-r , rr-n T -rrr) 775?^, GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF THE EXTINCT FAMILY OF CHESTER OF CHIOHELEY, LONDON KOBSON AND SONS, PIUN'J'ERS, PANCRAS ROAD, N.W. GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS . OF THE EXTINCT FAMILY OF CHESTER OF CHICHELEY, ATTEMPTED BY BOBEET EDMOND CHESTEE WATEES, Esq., B.A. A BARRISTER OF THE INNKK TEMPLE, ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. L ' For my own part, could I draw my pedigree from a general, a statesman, or a celebrated author, I should study their lives with the diligence of filial love.' — Gibbon. LONDON: . ROBSON AND SONS, 20 PANCRAS ROAD, N.W. 1878. [Atl rights i-cse7-ved.] Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmemo01wate_0 PREFACE. These Memoirs have been attempted upon a scale and plan of which there are few examples in English literature. The method is borrowed from the French genealogists of the 17th century, whose exhaustive memoirs of particular families are universally recognised as important contributions to the local and domestic history of France. Such books were often undertaken as labours of love by men of literary distinction; and that famous scholar Menage was not ashamed to avoAv that of all his works The History of the House of Sahle ^y^b that which cost him the most labour, and in which he took the most pride. Books of this kind have so wide a range that no estimate of the contents can be formed from the title - page ; and my Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley comprise the true story of so many families and famous men, that they traverse almost the whole field of English genealogy. They are not, however, a mere collection of elaborate pedigrees ; for they correct a multitude of errors hitherto accepted without challenge in standard books of reference, and they throAv light on many dark passages of History and Biography, by proofs of social and domestic connexions hitherto ignored or mis- stated. I have laboured to relieve my narrative from that repulsive dryness and meagreness which usually disfigure English books of genealogy, and make them so irksome to the general reader ; but accuracy is the life and soul of genealogy, and lovers of truth must often submit to be accused of ' that pettifogging intimacy with dates, names, and trifling matters of fact' which Sir Arthur Wardour found so irritating in his controversies Avith the Antiquary. PEEFACE. Genealogy is a necessary element in history and biography, to which it is a help or a hindrance in proportion as the laws of -historical evi- dence are observed or violated. But it is so often confused with pedigree - making, that people are apt to forget that every faculty, quality, and incident which is capable of being transmitted by descent falls within the province of genealogy. Health, beauty, genius, and long life are often as distinctly inherited as rank and titles ; and to maintain that a genealogical memoir is satisfied by the construction of a pedigree is practically to assert that men only diifer from each other in those externals and accidents which engross the attention of a herald. The desire to know and preserve the history of our ancestors is a natural and universal instinct, which has its roots in some of the best feelings of the human heart. It is an unselfish emotion wholly distinct from pride of birth ; for our interest in our forefathers is not confined to those who reflect honour on their descendants ; whilst it is redeemed from selfishness by being free from those requirements of reciprocal esteem and requited aflfection which form so large an element in our love for the living. Life is so short, and the soul is so impatient of non-existence, that we are always striving to prolong the span by break- ing down the barriers which separate us from the past and the future; and we desire to have lived in the persons of our ancestors, as we hope to live in our children or our fame. To those who love to believe that life is only a link in a never-ending chain, it seems a natural duty to devote themselves to the task of reverently gathering and preserving all the relics of their fathers which time has spared, humbly but confi- dently hoping that some one in generations yet unborn will perform for them the same ofiice of filial piety. The pedantry and mendacity of pedigree - makers have brought genealogy into discredit, and the pride of long descent has been in every age a stock subject of ridicule ; but such satire finds no real echo in the heart, and the satirist is suspected of depreciating a distinction which he would gladly have shared, and on which he sets more value than he is willing to confess. Few men are really indifiesrent to the glory and genius of their ancestors ; and Gibbon the historian never carried with PREFACE. him more completely the sympathy of his readers than in his well-known avowal : ' For- my own part, could I draw my pedigree from a general, a statesman, or a celebrated author, I should study their lives with the dili' gence of filial loveJ With generous minds, life is a contimial protest against the petty tyranny of the present, and every study which assists in the work of liberation has a purifying and ennobling tendency. Genealogical studies may set satire at defiance so long as they are honestly employed in the discovery of truth, the improvement of the living, and the honour of the dead. When they are directed to any meaner objects, they sink into an ingenious and laborious idleness; and if the truth is suppressed or perverted, they become worse than useless. The history of a family of any note cannot fail to be interesting and instructive, if it be faithfully and accurately told ; for every family has its peculiar traits of character, which run through the whole race, and, in some shape or other, are perceptible in every generation. To watch how these ancestral qualities vary in their development from the pres- sure of accidental circumstances is a powerful though neglected instru- ment of education and self-improvement. From this point of view it adds to the interest of my narrative that the foreground is occupied by a family, whose rank and wealth were never sufficient to make them independent of the consequences of misconduct or the vicissitudes of fortune ; for the Chesters of Chicheley, although they were descended in the female line from royal and noble houses, and were related in blood to many personages of historical distinction, had no pretension to be more than a family of ancient gentry. The Genealogical Memoirs of the Chesters of Chicheley are mainly derived from unpublished records and sources of information hitherto unexplored, and contain full Abstracts of above three hundred Wills. Every pedigree has been tested link by link, and iri many cases the genealogy is now for the first time narrated in detail. The received version has seldom borne the test of critical research, but errors have been silently corrected, except where my silence might imply that some authority had been overlooked. My own accuracy will be easily tested, for every statement is vouched by reference to authorities, and those PRRFACE. genealogical proofs which cannot be consulted in any public library are quoted in full or in abstract. It must, however, be borne in mind that conclusions are often drawn from cumulative evidence, and that there is a latent force in authorities which is imperceptible to those who have not consulted them all. My arrangement of the notes and references has been adopted after much consideration; for notes which are not on the same page as the text are practically lost to the general reader, and at the same time he seldom cares to pick them out from amongst the confusion of a crowd of references. I have attempted to solve the problem by placing at the foot of the page those notes which illustrate the text and are intended to be read along with it, Avhilst the references to authorities which are only interesting to the critical reader are postponed to the end of the chapter, and are referred to by numbers in brackets. In these references the rule has been uniformly observed of preferring print to manuscript, and common editions to scarce ones ; and when Chronicles and Records are chronologically arranged, so that the date of a transaction is sufficient to guide an intelligent reader to the passage, I have gladly omitted to specify the volume and page, because it enabled me to refer by the same number to all the statements of the same author. The amount of labour and time which has been expended on these Memoirs can only be appreciated by those who have attempted a book of similar character ; for every page abounds with minute facts, which have been separately verified ; and there are many single sentences and dates, in Avhich the result of whole days of research is concentrated. A book of this magnitude, extending over so many centuries, and derived from authorities so widely scattered, could not, under the most favourable circumstances, be completed without assistance and coopera- tion from many quarters ; but it is one of the felicities of genealogical studies that they are commonly pursued in a generous spirit, and that the most industrious students are usually the most willing to share the fruit of their labour. I have scrupulously noted in the appendix of each chapter the sources of my information ; but many searches have been made for me with only negative results ; I have therefore enumer- PREFACE. ated in a postscript the friends and correspondents to whom my cordial thanks are due for information and assistance. The list is a long one ; but I would rather be considered tiresome than ungrateful. There is, however, one of my friends who deserves a place by himself, for his correspondence and sympathy have for many years been constant sources of pleasure and consolation. Colonel J. L. Chester, the accomplished Editor of the Registers of Westminster Abbey, has taken the warmest interest in my book from the beginning, and has insisted on turning aside from his own labours whenever he could lighten mine. Almost every chapter of my book has a standing reference to his unrivalled Collection of Extracts from Parish Registers, Marriage Licenses, Wills of the 16th and 17th centuries, and Oxford Matriculations ; but these numerous references imper- fectly express the extent of my obligations, for he has often in his kindness helped me to clear up difficult points by special searches at the Will Office and elsewhere. I am sensible of many errors and deficiencies, and that many clues might have been further pursued by those who are happy enough to enjoy better opportunities of research ; but it will disarm some criticism to know that these Memoirs were written at the dictation of a helpless invalid, in the intervals of pain, during an illness so hopeless, wearisome, and protracted, that it has outlasted the nearest ties of natural affection. I have often despaired of finishing my work ; for I have been paralysed hand and foot more than ten years, and am wholly dependent on the eyes and hands of strangers. But it has been mercifully ordained that increased difficulties provoke fresh energies ; and I Avas encouraged to persevere to the end by the glorious examples of Thierry and Prescott, who achieved greater results under almost equal disadvantages. Edmond Chester Waters. 6 Howick Place, AVestminster, August 1878. POSTSCRIPT. dlesex ; Eev. H. Smith, Vicar of Easton Mandit, Northamptonshire ; Rev. John Bond, Vicar of Weston, Somerset; Rev. A. G. Hellicar, Vicar of Bromley, Kent ; Rev. Martin Green, Rector of Winterborn Steepleton, Dorset ; the Venerable Archdeacon TroUope; Rev. John Bathurst Deane, Rector of St. Martin's Out- witch ; Eev. Henry James, Vicar of Cransley ; Rev. T. P. Dale, Rector of St. Vedast's, Foster-lane ; Rev. G. Kynaston, Rector of Billingborough, Lincolnshire ; Rev. Henry Harris, Vicar of Horbling, Lincolnshire ; Rev. J. R. T. Eaton, Rector of Lapworth, Warwickshire; Rev. S. J. Bowles, Rector of Beaconsfield, Bucks; Rev. W. G. Searle, Vicar of Hockington, Cambridgeshire, the historian of Queens' Col- lege, Cambridge; Rev. W. H. Simcox, Rector of Weyhill, Hants; Rev. W. C. Roughton, Vicar of Great Harrowden, Northamptonshire ; Rev. J. R. Munn, Vicar of Ashburnham, Sussex ; Rev. J. Scott, Vicar of St. Peter's, Wisbech ; Rev. Charles Ware, Vicar of Astwood, Bucks ; Rev. D. Clements, Rector of Warleggan, Corn- wall ; Rev. T. Simpson, Vicar of Tilsworth, Beds ; Rev. Thomas Hearn, Vicar of Roxwell, Essex ; Rev. Francis Ashpitel, Rector of Great Hampden, Bucks ; Rev. W. Hope, Vicar of St. Peter's, Derby ; Rev. S. G. Bellairs, Rector of Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire ; Rev. J. L. Dodds, Vicar of Stretton Magna, Leicester- shire ; Rev. A. K. Stuart, Vicar of Nettleham, Lincolnshire ; Rev. A. W. Lane, Curate of Greenford Magna, Middlesex ; Rev. G. B. Blomefield, Rector of Stevenage, Herts ; Rev. George Finch, sometime Curate in charge of Chicheley, Bucks ; the Honourable and Rev. Walter Ponsonby, Rector of Beer Ferris, Devon ; the Right Rev. Bishop Staley, Vicar of Croxton, Staffordshire ; Mr. Brewer, late of the City of London School, and Churchwarden of St. Lawrence in the Old Jewry; the Venerable Archdeacon Lynch Blosse, Vicar of Newcastle and Tythegston, Glamor- ganshire ; Alfred C. Hooper Esq., Registrar of Worcester ; H. P. Gates Esq., Registrar of Northampton ; William Dore Esq., Registrar of Wells ; C. Wood- ridge Esq., Deputy Registrar of Winchester ; Rev. Watkin Davies, Vicar of Pyle, Glamorganshire ; Rev. W. Castlehow, late Bursar of Emanuel College, Cambridge ; Rev. J. R. Wilson, Vicar of Morden Guilden, Cambs. ; Rev. G. E. Walker, Rector of Doddington, Cambs. ; Rev. C. J. Robinson, late Vicar of Norton Canon, Here- fordshire ; Rev. Lord Charles A. Hervey, Rector of Chesterford, Essex ; Rev. Hugh Allen D.D., late Rector of St. George the Martyr, Southwark ; Rev. W. L. Suttaby, Vicar of Poslingford, Suffolk; Rev. John Richards, Vicar of Ash, Kent; Rev. John Raine, Canon of York; Rev. C. W. Belgrave, Rector of North Kilworth, Leicester- shire ; Rev. David Royce, Vicar of Nether Swell, Gloucestershire ; Rev. W. H. Marvin, Rector of Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire ; Rev. T. J. C. McCowan, Vicar of Walton-on-Thames ; Rev. R. P. Hardman, Vicar of Wicken, Cambridgeshire ; and Rev. S. W. Merry, Vicar of Iselham, Cambridgeshire. E. C. W. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. p. 52. The monument of John Haugh of Long Melford is engraved in Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, p. 100. P. 53. S. IV. Line 1 . Joan Billing was the third wife of Thomas Lovett II., not III., as printed. P. 56. Anne Lovett was the first of the three wives of William Palmer of Carlton, who died in 1574. She had issue four sons and five daughters, and William was her youngest son (Nichols's Hist, of co. Leic, ii. 540). P. 69. William Chester, the Constable of Wisbech Castle, did not maintain his father's cha- racter for humanity to the prisoners in his charge ; for Garnett the Jesuit writes to Rome on 4 Oct. 1605 : ' The courses taken [against the Catholics] are more severe than in Queen Elizabeth's time. The Commissioners in all counties are the most earnest and base Puritans. The prisoners at Wisbech are almost famished ; they are kept very close, and have no help from abroad ; but the King allowing a mark a week for each one, the keeper maketh his gains, and giveth them meat but three days a week' (F. Gerard's Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot, p. 79, edited by Rev. J. Morris, S.J.). P. 69. Line 14, /or ' were' read ' was.' P. 73. Cave of Yorkshire. It appears from the Register of Richard Kellaw, Bishop of Durham (printed in the Rolls series), that an indulgence of 40 days was published on 23 Sept. 1314, for the salvation of Alexander de Cave and his wife Joan, and for the repose of the souls of his father Peter de Cave and his mother Ellen, who were buried in the chapel of South Cave. According to Segar's pedigree this Alexander Cave was the son of Peter by Anne, daughter of Sir Simon Ward Kt. P. 76. Pedigree of Saxhj. Clemence Saxby, the daughter of John by Amy Giffard, married Thomas Haselwood of Belton in Rutland, who died 20 Dec. 1559, and had issue five sons and two daughters. His Will is dated 1 Sept. 1558, and mentions his wife Clemence and her brother John Saxby {The Genealogist, vol. i. p. 54). P. 115. Line 20. The Indenture is dated 4 Dec. 1628, not 1528, as printed. P. 120. Pedigree of Bell. Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron. His wife Dorothy Beaupre had her father's coat of arms confirmed to her by Robert Cooke Clarencieux, on 7 June 1571 (ITarl. MS. in Brit. Mus. 1422, /o. 9). She married her second husband Sir John Peyton 8 June 1578, not 1579. His third son Sinolphus was baptized at St. Margaret's, Lynn,'* 25 March 1567, as Zenalphus. His fourth son Beaupre Bell matriculated a pensioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 23 Jan. 1587-8, and was elected a Fellow of ' Queen's in Feb. 1592-3. His youngest Philip Bell matriculated a pensioner at Queen's College, Cambridge, 3 June 1590, and was buried at St. Margaret's, Lynn, 24 Aug. 1591. Sir Edmund Bell. He had also a daughter Elisabeth, who was buried at St. Margaret's, * I am indebted to Dr. Jessop of Norwicli for my extracts from the Kegisters of Lynn. iv ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Lynn, 17 Feb. 1593-4. His daughter Frances, wife of Sir Heueage Finch Kt., died 11th April 1G27, and was buried at Ravenstone, Bucks. Sir Robert Bell III. His wife Mary Chester died 8 Sept. 1656. The baptisms of his children at Out well will be found in the note at p. 125. Francis Bell Esq. of Beaupre. His daughter Dorothy was baptized at Outwell 18 March 1654-5, and her sister Mary on 24 Jan. 1667-8. P. 122. Note E. Sir Nicliolas Le Strange had issue by Mary Bell two sons, who were both baptized at St. Margaret's, Lynn:* Hamon on 14 July 1583, and -Ko//er on 1 Nov. 1584. P. 122. Note F. Sir Henry Hohart Bart., Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, died 29 Dec. 1625, and was buried at Blickling on 4 Jan. 1625-6. His loidow Dorothy died at her house in Covent Garden, and was buried at 'Blickling 30 April 1C41.* P. 123. Elizabeth Chester. The license for her fifth marriage is dated 18 Dec. 1661, and was found by Colonel J. L. Chester in the Vicar- General's Registry ; 1661, Dec. 18. Francis Layre of Honingham, Norfolk, Esq., bachelor, aged about 40, to marry Dame Elizabeth Bowie of Lowde, co. Lincoln, aged about 50, widow of Sir Charles Bowie Kt., at St. Marj-le-Strand. P. 131. Pedigree of Banhworth. Sarah Bankworth, the sister of Sir Henry Chester's first wife, married Sir John Cordell Kt. Alderman of London, who was Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1634 and was knighted at Hampton Court on 3 Dec. 1641. He died at his house in Milk-street in the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry on 5 March 1648-9, having survived his wife, who was buried on 28 Dec. 1646 (Parish Register of St. Lawrence Jewry). Their son and heir Robert Cordell is mentioned in his grand- father's Will in 1617 (see p. 136), and was created a baronet on 22 June 1660. He married before 1652 Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Sir Edmund Wright Kt. Lord Mayor of London, and was buried in the family vault at St. Lawrence Jewry, 3 Jan. 1679-80. His widow Dame Margaret was buried near him on 24 March 1680-1. The parentage of Sir Robert Cordell is ignored in the Extinct Baronetages, and has hitherto been unknown. P. 140. Pedigree of Sir John Boteler Kt., the husband of Grizel Roche, was buried at Watton 6 March 1575-6, nut 1571-2 as printed ; for his Will is dated 12 Feb. 1575-6, and was proved 7 June 1576 (see page 158). P. 145. Pedigree of Audrey Boteler' s descendants. Thomas Earl of Southampton K.G. died 16 May 1667, not 1657, as printed. P. 168. Line 25. The pedigree of Shan is printed at p. 182, not at p. 178. P. 200. Line 23. Richard de Anesty's lawsuit is narrated at p. 191, not at p. 187 as printed. P. 206. Will of Thomas Peyton, 1490. Walter Frost Esq. of Newland near Beverley died in 1529 at West Ham, Essex, and his only child Margaret was the wife of Jocelyn Percy (brother of Henry 5th Earl of Northumberland) and the mother of Thomas Percy, the conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot (Yorkshire Archccologia, vol. i. pp. 138-47 ; Collectanea Topngraphica, vol. ii. p. 60). Robert Frost, the brother of Walter, was Chancellor to Arthur Prince of Wales, and Rector of Thornhill near Leeds 1483-98, where he built the great east window and choir (Whitaker's Loidis, vol. ii. p. 319). P. 221, Rohert Peyton, Vicar of Broadchalk. He was the author of A Treatise of the Holy Eucharist, which was dedicated to his cousin ' The Right Honble. Henry Earl of Holland, Chauncelor of the Universitie of Cambridge, and one of his Majestie's Privie * I am indebted to Dr. Jessop of Norwich for my extracts from the Registers of BUckling. ADDITIONS AND COEEECTIONS. Counsaile.' The MS. is now in the Townley Collection, and is noticed in the fourth Keport of the Historical MS. Commission (p. 413), but the editor has failed to identify the author, and mis-describes him as a Roman Catholic. P. 223. Roger Meeres Esq. and Mary Peyton had also a son Peyton, who was baptized at St. Margaret's, Lynn, 26 June 1623. P. 231. Line 9. The first wife of Sir Eobert Clarke was named Dorothy Maynard, not Margaret. P. 233. Alice Osborne, wife of Christoplier Wandesford. The autobiography of her daughter Mrs. Alice Thornton, published by the Surtees Society in 1875, supplies the following particulars of her mother : ' Alice Osborne was born at Iselham on 5 Jan. 1591-2' (not 1592-3), ' and had her father's estate entailed on her at his first going beyond sea in Calles voyage,' for her brother Sir Edward Osborne was not born until after his father's return. Her marriage portion was 2000Z., and she had seven children (not five). She survived her husband nineteen years, and was buried at Catterick in Yorkshire 13 Dec. 1659. Her Will is dated 10 Jan. 1658-9, and was proved in C.P.C- 19 July 1660. P. 236. Ursula Oshorne's husband was named William Buchhy (not Buckley). He was born in London 1 Oct. 1591, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at Queen's College, Cambridge. His widow Ursula was his executrix, and was buried at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, 2 April 1668 (communicated oy G. E. Colcayne, Lancaster Herald). P. 236. Anne Welby, daughter of John Welby by Jane Osborne, was baptized at St. Margaret's, Lynn, 27 Feb. 1609-10. She had a brother Thomas, who was born 30 Oct. 1608, and was baptized at St. Margaret's, Lynn, 15 Nov. 1608. P. 238. Sir Edward Peyton was, with all his faults, superior to corruption, for he rejected with indignation the offer of 10,000Z. to withdraw his opposition in Parliament to the Bill for enclosing the Fens. He bore arms against the King, and was taken prisoner at Edgehill. In his Divine Catastrophe he addresses the Parliament as ' Right Honourable Senators,' and compares Oliver Cromwell to Alexander the Great. P. 239. Henry Lawrence of St. Ives, the husband of Amy Peyton, was a personage of more note than my narrative implies. He was M.P. for Westmoreland in the Long Parliament, but went beyond seas when the civil war broke out, and published at Amsterdam in 1646 a curious book, entitled Of our Communion and War with the Angels, which he dedicated to his mother. He was a conspicuous supporter of the Protectorate, and was personally intimate with Cromwell, who made him President of the Council of State in 1654 and a Peer in 1657. He proclaimed Richard Cromwell Protector after his father's death, but maintained a friendly correspondence with the Royal Family. A letter to him from the Queen of Bohemia, recommending Lord Craven to his good ofiices, is printed in the second volume of Thurloe's State Pajpers. He survived the Restoration, and died 8 Aug. 1664, aged 63. His wife Amy was noted for her singular piety, and her eldest son is immortalised in Milton's sonnet as Lawrence, of virtuous father, virtuous son. She had also other children, whose descendants in the female line still flourish. Her son William was the ancestor of the Lawrences of Studley in Yorkshire, who are now represented by the Marquess of Ripon. Her youngest son John Lawrence founded a family in Jamaica (Gentleman'' s Magazine, July 1815), and was the maternal ancestor of Lord Abinger (Scarlett's Life of Lord Abinger). P. 253. All the received pedigrees are wrong in making Henry Jermy the husband of Anne Tyndall. It is certain that she married Sir Henry St. Germain Kt. of Warwickshire, vi ADDITIONS AiSFD CORRECTIONS. who was buried with her in the church of Shilton near Coventry, and that they were the parents of the learned lawyer and theologian Christopher St. Germain, who compiled the famous treatise known as The Doctor and Student, but properly entitled Dialogus de Fundamentis Legum Anglice et de Conscientia, a Dialogue between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Common Laws of England (Wood's Athence 0x071., 1731, vol. i. p. 54). Christopher died in 1540, and mentions in his Will, which was proved on 30 May 1541, three married sisters and his cousin Joan Blenerhassett (29 Alenger in C.P.C.). P. 254. Pedigree of De Scales. Robert de Scales had issue by Alice the heiress of Newcells four sons : I. Robert ; II. Roger of Wetherden, 1286 ; III. John of Croxton (Inq. ad q.d. 32 Edw. I.) ; IV. Geoffrey of Wyddial (Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. I.). The two sons of Robert the 5th Baron were more probably by his first wife Joan, the daughter of "William and sister of Thomas Lord Bardolf. P. 284. The pedigree of Blythman is printed in Thoresby's History of Leeds, p. 10. P. 317. Francis Fortescue had other sons besides Nicholas, for his son and heir Francis was admitted at the Inner Temple in November 1650 (^Printed List of Students of the Inner Temple 1547-1G60, p. 337). P. 321. Dr. John Nalson, Rector of Doddingtou, was the son of John Nalson M.A., Rector of Walkington near Beverley, and was born in Sept. 1637. His son Valentine Nalson M.A. was Succentor of the Vicars-Choral at York and Vicar of St. Martin's, Coney-street. He died on 3 March 1722, aged 40 (Thoresby's Leeds, p. 37). P. 345. Mrs. Stubbs. Some interesting details of her married life are given from her own letters in Anthony Wood's account of her son Henry Stubbs, whom he pronounces 'the most noted person of his age that these late times have produced' (Athenm Oxon., 1721, vol. ii. p. 560). Her husband was the minister of Partney in Lincolnshire, where his son Henry was born on 28 Feb. 1631-2. He was ejected from his living for his Anabaptist opinions, and took refuge with his wife and children at Tredagh in Ire- land, where, accordiiig to the editor of Mercurius Pragmaticus, he filled the ofiRce of 'Beadle of the beggars.' Ou the outbreak of the rebellion in 1641, Mrs. Stubbs fled to England with her two children, and made her way on foot from Liverpool to Lon- don, where she gained a sufficient living by her needle to send her son to Westminster School. His great talents were quickly recognised, and by the favour of Dr. Busby and the patronage of Sir Harry Vane he was chosen in 1644 a King's scholar, and in 1649 a student of Christ Church, Oxford. His mother now returned to service, and became the housekeeper of Sir Henry Chester, the son of her old mistress. She watched the wayward career of her brilliant and wrongheaded son with constant pride and anxiety ; but he died long before her, for he was accidentally drowned near Bath in July 1676. P. 359. Line 13,/or ' Conaut' read ' Conant.' P. 374. De. Nicholas Morton was buried in the chapel of the English College at Rome, but the inscription is partly concealed by the confessional chair. The following copy of it is taken from Rawlinson''s MS. in the Bodleian Library {Miscell. 730) : ' R. D. NiCHOLAO MORTONO, PRO. AnGLO, SACRiE THEOLOGIZE DOCTORI CLARO, QUI AMICIS CHARUS CiETERISQUE BONIS OIBUS PEG TIDE CaTHOLICA IN PATEIA AMISSIS A°. . . . LXXV, iETATIS VEEO LXVI, ROMiB MORTUUS EST, A.D. MDLXXXII, D. XXVII. M. Ja- . . . . VOLUIT CODEM TUMULO CUM ADDITIONS AND COERECTIONS. vii . . . . CUM QUO EADEM EELIGIONIS . CAUSA Angliam aufugit Romamque simul venit. .... MOKTONUS NEPOS AMANTISSIMUS PATEUO POSUIT.' P. 388. Thomas Norton was retained after the execution of Protector Somerset as tutor to his children, who were placed under the charge of the Marquis of Winchester whilst their mother was a prisoner in the Tower. Some interesting particulars of the Pro- tector's widow and children will be found in a letter from Norton to Calvin, dated 13 Nov. 1552, and printed by the Parker Society (Letters relating to the Reforma- tion hefore tlie Accession of Q. Elizaheth, p. 339). P. 451. Note. There is some slight evidence that the Cranmers of Tan worth were originally of a higher grade, for Thomas Freeman of Batsford, Gloucestershire, and of Blockley, Worcestershire (the ancestor of Lord Eedesdale), who died about 1639, aged 55, married Margaret, daughter of John Rogers of Tanworth by . . , daughter of . . . Cranmer of Tanworth (F«sitoiio?i o/iwic/oK 1687). P. 464. Sir Walter Kirkham Blount also published a translation from the French of a book written by Rapin the Jesuit. It is entitled The Spirit of Christianity, and was dedicated to King James II. It was printed in London in 1686 in 12mo, byH. Hills, ' Printer to the King's most excellent Majesty for his household and chapels.' P. 481. Sir William Palmer had several children by Margaret Gardiner. One of their sons Charles Palmer D.D., was appointed Canon of York 1688, Rector of Kirkby in Cleveland 1691, and of Long Marston 1694, and was buried in York Cathedral 17 Jan. 1704-5 (Yorhshife Archceologia, vol. i.). P. 482. Thomas Glemham, the only son of Sir Sackville by Frances Gardiner, married Eliza- beth, elder sister and co-heir of Thomas Knyvet Esq., and had an only child Thomas, who died unmarried in Spain in 1710, when his aunt Katharine Knyvet succeeded to the Barony of Berners by the determination of the abeyance. P. 502. Bishop Wood's letter of 20 May 1686 is addressed to Archbishop Bancroft, not Sheldon as printed. P. 507. Dr. Jessopp's criticism of this chapter in The Academy of 4 Aug. 1877 calls attention to the relationship between Anthony Webb and Sir Robert Gardiner Kt. of Elmes- well and Woolpit, SufEolk, who died Chief Justice of Ireland 12 Feb. 1619-20. Anthony was the 4th son of William Webb Esq. of Breccles in Norfolk, who died in 1624, and was the eldest son of Richard Webb by Anne Gardiner, sister and heir of Sir Robert. P. 518. William Seward, the 2d husband of Grace Webb, did not die in America, for he came home to England in June 1740 to raise the purchase -money for 5000 acres which he had acquired on the forks of Delaware, for the purpose of creating a refuge beyond the Atlantic, where ' his English friends might worship God in their own way without being thought Enthusiasts for so doing.' He landed in England on 19 June 1704, and proceeded on a preaching expedition to the Western counties to raise sub- scriptions for his American project. He had a painful altercation with Charles Wesley at Bristol on 23 Sept. 1740, after which he went preaching in Wales with his friend Howell Harris. They met with a violent reception from Wesley's followers, and when he preached at Caerleon he ' was pelted with dung and dirt, eggs and plum- stones.' A blow on the eye resulted in the total loss of sight ; but he persevered in his mission. His enemies followed him j and one day, when he was preaching at Hay, he was struck so severely on the head that he died a few days afterwards, on 22 Oct. viii ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 1740, at the age of 38. The comments on his death in Charles Wesley's Journal ^re painfully discreditable (^Life of Oeorge WJiitefield, by Rev. L. Tyerman, vol, i.). P. 631. Note f f . Itev. Jonathan Cateline. The note referred to at page 646 will be found at page 648. P. 639. De. Dillingham was head-master of the G-rammar School at Oundle until he accepted the Rectory of Odell. This appears from the Diary of Thomas Isham, the eldest , son of Sir Justinian Isham of Lamport, who was a versifier of the same calibre. Sir Justinian wrote a poem on Guido the pig-killer, which he sent to Dr. Dillingham on 11 Feb. 1671-2, when his messenger brought back from Oundle a letter from Dil- lingham with a copy of verses, De arte topiaria (Diary of Thomas Isham, privately printed by Sir Charles Isham Bart. 1877). P. 648. Line 25. My brother Cateline of Mrs. Dillingham's Will was evidently not the Vicar of Horbling,, as is implied in my note below ; but his elder brother Jeremie Cateline, Rector of Barham, whose wife Martha Brown was (I suppose) the sister of Mrs. Dil- lingham's first husband Matthias Brown of Horbling. P. 680. Charles Manners St. GtEOEGE was appointed Secretary of Legation at Stockholm in October 1817 (Annual Register). P. 684. Sir John Cradock was appointed, soon after his return from the Cape of Good Hope, one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Prince Regent, and as such attended the funeral of the Princess Charlotte on 19 Nov. 1817 (Annual Register). P. 700. The date of Mr. Burges' letter should be 26 Sept. 1747, not 16 Sept. as printed. P. 718. Edmund Waters, Deputy Paymaster of the Marines, published in 1808 a statement of his grievances, entitled The Opera Glass, or a Narrative of the Proceedings respecting the King's Theatre. 8vo, CONTENTS OF VOL. I. Corrections and Additions .... CHAPTEE I. ST!CT. PAGE Tlie four distinct Families of Chester . 1-2 The Chesters of Chicheley, Bucks . 1 The Chesters of Bristol, Barton-Eegis, and Almondsbury .... 1 The Chesters of Royston and Cocken- hatch, Hertfordshire ; of Blaby, Leicestershire ; and of Wethers- field in New England ... 2 The Chesters of Leigh, Essex . . 2 IL Robert Chester of Stow-on-the-Wold 1445 3-4 His foundation of a chantry at Stow 1445 3 Origin of his family .... 4 He was not the father of Henry Chester, Sheriff of Bristol 1470 . 4 III. Richard Chester, Alderman and Sheriff of London USi . . . 4-6 His Will 1483 5-6 His daughter Joan, wife of Thomas BulHsdon G TV. His ividow Dame Alice Chester . 6-8 Her Will 1504 7-8 Proofs and authorities ... 8 CHAPTER II. William Chester of London 1467 . . 9-12 Grant of Arms to him in 1467 . . 9 His Will 1476 10-12 His charitable foundations . . . 12 II. His widow Dame Agnes Chester . 13-15 Her Will 1484 ' 13-15 III. Her brother Sir William Hill, vicar of Walthamstow 1470-87 . . 15-17 His preferments, epitaph, and Will . 15 . p. xxii-xxvi SECT. r/iGE IV. Elizabeth Chester, wife of James Bryce 17 V. Sir Hugh BryceKt, Lord 3Ia7jorli85 17-19 His Will 1492 18-19 Will of Dame Elizabeth Bryce 1498 . 19 His grandson and heir Hugh Bryco . 19 VI. Elisabeth Bryce, loife of Robert Amadas, and secondly of Sir Thos. Nevill Kt., and lier heirs . . 20-21 Will of Robert Amadas 1531 . . 20 Will of Sir Thomas Nevill 1542 . . 21 The heirs of her first marriage . . 21 Ancient usage of quartering Arms . n. 21 VII. Pedigree of Dame Agnes Chester and of the heirs of her daughter Elizabeth Bryce .... 22 Proofs and authorities ... 22 CHAPTER III. John Chester of London H7G-1513 . . 23-24 His Will 1513 23-24 II. His widow Joan Chester, afterwards wife of Sir John Milborne Kt. . 25-30 Her foundation of a fellowship at St. Catharine's Hail, Cambridge, and of an annual sermon at St. Tho- mas of Aeon's .... 25-29 Sir John Milborne's charitable foun- dations 26-27 His Will 1535 27-28 Chester's sermon transferred to Mer- cers' chapel 29 Willof Lady Milborne 1545 . . 29-31 III. Her brother John Hill of London . 31 His Will 1514 31 IV. Nicholas Chester of London arid his children 1550 ... . . 31-32 X CONTENTS. SECT. PAGE V. Pedigrees of Chester in the msitation of London 1568 .... 32 Proofs and authorities 32 CHAPTER IV /Si?' Wilham Chester Kt., M.P., Lord Mayor 1560 33-38 His munmcence to Christ s Hospital and St. Bartholomew's . 33 His kindness to the Protestant mar- tyrs who were burnt when he was sheriff 34 His love of learning .... 34 Funeral of his first wife, 23 July 1560 34-35 His patronage of the Protestant Dr. Becon 35 Epitaph of Sir John Milborne and Lady Chester in St. Edmund's, Lombard-street .... 35 The state of religion when he was Lord Mayor 36 His second marriage in 1567 36 The Arms of his first wife recorded in the visitation of London 1568 37 He resigns his alderman's gown in 1572 and retires to the University of Cambridge .... 37-38 His mansion in Lombard-street . 38 TT /TT7 - 7 •? 7 jy CI* TIT'TT' iTil i 11. ihe children of Sir William Chester 38-41 Thomas Chester Bishop of Elphin 1580-4 38 Jipitaph of John Chester s wife at Quainton, Bucks . : . . 39 TXT "11 P T» 1 j_ m 1 P * 1 Will of Eobert Tempest of Antwerp 1550 39-40 Will of John Trott of London 1600 . 40* Appendix : Notes on Robert Tempest's Will 40S-41 Life of Thomas Pointz of Antwerp, the friend of Tyndal the Reformer 41 Proofs and authorities 41 CHAPTEE V. The Lovetis of Astwell .... 41*-46 Errors in the received pedigree . . 41''' -43 Pedigree of Lovett and Billing . . 42 William Lovett of Domesday . . 43 SECT. PAGE Thomas Lovett II. of Rushton ac- quires m 1471 Astwell Manor by exchange ..... 44-45 His two daughters by his first wife Anne Greyby .... 44 His children by his second wife Anne Drayton 45-46 II. Pedigrees of Drayton and Vere of Addington ..... 46-51 The errors in Halstead's Succinct Genealogies 46-47 in. Thos.Lovettll. of Astwell 1489-1492 52-53 Third marriage of Thomas Lovett II. of Astwell 52 Will of his son Thomas Lovett 1510 . 52 Will of Thomas Lovett II. of Astwell 1491 53 IV. Joan Billing, the third wife of Tho- mas Lovett II., and her subsequent husbands 53-55 Will of Alexander Quadryng 1504 53-54 Errors m Lord Campbell s account of Sir Thomas Billing, the Chief Justice 54 v. Thomas Lovett III. of Astwell 1473- 1542 55-61 -w— ^ • , 1 PI" J_l • 1 Epitaph of his mother-in-law Con- stance Vere 55 His children by his first wife Elizabeth Boteler 56 His children bj' his second wife Jane Pinchpole 57-59 Will of Thomas Wogan 1566 . 57 Will of Gabriel Dormer 1557 . 57 Will of Peter Dormer 1583 58 Will of John Hawtrey 1593 58 Will of Bridget Hawtrey 1598 . 59 Will of Thomas Lovett III. of Ast- well 1542 59 Will of his widow Jane Lovett 1556 . 60 VI. Thomas Lovett IV. 1495-1523 . 61 VII. Thomas Lovett V. of Astiuell 1517- 86 62-63 His deer-park at Astwell dedicated in 1564 62 His granddaughter Elizabeth Shirley, one of the foundress nuns of St. Ursula's, Louvain .... 62 CONTENTS. XI SECT. SECT. • PAGE Will of Thomas Lovett V. 1584 ""'62 His thirteen children by Margaret TTXTTT /T77 » • 7 tJ O TT^l ' 7 j7 VIII. The uterine, orotmrs of LUzabetli Saxby Lovett^ Lady Vhester G3-G6 Sir Ambrose Cave Kt., Chancellor of James Bury or Hampton Foyle, the Duchy of Lancaster 77 1 i Oxon 63-64 Dorothy Cave and her grandson His Will 1557 64 Henry Smith, the ' English Chry- TTT "11* T-\ _e T 1 vVilliam Bury of London . 64-66 sostom' 78 TT • TTT • T 1 -< f r* -t His Will 15G1 65 Prudence Cave, wife of John Croke, John Bury, the translator of Isocrates 66 Master in Chancery 79 Proofs and authorities 67 Pedigree of Judges descended from The daughters of G-iles Pulton . n. 67 them 70 Bridget Cave, and her descendants. CHAPTER VI Lord Chief Baron Tanfield and William Chester of Chicheley, Constable Lord Keeper Lane 70 of yytsoec/i L/astie louo 68-70 Errors in Lord Campbell's account of The parish of Chicheley, Bucks, and Lane 7Q the descent of the manors therein 68-69 II. The Caves of Ingur shy, Leicestershire OA QO Wisbech Castle used as a prison for Bryan Cave of Ingarsby and his Catholic priests .... 69 children oU Will or William Cnester Ibvo . 70 His wife Margaret Throckmorton II. Sis children ..... 70 descended from Alice Neville, the Epitaph of his son-in-law Thomas sister of ' the King-maker' . QA xleton ...... 71 Will of Bryan Cave 1590 . . . QA His children by Elizabeth Chester 71 Henry Cave of Ingarsby . ol His widow re-marries Thomas Proc- Will of his widow Elizabeth 1627 . 81 tor of W^isbech .... 71 Captain Francis Cave, grandfather of TT^„ 1717^11 -ftiOjt Jtler Will lb/4: ..... 71 Sir John Chester's wife III. Pedigree of Anne Freere, second wife III. Anthony Cave Esq., of Chicheley . A Tir'n' J 7 7 -7,1 of William Chester^ and oj lier ae- His purchase of Chicheley Manor oo sccndauts • , . . - 72 His foundation of the gratnmar- Proofs and authorities 72 school at Lathbury, Bucks . OO His monument and epitaph at Chicheley QA liie LJaves OJ btanjora-on-Avon 73-80 His WiU 1555 . . . . '. ot Their true origin .... 73 Schedule of his estates 9.K OO liichard Cave Esq., or Btanrord 74-77 IV. His widow Elizabeth and her subse- TT* It..' J 1 ■ 'J-l- i~i —11 J-l™ His friendship with Cromwell, the quent husbands, John Newdegate vicar-general 74 and Richard Weston Esqs. . Q(* QQ OD-00 His two children by ms first wife 75 Will of Richard Weston, Judge of His daughter Margaret, the mother of Common Pleas 1572 87 Lawrence Saunders the martyr. Will of his widow Elizabeth 1577 Q7 o7 and of Bir Edward oaunders, Chier Proofs and authorities 88 Justice 75 His second wife Margaret Baxby 75-76 CHAPTEE VIII. wiu or wiuiam oaxpy ioi( 75 The four daughters and co-heirs of An- Pedigree of Saxby of Northampton . 76 thony Cave of Chicheley . 89 Will of Richard Cave of Stanford II. The Hampdens of Great Hampden, 1536 76 Bucks 89-92 xii CONTENTS. SECT* Will of Griffith Hampden 1591 . PAGE 89 SECT. His imprisonment and sequestra- PAGE His children by Anne Cave 90 tion of his estates by the Parlia- Anne Hampden, mother of Edmond 102 Waller the poet . 90 His discovery of the statue of Edmond Waller's runaway marriage . 90* Charles I 103 Will of William Hampden 1597 91 His Will 1657 104 John Hampden the patriot 91 Charles Weston, 3rd Earl of Port- Will of his widow Dame LetticeVachell 91» land ...... 105 Pedigree of Hampden and Waller 92 Killed in the battle against the in. Martha Cave, wife of John Newde- Dutch 3 June 1665 . 105 93 His Will 1665 105 IV. The Westons of Roxwell . 93-97 Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Port- Their pretended descent from Regi- 105-106 nald de Baliol exposed . 93 95 He becomes a Catholic, and retires Will of William Weston, Mercer of to a monastery in Flanders 106 London 1514 .... 94 Frances Lenox, widow of Jerome Will of Robert Weston, Lord Chan ■ 2nd Earl of Portland 106 cellor of Ireland 1573 . n. 94 HerWilll692 .... 106-107 Will of James Weston of Lichfield Pedigree of Weston Earl of Port- 1589 n. 94 108-109 Arms of Weston .... 95 Proofs and authorities . 109-110 Richard Weston, Judge of Common Parentage of Richard Weston the 95-96 n. 110 Sir Jerome Weston Kt., of Roxwell . 9G Marriage of Sir Jerome Weston His Will 1603 96 Kt., at Chicheley n. 110 Anne Weston, wife of John Williams, the author of ' Balaam's Ass' 97 CHAPTEE IX. V. The Westons, Earls of Portland 97-107 Sir Anthony Chester Kt, Bt., of Sir Richard Weston, Earl of Port- Chicheley, 1566-1635 111-118 land K.G 97-99 He raises a troop of horse to oppose Declares himself a Catholic on his the Spanish invasion in 1588 111 deathbed . . . 98 Knighted by James I. 27 June His Will 99 1603 111 His children by his first wife 99-100 Created a baronet 23 March 1619- His son-in-law Walter, 2nd Lord 1620 112 100 Purchases estates in Bedfordshire . 112 His children by his 2nd wife Fran- Epitaph of his first wife Elizabeth ces Waldegrave .... 100-101 Boteler 113 Nicholas Weston, M.P. for Ports- His second wife Mary Ellis of mouth ...... 100 Kiddall . . 115 Benjamin Weston, M.P. for Dover . 100 The loyalty of her family to the Epitaph at Rome of Lady Catharine Stuarts, and their sufferings in Weston, wife of Richard White . 101 the Civil Wars .... 113 Will of Frances Countess Dowager Monument and epitaph of Sir An- of Portland 1644 .... 102 thony Chester at Chicheley 114 Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland 102-104 His Will 1635 114 His alliance with the royal family by II. The inquest post mortem of Sir marriage 102 Anthony Chester 7 Oct. 1635 115-118 CONTENTS. xiii SECT. PAGE in. Dame Mary Chester, widow of Sir AntJwny, im-d2 . . . 118-119 HerWilll692 .... 119 IV. The children of Sir Anthony Chester hy his first wife EUza- lethBoteler .... 119-124 Mary Chester, wife of Sir Robert BeU Kt. of Beaupre Hall, Nor- folk 119 Pedigree of Bell .... 120 Notes on the pedigree of Bell . 121-122 Elizabeth Chester and her five husbands 123-124 Will of John Wingate Esq. 1642 . 123 V. Pedigree of Chester in the Visitation ofBucJcsUU .... 124 Proofs and authorities . . . 125 Note on the family of Ellis . . n. 125 Note on the entries of Bell in the Register of Out well . . . n. 125 CHAPTER X. William Chester Esq. of East Haddon 1595-1682 126 His two wives and daughters . . 126-127 Pedigree of the children of Dorothy Chester, wife of John Nance Esq. 127 II. Sir Henry Chester K.B., of Tils- worth, Beds, 1598-1666 . . 128-132 Succeeded to his father's estates in Bedfordshire .... 128 His neutral attitude in the civil war 128 License from Richard Cromwell to reside in Bedfordshire whilst he was Sheriff of Bucks . . 129 Imprisoned by the Rump . . 129 Created K.B. at the coronation of Charles II.. .... 130 Settlement of his estates on his nephew Sir Anthony Chester III : . 1.30 Pedigree of his first wife Judith Bankworth .... 131 His monument and epitaph at Tilsworth ..... 131 His Will 1666 132 III. His widow Dam,e Mary Chester 1604-1684 133 SECT. PAGE Her Will 1676 .... 133 IV. John Chester Esq. of Siielson, Bucks, 1601-1669 . . . 133-135 Taken prisoner at Naseby . . 133 His letters to Sir Anthony Chester III 134-135 Will of his widow Catharine Ches- ter 1671 135 Proofs and authorities . . . 135-136 Will of Robert Bankworth 1617 . n. 136 CHAPTER XL Elizabeth Boteler, first luife of Sir An- thony Chester Kt. and Bart. . 137 The descent of the Botelers of Hertfordshire . . . . 137 II. Pedigree of Boteler and Marmion . 138-139 III. Royal descent of Elizabeth Drury, wife of Sir Philip Boteler Kt., and pedigree of their issue . . 140-141 IV. Sir Henry Boteler Kt., of Brant- field, Herts, 1530-1609 . . 141-143 Will of Hugh Pope 1562 . . 141 Sir Henry Boteler's children by his first wife Catharine Waller . 142 His Will 1608 142 V. John Lord Boteler, 1565-1637, and his issue 143-152 Created a baronet and afterwards a peer 143 His son and heir apparent Sir Hen- ry Boteler 143 His successor William Lord Bote- ler a lunatic .... 144 Audrey Boteler, wife of Sir Francis Anderson Kt., and afterwards of Sir Francis Leigh Earl of Chichester 144-145 Pedigree of her descendants . . 145 Helen Boteler, wife of Sir John Drake Kt., and grandmother of John Duke of Marlborough . 145 Resemblance between John Duke of Marlborough, William Pitt Earl of Chatham, and George Duke of Buckingham, who were all of the same blood . . . 146 Jane Boteler, wife of James Ley, CONTENTS. xiv SECT. PAGE Earl of Marlborough, and after- wards of William Ashburnham Esq 14G Olive Boteler, wife of Endymion Porter, courtier, poet, and scho- lar 146-148 Her conversion and persecution by the Parliament . . . 147 Endymion Porter's letterfrom Paris 147 His children 148 Mary Boteler, wife of Edward Lord Howard of Escrick . . 149 Lord Howard's dishonourable ca- reer 149 His Will 1G75. .... 150 His children 150 Anne Boteler, wife of Mouutjoy Earl of Newport, and afterwards of Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland 151-152 Her conversion . . . . 151 Errors in the received pedigrees of the names and succession of her sons 151-152 Proofs and authorities . . . 152 Supplement to Chapter XL Pedigree of Gohion .... 153-155 H. The descent of the manor of Walton Woodhall 155 HI. Notes on the pedigree of Boteler . 156-158 John Cokayne, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer .... 156 His Will 1428 .... 156 The true parentage of Constance, 2ud wife of John Boteler and mother-in-law of Thomas Lo- vett in. of Astwell . . . 157 Will of John Boteler II. 1513 . ■ 157 Will of Sir John Boteler Kt. 1576, and correction of the year of his death 158 IV. Grisel Roche, wife of Sir John Boteler Kt 158-160 Wrongly described in the received pedigrees as the daughter of Sir William Roche Kt., Lord Mayor 1540 . .... 158 SECT. Will of Sir WilliiTn T?rir.liQ Tr+ PAGE 1549 . . . 158 Will of Dame Margaret Roche 1559 159 WiU or Bryan Roche 1514 159 \^ dc\ 1 cry* ci a r\-r T3i-\i-iT-v^ X tjuigicti oi xtocne • . , , 160 J- clitu. ciui;noriiii6S . . , 160 CHAPTER XIL Sir Anthony Chester Bart. II. 1593- 1652 1 fli 1 fir; iOl ?artiallv disinTiprif.pfl lOi iOl 1 fii Sir A 71 till on V t.nnlr VP-Fn era i n TT/^l land ...... Henrv 1 CiiC^ Schedule of his estates 1 fi^-l fid TTis ■novtvnit if. f^fiir'lTplfi'xr 100 1603-1692 1 fiK x±KjL Kjyibaijjii dit v-'iiicueiey • • loO III TlP/P cll^l (l.TPll 1 fifi i7n 100- 1 ( u AlioP Ohp<5tpr' wifp n-f .TnTnn IVTilli -i-^AiUV^ V/XJ.Ci3UCJ. J VVliC \JX. tlKJlxlX iVJLliH- VOXIU \J±. U J. ^ llct LLX ■ ■ • 1 fifi 100 His Will 1681 1 fifi 100 PediPTPp of TVTilKr'pnt 1 fi7 10 < DoTothv riTlPcltAV Tuifp of dnlnnpl V yji-xn, J. j.oi-LCX * • • • 1 fiS lOo -I- xciXK^Co \^llCoudj WiJ-t> KjJl. ^^cHliUtSl ^V^lSPTTiari Tjt^o of T?flrl^nrlop« 1 uo T^PVton OTlP^ltPT* frPn+l ATVIEITI r>f fTlfl Bedchamber to Henry Duke of ItI on p p ct PT* 1 AQ 1 CQ lOo-loy Will of Pevtori Chpcifpi' IfiSfi loy T^jllZfi.llpth Ohp<5tPT' wifp of WTillimn T?,vTpv Pj^O T)pnntv-lrppnpr nf the Records .... 169 T^^r>itnT)h of •Tohn nhpRtpv flt ninVTip- j—i^XvOiVJiJ. \J±. WXXXX v^XXCOUCX uU vyxxxuixc ley 1641 Cony Esq. ..... 170 IV. William Chester Esq. of Barha- does 1639-1687 .... 171-173 His Will 1687 .... 171 Elizabeth Chester, wife of Captain CONTENTS. XV John Nanfan, Governor of Now York Lord BelJamont's government of New York His Will 1699 and his widow Catha- rine ...... William Chester of Barbadoes the younger . . . . . His Will 1696 V. William Ryley Esq. the elder, Keejper of the Records at the Tower, and William Ryley Esq. the younger, Deimty-heejjer The elder appointed Lancaster Herald by Charles L 1641, and Keeper of the Records by the Parliament 1644 Created Norroy King-at-arms by Oliver Cromwell, and Claren- cieux by Richard Cromwell Reduced to Lancaster Herald at the Restoration, and appointed De- puty-keeper of Records under Prynne ..... His services at the Record Office disparaged by Prynne His family William Ryley the younger . His passion for antiquarian re- searches Addison's testimony to Bishop At- terbury's love of such researches Ryley's Placita Parliamentaria praised by Lord Chancellor Finch Written by the father and son jointly The Ryleys jealous of Prynne William Ryley's petitions to Lord- keeper Pinch .... Sir Philip Ryley, Sergeant-at-arms His Will 1732 . . . . Proofs and authorities , Note on the family of Ryley . Pedigree of Fisher and Shan . CHAPTER XIII. The Peytons of Peyton Hall PAGE SECT. Their mythical descent from William PAGE 172 Malet 183 Will of Sir John de Peyton 1317 . 185 172 Epitaph of Margaret G ernon, widow of Sir John Peyton Kt. 1413 . 186 n. 172 II. The Gernons of Bahewell and East 'Thorpe . . . 188-200 173 Mythical origin of the Cavendish 173 family ..... 186 Robert Gernon of Domesday . 187-190 His benefactions to the abbeys of Gloucester and Abingdon . 189 173-179 His children ..... 190 Matthew Gernon of Essex 190-191 Ralph Gernon of Bakewell 191-192 Ralph Gernon II., founder of Lees 174 Priory 1230 William Gernon of Bakewell died 192-193 1258 193 174 Ralph Gernon III., rebel Baron, re- deemed his estates under the dictum of Kenilworth 193-194 Sir John Gernon Kt. died 1334 . 194 175 His third wife Margaret Wygeton . 194-195 Note on the Gernons of Ireland 195-196 175 Their pedigree .... 196 175 Sir John Gernon Kt. II. 197-200* 176-178 Co-heir in 1369 of Robert Lord Coleville . . . . . 197 176 Genealogy of the Lords Coleville of Castle Bytham .... 197-199 176 Their pedigree .... Errors in the received pedigree of 198 Ralph Lord Bassett of Sapcote . 199 176 Litigation about the filiation of Sir John Gernon II. . . . 199* 177 Pedigree of Gernon 200 177 The co-heirs of Sir John Gernon . Note on the pedigrees of Gernon 200« 177-178 and Sackville .... 200«-201 178-179 III. The Peytons of East Thorpe, 179 WicJcen, and Iselham, 1384-1550 201-212 180-181 Error in the received account of the 181 parentage of Grace, wife of J ohn 182 Peyton, and secondly of Richard Baynard Esq 201 Thomas Peyton of Iselham, jure 183-186 uxoris ..... 202-203 xvi CONTENTS. ECT. Pedigree of his wife Margaret Ber- nard Jane Peyton, wife of John Langley Esq. of Knowlton, and after- wards of Sir Edward Ringeley, Marshal of Calais Pedigree of Langley WiU of Dame Jane Ringeley 1551 . Will of William Mauleverer Esq. 1498 Will of Thomas Peyton Esq. of Isel- ham 1490 Pardon to Sir Robert Peyton Kt. 1509 Errors in Blomefield's account of his wife's mother, Lady Clere of Ormesby Epitaph of Sir Robert Peyton at Iselham 1518 .... His Will 1518 Inquest held after his death . Sir Robert Peyton Kt. of Iselham, husband of Frances Hasilden . His epitaph and Will 1550 His children ..... Will of John Peyton 1577 . Epitaph of Richard Peyton 1574 . Dame Frances Peyton, foundress of Iselham Hospital Her epitaph and Will 1582 . IV. The Hasildens of Gilden Morden Arms of Frances Hasilden Thomas Hasilden, a witness in the Scrope and Grosvenor contro- versy Will of Anthony Hasilden 1526 . Richard Hasilden, M.P. for Cam- bridgeshire 1394-1399 Will of Frances Hasilden 1517 Pedigree of Hasilden V. The Peytons of Iselham 1550-1616 Robert Peyton of Iselham, the hus- band of Elizabeth Rich, was never knighted .... Will of Robert Rich Esq. of Isel- ham 1557 Epitaph and Will of Robert Peyton Esq. of Iselham 1590 PAGE SECT. PAGE -LXIO V^lXiJ-UL CXJ. * ■ • ■ ( 909 Will of hiq wiflnw Ti^liVaV^ofh 1^^Q1 Sit .1 Ann T-'Al/'fAn A"F TenlViOYvi n-vtnn^nfX kJiL ti uiiu tsj iiULi uj. xbciiidiiii creatGCi t^aroTlPti mi fill P inQf.itiTfinn r\-f+lio order 204-205 His momiTYiPTif, nnd ^^ill 1 (^1 ^ 990 991 204 TTis f^lnilrlrfn 991 991 205 Will of Rop-er Pevton 1617 991 ■l-ixLKJL. LxX \JXXX3 JL CCitlgtJo diUwUu \ji±ki KioiVKj yji. ulXv/ LlCduil XJx. tOii- -il-Ll ulUJll y J.1 Uj' J.\.u.j WUU CllcLl 111 lUlVJ . Will of Rir Philin "Rpflino-fiplrl "K'f- Tt J,H \jx. KJlL X 11111^ -UtjVilll^iltJiLl J\.Uj 1622 xii (Jiiictuij. Kjx. iiio VijIUUVV • • • TTpt 9nrl lm<5l)n'rn^ IVTilpci TTnlnr^^ "Rqri of Tirhwoorl ponfn<3f*rl in nil "Uta T^PAVn (YPC! Tsri'fn Sit* "IVTildo TTr\ ull^ X. Cd.«igC& VVlull VJlL J-VillUts XJ.U hnrt, IVr T* for IVTarlnw 907 Will of Damp Alirp Ppvf.on 1^9^^ 991 907 90R V T T^fiTTniiitP O'f fliP. 'fciTixil.i P'i CiI^L^llLl WlXv ■ 9^0 TTiG r'nilni'An nv niQ fiT'at'. mnwinrrA XXlO i^fllllULOll Uj lllO IJ.L0U lllclLllcl^tJ . 9m 9^f! 91 £i Rir "FrpwAff Oqhovn "Kt kJlJ. XJ-CWCLt V-/&UU111 JA,U. • ■ • 9m 9!^5? 91 r^riA nATET TicrHAn at rmTinrc anvnimoo X lie new J-d&lllUJJ UJ- glVlllg aUIlitllllco Q r. AQ "ATT Gm 1 G 1. rTT"! of 1 fin n o m A a ctu UdlJtlGlll txa v^UlloLldll xldilllco . 9^?1 9m 914. Sit* TTAiTTA'f ^" lla AAvn A a mil I"!" oyTT coy Oil JLXtJWCuu woUUlllC/ 0 JXllllucliV ntJl.- 91 Pi Tcri fta in IvT'o n p A Q n ri 1 "pa 1 n n ri VH->t/ 111 X'loillL-c dllu. XlclclllU • 9!?9 91 7 TTia Will 1 ^%00 XJ-lib VV 111 x-OuO .... 9^?9 91 8 99f> TTici wifl AW vp-mnTPi AG Rit* Pa^.p!* XXlO WIUL/W X e llluiL J.i.CO toil X C'UCJ. TTypi^li Airill A TTf 1? 1 eOJlt^ V lllC XV u. • • . • TTr^AxrciT'/l OcT^AVnA Tl^'nAT' at "hrlA ■ni^G'f XLiUWcLlU. VyoUUlliej XOiullcl UJ. ullC lllou 218 Duke of Leeds .... 233-234 Anne Osborne, wife of Robert Offley 218 of London, and her children 234-235 Edward Osborne of the Inner 218 Temple and of Northill, Beds. . 235-236 Erroneously said in the Peerages to have died unmarried in 1625 His Will 1625 . . . . His two wives and children. See Corrections, p. iv. . . . Jane Osborne, wife of J ohn Welby Pedigree of Osborne and Hewett . VII. Sir Edioard Peyton Kt. and Bart Author of libels against the King . Squandered his patrimony and sold his estate. See Corrections, p. v. Pedigree of the issue of his first marriage. See Corrections, p. v. Error in the received date of the death of Sir John Peyton 2nd Bart The Pey tons of Virginia in America Pedigree of the issue of Sir Edward Peyton's 2nd marriage Proofs and authorities . Extracts from the parish register of Iselham relating to the family of Peyton Early pedigree of Peyton CHAPTER XIY. The Pey tons of Knowlton, Kent . How John Peyton acquired the Manor of Knowlton . Will of Sir Thomas Peyton Kt. of Knowlton 1610 .... Sir Samuel Peyton of Knowlton created a Baronet 1611 Sir Thomas Peyton Bart, of Knowl- ton II. The Tyndalls of Deene . Doubts of the origin assigned to them by the Heralds . Sir Simon Felbrigge K.Gr. and his Bohemian wife .... Anne Tyndall, wife of Sir Henry St. Germain (mis- described as Henry Jermy). See Corrections, p. v. . . . . Pedigree of the Lords Scales . III. The Tyndalls of Hoclmold 1485- 1539 CONTENTS. xvii PAGE SECT. Will of Sir Anthony Woodville, Earl PAGE 235 Rivers 1483 .... 255 235 Sir William Tyndall, co-heir of Lady Scales, inherits in 1485 a moiety 236 of the Scales estates . 256 236 The true origin of the Tyndall 237 crest of a plume of ostrich feathers issuing out of a ducal 238-239 coronet 256-257 238 Epitaph of Lady Amphillis Tyndall 1533 257 238 Schedule of Sir John Tyndall's estates 1539 .... 257 239 His Will 1538 . . . . His children by his first wife Am- 258 phillis Coningsby 258-259 239 IV. The Coningshys of Hampton Court 259-263 239 Sir Humphrey Coningsby Kt., Judge of K. B 260-261 240 His Will 1531 . . . . 260-2G1 240-242 His children Will of Dame Elizabeth Pitz James 261-263 1545 ■ . 262 243 V. The Tyndalls of Hoclaoold . 263-277 244 Sir Thomas Tyndall surrenders his estates to his son and heir 263 His Will 1583 264 245-250 His only son by his first wife Anne Paston, William Tyndall Esq., 245-247 sells his Norfolk estate The tradition that the crown of ,264 248 Bohemia was offered to him critically examined . 264-267 248-249 Baron de Slawata's defenestration . 267 Will of William Tyndall 1591 268 249-250 The children of Sir Thomas Tyn- 250-254 dall by his second wife Amy Fermor 268-274 250-251 Dr. Humphrey Tyndall Master of Queen's College, Cambridge, 252 Dean of Ely .... Officiates at the Earl of Leicester's secret marriage with the Coun- 268-270 tess of Essex in 1578 . 268 253 His position amongst the Cam- 253-255 bridge Puritans His monument and epitaph in Ely 270 255-259 Cathedral G 270 xviii CONTENTS. SECT. xlis Wm 1d14 ..... PAGE 0'7A Z i\) SECT. The true origin of the Tmdals of PAGE Francis Tyndall of Lincoln's Inn . Essex n. zoO His purchases of estates 271 Will of Sir John Tyndall s widow The inquest held after his death z71 1620 281 His Will 16zG ..... 272 Stephen Egerton,the Puritan divine 281-282 Henry Tyndall of Old Buckenham, His Will 1622 282 JNorrolk ..... 272 Will of his widow Sarah Egerton W^ill of Margaret Ryngewode 1604 1624 282-280 Pedigree of Fisher Bart. . Richard Stocke, rector ox All-Hal- Ursula Tyndall, wife of Coxey and lows, Bread-street n. 282 afterwards of Edward XJpcher . 274 William Gouge of Blackf riars . n. 282 xier epitapn ana Will lo/o Deane Tyndall or Great Maplestead OQC? ZOO William Tyndall, the eldest son of Entered his pedigree at the Visita- Sir Thomas by his second wife, tion 01 Essex in lbd4 /bo confused by the Heralds with His children ..... zoo-Zoi his elder brother of the same TXT" ' n c ~D~\ m T n h /"> o Will of Drue Tyndall 16()3 . 283 name, and ignored in the evi- Elizabeth Tyndall, sole heir or her dence of the Scales Peerage Case 274 family and wife of Jasper His children ..... 275 Blythman Esq 284 Felix Tyndall, rector of Plumstead 275 Her Will 17do ..... Thomas Tyndall of Low Leyton, Pedigree of her descendants . zoo Essex, the last known male heir Proofs and authorities . ZOO-Zo< 01 nis ramily .... 275-27G Will 01 Sir Simon s eibrigge 11. G. Pedigree of Tyndall of Deene and 1442 007 TT 1 1 J Mockwold ..... 27G-277 The marriages or Sir ihomas 1 ey- bimon iynclali iS.U. n. 277 ton Bart, of Knowlton 0Q7 /O i John Tyndall of St. Clement Danes Pedigree of Peyton of Doddington, T1* 1 IJ. A I'll* and his daughter Amphillis n. 277 showing their connexion with Ihe true origin of the lyndales oi ill J _p T n T the baronets of Iselham and Hayling Island .... n. 277 Knowlton OQQ ZOO VI. I he lyndaLlis oj brreat MapLe- stead, Essex .... 278-285 CHAPTEE XV. Sir John Tyndall Kt., Master m The Riylit Honourable Sii' John Chancery 27 8-279 Jr eyto)i Kt. OJ uouuvngton io^i- Erroneously supposed to be a co- lOoU ...... zoy-zy J heir of the Earony or Scales 278 Gains distinction in Ireland under His reputed descent from the Kings Sir Henry Sydney ZO J of Bohemia .... 278 Was the friend of Sir Philip Sydney Purchases the estate of Chelmshoe from his childhood ZO J in Great Maplestead . 278 Marries X/ady xseii o June lo/o ZO J His murder 279 XfCaLn ox on xtuoeiu jjch, juuit^ His character vindicated by Bacon 279 Chief Baron .... 290 His Will 279 Addition to my pedigree of Bell at His children 280 1-1 1 on p. iZU ..... 290 Margaret Tyndall, wife of John Peyton serves in Flanders under 290-291 Winthrop, the first Governor of the Earl of Leicester . Massachusetts .... 280 Is Governor of Bergen - op - Zoom Her children . . . 281 1586 290 CONTENTS. XIX ECr. _ His letter to the Earl of Leicester PAGE SECT. Birth and education of Sir John PAGE 1586 291 Hawkwood .... 303 Knighted and rewarded for his Description of his free-lances . 304 services 291 His career in France and Italy 304-307 Becomes Lieutenant of the Tower His 2nd marriage with the daughter and Privy Councillor 1597 292 of Bernabo Visconti . 305 The duties of Lieutenant of the His semi-royal state 306 Tower 292 Is appointed ambassador to Naples His letter to the Council of State and Florence by Richard II. in 18 February 1600 292 1385 306 Is mentioned in Henry Cuffe's Will His funeral and monument at 1601 292 Florence 307 His prudent conduct during the His children 308 last illness of Queen Elizabeth . 293 His son-in-law Sir William de Cog- Sends his son to James I. to an- geshall Kt., and his descend- nounce the Queen's death 293 ants 308-310 Is appointed Governor of Jersey III. The Peytojis of Doddington 310-322 and Guernsey .... 293 Sir John Peyton II. of Doddington 310-314 Letter to him from James I. 30 Was the first knight created by July 1603 294 James I. after his accession 310 Is called in question for his conver- His conversation with Lord Cob- sations with the Earl of Lincoln ham and Sir Walter Raleigh in during Queen Elizabeth's last the Tower ..... 310 illness. ..... 294 His letters to Sir Robert Cotton His letter of explanation to Lord the antiquary .... 311-312 Cecil 10 October 1603 enclosing a 294 His letter of news to Sir Dudley Narrative of his conversations with Carleton, the ambassador at the the Earl of Lincoln . 295-297 Hague 1617 .... 312-314 Obtains a grant of the Manor of Acts as Lieutenant-governor of Doddington .... 298 Jersey under his father 314 His age at his death exaggerated in His Will 1635 ..... 314 the Baronetages 298 His children 315-318 His epitaph at Doddington 298 Alice Peyton, wife of Edward Lowe Singular longevity of his descend- the musician .... 315 ants ...... 11. 299 Her epitaph at Christ Church, Ox- I. The descent of his wife Dorothy ford 315 Lady Bell ..... 299-310 Her children 316 Her pedigree 300 Her husband Edward Lowe . 316 Her ancestor Sir John Hawkwood His Will 1682 317 Kt., the condottiere captain 301-308 Frances Peyton, wife of Francis Gilbert Hawkwood of Hedingham Fortescue Esq., Solicitor-general Sible 301-302 of Queen Henrietta Maria 317 His Will 1340 301-302 Susanna Peyton, wife of John Authorities for the life of Sir John Richers Esq 318 Hawkwood .... n. 301 Her granddaughter Elizabeth Examples of the ancient custom of Richers the gentlewoman of baptizing several brothers by Lady Chester .... 318 the same Christian name . 802-303 Will of Elizabeth Peyton 1659 31S X^v CONTENTS. SECT. Dr. Algernon Peyton D.D. of Dod- PAGE SECT. Errors in the received account of her dington 318-319 father's marriages and children . n. 332 Re-stocks the King's park with deer Isabella Beauchamp, 2nd wife of " after the Restoration, and is re- William Earl of Suffolk, con- warded by a baronetcy to his son 319 fused by Dugdale with her sister Letter in his favour from Lord Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Clarendon 319 Ufford K.G 333-334 Dies in the King's Bench Prison Will of William Earl of Suffolk 1668 319 1381 334-336 Alice Peyton, wife of Dr. John His widow the Countess Isabel Nalson the historian, and after- takes a vow of chastity 336 wards of J ohu Cremer Esq. 320 321 V. The Uffords of Wrentham, Suffolk . 337-340 Character of Dr. Nalson's works 320 Their ancestor Sir Thomas Ufford His Will 1682 ..... 320 Kt. confused by Dugdale with His children. See Corrections, p. v. 321 his nephew Ralph, the Justiciary Will of John Cremer 1703 . 321 of Ireland ..... 337 Sir Algernon Peyton Bart, of Dod- His widow Eve Clavering re-mar- diagton 321 ries Sir J ames de Audley Kt. of Will of his widow Dame Frances Stratton, and was the mother of Peyton 1680 .... 322 Sir James the hero of Poitiers, IV. Genealogy of the Earls of SufolJc who is confused by Dugdale with of the family of De Ufford . 322-336 Jam.es Lord Audley of Helagh. 337-338 Robert De Ufford, Justiciary of Proofs and authorities . 340-342 Ireland 1269 . 322-323 Robert Lord Ufford 1279-1316 323 PTTAPTTfP WT \j n.±\.x X HiJX jfv V JL. His children 324-327 Sir Anthony Chester Bt. III. 1633- Sir Ralph De Ufford, J usticiary of 1698 343-348 Ireland 1344-6 .... 324-325 Inherits an embarrassed estate 343 His widow Maud Plantagenet, Subscribes to Dr. Walton's Polyglot Countess of Ulster, founds a Bible 343 nunnery at Brusyard, and is pro- Marries Mary Cranmer 21 May 1657 343 fessed a nun there 325 Inherits the estates of Sir Henry His only child Matilda Countess of Chester 344 Oxford 326 Singular longevity of the three DiiSculties about the heir named Dowager Lady Chesters . 344 in the inquest of the Countess Sir Henry Chester's old servants . 345 of Oxford ..... 11. 326 Mrs. Stubbs, the housekeeper at Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk . 327-329 Lidlmgton Park. Bee Correc- 345 His Will 1368 328-329 tions, p. vi. His children ..... 329-331 Her epitaph at Chicneiey n. 6io Sir Thomas de Ufford K.G. . 329 Examples of the aristocracy being Lord Campbell's error that J ohn de waited upon by servants of gen- Offord, Lord Chancellor 1345 tle blood and of their own kin- and Archbishop elect of Canter- dred O40-o4o bury 1348, was the brother of Sir Anthony's friend Robert Earl Robert Earl of Suffolk 330 of Aylesbury .... 346 William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk 331-336 Portraits of Sir Anthony Chester His first wife Joan de Montacute . 332 III 347 CONTENTS. XXI PAGE SECT. PASB His epitaph at Chicheley 347 Portraits of Anthony and his bro- Verses written on his death . o'to ther John ..... 354-335 '.. His widoio Dame Mary Chester Judith Chester, wife of Robert 1635-1710 Oneby Esq. ..... 355 Chicheley Hall rebuilt during her Major John Oneby the duellist n. 355 widowhood .... 9 /I Q Robert Oneby 's second wife Susanah Her portrait at Chicheley o4y Webb, and her son Robert 355-356 Her Will 1710 Dorothea Chester, wife of John 1. The sixteen children of Sir Anthony Yv iiaon Jcjsq. .... 356 Chester III. .... 349-35y Her epitaph at Loughborough 356 Mary Chester, wife of Francis Dun- TTav. ■Will T7ACi xier vv lu 1 / 4 J 356-357 combe Esq. .... Henry Chester of East Haddon 357-358 Her epitaph at Broughton ooU Epitaph of his wife Theodosia 357 Epitaph of her husband . His epitaph at East Haddon . 358 Letter from him to Burrell Mas- Penelope Chester, wife of Rev. singberd Esq. 1710 . OOi tj onii xi-iieyue x>,u. , . 358-359 Elizabeth Chester, wife of Charles His published sermons 359 Nicholas Eyre Esq. . OOi J. nomas, v-'EeScXr , anu xi>o uei l vjiiea lei . 359 Her portrait ool IV. Thomas Chester of London, 1674- Her husband's places at court O K 1 ool 1737, and his descendants . 359-363 Her epitaph in Salisbury Cathedral Grodson of his grand-uncle Dr. Her son Charles Chester Eyre Wood, Bishop of Lichfield 360 Diana Chester, wife of Rev. Thomas Apprenticed to Sir Benjamin Remington .... ooZ Thoroughgood .... 360 Her husband's second wife and her Resident at the Three Nuns in children OO^-OOO Cheapside 360 The disinheritance of his son Ger- Note on the families of Wigf all and vase Remington by a mistake in Plumptre ?i. 360-361 his father's marriage settlement o c o 000 His children 361-362 Diana Remington's only daughter J ohn Chester of St. Paul's, Covent Barbara OOD Garden ..... 362-363 Her husband Rev. John Shan, Marries clandestinely at the Fleet Vicar of Chicheley, and their his cousin Elizabeth Chester, descendants .... o c o 35o 24 August 1738 ... 362 Catharine Chester, wife of Sir His Will 1750 . . . . 362 Henry Cambell Bart. OOo His only child Dorothea, co-heir of Her portrait at Chicheley OOi the Wood estates and wife of Will of Sir Henry Cambell Bart. Sir George Robinson Bart, of 1G99 354 Cranford 362-363 His only child Mary, wife of Thomas Proofs and authorities . 363-365 Price Esq. of Westbury 354 Sir Anthony Chester's autograph Anthony Chester, son and heir ap- memorandum of the births of parent, died July 1G85 354 his sixteen children . 366 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF THE EXTINCT FAMILY OF CHESTER OF OHIOHELEY. CHAPTER I. The four distinct Families of Chester. II. Robert Chester of Stow-o7b- the-WoId, 1445. III. Richard Chester, Alderman and Sheriff of London, 1484. IV. Eis Widow, J)ame Alice Chester, 1504. The Heralds' Visitations record four distinct fami- lies of the name of Chester, who bore different Arms, and were in no way related to each other. 1. The Chesters of Chicheley in Bucks, whose history is now attempted. Their ancestor, William Chester of London, received a grant * of Arms 22 May 1467, (i) and his descendants bore Party per pale Argent and Sable, a chevron engrailed between three rams' heads erased attired Or, all counterchanged, within a bordure engrailed bezanty. 2. The Chesters of Bristol, Barton-Regis, and Almondsbury in Gloucestershire are all descended from Henry Chester, Merchant of Bristol, who died Sheriff of that city in 1470. It is suggested in the Baronetages, that Henry was one of the sons of Robert Chester of Stow in Cottiswold, the undoubted ancestor of the Chesters of Chicheley ; but this tra- dition was unknown to the older Heralds, and is disproved by the silence of the early wills of both families and the dissimilarity of their Arms. All Henry Chester's descendants bore Gules, a lion passant Ermine between three hawks lures Argent. (2) 3. The Chesters of Hertfordshire are descended from Sir Robert Chester Kt., a gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII., who purchased the * This gi'ant is printed at p. 10. CHESTEB OF CHICSELEIf. CHESTEB OF BRISTOL. 2 THE CHESTEKS OE CHICHELEY, CHESTEE OF HEETFOEDSHIEE. EFFIGY OF EICHAED CHESTEE, MAEINEE, ON A BEASS IN LEIGH CHUECH. manors of Royston and Cockenhatch in 1540. (3) It has been asserted that these Chesters came out of Derbyshire, where they had lost their estates in the Wars of the Roses ; (4) but it is clear from the public records, that no family of note of this name ever existed in Derbyshire ; and there are many indica- tions that Sir Robert was a native of Hertfordshire, and that his family had long been tenants and depen- dents of the great Abbey of St. Alban's. William Chester of Chipping-Barnet, who was nearly related to Sir Robert of Royston, and bore the same Arms^ was the ancestor of the Chesters of Blaby in Leices- tershire. (5) His great-grandson, Leonard Chester of Blaby, emigrated to New England in the reign of Charles I., and founded a family at Wethersfield in Connecti- cut. (6) All these families bore Er- mine, on a chief sable a grijffin passant Argent. (5) 4. The Chesters of Leigh in Essex were founded by Richard Chester, a native of Hartlepool in the county of Durham, who was Master of the Trinity House in 1615, and made his fortune as a mariner. (7) He died in 1632, and his effigy in brass is still to be seen in the chancel of Leigh Church. His son Robert Chester of Wickford, near Leigh, entered his pedigree at the Visitation of that county in 1634, and obtained a grant of the following coat in February 1639 from Sir John Borough, Garter : Or on a fess Gules three cutlasses Argent pommelled Or.(8) But this family of Chester was of brief duration, for the male line failed in 1653. All these four families have long been extinct in the male line except the Chesters of Hertfordshire, and they only survive in a younger branch. EOBEET CHESTER OF STOW ST. EDWARD. 3 II. Egbert Chester or Chestre of Stow in Cottiswold was a personage of some note in Gloucestershire ; for in 1445 he obtained a license under the Privy Seal from King Henry VI. to found a guild, and to erect a chantry at Stow. The royal license is dated 21 Aug., 23 Hen. VI. (1445), and empowers Robert Chestre and others to found a Guild or Fraternity to the praise and honour of the Holy Trinity in the town of Stow St. Edward, to endure for ever. Such guild to consist of a warden or master, and an indefinite number of brethren : the master to be chosen annually on Trinity-eve by the major part of the brethren for the government of the guild ; the master and brethren to be a body corporate with a common seal, and to have all the privileges of a corporation; and they were empowered to erect a chantry in the parish church of Stow, and to purchase lands of lOZ. per ann. to be held in mortmain for the maintenance of a chaplain, to be appointed by the said Robert Chestre and others, who should pray at the altar of the Holy Trinity in the church at Stow for the good estate of Henry VI. and of Margaret his Queen, and of Sir Ralph Boteler Kt. Lord Sudeley, Treasurer of England, of Sir John Beauchamp of Powick Kt., and of the Master of the said fraternity. This chantry was so poorly endowed, that it would scarcely have survived its founder, but for the munificence of his son William Chester of London, whose will, dated 5th May 1476, contains this direction : Myn Executours to mayntayne a Chauntrie in Stowe in Coteswold, in the worship of the Holy Trynite, mortaised by my Fader, Robert Chester, the whiche nowe is fallen in decaye. Nothing has been discovered about the parentage and connexions of Robert Chester, and there are no wills of this name in the Bishop's registry at Worcester, in which diocese Stow was then included. I have some suspicion that he was related to his contemporary, Richard Chester the Chaplain of Henry VI. and the King's Agent at the Court of Rome, who was a Prebendary of St. Paul's and a native of the West of England. He may also have been related to John Chester, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, who by his will, dated 11th July 1449, desires to be buried in the Church of St. Matthew, Friday-street, near his deceased wife Margaret, and gives all his goods to John Aleyne and Thomas Wolfe, Goldsmiths of London, to distribute in pious uses for the repose of his soul and his wife's, (g) For this John Aleyne with Matilda his wife are mentioned in the old list of benefactors to Evesham Abbey ; and we know that the Chesters had a special devotion for this religious house, which had from time immemorial possessed the manor of Stow. (lo) Such guesses however must be read, simply as hints to any future inquirer with better opportunities of research. It is certain that the Chesters had been settled at Stow from a very early period, for amongst 4 THE CHBSTERS OF CHICHELEY. the Jurors who were summoned, in and near Stow at different times by the King's Escheator John Chester occurs in 1300, Henry Chester in 1350, and William Chester in 1375 ; and it is the local tradition that the Chesters were the chief contributors to the cost of building the tower of St. Edward's Church, the great landmark of the Wolds, which is coeval with Chester's Chantry, (i i) Robert Chester had two sons, William and Richard, who both settled in London. William was the ancestor of the Chesters of Chicheley, and was evidently the elder of the two brothers. His father had also other children, whose memory has perished : for William Chester mentions in his will his ' nephew's daughter and son John,' and ' Thomas Chester of Stow.' It is gravely asserted in the Baronetages that Robert was also the father of Henry Chester, who died Sheriff of Bristol in 1470, and was the ancestor of the Chesters of Barton-Regis and Almondsbury; but this tradition is an invention of the 17th century, and is not supported by a particle of evidence. It happens that in this generation the wills of both families are on record, and they show no trace of any relationship or even acquaintance ; moreover, none of Henry's descendants ever bore the Arms, which were granted to William Chester in 1467. It is certain therefore that if William and Henry sprang from a common ancestor, he must be looked for at an earlier period than the reign of Henry VI. ill. Richard Chester, the younger son of Robert of Stow-on-the-Wold, was a Merchant of the Staple at Calais and a Citizen and Skinner of London. He speaks in his will of ' the twenty churches next unto St. Edward's Stow, where I have bought and sold ;' and his trade lay in dressing and exporting the wool and skins of the sheep, for which his native Cottiswold has always been famous. He resided in the parish of St. Botulph without Aldgate^ and was probably in partner- ship with his brother William, to whom he was much attached. In 1484 he was elected an Alderman of the City of London, and one of the Sheriffs ; but the year of his shrievalty was marked by the first appearance in England of the sweating sickness, which recurred at intervals during the next century with such terrible mortality. Amongst the victims of this pestilence were Sir Thomas Hill the Lord Mayor, and Richard Chester the Sheriff ; and it is noted in the annals of the City that there were ' three Sheriffs and three Lord Mayors in this year by means of the sweating sickness.' (12) Richard Chester died early in 1485; for his will was proved by his widow, on 15th March 1484-5. He was buried in the Church of St. Botulph without Aldgate, between the high altar and the sepulchre, beside his brother William. He had two wives, Joan and Alice. Joan was the mother of several children, who died in infancy; and probably of his only surviving daughter Joan. There are some indications besides her name that she was the daughter of J oan ; for EICHAED CHESTEE, ALDEEMAN AKD 8HEEIEF OP LONDON. 