
son of Robert,
or de Tates-
hale ; occ.
1187, 1198.
' r 1 r n
Robert de(9) Roger.(lP) Walter Q-)
Tateshale, — son of
survived his John.(1') Robert de
brother. Tateshale.
Walter son of Wal-
ter son of Hugh ( 1 5) .
or Walter son of
Walter de Tates-
hale.
Robert son of Waltcr(13) de Tateshale, 1240 ; apparently^ Alice. John.(M)
heir to Elizabeth, his grandmother.
(') Abbatia 1, 25; Strattou 1, 2, 5, 6. ('-) Abbatia 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Gayton
12; Scampton 3; Molendina 17, 35; Stratton 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. Isabella, his
wife, Abbatia 2, 8. He died before 1185, Rot. de Dominabus, Abbatia G ;
Scampton 3; Stratton 7. (4) Abbatia 2, G, 8; Molendina 25, 35; Stratum 7.
In the last both Williams are named together:. Will'o til' Hug' & altro W.
de Dentun fr'ibz m'is. (') Abbatia 2, 8; Scampton 3; Molendina 32.
(6) Abbatia 5; Molendina 18, 32-, 35; Stratton 1. (7) Abbatia 5; Stratton 1.
(8) Abbatia 2, 19 ; Ulseby 25 ; Gavton 00 ; Snelleslund 33, 41 ; Molendina 36 :
ScraingGO. (y) Abbatia 2, 19. ( ■«) Abbatia 2. (») Abbatia 9, 88 (?) ; Scamp-
ton 3 ; Molendina 17. Abbatia 19. ('•') Abbatia 27, 28, 30; Carte RefcC-
torii 48; see f. 216 (?). His wife, Abbatia 27; Carte Kef. 48. (,4) Abbatia
27; Molendina 78, 79, 81, 83, 84, 85. SG, 87, 88, 89, 91. 92, 93, 94, 96, 96. v "
Abbatia 2; Molendina 32, 53, 54 ; see f. 216 (?).
1 Easter Term, 9 Ric, Abbreviatio Placitorum, p. 20.
2 p. 57. Rot. Curia Regis, No. 45, in. 1, (9 John, Mich.) It may be well
to print exactly what can still be read: —
.... [rcc'] qls aduoc' t'p'e pac* prsent' ult' p' q' mort' est ad capita*)
s'c'i Egidii de topecroft q' &C1 0" adu Trublcuill A alic' u\' sua clam'
ad se p'tinre urs5 .1. arch'd* wigorn' & MagVm Mich' .lie' q'd [J***1] . .
[i/«t/'] prsent' ult' p'sona' s' R'n'd'e'm de Hodi'gha' A pM'e's Rob' WlU*
hnbuit no'i'e phiT (['.... Alic' & . . . . <<i topeoroft i' dote' ad q* p'tm' I
capelle p'd'oe. Jud'm. H'ant seia' sua'.
THE KIRKSTEAD CHARTULARY.
91
With Sir Philip's death the difficulties of the pedigree begin.
According to Dugdale, Robert, who succeeded, was his son and
heir. We find here, however, a charter1 of R,obert son of Robert
de Tateshale, granting 10s. a year, payable by Roger son of
Walter le Neucumcn, and his heirs, for lands in Boston, "for
the health of my soul and for the soul of Sir Philip my brother,
... to keep the anniversary of Sir Philip my brother on St.
Nicholas' day." We know, from another source, that Robert
survived his brother2 ; and this charter suggested to my mind a
doubt whether he was not the heir. The Rev. W. O. Massingberd
tells me that, on seeing it, the same idea occurred to him. The Fine
Roll, unfortunately, leaves the question open. All the subsequent
Barons, until the failure of the male line, were named Robert ;
and my present purpose being merely to summarise the evidence
contained in a single record, I content myself with giving references
to the charters in which they occur, and leave to those whose know-
ledge of Lincolnshire history is more extensive than mine, the
complicated task of distinguishing one from the other.
Robert de Tateshale occurs (without date) Anehaw 33, Molendina
54, Stratton 44, Carte Refectorii 41. Sir Robert, Ulseby 81,
Scraing 78: also at these dates — 1246, Molendina 75; 1250,
Abbatia 3S, 40 (see f. 12) ; 1270, see f. 228 ; 1286, frovae Con-
firrnationes 38 (f. 225); 20 Edward I, ibid., 69 (f. 228); 1299 (with
Robert his son and heir), ibid., 52 (f. 221); 1302, ibid., 86 (f. 224).
Robert de Tateshal le quarte, ibid., 53, 54 (ff. 221, 222). Then
there are — Thomas de Tatessale, Sepewas and Branzton, 53; Geoffrey
de Tat1 sale, Forgie 7 ; Sir Howe de Tateshal, Nova? Conf. 53
(f. 221); Robert son of Ralph de Tatessale, Abbatia 39; John
son of Master William de Tateshal, Novob Conf. 60 (f. 222),
whom I cannot place in the pedigree. A Henry son of Gille,
occurs, Molendina 69 ; Walter son of Gille, ibid., 92, 93. Walter
son of Henry son of Gille de Tatrsal (ibid., 78, 79, 85), was,
no doubt, son of the former, and probably identical with Walter
son of Henry de Tatessale, Abbatia 38.
The following are in all probability to be regarded rather as
neighbours than as, kinsfolk of the Barons — Nicholas de Tatessale,
also called Nicholas juxta aquam de Tatessale, and, perhaps,
Nicholas Piscator de That'sale (Norse Conf. 60, Carte Refect. 32),
Symon, his son (Abbatia 37, Molendina 92, 93), and Roger
•son of Symon (Novaj Conf. 56, f. 222) ; Geoffrey Jugan (or
InganT) de Tattesale (Abbatia 3, 6, 31, Molendina" 81, 83, 85,
87, 88, 89, 94, 95); Alan, his son (Abbatia 6); Geoffrey
juxta aquam de Tatessale, perhaps the same person (ibid., 92,
93); Roger Fildyndg of Tateshale (Abbatia 41); William le oilier
de Tatessale, or de thorp (ibid., 27, 44); John Tanner, of Tatrsale,
who married Matilda, daughter of Mareelinus de Coningsbv, and
h William Thanur (Molendina 78, 79) ; Geoffrey, chaplain of Tate-
1 Abbatia 10.
J Living 1 John; see Hardy, Hot. de Oblat. et Fin., p. 10, what* ho is
rm?UtU)!H»d aa grantee of Itoger, his uncle.
92
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
shale, is found Abbatia 4, 7, 8, 9 ; Warin, chaplain of Tafsale,
Molendina 2 ; John, parson of Tateshale, ibid., GO, Stratton -4-1 ;
Henry, clerk of Tateshal, Molendina 80, 82 ; Ralph, presbyter of
Tafshal, Stratton 1 ; and Walter clerk of Tateshal, Novae Cuiif.,
55 (f. 222).
A family named de Ginney, in Norfolk, are said to have borne
arms resembling those of Tateshale ; and several persons of this
name are found in the chartulary. Robert son of William de
Ginney is witness to a charter of Hugh son of Eudo ; Walter
de Ginnei to one of Walter son of Hugh, and Hugh de Ginnei
to one of Walter son of Walter de Tateshale. Among the witnesses
to Huntingfield Charters will be found Gervasius and Fulco de
Ginuiaco, and Ingeran de Ginnai.1
W. H. B. B.
$ct)igrfcs from tf}c plea Bolls.
By Major-General the Hon. GEORGE WROTTESLEY.
(Continued from p. 35).
De Banco. Trinity. 17. Hen. 6. m. 119.
Derb. — Ralph Pole sued Thomas Holand, the Prior of Bredsalpark,
for the next presentation to a moiety of the church of Mogynton,
and he stated that Elizabeth Chandos was formerly seised of the
manor of Rodburne, to which the advowson was appurtenant, and
he gave this descent from her : —
i
Elizabeth Chandos,
ob. s.p.
De Banco. Trinity. 17. Hen. G. m. 324.
Cornwall. — William Bonevyle, Kt., sued Thomas Cannvnowe, of
Asehewater, co. Devon, armiger, and Joan, late wife of Walter
Carmynowe, of Belly, oo. Devon, widow, for taking and abducting
from Belly, Annora, daughter and heir of John Trevavnon, who
was under age and whose marriage belonged to him.
1 Stratton 2; Mole&diaa 32, 52 j Soraimr 6, and f. 190,
Alianora.
I
Elizabeth.=rPeter de la Pule.
I
r J
Ralph Pole, the plaintiff.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
93
Robert Trevaynon, of Trevaynon, held Trevaynon
of Ralph de Caryhays for the service of a Knight's
fee aud a p;dr of gloves annually.
I
r J
John.=f=Joan.=Walter Carminowe, 2nd husband.
I
l J
Annora, who was in ward to Joan de Caryhays, the daughter
and heir of Ralph de Caryhays.
Joan de Caryhays had granted the custody of Annora to the
plaintiff on the 7th Nov. 17 H. 6, and he had held the custody till
the 12th Dec. following, when the defendants had abducted the
ward, and for which he claimed £500 as damages.
The defendants denied that the manor was held of .Joan, the
daughter of Ralph Petyt (sic), of Caryhays, and stated that Joan
was not the mother of Annora Thomas Carmynowe, the other
defendant, is stated in the pleadings to be brother of Walter Carmy-
nowe.
De Banco. Trinity. 17. Hen. 6. m. 535.
Somerset. — William Wadham sued Thomas Beauchamp, of Wyght-
lakynton, Kt., and two others named, for depasturing cattle on his
grass at South Bradene. The defendant produced a deed dated
21 E. 1, by which John de Bradene had given to Adam, his son,
free pasturage in South Bradene, and another deed dated 29 E 1,
by which Adam, son of John de Bradene, had granted to John
Silveyn and Matilda, his wife, right of pasturage in the same
place, ' and from them he gave this descent : —
John Silveyn, seised=pMatilda.
temp. E. 1. |
r J
John.
I
Roger.
Alianora, d. and Ik, married Thomas Beauchamp,
Kt., the defendant.
De Banco. Trinity. 17. Hen. 6. m. 554.
Surrey. — John Gyffard and Robert fitz Elys sued John Fray and
three others named, for a carucate of land in Croydon.
Walter Whithors, aeised=plsabella.
temp. E. 3.
i i ■ 1
Ralph, Mary. Amice.
Ob. 8 p. | |
John Gyffard, John,
the plaintiff. |
Robert &tl F.iys.
plaintiff.
94
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
Walter Whithors was a " valettus " in the household of Edward III.
and was with the King at the siege of Calais. See a grant made
to him by the King in " Greey and Calais," by the present writer.
De Banco. Hillary. 18. Hen. 6. m. 323.
Lincoln. — William Haryngton, Kt., sued Henry, the Earl of
Northumberland, and two others, for the next presentation to the
church of Staynton Wadyngham.
Henry de Percy, Earl of Northumberland, held the advowson
in right of his wife Matilda, and presented to the church temp.
Ric. 2, and died s.p., and from Matilda the right descended as
shewn below : —
Margaret.
Matilda.™
Henry
de Percy,
Earl ef
Northum-
berland
Joan.
I
John.
I
Walter.
I
Walter fitz Walter.
I
Walter fitz Walter.
1
Elizabeth.
I
John.
I
Robert de Haryngton.
John,
ob. s.p.
William Haryng-
ton, Kt., the
plaintiff.
De Banco. Hillary. IS. Hen. 6. m. 333 dorso.
Bucks. — John de Lough ton sued Isabella Barton for the manor
of Thornton and sixty acres of wood in Westbury, which Hugh,
son of Richard de Chastilon, had given to Roes, formerly wife
of the said Richard, and to the heirs of her body, and from whom
he gave this descent : —
Roes, seised temp. E. 1.
Malcolm.
I
John.
I
John,
ob. s.p.
1
Elizabeth.
I
Thomas.
I
John.
John de Loughton,
the plaintiff.
Isabella called to warranty John Somerton. See suit of Trinity
term 15 H. G, ante, pp. 26, 27.
De Banco. T'rinity. 18. Hen. 6. m. 133 dorso.
Devon. — Robert Burton and Elizabeth, his wife, sued Thomas
Beaumont, Kt., for a messuage and jive caruoatea of land in
Parkham, which Henry de Kalegli hud given to Baldwin tie
Belstone and Anne, his wife, and the heirs of (heir bodies.
PEDIGREES FKOM THE PLEA ROLLS.
95
Baldwiu de Belstone,=r Anne,
seised temp. E. 2. j
Nicholaa.
I
Joan.
Elizabeth, the plaintiff.
After many adjournments a verdict was eventually given for
he defendant.
De Banco. Trinity. 18. Hen. 6. m. 506.
Bucks. — William Launcelyn sued Isabella Barton for the manor of
Thornton, etc., as . above, and gave the same descent as in the
suit of Trinity term 15 H. 6, printed at pp. 26, 27. Isabella
appeared and pleaded that the Margaret named in the pedigree
was illegitimate.
De Banco. Hillary. 18. Hen. 6. m. 336.
Northumberland. — John Griffith, Kt., sued Roger Thorneton for
the manors of Witton, Wyngates and Scheles, and a moiety of the
manors of Stanyngton, Benasses, Tranwell, Benton and Killing-
worth, which Isabella, formerly wife of Robert de Somervyle, had
given to Roger de Somervyle and the heirs of his body, from
whom he gave this descent : —
Roger de Somervyle,
seised temp. E. 1.
I
Philip.
Joan.
I
Ros.
I
Thomas.
I '
John Griffith, Kt.,
the plaintiff.
The " Ros " of the pedigree should be Rees, the grandfather
of the plaintiff having been Sir Rees ap Griffith. See suits in
the Staffordshire Collections relating to the manor of Widmor, CO,
Stafford.
De Banco. Trinity. 18. Hen. 8. m. 325 dorso.
Staff. — Roger Draycote sued Richard Vernon, Kt., and seven others,
for hind in Lyes (Leigh), which Richard Draycote, Kt., had given
to Philip de Draycote and Joan, his wife, and the heirs of their
bodies.
96 PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
Philip de Draycote,=r Joan,
seised temp. E. 1. j
r J
John.
I
John.
I
John.
I
Roger Draycote,
the plaintiff.
The defendants admitted the claim of the plaintiff.
De Banco. Trinity. 18. Hen. 6. m. 312.
Kent. — John Luttur sued John Fray and others for the third part
of the manor of Mores ton, which, with the other two parts,
Stephen de Moreston had given to Bartholomew de Moreston and
the heirs of his body.
Bartholomew do Moreston,
seised temp. E. 1.
John,
ob. s.p.
Bartholomew.
I
Bartholomew,
ob. s.p.
Stephen,
ob. s.p.
Isabella.
Agnes.
1
Lucy.
Richard,
ob. s.p.
John Luttur,
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Trinity. 18. lien. 6. m. 337 dorso.
Kent. — "William Sonde and Elizabeth, his wife, William Wat ton
and Benedicta, his wife, and Richard Leukenore and Alianora,
his wife, sued John Ruton, clerk, and two others, for a moiety
of the manor of Declyng and lands in Falgrave and Stapilherst.
John de Declyngrr Joan,
seised temp. E. 3. |
. r J
Benedicta,
d. and heir.
I
Thomas.
I
Elizabeth, Benedicta, Alianova,
plaintiff. plaintiff. plaintiff.
The defendants claimed under a grant of Benedicta, the daughter
and heir of John de Declvng, under the name of Benedicta, late
wife of Stephen Betynham, dated 1 H. 6, conveying to them the
whole manor of Thrulegh and other lauds and tenements, but
the jury found for the plaintiffs.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS. 97
De Banco. Trinity. 18. Hen. 6. m. 414 dor so.
Ebor. — John Manstone and Elizabeth, his wife, sued John Benyngton,
clerk, and two others, for two parts of the manor of Thornton-on-
the-Hill and four mills in Baxby and Wanles.
Thoraas Darell, seised=pEmma.
temp. E. 3.
r 1
William.
I
Richard.
|
Elizabeth, the plaintiff.
The defendants acknowledged the claim of Elizabeth.
De Banco. Trinity. 18. Hen. 6. m. 503 dorso.
Bucks. — John Anstey and Joan, his wife, and John Gyhon and
Margaret, his wife, sued Walter Hungerford, Kt., and ten others
named, for the manor of Clyfton Keynes.
Thomas Rcyncs,=pJoan.
seised temp. E. 3. j
r J
John.
J ,
i r
Walter, Margery. Cecily,
ob. s.p.
Margaret.= Joan.=
John Gybon, John Anstey,
plaintiffs. plaintiffs.
The defendants admitted the claim.
De Banco. Hillary. 19. Hen. 6. m. 120.
Dorset. — John Neuburgh sued John Hody and six others named,
for execution of a Fine levied in 4 E. '3 and recorded in 5 E. 3,
by which the manor of Sutton Poynts (which Roger de Chaundos
and Matilda, his wife, held as dower of Matilda), was settled on
Hugh. Poynts for his life, with remainder to Nicholas, his son,
and with other remainders over.
Hugh Poynts, seised
temp. E. 3.
■+-
— — i 1
Nicholas. Hugh. Walter. Henry. Thomas.
I
Margaret.
John Neuburgh
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Hillary. 10. Hen. 6. m. 13G
Cumberland. — An assize to return a verdict whether Alianora Roos,
Hugh Louther, the Sheriff of co. Cumberland, and John 5kelt0H|
Anniger, had unjustly disseised James Keloni and Katrine, his
wife, of a moiety of the manors of High Jreby and EmKhon and
98
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
other lands and tenements specified. The pleadings state that in
8 H. 4, John de Skelton and Alice, his wife, had levied a Fine
by which the manors, lands and tenements in question, had
been settled on John de Skelton and Alice, his wife, and the heirs
of their bodies, and from them the descent was as follows : —
John de Skelton.— Alice.
I-
i 1
Joan.
I
AJianora Roos.
The plaintiffs stated that long before the date of the above Fine,
one John de Kirkeby had given the manors, lands and tenements
to Thomas de Ireby and Agnes, his wife, from whom they gave this
descent : —
Thomas de Ireby, = Agnes,
seised temp. E. 2. j
r J
William, seised in 22 E. 3.
Thomas, John,
ob. s.p.
Alice.^John de Skelton.
Katrine. = Joan.
James de Kelom,
the plaintiffs. Alianora.
the defendant.
Notts. -
Bishop
manors o
De Banco. Hillary. 19. Hen. 6. m. 137.
Henry Pierpount, Kt., sued J., Archbishop of York, W
pedigree
of Lincoln, Thomas Cha worth, Kt., and others, for the
' Gonaldestone and AVydmerpole. The pleadings give this
John de Heritz, seised
of the manors IS E. 2.
I
r J
Matilda.=pJohn de la Ryvere, Kt.
Margaret ,=p Roger Beler,
the elder, j son of Roger
I Beler.
r J
Hargaret.=r Roger de Swilling
ton, Kt.
Margaret,=Thomas Beler,
the younger, son of Roger
Beler, ob. s.p.
Sara.
1
Henry.
Edmund.
1
Edmund.
Sara.
Henry Fier-
Walter
pount. Kt..
• Garlek.
the plaintiff.
Roger de Swillington, Kt.
r J
Margaret.—
John Gra,
ob. s.p.
PEDIGREES PROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
99
The defendants held the status of Walter Garlek, the right heir
of John de Heritz. and a verdict had been given in their favour,
from which Sir Henry Pierpount had appealed.
De Banco. Trinity. 19. Hen. 6. m. 316.
Kent. — John Bolde, clerk, sued the Prior of Ledes and others named,
for breaking into his close at Sutton Valence. The pleadings give
this pedigree : —
i ■
John de Hastynges, Earl of
Pembroke, seised of the
premises temp. E. 3.
John,=Philippa.— Richard, Earl of
ob. s.p. Arundel, second
husband, seised
20 Ric. 2.
1
Elizabeth.
I
Reginald.
r ■
Reginald de Grey,
seised 15 Ric. 2.
De Banco. Trinity. 19. Hen. 6. m. 325.
Northampton. — Elizabeth Dymmok and Thomas Darcy and Grace,
his wife, sued William Daundelyn and Mary, his wife, for the
execution of a Fine levied in 10 E. 2, by Robert de Pynkeney, of
Barton Comitis, respecting the manor of Barton Comitis, by which
the manor had been settled on Robert and Isabella his wife, and
the heirs of their bodies, and failing such, on Margaret, the
daughter of Robert, son of Henry de Pynkeney, and the heirs of her
body, and failing such, on Ralph, son of Ralph de Ry, and the heirs
of his body, and failing such, on the right heirs of Ralph, son of
Ralph, for ever. The pleadings give these descents : —
Philip.
1
John.
Robert.
Nicholas.
Robert.
I
John.
Edmund.
I
Beatrice.
I
Katrine.
Ralph.
Ralph de Ry.
Elizabeth Dymmok.
Grace. =
Thomas Darcy.
De Banco. Trinity. 19. Hen. G. m. 337.
Essex. — Thomas Knyvet, Armigor, sued John Poreward, Armiucr,
for the manor of Stanwey, which John de Burgh, son of Hubert
do Burgh, Earl of Kent, had given to Thomas de Belhous and
Florea, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies.
100
PEDIGREES PROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
Thomas de Belhous,=pFlorea.
seised temp. H. 3.
i
John.
I
John.
John,
ob. s.p.
Thomas.
I
Joan,
ob. s.p.
Isolda.
Joan .=f Robert Knyvet.
I
Thomas Knyvet, the
plaintiff.
De Banco. Hillary. 20. Hen. 6. m. 314.
Southampton. — Alan Sutton sued William Godal for an illegal
distraint at Craneburne. The pleadings give this descent : —
Hugh de Braybuf, Kt., seised=p Joan,
of the manor of Cranburne
in 11 E. 2.
William.
1
Hugh.
Joan.
I
Elizabeth.
Egidia.— Thomas Tane.
De Banco. Hillary. 20. Hen. 6. m. 478.
Surrey. — John Weston and Agnes Basset sued John Janyn for the
manor of Pollestede, which William de Wynteiyshulle had given
to Walter, his son, and the heirs of his body.
Walter de Wynteryshulle,
seised temp. E. 3.
Thomas.
William,
ob. s.p.
1
Thomas.
I
Thomas.
Joan.
John Weston.
Agnes
Bftuet
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
101
See the suit of Mich. 3 H. 6 (vol. xvii, pp. 24; ■ 25), where the
pedigree varies from the above.
Be Banco. Trinity. 20. Hen. 6". m. 413.
Northampton. — Thomas Egle, Citizen and Skinner (Pelliparius) of
London, and Joan, his wife, sued Humfrey, Earl of Stafford, and
eleven others named, tenants of the manor of Colyn Weston, for
the manor of Colyn Weston and the advowson of the .church,
and stated that Nicholas Weston, Kt., had granted the manor to
Elias Hanvyle and Anne, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies,
from whom they gave this descent : —
Elias Hanvyle, seised y-Anne.
temp. E. 1.
William.
I
Pauline.
I.
Lettice.
I
Alice.
I
Thomas,
ob. s.p.
Verdict for the defendants.
Joan, sister and heir,
the plaintill'.
He Banco. Hillary'. 21. Hen. 6. m. 118.
Oxon. — William Lovell and Elizabeth, his wife, John Gayge and
Alianora, his wife, and Richard Harcourt and Edith, his wife,
sued William Cheyne, Kt., and two others, for the manor of Chalde-
grave,- which they claimed as coheirs of Philip Sentcler (St. Clair),
Kt., and Margaret, his wife, from whom they gave this descent : —
Philip Senteler.^f Margaret.
. I
Thomas.
Elizabeth.— Alianora. "=
William Lovell. John Gayge.
The defendants admitted the claim.
Edith .=
Richard Harcourt.
De Banco. Jfich. 22. Hen. 6. m. 121.
Southampton John Brcmshet sued William Fawkener and two
others, for the manor of Cheshulle, in the fsle of Wight, claiming
under a Fine levied
E. 3. by which the manor had been
settled on John, son of John del Isle, of (Jateeombe, and his heirs.
102
PEJjIOREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
John, son of John del I*le. of
Gatecotobe, seued 23 E. 3.
Elizabeth.
Wflliaixi.
John Bremshet,
the plaintiff.
2>« Banco. Mich. 22. /Ten. 6. r/i. 306.
Derby. — Reginald de Orey. of V.*; >./•:.. . ;ed Margaret, late wife of
Richard de Grey, Kt., for the manor of Shirlond aud lands and
rents in Esshovere and other places.
Reginald de Grev, Kt =WatIMa.
Henry.
Richard.
!
R^jr.r. Grev.
the plaintiff.
On Mem. 40 S of the same Ro'L RerinaM de Grev -jei the
same defendant for lands and rente in Schenleye and the advowson
of the church of Schenleye, CO. Bocks, and lands and rents in
Shytflbangre, Lychebarewe and Caldecote, co. Northampton, which
he claimed by virtue of a Fine levied in 1 E 2. by which the
above lands, etc., had been settled on Richard de la Vache for
life, with remainder to Mathew, son of Richard, and the heirs of
his body, and failing such, to Richard, brother of Mat hew, and
the heirs of his body, and failing such, to Matilda, sister of Richard,
and the heirs of her body, and he claimed as right heir of Matilda.
De Banco. Midi. 22. Hen. 6. m. 414.
Dorset. — Hugh Stukle and Katrine, his wife, sued William Bone-
vyle, Kt , Thomas Beaumont, Kt., John Boef and William Boef
for the manors of Halvehide, Preston and Blaneford, and rents in
Merssbe.
Thomas de A*Fhexon.^E!izabeth.
•eised temp. Ric. 2.
John.
J
I J
Katrine.=Hu?h Stukle,
the plaintiffs.
Verdict for the plaintilBk.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
103
Be Banco. Mich. 22 Hen. 6. m. 556.
Ehor. — James Strangways and Elizabeth, his wife, and John Conyers
and Margery, his wife, sued Margaret, late wife of John Darcy,
Kt., for the manor of Boynton. The pleadings state that one
Nicholas de Meynill was seised of the manor for his life, temp.
E. 3, with remainder to Nicholas, son of Lucy, daughter of Robert
de Twenge, and the heirs of his body, from whom the plaintiffs
give this descent : —
Nicholas, son of Lucy de
Twenge, seised temp. E. 3.
!
Elizabeth.
I
John Darcy.
I
Philip Darcy.
John Darcy.^Margaret, the defendant.
Philip Darcy.
Elizabeth.= Margery .=
James Strangways. John Conyers.
Nicholas de Meynill was the last Baron Meynill, and the Nicholas
of the pedigree was his illegitimate son. The return to a writ 14 de
Inquircndo" on the Pell Issues of Easter 18 E. 4, to determine,
who were the heirs of John Darcy le Fitz, on whom an annuity
had been granted temp. E. 3, payable to him and the heirs of his
body, has this descent : —
John Darcy le fitz,
temp. E. 3.
I
Philip.
John.
Philip, died whcn=r Elizabeth,
under age. j
r ± 1
Elizabeth. = Margery. =
James Strangways, John Conyers, Kt.
Kt., the younger.
The pedigree differs from that given in the Historical Peerages.
John Darcy le Fitz served as a Banneret at Crecv. See " Crecv and
Cultm."
(To be continued.)
104
THE 4096 QU ARTIE RS OF KING EDWARD VII.
By G. VV. Watsox.
(Continued from p. oG.)
L507. Philip-Ernest, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg ; . b. 11 Aug.
1584; d. 29 Jan. 1G28.
(i). 1584 (P.iedennann, Hei wig. Albrecht) ; not 1535 ( Rittershusius, Hubner).
(ii). 29 Jan. 162S i Jiittershuaiu*. Imhoff. Biedennann, Herwig. Albrecht) ; not
1629 (Hubner, Hopfj.
L508. Anna-Maria, Countess of Solms-Sonnenwalde ; b. 14 Jan. 1585 ;
m. 15/25 Jan. 1609 ; d, 20 Nov. 1634.
L509. Joachim-Godfrey, Schenk von Limpurg zu Gaildorf ; b. 25 June
1597; d. 19 March 1651.
L510. Barbara-Dorothea, Countess of Oettingen-Oettingen ; b. 10
March 1605; m. 16/26 Nov. 1623 ; d. . . . 1657.
(i) . 10 March 1605 (Loffeuholz von Kolberg addit.).
L511. Ludwig-Casimir, Schenk von Limpurg zu Sontheini ; b. 5 Aug.
1611 ; d. 3 Oct. 1645.
L512. Dorothea-Maria, Countess of Hohcnlohe-Waldenburg in Pfedel-
bach; 6. 20 Apr. 1618; m. 9/19 Dec. [not 21 Oct.] 1638 ;
d. . . . 1650.
L513. Ernest, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg in Celle. Same as
K33.
L514. Sophia, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Same as K34.
L515. Christian III, King of Denmark. Same as L105.
L516. Dorothea, Duchess Of Saxe-Lauenburg. Same as L106.
L521. Albert Ludwig VI, Elector Palatine. Same as L95.
L522. Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse. Same as L96.
L523. William I, de Zwijger, Prince of Orange; b. 24 Apr. 1533 ;
d. 10/20 July 1584.
(Life, by K. h, Klosc, 1364). (i). The correct date of birth was first given by
Dr. Jacobs (Juliana von Stotbery, 1889, 82): — "Anno etc. xxxiij vff dornatag den
xxiiij apprilis hat die woigeborne Juliana von Stolbcrg etc. Qreffin vnd fraw ku
Nassaw Catzenalnbagen vnd Dietz, zuschen zweyeu vnd dreyen, doch allernacliat
dreyen vrhen morgeu vormittag, jnn sehlosa Dillenbcrgk ein kyndlein tnanlicha
geschlechts — der Name sol Wilhclm heissen — znr welt gebnren " (Cniltomp. note
in his father's [L35] handwriting, in the Acta in the kg/. Ilausanhiv at the
Hague, no. 2120); not 14 Apr. (K. de Meteren, /list. <les Puy».Bu»l 1618, 239 d :
Teator ; Vogcl ; Klose ; Behr), 10 Apr. (J. de la Pise, Tiib'eau dc Vtfistoirt tlfs
Princes d'Oranyc, 1639, 261), 25 Apr. (Arnoldi, VVitalabao, Culm, Oyan), nor
4 May (Hatzfeld, as in K14 note), (ii). M Gegen zwei Uhr Nachuiittugs " (KloM,
255).
L524. Cliarlotte de Bourbon-Montpensier ; b. 1546 or 1517; m.
12 June 1575 ; d. 5 May [not 6 May] 1582,
(ii) . " 1575. De Rruid anivcerde binnon deO Hrid, alw.icr sy van don Prinre
seer feest'^yk ontlmelt cu den 12 . 1 tiny mat groin- blyachap get tout writ
(Contemp. MS, nut a, given by (J. (jroau van Prin-tnn. Qam$p»mrt'iHn initlUt •>*
la Maiian d'Orangt'NataaHf 1*M Stria, v, 1838, 226: see also the docunitoti not,
THH 4096 QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
105
dlviii — dlxiii in that volume relating to the marriage) ; 12 June 1575 (Textor,
La Pise, Witzleben, Klo.se, Behr mppL, Oyen) ; not 12 June 1574 (Ste, Mart-he,
Ritter-shusius, Anselme), 10 June 1575 (Ansel me also), nor 12 July 1575 (Cohn,
Jacobs).
L525. Henry Stewart, Lord Darnlev ; b. 7 Dec. 1545; d. \0 Feb.
1566/7.
(ii), Murdered soon after midnight 9-10 Feb. 1566/7 (Dunbar, 255).
L526. Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland;" b. 7 or 8 Dec. 1542; m.
29 July 1565 [not 8 July 1564, nor 19, 27 July .1565]; d.
8 Feb. 1586/7.
(i) . Probably the night 7-8 Dec. 1542 (Dunbar, 246).
L527. Frederic II, King of Denmark. Same as LI 5.
L528. Sophia, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Gust row. Same an LI 6.
L537. Louis Desmier, Seigneur d'Olbreuse ; d. soon after 26 Sep.
1586.
L538. Jane de Matbefelon ; m. . . . 1577 ; living 16 March 1590.
L539. Matthew Baudouin, Seigneur du Treuil et du Peux.
L540. Jacquette Tarquex (or Tarquise) ; m. 10 March 1576.
L541. John Poussard, Seigneur du Bas-Vandre et de St. Marc.
L542. Anne de la Jaille ; m. 20 July 1566. "
L543. Lancelot Gaillard, Seigneur de St. Disant.
L544. Jacquette de l'lsle.
(Lehr, Etudes ge'nml., tab. 19c, incorrectly, makes K272 da. of Rend Goullard,
Seigneur de Breuil-Milon, by Margaret Poussard ; his authority for doing so does
not appear).
L545. Joachim II, Hector, Elector of Brandenburg; b. 9 or 13 Jan.
1505 ; d. 2 or 3 Jan. 1571.
{Life, by A. Hartung, 1798). (i). 9 Jan. (Rittershusius, Biedermann. Stillfried,
Cohn, Behr) ; 13 Jan. (Allgcmeine Deutsche Biog.) ; Pauli mentions both dates, (ii).
2 Jan. (Cohn, Behr) ; 3 Jan. (Rittershusius, Biedermann, Pauli, Stillfried, Allgcmeine
Deutsche Biog.).
L546. , Magdalena, Duchess of Saxony; b. 7 March 1507 ; m. 6 Nov.
[not 1 Nov.] 1524 ; d. 28 or 29 Dec. 1534.
^ (i). " 1507, am Sonntage Oculi " [7 March] (Spulatinus. De Lihcris Alberti Ducis
Sa&mme, 2127). (iii). 28 Dec. 1534 (Midler, Biedermann, Cohn, Hofmeister) ;
29 Dec. 1534 (Pauli, liehr, Keller) ; 27 Jan. 1535 (Stillfried).
L547. Joachim-Ernest, Prince of Anhalt. Same as K3.
L")48. Agnes, Countess of Barbv. Samf as L246.
L557. John-George I, Count of Solms-Laubach. Same as K73.
L558. Margaret, Herrin von Schoriburg zu Glauchau. Same as K74.
L559. William V, Count of Mansfeld-Arnstein ; d. 21/31 Oct. [not
19 Oct.] 1615.
(ii) . " Sonnabends nach Galli [21/31 Oct.] 1(515" (MS., cited bv Niemann
150).
L560. Matilda, Countess of Nassau-Dillenburg ] b. 27 Dec. 1570;
m. 24 June 1592 ; d. 10 May 1625.
L565. Joachim-Ernest, Prince of Anhalt. Same as K3.
• '506. Agnes, Countess of Barby. Same as L246.
1-567. John-Casimir, Count Palatine in Sinnnern Lautern ; b. 7 March
[not C March] 1513 ; d. 6 16 Jan. 1502.
I
THE 409G QUARTIEBS OF KINO EDWARD VII.
L568. Elizabeth, Duchess of Saxony ; b. 18 Oct. [not 2S Nov.]
1552 ; m. (a, 6 Dec. 1569) 4 June 1570 ; tf. 2/12 Apr. 1590.
(i). '* Den 18 Oetobris 1552 Nachmittag um 2 Uhr'' (Week, 325).
L5G9. Ludwig I von Sayn, Count of Wittgenstein. Same aft L21.
L5T0. Elizabeth, Countess of Solms-Laubach. Same as L22.
1*57 1. Hermann IT, Count of ►Sayn-Sayn ; b. — Aug. 1543; d. —
March 1588 [not 1578]. ; .
(i). His father's letter of invitation to his baptism, addressed to" a Count
of Nassau, was dated "den Blontag nach Bartholqmaei [27 Aug1.] 1543.*'
{Rechtii-gegriindetes Bedencken, 152). (ii). Letter of D. Kuchorn, Cammer-
(xerhhts-Adrocato, dated "den 17 Mart. 1588," — " Wir geben eueh mil betriibtein
Gemutlic zu vcraehmoa dass .... Oott .... den "\vohl<rebohrnen llerrn.
Hcrrn Hermann Graven zu Sayn, etc., unsern gnedigen Herri;, gottseeligen,
aus diesem Jammerthal vor vrenig verriiekten Tagen zu sich erfordert" {Ibid.,
153).
L572. Elizabeth, Countess of Erbach ; b. 1G Aug. 1542 ; m. (c.
28 May 1571) 8 Sep. 1571 ; d. — Aug. 1598.
(i). ':\rr>xxxxii uf Mittwoch nach Assumptionis Maria den 1G Aug. zwischen
6 und 7 Uhr vormittag " (Entry in Count Eberhard's [K97] Bible, in his
autograph — Luck), (iii). Letter, dated 28 Aug. 15SKS, from Ludwig-Eborhard.
Count of Oettingen [K57], to Ocorge. Count of Erbach [149], — " Der Hebe
Gott .... die vvolgeborne Elisabetha Griifin zti Sayn, Wittib, geb, G rutin zu
Erbach, E.L. gcliebte Sclnvester, dureh den zeitlichen Tod aus diesem zergiing-
lichen Jammerthal zu sich genommen " (Luck).
L593. Augustus, Elector of Saxony; b. 31 July 1526; d. 11/21 Feb.
[not 12 Feb.] 1586.
(i). " 1520, Dienstags naeh Jacobi [31 July], ein Quart vor 0 Chren fruhe "
(Spalatinus, De Libert* Alberti D>wi* Sttxuniae, 2173); " Natvs 31 Jvl. a0 1526
vxorein dvxit 14 Octo. a" 1548" (Medal in Tentzel as in L71 note, tab. xi,
no. 1). (ii). " Obdormivit xi Febr. an. molxxxvi cum vixissct an. lix me.
vi di. xi ho. xii — " [i.e. cum dimidia] (Medals, ibid., tab. xvi, nos. 5, 6, 7);
" MIjlxxxvt die xi Feb. hora vi vespertina" (M.I., in Revherus 804; Annal.
Torgav., 588) .
L594. Anna, Princess of Denmark ; b. 22 or 25 Nov. 1532 : »?.
7 Oct. 1548 ; d. 1 Oct. 1585.
(life, by K. von Weber, 1S!>5). (i). 22 Nor. (M.I., in Week. 407 ; Lai-kmann.
Christiani, Koni^st'eldt, Berlion) ; 25 Nov. (Hiibner, Behr, Hofmeister) ; Cohn
mentions both dates, (ii). 7 Oct. (H. Hederictis, Chron. Svcrinense, in K. J.
von Westphalen. Monumenta inedita Rerum Germ., 1739-45, iii, L662 ; Week,
350; Rubner; Konigsfeldt ; Berlion ; Cohn ; Behr; Hofmeister) ; not 8 Oct.
(Annal. Toiyur., 58®; Lacktnaun), 12 Oct. ( llvit t'eldt, Christiani), nor L4 Oct.
(Hanielnmnn, Ltittershusiu.s). (iii). "mih.xxw die i Octobria vesperi poat
lioram sopntnam" (M.I., in Key herns, S(>5).
L595. John-George, Elector of Brandenburg. Same as K273,
L596. Sabina, Margravine of Brandenburg- Anspach ; 6. 12 Mav
1529; m. (c. 10 Dec. 1547) 12 Feb, 1548 ; d. \ Nov. 1575.'
(iii). 4 Nov. (Biedermann, Cohn, Bohr) j 2 Nov. (Pauli) j Kin orshusius and
Stillt'ried give both dates.
L597. Albert, Duke of Prussia. Same as K323.
JL59S. Anna-Maria, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg in Kalen
berg; 6. . . . 1532; m. (c. 21 Dec. 1549) 17 .March 1550;
d 20 March 1568.
L599. William, Duke of Juliers, Cleve and Rerg. Sam as L91,
L600. Maria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia. Sams as 1.92.
THE 4096 QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
107
LG05. Edzard II, Count of Ostfriesland. Same as II 07.
LGOG. Catherine (Wasa), Princess of Sweden. Same as 1168.
LOOT. Adolphus IX, Duke of Schleswig and Holstein in Gottorp.
Same as 1163.
L608. Christina, Landgravine of Hesse. Same as 1164.
L613. Antony I, Count of Oldenburg. Same as K349.
L614. Sophia, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg. Same as K350.
L615. Gunther XL, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Same as
L33.
L616. Elizabeth von Isenburg, Countess of Biidingen-Ronneburg.
Same as L34.
L641. Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg; b. . . . 1441 ; d. 20 Nov.
1503.
(ii). " MVciij ammo aucnde Marien tempeloffcringe " [20 Nov.] (" Daten von
1477 — 152-1"); "1503, an denie auende presentaeionis Marie (Klagghert M.S.,
f. 182 — Wigger) ; "in0 quingenfesimo tercio in die Elizabeth" [19 Nov.] (M.
Kopmann, Chron. St. Nicolai zn Wuvnar, edit. F. Crull, 82, in Jahrbiicher des
Yer. fur rnceVlenburg. (tench.; xlvii, 1882, 72-84; not "x Calendas Deeembres"
or 22 Nov. (Maresehalcus, 313; Kittershusius ; VArt de Yer. Ics Dates).
L042. Sophia, Duchess of Pomerania-Wolgast ; m. (c. 21 May 1476)
24 or 29 May 1478 ; d. 26 Apr. 1504.
(ii). The m. c, dated "Anno domini etc. lxxvi amine dinxstedage na Vocem
.Toeunditatis " [21 May], is in G. C. F. Liseh, Urh. Samml. zur Gesch. des Geschl.
Multzan, 1842-53, iv, 3) ; m. " 1478, sontags nach corporis christj " [24 May]
(Kantzow, ii, 178) ; m. 29 May 147S (Annal. acad. Grypeswald., cited by Wigger).
(iii). " Vefteihudert vnd Ini verde iare am fridaghe na misericordias dni "
[26 Apr.] (M.I., in Jafirbiiclier des Yer. far meJclenburg. Gesch., xxiii, 1858, 66) ;
"1504, des Fridaghes na sunte Marcus" [26 Apr.] (11. Kock, MS. Citron, von
Liibech) ; letter of condolence dated " ain tag walpurgis " [1 May], from the
Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg to the Dukes Balthasar and Henry of
Mecklenburg, referring to the ducal " Schreybenn, das etwen dy hochgeborne
furstin fraw Szophia .... am freytag vorganngen .... von disem jamertall
todtlichcn abgesohiden " (JahrbiicJter, ibid.) ; " Mdiiij an deme dage Marei " [25
Apr.] (Slagghert MS., f. 183— -Wigger) ; " Mvciiij amme daghe Marci Evan-
geliste " (" Daten von 1477 — 1524"); " m° quingentesimo quarto altera die
Marci" [27 April] (Kopmann, ibid.); not " Calendis Aprilis " (Mareschalcus,
315), nor 2 May (Hedericus, 1658).
L643. Joachim I, Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg ; b. 21 Feb. 1484 ;
d. 11 July 1535.
(ii). "1535, des Sontags vor Margrethen [11 Julv], umb 2 Sehlege " (Mag-
deburg. Chron., 62, in 13. G. Struve, Ken Archie, 1718, v, 1—109).
L644. Elizabeth, Princess of Denmark; b. . . . 1485 [not 1483]; m.
3 or 10 Apr. 1502; d, 10 June 1555.
(ii), "1502" (Y. Olans, Annate*, 196, in Langebok, Script. Renim Dan., i,
171—197; Boah'lde Aarbogen, 328. in H. Rordam, Monumenta Hist. Dan.,
Ktrkkc I, i, 1873, 297—381); "1502, sondagen nest eft'tor paaske " [3 Apr.]
(H. Smith, T>ansk Aarbog, 608. in Rordam, 1. i. 571 — 650); 10 Apr. 15033
(Christian!, Konigsfeldt, SrillfYied, Bohr); not 13 Apr. nor 1 May, 1500 or
1502. (iii). 10 June (Stillfried, Bear s*ppl.) j not 9 Jane (Rittershusius,
Hubner, Biedermann, Bcrlien, Cohn), nor 11 June (Hvitfoldt, Lackmann, Paoli,
Christian), Konigsfeldt).
LG45. Frederic I, Margrave of Brandcnburij-Anspach ; b. 2 Mav
1400; d. 4 Apr. 153G.
108
THE 4096 QUART1ERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
(ii). "1536, dcit 4ten Aprilis zwischen 3 und 4 Uhr " (MS. K&rnberg. Citron.,
cited by J. h. Hooker. Hailtbmmt-, Antiq. Sehatz, 1731-39, 9) ; " 1536 am Dienstag
nach Judica " [4 Apr.] (M.I., in Hocker, ibid.-, in R. G. Stillfried, KlosUr
Heihbronn, 1877, lot: and in Stillfried-Rattonitz, ii, Heft 3, 1863).
L646. Sophia, Princess of Poland : b. 6 May 1464 ; m. 14 Feb. 1 179 ;
d. 5 Oct. 1512.
(i) . " 1404, sexta Maij hora prima noctis " (Dlugossus, xiii, 331 ; Michovia,
228) ; 1404, die 0 Maii (Deeius, 290). (ii). " Hochzeit am Sontag valenthii
[14 Feb.] Jut Ixxixten Jar©" (Contemp. MS, by the Chancellor .1. Volker; edit.
T. Miireker, 178, and edit. F. Wagner, 473 : an inferior version is in Archie,
fur Kundc ostcrrcich. Geschdchts-Quellen, iv, 1850, 610 — 642); not 7 Feb. 1479
(Pauli), nor 14 Feb. .1478 (Stillfried). (iii). "5 Get. Aunivers. Illustris principis
domini Friderici marchionis de Brandenburg et dominae Sophiae conthoraKs
eiusdem " (Yigilien-Kalendar of the Cath. Chnreh at Heilsbronn, \n K. G
Stillfried, as above; 371, and in Stillfried-Rattonitz, i, Heft 4, 1856); 5 Oct.
(Cohn) ; 4 Oct. (Rittershusius, Stillfried, Behr).
L647. Frederic I, King of Denmark and Norway. Same as K325.
L6-18. Anna, Margravine of Brandenburg * b. 27 Aug. 1487 ; m. 3 or
10 Apr. 1502 [not 13 Apr. 15001; d. 3 May 1514 [not
1521].
(ii) . Authorities as in L644 note ii.
L619. Christian I, King of Denmark; b. — Feb. 1426; d, 21 May
1481.
(ii). "1481, 12 Cal. Junii " (Hamsfort, as in K325 note, 41); "MCCCClxxxj,
then forste oc tiugende dag y Maymaanett " (Roskilde Aarboyen, as in L644
note, 317) ; " 1481, den 21 dagh Maij " (Dansh Krbnikc, 519, in Rordam.
Monumenta Hist. Dan., I, i, 499 — 5-19) ; " 1481, die Maij xxi qui est xii KL.
Junij vol die Lunae ante Urbani " (Mathiae, 167) ; 21 May 14S1 (Christiani,
Behr); "1481, 22 die mensis Maji 0: altera die Eernardini confessoris " (P.-
Glaus, Chron. Regain Danortim, 146, in Langebek, Script. Renttn Dan., i.
68-148); 22 May 1481 (Hvitfeldt, Konigsfeldt, Berlicn) ; not 22 May 1482
(Smith, Dansl; Aarbog, as in L644 note, 605; Hamelmann ; Laekmann).
L650 Dorothea, Margravine of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ; b. 1430 or
1431 ; m. 26 or 28 Oct. 1449 ; d. 10 Nov. 1495.
(ii). ■" mccccxmx, in die Olai regis [29 July] uuptias feeit " (Chron. Dan..
240, in Langebek, vi, 219 -247) ; " 1449, sub festum Apostolorum Sinionis ct
Judae [28 Oct.] nuptiis eelebratis" (Matthiae, 156); 28 Oct. (Konigsfeldt,
Bcrlien, Colin); 26 Oct. (Stillfried, Hehr sti)>pl.). (iii). " 1495, circum festum
Martini" (Olaus, Citron., 148; Citron. Dan.. 246); MCCCClxxxXV, dode Drotlling
Dorothea Sanctj Martin] Rpiscopj afften [10 Nov.] y Koskiilde" (Rostkihle
Aarbogen, 322) ; " 1496, pridie Martini " (Matthiae, 174) ; " 1496. feria secuuda
proxima post festum S. Martini" [14 Nov.] (Hist. Qrd. Fr. Minor, in Dania,
514, in Langebek, v, 511—528); 25 Nov. 1495 (Hvitfeldt, Laekmann, Christiani.
Konigsfeldt, Bcrlien, Stillfried, Behr).
L651. Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania ; b. 3 June 1454; d. 5 Oct.
1523.
(i). 3 .lune (Colin, Klcmpin) ; 28 May (Rittershusiua) ; 29 May (L'Art dc
Vcr. lex Dates), (ii). " mvcxxiii des negesten daghea na francisci \ p dew
mandach [5 Oct.] so men beginck allc eristeti s( Ion " [2 Nov.] (Slajfgiiert, na
in 1161 note, 115) j " Vigil in S. Ottonis [1 July], oder s. Htarottytni Ii :
[30 Sep.] (Kantzow, ii. 348; Klomxen, 229); 30 Sep. (Ritterahusiua, Barthold) i
5 Oct. (Cohn, Klcmpin).
1,652. Anna, Princess of Poland; 6, 12 March 1476 ; m. (c, 7 March
1490) 2 Feb. 1491 ; d. 12 Aug. 1503.
THE 4096 QUAKTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII. 109
(i). " 1476, duodecima mensis IMartii hora ucsperarum " (Michovia, 234);
"1476, die 12 Martii " (Decius, 290). (hi). " MCCCCtui, sabbatho post divi
Laurcntii festum " [12 Aug.] (Bugenhagen, 181): not 23 Aug. (Rittershusius).
L653. William II, der Mittlere, Landgrave of Hesse : b. 29 Apr.
1468; d. 11 July 1509.
(i). " 146S, uff S. Quirius Abend [29 Apr.], ist der ander tag vor Walpurgis "
[29 Apr.] (Xohen, as in K327 note, 462); not 29 March (Behr), 30 March
(Strieder, Cohn, Hoffmeister), nor 26 Aug. (Irnhof, Rittershusius, Rommel),
(ii). "1509, uff mm tag Benedicti translations " [11 July] (Xohen. 499):
11 July 1509 (J. Riedesel, Citron. Hassiac, 70, in J. P. Kuchenbecker, Analecta
Hasskica, 1728-42, iii, 1 — 71; W. Gerstenberger, Thuring. und Hess. Chron.,
contin., 574, in Schmincke, Monimeuta Hassiaca, ii, 295 — 574) ; not 8 July (Imhof).
L654. Anua, Duchess of Mecklenburg ; b. 3 May or 14 Sep. 1485 ;
m. 20 Oct. 1500 ; d. 5 May 1525.
(i). "1485, die crucis" [3 May or 14 Sep.], according to a letter of that date
from the Duchess Dorothea [M1282] to her son Magnus II [L641] (Wigger).
(ii). "1500, uff den xx tag des vvynmondes genant Octobris " (Gerstenberger
contin., 570). (iii). " Freitags vor Jubilate [5 May] Nachts 11 Uhr" according
to the report, dated 16 May 1525, from Balthasar styled Schutenbach.
Anitmann of Griessen, to the Landgrave Philip [K327] (Hoffmeister, 28, from
the Archiv at Marburg) ; " sexta Maii " (M.I., in Hoffmeister, 28) ; not 16 March
(Rudloff), 28 Apr. (Imhof, Cohn, Behr), nor 16 May (Rittershusius).
L655. George, der Bartige, Duke of Saxony; b. 27 Aug. 1471 ; d.
17 Apr. 1539.
(i). "Am Dienstage St. Augustins Abendt [27 Aug.] 1471" (Spalatinus,
Be Liberia Albert i D)tcis Saxoniete, 2126). (ii). " 1539, den 17 Aprilis friihe
3 Uhr " (Week, 403) ; " mdxxxix Jahr Donnerstage nach Quasimodogeniti "
[17 Apr.] (M.I., ibid,, 104).
L656. Barbara, Princess of Poland; b. 15 Julv 1478; in. 21 Nov.
[not 19 Nov.] 1496 ; d. 15 Feb. 1534.
"1478, quintadecima Julij " (Dlugossus. xiii, 570; Michovia, 235 ; Decius,
290). (ii). "Am Tage Praesontationis Mariae [21 Nov.] 1496" (Spalatinns,
ibid,, 2127); "1496, Sfontags nach Klisabet " [21 Nov.] (Ercerpta Saxon., 1455,
1472). (iii). " 1534 am Sontage Esto mihi " [15 Feb.] (MX, in Week, 402 ;
Tentzel, as in L71 note, 36) ; 15 Feb. 1534 (Cohn, Behr. Keller) ; not
15 Jan! 1534 (Hofmeister), 17 Jan. 1534 (Rittershusius. M tiller), nor 14 Jan.
1535 (Rittershusius also).
L665. Edzard I, Count of Ostfriesland ; b. 15 Jan. 1462 ; d. 16 Feb.
1528.
(i) . " xviii Calend. Feb. MCCCCLXH " (Emmius. 388). (ii). " 1528, des
Sondages nae Valentini [16 Feb.] umtrent 4 uren des morgens " (fieninga,
590); " Mnxxvin, die xv (sic) Calend. Martii, cpii erat turn domiuicus [16 Feb.]
circiter horam iv matutinam .... cum vixisset annos totos lxvi et mensem
unurn " (Emmius, 81-3); not 14 Feb. (Wianla), nor 15 Feb. (Rittershusius.
Imhoff, Pauli).
L666. Elizabeth, Countess of Kietberg ; m. 15 July 1498; d. 11 or
18 July 1512.
(ii) . " MCGCCX'CVMI, huff und hylagcr des Sondages voor St. M argartthen "
[15 July] (Beninga, 400). (iii). w MUXII, umtrent St. Margarets drs Son-
dages" {Idem, 481).
(To be continued.)
no
THE NUNS OF SEMPEING HAM.
In the Register of Bishop Bokingham at Lincoln, " Memorandums "
fo. 48, 10 June A.I). 1366, under the heading, "Processus circa
bndicione Monialiii domus de Sempyngham/' the following names
appear : —
Religiose miieres cane Edusia de Peynton,1 Elizabeth de Arderne,
Matildis de Wiluby moHstii sv dorns de Sympyngh^m Lincoln dioc
Prioresse covetuales Elienora le Spene, Margareta Pevel, Alicia
Bernak et alie ipius Moastii [etc.].
Emilia de Holand
Jofina de Hoibelyn
Alicia de Camel ton.
Eustachia de
Cameltofi. Agnes Sourteys.
Margareta Elcome. Leticia PrestwocT.
ut asserverut anea bndce [etc.].
In the same narrative there is also this
Juliana, de Lymbury.
Isabella Wrenne.
Alicia de Poynton.
Margarta filia Johis.
Matildis Neyvill.
Isabella de Cresbrok.
Elizabeth Rydell.
Alicia de Sibtorp.
Ada de Wrangelt, T:
Agnes de Spannesby.
list :— -
Matildem.
Matilde de AValcote.
Katina Lovetoftt.
Katina de GothHm.
Alicia Paynel.
Joh:lm Pygot.
Joh*m de Stanes.
Margar ColleviU.
Elizabeth de
Billisford.
Johrtm de Bukkeston.
Isabella Maystir.
Elizabeth Danyel.
AVymark Auuteyn.
Matildem Maistir,
Elena Oseberneby. Margartam Burdeles. et Elena de Coinptoii.
ipius Moastii sive dom3 comoiales nodu tmdcois num* ut dixint
eonsecutas tunicis et velis albis indutab vestes albas et velamina
nigra ac alia q eisdem in lrlc pte copetebant I manibj suis deferentea
% alias [etc.].
The L.T.R. Memoranda Roll at the Public Record Otlice. No. 106.
Mien 15 Edward III, m. .'J, under "Status *\ Visus.:' contains the
Sheriff of Lincolnshire's accounts, and these include this item : —
Et — xx • ii • quas elicit se sokiisse Jofce *t Alianorc hliah; Hue le
Despens senior Mouialib} doms de Sempyngham p dco anno •
xiiij" • de illis • xx • ii • annuis quas ipe Monialcs jcipiut de
exit com pdei ex concessione K ad totam vitam ea&dem p
bre 1> [etc.]. c je }>0yNToy.
ehiam Matilde de
Tyrington.
Emma de
ffolkyngham.
Alicia Hardeyn.
Agnete Wade.
Elenora Surteys.
Alicia de Mscheton.
Margrta de Loughton.
Maria ffairfax.
Aliciam ffairfax.
Beatcem Walcote.
Alicia de Clifton.
Matildem Bryt.
JohHm de Chaworth.
Elizabeth de
Prestwold.
Margareta Tyfforth.
Matildem de Boston.
Elizabeth Barry.
Agnete Ciessy.
Aliciam Pygneye.
Katina Russel.
Margaretam
Mo un burger.
Margaretam Pygot.
Aliciam Parlebien.
Hawysam de
Pykeworth.
Joh;im ffacunberge.
Margartam Burdeles.
1 This spelling of Poynton frequently ocean ut an early period.
s Those names arc in the Accusative, which the context, here omitted For
the sake of brevity, requires.
Ill
©liguah's Visitation of ftoks&tf,
Claro Wapentake.
WITH ADDITIONS.
("Continued from p. 52.)
Knaresborougb, 15 Aug. 1665.
JHiuuhiim
of
^torkljclu
Arms : — Quarterly of nine :-
Argent, frettee Sable, a canton of the second (MMdleton).
2. Argent, three greyhounds eourant in pale Sable (Mauleverer).
3. Sable, an cstoile Argent (Ingleby).
4. Gules, a lion rampant Argent, within a bordure engrailed Or
(Mowbray).
5. Argent, a cheVron embattled between three birds Sable
(Chaumont).
6. Argent, a chevron between three lions' heads erased Gules
(Koucliffe).
7. Argent, a saltire Gules, on a chief of the second three escallops
of the Held (Talboys).
8. Argent, three cinquefoils Sable ( Borrowden).
9. Gules, semee of cross-crosslets Or, a einquefoil of the second
(Umfreville).
Crest : — A garb Or between two wings erect Sable.
I. HYPOLITUS DE BRAHAM.
II. HUGH DE M1DELTON, appeals as son of Apolitus in
deeds.1
III. SIR ROBERT DE MJDELTON.
IV. SIR PETER DE MI DDELTOX, hold part of Middleion
1284-5 (Surt, Soe., xlix, 44), bur. at Qkleyj mar. Agnes
. . . They had issue —
1. Sir Adam de Midelton, Lord of Middleton in the
XoNtina Villarum, 13KVG (Surt. Soe., $49),
1 In ihe possession of M. F, Middelton, Ksq.
112
DUGBALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
probably buried in Ukley church, where there
is a monument generally considered to be his.1
2. Richard.
3. William (V).
V. WILLIAM DE MIDDELTON, mar. Agnes, dau. of Sir
Nigel Boteler. Thev had issue —
Sir Peter (IV).
Eleanor, mar. John Fitzwilliam, of Woodhall.
VI. SIR PETER DE MIDDELTON, KNT., High Sheriff of
Yorkshire 1334, a Justice in Eyre Dec. 1329, a Knight
1328, J.P. West Riding, Inq. Pi Mi 1336; mar. Eustacia,
dau. of Sir Robert Plumpton, of Plumpton, living 1354,
and appears in a deed of that date. Thev had issue —
Sir Thomas (VII).
Adam.
John.
Eleanor, mar. Sir John Mauleverer, of Allerton
(Glover 66).
Margaret, mar. Sir John Vavasour, of Weston
(Glover 345).
VII. SIR THOMAS DE MIDDELTON, named in the will of
John Thoresby, Archbishop of York (Test. Ebor., i, 89),
probably died before March 1393, when his soul was to be
prayed for (Test. Ebor., i, 186) ; mar. Eliza, dau. of Sir
Henry Gramary, of Bickerton. They had issue —
VIII. SIR NICHOLAS MIDDELTON, Lord of Midleton.
Stockeld and Stubham, witness to his brother-in-law Sir
Brian. Stapleton's will, 16 May 1391 ; mar. first Matilda,
dau. of . . .
Mar. secondly Avice, dau. of Sir Gilbert Stapleton, by
Agnes, dau. of Brian Fits Alan. Thev had issue —
Sir John (IX).
Mar. thirdly Isabel, called " of Kirkoswald, widow,'' before
18 Jan. 1 Hen. V, 1-113-1 (Plumpton Correspondence,
xxvi).
IX. SIR JOHN MIDELTON, of Stockeld, Midleton, etc.
mar. Alice, dau. and coh. of Sir Peter Mauleverer, of
Beamslcy. They had issue —
X. WILLIAM MIDELTON, ESQ., of Stockeld, etc. Will
18 June, pr. at York 2 Dec. 1171 (Test. Ebor.. iii. 209),
mar. Margaret, dau. of Sir Stephen llamerton. ol llainrv
ton and Wiggleaworfch. They had issue—
1 It is more likely that it belongs to his father, as Sir William, in his \\ \\\
1549, desires to ho buried "under the stone where kua uiooetor Six Pien
Myddloton lyoth."
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
113
1. Sir John (XI).
2. Nicholas, of North Dei<rhton, Inq. P.M. 16 Mar.
9 Hen. VIII, says lie died 8 Mar. 7 Hen. VIII,
mar. first . . . , and had issue —
Emma, mar. Thomas Thwaites (Hist, of
Ilkley).
Mar. secondly Isabella Eabthorpe (remar
Ward). Will 4 Jan. I52f, pr. at York 9 Mar.
152 1 (Test. Ebor., v, 163). They -had issue —
Elizabeth, coheiress, mar. Robert Sothill,
of North Deighton (Glover, 275).
3. Thomas, of Kirkby Overblow, " sometime man of
law," J.P., bur. at SpoiForth, M.I. Will 1 June,
pr. 5 Nov. 1192 ; mar. Joan, dau. of Sir William
Plumpton, Knt., of Plumpton, mar. cov. 21 Aug.
1468, lie. 12 Sept. to marry in the chapel of the
Holy Trinity, at Plumpton. (Test. Ebor., iii,
339.)
4. Richard, of Spoftbrth, domicellus of Richard, Duke
of Gloucester. Will 24 May 1521, pr. at York
20 Sept. 1526, to be bur. at Spofforth, mar.
Ellen Pickering, lie. 2 Oct. 1480, to the Vicar
of Well. They had issue —
Peter, son and heir, named in his father's
will, of Kirkby, d. s.p.
W Other children.
XL SIR JOHN MIDDLETON, KNT., of Stockeld, etc., mar.
Matilda, dau. of Sir John Thwaites, of Lofthouse. They
had issue —
1. Sir Peter (XII).
2. John (Flower).
Elizabeth, mar. Robert Roos, of Laxton, co. Notts.
XII. SIR PETER MIDDLETON, of Stockeld, etc. Adm. at
York 21 Apr. 1499 ; mar. Anne, dau. of Sir Henry
Vavasour, of Hazlewood. They had issue —
Sir William (XIII).
Alice, mar. Richard Peck, of Wakefield.
r- * XIIL SIR WILLIAM MIDDLETON, of Stockeld, etc., Hi-h
Sheriff 1526, J. P. West Riding. Will 2 Aug. 1549. pr.
11 Mar. 1552, to be bur. at Spoffortli or Ilkley, (Test
Ebor., vol. vi), Inq. P.M. 17 Oct. 23 P. and M. : mar.
first Jane or Joyce, dau. of Edmund Sutton, son of Lord
Dudley. They had issue —
1. Thomas (XIV).
2. Peter or Piers, of Lincoln's Inn, gent. Will
16 Nov. 1516, pr. at York 23 July 1546 («ie),
mar. Eleanor ....
3. William.
114
DUGDALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Anne, (?) wife of Richard Irton, of Irton (Glover
42). Her children mentioned in Piers Middle-
ton's will.
Mar. secondly Isabella, dan. of ... . Dighton, of
Stockeld, lie. to marry in the chapel of Stockeld 13 Nov.
1508 (Test. Ebor., iii, 36G). They had issue-
Thomas.
J ohn.
Elizabeth, mar. Sir William Calverley, of Calverley.
Margaret, mar. William Clapham, of Beamsley.
Jane, mar. Marmaduke Vavasour, of Weston (Glover
345).
Maude, mar. William Wentworth, of Bretton, bur.
at Silkstone 5 Jan. 159 J.
Mar. thirdly Joan, dau. of ... . Robinson, exec, of
her husband's will. Will 14 Oct. 1579, pr. at York
10 May 1583, to be bur. in Ukley church. They had
issue —
Kathcrine, named in her father's will, mar. Sir
Leonard Chamberlayne, of Thoralby.
XIV. THOMAS MIDDLETON, ESQ., of Stockheld, etc., d.
v.p. Will 9 Nov. 1548, pr. at York 23 Mar. 154|, to
be bur. at Spofforth ; mar. Margaret, dau. of Sir William
Gascoigne, of Gawthorp. They had issue —
1. William, d. y.
2. John (XV).
3. Thomas, named in his grandfather's will.
4. William, named in his grandfather's will, d. s.p.
5. Robert, d. s.p.
6. Peter, had lands in his father's will.
7. Henry, named in his grandfather's will, d. s.p.
Alice, exec, of her father, d. s.p.
Isabel, exec, of her father, d. s.p.
Maude, mar. first William, son of Henry Good-
ricke, Esq., of Ribston.
Anne, mar. Edmund Thwenge, of Ratsev (Glover
581).
Margaret, mar. Henry Witham, of Ledstone.
XV. JOHN INI 1 DDL ETON, ESQ., of Stockeld, etc., thirtv years
old at his grandfather's Inq. P.M. Will 21 Nov! 1564,
pr. at York 11 Sept. 1565 j mar. Isabell, dau. of John
Midleton, of Midleton Hall, in Lonsdale, exec, of her
husband's will (remar. Gamaliel Drax, of Woodhall).
They had issue —
William (XVI).
John, d. s p. (Flower).
Christopher, of Stubham, had lands from his father.
Edward,
Richard.
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
115
• Ann, mar. Anthony Witham, of CKffe (Glover 260).
Margaret, d. y.
XVI. WILLIAM MIDDLETOX, of Stokeld, in com. Ebor., Esq*.,
died in a° 1009, vel circa, signed Visitation of 1585, bur.
at Spoftbrth 28 Apr. 16U. Will 16 Apr. 16U, pr. at
York 9 Mar. 161;}; mar. Marie, daughter of Edmund
Eltofts, of Ear uh ill, in com. Ebor., 1 wife. They had issue —
$>■ Peter (XVII).
fa mar. Anna, daughter of John Towneley, of Towneley, in
com. Lane, Esq,-., 2 wife. They had issue —
William Middleton, of Thurutofte, in com. Ebor.,
d. s.p. ; mar. Anne, daughter of Thomas Wahndey,
of D unkeuludgh, in com. Lane , Esq' . (remar.
Sir Thomas Osborne, Bart.), bur. at Harthill
20 Aug. 1666.
John.
Elena.
I
XVII. & PETER MIDDLETOX, of Stockheld, AV., died in
a," I6J+0, mar. Mary, daughter and coheire of David
lngleby, a yonnqer sou of the house of Ripley, bur. at
York Minster 10 Feb. 16434. They had issue—
1. William (XVIII).
2. S1' John Middleton, KK, of Thirntoft and Walton,
bur. at Sandal 20 Apr. 1654. Adtnon at London
1654 ; mar. at Wragby, 8 Sept. 1642, Anne,
da. of Charles Markham, of Ollerton, icidow
of Robert Wdterton, of Walton, in com. Ebor.
(remar. Francis Nevile, Esq., of Chevet, at
lloyston, 1657). They had issue —
Mary, mar. Koger Meynell, Esq., of Kil-
vington, bur. 30 Apr. 1685 at St.
Saviour's, York.
Bridget, bur. 26 May 1653 at Sandal.
8. Robert, died unmarried.
4. Matthew, in 1642 Major and Captain in a Regiment
of Foot, of which his brother William was
Colonel, petitioned 12 Mar. 1650-1 that his
^ annuity was stopped on account of the seques-
tration of his brother William's estate.
5. Thomas, died unmarried, petitioned as his brother
Matthew.
6. Christopher, died young, petitioned as his brother
Matthew.
J. Ursula, wife of Henry Earmrr, of Soni'-rtou, in co.
O.mn, Esq''.
2. Mary, first married to Edw. Topham, of Cocerham,
in Wensedaff, in com. Ebor., after to Tliomas
Thornton, of Olated, in Yorkxh.
3. Anne, a nunuj at Ganf, in Eland' />.
lift DUGDALe's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
XVIII. WILLIAM MI DDL ETOX, of Stockeld, Esq., died 22 Dec.
an 1668, Lieut. -Colonel of Horse for the King ; mar.
Kath., daughter of John (Henry Constable), Viscount
Dunbar. They had issue —
1. John Middleton, of Stockdd, Esq., (t-t. 13 ann.
15 Aug. 1665, J.P. West Hiding, d. s.p. 6 Apr.
1700, bur. at Spoffopth, M.I, ; mar. Jane, dau.
of Sir Thomas Strickland.
2. Peter (XIX).
3. William, adatis 9 ann.
1. Mary, wife of Kalphe Clavering, of Calliley, in
com. Northumbr.
2. Catherine, wife of Thomas Witham, 3l son of
William Witham, of Sledwick, in Epatu Dunelm,
(?)bur. at Spofforth 22 July 1705.
3. Margaret.
If. Anne, mar. Robert Plumpton, of Plumpton, 2 Dec.
1665 (Plumpton Correspondence).
5. Elizabeth.
XIX. PETER MIDDLETON, ESQ., of Stockeld, etc., mt. 11 ann.
in 1665, a prisoner in York Castle 1680 for refusing
the oath. Will 26 Feb. 1710, bur. at Spofforth 28 July
1714; mar. first Ann, dau. of Roger Meynell, of Kil-
vington. They had issue —
Mary, named in her father's will, alive 1726.
Mar. secondly Elizabeth, dau. of Marmaduke, third Lord
Langdale, 21 Feb. 1700-1. They had issue —
Peter, d. under age and intestate 1718.
Marmaduke Middleton, Esq., of Stockeld, d. unmar.
6 May, bur. at Spofforth 9 May 1757, M.I.
William Middleton, Esq., of Stockeld. succeeded
his brother, d. 10, bur. at Spofforth 15 Aug.
1763, M.I. ; mar. Fiances, dau. of J. Errington,
Esq., 13 Sept. 1759, at St. George's, Hanover
Square, London.
John.
Elizabeth, d. 1, bur. 4 Jan. 1770, at Spofforth,
mar. Sir C<irnaby Haggerston, Part., of Hagger-
ston, co. North umb. Their grandson, William
Constable, succeeded to the estates and assumed
the name of Middleton.
Authorities — York Wills ; Parish Registers.
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE. 1 1 7
Sktrack Wapentake, Lefties, 11 Ang. 1G65.
of
Arms: — Argent, on a chief Gales two crosses fleury vair, in the fess point a
cinquefoil Azure.
Crest :— A cubit arm erect, rested vair, charged with a cinquefoil as in the
arms, the hand grasping a battle-axe proper.
To expect a certificate from Mr. Ferrand, of Carleton, that this
gentleman is of his family.
I. CHRISTOPHER FERRAND, of BingJey, in com. Ehar.,
mar. Alice, dau. of . . . They had issue —
Richard (II).
Robert Ferrand, of Binglev, bur. at Binglev 12 Nov.
1593. Will 18 Apr. 1591, pr. at York 20 Dec.
1593; mar. Margaret (?)Jowet, d. 2 Aug. 1597.
(1) Will 9 Dec. 1593, pr. at York 4 Aug. 1597.
II. RICHARD FERRAND, of BingJey, died circa arm. 1643,
bur. at Binglev 25 Sept. 1641, mar. Margaret, daughter
of Henry Atkinson, of Bolton, in Jutland, in com. Ebnrum,
bur. at Binglev 4 June 1641. They had issue —
1. George (III).
Edmund Ferrand, of Binglev, bp. at Binglev 6 Aug.
1592, bur. there 20 Nov. 1G63. Will* 11 ISTov.
16G3, pr. at York; mar. at Binglev 14 Aug. 1G20,
Isabell Wood, who d. 10 July" 1646. They had
issue —
Margaret, bp. at Binglev 18, bur. there
21 Jan. 162;.
George, bp. at Binglev 6 Jan. 162J, named
in his father's will.
Margaret, bp. at Binglev 2 May 1624, mar.
there 21 Oct. 1647, Christopher Wilson.
William, bp. at Binglev 12 Feb. 162,% (?) bur.
there 6 Oct. 1627."
Henry, bp. at Binglev 16 Mar. 162:. (t)bur,
there 13 Aug. 1628,
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DUGDALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
William, bp. at Bingley 0 July 1629, named
in his father's will.
Richard, bp. at Bingley 11 Sept 1631,
named in his father's will.
Ann, bp. at Bingley 1 Sept. 1633, named in
her father's will.
Thomas, bp. at Binglev 23 Aug. 1635, (?) bur.
there 18 Aug. 1636.
Edmund, bp. at Bingley 26 Nov. 1637,
named in his fathers will.
Robert, bp. at Bingley 15 Dec. 1638, named
in his father's will.
. . Joshua, bp. at Bingley 11 Oct. 1641, named
in his father's will.
Dorathie, bp. at Bingley 19 Sept. 1645,
named in her father's will.
(?) Mar. secondly at Calverley 8 July 1650, Grace
Franke, bur. at Bingley 2 Nov. 1665.
3. Robert Ferrand, of Harden Grange (A).
4> Stephen Ferrand, of Harden, bp. at Binglev 8 June
1600, (?) mar. at Bingley 7 Dec. 1624, Marie
Walters. They had issue —
Marie, bp. at Bingley 4 Mar. 162?.
Ann, bp. at Bingley 4 Jan. 162*.
Martha, bp. at Bingley 21 June 1632.
Robert, bp. at Bingley 28 Dec. 1634.
William, bp. at Binglev 17 Sept. 1637,
(?)bur. there 24 Nov.' 1637. '
Alice, bp. at Bingley 14 Nov. 1638, men-
tioned in the will of her uncle Robert
Ferrand, of Harden.
Timothy, bp. at Bingley 21 June .1646.
1. Agnes, icife vnto John Beane, of Gitsted, in coin.
Ebor., bp. at Binglev 9 Mar. 15££, mar. there
8 June 1601.
2. Mary, icife to Samnell Holer ide, of Bingley, in CO.
Ebor., bp. at Binglev 25 Mar. 1582, mar. there
16 Dec. 1599.
3. Alice, wife of Will. Wiley, citizen and chi run/eon,
of London, bp. at Bingley 24 Feb. 158':.
Jf.. Anne, icife of William Cranshaa-, of Wilsdf)t, hi co.
Ebor., bp. at Binglev 5 Jan. 159*, mar. there
20 Julv 1613.
(1)John, bp. at Binglev 18 Oct. 1581.
(?) William, bp. at Bingley 4 Jan. 15{§.
III. GEORGE FERRAXD, of Bintjley, bp. at Bingley 5 .Tan.
157£, mar. . . . (There is a license lor George
Ferrand and Margaret Leach at Otley, 1607). They bad
issue-
Thomas (IV).
DUGDALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE. 119
Jerome, bp. at Bingley 22 Aug. 1619, (I) bur. there
22 Jan. 1641
(?) Richard, bp. 'at Binglev 7 Sept. 1623, (?) bur. there
23 Mar. 162J.
(?) Richard, bp. at Bingley 17 Aug. 1 628, ■ (?) bur.
there 7 July 1630.
(1) Alice, bp. at Bingley 14 Apr. 1609, (?) bur. there
20 May 1627.
Anne, bp. at Bingley 19 Jan. 161^, (?) bur. there
10 Sept. 1630.
IV. THOMAS FERRAND, of Bingley, bp. at Bingley 15 Mar.
161 1, bur. there 5 Aug. 1663. (?) Mar. there 15 Nov. 1637
Elizabeth AVaile. They had issue —
, Stephen (V).
Joshua (There was a Joshua, son of Thomas Ferrand,
bap. at Bingley 22 May 1653).
V. STEPHEN FERRAND, of Bingley, bur. there 12 July
1684, mar. Mary HolHngs at Bingley, 18 Feb.
167|. They had issue-
Thomas (VI).
VI. THOMAS FERRAND, M.A., Vicar of Bingley, bp. there
9 June 1680, bur. 'there 15 Dec. 1740; mar. 2 June 1705
Martha, dau. of John Dobson, Esq., of the Vicarage, d.
March 1772, a?t. eighty-four. They had issue —
John (VII).
Thomas, Fellow of Trim Coll., Camb., bp. at Bindley
21 Dec. 1709, d. unmar. 1741.
j . _ Benjamin, Lieutenant R.N., bp. 30 Nov. 1713, killed
at Porto Cavello, unmar.
Stephen, of Blythe, co. Notts, bp. 6 Mar. 1717, d.
unmar. 5 Mar. 1788.
