FERRARS and DERBY.

137

H Enrie of Lancafter, Lord of Monmouth, brother to Thomas Plantagenet, (was after his father and brother) restored to be Earle of Lancafter, Leicester, and Derby, with the Office of high Steward of England, as in the Title of Lancafter is more at large.

Et portoit, d'Engleterre à vn lambel de
France.

H Enrie, fur-named Tortcoll (or Crooke-necke) fonne and heire of Henrie Monmouth, was in the life time of his father created Earle of Derby, in the eleuenth yeare of King Edward the third, as in the Title of the Earles of Lancafter is more at large.

Et portoit, gueulles à trois Leopards d'or, an lambel de trois pointz, d'azur charge de neuf fleurs de liz d'or.

Iohn, fur-named of Gaunt, (the place of his birth) fourth fonne of King Edward the third, writ in his Stile, Iohn, fonne of the King of England, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancafter, Earle of Derby, Lincolne, and Leicester, and high Steward of England; as in the Earles of Lancafter is more at large.

Et portoit, escartelle feme de France & d'Engleterre, à lambel d'Hermines.

N 3

Henrie

138

FERRARS and DERBY.

HEnrie of Bullingbrooke, Sonne of Iohn of Gaunt, was created Earle of Derby, in the ninth yeare of King Richard the second, his Nephew; and in the twentieth yeare of the fame Kings Reigne, he was made Duke of Hereford; and lastly, King of England, by the name of King Henrie the fourth.

Et portoit, les armes de son pere.

TThomas, Lord Stanley, and of Man, Knight of the noble Order of the Garter, and Lord Steward of the house to King Edward the fourth, was created Earle of Derby, in the first yeare of King Henrie the Seuenth, on Simon and Iudes day; and in the fame yeare, he was made also high Constable of England. He married to his first wife, Elianor, daughter of Richard Neuill, Earle of Salisburie; by whom he had issue, fixe Sonnes and foure daughters, viz. Thomas and Richard died young; George, the third Sonne, was Lord Strange, in right of Ioane his wife, daughter and heire of Iohn, Lord Strange of Knocking, and died before his father, the third of King Henrie the Seuenth; William, the fourth Sonne, died young; Edward, the fifth Sonne, was Lord Monteagle; and Iames, the fixt Sonne, was Bishop of Elie: Ioane, the eldest daughter, died young; Katherine, the second daughter, Anne, the third daughter, died young; and Margaret, the fourth daughter, was married to Sir John Osberton, Knight. This Thomas married to his second wife, Margaret, daughter and heire of Iohn, Duke of Somerset, the widdow of Edmond, Earle of Richmond, and mother to King Henrie the Seuenth; by whom he had no issue. He died at Latham in Lancashire, in the twentieth yeare of King Henrie the Seuenth, 1504. And Margaret his wife, Countesse of Richmond, died in the first yeare of King Henrie the Seuenth.

Et portoit, d'argent à la bande d'azur, chargee de trois teftes de Cerf d'or.

Thomas

["FERRARS and DERBY.", "139", "Thomas Lord Stanley, Strange, and of Man, grandchild to Thomas aforesaid, by his sonne George, was the second Earle of Derby, of that Family, and married Anne, daughter of Edward Lord Haftings, and fifther of George, Earle of Huntingdon (who was after married to John Radcliff, Lord Fitz-Water.) This Thomas had issue, three sonnes and one daughter, viz. John Lord Strange, that died before his father; Edward, that was after Earle of Derby; and Henry, that died young of the sweat. Margaret the daugh ter, married Robert Radcliff, Earle of Suffes.", "This Thomas died in the thirteenth yeare of King Henry the eight, 1521.", "Et portoit, les armoiries de son pere. D'argent à la bande d'azur, chargée de trois testes du cerf d'or.", "Edward Lord Stanley, of Latham, Strange, of Knocking, and of Man, sonne of Thomas aforesaid, was the third Earle of Derby, of that Family, who had three Wines: The first, was Dorothea, daughter of Thomas Howard, the second Duke of Norfolke, by whom hee had issue, three Sonnes and foure daughters; Henry, who after his father was the fourth Earle of Derby; Sir Edward Stanley, Knight; and Sir Thomas Stanley, Knight; who married Margaret, daughter and one of the heires of George Vernon, of Derbighire, Knight: Anne the eldest daugh ter, was first married to Charles Lord Sturton, and af ter to Sir John Arundell of Cornwall, Knight; Elizabeth was Wife to Henry Parker, Lord Morley; Jane married to Edward Lord Dudley; and Mary, the fourth daughter, was Wife to Edward Lord Stafford. This Edward had to his second Wife, Margaret, daughter of Ellis Bar low, of Lancaighire; by whom hee had issue, George, that died young; Katherine, Wife to Sir Thomas Kniuet, Knight; Margaret, married to John Iermyn, of Russhbrooke in Suffolke. Lastly, the said Edward married to his third Wife, Mary, daughter of George Cotton, but by her had no issue. This Edward being Knight of the Garter, died at Latham Hall on Friday, the foure and twentieth of October, and was buried at Ormeskirke, on Thursday the fourth of December, Anno 1572.", "Et portoit, les armoiries de son pere.", "Henry", "night of the Steward of the earle, and in the seuentieth year of the seuenh, he was married to John Neuill, Earl ofSomervilles, and died young in right of the third sonne of Edward, who was Bilhops seconde, the fourth earle ofSomervilles, and the seventh sonne of the third earle ofSomervilles, and the eighth sonne of the seventh earle ofSomervilles, and the ninth sonne of the eighth earle ofSomervilles, and the tenth sonne of the ninth earle ofSomervilles, and the eleventh sonne of the tenth earle ofSomervilles, and the twelfth sonne of the eleventh earle ofSomervilles, and the thirteenth sonne of the twelfth earle ofSomervilles, and the fourteenth sonne of the thirteenth earle ofSomervilles, and the fifteenth sonne of the fourteenth earle ofSomervilles, and the sixteenth sonne of the fifteenth earle ofSomervilles, and the seventeenth sonne of the sixteenth earle ofSomervilles, and the eighteenth sonne of the seventeenth earle ofSomervilles, and the nineteenth sonne of the eighteenth earle ofSomervilles, and the twenty-first sonne of the nineteenth earle ofSomervilles, and the twenty-second sonne of the twenty-first earle ofSomervilles, and the twenty-third sonne of the twenty-second earle ofSomervilles, and the twenty-fourth sonne of the twenty-third earle ofSomervilles, and the twenty-fifth sonne of the twenty-fourth earle ofSomervilles, and the twenty-sixth sonne of the twenty-fifth earle ofSomervilles, and the twenty-seventh sonne of the twenty-sixth earle ofSomervilles, and the twenty-eighth sonne of the twenty-seventh earle ofSomervilles, and the twenty-ninth sonne of the twenty-eighth earle ofSomervilles, and the thirtieth sonne of the twenty-ninth earle ofSomervilles, and the thirtieth sonne of the thirtieth earle ofSomervilles, and the thirtieth

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FERRARS and DERBY.

Henry Lord Stanley of Latham, Strange, of Knoc-king, and of Man, Sonne and heire of Edward, was the fourth Earle of Derby of that surname, and Knight of the Garter. He married Margaret, daughter of Hen-ry Clifford, Earle of Cumberland, and Elienor his wife, daughter and one of the co-heires of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolke, by Mary Queene of France, his wife, and had iffue, Edward, that died young, Ferdinando and William, both Earles of Derby one after the other. He died in the yeare 1593. and was buried at

Et portoit, d'argent à la bande d'azur chargee
de trois tefles de cerf d'or.

Ferdinando Lord Stanley, Strange, and of the Isle of Man, Sonne and heire of Henry Earle of Derby, was after his father, the fifth Earle of Derby, Lord Strange, and of the Isle of Man; and married Alice, daughter of Sir John Spencer of Northamptonshire, Knight; and had iffue three daughters, his heires generall : Anne, married to Grey Bruges, Lord Shandos; Frances the second daughter, was married to Sir John Egerton, Knight, and after Earle of Bridgewater; and Elizabeth the third daughter, was married to Henry Lord Haftings, Earle of Huntingdon. He died in the yeare of our Lord, 1594. and was buried at

Et portoit, d'es armes de son Pere.

William Lord Stanley, Strange, and of the Isle of Man, second Sonne of Henry Earle of Derby, and brother and heire male of Ferdinando, was the fifth Earle of Derby, and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edward Vere, late Earle of Oxford, by Anne Cicell his wife, daughter of William Lord Burleigh, and Lord Treasurer of England; and hath iffue, James Lord Strange, Robert second Sonne, and Anne married to Sir Henry Portman, of Orchard in Somersetshire, Baro-nct, 1621.

A

A Catalogue of the Marqueffes and
Earles of Dorfet, with their Armes, Wies,
and Children.

Smond, Earle of Seez in Normandy, was by William the Conquerour made Bifhop of Salisbury, and after, Earle of Dorfet, (as M. Camden hath in his Britannia, page 217.) But Milles, in Somerset Glouers Booke of the Succeffions of Earles, page 392. hath, that the said Smond was Earle of Somerset; and therefore, to which of them credite may be giuen, I leaue to the indifferent Reader.

John, brother of King Richard the firft, was Earle of Moriton, Lancafter, and Cornwall, and Lord of the Manor of Wallingford, Marlesburgh, and Tikell; and in the right of Isabell his Wife, (daughter, and one of the heires of William, Earle of Glocefter) Earle of Glocefter; and after, by the gift of King Richard the firft, Earle of Somerset and Dorfet; and lastly, King of England, by the name of King John; as in the Kings of England is more at large.

Et portoit, guenlles à deus Lions paſſant gardant d'or.

John, furnamed Beaufort, fonne of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafter, by the Lady Katherine Swynford, his third Wife, was created Earle of Somerset, at a Parliament held the twentieth yeare of King Richard the second: and in the one and twentieth yeare of the faid Kings Reigne, he was created Marqueſſe Dorſet, and Lord Chamberlaine of England; and in the firſt yeare of King Henry the fourth, he was by Parliament depofed from the Title of Marqueſſe Dorſet, and re-mained onely Earle of Somerset. This John, with the reſt of the children which John of Gaunt had before marriage of the faid Lady Swynford, were made legiti mate,

DORSET.

143

on the part of King Henry the fifth, againft Richard Duke of Yorke, and was buried in the Abbey at S. Albons. Hee married Elianor, second daughter and one of the heires of Richard Beauchamp, Earle of Warwicke; by whom hee had issue, Henry Duke of Somerset, and Edmond Duke of Somerset, and John, flaine at the Battell of Tewesbury: and issue daughters: Margaret, Wife to Humfrey Earle Stafford; Elizabeth, Wife to Sir Henry Fitz-Lewis; Anne, Wife to Sir William Pasbon, Knight; Jane, first married to the Lord Hoth of Ireland, and after to Sir Rich. Fry, Knight; Elianor, first married to James Butler, Earle of Wiltshire, and after to Sir Robert Spencer, Knight.

Et portoit, escartelle France & D'engleterre à la bordure
gobonne d'argent & d'azur.

HEnry Beaufort, fonne of Edmond aforesaid, was Duke of Somerset, Marqueſſe Dorſet, and Earle of Moritaine, Lord of Chirke and Chirk-land, in the Marches of Wales. Hee left King Henry the fifth, and tooke part with Edward of Yorke, who had then obtained the Crowne. But afterwards hee revolted againe to King Henry, and fought the Battell of Exham, where hee was taken prifoner, and by Parliament, held the fourth of King Edward the fourth, was attainted, and loft his head, leauing no lawfull issue of his body; after whose death, his brother Edmond tooke vpon him the Title of Duke, Marqueſſe, and Earle: but hee taking part with the Faction of Lancaſter, againſt the Houſe of Yorke, was alſo taken prifoner at the Battell of Tewkesbury, in the yeare 1471. by King Edward the fourth, and two dayes after was beheaded, leauing no issue of his body begotten. This Henry Beaufort, by his Concubine Ioane Hill, had a ſonne named Charles Somerset, whom King Henry the eight, in the fifth yeare of his Reigne, created Earle of Worceſter, and Lord Herbert of Gower; of whom, Edward now Earle of Worceſter, 1618. is deſcended.

Thomas

144

DORSET.

Thomas Grey, Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter, (and halfed brother by the mother to King Edward the fifth) was the eighteenth day of April, at Westminister, in the fifteenth year of King Edward the fourth, created Lord Harington and Bonuile, and in the same year he was also created Marqueffe Dorset. He married Cicely, daughter and heire of William Bonuile, Lord Harington, and had issue, issuee, and eight daughters, viz. Edward and Anthonie died young; Thomas, the third fonne, was Marqueffe Dorset after his father; Richard, John, and Leonard died also young, without issue; George, the feuenth fonne, was a Clarke: Dorothy, the eldest daughter, was first married to Robert Willoughby, Lord Brooke, and after to William Blount, Lord Mountioy; Cecily, married to John Sutton, Baron of Dudley; Elianor, Wife to John Arundell, of Lanheron in Cornwall, Esquire; Elizabeth was married to Gerald Fitz-Gerald, Earle of Kildare in Ireland; Mary was married to Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrars of Chertley, and Viscount Hereford; Margaret, married to Richard Wake, of Blifworth, Esquire; Bridget died young, and Anne was a Nunne. This Thomas died in the tenth year of King Henry the Feuenth, Anno 1494.

Et portoit, burelle de fix d'argent & d'azur, trois torteaux en
le chef à une lambel de hermines.

Thomas Grey, Marqueffe Dorset, Lord Harington and Bonuile, (fonne and heire of Thomas Grey, Marqueffe Dorset, and Cicely Bonuile) married Margaret, the Widdow of William Medley, and daughter of Sir Robert Wotton of Boston in Kent, Knight, and had issue, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, and Lord John Grey, who married Mary, sister of Sir Anthonie Browne, Viscount Mountague, and had issue, Sir Henry Grey, of Pergo, after made Baron of Groby, by King James, 1603. Edward Grey the third fonne, and Thomas the fourth fonne. Hee had three daughters also, which were thus married: Elizabeth was married to Thomas Lord Audley, of Walden, and Chancellor of England; Katherine was Wife to Henry Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell; and Anne, the third daughter, was married to Henry Willoughby, of Wollerton in Nottinghamshire, Esquire. This Thomas Marqueffe Dorset, died in the two and twentieth year of King Henry the eight, Anno 1530, being Knight and Companion of the Garter.

Henry

A Catalogue of the Earles of
*Essex*, their Armes, Wiues,
and Children.

Essex Earle Magna-villa, sonne of William, and grand-child to Jeffrey Magna-villa, which came into England with William the Conquerour, was created Earle of Essex, by King Stephen; vnto whose Letters Patents, or Charter, were Wituelfes, William de Ipres, Henry de Essex, John, sonne of Robert Fitz-Walter, Robert de Newborough, and others. After, Mauld the Emprefle winning him to her Faction, gaue him the Tower of London, the Towne of Walden in Essex, with the Shirualtie of Middlesex, Essex, and Hertfordshire, to hold them as Jeffrey his grandfather held them; as alſo all the Lands which Eudo (his grandfather by the mother) Sewer to King Henry the firſt, held in Normandie. He married Rose, daughter of Alberick de Vere, chieſe Iuſtice of England; by whom hee had iſſue, Geoffrey, William, and Arnulphus. Hee died the ſixteenth of the Kalends of October, 1144. and lyeth buried in the Temple Church in London: But Matheſw Paris hath, that he was ſlaine with an Arrow, ſhot at him at the Monaſterie of Ramſey, 1143.

*Et portoit, escartelle d'or & de gueulles, à le escarboucle pomette
& fleurette de fable brochant sur le tout.*

G
Effrey Magnauile, or Mandeuil, sonne and heire of
Geſſrey aforeſaid, was Earle of Esſex, and had the
third penny of the Pleas within that Countie. In
which his Charter, hee had confirmed vnto him all
Honours, Priuiledges, and Lands, held by Geſſrey his
great grandfather, William his grandfather, and Geſſrey
his father, as well in England as in Normandie; com-
manding, that he and his heires ſhould haue and hold
the ſaid Countie of Esſex, as freely and lawfully, as any
Earle in England or Normandie held his Earledome:
Vnto which his Charter were Wituelfes, Reginald
Earle of Cornwall, Robert Earle of Leicester, Roger
Earle

ESSEX.

151

John de Bohun, (sonne and heire of Humfrey de Bohun
the eight) after the death of his father, was Earle of
Hereford and Eſſex, &c. Hee married two wiues, as in
the Title of Earles of Hereford, but had no iſſue. Hee
died in the ninth yeare of King Edward the third,
1336. and was buried in the Abbey of Stratford neere
London.

Et portoit, d'azur a la band d'argent, a deux cortices
entre six Lions rampant d'or.

Hymſrey de Bohun, the ninth of that name, ſonne of
Humphrey the eight, and brother and heire of John
aforeſaid, was alſo Earle of Hereford and Eſſex, &c. He
ouer-liued his younger brother, William, Earle of
Northampton, one yeare, one moneth, and ſiue dayes;
and died at Pleſſie in Eſſex, the ſixe and thirtieth of
King Edward the third, 1361. and is buried in the Au-
gustine-Friars in London.

Les armes de ſon frere Ieane.

Hymſrey de Bohun, the tenth of that Chriſten name,
ſonne and heire of William de Bohun, Earle of
Northampton, and Nephew and heire of John de Bo-
hun the eight, and Humſrey the ninth, his Vnckles, was
after their deaths, Earle of Hereford, Eſſex, and North-
hampton, and Conſtable of England. He married Iane,
daughter of Richard Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell, and
had iſſue, two daughters his heires; Elianor, the eldeſt,
was married vnto Thomas of Woodſtocke, Duke of
Gloceſter, with the Earledome of Eſſex, and Conſtable-
ship of England; and Mary, the ſecond daughter, was
married to Henrie Plantagenet, Earle of Derby (after

King Henrie the fourth) with the Earledoms of Hereford and Northampton, and the Lordship of Brecknock, and the Patronage of Lanthonie. This Humſrey died, and was buried at Walden, the ſixe and fortieth of King Edward the third, 1371.

Et portoit, d'azur a la band d'argent a deux cottizes entre six Lions
rampant d'or.

Henrie

lohn

ESSEX.

152

HEnrie, Viscount Bourchier, and Knight of the Garter, (sonne of William Bourchier, created Earle of Ewe in Normandie, the first of King Henrie the first, and of Anne his wife, daughter and heire of Thomas of Woodstocke, Duke of Glocester, and of Elianor his wife, eldest daughter and co-heire of Humsfrey de Bohun, the last Earle of Hereford and Efflex of that name) in his Charter, bearing date the eleuenth of King Henrie the first, writ himselfe Earle of Ewe and Lord Bourchier; and in the first and twentieth yeare of the said Kings reigne, by another Charter hee writ himselfe Earle of Ewe, and Viscount Bourchier lastly, in the second and twentieth yeare of King Henrie the first, Ri-

chard, Duke of Yorke, did confirme certaine Lands vnto him in marriage with Isabel his first, by the name of Henrie, Viscount Bourchier; giuing her also an Annuitie of a hundred pounds per annum. So that it seemeth, that when Charles the French King had recouered Normandie, all Titles of Honour of English-men ceased, (for of right, no man can carry a Title of dignitie of another man's Land or Inheritance.) In the first and thirtieth yeare of the said King Henrie the first; this Henrie was created Viscount Bourchier. And lastly, in the first yeare of King Edward the fourth he was created Earle of Efflex, in right of Elianor de Bohun his grand-mother, wife of the first said Thomas of Woodstocke. This Henrie Bourchier married Isabel, daughter of Richard, Earle of Cambridge, and first of Ri-chard, Duke of Yorke, and had issue, William Bourchier, who married Anne, daughter and one of the heires of Richard Wooduile, Earle Riuers, and died before his father; Henrie Bourchier, second sonne, married Eli-zabeth, daughter and heire of Thomas, Lord Scales; Humsfrey Bourchier, third fonne, married Ioane, coufin and heire of Ralph, Lord Cromwell of Taterfshall in Lincolnshire; Thomas Bourchier, fourth fon, married Isabel, daughter & heire of Sir John Barry, knight; John Bourchier, first fon, married Elizabeth, daughter & heire of Henrie, Lord Ferrars of Groby; Edward, first fon, was flaine at Wakefield; and Fouke, the seuenth fon, died yong. This Henrie, Earle of Efflex, died in the 23. of King Edward the fourth, 1482.

Porter, d'argent a la croix engresfée de gueulles, entre quatre buſſeux de fable.

HEnrie Bourchier, Knight of the Garter, fonne and heire of William Bourchier, that died before his father and grand-child to Henrie, Earle of Efflex, next before mentioned, was after the death of his said grandfather, Earle of Efflex and Viscount Bourchier. He married, Anne, daughter & heire of Sir William Say, Knight, and had issue, one only daughter named Anne, married to William, Lord Parre of Kendall, who in her right was Earle of Efflex. This Henrie brake his necke with the fall from his horse, the fourteenth of March, in the one and thirtieth yeare of King Henrie the eight, 1539.

Et portoit, d'argent a la croix engresfée de gueulles,
entre quatre buſſeux de fable.
Thomas

ESSEX.

153

Thomas Cromwell, Knight of the Garter, (and sometimes servant to Cardinall *Wolfey*) was created Baron Cromwell of Okeham in Rutlandshire, the eight and twentieth of King *Henrie* the eight, and on the eighteenth day of Aprill, the one and thirtieth of King *Henrie* the eight, he was created Earle of Effex at white Hall: at which time the King delivered him a Patent for the Lord Chamberlainship of England. He writ in his title, Earle of Effex, Vicegerent, great Camberlaine of England, Keeper of the priuie Seale, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Justice of the Courts and Chafes, from the River of Trent Northward. He married one of the daughters of one Williams of Wales, and had issue, *Gregorie Cromwell*, who was created Lord Cromwell, the same time his father was created Earle of Effex. This Thomas being in the Council Chamber, the ninth of July, in the one and thirtieth of Henrie the eight, was arrested, and the nineteenth of the same Month was attainted by Parliament of treason, neither coming to an end; and the Seuen and twentieth of July after was beheaded at the Tower Hill.

*Et portoit, d'azur seu une fees entre trois Lion ceaux rampant d'or, une Rose gueulles, entre deux cornish choughes propre.*

William Parre Knight of the Garter, created Baron Parre of Kendall, the ninth of March, in the one and thirtieth yere of King *Henrie* the eight, and in the fiue and thirtieth yeere of the said Kings reigne, hee was created Earle of Effex at Hampton-Court, in regard he had married *Anne*, the daughter and heire of *Henrie Bourchier*, late Earle of Effex, from whom afterwards hee was divorced for her incontinence. He was lastly created Marquess of Northampton, in the first yeere of King *Edward* the sixth, and married to his second wife, *Elizabeth*, daughter of *George Brooke*, Lord Cobham, and after her decease, he took to his third wife, *Ellen*, daughter of George Saueburgh, a Sweden borne, which yet liueth. He died without issue, and was buried at Warwicke, in the yeare 1571, leauing *Anne* his first and heire, married to William Herbert, Earle of Penbrooke.

*Et portoit, d'argent à deux faces d'azur, à la bordure engriffée de sable.*

*Walter*

ESSEX.

154

Walter Devereux (or d'Ebreicis) Vifcount Hereford, and Lord Ferrars of Chartley, (sonne of Richard, sonne of Walter, sonne of John Devereux, and Cecily Bourchier, the fifter of Henrie Bourchier, Earle of Effex, and coufin and heire of Anne Bourchier, late wife of William Parre, Marqueffe of Northampton) was created Earle of Effex at Greenewich, by Queene Elizabeth, the fourth of May, 1572. and after made Knight of the Garter, and Marshall of Ireland. Hee married Lettice, daughter of Sir Francis Knolles, Knight of the Garter, and Treasurer of the Said Queenes household, and fifter of William, Lord Knolles, Baron of Grais, and Vifcount Wallingford; by whom

he hadiffue, Robert, Earle of Effex, Walter Devereux, flaine at the fiage of Roan, 1592. Penelope, married to Robert, Lord Rich, and Dorothy, firft married to Sir Thomas Parrot, Knight, and after to Henrie Percy, Earle of Northumberland. This Walter died at Dublyn in Ireland, 1575. and was buried at Carmarden in Wales, where he was borne.

Et portoit, d'argent a la face de gueulles trois torteaux en le chef.

Tower of London, the fiue and twentieth of Februarie, 1601.

Robert Devereux, sonne of Walter, was Earle of Effex, and Earle Marshall of England, Vifcount Hereford, Baron Ferrars of Chartley, Lord Bourchier and Louaine, Mafter of the Horfe and Ordenance to Queene Elizabeth, Knight of the Garter, one of her Maiefties priuie Counfell, and Chancellour of the Vniuerſitie of Cambridge: He married Frances, daughter and heire of Sir Francis Walfingham, principall Secretarie to Queene Elizabeth, being the widow of Sir Philip Sidney, Knight; by whom he hadiffue, Robert, now Earle of Effex. This Robert wasattainted of high treason, and for the fame was beheaded within the

Robert Devereux, Earle of Effex, sonne and heire of Robert, after the death of his father, was by King James restored in blood and liuing. He married Frances, second daughter of Thomas Howard, Earle of Suffolk, from whom he was separated by a Nullitie, without hauing anyiffue by her, and ſhee after married to Robert Carr, Earle of Somerset, as in the Title of Somerſet.

Et portoit, d'argent a la face de gueulles trois tor-
teaux en le chef.

A

EXETER.

ried *Margaret*, daughter of Sir *Thomas Neuill* of Horneby-Castle, but by her had no issue. Hee died at his house in East-Greenwich in Kent, and was buried at Saint *Edmondsbury* in Suffolk, the first of *Henrie* the first, leaving the King his heire.

Et portoit, escartelle France & d'Engleterre, au bordure go-
bonne d'argent & d'azur.

John Holland (sonne of John aforesaid) was Earle of Huntington, and of Iuorie in Normandie, Lord of Sparre, Lieutenant generall of the Dukedome of Aquitaine, Admirall of England, & Conftable of the Tower of London, whom King Henrie the first created Duke of Exeter, in the yeare 1442. at Windføre. He married two wiues, the first was Anne, daughter of Edmond, Earle Stafford, by whom he had issue, Henrie Holland, Duke of Exeter. And to his second wife, hee married Anne, daughter of John Mountacute, Earle of Salisbury, and by her had issue, a daughter named Anne, first married to John, Lord Neuill, sonne and heire of Ralphe Neuill, the second Earle of Westmerland, by whom shee had no issue. Secondly, shee married Sir Thomas Neuill, Knight, (brother of Ralph Neuill, the second Earle of Westmerland, and Vnckle to John, her former husband) by whom shee had issue, Ralph Neuill, the third Earle of Westmerland: the said Anne, the fourth yeare of Edward the fourth, married to her third husband, James, Earle Douglas. This John Holland died in the fixe and twentieth of King Henrie the first, and lyeth buried by his two wiues, in Saint Katherines Church by the Tower of London.

Et portoit, de France d'Engleterre au bordur.

Henrie Holland, onely sonne of John Holland, Duke of Exeter aforesaid, (by his first wife the Lady Anne Stafford) was after his fathers death, Duke of Exeter, and Earle of Huntington; who in the first yeare of King Edward the fourth, was disinherited by Act of Parliament, with Henrie, Duke of Somerset, and Thomas, Earle of Deuonshire; and in the thirteenth yeare of the said Kings reigne, he was found dead in the Sea, betweene Douer and Calice. He married Anne, daughter of Richard, Duke of Yorke, and fifth to King Edward the fourth, but by her had no issue. She was after married to Sir Thomas Sainto Leodegario (or S. Leoger) Knight,

EXETER.