5 William Chester's -will does not mention Eichard's wife, although he leaves lOOZ. to Richard, and 201. to Eichard's daughter. This looks as if Joan were dead in 1476, and Alice not yet married. Eichard Chester's will is dated f 5th May 1483, during the brief reign of King Edward Y. ; and like most wills of this period contains legacies, which were dictated by a sentiment now almost extincti, The migratory habits of modern society hare almost extinguished those feelings of local attachment, which found expression in endowing schools, charities, and fellowships for the exclusive benefit of a particular town. In the middle ages men''s affections ran in a ntoower but deeper channel, and the amor patrice, or strong affection of our ancestors for their birthplace, in which every stone and every name was familiar, has little in common with that languid interest in the whole population of a world-wide empire which is now called patriotism. In the name of God, amen. The xxv day of the moneth of May, in the yere of our Lord God mcccclxxxiij and the first yere of the reigne of Kyng Edward the fyft, I Richabd Chester, Marohaunt of the Staple at Caleys and Citezyn and Skynner of London, hoole of mynde and in my good memory beyng, thankyd be god, make and ordeyn this my present testament conteynyng my last Wille in the maner and fourme folowyng, that is to sey, First, I bequeth and recommend my soule to almyghti god Iny creatour and saviour and to our glorious lady Saint mary the virgyn his moder and to all the holy company of hevyn. My body to be beryed in the paryshe chirche of Saint Botulphe withoute Aldgate of London wher I am parysshen, that is to sey, by the place wher the body of my broder William Chester Heth beryed. Itm, I bequeth to the hygh auter 'of the saine cherch for my tithes and offryngs forgoten or negligently withliolden, in discharge of my soule, vjs. \nyl. Itm, I bequethe to be dealed and distributed for the helthe of my soule among poore people, xxJ. Itm, I woUe that I haUe xij Torches of Wax to bryng my body to berying, and to bren at my diri^e and masse of Requiem. And I wolle that myn executrice underwroten, that is to sey, Alice my Wyfe, afterwards gyve the same xij torches unto dyvers chirches "aftir her discreeion. Itm, I woUe that my seid executrice do to be kepte in the forseid chirche of Saint Botulphe dirige and masse dayly hi note for my soule and all cristen soules from the day of decesse unto my ijaonethes mynd. And I bequeth6 to every preste of the seid cherche, being and helpyng to the same dayly seruice, vjs. viijiZ. Itm, I wolle that my seid executrice purvey and ordeyne at my mohethes mynde x or xij messys of mete for my frendes. Itta, I bequethe to the paryshe chirche of Saint Edwarde's, Stow, x marc. Itm, I bequethe unto xx chirches next unto Saint Edwarde's stow aforeseid, wher I have boght and sold, that is to sey, to every chirche, vjs. viijiZ. Itm, I bequethe to Johan Chester my daughter iiij hundreth pound. Itm, I bequeth to evry servant of my fel hous, that is to sey, WlQiam Hatfeld, Jamys Sheffeld, and John Crofte, xs. Itm, I bequeth to William Grantham myn Apprentyce xx marc. Itm, I bequethe to Eichard a dene, xxs. I bequethe unto Thomas Chester whiche is with me, xls. Itm, I bequethe to the Skynners' halle, iij^. Itm, I bequethe to Margaret of Dagehham, vjs. viijfZ. Itm, I bequethe unto every ordre of the four ordres of freres in London, xxvjs. viijfZ. Item, I bequethe unto every ordre of the four ordres of freres ia Oxonford, xxvj. viijiZ. Itm, I bequethe unto every prison house in London, xxs. Itm, I bequethe to the prison of the Flete, xiijs. m^d. Itm, I bequethe unto every lazarhouse within iiij Mile of London, vjs. viijcZ. Itm, I wolle and ordeyne hi this my present testament that the forseid Alice my Wife shalle haue all my landes and tenements duryng the lyfe of the same Alice. And I wolle that aftir her decesse all my seid landes and tent^ shalle remayne unto the forseid Johan Chester my Doughter to haue and to holde unto the same Johan, and to the heii-es of hir body lawfully begoten. And if the same Johan my doughter decesse withoute lieyr of her body lawfully comyng, 6 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. I wolle that thay, all my seid landes and tenements, be sold by my forseid executrice or by her executours, and that the money comyng of the seid sale be disposid for my soule in deedes of almes and charitie. Itm, I bequeth unto the highe wayes aboute London, wliiclie haue most nede of reparacion, xx£. Itm, I wolle that I haue of my goode wille aftir my deeesse ,an honest preest for to syng in the forseide Cliirche of Saint Botulphe for my soule, the soules of my fader and moder, the soule of Johan my wyfe, the soules of my children, and for all Cristen soules by an hoole yere. Itm, I wolle that I have another honest preest to syng by an hoole yere after my deeesse in the forseid Chirohe of Saint Edwarde Stow for my soule, and for the soules aforsaid. The residue of alle and singler my goode dettys and catall, what soevyr they be, aftir my detts paide, my berieng made, and my legacies pformed, I gyve and bequethe fully and hooly unto the forseid Alice my wife therewith all to do and dispose hir fre wille. And of this my present testament I make and ordeyne the said Alice my wife my sole executrice, and hir overseers of the same Testament I make and ordeyne Lord William Notyngham* Chief Baron of the Kyng's Estchequer, Maister WiUiam Dunthorn GentUman, and Thomas Bullisdon myn attorney. And I bequeth to either of the saide Lord William Notyngham and Maister William Dunthorn| for his labor, x J. In Witnesse Whereof to this my present Testament I have sette my scale, and have subscribed my name with my ppre hande, at London, the day, monethe, and yere above rehersid. Proved 15th March 1484-5 by Alice Chester widow and executrix, before Thomas Lord Bishop of London at his Palace in London. [15 Kempe in Consistory Court of London.] Richard Chester's only surviving child Joan inherited from her father a portion of 400^., with the reversion of his lands and tenements after the death of his vyridow. She married shortly after her father's death Thomas Bullisdon, (14) who had been the attorney of both her father and uncle, and was (as I should guess) a cadet of the Bullisdons of Bullisdon in Gloucestershire. Her marriage appears from a Recovery suffered in Trinity Term 1488, when Thomas Bullisdon and Joan his wife conveyed to William Martin, Master of the Skinners' Company, the legal estate in the Glean in Southwark, which had been originally purchased by William and Richard Chester as joint-tenants, and had been settled to charitable uses by William's will. (14) Joan seems to have died without issue before 1504, for she is not mentioned in the will of Dame Alice Chester, who made her ' son- in-law Thomas Bullisdon' her executor. He proved her will on 30th July 1505 and thenceforward disappears from my view. There is no will either of Joan or Thomas Bullisdon to be found in the London registries. IV. Dame Alice Chester, the widow of Richard, seems from the legacies in her will to several persons at Stow to have been a native of that town. She survived her husband twenty years, and in her widowhood made her profession amongst the * Sir William Nottingham became Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 3d April 1479, and died within a few days after the date of this will, for his successor was appointed 15th June 1483. He was a native of the same county as Richard Chester, and died seised of Cotes Saperton and other manors in Glouces- tershire. (13) ■(- William Dunthorne, the well-known Town-Clerk of London, 1460-89, proved the wiU of WiUiam Chester in 1476, and constantly occurs as an executor in the wUls of citizens of note. His epitaph in St. Alban's, Wood-street, is printed in Strype's editions of Stow. DAME ALICE CHESTEE. 7 nuns of the Order of St. Clare in the Minories. Her will mentions three ladies of her own condition. Lady Rich, Lady Hobbs, and Lady Tyrell, who were her companions in religion ; but none of the Chester family are noticed, except Hugh Brice her husband's grand-nephew, and Thomas Bullisdon, whom she calls her son-in-law and appoints her executor. In the name of Almighty God, thrie persones in Trinitie and one God in deitie, my maker redemer and of grace the giver, and of the glorious virgin and Moder of Jhesu Chryste, and of all the hole company of heven, the last day of August the yere of our Lord God one thousand five hundred and foure. I Dame Alyce Chester widowe, being sometyme feble and hole of mynde, make ordeyne and devise this my present testament and last will in manner and forme following. Ffirst I bequeth my soule to Almighty God, to our lady his moder Mary, and to all the holy company of heven, and my poore body to be buryed in Seynt Botulfe's Church without Aldgate of the citie of London, betwixt the hygli auter and the sepulchre, in the grave of my late husband Eichard Chester, on whose soule Jhesu have mercy; furthermore I bequeth of my worldly goodes, for the helth of my soule and my husband's and all Christian soules, ffirst to my moder Church of poules, iijs. iiijVZ. To the bretherhede of Jhu without Aldgate, vjs. viijcZ. To the frier and convent of seynt Mary Spitall, xs., and to evry suster then professed, xijcZ. To the freers of Grenewyche for a trentaU, &c., xiijs. iiijcZ. To the crossed freers in London for a trentall, &c., xiijs. iiijcZ. To every order of the four orders of freers for like case, xiijs. iiijd. To the lady abbess of the minores for dirige and masse there to be sung, iijs. iiijcZ. To the Lady Rich there, iijs. iiij(i. To the Lady Hobbes, iijs. iujd., and to every lady there professed, xijcZ., and to every novice, viijd. To the minister there without, iijs. iiijr^., and to every other of the foure freers there, xxcZ. To evry lazar house within six-myles space of the citie, xtlcI. sterUng. To Ludgate, Newgate, Pultry and Bridestrete, vjJ. or the worth. To the King's Bench and Marshalsea, every one vs. or the value. To Hugh Brice, beside a maser, I have given unto him xxcZ. To the Charter house in London for a trentall, &c., xiijs. iiijiZ. To the Steward in the Minores, iijs. iiijcl. To the rents, xxd. To the clerk of the church there, xxd To the porter and hys wif, xicd. To Annabel launder, xxd. To the three cokes, xijcZ. To the two bakers, xijd. To all our freers, viijs. ijd. Then to Sir John* Philipp, preest, xs. To the parish preest, to pray for our soules in the pulpit, iijs. iiijcZ. To the morrow masse two preests to pray for our souleys at masse, every one, xxd. To Sir WiUiam Spire, preest, xs. To Sir Thomas Humfray, xs. To Sir WiUiam Consitt, xs. Then I give and bequeth unto Maistress Stallard, suster at Seynt Kateryne's, niy hlahe liode of profession. To Margaret Spire of Stow a blake gowne of my owne wevyng. To Agnes Bodicot of Stow a blak bagg ; to the same in money, xxcZ. To the anchorets without Bishopsgate, a kerchef with a coton and wymple. To the lady abbess hier, my ryng of profession. To Gye Dobyns, a cupborde v^ith three locks. To my Lady Eich, my closed in the hall. To Maistress RoUislay, the painted cloth on my lady's chamber chimney. To Seynt Botulfe's Church, a cloth of Jhu, Mary and John the evangelist ; another of Lazarus and others, to the same. To Agnes Grantham, a chest at the chamber dore ; to the same, a peynted cloth of the trinitie by my bedside ; to the same, the old saq hangyng in my chamber. To the prior of Seynt Mary Spitall, my blak buckram hangyng and curtains of my bedde. To my son in law, the peynted cloth at my beddes hede. To the morrow masse aulter, there to continue, a chest under my chamber wyndow ; to the same, my aulter cloth of [vacant space, sic] ; to the same, the biggest vernacul in my chamber. To my lady Tyrrell, the figure bound to the pyllar. To grete Sir William, the cupborde by the chimney in my chamber. To our lady aulter at Seynt Edward's, Stow, half a dyaper cloth ; to our ladye's aulter at Severnstoke, the other half. Item, I bequethe * John Philippe was Rector of St. Swithin's, and died shortly before the testatrix, for his successor was appointed 23d December 1504. (15) 8 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY, onto my cosyns WiUiain Grantham, iiij^ ; Edmond Grantham, iiij^. To Katteryn, every weke hir lyff durying, iiijd. To William Tynkar, a noble, or a gowne to the value. To Maude Morgan, one of my gownys. To my lady Rich, xls. To my lady Hobbes, xls. Also here under ensueth that shall be done to my funerall expenses. The preests of Seynt Botulfe to set my body at Minories gate, and so do bring the same unto Seynt Botulfe's church, and there to have a dirige by note, and masse on the niorro^y. And the parisshe preest to have eight torches at my burying after viij<^. a peice, and foure tapers xij lbs. a peice, arg* xxiiijs., the makyng iiijs. Torches to be given after the besiness ys done; to Seynt Botulfe's hych aulter, a torche ; to the Trinitie aulter, a torche ; Jhu's aulter, a torche there ; to the Minores, a torche ; to our lady of Barkyng, a torche ; to Seynt Ka,teryn's, Christ Church, a torche ; to Seynt Gylly's bretherhede, a torche ; to Barkyng church, a torche. To the bretherhede of sixty preests, xls. ; to drynke, xld. ; to brede to the poore, vijs. ; in aile, a barrill and di [midium] ; in cheese, xxd. ; ffor neighbors and frends at dyner, &c., xls. ; twelve poore men, for torches and tapers after, iiijd!. a peice, iiijs. To Seynt Botulfe's church for the grete bell, sixhouris song, a noble ; at the month's mynde, in alms, m£ to twelve poore men ; uijs. for torches and tapers ; to the parisshe preest, Yjd. ; to the chamber preest, iii^d. ; to the two clerks, for ryngyng and syngyng, si^d. ; in brede, iijs. mjd. ; in aile, iiijs. ; and chese, xxt?. Of these my funerall expenses afore expressed, and also to be done for burying, and in month's mynde, and also in performance of all and singular detts, and performyng and paying of all my liousbond's detts and myn, and also of our testament to perform, I make, ordeyne and conf&rme my well beloved son-in-law my sool executor, Thomas BuUisdon, and he fully and holly to dispose all the residue of my goods. I well that my said Executor, Thomas BuUisdon, dispose and doo for us and our and all Cristen soules, as he will aunswer to Almighty God. And I Dame Alyce Chester, widowe and late the wife of Ricsaed Chester, citizen and SKYNNER OF THE CITIE OF LoNDON, AND ALDERMAN AND SHERIFF OF THE SAME, RcVoke and disauulle all manner of testaments and last wills made, or to be made, and this fermely conferme and afferme. In wittnes of theis Doctor John Percyvale,* whom I pray to geve counseiU unto myn executor in that he shall requyre best to please God and most remedy to the soules hit can of and to all Cristen soules, and therefore to pray.hertely, Ibequethe to the said Doctor xxs. steii. In wittnes of and singular the premises, the persones folowing have subscribed their names, the said Doctor fre John Percyvale, minister of the freers Minores in England. Will proved at Lamehith (Lambeth) 30 July 1505, by Thomas BuUisdon the executor, who was sworn to produce a full and faithful inventory of the goods and chattels of the testatrix before St. Bartholomew's-day next. [35 Holgrave in C.P.C.] PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES, (1) Pedigi-ee of Chester in Visitation of London, 1568 : of Bucks, 1575 and 1634. (2) Pedigree of Chester in Visitation of co. Glou- cester, 1583 and 1623, and of London, 1638. (3) Pedigi-ee of Chester in Visitations of Herts, 1572 and 1634. (4) Clutterhuck's History of Herts, iii. 363. (5) Pedigi-ee of Chester in Visitation of co. Lei- cester, 1619. (6) Royalist Composition Papers, 1st series (L), pp. 103-23. Hist, and Geneal. Register of New England, xvi. 233. (7) Pedigree of Chester in Visitation of Essex, 1634. (8) Grants in College of Arms, by Sir John Bo- rough, Garter. (9) Will registered 270. Stacy, in Commissary Court of London. (10) Monasticon Anglicanum, ii. 22. (11) Hist, of Stow, by Rev. D. Royce, 1861. (12) Stow's Survey of London, ed. Thoms, p. 193. (13) Foss's Judges, iv.472. Inq. p.m. 1 Rich. III. 37. (14) Rudder's Hist, of Gloucestershire, p. 705. (15) Newcourt's Repertorium, i. 643. (16) Athena Oxon. 1721, i. 4. * John Percevale, D.D. of Oxford, was forty-seventh Provincial Minister of the Franciscan Order, and was buried in the Church of the Greyfriars, now Christchurch, Newgate. (16) WILLIAM CHESTER OF LONDON. 9 CHAPTER II. William Chester of London, 1467, II. JDame Agnes Chester, his Widow, 1484. ■ III. Her Brother, Sir William Hill Vicar of Waltham- stow, 1470-87. IV. Elizabeth Chester, Wife of James Bryce. V. Sir Hugh Bryce, Kt, Lord Mayor 1485. VI. Elizabeth Bryce, Wife of Robert Amadas and of Sir Thomas Nevill, and her Heirs. VII. Pedigree of Dame Agnes Chester, and of the Heirs of her Daughter, Elizabeth Bryce. William Chester, like his younger brother Richard, was a Merchant of the Staple at Calais, a Citizen and Skinner of London, and a parishioner of St. Botulph's without Aldgate. He was a merchant of great wealth, and besides his personal estate had rents and lands in Sussex, Essex, London, and Southwark. He obtained, on 22d May 1467, a grant of armorial bearings, under the seal of William Hawkslow, then Clarencieux King-at-Arms. I am enabled by the kindness of my friend, Mr. G. E. Adams, Lancaster Herald, to print a copy of this grant from the records of the Heralds' College: (i) ' To aU Nobles and Gentilles tlieise presentes L'res heryng or seing, William Hawkeslowe, other wise called Clarencieulx King of Armas of the Southe marches of Englande, sendithe humble and due Recomendation as apperteynethe. Forsomuche as William Chester, Gentylman, courageously moeved To exercise and use gentyl and comendable guyding in suche Laudable maner and fourme as may best sounde unto Gentryce, by the wiche he shall move withe Godes grace to attenigne unto lionure and wourshippe, Hath desyred and prayed me, the saide King of armes, that I by the power and auctoryte by the Kinges good grace to me in that behalf comytted shalle devyse a cong- nysance of armes for the said Gentn, wiche he and his heires myght Boldly & avowably occupie, chalenge, and enjoye for evermore without any p'judice or rebuke of eny estate or GentUl of this Reahne, att th' instance & request of whom I, the said King of armes, taking respecte and conssydration unto the goodly entent & disposition of the said GentUman, Have devised for hjm and his sayd heires, theis armes following, that is to saye, A felde of sylver and sable party in pale, A cheveron greylled enterchanged, iij Rames hedis rased of the same armed golde, withe a Bordure ofgoulles greylled besaunte golde. Which armes I, of my sayd power and auctoryte, have appoynted, geven, and graunted to and for the said Gentylman and his heires. And by theis my p'sentes L'res appointe, geve, and 10 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. graunte imto them the same To have chalenge occupie and injoye ■w'out eny p'judice or em- pechment for evermore. In witnes whereof I, the said King of armes, to theis p'sentes have sett my sealle off armes w' my signe manuell. Geven at the citee of London, the xxij* daye of Maye, the xij yere of the Raingne of King Edwarde the fourthe These arms were duly allowed, at the Visitation of London in 1568, to Sir William Chester grandson of the grantee, and were borne without change hj his descendants, until the bordure was discontinued by the fourth Baronet at the beginning of the last century. William Chester must have been already settled in London in 1445, when his father founded the Chantry at Stow. He married Agnes Hill, a native of Hampton in the Vale of Evesham, and the sister of Sir William Hill Vicar of Walthamstow, by whom he had two children, John Chester his son and heir, and Elizabeth wife of James Bryce, who were both married in 1476. He died in the summer of 1476, for his will is dated 5th May and was proved on 13th July in that year, and was buried in the church of St. Botulph without Aldgate, between the high altar and the sepulchre. In the name of God, amen. The yere of om-e Lorde God m^cccclxx™°vj (1476), and the v* day of the moneth of May, I William Chestur, marchaunte of the Staple of Caleys and Citezein and Skynner of London, being in my gode mynde make and ordeigne this my present testament in fourme folowyng. First, I comende and biqueth my soule to Almighty God, to that Missed Virgin our lady saint mary, and to aU the holy saintes in heven. And my body to be buried after the wille of myn Ex- ecutours. Item, I wUl that theii- be delt to pour men and women from the day of my decessing to my monethes mynde, xx.f (£20). Itm, I biqueth to euery of the uij orders of Freres in london, nj£ vjs. viij<^. {£S. 6s. 8d.). Itm, I bequeth to euery of the iiij ordres of Freres in Oxenforde, xxxiij«. mjd. Itm, I biqueth to euery Lazar hous within iiij myle of london, xxs. Itm, I biqueth to the ij Counters in london, to eche of thaim, xxs. Itm, I biqueth to the prisoners of Newgate, xls. Itm, I biqueth to the prisoners of ludgate, xls. Itm, I biqueth to the prisoners of the Flete, xxs. Itm, I biqueth to the prisoners of the Kinges benche, xxs. Itm, I biqueth to other prisoners wher nede is, xls. Itm, I woll that theii" be ordeigned for my moneth day 50 torchies, gode and large, to be delta and distributed after the discrecion of myn executours. Itm, I wolle for the Welfare of my soule that their be delt a hundred gownes, shetes, shertes, and smokkes to pour people to pray for me. Itm, I woll that from my decessiag to my moneth day dirige and masse be daily said, and euery preest daily present at theis obseruancez to my moneth day to haue for his labour vjs. viij March 1601-2. He had several children by Susanna, who survived Mm eleven years, and was buried with him at South Ockendon on 12th Feb. 1612. (29) PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. (1) Life of Siii- W. Chester in Cooper's Athena Cantabrigienses, 1. 311. (2) Subsidy Roll 34 and 35 Hen. VIII. m. 48. (3) Correspondence in State Paper Office, 1544-5. (4) Herbert's Hist, of the Twelve Great Companies of London, Drapers'' Company. (5) Stow. TroUope's Hist, of Christ's Hospital. (6) Charity Reports, xxxii. part vi. pp. 13, 24, 35. (7) Extracted from the City Records by Mr. W. H. Overall, the librarian of Guildhall. (8) State Trials, ed. HoweU, 1816, vol. i. p. 760. {9) Palgrave's Hist, of England and Normandy , iii. 343. (10) Athence Cantab, i. 122, l,aurence Saunders. (11) Seymour's Survey of London, i. 167. (12) Machyn's Diary. (13) Life of Thos. Becon in Athence Cantab, i, 246. (14) Stow, ed. Strype, 1720, vol. i. book ii. p. 156. (15) Pari. Hist, of England, 1806, vol. i. p. 709. (16) Burgon's Life of Gresham, i. 259, and ii. 501. {17) Pedigree of Beswick in WUson's Hist, of St. Lawrence Pountney. (18) Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 1513-1616, p. 8. (19) Athene Oxon. 1121,1. 708, Thos. Chester. (20) Wills of Robt. Clavering, 1582 ; Wm. Claver- ing, 1586 ; Robt. Clavering, 1600 ; printed in Durham Wills, Surtees Society, vol. ii. (21) Lipscomb's History of Buck,, i. 429. (22) Harl. Mss. 1912. (23) Sontentia in C.P.C. dat. 18 July 1559. (24) Mamage licenses in Vicar-General's Registry. (25) Seymour's London, ii. 409. (26) Funeral certificate in CoU. of Arms, i. 12, p. 17. (27) Clutterbuck's Herts, vol. ii. p. 362. (28) Le Neve's Knights, Pedigree of Hyde. (29) More about Stiford, by Rev. W. Palin, 1872, p. 129, &c. (30) Anderson's Annals of the English Bible, 1845. (31) Cotton MSS., Galba, B. viii. 60. (32) Pedigree of Poyntz in the Vis. of Essex, 1570. (33) Nichols' Progresses of James I. (34) Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series. CHAPTEE V. The Lovetts of AstwelL II. Pedigrees of Drayton and Vere of Ad- dington. III. Thomas Lovett IT. of Astwell, 1489-1492. IV. Joan Billing^ the third Wife of Thomas Lovett II., and her subsequent Husbands. V. Thomas Lovett III. of Astwell, 1473-1542. VI. Thomas Lovett IV. 1495-1523. VII. Thomas Lovett V. of Astwell, 1517-1586. VIII. The uterine Brothers of Elizabeth Lady Chester. I TUEN aside in this chapter to give some account of the family of Elizabeth Lovett, the first wife of Sir William Chester, and the mother of his children. The ancient house of the Lovetts of Astwell has not been fortunate in its his- torians, although their genealogy has often been printed, and was lately published in the Stemmata Shirleiana by one of their descendants, who is a genealogical writer of considerable pretensions, (x) The heraldic pedigree of Lovett in the Visitation of NorthamptonsJiire of 1564-6 is literally one of the worst in existence, for every generation abounds with demonstrable errors. It satisfied however Bridges the historian of the County, and the authors of the Baronetages, for they all repeat it without any misgivings. Baker, in his History of Northamptonshire, silently corrects the more glaring blunders in the early pedigree, and clearly shows that Thomas Lovett II., the purchaser of Astwell and husband of Anne Drayton, was the son of Nicholas Lovett, and that Joan Billing, who has been hitherto described as his mother, was in reality his third wife. Mr. Shirley mainly accepts Bakei''s version of the pedigree, but with the important variation of making Joan Billing the mother of the heir of Astwell. This descent is demonstrably wrong, but the mistake is easily accounted for. He saw that the Lovetts quartered the arms of Billing and Giff'ord, and therefore correctly inferred that they were descended from the marriage of Sir Thomas Billing the Chief- Justice and Katharine Gifford. With Baker's pedigree before him, there seemed to be no other channel of descent than through their granddaughter Joan Billing, although the succession of the Drayton estates ought to have suggested the true pedigree, which is printed on my next page. It is 42 THE CHESTEE& OF CHICHELEY. 1. Lovett. 2. TurviUe. 3. Billing. 4. Gifford. 5. Prayers. 6. Jewell. 7. Cranford. 8. Drayton. THE DESCENT OF LOVETT FEOM GIFFOED AND BILLING OF ASTWELL. Eoger Gifford Esq. of Twyford,=T=IsabeUa Stretley ; remarr. 1411 John Bucks, and of HeUidon and Astwell, Noi-thants ; died 14 Apr. 1409. (Esch. 10 Hen. IV. 19.)* Stokes. Thos. Gifford Esq., son and heir, less than 8 years old in 1409 ; con- firmed Gifford's Manor in AstweU to Sir Thos. Billing in 1447 (-Rot. J?tn.); Sheriff of Bucks 1446. =T= 1 Katharine Gifford, of= tender years in 1409 ; died 3 March 1479-80. M.I. at Wappenham. I =Sir Thomas Billing = Kt. of Astwell, Judge of King's Bench 1464 ; Lord Chief Justice 1469; died 5 May 1481. M.I. at Wappenham. t -2 w. Mary Folvylle, heir of Eobert de Wes- enham of Conington, Hants ; widow of 1 h. WiUiam Cotton Esq., who died 1455 ; and of 2 h. Thos. Lacy Esq., living 1477 ; died 14 Mar. 1499.§ Nicholas Lovett, son= and heu" appt. of Thomas Lovett Esq. of Eushton, North- ants ; dead before 1455. =Margaret Billing, re- married before 1456 Edmond Thorne ; godmother to her gi-andson 1473. Thomas Billing, son=pMargaret, dau. of and heir apparent ; died 23 March 1468-9. M.I. at Wappenham. J Bernard Brocas Esq. of Beaurepaire, Hants. Four sons, three daugh- ters. 2 w. Anne= Drayton. (Pedigree atpp.48-9.) =Thomas Lovett II. ,= grandson and heir, purchased Astwell 1471 ; man-, settle- ment with Joan dat. 5 Feb. 1489-90 ; died 16 Feb. 1491-2. Lovett of Astwell. Pedigree at p. 49. =3 w. Joan BiUing, coheir, widow of John Haugh, Judge of CP. ; remarried 3 husbands {see pp. 53-54); died 20 Oct. 1517. Sibyl, coheir, wife 1490 of Eobert de Ingleton,Chancellor of the Exchequer, who died 1508. Thomas Lovett, died a minor and unm. 1510. WiU at p. 52. Eose Billing, coheir, wife 1490 of Eichard Tresham Esq. Katharine, coheir, wife 1490 of Lynde. * Pedigree of Gifford, in Baker's Hist, of Northamptonshire, vol. i. p. 396. t Pedigi-ee of Billing of Astwell, in Baker, vol. i. p. 736. I Harleian mss. in British Museum, No. 4068, Shirley Evidences. § Pedigi-ee of Brus of Conington, in The Herald and Genealogist, vol. viii. LOVETT OF A ST WELL. 43 more strange that Baker, when he found that Joan Billing died without issue, did not discover that there had been a previous match between the two families ot Lovett and Billing, and that all the confusion had arisen from two distinct matches being jumbled into one. The simple explanation that Margaret, the wife of Ni- cholas Lovett and the mother of Thomas, was the daughter of Sir Thomas Billing, and that her son's third wife Avas his cousin Joan BilUng, removes all the difficulties in this part of the pedigree. The details of the more ancient genealogy are hopelessly confused in all the received accounts, and to clear up their intricacies would involve a series of re- searches at the Record Office beyond the reach of an invalid ; but the general outline of the family history is sufficiently clear, and can be briefly stated. William DE Lovett, a noble Norman, figures in Domesday as tenant in chief of divers lands and manors in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Beds, and Bucks. His descendant in the next century was enfeoffed by the Engaines in the manor of Rushton, and it may be gathered that there was some relationship between these two families, as the Christian name of Vitalis was common to them both, and Lovett held his lands by the same honourable service as his lord paramount, that of hunting wolves in the Royal forests of Northamptonshire. (2) Rushton lineally descended to Thomas Lovett, the grandfather of Lady Chester. In the mean while Sir Robert Lovett had, at the end of the thirteenth century, acquired by his marriage Avith Sarah de Turvill the manor of Helmdon in North- amptonshire, and of Liscombe in Bucks, which is still the seat of the Lovetts. (3) I cannot doubt that the Lovetts of Astwell were descended from this marriage, although the pedigrees in Baker fail to show the point at Avhich they diverge from the Lovetts of Liscombe, for the two families were near neighbours, and both quar- tered the arms of Turvill, and armorial bearings of such early date are good evidence of descent by blood, although the precise series of ancestors may not be accurately recorded. It is clear, however, from the evidences quoted by Baker, that the two families diverged in the fourteenth century, and I commence the proved pedigree with Thomas Lovett of Rushton, whose age, estates, and marriage are sufficiently ascer- tained. Thomas Lovett Esq., son of Nicholas, lord of the manor of Rushton and Great Oakley, occurs in 1407 (8 Hen. IV.), with his Avife Mary, daughter of William Rasyn, of Kimbolton, Hunts. They were both living on Thursday after the Feast of St. Simon and St. Jude, 30th Oct. 1455. (34 Hen. VI.), on which day Thomas Lovett of Rushton, by deed dated at Oakley, granted to Edmund Thoime and Margaret his wife (late the wife of his son Nicholas Lovett, deceased) the manor of Great Oakley, called Lovett's Manor, to hold the same, subject to the dower of Mary, the grantor's wife, during the life of the said Margaret, Avith remainder after her decease to her son Thomas Lovett in tail male, remainder to the right heirs of the grantor. (4) Thomas Lovett siu-vived his wife Mary, and Avas still living on 4th Dec. 1464 G 44 THE CHESTERS OF CIIICHELEY. (4 Edw. IV.), wlien he conveyed tlie manor of Kuslaton to John Billing and others, in trust for his grandson and heir-apparent Thomas Lovett, and Anne his wife. (5) He died soon afterwards, but the precise date of his death has not been discovered. Nicolas Lovett, his son and heir-apparent, died long before his father, for, as we have seen, his widow Mai'garet was on 30th Oct. 1455 the wife of Edmund Thorne or Dorne Esq., by whom she had two sons Thomas and John Thorne, who are both mentioned in the Avill of their half-brother Thomas Lovett, in 1491. Margaret was the godmother of her grandson Thomas Lovett III., on 29th Sept. 1473, when Sir Thomas Billing, Chief Justice of England, was the godfather (4), and I cannot doubt that she was the daughter of Sir Thomas Billing by his first wife Katharine Grifford, for in no other possible way could the Lovetts have been entitled to quarter, as they did, the arms of Billing and Giflford, nor can I otherwise explain the descent of Billing's manor in Astwell to the Lovetts. Thomas Lovett II. succeeded his grandfather at Rushton before 1470. He was already married in 1464 to Anne, the daughter and heir of John Greyby Esq. of Whitfield, who by his will, dated 24th Nov. 1470, directs Sir Thomas Billing, Chief- J ustice of England, and his co-feoffees, to settle the manor of Whitfield, after the death of his wife Isabel Greyby, to the use of Thomas Lovett Esq. for life, with remainder to Elizabeth and Margaret, the daughters of the said Thomas by his late wife, Anne the daughter of the testator, in fee tail. (6) Anne Lovett there- fore was then dead, and had left two daughters only. She was buried in Bittlesden Abbey, and left issue. 1. Elizabeth, eventually heiress ofWliitfield, married Richard Osborne Esq., who died 29th Oct. 1509. She then married John Todenham, Gent., and surviving liim, died 28th Nov. 1524, leaving Thomas Osborne, her son and heir, aged 32. (7) 2. lyLmGAEET contracted in 1471 to John Brooke Esq., of Great Oakley, whom she afterwards married. She died young and Avithout issue, for her husband married before 1482 his second wife Isabella Wake of Blisworth, who w^as the mother of his children. By deed dated 8th June 1482 (22 Edw. IV.) the estates of Great Oakley, Rushton, &c. (which had been conveyed to the Brookes in 1471, as herein- after mentioned), were settled on this John Brooke and his wife Isabella Wake in fee tail, with remainder to William Brooke his father in tail, remainder to Philip Brooke in tail, remainder to Thomas Lovett in fee. (8) Their son and heir Thomas Brooke married Jane daughter of Giles Pulton Esq. of Desborough by Catherine Lovett, and his marriage settlement is dated 1st Oct. 1517. (8) Thomas Lovett married again before 1471, for his second wife Anne Drayton was party to the deeds executed in this year, when he acquired Astwell in exchange for his hereditary estates by a family arrangement with William Brooke Esq., the husband of his mother's cousin Dowse Billing. This was carried into effect by an indenture dated 24th April 1471 (11 Edw. IV.), whereby William Brooke Esq. and Dowse his wife, exchanged in fee the manors of Astwell and Falcoto and lands in Wappenham (amounting to about 2170 acres), with Edmund Dorne and Margaret 4^ lovett of astwell. 45 his wife (late Avife of Nicolas Lovett Esi[., deceased), and Thomas Lovett Esq. and Anne his wife, for the manors of Eushton and Great Oakley and other lands here- tofore belonging to Thomas Lovett Esq., grandfather (ayeul) of the said Thomas Lovett. And the same indenture contained a covenant, that John Brooke son and heir ' pretensed' of the said William and Dowse, should marry Margaret daughter of the said Thomas Lovett before Michaelmas then next, and that the said Thomas Lovett shoiild ' do and here all maner of costes and charges in the marriage of the said John and Margaret, and kepe and here all maner of costes and charges of the said John and Margaret, onto the tyme the said John be fully at the age of xxi yeres, iff the said espouseils so long contynewe.' (3) This transaction was completed by a fine levied at Westminster, in Michaelmas term, 1471. (4) Thomas Lovett is constantly named amongst the principal landowners of North- amptonshire in the Commissions of the Peace issued by Edward IV., Eichard III.j and Henry VII., and was High Sheriff of the county of Northampton in 1481. Not long afterwards he lost his second wife Anne Drayton, from whom he derived much of his wealth and consequence, and who was the mother of his heir. She was descended from one of the noblest houses of the Northamptonshire gentry, and on the death of her only brother in 1479 inherited the great estates of her family. Eichard Drayton Esq. died unmarried on 20th July 1479, at the age of twenty- eight, and it was found at the inquest post mortem, held at Stow St. Edward on the 20th September following, that his sole heir was his sister Anne, the wife of Thomas Lovett Esq., of Astwell, who was then thirty years of age. (9) The Drayton estates lay in several counties. Strixton in Northamptonshire, Botolph Bridge in Hunts, South Newington in Oxfordshire, and Dorsington in Glou.cester- shire were all comprised in Anne Lovett's inheritance, and were respectively derived from her several ancestors, as shown in her pedigree. She died in the prime of life, and was buried in Bittlesden Abbey. On the dissolution of monasteries the monu- ments of theLovetts and the Billings were removed from Bittlesden toWappenham, the parish church of Astwell. Amongst them is a marble slab with two small brass figures on it. The inscription and three shields of arms have disappeared ; but the remaining shield, with the arms of Drayton quartering Prayers, Jewell, and Cran- ford, identifies the monument as that, which Thomas Lovett erected to the memory of his first and second wives at Bittlesden. He had issue by Anne Drayton two sons and three daughters. 1. Thomas Lovett III., their son and heir, of whom presently. 2. Nicholas, to whom his father bequeathed his leaseholds in Wedon Pinkney, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Eichard Preston Esq., of Clifton and Burcote, Oxon, and widow of Sir Edmond Hampden Kt. She had no issue by Nicholas Lovett, and died in 1521, when it was found, by inquest held on the 17th July, that Miles Hampden, her son and heir, Avas aged fifteen, and had married in 1519 Agnes, daughter of Giles Pulton Esq. of Desborough by Catherine LoA^ett his 46 THE CHESTEES OE CHICHELEY. wife, (lo) Nicholas Lovett lived on terms of intimate affection with his sister Cather'ine Palton and her children, for besides marrying her daughter Agnes to his stepson in 1519, he was in 1517 one of the trustees of the marriage settlement of her daughter Jane Brooke. (8) He was one of the executors of his brother, Thomas Lovett III. in 1542, but the date of his death has not met my view. 1. Cathaeine Lovett married Giles Pulton Esq. of Desborough Northants, who died 26th Februaiy 1551-2. They had four sons and five daughters, of whom Anne married Euseby Isham Esq. of Pytchley (see p. 51). Their grandson Fer- dinand Pulton was an eminent lawyer, and the author of an Abridgment of the Statutes once in high repute, (ii) 2. Elizabeth or Isabel died unmarried in London, in July 1492, and was buried in St. Alban's, Wood-street. Elizabeth Lovett, daughter of Thomas Lovett Esq., deceased. Will dated 17 July 1492, to be buried in St. Albans Church London near mj^ father Thomas Lovett. to Isabel my keeper my wearing apparel, &c. my mother Joliane Quadnjnrj, late the ivife of my father Thomas Lovett, to be my sole executrix, and to have three trentalls of masses done for my soul and my father's soul, out of the money which he bequeathed to me to my marriage. Witnesses, Robert Bolingbroke clerk, John Botery and others. Will proved 27 July 1492 in C.P.C. by Johan Quadryng the Extrix. [12 Doggett.] 3. Maegaeet Lovett occurs unmarried in her father's will. II. Something must now be said about the ancestors of Anne Drayton, whose mar- riage brought so many lands and quarterings to the Lovetts of Astwell. The family of Drayton was lineally descended from a cadet of the noble house of De Vere, and derived their name from the manor of Drayton in the parish of LufFwick in Northamptonshire, which was alienated by Sir John Drayton and his son Baldwin to Sir Henry Green in the reign of Edward III. The pedigree of Drayton is included in that scarce and costly folio, Succinct Genealogies of the noble and ancient Houses of Alno, Broc, Latimer, Drayton, Vere, SfC, which was piiblished in 1685 under the name of Eobert Halstead, but is known to have been compiled by the second Earl of Peterborough, with the assistance of his chaplain Mr, Eaus, the rector of Turvey. No cost was spared in the production of this volume, for it is profusely illustrated with engraved portraits and plates of family monuments, seals, and arms, and the impression was limited to twenty-four copies. The few copies which have from time to time been offered for sale have always been the subject of a keen competition amongst the collectors of scarce books, and Dibdin bears testimony to the ludicrous eagerness with which the possession of a copy was contested in the days of Bibliomania. (12) From its extreme rarity and its typographical excellence this volume will always command a high price; but those, who read for instruction and appraise books by an intellectual standard, will contend that more credit is due to the printer and engraver than to the author, for its sole literary value consists in its containing some charters and do- THiE DRAYTONS OF BOTOLPH BRIDGE. 4t cuments not printed elsewhere. The text abounds with errors, and has been the source of much false genealogy in the histories of Northamptonshire, for Bridges repeats with implicit faith its legendary statements, although they are often contra- dicted by evidence printed in his own pages elsewhere. The eighteenth century was the dark age of genuine history, and it is not surprising that Bridges, in an uncritical generation, should be dazzled by the name of a noble author, and should accept without question the authority of a book, which was almost as precious as a manuscript. The printed volumes of Baker do not extend to Drayton and Adding- ton, and therefore he had no special occasion to examine in detail the pedigrees of Drayton and De Vere ; but he had evidently not detected the vmtrustworthy cha- racter of The Succinct Genealogies, when he gravely quoted the idle legend, that Sir Henry Green, the Chief-Justice, Avas the son and heir of Sir Thomas de Boughton, and that he assumed the name of Green from ' a spacious and delightful green' within his lordship of Boughton. (13) It is marvellous that so intelligent a com- piler was not warned by this transparent nonsense to search amongst the Fines of Northamptonshire for the conveyance of the manor of Boughton, when he would have found that it was purchased by Sir Henry Green in 1341, and that the final concord materially corrects the received pedigree of the Boughtons. (14) Halstead's pedigrees of Drayton and De Vere are neither better nor Avorse than the rest of TJie Succinct Genealogies. A thread of truth runs through the whole, but it is difficult to disentangle it from the mass of error and fiction in which it is imbedded. Sir Robert de Vere, a younger brother of the first Earl of Oxford, was the common ancestor of the Draytons and the Veres of Addington. He held Twywell from the monks of Thorney, and confirmed to them the tithes of Islip, Drayton, and Addington, which had been the gift of his father Aubrey the Cham- berlain. (15) He had three sons, Henry his son and heir, William of Twywell, and Robert, who acquired Thrapston in frank marriage with Margaret Wake, and was the ancestor of the Veres of Addington. Henry de Vere was Constable of Gisors and lieutenant of his cousin William de Mandeville Earl of Essex and Aumale. He had two wives, and died in 1194. By his second wife, Matilda de Cailli, the heiress of the Barony of Mutford in Suffolk, he had an only son Henry, who was a child in 1194, and died without issue in 1232, when Mutford escheated to the Crown because he had no other heirs than Normans. (16) By his first wife (whose suppression has thrown the pedigree into confusion) Henry de Vere had Walter, who inherited the Northamptonshire estates of Robert de Vere his grand- father, and was the ancestor of the Draytons. He was known as Walter de Drayton, perhaps to distinguish him from his contemporary Walter de Vere of Lincolnshire, but his identity is clearly established by these charters : ' I Walter Fitz-Henry Fitz-Robert have grauted to William my paternal uncle (patrunculo meo) Twywell and Addington as my grandfather Robert held them on the day of his death.' ' I William Fitz-Robert Fitz-Aubrey have granted to Robert de Vere my nephew (nepoti meo) Twywell and Addington, which I hold by the grant of Walter de Drayton.' [Halstead.'] 48 THE CHESTEES OE CHICHfiLEY. Lovett. Turville.- Billing. Gifford. 5. Prayers. 6. Jewell. 7. Cranford. 8. Drayton. PEDIGREE OF DRAYTON AND LOVETT. Aubrey de Vere, Domesday Baron in Essex=T=Beatrix. 1 ' Aubrey de Vere II., created Lord Higb- Chamberlain 1 Aug. 1133.=j=Adeliza, dau. of Gilbert de Clare. Died 15 May 1140. I ■ — — — Aubrey de Vere III., Count of Guisnes=j=3 w. Agnes, dau. of jui-e ux Beatricis: made Earl of Oxford I Henry de Essex the 1155. Died 1194. j^Constable. Eabls op Oxtobd. 1 1 Other Robert de Vere of=f issue. Drayton, Twywell, and Addington (Lib. Nig. i. 217). r 1 ■wife=j=Henry de Vere, Con-=i=2. Matilda de Cailli, stable of Gisors 1191. Of Drayton, Adding- ton, &c. heir of Mutford ; re- marr. 1202 Reginald du Bois. Wm. de Vere of Addington and Twywell by the grant of his nephew Walter. Walter de Drayton,- Bon and heir of Henry. Of Dray- ton, &c. Died 1210. =Lucy, dau. of Richard Bas- set, to whom her uncle Alan Basset granted in Pytchley. Henry de Vere of Mutford. A minor 1207. Died unmarr. 1232. Robert de Vere=j=Margaret, sis- of Thrapston ter of Baldwin by the gi-ant of Wake. Baldwin Wake. A\ Veee op Addington (page 50). Henry de Drayton, heir of Walter,= Died in 1253 ; seized of Drayton, Islip, and Addington (Esch. 37 H. IIL). Baldwin de Drayton, aged 30 in 1253,=j=Idonia, dau. and co-heir Simon=i=Ivetta, dau. and co-heir of did homage for Drayton 26 Aug. 1253 (Fin.). Rebel with Montfort. Died 1278, seized of Drayton and jure ux of Botolph Bridge, Hunts (Esch. 6 E. L). of Hugh de Gimeges, by de Sibyl, dau. and heir of Dray- Hugh de Lizures, of ton. Botolph Bridge, Hunts. William Bourdon of Des- borough. Died, widow, 24 Aug. 1270 (Esch. 1 E. L). Philippa, dau. of Robert de=John de Drayton, Chevr., aged= Arderne of Wappenham 22 in 1278. Died in 1292, seized (Baker i. 725). of Drayton and Botulph Bridge (Esch. 20 E. I.). J =2 w. Alice, widow in 12 E. II, 1318 (H.) 1 William de Drayton, aged 30 in 1272. Simon de Drayton, Chevr., aged 9 in 1292.=j=Margaret, occ. wife 1318, 1321, 1355 ; held Botulph Seneschal of the Household to Queen Isabel. M.P. for Northants 1325, 1327-37. Died 81 May 1357, seized of Drayton and Botolph Bridge (Esch. 31 E. III.). Bridge for life. E. IIL), (H.) Died 11 Sept. 1358 (Esch. 33 PEDIGREE OF DRAYTON. 49 Jolan de Drayton, aged 40 in 1357,=j=C]iristian, dau. and co-heir of Gilbert de Lindesey of Moles- with. his son Baldwin conveyed Dray- | worth, Hunts. Wife and of full age in 1358. (H.) ton in 1361 to Sir Henry Green. (H.) I Living 1365. Dead 1372. (H.) | 1_ r Sir Baldwin Drayton, Kt. , son and heir,= of Botolph Bridge in 1358. Confirmed Drayton to Sir Henry Green, 1372. (H.) Of Strixton and Dorsington jure ux. Liv- ing 1395. Dead 1399. (H.) =Alice, dau. and heir of Sir Henry de Prayers, Kt. , of Strixton, Northants, and Dorsington, CO. Glouc. Occ. wife, 1355, 1395. Widow, 1401, 1413. (H.) Gilbert, Rector of Warkton. 1376-9. Sir John Drayton, Kt., son and heir, of Botolph Bridge, Strixton and= Dorsington. Settled his estates 15 May 1439. (H.) Died 1445. =Margaret. Wife, 1429; widow, June 1445, 1454. (H.) John Drayton, Esq.,=j=Anne, dau. and co-heir =2 h. Thomas Halle. son and heir appa- rent. Died before 30 Nov. 1429. (H.) of Robert de Cranford of South Newington, Oxon. Widow, 30 Nov. 1429. Living 16 Apr. 1454. (H.) Occ. married 1 Oct. 1430. Dead 1454. (H.) 1 William Drayton. Occ. 1439, 1445. (H.) Thomas Lovett, Esq. of Rushton and Great Oakley. Occ. 1455, 1464. I William Drayton, Esq., grandson and heir.=f=Grace. Wife, 1445 A minor and married in 1445. Died 2 Sept. 1465 (Esch. 5 E. IV.). Bur. at Botolph Bridge. Will dated 31 Aug. 1465. (H.) Executrix, 1465. 1 Nicholas Lovett,=j=Margaret, dau. son and heu-- of Sir Thomas apparent. Died Billing, Kt. before 1455. Chief-Justice ; remar. before 1455 Edmund Dorne, Esq. Richard Drayton, Esq. , son and heir, aged 13 in 1465, of Strixton, &c. Proved his age 1473. Died unmar. 20 July 1479 (Esch. 19 E. IV. 44). Anne Drayton,' sister and heir. Heir of Botolph Bridge, Strix- ton, Dorsing- ton, and South Newington. Wife and aged 30 in 1479. 1 =Thomas Lovett, Esq. II.: grandson and heir. Pur- chased Astwell by ex- change, 1471. Died 16 Feb. 1491-2. 3 w. Joan Billing. Married 5 Feb. 1489-90. Died 1517 r- J 1 w. Elizabeth, dau. of John Boteler, Esq.=T=Thomas Lovett III., son=j=2 w. Jane, dau. and heir of of Watton Woodhall, Herts, by Constance, dau. of Richard Vere, Esq. of Thrapston and Addington. and heir of Astwell. Born I John Pinchpole, Esq., widow 29 Sept. 1478. Died 16 | of Edmund Bury, Esq. Died Dec. 1542. 1556. J Thomas Lovett IV. , son and heir= apparent. Died 19 July 1523. =Anne, dau. of Sir John Danvers, Kt. Died 11 July 1523. r Elizabeth=T=Sir William Chester, Kt. Lovett. I Chestee of Chicheley. Thomas Lovett V. , grandson and heir, of Astwell. Died Oct. 1586. Elizabeth Lovett two husbands. remar. =f= Anthony Cave, Esq. of Chiche- Died 1577. | ley. Died 9 Sept. 1558. 1. Judith Cave, heir of 2. Anne Cave, cob. ; marr. Chicheley; marr. WU- GriflSth Hampden, Esq. liam Chester, Esq. of Great Hampden. A As Chester op Chicheley. See Chapter VIII. 1 I 3. Martha Cave, coh.; 4. Mary Cave, coh. ; marr. marr. John Newdigate, Sir Jerome Weston, Kt. Esq. of Harefield, Mid- of Roxwell, Essex, dlesex. /k See Chapter VIII. Weston Eabls of POBTLAND. (H.) refers to deeds and charters of the Dray tons amongst the Shirley Evidences in Harl. Mss. 4028. 50 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. The families of Drayton and Vere, sprung from a common ancestor, were re- united in the Lovetts by the marriage of Thomas Lovett III., the son and heir of Anne Drayton, with Ehzabeth Boteler, the granddaughter of Richard Vere of Addington. I have therefore attempted to reconstruct ifrom Eecords the pedigree of Vere, which Halstead has left in inextricable confusion by omitting at least three generations, and by jumbling together two distinct families of Vere. PEDIGREE OF VERE OF ADDINGTON. Robert de Vere of Drayton and Addington,=T= brother of Aubrey 1st Earl of Oxford. | Henry de Vere of Drayton and Ad- dington. 'A Deatton •(page 48). William de Vere, grantee of Twywell and Adding- ton. Robert de Vere=i=Margaret, aunt of of Thrapston jure ux. I Thomas de Vere of Thrapston ; dead 13 Oct. 1204 ; brother of Bald- win. (C.) Baldwin Wake. Baldwin de Vere of Thrapston 1204. (C.) Rebel, restored 1217. (0.) Crusader 1220 ; died 1221. (D.) Robert de Vere of Twy-' well and Addington by grant of his uncle Wil- liam (H.) ; paid scut- age 1217. (C.) Baldwin de Vere of Addington. (T.) Grantee of a Fair at Thrapston 18 June 1226. (C.) Ambassador 1236 (M.) ; ooc. 2 Nov. 1241 (Fines) ; dead 1245. Robert de Vere of Addington of Twy-=i=Elena. Widow well 1240. (B.) Brother and heir of Baldwin before 1245, when Baldwin Wake confirmed the Manor of Thrap- ston and H. III. the Fair. (Ch.) Cru- sader 1249. Slain at Mansoura 1250. 1251. (H.) Baldwin de Vere, son and heir=T=Margaret of Thrapston and Addington. A minor in 1251, and ward of Gilbert de Segraye. (H.) ; dead 1277. (B.) dau. of Gilbert de Se grave. (H.) Joan, dau. and coh. (1 w.)= of Reginald de Watervill, heu' of Marham ; dead 1287. (P.) Robert de Vere, son andheir, of=f= Thrapston. A minor in 1277 M.P. for Northants 1305 ; presented to Islip 1296, 1307 occ. 1320 (H.) ; dead 1329. r =John de Vere Kt. =3 w. Ida. of Twywell ; occ. Widow 8 1280, 1298. (P.) E. II. (0.) Robert deVere, s. and h. of= Twywell and Sudborough. Heir of Marham 1287. (P.) Sheriff of Northants 1299-1301; diedl301.(S.) =Matilda. Wi- dow 1301. (S.) Ranulf de Vere, son and heir,= of Thrapston. Fair confirmed to him 1329 (Q.W.) ; pres. to IsHp 1340 ; dead 1350.- Robert de Vere, s. and h.= of Sudborough. Rebel at Borough Bridge 1316. (Pari.) I Sir John de Vere=f=Alice. Widow Kt., son andheir; dead 1349. 1385 (H.) ; dead 1388. (H.) Robert de Vere, uncle and= heir of Thrapston and Ad- dington ; presented to Islip 1350, 1365, 1366. (B.) Will dated 13 July 1369 ; dead 1370. =Elizabeth, sister of Robert de North- burgh. Executrix 1370. (H.) Guardian of her son, 4 Feb. 1371-2. (H.) Dau. and heir, mother of RanulphBoyg, grandson and heirofSirR.de Vere. (Pari.) John de Vere, Elizabeth, 2 w.=Robert de Vere, son=T=Anne, d. and h. son and heir ; pres. to Islip and heir, of Thrap- of Sir Thomas died a minor. 1391, 1397 (B.); ston and Addington; Malsores, Kt. ; (H.) occ. 1402. (H.) occ. 1390 ; dead dead 1390. 1391. (B.) Baldwin Vere, Esq., of Den-=j= ver, CO. Norfolk. Grantee of 100s. rent in Addington from Robert, 20 March 1385-6. (H.) PEDIGREE OF VERB OE ADDINGTON. 51 r Robert cle Vere, son ancl=f= heir, of Thrapston and Acldington. Sheriff of CO. Leic. 1394 ; died 1420. Baldwin Vere, uncle and= heir, of Thrapston and Addington, Esquii-e of Edmund Earl of March. Treasurer of Meath 1423 (H.) Willdat. Dec. 1424; died Aug. 1426. =Elena. Widow 3 Sept. 1427. (B.) Thomas Ashhy, Esq. of Losehy, CO. Leic. Quit- claimed Adding- ton 18 Jan. 1441- 2. (H.) = Margaret Vere, only child. Settle- ment dat. 4 July 1213 (H.) ; occ. wife 20 May 1420 (H.) ; died s. p. Richard Vere, Esq.= s. and h. A minor in 1427 ; ]5resented toIslip(B.)14Dec. 1448 ; died seized of Thrapston and Addington 1480. (Esch.20Edw.IV.) 'Isabella, dau. of John Green, Esq. of Drayton, gi-and- aunt and coh. in her issue of Edw. Stafford Earl of Wilts. Eliza- beth, Elizabeth, dau. and heir ; marr. Thomas Der- ham, Esq. of Denver, jure ux. ; died 1425. (Bl. vii. 824.) — I Ed- ward, Amy. HenryVere,Esq. son and heir, of Addington and Drayton ; died 1494 (Esch.OH. VII.), leaving 4 daughters and coheirs. Constances Vere ; died widow 16 May 1499. M. I. at AstweU. =John Boteler, Esq. of Watton, Herts. Bald- win Vere. Elizabeth; marr. William Dounhall, Esq. of Gedding- ton. Margaret ; marr. John Berners, Esq. of Writ- tie, Essex. Amy Vere; marr. John Ward, Esq. of IrtUng- borough. Elenan=Thomas Vere. Isham, Esq. of Pytch- ley,aged 54 in 1510. I Thomas Lovett,=i=Elizabeth Bote- Esq. III. of Ast- weU; died 1542. ler. Wife 1492 ; dead 1514. Euseby Isham, Esq. , son=f=Anne, dau. of Giles Pulton, Esq. and heu', of Pytchley, had 20 children. See page 49. of Desborough, by Catherine, daughter of Thomas Lovett,Esq. II. of Astwell. GUes Isham, son and heir, of Pytchley ; died 31 Aug. 1559, s. p. m. Gregory Isham, Esq. 8 son,=i=Elizabeth, dau. of=i=2 h. William RoseweU, merchant of London. Pur- chased Braunston 1554 ; died 4 Sept. 1558. Matthew Dale of Bristol. Esq. of Ford Abbey, Sol. -Gen. to Q. Eliza- /l\beth. Sir Euseby Isham, Kt. son and heir. Aged 8 in 1558. Of Braunston and Pytchley. Elizabeth Isham; occ.= wife 1592; widow 1617; died 1638. I Sir Bryan Cave, Kt. son and heir, of Ingars- by, and afterwards of Bagworth. Sheriff of CO. Leic. 1611 ; marr. Frances, dau. of Sii- Erasmus Dryden, Bt. 1 I I M 2. Euseby; died unm. 1621. 2. Anne. 3. Barbara. 5. Mary. =IIenry Cave, Esq., of Thomas. Mary. Ingarsby. Aged 40 in 1592; died before 1611. Sir Wm. (1 h.)= Villiers, Bart, of Brooksby ; died 12 June 1629. =Rebecca, da.^ of Robert Roper, Esq. of Heanor, CO. Derby; widow 1660. As ViLLIEES, BaRTS. =2 h. Fran- cis Cave, Esq., 3rd son, Capt. of Horse ; died 1646. r~\ I.Elizabeth; marr. Tho. Marbury, Esq. of Warden, Beds. 4. Margaret ; marr. Rev. Edw. Marbury, Rector of St. James, Garlick Hithe. I Elizabeth 1660; bur. Cave, only child; occ. wife=i= William Wollaston, Esq. of Shenton, at Shenton 28 March 1717. | oo. Leic. ; Sheriff 1672 ; died 19 /|\ August 1688, aged 65. Chestee of Chicheley. (B.) Bridges' Northants. (C.) Close Rolls. (Ch.) Charter Rolls. (D.) Chron. of Dunstable. (H.) Halstead. (M.) Matthew Paris. (0.) Rot. Orig. (P.) Chron. of Peterborough. (Pari. ) Rolls of Parliament. (Q.W.) Quo Warranto RoUs. (S.) List of Sheriffs. (T.) Test de Nevil. H 52 THE C HESTERS OF CHICHELEY. III. Thomas Lovett married a third time in 1490. His third wife Joan was his cousin, being the eldest of the four daughters and coheirs of Thomas Billing, who was the son and heir apparent of the Chief- Justice, and had died in his father's life- time. She was the widow of John Haugh of Long Melford, a Judge of Common Pleas, Avho died in 1489, leaving a son Stephen. (17) The settlement made on Joan's marriage with Lovett is dated 5th Feb. 1489-90 (5 Hen. VH.), whereby Brooke's Manor and Gifford's Manor in Astwell were settled to the use of the said Joan for life, and after her decease to the use of the said Thomas Lovett and the heirs of his body in fee tail ; with remainder, as to Brooke's Manor to Thomas and John Thorne, the uterine brothers of the said Thomas Lovett, successively in fee tail, with divers remainders over; but as to Gifford's Manor, with remainder to the three sisters of the said Joan successively in fee tail, remainder to the right heirs of Roger Gifford, father of Katharine late Avife of Chief- Justice Billing. (5) It is always assumed, that Joan inherited Gifford's Manor in Astwell from her grand- father Sir Thomas Billing, of Avhom she was the eldest coheir ; but if this Avere the case, it is difficult to understand Avhy it was settled on the heirs of Thomas Lovett by his former wife, to the exclusion of Joan's son and heir Stephen Haugh, and of her son by Lovett. Thomas LoA'^ett had issue by his third marriage an only child THOMAS, Avho was an infant Avhen his father died, and was entitled under the marriage settlement of his parents to a proAdsion in land to the amount of 20 marks per annum. His patrimony was greatly increased by two of the subsequent husbands of his mother, but he died unmarried in London at the end of 1510, in his mother's lifetime, before reaching his majority. Thojias Lovet, son of Thomas Lovet dec'', late of Astewell co. Northampton, by Jane his wife, late Avife of Thomas Intjdsam dec'*. Will dated 27th Dec. 1510 (2 Hen. VIIL). To be buried in St. Albans Wood-street near my said father Thomas Lovet Esqiiier. Small legacies to the Churches of St. Albans Wood-street, and St. Mildreds Bread-street, to Eichard Cotton Citizen and Fishmonger of London and to Agnes his Avife xxs. each, to Robert Bruarne Citizen and Cooper of London and to Emote lus Avife xs. each, to Rowland Chalk kinsman to the said Robert Bruarne xxcZ. to Margaret Stacy my keeper Ads. viiirf. My mother to be my sole Executrix, to whom I give and devise my lands from my father, and also the lands bequeathed to me by my father-in-law Alexander Quadryng, and also the lands AA'hich my father-in-laAV Thomas Intylsam gave me. Witnesses. Sr. Cuthbeii; Barne,* parish priest of St. Mildred Bread-street. Robert Bruarne, Cit. and Cooper of London. Richard Cotton, Cit. and Fishmonger of London. Will proved 20th Jan. 1510-11 by Joan Intylsam, the mother and Executrix of the deceased, in C. P. C. [35 Bennett.] Thomas Lovett Avas again High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1490, but died in London on 16th Feb. 1491-2. NotAA'ithstanding the direction in his Will, that * Cuthbert Barne is not mentioned in Newcourt's list of the Rectors of St. Mildred : but it appears from his monument in that church, that he died 16th Oct. 1521. (18) LOVETT OF ASTWELL. 53 lie slioulcl be buried beside his two first wives in Bittlesdeu Abbey, lie was buried by liis widow and executrix in the church of St. Albans Wood-street, in London, where a monument was erected to his memory. (19) The usual inquests post mortem were held on 30th June 1492 at Northampton, Huntingdon, Banbury, and Stow St. Edward, Avhereby it was found that Thomas Lovett, then aged 17 years and 37 weeks, the eldest son of tlie deceased by his late wife Anne Drayton, was heir to his father's Manors in Astwell, subject to the life interest of Joan his father's widow, and was also heir to his mother's inheritance of Strixton, Botolplibridge, Sou.th Newington, and Dorsington, of which his father had been tenant for life by the courtesy of England. (20) Thomas Lovett of Astwell co. Northampton Esq. Will dated 29tli Nov. (7 Hen. VII.) 1491. to be buried at Bittlesden Abbey by my \vyfFs there, to Joluuie my ivife, late wife of John Hawhs one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, three iDotts of silver parcel gilt and other plate, , and also ^6150 in gold, and also all my wool &c. 'to the performance of a purchasse of xx marcs worth of lande for Thomas Lovett soiine of me the said Thos. Lovett and Johane my ■wife, or for such other issue as shaU happen to be begotten between our bodies, as in indentiu'es of covenauntes of marriage between me the said Thomas and Johane more playnly it apperith.' to Nicholas Lovett my son my term of years in the farm of Wedon &c. to Isabel Lovett and Margaret my dauyhters ^6100, Avhich is owing to me by John Boteler of Woddehall Herts Esq. for the marriage of my son. to Thomas Lovett my son and heir a violet gown furred with martyns. to my brother Thomas Thorne, my son Richard Osborne, and my brother John Thorne 40s. each, to my son Nicholas Lovett my crimson gown, to Richard Osborne's wife five buUocks. to my brother Thomas Thorne a crossbow, to Stephen Haivghes son and heir of my ivife Johane 40 sheex^, and to little Roger a bullock. The residue to my wife Johane, whom I appoint my executrix. ' I charge Thomas Lovett my son and heu-, as he will answer before God and have my blessing, that he trobill not Johane my mfe for the Manor of Astwell nor for any goods being within the said Manor, for she hath a lawful estate in the same.' Will proved at Lambeth 28th Jan. 1492-3 by Johane Lovett the widow. [11 Doggett.] IV. Joan Billing the third wife of Thomas Lovett III. survived him nearly twenty- five years, and married again within three months after his death. Her third hus- band was Alexander Quadryng Esq. of Folkingliam in Lincolnshire, who possessed considerable estates in Bucks and Essex. He had acquired in 1481 a moiety of the Manors of Dagnall and Spigurnell in Edlesborough, Bucks, by his marriage with Alice the widow of Richard Wyot. (21) He and his second wife Joan resettled these manors in 1493 on Richard Quadryng Esq. of Ingoldmeles, co. Lincoln, and by deed dated 12th Feb. 1493-4 (9 Hen. VII.) he conveyed to the same Richard, for 800 marks, the Manor of Horeham in Essex. (21) He had no issue by either of his wives, and died at the end of 1504. Alexander Quadbyng, dwelling in St. Bartilmews London. Will dated 25th Aug. 1504. to be buried in Folldnghanr Church. to my nephew Thomas and his heirs ' my hanging in my Hall in FoUdngham, the which my aAvnceters armes and myne be on, to gyve him instruction how he should here them.' My u-ij'e 54 THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY. Joan to have all my debts in Bucks, Herts, Essex, and London, and all my silver plate except a ' blak standing nutte,' wliicli is to go to my niece Catherine Quadi-yng, and if slie die immarried to her brother Lijonel, and if lie die, tlieu to liis next brother. All my other plate to my said wije for life, and after her death ' I wiU it go to Thomas Lovet, as well as aU my said debts.' My mfe Joan to be my Executrix, and to have all my lands in Lincolnshire for her life, and after her death, I give to my nephew Lyonel Quadrj^ng, all that I have or ought to have in right of my mother in Boston and Wynsbe and the lands I purchased in KeU ; and to my brother Thomas in fee tail, mth remainder to my nephew Lyonel, aH my lands in FoMngham. My lands called Lessercroft to my wife for life, and afterwards to be bought by my nephew Lyonel if he will, but if not, then to go to Thomas Luffed [Lovett] in fee. My brother Thomas to be supervisor. ' Witnesses. Christopher HarboteH, clerk : Sr. Thomas Garton, priest : John Eaventhorp, yeoman.' WiU proved in C. P. C. 18th Feb. 1504-5 by Joan Quadryng, mdow. [26 Holgrave.] His widow Joan Quadryng shortly afterwards married a fourth husband, Thomas Intylsam Esq., who died before 1510, and followed the example of his predecessor in leaving land to his stepson Thomas Lovett. His widow Joan had not yet married again, when she proved her son's Will on 20th Jan. 1510-11, but she afterwards took a fifth husband named Waryn, of whom nothing has been dis- covei-ed except his name. She died 20th Oct. 1517, and the usual inquests were held after her death to ascertain the heirs of the lands, which she held in dower. By the inquest at Northampton oh 24th Feb. 1517-18 (9 Hen. VHI.) it was found, that she held Brooke's Manor and Giffard's Manor in Astwell for life, under the terms of her marriage settlement already recited, and that both manors now de- scended to Thomas Lovett Esq. of Astwell, who was the son and heir of her second husband by his former wife, and Avas aged forty years and upwards. (22) By another inquest at Lincoln on 18th April 1518 it was found that Lionel Quadiyng, aged twenty-five, was heir to the lands which Joan, late the wife of his uncle Alex- ander Quadryng deceased, held in dower. (22) My account of Joan Billing and her family differs materially from the printed pedigrees, (23) but is borne out by trustworthy evidence. The double match with the Lovetts explains the only possible mode of descent, by which the Lovetts of Astwell could be entitled to quarter the arms of Billing and Gifford. Thomas Billing, the father of Joan, was buried at Bittlesden, and the inscription on his monument printed by Bridges and Baker states, that he died 23d March 1508 ; but it is known ' that he died in the lifetime of his father, and the date is written 23d March 1468 in two old copies of the inscription amongst the Shirley evidences. (4) The birth and character of Chief-Justice Billing, the grandfather of Joan, have been assailed by Lord Campbell with reckless malignity. (24) Foss has conclusively proved that the facts of Billing's judicial career have been grossly misrepresented, and that his cliai'acter has been maligned by Campbell without a shadow of foundation. (24) It remains for me to show that his birth has been disparaged with equal injustice. The known facts of his election to ParHament in 1448 as M.P. for the City of London, and of his intimacy with the families of Paston and Lord Grey de Euthyn are sufficient to raise a presumption against the story of his mean origin, but the LOVETT OF ASTWELL, 65 date and circumstances of his first marriage, which were unknown to Foss, posi- tively disprove it. Some forty years before Billing was raised to the Bench, he married Katherine Gilford, the daughter of Roger Gilford Esq. of Hellidon and Astwell, who died in 1409, and was one of the principal gentlemen in Northamp- tonshire. He was then very you.ng and probably a minor, for he married again in 1480, and presided in his court up to the day of his death. As society was then constituted, his marriage in extreme youth to a wife of known rank and condition is proof positive, that he was of gentle birth and had a competent inheritance. It appears from their monument at Bittlesden, that Katherine Billing died 8th March 1479-80, the mother of five sons and four daughters, and that Sir Thomas died 5th May 1481. V. Thomas Lovbtt III., the son and heir of Thomas Lovett Esq. and Anne Dray- ton, was only eighteen years of age, when his father died. He was born at his father's house of Astwell on 29th September 1473 (13 Edw. IV.), and was baptised on the same day in the parish church of Wappenham, when Sir Thomas Billing Chief- Justice of England and John Palady* Rector of Wappenham Avere his godfathers, and his grand- mother Margaret Thorne was his godmother. (4) He made formal proof of his majority at Northampton on 23d October 1495, and was then admitted into possession of his hereditary estates. (4) He had been married in extreme youth, for his father sold his mar- riage to John Boteler Esq., of Watton Woodhall in Hertfordshire, and mentions in his Will that 1001. of the purchase money was still unpaid in 1491. He had married accordingly Elizabeth, the only daughter of John Boteler by his third wife Constance Vere of Addington. His wife's mother seems to have lived with him in her widowhood, for she died at Astwell 16th May 1499, and on a blue-marble slab in Wappenham Church is a small brass figure of a lady with a hanging hood, and this inscription : •' Hie jacet Constantia nuper ux' Johis Butler Ai'migeri soror Henrici Veer Armigeri que obiit xvi° die Maii A° Mccclxxxxix cujus anitnae Deus jp'picietur.' His wife Elizabeth Lovett died before 1514, leaving eight children, three sons and five daughters. The number of her children has not been ascertained without diffi- culty, for the printed pedigrees omit her son William, and jumble together her daughters, stepdaughters, and daughters-in-law. Her issue were : * John Palady, LL.B. Rector of Arthingwortli 1461, Holcot 1466, Weston Favell 1470, Wappenham 1470, Blisworth 1473, and Castor 1477 (Baker, i. 76). 56 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. I. Thomas Lovett, son and heir apparent. II. William Lovett, married at Helmdon in or before 1513 Anne daughter and heir of Edward Cope Esq. of Denshanger, who died 1st May 1510, leaving Anne his only child aged nine. Her wardship and marriage were purchased from the King 17th July 1510 by Thomas Lovett Esq. of Astwell for his son William, (25) and they were already married, when her grandmother died on 3d December 1513. (26) William Lovett died without issue before his father, and his widow re-mai'ried John Heneage Esq. of Pendeston, co. Lincoln. She is misdescribed by Baker and others as the daughter of Thomas Lovett, she being in fact his daiighter-in-law only. She survived her second husband, and sold her estate at Helmdon in 1563. (27) III. Nicholas Lovett is said to have married the widow of Coningsby, and to have died without issue before his father ; but I find no trace of him except in heraldic pedigrees. I. Constance Lovett, married in 1512 John Matthew Esq. of Bradden, North- ants, who survived his wife and died 9th April 1557 aged fifty-six, leaving issue four sons and three daughters, of whom William his son and heir was then aged 32. (28) John Mathewe of Braddeu co. Northampton Esq. "Will dated 8th April 1557. He then Ij'ing sick in the dwelling-house of one John Barnes Mercer of London in the Parish of our Lady of Colechurch, made his noncupative will as follows : to my three yoimger sons Thomas Rohert and Eichard Mathew .£20 each, my eldest son Wilham to see them paid and to give to my seiwauts and to the jpoor of Bradden at his discretion. Administration with the Will annexed granted in C. P. C. 12th April 1557, to William Mathew son and heir of the deceased. [10 Wrastley.] J ohn Barnes the Mercer, in whose house J ohn Mathew died, was the husband of his daughter Elizabeth Mathew, and lived in Cheapside opposite to Mercers Chapel. Barnes was a notorious Puritan, and when the image of St. Thomas Becket over the gate of the hospital of St. Thomas of Aeon was mutilated in the night of 17th Feb- ruary 1554-5, Barnes was accused of being accessory to the outrage, and was com- pelled to restore the image at his own charge. (29) II. Maegaret Lovett married Thomas Foxley Esq. of Blakesley, Northants, where she was buried 8th February 1549-50. Her husband was buried beside her 10th February 1550-1 aged sixty-five. They had three sons and five daughters, (30) and their daughter Ursula married 11th June 1561 Robert Breton Esq. of Teton in Ravensthorp, and was greatgrandmother to Mary Breton, who occurs hereinafter as the wife of WiUiam Chester Esq. of East Haddon. (31) HI. Elizabeth Lovett married James Bury Esq. of Hampton Poyle, Oxon, the eldest son of her father's second Avife by her first marriage. Thomas Lovett had bought his wardship and marriage from the King on 27th June 1515, and they probably married soon afterwards. She died before her husband, leaving three daughters and co-heirs, and was buried at Hampton Poyle. He died 3d August 1558. IV. Anne Lovett married William Palmer Esq. of Carlton, Northants, and was ancestor of the Baronets of that name and place. Her son William, who was lame LOVETT OF ASTWELL. 57 from his cliildhoocl, and his sister Grace are mentioned in their grandfather's Will in 1542. V. Another daughter is said in the heraldic pedigrees to have married Lee of Bucks, but I can only say about her that she was not the wife of Francis Lee Esq. of Moreton, and the mother of his son Thomas, as is sometimes stated, Thomas Lovett III. married again about 1514. His second wife was Jane daughter and heir of John Pinchpole Esq. of Winrush in Gloucestershire, and widow of Edmund Bury Esq. of Hampton Poyle, Oxon, who died 20th December 1512. She had four sons by her first husband, and had issue by Thomas Lovett four children, a son and three daughters. 