Mary, d. y.
Sarah, mar. John Siddal, gent., of Binglev, bp.
15 Aug 1720, d. 1772. *
Anna, mar. Rev. Joshua Waddington, M.A., Vicar
> of Harworth and Waikingham, co. Notts. Their
eldest son Thomas, took the name of Ferrand,
pursuant to the will of his cousin Gerard Thomas
Ferrand.
VII. JOHN FERRAND, M.A., Vicar of Messiugham, co. Line,
bp at Binglev 5 Nov. 1706, d. 1759, mar. Mary, dau. and
coh. of Thomas Hatchett, of Edwinstow, co Notts, d.
1776. They had issue —
Gerard Thomas Ferrand, d. unmar. 10 July 1779,
a»t. twenty-seven.
120 DUGDALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
We now turn to the younger branch of Harden : —
A. ROBERT FERRAND, of Harden Grange, third son of
Richard Ferrand (TI) and Margaret Atkinson, (ft. fJS aim.
11° Aug. 1665, bp. at Bingley 6 Nov. 159?, bur. there
7 Aug. 1G74. Will 22 May 1674, pr. at York; mar. first
Anne j daughter of Tho. Newton, of Davenfre, in eo. North' ton,
bur. at Bingley 8 Jan. 166^. They had issue —
Benjamin (B).
Dorothy, wife of Ambrose Metcalfe, a Aferdt1, in Hull.
Ann, wife unto Rob' Milner, of Pud fey, in com.
Ebor., Esq., mar. at Calverley 11 May 1647 ;
mar. secondly Samuel Jenkinson, of Horburv.
Robert, d. v. p.
Mar. secondly Sarah Milner 20 Apr. 1668, bur. at Binglev
26 Mar. 1680.
B. BENJAMIN FERRAND, of Harden Beck, ret. 41 aim.
11 Aug. a" 1GG5, bur. at Bingley 14 Feb. 1699. Will
28 June 1690, cod. 27 June .1694 ; mar. Mai'tha, daughter
of Edward Brokesbanke, of Wilsden, in com. Eborum^ at
Bingley, 18 Dec. 1645, d. Nov. 1699. They had issue—
1. Robert Ferrand, a't. 18 ann. 11 Aug. 1GG5, of Harden
Grange, J.P., D.L., bp. at Bingley 9 Dec. 1647,
bur. there 5 Jan. 171 i, mar. first Barbara, dau.
of Richard Bradgate, Esq., of Ullesthorpe, co.
Leic, bur. at Bingley 4 Apr. 1685. They had
issue —
Benjamin Ferrand, of St. Ives, Captain AY. Y.
Militia, bp. at Bingley 17 Sept. 1675,
bur. there 19 Dec. 1731, mar. first Anne,
dau. of Henrv Currer, Esq., of Kildwick,
28 Dec. 1707, d. s.p., bur. 29 July 1727.
Mar. secondly Sarah, dau. and coh. of
Thomas Dobson, Esq., of the Vicarage
(remar. Gregorv Rhodes, of Ripon), bur.
at Bingley,' 11 Apr. 1785, M.I. They
had issue —
Benjamin Ferrand, Esq., of St. Ives,
Major AY. Y. Militia, bp. 18 May
1730, d. unmar. 20 Oct. 1803, M.I.
Bradgate, M.A., Vicar of Bradford, bp. at
Bingley 8 May 1682, d. unmar. 3 May
1709, bur. in the chancel of Bradford
church.
Mary, mar. Thomas Roebuck. Esq., of Heath,
near Wakefield, bp. at Bingley 11 .'an.
lev;. " "
Anne, mar. John Oockcroft, Esq., of Brad
ford, at Idle, Calverlev. 11 Sept. 1701.
bp. at Bingley 1 Aug. 1679,
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121
Mar. secondly Anne, dau. of Hugh Currer, Esq.,
of Kildwick (wid. of William Busfield, Esq., of
Leeds), at Bingley 2 Feb. 1685, bp. at Kildwick
2 Jan. 1650, d. 9 Nov. 1712', bur. at Bingley,
M.I. They had issue —
Robert Ferrand, of Harden Grange, bp.
6 Dec. 1687, d. unmar., and bur. 15 Sept.
1742.
2. Edward (C).
3. David, Major in the Army, d. s.p., bur. at Bingley
24 Nov. 1699.
4- Samuell, Vicar of Calverley, Tod wick and Rotherham,
bp. at Bingley 24 Nov. 166f; mar. first Anne
Marsh. They had issue —
Benjamin, Incumbent of Attereliffe chapel,
Sheffield, bp. at Calverley 24 Apr. 1689,
d. 27 Feb. 1728, bur. at Attereliffe; mar.
Elizabeth . . . , d. 4 Dec. 1752, set.
sixty, bur, at Attereliffe. They had
issue- —
Benjamin, \^ur Attereliffe.
JL nomas, J
Philip.
James.
Robert.
Edward, of London, bp. at Calverley 2 Nov.
1691, d. 21 Jan. 1769 ; mar. Anne, dau.
of . . . Freeman, of Bristol. They had
issue —
Anna, mar. Edward Astley, Esq., of
Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn.
Elizabeth, living unmar. 1774.
Fytch William, of St. James', Clerkenwell,
d. 1 Nov. 1759 ; mar. Maria, dau. of
Edward Wallis, Esq. They had issue —
Benjamin, aged circa fourteen in 1774.
1. Anne, mar. Thomas Fluid, Esq., of Great Penthin,
co. Leic., at Binglev, 2 May 1671, bp. there 18 June
1650.
2. . Lydia, mar. Thomas Whalley, gent., of AVinterburn, at
Bingley, 16 Mar. 1694, bp. there 8 Mar. 165-*-.
S. Mary, mar. Richard Pindar, Esq., of Kendal, Barr.-at-
• Law, bp. at Bingley 25 Jan. 165,";.
4. Martha, mar. Stephen Fyshe, of Holling Hall, near
Settle, bp. at Bingley 23 June 1668.
EDWARD FERRAND, of Harden Beck, bp. at Binriey
29 May 1656, bur. there 17 Dec. 1742 ; mar. Jane, dau.
of William Richardson, Esq., of Bierlev, bp. at Bradford
26 Aug. 1660, bur. at Bingley 3 Apr* 1716. They bad
issue —
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DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Richardson Ferrand, of Harden, J.P., bp. at Binglev
21 Apr. 1692, d. 31 Aug. 1745 ; mar. Mary, dau. of
William Busfield, Esq., of Rishworth, 24 May 1728,
d. 8 Feb. 1754. They had issue-
Jane, mar. Robert Stansfeld, Esq., of Esholt,
d. 18 June 1796, set. '65, bur. at Guiseley.
Mary, mar. first, 2 Jan. 1756, Henry Currer,
of Kildwick; secondly, Peter Bell, Esq.,
of Thirsk, d. s.p.
John (D.)
Jane, d. unmar. 13 May 1720, bur. at Hurworth, M.I.
D. JOHN FERRAND, of Stockton, bp. at Bingley 29 Apr. 1697,
bur. there 23 Aug. 1729, mar. Maria Hewdick, dau. of a
merchant of Rotterdam, d. 1 July 1744. They had issue —
.Richardson (E.)
E. RICHARDSON FERRAND, Esq., of Stockton, bp. there
22 Nov. 1723, d. 2 May 1769, mar. 14 Feb. 1745, Anne, dau.
of the Rev. George Walker, of Stockton, d. 1771. They had
issue —
John (F.)
George, b. 1750, cl. s.p.
Richardson, Mayor of Stockton, b. 1759.
Esther, mar. Benjamin Lumley, Esq., of Stockton.
Anna Maria, mar. Christopher Wray, Esq., of Stockton.
F. JOHN FERRAND, Esq., of Barnard Castle, b. 1747, d. at
Sedgefield, co. Durh., 7 Feb. 1790, bur. there; mar. at
Checkley, co. Staff'., 1772, Sarah, dau. of Edward Dale, Esq.,
of Stockton, d. at Bath, 3 May 1825, bur. there. They
had issue —
Edward (G.)
Walker, of Harden Grange, J.P., D.L., M.P. for
Tralee, Lieut. -Col. of Militia, b. 5 June 1780, d.
s.p. 20 Sept. 1835, bur. at Bingley, M.I. : mar.
first Katherine Maria, dau. of General William
Twiss, 5 Sept. 1805, d. 15 Feb. 1827; mar. secondly,
Margaret, dau. of John Moss, Esq., of Otterspool,
d. 5 Apr. 1846.
Jane, mar. Apr. 1794, Rev. Charles B. Charlewood,
of Oakhill, co. Staff., d. 1798.
Sarah, b. 25 July, 1783, mar. 12 Feb 1805, Cunvr
Fothergill Bttsfield, of Cottingley Bridge. On the
decease of her brothers she retook the name of
Ferrand on succeeding to the estates which
descended to her son William Busfield Ferrand,
Esq. She d. 30 May 1854.
Anne Catherine, mar. first, 5 Dec. 1809, Edward
Surtees, Esq., of Seatonburn ; secondly, George T.
B. Monkiand, b. 22 May 1787.
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
123
G. EDWARD FERRAND, Esq., of St. Ives,' to which he suc-
ceeded on the death of his relative Benjamin Ferrand, Esq.;
he was J. P. and D.L. ; b. at Barnard Castle 14 Dec. 1777,
d. 21 Mar. 1837, bur. at Bingley, M.I. : mar. 31 Jan. 1809,
Frances, dau. of W. Hoiden, Esq., of Baildon, 9 Jan. 1861,
.bur. at Bingley. They had issue —
\ Frances,' only dau., mar. 2 Dec. 1840, Richard P.
Amphlett, Esq., M.P.
Authorities — Bingley Register, printed by Yorkshire Register
Society ; Whitaker's Craven ; York Wills.
Langbaegh Wapentake. Yorke, 13° Sept, 16G5.
Arms : — Gules, a chevron Ermine between three goats' heads erased Argent.
Crest : — On a mount Vert a ram couchant Argent, attired Or.
I. EDWARD MARWOOD, of Nunthorpe, d. 3 Oct. 1577
(Graves' Cleveland). Had issue —
II. MARMADUKE MARWOOD (Graves' Cleveland). Had
issue —
III. JAMES MARWOOD, of Nunthorpr, in com. Ehovum. mar.
(1) Barbara, daughter of James Cleasby, of Cleasby, in co.
Ebor. They had issue —
1. William Mar wood, of Little Buskehy, died icifhout
issue. Admon. 10 Mar. 1 G 1 8.
2. Henry (IV).
1. Marijerie, wife of ... . Wardc, of Nunfhorpe.
Dorothy, wife of ... . Winterton, of ... . Ml com.
Warr.
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DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
IV. HENRY MAR WOOD, of Little Buskeby , heir to his brother,
died about the yeare 1039, mar. Anne, daughter of John Con-
stable, of Dromonby, in com. Ebor, Esqr. They had issue —
1. Sr George (V).
2. William Mamvood, of Stubby, in co. Line.
3. Francis Marwood, Citizen of London.
1. Anne, wife of Gyles Wetherell, of Stockton, in com.
palat. Dunelm.
2. Barbara, wife of Josias Mathews, grandsan to Toby
Mathews, Archbysshoj) of Yorke, bp. at Stokesley
27 Dec. 1603.
V. Sr GEORGE MARWOOD, of Little Buskeby, in com. Ebor.,
Bart., cut. 64, cin. 1 '3 Sept. 1005, mat. at Line. Coll., Oxon.
21 Mar. 1614, created a Baronet 31 Dec. 1660, High
Sheriff of Yorkshire 1651, M.P. for Northallerton 1660-1,
' bp. at Stokesley 28 April 1601, d. 19 Feb. 16||, bur. at
St. Mich.-le-Belfrey, York. Will 26 Aug. 1679, pr. at
York 16 Mar. following. Mar. Frances, daugh. of Sr Walter
Bethell of Alne, in com. Ebor., K'., at Alne, 3 Apr. 1627,
bur. 6 Jan. 168f, at St. Mich.-le-Belfrey, York. They had
issue —
1. Henry (VI).
2. George Mamvood, a Hamborough Merchant, mar. Mary,
dau. of Samuel Swinnock, of London, merchant.
They had issue —
Sir Samuel Marwood, third Bart., succeeded
his uncle in the Baronetcy, d. s.p., bur.
at Stokesley 31 Oct. 1739, mar. Mary,
dau. of ... . Pierson, of Stokeslev,
8 May 1735.
Sir William Marwood, fourth Bart., suc-
ceeded his brother, d. s.p., 29 Feb. 1740,
bur. at Paddington, co. Middx. ; mar.
Margaret . . . , bur. 16 Aug. 1740, at
Paddington.
3. Walter.
1. Barbara, wife of Sr Thomas Heblcthwayt, of Norton,
in co. Ebor., Kn1., mar. secondly Sir Francis Cobb,
of Ottringham.
2. Frances, wife of Richard Weston, an Utter Barrister
of Grayes Inne.
S. Anna, wife of Will. Metcalfe, of Allerton, in co. Ebor.,
. Esq7"., mar. at Stokesley 21 May 1657.
VI HENRY MARWOOD, Esqr., a;(ntis $Q an nor. IS* Sept
a0 1605, second Bart,, of Buskeby, High SheritT of York
shire 1674, M.P. for Northallerton 1685-8, bur. 6 Nov.
1725, at Stokesley; mar. Margaret, daugh. of Conyen
Ld Darcy and Conyers 1 ici/'e, at Hornby, 19 May 1658.
bur. at Stokesley 8 June 1660. They had issue —
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
125
Margaret ait. 4 a™ 13 Sept. a0 J66o, bur. 5 Feb. 166*,
at St. Mich.-le-Belfrey, York.
Mar. Dorothy, daughter of Alan Bellxngham, of Levens,
in com. Westmorland, Esq''., 2 icife. They had issue —
George (VII).
(?) Henry, . bp. at Stokesley 27 July 1665.
Elizabeth, mar. John Pierce, of Lazenby Hall, bp. at
Stokesley 7 Mar. 1666-7, d. 26 Mar. 1726, bur.
at Bedale.
Agnes, bp. at Stokesley 26 Mar., bur. there 7 Aug.
1668.
Mar. thirdly Martha, dau. of Sir Thomas Wentworth, Knt.,
of Elmsall, wid. of Thomas Wombwell, Esq., of Wombwell.
VII. GEORGE MARWOOD, ad. » mens, 13 Sept. 1665, bp. at
Stokesley 27 July 1665, d. v.p., bur. there 12 Nov. 1700,
mar. first Constance, dau. of Sir % Spencer, of Yarnton,
co. Oxon, Bart., mar. lie, 8 June 1687, bur. at Stokesley
4 Aug. 1691. They had issue —
Jane, only dau. and heiress, mar. at St. Paul's
Cathedral 9 June 1709, Cholmley Turner, Esq., of
Kirkleatham, bp. at Stokesley 10 May 1688, bur.
there 26 Apr. 1764. Will 25 Feb. 1762, pr.
21 Apr. 1764. She left the Buskeby estates to
her cousin William Metcalfe, who assumed the
name of Marwood.
Mar. secondly Lucy, dau. of Erasmus Smith, lie. 14 Mar.
169-|, at Chelsea, bur. at Stokesley 10 Sept. 1700.
Authorities — Stokesley Register, printed by the Yorkshire Parish
Register Society.
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
Communicated by AKTHUK J. Jewers, F.S A.
(Continued from p. Go.)
Holmes, Sir Robert, third s. of Henry, of Mallow, co. Cork, Esq.,
s. of Robert Holmes, who was born in Lancashire. He was
engaged in military and naval services against the rebels,
and after the restoration was employed in France, Germany,
and Flanders, and since made commander of Sandown
. Castle, in the Isle of Wight. He also commanded a squadron
of ships in two expeditions to Guinea, after which be was
knighted. He was also captain of a ship in the victory over
the Dutch in 1665, and was the next year made Rear Adm.
of the Red, when he entered the harbour of Ulg, in Holland,
and burnt one hundred and eighty ships; then landed n\ it h
two thousand men on the island of Scheling and burnt Brandeoia
126
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
town, and has lately been made Captain and Governor of the
Isle of Wight. Conf. of arms and gr. of augmentation by Sir
E. Walker, Garter, 19 Jan. 1669. Barry wavy of six Or and
Az., and for augmentation on a canton Gu., a lion of England.
Crest — From a naval coronet Or, a dexter arm emb., in armour
ppr. garn. of the first, the hand, of the second, grasping a trident
Az., headed gold. Add. MS. 14,294.
Holt, William, of London, gent. Conf. Arg. on a bend eng. Sa. .
three fleurs-de-lys of the first. Crest — An arm emb. 'in armour
ppr., garnished Or, the gauntlet grasping a pheon Arg. Stowe
MS. 703.
Hooke, John, of Bramshott, co. Hants, Esq. Conf. of arms and
gr. of crest by W. .Dethick, Garter, and W. Cainden, Clar.,
20 Oct. 1600. Produced at Alton 12 Aug. 1686, before Sir
H. St. George, Clar. Per cross Sa. and Arg. a cross betw. four
escallop shells all counterchanged. Crest — An escallop shell Sa.
betw. two wings Arg. Add. MS. 14,295.
Hooper (Howper), John, Bishop of Worcester. Gr. by Sir G.
Dethick, Garter, 5 April, . . Edw. YI. Or, on a fess dancettee
Gu., betw. three clouds Sa., from the top of each cloud rays
of the second, a lamb couchant inter two estoiles Arg. Harl.
MS. 1,359.
Hooper, John, of New Sarum, Esq., being descended from John
Port, formerly of New Sarum, through his mother, and not
being certain as to the arms of his own family ; W. Hervey,
Clar., 15 Nov. 1562, gr. and conf. to him the quarterly coat
and the crest following, 1 and 4, Or, on a fesse betw. three
boars pass. Az. as many annulets of the first, for Hooper ;
2 and 3, Gu. on a chev. betw. three portcullises Or, as many
roses of the first, for Port. Crest — A boar's head erect and
erased Az. bezantee, tusked and bristled Or. This coat and
crest for Thomas Hooper, of New Sarum, was entered in the
Visitation of Wilts in 1623, by Sampson Leonard, Bluemantle,
and the original grant was produced at Lyndhurst 27 July 1688,
before Sir H. St. George, Clar.
Nicholas Port. Rent., sometime=p Nichola, dau.
of the Island of Guernsey. | of . . .
r J
John Port, s. and h.=f=. . .
John Port, s. and h.=F. . .
John Port, of New Sarum. =7=. . .
John Hooper, of New Sarum. =f=Agnesi, dau. and coh.
I
r J
John Hooper, of New Sarum. =p. . .
Add. MS. 14,295.
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
127
Hope, Ralph, Yeoman of the Robes to His Majesty. Pat, by Wm.
Harvey, Gar. Erm. two cbevronels eng. Az. betw. three escallop
shells Gu. Crest — A double rose, the inner one Arg., the outer
Gu., issuing therefrom an antelope's head Az., attired and tufted
Or. Add. MS. 26,702; Stowe MS. 706.
Hopertox, Adam, of Gelsthorp, (sic, but ? Youlthorp, in the par. of
Bishop Wilton), co. York. Pat. from R. St. George, Xorroy,
1612. Gu. a crescent Or, in chief a label of three points of
the second, on each point a cinquefoil Az. Crest— Within a
chaplet of leaves Vert, a fleur de lys Or. Hail. MS. 6,140;
Stowe MS. 706.
Hordex, Edward and Alexander, of Horden, co. Kent. Conf. by
W. Dethick, Garter, 1 Jan. 15S6, 29 Eliz. Pat. in Latin.
1 and 4, Az. on a chev. betw. three lions ramp. gard. Arg.,
an imperial crown Gu. ; 2 and 3, Per pale Arg. and Sa. two
wolves pass. betw. three quatrefoils in pale within a bord., all
counterchanged. Crest — A demi wolf quarterly Arg. and Sa.,
holding betw. its paws an imperial crown Gu. Stowe MSS.
676, 706.
Hordex. Thomas, of Kent. Pat. by Sir Tho. Wriotheslev, Garter,
and Tho. Benolt, Clar., 24 May 14 . . The pat. in French. Per
pale Arg. and Sa. two wolves pass., betw. three quatrefoils, all
in pale counterchanged, within a bord. per pale Gu. and Or.
Crest — A demi wolf quarterly Arg. and Sa., betw. its paws a
quatrefoil quarterly of the first and second. Stowe MS. 706.
Horne, John, now of Gamroon, in Persia, in the E. I. Co. Service,
and to his eldest sister Mary and his younger sister Culling
(children of John Horne, late of Exeter, co. Devon, and after
of London, Turkey merch., dec). Gr. by J. Anstis, Garter,
and Knox Ward/ Clar., 21 Feb. 1729-30.* Arg. on a chev.
eng. Gu., betw. three bugle horns Sa., as many mullets of the
field. Crest — A bull's head erased paly of four Arg. and Gu.,
armed and gorged with a coronet Or. Add. MS. 14,830.
Hornebrooke, Richard, gent., s. of Richard Hornebrooke, of Exeter,
co. Devon, gent. He served beyond the seas and returning with
His Majesty is of the Life Guards, to whom desiring an alteration
of his arms, Sir Ed. Walker, Garter, on 16 Dec. 1663, granted
these arms and crest. Barry wavy Arg. and Az. three crescents
Sa. Crest — From a crescent Sa. an arm in armour emb., the
gauntlet grasping a sword all ppr. garn. Or, the point of the
sword embr. Gu. Add. MS. 14,204- Harl. MS. 1,441.
Horsenaile, Christopher, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, s. of
Christopher, of (?) Turville, Rucks, dec. Gr. by J. Anstis,
Garter, and K. Ward, Clar., 1 Feb. 1740-1. Arg. a cross
dovetailed betw. four mullets Az. Crest — From a mural coronet
Arg. a horse's head, dun coloured, the mane Sa.. collared dove-
tailed Az. (From an eighteenth Century MS.)
Horsfall, Richard, of Stareshall (sic), CO. York. Fat. by K. St
George, Norroy, in 1612. Gu. a plate betw, three horses'
heads couped Arg., bridles Or. Crest — A horse's head COUped
Erin. Harl. MS. 6,169.
128
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
Horsfell (Horsefall), John, Bishop of Ossory. Gr. by W. Dethick,
Garter, Feb. 1591. Gu. three horses' heads couped Arg., bridled
Az., bits and tassels Or. Stowe MS. 676.
Horsman, Robert, of Ripon, co York, and now of Loudon, 1591.
Conf. by R. Cooke, Clar., 26 May 1590 (" I have seen the original
grant with seals, etc., J. Coats." This in a different hand.)
Or, three dexter gauntlets erect Sa. Crest — A tower, with fire
issuing from the top, the door and windows, all ppr. Hail.. MS.
1,359 ; Stowe MS. 670.
Horswin, John", of London, merch. Az. on a chev. betw. three
estoiles Or, a martlet Gu. for diff. Crest — An estoile Or. Harl.
MS. 5,869.
Horton, . . . , of Wilts and Somerset. Patent by Sir C. Barker,
Garter. Conf. of arms and gr. of crest. Arg. on a fcss Az.
betw. in chief two wolves pass. Gu. and in base a crossbow of
the last three martlets Or. Crest — A cubit arm erect vested
Gu., cuff Arg., in the hand ppr. an arrow Az., feathered and
barbed Or, and two roses Arg., slipped and leaved Vert.
Harl. MS. 1,422.
Hoskins, . . . , of Oxted, Surrey. Gr. and conf. by W. Harvey, Clar.,
16 June 1568. Per pale Gu. and Az. a chev. eng. Or, betw. three
lions ramp. Arg. Crest — A demi cock displ. Arg., comb Gu ,
semee of ogresses. This descent given : —
Thomas Hoskins, of Monmouth, in =r Jane, dau. of Thomas Catchmayde, of co.
Wales. I Gloucester.
1. Charles Hoskins, s.^Atm, dau. of
and h., of London and I Thomas Inglow,
20 Dec. 1697.
1. Anu.
I Surrey.
I
George. Johanna.— (1) John
Abowen. (2) William
Jenkyns. (3) John
Knyehtayn.
2. Mary.=Rob. Cox, of London, grocer.
1. Sir Thomas, s. =pDorothy, dau. of
and h., of Oxted,
Knight.
Jo. Aldersey, of
London, merch. ■
2. Charles, of Ox-^Margaret, dau. of
ted, 2 s., living j John Aldersey. of
1(523. i London, merch.
1. Charles, s.
and h., under
age in 1623,
and Ward to
the King.
2. Edmund.
Dorothy.
2. Charles. Mary
3. Tho.
Rebecca,
all d. s.p
;Jo. Tow- Kill*
se, of —
London. Dorothy.
Ann.
Harl. MSS. 1,110.
Hoskins, . . . , of co. Monmouth. Pat. from Win. Segar. Xorrov.
Barry of six Or and Vert, a bord. Erin. Crest — Two staves
raguled and couped in sal tire Vert. Stowe MS. 700 : Add.
MS. 12,225.
Host, Dkrick, merch., of London, 1634. A/, a ball's kead winged
and couped Or. Crest — A wing Or. Hail. MS. 5,869.
INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM.
129
Hough, Ralph, Esq., of St. Margaret's, Lothbury, London. Conf. by
Sir E. Bysshe, Garter, 30 March 1650. Arg. a bend Sa., in chief
a trefoil Vert. Crest — A wolfs head erased Sa., charged with a
trefoil Arg. Harl. MS. 1,441.
Houghton, Ralph, of London, Gent., s. of John Houghton, of Hough-
ton, co. Lane, s. of Ralph, s. of Nicholas, s. of John Houghton,
of Houghton, descended from a younger son of Houghton, of
Houghton Tower, co. Lane. Conf. of arms and crest with
difference by Sir W, Segar, Garter, 1 July 2 Ch. I. - Arg. three
bars Sa., in chief two mullets of the last. Crest — A bull's head
erased Arg., horns twisted of the first and Sa., lang. Gu. Motto,
Volans vel revolans. Add. MSS. 12,225 and H,295.
Houghton, Tobias, of King's Cliff, co. Northampton. Cert, by R.
Treswell, Bluemantle, 158-1. Sa. three bars Arg., on the upper
one a rose Gu. Crest—A bull's head couped Arg., horns Or,
charged on. the neck with three bars Sa., and above them a rose
Gu. Stowe MS. 670; Add. MS. 4,966; Llarl. MS. "1,359.
House, . . . , late Alderman of London. 1 and 4, Vaire, on a chief
Or, three lions ramp. Sa. ; 2 and 3, Erm. a chev. Az. betw. three
roses Gu. Crest — A lion's paw erect and erased Arg., armed
Gu., grasping a bull's leg Or, erased Sa., hoof Arg. Stowe
MSS. 670 and 714.
Houston, Dr. Chaplain to K. Ja. I. Conf. 1605. Per cross Arg.
and Sa. four roundels counterchanged. Crest — From clouds Arg.
a bull's head Az., semee of estoiles Or, horned of the last. Stowe
MS. 706.
Hoveden (or Hovenden), John, of Killeban, Ireland, son of Giles
Hovenden, who went to Ireland temp. Hen. VIII. Conf. of the
ancient arms of Hovenden, of England, 1585. Chequy Arg. and
Sa. on a bend Gu. three lions' heads erased Or. (.'rest — From
flames of fire ppr. a dragon's head Arg. Stowe MS. 670.
(To be continued.)
Inqutsttiones Ipost jttortem.
(Continued from p. C9).
FitzW i lli ams, Thomas, ob. die veneris px post fest. beatae Mariae —
Inq. at Stafford 10 Jau. 6 Hen. 8. — Stafford — William, s. & h.,
aet. 4.
Flaket, John, yeoman, will 18 Oct. 1549, ob. 18 April ult. — Inq. at
Derby 14 June 1 k 2 Ph. & Marv — Derby— 1. Thomas, s. & fcu, act.
43 ; 2. Henry.
Fleetwood, Charles, Esq., will 28 May 1628 - Inq. 26 July -J Car. 1.
— Bucks — George, s. & h., aet. 5 yrs. 26 mo. ; David ; Catherine.
Fleminge, Thomas, ob. 22 .Ian. L638 - Inq. at Winchester 2S March
15 Car. I. — Southampton — Edward, s. A: [),, act. 1, 11 Jan. 1638.
130
INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM.
Flemyxg, Christopher, Knt,, Baron of Slane, in Ireland, ob. 4 Aug.
jilt. — Inq. at Southmolton 5 Nov. 0 Hen. 8. — Devon — Jacobus, s. &
h., aet. 8.
Flemyxg, Giles, ob. 29 Nov. 1633— Inq. at Stratford Langthorne
11 June 10 Car. I. — Essex— John, s. k h., aet. 18 yrs. 9 mo.
Flemyxg, John, gent., ob. 17 Jan. 1631 — Inq. at Bridgend 15 Sept.
8 Car. I. — Glamorgan — William, s. cfc h., aet. 12.
Flemynge, Christopher, ob. 4 Aug. ult, — Inq. at Southmolton 5 Nov.
9 Hen. 8. — Devon — Jacobus, s. & h., aet. 8.
Flemynge, Cuthbert, brother & heir of Alfred [" Alveredi "] ; will
14 Oct. ult., ob. 18 Oct. 27 Eliz.— Inq. 8 June 28 Eliz.— Yorks—
Dorothy, aet. 16; Frances, aet. 11 J ; Anne, aet. 7 yrs. 8 mo. ;
Elizabeth, aet. 5 yrs. 10 mo. ; Barbara, aet. 4^.
Fletcher, Richard, ob. 26 Dec. . . — Inq. at Doncaster 9 May 2 & 3
Ph. & Mary— Yorks— William, s. <fc h., aet. 24.
Fletcher, Robert, ob. 28 Nov. 14 Car. I. — Inq. at Cirencester 22 Jan.
14 Car. r.—Gloucs.— Henry, s. & h., aet. 2, 10 Oct. 1638.
Fletcher, William, gent., ob. 12 Jan. ult. — Inq. at Carlisle 21 Sept,
31 Eliz. — Cumberland — Henry, s. & h., aet. 22.
Flexney, Thomas, ob. 25 April 21 Jac. I. — Inq. at Oxford 7 April
22 Jac. I. — Oxford — Thomas, s. & h., aet, 2.
Flower, John. ob. 17 Aug. 37 Eliz. — Inq. at Marlborough 2 Oct.
37 Eliz.— Wilts— William, s. & h., aet. 10.
Flower, John, ob. 4 Jan. 42 Eliz. — Inq. at Hindon 6 Sept. 2 Jac. I.
—Wilts— Edward, s. & h., aet, 9, 42 Eliz.
Flower, Roger, of Whitwell, co. Rutland, Esq., will 27 Jan. 18 Hen. 8 ;
ob. 15 Feb. IS Hen. 8.— Inq. at York 20 April 19 Hen. 8.— Yorks
— Richard, s. <fc h., aet. 14, married to ... d. of John Harington ;
George ; Anne.
Flower, Roger, of Whitwell, co. Rutland, Esq. — 1st Inq. at Lincoln
16 Oct. 19 Hen. 8 ; 2nd Inq. at North Luffenham 23 Oct. 19 Hen. 8.
— Lincoln, Rutland — Richard, s. & h., aet, 14 ; George.
Flowerdew, Edward, a Baron of the Exchequer, will 15 June 25 Eliz.
—Inq. at Harlston 12 Oct. 28 Eliz.— Norfolk-
William, brother.=p
Anthony, s. & h., & cons. & h. of
Edward, aet. 29.
Flowerdew, John, of Hethersett, Esq., will 1 Sept, 1563, ob. 16 April
ult.— Inq. at Norwich 3 Oct. 7 Eliz.— Norfolk— 2. Edward : 3.
Thomas; 4. Christopher; 5. Edmund ; 6. John —
1. William, s. k h., ob. v.p.^
I
r J
Anthony, s. k h , aet.
9 yrs. 7 mo., kc.
Flowerdew, John, will 17 Nov. 30 Eliz. ; ob. same day. — Inq. at
Norwich 9 Jan. 30 Eliz. -Norfolk-- Edward, s. & h., act. 7.
Flowerdew, John, will 17 Nov. 1587, ob, IS Nov. 30 Eliz. — Inq, at
Cambridge 9 June 40 Eliz. — Cambridge— 1. Edward, s. A h., then
act. 17; 2. William, legatee; 3. Edmund.
INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM.
131
Floyer, John, . gent., ob. 25 Feb. ult. — Inq. at Webley 27 Aug.
8 Car. I. — Hereford, Somerset — Martin, s. & h., aet. 4.
Flynton, John, gent., ob. s.p. 7 Nov. 5 Eliz. — Inq. 22 June 11 Eliz. —
— Yorks — Edward Flynton, brother d: heir, aet. 22.
Fogg, John, Knt., ob. 9 Dec. 6 Eliz. — Inq. at Greenwich 18 Oct.
6 Eliz. — Kent — Edward, [1 s. & h.], aet. 25.
Fogge, Richard, Esq., ob. 6 Sept. ult. — Inq. at East Greenwich
18 Nov. 41 Eliz.— Kent— Thomas, s. & hi, aet. 13, 26 Aug. ult..
Foljamb, Marg[aret], d. & h. of Thomas Fitz William, ob. 7 Feb.
3 & 4 Ph. & Mary, married " Galfridus vel Godfridus " Fuljambe,
s.p.— Inq. at York Castle 6 Oct. 4 & 5 Ph. & Mary— Yorks— Tho.
Foljamb in rem. in fee for all these messuages by the fine, etc.
Foljambe, Francis, Baronet, ob. 25 Sept. 1641 — Inq. at York 28 Aug.
17 Car. I. — Yorks — Frances, d. & h., aet. 11.
Foljambe, Godfrey, ob. 12 July 5 Ed. 6. — Inq. at Highedge 26 June
2 k 3 Ph. &. Mary— Derby— Godfrey, s. & h., aet. 16, 12 Sept. ult.
Foljambe, Roger, Esq., ob. 22 Jan. ult. — Inq. at East Rethford 4 Oct.
19 Hen. 8.— Notts— Godfrey, s. & h., aet. 16.
Folkesworth, Richard, will 27 May 1524, was of Stybington, ob.
4 Aug. ult. — Inq. at Stilton 3 Oct. 21 Hen. 8. — Huntingdon —
i 1
Cotton. =f=Eufeniia, eldest daur., . . . Stubbs.=f Susana, 2 daur.,
ob. v.p. ob- v.p.
I
John Cotton, s. & h., Leonard Stubbs, s. k h.,
now aet. 13. now aet. 9.
cons. & coheirs of Richard Folkesworth.
Fones, Thomas, apothecary, ob. 15 April 1629 — Inq. at the Guild-
hall 12 Oct. 5 Car. I. — London, Suffolk — Samuel, s. & h., aet. 12,
1629.
Fontleroy, Henry, ob. 21 June 30 Eliz. — Inq. at Winton 8 Jan.
31 Eliz. — Southampton — Henry, s. k h., aet. 16.
Foord, George, Esq., ob. 29 Aug. 12 Eliz.— Inq. 12 Oct. 12 Eliz.—
Devon-— Thomas, s. & h., aet. 14 ; Mary, eldest dau. ; 2. Susan ; 3.
Judith; 4. Margaret.
Foord, John, ob. 21 Nov. 26 Eliz.— Inq. at East Grinstead 2S Feb.
32 Eliz.— Sussex— William, s. & h., is aet. 10.
Foorde, Richard, ob. 19 Sept. 1638— Inq. at Oxford 3 Jan. 14 Car. L
— Oxford — Richard, s. & h., aet. 15.
Ford, John, ob. 7 May ult. — Inq. at Launceston 3 Aug. 30 Hen 8. —
Inq. at Exeter 20 Sept. 30 Hen. 8. — Cornwall, Devon — George, s. &
h., aet. 17; John ; Margaret.
Ford, John, ob. 26 Dec. 1640— Inq. at Beckington 27 April IS Car. I.
— Somerset — William, s. tt h., act. 9.
Forde, John, Esq., ob. 21 Nov 26 Eliz.-— -Inq. at Horsham 1 & 2 Sept.
34 Eliz. — Sussex — William, s. & h., aet. 12, 1-1 Sept. ult
Forde, Thomas, ob. 5 May ult — Inq. at Exeter 8 Oct. 21 Hen. 8.
Devon — William, s. A:*h., aet. 20, 21 Hen. 8
Foreman, Dame Blanche, widow, ob, 8 Aug. 5 Eliz. — [nq, at the
Guildhall 20 Dec. 10 Eliz.— London—
132
INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM.
Thomas Stanneye, brother & h.=f=
I
John Stanneye, s. & h.=f=
John, s. & h., aet. 14.
Form an, Elizabeth, d. k h. of Richard Briggs ;- ob. at Croxton 10 May
3 Eliz. — Inq. at Kirton in Lindesay 22 April 8 Eliz. — Lincoln —
Henry Briggs, of Kirton, yeoman, avunculus k h. of Elizabeth
Foreman, is aet. 40.
Formax, Francis, Gent., will 18 June 1634 ; ob. 23 ejusdem — Inq. at
Leicester 16 Sept. 10 Car. I. — Leicester —
1 1 1
3. Anne. 4. Mary, 5. Mildred,
aet. 11. aet. 7.
Forsett, Edward, Esq., ob. 24 Dec. 3 Ed. 6. — Lincoln — 1. Fabian
Forsett, clcricus, s. k h., aet. 27 ; 2. Christopher j 3. Francis ; Eliz :
wife of Jo ; Smith ; Cecilia.
Forster, Anthony, will at Newark and ob. there 13 March ult, —
Inq. at Newark 27 May 1 Eliz. — Notts. — Giles, s. k h., aet. 18.
Forster, George, late of Litilbirche, Esq., ob. 24 Nov. ult. — Inq. at
Stratford Langthorne 4 Feb. 3 and 4 Ph. k Mary — Essex — Mary, 1
d. k coh., aet. 14; Joan, 2 da. k coh., aet. 13.
Forster, George, of Heighington in the parish of Washingborough,
ob. 26 Feb. ult. — Inq. at Horncastle 17 Aug. 11 Eliz.— Lincoln —
John, s. k h., aet. 6.
Forster, George, ob. 11 April 14 Car. I. (married 1st Joan Cludd, ob.
20 March 1635 ; 2nd Anne . . .) Inq. at Stafford 11 Sept. 17 Car. L
— Stafford, Salop — 1. Elizabeth k 2. Katherine (by 1st wife);'
Charles, s. k h., aet. 3, 23 Feb. 1640 (by 2nd wife)'
Forster, Nicholas, ob. 10 Dec. 1637 — Inq. at Morpeth 12 Jan.
13 Car. I. k Inq. at Durham 7 April 14 Car. I. — Northumberland,
Durham — William, s. k h , aet. 1 ; Frances.
Forster, William, late of Ramsey, yeoman, ob. 18 April 33 Hen. 7. —
Inq. at Huntingdon 10 Nov. 8 Hen. 8. — Huntingdon — John, s. &
h., aet. 23.
Forster, William, Gent., ob. s.p. 15 Jan. ult — Inq. at Lincoln Castle
6 April 1 Eliz. — Lincoln — Joan, d. of Thomas Forster k sister A
heir of William Forster, aet. 28.
Fortescu, Edmund, Esq., ob. 24 Sept. ult. — Inq. at Stratford Lang*
thorne 29 April 39 Eliz. — Essex, Cambridge — John, s. k h., aet.
11 yrs. 6 mo.
Fortescu e, Bartholomew, ob. 12 Sept. ult. — Tnq. at Exeter 8 Oct.
4 k 5 Ph. k Mary — Devon Richard, s. k h., aet. 40.
=pFrances, eld. 2. Sibil,
dau., aet. 19.
John.
f To be continued. )
133
Notices nf IBnoks.
Memorials of the Duttons of Dutton in Cheshire, with Notes
RESPECTING THE SHERBORNE BRAXCn OF THE FAMILY. London
(Henry Sotheran and Co.) ; Chester (Minshull and Meeson).
This anonymous volume cannot be considered, and perhaps does
not pretend to be a family history, for it contains no connected
pedigree of the ancient Cheshire house of which it treats, but
consists merely of extracts from many different . sources relating
more or less closely to the various branches of the Button family,
and particularly to that which is now represented in the female
line by Lord Sherborne. In spite, therefore, of its tasteful binding,
good illustrations and carefully prepared index, the book will be
somewhat disappointing to genealogists. No serious attempt has
been made to grapple with the difficulties of the early pedigree,
for which a general reference is made to Sir Peter Leycester, while
the never very probable theory of the descent of Hugh le Despencer
from the same stock as that from which the Duttons came is
more than once repeated, and reads strangely in the light of Mr.
Round's recent discoveries [Studies in Peerage and Family JUstory,
pp. 303 — 305). The general reader and even the antiquary will,
however, find much that is interesting in these pages ; especially
we -may mention the chapter on the curious jurisdiction which
the Duttons exercised for many centuries over the Cheshire minstrels,
and the detailed account of the famous duel between the Duke of
Hamilton and Lord Mohun, though the latter is more than a twice
told tale, and its relevancy will, perhaps, be doubted. The amusing
correspondence relating to Sir Christopher Hatton's claim of kindred
with Ralph Button of Hatton, illustrates the anxiety of Elizabeth's
courtiers to establish their descent from families of recognized
importance, and also shows that sordid motives were often attributed
then as now to those who advanced pretentions to relationship. The
"Appendix of Duttoniana" includes many Button wills proved at
Chester, abstracts of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other records.
It also contains a copy of an ancient deed dated in 1412, the seals
to which have been excellently reproduced in facsimile from a drawing
by Handle Holme made in 1G49, and are of considerable heraldic
interest.
Shakespeare's Family, reinc, A Record of the Ancestors and
Descendants of William ShakE3PEARE, with some ACCOUNT
OF the Ardens. Bv Mrs. Charlotte Carmiehael StopeS, Author
of "The Bacon-Shakespeare Question Answered/' etc London
(Elliot Stock).
Truly Shakespeare is a name to conjure with, or a book like
this would never have been issued in popular form. Doubtless the
134
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
name, and the pictures, will procure for it a ready sale. Mrs. Stopes
lias ransacked Notes and Queries, and the Calendar of Stale Paper*,
and from these and other sources has collected a number of stray
notes on persons named Shakespeare and Arden. Some recent
writers ought to feel flattered at the liberal use she has made of
their works ; but unless it be a somewhat doubtful conjecture about
Joyce Arden, serious genealogists will find little to add to their
knowledge of the poet's kinsfolk. His father's career, and t lie fate
of his children, are fairly well known. His grandfather is still
somewhat nebulous. The difficulties in regard to his wife remain.
We get no fresh information about the Harts, or about Gilbert
and Richard, the poet's brothers. The Ardens, again, were un-
doubtedly an ancient Warwickshire family ; and that his mother
descended from them is likely enough. But apparently Mrs. Stopes
has never noticed certain dotted lines in Dugdale's published pedigree ;
and when she invites us to assume the identity of Thomas Arden
of Wilmcote, husbandman, with a contemporary Thomas, son of
Sir Walter, and brother of Sir John, of Park Hall, and with the
" Thomas Arden Squier " of the father's will, we must demur.
We dissent entirely from her views upon the arms of Arden and
Arderne : indeed, she is no safe guide on questions of heraldry,
some of her blazons being unintelligible, such as " or and az., er.,"
"or and az. gu." (p. 168), "three crosses crosslet pattees, a chief
Arderne" (p. 198). Nor is she more at home in the social
atmosphere of Elizabethan times, as may be seen by her remarks
upon Shakespeare's marriage, or the status of a husbandman, her
allusions to his " solicitor," and the like ; while to represent the
heir apparent of a substantial freeholder as without means of sub-
sistence is as wide of the mark as to infer an earnest desire to
found a family from his devising real estate to his daughters. Some
of her perplexities (pp. 42-4) we are happy to resolve by explaining
that duarum partvwm is Latin for two-thirds, widow Arden holding
the remaining third in dower. The Patent Polls should contain
the alleged royal grant (p. 20) ; and a glance at the record cited
ought to shew whether Halli well-Phillips has misread Shakespeare
for Shepherd, as she conjectures (p. 226). It is incorrect to say
(p. 19) that John Shakespeare ".had appeared among the gentlemen
of Warwickshire" in 1580, as the footnote shews. Eleven references
has Mrs. Stopes given to this magazine, and ten of these we have
traced with some difficulty, for once only is the right page given,
and in just half of them the wrong volume. Instead of " Misc. Gen.
et Her., Harwood, New Series, xii, 13 " (p. 216), read Genealogist,
N.S., xiii, 192. The remark attributed to the editor of the Colonial
Gentry (p. 221), only to be contradicted, was in fact a criticism
of ours upon that work. We hope other references are less
unfortunate; but was it worth while to refer us to "a manuscript
of the British Museum," or ''Court of Chancery Records," or
"Pap. Henry A' TIT, P.R.O.," or " Hil. Rec, 10 Kli/abeth. Pet.
38," or "Plea Bolls, Ed. I'M This last, by the ^av. Appears
to stand for the Coram Bege Boll of 46 Edward 111, Trinity
term.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
135
Domesday and Feudal Statistics. By A. H. Inman. London
(Elliot Stock).
Mr. Inman's industry in compiling the statistics contained in this
book deserves commendation, but it is a pity that he has not explained
them in simple and unaffected English. His manner of expressing
himself and his arrangement of his subject matter make it difficult
to follow his arguments. He has made considerable use of Professor
Mainland's " Domesday and Beyond/' and seems to have studied
with some care the works of Mr. J. H. Round and the late Bishop
of Oxford. Nevertheless, the book is full of sneers at the " erudite
mind " and our " halls of learning." These are out of place and
not in good taste.
Mr. Inman is, perhaps, the first practical agriculturist who has
written on Domesday, and what he says of it, for that reason
alone, ought to be interesting. He is concerned in maintaining that
a carucate of 120 acres of arable land can never have been ploughed
by a single team in a year ; but, except in this particular, his practical
knowledge does not appear to have assisted him very much in his
studies. He contends that the fiscal hide was rated on meadow
and pasture as well as on arable land, and produces some interesting
evidence in support of his contention. In spite of his peculiar
style Mr. Inman has written a book which cannot be neglected by
students of Domesday.
Arms of Poynton and Boynton (Genealogist, N.S., x, 34, and
xvii, 260). — In vol. x (p. 34-) the Rev. F. J. Poynton propounds a
problem as to the following coat of arms, which appears in the
Visitation of Warwickshire (Harl. Soc. xii) opposite to a pedigree
of Wittlebury and Poynton : —
(1.) Argent, two bars azure, in chief 3 hurts.
(2.) Azure, a /ess or between three crescents anient.
(3.) Barry wavy, over a1 1 a bend (untinctured).
(4.) A lion rampant (not blazoned).
The pedigree scarcely concerns Warwickshire, except that the last
of the Wittleburys therein mentioned married a Catesby. Two of
the quarterings were left untinctured, and 1 question whether the
arms were officially entered in the 1619 Visitation, There were in
that Visitation several pedigrees drawn up and decorated with more
or less authentic armorial bearings, for the sole purpose of illustrating
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
the ancestry of the Catesby family, and .this is one of them. The
first quarter is evidently intended to be for Wittlebury, the family
whose pedigree is given down to the match with Ann Catesby.
The second quarter is no doubt meant for Poynton, for the Wittlebury
pedigree begins with the marriage of Thomas Wittlebury with
Matilda, daughter and coheir of Sir William Poynton.
I suggest, therefore, that the herald or arms-painter being quite
uncertain as to the arms of the Poynton family (which had been
extinct for more than two centuries), took the arms and one quartering
of the Boy nt on family. These, as shown in The Genealogist, vol.
xvii, p. 260, namely Or, a Jess between three crescents gules (Boynton),
and Azure two bars wavy argent (de la See), he slightly altered,
and adding for some unknown reason a lion rampant in the fourth
quarter he thus provided " a complete achievement."
The problem of the Sydenhall and Lunell arms raised by Mr.
Poynton (Genealogist, N.S., x, 37) is interesting, but is "another
story," and may wait for a more convenient opportunity. As to
the Poynton arms, however, I will, with all deference to Mr. Poynton,
conclude this note with the remark that one must sometimes
" cut an Heraldic knot."
William F. Carter.
Culpeper Family. — The following are extracts from the episcopal
transcripts of the parish of Folkington, co. Sussex, now preserved
at Lewes : —
1607 John Culpeper gent, was buryed the 6 of October.
1608 Edmund Hayes gent, and Anne Culpeper maryed the 2 of
Januarye.
1632 Anne the daughter of Sr Thomas Culpeper was baptized the
21 of June.'
1633 John the Sonne of Sr Thomas Culpeper was Baptized the IS
of February.
1635 Francis the sonne of Thomas Culpeper Knight was Baptized
the 16 of June.
1637 William Culpeper the sonne of Sr Thomas Culpeper Kfc. was
baptized the 26 of October.
1638 Elyzabeth Lady Culpeper the wife of Sr Thomas Culpeper
Knight was buried the 5 of May.
„ Sr Thomas Culpeper Knight was buried the 19 of March.
Denarius.
Halley. — The writer will be very pleased to exchange notes with
those having information respecting the Halley families of England,
and particularly that of Dr. Edmond Halley (1656 — 174:!), the second
Astronomer Royal. — Eugene F. M. PlKK, 4*205 Evans Avenue,
Station " M," Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
137
THE PORTS OF BASING AND THEIR PR TORY.
In a paper on " The Families of St. John and of Port " I showed
that Adam de Port, lord of the baron}' of Basing, married, as his
second wife, "Sybil the countess."1 It is a curious illustration of
the antiquity of the practice dealt with in the recent Cowley case,
that in the twelfth century there are several cases of the widows
of earls re-married to men of lower rank and retaining the title
of "countess.'1 As the}' were spoken of only by their Christian
names, the student of the feudal baronage has a somewhat difficult
task in determining the identity of a lady styled " the countess "
A, B, or C.
To determine this identity with certainty in any given instance,
one has to go through the list of all the earls' wives known to
have been living at the time. On applying this test to the wife
of Adam de Port, we find that the only " countess Sybil " living
at the time required was the widow of that William, Earl of Derby,
who died at the siege of Acre in 1190. The Complete. Peeraye
mentions that she "was living 1221," but knows nothing of her
marrying again.- Adam de Port was in possession of his barony
at the time when she became a widow, and was succeeded in it
by his son in 1213. The countess would then again become a
widow, and we find her accordingly entered, some years later, as
" Sibilla comitissa de Ferariis," then in the King's gift and holding-
lands in Berkshire worth £40 a year.3 Of these the only manor
that is named is that of " Sibesford " in the Hundred of " Eggeleya,"
which is not one of the many manors assigned to the Ferrers family
by Domesday in Berks. I detect it, however, in the Testa record
of the Berkshire carucage of 1220 — 1221, where we read (under
"Hundr' de Egel' ") :— « De Sipford Com' de Fcrrar '* (p. 131).
The solution I propose is that this manor was no other than
West Shiflbrd, which, as " Wcstsipford," was similarly held by the
widow of a later lord of Basing and her second husband, Richard
de Lucy, as of "the barony of Basing."4 With this clue, we
find it as " Siford " in " Eglci " Hundred, the only Berkshire
manor held by Hugh de Port, the Domesday lord of Basing.
This, then, affords the proof (if needed) that the countess Sybil of
the Testa was the widow of the lord of Basing; and it Further
enables us to extend the entry in the Berkshire carucage as
" Sipford Comfitisse] de FeiTarfiis]." It is interesting also to
note how successive Lords of Basing used this manor as dower.
1 Soo vol. s.vi, p. G.
" Vol. iii, ]). GO.
3 Testa de Xcvill, i>. 108 (Lis).
4 Teste, p, 124 (the entry ifl quoted by me in ih-ntalo<ji.<t xvi. 4),
L
138
THE PORTS OF BASING AND THEIR PRIORY.
In my previous paper T showed that the Ports of Mapledurwell
(Hants) were from the first a distinct line, and that when their
representative, Adam de Port, was exiled in 1172, he was in
possession of wide estates known as "the Honour of Kington."1
I also showed that his grandfather and namesake, who was estab-
lished at Kington under Henry I, was a benefactor to Monk
Sherborne Priorv, an offshoot of the Abbey of Cerisv.
In the light of all this, we can explain a charter at Queen's
College, Oxford, which is printed in the Appendix to' the Fourth
Report on Historical MSS. (p. 452). It records a benefaction by
Henry Huse, under Henry II, to the church of St. Martin " de
Duobus Gemejlis," that is the Priory of Deux Jumeaux (Calvados)
near the Norman home of the Ports, which., like Monk Sherborne,
was an offshoot of Cerisy. Mr. Riley identified it for the Commission
as "the House of St. Martin of Jumielles (or .1 umieges) " ! The
grant is of . the tithe of Henry's demesne at " Littetuna, quarn
monachi predicti habuerant antiquitus ex donatione Adas senioris
de Port," The reference is to that Adam, of Kington and of
Mapledurwell, who lived under Henry I ; and as manors in Dorset
held by his line can be traced as having been held by William
d'Eu in Domesday, I have no doubt that the above place was
that Wiltshire Littleton which Domesday shews us in the hands
of William d'Eu (fob 71b).
Another charter at Queens, printed in full by the Commission
(p. 453), is of some interest, when explained, for the early history
of Portsmouth. Mr. Riley did not identify the "Froditonia" to
which it relates, and which was Fratton in Portsea, now buried
in Portsmouth.2 The charter purports to be a grant of a virgate
of land there, with two men dwelling on it and their issue to
Monk Sherborne Priory, by —
" Baldwinns do PorfceSeia, nutti et assensu doniini mei Johannis do Portescin
[.<?/<"], pro animabus HerarSci do Porto et uxoris snse Hadewfsrc et ]>:uri-<
inati'iscjuo meso necnon pro snlnte animro meal ot uxoris meoo Adelidia."
Mr. Riley's grave misreading destroys the value of the charter.
For, clearly, his John " de Porteseia" was really John de Port,
the son of Henry de Port and the lord of Basing.
On referring to John's return' of his knights in 1106, 3 we duly
find two fees held of him by " Baldewinus de Porteseia n ; and we
further find Mathew "de Scuris" and Hugh "de Braibfof]," who
are among the witnesses to this charter, holding of him, respectively,
four fees and one.4 We have seen enough to assert that this
charter, which Mr. Riley thought "of the time, probably of King
1 Soe vol. xvi, pp. S — 12.
'2 Fratton Station preserves (as did Fratton Road) its niinn1.
3 Red Book of tit,- Exchequer, pp. l'07-'.>.
4 The names of llioso witnesses also throw li-rlit 01) .n vow obSCttTC put ot
tho return, Tli>> editor <>i" the Red Booh there rends "Radulfus P[ort]
-landis de Matheleign ij milites," but among the above witnesses we Rnd
" Ruolendua <le Mathinj?elcin 5 Rieardus et Jacobus iilii ejus." The father**
nums is obviously thai of which "lundifi do Matholeiga" (th« M Maiiugelcfse *'
ol' Domesday) remains in the transcript of John's return,
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130
John," was of about the same date as the return (11GG), and was,
in any case, previous to the death of John de Port (circ. 1170).
This gives a special interest to the appearance among the witnesses
of Ralf " presbyter de Porteseia " and Roger " pra'tor de Froditonia "
(whatever that officer ma)- have been), and to the grant of fuel
from the " boscus de Porteswalt," a local name perhaps unknown
and formed like Portsea and Portsmouth themselves. Such is
the use that it is possible to make of an early charter when it
is properly treated.
Before leaving these charters at Queen's, I would speak of three
others printed on the same page. They relate to the church of
"Sagie," " Sagees," or " Sageys," which was identified by Mr.
Riley as " the church of Seez." In the first of these documents
Philip de Columbariis grants this church to the priory of St. Fromond
(Manche) ; the second is a grant of it from that priory to the
priory of Monk Sherborne ; and the third is a notification of that
grant from the prior of St. Fromond to the bishop of Salisbury.
Now " Sagie " is, no doubt, suggestive of the Latin name of Seez,
but a moment's thought should surest that it was not in the
power of a private individual to hand about the cathedral church
of a Norman diocese ! We also, naturally, want to know what a
bishop of Salisbury had to do with this astounding gift. Yet the
whole thing is quite simple when the place is rightly identified.
In my " Calendar of Documents Preserved in France" (pp. 108, 652)
I had to deal with an early grant of tithes at " Sages " with no
clue to its identity. I determined the place to be Shaw in Berk-
shire,, of which the name does not occur in Domesday, so that we
have not the usual test. In the case of the charters at Queen's,
an easy test is afforded us. The Inquixitiones post mortem prove
that Shaw was held by the Columbers family,1 and the "Taxation
of Pope Nicholas " shows us the rights of Monk Sherborne Priory
in its church (p. 187). It was therefore the village church of Shaw,
not the cathedral church of Seez that Philip de Columbers gave.
But how is our topographical history to be ever correctly written
if the evidences are placed before the student in this inaccurate
fashion 1
J. H. Round.
1 Calendar, I, 61.
140
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLEY.
Although a few years ago a Society of Baronets was formed for
the protection of the privileges appertaining to their order, and for
the prevention of wrongful assumptions of the dignity, there is at
present no recognised tribunal by which the right to a Baronetcy
may be lawfully determined. In the absence of such an authority
it may be worth while in the pages of The Genealogist to consider
somewhat carefully some of the pretentions which annually appear
in the printed Baronetages. With this object in view the following
remarks are submitted with reference to the Baronetcy of Stapley,
accompanied by a collection of evidences which appear to con-
clusively prove that this title lias for two centuries been extinct.
The following appears in Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage
for 1901 :—
Stapley, 7th Bart, (Encj.). Croat. 1GG0. Sir Harry Stapley, s. of John Stapley
(who did not assume the title) . . . The present hart, elaims through
descent from Herbert Stapley, M.P., son of the 1st hart.. who prodoeoasod
his father, leaving, as it is claimed, several sons living at his death. Technical
proof of the descent, however, is wanting, and the claim has not been
formally admitted.
The editions of Debrett's Baronetage about ten years ago contained
this statement : —
The Baronetcy, which was conferred on heirs male whatsoever, is claimed
and assumed by Harry, grandson of Robert Stapley, of From field, who was
grandson of Sir John, de jure 2nd Bart, (son of Herbert, who being under
age, and in consequence of his pecuniary resources, did not assume the title).
In later editions of the same work, the above paragraph has
been omitted, though the claim is still inserted, with an intimation
that the claimant has not established and recorded his right to
the dignity at the Heralds' College.
The Baronetcy in question was conferred by Patent, dated 28 July
1660,1 upon John Stapley, of Patcham in Sussex, with remainder,
as may be seen on examination of the Patent Bolls, not to his
heirs male whatsoever, but to the heirs male of his body. He was
the second, but eldest surviving son of Colonel Anthony Stapley,
the Begicide, and was nephew maternally of George Coring, Earl
of Norwich, the celebrated commander of the Cavalier forces.
Sir John Stapley has a small place in history on account of his
connection with the conspiracy during the Protectorate of the
unfortunate Dr. John Hewit, whom he betrayed with the basest
treachery and cowardice.- Cromwell seems to have treated him
1 Patent Bolls, 12 Car. II, Bart 9, No. 5.
2 Noble's Ltves of the English Regie id*v} vol. ii. pp. lMJ l' i i: RitrsfieltVa
Lewes, vol. ii, pp. 108, 109; Sw*mcj Arch. Coll., vol. v. pp. (HMtt. >< - i u
Dictionary of National Biography, where (following Xohle) ii is v.:iiii thai lie
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLEY.
141
with considerable generosity, out of respect, perhaps, for the memory
of his old ally, Anthony Stapley ; and according to Noble, on the
discovery of the plot the Protector gave him warning of his
danger. In gratitude for the clemency shown to him, and no doubt
in the hope of receiving further advancement, he addressed to
Cromwell a letter in which he declared, "if ever Charles Stewart
should, in my dayes, make any attempt against your present
government, I will personally appeare against him, though it be
but in the capacity of a private trooper, if I may not be , intrusted
by your highness, or your successers, with better preferment."
Nevertheless, two years later he was among the first to welcome
and prepare the way for the return of " the Merry Monarch," who
in reward for his services conferred upon him a Baronetcy, gave
him a general pardon, :j and subsequently appointed him to a lucrative
office in the Customs, which was, after his death, estimated by
his widow at the yearly value of XI, 000. 4 He married a con-
siderable heiress, Mary, eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir Herbert
Springett, of the Broyle Place in Kingmer, at that time one of
the most important estates in Sussex, and which subsequently
passed into the possession of Sir John and Lady Stapley.3 In
1700, a year before his death, Sir John, together with those
in remainder to the property, sold the estate of Patcham and
the impropriation, glebe and tithe of the rectory of that
parish.0 In 1708 his widow filed a bill in Chancery7 against one
came under the influence of Dr. Hewit at the bouse of " his grandmother,
Lady Champion." This should read "his -wife's grandmother. Lady Campion."
Elizabeth, -wife of Sir William Campion, Knt., and dau. of Sir William
Stone, of London, Knt., died 9, and was buried at RSngmer 11 Oct.
1669.
3 Patent Polls, 13 Car. II, Part 36, No. 8.
4 Ibid. 23 Car. IT, Part 9, No. 12. Chanc. Pro. B and A before 171 i.
St(i}>Icy v. Lysons, bridges 333. Car. of Treasury Papers, 1557-1696, p. 438.
"Petition of Richard, Karl of Scarborough, to the Kinpr, praying for a grant
of the reversion of the oiHce of surveyor of the lesser customs and subsidies
of tonnage aud poundage the port of London, after the life of Sir John
Stapeley."
5 They appear to have removed, with their family, from Patcham to the
P»royle Place soon after 1676. in which year Sir John is described in a
Chancery Proceeding (Stapley v. The Earl of S»ssc.i\ Hamilton 520) as "of
Patcham." The particulars of this suit may be considered sufficiently interest-
ing to be noted here. Thomas, Pari of Sussex, and Sir Cecil Bisshopp, of
Parham, co. Sussex, Bart., about Nov. 1674, " made a match and agreed to
run an horse race with a horse of the said Earl of Sussex, called VVhcasell,
UgaillSt an horse of the said Sir Cecill Bishopp. called Pudding, for £200
a piece." The race1 was run on the 26ih April 1675. but the result bciug
disputed, the stakes were, by consent of both parties, delivered into the bands
of Sir John Stapley until the matter should be decided. According to the
defendant's statement, sir Cecil had. by a collusive action in tin- King's Bench,
obtained judgment against Sir John for 12400, ami Lord Su>sc\. having
threatened Further proceedings at law, sir John Stapley applied to the Court
of Chancery for" relief.
8 llorstioid's Sussex, vol. i. pp. 17:?. 171. Peel of Fines (S;ism'\) 12 Will. III.
Trin. Term. No. 2U. The deforciants IU this l ine were the MtltlQ AS tllOftC
mentioned on p. ill.
7 Chanc. Pro. before 1711, Bridges 883, Stapley ^. Ltf«0M«,
142
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLEY.
George Lj'sons, a real or pretended creditor of her husband, in
which she declared that the latter was "ait the time of hi-
death seized of a very Considerable real Estate in the said County
of Sussex, part of which to the Value of Three hundred and fifty
pounds p Ann' and upwards the said Sr John Staplcy had when
he died, and Severall yeares before his death in his owne possession
..... and was in his lifetime and att the time of his death
likewise possessed of a very Considerable psunall Estate . . . .
amounting to the Value of one Thousand Pounds and upwards,
and was not in his life look'd upon or Esteemed to bee nor in
truth was he a pson that was Indebted or Avanted money or
that was necessitous or Indigent, But on the Contrary did live
in great plenty, and did justly and honestly pay such psons as
hee had any dealinges [with], tho t'is true he was not al waves so
Circumspeck in his Affaires as hee might or in Prudence ought
to have been." The defendant in his Answer stated that " as near
as he can remember he did lend the said Hv John Stanley one
hundred pounds in the Boars head taverne being in the upper
end of Cannon street in London," and also that one Richard Milner,
on whose introduction lie had lent the money, subsequently "told
him that the said S* John Stapley was become insolvent and
indigent and that he Was a prisoner in the Queens bench prison
or else in the Fleet prison for debt."
The remainder to the Baronetcy, as already stated, was in the
Patent limited to the heirs male of the body of the first baronet ;
to establish therefore the improbability that proof, "technical" or
otherwise, of the existence of the title can be adduced, it will only
be necessary to consider his male descendants. He had two sons,
Herbert and William. The latter was born on the 6th November 1 07 1 ,
and died on the 9th of May following. A certain obscurity surrounds
the fate of Herbert Stapley, the elder of these two sons, who
was M.P. for Scaford I6?8-l(i8T. In April he was plaintiff
in a suit in the Court of Exchequer,8 in which his father was
one of the defendants, and in May of the same year he tiled a
bill in Chancery1' against Peter Tbeoballs, an attorney at Sitting-
8 Exchequer Depositions, Easter, 2 James II, No. 24. The other defendants
were the Karl of Longford, Viscount Hattou, Richard Langhoruc and Klinubeth
Lang-home, his mother. Sir John Stapley, in his deposition, acknowledged
that he had, about Michaelmas 27 Charles 11 (1675), assured to his boh
Herbert and his heirs certain lands called Kimrmer Park ami Kcvmor lands.
He had, however, without informing his son. charged the same lands with an
annuity to one Kiehard Latmhorne (father of the defendant Richard), who
had been his counsel for thirty years, but had been attainted and put to
death for treason. This Richard Langhorne was one of the victims of Titus
Oates. and was executed at Tyburn 11 July 1(>7D (See an account of him
in Diet. Nut, Biog.).
0 Chancery Pro. before 1714— lieynardson Stapley v. 77. rota ! I s. The
plaintiff is unfortunately desci'ihetl merely ;is "Hertarl Stnpelev in the County
of Sussex, Enquire,'1 no elun being nfforded to the parish in which he wm
then -rending, Thoolmlls had collected the rents of the rotate* in the eountic*
of Oxford ami Kent, which were ilovinod to llmlieii Stnpley'd wife hy Iter
father, Sir Kiehard Cole|>o|»er. Sec the abstract of the hitters will on \>. 159
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLE Y.
143
bourne, stating that " About itive ycares since -yor Orator had
occation to trauell beyonnd the Sea where bis oecations would
obleidge him to stay for some time." It is possible that be again
went abroad, and may have died beyond seas. The exact date of
his death lias not been ascertained, there being no entry of his
burial in the registers of Patcham, Kingmer or Folkington, in
which parishes the family properties lay, nor has any will or
administration to his estate been discovered either in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury, at Lewes or at Chichester. It is certain
that he died before lG9o,10 probably a few years earlier. In the
slovenly fashion in which genealogical works used to be compiled,
it was customary to write a man down as having "died s.p.."
when as a matter of fact lie had left issue surviving him, though
such issue had failed soon after his decease. Accordingly, in
nearly all the printed pedigrees, Herbert Stapley is said to have
left no issue.11 He had, however, four sons,1- and one of them
at least, Thomas Stapley, survived him, but died unmarried while
a mere youth, and was buried at xVylesford in Kent, 16 Feb.
1699. 13 That none of the other sons of Herbert Stapley lived to
maturity is equally certain, for though their fathers fate is
unknown, no doubt whatever exists as to the subsequent history
of their mother, Alicia, daughter of Sir Richard Colepeper of
Maidstone, in Kent, and sister and heiress of Sir Thomas Colepeper
of Preston Hall in that county, to which valuable estate she
succeeded on the death of her brother.14 No one on reading
the abstract of her will, printed on pp. 160-162, will believe that she
could have had living descendants at the time when this document
was drawn up. Her identity has perhaps been obscured by the
fact that she was four times married, and in none of the
genealogical accounts of the Stapley family hitherto printed is it
stated that she re-married after Herbert Stapley 's death. Her
parentage and her four husbands are, however, duly set out in a
pedigree in the College of Arms,15 and in Sir John Staplcy's will,
dated 20 .Aug. 1701, he mentions his messuage and lands in Keymer
" called Kymer Parke, . . . expectant after the death of Dame Alicia
Taylor, 'now wife of Thomas Culpeper, Esq." This was probably
10 In Nov. of this year his relict nave birth to a son by her second husband,
Sir Thomas Taylor. In the pedigree of the Stapley family in StliSSCSB Arch.
Coll., vol. ii, p. 10o, lie is said to have died in l(>98, which is manifestly an
incorrect date.
11 Burke's Extinct Baronetage. Berry's Comity Genealqgjes (Sussex). Horslicld's
History of Lcicct, vol. ii. pp. 109, 110, See also Noble's Lire* of the English
KegicMeSj vol. ii, p. 240. In the pedigree contributed by the Rev. Edward
Turner to Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. ii, p. 10."), which though very inctnuplet c atld
faulty in dates, is the best account of the family as yet published, only one
son is assigned to Herbert Stapley, namely, William, w ho is said to have died
young, but no Hate of this child's death is given.
1J See the M.I. t(» his fourth son Herbert, ri( Folkington on p, 153,
n Parish Register of Aylost'oril, which appears to give no no indication as
ro "whether the date should be L09J), or 1000.1700, but the latter is more
probable.
14 Hasted's Kent, vol. ii. p. 175.
15 Norfolk, L', SO. See also Arch. Cuntiunu vlNS7). vol. xvii. pp. _.'»■">. 250,
144
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLEY .
the messuage in Keynier which was included in a Fine levied at
Westminster, Michaelmas 27 Car. II. (1675) between John Beale,
Bart, and Thomas Colepeper Knt., plaintiffs, and John Stapley, Knt.
and Bart., and Mary his wife, deforciants. This Fine was ahnosl
certainly made in pursuance of the Marriage Articles of Herbert
Stapley and Alicia Colepeper, for Sir John Beale was the latter'*
uncle by marriage,115 and Sir Thomas Colepeper and he were; doubt-
less trustees of her settlement. It is -clear that Sir John bad
the reversion expectant on the death of his daughter-in-law, which
reversion lie bequeathed by his will to his widow.
Another Fine, in pursuance of a family settlement made by
Indenture dated 6 May 1700, was levied in Trinity term following/-7
of the Broyle Place, the Rectory of Ilihgmer and other estates,
the deforciants being John Stapley, Knight and Bart., and Mary
his wife; Thomas Briggs, Dr. of Laws, and Elizabeth his wife;
Mary Dubell, widow ; Merrick Jenkin, gent., and Barbara his
wife ; and Barbara Courthope, spinster. Upon reference to the
pedigree below it will be seen that these are the very persons
who would have been interested in the property if the issue of
Herbert Stapley had failed, and it is incredible that if any of
his children had then been living, they should not have been
included among the deforciants to this Fine, or the parties to
the Indenture of 6 May 1700. There is little doubt that if
this deed has been preserved and should be discovered, it will
be found to contain a recital that Herbert Stapley and his issue
were then deceased.
It will be observed upon examination of the abstracts printed
below that in none of the wills of the paternal or maternal
relatives of Herbert Stapley's children, dated after the death of
Thomas Stapley in 1GUU or 1700, is any mention of them to
be found.
It may also be noted that in the eighteenth century, according
to the Burrell MSS., the descendants of at least two of Sir John
Stapley's daughters, namely, Philadelphia Courthope and Elizabeth
Briggs, quartered the arms of Stapley and Springett upon family
monuments;16 and in 1S03 these quarterings were allowed by the
heralds to the descendants of another daughter, Mary Dobell.,y
It is too often supposed that the assumption of a title without
absolute proof of a lawful right thereto, provided no property
be in dispute, does harm to no one, but among families of gentle
birth the right to quarter the arms of an heraldic heiress has
always been justly prized, and in the present case descendants
of Sir John Stapley in the female line are still in existence.
w Sir Joint Beale, of Fannagfltani, eo. Kent, was evented ;> liaruiict in LOGO.
His first wife was Anno, dau. of Sir William Colepeper, Hurt., of Ayle*fonl.
co. Kent.
17 Foot of Fines (Sussex) 'Priii. 12 WiUinin III. No. See also the abstract
of tlio will of Bui'linm J fit kin on p. I»»7.
w M.I. nl Kui'Ktpior]>oint and UnVltostn- (bitfotlrnl, Add. MSS. llrit, Mu> ,
of>!>s, .-)<;«><>.
19 College of Anns, Norfolk, L\ SO.
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLE Y.
145
and would, if the claim now under consideration were a valid
one, be debarred from quartering his arms and those of his
wife.
No attempt has here been made to show the true descent of
the gentleman to whom an intention to claim this Baronetcy is
attributed by the works of reference quoted above, but the name
has long been a common one in Sussex,-0 and though he may
very possibly be descended remotely from the same stock, it is
believed that even if the remainder to the Baronetcy had been
to heirs male whatsoever, he would have met with more 'than a
" technical " difficulty in making £rood a claim to be the next
male heir of the first baronet.
As Anthony iStapley, the Regicide, is a character of some
historical interest, and as the published accounts of this family
are all more or less inaccurate in dates, the subjoined pedigree
has been carried a generation further back than is necessary for
the immediate purpose of this paper.
ANTHONY STAPLEY, of Framfield and Patcham, co. Sussex,
son of Anthony Stapley of Framfield, by his third wife Ann, dan.
of John Thatcher of Priesthawcs in "West-ham in the same county.-1
Bap. at Framfield 30 Aug. 1500.'-- Purchased the estate of Patcham
Place about 1625, and removed there from Framfield.-'3 M.P. for New
Shoreham 1621, for Lewes 1628, and for Sussex 1639 and 1653. Colonel
in the Parliamentary Army. Signed the death warrant of Charles I.
One of Cromwell's Council of thirteen. He mar. firstly, at All
Saints, Lewes, 19 May 161 4,-4 Anne, dau. of George Goring of
Danny, co. Sussex, sister of George, Lord Goring, afterwards Earl
of Norwich; she died 9, and was buried at Patcham 11 Nov. 1637.
He mar. secondly Dame Anne Clarke, who died 15 Jan, 1653-4,
aged 66, and was buried at Patcham. He died 31 Jan. 1651-5,
and was also buried at Patcham.-0 Will dated 12 Oct. 1651,
10 It appears from §w$mx Arch. Coll., vol. iv. p. 300, that there were persons
named Stapley living in Framfield as late as 1851, lor an anonymous corres-
pondent there writes, "A decayed member of this family still lives in Framfield
in the person of old Robert Stapley, who, though living on his own land,
obtains with difficulty the means of subsistence for his household. He Itas
told me of the general belief of his family that an evil intinencc seems to
hang over them in retribution for their guilty participation in the Rebellion."
As a matter of fact this Robert, if related at all to the Regicide, must have
been so distant a kinsman that Nemesis might well have spared him!
* Visitation of Sussex i@&i-4 (llarl. MSS. K)7(> ff, 17-H) and 175).
Dictionary of National Biography. Sec also Suaacx Arch. Coll.. Vol. iv. p. ;UH>,
where it is stated : — "'He was born at Framfield in the year Lo90, am! is thus
registered: Aug. 80th, Authonie Stapley. Gentleman." His sister (trace (also
by his father's third wife) was bap. at Westhuin, co. Sussex, (> Dec. li>86
(Burrell MSS.)
BitS^ex Arch. Coll.. vol. ii. p. 102.
-* Registers of All Saints, hours (Add. MS. i>(>98).
The Diction upy of Xotionul IHoiira fiiiii states thai "he died early in lti.V>,
and was buried al Patcham on 8 I .Ian.*' According lo the. M.I. printed on
p. 162, 81 .Ian. was the date of death, not burial. There is no entry in the
I'ateham R,e«Jfistei'iJ of his burial or thai of his second wile. Dane' Anne Clarke
(wllOSC parentage 1 have as yet beeit unable to trace). Mr, Turner in his pedigree
146
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLE Y.
proved in London 20 March 1G51-5 By his first wife he had
issue —
I. George Stapley, bap. at Patcham 30 March, and bur. there
9 May 1627.
II. John Stapley, created a Baronet, of whom hereafter.
III. Antiioxy Stapley,"0 bap. at Fatcham .'31 Jan. 1629-30.
Pensioner to Charles II. .Died s.p. 7 and buried at Patcham
9 March 1671-2. Admon. P.C.C. 13 Nov. 1(574. He mar.
Douglas,27 dau. of Sir Henry Holcruft of Long Acre, co.
Middx., and of East Ham, co. Lssex, Knt., by Lettice,
dau. of Francis, Lord Aungier : she died 21 and was
buried at Fatcham 25 Feb. 1094-5. Will dated 29 Jan.,
proved at Lewes 16 March 1694-5.
I. Anne Stapley, bap. at Patcham 6 Jan. 1624-5, bur. there
1645.
