To the Honourable and judicious
READER.

Ou haue here a second Edition of this Booke, which, I haue not onely much inlarged, with diuers good Notes, and Records, omitted in the former Imprefion; But amended al- so, many escapes, and mislakings, committed by the Prin- ter, whilst my sicknesse absented me from the Presse, at the first publication.

Those slips haue giuen my enuious Detractors occasion to carpe at my labours : against which, I hope, they shall now haue no just cause of exception. But how soeuer, I am perswaded that euery peaceable-minded Reader, who is able to judge things of this nature, will easily perceiue, that they are but friuoulous Cauillers, who shall seeke to traduce my labours on this subject.

Aboe fiftie yeares practice, I haue had in this Profession: During which time, I haue omitted no coft, nor oportunitie to understand the truth of these particulars I treat of. Neither haue I beene guiltie of so much enuying any Family, to falsifie ought, to the dishonour of it: nor found so much bountie in this Age, as (in any meaure) to reward my long traubailes; much leffe, to bee kyred to insert ought vntrue, for the honour of particular Houses. And therefore, as in respect of my long experience, and great paines, it is not likely, that young Nouices can be easily able to disproue me: So, it is not probable (nor hauing, nor needing a bribe from any man) that I would to no purpose, in this my old age, endanger my credit, and make vaine, all my labour, by leauing to Posteritie a Catalogue of vntruthes.

If you weigh from what vncertayne intelligences, many men doe nowadayes, gather their Notes; How much they take up on trust to others credits; How frequently they are deceived in the Names, Beginnings, and Titles of Noble Families, because they haue not alwayes Records to make good what they deliuer: you would graunt that it were no strange matter, for an ancient Herauld, to fct forth those things which may appeare vntrue to such, as misfensure all men, who affirme not, just that, which their owne few papers in-forme them of. For my owne part, I haue reaſon to thinke my ſelfe aswell furnished to performe this worke with as much exactneſſe as an other man; having goiten into my custodie the collections of moſt the principall Heraulds deceased before, and during my time (and without ofſentation bee it ſpoken) hold my Librarie better furnished then the Office of Armes. And if I haue failed in ſome things (which is not impoſsible in ſuch a taske as this) those who will goe about to cenſure mee, shall faile in many more materiall points when ſoever they undertake the like employment.

Seeing

I

A CATALOGVE OF
THE KINGS OF
ENGLAND,
SINCE THE NORMAN

Conqueft, their Armes, Wives and
Children.

William, fur-named the Conqueror (couſin vnto King Edward the Confefſour, in the third and fourth Degree) bafe Sonne of Robert the fixth Duke of Normandie, begotten of Arlet his Concubine, Daughter of a Skinner, and Burgeſſe of the Citie of Faloys; who hauing ouerthrowne and ſlaine King Herauld in Battell, was vpon Chriſtmaſ-day, in the yeare of Chriſt 1066. Crowned King of England (not by Stigand Archbifhop of Canterbury, because he was a verie proud and lewde liuer) but by Aldred Archbifhop of Yorke; at which time, the ſaid William cauſed both the Bifhips and Noblemen of the Realme, to ſweare ſealtie to him before S. Peters Altar at Westminſter. Hee Married

Mauld, Daughter of Baldwin de Ifle, the fifth Earle of Flanders, fur-named the Gentle, who dyed the ſecond day of Nouember, 1083. and was Buried at Cane in Normandie, in Saint Maries Church; and William Conquerour her Husband dyed at Roane, on Thursday the eight of the Ides of September 1087. the fiftyone of his Duke-dome of Normandie, the twentie one of his Kingdome of ENGLAND, and of his Age the ſeuentie ſoure, and was Buried at Cane in Saint Stephens Church, which hee before had built. This noble Conquerour, when hee firſt entred England, chanced at his Landing to

B

ſticke

A Cata logue of the Kings of England.

A Catalogue of the Kings of England.

A Catalogue of the Kings of England, from William the Conqueror, to King Richard the first, I find none of any creditable, but what hath beene vsed by traditions, that will I set downe as I find them.

William the Conqueror, as it is said, vsed the Armes of Rollo the Dane, and first Duke of Normandie, which he beares as belonging to the Dukedome of Normandie: Gueulles, deux Lyans paftant gardant, D'or.

The Issue of WILLIAM the Conqueror.

Robert, fur-named Curtuose (which is Short Bootes) beeing Duke of Normandie, was taken Prifoner at Tenarchbray in Normandie, in the yeare 1106. and by commandement of King Henrie his Brother, he had both his Eyes put out, and dyed in the Castle of Cardiffe, in the yeare 1134. when he had beene Prifoner there twentie eight yeares, and was Buried at Glocefter. He Married Sibill, Sifter of William Earle of Conueriana in Italy, by whom he had Issue, William and Henrie.

Richard, second Sonne of William the Conqueror, was flaine in the New-Forreft by a Stagge, and was Buried at Winchefter.

William the third Sonne, fur-named Rufus of his Red haire, ferued under his Father, at the Battell of Gerberoth in Normandie, where hee was wounded. After being King, and Hunted in the New Forreft the second of Auasu, Walter Tirrell a French Knight, fhot him with a Arrow, whereof he presently dyed, in the yeare 1100. hauing Reigned twelue yeares and eleuen Moneths, being fortie and three yeares old.

Henrie the fourth Sonne was borne at Selby in Yorkeshire 1070. and fur-named Beauclarke (or fine Scholler) was by his Father Knighted at Westminfter, in the yeare 1086.

Cicely eldeft Daughter, borne in Normandie, was Abbeffe at Cane, where fhee dyed without Issue.

Constance the second Daughter, Married to Alan Earle of Britaine, fur-named Fergant, dyed without Issue, and was buried at Saint Edmondsburie in Suffolk. This is that Constance, which the honest-man Dolman, a-lias Parfons, fetteth downe to haue Issue, Conan le Groffe, the second Duke of Britaine, and Conan le Groffe, to haue Issue Hoell, dif-inherited by his Father; and Bertha Married to Eudo Earle of Porret.

Alice the third Daughter, was Married to Stephen, Earle of Bloys in France, and had Issue, King Stephen and others; and after profeffed her felfe a Nunne, at Marciquy in France, and was there buried.

Ela

A Catalogne of the Kings of England.

Ela, in her childhood was promifed in Marriage to King Herauld of
England, but he refused her, and Married another, by reafon whereof,
ſhee died vnmarried without iffue.

Gundred the fifth Daughter, Married William de Warren, a Noble man of Normandie, whom William Conqueror made Earle of Surrey, by whom ſhee had iffue, William the ſecond Earle Warren and Surrey, and died in childe-bed, at Caſtle-Acre in Norſtolke, and was buried at Lewis in Suſex, 1085.

Margaret the fixt Daughter, promifed to Alphonsus King of Galicia
in Spaine, and died without iffue.

William Peuerell, baſe ſonne of William Conqueror, was Lord of Not-
tingham, and had iffue, a ſonne also called William.

King WILLIAM RAVVS.

William Rouſe or Rufus, furnamed of his red haire, the third ſonne of William Conqueror. This William ſerued vnder his Father at the battaile of Gerberoth in Normandy, where he was wounded : He began his Reigne of King of England, the ninth day of September, in the yeare of our Lord, 1087. and was crowned at Westminſter, by Lanfranke Archbiſhoppe of Canterbury, the first day of October. It happened that (as he was hunting in the New Forreſt) he was informed, that the French-men had ſtrongly befieged the Citie of Conſtancia in Normandy, whereupon (leauing his ſports) with great expedition he poſted to the ſea, without any preparation for ſuch a journey, and comming there, leapt into a Barke, comman-ding the Maryners to weigh their Anchors, and to hoysel their ſayles; but the violence of a ſtorme being great, they refused to doe the ſame, where-at the King was much offended, ſaying, that they neuer heard that a King was drowned by tempeſt of winds, and ſo forced them to go forwards. He was red coloured, his hayre ſomewhat yellow, his eyes not one like an-other; of meane ſtature, ſomewhat big bellied, he was very variable, in-conſtant, couetous and cruell; he ouer-burdened his Subiccts with vn-reaſonable taxes, pilled the rich, and oppreſſed the poore. And being a hunting in the New Forreſt, the first day of Auguſt, in the yeare 1100. Sir Walter Tirrell a French Knight, ſhooting at a Deere vnawares, ſmote him in the breaſt, that he ſell downe ſtarke dead, and neuer ſpake word. His body being comuayed to Wincheſter, was there buried in the 43. yeare

B 2

of

of his age, hauing raigned almoft thirteene yceres, leauing no iffue of his
body to fucceed him.

*Les armes de son père.*

King HENRIE the first.

H Enrie, the firſt and youngest Sonne of William Conquerour, was borne at Selby in Yorkſhire, 1070. and for his learning was called Beauclarke; he was brought vp in the ſtudy of the liberall Arts at Cambridge, vnder Henry Newborough Earle of Warwicke. Hee began his Reigne the firſt of Auguſt, and was crowned at Westminſter, by Maurice Bifhop of London, (Anſelme Bifhop of Canterbury beeing then in exile) the firſt of Auguſt 1100. Hee was ſtrong and mightie of body, high of ſtature, amiable of countenance, blacke-haired, faire eyes, broad breaſted, well in fleſh, full of merry conceits, excellent in wit, eloquent in ſpeech, and fortunate in battaile: and for theſe, he had three notable vices, cometouſneſſe, cruelty, and letchery.

In his time it was a cuſtome, that Bookes, Bills, and Letters, ſhould be drawne and ſigned for Petitioners in the Court, concerning their own matters, without fee paying, at which time Thurſton le Dispencer the Kings Steward, exhibited his complaint to the King againſt Adam of Yarmouth Clarke of the Signet, for that he refused to ſigne his Bill without fee. The King examining the cauſe, the Clarke was heard firſt, and confeffed, that when he receiued the Booke, he ſent vnto the ſaid Steward, deſiring him onely to beſtowe of him two ſpice-cakes, made for the Kings own mouth, who anſWERed, he would not, and thereupon he denied to ſeale his Book: The King greatly blamed the Steward for his deniall, and made Adam to ſit downe vpon the bench with the Seale, and Thurſons booke, and commanded his Steward to put off his cloake, and to fetch two of the beſt ſpice-cakes for the Kings owne mouth, in a faire white napkyn, and with a curteſie to preſent them to Adam the Clarke, which done, the King commaunded Adam to ſeale and deliuer the Booke, adding this ſpeach; Officers of the Court muſt gratiſe, and ſhew a caſt of their Office, not onely one to an other, but alſo to all ſtrangers, when ſoener they ſhall require.

Hee married two wiues, the firſt was Mauld, daughter of Malcolmme Can-
moir, King of Scotland, (otherwife Malcolmme with the great head) ſhee
was married to him at London, in the yeare 1100. and liued with him 17.
yeares, and died in May, in the yeare 1118. and was buried at S. Peters
Church at Westminſter, leauing iffue one ſonne and a daughter; ſhe built
a house for leapers neere London, called S. Gyles in the field.

His

His second wife was Adelicia, daughter of Godfrey, first Duke of Louvaine, and fifth of another Godfrey, and Iocelyn of Louaine: Shee was married the 29. of January, 1121. and continued his wife fifteene yeares, but had no issue by him. Shee was after married to William de Albeney Earle of Arundell, by whom he had issue, William the second Earle of Arundell, Godfrey, and Ioane married to John Earle of Angi. This Henrie died of a sufet at Dennises, in the Forreft of Lions in Normandy, the first day of December, in the yeare 1135. beeing about 67. yeares old, hauing reigned King 35. yeares and foure Moneths.

In this Henry, ended the line of the heyres male of the Norman Kings, having reigned heere 69. yeares, after whom came the French, by marrying the heyre generall.

*Les armoiries de son père.*

The Issue of King HENRIE the first.

William, Sonne of King Henrie and Queene Mauld his first wife, was borne in the yeare 1102. and being fourteene yeeres olde, the Nobilitie did him homage, and three yeares after, he married Mary, the daughter of Foulke Earle of Aniou; and the same yeare was made Duke of Normandy, for which he did homage to King Lewis the Große of France, and after was drowned, comming out of Normandy into England, the 26. of Nouember, 1120. beeing then eighteene yeares of age, leauing no issue of his bodie.

Mauld, the onely Daughter of King Henry the first, by Mauld his first wife, was borne the fourth yeare of her Fathers Reigne, and was married to the Emperour Henry the fourth, for his second wife, beeing but seauen yeares olde at her espouling, and remarried and crowned at eleuen, at Mentz in Germany, in the yeare 1114. with whom he continued twelve yeares, and out-lived him, but had no issue by him. After he married Gefferie Plantaginet, Earle of Aniou, sonne of Foulke king of Jerusalem, in the yeare 1127. and had issue, Henry after King of England; Geffery, Earle of Nantes in Britaine; and William, Earle of Poytou: Shee was his wife 23. yeares, and a widow 17. yeares, and after dyed in Roan, 1167. and was buried at Bee Abbey in Normandy.

The Issue of King HENRIE the first, by his
Concubines.

Robert (of some Writers called the Conful of Glocefter) basé sonne of King Henry the first, begotten of Neft, the daughter of Rice ap Teuder, the great Prince of South Wales, who was after married to Girald de Windfore Conftable of the Caſtle of Penbroke. This Robert married Mabel, daughter of Robert Fitz-Hamond, Lord of Glamorgan, by whom hee had issue, William Earle of Gloceſter, and others, as in the Title of Earles of Gloceſter is more at large.

B 3

Reignald

6

Reginald, baséonne of King Henry the first, begotten of the daughter of Robert Corbet, of Alcester in Warwickshire, had issue, four daugh-
ters his heires, as in the Title of Earles of Cornwall, is more at large.

Henry flaine in Anglefey in North-Wales without issue.

Richard, Marie and Margaret were drowned, with their brother William, comming out of Normandy into England, 1120.

Constance married to the Viscount Beaumont (or Bello-monte) of the county of Mayne in France, by whom she had issue, Richard, Viscount Beaumont, Rafe bifhop of and Armengard wife to William
King of Scots; which Richard had issue, Phillip and Constance.

Julian Countesse of Paffy.

King STEPHEN.

Stephen, Earle of Mortaine and Bolloigne in Picardie, third Sonne of Stephen, Earle of Bloys & Champaigne, begotten of Alice, the third Daughter of William the Conqueror and Queene Mauld; was Crowned King on Saint Stephens day, by William Atchbihop of Canterbury, at Westminfter 1135. by the plotting of his yonger Brother Henrie, who was Bifhop of Winchelfer, and Abbot of Glostenburie, and who had drawne vnto his faction, William Archbihop of Canterbury, the verie firft man that before had sworne fealtie to Queene Mauld the Empresse, and to firvp the Nobilitie of the Realme againft the faide Mauld, protefting, that it was basenefle for so many great Peeres to bee subieft vnto a woman. And further to helpe forward this mischieuous plot, (another of the fame brood) Roger Bifhop of Salisburie, the late Kings Treasurer, protefted, that the Nobilitie were free from the Oath they had before made to Mauld the Empresse, by reafon that shee had married Geffery Plantagines, without their priuitie and conſent, (as though free Princes could not marrie without the conſent of their Subieſts) which falſe inſtigations of theſe wicked Bifhops, made the Nobilitie to forſweare themſelues, in ſwearing ſealtie vnto King Stephen a Vſurper. And theſe were the fruits of theſe honef Churchmen, who were the caufe, and loſſe alſo of many a mans life. This Stephen married Mauld, daughter of Euſtace Earle of Bolloigne, Brother of Godfrey and Baldwinkings of Ierusalem, by whom shee had issue, three ſonnes and two daughters: he reigned eighteene yeares, ten moneths, and odde dayes, and died at Douer the twentie ſiue of October, 1154. beeing forſtie nine yeares olde, and was buried at Feuerſham in Kent, where his Queene and Sonne were alſo buried. Shee died at Heningham

ningham Castle in Essex, the third of May, 1151. It is said, that King Stephen entring this Realme, the signe being in Sagittarius, and obtaining great victory by helpe of his Archers, affumed the Sagittarius for his Armes.

*Et portoit, gueulles a Sagitarius d'or.*

The Issue of King STEPHEN.

Baldwyn the eldest Sonne, died in his infancie, and was buryed at London, in the Priory of the Trinitie within Aldgate, founded by Queene *Mauld*, wife to King *Henrie* the first.

*Euſace* second Sonne, was by his Father created Earle of Bolloigne, and married *Conſtance*, fifth of Lewis the Seventh King of France, and died without issue the tenth of Auguſt, 1152. and was buried at *Feuersham*.

*William* the third Sonne, married *Isabel*, daughter and heire of *William* the third Earle of Warren and Surrey, in whose right he was Earle Warren and Surrey, Lord of Norwich and Peuenſey, Earle Mortaine, and Lord of the Egle in Normandy. He died in his retutne from Tholouz, in the yeare, 1160.

*Mauld*, the eldest Daughter of King *Stephen* dyed young, and was buried at London, in the Priorie of the Trinitie within Aldgate, cald Chrift Church, now the Dukes place.

*Marie*, second Daughter of King *Stephen*, was Abbeſſe of the Nunnery at Rumſey in Hampshire; after the forſooke her habite, and married *Matthem*, Brother of Philip Earle of Flanders, who, (in her right) was Earle of Bolloigne, and had issue, *Ida* and *Mauld*.

*M.* Camden faith, he had a bafe Sonne named *Geruſe*, which was Abbot of Westminſter, and died in the yeare, 1160.

King HENRIE the second.

HEnrie, the second of that Name, (fur-named *Short-mantle*, borne in France) Sonne of *Gefferie Plantaginet*, Earle of Aniou, and *Mauld* the Empresse, Daugh ter of King *Henrie* the first; began his Reigne o uer this Realme of England, the twentieth day of October, 1154. His firſt comming was to Winchelſter, where the Nobles of the Realme came vnto him, of whom he tooke homage and fealty : then comming to London, he was crow ned at Westminſter by *Theobald* Archbilhop of Canterbury, the ſeuenteenth of December, 1154. beeing then twentie three yeares of age. Hee chose to be of his Counſell, the graueſt and wifefst he could finde, and ſuch as were beſt experienced in the Lawes of the Land. He expelled by pub

like

B 4

8

like Proclamation, all strangers out of the Land, who had swarmed into England, in time of variance betweene King Stephen and him: amongst whom, William of Ypers Earle of Kent, was also compelled to begone; taking into his hands all such lands and posseffions as pertained to the Crowne, which had been before alienated and made away to any person of what degree fœuer. From Hugh Mortimer, he tooke the Castles of Clebery, Wigmore, and Bridgnorth. He knighted Malcome King of the Scots at Turwyn in France, for his good seruice at Tholouze, in the yeare 1159. with these words; Soyes bon Chevalier d'orefenauant au nom de Dieu: Be from hence-forth a good Knight, in the name of God. Hee married Elianor, daughter and fole heyre of William Duke of Aquitaine, Earle of Poicters and Tholouze, the first of that name, (begotten of the daughter of Raymond, Earle of Tholouze.) This Elianors Title, was the chiefe cause of those bloody warres betwixt England and France; yea, and the Bellowes that blew that vnnaturall discord, betwixt the Father and his Sonnes. Shee ouer-luied her Husband, and did see three of her Sonnes to be Kings; and died the third of the Kalends of Aprill, 1204. This Henrie died the fixt day of July, 1189. in the fixtie one yeare of his age, when he had reigned thirty foure yeares, nine moneths, and two dayes, and was buried at Founteunerald, in the Dutchy of Alanfon, neere to the Towne of the Egle.

*Lt portoit, guenelles au deux leopard passant d'or.*

The Issue of King HENRY the second
and Queene ELIANOR his Wife.

William eldeſt Sonne, borne in the yeare, 1152. to whom the Nobility ſware fealty at the Caſtle of Wallingſord in Berkshire; he died in the yeare 1156. beeing but ſiue yeares olde, and was buried at Reading, by his great Grandfather, Henrie the first.

Henry the second Sonne, after the death of William his Brother, was Duke of Normandy, Earle of Aniou and Mayne, and was crowned King in the life time of his Father, the fifteenth of June, 1170. His wife was Margaret, daughter of Lewis the younger, King of France, and was married at Newburghin Normandy, 1160. and she was after crowned Queen at Winchefter, 1163. He died at Marcell in Touraine, the eleuenth of June, 1182. and was buried at Roan.

Richard the third Sonne, was borne at Oxford, 1157. and was fur-named of the French Cuer-de-Lyon. He was first created Earle of Poytou, and had the whole Dutchy of Aquitaine, for which he did his homage to King Lewis the younger of France, 1170. After he fell at variance with his Father, and maintained wars againſt him: but he was afterwards reconciled into his Fathers loue againe, and ſucceeded him in his Kingdome.

Geſrey the fourth Sonne, borne the first yeare of his Fathers reigne: married Conſtance, daughter and heyre of Conan Duke of Britaine, and did his homage for the fame to his brother Henry, and died at Paris, 1186. the nineteenth

nineteenth of August, and was buried in our Lady Church there, hauing
issue, Arthur Duke of Britaine, borne after his Fathers death; and a daugh-
ter named Elianor, which died in prison, in King Henry the thirds time.
This Constance was also married to Randoll Earle of Chester.

Philip the fifth Sonne, was borne in the fifteenth yeare of his Fathers
Reigne, and died young, and was buried in S. Pauls Church in Lon-
don.