1. George Lovett of Wedon Pinkney married (Elizabeth) daughter of Fulke Barker Esq. of Astrop, and died 27th October 1567, leaving his son Pinchpole Lovett, then sixteen years of age, (32) who witnessed the Will of his cousin Thomas Lovett V. of Astwell in 1586. George Lovett had also a daughter Jane, who is mentioned in her grandmother's Will .in 1556. I. Elizabeth Lovett married Sir WiUiam Chester Kt. of London, and was the ancestor of the Chesters of Chicheley. II. Mary Lovett married Thomas Wogan, Merchant of the Staple, who died in December 1566. She died before him, leaving two children, William and Judith. Thomas Wogan, Merchant of the Staple of England. Will dated 10th Dec. 1 56G. to the XDOor of St. Swithin's London Stone .f'4. to the poor at my burial 40s. to my cousin Blaunche Abell,* a gold ring worth 40s. to my cousin Richard Offleyf a ring worth 40s. The residue to be equally divided between my son William Wogan and my daii. Judith Wogan, whom I appoint to be my Executors, my cousin John Abell Citizen and Haberdasher of London, and Pliillipe Bolde Citizen and Clothworher of London to be Overseers of my Avill. Will proved 14th Jan. 1500-7, by both Executors in C. P. C. [1 Stonard.] III. Bridget Lovett married Gabriel Dormer Esq. of Shipton Lee in Quain- ton, CO. Bucks, who died in 1557, leaving three sons and three daughters. Gabriell Dobmee of Shipton Lee in the parish of Quaynton Bucks Gentilman. Will dated 28th Sept. 1557. to be buried in my parish church of Quaynton. to my friends Sir William Chester Kt., Ambrose Dormer Esq., William Bury and James Bury, Gents., my farm of tlie whole Manor of Shipton Lee, in trust for my wife Bridget, during her life and after her death for my son Peter in tail, remainder to my son Raaf, remainder to my son William, remainder to my three daughters in equal shares. to my said Avife my lands in Kingsey and Towersey, on condition of her paying thereout ^£8 per annum to my brother John, to my said wife 1000 sheep all my horses and cattle and 200 marks in money, and also all the residue of my personal estate on condition of her paying to Raaf and William my two j^ounger sons ^100 each, to my three sons at 21 my lease of Tachewiek. to my cousin Ambrose Dormer my cygnettes, -3 horses and 200 sheep, to my sister Osbaston 20 sheep, to my sister Cryspe 20 sheep, to Jolin Osbaston 10 sheep. my said wife Bridget and my said cousin Ambrose Dormer to be my executors. My friend Sir William Chester and my brother James Bury to be Overseers of my Will. Blaunche, •wife of Jolin AbeU, was the daugliter of William Bury, the uterine brother of Mary Wogan. t Richard Ofiley manied Jane Chester, daughter of Mary Wogan's sister, Lady Chester. 58 THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY. to my brother Parson Bury my best crossbow, and to my brotlier James Bury my next best bow. Witnesses, Robert Barons physician, James Bury, Pdchard Thomson, John Grange. Will proved 19th Nov. 1557 in C. P. C. [49 Wrastley.] Bridget Dormer was now left a young and ricli widow, and soon married again. Her second husband was John Hawtrey Esq. of Euislip in Middlesex, Avhose younger brother Edward afterwards mai'ried Elizabeth Dormer. Bridget had no issue by her second marriage, and long survived her son and heir Peter Dormer; I shall therefore speak of him first, Peter Dormer was still a minor when his father died, and married Margaret daughter of Thomas Fleetwood Esq. of the Vache in Bucks, Avho died in 1576, leaving an only son Fleetwood then seven years old. Peter Dormer died 3d December 1583, and was buried in the Church of St. Mary Hill London. His in- timate relations with his cousin John Chester were noticed in the preceding chapter. Petek Doemer of Shipton Leigh in the parish of Quaynton Bucks gentilman. Will dated aoth June 1583. to the poor of Quaynton £10. to 20 poor scholars at the University of Oxford ^£20. to each of the cliildreu of my sister Jane Merye £10. to Marie Arden daughter of my sister Marie Arden ^10. to each of the children of my sister Ehzabeth Arden £10. to Hester Denger servant with my cousin John Chester 20s. to Marie Fraunces and Anne Lyndford natural cliildren of William Lyndford one of my Executors £0 13s. id. each, to William Ptobinson £S. to Edward Johnson, whom I placed a servant with Gregory King notary pubhc, £-L. to my son Fleetwood Donner, 40 marks per annum until he is 18, and then ^40 per annum until he is 21, and also my ring or signet of gold which has my arms engraven thereon. to Ehzabeth wife of the said John Chester all the jewels that Avere my late wife's, to Frances wife of the said William Lj^ndford £'10 in plate, to my cousin Nicholl's wife a ring worth 20s. to Liicy Dormer daughter of my cousin John Dormer .£20 at her marriage, to my son Fleetwood Dormer all the residue of inj personal estate. My well-beloved cousins and loving friends John Chester and William Lyndford to be my executors, and I give to the said John Chester £40 per aumun for his life out of my lands at Purs- ton in Northami)tonshu-e, and to the said William Lynford £20, I will that the said John Chester enjoy my messiiage and tenement of Shipton Leigh where I now dwell, for eight j^ears after my decease. I beseech my father-in-law John Hawtrej' to cause my Executors to be bound in 500 marks each to perform my wiU, and I desire that my legacies be paid out of my manor of Shipton Leigh. I devise aU my manors and lands to my son Fleetwood Dormer in tail male, remainder to William son of John Dormer Esq. of Barton in Bucks, remainder to John Dormer brother of the said Wilham, remainder to my own right heu's. Will proved 18th Jan. 1583-4 by John Chester, William Lyndford renouncing, in C.P.C. [21 Butt.] John Hawtrey, the second husband of Bridget Lovett, died before his wife in May 1593, and was buried at Ruislip. John Hawteey of Ruishp co. Middlesex Esq. Will dated 10th May 1593. to-the -poov of PuisUp EUesborough, Ludgershall and Quainton, 40s. to each parish, to tlie poor of Northall, Pinner, Ickenham, Hillingdon, Uxbridge aiid Harefield, 20s. to each parish. to Mary dau. of my deceased brother Edward Hawtrey £40. to Margaret Bennet dau. of my sister Clement £40. to John and Richard Warde sons of my deceased sister Warde £20 each, to Ralph Warde another of her sous £5. to my sister Marg^aret Clement £15, besides £5 pre- sently given to her husband, to Ralph Bennet her son £20. LOVETT OF ASTWELL. 59 to Ralph Matts son of my brotlier-in-law Eobert Matts ^10, to Edmund Matts another of his sons MO, and to William Matts another of his sons ^50. to Ursula Termor dau. of the said Robert Matts £5. to my son-in-law John Arderne of Lee £10. to my son-in-law Edward Arderne of Quainton ^10. to Bridget wife of Edward Rawson of Colnbrook, Mercer, and dau. of my said sister Warde £20. to Bridget my wife £'100, and the use of one moiety of all my plate goods and chattells durmg her life, with remainder to my nephew Ralph Hawtrey the son of my deceased brother Edward. To John English als Smyth als Hawtrey my supposed base son £10 p. a. during his life, out of my Manor of Rousham Oxon. My said wife Bridget and my said nephew Ralph Hawtrey to be my Executors. William Gerrard Esq., Richard Greneacres Gent., Richard Edhng of Woodhall, and Jolm Thomas of Pinner to be Overseers of my Will. Will proved 12th June 159.3 by both Exors. in C. P. C. [48 Novell.] Bridget Hawtrey survived lier husband nearly four years, and was buried at Ruislip beside him. She must have attained a great age, for her brother and sisters had all long been dead. Bridget Hawteey of Ruislip co. Middlesex widow. Will dated lOtli Jan. 1597-8. to be buried in Ruislip Church beside my late husband John Hawtrey Esq. My dau. Arderne to have the rent of Reading's house in Ruislip for her life, and also the little house in Ruislip which is noAV void, with such ground to it as jNIr. Ralph Hawtrey shall think good. to the three daus. of my dau. Arderne £10 each, and to each of her other children f 5 at 21 or marriage, to the children of my dau. Mary £5 each at 21 or marriage, to each child of my dau.''' Carter £&, except that £o for one of her cliildren is already paid to her husband, to the poor of Pinner and of Quainton 20s. each, to the wife of John Newdegate Esq. late of Harefieldf dec**, a ring, with the posie 'Let hkinge last.' to my dau. Arderne £10. to my son-in-law John Arderne the rent which he owes me. to mj^ son'-'' Fleetwood Dormer Gent, the arrearage which he owes me except ^30, which he is to pay to my son* Ralph Hawtrey for my funeral charges. William Gerrard Esq. of Harrow to be my Executor. WiU proved 14th April 1598 by William Gerrard in C. P. C. [29 Lewyn.] These Wills materially correct the received pedigrees of Dormer and Hawtrey. Thomas Lovett HI. Avas High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1505 and his name frequently occurs in the next reign in the roll of gentlemen pricked for SheriflF, (25) but he never filled that office during the reign of Henry VIII. I should have attributed his being thus passed over to certain proceedings which took place in the Court of Wards in 1527, when it was found that he had made some fictitious con- veyances to defraud the King of the wardship of his heir, (33) but that he was the King's Escheator in Northamptonshire in 1528 and 1533, Pie died 16th December 1542, and as his eldest son had died in his lifetime, his grandson Thomas Lovett, then aged twenty-five, was his heir. (34) Thojias Lovett of Astwell co. Northampton Esq. ' sicke and not yet fully Reeoverj^d, but of mynde and memory (thankyd be god) hole and perfytt ynowgh.' Will dated 20th Nov. 1542. * Elizabeth Carter, Fleetwood Dormer, and Ealph Hawtrey were in fact the grandchildren of the testatrix, and possibly her godchildi-en. ' Son' and ' dau. ' are often vaguely used in Wills of this period to denote persons to whom the Testator stood in loco parentis. In like manner Jane Lovett, 1556, calls Thomas Lovett ' my son,' although he was really the gi'andson and heir of her late husband. f Winifred Wells, widow of John Newdigate Esq., whose first wife, Martha Cave, was gi-andniece to the Testatrix. I 60 THE CIIESTEES OF CIIICHELEY. to be buriecl in the parish church of Wappenham, ' under a certeyn stoone that I bought at Bytlilsden that lay upon nuj wi/fes there' Bequests to the poor of Wappenham, Hehneden, Siresham, AVedon, Weston, Slapton, Bradden, lladston, Strixton and Abthorpe ; and to the churches of Wax^penham, Helmeden, Syreshani and Wedon. To repauiug the Avays in Falcot-lane and Blakemay-lane 206". To mij wife June, niy goods at Strixton, with my lease and farm of the parsonage there, and the 3d part of my goods in my manors of Astwell and Falcot. To mij son Geo. Lovet, the lease of Wedon Warren and lands in Helmeden and Strixton. To Georijc Lovett, my son's son, lands in Weston and Wedon, and also £(i 13s. 4,(1., and to John Lovett brother of George, £20. To Sr Henry Tildysley my chaplain the advowson of Strixton.'"' To Amy Lovet my son's dauyhter £20 at her marriage, if she be guided in it by her brother Tho. Lovett. To my godchildren, a birllock or heifer, each. To Wattes the ' brome maker' 2s. My said wife, my brother Nicholas Lovet, my cousin and heir api:)a,rent Thomas Lovett, and my son-in-law James Burj', to be mj' executors. To William Pahner, my daughter's son, ' being lame,' £6 13.?. id. to find him to Grammar School, and to his sister Grace Pahner ,fC los. id. To all the other of mj^ children's children ' not j'et bestowed, a j^oung beast.' Witnesses : Tho. Lovet, James Bury, Geo. Lovett, John Lovett, Sr Hen. Tjddesley, Eiehard Xicolles, Sr Edwd. Pvawell, the Yicar of Cleydon,"]' a ' phisicion,' Wm. ffernham, John Pores. Will proved lOtli Dec. 1542 in C. P. C. by Jane the widow, Nicholas Lovett the brother, and Thomas Lovett the grandson of the deceased. [14 Spert.] Jane Lovett, tlie Avidow of Thomas Lovett III., survived lier liusband fourteen years, and died in September 1556 at her jointure house at Strixton. Jane Lovet -widow, sometime wife to Tho. Lovett esq. ' sicke and weake of bodye, but whole and parfitte of mynde and memorie.' WiR dated 2d Sept. 1550. To be buried in the chancel of Strixton Church. To the poor of Strixton O*. &d. To the poor of Wollaston, Eston, Grendon, Bosj'ot and Dodyngton ^20 among them. To my goddaughter Jane Baker in Strixton, sheep &c. To Anne Palmer, bedding &c. To my cousin Ahell 20s. As to my lands in Wedon and Weston co. Northampton, part to Thos. Bury, one of^niy youngest sons, and the rest to Geo. Lovet viy youngest son. Legacies of cattle and sheep to Jane, Elizabeth and Mary Dormer, daughters of my dau. Bridget Dormer, and also to her sons, also to my son Parson Bury, also to my son Win. Bury and his wife and their son Edward Bury, also to John Bury and Tho. Bury his brother and to every of the other children of the said Wm. Burj^ also to Ralph Cely]: my dau. Bury's eldest son. To my son Chester, a colt, and to my dau. Chester's children (save Jane and Susan Chester) 6s. ^d. each, and to the said Jane and Susan Chester an heifer each. To my eldest son James Bury, x)late and furniture, and to his dans. Elizabeth and Ursula, linen &c. To my son-in-law Mr. John Mathewe,§ and to my cousin Wm. Mathew and his dau. Marj', cattle. To Margaret and Ahce Burj', daus. of Ralph Burj^;]: linen. To my goddaughter Anne Cave, one heifer. To Jane Lovet|| dau. of my son Tho. Lovet, Os. 8d. To Mr. Grene, Geo. * Henry Tildesley, Parson of Strixton, wituessecl the Will of Jane Lovett, widow of tlic testator, in 1556, but is omitted by Bridges in Ms list of the Eectors of Strixton. t Edward Rawell is called Peter Eowell by Lipscoml) {Hist, of Bucks, i. 171), who says that he was pre- sented to the Vicarage of East Claj'don 2d December 1537, and that his successor was instituted in 1551. \ Thomas Bury, son of the testatrix, seems to have married a widow named Cely with children, and to have had a son, Ralph Bury. § I_should have iufereed that Constance Lovett, the vrife of John Mathev/ and the mother of William, was the daughter of the testatrix, but that the age of William, who was born in 1524-5, makes it impossible. II Jane Lovett married in the next year John Shirley Esq. Her father Thomas Lovett, whom the testatrix calls her son, was in reality the grandson and heir of her late husband. The word ' son' is similarly used in Bridget Hawtrey's will. LO^ETT OF ASTWjELL. 61 Lovet's brotlier-iii-law, one lieifer. To Sr. Hemy, parson of Strixton, a gown &c. To Tlio. Baker, a load of liay. To Elizabeth Curtis my maid, and other servants. To Pynclipole Lovet, 3 lambs. the residue of my goods to my son Geo. Lovet; to Pynchpole his sou and Jaue his dau. silver cups. ]My son-in-law Mr. William Chester, and my sons James and Wm. Bury, to be my Executors. Witnesses : Sr. Henry Tilsley parson of Strixton, Charles Brotlierton, John Pore, Patrick Petyvere, Robert Medos, Almere Naslie. Will proved 30tli Sept. 1550 in C. P. C. by William Chester Alderman of Loudon and Wil- liam Bury. [15 Kitchen.] VI. Thomas LoVETT IV., tlie son and lieir apparent of Thomas Lovett Escp of Ast- well by liis first wife Elizabeth Botelei, died before his father, and therefore never succeeded to the estate. He married Anne daughter of Sir John Danvers Kt. of Dauntsey, Wilts, the ancestor of the Earls of Danby. This marriage must liave taken place before 2d January 1514-15, when Sir J ohn Danvers made his Will, leaving to eacli of his unmarried daughters, ]\Iargaret, Susan, and Con- stance 100/. 'to help to marry them.' (35) Anne Lovett died 11th July 1523, and her husband died on 19th July following, when it was found by inquest held on 15tli September at Oxford, that Thomas Lovett Esq. the younger had been enfeoffed by his father on his marriage in the manor of South New- ington, and that Thomas his son and heir was six years of age. (36) They had issue six children, three sons and tliree daughters : I. Thomas Loyett, heir to his grandfather in 1542. II. George Lovett occurs with his brother John in his grandfather's Will. III. John Lovett is said to have settled at Adderbury in Oxfordshire. I. Elizabeth Lomstt, married before 1538 Anthony Cave Esq. of Chicheley in Bucks, and was the ancestor of the Chesters of Chicheley. She married secondly John Newdigate Esq. of Harefield in Middlesex, and thirdly Richard Weston Esq. a Judge of Common Pleas, and died a widow in 1577. Her history and marriages are fully related in Chapter VII. II. Anne Lovett, married before 1538 Thomas son and heir-apparent of Fulke Barker Esq. of Astrop, and had four children, of whom Edmoud Barker and Fris- wortli Bishop are mentioned in the Will of their aunt Elizabeth Weston in 1577. Thomas Barker died 30th December 1546, and his widow married secondly Thomas 'Duncombe Esq. of Whitchurch Bucks, a widower, whose son and heir married her daughter Jane Barker. (37) It should be noted that the pedigree of Barker in Bakery's Nortliamptonsliire (i. 704) is strangely defective and incorrect. HI. Amy Lovett was still unmarried in 1 542, but was afterwards the second 62 THE CHESTERS OE CHICHELEf . wife of Robert Leeson Esq. of Whitfield, by whom she had three daughters. (38) He died before 1564, and I suspect that Amy married again, and that she is the person called ' my sister Harby' in the Will of Elizabeth Weston. VII. Thomas Lovett V. was a boy of six years old when his father and mother died in 1523, and was twenty-five years old when he succeeded to his grandfather's estates. He was one of the Executors of his brother-in-law Anthony Cave of Chicheley in 1558, and was three times High Sheriff of Northamptonshire, for he filled that office in 1552, 1560, and 1572. He enclosed a deer park at Astwell, and a curious account has been preserved of its formal dedication in July 1564, whereby it be- came entitled to the benefit of the Statute for the protection of deer parks. (39) He married Elizabeth daughter of Eichard Fermor Esq. of Easton Neston, the ancestor of the Earls of Pomfret, and,had with two sons, James and Thomas, who died in infancy, an only daughter Jane, who married John Shirley Esq., the son and heir apparent of Francis Shirley Esq. of Staunton Harold. Their marriage settlement is dated 4th February 1557-8, and they had issue five sons and three daughters. John Shirley died 12th September 1570, in the lifetime of his father, and was buried at Bredon on the Hill, where his son George raised a noble monument to his memory. (40) Jane Shirley, his widow, married secondly William Grey Esq. of East Donilands in Essex, and died in 1582 before her father. (40) Her children were all staunch Catholics, and gallantly persevered in the ancient faith. Her daughter Elizabeth Shirley, a nun of St. Ursula's at Louvain, was one of that little band of devout English ladies, who founded in 1609 the Convent of St. Monica at Louvain. Her affecting narrative of the hardships endured by the infant commu- nity, and of the ^drtues of Mother Margaret Clement, has lately been published by Jj'ather Morris in The Troubles of our CatJioUc Forefathers related by themselves. She died 1st September 1641, aged 75. Thomas Lovett survived his wife and his only child, and died in the beginning of October 1586. He is commemorated by a slab in Wappenham Church, with a small brass figure, and a shield of arms (Lovett and his quarterings impaling Fermor and Brown) : ' Here lieth the bodie of Thomas Lovett late of Astwell Esquier, who deceased the xxvm day of September, in the yere of our Lord God MCCCCOLXXXVI. which Thomas had issue by Elizabeth his wife Jane married to John Shirley Esquier.' It is clear from his Will, being published on 3d October 1586, that his death did not take place on 28th September, the day stated on his monument. Thojias Lovett of Astwell co. Northampton Esq. Will dated 1st March 1583-4. to be buried in Wappenham Chnrcli in the He called Brook's He near my grandfather Lovett. to the poor of Wappenham, Helnidon, Falcote, Kadston, Siresham, Weedon and Weston, 20s. to each parish. to George Shirley Esq. all the deer in my park, and also all the lands in Astwell which I fitJEY OF HAMPTON POYLE. 63 purchased from Sir George Pecldiam Kt., and Marie his wife, on condition of his paying £20 p. a. to John Willard and Isahel his Avife during their lives. to Isahel wife of John Willard my servant all money and plate in my house at the time of my death, and also all debts due to me, and also all my goods and chattels in my Manor of Bottle- bridge CO. Hunts, and also my lease of Fowler's farm in Bucktown Bucks. The residue of aU my personal estate to Jolm Willard the elder and Isabel liis wife, and to my loving cousin George Gifford, and I appoint them to be my Executors. My friends WiUiam Gierke of Croton (Croughton) and Bennett Wilson of Woolstliorpe Esqs. to be supervisors of my Will. Will sealed and published 3d Oct. 1580 in the presence of Pynchpole Lovett and others. Proved by the Executors 14th Oct. 1580 in C. P. C. [49 Windsor.] Thomas Lovett was the last of the Lovetts of Astwell, and was succeeded in all his estates by his grandson George Shirley, who was created a Baronet in 1611, and was the ancestor of the Earls Ferrers. Astwell remained with his descendants until 1763, when it was sold by the fifth Earl Ferrers. VIII. It remains to speak of the uterine brothers of Lady Chester, with whom she and her husband lived on terms of much intimacy and affection. Their mother Jane was the only child of John Pinchpole Esq., and inherited from him Pinchpole's Manor in Winrush in the county of Gloucester', which her ancestor William Pinchpole held under Winchcombe Abbey in 1281. (41) Her pedigree and descent from the seven families, whose Arms she was entitled to quarter are fully set forth in the Visitation of Oxfordshire 1566-74, which has lately been printed by the Harleian Society. (42) Jane Pinchpole had issue by her first hus- band Edmund Bury Esq. of Hampton Poyle, Oxon, who died 20th December 1512, four sons, James, William, Adrian, and Thomas. . I. James Bury, the eldest son, was aged ten at his father's death, and inherited the Manors of Hampton Poyle and Winrush. He married Elizabeth Lovett, the daughter of his stepfather, who purchased from the Crown his wardship and marriage on 27th June 1515. His intimacy with Sir WiUiam Chester may be inferred by their joint occupation of a farm at Hampton Gay in a partnership which lasted many years, and was only dissolved by his death. He survived his wife, and died 3d August 1558, leaving three daughters and coheirs : 1. Jane, heiress of Hampton Poyle, was in 1558 aged twenty-six, and the wife of Ambrose Dormer Esq. of Ascot and Great Milton, Oxon, the sixth son of Sir Michael Dormer Kt. Lord Mayor 1541. He v,^as buried at Great Milton 23d June 1566, aged forty-three, and his widow remarried in February 1573-4 William Hawtrey Esq. of Chequers. She died in 1594, and the two children of her first marriage married the two children of her second husband by his former wife. (43) 2, Elizabeth, heiress of Winrush, was in 1558 aged twenty-four, and the wife of Edmond Harewell Esq. of Besford, co. Worcester, by whom she had several children. (44) 64 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELiEY, o. Ursula was unmarried and ao-ed eighteen in 1558. She afterwards married Sir Henry Cocke Kt. of Broxbourue, Herts, Cofferer of Queen Elizabeth, who died 24th March 1609, leaving tv/o daughters and coheirs. (45) Jea:hes Bueeye of Hampton Poile Oxon. Will dated the last daj^ of February 1550-7. to Le biiried in the Cluirch Avhere I shall depart and if it happen ■vvitliiii 7 miles of Hampton Poile to be buried there as nighe Elizabeth my wife late dead and buried as may be. As to my lands, I have made a full declaration thereof in a Deed indented and sealed; ^vliereof my son-in-law Mr. Ambrose Dormer hath the counterpaj'ne in parchment, and viy son-in-law Mr. Edmond Har- well a true copjr. As for my goods : to sell so much as shall fiUly content to j)ay my brother WiUiam Bury so much as I do owe him, and also to pay my assured old friend IMr. Harrj^ Eathborne whicli is of an old debt .£40. to my brother William Bury my best gelding and best gown, to my brother Thomas Bury my next best gelding and gown, and all my cotes, doublets and jerkins of sillc, and to mj' daughter the best gelding next, and half my hogs and swine, to my brother Sir Audryan Bury my best black cote, my best mare, my best crossbow with the bende and all my arrows and bolts, mj best feather-bed bolster and coverlet, and half my swine, and a nightgown shepes coulter faced with budge, and all my Latin books save one called Destructorium Viciorum, wliich I give to my Parson of Hampton Poile. Item to my brother Dormer my thu-d best gown, and my greatest crossbow with the bend and belt, to my brother George Lovet a crimson sattin doublet, my gown faced with fox tailes, my djauy launce harnes and longest s^Dere. to my godson Nicholas Foxley all my long bows, quiver, arrows and shafts, to my brother Dormer and to my sister his wife my second best carpet, to my servants the residue of my apparel not bequeathed and one of my best heifers to be distributed amongst them, my son Dormer and Ids wife and Avhoever shall inherit the Manor of Hampton Poile, to paj^ .^20 a year for five j'ears to tny daughter Ursula, to whom I be- queath all my household stuff' not specifically bequeathed. Item, all my books of the law being in French or Latin, whereof Fitz Herbert's Abridgements is one that cost iOd., I bequeath to my cossin John Burrj', and also all my Statute books ; and all my other English books I bequeath to my cossin Thomas Buny, and also my Riding skynn and walldng wood knyfe. Item, to my cosin Edward Burry my Hakeney gelding mth my saddle and bridle. Item, to my daughter Harwell my gilt coux^e and cover. Item, whereas my brother Sir William Chester and I together occupy the manor of Hampton Gaj'. the getting and storing whereof cost between i;520, the reckoning whereof apx)earetli in a brode book of reconynges, wliich beginneth but at our sixth 3'ear of occiipjing, and this reconynge that I mean is sett in the thii'teeuth leave of the same book at tliis sign + , I will that my said brother Sir WilHam Chester shall be answered of his part of our stock of cattle and money by him and me laid out according to the same reconj'nge, account being taken of £'40 due to us from our landlord Lawrence Barry gent. My brothers Wilham Buny and Thomas Burry to be my Executors, my sons-iu-law Ambrose Dormer and Edmond Harwell and my brother Parson Burry to be Overseers of my Will. My dau. Ursula to be residuary legatee. Witnesses : Sr. Audrean Burrj' Parson of Oddington, Sr. Pdchard Ploometon- Parson of Hamp- ton Poile ' my ghosthe father,' Thomas Burry Marchaunt of the Staple, Ursixla Burrj', Alice Hunter, Margaret Lawrence, and the good wif ^lerrik of Bloxam. The Will concerning his lands is annexed, whereby 'I Jeames Burry Gent, devise to Ambrose Dormer and Ms Avife Jane my eldest daughter my Manor of Hampton Poile subject to certain an- nuities, and to Elizabeth my nridcUe daughter my Manor of Winriche co. Gloucester subject to like annuities.' Win i^roved in Prerog. Coiu-t, 7 Sept. 1558. [41 Nodes.] II, William Bury (second son of Edmund) was a Citizen and Draper of London * Richard Plumpton was presented by the testator to the Rectory of Hampton Poyle 10 June 1553. BURY OF CULHAM. 65 and Merchant of the Staple at Calais. He purchased from the Crown on 1st Sept, 1545 the Manors of Culham and Water Eaton m Oxfordsliu'e in exchange for Cale- hill in Kent, (46) and was one of those members of the Common Council of London, who subscribed as a witness the Will of Edward VI. in favour of Lady Jane Grey. (47) He married two wives who were both named Christian. By his first wife Christian, the daughter and co-heir of William Wilkinson, an Alderman of London and SheriflF in 1538, he had issue three sons and four daughters, of whom pre- sentl}^ William Bury had no issue by his second wife Christian, who Avas the daughter of John Bustard Esq. of Adderbury, Oxon, and the Avidow of Ed^vard Wilmot Esq. of NeAvent in Gloucestershire, the ancestor of the Earls of Rochester. (Wilmot died on 2d October 1558, and the settlement made on his widow's marriage with Bury is dated 14th November 1559.) WiUiam Bury died 12th July 1563, and was solemnly buried on 16th July, in the Church of St. Swithin's London Stone, when ' the Cherche was liangyd with blake and armes, and there Avere all the' craft in their leverey ; Ser Wyllyam Chester Cheyff Mornar, and Master Argall next, and Master John Bere, and then the corse Avith a pall of blake A'elvett — Avhen the sermon Avas made and all dune, there jvas a grett dener.' (48) William Buhie of Culneliam (Culham) Oxon Esquier. Will dated 30tli Nov. 1561. As to my lands and manors : to Christian my wife for lier life, aU my manor of Culneliam, according to the lease thereof made my me to her before our marriage, as appears in a pair of in- dentures dated 14th Nov. 1559, my said wife to pay thereout ^51 14s. p. a. to the Queen, and also ^20 p. a. to John Bitrie my son and heir apparent, and after the death of my said wife my son Joliii Burie to have the said manor, but oirly on condition, that within 0 months after my death he assures to my younger sons Thomas and Edward Burie, an annuity of 20 marks each out of my manor of Water Eaton, during my wife's life, and that he also assures to them the reversion of the said manor after my AAdfe's death to hold in ec[ual moieties in fee tail. to my said son John Burie the rent charges in the Isle of Sliepey, Avhich I lately purchased from Sir Thomas Cheney Kt., late Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, he paying £11 lis. p. a. to Sir Thos. Cheney at his house at the Blackfriars London. As to such lands as I have in Kent by right of my first wife, I leave the same to my heirs according to laAV. I have given my leasehold manor of Paissenden to viy four daughters Blanche Jone Aliee and Katharine. touching my personal estate. I give to my sons John Thomas and Edward Burie and my daughter Blanche 100 marks each ; to Ahce and Katharine Burie .£100 each ; to the Fellowship of Drapers in London £10, and to 30 poor of the said Fellowshi]p, £7 10s. to my son Abell and his n-ife, to my brother Thomas Burie and his children, to the Lady Wldte, wife of Sir Thomas White, Alderman of London, to my sister Lowen, to Sir Thomas Leigh Alderman, to Mr. Smithe of Abingdon, and to Mr. John Nimos, draper, to each of them a ring of 30s. value if they survive me. The residue to be equally divided between my wife, executors and children. Mr. John Ploiden Esq., and my son John Burie to be my executors, my hrothers-in-laiv. Sir WiUiam Chester Kt. and Mr. Thomas Argoll Esq., to be overseers of my AviU, and to each of them I give 5 marks, to my executors I give £10 each, and to my brother Thomas Burie 5 marks. Witnesses : mj^ brother Thomas Burie, John Abell, mj^ sons John and Thomas Burie. Item to my brother George Lovet a ring of 30s. and I forgiA^e him such debts as he oweth me. WiU proved in C. P. C. 1st May 15C4. [14 Stevenson] . His Avidow Christian Bury married thirdly Paulet of Winchester, and dying at TAvyford in Hampshire in 1571 Avas buried in Winchester Cathedral. 66 THE CHESTEliS OF CHICHELEY. William Bury had by his first wife three sons and four daughters, namely, 1. John Bury his son and heir, born in 1535, and educated at Cambridge, Avhei-e he graduated B.A. in 1553 and M.A. in 1555. He was the author of a translation of Isocrates, which he dedicated in 1557 to his uncle Sir William Chester, (49) and he then studied the law at one of the Inns of Coui't, when his uncle James Bury be- queathed to him his law books. He was probably of the Inner Temple, for his son was admitted to that Society in 1585, but the printed list of admissions only begins in 1571. He succeeded to his father's estates at Culham and Water Eaton in July 1563, being then twenty-eight years old, and on 30th August following married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Stafford Esq. of Bradfielcl, Berks. He fell from his horse and broke his thigh in August 1570, and died from the effects of this accident on 22d February 1570-1, leaving an only son Thomas, then four years old. (50) His Avidow remarried Edward Wilmot Esq. (the son of his stepmother), and was the mother of Charles Viscount Wilmot of Athlone, whose son Henry was created Earl of Rochester. Thomas Bury, the only son of her first marriage, was the an- cestor of the Burys of Culham, who became extinct at the end of the next century, when their heiress Anne Bury carried the Manor of Culham to her husband Sir Cecil Bisshopp Bart. 2. Thomas Bury. 3. Edward. 1. Blanche Bury married John Abell, Citizen and Haberdasher of London. 2. JoAN married Lawrence Argall. 3. Alice married Edmund Knightley Esq. of Grandborough in Warwickshire. 4. Katharine married William Borlace Esq. of Marlow, Bucks. III. Adrian Bury, third son of Edmund and Jane, was a priest, and was presented on 27tli May 1532, by his stepfather Thomas Lovett III. of Astwell, to the rectory of Dorsington in Gloucestershire. As he is not included in the list of rectors by either of the historians of Gloucestershire, I have printed the record of his admis- sion from the register of Bishop Jerome di Ghinucci at Worcester. (51) xxvxi. die mensis Maii 1532, admissus fuit dominus Adrianus Bury, Cleiiciis, ad ecclesiam parocliialem de Dorsington, Vigorniensis dioecesis, per mortem domini Joliannis Sharppe ultinii in- cumbentis ibidem A^acantem, ad qnam per Tliomam Lovett armigerum, verum iit dicitur ipsius ecclesise patromim, domino extitit i^rEieseiitatus, &c. Adrian Bury was presented to the rectory of Oddington in Oxfordshire on 20th November 1549, by Vincent Power Esq. of Blechingdon, and died at the end of 1558, for the living of Oddington was A^acant by his death, and his successor Avas presented by Dorothy Poore, AA^doAv, 21st January 1558-9. (52) IV. Thomas Bury (fourth son of Edmund) Avas a Citizen and Draper of London and a Merchant of the Staple of Calais. Pie survived all his brothers, and seems to have married the Avidow of t^ely, by Avhom he had children : but he left no Will, and I have not discovered the date of his death, or Avhat became of his children. LOVETT OF ASTWELL, 67 PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. The pedigrees of Lovett iu tlie Visitation of Nortliamptonshire of 1566, Shirley's Stemmata Shir- leiana, the Histories of co. Northampton by Bridges and Baker, Betham's Baronetage, and other lUce authorities, have aU been carefully consulted and corrected by comparison mth the Lovett deeds and charters in Harl. Ms. 4028 and 6680, family wills, and other records. (1) Stemmata Shirleiana, 4:to, 1841 ; by E. P. Shirley, Esq. M.P. (2) Plac. Abbrev. p. 41. Coll. Top. et Gen. vi. 299. (3) Ped. of Lovett of Helmdon and Liscomb, in Baker, i. 628. (4) Lovett deeds and charters, amongst the Shir- ley Evidences in Harl. Ms. 4028. (5) Lovett deeds quoted by Baker, i. 732. (6) WUl of John Grey by, quoted by Baker, i. 751. (7) Inq. p.m. Elizabethse nuper ux. Johis. Tud- denham et quondam ux. Ricardi Osborne, 16 Hen. VIII. Northants. (8) Title-deeds of Brooke and Lovett in Harl. Ms. 6680. (9) Inq. p.m. Ric. Drayton Arm. 19 Edw. IV. 44. (10) Inq. p.m. Eliz. nuper ux. Nicolai Lovett, 13 Hen. VIII. Oxon. (11) *Ped. of Pulton in Vis. of Bucks. 1574. Life of F. Pulton in Athena Oxon. i. 426. (12) Dibdin, ^des Althorpiance, i. 186. (13) Baker, i. 32. (14) Herald and Genealogist, vi. 257. (15) Monasticon Angl. ii. p. 603. (16) Stapleton, Bat. Norman, ii. 116. (17) Life of John Haugh in Foss's Judges, v. 54. (18) Seymour's London, i. 711. (19) Idem, i. 586. (20) Inq. p.m. Thoma; Lovett Arm. 7 Hen. VII. Hunts, Northants, Oxon, and co. Glouc. (21) Lipscomb's Bucks, iii. 353. Essex Archcco- logia, iv. 29. (22) Inq. p.m. Johannse nuper ux. Thomse Lovett Arm. 9 Hen. VIII. Northampton, and Inq. p.m. Johanna Waryn nuper ux. Alexandri Quadryng Arm. 9 Hen. VIII. Lincoln. (23) Ped. of BUling in Baker, i. 736. (24) Life of Sir Thos. Billing in Foss's Judges, iv. 410, and Campbell's Chief Justices, i. 145. (25) Rot. Pat. Hen. VIII., Brewer's Calendars. (26) Inq. p.m. Annoe nuper ux. Johis. Cope Arm. 5 Hen. VIII. 38 Northants. (27) Baker, i. 628. (28) Ped. of Matthew in Baker, ii. 37. (29) Machyn's Diary, pp. 82, 343. (30) Ped. of Fosley in Baker, ii. 31. (31) Ped. of Breton in Baker, i. 416. (32) Inq. p.m. Geo. Lovett, 10 EUz. 56 Northants. (33) Cole's Escheats, i. p. 428, in Harl. Mss. 756. (34) Inq. p.m. Thomaa Lovett Arm. 24 Hen. VIII. Northants. (35) Will of Sir John Danvers, C.P.C. (4 Holder). (36) Inq. p.m. ThomsB Lovett Arm. 15 Hen. VIII. Oxon. (37) Ped. of Barker in Coll. of Arms, Vincent, 112, p. 188, and ped. of Duncombe in Vis. of Bucks, 1574. (38) Ped. of Leeson in Baker, i. 517. (39) English Beer Parlis, by E. P. Shii-ley, Esq. p. 35. (40) Stemmata Shirleiana, p. 57-63. (41) Rudder's Hist, of co. Glouc. p. 831. (42) Vis. of Oxon, 1566-74. Edited by Harieian Society, 1872. (43) Herald and Genealogist, i. 224. (44) Ped. of Harewell in Nash's Hist, of co. Wor- cester, i. 77. (45) Ped. of Cocke in Clutterbuck's Herts, ii. 55. (46) Rot. Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. (47) State Trials, ed. Howell, i. p. 760. (48) Machyn's Diary, p. 311. (49) Life of John Bury in Athena} Cant. i. 174. (50) Proceedings in the Court of Requests (IB Eliz.). (51) For this extract from the Bishop's Register at Worcester, and for many particulars of the Bury family, I am indebted to my friend Mr. B. W. Greenfield, the accomplished author of the History of the Manor of Hampton Poyle, printed in the Herald and Genealo- gist, i. 209, &c. (52) Extracted from the Bishop of Oxford's Re- gister by Mr. W. H. Turner. * The Heralds give to GUes Pulton four daughters only, viz. Anne m. Euseby Isham, Agnes m. Miles Hampden, Isabella m. George Wickham of Swalcliffe, and Mary m. — Calcott. But it is certain that he also had a daughter Jane, who married Thomas Brooke, as I have stated at p. 44. Jane Brooke left issue, but died before her sisters, who were all living' in 1558. Gregory Isham (son of Euseby) by Will dated 3d September 1558 gives ' to my mother £10, to my uncle Brooke, my aunt Hampden, my aunt Wickham, my aunt Calcott, and my cousin-german Thomas Brooke 20s. each. Item, to my cousin Fer- dinaudo Poulton while studying for the law £10 yearly for ten years, except his own lands come to him in the meanwhile,' K 68 THE CHESTr,KS OF CHICIIELEY, CHAPTER VI. William Chester Esq. of Chicheley, Constable of Wisbech Castle, 1605. II. His children. III. Pedigree of Anne Freere, his second ivife, and her descendants. William Chestee, the son and heir of Sir William Chester Kt., was bred to his father's trade of a Merchant, and was a freeman of the Drapers' Company of Lon- don by patrimony. He married his cousin Judith Cave, the eldest daughter and coheiress of Anthony Cave Esq. of Chiclieley, sometime a Merchant of the Staple at Calais, and afterwards the purchaser of great estates in Bucks and Northamp- tonshire. She was, through her mother Elizabeth Lovett, the grandniece of her husband's mother, and was a considerable heiress, although she never came into full possession of lier inheritance, for she died seven years before her mother, who had a life interest in the Manor of Chicheley. William Chester on his marriage purchased a ' fair' house at the southern end of Lime-street, within the parish of St. Dionis Fenchurch, which he occupied for more than forty years, until he re- moved from London altogether iu 1605. Here his son Anthony, afterwards Sir Anthony Chester Bart., was born, for he Avas baptized in the adjacent Church of St. Dionis on 10th April 1566, and here his wife Judith died some four years afterwards at the age of twenty-seven. She was born on 15th November 1542, and was buried in St. Dionis on 6th July 1570. (i) The widower paid her the doubtful compliment of marrying again at the end of his year of mourning, and his second wife was Anne Freere (or, as it was then pronounced, Frier), the daughter of Robert Freere, a younger son of Humphrey Freere Esq. of Charlton Castle in Worcestershire. (2) Anne Chester had two children, Elizabeth and William, who were born respectively in 1572 and 1574, and were therefore still young at the time of her death, for she was buried at Chicheley on 5tli April 1586. (x) William Chester Avas then occupying Chicheley Hall as the guardian of his son Anthony, who had succeeded to his mother's inheritance in 1577 on the death of his grandmother. But William had an estate of his own called Brougliton's Manor in the adjoining parish of CraAAdey, and the site of the Manor House is only separated from Chicheley Hall by the brook which divides the two parishes, and by three fields. This Manor seems to have been purchased by Sir William Chester for his son, when he married Judith Cave, and Avas conveyed to their son and heir Anthony Chester, on his marriage in 1589, by his father's deed of gift. Lipscomb has con- fused Brough ton's Manor Avith Balney, the estate of the Mansels in Chicheley (3), Avhich Avas purchased by Sir Anthony Chester in the reign of James I. Chicheley, a small parish of 1620 acres, is situated near the northern extremity of Buckinghamshire, about three miles from Newport Pagnel. It is called Cicelai WILLIAM CHESTER OF WISBECH CASTLE. in Domesday, wliicli is one of tlie many proofs that local names in that record were spelled according to the Italian prontinciation by the clerks of Archbishop Lanfranc. It then contained three manors, which Avere all included in the vast domains of Wilham Fitz-Ansculf of Dudley Castle. (4) The Barony of Dudley passed in the next reign to Fulk Paganel, who founded Tickford Priory in the adjacent parish of New- port as a cell to Marmoutier, and two of his manors in Chicheley formed part of the endowment. (5) These two manors, afterwards known as the Manors of Chicheley and Thickthornes, belonged to Tickford Abbey until its dissolution, when they were purchased from the Crown by Anthony Cave, the father of Judith Chester. The third manor of the Paganels in Chicheley extended into Crawley parish, Avliich has no sepai'ate existence in Domesday, but was divided at a veiy early date, Avhen the portion in Chicheley was subinfeuded to the Mansels, and that in Crawley to the Broughtons. (6) The estates of both these families were eventually purchased by the Chesters, and the Domesday parish of Chicheley were reunited in ownership by Sir Anthony Chester after a severance of nearly five centuries, William Chester on the death of his father inherited Sir William's freehold estate in Lombard-street, but he had no inclination to remove from his own house in Lime-street to his father's mansion, and therefore sold it to Sir George Bai'iie. The other houses in Lombard-street were still in his possession at his death, and were devised by his Will to his son Anthony in tail. He had also an estate within the liberty of the Clink in Southwark, held on lease from the See of Winchester ; and I presume that this purchase was one of his many transactions with Bishop Heton. He seems to have had no taste for City honours, for he paid the fine to be exonerated from filling the offices of Alderman and Sheriff, but he was Master of the Drapers' Company in 1603, and in that capacity was one of the committee of sixteen appointed by the City to make preparation for the solemn reception of James I. and his queen, which took place on 16th March 1603-4. (7) This how- ever was one of the last acts of his London life, for,.like his father, he thought that some interval should be made between the cares of business and the grave. His only daughter Elizabeth had married in 1594 Thomas Heton Esq., the eldest brother of Martin Bishop of Ely, who in 1600 appointed his brother Thomas High Bailiff of the Isle of Ely. (8) They were now living at Wisbech, and in order to be near them William Chester accepted in 1605 the office of Constable of Wis- bech Castle, which thenceforth became his residence. Wisbech Castle had long been used as a prison for Catholic priests, and Feckenham the last Abbot of West- minster had died there in 1585. The discipline however had been so much relaxed at the end of Elizabeth's reign, that a formal complaint was made to the Secretary of State on 7tli Sept. 1599, that the imprisoned priests were in the habit of taking into the Castle the sons of Catholic gentlemen as pupils ; so that (in the words of the memorial) ' Wisbech Castle, appointed for a prison, served for a seminary to corrupt youth.' (9) The castle was still used as a gaol during Chester's constable- ship; for there is a warrant extant dated 14th November 1607, to pay to him 70 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. 75/. 12s. for the diet of certain Romisli priests then in prison there. (9) It is to be ]iopecl that he displayed towards these unhappy prisoners the same gentleness and courtesy, for which his father Avas so honourably distinguished in the reign of Queen Mary, William Chester died at Wisbech Castle, and was buried in the church of St. Peter's Wisbech on 14th April 1608. William Chester Esq. Citizen and Draper of London. Will dated 27tli Dec. 1003 Ljmie-street London. To be buried in St. Denny's Church Fenchurch-street ' under the gravestone laid there for my first wife Judith Cave my eldest son's mother, if I die near London : or else, if I die at Cliiclieley, in Chicheley Church with my second wife Ann Frier the mother of my son Wm. Chester and Elizabeth Heton.' To the poor of the parish where I may be buried £0. To each of the four hospitals in London .^5. My lands in Lombard-street London to my son Antony Chester Esq[. remainder to Antony Chester liis son and his heirs for ever. To my said son Antony Chester ' my best gilt standing cup, hoping he wUl be good to his half-brother and sister, and content himself M'ith considering that I advanced him by giving him his house in Chicheley, furnished with house- hold stuff to the value of =£100, besides the gift of the Manor ofBroughtons in Chicheley given him by Deed at his marriage with Sir Henry Boteler's daughter.' To my dau. Elizabeth Heton ' a bni of £20, due to me by my Lord Bp. of Ely,' and also a memorandum for ;6100, due to me in the name of Martin Heton Dean of Winchester upon sale of the lease of Wolston, To my son-in- law Thomas Heton =£580 which he o-\^'etli me. To my son William Chester my lands at the Clynck in Southwark. The residue of my personal estate to my said son Wm. Chester of Gray's Inn gent., whom I appoint my sole Executor. My said son Antony Chester and my said dau. Ehzabeth Heton to be overseers of my Will. Codicil dated the last day of March 1608, ' dwelling now in Wisbech Castle.' to my dau. Ehzabeth Heton widow ' my standing Nutt bordered with silver gilt and carved with the story of the prodigal Child.' I have to the easement of her debt to my Master Laurence Camp Draper disbursed £G0. Will proved 3d June 1C08 by William Chester sou and Exor. in C.P.C. [57 Windebark.] n. William Cliester had issue by his first wife Judith Cave one only child, Anthony, his son and heir, afterwards Sir Anthony Chester Bart. By his second wife Anne Freere he had two children, Ehzabeth and William. William, baptized at St. Dionis 18th July 1574, (i) was admitted a student of Gray's Inn 11th February 1594-5. (10) He administered to the personal estate of his uncle John Chester on 16th January 1603-4, and proved his father's Will on od June 1608, under which he inherited a leasehold estate' in Southwark. He died unmarried before his sister. Elizabeth, the only daughter of William Chester, was baptized at St. Dionis on 21st December 1572, (1) and married at All Hallows Barking on 20th October 1594 Thomas Heton Esq. the eldest son of George Heton Esq. Chamberlain of London, by Joanna daughter of Sir Martin Bowes Kt., Lord Mayor 1545. He was elected M.P. for Southampton in the eighth Parliament of Elizabeth 1592-3, and was appointed in 1600 the High Bailiff of the Isle of Ely by his brother Bishop HETON OF WISBECH. 71 Heton. He died at Wisbech 6tli January 1605-6, and was buried in St. Peter's Church on 7th January, (i) His monument there bears this inscription : (ri) Here under lyeth the body of Thomas Heton Esq., Justice of Peace and Coram, who deceased ye 6th day of January 1605, who man-yd Elizabeth ye only dan. of William Chester Esq., by wMch he had ten children, whereof at his death fyre onely survived, Thomas and George Heton, Elizabeth Margerie and Anne. Alsoe, Here under lyeth ye said Elizabeth who deceased ye 6th day of November Ano. 1624, * who after married Thomas Procter Gent., and had by him onely one dau. named EUeyn. Of the ten children of Thomas and EHzabeth Heton, the names of six only have been preserved. 1. Thomas survived his father, but died unmarried before his mother. 2. GrEOEGB, only surviving son in 1624, was a Bachelor of Divinity at Cam- bridge, and the author of twelve Latin verses inscribed on the monument of his uncle Bishop Heton in Ely Cathedral. (12) 3. Martin, baptized at St. Peter's Wisbech 10th April 1603. Died an infant. 4. Elizabeth was the wife in 1624 of Mr. John Goodman, and had a son John. 5. Margery, unmarried in 1624. 6. Anne, wife in 1624 . of Mr. Eichard Parke. Elizabeth Heton Avas still a widoAV when her father died, but married afterwards Thomas Procter Esq. of Wisbech, who died before hei", leaving an only child Ellen, whom her mother bequeathed to the care of Lady Mary Bell of Beaupre Hall in Nor- folk, the daughter of Sir Anthony Chester Bart. Mrs. Procter died a widow 6th November 1624, and was buried beside her first husband in St. Peter's Wisbech. Elizabeth Pkoctek of Wisbech in the Isle of Ely, widow. Will dated 28th October 1624. to be buried in the Chancel of the Chiu'ch of Wisbech St. Peter's, in the same grave with my late husband Tho. Heton esq. and a marble stone to be placed over us with our arms upon it. to Mr. Emerson vicar of Wisbech 22s. and to the poor of Wisbech 20 nobles. my lease of the manor of Treeton als Tritton in Tydd St. Maryes, co. Line, and all my lands &c. to be in the hands of my Executors for five years after my death, upon trust to pay to my son Geo. Heton ^£20 yearly for the said five j^ears, and the surplus to my dau. Hellen Proctor at her age of 21 or marriage, and after five years the said manor &c. to go to my said dau. Hellen Procter if she be then hving, or shall have married in the meanwliile with the consent of my niece Lady Mary Bell. my houses and lands in Wisbech to my said dait. Hellen Procter, with remainder to my son Geo. Heton. To my niece Lady Mary Bell (wife of Sir Kobt. BeU) a house and lands for the maintenance of my said dau. HeUen Procter. To my son Geo. Heton £100. To my dau. Margery Heton the lease of lands in Wisbech, called Tillary, wliicli lease I had of the Bishop of Ely, for the natural lives of the said Margerie, Anne Parke wife of Riclid. Parke, and Hellen Procter, my daughters. To my son-in-laAV Eichard Parke my book of martyrs atid my great Bible and to his wife my dau. Anne, linen &c. To my son-in-law Mr. John Goodman my watch, and to my dau. Ehzabeth his wife a border of gold &c. To my grandchild John Goodman their son a ' nutt cup' engxaven ■with the History of the Prodigal ChUd. To my brother Sir Anthonie Chester Knt. and Bart., a piece of gold with this superscription ' Augustus Constans.' THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. Mr. Tlio. Eclwardes and Mr. Wm. Edwardes the elder, of Wisbech, to be my Executors, and my cousins Mr. Arnold Loberry and Mr. John Daye, to be supervisors of my Will. Witnesses, Wni. Edwardes junr., JohnHayward, Hugh Cooper, Saml. Bucke. AVill proved 7th Feb. 1624-5 by the Executors in C.P.C. [2G Clark.] III. PEDIGREE OF ANNE FREERE, SECOND WIFE OF WILLIAM CHESTER ESQ., AND HER DESCENDANTS. Geoffrey Freere, M.P. for Wor-=T=Elizabetli, dau. and heir of John Littelton Esq. , cester, temp. Hen. IV. | second son of Thos. Littelton of Fraukley. I Thomas Freere Esq. of Charl-=j=Mavgaret, dau. and heir of John Wysham of ton Castle, co. Wore. | Charlton Castle. I Humphrey Freere of Charlton Castle and of=j=Anne, dau. of Richard Walsh Esq. the Blankets in Claines, co. Wore. | of Sheldesley. , — , J Richard Freere, son and heir. Robert Freere of Kent. Judith Cave of (1 w.)= Chicheley. Robert Freere=j=Elizabeth,' dau. of John Lewes. 1 = William Chester Esq., Constable=j=2 w. Anne Freere; married of Wisbech ; died 1608. Chesteb of Chicheley. 1571 ; bur. 5 April 1586. J I ■• r WUliam Chester of Gray's Thomas Heton Esq., 1 h.=7=Elizabeth Chester ;=t=2 h. Thomas Procter Inn ; bapt. 18 July 1574 ; High BaUiff of Ely ; marr. bapt. 21 Dec. 1572 ; 20 Oct. 1594 ; died 6 Jan. died 6 Nov. 1624. 1605-6. exor. 1608 ; died unmar. Esq. of Wisbech ; marr. after 1608 ; dead 1624. 1. Thomas; occ. 1606 ; dead unm. 1624. r 2. George, only son surviving 1624. Ellen, only chUd ; ward to Lady BeU 1624. 3. Martin; died infant. 4. Elizabeth ; wife in 1624 of Mr. J. Goodman. 5. Margery; unm. 1624. 6. Anne ; wife in 1624 of Richard Parke. PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. (i) Extracts from Parish Registers relating to WiUiam Chester, Constable of Wisbech. St. Bionis, London. 1566, April 10. Anthony, son of Mr. William Chester, bapt. 1570, July 6. Judyth Chester, the wyfe of Mr. WilUam Chester, buried. 1572, Dec. 21. Elizabeth, dau. of Mr. William Chester, bapt. 1574, July 18. WilUam, son of Mr. WilUam Chester, bapt. All Hallmos Barking, London. 1594, Oct. 20. Thomas Eaton and Elizabeth Chester, marr. Cliiclicley, Bucks. 1586, April 5. Anne Chester, wife of William Chester, buried. St. Petefs, Wisbecli. 1605-6, Jan. 7. Thomas Heton Armiger Sepult.^ 1608, April 14. WilUam Chester Armiger Sepult. (a) Ped. of Freere in Herald and Genealogist, v. 429. (3) Lipscomb's Btichs, iv. 94. (4) Domesday Book, i. 149. {5) Man. Angl. v. 203. (6) Test, de NeviUa. (7) Nichols' Progresses of James I. vol. i. p. 188. (8) Watson's Hist, of Wishech, 1827. (9) Domestic Calendars in State-Paper Office. (10) Registers of Gray's Inn. Harl. Mss. 1912. (11) Vis. of Cambridgeshire 1684 in Coll. of Arms. (12) Athenm Oxon. i. 720. Bentham's Ely Cathedral, p. 197- CAVE OF bXANl'OKD, ra CHAPTER VIT. The Caves of Stanford-on-Avon. 11. The Caves of Ingarshy. III. , Anthony Cave Esq. of Chicheley. IV. His ividoio Elizabeth and her tivo subsequent husbands. Anthony Cave of Chicheley, the father of Judith Chester, was a younger son of a distinguished and numerous family, whose chief seat was at Stanford-on-Avon, on the confines of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. The Caves came originally from Yorkshire, and were deri^'ed by the Heralds of the seventeenth century from Jordayne, the mesne tenant in 1094 of North and South Cave in the East Riding, through a series of knights ending in an heiress, who brought the lordships of Cave to her husband Sir Alexander de Lownde in the reign of Henry IV. Peter CaA'e her u.ncle continued the male line, and was the father of John Cave Abbot of Selb}', and of Peter his brother, the supposed ancestor of the Caves of Stanford. This descent is fully set forth in an elaborate pedigree compiled by Sir William Segar Garter in 1632, and repeated in the Baronetages; but I must leave to such autho- rities a genealogy which I have no means of verifying in detail. The real founder of the Northamptonshire Caves was evidently John de Cave Abbot of Selby in Yorkshire 1429-1436, (i) who provided for his kinsfolk by a beneficial lease of the monastic estate in and near Stanford-on-Avon. The Manor of Stanford with the abbey lands in the adjoining parishes were held from the Abbot of Selby by the Caves as lessees and occupiers from the time of Abbot Cave until the dissolution of monasteries, when the fee was piirchased from the Crown by Sir Thomas Cave. Whether John de Cave the Abbot of Selby was a cadet of the knightly family of that name, or whether after the fashion of eccle- siastics he took his name from his birthplace, is one of those genealogical problems which cannot be satisfac- torily solved. There is a series of monumental brasses to the Caves from the middle of the fifteenth century in Stanford Church, and the absence of armorial bearings bears silent testimony against their genea- logical pretensions. (2) At the same time Richard Cave who died in 1538, or at all events his sons, bore without challenge the Arms, Azure fretty Argent, which was the coat of the ancient lords of Cave, and of their mesne tenants bearing the local name. These arms are ascribed to Monsieur J ohn Cave of Yorkshire in a Roll of Arms of the date of Edward III., (3) 74 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. and were still to be seen in Glover's time on the painted glass in North Cave Church, and on a tomb without inscription at South Cave. The earliest of the brasses in Stanford Church is that of John Cave, who was appointed Vicar of Stanford by the Abbot of Selby 9th May 1458, and died 27th Feb. 1471-2. (2) He is said in the Visitation of Leicestershire 1618 to have been the nephcAV of the Abbot, and the brother of Peter Cave of Stanford, who married Margaret Burdet of Rowell, and who is commemorated by a brass engraved with this inscription under the figures of a man and his wife. (2) ' 0 Cliristi genitrix Petri Cave sis miseratrix Et . . . . tue cle penis Margeii serva ; At fuit ille Pater Tlionae Cave, litec sua Mater , Fuiide xn-eces Domino i^ro nobis semper in alto.' Thomas Cave, son of Peter and Margaret, succeeded his father at Stanford, and died 17th Sept. 1495. His brass in the church bears the effigies of a man, his two wives, and eight children, and is thus inscribed : (2) Then Mercy Then Mercy Salvator Mundi Thome Cave Tu Miserere, Cui precor ahne Dens Coeli Gloriam det, Qui moritur festo Lamberti Tiiriis Abni, Mille semel quater et Centos etiam Nonaginta Adjicias quinque Domini certos habet annos, iEterne vivet Anima, proqne hnjus orate Then Mercy Then Mercy EiGHARD Cave Esq. of Stanford, the eldest son of Thomas Cave by Thomasine Passemere of Essex, greatly increased his patrimony and the social position of his family. He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 22 Hen. VIII. 1530, and was the first of his name who filled that office. He owed much of his advancement to his friendly intimacy with Cromwell, who was then the chief secretary of Car- dinal Wolse}^, and Avas fast rising to power. Several letters from Eichard Cave and his son Thomas are preserved in the State-Paper Office amongst Cromwell's correspondence. The earliest is dated 18th June 1528, when after thanking him for his good cheer during his recent visit. Cave asks him to provide for his son Anthony, who wanted a place in England fit for a merchant to fill. (4) It appears from other letters that Cromwell was a frequent and friendly visitor at Stanford, and that he was always willing to assist his friend in procuring favourable leases of tithes and other church lands in the gift of the Cardinal and the King. (4) It is evident from his Will that Cave acquired considerable wealth, which enabled him to make ample provision for his numerous children. But as he died in 1538, before the dissolution of Monasteries, he cannot fairly be reckoned amongst those new men who were en- riched by the spoliation of the religious houses, although his sons afterwards shared largely in the plunder. Eichard Cave had two wives. By his first wife Elizabeth Mervin of Church CAVE OF STANFORD. 7.n Lawford in Warwicksliire, who died 9th Angnst 1493, he liad only two children Edward and Margaret. 1. Edward Cave married Dorothy, daughter and coheir of Nicholas Mallory Esq. of Newbold Revell, co. Warwick, and died in his father's lifetime, leaving two daughters Catharine and Margaret. Catharine married before 15oG Sir Thomas Andrew Kt. of Charwelton, and died 18th August 1555. Their son Thomas An- drew had the lamentable honour of presiding at the execution of ]Mary Queen of Scots on 8th February 1586-7, he being the High SheriflP of Northamptonshire in that year. (5) Margaret married after 1536 Thomas Boughton Esq. of Causton in Warwickshire. 2. Margaret Cave married Thomas Saunders Esq. of Sibbertoft, co. Leicester, who died 1st March 1528-9, leaving seven sons and six daughters. (6) Two of their sons were personages of some note. Lawrence Saunders sometime apprentice to Sir William Chester, and afterwards Rector of All Hallows Broad-street, was burnt to death for heresy at Coventry 8th Feb. 1554-5, and has been already noticed in my account of Sir William Chester. His brother Sir Edward Saunders was a fervent Catholic and a zealous partizan of Queen Mary, who appointed him a Judge of Common Pleas 4tli Oct. 1553. He was knighted by King Philip on 27th Jan. 1554-5, just two days before his brother's conviction, and his letters are extant by which he vainly implored his brother to retract his errors ' about the most Blessed and our most comfortable Sacrament of the Altar.' He became Chief-Justice of England 8th May 1557, but soon after the "accession of Queen Elizabeth was re- moved, on account of his attachment to the old religion, into the Court of Excheqiier, of which he was Chief-Baron until his death. (7) He died in London 12th Nov. 1576, and probably of some contagious fever, as his chaplain died at the same time. His body was removed to his seat in Warwickshire at Weston-under-Weatlierley, where his monument still remains ; but his interment is thus noticed in the Burial Register of St. Peter-le-Poor London : ' 1576. Nov. 26. Sir Edward Saunders Lord Chief-Baron and John Smyth clerk, his chaplain, whose corpses were carried into the country.' Sir Edward was one of the supervisors of the Will of his uncle Anthony Cave of Chicheley. The second wife of Richard Cave was Margaret Saxby, the sister of William and John Saxby, who were considerable Merchants of the Staple at Northampton and Calais. William Saxby brought up his nephew Anthony Cave to his own business, and died without issue in April 1517. There is a brass to his memory in Stanford Church. William Saxby, Merchant of the Staple at Gales. "Will dated 5th April 1517. to be buried in the church of St. Nicholas of Stanford in co. Northampton, if I die there. to my brother John Saxb}^ £100 and to each of his five children £50. to my brother John Saxby my three wool houses at Gales, and the dwelling house that Hugh Smyth now dwelleth in, and other tenements in Wade-street at Gales, but if said John Saxby die without issue male, then my said houses in Gales to go to Anthony Gave and Thomas Cave, to John Saunders a wool house in Watergate-street and to Anthony Cave another wool house there, to Anthony Cave iSlOO. to my L 76 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. brother Cave ^100 to be divided among all liis cliildi-en and my sister's gotten between them, to Elizabeth Saxby ^20 worth of plate at marriage, to my sister Margaret Cave a gilt cup. to my sister Eobertsou certain rings &c. to my Lady Butler a ring, to Elizabeth Cave otherwise caUed EUzabeth Wyrley dau. to my said sister Cave 3 gilt goblets. (Numerous religious and charitable bequests.) My friends Wm. Robj'-ns and Eobert Baynam Merchants of the Staple at Cales to be execu- tors, Mr. Thos. Seymer Alderman of London to be supervisor of my Will. Proved at Lambeth Cth INIay 1517 by the executors. [:10 Holder.] I have thrown together, iu the shape of a pedigree, what little I have been able to collect about the family of Saxbj'. PEDIGREE OF SAXBY OF NORTHAMPTON. Wiliiam Saxby, mer- chant of the Staple at Calais ; died 1517. M. I. at Stanford. Margaret ; marr. Richard Cave Esq. of Stanford. John Saxby, mer-' chant of the Staple at Northampton. Occ.l536,deadl544. I WilUam Saxby,mer-= chant of the Staple at Calais ; will dated 4 Aug. 1544, proved 1 Aug. 1545. =Amy, daughter of= Thos. Giffard Esq. of Twyford, Bucks. =1 h. Richard Sam- well Esq. of North- ampton ; died 3 May 1519. SamweU Barts. =Anne, dau. of=f=2 h. Christopher Robert Bayn- ham, merchant of Calais ; bur. 5 Mar. 1558-9. Breton of Ravens - thorpe ; marr. 20 Jan. 1545-6 ; bur. 18 Sept. 1556. Clemence ; unmarr. 1536. Thomas Saxby, a priest ; presented by Anthony Cave to the Vicarage of Willen, Bucks, 19 Oct. 1540. "I Two chil- dren. John Saxby, 1544. Thomas, 1544. Anne, 1544. Frances, 1544. Margaret Cave died before her husband in March 1531-2, leaving eight sons and five daughters. Richard Cave died 20tli April 1538, and the brass effigies of him and his two wives still remain in Stanford Church. (3) Hie jacet Ricard' Cave, qui obiit xx. die Mensis Aprilis Anno Dni. Mcccccxxxviii. et Eliza- betha prima Uxor ejus, quse obiit ix. die ]\Iensis Augusti An. Dni. Mcccclxxxxiii. et Margaretta secunda Uxor — Mensis Martii An. Dni. ab Incarnatione Mcccccxxx. primo, quonim Animabus Propitietur Deus. Amen. EicHAED Cave of Stanford co. Northampton, Esq. Will dated 13th June (28 Henry VIH.). [1536.] to be buried in the parish church of Stanford, before the Hood loft, by my wives Elizabeth and Margaret late deceased. I confirm all previous deeds &c. concerning the marriages of my sons and daughters, to my dau. EHzabeth Wj'rley towards the marriage of her children £100, whereof I have paid to my son Wyrley her husband ^'54. to my dau. Dorothy Smyth to the marriage of her cliildren 100 marks, and to my daughter Chauntrell 100 marks to the marriage of her chil- dren, as well as those uoav married as unmarried, to my dau. Prudence Croke my silver salts,'"' and also 40 marks towards the marriage of Jolm Croke. to my dau. Bridget Tanfeld 40 marks to the marriage of her children, to my sons Sir Ambrose Cave and Dr. Francis Cave 100 marks each, to my son Bryan Cave ^100. to every one of the six children of my cousin Thomas Cave 5 marks, to Richard son of my son Thomas Cave the rents of my farm of Swynford. to my son Anthony Cave certain closes &c. in Pulteney. to my son Thomas Cave all my household stuff in * These salts were preserved as an heirloom ; for Sir John Croke says in his Will, 2d July 1607, I bequeathe to my eldest son one pair of salts of silver and gilt with one cover to them, which were a legacy bequeathed to my mother by my grandfather Mr. Richard Cave of Stanford, Esq., whose daughter she was.' Hist, of Croke Family, ii. 828. CAVE OF STANFOKD. IT Stanford, to my son Biyan Cave my lease that I have of the Comannilrie of Bottesford and Dingeley. to my son Richard Cave niy lease of a pasture called Blakden, and my interest in the parsonage of Lylborne. to Thomas Hardyman 40,5., and to his two brothers each 20s. to Katheriue Andrewes and her sister IMargaret Cave, daus. of my son Edward, M, that I lent their mother in her widowhood, to Richard my son 100 ewes and lambs, to my brother John Saxby of ^£50 which he owes me, to the marriage of his dati. Clemence my goddaughter, to my son Anthony Cave J300, Avhich he oweth me. To my son Richard Cave ^100, and also £200 more to the marriage of his children, to my cousin Thomas Cave what he oweth me. to my daughter Dorothy Smyth £50, which her husband oweth me. to my godson Laurence Cave son of my cousin John Cave 5s. 4(Z. per an. which the said John his father should pay to me or my said son Thomas. My said sons Thomas, Francis, and Bryan Cave to be my executors and residuary legatees. Edward Montague, Sergeant-at-Law, Sir Ambrose Cave my son ' Knight of the Roodes,' my sons-in-law J olin Croke and Robert Chauntrell to be overseers of my will. Win proved 22d June 1538 in C. P. C. [18 Dingeley.] Richard Cave had issue by his second wife Margaret Saxby thirteen childreHj eight sons and five daughters. I. Sir Thomas Cave succeeded his father at Stanford, and purchased from the crown in 1540 the estates which had belonged to Selby Abbey in the counties of Northampton and Leicester, and which his family had held so long as lessees. He died in 1558, and his surviving son and heir Roger Cave married 24th November 1561, Margaret Cecil, sister of the famous Lord Burghley,* who remarried Erasmus Smith Esq., another of the grandsons of Richard Cave. Roger Cave was the an- cestor of the Baronets of the name of Cave, who still flourish. IL Anthony Cave of Chicheley, of whom hereafter. III. Clement, married Margery Mallory, the sister of his brother Edward's widow. He died without issue 30th November 1538, and has a brass in Stanford church. IV. Sir Ambrose Cave is called in his father's Will a Knight of- Rhodes, which was the popular name for a Knight Hospitaller of the aristocratic Order of St. John of Jerusalem. He was admitted into the Order in 1525, and claimed the Com- mandery of Shengay, which involved him in much litigation. When the Order was dissolved by Statute in 1540, a pension of 100 marks per annum was assigned to him. His release from his vows must have been highly acceptable to him ; for we soon find him married to an heiress and engaged actively in political life. He was M.P. for Leicestershire in two Parliaments of Queen Mary, and then for Warwickshire until his death. On the accession of Queen Elizabeth he was sworn of her Vv'xvy Council, and on 22d December 1558 was made Chancellor of the Du.chy of Lancaster. With all the zeal of a convert he formally complained to the House of Commons on 6th March 1558-9, that Alderman White had slandered him by stating that he misliked the Book of Common Prayer ; but the Alderman explained, that Sir Ambrose had only wished that the book might be well considered ; and so the matter ended, after having fulfilled its probable purpose of displaying the zeal of the new Chancellor for the religious innovations of his royal mistress. He Avas constantly employed by Queen Elizabeth imtil his death, Avhich took place on 2d April 1568. He died in * St. Clement Danes, London, ' 1561, Nov. 24, Roger Cave Gent, and Mrs. Margaret Cecile, married.' Par. Register. 78- THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY. London, and his obsequies weve solemnly performed in tlie Chnrcli of the Savoy on lOtli April 1568, but his body was afterwards carried to Stanford. His only daughter Mai'garet was born 25th April 1559, and married before her father's death Henry KnoUys, the son and heir apparent of Sir Francis Knollys K.G. Sir Ambrose Cave seems to have been educated at St. John's College Cambridge and Magdalen College Oxford ; for he founded two scholarships in each of those colleges with pre- ference to his kindred. His flattery of Queen Elizabeth has been perpetuated by a portrait of liim with a yellow garter round his left arm. One night at Court the Queen's garter had slipped off whilst she was dancing : Sir Ambrose picked it up and tied it on his left arm, vowing that he would wear it there for his mistress's sake as long as he lived. (8) Y. Fkancis Cave w^as a Doctor of Civil Law, and was ancestor to the Caves of Bagrave, co. Leicester. He was an executor of his father and of his brother Anthony. VI. Richard Cave of Pickwell, co. Leicester, married Barbara, daughter of Sir William Fielding Kt., ancestor of the Earls of Denbigh. His great-grandson Doctor William Cave, Canon of Windsor, was the w^ell-known author of the Scrijjtorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria. VIT. Brian Cave of Ingarsby, of ■\^'honl hereafter. Vni. Augustine Cave, a monk. On the suppression of religious houses he had an annuity settled on him by his brother Anthony Cave of Chicheley. L Elizabeth Cave, married before 1517 William Wyrley Esq. of Hamsted in Staffordshire. They were both living in 1556 with children. H Cave (her Christian name is unknown to me), married Robert Cliauntrell Esq. of Foxton, who was one of the executors of Richard Cave in 1538. Mrs. Chauntrell is omitted from all the printed pedigrees of Cave, although she is mentioned with her children in her father's Will. III. Dorothy Cave married William Smith als Heris of Withcock, co. Leicester, who died 1546. She then married Sir Henry Poole Kt., a Knight of Rhodes. Her eldest son Erasmus Smith married Margaret Cecil, thie widow of his cousin Roger Cave. His son Henry Smith was the eloquent lecturer of St. Clement Danes, who was commonly known as ' silver-tongued' Smith, and was called by his contemporaries the Chrysostom of England. In one of his best-known sermons he enlarged on the duty of mothers suckling their own children, for it was then almost the universal practice amongst women of condition to place their infants out at nurse in the suburbs of London. Such was the force of his eloquence, that ' many persons of honour and Avorship, ladies and great gentlew^omen, forthwith recalled their children home in order to suckle them themselves.' His preaching was effectual with others besides the great ; for he was employed by his granduncle Brian Cave of Ingarsby during his Shrievalty in 1582 to reclaim Dickons, a blasphemous heretic, who had been brought before the J ustices, and Dickons was so much impressed by his preaching that he renounced his blasphemies, and lived peaceably for the rest of his life. Smith cUed at the early age of thirty-one, and was buried at his father's seat of Hvisband's CAVE OF STANFOED, 79 Boswortli 4tli July 1591. His sermons were collected and published by Fuller in 1657, who praises them as ' so solid that the learned may admire, and so plain that the unlearned may perfectly understand them.' They are singularly free from the quaintness and affected learning of his age, ^nd even the modern reader will find it diflScult to name any English preacher who has since excelled Smith in pulpit eloquence. (9) IV. Prudence Cave married about 1528 John Croke Esq. of Chilton, Bucks. He Avas one of the six Clerks in Chancery who were allowed to marry by Statute in 1522, and purchased Chilton from Lord Zouche in 1529. He was made Serjeant-at-law 1546, and a master in Chancery in 1549, and died 2d September 1554, having long- survived his wife. Two of his grandsons were Judges of great eminence, and it is remarkable how many of his descendants achieved distiuction at the Bar or married personages of high legal rank. The pedigree below is from coiTsiderations of space confined to the most notcAVorthy examples. (10) Jolin Croke Esq. Master in Chancery, of=j=Pruclence Cave, sister of Antliony Cave Chilton, Bucks ; died 2 Sept. 1554. r ' Sir John Croke Kt. of Chilton; M.P. for Bucks 1572;= Sheriff 1575 ; died 10 Feb. 1608-9, aged 77. of Chicheley. =Elizaheth, dau. of Sir Alexander Unton Kt. of Wad- ley, Berks ; died 24 June 1611, aged 72. 1. Sir John Croke Kt. ; Sx)eaker of the H. of Com- mons 1601 ; Judge of King's Bench 1608 ; died 23 Jan. 1619-20, aged 65. =r A n 3. Sii- George Croke Kt.; Judge of Common Pleas 1624 ; Judge of King's Bench 1628 ; died 15 Feb. 1641-2. Cicely Croke ; remarried^ in June 1608 Sir John Browne Kt. of Flam- berds, co. Essex. =Edward Bulstrode Esq. of Hedgerly, Bucks. -~1 r Mary Croke ; married Sir Harbottle Grim- Bton Bart. , Master of the EoUs. 1 Elizabeth; ■wife=f=2 h. Sir Richard lu- of Thos. Lee Esq. of Hart- well. goldsby K.B., the Parliamentary Ge- neral. Elizabeth Bulstrode ; married in 1602 Sir James Whitelocke Kt., Judge of King's Bench, and was the mother of Bulstrode Whitelocke, Commissioner of the Great Seal 1647. V. Bridget Cave mari#d Francis Tanfield Esq. of Gayton, Avho died 21st No- vember 1558. She survived him many years, and died 20th June 1583. Their son and heir Clement Tantield of Gayton was the father of Sir LaAvrence Tanfield Kt. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1607-24, Avhose grandson Lord Falkland Avas one of the heroes of the civil Avars. (11) Anne Tanfield daughter of Francis Tanfield and Bridget CaA'e married Clement Vincent Esq. of Harpole Northants, Avho Avas one of the executors of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, and their daughter Elizabeth Avas the mother of Sir Richard Lane, Lord Keeper to Charles I. (11) Lord Campbell Avith his usual recklessness asserts that Lane was of unkno^vn and obscure origin, and seems surprised at his intimacy with Bulstrode Whitelocke. (12) But, in fact, Lane rose to be a leader at the Bar under the powerful patronage of his kinsman Lord Chief Baron Tanfield, and Avas related through his mother to the Crokes and other eminent Judges of that period. This relationship explains his leaving in Whitelocke's charge his books and furniture 80 THE CHESTERS OE CHICHELEY. at tlie Temple, when he retired to Oxford in 1643, and throws much discredit on the story of Anthony Wood, that when Lane's son applied for their restitution, Whitelocke protested that he had never been acquainted with Lane. (13) IT. Beyan Cave, the seventh son of Richard Cave Esq. of Stanford, by his second wife Margaret Saxby, was one of his father's exe- cutors and residuary legatees. On the dissolution of Leicester Abbey he had a large share in the plunder ; for the impropriate Rectory of Hungerton and the Manor ofLigarsby were granted to him by the Crown in 1540. He was Sheriff of the united counties of Warwick and Leicester in 1558, and was Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1569, and again in 1582. He mar- ried two wives ; but his first wife Margaret was the mother of his children. She was the daughter of Sir George Throckmorton Kt. by Catherine daugh- ter of Nicholas Lord Vaux, by Elizabeth daughter of Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh, by Alice Nevill sister of Richard Earl of Warwick K.G., Uhe king-maker.' She had issue four children, namely : 1. Edward Cave, son and heir apparent, married Barbara daughter and coheir of Sir William Devereux Kt., and died without issue in his father's lifetime. His widow Barbara married secondly Sir Edward Hastings Kt., fourth son of Francis Earl of Huntingdon. 