Knight, and had issue by him, a daughter named Anne, married to George Mannors, Lord Ros of Hamlake. This Henrie Holland so found drowned, was buried at Westminister, on the Southside of the Chappell, with these Armes on his Tombe and Targe.

Et portoit, les Armes d'Engleterre au bordure de France.

H Enrie Courtney, Earle of Deuon, Lord of Ochampton, and Knight of the Garter (sonne of William Courtney, Earle of Deuonshire, and Katherine his wife, daughter of King Edward the fourth) was created Marques of Exeter at Bridewell, the eighteenth of June, 1525. in the eighteenth of King Henrie the eight. He married two wives, the first was Elizabeth, daughter and heire of John Grey, Viscount Liffle, who died without issue. His second wife was Gertrude, daughter of William Blount, Lord Mountjoy, (and heire to Elizabeth her mother, who was daughter and heire of Sir William Say, Knight,) by whom he had issue, Edward, the last Earle of Deuonshire, who died without issue.

This Henrie, Marques of Exeter, was attainted of high treason, for aiding of Reginald Poole, Cardinall and a fugitiue, with money, &c. (as in the Title of Deuonshire) and was beheaded with Henrie Poole, Lord Mountague, and Sir Edward Neuill, Knight, in the thirtieth yeare of King Henrie the eight. His last wife Gertrude was also attainted of high treason the same yeare, but not executed; shee died afterward, and was buried at Wynborne-Minfter in Dorsetshire, in the yeare 1557.

Et portoit, escartelle France & d'Engleterre à une bordure escartelle de l'vn en l'autre, escartelle, Courtney qui eft d'or trois torteaux; le tiers le mesme: le quart, Riuerijs, qui eft, d'or au Lion rampans d'azur.

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Thomas Cecil, Baron of Burghley, and Knight of the Garter, (sonne and heire of William Cecil, Baron of Burghley, and Lord high Treasurer of England) was created Earle of Exeter at Greenwich in the third yeare of King James. Hee married Dorothie, daughter and one of the co-heires of John Neuill, Lord Latymer, and had issue, foure Sonnes and fixe daughters, viz. William Cecil, Lord Boughley, who married Elizabeth, daugh- ter and heire of Edward Mannors, Earle of Rutland, (by whom he had issue, William, Lord Ros,) Sir Richard Ce- cill, Knight, Sir Edward Cecil, Knight, and Thomas Ce- cill, Esquire, fourth Sonne, and Christopher drowned in Bohemia. Luce, the eldeft daughter, was married to William Paulet, Marques of Winchefter; Mildred, the second daughter, was married first to Sir Thomas Read, Knight, and after to Sir Edmond Trafford of Lancafhire, Knight; Mary, the third daughter, was married to the Lord Denny; Elizabeth, the fourth daughter, first married to Sir William Hatton, alias Newport, Knight, & after to Sir Edward Coke, Knight, Lord Chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench, and one of his Maiesties moft honourable priuie Counsell; Dorothy, the fifth daughter, was married to Sir Giles Allington of Horsheath, Knight; and Frances, the fixt daugh- ter, was married to Sir Nicholas Tufton, Knight, Sonne and heire of Sir John Tufton, Baronet. He married to his second wife, Frances, daughter of William Bridges, Lord Shandos, the widdow of Sir Thomas Smith, and had issue, Anne Sophia.

Et portoit, barelle de fix pieces d'argent & d'azur, sur le tout fixe effusion de sable, charge de fix Lions d'argent.

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A Catalogue of the Dukes and Earles
of Gloceſter and Hartford, their Armes,
Wiues, and Children.

Obert, fur-named the Confull of Gloceſter,
baſe ſonne of King Henrie the firſt, (be-
gotten of Neſt, the daughter of Rhice ap
Tewder, Prince of South-Wales, who
was after married to Girald de VVindefore,
Conſtable of Penbrooke-Caſtle, and anceſter of the
Earles of Kildare in Ireland) in the eleuenth yeare of
his fathers reigne, was created Earle of Gloceſter. He
aſſiſted and tooke part with Mauld the Empreſſe, his
halſe ſiſter, againſt King Stephen the Vſurper; which
Stephen being taken prifoner, and imprifoned in the
Caſtle of Brilſtoll: This Robert, very ſhortiy after, was
likewise taken by King Stephens forces; whereupon it was concluded, that
a King for an Earle, and an Earle for a King, ſhould make an exchange,
and either ſet the other at libertie. He married Mabel, daughter and one
of the ſoure heires of Robert Fitz-Hamon, Lord of Corboil in Normandie,
Cardiſſe in Wales, and Tewksburie in England, and had iſſue, VVilliam
Earle of Gloceſter; Roger, Biſhop of Wincheſter; Richard, Biſhop of
Baieux in Normandie, and Hamon ſlaine at Tholouze, with VVilliam, King
Stephens ſonne, 1160. Hee had alſo two daughters, one named Mabel,
married to Aubre de Vere; the ſecond was Matilda, married to Randolph
Gernorujs, Earle of Cheſter. This Roberts builded the Caſtles of Brilſtoll
and Caerdiſſe in Wales, and the Monaſterie of Saint Iames by Brilſtoll, and
died in the twelftth yeare of King Stephen, and was buried in the ſaid Mo-
naſterie, 1146. And as VVilliam of Malmesburie ſaith in his Reports of
the yeare 1127. he had a baſe ſonne named Brian, which was Marques of
Wallingford; which Brian, we doe often finde in Record by the name of
Brian filius Comitis, Lord of Wallingford.

Et portoit, de gueulles au trois Restes des Armes d'or.

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**William**, fonne and heire of **Robert Confull**, of
Glocefter, did confirme the Gift which **Hugh**
de Gundenile** gaue to the Monkes of Bordeſley at Cam-
pendon, viz. two Hydes and a Roode of Land, and
Paſture for ſeuen hundred Sheepe, for the Soule of Ro-
bert Confull of Gloceſter, his father, and for the health
of his owne Soule, and all his Anceſtors; Witneſſe
Hawis, the Counteſſe of Gloceſter; and Hamon, the
Earles Conſtable; and Roger his Sewer, &c. and was
after his father, Earle of Gloceſter, and Lord of Gla-
morgan, in right of his grandfather **Robert Fitz-Ha-
mon**, who woon the ſaid Lordſhip from Iuſtine ap Gur-
gan, Lord of Glamorgan, in King **William Rufus** time; and made his abode
in the ſaid Caſtle of Caerdiſſe, where the ſaid **Robert** kept his Courts
monethly, and vſed therein **Iura Regalia**, hauing his twelue Knights to
attend him the firſt day, they hauing ſeuerall Lodgings giuen to them,
and their heires for euer, within the ſaid Caſtle. He married **Hawis**, daugh-
ter of **Robert Boſſu**, Earle of Leiceſter; and had iſſue, **Robert**, who married
**Hadeuſia de Riueres**, and died before his father, without iſſue, 1166. and
three daughters; **Mabell** the eldeſt, was married vnto **Almerick Mountfort**,
Earle of Eureux in Normandie; **Amicia** married **Richard**, Earle of Clare
and Hartford; and **Ifabell**, the third daughter, was firſt married to King
John, and from him was diuorced, for neereneſſe of kinne; and after ſhee
married **Geſſrey Mandeuill**, Earle of Eſſex; and for her third husband, ſhee
tooke **Hugh de Burgo**, Earle of Kent, and Lord Chieſe Iuſtice of England.
This **William** built the Abbey of Keinſham, and died in the yeare of our
Lord 1182. and was buried in the ſaid Monaſterie. **M. Glouer, Somerſet
Herald, hath, That King Henry the ſecond, after the death of this William,
without iſſue male, gaue the Title and Earledome of Gloceſter to Iohn his
fonne, who married Ifabell, the third daughter of the ſaid William; and
gaue to Mabell, the eldeſt daughter, married to Almericke Mountfort, one
hundred pounds; and to Amicia, the ſecond daughter, Wife to the Earle of
Clare, another hundred pounds.**

*Et portoit, les armes de ſon pere.*

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John (furnamed *Without Land*) the fourth ſonne of
King Henry the ſecond, in right, or by reaſon of his
Wife *Ifabell*, third daughter and coheire of *William*
Earle of Gloceſter, was made Earle of Gloceſter by the
faid King his father, in the yeare 1187. Afterwards,
King *Richard* the firſt, his brother, in his loue and
bountie, gaue him the Eartledomes of Cornwall, De-
uon, Nottingham, and Lancaſter; after whose death,
hee came to be King, by the name of King *John*.
And becauſe *Ifabell* his Wife was counted barren,

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G
ilbert de Clare (sonne and heire of Richard, Earle of Clare and Hartford, by Amicia, second daughter and coheire of William Earle of Glocefter) was after the death of Geoffrey Mandeuill, made Earle of Glocefter; and in the ninth yeare of King Henry the third, he was a Witnesse to the said Kings Charter of Lands that hee gaue to the Abbey of Peterborough, by the name of Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Glocefter and Hartford. He married Ifabell, the third daughter of William Marshall the elder, and fifter and coheire of Anselme Marshall, Earle of Penbroke, and Marshall of England: by whom he had iffue, Richard, Earle of Clare, Glocefter, and Hartford; Gilbert and William, twins: and three daughters; Ifabell, the eldeft, was Wife to Robert Brus, of Annanderdale in Scotland; Amie, the second daughter, was married to Baldwyn Riuers, Earle of Deuon, and Lord of the Isle of Wight; Anne, the third daughter, died young. Hee died at Penros, in Britaine, and was buried in the Priorie of Tewkesbury, the fourteenth of King Henry the third: His Widdow was after married to Richard Earle of Cornwall, and King of Romanes.

Et portoit, d'or à trois Cheurons de gueulles.

R
ichard de Clare, second Earle of Glocefter of that name, married two Wiues: The firſt, was Margaret, daughter of Hubert de Burgo, Earle of Kent, and Chieſe Iuſtice of England, by whom hee had no iffue. His ſecond Wife, was Matilda, daugh ter of John Lacie, Earle of Lincolne, and Conſtable of Cheſter; by whom hee had iffue, three ſonnes, and three daughters: Gilbert, the eldeſt ſonne, was after his father, Earle of Gloceſter; Thomas, the ſecond ſonne, was Steward of the Forreſts in Eſſex, (who married Iulian, daughter of Maurice Fitz-Maurice, of Ireland; and had iffue, Gilbert, Richard, and Themas;) Beuys, the third ſonne, was a Church-man in Yorke-Mynſter: Margaret, the eldeſt daughter, married Edmond Earle of Cornwall, ſonne of Richard Earle of Cornwall, and King of Romanes; Rose, the ſecond daughter of Richard de Clare, Earle of Gloceſter, married Roger Lord Mowbray, of Axholme; and Ifabell, the third daughter, was a Nunne at Barking in Eſſex. Grafton and Fabian ſaith, That this Richard died in the yeare 1260. and that Gilbert his ſonne ſucceeded him, to whom the father gaue great charge, to maintaine the Statutes made at Oxford. But M. Milles hath in M. Somerſets Booke of Earles, p. 370. That (the Annals of

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of S. Augustines in Canterbury hath) he died in the yeare 1262. at Emeresfield in Kent, at the Lord John Crioils house; and that his bowels were buried at Canterbury, in Chrift-Church, his heart at Tunbridge, and his bodie at Tewkesburie. Diuers other good Authors affirme, That this Richard, Earle of Glocefter, died in France.

Gilbert de Clare (furnamed the Red) fonne and heire of Richard aforefaid, was the third Earle of Glocefter and Hertford of that surname, and married two Wiues: The firft was Alice, the Widdow of John Earle Warren and Surrey, daughter of Hugh le Brun, Earle of Angolesme, and of the Marches of Aquitaine; by whom hee had iffue, a daughter named Ifabell, married to Maurice Lord Berkley. This Alice falling mad, was divorced from this Gilbert her husband: after which diuorce, the ſecond of May, 1290, at Westminſter, the ſaid Gilbert married Ioane, daughter of King Edward the firſt (furnamed Ioane of Acres, becaufe hee was borne at Acres in the Holy-Land;) by whom hee had iffue, Gilbert, the fourth Earle of Glocefter and Hertford; and three daughters: Elianor, the eldeſt, was married to Hugh Lord Spencer; Elizabeth, the ſecond daughter, was firſt married to John Burgh, fonne and heire of the Earle of Vlſter; ſecondly, ſhe was married to Theobald Lord Verdon, and thirdly, to Sir Roger Damory. Ifabell, the third daugh ter, was firſt married to Pierce of Gaueſton, Earle of Cornwall, by whom hee had no iffue; and after, to Hugh Lord Audley the younger. This Gilbert, before the marriage with his laſt Wife Ioane, had loſt the faunour of King Edward the firſt, for refuſing to goe with him ouer Seas, to the aide of Guy, Earle of Flanders, againſt the then French King: for which cauſe, King Edward ſeized all the ſaid Gilberts Lands, and forced him after to marry his daughter, without Dower, Lands, or Money: Which done, the ſaid King granted backe againe all the Lands, confirming them to the ſaid Gilbert, and Ioane his Wife, and the iffue begotten of their two bodies, in fee-farme. This Gilbert died in the Caſtle of Monmouth, in the foure and twentieth yeare of King Edward the firſt, and was buried in Tewkesbury Priorie, by his father, 1295. The Booke of Croxden Abbey in Staffordshire, ſaith, this Gilbert was ſlaine at Stryueling.

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RAlphe de Mounte-Hermer, (seruant to Gilbert de Clare and Ioane of Acres) after the death of Earle Gilbert, married the said Ioane his Miftris, in the yeare 1296. Which marriage being done without the knowledge and consent of King Edward her father, this Ralphe was committed to prifon, in the Castle of Briftoll; and all thofe Lands and Castles, as hee had formerly made ouer to the said Ioane, and her former husband Gilbert, hee caufed to be feized againe into his hands. But shortly after, by the interceſſion of Anthonie Bec, Bishop of Dureſme, a peace was made betweene the King and his daugh ter, and her new Husband; and the yeare following, 1297., at a Parlia ment held at London, her former Lands were restored to her againe, with others: And in the ſeuen and twentieth yeare of the ſaid Kings Reigne, the ſame Ralphe was ſummoned to Parliament, by the Name and Title of Earle of Gloceſter and Hertford, and by that Name and Title of Honour, hee ſate in all Parliaments after, vntill the firſt yeare of King Edward the ſecond, 1307. In which yeare, young Gilbert de Clare being of age, was admitted to his Lands and Honours, and ſate in Parliament alwayes after, as Earle of Gloceſter and Hertford, during his life. And the ſaid Ralphe Mount-Hermer (his father in law) was euer after ſummoned, and ſate in all Parliaments, as Lord Mount-Her mer. This Ralphe had iſſue by his Counteffe Ioane, two ſonnes; Edward Mount-Hermer, that died without iſſue, and was buried in the Auguſtine Fryers at Clare; and Sir Thomas Mount-Hermer, Knight, who married and had iſſue, Margaret, married to John Mountacute, and had iſſue, John Mountacute, Earle of Salisbury. Hee died in the ſeuenteenth yeare of King Edward the ſecond, 1323. and Ioane his Counteffe died in the yeare 1305. at her Mannor of Clare.

Et portoit, d'or, à l'aigle de vert, membres, & becquez de gueulles.

GIlbert de Clare (fonne and heire of Gilbert de Clare, furnamed the Red, and Ioane of Acres) was the laſt Earle of Gloceſter and Hartford, of that ſurname and Family. Hee married Matilda, daughter of Iohn de Burgh, ſonne and heire of Ri chard, Earle of Vlſter in Ireland; and had iſſue, a ſonne, which died in his infancie. This Gilbert beeing with King Edward the ſecond in Scot land, to rayſe the ſiege of Sterling Caſtle, was there ſlaine, in the yeare 1313. whom the Scots would

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Thomas of Woodstocke, Knight of the Garter, first sonne of King Edward the third, in the fitieth yeere of his Fathers Reigne, fate in Parliament held at Westminfter, by the Title onely of Conftable of England; which Office he did execute, in right of Elianor his Wife, eldeſt daughter and one of the two heires of Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, Effex, and Northampton; and Conftable of England; and in the firſt yeere of King Richard the ſecond, he was made Earle of Buckingham and Northampton; and in the ninth yeere of the ſaid Kings Reigne, he was created Duke of Gloceſter; and after, in the yeere 1397. hee was taken by force from his Caſtle of Pleyſe in Effex, by Thomas Mowbray, firſt Earle Marſchall, and conuayed to Callis, and there ſtrangled to death with Towells; (but Thomas VValfingham faith, that he was ſmothered to death with feather-beds and bolſters throwne vpon his face and mouth:) after whose death, Elianor his Wife became a Nunne in the Abbey of Barking in Effex. This Thomas, by Elianor his Wife had one onely ſonne named Humfrey, Earle of Buckingham, and ſoure daughters; the ſonne (after his Fathers death) with Lord Henry, ſonne to the Duke of Hereford, was by King Richard the ſecond banifhed into Ireland, where he remained as priſoner, in the Caſtle of Tryme, vntill the firſt yeere of King Henrie the fourth; and then beeing ſent for into England, died of the plague at Cheſter, in his returne homeward, without iffue, in the yeere 1399. Anne, the eldeſt ſifter and co-heire of this Humfrey, was married firſt to Edmond Earle Stafford, and after to VVilliam Bourchier Earle of Ewe in Nomicardy; Ioane the ſecond ſifter, was married to Gilbert Lord Talbot; Ifabell was a Nunne in the Minories by London; and Philip the fourth ſifter died young without iffue.

Et portoit, eſcartelée France ſeme & D'engleterre, à la bordure d'argent.

Thomas Lord Spencer, (or le Dispensator) great grand-child to Hugh Lord Spencer the yonger, and Elianor his Wife, eldeſt ſifter and co-heire of Gilbert de Clare, the laſt Earle of Gloceſter aforeſaid, was created Earle of Gloceſter, in the twentie one yeere of King Richard the ſecond, and in the firſt yeere of King Henry the fourth, he was depoſed by Act of Parliament, from the title and dignitie of Earle of Gloceſter, and was beheaded at Bristoll, 1400. He married Conſtance, daugh ter of Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke, and had iffue, Richard Lord Spencer, that died without iffue the Kings Ward; and two daughters, Elizabeth that died young at Caerdiſſe in South-Wales; and Ifabel, who was borne ſeuen moneths after her Fathers death, and was twice married, firſt to Richard Beauchamp, Earle of Worceſter, and Lord of Abergauenny, by whom ſhee had iffue

Elizabeth.

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*Elizabeth*: her second husband was *Richard Beauchamp*, Earle of Warwicke (couisin-germane to her other husband) by whom shee had issue, *Henry* Duke of Warwicke.

*Et portoit, d'argent escartelle gueulles frette d'or, au bafton de fable, brochant sur le tout.*

Hymfrey Plantagenet, Knight of the Garter, fourth fonne of King Henry the fourth, was at Parliament held at Westminfter the second of King Henry the fifth, created first Earle of Penbroke, & after Duke of Glocefter; and in the first yeere of King Henry the fixt, he was by Parliament, made Protector of England, during the Kings minoritie, (which was fifteene yeeres) and writ in his Style, Humfrey Duke of Glocefter, Earle of Hennault, Holland, Zealand, and Penbroke, Lord of Frisia, great Chamberlaine of England, and Defender of the Realme of England. Hee married two wiues, the first was Iaquet, daughter and sole heire of William Duke of Bauaria and Holland; (the then Wife of John Duke of Brabant) from whom he was divorced, hauing no issue by her: his second Wife was Elinor, daughter of Reginald Lord Cobham of Sterburgh in Surrey (who long before had been his Paramore) by whom he had no lawfull issue. After, at a Parliament held at S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolk, 1446, he was arrested of high Treason, and the twenty three of February after, 1447. he was found ftrangled to death, in the Abbey of Bury, by the procurement of the Marqueſſe of Suffolk. He builded the Diuinitie Schoole in Oxford, and his Mannour houſe of Greenwich, and embattelled the fame. He had issue, a bare daughter named Antigone, Wife to Henry Grey Earle of Tankeruill: his body was conuayed to the Abbey of S. Albons, and there buried, 1446. the tweuty five of Henry the fixt.

*Et portoit, France feme escartelle D'engleterre à la bordure d'argent.*

Richard Plantagenet, Knight of the Garter, fourth fonne of Richard Duke of Yorke, and brother to King Edward the fourth, was by his faid brother, in the first yeere of his Reigne created Duke of Glocefter. To this Richard, was the gouernement committed of King Edward the fourths two fonnes, ( King Edward the fifth, and Richard Duke of Yorke) whom he cauſed moſt vnnaturally to be murdred in the Tower of London; after whose death, hee vſurped the Crowne and Kingdome, in the yeere 1464. and was ſtyled King Richard the third. He married Anne, daughter and coheire of Richard Neuill, Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury, ( widdow of Edward Prince of Wales, ſlaine at Tewkes-

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Tewkesbury) and was after flaine befides Bofworth, the twenty two of
August, at Rednor field, Ann. 1485, leaning no effue to succeed him.

Et portoit, France, eſcartelle D'englterre au lambell de hermines, charge
au trois cantons de gueuilles.

Edward Lord Seymour, and Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter, was created Viscount Beauchampe, the twenty eight of King Henry the eight, and in the yeere after, the eighteenth of October, hee was created Earle of Hartford; (which Earledome, and the Title of Dignity, had flept from the death of Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Gloceſter and Hartford.) And in the first yeere of King Edward the fixt, he was after made Duke of Somerset; as in the Title of Somerset is more at large.

Et portoit, gueuilles à deux volz de L'aigle en L'eurre d'or.

Edward Seymour, fonne of Edward Duke of Somerset aforefaid, was by Queene Elizabeth, in the first yeere of her Reigne, restored and created Earle of Hartford. He died in the yeere 1621.

William Seymour, fonne and heire of Edward
Lord Beauchampe, and grand-child and heyre
of Edward late Earle of Hartford, is now Earle of Hart-
ford, 1621. by vertue of Letters bearing date the fixt of
May, 1608. He married Frances eldeſt daughter of
Robert late Earle of Eſſex.

Et portoit, les armoiries de ſon bifayeul.

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in Flanders, taking part with Arnold Earle of Flanders, in the yeere
1072. and William Gemiticenfis hath, that he was buried in the Monaftery
of Cormelias, which was of his Foundation.

Et portoit, de guculles en bande d'argent, fur le tout au face d'or.

Roger de Breteuile, ( second fonne of William Fitz-Oberne ) was after the death of his Father, Earle of Hereford, in the yeare, 1072. He made and concluded the marriage betweene Emma his Sifter, and Ralph de VVayet; at which marriage, the greatest part of the Nobility were present, and there confpired together to turne out William the Conquerour againe; VValtheof Earle of Huntington, ) Son of Siward Earle of Northumberland) being one of them, tooke shipping, and went into Normandy, and there revealed the whole matter to the said King William, committing himseltje wholly to his mercy. But this Roger continuing in his intended confpiracie, was taken prisoner by Vrso de Abot, Shirieffe of Worcestershire, and others; and being brought to his tryall by his Peeres, was found guilty of high treason, and condemned to perpetuall imprisonment, during his life; where he died without issue. And VValtheof Earle of Huntington ( notwithstanding his submission ) was taken and carried to VVWinchefter, and there beheaded, and his body buried in the fields without the Citie, but after remooued to Crowland.

Milo (fonne of Walther, Constable of the Castle of Glocefter, and of Emme his Wife, daughter of Drew de Balun Lord of Abergavenny) succeeded his Father in the Constableship of Glocefter; and was by Mauld the Empresse, made Earle of Hereford, and Constable of England, in the sixt yeere of King Stephen. He married Sibell, daughter and heire of Bernard Newmarch, Lord of Brecknock by Nest his Wife, daughter of Griffith ap Lewellyn, Prince of South-Wales, and had issue, fiue Sonnes and three daughters, viz. Roger, VValter, Henrie, VVilliam, and Mahell. Margaret the eldest daughter, married Humfrey de Bohun, the third of

that

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HEREFORD.

Hereford

*H*ymfrey de Bohun, the Seuenth of that Christen name, (sonne and heire of Humfrey the Sift, that died before his father) was after the death of Humfrey de Bohun the Sift his grand-father, Earle of Hereford, and Conftable of England; and by his Mother Elianor, daughter and co-heire of William de Breose, hee was Lord of Brecknocke. He married Mauld, daughter of Ingelrame de Fines a French-man, and had issue, Hum-frey de Bohun the eight; and after died at Plaifie in Es-fex, Seuen and twentieth of King Edward the firft, 1298. and was buried with his wife at Walden Abbey. Ho-linſhed, pag. 867.b.

Et portoit, d'azur à la bande d'argent, à deux cottices
entre fix Lions rampant d'or.

Hereford

*H*ymfrey de Bohun, the eight of that Christen name, fonne and heire of Humfrey the Seuenth, was the fourth Earle of Hereford, Conftable of England, and Patron of Lanthony Abbey, third Earle of Esſex, and Lord of Brecknocke. He married Elizabeth, daughter of King Edward the firſt, (Widdow of John Earle of Holland, with whom hee had no dowry, but onely the Kings fauour, which before hee had loft, by refuſing to goe with him into Flanders, to the aide of Guy Earle of Flanders againſt the French King) by whom he had issue, ſoure ſonnes and two daughters; John the firſt ſonne, was after his father, Earle of Hereford, Es-ſex, and Conſtable of England, and died without issue; Humfrey the ſe-ſcond ſonne, had all his brother John honours, and died also without issue; Edward and William were twinnes, borne at Caldecot in Wales; Edward died drowned in Scotland, before the death of his brother Humfrey, and was buried at Walden; William the fourth brother was a Martiall man, and by King Edward the third, 1336. was created Earle of Northampton, and did execute the office of Conſtable of England, for his brother Hum-frey, and died before him, in the yeere 1359. Elianor the eldeſt daughter of this Humfrey the eight, was married to James Butler, Earle of Ormonde; and Margaret the ſecond daughter, was wife to Hugh Courtney, Earle of Deuonſhire. This Humfrey the eight, was ſlaine at Burrowbridge, by Andrew of Harcla, Earle of Carlell, the ſeuenteenth Kalends of Aprill, Anno 1321. and was buried in the Blacke-Friars in Yorke; and Elizabeth his wife, died the ninth of King Edward the ſecond, and was buried in the Abbey of Walden in Esſex.

John

HEREFORD.

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John de Bohun, fonne and heire of Humfrey the eight, was after his father, Earle of Hereford, Effex, and Conftable of England. Hee married two wines, the first was Alice, daughter of Edmond Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell, who died in child-bed, and was buried at Walden, with her infant fonne. His fecond wife was Margaret, daughter of Ralph Lord Baffet, by whom he had no iffue. He died at Kirby Thore, the thirteenth Kalend of Februarie, 1335, the tenth of King Edward the third, and was buried at Stratford the Bowe neere London.

Et portoit, d'azur à la bande d'argent, à deux cottices entre fix lions rampant d'or.

HUMFREY de Bohun, the ninth, second fonne of Hum-
frey the eight, and brother and heire of John de Bo-
hun, Earle of Hereford, Effex, and Conftable of Eng-
land, succeeded his father and brother: he ouer-lued
his brother William of Northampton, one yeere, one
moneth, and fiue dayes, and died without iffue, at
Plaisie in Effex, 1361. and was buried in the Auguſtine-
Friars in London, leauing HUMFREY de Bohun the tenth,
his Nephew by his brother Wiliam de Bohun, Earle of
Northampton, to succeed him in all his Lands and
Dignities.