BIB JOHN STAPLEYr of Patcham, co. Sussex, and afterwards
of the Brovle Place in the parish of llingmer, in the same count v ;
bap. at Patcham 29 June 1G28. M.P. for Sussex 1654 and lG^J,
and for Lewes 1661. Created a Baronet 28 July 1660, and shortly
afterwards knighted.'-5 Was Surveyor to the Customs. He mar. in
or about 1651, Mary eldest dau. and co-heir of Sir Herbert Springett
of the Brovle Place aforesaid, Bart., by Barbara, dau. of Sir William
Campion, Knt. He died 22, and was buried at Riiigmer 24 Aug.
1701. Will dated 20 Aug., proved in the Peculiar of South Mailing
at Lewes 28 Aug. 1701, Lady Stapley-9 died 20 March 1708-9,
and was buried at Ringmer 25 March 1709. Her will dated 21 Nov.
1706, proved at Lewes 27 May 1709. They had issue —
in Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. ii, p. 105. gives 1671 as the year of the Regicide's
death, having evidently taken the entry of the burial of his third son and
namesake to refer to him.
36 He was, like his brother Sir John, engaged in Dr. Ilewit's plot. Noble in
his Lives of tlic English L'e<i>ci<Jc.<, says. 41 sue h was the temper of tlie times
that Captain Anthony Stapley, also concerned in it, uttered every tiling which
would tend to convict this gellt leman, his elder hrothcr."
21 It is amusing to read Mr. Turner's remarks upon the entry of this lady's
burial in the Patcham Registers:- "To this Douglas Stapley I am tumble to
assign a place in the above pedigree. He was probably brother to Anthonir.
the liegicide, though the name does not occur in the Framtield Register."
Her Christian name was derived from her maternal grandmother, Douglas
Fitzgerald, sister of the Kith Earl of Kildnrc (Complete Petmge, suh Longford).
Her father's will dated 2 April 1644) was proved P.C.C 2S June LtioO (08
Pembroke). One of her brothers, the Kcv. Henry Holcroft. was vienr of
Patcham,' 12 .July L0G2 until his death (aged f»2)i 3 Dec. 1712. Another
brother, Francis Holcroft. was probably the eminent puritan divine of whom
there is a notice in Diet, Xot. ftioff.
-8 La Neve's "Knights" pays (p. K>il)> thai he was knighted 6 Aug. I860,
but is in error in stating that lie was tlftenraedi created a liaronot. In the
patent of creation, L'X July of the same year, lie is styled " Armi'_rcr. "
In her will she is described as "of Street," and must have gone to resale
there, shortly before her death, with her daughter, Mar\ DobcU.
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLE Y.
147
I. Herbert Stapley, died v.p., of whom hereafter.
II. William Stapley, born at Patcham 6 Nov. and bap. there
13 Nov. 1(371, d. 9, and bur. there 10 May 1672.
I. Philadelphia Stapley, born 7 and bap. at Patcham 11 May
1652; mar. there 10 Dec. 1667 Peter Courthope of Danny,
co. Sussex, Esq. She died 18 atid was bur. at Hurstpierpoint
19 Oct. 1676. Admon. at Lewes .18 Feb. 1716-17. Mr.
Courthope died in his 86th year 13, and was bur. 19 Feb.
1721-5 at Hurstpierpoint. His will dated 6 Feb. 1719-20,
proved P.C.C. 14 April 1725 (81 llomncy). They had
issue —
1. Johx Courthope, bap. at Hurstpierpoint 27 Nov.
1673, bur. there 12 March 1699-1700.
2. Peter Courthope, bap. at Hurstpierpoint 9 Oct.
1676 ; died young.
1. Philadelphia Courthope, bur. at Hurstpierpoint
29 Jan. 1669-70.
2. Barbara Courthope (sole heir of her parents), bap.
at Hurstpierpoint 17 June 1675 ; mar. there 8 June
1702, Henry Campion of Combwell, in Coudhurst,
co. Kent, Esquire,30 and had issue.
II. Axne Stapley, born 29, bap. at Patcham 30 June 1653 ;
bur. there 25 Feb. 1657-8.
III. Elizabeth Stapley, born 15 Feb. 1657-8, and bap. at
Patcham. She mar. at Ringmer, 30 Aug. 168-1, Thomas
Briggs,:jl LL.1X, Chancellor of Chichester, by whom she
left issue. He died 15 Oct. 1713, set. 81, and was buried
in Chichester Cathedral. She died, in her 61th year,
9 June 1721, and was also buried in Chichester Cathedral.
IV. Barbara Stapley,*- born 16 July, bap. at Patcham 22 July
1661 ; bur. there 5 Nov. following.
V. Mary Stapley, bap. at Patcham 3 Oct. 1663 ; mar. at
llingmer, 23 Feb. 1682-3, Walter Dobell, jun., of Street,
co. Sussex, Esq., by whom she had issue. He was bur.
at Street 8 March 1692-3. She was bur. there 5 Feb.
1719-20.
VI. Barbara Stapley, mar. firstly at Ringmer, 16 Sept. 1690,
William Hay, of Clyndebourne, co. Sussex, Esq., by
whom she left issue. He died 1697 or 1698; his will
dated I t Oct. 1697 ; admon. with said will annexed
granted at Lewes (South Mailing Peculiar) 27 May 1709,
30 From this marriage descends William Henry Campion, Raq., now of Daimv
Park.
81 Not • lolin Bri^jys, as in nil the printed pcdijjrocs. For their descendants,
soo M inceJlaiit'o G e net t log tea ti tfewiditii, vol. iv, Now Series ^l.ssiV
IW In Mr. Turner's pedigree tliisehild is called u Bnrbnrath." tt is, howevw,
quite clearly "Barbara" in tho register.
148
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLE V.
She mar. secondly . . June 169S:;3 Merrick Jenkin, gent.,
by whom she had a son, Charles Jenkin. Her will dated
13 Nov. 1700, proved at Lewes (.South Mailing Peculiar)
10 Feb. 1700-1.
VII. Jane Stapley, born 24 March 1667-8, bap. at Patcham
next day; died 5 and bur. at Patcham 7 Aug. 1669.
VIII. Sybilla Stapley, born 15 Feb., bap. at Patcham 19 Feb..
1673-4 ; died unmar. 24, and Mas bur. at Ringra£r 27 Mav
1697. Will dated 17 April, proved P.C.C. 5 June 1697
(127 Pyne).
HERBERT STAPLEY, elder son of Sir John Stapley, by Mary
►Springe! t, born 3, bap. at Patcham 6 Nov. 1655 ; - matric. at Trin.
Coll., 0X011., 3 July 1672. MP. for Seaford 1678—1681. . Was
living 17 May 1686, but died before 1693. He mar., in or before
1675, ::4 Alicia, only dau. and eventually sole heir of Sir Richard
Colepeper of Preston Hall, in the parish of Aylesford, co. Kent.
Bart., by Margaret Reynolds, his wife. She mar. secondly, in or
before 1693, Sir Thomas Taylor,"5 of Park House, Maidstone, Bart.,
whose will,-". dated 29 April "l 693, was proved P.C.C. 14 July 1698.
She mar. thirdly, before 20 Aug. 1701, her cousin Thomas Colepeper, "*
of the Middle Temple, Esquire, whose will, dated 7 Aug. 1703, was
proved P.C.C. 27 March 1704 (87 Ash). She mar. fourthly, Oct.
1723, John Milner, M.D.,37 of Pudsev, co. York, who died intestate
Feb. 1724 (Admon. P.C.C. 21 Feb. 1723-4). She was bur. at
Aylesford 3 April 1734. Will dated 6 Jan. 1727-8, proved P.C.C.
2 Nov. 1734 (254 Ockham). Herbert Stapley by Alicia, his wife,
had issue —
I. "William Stapley, born 21, bap. at Patcham 26 Feb. 1676-7 ;
bur. at Ringmcr 4 Oct. 1678.
II. Thomas Stapley, survived his father, but died unmar., and
was bur. at Aylesford, co. Kent, 16 Feb. 1699 (1 1699-
1700).
53 Chauc. Fro. before 1714. St<i}>1ci/ v. Jenlin, Collins 554, No. 17. This
second marriage is not ^iven in any of the Stapley pedigree?:, nor in that of
Hay contained in Berry's County Gencaldgies (Sussex).
s* See Feet of fines (Sussex), .Mich. 27 Car. II (1675) ; tliis Fine was probably,
as shown above on p. 144, executed in pursuance of the Marriage Articles
drawn up before tin- marriage.
■ll By him she had a son, Sir Thomas Taylor. 3rd Hart., who was baptized
at Boxlcy, co. Kent, 11 Nov. 1693 (Hasted). An abstract of his will is given
on p. 1GO below.
'M He was son of Sir Thomas Colepeper. of llollinjrbourne. co. Kent, by Alicia
his wife. See abstract of his will on p. 1(H).
;i7 By Marriage Settlements dated 14 and I o Oct. 1723, Lady Taylor settled
Preston Hall and all her estates upon her fourth husband ami his heirs, subject
to her own life interest, and on her death they passed to her brother-in-law.
Dr. Charles Milner, ill the possession of whose representatives they continued
for a considerable period, hi L T— *"» Hi-. Charles Milner liled a Hill ill Chancery
against bady Taylor and her trustees to compel [terfunimnre of the trilftta tii
the above mentioned Settlements. I have not been ttble to lind this liill, but
the reference to the Depositions in the sun is Ziueke. L'TiM.
THE KARONETCY OF STAPLE Y.
149
III. A son, of whom no record has yet been found. 3y
IV. Herbert Staple y, called fourth son in his M.I. at Folk-
ington, co. Sussex, bap. there 1 March 1684-5 ; died 28 May
1687, bur. at Folkington.
I. Margaret Stapley, born 16, bap. at Patcham 10 Dec.
1675 ; bur. at Aylesford, co. Kent, 21 Jan. 1677 (? 1677-3).
PARISH REGISTERS.
Patcham, co. Sussex (1558 to 1716).:J9
1624-5. The sixt day of Januarie was baptised Anne the daughter
of M1' Anthonie Stapley & M,s Anne his wife.
1627. George Stapley sonne of Mr Anthony Stapley exquier and
of Anne his wife was baptized the ?>0th day of March
in Aiio Doni 1627.
1627. George the sonne of Mr Anthony Stapley Esq. and of
Anne his wife was buryed the ixth day of Maye.
1628. John ye Sonne of Anthony Stapley Esqv and of Anne his
wife was Baptized the nine and twenty th day of June
Ano doni 1628.
1620. Anthony yc Sonne of Mr Anthony Stapley esq. and of
Anne his wife was baptized the xxxi day of January
An. Doni 1620.
1637. Mrs Anne Stapley wife of Anthony Stapley Esquire was
buryed the eleventh of November Anno Doni 16-37.
1652. Philadelphia ye daughter of John Stapley Esqr A: of Mary
his wife was borne ye 7th of May Baptized ye 11th
' of ye same moneth 1652.
1653. Anne ye daughter of John Stapley Esqr k of Mary his
wife was borne y* 20th of June k baptized ye 30th of
the same moneth 1653.
1655. Harbert Stapley the sonne of John Stapley Esq' and of
Mary his wife was born the 3 day of Nouember about
8 of the Clock in the forenon (tie) and was Bahtised
(sic) the 6th day of that month in the yere 1655.
1657. Elizabeth the daughter of .John Stapley Esq1' and Marey
his wife was borne the 15 of {February 1657 and after-
wards babtized.
1657. Ann the daughter of John Stapley Esq1 and Mary his
wife was Bured (sic) ye 25 of ffeburary L657.
08 It will be remembered that the elaiin to the Baronetcy is made out Prom
a supposed son of Herbert Stapley, named John. It is very possible that
there was a son so tin mod, but it is certain, as will bo seen from the text,
that such child must have died an infant. The Registers of Folkiugton, where
he was probably born and perhaps also buried, appear from a lot tor received
from the Vicar of the parish, to be incomplete for tin period in question, and
there are no Transcripts in the Bishop's Registry at Lewes for the years
1675, 1()7<>. 1077, 1083, 1088 and L089,
~* By the kindness* of the Rev, Sydney l>. Field, Vicar of the parish, I ii sve
been permitted to take these entries from the original Registers,
150
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLE Y.
1661. Barbara the daughter of John Stanley Knight and Baronet
and Mary his wife was horn the 16th of Julij and
Baptized the 22 of the same month 1661 and bured ye ~> of
Nouemher f plowing 1661.
1663. Mt,s Mary Stapeley the daughter of Sr John Staply Knighl
and Baronett and Marv his wife was baptized the 3'
of Octobr 1663.
1667. Mr Peter Courtliope of Hurst-perpoint k MHs Philadelphia
Stapley of this parish brought their licence A: were
married on the 10th day of December in Anno Domini
1667.
1667-K Mtrs Jane Staply the daughter of Sr John Stapley K« it
Bar" & Mary his wife Mas borne on the 24th of March A'
was baptized on the 25th of March An. Pom. 166:.
1669. M*™ Jane Staply the da light1' of Sr John Stapely Kc it
Bar** tt Mary his wife dyed Wedensday the 5'!' of
Aug1 it was buried on Friday the 7th of August 1660.
1671. Anthonv Staply Esquire died the 7"' of March 1671 & was
buried the* 9th of March An p'ck
1671. Mr William Staply the son of Sr John Stapely Kr & Barnen
and of Mary his wife was borne the 6th of Nouemher
and was baptized on the 13th of Nouemher An: Doni :
1671.
1672. Mr William Stapely the sonn of Sr John Stapely K* &
Barett and Mary his wife died the 95h day of' May &
was buried the 10"' day of May 1672.
1673-4. Mtrs Sybilla Stapley the daughter of S1' John Stapley
K* & Blt & of Mary his wife was borne the 15"' day
of ffebruary & was Baptized the 19"' of ffebruary An.
Dom. 167J-.
1675. M,rs Margaret Stapley the daughter of Harbert Stapley,
Esq. of Alicia his wife was born The 16th day of
December & was baptized the 19"' day of the same
month An Dom. 1675.
1676-7. Mr William Stapley the son of Harbert Stapley Esq, ifc
Alicia his wife was born the 21 of ffebr. it was baptized
26 of ffebr. 16|f
1694-5. Mt,s Douglas Staply of the parish of S1 Micliaol at Lewis
died Febr: 21 «fc was buried in Patcham 25,h 1694-5
in Wollen.
Ringmer, co. Sussex.
(From the Jhtrrell MSS.)
}[arriages.
M« Walter Dubble, of Street, ti M" Mary, d. of Sr
Jn. Stapley.
Tho" Briggs, LL.D., and Chancr of Chichester, I
Eliz., d. of Sir Jn. Stapley.
\Ym Hay, Esq., and Barbara, d. <»t sir Jn Stapley.
23 Jan. 1682.
30 Aug. 1681.
1G Sep'. 1690.
THE HAROXETCY OF STAPLEY. 151
Bit rials.
4 Oct. 1678. Wtu, s. of Hai-bert Staplev, Esq.
27 M.-iv 1697. Svbilla, d. of Br John Staplev.
24 Alio-. 1701. Sir Jn. Staplev, aet, 73.
25 Mch. 1709. Lady Staplev/ aet. 7-1.
{From the Episcopal Transcripts at Leices.)
1G78, October 4 was Buried William the Sonne of Harbert
Staplev Esq., and Alicia ttX:
1G82. Mr Walter Bdufele of Street Junior and Mrs Mary Staplev
daughter of Sr John Stapley %* and Barronet were
married yc T wen tie third day of ffebruary.40
1GS4. Thomas Bfiggs t>r of Lawex and Chancellour of this Diocese
of Chichester was married to Elizabeth Stapley (ye
daughter of S1' John Stapley K1 and Barronet) the
thirtieth day of August.
1 GOO. William Hay Esq1' and Madame Barbara Stapley were
married y* Sixteenth day of September.
1G97, May 27. Buried Mrs Sibylla daughter of Sir John Stapelev
* Bar*.
1701. Sir John Staplev Bart, was buried August ye 24.
1705. Jn". Thorp of Bat tell &■ Anne Staplev of Lewes married
Hay y° 11th
1709. y° Early Stapley buried March 25th.
FOLKINGTON, CO. SUSSEX.41
1G41. Robert the sonne of John Stapely was baptized the 7 of
March 1641.
1684. Herbertus Filius Herberti Stapley Armigeri et Alicia1
Uxoris ejus : Nepos Dai Johannis Stapley Bar" (baptiza-
tus) Martii lmo.
1635. Edmund Bartlemew & Hellen Staple were married the 26th of
October.
1615, Alexander Stapley buryed the 23 of September.
1620. Mary Stapley, daughter of William Stapley buryed the 8 of
September.
1G35. Buried Ellen the wife of William Staple the 14th day
of July.
(From the Episcopal Transcripts at Lores.)
1615. Alexander Stapley buryed September 23.
1620. Mary Stapley, daughter of Willam Stapley was Buried the
8 of September.
1635. Eleanor Stapely the wife of William Stapelv was buried
the 14 of 'July.
Christenings. 1684. Herbert son of Herbert Staplev, Esq' and
Alicia Ins wife March 1st 1684,
■"' Not January :ts in the Burrell Mss.
41 My cordial thanks inv <lu<> to the Rev. Waiter Walsh, Vicar of Polkingtotl,
for these extruets from the Registers of his parish.
152 THE BARONETCY OF STAPLE Y.
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION^.42
Patcham, co. Sussex.43
Ox THE FLOOR WITHIN THE COMMUNION RAILS OX A BliASS PLATE.
Heere lyeth buryed the Body j of Anne Stapley the Wife at
Anthony Stapley of | Patcham Esq. and sister vnto j The right
honorable George j Lord Goring who deceased j Vpon the 9th of
November 1637.
ON ANOTHER GRAVE SlONE WITHIN THE COMMUNION 'RAILS.
Here lyeth bvried the body | of Ann Stapley, the onely | dayghtor
of Anthony Stapley | of Patcham Esq1". Shoe died I anno 1645.
On another Grave Stone in the same place.
Here lyeth buryed the | Body of Anthoney Staple}' | Esq1" who
deceased the j 31 of January [1654]44 j Aged 77 (sic).
On another Grave Stone in the same place.
Here lyeth the Body | Of Dame Anne Clarke | Second wife of
Anthoney | Staple v, Esq1' who deceased | The 15th day of January j
1653 | Aged 66.
On a Grave Stone under a Staircase in the Chancel.
Here lieth buried the | Body of Anne Stapley the j Daughter of
Sir John ] Stapley Knight and Baronett and Dame | Mary his Wife,
who ! Deceased the 25th of | Feb. anno Domini 1657 | She was aged
4 years.
On another in same place.
Here lyeth the | Body of Jane Sta- | pley the Seaventh | Daughter
of Sir | John Staplev Kl | and Bar*: and Dame I Mary his Wife j who
died the | fifth of August j 1669, aged 18 [months].45
On another In same place.
Here lyeth buried the | Body of Barbara Stapley | Daughter of
Sir ] John Stapley Knight j and Baronet, and j Dame Mary his
Wife | Who deceased the 15"' of | Nov1', anno Domini 1661 j Aged
7 Months.
On a Grave Stone part whereof is covered by a Pew.
[Anthony]40 Stapley Gent. Pensioner j to King Charles the
Second ] and sonne to Anthony Stapley I Esqr and Anne his wife,
he | Died the 7,h of March | Aged U years A.D. [I671].4,i
42 Those Monumental Inscriptions are taken from the Burr ell MSS. in the
British Museum (Add. MSS. .")I5«>7. 5698, 3099). The dates cannot be strictly
depended upon, for doubtless many of the tombstones were much worn when
the inscriptions were copied.
,:1 Only the two first of those tombs are now remaining ill Patcham Church,
the others having completely disappeared. Some of the inscriptions have been
very incorrectly printed in Horstield's Sussex, vol. i. p. 1 74--
44 The year is added from his will, of which a copy is given on pp. 163, L64,
lie could not have been aged 77 at his death, for he was baptised at l'ramttohl
30 Aug. lf>90.
45 Her correct ago was sixteen months and twelve days.
48 The additions in square brackets tire supplied from the entry of his
burial in the Patcham Registers.
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLE Y.
153
Ringmer, co. Sussex.
Here lyeth interred the Body | of Sr John Stapley Knight j and
Baronett, who married Mary | Eldest Daughter of Sr Herbert
Springett | By whom he had Ten Children, he | Deceased the 22d
day of August 1701, in | The 74 year of his Age.
Here lyeth interred the Body of | Dame Mary Stapley ye Wife |
of Sr John Stapley Baronett j Eldest Daughter of Sfc Herbert |
Springet Bar* : mother of x children | Two Daughters whareof she
left | Surviving | and departed this Life March 20th 1708 | In the
73 year of her Age | Mary Dobell in Meory of her Mother j Placed
this Stone.
Here lyeth the Body of the Truly | Pious and most ingenious
young | Lady Mrs Sibylla Stapley the | Youngest Daughter of Sr
John | Stapley of the Broyl Place, Knight | And Baronet, who in
Charity to the | Poor Children of this Parish gave | An Hundred
Pounds towards their | Instruction in Letters and the Needle | 47
She died a Virgin at the Age j of 23, May the 24, 1697.
folkington, co. sussex.
On a Grave Stone within the Communion Rails, having no Coat
op Arms.
Here lyeth interred the Body of Herbert | Stapley fourth sonne
of Herbert Stapley Esq. | his mother the only daughter of Sir
Kichd | Colepepyr of Ailsford in Kent; He died in | the third year
of his Age May 28, 1687. | Nascentes morimur.4S
HURSTPIERPOINT, CO. SUSSEX.
Here lyeth the Body of Philadelphia eldest daughter | of Sir John
Stapley,49 Kl & : wife of Peter Courthope, Esq., to | whom she
left Issue John, Barbara <fe Peter & departed j this Life on the
'18,h day of October Anno Dom. 1676 Aetat. 25.
Chichester Cathedral.
Here lyeth the Body of Elizabetli Briggs | Wife of the late Dr
Thomas Briggs and | Daughter of Sir John Stapley of Patcham | In
this County Baronet, who departed | This Life on the 9th dav of
Juno, in | The 64th year of her Aget and in the year j of our Lord
1721.
WILLS.
[Will of Anthony Stapley]50
"Since duty binds me to a provident Christian care in the right
and orderly disposeinge of such temporal] estate as the lord hath
47 This charity is still in existence in Ringmer parish.
48 This inscription is believed to be now under the pavement of the
chancel ; a copy of it has recently been placed in the church.
49 Stepney has been written by mistake for Stapley. The Ibirrell MSS also
contain a long and interesting M.I. to her husband, Peter Courthope,
10 On account of the interest which attaches to all those who bore a pari
in the tragedy of the King's execution, this Will has been copied in full, in
all other cases genealogical abstracts only have been printed,
M
154
THE BARONETCY OF STAPLEY.
blessed me with that when death shall close mine eyes peace and
loue may be continued in my liueirig familie I desire that this
paper written with myne owne hand may be effectuall to that
purpose and remayne as a lasting evidence to settle and quiet the
minds of those that are concerned therein Humbly beging that the
blesseing of Almightie God may bee upon them, and remayne with
that Upon whose only grace and goodnes I rest and wholely
depend both in life and death. I doe nowe make this to be my
last will and Testament, Revoakeinge all former wills; ffirst-I giue
unto my sonne Anthony Stapley Two hundred pounds of lawfoll
money of England to be paid to him within three raonthes after
my decease. This I doe as a ffatherly remembrance in my will
haueing formerly setled upon him by Deed my lands lyeing in
'Herst Monseux, Wartling, and (P)evensey within the County of
Sussex Which lands I doe likewise by this my last will giue unto
my sonne Anthony Stapley and his heires for euer ; All my Evidences
and writeings which concerne those lands thus disposed of ; My
will is that they bee deliuered unto my sonne Anthony stapley
within one moneth after my decease. The rest of my lands, goods
and personall estate I giue unto my eldest sonne John Stapley
Who I doe make and ordayne my sole Executor. This I doe rati fie
and conflrme under my hand and seale, beareing date the Twelueth
day of October, one thousand sixe hundred ffiftie fower. Anth :
Stapley In the presence of ffrancis Cheynell and Richard Reade/'
"This ^Vill was proued att London the twentith day of March
in the yeare of our lord God one thousand sixe hundred riiftie
and fower before the Judges for probate of Wills and granting
Administrations lawfully authorized, By the oath of John Stapley
the sonne and sole Executor named in the said will, To whom was
committed Administration of all and singular the goods Chattells
and Debts of the said Deceased He being first sworne truelv to
Administer the same." (P.C.C. 189 Aylett.)
Admon. Act Book, P.C.C. (f. 160). 13 Nov. 1674. Comm" to
Sir John Stapelev, KX and Bart., the natural and lawful brother of
ANTHONY STAPELEY late of Peasham [Patcham] co. Sussex, to
administer the goods and credits of said deccl ; Douglas Stapley the
relict of said dec'' having first renounced.
DAME BARBARA SPRING ET of the Broyle Place within
the parish of Ringmer in the County of Sussex, widow. M Date
15 June 1694 — Being aged — Unto my son-in-law Sr John Stapley
Kn* and Barronet & Sr William Thomas Barr1 £10 apeice. To
my daughter Dame Barbara Thomas my Cabinet and my late
husband's picture set in gold, with my late daughter Whallev's
picture. Unto my daughter Dame Mary Stapley the use of all
my household stuff whatsoever dureing her life if she shall 906
long continue to inhabit and dwell in I he house called the Broyle
51 She was buried at Rinprtner 0 March 1600«7. The Barrel! Mss. contain
M.l. to her and her husband Sir Herbert Spriu$?ett, Hart. He died 5 Jan.,
and was buried (it Ringmer 14 .lan. LG01-2. His Will, dated 'J Jan. 1661*2,
was proved P.C.C. 20 Oct. JGOL* (131 hand).
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Place aforesaid. And from & after the decease of said Dame Mary
Stapley, tirc., I -give said household stuff unto my great granson
Thomas Stapley if he shall be then liveing— if dead, unto Sibell
Stapley, youngest daughter of the said S1' John Stapley, & Dame
Mary his wife. Whereas I have lately given unto my said dau.
Dame Mary Stapley £100 to redeeme a diamond Graste- which was
out of her possession, my desire and request therefore is that she
the said Dame Mary Stapley shall give or leave the same to her
said daughter Sibill Stapley. Unto the aforesaid Thomas Stapley
my diamond Jewell with a Saphire Stone in the Middle of it . . .
at his age of 21 years or day of marriage ... if he die I bequeath
said Jewell unto my great grandson John Courthop eldest sonn of
Peter Courthop of Danny in the parish of Hurstperpoint in said
Co. of Sussex Esquire. And further I give unto said Thomas
Stapley my embroidered Mowhair Bedd. Unto my grandaughter
Mary Dobell widow (one other of the daughters of the said Sr
John Stapley) - my silver salver. Unto my grandaughter Barbara
Hay, another daughter of said Sr John Stapley, my Silver Skillet.
Whereas by certain Indentures beareing date on or about 7 June
1694, I did grant unto Peter Courthop Esq1* aforesaid two severail
mortgages in trust to and for the only benefit and advantage of
the said Sybill Stapley my said grandaughter under a provisoe
that same might be declared void by any deed of mine or by
my last Will — I ratifye and confirme the said grants. I give unto
Dame Lucy Whalley, the Relict of my grandson Sr Herbert
Whalley Kn6, dec'1, a diamond ring which was formerly my daughter
Whalley 's, the mother of said Sr Herbert Whalley. Unto my
cousin Anne Campion of London (dau. of my Uncle Edward
Campion) . . . Unto my Nephew Herbert Southland . . .
Unto my nephew William Campion of Combwell in Gowdhurst
co. Kent Esq'6 . . . Unto my brother Edward Campion of Etching
ham co. Sussex afsd Esqlu . . . Unto Barbara Campion one of
the daughters of said Edward Campion . . . Unto Elizabeth
Gellybrand, one other of the daughters of said Edward Campion
. . . Unto Peter Courthop Esq"' aforesaid . . . Unto Thomas
Brett clerke my now Chaplaine . . . To poor of Ringmer <fe Laughton
co. Sussex £5 to each of said parishes. Unto Elizabeth wife of
John Roberts my Butler. ... I appoint said William Campion,
Peter Courthop, and Sybill Stapley to be the Executors and
Executrices of this my Will & I appoint my said brother Edward
Campion Esq,c & Richard Shelley of Lewes co. Sussex, Esqri' to
be Overseers. Residue unto aforesd Sybill Stapley.
Signed " Barbara Springett." Witns — Will : Hay, Henry Snooke,
John Kneller.
Codicil — 4 Feb. 1694-5. I revoke the said Authority of Overseer
given to said brother, and the Lcgaeves to him the said Edward
Campion, and to her the said Barbara his dau. Witn* — The. Brett,
John Roberts, Tho. Herman. Proved P.C.C. 12 April 1697 by
Sybilla Stapley the execx (83 Pyne).
SIBELLA STAPLEY of Street co. Sussex, minster, Date
17 April 1607. Unto my honoured Mother the Lady Stapley
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.£500. Unto my Aunt Dame Barbara Thomas my diamond Ring
which was given me by my late honoured Grandmother Dame
Barbara Springett. Unto my sisters Elizabeth Briggs & Barbara
Hay £200 apiece. Unto my Nephews Thomas Stapley and John
Courthope £50 apiece. To my niece Barbara Courthope my pearle
Necklace. Unto my cousin Barbara Campion, dau. of William
Campion of Combewell in Gowdhurst, _co. Kent Esq"'. To my
cousin Phebe Kingsley my Ruby Ring. To my cousin v Antony
Springett £5. Unto Thomas Brett of the Broile-place, clerk £30.
Unto Edward Hart of Shipley co. Sussex, Gent. Unto Elizabeth
wife of John Roberts of the Broile-place. Unto Mary Allen of
said Broile-place. To Grace Chamberlain my Maid £20. To John
Swift my servant. To Mary Row servant to my sister Dobel of
Street afsd. To Richard Middleton & George the Coachman & to
Elizabeth Barnard other servants of said sister Dobel. To Anne
Burtenshire and Alice Graves tock. To Elizabeth Earle of the
Broile-place. Sister Dobel to be sole execx & residuary legatee.
Nephew John Courthope tfe Thoa Brett afs(l Overseers. To Henry
Snooke, Vicar of Ringmer, Sussex, two guineas.
Witns — John Cittizen sen :, John Cittizen jun :, Catherine Chaloner.
Proved P.C.C. 5 June 1697 (127 Pyne).
S JOHN STAPLEY of the Broyle in the parish of Ringmer
co. Sussex, Kn. and Barf*. Date 20 August 13 Will. Ill (1701).
To my Sonn in Law Dr Thomas Briggs and Elizabeth his wife,
and to my daughter Mary Dobell, my sonn in Law Peter Court-
hopp Esq., and unto my Grandaughter Barbara Courthopp, daughter
of said Peter Courthopp one Guinea peiee of Gold to each of them
to buy each of them a mourning ring. To my wife Mary Stapley
and her heirs for ever All that my Messuage or Tenement, Lands
etc lying and being in Kymer in the said County, coinonly called
Kymer Parke, now in tenure of Joseph Farncomb and Richard
Turner or their assignes Expectant after the death of Dame Alicia
Taylor, now wife of Thomas Culpeper Esq., she discharging Acton's
Mortgage made on the said Lands. .Residue of goods and personal
Estate unto my wife Mary Stapley whom I make sole execx.
Witn8 — B. Henshaw, Edward Woodman, Mary Allen.
Codicil of same date. To said wife Mary and her heirs the
Revercion of all that my Lease of Bletchington flarme in said co.
of Sussex, and all my right, title Ac to same Expectant after the
death of Dame Alicia Taylor. Will and Codicil proved at Lewes
(Peculiar of South Mailing) 28 August 1701, before the Ven! lo
Thomas Briggs, Dr of Laws &C, by Dame Mary Stapley the relict
and execx.
DAME MARY STAPLEY of Street co. Sussex, widow. Date
21 Nov. 5 Anne (1700). Being very aged. To be buried in the
parish church of Ringmer in said County by my Executrix, Unto
my dau. Mls Elizabeth Briggs, wife of D" Briggs £20 and alsoe all
my Dressing Plate. Unto my Granddaughter M,B Barbara 1 >i iu^s
my Gold Watch. Unto my Grand dai;. Mw Elizabeth Briggs.
Unto my Granddaughter M,s Barbara Dobell. Unto my Grand
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157
daughter Mrs Barbara Hay. To poor of Ringmer* £3, at discretion
of Mr Henry Snook, Vicar of Ringmer afsrt. I make my daughter
Mrs Mary Dobell, widow, sole executrix, to whom I give and be-
queath all the Rest and residue of my Goods &c and personal
estate. Witn8 — B. Henshaw, Sara Peckham, Abra : Coom junr.
Proved at Lewes (Archdeacon's Court) 27 May 1700, by Mary
Dobell widow, dau. and execx of decd.
BARBARA JENKLNT, Wife of Merrick Jenkin of Glynd co.
Sussex, Gent., and one of the daughters of Sr John Stapley of
the Broyle place in the parish of Ringmer in said Co. Barrfc, and
of Dame Mary his Wife. Date 13 Nov, 12 Will. Ill (1700).
Whereas by one Indenture Tripartite made 6 May 12 Will. Ill,
Betn the aforesaid S1' John Stapley & Dame Mary his wife, Barbara
Courthope only daughter of Peter Courthope of Danny co. Sussex
Esq1'6, Thomas Briggs of the City of Chichester, Dr of Laws, and
Elizabeth his wife, Mary Dobell, Widow and Relict of Walter
Dobell late of Streat Co. Sussex Esq10 dec'1, & the aforesaid
Merrick Jenkin and me the said Barbara his wife, of the first
part, John Monk of Old Shoreham co. Sussex, Esq. and Anthony
Springett of Southover near the Towne of Lewes in said Co. of
Sussex, Esqrc of 2d part, and George Goring of Barcomb in said
Co. Esqre, William Newton of Southover afs(i Gent, and John
Wakeford of Chichester afsa, Gent, of 3d part, It was covenanted
and agreed that said Sr John Stapley & Dame Mary his Wife,
Barbara Courthope, Thomas Briggs and Elizabeth his Wife, Mary
Dobell, Merrick Jenkin and I the said Barbara his Wife should,
before the end of Michaelmas Terme next ensueing to the date of
said TnCire acknowledge and levy unto said John Monk and Anthony
Springett and their heirs one ffyne Sur Coxusans de droit come ces
&q Of all that Capital Messuage in Ringmer co. Sussex, called the
Broyle place and of the Rectory or personage Impropriate of
Ringmer, and lands &c in Ringmer and Laughton co. Sussex . . .
The said Eine was declared to be to the use of said Sr John
Stapley & Dame Mary his Wife, for their lives, remr to use of said
George Goring, William Newton and John Wakeford and their
heirs, upon Trust to permit said Thomas Briggs to take the rents
&c for six months next after decease of the survivor of them the
said Sr John Stapley and Dame Mary his Wife, And then by
Demise, Mortgage, or Sale of said premises to raise sum of £6000,
and dispose of £2000, part thereof, unto me the said Barbara
Jenkin to and for my owne proper peculiar and separate use and
benefit, and Excluding the said Merrick Jenkin or such other
person as shall bee my husband ; but in Case I the said Barbara
shall happen to dye before the end of six calendar months next
after the death of the Survivor of them said Sr John Stapley and
Dame Mary his Wife, then the said Trustees shall pay ami dispose
of £2000 unto such person and persons as 1 said Barbara Jenkin
whether Covert or Sole Arc by my last Will and Testament or
by any other Writing by me signed and sealed £c shall direct
and appoint ; and in default of appointment to pay same among
all the children of me said Barbara Jenkin (except such child as
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shall be the right heir of my late husband "William Hay Esq.
decd). And whereas I by deed poll dated 2 Sept. last past ap-
pointed the sum of £1200, part of the said sum of £2000, to
said Merrick Jenkin my husband. And as for and concerning the
sum of £800 residue of said sum of £2000, I appointed that same
shall be paid unto such person or persons as I by Will shall direct ;
I now direct and appoint that £100, part of said £800, shall be
paid unto my sonn William Hay in case he attain 21 years, but
if he die before then, to my son Charles Jenkin. And as for and
concerning the sum of £700, residue of said sum. of £800, I appoint
same unto my daughter Barbara Hay her Executors &, Adniors in
case my sonn William Hay shall attaine to the age of 21 years
or shall dye leaving Issue living at the end of six calendar months
next after the death of the survivor of them the said Sr John
Stapley and Dame Mary his Wife, and that my said daughter
Barbara Hay shall attain to the age of 21 years. But if said
William Hay shall dye leaving noe Issue of his body living at
the end of six calendar months next after the death of said Sr
John S. and Dame Mary his Wife, and whereby some part att
least of the Estate of the said William Hay, amounting to the
value of £1000, shall descend or come to my said daughter Barbara
and her heirs, or if said daughter shall dye before her age of 21
years leaving no Issue, Then I direct and appoint that the said
£700 shall be paid unto my sonn Charles Jenkin his executors
and assigns. I appoint said Merrick Jenkin my husband executor.
Witn3 — Jn° Tabor, Mary Dobell, Bridgett Delves'! Proved at Lewes
(South Mailing Peculiar) 10 Feb. 1700-1 by Merrick Jenkin.
DOUGLASS STAPLEY', of Lewes co. Sussex, widow. Date
29 Jan. 6 Will. Ill, 1694-5. To be decently but very privately
interred in the Parish Church of Patcham in the County of
Sussex as near to my late husband as conveniently may be. Unto
my brother M1* Charles Holcroft £10, and to my nephew Mr
Richard Langhorne52 £5. Unto Mr Edward Newton, Minister in
Lewes afsd £5, and to Mr Thomas Barnard of Lewes one guinea
peice of gold. Unto Ann Milner my maid .Servant now living
with me £5, and all my wearing apparrell. To the poor of the
afsd Mr Newton's Congregation 20/, and to the poor of Patcham
aforesaid 20/. Unto my neice Mrs Barbara Hay, wife of William
Hay, Esqrc, my late Husband's picture, a lockett of my said
Husband's haire, and a china dish tipped with silver, now standing
in my bed Chamber. To my Neice M,s Mary Dobell my host
diamond ring. To Dame Mary Stapley a lockett with her Late
Father Sr Harbert Springett's hair. To Dame Barbara Thomas my
blew saphire Ring. And to my neice M™ Sybilla Stapley all mv
China ware now standing in Mr Russell's parlour chamber, where
I live. To my sister-in-law Mrt Jane Holcroft two broad peices of
Gold and my lined scarfe and muffe. To M1* Mary Kuss<>!l, wifa
of Mr Nathaniel Russell, with whom I live . . . To M'v Mary
M This must bo the younger of the two Richard Lahghoraefl mentioned
in note 8.
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EJlis, M" Dorothy Ellis, M ' Mary Ruasell, Spinster, and to the said
If! Russell's maids . . . Residue to my Brother Mr Henry Holcroft
of Patcham aforesaid, Gierke, whom T make sole Executor. Signed
" Douglass Stapley." Witn*— Dorothy Ellis, Elizabeth Preston, John
Newton. Proved at Lewes (Archdeacon's Court A, 42, f. 90)
1G March 1694-5 by Henry Holcroft, clerk, the executor.
SIR RICHARD COLEPEFYB, of- Maydstone co. Kent, Baronet.
Date 30 July 1057. To be buried at AylesiTord near,S' William
Oolepepyr my dec" ffather. Wife Dame Margarett Oolepepyr, my
honored Mother Dame ilellen Oolepepyr, And my loving brother-
in-law John Beale Esquire, to be Executors. My farm and land-,
in Burcott in Oxfordshire unto Alicia Oolepepyr my only daughter
and her heirs for ever, and my lease of Sl Katherynes flats in
Raynham. To Thomas Oolepepyr my sonne and heir apparent
all other lands <fec. Witn* — Hellen Oolepepyr, Alisha Oolepepyr,
Michael Beaver. Proved P.C.C. 4 Sept. 1600 by Dame Margaret
Oolepepyr, the Relict. Power reserved to Dame Helen Oolepepyr
and John Bealc Esq™ the other exors. (242 Nabbs).
SIR THOMAS COLEPEPYR, Baronet, of Preston Hall in
the parish of Aylesford in the County of Kent. Date 1G Feb.
1710-11. To be privately buryed in the same Grave with my
Wife and her daughter under my Servants' pew in the
parish Church of Aylesford in the County of Kent. To Sir
Thomas Taylor, Baronet, the son of ray Sister the Lady Taylor,
of the Park near Maidstone in Kent, all my Estate in Ayles-
ford and elsewhere ... To the Lady Taylor £20, and cut
her off of all pretensions to my Estate. To Robin Oolepepyr,
Gentleman, one shilling to cut him off of all pretentions. To
the Lady Twisden ' of Peckham, now Sir Thomas Twisden'fl
Wife, 500 guineas, and to M™ Swayne that was her woman for
her faithful service to her 100 guineas. To the M Riders each of
them at Boughton that is the Elder and younger Brother XI 0
apeicc to buy them mourning. I make the abo\e Sir Thomas
Taylor, Barronet, sole Executor. Signed — " Tho. Oolepepyr." Witn* —
Barnli. Rider, Just. Champneis, Ric. Collins.
27 May 1723. Commission to Dame Alicia Taylor alias Oole-
pepyr, widow, the sister and next of kin of Sir Thomas Oolepepyr,
Baronet, late of Aylesford co. Kent, widower dec'1 ; Sir Thomas Taylor
Baronet, the executor, having died in the lifetime of the testator.
THOMAS TAYLOR of Parlchoutte in the parish of Maidstone
co. Kent, Bart. Date 29 April 1003. I appoint Sr Thomas
Oolepepyr of Preston Hall in the parish of Aylesford Ban*, William
Stringer and Thomas Stringer, both oi Gray'a Inn. Esquires, and
Dame Alicia Taylor, my now most beloved wife, my Trustees —
Manor of Ookeham and lands in Sonting (Sompting) and Lanceing
co. Sussex — If said Dame Alicia my now Win, vrho U now with
Child, doe happen to bring forth and be delivered of a son. I
devise unto said son all lands, tents £e not ■Stttod in .Jovnturo
on said Dame Alicia my Wife in Baid Oountii - of Kent and
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Sussex. Wife to be sole execx. Estates settled on said Dame
Alicia if testator has no child. Proved P.C.C. 14 July 1698 by
Dame Alicia Taylor, the Relict (177 Lort).
THOMAS TAYLOR.53 Date 21 Dec. 1719. All Personal Estate
unto my beloved Mother the Lady Taylor. All real Estates in
Kent and Sussex to said Mother for life, rem1' to Catherine, now
married to Brigadier Joycelin, commonly called by the name of
the Lady Twisden, for her life, remr to the Rt. Honhk' the Lord
Romney and to S1' Wal Twisden Bart, in trust for the use of
the four children of said Catherine, two of which she had by
Sr Thomas Twisden Barfc., and the other two by Brigadier Joycelin
her present Husband. £20 per annum to Mary Loare of Maidstone,
widow. Said Mother the Lady Taylor to be sole execx, Witns — Tho :
Smith, Jo. Cockman, Fran. Munell. Proved P.C.C. 1 Feb. 1719-20
by Dame Alicia Taylor alias Culpeper widow, the mother and execx
of decd. (U Shall er).
THOMAS COLEPEPER of the Middle Temple, London, Esquire.
Date 7 Aug. 1703. To be buried near the body of nry father
Sir Thomas Colepeper in Hollingborne Church co. Kent. I devise
all the Estate etc that I have in the Manors, messuages, lands »fcc
of Sr Thomas Taylor Baronett dccd in cos. Kent and Sussex, to
my dear wife Alicia Colepeper alias Dame Alicia Taylor and her
heirs, Upon condition that she pay all such sums of money as
I have paid for the debts of the said Sr Thomas Taylor decd, and
upon account of Sr Thomas Taylor his (sic, 1 son) for and towards
payment of my debts and this I trust S1 Thomas Colepeper my
brother-in-Law will require to see performed and for which I had
his promise. I devise my houses in London and in cos. Middx
and Kent to my Wife for life, and also the one moiety of my
lands &c. in co. Kent recovered of John Mason gent. To my
sister Alicia Steed wife of Dutton Streete (sic) Esq. ... To my
brother William Colepeper Esq. . . . Wife to be executrix. To
my dear mother Dame Alicia Coleper (sic) £'30, and to my
brother and sisters £10 each for mourning. To Sr Thomas Colepeper
my brother-in-Law, £30, and a black stone set in gold with
three Sydes with Coates of Amies! Witn8 — Edwin Wiatt, Elianor
Grahame, Susanna Hovenden, Thomas Billby. Proved P.C.C, after
Sentence for Validity, 27 March 1704 (87 Ash).
Admon. Act Book P.C.C. 21 Feb. 1723-4 Comm. to Dame Alicia
Taylor alias Milner widow, relict of JOHN MILKER M.D., late
of Aylesford co. Kent dec'1, to administer the goods &c of said dec*.
DAME ALICIA TAYLOR AL'S COLEPEPER AL'S MILNER,
of Preston Hall in the Parish of Avlesford in the County of Kent,
Widow. Date G Jan. 1727-28.
Whereas by Indentures of Lease & Release bearing date on or
about the 14th and 15th days of October in the year One Thousand
83 He was son of Alicia Colepeper by her second ni am aire, ami consequeutlj
half-brother of her children by Herbert Stanley (see note ;i5).
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161
Seven hundred and twenty three diverse Manners Lands and
Hereditaments lyeing in the County of Kent, late the Estate and
Inheritance of S1' Thomas Coiepeper Bar* dec , late Brother of me
the said Dame Alicia, are and stand limited to certain Trustees
To the use of the honMtf John Finch Esq. his exors adniors &c for
term of Ninety and nine years Upon Trust to raise & pay a sum
not exceeding £2000 to such person or persons as I should direct.
And Whereas I did by - Deed Poll, bearing date on or about
5 Jan? instant under my hand and seal Arc direct the said John Finch
within one year after my decease to raise the full sum of £2000,
and pay same unto Richard Porter of Chayley co. Sussex, clerk,
and Charles Milner now of Preston Hall aforesaid Esq"', to be by
them applied as I by Deed or Will should appoint. And Whereas
by Indenture Quinquepartite bearing date on or about 22 August
1726, It is agreed declared and appointed that said John Finch
his exors, adniors &c shall immediately after my decease by and
out of the Rents &c of the Manors, Lands &c (part of the aforesaid
premises) by same Indenture indented to be appointed or limited
in Revercon after my decease to afsd Charles Milner & his heirs,
raise the further sum of £3000 over and above said sum of £2000
and pay said sums to such person or persons as I shall by Writing
under my hand & seal or by Will appoint. Now I said Dame
Alicia Taylor appoint that said John Finch his exors admors &c shall
pay said sums of £2000 & £'3000 unto my dear kinsman the said
Richard Porter and my dear Brother and Friend the said Charles
Milner upon Trust &c. They to pay debts & the legacies following.
To said cousin Richard Porter £1000. To his Sister M1* Catherine
Porter £500. To my kinsman Thomas Porter (Brother of said
Richard and Catherine) & his Wife £30 for Mourning. To Thomas
Porter their Son (Godson of my Brother Sr Thomas Coiepeper)
£100. To the six children now living of William Coiepeper late
of Hollingborne in said co. of Kent Esq10, £100 a peice. To
Frances Twisden, the daughter of Sr Thomas Twisden, late of
Peckham co. Kent, Bart, dec*1 by Dame Catherine Twisden his
Wife £3000. To Jenny, Thomas,' Robert and Elizabeth Joceline,
four of the children of said Dame Catherine Twisden by Brigadier
Gen11 George Joceline her last Husband, £100 a peice. To servants
Thomas Robinson and Dorothy Dabbs ... To my Friend M"
Elizabeth Swaine £20, to buy her Mourning, And I release her
from all demands on Acc* of her board or otherwise. To said
Mr Finch my honoured Friend Twenty Guineas. To the live Sisters
of my late dear Husband D1 John Milner and of my said Brother-
in-law Charles Milner £20 a peice. £100 for the use and benefit
of the Charity School in the Parish of Aylesford. £50 for use of the
Charity School in the Town of Maidstone. I give and devise the
Pictures of S1' Thomas Coiepeper late of Hollingborne &, Dame
Alicia Coiepeper his Widow, which I am possessed of, unto said
Dame Alicia. And if she die before me I give same to the Kt.
honb'° the Lady Coiepeper her daughter. I also give the said Lady
Coiepeper the use of my Silver Coffee Pott upon which the Coiepeper
Anns are engraved, for her life, and then I give bhe same to DTj
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kinswoman If" Cecilia Stanhope, Neice of the said Lady. I also
give to aforesaid Frances Twisden my Silver Tea Kettle, Lamp
and Stand, and a pair of Silver Candlesticks on which the Arms
of my late Husband Sr Thomas Taylor are engraved, <Spc. • I give
and devise all the Lands of Inheritance which I have or am
entitled unto in the Island of Shepway co. Kent, in occupation of
the Widow Sewell, unto said Charles Milner. I give all my Lands
of Inheritance in or near Bobbing co. 'Kent unto said Richard
Porter and his heirs <fe assigns — My late servant John Wine] ram, ■
now my Tenant — Residue of said sums of £2000 & £3000, and all
other my Personal Estate unto said Charles Milner. I make said
Richard Porter & Charles Milner exors. Signed " Alicia Taylor."
Witn* — Sarah Thomas, Sarah Green, John Nowell.
Codicil 25 March 1731. Revokes certain legacies given by the
Will. To be buried in Linen in Parish Church of Aylesford at
Twelve a Clock at night. To M,s Catherine Porter my least Silver
Tea kettle and Lamp with the Colepepers' Arms on them and
the stand belonging to them with the Top covered with Silver,
the Arms the Boars heads. To Jenny Joceline (named in the Will)
.1*100 at age of 21 or Marriage, & to Elizabeth Joceline sister of
said Jenny Joceline .-£'300 at 21 or Marriage. Unto cousin Anne
ffrench 20 guineas. Unto my Godson Archibald Hamilton, Son of
John Hamilton Esqre, £50 at age of 21 years. Wit8 — Sarah Thomas,
Roger Philips, Era : Brooke.
Codicil 25 Oct. 1731. Said Elizabeth Jocelyne is since dead.
Witn8— Sarah Thomas, Thomas Bottle, Fra : Brooke. Will and two
Codicils proved P.C.C. 2 Nov. 1734, by Dr Charles Milner and
Richard Porter the exors. (254 Ockham.)
H. W. Forsyth Harwood.
THE FEE OF CREON.
By Major E. M. Poynton.
The family of Creon, Credun, Grim, or Craon, occupied a position
of such importance amongst the early Lincolnshire tenants in chief,
that it may be of value to bring together under one head a tew
documents connected with its history, and which at the same time
are of considerable interest in themselves.
Wido de Credun by his marriage with the daughter of Hugh
the son of Baldric, a fact recorded by Domesday, added to Ins
great possessions further lands in Hampshire and Lincolnshire. In
the latter county on the coast, his son and successor Alan, who
is said to have been Dapifer to Henry I, founded the Priory
of Freston as a cell of Crovland Abbey, and by his charter
printed in the new edition of the Monasticon,1 endowed the Abbey
with the Churches of Freston, Buterwyke, Toft, Warneburne, Stonesby
and Burton. This Charter lias been copied from the Cartulary
1 Vol. iv, p. 125.
THE FEE OF CREON.
163
of the family of Pedwardine at present in the British Museum,1
which preserves only the name of one witness ; the text however
contains but slight errors,- so I will here simply state the names
of the missing witnesses as they appear in the Inspeximus of
Edward I,3 viz : —
Rodbtus Abbas Thorneie Aluredus Prior Huntendonie,
Robtus Canonicus, Lisincus fr Alani, Rogs de Pissi, Hugo fit
Algeri,4 Wilis de Turs, Ydonus nepos Abbatis de Thorneye, Tomas
cognatus Alani, Nigellus de Constantin, Hen? fit Wyuiani,4 WiH
de Alta ripa, Joffridus de Cuitelli Valo de Poduile, Rodbtus Mare-
schal, Joffridus Angeuin, Herueus fit Gilbti, Walts fit Dapiferi,
Robtus fit Walonis, Lambtus Peurel, clientes Muriel, Alanus fit
Radi, Will Buleiseie, Ricus de Appilly, Wilis MedicUs fit ejus
Alanus Hugo clicus Walts filius Hugonis T; de nris Gilebtus de
Pochebroch, Osbtus Cocus, Theoderic5 scement Goscelinus.
Robert, Abbot of Thorney is stated in the Monasticon to have died in
1151, and as the Charter mentions the release of King Stephen, -which took
place 1st November 1141, the date seems to lie between A.D. 1141 — 1151.
This Inspeximus with others for which Croyland paid a fine
of £20, wTas granted at Carlisle on the 10th June 1307, so at
that date the Charter produced passed as genuine. It is some-
what suspicious, however, that a very similar document, with the
addition of the church of " Claxeby," appears in the so styled
Petri Blesensis Continuatio (Gale, p. 126). The witnesses' names
now printed may enable this point to be verified.
Next in order of date I place Brit. Mus. Add. Ch. 20,591, as
follows : —
Morici9 de creon . Omib} homib} suis francis 7 anglicis sal.
Sciatis me dedisse 7 concessisse Tome fit Witti in feodu 7 here-
ditate sibi 7 heredib} suis tota terra qua pa? suus Will tenuit
de patre meo 7 de me. Set in Salebeia . 7 in Thorestorp • ipse
7 heredes sui tenere de me 7 de heredib3 meis . p seruicio unius
militis. Test • Gvido fil mo • Clarice uxor mca . Radul . . de
creon • Wifto de BeliuCl • Labert de mulct • Bodin9 de fenne . Hog
de sarz • Herb cleric « Brittm homo ins • Ricard: gifTard • Simon
fit Witti • Radulf9 caberl.
This Charter has a very imperfect equestrian seal attached upside down.
The places mentioned are Saleby and its hamlet Thoresthorp ; the dato is
evidently prior to A.D. HOG, for in His Carta Moricius de Creon returns
this tenant and fee as " de antiquo feodo meo," and by a further reference
to Domesday wo find that t ho fee had descended to him through his grand-
father's marriage with the daughter of Hugh sou of Baldrio.
The above Charter is also clearly the deed referred to iu vol. viii. Salt.
Arch. Society, "The History of the Manor and Parish of Castrc/' etc., p. 151,
and thus all doubts there raised are definitely set at rest
Thomas, who was son of " Willelmus filius Haconis," gave the church of
St. Margaret of Saleby and the church of East Kasen to Sixhfll Priory.
1 Add. MS. 32,101.
3 Elaucardi should have been printod Blanoardi, Abcrviila. Oberrilla, and iu
the inspeximus we find Anglorutn not Audio.
3 Charter Roil, No. 100,33 Bdward 1, m. 3.
4 Appears as holding one Knight's fee in the Cart<i of A.D. L16&
164
THE FEE OF CREON.
The Harleian Collection contains the three following deeds : —
Hail. Ch. -19. A. 1.
Notu sit omib} See Ecclie filiis psentil^ 7 futuris qct ego Maurici2
de Creun p uohmtate 7 concessu Widonis filii mei 7 heredis 7
p consiliu aniicor meor 7 horn concessi 7 dedi deo 7 Aljbie
Kirkestede 7 Monachis ibi clo seruientib} . Lx 7 * v . acras Ire in
Elemosimi 7 in his locis . In Lauingmersch . 7 in Kuchdich . 7
in Westcotemersch . S3 qm Wilis fili9 Rpg^i meus cognat2' oalupniat9
fuit aduersu me . xxv . acras hujs tre in Westcotemersch 7
ego eas illi reddidi . dedi Monachis . xxx . acras in Escambiu p
illis . xxv i in his locis . In Halingcroft . 7 in Riskedich . 7 in
Windesland . 7 in Liteleraueneshou . 7 in Redholm . 7 in Aldich .
Et sciendu est qcl dectara eis comune pasturra in hundreth de
Butterwich . 7 q*a n potui ea illis Warantizare dedi eis . vj . acras
tre in Lauingmersch . 7 train que fuit Johis Stoch in Windesland :
7 clamauert me q^tum de ilia pastura set trecentaru ouiu 7 . xvj
aTaliu . Terra de Windesland q fait Joftis Stoch dedi eis p con-
cessu ipsi9 Jotiis. ita qcf ipse manu sua reddidit earn m* 7 dedi
ei EscambiQ p ea in Aldich . Istas Iras in locis pdictis concedo
eis 7 do in ppetuam elemosina de me 7 heredib} meis p . lx 7
sexdeci acris 7 Sram de Windesland q fuit Joftis Stoch libe
7 q'ete ab orf.i sclari seruicio 7 consuetudine 7 exactione p easdem
metas qnib9 tenueft die qa dedi eis tram Jonis Stoch in Windes-
land 7. vj . acras in Lauingmersch #p comuni pastura in hundret
de Buttwich . Hoc fuit die . xij . Kiaru Julii anno qarto Corona-
tionis . H . Reg Angl . Ducis Norm 7 Aquit 7 Com Andeg . Et
hoc feci ei3 p aTa patfs mei 7 inat's mee 7 oiu antecessor meor .
7 p salute mea 7 uxoris mee 7 heredu 7 oium amicoru meor .
His testib9 . Jone p'ore de Frestuna • Ric decano de Leca • Magistro
Reginaldo simplice canonico Line « Walto Capelto Bard • Rail
prbo Timblund • Benedicto Capelto Wilti filii Rogi • Baldrico
de Sigillo • Willo ffe Baldr . Ilamelino Croc • Wilto fit Ro|i • Rob
clerico de Ruct • Bad Villano • Wilt Grim • Jofie de Ma ring •
Alueredo dapifero • Ric fit RogH • Gaufr clerico de Hameringha •
Bodino fre Baldr • Rob rilio Wilti • Anca de Seo Botulfo 7
Sefrei • Ragmo clerico • Willo -hi Robti filii Nig • Herbto clerico
Mauricii.
It is numbered iii, and endorsed in a later hand : —
Cone lxv acr' terr' in Scraing dom de Kirkestede.
The seal is thus described in the printed Catalogue of Seals (Birch) :-
[A.D. 1158.] Red: fine, edgo chipped; app. by cords of closely plaited
or woven threads. 2\ x l* in.
Pointed oval. To the r. In armour: hauberk and continuous coif of
mail, conical helmet with nasal, sword, kite shaped shield very indistinctly
cut. Horse galloping, with ornamental breast-band.
. . . IGILl/ . . . MAVKICI DE . . . REV . . .
There is also a copy of this Charter in the Cartulary of Kirkstoad, Brit.
Mus. MS., Vesp. Jbk xviii, fo. 179. iii.
THE FEE OF CREON.
165
Had. Ch. 49. A. 2.
Dho 7 patri R di gra Lincolie epo . 7 ej9 successorib} epis .
7 arehidianonis totic^ clero Line ecciie . M . de Creun sat . Sciatis
me conce.ssisse . 7 cfirmasse do 7 ecciie See Marie de Kyrchesteda
7 monachis ibide do seruientib9 in ppetua elemosina donatione qa
Wilt fili9 Rog cognat9 ms fee eide eccie . 7 pdietis monachis de .
xl . acris tre in ueti sereinga . 7 in West neuland . infra fossatum
7 dece acris ext!l fossatu . Quare uolo ut eande tra teneant liba,
7 q'eta sic carta Willi filii Rog eis testatr . Hug9 ccessiois testes St .
Turst p'or. Math 7 Rem • m° • Bald • de sigilt - Alur dapifer
Maur de Creun • Wido filii (sic) Maur • 7 Rad fr ej9 • Walt fil
Pet1 • Gaufr de Stouenesbi • Rob fit Roscet • Rot) Gibt ■ Bodin9
fr Bald? • Herb cler • Godesman de Spalct • Brihtm coc9 ■ Balduin9
marisc.
No seal remains, it is numbered xv, and endorsed in a later hand: —
Skreinge °t W'estnewl : x acr extra xl infra dom de Kirkestede dat.
Tliis Charter is aiso in the Cartulary, fo. 180, xv.
Harl. Ch. 49. A. 3.
H est final Concordia fca in Curia diii Reg . Ap Norn" . pxia
die Jouis p9 Octab Sci Jonis bapt . Anno Regni Reg. H. Sccti .
xxix°. Cora Rann de Glanuilt . Justic dni Reg. 7 Rogo fit Reinf r .
7 Wilio basse th . 7 Willo Maid . 7 Mich beleth . 7 Geruas de Corn-
hell . 7 Rann de Gedding . 7 Ric Malebiss . 7 aliis Baroib} dni
Reg . 7 fidelib} suis q tc ibi aderant . In? Mauric de Creun . 7
Rog fit Willi de HontTgefelt . p Widone fit 7 hedem ipi9 Mauricii .
7 Alexandr dapifm suu . q°s ipe Maurici9 atornauat loco suo ad
lucilndu ut pdendu de hac loqia . Cora AVilto basseth . 7 Nigello
fit Alex, quos Justic dni Reg. A Capitali Curia dni Reg ad ipm
Mauric Miserat ad h audiend . Cora q'b} finis iste fes 7 recordat9
fuit . 7 ab ipo Mauric cocessus . de Aduocatone Ecciie de Toft . 7 de
villa de Friston . 7 de loto tenemto ipi9 Mauricii in villa Sci Botulti.
7 de villa de Warnebme . 7 de seruico WiHi Langevin de qMppelade.
7 de suico Alani de Roches, de Friston. 7 de suico Walti fit
Matfrid.de Frist o n . 7 de oib} aliis- q ret 7 reb} de iris t suieiis .
vfi tc 1 plS '. kit eos liabita fuit cotencp . 7 vfi placit fuit int
eos i cria dni Reg . Scii qd fmit9 Maurici9 cocessit eid Bog 7
hedib} suis. de se 7 hedib) suis villa de Toft, c ptinetiis . Excepta
aduocatue Ecciie de Toft, fj reinansit ipi Mauric 7 fiodilrj suis.
Ippetuu . Concessit 7' eid Rogo 7 nediln suis Tot feodu suu . in
Francton. c ptinetiis . Excepto suicO Hug de Boebi . in Dunlgtofi .
qd remansit ipi Mauric 7 nedib.i suis. Concessit 7' ide Maurici9
Eid Rogo Seruiciu Thome de Muletofi . de toto tenemto qd de
eo tenuit . 7 Seruiciu Walti fit Matfrei.de tenemto qd de eo
tenuit i pinchebech . 7 Seruiciu Walti Malregard de tenemto qd
de eo tenuit in Tittou . Quoa tenemtoa Seruicia! Alan'- die
Creun dedit Willo pri isti9 Rogi . Concessit etia id Mauric Eid
Rogo Maniu de Sntnorp c ptinetiis suis. in Bxcabiia Maniii de
^arneb'ne. Quod Clamaitit ex doito ipi Mauric. Dedit 7" id
166
THE COUNTESS OF IRELAND.
Mauric Eid Rogo in feria Sci Botulfi . ?ra q^da pxirna ?re Hebti
ctici versus le Nort . A tra Jofiis coci tisq^ ad viam . 7 ex alia
pte vie vsus le Nort . tram q/Yiam . xij . pedu I latitudine . 7 in
longitudine f A via q an domu Ric fit Guse usq> ad viam .
Et tra q:ldam juxta tra Walti le neucumen versus le Suht \
q -f- Ix pedu in longitudine. 7 1 latitudine. A via uso^ ad aq*
sn ullo retineinto . Remisit 7' ict Maurici5 pdco Rogo 7 ftedib}
suis Seruiciu vnis Militis 7 qarte ptis suicii vni9 Militis. de seruiro
feodi . iiij()r . Milit qd" pfat9 Rog debebat pdco Mauric . - Et p
omib} his pdcis tenemtis . q Concessa 7 data st ipi R,ogo in tris
7 §uiciis faciet id Rog 7 nedes sui jidco Mauric 7 fiedib} suis
seruiciu duos Milit 7 t'u ptiu feodi vni9 Milit . p oi Seruico .
Et p liac Concessioe 7 donatone pfat9 Rog Clamauit q^tam de
se 7 hedib} suis ipi Mauric 7^nedib3 suis Aduocatone Ecctie de
Toft . Et 0ms demandas de tris ut seruiciis vii pi9 t tuc int
eos habita fuit Contenco.
Endorsed : —
Scr. Toft 7 Franukton.
The word Cirographum has beeu cut through on the top of this Fine.
In addition to the early date the use of the expression Capital is
Curia domini Regis makes this Fine of special interest. At the
time Ranulf de Glanvill was Chief Justice of England, and Mr.
Eyton was of opinion that he held the position of Viceroy during
the King's absence in Normandy, a position which, taking into
consideration the loose language of the period, the words Justiciar ins
domini Regis appear to me to be intended to convey. Mr. Eyton
in his "Court, Household and Itinerary of King Henry II," has
overlooked this assembly of Judges at Northampton ; the Pipe Roll,
30 Henry IX, however, confirms the event, and also records a less
number of Itinera than that of the preceding year. Subject to
further evidence coming to light may we not infer from the names
of those present that this assembly was not a mere Iter, but the
Cajiitalis Curia Regis ?
( To be continued. )
THE COUNTESS OF IRELAND.
Who was " The Countess of Ireland?"' No such title is recognised
in any work on the Peerage, and yet there is record evidence
that a lady so styled existed. In the " Rotulus de Dominabus "
we read as follows : —
[Herts.]
Comitissa de Hyberxia est de donatione Domini Regis. WsCTONB,
que est de dote sua, valet annuatim xv libras. . . .
[Essex.]
Comitissa DE IbERNIA est de donatione Domini Regis ; filius (sir)
ejus est in custodia Domini Regis et est xij annorum. CESTR&FORD,
que est dos ('jus, valet annuatim xii Libras1 ...
1 Rotulus de Ihnnitmbus [1186], Ed. Stmvv G riinaltli. pp. 86, -10.
THE COUNTESS OF IRELAND.
167
It is easy to identify both the manors named.' The account
of Weston given in Cussans' " Hertfordshire " is this : —
" William de Ow was succeeded in possession of this manor by his
son Richard and grandson Waiter. This latter died without issue in 1131,
leaving Gilbert his brother and heir. Tin's Gilbert was a great benefactor
to the Knights Templars, to whom he gave the church of Weston, and the
land on which the town of Baldock now stands. He died in the year
1148, and was succeeded by his son Richard de Clare (surnamed Strongbow),
Earl of Pembroke, who died in 1170. Richard's only son Walter, then three
years of age, died shortly afterwards, whereupon his vast estates davolved
upon his only child Isabelle de Clare."1
A more wildly erroneous story it would be hard to find. Isabel
de Clare was not " the only child " of Walter, but the daughter
of Strongbow himself ; and Gilbert, Strongbow's father, was not
the " brother and heir " of Walter, son of Richard, neither of
whom, moreover, were any relation to William d'Ou, the Domesday
tenant of this important manor. But a knowledge of the feudal
changes of the time enables one to see what had happened. After
the forfeiture of William d'Ou had thrown his lands into the
hands of the Crown, his honour of " Striguil " or Chepstow, with
the land of Gwent, was given by Henry I to Walter, a younger
son of Richard de Clare.- On Walter's death, under Stephen, his
lands are known to have passed to his nephew Gilbert de Clare,
a younger son like himself ; and this Gilbert was created Earl of
Pembroke by Stephen. It was by him that the" church of Weston
was given to the Knights Templars, and it was from him that
his son, " Strongbow " (Earl Richard), inherited this manor. We
see, therefore, that " the Countess of Ireland," who held Weston
in dower ten years after his death was no other than his wife
Eva, the daughter of King Dermod, whom he had married at
Waterford in 1170.
This discovery is of some interest, because, in the Dictionary of
National Bioyraphtj, neither in the life of her husband nor in the
life of her father do we find any mention of Eva after her marriage.
It will further be observed that the " Rotulus " assigns her a son
of twelve years old in 1185." Her daughter and heir, as is well
known, brought the fief to William Marshal some years later, and
in it, clearly, was included that other manor of the Countess
(Great) Chesterford, Essex, of which Morant could only say that
it was held by the Crown in 108G, and that "afterwards this
lordship was part of the possessions of the family of Mareschal,
Earls of Pembroke." We can now say at least that it formed
part of the dower, which the famous Strongbow settled on his
wife "the Countess of Ireland."
J. H. Round.
1 Hundred of Bvoadwoter, p. 30.
•This "Walter, son of Richard," is shewn by the Pipe Roll of 1180 to
have hold lands in Herts at this date,
:* Possibly " iilius " is a misreading of " fdia." For the question of whether
Strongbow had n son see Comi'letc Peerage, vi, L98, and compare* my Commune
of London, p. 809.
168
Dug&ate's tJ'tsifaftmx of Ijorksljirr,
WITH ADDITIONS.
{Continued from p. 125.)
Staixecliffe and Ewecrosse Wapentake. Skypton, 30v Marti j, 1666.
ma
* * * « $
Currer
of
Arms : — Ermine, three bars Sable, each charged with a closet Argent, on a
chief Azure a lion passant of the third, a canton Or.
Crest : — A lion's head erased Argent, gorged with a collar Sable, charged
with three roundels.
T. HUGH CURRER, of Kildwick, mar dau. of ... .
Knowlcs, of Riding. They had issue —
Henry Currer, of Kildwick (a quo Currer of Kild-
wick, see Genealogist, N.S., xv, 249).
William (II).
•II. WILLJAM CURRER, of Marley, bur. at Bingley 20 Jan.
l^Ofc WM 1 May 1604, pr. at York 31 Dec. 1605, Mar.
Isabell, dau. of Christopher Maude, of Hollittghall, bur. at
Bingley 3 Oct. 1612. Will 14 Sept., pr. 15 Dec. 1612,
They had issue —
Henry (III).
William Currer, of Marley, Surveyor of the Duchy
of Lancaster in the north part 1612, bur. at
Bingley 9 May 1643. Will 2 May 1637, pr. at
York 4 Oct. 1643 Mar. Isabel, dau. of Nicholas
Parker, Esq., of Horrockford, CO. Lane. (Glover's
Visitation).
Arthur Currer, of Morton, bur 26 May 1623, Will
23 May, pr. at York 20 June 1623. Mar. Annr.
dau. of Bryan Maude, according to the Visitation
of 1612, but there is in Binglev Register, 16 Feb,
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
169
159£, Arthur Currer and Edith Ryley mar., and
28 Jan. 160^, ux. Arthuri Currer bur. He
had issue —
Agnes, bp. at Bingley 21 Nov. 159L, (?)mar.
Christopher Standeven, named in her
father's will.
Jane, bp. at Bingley 24 June 1593, mar.
there Samuel "Waddington 8 Sept. 1612,
named in her father's will.
William, bp. at Bingley 16 Nov. 1595.
Mary, bp. at Bingley 25 Mar. 1598, mar.
there Thomas Currer 10 Feb. 161|>
Isabell, bp. at Bingley 8 June 1600, named
in her father's will.
Walter, bp. at Bingley 28 Nov. 1602, bur.
there 18 Jan. 1G0|.
Anne, bp. at Bingley 8 July 1604, named
in her father's will.
(l)Mar.i at Bingley Alice Oldfield 28 Oct. 1612,
bur. there 15 Sept. 1616. They had issue —
Arthur, bp. at Bingley 25 Apr. 1614,
(1) bur. there 2 July following.
(l)Mar.1 at Bingley 22 Jan. 16£fc Susan Lupton.
They had issue —
Susan, bp. at Bingley 9 Apr. 1620, (?) mar.
William Wiglesworth 21 Sept. 1637.
Ellen, had £100 in her father's will, bp.
at Bingley 9 Sept. 1621, bur. there
10 Aug. 1624.
Martha, bp. at Bingley 30 Mar. 1623, bur.
there 27 Apr. following.
Walter, named in his mother's will, 1612.
Isabell, mar. at Bingley 7 June 1593, Christopher
Hodgson, of Beeston.
Jane, had 5s. in her brother Henry Currer's will.
III. HENRY CURRER, of Hollinghall, in com, Ebor., d. v.p.,
bur. 26 Sept. 1598 at (]) Jlklev. Will 10 May 1598, pr.
2 Mar. 1599 ; mar. Dorothy, daughter of William Mawde.
They had issue —
1. William (IV).
2. Walter Currer, obijt sine prole, named in his father's
will.
Elizabeth, (?) Isabell, mentioned in her father's * ill,
wife of Nicholas Walker, of Gorthrop (Gawthorpe)
Hall, in com. Eborum.
IV. WILLIAM CURRER, of SMpton, in Craven, m eo. E
son and hcirc, dyed in anno 1644$ twenty in 1612, oi
' These marriages arc suggested from entries in the Kcgtrttf1! btri no othet
authority sceins available.
N
170
DUGDALFAs VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Staple Inn, bp. at Kildwick 7 Mar. 1592, bur. at Skipton
27 Feb. 16I| ; mar- (?)afc Bingley 29 Sept, 1617, Ellen,
daughter of Bryan Parker, of Brousholme, in com. Lane,
bur. at Skipton 8 Mar. 164f. They had issue —
1. Henry (V).
2. William Czcrrer, of Wighill, in co. Ebor., bp. at
Skipton 17 Dec. 1629. Will 17 Aug. 1671; mar.
. . . and had issue —
Katherine, ]
Mary, Inarued in their father's will.
Janet, j
Mary, wife of Henry Goodgeon, of Skipton, in com.
Eborum, bp. at Skipton 15 July 1622, mar. there
20 Feb. 163f
Ellen, bur. at Skipton 20 June 1623.
Dorothea, bp. at Skipton 7 July, bur. there 29 Sept.
1623.
V. HENRY CURRER, of Skipton, in com. Ebor., dyed circa
an. 1658, a Royalist compounder and fined £158 17s.; bp.
at Skipton 22 July 1621, bur. there 6 ISTov. 1659; mar.
Cath., daugh. of Ambrose Loraine, of Tinmouth, in co.
Northumbr. They had issue —
William (VI).
Grace, bp. at Skipton 10 Dec. 1643, bur. there
15 Apr. 1650.
Mary, bp. at Skipton 30 Dec. 1656, bur. there
7 Sept. 1662.
VI. WILLIAM CURRER, of Skipton, mtatis 19 an. SO Martij
1666, bur. at Skipton 15 Feb. 169f Will 31 Jan. 169?.
Mar. Alice Jackman, at Skipton, 10 May 16S1, bur. there
14- Aug. 1690. They had issue-
Henry (VII).
William, bp. at Skipton 2 Apr. 1688, bur. there
2 July 1690.
Katherine, named in her father's will, bp. at Skipton
9 May 1682.
Martha, named in her father's will, bp. at Skipton
13 Apr. 1686.
VII. HENRY CURRER, of Skipton, son and heir, named in his
father's will, bp. at Skipton 31 Dec. 1683, d. 25 June 1750,
bur. at Skipton, M.L ; mar. first Alary, dau. of the Rev,
Richard Pollard, of Kildwick, bur. at Skipton 11 July 1714.
They had issue —
Ann, bp. at Skipton 25 June 1710.
Catherine, bp. at Skipton 1 June 1713, mar. there
Jonathan Maude, of Otlev, 25 Deo. L738.
Mar. secondly .lane, dau. of William Banks, of Skipton,
she d. 8 Feb. 1757, Sot sixty-three, bur. at Skipton. M.L
Thcv had issue —
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
171
William (VIII).
Henry, bp. at Skipton 19 Mar. 172J, bur. there
7 May 1728.
Jane, bp. at Skipton 1 Oct. 1718, d. 25 Feb. 1807,
set. eighty-eight, bur. there, M.I.
Alice, bp. at Skipton 5 May 1721, d. 4 Mar. 1803,
set. eighty-two, bur. there, M.I.
Mary, bp. at Skipton 19 Bee. 1723, mar. there 17- July
1753, Abraham Chamberlain, of Skipton.
Sarah, bp. at Skipton 13 Jan. 172f, d. 25 May 1811,
set. eighty-five, bur. there, M.I.
Margaret, bp. at Skipton 23 July 1730, mar. there
William Moorhouse, M.D., of Skipton, 22 July
1754, d. 10 Feb. 1799, bur. at Skipton, M.I.
VIII. WILLIAM CURRER, in Holy Orders, M.A., St. John's
Coll., Camb., Incumbent of Whitworth, co. Lane, Vicar of
Clapham, co. York, bp. at Skipton 8 Mar. 171?-, bur. at
Clapham, 16 Nov. 1803 ; mar. Ann, dau. of John
Stokoe, R.N., d. 29 Aug. 1800. They had issue-
William (IX).
Henry, d. inf.
Henry, d. inf.
Jennet, bp. at Skipton 1 Jan. 174 1, mar. Roger
Swire, of Halifax.