2. Henry Cave, son and heir, of whom presently. 3. Francis Cave married and had children. 4. Mary Cave married Thomas Brown Esq. of Wj^tow. Brian Cave married secondly Bridget daughter of Sir William Skipwith Kt. of Ormesby, co. Lincoln, one of the Maids of Honour of Queen Elizabeth ; but she died 26th January 1587-8 without children. (14) Brian Cave lived to a great age, and died 12th September 1592. (14) Bryan Cave of IngarsHe co. Leicester Esq. of 'reasonable good lielthe of bodie and of per- fecte minde and memorie.' WiU dated 30th July 1590. to be buried in the chancel on the North side of Hungerton church, to the poor of Hungertou 20s. and to the repairs of Hungerton church, 206'. to my son and heir Henry Cave all mj' household stuff and the residue of my estate, to Brian Cave, the eldest son of my son Heniy, ^20 and sundry jjieces of plate, and to each of his brothers and sisters born before my death £20 each, to my j^oungest son Francis Cave other pieces of X)late &c. and to Brian Cave his son ^10, and to each of his brothers and sisters bom before my death ^10. To Sir Edward Hastings Kt. and his wife Lady Barbara ^10 each* to my dau. Brown and her children £10 each, to my godson Brian Vincent 20 marks. CAVE OF INGARSBY. 81 My son Henry Cave and my nephews John Croke and Thomas Cave to be my executors, and I give to the said John Croke and Thomas Cave ^5 each. My nephews Thomas Skeffington and William Cave of Pickwell to be overseers of my "VVill, and I give them each a ring worth 40.s. Will proved 10th Nov, 1502 in C. P. C, [80 Harrington.] Henry Caye was above 40 years old in 1592, when he succeeded his father at Ingarsby. He married Elizabeth daughter of Gregory Isham Esq. of Braunston, in Northamptonshire, whose descent from the Lovetts and the Veres of Acidington has been shown at page 51. {She was a posthumous child, and was the sister of Sir Euseby Isham Kt. of Pytchle}^, the ancestor of the Baronets of this name. Henry Cave died before 1611, when his son Sir Biyan Cave was Sheriff of Leicestershire. Henry Cave had issue three sons and five daughters. (15) 1. Sir Brian Ca^^ Kt. of Ingarsby, married in or before 1602 Frances daugh- ter of Sir Erasmus Dryden Bart., and had many children. He was knighted at Whitehall in July 1609, (16) and sold the Manor of Ingarsby in 1620 to Sir Robert Banaster, in exchange for Bagworth Park in the parish of Thornton, in Leicester- shire. But Sir Brian's affairs became greatly embarrassed, and he was outlawed for debt in 1629, when Bagworth was sold by his creditors. (17) 2. Euseby Cave died unmarried and intestate in 1621. 3. Francis Cave, of whom hereafter. 1. Elizabeth Cave, married Thomas Marbury Esq. of Warden in Bedfordshire. 2. Anne Cave, unmarried in 1630. 3. Barbara Cave. 4. Margaret Cave married, by license dated 10th Nov. 1617, the Rev. Edward Marbury, M.A. Rector of St. James, Garlick Hithe, and afterwards also of St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf, London. (18) 5. Mary Cave unmarried in 1630. Elizabeth Cave the widow of Henry Cave Esq. of Ingarsby, died at the end of 1633. Elizabeth Cave of Warden Bedfordshii-e widow. Will dated 28th Jan. 1626-7. to my son Sir Bryan Cave ^630 and to ray dau. the Lady Cave ,f 10. to my grandchild Eliza- beth St. John"' wife of John St. John £20. to Bryan Cave son of the said Sir Bryan £20. to John, George, Erasmus, Mary, and Anne Cave children of the said Sir Bryan £30 each at 21. to my dau. EHzabeth Marbury, for her Hfe, with remainder to her children, i£100 which I lent to my son Thomas Marbury on the mortgage of certain of his lands, to my grandchild Euseby Marbiuy ^10. to my dau. Anne Cave =£200. to my dau. Mary Cave £oO. to my son Francis Cave the ^100 which I lent to Sir Edward Villiers Kt. to my son Thomas Marbury ^5. to my cousin Robert Tanfield £10. the residue of my estate to my daughters Mary Cave and Macfdalen {sic) Marbury. My sou Francis Cave and my cousin Robert Tanfield to be my executors. I give no- thing to my daus. Margaret and Barbara because I have in my lifetime given them i£50 each. Will published 19th Jan. 1029-30, and proved 5th Dec. 1633 in C. P. C. [Ill Russell.] Francis Cave, third son of Henry Cave Esq. of Ingarsby, was one of his mother's " Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Bryan Cave Kt., married John St. John Esq. of Cold Overton, Sheriff of Leicestershhe in 1632. (19) Their daughter Anne St. John married her cousin Rev. John Cave, M.A. Rector of Cold Overton and of NaUston, who preached the funeral sermon at Shenton on the death of young Francis WoUaston in 1684. 82' THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. executors and married Eebecca Lady Villiers,the well-jointured widow of Sir William Villiers Bart, (the eldest brother of George Duke of Buckingham), who died 12th June 1629. She was the daughter and coheir of Robert Roper Esq. of Ileanor in Derby- shire, the uncle of Samuel Roper the well-known antiquary,* and by her husband s Avill was the guardian of their son Sir George Villiers of Brooksby and their four daughters, of whom I^lary was afterwards Countess of Feversham, and Catherine was Countess of Pembroke. Francis Cave lived at Brooksby after his marriage, and served as a Captain of Horse in the Royal Army in the Civil AVars. He was serving in the royal garrison at Leicester, when that town surrendered to Fairfax 18th June 1645 on articles, and was fined 100/. by the Parliament, but dying before it was paid the fine was remitted 10th June 1646. (20) He had then been dead some months; for on the 28th April 1646, his widow. Lady Villiers, formally renounced the administ- ration of his estate. He left an only child Elizabeth Cave who married about 1660 William WoUaston Esq. of Shenton in Leicestershii^e. Their daughter and heir Anne Wollaston was the wife of Sir John Chester the 4th Bart, of Chicheley, as will be seen in a subsequent chapter, III. Anthony Cave, the second son of Richard Cave Esq. of Stanford by his second wife, was bred by his uncle William Saxby to the trade of a merchant of the Staple at Calais, hnt we learn from his father's letter to Cromwell (4), that in 1528 he was seeking some employment or provision which would enable him to settle in England. Cromwell procured for him a lease of Tickford Abbey in Bucks from Cardinal Wol- sej, and Anthony established himself in London as a merchant, where he was free of the Drapers' Company. He acquired great wealth, which he chiefly invested in the purchase of land in Bucks, Beds, and Northamptonshire. His chief purchase Avas from the Crowai in 1545, when Plenry VIIL granted to him the Manor of Drayton near Daventry and the Manors of Chicheley and Thickthorncs in Bucks, Avith other possessions of the dissolved Abbey of Tickford, which had formed part of Wolsey's endow^ment of the King's College at Oxford. (21) Cave's petition for the grant of Chicheley is dated 15th Sept. 1545, and sets forth that he was already in actual possession of the Manors of Chicheley and Thickthornes as lessee for a term of 70 years at the rent of 33/. 17.9. ll-l-c/. per annum under a crown lease dated 30th April 1541, and he proffered for the purchase of the fee simple 632Z. 5s., which Avas com- puted to be twenty years' purchase of the net annual value. These terms Avei'e not accepted, but on 4th Dec. 1545 the King granted to Anthony Cave Esq. of Tick- ford by letters patent, in consideration of 788/. 18,s. OcZ., the Manors of Chicheley and Thickthornes, Avitli the Rectory and AdvoAvson of Chicheley, to be held by the service of one-twentieth part of a Knight's fee at the rent of 3Z. 10s. 7cZ. per annum. (21) * The maternal desceat of Eebecca Lady Villiers is set forth in the Herald and Genealogist, e ANTHONY CAVE OP CHICHELEY. •83 Anthony Cave was M.P. for Liverpool in the first ParL'ament of Edward VI. 1547-52, but during the last'years of his hfe he chiefly resided at Chicheley, in the mansion which he built there, and which was the constant residence of his descend- ants until 1714, when the old house was pulled down by Sir John Chester, and the present hall was built on its site. Cave was not unmindful of the ' uncovenanted' duties of a land-owner, for, by deed dated 1st September, 3 Edward VI. (1549), he granted an annuity of 5^. per annum to John Massey, Vicar of Chicheley, in augmentation of his stipend ; and by another deed dated 10th March, 7 Edward VI. (1552-3), and made between An- thony Cave Esq., Elizabeth his wife, and Judith their eldest daughter, of the one part, and Sir Ambrose Cave Kt., Francis Cave D.C.L., Thomas and Anthony Cave, sons of the said Dr. Cave, Edward Cave Esq. of Oakley, Roger Cave of Stanford gent., John Croke of Chilton, Bucks, Thomas Wyrley of Handsworth, co. Stafford, Ambrose Saunders, Clement Tanfield, and Clement Smyth Esqs. of the other part, after reciting that the said ' Anthony Cave had by the space of six years past, by the sufferaunce and permission of Almighti God for the good education of youth and the increase of virtue, erected and appointed in his lordship of Lathbury, Bucks, a convenient scole and scolemaster there to teach such children as should repair thither they demised to the said Sir Ambrose Cave and others the Rectory and tithes of Chicheley for 99 years in trust, to maintain the said school and to pay to the said schoolmaster 121. per annum. (22) This grammar school was from its foundation intimately connected with Christ Church, Oxford; for the Dean and Chapter by deed dated 11th April, 7 Edward VI. (1553), demised the tithes of Lathbury to Anthony Cave, in consideration of his maintaining the said school, and covenanted that they would visit the school and schoolmaster, according to such statutes as the founder should ordain, on 1st September next after Anthony Cave's death, and on the 1st September in every third year afterwards : the visitors to be paid for such visitations 40s. and to have entertainment for six persons during two nights and one day. Anthony Cave cove- nanted by the same deed to allow two scholars of Lathbury School 61. per annum each to study divinity at Oxford ; one at least of such scholars to be educated at Christ Church. (23) Anthony Cave married Elizabeth Lovett, the eldest daughter of Thomas Lovett Esq. IV. of Astwell, by Anne Danvers of Dauntsey. She was the niece of the wife of Sir William Chester, and this connexion evidently led to the sub- sequent marriage of her eldest daughter Judith to William Chester. They had issue a son, who died in childhood, and five daughters, of whom one died before 31st May 1555, when Anthony Cave made his Will. It was found by the inquest post mortem held at Newport Pagnel on 13th March 1558-9, that Anthony Cave died on the 9th September 1558, and that his next heirs were his four daughters : Judith Cave, who was aged 16 on 15th November 1558 ; Anne Cave, M 84 THE CHESTEES OE CHICHELEY. aged 14 on 24tli February 1558-9; Martha Cave, aged 13 on 24th February 1558-9; and • Mary Cave, aged 2 on 1st November 1558. (21) What be- came of these daughters will be fully told in the next chapter. Anthony Cave was buried in the north aisle of Chicheley church as he directed by his Will, and the place of his interment was marked by a marble slab bearing brass effigies of a man in armour, and his wife, with this inscrip- tion : Hie jacet Anthonius Cave Ai-miger, quondam mercator stapiile Calicie, Do- minus de Chicheley, qui obiit none die Septembris A"° D"' Mdxxxxxviij. Cujus animae p'picietur Deus. Amen. Some eighteen years after- wards his widow, who had in the mean while buried two subsequent husbands, became mindful of the husband of her youth, and erected a stately monument to the me- mory of Anthony Cave, which is affixed to the wall of the north aisle. Anthony Cave in full ar- mour is kneeling before a desk, with his son behind him, and his wife is kneeling opposite to him with their five daughters ; and on a tablet is written : ' For the good memorie of her deere husbande Antonie Cave Esquier, which died 9 Sept. A.D. 1558, his myndeful and loving wife Elizabeth hathe erected to posteritie this monument a.d. 1576.' Anthony Cave's Will was made three years before his death, and is too long to be printed except in abstract, but the Schedule is set forth in extenso, because it contains full particulars of his estates, and also because it is an interesting example of the Statute of Wills then in force. Anthony Cave of Chicheley Bucks Gentilman. Will dated 31st May 1555. If I die in Bucks or within 20 miles of Tickford, I wish to be buried in Chicheley chiu-ch on the North side near the upper side of the aisle, and near the wall. Charitable bequests to the poor of Newport Pagnel, Northampton, Bedford, Stony Stratford, Olney, Chicheley, North Crawley, Hardmead, Astwood, Emberton, Tyringham, &c. to Jack Scarlet 5 marks when he is 12 years old. to Mrs. Margaret Baynam widow a gold ring, to George Graunt ^20. to my niece Anne Tanfield ^610 at her age of 20 or her marriage, to my brother Wyrley and my sister his wife ANTHONY CAVE OF CHICHELEY. 85 a gold ring of 40s. each, to Elizabeth now my wife, ^6200, and 100 marks worth of plate, all her jewels, sundry household stuff, 200 ewes and 100 lambs, to each of my daus. ^266 13s. 4=d. at their ages of 20 or marriage, in case I die without issue male, Judith Cave now vuj eldest daughter is to have my manors of Chicheley and Thickthornes in Bucks, and of Drayton near Daventry in Northants, and my parsonage place and rents in Lathbury Bucks, as they were purchased by the ICng's letters patent 4th Dec. 37 Hen. VIII., to hold to her and the heirs of her body, subject to my wife's interest therein. The residue of my lands to be equally divided between imj two daus. Anne and Martha Gave in fee tail, with cross remainders. My brethren Sir Ambrose Cave Kt., Francis Cave LL.D., and Brian Cave, and my cousin Cle- ment Vincent to be my executors. My wife EUzabeth, my brother Thomas Lovett, my brother Francis Tanfield, Mr. Justice Saunders, my cousin John Hunt of Lindon, my gossip Mr. William Wogan, my cousin Francis Saunders of Cold Ashby and my nephews Richard Cave, Thomas Wyrley, and Ambrose Saunders, to be Overseers of my Will. Schedule. In this scedule indented, made the xx. daye of Maye in the yere of our lorde god a thousaunde five hundred fiftie and five, is contayned the whole yerely value of all the mannours landes tene- mentes and hereditamentes that I Anthony Cave oS Chicheley in the countie of Buckinghm esquier have the daye of making heroff within the Realme of Englande or els wheare, wherof I doo appoincte one full thu'de parte of my saide landes to be to th'use of the Kinge and Queues Majesty according to a statute made in anno xxxij. of the late Kinge of ffamouse memory Henrye the eight for declaracon of willes. And the residewe of the same I doo appoincte to be to th'use and perfour- maunce of my last wiUe and testament for the preferrement of my wif and children and paying of my debtes in manner and fourme as followith according to the said statute. Ghicheley. And fyrsste the manners of Chicheley and Thickethornes with aU and singuUer their appurten- aunces in the countie of Buckes, as I purchaced the same of the late Kinge of famouse memorye King Henrye the eight, of the yerelie value of ....... . xxxvZi. iijs. And also other landes and tenementes in the same parishe, purchaced of Sir Robert Dormer Knight and of John Claibnall of Astwood, to the yeerly value of ymli. Draighton. The manner of Draiton in the parishe of Daventrie in the countie of Nortlitn. like as I pur- chaced the same of the saide late King, being of the yerehe value of . . . vijZi xviijs. xjti!. Whitechurch. The mannor of Powers in Whitchurche in the countie of Buckes, and the water mylne called the dune mylne, of the yerelie value of ......... . xiiijZi. Ovyny. Also in Oving in the saide countie the iiijth parte of the mannor, of the yerely value of xxs. xxtZ. Lathehury. Also in the parishe of Latheburye in the countie of Buckes certayne landes and tents purchaced of Edward Ardes gent, to the yerelie value of yli. vs. iiijiZ. Also certaine other landes and tenementes there, purchaced of the lorde marquis of Northamp- ton, of the yerelie value of xiiijZi. And also of Thomas Whalley and one Rowche, tvvoo tenementes, of the yerely value of xvjs. Also certaine other landes and tenementes there, purchaced of Mr. Denny, of the yerelie value of ............. . uijZi. xiijs. iiiyl. Also other landes there and in Stoke GoWington in the said coimtie, purchaced of the late noble Kinge Edward the Sixt, of the yerelie value of xjZi. xvjs. m.^d. and one pounde pepper and for a porcion of tithes in Willin, xs. yereUe Summa xijZi. vjs. viijii. Bedford. Also in the towne and feeldes of Bedford, landes and tenementes in the tenure and occuiDacon of WiUm. Smithe, of the yerelie value of yli. xixs. 86 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEy. Muehe Lyn/ord. Also in the parislie of Muche Lynforde in the countie of Buckes, certaine landes and tene- mentes, of the yerelie value of iijZi. Tickeford. In the parishe ofNewportein Tickford ende, three cotages and certaine free landes there, of the yerelie value of . . Is. Callais. In the town of Callice, certayn woUehouses and other, of the yerelie value of . . vi/i. The whole some of the yerely value of all whiche my saide landes and tenements as ap- peareth, is ............. . cxxZi. xiijs. vijcZ. Whereof is to be deducted, that I am yerelie charged with certayne payments out of the saide landes as followith, viz. to the scole maister ofLathebuxie for Ixxxxiiij. yeres out of the parsonage of Chicheley yerelie xijZi. and to John Massie late Vicar off Chicheley by my deede to him graunted for his yerely pencion or annuite during his hfe also for the tenthes of Chicheley yerelie is due to be paid to the King and Queues use iijZt. xs. iiyl, also for the tenthes of Draighton in the coun- tie of Northampton due yerehe to be paid xvs. and for the tenthes in the parsonage place in Latlie- burie vij.s. also my landes in Bedforde be yerelie charged for the payment of an annuitie appear- ing by my deed graunted to my brother Augustine Cave for the yerelie some of iijZi. vjs. viijcZ. and more paid yerelie for my landes in Bedford to the chapiter of Lincoln and to the King and Queues majesties for chief rentis xvjs. ix(L Also there is yerelie paid for chief rentis of my landes in AVhitechurche for the late manner of Powers to the lady of Oxford liiijs. Deductions out of the totall some of my hole landes, whiche I am yerehe charged to pay out of my saide Landes appear- ing by the particuliers here above declared, amounts unto xxviijZi. xs. \iijd. So remayneth clerely to be divided landes and tents to the clere yerelie value of IxxxxijZi. ijs. xj(Z. Wlierof, first, I do appoincte unto the King and Queues maiesties parte the manor of Draighton aforesaide in the couutie of Northampton, of the yerehe value of . . . vijZi. xviijs. xjrf. The manor of Powers with the mylne there in Whitechurche in the countie of Buckes, of the yerehe value of xiiijZi. Also the iiijth parte of the manner of Oving in the countie of Buckes of the yerely value xxs. xxcZ. Also in Muche Linforde in the said countie, twoofarmes and one cotage of ye yerely rent iijZi. Also in Tickeford and in the parishe of Newporte, certayn landes and tenementes of the yerehe value of Is. Also aU my landes in the towne and feeldes of Bedford of the yerehe value of . xixs. Summa totalis of tliis parte appoincted and sett out for the King and Queues majesties parte is xxxiiijZj. ixs. vij<^. And the just thirde parte according to the divident, the deductions allowed as befor appearithe is but ............... xxxZi. xiiijs. ixcZ. Also I doo appoincte and sett out to be the thirde parte of Elizabeth my wif during her hef thies landes and tenementes herafter folowing, parceU of the premisses, that is to saye, the man- ners of Chicheley and Tickthornes aforesaid with aU other landes and tentis in tlie parishe of Chicheley with all and singuher the appurtenances being of the yerelye value above mencyoned. And all the Residewe of my landes and tedementes herin contayned not appoincted to the King and Queues majesties nor to my wife I doo appoinct to be to the execution and perfourmaunce of my last wUle and testament. Will proved 5th Dec. 1558 in C. P. C. [7 WeUes.], IV. Elizabeth, the widov^^ of Anthony Cave, held m jointure the Manor and Man- sion of Chicheley, and soon married again. Her second husband was J ohn Nev^^di- THE WIDOW OF ANTHONY CAVE. 87 gate Esq. of Harefield in Middlesex, M.P. for that county. He was a widower, and (by a common arrangement of those days) his son and heir John, by his first wife, married Martha Cave the daughter of his second wife. He died about 1565, and his widow Elizabeth married thirdly at Chicheley,* on 7th July 1566, Richard Weston Esq., a Judge of Common Pleas. She was his third wife, and her youngest daughter Mary Cave married J erome Weston, his son and heir by his first wife. Richard Weston rose to eminence at the Bar in the reign of Queen Mary, and pur- chased in 1 554 the Manor of Skreens in the parish of Roxwell, in his native county of Essex. (24) He was made Solicitor-General 20th November 1557, and a Judge of Common Pleas 16th October 1559. (25) He had no issue by his third marriage, and died 6th July 1572. RicHABD Wbstone ' One of the Queen's Maiesties Justices of her Common Pleas at Westmin- ster.' Wm dated 4th July 1572. to be buried in the parish church of Writtle in Essex, where my late well-beloved wife Mar- garetf was interred, a monument to us both to be set up there with our arms joined together. My executors to receive the rents of my lands in Netteswell, Great and Little Parndon, Har- low and Latton in Essex until my second son Nicholas Weston be 21, and until my daus. Wyne- fride and Margaret be 18 or married. My said daughters to be brought up and educated by my wife. My Manor of Netteswell to my said son Nicholas at 21, with remainder to my son and heir Jerome Weston. After the death of Elizabeth my wife, my executor to receive the rents of my lands ia East and West Tilbujy for seven years to pay my debts and legacies. The residue of all my manors and lands to my said son and heir Jerome Weston, to my said wife Elizabeth all such goods, plate, jewels, &c., as belonged to her late husbands Anthony Cave and John Newdigate deceased. to each of my own daughters Wynifride and Margaret ^500 at her marriage or age of 18. to Mary Sladej; Joan Mylborne's sister £-10. My said son Jerome to be my sole executor. JohnPyncheon of Writtle Esq. and John Glascock of Roxwell Gent, to be overseers of my Will. Will proved in C.P.C. 29th July 1572. [26 Daper.] His widow Elizabeth Weston survived him five years, and after his death re- sided at Chicheley, where she erected in her third widowhood the monument to Anthony Cave, which has been already described. On 1st March 1576-7 she was godmother to her grandson, Richard Weston, afterwards Earl of Portland and Lord High Treasurer of England, who was born in her house and was baptized at Chicheley.* She died in the summer of this year, and was buried at Chicheley on 21st August 1577.* Elizabeth Weston of Cliicheley co. Buckes widow. Will dated 24th July (19 EUz.) 1577. to be buried ia the parish church of Cliicheley, where Master Anthony Cave my first husband lyeth. to Griffith Hampden and Jerome Weston Esqrs. my sons-in-law all my right and interest in the water miUs in Newport, &c. to my said son Weston and my dau. Mary his wife half my household stuff, and the other half to my said son Hampden and my dau. Ann his wife, to the daus. of John New- * From the parish register of Chicheley ; ' 1566, July 7, Richard Weston and Elizabeth Newdigate married. 1576-7, March 1, Richard Weston son of Jerome bapt. 1577, Aug. 21, Elizabeth Weston bmied. t Margaret, second wife of the testator and the mother of his children, Nicholas Winefred and Margaret, was the dau. of Eustace BurnebyEsq. and was buried April 10, 1565. I Mary Slade and her sister Joan wife of John Milborne of Marks Hall in Dunmow were the daugh- ters of John Slade of Coventry by the testator's sister. (26) 88 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. digate and my late dau. Martha his wife, and of my son Hampden and Ann his wife, J 100 among them equally, to each at 18 or marriage, sundry plate and jewels to my said son Weston and his wife, and to WOliam Hampden and Elizabeth Hampden son and dau. of said Grif&th, and to Elizabeth Newdigate dau. to my said late dau. Newdigate, and to Anne Weston dau. of my said son Weston, and to Richard Weston my godson, to my sister Harby ^10. to EHza- beth* Vincent my goddaughter and kinswoman ,£10. Numerous bequests to servants and to poor of various places, to my dau.-in-law Audrey Conquest £S 6s. Sd. for a jewel, to Winifred and Margaret Weston my daus. -in-law, each £o. to Edmond Barkerf my sister's son, and to his sister Friswoorth Bishoppe, each £5. residue of personalty to my executors to their own use. to Anthony Chester, my eldest daughter's son, a certain close of pasture in Chicheley with re- mainder to said Griffith Hampden and Jerome Weston, in trust to bestow the profits thereof on the poor. Also to said Anthony Chester and his heirs the house and Inn in Chicheley adjoining my mansion house, my manor of Rutlands in Cranfeild in Beds, to go first to said Jerome Wes- ton and my said dau. Mary his wife and their heirs male, remainder to said Anthony Chester my said eldest daughter's son and his heirs male, remainder to my said son-in-law Grif&th Hampden and my said dau. Ann his wife, and their heirs male, remainder to John Newdigate son and heir apparent of John Newdigate now of Harefeild in Middlesex Esq., and his heirs male, remainder to my own right heirs. The said Anthony Chester to have the profits of the said close during his minority. The said Griffith Hampden and Jerome Weston to be my executors, and Robert Price Esq. and Robert Williams Gent, to be Overseers of my WUl. Will proved 20th Nov. 1577 in C. P. C. [44 Daughtry.] * Elizabeth, dau. of Clement Vincent Esq. of Harpole, by Anne Tanfield, niece of Anthony Cave of Chicheley (see p. 79), married Richard Lane Esq. of CourteenhaU, and was the mother of Sir Richard Lane, the Lord Keeper. (27) t Edmund Barker SLniFrideswide, wife of Thomas Bishop of Dunton, Bucks, were chUdren of Thomas Barker of Astrop, by Anne Lovett, sister of the testatrix. PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. The pedigrees of Cave in Nichols' Hist, of co. Leicester Baronetage 1741, and the Visitation of co. Leicester, 1618, and records. {1) Mon. Angl. Mi. iQQ. (13) (2) Bridges, i. 582. (14) (3) Rolls of Arms, edited by Su" H. Nicholas. (15) (4) Brewer's Calendars of Henry VIII. 1528, 18 (16) June and 8 July. (17) (5) Ped. of Andrew in Baker's Northants, i. 296. (18) (6) Nichols' Hist, of co. Leic. ii. 664, 792. (19) (7) Life of Sir Edw. Saunders in Cooper's 4i/ie?i£8 (20) Cantab, i. 359 ; and in Foss's Judges, vol. v. (21) (8) Life of Su- Ambrose Cave in Athenoe Cantab. i. 251. (22) (9) Life of Henry Smith in Athena Cantab, ii. (23) 103 ; Fuller's Church Hist. v. 8. (24) (10) Sir A. Croke's Hist, of Croke Family. (25) (1 1) Ped. of Tanfield in Baker, ii. 276, 282. (26) (12) Campbell's Chancellors, ii. 608. (27) , Bridges' Hist, of co. Northampton, Wotton's have been consulted, and corrected by wills Athena Oxon., Fasti, ii. 37. Inq. p.m. Bryan Cave Arm. 34 Eliz. Nichols, iii. 290. Progresses of James I. ii. 260. Nichols, iv. 989. Newcourt, i. 367, 528. Nichols, ii. 656. Nichols, iii. 1135. Particulars of Grants, 37 Hen. VIII. in Re- cord Of&ce. Inq. p.m. Antonii Cave Arm. 1 Eliz. Bucks. Lipscomb's Bucks, iv. 208. Morant's Essex, ii. 71. Life of Richard Weston, in Foss's Judges. Ped. of Milborne in Vis. of Essex 1634. Baker, i. 181. HAMPDEN or GREAT HAMPDEN. 89 CHAPTEE VIII. The daugliters and coheirs of Anthony Cave of Chicheley. II. The Hampdens of Great Hampden^ and pedigree of Hampden and Waller. III. Martha Cave, idfe of John Neiodigate Esq. IV. The Westons of Roxioell. V. The Westons., Earls of Portland. I NOW proceed to give some account of the sisters of Judith Chester tlie heiress of Chicheley, for her father Anthony Cave left at his death in 1558 four daughters and coheirs, of whom Judith was the eldest and his principal heir. The others were named Anne, Martha, and Mary. They were all unmarried in 1558, and there was a great difference in their ages, for Judith was born on the ] 5th Nov. 1542, and was only twenty months older than Anne, whilst Mary was nearly fourteen years younger. They all married persons of some consideration, and had children. Anne married Griffith Hampden Esq., Martha married John Newdigate Esq., and Mary married Sir J erome Weston Kt. II. Anne Cave, the second daughter of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, was born on 24th Feb. 1544-5. Her godmother was Mrs. Lovett of Strixton, the Avidow of Thomas Lovett Esq. Ill, of Astwell (her mother's grandfather), who, by her will in 1556, bequeathed 'a heifer' to her goddaughter (see p. 60). Anne married Griffith Hampden Esq. of Great Hampden, whom Queen Elizabeth honoured with a visit at Hampden in 1563, in her progress through Buckinghamshire, (i) He was High Sheriff of Bucks in 1575, and was returned to Parliament in 1585 as one of the knights of the shire. He died 27th Oct. 1591, and was buried at Great Hampden on the 18th Nov. following. (2) Griffith Haimpden of Great Plampcleu Bucks Esq. [no date, hut earhj in 1591). To be buried in the Chancel of Great Hampden Church. To my wife Auiie my whole stock of cattle, kine, &c., but if she marry again, she is to pay one half of their value to my executors. My said wife to have the use of my plate and household stuff until my eldest son WiUiam come of age. To my said son William my great chain of gold, and my ring of gold with the seal of my arms, with remainder to my son Edmond, remainder to my right heirs. My wife to have the care of my unmarried daughters, until they be 17. To my daus. Elizabeth and Anne Hampden 1000 marks each, and to my dau. Mary Hampden £500, to be paid to them at 21 or marriage; if either die, the others of them to have her portion, and my younger son Edmond to share with them . 13th Oct. 1591. Whereas I have, since writing the above, concluded a marriage between Jerome Plorsey Gent, and my said dau. Elizabeth, and have agreed to pay him .£700 for her portion, I revoke my former bequest to her. Codicil dated 27th Aug. 1502. Sly wife Anne and my son William to be my executors. !RIy good friend Sir. Myles Sandes, 90 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. my cousin John Croke the elder, my cousin William Shepparcl of Littlecote, my friend Mr. Robert Ciialloner D.D., my cousin Alexander Hampden, my cousin John Croke junior, and my cousin William Hampden, to be overseers of my Will. To my dau. Hatley my gilt goblet and the cover havii^g" a griffin on the toj), which was bequeathed to her by her grandmother my mother, and also sundry bowls of silver gilt that were my mother Weston's. To my dau. Ogiethorx^e other bowls. To my grandchild E,obert Hatley a gilt cup. I forgive my son Hatley and my dau. his wife the ^20 they owe me. To Hampden Williams, son of my sister Williams, a gilt goblet. To my brother Williams my trotting black mare. The Schedule of real estate annexed to the Will is dated 15th July 1589. Will and Codicil proved by the widow and son 29th Apr. 1592 in C.P.C. [29 Harrington.] His widow Anne Hampden died 31st Dec. 1593, and was buried at Great Hampden 9tli Jan. 1593-4. Griffith and Anne Hampden had issue three sons and five daughters, who were ail born and baptized at Great Hampden. (2) I. William, their son and heir. II. Edmund Hampden was admitted a student of the Inner Temple in 1599,(3) and inherited his father's estate of Prestwood in Great Missenden. He was knighted by James I., and married Elinor, widow of Baldwin Bernard Esq. of Abington, Northants, in whose right he was lord of the manor of Abington. He died there 21st Dec. 1627, and left issue. (4) III. John was baptized 2d Nov. 1578, was" buried on the 12th Feb. following. I. Dorothea was baptized 26th March 1569, and married 24th Oct. 1587 (2) Robert Hatley Esq. of Bedfordshire, by whom she had issue. II. Elizabeth, married in 1592 Sir Jerome Horsey Kt., who was knighted at Whitehall 23d July 1603, (s) and was Sheriff of Bucks in 1611. Their son and heir Jerome was baptized at Great Hampden 25th Jan. 1593-4. III. Ruth was baptized 15th May 1575, and married at St. Dunstan's in the West London, 21st Jan. 1587-8, Edward Oglethorpe Esq. (6) She married, secondly, Sir Philip Sciidamore Kt., and thirdly, Henry Leigh Esq. of Rusliall, who was SheriflP of Staffordshire in 1622, and was buried at Rusliall on 19th Dec. 1630. IV. Mary, baptized 9th July 1576. V. Anne Hampden was baptized 10th Dec. 1589, and married Robert Waller Esq. of Coleshill Bucks, the cousin german of Elizabeth Boteler, the wife of the first Sir Anthony Chester. Pie therefore was related to Lady Chester in precisely the same degree as his wife was related to Sir Anthony. He was buried at Beacons- field on 2d Sept. 1616, and his Will shows that he left four sons. Kobeut Waller of Beconsfikld Bucks Gext. Will dated 21st Dec. 1(515. My son and heir Edmond Waller to have all my estate, real and i^ersonal, not otherwise disposed of, but my wife is to liave the use of my house, &c. until he comes of age. To my younger sons Griffith and Steven Waller, £'500 each at 21. To my daughters who arc unmarried at the time of my death, i'500 each at the age of 16. My wife to be my sole executrix. Codicil, dated 19th Feb. 1G15-1C. To my son John, who was born since the date of my Will, £500 at 21. Wm proved in C.P.C. 7th Feb. l(il(l-17 by the widow Anne WaUer. [17 Weldon,] HAMPDEN OF GKEAT HAMPDEN. 90* His widow Anne survived him above thirty-six years, and was buried beside him at Beaconsfield on 9th April 1653. (7) She was a staunch royalist and did not scruple to avow it to Cromwell himself, if we may trust Johnson's life of her famous son Edmund Waller the poet : but it must be suspected that in this well- known anecdote she has been confused with her sister-in-law Mrs. Hampden, for Cromwell could scarcely have called Mrs. Waller his aunt. Her loyalty was not shared by all her children, for her daughter Mrs. Price is believed to have betrayed to the Parliament the Association in favour of the King, known as Waller's Plot, in which Edmund Waller and his brother-in-law Tomkins were the principal agents^ The poet saved his life at the cost of his liberty, his reputation, and a . great part of his estate ; but Nathaniel Tomkins was executed near his own house at the end of Fetter-lane in Holborn, on the 5th July 1643. (8) He was clerk of the Queen's Council, and married on 10th Feb. 1624-5, Cecilia Waller, by whom he had issue a son Eobert and a daughter Anne, the wife of Sir Frederick Hyde Kt., Chief- Justice of South Wales. Anne Waller of Beconsfield Bucks Widow. Will dated 8tli Nov. 1652. To be buried in Beconsfield Churchyard near my husband. To the poor of Beconsfield, ,£10. To my daughter Mary, wife of my son Edmond Waller Esq., my coach and horses. To my daugh- ters Cicelie Tompldns and Ursula Dobbins, ^100 each. To my gi-andcliild Robert Waller, the Bell Inn at Beconsfield, which I bought of my cousin Edmond Waller Esq., of Gregory's. To my grandchildren Robert and Anna Mary Waller, my two great diamond rings ; Robert to choose one, and his sister to have the other. To my grandcliild Mary Waller, daughter of my son Edmond, ^£100 at her age of 14. To my said son Edmond, all my household stuff, furniture, and plate. The residue of my personal estate to be equally divided between my said grandchUdi'en Robert and Anna Mary Waller. My loving friend Mr. George Gosnold to be my executor. To my grandchild Edmond Petty Esq., £0. WlU proved in C.P.C. 2d Aug. 1053 by the executor. Edmund Waller's life is the subject of a nobler page; (9) but it should be men- tioned that he was more than three years older than Johnson supposed, when he ' won by his address the very rich wife in the city,' for he was born* on 3d March 1605-6, and he married Anne Bankes on 5th July 1631. She was the only child of John Bankes, Mercer of London, who died 9th Sept. 1630, and gave by his Will 6000^. to charitable uses, as was recorded on his monutnent in the Church of St. Michael le Quern. (10) The story of the poet's runaway marriage has hitherto been im- perfectly told, but the details have lately been discovered amongst the recordsf of the City of London. John Bankes made his Will on 20th May 1630, and gave thereby to his only child Anne one half of his personal estate ' according to the custom of London.' At the same time he directed his executor Robert Tichborne to pay for his daughter's use to the Mercers' Company 8000Z., for which they were to give their bonds to the Corporation of London. The effect of this bequest was to make the heiress ' an orphan of the City' and the ward of the Corporation, but * Eev. S. J. Bowles, Rector of Beaconsfield, assures me that this is the true date, and that the poet's M.I. is incorrectly printed in Lipscomb's History of Bucks (ill. 201). t Communicated by Mr. W. H. Overall, the courteous librarian of the Corporation of London. 91 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. the custody of her person was intrusted to her uncle Kobert Tichborne during her minority. Edmond Waller's addresses were more acceptable to the heiress than to her guardian, and in June 1631 she was carried off from Alderman Tichborne's house by Captain Henry Waller and his wife, who took her into Buckinghamshire out of the jurisdiction of the City, with the intention of marrying her to their cousin. A complaint was lodged with the Privy Council, who issued a warrant for the appre-.- hension of Henry Waller and his wife, and on 9th June 1631 the heiress was restored by the Sergeant-at-Arms to the custody of the Lord Mayor. The case was brought before the Court of Aldermen on 14:th June, when the Lord Mayor reported that 'Mr. [Edmond] Waller hath diverse tymes attempted to visit her, much ymportuning to know by what order she should be kept from sight of him ;' whereupon the Court ordered, that ' the orphan should with his lordship's good liking continue in his custody,' and that Mr. Waller and Mr. Tichborne forbear from access unto her until further order be made. But the lovers set the Court at defiance, and were married without permission at St. Margaret's Westminster, on 5th July 1631. The Corporation now filed an information in the Star Chamber against Edmond Waller and all who had abetted him in 'the great and manifest contempt and violation of the good and laudable laws and customs of the City, whereby in strictness his wife's portion (being about 8000Z.) became forfeited unto the City.' But Waller's offence in carrying off. the heiress was easily condoned at Court, and the King not only pardoned him but wrote a gracious letter on his behalf to the Lord Mayor. Armed with this letter he presented himself before the Court of Aldermen on 15th December 1631, and on his explaining that he had assured to his wife a jointure of lOOOZ. per annum, with power to dispose of 2000Z. at her own pleasure, the Court was pleased 'to conceive well of him,' and an order was made to dismiss him from the Suit in the Star Chamber and to waive the for- feiture of his wife's portion on payment of a fine of 500 marks. William Hampden, son and heir of Griffith and Anne, was baptized 5th Nov. 1570, and was admitted a student of the Inner Temple in Michaelmas Term 1588. (3) He succeeded his father in 1591 and was M.P. for East Loo in 1592, but died on the 2d April 1597, at the early age of twenty-seven. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell Kt. of Hinchinbrook, and the aunt of Oliver Cromwell the Protector, who survived him sixty-seven years and ten months, and was buried at Great Hampden 21st Feb. 1664-5. He left two sons, John Hampden ' the patriot' and Richard Hampden of Emmington Oxon, some- time M.P. for Wendover : who lived in great intimacy with their cousins at Chicheley, and were in 1628 trustees of the marriage settlement of the second Sir Anthony Chester. (See page 115.) William Hampden of Great Hampden Bucks Esq. Will dated 23d March, 39 Eliz. (1596-7). My dearest wife Elizabeth to have the chamber in Hampden House she shall chuse, with the furniture thereof, also ^£100 in jewels and ^40 in plate, which she brought with her. To my friend Sir Henry Cromwell ^ 5 for a ring. To my uncle Warren my best gray ambling gelding, and to HAMPDEN OF GREAT HAMPDEN. 91* my aunt Warren his wife a ring. To each of my sisters ^5 for a bracelet. To my brother Horsey a gelding or ^6 at his choice. To my brother Hatley my bay horse which he gave me when a colt. To my cousin Alexander Hampden* my bay trotting gelding. To my \mole Weston my bay mare called ' bale Peter and to my cousin Wnham Hampden of Emmiugton her colt. To my brother Oglethorpe the colt of my gray mare. To my brother Edmund Hampden my black trotting gelding. To Mr. Pdchard Cromwell a gray gelding. To Mr. Robert Heines my gray mare. To Nicholas Bosse my little graj^ mare. To each of my sister's children who are my godchildren ^£10. To Francis Cooper £(j 13*. id. To Dorothy Leach for attending me in my sickness 5 marks, and the same to Joyce Baseley. The portion which my father and mother gave to Thomas Hawtrey to be increased to .f 20. My cousins William Hampden of Emmington and George Croke of Chilton Bucks Esquires to be my executors. Witnesses: E. Oglethorpe, Pdchard Woodcock, and R. Heines. Will proved in C.P.C. 9th June 1597. [52 Cobham.] John Hampden ' the patriot' was only two years old when his father died, and received the usual education of an opulent country gentleman at an University and an Inn of Court. He matriculated at Magdalen College Oxford, on the 30th March 1610, at the age of fifteen, and was, like his father and grandfather,! a student of the Inner Temple, where he was admitted in Michaelmas Term 1613. (3) His eventful career belongs rather to history than to genealogy, but his second wife Dame Lettice Vachell, who was the companion of the most eventful years of his life, has hitherto been strangely overlooked. She was the widow of Sir Thomas Vachell Kt. of Coley Park near Reading, and the daughter of Sir Francis Knollys Kt. She survived her second husband twenty-three years, and was buried with him at Great Hampden on 29th March 1666. Dame Lettice Vachell alias Hampden of Coley, in the Paeish of St. Mary's, Reading, Berks, Widow. Will dated 25th Sept. 1665. To be buried at Hampden by my dear husband, if convenient. To my sister Anne Temple, £50. To my sister the Lady Cecilia Knollys, my ring with four diamonds. To my niece Mrs. Margaret Hamond, my coach and horses, &c. To my nephew j Mr. Robert Hamond, my suit of hangings in the dining-room. To my niece and goddaughter Mrs. Leticia Hamond, my gold tablet enamelled and set with rubies and opals, wherein is the picture of my aunt the Countess of Leicester, also other jewels and furniture. To my grandchild]: Mrs, Elizabeth Hamond, my diamond lockett and my gold tablet, wherein is my father's picture. To my grandchild Mary Hamond, a diamond ring. To my grandchUd] Letitia Hamond, my wedding ring, &c. To my niece Durham, a bed, &c To my faithful pastor Mr. Christopher Fowler, ^20. To Leticia Thistlethwaite, my diamond ring, which I bought of her mother for .£20. To Francis Knollys my nephew, the ten pictures left in my hands by his deceased father. To John Bushell my servant, £-2o, and to his wife Margaret, £25. Legacies to other servants. To each of the three parishes of Reading, ^10. The residue to my son Richard Hampden Esq., who is to be my executor. Wm proved 22d May 1666 in C.P.C. [90 Mice] * Alexander Hampden of HartweU was knighted at his own house by James I. on 30th June 1603, when the King was on a visit there. (5) Nichols has on this occasion confused Hartwell House with Hampden House {Progresses of James I. i. 198) . t Griffith Hampden was admitted at the Inner Temple in Noremher 1560. (3) J Lady Vachell was doubly connected with the Hamonds. Her ' nephew Robert Hamond' was the son of her sister EUzabeth, and the executor of his grandfather Sir Francis Knollys in 1648. Her ' grandchildren Hamond' \vere the children of Colonel Eobert Hamond, the well-known Governor of Carisbrook Castle, who died in 1653, by Mary Hampden, daughter of the patriot's first marriage. 92 THE CHESTEKS OF CHICHELEY. PEDIGREE OP HAMPDEN AND WALLER. Arms. — Argent, a saltire Gules between four eagles displayed Azure : Hampden. Sable, tbree walnut leaves Or in bend between two cotizes Argent : Wallee. Anthony Cave Esq. of Chicheley ; died 9 Sept. 1558. I 1 wife=f=Tliomas Ball, 2 h. of ^Elizabeth, dau. of Wil-=j=l b. Robert Waller Beaconsfield. Will dat. 13 Oct. 1558. Ham Duncombe ; widow 1562. Judith Cave, heir of Chiche- ley; marr. William Chester Esq. A Chester op Chicheley. Anne Cave,= cob. ; born 24 Feb. 1544-5 ; died 31 Dec. 1593. =Griffith Hampden Esq. of Gt. Hamp- den ; died 27 Oct. 1591. 1 I CecUy Ball; mar. at Amer- sham 7 Oct. 1555. of Beaconsfield ; died 1545. I =Edmund WaUer of Coleshill Bucks ; bur. 10 April 1603. 1 Hugh Pope, cit.=j=Catha- =j=2 h. Sir and haber- dasher of Lon- don. Will dat. 22 Nov. 1562 ; proved 14 Jan. 1562-3. nne Waller; died 1572. William Hamp-= den Esq. of Great Hampden. Son and heir ; bapt. 5 Nov. 1570 ; died 2 April 1597. =Elizabeth, auut of Oliver Crom- well ; bur. 21 Feb. 1664-5, aged 90. — I Two sons ; four dauB. Anne Hamp-= den; bapt. 10 Dec. 1589 ; died 9 AprU 1653. Henry Bo- teler Kt. of Hatfield Woodhall ; marr. 26 July 1563. John Hampden THE PATRIOT. Richard Hamp- den ; bapt. at Barking Essex 7 Nov. 1596. M.P. forWendover; bur. 13 Jan. 1659-60. I Edmund Waller the poet; born 3 March 1605-6 ; died 21 Oct. 1687. III. 1 — Foui- daus. ; three sons. =Robt. Waller Esq. of Coleshill ; bur. at Beacons- field 2 Sept. 1616. 1 Cecilia Waller ; marr. 10 Feb. 1624-5 Nathaniel Tomkins Esq. of Waller's plot. Elizabeth Boteler ; marr. 24 Oct. 1589 Sir Anthony Chester Bart, of Chicheley. i Chester of Chicheley. Martha Cave, third daughter of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, was born 24t]i Feb. 1545-6, and married John Newdigate Esq. of Harefield in Middlesex, the son and heir of her stepfather. He was born at Beaconsfield in 1541, and was elected from Eton to King's College Cambridge 25th Aug. 1559, of which college he became a Fellow 26th Aug. 1562. He was a good scholar, for his verses are inserted in the University Collection on the Restoration of Bucher and Fagius in 1560. He proceeded B.A. in 1563-4, and then went abroad on his travels, for he commenced M.A. at Prague. After his father's death in 1565 he re- turned to England, and was M.P. for Middlesex in the second and third Par- liaments of Queen Elizabeth, (ii) His wife died before her mother leaving several children, of whom the eldest son (Sir J ohn Newdigate) was the ancestor of the extinct baronets of this name. (12) Newdigate exchanged the manor of Harefield, on the 20th Nov. 1585, with Sir Edmund Anderson, Chief- Justice of Common Pleas, for the manor and mansion of Arbury in Warwickshire, which has WESTON OF ROXWELL. 93 ever since been the seat of the Newdigates. He died in London, and his burial is recorded in the parish register of St. Mildred's in the Poultry: '^1591-2, Feb. 26. John Nidigate Esq. of Arburie co. Warwick, buried.^ (13) IV. Mary Cave, the youngest daughter of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, was born 1st Nov. 1556, nearly eighteen months after the date of her father's Will, and married Sir Jerome Weston Kt. of Skreens Manor in Eoxwell, the son and heir of her late stepfather Judge Weston. Their descendants rose to great honour, and their history is so imperfectly exhibited in the Baronage (14), that I have attempted to trace it in some detail. There are two conflicting stories of the origin of the Westons of Roxwell. The version commonly accepted is taken from the pedigree, which was fabricated in 1632 for Richard Lord Weston, then Lord Treasurer of England. This elaborate pedigree, engrossed on vellum, is preserved in the British Museum, (15) and is printed (very inaccurately) in Harwood's edition of Erdeswick's Survey of Stafford- shire, p. 164. It was compiled by Lily, Rouge Croix, and certified by Sir Wil- liam Segar, Garter, and professes to be deduced from authentic records. It sets forth that Richard Weston the Judge was the second son of John Weston of Lich- field by no less a personage than the Lady Cecily Nevill, sister of Ralph Earl of Westmoreland, whilst John Weston of Lichfield was the fourth son of John Weston of Rugeley, who was lineally descended from Reginald de Baliol, the Domesday lord of Weston-under-Lizard in Staffordshire. The root of this pedigree can be cut off at once, for it is well established that the manor of Weston-under-Lizard was included in the Domesday fee of the Sheriff of Shropshire, and that Reginald de Baliol's tenure of it was official and temporary, and not personal and hereditary. (16) He married, before Domesday, Aimeria the niece of Roger de Montgomery Earl Palatine of Shropshire, and the widow of Warine, who was the Earl's Vicegerent and Sheriff (Vice-Comes). During the minority of Warine's heir his office and estate were enjoyed by Reginald, the husband of his widow ; but it is certain that Weston did not descend to the heirs of Reginald de Baliol, for it passed, with the rest of the Sheriff's fee, to the house of Fitz-Alan, whose mesne tenant in the reign of Henry III. bore the local name of Weston. Towards the end of the fourteenth century the inheritance of Weston descended through heiresses to the Myttons, with whom it remained above two hun- dred years. But it seems from the deeds quoted by Segar, that the male line of the Westons survived in a younger branch, and continued for many generations to hold lands under the Myttons. This is confirmed by the Will of James Weston of Lich- field (who died in May 1589), for he says that his 'ancestors had long been tenants to the Myttons of the lands which he held at Newlands.' James Weston was brother to Robert Weston Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who died 20th May 1573, 94 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. but I can tind no evidence* that he was also brother to Richard Weston the Judge, as alleged by Segar. In the absence of any proof that Richard Weston, the purchaser of Skreens, was connected with Staffordshire and the noble family of Nevill, there are strong reasons for accepting the positive statement of Morant the historian of Essex, that he sprang from an Essex family, and was the grandson of William Weston, a Mercer of Lon- don, who died in 1515, and was lord of the manor of Prested Hall in the parish of Feering in that county. (17) William Weston, Mercer of London. Will dated 20tli June 1514. If I die in the parisli of All Hallows Honey-lane London, then to be buried in the Church- yard ' between my father's seller window and the bordyd dore of my parlor, as nigh unto the Church wall as may be.' Legacy to the ' Masyndewe' [Maison Dieu] at Dover, on condition that the Master and Brethren pray for the souls of Sir Harry Overe, John Chapman, Robert Basey, and Agnes Sislington. to my cousin Joan with my sister at Keldon (Kelvedon) vis viiic^. and to my sister xs. One third part of my estate to be divided between my five children, viz. to Master Weston in the New College at Oxford £5, to Richard Weston £10, to Thomas and John Weston ^620 each, and the residue to Mary Weston on her marriage. One other tliird part to Margaret my wife, and also my manor of Prested Hall in Essex in the parishes of Feering and Messing, for her life with remainder to my children. My said wife Margaret, Master William Weston her eldest son, and Thomas Weston her son, to be my executors. Will proved in C. P. C. 6th Feb. 1514-15. [31 Fettiplace.] John Weston, the fourth son of William the testator, is said by Morant to * I subjoin an abstract of the WUIs of Eobert and James Weston to show that they omit all notice of Richard Weston the Judge, and his children, and of his sister Mrs. Slade, and her children ; whilst Richard ia his WiU (p. 85) is equally silent about his supposed brothers and sisters. RoBEHT Weston, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Will dated 2d May 1573. to my wife Alice, whom I make my sole executrix, all my goods and chattels whatsoever, and es- pecially my lease of the parsonage of Isleworth and Twickenham, with the advowson and prebend of Saw- ley in the Cathedral Chm-ch of Lichfield, now iu the hands of my brother James Weston, to my dan. Audrey Weston my lease of the parsonage of Stone and £100 towards her marriage, to my son John Weston my lease of the prebend of Freeford, &c. to my dau. Alice, now wife to the Lord Bishop of Meath, all my arras hangings in the great chamber of St. Pulchers, and my great gilt cup. to my young nephews (grandsons) Luke and Ehzabeth Bradie two angels each, to my sister Ball a lease, to my dau. Ehzabeth Weston 200 marks towards her marriage, to my cousin John BaU aU my books. Wm proved ia C. P. C. 18th July 1573. [25 Petre.] James Weston of Lichfield the elder. WUl dated 2d May 1689. to be buried ' in the place called St. John's Quier, within the Chappie Church, wheare my wife lyeth.' to my son James Weston a rent-charge of £20 per annum out of my lands in King's Bromley, Handsacre, and Armitage, untU he is 24, and then £30 a year for his wife, to be paid to him by my son and heir Simon Weston. My ancestors having long been tenants to the Myttons of the lands which I hold at Newlands, I will that either my son Simon or my dau. Ahce give a reasonable portion for it. to my two sisters and my brother Christopher rings of 20s. each. John Mytton Esq. of Weston, my son Simon, and my dau. Alice Weston, to be my executors. My brother Lowe, my cousin BardeU, and my son-in-law Humfry Wells, to be overseers of my Will. WiU proved 24th May 1589 in C. P. C. [48 Leicester.] ' The two sisters' mentioned in James Weston's Will were evidently Alice Ball and Catherine Dyott, both of Lichfield. WESTON OF EOXWELL. 95 have been the father of Eichard Weston the purchaser of Skreens, and the mark of cadency in the Judge's arms proves that he or his father was a fourth son. He bore Ermine, an a chief azure five bezants, with a martlet for difference. These arms are to be seen on the tomb of his daughter Lady Tichborne in Winchester Cathe- dral, (i 8) and were allowed to his grandson Sir Eichard Weston in the Visitation of Essex in 1614. They are wholly different from the arms of the Westons of Eugeley, which were Or, an eagle displayed regardant sable; but it is significant that when the pedigree of 1632 was compiled, Lord Weston assumed the coat of the eagle, and in the same year Segar granted both coats to Eichard Weston of Eugeley and his cousins at Lichfield. (19) The name of Weston is so common in England and occurs in so many counties, that it is almost impossible to distinguish with precision between a multitude of families all more or less obscure. It is therefore to be de- plored that Morant omitted to state the evidence on which he departed from the received pedigree. He is by no means infallible as an authority, for his genealogical inferences are often wrong, but he had access to so many collections (now dispersed) of Essex deeds and muniments of title, that his testimony cannot lightly be rejected in statements of fact. Of the two unproved pedigrees of Weston, Morant's version seems on many grounds* to be by far the more probable. Whatever may have been his parentage, the Judge was the real founder of his family, and owed his estates to his own industry at the Bar, and not to his ancestors ; and it is certain that all his purchases were in Essex, and that all his known con- nexions belonged to that county. His chief seat was Skreens in the parish of Eox- well, which he purchased in 1554. (20) He was made Solicitor-Greneral in 1557, and was raised to the Bench as a Judge of Common Pleas 16th Oct. 1559, which office he retained until his death. (20) He died 6th J uly 1572, and his Will has been already printed at p. 87. His only relation, of whose existence I have found any cer- tain proof, is his sister, who married John Slade of Coventry, and had two daughters Mary Slade, and Joan wife of John Milborne of Marks Hall in Dunmow. They are both mentioned in their uncle's Will, and the relationship is proved by the marriage settlement of John Milborne, which is set forth in his Inq. p.m. in 1594, (21) and in certain proceedings of the same year in the Court of Wards and Liveries, when Joan Milborne his widow was appointed guardian of her son and heir Eobert. (2 1) This settlement is dated 1st April 12th Ehz. (1570), and is expressed to be made in consideration of the marriage then intended between John Milborne Gent, of * It is certain, from the Wills stiU extant, that there were several families of Weston amongst the Yeomanry of Essex in the sixteenth century. Amongst others, I find the Will of John Weston of Stan- ford le Hope, yeoman, whose Will is dated 23d Nov. 1521. He mentions his wife Cecily, his four sons — WiUiam Weston the elder, John, Humphrey, and William the younger — and his daughter Cecily. The testator was evidently a man of considerahle substance and advanced in years, for his eldest son William was ah-eady the father of four sons, who were named WiUiam, Eichard, John, and William the younger. [22 Maynwaring in C. P. C] There is no trace of any connexion with William Weston of Prested Hall, whose Will is printed at page 94 ; but there is a remarkable similarity in the Chiistian names of both families. 96 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. Dunmow and Joan Slade cousin (consanguineam) of Eichard Weston Justice of Common Pleas, whereby the estate of Marks Hall was conveyed on certain trusts to Jerome Weston, Richard Lee, and William Loveday. ' Consanguinea' has a very wide meaning, but it is distinctly stated in the pedigree of Milborne in the Visitation of Essex of 1634 that Joan Slade was the niece of the Judge. Eichard Weston had three wives. By his first wife Wiburga, daughter of Michael Catesby Esq. of Seaton in Eutlandshire, and widow of Eichard Jenoure Esq. of Great Dunmow, he had issue JEROME his son and heir, and Amphillis wife of Sir Benjamin Tichborne Kt. and Bart, of Tichborne Hants. By his second wife Mar- garet, daughter of Eustace Burneby Esq., whose burial is recorded at Eoxwell on 10th April 1565 (but who appears from her husband's Will to have been buried at Writtle), he had issue Nicholas, Winifred, and Margaret, who were mere children at the date of their father's death. Winifred died unmarried, and was buried at Eoxwell 3d March 1590-1. Margaret, baptized at Eoxwell 3d May 1564, married, first John Loveday Esq., and secondly Andrew Glascock Esq. of Eltham Park Kent. Eichard Weston married thirdly at Chicheley on 7th July 1566 Elizabeth, the widow of John Newdigate and of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, but had no further issue. Jerome Weston, the son and heir of Eichard the Judge, was twenty-two years old when his father died in 1572, and married, some two years afterwards, Mary Cave the youngest daughter of his stepmother. He was High Sheriff of Essex in 1599, and was knighted at the Charterhouse by James I. on the 11th May 1603. (5) He married two wives. His first wife, Mary Cave, was the mother of his children, and was buried at Eoxwell on the 6th Oct. 1593. He had no issue by his second wife Margery, who was the daughter of George Pert, a citizen of London, and the ancestor of the Perts of Arnolds in Essex. Sir J erome Weston survived his second wife and died 31st Dec. 1603, and was buried at Eoxwell 17th Jan. 1603-4. Sir Jerome Weston Kt. of Roxwell co. Essex. Will dated 28th Dec. 1603. to WiUiam my son ^50 per an. for life out of my manor of Barwick Hall co. Essex, to Winifred and Margaret Weston my daus. ^£800 each at 18 or marriage. I forgive my son-in-law John Williams whatever he oweth me. Whereas there are divers imperfect reckonings between my son Sir Edward Pincheon and myself, and in order that the perfecting thereof may not cause a breach of love and concord between my son Sir Eichard and him, I desire that the said accounts may be settled by Hemy Glascock Gent., Wm. Loveday Gent., and WiUiam Courtman Gent., or two of them. My son Sir Eichard Weston and my son-in-law Sir Edward Pincheon to be my executors. Mem. that the testator after making his Will devised to Anne Wilhams his daughter, wife of John Williams Esq., an annuity of ^10. (Signed. Eichd. Weston. Edwd. Pynchon.) Will proved 21 Nov. 1604 in C. P. G. [84 Harte.] Sir Jerome Weston had issue by his first wife four sons and six daughters. I. Eichard, his son and heir, of whom presently. II. William, mentioned in his father's Will. WESTON OF EOXWELL. 97 III. John, bapt. at Eoxwell 27tli Sept. 1581, was buried 27th May 1585. IV. Jerome, bapt. at Eoxwell 12th Dec. 1585, was buried 2d Jan. 1585-6. I. Anne Weston, married at Eoxwell, 5th Dec. 1590, John Williams Esq. of Brentwood, a Barrister of the Middle Temple, from which Society he was expelled in 1612 for being a Popish recusant. Exasperated by his wrongs, he composed a treasonous libel entitled ' Balaam's Ass,' in which he prophesied, from certain pass- ages in the Book of Daniel and the Apocalypse, that the King would die, and White- hall would be desolate and overgrown with grass before 7th Sept. 1621. This libel was addressed to the King, and dropped in the gallery at Whitehall in 1618; but the author was not discovered for some months afterwards, when a Government spy arrested Williams at the door of the Spanish Embassy on the suspicion of his being a priest in disguise. A copy of ' Balaam's Ass' with annotations was discovered in his pocket, and Williams confessed himself to be the author. He was arraigned accordingly for high treason on 3d May 1619, and was hanged, drawn, and quartered over against the mews at Oharing-cross on the Monday following. (22) He left several children, of whom Eobert was baptized at Eoxwell 12th March 1599-1600. II. Elizabeth Weston married Nicholas Cotton Esq. of Hornchurch Essex, and had a son Eichard, baptized at Eoxwell 30th Sept. 1599, and Jerome, baptized there 11th March 1607-8. III. Mary Weston, baptized at Eoxwell 26th April 1579, married William Clarke Esq. of Wrotham Kent. IV. Dorothy Weston married Sir Edward Pincheon Kt. of Writtle in Essex, who was knighted at Hartwell House with his host Sir Alexander Hampden on 30th elune 1603, (5) and died 6th May 1625, leaving issue. He has a noble monu- ment in the chancel of Writtle Church. (23) V. Winifred Weston, baptized at Eoxwell 3d March 1589-90, had a marriage portion of 8001. under her father's Will, and married at Eoxwell, 27th Aug. 1607, Eichard Gardiner Esq. of Leatherhead Surrey. VI. Margaret Weston, baptized at Eoxwell 5th August 1593, had the same portion as her sister Winifred, and married Edward Leventhorpe Esq. V. ElOHARD Weston, the son and heir of Sir Jerome, was born at his grandmother's house at Chicheley, and was baptized there 1st March 1576-7. His godmother was his grandmother, Mrs. Weston of Chicheley, who was both the stepmother and mother-in-law of Sir Jerome Weston. Eichard was knighted at Whitehall by James I. on 23d July 1603, (5) and was M.P. for Midhurst in the first parha- ment of this reign. From this period he was constantly employed in the King's service, and was rewarded from time to time by considerable grants of money. It 98 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. appears, from the Treasurer's account of free gifts bestowed by the King, that Sir Eichard Weston received 200Z. in 1605, 300Z. in 1606, 1700Z. in 1607, and 1664^. in 1609. (5) His favour at Court was not interrupted by the treason of his brother- in-law Williams, for in July 1620 Sir Eichard was one of the ambassadors sent into Bohemia to mediate between the Emperor and the Elector Palatine. (24) In the next year he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in April 1622 was sent to Brussels as Ambassador to treat for the restoration of the Palatinate. (25) His financial ability and his zeal for the royal prerogative made him a great favourite vdth Charles I., who raised him to the peerage as Baron Weston of Neyland 4th April 1628, and on 15th July following created him Lord High Treasurer of Eng- land. Honours now multiplied fast upon him. He was elected one of the Knights of the Garter 9th April 1630, Captain-General of the Isle of Wight and Lord- Lieutenant of Hampshire 8th Feb. 1630-1, and Earl of Portland 17th Feb. 1632-3. The King permitted him to receive gifts for royal pardons and grants to the amount of 44,500^., (26) and moreover bestowed on him large estates to support his rank ; (27) but with all his opportunities, he did not accumulate great wealth, for when he died there was not lOOZ. in his house, whilst his debts exceeded 19,000^. (28) He retained his high office and the King's favour until his death. His last illness was of short duration ; and on the Sunday before he died he was honoured by a visit from the King to his sick-bed. The Earl then acknowledged himself a Catholic, and begged his Majesty to take back the Treasurer's staff, which he was disqualified by his re- ligion as well as his illness to retain. But the King was deeply affected, and re- assured him of his continued favour. ' Only get better,' he said, ' and the Catholic religion shall not prevent your retaining the staff.' The Earl, however, grew daily worse, and, after receiving the last sacraments from a Catholic priest, died on the Friday following ' with the marks of a predestined soul.' (29) It was whispered at the time that he had died a Catholic ; (28) but the full par- ticulars of his deathbed are recorded in the Memoirs of Pere Cyprien of Gamache, who relates that he had long been in private correspondence with Father J oseph of Paris, the famous Capuchin diplomatist, and that he diverted persecution from the Catholics in 1633 to the full extent of his power. (29) There seems no good reason for distrusting the sincerity of his conversion, or for supposing him guilty of having sacrificed through life his religious convictions to his worldly interest. He had been brought up in the tenets of the Church of England, to which both his parents be- longed, and all his relations on his mother's side, the Chesters, Hampden s, and Newdigates, were staunch Protestants. The fact that his wife and sisters were zeal- ous adherents to the Church of Eome sufficiently accounts for his having been constantly suspected of a secret leaning towards popery. But during his adminis- tration the fines for recusancy were exacted from the Catholics with unexampled severity; and when he was ambassador at Paris in 1633, he gave proof of his sincerity by sending to the King, at considerable risk to himself, the letters of Queen Henrietta KICHARD EARL OF PORTLAND K.G. 99 Maria to the French Court on the subject of rehgion. (30) A statesman in his position would be hkely to use his influence to shield the Catholics from persecution, for he would be keenly alive to the injustice of Protestant bigotry. But familiar intercourse with the English Catholics has always been apt to produce conflicting sentiments, for their social and intellectual condition is as repulsive to an English- man of sense, as the Catholic life in its domestic and religious aspects is attractive. It is therefore not to be wondered at, if a man of the world allowed his early asso- ciations and political prejudices to control his spiritual convictions, until the approach of death brought him face to face with eternity, and forced him to set aside every consideration, but that of saving his soul. The Lord Ti-easurer died at Wallingford House in Whitehall on 13th March 1634-5, and was buried on 24th March in Winchester Cathedral,* where his monu- ment still remains. By the King's command the whole Court wore mourning for him on Palm Sunday; but his death was little regretted in the country, for he was generally unpopular on account of his known devotion to the royal prerogative. His Will is not to be found in the Prerogative Office, and therefore, I presume, it was never proved ; but there is a full account of it in a news-letter from Dr. Gar- rard of the Charterhouse to Lord StraflFord. (28) It was made on the Monday before his death (9th March 1634-5) by Sir John Bankes, then Attorney-General. His estate in land was I'ated at 6000/. per annum, subject to debts and legacies of nearly 30,000/. He gave his patrimonial estate of Skreens to his second son Thomas, and to his two younger sons annuities of 300/. per annum, to his wife 1500/. jointure and his house at Roehampton, to his unmarried daughter Lady Mary Weston 4000/., and to his daughter White 1000/. His eldest son was his sole executor and principal heir. Richard Earl of Portland had two wives. He married first (in his father's life- time) Elizabeth daughter of William Pincheon Esq. of Writtle in Essex, and sister of Sir Edward Pincheon. She was buried at Roxwell 15th Feb. 1602-3, and he had issue by her ElGHAED, who died young, and two daughters. I. Lady Elizabeth Weston married in 1623 John, second Viscount Netter- ville of Ireland, who for his loyalty to the King was one of those Catholic peers who were excepted from the general pardon in 1652 on the reduction of Ireland by the Parliament. He retired to England; and in 1653 his wife was permitted to receive one-fifth of his rents for the maintenance of herself and children, in regard that she was an Englishwoman. She had many children, and was buried in the Church of St. Giles in the Fields in London on 16th Sept. 16541 {not 1656, as the Peerages say). (31) Her husband was buried there beside her on 3d Sept. 1659.t * From the Register of Winchester Cathedral. 1634-5. Ricliard Weston, Lord High Treasurer of England, was buried March 24th. f From the Parish Register of St. Giles in the Fields. 1654, Sept. 16. Lady Elizabeth Netterville buried. 1655, Oct. 15. Major Sjmon Netterville, from Tiohborne, buried. 1669, Sept. 3. John Lord Viscount Netterville buried. 0 100 THE CHESTERS OE CHICHELEY. II. Lady Mary Weston was baptized at Eoxwell 2d Jan. 1602-3, and married in 1629 Walter second Lord Aston of Tixall, who gallantly defended Lichfield against the rebels in 1646. This nobleman lived in great state at Standon in Hertford- shire, and the details of his magnificent way of living have been described by his grandson Sir Edward Southcote, in a curious autobiography lately published. (32) He died 23d April 1678 at Tixall, and was buried at St. Mary's Stafford, when the ' chief part of Staffordshire waited on his corpse to the burying-place, above a thousand people.' (32) The Earl of Portland married secondly Frances, daughter of Nicholas Waldegrave Esq. of Boreley in Essex, whose Catholic sympathies and connexions exposed him to so much unpopularity. He had issue by her four sons and four daughters. I. Jerome succeeded his father as second Earl of Portland. II. Thomas Weston succeeded his nephew as fourth Earl of Portland. III. Nicholas Weston, baptized at Eoxwell 10th May 1611, was M.P. for Portsmouth in the Long Parliament, and voted with his brother Benjamin on 21st April 1641 agaiiist the Bill for the attainder of Lord Strafford. (33) He was expelled from the House with his colleague Colonel George Grorlng on 16th August 1642, for doing ill service to the Parliament in surrendering Portsmouth to the King. (34) He died in 1656, and is described as 'of Covent Garden' in the letters of administra- tion granted on 12th January 1656-7 to Thomas Hawley, his principal creditor, (35) He married and left a daughter, but little is known about his wife and child. His widow Margaret is mentioned in the Will of Earl Jerome in 1661; and his daughter Dorothy was living in the English Convent at Louvain in 1658 under the charge of her aunt Lady Mary Weston. (32) IV. Benjamin Weston, the youngest son of the Lord Treasurer, was baptized at Eoxwell 4th Aug. 1614, and was admitted to the freedom of the borough of Poole 26th Aug. 1630. (36) He was the executor of his mother's Will in 1635, and was M.P. for Dover in the Long Parliament, when, with his brother Nicholas, he voted against the attainder of the Earl of Strafford. He retained his seat after his brother's expulsion, and was permitted 14th Sept. 1647 to bring in an ordinance to remove the sequestration from the estate of his brother Earl Jerome. (37) He married Elizabeth Dowager Countess of Anglesey, daughter of Thomas Sheldon Esq. of Howby co. Leicester, and widow of Christopher Villiers Earl of Anglesey (who died 3d April 1630), and acquired by his marriage Ashley Park in the parish of Walton-on-Thames, which he afterwards sold to his brother Earl Jerome. The Countess was buried at Walton on 18th April 1662,* and had issue by her second marriage two daughters — Anne, who died in infancy, and Elizabeth, who married Sir Charles Shelley Bart, of Michelgrove in Sussex, and died in 1695. * From the Parish Register of Walton-on-Thames . 1662. The RigM Honble. EUzabeth Countess of Anglesey buried 18 April, at night. 