Les armes de son pere.

HUMFREY de Bohun, the tenth and laft of that name,
was after the death of WILLIAM his father, Earle of
Northampton ; and after the death of HUMFREY his
vinkle, Earle of Hereford, Effex, and Conftable of Eng-
land, Lord of Brecknocke, and Patron of the Abbey
of Lanthony. He married IOANE, daughter of RICHARD
Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell; and had iffue, onely two
daughters his heires, ELIANOR the eldeft, was married to
THOMAS of Woodſtocke, Duke of Glocefter, a younger
fonne of King EDWARD the third; and MARIE the fecond
daughter, was wife to HENRY Plantagenet, fonne and
heire of JOHN of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafter, and after

King of England, by the name of King Henry the fourth. He died in the
feuen and fortieth yeere of King Edward the third, and was buried at
Walden, the fixteenth Kalends of February, 1372.

Et portoit, d'azur, à la band d'argent, à deux cottices entre fix lions ram-
pant d'or.

Henrie

John

178

HEREFORD.

Henry Plantagenet (or Henry of Bullingbroke) Earle of Derby, sonne and heire of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafter, married Marie, second daughter and co-heire of Humfrey de Bohun the tenth of that name, with whom he had the Earledome of Hereford and Northampton, with the Lordship of Brecknocke, and the Patronage of Lanthony; and in the yeere 1397. hee was created Duke of Hereford, by King Richard the second; and after the death of his father, hee was also Duke of Lancafter. This Henrie Duke of Hereford, accused Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolke, of diuers points of high treason against King Richard the se-

cond, and to make good the fame, he appealed the said Duke of Norfolke in field of battaile, which was by the said Duke of Norfolke accepted, and allowed by the King. But when the appointed day was come, and the two Dukes within the lifts in field, readie to performe the fame, the King would not suffer them to proceed; but banishe the Duke of Norfolke the land for euer, (who shortly after died at Venice) and the Duke of Hereford for fixe yeeres. But this D. Henrie returned backe againe the fame yeere, and by force tooke King Richard prifoner at Flint Castle, and brought him to the Tower of London, where he was vniuſtly conſtrai-ned to reſigne his Kingdome to this Henrie, who was after crowned King, by the name of King Henrie the fourth. He had iſſue by his wife, Marie, Henrie, who was after King of England, by the name of King Hen-rie the fifth; and died the twentieth of March, 1412.

Et portoit, escartellé Fracce ſemé & d'Elgleteerre, au lambel d'hemines.

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A Catalogue of the Earles of
Huntington, their Armes, Wiues,
and Children.

Altheof (sonne of Siward the great Earle of Northumberland) married Judith, daughter of Lambert, Earle of Lentz in Artoys, and Niece to William the Conqueror, by Mauld his halfe sifter, daughter of Herlwyn Committis Villa, and Arleta his wife; with whom the said Conquerour gaue in marriage, the Earledome of Huntington. The said Waltheof and Judith had iffue, three daughters only; Mauld the eldeth, was married firft to Simon Saint Lize, and had iffue, Simon the Second, Earle of Northampton; after shee married David, sonne of Malcolm Mezduncan, and brother to the Second Mauld, Queene of England, and had iffue, Henrie, Earle of Huntington; Judith the Secon daughter, was married to Ralph, Lord Toney of Flamfted; and Bertha the third daughter, was wife to Robert Fitz-Richard Dapifer, (descended out of the Familie of Clare.) This Waltheof (at the marriage of Ralph de Waiet, with Emme the sifter of Roger Bertuile) with diuers other great Lords, did confpire together, to turne William the Conquerour and his Normans againe out of England: which conspiracy being reuealed by Waltheof, and he submitting himfelfe to the Kings mercie, the said Conquerour notwithstanding, cauſed him to be beheaded at Winchefter, 1075. and his bodie to be buried in the fields, neere the Towne; which afterwards was taken vp againe, and buried at Crowland in Lincolnshire.

*Et portoit, d'argent au lion rampant d'azur, au chef de gueulles.*

Simon Saint-Lize, the firſt of that name, ſonne of Randoll, ſur-named the Rich, (a Norman borne) with VVarner le Rich, his brother, came into England to the aide of VVilliam Rufus, who beſtowed the Hundred of Falkeley, (valued then at ſortie pounds a yeere) vpon him, to ſhooe his Horſes; For the ſaid Simon and his brother VVarner, had brought with them to aide the ſaid King, ſortie Knights. King Henry the firſt, entreated a marriage betweene the ſaid Simon, and Judith, the widow of Earle VValtheof, which ſhee reſuſed, becauſe the ſaid Simon was lame; whereupon the King gaue him in marriage Mauld, the eldeth daughter

182

HUNTINGTON.

William, second sonne of Henry Earle of Huntington aforefaid, in the life time of King Malcolm his elder brother; by the fauour of King Henry the second, was Earle of Huntington; but after his brothers death, and he in the kingdome, forgot his dutie, and in Armes forcibly entred Northumberland, where he was taken prifoner at Anwike, and led to Richmond, in the yeare 1174. and after was ranfomed vpon these conditions, that hee should acknowledge himseltse the King of Englands Liege-man, againft all men for the Realme of Scotland, and his other lands, and to pay one hundred thouand pounds sterling; part whereof hee should pay preſently, and for the reſt, he should pawne and morgage Cumberland, Huntington and Northumberland, vntill the money were paid, and for further ſecuritie, that he should neuer after inuade or mooue warre against England, he should deliuer into King Henry the ſecons cuſtodie, foure Caſtles. viz. Barwicke, Roxborow, Edenborough, and Serling Caſtles; and so Huntington was taken from King William, and reſtored to Simon S. Lice, the third of that name, who was right heire thereof; but hee dying without iſſue, the Earledome of Huntington returned againe to William King of Scots, who with the conſent of King Richard the firſt, gaue it to Dauid his younger brother (Hollingshed, pag. 189. Title of Scotland.) This William married Ermingard, daughter of Richard Beaumount, ſonne of Roscellin, Viſcount Beaumount, and had iſſue, Alexander King of Scots; Isabel married to Roger Bigot Earle of Norſolke, that died without iſſue; Margaret wife to Hubert de Burgo Earle of Kent; Mariona wife to Euſtace de Vefcy; Ada wife to Patricke Earle of Dunbarre; and Aufrica married to William de Say of Ireland. This William King of Scots died, 1124.

Et portoit, d'or au lion rampant de gueulles.

Simon Saint-Lice, the third of that name, and ſonne and heire of Simon the ſecond, after that William King of Scots was depriued of the Earledome of Huntington, receiued both the Caſtle and Earledome of Huntington, as his right inheritance, and so peaceably inioyed the ſaid title and Earledome, during his life, by King Henry the ſecond, and reſtored euery man to his right, whom the Scots had either wronged or diſpoſeſt in that Countie. But the ſaid King Henry, ſeeing daily contention to arife betweene the Scots, and the Saint-Lices, for this Earledome of Huntington, cauſed the Caſtle to be raced to the ground; but Simon held the Earledome, and married Alice, daughter of Gilbert de Gaunt, Earle of Lincolne, but died without iſſue, in the yeare, 1184. the one and thirtieth of Henry the

184

HUNTINGTON.

Lord Clinton his Nephew by his Brother John, to be his heire.

*VV*illiam de Clinton, sonne and heire of John de Clinton, and Mauld his wife, daughter of Lewis Vifcount Beaamount, and grand-child to another John de Clinton, and Idona his wife, daughter and one of the heires of Sir William Odingfelles Knight; was created Earle of Huntington, in the eleuenth yeare of King Edward the third; and three yeares after, he was made Admiral of England, and was taken prisoner in France; for which hee was forced to fell moft part of his lands for to pay his ranfome. Hee married Julian, daughter and heire of Sir Thomas Leyborne Knight, but by her had no iffue. Hee founded the Priorie at Maſtock, and dyed without iffue, in the yeare 1353. leauing John

*Et portoit, d'argent fix croix au pied fiché d'er, au chef d'azur chargé de deux moletres d'or perce de gueulles.*

G[eu]vifcard de Angolifme (or Guichard d'Anguillem) a French man borne in Gaſcoigney, a very expert man in warlike affaires, was made Knight of the honou[rable Order of the Garter, by King Edward the third, and ſet in the eight Stall of the Souereignes ſide. After, in the firſt yeare of King Richard the ſecond ( whoſe Tutor he was) hee was created Earle of Huntington, and had giuen him a thouſand Markes yearely out of his Treasury. He married one Conſtance, but I find not any iffue that he left behind him. He died in the third yeare of the reigne of King Richard the ſecond, 1379.

*Et portoit, d'or ſemé de billettes au lion rampant d'azur.*

Iohn Holland Knight of the Garter; ſecond ſonne of Sir Thomas Holland Knight, Steward of the houſe to William Mountague, Earle of Salisburie; who marrying his Miftrefſe Ioane, daughter of Edmond of Woodſtocke, and ſifter and heire of John Earle of Kent, was in her right Earle of Kent; and ſate in Parliament held at Westminſter, the ſoure and thirtieth yeere of King Edward the third, by the name and title of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent, and in the eleuenth yeare of King Richard the ſecond, was created Earle of Huntington; and in the one and twentieth yeare of the ſaid Kings reigne, hee was created Duke of Exceſter, and made

Gouer-

HUNTINGTON.

185

Gouernour of Callis, and Alberick de Vere, Earle of Oxford, (Vncle of Robert Vere Duke of Ireland) hauing resigned all his interest and right of the Office of Lord high Chamberlaine of England, King Richard beftowed the same vpon this John, Duke of Excefter, by Letters Patents, bearing date, 1397. But after, in the first yeere of King Henry the fourth, this John was deposed by Parliament, from the Title and dignity of Duke of Excefter. In which yeere, hee and the two Earles of Salisbury and Kent, contending for the death of King Henry the fourth, the Earles of Salisburie and Kent, were taken at Cicefter, and beheaded by the Commons there; but this John seeking to faue himselve by flight, tooke the Sea twice, and was driuen backe againe by contrary windes: and comming into Eſſex, was apprehended there in the company of Sir John Schenele Knight, by the Commons of that Countrey, and brought first to Chelmesford, and after to Plesſy, where they beheaded him, in the place where before the Duke of Glocefter was arefted: Thomas Walfingham, pag. 363. This John, Duke of Excefter, married Elizabeth, daughter of John of Gaunt; Duke of Lancafter, and fifth to King Henry the fourth, by whom he had issue, John Holland after Duke of Excefter, and Earle of Huntington, Sir Edward Holland Knight, and Constance first married to Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolke, and Earle of Nottingham, by whom he had no issue, after the married John Lord Grey of Ruthyn, by whom hee had issue, two fonnes, Edmond created Earle of Kent, and Thomas Grey, Lord of Rugemond.

Es portoit, les armes D'engleterre au bordure de France.

John Holland, the second Earle of Huntington, restored by Act of Parliament, the fourth of King Henrie the fifth (he was sonne of John Holland Duke of Excefter, beheaded at Cicefter.) This John, when King Henrie the fifth was to goe into Normandy, was sent before to skoure the Seas, who meeting with nine Caricks of Genano, which were going to aide the French King, fought with them, and funke fixe of them, and tooke the other three, with great store of money and treasure, and brought them with his prisoners to the King, in the yeere 1416. And in the twenty two yeere of King Henry the fixt, this John was restored to the Dukedome

of Excefter, and written in his Style, Duke of Excefter, Earle of Huntington, and of Iuory in Normandy, Lord of Sparre, Admirall of England, Ireland, and Aquitaine, Lieutenant Generall of the Dutehy of Aquitaine, and Conſtable of the Tower of London. He married two wiues, the first was Anne, daughter of Edmond Earle Stafford, by whom hee had issue, Henry Duke of Excefter, and Earle of Huntington: his ſecond wife was Anne, daughter of John Mountague, Earle of Salisbury, by whom hee had

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issue,

HUNTINGTON.

187

WILLIAM, Lord Herbert of Gower (son and heire of WILLIAM, Earle of Penbroke, flaine at Banburie, the ninth of King Edward the fourth) was after his father, Earle of Penbroke; which Earledome hee furrendred vnto King Edward the fourth, who made his eldest Sonne, Prince Edward, Earle of Penbroke, and this WILLIAM, Lord Herbert, Earle of Huntington, at Oburne, the nineteenth of King Edward the fourth; which Earledome of Huntington, King Henry the Seuenth confirmed vnto the said WILLIAM, in the third yeere of his reigne. He married MARIE, daughter of Richard Wooduill, Earle Riuers, and JAQUET his wife, and SIFTER and one of the heires of Richard Wooduill, Earle Riuers her brother, by whom he had issue, one only daughter his heire, named ELIZABETH, married to Charles Somerset, Earle of Worcester. He died the fixteenth of July, in the fixt yeere of King Henry the Seuenth.

Et portoit, per pale d'azur & de gueulles, trois lions rampant d'argent.

GEORGE, Lord Haftings, Hongerford, Botreaux, Molyns, and Moeles, was created at White-Hall, in the one and twentieth yeere of King Henry the eight, Earle of Huntington; he was Sonne of Edward Lord Haftings, Chamberlaine to King Edward the fourth, and married Anne, daughter of Henry Lord Stafford, second Duke of Buckingham, by whom he had issue, Francis, Lord Haftings, and second Earle of Huntington; Edward, created by Queene MARIE, Lord Haftings of Loughborough in Leicestershire; Sir THOMAS HAFTINGS, Knight, Henry Haftings, and WILLIAM; he had three daughters also, DOROTHIE married to Richard Deuereux, Sonne and heire of WALTER, Viscount Hereford, MARIE and KATHERINE. He died in the fix and thirtieth yeere of King Henry the eight, and was buried at Alhbie de la Zouch in Leicestershire.

Et portoit, d'argent au Maunch de fable.

FRANCIS HAFTINGS, Sonne and heire of GEORGE, was Knight of the Garter, and after the death of his father, Earle of Huntington, Lord Haftings, Hungerford, Botereux, Molyns, and Moeles: He married KATHERINE, daughter and one of the heires of Henry Pole, Lord Montacute, Sonne and heire of MARGARET PLANTAGENET, Countesse of Salisburie, beheaded in the Tower of London, 1541. (condemned by Parliament) neuer being arraigned nor tried before. The said FRANCIS and KATHERINE had issue, Henry Lord Haftings, and Earle of Huntington, that died without issue; Sir GEORGE HAFTINGS.

KENT.

191

both bee deliuered, the King to his Kingdome, and the Earle to his liberi-
tie. This William of Ipre, was after made Steward of the Kings houfe,
and founded the Abbey of Boxley in Kent, and was banifhed England;
by King Henry the Second, 1154. and before his death became blinde.
and tooke vpon him the habite of a Monke, in the Abbey of Loan,
and there dyed, 1164.

*Et portoit, geronne d'or & d'azur à l'escuffon de guelles au baston finester d'argent brochant sur le tout.*

Hubert de Burgo (or de Burgh) Lord Chamberlaine to King John, Steward of Poytow, and Lord Chiefe Inſtice of England, was created Earle of Kent by Letters Patents, bearing date the tenth of Decem- ber, in the thirteenth yeere of King Henry the Third, and had the keeping of Douer, Rochefter, and Can- terburie, granted to him during life, by a Charter bea- ring date the fixteenth of Henry the Third. At laft, hee procured himſelfe great hatred of all the Nobilitie, for cauſing the ſaid King to breake his word and deed, for the reſtitution of thofe Lawes and ancient Cuſtomes, which before hee had granted to the Subieſts; which did greatly aggrauate the hate of the Commons. Hee married three Wiues, the firſt was Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Arſike Knight; the ſecond was Isabel, daughter and one of the heires of William Earle of Glocefter, (the repudiate Wife of King Iohn.) His third Wife was Margaret, daughter of William, and ſifter of Alexander King of Scots: he had iſſue by his firſt Wife, Iohn de Burgo who married Hawis Lanuall, and dyed before his Father, leauing his ſonne Iohn, Baron of Lan- uall, his heire. This Hubert dyed at his Mannor of Banſted in Surrey, the fourth of the Ides of May, 1243. (Matthew Paris) and as Iohn Stowe hath iſt his Suruey of London, page 653. hee was buried in the Fryers Predicants in London (where now White-Hall ſtandeth,)

*Et portoit, gueulles ſept Lozengies vaire. 331.*

Edmond Plantagenet, virnamed of Woodſtocke, the
place of his birth, third ſonne of King Edward
the firſt, by his ſecond Wife Margaret daughter of Phi-
lip King of France, in the fifteenth yeare of King Ed-
ward the ſecond, his brother, was created Earle of
Kent, the day after Saint Iames day, Anno 1321. And
after, at a Councell held at Wincheſter, the firſt of Ed-
ward the Third, 1330. the morrow after Saint Grego-
ries day, hee was arreſted, and on the Vigill of Saint
Cutbert, adiudged to dye for Treaſon; for abetting
many of the Nobilitie, to plot the deliuery of King Ed-
ward the Second out of Prifon: for which by the ma-
lice

194

KENT.

Thomas Holland, Earle of Kent, Lord Wake, and Knight of the Garter, (sonne of Thomas aforefaid) married Constance, daughter of Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke, widow of Thomas, Lord Spencer, but by her had no issue; after hee tooke to wife Ioane, daughter of Hugh Earle Stafford, by whom he had no issue. This Thomas was created Duke of Surrey, the one and twentieth of King Richard the second, 1398. And in the yeare 1400, he with the Earles of Huntington and Salisbury, intending vnder colour of a Maske or Mummery, at the Castle of Windefore, to haue surprized King Henrie the fourth, and to haue restored King Richard againe; and so by that meanes to haue gotten reftition of their former Titles of Houour, with their posseffions which they had loft, by iudgement of the last Parliament, a little before. But this their conspiracie being discouered to the King, and hee fled to London, they were driuen to fly to Cicefter, where the rude Townsmen and others set vpon them, tooke them, and in the Market-place flyroke off their heads: his body was buried at Cicefter, but after taken vp againe, and enterred in the Priorie of Mont-grace, which was of his fathers foundation. This Thomas, Duke of Surrey, did beare for his Armes, King Edward the Confessors Armes, within a border ermyn, impalled with the Armes of England, within a border argent, as by his Seales is manifested.

Edmond Holland, Knight of the Garter, second sonne of Thomas Holland, Earle of Kent, and brother to the last Thomas Holland, Earle of Kent, and Duke of Surrey, flaine at Cicefter, was after the death of his said Brother, Earle of Kent, and Lord Wake of Lidell; and by King Henrie the fourth was made Lord high Admirall of England; and being at the siege of Briake in Britaine, the ninth of the said Kings reigne, was wounded in the head with an Arrow, hot out of a Croffe-bowe, whereof he died within fiue dayes after. He married Luce, daughter of Barnaby, Viscount of Millaine, the widow of Lewis of Valoys: who after this Edmonds death, married for her third huſband, Sir Henrie Mortimer, Knight. This Edmond died without issue, and lyeth buried at Bourne in Lincolnshire, leauing his fixe fiſters his heires, married as aforefaid.

*Et portoit, les armes d'Engleserre au bordure d'argent.*

William

KENT.

195

William Neuill, Lord Falconbridge, and Knight of the Garter, a younger sonne of Ralphе Neuill, firſt Earle of Westmerland, begotten of Ioane his ſecond Wife, daughter of John of Gaunt, and Lady Katherine Swynford, was created Earle of Kent, in the firſt yeere of King Edward the fourth; and after made Lord Admiral of England, and Knight of the Garter. Hee married Ioane, daughter & heire of Thomas Lord Falconbridge of Shelton; in whose right he was also Lord Falconbridge, and had iſſue, Ioane wife to Sir Edward Bedhom-ing Knight; Elizabeth married to Sir Richard Strangwais Knight; and Alice married to Sir John Coigniers knight. This William was taken prifoner in France, and died about the ſecond yeere of King Edward the fourth, and was buried in the Priory of Gif-burg.

Et portoit, gueulles au faulteur d'argent, charge d'une Moletté d'fable.

Edmond Grey, Lord of Ruthin, Haſtings, and Weilh- ford, was created Earle of Kent, in the firſt yeere of King Edward the fourth, and married Katherine, daugh- ter of Henry Percy, ſecond Earle of Northumberland, by whom he had iſſue, Lord Anthonie Grey, that died without iſſue before his Father, and was buried at Lu- ton, neere S. Albons; George Grey, ſecond ſonne, was af- ter his Father, Earle of Kent; he had iſſue also two daughters, Eliſabeth married to Robert Greſtocke, ſonne and heire of Ralphе Baron of Greſtocke; and Anne, the wife of John Lord Grey of Wilton.

Et portoit, burellee de fix d'argent & d'azur an chef trois torteux.

George Grey, Lord Grey of Ruthin, Haſtings, and Weilh- ford, ſecond ſonne and heire of Edmond a- foreſaid, was after his Father, the ſecond Earle of Kent of that ſur-name. He had two wiues, the firſt was Anne, daughter of Richard Wooduile Earle Riuers, the widow of William Viſcount Bourchier, by whom he had iſſue, Richard Earle of Kent: His ſecond wife was Katherine, daughter of William Herbert, Earle of Penbroke, flain at Banbury; by whom he had iſſue, Sir Henry Grey of Wreſt, Knight; (who after the death of his brother Richard the vnthrift, did discontinue and refuse to take vpon him the Title and name of Earle) George Grey third

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A Catalogue of the Earles of
Lincolne, their Armes, Wiues,
and Children.

William de Romare, a Norman borne, (sonne of Roger de Romare, and halfe brother of Randoll Meschines, the fourth Earle of Chefter by his mother Luce, daughter of Algar the Saxon, Earle of Chefter, and fitter of Morcar, Earle of Northumberland and Lincolne) was created Earle of Lincolne, in the fixt yeere of King Stephen, to whom the faid King gaue the Mannour of Chircheton, the Castle of Geynborough, and the Castle of Pomfret in Yorkshire. Vnto which Grant, were witnesses, Randoll Meschines, Earle of Chefter; Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Penbroke; and Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Hartford, and others. He married Haws, daughter of Stephen, fonne of Eudo Comes Bleſenſis & Champaine, and fitter of VVilliam le Groſſe, Earle of Albemarle, by whom he had iffue, VVilliam de Romare the ſecond, Lord of Bullingbroke, who tooke to wife, Mauld, daughter of Baldwyn Riuers, Earle of Deuonſhire, and died before his father, in the yeere 1151. leauing iffue, a ſonne named VVilliam the third, who alſo died without iffue, in Anno 1175. and one daughter named Haws, married to Gilbert de Gaunt, Earle of Lincolne. This laſt VVilliam de Romare, by his Deed, gaue lands to the Abbey of Reueſbie, to pray for the ſoule of VVilliam his father, and VVilliam the Earle his grand-father, 1172. the nineteenth of King Henry the ſecond.

Et portoit, guculles ſept macles d'or ſeme de croix recroſettees de meſme.

G
ilbert de Gaunt, Lord of Lindefey in Lincolnſhire,
and ſecond Earle of Lincolne, (ſonne of VValter
de Gaunt, by Mauld, daughter of Alan Earle of Britaine,
and grand-child to Gilbert de Gaunt, that came into
England with VVilliam Conqueror, by Euſtacia, daugh-
ter of the Earle of Cenomania) taking part with King
Stephen, againſt Mauld the Empreſſe, was taken priso-
ner by King Henrie the ſecond, being then Duke of
Normandy; who committed him to the cuſtodie and
keeping of Randoll Mefchines, alias Gernons, the fourth
Earle of Chefter, who married him to Haws, daughter
of

LINCOLN.

the Lady Hawifia of Quincey, my most dear Sifter, the Earledome of Lincoln
(viz.) as farre forth as it vnto me belongeth, so that she may thereof be Coun-
tesse: to hane and to hold the fame of my Lord the King of England, and
his heires, vnto the said Hawis, and her heires, the feuenteenth of Henrie
the third. Now how this may be made good, I leaue to thofe of better
judgement then my selfe. And so he the said Robert de Quincey, became
Earle of Lincoln; which thing I can hardly beleeue; for that all Ho-
nours and titles of Dignities are deriued, and enjoied by the bountie and
fauour of the King or Soueraigne; and therefore, that this gift of Randoll
to his Sifter, could make her Countesse, or Robert her hufband, Earle of
Lincoln, is idle and altogether vntrue.) Hee married first, Conftance,
daughter of Conan Earle of Britaine and Richmond, (the widow of Gef-
frey Plautagenet) from whom he was diuorced, the second of King John;
and after married Clemence, daughter of William Fengeres; and to his
third wife, he tooke Margaret, daughter of Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of
Hereford, but had no issue by any of them. He was a witneſſe to King
Henry the thirds Charter, bearing date, 1224, of lands that he gaue to the
Abbey of Peterborough, by the name of Randoll, Earle of Chefter and
Lincolne; and after died at his Caſtle of Wallingſord, the feuenteenth
yeere of King Henrie the third, and was buried at Chefter, leauing his
foure Sifters his heires, which were married, as in the title of Earles of
Chefter.

Et portoit, d'azur à trois garbes d'or.

John Lacie, Baron of Halton, Lord of Pomfret and Blackburne-shire, and Conftable of Chefter, fonne and heire of Roger, was created Earle of Lincoln, in the feuenteenth yeere of King Henry the third, and married to his first wife, Alice, daughter of Gilbert, Lord of the Egle, and Baron of Pimſey; and to his second wife, he married Margaret, daughter, and one of the two heires of Robert Lord Quincey (fonne and heire of Saire Quincey, Earle of Winchefter) by Hawis his wife, the fourth Sifter, and one of the heires of Randoll Blundenuile, Earle of Chefter and Lincoln, by whom he had issue, Lord Edmond Lacie, that died before his father, in the yeere 1257, who before had married Alice, daughter of the Marquess of Saluce in Italie, and had issue, Henrie Lacie, Earle of Lincoln; and Mauld, married to Richard de Clare Earle of Glocefter. This John, died in the twentie foure yeere of King Henrie the third, and was buried in the Abbey of Stanloe. This John, by the name and title of Earle of Lincoln, and Conftable of Chefter, did confirme to Robert Lacie his vnckle, the Caſtle and Borough of Flamburge, with all Royalties, Priuiledges belonging to the fame, to be holden to the said Robert, and his heires.

LINCOLNE.

heires for euer, according to the feueral Charters of Roger Lacie, his father, and John, his grandfather, made to the said Roberts Lacie. Witnefes, Sir Walter de Bauile, Sir John de Bruine, Sir Robert Rose, and others.

Et portoit, d'or au Lion rampant de purpre.

H Enrie Lacie, (grand-child of Iohn Lacie, Earle of Lincolne, by his fonne Edmond) was the second

Earle of Lincolne of that Familie, Baron of Halton, and Conftable of Chefter, and Lord of Denbeigh, by King Edward the firſt. Hee writ in his ſtile, Earle of Lincolne, Conſtable of Cheſter, Lord Ros and Roweniock, and married to his firſt wife, Margaret, daugh-
ter and heire of William Longſpee, grand-child of Wil-
liam Longſpee Earle of Salisburie, by his ſonne William,
by whom he had iſſue, Edmond Lacie drowned in a
Well in Denbeigh Caſtle, in the life time of his father;
and Alice, married to Thomas Plantagenet, Earle of

Lancafter, Leicefter, and Derby, by whom ſhe had no iſſue; ſecondly
ſhe married Ebulo Lord Strange; and laſtly ſhe married Hugh de Frenes.
This Henrie, married to his ſecond wife, Ioane, daughter of William Mar-
tyne, Lord Camoys, but by her had no iſſue. He died at his houſe, now
called Lincolnes Inne in Chancerie-Lane, in London, 1316. and lieth
buried in Pauls Church in London, in Saint Dunſtans Chappell, called
the New-worke.