John the fixt Sonne, was borne in the yeare 1166. and fur-named Sanz-
terre, without Land; becaufe when he was King, he reigned his Crowne
and Kingdome to the Pope : which Pandulphus his Legate kept ( for the
fpace of foure dayes) to the Popes vſe. He was created Earle of Mortaigne
and had withall the Earledomes of Cornwall, Glocefter, Derby, and Lan-
caster, the Honours of Wallingford and Nottingham, and lastly was
King of England.

Mauld the eldest Daughter, was borne in the third yeere of her Fathers
Reigne, and Married Henrie, furnamed the Lyon, Duke of Saxonie and
Sardinia; thee furuiued her husband, and died in the firſt yeere of King
Richard the firſt, and was after Buried by her Husband in the Church of
Saint Blaſe at Brunſwicke, leauing Issue, Otho Emperour, Henrie Duke of
Saxonie, and William, and a Daughter named Elianor.

Elianor ſecond Daughter, borne at Roane, 1162. Married Alfonſus
the ninth of that name, King of Caſtile in Spaine, and had Issue, Sanche-
us that died yong, as alſo his Brother Ferdinando; Henrie King of Caſtile;
Blanch Queene of France, Wife to Lewis the eight, and Mother of Saint
Lewis; Berengar Married vnto Alphonſus King of Leon, Vrraca Queene
of Portingall, and Elianor Wife to King James King of Arragon.

Ioane the third Daughter, borne in the Citie of Angiers in France, 1166
being but eleuen yeeres old, was conueyed to the Citie of Palermo, and
there Married to William the ſecond King of Cicill, Duke of Apulia, and
Prince of Capua, 1177. and was Crowned Queene at the fame place. She
had Issue, a Sonne named Reaumond, who was Duke of Apulia, and died
yong: Shee was after Married to Raymond the fourth of that Name, Earle
of Tholouze, and had Issue Raymond, the laſt Earle of that Houſe or Fa-
mily; and a Daughter married to Berald of Elbeine, Prince of Orange.

The Issue of King HENRIE the ſecond, by
his Concubines.

W
 illiam, fur-named Longſpee (or Long-sword) begotten of his
Paramore, the Lady Reamond, Daughter of Walter Lord Clif-
ford, Married Ela Daughter and heire of William Fitz-patricke Earle of
Salisburie, and had Issue, William Longſpee a Baron; Stephen ſecond Sonne,
 Nicholas Bifhop of Salisburie; and Richard the fourth Sonne, was a Can-
on at Bradſtocke: Idona, Married to William Beauchampe Baron of Bed-
ford; Ella, firſt married to the Earle of Warwicke, and after to Phillip
Lord

4

Lord Basset; and Isabel, first married to William Lord Vespay, and after to Walter Lord Clifford, Father of Roger.

Morgan begotten of the wife of Sir Rodulpe Blewet Knight.

King RICHARD the first.

Richard, the third Sonne of King Henry the second, was borne at Oxford,
in the yeare 1157. who for his invincible
valour & haughty courage was fur-named Cuer-
de-Lyon, or the Lyons Heart; and did beare on
his Sheild or Targe for his Armes, a-Lyon ram-
pant, which was the first Armes that euer I haue
seene borne by any in England. He began his
Reigne ouer England, the fixt day of July, in the
yeare of our Lord, 1189. being thirty fiue yeeres
olde. And vpon the Solemnizing of his Fathers
Funerals, he went to the City of Roan, where,
on the twentieth of July after, he was proclai-
med Duke of Normandy. In the beginning of
his reigne, Pope Innocent solicited him with ma-
ny strong perfusions, and promises of his blef-
fings, to wage warre in his owne Person againft
the Turkes in the holy Land, and to attempt the winning of Ierusalem
from the Infidels; which journey he vndertooke, because Fredericke the
Emperour, and Philip the second of France, and Leopoldus then Arch-
Duke of Auftria, and others had engaged themselues, to further those at-
tempts, that their generall meeting should be in Sicilia: and that such
wealth and booty as God and good fortune should make them owners of,
should be equally shared and diuided amongst them and theirs. King Ri-
chard to supply his wants, and to furnish himselfe with money, he sold the
Caftles of Barwicke and Rokesbrough to the King of Scots, for ten thou-
fand pounds; and the Lordship and Earledome of Durham, vnto Hugh the
proud Bishop of that See, for a great fumme of money. He also enriched
himſelfe by the ſale of ſundry Honours, Lordships, Mannors, Offices,
Priuiledges, Royalties, and other things; proteſing, that ( for the per-
formance of ſo great and honourable a ſeruice) hee was not vnwilling to
ſell his Citie of London, if any were able to buy it, rather then he would
be chargeable vnto others. His iournie beeing performed, and hee pro-
claimed King of Ierusalem, and had the poffefion thereof, and after ma-
king his returne for England; was in danger of shipwracke, where he ſaueſ
his life by ſwimming, neere vnto Hiftria, which lieth betweene Aquileia
and Venice. And comming to the Territories of Leopold in Auftria, hee
was by him taken prifoner, and ſold to the Emperour Henry the fixt, for
three-

II

three core thousand Markes; which Emperour affeffed him to pay for his
ransome, one hundred thousand pounds; for which, ſecuritie being giuen,
he was ſet at libertie. He was firſt contracted in marriage to Alice, Daugh-
ter of Lewis the ſeventh King of France, but with her he neuer kept com-
panie, nor had any ill ſue.

His ſecond wife was *Berengaria*, daughter of *Sanches* the fourth, King of Navarre, who married him at Cyprus, and accompanied him to the holy Land, but by her had no ill ſue. He was ſlaine by *Bertram de Gurdonn*, with the ſhot out of a Crotſebow, at a Caſtle of the Viſcount of Limoges, called Chalons, which wounding him in the ſhoulder, the Surgeons haſing drawne out the wood of the Arrow, and not the envenomed yron forke; mangled the Arme with cruell inciſions, that the paines thereof haſtened his death, when he had reigned almoſt nine yeeres. He was buried at Founteuerard in France at his Fathers ſeete, the ſixt of Aprill, in the yeare 1199. without any lawfull ill ſue. He had two bafe children, *Philip* a ſonne Lord of Cuinac, and *Isabell* a daughter.

King *Richard* the firſt, did beare for his Armes in his Pauis or Shield, one Lyon rampant: and this is the firſt Armes that ever I could ſee any authoritie for: but afterward he bare three Lyons paſſant gardant.

## King JOHN.

John, the ſixt, and youngeſt Sonne of King Henrie the ſecond, was borne in the yeare 1166. and by his Father was made Earle of Moriton, and Lord of Ireland; and by the bounſtie and gift of King Richard his Brother, he was Earle of Cornwall, Lancaſter, and Somerſet, and after his Brothers death, at Roane he was created Duke of Normandy. And laſtly, vpon the Ascension day, 1199. he was crowned at Westminſter King of England. He was ſur-named *John Sanz-terre*, becauſe (when he was King) he reſigned both Crowne and Kingdome to the Pope, which *Pandulph* the Legate kept for the ſpace of four dayes to the Popes vſe. The whole course of this Kings gouernment, was accompanied with continuall troubles; & his two Perſecutors were Pope *Innocent* the third, and *Philip* the ſe-

cond King of France. He married three wiues, the firſt was *Alice*, one of the daughters and coheyres of *Hubert* Earle of Mortaigne, in whose right he was Earle Mortaigne, ſhee died without ill ſue. His ſecond wife was *Isabell*, daughter and co-heire of *William* Earle of Gloceſter, ſonne of Earle *Robert*, married to him when he was Earle of Moritayne, the firſt of King *Richard* the firſt, and after tenne yeares (hauing no ill ſue) was the firſt yeare

12

yeare of his Reigne divorced from him, vnder pretence of confanguinitie,
and married to Geffery Magna-vile, Earle of Efflex; and after his deceaſe,
to Hubert de Burgo, Earle of Kent, and died without iffue.

Ifabell, third wife to King John, was Sifter and heyre of Aymer Tailefer
Earle of Angolesme, by whom he had iffue as hereafter followeth. This
Ifabell ouer-luied King John, and married Hugh de Brun, Earle of the Mar-
ches of Aquitaine, and Lord of Luſignan and Valence in Poytou, (to
whom ſhee should haue been married, before ſhee married King John) by
whom ſhee had diuers children, greatly advanced by King Henry the third
their halſe Brother. This King, lying in the Abbey of Swaſteed, not far
from Lincolne, was poyſoned by a Monke, of the Order of S. Bernard;
who to make his match ſure, and to avoide ialouſe and ſuſpition, firſt
dranke vnto the King, and poyſoned himſelfe: the King beeing brought
from the ſaid Abbey in a Horſe-litter, vnto the Caſtle of Newarke, there
died on S. Lukes night, the 14. Kalends of Nouember, and was after buri-
ed at Worcester, in the yeare 1216. when he had reigned ſeuenteen years,
ſiue moneths, lacking eight dayes, at the age of fifſt one yeares.

This John beeing King of England and Duke of Normandy, in right of
his Grand-mother Mauld the Empreſſe; and Duke of Aquitaine by Elianor
his Mother, ioyned the Armes of Aquitaine, beeing a Lyon paſſant gar-
dant vnto the Armes of Normandy and England, making it Gueulles trois
Lyons paſſant gardant d'or.

The Iſſue of King IOHN by ISABELL
his last Wife.

K
ing Henrie the third, borne at Wincheſter, the firſt of October, 1208.
being the tenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne.

Richard, ſecond Sonne of King John, was borne the next yeare after his
Brother King Henry, by whom he was made Knight, and created Earle of
Cornwall; and by the Electors, choſen to be Emperour of the West, and
crowned King of the Romans and Almany, at the City of Acon in Ger-
many; (others haue at Aquifgraue.) He married three wiues, the firſt was
Ifabell, the daughter of William Marshall the younger, Earle of Penbroke,
widdow of Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Gloceſter, by whome he had iffue,
Henry ſlaine at Vitirbo in Italy, and John who died both without iffue.
His ſecond wife was Senchia, daughter of Raymond Earle of Prouince, and
Sifter to Queene Elianor his Brothers wife, who was crowned with him
at Acon, and by whom he had iffue, Edmond Earle of Cornwall, and o-
thers. His third and laſt wife was Beatrix, Niece to the Archbiſhop of
Coleyne. This Richard died at his Mannor of Barkhamſted, the twen-
tieth of Aprill, 1271. others ſay, 1272. and his body was buried in the Mo-
naſterie of Hayles in Gloceſterſhire, and his heart in the Abbey of Reuly
in Oxford, which was of his foundation.

Ioane the eldeſt Daughter was married to Alexander the ſecond King
of

of Scots, who comming into England to see her Brother King Henry the
third, died at London, and was buried in the Nunnerie at Tarent in Dor-
setshire, the fourth of March, 1236.

Elianor second daughter, was first married to William Marshall the youn-
ger, Earle of Penbroke, who died before the wedding Feast was ended.
Shee married after, Simon Mountfort Earle of Leicester (sonne of Simon
Earle Mounfort in France) who maintaining the Barons warres, againft
King Henry the third, was flaine at the battaile of Euesham, 1265. After
whose death, she and her Children were banifhed England, and died in
the Nunnery at Montarges in France; as in the Title of Earles of Leicester
is more at large.

Isabell youngest daughter, was borne in the yeare 1214. who beeing twenty one yeares of age, married the Emperour Fredericke in the Citie of Wormes in Germany, the twentieth of July, 1235. Shee beeing his fixt Wife, had issue by him, Henry elected King of Cicily, and Margaret, Wife of Albert Landgrae of Thurin. Shee died in childbed the first of December, 1241.

The Bafe Children of King IOHN.

Richard, bafe fonne of King John, with Hugh de Burgo Earle of Kent,
ouerthrew the Nauie of Lewis the French Kings Sonne, in the second
yeare of King Henrie the third. He married Rohefia, daughter and heyre
of Richard de Douer, Sonne and heire of Fulbert de Douer, who built the
Castle of Chilham in Kent, and had issue, two daughters, Lora wife to Wil-
liam Marmyon, and Isabell married to Dauy Strabolgie Earle of Ætholl.

Geoffrey Fitz-Roy, bafe fonne of King John, who transported Soldiours
into France, when Arch-Bifhop Hubert, forbad King John his Father to
goe thither.

Ioane, bafe daughter of King John, begotten of Agatha, daughter of
William Earle Ferrars and Derby, was married to Lewellin Prince of
Wales, 1204. with whom her Father gaue in marriage, the Castle and
Lordshippe of Elinfmere, or Ellefmer in the Marcheffe of South-Wales :
which deed beareth date at Douer, the fixteenth of Aprill, in the fixt yeare
of the Said Kings Reigne.

C

King

King HENRY the third.

Enrie, Sonne and Heyre of King John,
was borne at Winchelfer, the firft
of October, in the yeare 1208. beeing
the tenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne; and being
of the age of nine yeares, was crowned King at
Glocefter, the 28. of October, 1216. by Peter, Bi-
hop of Winchelfer, and the Protecion of him
and his Realme, was committed to William Mar-
shall the elder, Earle of Penbrooke; and after his
death, 1218. he was committed to Peter, Bisbop
of Winchelfer, by whose counfell he was crow-
ned the second time, at Westminfter, in the firft
yeare of his Reigne. He had great trouble and
warres with his Barons, and was taken prifoner
at the battaile of Lewis in Suffex, 1263. and with
him, Richard King of Romanes his Brother, and
Prince Edward his Sonne, with many others: Si-
mon Mountfort Earle of Leicester, Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocefter, and
Robert Earle Ferrars, and Derby, beeing the Ring-leaders of the rebellious
Barons. Not long after, the King, Prince, and others were fet at liberty,
and raiſing new Forces, fought a battaile at Euerflam in Worcelfershire,
where the Barons were diſcomfited, and Simon Earle of Leicester, with his
eldeſt Sonne, and Sir Hugh Spencer, and many others of great account
were ſlaine. This ouerthrow did vtterly defeate the Barons, and depriued
them of all their hopes, and ſo reviued the melancholy King, that now
he began againe to be ſenſible of his ſtrength, and reſolued (with all ſpeed
poffible) to breake thoſe chaines, with which ſo lately he was ſo strongly
bound.

bound.

He married *Elianor*, second daughter and one of the co-heyres of *Raymond Berengarius*, Earle of Prouence, by *Beatrix*, daughter of *Thomas* Earle of Sauoy, and filter to the Earles *Amee* and *Peter*, and *Boniface*, Archbifhop of Canterbury. Shee was married at Canterbury, the foureteenth of Ianuarie, 1236. and was crowned at Westminfter, the nineteenth of Ianuary after. This Queene in her widdowhood, renounced all royall pompe and Princely ſtate, and became a Nunne at Ambresbury. He fell ſicke at S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, and died the fixteenth of Nouember, 1272 when he had liued ſixtie ſiue yeares, and reigned ſiftie ſixe yeares, and twentie eight dayes, and was buried at Westminfter. Shee was his Wifefhritie ſeauen yeares, his Widdowe netteene yeares, and died a Nun at Almesbury, the twentie firſt of June, 1291. and was there buried in her Monaſtery, the eleuenth of September after.

bound.

He married *Elianor*, second daughter and one of the co-heyres of *Raymond Berengarius*, Earle of Prouence, by *Beatrix*, daughter of *Thomas* Earle of Sauoy, and filter to the Earles *Amee* and *Peter*, and *Boniface*, Archbifhop of Canterbury. Shee was married at Canterbury, the foureteenth of Ianuarie, 1236. and was crowned at Westminfter, the nineteenth of Ianuary after. This Queene in her widdowhood, renounced all royall pompe and Princely state, and became a Nunne at Ambresbury. He fell ſicke at S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, and died the fixteenth of Nouember, 1272 when he had liued ſixtie ſiue yeares, and reigned ſiftie ſixe yeares, and twentie eight dayes, and was buried at Westminfter. Shee was his Wifefhritie ſeauen yeares, his Widdowe netteene yeares, and died a Nun at Almesbury, the twentie firſt of June, 1291. and was there buried in her Monaſtery, the eleuenth of September after.

Et portoit, d'engleterre, gueulles trois Lyons paſſant gardant d'or, arme
& lampaffe d'azur.

His

16 A Catalogue of the Kings of England.

others, as they allighted from their backs: and it was free for any that could, to catch and haue them as their owne.

King Edward beeing returned out of Wales, diuerse complaints were preſented vnto him, againſt diuers of his Iuſtices, namely, Sir Thomas Weyland, Lord Cheife-Iuſtice of the Kings Bench, Adam Stretton, William Brampton, Roger Leicester, and John Luneth, all Iuſtices of the ſaid Bench, with Robert Lithbury, Maſter of the Rolles: Sir Thomas Weyland, by a Queſt of twelue men was found guilty, acceſſary for a murder, for releeuing the murderer after the deed done: For which he tooke Sanctuary in the Church of the Friars Minors at S. Edmonds-bury: from whence he was had, and brought and deliuered to Sir Robert Mallet Knight, who ſent him to the Tower of London, and after baniſhed the Land, and all his goods confiscated to the Kings vſe. William Brampton, Roger Leicester, John Luneth, and Richard Lithbury before named, being accuſed of wrongfull iudgements, and other ſowle miſ-demeanors, were deliuered out of the Tower of London, by paying each of them a thouſand Markes fine: and Salomon de Rogefter, Thomas de Sudington, Richard de Boiland, and Walier de Hopton, Iuſtices that rode the circuites, were charged with the like offences, and were puniſhed accordingly. Sir Raphe de Hingham, a Iuſtice of great account, and who had the managing of the whole affaires of the Realme, was charged with many notorious abuſes, and purchased his peace with a great ſumme of money. Adam de Stretten, Lord Cheife-Baron of the Exchequer, a man of gteat poſſeffions, loft all his liuings, and thirty thouſand Markes in readie money; and yet it was thought he had great ſauour, in that hee loft not his life. In this Kings time, the Clergy of England pretended a diſcharge, by a Canon then late ly made at the Councell held at Lyons in France, and denied to contribute any thing to the temporall neceſſities of King Edward, who in Parliament re-plyed, ſaying, If you reſufe to helpe me in my neceſſities, I will alſo reſufe to helpe you: for if you deny to pay tribute to me as your King, I will reſufe to proteet you as my Subiects; and therfore if you be ſpoyléd, robbed, maimed, and murthered, ſeeke for no ſuccour or defence of me nor mine.

King Edward married two wiues, and had iſſue by them both. Queene Elianor his firſt Wife, was ſifter of Alphonſus King of Caſtile, and daugh ter of Ferdinando the third: Shee was married to him at Bures in Spaine, 1254. and was crowned with him, and liued with him thirty ſixe yeares, and died at Herdeby in Lincolnſhire, the twentie ninth of Nouember, 1290. and was buried at Weſtminſter, and at euery place where he reſted, comming from Herdeby, he ereſt ed a Croſſe.

Margaret his ſecond Wife, was ſifter of Philip the faire King of France, and eldeſt daughter of Philip the Hardie, ſonne of S. Lewis; ſhee was married vnto him at Canterbury, the eight of September, 1299. Shee ouerliued King Edward, and remained a Widdow tenne yeares after, and died the tenth of Edward the ſecond, 1317. and was buried in the Gray-Friars in London, before the high Altar in the Quier, which before ſhee had built.

King

17

King Edward died at Burgh vpon the Sands, in the yeare 1307. the Sea-
uenth of July, when he had reigned thirtie foure yeares, Seauen moneths,
and odde dayes, being fixtie eight yeares olde, and was buried at Wes-
minfter; vnto which Church he had giuen a hundred pound land a yeare.

Et portoit, de gueulles, au trois Lyons passant gardant d'or, armé & lam-
passe d'azur.

The Issue of King ED VVARD the first
by his first Wife.

John eldeft Sonne, borne at Winchelfer, and died a child, and was burie-
d at Wesminfter, the eight of Auguſt, in the laste yeare of King Henry
the third.

Henry ſecond Sonne, died young, his Father being then in the Ille of
Cicill, and was buried at Wesminſter, the twentieth of November, 1272.

Alphons third Sonne, borne in the Towne of Mayne in Gaſcoigne; as
Father and Mother were comming out of the Holy-Land to Engiand, the
twenty third of November, 1273. and died at Windſore, the fourth of Au-
guſt, 1285. and was buried at Canterbury.

Edward the fourth Sonne, borne at Cairnarvon in North-Wales, the twenty fifth of Aprill, 1284. After the death of Lewylin ap Griffith, was created Prince of Wales by his Father, being the first of the Kings ſonnes of England, that had that Title. He was alſo Earle of Ponthieu, and of Chefter, and was made Knight by his Father on Whitſonday, 1306.

Elianor eldeſt Daughter, borne at Windeſore, in the fiftieth yeare of
her Grand-Fathers Reigne, and was married with a Proxie, to a Deputy
for Alphons Kiug of Arragon, ſonne of King Peter, who died before
marriage, leauing his Kingdome to his Brother James. Shee was after mar-
ried at Briftow, 1291. to VVilliam the third Earle of Barrie, in Champayne
in France, and had iſſue, Edward Earle of Barrie, from whom the Dukes
and Earles of Barrie do deſcend. Ioane her daughter was married to John
Earle Warren and Surrey in England.

Ioane ſecond Daughter, was borne at Acon in the Holy-Land, where
he Mother remained, during her Fathers wars with the Sarrazins, and
being eighteene yeares olde, was married to Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Glo-
ceſter and Hartford, by whom ſhee had iſſue, Gilbert Earle of Clare, ſaine
in Scotland without iſſue, and others as in the Title of Earles of Gloce-
ſter. Shee married to her ſecond husband, Sir Raph Mounthermer Knight,
who (during his wiues life) was Earle of Gloceſter, and ſate in all Parlia-
ments by that Title. Shee liued thirtie eight yeares, and dyed in the firſt
yeare of the Reigne of King Edward the ſecond, and was buried in the
Fryers Auguſtines in Clare.