1662-3. The Right Honble. Jei-ome Eaii of Portland buried 22 March. KICHARD EARL OF PORTLAND K.G. 101 (38) He left no Will, and I liave not discovered the precise date of his death, but he was still living in 1676 when Dugdale published his Baronage, and he died before his brother Earl Thomas. I. Lady Catharine Weston, baptized at Eoxwell 8th June 1607, was the second wife of Richard White Esq. of Hutton in Essex. (39) They were zealous Catholics, and on the outbreak of the Civil Wars were obliged to leave England. They eventually settled in Rome, where Lady Catharine White died within three years on 22d Oct. 1645, aged 38. She left eight children, and her epitaph is pre- served in the English College at Rome ; (40) but it would appear from a passage in Hobbes' Lyrics, that she was buried in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. D. 0. M. Kathabin^ Weston, Comitis PortlandiEe Magni Angliffi Tliesaurarii filise, singulari pietate, integritate, modestia prseditfB, qu« fidei Catholics causa Angiiam deserens cum viro et familia, tandem Romam venit, ac post varias triennio placidissime tolleratas serumnas, relictis octo liberis, ad meliorem vitam abiit, ii. Cal. Nov. anni mdcxlv. £etatis suae xxxiix. Richardus White, ex Albiorum Essexien. antiqua stirpe, conjugi amantiss. posuit. Evelyn was well acquainted with Mr. White and his wife in Rome, and says that ' they lived and died there with much reputation during their banishment in the Civil broils.' He mentions in 1671 one of their sons, as being 'a very ingenious gentleman and a native of Rome,' and the nephew of Mr. Thomas White, ' a learned priest and famous philosopher,' whom he visited at Paris in 1651. (41) Thomas White had a great reputation for learning in his day, and was the author of De Mnndo. He was sub-rector of Douay College, and died in 1676. II. Lady Frances Weston, baptized at Roxwell 29th March 1612, married Philip Draycote Esq. of Paynesley in Staffordshire. III. Lady Anne Weston was the first wife of Basil Lord Fielding, afterwards second Earl of Denbigh, and died without issue at Venice 10th March 1634-5. IV. Lady Mary Weston inherited 4000^. from her father and an annuity of 100^. per annum from her brother Earl Jerome. She never married, and in 1653 took up her abode in the English Augustinian Convent of St. Monica's at Louvain. She had no vocation for religion, and in 1654 built for her own use a suite of rooms beyond the chancel of the Convent Church in the orchard. She lived there until her death, paying to the nuns 50^. a year for the board of herself and her maid. I have not found when she died, but she survived her brother Eai'l J erome, and was living at St. Monica's in 1658 with her niece Dorothy Weston, the dangliter of her deceased brother Nicholas. (32) 102 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. Frances Countess of Portland survived her husband eleven years. Frances Countess Dowager of Portland. Will dated 24tli Feb. 1643-4. My debts to be all paid, as my servant Bridget Draycote kaoweth them, to tlie said Bridget Draycote ^200. to my servant Edward Lyon £20, besides ^10 which I owe him. to my servant Florence Powell £10. to my sister Whitebread aU the gold that is in the house, to my god- daughter Mary Walgrave my ruby jewel! to my daughter the Lady Mary Weston my diamond ring, to the Lady Anglesey two ebony cabinets, &c. to my daughter the Lady Mary Weston the velvet trunk and its contents, to my sister Walgrave my diamond toothpick, to my son Nicholas Weston ;glOO. my son Benjamin Weston to be my sole executor. Will proved in C. P. C. 6th April 1645. [64 Rivers.] Jerome Weston, the second Earl of Portland, had been permitted in the height of his father's favour at Court to ally himself with the royal family, by marrying the Lady Frances Stewart the youngest daughter of Esme Duke of Lennox. This marriage was celebrated by Archbishop Laud in Lord Weston's Chapel at Roe- hampton in June 1632,* and was the subject of a sonnet by Ben Jonson. Jerome succeeded to his father's Earldom and estates on loth March 1634-5, when he sold for 12,000Z. the Manor of Appleby in Lincolnshire, which his father had purchased from Sir Thomas Darnell. (42) Earl Jerome expected to have been pre- ferred to a place at Court, for the Lord Treasui-er from his death-bed had sent an urgent message to the King that his son and heir had been trained to his Majesty's service; (28) but he succeeded to none of his father's employments, except that on 29th May 1635 he was appointed Captain-General of the Isle of Wight and Lord- Lieutenant of Hampshire jointly with his brother-in-law James Duke of Lennox and Eichmond. As the Duke was the head of the Royalist Lords in 1641, and the Earl of Portland was known to share his loyalty, the House *of Commons ui'ged that the government of the Isle of Wight should be sequestered, and a conference of the two Houses was held on 2d Nov. 1641. But on 18th Nov. the Lords resolved against the remonstrances of tlie Commons, that as the Earl of Portland had solemnly pro- fessed his intention to live and die in the Protestant religion, he should not be removed from his government. (43) He was however displaced by the Parliament on 16th Aug. 1642, when Portsmouth declared for the King, and it was ordered that he be committed to the Tower. (34) In the next year he was denounced by his cousin Edmund Waller as privy to the plot for which their relation Tomkins was executed, and on 11th June 1643 was committed to the custody of the Lord Mayor; (44) but as no proof was forthcoming except the doubtful evidence of Waller, he was soon dis- charged from his imprisonment, although his estate remained under sequestration. His family connexion with the Hampdens and Cromwells enabled him in 1646 o Prom the Parish Register of Putney Surrey. 1632. June {no day) Jerome, son to the Right Honble. Rich. Lord Weston, High Treasurer of England, and the Lady Frances Steward married. 1634. July 3, Frances, daughter of Jerome Lord Weston and Lady Frances, bapt. 1636. May 5, Catherine, daughter of the Earl of Portland and Lady Frances, bapt. 1637- July ( — ) . . . draighter of Jerome Earl of Portland and Lady Frances, bapt. JEEOME EARL OF POETLAND. 103 to obtain a pass to come within the Parliament's quarters, and in August he wrote to the Speaker of the House of Lords announcing his arrival in London, and enclos- ing a petition for the restoration of his estate. (45) The Lords gave him leave to stay in London, and sent down a message on 24th September 1646 in his behalf, urging that Parliament had passed away the Isle of Wight wherein the bulk of the Earl's fortune lay, and that the rest of his estate ought to be relieved from seques- tration. The House of Commons took no notice of this message for a year; but on its being again sent down to them, resolved on 14th September 1647, by seventy-one voices to thirty-one, that on his delivering up his patent as Governor of the Isle of Wight to be cancelled, the sequestration should be removed, and that Mr. Weston should bring in an ordinance to that effect. (37) The notorious fact that his wife was a Catholic, and that her brothers were amongst the staunchest supporters of the ro)'al family, exposed him to constant suspicion ; but he retained without disturbance what remained of his estate, and lived in retirement until the Restoration. In the mean time the Earl had received an accession of fortune under the Will of Dr. Thomas Winston, the Gresham Professor of Physic, who died 24th Oct. 1655. He devised liis estate of Blunt's Hall in Essex to the Earl of Portland and his son for their lives, with remainder to Bui strode Whitelocke, fourth son of the Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal. (46) The Will was irregularly executed, but the Earl shrank from litigation with so formidable an antagonist as Whitelocke, and consented to a compromise by an agreement under seal dated 18th Nov. 1655. It was agreed that the whole estate should be immediately surrendered to Whitelocke, on his paying 1000^. to the Earl and securing an annuity of 200/. per annum to Lord Weston, who was then just of age and on the point of setting out on his travels. These terms were accepted by the Earl, as being the best which he could in his then posi- tion obtain, I'ather than as satisfying the justice of the case, and after the Restora- tion he had some thoughts of attempting to set them aside. In the beginning of 1661 he happened to meet Whitelocke at the Chancellor's, when he gravely told him that he must be better informed about the disposition of Dr. Winston's estate ; but he was reminded that the matter had been definitively settled by agreement under his lordship's own hand and seal, and the arrangement was left undisturbed. The Earl's conduct in tliis matter is consistent with his judicial protest in the case of Sir Edward Powell against setting aside a legal conveyance. The Earl of Portland took his seat in the Convention Parliament, and on 16th May 1660 announced to the House of Lords that he had discovered the equestrian statue of Charles I., praying that as the courts of law were shut, the House would order it to be protected from injury until his title to it was decided. (47) This statue had been cast by Hubert le Sueur, the pupil of John of Bologna, for the Lord Treasurer Weston at the cost of 600Z., but had been sold by the Parliament, when ' Unkingship was proclaimed' on 30th May 1649, to John Rivett a brazier, with strict orders to break it into pieces. Rivett pretended to have broken it up, and drove a thriving trade in 104 THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY. selling articles which were supposed to be made from the metal ; but in reality he buried it in a cellar, where it was discovered in 1660 by Lord Portland. It would appear that Rivett eventually established his title to the statue ; for he patriotically presented it to Charles II., who had it set up at Charing-cross in 1674 on a pedestal by Grinling Gibbons. (48) Waller has celebrated the erection of this statue in a well- known sonnet. (49) After the Restoration the Earl of Portland constantly attended in Parliament, and his name appears on 13th December 1660 and on 17th July 1661 amongst the Lords who protested against vacating the fines levied during the Com- monwealth by Sir Edward Powell and his wife. (45) He was present at the great feast in the Hall of the Inner Temple on 15th August 1661, when Sir Heneage Finch, the Reader, entertained the King and his Court. (50) The Countess of Port- land expected to have been declared First Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Catha- rine on her marriage, and with her sister-in-law the Duchess of Richmond resented the appointment of Lady Suffolk. (51) But within a few months she was left a widow; for the Earl died 17th March 1662-3 at Ashley House near Walton-on- Thames, the estate which he had purchased from his brother Benjamin, There is a slab to the Earl's memory beneath the altar-table in Walton Church, (52) where he Avas buried on 22d March 1662-3. Jerome Eael of Portland. Will dated 4tli Nov. 1657. Whereas by deed dated 5th May 1652, and made between myself, the Lady Frances Countess of Portland my wife, and Nicholas Weston Esq. my brother, of the one part, and Benjamin Weston Esq. another of my brothers, Chalouer Chute of the Middle Temple Esq., and Chaloner Chute his son and heir apparent, of the other part, the manors of Wliittlesea, St. Andrew, and Whittlesea St. JNIary were settled to such uses as I should appoint, I do now direct and appoint that in case I die without issue male, or iu case my issue male shall not attain the £tge of 21, then the said manors shall stand to the use of my brother Thomas Weston Esq. for hfe, remainder to his son successively in tail male, remainder to my brother Benjamin Weston for life, remainder to his son successively in tail male, remainder to my own right heirs. Whereas by deed dated 10th January 1654-5 and made between my brother Benjamin Weston of Walton-on-Thames Esq. of the one part, and myself of the other part, a certain capital mes- suage and 500 acres of land iu Whittlesea in the Isle of Ely were settled to such uses as I should appoint, I now direct that the same capital messuage be conveyed to my dear wife Frances Coun- tess of Portland, her heirs and assigns absolutely, and that the said 500 acres be sold and the proceeds apphed in payment of my debts and legacies. to my sister Lady Mary Weston .£100 per annum for her hfe. to my daughter Henrietta Maria Weston .£200. to my brother Thomas Weston £300. to my brother Benjamin Weston £200. to my sister Margaret Weston £100, or an annuity of .£20 per annum during her widowhood. to my Lord Lovelace £'100. to Mr. Chaloner Chute the elder Esq. £333 6s. M. to Sir John Meux Bai-t. £50. to Mr. WiUiam Ashburnham £40. to Mr. WiUiam Moore £100. to Mr. Wilham Page £160. to Mr. Charles Cotton the elder £30. to my servant Christopher Eobinson £100. to Thomas NuttaU £26. the i-esidue to my wife. My brother Benjamin Weston to be my sole executor. CodicU dated 27th Oct. 1660. I revoke the bequest of my capital messuage in Whittlesea to my wife, and I bequeath the same to my brother Benjamin Weston in trust to sell the same for my debts and legacies. I devise my capital messuage of Berkliamstead to my said wife, she to pay ^6200 per annum to my son Cliarles Lord Weston, and to take care of my daughters. WiU confirmed 8th Oct. 1661. Admon granted in C. P. C. 8th Sept. 1663 to the widow Frances Countess of Portland, the said Benjamin We.ston having renounced. [115 Juxou.] CHARLES EARL OF PORTLAND, 105 Earl Jerome had issue five children, a son and four daughters : I. Charles his son and heir, third Earl of Portland. I. Henrietta Maria, to whom the Queen was godmother, was baptized at St. Martin's in the Fields 2d May 1633. II. Frances, baptized at Putney 3d July 1634. III. Catharine, baptized at Putney 5th May 1636, died unmarried before her mother. IV. Elizabeth, baptized at Putney ( . . ) July 1637. All these daughters eventually entered religion, and became nuns in the Convent of the Poor Clares of Rouen (Les Gravelines), of which their mother was one of the foundresses. (53) Charles Weston, only son of Jerome Earl of Portland, was baptized at St. Margaret's Westminster 19th May 1639, and succeeded his father as third Earl in 1663. He was one of those young noblemen who attended the Duke of York as volunteers, when he took the command of the English fleet against the Dutch, and was killed by a cannon-shot with the Earl of Marlborough in the sea-fight off Lowes- toft on 3d June 1665. (54) He died unmarried, and seems to have been fully alive to the dangers of his expedition; for he made his Will on 29th May 1665, the day before he embarked. Charles Earl of Portland. Will dated 29tli May 1665. to my mother the Countess of Portland Ashley House Walton-on-Thames, which was pur- chased by my father Jerome Earl of Portland deceased from my imcle Benjamin Weston. The lands in Coulsdon Surrey, which were granted by his Majesty to my late father, and the manors of Whittlesea St. Mary and Whittlesea St. Andrew in Cambridgesliire, and all other my lands and tenements to my mother the said Countess for life, remainder to my uncle Thomas Weston for life, remainder to his sons successively in tail male, remainder to my uncle Benjamin Weston, remainder to his sons successively in tail male, remainder to my own right heirs. Ashley House to be sold after my mother's death, and the proceeds to be divided between my three sisters Frances, Catherine, and Elizabeth Weston. to Catherine Thoroughgood of London widow ^40 per annum, as I have settled the same on her by deed. William Glascock Esq. of Covent Garden and Francis Bramston Esq. of the Middle Temple to be my executors. Will proved in C. P. C. 23d Feb. 1665-6 by Francis Bramston, and on 2d March 1665-6 by Wm. Glascock. [23 Mice] Thomas Weston, the second son of the Lord Treasurer by his second wife, was baptized at Eoxwell 9th October 1609, and succeeded his nephew Earl Charles in 1666 as fourth Earl of Portland. At the age of seventeen he matriculated at Wad- ham College Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, on 12th May 1626, where he was contemporary with several of the principal gentlemen of Essex, who were attracted to that college ' because the foundress was the sister of the old Lord Petre of Essex,' and had in her foundation given special privileges to natives of that county. (55) 106 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. He had inherited from his father the estate of Skreens, which on the elevation of the family had sunk into a younger brother's portion ; but in 1635 he sold this estate for 8000Z. to Chief-Justice Bramston, (42) to whose descendants it still belongs. He afterwards was converted to the Catholic religion, and for some years during the Protectorate lived as a boarder in a religious house at Louvain. (32) His succession to the Earldom added little to his fortune ; for the widow of his brother Earl Jerome had a life interest in the family estates in the Fens, He married in 1667 Anne Countess of Newport, who was like himself a Catholic convert. She was one of the six daughters and coheirs of John Lord Boteler, and the widow of Mountjoy Earl of Newport, who died 12th February 1665-6; but he had no issue by this marriage, and the Countess died in 1669. By her Will, which was proved 23d June 1669, she left all her estate to her husband, except a legacy of 5000Z. to her grandson George Porter ; but the Earl was still poor, and retired to Flanders, where he lived in a monastery, ' cheerful and well contented.' (55) Just before Christmas 1687, James II. sent him 100^. from his privy purse through James Porter; (56) but he died the next year at Louvain, when the Earldom of Portland became extinct. Frances Countess op Portland, the widow of Earl Jerome, survived her only son Earl Charles nearly thirty years. She had the misfortune to outlive the dynasty of the Stuarts, and to see the honours of her father's and her husband's families bestowed on strangers. The Dukedom of Lennox and Richmond expired on the death of her brother Duke Charles in 1672; and the Earldom of Portland was granted by William HL to his favourite Bentinck on 9th April 1689. She enjoyed without disturbance during her long widowhood the rents of the Portland estate in the Fens, and a pension of 1000^. per annum from the Crown. (57) Li 1678, when the laws against Catholics were put in force, an information was laid against her for recusancy ; but she claimed her privilege as a peeress from the House of Lords, and the King was moved to grant her a full pardon. (45) She was buried in Westminster Abbey on 24th March 1693-4. Frances Countess Dowager of Portland. Will dated 21st Sept. 1692. to be buried in Westminster Abbey, near the Countess of Lenox and my father the Duke of Lenox. to Henry Howard* Gent., son to the Hon. Charles Howard Esq., and to Henry Horsdeznellf of Gray's Inu Esq., all my estates in trust, &c. to my daughter the Lady Plenrietta Weston £500, also £50 per annum for hfe, and the plate, linen, and pietui-es belonging to my chapel, to my daughter the Lady Frances Weston £30 per annum for life, to my daughter the Lady Elizabeth Weston £20 per annum for hfe. to my niece Lady Elizabeth Mack- * Henry Charles Howard of Greystoke, father of Charles ninth Duke of Norfolk, was the son and heir of Charles Howard of Deepden, brother of Henry sixth Duke of Norfolk, and fourth son of Henry Earl of Arundell by Lady Elizabeth Stuart, sister of the testatrix. f Henry Horsdeznell occurs in 1684 Recorder of Tangiers, and in 1688 Chief-Justice of the Baha- mas. (56) FRANCES COUNTESS OF PORTLAND. 107 Donnell* £100, and to Mr. Eandolph MackDonnell her son ^60 per annum for life, and sundry plate, to the Marchioness of Albarez,f sister to the present Duke of Norfolk, ^500. to the Marquis ofDouglasJ sundiy hangings and pictures, to the Duchess of Gordon§ the picture of her gi-andmother the Lady Arundell. to the Countess of Abbercone|| .£300. to the Lady Dorothy WalkerlT £20 per annum for life, to Mr. Henry Howard, son of the Hon. Charles Howard Esq. my nephew, sundry furniture, jewels, the picture of my grandfather the Duke of Lenox, &c. to Mr. David Mead ^6100. to Miss Riipert,** daughter to Prince Eupert, the Qtieen of Bohemia's pic- ture, to Robert Lightfoote, his wife Mary, and their children £500, and the furniture of the cham- ber that he now lies in, and to Lenox Lightfoote £B0 per annum for life, to Mary Phillips my woman, £300. to Lewis Marist £50 beyond his wages, to Mr. TilUngham <£50. to Mr. Edward Aisley ^100, and £20 p. a. for life, to my Lord Viscount Balewf f and wife each £50. to Barbara Palesto 20 guineas beyond her wages. The said Henry Howard and Henry Horszdenell to be my executors. Codicil dated 9th March 1693-4. to my niece the Lady Katharine O'Brien, ];| wife of Sir Joseph WiUiamson, a diamond ring, to my said nephew Henry Howard Esq., son of the Hon. Charles Howard of Norfolk Esq. and my executor, 400 acres of land in Wliittlesea Isle of Ely. to my nephew the Marquis Duglass of Scotland sundiy pictures, and to my niece the Countess of Aber- com ^200 &c., beside their former bequests. Proved 30th March 1694 by both executors in C. P. C. [63 Box.] * Lady Elizabeth MacBonnell, sister of Henry sixth Duke of Norfolk, and niece of the testatrix, was the ■widow of Alexander MacDonnell Esq. , who is erroneously identified in the Peerages of Ireland with Colonel Alexander MacDonald, slain in 1647. (58) Alexander MacDonneLl Esq. joined his brothers-in- law Edward and Bernard Howard in a petition to the House of Lords 20th March 1676-7, and died soon afterwards ; for Lady Elizabeth MacDonnell widow concurred in a similar petition 8th February 1677-8. (45) t The Marchioness of Albarez was Lady Frances Howard, daughter of Henry sixth Duke of Norfolk, who married in Flanders in 1680 the Marques di Valparessa of Spain. Her father the Duke of Norfolk, in his Will dated 5th January 1683, says, ' to my daughter the Lady Frances Marchioness of Valparessa and her child £10 per mensem for the space of one year, and if by that time her husband does not fetch her away £100 is to be expended in taking her and her child to her husband at Bladrid, and my son Thomas is to see that this is done.' The Marques came to England in 1685 as Envoy Extraordinary from the Court of Spain, and had his audience to take leave of King James II. at Windsor Castle on the 20th September 1615, when the Duke of Norfolk escorted him to Portsmouth to witness his embarkation with his wife and child. (59) J The Marquess of Douglas was the son of Archibald Earl of Angus by Anne Stuart, sister of the testatrix. § Elizabeth, wife of Alexander first Duke of Gordon, was the daughter of Henry sixth Duke of Norfolk, and died 16th July 1732. 11 Catharine, wife of Charles fifth Earl of Abercorn, was the only child of James Lord Paisley, the uterine brother of the testatrix. H I have some suspicion that Lady Walker is identical with Dorothy the orphan daughter of Nicholas Weston, brother of Earl Jerome. ** Miss Rupert, the natural daughter of the gallant Prince Rupert by Margaret Hughes the actress, married General Emmanuel How, Groom of the Bedchamber to William III. and brother of Scrope first Viscount How. •j-f Walter second Lord Bellew married in September 1686 Frances Arabella, sister of Thomas Earl of Strafford and Maid of Honour to the Queen of James II. Lady Catharine O'Brien, wife of Hem-y Lord O'Brien who died 1st December 1676, and then of Sir Joseph Williamson Kt. Secretary of State, was the only child of James Duke of Richmond and Lennox, the eldest brother of the testatrix. P 108 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELBY. PEDIGREE OF WESTON EARLS OF PORTLAND. Aems : Ermine, on a cHef azure five bezants, with a martlet for difference, Webton. Or, an eagle regardant and displayed sable, Eael of Pobtland. Registers not specified are from Roxwell, t from Putney. Anthony Cave (1 h.)=j=Elizabeth dau. of =3 h. Richard Weston=j=l w. Wibnrga, dan. =t=2 w. Margaret, dau. of Eustace Burneby Esq.; bur. 10 April 1565. Esq. of Chicheley Bucks ; died 9 Sept. 1558 ; M. I. at Chi- cheley. Mary Cave (1 = w.) coheii'; born 1 Nov. 1556 ; bur. 6 Oct. 1593. Eliz., dau.of (1= w.) William Pincheon Esq. ofWrittle; bur. 15 Feb. 1602-3. Thos. Lovett Esq. IV. of Astwell. m. 2 h. John Newdi- gateEsq. who died 1565 ; marr. 3dly 7 July 1566 at Chi- cheley; died widow 1577. Esq. of Skreensin RoxweU CO. Essex, Judge of Common Pleas 1559-72 ; died 6 July 1572 ; bur. at Writtle. r =Sir Jerome Wes-= ton Kt. of Skreens, son and heir; Sheriff of Essex 1599 ; died 81 Dec. 1603 ; bur. 17 Jan. 1603-4. :2 W.Mar- gery, dau. of Geo. Pert. 1 AmphiUis Wes- ton; marr. Sir BenjaminTioh- borne Kt. and Bart. of Michael Catesby Esq. of Seaton co. Rutland, and widow of Richard Jenoure Esq. of Dunmow. Nicholas ; occ. 1572. r Winifred ; died unm. ; bur. 3 March 1590-1. I Margaret; bap. 3 May 1564 ; m. 1, John Loveday Esq.; 2, Andrew Glascock Esq. of Elt- ham Kent. 1 Richard, son and heir appa- rent ; died young. =Sir Richard Wes- = ton K.G., Baron Weston 1628, Earl of Portland 1633, Lord High Trea- surer ; died 13 March 1684-5; bur. in Winchester Ca- thedi-al. Elizabeth ; m. 1623 John Vis- countNet- terville. 1 1 Mary; bapt. 2 Jan. 1602-3; m. Walter Lord As- ton of TizaU. A 1 1 r- =2 w. Frances, 2. William. dau.ofNicholas Waldegrave 3. John ; bap. Esq. of Bore- 27 Sept. 1581 ; ley Essex, died bur. 27 May 1645. 1585. 4. Jerome ; bapt. 12 Dec. 1585 ; bur. 2 Jan. 1585-6. \ 1 T — 1. Anne; m. 5 Dec. 1590 John Williams Esq. 2. Elizabeth; m. Nicholas Cotton Esq. of Hornchurch. 3. Mary;bap. 26 April 1579 ; m. William Clarke Esq. of Wrotham Kent. — I 1 1 4. Dorothy ; m. Sir Edward Pincheon Kt. 5. Winifred ; bapt. 3 March 1589-90 ; m. 27 Aug. 1607 Richard Gar- diner Esq. of Leatherhead. 6. Margaret; bapt. 5 Aug. 1593 ; m. Ed- ward Leven- thorpe Esq. 1. Catherine ; bapt. 8 June 1607 ; m. Richard White Esq. of Hutton Essex ; died 22 Oct. 1645. 2. Frances; bapt. 29 March 1612; m. Philip Draycot Esq. of Paynesley CO. Staff. 1 1 3. Anne ; m. 4. Mary Basil Earl of Weston ; Denbigh ; died occ. unm. 10 March 1635, 1660. 1634-5. s. p. i PEDIGEEE OF WESTON. 109 Jerome 2d' Earl of Port- land, son and heir; died 17 March 1662-3; M. I. at Walton- on-Thames. 'Frances, dau.of Esme Stewart Duke of Lennox; m. June 1632 ;t bur. at West- minster Ab- bey 24 Mar. 1693-4. A 2. Thomas = 4th Earl of Portland, uncle and heir ; bapt. 9 Oct. 1609 ; m. 1667 ; died 1688. B. p. Anne, widow of Mount] oy Earl of Newport ; died 1669. Charles 3dEarl of Portland ; bapt. at St. Margaret's Westminster 19 May 1639 ; died unm. 5 June 1665. 1 n 1. Hem-ietta Maria; bapt. 2 May 1633; occ. 1692, a nun. 2. Frances ; bapt. 3 July 1634 ;t occ. 1692, a nun. r~l 3. Catherine ; bapt. 5 May 1636 ;t occ. a nun 1665; died before 1692. 4. Elizabeth; bapt. 11 July 1637;t occ. 1692, a nun. 1 3. Nicholas Weston ; bapt. 10 May 1611 ; M.P. for Portsmouth 1640; died 1656; m. Margaret, occ. widow, 1660. Dorothy, a chUd 1658. 1 4. Benjamin= Weston ; bapt. 4 Aug. 1614 ; M.P. for Dover 1640; of Ashley House,Walton. on- Thames ; occ. 1676 ; died before 1688. r =Elizabeth, wi- dow of Chris- topher Villiers Earl of Angle- sey ; bur. at Walton 18 April 1662. Elizabeth ; m. Sir Anne ; died Charles Shelley young. Bart, of Michel- grove ; died 1695. The Rev. Thomas T. Hearn, Vicar of Roxwell, has been kind enough to extract from his Parish Re- gister all the entries of the family of Weston. 1564, May 3. Margaret Weston. 1579, April 26. Maria Weston. 1581, Sept. 27. John Weston. 1585, Dec. 12. Jerome Weston. 1589-90, March 3. Winifred Weston. 1593, Aug. 5. Margaret Weston. 1602-3, Jan. 3. Marie Weston. 1607, June 8. Catherine, dau. of Sir Rich. Weston. 1609, Oct. 9. Thomas, son of same. 1611, May 10. Nicholas, son of same. 1612, March 29. Frances, daughter of same. 1614, Aug. 4. Benjamin, son of same. MAEEIAGES. 1590, Dec. 6. John WUliams and Anne Weston. 1607, Aug. 27. Mr. Richard Gardiner and Mrs. Winifred Weston. 1565, April 10. Mrs. Margaret Weston. 1583, May 27. John Weston. 1585-6, Jan. 2. Jerome Weston. 1590-1, March 3. Mrs. Winifred Weston. 1593, Oct. 6. Mrs. Marie Weston. 1602- 3, Feb. 12. Mrs. Elizabeth Weston. 1603- 4, Jan. 17. Sir Jerome Weston. PROOFS AND (i) Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, iii. 660. (z) Parish Register of Great Hampden. (3) Printed List of Students of the Inner Temple, 1571-1625. (4) Baker's Northamptonshire, irl5. (5) Progresses of James I. (6) CoU. Top. et Gen. v. 214. (7) Ped. of Waller in Lipscomb's Bucks, iii. 182. (8) State Trials, iv. 632. (9) Life of Waller in Johnson's Lives of the Poets. (10) Seymour's London, i. 699. (11) Life of J ohn Newdigate in Athense Cantab.ii.l2 . (12) Wotton's Baronetage, 1741, iii. 618. (13) Hist, of St. MUdred's Poultry and St. Mary Colechurch, by T. Milbourn, 1872. (14) Dugdale'B Baronage, iii. 432. 110 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. (15) Add. MSS. 18667, in Brit. Mus. (16) Eyton's Shropshire, vii. 206; Notes and Queries, 4th S. ix. 356, and x. 50. (17) Morant's Hist, of Essex, ii. 171. (18) Herald and Genealogist, iii. 426. (19) Communicated from the Records of the Col- lege of Arms by my friend, Mr. G. E. Adams, Lancaster Herald. (20) Morant, ii. 71 ; Life of Rich. Weston in Foss's Judges, vol. V. (21) Inq. p. m. Johis. Milborne, 36 Eliz. Essex. Court of Wards and Liveries, part 15, f.4;4. (22) For the Case and Trial of John Williams, see State Trials, ed. HoweU, ii. 1086 ; Rolle's Reports, ii. 88 ; and Court of James I. vol. ii. p. 147, 157-160. (23) Morant's Essex, ii. 66. (24) Court of James I. ii. 204. (25) Idem, ii. 306. (26) Clarendon State Papers, i. 159. (27) Lingard's Hist, of England, vii. 176. (28) Strafford Papers, i. 388-9. (29) Memoirs of P. Cyprien of Gamache, in the Court of Charles I. ii. 331. (50) Howel's Letters, 1688, vol. i. p. 234. (31) Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 1754, ii. 304. (32) The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, re- lated by themselves. Ed. Morris, 1872. (33) Verney's Notes of Long Parliament, p. 58, Camden Society. (34) Pari. Hist, of England, ii. 617, 1441. (35) Admon. in C. P. C. of Nicholas Weston. (36: {37 (38 (39 (40. (41 (42 (43 (44! (45 (46: (47 (48 (49 (5°: (si (S3 (54: (ss (56: (57 (S8 (S9 Hutchins' Hist, of Dorset, 1870, vol. i. p. 32. Journals of the House of Commons. Additions to Dugdale's Baronage in Coll. Top. et Gen. ii. 332 ; Herald and Geneal- ogist, iii. 192. Ped. of White in Morant's Essex, i. 195. Rawlinson's ms. in Bodleian Library, quoted in Notes and Queries, 3d S. vii. 443. Evelyn's Diary, 18th Oct. 1671, and 25th May 1651. Strafford Papers, i. 468. Letters of Nicholas to Charles I., printed in vol. iv. of Evelyn's Memoirs. Pari. Hist. iii. 131. Journals of House of Lords. Memoirs of Bulstrode Whitelocke 1860, p. 459-31. Pari. Hist. iv. 44. Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 759. WaUer's Poems, ed. Bell, 1854, p. 228. Dugdale's Origines Judic. p. 157. Letter from the Earl of Northumberland in the Sidney Papers. Manning and Bray's Hist, of Sun-ey, ii. 767. Herald and Genealogist, iii. 426. Pepys's Diary. Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, p. 102. Secret Services of Charles II. and James II., Camden Society. Luttrell's Diary. Lodge's Peerage, 1754, i. 106. The Howard Papers by Causton, p. 247. Note on the Paeentage or Richard Weston (p. 93). The doubts expressed in the text respecting Segar's statement, that John Weston of Lichfield wsls the father of Richard Weston the Judge, apply with still greater force to the statement, that his mother was Lady Cecily Nevill, the sister of Ralph Earl of Westmoreland. Cecily Weston does not occur in any of the pedigrees or wills of the Nevills, and her sup- posed sons never allude in any way to their illustrious connexions. The whole story seems to depend on a deed, abstracted by Segar, ' Sciant omnes &c. quod ego Johannes Weston de Rugeley Senior, gen. dedi &c. ad usum Johis. Weston junioris filii mei et Cecilie uxoris ejus, sororis Radi Com. Westmoreland, &c. Dat. Lichfield 15 July, 18 Hen. VIII.' (15) But even if this deed be genuine, it is in the silence of all other authorities a very unsatisfactory proof of Cecily's parentage. Page 96. The following entry of Sir Jerome Weston's marriage at Chicheley to his first wife was discovered too late to be noticed in the text, or in the pedigree at p. 108 ( from the par. register of Chicheley) : ' 1572, November 25. Jerome Weston and Marie Cave married.' SIR ANTHONY CHESTER KT. AND BART. Ill CHAPTER IX. Sir Anthony Chester Kt. and Bart, of Chicheley., 1566-1635. II. The Inq.p. m. of Sir Anthony Chester^ held at Olney 1th Oct. 1636. III. Dame Mary Chester.^ second wife of Sir Anthony Chester Bart. 1631-1692. IV. The Children of Sir Anthony Chester Bart, by his first wife Elizabeth Boteler. V. Pedigree of Chester in the Visitation of Bucks 1634. Anthony. Chester, the only son of William Chester Esq., by Judith Cave, the heiress of Chicheley, was born in London at his father's house in Lime-street, and was baptized in the adjacent Chm'ch of St. Dionis Fencliurch-street on 10th April 1566. (i) He was little more than fonr years old when his mother died in July 1570, and succeeded to her whole inheritance in 1577, on the death of his grandmother, who had a life interest in Chicheley Manor, and occupied Chicheley Hall until her death. He was a ward of the Crown, and the King presented Thomas Gardiner* to the Vicarage of Chicheley on 15th May 1581. (2) Anthony Chester was one of those gallant spirits who were fired to indignation by the threatened invasion of the Spaniards, for he raised a troop of horse at his own expense in 1588, and attended Qvieen Elizabeth at Tilbury Fort at the head of his troop. On 24th Oct. 1589 he married in London, at St. Giles Cripplegate, Elizabeth daughter of Sir Henry Boteler Kt. of Hatfield Woodhall in Hertfordshire, (i) She was his cousin through his mother, and her descent from the baronial houses of Boteler and Marmion will be shown in a subsequent chapter. This match was highly approved by William Chester, who gave up possession of Chicheley Hall to his son, and made him a present of all his furniture there and household stuff to the value of 160Z. Moreover, he added to the extent and value of his son's estate at Chicheley by the gift of his Manor of Broughtons in the adjoining parish of Craw- ley. From the period of his marriage Anthony Chester constantly resided at Chi- cheley, and all his children were born there. He was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1603, and was therefore in office when Queen Elizabeth died, and King James was proclaimed. He was one of the guests assembled at Easton Neston, the seat of Sir George Fermor, on 27th June 1603, when James I. met his Queen there on her progress to London. On this occasion the King conferred the honour of knighthood on Anthony Chester and on seven other gentlemen of Northamptonshire. (3) James I., unlike his predecessor, was lavish in creating titles and dignities, and the order of Baronets Avas insti- Thomas Gardiner may have been a grandson of Sir William Chester. He Tras buried at Chicheley 6th June 1622. [Par. Reg.] Q 112 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY, tuted in the ninth year of his reign. Every Baronet was required to pay a fine of 1095Z. on his creation, but the new honour was eagerly souglit after by the country gentlemen, since knighthood had lost nauch of its ancient repute by the indiscrimi- nate manner in which it had been lately bestowed, and the new Order was expressly confined to a limited number of gentlemen of good birth and estate. The King declared by his letters patent that the number of Baronets should never exceed 200, and that none should be admitted to the Order except after full proof that the}- were men of quality and good reputation, who were gentlemen of coat armour for three descents at least, and who possessed in land 1000^. a year of old rent. (4) These wholesome restrictions were soon relaxed, but in the mean while it required some interest at Court to gain admission into the Order. Sir Anthony Chester was cre- ated a Baronet on 23d March 1619-20, by the favour of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, whose sister Elizabeth had married Sir John Boteler, Lady Chester's only brother. His name stands 123d in the original list of Baronets ; but so many of these titles have become extinct that Sir John Chester was the 42d Baronet in the roll of 1741, and in 1872 there are only fifteen Baronetcies in existence of an older creation than the Chesters. Sir John Boteler received his own patent a few days after his brother-in-law, by the influence of the Duke, who was unwearied in his favours to his sister's children and connexions. The Duke's patronage, however, was not always fortunate in its results, for he took with him in his expedition to the Isle of Khee in 1627 Sir Anthony's youngest son Eobert Chester, who attended him as a ' gentleman volunteer,' and perished in that disastrous campaign. Sir Anthony Chester added considerably to the family estates by judicious pur- chases in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire, although he sold in April 1593 the mansion house and manor of Drayton near Daventry, which he had inherited from his grandfather Anthony Cave. (5) His chief acquisitions were the manor of Tils- worth near Dunstable, and Lidlington Park near Ampthill in Bedfordshire, and the impropriation of East Haddon in Northants. He also made himself the sole proprietor of the parish of Chicheley, by purchasing from John Mansel Esq. of the Middle Temple the manor house and lands of Balney in Chicheley, which had belonged to the Mansels from time immemorial. The old house of Balney is still standing, but has long been degraded into a farm-house. It is built of stone, and has over the front doorway this inscription: . To every daughter of my sons Wilham and John Conyngesby, 40 marks each ; and to every daughter of George Ralegh and my daughter Jane his wife, 40 marks. My manor of Stottesden in Salop, and my manor of Orleton, with its appurts in Orleton, Stoketon, Stanford, and Eastham in Worcestershire, to Humfrey Conyngesby, now under age and my next heu- apparent, the son of my son Thomas Conyngesby, to hold to him and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to the heirs male of my body, remainder to my heirs. My nephew Thomas Solley. My late wives Ahce and Anne and Isabel. To Humfrey Tendall my cosyn and godson, son of John Tendall, and 7ny daughter Amphe- lice his wife, five marks a year towards his finding ; and the like sum to Maurice Berkeley, son of my daughter Elizabeth. My sons William and John Conyngesby to be my executors. Sir John Fitz-James Kt., and Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert* Kt., a King's Justice of Common Pleas, to be overseers of my WUl. Win proved 26th Nov. 1535 in C.P.C. [30 Hogen.] Sir Humphrey Coningsby had issue by his first wife, Alice Ferriby, seven children, three sons and four daughters. 1. Thomas Coningsby, son and heir apparent, died in his father's lifetime. He had married Cecily, the daughter and heiress of John Salway Esq., and when she died in 1527, the wardship of their son and heir, Humphrey Coningsby, was pur- chased by his grandfather the Judge. Humphrey succeeded in 1535 to his grand- father's estates in Herefordshire and Shropshire, and made his principal residence at Hampton Court, near Leominster. He was the ancestor of the extinct Earls Coningsby. (38) 2. "William Coningsby was one of his father's executors in 1535. He was educated at Eton, and was thence elected a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, in 1497. He then studied the law at the Inner Temple, and pursued his father's profession of the Bar with equal success, for after being twice Eeader of his Inn he was made Serjeant-at-Law, and on 5th July 1540 a Judge of the King's Bench. (51) He purchased in 1525 the manors of Wallington and Thorpeland in Norfolk, which descended to his children. He died about four months after his promotion to the Bench, for his successor, Edward Mervyn, was appointed 22d Nov. 1540 in his place. (52) * Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert Kt., of Norbury, Derbyshire, the well-known author of the Natura Brevium, was made a Judge of Common Pleas in 1622, and died in 1538. (50) 262 THE CHESTERS OE CHICHELEY. 3. John Coningsby was also one of his father's executors, and inherited his estates at North Mimms in Hertfordshire, where his posterity long flourished. (38) 1. Elizabeth Coningsby married Richard Berkeley Esq., of Stoke Gifford in Gloucestershire, who died in 1513, leaving two sons and three daughters. (53) Their eldest son. Sir J ohn Berkeley of Stoke, was the ancestor of the Berkeleys Lords Botetourt, and their second son, Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton, was the ancestor of the Lords Berkeley of Stratton. Elizabeth Berkeley married secondly Sir John Fitz-James Kt., of Eedlynch and Bruton in Somerset, and Lord Chief Justice of England 1526-1539. He was the nephew of Richard Fitz-James, Bishop of London, who built the large quadrangle of Fulham Palace. The re- ceived pedigrees wrongly describe the Chief Justice as the brother* of the Bishop, and ignore altogether his second wife Elizabeth Berkeley. (54) She survived her second husband about six years, and died early in 1546. Dame Elizabeth Fitz-James, widow, late wife of Sir John Fitz-James Kt., Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Will dated 30th Nov. 1545. To be buried in the parish Church of Bruton by my late husband, if I die in Somersetshire ; but if I die in Gloucestershire, then to be buried in the College of Westbury by my tirst dear husband Richard Barckley Esq. To my son Sir Maurice Barckley two silver salts, having the dolphinf on them, with other plate and household stuff. To Eichard Barckley, my son's son, ;j: sundry plate, which Sir Maurice is to keep for him tOl he be 21. To my son-in-law William Fraunceis a great goblet and a bed. To my son-in-law Gibbes a gilt cup. To my woman Ehzabeth Tracie a feather bed and such bedding as shall be at Lewston at the time of my death. To my son Morice Barckley my lease of the Parsonage of Shipton Montague. To Hichard Barckley, my son's son,| aU my ' catall ' and household stuff in Gloucestershire, whereof my daughter Dame Ehzabeth§ Barck- ley, his mother, is to have custody till he be of fuU age. To my daughter-in-law Dame Katherine|| Barckley my second velvet gown. To my daughter Dame Anne Speke my satin gown. To my daughter Mary Fraunceis a satin gown. To my woman Elizabeth Marshall a frock and other clothes. The residue to my daughter Ehzabeth§ Barckley widow, my cousin Anthony Gilbert, and John Rowse Gent., whom I appoint to be my executors. My son Sir Mauryce Barckley Kt. and my son-in-law Wilham Fraunceis to be overseers of my WiU. Whereas I, with my cousin Nycolas Fitz-James, was put in trust by one Harman Devynshere to have the governance of Elinor his daughter, I give her £Q above the trust. WiU proved 8th May 1546 in C.S.C. [9 Alen.] 2. Amphillis Coningsby married Sir John Tyndall K.B., of Hockwold. 3. Maegaret Coningsby married Sir Christopher Hildyard Kt., of Wine- stead in Yorkshire, who was a minor and her father's ward on 16tli Dec. 1508, * Lord Campbell was prevented from falling into this error by his total ignorance of any relationship existing between the Chief Justice and the Bishop. He asserts with his usual recklessness of fact that Sir John Fitz-James was of mean bhth and obscure parentage. (5 5) t The Arms of Fitz-James were Azure a dolphin embowed Argent. \ Richard Berkeley was the son and heir of the testatrix's eldest son Sir John Berkeley, who died before his mother. § The widow of Su- John Berkeley Kt., of Stoke. II Catherine, the first wife of Sh- Maurice Berkeley, was the daughter of WilHam Blount Lord Mountjoy. TYNDALL OF HOCKWOLD. 263 when his guardian, Humphrey Coningsby, presented to the Chapel at Winestead. (55) Margaret died in her father's lifetime, leaving issue. Sir Christopher died in 1537, and has a monument in Winestead Church. (56) 4. Jane Coningsby married George Ealeigh Esq., of Farnborough in War- wickshire, and had issue, V. IX. Sir Thomas TyndaLL Kt., the son and heir of Sir John by Amfelice Coningsby, was born about 1505, for he was thirty-four years of age when he had livery of his father's lands on 29th Oct. 1539. (32) He was one of the Esquires attired ' in a gown of velvet with a chain of gold' who attended the Duke of Norfolk on New Year's-eve 1539-40, when he met Anne of Cleves near Rochester and conducted her to the King; (57) and he was one of the Knights of the Carpet who were dubbed by the Earl of Arundel in the presence of Queen Mary on the day after her coronation, 2d Oct. 1553. (58) Sir Thomas had special license from the Crown on 15th Nov. 1556 to aliene and convey to William Tyndall, his son and heir apparent, on the occasion of his marriage, the manors of Ilsington and Clenchwarton with lands in Wigenhale and Tylney in Norfolk, (59) and in 1570 he conveyed his manor of Hockwold and all his other estates in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, to William Lambarde, Humphrey Windham, and Sampson Lennard Esquires, to hold the same, subject to his life interest therein and to certain powers of charging the same by his Will, to the use of his son and heir apparent William Tyndall, and J ohn Tyndall brother of William, and their heirs absolutely. (60) It is the proverbial fate of old men who abdicate in favour of their children that they live long enough to regret it, and Sir Thomas seems to have been no exception to the rule, for he carefully excludes from all share in the execution of his Will the two sons to whom he had made over the absolute reversion of his estates thirteen years before. Whatever may have been his motive for making these arrangements, it is certain that his intellectual faculties were in nowise decayed, for we hear of him in 1579 writing with success to his old friend Lord Burghley, the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, to beg the Mastership of Queen's College for his son Humphrey Tyndall. Sir Thomas had two wives, and survived them both. By his first wife Anne, the daughter of Sir William Paston Kt. of Paston in Norfolk, he had an only son William, who succeeded him at Hockwold. By his second wife Amy, the daughter of Sir Henry Fermor Kt. of East Barsham, he had five sons and four daughters, of whom a full account will be given hereinafter. The precise date of his second marriage is not known, but it certainly took place before May 1544, when Sir Thomas sold the manor of Helpston, the last remnant of the Tyndall estates in Northamptonshire, for the dower of his wife Amy was reserved from the sale. (61) Sir Thomas died about Christmas 1583, in his seventy-ninth year. L L 264 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. Sir Thomas Tyndat.e Kt. Will dated 20tli Sept. 25 Eliz. (1583). To my daughter Susan Tyndall £200 over and besides that sum which she hath already in her hands. To . my daughter Ursula Tyndall 100 marks besides that which is already in her hands. To my sonne Wiiliam Tyndall the younger 20 marks yearly out of my manors of Wilton, Poynings, and Hockwold during his life, with power to distreyne for the same, if it shall be behind and unpaid. To each of my sonnes Frauncis and Henry Tyndall £10 yearly during their lives out of the same manors with like powers of distraint. My well-beloved sonnes Humfrey Tyndall D.D. and Frauncis Tyndall to be my executors, and if they shall refuse or shall not perform my Will in all things according to the true meaning thereof, then my well-beloved friends Frauncis Monford and Thomas Fermor Esquires to be my executors. Item, all my goods to be equally divided amongst all my cliildren at the discretion of my executors. Witnesses : John Hawes Gent., William Saunders Gent. WlU proved in C.P.C. 18th April 1584, by Edward Barker, Notary Public and Proctor for the Executors. [37 Butt.] X. William Tyndall Esq., son and heir of Sir Thomas bj his first wife Anne Paston, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1548. (62) He married in Nov. 1556 Anne, daughter of Sir Ambrose Jermyn Kt., when his father had special leave from the Crown to convey to him by deed, dated 15th Nov. 3 & 4 Philip and Mary, the manor of Ilsington with lands extending into Wigenhale and Tylney. (59). This must have been an absolute gift, for William Tyndall obtained license on 18th Sept. 1565 to alienate all these lands to Francis Southwell. (63) It would appear, however, that he did not by this sale forfeit his father's favour and confidence, for about 1570, Sir Thomas Tyndall, being then sixty-five years of age, conveyed the whole of his estates in Norfolk and the adjoining counties to his sons William and Johi;;, subject to his life interest therein. (60) Sir Thomas died at the end of 1583, and his heir proceeded immediately to sell the whole of his inheritance. Accordingly by deed dated 20th Jan. 1583-4, and made between William Tyndall Esq. of Hockwold (son and heir apparent of Sir Thomas Tyndall Kt. deceased) and John Tyndall Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, one of the younger sons of the said Sir Thomas Tyndall of the one part, and Sir William Paston Kt. of Paston, Norfolk, and Clement Paston Esq. of Oxnead, Norfolk, of the other part, the said William and John Tyndall sold to the said Sir William and Clement Paston, their heirs and assigns, all those manors and lands situate in the parishes of Hockwold, Wilton, Feltwell, Brandon, and Weting in Norfolk, and in Brandon and Lakenheath in Suffolk and in Cambridgeshire and in the Isle of Ely, which had lately belonged to Sir Thomas Tyndall Kt. deceased, and which had for thirteen years past been in the possession of the said William and J ohn Tyndall. (60) Thus passed away from the Tyndalls every acre of their ancient inheritance. A certain air of romance is thrown round the unthrift and extravagance of the last Tyndall of Hockwold, by the tradition that he was dazzled by the offer of the Crown of Bohemia. He was descended through the marriage of his ancestor with Alana Felbrigge from the ancient monarclis of that kingdom, whose last male heir died in 1526, and was succeeded by his brother-in-law Ferdinand of Austria. The new dynasty soon became embroiled with their subjects on the score of rehgion, for TYNDALL OF HOCKWOLD. 265 the doctrines of the Reformers were eagerly accepted in Bohemia, and the encroach- ments of the Protestants on the rights and privileges of the Church were with difficulty kept in check by the Catholic Emperors. They demanded an absolute equality with the Catholics, and were powerful enough to extort from the pohcy of Ferdinand and his successor the free exercise of their rehgion. But the Emperor Rudolph II. had been educated by the Jesuits, and could not endure to see the decrees of the Council of Trent daily violated by the toleration of heresy. In 1578 he issued an imperial edict prohibiting Protestant worship within his dominions under the penalties of treason. The Brethren of the Bohemian Confession ap- pealed to the Diet, and the Estates of Bohemia solemnly protested against the revocation of liberties which they had long enjoyed ; but Rudolph was inexorable, and from this time Bohemia remained for generations in a state of chronic insurrec- tion. Rudolph had no children, and the election of a King of the Romans was expected with intense anxiety by both Catholics and Protestants. The Electors were divided in religion, and three out of the seven had long been avowed adherents of the Reformed Faith. But in November 1582, Gebhard Truchsess, the Archbishop Elector of Cologne, astounded the world by renouncing the Catholic Faith and by marrying the beautiful Chanoine Agnes de Mansfeldt. He insisted on retaining his archbishopric as a secular Electorate, but his conversion was immediately followed by the anathema of the Pope and the ban of the Empire. The crisis was of the highest importance, for if Gebhard were allowed to retain his electoral vote the Protestant Electors would be in the majority, and the imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire would be lost to Catholicism. His deprivation therefore became a trial of strength between the Protestant Princes and the Ca- tholic Powers, and both parties strained every nerve to increase their influence. The Estates of Bohemia had always maintained that the rights of the House of Austria were solely derived from election, and they seized this opportunity to throw off their allegiance. They declared the throne of Bohemia to be vacant, and sought for a Protestant candidate, round whom they could rally with some show of here- ditary right. Their eyes were naturally turned towards England, for Queen Elizabeth was regarded as the bulwark of the Protestant cause and the determined foe of the House of Austria. There was a current rumour that some years back diplomatists had conversed with a Protestant knight in the English Court, who traced his descent from the ancient kings of Bohemia, and it was resolved to send a deputation to offer him the throne. The deputies carried with them, amongst other presents, a bed of state, with curtains richly embroidered with the insignia of Bohemian royalty ; and when they found that Sir Thomas Tyndall was an old man of eighty, who had long relinquished the management of his estates, they presented these royal ornaments with the offer of the crown to his son Williani, who was in the prime of life. But William Tyndall had no qualifications for the throne except his age and his pedigree, and when it was ascertained that no help was to be 266 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. expected from the English Government, the Quixotic project of electing an English- man without rank, resources, or talents was silently abandoned. This does not sound a very probable story, although I have narrated the tradition in its most plausible form ; and it is a suspicious circumstance that our authorities widely differ, as to which of the Tyndalls it was, to whom the crown was offered, for it is variously attributed to the great-grandfather, the father, and even the younger brother of William Tyndall. Sir Henry Spelman, the Norfolk antiquary (1562- 1641), relates, in the description of Felbrigge in his Icenia, the descent of Sir William Tyndall K.B. from Margaret of Bohemia; and then goes on to say, that he was knighted at the creation of Arthur Prince of Wales (29th Nov. 1489), 'et jure Margaretae Proavise suae Hssredem Regni Bohemias denunciatum. Sic Heraldorum nostrorum Fasti ; sic me puero fama Celebris' (64) On the other hand, a geographical quarto, published in London in 1630, under the title of Relations of the most famous Kingdomes and Commonwealths thorowout the World, contains this passage at p. 276 : ' The kingdom [of Bohemia] is meerely elective, although by force and faction now almost made hereditary to the house of Austria, which it seems it was not, when as within these two Ages that State made choice of one Mr. Tyndall, an English gentleman, father to Mr. Doctor Tyndall, Master of Queene's College in Cambridge, sending over their Ambassadors to him and by them their presents, which story is famously known at Cambridge.' Fuller, however, in his History of Cambridge, gives a different version of the story current in the University, for he says : (65) ' Dr. Humphrey Tyndall, Dean of Ely, of whom there passeth an improbable tradition. That in the reign of Queen Elizabeth he was proffered by a Protestant Party in Bohemia to be made King thereof. Wliich he refused, alleadging That he had rather be Queen Elizabeth's subject than a forain Prince. However, because no smoak without some fire or heat at least, there is something in it, more than appears to every eye.' Fuller is no mean authority for the Cambridge tradition of his day, for he was nephew to Dr. John Davenant, who witnessed Dr. Tyndall's Will, and succeeded him in the Mastership of Queen's. His concluding sentence probably expresses the true state of the case, for there is contemporary evidence that some kind of offer of the crown was made to one of the Tyndalls, although it was probably of a less formal character than the tradition suggests. This evidence agrees with chronology in clearly indicating William Tyndall as the person selected for the throne, and it is remarkably supported by the passage in his Will, whereby he specifically bequeathes to his brother. Sir John Tyndall, ' my bed called the bed of Bohemia with all the furniture thereto belonging, and with the curtaynes also, as yt now standeth furnished.' Thomas Tyndale of Eastwood in Gloucestershire was employed in his youth by Walsingham and Cecil as a collector of political news in foreign parts, and marrying a French wife, Oriana le Bon, was often in Paris. He died in 1619, and the following statement in his handwriting is still extant : TYNDALL OF HOCKWOLD. 267 - ' The Baron of Slavatta in Bohemia told me in Paris that of right a Tyndall should be their king, and when Truchsess, Archbishop of Cologne, forsook the Pope in hopes by four Electors to choose a King of Eomaine against the House of Austria, Wilham Tyndall, the son of the last Sir Thomas, was sent for to the Court of England with intent to set up his title, but Truchsess being thrust out of Cologne the plot fell to ground.'* Tyndale's information came to him on high authority, for the Baron de Slawata must have been familiarly acquainted with the complications of Bohemian pohtics in all tlieir details. Born in 1568, he was employed from his youth in the Govern- ment of Bohemia, and in 1617 he had risen to be Lord Treasurer of that kingdom and President of the Council of Regency. He had been educated in Protestant tenets, which he abjured on his marriage to a rich Catholic heiress ; and such was his zeal for his new religion, that he is said to have literally driven with his hounds the peasants to mass, and to have crammed the Host down their throats by brute force. This made him especially hateful to the Protestants, and on 23d May 1618 a band of nobles burst into the Council Chamber at Prague, where he was sitting with his colleague Martiniz, and Fabricius the secretary, and proceeded forthwith to execute on all three of them the national punishment of ' defenestration.' They were flung, just as they stood, with their Spanish cloaks and hats on, from the window of the Council Chamber into the moat below. The window was nearly sixty feet high, but the moat was dry and full of dead leaves, and their ample cloaks were caught by the wind and partially broke their fall. They were therefore little hurt, and the secretary retained sufficient presence of mind to apologise to his patron for having fallen on the top of him. Slawata took refuge abroad during the brief period of Protestant ascendancy, but after a short exile returned to Prague, where he was created a Count in 1623 by the Emperor Ferdinand. (66) William Tyndall, after the sale of Hockwold, appears from his Will to have settled at Boston in Lincolnshire, where he died in Oct. 1591. He left no issue, although he had two wives, who were both named Anne. He married first, in Nov. 1556, Anne, the daughter of Sir Ambrose Jermyn Kt., who died in her father's lifetime, and was buried with her own family at Horningsherth in Suffolk, on 11th Sept. 1574,t Her death did not interrupt her husband's friendly relations with her family, for Tyndall was one of the witnesses to Sir Ambrose Jermyn's * This document is still in the possession of the writer's lineal descendant Mr. John Wan-e Tyndale, of Pen-idge House, Somerset, whose brother-in-law, Mr. Greenfield, has devoted much time and labour to the history of the different families of Tyndall, and printed privately in 1843 the genealogy of the Tyndales of Hayling Island. My knowledge of some of the younger childi-en of Su- Thomas Tyndall is mainly derived from his Collections, which he liberally permitted me to consult. I am also indebted to him for supplying many details and suggestions when he read my narrative in ms. for the purpose of comparing my conclusions with his own. f From the Par. Register of Horningsherth, Suffolk : 1574. Anne Tyndal, daughter of Sir Ambrose Jermyn Kt., buried the 11th of September. (67) 268 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. Will, which is dated 28th March 1577, and contains a legacy of lOZ. ' to my son-in- law Tendall.' (68) His second wife survived him and proved his Will. William Tyndali. of Boston, Lincolnshire, Esquire. Will dated 30th Sept. 1591. To my brother John Tyndali of Lincoln's Inn my bed called the bed of Boemia, with all the furniture thereto belonging and with the curtaynes also as yt now standeth furnished. All the residue of my goods, plate, jewels, and ready money to my well-beloved wife Ann Tyndali, whom I make my sole executrix. Witnesses : Richard Stevenson, William Leeke, Eliz. Capland, Richard Robinson, Mary Tuttoft, and Biidgitt Hall. Will proved by the widow 8th Oct. 1591 in C.P.C. [72 St. Barbe.] I now return to the nine children of Sir Thomas Tyndali by his second wife Amy Fermor. They were five sons and four daughters. • 1. William Tyndall, called the younger in his father's Will, became the head of the family on the death of his half-brother William in 1591. 2. John Tyndall, afterwards a Knight and a Master in Chancery, the ancestor of the Tyndalls of Maplestead in Essex, of whom hereinafter. 3. Humphrey Tyndall was born in 1546, for we have his sworn declaration that on 13th March 1580-1 he was in his thirty-fifth year. (70) He matriculated a pensioner at Gonville Hall, Cambridge, in November 1553, being then nine years old, but was afterwards a scholar of Christ's College. He proceeded B.A. in 1566, and was elected a Fellow of Pembroke Hall 24th Nov. 1567. He took his Master's degree in 1569, and was for some years in residence at Pembroke, for he was junior bursar of his college in 1570, and senior bursar in 1572. (69) He was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Peterborough on 31st July 1572, (70) and was appointed one of the University preachers in 1576. In the next year he proceeded B.D., and was presented by his College to the Vicarage of Soham in Cambridgeshire, which he held with his other preferments until his death. He became about this time Chaplain to the Earl of Lei- cester, who was then at the height of his power, and Tyndall was so much in the Earl's confidence, that he was selected to officiate at his secret marriage with the Countess of Essex. This marriage took place at Wanstead House, in Essex, on 21st Sept. 1578, and was recorded in solemn form before a Notary Public on 13th March 1580-1 by the sworn depositions of Ambrose Earl of Warwick, Eoger Lord North, Sir Francis KnoUys, and Humphrey Tyndall. (70) The knowledge of so important a secret pro- mised rapid preferment, and Tyndall's favour -mth the powerful Earl was so notorious, that so soon as it was rumoured that Dr. Chaderton, the Master of Queen's, had the Earl's promise of a bishopric, it was confidently expected at Cambridge that the vacant Mastership would be conferred on Tyndall by royal mandate. Accordingly Mr. Yale, one of the Fellows of Queen's, wrote to Lord Burghley, the Chancellor of the University, on 19th July 1578, to protest against the Earl's influence being used to insist on Tyndall's election; for if a free choice were permitted to the Fellows, they had amongst their own body men better fitted to be their Head than a } onng man hke Tyndall, who belonged to another College and had no experience HUMPHREY TYNDALL, D.D. 269 in University affairs. (71) This remonstrance however was made in vain, for when Dr. Chaderton resigned in June 1579, on becoming Bishop of Chester, Tyndall was elected Master on 3d July, on the recommendation of Lord Burghley. His letter of thanks to the Lord Treasurer is still extant, and is dated 23d Sept. 1579. (72) It is remarkable that he makes no allusion to the Earl of Leicester, and that he attributes Lord Burghley's interposition in his favour to his wish to oblige Sir Thomas Tyndall, who had written to his old friend on behalf of his son. The Master of Queen's was created D.D. in 1582, and was Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1585-6. During his term of office he was preferred to the Archdeaconry of Stafford and the Chancellorship of Lichfield Cathedral, which he held from 21st Feb. 1585-6 until his death. (69) His University career was not distinguished by any literary achievements, for his only known composition is a copy of verses on the death of Sir Philip Sidney, which were published with others in a book entitled Acadeinice Cantabrigiensis lacrymce tumulo nobilissimi equitis D. Fhilippi Sidneij sacmtoe, per Alexandrum Nevillum. London, 1586-7. He was collated to the Prebend of Halloughton, in the Collegiate Church of Southwell, on 7th July 1588, and was promoted to the Deanery of Ely by patent, dated 17th Dec. 1591, with which he held in commendam the Eectory of Wentworth; but he resigned this Eectory in 1610 in favour of Daniel Wigmore, one of the Fellows of Queen's. (69) The Dean exerted the legitimate influence of his position in favour of his relatives, for by his means his brother Sir John Tyndall was the Steward and Francis Tyndall was the Auditor of the estates of Queen's College, and his sister Ursula obtained a beneficial lease of the College lands at Coton. (69) His care also extended to the next generation, for his nephews, Felix Tyndall the son of his brother William, and Humphrey Coxey the son of his sister Ursula, were educated at Queen's under his Mastership. Simon Tyndall, whose precise relationship has not been ascertained, was still further indebted to the Dean's protection, for he was elected a Fellow of Queen's on 11th Oct. 1599, and was presented to the Vicarage of Great St. Andrew's, Cambridge, in 1601. (73) Simon was Junior Proctor in 1606, and resigned his Vicarage in 1608, when he proceeded B.D., and was a chaplain in the service of the East India Company. (74) The Dean did not marry until late in life, and, if we may believe Fuller, he dis- played the usual weakness of an old man with a young wife, by studying her wishes more than the interests of his College : * uxori suce (quam senex duxerat), nimis indulsit, non sine Collegii detrimento, ccetera satis laudandus.^ (75) He married at Hockington in Cambridgeshire, 20th Dec. 1593, Jane, daughter of Robert liussell Esq., of West Rudham in Norfolk, by Mary, sister of Sir William Drury Kt., of Hawsted, by whom he had a son John, who died young, in his father's lifetime, and was buried at St. Botolph's, Cambridge, on 12th Feb. 1610-11.* His son's death * From the Par. Register of St. Botolph's, Cambridge : lGlO-11, Feb. 12. Johannes filius Umfridi Tyndalli Decani Eliens: sepultus. 270 THE CHESTEKS OE CIirCHELET. was followed by an illness so severe that his death was reported in London, and a royal mandate was sent down on 17th June 1611 to elect Dr. George Meriton in his place, (76) but Dr. Tyndall recovered and enjoyed all his preferments more than three years longer. He was strongly inclined to the Puritan doctrines, and was reckoned amongst the leading divines of that party. Therefore when Dr. Nicholas Bound published in 1606 the second edition of his famous book on the stricter observance of the Sabbath, the second book was dedicated to the Dean of Ely. (76a) Dr. Humphrey Tyndall died on 12th Oct. 1614, in the sixty-ninth year of his age, and was buried in Ely Cathedral. His monument, in the south aisle of the Choir, bears on the slab his effigy in brass of life-size, dressed in an academic gown, with this marginal legend in Roman capitals : ' Umphridus Tyndall, nobili Nokfolciensidm Tyndalloeum familia ohiundus, Decanus QUARTUS ISTIUS EcCLESIjE, OBIIT XII" DIE MenSIS OcXOB. A.D. MDCXIV", ANNO jETATIS SU^ LXV°.' On a brass plate at his feet is inscribed : ' Usque quo Domine usque quo. The body of the woorthy and Eeverende Prelate Umphry Tyndall D.D., the fourth Dean of this Church and Master of Queene's Colledge in Cambridge, doth heere expect y^ coming of Our Saviour. In presence, government, good actions and in birth, Grave, wise, courageous, noble was this earth. The poor, y^ Church, y^ Colledge saye, here lyes A fiiende, a Deane, a Maister, true, good, wise.' Above his head is an armorial shield of six quarterings, and there is also a shield of arms at each of the four corners, on one of which Tyndall impales Russell a lion rampant, on a chief three escallops. Umphry Tjndall Doctour in Divinitie, President of the Queen's College in Cambridge and Dean of Ely. Will dated 12th March 1613-14. To be buried according to my calling at the discretion of Jane my wife. To the President and Fellows of Queen's College for the use of my successors all the ' seeling' and wainscotting of my chambers and lodging, which amounteth to about 56250 over and above what I have received from the College or any other benefactors towards the same ; and also all my books in folio which are not already in the College Library. To the poor of Ely ^10. To my sister Upcher for her life all my household stuff and goods in the Vicarage house of Soame [Soham] , and after her death to her daughter Amy Coxy. To Jane my wife my copyholds in Sutton, taken up in trust for me by my brother Upcher, also £30 due to me on a Bond by Thomas Taylor of Lichfield Gent., and also all the residue of my goods and chattels. My said wife to be my executrix and my brother Mr. Francis Tindall to be super- visor of my Will, ' by whose advice I would have my wife to be ruled and counselled, as being assured he doth love me and mine well, and that he will show that at his death, and I give to him for a remembrance of me my seal ring.' Witnesses : John Davenant,* Ro. Newcome, Nicholas Frithe. Will proved 18th Nov. 1614 by the widow in C.P.C. [108 Lawe.] ** John Davenant succeeded Dr.TyndaU as Masterof Queen's, and was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury 9th July 1620. rRANCIS TYNDALL ESQ. 271 Jane Tyndall, the widow of the Dean, proved her husband's Will, and married secondly Henry Jay Esq., Alderman of London, whom she survived, for she married thirdly Sir Henry Duke Kt., of Cossington, Kent. (78) 4. Francis Tyndall, like his brother John, w^as bred to the Bar at Lincoln's Lm, and acquired a considerable fortune by the exercise of his profession. Through the influence of his brother Humphrey, who was then Master of Queen's College, Cambridge, he held on a beneficial lease part of the College estates, and was for many years the Auditor of the College revenues. (6g) This pleasant and profitable connexion with Queen's College was gratefully remembered in his Will, for he bequeathed 40Z. to the Master and Fellows to buy a silver basin and ewer, and bl. to be distributed amongst such poor scholars as the Master should think fit. Francis was singularly happy in all the circumstances of his life ; for in a family distracted by quarrels he retained the full confidence and affection of his father and brothers, and born to the slender inheritance of a younger son, he honourably acquired by his own exertions a plentiful estate, which he enjoyed to a ripe old age. He was one of his father's executors in 1584, and in 1614 the Dean of Ely appointed him to be supervisor of his Will, in these touching terms : ' I would have my wife to he ruled and counselled hy the advice of my brother Francis, being assured that he doth love me and mine well' He was equally trusted by his brother Sir John, and is most affectionately remembered in the Will of Sir John's widow, for Lady Tyndall says (14th June 1620) : ' I give to my loving brother-in-law Mr. Francis Tindall my wedding ring that I was married with to his brother.' He resided for many years at Cambridge, and was the owner of an estate in the neighbouring village of Hockington, which he purchased in 1596. The purchase deed is dated 13th Aug. 38 Eliz., and expresses that John Shute Esq, of Hocking- ton, Humphrey Gardener of St. Ives, Gent., and Robert Audeley of St. Ives, Gent., bargained and sold to Francis Tyndall Esq. of Cambridge, the manor of Burgoynes als Shutes in Hockington, with the mansion and lands attached. (78a) Francis left this estate by his Will to his nephew Felix Tyndall. He removed from Cambridge to the suburbs of London early in 1610, when by deed, dated 23d Feb- 7 James I., he purchased from Thomas Norwood Gent., of Northampton, a house at Pinner, near Harrow-on-the-Hill, with a garden and orchard and six acres of meadow. (78b) This was his residence during the rest of his life, and he died unmarried on 7th Sept. 1631. (79) He must then have been at least eighty-four years old, and had survived all his brothers and sisters. Many of his relations are remembered in his Will, but his principal legatee was his godson and nephew Deane Tyndall of Maplestead. As Francis Tyndall died seised of freeholds in London, an inquest was held after his death at Guildhall, on 2d March 1631-2, whereby it was found that his next heir at the time of his death was his nephew Felix Tyndall, Clerk, the son and heir of his deceased brother William. (79) MM 272 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. Francis Tyndall of Pinner in the parish of Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, Esquire. Will dated 11th April 1626, and published 28th June 1626. To my nephew and godson Deane Tyndall my leases in Pinner and elsewhere. To Mr. Willis the preacher of Pinner, £4= per annum for seven years out of my parsonage of Pinner. To my sister Upcher ^10 per annum for her life out of the same parsonage, and to Mrs. Wheldall, some- time my brother William Tyndall's A\dfe, ^615 per annum for her life. To Thomas Prior my servant £10 per annum for his life. To my sister's son Umphry Coxey .£20, and to his sister Amy, wife to Mr. Hitch, preacher, ^620. To Queen's College, Cambridge, for a basin and ewer of silver and to poor scholars of the same College £5. To the poor of Pinner £10. To my sister Fisher my pointed diamond ring, my broche, and my diaper in my chest in London. To my nephew Sir Thomas Fisher my other diamond ring and my hatband of buttons of gold. To my Lady Fisher* £5. To my Lady Darnellf my ruby ring. To my nephew Deane Tyndall's wife £10. To Henry Bullock my godson, son ■of Francis Bullock, £'100 after he is out of his apprenticeship. To Felix Tyndall my nephew £100. To my niece Margaret daughter of Sir John Tyndall £100. All the residue of my personal estate and also my lands and tenements in Pinner, Middlesex, Stockwith and Misterton, Notts and in Golding-lane, London, to my godson Deane Tyndall and his heirs for ever, but he is to pay out of the same £10 per annum for her life to my niece Hester']: Bullock, sometime wife of Francis Bullock. To my godson Francis Tjmdall son and heir apparent of my nephew Deane Tyndall my houses near the Holborn-bridge in London, but his father is to have the rents thereof till he be 21. To Rebecca;]; wife of John Strougnell and to Deborah]; wife of Daniel Bockocke a house in Cateaton-. street, London, each. My lands in Cambridge slrii'e to my nephew Felix Tyndall. My godson Deane Tyndall to be my sole executor. Will proved 14th Sept. 1631 in C.P.C. [99 St. John.] 5. Henry Tyndall inherited from his father an annuity of 101. per annum out of Hockwold, and is described in the inquests held after his death as of Old Buckenham in Norfolk. (8o) He married Dorothy Fox, and died on 30th May 1592, when Henry Tyndall, his son and heir, was found to be eighteen years five months and ten days old. (8o) He had also other children, for his widow Dorothy was in June 1604 the wife of William Isbell, and had then children by her first marriage who were still under twenty years of age. These children are not mentioned in any of the Tyndall Wills, and my only knowledge of their existence is derived from the V\'ill of their mother's aunt, Mrs. Ryngewode of Wymondham. Margarkt Ryngewode of Wymondham, Norfolk, widow. Will dated 12th June 1604. To be buried in Wymondham Church near my late husband. To my nephews John and Ralph Fox, Thomas Fox sen"., and my niece Bridget Lambecke £10 each. To my nephews Thomas Fox jun^. and John Castleton tenements in Wymondham. To Robert son of my nephew James Fox £100. To my niece Dorothy Isbells £100, provided that her husband William Isbells make a good and lawful estate to the use of the said Dorothy for hfe of the value of £16 per annum out of lands of inheritance ; and if he refuse, then my executors shall put out the said £100 to profit for the said Dorothy for her life, and afterwards shall divide the same between the children which the said Dorothy had by her first husband Henry Tyndall at their respective ages of 20 years. My * Sir Thomas Fisher Kt. and Bart., the testator's nephew, married at Islington, 2d March 1619-20, Sarah the eldest daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Fowler Kt. and Bart. t Sarah, wife of Sir Thomas Darnell Bart, of Heyling, Lincolnshire, was the sister of Sir Thomas Fisher Bart. , and therefore niece to the testator. I Daughter of the testator's eldest brother William Tyndall. TYNDALL OF HOCKWOLD. 273 loving friends Dr. Humfrey Tyndall and Mr. Francis Tyndall Esq. to be my executors and re- siduary legatees. Will proved by Francis Tyndall 22d Nov. 1605 in C.P.C. [75 Hayes.] Henry Tyndall, son and heir of Henry, settled in London, and is described as of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street, in the letters of administration which were issued after his death, on 9th Oct. 1621, to his principal creditor Francis Bullock, the husband of his cousin Hester Tyndall. The four daughters of Sir Thomas Tyndall were : 1. Thomasine Tyndall, married in her father's lifetime William Calthorpe Esq., of Ingham in Norfolk, who sold the ancient inheritance of this family. (8 1 ) 2. Elizabeth Tyndall, married in her father's lifetime Henry Page of Watling- street, Citizen and Draper of London. 3. Susan Tyndall was still unmarried on 20th Sept. 1583, when her father. Sir Thomas Tyndall, made his Will, but she afterwards had two husbands. By her first husband, James Whethall, she had no children, and their marriage must have been of short duration. (82) Her second husband was Thomas Fisher, Citizen and Skinner of London, who died in 1613, and by his Will devised lands in Puckeridge, Herts, to the poor of his native parish of Standon in the same county. (83) He left two daughters and a son Thomas, who acquired the manor of Barnsbury, in the parish of Islington, by marrying Sarah, the eldest daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Fowler Bart., of that place. (84) Thomas Fisher the son was knighted at Whitehall, 12th March 1616-17, and was created a Baronet on 19th July 1627^ when he is styled as of St. Giles in the Fields. His mother Susan lived to a great age, for she was living in 1626, but she died before 1633. (76) The pedigree below supplies the omissions of Burke's Extinct Baronetage, which gives no account what- ever of Sir Thomas Fisher's parentage. Thomas Fisher of Lottesford, in tlie=j=EUzabeth, dau. of Edward Brocket parish of Standon, Herts, 1556. | Esq. 1. William. 