H Enrie of Mounmoth (fur-named Tortcoll) ſonne of Henrie, Earle of Lancaſter, and brother and heire of Thomas, Earle of Lancaſter, Leicefter, and Derby, that married Alice Lacie afore ſaid, was crea-
ted Earle of Derby, in the life time of his father; after
whofe death (which was in the yeere 1345.) hee was
also Earle of Lancaſter, Leicefter, and Lord high Ste-
ward of England ; and in the ſiue and twentieth of
King Edward the third, he was made Duke of Lanca-ter, and in the ſeuen and twentieth yeere of the ſame
Kings reigne, he had the Earledome of Lincolne giuen
him. He married Isabell, daughter of Henrie Lord Beau-
mont, and had iſſue, two daughters his heires; Mauld

the eldeſt, was married to William, Duke of Bauarre, Earle of Henault, Holland, and Zeland; Blanch the ſecond daughter, was wife to Iohn of Gaunt, Earle of Richmond, (fourth ſonne of King Edward the third) who after the death of this Henrie, his father in law, was the ſecond Duke of Lancaſter. This Henrie died, in the ſiue and thirtieth yeere of King Ed-
ward the third.

Et portoit, d'Engleterre au lambel de cinque points de France.

Iohn

204

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Iohn de la Pole, fonne and heire of John de la Pole se-
cond Duke of Suffolke, was created Earle of Lin-
colne, in the Seuenth yeere of King Edward the fourth,
and married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Fitz-Alan,
Earle of Arundell, by whom he had no issue. He was
flaine in the life time of his father, at Stokefield, taking
part with Martine Swarth, the fixteenth of June, in the
second of King Henrie the Seuenth, 1487.

Et portoit, d'azur à la face à trois tefes de Leopards d'or, au lambel d'argent.

HEnrie Brandon, fonne and heire of Charles Brandon,
Duke of Suffolke, by Marie the French Queene,
being about twelue yeeres of age, was created Earle of
Lincolne, at Bridewell, in the Seuenteenth yeere of
King Henrie the eight, and then died without issue; his
father liuing.

Et portoit, burelle d'argent & de gueulles de dix pieces
au lion rampant d'or, corrone perpale gueulles &
d'argent au lambel d'argent.

H

EDward Clinton, Lord Clinton, Knight of the Gar-
ter, and Lord Admirall of England, was created
Earle of Lincolne, at Greenwich, the fourth of May,
in the fourteenth yeere of Queene Elizabeth, 1572.
He married three wiues, the firft was Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Sir John Blount, the widdow of the Lord Talboys,
by whom he had issue, Bridget, wife to Robert Dymock
of Lincolneshire, Esquire, father of Sir Edward Dy-
mock, his Maiesties moft worthie Champion; Kathe-
rine, wife of William Lord Borough, father of Thomas
Lord Borough, Lord Deputie of Ireland; Margaret,
wife to Charles Lord Willoughby of Parham. His fe-
cond wife was Ursula, daughter of William Lord Sturton, by whom hee
had issue, Henrie Lord Clinton, Edward, and Thomas, which Thomas
had to wife, Marie, daughter of John Terrell of Warley; Anne Clinton,
married to William Ascough, fonne and heire of Sir Francis Ascough, of
Kelfey in Lincolnshire, Knight; Frances, married to Giles Bruges, Lord
Shandos of Sudley Castle: His third wife was Elizabeth, daughter of
Gerard

LINCOLNE.

Gerald, Earle of Kildare in Ireland, by whom he had no issue. He died in the twentie fixt yeere of Queene Elizabeth, and was honourably buried at Windesore, 1585.

Et portoit, d'argent fix croifeleitz de fable, au piedfiche, au chef d'azur chargé de deux molettes d'or.

Henry Lord Clinton, Sonne and heire of Edward Earle of Lincolne, and Lord high Admirall of England, after the death of his Father, was Earle of Lincolne, and married Katherine, daughter of Francis Haftings, Earle of Huntington, by whom he had issue, Thomas Lord Clinton, and Earle of Lincolne, 1616. Sir Edward Clinton Knight, who married Mary, daugh- ter of Thomas Dighton of Sturton; and Elizabeth Clin- ton, wife to Sir Arthur Gorge, Knight. His fecond wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Morifon, by whom he had issue, Sir Henry Fines Knight.

Les armes de son père.

Thomas Lord Clinton, and Earle of Lincolne now liuing, 1621. married Elizabeth, daughter and one of the heires of Sir Henry Kniuet of Charlton in Wiltshire, Knight, and hath issue, Edward Lord Clin- ton, Knight of the Bath, Henry and Thomas Clinton, Katherine, Elizabeth, and Francis.

Et portoit, d'argent fix croifeletz de fable, au piedfiche, au chef d'azur chargé de deux molettes d'or.

T A

LANCASTER.

Gaufcoigne, in the first yeare of King Edward the first; and beeing sent into Aquitaine with an Armie, died at Bayon, in the yeare 1296. and his body being brought ouer Seas into England, was buried at Westminfter, on the North-side of the high Altar.

Et portoit, gueulles au trois Leopards passant d'or, au lambell de France.

Thomas Plantagenet, sonne and heyre of Edmond Crouch-backe, was after the death of his Father, Earle of Lancafter, Leicester, and Derby, and Lord Steward of England. Hee married Alice, daughter and heyre of Henry Lasie Earle of Lincolne, by the daughter and heyre of William Longsbee, Sonne and heire of William Longsbee Earle of Salisbury, by whome he had no iffue. This Alice was held to be a very loose and vnchafte woman of her body, for in the life time of this Thomas her husband, shee maintained Sir Richard S. Marlyn for her Sweet-heart, and after her husbands death, she married two other husbands, the

first was Ebulo Lord Strange of Knocking; and the second, was Hugh de Frenes, by whom the neuer had any iffue. Notwithstanding, the gaue all her lauds and inheritance to Thomas her first husband, and to his heyres for euer. This Thomas, siding with the Barons againft King Edward the second, in hatred of the Spencers, was taken prifoner at Burrough Brigge, by the treachery of Robert Holland and Andrew of Hercley, and brought to Pomfret, a Castle of his owne, and without the Walles thereof was beheaded, the eleuenth Kal. of Aprill, in the foureteenth yeere of Edward the second, leauing Henry his brother, his heire.

H
emy of Lancafter, Lord of Monmouth, brother
and heire of Thomas Earle of Lancafter, beheaded
at Pomfret aforefaid, was restored to the Earledome of
Lancafter, Leicester, and Derby, with the Office of
high Steward of England, in the first yeere of King Ed-
ward the third. Hee married Mauld, daughter and
heire of Sir Patrick Cadurcis (or Chaworth) Knight,
Lord of Kidwelly and Ogmore in Wales, and had if-
fue; Henry Earle of Derby, and first Duke of Lancafter;
and fixe daughters, Blanch the eldeft, was married to
Thomas Lord Wake of Lidell; Mauld, the second, was

T 2

first

208

LANCASTER.

first married to William Lord Burgh, Earle of Vlfter in Ireland; and after to Sir Ralphe Vfford Knight, Ioane the third daughter, was married to John Lord Mowbray of Axholme; Ifabel was Abbeſe of Almesbury; Elianor the fifth daughter, was first married to John, ſonne of Henry Lord Beaumond; and after to Richard Earle of Arundell; and Mary the fixt daughter, was married to Henrie Lord Percy of Alnewike. He died at Leicelſter, and was there buried in the Monaſtery of the Channons, in the yeere 1346, and the eleuenth of King Edward the third.

Et portoit, les armes D'Engleterre au lambell de France.

H
enry of Monmouth, fur-named Tortcoll, ſonne and heire of Henry Earle of Lancaſter, and grandchild of Edmond Crouch-backe aforefaid, was created Earle of Derby, in the tenth yeere of King Edward the third; his Father being then liuing; after whose death he was alſo Earle of Lancaſter, Leicelſter, and Lord high Steward of England; and at a Parliament held at Wětminſter, the twenty fifth of the ſaid Kings Reigne, hee was created Duke of Lancaſter; and about two yeeres after, the ſaid King gaue him the Earledome of Lincolne. He married Ifabel, daughter of Henry Lord Beaumont, (couſin-germane to Queene Ifabel, wife to King Edward the ſecond, by whom he had issue, two daughters his heires; Mauld, married William Duke of Baufarſe, Earle of Henault, Holland, Zeland, and Frizeland; Blanch the ſecond daughter, was married to John of Gaunt, fourth ſonne of King Edward the third; and after Duke of Lancaſter. This Henry, for ſome diſgracefull words, ſuppofed to be ſpoken by him, againſt the Duke of Brunſwicke, was by the ſaid Duke challenged to a single combate, before King John of France; which this Henry gladly accepted of, and at the appointed time, they beeing both prouided, entred the liftes with haughty courage, for the tryall of their cauſe: but King John reconciled them, to the great contentment and honour of the Duke of Lancaſter. This Henry died of the plague, and was buried in the Collegiate at Leicelſter, which himſelfe founded, and placed therein a Deane, twelue Maior Canons, and ſo many inferiour Brethren) in the thirty fifth yeere of King Edward the third 1361.

Et portoit, D'Engleterre au lambell de France.

1066

LANCASTER.

209

John of Gaunt, (so named of the place where he was a
borne) fourth sonne of King Edward, the third, was
created Earle of Richmond, in the yeere 1355, and
in the thirty eight yeere of the said Kings Reigne, hee
was also Knight of the Garter, and fate in Parliament,
with the Title of Duke of Lancafter, and Earle of Rich-
mond; and did write in his style, John, sonne to the
King of England, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancafter,
Earle of Derby, Lincolne, and Leicester, high Ste-
ward of England, and Conftable of France, in the
thirty fourth yeere of King Edward the third, which
fome make doubt of, for that Robert de Morell Lord of
Fiennes, was then also Conftable of France. And in the fiftieth yeere of
King Edward the third, he fate in Parliament, by the name of John, King
of Caftile and Lions, and had paid him out of Spaine tenne thoufand
markes Starling, during his life for the fame. Also in the fourteenth yeere
of King Richard the second his Nephew, he was made Duke of Aquitaine,
by deliuering him a golden Rod, and putting vpon his Head a Cappe of
Estate. He married three wiues, the first was Blanch, daughter and co-
heire of Henry the first Duke of Lancafter, by whom hee had issue,
Henrie
after King of England; Philip, wife to John King of Portugall; and Eliza-
beth married to John Holland Duke of Excefter. His second wife was Con-
France, daughter and one of the co-heires of Peter, King of Caftile, by
whom he had issue, Katherine, married to Henry, fonne of King John of
Spaine, with the Title to the Kingdomes of Caftile and Lions. His third
wife was Katherine, daughter of Payne Roet, alias Guien, King of Armes,
and Widdow of Sir Ores Swynford, Knight, by whom he had issue before
marriage, John fur-named Beaufort, Earle of Somerset, and Marqueſſe
Dorſet; Henry Beaufort, Bisbop of Wincheſter, and Cardinall of S. Euse-
bius, as also Chancellour of England; Thomas Beaufort, Earle of Dorſet,
Duke of Exeter, and Chancellor of England; Ioane Beaufort, first married
to Ralph Neuill, first Earle of Weſtmerland; and after to Robert Ferrars,
Lord of Oufley: This last marriage with Katherine Swynford, and the legi-
timating of her children, was made good, by Act of Parliament, and a
Bull from Rome. This great Duke and Prince, died in the Bisbop of
Elies Place in Holborne, the twentie two of King Richard the second,
and lyeth buried in Pauls Church in London, by Blanch his first wife.

Et portoit, ſeme de France, eſcartellé D'engleterre, au lambell
d'herrmines.

T 3

Henry

210

LANCASTER.

Henry Plantagenet, (borne at Bullingbroke) fonne and heire of John of Gaunt, was Knight of the Gar- ter, and created Earle of Derby, in the life time of his Father; 1385- by King Richard the second, and in the one and twentieth yeere of the said Kings Reigne, he was made Duke of Hereford, and by that name and ti- tle fate in the Parliameut, held at Westminfter; and af- ter being accused of treason, by Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolke, was banifhed England for tenne yeeres; meane time died John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafter his Father; whom this Henry succeeded in the Dukedome of Lancafter; and after depofing King Richard, and ob-

taining the Kingdome, he ordained by affent of Parliament, that Henrie his eldeſt ſonne ſhould enioy the fame Dignities, and be ſtyled Prince of Wales, Duke of Lancafter and Cornwall, and Earle of Cheſter: and ſo this Henry beeing crowned King, vnited the whole Inheritance of Lanca- ſter vnto the Crowne. Since which time, the Ducall Title of Lancafter hath been drowned in the Title of the Regall Dignitie. This Henrie, mar- ried Mary, daughter and one of the Two heires of Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, Effex, and Northampton, and Conſtable of England, by whom he had iſſue, Henry Prince of Wales, Thomas Duke of Clarence, Johu Duke of Bedford, Humſrey Duke of Gloceſter; Blanch, married to VVilliam Duke of Bauarre; and Philip married to John, King of Denmarke and Norway. He died in the yeere 1412.

Et portoit, les Armoiries de ſon perſ.

A

A Catalogue of the Earles of
Leicester, their Armes, Wiues,
and Children.

Robert de Bellomont (a Norman borne) fonde of Roger de Bellomont, Lord of Ponteaudemer, and Adelina his wife, sifter and heire of Hugh, Earle of Mellent, (after the death of Leofrike, Algar, and Edwin, Saxon Earles) was made Earle of Leicester, by King Henry the first, 1103. Hee married Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh the great, Earle of Vermandois, son of Henry, King of France, and had issue, Waleran, Earle of Mellent in Normandy, and of Worcester in England; and Robert fur-named Boffu; Adelina, wife to Hugh Mountfort; and Elizabeth, married to Gilbert

Strongbow, Earle of Penbroke: this Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh the great, Earle of Vermandois, ouer-liued her first husband, and after married William the second, Earle Warren, by whom she had issue also William de Warren, the third Earle of Surrey; and two daughters, one married to Roger, Earle of Warwicke, and the other to Henry, Earle of Huntington, 1144. This Robert, died in the yeere of our Lord, 1118. the nineteenth of King Henry the first.

Et portoit, de gueulles, à l'quintfoille d'hermyne.

Robert de Bellomont, fur-named Boffu, (of his crooked backe) was the second Earle of Leicester, after the death of his father; he was Chiefe-Iustice of England, in King Henry the seconds time, and married Ittam, daughter of Ralph de Waet, Earle of the East Angels, and had issue, Robert Blanchmaynes, the third Earle of Leicester, Henry, Geoffrey, and Iohn; Isabell, married to Simon Saint-Lize, Earle of Northampton; and Hawis, married to William, Earle of Glocefter. This Robert, died in the thirteenth yeere of King Henry the second, and was buried at Leicester. About the wife of this Robert Boffu is some question; for William Gemiticensis

pag. 676. who liued in that age, fetteth downe that hee married Ittam,
daughter

LEICESTER.

213

ROBERT, fur-named Fitz-Pernell, fonne of Roberts Blanchmaynes, was after the death of his father, the fourth Earle of Leicester, and in right of his mother, Lord High Steward of England. Hee married Lourette, daughter of William, Lord Brews of Brember in Suffe, by whom he had no issue. This Robert went with King Richard into the Holy-land, and was there taken prifoner, and payed for his ransome, two thousand Markes. He died in the yeere of our Lord 1204, and was buried in the Abley of Leicester, the fixt of King John, leauing Simon de Mountfort, and Saier de Quincey, who had married his two fifters his heires, His wife Loretta, after her hubands death, couenanted with King John, in the ninth yeere of his reigne, that he would neither marrie, or enter into any Religious-houſe, without the consent of the ſaid King.

Et portoit, les Armes de ſon pere.

SIMON de Mountfort (fonne of Simon, Earle Mountfort in France, ſon of another Simon, Earle Mountfort, and Bertha his wife, daughter of Richard, Earle of Eureux, and Conſtable of France: which laſt Simon, was grand child of Robert fur-named The holy King of France, by his baſe ſonne Almericke, Earle Mountfort) married Amicia, eldeſt ſifter and co-heire of Robert Fitz-Pernell, Earle of Leicester, in whose right he was created Earle of Leicester, and made Lord Steward of England, in the eight yeere of King John, as may appeare by his Charter, dated at Slingelbie, the tenth day of March, 1206. This Simon, with his ſonne, was after banifhed England, and diſ-inherited for rebellion againſt the King, and allying themſelues to the French King. He was Generall of the Armie, at the ſiſe of the Citie of Tholouze, who before the Gates thereof, was ſtricken in the head with a ſtone ſhot out of an Engine, whereof he died ſodainly; and his brother Almericke, beſieging a Caſtle hard by the ſaid Citie, at the ſame time, was likewise ſlaine in the yeere 1218. This Simon had iſſue by his wife Amicia, Almericke, Earle Mountfort, in France; and Simon, that was after Earle of Leicester, in England.

Et portoit, gueulles, au Lion rampant à la queue fourchee d'argent.

Simon

LEICESTER.

214

Simon de Mountfort, second sonne of Simon Mountfort, Earle of Leicester, and Amicia his wife, hauing compounded and agreed with Almericke his elder brother, for his right and title of the Earledome of Leicester, came into England, and was graciously receiued of King Henry the third, 1235, who did not onely reture to him the Earledome of Leicester, with the Office of Lord Steward of England, but also in the yeere 1237, gaue vnto him in marriage, his fister Elianor, the widow of William Marshall (the younger) Earle of Penbroke, by whom he had iffue, Henry Mountfort, flaine with his father at the battaile of Euerflam, in the yeere 1256. Simon Mountfort, Guy and Almericke, were all three batified the Land, by Acte of Parliament; Edward and Richard died young; and Elianor his daughter, was married to Leolyne, Prince of Wales. When the Noblemen of England raifed Warre againft King Henry the third (for denying to performe the Orders and Decrees made a little before, at a Parliament held at Oxford) this Simon was made their Generall; and at a battaile, ftrocke neere Lewis in Sufflex, hee tooke the King with his brother Richard, Earle of Cornewall, and King of Almaine, with Prince Edward his sonne, prifoners; but Prince Edward eflaping, bid the Barons battaile againe at Euerflam, where this Simon was flaine, and the Barons ouerthrowne, in the fortieth yeere of the faide Kings reigne. This Simon, the second Earle of Leicester, at the Coronation of Queene Elianor, challenged the Office of Lord Steward of England (in right of Amicia, his mother, daughter of Robert Blanchmaynes, and Pernell his wife, eldeft daughter and co-heire of Hugh Grentmesnill) which Roger Bigot, Earle of Norfolke gainſaid, alledging, that that Office belonged to him of right, by Alice, the other daughter of Hugh Grentmesnill; to which this Simon anſwered, That in King John's time this controuerſie was agreed, That the Earle of Leicester that then was, ſhould giue to the then Earle of Norfolke, ten Knights Fees; for which the Earle of Norfolke did releaſe all his right and claime to the ſaid Office of Lord high Steward of England; Whereunto Earle Roger replied and ſaid, That of thoſe ten Knights Fees, there were yet two and a halſe vnpaid; To which it was anſwered, That by the Lawes of the Realme, the ſaid Roger might recouer the remainder of thoſe Knights Fees. And ſo Simon was receiued to execute the ſaid Office, at the Coronation of Queene Elianor.

Edmond

LEICESTER.

217

Henry of Bullingbrooke, fonne and heire of John of Gaunt, was Duke of Hereford in the life time of his father, and after created Earle of Leicester and Derby, as also Lord High Steward of England; and lastly, King of England, by the name of King Henry the fourth.

*Et portoit, les armes de son pere.*

Robert Dudley, fifth sonne of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was created Earle of Leicester, and Baron of Denbeigh, in the fixt yeare of Queene Elizabeth, 1564. at S. James Houfe, on Michaelmas day. He was Knight of the Honorable Order of the Garter, and of S. Michael, Lo. Steward of her Houfe, and Mafter of the Horse, and one of her Maiesties moft honorable Priuie Councell. He married two Wiues: the first was Amie, daughter and heire of Sir John Robert, Knight, who died without issue. His second Wife was Lettice, daughter of Sir Francis Knolles, Treasurer of the Housethold to Queene Elizabeth, and

Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter; by whom he had a sonne named Robert, Baron of Denbeigh, who died young, without issue. This Robert died without any lawfull issue, at Cornebury Lodge in Oxfordshire, 1588. and was buried at Warwicke leauing issue, Robert, a baſe fonne, begotten of Duglasse Howard, Lady Sheffield, sifter of Charles, Earle of Nottingham.

*Et portoit, d'or au Lion rampant vert à la queue fourche, au creffant pur la difference.*

Robert Sidney, Lord Gouernour of Vlifhing, fonne of Sir Henry Sidney, Knight of the Garter, Lord Deputie of Ireland, and Prſident of the Councell of the Marcheſſe of Wales, and of Lady Mary his Wife, eldeſt Sifter and coheire of Robert Dudley, Earle of Leicester, fifth fonne of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland; was by King James, the thirteenth day of May, 1603. created Baron Sidney, of Penthurſt, in the Tower of London; and on the fourth day of May, 1605. hee was created Viscount Lifle at Greenwich:

V

A Catalogue of the Earles of
March, their Armes, Wiues,
and Children.

Roger Lord Mortimer (or D'Mortuo-Mari) of Wigmore, (sonne and heire of Edmond Lord Mortimer of Wigmore) was created the first Earle of the Marches of Wales, in the second yeare of King Edward the third, at a Parliament held at Salisbury. Vnto this Roger, was committed the Government of Edward the third, for that he was generally accounted a man of singular vertue; and vnto him was ioyned Edmond of Woodstocke, Earle of Kent, and Henry Plantagenet, Earle of Lancafter, as affiztants. A Parliament being held at Northampton, 1328, a diſhonourable Peace and Marriage was made; wherein the King (by the diſedictions of his mother, and this Roger Mortimer) released to the Scots their homage, fealtie, and ſeruice due to him for that Kingdome; and deliuered vp to them also the grand Charter, called Ragman, which vnder the Hands and Seales of their late King, and of the Nobilitie of Scotland, teſtified their tenure and ſubiection to the Kings of England. This Roger, in the fourth yeare of King Edward the third, was taken at Nottingham Castle, at mid-night, in Queene Isabell the Kings mothers Chamber, (with whom hee had beene ouer-familiar) by William Lord Mountague, after Earle of Salisburie, and others, and ſent to the Tower of London, and condemned of High Treason at Westminfter, in preſence of the whole Parliament; and after drawne to the common Galowes, and there hanged two dayes and two nights, and then taken downe and buried in the Grey-Friars Church. He married Ioane, daughter and heire of Peter Iamuile, Lord of Mede, Vaucolour, and Trime in Ireland; and had iſſue, Edmond Mortimer, Knighted at the Coronation of King Edward the third, with his brother Sir Roger Mortimer, and Goffrey Mortimer, Lord of Cowich; Iohn, the fourth ſonne of this Roger, was flaine at a Iuſting at Shrewsbury: Katherine, the eldeſt daughter, was married to Thomas Beauchampe, Earle of Warwicke; Ioane, married to Iames Lord Audley; Agnes, married to Laurence Haſtings, Earle of Penbroke;

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broke; Margaret, married to Thomas, fonne and heire of Maurice, Lord Berkley; Mauld, married to Sir John Charlton, Lord Powis; Blanch, Wife to Peter, Lord Grandifon; and Beatrix, the seuenth daughter, was married firft to Edward, fonne and heire of Thomas of Brotherton, Earle of Norfolke; and after, to Thomas Brews.

These Armes I fet downe for this Roger, I found cut in Stone, and painted in the Glasse-windowes, in the Parish Church of Hagley in Worcestershire, and by all coniecture, cannot be lesse then foure hundred yeeres old: and I hold them to be very truly made.

Roger Mortimer, grand-child to Roger Mortimer, the firft Earle of March aforefaid, by his fonne Edmond, was restored in the nine and twentieth yeare of King Edward the third, to the Earledome of March, and all other Lands, Honours, and Poſſeffions, which his faid grandfather was poſſeffed of; for that he was contrarie to Law (as the Lawyers then faid) put to death, being neuer brought to anſwer: (which course of Iuſtice was vſed before, at the triall of the Earles of Lancaſter, Winchelſter, Gloceſter, and Kent, by the aduice of the faid Roger and Queene Isabell.) This Roger was one of the firft Founders of the Order of the Garter; and married Phillip, daughter of William Mountague, Earle of Salisbury; and had iſſue, Roger Mortimer, that died without iſſue, before his father; and Edmond Mortimer, that was the third Earle of March: Margaret, married to Robert Vere, Earle of Oxford; and Margery, married to John Lord Audley. He died in Burgundy, at a Towne called Roueray, in the three and thirtieth yeare of King Edward the third; and his body being brought into England, was buried by his Anceſtors, at Wigmore.

Et portoit, barre d'or & d'azur, au chef palee les corners geronne
à vn eſcucheon d'argent.

Edmond Mortimer, ſecond ſonne and heire of Roger Mortimer, the ſecond Earle of March, was (after the death of his father) the third Earle of March, and Lord of Wigmore. He married Phillip, daughter and onely heire of Lionell of Antwerpe, Duke of Clarence, Earle of Wiltshire and Vlſter, and Lord of Conaught and Trime in Ireland; by whom he had iſſue, Roger Mortimer, the fourth Earle of March; and Sir Edmond Mortimer, Knight, that married the daughter of Owen Glendour; Sir John Mortimer, Knight, the third ſonne, was beheaded for Treason, the third of King Henry the

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fixt: Elizabeth, married to Henry Lord Percy, surnamed Hotspurre; Phillip, first married to John Haftings, Earle of Penbroke; and after, to Richard, Earle of Arundell; and lastly, to Iohn Lord S. Iohn, and died without issue. This Edmond recovered from William Mountague, Earle of Salisbury, the Castle and Honor of Denbeigh, which King Edward the third had given before to Roger Mortimer, Earle of March, this Edmond great grandfather. This Edmond died at Corke in Ireland, the first of King Richard the second, and was buried at Wigmore, 1381.

Et portoit, burelle de fix pieces d'or & d'azur, au chef de la primier deux paletts entre deux basc equires de la secon, sur le tout à vn escucheon d'argent.

Roger Mortimer, after the death of Edmond his father, was the fourth Earle of March of that surname, whom King Richard the second nominated for his succession in the Kingdome of England, 1387, being defcended of the body of Phillip, only daughter and heire of Lionell, Duke of Clarence, third Sonne of King Edward the third. Hee married Elianor, daughter of Thomas Holland, Earle of Kent, Lord Wake, and Duke of Surrey, and fifth and coheire of Thomas her brother, by whom he had issue, two Sonnes and two daughters; Edmond, the first Sonne, was the first Earle of March; Roger, the second Sonne, died young: Anne was married to Richard of Coningsbourgh, Earle of Cambridge, Sonne of Edmond of Langley, Duke of Yorke; and Elianor married to Edward Courtney, Earle of Deuonshire. He was writ and stiled Earle of March and Vlfter, Lord of Wigmore, Trime, Clare, and Conaught; and was flaine by the wild Irish, being then Lieutenant of the Kings Forces in Ireland, in the two and twentieth yeare of King Richard the second, and bare the Armes of his father.

Edmond Mortimer, Sonne and heire of Roger aforefaid, was after the death of his father, the first Earle of March and Vlfter, and Lord of Wigmore, Trime, Clare, and Conaught; and married Anne, daughter of Edmond Earle Stafford; and died without issue, in the Castle of Trime in Ireland, the third of King Henry the first, and was buried at Stoke, neere Clare, leaving Richard Duke of Yorke, his Nephew and Heire, to succeed him: Anne his Widdow was after married to John Holland, Earle of Huntington.