Ann, b. 27 Mar. 1763, mar. at Clapham, Rawdon
Briggs, of Halifax, banker.
Elizabeth, d. young.
Elizabeth, d. young.
Ellen, b. 25 July 1766, mar. Thomas Langton.
Alice, b. 21 Mar. 1769, d. unmar.
IX. WILLIAM CURRER, of Halifax, merchant, b. 14 Dec.
1749, d. 13 Dec. 1807, bur. at Luddenden ; mar. first 18 Mar.
1777, at Skipton, Elizabeth, dau. of John Swire, of Skipton,
d. 5 Dec. 1793, bur. at Halifax. They had issue —
Henry Currer, of Luddenden, b. 27 Mar. 1784, d.
unmar. 12 Feb. 1817, bur. at Luddenden.
Alice, d. s.p.
Jennet, d. s.p.
Elizabeth, d unmar.
Mar. secondly Fanny, dau of Abraham Mellin, of Halifax.
1 Jan. 1795, d. Dec. 18l'5. They had issue —
William, d. s.p. in Jamaica.
Edward, d. unmar.
Frances, mar. Thomas Margerison, of Burnley.
Ann.
Authorities— Bingley Register — York Wills.
172 DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Pontefract, 8 Aug. 1685.
Jfatrfai
of
Arms : — Quarterly of eight, a crescent for difference.
1. Argent, three bars gemelles Gules, surmounted by a lion
rampant Sable (Fairfax).
2. Argent, a bend Sable and a chief indented Gules (Bugthorp).
3. Cheeky Or and Azure, on a canton Sable an estoile Argent
(Sezevaux).
4. Argent, a chevron between three hinds' heads erased Gules
(Malbys).
5. Barry Argent and Gules, on a canton Sable a crown flory Or
(Etton).
6. Or, a bend Sable (Mauley).
7. Or, a bend Azui*e (Calthorpe).
8. Argent, on a fess Sable, between three fleur-de-lis Gules, as
many crescents Or (Thwaites).
Crest : — A lion's head erased Sable, a crescent for difference.
I. SIR GUY FAIRFAX, of Steeton (third son of Richard
Fairfax, of Walton, and Eustachia Carthorpe), Recorder
of York 1460-77, Judge of the King's Bench 1478 ; a
Yorkist; built Steeton Hall, circ. 1477; d. 1495; mar.
Isabel, dau. of Sir William Ryther, of Ryther, bur. with
her husband in the Quire of Bolton Percy. They had
issue
1. Sir William (II).
2. Thomas, of Finningley, Sergeant-at-Law ; a member
of the Council of the North. Will 7 Sept., pr.
22 Dec. 1544 at York (Reg. Test., xii, 8), I.P.M. :
mar. Cicely, dau. of Sir Robert Manners, Knt.
They had issue —
Guy, of Finningley, d. v.p., I. P.M. ; mar.
Catherine, dau. of Sir William Bassett.
They had issue —
William, s. and h., named in his grand
father's will.
Thomas, named in his grandfather's
will.
Guy, of Finningley, who had a solo
daughter and heiress FCatherine, who
mar. George, sou of Thomas I'mrtax,
of Walton.
Barkeston'Ashe ^WAPENTAKE.
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
173
3. Guy, d. s.p.
4. Nicholas, Knight of Rhodes (Glover).
1. Eleanor, mar. Miles Wilstrop, of Wilstrop.
2. Maud, mar. Sir John Waterton, of Waterton.
SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX, KNT., of Steeton and Bolton
Percy, Serjeant-at-Law, Recorder of York 1480, Judge of
the Common Pleas 1509 ; mar. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir
Robert Manners. They had issue —
Sir William (III).
Ellen, mar. Sir William Pickering, of Oswaldkirk.
Elizabeth, mar. Sir Robert Ought red, of Kexby.
Anne, mar. Sir Robert Norman vile, of Kiln wick Percy.
Dorothy, mar. . . . Constable, of Kexby.
SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX, of Steeton, etc., High Sheriff
1534 and 1539, bought Eilbrough 1546, had grant of Nun
Appleton 1542, d. 31 Oct. 1558, bur. in Bolton Percy
church. Will 3 Mar. 155 J, pr. at York 3 Dec. 1558
(Fairfax Correspondence, 1, xvii) ; mar. Isabel, dau. and
h. of Thomas Thwaites, of Denton (by Eniota, dau. and
h. of Nicholas Middleton), bur. in Bolton Percy church.
They had issue —
1. Guy, b. 1519, d. unmar. 1545.
2. Sir Thomas (IV).
3. Francis, d. y.
4. Edward, d. y.
5. Gabriel (a quo Fairfax, of Steeton and Newton-
Kyme).
6. Henry, of Street Houses or Seacroft. Will 29 Apr.
1599, pr. at York 31 Jan. l£§§ (Reg. Test.,
xxviii, 46), to be bur. in Bilbrough church ; mar.
Dorothy, dau. of Robert Aske, of Aughton (Iremar.
Richard Beverley). They had issue —
1. Gabriel, of Street Houses ; mar. Frances,
dau. of Brian Palmes, of Naburn. They
had issue —
Dorothy.
Anne.
2. Edward.
3. Francis, mar. and had children, mentioned
in their grandfather's will.
4. .Henry, (1 of Lund, in Byland). Will 6 Sept.
1602, pr. at York 18 Apr. 1605 ; mar.
. . . , dau. of Roger Talbot, of Thornton.
They had six children.
5. William, had .£10 in his father's will, mar.
and had children.
G. Thomas, had £10 in his father's will ; mar.
Mary, mar. Christopher Popeley.
Frances, mar. Robert Beverley,
Elizabeth, ,
174
DUGDALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
7. John.
Anna, mar. Sir Hy. Everingham, of Laxton.
Mary, mar. Iiobert Rockley, of Hockley.
Bridget, mar. Sir Cotton Gargrave, of Nostell.
Ursula, mar. Ralph Vavasour, of Hazlewood.
Agnes, mar. Edmund Eltoft, of Farnell.
Susan.
IV. SIR THOMAS FAIRFAX, of Denton and Nun Appleton,
deprived of Steeton in favour of his brother Gabriel ; High
Sheriff 1571 ; d. at Denton 28 Jan. 22 Eliz. 1599, bur.
in the chapel there, MX Will 13, pr. at York 31 Jan.
(Reg. Test., xxviii, 46) ; mar. Dorothy, dau. of George
Gale, Esq., wid. of John Rokeby, of Sandal, d. 2 Jan.
38 Eliz. 1595, bur. in Denton chapel, M.I. They had
issue— r
1. S>- Thomas (V).
2. Henry, d. y.
3. Ferdinando,1 d. y.
Ursula, mar. Sir Hy. Bellasyse, of Newborough.
Christiana, mar. John Aske, of Aughton, bur. at
St. Mary, Bishophill, 1 July 1619.
Anne, d. y., bur. at Bishophill 29 Aug. 1571.
V. & THOMAS FAIRFAX, of Denton and Nun Appleton, A'*.,
created Vise. Fairfax, of Cameron, 3 Caroli primi 4 May
1627. Died May 2" 1640. Knighted before Rouen 1594*;
b. at Bilbrough 1560, d. 1 May 1640, bur. at Otley J
mar. Eleanor, daughter of Robert Aske, of Aughton, in com.
Ebor. Died 23 Aug. a0 1620, bur. in Otley church 24 Aug.
They had issue —
Ferdinando, second Lord Fairfax, adm. Gray's Inn
3 May 1602, knighted by Jas. I, 1607, M.P.
Boroughbridge 1620-40, Yorkshire 1640, General
of the Northern forces for the Parliament, b. at
Denton 29 Mar. 1584, d. at Denton 13, bur. at
Bolton Percy 15 Mar, 1647. Will 12 Mar. 1647, pr.
at London 11 Oct. 1649 (Yorks. Arch. Rec. Soc,
ix, 5), mar. Mary, daughter to Edm. Earle of
Mulgrave 1607, 1st wife, d. in childbirth at Steeton
bur. in Bolton Percy church 4 June 1619. They
had issue —
1 There were two other sons, Charles and Edward, concerning whose
legitimacy there have been different opinions. They are not in the Visitation
Pedigree. It would seem by their father, Sir Thomas Fairfax's will, that
they must have been illegitimate, tor lie does not call thorn scmis. tad
mentions that by the request of his eldest sou. Sir Thomas, he left them
properties. Charles was of Brokett Hall, and left a will dated U Ma\ 1602,
pr. 2(5 Apr. 1606, but ho is said to haw died abroad. Edward was a pool ami
the well known translator of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered" i he lived al
Fvwston and Leeds. There is an account of both in the " Dictionary of National
Biography."
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
175
Thomas, third Lord Fairfax, adm. Gray's
Inn 26 May 162S, now living a° 1665.
Knighted 164-£, General of Horse for the
Parliament 28 Jan. 1642, Commander-in-
Chief, M.P. Yorkshire 1G60, b. at Denton
17, bp. in chapel there 25 Jan. 161J
(Otley Reg.),.d. at Nun Appleton 12 Nov.
1671, bur. in Bilbrough church. Will
8 Nov. 1667, pr. 8 Dec. 1671 (Markham's
" Great Lord Fairfax," 440) ; mar. Anne,
dau. and coh. of Horace, Lord Vere, of
Tilbury, 20 June 1637, at Hackney
church, d. 16 Oct. 1665, bur. in Bil-
brough church. They had issue —
Mary, b. at Bishophill 30 July, bp. at
St. Mary's church there, 1 Aug. 1638,
mar. 15 Sept. 1657 in Dolton Percy
church, George Villiers, second Duke
of Buckingham, d. s.p. 20 Oct., bur.
30 Oct. 170-1 in Henry YII's chapel,
Westminster Abbey.
Elizabeth, bp. at St. Mary's, Bishophill,
6 Apr. 1640, d. at Denton, bur. at
Otley 1642.
Ursula, bp. at Bishophill 29 Sept. 1609, d.
6, bur. 7 July 1628 in the Fairfax chapel
in St. Mary's, Bishophill.
Ellen, b. at Toulston 10 Feb. 1611, mar. Sir
William Selby, of Twizell, d. at Nun
Appleton 17 Mar. 1671, bur. at Bolton
Percy, M.I.
Frances, b. at Denton 13 Dec. 1612; mar.
Sir Thomas Widdrington, M.P., Speaker
of the House of Commons ; bur. at St.
Giles'-in-the-Fields.
Elizabeth, b. at Scow Hall 1, bp. at Fewston
10 Feb. 1613, mar. Sir William Craven,
of Lenchwick, co. Wore, at St. Giles'-in-
the-Fields, 30 Mar. 1646.
Charles, b. at Scow Hall 22 Mar. 161*, bp.
at Fewston 27 Mar. 1615, adm. (hay's
Inn 21 Mar. 164£, Colonel of Horse slain
at Marston Moor 7 July 1644, bur. at
Mars ton.
Mary, b. at Scow Hall 4, bp. at FewatOD
12 May 1616, mar. Henry Arthington,
Esq., of Arthington, at St, Mary's, Bishop-
hill, 24 May 1638, bur. there 2] Dec.
1678.
Dorothy, b. at Steeton i June 1617, bp.
there; mar. Richard Hut ion.
176
DUGDALe's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
John, b. at Steeton 31 May, bur. at Bolton
Percy 7 June 1619.
mar. Rhoda, dauyhter and heire to Thomas Chap-
man, Esq., ividoio to Sr Thomas Hnssey, Bar*.; ~
wife, 1G Oct. 1646, at St. Giles'-in-the-Fields,
London, bur. at Aynho 11 Oct. 1686, vel 1670
(mar. first 11 Dec. 1633 at St. Mary's, Woolnoth).
They had issue-
Ursula, b. at Denton Feb. 1647 j mar". John
Cartwright, Esq., of Aynho, in North-
amptonshire, d. 25 July 1702.
2. Henry Fairfax (YI).
3. Charles Fairfax (a quo Fairfax, of Mensington).
Charles) ,v- ^ ^ ^ g . 15SQ.
Henry j ' r
William, b. at Denton 10 May 1593, Captain under
Sir Horace Yere, slain at the siege of Franken-
thal 1621.
Thomas, b. at Denton 4 Aug, 1594, a merchant
adventurer, d. at Scanderoon 4 July 1621.
John, b. at Nun xippleton 29, bp. at Bolton Percy
30 Oct. 1597, slain with his brother William at
Frankenthal 1621.
Peregrine, b. at Denton 31 May 1599, Secretary to
the Earl of Carlisle, Ambassador in France, slain
there in 1624.
Mary, b. at Bishophill, York, 16 May 1588, d. v.,
bur. in the Fairfax chapel, St. Mary's, Bishophill.
Dorothy, b. at Denton 13 July 1590, mar. 15 Feb.
1608, Sir William Constable, Bart., of Flam-
borough, d. at York 9, bur. at St. Marv's,
Bishophill 11 Mar. 165-*-.
Anne, b. at Bramham 8 Oct. 1600, mar. Sir George
Wentvvorth, of Woolley, d. at Denton 19 Aug.
1624, bur. at Otley.
YI. HEXRY FAIRFAX, of Oglethorpe, in com. Ebor., died hi
Aprill 1665, M.A., Fellow of Trin. Coll., Camb., 17 Sept,
1608, Hector of Ashton, New ton-Ky Erie and of Bolton
Percy, b. at Denton 14 Jan. 1588, retired to Oglethorpe
1662, and d. 6 Apr. 1665, bur. in Bolton Percy church;
mar. Mary, daughter to >Sr Henry Chorley (Cholmley) Iff
Roxby, in com. Ebor., at St. Helens, York, 4 Feb. I62f,
d. 8 Jan. 1650, ret. 56, bur. at Bolton Percy. M.I. They
had issue —
Henry (YII).
Bryan Fairfax, M.A. and LL.D. Camb.; Equerry to
King Charles I] and William 1 II ; author of " Iter
Borcale." Adm. Cray's Inn 10 May 1654 : k at
Ne\vton K vme 6 Oct." 1633, d. 20 Sept. 1711, mar.
at Westminster Abbey 22 Apr. 1675 Charlotte,
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
177
. dau. and heiress of Sir Edmund Carey, d. 14 Nov.
1709. They had issue —
Brian, ed. at Westminster School, Fellow
Trin. Coll., Camb., Commissioner of
Customs, an antiquary, lived in Panton
Square, London, b. in the Mews 1 1 Apr.
1676, d. 9 Jan. 1748.
Henry, b. at Toulston 22 Mar. 1677, d.
13, bur. at St. Michael's, Malton, '14 July
1680.
Ferdinando, ed. at "Westminster School, of
Trin. Coll., Camb., lived with his brother
in Panton Square, b. in the Mews 11 June
1678, d. 12 Feb. 1748, unmar.
Guy, b. at New ton-Ky me, d. in London
1679, bur. at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.
Charles, ed. at Westminster School, of Christ
Church, Oxford, mat. 12 June 1702, M.A.
1709, Dean of Down and Connor, b. in
the Mews 8 Sept. 16S4, d. 27 July 1723,
mar. Miss Brandon.
Thomas, b. at Ash ton 1628, bur. at Otley Apr. 1640.
Ellen, d. y., at Ash ton.
HENRY FAIRFAX, of Oglethorpe, Esq., cet. S3 an. 8 Aug.
a0 1665, succeeded as fourth Lord Fairfax in 1671, M.P.
Yorkshire 1678-85, b. at Ashton 20 Dec. 1631, d. and bur.
at Denton 16 Apr. 1688, mar. Frances, sole daughter to
. Sr Robert Barwick, of Tolston, in co. Ebor., Kl, Recorder of
Yorke, d. 14, bur. in Denton chapel IS Feb. 16Sj (Otley
Reg.). They had issue —
1. Thomas, fifth Lord Fairfax, cet. S an. S Aug. a" 1665,
M.P. Malton 1685-8, Yorkshire 1688—1707; b.
16 Apr. 1657 at Bolton Percy, d. 6 Jan. i7£§,
when his widow sold all the Yorkshire property,
mar. Catherine, dau. and h. of Thomas, Lord
Culpepper, of Leeds Castle, Kent, and Virginia.
Will 20 Apr. 1719. They had issue—
1. Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax, mat. at Oriel
Coll., Oxf., 24 Jan. 16*^ retired to his
estate in Virginia and built Greemvav
Court, b. at Denton 1690, d. unmar.
12 May 1782, bur. at Winchest or,
Virginia (see " Diet, of Nat. Biography '").
2. Henry Culpepper, F.R.S., a mathematician,
mat. at Oriel Coll., Oxf., 1 Mar. 171;,
tet. sixteen, d. s.p. at Leeds Castle 14 Oct.
1734.
3. Robert, seventh Lord Fairfax! «>t' Leeds
Castle, succeeded his brother, Major
Horse Guards, M.P. Maidstone 1743, b.
178
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
1707, d. s.p. 15 July 1793, bur. at Broom-
fielcl, Kent, leaving his property to
his nephew, Rev. Denny Martin ; mar.
first 25 Apr. 1741, Martha, dau. of
Anthony Collins, of Baddow, d. 1743,
bur. at Broomfield, Kent; mar. secondly
18 July 1749- Dorothy, sister of Thomas
Best, of Chilston, co. Kent, d. 21 May
1750, bur. at Broomfield, Kent.
Margaret, mar. 15 Nov. 1725 Dr. David
Wilkins, Prebendary of Canterbury, d.
s.p. 30 Mar. 1755.
Katherine, b. 1695, d. unmar. 4 Aug. 1716.
Frances, b. 1703, mar. Denny Martin,
Esq.
Mary, b. 1705, d. unmar. Sept. 1739. *
2. Henry, cct. 6 ami. (VIII).
S. Bryan, b. at Oglethorpe 2, bp. at Bramham 5 Apr.
1665, d. Oct. 1666.
1. Dorothy, wt. 9 an. 16G5, b. at Toulston 30 Dec. 1665,
mar. first Robert Stapleton, of Wighill, secondly
Beimet Sherard, d. Jan. 1744.
3. Ursula, b. at Bolton Percy 3 May 1661, d. 1668.
3. Frances, b. at Oglethorpe 2, bp. at Bramham 5 Apr.
1663, mar. 26 Oct. 1686 Rev. Nicholas Rymer,
Rector of Newton-Kvme, (?) bur. at Newton 22
July 1723.
Barwick, of Tadcaster, b. at Oglethorpe 18 Sept., bp.
at Bramham 18 Oct. 1667, d. s.p. Adm. Trin.
Coll., Camb. Will 13 Mav 1730, pr. at York
1 July 1734.
Mary, b. at Toulston 29 July 1653, bp. at Bramham,
bur. at Bolton Percy 7 May 1654.
Anne, bp. at Bramham 27 Apr. 1670, mar. at West-
minster Abbey, 2 Sept. 1690, Ralph Carr, of
Cocken, co. Durham, d. 3 July 1699, bur. at
Houghton-lo-Spring.
Mary, bp. at Bramham 8 Oct. 1673, d. unmar. 24 Sept.
1716, bur. in Fairfax chapel, St. Mary's, Bishophill,
York. Will 21 Aug. 1714. (Reg. Test, LXXI,
273).
VIII. HENRY FAIRFAX, of Toulston, at. 6 onn., inherited his
mother's estate, adm. Gray's Inn 22 June 1078, High Sheriff
of Yorks 1691, d. 1708, mar. 27 Sept. 1684, at Kippax,
Anne, dau. and coh. of Richard Harrison, of South Cave.
They had issue —
Henry Fairfax, of Toulston, bp. 15 Sent 1685, d«
unmar. at York 22 Nov, 1759, admon. York \A July
1760 and 30 Marc h 1761, bur. at Nrw ton-k \ im\
M.I.
DUGDALe's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
179
Thomas, bp. 31 July, bur. 29 Oct. 1690.
William (IX).
Brian, of Wetherby, mar. 1730 ... , and had a son,
b. 1731.
Barwick, b. 1695, d. 1700.
John, b. and d. 1699.
Anne, bp. at Newton-Kyme 11 July 1693, d. unmar.
Dorothy, bp. at Newton-Kyme 16 May 1689, mar.
Henry Clapham, of Thirsk.
IX. WILLIAM FAIRFAX, of Belvoir, Virginia, agent to his
cousin, Lord Fairfax, bp. at Newton-Kyne 30 Oct. 1691,
d. 3 Sept. 1757, bur. at Belvoir; mar. first 27 Mar. 1723
Sarah, dau. of Major Thomas Walker, of Nassau, d. 18 Jan.
1731. They had 'issue-
George William, of Toulston, and of Belvoir in Virginia,
b. 1724, inherited Toulston (which he sold) from
his uncle Henry, d. s.p. at Bath 3 Apr. 1787, bur.
at Writhlington, co. Som. ; mar. 17 Dec. 17-18
Sarah, dau. of Colonel Wilson Cary, d. 2 Nov.
1811 at Bath.
Thomas, R.N., b. 1725, killed 26 June 1746.
Anne, mar. first Laurence, elder brother of George
Washington, secondly George Lee, of Virginia.
Sarah, mar. Major John Carlyle, of Virginia.
Mar. secondly Deborah, dau. of Francis Clarke, at Salem
•28 Oct. 1731. They had issue-
Brian (X).
William Henry, mortally wounded at Quebec, under
Wolfe.
Hannah, mar. Warner, son of John Washington.
X. BRIAN, eighth Lord Fairfax, of Mount Eagle, Virginia, b.
1737, d. Aug. 1802; mar. Eliz., dau. of Colonel Wilson Cary ;
from them descends the present Lord Fairfax (see the
" Peerages
Authorities. — Herald and Genealogist — Markham's u Fairfax " —
York Wills — Otley and other Registers.
180
$etugrns from t|| }9lca Bolls.
By Major-General the Hon. GEORGE WROTTESLEY.
(Continued from p. 103).
De Banco. Mich. 22. Hen 6. rn. 626.
Ebor. — Ralph Bulmere, Kt., sued John, the Archbishop of York,
and Ralph Graystoke, Kt., for the next presentation to the church
of Bulmere.
Ralph Bulmere, Chivaler,
seised temp. Ric. 2.
I
Ralph.^Agnes.
I
Ralph.
I
Ralph Bulmere, Kt.
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Hillary. 22. Hen. 6. m. 504.
Lincoln. — John Graa, Kt., sued Henry, the Bishop of Win ton, and
others, for the next presentation to the church of Somercotes.
Thomas de Multon,
presented temp. E. 1.
I
r J
Thomas.=rElizabeth.
I
John de Multon.
I
Matilda.
I
John Graa, Kt.,
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Mich. 25. Hen. 6. m. 431 dorso.
Surrey. — John Gaynesford, the elder, sued John Bowet and Thomas
Slyfeld, for the manor of Coteford, which Thomas de la Poyle, late
Parson of Hampton Poyle, co. Oxon, had given to John de la Poyle,
Kt., and to Isabel, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies.
John de la Boyle, Kt.,=pMabel.
soised temp. E. 3.
r~
Henry. Robert, Margery.
| ob. s.p.
I 1 1 John.
Thomas, John. |
ob. s.p. | John Gnvnrsfonl.
Honry. tho cider, plaintiff.
Robert
ob. s.p.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
181
De Banco. Mich. 25. Hen. 6. ra.*o07.
Derb. — John Cokayne, Armiger, sued Thomas Bate, Armiger, and
Isabella, his wife, for the manors of Medelton and Herthill.
Edmund Cokayne.=pElizabeth, daughter and heir
| of Richard Herthill, Kt.
John Cokayne, Kt.
i V . * -
John Cokayne,
plaintiff.
The defendants admitted the claim.
De Banco. Mich. 25. Hen. 6. m. 409.
Derb. — John, son of John Savage, Kt., sued Richard Pesliale for a
moiety of the manor of Dore, near Norton, by a writ of right from
the Lords' Court, and gave this pedigree : —
John Danyell, Kt.,
seised temp. E. 2.
I
Margaret.
I
John Savage, Kt.
John Savage,
the plaintiff.
The plaintiff offered to prove his right by wager of battle, and the
defendant's warrantor not appearing, a verdict was given in his
favour. By similar suits John Savage recovered from Richard
Peshale the manor of Rushton Spencer, a rent of twenty marks
from Draycote, and lands and tenements in Tene, and the advowson
of the church of Chekley, all in co. Stafford. The proceedings,
which are very curious, will be found in vol. iii, New Series of the
Staffordshire Collections.
De Banco. Mich. 25. Hen. 6. m. 626.
Warw. — Thomas Shukburgh sued John Thurstone, the Master of the
College of Corpus Christi, Pulteney, London, for the next presentation
to the church of Nap ton.
Adam de Napton,
seised temp. E. 3.
I
Adam.
I
Adam.
i 1
Joan. Thomasine.
William.
I
Thomas Shukburgh,
tho plaintiff.
Verdict for the defendant.
182
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
De Banco. Easter. 25. Hen. 6. m. 416.
Glouc. — John Langeley sued John Hubande, of Astwode, co.
Worcester, and others, for a trespass at Over Sudyngton.
The pleadings state that King Edward III, with the assent of
his Parliament, had granted the manor of Over Sudyngton, with
many others, to his uncle Edmond, Earl of Kent, and to the heirs
of his body, in the first year of his reign, from whom the descent
was as follows : —
Edmund, Earl of Kent.
r -r ^ 1
Edmund, John, brother,=Elizabeth. Joan, sister=rThomas de
ob. s.p. and heir, ob. and heir. Holand.
s.p. I
Thomas.
I
Thomas.
! . , , n T , 1 !
Thomas, Edmund, Alianora. Joan, Margaret.— Alianora.== Elizabeth .=
ob. s.p. ob. s.p. j Duchess John, Earl Thomas, John
Edmund, of York, of Somer- Earl of Neville, Kt.
Earl of and wife set. Salisbury.
March,ob. to Henry
s.p. le Scrope.
And three other sisters, as below : —
r 1 — i
Anne. Joan. Jovce.
I I
Richard, Duke Henry de Grey,
of York.
It will be observed that there were two sisters named Eleanor
and two named Joan. In the partition made amongst them, Edmund.
Earl of March, had obtained the manor of Over Sodington, and
had left no issue.
The defendant derived his claim from Nicholas Musard, and gave
this descent : —
Nicholas Musard.
I
Makeline.
^--Gilbert (.•anwtfe.v »wl y^W%J^*^J^
John.
I
Makeline.
I
Elizabeth.
, i
Elizaboth.=John Hubande,
the defendant.
De Banco. Hillary. 25. Hen G. in. 'J 7 "J.
Dorset. — Maurice de la Ryvor, Armiger, sued Stephen Hat fold.
Armiger, for the manor of Bradepole and Hundreds .of Eledehone
and Hemystre, which, with several other manors named, Thomas
Gorgefl had given to Ralph de Gorgea and Alianora, lus wife, and
the heirs of their bodies.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
183
Ralph de Gorges^Alianora.
• seised temp. E. 3. I
r
Alianora. Elizabeth. Joan.
I
Ralph.
!
Maurice.
i 1
Isabella. Margaret.
I
Maurice de la River.
A verdict was given in favour of the plaintiffs at Michaelmas
term, 26 H. 6, m. 652.
De Banco. Mich. 26. Hen. 6. m. 438.
Oxon. — Richard Engleys sued Thomas Restwold for an illegal distress
in Mungeville.
William Lovcdav,
seised 20 E. 1.
I
Ralph.
I
John.
I
John.
I
Elizabeth.
I
Thomas.
I
Thomas Restwold,
the defendant.
De Banco. Mich. 26. lien. 6. m. 585.
Essex. — Gilbert Gamesley and Philippa,. his wife, sued Robert Moly-
neux and Elizabeth, his wife, for a moiety of the manor of West
Tillebury, and they sued John Harpur and Robert Whitgreve for
the other moiety. The pleadings give these pedigrees : —
Thomas Vaghan, Kt.
I
I 1
Hamon, Agnes,
ob. s.p. :
Thomas.
I
Edward.
I
Margaret.
I
Elizabeth,
the defendant,
184
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
Thomas.
1
Alice.
Thomas Vaughan, Kt. James.
. rm .T. . ! -I
Hamon Vaughan, living Margaret.
17 Ric. 2, ob. s.p. i
Philippa,
the plaintiff.
The jury found that Thomas Vaughan, Kt., had no daughter
Agnes.
De Banco. Mich. 27. Hen. 6. m. 601.
Ebor. — Robert Ingilton and Margaret, his wife, sued William Eure
and another for the next presentation to the church of Thorneton.
The pleadings give these pedigrees : —
Robert Wandesford, seised
of the manors of Wiggele-
wardly and Thirnonm.
I
Thomas.
i ,
I
Margaret.—
Robert Ingilton,
the plaintiffs.
Elizabeth.=
John Everyngton.
William Bruys, Kt., had
presented temp. Ric. 2.
I
William.
I
Robert.
Isabella.= Elizabeth.= Matilda.=
William Appulby. Richard Eglesfeld. Thomas Bronn.
The defendant, William Eure or Evre, had been enfeoffed by the
coheirs of de Bruys.
De Banco. Mich. 27. lien. 6. m. 606.
Somerset. — William, Earl of Arundel, sued Margaret, the Abbess of
St. Sauveur, of Syon, for the next presentation to the church of
Yevele.
John Maltravers, the younger,
had presented temp. E. 3.
I
John.
I
John.
I
John Maltravers had
presented temp. 11. 5.
I
William, Earl of Arundel,
tho pl&iutiff,
N.B. — There must be an error in this descent ; but the pedigree
of Maltravers is so imperfect I have thought it best not to omit it.
PEDICKEES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
De Banco. Mich. 27. Hen. 6. m. 607.
185
Cambridi/e. — William Coggeshale and Emma, his wife, sued Richard
Sturgeon and three others, for the manor of Clievele, which John
Peehe had given to Roger Loveday and Sibil, his wife.
Roger Loveday, seised=f Sibil,
temp. E. 1.
Katrine.-f "Roger Tychebonrne, son of
Roarer Tychebourne.
Thomas.
I
Emma, the
plaintiff.
The defendants claimed by a grant of Roger Tychebourne, the
father of Roger Tychebourne, the husband of Katrine, dated 15 E. 3,
and a verdict was given in their favour.
De Banco. Hillary. 29. Hen. 6. m. 377.
Essex. — John Knyvet, of Hamerton, Armiger, sued Thomas Freman
for the manor of Little AValtham, which Robert Tateshale had
given to Adam, son of Osbert Cayly, in frank marriage with Emma,
his sister.
Adam, sou of Osbert=pEmma de Tateshale.
Cayley.
Margery.
I
Adam.
I
Constantine.
John.
I
Constantine.
i
John,
ob. s.p.
Elizabeth.
L
John Knyvet,
the plaintiff.
Coram Bc</c. Vaster. 28. Hen. 0. m. 28.
Staff. — III an appeal brought by William Trussell, Kt., against a
verdict of an assize of novel disseisin respecting the manors of
Cuhblestone, Acton and Hales, the pleadings give these pedigrees.
The defendant was Richard Vernon,
o
186
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
William Tra&ull, Kt, ^Isabella, da. of Warino
of Cubblestone. ! Mavnwarinir.
i i 1
John. William. Warino.
i i I
William. Margaret." Lawrence.
| Fulfc de |
Katrine. Pembrup-^e, William Trnasell,
| Kt. • the plaintiff.-
Elizabeth,
ob. s.p.
Margaret .~Fulk fie Pembrupge.^Isabella. Juliana.
Kt., ob. s.p. j
Richard Vernon.
I
Richard "\ ernon.
the defendant.
On a Cheshire Plea Roll of 12 E. 3, the daughter of Warine
Maynwaring, who married Sir William Trussell, is called Matilda.
De Banco. Mich. 31. Hen. 6. m. 333.
Derb. — Nicholas Fitzherbert, Armiger, sued John Bothe, Armiger,
for the manor of Ashe, which Thomas, son of William Fitzherbert,
of Somersale, had given to William Fitzherbert, of Norburv, and
Edeka, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies.
William Fitzherbert. of Xorbury,=f=Fdeka.
seised temp. E. 2. j
Henrv.
I ,
"\V illiam.
I
John.
I
William.
I
William.
Henry.
I
Nicholas Fitzherbert,
the plaintiff.
In another part of the same suit the pedigree is given as under : —
William Fitzherbert. of ---Edeka.
Norburv.
Henrv.
I
Nicholas, the plaintiff.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
187
Owing to this discrepancy I referred tlie matter to Major Fitz-
herbert, of Somersal, who informs me that the correct pedigree
is as follows : —
William Fitzherbert, had a=f=Edeka.
charter of Free Warren in
in 3G II. 3, for lands in Ashe.
Henry.
I
John, living 4 E. 3.
I
William.
I
William.
I
Henry.
I
Nicholas.
The Quo Warranto Pleas of 4 E. 3 prove the first three generations
of the above pedigree, and shew that there was no William between
Henry and John. William Fitzherbert was Sheriff of co. Derby
in 1261, and his son Henry acted as his Deputy and Sub-Sheriff.
Coram Eege. Easter. 31. Tien. 6.
Norf. — John Howard, of Stokeneyland, co. Suffolk, and others (his
servants) were attached at the suit of Alice, Duchess of Suffolk,
for depasturing their cattle on her land at Claxton and other
places. The pleadings, which involved the title to the manor of
Claxton, give these pedigrees.
John Howard propounded the following pedigree : —
Roger Kerdeston, Kt.
I
r J '
Margaret Bacon, =f=William de K erd e st on ,== Alice Norwich,
1st wife. I Kt. I 2nd wife.
Margaret. =f William Tendrymr, Kt.
I
William Tendryng, Kt.,
the vouuger.
I
Alice Howard.
I
Robert Howard.
I
John Howard,
the defendant.
William Kerdeston,
the younger.
I
Leonard.
I
Thomas Kerdeston,
who had enfeoffed
William, Duke of
Suffolk, and Alice.
the Duchess,
The Duchess gave the following pedigree, and stated that Margaret,
the daughter of William de Kerdeston, was illegitimate, being the
daughter of a concubine of William tic Eterdeston, who Was n.iiued
Margaret Cobald.
188 PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
William cle Kerdeston,=i=Margaret.
son of l\o''er.
Matilda.^ John Bui'frhorsh, Kt.
• 1
John.
I
Matilda.
I
Alice, the Duchess of Suffolk,
the plaintiff.
John Howard in his replication stated that William de Kerdeston,
the younger, was illegitimate, having boon born before the marriage
between William de Kerdeston and Alice Norwich.
Coram Bege. Easier. 31. Hen, 6.
Glouc. — Edmund, Duke of Somerset, and Alianora, his wife, John,
Earl of Shrewsbury, and Margaret, his wife, and George Neville and
Elizabeth, his wife, sued James de Berkeley, Kt., and others, for
trespasses in the manors of Wotton-under-Egge, Simondeshale and
Coweley.
James de Berkeley gave the following pedigree :—
Thomas de IJevkeley^Katrine.
seised 33 E. 3.
James do Berkeley.
I
James do Berkeley,
the defendant.
And he stated that Thomas de Berkeley seised of the mamas in
33 E. 3, had levied a Fine in that year, by which they had been
settled on Thomas and the heirs male of his body, with remainder
to the heirs of the bodies of Thomas and [Catherine, and failing
such on t he right heirs of Thomas for ever.
The plaintiffs staled that long before the Fine of S3 E. 3 the
manors had been settled on Maurice de Berkeley, ^<>n of Thomas
de Berkeley and [sabelhl, liis wife, and the heirs of their I KM lies,
with remainder to the right heirs of Maurice, and they gave this
pedigree : —
Thomns, late Lord of
Berkeley, ob. s.p.m.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
189
Maurice de Berkcley.^Isabella.
Thomas.
I
Maurice.
I
Thomas de Berkeley,
who levied the Fine
in 33 E. 3.
Maurice.
I
Thomas, late Lord
of Berkeley.
I
Elizabeth, late Countess
of Warwick.
I
i > i i
Alianora.^ Margaret.— Elizabeths
Edmund, .John, Earl of George
Duke of Shrewsbury. Neville.
Somerset.
De Banco. Mich, 33. Hen. 6. m. 320.
Cambridge. — Edmund Ingaldesthorpe, Kt., sued Richard Waldegrave,
Kt., and Joan, his wife, fur the manor of Wesioke, wliich John
de Burgh, the son of Hubert de Burgli, had given to Walter
de Creke and Matilda, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies
temp. Ed. 2, and the said Walter and .Matilda having died s.p., the
manor should revert to the heirs of the original donor.
John de Burgh, son of
Hubert dc Burgh.
I
Thomas.
' ' ' I
John.
I
Elizabeth.
I
Thomas.
Edmund Inguldeathorp, Kt.,
the plaint ill'.
J)r, Banco, Mirk. 33. Hen. 6. m. G7G.
Xorf. — Margaret Swathing. Elizabeth Sheryngton, Anabel Morpath
and Matilda Swathing, sued John, Duke of Norfolk, for the manor
of Stokton, which Ralph CrophuU had given bo John Bigod and
Alesia, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies.
190
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
Jolm Bigod, seised^ Alesia
temp. E. 3. !
Ralph.
Elizabeth.
Margaret.
I
Edmund.
Ralph, ob. s.p.
I 1 1 J 1
Margaret Elizabeth Anabel Matilda
Swathyng. Sheryngton. Morpath. Swathmg.
The suit was dismissed, as it was testified tliat John, Duke of
Norfolk, was not the tenant of the manor, the tenant being John,
Duke of Suffolk, son and heir of William, Duke of Suffolk.
Coram Rcyc. Trinity. 33. lien. 6. m. 44.
Norfolk. — A suit respecting the manor of Tychewalle brought by
the coheirs of Thomas Lovell against John Falstolf, Richard Waller
and other feoffees of the manor, gives this pedigree : —
John Lovell, Kt., seised of the
manor had granted it to Thomas
Lovell and the heirs of his bod v.
I
Thomas Lovell.
I '
Ralph.
Ralph. Thomas.
I , I
Margery, died | 1 1
s.p. G Nov. Margery.— Agnes. =
15 H. 6. Edward John Wake,
Hullo, Kt. Armiger.
Verdict for the defendants, who had been enfeoffed by Margery
Lovel, who died in 15 H. 6.
Coram Regc. Trinity. 33. Hen. G. m. 8. Rex.
Oxo7i. — A suit brought by John Dynham and Joan, his w ife, against
the King's Attorney respecting the manors of Barton Odo, Roules-
ham and Derneford, quotes this pedigree, taken from an Imp p.m.
of 30 H. G.
William do ShareshuH, Kt.^Dkmisia.
living 18 E*. 3.
i 1
William.^Joan. A^nes.
I I
r— ' r 1 '
Elizabeth. Elizabeth. Lacy.
I I I
i 1 John. Joan
.Toroi.~ | John DvultfclU, Kt
William bee. Ilichmnl Bonufu, the plniHttlfi.
of Kniglitlcv,
ob. s.p.
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
191
The plaintiffs denied the accuracy of this pedigree and stated
that Joan, the wife of John Dynham was not the daughter of Lucy,
and that Richard Beaufo was not kinsman and heir of William de
Sharesh u 11.
A suit (Richard Harcourt versus the King's Attorney) of Trinity
2 H. 4, Coram Rege, m. 23 Rex, gives the following pedigree : —
William de Shureshulle,
Kfc., 18 E. 3.
j
William tic Sliaicshull.^pJoan.
J_
William de Shureshulle, Kt..— Margaret. Elizabeth,
died 17 May 1401, s.p. dead in 1401.
I
Joan, dead Margaret, Katrine.^
in 1401. dead in 1401. Roger Wilder.
! I
Joan.— | 1 1
William Lee. Isabella. Joyce.
By the Inquisition p.m. on the last "William de Shareshulle it
was shewn that he had died leaving no issue, and Elizabeth, his
sister, was also dead, and had left three daughters, Joan, Margaret
and Katrine, and Joan had a daughter Joan, then wife of William
Lee, and had died ; and Margaret had two daughters, viz., Isabella
and. Joyce, and had died ; and that the said Katrine, the wife of
Roger Wiiiley and Joan, the wife of William Lee, both of full age,
and the said Isabella and Joyce, who were under age, were the
nearest heirs to the said William cle Sharcshull, Kt. The last pedigree
appears to be the correct one.
(To be continued.)
CHANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
Communicated by Authuii J. Jkwkus, F.S.A.
(Continued from jk 12[).)
Hovell, see Howell, of Plymouth.
How, RrCHAftT), Esq., of London, s. of Sir Richard How, Knt . dee,
late Sheriff and Alderman of London. (ir. ami QOTtf, bv J,
Anstis, Garter; Arg. a fess eng. Sa gut tee d'Or. betw, three
wolves' heads erased of the second, collared Or. Crest A wolfs
head erased pean. Add. MS. 14,830.
How, see Howe.
192
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
Howard, John, of Hackney, Middlesex, Commissioner of the Land
Tax. Fined for SherhT of London in 1731. Gr. by J. Austis,
Garter, and Knox Ward, Clar., 21 Nov. 173-j. Gu. a bend Or
betw. six cross-crosslets fitchee Afg., on a canton of the second a
hind's head erased ppr. Crest—On a chapeau Gu., turned up
Erm., a demi hind ppr., charged on the shoulder with a cross-
crosslet Arg. Add. MS 11,831.
Howard,1 Matthew and Richard, of the City of London, merchants,
sons of Samuel Howard, late of London, merchant, dec. Gr. by
1 The f ollov/i ng may bo interesting in connection with the above Howard
grants. The John Howard of the grant in 173o docs not occur as buried
in the registers of St. John's, Hackney, between 1735 and 17(5."), but there
are a good many entries in those registers of the name of Howard.
Mr. Matthew Howard, merchant, was bur. 16 Jan. 1713-14. Matthew
Howard, Esq., is mentioned as carried to St. Mary Ie How to be buried
30 March 1738 ; this was in compliance with a clause in his will. Mr.
Bucknell Howard was buried 13 Feb. 1744. Andrew Howard. Esq., was
buried at Hackney 20 April 1748. Matthew Howard was buried there
15 Jan. 1749-50, beside some others and a number of children.
The will of Samuel Howard, gent., of St. Mary Magdalen, liermoiitlsey,
dated 9 March 1710-11 and proved 5 Jan. 1713-14 [P.C.C., (> Aston],
leaves all to Eleanor Cooley except .€20 to her sister Young. The next
will appears to be that of a relative of the grantees of 1714; and
that of Matthew below is one of the two grantees. There is no
connection shown between the foregoing and Michael Howard of Mary*
land. Unfortunately, he does not mention his father and mother by
name in his will, but from the oeeurrenee in it of his late brother
Matthew and other reasons it seems of sufficient interest to append.
Matthew Howard of Hackney, eo. Midd. Will dated 29 July 1700.
To wife ground rent of three houses in bell Alley, Coleman Street, for
her life. Ground rent in St. James Street to son Samuel and the heirs
of his body, remainder to son bucknell and the heirs of his body, paving
to his- sisters Elizabeth and Sarah £150 at 21 or marriage. After the
death of said wife rent from bell Alley to dau. Elizabeth and the heirs
of her body, failing such to son Samuel. Copyhold estate at Clapton
in Hackney to be sold and added to personal estate with shares in the
waterworks. To wife Elizabeth gold jewels ; watches she possesses except
the jewel, which was testator's mothers, which she knows how it is to
be disposed of. Three nephews, sons of brother Samuel Howard,
deceased, £10 each. To father and mother Bucknell, brother and sister
Bucknell, brother Thomas Powell, sister Hannah Howard, sister Hester
Bucknell, each £40. All servants. l"4. 4'o wife, household goods and
plate to the Value of £100. House in Bow Churchyard, in the occupation
of Mr. Henry Carter, if testator has power, to be sold and the money tu be
part of personal estate. Residue equally between wife ami four children.
Bucknell, Samuel, Elizabeth, and Sarah. Is a Freeman of the City of
London, and made a settlement on his marriage, but desires his wife to
accept this arrangement. To be lair, in the par. church of St. Mary le
Bow, London. brother William lbicknoll and sister Hannah Howard
executors. 3 Ecb. 171JJ, Hannah and Klizubcth Howard to be guardians
of Elizabeth, Bucknell, Samuel, and Sarah Howard, minors, children of
said Matthew Howard. Proved 29 July 1714. [P.C.C., 28 Aston.]
Proved 8 Nov. 1717, as of full age, by Bucknell Howard.
The eldest son named in tllO ftUOVO will died in 17 H. leuvillg Ml only
son, as appears by the following abstract i
Bucknilll Howard, laic of Si. IJrides. London, nicrccr. hut n«>\\ of St.
(ieorge's, lllootntdniry, in Middlesex. Will dated to IVh. 1 742. l\i lie buried
ill the church of Si. John, Hackney, in a decent but private manner. To
liia only child Matthew Howard, C2,0U0 at twenU one. no Interest unless
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
193
Sir H. St. George, Garter, and J. Vanbrugh, Ckr., 21 Dec. 17U.
Gu. on a bend betw. six cross-crosslets Arg., a mullet betw, two
testator's iyifc Rebecca remarry, in which case lie to hare £-500 more
unci interest at four per cent, and if lie die before, this bequest to
become part of the residuary personal estate. The said bequest not to
be part of the £2,000 left to said son by testator's late father-in-law
Mr. Bennett Metcalf, deceased, but to be in addition to that, he also to
have testator's gold watch and diamond ring. Executrix to allow said
son £50 a year until he is twenty-one. Sister Mrs. Elizabeth Howard.
£21. Mrs. Sarah Oremcr, £20. Uncle Mr. Andrew Howard. £21. Mr.
Isaac Ardlcy, £10 10s., with the counters, presses, etc.', used in testator's
late shop. Cousin Mrs. .Mary Haddock and friends Mr. Samuel Mason
and Mr. John Lernoult, each £10 10s. Mrs. Penelope liowler. wife of
Mr. Charles liowler. £20. Sister Elizabeth Metcalf and her son Christopher
Metcalf, £10 10s. each. Aunt Mrs. Sarah Biicknall, £10 10s. Mrs. Sarah
Sears, widow, £10. By settlement made before marriage with wife Rebecca,
testator is entitled in remainder to a real estate in Norfolk, and by the
will of late father-in-law is entitled to certain freehold and other lands
in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the event of the death of said
son and of nephew Christopher Metcalf under their ages of twenty-one,
the same to wife Uebecca.. Wife Uebecca residuary legatee and executrix.
Proved 21 Feb. 1711. [P.C.C., Seymer 4S.]
On 28 February 1700, further admon. granted on death of Rebecca
Howard, the widow and executrix, of goods by her uuadministered, to
Matthew Howard, Esq., the son and administrator of the said Rebecca.
Matthew Howard, of Hackney, CO. Middlesex. Esq. Dated IS June 1736.
Two freehold messuages, etc., in St. James Street, late in the par. of
St. Martins in the Fields, now in the par. of St. George. Hanover Square,
in occupation of David Williams and Jane Stanhope, to brother Richard
Howard for his life, then to nephew Samuel Howard, son of the said
Richard, and to his heirs male lawfully begotten, failing such to the
lawful heirs male of said brother Richard, failing such issue to testator's
executors in trust, with such other real estates as were not settled on
marriage with Hrittania. testator's late wife. By deed, dated 21 April
1709, between the testator and his late mother, Hannah Howard, dec, of
the first part, Thomas Cole and Brit tan ia, testator's late wife, and therein
called Brittania Cole, spinster, daughter of the said Thomas Cole, of the
second part, and Robert Seymour and William Sin 11. of the third part,
and Matthew Howard, senior, and James Land), of the fourth part, the
above houses in St. James Street are, among others, settled on the issue
of the said Mathcw Howard, junior, and the said Brittania. Now the
testator has only two daughters living by his said wife. viz.. Elizabeth,
wife of Edward Radge, Esq.. and Hannah Howard. if the two said
messuages are not lawfully conveyed to the said Richard and Samuel
Howard and their heirs, then the said Richard to have £3,000 out of
testator's personal estate to be invested in messuages, lands, or tenements.
By the above marriage settlemcift made before marriage, several other
freehold and copyhold lands, messuages, etc.. were settled for ninety-nine
years. Settlement dated !2 April I72U before the marriage of the said
Elizabeth Howard with the said Edward Uudge, settling on her a portion,
viz., £10.(H>0. Another deed named as made the 24th of the same month
after the marriage of the said Idi/.abeth. Lands in the parish of \Vood-
ford, Essex, and of Mar ha ill, in Suffolk, to dan. Hannah. Messujtgea in
Goodman's Fields, alia* Leman's fields, in the parish of S. Marv Matlelh-n.
ttlios Whiteehapel, eo. Midd., held bj lease from Sir "WHlhun I. eiu.au. Kan .
and Jdhtl Lenian, his trustee. t«» Thomas- fluid, eiti/.en. and brewer, of
London, dee., also to said Hannah. Evocators, said brother Richard
H<>\Vnrd and rricild Mr. Gabriel Ne\e, of freeman's Court. Cornhill.
London. Nephew Samuel How ard, a diamond ring, John Uudge. Estp ;
brother-in-law , Mr. John Barker; si<ler-iu-law . Mrs. Eh/aheth Barker,
194
GRANTS AN1) CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
cinquefoils of the first. Crest — A demi wolf ppr., collared Gu.,
thereon a mullet bctw. two cinquefoils Or. Add. 318. 14,831.
his wife; Hon. Samuel Grimston, Esq., and liis lady ; nephew, James
Lambo, Esq., and his wife; John Banco. Esq., and Elizabeth, hi* wife;
niece, Mary Lanibe ; Mr. John Raymond and Brittania, his wife, all £10 10s.
each for mourning-. Cousin, Elizabeth Howard. £50. Delicia Lepiprc3 if
still living jn the family. £10 10s. He v. Mr. Thomas Hawes, of Croxton
(? Hoxtori), £10 10s.. and Rev. Mr. Peter Neweombe, vicar of* Hackney.
£o os. Mr. George Smith, a dissenting minister of Hackney. £10 10s.
To St. Thomas Hospital, Southwark, £70. £100 in charity at the discretion
of the executors. To the Governor, Deputy Governor, and Directors of
the Bank of England, if testator is still one of the Directors, or has only
gone out by rotation, and other particular friends, each a ring of
20s. Servant John Cooper, £21, beside £10 in common with the other
servants.
Farm lands called Bovells Marsh in Maryland and Sudminster (? South-
minster), in Essex, purchased of Richard Scott and George Scott, his
son, to go to nephew Samuel Howard, son of said brother Richard
Howard, and his heirs male. Cousin John Munford and friend. Thomas
Stansall, Esq., each £10 10s. Codicil. 14 March 1737, adds to the estate
for his nephew, Samuel, and confirms the will. Wit. i G. Lepipre, Robt.
Howarth, Tho. Slater.
Proved P.C.C. 1st April 1738 by Richard Howard, Esq., and Gabriel
Neve, the executors [91 BrodrcppJ.
On 31 March 1774 admon. gr. to Hon. Jane Elizabeth. Countess of
Rothes, wife of Lucas PepyS, M.D., and dau. of the Rt. Hon. Hannah,
Countess of Rothes, formerly Howard, wife of the. Rt. Hon. John. Karl
of Rothes, dec, one of the residuary legatees. Gabriel Xeve survived the
said Richard Howard and his son and executors. Gabriel Xeve died and
Ann, relict and executrix of Gabriel Xeve, also died, and Elizabeth Rudgc,
formerly Howard, widow, renounced.
Michael Howard, gent., of Talbot, in Maryland, 1 Feb. 1730. To his'
father and mother £10 each for mourning, would have remitted it to his
brothers Adam or Francis Howard by Mr. Samuel Hyde.
Messrs. Samuel and Herbert Hyde, of London, merchants, and Mr.
James Buchanan, of London, merchant, to lay out £1,500 to purchase an
annuity for thirty or more years or not less than twenty-five years for
the use of nephew Michael William Howard now with testator, son of
brother Matthew Howard, late of Dublin, dec, to place him at Westminster
School and then at King's College, Cambridge, until he is twenty-one years
old ; what is not required to be given to testator's sister-in-law. Sarah
Howard, relict of said brother Matthew, for the use of his dau. Eliza-
beth. After then the annuity to be between the two eldest sons of
testator's brother, Mr. Adam Howard, of Wostmoath. in Ireland. To said
nephew Michael W. Howard tin- use of testator's law books for life, then
to the eldest son of brother Adam Howard. The said merchants after
the purchase of tho said annuity, to value testator's whole personal estate
in Great Britain and Maryland, his law library and other books excepted,
and divide it into three equal parts, one-third to brother Adam and his
two eldest sons, one to brother Francis Howard, of West meat h. Ireland,
and to sister Anne Pluukett and her two eldest sons, tho other third to
sister Rose Wilson and her eldest son, nephew Michael William Howard
and his sister Elizabeth, and to testator's brother Kochforl Howard.
Executors, Samuel and Herbert Hyde. Adam. IVanris. and Michael William
Howard in Knglnnd. and Ihutiol Dolany, KfW|., of the City of Anna:
and Mr. Walter Cnrmiehae), oi' Queen Ann's County, merchant, to be
executors in the Province of Maryland.
Proved P.C.C, 23 March 1 [t"><; Brodrcpjt]. Further admon B Dee
1757 to Christopher Pluukett, our of the two elder sons of Anne Pluakett,
widow, the executors having died or renoi. need.
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
195
Howard, . . . , of . . . Gr\ by Sir J. Borough, Garter. Per chev.
A 25. and Gu. a lion ramp. Enii. Crest — An antelope's head
erased. (No colours given.) Add. MS. 4,9G6.
Howe, Jojix, of Enable, in par. of Stogumber, co. Somerset, gent.
Gr. 10 Dec. 1625. Or, a fess eng. betw. three wolves' heads
couped Sa. Crest — -A gauntlet fessways ppr., lined Gu., holding
a falchion erect Arg., hilt Or, transfixing a wolfs head couped
Sa. Add. MS. 12,225.
Howe, Roger, of London, merchant. Gr. by Sir W. Sega r, Garter.
Arg. a fess eng. betw. three wolves' heads couped Sa. Crest —
From a crest coronet Or, a demi wolf Sa. Add. MS. 12,225.
Howe, John*, created Lord Chedvvorth, Baron of Chedworth, in
Gloucestershire, 12 May 1741. Gr. of supporters by J. Anstis,
Garter, IS June 17-11. Or, on a fess betw. three wolves' heads
couped Sa., a crescent for dill. Crest — A cubit arm fessways in
armour, the end splintered, the gauntlet holding a cutlass erect,
all ppr., the blade of the cutlass transfixing a boars head couped
Sa. Motto — Justus et propositi tenax. Supporters granted —
Dexter, a lion ramp. Arg. pellettee. Sinister, An angel, the face
in profile to the dexter, vested Crimson, under robe Az., wings
Arg. (From an eighteenth Century MS.)
Howell1 (?Hovell), Allex, s. of Joshua Howell, of Plymouth, co.
Devon, merchant. Gr. by Sir E. Bysshe, Garter, 5 Aug.-1G52.
Sa. a cross Or, on a chief wavy Erm. three fleurs-de-hs Az.
Crest — On four bars wavy Arg. and Az. a sea horse Erm., finned
Sa. Harl. MS. 1,141.
i Will, dated 28 March 1660, of Pasco Hovel!, late of Plymouth, co. Devon,
merchant, now of Brodick, in the parish of Antony. Cornwall, in good
health, etc. To the poor of the parish where he is buried, 40s. For
funeral sermon, 20s., the text from xlii Psalm, vcr. .1 and 2. and
Gospel of St. Matthew, vi chap., 6 ver. Messuages, tenements and
lands in Antony parish (except one messuage, etc., in Higher Blerick
[sib] already given) to Caleb Curie, sou of testator's nephew Nicholas
Curie merchant, and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten,
failing sueh, to the heirs of the said Nicholas Curie, and the said
Nicholas to enjoy the said messuage, etc., for the education and main-
tenance of the said Caleb Curie until he is twenty-one years of ftge.
The said Caleb Curie to be residuary legatee and executor, and to
have the two eountos and four hundred milreas Portugal nionev due
from Anthony Wright by his bill dated 2(5 Jane 166:? (style llOVO) in
Biana in Portugal, in English money twenty-four hundred thousand
reus, and by another bill dated 13 Jan. 16.32, £300. Nicholas Curie
to be executor in trust. Wit. : Christopher Leach. Mary Lcaeh.
Anthony Furlong, William Jane.
Proved P.C.C. 22 Dec. 1671 [145 Dunee] by the said Nicholas Curie
for Caleb Curie a minor.
In Charles Church, Plymouth, is a floorslub with these arms: 1 and
4, a cross and chief; 2 and a chev. betw. three goats' heads erased
(White). Crest ; A sea horse naient. With an inscription tor Ann. w. of
Pasco IToVOll, who (lied 2t*> Oct. IftoO, and the said INlScO Eiovell, of
Plymouth, niereh.. who died 17 -lime 1(171. In the register of that
parish is recorded tllC marriage on the Sept. L(iu0 of Mr, Qt
Hovel 1 and Ann While. The abstract of the will of the UOOVC PuSCOt
Hovell here given indicates that he had no nearer relation than a nephew .
The entire absence «>f any other legatees is somewhat singular.
196 THE 4096 QUART1KRS OF KING EDWARD VII.
Howell, Hugh, of Bread vStreet Ward. Sa. a crescent Or, in cliief
a crescent for dill". Crest — A sea-lion sej. Erm. Hari. MS.
5,869.
Howell, John, of St. Alban's, Herts. Conf. of arms and gr. of crest
by Sir W. Segar, Garter. 8a. three roses Arg. Crest — From a
coronet Arg. a rose Or, slipped and leaved Vert, betw. two wings
Sa. Stowe MS. 703 • Add. MS. 12,225.
Howell, . . . , of Suffolk. Gr. by W. Flower, Norroy, 15&7. Sa. a
cross Or. Crest — A greyhound coucliant Sa., collar and line
Or. Stowe MS. 706 : Harl. MS. 0,140: Add. MS. 12,225.
Howland, Richard, D.D., of Cambridge University, s. and h. of
John Howland, of London, gent., and to the descendants of the
said John, the father. Conf. of arms and gr. of crest by Ft.
Cook, Clar., 10 Jan. 1581. Arg. two bars Sa., in chief three
lions ramp, of the second. Crest — An heraldic tiger pass. Sa.,
gorged by a coronet Or, tufts, tusk, and line of the last. Add.
MS. 14,295 ; Harl. MS. 1,359 ; Stowe MS. 670.
Howlett, Richard, Esq., of Sydenham, co. Kent, s. of John, s. of
Richard, of Newton, co. York. Conf. of arms and gr. of crest
by W. Harvey, Clar., 12 Aug. 1599. Per chev. Or and Sa. in
chief two towers triple towered, and in base a ship of three masts
counterchanged. Crest — An owl Arg., gorged with a coronet Or,
in the dexter claw a rose Gu., slipped and leaved Vert. Harl.
MSS. 1,359 and 6,169; Add. MS. 14,295.
(To be continued.)
THE 4096 QUAIITIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
By G. VV. Watson.
(Continued frmn p. 100.)
L667. John XI (XIV), Count of Oldenburg; 1460; d.
10 Feb, 1526.
L668. Anna, Princess of i&hhalt-Dessau ; m. before 28 Sep. 1498 : d.
10 Oct, 1531 [not 1526].
L669. Erik Johansson (Wasa) till Uvdboholm ; d. 8 Nov. 1520.
L670. Cecilia Mansdotter.
L671. Erik Abrahamsson (Lcijonhufvud) till Lagmansholmen [Lo-
holmen] ; d. 8 Nov. 1520.
L672. Ebba Eriksdotter (Wasa) ; d. . . . 1540.
L673. Gunther XL, Count of l&hwarzburg-Sondershausen. $om
LS3.
JjGT L Elizabeth von [senburg, Countess of Uudinjjjen-Itonneburg,
Sunir m li » I.
L675. Antony 1, Count of Oldenburg. iScimo on £349.
. THE 4096 QUARTIERN OF KINC EDWARD VII. 197
L676. Sophia, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg. Same as K350.
L681. Wolfgang, Count Palatine in Zweibriicken-Veldenz. Same as
L89.
LGS2. Anna, Landgravine of Hesse. Same as LOO.
LGS3. William, Duke of Brunswick and Liineburg in Celle. Same
as K257.
LGS4. Dorothea, Princess of Denmark. Same as K258.
L685. Frederic- Magnus I, Count of ►Solms-Laubach. Same as LI 31.
L686. Agnes von Runkel, Countess of Wied. Same as LI 32.
LG87. Albert, Count of Nassau-AVeilburg ; b. 2G Dec. 1537 ; d.
11 Nov. 1593.
(i). "St. Stephanstag [20 Dec] 1537" (Hagelgans, GO) ; 14 or 2G Dec.
(Sauer, as in K3-11 note) ; 13 Dec. (Textor, Hittershusius).
LG88. Anna, Countess of Nassau -Dil lenbu rg ; b, 13 or 21 Sep. 1541 ;
m. (c. 3 Sep. 1558) G June 1559 ; d, 12 Feb. 1G1C.
(i) . 13 Sep. (Textor, Wit/leben. Behr) ; 21 Sep. (Arnoldi, Colm, Jacobs,
Oven, Sclih'ephake). (ii). G June (Arnoldi, Colin, Jacobs, Behr suppl.,
Scliliephake) ; not 16 June (Witzleben, Oven).
LG89. Burkhard IV, Count of Barby ; d. 20 Sep. 1505 or 1 Nov.
150G.
(ii) . "Am Dag Eustacbii [20 Sep. not 3 Nov.] 1505" (MX, in Jahrb&eher
des Ver. fur meklenburg. Gesch., xxxviii, L873, GG) ; " Allerheiligen 1 Xow 150G"
(Rolvincken, as in K31G note; Rittershusius) ; "1506, vmb Allerbeiligen tag"
(Hoppenrod, 18).
LG90. Magdalena, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Stargard m. 13 Jan.
1182; d. 2 Apr. 1532 or 13 Apr. 1533.
(ii). •" Beylager 14S2, Soiitag nacli der heyligen drei K&nig tag" [13 Jan.]
(Ttolvinckeu ; Hoppenrod, 18) ; m. 13 Jan. 1482 (Behr) ; m. 14 July 1482 (Rudloff,
Cohn) ; m. c. 14 July 1482 (Wigger). (Hi). " Am Osterdins. [2 Apr.] 1532"
(M.I., in Jahrhilclier, ibid.) ; "inn Oster Feyrtagen [13-15 Apr.] 1533" (Hoppenrod.
18); " 1533, Id. April, in den Ostcr-Tagen " (Rolvincken).
LG91. Gebhard VII, Count of Mansfeld ; 6. . . . 1478; d. 13 Sep.
1558.
LG92. Margaret, Countess of Gleiehen-Blankenhain ; d. 1 Aug. 1557
[not 15G7].
LG97. Jolm XT (XIV), Count of Oldenburg. Same as LGG7.
L698. Anna, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau. Same as LOGS.
LG99. Magnus .1, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg. Same as LG9.
L700. Catherine, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg in Wolfen-
biittel. Same as L70.
L721. Wolrad IT, Count of Waldeck-Elsenberg ; 6. 27 March 1509 ;
d. 15 Apr. 1578 [not 1575].
(i). " Millesimo qnin«,rentesinin nono, tertlO ferin ante tVsinm Pfllmnrum
[27 March}, horft quasi deeimn post meridiem" (WolracVa MS. Diary, 1571, sub
2S Martii — Varnliagcn, ii, 186). (ii). " 1 578, dell 15 April. Naclunitta-s urn
4 Uhr" (Wir Weinberg, (ieimehronik MS. -Varahafcuu, ii, 227).
L722. Anastasia-d'unthei-a, Countess <>f Schwarzbcrg ; b. 31 March
152G ; m. 6 June 1546 ; rf. 1 Apr. 1570,
(i). " 152(5. den 81 Martii, ffleicli nm Oater Abend, nwinchen ntebon mid
aclit Uhivn narli Mitla-.rc" (.lovius. (126). uiV "134ft, (5 JtimUft, aul dm
Sonutag Exaudi" (J. Trygophorua, dnmilcd MS. Vfcruhagen, ii. 280) .
198 THK 409G QUAKTIKRS OF KING KDWAKD VII.
"Dominica Kxaudi 154*" (Anon. Qhron. Wtthhct., SIT) . (iii). ** 1570, den
J April, Sonnabends liitcli Osfern, Abends inn <> Uhr" (Wolrad's MS. Diary.
1571, sub 31 Martii — Varnlmgcn, ii, 230); 1 Apr. (M.I., Idew, 231); not
1 May (Jovius, Hellbach, Konig).
L725. Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach ; b. 24 July [not
2* June] 1529; d. 23 March 1577.
L72G. Anna, Countess Palatine in Velderiz; 6. 12 Nov. 1540; rn.
(c. 30 July 1558) 1 Aug. 1558 ; % 30 March/9 Apr. 1586..
(iii). " Mortua iii Gal, Aprilis mdlxxxvi annos nata xxxxv meases quatnor
dies xviii" (MX, in Crollius, 103); not 30 May (Sachs, Christmar).
L727. Floris I van Pallant, Count of Culenborg ; b. 25 July 1539 ;
d. 29 Sep./9 Oct. 1598.
L72S. Elizabeth, Countess of Manderscheid and Virneburg in Ker-
pen; m. (c, — Apr. 1562) . . . J 564 ; d. before July 1571.
(ii). " 1562. Den 14 April zog ich von Coin nb nm den Grafen von
Kulenburg zu Palapt anfzusuchen .... "vvegen einer Heirath, wcleho zwischen
meinor Nichte and ihm gemacht Sverden soil. Tch .... kam den 18 naeh
lierleburg zuriick " (Selbtfbiographfe of L21, 48).
M Line (2048).
Ml. John, der Bestiindige, Elector of Saxonv ; b. 30 June 146S ;
d. 16 Aug. 1532.
(Life, by J. Posinus, 1602). (i). Hot 29 June 1469 (Posinus, Pit torshusius).
Spalatin (SHcli*. Hist., in Struve, iii, 45, and in Meneke, ii, 1103) gives T he
true date — "1468, am neebsten Tag nacb Petri and Pauli " [30 June], The
date accepted (by Midler, Povhorus, Beck, Colin, etc.) was, however, 30 June
1467, till the publication by P. Pfotenbauer (in K. von Weber, Archie fur die
Siiclis. Geseli., viii. 1870, 330) of the following extract from the accounts of
Meissen, heading l)i.<trihata general iu , between 24 June and 7 Ang. 1468:—
"Item 20 gr. zcu deni botin brothe vnnsir gnedigen f ran wen dyner in vorkun-
digunge des nuwen geborn hern herczogen Hannsos." (ii). " Freytag [16 Aug.]
vor Mittag" (Spalatin, ibid,, 19:} and 1129); not "Idibus Augusti " or 13 Aug.
(liosinus, Fabricins, Pittershusius).
M2. Sophia, Duchess of Mecklenburg ; h 1481; m. 1 March
. 1500 ; d. 12 July 1503.
(i). " Dinstag na Lucie Virginia [18 Dec] 14S1 " is the date of a letter
from Duke Frederic of JJrunsYvick-Lnneburg mentioning that the baptism was
to be "an der bilgen drier koninge dage" [6 Jan.] (Wiffffer). (ii). "1500,
Sonidags Estoniihi " [1 March] (Spalatin, ibid., 61—78, and 1104-1110 : Gcstn
Archiep. Magdebu.rg., in Mon um&nia derm, hist., Scviptons, xiv, L883, 483 j Midler),
(iii). ".Miuii.die xii .lulii bora sexta luatutina" (Annul. Tbrgav.. 582); " Ml) I II
Am Abend Margarethe " [12 July] (M.T., in Poyherus, 87 1 j ; " MD Tag Mar-
garethe " (Statement by John- Frederic [LI]1, in Neudockor, as in LI note. 144).
M3. John III, der Sanftnuitige, Duke of Cleve ; b. 10 Nov. 1490:
d. 6 Feb. 1539.
Ml. Maria, Duchess of Juliers and Berg J b. 5 Aug. [not 3 Aug.]
1493; m. 1 Oct. 1510; d. 29 Aug. 1543. '
(i). 5 Aug. 1493 (Bouterwek, as in L2note); 5 Ang. 1191 (Tcachenmacher).
(iii). 27 Aug. (Steinen); 2S Aag. (Paab) i 29 Aug. (KittcrshusiuB, Cohn,
Allgemeine Deutsche Biog.),
M5. John II, Count Palatine in Simmcm -Sponheim : l>. 30 or 21
March 1192 J d. 18 May 1557.
THE 4006 QUARTJERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
199
(i). 20 March 141)2 (Uteutlc) ; 21 Murcli 1492 (Beufrhcr, Crollius, Cohn,
Behr); not l<> March I486 (liittershiisius-), 20 March i486 (Tohier), nor
20 March 1192 (Hiiusser). (ii). " mdlvii den xviii Maji. Vixit ille annos
Ixv mens, i dies xxviii ;' (M.I., in C. von Stramberg, Rhehiischer Antifptariu*,
II, vi, 1857, 409).
MG. Beatrice, Margravine of Baden; b. 22 Jan. 1492 ; m. (e. . . .
IWl) ■ • .1508; rl 4 Apr. 1535.
(i). " 1492, Dominica post D. Sebnstiani " [22 Jan.] (List of the birthdays
of the Margrave Christopher's [Nil] children, in C. Browerus, Antiq, et
Anual. 'Trevi rentes, 1670, ii, 298). (iii). ''mkxxxv den iv ApHHs" (MM., in
Stramberg, ibid.); 4 Apr. (Crollius. Cohn, Bchr, Hautle); not 14 Apr. (Parens),
nor 15 Apr. (Rittershnsins, Tolncr).
M7. Casimir, Margrave of Braiidenburg-Bayreuth ; b. 27 Sep. 1481 ;
d. 21 Sep.' 1527.
(i) . " Am tag Cosme vnd domiani [27 Sep.] des morgens frue vi hore vor
mittag Anno domini mcccclxxxi Jarc '' (Contein-p, MS. by J. Yolker, edit.
T. Maroker, 180, and edit. F. Wagner, 47r>). (ii). "Tausent funfhuuderr
vnd in deni Sihn vndtzweyntzigisten jar an dem ein vndtzweynt/.igisten tag
Septembers an Sam Mat lies tag z\v morgens zwisehen dreyen vnd vieren "
(M.I., in Hocker, as in L645 note, 10 : in II. G. Stilifried, JCloster Heilsbronn,
151 : and in Stillfried-Ilattonitz, ii, Heft 4, 1863).
M8. Susanna, Duchess of Bavaria-Munich ; h. 2 Apr. 1502 ; ???. (<:
29 Dec. 1504) 25 Aug. 1518 ; d. 23 Apr. 1543.
" Geporn am samstag nach den heyligen ostertag [2 Apr.] da man zalt mvc
vnd in den andern jar . . . Vnd als man zalt jtVG vn jm xviii jar habe sv
lloclr/eit gefoabt am xxv tag des Augustmotiats in der kayserliehen stat
angspw^" (Contemp. Chron., in L. von Westenrieder. Beytrage zur vaterlaml.
Hist., x [Xene Beytrage, ii], 1817, 283). (ii). m. c. "awi Sonntage nach dem Christ -
tage [29 Dec] 1504" (Aettenkhover, 81). m. 25 Aug. (Haeutle, Behr mppl.) ; not
"am Tag S. Bartholomei *' [24 Aug.] (E. Werliehius, Avgspurg. Chron., edit.
M. Velserus, 1595, ii, 281), 14 Aug. (Stillt'ried, Cohn), nor 23 or 24 An--,
(liittershusius). (iii). " mdxliij flm tag Georgij [28 Apr.] zwischen viij vnd
ix vhr naehmittag" (MX, in TTocker, 10: in K. G. Stilifried. 152: and in
Stillfried-Ilattonitz. ibid.) ; 23 Afa\ (Pauli, Hrcutle) ; not 12 March (Aetten-
khover, Stilifried, Behr) ; Cohn gives both dates.
M9. Ernest, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst- Dessau ; d. 12 June or 12 July
1516.
(ii) . 12 June (Sagittarius, Behr); 12 July (Bertram, Cohn); 15 June
(liittershusius).
M10. Margaret, Duchess of Miinsterberg ; h. 25 or 30 Aug. 1173:
m. {<>. 10 Jan. 1494) 20 Jan. 1494 ; d. 28 June 1530.
(Life, by C. A. Schinunelpfenni^, in Xeitsch. des Ver. fiir Gor/i. Scltlesiens,
xviii, 1884, 117— -161). (i). 30 Aug. 1473 (Henelius, 213 ; Sinapins; Sehim-
melpfennig) ; 25 Ann-. 1478 (Grotcfend) ; 27 Dee. 1477 (Polius, 478); 25 or 30
Aug. 1473 (Neustadt).
Mil. Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg. Same as L643.
M12. Elizabeth, Princess of Denmark. Same as LG44,
MIS. Ulric [, Duke of Wiii temberg ; />. 8 Feb. L487; d. 6 Nov
1550.
(Life, by L. F. Hoyd. 1841-44). (i). " Donnerstag nach Lichtmew [fl Feb '
1 4S7," not 2, 5 nor 7 Feb. (Hoyd, i, 86). (ii). imitot Ixiii mena \ui
di. xxvi ohiit anno Christ i MDt mens. ixhr. di. vi " (M l., in Tiedeinann.
as in L8 note, 188, and in Hevd, iii, 001).
200
THE 4090 QU ARTIE RS OF KING EDWARD VII.
M14. Sabina, Duchess of Bavaria-Sftiidcli ; b. 24 Apr. 1402; m.
(c. IS Oct, 1408) 1 March 1511 • d. 30 Aug. 1564.
(i). "Item do man zalt MCCCC vnd Ixxxxii ist g-eporn' am xxiiij ta^- aprilis".
(Chron. in WesteUrieder, as in MS note, 232) ; 24 Apr. (Conn svppl., Haeutle) ;
23 Apr. (Stalin, Pehr suppl.) ; not 12 Apr. (Aettenkhover). (ii). m. r. ''am
Pfingstage nach St. Gallon 1498" (Aettenkhover. 79). r,i. 1 March (Ileyd, i.
140—164 ; Colin) ; 2 March (liittershusius, Pre^itzer, Stalin, Behr: Hsoutle).
(iii). a MDLXiin den xxx Tag- An^nsti . . . litres Alters Ixxiii [li lxxii] Jahr
iv Monat vii Tag-" (M.I., in Tiedemann, 188: in C. Bfi&Mghausen, Beytmge
zur Pfahiscken Gesch., 1776-82, ii, 291 : and in Ileyd, iii, 570).
Ml 5. George, der Fromme, Margrave of Brandenburg- Anspach : b.
4 March 1484 : d. 27 or 28 Dec. 1543.
(i). " Am donrstao; nach esto michi der do -was der vicrd tag des monats
marcii anno dm mcccc vnd Jra lxxxiiiiten jar zn moreens frue zwusehen
einem vnd zweyen vor mittag" (Contemp. MS. by J. Volker, edit. T. Miircker,
181, and edit. P. Wagner, 477). (ii). "Visit annos lix menses ix dies xxiii
mortnus est v C'alend. Jannarii Anno Dni SiDXLHl" (M.I., in Tlocker, as in
L645 note, 12: in 11. G. Stillfried. Kloftter Ifethbroun, 156.: and in Stilll'ried-
Rattonitz, ii, Heft 3, 1863) ; 28 Dec. (Polius, 475, Stillfried) ; 27 Dec. (Ritter-
shusius, Biedermann, C'ohn, Behr).
Ml 6. Hedwig, Duchess of Mtinsterberg ; b. 12 June 1508; m. (c.
6 Jan. 1525) 8 Jan. 1525 ; d. 28 Nov. 1531.
(i). "Am Pfingst Montage" [12 June] (Henelius, 225): 12 June (Behr,
Grotefend) ; 10 June (Polius, 217, Bittcrshusius, Sina])ius, Gebhardi, Pauli,
Stillfried). (ii). 8 Jan. (Stillfried, Cohn, Behr, Grotefend) ; before 15 .Jan.,
perhaps 9 or 10 Jan. (Sehimmelpfennig, as in M10 note), (iii). 28 Nov. (Polius,
441, Henelius, Sinapius, Pauli, Stillfried, Grotefend, Behr) ; not 23 Nov. (Ritter-
shusius), nor 29 Nov. (Rittershusius also, Biedermann, Gebhardi).
M21. Wolfgang, Count Palatine in Zweibriicken-Yeldenz. Same as
L89.
M22. Anna, Landgravine of Hesse. Same as L90.
M23. William, Duke of Juliets, Cleve and Berg, Same as L91.
M24. Maria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia. Same as L92.