2. Richard Fisher. =f=. . . . widow of John I Crouch of Standon. r r ' 1. Richard. 2. Thomas Fisher, Citi-=T=Susan, dau. of Sir Thos. zen and Skinner of Lon- Tyndall Kt. of Hockwold, don. Will dat. 24 Nov. widow of James Whet- 1612; proved 29 April haU. 1613. I \ I Sir Thos. Fisher Kt. and=j=Sarah, dau. and coheir Sarah Fisher, mar. Sir Susan Fisher, mar. Bart. ; died 22 May ; bur. of Sir Thos. Fowler Kt. Thomas Darnell Bart, of Sii- Edward Law- 25 May 1636 at Isling- and Bart. ; mar. 2 March Heyling, co. Lincoln. ley Kt. of Wenlock, ton. 1619-20 at Islington. Salop. I FiSHEK Baeis. 274 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. 4. Ursula Tyndall was born about 1552, and was still unmarried when her father made his Will in 1583. She married Coxey, by whom she had two children : 1. Humphrey, who was admitted a Pensioner of Queen's College, Cam- bridge, 12th Jan. 1610-11 (69) and was living in 1628; and 2. Amy, who married before 1626 Mr. William Hich, 'a preacher of God's Word,' who had been admitted a sizar of Queen's 1st May 1606, and was his mother-in-law's executor. Ursula married secondly Edward Upcher of Soham, of which parish her brother, Dr. Humphrey Tyndall, was vicar, and they resided in the parsonage house. Their marriage took place before 4th Oct. 1608, when the Master and Fellows of Queen's College granted to them jointly a beneficial lease of the College estate at Coton. (69) Ursula had no issue by her second husband, whom she survived. She died about Christmas 1628 and was buried in Ely Cathedral, where her memory is preserved by this singular inscription on a brass plate affixed to a tomb- stone (77) : ' Yet a very little, and He that will come shall come. The Speritte and the Bride say, come. Lett him that heareth say, come ; And lett him that is athirst say, come. ^ Even soe come, Lord Jesu. i Tyndall hy birth Ursula -| Coxee by choice [ Upcher in age and for comfort Anno iEtatis 77.' Ursula Upcher of Ely, mdow. WiU dated 12th Dec. 1628. My lands at Coton held on lease fi-om Queen's Coll. Cambridge. My son Humphrey Coxee. My daughter Amy Coxee now wife of WUliam Hich, Clerk. Richard Upcher of Sutton. My son-in-law William Hich to be my executor. Will proved in C.P.C. 9th Jan. 1628-9. XI. William Tyndall, the eldest sou of Sir Thomas by Anne Fermor his second wife, is called the younger in his father's Will to distinguish him from his half-brother of the same name, and was provided for by an annuity of twenty marks per annum charged upon Hockwold. He became the head of the family on the death of his brother William in 1591, but has been so constantly confused with him that the Heralds have ignored altogether the existence of this younger William and his children, and it was deliberately assumed in the proceedings before the House of Lords in 1858 in the Scales Peerage Case that Sir John Tyndall of Maplestead was the eldest son of his father's second marriage. This blunder, how- ever, has been perpetrated in defiance of the clearest evidence, for Felix, son of William, was judicially found in 1631 to be the heir-at-law of his uncle Francis Tyndall, (79) and Thomas son of Felix was expressly recognised as the head of the family in 1644 by his cousin Deane Tyndall of Maplestead.* (85) * It is stated in Philipot's genealogies in the College of Anns (32 fo. 29) that Felix and his sisters were the children of WiUiam Tyndall of Boston, the only son of the first marriage of Sir Thomas Tyndall, and that their mother v/as his second wife, Anne Hunt. But Felix could not possibly have been the heir- at-law of his uncle Francis, unless his father had been brother of the whole blood to Francis. TYNDALL OF HOCKWOLD. 275 William Tyndall married and left a son Felix with three daughters, but the date of his death and the name of his wife are unknown. Neither he nor his children are mentioned in any of the family Wills except that of Francis Tyndall, but his son Felix was educated at Queen's College under his uncle Humphrey. His wife survived him and married a second husband, for she is called in 1626 in Francis Tyndall's Will ' Mrs. Wheldall, sometime my brother William's wife.' The three daughters of William Tyndall were— 1. Hester Tyndall married Francis Bullock Esq. of Low Leyton in Essex, and had three sons, John, Francis, and Henry, of whom Henry was the godson of his granduncle Francis Tyndall, and was still an apprentice in 1626, when his godfather left him 1001. by his Will. Francis Bullock died in 1625, leaving his two younger sons under age, for on 30th Aug. 1625 letters of administration were granted to William Sherwin, the Curator of Francis Bullock son of the deceased, during his minority, with the consent of Hester Bullock the widow and John Bullock the eldest son of the deceased. Hester Bullock had an annuity of lOl. per annum secured to her by the Will of her uncle Francis Tyndall. 2. Rebecca Tyndall was in 1626 the wife of John Strugnell, and had a house in Cateaton-street, London, devised to her by her uncle Francis Tyndall. 3. Deborah Tyndall married Daniel Bockocke, who is described in 1627 in some Chancery proceedings as the brother-in-law of Felix Tyndall. (86) Deborah like her sister inherited from Francis Tyndall a house in Cateaton-street. XII. Felix Tyndall, son and heir of William, matriculated a pensioner on 28th March 1607 at Queen's College, Cambridge, of which his uncle the Dean of Ely was then master. (69) He took the usual degrees in Arts and entered Holy Orders, for he was A.M. when, on 6th Nov. 1616, he was presented to the vicarage of Great St. Andrew's, Cambridge, by the Dean and Chapter of Ely. (73) He resigned this vicarage in 1619, when he was presented to the valuable living of Plumstead in Kent, which he held until his death. He inherited under the will of his uncle Francis Tyndall his estate at Hockington in Cambridgeshire, and when his uncle died on 7th Sept. 1631 Felix was his heir-at-law. (79) But he died intestate at the end of this year, and letters of administration were granted on 2d Feb. 1631-2 to Susan Tyndall his widow. He married at St. Helen's, Bishops- gate, London, on 22d April 1619,* Susan, widow and administratrix of Obadiah Bradshawe, curate of Stifford, Essex, who was buried at Stifford on 13th Oct. 1618. He had issue by her a son Thomas, and perhaps other children. XIII. Thomas Tyndall, son and heir of Felix, is described as of Low Leyton in Essex in a deed enrolled in Chancery, which is dated 3d Sept. 1644, and is ex- pressed to be made between Deane Tyndall of Great Maplestead, Essex, Esq., of * From the Par. Register of St. Helenas, Bishopsgate, London : (g) 1619. April 22. Felix Tindall of Queen's Coll. Cambridge, clerk, and Susan Bradshawe of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street, widow, late wife of Obadiah Bradshawe, clerk, deceased, married. Faculty license. 276 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. the one part, and Thomas Tyudall of Low Leyton, Essex, Gentleman, 'cousin and next heu' unto Francis Tyudall, late of Pinner, Middlesex, Esq., deceased, that is to say, son and heir of Felix Tyndall, clerk, the son and heir of William Tyndall Esq., the elder brother and next heir of the said Francis Tyndall,' of the other part. (85) Thomas Tyndall was party to an indenture of recognizance for 200Z. in 1651, (87) and thenceforth disappears from my view. One moiety of the Barony of Scales is vested in his heir. PEDIGREE OF TYNDALL OF DEENE AND HOCKWOLD. Abms, Argent a fess dancettee, in chief three crescents gules, adopted from Deene, but in the 17tli centui-y borne quarterly with Argent, on a fess sable three garbs Or, for Tyndall. William de Tyndall of Tansover, Northants, and= of Yarwell 1358. (Esch. 32 Edw. III. 82.) =EUzabeth, wife 1358. John de Tyndall, son and heir, of Deene and Sta-=i=Catherine, wife 1375, nion, Northants, 1375, by the grant of Clement de Deene. Escheator 1377 ; Sheriff 1391 ; M. P. for Northants 1380-93 ; dead 1397. I John TyndaU, son and heir, of Deene, M.P.= for Northants 1407 ; died 21 July 1413. (Esch. 1 Heniy V. 46.) 1384. ■1 h. Henry de Deene *Deene, Northants. of Clement de Deene, son andhmr ; sold Deene in 1375 to John Tyndall and Catherine. Richard Tyndall, = Margaret, dau. Bon and heir, of of Hugh de Deene, aged 18 in Brounege; wife 1414 ; died 18 Sept. 1413. 1415. (Esch. 3 Hen. V. 7.) 1 William TyndaU, brother= and heii', born at Deene 31 Dec. 1397, of Deene and Tansover ; died 4 Aug. 1426. (Esch. 5 Hen. VI. 31.) r =Alana, dau. and heir: of Sir Simon Fel- brigge K.G. ; died 1457. (Esch. 36 H. VI. 4.) :2 h. Sir Thomas Wanton Kt. ; husband 1431. Thomas Tyndall, son and heir, aged=j=Anne, dau. of Sir William Yelverton 4 in 1426, of Deene and Tansover ; died 29 Sept. 1448. (Esch. 29 Hen. VI. 1.) r K.B., Judge of King's Bench. Sir WiUiam TyndaU=T=Mary, dau. and heir K.B., son and heir, aged 8 in 1450 ; sold Deene in 1486 ; cousin and coheir of Lady Scales 1473 ; died 22 Feb. 1496-7. (Esch. 13 H. VII.) of Osbert Monde- ford Esq. of Hock- wold, Norfolk. Anne, marr. Henry Jermy Esq. I 1 Jane, marr. John Bleverhasset Esq. of Frenge, Norfolk ; died 17 June 1521. i As — 1 1 w. Amphillis, dau. of Sii-=j=Sir John Tyndall K.B., son=2 w. Winifred, widow of Humphrey Coningsby Kt., Judge of King's Bench ; died 18 Jan. 1632-3 ; M.I. at Hock- wold. 2. WilUam Tyndall of Brentford, Midx. ; marr. Anne, dau. and heir of Thos. Beaumeys of Dun- mow. I A ■ and heir, aged 10 in 1497, of Hockwold; K. B. 31 May 1533 ; died 1 Oct. 1539. Sir Hem-y Fermor Kt. 3. Thomas, 1558. 4. Humphrey ; diedunmar.; bur. 14 Sept. 1540. r 1. DoEOTHT ; mar. John Peyton Esq. of Knowl- ton. 1 2. Ursula, mar. 1 h. Richard Gaw- sell Esq.; 2. h. WUliam Butts Esq. Peyton op Knowlton AND DoDDINGTON. I As PEDIGEEE OF TYNDALL, 277 I 3. Anne, marr. Eobert Bacon Esq. of Harleston. 4. Mary, 1538. 1 w. Anne, daii.= of Sir Wm. Pas- ton Kt. 1— =Sii- Thomas TyndallKt.,= son and heir, of Hock- wold; born 1505; knighted 1553 ; died 1583. Will. =2 w. Amy, dau. of Sir Henry Ter- mor Kt. 1 w. Anne, dau.=Wiliiam Tyndall=2 w. Anne; of Sir Anihrose Esq., son and Extrix. Jermyn Kt. ; heir ; sold Hock- 1591. marr. 1556; wold 1584; died bur. 11 Sept. Oct. 1591. Will. 1675. I 2. William^ TyndaU'the younger,' brother and heir. 1. Thomasine, marr. Wm. Cal- thorpe Esq. of Ingham. 2. Elizabeth, mar. Henry Page of London. r- 3. Susan, mar. 1 h. James Whet- hall ; 2 h. Thos. Fisher of London. i Fisher Bakts. ' Mrs.Whel- dall,' 1627. 3. Sir John Tyn- dall Kt., Master in Chancery. Ttndall of Maplestead. 1 4. Humphrey Tyndall D.D., Master of Queen's Coll. Camb.,Dean of Ely; died 12 Oct. 1614, s. p. 6. Francis Tyn- dall Esq. of Line. Inn ; died unmar. 7 Sept. 1631. Will. r Felix Tyndall, son=j=Susan,widoWof and heir, M. A., Vicar of Plumstead, Kent ; Adm. granted to widow 2 Feb. 1631-2. L. Kev. Ohadiah Biadshawe ; mar. 22 AprU 1619. "1 Hester, marr. Fran- cis Bullock Esq. of Low Leyton, who died 1625. r — Rebecca, mar. John Strug- nell ; wife 1626. 1 5. Beatrix, mar. Robert Dynne Esq. of Heydon. I As 1 4. Ursula, mar. 1 h. ... Coxey; 2 h. Edward Up- cher ; died widow 1628, aged 76. I As 1 6. Henry, of Buckenham, Nor- folk ; mar. Doro- thy Fox ; died 30 May 1592. As 1 Deborah, marr. Daniel Bockocke ; wife 1626. Thomas Tyndall Esq., son and heir, of Low Leyton, Essex ; occurs 1644, 1651 ; coheir of the Barony of Scales. There are three persons whom I cannot doubt to have been members of this family, although I cannot fix their precise places in the pedigree : Simon Tyndall B.D., Fellow of Queen's, Cambridge, has been noticed at page 269. He is described in the College Register as a native of Norfolk, and was (as I should guess) a younger son of Henry Tyndall of Old Buckenham, who died in 1592, leaving issue. {See p. 272.) Henry's descendants long continued in Norfolk, for Osmond Clarke Gent, obtained in 1695 a decree in a foreclosure suit in Chancery against Richard Tyndall and others, whereby it appears that the said Richard Tyndall mortgaged to the plaintiff for £700, by deed dated 24th June 1676, his capital messuage and freehold lands in Old Bucken- ham and Banham, which formerly belonged to his father Thomas Tyndall Esq. deceased. (88) John Tyndall Esq. of St. Clement Danes, London, man-ied at Greenwich 10th January 1620-1 Jane, daughter of John Gresham and widow of William Cockayne Esq. of Clapham, who had died 10th Nov. 1618. He died intestate, and letters of administration were granted to his widow Jane on 1st Aug. 1638. He left an only child, Amphillis, who was baptized at Greenwich IBth Nov. 1623, and married 4th April 1644, Francis Butler Gent. Amphillis was the executrix and residuary legatee of her mother Jane Tyndall, who was buried at Greenwich 30th Jan. 1640-1. (9) Kathesinb Tyndall married at Greenwich on 28th Nov. 1655 John Merrick. (9) There are two existing famUies who claim to be descended from the Tyndalls of Hockwold ; but in each case the alleged line of descent is demonstrably untrue. The pretensions of the Tindals of Essex to descend from Sir John Tyndall of Maplestead are disposed of in my note top. 280. The early pedigree of the Tyndales of Hayling Island, as printed in Burke's Landed Gentry, is equally apocryphal. Their true genealogy was privately printed in 1843 by B. W. Greenfield Esq., (34b) who has since discovered from a letter of Bishop Stokesley in the Record Office that their founder Edward Tyndale of Tewkesbury was the brother of William Tyndale the reformer, and therefore belonged to a family which were settled at Sfcinchcombe in Gloucestershire in the reign of Edward IV. 278 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHBLEY. VI. Sir John TyndALL Kt., the second son of Sir Thomas Tyndall of Hockwold by Amy Fermor, was bred to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He was so intimately asso- ciated with his eldest brother William Tyndall in the ownership and sale of the Hock- wold estates, that I should have suspected him to have been like William the son of his father's first marriage, if his son Deane Tyndall had not certified in 1634 that he was the son of Amy Fermor. (89) Such however being the case, it is manifest that Sir John Tyndall had no pretensions whatever to be the coheir of the Barony of Scales, as all the received pedigrees assert; for it has been abundantly proved that the younger William Tyndall and his descendants were the heirs of the family, which descended from Sir Thomas Tyndall's second marriage. Tyndall's descent from the kings of Bohemia was well known amongst his con- temporaries at Liiicoln's Inn, for Ralph Eokeby the younger writes to his nephew as follows : (90) ' Also in Lincoln's Inn, in the nortli-east corner chamber, I placed our coat of arms together with my very loving chamber- fellows' Charles Calthorpe, John Tyndall, and John Stubbs. So far £i-om priding ourselves in others' plumes, as always for morals and virtues and good services to our king and country, to think of my very good bedfellow in Lincoln's Inn Mr. John Tyndall's word of arms Propria quemqiie, and yet I tell you he beareth the coat arms of the Crown of Bohemia, whereof by Felbrigg's daughter and heu'ess he is lineally descended.' John Tyndall practised in Chancery, and was appointed one of the Masters of that Court on 17th April 1598. (91) He was a doctor of civil law, and was knighted at Whitehall on 23d July 1G03, when three hundred knights were all dubbed together by James I. in the Royal Garden. (7) He had married in 1586 Anne, widow of William Deane Esq. of Great Maplestead, who died 4th Oct. 1585. (92) She had been previously married to George Blythe Esq. (who was Clerk of the Council of the North in 1572), and was the younger daughter of Thomas Egerton, citizen and mercer of London, who claimed to be descended from the Egertons of Wrinehill in Cheshire, and entered his pedigree in the Visitation of London 1568. (93) Her brother Stephen Egerton was the well-known Presbyterian preacher of St. Anne's, Blackfriars, and Lady Tyndall was a thorough Puritan in all her sympathies and associations. It may be guessed that Sir John, like his brother the Dean of Ely, belonged to the extreme Protestant party, for all his children were educated in Puritanical tenets. John Deane, the son and heir of Lady Tyndall's previous marriage, inherited the seat of Dyne's Hall in Great Maplestead, and in order to be near him his mother persuaded Sir John Tyndall to purchase Chelmshoe House and two hundred and forty-nine acres adjoining in that parish, and to fix his residence in Essex. (92) Sir John was for many years the Steward of Queen's College, Cambridge, and held their manorial courts until 1614, when his younger son Arthur was associated with him in the stewardship. (69) His administration in Chancery was not above TYNDALL OF GREAT MAPLESTEAD. 279 suspicion of corruption, for Chamberlain, in one of his news-letters to Sir Dudley Carleton, says (94) that ' he was not held for integerrimus but at that period the Court of Chancery was in so much disrepute, that its officials wonld be unfairly judged by mere gossip, Tyndall, however, paid the penalty of his life for the unpopularity of his office, for on the afternoon of 12th Nov. 1616, as he was enter- ing his chambers at Lincoln's Inn, on his return from Westminster Hall, he was shot in the back by an old gentleman named Bertram, against whom he had adversely reported in a cause then pending. Sir John was killed on the spot, for the pistol had been chai'ged with three bullets, which lodged in his spine. (94) This desperate murder of a judge by a grave old gentleman of nearly eighty made so much noise, that the king resolved to examine Bertram in person, and to sift thoi'oughly the justice of his grievance ; for the Court of Chancery was attacked on all sides, and Sir William Walter of Wimbledon, a noted wit of that day, declared with general approbation that 'the fellow mistook his mark, and should have shot hailshot at the whole Court.' But Bertram was seized with remorse at what he had done, and was alarmed by apprehensions of torture ; and without waiting for the threatened examination he contrived to hang himself from a nail in the wall of his prison on the Sunday after the murder. (94) His case, however, was thoroughly examined by the law-officers of the Crown, and Bacon, then attorney-general, wrote to Villiers what must be taken as a complete vindication of Sir John Tyndall's character, for he says : (95) 'I send the case of Bertram, truly stated and collected, and the examination taken before myseK and Mr. Solicitor ; whereby it wiU appear to his Majesty that Sir John TyndaU, as to his cause, is a kind of martyr ; for if ever he made a just report in his Hfe this was it.' Sir J ohn Tyndall was above seventy years old at the time of his death, and although his health and faculties were still vigorous, the preamble of his Will expresses in a remarkable manner his forebodings that he had not long to live. SiE John Tyndall Kt. of Much Maplestead, Essex. Will without date. Considering that my tyme of departure out of this transitorie lyfe is, by the ordinarie age of man, nowe neere at hande, I doe make my last WiU and testament, yet in my reasonable healthe and understandinge, in manner and form followinge : My dearly beloved wife to have the rest of my goods and chattels, my debts being paid, and to be my sole executrix ; and after her death, or if she refuse to act, then my very kind and loving brother Francis TyndaU. Esq. to be my residuary legatee and only executor; and after his death, or if he refuse to act, then my son Deane Tyndall to be my executor ; and after his death, or if he refuse to act, then my son Arthur Tyndall and my daughter Margaret TyndaU to be my executors. Sir John Deane Kt. and the lady his wife, my brother Frauncis Tyndall, my sister Fisher, my nephew Mr. Thomas Fisher, and my loving brothers-in-law Mr. Thomas Egerton and Mr. Stephen Egerton to have rings given to them by my executor of some convenient value to be worn by them in remembrance of my love unto them. To my son Arthur TyndaU and his heii'S after the death of my wife my house wherein I now dweU in Much Maplestead, and aU other my free land in that parish. WiU proved in C.P.C. 2d Dec. 1616 by Deane TyndaU, the above-named Anne TyndaU the widow and Francis Tyndall the brother having renounced probate. NN 280 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. Sir John Tyndall left issue two sons* and a daughter. I. Deane Tyndall, son and heir. II. Arthur Tyndall was, Uke his father, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and was appointed in 1614 his colleague in the stewardship of Queen's College. He was so warmly attached to his brother-in-law John Winthrop that he accompanied him in his voyage to Massachusetts in April 1630, but returned to England in the autumn of the same year. (96) He died unmarried, and was buried at Great Maplestead on 3d Oct. 1633. (97) III. Margaret Tyndall was born in 1591, and was still unmarried when her father died, but she married in April 1618 John Winthrop Esq. of Groton in Suffolk. (96) She was his third wife, and enthusiastically shared his puritanical sentiments. He was made one of the Attorneys of the Court of Wards and Liveries in 1627, but being deprived of this office in June 1629 he became an active pro- moter of the Plantation of New England. He was one of the twelve leading mem- bers of the Massachusetts Company, who solemnly agreed at Cambridge on 26th Aug. 1629 to embark by the 1st March then next, ' to the end under God's protection to inhabit and continue in New England,' and on 20th Oct. 1629 he was elected by tlie general Court of the Company to be their first governor. Winthrop sailed from Southampton in the Arbella on 22d March 1629-30 'with many other godly and well-disposed Christians, who sought to avoid the burdens and snares which were here laid upon their consciences.' (98) He took with him his two sons, Stephen and Adam, who were boys of eleven and ten respectively ; and his wife Margaret with the rest of their children followed him in the Lion, which sailed from England in August 1631. Winthrop's life belongs to the public history of America, where his descendants have for seven generations maintained an honourable position. His wife Margaret survived her emigration sixteen years, and died 14th June 1647, aged fifty-six. He was not long in following her, for he died on 26th March 1649, aged sixty-one. * It should be remarked tliat the pedigree of the Tindals of Essex, printed in Nichols's Literary Anec- dotes (ix. p. 302), attributes to Sir John TyndaU a son Matthew, who is called Rector of Berealston in Devon, and is said to have been educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, by his uncle the Dean of Ely. This pedigi-ee was drawn up by Rev. Nicholas Tindal, Rector of Alverstoke, Hants, and translator of Bapin, who describes himself as Matthew's grandson. But it is certain that Sir John Tyndall of Maplestead left no sons except Deane and Arthur mentioned in the text, and also that Nicholas Tindal of Alverstoke was the gi-andson, not of Matthew Tindal, Rector of Berealston, but of John Tindal B.D., Rector of Beer Ferris, of which parish Berealston is a hamlet. This John Tindal was a native of Kent, and matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1622, eight years after the death of the Dean of Ely. He was elected a feUow in 1633, and taking Holy Orders became domestic chaplain to Lord Howard of Escrick and tutor to his sons. By the influence of this nobleman he obtained in 1636 a royal dispensation to defer taking the degree of B.D. for five years, but in 1637 he was Proctor of the University of Cambridge, and ]3roceeded B.D. in 1639. (62) He died Rector of Beer Ferris, and was buried there on 25th Jan. 1673-4 (Par. Register). He left two sons: 1. Matthew, a well-known theological writer ; and 2. John, the father of Nicholas the translator of Bapin, from whom the late Chief Justice of Common Pleas, Sir Nicholas Tindal, was lineally descended. The parentage of John Tindal of Beer Penis, the founder of this famOy, is whoUy unknown, but it is impossible that he belonged to the TyndaUs of Maplestead. TYNDALL OF GEEAT MAPLESTEAD. 281 He had issue by his third wife Margaret Tyndall eight children, of whom four died in infancy. His four surviving sons were : 1. Stephen Winthrop was born 24th March 1618-19, when his grandmother Lady Tyndall, his grand uncle Mr. Stephen Egerton, and his uncle Deane Tyndall were his sponsors. He emigrated with his father in the Arbella, and was for some time Eecorder of Boston, but he afterwards returned to England, and served with the rank of colonel in the army of the Parliament in the Civil War. He was M.P. for Banffshire in 1656, and died in London in 1658. (96) 2. Adam Winthrop was born at Groton 7th April 1620, and died in New England in 1652, leaving issue. (96) 3. Deane Winthrop was baptized at Groton 23d March 1622-3, and died at Boston 16th March 1704, aged eighty-one. (96) 4. Samuel Winthrop was baptized 26th Aug. 1627, and was in 1668 deputy governor of Antigua. (96) Lady Tyndall, the widow of Sir John, survived her husband's murder nearly four years, and died on 20th July 1620. (96) Anne Tyndall, of Much Maplestead, Essex, widow. Will dated 14th Jung 1620. To my eldest son Sir John Deane and nay daughter-in-law his wife a gold bracelet each, and to that sweet brood their children £10 to buy some pretty jewel for each of them. To my eldest daughter Rachel Deane my sUver standish. To my daughter Anne Deane my two new silver por- ringers. To my loving brother-in-law Mr. Francis Tindall my wedding-ring that I was married with to his brother. To my loving and kind brother Mr. Stephen Egerton and to my loving sister his wife for want of a better legacy my gilt tankard, and to my loving and good brother Mr. Thomas Egerton £A to be bestowed in a peee of plate. To my son Deane Tindall and to his heirs my gilt bason and ewer with nest of gUt cupps and salts sutable thereto, and the gilt spones ; and to my loving daughter-in-law liis wife my paier of best borders of goldsmith's work, and my cipresse box with tills, with such triiies as she shall find in yt. To my goddaughter Ann Tindall my great silver salt and the trencher salt belonging to yt and ^620 in money ; and to my grandchild John TindaU two silver boules, a bigger and a lesser, and my two livery potts and ^10 in money. To my son Arthur TindaU ^30. To our pastor Mr. BUtli £3. To my daughter Tindall my velvet gown. To my daughter Winthorpe sundry gowns and linen and my cabinet which her father gave me. To my servant Margery Freeborne my clothes which I wear every day. To my niece Gibson and my goddaughter Anne Hunwith her daughter the rest of my apparel and linen. To my loving son and daughter John and Margaret "Winthorpe and their two sons Stephen and Adam all my plate not heretofore bequeathed. My son Deane Tindall to be my sole executor. To my brother and sister Winthorpe each a ring of 20s. value. Will proved in C.P.C. 2d Nov. 1620 by Deane TindaU. [94 Soame.] Lady Tyndall's brother Stephen Egerton, who is thus affectionately remembered in his sister's Will, was a Puritan Divine of some note amongst the Presbyterian party. He was educated at Cambridge, where extreme Protestant tenets then pre- vailed, and was incorporated M.A. at Oxford 9th July 1583. (99) He was for many years the preacher at the Blackfriars in London, which was a donative in the gift of the inhabitants, (100) and was the author of several theological tracts, which are enumerated by Anthony Wood. (99) He was associated with Arthur Hildersham 282 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. in 1603 in getting up 'the millenary petition' to the king and the parliament against conformity in Church discipline and doctrine. (lOi) He married* at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, on 4th May 1585, Sarah, sister of Sir Thomas Crooke Bart., but had no children. He was buried* at the Blackfriars on 7th May 1622. Stephen Egeeton of the Blackfriars, London, Minister. "Will dated 12th April 1622. To my reverend and loving brother Mr. Thomas Egerton £5. To my niece Mrs. Anne Gibson £6. To my cousin Mary Smith £5. To my servant Christopher Smith ^£5. To the poor of Blackfriars 40s. The residue to my wife Mrs. Sarah Egerton, whom I appoint my sole executrix. Mr. Richard Stockef and Mr. "WilHam Gouge,| ministers, and Mr. Ralph Bovey and Mr. John Badger, Gentlemen, Attorneys-at-the-law, to be overseers of my Will, and I give to each of them 20s. for a ring. WiU proved by the widow 3d June 1622 in C.P.C. [62 Savile.] Stephen Egerton's widovp Sarah belonged, like her husband, to a Puritan family, and was the sister of Sir Thomas Crooke Bart., who founded a Protestant colony at Baltimore in the county of Cork, for which he obtained a charter of incorporation from James I. (107) He was created a baronet in 1624, and died soon afterwards, but nothing is known about his descendants. Sarah Egerton died within three years after her husband, and was buried in the same vault with him at the Blackfriars, on 23d Dec. 1624. She left by her Will the bulk of her property to her husband's relations, the Tyndalls of Maplestead. Saeah Egerton, of the Blackfriars, London, widow. Will dated 19th Aug. 1624. To be buried in the place called the vault in the Blackfriars near my late husband. To my cousin Deane Tyndall of Much Maplestead Esq. £100, and to his two daughters Mrs. Anne and Mrs. Elizabeth Tyndall £100 each. To my loving cousin Mrs. Margaret Winthrop wife of John Winthrop Esq. of Grotten, Suffolk, £100. To my cousin Anne Gibson, widow, £100. To my cousin Mrs. FeHx HUderson £20. To my cousin Mr. Thomas Egerton, Minister of Adstock, Bucks, £20, and to his sister Elizabeth Jones £20. To my loving brother Sir Thomas Crooke of Ireland Kt. and Bart, the seal ring with a death's head which was my husband's, and to his son Mr. Thomas Crooke of Gray's Inn Esq. my watch. To my brother Mr. Samuel Crooke, § Clerk, my wedding-i-ing. To each of my other brothers Mr. Dr. Crooke and Richard Crooke, || Clerk, 40s. for rings. To my niece Alice Crooke daughter to my * From the Parish Register of St. Anne^s, Blackfriars, London: (9) 1585. May 4. Stephana Egerton and Sara Crooke, married. 1622. May 7. Mr. Steven Egerton, buried. 1624. Dec. 23. Mrs. Sarah Egerton, buried. •j- Richard Stocke, a native of York, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and was incor- porated M. A. at Oxford, 15th July 1595. (102) He was presented to the Eectory of All Hallows, Bread- street, London, 8th March 1610-11, and held this preferment until Ms death on 20{h-April 1626. (103) He was a zealous Puritan, and held so high a reputation as a preacher and theologian, that Fuller does not hesitate to say that ' he for thu-ty-two years did advance God's glory more than both the saints St. Simon Stocke and St. Simon Stylites.' (104) J William Gouge, a native of Stratford-le-Bow, was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and was incorporated M.A. at Oxford, 11th July 1609. (105) He succeeded Egerton as the preacher at the Black- friars in 1622, and was accounted in 1642 the father of the London ministers. He proceeded D.D., and was one of the feoffees to purchase impropriations for the purpose of establishing lectureships in large towns, against whom an information was laid in the Exchequer in 8 Charles I. (106) He was a prominent member of the Assembly of Divines under the Commonwealth, and is honourably mentioned for his piety and learning by foreign theologians of the Geneva discipUne. (105) He died 12th December 1653, at the age of seventy-nine, and was bui'ied at the Blackfriars on 16th Dec. § Samuel Crooke, a Presbyterian, the Minister of Wrington, Somerset, died in 1649. (108) 11 Richard Crooke occui'S Eector of St. Mary Woolchurch, London, in 1636. (109) TYNDALL OF GREAT MAPLESTEAD. 283 brother Dr. Crooke all my plate. To my sisters Mrs. Leech, Mrs. Rowse, and my brother Richard Crooke's wife 40s. each for a ring. Mr. Gouge, Lecturer of the Blackfriars, to be supei-visor of my Will, and I give him 40s. for a ring. The residue of my estate to my cousin Mr. Deane Tyndall, ■whom I appoint my sole executor. Witnesses : Francis Whitmore, Arthur Tindale. Will proved by Deane Tyndall 28th Dec. 1624 in C.P.C. [110 Byrde.] Deane Tyndall, son and heir of Sir John, was nearly twenty-eight years old when his father died, for he was born early in 1587. He was educated at Queen's under his uncle Humphrey, and married in his father's lifetime Anne the daughter and heir of Robert Weston Esq., of Prested Hall in the parish ofFeering. (no) This Robert Weston was the last heir male of an old family of Essex gentry, from which the Earls of Portland were descended, and died on 6th June 1601, leaving two daughters, of whom Mary the younger died young. Anne Weston the elder daughter was nine years and three months old at the time of her father's death, (i 1 1 ) and brought the manor of Prested Hall to her husband. Deane Tyndall was in 1624 the executor and residuary legatee of his uncle Stephen Egerton's wife, and in 1631 succeeded to the bulk of his uncle Francis Tyndall's estate. He entered the pedigree of his family at the Visitation of Essex in 1634, and it is to be remarked that he not only certified the pedigree by his signature, but that he apparently made several corrections in it. It begins with Sir William Tyndall ofHockwold and his wife Mary Mondeford, and the arms dis- played are quarterly of eighteen. (88) Deane was then a Justice of the Peace for Essex, and after this date little is known about him except his transactions with his cousin Thomas Tyndall of Low Leyton, the heir-at-law of their uncle Francis Tyndall, which have been already noticed. He lived to a great age, for he was in his 92d year when he was buried at Great Maplestead on 25th April 1678. (97) He had issue by his wife Amy Weston four sons and two daughters. I. Francis Tyndall, son and heir apparent, was aged nineteen in 1634, and died unmarried soon afterwards in his father's lifetime. II. John Tyndall, surviving son and heir. III. Drue Tyndall was a merchant at Hamburg, and died without issue in 1665, leaving a widow named Abigail. DaxjE Tyndall. Will dated at Hamburg, 30th Nov. 1663. Legacies to my father if living at my decease, to my brother John TyndaU, and to the two children of my sister Anne Bowater. My executrix to bind Samuel Vans apprentice to a Merchant Adventm'er when he is old enough. My wife Abigail to be my sole executrix. Will proved by the widow in C.P.C. 2d May 1665. [54 Hyde.] IV. Deane Tyndall died young and unmarried, and was buried at Great Maplestead on 23d March 1633-4. I. Anne Tyndall was goddaughter to her grandmother Lady Tyndall, and is remembered in her Will. She married 26th Sept. 1639 Thomas Bowater Esq., of Witley in Worcestershire, a barrister of the Middle Temple, (93) and had issue. 284 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. II. Elizabeth Tyndall was living in 1634, and died unmarried. John Tyndall, the eldest surviving son of Deane by Amy Weston, was born in 1617, and was therefore sixty-one years old when he succeeded his father. But there are signs that in his father's old age John assumed the duties of the head of the family, for he signed the pedigree of Tyndall, which was entered at the Visitation of Essex in 1664. (112) He married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Drue Deane Kt.,* of Dyne's Hall in Maplestead, who was the son of Deane Tyndall's uterine brother Sir John Deane. Her brother Anthony Deane ruined himself and his family by the unlucky project of exchanging in 1652 with Colonel Sparrow his estate in Maplestead for Hyde Park, which had been granted to Sparrow by the Parliament, but was resumed by the Crown at the Restoration. (93) John Tyndall died at the age of ninety, and was buried at Great Maplestead 11th June 1706. (97) His widow Elizabeth survived him nearly four years, and was buried beside him 30th March 1710, aged seventy-seven. (97) Elizabeth Tyndall, the only daughter and heir of John by EHzabeth Deane, married at Great Maplestead on 8th Jan. 1701-2 Jasper Blythman Esq. of the Inner Temple, a Solicitor in Chancery. She inherited the family estate on the death of her father in 1706, and had an only child Lucy, who married in 1738 Charles King Esq. (afterwards in Holy Orders), the son of Dr. William King, Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. Jasper Blythman died in London 'of palsy in the head' on 20th March 1738, (113) and was buried at Great Maplestead on 25th March. His widow survived him less than nine months, for she was buried beside him on 11th Jan- 1739. Her descendants are shown in a tabular pedigree, but her granddaughters Elizabeth and Lucy King sold the mansion and estate of Chelmshoe for 3500Z. by deed dated 21st Nov. 1764. (114) Elizabeth Blythman, widow of Jasper Blythman, late of the Inner Temple, London, Esq. Will dated 2d April 1738. Whereas my dear husband by his Will dated 17th March now last^>£tst devised to me in fee aU his real estate whatsoever, subject to an annuity of £S0 p. a. to his sister Rachel Blythman ; And whereas my daughter Lucy, now the wife of Charles King, hath greatly disobhged me by her marriage, notwithstanding which I wish to make provision for her and her issue ; I hereby devise aU my lands and tenements in Yorkshire and Essex to Hutton Perkins Esq. of Lincoln's Inn and John Cornthwaite of the Inner Temple Gent, their heirs and assigns upon trust to settle and assure the same to the use of my said daughter and the heirs of her body in strict settlement, with remainder to the right heirs of my late husband. To the poor of Great Maplestead .£10. The said Perkins and Cornthwaite to be my executors. To be buried in the Chui-ch of Great Maplestead, as near to my late husband as may be. Will proved in C.P.C. 27th Jan. 1739. * Morant calls her the daughter of Anthony Deane, (93) but it is sufiSciently clear from the Parish Kegister of Maplestead that Anthony was not her father, but her brother, for he was baptized 1st July 1630, and Elizabeth was baptized 9th Feb. 1632-3. (97) TYNDALL OF GREAT MAPLESTEAD. 285 Lucy Blythman, dau. and heir of Jasper Blytli-=j=Rev. Charles King, of Chelmshoe House in Great man Esq. by Elizabeth Tyndall ; marr. 1738. | Maplestead, jure ux. _l_ 1 Elizabeth Anne King,=j=Rev. William Camp- LucyKing,dau.andcoh.;=j=Rev. Eichard BuUock D.D., dau. and coh.; unm. 1764; wife 1768 ; bur. at Ealing 27 AprH 1779. beU, of Reading. bapt. 14 Aug. 1741 at Maplestead ; mar. 1 Dec. 1768; bur. 24 April 1784.* I I EUenCampbelljdau. William BullockEsq.^ and heir ; bapt. 12 Secretary of Ja- Rector of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and Streatham. Sur- rey ; d. 4 Oct. 1809, aged 80 ; M.I. at St. Paul's, C.G. May and bur. 17 Oct. 1772. maica ; bapt. 29 May 1770 ;* d. 1832. 1 ^Elizabeth, E dward BuUock M. A. , wid. 1848. Rector of Hambledon, Surrey ; bapt. 21 May 1774;* d. 11 Jan. 1850, s. p. 1 1 Lucy Bullock, m. John Lateward Esq. Harriet BuUock, unm. 1809. WiUiam, died 31 Oct. 1812, aged 16. 1 1 Lucy, coh. Marianne, coh. ; = Sir James 1860. marr. 7 Sept. Dawes 1815 at Hamp- Douglas stead. K.C.B. 1 Emily, marr. 1 June=j=John Cay Esq., 1819 ; bui\ 24 June I Advocate. 1836. John Cay Esq., born 13 July 1820; coh. in 1860. Registers not specified are from St. Laurence, Reading ; * from Dry Drayton, Cambs. are derived from the printed Evidence in the Scales Peerage Case. The other dates PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES, (1) Harl. MSB. 1912; Register of Gray's Inn. (2) Inq. p.m. Joh. Peyton Arm. 1 Eliz. No. 104. (3) Inq. p. m. Joh. Langley Arm. 11 Hen. VIII. No. 92. (4) PhiUpott Villare Cantianum, p. 209; Has- ted's Hist, of Kent, 8vo, x. 87-94. (5) Probatio setatis ThomsB Peyton ; Esch. 18 Hen. VI. No. 16. (5A)Common Pleas RoUs ; Fines and Recoveries, 30 Hen. VIII. Mich. Term, Memb. 454, Norfolk. (6) Pedigrees of Oxenden and Osborne, in Dr. Howard's edition of the Visitation of Kent, 1619, with notes and additions. (7) Nichols' Progresses of James I. (8) Baker's Hist, of Northants, ii. p. 193. (9) From Col. J. L. Chester's mss. CoUections. (10) Wilford's Memorials and Characters, fol. 1741, p. 469. (loA)Dring's List of Compounders, 1655. (loB)Bridges's Hist, of Northamptonshire, ii. 476. (11) Mss. in CoU. of Ai-ms ; PhiUpot, 32, fo. 29; Dale, H to Z, 25 ; Morant's Hist, of Essex, vol. ii. p. 280 ; Harl. mss. 1411, fo. 69. (12) Blomefield's Hist, of Norfolk, 8vo, vol. ii. p. 181. (13) Each. 32 Edw. III. No. 32; Bridges' North- ants, ii. 486. (14) Bridges' Northants, ii. 300; Idem, ii. 338. (15) Cal. Rot. Orig. in Scacc. Abbrev. 51, Edw. III. vol. ii. p. 350. (16) Inq. p. m. Joh. TyndaU, 1 Hen. V. No. 46. (17) Inq. p. m. Ric. TyndaU, 3 Hen. V. No. 7. (18) Probatio SBtatis WiUielmi TyndaU, Esch. 8 Hen. V. 117. (19) Beltz Memorials of the Garter, pp. 369-73. {20) Rymer's Fcedera, Hague edition, vol. iii. part iii. pp. 110-11. (21) Rot. Pat. 18 Rich. II. part ii. 7 AprU. (22) Inq. p. m. WUUelmi TyndaU, 5 Hen. VI. No. 31. (23) WiU of Sir Simon Felbrigge K.G. in Testa- menta Vetusta, p. 246. (24) Inq. p.m. Alante Wauton, 36 Hen. VI. No. 4. (25) Inq. p. m. Thomae TyndaU, 29 Hen. VI. No. 1. (26) Inq. p. m. Joh. Bleverhasset Arm. 2 Hen. VIII. 4 April ; Cotman's brasses. (26A)Morant's Hist, of Essex, vol. ii. p. 153. (27) Inq. p. m. Eliz. ux Antonii Comitis Rivers, 13 Edw. IV. No. 45. (28) Esch. 2 Hen. VII. 31 Oct. (29) Inq. p. m. Osberti Mondeford, 20 Edw. IV. No. 19. (30) Catalogue of Knights, in Cotton mss. Claudius C. 111. 286 THE CHESTERS (30A)Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, ix. 23. (31) Inq. p. m. WilKelmi TyndaU Mil. 13 Hen. VII. 27 June. (32) Close Eoll, 31 Hen. VIII. part ii. 29 Oct. (33) Life of Dr. Clyife in Cooper's Athens Cantab. i. 66. {34) Close RoU, 1 Eliz. part vi. 20 March. (34A)Common Plea Rolls, 29 Hen. VIII. ; Mich. Reyneshy v. Tendall. (34B) Genealogy of the Family of Tyndale, by B. W. Greenfield Esq., fol., London, 1843, privately printed. (35) Grants, ii. 598, in Coll. of Arms. (36) Visitation of Norfolk, 1663. (37) Pedigree of Bacon, in the edition of the Norfolk Visitation, 1563, printed with Proofs and Additions in the Norfolk Ar- chseologia. (38) Pedigrees of Coningsby in Clutterbuck's Herts, vol. i. p. 444 ; and Collins' Peerage, 1741, vol. iii. p. 264, &c. (39) Shaw's Hist, of Staffordshire, vol. i. p. 411. (40) Dugdale's Hist, of Warwickshu-e. (41) Nash's Hist, of Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 12. {42) Idem, vol. i. p. 584. (43) Foss's Judges, vol. v. p. 144. (44) Inq. p. m. Jacobi Pickering, Arm. 14 Hen. VII. (45) Inq. p. m. Annse ux Humfridi Coningsby, mU. et antea Jacobi Pykering Arm. 17 , Hen. VIIL (46) Brewer's Calendars of Hen. VIIL (47) Inq. p. m. Christopheri Pickering, mil. 10 Hen. VIIL (48) Inq. p. m. Humfridi Coningsby, mil. 27 Hen. VIIL 26 Sept. (49) Poulson's Hist of Holderness, vol. ii. p. 513. (50) Wood's Athen83 Oxon. 1727, vol. i. p. 50. (51) Life of Judge W. Coningsby in AthensB Can- tab, i. 76 ; Foss's Judges, vol. v. p. 145. (52) Dugdale's Origines Juridicial. (53) Inq. p. m. Ricardi Berkeley Arm. 5 Hen. VIIL; Pedigree of Botetourt and Berkeley in Blore's Rutlandshire. {54) Ped. of Fitz- James in Hutchins' Dorset, 1871, vol. iv. p. 129 ; Archeeologia, xxxv. 305-9 ; Athena3 Oxon. 1727, vol. i. p. 661. (55) Campbell's Lives of Chief Justices, vol. i. p. 160. (56) Poulson's Holderness, vol. ii. p. 470. (57) Chronicle of Calais, Camden Soc. p. 175. (58) Machyn's Diary, Camden Soc. p. 336. (59) Rot. Pat. 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, 15 Nov. (60) Close RoU, 26 EHz. 20 Jan. (61) Close Rolls, 36 Hen. VIIL 14 May. (62) Master's Hist, of C. C. Coll. Camb. 4to, 1753. (63) Patent RoUs, 7 EUz. 18 Sept. (64) Spelman's Icenia sive Norfolcise descriptio, ed. Gibson, fol. 1727. (65) Fuller's History of Cambridge. OF CHICHELEY. (66) Vehse's Court of Austria, translated by P. Demmler, 1856, vol. i. p. 272. (67) Gage's Hist, of Thingo Hundi-ed. (68) Will of Sir Ambrose Jermyn Kt. (15 Dough- tiy in C.P.C.) (69) Life of Dr. Humphrey Tyndall in Searle's Hist, of Queen's Coll. Cambridge, part ii. pp. 350-404. (70) Public Record Office, Domestic, Eliz. vol. cxMii. No. 24. (71) Public Record Office, Domestic, Eliz. vol. cxxv. No. 26. (72) Baker mss. fo. 183 ; in Harl. mss. 7031. (73) Coles MSS. in Brit. Mus. vol. ii. p. 110. (74) Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, Feb. 1608. (75) Baker mss. vi. 276. (76) Calendar of State Papers, Domestic. (76A)Fuller's Church Hist. ed. Brewer, 1845, vol. V. p. 211. (77) Bentham's Hist, of Ely CathedraL (78) Ped. of TyndaU in Harl. mss. 6093, fo. 138. (78A)Close RoU, 38 Eliz. Aug. 13. (78B)Close RoU, 7 James I. Feb. 23. (79) Inq. p. m. Francisci TyndaU Arm. 7 Car. I. March 2. (80) Inq. p. m. Henrici TyndaU de Buckenham Norf. 36 EUz. part ii. No, 28, and 40 EUz. part u. No. 107. (81) Blomefield's NorfoUs, 8vo, ix. p. 322. (82) Pedigree of Fisher in Harl. mss. 1504, fo. 78. (83) Clutterbuck's Herts, iu. p. 238. (84) TomUne's Perambulation of Islington. (85) Close RoU, 20 Chas. I. part iii. No. 11. (86) BiU in Chancery, TyndaU v. Devisher, T. 7, No. 10. (87) Close RoU, 1651, pp. 2 and 68. (88) Chancery Decrees, 9 WiU. III. pt. 607, No. 12, Clarke v. TyndaU. (89) Ped. of TyndaU in Visitation of Essex, 1634. (90) Whitaker's Hist, of Richmondshu-e. (91) Hardy's Catalogue of ChanceUors and Chan- cery Officials, 1843, p. 89. (92) Inq. p. m. WUUelmi Deane Arm. 27 EUz. Oct. 27; Morant's Hist, of Essex, ii. p. 280. (93) Ped. of Egerton in Vis. of London, 1568. (94) Court of James I. i. pp. 439, 443. (95) Bacon's Works, 1824, vol. v. p. 452. (96) Life and Letters of John Winthrop, by Robert C. Winthrop, Boston. (97) Parish Register of Great Maplestead. (98) Autobiography of Sir S. D'Ewes, vol. ii. p. 116. (99) Athense Oxon. 1727, vol. i. Fasti, p. 125. (100) Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. pp. 280, 915. (101) FuUer's Church History, 1845, vol. v. p. 265. (102) AthenaB Oxon. 1727, vol. i. Fasti, p. 160. (103) Newcourt, vol. i. p. 246. (104) FuUer's Church History, vol. iii. p. 277. PROOFS AND AUTHOEITIES. 287 (105) Athenae Oxon. 1727, vol. i. Fasti, p. 184. (106) Fuller's Church History, vi. p. 69 ; Eush- worth's Collections, ii. p. 150. (107) Smith's Hist, of Cork, 8vo, 1750, vol. i. p. 276. (108) Athense Oxon. 1727, vol. ii. p. 551. (109) Newcourt, i. p. 461. (no) Morant's Essex, ii. p. 171. (111) Inq. p. m. Roherti Weston Arm. 2 Jac. I. July 26. (112) Ped. of Tyndall in Vis. of Essex, 1664. (113) Gentleman's Magazine. (114) Evidence in Scales Peerage Case, p. 585. WILL OF SIR SIMON FELBRIGGE K.G. (23) The abstract of tliis Will, printed in the Testamenta Vetusta, was found, on collating it with the Latin original in the Prerogative Office, to be dated in- correctly, and to omit Sir Simon's legacy to his grandson Thomas Tyndall. I have therefore subjoined a better abstract : Sir Simon Felbeigge Kt. Will dated at Norwich, on St. Matthew's day, 21st Sept. 1442. To be buried-in the church of the Friars Preachers at Norwich. To Felbrigge Church 100s. Whereas I am seised of the manors of P''elbrigge, &c. in Norfolk, Braiseworth in Suffolk, and Sharpenlio and Streatley in Beds, jointly with my wife Catherine for life, with remainder to Ealph Lord Cromwell and my other feoffees to the uses of my Will; I direct that my said manors in Norfollc be sold for pajanent of my debts and legacies, and for performance of my Will. And I devise to my daughter Alana, M'ife of Sir Thomas Wawton Kt. and the heirs of her body my said manors of Braiseworth, Sharpenho, and Streatley, with remainder to the right heirs of Sir John Felbrigge Kt. in tail, with remainder to the right heirs of Richard Felbrigge, with remainder to the heirs of John Felbrigge brother of Richard, and for default of such issue, to be sold for the good of my soul. I give my bed complete of silk, colom'ed red and white, with my arms (de serico, coloris rubei et albi, cum armis meis), to Thomas Tendale when he shall come to his full age; and if he die before, then to the eldest son of Sir* Thomas Wawton Kt. by the lady Alana now his wife and the daughter of me the said Simon. To my daughter Anne, a minoress at Brusyard, 8 marks per annum out of my manor of Felbrigge after the death of my wife Catherine, and in the mean Vi'hile l-Ss. 4,d. per annum to my said daughter for life, with remainder to the Abbess and Convent of Brusyard for ever. My said wife Catherine, Ohver Groos Esq., John Damme, John Baker parson of Felbrigge, Thomas Stanley clerk, and Thomas Hayleston to be my executors. Will proved in C.P.O. 20 Feb. 1442-3 by Catherine the widow. [14 Rouse.] THE MARRIAGES OF SIR THOMAS PEYTON, 2d BART. OP KNOWLTON (p. 249). From the Parish Begister of St. Bride's, Fleet-street, London. 1636. May 21. Thomas Payton Baronet and Elizabeth Osborne, marr. Marriage Licenses (from Col. Chester's mss. Collections). 1647-8. Jan. 18. Sir Thomas Peyton Bart., widower, aged about 33, to many Dame Cecily Swan, widow, about 33, in the Chapel of Durham House, Middlesex {from Bishop of London's Registry). 1666-7. Feb. 28. Su- Thomas Peyton Bart., of Knowlton, Kent, widower, to man-y Dame Jane Thornhm, of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, widow, at St. Mary, Savoy, or any other church in Loudon or Middlesex (from Faculty Office). 00 288 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY, PEDIGKEE OF PEYTON OF DODDINGTON, SHOWING THEIR CONNEXION WITH THE BARONETS OF ISELHAM AND KNOWLTON. Sir Robert Peyton Kt. of Isel-=j=Elizabeth Clere. ham, d. 18 March 1517-18. | r ^ -^ 1. Su' Robert=j=Fraiices Hasil- 2. John Peyton=j=Dorothy Peyton Kt. of Iselham, d. 1 Aug. 1550. r- den, d. 1582 (ped.atp.217). Esq. of Knowlton, Kent, d. 22 Oct. 1553. Rol)ert=j=Eliz. dau. of Peyton Esq. of Iselham, d. 19 Oct. 1590. I Sir John Peyton Kt. and= Bart, of Iselham, bur. 19 Dec. 1616. Lord Chan- cellor Rich, d. 17 Oct. 1591. 1. SirThos. Peyton Kt. of Knowlton, d. 1611. =r A Peyton Barts. OF Knowlton. T' Sir J TyndaU (ped. at p. 276). John=F=Dorothy Peyton Kt. of Doddington, Lieut, of the Tower andGov. of Jersey, d. 4 Nov. 1630. =Alice Osborne, d. 1626 (ped. at p. 237). BeauprS Lady Bell, d. Feb. 1602-3 (ped. at p. 300). Sir Edward Peyton Kt. and Bart, of Iselham, d. 1657. Alice Peyton, marr. 25 Nov.= 1602 ; occ. widow, 1638. r—i 1. Robert Peyton Esq. of Doddington, d. 1658, s.p. 3. Henry, d. unm. =Sir John Peyton Kt. of Dodding- ton, died 1635. WUl. 2. Algernon Peyton= D.D. brother and heir, of Doddington, bur. 9 March 1667-8 at St. George's, Southwark. =Eliza,dau. of John Cooke Esq. of Chis- hall Magna, Essex. Elizabeth Peyton, maiT. in 1623 Sir Anthony Chester Bart, of Chicheley. 1 Five daus. all married (see p. 315-18). rn 1. Sir John Pey- ton, son and heir appt. ; created Bart. 1660; died 25Dec,1660,unm. 1. Dorothy, died young. I 2. Sir Algernon= Peyton Bart., son and heir, of Dod- dington ; created 21 Mar. 1666-7; marr. 19 Nov. 1667 ; died 1671. I Anne Peyton, marr. at Elm, 15 June 1698, Philip BeU Esq. of WaUington. I A =Frances, dau. and h. of Sir Robert Sewster Kt.; rem. 18 Jan. 1673-4 Col.John Shelton; died 1685. Will. 1 1 3. Heniy, Brig"".- Geni.; died 1724, unm. 2. Elizabeth, mar. Gregory Parlet Esq. of Down- ham. 1 3. Alice, marr. 1 h. Dr. JohnNalson of Doddington, who died 1686 ; 2 h. John Cremer Esq. , who died 1703 ; died widow 18 Aug. 1717. Sir Sewster Peyton Bart. of=j=Anne, dau. of Geo. Dash Doddington, son and heir ; Master of the Buckhounds to Queen Anne ; died 28 Dec. 1717 ; bur. 5 Jan. wood. Aid. of London ; marr. at Westminster Abbey, 17 July 1701; bur. 16 AprU 1751. Algernina,= posthu- mous; died widow 1748. I \ Anne, mar. Richard Dashwood Esq. ; d. widow 1781, s.p. Henrietta, d. unm.; bur. 1 Nov. 1721. 1 1 Sir Thos. Peyton Bart. = Bridget, dau. of Henry, d. of Doddington, son and Thos. Skeffing- unm. 25 heir ; Sheriff of Cambs. ton Esq. ; mar. Sept. ; 1743; d. 29 June 1771; 1732; bur. 29 bur.80ct. ■bur.- 13- July. ' Dec. 1762. 1741. s.p. 1 =Col. George Dashwood, m. at Down- ham, 4 June 1698; died 1706. Margaret=T=Geo. Dash- Peyton, mar. 9 June 1728. wood Esq., son and heir; died 1762. Dashwood now Peyton, Baets. or DoDDiNaioN. PEYTON OP DODDINGTON. 289 CHAPTER XV. The Right Honourable Sir John Peyton Kt.^ of Dodaington^ 1541-1630. II. Lady Peyton^s descent from Sir John Hawhwood. III. The Peytons of Doddington. lY. The Earls of Suffolk of the family of De Ufford. V. The Uffords of Wrentham. Sir John Peyton of Doddington, sometime Lieutenant of the Tower and Governor of Jersey, was in many respects the most distinguished of all the knights who have borne the ancient and widely-extended name of Peyton. He was the second son of J ohn Peyton Esq. of Knowlton in Kent, by Dorothy daughter of Sir John Tyndall K.B., and inherited his father's leasehold estates in Cambridgeshire. He was born in 1541 or the following year, and was therefore about seventeen years old when his father died on 22d Oct. 1558. (i) Like most young men of spirit he was bent on a soldier's life, and at that period the disturbed state of affairs in Ireland offered the best field for gaining military distinction. His father's friend and neighbour. Sir Henry Sidney of Penshnrst, was then commanding the forces in Ireland as the deputy of the Earl of Sussex, and Peyton made his first campaign as a volunteer on Sidney's staff. Sidney returned to Ireland in 1568 with the rank of Viceroy to suppress O 'Neil's rebellion, and Peyton is mentioned incidentally in this year as the bearer of despatches to the Secretary of State, for Cecil writes to Sir Henry Sidney on 12th Sept. 1568, that he has received the despatches of which Mr. Peyton was the bearer. (2) He now stood high in Sidney's confidence, and was for many years a trusted member of the Lord Deputy's household. His relations with the family of Sidney were through life of the most friendly kind ; for long afterwards, the famous Sir Philip Sidney wrote to his father-in-law Wals- ingham, on 16th May 1585, that 'Peyton is one whom from my childhood I have had great cause to love.' (3) Peyton served with distinction in the Irish Wars until the end of 1576, when he returned to England, and we hear of him in Cambridgeshire purchasing the lease of Long Sutton in the Fens jointly with Sir Robert Bell the Chief Baron of the Exchequer. (4) This connexion exercised an important influence on his life and fortune, for Sir Robert Bell died on 25th July 1577, soon after making this joint purchase, and his richly-jointured widow married John Peyton on 8th June 1578.* * Fj-om the Parish Register of Outwell, Norfolk .- 1578. June 8. Jolm Peyton Esq. and Dua Dorothea Bell married. [The year is misprinted 1579 in the pedigree of Bell at p. 120.] 1567-8. Feb. 17. Edmond Beauprg Esquier buried. 1559. Oct. 15. Robert BeU Esq. and Dorothy BeauprS married. 290 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. Dorotliy Lady Bell was tlie only child of Edmond Beaupre Esq. of Beaupre Hall in the parish of Outwell in Norfolk, by his second wife Catherine Bedingfield. and inherited on her father's death in Feb. 1567-8* Beaupre Hall, Southacre, and other estates in Norfolk. (5) Dorothy had married on 15th Oct. 1559* Eobert Bell Esq., a barrister of the Middle Temple, who was elected M.P. for Lynn Eegis in 1562, and Speaker of the House of Commons 10th May 1572. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 24th Jan. 1576-7; (6) but his judicial career was very brief, for in July of the same year he was infected by gaol fever at ' the Black Assize' at Oxford, and died of it on circuit at Leominster in Herefordshire 25th July 1577. (4) Dame Dorothy Bell was the executrix of her husband's Will, and was with child at the time of his death, for her daughter Frances was baptized at Outwell 2d Dec. 1577. Slie had also seven other children, who are fully set forth in my pedigree of Bellf at p. 120. She had issue by her second marriage an only son, John Peyton, who was born in 1579, and whose birth entitled his father to be tenant by the courtesy of England of his wife's inheritance during his long life. From the time of his marriage Peyton resided at his wife's seat of Beaupre Hall, and was held in high esteem by the country gentle- men in Norfolk for the military reputation which he had brought from Ireland. Accordingly, when Queen Elizabeth resolved on sending an army to the Nether- lands, under the command of the Earl of Leicester, and Peyton was invited to join the expedition, he wrote to Walsingham the Secretary of State on 19th Sept. 1585 : (3) ' It being generally reported that I shall he appointed to serve in the Low Countries, many- young gentlemen (to the number of 48) have offered to serve under me on horseback or on foot, ■without any expense to her Majesty.' Leicester was the brother-in-law of Sir Henry Sidney, and had engaged all the friends and connexions of his family to serve in the expedition, so that Peyton found himself surrounded by his old comrades in arms. The English forces landed at Flushing on 10th Dec. 1585, and Peyton was placed in garrison in the important fortress of Bergen-op-Zoom. He fully maintained his high character as an officer in the campaign of the next year, but he had immense difficulties to contend against, from the miserable plight to which the troops were reduced from want of supplies. One of his letters^ to the Earl of Leicester on this subject is preserved amongst the Cottonian MSS., but it is not easy to decipher it in parts, and the edges have been damaged by fire. It is dated 11th Oct. 1586. (9) * See extracts from Outwell Register in Note * at p. 289. t It should be added to my pedigi-ee of Bell at p. 120, that Beaupk£ Bell, tbe fourth son of the Lord Chief Baron and Lady Peyton, matriculated a Pensioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 23d Jan. 1587-8, and was elected a Fellow of Queen's College in Feb. 1592-3. (7) He was one of the FeUows of Queen's who subscribed a letter written by the Society to Lord Burghley, on 10th Nov. 1595, (8) but vacated bis Fellowship before Michaelmas 1597. His brother Philip Bell matriculated a Pensioner at Queen's College 3d June 1590, being then in his sixteenth year. (7) I This letter is not included in The CorresTpondcnce of the Earl of Leicester during his Government of the Low Countries 1585-6, edited by Bruce, and xniblished by the Camden Society 18'14, PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 291 Mk. John Peyton to the Eael of Leicestee.* Maye it please your Ex"' moste humbly to be advertised, That whereas there are iij Duche Companyes .... heather by your Ex^^ [illegible] Captayne Rodenburge his Companye, which came owte of Sir Martyne Skynke his Skonce, many of them are dead and divers sycke, as is thowght of some infectyon taken in the Skonce. (a) The other two Companyes are of Sir Martyne Skynke's Eedg [em'] being very weake and as yett unmustered, [nor] have thaye eny mony or order taken for ther vyc [tualles] and our Companyes heare are so barely provyded for, [that] we cannot spare them eny thinge. There is also by . . . potent of Counte(B) Hollockes, Captayne Marchant of . . . Coronell Ffremyn liis Redgement, Removed owt of . . . Slanart [Sluys] unto Wawe Castell. his Comjjanj^ ly [ing there] have nether mony nor means to Releeve them, the place is of moment and dangerus, and therfore inconve [nient] to have eny Companyes there placesed but suche as be in some measure x^rovyded for, Iwyll procure amongst the Burghers some vyctualls as shall se[rve] them for viij or x dayes, by which tyme I hoope to hear further of your pleasure the which I moste humbly de [sire] with suche expedytyon as shall seem good unto your [Ex"^'] . There hath byn at Antwarpe a Tryommphe to persw [ade] the peojple that the prynce of Parma hathe had a great vyctorye. Mondragon discharged all the . . . ordynance in the Castell at x of the clocke in t [he] nyght which made monseiure de Warpe and the Cap [tayne] of the Towne muche marvayle, for that thaye understood no suche newes, nether wyll moste of them as yett beleeve it. I understand from them [that] there is a preparatyon made of ffiatt bottome shypps for ordynance, and it is gathered that thaye are prep [ared] for Germons, for otherwyse thaye liolde a parcell .... unre- coverable. Uppon this advertyzement I have sent imto CoroneU Perone to holde good garde of the place. I also heare that the marquesse of Rentye is sent for unto the Campe and departed thether out of [illegible] the fyrste of this instant. There [are] gathered owt of the frontire gary- sones in his (viz. owt of Landercees, Cambrey, Quesnoy, Bond, and others) 600 or 700 horse men, and are yett in HaUe and there abowtes neer BruseUs. It is thowght that [they] ar apoynted for Flanders to be there employed by Lamott (c), whoe as it is sayed hathe gathered 2000 foot and Ij^eth abowt Bruges. Thus moste humbly yeldinge my selfe and servyse unto your Ex"^* disposyon, with my prayers for your Ex'^^^^ honorable siiccesse I moste humbly take my leave. Bargayne uppon Some, this xj of October 1586. Your Ex"'''' bownd, John Peyton. Leicester was succeeded in the command of the English forces in the Low Countries by Peregrine Bertie Lord Willoughby, by whom Peyton was held in so high esteem, that their friendship was only dissolved by death ; and Lord Willoughby by his Will, which is dated 7th Aug. 1599, made Sir John Peyton of Beaupre Hall one of his executors and devisees in trust, (ii) Peyton received the honour of knighthood for his services at Bergen-op-Zoom in 1586, (12) and his reputation for military skill was now so fully established that when an army was levied in July 1588 for the defence of her Majesty's person * In printing these letters it seemed to serve no useful purpose to repeat the contractions and the use of u for v and y for th, which were customary at that period, but are now more or less unintelligible. (a) Sir Martin Schenck, a noble of Guelderland, was one of the most gallant caj)tains in the English pay, and was knighted by the Earl of Leicester at Utrecht on St. George's-day, 23d April 1586. He had originally been in the Spanish service, but conceiving himself to be neglected by the Prince of Parma, he went over to the Dutch in 1585. (b) Count Philip of Holienlolie, who married Mary of Nassau, and was appointed by the States- General to be the Lieutenant of the young Stadtholder Prince Maurice. He is described by the Earl of Leicester, in one of his despatches to Burghley, as ' a wise gallant gentleman and a right souldier ; he hath only one fault, which is drinking.' (10) (c) Count La Motte, who successfully conducted the siege of Sluys in 1587, is called by Strada ' Valen- tinus PardisBua Mottae dominus.' , 292 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. against the threatened attack of the Spanish invasion, Peyton was one of the nine colonels under whose command it was distributed. (3) From this time he was in constant favour with Queen Elizabeth and her ministers, and held several places of profit under the Crown, amongst which was the Receivership of the Counties of Norfolk and Huntingdonshire and of the City of Norwich, which was surrendered in 1593 by Sir Drue Drury. (3) In June 1597 he was raised to the important post of Lieutenant of the Tower, (13) and was sworn a member of the Queen's Privy Council. The command of the Tower has always been a place of high distinction, and was held by a Constable Avho appointed his own Lieutenant until the reign of Queen Elizabeth. But that jealous sovereign was unwilling to entrust so great a charge to any officer but her own, and during her reign no Constable was ever appointed, but his duties were discharged by a Lieutenant directly appointed by the Queen. The Tower was at once a palace, a fortress, and a prison, and the Lieutenant enjoyed large perquisites from the fees which were payable by custom in respect of the prisoners of State. A peer paid to the Lieutenant 50Z. on his committal and as much more on his discharge, and even prisoners of lower degree had to pay 201. on their entrance and 501. on their release. (14) The conspiracy thei'efore of Essex, which resulted in the committal of so many personages of rank, brought in a rich harvest to the Lieutenant, but the duties which he had to perform must often have been highly disagreeable to a gentleman of Peyton's quality. For example, he was commanded by the Council on 17th Feb, 1600-1 to search the person and clothes of the Earl of Essex for a paper which he was said to cany in a black bag or purse ; and it appears from the following letter that the Lieutenant performed this hateful office of a gaoler in person, (15) SiE John Pf-yton to the Eael of Nottingham, Lobd Hunsdon, and Sik Robert Cecil. Right honorable, according to lier majestyes pleasure singnified in jour honours letters, I have tills morning repaj'red unto the Erie of Essex chamber and ther attended untill he called for a shirte to shifte hym selfe in his bedde, wher uppon I made knowne unto hym the cawse of my cuming, and used perswading speaches unto hym toching the delyvery of the Blacks Bagge con- ceyved to remayue styll abowte hym. And, after I had hearde his protestation to the contrary, in tearmes and manner fitting, I searched his personne, and his boddy, and legges naked, I allso searched his shirte and all his ax^parreU, in such sorte as I doe asure me selfe the purse nor wrytyng cowlde not be abowte him, butlshowlde have fownde it. I send unto your honors herin- closed a resitall of the particuler speaches the Erie used in the tj'me I was making searche for the bagge and papers : most humbly takeing my leave Yoiu' honors humbly John Peyton. Towre, this 18 of feabruaii, 1600, But although Peyton was strict in the performance of his office, there is good ground to believe that he was personally gentle and courteous in his behaviour to the prisoners, for Henry Cuffe, the unfortunate secretary of Lord Essex, made his Will after his conviction, and it contains the following clause : (16) I doe alsoe desyrethat .£100 may be given to my worthy friend Sir John Peyton, Lieutenant PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 293 of the Tower, at whose handes I have found all kynde favours and Christian comfortes, ever since my remove to this place.' Sir John Peyton lost his wife in Feb. 1602-3, (17) but his mourning was inter- rupted by the important political crisis which almost immediately followed Lady Peyton's death. Queen Elizabeth had been ill some time, but early in March her illness took a decided turn for the worse. Cecil had long arranged in secret the succession of King J ames, but whilst the Queen lived it was highly dangerous to discuss the subject, and the secret was vigilantly kept. In the mean while King James knew the importance of the command of the Tower at such a crisis, and had already taken means to communicate with Peyton, But the Lieutenant was imper- fectly informed of Cecil's arrangements, and with his usual discretion kept aloof from all political intrigues. When the Queen's recovery was hopeless, he kept his son constantly at Court to receive Cecil's instructions, and laid in a stock of pro- visions that he might defend the Tower against any assailants. These preparations attracted the notice of the Council, who feared lest Peyton might steal a march upon them, and bid for the favour of his expectant sovereign by releasing some of the political prisoners, amongst whom was the Earl of Southampton, the known friend and partisan of King James. They therefore addressed to the Lieutenant on the evening of 22d March a guarded letter of warning, which has not been preserved ; but Peyton was equal to the emergency, and wrote early the next morning to assure them : (15) ' That I am not so void of respect as to imagine that singularity or disorder can give any advancement unto merit, leaving these hasty courses only to be used in such cases where there is an opposition against right intended, the wliicli I am sure is as far removed from every of your Honours' resolutions, as it is from mine to do anything that may prejudice j'our honourable opinions of me.' Queen Elizabeth died in the night of 23d March, and before the news of her death was generally known King James was proclaimed by the Council. Peyton had acted throughout in obedience to Cecil's directions so far as that wary statesman had chosen to disclose them, and he now lost no time in I'ecommending himself to the new king. He immediately despatched his son to Edinburgh to assure King James of his devoted loyalty, and that the Tower with all it contained was being faithfully held at his disposal. The King received young Peyton with much distinction, and recognised his father's services by selecting him as the first person on whom he bestowed the honour of knighthood. (18) But if Peyton indulged in any extravagant expectations of preferment from the new sovereign he was quickly undeceived, for he was not sworn a member of the new King's Privy Council, and the first oppor- tunity was taken of removing him from the command of the Tower to a less con- spicuous office. Sir Walter Raleigh's treason placed the Governorship of Jersey at the King's disposal, and on 30th July 1603 this lucrative post was bestowed on Peyton, with the command to repair without delay to the seat of his government. 294 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. Peyton's dismissal from the Lieutenancy of the Tower and his appointment to the command of Jersey were communicated to him in an autograph letter from the King. (19) King James I. to Sie John Peyton Kt. Trusty and welbeloved For asmiicli as we have thought good to ease you of that charge, which you have of Lieut* of our Tower, wherein you have behaved yourselfe with great care and fidellitie both to the Queene our syster deceased and to us, We have appointed some of our Councell to receave the same at your handes and to delyver it over to our trusty and Avelbeloved S' George Harvy Knight, whose service we meane to use therein. And for that thorough the grievous treason intended against us by S"" Walter Raleigh Knight and others, he hath forfaited to us liis oflace of Captain of our Isle of J ersay, which being a i^lace of importance requirith to be speedely supplyed with a meet i)ersou to looke to the government therof, we have made choice of you to supply that place. Andtlierfore doe require you ymmediately after the delivery up of your charge of the Tower to put yom-self in order to goe thither with aU convenyent speed. 