Les armes de Son pere.

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A Catalogue of the Marquesses
Mountague, their Armes, Wives,
and Children.

John Neuill, brother of Richard Neuill (surnamed the Great) Earle of Warwicke and Salisburie, was in the first yeare of King Edward the fourth, created Lord Mountague; and in the fourth yeare of the said Kings reigne, he was created Earle of Northumberland at Yorke; (at which time, Henrie Piercy, Earle of Northumberland, liued in banishment attained; but afterward obtayning the Kings fauour, he returned into England, and was restored to his Earle-dome of Northumberland againe, in the eight yeare of King Edward the fourth) and in the tenth yeare of the said Kings reigne, (the said John hauing surrendered his grant of the said Earledome) was created Marques Mountague; and in the yeare after, was flaine at Gladmore-Heath, at the battell of Barnet; and being brought to London in one Coffin, with his brother the Earle of Warwick, was let in Saint Paules Church in London, with their faces bare, to be feene three dayes, and then carried to the Priorie of Bisham, and there both buried in one graue. This John married Isabel, daughter and heire of Sir Edmond Engeleſthorp, Knight, and had issue, George Neuill, created Duke of Bedford, the tenth of King Edward the fourth: and five daughters, (who after the death of the said George without issue, were his heires) Anne the eldest, was married to Sir William Stoner, Knight; Elizabeth, married to the Lord Scroope of Vpsale; Margaret, married to Sir John Mortimer, Knight; and after to Horne; Lucy, was first married to Sir Thomas Fitz-Williams of Aldwarpe, father of William Fitz-Williams, Earle of Southampton; and after to Sir Anthonie Browne, Knight; and Isabel, the fifth daughter, was married to Sir William Hudleson, Knight. All which five daughters had issue. This John, Marquess Mountague, and George, Duke of Bedford, his Sonne, were by Act of Parliament, the feuenteenth of Edward the fourth, degraded of all honourable Titles, in these words.

Where afore this time, the King our Soueraigne Lord, for the great zeale and loue he bare to Iohn Neuill, late named Marquess Mountague, and other considerations him mouing, did erect and make George Neuill, the eldest Sonne of

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of the said Marqueſſe, to be Duke of Bedford; and at that time, for the great
lone his said Highneſſe bare to the said Iohn Neuill, purpofed and intended to
haue giuen to the said George, for ſustentation of the fame dignitie, ſufficient
life-lode: And for the great offences, vnkindneſſe, and miffe-behauing, that
the said Iohn Neuill hath done and committed to his said Highneſſe, as is o-
penly knowne, he hath not cause to depart any life-lode to the said George. And
foraſmuch, as it is openly knowne, that the said George hath not, nor by inhe-
ritance may haue any life-lode, to ſupport the said Name, Eſtate, and Dignitie,
or any name of Eſtate. And oft-times it is ſeene, that when any Lord is called
to high Eſtate, and hath not life-lode conveniently to ſupport the said Dignitie,
it induces great pouertie and indigence, and cauſes oft-times great extortion,
embracerie, and maintenance to be had, to the great trouble of all such Coun-
tries, where ſuch eſtate ſhall hap to be inhabited. Wherefore, the King, by the
aduice and affent of his Lords Spirituall and Temporall, and the Commons of
this present Parliament affsembled, and by the authoritie of the fame, or dayned,
eſtablished, and enaſted, that from henceforth, the said Ereſion and making
of Duke, and all the names of Dignitie, giuen to the said George, or to the
said Iohn Neuill his father, be from henceforth voide, and of no effect. And
that the said George and his heires, from henceforth be no Dukes, nor Mar-
queſſe, Earle, nor Baron, for no erection, or creation afore made; but of that
name of Duke, and Marqueſſe, Earle, and Baron, in him and his heires ceaſſe,
and be voide, and of none effect; the said Ereſion or Creation notwithſtand-
ing. This haue I thought good to mention here, that Noble-men and
others may be warned, how they ſell and conſume their ancient Liuings
and Patrimonies, left them by their Anceſters; leaſt wanting wherewith-
all to maintaine their Eſtates, the King degrade and diſable them from
bearing any honorable Title, as he did theſe two Noble-men, the father
and the ſonne.

Et portoit, gueulles au Saulteur d'argent, au lambel gobonne d'argent
& d'azur, sur le Saulteur au croiffant d'able.

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Gofpatricke, (sonne of Maldred, and Aldgith his wife, fister of Syward the great Earle of Northumberland) was after the depriuation of Earle Morchar, the next Earle of Northumberland; and becaufe hee suffered Malcolmme, King of Scotland, with a power to enter England; was by the Conqueror depriued of this Earledome, in the yeare 1072. and after died in banishment. Of this Gofpatricke, did defcend the noble Families of Neuills of Midelham, Branſpath, and Raby.

Ei portoit, de gueulles au Sauleur d'argent.

W Altheof (sonne of Syward, the great Earle of Northumberland, by Alfleda his wife, daugh- ter of Aldred, sometime Earle of Northumberland) was the next Earle of Northumberland and Hunting- ton, after Gofpatricke. This Waltheof, in the yeare 1074. at Exningham in Cambridgeshire, at the marriage of Raphe, Earle of the East Angles, (Norfolke and Suſ- folke) with the daughter of William Fitz-Osbert, and fister of Roger, Earle of Hereford; confpired with the faid Roger and Raphe, and many others, to expell and driue William the Conqueror out of England againe. For which confpiracie, this William was taken and beheaded at Winchefter, and was buried without the walls of the Citie, in a place where two high-wayes meete; but after- wards his body was taken vp againe, and with great honour carried to Crowland, and there buried, in the yeare 1076. He married Iudith, Niece to William the Conqueror, and daughter of Lambert, Earle of Lens in Artoys, with whom the faid Conqueror did giue in marriage, the Earle- dome of Huntington; he had iffue by her three daughters; Mauld, the eldeſt, was married firſt to Simon Saint Lize, Earle of Northampton, and had iffue, another Simon; after ſhee married Dauid, King of Scots, and had iffue, Henrie: Iudith, the ſecond daughter, was married to Ralphe de Tony, ſonne of Roger Tony, Baron of Flamſted in Harſtordshire, and had iffue, Gohilda, wife to Robert de Newborough, younger ſonne of Henrie, Earle of Warwicke; Alice, the third daughter, was married to Robert Fitz-Richard, Sewer to King Henrie the firſt, ſonne of Richard Fitz-Gil- bert, Lord of Tunbridge and Clare, and had iffue, Walter, of whom is defcended the now Earle of Suffex, 1618.

Et portoit, d'argent au Lson rampant d'azur au chef de guenlles.

Walcher,

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Alcher, Bishop of Durham, borne in Loraine,
bought of William the Conqueror, the Earle-
dome of Northumberland, and for a time was Earle
thereof, after the death of Waltheof. Hee was a proud
and an insolent Prelate, couetous and rich, and was
flaine by the Commons at Goatshead, on the Riuer of
Tyne, 1079. for denying to doe them Iustice, vnleffe
they would firft pay vnto him, foure hundred pounds
of currant money, as Matthew Paris more at large
fetteth downe. I pray God we haue no such Bifhops Iufti-
cers in this our Age; for the faid Matthew further faith,
That there were aboue a hundreth perſons flaine about this
matter.

Robert Mowbray,

Robert Mowbray, an honourable Englishman, after the death of Walcher, obtayned of William the Conqueror the Earledome of Northumberland. And after, hauing flaine Malcolm, King of Scots, and his Sonne, neere to Anwike, in the yeare 1092. demanded reward for the fame; which being neglected, hee was so moued, that when King William Rufus sent his Letters for him, he denyed not onely to come to him, but combined with diuers other Noblemen of the Realme, how to depriue the faid King of his Crowne; which being reuealed, he was driuen to flie to the Monafterie of Saint Owin, from whence he was taken by force, and carried to prifon, and after, by the Kings commandement, was brought before his owne Caſtle of Bamborough, and there willed to haue his eyes put out, vnleſſe his wife, and Moreal her Kinaſman (who were within the ſaid Caſtle) would yeeld vp the fame; which being ſurrendred, this Robert was ſent to be imprifoned in the Caſtle of Windesore, 1096. (Houcden, fol. 267.) During which time, King William Rufus held the Earledome of Northumberland in his owne hands, and diſinherited all the ſaid Roberts Progenie. He was after ſhorne a Monke at Saint Albons, where he died, the ſeuenth of King Henrie the firſt, 1106. The moſt of his Honours and Lands, were giuen to Lord Nigel de Albeney, Chamberlaine to King William Rufus, for his good ſeruice done at the battaile of Tenarchbray, where he flue the horſe of Robert, Duke of Normandie, tooke him prifoner, and brought him into England, and there deliuered him to the King his brother, who ſent him to prifon, to the Caſtle of Cairdiffe in South-Wales, where hee had both his eyes put out, and pined to death with ſorrow, in the flue and thirtieth yeare of King Henrie the firſt, and was buried at Gloceſter.

Et portoit, gueulles au Lion rampant d'argent.

Henrie,

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H Enrie, fonne of *David* King of Scots, begotten of *Mauld*, eldeft daughter and co-heire of *Waltheof* Earle of Northumberland and Huntington, was by King *Stephen*, made Earle of Northumberland; (as Mafter *Camden* citeth out of *Poly-Chronicon* of Durham, and that *William* his fonne, did alfo write himfelfe Earle of Northumberland.) But I rather thinke, that if they did affume that Title of Honour, it was done more vpon their owne wills, then by any iuft title or right they had to the fame: but fee more of this in the Earles of Huntington.

*Et portoit, d'or a trois peuz ioynantz au point de gueulles.*

H Vgh de Pudsey, or Putiaco, (Nephew to King Ste-
phen, as Glouer Somerſet hath) Bifhop of Durham,
a very ambitious, proud, and couetous man, bought of
King Richard the firſt, the Earledome of Northum-
berland, for terme of his life, and was girt with the
Sword of the Earledome (as then the cuſtome was : )
At the doing whereof, the King vſed theſe words :
*Am not I a good crafteſman, that haue made a new
Earle of an old Bifhop ?* And to make his ambition
more manifeſt, he gaue the King one thouſand Marks,
to be made Chieſe Iuſt ice of England. But afterwards,
perceiuing the King to frowne, and bee angrie with

him, voluntarily did reſigne the ſaid Title and Earledome againe to the
King, and remayned onely Bifhop, all his life time after. This ſtone-Priekſt
died in the yeare 1195. leauing iſſue, three baſtard ſonnes : as wittneſſeth
*William* of Newborough.

*Et portoit, party per ſaulteur d'or & d'argent, a la croix patee d'azur.*

H Enrie, Lord Percie, of Alnwick in Northumber-
land (fonne of Henrie, Lord Percie, and of Mary
his wife, ſifter of Henrie, Duke of Lancafter) was crea-
ted the firſt Earle of Northumberland of that ſur-name
at the Coronation of King Richard the ſecond, 1377.
and that day was Deputie for Margaret, Dutcheſſe of
Norfolke, and Counteſſe Marſhall of England, and
did execute the Office of Earle Marſhall. This Henrie,
in the firſt yeare of King Henrie the fourth, had giuen
him the Iſle of Man, to be holden of the King by ſer-
uice, to beare the Sword, which he wore when he en-
tred England. Also this Henrie, and Henrie Hotſpurre,

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his fonne, fought the battaile of Hallidowne-Hill, againft the Scots, 1402. and hauing the victorie, tooke these Earles prifoners; Mordike, Earle of Fiffe; Archibald, Earle Duglaffe; Thomas, Earle of Murrey; and Robert, Earle of Angus. And after the battaile of Shrewsburie, he was committed to the Tower of London, and being from thence deliuered, in the ninth yeare of King Henrie the fourth, he, with the Lord Bardolph, came out of Scotland, with a power, againft the King; and at Bramham More was encountréd by Thomas Rookeby, then Shiriffe of Yorkshire, where the faid Earle was taken prifoner, the Lord Bardolph wounded to death, and brought to Yorke, where they were both beheaded, in the yeare 1408. He married two wiues, the firſt was Margaret, daughter of Ralph, Lord Neuill of Raby, by whom he had iſſue, Henrie, ſur-named Hotſpur, ſlaine (with Thomas Percie, Earle of Worcester, his Vnckle) at the battaile of Shrewsburie; Sir Thomas Percie, Knight, father of Henrie Percie, Earle of Atholl in Scotland; Sir Ralph Percie, third fonne, ſlaine in battaile by the Sarrazins; and Alan, the fourth fonne, died young. This Henries ſecond wife, was Mauld, daughter of Thomas, Lord Lucy of Cockermoth, and ſifter and heire of Anthonie her brother, by whom hee had no iſſue; notwithstanding, ſhe gaue all her Lands to her Husband, conditionally, that he and his heires ſhould for euer after, quarter and beare her Armes, next to his owne, and before the Percies Armes; which was granted, and to this day is performed.

Et portoit, d'or au Lion rampant d'azur: escartelle gueulles a trois Luces hariant d'argent, le tierce de Percie, qui eſt d'azur au cinq fixelles en face d'or.

HENRIE, Lord Percie (grand-child to HENRIE, Lord Percie, and firſt Earle of Northumberland, by his fonne Sir HENRIE HOTSPUR) was reſtored, and made the ſecond Earle of Northumberland, the third of King HENRIE the firſt. He was ſent pledge into Scotland, for his grand-father, who was taken prifoner at the battaile of Otterborne, the twelfth of King RICHARD the ſecond, 1388. and there continued vnto the yeare 1414. Who after taking part with King HENRIE the fixt, againſt RICHARD, Duke of Yorke, was ſlaine at the firſt battaile of Saint ALBONS, in the yeare 1455. Hee married ELIANOR, daughter of RALPHE NEUILL, firſt Earle of Westmerland, and had iſſue, HENRIE, the third Earle of Northumberland; THOMAS, Lord Egremont, ſlaine at the battaile of Northampton, the nine and thirtieth of King HENRIE the fixt; WILLIAM Percie, Bifhop of Carlell; ANNE, married to THOMAS, Lord Hungerford; KATHERINE

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Katherine, wife to Edmond Grey, Earle of Kent; and Elizabeth, was married to the Lord Clifford; and diuers other children which died without issue.

Et portoit, d'or au Lion rampant d'azur, escartelle gueulles a trois Luces hauriant d'argent, le tierce de Percie qui eft d'azur cing fizelles en face d'or, le quart de la premier.

HENRIE, Lord Percie, the third Earle of Northumberland of that Family, taking part with King Henrie the fixt, was flaine on Palme-Sunday, the nine and twentieth day of March, in the firft yeare of King Edward the fourth, betweene Touton and Saxton, with the Earles of Shrewsburie and Deuonshire, and the Lord Clifford. He married Elianor, daughter and heire of Richard, Lord Poynings, Bryan, and FitzPayne, by whom he had issue, Henrie, the fourth Earle of Northumberland; Elizabeth, married to Henrie, Lord Scroope of Bolton; Elianor, married vnto Reginald West, Lord Laware; and Margaret, married to Sir William Gageoiné, Knight.

JOHN NEUILL, Lord Mountague, Knight of the Garter, brother to Richard Neuill, Earle of Warwicke and Salisburie, was created Earle of Northumberland by Letters Patents, dated at Yorke, the eight and twentieth day of May, in the fourth yeare of King Edward the fourth, by reason Henrie, Lord Percie, fonne and heire of Henrie, the third Earle of Northumberland, was then fled into Scotland, with King Henrie the fixt, and for a time remayned there; yet after returning againe, and obtayning the Kings fauour, was restored to the Earledome of Northumberland againe; and this John Neuill, surrendring his Grant of that Earledome, was created Marquess Mountague, the eight of King Edward the fourth, as in the Title of Mountague is more at large.

Et portoit, de gueulles au Saultier d'argent, au lambel gobonne d'argent & d'azur, sur le saultier au croiffant fable pur la difference.

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H Enrie, Lord Percie (sonne and heire of Henrie Percie, the third Earle of Northumberland, after the surrender of John, Marqueffe Mountague, of the Earledome of Northumberland) was restored to his fathers Earledome, in the yeare 1467. and was the fourth Earle of that Name and Family, and Knight of the Garter; who being with King Richard the third at the battaile of Bosworth neare Leicester, againft Henrie, Earle of Richmond (where the said King was flaine) was taken prisoner; whom King Henrie the Seuenth; after pardoned, and tooke to fauour, and made him of his priuie Counſell. After all which', 1488. a taxe being granted by Parliament, of the tenth peny of

all Lands and Goods; (to the aide of the Duke of Britaine) which thofe of the Bifhopricke of Durham and Yorkſhire did refuſe to pay; the King commanded this Earle Henrie to diftreſſe, or otherwife to leauie the money; which being made knowne to the rude people, they with great violence fet vpon the Earle, and furiously flue him, in a place called Cockledge, by Thurske, eighteene miles from Yorke, in the fourth yeare of King Henrie the ſeuenth, and was buried in Beuerley Minſter with his wife. He married Mauld, daughter of William Herbert, Earle of Pembroke, by whom he had iſſue, Henrie, Lord Percie, the ſift Earle of Northumberland; Sir William Percie, Knight; Alan Percie, a Clerke; and Ioceline Percse; and three daughters; Elianor, wife to Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham; Anne, married to William Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell; and Elizabeth, which died young.

Et portoit, d'or au Lson rampant d'azur, eſcartelle de gueulles a trois Luces hauriant d'argent. Le tierce, Percie que eſt d'azur cinq ſizelles en face d'or, le quart de la premire.

H Enrie, Lord Percie, after the death of his father, was the ſift Earle of Northumberland, Lord Poyninges, Fitz-Payne and Bryan, and Knight of the honorable Order of the Garter, and married Katherine, daughter and one of the heires of Sir Robert Spencer, Knight, and of Elianor his wife, daughter of Edmond Beauford, Duke of Somerset, and ſifter and co-heire of Henrie Beauford and Edmond, Dukes of Somerset, her brothers; and had iſſue, Henrie Percie, the ſixt Earle of Northumberland of that name; Sir Thomas Percie, Knight, (who married Elianor, daughter and co-heire of Sir Guichard Harbottle of Northumberland, and had iſſue, Thomas and Henrie, Earles of Northumberland,

and Mary a daughter, married to Francis Slingesby of Screuin, in the Countie of Yorke, Esquire) Sir Ingelram Percie, Knight, third Sonne; and Margaret, married to Henrie Clifford, firſt Earle of Cumberland. He died in the eighteenth yeare of King Henrie the eight.

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A Catalogue of the Dukes and Earles
of Norfolke, their Armes,
Wiues, and Children.

Alphe de Waiet, a Britaine borne, was by the gift of William the Conquerour, the firſt Earle of the Eaſt Angles, (that is to ſay, Norfolke, Suffolke, and Cambridge-ſhire) and gaping after an alteration and change in the State, was diſpoſeſſed of that Honour and Title, in the ninth yeare of the ſaid Kings Reigne, for confpiring to expell him the ſaid William out of England ; which was done at the marriage of this Ralphe, with ſemme, the daughter of William Fitz-Osberne, Earle of Hereford, and Marſhall of England, and ſifter to William de Britolio, Earle of Iuory, and Roger Earle of Hereford. There was in this Conſpiracie, Waltheof, the great Earle of Northumberland, diuers Bifhops, Abbots, and Barons: all which, by the Archbifhop Lanſyanke were made knowne to William the Conqueror, he being then in Normandy; which cauſed him with all ſpeed to returne into England : and apprehending the ſaid Waltheof, and Roger Earle of Hereford; Waltheof was beheaded at Winchelſter, and Roger had his eyes put out, and was kept in prifon during his life. This Ralphe de Waiet, keeping the Caſtle of Norwich, againſt the loyaltie of William the firſt, was driven out of England, and went with his Wife to Ierusalem, leauing behind him one daughter, named Lutā, who maried Robert Earle of Leicester, in Anno 1103.

Hugh Bigot, (Sonne and heire of Roger Bigot, Sewer to King Henrie the firſt, and Adeliza his Wife, daughter and co-heire of Hugh Grentmeſnell, Lord Steward of England) a Noble Baron of this Realme, and Steward of the house to King Henrie the firſt, being preſent at the death of the ſaid King, teſtified vpon his Oath, before the Archbifhop of Canterbury, and other the Nobilitie of this Realme, that King Henrie the firſt, willed vpon his death-bed: that Stephen his Nephew, and not Mauld the Empreſſe (his daughter) ſhould ſucceed him in the Kingdome of England. For which Oath, King Stephen, in the firſt yeare of his Reigne,

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Reigne, made this Hugh Earle of Norfolke. (Tho. Walsingham Tpodigma Neuftrie, pag. 38.) Hee married Inlian, daughter of Alberick de Vere, the Kings Chamberlaine ; and had issue, Roger Bigot, after Earle of Norfolke ; and William, a second sonne. He died in the foure and twentietieth yeare of King Henry the second, 1177. and was buried in the Priorie of S. Bennets, in Thetford.

Et portoit, d'or à la croix de gueulles.

Roger Bigot, Earle of the East Angles, or Norfolke, the second of that surname, in the yeare 1215, with diuers other Noblemen of the Realme, did require of King John, to haue the ancient Lawes of Saint Edward the Confessor renewed and confirmed vnto them; which being denyed, they put themselues into Armes, and sent for Lewis (Philip) the French Kings fonne, promising to make him King of England. At whose request he came, and landed in the Isle of Thanet in Kent, the one and twentieth day of May, 1216, and comming to London, there had fealtie Sworne vnto him by the said Noblemen. So that through all England, was nothing but killing and firing, vntill it chanced, the Viscount of Melyn, a Nobleman of France (which came with Lewis into England) to fall very sicke in the Citie of London, who feeling death to approach, called vnto him certaine of the Barons of England, vnto whom he vttered these words: I am sorry (said he) Brethren, for your subuerfion and desolation, whereof you are ignorant; for Lewis, and sixteene of the Earles and Barons with him, haue Sworne, That if it be his chance to subdue England, and to be crowned King, he would banish out of the Realme all those Noblemen which now take his part, as Traytors to their King. A little while after, King John died, and Henry his fonne became King, and made an agreement with his Nobles, whereby Lewis was faine to abandon and leaue England, and goe into France backe againe.

This Roger married Isabell, daughter of Hamelyn Plantagenet, (bafe fonne of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Earle of Anioye) Earle Warren and Surrey, and had issue, Hugh Bigot, Earle of Norfolke, and others. Hee died, and was buried at Thetford.

Hugh

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Hugh Bigot, sonne of Roger aforesaid, after the death of his father, was the third Earle of Norfolke of that surname; and married Mauld, the eldest daughter of William Marshall, the elder Earle of Penbroke, and Marshall of England, and one of the fiue fifters and co-heires of William Marshall and his foure brothers, all Earles of Penbroke, and Marshals of England; and had issue, three fonnes and one daughter: Roger, the eldest fonne, was after his father, Earle of Norfolke, and Marshall of England; Hugh, the second fonne, was Chiefe Iustice of England, and was plaine at Lewes, in the yeare 1264. Ralphe Bigot, the third fonne, married Bertha, daughter of the Lord Furniuall, and had issue, John and Isabell, who was first married to Gilbert Lacie, of Meth in Ireland; and after, to John Fitz-Geffrey, a Baron; and Isabell, the daughter of this Hugh the Earle, was married to Hugh de Albeneio, Earle of Arundell. The partition of Marshals Lands, was made in the one and thirtieth yeare of King Henry the third; whereof this Mauld had for her part, a thousand one hundred and twentie pounds per annum, with the Office and Rod of Marshall of England, and the Manor and Castle of Chepstow, or Strigull in Wales. She ouer-lued her husband; and in the said one and thirtieth of Henry the third, she gaue the Office and Rod of the Marshallship to Roger her eldest fonne, who was then Earle of Norfolke, and Marshall of England: and as Matthew Paris hath, this Hugh died at London, the ninth of King Henry the third, 1225.

Milles hath, pag. 504. That he hath seene diuers Charters of this Hughes, signed and sealed with a Seale of a Lion passant upon the same. Which I greatly maruell at; considering, that both the said Hugh, and Roger his father, did use and beare in their Shields and Seales, a plaine Crosse; which is grauen in Stone, and painted on the North side of the Cathedral Church (or Minster) at Westminster, in the time of King Henry the third, with many other Noblemens Armes, who liued in that time. And further, I speake of my owne knowledge, that neuer any of this Noble Family of Bigots did ener giue other Coat of Armes, then Gold, a Crosse Gueulles, before they married with Marshals daughter, and were Marshals of England: At which time, they did affume and take a Coat, used by William Marshall Earle of Penbroke, and his fonnes (who were all Marshals of England) for the Office of Marshall; which was, party per pale Or, & Verte, a Lion rampant gueulles: whose Ancestors, before they came to be Marshall of England, did use in their Seales for their Armes, Gueulles a bend fuzelle d'or.

And thus much haue I thought good here to mention, because I see in diuers Noblemens Armes, defcended of the said Bigot, a wrong Coat quartered, neuer used by that Family.

Roger

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Roger Bigot, fonne and heire of Hugh Bigot, and Mauld Marshall, was the fourth Earle of Norfolke, and first Marshall of England, of that Family. To this Roger was granted the Marshallhip of England, by Mauld his mother, presently after the death of Anfelme Marshall, Earle of Penbroke, (the first and youngest fonne of William Marshall the elder, Earle of Penbroke, and Marshall of England, about the one and thirtieth yeare of King Henry the third) And at the Coronation of Queene Elianor, Wife of King Henry the third, hee made his clayme, to execute the Office of High Steward of England (which hee claymed in right of Adeliza, his great grandmother, daughter and coheire of Hugh Grentmefnell, High Steward of England :) Which was gaine-faide by Simon Mountfort, Earle of Leicesters; for that it was alledged by the said Simon, That at the Coronation of King John, there was an agreement made betweene their Ancestors, viz. That Robert, Earle of Leicesters Ancestor, should pay and giue vnto Roger Bigots Ancestor ten Knights Fees for the fame; of which, there were but seuen and a halfe payd. Which variance the King tooke into his owne hands, and adjudged Simon Mountfort to execute the Office of High Steward; and that Roger Bigot should bring his Action for the other two Knights Fees and a halfe, remaining vnpayd.

This Roger married Ifabell, daughter of William King of Scots, and fister of King Alexander; and died of a bruife, running at Tilt, without issue, Anno 1269, leauing Roger his nephew (fonne of Hugh his brother) to succeed him in his Earledome.