Margaret third Daughter, borne in the Caſtle of Windeſore, 1275.
and at eighteene yeares of age, was married at Wesminſter, on the ninth
day of July, 1290. to Iohm the ſecond Duke of Brabant, and had iſſue, Iohm

C 3

the

18

the third, Father of Margaret, wife of Lewis of Mechlyn, Earle of Flinders, and Mother of the Lady Margaret, heyre of Brabant and Flanders, who was married to Philip Duke of Burgundy.

Berengaria the fourth Daughter, borne 1276. and died a child.

Alice the fifth Daughter, died young.

Mary fixt Daughter, borne at Windefore the twentie two of Aprill, 1279. was at ten yeares of age made a Nun, at Ambresbury in Wiltshire, at the request of Queen Elyanor her Grand-mother, who at that time was Lady Abbeſſe there.

Elizabeth the Seauenth Daughter, was borne in Rutland Castle in Flintshire, 1284. and being foureteene yeares olde was married at London, to Iohn the first of that name, Earle of Holland, and Lord of Freezeland, who dyed two yeares after without issue. After whose death, ſhe was married to Humſrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, without any dowry, by whom ſhee had issue, Iohn and Humſrey, as in the Title of Earles of Hereford.

Beatrix, the eight Daughter of King Edward the first.

Blanch the ninth daughter, died a Child.

The Issue of King EDVARD the first, by Queen

MARGARET his second VVife.

Thomas the fifth Sonne of King Edward the first, was borne at Brother-
ton, a little Village in Yorkshire, in the yeare 1300. and was (after the
death of Roger Bigot) created Earle of Norfolke, and Marſhall of England.
He had two wiues, the first was Katharine, Daughter of Sir Roger Hayles,
of Harwich in Suffolke, by whom he had issue, Edward and others, as in
the Title of the Earles of Norfolke. His second Wife was Mary, daugh-
ter of VVilliam Lord Ros, widow of Sir Raphe Cobham, who out-living
him, married the third time, VVilliam Lord Bruse, of Brember in Suffex.

Edmond the fixt Sonne, was borne at Woodstocke in Oxfordshire, the
fift of Auguſt, 1301. and was created Earle of Kent. He married Margaret,
daughter of Iohn, and fifth and ſole heire of Thomas Lord VVake of Lidell
in Northamptonshire, and had issue, two ſonnes that died without issue,
and one daughter, as in the Title of Earles of Kent. The daughter was
Ioane, fur-named, The faire Maide of Kent, first married to VVilliam Moun-
tague Earle of Salisbury; from whom being divorced, ſhee was after mar-
ried to Sir Thomas Holland Earle of Kent, and by him had issue, Thomas
and Iohn, both Dukes of Surrey, and Earles of Huntington. Laſtly, ſhee
married for her third husband, Edward the blacke Prince, and had issue,
King Richard the ſecond. This Edmond was beheaded at VWinchefter, the
nineteenth of March, in the fourth yeare of King Edward the third his Ne-
phew.

Henry the ſeauenth Sonne, died young, and was buried at Lincolne.

Elianor the tenth daughter, was borne at VWinchefter, the fixt of May,
1306. and died young without issue, and was buried in S. Peters Church
at Westminſter.

*Anne*

Anne

Anne was a Nun in the Mynories in London.

Alice died young, and was buried in the Temple at London.

King EDVARD the Second.

Edward of Carnaruan, so named of the
place of his birth, began his Reigne, the
seauenth day of July, 1307. and on the
twenty fourth day of February after, he with his
Queene Isabell, were crowned at Westminster,
by Henry Bishop of Winchester. Hee caufed
 Walter de Langton, Bishop of Couentry and
Lichfield, and Lord Treasurer of England, to be
arrefted by Sir John Felton, Conftable of the
Tower of London, and sent to Wallingford,
there to be kept prifoner, and his goods to bee
confiScate, and giuen to Pieres of Gauefton; which
Pieres being before banifhed England by the faid
Bifhops meanes, was now ſent for and receiued
againe into moſt high ſauour, and made Earle of
Cornwall, his principall Secretarie, and Lord
Chamberlaine. By whose company and ſociety,

he was sodainly corrupted; whereby he neglected and disdained the good
counſell and company of his Nobility, giuing himſelfe to wantonnes, paſ-
ſing his time in voluptuous pleafure, and riotous exceſſe. And to helpe
this matter forward, Pieres furniſhed the Court with Ieſters, Ruffians,
flattering parafites, and other vile and naughtie rybalds, that the King
might ſpend both dayes and nights inſting, playing, banquetting, and
other ſuch diſhonourable exerciſes. And to aduance thoſe like vnto him-
ſelfe, he procured for them honourable Offices and preferments: all which
greatly encreaſed the hatred of the Nobility, and the more, in regard of
his high and haughty cariage of himſelfe. Beeing now advanced to ho-
nour, he would not once yeeld an inch to any; which procured him great
enuy amongſt the cheifeſt Peeres of the Realme: namely. Henry Lacy,
Earle of Lincoln; Guy, Earle of Warwicke; and Almerick de Valence, Earle
of Penbroke, the Earle of Arundell, and others; who vpon ſuch wrath
and diſpleaſure as they had conceiued againſt him, thought it not meet to
ſuffer the fame any longer; in hope that the Kings minde might haply be
altered to better purpofe, if the corrupter thereof were once baniſhed from
him.

Hereupon they affembled together in a Parliament time, at the Newe
Temple in London, and there agreed, that the ſaid Pieres ſhould depart, &
be baniſhed the Realme againe the ſecond time; & not to returne againe at
any time after. To this the King ( but ſore againſt his will ) agreed, and
made his Letters Patents to the ſaid Lords, to witneſſe the fame : and the

C 4

Arch-

20

Archbishop of Canterbury did pronounce the said *Pieres* accursed, if hee
tarried any longer then the time appointed him, and likewife all thos[e] that
should aide, helpe, or maintaine him. Whereupon *Pieres* was confrained
to ship himselfe at Briftow for Ireland, though fore againft the Kings will,
threatning the Lords to be reuenged. But not long after, *Pieres* returned
againe into England, and came to the King at Yorke; at whose comming
the King greatly reioyced; and lying in the Bishops Pallace, cauſed *Pieres*
to be lodged in the Caſtle, not farre from him.

Not long after, the King was willing (for his recreation) to take the Sea,
leauing *Pieres* of Gaueſton at Yorke. The Barrons purſued Gaueſton, who
ſledded to Scarborough, where the Barrons took him, and carried him to
a place called Blacklow, and there the ninth of June, cauſed his head to be
ſtricken off. Afterwards, the young Prince, the Queene and Nobilitie,
finding fault with the two *Spencers* (*Hugh* the Father, and *Hugh* the Son,
for misleading and abusing the King and State, in like manner as Gaueſton
had done) cauſed them likewife to be taken and put to death, without any
triall or anſwer. Which done, the Queen with her Son and the Nobility,
called a Parliament, wherein King *Edward* was iudged not worthy to beare
or weare the Crowne; but (for diuers cauſes) was to be depoſed, and Prince
*Edward* his Sonne, to be choſen his place. This beeing agreed on, King
*Edward* beeing all this while prifoner in Kenilworth Caſtle, was taken
and carried from thence by night, to Corſe Caſtle, and from thence to
Barkeley Caſtle, where he was moſt cruelly murdered, by *Thomas Corney*,
and *John Maltreuers*, and others his keepers. He was depoſed the twentie
ſiue of Ianuarie, 1326. when he had reigned almoſt twenty yeares, and
was murthered the twentie one of September, 1327. and his body was
buried at Gloceſter.

He married *Isabell*, Daughter of *Phillip* furnamed the Faire, King of France, and of *lane* his wife, daughter of *Henrie* King of Nauarre, and *Blanch* his wife daughter of *Robert* Earle of Arthoys, this *Isabell* was filter and heyre of her three Brothers, *Lodowike Hutin*, *Philip* the Long, and *Charles* the Fayre. Shee was married in our Lady Church at Bolloigne, the twenty two of January, 1038. being but twelue yeares olde, and was his wife twentie yeares, and his widow thirty, and died at Rıſing neere London, and was buried in the Gray-Fryars in London.

*Et portoit, les armes de son Peré.*

The Issue of King EDWARD the Second.

Edward (furnamed of Windsor) eldest Sonne, borne in Windsor
Caſtle, the thirteenth of October, 1312. the fixt of his Fathers Reigne.
He was first created Prince of Wales, and Duke of Aquitaine, in a Parlia-
ment held at Yorke, 1322. and was made Lord Warden of England, vnto
whom all the Lords fware fealtie, and receiued the oath of Allegiance. He
was after King of England, by the name of King Edward the third.

John

John Earle Warren, Thomas Lord Wake, Henrie Lord Percie, Sir Oliuer Ingham, and the Lord John Ros; who were sworne of the Kings counsell, and charged with the gouernement, as they would answere the fame.

In the firſt yeere of this Kings Reigne, died Charles King of France, the third brother of Queene Ifabell, mother of King Edward the third; by whose death, the Kingdome of France did descend to King Edward, by Ifabell his mother, the onely ſifter and heire of her three brothers, Lo-dowike Hutin, Philip le Long, and Charles the Faire, Kings of France. But the ſaid Kingdome was vſurped and poſſeffed by Philip de Valois, vnkle to the ſaid Charles, who did intrude himſelfe by force.

In the yeere 1339. King Edward going to make his claime to the King-
dome of France, (prayed aide of the Flemings, who before had ſworne,
and bound themſelues in a bond of a million of gold in the Popes Cham-
ber, that they ſhould alwaies helpe the King of France, and fight vnder
his Enſigne) for releaſe whereof, King Edward, by the perſwalion of Ia-
ques d'Artuell of Gaunt, did quarter the Armes of France with the Armes
of England, and proclaimed himſelfe King of France. By which aſt, the
Flemings held themſelues diſcharged of their band and oath. After,
Charles the fixt French King of that Name, enuying greatly, that the
Kings of England ſhould beare the Armes of France, ( which was ſemie
de luces) changed the fame vnto three De luces; of which thing, King
Henrie the firſt of England tooke example and bare the like. By reaſon
whereof, the Kings of France, haue euer ſince ceaſed to make any further
change of their Armes. In the yeere, 1360. the ſoure and thirtieth of this
Kings Reigne, John King of France was deliuered from being priſoner
here in England, and payd for his ransome, three millions of Florence or
Scutes, euery two, to be worth a Noble Engliſh.

He married Philip, daughter of William Earle of Henault and Holland,
and fifters daughter of Philip of Valois, King of France afore mentioned.
This marriage was at Yorke, the ſoure and twentieth of Ianuarie, and
he was crowned at Westminſter, the firſt Sunday in Lent following, 1327.
Shee was his wife two and fortie yeeres, and died the fifteenth of Auguſt,
1369. and was buried at Westminſter. King Edward her huſband, died at
Sheene, now called Richmond, the one and twentieth of Iune, 1377.
after hee had liued fixtie fiue yeeres, and reigned fiftie yeeres, ſoure
moneths, and twentie eight dayes. His bodie was conuayed from
Sheene, by his ſoure ſonnes, Lionell Duke of Clarence, Iohn of Gaunt,
Duke of Lancafter, Edmond of Langley, Duke of Yorke, and Thomas of
Woodſtocke, Earle of Cambridge, with others, and was buried at Weſt-
minſter.

The

The Issue of King Edward the third.

Edward eldest sonne (borne at Woodstocke the fixteenth Kalends of June, 1330.) was created Prince of Wales, Duke of Aquitaine and Cornwall, and Earle of Chester, and Earle of Kent in right of his wife Ioane, daughter of Edmond Earle of Kent. (brother by the father, to King Edward the second) Shee had beene twice married before, first to the Earle of Salisburie, and after to Thomas Holland. She had issue by Prince Edward, two Sonnes, Edward borne at Angolesme, who died young; and Richard borne at Burdeaux, who was after King of England, by the name of King Richard the second.

This Prince had issue also, two baftard Sonnes, Sir John Sounder, and Sir Roger Claridon Knights; the latter was attainted in King Henrie the fourths time, for publishing that King Richard the second was aliue.

William second Sonne, was borne at Hatfield in Hartfordshire, 1335. and was fur-named William of Hatfield; he had his chriften name of William Earle of Henault, his grand-father, and died in his childhood, and was buried at Yorke.

Lionell third Sonne, was borne in the Citie of Antwerpe, the nine and twentieth of November, 1338. being the vigill of Saint Andrew, and was fur-named of Antwerpe. Hee had two wiues, the first was Elizabeth, daughter of John de Burgh Earle of Vlfter in Ireland, and Sifter and heire of William Burgh Earle of Vlfter her brother, in whose right he was first created Earle of Vlfter. And becaufe hee had with her the Honour of Clare in Norfolke, as parcell of the inheritance of her Grand-mother (Elizabeth, Sifter and co-heire of the last Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocefter) He was in Parliament, 1362. created Duke of Clarence; from which Dutchie, the name of Clavenceux, King of Armes of the South parts of England, taketh his denomination. He had issue by the said Elizabeth, one only daughter named Philip, married to Edmond Mortimer Earle of March, grand-father of Anne, Countesse of Cambridge, grand-mother of King Edward the fourth.

He was after married at Millaine in Lumbardie, to the Ladie Violanta, daughter of Galeazo, the second Duke thereof; as in the Earles of Clare is set forth.

John fourth Sonne, borne at Gaunt in Flanders, 1340. was first created Earle of Richmond, which wasurrendred to John Duke of Britaine, fur-named The valiant, who had married Marie his Sifter, to whose Duke-dome formerly it had belonged.

This John married three Wives, the first was Blanch, daughter and heire of Henrie Duke of Lancafter, ( Sonne of Edmond Chroochbacke) by whom he had issue, King Henry the fourth; Philip, Wife to John the first, King of Portingall; and Elizabeth, first married to John Holland Earle of Huntington, and after to Sir John Cornwall Baron of Fanhope. His second Wife was Constance, eldest daughter of Peter King of Caftile and Leon,

in

24

in whose right he intituled himselfe King of both those Realmes, and had
iffue, Katherine, Wife to Henry the third, fonne of King John, King of
both those Realmes.

His third Wife was Katharine Swynford, Widdow of Sir Otho or Otes Swynford, Knight of Lincolnshire, daughter and co-heyre of Sir Payn Ret, alias Guien, King of Armes, a Gafcoigne borne, whose other daughter Anne, was married to Sir Geoffrey Chaucer Knight, the Poet. By this Katharine Swynford, he had iffue before marriage, and made legitimate by Act of Parliament, the twentieth yeare of King Richard the second; John Earle of Somerset, Thomas Duke of Excefter, and Earle of Dorset, Henrie Bithop of Wincheste, and Cardinall; and Ioane, first married to Raphe Neustull, first Earle of Westmerland, and after to Robert Ferrars, Baron of Ouesley. These children begotten of Katherine Swynford, were fur-named Beauforts, of Beaufort Castle in France, where they were borne.

Edmond of Langley fifth fonne, was created Earle of Cambridge, in the thirty fixe yeare of King Edward the third, and after Duke of Yorke, 1386.
He married Isabell, daughter and co-heyre of Peter King of Caftile and Leon, as in the Title of Earles of Cambridge, and Dukes of Yorke.

William, fur-named of Windfore, where he was borne, died young.

Thomas the youngeft fonne, fur-named of Woodstocke (where he was borne) was by King Richard the second, first created Earle of Buckingham, and after Duke of Glocefter, as in those Titles is more at large.

Isabell, eldest daughter of King Edward the third, was borne at Woodstocke, 1332. and was married at Windfore to Ingelram de Guifnes, Lord of Coucy, Earle of Soyfons, and Duke of Aufftria, whom King Edward her Father, made Earle of Bedford, by whom fifth had iffue two daugh ters, Mary, married to Henry of Barre, and Philip, Wife to Robert Vere Earle of Oxford, Duke of Irelaud, and Marquee of Dublyn, who after forfooke her, and martied one Lancerona, a Joyners daughter, who came into England with Queene Philip out of Bohemia.

Ioane second daughter, married by Proxy to Alphons, the eleuenth King of Caftile and Leon.

Blanch third daughter died young, and was buried at Westminfter.

Mary fourth daughter, married to John Mountfort Duke of Britaine.

Margaret yongest daughter, was the first Wife of John Haftings Earle of Penbrooke.

King

Ports do execute. ) Sir Thomas Dymmoke (ancestor of the now Noble and worthy Knight, Sir Edward Dymmoke of Lincolnshire ) was Champion, and rode three times about the Hall in compleate armour, challenging any that should gaine-fay the Kings right, throwing downe his Gauntlet to maintaine the fame. He created Henrie his eldeft Sonne, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Earle of Chefter, and heyre apparent to the Crowne; and at his death, he gaue him this charge to keepe (as he would answer the fame before God ) viz. To minifter the Lawes indifferently, to eafe the oppressed, to beware of flatterers, not to deferre iustice, nor to be flparing of mercie. Punish (quoth he) the oppreffors of thy people, so fhalt thou obtaine fauour of God, and loue of thy subiects; who, whiles they haue wealth, so long fhalt thou haue obedience; but beeing made poore by oppreſsions, will bee euer ready to flirre and make rebellion and insurrection.

He yeeded to God his ſpirit, the twentieth day of March, 1412. the
fortie ſixt yeare of his age, when he had raigned thirteene yeares, ſixmo-
neths, lacking tenne dayes. His body beeing conveyed to Canterbury,
was there buried.

He married two Wiues, the firſt was Mary, ſecond daughter and co-
heyre of Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, Eſſex and Northampton,
and Conſtable of England, who died in the yeare 1394. and was buried
at Canterbury.

His ſecond Wife was Ioane, daughter of Charles King of Navarre, and
Widdow of John Mountfort Duke of Britaine, who dyed at Hauering in
the Bower in Eſſex, without iſſue, the tenth of Iuly, 1437. and was buried
at Canterbury.

The Issue of King HENRIE the fourth,
by his first Wife.

Henrie eldeſt ſonne, was created Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of Chefter, in the firſt yeare of his Fathers Reigne. This Henrie, in the time of his Fathers banifhment, was ſent into Ireland; and vpon hearing of his Fathers ariuall into England, King Richard cauſed him to be imprifoned with Humſrey, ſonne and heire of Thomas of Woodſtocke, in the Caſtle of Trime in Ireland; but in the firſt yeare of King Henrie the fourth, they were both deliuered, and comming into England, Humſrey died of the plague at Chefter.

Thomas ſecond ſonne, was created Duke of Clarence, in the eleuenth
yeare of King Henry the fourth, and in the eight yeare of King Henry the
ſift, he was made Lieutenant Generall of France and Normandy; and (in
the yeare after ) was ſlaine at Bangy-Bridge in France, by the Duke of Or-
liance. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent,

D 2

and

and Widdow of John Beaufort Earle of Somerset; as is more at large in the
Title of the Dukes and Earles of Clarence.

John third sonne, was made Duke of Bedford, the eleuenth yeare of
King Henry the fourth his Father; and in the fift yeare of Henrie the fift
his brother, he was by Parliament made Regent of England, and Head of
the Publike Wealth. He knighted King Henrie the fixt his Nephew, at a
Parliament held at Leicester, in the fourth yeere of his Reigne. And in the
first yeare of the said King Henrie the fixt, beeing made Regent of France,
Charles King of France dying: the moft part of France was deliuered to
him by the Nobilitie there, to the vfe of King Henrie the fixt. His marri-
ages and death is more at large in the Title of Bedford.

Humfrey, fourth sonne of King Henry the fourth, was by his brother
King Henrie the fift, made Duke of Glocefter; and in the first yeare of Hen-
rie the fixt, he was made Protector of the Kingdome of England, for fif-
teene yeares, during the said Kings minority; and was ftiled, Humfrey, by
the grace of God, Sonne, Brother, and Vnckle to Kings, Duke of Glocefter, He-
nault, Holland, Zeland, and Penbroke, Lord of Frizeland, great Chamber-
laine of England, Protector and Defender of the Kingdome and Church of
England. He had two Wiues.

His first Wife was Iaquet, daughter and heire of William, Duke of Ba-
uaria, and Earle of Holland, who was before betrothed to John Duke of
Brabant, and was therefore after divorced from this Humfrey without
issue.

His second Wife was Elianor, daughter of Reginald, Lord Cobham of
Sterburgh in Surrey, who for witchcraft and poysonings, was much defa-
med. Queene Margaret, Wife to King Henry the fixt, enuyed greatly his
eftate and gonernment, and practised with others, his ouerthrow and de-
ſtruction; for after he was found murdered in his bed, at Bury in Suffolke,
and was after buried at S. Albons in Hertfordshire.

Blanch eldest daughter, was married at Collen, to William Duke of Ba-
uaria, Sonne and heire of Lewis of Bauaria. After he married the King of
Arragon: and thirdly hee married the Duke of Barre, but had no issue by
any of them.

Philip, second daughter of King Henry the fourth, was martied to John
King of Denmark and Norway, and died without issue.

King

30

Iasper and Owen; Edmond was made Earle of Richmond; and married Margaret, daughter and sole heire of John Duke of Somerset, and had issue, King Henrie the Seuenth: Iasper the Second Sonne, was Earle of Penbroke, and after Duke of Bedford. This Queene Katherine died at Bermondsey in Southwarke, the second of June, 1436. and was buried at Westminfter, leauing issue by King Henrie the fifth her husband, King Henrie the fixt. This King left Seme de lyces, and bare three.