M25. Henry, der J tinge re, Duke of Brunswick and Liinoburg in
Wolfenbiittel b. 10 Nov. 1489; d. 11 June 1568.
(i) . "Anno 1189 Indict. 7 in Vigilia S. Martini [10 Nov.] urn 6 Uhr
Nachmittage " (Pehtmeier, 865).
M26. Maria, Countess of Wiirtemberg-Mompclgai'd ; b. 15 Aug. 1490 :
m. (c. 23 Aug. 1510) 1 Jan. 1515 ; tf, 28 Dec. 1541.
(ii) . 1 Jan. (Rittershusius, Stalin, Behr suj^pl.) ; not IS Feb. (Pre<_rit7.er.
Cohn, Allgeineinc Deutsche I>iog.), which was the date ol the llt'imjiiliruuti.
M27. Joachim IT, Elector of Brandenburg. Same as L545.
M28. Hedwig, Princess of Poland; b. 25 March 1513 ; m. 1 Sep
1535 : d. 7 Feb. 1573.
(i), "1513, xxv Marc-ii hora teiviarum " (line: nil- ChoteUliego, 215. in A.
Bielowski, MonHwenta Pot on int. Hist.t iii. 1878, 212— 217) ; 11 1513. uigosituaquinta
die Marti j, feri.i Bcxta magna, ante qnartnm decitnam hortim" (Decius, 317V
M29. Christian 1 IT, King of Denmark. Sam* CM L105.
1130. Dorothea, Duchess of s.-ixe LauonbuiLr. Sam* n* L10G,
M31. Ulric, Duke of Mecklotiburg^ibtruw : />. 5 Watch 1527; d,
14 March 1603.
THE 4096 Q.UARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
201
(i) . ''Anno 1527, den 5 Martii, 2 stunde 35 Miuuten nach Mirtage "
(" Da ten von 1525— 1564"); not 22 Apr. 1527 (Rittershusius, Rudioff), 21 Apr.
1528 .(Behr), nor 21 or 22 Apr. 1527 (Conn).
M32. Elizabeth, Princess of Denmark ; b. 14 Oct, 1521; m. 16 Feb.
[not 15 nor 26 Feb.] 1556 ; cl 15 Oct, 1586.
(ii) . "Anno 1556 auf Estoniihi " [1G Feb.] (" DjIcu von 1525—1964").
(iii). " Heut zu nacht zwischen ein uud /.wci vhrn " (Proclamation of Duke
Ulric, dated 15 Oct. 1 58(3— Wigger) ; 15 Oct. (Heldvacler, as in K324 note, ii,
229 ; Hedericus, 1658); not 4 Oct. (Rittershusius, Hiibner), nor 14- Oct.
(Rittershusius also, Lackmann, Christiani, Kbnigst'eldt, Beflien).
M41. William I von Saytt, Count of Wittgenstein; d. . . . 1568.
M42. Johanetta von Isenburg, Herrin zu Neumagen und St. Johan-
nesberg ; m. c. 20 Nov. 1522.
(ii). in. c. "am Donnerstag nach sanct Elisabcthen Dagh [20 Nov,] im
Jahr f iinffzehenl) underfc zwantzig vnd zwey " (Fischer, Urh.} no. 155).
M43. Frederic-Magnus I, Count of Solms-Laubaeh. Same as LI 31.
M44. Agnes von Hunkel, Countess of Wied. Same as L'32.
M45. Philip, Count of Solms-Braunfels ; 6. 23 Feb. 1491 ; d. 11 Feb.
1581 [not 1541].
(i) . " Den 23 Februarij zwischen 11 vnd 12 Vhrn zu Mitternaeht anno
1494" (Billgen, 32).
M46. Anna, Countess of Tecklenburg ; m. c. 7 Aug. 1534; d. . . .
1554.
(ii) . The in. c, dated 7 Aug. 1534, is in J. C. Liinig, Teutsclies Rcichs-Archiv,
Part, special, contin. ii, AbUtcilung vi, 308 — 308.
M47. William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg. Same as L35.
M48. Juliana, Countess of Stolberg. Same as L36.
M49. William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg. Same as L35.-
M50. Juliana, Countess of Stolberg. Same as L36.
M51. George III, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg ; d. 21 May 1555
(ii). 21 May (Wittmann, Cohn, Behr) ; not 22 May (Stillfried).
M52. Barbara, Margravine of Brandenburg- Anspach ; b. 24 Sep.
1495; m. c. 4 May 1528 ; d. 23 Sep. 1552.
(i) . "Am Domstag nach Sant Matheustag des heiligen zwolfboten vnd
ewangelisten der do was der xxiiii tag des monats September zu morgan a v\\
funff ho'rcn vor mittag anno dm XI1HC vnd jm t'unff vnd nowntzigsten " (Contemp.
MS. by J. Volker, edit. F. Wagner, 480). (ii). m. c. " Montag nach YValpurgM
[4 May] 1528 " (Wittmann). (iii). 23 Sep. (Behr); 24 Sep. (Stillfried)?
M53. Henry VIII, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen ; 6. . . . 1465; d.
28 May 1513.
M54. Anastasia, Herrin zu Runkel und Isenburg ; m. c. . . . 1492 ;
d. abt. 1502.
M55. Salentin VI von Isenburg, Herr zu Neumagen und St. Johan-
nesberg ; d. before 14 Nov. 1636*
M56. Elizabeth, Yogtin und Herrin von Hunolstein ; m. c. and m.
11 Sep. 1497 ; living 14 Nov. 1536.
(ii) . m. c. "Montag naeb Maria (ieburl [11 Sep.] L407M (TBpfer, iii. tkO 1 B
see also no. 47). (iii)- "Elisabeth de Honelstein, doaairiere d'lsembourj^, dame
do Numagen et de Mont St. Jean . . .1530, 14 Nov." (Jcttm, no. 106).
MG5. Henry XXXI (XXXVI), Count of Sehwai/.lmi g ; />. abt
30 Nov. 1473 ; d. I Aug. 1526.
P
202
THE 409G QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
(i) . "Wie vermuthlichen im Jahr 1473, urn den Tap:* Andreae " [30 Nov.]
(Jovius, 632). (ii). 4 Aug; 1526 (M.I., according to Jovius, 641); not 4 May
1522 (Kittershusius).
M66. Magdalena, Countess of Hohnstein-Lohra-Klettenberg; m. . . .
1499 ; d. 26 or 28 June 1504.
(ii) . " Durch sonderbare Dispensation des Pabsts, welche er . . . den 12
Januarii des 1499 Jahrs erlanget " (Jovius, 634). (iii). 26 June (Jovius, Cohn) ;
28 June (.Rittershusius, Behr).
M67. Philip von Isenburg, Count of l>uclingeii-IvOiineburg ; b. . . .
1467; d. . . . 1526.
M68. Amelia, Countess of Rieneck ; m. (c. 26 June 1495) before
18 Nov. 1495 ; living 3 Feb. 1539.
(ii). m. c. "freitag nach st. Jolianns tag des taufers [26 June] 1495," the
Verzichtbrief " mittwoch nach st. Mertrns tag [18 Nov.] 1495" (Wieland, 309);
not therefore m. 19 Nov. 1495 (Rittershusius, Fischer, Simon).
M69. John V, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg ; b. 9 Nov. 1455 ; d.
30 July 1516.
(i). "Anno cidcccclv, mensis Novembris die nona, hora quasi sexta "
(Yetus Chron. Belgicum, 56, in A. Matthaeus, Veteris Acvi Avalccta, 1738, i,
48-60). (ii). "mcccccxvi uf Mitwochen nach Sant Annen Tag" [30 Julv]
(M.I., in Textor, 96); not 27 July (Witzleben).
M70. Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Marburg; b. — May 1466 ;
m. (c. 24 Oct. 1471) 11 Feb. 14S2 ; d. 17 Jan. 1523.
(i) . "Urn Pfingsten [25 May] 1466" (Behr suppl.).
Mil. Botho VIII, Count of Stolberg. Same as L225.
M72. Anna, Herrin von Eppstein zu Konigstein. Same as L226.
M129. Otto, der Siegreiche, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg : b.
• . . . 1439; d. 8 Jan. 1471.
(ii) . " 1471, Dienstags nach Trium Regum [8 Jan.] den 19 Januar." (Reht-
meier, 1325) ; 8 Jan. (Behr) ; not 7 Jan. (Cohn), 10 Jan. (Rittershusius,
Steinmann), nor 19 Jan. (Pfeffinger).
Ml 30. Anna, Countess of Nassau-Dillenburg ; b. . . . 144 — ; m.
28 Sep. 1467 ; d. 8 Apr. 1514,
(ii). 28 Sep. (Pfeffinger, Cohn, Behr) ; not 29 Sep. (Rittershusius). nor
— Oct. (Chron. Belgian//, as in M6§ note, 57 ; ^Vitzlebcn ; Oven). (iii).
"Anno domini etc. dxiiij Sabbato pahnarum " [8 .Apr.] (Xckrol. des Kloeters
Wicnhavsen, as in L65 note, 201) ; not 5 Apr. (Witzleben, Oven), nor IS Apr.
(Pfeffinger).
M131. ȣrnest, Elector of Saxony; 6. 24 March 1441; d. 26 Aug.
1486.
(i). "Anno 14-11 feria sexta post Oculi [21 March] et fuit notanter vigilia
annunciationis beatc virginis Marie [24 March] de sero bora qvasi nona natus
est. doxninus Ernestua dux Saxonie Misne in optimo signo. Deo laus " (Contemp.
note of the birthdays of the Elector Frederic's [N261J children, in W, B. Tentsel,
Curicusc Bibliotlicc, i, 3704, 1125) ; this may be taken to outweigh the state-
ments of later writers :•— " 14 11 , am Tag annunciationis Marie, Bpat um 1 I'hr "
(Spalatin, Sachs. Hist., in Struve, iii, 3, and in Meneke. ii. L091) j 14 MCCCCXLI,
annuneiaeionis Marine " (Ejccerpba 8axon.f 1465); viii Cal. Apr. or 2"> March
(Commemorative .Medal, in Tentsel, as in Kl note, tab. i. no. S; Eteyherua,
80S; Fabricius, Rittershusius, Mtiller, Hofmeister) j not 24 or 25 Fab, (Cohn).
(ii). "I486 die 2(> A-ugusti" (M.I., in Lleyhcrus, 868); " Sonnabends aacfa
Bartholomaei [2(> Aug.] um funfi Dhr nach Mittaga" (Notification, given by
Tent/el, dir. Bibl, i, L126).
THE 4096 QUAR TIERS OF KIXG EDWARD VII.
203
Ml 32. Elizabeth, Duchess of Bavaria-Munich :* "ft. 2 Feb. 1443; m.
(c. 6 May 1450) 23 Xov. 1460: d. 5 March 14S4.
(i). u mcccc vnd xlii am lieehtmess tag" [2 Feb.] (Chron. in Westenrieder.
as in MS note, 231); "1442, in festo Purificationis Mariae" [2 Feb.] (Breve
Chron. Bavar., in H. Pez. Script. Bermm Austriac., 1743-45. ii. 42*3) ; but it is
certain from the dates of birtli of the preceding children (26 Julv 1439,
24 Dec. 1440, 1 Jan. 1442) that the vear should be 1443 ; 2 Feb. 1443
(Hseutle); 23 Feb. 1443 (Behr suppL) ; not 23 Feb. 1442 (Aettenkhover, Cohn),
nor 2 Feb. 1442 (Hafmeister). (ii). '•1450. am Mittwoch nach dem Taee
des H. Creutzes [6 May] verlobet. uud an 1456 am St. Martinstage [11 Xov.j
laut Heyrathsbriet'es vermiihlet worden " (Aettenkhover, 65) ; in. 23 Not. 1460
(Behr suppl., citing the MorgengabSrief dated 24 Xov.) ; m. 19 Xov. 146*3
(Ha^utle, BLofmeister) ; :' Das Original des Hevrathsbrieffs jriebt dass es anno
1460 Mittwochs nach Martini [12 Nov.] geschehen r' (B. G. Struve, Neu Arehiv,
1718, iii, 4, note), (iii). " MrcccLXXXim am Freytag nach Estomihi [5 March]
za Mitternacht " (M.I., in Reyiierus, 859); "an Freytage. vor dem Sonntage
Inuocauit [5 March] 14S4. Nachts um 12 Uhr " (Notification, given by
Aettenkhover. 65) ; not 23 Feb. (Miiller, Cohn), nor '* Soatags Inuocauit "
(Excerpta Saxon., 1465).
M133. Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg. Same as L641.
M134. Sophia, Duchess of Pomerania-Wolgast Sams as L642.
Ml 35. John, Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg; b. 2 Aug. 1455 ; d.
9 Jan. 1499.
(i) . "Am samstag sand Sceffans des hefligan pabsts tag Sole existente in
ariete [2 Aug.] Anno domini mcccclv hora prima ante meridiem " (Contemp.
MS. by J. Voiker, edit. T. Murcker. 177. and edit. F. Wagner. 472). (ii).
'* Am Minvuch nach obersten der do was der newnd tag Januarii umb ein
hor nach mittag anno dm. Mill, ccccxcix" (Idem, edit. Waguer, 476).
Ml 36. Margaret, Duchess of Saxonv ; b. 18 Apr. 1453; m. 25 Au^.
1476 ; d. 13 July 1501 [not 1511].
(ii) . " Beyligen vnd hochzeit am Sontag nach sand Bartholmes tag [25 Aug.]
Anno domini mcccc vnd Jm lxxviten Jare " (Idem, edit. Marcker. 180. and
edit. Wagner, 472, 476) ; 25 Aug. 1476 (Stillfried. Bohr suppl.) ; not 26 June
1474 (Rittershusius. Biedermann ) , 24 Aug. 1476 (Pauli. Cohn). nor 26 Aug.
1476 (Cohn also, Hoi'meistcr).
M137. John IV. Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg ; b. IS July 1439; d.
15 Aug. [not 15 March nor 13 Aug.] 1507.
M13S. Dorothea, Margravine of Brandenburg ; b. abt. 1447; m.
14 Feb. 1464^ d. . . . 1519, bur. 20 March.
(ii). "Abend vor Fastnacht " [14 Feb.] (Behr suppl.; but he interprets it
as 11 Feb.)
(To be continued J
2:4
inquisttionrs JSosr fHormn.
(Comtiuwed from p. 132 >.
Fortescce, Bartholomew. Esq.. ob. at Weregyfford. in co. De^m,
12 Sept. nit. — Inq. at Wells 27 Oct. 4 i 5 Ph. «r Mary — Somerse: —
Richard, s. »t h . aet 44.
Fortescue, Dudley, ob. 22 Sept ult. — Inq. at Stratford Langthorne
15 Feb. 2 Jac. I. — Essex — Daniel, s. *t h., aet. 14.
Fortescue. Elizabeth, widow, oh. 25 Oct. nit — Inq at Exeter
17 April 4 Ed. 6.— Devon-John Fortescue, s. £ h.. aet. 54:
Humphrey Forteseue.
Fortescue. Francis, ob. 8 Julv ult.— Inq. at Stratford Langthorne
14 Xov. 30 Eliz— Essex— 1." Edward, s. & h.. aet 22, married to
Isabel . . . : 2. Henry ; 3. Richard.
Fortescue. Henry, ob. 3 May ult. — Inq. a- Exf-fr 3 0:: ^ v —
Devon — John. s. »r h , aet. 48, married to Johanna . . .
Fortescue, Henry, ob 1 Dec. ult. — Inq. at Exeter IS April 30 Eliz.
— Devon — Thomas, s. Jb h.. aet. 22.
Fortescue. John. Esq.. of Bishops Hatneld. will 10 .June 5 Her.. >.
ob. 8 Aug. 9 Hen. S. — 1-t ~ a: Hertford IS /V.y : ; Hen. S :
2nd Inq. at Chelmsford 12 (*i>) July 10 Hen. 8"; 3rd Inq at
Caxton 5 Aug. 10 Hen. BL — Herts, Essex, Cambridge — Henry, s, £
h., aet 2 : Anne : Etheldreda
Fortescue John. Esq. ob. at Woodley 11 April ult — Inq. at Exeter
7 April 29 Eliz. — Devon — William, "s. Jc h.. aet. 35.
Fortescue John, ob 29 March ulr. — Inq. at Torrington Magna 8 Oct
3 Jac I. — Devon. Glouc — Hugh, s. h., aet. 12 ; 2 other sons
daughters.
Fortescte. John, ob. 9 Au^. 15 Car. I. — Inq. at Exeter 5 Oct.
16 Car. L — Devon — George, s. h., aet. 9.
Fortescue, Nicholas, will 9 July 1544 and 28 Aug. 1549 : ob. 28 Aug.
3 Ed. 6. — Inq. at Stratford-on-Avon 2*5 Feb. 4 Ed. 6. — Warwick —
William, s. «fc h., aet. 9:1. Mabel : 2. Jane.
Fortescue, Thomas, ob. 9 March 43 Eliz. — Inq. a: riveter 19 July
3 Jac. I. — Devon — Eduard. s. »v- h., aet. IS.
Forth, Robert, Esq., Doctor of Laws ; will 21 Sept., ok 3 Oct.
37 Eliz. — Inq. at Croydon 8 March 3^ Eliz. — Surrey. London.
E^sex — Thomas, s. ^v: h., aet. 22 : a dau. married to . . . Townshend.
Fostkr, Andrew — Inq. at Winton 2~> Aug. 37 E~iz. — Southampton —
John, s. k h.. aet. 9ft.
Foster, Henry, gent., will 2 Sept 22 Jac. L, ob. 3 Nov. 22 Jac. L —
Inq. at Arapthill 1*J Jan. 22 Jac. I. — Bedford. Kent— 1. John,
s. £ h., aet. 11: 2. Henry: 3. Thomas; 1. Cicely; 2. Judith:
3. Lucv.
Foster. Henry, will 2 Sept. 22 Jac. t : ob. 3 Nov. 22 Jac. I— Inq.
at Ampthill 12 Jan. 22 Jac. L — Bedford. Kent — John, s. «fc h., aet.
10 ; 2 other MHM k 3 daughters.
Foster, Humphrey, gent., s. A* h. of John Foster of Brom field. E<q..
aet. 22, 10 March ult. — Inq. at Ware 3 !f»t 4 Eliz. r. hr\ dr *****
pn>l>\ —Herts.
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
205
Foster, John, ob. 18 Oct. 18 Hen. 8.— Inq. 2 J-une 20 Hen. 8.—
Huntingdon — Gerard s. & h., aet. 5.
Foster, John, ob. 1 April 13 Eliz. — Inq. at Tawton [Taunton]
4 Nov. 15 Eliz.- — Somerset — John, brother & heir, aet. 40.
Foster, John, ob. IS June 22 Jac. L — Inq. at Salop 12 Jan, 22 Jac. I.
— Salop — Francis, s. <k h., aet. 33.
Foster, John, gent,, will 7 May ult., ob. 17 July 1632 — Inq. at East
Grinstead 17 Jan. 8 Car. I.— Sussex— Thomas, s. & h., aet. 19 ;
Mary.
Foster, John, gent., will 7 May 1632, ob. 17 July 8 Car. I. — Inq. at
East Grinstead 17 Jan. 8 Car. I. — Sussex, Kent — Thomas, s. & h.,
aet. 19 J; . . . . 2 son; Mary & 3 other daughters.
Foster, John, yeoman, ob. 17 April 1633 — Inq. at Lincoln 11 June
9 Car. I. — Lincoln — Daniel, brother & h., aet. 18, 17 April 1633.
Foster, Richard, of Poynton, will 20 Feb. 1547, ob. there 21 Feb.
2 Ed. 6.— Inq. at Sleaford 7 Nov. 2 Ed. 6. —Lincoln— Thomas, s. &
h., aet. 24.
Foster, Richard, gent,, ob. 16 June 1624 — 1st Inq. at Lincoln 1 Nov.
22 Jac. I., 2nd Inq. there 27 Sept 6 Car. I.— Lincoln— John Foster,
brother & h., aet, 16, 16 June 1624.
Foster, Robert, will 25 June, ob. 31 July 9 Eliz — Inq. at Tadcaster
' 28 Sept. 9 Eliz.— Yorks— Leonard, s. & h., aet. 23 ; Robert.
Foster, Robert, of Tadcaster, ob. 1 Aug. ult. (sic)— Inq. at York
8 Jan. 10 Eliz. - Yorks— Leonard, s. & h., aet. 23.
(To be continued.)
Jiotias of thinks.
The History op Part of West Somerset. By Charles E. H,
Chadwyck Healey, K.C., F.S.A. London (Henry Sotheran A: Co.).
On closing this volume, after a careful perusal of its contents,
we are impressed with the remarkable amount of evidence that lias
been collected both from private sources and the public archives.
To car]) at what the general reader may consider unnecessary detail
would not have occurred to us had not the author himself suggested
such a possibility. Although but a small area, of Somersetshire is
dealt with, it is a history of no less than six parishes, and of the
descent of all the various manors lying within their boundaries
The Domesday estates referred to are mentioned as manors, although
the author, after pointing out the different opinions held as to
the meaning of the term manor, prefers, for his purpose, that it
should be taken merely as a geographical expression. Considering
too the absence of Court Rolls, it is wonderful to find that so much
information has been discovered, and had it not been for fragmentary
206
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
remains of copies and recitals in deeds, there would have been
little to point to the existence of some of these estates as
manors. We have an instance of this in the case of the manor
of the Rectory of Luccombe. The descent of that of East Luecombe
is interesting, and Mr. Chadwyck Healey is probably correct
in assuming that it formed part of the share that fell to David
de Lindsey, a son-in-law of Gerard de Limesi, as it was one of the
manors surrendered to the King by Henry -de Pynkeny. This Henry
de Pynkeny is undoubtedly the person who, with other knights
and barons' of Scotland, appears on the Ragman Roll of 1291, though
no allusion is made to the fact. So many excerpts are printed from
the Public Record Office that it is impossible to draw attention
to more than one or two. In the proceedings set forth relating
to this last-mentioned manor, which eventually ended in favour
of Henry St. John in 1385, an instructive lesson may be learnt
as to the difficulties connected with real estate in mediaeval times.
The Star Chamber Bill in the litigation connected with West
Luccombe, instituted by one John Bowyer, is also worthy of
notice. It is called " an interesting glimpse of Elizabethan
Society," having lasted for about a quarter of a century, and
ended apparently without any definite result. In the chapter,
or rather division, allotted to Wychanger, a point is raised in the
pedigree of the Worths, who succeeded the Harrisons in this
estate, as to the identity of Mary Worth, widow, whose will was
proved in 1699. Taking into account the period covered by the five
generations given, it is only reasonable to presume she was daughter
of John and Cicely Worth, but the connection with Charles Stennings
will probably be found in the pedigree of her husband, John Worth.
Among the corrections which the author has been able to make in
the works of previous writers, we may mention one of more importance
than others, namely, the misreading of Ailludeford by Collinson for
Allerford instead of Alford, an estate held by the Raleghs. Con-
fusion has also been made in the case of Blackford manor, there
being three places of this name in Somersetshire, but the Blackford
which is noticed in this volume is clearly identified. It seems a
pity that into the chapter on this manor, between pages 199 and
202, the Arms of the Acland family have been " spatchcocked." to
use a now familiar expression, as it interferes entirely with the
continuity of the text. In the account of Porlock Church much new
matter has been collected, and it is curious to read that one of the
documents relating to the manor is among the records of the Corpora*
tion of Rye in Sussex. Mr. Chadwyck Healey, however, traces its
change of locality in a satisfactory manner. Biographies are given
of many of the incumbents of Porlock, and also of Luccombe,
several not without good reason, while Dr, Bvam, rector ol the
latter parish, stands out as a peculiarly interesting character. After
the attainder of Henry, Duke of Sull'olk, the manor of Porlock
fell to the Crown, and among those to whom leases were granted at
that time was John Baptista Castillion. For the benefit ol our
readers we draw attention to the fact, as the pedigree of thc-
Piedmontese was lately contributed to Ho G(9M(Uoyisi by Mr.
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
207
Cokayne, just about the time this work must have 'been in the press.
The two accounts should be read together. The volume concludes
with a pedigree of the Acland family, now the chief owners of
these estates, and numerous other equally excellent tabulations are
given. The charming little views which appear in the text are
delightful, while the most noteworthy illustrations are the portraits
of the Marchioness of Dorset, by Holbein, the Duke of Suffolk,
Mr. Secretary Blathwayt and his wife Mary. These, however, are
but embellishments to a work which shows great ability in the
handling of a mass of evidence which must have occupied many
years in collecting. Mr. Chadwyck Healey's deductions are clearly
put, and he has been most successful in tracing the holders of
various fractions of the manors included in this history.
The Parentage and Kinsfolk of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R,.A.
By Sir Robert Edgcumbe. London (printed at the Chiswick
Press).
We are indebted to Sir Robert Edgcumbe for a copy of this
essay, reprinted privately (as the title states) from " A History of
the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds," by Algernon Graves, F.S.A.,
and William Vine Cronin. The chief purpose of it is to illustrate
the accomplished literary character of the great painter's near
kinsfolk. His father, uncles and cousin were all scholars, and all
held fellowships of Colleges at Oxford or Cambridge ; his mother
was grand-daughter of an eminent mathematician ; and Sir Joshua's
taste both for art and literature, has descended in several instances
to their posterity. For though Sir Joshua himself never married,
and none of his brothers left issue, the line was continued by two
of his sisters, Mary Palmer and Elizabeth Johnson, whose descendants
are now tolerably numerous, and the author is proud to reckon
himself among them. We trust he will not think it ungracious if,
in thanking him for this slight sketch, we imitate Oliver Twist,
and ask for more. As genealogists we must regret that he has
not carried his pious work a stage further, and examined the
probable descent of the artist from the family of Reynolds, of
Pinhoe. May we venture to hope that he will feel encouraged
some day to continue his investigations, and enable us to welcome
the result. It is singular that the son of a less famous Samuel
Johnson married a sister of the great doctor's lifelong friend.
Annuaire de la Noblesse de Russie. Troisieme Annee, 1900.
London (Elliot Stock).
This publication is not unlike Debrett's Peerage, except that it
is richer in detail, and contains several tabulated pedigrees. Portraits
of the Emperor and Empress, with the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiane
and Marie, and of the Empress Marie1 Feodorovna, form a frontispiece.
There is also a portrait of Oomte Theodore Loguinovitch Heiden,
Governor-General of Finland, who died last year. A few Ooloured
plates of arms brighten the little volume, and it may be noted
that the arms of the Comtes Cassilli art1 the same as fchoS€ of
Scrope and Carminow. References are made to former issues oi
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
this publication, which, by the way, has not been continuous. The
work is published in St. Petersburg, and edited by Dr. R. I.
Ermerin.
"We have received a classified list of printed books relating to
Heraldry, in the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum,
South Kensington (Eyre and Spottiswoode), prepare/, as we are
told in Mr. G. H. Palmer's preface. " to take the place of the
alphabetical list (under authors' names) . . . compiled by the late
Mr. R. H. Soden Smith, but now out of print."
Jtot£s and ($nmrs.
Auerxetiiy Pedigree! — In the valuable papers contributed to
The Gtncalo<jiat by Sir James Balfour Paul and Dr. Wallace-James
(N.S., vol. xvii, pp. 150-152 ; vol. xviii, pp. 16-25, 73-78) no mention
is made of the following Administration, granted P.C.C. S Feb.
1686 :—
Commission to the Hon1''0 Catherine Stuart mliai Muir, widow,
principal creditor of the Hon'"le Lady Anne Stuart, Lady Salton,
late of the parish of S( Mary Le Savoy in Co. Middx., widow, dec'.
In the margin of the Administration Book is written the word
"paup," which appears to mean that the property of the deceased
was below a certain fixed sum. The Complete Peerage refers to this
Administration, and identities the above Lady Saltoun with the
widow of the eighth Baron, who is stated in Lyon'-: article to
have died sixty-nine year's previously, and to have been married
to Anne Stewart as early as 1 600. The grant was therefore probably
made many years after her decease.
In the 1847 edition of Burke's Landed Gentry, $ub Rutherfnrd,
John Abernethy, Bishop of Caithness, is said to have been "brother
of Lord Saltoun.*' This statement seems to be open to question,
and, perhaps, some reader of The Gfenealoyi&t may be able to throw
light upon his true parentage.
Scutum.
Pedigree of Lohd "Palmersvox, The date of the first marriage
of the great stateman's father is recorded in Tic Complete Peerage
as the 6th Oct. 1707, but the place where the ceremony was solemnized
is not there stated. This appears from some extracts from the
registers of the parish of All Saints, L-'wrs. mut. lined in the laim-ll
MSS. in the British Museum (Add. MS. 5698), Ed !ia\e been 'he
house of Sir Ferdinand Toole, the bride's brother, ill that town. The
date given in the Burred MSS. is the 7th, not tin- 6th of October,
n. yy. r. ii
209
KING ARTHUR.
Many theories have been set forth as to the identity and
parentage of King Arthur, and I hope I may be forgiven for
propounding yet another. In dealing with him we are at o?ice
confronted with this difficulty ; Arthur, like many another Celtic
hero, had a mythical as well as a real existence, and the mythical
Arthur, in the minds of some, has destroyed or swamped the
real historic man, so that many are prepared to assert he never
existed. This is not to be wondered at when one reads the
Arthurian literature. Poets, romancers and writers of both early
and late times have so mixed up the mythical -and realistic with
regard to him that the skein seems to be beyond the powers of
human patience to unravel ; nevertheless, let me lay before you
my attempt 'tax what it is worth.
The simple ungarnisbed story of Arthur's birth, as set forth in
Welsh tradition, is as follows : — Uter Pendragon. son of Cystennyn
Vendigaid or " Constantino the Blessed," King of Britain, falls
in love with Eigyr, wife of Gorlais, Duke of Cornwall, and by
a subtlety gains access to her and upon her begets Arthur.
Besides Uter Pendragon, Constantine had two older sons. The
eldest Coiistans, a Monk, was of weak intellect, but nevertheless
upon his father's death succeeded to the British throne, and was
shortly afterwards murdered at the instigation of Vortigcrn, who
thereupon became King of Britain. The second son was one
Emrys Wledig, or Ambrosius AureHanus, who revenged his brother's
death by overthrowing Vortigern, and was elected King of Britain
in his stead. Upon the death of Ambrosius Aurelianus, Uter
Pendragon, the third son, succeeded to the British throne. So
much for the Welsh tradition.
The first historian of any repute to mention Arthur is Nenuius,
who wrote his British History circa 796.1 He calls him " Artur
Mab JJtery'2 which means "Arthur, son of Uther," and he states
that as "Dux bellorum cum regibus Britonum" he led the British
forces victoriously twelve times against the Saxons. The twelfth
and last battle of this series was Badon Mount.
Professor Xhmncr has something to say about this office of Dux
Bcllorvm, and also about Uther Pendragon ; he writes :
"It is possible that this • Dux bellorum Arthur 'l occupied a position
under the British Kings analogous to that of 1 Dux Brxttaniartttn*
under the Roman sway, or it may even have been evolved froiu
the latter during the changed conditions of the fifth century,
The name of Arthur's legendary father 1 (Jther P< q dragon ' may
also be cited. This is nothing more than 1 Wier [Latin, vicl
dux bellorum1 . . . It is not without significance thai to Arthur,
who according to the oldest source is not ;> 1 A\ but
1 Nenniit.* VindipfituSi Ziminer,
2 Jfcnnius, cap. l\iii.
3 Nenn'iua Vindiccitwt, Zlmracr,
210
KING ARTHUR.
a 'Dux bellorum cum regibus Britonum,' has been assigned by tradition
a ' Victor princeps JDraconum1 [TJther Pendragon], as a father.5'
To go one step further, this would mean that Arthur was
the son of the "victorious leader of battles" or " the victorious
commander-in-chief " of the day — or to put it otherwise, the term
"Utber Pendragon," may after all be nothing more than a nom
de guerre ; this is further borne, out by the fact .that nowhere
eke in British or Welsh genealogies does one find "Titer" used
as a proper name.
Let us now see what Gildas has to say upon this matter, for
although he does not mention King Arthur by name, the internal
evidence in his statement is very suggestive. The date assigned
to Gildas' work De Excidio, which I am about to quote, is circa
537. 1 In paragraph 25 he writes somewhat as follows : —
"xxv. . . . that they [i.e. the Britons] might not be brought to utter
destruction,- took arms under the conduct of Ambrosius Aurelianus,
a modest man. who of all the Roman nation was then alone in
the confusion of this troubled period by chance left alive. His
parents, who for their merit were adorned with the purple, had
been slain in these same broils, and now his progeny in these our
days, although shamefully degenerated from the worthiness of their
ancestors, provoke to battle their cruel conquerors, and by the
goodness of our Lord obtained the victory. xxvi. After this,
sometimes our countrymen, sometimes the enemy won the field
to the end that our Lord might in this land try after his
accustomed manner these his Israelites, whether they loved him
or not, until the year of the siege of Bath hill, when took place
also the last almost, though not the least slaughter of our cruel
foes, which was [as I am sure] forty-four years and one month
after the landing of the Saxons, and also the time of my own
nativity."
, The foregoing translation of Gildas' somewhat corrupt Latin is
that given in the Bbhn edition, the italics are mine, and the words
used by Gildas in that passage are: — " cujus nunc Omporlbus nostris
soboles magnopere avita bonitatc de</cncravit." The words used for
"Bath Hill" are " Jiadonici montis" which identifies the battle
with "Badon Mount."
Bede, who wrote his Ecclesiastical History circa 731, evidently
copies paragraph 26 from Gildas, as he begins with the same
words, " ex eo tempore /' like Gildas he does not mention Arthur,
but dates the battle of " Badon Mount" as taking place forty-four
years after the landing of the Saxons. -
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle gives the date of the Landing of
the Saxons as circa 449, so the battle of Badon Mount would
take place circa 493.
As before stated, Nennius names the general who led the British
forces at this battle as M Arhtr Mali Uter."' Taking the two
statements of Gildas and Nennius it seems to me that we an
1 fk-lr Operu Historic^, Pluinmcr, Voni. ii, 81,
8 Jkdc, Lik 1, Ci^i. xvi.
KING ARTHUR.
211
justified in saying that Arthur was a descendant of Ambrosius
Aurelianus. The statement in Gildas that Ambrosius was the
last of his race left alive [in his *bwn generation, must be understood,
as he left ".wholes" or "issue"], altogether upsets the Welsh
tradition that his younger brother Uther Pendragon succeeded
him upon the throne. To no one at this period could such a
title as " victorious commander-in-chief " be more aptly applied
than to Ambrosius Aurelianus. He came as a God-send to the
Britons at a most critical moment, when through the misrule of
Yortigern not only had the country been over-run by swarms of
Saxons, but they were constantly being harassed by inroads from
the Picts and Scots, or as Jscnnius puts it, "Yortigern then
reigned in Britain. In his time the natives had cause of dread,
not only from the inroads of the Scots and Picts, but also from
the Romans, and their apprehension of Ambrosius." 1 There can
be little doubt but that Geoffrey of Monmouth, king of imagina-
tive historians, is responsible for this splitting up of one man
into two, and this is somewhat indicated by the complete failure
of his imagination to deal with them ; he states that both Ambrosius
and Uther were poisoned, and buries them both at Stonehenge,
which is a very tame effort on his part. So I would suggest
that King Arthur was the son of the " victorious commander-in-
chief," in British, "Uther Pendragon," ayIiosc name, Latinized, was,
"Ambrosius Aurelianus," or, in British, "Emrys Wledig,"
Let us now turn our attention to Ambrosius. Nennius, writing
about twro provinces over which Paseent, a son of Yortigern,
reigned, says, "These were given to him by Ambrosius, who was
1 rex in omnea regioncs BriManim* " 2 It is therefore clear that
upon Yortigern's death, Ambrosius,; from being " Pen Dragon,"
was elected supreme King of Britain. The long fabulous story
related by Nennius in cap. xl to cap. xlvi, in which Ambrosius
poses as a boy and the dragons, red and white, fight, etc., appears
to me to be a mythical relation of how Yortigern, driven into a
corner, handed over to Ambrosius the position of Pendragon.
"Welsh tradition says Ambrosius was second son of " Constant ine
the Blessed " or " Cystennyn Yendigaid," his elder brother being-
one Constans. a monk, who, as before stated, was killed at the
instigation of Yortigern. Gildas says that Ambrosius was a Roman,
and that his parents had been elevated to the purple for their
services, but had been murdered in these same broils. These state-
ments tally to a startling extent with the history of Const an tine
the Usurper, who was elected by the army Emperor of the West
JTis brief career I give below, as gleaned from the later Greek
and Latin writers.3
In 107 the army in Britain revolted and elected one Uarcun
as Emperor of the West, but shortly afterwards killed him and
put in his place one Gratian, a Briton. Elis reign lasted but four
months; lie was murdered and one Constantino usurped the position
1 ACHRHIS, Cftp. wxi.
" ibid., ctf». liii.
•! See Monumenta Ui$torica Bntaanica, Petrio sad Sharp.
212
KING ARTHUR.
of Emperor of the West, having been elected thereto . by the
the army. He crossed into Gaul with a large force, landing at
Bonovia ; there, having collected further allies, together with a
fleet, he attacked simultaneously Gaul and Spain, which at that
time were overrun by the Vandals. In 408 securing a great
victory, Honorius, Emperor of Rome, much against his will, sent
an imperial robe to Constantine, acknowledging him thereby as
Emperor of the West. Thereupon Constantine made' his son
Constans, ivho was a monk, Qesar, and sent him to command his
troops in Spain. In 409 Constans leaves Spain to consult with
his father, appointing one Gerontius (''! Geraint) a Briton, his general.
Later on in the year he returns to Spain, taking with him one
Justus, as his general ; this gives offence to Gerontius, who com-
mences to sow seeds of dissension among l he troops. The outcome
of it all was that in the year 411 the army rose in revolt against
Constantine; .who together with his son Julian they murdered at
Aries, and Constans, the Ciesar, formerly the Monk, was murdered
by Gerontius at Vie.nne.
Surely Constantine, Emperor of the West, with his son Constans,
a Monk, is one and the same man with Cystennyn Yendigaid
or Constantine the Blessed, with his son Constans, a Monk !
Let us now treat of 11 Constantine the Blessed." Welsh genealo-
gists make him second son of Tydwall, King of Brittany or
Armorica, and give his descent thus : — Constantine, ap Tydwall,
ap Morfawr, ap Cad van, ap Conan, ap Caradoc, ap Llewelyn,
which Llewelyn was father of Maxen Wledig " or Maximus,
the Emperor," and younger brother of Coel Codebog, or Coelhen.
John Bowse in TJtc Warwick Roll, thus writes of him, 81 Con-
stantine broder to ye kinge of litill britayn by election was made
kinge of this lande, he was grunfader to king Arthur yt rnyghtie
warreor on of ye ix worthy s," 1 etc.
The llendre Book thus quaintly alludes to him, " Constantine
the second son of Tudwall, after he had slaine Gratian was ye
flirst crowned Kinge in Brytt : He was traytcrously murdered
by a Picte after he had reign : 10 yeares. He man- : a Romane
ladie h by her had issue. He was for vertuous government called
by the Britt : Kustennjm fedigaid."-
It is quite evident that neither of these writers knew any tiling
that was going on beyond the cliffs of Dover— this island was
their world. They were clearly quite ignorant of the fact that
when Constantine in 107 took his army to Gaul and obtained a
great victory he was acknowledged by Honorius as Emperor of
the West. They have, together with all the Welsh genealogists,
displayed equal ignorance as to the parentage of Constantine in
making him second son of Tvdv all. King of Brittany. The
pedigree is chronologically impossible, to prove which 1 must now
give an epitome of the history of Maxell Wledig or Maximus
from the later Latin and Greek writers.1
1 Roxvse Hotl, College of Anns.
2 Hendre Book, Protheroo Mss.. CollegQ of Anrs.
s Monumcnto Hittorico Bn'ftmmea, lYinr and Sharp
KING ARTHUR.
213
382 A.D. Bfaximus, who some say was a Spaniard, others a
Briton, was in command of the Roman army of occupation in
this island, and repelled the incursions of the Picts and Scots.
383. Having sown sedition in the army against the Roman power,
he brought about a revolt against Gratian who, with his brother
Valentinian, were Emperors of the West. At this time Gratian
was harassed by a war with the Alemanni, so Maximus crossing
with an army into Gaul, gave Gratian battle, putting him to
flight at Paris, finally killed him at Lyons, and thereupon was
himself elected by the army Emperor of the West. 3S4. Maximus
made his son Victor (? Uter) partner in the empire, and fixed
his seat of government at Treves. 387". Having collected a large
army in Britain and Gaul he marches upon Italy, expelling
therefrom the Emperor Valentinian II, who was brother to Gratian.
Yalentinian flies for safety to the Emperor Thcodosius at Rome.
The following year, 388, Theodosius and Yalentinian joining forces,
defeat Maximus, and having taken him prisoner, behead him at
the third mile stone from the city of Aquileia. His son Victor
was killed the same year by Arhogastus at Yienne in Gaul.
Llewelyn.^ A Roman Lady.
Caradoc.n^ Maximus, Emperor of the
j West [3S3-8].
r J
Conan.=p
I
Cadvan.^
I
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Morfawr.^p
I
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Tydwall.=p
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Constant ine, Emperor of the West
[40S-11].
A gin nee at this pedigree, with the dates added to Maximus
and Constantine, shows the futility of it. In twenty-throe years
six generations are killed otY, so I think we are justified in saying
that Constantine Vendigaid, King of Britain, Emperor of the
West, and father of Ambrosius Aurelianus, was not Constantino,
son of Tydwall, King of Armorica. Who was ho 1
In the manuscript before quoted, The Hmdre nook, is the
following statement under the heading Maxen Wledig, "... About
tliis time Maxen died at Home w !> Gratian understandings he took
upon him the government <>f Brytt : who immediately was dayne
by Kustennyn or Constantine the son of Maxen."
Concerning Constantine, son of Maximus, tin4 same work makes
this statement, "Constantine mado noo clayme to the crowne.
but contented himself w"' the Earldom of Ewies UrehingfiekL"
214
KING ARTHUR.
It then proceeds to give a descent, which is chronologically impossible,
from the said Cons tan tine to Vortigern, covering seven generations !
It will be noticed that the same work. The tlendre Book;
asserts that Gratian was slain by Constantino, son of TvdwalL
The only fact gained from these mis-statements is that Gratian
was slain by one Constantine, who thereupon usurped the empire.
In the Iolo JISS., 1 Maxen Wledig- is given four sous, viz.,
Owain Vinddu, i.e., Owain with the dark face, Ednyved, Peblig
and Custennyn, to whom we can add a fifth in Victor (lUter),
who shared his fathers empire and also his. fate.
To take an absolutely common sense view of the case, surely
in Constantine, son of Maximus, we have the man who slew the
usurper Gratian, and was thereupon elected, like his father before
him, Emperor of the West.
I may add that having worked out this theory of Arthur's
ancestry from the evidences above quoted, I thought I might as
well see if that imaginative creature Geoffrey of Monmouth had
anything bearing upon the case, and I must confess I was
somewhat startled to find these words put into Arthur's
mouth when addressing his followers before starting on his
expedition to llome, " Likewise Constantine, the son of Helena,
and Maximian [Maximus] Mho were both my kinsmen, and both
wore the crown of Britain, gained the imperial throne of Rome."2
Maximus married, according to the Welsh tradition, Helen,
daughter and heir of Eudhaf, King of Britain, and so was
Jure uxoris King of Britain.
If this tentative theory which I have set forth, and have also
given in tabulated form on the opposite page, be correct, it
is not hard to understand the glamour with which Arthur has
been surrounded by early writers. Although a Briton by descent,
with such progenitors, he must have been in cultivation and at
heart a Roman. His grandfather and great grandfather Constantine
the Blessed and Maximus, held their courts in Gaul. His father
Ambrosius Aurelianus would have no time for courtly functions,
as he • must ha\e been fully employed fighting against the enemies
of his country ; not only had he to keep in check t he Baxon
invasion and the inroads of (he Piets and Scots, but also to
fight against and overthrow the debased British rule under
Vortigern. To Arthur alone of this line of Romano-British
warriors and kings did the opportunity ari^e of holding court in
Britain. After the battle of Badon Mount A. D. 493, comparative
peace reigned in the island for a considerable period. Then it
would be thai Arthur settled down to social life, and we
may be sure that, with his Roman education and tastes, his court
must have been a surprise indeed to the rough untutored British
kings and chieftains, his immediate followers, We get a glimpse of
the civilization <>f this period in the ruins, now being excavated, of
the Romano-British city of Silchester. Arthur, no doubt, had accumu
lated great, wealth in the only way in which Wealth could ho
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THE PEDIGREE OF RIXGESDUNE.
amassed in those days, by the power of the sword, and his
court would therefore be surrounded with all the luxuries of the
then modern Roman civilization. In such old-world stories as
" Try s tan and Isolda," "Lancelot and Guinevere/' etc., there are
indications that this luxurious life brought about its usual result,
moral decadence. We can trace all through the Arthurian romances,
beautiful as they are, a distinct current of immorality, . and we
can only come to the conclusion that Arthur was not as great
a social success as he was a warrior — brave as a lion, he was
yet wanting in moral backbone. Xo wonder Gildas, the ascetic,
alludes to him without naming him as " The degenerate offspring
of Ambrosius/' and denounces the whole British race for spending
this period of peace in idleness and riotous living, .instead of
rebuilding the cities that had been overthrown by the Saxons.
It is sad to think of this great warrior revelling in such a life,
but the end was coming. Roused at last from his lethargy by
what he considered to be an impertinent message from florae,
he determines to emulate his ancestors Constantine and Maximus
by leading an army against that city. He therefore appoints his
supposed nephew Mordred [who was in reality his own son by
his half-sister !] his deputy in Britain during his absence, and
departs. It is stated that when about to cross the Alps at the
head of his victorious army, news was brought him that Mordred
had risen in revolt, seized upon the British throne, and abducted
his wife Guinevere. He hurried home, revenged himself upon
Mordred by killing him with his own hand at the battle of
Catalan, but was himself at the same time mortally wounded. So
ended his career, In spite of all his faults, Arthur's name has
lived and will live as one of the greatest heroes of the world so
long as there is a Briton left upon the face of tiie earth.
A. S. Scott-Gatty.
THE PE] )IG R EE OF RING ES 1 > V N E.
At the close of his valuable scries of Sempringham Charters,
Major Poynton constructed a pedigree of the Lincolnshire family
of " Ringesdimo " for four generations downwards from Domesday,
It is obviously undesirable thai a pedigree, if seriously open to
question, should obtain currency and remain unchallenged in the
pages of such an organ as The Gencaloyirf. And tlii*< remark
applies specially to a. pedigree traced continuously from b Ooi
under* ton ant, a performance, as Mr. Eyton lias reminded us, that
can hardly ever be accomplished.
THE PEDIGREE OF RIXGESDUNE.
217
The descent constructed by Major Poynton is as follows1 : —
Adam, Domesday tenant of the
Bishop of Lincoln [1086.1
Helyas de Kingesdune, occurs 1 166.=rOrabilis, occurs 1243.
Adam de Iiingesdune, son and heir. ob. before
1220 (Bracton's Xoic Book, case 1416).
Sir Hugh de Itingesduue,— Isabella, living Sir Ralph de Kingesdune, heir
occurs 1220, ob. 1259. 1260. to his brother, living 1265.
In the genealogy of the ]STorman period the hardest task, as is
well known, is that of proving the pedigree between 1086 and
1166. Almost invariably there the jinks are wanting. In the
pedigree above the difficulty is solved by making the lord of
Kingesdune in 1166 the actual son of the holder in 1086 ; and
when we are farther told that his wife, the daughter-in-law of the
Domesday tenant, was living in 1213 — nearly 160 years after the
Domesday survey — we are tempted at least to rub our eyes ! The
evidence vouchsafed us for this affiliation is that " entries in the
Testa de Neville temp. John (pp. 310-1) mention Elias son of
Adam as tenant in Ringesdun.'' They certainly do, and, more
than that, there is in the Red Book of thi E.ccheguer this relevant
entry: "Elias filius Adai apud Kingedone feoda v militum " (p.
516). But how could this Elias, the holder in 1212, be the son
of the Domesday tenant? Why, instead of proving, his mere
mention, is sufficient, as will be seen, on referring to Major
Poynton's pedigree, to alter it altogether.
With no more evidence before me than that on which he relies
I venture to reconstruct the Iiingesdune pedigree as follows : —
Adam, held Kingstonc (" Itingcsdun ") and Less-
inghani of the L'ishop uf Lincoln in 10S6.
11 elias de Kingedone. Held 5 fees
of the Bishop of Lincoln in L1C6.
I
Adam de Kingesdune, presented to Corlcv Church before 1101.
Orabilis, occurs — Melius (Fit/. Adam) de Kingesdune. Hugh de Kingesdune,
1213. Held 5 foes, including Kingstonc, in Held Kingstonc hi L220
1212. (Kraeton's CMB I I ICO.
I do not care to pursue the pedigree further, a< the Hugh who
was succeeded by his brother Half in 1259 might conceivably
1 See vol. wii, pp, 238-9 ante,
• The family held t'orle\ as under tenants of RastlUga (Dugdule'l W;ir-
wickghire).
218
LICENSE TO JOHN FORSTER.
prove to belong to an even later generation. It will be observed
that I transfer Orabilis from the Helias of 11GG to his grandson
and namesake on chronological grounds, and that I make Helias
Fitz Adam, not the son, but (at nearest, if his descendant) the
great-great-grandson of the Domesday tenant.
It would be of interest to identify the other holdings of the
family, for in Kingstone itself they seem to have held only some
half a fee of the bishop, though they also held there of. the
Wakes hall a fee, which doubtless represented that portion of
llingstonc which was held hi, capite by Oger the Breton in 1086.
Lessingham they held of the bishop as one fee.
J. LT. Hound.
LICENSE TO JOHN FORSTER TO WEAR HIS BONNET
IN THE ROYAL PRESENCE, 1520.
The following document is almost, identical with that given by
General Wrottesley in his " History of the Family of Wrottesley,"
page 251. The original is preserved at Willey Park, amongst the
muniments of Lord Forester, who is a lineal descendant of the
grantee. The King's sign-manual is perhaps finer than that atlixed
to .the Wrottesley license. I failed to find any enrolment of the
Forster grant in the Public Becord Office.
Henry R. [The Kitty's s%«i ■-manual.]
Henry by the grace of God King of England and of ilraunce
and Lord of Irland To almaner our officers ministers and sub-
giettes as well of spirituell prehemynence and dignitie as of
temporal! auctoritie these our letters hering or seing greting
fforasmefche as we bee credibly ehformed that our trusty and
welbiloued John iforster of Wellington in our Countie of Salop
gentilman for certain diseases and infirmities which he hath in
his lied cannot conveniently without his greate daungier and
iebardy bee discovered of the same Wherupon we in consideracon
therof have by these presentes licenced hvm from hensforth to use
and were his bonet on his said hed at all tymes and in all places
as well in our presence as eliswhere at his libertie Wherfor we
woll and comaunde you and every of you to permit te and suftie
hyrn soo to doo without any your lot t chalengG or interrupcon to
the contrary As ye tendr our pleasure Geven under our Signet
at our Manor of G renew iche the wi j'1' day of November the
xij"' yere of our Iveigne.
[T/ir Scud it tnissingJ]
Another license, in very similar words, to Walter Copinger,
dated 2 1 October, 1 Henry VIIT, is printed 111 V
Queriex, 8 Series, vol. vii, page 338,
THE FEB OF CRKON.
219
It seems to me perfectly clear that these licenses were not
hereditary, but were strictly personal ; and that they M ere con-
fined to the reign of Henry VIII, since the wearing ot' the bonnet
is restricted to "our presence,'' and there is no mention -of " our
heirs and successors." It is clear too that they were granted
because of "certain diseases and infirmities" in the head: it has
been suggested that this disease was ringworm, or else some form
of mange, which in the sixteenth century could not be cured.
The " bonnet " was probably not a hat, but a closely fitting scull
cap, such as is frequently worn by old gentlemen indoors to-day,
as a security against colds in the head. So that really there is
probably no such thing as a license to wear the hat in the
King's presence. Curiously enough, these licenses were nearly all
granted in the reign of Henry VIII, but why ! Was this disease
in the head especially prevalent in that reign?
W. G. D. Fletcher, F.S.A.
THE FEE OF CREON.
(Continued from p. 166.)
We are indebted to the Pipe Roll 28 Henry II, under Lincolnshire,
for a most interesting entry relating to the marriage of Maurice
de Creon's eldest son and heir with Isabella,1 widow of Albert
Gresle, as follows : —
Do Obi at is Cvrie.
Wido dc Croon redd' Comp' de, CO. m' . p' h'nda vxorc q' fuit Alb'ti
Gresle e' r'oirabili Dote sua. In th'ro . xxiiij . li' . ct . xiij . s' . et . iiij . d' .
Et deb' . C . el . viij . li' . et . xiij . s' . et . iiij . d\
Shortly after this event Guy de Creon succeeded to his inheritance,
for in the Pipe Roll 34 Henry II, under the same county, we read :-—
Ite' ])c Oblatis Cvrie .
"Wido de Creon redd' Comp' tie. C. et . xlvj.li'. et . xiij.s'. et . iiij . d' .
})' fine t're Maur' de Creon pat's, sui. In th'ro. Eiij , li* . ct . vj' . s' . et .
viij.d'. Et deb' qH' . xx . et . xiij . li' . et vj . s' . et . viij.d'.
The issue of this alliance was an only daughter u IV 1 1 onilla,"
and in the Cartulary of the Pedwardine family, copies of two
deeds of agreement relating to her marriage have fortunately
been preserved. The original deeds must have been executed
between llfcJ9^—1197, whilst William Longchamp was Chancellor,
and probably before her father went to the lbdy Land,3 and
! In Vdore's Histoid of Kutl.ind. ]>. 1(H), she is said to haw been d;i. of
Thomas basset, mid sister of (lilbort, and to hart had a son Robed (Ovihy.
- i'it'w Curia Regis boil. No. 25, Uieh. ;> Join., in.
220
THE FEE OF CREON.
thougli the copies are in a much later hand, they seem to be of
sufficient value to print verbatim.
Add. MS., 32,101, fo. 14.
Burton.
$\
xm. Hec est conuenco fca in cria dni Reg apud W estm . int
Wiftm Eliensem Epm $m Reg Cancellariu t Guidone de-Croliun.
vidlicet quod ide Guido dedit in vxore Witto pmiogeito filio ~t
fiedi *i (sic) Henrici de Longo Campo Pet°nilla filia % ftede sua
Et si contingit pdem WiUm motif Alt' fili9 jadicti Henric p*m0ggit9
% heres eisct Henric ea ducet in vxore Et si ipe pdecesseritf tci
fili9 q* erit heres eiu9cl . II . earn nebit %®.
xv. W . dei gfa Eliensis Eps ini Reg Canceli . - omib} ad quos
litte iste puenint Salt . Nouit vniusitas vra qcf nos ex pte nfa
Henric de Longo campo ffis mi °t Wilii filii \ tiedis sui
concessim9 Pet°nille filie Widonis de Creona qa Siiic pfat9 Wills
nepos nr ductur9 est in vxore . scCfm conuencone fram (sic) int nos
in curia cfni Reg . xxx . libratas tre c suiciis feodo^ duo^ Miiit
1 Hereforcfzir in dote libam . Hiis testib} Majh'O Miehaele • fre
Philipp elemos • Remido Camar Robo de Witfelde • Simoe de
Pateshill . Wilio Ruffo • Henr de Cornili f
The year the marriage took place, and the date of the birth
of Heijiy Longchamp, son and heir of " Petronilla," by her first
husband, William Longchamp, I am unable to state. There are
two Inq. P.M. at the Public Record Olnce, one 46 Henry III,
No. 5, which declares Henry Longchamp to be then over fifty
years 'of age, the other of uncertain date, Henry III, No. 124,
declares him to be over forty years of age, but he must have
been about sixty in 46 Henry III, for his mother had married
her second husband before the 12th September 1205, as the Fine
Roll 7 John proves.1 The Pipe Roll of the same year furnishes
these entries under Lincolnshire : —
Do tail!? f 'c'o p' . S . dc Kymc et Soc' suos.
Hcnr' do la Marc deb' . D . m' . p' h'nda t'ra PctroniU' de Croun sic'
c't' i' It' de Sudhant'seir . q4 req'rcbat1- ibid'.
And under Southamptonshirc : —
Noua Oblata.
Hcnr' do la Mare debet. 0. in', p' h'nda t'ra ]YtroniH' de Crouu . ux'
sue. et t'ris suis i' Angl' . et Will' de la Mara fr' suns manuccp' Mi;1'
corp' snu' et t'ra' sua' q' id' Hcnr inueniet ft1 sutUoiontos pleg' . s' req'rend'
est i' Liucollsir'.
This union was not of long duration, for the Pipe Roll 13 John,
under Norfolk and Suffolk, records : —
Nona Oblata .
Oliu'ns de Vallilt' r' c'p' do. I), in' oi v. p:ilotV . p' h'nd" i* \ \'
Pe^niUa' q' fait \x' Hour' dc Mara, on' toto t'ra ei'do* IVr'mU'. huh'.
L . in' ot dim', lit dob'. CCCC. vi xli\ . in', ot dim' . el v. p.ilol'r' .
Id' r' o'|>' do eocV deb*, IntV. xxxiij.li' . Kt deb, CCCC, m' , et t
palolV.
1 Kotuli do Oblatis ot Finihus, p. 315 ; hoo also p. 110,
THE FEE OF CRKON.
221
Passing over a period of fifty years we find " Petronilla," at the
close of a long life, engaged in a settlement of certain lands on
her late husband's son, John de Vallibus (Vaux) ; her death,
however, caused the completion of it to be carried out by her son
and heir, Henry Longchamp, as the following extracts shew.
Curia Regis Roll, No. ICG, m. 30, Easter, 46 Henry III, A. P.
1262, contains this case: —
Adhuc de Mense Quinta Septimana Pasche.
Line, P'cept fuit vie q(f distr Laur de Rupe . Alex de Po}'ton .
Luc Dolington Margiam sororem eius . Jolim de Sannton . Willm
Aungeuyn . Herbm Pecehe . Wilim de Polebrok . Jofim de Roche-
ford . Willm de Buttwyk . Jonin de ffurcell . Hugon fit Jocei .
Rohm le ford . Is Jordan . Willm le Xevr . Phm le Straunge .
Aland de Kachesthorp . Ricm filiu Robti de Shedestan . Agn
Clement. MatilCf de Pyssy. Cecil fit Athelard . Alanu Clement.
Margiam de Kirketou. Room Bell, asise. Alex fit Alex de Poyntori .
Cecil Westre}re . Ricm fit Gippe . Thorn Clement. Rogm Moyne.
Wilim Michereine . Rohm fit Robi fit Ede . Isaac cappllm . Henr
fit Cristiafi . Thorn Cle)miund . Rogm Hauk . J ohm Gernun . Her
Jolmis le Blund . Ricm Pyssy. Thorn de Grymuesby . Raffni le
Messer de Wrangel . Alio de Percy . Hug filiu Radi . Thorn fit
Jordani. Wiltm Hagat . Wittm lit Robti. Robm Neue . Wilim
fit Odon . Alex fit RaCfi . Waltm Bakun . Robm de quappel
Lambm de Bykermue. Hen? Modersone . Johm Aspy . Stephm
Berkariu . Wilt de Huntingfeud T. Alex cticum p tras T: catall sua
in Balliua ^tc . Ita qct hret corpa eo^ ad hunc diem ad cogn p
que suicia tenent ten sua de Petron de Croun in ffreston .
Buttwyk^. Quappelade '\ villa Sci Botulpft que suic j?dea Petron
in Cur r hie concessit Johni de Yallib} p finem ibi inde in? eos
fern . Et vie nich inde fecit . To jtaept est vie q3 distr eos p
ofns tras ^c . Ita qct de Exit T.e . Et heat corpa eos. a die sci
Johnis Bapt in. xv . dies. Et quia testatfi est qCt jjJdca Petron
obiit pfeept est vie. qd veire fac hie Hen? de Longo capo fit t
her pdee Petron . ad jtfatii tminu T.e . ad capiencf Cyr SOU le.
In the previous Michaelmas Term1 we find the above tenants
had been summoned to appear but had made default, and the
Sheriff had been ordered to distrain and to produce them at
Easter three weeks; the names of many of those by whom they
were, attached are recorded, but the list is too long to print
here.
An extract from the Fine- which was levied at Westminster
in one month after Michaelmas, 16 Henry III, will show how the
settlement was concluded, it is as follows : —
"In? Johem de Yallib) quer 1 Hen? de Longo Campo filiu
herede Petronili de Croun inpe<l. de Klanio de ffreston cu
1 Curia Regis Roll, Xo. 171. in. »',;,.
* Foot of Fines, BO. Line, Fil>> 48, No. 28 (oW W)
222
THE FEE OF CREON.
ptin. uncle pirn warant Carte sum fuit int eos in eade Cur."'
Henry acknowledges John's right in whatever he had in the
Manor of Freston and Botervvek, on the day tliis concord
was made, except in the " homagiis °t omib} . sniciis . Heroti
Peche °t Lucie vx eius Wilti de PokebroK T: Margie vx
eius % heredu ipa| Lucie ^; Margie . de toto tenemto cu ptin,"
which they held the day the concord was made, " 1 excepto
annuo redditu viginti % quinq, sblido^ cu ptin que Wilts de
Himtingfelct . debet p quodam Tenemto in villa Sci Botulphi : esse
jus ipius Johis . vt illud qcf idem Johes ht de dono pdce Pefcronill .
Et }V?ea idem Henr concessit eidem Johi . homagia T: omia suicia
Nigelli de Pincebek. Laurenc de la Roche. Alex de Povntoii .
Johis de Rocheforcl . Wilti de Botwyk. Johis de Jlbrcerl . Rici fit
Jlot>ti de Chedcstan . ilani Clement . Johis Gernoun °t Thorn fit
Jordani heredu suo^ de toto Tenemto cu ptin," etc., which they
"p'us tenuenlt de j^dea Petronilla in fMcis villis de ffreston
BolvvyK. Toft. °t villa Sci Botulphi. Habend ^ Tenencf eidem Johi
% herecJ suis de vxore sibi desponsata Legitime pcreatis . de pdro
Henr hered suis inppetuu . H'aciendo inde suiciu feodo^ Triura
Militu," etc. ; if John should die without lawful heir by his wife
then to revert to Henry and his heirs, and for this John quit-
claims to Henry and his heirs all right, etc., in the twenty-five
shillings rent, and "in pdcis homagiis T: sniciis jVdco^, Herbti
1 Lucie. Willi 1 Margie % heredu $$c*f Lucie 1 Margie 1
similr in homagiis ^ omib} suiciis Lucie dc Edelingtou . Margerie
sororis eius. Joins de Sannton . Willi Aungeuyn . °t Willi de
Huntingfelct It heredu suo^ de toto tenement© " they held on the
day. " Et scienct est q3 pdci Laurenc. Alex. Johes de Rochefortf.
Wills de Botwyk . Johes de fforcell . Pics. Bobs. Alanus .
Johes Cernun % Thorn in eadem Curia fecunt homagia sua
jMco Johi de Vallib) p pdco Tenemto qct tenent sicut pdian
est."
The Fine is endorsed — " Et Abbas de Croylnund apponit clamiii
suu."
An entry on the Fine Roll,1 11th April 1202, is evidence thai
Henry Longchamp paid a Relict for his mother's manor of
" Sutwarneburn " ; this together with the above documents proves
that ''Petronilla" died in the winter of 1261-62, but unfortunately
no Tnq. P.M. for her extensive Lincolnshire possessions can now
be found.
On the death of "John fie Vallibus," his estates were divided
between his two daughters.'3 The deed now in the Public Record
Office is very difficult to decipher, and in some parts perished ;
most fortunately, however, the Cartulary 3 of John Yaux is preserved
1 Exccrpta K Rotulij Finium, vol. ii. j>. 869 ; vide also the Pipt Roll
mid Originalia Roll ic> Hon. 111.
8 Inq. P.M. L6 Ed. 1, No. 41,
s Stowo MS., 770, fo. 53. In the Rame Cartulary, fo. 36| :\ copy of a
Charter of lion. Ill, dated at Canterbury, LV.th Oct. Anno 49, by which 1"'
grants to John Vnnx for his faithful Service the lands of certain atlltorvnts of
THE FEE OF CREON.
223
in the British Museum and contains a very accurate copy of the
original. This document is so valuable that I have printed it in
full, lest the information it contains may by some accident be lost.
Seperaco terra^ Dni Joftis de Vallib} int Heredes.
Nouint Vniusi qfi cu Mania de Therstoa . Shotesham, Wyssete,
Holt. Cleye . Hoctone, ffreston . cu terris % ten in villa Sci
Botulph, et Maiiiu de Hakeford . vid.tt Mesuag/ cu terris arrablib},
piltis, pastur, boscis, viuar, Molend, °t M'catO de Refhilm deo
Maniio de Hakeford spectantib}, et quoddfi Mesuagf in London
qd vocat1' le Blanch AppeltoPi cu ptin, cu aduocacoib} eccaa domo^
religiosa^, et feoda Militu cu ptinent ad Petronilla . et Matilde
filias % nedes Johis de Vallib}, p morte ipius Johis pris ea^d
Pet°nilt 1 Matild descenderiit { TandS die Martis in c:lstio Pur
he Marie "\rigis . Anno regn regf Edwardi fil regf Hen? . xyj,uy .
Ita couenit in? Wiitm de Nerford . et Pef'nilla uxem ei9 ex pte
vna, et Wihhn de Bos de Hamelakf \ jMcam Matild uxem eis
ex alta. Vidit qd p pparte ipam Pet°nilla contingente de tris T;
ten pdcis . Remanebut eisd Wilt de Nerford", et Pef'nille Mania
de Therstoii % Shoteslr'm, in Com Xorft^i ., Et Maniiu de Wyssete
cu ptin in Com SulTf . exceptf q*tuordeci libHtis tre % redds in
eod Maniio. que remanent eide Wilfo 1 Matild in pparte sua,
vt patet inferius . Et medietas Manlios de Holt Cleye ^ Hoctofi
cu ptin in Com Norfff . Et meet Mesuagf in London, cu ptin qd
vocat1* ]e Blanch Appelton . Remanent eccia eisde Wiltmo de
Nerford et Pef'nille aduocacoes eCcaz do Holt in Com Norfff T;
Abvton in Com Cantebr . Remanebut t eisd Wilio de Nerford
1 .Petf'mli feod Mil pbsc*p* vidtt . Vnu feod Milit in Thorp 1
Wynch qd dna Matild de ValliD} dna de Surlintham tenet in
Com Norfff. Et vnu feod Milit qd Rofus de Chcrvile in
ByenhRmwelt in eod Com. Et vnu feod Milit f, qd Simo le Grys
tenet in Turueton in eod Com . Et vnu feod Militf qd Wills de
Shymplinggf tenet in Moryngthorp in Eod Com . Et q*rta pa duoa
feodo^ Militu que Petr9 de Letheringsete tenet in Letheryngsete,
Holt Bay fold, Seharnton. Kelly ngf . 'I BethHm. in eod Com, Et
vnu feod Milit qd Bogus de Perers tenet in Letheringsete, Holt
Honeworth et Eggefeld in eod Com. Et dim id feod Milit J qd
hedes Henr Turnecourt ten in Totingtofi in eod Com . Et dec* pa
vni9 feod Militf qd Barth Cordel tenet in Grymeston in eoCt Com.
Et medietas uni9 q*rtii feod Militf, qRm . \viUa Heruy tenet in
Jlonewortli in eod Com. Et medietas sextedecle ptis vni'- feod
Militf qfttn Galf'rs Syre tenet in ^Cerstofi in eodem Com . Et vnu
feod Militf (jd Rafts de MunCV tenet in W ylingh'in in Com Sufff .
Et vnu feod Militf qd hedes Uohti de (oymilye tenet in Chedost*n
'X Barslfin in Com SufFf. Et (CotringhHrn in Com Nbrlff, Et vnu
feod; Militf qd Rohts de Boytofi tenet in BoytoH in Corn SurTf,
Et vnu feod Militf qd Kohtus de Reydofi tenet in Reydofi in
Simon do NTontfort, find amonpsl those, tho Iftndi of John <lo Roclicfonl
in Fenne, Frftstone, Honihton, Toft; Skyrobok, unci St. Bottttpk, In th« count)
of Lijicoln. Por tlu> refftroncen bo this Ms. ami tho ob&rtem, l uu iudeUtoU
to the kindnena of Mr. 1!. J, of tho Kritisii Museum,
224
THE FEE OF CREON.
cod Com. Et quinq. fcodo (sic) Militf que nedes de Brornfeld tenent
in Bromfeld! . Wyssete . Walpol Wenhaston Sybetofi % Wenham
in code Com . El qu'q. feoda militf T: dimid que Rofots de Yaleins
tenet in Perrr'm in eoa Com. Et medietas duoj feod mil que Rogus
Bygod tenet in Saham Barre, in eod Com . Et Medietas vxti9 q:trt
feod Militf qd Hicfis Weyland tenet in Westerfeld in cod Com .
Et dimid qart vni9 feod Militf qd nodes Wttti de Vallibj tenent
in Chedestan in eod Com . Et una feod Militf qd Rogus' Quareme
tenet in Stuttoii in eod Com . Et vnu feod Militf . qd dna Matild
de Yallfbj . dna de Surlingkfm tenet in Henye in Com Esex . Et
vnu feod' Militf qd ffulco de Vallib} te} in Belcham i eod Com .
Et p pparte ipam Matilde contingente, remanebut pdcis Wilirao
de Ros et Matild vxi eius Maneriu de nrestofi, et terre T: tenemta
in villa Sci Botulp cu ptin in Com Lincoln . Et ManJiu de
Plakeford, vidifc Mesuagf cu terris arrabiib) . patis . pastur . boscis
viuar Molend 't Mercatb de Refham dco Maniio de Hakeford
spctatil)5 . Et medietas Man]io§ de Holt, Cleye Hocton cu ptin
in Com Norfff, Et qHuordecim lib:lte terre % reddus cu ptifi in
Wyssete in Com Su'fff vt supadem est Et Medietas vnis Mesuagf
cu ptin in London qd vocatr le Blanch Appelton, Remanent t
eisde Wittmo de Ros ^ Matild aduoeacoes eccaz de Cleye
Shotesham in Com Norfff . Remanebt t eisde Willo de Ros ^
Matild feoda Militf sbsc'pta videlicet, Vnu feod' Militf qd dna
Matill de Vallib} dna de Surlinghslm tenet in Walton in Com
Korfff. Et dimid feod Militf qd Jones de DoumYm tenet in
Grymmeston in eodm Com . Et vnu feod Militf ^ dimid qd Rafts
Pyeot tenet in pua fframlingham i eod Com . Et duo feoda Militf
que Wills de Kerdeston tenet in Claxton in eod Com, Bulcamp
in Com Suflf . Et q'nq, feoda Milit* que Rics de la Rokele tenet
in Appelton. Wadeton Shymplinge ^ Trowes. in Com Norfff, Et
dimid feod militf qd .Alex de Boterewykf tenet in Walton in
cod Com . Et vnu qarter feod Militf qd Rics de Therston tenet
in Therston in eod Com . Et tria feoda Militf que Petrus Bus/.un
tenet in Wissingsete in eod Com . Et vnu feod mil qd dna Robins
do Ver Comes Oxori tenet in ICetringhHni in eod Com . Et vnu
feod Militf l\ dimid qd Petrus de Letheryngsete tenet in
Letlieryngsete . Holt Bayfeld Shamton, Kelly ngf BekhHm, \ Cleye
in eod Com, Et medietas vni9 q*rtii feodi Militf qd Wiltus
Heruy ^ +'cenar sui tenent in Honewortn in cod Coin . Et medietas
sextedecle ptis feodi Militf qd Galfrs le Syre tenet in Merston
in eod Com. Et duo feoda Militf que Roots de Barsh*ni tenet
in Barsham et RedeshHm in Com Sufff., Et duo feoda Militf que
Magr Rogus de Holebrokf te3 in Wenham 1 Reydoii in eod Com.
Et medietas duo$ feeds Militf que Rogus Bygod Comes v
tenet in Salrlm Barre in eod Com, Et medietas vni' qlr;ii feod
Militf, qd Nicns Weyland tenet in Westerfeld in eod Com . E1
vnu feod Militf qd Alredus( de Subry tenet in Reydon in eed
Com. Et unu feod militf qd Xalbotus de Hyntleah4m tenet in
Hyntlesham in eod Com. Et dee1 ps feodi Militf qd Johea de
Normundy tcm^t in Bui'es in Com Essex. Et vnu q*niu feod
Militf qd hei t-des AleSci de Poynton tenet in ffiTstone 1 Bolero wykf,
PEDIGREE OF KNOWLES OF LONDON.
225
in Com Lyncoln . Et vnu feodu Militf qd Laurencius de la Roche
tenet in ffreston % Boterewykf in eocl Com . Et qd aduocacoes
dorao^ religiosa^ de quib) aduocacoib. Idem Joftes de Yallib}
fuit seisits in 'dnico suo vt de feodo die quo obiitf remaneant
in? ptes pdcas in coi . In cui9 rei testimon {Mce ptes huic Sc^pto
in modu Cyrog;lm confecto Sigilla sua altnati apposuerut . Hiis
testib} dnis Thorn de Weyland, Jone de Louetot, Jotie de
Cobcham, Jotie de Tudeham, 'Nicho AVeyland, Thorn Buret, AYitto
de Wauncy militf . Nicfto de Castello, Hugoh de Cressinghilm,
Wilio de Becles Ciieis, Rico Vrry, Wilio Howard, Wilio de
Colneye, Jacobo de Wyssingsete, Wilio de Dunston T: aliis.
On the death of Sir Henry Longchamp in 1274 his possessions
devolved on his daughter Alice, who married Sir Roger Pedwardine.
At this point, however, I must conclude the present paper, in which
it has been my - endeavour to supplement from original sources such
details of this family as are at present available in printed records,
and other works of a similar character.
E. M. POYNTON.
PEDIGREE OF KNOWLES OF LONDON,
continued from the Heraldic Visitation of that city in 1G34;
such parts as are recorded therein being printed in italics.
Arms : — Gules, on a chevron, argent, three roses, of the field.
Crest : — A ram's head couped, argent.
RICHARD KNOWLES, of the county of Huntingdon, third son
[possibly third soti of Reginald Knowles, of Brampton, co.
Huntingdon, by Frances, da. of John Baud, of co. Lincoln],1
married Anne, da. of ( — ) J/eth)/, and had issue : —
I. Francis Knoides, eldest son and heir ; s.p., 1G34.
II. Henrf/, &P>i 1634.
III. Thomas, of whom below.
THOMAS KKO)VLLS, of London, Dier, third son of Richard
Knotvles aborenamed, living JG<>4, when he entered and signed fern
1 There is a pedigree in the Heraldic Visitation of Huntingdonshire
entered and signed l>y Thomas Knowles, of Brampton nforesaid, in L6l9
that date a married man) in which he shews himself to be ins: son, and
"Robert Knowles, of lirnmpton," to he second sen of Reginald Knowles snd
Frances Batfd, as in the text. No other son is assigned t«> the said Reginald,
hut the date would harmonise. As, however, two daughters (Rose and Mary)
are mentioned, it seems unlikely that a son (unless it was by accident)
should he omitted,
R
226
PEDIGREE OF KNOWLES OF LONDON.
" Thomas I&iorclis") his pcdiyree in the Visitation of London {Forrina-
don tvithout). He, who was free of the Company of Dyers, was a
Linen-draper in Holborn, near Shoe Lane. lie, married firstly, in
or before 1622, Luce, first surviving da. of James Afuttins, other-
wise Molins, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, Citizen and Barber Surgeon
of London, by Aurelia, da. and sole heir of John Florio,'- Gentle-
man of the Privy Chamber. She died at his house 27 and was
buried 28 July 1647, at St. Andrew's aforesaid.3 He married
secondly, Thomazine. She was buried there 29 July 1662. 3 He
died 21 and was buried there 25 Feb. 1668/9, 3 having apparently
survived all his children, save his eldest daughter, Lucv Hollier.
Will dated 4 Nov. 1668, and proved 24 March 1668/9 in C.P.C.
(34 Dyer) leaving everything to his grandchild. Mary Knowles, a
child of about six years old. By his first wife he had issue : —
I. James Knowles, buried 30 May 1627, at St. Andrew's
aforesaid.3
II. James Knowles, eldest surviving son and heir apparent, in
1634 ; buried 2 April 1635, at St. Andrew's aforesaid.3
ILL Thomas Knowles, living 28 Nov. 1638, 4 of whom hereafter.