*Et portoit, party pale d'or, & de vert, au Lion rampant de gueulles.*

Roger Bigot, the first Earle of Norfolke of that Family, and Marshall of England, nephew to Roger the fourth Earle of Norfolke, by Hugh Bigot, Chiefest Justice of England, his brother. This Roger Bigot, Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Glocefter, and Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, and Constable of England, were commanded by King Edward the first, to goe with him into Aquitaine, to the aide of Guy, Earle of Flanders, (whom Charles, the brother of Philip King of France, had at S. Omers in France, a little before, ouercome in single Combate) which they denyed, except hee would put in vse, and restore to his subiects, the Lawes of Magna Charta; which the said King refused to doe: and going on his journey without them, to the aide of the said Guy,

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Guy, againft the French King; at his returne backe againe (for puniſh-
ment of these Noblemens contempt) firſt hee caused Gilbert de Clare,
Earle of Gloceſter, to marry Ioane of Acres, the ſaid Kings daughter,
without any Dowry: And Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, to marry
Elizabeth, the Widdow of Iohn, Earle of Holland, another of the ſaid
Kings daughters, with the like conditions. And that this Roger Bigot,
Earle of Norfolke, ſhould ſurrender and deliuer vp into the Kings hands
all his Lands in England, Wales, and Ireland, with the Office of Mar-
ſhall of England; referuing vnto himſelfe an eſtate for terme of life, with
a thouſand pound more encreaſe, which the ſaid King would allow him;
with this prouiso, That if the ſaid Roger had iſſue lawfully begotten, then
he ſhould without all contradiction receiue all from the ſaid King againe,
with the encreaſe of a thouſand pounds per annum from the King. Hee
married two Wiues: the firſt was Alyne, daughter of Philip Baffet, and
Widdow of Hugh de Spencer, Iuſtice of England. His ſecond Wife was
Alice, daughter of Iohn de Auenne, Earle of Henault; and died without
iſſue, in the yeare 1305. And by an Inquifition taken the fourth of De-
cember, the ſiue and thirtieth of King Edward the firſt, Iohn Bigot was
found to be his brother and heire. After the death of this Roger Bigot,
Earle of Norfolke, King Edward the firſt did giue the Office of the Mar-
ſhallip of England, to Thomas of Brotherton, his firſt ſonne; whom King
Edward the ſecond did create Earle of Norfolke.

Et portoit, party pale d'or & de vert, au Lion rampant
de gueulles.

Thomas of Brotherton, firſt ſonne of King Edward
the firſt, begotten of Margaret his ſecond Wife,
daughter of Philip the third King of France; after
the death of Roger Bigot, the firſt Earle of Norfolke of
that name, was in the ninth yeare of King Edward the
ſecond, his halsſe brother, created Earle of Norfolke, and
made Marſhall of England. Hee married Katherine,
daughter of Sir Roger Halys of Harwich, Knight; and
had iſſue, Edward and Margaret: Edward was, after
his father, Earle of Norfolke and Suffolke, and Mar-
ſhall of England, and died the Kings Ward, the fame
yeare his father died; leauing Margaret his ſifter and
heire: who was firſt married to Iohn Lord Segraue; and after, to Sir Wal-
ter Manye, Knight. By the Lord Segraue ſhe had iſſue, Elizabeth and Anne;
Elizabeth was married to Iohn Lord Mowbray; and Anne was Lady Ab-
beſſe at Barking in Eſſex. By Sir Walter Manye ſhe had iſſue, Thomas and
Margaret; Thomas was in his youth drowned in a Well, at Detaford in
Kent; and Margaret was married to Iohn Lord Haſtings, Earle of Pen-
broke,

NORFOLKE.

broke, and Lord of Aburgauenny. This Thomas by his Deed, bearing date the Seventh of King Edward the third, did give and confirme to William Lord Mountague the Countie of Catherlagh, with all the Caftles, Iles, Mannors, Townes, and Lands, with their appurtenances in Ireland, and the Mannor of Hampfted Marshall, in the Countie of Berkshire, To haue and to hold to him for terme of life, &c. The remainder to William, Sonne of the said William, and Alice his Wife, daughter of the foresaid Earle. These being witnesse; John, Earle Warren and Surrey; Thomas Beauchampe, Earle of Warwicke; Richard, Earle of Arundell, and others. He died, and was buried in the Abbey of St. Edmondsbury in Suffolk, in the yeare 1338.

Et portoit, d'Engleterre, au lambell d'argent.

Margaret, daughter and sole heire of Thomas of Brotherton aforesaid, was (for the greateste of her Birth, her large Reuennues and Wealth) created Duchesse of Norfolke, for terme of her life, in the one and twentieth yeare of King Richard the second; at whose Coronation, shee exhibited her Petition in these words:

To the right honourable Lord, the King of Caftile
and Legeons, Duke of Lancafter, and Steward of Eng-
land. Humbly beseecheth (Margaret, daughter and
heire of Thomas of Brotherton, late Earle of Nor-
folke, and Marshall of England) to be accepted to the
Office of high Marshall, now at the Coronation of
our Soueraigne Lord the King, after the death of the said Thomas her father,
executing it by her Deputie, as Gilbert Strongbowe, Earle of Penbroke, did
at the Coronation of King Henry the second: That is to say, to appease the
Debates in the Kings House, the day of his Coronation, and to make deliue-
rance of all Lodgings, &c. Taking of euery Earle, Baron, and Gentlemen,
made Knights of the Bath that day, a Palfrey and Saddle, &c.

Shee married two Husbands, and had iffue by them both, as before is
mentioned; and died the foure and twentieth of March, 1399. and was
buried at the Fryars Minors in London.

Et portoit, les armoiries d'Engleterre au lambell d'argent.

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Thomas

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Thomas Lord Mowbray, (sonne of John Lord Mowbray, and Elizabeth his Wife, daughter and heire of Margaret, Duchesse of Norfolke, and John Lord Segraue, her husband) after the death of John Lord Mowbray, Earle of Nottingham, and Marshall of England, his brother ; was by King Richard the second, created Duke of Norfolke, 1397. and the first Earle Marshall of England (for before this time they were but Lord Marshals.) This Thomas, with Henry of Bullingbrooke, Earle of Derby, and Duke of Hereford, was banisbed the Realme, in the two and twenty yeare of King Richard the second, becaufe hee the said Henry had complained vnto this Thomas Lord Mowbray, of the Kings euill gouernment ; of all which, this Thomas made the King acquainted with : and thereupon the King called Duke Henry before him, demanding the truth thereof; which Henry floutly denyed the accufation, praying to haue the Combate of his accufer : Thomas Mowbray maintained what before hee had affirmed, and accepted the Challenge. Whereupon the King granted their requefls, and signed a day for triall thereof. At which time, the King being well aduised by his Councell, forbid the said Combate, and banisbed Duke Henry for ten yeares; and Thomas for all the dayes of his life : who trauelling into Italy, and after to Venice, died there with griefe, in the yeare 1400. the first of King Henry the fourth, and was there buried. This Thomas his banifhment, was pronounced that day twelue-moneth that hee had caufed the good Duke of Glocefter to bee smothered at Callis (as Thomas Walsingham affirmeth.)

Hee married two Wives: The first was Elizabeth, daughter of the
Lord Strange, by whom hee had no issue. His second Wife was Elizabeth,
second and one of the heires of Thomas Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell; by
whom hee had issue, Thomas Lord Mowbray, beheaded at Yorke, with
Richard Scrope, Arch-bishop of Canterbury, in the yeare 1405. John the
second Sonne, was Duke of Norfolke; Margaret the eldest daughter,
was married vnto Sir Robert Howard, Knight, father of John Duke of Nor-
folke; Ifabell the second daughter, was first married vnto Henry Ferrars
of Grobie, and after to Sir James Berkeley Knight, father of William, Mar-
queſſe Berkeley.

Et portoit, gneulles au Lion rampant d'argent, armé &
lampasse d'azur.

John

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John Lord Mowbray, Knight of the Garter, second sonne of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolke, (and younger brother of Thomas, beheaded at Yorke, who was commonly called Earle Marffall, and by no other Name or Title) was restored to the Earledomes of Nottingham and Surrey, in the first yeare of King Henry the fifth, with the Office of Earle Marffall. And in the fourth yeare of the fifth Kings Reigne, at a Parliament held at Westminister, the King was dubbed Knight, by John Duke of Somerset, then Regent of France, and this John Mowbray restored to be Duke of Norfolke. He married Katherine, daughter of Ralphe Neuill, first Earle of Westmerland, and of Ioane his wife, daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafter; by whom he had issue, John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolke; and after died at his Mannor of Epleworth, in the Isle of Axholme, 1434. and was buried in the Charter-house of Carthusians there.

John Lord Mowbray, Knight of the Garter, sonne of John aforefaid, was after the death of his father, Duke of Norfolke, Earle Marffall and Nottingham, Lord Segraue, and of Gower. He married Elianor, daughter of William Lord Bourchier, and fifth of Henry Bourchier, Earle of Efflex; and had issue, John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolke. He died in the first yeare of King Edward the fourth, 1461. and lyeth buried in the Abbey of Thetford.

Et portoit, de gueulles au Lion rampant d'argent, armé & lampasse d'azur.

John Lord Mowbray, Knight of the Garter, sonne of John aforefaid, and Elianor Bourchier his wife, was in the life time of his father, created Earl Warren and Surrey, by King Henry the fifth; and after his father's death, he was also Duke of Norfolke, Earle Marffall of England, and Earle of Nottingham, Lord Segraue, and Bruse of Gower. Hee married Elizabeth, daughter of John Talbot, first Earle of Shrewsbury; and had issue, one only daughter his heire, named Anne, who was married to Richard Duke of Yorke, second sonne to King Edward the fourth, and died without issue.

Y 2

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This *Iohn* died in the fifteenth yeare of King *Edward* the fourth, 1475, at his Castle of Framingham, and was buried in the Abbey of Thetford. His Inheritance was equally diuided betweene the *Howards* and *Berkleyes*, who were defcended of *Margaret* and *Isabel*, daughters of *Thomas Mowbray*, Duke of Norfolke, before mentioned.

*Et portoit, gueulles au Lion rampant d'argent arme & lampaffe d'azur.*

Richard, Duke of Yorke, second sonne of King Edward the fourth, married Anne, daughter and onely heire of Iohn, Lord Mowbray, the laft Duke of Norfolke, and Marfhall of England of that name; in whose right he was Duke of Norfolke, and Earle Marfhall of England. This Richard, with his brother King Edward the first, was, by the vnnaturall and cruell command of Richard, Duke of Glocefter, their Vnckle, most barbarously murdered in the Tower of London, in the yeare 1483. leauing no issue.

*Et portoit, France eſcartelle d'Engleterre, au lambe d'argent, chargee de neuf torteaux.*

Iohn Howard, Knight of the Garter, (sonne of Robert Howard, Knight, and of Margaret his wife, daughter and co-heire of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolke) was first made Baron by King Edward the fourth 1461. And after, by King Richard the third, created Duke of Norfolke, the eight and twentieth of June, 1483. He married two wiues, the first was Katherine, daughter of William, Lord Molins, by whom he had issue, Thomas Howard, Earle of Surrey, and Duke of Norfolke, and foure daughters; Anne, the first daughter, was married to Edmond Gorge, Knight; Isabel, married to Robert Mortimer of Efſex, Knight; Jane, married to John Timperley, Efquire; and Margaret, was married to John Windham of Crowhirst in Norfolke, Knight. This Iohns second wife, was Margaret, daughter of Sir John Chedworth, Knight, by whom he had issue, Katherine, married to John Bourchier, Lord Berners, who had issue, three daughters and heires; Ioane, Margaret, and Mary. This Iohn, Duke of Norfolke, was flaine at Bofworth field, in the aide of King Richard the third, on Munday, the two and twentieth of Auguſt, 1485.

*Et portoit, de gueulles a la bande entre fix croix reeroifetees, au pied fiche d'argent.*

Thomas

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Thomas Howard, sonne and heire of John, Duke of Norfolke aforefaid, was created Earle of Surrey, in the firft yeare of King Richard the third, and Lord Treasurer of England, in the fixteenth yeare of King Henrie the seuenth; and was made Duke of Norfolke, at the Bishop of Canterbury houſe at Lambeth, 1513. the firſt of King Henrie the eight. And for an Honour and augmentation to his Armes, he had giuen him by the faid King. In medio Armors prefati Ducis proprii nominis, viz. Scuto de Howard: Integram medietatem ſuperioris patris Leonis Rubeo, ſagitta ore confefi de pietati & rectis coloribus armorum regni Scotiae: He married two wiues, the firſt was Elizabeth, daughter and ſole heire of Sir Fredericke Tilney, Knight, and had iſſue, Thomas, after Duke of Norfolke; Edward, ſlaine at Breſt, without iſſue; Edmond Howard, who married Joyce, daughter of Richard Culpeper of Kent, (and had iſſue, Katherine, wife to King Henrie the eight) Elizabeth, wife to Thomas Bullen, Earle of Wiltshire; and Muriel, married to John Grey, Viscount Liffe. His ſecond wife was Agnes, daughter of Philip Tilney, Esquire, by whom hee had iſſue also, William Howard, Baron of Effingham, and Admirall of England, Lord Chamberlaine to Queen Elizabeth, Knight of the Garter, and Lord priuie Seale; Thomas Howard, that died in the Tower of London; Dorothy, married to Edward Stanley, Earle of Derby; Anne, wife to John Vere, Earle of Oxford; Elizabeth, married to Henrie Rudcliffe, Earle of Suffex; and Katherine, firſt married to Rice ap Griffith of Wales, and after to Henrie Dawbeny, Earle of Bridgewater. This Thomas, Duke of Norfolke, died in the fixteenth yeare of the reigne of King Henrie the eight, and was buried in the Monafterie at Thetford, 1524.

*Et portoit, de gueulles a la bande a fix croix recroijettees fitchez d'argent.*

Thomas Howard, sonne and heire of Thomas, Duke of Norfolke aforefaid, was in the life time of his father created Earle of Surrey, for terme of life, by Letters Patents, bearing date the firſt of Februarie, in the firſt yeare of King Henrie the eight; and after his fathers death he was Duke of Norfolke, Earle Marſhall of England, Lord Mowbray, Segraue and Brufe of Gower, &c. He married two wiues, the firſt was Anne, daughter to King Edward the fourth, by whom hee had iſſue, Thomas, who died young without iſſue, and was buried at Lambeth. His ſecond wife, was Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham,

Y 3

NOTTINGHAM.

Thomas, Lord Mowbray, Knight of the Garter, younger brother of John, Lord Mowbray aforesaid, was after his brothers death, made Earle of Nottingham, the fixt of Richard the second, and after that, he was made the first Earle Marshall by Letters Patents, as followeth:

RICHARD, By the grace of GOD, King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, &c. Know yee, that of late of Our speciall grace, Wee haue graunted to Our well-beloued Cousin, Thomas, Earle of Nottingham, the Office of Marshall of England, to haue during his life; Wee do now of Our more abundant Grace, graunt to Our foresaid Cousin the foresaid Office, together with the Name and Honour of Earle Marshall, to haue to him, and to his Hcires Males of his body descending, with all Fees, Profits, and Appurtenances whatsoeuer to the said Office belonging.

These being Witnesses, William, Archbifhop of Canterbury, Prince of all England; R. London; William Winton, Bifhops; John, King of Caftile and Lions, Duke of Lancafter; Richard of Yorke; Thomas of Glocefter, Duke, Our beloued Vnckle; Richard Arundell; Hugh Stafford; Michael de la Pole, Our Chancellor, Earles; Hugh Segraue, Our Treasurer; John Mountague, Steward of Our Houfe, and others. Dated at Westminster the twelfth of Ianuarie, in the ninth year of Our Reigne. Laftly, in the one and twentieth yeare of the said Kings Reigne, hee was created Duke of Norfolke, and permitted to beare the Armes of King Edward the Confessor. After all which fauours, King Richard the second banifhed this Thomas, with Henrie of Lancafter, Duke of Hereford; Vpon which, he tooke ſuch exceeding grieſe, that hee died at Venice, and was bued there, in the Abbey of Saint George, in the firſt yeare of King Henrie the fourth. Hee married Elizabeth, ſifter and one of the co-heires of Thomas Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell, and had iſſue, Thomas and John, both Earles of Nottingham, and Dukes of Norfolke; Isabel, married to Sir James Berkeley, Knight; and Margaret, married to Sir Robert Howard, Knight. Hee writ in his ſtile, Thomas, Duke of Norfolke, Earle of Nottingham, and Earle Marshall of England, Lord Mowbray, Segraue, Bruſe of Gower and Stuteuile.

Et portoit, d'azure au croix patee enter quint Mertelots d'or,
impaled with the Armes of Mowbray, gueules au Lion
rampant d'argent.

Z

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Thomas Mowbray, (after the death of Thomas his father, in banishment at Venice) was Lord Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, Earle of Nottingham, and Earle of Marshall of England. Hee married Lady Constance, daughter of John Holland, Earle of Huntington, and Duke of Excester, but by her had no issue. Hee was after found guilty of high Treason, and for the fame was beheaded, with Richard Scrope, Arch-Bishop of Yorke, in the fixt yeare of King Henrie the fourth, and his body was buried at Yorke, 1405.

Et portoit, de gueulles au Lion rampant d'argent arme
& lampasse d'azur.

John, Lord Mowbray, (second brother of Thomas Mowbray, beheaded at Yorke) was Earle of Nottingham, and Earle Marshall of England; and in the fourth yeare of King Henrie the fixt, hee was created Duke of Norfolk. Hee married Katherine, daughter of Ralph Neuill, first Earle of Westmerland, and had issue, John, Lord Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, Earle of Nottingham, and Earle Marshall of England, Lord Segraue, and Bruse of Gower, &c. and died at his Mannor of Epleworth, in the Isle of Axholme, and was buried in the Abbey or House of Carthusians there, in the yeare 1432.

Et portoit, les armoiries de son frere.

John, Lord Mowbray, sonne of John aforefaid, was after the death of his father, Duke of Norfolk, Earle of Nottingham, and Earle Marshall of England, Lord Segraue, and Bruse of Gower. He married Elianor, daughter of William, Lord Bourchier, and sister of Henrie Bourchier, Earle of Eglise, by whom he had issue, John, Earle Warren and Surrey, and after Duke of Norfolk, and died in the first yeare of King Edward the fourth, 1461. and lyeth buried at Thetford.

John

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John, Lord Mowbray, (sonne and heire of John and Elianor Bourchier) in the life time of his father, was created Earle Warren and Surrey, by King Henrie the first; and after the death of his father, hee was Duke of Norfolke, Earle of Nottingham, and Earle Marshall of England, Lord Segraue, and of Gower. Hee married Elizabeth, daughter of John Talbot, first Earle of Shrewsbury of that name, and had issue, one only daughter and heire, named Anne, married to Richard, Duke of Yorke, second sonne of King Edward the fourth, who died both without issue, leaving all the Mowbrayes Lands and Liuings, to bee diuided betweene the two Families of Howards and Berkleyes. Hee dyed at Framingham Castle, in the yeare 1475, and vvas buried with his Aunceftors at Thetford.

William, Lord Berkley, of Berkley Castle in Glocestershire, (sonne of James, Lord Berkley, and of Isabel his wife, daughter of Thomas, Lord Mowbray, Duke of Norfolke, by Elizabeth his wife; fifth and one of the heires of Thomas Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell) was created Viscount Berkley, the one and twentieth of King Edward the fourth: And the first yeare of King Richard the third, Earle of Nottingham, and in the first yeare of King Henrie the Seuenth, hee was made Earle Marshall of England, to him and his Heires male; after all which, in the fourth yeare of King Henrie the Seuenth, hee was created Marqueffe Berkley; hee married Anne, daughter of John Fynes, Lord Dares of the South, and died without issue, the Seuenth of King Henry the Seuenth, and was buried in the Augustine Friars in London, giving to the said King, most part of his Lands.

Et portoit, de gueulles au Cheuron accompaigne de dix croix formies d'argent.

Z 2

Henric

258

A Catalogue of the Earles of
Oxford, with their Armes,
Wiues, and Children.

A
Vbrey de Vere, (sonne of Aubrey de Vere,
Chamberlaine to King Henrie the firft,
Portgraua of London, and Chiefe-Iu-
ftice vnder King Henrie the firft, flaine
by the Commons in London, in the
yeare 1140. defcended from the Earles of Guifnes,and
that Sur-name from Vere, a Towne in Zeland, (as Ma-
fter Camden hath, others in Normandie) was by King
Henrie the ſecond, and Mauld the Emprefſe his mo-
ther, reſtored firſt to the Chamberlainſhip of England,
and the Portgrauelſhip of London (which he had loft
before in the ciuill warres) and after had giuen him the

choife of foure Earledomes in England, viz. Oxford, Huntington, Cam-
bridgehire, and Wilts, with this condition, That if Dauid of Scotland
did challenge the Earledomes of Huntington and Cambridge, hee should
not haue either of them; and for that the faid Dauid did challenge Hun-
tington and Cambridge, as his due and right Inheritance, the faid Aubrey
made his choife to take Oxford: In which Earledome, when the faid Hen-
rie the ſecond came to the Crowne, hee by his Charter did confirme and
make the faid Aubrey, Earle of Oxford. This Aubrey married Adelizia,
daughter of Henrie of Eſſex, Baron of Raleigh, the Kings Conſtable, by
whom he had iſſue, Aubrey and Robert Vere, both Earles of Oxford one
after another; and a daughter named Roheſia, firſt Counteſſe of Salisbu-
rie, and after wife to Geſſrey Magnauile, Earle ot Eſſex; and laſtly, ſhee
married Paganus de Beauchamp, Baron of Bedford: Shee founded the
Church, and built the Towne of Royſton. This Aubrey, the firſt Earle
of Oxford, died in the yeare 1194. the fixt of King Richard the firſt.

Et portoit, eſcartelle de gueulles & d'or, le premier canton,
charge d'une Molette d'argent.

Aubrey

OXFORD.

259

Aubrey de Vere, sonne of Aubrey aforefaid, was after the death of his father, the second Earle of Oxford, and Lord high Chamberlaine of England. This Aubrey did confirme the Gift of sept. liberatis terræ, which Aubrey his father did giue to the Ca- nons of Saint Edith (or Eſith) in Eſſex; and married Adelizia, daughter of Roger Bigot, Earle of Nor- folke, by whom hee had no issue. Hee died in the yeare 1214.

Robert Vere, the third Earle of Oxford, and great
Chamberlaine of England, brother of Aubrey the
second aforefaid, payd a fine of one thousand Markes
to King John, in the fixteenth yeare of his Reigne, for
the feizure of those Lands, which lately were of the
Inheritance of Earle Aubrey, his elder brother ; and
thereby was feized of the Castles of Heueningham
and Caneuil, with their appurtenances, and had also
giuen him the Wardlship of William Fitz-Otho, to be-
ftow in marriage with his Niece. Notwithstanding all
which fauours, hee tooke part with the Barons, who
maintained Lewis, the French Kings sonne, againſt
King Henry the third, in the yeare 1215. He married Isabell, daughter and
heire of Hugh Lord Bulbec, of Bulbec Castle in Buckinghamlhire, and of
Swefham Bulbec in Cambridgelhire, (grand-child of Hugh Lord Bulbec,
Founder of Woburne Abbey in Bedfordlhire, by his sonne Walter;) and
had issue, Hugh de Vere, Earle of Oxford, and Sir Henry Vere, Knight ; of
whom the Lord Mordant and others are defcended. Hee had issue also
one daughter, named Isabell, married to Sir John Courtney, Knight, great
grand-father of Sir Hugh Courtney, firſt Earle of Deuonlhire of that name.
Shee founded the Preaching-Fryars in Oxford, and lyeth there buried,
in Anno 1245. This Robert also founded the Priorie of Hatfield Brodoke
in Eſſex, where hee lyeth buried croſſe-legged, in the yeare 1221. with
this Epitaph:

Sir Robert Vere the first, and third Earle of Oxford, lyeth here. God, if hee please, haue mercie of his Soule. Who soeuer shall pray for his Soule, shall obtaine fortie dayes pardon.

His Armes depicted vpon his Shield or Pauice, is Gold, a quarter of France Seme, charged with a Molet Argent.

Hugh

OXFORD.

261

Robert de Vere, the third of that name, fonne and heire of Robert the second, was after the death of his father, the fixt Earle of Oxford, Lord Bulbec, Samford, and great Chamberlaine of England; and was called, *The good Earle of Oxford*. Hee was sent by King Edward the first into Aquitaine, with an Arme, to relieve his people againft the French. Hee married Margaret, daughter of Roger Lord Mortimer, and fifth of Roger, first Earle of March; and died without issue, in the yeare 1331. and was buried at Colne in Essex.

*Et portoit, gueulles, escartelle d'or, le premier brise
de vn molette d'argent.*

John de Vere, fonne of Sir Alphons de Vere, Knight, and Nephew and heire of Robert and Hugh, his Vnkes, whom hee succeeded; was the Seuenth Earle of Oxford, Lord Bulbec, Samford, and great Chamberlaine of England. Hee married Mauld, daughter of Bartholmew Badelifmer, Baron of Leeds in Kent, and fifth and one of the heires of Giles Lord Badelifmer, her brother; by whom hee had issue, three fonnes and two daughters, viz.: Thomas and Aubrey, both Earles of Oxford; and John Vere, third fonne, died without issue. Margaret, the eldest daughfer, was first married to Henry Lord Beaumont, and after to Sir John Deuereux, Knight; Isabell, the second daughfer, was first married to Sir John Courtney, Grand-father of Hugh, the first Earle of Deuonshire, of that Family; and after, to Sir Oliuier Dynham, Knight.

This John, Earle of Oxford, died in the three and thirtieth yeare of
King Edward the third, 1358.

*Et portoit, de gueulles, escartelle d'or, le premier brise
de vn molette d'argent.*

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262

Thomas de Vere, fonne and heire of John aforesaid,
after the death of his fatler, was the eight Earle
of Oxford, Lord Bulbec, Samford, and Lord great
Chamberlaine of England; and married Matilda,
daughter and heire of Sir Ralphe Vfford, Knight, Lord
Chiefe Justice of England, vnder King Edward the
third; and had issue, Robert de Vere, Earle of Oxford,
Marqueſſe of Dublin, and Duke of Ireland; and after
died at Bentley in Eſſex, the eighteenth day of Sep-
tember, the ſiue and fortieth of King Edward the third.
But Thomas Walfingham hath, he died 1359.

Robert de Vere, the fourth of that name, and ninth
Earle of Oxford; at eight yeares of age, was
Lord Bulbec, Samford, and great Chamberlaine of
England: And to augment his Honor, King Richard
the ſecond, in the eight yeare of his Reigne, created
him Marqueſſe of Dublyn, and gaue him a thouſand
Markes Lands by the yeare, with the Caſtle of Flynt
in Wales; (and this was the firſt Marqueſſe that was
made in England:) Alſo hee gaue to him the ſonne
and heire of Charles de Bloys, then a Prisoner; for
whose redemption, hee had twentie thouſand pounds:
and in the tenth yeare of the ſaid Kings Reigne, hee
was made Duke of Ireland. After all which, the King
graunted him by Letters Patents, to hold the Kingdome and Sou-
eraightie of Ireland, and to beare for his Armes, Azure, three Crowns
Gold, within a bordure Argent, quartered before his owne Coat. Hee was
much hated of the Nobilitie, for abuſing the Kings eares, to the hurt of
the State. Hee married Philip, daughter of Ingelram de Guifues, Lord
of Coucie, and Earle of Bedford, by Ifabell his Wife, daughter of King
Edward the third; whom hee diuorced, and tooke to Wife Lantegronia,
a meane Woman, that came with the Queene out of Bohemia, but had
no issue by eyther of them. At laſt hee was banifhed England by the
Barons, and went into France; where, about ſiue yeares after, being a
hunting, hee was ſlaine by a wilde Boare. (But Walfingham hath, That
hee died in Louaine, in Brabant, in great anguifh of minde, and of mi-
ſerable penurie, and was buried at Earles Colne, 1395.) King Richard
hearing thereof, out of his loue cauſed his body to bee brought into
England,

OXFORD.