Et portoit, France, escartelle d'Engleterre.

## King HENRIE the fixt.

HEnrie the fixt, born at Wind-fore, beeing an infant not nine moneths old, began his reigne the laft of August, in the yeere of our Lord, 1422. The gouernement of his Realmes was committed to Humsfrey Duke of Glocefter, and the guard of his person to Thomas Duke of Excefter, and to John Duke of Bedford, the Regiment of France. Thefe his three Vnkles, with great wifedome and valour discharged the truft committed vnto them. This Henrie, on the fixt of Nouember, 1429. in the eight yeere of his reigne was crowned at Westminfter with Solemnization. He tooke his iourney to France, and comming to Paris, was receiued with great Solemnitie: and on the feuenteenth of Nouember; 1431. was crowned King of France, in our Ladie Church in Paris.

Heespouſed Margaret, daughter of Reyner, Duke of Aniou, (and titulary King of Cicilie, Naples and Ieruſalem) by Proxie at the Citie of Towers in Touraine, in Saint Martins Church, by William de la Pole his Procurator, in the preſence of the French King and Queene; which King, was vnkle to the Brides father, and the French Queene, Aunt to her mother. She being conueyed to the Abbey of Tichfield, was there Solemnely married to King Henrie the fixt, the two and twentieth of Aprill, 1445. and was crowned at Westminfter, the thirtieth day of May after, they had issue Edward Prince of Wales. This good King in the three and thirtieth yeere of his reigne, loft the battaile at S. Albons; and was taken prifoner at the battaile of Northampton, by the Earle of Warwicke, the thirtie eight

eight yeere of his reigne; and the yeere after, was deliuered againe by
Queene Margaret his wife, after the second battaile of S. Albons; but in
the fame, after the battaile at Mortimers Croffe, the King and Queene fled
to Yorke; and the Earle of March, comming to London with his power,
was proclaimed King of England. And in the fourth yeere of his reigne,
hee tooke King Henrie, neere the Abbey of Selby in Lancashire; and
brought him prifoner to the Tower of London. And in the ninth yeere
of his reigne, King Henrie the fixt, was againe deliuered, by the Duke of
Clarence and the Earle of Warwicke.

King Edward flying into Flanders, was proclaimed a Vsurper; but the
next yeere after, King Edward returning againe into England, & comming
to London, tooke King Henrie in the Bishops Pallace, and after gaue bat-
taile to the Earle of Warwicke, at Barnet, where the faid Earle, with his
brother John Neuill, Marqueſſe Mountague were ſaine. And in the fame
yeere, 1471. hee also gaue a great ouerthrow to Queene Margaret, at
Tewkſturie; in which battaile, the faid Queene, with Prince Edward her
onely ſonne, were taken prifoners; Prince Edward being firſt ſtricken by
King Edward, Richard Duke of Gloceſter, ſtabbed him to the heart with
his dagger. The Queene his mother was conueyed to London, where
he remained in prifon, vntill Reyner her father purchaſed her deliuerance
with great ſummes of money; who after returning to her owne Country,
there died.

After this battaile at Tewkeſturie, King Edward the fourth came to
London, on the one and twentieth of May, 1471. with thirtie thouſand
men: and the fame night, King Henrie was murdered in the Tower of
London, and the morrow after, brought into S. Pauls Church in London,
in an open Coffin bare-faced, where he bled: From thence he was con-
ueyed to the Blacke-Friars, and there also bled. Laſtly, his bodie was
conueyed to Windſore, and there buried.

Not long before this godly King Henries death, he was asked why he
had so long held the Crowne of England vnjuſtly, who anſWERED, My
father was King of England, quietly enioying the Crowne all his reigne,
and his father my grandſire was also King of England, and I euen a child
in cradle was proclaimed and crowned King, without any interruption,
and so held it for ſonſe yeeres well-neere, all the States doing homage vn-
to me, and to my anceſtors. Therefore I lay with King David, My lot
is ſ fallen in a faire ground, I hane a goodly heritage, my helpe is from the Lord
which ſaueth the upright in heart.

Vita Hen. VI.

King

He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Wooduile Earle Riuers, and Iaqueline his Wife, Dutcheffe of Bedford, and Widdow of Sir John Grey, flaine at S. Albons, where he was knighted, the day before his death, by King Henry the fixt. After whose death, he was priuately married to King Edward the fourth, the firſt day of May, at his Mannor of Grafton in Northamptonſhire, 1464. and the next yeare after, was crowned Queen at Weſtminſter, the twentie fixe day of May. Shee was his Wife eigh-teene yeare, eleuen moneths, and nine daies, and in the beginning of King Edward the fit (her ſonnes Reigne) he was forced to take Sanctuary at Weſtminſter; and after, hauing all her lands and poſſelſions feized vpon by King Henry the ſeaue nth, liued in meane eſtate in the Monastery of Bermondſey in Southwarke, where not long after ſhee died, and was bu-ried at Windſore, by King Edward her husband, who died before at Weſt- minſter, the ninth day of Aprill, 1483. at the age of ſortie one years, when he had reigned twentie two yeares, one moneth, and odde dayes.

In this Kings time, Lewis the eleuenth French King, entertained diuers of King Edwards Counſellors with large penſions, to ſteed him in Eng-land, and at one time he ſent Peter Cleret, one of the Maſters of his houſ-hold, vnto the Lord Haſtings, King Edwards Chamberlain, to preſent him with 2000. Crownes: which when Peter tendred, he prayed (for his diſ-charge) he would make him an acquittance; the Lord Chamberlaine anſwered; Sir, that which you ſay is very reaſonable; but the gift comes from the good will of the King your Maſter, and not at my requeſt at all: if it pleafe you that I ſhall haue it, you ſhall put it within the pocket of my ſleeue, and you ſhall haue no other acquittance of me: for I will neuer, it ſhall be ſaid of me, that the Lord Chamberlaine of the King of England, had beene pentioner to the King of France, nor that my acquitances ſhall be found in the Chamber of accompts in France: whereupon Cleret went his way malecontent, but left his money behind him. P. Commines

The Issue of King EDVARD the fourth.

Edward, eldeſt ſonne of King Edward the fourth, borne in the Sanctuarie at Weſtminſter, the fourth of November, 1471. the tenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne, at that time King Edward was expulſed the Realm, by the Earle of Warwicke; but Fortune changing, the Father was reſtored, and the Sonne created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Cheſter, the firſt of Iuly.

Richard, ſecond ſonne of King Edward the fourth, borne at Shrewsbury, and being but a child, was created Duke of Yorke. He was betrothed vnto Anne, daughter and heire of John Mowbray Duke of Norſtolke, Earle Marſhall, Warren and Nottingham, but he enioyed neither wife, nor long life, for he was (with his brother Prince Edward) murdered in the Tower of London; which place euer ſince hath beene mured vp, and not known vntill of late, when as their dead carcaſes were there found, vnder a heape of ſtones and rubbilh.

George

34

George third fonne, was also borne at Shrewsbury, and beeing very young, died and was buried at Windsor.

Elizabeth eldest daughter, borne at Westminfter, the eleuenth of Februarie, 1466. Shee was promifed in marriage to Charles the Dolphin of France, wooed and courted by Richard Duke of Glocefter, her vnhappie Vnckle, after he had murdered her two Brothers, and he then King; but after shee was married to King Henry the Seauenth.

Cecily second daughter, was motioned to marrie James Prince of Scotland, and Duke of Rothfay, but it tooke no effect, and so shee was married after to John Viscount Welles, whom she out-lued, and married againe to one Kyme Lincolnshire, and died without issue.

Anne third daughter, married to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke, Earle Marshall, and Lord Treasurer of England, and had issue, two Sonnes, who died very young. She died without issue, and was buried at Framingham in Norfolke.

Bridget fourth daughter, was borne at Eltham in Kent, the tenth of November, 1480. and was a Nunne at Dartford, where shee remained till shee died.

Mary fifth daughter, was promifed in marriage to the King of Denmark; but she died before marriage, in the Tower of Greenwich, 1482. and was buried at Windsor.

Margaret fixt daughter, died in her Infancie.

Katharine Seauenth daughter, married VVilliam Courtney, Earle of Devonshire, and Lord of Ochampton, and had issue, Henrie Earle of Devonshire, whom Henrie the eight created Marqueffe of Excefter, 1525.

Elizabeth the eight daughter, borne at Westminfter, and died young, and was there buried.

## The Bafe Children of King EDVARD
the fourth.

Arthur Plantagimet, bafe fonne of King Edward the fourth, begotten of Elizabeth Lucie, was created Viscount Lifle at Bridewell in London, the twenty fixe of Aprill, 1533. in right of his Wife Elizabeth, fifter and heyre of Sir John Grey, Viscount Lifle, the widdow of Edmond Dudley. This Arthur had issue, three daughters, Bridget, Francis, and Elizabeth, as is more at large in the Title of Viscounts.

Elizabeth, bafe daughter of King Edward the fourth, married to Sir Thomas Lumley Knight, who dyed before his Father George Lord Lumley, and had issue, Richard Lord Lumley, that died the second of King Henry the eight, and George Lumley a second fonne.

King

King EDWARD the fifth.

His young King, being under the protection of Richard Duke of Glocester his vn naturalle vnkle, at the death of his father being in Wales, was brought and lodged in the Bishops Palace of London, the fourth day of May, 1483. The Queene his mother, with his young brother the Duke of Yorke being in the Sanctuary at Westminister; Richard, the then Protector, sent the highest Lord Cardinall to the Queene, for the deliuerie of the said Duke of Yorke out of the Sanctuary; who by his sweet and poyfoned words, and protestations to his mother, that it would be for all their good to deliuer him: This young Prince was deliuered, and brought to the King his brother, in the Bishops Palace of London, and from thence conueyed to the Tower of London, with shew of preparation for the day of Coronation; where they remained some two moneths. At which time, the said Protector sent one Greene (a truftie feruant of his) vnto Sir Robert Brakenburie, then Conftable of the Tower, to murder the said two Princes; who stoutly denying to doe so foule an act, Sir James Tirrell, a feruant of the said Protectors, was sent to Brakenburie the day after, to haue the keyes of the Tower, and cuftodie of those two Infants deliuered to him. Which being done accordingly, the young King and his brother were flut vp together, and all companie remoued from them, fauing that miſcreant dog, that was to execute that bloudy and butcherly act; who about midnight, brought a rout of Runnagates into their chamber, who suddenly lapping them vp amongst the cloathes of their bed, ſmothered theſe two sweet Babes, the Lords Annointed.

This yong King, was at his fathers death, eleuen yeeres, ſiue moneths, and ſiue dayes old.

King

The Issue of King HENRIE the SeaNenth.

A Rthur, eldew fonne and heire, borne at Winchefter, the twentieth day of September, 1486. who, by his Father was created Prince of Wales, in the fifth yeare of his Reigne, Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of Chefter; who vpon the foureteenth day of November, 1501. beeing fifteene yeares old, married Katherine, daughter of Ferdinando King of Spaine; shee bee-ing then about eighteene yeares of age. This marriage was solemnized in the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul in London, and within foure moneths and nineteene dayes after, he died at Ludlow, the secon of Aprill, 1502. he bee-ing then fifteene yeares, fixe moneths, and thirteene dayes olde, and was buried at Worcester, in S. Maries Church.

Henry second fonne, borne at Greenewich in Kent, the twenty two of June, 1491. In his infancie he was created Duke of Yorke, and Marshall of England; and after King of England.

Edmond third fonne, was born in the yeare 1495. and was created Earle of Somerset, and died young at Bishops Hatfield, beeing not five yeares olde, 1499. and was buried at Westminfter.

Margaret eldew daughter, borne the twentie ninth of November, 1489. and beeing fourteene yeares old, was married to James the fourth, King of Scotland, 1503. and had issue, James the fifth, King of Scotland, Arthur and Alexander, and one daughter, all which but the eldew, died without issue young. Shee married to her second husband, Archibald Douglas, Earle of Anguifh, 1514. by whom she had issue, Margaret married to Matthew Earle of Lenox, who had issue, Henry Lord Dernley, after King of Scotland, in right of Mary Queene of Scotland his Wife, by whom shee had issue, James, King of great Britaine, 1618.

Elizabeth second daughter, borne the secon of July, 1492. and died the fourteenth of September, 1495. and was buried at Westminfter.

Mary third daughter, was first married to Lewis King of France, who liued not long with her, but died without issue. After whose death, shee married for her second husband, Sir Charles Brandon a noble Knight, and after Duke of Suffolk, as in the Title of Earles of Suffolk is more at large.

Katherine fourth daughter, borne vpon Candlemas day, 1503. in the eighteenth yeare of her Fathers Reigne, who died young.

King

Westminster, on Whitunday the first of June. Shee was his Wife three
yeares, three moneths, and twentie fiue dayes, and after was beheaded in
the Tower of London, the nineteenth of May, 1536. and was buried in
the Chappell, within the said Tower.

I Ane the third Wife, was daughter of Sir John Seymour Knight, and fister of Edward Earle of Hartford, and Duke of Somerset. Shee was married vnto King Henry the eight, the twentieth day of May, which was the very next day after the beheading of Queene Anne. This Jane, was his Wife one yeare, fiue moneths, and twenty foure dayes, and dyed in child-bed of King Edward the fixt, the foureteenth of October, 1537. and was buried at Windsor.

A Nne of Cleve, the fourth Wife of King Henry the eight, was fister of William Duke of Cleve, and was married vnto him at Greenwich, the fixt of Ianuarie, 1540. in the thirty one yeare of the said Kings Reigne, and was his wife fixe moneths, and the yeare after was divorced, and by Act of Parliament decreed, that shee should be no more called nor taken for Queene; but should be called the Lady Anne of Cleve. Shee remained in England long after King Henries death, and was marhalled with the Lady Elizabeth, going through London to the Coronation of Queene Marie, 1553.

K Atherine Howard, the fifth Wife of King Henry the eight, was daugh-
ter of Lord Edmond Howard, brother of Thomas Howard, the third
Duke of Norfolke of that Family, and was married to the said King the
eight of Auguſt, 1540. at Hampton-Court, and was his Wife, one yeare,
fixe monéths, and foure dayes. She was conuicted of adulterie, and by
Parliament adiudged to be beheaded in the Tower of London, the twelft
of Februarie, and was buried in the Chappell there, by Queene Anne
Bullen, 1542.

K Atherine Parre, widow of John Neuill, Lord Latimer, and daughter of Sir Thomas Parre of Kendall Knight, and fister of William Parre, Marqueſſe of Northampton, was fixt Wife to King Henry the eight, and was married to him at Hampton-Court, the twelfth of July, in the yeere, 1543. Shee was his Wife three yeeres, fixe moneths, and fiue dayes. She was after King Henries death, married to Thomas Seymour, Baron of Sudley, and Lord Admirall of England, and died in child-bed. Anno 1548.

The Issue of King HENRIE the eight,
by his first Wife.

H Enry, first fonne of King Henry the eight, begotten of Queene Kathe-
rine his first Wife, was borne at Richmond in Surrey, the first of Ia-
nuary

4I

nuary, 1509. who liued not full two moneths, and died the twentie two of
February after, and was buried at Westminfter.

Another Sonne, whose name is not well knowne, borne of Queene Katherine, his firft Wife, in the fixt yeare of his Reigne, who dyed very young. The death of these two Princes, King Henry tooke as a punithment from God, for begetting them of his brothers Wife.

Mary, third childe, and firft daughter, begotten of Queene Katherine, was borne at Greenwich in Kent, the eighteenth of Februarie, 1518. who out-living her younger brother, King Edward the fixt, and beeing then Queene, and thirty fixe yeares olde, married Philip King of Spaine, to the great diffike of many her louing Subjeets, and small content to her selfe, as more at large in place convenient will be shewed.

His Issue by his second Wife.

Elizabeth, second daughter of Henry the eight, begotten of the Ladie Anne Bollen, his second Wife, was born at Greenwich, vpon Sunday, the feuenth of September, 1534. and was Chriftned of Doctor Cranmer, Archbifhop of Canterbury, &c. She succeeded her firfter Queen Mary, as Queen of England; and was for wifedome, vertue, piety and iustice, not onely the mirrour of her Sexe, but a patterne for Gouernement, to all the Princes of Chriftendome.

Another man-childe had Queene Anne, but still borne, the twenty ninth of Februarie, 1535. to the great griefe both of the Father and Mother.

His Issue by his third Wife.

Edward the fixt, and last childe of King Henry the eight, begotten of Jane Seymour, his third Wife; was borne at Hampton-Court, the twelfth of October, 1537. being cut out of his Mothers wombe (as Iulius Caesar is faid to haue been,) Thomas Cranmer, Archbifhop of Canterbury, and Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolke, were his Godfathers, and Ladie Mary his firfter, his Godmother. He was firft created Prince of Wales; and after the death of his Father, crowned King of England.

A base Sonne by his Concubine.

Henry Fitz-Roy, base Sonne of King Henry the eight, begotten of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Blount Knight, (then Lady Talboys) and borne in the Mannour of Blackmore in Essex, in the yeere 1518. was created Earle of Nottingham, at the Kings Palace of Bridewell, 1524. as in the Title of Nottingham is more at large.

E 3

King

King EDWARD the Sixt.

Edward, the fixt of that Name,
sonne of King Henry the eight,
and Lady Jane Seymour (his
third Wife) was borne at Hampton-
Court, the twelfth of October, 1537.
And in the twenty ninth yeare of his
Fathers Reigne, beeing cut out of his
Mothers wombe, and fixe dayes after
was created Prince of Wales; and af-
ter his Fathers death, was proclay-
med King, the twenty eight of Ianu-
arie, 1547, being then nine yeares old,
and lying at Hatfield, the Nobilitie
conducted him to London, and so to
the Tower. During the time of his a-
bode there, his Vrickle Edward Sey-
mour, Earle of Hertford, was chofen
and made Protector, and chiefe Go-
uernour of the Kings person, vntill he
came to the age of eighteen yeares.

The fixt of Februarie after, the
Lord Protector knighted King Ed-
ward in the Tower of London; which done, King Edward presently after
knighted Sir Henrie Hoblethorne; then Lord Maior of London, and Sir
Henrie Portman, one of the Iudges of the Kings Bench. The feuenteenth
of Februarie, the Lord Protector was created Duke of Somerset, and the
twentieth of February, King Edward rode through London to Westmin-
ster, and was there crowned.

In the life time of King Henry the eight, a marriage was treated of, betweene Marie, late Queene of Scotland; Vnto which a Parliament at Edinburgh had consented, in the yeare 1543, but that rooke not effect; for she was after married to the Dolphin of France.

This Noble Prince died at Greenwich, the fixt of July, 1553. being the
feuenth yeere of his Reigne, and the feuenteenth yeere of his age, and was
buried at Westminfter, the ninth of Auguſt after.

Queene

## Queene MARIE.

M Arie, eldeft daughter of King Henrie the eight, by Katherine his firft wife, was borne at Greenwich, the eighteenth of Februarie, 1518. and began her reigne the fixt of Iulys, and was proclaimed Queene, the feuenteenth day of the safd moneth, in the yeere 1553. In her young yeeres she was fued vnto, to be married to the then Emperour, the King of Scots, and the Duke of Orleans in France. But all these failing, at thirtie fixe yeeres of age, shee married Philip King of Spaine, to the great diffike of her Subjeets, and small content of her ſelfe. Shee was crowned at Westminfter the laft of September, in the yeere aforefaid, and died at S. Iames by Charing-croſſe, the ſeuenteenth of Noemember, 1558. when she had reigned ſiue yeers, ſoure moneths, and eleuen dayes, being two and forty yeeres old, and was buried at Westminſter, leauing no ill ſue of her bodie.

Queene

## Queene ELIZABETH:

Elizabeth, second daughter of King Henric the eight, and Queene Anne Bollen his wife; was borne at Greenwich, the fifteenth of September, 1534. And by the great favour and grace of God, was advanced to the Emperiall Throne, paffing many dangers of life, wherewith shee was oppreffed (being a prifoner) during her lifters reigne. Vpon the fifteenth day of Nouember, 1558 shee was proclaimed Queene of England, France and Ireland; and vpon the fifteenth of Januarie after, was crowned at Westminfter, by the Bishop of Carlile. She was for wifedome, vertue, pictie and iustice, not onely the mirrour of her Sexe; but a patterne for gouernement, to all the Princes of Chriftendome.

Shee died at Richmond, the foure and twentieth of March, 1602. being fixtie nine yeeres, fixe moneths, and ſeuenteene dayes old, when shee had reigned fortie foure yeeres, ſoure moneths, and ſeuen dayes.

Her bodie being brought to White-Hall, and her Statue made very like in her Parliament Robes, with a Crowne Imperiall on her head, and a Scepter in her hand, was on thursday, the twentieth of Aprill after; carried in a Chariot, drawne with ſoure horſes couered with blacke Veluet, to S. Peters at Westminfter; and after all ceremonies performed, was carried in a faire Tombe, made by commandement of King James.