IV. John Knowles, living 28 Nov. 163S4 ; buried 18 Dec. 1638,
at St. Andrew's aforesaid.3
V. Henry Knowles, possibly born after 1647, in which case
his mother would have been his father's second wife ;
buried 18 Aug. 1660, at St. Andrew's aforesaid.3
1. Luce, born 1622 ; legatee (of £50), 28 Nov. 163S4; married
3 Jan. 1638/9, at Stoke Newington, Middlesex (Lie.
London, 29 Dec. 1638, she about 16, he a widower5 and
about 29), Thomas Hollier, of Christ Church, London,
Citizen and Barber Surgeon of London; Master of that
Company, 1673; sometime Lithotamist to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, and for fifty-two years Surgeon to
St. Thomas' Hospital, in Southwark. She died 15 and
was buried 24 Aug. 1677, at Christ Church aforesaid.
He died 22 and was buried there 29 April 1690,
aged 81. Mon. Inscr. His admon. 10 Sep. 1690, to
his son Nathaniel Hollier. They had issue, three sons
and several daughters."
2 John Florio, an author of some little note, was son of Michael A.B
Florio, a Florentine (but of a family originally of Sienna), who was, in 1550,
Preacher to an Italian Protestant, Congregation in London, lie was born
about, 1553, and was Reader in Italian, in L603, to Anne, the Quci D ( onsort.
He died at Fulham in 1625. Will dated 30 July LG25, proved in the
C.P.G. 1 May 1626, His wife, Rose, survived him."
3 Burials at St. Andrew's, Holborn.
4 Will of James Melius, dated 28 Nov. and proved in the C.P.C. 10 Dec
1688.
6 His first wife was "Joane Sftddocke, of NVw Windsor. Berks, maiden."
whom be married, 21 Deo, l(>:*7, at Stepney.
* Thomas, the eldest, and Jamis, the second son, both died before their
father, and both left, issue. Another sun. NaTHAMKL, survived his father 01 J
PEDIGREE OF KNOWLES OF LONDON.
227
2. Aurdia, living 1634 and 28 Nov. 1G3S4 ; died unmarried
at her father's house in Holborn, 8 and was buried
9 Nov. 1639, at St. Andrew's aforesaid.3
3. Grace, living 1634, but probably died before 28 Nov. 1638,
not being mentioned in her grandfather's will of that
date.4
4. Mary, living 1631; buried 10 May 1638, at St. Andrew's
aforesaid. 's
Thomas Knowles, third but last surviving son of Thomas
Knowles abovenamed, was born after 1634, but before 28 Nov.
1638 ;4 was (like his father) a Linen-draper. He married, in or
before 1662, Elizabeth. He died, in his father's lifetime, at
Islington, and was buried 5 July 1665, at St. Andrew's afore-
said,s leaving an only child, Mary, who was aged about six years
(when executrix to her grandfather) 24 March 1668/9, his widow,
then Elizabeth Butler, (the child's guardian) being then living.
Extracts from Parish Registers, Etc.,
illustrating the above pedigree.
St. Andrew's, Holborn.
Burials.
James, son of Thomas Knowles, Linendraper,
near Shoe Lane.
James, child of Thomas Knowles, Linendraper,
below Shoe Lane.
Mary, a gerrill, da. of Thomas Knowles,
Linnendraper, nr Holborn Bridge.
James Mollins, Barber Chyurgeon, died at his
house at Newington beyond Islington the 3d.
Buried in our church.
John, child of Thomas Knowles, Linendraper,
below Shoe. Lane.
Aurelia Knowles, a mayde, da. of Thomas
Knowles, Linendraper, died at Mb house
below Shoe lane oid in Holborn, the 8th.
Lucy, wife of Thomas Knowles, Lyuindraper,
died at his house near Shoe lane end in
Holborn, the 27th.
Henry, son of Thomas Knowles, Linendraper,
below Shoe Lane.
1627,
May
30.
1635,
April
2.
1638,-
May
10.
j>
Dec.
6.
18.
1639,
Nov.
9.
1647,
July
28.
1660,
Aug.
18.
nine months. Of tho daughters, Aurelia, married 12 Jane 1080 (ai I Is
first -wife) John White, Citizen and Mercer of London, and was
6 Dec. 1070, at Cataiberwell, having had eleven children] Elizabeth, married
William Lypon •, Mary, baptized 27 Feb. 1647/8, at St Pattht*, married ( )
Foster; Lucy, baptized as above is July IG53, married iii 1671 Richard
Finoherj Susanna, baptized as above 22 Dec. LC67, married SO Feb IG7< s.
at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, John Lloyd, and ia represented by rue fiuaQ)
of Crawle) -Jkicvey, of Flaxiey Abbey, co, Gloucester, Baroaeta
228
PEDIGREE OF KNOWLES OF LONDON.
16G2, July 29. Thomizon, the wife of Thomas Knowles, Linen-
draper, below Shoe lane.
1665, July 5. Thomas Knowles, a Linendraper, died at
Islington.
1668/9, Feb. 25. Thomas Knowles, Senior, Linendraper, from
Holborn Bridge.
Baptism.
1640, Nov. 12. Auraelia Hollier, da. of Thomas Hollier,
Barber Chirurgcon, and of Luce his wife, born
in Thomas Knowles' house, Linendraper, Shoe
lane end in Holborn.
Marriage Licence at the Bishop op London's Office.
1638, Dec. 29. Thomas Hollier, of Christ Church, London,
Surgeon, about 29, Widower," and Lucie
Knowles, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, about 16,
Spinster, with consent of her father Thomas
Knowles, of the same, Linendraper — to marry
at Stoke Newington or Tottenham High Cross,
Middlesex.
Stoke Newington, co. Middlesex.
1638/9, Jany 3. Thomas FIollier and Lucie Knowles, married.
Smyth's Obituary, 1627-1674.
1668/9, Feb. 21. On Shrove Sunday died M* Tho. Knowles,
Linnen draper, in Holborn, near Shoe lane.
Christ CnuRcn, Newgate Street, London.
On a flat stone in the south chancel is this inscription (copied
in 1848) under this coat of Arms, viz. : — A stag's head caboshed
[for Hollier] impaling a chevron charged with three roses [for
Knowles]. Crest: — A mural crown, surmounted with a si
head caboshed.
" Here lieth the body of >LR Thomas | Hollier, late Citixen
and Chirurgcon j of London : who departed this life | the 22 ,;
of April 1.690 | aged 81 years | who was Chirurgcon to their
Majesties | Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark, 53 | yeares.
Also near this place lye the | bodys of Lucy, his wife,
deceased | the 15th of August 1677, agod ... | and ThoM is
their eldest son wlio died tho of December | 1672, aged
29 years, and James their second | sou who dyed tho 26th of
January 1686, aged 36 years."
Burials, as above.
.1672, Oct. 25. Jeremiah Hollier, upper church.
Dec. 31. Thomas Halliard, ,, „
1677, Aug. 24. Lucie Holliard, „
1681, Nov. 16. Lucy Holliard,
7 See p&go 22G, note 5.
PEDIGREE OF KNOWLES OF LONDON.
229
1686/7, Jan* 29. James Hoylarde, upper church.
1690, April 29. Thomas Holliarde, „ „
1690/1, Jan^ 24. Nathaniell Holliarde, in the small quire.
Wills axd Administrations
from the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
(176 Lee.) JAMES MOLINS, Citizen and Barber Surgeon of
London; dated 28 Nov. 1638 ; weak in body. The messuage in
Shoe Lane, St. Andrew's, Holborn, where I lately dwelt, and
other premises there occupied by son Edward Molins, to wife
Aurelia Molins for life during widowhood, with rem. to eldest
son James Molins 8 in tail, rem. to other sons ' Edward,9 John,10
William and Matthew in like way, rem. to own right heirs.
Other messuages there to son Charles Molins for life, and his
issue in tail with rem. to other five sons as above. Other
premises to wife for life with rem. to James, first son of my
son Edward Molins. To six sons James,8 Edward,9 Charles,
John,10 William, and Matthew £20 each. To my three daughters,
Lucy Knolles, wife of Thomas Knolles, Vera Aurora Pepper,
wife of Richard Pepper, and Aurelia Coxe,11 wife of William
Coxe, £10 each, and to their husbands, 20s. each for rings.
To grandchild, Lucy Knolles, £50 at 21 or marriage. To
grand children, Aurelia Knolles, Thomas Knolles, and John
Knolles, Aurelia Pepper, Elizabeth Pepper, Jane Pepper, and
John Pepper, and to Jane Molins,8 da. of my son James Molins,
£5 each at 21 or marriage. To my sister, Mary Pilkington,
50s. ' To the Master and Wardens of the Barber Surgeons £5
and £20 ; to the poor of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and of Stoke
Newington, Middlesex, £5. My wife to be extras.
Proved 10 Dec. 1638, by Aurelia Molins, widow and exlrix.
[The funeral certificate of the abovenamcd James Molins is
8 There is a baptism of ".lane, da. of Mr. James Molins, clerk," 30 Oct,
1G38, at Stoke Ncwington, so that this child, who is mentioned in her
grandfather's will, was, at that date, m>t above a month old.
a He was, like his father, Citizen and Barber Surgeon of London, and
was of Molins Rents, Shoe Lane. Holborn. He was buried. 1*7 Oct. 1663,
at St. Andrew's, Holborn, and mentions in his will (dated 14 Oct. and proved
3 Nov. 1663), his wife, Joanna (living Feb. 1670/1), his oldest sou, James,
his youngest son, Samuel, and his (wo daughters, then unmarried, Frances
(who married April L669, Thomas Goodinge, of Gray's Inn), and Mary
(who married Feb. 1670/1, Edward Littleton). Two other children, Devercux
Molins, buried at St. Andrew's, IS June 1630, and Lucy, buried there
1-1- Aug. 1013, had died before him. Edward, his BOCOnd sen, who was living
Nov. 1638, but who is not mentioned in his father's will, may possibly bo
the "Edward Mollyris, a, Chirurffeon, who was buried from his h.uiv,- in
Shoe Lane," 8 Jan. 107S,'9, at St. Andrew's, Holborn. The eldesl .c>>n was.
undoubtedly, the " James Molins, Master of Chyrurgcry and Dr. of Physic,"
who died 8 Feb. 1686, aged 57, and was buried "at St. bride's, Fleet
St n et, aged 57. Mon. Inser.
10 Possibly the "John Mollins, from St. Martin's in the Fields," buried at
St Andrew's, Holborn, 21 March 17<><'>7.
11 ''Aurelia, wife of William CoXC, Haberdasher, near Hell era Bridge,*1
buried 21 Jan. 1681/6, at St. Andrew's, Holbom.
230 WILLOUGHBY OF W1LLOUG HB Y , CO. LINCOLN.
recorded in the College of Arms, London, his arms being impaled
with those of Florio, as confirmed to him by Witt. Segar, Garter,
23 Aug. 1614.]
(U Dyer.) THOMAS KNOWLES, of St. Andrew's, HoMborri,
Citizen and Dyer, of London, dated -4 Nov. 1GG8. To my grand-
child, Mary Knowles, my leases in Pettie France and Well Yard
in Shoe Lane, and my house, where I lately dwelt, called the
Sign of the Swan (now in the occupation of Mr. George Morton)
after the death of her mother, also my plate, linen and bedding,
and appoint her as my executrix, and, as overseers, my loving
son-in-law, William P,\kker,12 and my cousin, John White, and
direct them to see that my executrix, she being but a child, be
not deceived.
Proved 21 March loC>8/9, by Elizabeth Butler, alias Knowles,
mother and curatrix assigned to Mary Knowles, grandaughter,13
and executrix during her minority.
[In the Probate Act it is stated as to the executrix that " the
child is aged 6 or circa."]
1090 Sep. 10. THOMAS HOLLIEll, of Christ Church, London,
widower. Adnion. granted to Nathaniel Hollier, the son.
G. E. C.
WILLOUGHBY OE WILLOUGHBY, CO. LINCOLN.
There is, as far as I know, no satisfactory account of the early
history of this family. I have not been able to trace it back
so far as I wished, but I hope the results of my researches may
be of so, no interest. The first ancestor of who in I have any
certain knowledge1 is William do. Wilgebi, who confirmed 1 to Kirk-
stead all the donations of William de Fuletbi, his fat he i in la • .
in D&lby> lie was seised of half a borate of land in Sloothby,a
temp. Richard I, awl presented :* to two-fchirds of the churcli of
Pulletby in 1S25 jointly with Lady Alina de Haringtott. He
had two sous, Hugh and Robert. Hugh died during fche life-
time of bis father, leaving William, his son and heir, under age
when Robert, Hugh's younger brother, seized upon the inheritance,
u JTe possibly BOOT mv.1 been tho husbnnd o( GriKo, or of my ot bev
Duknown daughter of tho testator, bat not improbably wm bis step ";:
(for, which " son-in-law *' is often used), i.e., tbo ion by b former husband,
of Tbomaxme, bia sauotid wife.
'* Ji. the original i is " nepoti ex filia," but it is presumed tb:\t th-->
word MfiliA" is i> ch'i V".' error fur " flli©."
1 Colbm MS. Y«v;..i: i: \ E, wiii, f. 21, Ulosbi. xvi. William de H:\rinplon
(xv) confirms bnc Kimi having married another daughter.
2 Kot. Cttr. iloK-, i''.
a BtahOptt' Holla at far.coln,
WILLOUGHBY OF WILLOUGHBY, CO. LINCOLN. 231
and presented1 to the church of Wiiloughby in 1227. It is not
surprising that this led to considerable litigation, but so uncertain
was the law of succession in those times that Robert, and
William, his son, were able to continue in possession of almost
the whole of the family estates. For the most interesting entry
relating to this dispute I am indebted to Major Poynton.
Curia Regis Roll, No. 160, Mich. 42-3, Hen. Ill [A.D. 1258]; m. 46 d.
Adhuc De Quinden sci MHini.
Line, ff Wilt fit Hug de Wyleby . petit . u . Witt fit RoM de
Wyleby duas caruc ¥re cii jtiii in Askeb % marJiu de Wyleby
cum ptin . exceptis septem bouat Pre in eodem maiiio . vt jus suu
rtc. Et vfi die. qd quidam Wilis, antecessor suus fuit seis in
dnico suo . vt de feodo °c jur terape dni. r. nuc. Capiendo in explet.
ad valent . Et de ipo Wilio descendit jus pdee £ re . cuidam
Hug. vt tit % ned. Et de ipo Hug isti Witfo qui nuc petit
vt li k hcd. Et qcl tale . sit jus suu . offt . Ic.
Et Wills fit Robti ven . % defendit jus suu. qri . tc. Et
bn cognoscit seis pdei Willi • de cur1 seisa ipe narrat . set
elicit qd nullum jus pdeo Hug de ipo Wilio descendit . q5
dicit qd ipe nullam neditatem expctauit . eo q(J ipe Hug obiit
ante mortc pdei Witli pris sui. Et pt9 mortem jklci Willi
successit ei Robs par istius Will fit Robi. in pdeo tenemto .
vt fit ei° . rt heres ppinquior . de carne % sang'ne. In obiit
seisit9 vt de feodo.
Et Wills fit Hug die. q3 pdes Rob. pap ipius Willi fil Rob
no potuit succedere pdeo Wilio pri suo. in fidco tenenito. vt fit
eius % heres ppinquior. quia, die qd idem Will fcuit duos filios
seiit' Hug prem ipius WiH antenatu. °t Robm prem pdei Witt
fil Rob pt'nalu. Ita qd idem Hug. ex voluntate Will pris sui
rl in vita pris sui duxit in vxorO qamda fnrem ipius Willi, de
qua ipe pereauit istum Will. % obiit ante. Will prem suu.
Ita qd' pdes Writ pt' mortem jjdei Hug iil sui p'mogeniti
recepit istum Wilt fil ipius Hug", in domu sua. T: ipm. in domo
sua. nut're ftcit . vt hedem suu . ppinq'ore . tola vita sua. Et
pt9 morte ipius Willi aui s i;i fuit ipe in seis de cod ten .
q°uscjj. Rob pat ipius ipm de (Mca tra eiecit yfi pet judm. si
ipe qui exiuit do Hug fit p<Lo Witt aunato ! sit ties ppinq'or
ipius Will oH ipe qui exiit de pdeo Rob pt'nato.
In margin, ad jud.
Postea cone sum l"t Wills fit Hug dat di iri. p Jiecnc com.
Et Imt Cir.
Dies dat9 cis de and judo suo. in C*stIo Purif be Cklafc
1 Bishops' JN>i's. Robert, bos of William *\c Willegby, presented Thomas
Wfllegby, sub-doacon, then parson of Guraberworth. Letters of the King iux?
produced statiitci tna.t the said llnbert before the JustisM at Westminster re*
covered tin* premutation William do Scotegni, who acknowledged thai he
claimed nothing lii the same " nisi ooeasione W. filii Kugonta prtmogomti frntris
predict! It. qui oihfl babel dc heveditato W. {uvtris ipeius K." Thomas |g
admitted.
282 WILLOUGHFY OF WILLOUGHBV, CO. LINCOLN.
The agreement is found amongst the Divers Counties Fines of
1259, and is to the effect that William, son of Robert, is to
have the manor of AVilJoughby with its appurtenances to hold
of William, son of Hugh, and his heirs, and William, son of
Hugh, is to have the two carucates of land in Ashby. This
accounts for the fact that had before puzzled me, that Robert
de Willoughby held the manor of Willoughby of Thomas, son of
William de Willoughby.1 Hugh de "Willoughby's wife was "Frede-
sancia (or Frethsenda), daughter and coheir of William de Scoteny,
whose 2 Inq. post mortem was taken in 1258-9, when it was found
that she held one and a-half fees and one-third of a fee in
Cumber worth and oae-third of a fee in Fulletby, and that William,
son of Hugh de Wyleby, was her next heir. William, son of
Hugh de Willoughby, presented to the Fulletby benefice in 1274.:J
His Inq. post mortem was taken in 1277, 4 when it was found
that he held, one fee in Cumber worth in chief, ten librates of
land of John Bek in Ashb}T by Horncastle, and seven librates
of land in Fulletby of John, son of Richard de Harington,
and that William, his son, was his next heir, and of the age
of twenty-four years. In 1296 it was found by an inquisition 5
that William de Wileghby held certain lands in Cumberworth
in chief by serjcanty, viz., by the service of finding for the
lord, the king one esquire (arrniger) for forty days in war at his
own expense, and that it will not be to the damage but to the
great advantage of the king if he allow the said William to
grant the said tenements to Adam de Well, for thus Adam will
become tenant in chief of the king as of his crown. In 1302,
Thomas de Wylughby, Philip de Kyme, and others,6 held half
a fee and a quarter of a fee in Bambrow and Askeby, which
Simon de Kyme and others formerly held. But his father,
William, seems to have been alive, for in 1317 William de
Askeby, called de Wilughby, knt.,7 presented a clerk to two-
thirds of the church of Fulletby, but withdrew his claim in
favour of Walter de Friskeney and Alice, his wife. There is
a charter,8 A.D. 1322, to Thomas, son of William de Wilughhi,
and Thomas de Wylughby, of Askeby, is a witness to a charter9
1 Chancery Inq. post mortem, 10 Edward I], No. 78,
- Chancery Inq. post mortem, 43 Henry 111, No. 27. Sco also Rot, do fmibus
(Hardy') ii, p. 31 1, where William, son of Hugh do Wilgheby, is called
son and heir of Frethe^&np' de Scoteuy. l>y a Fine, 0 Oct. li'ts. it is agreed
that Hugh do Harin#ion is to preseat to two-thirds of the churck of
Fulletby this turn. ami iiien Fretncsenta, wife of Waltor do Kylvinguolm,
and so on alternately. It would scrm that the Fulletby property was
inherited from William de Fulletby.
3 Bishops' Rolls.
* Chancer) Inq, post mortem, H Edward I, No. L3. Bee alao Cat Cl«>so
Rolls, Edward 1, A.D. Ii'Ti'-i'. i>. 448. 8 March 1278, William do Wilgeby,
of Askoby, tn pay his relief (100s.) i<> Queea Blouuo*.
8 Chancery luq, post mortem, 24 Kdward I, No. 80.
6 Lay Snbsidy Roll, Lincoln,
7 bishops' Uegistois.
9 Hart. Ch, r»r> A. 17.
0 Hari. Ch. 00 J). 34.
WILLOUGHBY OF WILLOUGHBY, CO. LINCOLN. 233
in 1332. These Willonghbys having parted with the land they
held in chief it becomes more difficult to trace them further,
and all I can at present say is that I have a note of a Fine,
17 Richard II, 115 [1393-lj, in which John de Wilughby, of
Askeby, near Horncastle. is mentioned, and William, his son. Of
the younger, but better known branch of the family, 1 will only
add that William; son of Robert de 'Willoughby, presented to the
church of "Willoughby in 1269, and that the Inq. post mortem 1 of
Robert Wylughby, lent., 31 Henry VI [1-453], shows the descent
from Sir William to Sir Robert. May I express the hope that some
of the readers of The Genealogist will be able to carry the
pedigree further back, and tell us about the Orby marriage \
It is clear that the William de Willoughby, who heads my
pedigree, had a brother2 Ralph, and it seemed* as if he might
be the Ralph, son of Robert de Wiiegebi, of a Fine in 1199, 3
but another Fine, A.D. 1231, 4 gives a descent, which appears to
be from this Ralph, son of Robert, and is quite different from the
descent of the family I am dealing with ; moreover, in a Lincoln
Cathedral Register 5 there is a charter of Robert, son of Ralph
de Willughby, knt., granting one toft in the vill of Silkeby
and one bovate in Willughby, thus connecting these Willonghbys
with Silk Willoughby. The Imp post mortem0 of John de Orreby
shows that John, son of Robert de Willoughby, was one of his
heirs, but does not tell us their relationship.
William dc Willoughby,=f Matilda, d. and cob. of
1225. | William de Fulletby.
I
Hugh, de Wil-^Frethesancia, d. and coh. of "William Robert de "Willoughby,
T
loughby, ob.
viv. patre.
de Scoteny, married ns her second presented to Wil-
husband Walter do KilVingholm, Inq. loughby in 1227.
p.m. 1258-9. - —
William, son of Hagh^ William, son of Robert do Willoughby,3^ Alice, d. and
do Willoughby, plaintiff ! defendant 1258, presented to Wil- I h. of Jehu
1258. Inq. p m. 1277. 1 loughby in. 1269. Bek.
William tie Willoughby^ Robert do Willoughby.^Margarel
of Asilby, 21 in 1277. ' | Jnq. p.m. 13H>-7. j Deiucourt.
Thomas, son of "William dc Willoughby John do Willoughby, me of the lu iiv of
of Ashby, 1302, 1332. John de Orby. under age in L317-8.
W. (>. Massingbkrd,
1 Chancery hut. post mortem, 80 Henry VI, No. 18,
- Brocton's N*ole Book (.Mai t land), ii 55.
8 Final Conoordft, I. me.. p. 12
4 Ibid., p. 2U.
5 a. i, 6, r. i2.
" Chancery J»n(. post morton*, i J Edward 1 1 . No 48.
234
Pefctgrffg from tije ^Ira Bolls.
By Major-General the Hon. GEORGE WllOTTES LEY.
(Continued from p. 191.)
JJe Banco. Mich. 25. Hen. 6. m. 557.
Nor/.- -John Fastolf, of Castre, near Great Yernemouth, .Kt., and
two others, were sued by Boger Hokham, the Prior of Hikelyng, for
an illegal distress. The pleadings give this pedigree : —
Lewis de Clyfforfc, Kt. Hugh.
William.
I .
Lewis.
I
Lewis.
I
Alexander de Clyilort.
De Banco. Hillary. 28. Hen. 6. m. 427.
Ebor. — Thomas Saynt Martyn sued Christopher Boynton and John
Rudstane for the manor of Holym, which Thomas de Holayme (sic),
the Parson of Holmeton, had given to John de St. -Martyn and
Margaret, his wife, and the heirs male of their bodies, temp. E. 3.
John de St. Martinj^pMargarct.
seised temp. E. 3.
William.
I 1
John. Thomas de
| St. Martin.
i : 1
Thomas, Joan,
oh. s p.
The defendants stated that one Joan, formerly wife of John Hasil-
bache, the daughter of William (sic) St. Martyn, of Holym, and sister
and heir of Thomas de St. Martin, by her deed dated 1 March 7 H. 5,
and enrolled in Banco at Trinity, temp. 7 H. 5, had remitted and
quit-claimed to Christopher Boynton. son of Thomas Boynton, Kt.,
and Elizabeth, the wife of Christopher, and to others named, who
were then seised of the manor, ail hex right and claim to it.
Verdict for the defendants.
Do Banco. Hillary, 28. Hen, G. m. 320.
Cornwall.- John Bunteth and Oto Tsieol), and Joan, his wife, sued
Thomas Lanhergy for land in Lanhomure, which Ralph Raynward
had given to Nicholas de Munketon and Margery, hia wife, and the
heirs of their bodies.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
235
Nicholas de Munketom^Margery.
seised temp. E. 1. j
r J
Katrine.
I
Nicholas Giffard.
I 1
John. Benedict Giffard.
I I
Roger. | 1 1
| Isabella. Alice.
Henry, ;
ob. s.p. John. Joan.=
Bunteth. Oto Nicoll.
De Banco. Mich, 32. (fen. 6. m, 513 dorso.
Wanv. — William Steele and Alice, his wife, sued Thomas Erdington,
Kt., and Joyce, his wife, and Richard Harcourt, for land in Erdington,
which Ralph Kirkeby had given to Gilbert Kirkeby and Phelippa,
his wife, and the heirs of their bodies.
Gilbert Kirkeby,=f-PLeiippa. • ' . •' ■
seised temp. E. 3. I -
r ^ i
William, Agnes,
ob. s.p. |
r ■ J— - 1
Roger, Thomas, Isabella,
ob. s.p. ob. s.p.
Alice."
William Steele,
the plaintiffs.
The suit was dismissed, as Richard Harcourt had died at Erdington
since the issue of the writ.
De Banco. Mich, 30. I/en. 6. m. 596.
Jlereford. — John Chabbenorc sued John Baskevylc, Kt., and John
Carpenter, for execution of a Fine levied in 9 E. I, between Simon
de Evereus and Joan, his wife, and Magister Hugh tie E versus,
respecting lands and rents in Staundon and Humbre, claiming to be
the right heir of Richard, son of Simon and Joan.
Simon de Evereus-rJoan.
(Devereux), living
D E. 1. ' I
r J
Richard.
tfael.
I
A lice.
I
Join) Chabbonoi t,
the plaintiff.
236
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
The defendants stated that Simon had had no issue by Joan,
and that Tlichard was son of Joan by another husband.
Be Banco. Mich. 32. Hen. 6. m. 529.
Leicester. — The Abbot of Yalle Dei sued John Bellers, Armiger, for
an illegal distress in Burton St. Lazar.
Hamou, sun of William.
I
Kalph.
j
I
Ralph.
I . •
James.
I
John.
I
John Bellers,
the defendant.
The Abbot produced a deed dated 1 May 2 E. 1, by which Hamon,
son of William Beler, had granted to the monastery a carucate of
land in Burton, but John denied the authenticity of the deed.
De Banco. Hillary. 34. Hen. G. m. 311.
Southampton. — Robert Michel! and Matilda, his wife, John Strokehose
and Ah'anora, his wife, and Thomas Wyot, sued Nicholas Upton,
clerk, William Husey, and John Thomas and Agnes, his wife, for the
manor of Wodeeote, which John, son of Valentine, had given to
John Mareschali and Agatha, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies,
temp. E. 3.
John Mareschali,— Agatha,
seised temp. E. 3.
Edmund. Walter.
J_
ob. s.j). Joan. Matilda.-- Alianora.—
i Robert • John
Thomas Wyot. Miehell. Strokckose.
The suit was dismissed because one of the defendants, William
Husey, had died.
Be Banco. If Man;. 3i. Hen. 6, m, 389.
Kent, — Thomas Dalton, clerk, sued Thomas Kyriell, Kt, Richard
Bruyn and Joan, his wife, Thomas Hoo, A.rmiger, and six others, for
themanoi of Eslyngham and lands and rents in Fryndesbury, Righam,
Shorne, Stoke Hoo and Clyve, of which John Fulham had been seised,
temp. E. 2,
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
237
Johif FrJham,
ob. s.p.
Verdict for the plaintiff.
Joan, sister
and heir.
Robert,
i
Nicholas.
I
Thomas.
I
Thomas Daltou,
the plaintiff.
De Banco Hillary. 34. Tien. G. Roll 1 of Charters and Protections.
Sussex. — A deed enrolled, by which John Cokeyn, Armiger, son of
Beatrice, one of the daughters and heirs of John Waleys, Armiger,
Robert Lee, Armiger, husband of Joan, another daughter and heir,
Nicholas Morley, Avmiger, husband of Joan, the third daughter and
heir, Ralph Grey, the elder, the father of Ralph Grey, the husband of
Joan, the daughter and heir of Agnes Burgh, the fourth daughter and
heir, confirm to William Wale)Ts, and to John, son of Richard
Waleys, possession of the manor of Glynde, co. Sussex, and a water
mill in Ryngmere. The deed gives the following pedigree :-—
Nicholaa Medstcde.=rJohn Walevs, Kt.=p Alice Aspall.
I I
William Waleys, Kt.
John Waleys,
Four daughters
named in the
deed.
William.
!
William Waleys
named in the
deed.
Richard Waleys.
John Waleys,
named in the
deed.
J)e Banco. Trinity. 31. Hen. G. m. 518.
Oxon.- — William Armory sued Joint Lovell, Kt., Gervase Clyfton, Kt..
Thomas Erdyngton, Kt., William Catesby, Kt., William Peche, Kt..
Thomas Trcssam and others, far the manors of Barton St. John ami
Staunton St. John, which were held in capite of the King.
John de Middclton,
seised temp. E. 3.
I
Margaret.
I
William.
I
W illiam Armory,
tho plaintiff*
238
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
De Banco. Trinity. 34. Hen. G. m. 517.
Leicester. — Thomas Everyngham, Armiger, and Margaret, his wife,
sued William Maxse, Kt., together with Ralph Crumwell, Kt., now
deceased, for the next presentation to the church of Thurleston.
Robert, son of Nicholas do
Campania, bold the manor
of Tlmrleston, called Nevv-
halle, and presented to the
church, temp. E. 2.
I
William,
ob. s.p.
Eobert.=pMargaret.
Margaret.
I
Margaret.
I
Baldwyne,
ob. s.p.
Reginald M oton,~Margaret,= Thomas Everyngham,
first husband. sister and the plaintiff, second
heir. husband.
Felicia had held the manor in. dower, and had presented to the
church, temp. Rio. 2. Verdict for the plaintiffs.
De Banco. Trinity. 35. Hen. 6. m. 13G.
Wariv. — Richard Middelmore sued Roger Peppewalle and two others
for land in Egebaston.
John, son of Henry de Eggebaston,=f Isabella,
seised temp. E. 3. j
Richard.
I
Isabella.
[
John.
I
Richard Middelmore,
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Hillary. 3G. Hcv. 6. m. 102.
Cornwall.— Nicholas Colepyne sued Thomas Ghedder and Isabella, Ins
wife, for the manor of Trevysquid.
Thomas C'ourtenay.n .loan.
John, Edward, Thomas, Ctomsoec,
oh. s.p. ob. s.p. ob. B.p. listei imd heir.
ob. s.p.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
239
Thomas Courtenay and Joan had held the manor in tail, with
remainder, in default of their issue, to Robert Stobhulle and his
heirs.
Robert Stobhullo.
1 —
Joan.
John Holbein,
now liviner.
Isabella, tbe elder,-
Nicholas Speccote.
Elizabeth.—
Robert
Kirkham.
Isabella, the younger =
Thomas Cheddar,
the defendants.
The plaintiff stated that his ancestor, Nicholas Colepyne, of Retton,
had been formerly seised of the manor, and gave this descent : —
Nicholas Colepyne.
Robert,
ob. s.p.
1 —
Meliora,
ob. s.p.
1 •
Magote.
I
John .
I
John.
Nicholas Colepyne,
the plaintiff.
The jury found in favour of the defendants.
De Banco. Easter. 36. Hen. G. m. 440 dor so.
Kent. — John Moresby and William Moresby sued Richard Bruyn for
the manor of Coumbe, which, together with the manor of Evere,
Henry de Cobham had granted to John, his son, and the heirs of
his body.
John, son of Ilenry de Cobham.
John.
Thomas.
William, Reginald,
ob. s.p. |
Alianora.
I
Reginald.
r -i :j
John Moresby. William Moresby,
The plaintiffs pleaded thai the manors were held by gavelkind,
and should be divided between them.
Dc Banco. Easter. 30. lien. 6. m. 121.
Derb. — Thomas Dethek sued Thomas Babyngton fori moiety of the
manor of Dethek, and he sued Henry Pole and Mice, bis wife, for i
moiety of the same manor which Robert Dethek had given to his
son. Geoffrey Dethek, Kt.. and to the heirs of his body.
240
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
Geoffrey Dothck, Kt.,
son of Robert.
I
Geoffrey.
John.
I
William.
Robert,
ob. s.p.
Thomas.
I
Thomas Dothck,
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Easter. 3G. Hen. 6. rn. 462.
Northampton. — Robert fitz Simond and Richard Nudegate sued
William Chaumbre for the manor of Sprotton.
Thomas de Arderne, Kt.=f Joan, da. of Sir John Terdon, Kt.
I
Joan.
William de Adderbury,=i=Elizabeth, living^Roger Chaumbre,
first husband. i 50 E, 3. I second husband.
J r I 1
Alice.— Roger Chaumbre, Thomas Chaumbre, John,
of Lillyngstone. v 9 H. 5.
William Chaumbre.
the defendant.
William Chaumbre claimed by a grant of Alice made to Thomas
Chaumbre in 9 H. 5 of the manors of Sprotton and Haldenby, co.
Northampton, and Hanewell, co. Oxon.
The plaintiffs claimed as cousins and heirs of Alice, and gave this
descent : —
Alice. =pRogelj Chaumbre, Armiger, of
I Lillyngstone.
Mary. Katrine.
I I
Robert fttss Simond. Richard Nudegate,
Dc. Banco. Trinity. 36. Hen. 6. m. 464.
Warw. — John Warenjie, Armiger, sued the Prior of Claderoob for
the next presentation to the church of Rotiey, and stated that
Thomas do Arderne bad presented temp. B, I, and had afterwards
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
241
enfeoffed Nicholas de Eton. In 31 E. 1 a Fine had been levied
between Nicholas de Eton and Margery, his wife, complainants,
and William Colvylle, deforciant, of the manor and advowson of
Rotley, by which they had been settled on Nicholas and Margery, for
their lives, with remainder to the heirs of their bodies, and failing
such, to the right heirs of Nicholas.
Nicholas de Etoii.^Manrery.
i
Nicholas.
I i
Richard. Cecily.
I . I
Isabella, John "Warenne.
ob. s.p,
Nicholas
I
Laurence.
I
John Warenne,
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Trimly. 36. Hen. 6. m. 419 dorso.
Devon. — John Eeigny sued John Eve, the younger, for land in
Eggisfordj which Richard de Reigny had given to Peter, his son, and
the heirs of his body.
Peter, son of Richard clc Reigny,
seised temp. E. 2.
Pi chard.
I
John.
I
John.
I
John.
! * •
John Reigny,
the plaintiff.
Coram Rege. Mich, 87. H'n. 6. m. 35.
Rutland.- -James Ormond, Bar] of Wilts, and other;, sued William
Feyrefax, of Kst Depyngafce* in oo. Northampton, for disseising them
by force of a moiety of the manor of Morehalle, against the Statute.
William slated thai the moiety of the manor was called Camels,
and that one Stephen Sutton was formerly seised of the whole manor
and had given it. to Philip Paunton and A.gne8, bia wife, and the
heira of their bodies, and failing such, with remainder to his own
right heirs.
242
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
Philip Paunton =j=Accnes.
r— 1
Matilda.
Richard.
I
John Haryngton.
i
Amioia.
I
William,
ob. s.p.
1
Isabella.
I
John.
William.
I
Yf illiam Feyrefax,
the defendant.
The plaintiffs stated that the moiety in dispute was Berkeley's
moiety, not Camels, and that the Matilda of the pedigree was not
daughter of Philip and Agnes.
De Banco. Trinity. 37. Hen. G. m. 294 dorzo.
Salop. — Ralph Lee sued Roger Corbet, of Moreton, for land in
Staimton-upon-Hynhithe, winch Philip de Wystantowe had given to
John, son of John, son of Keyner de la Lee and the heirs of his
body, temp. E. 2.
Reyner de la Lee.
Joh
John.
J
seised tern]).
I
Roger.
I
Edward,
ob. s.p.
Peironilla.
I
Ralph Lee,
the plaintiff.
De Banco. Trhii/i/. 37. lien. C. m, 3GS.
Wilts, — Thomas Beverley sued Thomas Tropenelle and James Broun
for execution of a Line levied i 1 1 38 E. 3, by which the manor of
Est Chaldeford had been settled on Henry de Percy and Constance,
his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, and failing such, on the right
heirs of Henry.
Henry dc Peivy.y Constance,
seised 33 E. 3. j
Beatrice.
I
Thomas.
Thomas Lleverlej
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
243
De Jjanco. Trinity. 38. Men. 6. m. 200.
Notts. — Richard Sutton, Armiger, sued John, the Prior of Derham,
for the advowson of the church of Rotington, claiming under a Fine
levied in 1 E. 2 by Richard de Byngham and Alice, his wife, by
which the manors of Byngham and Clipiston and other tenements
had been settled on William, son of Alice Bertram, of Byngham,
and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to Richard and
Thomas, brothers of William, in tail male, with final remainder to the
right heirs of "Richard de Byngham.
Richard ds Bingham,^ Alice,
seised 1 E. 2. I
r
Alice.
I
John.
I
Roland.
I
Henry.
I
Richard Sutton,
the plaintiff.
The Prior claimed under a grant by Edmund de Byngham, clerk,
son of William de byngham, Kt., dated 22 Ric. 2, and pleaded that
as the plaintiff was heir at law of the said Edmund, he could not
maintain his action. Richard Sutton replied that the said William
was a bastard.
See the suit in vol. xv, cf The Genealogist, p. 98, where William
de Byngham is called son of Alice Bertram, of Byngham. Richard
de Bingham had apparently settled the property on his male
illegitimate issue by Alice Bertram, and his daughter, Alice, who
had married a Sutton, was born in wedlock.
Coram liege. Hillary. 38. Hen. G. m. 30.
Lane. — Robert de Dalton, the younger, son of John de Dalton, Kt.,
sued Alice, daughter of Richard de Dalton, for the manor of Byspham.
Jolm, son of John dc Dalton,
seised temp. E. 3.
j_
Richard. ^-Katrine. Robert de Dalton,
| the plaintiff.
Alice,
the defendant.
Coram He$e. Hillary. 38. Hen. G. m. 11.
Flertfbrd. —John Pray, Kt., sued Simon Rode, of Haveryng atte
Kourc, and .loan, his wife, for an illegal entry by force into the
manor of Great Munden. The pleadings give these pedigrees j—
244
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
Walter Bosevyle, Kt. -^Margaret.
Henry Bosevylo.^f-Aiesia.— "John de Roos, Kt.,
second husband.
Jchn.=pA]ice.=CTeoffrey de Bedford,
second husband.
Cecily.^Guy de Boys, Kt.
I living 28 E. 3.
Margaret.
I
Thomas Howard,
ob. s.p.
William Kirkby, Kt., seised
of Great Mumlen.
I
Margaret.—
Walter Bosevyle.
Alice ~
Peter Prillv
Matilda — •
Edmund Howby.
Mabel. =
William Grymbaud.
Simon stated that the manor had been granted by Walter Bosevyle
to Henry Bosevyle, his son, and the heirs of his body, and failing
such, to Mabel, formerly wife of William Grymbaud and her heirs.
Mabel, formerly wife of
William G rym baud;
I
William.
I
Robert.
. I
Nicholas.
Joan.= Simon Rode.
De Banco. Hillary. 39. Hen. G. in. 214.
Southampton. — Thomas Boirreman and Joan, his wife, Thomas Blower,
and John Gilbert and Joan, his wife, sued George Bremshet and
Richard Makeyt, clerk, for the manor of Broke.
Richard Reticle, seist d
temp. Iiie.
I
John.
Mar per)'.
Margaret,
.1
Thomas Blower,
plaintiff.
— i
Joan.—
John Gilb
plaintiffs.
Joan
Joan.=
Thomas Bonrdman,
plaintiffs.
PEDIGREES FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
245
De Banco. Mich. 1. Ed. 4. m. 188.
iYo?y' — Robert Powdych sued Thomas Curson, of Tylneyc, gentleman,
and four others, for an illegal distress in Tylneye, and gave this
pedigree : —
Robert Noon.
I
John Noon, living
20 Ric. 2.
Walter, Thomas.
ob. s.p.
John Noon, now"
living, 1 E. 4.
Edmund Noon, Kt., of Tylneye, was living 20 Ric. .2, and had
enfeoffed the said John in the premises.
.De Banco. Mich. 1. Ed. 4. m. 284.
City of Coventry. — Walter Lang-ley and Isabella, his wife, sued
Richard Byngharn and Margaret, his wife, Robert Aston, Kt., and
Thomas Ferrers, Kt., for the manor of Shortley, near Coventry, which
Henry, son of Henry de Albini, and Christine, his wife, had given
to Geoffrey Langley and Matilda, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies.
Geoffrey de Langley, ^Matilda.
enfeoffed tempi. It. 3. |
i . i ,
Robert, Geoffrey,
ob. s.p.
Edmund.
I
John.
John.
John, Margery.
ob. s.p. |
Isabella,
the plaintiff.
See suit in vol. xiv, p. 250.
De Banco. Mich. 1. Ed 4. m. 33G.
Devon. — Nicholas Ive and Margaret, his wife, sued William Denys
and Joan, his wife, fco make partition of the manors of I eygchalons,
Chadelwode and Wottoz, the inheritance of John Chalons, of whom
the said Margaret and Joan were coheirs.
Robart Chalons.
Homy. Kmrinc.
I I
John Chalons, i * — \
ob. s.p. Margaret.— ,ionn
Nichols's l\o. \N illi.i in Denys.
( Tn lc conduit-: J. )
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Bngftak's Visitation of Jorksljm,
WITH ADDITIONS.
(Continued from p. 179.)
Skyracke Wapentake. Leedes, 4 April 1G6G.
Arms : — Quarterly of eight.
1. Or, throe bars gomelles Gules, over nil a Hon rampant Sable.
2. .Argent, :t bend Sable, a chief indented Gules.
3. Cheeky Or and Ajs., on a canton Sable an estoile Argeut.
4. Argent, a chevron between three hinds' heads erased Gules.
5. Barry of eight Argent and Gules, on a canton Sable a cross
fieury Or.
G. Or, a bend Sable.
7. Or, a bend Azure.
8. Argent, on a fess Sable between three fleurs-de-lis Gules, as
many bezants.
An escutcheon of pretence: — Argent, a cross potent Gules,
between four torteaux.
Crest: — On a wreath Or and Sable, a lion passant, gardant of the last.
I. & THOMAS FAIRFAX, of Denton, in com. Ehor., KnK.
created Baron Fairfax, of Cameron, in Scotland, 3 Carat i
primi, mar. Jlchn, daughter of Robert As/o\ of Auffhtotit
in com. Ehor., Extf. They bad issue—
1. Ferdlnando, Fairfax,
2. Hcvrij Fairfax, of Oglethorpe (see Fairfax, of Ogle-
thorpe).
S. Charles (II).
II. CHARLES FAIRFAX, of Mtnsington (Menaton), near Otley,
in co. Ehor., at. tO annornm j" Apr. an F. W66t of Trill.
Coll., Camb., and Lincoln's Inn, ftdin. 27 Oct, 1611, Colonel
in Monk's Army, Governor of Hull 1660, an antiquary ami
author of "Analecto Fairfaxiaua," b, at Denton 3 Mai
159$, bur. at Otley i% Dec. '1073. WilJ 16 J*lv 1672,
pr, at York . . . (tee " Diet. <>{ Nat. Biography ), imtr.
Mary, daugh* of John Mrerdnay (Brearey), of Jicnsinytan
DUGDALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
alias Menston aforesaid, gent., sister and sole heire to
Thomas, her brother, died IS Oct. a* 1657, bur. at Otlev
• 20 Oct. 1657. They had issue—
1. Thomas (III).'
8. Charles, died a child, bp. at Fewston 22 Alio-. 1029,
bur. at Otley 1? Nov. 1633.
3. Wiirm, an East India Merck*, dyed at Saratt, unmarr.
June 1653, bp. at Otley 2 Apr. 1632.
Jf. Bryan, dyed in his infancy, b. at Menston 8 May
1633, bur. at Otley 27 Jan. 1636.
5. John, a tiuyn with Henry, cet. 31 ann., Captain in the
Army, bp. at Otlev 28 Oct, 1634, bur. there
17 Feb. Utf, mar. . . . Birdsal (MS. Brit.
Mus.). They had issue —
Ann, bp. at Otley 1 Dec. 1670.
Frances, (?son), bp. 22 July 167-1.
6. Henry, a Uvyn with John, now Bachelonr of Divinty,
B.D. 10 Mar. 168£, cet. SI an. J, Apr. 2666, in
Holy Orders, Fellow of Magdalen Coll., Oxf., Dean
of Norwich 1689, bp. at Otley 28 Oct, 1634, d.
unuiar. IS Dec. 1702, M.T. in Norwich Cathedral
(see " Diet, of Hat. Biography ").
7. Eerdinando, Citizen and Grocer of London, dyed
unmarried, bp. at Otley 19 Jan. 1634, d. i:i
London 13 Dec. 1664.
S. Peregrine, a-tatis 22 an nor. 1± Apr. 1666, bp. at Otlev
20 June 1613.
9. Charles, cet. 21 an., in his MaHes Favy wth Sr John
Laicson, in the great fight with the Dutch, 3 June
1665, Sr John Lawson receiving his death's wound)
and now in the Mediterranean sea with Nr Jeremy
Smith, a* Apr. 1666, bp. at Otlev 18 Feb. 161*,
d. 7, bur. at Riccall 18 Feb. 167£.
1. Eleanor, wife unto George Srhithson, of MovJfon, in
co. Ebor., Esq1'., (J) bp. at Otlev 15 Feb. 16"','. mar.
20 Jan. 165; at St, Helen's, Bishopgate.
2. Mary, bp. at Otley 30 Aug. 1638, mar. 31 Oct.
1666 John Beckwith.
3. Dorothy, bp. at Otlev 14 Apr. 1610, mar. 14 Feb.
1666 Edw. Wormley, of Riccall, al Bolton Percy
J4. Elizabeth, bp. at Otley 12 Aug. 1611.
THOMAS FAIRFAX, of Menston, son and heirc^ ><f. SS ami.
4 Apr 1666, J.F., bp. at Otlev 31 July L628, d. 1716,
adm. Gray's Inn 16 Mar. 161';, Fellow New Coll., Oxf.,
1650, mar, Eleanor, da ugh. of James //inelh-Hfe. of Kivkstoll
Abby, in co. Ehor., <(cnf., 30 Aug. 1664, d. Pec. bur. at
Otley 10 Dec. 1665. They had issue—
Eleanor, ataiis 7 nnns. April ]i ;*>>:, mar. Walter
Stanhope, of Leeds at Hemdingky Chapel 9 Oct
1600 (Leeds Reg.), bp. at QUej 17 tag. 1666,
DUG DALE S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
255
IV.
Mar. secondly Dorothy, dau. of Robert Carliel, of Sewerby,
d. 1728, jet. ninety, bur. at Leeds (Hunter's Min. Gent.).
They had issue —
Thomas (IV).
Mary, bp. at Otley S June 1671.
Elizabeth, bp. at Otley 16 June 1675. mar. Thomas
Prior, of Daventiy.
Frances, bp. at Otley 25 Jan. 167-5-. bur. at Otley.
Ann, bp. at Otley 27 Feb. I67f.
THOMAS FAIRFAX, of Menston, in Hoiy Orders, bp. at
Otley 29 May 1673, mat. at Univ. Coll., Oxf., 6 Feb.
169^, adm. Gray's Inn 30 June 1693, Rector of Eynesbury.
Flunts, 1714, Vicar of Great Can field, Essex, 1723, of Little
Easton 1731, Canon of Lincoln 1732. Will 10 Nov. 1734
(Foster) ; mar. Martha, dan. of Dr. Richard Ford, of little
Liversedge, 24 Nov. 170-1 at Woodchurch, b. 1 Jan. 1676,
d. 26 Jan. 1706, bur. in Wakefield Church. M.I. They
had an infant, buried with its mother.
Sky rack Wapentake.
Yorke, 13° Aus?. 1660.
of
at
it.
Arms : — Quarterly of ten.
1. Argent, on a bowl Sable three pheons of the field (Bland).
2. Sable, six escallops Or, three, two, and one (Sstoft).
3. Azure, a cross fleuree Or (J]Tanl).
4. Barry of tr>n Azure aud Argent, on a canton Or I martlet
Sable (Ihth.nu).
5. Argent, on a less Asure three fleurs-de-lis Or (/vv.- v
(5. Barry of six Ennino ami Gules, three crescents SahU (irattfrton).
7. Gules, n lion ramp. Argent (2£owbi%ay).
8. Sable, a chevron between three leopards1 faces Argent (Bt$kt).
9. Sable, throe pheons Argent^ r chief of the second (Rcdnej^y).
10. Artrent, a chevron Gules botvrpea three boars' heads couped
Sable, tusked Or (Wroughton),
Out of ;i ducal eurom-i Or. a lion's head trnne.
Crest i
I.
ROBERT BLAND, of C*myn<7, tw com, Khor.. a yonnger
sou of . . . Blcmd, of Stands GUI, war. . . . ttmajkttr .'«>
. . . GV>///, of D'ojhtoH, in com. lSboT, Tluv had 1&8UC
256
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Richard (IT).
Margaret.
Isabell.
II. ETC HARD BLAND, of Lemyng, (?) bur. at Burneston 30 Oct.
15SS, mar. Grace, daugh. to . . . Peele (Thomas Poole,
Thoresby), (?) bur. at Burneston 4 Jan. 158|. They had
issue —
1. Robert Bland, of Lemyng, mar. Anne, da. to Will.
Tapper of St. Marfyn's, dent. Thev had issue —
1. William.
2. S'' Thomas [(?) error, Sir Thomas Bland
(III) was probably brother, not son of
Robert.]
' Jane, wife to WilTm Grant.
Grace, (?)bp. at Burneston 4 Feb. 157f.
Anne, (?) Bp. at Burneston 15 Aug. 1574.
2. Sir Thomas (III).?
3. James, mar. . . . and had —
Richard.
4. Adam.;1 of Arksey, bur. there 12 Julv 1623. Will
7 May, pr. 28 July 1623, mar. Alice . . .
5. Cnthb'.
6. Ant 1 tony.
7. 22Hz., wife to WiWwt Young.
2. Cicely, wife to John Gatbnby, of Ga/onby, (?) mar, at
Burneston 30 July 1571.
III. Sr THOMAS BLAND, of Kippax Parke, AV., obijt 26
December 77" Jar., j.fe, bur. 28 Dec. 1612 at St. Gregory's
Church, Loudon. Will 11 Oct. 1612, pr. at York
18 June 1613 (Reg. Test., xxxii, -109) ; mar. Elizabeth,,
daughter & heire of Thos Est oft, of Rednestie, by Isabel,
. da. to Rich'1 Lnnd, at Kippax, 9 May 1587. They had
issue —
Sr Thomas (V).
Francis (!) bur. at Kippax 22 Sept. 1588*
Margaret, mar. Gilbert Nevile, of Grove, bp. at
Kippax 9 .April 1500, nun-, there 29 May 1610.
Elizabeth, (l)h\>. at Kippax 3 Mar. 189$, (t)bur.
9 Mar. following.
TV. S* THOMAS 7! LA XI), K1., son 6 h»ir<\ f* //u.J,n,<iy J%P.
13 Jas. I, living 1(546, war. XWAcrtW, daughter to John,
1 Dugdalc has probably made an error in placiug Sii Thomas Maud aa tou
of Robert Bland. would most likely l>o his brother f«»i the following
reasons: — Sir Thomas in lifa will mcutiona his brothers Jnmca and U!am ana
his nephew Richard. Adam ttlahd also incut ions in I i- will Richard, ran
of his brother Jaraea, his ^odaeu A. lam, son of his nephew Sir Thomna,
and his Bister's %or\\ William Gqtonby.
" Adam Bland and prances He iua worth were married at Kippaa v; Feb,
150} (Reg.).
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
257
Lord SarlU, of Hmoi&y, lie. 1613 at Batley or Kippax,
•had £10 in her father's will (mar. Walter Welsh, Esq.,
2* Hush'1 at Kippax 25 Jan. 165|), (?) bur. at Kippax
20 Jan. 166§ as Lady Rath. Bland. They had issue —
S>- Thomas (V).
Katherine, second toifc to TJiomas Harrison, of Daut-
kerhill, in com. Hereford, bp. at Kippax -22 Nov.
1614.
Frances, wife to John Bel tort, of Rocliffc, in co.
Ebor., bp. at Kippax 2-1 Aug, 1G23.
Adam, of South Cave, at the siege of Pontefraet,
bp. at Kippax 22 Oct, 1018. Will 1G Apr., pr.
at London 5 Dec. 1657 ; mar. Catherine, rel. of
Sir John Girlington, Knt. (Thoresby). They had
issue —
Mary, \
Rosamond, Miamed in their father's will.
Dorothy, j
8r THOMAS BLAND, of Kippax Parke, in com. Ebor.,
BK, ob. . . . Octobr 1601, created Baronet, 30 Aug. IS0 Car.
primi, in consideration of his own and his father's services,
a Royalist, and at the siege of Pontefraet Castle, fined
£405 6s. 8(1, bp. at Kippax 2 Jan. 161f , bur. there 24 Oct.
1657. Admon. 10 Feb. 165^ : mar. Rosamund) da. to
Francis JVcvUl, of Chevef, Esqr. (mar. Walter Welsh, Fsqr.,
of Houghton, &• limb'1 aforesaid), bur. 6 Oct, 1669 at
Castleford. They had issue — -
' 1. Sr Francis (VI).
2. Adam, mar. first . . . , and had two daughters, who
died young.
Mar. secondly Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Bar-
nai'dislon, rel. of Richard Ascroft, of Little Paxton,
CO. Hunt. They had issue —
Adam, of Manchester, mar. Alice, dan. of
Edward Cheetham, Esq*, d. at Kingston
1774, set. ninety, M.L They had issue—
Anne, mar. . . . Law ley.
Mary, mar. Mordecai Greene, Esq., <>f
KingstozHm-Thame
Jane.
Rosamund, a-'fe to Martyn Httndley% of genLt
mar. at Kippax 27 Apr. 1659, bur. there 27 June
1660.
Katherine, wife, to John Franke. of pQiltffraci Faf&f,
Frances, mar. at Castleford 1676 Richard Redman,
Esq., df Eloughton.
Dorothy, bur. at kippax "_' I l Vh. 166f.
Elizabeth, bp, at Kippax 28 May LC57, mar. Lev.
Mr. Mitchell (Carlisle's «« Bknd Family")
(;) Thomas, bp, at Kippax 7 Nov. 1637, (f) bur. 1G30.
258
DUGDALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
•(1)John, bp. at Kippax 27 Oct. 1638, bur. there
9 Feb. 1G3».
"VI. S'- FRANCIS BLAND, of Kippax Park, Bar1., oh. Novemh.
1668, bp. at Kippax 6 June 16-12, bur. there 16 Nov.
1663 ; mar. Jane, da. to 8r William Louiher, of StriUington.
Km., d. 7, bur. 10 Apr. 1713 at Norton, co. Durh., set.
sevent)T-t\vo. M.I. They had issue —
Sr Thomax Bland, of Kippax pari:, Bart., cei. 4 ann-
13" Any. 1666, bp. at Kippax 2 Jan. 166J, d.
s.p. young 14 Dec. 1667.
Sir John (VII).
VII. SIR JOHN BLAND, mi, 3 ann., of Kippax, succeeded his
brother, mat. at Univ. Coll., Oxf., II Nov. 1670, M.P.
Appleby 1681, Pontefract 1690—1713, bp. at Kippax. 8 Nov.
16G3, died on his journev from Bath 25, bur. 29 Oct. 1 7 1
at Didsbury, eo. line. Will 24 Dec. 1712, pr. 7 .May 1716 ;
mar. Anne, dau. and li. of Sir Edward Mosley, of Hulme,
Manchester, 31 Mar 1685 at Chorlton Chapelj d. 28, bur.
31 Aug. 1734 at Didsbury. Will 20 June 1721. They had
issue —
Mosley, bp. at Kippax 29 Mar. 1687, d. inf.
Si)d- infants (tw*w-
Sir John (Till).
Jane, bp. at Kippax 1 Apr. 1686, bur. there 9 Aug.
1688.
Anna, mar. Thomas Davison, Esq., of Blakiston, co.
Durh., at York Minster II May 1706, bp. at
Kippax 5 July 1688, d. 17 May 1715, bur. at
Norton, co. Durh. M.I. (Surtees' Durham). Their
grandson Thomas Davison succeeded to the Kippax
estates on the death of his cousins Anne and
Elisabeth, and assumed the name of Bland.
Meriel, bp. at Kippax 7 July 1690, living 1712. mar.
Hildebrand, son of Sir John Jacob, Bart.
Elizabeth, d. at Bath 3 July 1 709, act. sixteen
(Thoresby).
Fiances, d. 31 Aug. 1712, bur. at Didsbury
(Thoresby).
VIII. SIR JOHN BLAND, of Kippax, Bart, mat. Christ Church,
Oxf., 10 Oct. 1707. M.V. Lancashire 1718-57, bp. at Kippax
10 Sept. 1691, d. at Bftth, bur. at Kippax 21 Api. 1 ^ 1 3,
M.I. Will 6 Jan. 1741-2, pr. at York 16 Max 17 I i ;• mar.
1 Mention a Id's Pour daughters and three sons. On Recount of Ml mmi JobirS
extravagance lie to have only :i life interest in the estates. Rutiperfutx^ no!
qualified lor law or divinity, as wanting his right band, n Edward it w*torcd
to health to apply himself to divinity.
DUG DALES VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
259
Frances, dau. of first Earl of Aylesford, 1.6 Oct. 1716, bur.
at Kippax 9 Feb. I7§§. They had issue —
1. Sir John, sixth Bart., dissipated his immense estates
in Lancashire, mat. St. John's Coll., Ox£., bp. at
Kippax I.0) Jan. I7*2i, M.P. Ludgershall 1754-55,
d. nnmar. suddenly on the road between Paris
and Calais 8 8ept. 1*755.
2. Sir Hungerford, seventh Bart., Captain Horse Guards,
suceeeded his brother, bp. at Kippax 7 Sept. 1726,
bur. there 23 Get. 1756. M.I.
3. Edward, bp. at Kippax 14 Oct 1727, named in his
father's will.
1. Anne, of Kippax Park, d. inimar., bur. at Kippax
2 Feb. 1786, had share of estates after death of
her brothers. Will Feb. 1786, pr. at York.
2. Elizabeth, bp. at Kippax 22 Dec. 1718, d. unmar. at
Kensington 2 June 1761. Will 7 Mar., pr. 3 Sept.
1761.
3. Frances, bp. at Kippax 16 June 1723, d. unman
4. Charlotte Mary, d. unraar.
Authorities. — Carlisle's " Bland Family " — Kippax Registers — York
Wills.
"Rtppon Lipertie. Knaresborough, 15 Aug. 1GG5.
Arms : — Quarterly : —
1 ii'il 4. Argent, a chevron Gules betwtta three [tlvmmeU Sable.
2 and S.
Crest: — A demj-griffiu witb tfiwtja pddorserf Or, from tee beak i phuMnol
pendent Snble,
I. PJCVJ.Hx. JEN YItfGS, of Sihrtrn, in com £Wtt., r' '
i* &ijpf. tr IGol, Will 15 July, pr. at. London 13 Ocu
1651 (Yovky. Rcc Set.j ix, 40); mar. Anne, daughter of
, . . liMtvyjif vf . . . fa < <r,ii. Boor, They had is-aje —
260 dugdale's visitation of Yorkshire.
Edmund, died umnarried 9 Jul}"- 1623, rct. twenty-five,
bur. at Kildwick (Whitaker's " Craven :').
Peter, died unmarried 4 Mar. 162-i, bur. at St. Crux,
York.
Jonathan (II).
II. JONATHAN JENNINGS, of Pippon, died 24 Aug. a* 167,9,
d. v.p. 2-1 Aug. 1G49, bur. at Ripon (Le Neve), mar. at
Farnbam 19 Feb. lG2g- Elizabeth, daughter and coheir
of Giles Parker, of Ncwby, in com. Ebor., named in her
father-in-law's will. They had issue —
1. Sr Edmund (III).
ft Sir Jonathan Jmmimgs, of Ripon, High Sheriff Yorks.
1690, M.P. Ripon 1658-60, 1688-95," J. P. Indicted
11 Jan. 1674 at York for killing George Aislabie
in a duel (York Depositions, Surt. Soo, vol. xli) ;
mar. Anne, da. of Sir Ed? v. Barkham, of Tot nam
(Tottenham) Highcrosse) in com. Midd., JO. <£
Bar1. They had issue —
Margaret.
Elizabeth, first married to Christopher Hodgson, of
Beeston, in com. Ebor., afterward to Henry Watkin-
son, DF of Law, now residing in Yorke, d. 1 Apr.
1712.
III. S" MDMUWD JENNINGS, of Pippon, Knt., ad. 88 ann.
. 15 Aug. $° 1665. High Sheriff Yorks 1675, M.P. Ripon
1058-63, 1673-79, 1680-95, bp. at Farnbam 30 Nov. 1626,
d. 1695 • mar. Margaret, da. of Sr Ed/card Barkham,
of Tot nam JJighcrosse, in com. Midd., JO. <& Bar1., (?) bur.
at Ripon. They had issue —
1. Jonathan, ast. 10 an. 15 Aug. a" 1665, M.P. Ripon
1695-1701, d. unmar. (Hopkinson).
2. William, cvt. 7 an. 1665, (1)d. unmar. 1 707.
3. Edmund (IV).
Jf. Peter, 7 ann% d. unmar. (Hopkinson).
./. Anne, d. 10 May 1,691, bur. at All Saints', Tottenham.
M.I. (York. County Mag., 811),
2. Elizabeth, mar. Sir Roger Beckwith, of Aldbrough.
3. Marye, died an infant .
IV. EDMUND JENNINGS, M. 6 en. IW5} emigrated to
Virginia 1680. In IC85 a member of the Colonial Council,
in Jan. 170! Secretary, and 1706 k< 1710 President of
Council and Acting Govurnor, d, 5 Deo 1727 (Pink);
mar. Francos, dau. ol Henry Corbin, d. at London Nov,
1713, bur. at St. Clement's, Eastcaeap (Pink). Thej had
issue —
Edmund,1 ^.ttoniOy-General Oi Maryland.
1 There is a monument A Ripon pAthcdrui " Po the nornon of Bdmnnd
Jennings, formerly of ihis plact nnO t\\ M'Ufdl Tomplo, Loudon, Kn*,
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
261
Frances, mar. Charles Grymes, of Moratico, Richmond,
co. Virginia.
Priscilla, mar. William Hill, said to have been an
officer in the British Navy.
Elizabeth, mar. Colonel Robert Porteous, of Newbattle,
co. York, Virginia. He removed to England 1720,
living at York and Ripon, and died S Aug. 1755.
and was buried at Ripon Cathedral, having had
nineteen children, the youngest but one being
Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London ; she died 20 J an.
1751, set. sixty, bur. at St. Martin's, Coney Street,
York (Skaife).
Authorities — Information from Mr. W. D. Pink — Parish Registers.
Agbkiog and Morley Wapentake. Hallifax, 2° Apr. a0 1CGG.
Respite given for proving and exhibiting yc amies.
L 11WUARD HQM3FALL, of Stortheshall, in cow. Ebor., which
belonged previously to the family of Storthes. In 1582
Richard Horsfall was plaintiff and Thomas Storthes, gent.,
and Alice, his wife, were deforciants, of the minor of
Storthes Hall, etc. (Yorks. Fines). In 1608 Mr. Storthes
was resident there, but not long after the property passed to
Richard Horsfall ; mar. Alice, daughter of Peter 8 arbor
of OlKsliurut', hi the parish of Kildwick) i/t cow. Ebovu,
They had issue —
who was born at An&polis, in the British Province of Muryland, in An I
1781, und died at Kensington <>•> the 29th of .inly 1819, bged ne*rty
years. His widow ,n>»l only surviving child er^ol this marbta.' Ho might
bo a grandson ol the aho-ve Edmund Jennings.
1 The midcnneMfcmed arms were used by the fum'tty, and are ontered .»t
the College of An:-: ; — littles, « lu ;<tnt btttCtt}) tin'* hi In t \ f. ) . f .1 .
bridlea A .
262
DUGDALe's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Richard (IT).
1. . . . wife of John Couper, of Denehouse, in Colcy,
in com. Ehor.
2. ... wife of Ambrose Greneivood.
II. RICHARD MORS FALL, of Stortheshall, in co. Ebor., dyed
a° 1644-) signed Visitation of 1612, bur. at Kirkburton
13 Sept. 1644 ; mar. Mary, daughter of Thomas (John)
Lewes, of Marr, in co. Ebor., Esq1'., at Marr, 29 May lo04,
bur. at Kirkburton 20 Sept. 164-1. M.I. They had issue —
1. Richard (III).
2. John, died unmarried, bp. at Kirkburton 5 Nov.
1615, (?)bur. there 24 May 1633.
8. George, died unmarried.
1. Mary, wife of Thomas Fenv.ey, of Fennty, in com.
Ebor., bp. at Kirkburton 6 Sept. 1607, mar. there
■ 11 June 1629 (remar. &. Trippiere), d. 24 Nov.
1619, bur. at Aldmondbury. M.I.
2. Jane, wife of John, Ricard, of Heck, EsqT. ; mar. at
Kirkburton 19 Oct. 1641.'
3. Anne, died unmarried, bo. at Kirkburton 13 Dec.
1610.
Jh Snsan, wife unto John Linley, of Snayth, clerk.
5. Oath., wife of Charles Nettleion, of Uonley, in co.
Ebor.
Robert, bp. at Kirkburton 18 May 1G09, bur. th^re
15 May 1610.
III. RICHARD HORSFALL, of StortheshcUl, in com. Ebor., at.
53 annor. 2 Apr. 1066, a Caji' of Fool in »$'■" George
Savilds Reghn'. at the siege of Pontefract Castle, set. three
months at Visitation of 1612, bur. at Kirkburton 13 Per.
1668, ret. fifty-six. M.I. Will 12 Sept. 1668, pr. at York;
■mar. Anne, da. of Gervase Ricard, of Heck, in the parish
of Snayth, in com. Ebor., Esqr., mentioned in her husband's
will. They had issue —
1. William (IV).
2. Thomas, cel. 26 annor., mentioned in his father's will,
bp, at JCirkburton 7 Feb. 103*.
J. Anno, mentioned in her father's will. mar. first
Thomas Beaumont, of Mirfield, secondly Henry
Stanhopej of Leeds, merchant.
2. Susan, mentioned in her father's will, mar. John
Barker, of Tadcaster.
John, bur. at Kirkburton 24 June 1633.
Richard, bp. at Kirkburton 27 Apr. 1644, bur, 3 Apr.
1616.
Ricard, bj>. at Kirkburton °7 Apr, 1644. (Shan
is i child bur. 10 Feb. 164}.)
Elizabeth, bp. at Kirkburton May 1616.
Mary, bur, ol Kirkburton 23 Sept 1646.
Charles, bur. at Kirkburton I! July 1651
DUGDALE's VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
263
IV. WILLIAM 1 JOES FALL, ESQ., of Storthes Hall, rrtatis 28
an. 2 Apr. fflfifi, bp. at Kirkburton 4 May 1634, bur. there
8 Feb. 1711. M.T. ; mar. Dorothy, daughter of Joint, Ellerker,
of the Citty of Yorke, bur. at Kirkburton 21 Oct. 1367.
They had issue —
1. John (V).
2. William, bur. at Kirkburton 20 May 1606.
1. Elizabeth, bur. at Kirkburton 13 Dec." 1678, jet.
nineteen. M.I.
2. Dorothy, mar. at Kirkburton 10 July 1709 Arthur
Ingrain, Esq., of Knottingley.
S. Anne, d. y., (?) bur. 14 Dec. 1666.
V. JOHN HOESFALL, ESQ., of Storthes Hall', mt. 4 ann.
2 Apr. 1666, called a Catholic Nonjuror in 1715, d. 8 July
1722, bur. at Kirkburton. M.I. ; mar. . . . They had
issue —
Richard (YI).
VI. RICHARD HORSFALL, ESQ., of Storthes Hall, bur. at
Kirkburton 8 Apr. 1731 ; mar. Grace Briggs, grand-
daughter of Rev. Joseph Briggs, Vicar of Kirkburton
(remar. Rev. Good rick Ingram, Vicar of Kirkby-Malzeard,
at Kirkburton 11 Dec. 1733), d. IS Sept. 1787, bur. at
Knottingley. Will 22 June, pr. 24 Sept. 17S7. They
had issue —
William (VII).
Dorothy, bp. at Kirkburton 14 Sept. 1729, d. unmar.
VII. WILLIAM HORSFALL. ESQ., of Storthes Hall, bp. at
Kirkburton 22 Sept, 1724, d. 2 Aug. 1780, bur. there.
M.I. ; mar. Elizabeth, dau. of William Beckwith, Esq., of
Thurcroft; d. 21 Apr. 1793, bin-, at Kirkburton. M.T.
They had issue —
Ingram, d. 17, bur. at Kirkburton 23 Nov. 1770 in
his eleventh year.
Dorothy, mar. Robert Bill, Esq., bp. 23 May 1750,
d. 16, bur. at Kirkburton 22 May 1 792, »t
forty-one, who had issue —
Charles Horsfall Rill, Esq., heir to his mother
and aunts.
Elizabeth, d. unmar.
Ann, d. unmar.
Grace, mar. Geoige Sutton, Esq,, of Stockton, & s.n.
Frances, mar. Joseph Scott, Esq., of Badswortn,
d. s.p.
Authority —Kirkburton Registers.
264
DUG DALE S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Bulmer Wapentake.
Torke, 13 Sept. 1665.
mmdi
of
Arms : — Chiles, on a chevron counter-embattled Or, between three martlets
Argent, an eagle displayed beiween two escalloi>s Sable.
The proofe of these amies respited.
I. JOHN WEDDELL, of York, d. 1524, bur. at St. Crux : mar.
Joan . . . They had issue—
II. JOHN WEDDELL, Qhaniberlain 1551, Sheriff 1563-1, d.
29 May 1585, bur. at St. Crux. Will 2 Mar. 1584-5, pr.
9 June 1585 (Reg. Test., xxiii, 37), I«q, p.m. 8 Jan.
1585-6, mar. Anne, dam of . . . They had issue —
1. John Weddell, Chamberlain 1576, SheriiV 1587-8,
d. G Jan. 1598-9. Will 3 Jan. 1598-9, pr. 8 Jan.
(Keg. Test., xxvii, 168), to be bur. at Christ
Church, Inq. p.m. 5 Apr. 1599 ; mar. Ann, dnu.
of Robert Tcssiman (remar. James Mudd, 1599).
2. Leonard (III).
Robert Weddell, Chamberlain 1588, Sheriff 1617-8.
Will 23 Dec. 1619, pr. 19 Apr. 1620 (Reg. Test.,
, xxxvi, 5), to be bin-, at St. Crux ; mar. Grace, da v..
of Richard Geldart. Will 25 May 165!. They
had issue —
John Weddell. Will 16 Jan. 1620-1. pr.
17 Oct. 1621 (Re- Test., xxxvi, 559),
to be bur. at Christ Church; mar. Grace
. . . They had issue —
Two sons.
Seven daughters.
Leonard, merchant, Sheriff 1623-4, Alderman
1631, bp. at St. C.ux 1 9 Mar. L5ti4-d,
bur. at All Saints' .Lavement 9 Apr. 1632,
Will 3 Apr., p.. IS Apr. 1632 (Reg.
Test., xli, 653) : mar. at St. M.nv's.
Beverley, 28 IVh. 1613, Sarah, feu. of
. . . Warter. W ill 12 Oct., pr. 6 Lee.
161). They had issue
'V
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
265
George.
William.
Leonard, merchant, d. intestate. Admon.
5 July 1645.
Sarah.
Grace, mar. Thomas Driffield.
III. LEONARD WED DELL, of Cli/fon, in com. Ebor., bur. at
St. Oiave's, York, 16 4-Ug. 1602. Will 15 Aug., pr.
U Dec. 1G02 (Reg. Test., xxviii, 821) ; mar. Margery
m (?)dau. of John Taylor, of Sledmere. They liad issue —
) 1. Robert Weddell,1 obijt sine prole, of Clifton, gent.,
16 May G Jas. I, purchased Ears wick Hall and
lands there of Richard Foster, of Earswick, gent.,
d. s.p. 1 Apr. 1613, Admon. 24 Sept. 1613.
2. WilVm (IY).
3. Leonard Weddell, obijt sine prole, had £5 from his
brother William.
1. Ellyn, wife of Rob1 S/wjv, of Ipswich, in Suffolk.
2. Margaret, ivife of William Shot (Scott), Alderman of
Yo7rk, mar. at All Hallow's Pavement 11 Oct.
1600, bur. there 10 Aug. 1G75. Will 7 July
167-1, pr. 22 Oct. 1675 (Keg. Test,, ivi, 178).*
3. Ivatherine, wife of John Richardson, of Wharram
Percy ; in co. Ebor.
> Jf.. Mary, ivife of John Lasenby, of Hunti wjdon, i)i co.
Eborum., had £10 in her brother William's will.
5. Jane, wife of John Mason', a Merchant, of Yorke ;
mar. 1616, she mar. first . . . Birkhead. Admon.
. 30 Apr. 1641.
IV. WILVM WEED ALL, of Marswiek, in co. Ebor., died in
July a0 1665) under age at his brother's death, d. .July 1665.
Will pr. at York G Oct, 1GG5, to be bur. in Chancel
at Strensall, viar. Mcmf, daughter of John totter, of
Kingston- super-Hull, mar. sett. 1 Oct. 15 Jas. T, bur. in
. • Chancel at Strensall. They had i.-,sue —
1. William (V).
2. Leonard, had Grimston Grange from ins father ; mar.
Emma, dan. of Thomas Rokeby, of Buniby. Will
27 Nov. 1704.
mm Mart/aret, ivife of John Ayar of H a nt \ n</ch>n, in co.
Ebor.
V. WILLIAM WED DELL, of Earsioick, E.<r., of. 31 an.
13 Sep:, rt* 1665, now one of his MdHM Justice of (In: toe
for this county } had manor of Wiggington from his father.
Will %8 May, pi1, at York 26 July 1676, mar. Margaret,
i daughter of Sr Will** Robynton^ of 1\o<Hff>\ in com. /."
.! Km., exec, of her husband's will ; mar. sett. 1 .~i A i; 1653.
They had issue
'Mjir. Ho., lot I. lvoh. Wc.ldoil, Lrotit., and Kliaabtth Sherburne, "i 8t
Mart^ti'ij Coney St., vvid., at Streuaoll,
266
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
Metcalfe (VI).
1. Margaret, cetatis 6 annorum l'Ulo ; mar. Alexius
Elcock, of York, mercer. (Their son Richard
inherited his uncle Thomas Weddell's property and
bought Newbv) \ bur. at Christ Church, York,
11 Dec. 1718.
2. Frances, cet. J4 ana., of Yrork.
8. Elizabeth, at. 3 an., of York.
4> Dorothy, a-t. 6 menu. ; mar. at St. Mary's, Castlegat'e,
York, 3 May 1688, Joseph Tomlinson, of York,
apothecary.
5. Joan, mar. . . . James.
6. Mary, of York, d. 3 July 1749, bur. at Strensall.
7. Barbara, of Yrork, bur. at Strensall 18 Sept. 1733.
Thomas (VII).
William, killed at the siege of Tournay.