264

I, John de Vere, the second of that name, fonne and heire of Richard aforesaid, was after the death of his father, the twelfth Earle of Oxford, Lord Bulbec and Samford. Hee married Elizabeth, daughter and heire of Sir John Howard, Knight; and had iffue, Aubrey de Vere; John de Vere, Earle of Oxford; George Vere, Knight, that died before his brother; Richard and Thomas, Knights: Mary, a Nunne at Barking in Essex; Ioane, married to Sir William Norris of Yatterden, Knight; and Elizabeth was married to William Bourchier, fonne and heire of Henry Bourchier, Earle of Effex. This John was one of the Noblemen, that withstood and gain-fayd the Lords Spirituall, for place and precedencie in Parliament, in King Henry the fixts time; which Controuerſie is entred on the back-side of the Parliament Roll thus:

Memorandum, The Lords Spirituall alledged in that Parliament, That for so much as they were Spirituall Barons, they ought to haue of right the precedent place of the Lords Temporall; For (said they) it was well knowne, how farre things ſpirituall exceed temporall. To which, the Barons Temporall anſwered; That whatſoever right or privilege they had or could challenge, it came from them, and their Aunceſtors, and their Almes-deedes, who had beene the worthie Founders and Benefactors of the ſaid Lords Spirituall: And further ſaid, That it was an vnſeemely thing, for Masters to be inferiors to their Seruants. Befides, the Lords Temporall further affirmed, That they were defcended of Honourable and Noble Families, and ſo were not the Spirituall Barons. Which matter being well vnderstood, and indifferently weighed, the Lords Temporall preuailed, and had place and precedencie giuen them.

This John, with Aubrey his eldeſt fonne, Sir Thomas Tudenham, Knight, William Tirrell, and John Montgomery, Esquires, were attainted, and at ſeuerall times beheaded at Tower-Hill, neere London, the fix and twentieth of February, 1461.

This John, and his fonne Aubrey, were buried in the Augustine
Fryars in London.

*Et portoit, de guenilles eſcartelle d'or, le primier brife de vn
molette d'argent.*

John

268

A Catalogue of the Earles of
Penbroke, their Armes, Wiues,
and Children.

G
ilbert, fur-named Strongbowe, (of drawing
of a Strong Bowe,) ſecond ſonne of Gil-
bert Earle of Clare in Suffolke, and Lord
of Tunbridge in Kent, and grand child of
Richard Fitz-Gilbert (Sewer to VVilliam
Conquerour) and Robeſia his wife, daughter of VValter
Gifford, Earle of Longeuile in Normandy; was created
Earle of Penbroke, in the fourth yeare of King Stephen;
he was alſo Marſhall of the Kings Pallace, and Lord of
Chepſtow, Strighull, Tudenham, Wolaſton, Aluerde-
ſton, and halſe the Countrey of Liège. Hee was heyre
of Roger and VValter Fitz-Richard his Vnckles; which
VValter was a great Baron, and Lord of Caer-went in Monmouthſhire,
and founder of Tinterne Abbey in Wales, 1131. Hee married Elizabeth,
ſifter of VValleran Earle of Mellent, and Robert Earle of Leicefter (twin-
brothers) and had illſue, Richard Strongbow Earle of Penbroke, and Baſſil,
married to Raymond, ſonne of VVilliam Fitz-Gerald of Ireland. ( Speede
would haue this Gilbert to marry the bafe daughter of King Henry the
firſt, which I ſinde no proofe for.) This Gilbert dyed in the ſoureteenth
yeere of King Stephen, and was buried by his vnckle Walter Fitz-Richard,
in the Abbey of Tinterne.

This mans Armes are also greatly miſtaken by ſome, our great Officers of Armes, and made very vntruly in diuerſe Noblemens atchiemements, which I wiſh to be reformed: for theſe here ſet downe were the Armes of his Father.

Et portoit, d'or trois cheurons de guculles, au creſſant pur la Difference.

Richard of Clare, ſonne of Gilbert fur-named Strong-bowe of whom it is ſaid, that this Richard ſtanding vpright, with the Palmes of his hands would touch his knees; he was after his Father, Earle of Penbroke, Lord of Strighull, Chepſtow, and Caer-went, and Lord Marſhall. Dermoc, Mac-Murough, ſonne of Patricke, King of Leinſter in Ireland; whose Subieſts rebelling againſt him, prayed this Richards aide, who beeing a moſt valorous Captaine, granted his requeſt, and went with ſufficient ſtrength, and conquered all Leinſter. In recompence whereof, this Dermoc gaue his daughter

Eua

PENBROKE.

Ena vnto him in marriage, with all the Countrey of Leinfter, (which contained Weslford, Kildare, Kilkenny, Offory, and Carlogh) all which Lands he enioyed with the good liking of King Henry the second, eight whole yeeres. He had iffue, one onely daughter his heire, named *Isabel*, who beeing foureteene yeeres Ward to King Henry the second, was giuen in marriage to *VVilliam Marshall* the elder, Earle of Penbroke. This Richard died, and was buried at Kilkenny, in Anno 1176. and afterwards his body was taken vp againe, and buried at Dublyn in Ireland.

W**William Marshall**, grand-child of *John the Kings Marshall* by his fonne *John*, was brother to *John Marshall* Earle of Warwicke, and *Anselme Marshall*, Ancestor of the Barons of Rye, and Marshalls of Ireland. To this **VVilliam King Richard** the firſt gane *Isabel*, daughter and heire of **Richard Strongbowe**, Earle of Penbroke in marriage, 1189. ſhe being then his Ward, in whose right, King *John on the day of his Coronation*, created him Earle of Penbroke. He had iffue by the ſaid *Isabel*, ſiue ſonnes and ſiue daughters, viz. **VVilliam, Richard, Gilbert, VValter**, and *Anselme*, all Earles of Penbroke, and Marshals of England, and died without iffue. His ſiue daughters were married as followeth: **Matild** the eldeſt, was married to **Hugh Bigot**, Earle of Norfolke, with whom he had in marriage, the Marſhaliſhip of England, and Hemſtedt Marshall in Barkeſhire, by which the ſaid Office is held: **Ioane** the second daughter, was married to **Waryn de Montchenſey**, Lord of Swaneſcamp: *Isabel* the third daughter, was firſt married to *Gilbert de Clare*, Earle of Gloceſter, and after to **Richard Plantagenet**, Earle of Cornwall, younger ſonne of King *John*: *Sibill* the fourth daughter, married **William Ferrars**, Earle of Derby; and Ena, the firſt daughter, was married to **William Bruſe**, Lord of Brecknock. This **William**, after the death of King *John*, had the gouernement of King Henry the third, being but ten yeeres of age, vntill the ſaid **William** died, which was in the yeere, 1219. and was buried in the Temple in London, the fixteenth of March, the fourth of King Henry the third.

This Williams Father did beare for his Armes, Gueulles à la bande fizelle d'or; (as his Seale doth witnesſe.) But after he and his ſonnes came to bee Marshals of England, they vſed for their Armes, D'or party de vert, au lyon rampant de gueulles ſur le tout, arme & lampaffe d'azur.

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Willi-

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W W. of William Marshall the elder, was the fourth Earle of Penbroke, and Marshall of England, Lord of Strighull, Chepstow, Caer-went, Leigh (or Leige) Welhford, Kildare, Kilkenny, Offorie and Carlogh: and married two wives; the first was Alice, daughter and heyre of Baldwin de Betun, Earle of Albemarle and Holderneſſe (by Avis his wife, daughter and heire of William le Groſſe Earle of Albemarle.) His second wife was Elianor, daughter of King John, and fifth of King Henry the third. He died without issue, the fixt of Aprill, 1231. the fifteenth of King Henry the third, and

was buried by his Father, in the new Temple of London, leauing Richard his brother to succeed him.

RICHARD Marshall, second son of William Marshall the elder, who after the death of William his Brother, the fifth Earle of Penbroke, and Marshall of England, Lord of Longevile in France, Strighull, Chepstow, and Caerwent, &c. did giue to the Church of S. Marys of Thame, certaine Woods in Crendon, to pray for his owne Soule, and Geruafia his Wife: (and as Matthew Paris hath) when King Henry the third did, vpon the suggestion of Peter Bilhop of Winchesteſr, remooue all his home-bred Subjeets from their Offices in his Court, and preferre certaine ſtrangers of Poycters in their roomes; this Richard not liking thereof, came boldly vnto the King, in the preſence of many the Nobility and others, and told him, that by ill counſell he had ſent for ſtrangers into the Land, to the great hurt of his Kingdome and Subjeets, to the impeachment of the Lawes and Liberties of this Realme. For redreſſe whereof, he vowed he would fight ſo long as he had any life; and thereupon ioyned league with Luellyn Prince of Wales, and others. But whileſt the King was buſed in leuying an Army, to ſend againſt him & Luellyn, word was brought to this Richard, that Morice Fitz-Gerald, and other Irifh, had ſacked his Countries and Lands in Ireland. Vpon the hearing whereof, hee haſted thither with fifteene Knights, to encounter with his enemies; and ioyned battaile with them vpon Satterday the first of Aprill, 1234. and fought eſleuen houres, vntill his horſe was ſlaine vnder him. And he then falling to the ground, one of the Irifh perceiuing his backe part ill armed, lift vp his habergeon, and thrufft a knife into his backe vp to the haſt, giuing him his deadly wound, and then brought him to a Caſtle of his owne, named Kilkenny, (which the ſaid Maurice Fitz-Gerald had taken a little before from him) where he died fifteene dayes after without issue, hauing beene Earle but

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272

He died at Goderich Castle by Monmouth, the fourth of December, 1245. and was buried at Tynterne Abbey without issue, in the thirtieth year of King Henry the third.

Et portoit, les Armes de son frere.

AN felme Marshall, the fifth sonne of William Marshall the elder, at the time of his brother Walters death, Deane of Salisburie, and after admitted to be Earle of Penbroke, and Marshall of England. Hee married Mauld, daughter of Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, and Constable of England, and died without issue, the two and twentieth of December, being the eighteenth day after the death of his brother Walter, leaving his rich Patrimonie and Inheritance, to bee divided among his fiue fifters and heires before mentioned. I find this Earledome of Penbroke in ancient time, to bee a Countie Palatine, and had all Jurisdiction Regall. And that the Earle had vnder him there, Iustices of his owne, a Sheriffe, Steward, Chancellour, Chamberlaine, Coroner, Exchecher, and diuers other Officers, necessarie for a Regall Jurisdiction, all made and appointed by himselfe. He had Seffions, and Countie Courts monethly, in which Countie Courts were tried all Reall Pleas whatfoeuer, by originall Writ, vnder the Seale and Name of the said Earle; all Fynes were leuied, and recoueries paffed, and all Writs made in the Earles name, (and not in the Kings.) He had power to pardon all offences, and had his Chancerie, Court of Common Pleas, and Exchequer, holden within his Caftle of Penbroke; whereunto all the Inhabitants of that Countrie reforted, for iustice and triall of all their caufes. Hee erected Townes, and incorporated them with many large and ample liberties. He had all manner of forfeitures and escheats whatfoeuer. He had within his Countie, nine Caftles of his owne, and twelue Seigneuries or Manors, which were parcell of his Countie. The Jurisdiction royall of this Earledome, remained and was permitted in the Earles themfelues, from the time of the Norman Conqueſt, vntill the ſeuen and twentieth yeare of King Henry the eight. Whereas all other Earles of this Realme, had loſt their Jurisdictions many hundred yeares before, and had but the bare names of their Earledomes. Also the said Earles of Penbroke, by Office at the Coronations of the Kings of England, were to carry a paire of gilt Spurres. To end; this Countie is called Penbrokeſhire, of the Towne ſo named; for the word Pen (in WELSH) signifieth the head or chiefe part of a thing; and Bro, signifieth a Vale or plaine foyle, fertile and fit to beare Corne, and not Pembroch, as M[arc] Camden in his Britannia, pag. 482. would haue it.

Et portoit, d'or party de vert, au Lyon rampant de gueulles, sur le tout, armé & lampaffe d'azur.

William

PENBROKE.

273

WV

**William de Valence** (so sur-named of the place where he was borne) **sonne of Hugh le Brun**, Earle of the Marcheſſe of Aquitaine, and halfe brother by the mother, to King **Henry** the third; was created Earle of Penbroke, in the yeere 1247. Hee married **Ioane**, daughter and heire of **Warin** Lord Montchency, and **Ioane** his wife, ſecond ſifter and co-heire of **Anſelme Marſhall**, Earle of Penbroke, by whom hee had iſſue, **Aymer de Valence**, Earle of Penbroke, and **Iohn** that died a child; and ſoure daughters, viz. **Isabell**, married to **Iohn**, Lord Haſtings of Aburgauenny (one of the Competitors for the Crowne of Scotland) **Ioane** the ſecond daughter, was married to **Iohn**, Lord Comyn of Badzenoſt (ſonne of **Iohn** Lord Comyn, and **Mary** his wife, daughter of **Iohn Ballioll**) **Agnes** the third daughter, was firſt married to **Maurice Fitz-Gerald**; and after to **Henry Ballioll**, brother of **Alexander Ballioll**, Lord of Chilham, and died without iſſue; **Margaret** was the fourth daughter. This **William de Valence**, and **Ioane** his wife, gaue to the Towne of Tenibie the firſt Charter of incorporating them; licenſing them to chufe euery yeare Port-Reifes: He granted likewife to the Burgeſſes, free Common yearely vpon all his grounds and medowes, from the time of mowing, vnto the Purification of **Mary**; which to this day they enjoy. This **William** died in the yeare 1296. and was buried in a magnificent Tombe, on the South-side of the Abbey at Westminſter, the ſiue and twentieth yeare of King **Edward** the firſt.

*Et portoit, burelle d'argent & d'azur de dix pieces, à l'orle de Marlettes de gueulles.*

A

**Ymer** or **Almericke de Valence**, ſonne and heire of **William de Valence** aforeſaid, and **Ioane** his wife, daughter of **Warin Montchenſey**, Lord of Swanſcampe, was after the death of his father, Earle of Penbroke and Welſhord, and Lord of Montigniac; hee was Lord Gouernour of the Realme of Scotland, vnder King **Edward** the firſt, during the controuerſie between **Iohn Ballioll**, and **Robert Brſe**. He married three wiues, the firſt was **Beatrix**, daughter of **Raphe de Nele**, Conſtable of France: the ſecond was the daughter of the Earle of Barre; and the third was **Mary**, daughter of **Guy de Chaſtillion**, Earle of Saint Paule, but had no iſſue by any of them.

I find that in the yeare 1316. Richard Rodney was made Knight, in the
presence of this Sir Almericke, Earle of Penbroke, who girded him with
the

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of King Edward the third, by whom he had no issue. His second wife was Anne, daughter and heire of Sir Walter Manny, Knight of the Garter, and of Margarets his wife, daughter and heire of Thomas of Brotherton, Earle Marshall of England, by whom hee had issue: John, Lord Haftings and Earle of Penbroke, three yeares old at the death of his father. This John writ himselfe Earle of Penbrocke and Welhford, and was buried in the Priorie of Abergauenny, which was of his foundation.

*Et portoit, les Armes de Jon pere.*

John, Lord Haftings, (fonde of John, Earle of Penbroke, by Anne Manny his wife) after the death of his father, was Earle of Penbroke, Lord Haftings, Welhford and Abergauenny. And becaufe hee was very young, King Edward the third made William Lord Beauchamp, Cuftos of the Countie of Penbroke. And after, being with King Richard the second at Woodstocke, at Christmas, in running at a tournament, was flaine by his good friend, Sir John Saint John, in the yeare 1389. after he had beene Earle fourteene yeares. He married Philip, daughter of Edmond Mortimer the third, Earle of March, but by her had no issue; Hee was buried in the Fryars Minorites, within Newgate

in London: And his inheritance went to his Cousin Sir Edward Haftings, Knight; who, for some displeasure taken against him by the King, was committed to the Fleet, where he died without issue. After whose death, King Richard seized all his Livings into his hands, although afterwards Reginald Grey of Ruthin, made claime to the fame, as next heire; and at the Coronation of King Henry the fourth, carried the gilt Spurres, which belonged of right for the Earle of Penbroke to doe. It is said, that since Aymer de Valence, Earle of Penbroke (who was one of the Peeres that condemned Thomas Earle of Lancafter) to this John's time none of the Earles of Penbroke did liue to see their Sonnes, so vntimely did they die. King Richard the second, in the yeare 1397. did give the Earledome of Penbroke, to his Queene Isabell, and vnder her, Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester, and Lord of Hauerford, was made Cuftos of the Earledome; which they enioyed vntill King Henry the fourth obtained the Crowne, who tooke the fame then into his owne hands.

*Et portoit, escartellé Brotherton, Haftings, Valence, & Brotherton.*

Humphrey

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H Vmfrey Plantagenet, (fourth fonne of King Henry the fourth) was by King Henry the fifth his brother, at a Parliament held at Leicester, the second year of his reigne, created Earle of Penbroke, and shortly after Duke of Glocester. Hee writ in his Hume, fonde and brother to Kings, Duke of Glocefter, Earle of Henault, Holland, Zeland and Penbroke, Lord of Frisia, great Chamberlaine of England, and Defender of the Realme. This was that Duke Hume, who always standing for the Commons, being bountifull to the poore, and seeing Iustice duely executed, was commonly called, The good Duke of Glocester. (I with there were many such Duke Hume now liuing.) This

great Duke and Protector, for withstanding the insolent proceedings of Queen Margarets, wife to King Henry the fifth; at length (by her meanes) was ftrangled to death at Saint Edmondſturie in Suffolke, in the fiue and twentieth yeare of King Henry the fifth, and lieth buried in the Abbey at Saint Albons. Hee married two wiues, the firſt was Iaqueline, daughter and heire of William, Duke of Bauare; and the ſecond wife was Elianor, fifth of Thomas, Lord Cobham of Starborough, but had no issue by either. He had a baſe daughter named Antigone, married vnto Henry Grey, Earle of Tankeruile, and Lord Powis.

Et portoit, France, escartelle d'Engleterre, au bordur d'argent.

W William de la Pole, Lord Wingfield, &c. was created Earle of Penbroke, by Letters Patents, bearing date at Saint Edmondsburie, the third of March, 1446. the fiue and twentieth of King Henry the fixt; which Title and Dignitie hee enioyed not long; for at the next Parliament after, 1450. hee was banifhed England, and in his flying, was taken and beheaded; and his bodie being carried to Wingfield Colledge in Suffolke, was there buried: After whose death the Earledome of Penbroke reuerted againe to the Crowne, where it remayned two yeares. This William married Alice, daughter and heire of Thomas Chaucer, of Newelme in Oxfordshire. Esquire; as in

the Title of Suffolke is more at large.

Et portoit, d'azur à la face & trois teſtes de Leopards d'or.

Jasper

PENBROKE.

After of Hatfield; Knight of the Garter, (sonne of Ota, sonne of Tuder, and Queen Katherine, daughter of Charles the fifth French King, and widow of King Henry the fifth of England) was created Earle of Penbroke, the fixt of March, at a Parliament held at Reading by King Henry the fixt his half brother, in the yeere 1452. But after, when King Edward the fourth expelled King Henry the fixt, this Jasper was attainted, and William Lord Herbert created Earle of Penbroke in his place, in the yeere 1462. In whose Letters Patents mention is made, that he had the said Earledome giuen him, in consideration he had expelled the Rebell Jasper. After that this William Herbert was flaine at Banbury, his sonne William succeeded him in the said Earledome of Penbroke. And after, when King Henry the fixt was restored againe (by the Earle of Warwicke) this Jasper was also restored to be Earle of Penbroke; in the yeere 1470. But in Aprill following, 1471. Jasper was taken prisoner at Barnet Field, and put from the Earledome of Penbroke againe: which Earledome being surrendered by the second William Lord Herbert, to King Edward the fourth, he gave it to Prince Edward his sonne, who enioyed it during his life. Afterwards King Richard the third held the fame all his life time; who being flaine by King Henry the Seuenth, 1485. this Jasper was againe (the third time) restored to the Earledome of Penbroke, and in the same yeere on Simon and Judes day, in the Tower of London hee was created Duke of Bedford. Some haue, that this Jasper married Katherine, daughter of Richard Wooduile Earle Riuers, the widow of Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham; but howsoeuer, he died without any lawfull issue, the eleuenth of King Henry the Seuenth, leaving a base daughter, named Welley, married to William Gardiner of London.

Et portoit, France escartelle d'Englesterre, à la bordure d'azur feme de Merlottes d'or.

William Herbert, Lord of Ragland Castle in Monmouthshire, descended from Henry Fitz-Herbert, Chamberlaine to King Henry the first, and Alice Corbet his wife, (Concubine to the said King, and of whom he begot Reginald Earle of Cornwall.) This William was Knight of the Garter, and after the attainder of Jasper of Hatfield, was created Earle of Penbroke in the eight yeere of King Edward the fourth; and being sent by the said King to encounter Richard Neuill, Earle of Warwick, and George Duke of Clarence, (who intended the setting vp againe of King Henry the fixt)

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Edward Plantagenet, fonne and heyre of King Edward the fourth, was in the nineteenth yeere of his Fathers Reigne (vpon the surrender of William Herbert of the Earledome of Penbroke) created Earle of Penbroke, at the Kings Mannor of East Hampstead. This Prince Edward was after King, by the name of King Edward the fifth, and liued not long after; who being dead, King Richard the third, held the said Earledome of Penbroke all his life time. After whose death, Jasper Tuder was restored againe to that Earledome, and held it to his death, in the yeere 1495. And then did King Henry the seuenth give the same Earledome to

Prince Henry his sonne, who held and enjoyed it, vntill he was King, and long after, and paffed all things within the said County, vnder the Seale of the said Earledome, and by the name of Earle of Penbroke, (and not as King, nor vnder the great Seale of England) and so it continued, vntill the twenty seuenth yeere of his Reigne, that Wales was reduced to theere ground, and the Authority royaall of all Lordships, Marchioneſſe in Wales, was diſolued by Act of Parliamert, and resumed into the Kings hands; at which time, the great and large authority and iurisdiption Royall, of the Earledome of Penbroke (being alwayes before a County Palatine) was diſolued; and the Earles that haue beene ſithence, haue onely had but the Name and Dignity, as other Earles of England; where before that time, they were absolute Princes.

Et portoit, France eſcartelle d'engleterre, au lambell d'argent.

A Nne Bollen, eldeſt daughter and co-heyre of Thomas Bollen, Viscount Rochford, and Earle of Wiltshire; was created Marchioness of Penbroke at Windſore Caſtle, on Sunday the firſt of September, 1532. the twenty fourth of King Henry the eight; at which time, the ſaid King deliuered vnto her two ſeuerall Letters Patents; one of her ſaid Creation, the other of the gift of a thousand pounds a yeere to maintaine her Eſtate. Afterwards, the twenty fifth of January, 1533. King Henry married the ſaid Anne, Marchioness of Penbrok, and by her had iſſue, the renowned and moſt famous Princesſe Queene Elizabeth, who reigned Queene, forty ſowre yeeres, and died the twenty fourth of March,

1602. and lyeth honourably buried in the Abbey at Westminſter. This

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A Catalogue of the Earles of
Rutland, their Armes, Wiues,
and Children.

Dward Plantagenet, Knight of the Garter, Sonne and heire of Edmond of Langley, Duke of Yorke, fift Sonne of King Edward the third, was in the life time of his Father, at a Parliament held at London, the fourteenth of King Richard the Second, created Earle of Rutland, and of Corke in Ireland. And in the one and twentieth yeere of the said Kings Reigne, hee was created Duke of Albemarle; from which, in the firft yeere of King Henry the fourth, he was by Parliament deposed. Notwithstanding, after the death of his Father, 1401. hee was Duke of Yorke, Lord high Conftable and Admirall of England. Lord of Tyndall, and Knight of the Garter. He married (at Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire) Philip, third daughter and co-heire of John de Mohun, Lord of Dunfter Caſtle in Somersetshire, by whom he had no issue. He was after flaine at the battel of Agin-Court-Field, the third of King Henry the firſt, 1415. and lyeth buried at Fotheringhay, leauing Richard his brother to ſucceed him.

Et portoit, France ſemee eſcartelle d'engleterre, au lambell d'argent
brife de neuf torteaux.

Richard Plantagenet, Knight of the Garter, Sonne and heyre of Richard Coningsborough, Earle of Cambridge, Second brother of Edward aforefaid, after the death of his Vnckle Edward without issue, was restored to be Duke of Yorke, Earle of Cambridge and Rutland, and Lord of Tyndall, in the fourth yeere of King Henry the fixt; he was alſo Earle of March and Vlſter, Lord of Wigmore and Clare, in right of Anne his Mother, ſifter and heyre of Edmond Mortimer, Earle of March, &c. Hee married Cecily, youngeſt daughter of Ralph Neuill, firſt Earle of Westmerland, by whom he had issue, (as in the title of Yorke.) Hee was flaine at the battaile of Wakefield, by Queene Margaret, in the thirtie eight yeere of King Henry the fixt, and was buried at Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire, being remooued from Pomfret.

Et portoit, France ſemee, eſcartelle d'engleterre, au bordur d'argent
charge de lyons rampant purpre.

Edmond

RVTLAND.

283

EDmond Plantagenet, third sonne of Richard, Duke of Yorke aforefaid, was the third Earle of Rutland, in the life time of his father; who being with his faid father at the battaile of Wakefield 1460. the nine and thirtieth of King Henry the fixt, and but twélue yeares old, fell downe vpon his knees defiring mercy; was cruellystabbed to the heart, by John, Lord Clifford of Westmerland, who did sweare, that (by that acte) he would be reuenged for Thomas his fathers death. After he was thus murdered, he was firft buried at Pomfret, and from thence remooued, and brought to Fotheringhay Castle, and there buried by his father.

Et portoit, France escartelle d'Engleterre, au lambel de cinque points d'argent, chargée à deux lions gueulles & neuf torteaux, escartelle avec Vlfter & Mortimer.

THomas Mannors, (or d'Mannerÿs) Knight of the Garter, Lord Ros of Hamelake, Beluoir and Trufbut, (fonne and heire of George Mannors Lord Ros, and Anne his wife, daughter and heire of Sir Thomas Saint Leoger, Knight, and Anne, Ducheffe of Excefter his wife, which Anne was fifter of King Edward the fourth) was created Earle of Rutland by King Henry the eight, at his Palace of Bridewell in London, by Letters Patents, bearing date, the eighteenth of June, the feuenteenth of the faid Kings reigne. King Henry the eight, in regard that he was defcended of the fifter of King Edward the fourth, did augment vnto his ancient Armes,

gold two barres azure; a chiefe quarterly azur and gueulles; on the firft two
Flour-de-luces gold; in the Second, a Lyon paſſant gardant, of the firſt, the
third as the Second, the fourth as the firſt. He married Elianor, daughter
of Sir William Paſton of Norfolke, Knight, by whom hee had iſſue, ſiue
fonnes and ſix daughters; Henry Mannors the eldeſt ſonne, was after his
father, Earle of Rutland; Sir John Mannors, Knight; Roger Mannors; Sir
Thomas Mannors, Knight; and Oliuer was the firſt ſonne. Gertrude, mar-
ried to George Talbot, ſixt Earle of Shrewſburie; Anne, married to Henry
Neuill, ſift Earle of Weſtmerland; Frances, wife to Henry Neuill, Lord of
Aburgauenny, and mother to the Ladie Vane of Kent; Katherine, wife
to Henry Capell, Eſquire; Elizabeth, married to Sir John Sauage, Knight;
and Ifabell the ſixt daughter died young. This Thomas, died in the ſiue
and thirtieth yeare of King Henry the eight, and lieth buried at Boſworth
in Leicestershire.

Henry

RVTLAND.

289

John Mannors, (brother and heire male of Edward aforefaid) was the fourth Earle of Rutland of that Familie, Lord Ros of Hamelake, Beluoir and Trusbut; and married Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Charleton, of Apley in Shropshire, by whom he hadiffue, Edward that died an Infant; Roger, that was Earle of Rutland; Francis, Earle of Rutland; Sir George Mannors Knight, and Oliuer; Bridget, wife to Sir Robert Tirwhit of Lincolnshire, Knight; Frances, married to William, Lord Willoughby of Parham; Elizabeth, married to Emanuel Lord Scroope of Bolton. This Iohn died in the yeare 1587.