King

## King IAMES.

IAMES, King of Scotland (onely sonne and heire of Henrie Stewart, late King of Scotland, and of Queene Marie his wife; Dowager of France, and daughter and heire of Iames the fifth King of Scotland) was borne in Edenburgh-Castle, the nineteenth of June, 1566, and was proclaimed King of England, France and Ireland, at London, the twente and twentieth of March, 1602, being then fixe and thirtie yeeres of age. And on the fiue and twentieth of Iulie after, 1603, was crowned (with Queene Anne his wife) at Westminfter, by the hands of the moft reuerend Father in God, John Whitgift, Arch-bishop of Canterbury; in the prefence of the Nobilitie and States of the Realme. Whose greatnesse, with all honour, happinesse and peace, God now fandifye and encreafe in him and his issue to all poſteritie. This potent and magnificent Monarch of Great-Britaine, married Anne, daughter of Fredericke the Second, King of Denmarke and Norway, and Sifter to Chriftian the fourth, now King of Denmarke, 1621. Shee was borne at Scanderburgh, the twelfth of December, 1574, and at the age of ſixteene yeeres was married by Proxye, at Groningburgh in Denmarke, the twentieth of Auguſt, 1590. vnto this moſt high and moſt mightie Prince, by whom ſhe hath had moſt royall iſſue, as followeth.

### The Iſſue of King IAMES.

HENRIE Fredericke, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of Cheſter, was borne on Tuesday, the nineteenth of Februarie, 1593, and died without iſſue, at Saint Iames House neere Charing-Croſſe, and was buried at Westminſter very Prince-like, the ſeventh of December, 1612.

Robert

Robert Stewart, second sonne, died very young.

Charles, Duke of Albanie, Marqueſſe of Ormond, Earle of Ros, and Lord of Ardmanoch, third ſonne of James, King of Great-Britaine, was borne the nineteenth of November, 1600, and was created Duke of Yorke at White-Hall, on Tuesday the fixt of Ianuarie, 1604, and after, on the fourth of Nouember, 1616. he was likewise at White-Hall created Prince of Wales and Earle of Cheſter.

Ladie Elizabeth, borne the nineteenth of Auguſt, 1596, was married to Fredericke, Elector Palatine of the Rhyne, and had issue, Henrie Fredericke, borne the first of Ianuarie, 1614. Carolus Léwisa, borne 1615. Rupertus, borne in December, 1620. Mauritius, borne the fixt of Ianuarie, 1621. and Elizabeth borne in Anno 1618.

Margaret, borne the ſoure and twentieth of December, 1598, and died in Scotland young.

Marie, borne in England, and died an Infant, and was buried at Westminſter.

Sophia, borne at Greenwich, and died an Infant, and was buried at Westminſter.

A

The ſlue of King IAMES.

H
art, Marquſeke, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of
Cheſter, was borne on Tuesday the nineteenth of Epheuari, 1283.
and died without issue at Saint Wenceslau, House of Chriſt-Croſſe, and

Robert

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

Oger Montgomerie, Earle of Belesmo in Normandie, sonne of Hugh Montgomerie, and Sibel his wife, daughter of Herfaſtus the Dane, (brother of Gonor, wife of Richard the first Duke of Normandie, of that name) came into England with William the Conqueror: vnto whom the faid William did giue (for his good ſeruice) the Earledomes of Shrewſbury and Arundell. Hee married Mabiria, daughter and heire of William Talvays, with whom he had all her fathers Inheritance, (as William Gemiticenſis hath. pag. 686.) and

had iſſue, ſiue ſonnes and ſoure daughters, viz. Hugh and Robert, both Earles of Arundell and Shrewſbury; Roger, the third ſonne (fur-named Pictaueſis) was Lord of the Honour of Lancaſter; Arnulph, the fourth ſonne, was Caſtle-Keeper of Penbroke, and Philip was the fifth ſonne. His daughters were, Emma, Matilda; the ſecond daughter was married vnto Robert, Earle of Moretaigne; Mabel, the third daughter, and Sibel, the fourth daughter, was married vnto Robert Fitz-Hamon, Lord of Glamorgan in South-Wales; which Robert, founded or re-edified the Monasterie of Tewksbury. This Earle Roger was left by William the Conqueror, to be Gouernour to his ſonne William Rufus, and was after ſlaine at Cairdiffe in South-Wales, 1091. and was buried in the Abbey at Shrewsbury, which before he had founded.

Hugh de Belesmo, ſonne and heire of Roger aforefaid, was after his father, Earle of Arundell and Shrewsbury, and was ſlaine at Angleſey in North Wales, 1098. (by Magnus, a Pirate of the Iſles of Orćades) with the ſhot of an Arrow, which ſtrooke him in the eye. Hee died without iſſue, and was buried by his father in the Abbey at Shrewsbury.

I finde no Armes borne by him of certainty, but by tradition wee haue receined theſe, Azur a Lion rampant within a bordur d'or.

Roberts

ARVNDELL.

49

W**illiam de Albeney**, the sonne of **William** and **Queene Adeliza**, was the second Earle of Arundell of that name: hee was alwaies faithfull vnto King **Henry** the second, and aided him againft **Henry** the young King his sonne; and tooke prifoners at the battaile fought at Saint **Edmundsbury**, 1173. **Robert Earle of Leicester**, **Hugh Earle of Chefter**, and **Hugh de Chafeles** a Frenchman, with many others, and sent them into Normandie to King **Henry** the second, who imprifoned them in the Caſtle of **Faloyes**. Hee married **Mauld** daughter and heire of **James de Santo Hillarie**, (the widdow of **Roger Earle of Clare**) by whom he had iffue, **William** the third Earle of Arundell and Alan; and after died at Wauerly the fourth **Ides of October**, 1176. and was buried at Wymondham (as **Matthew Paris** hath, page 127.) others haue that he died beyond Sea comming from Damiat in Paleſtina.

*Et portoit de gueulles au Lion rampant d'or, arme & lampasse d'azure.*

W**illiam de Albeney**, the third Earle of Arundel, vnto whom (as **Roger Houeden** hath, page 320.) King **Henry** the second did giue the Earledome of Suffex: At which time he restored to **Roberti Earle of Leicester**, and **Hugh Earle of Chefter**, all their lands which they were feized of fifteenth dayes before the warre began. Also King **Richard** the first gaue to him the Caſtle and Honour of Arundell by his Charter, in these words:

> Richard, by the grace of God King of England, Duke of Normandie, &c. sendeth greeting. Know yee, that we haue giuen, and by this present Deed or Charter, doe confirme to **William Earle of Arundel**, the Caſtle of Arundell, with all the Honour of Arundell, and the appurtenances, to hold vnto him and his heires, of Vs, and Our heires in fee, and the third peny of the Pleas of Suffex, whereof he is Earle. Witnesſe, Earle **Hamline** of Warren, **William de Humetis** Conſtable, and others: Giuen at Montrichart. 27. June, the first of Our reigne.

He married **Mabel**, daughter of **Hugh Kenilioc** Earle of Chefter, and second sister and co-heire of **Randol Blundeuile**, the first Earle of Chefter: and had iffue, two fonnes and foure daughters, viz. **William** and **Hugh**, both Earles of Arundell and Suffex, who died without iffue: **Mabel** the eldest daughter, was married vnto Sir **Robert Tatefal**, Knight; **Isabel** the second daughter was married to **John Fitz-Alan**, Lord of Clun and Ofwaldstre; **Nicholea** the third daughter, was wife to **Roger Lord Somery**; and **Cecily** the fourth daughter, was married to **Roger Lord Monthault** of Hawarden in Flintshire. This **William** died in the yeare 1196. and was buried at Wymondham.

*Et portoit les armes de son père.*

F

William

ARVNDELL.

51

Edmund Fitz-Alan, fonne and heire of Richard a-forefaid, was after the death of his father, Lord of Clun and Ofwaldftre, and ſecond Earle of Arundell of that furname. He marrred Alice, daughter of William, and fifter and heire of John Earle Warren and Surrey, by whom he had iffue Richard a ſonne, and two daugh-ters. Alice, the eldeſt daughter, was married to John de Bohun, Earle of Hereford and Eſſex, and Conſtable of England; Jane, the ſecond daughter, married Warren Lord Lille. This Edmund was borne in the Caſtle of Malborough: he was very hatefull to Queene Isabel, who by the meanes of her Minion Roger Lord Morti-mer, was taken at Shrewsburie, and brought to Hereford, and there be-headed, in the twentieth yeare of King Edward the ſecond.

Et portoit, gueulles au Lion rampant d'or, armé & lampaffe d'azur.

Richard Fitz-Alan, ſonne of Edmund aforefaid, was the third Earle of Arundell of that ſur-name, Lord of Clun and Ofwaldſtre (and by his mother Earle Warren and Surrey, Lord of Bromfield, Yale, Chircland, and Dinas Bran, in North-Wales.) Hee was restored in bloud by King Edward the third, and entailed the Caſtle, Honour, and Lordſhip of Arundel, in the one and twentieth yeare of King Edward the third, to himſelfe for terme of life, the remainder to his heires male of his body begotten, and to bee begotten of the body of Elianor his wife, daughter of Henrie Plantagenet Earle of Lancafter, and filter of Henrie Duke of Warwicke; by whom hee had iffue, three ſonnes, and foure daughters, viz. Richard, after Earle of Arundell, Sir John of Arundell, knight, (that married Elianor, daughter of John Lord Maltrevers, and fi-fter and heire of Henrie Baron Maltrevers; in whoſe right hee was after Lord Maltrevers, and ſayling into little Britaine, was drowned neere vnto the coaſt of Ireland, the fifteenth of December, 1379. Leauing iffue, John Lord Maltrevers, and others.) And Thomas, the third ſonne of the ſaid Richard, was Archbifhop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellour of Eng-land. Alice, the eldeſt daughter, was married to Thomas Holland, Earle of Kent; Elianor, the ſecond daughter, died young, Ioan, the third daughter, was married to Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, &c. and Marie, the fourth daughter, was married vnto John Lord Strange of Black-mere. This Richard died in the Caſtle of Arundell, the nine and fortieth of King Edward the third, and was buried in the Priorie of Lewis.

F 2

Richard

52

ARVNDELL.

Richard Fitz-Alan, sonne of Richard aforesaid, was the fourth Earle of Arundell and Surrey, and Knight of the noble Order of the Garter. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William de Bohun, Earle of Northampton, and fifth of Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, and had issue three sons, and four daughters, viz. Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surrey; Richard and William died both yong without issue. Elizabeth the eldest daughter, was married to Thomas L. Mowbray Earle of Nottingham; and after to Sir Robert Goufell Knight. Ioan the second daughter, was married to Humfrey de Bohun, the last Earle of Hereford

of that name; shee was also married to William Beauchamp, Baron of Abergauenny (father of Richard Earle of Worcester.) Margaret the third daughter, was married to Sir Rowland Lenthall Knight, and had issue, Edward that died without issue. Alice the fourth daughter, was married to John Charlton Lord Powis, and died without issue. This Richard the fourth Earle of Arundell, married to his second wife, Philip, daughter of Edmond Mortimer Earle of March, widdow of John Haftings Earle of Pembrooke, and had issue John that died yong. This Richard, with Thomas Duke of Glocester, Thomas Earle of Warwicke, and Thomas Mowbray Earle Marshall and others, combined and sware each to other, againft Robert Vere Duke of Ireland, and Michael de la Pole Duke of Suffolke, for abusing and misle-leading the King. For which, and some other causes King Richard the second objected against them, some of them were banisbed, others condemned to perpetuall prisonment, and this Richard Earle of Arundell being arreigned in a red Gowne and a scarlet Hood, before John of Gaunt, then Duke of Lancaster, and Lord Steward of England: the said Duke willed the Lord Neuile to take from him his Girdle and Hood, which being done, the said Richard was tryed and found guilty of high treason, and had iudgement to be drawne, hanged, beheaded, and quartered, all which the King pardoned, commanding him onely to be beheaded, which was after done at the Tower Hill by London, and his body buried in the Augustine Friars there, the one and twentieth of the said Kings reigne 1397.

Thomas

ARVNDELL.

53

Thomas Fitz-Alan, Knight of the Garter, and fonne of the aforefaid Richard, was restored in bloud the first yeare of King Henry the fourth, and was the first Earle of Arundel and Surrey of that name. He was at the Coronation of King Henry the first, made Treasurer of the Exchequer during pleasure. Hee married Beatrix, baſe daughter of John King of Portugall, in the Citie of London, 1405. in the preſence of King Henry the fourth, but had no issue; by reaſon whereof, all his Lands pertaining and belonging to the Earledome of Surrey, was diuided, and went amongſt his Sifters before mentioned, and the Earledome of Arundell, with the Lands thereunto belonging and intailed, went to John Fitz-Alan, Lord Maltreuers, ſonne of John Lord Maltreuers, grand-child of another John Fitz-Alan, Lord Maltreuers, and Elianor his wife, Sifter and heire of Henry Lord Maltreuers: which laſt John, was Vnckle of this Thomas, the first Earle of Arundell. This Thomas died in the yeare of our Lord God, 1416. and was buried in the Colledge at Arundell.

Sir John Fitz-Alan, Knight of the Garter, and Lord Maltreuers (fonne of John Lord Maltreuers, great grand-child and heire of John Fitz-Alan, Lord Maltreuers, and Elianor his wife, Sifter and heire of Henry, Lord Maltreuers) vpon whom, as next heire male vnto Thomas Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell aforefaid, the Caſtle and Seigneury of Arundell deſcended, by vertue of an entaile formerly made by Richard Fitz-Alan, the third Earle of Arundell of that family, in the one and twentieth yeare of King Edward the third: by reaſon of which his poſſession of the ſaid Caſtle and Lordship of Arundell, this John, Lord Maltreuers, by Petition in Parliament, the eleuenth of Henry the first, purſued his claime to the Earledome of Arundell (before ſet on foot by his father John, Lord Maltreuers, vpon the death of Thomas Fitz-Alan, late Earle of Arundell) alledging that all his ancesſors, as well before as ſince the Conqueſt, which had beene ſeized of the Caſtle, Honour, and Seigneury of Arundell, had beene Earles of Arundell. Vnto which Petition, John Mowbray, Duke of Norſtolke appeared, who as heire to Elizabeth, ſecond Sifter and coheire of the aforefaid Thomas, Earle of Arundell (from whom the ſaid Duke

F 3

ſtood

54

ARVNDELL

Itood alreadyie poſſeſſed of the Earledome of Surrey) made his claime
likewise to the Earledome of Arundell. Whereupon the King and the
Lords then affembled in Parliament, vpon a deliberate hearing of the
matter, approued the Allegations of the Lord Maltreuers, touching the
Caſtle and Seigneury of Arundell : And finding him accordingly to
be by Descent lawfully ſeized of the ſaid Caſtle and Seigneury of A-
rundell, did by Act of Parliament declare the ſaid *Iohn*, Lord Maltre-
uers, to be Earle of Arundell, with a ſauing of right to the King, *Iohn
Mowbray*, Duke of Norfolke, and all others. This *Iohn* married *Mauld*,
daughter and heire of *Robert Louell*, and *Elizabeth Bryan* his wife, daugh-
ter and heire of *Sir Guy de Bryan* the younger, and had iffue *Humphrey
Fitz-Alan*, the ſeuenth Earle of Arundell; and a daughter named *A-
micia*, married to *James Butler*, Earle of Ormond and Wiltshire. Hee
died in the thirteenth yeare of King *Henry* the fixt, and was buried at
Lewis in Suffe x.

Milles, Page of his Booke 656. hath, That King Henry the fixt by his
Charter, bearing date the twelftih yeare of his Reigne, did giue the Duke-
dome of Torraine to this Iohn, and his heires male. Master Camden
doth contradict the fame, and faith, That true it is, that this Iohn had the
profits of the ſaid Dukedome giuen him, but not the Title, Name, and Stile
of Duke. Which thing I maruell at, considering, that in his last Impreſſion
of his Britannia, pag. 310. hee there ſetteth downe, that this Iohn Fitz-
Alan was created Duke of Torraine : which if hee write truly, then had
hee both the Profits, Stile, and Name of Duke.

*Et portoit les Armoiries de son père.*

Hymſrey Fitz-Alan, after the death of his father,
was the ſeuenth Earle of Arundell, and died
young, without iffue, in the fixteenth yeare of the
Reigne of King Henry the fixt, leauing William,
his Vnckle, to ſucceed him in the Earledome of A-
rundell.

*Et portoit, gueulles au Lion rampant d'or, armé &
lampasse d'azur.*

William

ARVNDELL.

55

W**illiam Fitz-Alan**, Vnckle and heire of **Humfrey** aforefaid, was the eight Earle of Arundell of that name, and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter. In this *Williams* time, the eighteenth of King *Henry* the fixt, there grew a queftion in Parliament for precedencie of place, betweene him and *Thomas* Earle of Deuonshire; who alledged, that the faid *William*, Earle of Arundell, holding by the late creation (as hee supposed) of *John Fitz-Alan*, Lord Maltreuers, in the eleuenth yeare of the forefaid King, ought not to haue prioritie of him: Whereupon the Act of Parliament, concerning *John*, Earle of Arundell, was had into con- fideration by the King and the Lords of the upper House, and the Lords Committed, after great consultation and peruall of Euidences (as is there faid) did conclude, that the faid *William* should haue, keepe, and enjoy his feat, roome, and place in the Parliaments and Councils, and in other places in the Kings preſence, by way of preheminence and worſhip, as euer had any of his Anceſtors, Earles of Arundell, afore this time; as in the ſaid Parliament Rowle is more at large. This *William* married *Ioan*, daughter of *Richard Neuill*, Earle of Sallisbury, and ſifter of *Richard Neuill*, Earle of Warwicke; by whom hee had iſſue, *Thomas Fitz-Alan*, Earle of Arundell, *William*, *George*, and *Iohn*, and a daughter named *Mary*; and died in the third yeare of King *Henry* the ſeuenth.

*Et portoit, les armes de son père.*

T**omas Fitz-Alan**, after the death of *William* his father, was the ninth Earle of Arundell of that name, Lord Maltreuers, and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter, and married *Margaret*, daughter of *Richard Wooduile*, Earle Riuers, and Baron of Wimington, flaine at Banbury the tenth of King *Edward* the fourth, and ſecond ſifter and one of the heires of *Richard* Earle Riuers, her brother; and had iſſue, two ſonnes and two daughters, viz. *William* the tenth Earle of Arundell, and *Edward* : *Margaret*, the eldeſt daughter, was married vnto *John de la Pole*, Earle of Lincolne; and *Ioan* the ſecond daughter, was married vnto *George Neuill*, Baron of Abergauenny. He died in his Parke of Dunlee, the ſiue and twentieth of October, in the ſixteenth of King *Henry* the eight, and was buried at Arundell, the one and twentieth of Nouember, 1524.

*William*

56

ARVNDELL.

W**illiam Fitz-Alan**, Knight of the Garter, sonne and heire of **Thomas** aforefaid, was the tenth Earle of Arundell, Lord Maltreuers, Clun, and Ofwaldftre: he married to his firft wife, **Anne** daughter of **Henry Percy**, Earle of Northumberland, and had iffue **Henry**, the eleuenth Earle of Arundell, **Anne** and **Katherine**, which two daughters died both without iffue. His fecond wife was **Elizabeth**, daughter of **Robert Wil-loughby**, Lord Brooke, by whom hee had iffue two daughters, **Margaret** and **Elizabeth**, that died alfo without iffue. This **William** died in the fiue and thirtieth yeare of King **Henry** the eight, and was buried in the Castle of Arundell, 1543.

*Et portoit, les Armories de son père.*

H**enry Fitz-Alan**, sonne of **William** aforefaid, was after his father Earle of Arundell, Lord Maltreuers, Clun, &c. and Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter. Hee married two wiues; the firft was **Katherine**, daughter of **Thomas Gray**, Marqueffe Dorfet, Lord Bonuile and Harington, and fifter of **Henry Gray**, Duke of Suffolke; by whom he had iffue **Henry** Lord Maltreuers, which married **Anne**, daughter and sole heire of Sir **Iohn Wentworth** Knight, and died and was buried at Bruxels without iffue, 1556. being butnineteene yeares of age. Hee had alfo two daughters his heires: **Jane** the eldeft was married to **Iohn**, Lord **Lumley**, and had iffue **Charles**, **Thomas**, and **Mary**, which died all three without iffue; **Mary**, the fecond daughter and co-heire, was married to **Thomas Howard**, the laft Duke of Norfolke of that family, and had iffue **Philip Howard**, after Earle of Arundell. This **Henry** married to his fecond wife, **Mary** daughter of Sir **Iohn Arundell**, of the Weft Countrey Knight, the widow of **Robert Radcliff**, Earle of Suffex, by whom he had no iffue. Hee was Gouernour of Callis, when King **Henry** the eight befieged Boloine, and Lord Marshall of his Army, Lord Chamberlaine to King **Henry** the eight, King **Edward** the fixt, and Lord Steward of the Houfehold, to Queene **Mary** and Queene **Elizabeth**, and died very old, the fiue and twentieth of February, 1579. the two and twentieth of Queene **Elizabeth**, and was buried at Arundell with his Anceftors.

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

Philip

ARVNDELL.

37

Philip Howard, eldest sonne of Thomas late Duke of Norfolke, and of Mary his wife, second daughter and co-heire of Henry Fitz-Alan abouefaid (vnto whom was conueyed the Castle and Honour of Arundell) did (vpon the death of Henry Fitz-Alan his grand-father) affume the Name and Title of Earle of Arundell, being not as yet restored in blood, and by that name was summoned to the Parliament holden at Westminister, the sixteenth day of January following, in the three and twentieth of Queene Elizabeth, and fated there in prefence of the said Queene as Earle of Arundell, almost two moneths before his reſtitution in blood, which was concluded in the upper house of Parliament, on the tenth day of March after, as doth appeare by the Journall booke of that Parliament. He married Anne daughter of Thomas Lord Dacres, and fifth and co-heire of George Lord Dacres of Gillefland, by whom he had issue, Thomas Howard now Earle of Arundell, 1621. This Philip was attainted of treason the fourteenth of Aprill, 1589, and died a natural death in the Tower of London, the nineteenth day of November, 1595.