VI. METCALFE WED DELL, son and helve, a>t. 5 an. et 6 mens.
15 Sept. a0 16G5, of JEarswick, Escj., d. s.p. 7, bur. 19 Mar.
1G88 at Strensall ; mar. Anne, dau. of Stephen Thompson,
Esq., cov. 27 Aug. j 687, of York (remar. first Tobias
AVickham, Esq., who died 109 1, secondly Dr. Charles
Palmer, Hector of Long Marston), bur. at York Minster
16 Mar. 1704.
VII. THOMAS WED DELL, merchant of York and London, after
of Earswick, succeeded his brother Metcalfe ; of Gray's Inn,
1725, bur. at Strensall 10 July 17-17. Will 7 May, pr. at
London 11 July IV 47, leaving the greater pari of his
property to his nephew Richard Elcock, who assumed the
the name of Wreddell.
Authorities — York Registers and Wills.
Yorkk City. Yorkc, 13 Sept. 1CG5.
Akms: — Argent, three piles Sable, one Issuing from the chief and two from
• the kisc, :i crescent for difference.
No proofs made,
DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.
267
I. JOHN HULE, of . . . in Cheshire, tame first into Yorkshire
with Edwyne Sands, Arch-BhP of Yorhe. He had issue —
Thomas (II).
II. THOMAS HULE, of Wistow, in com. Ebor., died circa
annum 10 15. Will 1 Oct., pr. 15 Nov. 1609 (Reg. Test,
xxxi, 187), mar. Ellen, daughter of . . . Warde, of . . . ,
1st wife. They had issue —
John (III).
Anne, wife of William Smith, of Cauood, in coin.
Ebor.
mar. Anne, daughter of ... of ... in ... 24 wife. They
had issue —
George,1 named in his father's will.
William, named in his father's will.
Thomas Hewley, of York, draper : mar. Anne Bcale,
• of Bray ton, lie. 16 Apr. 1619. Admon. 17 Apr.
1665. They had issue —
Christopher Hewley, of York, draper, d.
7 Aug. 1670, set. fifty, bur. at St. Crux.
Will 1 Aug. 1670, pr. at York (Reg.
Test, li, 35) : mar. Anne, dau. of . . .
They had issue —
Anne, mar. Sir Richard Wynne, Knt.,
Serjeant-at-Law.
Elizabeth.
Susan
III. JOHN HEWLEY, of Wistow, died circa annii 1630) mar.
Dorothy, daughter of John Wood, of Ccpmanthorpc, in com.
Civit. Ebor. They had issue —
Sr John (IV),
Margaret, wife of John Baynes, of Wistoir, in com-
Eborum. Their son Hewley was heir of his uncle
Sir John Hewley.
IV. Sr JOHN HEWLEY, of the Citty of Yorhe, 10., at. 4$ an.
13° Sept. 1665, Counsellor at Law, adm. Cray's Inn 4 Feb.
1638, Recorder of Doncaster, M.P. Pontefract 1 658 -60, York
1678-107'.) and 1681, Knighted at Whitehall 30 June 1663,
a Presbyterian, bp. at Wistow 5 Aug. 1619, d. at Bell Hall
24 Aug. 1607, bur. at St. Saviour's, Yorkj mar* Sarah t i
daughter and hcire of Robert Wolriche, of' Grayes Intu,
Esqf.i b. 1627. Left estates to found alms houses and
an Hospital. Will 9 July 1 707, d. 23 Aug., bur. 26 Aug.
1710 at St. Saviour's, York. They had issue —
1. Wolriche A ,
2. Join,, I'''01
1 "Uurlo" Gteonge Hewley ;iu<i his son, the " PkM&tiaiit" mv mentioned la
Christopher Hewley *8 will,
268
THE 4096 QUARTIEBS OF KING EDWARD VII.
By G. W. Watson.
{Continued from p. 203.)
M139. Henrv, dcr Aeltere, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg in
Wolfenbuttel ; b. 24 June 1463 ; d. 23 .June 1511.
(ii). "23 Junii. auf St. Johannis Abend, um 11 Uhr Vormittags "
(Kchtmeier, 862).
Ml 40. Catherine, Duchess of Pomerania-\Volga3t : m. — Aug.
1486 ; d. . . . 1526.
Ml 41. Albert, der Beherzte, Duke of Saxony; <;>. 37 July 1 443 ;
d. 12 Sep. 1500.
(life, by F. A. .von Langenn. 1838). " Natvs 1443 27 Jvl. 1500 12 Sept.
obiit " (Medal in Tentzel, as in L71 note, tab. i, no. 2). (i).' " mccccxliii.
ncchsten Tags nach Aimc': [27 July] (Exret phi Saxon.. 1449). (ii). "Obiit
annc saint is 1500 d. 12 Sopibr. Yixit annis 57 raen?o J dieb. 12" (M.I., in
Kerns Arc hi v fur Sachs., OY.-r/t., edit. II. Ermisch. xi. 1890, 151); "mvc,
Sounabenfe nach Natimtatis >Lur<e " [12 Sep.] (Mttoxrpta Haxon.. 1451); not
" 1500, anil's Lcil. Creutzes tag" [14 Sep.] (Spalatinus, De LiUri* Albert i
Vucis Baxoniae, 2136).
M142. Zdefra (Sidonia), Princess of Bohemia; b. 11 or IZ Nov.
1449; m. (c. 25 Apr. and 11 Nov. 1459) 11 May 1104;
d 1 Feb. 1510.
(i) . 11 Nov. (Grotefend, Behr) ; 14 Nov. (Henelius, 198; Sinapius; Uof-
meister). (ii). The m, c, dated "am Mitwocheu nach Sanet Jorgen doa
heiligen MortererS Tag [25 Apr.] Vierzehen hundert vnd daraach in Neun
vnd Fnnftzigsten Jarenn," is in J. J. Muller, Heichs Tags Theatmm unter
Fried rich V, 1713. i, 537-541. (iii). "mcccccx am I'reitag Unser Frauen
Liehtmesse " [1 Fob,] (M.I., in Sinapius, i, 141), the date given by all the
genealogists; ''1511, am Abend Furilieationis Mariae Virginia" [1 Feb.]
(Spalatinus, ibid.)
M143. Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg. Sam<> as LG41.
Mill-. Sophia, Duchess of Pomerania-Wolgast. Same as L642.
M177. Ludwig IJ, Count Palatine in Zwcibrucken-Ycklcnz ; 6,
14 Sep. 1502 ; d. 3 Dec- 1532.
(ii) . "Dei 3 December 1532. habit vmb 12 Vhren im Dug" (B. Hcrzog,
Calend. lliti. MS., in Cvoliius, 96).
Ml 78. Elizabeth, Land-ravine of Hesse-< !a ssel ; b. 10 Sep. 3503;
m, 10 Oct. 1525; d. 5 Jan. 1563.
(i). 10 Sop. 1503 (llciutz. Bohr) ; A March 1503 (Httfttle) i this latter
date is erroneous; there is indeed an entry in Ricdesel, Ohron, Efa&uftf*, ;is
in 1,063 noto, 67: — "1502. Gcbal.i- Fran Anna die Landgrafin eiue Tocbter
genant Elisabeth auf dem Schloss 2U Marporg in die Adriani •} ftfartU kur:?
vor 2 Uhr Nachtnittoff," but this certainly refers to da. of William II
[L653]. (ii). 10 Sop (Bouther, Hrcutlo) j lo Oct. (IUttershuiiae, Tolner,
Strieder, Colin, BeUr, Boffmeister). (iii), "Min.xni of Dienatag dta t Tag
des Mounts January zwischcn iii und iv Urn Vormittage . . . jiee Aittn in
lxi .lar" (M.I., 111 Crollius, 08) j 5 .fun. (lieinU, Huoutle)i i Jan. (HfcUerehuaftu,
Tolnev, Strieder, Hoffmcister, Uchr)j i or 5 Jan. (Ooibtt)*
M179, Philip i, Landgrave of flesee. Sam* at K327.
Ml 80. Christina, Duchess of Saxony. Same at K32S.
THE 4090 QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
269
M181. Jolin III, Duke of Cleve. Same as MS.
Ml 82, "Maria, Due1. ess of Juliers and Berg. Same as M4.
Ml 83. FerdiTxanci I, Emperor; h. 10 March 1503; J. 25 .July
1664.
(Life, by L. Dolci, i 566) . (i). " mdiii, 10 Martii, horn 9 m. 54 a. merid."
(J. Cuspinian, Togehuch. 1502-1527, 399, in Fontes Mentm Austria c.y Scriptoree,
i, 1855, 397-416).'
Ml 84. Anna, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia'; b. 23 July 1503 ;
m. (c. 22 Julv 151 0, proxy 11 Dec. 1520) 2G May 1521;
d, 27 Jan. 15*47.
(i) . "1503 den 23 Jalij vmb 7 bora vor Mittage" (J. Cureus, Rent in
Sileniaca.ru m Citron., 1007, i, 225; Pistorius, 773); 23 July (Folios, as in
K78 note, 280; Fugger, ii. 1390; Kittershusius, Cohn, Behr) ; 23 June (Decins,
293; Wurzbaeh). (ii). The c. dated "Dominica die festi sanctae Mariae
Magdalenae 22 JuTii anno 1515" is in A. Bonfinius, Jierum Hungar. decades
quatuor, 1690, appendix, 539-512. in. (by proxy-) " 1520 die vern undecinn
Deeembris bora post meridiem quarta vel circiter, in insigni oppido Inspruck
in chbro Ecclesiae ParOchialis Si Jaco'oi " (Chron. anon., in Mon. Dom.
Ausir inc., iii, pais ii, 257). "Duivhl. hochzeyt am Suntag dor heilligen
Driualfcigkhait, das was der Sepbsvnftdzwaintzigist tag Stay " (S. von
Herberstem, Selbst- Biographic, 118(5-1553. 219, in Fontes Henna. Au striae.,
Scriptores, i, 67-390); 26 May 1521 (Cuspinian, 413); nor 5 May (Fugger,
ibid.; Wurzbaeh), 25 May (Cohn), nor 27 May (Gebhardi, Behr). (iii).
" Fcria v [27 Jan. J circiter horam minoris horologii viii antemeridianam "
(F. Nausea, Episc. Yindobon., Oral, parent., 1560, 302) ; 27 Jan. (Menlins,
71 ; Herberstein, 368 ; Fugger, ibid. ; Schdnleben, ii, 222 ; Cohn ; Behr) ;
not "MDXLVIl die vlt. lanvar." (^f.T., in M&n. Dam. Ansfriac. iv, pars i.
346).
Ml 89. Frederic III, Elector Palatine. Same ax L3.
Ml 90. Alalia, M argravine of Bra n denbu rg-Bayreuth . Same ax L4.
M191. Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. Same ax K327.
M192. Christina, Duchess of Saxony. Same as K328.
M207. Augustus. Elector of Saxony. Same as L593.
M208. Anna, Princess of Denmark. Same ax L594.
M209. Frederic J, King of Denmark and Norway. Same ax K325.
M210. Anna, Margrayine of Brandenburg, Same as L648.
M211. Magnus I", Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg. Same ax EGO.
M212. Catheri le, Duchess of Brunswick and Punching in Wolfen-
biitiei. Same as L70.
M213. Philip J, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen ; 6. abt 1476;
d, 4 Sep. 1551.
(ii) . " moli die veneris qvarta mensis Septerabris " (Ml, in Elalliday, 409,
and in Steinmann, 169); other authorities, cited by Max. <:i\e 7 and 8 September.
M2I4. Catherine, Countess of Mjinsfeld-Heldrungen j b. 1 Oct
1501 ; m. . . . 1517 ; d . . . 1535.
M215. George I, Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast ; &. 11 Apr. 14
d. 9 May 1531.
(ii). " mdxxvi, alb dinstajre nach cantata" [9 May] (J. Lftidemann, Sfew
lUich, 1531-1611, 3, in (!. 0. V. Mohnike and E, il . Zober, StraUuml Chron.,
ii, 1813, l -lit*)); M di nattier! nacH cantata ;miY die nnckt " (Kant sow, h.
3S5); 910 Slay (Cohn, Klc.npin); Dot 1011 M:iv (Bart hold).
M21G. Amelia, Countess Palatine: b. 25 Julv 1190; a». . . . 1515;
(/. 6 .km. 1525,
270 THE 4096 QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VIE
1 (Colin and Klcnrpin state that L108 was da. of the above ; the latter adding
that she was l>. after 27 May 1518. According to the older accounts, she was
6. in l.o31, and da. of M215 by his second wife, Mnrrrorer of Krandenbnrg
[L6], whom he m. in Jan. 1530. This latter version would seem the more
probable, but the alteration was, presumably, not made without proof), (ii).
22 May 1513 (Tolncr, Colin, Behr, Eseutle) ; after 12 June 1513 (Klempil .
(iii). "Anno MYC vnde xxv am daghe der hilghen dre koninghe " [G Jan.]
(Slagghei t, as in 1161 note. 117) ; 6 Jan. 1525 (Kantzow, Barthold. Klempin,
Behr) ; not C Jan. 1524 (Bittershusius, To'ner, Hreutle) ; Cohn gives both dates.
M225. Ludwlg XVI, Count of Oettingen-Octtingen ; 6. 2 July
(1506 or) 1508; d. 1 Oct, 1569.
(ii). " 1569 Sams!', 1 Oct. 6 Uhr Nachmittng" (M.I., in Oefelin, 200).
M226. Margaret, Countess of Liitzelstein ; m. (c. 11 Sep. 1543)
25 Nov. 1543 [not 1542]; d. 3 July 1560.
(ii). in. c. dated 11 Sep. 1543 (Loffenholz von Kolberg addit., i, iii) ; 10 Sep.
1543 (H-eutle — who calls her Maria), (iii). " 1560 am Mittw. nach St. Vlrich
3 Jul.*' (M.I., in Oefelin, 199).
M227. Eberhard, Count of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg. Same as LI 69.
M228. Agatha. Countess of Tiibihgfen-Lfchteneck. Same as LI 70.
M241. George, Count of Wurtemberg-Morapelgard ; b. 4 Feb* 1498 ;
d. 17 July 1558.
(ii) . 15 July (Eifcfcershusius) : 19 .luly (Heyd, as in M13 note ; Cohn) ;
17 or 19 July (Prcgitzer) ; 17 July (Stalin, Behr supply Allganeinc Deutsche
Biog)
M242. Barbara. Landgravine of Hesse; b. 16 Apr. [not 8, 18 nor
26 Apr.] 1536; m, 10 Sep. [not 14 Sep.] 1555 ; d. 8 June
1597.
(i) . " 1536 des morgens zwischen 7 und 8 Uhr im Scorpion don 16 Aprilis "
(Convemp. list, as in L90 note). (iii). " 1597 den 8 Junius. VormittngS
zwischen .9 und 10 Uhr" (Varnhagen, as in 150 note, ii, 62) ; "viii Jvnii
Anno Dominini MBXCVII " (M.I., in Varnhagen, ibid.) ; S June 1597 ( I
Chron. Woldccr., 852; Rommel, Stalin, Behr, Hoffmeistcr) ; not 11 June L595
(Heyd, as in MJ3 note; Colin); she d. widow of Daniel, Count of Waldeck.
M243. Joaehim-Ernest, Prince of Anhalt. Same as K3.
M244. Agnes, Countess of Barbv. Same as L24G.
M.245. John-George, Elector of Brandenburg. Saim as K273.
31246." Sophia, Duchess of Silesia-Liegnitz ; 6. . . . 1525, nt. L5
Feb. [not 14 Feb.] 1545 ; d. 27 Jan. or 6 Feb. 1546.
(iii) . 27 Jan. (Polius, 38; Sommersbere. i, 419 j ThebeshlS, iii. -17: Grote-
fend); 5 Feb. (Panli, Stillfried) j (i Feb. (Biedermann, Cohn. Behr, Keuatadt).
It has been suggested that 6 Feb. is the date convened to mnv styli\ Her MB
[L123] was h. 27 Jan. according to the usual account, though Thobetiui, iii. 17.
says 18 Jan.
M247. John, Margrave of Brandetiburg-KUstrin j b. 3 Aug. 1513; d.
13 Jan. [not LO Jan.] 1571.
M248. Catherine, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg in Wolfen-
biittel ; b. . . . 1518; in. (c. 5 March 15. in) 11 Nov. 1556 j
d. 16 May 1574.
(ii) . St. Martin [U Nov.] 1536, the Vnuichtbritf dated I lam. 1537
(Behr tuppl.) \ not >». L6 Mm- L537 (Stillfried, Cohn. Steiafeaaa),
M249, John v'l ll, A\ ilci and Rhingravc in Moiehin^en ; d 1M7 or
1548.
THE 4096 QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII. 271
(ii) . 1548 (Kremer, Schneider); rot ! 542 (Biedermann), nor 1549 (Herwig) ;
his widow's m. c. with, her second husband, John. Count of Sayn [M1141], was
dated " auf Mittwochen nach Sanct Catherinen Tag [28 Nov.] 1548 :' (Rechts-
gegriindetes Bedcncken, 149).
M250. Anna, Countess of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein ; I. . . . 1520; m.
. . . 1540 ; d, . . . 1594.
(iii) . "Aus E. L. Schreiben hahe ich den todlichen Abgang meiner Stieffrau
Mutter, mit Mehrung memos Leids yex*nommen " (Letter of date 22 March
1594, from Magdalena. Countess of Mansfokl, to her brother Henry, Count of
Sayn, in BecMs-gegrundetes Bedencken, 149) ; " 1594 " (Rittershusius) ; not
"15G0" (Herwig), "nor "1580" (Bicdcmnum).
M251. Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg ; b. 24 Sep. 1504; d.
4 Oct. 1559.
(i) . " 1504, Dienstag vor Michaeli [24 Sep.] oder am 20 Sept." (Hagelgans,
58); 24 Sep. (Behr, Sehliephakr) ; not 20 Sep. (Witzleben, Cohn, Oven'), "(ii).
"1559 Mihvoohen den 4 Octohris" (M.I., in Kremer, ii, 408, and in Roth-
Wiesbaden, no. Kk).
M252. Amelia von Isenburg, Countess of Budingen-Birstein ;&....
1522 ; 7U. c. 17 Aug. 1541 ; d, 18 May 1 579.
(ii) . m. c. dated "Mitwochen nach Assumptionis Mariae den ITten Tag des
Monaths Augusti 1511" (Hagelgans, 59).
M257. Hemy I Ilcuss, der Wallfalirer, Herr von Plauen zu Greiz;
d, abt. 1475 [not 1461 nor 1498].
M258. Magdalena, Freiin von Schwarzenberg zu Stefansberg.
M259. Ernest II. Count of Mansfeld-Heldrungen ; b. 6 Dec. 1179;
d. 9 May 1531.
(ii) . "Den 9 Mai 1531, Diensfags nach Cant ate " (Contemp. MS., cited by
Niemann, 350); "1531, din stag nach Cnntate " (Chron. Islebiense, edit. H.
Grossler und P. Sommer, 1882, 10); not — May 1532 (Spangenberg, Mauxfeld.
Chron. ; ih'ttcrshusius).
M260. Barbara, Herrin von Querfurt ; m. . . . 1500: (/. 16 Jan.
1511.
(iii) . "1511, Donnerstag fur Antonii" [16 Jan.] (Spangenberg, Querfurt.
Chron., 402); " mdxi Fes. Die Mar[?oelU}" [10 Jan.] (M.I., ibid.)
M261. Otto I, Count of Solms-Lieh-Hohensolms \ b. 11 May 1190;
d. 14 May 1522.
(Genenlogisls style him "of Solma-Laubach," ns beh)g the ancestor of thai
branch ; but the hist properly entitled to this designation is his son Frederic*
Magnus [L131]).
M262. Anna, Duchess of Mecklenburg : m. S Sep. 1519. Same at
L654.
M263. John II von Eunkel, Count of Wied : rf. 28 May 15 18.
M264. Elizabeth, Countess of N assau- Dillenburg : A. . . . l!vs; m
(c. 2 Dec. 1505) — hob. 1506 ; d. 3 June 1559.
M273. Henry 1 11 Hcuss, Herr von Plauen zu Greit. 8anu as LI 29.
M27J. Anna, Herrin von Koldita ; m. before L506,
M275. Qeorge Metsch, Hen zu Schonfeld,
M276. . . .
M277. Ernest IV, Kerr von SchSnburg; />.... UWj d. . . . 1634,
M2T8. Amelia, Burggravine of Leienig in Peoig; n. . . . 1526; </.
Feb, 1509,
272
THE 409G QUARTIERS OF KIX<4 EDWARD VII.
M2T9. PHilip, Count of Gieichen-%nna • 1180; living 1549.
(L140 is said by many genealogists to have been da. of Sigismtmd II, Count
of Gleiehen [X557], but this is impossible; Anna [N1470], da. of Sigismund II.
m. 1, John Schonk, Hen* von Tautenberg, and 2, in 1533, John III, Count of
Gleichen-Kemda).
M280. Margaret, Herrin von Sclumburg ; m. . . . 1508; d. 30 Apr.
] 535.
(iii). "Anno 1535 auf don abent Walborg" [30 Apr.] (SO., in Sagittarius.
405).
M281. Philip, Wild- and Rhingrave in Daun. Same as LI 95.
M282. Antonia de Xeuehfitel. Same as L19G.
M283. Ludwig XV, Count of Oettingen ; b. 2G Apr. I486; d.
24 March 1557.
(ii). '1557, 24 Merz zwischen 10 Uhr des Tages, in 72 Lebensjahr"
(Oefclin, 202).
M'284. Maria-Salome, Countess of Hohenzollern ; b. 1 May 1487; m.
before 1506 ; d. 3 or 4 Aug. 1548.
(i). 1 May 1487 (Sfcilifried, Behr snppl.) ; not 1 May 1107 (Rittershnsiua,
Reiner, L'Offenholz von Kolberg). (iii). "1513 3 Aug." (M.I., in Oefelin,
19S) ; 4 Aug. (Heiner, Stillfried, lelir, Loffenlioiz von Kolberg) ; 3 or 4 Aug.
(Colin).
M285. John III von Jsenburg. Count of Budingen-Birstein ; b. . . .
1476 : d. 18 May 1533.
M286. Anna, Countess of Schwarzburg ; b. 23 Feb. 1497 ; m. 17
June 1516 ; living 1546.
(i). " 1497, don ponnerstag in Vigiliis Mattluae Apostoli, war dor 23
FebruarH, urn 10 Uhr Vonnittags " (Jovius, G2J). (ii). " 1516, don Dienstag
Bach Viti [17 June] war dor 17 Julii . . . beygelegt " (Id., ibid.)
M287. Philip, Count of Solms-Braunfels. Same as M45.
M288. Anna, Countess of Tecklenburg. Same as Ml 6.
M293. Ernest IV, Herr von Schonburg. Same as M277.
M294. Amelia., Kurggraviiae of Leisnig in Penig. Same as M278.
M295. Henry III Jieuss, Hen von Plauen zu Greix. Same as LI 29.
M296. Amelia, Countess of Mansfeld-Heldrungen. Same as LI 30.
M.305. Anselm von Prornnitz, Bannerherr zu Weichau auf Altenhofe.
M30G. Hedwig-TTrsula, J i err in. von Nostitz auf Flertwigswalde.
M307. Henry III Sehaffgotsch, Elerr auf Neuhauss in Hertwigs-
waldte und Wiltschutz; d. 21 Apr, 1550.
M308. Hedwig-Lurlomilla, Henin von Prornnitz auf Lesscndorf.
M309. John IV, Freiherr von fvurzbach zu Militsch and Trachen-
berg; d. 18 May 1549.
M310. Anna Zborowska.
M311. Frederic III, Duke of Silesia-Liegnite j 6, 22 Feb. 1520 j </.
1546 Dec. 1570.
(i). " moxx. Cineralibup " [22 Feb.] (Schxammius, 664) j 28 hob (Schick,
fusing, ii, B6j Polius, 72; Grotefend; Behr vuppl.)\ not lm Feb. (Thebetiua, iii.
14; Bommersbcrgi i. -11^0, nor 28 March fHenningcs, Ritterahusina). 0>^-
"Dies© vergangene Xaclii umb 12 Uhr den hnlbcn Seigera," Recording to the
not incal ion of his son Henry XT, dated u 16 Dccctnbria Rnnn im Sloboniiigiten w
(Thobeaioa, iii. 157); "1570 don 15 Dccemhrii In der Kacht urn 0 Vht gant«
bap Uhr" (Coffin-plate, idem, Lfi8)i " 1570. Meat. Dec. die vri lata* B »t I
THE 4096 QUARTIERS OF KING EDWARD VII.
273
majoris Horologii " (Sehrammais. 665) : " 10 Monats tap- Dccembris des 1570
jahrs, zwischeri 8 vnd 9 Vhr, als? er 50 Jahr, 9 &Ionat, 18 Tag vnd 12
Stunden gelebot " (Schickfusins, ii, 57); 15 Dec. [with the same age] (Polius,
461) ; 15 Dec. (bittoi^husius, Colm, Jkhv, Gsotefead, Wiggef) ; not " 1570,
25 Deeembris, circa 9 Lorain noctis" (Citron, von Goldberg ten'd Hanau, in
Zcitxchr. des Ver. fur Qesch, $chlexien&, xiii, 1S70, 253).
M312, Catherine, Duchess of Meckle^burg-Sehwerifl : b. 14 Apr.
1518; m. 5 March 1588; & 17 Nov. 1581.
(i) . "1518, feria qaiarta post Quasimod." [14 Apr.] (Hedericus, 1659). (ii).
" Auff Fastnacht nemlioh den 5 Martii anno 1538" (Scliickfushis, ii, 57; Polius,
90); 5 March (Groteferid addit, Cohn)' ; 3 March (Wigger, Behr suppl.).
(in). " 17 Nov. zwisclieu 23 und 24 des lauffendon 1581 Jahres " (CofHn-plate,
in Thebosius, iii, 209).
M313. Hugh I, Herr von Schdnburg zu Waldenbmg. >S'a/??c as
LI 39.
M314. Anna, Countess of Gleichen-Tonna. Same as LI 40.
M315. Wolfgang II, Count of Eberstein-Xaugarclten : d. 15 March
1592.
(ii) . " Sehon 15 Marz *' (Behr sup/pl.) ; not 8 March (Eittershusius, Hiibner,
Cohn).
M316i Anne, Countess of Lippe ; b. . . . 1551 ; m. 8 Apr. 1576; d.
— May 1G14.
(iii) . — May 1614 (Behr suppl.) ; not 6 Oct. 1613 (Uittcrshnsins, Cohn).
M317. Peter, Herr von Schwanberg zu Konsperk ; d. . . . 1575.
M318. Dorothea, Freiin von Haydeck zu Raveneek.
M319. Kaspar Colonna, Freiherr zu Vols und Schenkenberg.
M320. Anna Schlik, Countess of Passau in Hauenstein.
M321. Frederic IX, Count of Castell; b. abt. 1135; d. 12 Jan.
1498.
(ii). " MCcecLxxxxvin am Freytag nach der hcil. 3 Kdnig Tag'" [12 Jan.]
(M.I., in Biodennann, Mrlautermig, 322).
31322. Elizabeth, Herrin von Keitzenatein zu Elan ken berg ; m. . . .
1404 ; living 31 July UW.
(iii-). Living "mithvoch nacli sanct Jacobs toy des hi. zwelt'boten [31 July]
1499" (YYittmann, no. 220).
M323. Michael IT, Count of Wertboim ; b. . . . 1152; d. 24 March
1531.
(ii) . " Cl.mxxxi am Frilag VOT ivdiea den xxiiii tag More/. " (M.I.. in
D. Schneider, Erbachische Stqufm-Tafel, 1736, I'rktt mien, 580, and in Aschbaeh,
no. 219); according to the later M.I., of date 1543, ' \ ad annos
obiit. an. Christi moxxxi " (Aschbaeh. ibid.), but according to Stookhnnsev
(Nachr, von Brqubtrg), cited by Aschbaeh. he W08 b. in 1 152. which is a mere
probable date.
M324. Barbara, Countess of Eberstein; d. 1 Aug. 1629,
(iii) . " 1529 den 1 Avgvsti ires alters 77 iar " (M.I., in Schneider :ind in
Aschbaeh, ibid,).
(To be continued.)
274
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
Contributed by Arthur J. JfiwsRS, F.S.A.
[Continued from p. ]9G.)
Howson1 (or Housson), Dr. . . . Chaplain to K. James. Quarterly,
Arg. and Sa. four roundels counterchanged. Crest — From clouds
Arg. a bull's head Az., semee of estoiles Or. Stowe "MB. 707.
Hubbard (Hubert or Hubkkd), . . . , of Rirchanger, in Essex,
gent., one of the six clerks in Chancery, s. and h. of Richard, s.
and h. of John Hubbard, citizen and mercer, of London. Pat.
of conf. by Sir G, Dethick, Garter, 19 May 1 578. 1 and 4,
Quarterly, Arg. and Sa., on a bend Gu. three lions pass. Or
(Hubbard); 2 and 3, Az. on a fess Or, betw. three boars' heads
couped Arg., a lion pass. Gu. (Gough). Crests — 1, On a chapeau
Az., turned up Erm., within an annulet of the first, a lion's head
erased Or, charged with three estoiles Sa. (Hubbard) ; '2, A boar's
head couped at the shoulder Arg., collar and line Or, in the
mouth a broken lance Gu , headed Arg. Hail. MSB 1,359 and
1,441; Stowe MSS. 676- -700 and 703.
Huberd, Thomas, of Calais. Gr. by Sir C. Barker, Garter. Az. a
chev. Arg. betw. three swans' necks erased of the last, each gorged
with a coronet paly of four Or and Gu. Stowe 31 S. 692.
Huddesdon, William, of Guy's CliiT, co. Warwick. Pat. by R.
Cooke, Clar. Per pale Gu. and Sa., a chev. Arg. betw. three
hanks of cotton Or. Crest — An eagle's leg Sa., with a wing
attached to the thigh Or. Marl. MS. 1,359.
Hudson, Roger, and John, brothers, citizens and goldsmiths, of
Lombard Street, London, and to their sister Hester (for her
life only), w. of Tho. Cary, of London, merch. Conf. bv Sir T.
St. George, Garter, and Sir M. St George, Clar., 23 Feb.' 1702-3,
These arms on the monument of Edmond Hudson. .Mayor of Lyme
Regis in 1643, who died 2D April 1658, aged 63. Per pale and
: per chev. the latter emb , Or, and Vei l, three martlets all
.counterclianged. Crest - -The upper half of a fir cone, thereon a
dove with a branch of pine in its beak all ppr. Stowe MS. 71-1 :
Add. MS. 14,830!
Hudson, Rouert, Esq., of London ; entered in 1634 by R St George,
Clar. Per chev. emb. Arg. and Gu., three escallop shells counter-
changed. Crest- -A griffin's head erased Arg., gorged with a
coronet Gu Harl. MS 5,869.
1 Joux Howson, Btudent of Christ Church, Oxford, 1577 j HA.. 12 Nov. 1578 ;
M.A., 3 March L581-2 ; licensed to preach. 23 July 1597; n Canon of Christ
Church, B.D., and D.D. in l€J0l ; Viee-Chaneollor, K')t>L' ; Prcbcudarv of
Hereford, 1587, find of fijceter, 1*592; Vicar of Bampton, 1598, and »>f
Qreat Milton, 1601, Rector <>l' Brightwell in L008, all in <•«•. Oxoo. \ nn
original Fellow of Chelsea College in I6l0j made Bishop of Oxford, 1018,
and translated to Durham in it'rjs: born in Bt, Bride's parish, l«ondnn,
about 1550; died (> IVli. K>:u-:_>. and was buried ;it St. Paul's Cathedral
Of his sons, the eldest John was horn at Oxford in lt»11 ; student at Christ
Church, U:> June 1627, aged is; B.A„ l'T Tunc 1627 j sl.A . 3 June 10311 ;
Kert or of 'J'oft next Newton,* eo. I. inc.. ICW.V and of '•*!. rototi le Moor, 1038
Nicholas, the third son, matr. at Mertcta CoW„ 31 Jan. 10284), h d it»;
H.A., 10 Feh. H»l\s.n; M.A.. !l Nor. 1694 j Fellow of that College from
1080 to 16 I'.t ; and died in 1059
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
275
Huktt, "William, Es%j of Millbrook, co. Beds. Conf. by R. Cook,
Clar., I May 1579. 1 and ±, Sa a cbev bctw. three ow ls Arg. ;
2 and 3, Gu. a crescent Arg., within an orle of billets Or (tor
Tilton). Crest — A cockatrice Or. The patent was produced at
the Visitation of Beds, in 103 before George Owen, York
Herald, and Henry Lilly, Rouge Dragon. Harl. MS. 1,441.
Hoggins, John, of St. Martin's in the Fields, co. Middlesex, Esq.,
Warden of the Fleet, and J. P. Gr. by J. Anstis, Garter,
15 June 1725. Erni. a chev. vaire Or and Gu. bctw. three
lozenges Az., each charged with a bear's paw erect and erased
Arg. Crest — A bear's paw erect and erased Erm., holding a
sceptre with a lleur-de-lys at the top Gu. Add. MS. 14*831.
Hughes,1 William, Bishop of . . . Granted 10 Dec. 1573. Gu. a
man's head affrontce, and erased at the neck ppr., wreathed Or
and Arg., on a chief of the last three roses of the field.
Stowe MS. 703.
Hulbert, . . . Gr. March 1G39. Per cross Arg. and Sa., on a bend
of the second three annulets of the first ; in the second and third
quarters a lion ramp. Or.
William Hulbert, D.D., living in Hant«,*f», . . dau. of . . . Barley, of (?) Poul-
Chamberlain to K. Edw VI. ~ | shot, Wilts, Esq.
(1) William=f=Joane, dau. of
Hulbert, of John Smith, of
Hamble,co. I Corsham, Wilts,
Hants. j Esq.
William,
ob. S.i).
Christopher,
ob. s.p.
I r
James. John.
(2) James.=pAnii, dau. of John Smith, of
I Corsham, Wilts, Esq., elder son
of Thomas Smith, sometime
j Customer of England.
Jolm-T-Margcrv, da. of Thoinas^Elizabeth, da. of Tho. Walles,
Hul-
bert,
Roger Chilfnrd,
of Comberford.
Hulbert.
of Trowbridge, Wilts.
James
Hulbert .
s. and h
T=Mary, dau. of Richard
j Hulbert, she d. '23 June
1618.
(3) James."
. . . da. of
. . . Hulbert
of Elton.
Thomas.
Ann, da. of
Tilsford, eo.
Ann.
Rich
Margaret.
Wastfild, of
second wife.
Elizabeth.
r T ~
James.
Job
Tliehard-p SA nn.
Uul- j West
bert. | wife.
■ I i
J a uies
da. of Kraneis Power, of
Lavingtou, co. Wilts ; lirst
— I — I
John.
Thomas. William.
" Vide Visitation of Hants for the
by way of eertilieat e with the anm
Stowe MS. G77.
Thomas,
arms. This pi
in the Heralds
dijrrec
1 Office
William,
entered in putt
1 Hi oui.s, William, Bishop of St. Asaph, K>7:'. L6UO5 Boa of Hugh *p Kyurfck,
of eo. Carnarvon; sizar of Queen's Coll.. Cambridge, k-.m : B.A, L60G 7 .
M.A. in 1560; PolloM Christ's ('oil.. 1508 ; D.D., 11 Juh ICQ9, Re was
donieslie rhaplahi to Thomas Cuke Of Norfolk. ;ind held a numb- r ««:
benefices, chiotlv in Wales Mado KiftHop of St. Attipll in 1573, IThich
See hfi held mitil his death. 10 JfoV. 1<>iH); huri.-.l in St
Cathedral. See Foster's Alumni (ta'OMiVNtffK. Tho ro.it -iven abovo differ*
llightly from that givcu for him in Pap Worth. Called " RaWtO*' in tllQ MS,
276
GRANTS AND CERTIFICATES OF ARMS.
Hull, John, of Battersea, Surrey, Esq., s. and h., of John Hull, of
Newport Pagnell, co. Bucks, s. of William Hull, of Essendine,
co. Northampton, Esq. The amis certif. by W. Camden, Clar., in
July 1616, and conf., and the crest granted by Sir W. Segar,
Carte, 25 June 1624. Sa. a chev. Erm. betw. three talbots'
heads eiased Arg. Crest — A talbot's head erased Arg., collated
Gu., betw. two branches of laurel. Vert. Harl. MBS. 6,140
and 6,059 ; Add. MS. 12,225 ; Stowe MS. 707.
Hull, Joseph, of Stoke-next-Navland, co. Suffolk, J. P., and an Utter
Barristcr-at-Law of Eincoln's Inn. Conf. of arms with due
difference and gr. of crest by Sir W. Dugdale, Garter, and Sir H.
St. George, Clar., 7 Feb. 1680. The ancient arms of Hull, viz.,
Erm., three lozenges Gu., to which is added a bord. Az.
Crest — On a cap of maintenance Az., turned up Erm., a lion
pass. gard. of the last, crowned Or, the dexter foot resting on
a lozenge Gu. Motto — Legume lidelis. Stowe MS. 711.
Hulls (or Hulse), Thomas, of Norbury and Ashley, co. Chester, Esq.
Conf. by AY. Flower, Norroy, 1566. 1 and 4, Arg. a pile from
the chief betw. two from the base Sa. ; 2 and 3, Gu. a cross
fleury betw. four swans Arg. Crest— A stag's head couped ppr.,
germed with laurel Vert, betw. the attires Sa., the sun Or.
Harl. MS. 1,339.
Hulsox, John, of London, s. of Robert, s. of Thomas Unison, of
Axletree Wyke, (]) co. York. Pat. 10 Feb. 1577. Arg. on a
canton Sa. three coronets in bend Or. Crest — A demi lion ramp.
Sa., supporting a shield Arg. Stowe MSS. 670 and 703 ; Add.
MS. 4,966 ; Marl. MS. 1,359.
Hulton alias Hilto^ Adam, of the Park, co. Lane. Conf. of arms
and gr. of crest by L. Dalton, Norr. 1 and 1, Arg. a lion ramp.,
double queue Gu. (Hulton); 2 and 3, Arg. a lion ramp. Gu.,
crowned Or (Hilton). Crest — From a crest, coronet Or, a. buck's
bead Arg., attired of the first, betw. two branches of hawthorn
Vert, fructed Gu. Harl. MS. 1,359.
Humeekston, Matthew, Esq. Gr. 20 Nov. 1707. Arg, three bars
Sa., in chief three ogresses. Crest— On a cap of maintenance
Vert, turned up lain., a grifftVs head erased Arg., on the neck
three ogresses in pale. Stowe MS. 716.
Humble, Gtsorue, of London, 16*34, who had issue (1) William, (2)
Thomas, and four daughters. Sa. a slag tl'ipp, Or, a chief ind. of
the last. Crest — A demi s t n <; Or, gorged w ith laurel Vert. Harl
MS. o,SG!>.
Humby, John, of Maltbv, co him-., Esq. One of the Queen's
Auditors of the Chest. Conf. of arms and alteration of the
crest by Sir G. Dethick, Garter, R. Cook. Clar.j and \V. Flower,
Norroy, 12 March to the said John Huniby and all others
of his blood and name. Quarterly, 1, \<\ three helmets closed
Or (Humby): 2. Tor pale Or and Gu., three mullets counter
changed (Hansard); 3, Arg. a crona eng. Gu., in the first cantou
ni) annulet Ol the second ((oeone) ; I. Or a cllCV. betw, CTOKS
crosslets Si. (SiVffht). Cresl A falcon riving ppr.. the MSldo of
ttol wings, alsothe beak and legs Or. Hari MS 1,339 j Aon
MS. 14,295 ; Stowe MS. 703.
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
277
Humfrey, Richard, of Rettendon, co. Essex. Gr. by Sir W. Segar,
Garter. 1 and 4, Gu. on a cross botonee Argi, five ogresses ;
2 and 3, Arg. on a chev. betw. three ravens' lieads erased Sa., as
many mullets Or. The second and third for his mother, dau. and
coh. of . . . Warner, of London. Add. MS. 12,225.
Hum fry, William, gent., Asseymaster in the Tower of London to
Q. Eliz. Gr. 30 June 15G2, by W. Harvey, Clar. Sa. a chev.
eng. Or, betw. three bezants, on a chief of the second a rose
Gu., betw. two lieurs-de-lys Az. Crest — A horse's head couped
Or, semee of ogresses, betw. two wings barry wavy Arg. and
Az. Harl. .MS. 1,350. Harl. MS. 6,169 gives the same
particulars but makes tire arms— Sa. on a chev. eng. Or, betw.
three bezants a ruse Gu., enclosed by two lleurs-de-lys Az.
Humphrey, Charles, of Eishangles, in Suffolk. C 3iif . by W. Camden,
Clar , and after to his s. Thomas Humphrey, of Dublin, 26 Jan.
1638. Gu. a lion ramp. Or, in chief a coronet of the last.
Crest — On a coronet Or, an eagle, wings elevated of the same,
beak and legs Gu., grasping a lance, the stalf of the fust tassclled
of the second, head ppr. Harl. MS. 1,105.
(To be continued .)
Jintirxs of Iboiis.
A History of the House of Douglas from the Earliest Times
DOWN TO THE LEGISLATIVE UxiOX OF ENGLAND AVI) SCOTLAND.
By the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell Bart., MP., F.R.S.,
LL.T)., President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. With
an introduction by W. A. Lindsay, Windsor Herald. London
(Freemantle A: Co.), mcmii.
Sir Herbert Maxwell states in his preface that to write a
thorough history of the Douglas family would be to write a
history of Scotland from the thirteenth century, and certainly
two volumes before us go a long way to prove such an assertion.
He has, therefore, found it necessary to limit 'his subject to
"the descent of the principal families sprung from the original
stock, to relate the part borne by the most prominent member^ of
these families in the affairs of their country and to indicate the
origin of minor branches;" but in spite of this restriction the author
has evidently had no light task, and he is to be heartily congratulated
on achieving a notable success. The descendants, too. of William
"Long Leg,"' for with, him it appears the genealogy of the race
begins to stand on linn ground, are also to be congratulated on
their family being taken first iu a aeries inteuded to illustrate the
great houses which have made the history of our country. The
opening chapters deal with theories ahvidy advanced as to the
origin of the Douglases, and are somewhat disappointing! inasmuch
as the question is left in tlu same unsatisfactory state. In
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NOTICES OF BOOKS.
fact we are- told that the family emerges "from the mist of
an almost unwritten antiquity :' in the thirteenth century. As
soon, however, as the nebulous stage is passed, what with the
aid of ancient chroniclers, printed records and modern writers,
the author's pen moves rapidly, and the good and evil deeds
of this historic house are laid bare. In the person of the firsl
Earl of Douglas we have one of the most conspicuous characters
in the history, a diplomat of no mean ability, but " the Good
Sir James of Douglas " stands out as the hero of the piece. To
him a whole chapter is accorded, and in spite of the incident of
the "Larder," which is inconsistent with his ttobriqttet, he remains
and ever will remain "the Good >Sir James." In relating the lives
of the majority of the members of this great family — there is a
list, by the way, of no less than eighty-four noted as "the principal
individuals referred to in this work "—Sir Herbert .Maxwell
successfully holds the reader's attention and by his ready wit in
creating situations to bring out in relief the materials on which
his story is built up. he prevents the subject becoming dry, an
achievement rarely attained with literature of this nature. At
times too light a vein is introduced. For instance, he draws a
picture which surpasses a newspaper report on one of the
numerous escapes of the ex-President of the late Orange Free
State during the present unhappy war. Mr. Steyn was said to
have made a hurried exit in. his " shirt sleeves," but here no less
a person than Raliol made a similar departure "in his shirt tails,"
an extravagance of description more amusing than dignified. Apart
from occasional outbursts of this kind these two fascinating volumes
are typical of what a popular family history should be. and as
we are told in Mr. Lindsay's excellent introduction that the ol
of this series is not to publish, "mere genealogical chronicles" but
" to record what part was played by certain prominent families in
the received historical drama," we feel certain the public will consider
that object fully attained. The critical genealogist, on the other
hand,' may Bndi much to question, and one inaccuracy in particular is
certain to claim his attention. The important paper communicated to
this magazine in January 1900,"by Mr. Joseph Bain, in which the
identity of the wife of Archibald "the Grim." w cleared up, has
evidently not been seen by Sir Herbert Maxwell. Of the
works of modern authorities made use of. the Dougkw Book, by
the late Sir William Fraser, has evidently been of great assistance
and is duly acknowledged, the seals ami signatures in thai work
being here reproduced a boon indeed, tor rraaer'a volumes
are, unfortunately, dilHcult to acquire. The heraldic device- of
the Douglases, apart froni the aforesaid seals, are presented in a
number of beautifully coloured plates, though no authority is
quoted for their genuineness, an omission of great importance.
The portraits are interesting, especially that of the Regent Morton,
the frontispiece to the Hist volume, which is from an original
study. Mr. Herbert Kailton's .sketches ..re chaiming and add not
a little to the wealth of illustration with which these volumes are
endow ed.
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
279
Une Famille Royalikte, Trlandaise et Fkancalse, et Le Prince
Charles-Edouahd. Nantes (Imprimerie Emile Grirnaud et fils).
Students of history will be grateful to the Due de la Tremoille
for the publication of these letters, which were recently discovered
by him among the archives of the Chateau de Serrant. They are
for the most part addressed to those two devoted adherents of the
exiled Stuarts, Anthony Vincent Walsh, created by the old Pretender
" Earl Walsh," and his brother Francis James, Comte de Serrant.
The pedigree of these two distinguished men has recently been
contributed to this magazine by Mr. V. Ilussey Walsh, and will be
familiar to our readers, The correspondence falls into two divisions :
the first portion deals with the preparations made in France for
assisting* the young Pretender in his ill-fated expedition to Scotland
in 1745, and the later letters range from 174<S almost to the time
of Charles Edward's death. As these letters had to pass through
the post the Prince devised a scheme by which they should be
rendered unintelligible except to the persons to whom they were
addressed. His attempt to recover the English throne is sometimes
referred to as "le process de cette jeune iille " ; " Rotterdam ?' stands
for England, " Banford " for Scotland, and assumed names ore
employed to denote the principal persons engaged in the plot. The
Prince himself is generally "Mi*. Burton," "Mr. John Douglas,"'
or simply "J.D."; the old Pretender is "Mr. Mansfield," the de
facto King of England, "Mi-. Mason," and sometimes "cette
vicille tantc Ellis," the Pope "Mr. Helebrune," and Anthony Walsh,
" Monsieur Ee Grand." The letters of Charles Edward, both in
French and English, are badly expressed and ill spelt, but this
may, as far as our language is concerned, be explained by the
evident fact that the proof sheets of this work have been
corrected by someone with a very imperfect knowledge of English.
Two of the most interesting letters in this collection are copies :
one of them is addressed by Charles Edward to Madame de Pom-
padour, and the other by the old Pretender to his son, showing
pathetically how deeply the elder Stuart felt the Prince's treatment
of him and his neglect of parental counsel. A sentence contained
in -one of the last of the letters, dated from Madrid in 1762 and
signed "Ward," well expresses the dissatisfaction with which the
followers of the young Pretender began to regard his conduct;
" Vous me dites que ce que Lenvic et la calomnie a debitcl de
notre heros est faux, je le crois, mais ntalheureusemenl. ce que ses
meilleurs amis disent de lui dans l'amertume de leur ame, est vitii,
e'est met lui-meme obstacle a ses affaires."
Publications of the Clan Lindsay Society. No. 1. Edited by
AY. A. Lindsay, K.C., H*trt<frw ff&afd. (Kdinhurgh, printed by
John Lindsay, &04, Lav nmarkcl ).
The Clan Lindsay Society was founded In Octobei I SOT, its
being, as the editor tells us in his preface, 14 to associate together
the members of a family or clan founded in Scotland L\ one Walter
de Lindissi in the time of King Alexander 1." The RrsI number
of the Society's Publications is mainly taken up with a short account
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
of the great house of Lindsay, and a record of three gatherings
of the Society at Balcarres, Edzell and Cupar-Fife. Genealogists,
whether belonging to the clan or not. will find the extracts from
old registers useful, while the lists of recent marriages and deaths
of persons of the name form the nucleus of a collection which, if
continued year by year, will prove of great value to genealogists
ot the future. The obituary notices include a short memoir, with,
portrait, of the late Lord Wantage, whose services in connection with
the Volunteer movement are well known, though, somewhat to our
surprise, we find no mention of them here.
An Index or Names of Wixciiestek Scholars in the %< Dictionary
of National Biography.'3 By Herbert Chittv, M.A. Winchester
(P. and G. Wells). ..
This index originally appeared in "The Wykehamist" in December,
1901 [No. 388]. It has evidently been a labour of love and may
well serve as a model for other lists of the scholars of our great
schools. The compile!' has wisely confined his researches for the
most part to scholars to whom a separate notice lias been accorded
in the Dictionary. Numerous references are given to Note* and
Queries, in which useful publication many errors which are to be
found in the Dictionary have from time to time been corrected,
chiefly, we think, by Mr* Chitty Himself. We are glad to learn
that he has in contemplation a similar index of Winchester
Commoners.
An Early Grant of Arms (Genealogist, New Series, wii, 35).-
I think it is perfectly clear that what is here recorded is the
grant of the Crest only, which is quite ordinary, namely :- -A cap
Azure, surmounted by a plume of ostrich feat/tern GiUe*. Mr.
Kylands rightly speaks of this- as an "unusual coat of Arm-." I
should almost, call it impossible. 1 suggest that the clerk who
made the entry either had no information as to the Arm* beyond
the fact that the field was Argent, or from ignorance or carelessness
carried his description no farther and went on to describe the
Great, A verbatim translation of the entry would be welcomed by
many of the readers of The G* nealoywt,
W. F, Carter.
Curtois Family.- What were the Aims borne by Ralph Curtois,
Mayor of Lincoln in the reign of Henry V. 1413, and b) Pierce
Courteys, Keeper of the Great Wardroto of Kichard lib 1485, and
the descent of both to Richard Courteys. Bishop of Chichester loTO,
who is know n to have borne the present coat of Arms of the Curtoii
family I
K. A II.
gjistorj) of the Jfanulg
OF
SEvoltcolcj), of tStroitcsUg,
do. <StaffonX
W R OTTESLE Y OF WROTTESLEY.
241 >
Tlie following- deeds formerly at Wrottesley belong to
the epoch of Sir Walter Wrottesley.
Edwnrdus dei gratia Rex Aiiglie et Francie et Dominus Hibernie,
omnibus ad qtios present es litere pervenerfht, saliitem. Sciatis quod
nos de gratia nostra speciali ex mero motu et certa seiencia nostris
ac consideratione boni et grafriiiti servitii quod dilectus et fidelis noster
Walter its de Wrottesley miles nobis ante hec tempora irtipendit,
Dedimux el concessinms ac per presented damius et concedimus eidem
Waltoro maneria sive d.ominica de Mere, Clynfc alias dictum Clent
et Hondesworth cum peitinentiis, neenbn advocaciones ecclesiarum
de Hondesworth predieti et Forton in comitatu Staffordie ; ac etiam
mfineria dc Kamisham alias dictum Rammesham et Poundeknolle alias
dictum Penpcle cum pertinenfiis ac advocacionem ecclesie de Rami-
sliam alias dictum Rammesham predict! in Comitatu Dorset, cum
feodis hiilitilm, pareis, warennis, franchesiis, libertatibus, curiis,
visibus franeiplg<>ii, piscariis? et omnibus aliis libertatibus, proficuis
et omolumentis predictis mnneriis ac coram cuilibet sen coram alicui
quovismodo spectantibus sive pertinentibus que nuper fuerunt Jacobi
nu per Comitis Wiltes ftebelhs nostri de alt is proditionibus attincti
virtu to cujusdam actus parliaments in parliamento nostro apud West-
monasterium quarto die Novombris anno regni nostri primo tento,
edito. et ad man us nostras ea occasion e devenerunt sen devenire
debuerunt. Habenda et tenenda predicta maneria, advocaciones, et
cetera premiss a, cum pertinentiis eidem Waltero et heredibus suis
masculis de corpore suo legitime procrcatis imperpotuum de nobis
then Garter King of Arms, the existence of these Statutes ;it Wrottesley.
Tliis information caused much excitement at the College of Arms, for no
copy of the' .Statutes earlier than the reign of Henry V was known to exist,
and it was thought possible that we might he in possession of a copy of the
original Statutes of Edward III. It was therefore arranged that my father
should bring the Statutes to London, and that they should be examined by
Sir Thomas Duff us Hardy, who was then Deputy Keeper of the Records, and
the most experienced palooographiat of his day. Tito meeting took place at the
Kolls Office in Chancery Lane, and Sir Thomas, after examining the Roll,
stated, without hesitation, that the handwriting was not earlier than Henry VI
or Edward IV, and he asked whether another member of the family had hot
been a Knight of the Garter during one of these reigns, sir Charles Young
on examining the Roll agreed with Sir Thomas Hardy and shewed that the
Statutes were the same verbatim as those of Henry V, a copy of which lie
had brought with him for comparison. The Statutes were in French ami the
names of the original Knights of the Carter on the Wrottesley Roll were
entered as below.
Le Prince do Galles, Monsire Johan de Grey.
Le Due de Laneastre. „ Kichard Fita Simon.
Le Comto de Warwick* ,. Miles de Sfapelton.
Le Capbal dc Bit oh.
Le Comto do Stafford.
Le Comte de Salesburi.
Le Sire do Moi timer,
i.e she .Khan Lisle.
Monsire Hart he 1 emi Burghersh
Monsire Johan de Beauchamp.
Le Sire do MohlHli
Monsire Hugh de Conrtcnay,
Thomas Wale.
Hugh de Wrottesley.
NeaJ l."i\ng.
Johan Chamlos.
James Daudley.
Otho Holland.
Henry Hun.
Bitncliet Dapriohecoui t.
Walter I'.ivelc.
Thoma* Holland"
242
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
ct heredibus nostris pro servicia, tot feoda militum, ac tot et tanta
alia redditus et servicia pro que ante primum diem Martii anno regni
nostri primo de progenitoribus seu predeeessoribus nostris aut coram
aliquo aut alia persona .sou aliis per.sonis quibuscunque separatim
tenebanturi Et ulterius per presentes concedimus eidcm Waltero,
exifcus, proficua, et emoluments, omnium dictorum maneriorum et
eeterorum premissorum habenda et percipienda eidem Waltero. a sexto
die Januarii anno regni nostri secundo per menus firmariorum,
receptorum, sive aliorum occupatorum eorundem absque aliqub com-
poto sive aliquo inde nobis vol heredibus nostris solvendo, faciendo
sive reddendo1. Et ulterius perdonavimus remisimus et relaxavimus
eidem Waltero omnimoda debita, compota, prestita, arreragia, actiones
et demanda que nos vel heredes nostri ratione premissorum aliquo
modo versus eundem YYalterum ante tertium decimum diem martii
ultimo preterit urn habere poterimus seu debuissimus ae omnimodas
intrusiones, transgressiones, sive impetitiones per ipsum Walterum
factas in premissis seu aliquo premissorum eo quod expressa mentio
de vero valore annuo aut de aliquo alio valore premissorum facta in
presentibus non existit, aut aliquo statute, aetu. ordtnatione seu
provisione inconlrarium facto, edito seu proviso aut aliqua alia re,
causa vel materia quacnnque non obstante. In cujus rei testimonium
has literas nostras fieri fecimus paten tes. Teste me ipso a pud
Westmonasteriuni vicosimo octavo die Februarii anno regni nostri
quinto (28 February, 14GG).1
Great Seal of England in dark green wax and in fine
preservation.
Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Walfcerus Wrotfceslejr, miles,
dominus do Perton dcdi concessi, et hac carta mea confirmavj,
Willelmo Cockys de Patyngham tres srostos (sic) tcrre cum perti-
nentiis' sitis jacentes infra dominium de Perton, etc. Hiis testibus
Ricardo Clemson, etc. Data apud Perton predictum die Martis
proximo ante festum Sancte Petronille Virginia anno regni regis
Edwardi quarti post conquestum Anglie nono (May, 1469). 8
Seal destroyed.
Universis et singulis presentem documentum visuris lecturia vel
auditurifl Walterus Wmttislcy miles, Salutem in domino sempiternam,
Novcrit universitas vestr;i me prefutum Wulterum fecisse, ordinasse,
])osuisse ct loco meo ct pro me constitutive dilectos mibi in Xpo
Joliannaru uxorem mcam carissimam, Johannem Yonge et Johannem
llopton generosos, nuns veros lcgitimoa et indubitatos tttoniatoa
1 brfgitial Letters Patent at WroWeeley, oopt*l 1860-02,
1 Origiual tfeeJ at Wrotteaky, o»>i>i«tl 1800*62.
WROTTESLEY OF WROTTESLEY.
243
(Here follow full powers to receive all rents, to sue for debts, to carry on
all suits, etc., and a, clause exonerating them from all 'personal liability for
the same). Ratum et gratum habiturum quidquid predict] attornati
et eorum quilibet nomine nostro (sic) feeerint vel feeerifc in premissis.
In quorum omnium singulorum fidein et testimonium sigillurn meum
armorum presentibus apposui. Datum terfcio die mensis Octobris
anno regni Kegis Edwardi quarti post conqucstum undecimo (3 Octob.,
1471). 1
Seal of red wax, in very fine preservation.
Arms of Sir Walter Wrotteslev.
Quarterly — Or three piles Sable, a quarter Ermine— for Wrottesley :
and Gules, a chevron Azure, between three garbs Or— fop Boron of
Heading.2
1 Original deed at Wrottesley, copied 1 SoO-Gl*.
- See a tyojte on tin; Burnn Arms by the hue Mr. Sidney Graaebrook, among*!
his notes upon Glover's Visitation of Staffordshire! of LfcS3, prtuted in vol. iii
of Staffordshire Collections, p. 152. The arms of Baron are emblazoned as zltovc in
both the fitrtrfoixlshii-e VisitRtion8 of 1583 and loll, and there is no doubt that tin*
the original blazon. The Heralds ot a later era, however, wlun they atteini ted
to make an exact science of Heraldry, laid down a rule that eikmr should not be
borne on colour, 'ami tney changed tin* Baron chevron im>> one "eoionoiie Or and
Azure"; hut the seal of Sir Walter Wruttealey sinews a plain chevron, a ml
the garbs must he gold, it [h eleai" that the original coat must have di*|ilayed
colour U)k>tl colour, as stated in the PoUCS MS. and the IU: .V \*i . .u->n>
of 15SJ1 and ltd I,
244
JILSTORY Of THE FAMILY OF
Richard Wrottesley, A.D. 1478—1521.
f • f
em
5>y
whilst
unoer
Q
According to the Inquisition taken
on the death of Sir Walter Wrottes-
ley, his eldest son Richard was aged
sixteen in 1473. He would, there-
fore, come of age in 147S. As his
father was a tenant in capite, the
wardship and marriage of the heir
would fall to the Crown ; but as
regards the latter, it was usual at
this period to forestall the rights of
the Crown or other superior lord, by
marrying the heir during the life-
time of the owner of the fee, and
Richard appears to have been married
Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Edmund
was the eldest son of John. Lord
the staunchcst supporters of the
ige to
Sutton. Sir Edmund
Dudley, who had been one oi
Yorkist cause, and it is not unlikely that this alliance had some
influence in saving the life of Sir Walter Wrotteslcy in 1471.
He was a man of some note in his day, and in 1470
was acting as Lieutenant of Ireland for George, Duke
of Clarence. On the Close Roll of 10 Edward IV there is
a writ, dated 23 March, addressed to him stating that John,
Earl of Worcester, had been substituted for George, Duke of
Clarence, as Lieutenant of Ireland, the said Duke having
been deprived of the office owing to his " grete and haynous
offences lately committed. " Sir Edmund predeceased his
father, but was alive as late as 1483, for he was present
Eichard III, which took place in July
the
was
coronation
l
of
at
of that year.
Richard is shewn to be the son of Sir Walter Wrottesley,
by the deeds formerly at Wrottesley, by the Inquisition on
his father's death, by another Inquisition on the death of his
grandmother Thomasine, and the suits of 1 Richard 111 and
16 Henry V.11. respecting the Arderne estates.- He doubtless
derived his baptismal name from Richard, Earl of Warwick,
the King .Maker.
He seems to have been brought up in the Priory of St.
Mary of Mount Carmel, in Coventrj', for there was formerly
at Wrottesley a parchment certificate by Thomas, the Trior,
Richard Wrattysle " propter devotionem sincetam
nostrum hahctis orainem^ the blessing c>t' the
granting to
quam
ad
'aternity, and thai the same prayers shall be said after hi:
1 GnMftbrook'fl >l HUfcory of the Dudley Family," vol i\ »>f Sttffortlshirt
Collections, p. 78.
a CliOMUr Pleas 22 Klv.ur.l IV, m. 30 i 10 Henry VII, m. 10.
WROTTKSLEV OF WROTTESLEY.
245
death as after the death of any of the Brethren of the
Convent. This grant Was dated in 1477, when Richard was
twenty years of alge, and was apparently handed to him on
leavino- the monastery.
As his grandmother Thomasine had been jointly enfeoffed
with her ■ husband Hugh Wrottesley in the manors of
Wrottesley and Butterton, Kichard could not 'enter, into
possession of his Staffordshire estates till after the death
of Thomasine, which occurred on Christmas Day 1480 ; and
on this event taking place his mother Jane, who had in
the meantime remarried Sir Richard Darrell, of Littlecote,
claimed possession of the manors under the deed of 14G3.
Richard Wrottesley's claim would be probably based upon
the first settlement, of 1441, and the dispute would have led
to a long and disastrous law suit, if it had not been terminated
by arbitration. At this date Richard had amongst his near
neighbours Sir Thomas Littleton, one of the Justices of the
Kingrs Bench, and the famous author of the '•Tenures,'' who
had married the widow of Sir Philip Chctwynd, of Ingestrc,
and both parties consented to abide by the decision of Sir
Thomas, and one of his colleagues, Sir Richard Chokkc.1 The
award of the arbitrators is dated the 31st May, 21 Edward IV
(1481), and was the earliest English deed amongst those formerly
at Wrotteslety. By the terms of it Sir Richard Darell anil
Jane were to release by deed to Richard Wrottesley all their
right in the manors of Wrottesley and Butterton, and all
other lands and tenements in Wrottesley. Butterton, Tettenhall
and Codsallj which were sometime in the possession of Walter
Wrottesley or Hugh Wrottesley, father of the said Walter, for
which the said Richard Wrottesley should grant to Sir Richard
Darell and Dame Jane, his wife, an annual rent of £5 to
be paid at two terms of the year, " that is to say the
one half on St. Martyn's day after all halowmesse at
the Rode of the North dove in Panics in London
bitwene (me of the Clok at afternones and four of the
clok of the same day than next ensuying. and the other
half in the same place the Saturday next after the
Assencion day bitwene one of the clok at afterimne and
live of the clok" of the same day than next following,"
such payment to endure pending the life of ttic said Dt&tne
Jane, and with power to levy a distress for the s mm. if it
should bo in anvar. For further surety Richard Wrottesley
was to enfeoff in the manor of Wrottesley the said Thomas
LyUeUon, Uichard Lyttelton, John IVown. William Wrottesley,
1 Richard Ohokke. Kt.. uliQ «>f tin* Justice a o( the Delicti, wi<J M.p_ii.m. iu,
vifo, late wife of William QitLutl, Annigcr, executrix of the will of WillUm
Uitlant, obtain- tl R pttltKttl U>r .a! olfi'tlCCfl AIM I uluittM on the part of the Cl\>WU)
Utltti ttOth January, a K.in.u.l t\ [Vardou Uull),
9
2g6
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
and William Wylkys, P to the intent that they shall be and
stonde feofTes of the said manour with the appurtenants
duryng the lyf of the same dame Jane for the content acion
of the said annuytie."'1
In pursuance of this award Pochard Dareil, Kt., and Jane,
his wife, late wife of Walter Wrottesley, Kt.. conveyed to
Richard Wrottesley. Armiger, son and heir of the said AValter,
the manors of Wrottesley and Buttertoii, and all the other
lands named in the award, by a deed dated 22nd May
21 Edward IV (1481),- and on the following 20th June
Richard, by his deed, enfeoffed Thomas Littelton, Kt., Richard
Littelton, John Broun, William Wrottcsley, and William
Wylkes, in the manor of Wrottesley.
The live manors which had been granted by Edward IV
to Sir Walter Wrottesley were resumed by the Crown
after Sir Walter's death under the provisions of an Act of
Parliament passed on the 6th October 13 Edward IV (1473).
By tin's Statute the King was empowered to resume all
grants made later than the 4th March 1 Edward IV, and
it likewise vested in the King all the property of persons
subsequently attainted. Under this Act of Parliament the
claims of Sir Walter's widow and children were ignored,
for on the 10th October in the following year the King
granted to Humfrey Stafford, Armiger, of Grafton, and to
his heirs, the manors of Clent, 11 on ncs worth and Mccre,
which had lately belonged to James Ormond {sic), formerly
Earl of Wilts, and which had come into his hands by the
attainder of the said James.3
The two Dorsetshire manors, Rampisham and Peupole, with
upwards of one hundred others, had been granted by the
King to his brother, the " false fleeting perjured Clarence/'
as a reward for his treachery in 1471.
Having established his claim to the manors of Wrottesley
and Butterton, Richard next endeavoured, in conjunction
with Robert Legh, of Adlington. to obtain possession of the
Arderne estates in Cheshire. Their first writ was issued in
22 Edward IV, but before the case could be argued in
Court, the death of the King obliged them to renew their
suit by a second writ. The cause came on for heaving at
the Pleas of Trinity term 1 Richard 111. before Thomas,
Lord ►Stanley, Kt., Justice of Cheshire, and is recorded aa
follows : —
Crs/rla.-- Kobert Legh and Richard Wrottesle) sued John Stanley
for the manor of Aldeford, with the exception of 1 10 acrea of land
1 Original deed at) \YroUealej, copied 1360*62.
« Ibid.
3 Rot. Pat.. 1! Edward IV, pari 2, Jauae*, Earl <.i" NVUU, waa Janet DuUtr,
Earl of Oroiuud and \\ iltr.
. WROTTESLFA OF WROTTESLEW 247
and pasture and 13 acres of meadow; and they sued the same
John for the manor of Echeles, which Herbert Hampton, Parson
of the Church of Alderley, and John, son of Roger de Muntlowe,
gave to John de Ardenc and Elena., his Avife, for the term of
their lives, with remainder to Thomas de Arderne, son of the
said Elena, and the heirs male of his body, and failing such to
Walkcline, brother of Thomas, and the heirs male of his body, and
failing such, to John de Ardene and Elena and the heirs male
of their bodies, and failing such, to the heirs of the bodies of
John de Ardenc and Elena, and they gave this descent : —
John dc -Ardenc^pElcua.
seised temp.
Edward 111.
r-
Thomas. Walkeline, Matilda. Isabella.
| . ob. s.p.m. | |
John. ob. Robert de Lecrh. Kt. John.
p. m,
Robert. Hugh.
I I
Robert. Sir Walter Wrottcsley, Kt.
Robert Legh, Richard Wrotteslcv,
the plaintiff. plaintiff.
John Stanley asked for a view, and the suit was adjourned
to the Tuesday before the Feast of the Translation of St.
Thomas the Martyr (July 1484;, a view to be made in the
interim.
On the day named the plaintiffs appeared by attorney,
and John Stanley put in an essoin ' de malo veniendi"
and another day was given to the parties on the Tuesday
before the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary
(September 1484)1.
The battle of Bos worth was fought on the 22nd August
1485, and the death of the King necessitated a new writ.
The suit came on again at the Pleas of Trinity term,
1 Henry Yli (May I486), when John Stanley appeared and
ashed for a view. The suit was again adjourned, pending
a view, and does not reappear for some years. At tin's date
the influence of the Stanleys was predominant in Cheshire,
and with the many opportunities which the procedure of the
period a Horded for delay, it would have been hopeless to
have carried on a suit, in the Cheshire Courts against
such an ascendancy as the family of Stanley possessed.
The plea of 1 Henry V 1 1 was taken before Thomas
Stanley. Earl of Derby, who was the King's stepfather, and
had been the principal agenl in placing the King on the
throne, and associated with him was George Stanley. Lord
Chestor flu* UolU, No. IS7 ^1 t*> 9 Uieh.uil III), in. l».
248
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
Lestraunge, the son of the Earl. These two were joint
Justices of Cheshire. At the same date Sir William Stanley
was Chamberlain of Cheshire, and the Sheriff of the county
was cither a Stanley or the nominee of the Stanleys. In
5/0 Henry VII the Sheriff was William Stanley, the son of
the Chamberlain.
In 5 Henry VII John Stanley, .anticipating a renewal of
the suit, took steps fey means of a collusive action to obtain
a judicial title to the property ; the proceeding's . to effect
this were as follows : — In the Chester Court, Peter Warburton,
Richard Norris, Edmund Bulkeley and William Tatton sued
John Stanley, of Echeles, for the manors of Aldford, Alder-
legh and Echeles, of which they had been seised, as of
fee1 in the present reign. John Stanley appeared and called
to warranty Geoffrey Matthews, kinsman and heir of John
Ardene, Kt., who appeared in Court and warranted the manors
to him.
The plaintiffs then sued Geoffrey Matthews for the same
manors, as tenant under the warrant y, and Geoffrey made
default, and a verdict was delivered in their favour.2
It will be noted that in the action of Robert Legh and
Richard Wrolteslcy against John Stanley, no mention was
made of the manor of Alderiey, and it would seem as if
some compromise had been made respecting this manor, for
the Inquisition on Robert de Legh, the plaintiff in the suit
of 10 Henry IV. who died in 8 Henry V, shews that he was
in possession, when he died, of a perpetual rent of £10
proceeding from the manor of Alderiey. by gift of Thomas
de Stanley. The Inquisition, after naming Adlington and
other lands held in capite of the Earl of Chester, states
that Eobert obi it seisitits in dominico suo, (>J de fa
de decern libratis redditus sibi et kercdibias suia jper
Tho-mam. de Stanley concessit, 'percijnendis J.e mamrio
sxto de Alderiey.
At this date the Wroi tcsley claimant was a minor, and
there is no trace of any grant by the Stanleys to any
member of that family.
Richard Wrottesley was included in the Commissions of the
Peace for Staffordshire wsuctl by Richard EI] in the first and
second years of his reign. Most of the names on these Com-
missions are those of well known Yorkists, and the inclusion
of Richard's name in them seems to shew thai the temporary
alienation of his father from the cause had been condoned.
1 This would be by tyme previous feoffment made to them by* John Stanley,
2 CheMcr IMeas, B'Heury VII, m. 11 dorso. Ucoffrcy Matthowi wa*,»t court*,
a mere bojjfui warrantor, sel iip by the defendant, Johu Stanley.
WROTTESLEY of wrottesley.
249
Tlio names of most of the principal gentry of the county
are conspicuous by t heir absence from these lists, the only
namcs of Statlbrdshire landowners on them being : —
John Sutton, Lord Dudley, Humphrey Persall,
John Blount, of Mountjoy, Nicholas Mountgomery,
John Gresley, Ralph Wolseley, and
Kichard Wrottesley, John Cawardyne.1 v
The first Commission of the Peace for Staffordshire issued
by Henry VII, as might be expected, included a larger
proportion of the gentry of the county. It is dated the
27th September, 1 Henry VII, and contains the following
names : —
J. Bishop, of Coventry and William Basset;
Lichfield, Hugh Egerton,
Thomas Stanley, of Stanley, Richard Wrottesley,
Kt., George Stanley,
John Sutton, of Duddeley, Kt, Hugh Erdeswyke,
John Gresley, Kt., William Harper,*
Humphrey Stanley, Kt., Robert Hill,*
Hugh Peshall, Kt., John Blount,* and
Humphrey Starky, Kt.,* Thomas Tremaylc*
William Wilkes,*
Those on the list marked with an asterisk were the
professional Justices, whose names occur in all the Commis-
sions issued. The two Staffordshire lords, Audley and Dovereux
of Chartley, had attended the coronation of Richard III.
The former was therefore left out, and the latter had been
killed at Bdswortll.2
The Commission of the next year contains the same names,
excepting Robert Hill, and with the addition of George,
Earl of Shrewsbury, and Ralph Wolseley. By another Com-
mission of 2 Henry VII, Ralph Wolseley, Richard Wrattesicy,
William Harpur and John Blount, or any two or three of
those named (of which- the said William and John were to
be one), were appointed to deliver the Gaol of Stafford.
In 1490 the fee farm rent of a mark payable to the
Abbey of Evesham, had been many years in arrear, and
by a deed dated 12th .March. Henry VI] John, the Abbot,
remitted to Richard Wrottesley, of Wrottesley, Anniger, all
the arrears of the rent, 13s, 4d,, payable yearly to the
Convent, for which the said Richard assigned to the Coil"
1 Patent Hells, i an. I 2 ftichard ill. Kdward Grey (Viseminf UW*J
Henry Grey, of Codnor, were added to the list. l>nt they irere neither o(
them reektent in Staffordshire, and had no interest hi the county except
"overlords «.f some of the fees. These tiro lords heri attended the eorooetiou
of Hichard 111.
- John Audley, of Audley, nli«t John Tychet, Kt , obtained a perdon deled
ISth November, 1 Honrr VII. John Caivardiue bed bceu killed el Busirurth.
250
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
vent the bailiwick of Ambulcote, "now being or other
bailiwick there for the time being where the said Pochard
hath an annual fee of 40s. for term of his life, to
pay yerely to the said Abbot and his successors I3s. 4d.*'
The recital to the deed, which is in English, states that
the manor of Wrotteslcy was held of the Abbot as in the
right of his Monastery by Knight's service and by the yearly
rent of 13s. 4dJ
In 7 Henry VII, A.D. 1491-92, Richard served as High
Sherili of the County, and in 12 Henry VII he was appointed
one of the Commissioners for collecting the Subsidv granted
by Parliament in that year. The other Commissioners
were Humphrey Persall, Humfrey Swynnerton and Thomas
Welles.2 A contemporary copy of this Subsidy for the
Seisdon Hundred of Staffordshire was amongst the muni-
ments unfortunately destroyed by the tire at Wrotteslcy,
and the original is not to be found in the Public Kecord
OlKce.
In 16 Henry VII (1501) his eldest son Walter was married
to Isabella, the daughter of John .Harcourt, of Kanton. The
marriage of an elder son in these days was simply a com-
mercial transaction between two families ; the parents of
the bride giving a lump sum for the marriage, and tin-
father of the bridegroom landing himself to make an allow-
ance to the young couple and arrangements for a jointure
in case the heir predeceased his father. By an indenture,
dated the "J 2th March, 10 Henry VII (1501), and made
between- Richard Wrottesley, Esquire, on the one part, and
Dame Margaret Harcourt and Thomas Harcourt, Esquire,
on the other part, it was covenanted and agreed that "Walter
Wrottesley sonne and heir apparaunt unto the said Richard
shall by the grace of Cod, wedde and take to wyff Isabel
Harcourt, doghter of John Harcourt, Esqr., on this half
the F'este of Seynt Michel the Arch an gel I next eneuying
the date of this indenture, and att the reasonable request
of the said Dame Marget and Thomas, and if hit so he.
that the said Walt er discesse by fore marriage had bit ween
hym and the said Isabel 1, as God forbidde. that then tin4
next heir apparaunt to the said Richard schall take to
wylf the said Isabel] withyn a halfe yere after the discesse
of the said Walter." After which follow arrangements Ear
the jointure of Isabell, to take effect after the death of
Dame .lane Darrell, and also for the jointure of Dorothy
1 Originul deed at Wrottosley, copied 1860-62. If it had not bcou for the
Abbott claim for inilit uy serviee Ue might now have itjcovorod (lOMemioti under
the Statute of M Quare DetttAvit per Liunuiuui," LUe rent nul Uftving bin (Mid
for (am years,
,J lUAU of Parliament, printed.
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251
or any other wife which Richard Wrottesley might have.
The young lady's portion was 200 marks.
By one of the covenants of this Indenture, Eichard was
to make, within six months, ''a sure and suflieycnt astate
yn the law to the yerly value of 10 marks to the use and
behove of the seid Water and Isabell, and the heircs of the
hodic of Water by the seid Isabell bigoten.1' This .was to be
effected by vesting certain lands and tenements in the mimes
of trustees, who were to be Jo] m Beymound (Beaumont),
Thomas llarcourt, John Swynnerion and William Wilkes.