30 July 1603. Sir J ohn Peyton lost no time in obeying the King's commands, for it appears from the records of Jersey that he assumed his office as governor, and administered the oaths to the local parliament on 2d Sept. 1603. (20) He was scarcely established in his new government when his conduct was called in question by his enemies at Court, on the ground of his conversations with the Earl of Lincoln during the Queen's last illness on the delicate su.bject of the succession. His constant friend Cecil immediately warned him of the danger in which he stood, when he hastened to vindicate his loyalty, and sent by a special messenger to Cecil a precise narrative of the whole conversation. Plis letter is dated 10th Oct. 1603, and the narrative enclosed in it is of great historical interest, from the light which it throws on the perplexities in which the highest personages were involved, as to what would happen on Queen Elizabeth's death, (21) SiK John Peyton Kt. Governoe of Jersey to Lord Cecil. Right honorable my very goode lorde Your letters of the 4th of this instant I have receyved, in the which there is contayned your noble nature and honorable care, to contynewe his Ma*'*^^ graceious good ox^inion Towards me. By the wyche you have extended my former bands of afi'ectyon love and servyse beyonde the bownds of lymytatyon, what therfore I shall want in externall means or powre, I wyll supply with my praja-es to God that he maj'e uiultix^ly all honors and blessings uppon you and j^our pos- terytye. Tocheing the Erie of lyncolnes his imputatyons layed uppon me, his fassion is, to con- dempe the worlde, if therby he myght excuse hym selfe. I have therfore sent your lordsliip hereinclosed, a Trewe relatyon of all his discowrses, with there oryginall motyves and cyrcum- stances depending uppon them, haveing with the first wynde dispached this bearer mr. Fowleswith them, desiring not to lyve one mynute longer then I may resie assured of my deare Soveraynge liis favore, whom the lorde presearve wdth all his Roiall progeney, in happines and Triumplie over the iniquities of these malytious tymes, Thus humbly recommending my selfe and fortunes to the supporte of your honorable favors, I humbly take my leave. Jarsey this 10th of October 1603. Your lordship to doe you all servyse John Peyton. (Addressed) To the Right honorable the lorde Cycell principal! Secretory to his Ma*'« and one of the lords of his liyglxnes most honorable pryvy Councell at the Cowrte. (Sealed with crest — A griffin sejant.) PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 295 Enclosube. A trewe relatyon of some speache as passed betwen my lorde of lyncolne and me some feawe dayes before her Ma'''^^ decesse and within fewe dayes after. The Erie of lyncolne* abowte some sixe dayes before her Ma'^^' deathe (as I remember cuming to visyte me at the Towre) discowrsed of her Ma*^^^ weakenes concluding ther was no hoope of her recoverye, The which I well understood from an Immynent personej in the State, Unto whom I daijhj sent my sonne to courte for that purpose. This occasion thus ofi'ered, and my former under- standing (from some of Ms Ma'^^^ minysters) of the Erie of Lyncolnes good affectyon to our nowe soveraynge, moved me in generall to sownde his resolution, in the poynte of succession ; carrying me selfe in covert Termes ; for that I was not Ignorant of the natui'e of the questyon, nether of the disposytion of my lord of lyncolne, nether of eny other persons with whome I had conferrence upon that subiect. In the end he concluded protested and vowed that next her Ma'^^ he wolde mayntayne and defend the Juste Right of om- graceous soveraynge That (by Gods mercyfull provydence, for the unyversall good of the britone kingdoms) dothe now Raynge over us. This his resolution I aproved and fortyfyed by as manny arguments, bothe owte of lawes devyne, the lawes of natyons, publycke utylytye, and private securytye (which I knewe he did somewhat respecte) as I cowlde. I further perswaded hym that to wyshe and proteste well was not suffytj'ent, unleste he did cooperate as occasyon showlde require, adding that he was a great nobleman. So therfore it was to be expected that he in so Juste and noble a cawse, showlde prepare and furnishe hym selfe, advyseing hym (that when God showlde determyne of her Mqi*^^^ Tyme) to addi-esse hym selfe with, hys meanes and attendants unto some suche place as myght be of moste importance for his Ma*y*^ servyse. liereuppon he determyned to send his mony plate and Juells unto me into the Towre, and to cum tliether hym selfe witli his servants and attendants, which afterward he performed, and this was all that at that tyme passed in conferrence betwen us, save that, at his parteing, I advysed hym to obsearve the disposytions and affectyons of those of his rancke, and of suche others as he showlde conferre or discowrse with all. Abowte iiij dayes after as I remember (for at that tj^me all the wytts and facultyes I had, were bothe night and daye kepte wakeing, and so labored, as I myghte, both forgett the tyme and also some materiall cycumstances) my lorde of lyncolne came to me agayne, and as I remember lodged in the Towre that night, being as I take it Twoe dayes before her Ma*^''^ decesse, he then towlde me, it was tyme to looke abowte us, for he had discovered an opposytion intended agaynst his Ma*y'^^ Tytle, and that ther was a great nobleman had openned hym selfe uppon that poynt, and had delte with hym to joyne as a partye in the actyon, not nameing unto me the personne or his purpoose, owte of this his generall reporte, for that I cowlde make no certayne Judgement, ether of the danger it selfe, or of means to appoose and prevent it, I replyed unto my lords relation in this sorte. That If the great personne with whome he had this conferrence were one immynent In Awthorytye in the State, and potent in aUyance frends and means, no tyme myght be omitted in Interpoosing agaynst his iDurpoose, althowgth with some danger, in regard of the present tyme, and therfore disii-ed his lordship conceyve what was to be done in that case, praying him to partyculerryse the cawse and persoune in more open Tearmes, wher uppon liis lordship Towlde me as followeth, That he had byn invyted (the daye before as I remember) by a great nobleman to Hackney, wher he was extraordinaryly feasted, at the which he muclie marvayled, for that ther was no great correspondence betwen them, tliis noble man haveing preceedence of hym in rancke, wlierby he towlde me I myght knowe hym (a) there * Henry Clinton, second Earl of Lincoln, was a nobleman of little credit or consideration. His conduct during Ms embassy to the Landgrave of Hesse in 1596 is arraigned by Anthony Bacon in the bitterest terms ; and in the same year a petition was addi-essed to the Lords of the Council, by Eoger FuUshaw of Waddingworth in Lincolnshhe, Gent., complaining of the most horrible outrages and praying for protection against them. (22) The Earl's circumstances were embarrassed, and the extremities to which he was reduced for raising money are pitifully set forth in a letter to the Earl of Shrewsbmy, which is dated 7th Jan. 1599-1600, and is printed by Lodge. (22) He died 9th Sept. 1616. t This was evidently Cecil. (a) Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, resided at Hackney, and is, I presume, ' the great noble- man' referred to. His first wife was CecU's sister ; but there was no friendship between them, for the Earl PP 296 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. being onely but one of tbat qualytye dwelling there. This noble man and he, being (after dinner) retyred aparte from all companye, began (as the Erie of lyncolne sayed) to discowrse with hym of the impossibylytie of the Queens lyfe, and that the nobylytie being peeres of the realme, were bownde to take care for the common good of the State in the cawse of succession, in the vi'hich hym selfe, meaning the Erie of lyncolne, ought to have more regarde then others, becawse he had a Nephewe of the bludde Roiall, (b) nameing my lorde Hasteings whome he perswaded the Erie of lyncolne to send for, and that ther showld be means used, to convaye hym over into France, wher he showlde fynde fi'ends that wolde make hym a partye, of the wliich ther was a president in former tymes, he also as the Erie of lyncolne sayed invayed muche agaynste the natyon of the Scotts, and began to enter into questyon of his Ma*^^' Tytle, wher uppon my lorde of lyncolne (as he Towlde me) Brake of his discowrse, absolutely disalowing all that the great noble man had moved in suche sorte as he des3'sted from eny further speache in that matter. My answere unto this relatyon of my lorde of lyncolnes was thus : I towlde hym, that I was sorry that he had so Buddaynly shewed his dislykeings of the great noble mans discowrse wysheing that he had con- tayned hym selfe, untyll suche tyme as he might have fully discovered the fowndation of the proiect, and all the parties concurring in that actj'^on, which at that instant he seemed muche to repent that he had so hastely cutt of the great noble man's discowrse. I also advysed the Erie of lyncolne to use all his indevowre to understand what he cowlde, and to be vygyllant what personns had conferrence or recowrse unto that great nobleman, and wherther ther wer eny messwages or meetyngs betwen the Frenche imbassador and hym, whome I must confesse I suspected. At the firste aprehention of my lorde of Ijucolnes discovery I was muche moved and Trobled, but when he had made me understand what great personne it was whome he ment, I knewe hym to be so weake in boddy, in frends, in habylytis and all other means to raj'se eny combustyon in the State, as I never feered eny danger to proseed from so feeble a fowndation ; but added a more vigillancj'e and care unto the saffetie of the place under my charge, with owte further conferrence of that cawse, I being also at that instant to geve order for the bringing in of wyne beare bread meate butter fyshe and other provityons for the victuallyng of suche extraordinary assistants as were to be drawne into the Towre, for that it was certaynly informed bothe to me selfe, and to my lord of Sowthamton ; from whome I did not conceale this discowrse, that her Ma*''® cowlde not lyve 24 howres. Within lesse then Two dayes after (as I remember) It pleased God to call her Ma*''® to His mercy, and our deere Soveraynge was proclaymed and the proclamatyon shortely after printed, and the former spetyfied great noblemans name attested in the sayed proclamatyon, as jojmeing in the same with the reste of the lords, at the which tyme my lorde of lyncolne being then with me at the Towre, seemed to wonder and this (according to my remembrance) was 3 or 4 dayes after her Ma*y® decesse at which tyme my lord of lyncolne spake not eny more of that matter. The 3d tyme of my conferrence with my lord of lyncolne was after my lord of kynloosse (c) his arrivall : at which tyme he being with me in the Towre, I towlde hym that nowe we myght discowrse with more freedome and leysure then when liir Ma*'® lyved, and then I asked hym these had taken mortal offence at Lord Burghley's refusal to save the Duke of Norfolk's Hfe, for whom he had earnestly interceded. It is recorded in the Parish Register of Hackney that ' Edward de Vere Earl of Oxenford' was buried there on 6th July 1604. (b) Henry Lord Hastings, grandson and heu' presumptive of George fourth Earl of Huntingdon, was at this time under sixteen years of age, and was the lineal heu* of George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence. Henry second Earl of Lincoln was his granduncle by marriage only through his first wife Catherine, daughter of Francis second Earl of Huntingdon. (23) (c) Edward Bruce, titular Abbot of Kinloss in Elginshire, came to England as Ambassador with the Earl of Mar in 1601, on the execution of the Earl of Essex, when he set on foot that correspondence with Cecil which resulted in the unopposed succession of King James. (24) He was created Lord Bruce of Kinloss in Scotland 22d Feb. 1602-3, and was sent to England with confidential instructions immediately after the King's accession. He was a member of the Privy Council of both kingdoms, and was appointed Master of the Rolls for life 8th July 1604. He died 14th Jan. 1610-11, and was the ancestor of the Earls of Elgin and of xVylesbury. (23) PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 297 questyons, firste whether he had discovered eny other persons to be coneenting unto the purpoose of sending his nephewe, the lord Hastings iato France, secondly whether he knewe of eny second personne unto whom the great Erie had partycypated his intentyon. Unto boothe these he answered that he cowlde not understand of eny personne interessed in that matter but onely that Erie that had the first conferrence with hym ; here uppon I advysed hym to make hym selfe knowne unto my lord of kynloose and to acquaynt hym with suche advertyzements as myghte enywaye concerne his Ma*y^' servyse, and so leafte the discovery of his owne knowleage to hym selfe, conceyving that if he showlde fayle in the performance therof, he wolde also deny his reports made unto me. Rather then to acknowledge it uppon the other Erie, who as hym selfe dowbted wolde absolutely disavowe the same, Uppon this consyderation also, that the noble man whom he accused, was with the Cowncell and the other lords, at the proclamatyon of Ms Ma*^^, no lykelyhoode of prouffe or other circumstances but onely my lord of lyncolnes reporte, and the danger in all apparence being passed. The which notwythstanding I acquaynted my lord of kinloose with thus muche. That aU the great personns, some fewe dayes before her Ma'^^' decesse were owt of our mynde, and I hoope he wyll remember I spake also to hym of my lorde Hastings and that my lorde of lyncolne wolde relate the particulers therof when he came unto hym, and if my memory doe not muche deceyve me I acquaynted Sir Davyde Fowles (r>) and mr. Hudsonne (e) also with this speache of my lord of lyncolnes, before there goeing to his Ma'''®. Tocheing the Catholykes my lord of lyncolne, at that tyme when he acquaynted me with his discowrse at Hackney, Towlde me that the papysts wher reasolved to urge a ToUeratyon, but I doe not remember that he named eny particuler man or manner. The generall suspityon and dangerous reports of the recusants being at that tyme common and publycke. To tins reporte of my lorde of lyncolne I answered That ther evell affectyon was not to be dowbted, but the dissipation betwen the Jesuites and prestes, had raysed suche a factyon, and disunited their boddy so as thay cowlde not reasolve of eny heddes to searve their Turne before his Ma*^^ tytle and ryght were setled, excepte her Ma'^^ sycknes (wliich was unlykelj') showld prove langvvyshyng and contynew a longe tyme, so as the preestes faction mj^-ght solysyte their partye in France which I moste feared in regard of visynitie and propinquitye. Tocheing the discovery of the Catholykes their pretenses, I wrote unto his Ma*^®, That Charnocke (f) and divers others had accesse unto Mr. Ashefylde, then prisoner in the Towre, whomelknowe to be faythfuU to his Ma*^®, andtherfore helde intellygence with hym for the discovery of their practyses, the letter I sent ether by Sir Davyde Fowles or by Mr. Hudsonne, in the which I humbly desired that his Ma'® wolde derect his pleasure, for that mr. Ashefylde, with owte some warrant was lothe to entertayne eny fui'ther corresspondence with them, and this is all bothe in substance and cyi-cumstances that I can remember Tocheing the cawses before speatyfied. I have ever loved his Ma*''®^ parson and hated his enymyes I have feared no danger nor refused eny hassard to interpoose agaynst them. I wyll ever with a loyaU and an Intyre harte searve his Ma'^®, and his commands shalbe my lawe ontyll the bii-thing owte of my laste spirites. John Peyton. Peyton's explanation seems to have been accepted as satisfactory, for there is no (d) Sir David Foulis, a gentleman of the King's houseliold in Scotland, was in the secret of Cecil's correspondence with King James during the last years of Elizabeth. (24) He was sent to England on the Queen's death, and was knighted on 13th May 1603. His services were rewarded by a grant of lands in Yorkshire and by the oiBce of Coiferer to Prince Henry and then to Prince Charles, and he was created a Baronet 9th Feb. 1619-20. He was in high favour with James I. ; but in the next reign he incurred the enmity of Wentworth, and in 1633 was committed a prisoner to the Fleet, and impoverished by heavy fines amounting to 8000Z. (25) (e) James Hudson was for many years the trusted agent of King James of Scotland at the Court of Queen Elizabeth, and was rewarded by the King on his accession by the gift of the rich Mastership of the Hospital of St. Cross, which Hudson transferred for a consideration to Dr. Lake. (26) (p) Charnock the priest received a fuU pardon soon after the arrival of King James in London, although Bishop Bancroft wrote to Cecil on 8th Aug. 1603 to protest against such indulgence to priests. (3) 298 THE CHESTERS OE CHICHELEY. record of any further correspondence on the subject, and lie retained Ms place as Governor of Jersey for the remaining twenty- seven years of his life. His adminis- tration was not popular in the island, for he strained his authority to establish the use of the Anglican Liturgy, and the discipline of Geneva had hitherto prevailed in the Channel Isles. He was not constantly resident at his post, and after his wife's death he fixed his chief seat in England at Doddington in the Isle of Ely. This rich manor had been held by the Peytons for nearly a century on lease from the Bishops of Ely, to whom it belonged, until Bishop Heton was compelled in 1600 to convey it to the Crown, but King J ames granted the fee simple to Sir John Peyton for a nominal consideration. (27) The manor, of Doddington carried with it the advowson, which M^as reputed to be the richest in England until its division in 1868. It still belongs to the heir of the Peytons, and one portion of it, the Rectory of March, is rated in the Clergy List at above 5000?. per annum. Peyton left Jersey alto- gether in 1628, when his son, the younger Sir John Peyton, was appointed his lieutenant. The rest of his life was spent at Doddington, where he lived surrounded by his grandchildren, and his old age was so vigorous that he rode out buck- hunting three days before his death. (28) He died 4th Nov. 1630 in the ninetieth year of his age. All the received accounts of him err in stating that he was much older, for the Baronetages say that he lived to the age of ninety-nine, and it is alleged on the monument of his granddaughter Mrs. Lowe at Oxford that he died in his 105th year. (29) But it is certain that he was under 90 when he died, for his elder brother. Sir Thomas Peyton of Knowlton, was not born until 31st March 1540. (i) Sir John was buried at Doddington, but the day of his burial is unknown, for the extant register of this parish begins in 1681, and there are no earlier monuments in the church. He is commemorated, however, with others of his family on the monument of his descendant SirSewster Peyton Bart, of Doddington, who was Master of the Buckhounds to Queen Anne, and died 28th Dec. 1717 : Hinc inde etiam sparguntur Inter densa prseclarae laujus Familias fanera, Pater Algernonus Peyton, Baronettus ; Proavus Johannes Peyton, literatissimus Miles ; Nec non abavus Johannes, ejusdem ordinis lucidum decus, Quem pro prudentia summa spectatissinaa fide Et in arduis ReipublicaB negotiis peritia Londinensis Tunis Prsefectum, Et a secretis constituit Elizabetha Eegina ; Quem etiam pacificus Rex Jacobus Insularum Jarseise et Guernseise Custodem creavit. Avi vero Algernoni Peyton S.T.P. Hujus olim Ecclesise Rectoris, ac manerii Dni, Ecclesia Sancti Georgii de Southwark juxta Londinum Tumuliun gloriatur. Placidum agite soporem Dilecti, nobiles, beati Cineres. THE ANCESTOES OF DOEOTHY LADY PEYTON. 299 Sir John Peyton acquired great wealth during his long period of office, and bestowed handsome portions on his granddaughters when they married. It appear^ from Lady Chester's post-nuptial settlement (which has been set forth at p. 115) that her grandfather gave her 3000Z. ; but the eldest daughter would by the custom of those times have a larger provision than her sisters, and she had special claims on her grandfather's affection, as she and her eldest* three children were born in his house. Sir John made no Will, and letters of administration Avere granted on 12th May 1631 to his only son Sir John Peyton the younger. 11. Dame Doeothy Peyton, the wife of Sir John Peyton of Doddington, was (as we have seen) the widow and executrix of Sir Robert Bell Kt., Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the heiress of Beaupr6 Hall in the parish of Outwell. Her father Edmond Beaupre was the last heir male of an ancient family of Norfolk gentry, who had been the owners of Beaupre Hall from the reign of Edward I. (5) He was only 14 years old when his father Nicholas Beaupre died on 20th Feb. 1513-14, but a considerable portion of his estates came to him through his mother, Margaret Foderinghay, who died ten days before her husband, and was the coheir of several families of distinction. (30) He married two wives, and had issue by both. By his first Avife Margery, daughter of Sir John Wiseman Kt. of Great Thornham, he left four daughters and coheirs. By his second wife Catherine, daughter of Philip Bedingfield Esq. of Ditchingham, he had an only daughter Dorothy, Lady Bell, who succeeded her father at Beaupre Hall and Southacre. He died 14th Feb. 1567-8, and was buried at Outwell on ITtli Feb. (5) The genealogy of the Beaupres is sufficiently set forth in Blomefield's History of Norfolk, (5) and therefore need not be repeated here ; but the maternal descent of Edmond Beaupre from the famous Sir John Hawkwood, and the different families of which his mother was a coheir are shown in the pedigree on the next page. * The second of these children, Dorothy Chester, supplies a remarkable illustration of how few living links are absolutely necessary to bridge over a long period of time. Sir John Peyton was six years old when Henry VIII. died, and he survived by five years and a half the day, 10th May 1625, on which Dorothy Chester was born in his house at Doddington. Dorothy married ColonelJohn Fisher, a Cavalier, whose estate was sequestered by the Parliament in 1645. She died in the full possession of her senses and faculties at the age of ninety-one on 19th Feb. 1717, at Methley Hall in Yorkshire, the seat of her gi-andson John Shan Esq. {see p. 168). Mrs. Fisher was intimately acquainted with her gi'eat-grandson John Shan, for he was seventeen years old at the time of her death. He was afterwards Vicar of Chicheley, and died there at the age of eighty-three on 29th Aug. 1783 (see pedigree at p. 182). Mr. Shan's grand- daughter Miss Anne Cape was above five years old when her grandfather died, an'd remembered him distinctly. She was a constant visitor at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and was as active and sprightly as if she had been fifty-three instead of seventy-three years old. She died on 12th Aug. 1859 at the age of eighty-one ; and bad all her faculties to the last. We have here a proved instance of a lady who remembered her grandfather, who was intimately acquainted with his great-grandmother, who remembered her great-gi-andfather, who was born in the reign of Henry VIII. There were therefore only two living links between Miss Cape who died in 1869, and Sir John Peyton who was born in 1541 ; and the inter- vening period of 318 years was bridged over by the lives of four persons, each of whom remembered his predecessor. - » 300 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. PEDIGREE OP DOROTHY BEAUPRE LADY PEYTON. Asms : Argent on a chevron sable, three escallops of the field, Hawkwood. Argent, a cross between four escallops sable, Coggeshall. Ermine on a chevron sable, three crescents Or, Doreward. Quarterly, Or and gules, a cross lozengy sable ; in the second quarter an eagle displayed Or, Foderinghay. Argent on a bend azure, a pallet between two crosslets Or, Beaupre. Gilbert Hawkwood of Hedingham Sible=j= and of Gosfleld, Essex; died 1340. WUl. 1. John Ha wkwood= Margery, senior, 1340; of Hed- wife 1344. ingham Sible, 1344, 1360 ; dead 1363. \ r 1. w.=^Sir John Hawk-= woodKt., theCou- dottiere General; died at Florence, 17 March 1394. =2 w. Donnina, dau.of Barnabo Visconti, sove- reign of Milan ; marr. at Milan May 1377. I r 1. Agnes, m. John Ruby ; wife 1340. 2. Joan m. John de Gra- vashale; wife 1340. n—[ 3. Nicholas, a priest 1363. 3. Alice, unm. 1340. 4. Margaret, unm. 1340. Sir Wm. de Coggeshall Kt.=T=Antiocha of Little Coggeshall and Cod- ham ; Sheriff of Essex 1391, 1411 ; M.P. for Essex 1391- 1422. Hawkwood, wife 1379. Sir John Hawkwood Kt. ; naturalised 8 Hen. IV. ; of Hedingham Sible. 1 rn Florentine, mar. two Lancelot del daus. Maigno ; and had issue. I Blanche de Cogges-= hall, eldest dau. and coh.; d. 1460; M. I. at Booking. ■JohnDorewardEsq. of Becking ; Sheriff of Essex 1425, 1432; M.P. for Essex 1453; d. 30 Jan. 1462. 2. Alice, coh.; marr. Sir John TyreU Kt. of Herons; d. 1422. 3. Margaret, coh. ; m. 1 h. WiU. Bate- man, of Little Sand- ford; 2 h. John Roppeley Esq. ; d. 5 June 1459. 4. Maud, coh. ; m. 1 h. Robert Dacre Esq. ; 2 h. John St. George. r — Sir John Doreward Kt., son and heir, of Booking; d. 1476. His only son John d. 1480, s.p. William Doreward Esq., 2 son ;=j=Margaret, dau. and coh. of Sir Roger de Arsick Kt. of Southacre, Norfolk. uncle and heir, of Southacre, Jure ux. ; d. 1481. (Esch. 21 Edw. IV. 21.) I John Doreward, son and heir ; d. 28 Feb. 1495-6, s.p. n Elizabeth Doreward, heir in her= issue. =Thomas Foderinghay Esq. of Brockley, Suffolk. WUl dat. 20 Dec. 1490, proved 8 June 1491. Margaret, heir of Brock-= ley and of Southacre; aged 19 in 1496; marriage settlement dat. 14 Nov. 1492; d. 10 Feb. 1513-14. =Nicholas Beaupr6 Esq., of Beaupre Hall, in Out- weU, Norfolk ; d. 20 Feb. 1513-14. Helen, coh.; aged 18 in 1496; m. 1 h. Henry Thursby Esq.; 2 h. Thomas Pakeman Esq. Christian, coh.; aged 14 ia 1496; marr. John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, s.p. 1 1 w. Margery, dau. of Sii-=j=Edmund Beaupre Esq., son and heir,=j=2 w. Catherine, dau. of Philip Beding- John Wiseman Kt., Great Thornham. of of Beauprg Hall ; d. 14 Feb. 1567-8 ; bur. at Outwell on 17 Feb. field Esq. ; remarr. John Wiuter Esq. Four daughters and coheirs. 1 h. Sir Robert Bell Kt., Lord Chief Baron; marr. 15 Oct. 1559; d. 25 July 1577. 1 Dorothy, heir of=i=2h. Sir John Pet- Beaupre HaU; d. Feb. I ton Kt., mar. 8 June 1602-3. I 1578; d. 4 Nov. 1630. I Bell of BeaupeS. Peyton of (See p. 120.) Doddington. SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD KT. 301 The most interesting personage in the series of Lady Peyton's ancestors is Sir John Hawkwood, the famous condottiere captain of the fourteenth century, whose life has still to be written,* although he played a prominent part in the history of northern Italy, and the materials of his biography are sufficiently abundant. The true story of his exploits would far exceed my limits, and I am contented to trace the outline of his career, and to place on record some particulars of his family which have hitherto been ignored by his biographers. Sir J ohn Hawkwood was the son of Gilbert Hawkwood of Hedingham Sible in Essex, who died in 1340, leaving seven children, of whom at least four were then under age. Gilbert is said in all the lives of his son to have been a tanner by trade, but his Will shows no trace of any such occupation. The number and amount of his legacies prove that he was a man of considerable substance, and he is known to have been the mesne lord of a manor in Hedingham Sible, (31) and of another in Gosfield, (32) which had been long held by his family under the Earls of Oxford. It may therefore fairly be assumed that his position has been unduly disparaged, and that he was reckoned amongst the minor gentry of Essex. This is confirmed by the evidence of Yillani, the contemporary historian of Florence, who says of Sir John Hawkwood, ' Tutto die non fosse di scliiatta de' nohili con dignita, il padre era gen- tiluomo mei'catante e antico borgJiese, e cosi li suoi antenatV (33) Gilbert Hawkwood's Will has been preserved amongst the cartce antiquce in the British Museum, (34) and is now for the first time published in a literal translation. It thence appears that he kept in his own hands his manor at Hedingham and let to a tenant his manor at Gosfield, and that his daughter Joan was married to the heir of the adjoining manor of Gravashales. To appreciate his social position his Will should be compared with that of his contemporary Sir John de Peyton, one of the Knights of the Shire for Suffolk, which is dated in 1317, and has been printed at p. 185. Hawkwood makes as large a provision for his younger children as Sir John did, but he mentions none of those gold ornaments which were worn by persons of knightly rank. In the name of God. Amen. This is the WiU of Gilbeht de Hawkwood, made on Monday next before the feast of St. Margaret the virgin, 14 Edw. III. (18 July 1340). Imprimis, I bequeatlr my soul to God and Blessed Mary and all the Saints, and my body to *' The well-known notices of Hawkwood in Fuller's Worthies and m Morant's History of Essex are mainly derived from the short Life of him by Wilham Valens, which is printed by Hearne in his edition of Leland's Itinerary. But the main authority in English for Hawkwood's career is a Paper by Gough, which was read at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries on 25th Jan. 1776, and was printed with additions by Nicbols in the sixth volume of his Bihliotheca Topographica Britannica. Gough has collected some useful references, but his narrative is meagre and confused, and the abridgments of Gough by Granger and Chalmers are still less satisfactory. The Italian authorities for Hawkwood's Life are more numerous and important, but the critical student will attach more value to the incidental notices of contemporary chronicles and records than to the elaborate compilations of Paulus Giovius and the classical biographer of Italian generals. Some new details have lately been brought to light by the researches made under the direction of the Master of the RoUs in the Venetian archives, and by the valuable series of diplomatic records at Milan which were published in 1863, and were edited by Cav. Osio for the Italian government. 302 THE CHESTEKS OP CHICHELEY. be bui-ied in the cliiu'ch of St. Peter at Hengliam Sibill (Hedingham Sible) . Item, to the fabric of St. Paul's, London, 2s. Item, to distribute to the poor and for other expenses on the day of my burial 10 marks. Item, for the expenses on the 7th day of my burial 5 marks. Item, for the expenses on the 30tli day 2 marks. Item, to buy wax 10s. To my son John the elder ^£10 : to my son John the younger £20 : to my son Nicholas 10 marks : to my daughter Agnes and Thomas Ruby her husband 100s. : to my daughter Joan and her husband John son of John Gravashale* 100s., which are to remain in the hands of my son John the elder for their need, and are to be paid to them as he considers it for their advantage. Item, to my daughters Alice and Margaret ^10 each. To John Calthf 40s. To the Vicar of Gos- field 10s. To the chaplain of the parish for the time being 2s. To William Ferour, chaplain, half a mark. Also for four chaplains celebrating in Hedingham Church and elsewhere 20 marks. To Walter son of Philij) and William Cumbwell half a mark each. To Basilia my maidservant 12d. To John Munne the elder and his brother William iOd. each. To Gilbert Fitz-Stephen 4,0d. To Agnes Munne 2s. and to her sister Matilda 12d. To Richard le Clerk Hd. To Walter Bernard 5s. To Henry my tenant (fermario meo) 4,Qd. To Agnes Ostage 40fZ. To Agnes Prioress of HedinghamJ half a mark, and to Sarah formerly Sub-Prioress 3s., and to each of the other nuns for the time being 12d. To my son John the elder my yoke of six stots and of two oxen at my messuage in Hedingham Sible ; and also ten quarters of wheat and ten quarters of oats. To my sons John the younger and Nicholas his brother 5 quarters of wheat and 5 quarters of oats each. To Walter Munne and John Munne the younger 2s. each. To each of my shepherds 12d. each, and to Thomas Munne 2s. To my daughters Alice and Margery and my son John the younger, besides the legacies of ^10 already given, 100s. and a bed each. To my son Nicholas a bed. Also to the said Alice, Margaret, John, and Nicholas their maintenance for a year. All the rest of my goods not specifically bequeathed I give to my executors to employ for my soul and for the souls of all my benefactors in celebration of masses and ahns to the poor as they shall tliink most expedient for my soul and the souls of all the faithful. My sons John the elder and John the younger and Sir John Vicar of Gosfield to be my executors. In witness whereof I have set my seal to this my Will. Will proved in the parish church of Hedingham Sible, 28th July 1340, before Thomas de Booking, Commissary, who affixed his official seal at Hedingham Castle 10th Oct. 1340. It will be observed tliat two of Gilbert Hawkwood's sons were named J ohn ; but this was not an infrequent practice in the middle ages, and survived until the end of the sixteenth century. (36) For example : Alice de Coggeshall, wife of Sir John Tyrell and granddaughter of Sir John Hawkwood, left in 1422 two sons named William and two sons named John. (37) John Dudley, Duke of Northum- berland, had two sons named Henry, of whom one was slain at the siege of Bou- logne in 1544 and the other at the battle of St. Quentins in 1557. (38) John White, Bishop of Winchester 1556-60, was brother to Sir John White Kt,, Lord Mayor 1563 ; whilst Protector Somerset had no less than three sons named Edward, * The manor of Gravashale's in Hedingham Sible was held by a family of that name under the Earls of Oxford from the reign of Henry II., and John de Gravashale was lord in 1407. It i^assed with Hawkwood's manor in the same parish to Thomas RoH of Gosfield, Serjeant-at-law temp. Henry VI. (31) t John Calth and John Galaunt were in 1344 feoffees of Hawkwood's manor of Gosfield Hall, for a Court was held there in their names in that year. (32) I This Prioress is not mentioned in the Monastieon, which gives a very meagre account of Heding- ham Nunnery. (35) It was founded by the first Earl of Oxford, and was endowed with the impropriate rectories of Gosfield and both the Hedinghams, which naturally led to the foundation of Hawkwood's chantry there in 1412. SIK JOHN HAWKWOOD KT. 303 who were all living at the same time : viz. Sir Edward Seymour his eldest son (born 1529, died 1593); Edward Earl of Hertford (born 1539, died 1621); and Sir Edward Seymour the king's godson (born 1548, died 1574). (23) There is no positive pi'oof as to whether Sir John Ha-wkwood was' the elder or the younger of the two brothers named John ; but I have little doubt that he was the younger. John Hawkwood sen,, with his wife Margery and John Hawkwood jun.,* held their first manorial court at Gosfield in 1344. (32) John Hawkwood Avas lord in 1360, and Nicholas Hawkwood (then a priest) with other feoffees kept court in 1363. (32) I cannot think that the general was married so early as 1344, and we know from Froissart that he was knighted before 1360, (40) and I have there- fore assumed that Margery's husband was Sir John's brother, who was still lord in 1360, and died without issue before 1363, when Nicholas Hawkwood and others held the manorial court as trustees for Sir John, who was heir to his brother, and was absent in the wars beyond seas. Sir J ohn Hawkwood was not one of those who ow'e their success in life to the opportunities of early professional training, for the future general was bound an apprentice to a merchant-tailor of London. This is not inconsistent with what has been said already about his father's station in life, for the citizens of London were mainly recruited from the younger sons of the minor gentry. His adventurous spirit soon threw aside ' the needle for the sword and the thimble for the shield,' (41) but he was never ashamed of his original calling, and is spoken of by grave Italian historians under the sobriquet of 'John of the needle.' (33). Villani says that J ohn learned the art of war from an uncle who served with distinction in the English army in France. He was an apt pupil, and his military genius was such that he quickly rose to be the captain of 250 archers, whom he commanded with so much gallantry and skill that he w^as advanced to the honour of knighthood. When the peace of Bretigny was concluded in 1360 Sir John Hawkwood found his occupation gone, and he had as yet no patrimony to fall back upon for the support of his rank. He therefore became the leader of one of those free companies of dis- banded soldiers who made war on their own account and supported themselves by plunder. After ravaging Bm'gundy they threatened the Pope's territory of Avignon, when Pope Innocent VI. published a crusade against them, and eventually diverted their attack by engaging the Marquis of Montferrat to take them into his pay and to employ them in his wars against Milan. (40) Hawkwood's position amongst these mercenaries may be estimated by the fact, that he and his company received 10,000 francs out of the 60,000 francs which the marquis paid on their enlistment in May 1361. (40) On the termination of the war between Montferrat and Milan in 1363 * Morant and others, v/ho had not read Gilbert Hawkwood's Will, assumed that John Hawkwood jun. of 1344 was the son and heir of John sen. and Margery. This mistake has thrown the pedigree into confusion, and induced Sir David Palrymple to deny Sir John Hawkwood's identity with the lord of Hawkwood's manor. (39) QQ 304 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. Hawkwood with liis band of 1000 lances took service with tlie Pisans, and he became their commander-in-chief in the wars agaiiist Florence. His name now appeal's for the first time in the Italian chronicles, in which he figures so prominently during the rest of his life. He is described as ' an English tailor who had distinguished himself in the wars in France, a great master of the art of war, and of a disposition vulpine and crafty like the rest of his countrymen.' (33) He was then in the prime of life, ' rather above the middle height, with limbs strongly knit, a fresh complexion, and brown hair and eyes.' (42) His men, called the White Company of Free Lances, were all mounted on horseback and cased in complete suits of mail, and every man-at-arms had at least two pages to wait upon him. It was the business of the pages to burnish their master's armour until it was as bright as a looking- glass and to hold their master's horse in action, for the Lances (as they were called) mostly fought on foot. Their manner of fighting was to close up their ranks with a circular front towards the enemy, two of them holding one lance as the hunting- spear is held to meet the boar, and then closely linked together with their lances pointed low they bore down upon the enemy with a slow firm step and a loud shout. (33) Their charge was irresistible, and all their movements in action were directed and controlled by the strictest military discipline. This formidable body of hardy adventurers were the terror and admiration of the Italian States, for they passed from one state to another either as stipendiaries or invaders. Pisa, Sienna, Perugia, and Parma were successively the scenes of Hawkwood's operations between 1363 and 1368. On 15th June 1368 Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son of Edward III., married at Milan Violante, daughter of Galeazzo Visconti. The marriage-feast was celebrated with incredible magnificence, and Hawkwood attended Prince Lionel as the captain of his guard. Froissart and Petrarch were amongst the guests on this occasion, and therefore they write of Hawkwood from personal know- ledge. Prince Lionel did not long survive his marriage, for he fell sick and died at his wife's seat at Alba in Piedmont on 8th Sept. 1368. It was strongly sus- pected by the English that the Prince was poisoned by his father-in-law, and Edward Lord Despenser, the Prince's bosom friend, joined Hawkwood in making war against Visconti in revenge, but after waging a devastating warfare for some months they were reconciled by the Court of Savoy. (43) Hawkwood now entered the service of Bernabo Visconti, and faithfully served him in 1370 against the Pope and his allies. (44) But Pope Urban died at the end of this year ; and it may be suspected that in 1371 Hawkwood revisited his native country ; for Thomas de Vere, eighth Earl of Oxford, the lord paramount of Hedingliam Sible, by his Will dated 1st Aug. 1371, bequeathed to him twenty marks and made him one of his exe- cutors. (45) The new Pope secm'ed Hawkwood's adherence, and on the reduction of Ravenna and Forli to the Papal allegiance appointed him the Gonfaloniere of the Church ; but the cardinal legate suffered his pay to fall into arrear, and the SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD KT. 305 massacre of Cesiiia witli its wanton cruelty shocked the Enghsh Free Lances, who fought for plunder and not for vengeance. Hawkwood therefore in 1377 was induced by a salary of 250,000 florins to transfer his services to the Republic of Florence and their ally Bernabo Visconti. (46) It was the settled policy of the House of Visconti to connect themselves by family alliances with personages whose enmity they feared ; and Bernabo now re- solved on attaching Hawkwood permanently to his service by giving him one of his daughters for a wife. Bernabo had no less than thirty-six children, of whom fifteen only were by his wife Regina de la Scala of Verona, but the rest were by ladies of rank, and little distinction was made between his legitimate and illegitimate off- spring. Hawkwood's wife was named Donnina, and her mother was Donnina of the noble Milanese family of De' Porri. The marriage took place in May 1377, (47) and was announced to Louis Gonzaga of Mantua by his ambassador at Ber- nabo's Court in these terms : (44) ' Sir John Acliiid (Hawkwood) 011 Sunday last took his wife home with much honour to the liouse in which the Bishop of Parma used to hve, and at the nuptials were present the Lady Duchess and all the children of Lord Bernabo with an honourable company. Yesterday after dinner Lord Bernabo went with Iris Porina (the bride's mother) to Sir John's house, where there were tilting matches all day. I am told that the Lady Regina (Bernabo's wife) i^resented to the bride yesterday after dinner 1000 gold ducats in a cup ; Marco (Visconti, Bernabo's eldest son) gave her a zardinum of pearls worth 300 ducats ; and his brother Louis gave her a pearl necklace of the same value, and many people of rank did the hke. The English also presented her with a quantity of silver which is estimated at 1000 ducats. There was no dancing, out of respect to the memory of Thaddeo.' If Bernabo expected that his new son-in-law would be a mere tool in his hands to work out his projects of aggrandisement, he was soon disappointed ; for in the next year, 1378, he was compelled by Hawkwood's interference to forego the full advantage of his successful campaign against Verona, and to grant peace on moderate terms. Hawkwood had long discovered that it was not to his interest to allow any of the rival princes of Italy to be unduly depressed or exalted, for by this policy he held the balance of power between them. He had now achieved an European reputation, and was in high favour at the English court. This was not undeserved, for he had taken every occasion of displaying his loyalty to the family of his native sovereign. He had in 1368 resented the death of Lionel Duke of Clarence, and in 1373 had rescued from imminent peril Ingelram de Coney, ' solely because he was the husband of King Edward's daughter.' (43) His conduct was appreciated by the King, who granted to him and Sir John de Clifford in 1377 a full pardon under the great seal for all penalties incurred by an English subject in maldng war against the King's allies. (48) A similar charter of pardon had been granted to Sir Robert KnoUes, and was considered formally necessary to qualify these personages for employment by the Crown. In May 1381 Sir John Hawkwood and Sir Nicholas Dagworth were appointed by Richard II. his ambassadors to Pope Urban, (49) 306 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. and were empowered to conclude treaties with the princes and states of Northern Italy. (49) Hawkwood's father-in-law Bernabo Visconti had since 1378 shared the sove- reignty of Milan with his nephew J ohn Galeazzo, who was also his son-in-law ; but the two princes hated and distrusted each other, and John Galeazzo only preserved his life by living in seclusion at Pavia, and by the loyalty of his wife, who revealed to her hvisband all her father's schemes for his destruction. This life became at last intolerable, and in the spring of 1385 John Galeazzo took his uncle prisoner by stratagem and deposed him. Bernabo's cruelty and treachery had alienated the affections of his kindred as well as of his subjects, and Hawkwood was easily per- suaded to acquiesce in his downfall. Accordingly on 1st July 1385 a formal treaty was made, whereby ' egregiiis et strenuus miles, D. Johannes Haucud de Anglia, con- sanguineus dilectissimus Illmi. Dni. Galeaz. Vicecomitis,' in consideration of an annual stipend of 1000 florins, became the liegeman of John Galeazzo, and undertook when called upon to serve him in war with thirty lances at a further stipend of 300 florins a month, under the proviso that his then engagements permitted him to undertake such service with honour. This treaty was executed at Sir John Hawkwood's residence at Cavezzo in the county of Modena, in the presence of John Azzo degli Ubaldini, Captain of the Company of the Rose, John Edingham, an Englishman, and others. The formal act was drawn up by Martin de' Robbi, who styles himself 'the Chancellor of the magnificent and noble Knight Sir John Haiukwood, lohose usual seal* I have appended to this charter.^ (44) Hawkwood, with his chancellor and his treaties, almost affected the state of an independent prince ; but his pretensions were treated with deference by greater sove- reigns than John Galeazzo of Milan. When Richard II. of England appointed on 6th Feb. 1384-5 Sir John Hawkwood and Sir Nicholas Dagworth to be his ambassa- dors, with full powers to conclude treaties with Charles King of Naples the Rej^ublic of Florence and the other States of Italy, Dagworth was furnished with a letter from the King to Hawkwood, which almost amounts to letters of credence from one prince to another ; for the King pledges himself to Hawkwood to pay any sum of money which Dagworth might promise in his name, on condition of his undertaking certain matters which Dagworth would explain to him by word of mouth. (49) Bernabo Visconti was poisoned after a few months' imprisonment by his nephew, who within the next three years made himself the master of Padua and Verona, and extended his dominions to the Adriatic. His growing power alarmed the Florentines, and in 1390 they formed a league against him with Hawkwood as their commander- in-chief. The plan of operations was to overpower Milan by a combined attack of the united forces of the league. Hawkwood was to march northwards, and to be * Hawkwood's seal was a liaiok volant with a label issuing from its mouth. There are two impres- sions in the British Museum, attached to original letters from Hawkwood to the garrison of Sienna, and dated February 1377. (50) SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD KT. 307 joined beneath the walls of Milan by a French army under the Count D'Armagnac and a body of German lances under Stephen Duke of Bavaria. But Stephen although he was the son-in-law of Bernabo and had the wrongs of his wife's kindred to avenge, was bribed by John Galeazzo to retire to his own country almost without striking a blow, and D'Armagnac was defeated and slain in a battle near Alessandria which he had provoked by his own rashness. Hawkwood had in his march north- wards already crossed the Adige, Mincio, and the Oglio, and was encamped at Paterno in the Oremonese territory, when the news of Armagnac's defeat was brought home to him by the approach of the Milanese army under Jacopo del Verme. He now found himself destitute of allies and cut off from supplies, with three rivers in his rear, and in his front a superior force flushed by victory. He extricated himself, however, from this dangerous position by a retreat, conducted with such consummate skill and daring that it has raised his military fame to a level with the greatest captains of antiquity. He brought back in safety the bulk of his army, and defended Tuscany so successfully that.Visconti gained little profit from his victories, and was glad to conclude a peace with Florence on 26th Jan. 1392, on the terms of not meddling again in the aflPairs of Tuscany or Bologna, The Flo- rentines in their gratitude now heaped honours upon Hawkwood. He and his son were admitted to the rarely bestowed honour of citizenship, and he received an additional pension of 2000 florins a year and complete freedom from taxation. Moreover, as he was getting advanced in years, a pension of 1000 florins was pro- mised to his wife after his death, and a marriage-portion of 2000 florins to each of his daughters. He was also appointed for life general in chief of all the forces of the Republic, and it is remarked by Machiavelli that, but for the cautious modera- tion of his character and the chapter of accidents, he might easily have made himself master of the State. (51) His popularity was luidiminished during the remaining two years of his life. He died suddenly at his villa on 17th March 1394, and his funeral was celebrated at the public cost without any restriction of expendi- ture. His bier, covered with cloth of gold and scarlet velvet, was borne by knights of the highest rank, amongst innumerable torches, banners, shields, and war-horses in golden trappings. The body was exposed on the bier in the baptismal church of S. Giovanni, where the Florentine matrons in the deepest mourning assembled to weep over it. It was then carried to the cathedral church, where a funeral oration was pronounced in the presence of all the magistrates of the Republic, and an equestrian portrait of life size was painted on the wall over his tomb by Paolo Uccello, the most celebrated painter of his day, which still attracts the attention of the English traveller. This portrait was intended only to serve until a magnificent marble monument could be erected, on which his exploits were to be sculptured on panels, after the fashion of the famous gates of Ghiberti ; but the next generation found new heroes to worship, and the marble tomb was never built. (52) Sir John Hawkwood had two wives. The name and family of his first wife are 308 THE CHESTERS OF CHICIIELEy. wholly unknown, but it is certain tliat she was the mother of his daughter Antiocha,* who married before 1379 Sir William de Coggeshall Kt. ; for a letter dated 3d March 1378-9 to Louis de Gonzaga of Mantua is preserved in the archives of Venice, wherein Hawkwood begs for a safe-conduct for his ' son-in-law Sir William de Coggeshall, who had for some time been residing at Milan.' (53) Hawkwood married secondly at Milan in May 1377 (47) Donnina, one of the natural daughters of Bernabo Visconti, sovereign of Milan, by which marriage he be- came connected with many reigning princes. He had issue by her John his son and heir, who was made a citizen of Florence with his father in 1392, and three daugh- ters, who had marriage-portions of 2000 florins each out of the public treasury. (46) One of them, named Fiorentina (Florentine), married Lancilotto del Maigno, and had issue four sons, Bernabo, John, George, and Louis. (47) Donnina Lady Hawk- wood continued to reside at Florence after her husband's death, and enjoyed a pension of 1000 florins from the State ; but her son Sir John was naturalised in England in 1407,t and inherited the estates of his family in Hedingham Sible and Gosfield. There is no record of his career, but he evidently died young, leaving an only daughter ; for his estates passed in the next generation by the marriage of a female heir to Thomas Rolfe Esq. Serjeant-at-law, who died 27th June 1440 and has a monument at Gosfield. (32) Sir John Hawkwood is honourably remembered by his foundation of the English Flospital at Rome, which he built and endowed in 1380 for the reception and entertainment of poor English pilgrims to the tombs of the Apostles. His memory was not left Avithout honour in his native parish in England, for his executors erected a cenotaph monument in the church of Hedingham Sible, and moreover they obtained the royal license in 1412 to found and endow a perpetual chantry in Hedingham nunnery, to consist of two chaplains, who should daily cele- brate mass for ever in the churches of Sible and Castle Hedingham for the souls of Sir John Hawkwood Kt. and his military companions Thomas Oliver and John Newenton Esqs. (55) Sir William de Coggeshall was as we have seen on 3d March 1378-9 already a knight and the husband of Antiocha Hawkwood, and had then been for some time resident at Milan. Later in the same year he returned to England, made formal proof of his majority, and had livery of his estates of inheritance. He was the son and heir of Sir Henry de Coggeshall Kt. of Codham Hall in Essex, who died in 1375, (56) by Joan de Welle, heiress of Great Sandford in the same county, who was born on 8tli Sept. 1336. (57) He must therefore have been sent to Italy in ® Lady Antioclia Coggeshairs parentage is grossly misrepresented iu Morant, (31) and in fact in all the received accounts. Morant calls her the daughter and heir of the younger Sir John Hawkwood, the son of the General hy Domitia Visconti. I have proved in the text that Antiocha was actually married either before or just after her supposed grandparents. t Johannes Alius Joh. Hawkwood mil, natus in partihus Italife factus est indigena anno 8 Hen. IV. mater ejus nata in partihus transmarinis. (54) THE ANCESTOES OF DOROTHY LADY PEYTON. 309 extreme youth, to learn the art of war under his father's countryman Sir John Hawkwood, who probably purchased his wardship and marriage. Sir William was not one of those knights who learned from their residence in foreign courts to despise the local duties of an English landowner, for after his retui'n to England he took an active part during the rest of his life in county business. He was High Sheriff of Essex in 1391 and again in 1411, and was one of the Knights of the Shire in many of the Parliaments which were held between 1391 and 1422. He is presumed to have died in the beginning of 1423, but there is no inquest on record. He left four daughters* and coheirs, between whom his estates were divided. (56) Blanche, the eldest daughter and coheir of Sir William de Coggeshall by Antiocha Hawkwood, inherited her father's manor of Little Coggeshall, (57) and married John Doreward Esq. of Booking, who is confused by Morant with his father of the same name, for it was the father and not the son who was elected Speaker of the House of Commons 3d June 1413 in the first Parliament of Henry V. (58) John Doreward the younger was found to be thirty years of age when his father died on 12th Nov. 1420. (59) He was High Sheriff of Essex in 1425, and again in 1432, and had license from the King in 1438 to endow with the manor of Tendring and lOZ. yearly rent the Maison de Dieu, which he had built on two acres of his own ground for seven poor people of Booking. (60) He had issue four sons and a daughter, for Avhom he made ample provision by his Will, which is dated 25th Aug. 1456, and is sufficiently set forth by Morant. (58) His wife Blanche was then living, but she died in 1460 in his lifetime, and has a brass at Booking. He died 30th Jan, 1462, or as some read the inscription 1465. He was succeeded by his eldest son John, Avhose issue failed in 1480, (61) when the estates devolved on William Doreward, the second son of John and Blanche. William Doreward had acquired the manor of Southacre in Norfolk by his marriage Avitli Margaret de Arsick, and died in 1481, (62) leaving a son John and daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Foderinghay Esq. of Brockley in Suffolk. * His second daugliter Alice Coggeshall man-ied Sir John Tyrell Kt., and has a monument in East Horndon church, which is reputed to be the finest existing specimen in England of an incised sepulchral Blah. She is represented at full length under a canopy with an armorial shield on each side of her head, one hearing the arms of Coggeshall and the other those of Coggeshall and Tyrell, dimidiated according to the ancient fashion of impalement. The canopy has on each side of the figure five niches, which are occupied by statuettes of Lady Tyrell's children, six boys and four girls, each bearing their name on a scroll, namely, Walter, Thomas, William sen., John, WiUiam jun., and John clerk, Alice, Elizabeth, Alianor, and a daughter unnamed. Round the slab runs the following marginal legend : ' Hie jaoet humata Alicia filia Willmi Cogeshale militis et Antiochie consortis sue c[uondam uxor Johis Tyrell militis, qui quidem Johes et Alicia habuerunt inter se exitum Alios et filias quorum noia hie scripta sunt ex utraque parte istius lapidis, que obiit a.d. millesimo ccccxxij" cujus anime propicietur Deus. Amen.' There is a woodcut of this slab in the Essex Archmologia (v. 294), but the text repeats Morant's blundering account of Antiocha Hawkwood's parentage. I take this opportunity of correcting another mistake of Morant's, who says (ii. 406) that Alice survived Sir John Tyrell, and married secondly John Langham Esq. of Pantfield, who died in 1417. It is certain from the Will of Sii- William Tyrell of Beeches, one of Alice's sons, that his father Sir John sm-sived his wife Alice, and left a second wife named Catherine. 310 THE CHESTEKS OF CHICHELET. John Doreward, son and heir of W^illianij died "without issue 28th Feb. 1495-6, when his great estates of inheritance were divided between the three daughters and coheirs of his sister Elizabeth Foderinghay. (63) Margaret, the eldest of these coheirs, was when her uncle died nineteen years old, and the Avife of Nicholas Beaupre Esq. of Beaupre Hall. She inherited in the partition the manors of Brockley and Southacre, which descended on her death to her eldest son Edmond Beaupre, the father of Dorothy Lady Peyton. III. Sir John Peyton II. of Doddington, the only son of Sir John Peyton by Dorothy Beaupre, was 51 years old when his father died on 4th Nov. 1630, for he was born in 1579. He was educated at Cambridge, and was admitted in 1594 a Fellow Commoner of Queen's College, where his half-brother Beaupre Bell was then a Fellow. (7) He married at Iselham on 25th Nov. 1602 Alice Peyton, the second daughter of his cousin Sir John Peyton of Iselham.* His father was then Lieutenant of the Tower, and during the anxious period of Queen Elizabeth's last illness kept his son in daily attendance at Court to watch the course of events. Immediately after the Queen's death the younger Peyton was despatched to Edinburgh to assure King James of his fatlier's loyalty, and in compliment to his father he was the first knight created by the King after his accession to the throne of England. The honour of knighthood was afterwards lavished in profusion, but Sir John Peyton Avas distinguished through life by the title of ^ His Majesty'' s first Knight.^ (18) The elder Sir John Peyton was transferred from the Lieutenancy of the ToAA^er to the Governorship of Jersey on 30th July 1603, within a feAv days after the discoA'ery of Cobham and Raleigh's plot. The young Sir J ohn was on friendly terms with both the prisoners, for Lord Cobham in his examination before the Council on 12th Aug. 1603 declared, ' that being lodged in the lodging of the Lieutenant, he saw 3-onng Sir John Peyton talking with Raleigh out of the windoAV ; and thereupon when Sir John came to visit him two or three hours after he said, " I saw you A^dth Sir Walter Raleigh. God forgive him; he hath accused me, hut I cannot accuse him." Then Sir John answered, " He doth say the like of you — that you have accused him, hut he cannot accuse you." ' (64) This conversation was afterwards interpreted to Sir John's prejudice, for Carlcton Avrites on 15th Jan. 1603-4, amongst other Court news, that 'Peyton has been dis- graced for entertaining intelligence between Cobham and Raleigh.' (3) But in the mean Avhile the Eang had on 18th Aug. 1603 granted to the younger Sir John Pey- ton in fee simple the manor of Lyngen and five other manors in Herefordshire, which had escheated to the Crown by the attainder of Edward Lyngen. (3) This grant seems to have been resumed on Peyton's disgrace, for a full pardon was granted * This marriage will be found at page 243, under the date thereof. PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 311 to Edward Lyngen on 4th May 1604 for all treasons committed during the late Queen's reign. (3) Peyton now disappears from Court, and I have not met with him again until the autumn of 1612, when he was staying at the Hague, and was in hopes of obtaining the post of Lieutenant-Governor of Brill, one of the cautionary towns in the Low Countries, of which Sir Horace Vere was then Governor. This appears from a letter to his friend Sir Robert Cotton the antiquary, who was his neighbour in Cambridgeshire, and whose literary tastes he fully shared. This letter was written whilst the Elector Palatine was waiting for a favourable wind to sail for England to marry the Pi'incess Elizabeth. (65) Sir John Peyton the younger to Sir Robert Cotton. Sir, I have lieere sente you the plotte of Coeverden in such scale as I coulde guesse most apte for your booke. if there be any other thinge of hke nature or any other in my power to compasse for your satisfaction, give but direction M'hat it is you desire. This was the beste fortif&cation in these parts, and therfore I cliose it to serve as a patterne for any Royall one that you maj'e hereafter have occasion to i^ropounde, and it will sute weU to compare our owne rude M'orkes with the excellente perfection of others; I can adde little unto my laste in matter of occurrence ; only I heare the Count Palatines Herbiuger shotte at Keysers warde is dead ; and those which shot are sayde to be Hanefers. one or two of them maye be preferred to a hangeinge for the facte, or for some other factes allready perpetrated. The Prince of Orange hath bin heere from Bruxels to visite his nephew, but they saj'e he tooke one parte of his enterteynment unkindely ; beinge invited to dinner, the Count Palatine brought him to the dininge roome, but with drewe himselfe, pretendinge indisposition of boddy. his counsellors are somewhat blamed for it. out of Germany I heare the Emperoure doth prepare to attempt somewhat uppon the Turke ; but it is rather indeed a Tricke to get mony with, then short he wiU provoke an ennemy which is at so good leasure by his peace with Persia to enterteyne a warre. The Marquis of Anspach is now in marryinge a fayre sister of the Counte Solmes. The Count Palatine viewetli the picture with much devotion, tryes the ayre of the Sea, is pre- sented with many brave horses, formally inviteth the Count Henry to accompany him, and so soone as his trayne can be in order, will use the firste winde if it be a fayre one, hy the waj^e of the Brill els by that more certayne of Flushinge. I miiste conclude with a wej^ghty buissines of mine owne, wherin I must entreate you to become my soUicitoure with my moste honorable frende, unto whom I dare not write my requeste untill I be more sure that the occasion wilbe offered, hut with you I maye be more boulde. if Sir RalpheWinwoodbe secretary,* it is thought Sir Edward Conwey shalbe embassadoure ; then cometh the lieft Governoures to begin, which Sir Horace Vere hath promised me if he be not overborne by recommendations — now your love will easUy finde out what it hath to doe for me ; and therein I entreate you to watche dilligently and laye houlde of the occasion as you shall see it fall out. Thus havinge sufficiently expressed my bouldnes I cease your trouble, and reste Your very affectionate frende Haghe, 13th October J. Peyton. 1612 : stilo novo. [Addressed] To my worthy frend S' Robert Cotton Knight these at his house in BlacHreers, London. Sealed with the Peyton arms and crest, the crest a griffin sejant. * The post of Secretary of State remained vacant from 24th May 1612, when Eobert Cecil Earl of Salisbury died, until 29th March 1614, when Winwood was appointed. (66) R R 312 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. The post at Brill to which Peyton aspired was in the gift of Sir Horace Vere the Governor, but it did not fall vacant for some time, and in the mean while Sir William Constable procured a letter of recommendation from the King, which Sir Horace was obliged to respect, although he had long promised the place to Peyton. There is a letter in the State Paper Office from the Earl of Northampton to Secretary Lake, written in November 1613, in which the Earl remonstrates against these royal letters of request, and expresses his hope that the King will in future allow the Governors of Flushing and Brill to give away their own places according to their patents. (3) Peyton soon afterwards returned to England, for it appears from a formal letter to Sir Robert Cotton that he and his father spent the winter of 1614-15 at Doddington, when they took an active part in county business. (67) Sib John Peyton junior to Sie Robert Cotton. Honorable Sir, I thought good from my father and my selfe, and others Comissioners of Sewers dwellinge in the He of Elj-e, to acquaint you, that there is a Session of Sewers to bee houlden at St. Ives by adiornment upon the 18th of this monthe, whither if it please you and other Comissioners of the Sewers your neighbours to resort at the day appointed, wee will not faile to meet you, how cum- bersome soever our iornye prove. This winters experience of the rage of our accustomed malignant enimye I hope will produce some beneficiall effect upon our conference, for the generall good of the surrounded contryes, to which I doubt not but our iudgements will leade us, our oath I am sure bindes us. Thus with the remembrance of my best wishes to your selfe and the rest of the Comissioners, I rest Your verye lovinge friend Doddington : 10th January 1614. John Peyton. It seems, however, that Peyton afterwards obtained some employment in the Low Countries, for on 11th Nov. 1617 he wrote from London a long letter of Court gossip to Sir Dudley Carleton, the ambassador at the Hague, in which he begs for leave to stay in England during the next winter. (68) Sir John Peyton the younger to Sir Dudley Carleton. Sir, I wrote lately by Mr. Sutton ; yet hopeinge you -will accepte suche stuffe as these times aflfoorde me, I am ready to secoude those you had with matter of as greate momente. I mighte then have toulde you, that one Mr. Hungerforde for challenginge Sir George Martiall, who had deeiDcly wronged his father, was censured upp)on that knightes complaj^nt, in starre chamber, lOOOZi. fine, two yeares restraynte in the tower, seven yeares banishment fi-om all three courtes, and as longe disarmed, the sentence was by all confirmed, with little or no variation, only my Lord Tresurer added that he woulde also have the firste oifendor as well as the challenger deepely censiu'ed ; yet in that place and time nothinge ^vas done, though I lieare since that the Knighte hath lefte the courte where he was an officer, and I suppose it to have bin uppon some sentence of the Earles Marshalls, avIio have on that parte power to puneshe by the Kinges Edicte agaynste duells. Sir Henrie (a) Eiche is now possessed of his Captaynship of the Guarde, the price you know 5000 pieces ; he hath no pattent, (only as the custome is) was sworne, and so wayteth. his (a) Sir Henry Rich, 2d son of Robert Earl of Warwick, purchased the office of Captain of the Guard from Viscount Fenton, and was formally appointed on 5th Nov. 1617. He was afterwards created Earl of Holland and K.G., and was beheaded 9th March 1648-9. He was the cousin of Sir John Peyton's wife, for her grandmother was a daughter of the first Lord Rich. (See p. 218.) PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 313 brother is actefe an other waye, hath many shippes and partes of shippes at sea, his owne that have Mn longe abroade not j^et by him hearde of, but some merchauntes doe offer him MGOO to adventure three, which maketlr him hope well that they have hearde what they conceale from him of good, he is now much beloved by his father, allready entrusted with the mannaginge and disposinge of liis whole estate. The Lady Hatton feasted the Kinge very sumptuously, for besides other charges she gave awaye at his requeste 2500Z«. per an. to the Lord Villers, I suppose after her owne life. Sir Edward Coke gave out he should be there and obteyne a reconcilement with her ladyship, and to this purpose moved my Lord of Bueldngham, he the Kinge, and his Ma'y the Lady, but she with much complement to the Kinge and the rest, her joye, happines &c. to see that meetinge gave yet for resolution that if Sir Edward Coke came in at one dore, she would goe out at an other, so his great expectations are (if not wholly) j^et for the presente layde downe. it is imagined that this greate guifte of hers wilbe an impediment to her in the ma3-ne ende which she aymeth at, to depresse her husbande ; biit she hath more to give, and in that worke shall finde many helpers, yet he beareth up as if he were excellently well rooted in the Kinges favoure. she obteyned of the Kinge four knightes at that feaste ; all tliej^re names I knowe not, only Chapman her fathers stewardc was one. you have seene by this time some fruites of her dommion in the letters man- datory, which I heare are gone to younge Capt. Ogle and his unkle. we are very attentive to the successe of them, the rather because it is a rare precedent, and maye concerne us all, we knowe not how neerely. Capt. Bayly hath bin examined, his reporte of Sir W. Ealeygli by himself affirmed still, but weakely prooved by any other testimony, many of his owne company conteste him, and the time elapsed with out further complaynte doth seeme to approove Sir W. R. and eondemne the accuser, since he is committed to the Gatehouse till further advertisement, one shippe is come home that mette him with in a neere distaunce of the Orennogue. The Muscovj^e Embassadoure had very soUemne reception and audience at courte : 30 of his trayne marchinge by couples were all charged with presentes, Eiche furres, white falcons &c. : the whoU is to be vallewed at 10,000Zi. his errande is only matter of commerce. Sir Thomas Edmondes is retorned, but I cannot learne hath bin yet at courte ; I suppose he hath not much hope of what he well deserveth, for Sir Tho. Lake hath gotten the table and intel- hgence money, though my Lord of Bucks keepe the scales and forreyne packets. I heare the Kinge is fully resolved to reduce all his charge of house keepinge, both his owne and the Queenes, unto 50,000Zt. per an. wheras hitherto many reducements have broughte it no lower then 72,000Zi. his Ma'y is now gone to Roysten, wheraboute he abideth till Christmas. The Duke of Lenox hath obteyned a graunte of newe enrolement for the benefite of the subiecte, but the fees wilbe worth him and his instruments 10,000Zi. per an. as some doe guesse. We yet heare not of my Lord of Oxfordes retorne home, the Embassadoure thinketh he stayeth to see a full resolution of peace or warre, though we heare of actife warre alkeady, yet the Kinge will needes believe that the peace Avilbe consummated, because in Grayne it was ratefied. of our matche with Spayne Ave knowe nothinge, but if they be as well in theyre purpose as we are heere it is to be feared, but I have hearde even the vulgar there doe allready deride our ho]Des therof. if you will laboure to obteyne my leave to staj^e heere I shall ever trade thus ; els Mr. Deffrayne (b) will put me to a winter jorney. if my Lord doe forget, yet be pleased to take notice from me, that I was sent to Sir Sob. Sidney to entreate his helpe in procuringe the successor to paye 120li., which Sir Huntpngdon] Colby did owe Fran [cis] Vere, and my Lord standetli engadged. his answere to me was fayre but delatory, he looked to heare from Sir John Throgmorton (c) of all the debtes. now methinkes (b) Michel du Fresne, a fisherman of Dieppe, had a license from the Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1615 and 1617 to fish on the English coasts, and seems to have been constantly employed in carrying passengers and despatches across the Channel. (3) (c) Sir John Throckmorton was Sergeant-Major of Flushing, and, after the death of Sir William Brotme, Lieut.- Governor of that town under Sir Eobert Sydney, Lord L'Isle. (69) On the surrender of the cautionary towns in 1616, he was made Lieut. -Colonel oi the English regiment which was retained in the pay of the States of Holland by the terms of the Convention. (70) 314 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. yovL miglite aptely cause information to be geven unto Sir John Throgmorton of this dehte there, lest else they confounde this with meere Englishe debtes, which if it be listed from thence maye be accepted the better. Your very afifectionnate frende to be disposed of J. Peyton. I have not discovered what Peyton's employment in Holland was precisely, and when it came to an end ; but he was living at Doddington in 1624 and 1625, when two of the children of his daughter Lady Chester were born there. His father was now getting a very old man, and was permitted in 1628 to appoint his son to be his lieutenant in the government of Jersey. (20) The elder Sir John Peyton died 4th Nov. 1630, but his son retained the post of Lieutenant-Governor until 1633, (20) when he became a confirmed invalid. He had administered to his father's estate on 12th May 1631, and this administration was the source of much trouble to him during the rest of his life. His father was at the time of his death engaged in a chancery suit with Sir John Hobart, which dragged its slow length along ; and for yeai's afterwards claims were constantly set up by soldiers of the garrison of Jersey for alleged arrears of pay,* which were at last referred by the Council of State to the law officers of the Crown. Sir John was too ill to appear before them in person, and his agents neglected to employ counsel, so that an adverse report was made; but in 1634 he petitioned the Council to grant a review of the report, and undertook to produce acquittances for the sums claimed signed by the claimants. (3) This is the last recorded act of his life, for he died in March or April 1635 at the age of 55, leaving the reputation of having been ' a very scholarly knight' (^miles literatissimus). Sir John Peyton of Doddington in the Isle of Ely Knight. Will dated 24th Feb. 1634-5. To be buried in the chancel of Doddington Church. Whereas I reserved to my own disposing the farms of Ransome Moor and Stony, containing 3000 acres each, to make provision for my younger children Algernoone, Heurie, and Anne, and to pay my debts ; I now direct that those farms be let to the best advantage by my feoffees Sii* John HLobart Kt. and Bart., Henry Crom- well Esq. and Richard Covell Esq., and that the rents be paid to Dame Alice my wife, whom I appoint my sole executrix. And Avhereas I reserved for the same purposes my land at Holbech and in the East Fen in Holland co. Lincoln and also Stony Grange, f I now direct the same to be let to raise portions for my children, viz. .£1000 for my daughter Anne, and the remainder for Algernoone and Henrie. My servant WilHam Balloden to be supervisor of my Will. Will proved by the widow 22d April 1635 in C.P.C. [33 Sadler.] Dame Alice Peyton, after proving her husband's Will, took out a new grant of administration on 24th April 1635 to the estate of her father-in-law Sir John * Claims of this kind constantly arose under the old system of remunerating governors, who were permitted to receive the whole revenues of the places under their charge on condition of maintaining and paying the garrison. It was one of the acts of treason alleged against the Duke of Norfolk in 1398, that when he was Governor of Calais he had not paid the wages of the men-at-arms of the garrison. {71) See also Rolls of Parliament, iii. 88. t Stoma (pronounced Stony) Grange is in Wmihlington, formerly a hamlet of Doddington, hut now a distinct parish. (72) PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 315 Peyton the elder, which was still undistributed, because the suit with Sir John Hobart was still pending. Her name occurs in 1638 in the list of persons in Nor- folk who had made default in paying their quota of shipmoney, (3) but thenceforth she disappears from my view. Sir John Peyton the younger had issue by his wife Alice nine children, three sons and six daughters. I. Egbert Peyton, son and heir. II. Algernon Peyton, heir to his brother Eobert. III. Henry Peyton was an officer in the Royal army in the Civil Wars, and was slain by misadventure at Banbury by his own soldiers, he having forgotten the watchword, and being mistaken for an enemy. (28) He died unmarried. I. Elizabeth Peyton was the eldest child of her parents, and was born in 1603. She married in 1623 Anthony Chester Esq., afterwards the 2d Baronet of that name, and is fully noticed in chapter xii. II. Alice Peyton M^as bom in 1607, and married in 1631 Edward Lowe, Pro- fessor of Music in the University of Oxford, and for more than 50 years organist of Christ Church Cathedrah She died in childbed of her 7th son Eobert on 17th March 1648-9 in the 42d year of her age, and was buried on 19th March* in the Divinity Chapel in Christ Church Cathedral, where her memory is preserved by the following inscription on a mural tablet of wood : (29) ' Neere this place lyes buiyed the body of Mvs. Alice Lowe, wife to Edward Lowe of Salisbury in the Coimty of Wilts Gent., Master of the Choristers and Organist of this Church, by wlioni shee had 9 Children, 7 Boyes and 2 Girles, 5 whereof lye buryed by her, the other 4 survive. Shee dyed in childbed other 7th son the 17th of March 1648, the 42d year other Age, and 18th since her Marriage. She was the Daughter of Sir John Peyton the younger of Doddington in the Isle of Ely and County of Cambridge Knight, being the first made by King James at Edinburgh, after his being proclaimed by him Kinge of England. Her Grandfather, S"^ John Peyton, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his service in the field, in Ireland, and made her Treasurer in that King- dom ; after that Lieutenant of the Tower by the space of SO years, then Governor of Jersey above 30 years more, and dyed the 105th yeare of his age, the 4th of November 1630. Her Grandfather by her mother was Sir John Peyton of Isleham in the Countye of Cambridge Baronnett. Optima quae fuerat Mulieriim, Mater, et Uxor, Conditur hie Sponsi cui'a dolorque sui, At cinis exiguus tantam non continet umbram, ExiUt e busto, degenerique rogo Surgit et seternos animam collegit in Orbes, Hospes grata Deo tecta tonantis habet. Nec doleat lector, lacrymis nec perluat Urnam, Nam commutavit scecula, non obiit.' Arms : Gules, a fess ermine between two wolves passant argent, impaling, a cross engrailed or in 1st quarter a mullet arg. Alice Lowe had issue nine children, fiA^e of whom died before their mother, and were buried near her, (29) Their names were : 1. SAMUEL. 2. PEYTON, born 19th * From the Register of Ch. Ch. Cathedral, Oxford: (73) 1646-7. March 14. Eichard. son of Edward and Alice Lowe bapt. 1648-9. March 19. Alice wife of Edward Lowe buried. 316 THE C HESTERS OF CHICHELEY. April, died 17th June 1636. 3. Alice, died 9tli Jan. 1638-9. 4. Brian, died 1st March 1640-1. 5. Eiohard, bapt. 14th March 1646-7, and died within a few weeks. Her four surviving children were three sons and a daughter. 1. Edward Lowe was born in 1635, and taking Holy Orders, was Vicar of Brighton in Sussex 1674-1681,* and Rector of Slinfold in the same county from 1681 until his death, f He married Dame Dorothy Peyton, the widow of his grand- uncle Sir Edward Peyton Bart, of Iselham, but she had no issue by her second marriage, and was buried at Brighton 10th April 1681.* Edward Avas one of his father's executors in 1682, and married a second wife named Elizabeth, by whom he had a daughter Dorothy, who was baptized at Slinfold, 23d Sept. 1687.t He died 1st Oct. 1711, and was buried at Slinfold on 11th October.f A slab in Slin- fold Church bears this inscription : ' Here lietli the body of the Eev. Mr. Edward Lowe, late Rector of this parish, who departed tills life the 1st of Oct. a.d. 1711 in the 77th year of his age.' 2. Charles Lowe was one of his father's executors in 1682, and had a wife named Mary, who was living at that date. 3. EoBERT Lowe was born in March 1648-9, when his mother died. He died young and unmarried in the lifetime of his father. 