Et portoit, gueulles a vn band entre fix Croiflets botonny fiche d'argent.

Thomas Lord Howard Earle of Arundell, the only sonne of Philip Earle of Arundell, was restored in blood by King James in the second yeare of his reigne, 1604, and after made one of the said kings most Honourable Priue Councell, knight of the Noble Order of the Garter, and Earle Marſhall of England. Hie married Aletheia, youngest daughter and co-heire of Gilbert Talbot Earle of Shrewsburie, by whom he had issue James Lord Maltreuers, and knight of the Bath, Sir Henry Howard knight of the Bath: Thomas and Gilbert died both young, William and Charles Howard, now liuing, 1621.

A

A Catalogue of the Earles of
*Albemarle*, with their Wires,
*Armes*, and Children.

Stephen, sonne of Eudo, Earle of Bledenfis
and Champaigne, by Matild his wife,
halfe sifter by the mother to William
Conquerour, was Lord of the Citie of
Albemarle in Normandie, (by the gift of
Odo, Bishop of Bayon and Earle of Kent, his Vnckle.)
Of which Citie, King William Rufus, in the fixt yeare
of his reigne, did not onely create him Earle of, but
also gaue him the Ifle of Holderneffe, with the Castle
and Towne of Bitham, and other great Seigniories
and Lands in England and Normandie. In the fiue and
twentieth yeare of King Henrie the firft, this Stephen

was witneffe to the said Kings Charter of Lands, that he gaue to the Ab-
bey of Reading. Hee married
sonne of Raphe, and had iffue three fonnes and foure daughters; Williams
Earle of Albemarle, Stephen, and Ingeram: the daughters were all mar-
ried out of England, but the youngeſt, who was firſt married vnto Wil-
liam de Romare, Earle of Lincolne, and after to Peter de Brus, who died in
the Holy Land, in the fixe and twentieth yeare of King Henrie the firſt.

*Et portoit, Gueulles a vn Croix patee vaire.*

William

64

ANGVISH and KYME.

Robert Vmframvile, sonne of Gilbert, was after his father Earle of Anguifh, Lord of Prodhoo, &c. He fate in Parliament held at Westminfter, the firft yeare of King Edward the ſecond, and ſo continued vnto the ſeuenteenth of the fame Kings reigne, as Earle of Anguifh, and then died. He was one of the Noble men that condemned Thomas, Earle of Lancafter, to die. Hee married Luce, ſifter and heire of William de Kyme, a great Baron, and had iſſue Gilbert Earle of Anguifh, Robert, and Thomas; and a daughter named E-lionor, married to Sir Gilbert Borrowdon, Knight.

Et portoit, les armes de ſon pere.

Gilbert Vmframvile, (sonne and heire of Robert a-foreſaid) was Regent of Scotland, and Earle of Anguifh, Lord of Prodhoo, Otterborne, Harebotle, and Rideſdale, and by his mother Lord of Kyme in Lincolneſhire. He married to his firſt wife Jane, daugh-ter of Robert Lord Willoughby: His ſecond wife was Matild, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy of Cockermoth Knight, and ſifter and heire of Anthonie Lucy her bro-ther, but had no iſſue by either of them. His laſt wife was after his death married to Henry Percy the firſt Earle of Northumberland. This Gilbert fought the battell of Gladisſmore, at which time he was Marſhall of Scotland, and did ſit in Parliaments in England from the eight yeare of King Edward the third, vnto the fourth of King Richard the ſecond, by the Name and Title of Earle of Anguifh: Hee was ſlaine with Thomas Duke of Clarence, at the battell of Bangy in Aniou, in the yeare 1384. Leauing Sir Robert Vmframvile, Knight of the Garter, his next heire, which Robert was Vice Admirall of England, and died the one and thirtieth of Ianuarie, the fifteenth of Henrie the ſixt.

This Descent of the Vmframviles is diuerſly ſet forth by ſundrie perſons, who haue made many heires male to the last Gilbert, more then I can finde any good proofe for. Therefore for the better clearing thereof, take this out of the Kings Records, Eſcaetria 9. H. 5. Gilbert, the last Earle of Anguifh, with Mauld Lucy his wife, did entaile diuers Lands to them ſelues, and the heires of their two bodies: and for default thereof, to Robert his brother, and to the heires male of his body: and for default thereof, to Thomas Vmframvile his third brother, and to his heires male of his body: and for default thereof, the remainder to Elionor his ſifter, wife of Gilbert Borrowdon, and the heires of their two bodies: and that Elionor, the wife of Henrie Talboys, is daughter and heire of Gilbert Borrowdon, and Neece and heire of the ſaid last Earle Gilbert, and was then ſortie yeares of age.

Et portoit, gueulles à vne quintifoile & le Champe Croifele patee d'or.

68

BVCKINGHAM.

Thomas of Woodstock, Knight of the Garter, (and fixt fonne of King Edward the third) being Conftable of England, was in the firſt yeare of King Richard the ſecond, created Earle of Buckingham, and late in Parliament the fame yeare by that Name and Title; and in the ninth yeare of the ſaid Kings reigne, he was created Duke of Gloceſter. He married Elianor, daugh ter and co-heire of Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Here ford, Eſſex, and Northampton, and Conſtable of Eng land; by whom hee had iſſue, Humfrey Earle of Buc kingham, and Anne, who was married to Edmond, Earle Stafford. This Thomas was ſtrangled or ſmo thered to death vnder a Feather-bed at Callis, by Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norſtolke, and Marſhall of England, 1396. the twentieth of Richard the ſecond. Hollinſhed, page 489.

In the time of this mans being Conſtable of England, an Act of Par liament was made, viz. the thirteenth of King Richard the ſecond, for the Conſtable and Marſhals Court, as followeth.

Item, Because that the Commons doe make a grieuous complaint, That the Court of the Conſtable and the Marſhall hath encroched to him, and dayly doth encroch, Contracts, Couenants, Trefpaſſes, Debts, and Detinues, and many other Actions pleadable at the Common Law, in great preiudice of our Soueraigne Lord the King, and of his Courts, and to the great grieuance and op preſſion of his people; Our Soueraigne Lord the King therefore willing to or daigne a remedie against the preiudices and grieuances aforefaid, hath declared in this Parliament, by aduice and aſſent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall, the power and iurisdiſction of the ſaid Conſtable, in the forme that followeth: To the Conſtable it appertaineth to haue Cognizance of Contracts, touching Deeds of Armes, and of Warre out of the Realme, and alſo of things that touch Warre within the Realme, which may not be determined nor diſcussed by the Common Law, nor other Vſages and Cuſtomes to the ſame matters pertaining, which other Conſtables heretofore haue ducely and reaſonably Vſed in their time: ioyning to the ſame, that euery plaintife ſhall declare plainely his matter in his Petition, afore that any man be ſent for to anſwere thereunto. And if any will complaine, that any Plea be commenced before the Conſtable and Marſhall, that might be tryed by the Law of the Land, the ſame Complainant ſhall haue a Privie Seale of the King without difficultie, directed to the ſaid Conſtable and Marſhall, to ſurceafe in that Plea, till it be diſcussed by the Kings Councell, if that matter ought and of right pertaineth to that Court, or otherwise to be tryed by the Common Law of the Realme of England, and alſo that they ſur ceafe in the meane time.

Et portoit, France ſemé & d'Engleterre eſcartelle, au border d'argent.

Humfrey

B V C K I N G H A M .

69

H **Humfrey Plantagenet** (sonne of Thomas of Woodstocke) after the death of his father was Earle of Buckingham, and being banished England into Ireland, was re-called backe againe by King Henry the fourth, in the first yeare of his reigne : in which returne, hee dyed of the plague at Chefter, (others haue at Couentry) and was buried in the Abbey of Walden in Essex, without issue.

H **Humfrey, Earle Stafford, Hereford, and Northampton, Lord of Brecknocke, Holderneffe, and Constable of England, and of Douer Castle.** He was also Knight of the Garter, and Sonne and heire of Edmond Earle Stafford, begotten of Anne Plantagenet, daughter of Thomas of Woodstocke: Hee was created the first Duke of Buckingham, in the two and twentieth yeare of King Henry the sixt, 1443. and to haue the precedent place of all other Dukes in England. Hee married Anne, daughter of Ralph Neuill, first Earle of Westmerland, and had issue foure Sonnes and three daughters, viz. Humfrey, Earle of Stafford, the eldest Sonne flaine at S. Albons, the three and thirtieth yeare of King Henry the sixt (in the life time of his father:) John Stafford, the second Sonne, was Earle of Wiltshire; Richard, the third Sonne, died young; and Robert, the fourth Sonne, was Archbishop of Canterbury. Katherine, the eldest daughter, was married vnto John Talbot, Earle of Shrewsbury; Jane, the second daughter, was married first to William Lord Bardolph, and after to Sir William Knuyet, Knight; and Anne, the third daughter, was first married to Aubrey de Vere (Sonne and heire of the Earle of Oxford) and after, to Sir Thomas Cobham, Knight. This Humfrey, with John Talbot, Earle of Shrewsbury, Thomas Lord Egremont, and John Vifcount Beaumont, was flaine at the Battell of Northampton, the ninth of July, in the eight and thirtieth yeare of King Henry the sixt, 1460. (the King being then taken prisoner) and his body buried in the Gray-Friars at Northampton.

Escartelle France & d'Engleterre, au bordur d'argent (being his mothers Armes, quartered with his owne Armes) d'or au Cheueron gueulles.

Henry

BVCKINGHAM.

71

Sir George Villers, Knight, (fourth sonne of Sir George Villers of Leicestershire, Knight) was created Baron of Whaddon, and Viscount Villers at Woodstocke, the seuen and twentieth of August, 1616. and the fixteenth of January after, he was created at White-Hall, Earle of Buckingham: lastly, hee was made Marqueffe of Buckingham, at White-Hall, the firft of January, 1617. by the deliuerie of a Letters Patents. He was also Knight of the honorable Order of the Garter, Lord high Admirall of England, Mafter of the Horfe, and one of his Maiesties moft honorable Priuy Councell, 1621. He married Katherine, daugh-
ter and sole heire of Francus Mannore, Earle of Rutland.

Et portoit, d'argent au Croix de guculles, charge de cinq coquilles d'or,
au mertelot guenelles.

Mary, daughter of Anthony Beaumont, second sonne of William Beaumont, of Cole Ouerton in Leicestershire, was by the great and extraordinarie favour and bountie of James, King of Great Britaine, made Countesse of Buckingham, by the deliuerie of a Letters Patent, bearing date the firft of July, 1618. And had giuen her, for the maintenance of the said Dignitie, an yearely fee or rent of twentie pounds, iffuing out of the said Countie during her life. Shee married three Husbands: the firft, was Sir George Villers of Brookesby in Leicestershire, Knight; by whom he had iffue, Sir John Villers Knight, Baron of Stoke, and Viscount Purbecke, Sir George Villers, Marqueffe of Buckingham, Christopher Villers, and Susan, wife to Sir William Feilding, Baron of Newham, in the Countie of Warwicke, and Viscount Feilding. Her second Husband, was William Reyner Gentleman, by whom he had no iffue. Her third and last Husband, now liuing, is Sir Thomas Compton Knight, second sonne of Henry Lord Compton, and brother of William Lord Compton, now Earle of Northampton, 1621.

Et portoit, d'azur au Lion rampant, semé de lices d'or,
brise d'un croissant d'gueulles.

A

BEDFORD.

73

Iohn Plantaginet (third Son of King Henry the fourth) Knight of the Garter, was in the second yeere of King Henry the fifth, created Duke of Bedford, Earle of Richmond, and Lord of Kendall, and in the fifth yeare of the fame Kings Reigne, hee was made Protector of the Realme of England, and Head of the publike Weale. Also in the fifth of King Henry the fixt, he was made Regent of France, and was fyled, Iohn Regent of France, Duke of Bedford, Aniou, and Alanfon, Earle of Mayne, Harecourt; Drux, Richmond, and Carlell, and Vifcount Beaumond. Hee knighted King Henry the fixt, in the yeare 1425. and married to his first wife, Anne daughter of Iohn Duke of Burgundy, but by her had no issue; and to his second Wife he married Jaqueline, daughter of Peter Earle of S. Paul, and by her had no issue: (she was after married to Richard Wooduile Earle Riuers, and had issue, Elizabeth wife to King Edward the fourth.

This Iohn being Constable of England, 1406. determined the Controuerie betweene Reignald Lord Gray of Ruthen, and Sir Edward Haftings Knight, for the bearing of the Armes of Haftings, as doth appeare by this Mandate following. Iohan filz Du Roy, Constable de Angleterre, &c.

Iohn the Kings Sonne, Constable of England, and Warden of the East Maryes toward Scotland, to our welbeloued Cousin, Sir Rafe Neuill, Earle of Westmerland, and Marshall of England, greeting. We command and charge you, that you cause to come and appeare before us at Westminster, the ninth day of May next comming, Mounfieur Edward Haftings, to answer Mounfieur Reynald Lord Gray of Ruthen, concerning that which he shall then charge him within our Court of Chivalry, concerning the full vsing and bearing of his Armes, and to that the Lord Gray faith, and as it shall be more fully declared at the same day: And further to doe and recciue that which the Law, and the Cuffome of our said Court shall in this part require. Returning before us at the afore said day with this our precept, all that you shall therein haue done. Given at Westminster under the Seale of our Office, the first day of May, in the Reigne of my moft dread Lord and Father, Henry the fourth. This great Duke at the winning of Vernoyle, tooke the Duke of Alanfon prisoner, and with the loffe of 2100. of his common Soldiers, flew of their enemies five Earles, two Vifcounts, one and twenty Barons, five hundred French, and two thousand five hundred Scots: and after died at Paris the 4. of September; and was buried at Roane in our Lady Church there. 1435. vnder a sumptuous Monument; which when Lewis the eleuenth King of France was counfelled to deface, he answered, faying, What honour shall it be to Vs, or to you, to breake this rich Monument, & to pul out of the ground, the dead bones of him, whom in his life time, neither my Father, nor your Progenitors, with all their puifance, were once able to make flie one foot backwards: Wherefore let his body now lie in reft, which when he was aline, would haue disquieted the proudest of us all: and for the Tombe, I assure you it is not so decent nor convenient as his Honour and Acts deferned.

Et portoit, France feme & D'engletterre escartelle, a lambell per pale ermyn & azur, a le second 9. de Luces d'or.

H

George

74

BEDFORD.

George Neuill (Son of John Neuill Marquess Mountague) was created Duke of Bedford, and his Father Marquess Mountague in the tenth yeere of King Edward the fourth: and in the feuenteenth yeere of the said Kings Reigne, both the said George and John his Father, were by Act of Parliament deposed from all their honourable Titles, the words whereof followeth:

The King by advice and assent of his Lords Spirituall and Temporall, and by the Commons of this present Parliament assembled, and by the authoritie of the same ordained, eftablistheth and enacteth, That from henceforth, the erection and making of Duke, and all the Names of Dignity, given to the said George, or to the said John Neuill his Father, bee from henceforth voide, and of no effect. And that the said George and his heires from henceforth, be no Dukes, nor Marquess, Earle, nor Baron, nor be reputed nor taken for no erection or Creation afore made: but of that name of Duke & Marquess, Earle and Baron, in him and his heires ceafe, and be voide and of none effect, the said Erection or Creation notwithstanding.

This George died without issue, and was buried at Shrief-Huton the fourth of May, 1483. twelue yeeres after his Father, leauing his fiue Sifters his heires, viz. Anne married vnto Sir William Stoner Knight; Elizabeth wife to the Lord Scrope of Vpfall; Margaret married to Sir John Mortimer, and after to Robert Horne; Luce wife to Sir Thomas Fitz-Williams, Father of VVilliam Earle of Southampton, and after wife to Sir Anthony Browne Knight; and Isabell the fift Sifter, was married to Sir VVilliam Huddlesone Knight; all which fiue Sifters had issue.

Guelles, au Sauiteur d'argent au lambell gobonne d'argent & d'azur.

After of Hatfield (sonne of Owen Tuder, by Katherine the Widdow of King Henry the fift, and brother to Kiug Henry the fixt by his mother) was created Earle of Penbroke, in the thirtie one yeare of King Henry the fixt: and in the fift yeare of King Edward the fourth, he was attainted by Parliament, and his Earldome of Penbroke giuen vnto VVilliam Lord Herbert, flaine after at the battell of Banbury, the ninth of King Edward the fourth. This After, with his Nephew Henry Earle of Richmond returning out of Britaine into England, in the laft yeere of the Reigne of King Richard the third, who being flaine at the battel of Boſworth, 1415. Henry Earle of Richmond, was crowned King by the name of King Henry the feuenth: who did not onely restore this After his Vnckle to the Earledome of Penbroke, but alſo created him Duke of Bedford in the firſt yeere of his Reigne. He married Katherine, fixt daughter of Richard VViddeuill Earle Riuers, and died in the yeere of our Lord, 1495. and was buried in the Abbey of Kenſham, without any lawfull iſſue. He had a bafe daughter named Ellen, married to William Gardiner of London.

Et portoit eschar-
telle France & D'engletterre au bordur d'azur feme Marders d'or.

Sir

BEDFORD,

75

SIR John Ruffell, Knight of the Garter, Controller of the household to King Henrie the eight, and one of his private Council, was created Lord Ruffell, in the third yeare of the said Kings Reigne, 1538, and in the third yeere of King Edward the fixt, he was created Earle of Bedford. This Sir John Ruffell was before made Lord Admirall, and Lord Priuy Seale by King Henrie the eight. He married Anne, daughter and sole heire of Sir Guy Sapcotes Knight; by whom he had issue, Frances Lord Ruffell, after Earle of Bedford. Hee died at his house by Iuy bridge in the Strand neere London, and was buried in the Parish Church of Cheyneys, in the yeare 1555.

Et portoit, d'argent au Lion rampant de Gueulles arme' & lampasse d'azur, au la cher fable charge de trois coquilles d'argent.

FRANCES Lord Ruffell, and Earle of Bedford, (sonne and heire of John Earle of Bedford) was Knight of the Garter, and one of the Priuy Councell to Queene Elizabeth. He married two wiues; the first was Margaret, daughter of Sir John S. John, and second of Olivier Lord S. John of Bletfo, by whom hee had issue, foure fonnes and three daughters, that is to say, Edward Lord Ruffell, that died without issue; John Lord Ruffell, second fonne, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke Knight, and widow of Sir Thomas Herbert Knight, by whom hee had issue two daughters, Elizabeth that died without issue; and Anne married to Henry Lord Herbert, fonne and heire of Edward Earle of Worcester. Frances Ruffell the third fonne, after the death of John his Brother, was Lord Ruffell, and married Julian, daughter and coheire of Sir John Forster Knight, Lord Warden of the middle Marchesse against Scotland, and was flaine by the Scots at a day of truce, 1585. (in the life time of Frances his Father) hauing issue Edward after Earle of Bedford. Sir William Ruffell knight, fourth fonne created Lord Ruffell of Thornhaugh, at Hampton-Court, by King James, in Ann. 1603, and had to Wife Elizabeth, daughter and heire of Longe of Chengie, in the Countie of Cambridge Esquire. Anne the eldest daughter, was wife to Ambrose Dudley Earle of Warwicke. Elizabeth second daughter, was married to William Bourchier, Earle of Bath, and had issue Edward now Lord Fitz-Warren. Margaret the third daughter, married to George Clifford, Earle of Cumberland, and had issue, Anne now Countesse of Dorset. This Frances Earle of Bedford, married for his second wife, Bridget daughter of John Lord Huffee, the Widdow of Henry Manners, Earle of Rutland, but by her

H 2

had

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

Lan (fur-named Fergant, or the Red)
Earle of Britaine and Richmond, (fonne
of Hoel, second fonne of Alan Caignard,
by Hawis his wife, daughter and heire of
Alan Duke of Britaine, and great Aunt to
VVilliam Conquerour) to whom the said Conquerour,
in the fourth yeare of his Reigne (at the siege of Yorke)
did giue vnto him and his heires, all the Lands and Ho-
nours, late belonging vnto Earle Edwin in Yorkeshire.
This Alan Fergant married first, Constance, daughter of
VVilliam Conquerour, who died without issue, (as Ro-
bert Montenees faith.) And after hee married Ermin-
gard, daughter of Foulke Rechin Earle of Aniou, and had issue, Conan, fur-
named le Groffe; vnto whom also was giuen the Earledome of Britaine;
but the Earledome of Richmond, the said VVilliam Conquerour gaue to
his Cousin Alan, fur-named Niger, or the Blacke, (Sonne of Eudo, the
fonne of Geoffrey, first Duke of Britaine of that name, by Hawis his Wife,
Daughter of Richard, the first Duke of Normandy. This Alan Fergant,
died in the yeere of our Lord, 1093. and was buried in the Monafterie of
Rhedon, in the Seuenth yeare of King VVilliam Rufus.

Et portoit d'hermines.