In pursuance of this agreement Richard enfeoffed the
above trustees in 17 Henry VII in all his lands in Bude-
worth, Torpurley and Kclsall, in co. Chester, and. a water
mill in Orton, co. Stafford, called Trylmyll, and two
pastures in Tettenhale.1 and he also appeared in person
in the Court of Sir John Ferrers, of Tettenhall Regis, and
surrendered a messuage which had been formerly held by
Walter Wyse, and all his other tenements in the Wyrges.
except a water mill called Burdurfs mill, to the use of
John Beaumont, Thomas llarcourt, John Swynnerton, Armi-
gers, and William Wylkes, of Wyllcnhale, and their heirs
and assigns."
In the same year the Leghs and WrottesIeVS revived
again their claim upon the Arderne estates in Cheshire.
The case came on for hearing in April 1501. The Boll
states that at the fleas of the County of Chester, he.ld
before Thomas. Earl of Derby, and George Stanley. Kt.,
Lord Le Straungc, son of the said Earl, in the fifth week
of Lent, 10 Henry VII, Thomas Legh and Richard Wrotteslcy
sued John Stanley for the manor of Echeles (Etchells) and
for the manor of Aide ford, excepting a messuage and twenty
acres of pasture, which Robert tie Hampton, Parson of fchc
Church of Alderley, and John, son of Roger dc Muntlowv.
had given to Join) de Ardene and Elena, his wife, for
the term of their lives, with remainder, etc. (as in the
previous suit), and they gave the same descent from John
and Elena, as in the previous suit, but the descent of the
Le<dis is carried down another generation Prom the fourth
Robert Legh to Thomas Legh, the present plaint hi', who
was Ids son. .lohn Stanley, the defendant, pleaded that h<>
could not answer without the King (Regc inconsulto^ because
it had been shewn by an Inquisition taken at Chester,
in the Hall of Pleas {in aula placitowm), before
William, the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, President
1 Ori-inal rloed at Wn>tn-W, bopfal ISIO*08.
• Copies of Court Italia, formerly U WVuttcstey. TUeaa skevred U*l U**Urr
Wyae Imtl BUTrcintererl lii.n Una in Tettcnhat] Kugui La W.ilui Wioiu.-'.o, Um
father of Rivlnu'd, in i;i lk my \ I.
252
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
of the Prince's Council, John Arundell, the Chancellor of the
Prince, Pochard Croft. Kt., Kobert Frost, Clerk, and Thomas
Ingletield, on the Thursday after the Feast of St. A'alentine.
10 Henry VII, by virtue of a Commission addressed to them
by the Prince, that William Stanley, Kt., who had been
attainted, of high treason, was seised on the day he was
attainted, in demesne as of fee, of the third part of the
Barony of Wichmalbanc and other estates, and that Peter
Werburton, Armiger, Pichard Nories, William Tatton and
Edmund Bulkeley, on the same date were seised in demesne,
as of fee, of the manors of Aldeford, Echeles and Alderley,
together with the advowsons of the churches of Aldeford
and Alderley, to the use and profit of John Stanley, Armiger,
for the term of the life of the said John, with remainder,
after his death, to the use of the heirs male of the body
of the said John, and failing such, to the use and profit
of the said William Stanley, Kt., his heirs and assigns for
ever, and as lie, the said John Stanley, had no male heir
of his body, the action could not proceed, unless the King
was made a party to it.1 Upon this the suit was adjourned
sine die. John Stanley died in 1509, leaving no male
issue, and as Sir William Stanley, of Holt, had been
attainted, the King took possession of the manors as an
eschoet of the Crown.2
In the autumn of this year, viz., on the 17th November
1501, Richard Wrottcsley officiated as an Esquire to Sir John
Hastings, who was made a Knight of the Bath, on the
occasion of the marriage of Prince Arthur, the heir apparent,
to Katherine of Arragon. The functions of the Esquires
attending on a newly made Knight were far more important
and onerous than would be supposed from their designa-
tion, for they acted, in fact, as his sponsors. "The maner
of making Knights after the custom of .England," a nearly
contemporary document, gives the following account of them: -
"When ail Esquire cometh into Court, to receive the order
of Knighthood, there shall be ordained two worshipful Squires,
wise and well nourished in courtesy, and expert in the d<
of Knighthood, and. they shall be Governors to him. to serve
and ordain what shall long (mY) to him for the time." (hie
of their functions was to put their Esquire into the Bath,
and afterwards to lead him into the King's presence, "the
said Scjuires being at all times before hint."
1 Cheshire Pleas, lti Henry VII, in. 10.
• Welsh ami Choaluro inqaisttiuus p.m., 1 Henry VI 1 1. AUtaley wot m»M
by the King to Mir William Brcruton, and <>n hia attaiuder it w.<> told to Sic
Edward Fit ton, who nold it, niii|<. KliaaheUi, i<» .sir rUtwaa Stanley, wIinM
descendant*, the Stanley* ef AMcrloy. .Mill |iuk«c<m it (OnuorudVi CUoJiirc
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After the conclusion of the ceremony, the same document
informs us that! " The Governors shall go and take charity
leave of their master, saying thus, ' Worshipful Sir, by the
King's commanndment, Ave have served you, and that com-
mandment fulfilled and performed to our power, and what
we have done in our service against your reverence, we
pray you of your grace to pardon us our negligence, and
furthermore of the customs of the Kings Court, we ask
and require you of robes and fees to the term of 3Tour life,
convenable to the King's Squires.' "
If such were the liabilities of a Knight at this period, it
will fully account for the paucity of the names of the old
county families to be found amongst the Knights of the
Tudor era'. Knighthood had, in fact, become the shadow
of a name with many onerous and expensive conditions
attached to it. The account of the marriage of Prince
Arthtir in the College of Anus, concludes with the statement
that after "the Knights had been dubbed and girded with
swords,, they should have rode also that time in their royalty,
but of that they were pardoned, because the weather was
not clear, nor convenient, because of much wet."1
" Happy the bride, the sun shines on," and if the old
adage Carries with it its converse, if received ample con-
firmation from the results of this ill-omened marriage.
In the following year, viz., in 17 Henry VII (1502),
Richard Wrottesley served the ofnee of High Sheriff of the
County for the second time, and from this date, up to the
end of the reign of Henry VII, there is nothing to record
respecting him.
The first Commission of the Peace of the new reign
(1500) included his name, and was addressed to the following
lords, knights and gentry of the county: —
Edward; Duke of Buckingham, Richard Wrottesley,
George, Earl of Shrewsbury. John Welles,
Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley, Ralph Agard,
Sir TllOinas Loveli, Robert Lrudtmell,
Sir Henry Vernon, Richard Littlton,
Sir Lewis Bagot, Roland Stafford,
Sir Gilbert Talbot, Thomas Partriehe,
Sir John Ferrers, John Blount,
William Greville, Richard Selman, and
John Giffard, Thomas Blount.
By another Commission of -» Henry VIII, the above wore
re-appointed, with the addition of Thomas, Marquis of Dorset,
1 Xic'.iol.i.s' " Order? of British KuigLthootl," taken from a MS. in Uit Celltfft of
Ann .
254
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
Sir Walter Griffith. Sir John Aston, John Egerton, Anthony
FitzIIerbcrt, Edward Grev and John Mitton.
In 8 Henry VIII (I'M 6) lie served the office of Sheriff of
Staffordshire for the third time. He was now in his sixtieth
year, and the state of his health obliged him to obtain
the curions license under the Kings Sign Manual, which
follows. In ins capacity of Sheriff, he might diave been
called upon at any moment to appear in the presence of
the King. As three names were submitted in each year, his
name would have first come before the King in G Henry Oil,
which is the date of the writ.1
ITEXRY H. (the King's Sign Manual)
Henry by the grace of god King of England and of
ffrance and Lord of Ireland. To al manor our officers justices
and subgetts as well of spirituell preeminence and dignitie.
as of temporal! auctoritie, these our lettres hering or seing
greting. fibrasmoche as we bee credibly enformcd that 'tin-
trusty and welbiloved Richard Wrpttesley Squier for certain
diseases and infirmities which he hath in his bed cannot
conveniently without his grete daunger bee discovered of
the same. Whernpon we in consideration therof have by
these presents licenced hym to use and were his bonet on
his lux! from hensforth in al place and at al seasons as
well in our presence as elliswhere at his libertie. Wherfor
we wol and commaunde you and every of you to permittc
and suffic hym so to do without any your lotto, chalenge
or interuption to the contrary as ye tender our pleasure.
Geven under our signet at our man our of Grenewiehe the
nij,b dayc of Marche the VI ycre of our reigne.2
Stamped below with a wafer seal, about an inch in diameter,
quartering France and England in black lines.
Richard must have died in 1521, for his name occurs on
a Manor Roil of the 12th March 1521, and on the 6th
December of the same year his sou Walter paid the quit
rent due to the Abbey of Evesham for the half rent ending
at the previous Michaelmas. His wife Dorothy had pre-
deceased him, having died in 1517.
His will is dated 15 IS. He bequeathed by it twenty
1 The names in S Henry VIM wrve Richard Wrottesley, Thotnas Bwymwrton,
and Sir Halph Egertou, and the King [tricked the nnno ol Kichard [$koritl
Roll, 10 November IMG).
-The late Mr. Stephen Tucker, Somerset Herald, who had collected some
of those licences with a view of writing a paper upon them, informed mm
that there were others in existence of the snow p<Ti>>r ami in nearly
the same words. He considered that ihc.-c licences wore iho origin <»f Use
popular belief that certain families like the de Courcys and the Korostei .
had an hereditary right <»f wearing :i hat in th<> prenewee of the Sovereign; a
privilege which he believed to have ftu foundation in Un%
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255
marks for his burial within Saint Thomas chancel within
11 10 Parish Church of Saint ^Michael the Archangel, of
Tettenhale, and eight marks '•' to have a pry.st to synge a
whole rere for my sblle, and my wyfrys soli, and for our
faclurs sollys and our modur's scdl \-s and for all Chrystun
To his son George, whose name is spelt Jorge in the
will, he bequeathed £20, and my best gylte gobhelett and
my gowne that ys lynyd with sawsenett, and my coyt of
tawny chamlett and dubbclett of tawny satten. and vi sylvur
sponys, ij of the best and iiii of the seconde sworde, and
xl sehype and iiii oxsnn and iiii kyyn and my bedde thatt
I \y yn with the hangyng ovuiy and the lyttull coveryng
that ys l}'nyd with canvas and ii pere of schetes and
a bolster and a pelo, and my blacke hagge and also
my cneyst that stands att my beddys seyd in my
chapabur."
To his daughter Margaret he bequeathed £20 and " hur
modurs best fruntelette and hur best cappe, and my grette
cuppe of sylvur with the covur and vi sylvur sponys and
a fetur bed and the seconde eovunyng and a bolster and
ii pere of small schetes, and ii pere of gretur schetes and
a horde eloyth of dyapur and anodtir of playne and ii
brasun potts a more and a las and ii panys a more and a
las and vi chargars and vi potyngars and a ryng of golde
with, a ruby and my black cofer in tlie newe chambur, and
all these goodys for to be presyd by indifferent men and for
to be sett upon hur mar eg money."
Similar bequests in the same unique orthography were made
to his so]) J amy s Lewsun (James Leveson), ami to his son<
Thomas, Harry, Walter and John, and to his ".doyrthtur "
Anne, his daughter Elsabeth, his daughter Jane. Ids daughter
Ysabell, lyttull John Wrottysley This grandson), to whom ho
bequeathed "an ambelyng f oy 11 Dorethe Ins son Walter's
"doythtur," his daughter Alys, his daughter Marget, his
daughter Elnar, his son Thomas Lewsun; and to St. Thomas
awter he bequeathed " a cowe and a pere of vestments" and
a sum of 20s. 8d. " for to ley the stone upon me and my
wyy(!e.ri
This stone still exists in the Wruttesley Chapel at
Tettenhall, and is shewn in the plate annexed. !< eoiisi^i^
of a slab of alabaster, with the portraitures <>f a man
in armour, and his wife, drawn in black linos. The armour
is of the, reign of Kdward IV. At their Peel are shewn
eiligies of sixteen children, and on cither si<le. near the
1 Coriteinp >r.wy copy of will formerly at Wrottetlty, Tta rtrtgui&l will dam
not. exist.
256
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
upper part of- the stone, are shields bearing the arms of
Wrottesley and Dudley. Hound the rim of the stone is
engraved the following rhyming epitaph in Gothic characters.
gjere lac doscb in £ ley, the Innm of giichnrli attuoitcicdf P,
3,nb also glorothu, his \mf, &j|uch libel) togebber all mv lit
gent itt.CCCCCCC^Drt of our Jorb, giouoiht} 'bepartcb
out of vc tDOVlb,
after iuithin short spare, ^liel\arb teas leub in this place.
2t)cvc nou) our bobies bo leg, on our ooules Jesu hafc uieren.
Wit besire $tkv% Jfttan won, to urer> for our soulcs that bin
%o\\.
These verses are doubtless the composition of Richard him-
self, for in his will he speaks of the stone as already in
existence but not laid down-.
He left at his death live sons and seven daughters. Of
these Walter, the eldest son, succeeded him at Wrottesley.
Of the second son, George, nothing is known, and he
probably died shortly after his father.
Thomas married and had a son. George, who is styled
George Wrottesley, of Chclmarsh, co. Salop, in a deed
amongst the Ashmolean MSS. dated 1507. An account of
tliis George, who was subsequently knighted, will be given
in a future page.
John, the fourth son. is mentioned in the will of Dr.
Richard . Dudley, Chancellor of Salisbury, his uncle, which
was proved in 1586, and is printed at length in Mr. Sydney
Grazebrook's "History of the Dudleys" in vol. ix of Stafford-
shire Collections.
Harry, the next son, occurs also , in the same will as Henry
Wrottesley, and as one of the executors of it. The will also
names * the wife of Henry and- his son Richard, who was
the testators godson.
Of the seven daughters of Richard Wrottesley, Elinor,
the eldest, married, lor a first husband, Edmund Leversedge,
of Frome Sehvood, co. Somerset, and for a second husband
Sir Henry Long, of Wraxall and Draycot, CO. Wilts. Sir
Henry was a distinguished soldier of the reign of Henry VIII,
and one of the Knights of the King's Household: by
him she had a numerous family, two of whom. Richard
and Thomasine, are mentioned in il"1 will of Richard Dudley,
as his godchildren, Elinor, Lady Long, died in l.vb>.1
Anne married Thomas Lovcson, of Wolverhampton and
1 11 Visitation <>f \VUta, IC28," and Pedigree of Long, in RowardV "Miscellanea
Ganealogioa." sir Henrv was Sheriff vi <•»•. Wilts in tho vc.ir* 1M-J, l :•-•<,
ana ICUn He iii"! in 1650,
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257
Willehhall, and another daughter, Marjory or Margaret,
married James Levesqn, of Per ton, a rich merchant of the
Staple, and ancestor of the Dukes of Sutherland.
According to the pedigree of Onslow in the Visitation
of Shropshire of 1623, as printed by the Harleian Society.
Margaret, the daughter of Richard Wrottesley, married
Humphrey Onslow, of Onslow, co. Salop, but , whether
this is the same Margaret who married James Leve'son,
or there were two daughters named respectively Margaret
and Marjory., I am unable to say.
Iliehard Wrottesley had two younger brothers who have
been mentioned in the account of his father, Sir Walter
Wrottesley. The elder of these, William, inherited a large
portion of the Baron estates, and was the founder of a
younger branch of the family which lasted for some
generations. He appears to have been placed into the
household of the new King, Henry VII, at the accession
of that monarch, for the Wardrobe Accounts of 4 Henry VII,
shew that he was one of the Esquires or the Bod}T, receiving
gifts of clothing from the King ; and in the first year of
the same reign, he obtained by grant from the King the
Keepership of the Park of Raskyll, co. York.1 At the latter
date lie could not have been more than twenty-five years
of age. His will, in which he is styled William Wrottesley,
of Eedynge, in the co. of Berks, is dated 26th December
1512, and was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canter-
bury, on the 4th February 1513. In this will he desires
to be buried within the Parish Church of Saint Olaf in
Silverstrete, London, "before the image of our Blessed. Lady
stondynge at ' the High Awter of the said Church." lie
names his daughter Elizabeth, his daughter distance (Con-
stance),- his son Robert, his son-in-law Escue, "my lady
Sturton (his sister), my lorde her husband, my lorde
Sowchc (de la Zouche), John Wraxley (probably his
nephew John Wrottesley), my lady Scrope (his sister), and
Dame Parnell beynge within the nonry of Dertfordc, in co.
o!" Kent (another sister), my eldest brother., and his sons
Walter and Thomas, and my sonne Edward." To liia son
Robert he left all his lands and tenements lying- within
the town of Reading to him and his heirs for ever, ten
shillings ou( ot (hem to be paid yearly to (he Churchwardens
of the Parish Church of Our Lady of bedynge. Robert,
his son, and Constance, his daughter, (o he his executors.
In the proof of the will both Robert and Corataiteo
were stated (o be. under age.
1 "Materials for the History of King Heury VII " (printed fn Rolls Seri< ), On
the Patent in. 11 (»r i Unity VII. part ii, there i-- •> pattlon for (Jeorgi Netitte
late of Haskell, co. York.
S
258
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
His son-in-law Escue, was Sir William Ayseough or Askew,
of South Kelsey, co. Lincoln, who married his daughter
Elizabeth, and by her was father of the unfortunate Anne
Askew, who was burnt as a heretic in 1546.1
A Robert Wrastley, who was probably identical with
Robert, the son of this William, was Member of Parliament
for the town of Chippenham in. 1553, the first year of
Queen Mary.
Walter, the other brother, died in 1502. By his will,
which, is dated 7th December 1502, and proved on the
17th of the same month, he desired to be buried in the
Church of St. Mark, in Bristowe (Bristol), beside Jane, his
wife, and lie bequeathed to the House of St. Mark two
tenements in Wryngton, co. Somerset; given to him and
to his wife by John Key, Esq., of co. Somerset. He also
bequeathed to the same House a rent of 20s. from Kyngeston,
co. Somerset, and all his property in Cosham, co. Wilts, for
a term of fifty years. He also made bequests to my lord
St. Amahd, my lord Stourton (his brothers-in-law), ro Maister
Croopc (Scropc), and "my lady his wife/' "to my lady
my moder," and to his eldest brother Richard Wrottesley, and
to his brother William Wrottesley, to his niece Bess, and his
nephew John Wrottesley, and the residue of his goods to
Lady Saint Am and, " my good suster.*'2
It would seem by this will that Walter left no issue. It
shews also that his mother Jane, Lady Darell, the widow of
Sir Walter Wrottesley, was still alive ; at this period she had
survived her first husband for nearly thirty years.
The following deeds, formerly at Wrottesley, belong to the
period of Richard Wrottesley :—
To all true Xpen people fco whom this present writyng enoented
shall come. Richard Chokke and Thomas Lyttelton Knij
Justices of our soverayn lord the Kym: of his Cotnen Bench
sonde gretyng in our lord everlastvng. Whereas d\ vers variances
and debates have been hadde and moeved biiwene Sir Richard
Darell Knyght and Dame Jane his wife sumtymc the wyl <>t
Sir Walter Wrottesley Knyght on that one partie, an<l Richard
Wrottesley Esquier son and heire of the said Sii Walter on thai
Other partie, of and upon the right, title and possession of the
niancur of Wrottesley in the CouritlC <>f Stafford, ami o ol
other lands and tenements in WrOttOslcj? and Tetlen.dl in the
said Count ie of Stafford, which tamtyme were Hugh WrottcslcTs,
and as it is surmytted hy (fee said Sir llichard Darell and Jane
1 "TlUlorv of tlio Reformation," printed bj t!i" CaukIcu Society, where lite
father of Fai/.abelh is written Thonas Wrottcsly, by mUtake fur William,
1 Will proved in the Pretogalite Court «>f Canterbury mi no* M tantreet
Houi 1 1,
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(some words omitted here in the oritjinal deed) the said ^Yalter
Wrottesley and also of and upon the possession and purporties
of sueh goods as were lefte hf the said Jane in the said manour
of Wrottesley. Wherefore the said Sir Richard Darell Knyght
and Richard Wrottesley Esquier by their escripts obligatory e
beryng date the xvtil day of May the yere of the reigne of our
soverayn lord Kyng Edward the Fourth the xxth have coni-
promytted themselfs to stonde, hold, and obey the arbiterement,
ordinaunce, and juggement of us the said Kichard Chokke and
Tliomas Lyttelton arbitrators bitwene the said parties indifferently
chosen of and upon the right, title and possession of all
the manours, lends and tenements which sumtymo were Hugh
Wrottesleys or of the said Walter Wrottesley or any other
to their use, or to the use of eny of them, and also of
and upon accions as well reall as personall, sutes, quarrells,
variaunces, and demands bitwene the said parties or bitwene
the forsaid Richard Wrottesley and Sir Richard Darrell in eny
wise hadde, nioeved, or hangyng before the date of the said
obligations. Whereupon we the forsaid Richard Chokke and
Tliomas Lyttelton takyng upon us to arbitre of and upon the
premisses, the titles, claymcs, answers and replications of the
parties aforsaid, herde, and understonden, by the assent of the
said parties and also by the desire .and agreement of William
Baron Esquier, IFader of the said Dame Jane Darell, arbitre,
awarde ordeyn and demc of and upon the same in fourme
f'olowyng, that is to say that the said Sir Richard Darell in the
name of hym and the seid Dame Jane on this side the feest of
Pentecost next nowc coinyng, shall make and delyver unto the
said Richard Wrottesley at the cost of the same Richard Wrottes-
ley a dede of feofVament, with a letter of attorney in the same
dede unto William Halls Chapcloyn and Roger Bold, and to
everyone of them, to delyver seasyn of the manours of Wrottesley
and Butter ton and of all the londs and "tenements in Wrottesley,
Tettnale, Butterton, and Codsall in the said Countie of Stafford
or elsewhere in< the same Countie which were the said Walter
Wrottesleys, or Hugh Wrottesleys unto the said Richard Wrottes-
ley, to have and holde to hym, his heires, and assignes for ever-
more, and also that the said Sir Richard Darell shall delyver
unto the said Richard Wrottesley a re 1 esse in the name of
the said Sir Richard Darell and dame Jane o£ all their right in
the said manours of Wrottesley and Butterton, and all oilier londs
and tenements in Wrottesley and Butterton, Tettnale and Codsall
in the Countie of Stafford or eUswhere in the same Countie which
sumtyme were the said Walter Wrottesley or Hugh Wrottesley
Squier ffader of the same Walter or of eny other to their use
or to the use of either of them and that 10 soon that than
within the space of a monelh next after, the said Richard Wrottes
lev beyng seusyd of the manour of Wrottesley and of all the
said other lauds and tenements in Tettnale and Wrottesley of a
rightful and lawful! estate of enhcrytauuee by his dede sulHciaunte
in lawe shall graunte unto the said Sir Kicha d Darrell and DlUOC
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HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
Jane at the cost of the same Sir Richard Darell and Jane an
annuel! renjb of v li. sterlyng ye rely to be paled at ii termes of
the yere, that is to say, the one half on Saint Martyns day after
All HalowmcsNo at the Rode of the North dore in Failles in
London bitwene one of the clok at afternones and iiii of the
clok of the same day than next ensuying, and the other half in
the same place the Saturday next after the Assencion day bitwene
one of the clok at after none and v of the clok of the same day
than next followyng, which graunte shalhe with a penaltie of-
xx s. in the said dede conteyned to be forfeite as often as hit
shall happen the said Kent at the day and place lymyted to be
uncontent, and also as often as it shall happen the said Sir Richard
Darell and dame Jane, their Deputie, servant, or assigne to be
interrupte, lctte or distourbed to distreyn for the said Rent or
the arrerage thereof beyng behynde, by the said Richard Wrottes-
ley, his fennours, servant or Deputie, by his cotnaundement, and
also as often as hit shall happen, the said Richard Wrottesley his
fermour or servant by his comaundement to sue replevin of eny
distrcs.se taken for the said Rent or eny parcel 1 thereof due uncon-
tent, and for the suretic of the said Rent to be content at the
daies lymyted during the lyf of the said dame Jane, we awarde
that the said Richard Wrottesley within a moneth after the
said graunte of annuytee made, shall enfeoffe of the saide manour
of Wrottesley the said Thomas Lyttelton, Richard Lyttelton, John
Brown, William Wrottesley and William Wylkys to have and to
hold unto them, their heires and assignes for evermore to the
intent that they shalbc and stonde feoiFes of the said manour with
the appurtenaunts duryng the lyf of the said dame Jane, for the
contentaeion of the said annuytie, and after her doth they aha]
be and stonde feoffes of the said manour, lends and tenements
till tyme that the said Sir Richard Darell yf it fortune hym to
ovcrlyve the said Jane or the executors of the said Jane yf she
overly ve the said Sir Richard Darell be -satisfied and contented of
the arrerage of the said annuytie ronnen in the lyf of the said
Jane. . Also we awarde that either of the said Sir Richard
Darell and Richard Wrottesley on this side the feasl of Pentecost
next comyng by their dede release and quyteclaymc unto other
all actions personoll and demaunds which they or eny of them
myght have hadde before the first day of May last past In
witnesse whereof to that one part of this our present awarde
endented toward the said Richard Wrottesley rcmaynyng as well
we the said arbitrators as the said Sir Richard Darell have sette
our scabs, and to that Other part thereof toward the Said Sir
Richard Darell abydyng as well we the said arbitrators as the
said Richard Wrottesley have setto our sealls. Wretert and goven
the xxi"* day of May the x\i"' vere of the reigne of kvnu
Edward the "Fourth.1 ' (A.I). 1481.)
Three seals of conventional design, not armorial.
1 Original deed :it Wrottesley, copied 1860*09 This ti the ttrtteil deed in
English of those formerly preserved At Wrottesley,
WROTTESLEY OF WROTTESLEY.
2G1
Sciant presentes et futuri quod nos Ricardus parrell miles ct
Johanna uxor ejus que fuit uxor Walteri Wrottesley militis defuncti
tradidimus, concessimus et hac presenti carta nostra confirmavimus
Ricardo Wrottesley artnigero fijio ct heredi predict! Walter! Wrottes-
ley maneria de Wrottesley et Buttorton ac omnia alia terras et
tenementa cum pertinentiis in Wrottesley, Tettnale, Butterton et
Codsall in Comitatu Stafford ac alibi in coclem. comitatu. Habendum
et tenendum omnia predicta maneria, terras et tenementa, reddi-
tus et servicia cum omnibus suis pertinentiis prefato Ricardo
Wrottesley, heredibus et assign atis suis in perpctuum de capitalibus
dominis feodi illius per servicia indc debita ct de jure consueta.
Sciatis nos insuper prefatos Ricardum Darell et Jbhannam attor-
nasse et in loco nostro posuisse dileefcos nobis in Xpo Willclmum
ffales capellanum et Rogerum Bold nostros veros et legitimos
attornatos conjunctim et divisim ad intrandum vice et nomine
nostris in omnia preflicta maneria terras et tenementa cum per-
tinentiis, ct possessionem indc sic captam, plenariam possessionem
et seisin am inde prefato Ricardo Wrottesley deliberandam. Haben-
dum sibi heredibus et assignatis suis secundum formani ct c fleet, urn
hujus carte nostre. Ratum habentcm et gratum quicquid predicti
attornati nostri seu coram alter fecerint seu feeerit in premiss is
adeo precise prout nosmet ipsi personaliter interesseinus. In cujus
rci testimonium hulc presenti. carte nostre sigilla nostra apposuimus.
lliis testihus Ricardo Chokke, Thotna Lyttelton militibus, Justiciariis
domini Regis de Banco, Johanne Broun, Tiioma Wood, Willelino
Wilkes et multis aliis. Data apud Wrottesley predict urn vicesimo
secundo die mensis Mail anno regni regis Ed ward i quarti post
conquestutn vicesimo primo.1 (A.I). 1181.)
Two seals of conventional pattern.
Novcrint universi per presentes me Ricardum Darell mil item,
virinn Johanne nuper uxoris Walteri Wrottesley militis defuncti,
remississe relaxnsse et omnino de et pro me et executoribus me is
in perpetuum quietclamasse Ricardo Wrottesley filio nuper et heredi
dictorum Walteri et Johanne onimmodas actionea personales, sectas,
querelas, calumpnias et demandas quas versus Ricardum Wrottesley
imquam habui, habeo, seu qubvismodo habere potero ra t ion^ seu
causa quac-unque de principio mundi usque primum diem mensis
Maii ulfcimi preteriti ante datum presentium. In cujus rci testi-
monium presentibus sigillum meum apposui, Datum vicesimo sexto
die mensis Maii anno regni regis Edwardi quart) post oonquestum
vicesiuio priino.1 (2G May 1 181.)
Seal, an antique head.
Seiant presentes et futuri quod eg<> Ri card us Wrottesley fYrmiger
dedi coneessi ct hac present! carta moa conflrmavi Thome Littelton
militi uiio J usticia riorum domini llegis de Banco, Ricardo Littelton,
1 Original deed ;ii Wrottwley, copied iSGO.r,?.
262
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
Johanni Broun, Willelmo Wrottesley et Willelmo Wylkes maneriura
de Wrottesley cum pertinentiis in Coinitatu Stafford. Habendum
et tenendum manerium predictum cum pertinentiis prefatis Thome,
Ricardo Littelton, Johanni, Willelmo et Willelmo heredibus et
assigiiatis suis in perpetuum de capitalibus dominis fcodi illius
per servicia inde debita et de jure consueta. Et ego vero, etc.
( Clause of warranty.),. In cujus rei testimonium hoic presenti
carte mee sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus Ricardo Chokke
niilite uno Justiciariorum domini Regis de Banco, Thoma Astley,
Willelmo Astley Armigeris, et multis aliis. Data apud Wrottesley
predictum vicesimo die mensis Junii anno regni regis Edwardi
quart! post conquestnm vicesimo primo.1 (20 June 1481.)
Seal, a boar's head issuing from a ducal coronet.
Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos hoc presens scriptum per-
venerit, Ricardus Lyttelton Willelmiis Wrottesley et Willelmus
Wylkes salutom in domino sempiternarn. Sciatis nos prefatos
llicardum Willelmum et Willelmum dimississe, concessisse, liberasse
et hoc presenti scripto nostro confirraasse Ricardo Wrottysley
armigero et Dorothee uxori ejus Manerium de Wrottysley cum
pertinentiis in Coinitatu Stafford quod quidem manerium cum
pertilientiis rittper habuimus scilicet cum Thoma Lyttelton niilite
nuper uno Justiciariorum domini Regis de Banco et Johanne
Brone jam defunctis ex dono et feofifamento predicti Ricardi
Wrottysley. Habendum et tenendum predictum manerium cum
pertinentiis prefatis Ricardo Wrottysley et Dorothee et heredibus
et assignatis ipsius Ricardi in perpetuum de capitale domino
per servicia inde debita et de jure consueta. Sciatis nos iusuper
prefatos Ricardum Lyttelton, Willelmum et Willelmum attornasse
et in loco nostro posuisse dilectos nobis in Christo Willelmum
Wodhows et Thomam Atkvs nostros veros et legitimos attornatos
conjunctini et divisim ad intrandum vice et nominibus nostris in
manerium predictum cum pertinentiis, et post hujusmodi ingrcssum
ad deliberandum vice et nominibus nostris prefato Ricardo Wrottys-
ley et Dorothee plenariam et pacificam seisinam de eodem manerio
cum pertinentiis. Tenendum sibi secundum formam et eflfectum
presetttis scrxpti nostri. Ratum et gratum habentem et habiturum
quicquid dioti attornati nostri fecerint sou dictorum alter fecerit
in deliberation e seisinc predicte adeo precise prout nosmet ipai
ibidem personaliter. interessemus. In cujus rei testimonium huic
prescnti scripto nostro sigilla nostra apposuimus. lliis testibus
Ricardo Asteley armigero, Ricardo Sutwyke, Willelmo Wolaston
et multis aliis. Datum apud Wrottysley vicesimo octavo die J u nil
anno re'gili regis Uenrici N il post conquest um Anglic vicesimo,
(28 June 1505.)*
Two seals destroyed, the middle seal a lion rampant, but
with no legend.
1 Original )>(, Wrottenlcy, Copied 1860*62,
3 Original docd at WroUoflley, copied 1 St,0-(VJ.
WROTTESLEY OF WROTTESLEY.
263
This Indentur made the xiith day of Marche yn the xvith vere
of the reign of Kyng Harry the viith bitwen Richard Wrotesley
Esquier uppon the one partie, and Dame Marget Harcourt and
Thomas Harcourt Esquier uppon the odur partie, wittenesith that
hit ys covenaunted and agreed bitwen the seid parties yn maner
and forme foiowyng, that" ys to sey that the seid Richard
eovenauntith and grauntith unto the seid dame M^arget and
Thomas that Water Wrotesley sonne and heir apparaunt- unto
the seid Richard, shall be the grace of God wedde and take to
wyff Isabel Harcourt doghtur of John Harcourt Esquier on this
half the teste of Scynt Michael the Archangell next cnsuyng
the date of this Indentur, and att the resonable request of the
seid dame Marget and Thomas, and if hit so be that the seid
Water discesse byfore marriage had bitwen hym and the seid
Isabel as god forbidde, that then the next heir apparaunt to the
seid Richard shall take to wyff the seid Isabell withyn a halfe
yere after the discesse of the seid Water, att the resonable
request of the seid dame Marget t and Thomas uppon the same
covenaunt of marriage comprised yn this indentur : flprthermorc
the seid Richard covenantith and grauntith unto the seid dame
Marget and Thomas that he shall make or cause to be made a
sine and sufficient estate yn tlic lawe to John Beymount, Thomas
Harcourt, John Swynnerton and William Wilkes to them and to
their heires, of and yn lands and tenements to the yerly value
of x marks over all charges and reprises on this halfe 1 lie day
of the marriage to this entent that they shall stand and be
feffees unto the use and behove of the seid Water and Isabell
and the heires of hys bodie by the seid Isabell bigoten : and after
the discesse of dame Jane Wrotesley, the seid Richard shall make
or cause to be made unto the seid feffees like astate. as ys byfore
seid, of and yn lands and tenements of the yerly value of v
marks over all charges and reprises withyn vi weks after the
discesse of the seid dame Jane, to the same use and entent as
is bifore written, the remeynder of all the seid lands to the seid
Richard and his heires, also the seid Richard eovenauntith and
grauntith unto ( the seid dame Marget and Thomas that all odur
manors, lands, tenements and all odur hereditaments of the wiche
he is now seyscd, or env odur person or persons to hys use in
fee sympull, tayle, reymender, or in revertion, schall immediatly
after hys discesse, discend, revmayne and revert to the seid Water
and hys heires, dower and jointure of Dorathe wyfe to the seid
Richard of all suche lands that ys appoyntcd therunto bcying
yn feffees hands except, provided allwey that it schall he law full
to the seid Richard to make his will sufficient yn law for tcrme
of x yers after his discesse of lands and tenements to the yerly
valuc of x marks Over all charges, and also that if so be hit
happen the seid Dorathe to disease and the seid Richard to take
anodur wyfe, that then it shall be law full to the seid Richard
to make or cause to be made to his w yf or wyffes as it shall
forten hym to be married unto, astate for terwie oi lyf of lands
and tenements to the yerely value of x marks over all charges
2G4
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
and reprises, a]so the seid Richard covenauntith and grauntith
to the seid dame Marget and Thomas that the reversion of ail
syche lands and tenements of the wiche the seid Richard shall
herafter declare his wyll as ys before rehcrsyd, and the revertion
of the lands and tenements delivery*} lor the jointure of the said
Water and Isabel] and the revertion" or dower and jointure of
all lands and tenements that it shall hapen the seid Dorathe to
have, or odnr wyfe or wyjfFes that it shall fort en the seid Richard
to marie, shall immediatly after the x vers expired and after the
disesse of the seid Dorathe or odnr wyi or v.-yjfs that shall for ten
to be maried to the seid Richard, revert and remayn to the seid
Water and his heirs, also that the seid Richard covenauntith and
grauntith to the seid dame Marget and Thomas that- lie. for hisselfe
or feffees schall make noon alienation or sulfur ony wyllull recovery
agaynst them of ony parcel 1 of his seid lands and tenements,
nor in any wyse charge his seid lands and tenements, but such
as schall expier in his lyf except syche lands and tenements as
is bifore excepted; all the wiche eovenaunts well and truly to
be performed and kept the seid Richard covenauntith and grauntith
to the seid dame Marget and Thomas to bynd hym selfe John
Bey mound and Water .Lew sou ther heyrs and executors in an
obligation of ccc marks jointly and severally to be peyd to the
seid dame Marget and Thomas, if so be all or singuler eovenaunts
comprised in this indentur upon the partie of the seid Richard
in ony wyse be broken, for the wiche manage and livery to be
had, the seid dame Margett and Thomas shall pay to the seid
Richard the day of the soylyng of th.es indentur c marks and
the day of the manage of the seid Water and Isabel] or odnr
heir apparaunt of the seid Richard C marks, and if it so be
that the seid Isabel 1 disesse before the day of bur mariage thai
then the seid Richard schall repay unto the seid dame
and Thomas vvithyh a yere after the disesse of the seid Isabel!
the seid c marks. In witness whereof the forseid parties bo
Indentur enterchangeably have sett to (sir) ther seyies. Geven
the day and yere above writton.1 ( 1 '2 March 1501.)
Seal, a bhield( charge indistinguishable.
Sciant presentos ct futuri quod ego Antonius de SanctO Amuirdo
dedi, concessi, et hac prescuti carta moa indentata COhfitliiavi
Thome West militi, domino la Wart*, Thome West militi et liorcdi
apparenti dicti domini la Warr, Johaimi Lloo servienti ad legem,
Robert) Copley armigtaro, Floberxo .Norwich, Thome Polstodc el
Christofcro MetcaHF, uiaiierium meum de Iplepsu cum pertinentus,
necnon dueenta messuagia, quatuot milia arras terre, dueeetas
arras parci, tria milia arras pasture, ducentas acraS boSCl, dr.a
milia acras .... et bruero el friginla solidos reddihis cum j-r
linentiis in Iplcpen, Torbryan, F«Iyngescurs\vell el Wyclv m in Couii-
tatu Devonie. Habendum et tenendum dictum mAitorium ot cetwra
premissa cum suis pertinent iis prefatitf Thome West unlit i donoii 1
1 Original dood at \VrottO«l«y, OOpfo) I860 82.
WROTTESLEY OF WROTTESLEY.
265
la Warr, Thome West fil'io, Johanni TCoo, Romero Copley, Koberto
Norwich, Thome Polstcde, ct Christofero Metcalff, heredibus et
assignatis suis, ad opus et usum Anne de Sancto Amando uxoris
mei prefati Antonii durante vita ipsius Anne absque impetitione
alicujus vasti secundum inteniionem specihcatum in ejuadani inden-
tura .... inter me prefatum Antonium et prefatum dominum
la Wail' super maritai^ium inter me prefatum Antonium et pre-
fatam Annani habendum et solemnizandmn, factum et habit um. Et
post mortem prefate Anne ad opus et usum mei prefati Antonii
et heredum de corpore moo legitime procreatorum. Et per defectum
talis exitus ad usum Ilicardi Wrattesley et WHlelmi AYYattesloy
fratris sui et heredibus de corporibus suis legitime procreatis, et
per defectum talis exitus, ad usum rectorum heredum eorundeni
Ilicardi Wrattesley et Wi'llelmi Wrattesley in perpetuum. Et
insuper noveritis me prefatum Antonium fecisse, attornasse et loco
rneo posuisse dilectos mihi in Xpo Thomam Heal et Johannem
Chaundeler meos veros et legitimos attornatos conjunctim ct divisim
ad intrandurn pro me et nomine meo in prcdictum mancrium et
altera premissa cum omnibus suis pei'tinentiis et possessionem et
seisinam sic inde nomine meo captam ct habitant, plenam et
pacihcam possessionem ac seisinam nomine meo deliberandum
prefatis Thome, Thome, Johanni, Rogero, Roberto et Christofero
Metcalff, heredibus et assignatis suis in perpetuum, secundum vim,
formam, tenorem, ct essenciam hit jus presentis carte mee inde eis
censate, ratum et gratum habentem et habiturum, totum et quicquid
dicti attornati mei. nomine meo fecerint sen alter eorum feces it
in premissis. In cujus rei testimonium huic prescnti carte mee
tripartite indentate sigillum meum apposui. Data quarto die
Augusti anno regni llegis 1 Icnrici octavi tiono.1 (t August 1517.)
Per me Antony Sayntmond (sic, his signature, with a long
flourish at the end).
HENRY E.2 By the King.
Trusty and we'll beloved wee greet you well, and forasmuch as
we be credibly informed that the .Scotts be the instegation of our
ancient enemy the French King be determined to invade this out
liealrbe in the beginning of the month of September next oonrytig.
AVe theivfor taking special regard to the defense of our said Reamlc
against their malignite have appbyiltcd our right trusty and right
well beloved cousin and counsaillour the Erie of Shrewsbury, Stuard
1 Original deed at Wrottesley, copied 1860-62. According to Dugdalc, Antony
do St. Amend was illegitimate. He would, therefore, have no right lieirs,
and it will be noted that, the ultimate remainder, failing his issue, is vented
by the deed in the right heirs of Richard Wrottosley and his bruiher William.
As Iptepen was held in capitc, the license of the Crown was required Car ill
ulienation. This fact was apparently overlooked at tin time, For the license
of alienation appears on the i'atcni Koll of IS Henry VI IX. (State Taper-,
printed, Rolls' Scries),
- This is the King's sign manual. The writ his no dete, bu( the of
Shrewsbury was commanded to raise a force against the Scots in 1622, mid
he entered Scotland in the name year. (Ty tier's " IltsUMy III SootUl
vol. v.)
266
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
of our houstholde, to be our lieutenant general, and have authorised
him to have the leding of all and singular our subvetts in those
contries for resisting of the said invasion, ^'illinge therefor and
desiring, and nevertheless comaunding you forthwith upon the sight
of these our letters not only to prepaur yourself with suche a
nombre of hahle men horsed and harnessed as manv as ye can
prepaur making certifieat unto our said lieutenant .of your said
nombre with all diligence possible, but also kepe yourself in further
redyness that upon a houres warnyng after requisition to be made
unte you by our said lieutenants letters ye may set furthe and
joyne with him without delay for resisting of the said invasion.
Faile ye not this to do, as ye tendour hourself and the defense
of this our Realme. Goven under our signet at our manour of
Newhall the xiii day of August.
Endorsed. To our trusty and well beloved servaunte Richarde
Wrottesley.1
Arms of Richard Wrottesley.
On the dexter side — Or, three piles Sable, a quarter Ermine, for
Wrottesley.
On the sinister side— Or, two lions passant Azure, for Sutton of
Dudley.
Walter Wrottesley, 1521—1563.
Walter
succeeded
December
paid a mark to
sham for half
due
Wrottesley must have
Richard before the 6th
1521, for on that dav lie
the Abbot of Eve-
i vear's quit rent
to be relied upon
Lo)
at the previous Michaelmas."
He is shewn to be son of Richard
by the deeds at Wrottesley, the
will of his uncle William, which
was proved in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury, and by the
Heralds' Visitations which are trust-
worthy evidence for the Tudor
period, although they are not always
earlier descents.
of
1 Original writ
abbreviations hav< 1
retained, and it will be
9 Original lle< eipt at. W
3 They are trustworthy
w
ettcslpy, co|tied ) 860-02. The
original orthography haa been
little from oi:t modern spelling.
militan Miiuniniis at
rtn ratenried, but tl.
■r .<-••< H that it differo
atCMtey,
fci- this per ion, becauae it may to eeawned that
every man would know the Humes of ni* pr mdfather, Father, ami of hi* children,
also of grwnlchiMren if any exiatcd. They are, therefore, excellent eridenee
for five generations of a family, ami an certified in many eaeea by the heed
of the family.
WROTTESLEY OF WROTTESLEY.
267
Apparently the death of Richard Wrottesley had not been
notified to the Exchequer, for a writ of military summons,
addressed to him by name, directs him to be prepared to
join the Earl of Shrewsbury, who had been appointed to
lead an atomy against the Scots. This took place in July
1522. The writ is under the King's sign manual, and is
one of the writs sent by the King himself to the- Barons
and principal tenants in chief of the Crown.1 It shews that
notwithstanding the loss of the manors granted by Edward IV
to Sir Walter Wrottesley, Richard was still considered by
the Exchequer authorities as liable to military service as a
tenant in capite, for ordinary tenants would be summoned
by the Sheriffs of counties.
One of the first acts performed by Walter in his capacity
as head of his family, was a conveyance in trust for the
Reading Almshouses. In this he is described as " cosyn and
heire of William Baron late of Redyng, son of Johanna,
dough ter and heire to the said William Baron." This con-
veyance is dated the 3rd June 1G Henry VIII (1524).'-'
On the Saturday before the Feast of St, Valentine,
16 Henry VIII (11th February 1525) the Kinver Manor Roll
states that he appeared in person in full Court and claimed
to hold of the lord all the lands and tenements in Kyngelcy
which descended to him by hereditary right, after the death
of Richard Wrottesley, Armiger, his father/' Kingeley was
an outlying portion of Kinver manor, lying within the parish
of Tettenhall.
Walter Wrottesley was appointed King's Eschaetor for the
county of Stafford by letters patent of 19 Henry VI 11
and 24 Henry VIII. His accounts for these two years
remain in the Public Record Office. He also served (he
office of Sheriff of the county in 23 Henry VIII.
There is an entry amongst the State papers of 18 Henry
VIII (A.D. 152G) which, unless explained, is likely to lead
to some misapprehension. This is a licence for Thomas,
Lord de la Warr, Sir John Copley and others to alienate
lands in Iplepen, Torbryan and Other places named in CO.
Devon to Sir Anthony de St. Amand and Anne, his wife,
to the use of Anne for her life and with remainders over
(as in the deed of 9 Henry VIII, p. 2C4), and with remainder
in default of any issue of Anthony and Anne to Rtc/
Wratitsloy and William, k%6 brother* It would be sup-
posed from the tenor of these letters patent that Richard
Wrottesley and William were still alive, whereas wo know
1 See p. 26J5 mite.
s Original ueen at Wvott'^U-y. copied 1660 t>°
3 .state Paperi, tomp. Henrj Vlll (ilgtnotUc), printed in HoUt s. nV.v
268
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
from oilier sources that they had been dead for some years.
The explanation seems to be, that at the date of the deed
of 9 Henry VIII it had been overlooked that the lands
dealt with, being held 61 the King in capite, it was be&essary
to obtain a license from the Crown for their alienation,
and the above letters patent, issued nine years afterwards,
were obtained to rectify this omission.
Walter Wrottesley 's name occurs in the Commission of
the Peace issued in 1531 and for many years afterwards,
in fact it may be said that no commission affecting Stafford-
shire was issued during his epoch which does not contain
his name. In 26 Henry VIII (1535) he was one of the
Commissioners for levying the tenth of Spiritualities in
Staffordshire. The returns of these Commissioners are known
as the " Valor ecclesiasticus," and have been printed. The
Commissioners for Staffordshire were
Roland Lee, the Bishop of Sir John Gifforde,
Coventry and Lichfield, John Vernon,
Sir John Talbot, George Greysley,
George Audeley, Edward Lyttelton,
Walter Wrottysky, Thomas Holte,
William Lasset, John Grosvenour, and
Thomas Gi Horde, Thomas Moreton.
Waller Blount,
In 1535 the King had assumed the title of Supreme Head
of the Church, and in the following year Walter Wrottesley
was a parly to one of the odious prosecutions set on foot
by Cromwell, the King's minister, for words spoken against
the King. The unfortunate defendant in this ease was one
George Robinson, who had been reporterl for using words
against the King's Majesty, It was a very common pro-
ceeding in such cases to rake up a charge of Felony against
the prisoner, and Cromwell ordered a copy of the In diet men I
to be sent up to the Council : the latter was signed by
three magistrates of the County, Sir William Bassett, Sir
Philip Draycot and Walter Wrottesley, and stated that
Henry Bakster alias Starky, of Chester, had In en Indict
for. stealing a horse, and that George Robinson, late of
Loudon, mercer, Kermor of the manor of Drayton- Dassot
ha<! been indicted for receiving the horse, and allowing the
thief to go at large, and For using words against the King's
Majesty, the latter, of course, being the gravamen of tlif
charge. On the 11th February, 1530, Sir John Dudley writes
to Cromwell : — MTliis day at Lichfield, George Robinson was
indicted for felony, the Justices of the Peace were Sir
William Bassett, Sir Philip Draycol and Walter Wroteslcy,
who have done well in the King's service, most of t ho jury
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269
were gentlemen of substance."1 It. is very much to be feared,
from the terms of Dudley's letter, that the unfortunate
prisoner had been found guilty.
Walter Wrottesley signs his name at the bottom of this
Indictment as " Walter Wrotyssley," and this is the earliest
signature of any member of the family I have met with.
In 31 Henry' VIII (1539-40) he was included in a Special
Commission of "Oyer and terminer*' for treasons and other
offences in cos. Oxon, Berks, Worcester, Hereford. Salop
and Stafford.
In the same }rear be was one of the Commissioners for
the General Muster in Staffordshire, which is printed in
vol. iv, New Series, of the St afford si lire Collections. In 1538
the Pope/ Paul IV, had published a Bull excommunicating
Henry VIII and deposing him from his throne for bis
heretical opinions, and had called upon the Emperor and
the King of France to put it into execution. The King and
his Council were seriously alarmed, and ordered a muster
to be made of the entire armed forces of the kingdom ;
but the King's diplomacy eventually disconcerted the measures
of the Pope, and the levies were never called out. Walter
Wrottesley was also one of the Commissioners for taking
the surrenders of the monasteries into the King's hands in
the same year.
In 32 Henry VIII (1510), he purchased from Sir Giles
Strangeways and Joan his wife, the manor of Lutley, in
co. Stafford, and 900 acres of land, etc., in Lutley, Slorfe
and Enville.'2 The object of this purchase is not very
apparent, as Lutley docs not adjoin Wrottesley, and it was
afterwards resold.
The following letter from Sir John Dudley (afterwards
Duke of Northumberland), belongs to the year 15 12. At
this date, Dudley was a Knight in the royal household,
and rapidly rising in the King's -favor. In the following year
lie was created Viscount Lisle.
To my Cosen Waller Wrotisley Esquier this be geven.
Cozen Wrotisley,
1 hartilly recomende me unto you, ami whereas 1 do peroeyve
by my servant llene'ye (Vessel that you Can be content U) take
some pavnex for me in the surveying of my landcs, I wyll
deserve the same your paynes that ye shall therein takja if it lye
in me.
Mr. WiUpuglvby that vs of my consaill v* appoynted to
mete with you at Dudeley the Pyrsl Sondaye of Lento where
' State Papers, printed in Record Series,
- Fino levied at Mi.li. IVJ Henry VIII. Vol. \i of SUtfonUhuv Coll.vti us.
V- SSI
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HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
I praye you not to faile to mete hym, and ye shall nowe receyve
a patent of iiii li a yere growyng out of my lordship of Seggisley
in recompence of your olde patent of v marks a yere, and thus
I commytt you to God. Att the Courte this xviii1'1 daye of
February e.
Yr loving kinsman assuredly
John Duddeley.
This letter is written by a Secretary, but the words " Yr
loving kinsman assuredly," and the signature are in Dudley's
own hand.1 It must have been written in 1542, for in a
volume of old MSS. belonging to Brooke Robinson, Esq.,
is a survey of the manor of Sedgle}' taken the 13th April,
33 Henry VIII (1542), before Walter Wrottesley and George
Willoughby Esquires, and Thomas Rbtesey Gent.*2
At this date Si)- John Dudley had contrived to strip his
cousin John, Lord Dudley, of the Castle of Dudley, and
the greater part of the possessions of the Dudley Barony.
How this was eliected has never been clearly ascertained,
but Dugdale gives the following account of it : —
"It is reported by credible tradition of this John Lord
Dudley7, that being a weak man of understanding, whereby
he had exposed himself to some wants, and so became
entangled in the usurer's bonds, John Dudley, then Viscount
Lisle and Earl of Warwick (afterwards Duke of Northumber-
land), thirsting after Dudley Castle, the chief seat of the
family, made those mone}' merchants his instruments to
work him out of it, which by some mortgage being at
length effected, this poor lord became exposed to the charity
of his friends for a subsistence, and spending the remainder
of his life in visits amongst them, was commonly called the
Lord Quondam/'3
The following undated letter from "Lord Quondam."' was
formerly at Wrottesley, and bears out to some extent the
1 Original letter at Wrottesley copied by uie for Qrastebrook's " Barons of
Dudley," 1SV8. .Sir John Dudley's relationship to Walter Wrottesley was no
nearer than that of a second cousin, as will be seen by the following pedigree : —
John, Lord Dudley, ob. 1487.
L
Sir Edmund Sutton, John Dudley,
ob. v. p.
.1
"1
Edward, Dorothy. ^Richard Edmund Dudley,
Lord Dudley, .died 1 538. * Wrottesley. beheaded I
I I I
John, Lord Dudley, Waller Wrottesley, John Dudley,
diea t653, * Duke of Northumberland
- Qrwebrook's "Jlarona of Dudley/1 p. vol. i\ of Staff. Collection*
3 J bid. (quoting Dogdale).
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271
account given of him by Dugdale, as a man of weak under-
standing, it was endorsed in a contemporary hand, "my
lord Duddeleys Ire, to thank you for Mr. Robert Duddeley."
My Honorable Cosyn,
I thank, you for yr great kyndnes to my sunn and daughter.
My fatJier was a Rotcsley man and I must ever remember to
do you and yors any servis I can and yor wyfe I must honour
as much as any Lady in the Kingdom and will rest at
Yr commande
J. Duddeley.
To my Honorable Cosyn Mr. Water Wroteley.
His father was the brother of Dorothy, the mother of Walter,
but I am unable to explain the allusion to his being " a
Rotcsley man," unless he was brought up in the household
of Sir Walter Wrottesley at the time Sir Edmund Sutton,
his father, was employed in Ireland. At the latter date he
would have been twelve or thirteen years of age.
In 1545, by an indenture dated 28th July 37 Henry VIII,
Walter Wrottesley covenanted with Thomas Asteley of Pattis-
hull, Armiger, that " John Wrottisley, Sonne and he ire
apparaunt of the said Walter, shall, by the grace of God,
on this side the Feast of the Natyvytie of our Lord next
ensuing after the date hereof, marrye and take to wyffe
Elizabeth Asteley, daughter to the said Thomas Asteley, if
the laws of the Holy Trynytie hit suffer and the said
Elizabeth thereto consent and agree, etc." By this indenture
the manor of Butterton, two pastures in Wyllnale (Willenhall),
the Hawk well mill, and another pasture named, or lands of
equal value were to be settled by Walter on John Wrot-
tesley and Elizabeth, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies,
and failing such, to revert to the right heirs of Walter,
Butterton was stated to be of the annual value of £8 8s. -Id.1
In the following year, viz. in "38 Henry VII 1 (1546), Walter
Wrottesley served the ollice of Sheriff for the county for
a second time, and the King dying during bis Shrievaldoui,
Letters. Patent were issued under the Great Seal, appointing
him Sheriff of the county " quamdiu nobis placuerii .' '-'
In these Betters Patent, bis name is written " Walter
Wdothesley."
In 2 Edward VI (1548) Parliament, with a view of
augmenting the royal revenues, granted to the King tin*
ancient ecclesiastical Colleges with their lands and revenues,
Amongst these was the Collegiate Church of Tettenhall, with
its five Prebends of Pendeford, Bobenhill or Barnhurst,
1 Origin; J deed formerly at Wrottesley.
5 Original Letters Patent, formerly at Wrottesley.
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HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
Perton, Wrottesley and Codsall, As the Crown proposed to
sell the Colleges to the highest bidder, it became necessary
for Walter Wrottesley to purchase the College and its
Prebends in order to preclude the interposition of other
parties, who would have levied the tythes from the whole
of his estates. The Crown exacted the full value of the
property, for Walter paid about twenty-two years' purchase
for it, and this was much above the value of freehold
property at this date. The Letters Patent granting the
College to him are dated 8th May 3 Edward VI, and
the property conveyed lry them is stated to be the late
College of Totnall, or Toteuhall, and its site and capital
house, with its gardens, houses, barns, stables, dovecotes,
orchards, and the Deanery of the said. College and the
five Prebends of Penford, Pobenhill, Perfcon, Wrottesley
and Cod sail,- and all houses, barns, stables, etc. (as before),
and woods, rents, reversions and services, and the tythes of
grain and hay, and all other tythes, oblations, pensions, and
all profits late proceeding from the several tenancies or
occupations of Richard Cress wall, Thomas Sol man, and the
said Walter Wrottesley, situated or existing in Totenhalle,
Alderley, Penford, Wirgis, Compton, Perton, Trescott, Ejil-
broke, Wrottysley, Wighwike, Okyn and Codsall, or else-
where appurtaining to the said College or Prebends, and all
tythes, glebes, services, Court Leets, view of frankpledge,
chattels waived, free warrens, and all other rights, juris-
dictions, privileges, etc., both spiritual as well as temporal,
of whatever kind, existing, situated, or appurtenant to the
said College or Prebends as fully and truly as any Dean,
Master, Warden or Prebendary had ever held them. To be
held by the said Walter, his heirs and assigns of us and
our Successors by the service of one-fortieth part of a
Knight's Fee for ever.1
Tettenhall was one of the Kind's Free Collegiate Churches,
which are supposed to have been founded by King Edgar.
They were exempt from all episcopal supervision, and as
the spiritual jurisdiction as well as the temporal had passed
to Walter Wrottesley and his heirs by the King's grant,
the -Wrottesleys became secular Deans of Tettciiiiall, and
the wills of the parishioners both of Tettenhall and Codsall
were proved in their Manor Courts until the abolition of
the Peculiars in the early part of the LasJ century. ThetQ
wills wore preserved at Wrottesley until the lire of December
181>7, when they were destroyed with the refit of the
Wrottesley muniments.
' Original Letter* Patent undtr tha Cro.it Seal, M WrotUftcy, copfal
1860-62.
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273
Contemporaneously with the purchase of the College, Walter
obtained a license from the Crown to alienate the Penford
and Bobenhill Prebends to Henry Suthwike and Richard
Cresswell respectively, and these two Prebends never formed
a part of the Wrottesley property.1
The attempt of John Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland,
to place his daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Grey, on the throne
in 1553 is well known. It was fortunate for Walter Wrot-
tesley, who appears to have been entangled to a great extent
in the toils of the Duke, that the latter marched with all
the troops he could levy into the Eastern Counties, in order
to intercept the forces which the Princess Mary was raising
in those parts, and that the attempt collapsed before the
Duke's adherents from the Midland Counties could be got
together.2 The Duke left London on the 14th July, but
dismissed his forces on the 20th and proclaimed Queen Mary.
He was arrested on the 21st and reached the Tower of
London on the 25th. On the 18lh August he was tried
and found guilty of high treason, and was beheaded on the
22nd August.
At this date Matthew Wrottesley, who appears to have
been a son of Walter, was in the Duke's household, and was
arrested with the rest of the Duke's servants. A letter from
the Privy Council, dated 31st July 1553, directs the Bailiffs
of Lichfield to release Walter Gravenor and Mathew Rottesloy,
servants of the Duke of Northumberland, now detained by
them in prison, taking sufficient security from them to
appear before the Council to answer for such matters as
they may be charged with.3
Walter Wrotteslc}7 died at ' the close of 1562 or early in
the year 15G3. His will, in which he is styled 11 Walter
Pottyskry of Rottysley Ysquire," is dated the 13th December
1562, and consists of a few lines only. After the usual
pious preamble, he goes on to " bequeyth all my goods and
cattells movabull and unmovabull to John my BOnne and I
countytute the seyd John my sone, my true and lawful]
1 This licence is entered on the Memoranda Roll of the Rcmembi-.nccr,
3 Edward VI, Trinity terra, roll 3.
2 The subsequent rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt Bhewa that the Protestant
party was very strong, and if the Duke had fallen back upon Londou, the
attempt might have had a different is^no.
3 Acts of the Privy Council (printed in the Rolls Scries). Amongst the State
Papers of 33 Henry VIII (printed) there is a license for Charles, Pule of
Suffolk (the father 'of Lady Jane Grey), to alienate a water mill in Ashoo
(Ashow), a grange called Riiryeolc Urangc in .Uhoo, and land in Stamerlou,
co. Warwick, to Matthew Wrottesley, of Wrottesley, oo. Stafford, i conclude
from his being styled "of WrotteBiey/' bo must have been a .s.Mi vf Waiter,
and the title deeds of tins property were at Wrottesley until th.o Lite five.
Matthew must, therefore, bave died fcp., and the OWOST <>f Wrottesley WSJ L>
heir at law,
T
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HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
executor, and my cosyn Edward Levy son Ysquire oversea*
to see this my wyll parfurmed."1
This will was not proved till January 1565, but Walter
must have died before the 1st July 1563, for on that day
a copy of the Court Roll of Tettenhail Regis states that
"John Rotsley Armiger son and heir of Walter Rotsley
Armiger appeared in Court in his own person, and received
from the lord (cepit de domino) all those messuages, etc., of
which the said Walter Wrotsley (sic) had died seised," etc.2
So loug as writing had been confined to a professional
class, it is remarkable how little the orthograpiry of names
and places varies in ancient documents, but with the revival
of letters, when all the educated classes could write more
or less, the spelling of names and places was fast becoming
purely phonetic. This Walter was the first member of
his family who signs his name. His usual signature was
"Walter Wrottysley," written in a large bold hand, but he
was not at all particular about the spelling of his name.
As shewn in the life of his father Richard, he married in
1501 Isabella, the daughter of John Harcourt, of Ronton.
Assuming that he was only eighteen years of age at the
date of his marriage, he must have been over eighty years
of age at the date of his death, in 1563. Besides his
son John, who succeeded him, he left a son Richard, who
died in 1566, in which year letters of administration of
his effects were granted to his brother John. Receipts at
Wrottesley in connection with this administration shewed that
Elinor, a daughter of Walter Wrottesley, was married to
Richard Lee, Esq.,3 and that Margaret, another daughter,
was married to Nicholas Thornes, Esq.4 Besides these, Walter
had three other daughters, Elizabeth, who married Sir John
Talbot, of Albrighton, the ancestor of (lie pre ;enl Earl of
Shrewsbury;5 Dorothy, married to William Lawrance, Esq.^
of Hartingfordbury f and a fifth daughter, also named Eliza-
beth, who married John Gower, of Woodhall, co. Worcester.11
The deeds and family settlements were preserved complete
at Wrottesley up to the date of the tire in 1 S M 7 , but as they
1 Copy of will formerly at Wrottesley.
3 Copy of Court Rati formerly at Wrol i osley.
3 The Shropshire Visitation of L628 says thai Bleanor, daughter of WtJfeOf
"Wrottesley, of Wrol t esley, married Etiohard Loo. of Langtoy, Esq.
4 The Mum* Visitation mentions that Nicholas Thornes, el Sholvok*), sa Salop,
married Margaret, daughter of Walter Wrottesley, and had issue EUoberd
Thornes, who was Sheriff of tho County of Salop in 1610.
5 The same Visitation stales that Sir John Talbot, of Albright on. married
Elizabeth, the daughter of Walter Wrottealey, of WrOttesligr, Kt.. ami that
the died 10th May. ! Elisabeth (1660).
6 See also Visitation of Hertfordshire, 1634, under Pedigree of Lawraaoe.
' 7 See also Visitation of co. Worcester, of 1669, ondtr Podigroo of Qoiftr.
This Elisabeth cannot bo identical with Elisabeth IWfoot, for the latter ■
her will, as will DO BOOH from the following extracts taken from n contemporary
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275
were no longer required as evidences of descent after the
reign of Henry VIII, no copies were made of them. In
most cases, however, notes were taken of their contents, and
these will be used in the narrative as it proceeds..
The following are the Letters Patent which appointed
Walter Wrottesley Eschaetor of co. Stafford in 1527 : —
Henricus Octavus dei gratia Anglie et Francie Hex, Fidei
defensor, et Dominns Hibernie, omnibus ad suos prescntes Ktere
pervenerint saJutem. Sciatis quod commisimus dileeto nobis
Waltero Wrotesley, Armigero, officium Escaetrie nostre in Comi-
tatu Staftbrdie. Habendum quamdiu nobis placuerifc : ita quod
de exitibus inde provcnientibns nobis respondeat ad Scaccaiium
nostrum. In eujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus
patentes. Teste me ipso apnd Westmonasterium xviii die Novembris
anno regni nostri decimo nono. (18th November 1527.)1
Great Seal of Henry VIII.
Henricus Octavus dei gratia Anglie et Francie Ilex, fidei defensor
et dominus Hibernie, Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Abbatibus, Prioribus,
Ducibus, Comitibus, Baronibus, militibus, liberis hominibus et omni-
bus aliis in Comitatu Staffordie. Cum comiserimus dileeto nobis
Waltero "Wrotesley, Armigero, officium Escaetrie nostre in Comitatu
predieto ; habendum quamdiu nobis plaeuerit, prout in lileris
nostris patentibus ei inde confectis plenius continetur ; vobis man-
damus quod eidem Waltero tanquam Escaetori in Comitatu predieto
in omnibus cue ad officium illud pertinent intendentes sitis et
respondentes. In eujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri
fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium xviii die
Novembris anno regni nostri decimo nono. (ISth November 1527.)-
Grcat Seal of Henry VIII.
Arms of Walter Wrottesley.
On the dexter side — Or, three piles Sable, a quarter Ermine, for
Wrottesley.
On the sinister side — Gules., two bars Or, for Harcourt, of Ronton,
co. Stafford. On the upper bar a crescent Sable, as a mark of cadency.
copy formerly sit Wrottesley, speaks of her brother "John Goer," and " my
syster his wyfe." It was not uncommon in former days to give the same
Christian name to two sisters.
The will of "Dame Elisabeth Talbot, wyilow, lad V- of Salwarpe in the County
of Worcester,'* was dated L559. She makes the following bequests in it: To my
father Water Wrottysley my gold ryngO with a seal engraved with :i boyti
(boar). Item 1 bequeth to my brother John Wrottysley iij angells ami t<> my
systttr his wj-fe one angell of gold and ray best folvet gown, [tern I bequcili to
my brother llychard Wrottysley iij augells of gold. Item I forgive i>> my brother
John doer x li of the xxli which bo owyth to uic and 1 bequeth to tny Byster
his wyfe an angell of gold. Iw-m 1 beqlieth to mj ivstur Blynor Ln ami
to my systur Margaret Wrottysley to tyther of them iij itigqlle of gold,
ltom I bequeth t<> ray Bystur Dorothy Lawrence \1 s.
1 Original Letters Patent at Wrottesley. copied 1800-02.
• Ibid.
276
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
Before proceeding further with this history, I propose to
s&y a few words respecting the family of Writhe or Wrothe,
who assumed the name of Wrottesley or Wriothesley in the
early part of the reign of Henry VJII.
King Henry VII, in the first year of his reign, confirmed
the appointment made by Edward IV, of John Wrythe as
Principal Herald and Garter King of Arms, " Principalis
Heraldus et ojjfccium incliii Ordinis Garterii Avmorum
Regis Anglicanorum" (Patent Roll, 1 Henry VIP), and on the
26th January 1503, Thomas Writhe alias Wallingford, was
appointed Garter King of Arms in the place of John Wrythe,
his father, deceased (Rymer's Fcedera). Anstis, in his " History
of the Garter," says of this Thomas, " but though this officer
was advanced to this employment by the monosyllabic surname
that his father used, yet he disliked the shortness of it, and
therefore augmented it with the high sound of three syllables,
which added nothing to the smoothness in pronunciation, and
after some variations in the spelling of it, he at last settled
upon Wriothesley. And what is somewhat particular, in order
to countenance this affectation he attributed this new coined
appellation to all his paternal ancestors in the draughts he
made of his own pedigree."
The above account by Anstis is literally true. On the Dc
Banco Roll of Easter 11 Henry VIII, Thomas Wrotesley and
Anne, his wife, were suing Henry Clifford, Kt., for Anne's
dower in Goldenburgh, co. York.
'At Trinity term, 13 Henry VIII, Ralph Wicliff, Armiger.
sued Thomas Wrotesley, nupcr de London, Armiger, alias
dictus Thomas Garter, and Anne, his wife, for a debt of
£300. In this year, however, Thomas changed his name to
Wrothcsley, and at Michaelmas term 13 Henry VIII, Thorn
Wrothcsley, Armiger, Rex Armorum Anglicanorum, sued Ralph
Wicliff for an illegal distress.
In another suit of 13 Henry VIII, under the name of
Thomas Wriothesley alias Thomas Garter, he sued Ralph
Wicliff for a debt of £300. Amongst the Harleian MSS. in
the British Museum there is an elaborate pedigree which
deduces the descent of this Thomas from a John de Wrotesley,
of Grekeland, co. Gloucester, living temp. Edward 1. This
pedigree, which was concocted for Sir Thomas Wriothesley,
is a most ingenious compilation, for there really was a John
de Wrottesley living temp. Edward 1. a younger son of Sir
William de Wrottesley, of Wrottesley, and there was als.^ a
John de Wrotessley, Abbot of Ford, living fonYp. Edward 111,
the existence of whom, perhaps, suggested to Thomr> Writhe
his change of name.
For the forgery and the falsification of documents this
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277
Thomas stands pre-eminent even amongst the Tudor Heralds.
His character has been exposed by Eyton in his "Antiquities
of Shropshire," and more recently by Mr. J Horace Hound
in his " Studies in Peerage and Family History." He had a
brother William, who was York Herald, and this William
had a son Thomas, the famous Minister and Chancellor of
Henry VIII. The last named Thomas was created Baron
Wriothesley on the 1st January 1544; Knight of -the
Garter in 1545 ; Earl of Southampton in 1547 ; and died
in 1550.1
Any family might be proud to claim kinship with Henry
Wriothesley, the third Earl, the friend and patron of
Shakespear, or with Thomas, the fourth and last Earl, of
whom Clarendon gives so high a character, but the facts
are irresistible, and it is clear that there was no connection
between the two families.
John Wrottesley, 1563—1578.
This John is shewn to be son
of the last named Waller by the
deeds formerly at Wrottesley, by
the Heralds' Visitations, and by his
petition in Chancery to Sir Nicholas
Bacon,2 which is given below.
After his marriage with Elizabeth
Astley he appears to have resided
principally at Patshull, for he styles
himself John Wrottesley, " of rat-
sell," in the above petition. The
old Haukwall mill, on the boundarv
between the two properties, had
been settled on him and his wife
at the date of his marriage, and in 4 Edward VI (1551),
during the lifetime of his father, and in spite of his holding
the property in tail only, he levied a Fine in conjunction
with his wife Elizabeth, by which this mill w;'S conveyed
to his father-in-law, Thomas Astley, for a sum of I
marks.3
The petition to the Lord Keeper was as follows : — -
To the right Honorable >Ser Nycholas Bacon Knyght and Lord
Keeper of the Gre.ile Seale of E&gl&ncL
In most humble wyse complaynyng Shewyth w\o your honorable
Lordshipp your orator and dayly Beadman4 John Wrottesley of
1 The " Complete Peerage," by Gh B.C., under Southampton.
■ Chancery Ftooeedinga, Series 11, Bundle l'.*.', No 81,
' Stall. Collodions, vol. j». 205.
4 To bodo in to pray, in Ola English.
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HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
Patsell in the Countie of Stafford Gentleman, that wheareas one
John Romsall late of Lutteley in the sayd Countie was seased in
his demeasiie as of fee of and in a mease wyth appurtenances and
one lesowe or pasture in Lutteley aforcsayd and the same held
of Walter Worseley (sic) Esquyer feather to your sayd orator,
and lord of the manor of Lutteley by ij shyllings yerely, fealtie
and sute to his Courte of Lutteley aforesayd, in chyff, and the
sayd John Romsall so beying seased about three yeres last past
at Gatacre in the Countie of Salop comytted a felonyous acte and
thereupon way apprehended, indyted, arreyed, found gyltie, and putt
to execucyon, by reason whereof the same mese with the appur-
tenaunces, lesowe, and pasture came into the handes and possession
of the late Kynge Philipp and Queue Mary for one year and a
da^y next after, and after that to the said Walter Wrottesley (sic)
beying lord of the said maner of Lutteley, by the way of Eschete
wiche Water Wrottesley by vertue thereof dyd entre into the
seyd lesowe or pasture so of hym holden as lawfull was for hym
to do, by force whereof he was seased in his demeane as of fee
by the way of Eschete, and so beying seased by his dede suiiycyent
in the law and redye to be shewed, as well for a certeyne somme
of money to hym in hand payd, as for other good causes and
consyderations him specyally movyngc, dyd infeffe your orator,
sonne and heyre apparaunt of the sayd Walter of and in the
said mese wyth appurtenaunces and other the premysses, to have
and to holde the sayd mese, lesowe, and pasture and other the
premysses with the appurtenaunces unto your orator and his
hey res for ever, by force wherof he was seased accordingly and
so (some words omitted here) good and gracyous lord that one
Rychard Sywodc of Hylpole in the Countie of Worcester, John
Marten, Thomas (sic) and Thomas Marten bcyngc evylle dysposed
persons and indendyng to dysinheryte your orator of the premysses
came unto the sayd mese and other the premysses and then and
there poled xip fyve or syx ... of sawed pales fast sell abowt
the sayd mese and. xiiii other lyke posts and the same wythe
dyvers hordes and . . . from the sayd mese dyd rooD and take
away, some into the Countie of Worsester, and some into the
Countie of Salop, and into other places to your orator unknowen
to the greate hurt and losse of your orator, and also then and
there tokc from the sayd mese dyvers and sundry evydences,
muniments and charters conccrnynge the sr. yd mese wythe appur-
tenaunces, and other the premysses to the interne to dysinheryte
your orator of the premysses and for the cause the nomore
and pleyntie of the sayd evidences, mvniments and charters to
your orator are unknowen and whether they be in Bagge or Boxe,
sealed your orator khoweth not, wherefore ha is thereby wythout
remedy by the due order of the commen law i s. In consideration
whereof may yt please your good lordshipp to graunt unto your
orator the Queues highness wryt of subpena to be direoted unto
the sayd Richard, John, Thomas and Thomas coniaundyng them
thereby personally to appeare before your Lordshipp al a oerteyna
day and under a certeyne payne by your Lordshippe to be lvmyUed
WROTTESLEY OF WROTTESLEY.
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there to aunswere to the premysses accordyng to right and con-
scyence and at there apparaunce not onely to injoyne them to
make delyverye of the sayd evidens so taken away unto your
orator, but also to make to (him) recompense for the sayd pales
posts, hordes and gycstes so lykewyse taken away, and your
orator shall dayly prey unto Almyghty God for your Lordshipp
in honor longe to endure.
The above petition is undated, but must have been drawn
up between the years 1558 and 1563, for Sir Nicholas Bacon
was appointed Lord Keeper in the former year and John
had succeeded his father Walter before the latter year.
John Wrottesley served the office of High .Sheriff for
Staffordshire in 15 04, the year after he had succeeded his
father.
In 1568 Walter, his eldest son, was married to Mary, the
daughter and sole heir of Hugh Lee, of Woodford, co.
Stafford, and by this marriage the family obtained eventually
a considerable accession of property. By an indenture
made on the 15th May 10 Elizabeth '(1568) on the
marriage of Walter Rotesley (sic), Gentilman, sonne and
heir appaurant of John Wrotesley, of Wroteslcy, co.
Stafford, Esquire, with Mary Lee, daughter and sole heyre
of Hugh Lee, of Woodforde, co. Stafford, Gentilman, the latter
settled on Walter and Mary, and the heirs of the body of
Mary, lands in the city of Lichfield, Longdon, Fulfen, Cur-
burgh, Elmhurst, Wolverhampton and Bilston, together with
the reversion after the death, of Elizabeth, the wife of Hugh
Lee, of the manor of Woodford and the tythes of Womburne
and Orton. John Wrottesley, on his side, covenanted to
convey an estate to Gilbert Astley, Esq., and John Talbot,
Gentilman, in order to make a. settlement upon Walter and
Mary, with remainder after the death of Mary, upon the
heirs of their bodies. It was, doubtless, in pursuance of
this covenant that John Wrottesley levied a Fine in
14 Elizabeth (1572), by Avhich, in conjunction with Waller,
he enfeoffed Gilbert Astley and John Talbot in the manor
of Wrottesley. In this Fine the manor is said to have
consisted of eight messuages, a cottage, two tofts, twenty
gardens, twenty orchards, five hundred acres of arable land,
two hundred acres of meadow, live hundred acres of pasture,
four hundred acres of wood, and 5s. of rent. This corresponds
very closely with the acreage of the present day, but the
small amount of rent named shews (hat the manor had been
already depopulated and was held almost entirely 
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