*Et portoit, les Armes de son frere.*

Roger Mannors, fonne and heire of Iohn aforefaid, was after the death of his father, the fift Earle of Rutland, Lord Ros of Hamelake, Beluoir and Trusbut; and married Elizabeth, daughter and heire of that worthie and renowned Sir Philip Sidney, Knight, flaine at Zutphen in Gelderland, the feuenteenth of October, 1586. and died withoutiffue, leauing Francis Mannors his brother, to succeed him.

*Et portoit, d'or à deux burelles d'azur, au chef escartelle d'azur & de gueulles, en la premier deux fleur de lyz d'or, à la secondu leoparde passant d'or.*

Francis Mannors, secondfonne of Iohn, Earle of Rutland, and brother and heire of Roger, the fift Earle of Rutland of this Familie; was the fixt Earle of Rutland, Lord Ros of Hamelake, Beluoir and Trusbut, and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter, 1618. He married two wiues, the firft was Frances, daughter and one of the co-heires of Sir Henry Knyuet of Charleton, and widow of Sir William Beuell of Cornwall, by whom he hadiffue, Lady Katherine, Marquiffes of Buckingham. His seconwife is Cecily, daughter of Sir John Tufton, Knight, (and widow of Edward Hungerford) by whom he hadiffue, Henry Lord Ros; and Francis, which two Lords died both young withoutiffue.

*Et portoit, d'or à deux burelles d'azur, au chef escartelle d'azur & de gueulles, en la premier deux fleur de lyz d'or, à la secondu leoparde passans d'or.*

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A Catalogue of the Earles of
*Riuers*, their *Armes*, *Wiues*,
and *Children*.

Richard Wideuile, Baron of Wimington, married Iaquet, daughter of Peter of Luttenburgh, Earle of Saint Paul, the widow of Iohn, Duke of Bedford, Regent of France; for which marriage, he was fined to pay to King Henry the fixt, the summe of one thousand pounds, becaufe he did the fame without the said Kings priuitie and consent, yet afterwards obtaining the said Kings fauour, he was elect Knight of the Garter, the fourth of August, and enstalled the thirtieth of October, in the twentie eight yeare of Henry the fixt; and on twentie fixt of May, the fourth of King Edward the fourth, he was created Earle Riuers, and made high Conftable of England. He hadiffue by the said Iaquet, feuen Sonnes and fixe daughters, viz. Anthonie Wideuile, Earle Riuers after his father; Lewis died young; Iohn died young alfo; Iohn the fourth Sonne, was flaine with his father at Edgcote-field; Lyonell fixt Sonne, was Bisbop of Salisburie, (and father to Stephen Gardiner, Bisbop of Winchefter, by his Concubine) Edward fixt Sonne; Richard the Seuenth Sonne, was Earle Riuers after Anthonie his elder brother: Elizabeth the eldeft daughter, was firft married to Sir Iohn Grey of Groby, Knight; and after to King Edward the fourth; Margaret, was married to Thomas Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell; Anne the third daughter, was firft married to William Bourchier, Sonne of Henry Earle of Effex; and after to George Grey, Earle of Kent; and thirdly, to Sir Edward Wingfield, Knight; Iaquet, was married to Iohn, Lord Strange of Knocking; Marie, was wife to William Herbert, Earle of Huntington; and Katherine the fixt daughter, was firft married to Henry Stafford, fecond Duke of Buckingham; and after to Iafer of Hatfield, Duke of Bedford. This Richard, with Iohn his Sonne, were taken out of the Mannour of Grafton, by Robin of Riddeſdale, Captaine of the lewd people of Northamptonſhire, and carried to Northampton, and there beheaded, without any Legall proceeding, in the yeare 1469.

*Et portoit, d'argent, à la face & quanton de gueulles.*

Anthonie

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A Catalogue of the Earles of
Shrewsburie, their Armes, Wiues,
and Children.

Oger de Montegummerie, Earle of Belismo in Normandy, Sonne of Hugh de Montegummerie, and of Sibell his wife, fifth daughter of Herfaftus the Dane, (brother of Gonora, wife to Richard the first, Duke of Normandie, of that name) came into England with William the Conquerour, who gaue him the Earledomes of Shrewsburie and Arundell. He married Maberia, daughter of William Taluaife, and fifth and heire of Arnold de Belismo, and had issue, fiue sons and foure daughters, (as William Gemiticensis hath) and yet in this Rogers foundation of the Monafterie of Saint Peter and Paul, in the Suburbs of the Citie of Shrewsburie, his wiues name is there Adalaiſe: and the Witneſſes to the ſaid foundation were, Robert, Biſhop of Cheſter, Hugh and Robert de Belismo, Arnulph, and Philip his ſonnes, with others. Hugh the eldeſt beinaſt Earle of Shrewsburie was ſlaine at Angleſey in Wales, 1097. without issue; Robert was alſo Earle of Shrewsburie and Arundell; Roger the third ſonne, was Earle of Poitow, and Lord of the Honor of Lancaſter in England, by the gift of William the Conquerour, Arnulph the fourth ſonne was Caſtle-keeper of Penbroke, who with his brother Robert was baniſhed England; Philip was the fifth ſonne. The foure daugh ters were, Emma; Matild, married to Robert, Earle of Moretaigne; Matilda the third daughter; and Sibill was the fourth daughter, who was married to Robert Fitz-Hamon, Lord of Glamorgan, Founder of Tewkburie Abbey in England, and Lord of Torigney in Normandy. This Roger was left by William the Conqueror, to be Gouernour to his ſonne William Rufus, and was ſlaine at Caerdiſſe in South-Wales, and buried at Shrewsburie, in the Abbey which before he had founded.

Hugh

SHREWSBURY.

189

Hugh de Montgomery, (sonne of Roger aforesaid) was after the death of his Father, Earle of Shrewsbury and Arundell. He with Hugh Earle of Chefter, tooke the Isle of Man by force, and strong hand, 1098. At which time, Magnus King of Norway, and grandchild to Olaue, after he had iоyned to his Empire, the Islands of Orcades and Menauia; came with a few Ships to the Isle of Man, whom this Hugh beeing willing to refist on the shore, was stricken in the right eye with an Arrowe, of which hurt, the eight day after, he died without issue, and was buried by his Father, in the Abbey of Shrewsbury. Vpon whose Tombe (faith Mills) he is pictured in stone, with his legs acroffe, (as in olde times was vsed) and vpon his Shield Azure, a lion rampant gold, with a border, which you may beleeue if you lift: for at that time, nor within an hundred yeeres after, neither King nor Subieст did vsе any Armes in England, in their Seales or Sheilds, that euer I could finde, or see; and yet doe I thinke Armes vsed long before the Conqueſt of the Normans.

Robert de Montgomery, second sonne of Roger a. aforesaid, and brother and heyre of Hagh, was the third Earle of Shrewsbury and Arundell, and married the daughter and heire of Guy, Earle of Pontine in Normandie. He was a man very outragiously giuen, and moſt cruell to his owne Children and Hoftages, whose eyes (with his owne hands) hee plucked out. Hee held and fortified the Caſtles of Shrewsburie, Arundell, Tickhill, Bruge, and Carrocoue in England, a-gainſt King Henry the firſt, which after was his vndoing. For thereupon the King proclaimed him Traytor, and shortly after, all his Townes and Caſtles being yeelded vp into the ſaid King, he was banifhed England, with his Brother Arnold, in the yeere 1103. the fourth yeere of the ſaid Kings Reigne. But afterward this Robert, with Robert Duke of Normandy, the Kings eldeſt Brother, were taken prisoners at the Battaile of Trenchbray, and were brought into England, where they had both their eyes put out, and kept prisoners in the Caſtle of Caerdiſſe in South-Wales, where they miferably ended their daies. This Robert had issue, William ſurnamed Taluaife Earle of Sage, who married Ela, daughter

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of *Hely*, brother of *Geffrey*, Earle of Aniou, widdow of the Duke of Bur-
gundy : *Iohn* his second fonne, had all his Lands in Normandy & Mayne:
his eldeft daughter married *Iuhell*, fonne of *VValter de Meduana*; and *Ela*
was firſt married to *VVilltam*, the third Earle Warren in England; and af-
ter to *Patricke* Earle of Salisbury.

I, John Lord Talbot, Strange of Blakmer, Furniuall and
Verdon, Gouernour of Aniou and Mayne, Knight of
the Garter, (fonne of Richard Talbot, Baron Talbot of
Caſtle-Goderic, and brother and heyre male of Gilbert
Lord Talbot) was created Earle of Shrewsbury by Let-
ters Patents, bearing date at Windsor, the twentieth
day of May, in the nineteenth yeere of King Henry the
fixt. And by another Letters Patents, dated at Weſt-
minſter, the ſeuenteenth of Iuly, the twenty fourth of
King Henry the fixt, he was made Earle of Welsford,
and Steward of England, and after Marſhall of France;
and being ſent to ſuccour them of Burdeaux, tooke the
Towne, and placed therein a Garrifon; and proceeding
further into the Countrey, to releeue the Towne of Caſtellon in Aquitain,
which the English had recouered; (the French hauing on all ſides begirt
the fame) at which time, a great battell beeing then fought, this John
was with the ſhot of a Piece there ſlaine, the twentieth of Iuly, 1453. the
two and thirtieth yeere of King Henry the fixt. Hee married two Wiues,
the firſt was Mauld, daughter and onely heyre of Thomas Neuill, Lord Fur-
niuall, by whom he had iſſue, John Talbot Earle of Shrewſbury; Sir Chri-
stopher Talbot, and Sir Humfrey Talbot, Knights. His ſecond wife was
Margaret, eldeſt daughter and co-heire of Richard Beauchampe, Earle of
Warwicke, by whom he had iſſue, John Talbot, Viscount Lisle, vnto whom
his Father gaue the Lordſhip of Panſwike, Whaddon, Morton, Wotton,
Schirborne, Polycot, and other Lands in Shropſhire; Sir Humfrey Talbot,
Knight, ſlaine in Mont-Sinay; Elizabeth, wife to John Mowbray, Duke of
Norſolke; and Elianor, married to Thomas Butler, of Sudley-Caſtle in
Gloſeſtershire. This John being ſlaine as aforefaid, with John, Viscount
Lisle his fonne, his hody was buried in a Tombe at Roan in Normandy,
whereon this Epitaph is written. Here lyeth the right Noble Knight, John
Talbot, Earle of Shrewsbury, Earle of Welsford, Waterford and Valence, Lord
Talbot of Goodrich and Orchenfield, Lord Strange of Blakmer, Lord Verdon of
Acton, Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Louet of VVorſop, Lord Furni-
niall of Sheffield, Lord Faulconbridge, Knight of the Noble Order of S. George,
S. Michael, and the golden Fleece, great Marſhall to King Henry the fixt, of
his Realme of France, who died in the Battaile of Burdeaux, 1453.

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SHREWSBURY.

George Talbot, the fourth Earle of Shrewsbury, viceon whose Tombe at Sheffield, he is styled. Earle of Shrewsbury, Welhford, and Waterford, Lord Talbot, Furniuall, Verdon, and Strange of Blakmer, and Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter. This George beeing but twenty yeeres of age, was at the battell of Stoke, where he fought manfully, in the behalfe of King Henry the Seuenth, who made him Knight of the Order of the Garter; and after hee was made Steward of the house to King Henry the eight, and Generall of the Army at the siège of Turwin, 1513. Hee married two wiues, the first was Anne, daughter of William, Lord Haftings, Chamberlaine to King Edward the fourth, by whom he had issue, Henry Lord Talbot, that died without issue, and was buried at Calke Priory; Francis Lord Talbot, and Earle of Shrewsburie after his Father; John, and John, both borne, and buried at Ashby de la Zouch; William Talbot fifth sonne, borne at Sheffield; Richard Talbot sixth sonne, borne at Chelfey: and fiue daughters; Margaret married to Henrie Clifford, Earle of Cumberland; Anne and Dorothy, both borne at Wingfield; Mary, wife to Henrie Percie Earle of Northumberland; and Elizabeth the fifth daughter, was married vnto William Lord Dacres of Gillefland. This George's second wife, was Elizabeth, daughter and one of the heires of Richard Walden, of Erith in Kent, Knight; of whom hee begot John, that died young, and Anne married to Peter Compton, sonne and heyre of Sir William Compton, Knight; and after to William Herbert Earle of Penbroke. This George dyed at Wingfield, the twenty fixt of Iuly, 1538. and was honourably buried by his first wife at Sheffield.

Et portoit, de gueulles au lyon rampant d'or, à la bordure endente de mefme.

Francis Talbot, sonne and heyre of George; was borne in the Castle of Sheffield, in the yeere 1500, the fixteenth of King Henry the Seuenth, and was the fifth Earle of Shrewsbury, Lord Talbot, Furniuall, Verdon, and Strange of Blakmer, and Knight of the Garter. He married two wiues, the first was Mary, daughter of Thomas Lord Dacres of Gillefland, by whom he had issue, George Lord Talbot, and fifth Earle of Shrewsbury; Thomas Talbot that died at Sheffield without issue, the twentie fifth of King Henry the eight; and Anne, first married to John Lord Bray, and after to Thomas Lord Wharton, and died without issue. His second wife was Grace, daughter of Robert Shackerley of Derbifhire, Esquire. He died the one and twentieth of September, the second of Quene Elizabeth, and was buried at Sheffield, in the yeere 1559.

George

A Catalogue of the Earles of
*Salisbury, their Armes, Wiues,*
*and Children.*

Atricke de Eureux, (sonne of Walter de Eureux, Earle of Rosemer; and Sibill, his wife, Founders of the Monaftery of Bradenstoke, 1093.) was Steward of the house to Mauld the Empresse, by whose meanes the Earledome of Salisburyst was confirmed vnto him, in the eight and twentieth yeare of King Henry the second. Hee married Ella, the widow of William, the third Earle Warren and Surrey, daughter of William Taluaife, Earle of Pontine, grandchild to Roger Mountgomery, by his fontine Robert de Mountgomery, Earle of Shrewsbury, by whom hee had issue, William Fitz-Patricke, Earle of Salisburyst and Rosemer, *Patricke and Philip, Canons at Bradenstoke.*

This *Patricke* was a Witnesse to the Charter of Pacification of the troubles betweene King *Stephen*, and Henry Duke of Normandy, 1152. and after was flaine in Aquitaine, by *Guy de Luſignan*, in comming as a Pilgrim from Saint *James de Compoſtella*, and as the Priory Booke of Lacok hath, the fixt Kalends of Aprill, 1168. and was buried at Saint *Hilaries*, the fifteenth of King *Henry* the second; (Doctor *Powell* in his Description of Wales, fol. 154. ſayth, that about the yeare 1094. *Roger Mountgomery*, *William Fitz-Euſtace*, and *Arnold Harecourt*, were flaine neere Caerdiffe in Wales; and *Walter de Eureux*, Earle of Salisburyst, and *Hugh Gurney* were hurt, and after died in Normandy.) Which *Valter* was Father of this *Patricke*, which Maſter *Camden* denieth to bee Earle.

> Et portoit, d'azur fix lions rampant d'or, 3, 2, 1. armé & lampasse de gueulles.

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W W. *William de Eureux*, fonne and heire of *Patricke*, was the next Earle of Salisburie and Rosemer after his father. Hee married *Elianor*, daughter of *Tizrell de Mainers*, by whom hee had issue, two daughters his heires; *Ella* the eldeft, was married to *William* fur-named *Longspee*, baſe fonne of King *Henry* the ſecond, begotten of the faire Lady *Rosamond Clifford*; Mabell the ſecond daughter, was married to Lord *Nigell de Mowbray*, with the Mannour of Banefsted in Surrey. This *William* (as *Lacok* Priory Booke hath) died the fifteenth Kalends of May, in the yeare 1196. and was buried at Bradenſtoke.

W W. *Ilkam* fur-named *Longspee*, (by reason of a long Sword which hee vsed) baſe-fonne of King *Henry* the ſecond, (begotten of the faire Lady *Rosamond Clifford*, his Concubine) was Earle of Rosemer, and by King *Richard* the firſt, his halsè brother, was created Earle of Salisburie, (and as Maſter *Camden* thinketh, Earle of Somerſet, page of his *Britannia* 239.) This *William Longspee*, was the laſt that writ in their Stiles, Earles of Rosemer; for after that *Philip* King of France had gotten Normandy, Guyan, Poyctiers and Britaine, about the fixt yeare of King *John*; all ſuch Noblemen of England, as had either Earledomes or Baronnies in those Countries, left to write or entitle themſelues of the fame. Hee married *Ella*, eldeſt daugh-ter and coheire of *William Fitz-Patricke*, Earle of Salisburie aforefaid, and had issue, *William Longspee*, ſlaine by Sarazines, at ſuch time as the French King was taken prifoner by the Infidels, 1250. from whom King *Henry* the third did take both the Title of Earle, as alſo the Caſtle of Salisburie. *Stephen Longspee*, Chieſe-Iuſtice of Ireland, ſecond ſonne, (vnto whom *William* his brother gaue the Mannour of Wamberge. This *Stephen* had to wife, *Emelyne*, Counteffe of Vlſter, daughter and heire of *Walter Ridelesford*, Baron of Bre in Ireland. *Nicholas Longspee* the third ſonne, was Biſhop of Salisburie, and died, 1296. *Richard Longspee* was a Can-non at Bradenſtoke: *Iſabell* the eldeſt daughter, was married to *William* Lord Veſcy; *Ella*, married to *Thomas*, fixt Earle of Warwicke; and after to *Philip*, Lord Baſſer; and *Idona* the third daughter, was married to *William Beauchamp*, Baron of Bedford. This *William*, Earle of Salisburie, was Conſtable of Douer-Caſtle, and ſayling with *Richard*, Earle of Cornwall his Nephew, and *Philip de Albeny*, into Gaſcoigne, the tenth of Henry the third,

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third, recouered Poictiers, which before was lost by King John; and in their returne againe into England, hardly escaped shipwracke, being strangely cast vpon the Cornil hores, and died in the same yeare 1226. After whose death, Ella his Wife and Countesse, professed her selfe a Nunne, in the Religious house at Lacok in Wiltshire, which was of her Foundation, and was the first Abbesse thereof. Afterward she forsooke her Abbateſſe, in the yeare 1257, and died in the yeare 1261.

This William lieth buried in the Cathedrall Church at Salisbury, in a faire Tombe, with theſe Armes vpon his ſhield, D'azur fix Lyons ram-pant d'or, 3, 2, 1, which were the Armes of William Fitz-Patricke, his wiues father.

W W. *William*, Lord Monte-acute, (*Sonne of Simon* Monte-acute, Baron of Shipton Monte-acute) was created Earle of Salisbury, in the eleuenth yeare of King Edward the third, and had giuen him the Caſſle and Barony of Denbigh; and in the ſeventeenth yeare of the ſaid Kings reigne, hee was crowned King of the Isle of Man, and had giuen to him and his heires, a thousand Markes land by the yeare; (for taking of Roger Lord Mortimer prifoner, at Nottingham Caſſle, who had beene too familiar with the Kings mother.) This William, when King Edward the third went to claime his right to the Crowne of France, againſt Philip de Valois, 1138, was taken prifoner, and carried to

Paris,& after ransomed by the exchange of the Earle of Morret, who was then prifoner in England. At this expeſion, King Edward prayed the ayde of the Flemings, who excuſed themſelues, by an oath and bond of a Million of gold, which they had taken and made, in the Popes Chamber, that they ſhould alwaies helpe and ayde the King of France, and fight vnder his Standard and Armes; whereupon, by the aduice of Laques d'Artiuille of Gaunt, King Edward did quarter the Armes of France before his owne of England, and proclaymed himſelfe King of France, by reaſon whereof, the Flemings held themſelues diſcharged both of oath and bond, and ſo did ayde and helpe King Edward.

This William married Katherine, daughter and one of the co-heires of William Lord Grantſon of Sauoy in the Lake, (a Burgonian, borne of No-ble blood, and brought into England by Edmond Earle of Lancaſter, and married to Sibell, daughter and one of the co-heires of Iohn Tregoz, Lord and Baron of Garringes, in Edward the firſt his time) by whom he had iſſue, two ſonnes and ſoure daughters; William the eldeſt, was after his Fa-ther, Earle of Salisbury; Sir Iohn Montague, Knight, married Margaret, daughter and heyre of Sir Thomas Mounthermer, Knight, (*Sonne of Ralph Mounthermer*, Earle of Gloceſter) and died before his brother William, in the

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the thirteenth yeere of King Richard the second. Sibill, the eldest daugh-
ter, was married to Edmond Earle of Arundell, for his third wife: Philip
the second daughter, was married to Roger Mortimer, Earle of March; Eli-
zabeth the third daughter, was married to Giles, Lord Badelifmer, and died
without issue; Agnes the fourth daughter. This William founded the
Abbey of Briftleham Montague, and died at a Fufts and Turney at
Windføre, in the yeare 1343. and was buried in the White-Fryars in
London, and Katherine his wife was buried at Bifham by Windføre.

*Et portoit, d'argent au trois Lozengies en face de gueulles.*

W W. *William*, Lord Mountacute (sonne and heire of *William*, Earle of Salifbury aforefaid) after the death of his Father, was the second Earle of Salifbury, Lord of Denbigh, and of the Isle of Man, of that name; which Honour of Denbigh, was recouered from him, by *Edmond Mortimer*, Earle of March. He was one of the Founders of the Noble Order of the Garter, and Gouernour of Callis, vnder King *Richard the second, 1380*. He sold the Isle of Man, to *William Lord Scroope*, Treasurer of England, and Earle of Wiltshire; who being after beheaded, King *Henry the fourth, gaue the Isle of Man, to Henry Percy*, Earle of Northumberland, to hold of him and his Successors, Kings of England, by the feruice of bearing the Sword at the Coronation. This *William* also by his Charter, dated the firft of King *Richard the second*, did giue vnto his welbeloued brother, Sir *John Mountague*, Lord of Stokingham, his Mannour of Burnham and Brene, in the Countie of Somerset, paying a yearely Rent to *Margaret Graunson*, late the wife of *Thomas Graunson* Knight, fourescore pounds. He married *Elizabeth*, daughter and one of the co-heires of *John Lord Mohun*, of Dunfter Castle in Somersetshire, and had issue, *William* his onely sonne and heire, flaine at Tilt at Windføre, by *William* his father, the fixt of *Richard the second*.

This *William* the father, died in the twentieth yeare of King *Richard*
the second, leauing *John* his Nephew (sonne of *John* his brother, to suc-
ceed him, 1396.

*Et portoit, les Armes de son pere.*

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John Montacute, Knight, fonne and heire of Sir John Montacute, Knight, and Nephew and heire of William, Earle of Salisbury his Vnckle aforefaid, was the third Earle of Salisbury of that name, and was one of the Noblemen which confpired the death of King Henry the fourth, at a Lufts held at Oxford; but being discloſed, diuers of them were put to death; and this John and Thomas Holland, Earle of Kent, flying vn-to Circeſter, were by the rude Townes-men there, brought into the Market-place, and there had their heads ſmitten off, the firſt yeare of King Henry the fourth. He married Mauld, daughter and heire of Sir Adam Francis of London, Knight, and widdow of

Sir Alan Bochull, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, and had iffue, Thomas Montacute, Earle of Salisbury, and Richard that died without iffue, and three daughters; Anne the eldeſt, was firſt married to Sir Richard Hanckford, after to Sir John Fitz-Lewis, Knight; and thirdly, to John Holland, Earle of Huntington, and Duke of Exceſter; Margaret the ſecond daughter, was married to William, Lord Ferrars of Groby; and Elizabeth the third daughter, was married to Robert, Lord Willoughby of Erelbie.

Et portoit, d'argent, au trois Lozengies en face de gueulles.

Thomas Montacute, fonne of John, Earle of Salisbury, flaine by the Commons at Circeſter, was reſored to bee Earle of Salisbury, in the tenth yeare of King Henry the fourth; and in the ſeventh yeare of King Henry the firſt, had the Earledome of Perch giuen him, by Seruice to deliuer a Sword in ſeabard at the Kings Caſtle in Caien, euery yeare vpon Saint Georges Day. After in the fixt yeare of King Henry the fixt, he was made Knight of the Garter; and in the yeare 1423, he raiſed the ſiſe of Crauant in Burgoigne, where he, with the loffe of one and twentie hundred men, ſlew eight thouſand of the enemies. After he was ſubſtituted Vice-Regent of the Countries of France, Bry and

Champaigne, and Sir John Faſtolſe, Deputy in the Dutchy of Normandy. And in the fixt yeare of King Henry the fixt, he, with William de la Pole, Earle of Suffolke, and John Talbot, Earle of Shrewſbury, beſieged the Citie of Orleance in France, where hee and Sir Thomas Gargrane, Knight, looking out of a high window, in a Tower at the bridge end, to view the Towne, was ſhot with a bullet from the enemie, which brake the window, and droue the ſhiuers thereof into his face and head; vpon

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which wound, hee died within eight dayes after. Whole bodie being
brought into England, was honourably buried by his Anceftors, at Bi-
flham Abbey in Barkeshire, 1428. He married *Eleanor*, daughter of *Thomas Holland*, Earle of Kent, and fifter and one of the heires of *Edmond*, Earle of Kent; and had iffue, one onely daughter and heire named *Alice*, married to *Richard Neuill*, a younger fonne of *Ralph Neuill*, firft Earle of Weftmerland. This *Thomas* had a baſe fonne alſo named *Iohn*.

Et portoit, d'argent au trois Lozengies en face de guenlles, eſcartelle,
d'or à vn Egle de vert.

Richard Neuill third fonne of Ralph Neuill, firſt Earle of Weſtmerland, (by Ioane his ſecond wife, daugh- ter of Iohn of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaſter) was made Earle of Salisburie, after the death of Thomas Montague his wiues father, and Knight of the Garter, in the fif- teenth yeare of King Henry the fixt, and Lord Chan- cellor, in the two and thirtieth yeare of the faid Kings reigne. He tooke part with Richard, Duke of Yorke, againſt King Henry the fixt, and was taken prifoner by Queene Margaret, at the battaile of Wakefield, and beheaded at Pomfret, and his head ſent vpon the end of a Speare to Yorke: in which battaile, was Richard

Duke of Yorke alſo ſlaine, 1460. This *Richard Neuill*, married *Eleanor*, daughter and heire of *Thomas Montague*, Earle of Salisbury, and had iffue, foure ſonnes and fix daughters; *Richard* the eldeſt ſonne, was after reſto- red and made Earle of Salisbury, and after Earle of Warwicke; *Iohn* the ſecond ſonne, was created Marqueſſe Mountague; *Thomas* the third ſonne, married the widdow of the Lord Willoughby, and died without iffue; *George* the fourth ſonne, was Arch-biſhop of Yorke, and Lord Chancellour of England. *Ioane* the eldeſt daughter, was married to William Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell; Cecily the ſecond daughter, was married vnto Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwicke; *Alice* the third daughter, was married to Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh, Baron of Rauen- fwath; *Eleanor* the fourth daughter, was married to Thomas Stan- ley, firſt Earle of Derby of that name; *Katherine* the firſt daughter, was wife to William Bonuill, Lord Harington; and *Margaret* the fixt daughter, was married to *Iohn Vere*, Earle of Oxford. This *Richards* body, was firſt bu- ried in the Priory at Pomfret, and after remooued to Biſham Abbey, neere Windeſore in Barkeſhire.

Et portoit, gueulles au Saulteur d'argent, au lambell gobonne d'ar-
gent & d'azur.

Richard