Conan le Groffe, fonne of Alan Fergant by his fe-
cond Wife Ermingard, was (after his Father) Earle
of Britaine, and as Bertrand de Argentre, Lord of Gof-
nes fetteth downe in the Descent of the Earles of Bri-
taine, he married Mabell, daughter of King Henry the
first of England, (which marriage I find not in any o-
ther Author) and had issue, Howell a fonne, and two
daughters, Bertha and Constance. Howell the fonne was
by his Father vpon his death-bed, disfavowed to bee his
child: Bertha the eldeft daughter, was married first to
Alan Lord of Auangour, and had issue, Conan the leffe,
her second husband was Eudo, Earle of Porhet, and of

Britaine by his Wife, and after expulsed from that Earldome by Conan,

his

H 3

78

BRITAINE and RICHMOND.

his fonne in Law. Constance the second daughter was married to Geoffrey,
fonne of Iuhael du Maynne.

Et portoit d'ermines.

A Lan Niger (or the Blacke) fonne of Eudo, Earle of
Britaine, was by the gift of VVilliam Conquerour,
the second Earle of Richmond, and died without issue,
leauing his Brother Stephen Derien, to succeed him in
his Earledome.

S Tephen Derien, Earle of Ponthieur, Lord of Goelo
and Treguer, was after his Brother Alan the Blacke,
the third Earle of Richmond, vnto whom King Henrie
the first did giue Waltham, with the Soke in the Coun-
tie of Lincolnne. He married Hawis, Countesse of Guin-
gamp, and had issue, Alan fur-named the Sauage; Henry
Earle of Ponthieur; Geoffrey fur-named Botterell, and o-
thers. Henrie, Earle of Ponthieur had issue, Alan, to
whom King Iohn did confirme Waltham with the Soke
in these words. I John, King of England, Lord of Ire-
land, Duke of Normandy, and Aquitaine, and Earle of An-
iou, &c. Knowe you, that I haue giuen and granted vnto
Alan, sonne of Henry of Britaine, sonne of Earle Stephen,
VValtham with the Soke, &c. VVitneſſe William of London, Henry of VVin-
chefter, Bishops, and Geoffrey Fitz-Piers Earle of Eſſex, and others, of which
Henry, is defcended the Lords Fitz-Alans of Bidal. This Stephen Derien (as
Somerset Glouer hath) died in the yeare, 1104. and was buried at Begar,
and his heart was buried in the Monaſtery of S. Maries at Yorke, as hee
himſelfe deſired.

Alan

84

BRITAINE and RICHMOND.

mond in the sixteenth yeare of his Reigne. He married *Iane*, daughter of *Charles* Earle of Valois, and had issue, *Blanch* first married to *Henry* King of Navarre, and after to *Edmond Croochbacke* Earle of Lancafter. This *Robert* was the first that mooued King *Edward* to make his Title and claime to the Crowne of France, in the right of Queene *Isabell* his Mother: hee was Admirall of the English Fleete, and Generall of the warres in France; and was after hurt in the head at theliege of the City of Vannes in Britaine, and beeing conueyed to London for the cure of his hurts, shortly after died there, in the yeare 1342. and was moft honourably buried in Saint *Paules* Church in London; the King being at his Funerall, did weare blackes. Others haue, that hee was buried in the Blacke Friars in London.

*Et portoit, feme de France au lambell de gueulles, chaſtelle d'or.*

*John* of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafter, (fourth sonne of King *Edward* the third) was by his Father in the yeere of our Lord, 1342, made Earle of Richmond; and in the 46. yeare of his faid Fathers Reigne, he furrendred the faid Earledome of Richmond againe. He married *Blanch*, daughter and co-heire of *Henry* Duke of Lancafter, and had issue, King *Henry* the fourth (as in the Title of Lancafter is more at large.)

*Et portoit, eſcartelle France feme & D'Engleterre a
vne lambell d'ermyn.*

*John Breno*, third sonne of *Arthur* Duke of Britaine, begotten of his fecond Wife *Yoland*, Countesse of Mountford, Daughter and heire of *Almericke* Earle Mountford; whom *Philip de Valoys* King of France did confiſcate in his Earledome of Mountford, becauſe hee aided *Edward* the third. In confideration wherof, King *Edward* the third gaue vnto this *Iohn*, the Earledome of Richmond in England. He ſate in Parliament held at Westminſter, in the thirty fourth yeere of the ſaid Kings Reigne, by the name and Title of *Iohn* Earle of Richmond. He was bound by Indenture, bearing date 1373, to ſerue King *Edward* the third in his warres in France and Britaine, againſt *Philip de Valoys*: in which Indenture, hee is ſtyled *Iohn* Duke of Britaine, Earle Mountford and Richmond. He married *Ioane*, daughter of *Charles* King of Navarre, after married to King *Henry* the fourth of England. This *Iohn* had issue, *Iohn Mountford*, furnaſmed the Valiant; and a daughter named *Ioane*, wife to *Rafe Baffet* of Drayton. This *Iohn* was taken prifoner at Nantes by the Earle of Bloys, and dyed after in prifon at Paris in France.

*Et portoit les Armes de ſon pere.*

Iohn

86 BRITAINE and RICHMOND.

the said Robert shall then charge him with, by the way of Armes, as hauing
set and put too the Seale of his Armes to a false and forged writing, done to the
hurt and damage of him the said Robert one hundred pounds, and more then
that, as he faith. Returning before Vs at the said day with this Our Mandate,
all that which you shall haue therein done. Given under the Seale of Our Of-
fice, the three and twentieth of November, Anno Henrie the fixt.

Et portoit France feme & d'Engleterre escartelle, au lambel per pale de
Britaine & France.

EDmond of Hadham (the place of his birth) sonne of Owen Teuder by Queene Katherine, and halfe brother by the mother to King Henrie the fixt, was created Earle of Richmond, at a Parliament held at Reading, in the one and thirtieth yeare of the said Kings reigne, notwithstanding that Arthur Duke of Britaine was then liuing, and did vfe that Title. Hee married Margaret, daughter and heire of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (grand-child to John of Gaunt, by his sonne John) and by her hadiffue, Henrie, Earle of Richmond, after King of England, by the name of King Henrie the Seuenth. This Margaret, in the yeare

1491. by the commandement and authoritie of King Henrie the Seuenth,
her Sonne, made the Orders (yet extant) for great Estates of Ladies and
Noble-women for their precedence, Attires, and wearing of Barbes at
Funerals, ouer the chin, vpon the chin, and vnder the fame; which noble
and good Orders at this day is greatly profaned and abuſed, by euery
meane and common woman, to the great wrong and diſhonour of hono-
rable Eſtates. This Edmond died in the yeare 1456. and was buried in
the Gray Friars Church in Carmarden in Wales, the ſiue and thirtieth of
Henrie the fixt. And Margaret his wife, died in the yeare 1509. and was
honorably buried in the Abbey of Westminſter.

Et portoit, escartelle France & d'Engleterre a une bordur d'azur, feme
fleurs de liz, & Marlettes d'or.

Richard

103

A Catalogue of the Earles and Dukes
of Cornwall, their Armes, Wives,
and Children.

Robert Earle of Mortaigne (halfe brother by the mother to William the Conqueror) fonne of Harlowyn de Comitis Villa, and Harlot his wife; mother of William the Conqueror, who comming into England with the faid Conqueror, had giuen him the Earledome of Cornwall, and made Earle thereof. Hee married Mauld, daughter of Roger Montigomerie, Earle of Shrewsburie and Arundell; by whom he had iffue, William, Earle Mortaigne and Cornwall (and as Robert Monten(s)is hath) three daughters, one married to Andreas de Vitrio, the secon to Guido de la Vale, the third to the Earle of Tholous. This Robert was flaine in Northumberland, in the yeare 1087.

W
William, Earle Mortaigne in Normandie, fonne of Robert aforefaid, was after his father the second Earle of Cornwall, who with Robert de Bellismo, William Efloteuile, and William Crispin, did aide Robert Curthofe, Duke of Normandie, againft King Henrie the firft, his brother, at the battell of Trenchbray in Normandie; where they were taken prisoners, in the eight yeare of the faid Kings reigne: the faid William being before disinherited, and his Earledome giuen vn-to Stephen, fonne of the Earle of Champaigne, (who was after King of England) and were sent ouer Sea in-to England, to bee kept in perpetuall prifon; Robert, Duke of Normandie, being sent to the Castle of Car-diffe in Wales, had his eyes put out; and this William became a Monke at Bermondsey in Southwarke, and there died without iffue. His Armes, as Glouer Somerfet hath, is, d'Hermines an chief endented de guculles.

Reginald,

CORNWALL:

105

John, (fur-named *Without Land*) fourth fonne of King Henrie the second; firft married *Alice*, daughter and one of the heires of *Hubert*, Earle of Moretain, in Anno 1172. In whose right, his father made him Earle of Moretain, and after, Lord of Ireland: this *Alice* died without iffue; after whose death, he married to his second wife, *Isabel*, third daughter and one of the heires of *William*, Earle of Glocefter, from whom he was diuorced, without iffue. He was also Earle of Glocefter, and by King *Richard* the firft, his brother, Earle of Cornwall, Lancafter, and SomerSET, Lord of the Honours of Wallingford, Tikell, Marlesborough, and

Ludgarshall. Lastly, this *John* married to his third wife, *Isabel*, daughter of *Aimer*, Earle of Engolesmi, by whom he had iffue, King Henrie the third, and *Richard*, Earle of Cornwall, and was after King of England: This *John*, by the name of *John*, Earle of Moretain, did by his Charter giue to the Monkes of our Lady of Fourneis in perpetuall almes, all the Mountaynes of Furneis with their appurtenances, which *Roger* of Pictavia, or Earle *Stephen*, who founded that Abbey, held or had, &c. Witneſſes, *Stephen Rid*, his Chancelor, *Robert*, Earle of Leicefter, and *Robert de Bret* his fonne, *William Braus*, and *Gilbert de Croft*, &c.

*Et portoit, gueulles à deux Leopards, paſſant d'or.*

Richard, second fonne of King John, in the eleuenth
yeare of King Henrie the third, his brother, was
created Earle of Poictou and Cornwall; and in the
twelfth yeare of the said Kings reigne, the King gaue
him all the Lands in England, which were Reginald
Dampmartins, Earle of Boloignes. And in the yeare
1257. he was by the Princes of Germanie, choſen King
of the Romaines, and crowned at Aquifgrane. He did
write himſelfe, Richard, King of the Romaines, and al-
wayes Augustus, and married to his firſt wife, Isabel,
ſifter and one of the heires of William Marſhall, the yon-
ger, Earle of Penbroke, and had iffue, John, that died
young; Henrie, ſlaine by Guy and Simon, ſonnes of Si-
mon Mounfort, Earle of Leiceſter, in the Church of Saint Siluſter in
Viterbium in Italy, 1272. in reuenge of their fathers death, that was ſlaine
in the Barons warres in England; and Richard, that died without iffue.

His fecond wife, was Sincia or Sanchia, daughter and one of the heires of
Reymond Berengar, Earle of Province, and ſifter to Queene Elianor, by
whom he had iffue Edmond, Earle of Cornwal, and Richard, that died at the
ſiege

CORNWALL

107

Pierce de Caueston (a Gaſcoigne borne) was made Baron of Wallingſord, and after, in the first yeare of King Edward the ſecond, was created Earle of Cornwall, and Lord of the Isle of Man; and in the third yeare of the ſaid Kings reigne, he married Isabel, ſecond ſifter and co-heire of Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Gloſeſter and Harſtord; and in the fixt yeare of the ſaid Kings reigne, (after hee had beene banifhed Eng-land twice) he was taken by Guy Beauchamp, Earle of Warwicke, and beheaded at a place neere vnto Wat-wicke, called Gauerſhith, the thirteenth Kal. of July, 1310. whose body the Frier-Preachers conueyed to Oxford, and there kept it more then two yeares, vntill the King commanded it to be conueyed to the Frier-Preachers, at his Mannor of Langley, and there buried.

Et portoit, Sinope ſix Aigles d'or, membrez & becquez d'gueulles.

John of Eltham (so named of the place where hee was borne, 1316.) ſecond ſonne of King Edward the ſecond, and brother to King Edward the third, in the fifth yeare of his ſaid brothers reigne, was made Earle of Cornwall, and in the ninth yeare of the ſaid Kings reigne, hee died at Saint Johnſ Towne in Scot-land, without issue; and was buried in the Abbey of Westminſter, 1334. After whose death, King Edward the third, in the twelfth yeare of his reigne, made the Earledome of Cornwall a Dukedome, and gaue it to his ſonne Edward, the blacke Prince, with the Earledome of Cheſter: ſince which time, the Kings eldeſt ſonnes haue beene Dukes of Cornwall.

Et portoit, d'argent a Lion rampant de gueulles corone d'or, au bordure ſable bezante.

Edward,

108

CORNWALL.

Edward, fur-named the Blacke Prince, sonne and heire of King Edward the third; in the eleuenth yeare of his fathers reigne, was created the first Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of Chefter, and in the feuen-teenth yeare of the said Kings reigne, hee was created Prince of Wales; and in the fixe and thirtieth yeare, he had giuen him the Principalitie of Aquitaine: and in the two and fortieth yeare of King Edward the third, he late in Parliament by the Name and Title of Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine; hee tooke John the French King prisoner, at the battaile of Poitiers, in the yeare 1356. He married Ioane, the repu-diat wife of William Mountague, Earle of Salisbury, and

daughter of Edmond of Woodtocke, Earle of Kent; by whom hee had
iffue, Edward, that died young, and Richard, fur-named of Burdeaux, who
was after King of England, by the name of King Richard the Second. Af-
ter the battell of Poitiers, James, Lord Audley, being brought to this no-
ble Prince in a Litter, moft grieuoufly wounded, hauing moft valiantly
carried himselve that day: the Prince, for his good feruice, gaue him foure
hundred markes of yearely reuenues. The which, returning to his Tent,
he gaue to his foure Esquires, which attended him in the battel: the Prince
being aduertised thereof, doubted that his gift was contemned, as too little
for so great a feruice: which, the Lord Audley satisfied him with this an-
fwer; I muft doe for them who deferued beſt of me: theſe my Esquires
faued my life amiddeſt the enemies. And, God be thanked, I haue ſuffici-
ent reuenues left by my Anceſters to maintaine me in your ſeruice. Where-
vpon the Prince commending his prudence and liberalitie, confirmed his
gift to his Esquires, and aſſigned him more fixe hundred markes of like
Land in England. Froſſard.

Et portoit, France ſeme & d'Engleterre eſcartelle, au lambel d'argent.

Richard, fur-named of Burdeaux, sonne and heire
of Edward the blacke Prince, was after the death
of his father, Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chefter;
and after created Prince of Wales, at Hauering at
Bowre, in the fiftieth yeare of King Edward the third
his grand father. He married Anne, daughter of Wen-
felaus, King of Bohemia, who died, and was buried at
Westminſter, in the ſeuenteenth yeare of his reigne,
without iffue. And to his ſecond wife, he married Iſa-
bel, daughter of Charles the French King, being very
young, but by her had no iffue: hee was after King of
England, by the name of King Richard the ſecond,

and was depofed from the Kingdome, and ſheep ſent into France againe, the
firſt of King Henrie the fourth, and married vnto Charles, ſonne of Lewis,
Duke of Orleance.

Henrie

CARLIELL.

113

and after he let breke the sword ouer his hed, the which the King him gafe to keepe and defend his Land therewith, when he made him Erle of Cardoill. And after he let him vnclithe of his Furred Taberd,and his Hood, and after his furred Cotys, and of his gir dle, and when this was done, Andrew, quoth he, now ert thou no Knight, but a Knaue: and so gaue iudgement on him that he should be drawne, hangd, and quarterd, and his head set on London Bridge, which was executed the last day of October, 1322. Hollinshed, pag.334. Some Writers say, that Sir Anthony Lucie Knight, gaue this sentence, which I doubt.

I find by a deed, that Sir John de Harkley Knight, authorized John de Beauchamp, William de Smerdale, and Robert Crakenthorp, to giue liuerie and season to Sir Andrew Harkley, Earle of Cardoil his brother, of all his lands, goods, and chattels, which he the said Sir John had within the Counties of Westmerland, Cumberland, and Yorkeshire, according to a Deed of feoffment thereof made: Dated at Cardoill, the tenth of November, the fixt of King Edward the second.

*Et portoit, les armoiries de Seint George, au premier quanton à marlette de fable.*

John Plantagenet, third son of King Henry the fourth, was Knight of the Garter, and in the second yeare of King Henry the fifth his brother, was created the first Duke of Bedford, Earle of Richmond, and Lord of Kendall; and in the fifth yeare of the said Kings Reigne, he was made Protector of the Realme of England (as in the Title of Bedford is more at large) and Earle of Carleil: (which diuers late Writers deny) for thus doe I finde him written in his own Deeds & Charters: John, Regent of the Realme of France; Duke of Bedford, Anieu, & Alanson, Earle of Mayne, Harecourt, Dreux, Richmond, and Carleil, and Viscount Beaumont. He married (in the yeare, 1433.) Jaqueline, daughter of Peter of Lucemburge, Earle of S. Paul, but by her had no issue. He died in France, the tenth of September, 1435. and was buried in the Cathedrall Church, in the Citie of Roane in Normandy, in a very flately Tombe.

*Et portoit, feme de France, feme & D'engleterre, à un lambel de cinq;ermyn & d'azur, neuf fleurs de liz d'or.*

Richard, fourth Son of Richard Duke of Yorke, (and brother of King Edward the fourth) was in the first yeare of the said Kings Reigne, 1460. created Duke of Glocefter, and Earle of Carleil, and after was made Conftable and Lord Admirall of England. And lastly, when he had caufed his two Nephewes, King Edward the fifth, and Richard Duke of Yorke, to be murdered in the Tower of London; He vfurped the Crowne, & was K. of England, by the name of King Richard the third.

*Et portoit, France eſcartelle D'engleterre, d'lambel ermyn charge à trois cantons de guenlles.*

L 3

A

116

CLARE and CLARENCE.

Richard, Earle of Clare and Hartford, sonne of Roger aforefaid, married Amicia, second daughter and one of the heires of William Earle of Glocefter, and had issue, Gilbert Earle of Clare, Hartford and Glocefter; Robert, second sonne, and Ioane, wife to Rice Grig, Prince of South-Wales, and died in the yeere 1218, and was buried in the Priorie of Tunbridge.

Et portoit, les armes de son pere.

Gilbert, Earle of Clare, Hartford, and of Glocefter, by his mother Amicia, after the death of his two Aunts without issue. He was a witnesse to King Henry the thirds Charter, of Lands that he gaue (in the ninth yeere of his reigne) to the Abbey of Peterborough, by the name of Gilbert, Earle of Clare, Hartford and Glocefter. And by his Charter did giue and confirme to the Monkes of Tewkefburie, there feruing God, for the health of his owne foule, and for the foules of Earle Richard his father, and the Countesse Amicia his mother, the Church of Haclington, with all rights and customes belonging to the fame. Moreouer, he confirmed to the said Monkes the gift of Robert de Clare his brother, of the farme-houfe of Miles Croft, &c. He married Isabell, third filter, and one of the heires of Anselme Marshall, Earle of Penbroke, and had issue, Richard Earle of Clare, Hartford and Glocefter, and William de Clare; Isabell, wife to Robert Bruse; Amicia, wife to Baldwin Earle of Deuon, and others. Hee died at Penroſe in Britaine, as the Booke of Tewkefburie hath, 1230. and lieth there buried.

Et portoit, d'or trois cheurons de gueulles.

Richard de Clare, second Earle of Glocefter, sonne of Gilbert aforefaid, married firſt Margaret, daugh ter of Hugh de Burgo Earle of Kent, but by her he had no issue. His ſecond wife was Mauld, daughter of John Lacy Earle of Lincolne, and Conſtable of Cheſter, by whom he had issue (as the Booke of Tewkeſburie men tioneth) Gilbert, the ſecond Earle of Glocefter, &c. Thomas de Clare, that was Steward of the Forreſts in Eſſex; Beuys, Treafurer of Yorke-Mynſter; Isabell, a Nun at Barking; Margaret, wife to Edmond Earle of Cornwall; Rose, wife to Roger Lord Mowbray. This Richard

CLARE and CLARENCE.

117

Richard died at Efmeresfield in Kent, 1262. and lieth buried at Tewkeſburie; but others haue, he died in France, and was brought into England, and buried at Tewkeſburie.

G[ilbert de Clare] (fur-named the Red) after the death of Richard his father, was Earle of Clare, Hartford, and the third Earle of Gloceſter of that fur-name. Hee married two wines, the firſt was *Alice*, daughter of *Hugh le Brun*, Earle of Angoleſme, and the Marcheſſe of Aquitaine, and had iſſue, *Isabell*, wife to Morris Lord Berkley. This *Alice* fell lunaticke, and was diuorced from this *Gilbert*: After which, he tooke to wife Ioane (fur-named of Acres) daughter of King Edward the firſt; with whom the ſaid *Gilbert* had neither lands nor money, but onely the Kings fauour, which before he had loft, for reſuſing to goe with him

to the aide of *Guy*, Earle of Flanders, againſt the French King, 1287. This *Gilbert*, by the name of *Gilbert de Clare*, Earle of Gloceſter and Hartford, did with the conſent of Ioane his wife, and *Gilbert* his ſonne, conſirme vnto *Roger de Lamare* Knight, the cuſtodie of the Forreſt and Parke of Hartford, according to the late Graunt of Earle Richard his father, in as large and ample manner, as Geruice Pidelton inioyed the fame, &c. This *Gilbert* had iſſue by Ioane his ſecond wife, *Gilbert* Earle of Clare, Hartford and Gloceſter, Elianor, Elizabeth, and Margaret, and died in Wales, 1295. and was buried at Tewkeſburie.

Et portoit, d'or autrois cheurons de gueulles.

G[ilbert de Clare], Earle of Clare, Gloceſter and Hartford, the laſt of that fur-name, married Mauld daughter of *John Burgh*, Earle of Vlſter in Ireland, and died ſlaine at the battaile of Streuelyn, without iſſue, and was buried at Tewkeſburie, the ſeuenth of King Edward the ſecond, leauing his three ſifters his heires: *Elianor* the firſt, was married to *Hugh* Lord *Spencer*; *Elizabeth* the ſecond, was firſt married to *Iohn Burgh*, Earle of Vlſter in Ireland, by whom ſhe had iſſue, *William Burgh* Earle of Vlſter, that died without iſſue, and *Elizabeth* wife to *Lionell*, Duke of Clarence: her ſecond hufband, was *Theobald* Lord *Verdon*: her third hufband,

124

A Catalogue of the Earles of Deuon, and Mar-
queffes of Exeter, their Armes, Wiues,
and Children.

RICHARD de Riparýs, (sonne of Baldwine Riuers)
to whom King Henry the firſt gaue the towne
of Tiuerton,and the Honor of Plimpton, and
created him Earle of Deuonſhire; and granted
to him the third peney of the yearely reuenuue
of the fame Countie, being ten Marks. The ſaid King gaue
him also the Ifle of Wight, by reaſon whereof euer after he
was called Earle of Deuonſhire, and Lord of the Ifle. Hee
married the daughter of Oſmond de Centumvillis, Vifcount
of Vernon, begotten of his wife, daughter of Herſaſtus the
Dane, brother of Gónor, Ducheſſe of Normandie, and had
iſſue, Baldwine Riuers, the ſecond Earle of Deuon. William
Gemiticenſis, pag. 687.

Baldwine de Riuers, ſonne of Richard aforeſaid, was the ſecond Earle of Deuonſhire, and builded three Monaſteries, viz. Chriſt-Church, Quarara in the Ifle of Wight, and Lira in Normandie; he ſonſured the Citie of Exeter a-gainſt King Stephen, and was banifhed England, with his wife and children, and had the Ifle of Wight taken from him, in the yeare 1136. He married Adelizia, daughter of by whom he had iſſue, Richard, Henrie that died young, and William, ſur-named Vernon, (the place where he went to Schoole, or was brought vp in) and Mauld, married to William de Romarey. This Baldwine died in the yeare 1156 (as Robert Montenſes hath) and was buried in the Abbey of Quarara.

RICHARD de Riuers, eldeſt ſonne and heire of Earle Bald-
wine, ſucceeded his father in the Earledome of Deuon-
ſhire, and did by his Deed, bearing date the thirteenth of
King Stephen, 1147. giue Lands to the Abbey of Quarara,
to pray for the ſoules of Baldwine his father, and Adelizia
his mother, Counteſſe of Deuon. He married HAWIS, daugh-
ter and one of the heires of Reginald, Earle of Cornwall
(baſe ſonne of King Henrie the firſt) and had iſſue, Baldwine
and Richard, both Earles of Deuonſhire, who died without
iſſue. This Richard died in the Citie of Cenomania in
France, in the yeare 1161.

Bald-

DEVON and EXETER.

126

younger Lord of Torbay, who died without issue: Mary the second daugh-
ter, was first married to Sir Robert Courtney, Knight, sonne of Reginald,
and after to Peter de Prouz, and had issue. This William de Vernon by his
Deed or Charter, bearing date the fourth of September, 1206. did giue
lands to the Abbey of Quarara, to pray for the foules of King Henrie, and
Baldwine his Father, and Adelizia the Countesse his Mother, and Earle Ri-
chard his brother, and for the health of Mabell the Countesse, his Wife,
and Baldwin his sonne; and after died the fourth of September, in the yeere
of our Lord, 1216. the first of King Henry the third.

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

Baldwine de Riuers, the fourth of that Chriften name (sonne of Baldwine the third, which died before his Father) was after the death of William de Vernon, his grand-father, the feuenth Earle of Devonshire, and Lord of the Ifle of Wight. He married Amicia, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Glocefter and Hertford, by whom he had issue, Baldwine the fift, and eight Earle of Devonshire of that fur-name, and Isabell de Fortibus Countesse of Albemarle, the wife of William de Fortibus Earle of Albemarle, and Margaret a Nunne at Lacoke. This Baldwine in the twentie fift yeare of the Reigne of King Henry the third, was created Earle of the Ifle of Wight, at the fute and petition of Richard Earle of Cornwall, the Kings brother, (whose Ward this Baldwin had been) and in the twentie ninth yeare of the faid Kings Reigne, the faid Baldwin died in his youthfull yeares. After whose death, his Countesse Amicia gaue lands to the Abbey of Bruarne, to pray for the foules of Gilbert de Clare, late Earle of Glocefter, her Father, and for Isabell the Countesse her Mother, and Baldwin late Earle of Devonshire, her husband, and for the health of her owne foule, and Baldwin her sonne. Shee died in the yeare 1283.

*Et portoit, d'or au Lion rampant d'azur.*

Baldwin de Riuers the fift of that name, and eight
Earle of Devonshire, of that fur-name, and Lord
of the Ifle of Wight. He married Auice, daughter of
a Sauoyan borne, and neere kinfwoman
of Queene Elianor, and had issue, a sonne named Iohn,
that died young iu France without issue. This Bald-
wine the fift, died in the fortie fixe yeare of King Henry
the third, leauing Isabell de Fortibus, Countesse of Al-
bemarle, his fifter and heire.

*Et portoit, les armes de son pere.*

Hugh

DEVON and EXETER.

127

Hugh Courtney, Knight, (the second of that name) coufon of Isabell de Fortibus, and her heire to the lands of Riuers, as Robert de Lisle was to the lands of Fitz-Gerold, that is to say, fonne of Hugh, grand-child of Marie de Riuers, fister of Baldwin the third (that died before his father) grand-father of Isabell de Fortibus, Countesse of Albemarle; was by Letters-Miffue made the ninth Earle of Deuonshire, the ninth of King Edward the third; and married Agnes, fister of Sir John S.Iohn, Knight, by whom he had iffue, foure fonnes and three daughters, viz. Hugh Courtney, the tenth Earle of Deuonshire; Thomas, the second fonne, married Muriell, daughter of John de Mules: Iohn, the third fonne, was Abbot of Taueftoke; and Robert was the fourth Son: Elianor, the eldeft daughter, was wife to Iohn Grey; Elizabeth, the second daughter, was married to Bartholomew de Lisle, of the Isle of Wight; and Egelyne, the third daugh-ter, was wife to Robert Lord Scales. This Hugh died in the fourteenth yeere of King Edward the third, 1340. and was buried at Cowike.

*Et portoit, d'or trois torteaux, au lambel d'azur.*

Hugh Courtney, the third of that Chriften name, (fonne of Hugh the second) after the death of his father, was the tenth Earle of Deuonshire, and married Margaret, daughter of Humfrey de Bohun, the eight Earle of Hereford and Effex, and Conftable of England, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of King Edward the first, and had iffue, Hugh Courtney that died without iffue, Edward, that was after Earle of Deuonshire, Sir Thomas Courtney, Knight, Philip Courtney of Powderham, William Courtney, Arch-bifhop of Canterbury, and Humfrey and Peter that died young: He had iffue also, three daughters, Katherine, the eldeft, was

married to William Lord Harington; Elizabeah, to William Lord Moune of Dunfter Caftle; and Margaret, wife to Iohn Lord Cobham, &c. This Earle Hugh died at Tiuerton, in the last yeere of King Edward the third, 1376. and was buried at Exeter.

Edward

laugh-
indall,
by his
d give
ie, and
arle Ri.
Wife,
ye ere
les.

hriften
lied be-
de Ver-
onshire,
miticia,
ter and
ft, and
Ifabell
of Wil-
garet a
tie first
created
ion of
is Bald-
gne, the
s Coun-
oules of
ibell the
er hus-
She

d eight
d Lord
ghter of
fwoman
ed John,
his Bald-
ing Henry
te of Al-

Hugh

128

DEVON and EXETER.

Edward Courtney, fonne of Hugh Earle of Deuon
aforefaid, was the eleuenth Earle of Deuonshire,
and married Emeline, daughter of Sir John Dauney,
Knight, and had issue, Edward Courtney, the twelfth
Earle of Deuonshire, and Sir Hugh Courtney of Hac-
combe, Knight; and died in the fixteenth yeere of the
reigne of King Richard the second, 1392.

Edward Courtney, fur-named the blinde, succeeded
Edward his father, and was the twelfth Earle of
Deuonshire, and fate in Parliament, the fixt of King
Henry the fift: he married Eltanor, daughter of Roger
Mortimer, Earle of March and Vlster, and had issue,
Hugh, the thirteenth Earle of Deuonshire. This Hugh
(fur-named the blind) by his Deed, bearing date the
fecond of King Henry the fift, did giue to Sir Hugh
Courtney, Knight, his brother, the Mannors of Go-
theringdon, Stancombe-Dauney, and Southalington,
in the Countie of Deuon, and died in the seuenth yeere
of the said Kings reigne, 1418.

Et portoit, d'or trois torteaux au lambel d'azur.

Hugh Courtney (fonne and heire of Edward, fur-
named the blind) after the death of his father, was
the thirteenth Earle of Deuonshire, and fate in Parlia-
ment by that Title, the fame yeere his father died. He
married Anne, daughter of Richard Lord Talbot, and
had issue, Thomas, Earle of Deuonshire, and died in
the tenth yeere of the reigne of King Henry the fift,
1421.

Et portoit, d'or à trois torteaux, au lambel d'azur.

George

DEVON and EXETER.

129

Thomas Courtney, fonne of Earle *Hugh* aforefaid; succeeded his father, and was the fourteenth Earle of Deuonshire, and Lord of Ochampton: he married Margaret, daughter of *John Beaufort*, Earle of Somerset, and Marquess Dorfet, by whom he had issue, three fonnes and two daughters: *Thomas* the eldest fonne, being in the battaile at Touton with King *Henry* the fixt, againft King *Edward* the fourth, was there taken prifoner, and had his head smitten off: *Henry* the second fonne, was likewife beheaded at Salisburie, the eight of King *Edward* the fourth; and *John* the third fonne, was flaine at Tewkefburie, in the tenth yeere of King

*Edward* the fourth: *Ioane* the eldest daughter, was married to Sir *Roger Clifford*, Knight; and *Elizabeth* the second daughter, was wife to Sir *Hugh Conwey*, Knight. This *Thomas*, being at the battaile of Touton, 1460. was taken prifoner, and beheaded at Yorke.

HVMFREY, Lord Stafford of Southwike, fonne of William Stafford of Hooke, Esquire; in the ninth yeere of King Edward the fourth, was created Earle of Deuonshire, 1460. and married Ifabell, daughter of Sir John Barry, Knight, but had no issue by her. This Humfrey became vngratefull to King Edward, and fell from him, and after was taken by some of King Edwards friends, and carried to Bridgwater in Somersetshire, and there had his head smitten off, in the yeere 1460. hauing beene an Earle but three moneths and odde dayes.

*Et portoit, d'or au Cheuron de gueulles à la bordure, engriffée de fable.*

EDward Courtney of Haccombe, Knight of the Gar-
ter, Son of Sir *Hugh Courtney* of Bokonoke, Knight,
grand-child to *Edward Courtney*, the eleuenth Earle of
Deuonshire, was after the death of *Humfrey Stafford*,
reſtored in blood, and made the fixteenth Earle of De-
uonſhire, in the first yeere of King *Henry the ſeventh*:
he married *Elizabeth*, daughter of Sir *Philip Courtney*
of Molland, Knight, and had issue, *William Courtney*.
Earle of Deuonſhire. This *Edward* had ſoure ſifters,
whose issue came after to be his heires. The first was *E-
lizabeth*, married to *John Tretherfe*, of whom *Viuian* is
defcended: the ſecond was *Mauld*, wife to *John Arundell*
of Taluerne: *Ifabell* the third ſifter, was married to

Wil-

DEVON and EXETER,

130

William Moune: and Florence the fourth fiftner, was married to John Tre-Launy, and thus are they set downe in the said Edwards Will. Hee died in the first yeere of King Henry the eight, 1509.

Et portoit, d'or trois torteaux.

W
illiam Courtney, sonne of Edward, was after his
fathers death, the feuenteenth Earle of Deuon-
shire, and Lord of Ochampton, and married Katherine,
daughter of King Edward the fourth; and had iffue,
Henry Courtney Earle of Deuonshire, and Marqueſſe of
Exeter; and died at Greenewich, the ninth of June,
in the third yeere of the reigne of King Henry the eight,
1511. and was buried in the Blacke-Friars in London.

H
enry Courtney, Knight of the Garter, sonne of Wil-
liam aforefaid, by Katherine his wife, daughter of
King Edward the fourth, was after his father, the eigh-
teenth Earle of Deuon, and Lord of Ochampton. He
was after created Marqueſſe of Exeter, at Bridewell,
the eighteenth of June, 1525. and married to his first
wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heire of Sir John Grey,
Viscount Lisle, by whom he had no iffue: after, hee
married Gertrude, daughter of William Blount, Baron
Mountioy (begotten of Elizabeth the daughter and
one of the heires of Sir William Say, Knight) by whom
he had iffue, Edward Courtney, the last Earle of Deuon-
shire of this progenie. This Henry Marqueſſe of Exeter, Henry Poole,
Lord Mountague, and Sir Nicholas Carew of Beddington in the Countie
of Surrey, Knight, were attainted and executed for high treason, 1538.
at the Tower Hill, for being priuie with Cardinall Poole (brother to the
Lord Mountague) to procure forraine power (in the Popes aide) to in-
uade this Realme. Soone after, this Gertrude Marqueſſes of Exeter, Mar-
garet Counteſſe of Salisburie, with others, were likewife attainted for the
fame treason, but Gertrude was not executed, but died, and was buried in
a faire Tombe in Wimborne Minſter, in the yeere, 1557.

Et portoit, escartellé France & d'Angleterre, au bordure escartellé de
mesme: escartellé Courtney, qui eſt, d'or à trois Torteaux. Le tiers,
de mesme, le quart, Riuers, qui eſt d'or au lion rampant d'azur, arme &
lampasse de gueulles.

Edward

DEVON and EXETER.

131

Edward Courtney, fonne and heire of Henry Mar-
queffe of Exeter, and Earle of Deuonshire, being
long prisoner in the Tower of London, was by Queene
Mary, on Sunday, the third of September, in the first
yeere of her reigne, 1553. at Richmond restored in
blood, and made Earle of Deuonshire, at Her Mannor
of Richmond; and three yeeres after, he died at Padua,
in Italy, the fourth day of October, 1556. without if-
fue, (some haue, he was poyfoned:) He was the last
Earle of that Name and Familie of Courtneys.

Et portoit, les armoiries de son pere.

Charles Blount, Baron Mountioy, and Knight of the
Garter, (second fonne of James Blount, Lord
Mountioy, and brother and heire of William Mount-
joy (Lord Deputie and Lieutenant of Ireland; who
expulsed the Spaniards there, and compelled the Re-
bels to submission, was by King James in the first yeere
of his reigne, 1603. created Earle of Deuonshire, in the
one and twentieth of July, at Hampton-Court. Hee
died without any lawfull iffue, in the Duchy-houſe in
the Strand, and was buried at Westminſter, with great
pompe, in the Abbey, in the yeere, 1606.

Et portoit, burelle wndeé de fix d'or & de fable.

William Cauendish Esquire, was by King James
created Baron of Hardwike, the fourth of May,
1605, and in August, 1618. he was made Earle of De-
uonshire. He married two wiues, the first was Anne,
daughter and heire of Henry Kighley of Kighley in
Lancashire, Esquire, by whom he had iffue, William
Lord Cauendish, who married Christian, daughter of
Edward Bruse, Baron of Kynloffe, and Mafter of the
Rolles; Frances, wife to Sir William Maynard, Knight,
Mary and Elizabeth. This Williams second wife, was
Elizabeth, the widow of Sir Richard Wortley, Knight,
and eldeft daughter of Edward Boughton of Caufton in
Warwikeſhire, Esquire, by Suzan his wife, daughter

of Sir John Brocket, of Brocket Hall in Har tfordshire, Knight, by whom he had iffue Sir John Cauendish, Knight of the Bath, which died without iffue.

Et portoit, fable au trois teſtes du Cerf d'argent, les cornes d'or au
Creffant pur la difference.

A

John Tre-
de died
after his
Deuon-
therine,
d iffue,
of June,
e eight,
London.

of Wil-
hter of
the eigh-
n. He
dlewell,
his first
Grey,
ter, hee
Baron
ter and
whom
Deuon-
Poole
Countie,
1538.
r to the
) to in-
er, Mar-
l for the
uried in

elle de
Le tiers,
arme &
Edward

FERRARS and DERBY.

ROBERT de Ferrars, after the death of Hemrie his father, and Eugenulphus and William, his two brothers, without issue, was the second Earle Ferrars, and by that name was witnesse to King Hemrie the first his Charter, of lands which he gaue to the Abbey of Tutesbury. Also in the one & thirtieth yeare of the said Kings reigne, he began the foundation of the Abbey of Muriual in Warwickshire, to which foundation were witnesses, William, Earle of Tutburie, his sonne, and ROBERT his brother, Hugh de Somerie, Vrso de Abtot, John Fitz-Richard, &c. and died in the nineteenth yeare of King Stephen, and was buried at Muriuall, leauing issue, William, Earle of Tutesburie, flaine in his lodging in London, without issue; ROBERT, Earle Ferrars, and Wakelyn de Ferrars, the third sonne.

Les armes de son pere, d'argent à six Ferres de cheual de sable.

ROBERT de Ferrars, the second of that name, after the death of Robert his father, and William his brother, was the third Earle Ferrars; whom diuers late Writers haue greatly miftaken, they affirming him to be the first Robert, founder of Muriuall Abbey, and to be Earle of Nottingham; when as in truth, it was this Roberts father, that was founder of Muriuall Abbey, and another Robert Ferrars, grand-child of this second Robert by his sonne William, that was made Earle of Notting-ham, as hereafter will appeare in his due place. Some haue that the wife of this Robert was Sibel, daughter of William Lord Brufe of Brember and Gowere; but that Discent doth not affirme it: And where they say they haue seene Deedsand Charters, to approue their affirmations, it is vntrue; for thofe they meane, are vnperfect Notes and Abscripts, taken out of Glouer Somerfets booke of Miscellania; which booke I haue, and pervising the fame, finde them of small credit. This Earle Robert married, and had issue, William, Earle Ferrars, the fourth Earle Ferrars; and died in the yeare 1184. the one and thirtieth of King Henrie the second: but others haue, that he died in the Holy Land, in the yeare 1190. the second of King Richard the first, which is miftaken.

Now to the issue, which Master Mills maketh this Robert to haue, in his Booke of Succession of Earles, pag. 869. viz. William de Ferrars, Earle of Derby. Petronel (or Pernel) wife of Henrie, Lord Stafford; and Elizabeth married

FERRARS and DERBY.

W W illiam de Ferrars, the third of that name, was Earle Ferrars and Derby, Lord of Turburie and Chartley. He married two wiues, the firſt was Sibel, Daughter of William Marshall the elder, Earle of Penbrooke, and one of the fiue firſters and heires of Ancelme Marshall, Earle of Penbroke, (with whom he had one thousand, fiue hundred, and twentie pounds rents of affize, per annum ) and had iſſue, ſiue Daughters, who inherited their mothers inheritance, and were married, as followeth. Agnes, the eldeſt, was married to William, Lord Veſcy of Alnwicke in Northumberland: Ifabel firſt married vnto Gilbert Baffet, and after, vnto Reginald de Mohun the younger, Earle of Somerset,

I oane the third Daughter, was married vnto John Mohun, ſonne of Reginald aforefaid: Mauld, the fourth Daughter, was married to Philip de Kyme, Lord of Kyme, and had iſſue, Sibel, wife to Franke de Bohun, Baron of Midhurſt in Suffex: and after, ſhe married William de Fortz, Baron of Clapton; and thirdly, the ſaid Mauld married William de Vallibus: Anne or Agatha, the firſt daughter, was married to Hugh Mortimer of Chilmerſh, ſonne of Ralphe, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore. The forefaid William, Earle Ferrars, married to his ſecond wife, Margaret, Daughter and one of the heires of Roger Quincie, Earle of Winchelſter, and Conſtable of Scotland, by whom he had iſſue, Robert, Earle Ferrars and Derby, and William, Lord and Baron of Groby, by the gift of his mother; and a daughter named Agnes, married to Robert Mufegros, ſonſe of Richard, Lord of Derrurf. This William died of a bruife, taken with a fall out of his Coach, in the yeare 1253, the eight and thirtieth of King Henrie the Third.

Et portoit, vaire d'or & de gulles.

R Obert de Ferrars (ſonne and heire of William, Earle Ferrars and Derby) was also Earle Ferrars and Derby, and combined with Simon Mountford, Earle of Leicester, and Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Gloceſter and others, to rayſe Warre againſt King Henrie the Third, becauſe hee refuſed to ſtand to the Statutes made by Parliament at Oxford, for the baniſhment of Strangers, &c. In which Ciuill Diſcord, this Robert, in the fiftieth yeare of the ſaid Kings reigne, was taken Prifoner at the battell of Chelſterfield, and imprifoned in the Caſtle of Chipenham, neere to Windeſore, where hee for the obtaining of his libertie, became bound (before John Chishull, Lord Chancellour of England) and did

aſſure ouer all his Lands in England (excepting Chartley, and the Towne

N 2

of