1. Elizabeth Lo^ats was in 1682 the wife of Thomas Burtchall of London, Combmaker, a Dissenter, by whom she had several children. Edward Lowe, the husband of Alice Peyton, was a native of Salisbury, and suc- ceeded William Stonai'd as organist of Christ Church in 1630. He never graduated in music, although he was afterwards appointed Professor of the Musical Praxis in the University of Oxford. He was reputed 'judicious in his profession,' and was the author of the first didactic book on the subject of music that was published after the Restoration. It is entitled Some sliort Directions for the Performance of Cathedral Service, and was printed at Oxford in 1661 with his portrait on the title-page. A second edition was printed in 1664, wdth a review and many useful additions relat- ing to the Book of Common Prayer. (76) He survived his wife Alice above 33 years, and married a second wife named Mary, by whom he had a daughter Susanna, who marriedj on 7tli Feb. 1681-2 Mr. John Strype, Rector of Low Leyton, Essex^ the well-known Church historian. Edward Lowe died 11th July 1682, and was buried^ beside his first wife in Christ Church Cathedral. (76) * From the Par. Reg. of Brujhton, Sussex : (74) 1681. April 10. Lady Dorotliy Paton buried. 1674-81. Edward Lowe occurs Vicar. t From the Par. Reg. of Slinfold, Sussex : (75) 1681-1711. Edward Lowe occurs Rector. 1687. Sept. 23. Dorothy dau. of Mr. Edward Lowe and Elizabeth his wife bapt. 1711. Oct. 11. Mr. Edward Lowe Rector buried, j From the Par. Reg. of Ch. Ch., Oxford : (73) 1681-2. Feb. 7. Mr. John Strype Clerk, and Mrs. Susan Lowe dau. of Mr. Edward Lowe organist of Ch. Ch., married. 1682. July (— )• Mr. Edward Lowe organist of Ch. Ch. buried. PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 317 Ebwaud Lowe of Christ Church, Oxford. "Will dated id June 1682. Undisposed and crazy in health. To be buried in the Divinity Chapel in Christ Church near my first wife Mrs. Alice Lowe and her children, who are there buried. To my now wife Mary £8 per annum for her life, and all my household stuff. To my eldest son Edward Lowe, clerk. Rector of SUnfold, Sussex, my great seal ring with his mother's coat of arms, sundry pieces of plate, my own picture and the pictures of his mother and grandfather, and the little picture of his brother Robert. To my daughter Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Burtchall of London, combmaker, my clothes and five shiUings in money, and to so many of her children as are christened according to the rites of the Church of England 40s. each. To my son Charles Lowe a ring given me at the funeral of my cousin Anne Lowe of Staunton, &c. To my daughter Susanna a dressing-box, and to her husband Mr. John Stripe, minister of Low Layton, Essex, a ring. To the music school in the University of Oxford all my music books, which may be chosen by Dr. Aldrich, Prebendary of Christ Church, and by my successor as Music Professor in the University. My son Edward Lowe to have the choice of my books, and the rest to my son Charles. The painted glass in my house to be left where it is, except one pane with my own and my first wife's arms, which my son Edward Lowe, to whom it properly belongs, may take if he chooses. To my sister Downs a prayer-book. To my friend Mr. Richard Goodson a ring. To the i^oor of the ]3arisli of St. Thomas in Salisbury, where I was born, 40s. To my daughter-in-law Mary, the wife of my son Charles Lowe, a ring. My two sons Edward and Charles Lowe to be my executors and residuary legatees. Witnesses : John PeUing, Anne Pelling, Henry Sanders. Will proved 28th July 1682 in C.P.C. [86 Cottle.] III. Dorothy Peyton married Laurence Oxburgli Esq. of Emneth in Norfolk, who was 18 years old in 1628 when he succeeded his brother Hewar in the family estate. (77) He had (with other issue) a daughter Dorothy, who married her cousin Francis Bell Esq. of Beaupre Hall. {See p. 120.) IV. Frances Peyton married in her father's lifetime Francis Fortescue Esq., a Barrister of the Inner Temple, and Solicitor-General to Queen Henrietta Maria. He was the 2d son of Sir Nicholas Fortescue Kt. of Oookhill in Worcestershire, the Chamberlain of the Exchequer, (78) and was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1616. (79) Very little is recorded about him, and that little was wholly unknown to the noble historian of the Fortescues, who barely mentions his name in the pedigree. (78) I have found no trace of his descendants, but it is certain that he had a son Nicholas, who Avas born at Chicheley Hall, the seat of his mother's brother-in-law Sir Anthony Chester ; for ' Nicholas, son of Mr. Francis Fortescue and Frances his wife, was baptized at Chicheley on 23d June 1639.' (80) Francis Fortescue on 26th Nov. 1650 took out letters of administration de bonis non to the estate of his late father Sir Nicholas, in consequence of the death of his elder brother William Fortescue Esq. of Cookhill, to whom administration had been granted on 29th Oct. 1636. Francis smwived his wife Frances Peyton, and after her death married a second wife Joyce, who was living his widow on 24:th Dec. 1672, when she renounced the administration of his estate in favour of Thomas Howard, his principal creditor. It is stated in the grant that Francis Fortescue had died in foreign parts and in debt. (73) 318 THE CHESTEES OE CHICHELEY. V. Susanna Peyton was born in 1617, and married at St. Margaret's, Lynn, lOtli Feb. 1634-5, John Richers Esq. of Frenge in Norfolk. Her husband was ruined by the Civil Wars, and sold the manor of Frenge in 1654. (8i) She sur- vived him many years, and died in 1706 at the great age of 90, when she was buried at Great Chesterford in Essex. (82) She had issue several children, who were greatly reduced in circumstances. Her son John Richers was a haberdasher at Norwich, and one of her granddaughters, Elizabeth Richers, entered the service of her cousin Sir Anthony Chester the 3d Baronet, and was the gentlewoman of Lady Chester. She was, however, evidently treated with much kindness and considera- tion ; for Lady Chester in her Will, which is dated 3d Feb. 1709-10, leaves to my cousin Elizabeth Richers, my waiting ivoman, the diamond earrings I usually wear, and all my wearing apparell except my point lace.' VI. Anne Peyton was the youngest of her father's children, and was still ■unmarried in 1635. She afterwards became the wife of ... . Brent Esq. of Wor- cestershire, of whom I have been unable to discover any particulars. Robert Peyton, son and heir of Sir John by Alice Peyton, was admitted a student of Gray's lim 19th March 1632-3, (84) and succeeded his father at Dod- dington in 1635. He married Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Sir Richard Anderson Kt. of Penley in the parish of Tring, Herts, by Mary daughter of Robert Lord Spencer of Wormleighton, but had no issue. Robert Peyton died intestate at Hackbeach Hall in Emneth in 1658, and administration of his estate was granted on 6th Sept. 1658 to his only surviving brother Algernon Peyton. His widow Elizabeth Peyton after her husband's death resided at Cambridge in the parish of the Holy Trinity, where she died within the year of her widowhood on 26th April 1659. Elizabeth Peyton of Cambridge widow. Will dated 12tli April 1659. To my nephew Charles Warren ^40 at his age of 21 ; to my brother Robert Anderson my diamond ring which was my father's ; to my sister Frances Warren* my Aunt Bowyer'sf picture ; to my nei^hew Henry Anderson my fatlier's picture ; to my niece Mary Warren my diamond necldace. Legacies to my friends Master Thomas Griffith, Master Symond Smytliies, Master Wilham Bajdie, and Master Simcotts, all of Trinity College, Cambridge. To the poor of Trinity parish, Cambridge, £-1. My niece Mary Warren to be my residuary legatee and sole executrix. TVitnesses : Robert Eade, Richard Pettit the elder, notary pubhc, and William Maiden. Will proved by the executrix 13th June 1659 in London. [342 PeU.] Algernon Peyton, the second son and seventh child of Sir J ohn Peyton the younger of Doddington, was very young when his father died in 1635. He was educated at Cambridge, and taking Holy Orders, was presented by his brother to the rich living at Doddington. On the death of his brother Robert he succeeded * Frances Anderson, wife of Thomas Warren Esq. and sister of the testatrix, is omitted in the printed pedigi-ees of Anderson, but their son Richard has a M. I. in Tring church. (85) t Sir Henry Anderson Kt., Alderman of London and grandfather of the testatrix, married Elizabeth daughter of Francis Bowyer, Alderman of London, as appears from his M. 1. in the chru'ch of St. Olave in the Old Jewry. (86) PEYTON OF DODDINGTOlSr. 319 to the family estates, and took out letters of administration on 6th Sept. 1658. He was zealous in the cause of the King, and on the Eestoration supplied deer out of his own park to restock the King's parks, which had been ruined in the Civil Wars. (3) His loyalty was rewarded by a baronetcy, but according to the notions of that period he was disqualified by his clerical position from accepting the title in his own person, and the rank was therefore conferred on John Peyton, his son and heir appai-ent, by patent dated 10th Dec. 1660. Sir John Peyton died unmarried fifteen days after his creation, but further max-ks of the King's favour were bestowed on his father. He was created D.D. at the University of Cambridge by royal mandate in 1661, and in 1666 the baronetcy was renewed in favour of his surviving son and heir Algernon Peyton. There was some delay in the formal completion of this second creation, for the young Sir Algernon was still unmai'ried, and his father wished that both his surviving sons should be included in the patent ; but he was not successful, although his claims were urged by no less a personage than Lord Chancellor Clarendon, Lord Clarendon writes from Worcester House on 4th Ausr. 1666 to the Secretary of State : (3) ' The King since his Restoration made the elder son of Dr. Pej'ton of the Isle of Ely (a loyal man, who had given him deer to restock his parks) a Baronet. As he died without issue, His Majesty has regranted the Baronetc}^ to Algernon the second son, but lest he should die issueless, it would be well to put the other son into the patent, the family being noble, ancient, and worth ^3000 a year in land.' The patent of Sir Algernon Peyton's baronetcy is dated 21st March 1666-7, and it is remarkable that his father must at that time have been on the verge of ruin, for Dr. Peyton died a prisoner for debt in the King's Bench in the beginning of the next year, and was buried in the church of St. George's, Southwark, on 9th March 1667-8.* He died intestate, and administration was granted on 27th April 1668 to John Jenkenson, his principal creditor. Dr. Algernon Peyton of Doddington married Elizabeth, daughter of John Cooke Esq. of Chishall Magna in Essex, who died before him, and had issue three sons and three daughters. L John Peyton, son and heir apparent, was created a baronet in his father's lifetime on 10th Dec. 1660, and died unmarried 25th Dec. in the same year. II. Algernon Peyton, surviving son and heir, was created a baronet in his father's lifetime, and was the ancestor of the succeeding baronets. III. Henry Peyton entered the army at the age of fourteen, and after a long career of military service was made brigadier-general by Queen Anne, and Governor of Galway in Ireland. He died unmarried in 1724. (28) I. Dorothy Peyton died young and unmarried. II. Elizabeth Peyton married Gregory Parlet Esq. of Downham in Norfolk. * From the Par. Reg. of St. George^s, Southwark, London : 1667-8. March 9. Algernon Paiton D.D. buried. SS. 320 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. in. Alice Peyton was born in 1649, and married Eev. John Nalson LL.D., Rector of Doddington, and a well-known historian of High Church and Cavalier principles. His chief work is entitled An impartial Collection of the great A ffairs of State, from the Begimiing of the Scotch Rebellion in 1639 to the Murder of K. Charles I. Taken from authentick Records, and methodically digested. It was pub- lished in 1682-3 in two volumes folio, and was dedicated to Charles II. Notwith- standing his profession of 'impartiality' on the title-page, Nalson in his historical narrative is as partial on the side of the King as Rushwortli is on the side of the Parliament, and is therefore as little to be trusted in party matters. His book, how- ever, is justly described by Bishop Warburton as ' loorth turning over, being full of vastly curious and valuable authentic pieces' (87) A cai'icature print by White is prefixed to each volume by way of frontispiece, and lest the full force of the allegory should not be appreciated by the reader, the meaning of each print is explained at length in a descriptive poem. In the next year (1684) Nalson published another folio volume, entitled A true Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the Trial of K. Charles I. The frontispiece represents Cromwell as an armed monster, carrying the three kingdoms captive at his feet in a triumphal car driven by the devil over the body of Liberty and the decapitated King. (88) Nalson died within the next two years, or he would probably have published other folios, for he was an indefatigable collector of his- torical material, and his printed volumes are merely a selection from his collections. His MSS. were in 1735 in the possession of his grandson Dr. Philip Williams, Public Orator of the University of Cambridge and President (Senior Fellow) of St. John's College, who permitted Peck the antiquary to transcribe from them several interesting pieces for the second volume of his Desiderata Curiosa. (89) Nalson's learning and loyalty were rewarded by the gift of a prebend in Ely Cathedral, in which he was installed on 13th April 1684. (go) But he did not enjoy this preferment long, for he died on 24th March 1685-6. John Naxson LL.D., Kector of Doddiagton in the Isle of Ely. Will dated Tth Aug. 1682, and confirmed 19tli March 1685-6. If I die at Doddington, to be buried on the south side of the chancel in Doddington Church near my three children John, Catherine, and Thomas. I leave all my worldly estate to the disposal of my dear and most entirely beloved wife, Mrs. Alice Nalson, the faithful companion and joy of my life, and I make her my sole executrix ; but if she tliink fit to marry again, then it shall be at the discretion of my very Idnd and good friends Thomas Watson D.D. Hector of Borough- Green, Cambridgeshire, and Mr. Mark Proudfoote, mer- chant of London, to allow her such part of my estate as they think proper, and to divide the rest among my children. If my said wife remain a widow, it shall be in her power to give such por- tion of my estate as she tliinks convenient to each of my cliildren, viz. Celia, Elizabeth, William, Peyton, Dorotheabella, Carolina, and Valentine at 21 or marriage. My said friends Dr. Watson and Mr. Proudfoote to be supervisors of my WiU. My wife to leave at her death ^100 to my sister Mrs. Sarah Nalson, if she be then hving, and also ^100 to the corporation for clergymen's widows and children. My friend Henry Oxburgh of Emneth to be another supervisor of my Will. Will proved 12th May 1686 by the widow in C.P.C. [62 Lloyd.] PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 321 Dr. Nalson had issue by his wife Alice Peyton ten children, of whom three died in his lifetime. His seven surviving children are enumerated in his Will, but little is known to me about them. His youngest son, VALENTINE, graduated B.A. at St. John's, Cambridge, in 1702 and M.A. in 1711. DOROTHEABELLA Nalson died wi- married, and was buried at Doddington in the family vault of the Peytons ou 25th Feb. 1717-18. (91) Elizabeth Nalson married at Fordham, 30th Aug. 1687, Rev. Philip Williams M.A. of St. John's, Cambridge, her father's successor in the Rectory of Doddington. (72) She had eleven children, of whom Philip "Williams, born in 1694, (72) was a Fellow of St. John's and D.D., and was elected Public Orator of the University of Cambridge 31st March 1730. (92) He resigned this office in 1741, having been presented in the previous year to the College living of Barrow in Suffolk, which was then reputed to be worth 300Z. per annum. (93) Dr. Nalson's widow Alice married, secondly, John Cremer Esq., of an ancient family in Norfolk, who died without issue in 1703, and was buried in Ely Cathedral, John Cremeb, now living in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields in the City of Westminster, Gent. Will dated 5th April 1703. To my wife Alice all my lands and tenements at Grimston, Roydon, Snettisham, &c. in Norfollj, and I appoint her to be my executrix. Will proved in C.P.C. 21st Feb. 1703-4 by Alice Cremer the widow. Alice survived her second husband above thirteen years, and died 18th Aug. 1717, aged 67, when she was buried in Ely Cathedral. (91) Sir Algernon Peyton, the surviving son and heir of Dr. Algernon Peyton of Doddington, was created a baronet, in compliment to his father, on 21st March 1666-7, and married at St. James's, Bury, 19th Nov. 1667,*Frances, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Sewster Kt. of Great Raveley, Hunts. He succeeded to the Dodding- ton estates on the death of his father in the following spring, but enjoyed them little more than three years, for he died soon after making his Will, which is dated 17th May 1671. He had issue three children, viz. Sewster, his son and heir, and two daughters, of whom Algernina was born after his death. His widow Dame Frances Peyton married, secondly, on 18th Jan. 1673-4, Colonel J ohn Shelton of Bury, (82) and had issue by him two daughters. I. CATHERINE, bap- tized at Horningsheath 27th Sept. 1675, (83) and II. Beata, baptized at St. James's, Bury, 8th July 1679.* These two daughters are neither of them mentioned in their mother's Will, but Sir Sewster Peyton, by his Will (10th Sept. 1706), be- queathed ' 201. for mourning to each of my half-sisters, which my mother had by Colonel Shelton.' Catherine Shelton was afterwards Mrs. Taylor, and was one of the sponsors of her grandnephew James Dashwood on 4th Jan. 1738-9. Her sister Beata was still unmarried on 25th Dec. 1740, when she was godmother to her * From the Par. Reg. of St. James's, Bury St. Edmunds : 1667. Nov. 19. Su- Algernon Peyton and Mrs. Fru,nces Sewster, marr. 1679. July 8. Beata, dau. of John Shelton, Gent., and Dame Frances Peyton Ms wife, hapt. ■322 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. gi'andniece Anne Dashwood, tlie sister of James. (94) Lady Peyton died in 1685, in the lifetime of lier second husband. Dame Frances Peyton, now the wife of John Shelton Esq. of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Middlesex. Will dated 23d Dec. 1680. Whereas my late husband Sir Algernon Peyton Bart, by liis Will dated 17th May 23 Charles II. gave to his daughter Anne Peyton at 21 or marriage ^1500, and to the son or daughter of which I was then with child ^1000 ; such sums to be raised out of the profits of his manors and lands in Doddington, Elm, and March in the Isle of Ely. And whereas he directed that until the said sum should be raised I should receive the rents and profits of the said manors and lands, and after satisfying the annuity given to me by his Will should pay to our son Sewster Peyton ^60 p. a. until his age of 15, and afterwards ^100 p. a., and I was appointed sole executrix of the Will, now I having special trust and confidence in m}^ loving husband John Shelton, desire him to undertake the care and education of my children by the said Sir Algernon Peyton, namely, the said Sewster Peyton and Anne Peyton and also Algernina Peyton the afterborn daughter of the said Sir Algernon, and to receive the rents and profits of the said manors and lands until the said legacies are raised, and I appoint him my sole executor. Will proved 26th May 1685 by John Shelton in C.P.C. [62 Cann.] The histoiy of the later baronets at Doddington is foreign to my narrative, but their succession is shown in the pedigree at page 288. IV. It was shown In the last chapter that Sir J o\m Tyndall, the grandfather of the first Sir John Peyton of Doddington, was, through his descent from the Lords Scales, one of the coheirs of that younger but more illustrious branch of the house of Peyton, which bore the surname of De Ufford, and enjoyed in the fourteenth cen- tury the several baronies of Ufford and the earldom of Suffolk. I shall therefore attempt to disentangle the genealogy of De Ufford from the confusion in which Dugdale has left it. (gg) Sir J ohn de Peyton of Peyton Hall in Boxford, who lived in the reign of Henry III. and was the ancestor of all the families of Peyton, had a younger son Robert, who was called De Ufford from his lordship of that name near Woodbridge in Suffolk, and was sent to Ireland as Justiciary in 1269* ' to settle and pacify Erin.'' (100) There is no record of his earlier career, but this important mission implies that he was a knight of proved valour and discretion, who had been loyal to the King in the Barons' Wai'. His administration was brief and barren of events, but it is recorded that he built the castle at Roscommon, (100) and that a writ was addressed to him by the King to levy aurum regiim for Eleanor wife of Edward Prince of Wales, (10 1) to Avhom the lordship of Ireland had been granted in 1254 on his marriage. Sir Robert was rewarded by Prince Edward by a grant in fee of the rich manor of Kilmeaden in Waterford, which produced a fee farm rent of 110 marks per annum. (102) His return to England was probably hastened by his wish to join the Crusade, for he and his brother Sir John de Peyton were among those * 1268 is the true year, according to Grace's Annals and some other authorities. SIE EGBERT DE UEFORD KT. 323 who were signed with the cross with Prince Edward, and who obtained on 10th May 1270 patents of protection from the King during their intended absence in the Holy Land, (xog) If Sir Robert actually went to the Crusade, he soon returned, for in the beginning of 1273 he fined 100 marks for the King's permission to marry Mary the widow of William de Say. (104) William de Say of Sawbridge- worth, Herts, a baron by tenure, died early in 1272, (105) leaving William his son and heir, who was born on 20th Nov. 1252, and a daughter Agnes, who was then already the wife of Alexander de Cheney. (106) The age of these children makes it clear that Mary was not their mother, as the son and heir of her second marriage was nearly 27 years younger than his supposed half-brother William de Say. Mary's parentage is wholly unknown. Sir Robert de Ufford was appointed for the second time Justiciary of Ireland in 1276, (107) and retained his office during the unusually long period of nearly six years. He was succeeded at the end of 1281 by Stephen Fulbourn, Bishop of Waterford, who had acted as his deputy in 1279, when he spent the winter in England. (107) His recall was not followed by any loss of royal favour, for in the next year he obtained a grant of a weekly market and yearly fair at his manor of Bawdsey in Suffolk. (108) He died in 1298, when it was found at the inquest held after his death on 5th Oct., 26th Edw. I., that he had died seised of Ufford and other estates in Suff'olk, and that his next heir was his son Robert, who was 19 years old on the feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle then last past (11th June). (109) Sir Robert de Ufford had issue two sons and at least two daughters :* I. Robert, son and heir, afterwards the first Lord Ufford. II. Thomas, the ancestor of the Uffords of Wrentham, of whom hereinafter. I. Alice de Ufford was the first and childless wife of Sir William Howard Kt. of Wigenhale near Lynn, a Judge of Common Pleas 1293-1308, who was by his second wife Alice Fitton the ancestor of the Dukes of Norfolk, (no) n. Margaret had the Royal assent 10th Feb. 1291-2 to marry Edmond Lord Colevillef of Bytham, who was then only four years old. (m) Robert de Ufford II. was born on 11th June 1279, (109) and was one of the Knights of the Bath created by Edward I. in 1303, in which year he attended the King as a Banneret in his invasion of Scotland. (99) He had married Cecily the younger of the two daughters and coheirs of Robert de Valoines of Hickling and Ixworth, who was about a year younger than her husband, for she was only twelve months old when her father died in 1281. (113) She inherited from her father the manor of Hickling and one-fourth part of the barony of Ixworth, and on 28th April 1306 was found to be one of the coheirs of the estates in Norfolk and Suffolk of the * I suspect that Amabel de Uffoed, Prioress of Canw, in the suburbs of Norwich, 1289-1291, was another daughter of Robert and Mary de Ufford. (112) t This marriage should be added to my ColeYille pedigree at pi 199. 324 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. extinct family of Oreke. (114) Robert de Ufford was summoned to Parliament as a Baron on 13tli Jan. 1308-9, and died in 1316 at the age of 37, when it was fomid at the inquest held on 10th Oct. 10 Edw. II,, that his next heir was his son Robert, who was born on 9th Aug. 1298. (115) Cecily his widow had the manor of Bawdsey and lands in Ufford in dower, (116) and died in 1325. (117) It has been conjectured by Gough fr cm the arms displayed on a tomb without inscription in Rendlesham Church, Suffolk, that Robert de Ufford and his wife Cecily lie buried there ; (118) but according to Weever they wei'e buried in Woodbridge Priory. (119) Robert Lord Ufford had issue by his wife Cecily six sons and a daughter : I. William, son and heir apparent, was living in 1311, and died before his father. (120) II. Robert, surviving son and heir, afterwards created Earl of Suffolk. III. J OHN DE Uffoed was a knight, and was associated with Maud Countess of Ulster, the widow of his brother Ralph, in her foundation of Brusyard Priory. He was living in 1358, (121) but died unmarried before his brother Eaj'l Robert. IV. A SON, whose name is lost, but whose existence is proved by the fact that Ralph and Edmund his brothers were respectively 5th and 6th sons of their father. I have some faint suspicion that his name was Thomas. V. Ralph l»E Ufford was the 5th son, as appears from the annulet in his arms at the tournament of Dunstable in 1333. (122) He was a gallant soldier in high favour with Edward III., who granted to him in tail male in 1336 the manors of Chelrey, Berks, Up-Wimborne and Loders, Dorset, which had escheated to the Crown by the attainder of John Lord Maltravers. (123) Five years afterwards Sir Ralph was appointed Constable of Corfe Castle for life, (124) His con- sequence and position were greatly increased by his marriage to a lady of the blood royal, for he married about this time Maud Plantagenet, daughter of Henry Earl of Lancaster, and widow of William de Burgh Earl of Ulster, who was assassinated at Cai'rickfergus on 6th June 1333, The Countess had taken refuge in England on her husband's murder, and being afraid to return to Ireland had surrendered all her lands there to the King, who gave her in exchange on 3d March 1337-8 lands of equal value in England. (49) But it was destined that she should again reside in Ireland, for her second husband Ralph de Ufford was appointed Justiciary of that kingdom on 10th Feb. 1343-4; (49) and the Countess was with him when he died at Kilmainham Castle on Palm Sunday (9th April) 1346, (107) Sir Ralph de Ufford ruled Ireland with a strong hand, and kept down with equal sternness the discontented English of the Pale and the insurgent Irish. The powerful Earl of Kildare was thrown into prison for disaffection, and the Earl of Desmond would have shared the same fate, when he disobeyed the summons of the Viceroy to attend the Parliament at Dublin, if he had not fled the country to the great danger of the sureties which he had given for his appearance. This vigorous SIK EALPH DE UFFOED KT. 325 administration of affairs was liigHy unpopular in Ireland, and Sir Ralph is described in the annals of that kingdom (107) as ' a man unjust and greedy of gain, who did everything by force, did no man justice, plundered rich and poor of their goods, and was an oppressor ; and all the more at the instigation of his wife.' The annalist gravely adds, that ' on his arrival showery weather began, which did not leave off as long as he lived.' It must be suspected that these charges of rapacity and extor- tion were scarcely more reasonable than the superstition which imputed the stormy weather to the judgment of God on his wickedness, for it is certain that he died in poverty and in debt. The annalist continues, that ' he died on Palm Sunday 1346, to the great joy and applause of all the public. The state of the weather then im- mediately changed, and it became fine. His body, wrapped in lead, was carried by his wife to England for burial. And on the 2d of May (1346), the anniversary of the day on which she made her triumphal entry (into Kilmainham) with her hus- band, she made her exit with his corpse, a fugitive, in the greatest grief, and amidst the clamours of the populace.' Sir Ralph de Ufford was buried in the Chapel of the Annunciation of our Lady in the church of Campsey Nunnery in Suffolk. (125) This religious house was founded for Austin nuns, by Theobald de Valoines in the reign of Richard I., and the advowson thereof formed part of the inheritance of Cecily de Yaloines, the wife of Robert Lord UflFord. (125) The widow Countess early in the next year professed herself a nun at Campsey, and obtained license from the King on 16th Oct. 1347 to found and endow at Campsey-Ash, close to the nunnery, a collegiate chantry, consisting of a warden and four secular priests, who should daily celebrate three masses, in the chapel where Ralph de Ufford lay buried, for the repose of the souls of William de Burgh sometime Earl of Ulster and Ralph de Ufford, the two hus- bands of the foundress, and also for the souls of her two daughters Elizabeth de Burgh and Matilda de Ufford, and also for the good estate of the foundress and of Sir John de UflFord and of Sir Thomas de Hereford Kts. whilst they lived, and for the repose of their souls after their deaths. (125) This chantry was found to be inconvenient to the nuns, and was removed in 1354 with the sanction of William Bishop of Norwich to the manor of Rokehall in Brusyard. (126) The royal license for this removal is dated 26th Nov. 1356. (i 25) Eight years afterwards Lionel Duke of Clarence, the son-in-law of the foundress, complained to the King that the objects of the foimdation were ill-fulfilled by secular priests; and accordingly the King granted by letters patent dated 10th Feb. 1363-4 that the chantry should be trans- ferred to the abbess and sisters of the house of the Nuns Minoresses of the Order of Clare at Brusyard, in which the foundress was then professed. (125) The Countess of Ulster is mentioned in 1368 in the Will of her brother-in-law Robert Earl of Suflfblk, who styles her ' Madame d'Oulnest, Minoress,' and bequeaths to her a ring which once belonged to her brother Henry Duke of Lancaster. She was still living at Brusyard on 21st Feb. 1368-9, when Sir Nicholas Gernon had license from the 326 THE CHESTERS OE CHICHELEY. King to be absent from his duties in Ireland, in order to manage lier affairs, (49) but I have not discovered the precise date of her death. Matilda of Lancaster had issue by her second luTsband Sir Ralph de UflFord an ■only daughter Matilda, who was born in the autumn of 1345, (107) and was there- fore a child in arms when her father died. She was betrothed with the royal assent on 28th May 1350, when she was only five years old, to Thomas de Vere, the son and heir apparent of John 7th Earl of Oxford. (127) Thomas succeeded to his father's earldom in 1360, and died 1st Aug. 1371, leaving an only son Robert, after- wards created Duke of Ireland, who was then scarcely nine years old. Maud Countess of Oxford survived her son many years, and was warmly attached to the cause of Richard II., who had loaded her son with honours, and invested her with the robes of the Garter, although her husband had not been a Knight of the Order. (128) She was therefore at the head of a conspiracy against Henry IV, in 1403, when it was intended that Queen Isabel and the Duke of Orleans should land at Ipswich on 28th Dec, and should proclaim the approaching return of King Richard from Scotland. (i2g) In the mean while the Countess encouraged the current I'umours that Richard was still alive, and distributed in his name badges of a silver hart couchant, his favour- ite cognisance. But the Queen was prevented by stress of weather from landing in England, and the conspiracy utterly failed. The Countess was thrown into prison and her goods were confiscated, but she soon received a full pardon from the clemency or policy of the King. (129) She died at Bentley Castle in Essex on Wednesday after the Conversion of St. Paul (27th Jan.) 1412-13, (130) and her Will is dated on 20th Jan. preceding. (131) She bequeathed her body to be buried in the convent church at Brusyard, and devised to the nuns of that house in pure alms her manor of Wrabness* in Essex, which her father had inherited from his mother Cecily de Valoines. (113) VI. Sir Edmond de Ufford, the 6th son of Robert Lord Ufiford and Cecily de Valoines, bore a fleur-de-lys in his arms as a mark of cadency, (122) and was called Sir Edmond le frfere, or the elder, to distinguish him from his cousin of the * Wrabness is not included in the list of manors wHcli are enumerated in tlie inquest held on 17th March after the death of the Countess, because it is limited to the estates which she held in jointure of the honour of De Vere. (130) Wrabness therefore, and any other lands which she inherited from her father, were clearly held in mesne tenure, for the inquest held after the death of Sir Ralph de Ufiford in 1346 is confined to the lands granted to him in tail male by the King in 1336, which reverted on failui-e of his male issue to the Crown on his death. (132) This, however, is not the only or the chief difBculty in the finding of the jurors at the inquest of the Countess ; for if the verdict be HteraUy taken, it implies that the Countess was the daughter of Su- Ralph de Ufiford, not by Matilda of Lancaster, but by a former wife Elizabeth, the sister of Alice, first wife of Robert 4th Lord WUloughby d'Eresby, whose parentage has never been precisely ascertained. They found that the next heii- of the Countess of Oxford at the time of her death was ' Robert (6th) Lord Willoughby, son and heir of William (5th) Lord WiUoughby, son and heir of Alice, sister of Elizabeth, mother of the said Countess.' (i 30) There can be little doubt that the jurors were misinformed on a point which did not concern the succession of the estates about which they were inquiring, for the next heir of the Countess would clearly have to be sought on her father's side, and not on her mother's ; and in fact (as wUl be seen hereafter) Robert 6th Lord Willoughby was in 1413 the gi-andnephew and senior coheir of Sii- Ralph de Ufiford, her father. ROBEKT DE UFPORD EARL OF SUFFOLK. 327 same name. He inherited the manors of Combs in Suffolk and of HiUingdon in Norfolk, which had descended to his mother from the family of Creke, (114-) and was one of the executors of his brother Robert Earl of Suffolk in 1369. He died in 1375, for his Will, dated 21st Dec. 1374, was proved at Norwich 6th July 1375, whereby he desires to be buried at Campsey near his deceased wife Elizabeth. (133) He died without issue, and his nephew William Earl of Suffolk was found to be his next heir and 36 years of age. (134) I. Eva de Ufford married Sir John de Brews Kt. of Topcroft and Stinton in Norfolk, and had issue. She is mentioned with her sons J ohn and Giles in the Will of her brother Robert Earl of Suffolk. Egbert de Ufford III., surviving son and heir of Robert Lord Ufford by Cecily de Valoines, was 18 years old when his father died in 1316, (115) and is men- tioiied in the Wardrobe Rolls of the next year amongst the boys in ward to the King. (135) In 1320 he presented a petition to Parliament, complaining that during his minority he had been disseised by a fraudulent conveyance of the manor of Kilmeaden in Ireland, which had been granted to his grandfather by Edward I. before his accession to the throne ; but his grievance was left without remedy until the second year of the next reign, when it was referred to the Court of Common Pleas at Dublin. (102) He was in close attendance on the young King Edward HI. from the beginning of his reign, and was with him at Amiens on 6th J une 1329, when he did homage to Philip of Valois for the Duchy of Guienne and the other fiefs which he held of the French Crown. (49) When the supremacy of the Queen-Dowager and her favourite Mortimer had become at last an intolerable scandal, Lord Ufford was one of those nine nobles who undertook the perilous task of arresting Mortimer in Nottingham Castle on the night of 19th Oct. 1330. His loyalty and gallantry on this occasion was rewarded in the Parliament which was held on 26th Nov. following by a grant of lands of the value of 300 marks a year, (136) This grant consisted of Orford Castle in Suffolk, with lands in Norfolk, and w'as further increased in the next year, (99) From this time he enjoyed without interruption the favour and confidence of his sovereign, and he was Seneschal of the Royal Household and joint Admiral of the Northern Fleet when he was created Earl of Suffolk in full Parliament on 16th March 1336-7. Six earls were created on this occasion, and on the next day the Duchy of Cornwall was conferred on Edward Prince of Wales. The Earl of Suffolk had for the maintenance of his new dignity a grant in tail male of lands and rents to the value of 1000 marks per annum, of which the castle and honour of Eye formed part. (137) The Earl was conspicuous in the wars with France, for he was one of the marshals of the host at the siege of Cambray in 1339, and was taken prisoner with the Earl of Salisbury by the French in 1340 at Lille.* (43) He was ransomed by the King for 500^. on * Dugdale follows Barnes in stating that it Tvas the son of the Earl of Suffolk who was taken prisoner T T 328 THE CHESTBES OP CHICHELEY. 25th July 1341, (49) and in recognition of his services his son and heir apparent Rohert was summoned to Parhament as a baron on 24th Feb. 1341-2 by the style of Robert de Ufford le filz. The Earl was engaged to serve in Brittany in 1342 with a retinue of one banneret, 14 knights, 35 esquires, and 50 mounted archers, and took part in the naval victory over the Genoese and Spanish squadrons oflF Brittany in July of that year. (43) He was sent ambassador to Pope Clement YI. in 1343, and was reappointed Admiral of the Northern Fleet on 8th May 1344. (138) He is not mentioned by name amongst the heroes of Cressy, but he was one of the admirals of the expedition, and was with the King at the siege of Calais on 8th Sept. 1346, when he certified with other lords to the Parliament that Edward the Black Prince had been made a knight at La Hogue on 18th July preceding, and that the King was by the laws of England entitled to an aid in consequence. (49) He was one of those nobles to whom the King presented in 1348 harness of Indian silk and other equipments for the tournament at Canterbury, and was abon.t this time elected a Knight of the noble Order of the Garter. (139) He fought in the famous defeat of the Spanish fleet on 29th Aug. 1350, (138) and attended Edward the Black Prince into Gascony in 1355, when he commanded the rearguard of the army, and was especially distinguished at the battle of Poictiers. (43) His last known campaign was in 1359, when he landed at Calais on 28th Oct. with Edward HI. and his army of invasion ; but the peace of Bretigny was concluded in the following May, and active hostilities against France were not renewed until 1369, when the Earl was on his deathbed. Robert Earl of Suffolk married* Margaret the young and childless widow of Thomas Lord de Cailli of Buckenham Castle, Norfolk, who died without issue in 1316. (140) She was tlie daughter of Sir Walter de Norwich Kt. of Mettingham Castle, SuiFolk, and was in her issue the heir of that family. She must have been a mere child at the death of her first husband in 1316, for the eldest surviving son of her second marriage William de Ufford was not born until 1339. She had ten children, and died early in 1368, when she was buried in Campsey Priory. (141) The Earl survived his wife little more than a year, for he died on Sunday after the Feast of All Saints (4th Nov.) 1369, aged 71. (142) His Will was made the year before his death, and is written in Norman French. (143) RoBKKT DE Ufford Earl of Suffolk K.G. Will dated 29th June 1368. 'My body to be buried in the house of Campesse (Campsej') in Suffolk under the arch between with Salisbury, (99) but it is certain that it was the Earl of Suffolk himself, for the warrant for payment of his ransom is printed by Rymer, 25th July 1341. (49) * Beltz has fallen into the error of supposing that the Earl had a previous wife named Eleanor, who was living at the time of his elevation to the earldom, and was the mother of his successor, Earl WiUiam. (i 39) But it is certain that Earl WUUam was the son of Margaret de Norwich, for he succeeded to the estates of her family as heir-at-law in 1380 ; and it is also certain that his three sisters, who were born before 1337, were his sisters of the whole blood, because their sons were his coheirs in 1381. It follows therefore that the name of Eleanor is a clerical error in the record on which Beltz relies. There is an example of a similar misnomer iu my note on the next page. ROBERT DE UFFORD EARL OF SUFFOLK, 329 the high altar and the chapel of St. Nicholas. To the King the ouche -which my lady the Princess gave me. To my eldest son William the sword which the King gave me with the title of Earl, the bed complete with the eagle, the crimson robe powdered with leopards, and a clialice for his hoiisehold chapel ; also all my arms which are in my wardrobe at Orford or elsewhere, except those which I have otherv/ise bequeathed ; also the gilt beaker which Ms mother bequeathed to me ; also the jewelled cross and the book of Genesy {sic) for his life, to be heirlooms after his death. To Joan his -wife a diamond ring. To my son John a cup with a cover, with God's blessing and mine, and also an annuity of £20 for his life out of the manor of Wicldiam. To my daiighter Maud a ring and 100 shillings a year. To my very dear brother Monsr. Edmond de Ufford a silver cup with a cover chased with arms. To my dearest sister De Brews a ring and i;10 in money to be paid within three years, and the bed with the curtains wluch belonged to Monsr. Thomas de Ulford. To my very dear cousin Monsr. Edmond [de Ufford] a xjair of amber beads of Prussian fashion, which the King gave me. To Robert de Ufford the httle horn'"' Avhich the King gave me, mounted with gold. To Dame Joan de Loudliam, Sir John de Brews and Sir Giles de Brews my nephews, Monsr. Half de Hemenhale, ! Monsr. Nicholas Gernon, Monsr. Thomas de la Dale,f Dame Katherine de Hemenhale, and to my dearest niece [the Countess] of Oxford rings of gold for a remembrance. To my Lady of Ulster, Minoress, 20 marks towards the building at Brusyard, and also a ring which was the Duke [of Lancaster's] her brother. My son William and my brother Edmond to be executors. Will proved by Sir William and Sir Edmond de Ufford Kts. 11th Nov. 1369 at Lambeth. [Ill Whittlesey in C.P.O.] Robert Earl of Suffolk had issue by his wife Margaret ten children ; namely, five sons, of whom only two survived their father, and five daughters, I, Robert de Ufford IV,, son and heir apparent, was pardoned on 20th Aug. 1337 for marrying without the King's permission (i n) Elizabeth daughter of John Lord Botetourt, and widow of William 3d Lord Latimer, who died in 1335, (145) Robert was summoned to Parliament as a baron by the style of Robert de Ufford le filz on 24th Feb. 1341-2, and he and his wife were both living in 1366, (146) But he died without issue before 29th June 1368, the date of his father's Will.$ II. Thomas is confidently identified by Beltz with Sir Thomas de UfiFord, who was elected a Knight of the Garter in 1360 ; (149) and it is certain, from the Wills of Robert and William, Earls of Suffolk, that Earl Robert liad a son Thomas, v, ]io died without issue before his father, and left a Will. The Garter was at this period exclusively bestowed as the reward of military service, and therefore Sir Thomas must have been older than his brother William, who was scarcely 21 in 1360. Sir Thomas de Ufford was one of the brave companions of Sir Thomas Felton, when he was taken prisoner at Navarete on 3d April 1367 in the Spanish expedition of the Black Prince ; (43) and it is suggested by Beltz that he w^as slain on this occa- sion. (149) He married Elizabeth one of the ten daughters of Thomas Beauchamp * ' Item, a Robert de Ufford le petit com que le Eoi moi donna h'noise d'or.' This legacy has been ludicrously misinterpreted ; for the abstract of this Will in Harl. ms. 6148 refers ' le petit' to Robert de Ufford, and calls him 'Robert d'Ufford the lesser/ Sir H. Nicolas crowns the absurdity by a note in the Testamenta Vetusta, that ' the lesser' signifies ' the younger, or possibly the leper'' ! The legatee was Sir Robert Ufford of Wrentham. t These knights served in the Earl's retinue in France in 1346. (144) I Robert is miscopied Richard on one occasion in the printed calendar of the Rot. Orig. , (147) which misled Foss into the assertion that the Earl of Suffolk had a sou Richard. (14S) 330 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. 3d Eavl of Warwick, and sister of Isabella Countess of Suffolk. (150) She died without issue before her parents, and was buried, according to Weever, with her husband in the Gray friars at Norwich. (119) III. Walter de Ufford occurs in 1351, (151) but died without issue in the lifetime of his father. ly. William, surviving son and heir, succeeded as 2d Earl of Suffolk. V. John de Ufford was a priest, and was presented to the Rectory of Hingham in Norfolk 14th Sept. 1359 by Sir Eobert de Morley, Marshal of Ireland. (152) He was collated Archdeacon of Suffolk 16th Jan, 1366-7, but was superseded under a papal provision by John Aleyn in 1368, (153) when he was appointed Prebendary of Sleford in the church of Lincoln. (153) He and his brother William were the only two sons of Robert Earl of Suffolk, who survived their father. John died in 1375. His Will is dated 10th August, and was proved at Norwich on 5th Sept. 1375, whereby he desires to be buried at Hingham, and leaves a legacy to his sister Dame Maud Ufford, a nun at Campsey. (152) Several writers (154) have ventured to assert that Eobert Earl of Suffolk had two sons besides those whom I have enumerated, and that he was the father of John and Andrew de Offord, two ecclesiastics of high distinction, w^ho were engaged in the principal diplomatic transactions of their time. John de Offord, Dean of Lincoln 1344, was constantly employed from 1334 in embassies to foreign courts by Edward III., and was appointed Lord Chancellor of England 26th Oct. 1345. He was still chancellor when he was named Archbishop of Canterbury by a bull of Pope Clement VI., dated 24th Sept. 1348, and as archbishop elect had the temporalities of his see restored to him on 14th Dec; but he died before receiving the pall on 20th May 1349, being one of the first victims of the great pestilence. (155) Andrew Offord, Archdeacon of Middlesex, was his brother's administrator, and had been associated with him in many of his employments. He had a prebendal stall at York ratified to him by the King on 14th May 1350, which he held with his arch- deaconry until his death early in 1358. (156) It is chronologically impossible that these two brothers could be the sons of the Earl of Su.ffolk, and therefore it has been suggested that they were his brothers.* (157) But there is no evidence whatever for supposing that they were of his family, except from the similarity of name, and this disappears on closer investigation. For the Lord Chancellor is usually styled De Offord in records, and it is almost certain that he belonged to a family who derived their name from Offord- Darcy in Huntingdonshire, for John de Offord w^as lord of that manor in 1276, (15B) and the custody of this same manor during the minority of the * Campbell in his Lives of the Chancellors adopts, as usual, tlie wrong story in its worst form, and embellislies it witli some circumstances of his own invention. He boldly asserts the Chancellor was the son of the Earl, and owed his preferment to his family interest, and adds that ' he was suddenly struck with a disease of which he died on 26th August 1348' 1 (160) WILLIAM DE UFFORD EARL OP SUFFOLK, K.G. 331 heir was granted in 1331 to Master John de Offord, who was afterwards Chan- cellor. (159) The five daughters of the Earl of Suffolk were much older than their brother William, who succeeded to their father's earldom. I. Joan de Upford was still a child on 30th May 1331, when her father cove- nanted by deed with John Lord de St. Philibert that she should marry his son and heir, and should have a marriage-portion of 300/. (161) This contract was confirmed by the royal assent on 10th July 1334, (i 11) when the younger John de St. Phili- bert was only seven years old, (162) and Joan was probably still younger. She died without issue, and was buried in Woodbridge Priory. (119) The date of her death is not known, but her husband married his second wife Margaret St. John before 1357. (161) n. Cecily de Upford married before 1348 John 3d Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, who died 29th March 1372, having survived his wife. (163) Their son Robert 4th Lord Willou.ghby was born in 1349, and was one of the coheirs of his uncle William Earl of Suffolk in 1381. It will be shown in a subsequent chapter that Anne Wol- laston, the wife of Sir John Chester the 4th Bart., was lineally descended from him III. Catherine de Ufford married before 6th May 1335 Eobert 3d Lord Scales, who survived her and died 13th Aug. 1369. Their descendants have been shown in the last chapter. (See pp. 254-5.) IV. Margaret de Upford married before 1355 William 3d Lord Ferrers of Groby, who survived her many years, and died 9tli Jan. 1370-1. (164) He left by his Will to his daughter Margaret (afterwards wife of Thomas 4th Earl of Warwick K.G.) his white bed and its furniture, with the arms of Ferrers and Uffbrd thereon. (165) His eldest son Henry 4th Lord Ferrers was born in 1356, and was one of the coheirs of his uncle William Earl of Suffolk in 1381. V. Maud de Upford was a nun at Campsey, and is mentioned in the Wills of her brothers William and John. She was still living in 1416. (166) William de Upford 2nd Earl of Suffolk, the eldest surviving son of Earl Eobert by Margaret de Norwich, was 30 years old in 1369 when he suc- ceeded his father, and was therefore at least 19 years younger than his eldest brother Robert de Uffbrd IV., who was summoned to Parliament in February 1341-2. William was still under age when, by his father's influence at Court, he married an heiress of royal lineage; for his first wife Joan was the younger of the two daughters of Edward Lord Montacute by his first wife Alice Plantagenet, the younger daughter and coheir of Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England. 332 THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY. Joan de Montacute was born at Bungay Castle, in Norfolk, on 2d Feb. 1348-9, (167) and was found to be twelve years old and tlie wife of "William de Ufford, when her father died on 14th July 1361. (168) Her mother AHce had died in 1351, leaving two infant daughters, Maud and Joan, whose wardship and marriages were granted to their father as a special favour by letters patent, dated 15th Feb. 1351-2. (ill) But Joan was virtually the sole heir of her mother, for her sister Maud de Montacute was professed from childhood a nun at Barking, and was abbess of that illustrious house of religion from 1376 until her death in 1394. (170) Accordingly when Mary Countess of Norfolk, the widow of Thomas of Brotherton, died in June 1362, the estates which she held in dower were apportioned between the Earl's daughter Margaret Lady Manny and his granddaughter Joan de Ufford, who was still under age. (171) Joan had for her share in the partition Framling- ham Castle, in Suffolk, with eight manors appendent, of which the custody was granted to her husband during his wife's minority at a rent of 1000 marks per annum. (171) Joan attained her full age of fourteen in the next year, and on making formal proof of her majority, William de Ufford had livery of her estates. (167) In the mean while J oan de Ufford had become the senior coheir of her father's barony, for her half brother Edward de Montacute, the infant son of her father's* second marriage, had died on 27th Sept, 1361, nine Aveeks after his father. (168) It must be presumed, therefore, that it was in right of his wife that William de Ufford was summoned to Parliament as a baron on 4th Dec. 1364. He succeeded to the earldom of Suffolk in 1369, and was retained in 1372 for one year to serve in the expedition for the relief of Thouars, when his retinue con- sisted of twenty-three knights, fifty-seven men-at-arms, fifty-six esquires, and eighty archers. (43) He was elected a Knight of the Garter in July 1375; (173) but this year was marked by the severest domestic calamities, for he lost all his four surviving children, and their deaths were quickly followed by that of their mother, the Countess Joan, whose Will is dated 17th Aug. 1375, and was proved at Norwich on 12th Nov. in the same year. The Earl, however, Avas not inconsolable, for on 27th June 1376 he obtained the King's pardon for having married without license (i 1 1) Isabella, the youthful widow of John Lord Strange of Blackmere, who had died under age on 3d Aug. 1375. (174) * Edwaed Lord Montacute is erroneously stated by Dugdale, (i 72) and in all the Peerages, to have man-ied no wife except Alice of Brotherton, and to have left no children except Joan de Ufford ; whereas it is certain from the inquest held after his death (168) that he married two wives and left two childi-en by each of them. His wife Alice and her two daughters have been sufficiently noticed in the text. The name of his second wife is unknown to me ; but it is clear from the ages of her children that she married in or before 1357, and that she died at the birth of her son Edward in May or June 1361, for when Lord Montacute died on 14th July 1361, his next heii- was his son Edward, then seven weeks old. (168) The youthful heir did not long survive his father, for it was found by an inquest held on 29th Nov. 1361 that the younger Edward died an infant, in the wardship of the King, on 27th Sept. 1361, and that his next heir was his sister Etheh-eda de Montacute, who was then two years old and upwards. (168) The ward- ship and marriage of this Ethelreda were granted by the King on 1st Feb. 1366-7 to Alan Palmer, (i 11) and she occurs in 1390 the wife of Sir Hugh de Strauley Kt., of Redenhall, Norfolk. (169) WILLIAM EAEL OF SUFFOLK. 333 The Earl was appointed on IGtli July 1376 Admiral of tlie Northern Fleet, but was superseded in his command on 24th Nov. following by his cousin Sir Michael de la Pole. (138) In 1380 he succeeded to Mettingham Castle and the rest of the honour of Norwich, as being the heir of his mother's family^ for his cousin Lady Catherine de Brews, the daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de Norwich, and the last survivor of her race, then took the veil at Dartford in Kent, and the Earl of Suffolk was found to be her next heir, and forty years of age. (175) He held a conspicuous position both in military and political affairs, and was so popular with the common people that in Jack Straw's rebellion in 1381 the insurgents designed to carry him with them by force as their leader; but he avoided this dangerous honour by escaping through the mob in the disguise of a servant, and joined the King at St. Albau's with a wallet on his shoulder. (176) He still retained his popularity, for in the next Parliament, which revoked all the concessions lately extorted from the King, he was chosen by the Commons to represent their grievances to the Lords ; but on 15tli Feb. 1381-2, as he was ascending the steps of the parliament-hovxse, he fell down dead in a fit, to the great amazement and sori'ow both of rich and poor. (176) He died in the forty-third year of his age, and left no surviving issue ; and as all his brothers and sisters were dead, his three nephews, Robert Lord Willoughby, Eoger Lord Scales, and Henry Lord Ferrers of Groby, were found to be his co- heirs. (177) The Earl had been twice married. His first wife, Joan de Montacute, died in 1375, in her twenty- seventh year, and was buried at Campsey. It may be guessed that her death was caused by grief for her children, for she had issue four sons and a daughter, who all died young, shortly before their mother. 1. Robert, her eldest son and heir apparent, had the King's license on 28th Oct. 1371 to marry Eleanor Fitz-Alan, daughter of Richard, son and heir apparent of Richard Earl of Arundel, (iii) but he died in boyhood before 1374. 2. Thomas ; 3. William ; and 4. Edmund, were living in 1374, when they are mentioned in a fine, by which William Lord Huntingfield conveyed the reversion of his estates to William Earl of Suffolk, with remainder to these three sons named successively in tail male; (178) but they all died within a year afterwards. Margaret de Ufford, their sister, was still living in the spring of 1375, when the Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk was commandedby the King's writ to levy an aid for her marriage, (179) but she also died in 1375 before her mother. The Earl married secondly, before 27th June 1376, without the King's license, Isabella, widow of John Lord le Strange of Blackmere. (m) She was one of the ten daughters of Thomas Beauchamp third Earl of Warwick K.G., and was, therefore, the sister of Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas UflFord K.G., who has been already mentioned. Isabella and Elizabeth are confused together into one person by Dugdale, although they were separately portrayed in the windows of the col- legiate church at Warwick, Avhere all the Earl's daughters were curiously figured on 334 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. the painted glass in the costnme of their time. (iBo) Each of them has the arms of Beauchamp on her inner garments, and on her mantle the arms of her husband, and each has her name on a label. Elizabeth and Isabella have separate portraitures and labels, but each of them has on her mantle the arms of Ufford — Sable, a cross engrailed Or — and this repetition was misunderstood by Dugdale as denoting that Elizabeth was the same person as Isabella, and was twice represented on account of her two marriages. (i8o) Isabella was still unmarried when her father made his Will on 6th Sept. 1369, and bequeathed to herlOOOZ. for her marriage-portion, (i8i) She married soon afterwards John Lord le Strange of Blackmere, who died, aged 20, on 3d Aug. 1375, leaving an only child Elizabeth, then one year old, and after- wards the first and childless wife of Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolk. Isabella had no issue by her second husband, the Earl of Suffolk, and, was one of the executors of his Will. WiLLiAJi DE Uffoed Eael OF SUFFOLK. Will* dated on Wednesday next after the feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle (12th June) 1381. My body to be biuied at Canipesse (Campsej'), under the south arch of the chapel of St. Nicholas, behind the tomb where my honoured father and mother he. My dearest wife (ma tres-chere compaigne) , Isabel Countess of Suffolk, Monsieur Richard le Scrop, and others, to be my executors. Codicil,'"' dated Tliiu-sday, the feast of Corpus Cluisti, 13th June 1381. Whereas I am indebted in large sums of money to divers persons, and also by possibility to my dearest sister, Dame Maud de Mauntagerf {sic) Abbess of Barldng, under certain covenants and conditions made with her by my father and mj-self on her profession, I have therefore enfeoffed in fee simple and without conditions Monsieur Robert de Swjdington the uncle, Monsr. Brian de Stapilton, and others, in all the manors and lands which I inherited in fee simxjle from my father, and also in aU those which descended to me after the death of my dear cousin of Huntingfield;]: (whom may God pardon), and also in the reversion of all those ^^'hicll will descend to me after the death of Dame JMargaret de Norwich, § and I pray my feoffees to deal with the same by way of sale or othenAise at their discretion for the purpose of paying all my debts, discharging my obliga- tions, and performing my Will. To my dearest sister, Maud de Ufford, 100 shillings per annum for her life in addition to a like annuity granted to her by my father out of the manor of Wickham; also a silver cup with a cover not gilded and 40 shilhngs in monej^ in remembrance of me. To ]\Ionsr. Roger de Boys the manors of Thorney and Roughton for his life, and also a bason of silver not enamelled and an ewer of silver, and a mug cup with a crescent on the cover; also six silver porringers and six silver saucers. And if I die Avithout heir male of my body, then Monsr. Giles de Breouse is to have after my death a mercate of land for his life out of the manor of Hillington, and if I have an heii- male then he is to have £20 in gold. Moreover he is to have my short sword not mounted, and one of my better coats of mail. As to the manors of Iken and Chillesford and certain lands adjoining, of which Sir John de * This long Will and Codicil are abstracted from the fuU copies, printed in the Evidence of the Scales Peerage Case, taken in the House of Lords 12 May 1857. t 3Iaud de Montamite, the sister and coheir of Joan Countess of Suffolk, is often confused with the earl's sister, Maud de Ufford, a nun at Campsey. I William Lord Huntingfield died in 1.376, when, by virtue of a fine levied two years before, his estates descended to William Earl of Suffolk. (182) § Dame Margaret de Norwich, widow of Sir Walter, who died in 1360, (183) held in dower until her death in 1396 the manors of Dalham and Bradfield in Suffolk, parcel of the honour of Norwich, (184) which had devolved on the Earl of Suffolk in 1380. (175) WILLIAM EAKL OF SUIff OLK, K.G. 335 Pysliall is enfeoffed for life, Avitla remainder to Sir Adam de Cockfield and others, my will is, that Sir John hold them peaceably during his life, subject to £4= per annum, which Dame Isabel, widow of Monsr. Edmond de Hederset has in Iken by way of dower, and also subject to an anmiity of 55 shillings and sixpence which John Hunt has by my father's gift. Item, to the said Sir John de Pyshall the little missal with a silver bell, a silver paxbrede, two silver cruets, a chahce, and an entire set of vestments, all of which I use in travelling. Also, if I die without heir of my body, the said Sir John is to have the manor of Bennington and certain lands in Wilby called Eussels, for his life, as well as the manors before devised to Jiim. Item, to my dearest wife the red bed with the eagles complete, the robe powdered with leopards complete, the large missal, a chalice, two cruets, a cup Avith the cover gilt and four eagles for handles, a silver bell, the new hangings of arras, a little cross which Monsr. Ilalj)h de Hemenhale gave me, and a gold casket, and an image of our Lady, and a ruby set over two sapphires ; and she is to have besides, as the law requires, silver vessels and beds over and above those wMch I have bequeathed to her, and a diamond ring which my mother gave me. Item, to my dearest nephew, De Willoughby Sieur de Eresby, a gilt cup; and to my dearest niece his wife a gold brooch with a pair of gold beads in remembrance of me ; and in case I die without heir of my body, then niy said nephew De Willoughby is to have the jewelled cross, the book Genesy, and the diamond ring, which my father appointed to be heirlooms. And if I have an heir male, then my said heir is to have the sword which the King gave to my father, with the title of Earl : and if I die without heir male, then the said sword is to be offered at Campsey on the day of my burial, to remain there for ever. Item, to my dearest nephew De Scales a gilt cup, and to my niece his wife a pair of gold beads. Item, to Monsr. Richard le Scrope .£20 in gold and a cup worth 10 marks. To Mons. Robert de Swylington ^20 and a gilt cup. To Monsr. Brian de Stapilton a gilt cu]p. To Monsr. Nicholas Gernon* £10 and a cup. To my cousins Lady de Kerdestonf and Lady de Cailly;]; a gold ring each. To Monsr. John de Burgh§ a Bordeaux basnet, a Bordeaux jack, a coat of mail of steel, a battleaxe which was made at London, the gilt cup with a lion on the cover, six silver porrin- gers, and six silver saucers. To my cousin Monsr. Robert de Ufford|| a helmet with a complete suit of plate armour, with a beUy-piece and arm-pieces of mail and leg-pieces and a pair of gauntlets of plate, and a Gascon sword. Legacies of money and plate to divers servants and dependents. To the Prioress of Campsey 40s., and to each lady there, except my dear sister, 20s., and to the repair of their church 100 marks. To the House of Leiston 500 marks. To the House of Bungay ^20. To the Houses of Sibton and Butley 20 marks each. To the Houses of Redling- field and Hickhng and Bromhohn ^20 each. To the Houses of Thetford, Ixworth, and Snape 10 marks each. To the House of Mendham ^20. Item, my attorneys to make a cell for a monk at the Charter House in London, and to treat with the prior and convent there to have a monk for ever to sing there for all time for me and for the souls for wMch I am bound. Item, I mil that a silver image be made of a rider on his horse armed with my arms, and that it be offered before our Lady of Walsingham. Also, that a silver image of a man kneeling and armed with my arms be made and offered at Bromholm. Also, I will that a marble tomb be made * This Will proves that Sir Nicholas Gernon was living at a later period than I was able to trace his career at p. 196. t Cecilia, widow of Sir WiUiam de Kerdeston Kt., was cousin-german of the testator, being a daughter of Sir John de Brews Kt. of Stinton, by Eva de Ufford [see p. 327). Her younger brother Giles de Brews has been already mentioned in this Will. % Alice, widow of Sir William de Cailli Kt. of Oby in Norfolk, was another daughter of Sir John and Eva de Brews. Su- WilUam died in Nov. 1380, and Alice was Uving in 1386 the widow of Su- Roger Newent Kt. (185) § Sir John de Burgh of Burgh (now Burrough-gi-een) in Cambridgeshire madehis Will in 1384, and has a fine tomb in the chm-ch there. (186) II Sir Bobert de Ufford of Wrentham became on the Earl's death the heir male of Ufford. UU 336 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. at Campsey on tlie spot wliere I bequeathed my body to be buried, according to the instructions which I have given to my attorneys. In witness whereof I have set my seal on Thursday the feast of Corpus Christi, a.d. 1381. Bill INDENTED and made at Framlingham Castle 12th May, 4 Rich. II., declares the trusts of the manors and lands vested in the Earl's feoffees. Subject to the jointure of the Countess Isabel and to the claims of Dame Maud de Montacute, Abbess of Barldng, the feoffees are, in default of the Earl leaving issue, to convey to Monsr. Robert de AVilloughby Sieur de Eresby the manors of Ufford, Parham, Bawdsey, Combs, Roughton, and Pinchbeck, together with Orford Castle and the advowsons of Campsey and Combs, to hold the same to him and the heirs of his body in tail male, Avith remainder to his brother Monsr. William de Willoughby in tail male, with remainder to Monsr. Robert de Ufford the EaiTs cousin in tail male, with remainder to the said Robert de Willoughby in fee. And in like case the feoffees are to convey the manor of Hickling and the advowson of the priory there to Monsr. Roger de Scales in tail male, with remainder to the said Monsr. Robert de Ufford in tail male, with remainder to the said Roger de Scales in fee. Provided always, that such conveyances shall not be carried into effect without sufficient indemnity to the executors of Robert late Earl of Suffolk and of the Earl himself, and of Jiis brother Mons. Thomas de Ufford. Whether the Earl leave issue or not, the feoffees are to get license of mortmain to convey the manors of Wickham and Helmingham to Campsey Priory for the benefit of the ladies and chaplains there. And in default of the Earl leaving issue, the feoffees are to convey to the said Monsr. Robert de Willoughby Sieur de Eresby the manors of Ufford and Wykes-Ufford and the advowson of Ufford, to hold to him and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to Monsr. Henry Ferreres in tail male, remainder to the said Robert de Willoughby in fee. Will and Codicils proved at Lambeth, 24th Feb. 1381-2. Isabel Countess of Suffolk survived her second husband nearly twenty-five years, but her grief took the form v^^hich Avas common amongst pious ladies of rank in those days, and she soon made a solemn vow never to marry again. It is recorded in the Bishop of Ely's Register, (187) that on 21st March Isabella Countess of Suffolk made this solemn vow of chastity before the high altar ot Campsey Priory, in the presence of Thomas Bishop of Ely then celebrating mass, and of Henry Bishop of Norwich robed in his pontificals : ' Jeo Isabella, judis la femme de William de Ufford Comte de Suff. vowe a Dieu, et a notre dame Seynte Marie et a toux Seyntes, en presence de trez-reverentz piers en Dieu les Evoques de Ely et de Norwiz, que jeo dois estre chaste dors en avaunt ma vie durante.' ' The Bishop of Ely, acting in the place and by the authority of the Bishop of Norwich, then received her vow, and solemnly blessed the mantle or cloak and the ring of the vowess, and put them on her. There were present on this occasion the Earl of Warwick (brother of the Countess) , the Lords Willoughby and Scales (nephews of the late Earl), other knights and esquires, and a great crowd of people.' The Countess Isabel enjoyed for her life the bulk of the Earl's estates, of which the reversion lapsed to the Crown, and was regranted with the earldom of Suffolk to Michael de la Pole in 1386. (188) She died on 29th Sept. 1416, (189) and by her Will, which is dated 26th Sept. (three days before her death), she desires to be buried near her second husband at Campsey. (190) DE UFFOED OF WliENTHAM. 337 V. It remains, to complete my account of the house of De UflPord, that I should attempt some notice of that younger line, who survived by a few years the extinction of the earldom of Suffolk, and whose origin is wrongly deduced by Dug- dale from Sir Ralph de Uflford,* the Viceroy of Ireland. (99) Sir Thomas de TJfford Kt., the second son of the first Robert de Ufford {see p. 323), and the uncle of the first Earl of Suffolk, established his position by his marriage. He married in March 1307-8 Eve, widow of Thomas de Audley of Helagh, who died under age and withou.t issue about Christmas 1307. (191) Eve was the only child of John Lord Clavering, who died at Aynho, 14th Jan. 1331-2, (192) and she would have been a great heiress, but that her father in 1312 conveyed the reversion of his principal estates to the King, in default of his own male issue, in consideration of an annuity of 4:001. per annum. (193) This limitation took effect on his death, and the great inheritance of Warkworth Castle in Northumberland, Horseford in Norfolk, and Clavering in Essex, then fell to the Crown, whilst Joan inherited only the advowsons of Langley, Sibton, and Horsham Abbeys in Norfolk, of her ancestor's foundation, (194) with some manors in Suffolk, of which Blythburgh was one. (195) Sir Thomas de Uffordf w^as one of the knights who was slain at the battle of Bannockburn, on 24th June 1314, when his father-in-law Lord Clavering was taken prisoner ; but his body was brought to England and was buried at Langley Abbey, the burial-place of his wife's ancestors. (196) Sir Thomas had issue by his wife Eve three sons : (194) I. John de Ufford, his son and heir, afterwards a Baron of Parliament. II. Sir Robert de Ufford Kt., married Margaret, daughter of Sir John de Hederset Kt., and heiress of the manors of Woodhall and Cantelose in the parish of Hederset in Norfolk by the grant of her brothers Sir Simon de Hederset Kt. and Remigius parson of Hingham. (197). He died without issue before his brother John. III. Edmund de Ufford, heir to his brother J ohn. Eve, the widow of Sir Thomas de Ufford, married thirdly Sir J ames de Audley Kt., of Stratton Audley, Oxon, who was the second cousin of her first husband. She survived her third husband, and was his widow in 1332, when she presented to the rectory of Blythburgh. (195) They had issue five children, of whom their two * It is cei-tain, from the Close Rolls (2 Edw. II. m. 13) and from the Inq. p. m. of Thomas de Audley, (191) that the husband of Eve Clavering, who was the undoubted ancestor of the Ufibrds of Wrentham, was named Thomas and not Ralph de Ufford. It is also certain that Eve's third husband, James de Audley, was dead in 1333, (195) and that she survived until 1369, when she died the wife of Lord Benhale. (201) On the other hand, we know that Sir Ralph de Ufford died in 1346, (107) and that his widow, Matilda of Lancaster, survived him above twenty years. t Sir Thomas de Ufford and his descendants bore the arms of the Earls of Suffolk, debruised by a bend azure, by way of difference, (i 50) 338 THE CHESTEES OP CHICHELEY. sons were both famous warriors and are celebrated by Froissart. Their eldest son, Sir James de Audlej K.Gr., has been confused by Ashmole and Dugdale with his kinsman James Lord Audley of Helagh. (198) Sir James was ' the first assailant at the battle of Poitiers, and was accounted on that day the bravest of the whole English army.' (43) He died unmarried in 1369* at Fontenay-le-Oomte, being then Seneschal of Poitou, ' to the great sorrow of the Prince and Princess of Wales,' who attended his obsequies in the city of Poitiers. (43) His brother, SiR Peter de Audley, was also a most gallant knight, and died unmarried at Beaufort Castle in Champagne in 1359. Eye married fourthly Sir Robert de Benhale Kt., who presented in her right to the Rectory of Burgh in Norfolk, in 1338, (200) and was summoned to Parliament as a baron 3d April 1360, but never afterwards. He was apparently summoned in right of his wife Eve, the heir of the barony of Clavering, for his parentage and career were equally obscure. Eve died on 20th Sept. 1369, (201) and lies buried at Langley with all her four husbands. John de Ufford, son and heir of Sir Thomas by his wife Eve, was summoned to Parliament as a baron, with his stepfather Robert de Benhale, on 3d April 1360, but he died unmarried in 1361 in the lifetime of his mother, and was buried at Langley, when his brother Edmund was found to be his next heir. (202) Sir Edmund de Ufford, brother and heir of John, Avas usually styled le cousin to distinguish him from his contemporary. Sir Edmund de Ufford, the brother (Je frere) of the Earl of Suffolk, and he is so called in the patent of protection, which was granted to him in May 1356, when he was about to sail for Brittany in the retinue of Henry Duke of Lancaster. (203) Li 1361 the King's escheator in Suffolk was commanded to give livery of the manor of Great Belstead, which John Lord de Ufford, lately deceased, held of the Crown as of the honour of Albemarle to Edmund his brother and heir, and at the same time Sir Edmund inherited from his brother the manors of West Lexham, Poswick, Burgh, Glemham and Chippen- hale, which were also held in mesne tenure. (204) Sir Edmund was in 1369 the sole surviving son of his mother, and presented as her heir to Blythburgh Rectory in 1371. (195) He is affectionately mentioned in the Will of Robert Earl of Suffolk, and died in 1374, a few months before his namesake Sir Edmund le frere, for his Will is dated 1st Sept. 1374, and was proved at Norwich on 3d Oct. in the same 'year. (196) He married Sibyl, daughter and heir of Sir Simon Pierrepoint Kt., of Wrentham in Suffolk, whose ancestor, Godfrey de Pierrepoint, held Wrentham with its berwicks from William de Warren in Domesday. (205) * The inquest taken after the death of Sir James de Audley, in 45 Edw. III., has long heen lost, but it is referred to in a MS. marked B. 9, in the Library of the College of Arms, with the following note : ^Jacobus fil. Jacobi de Audley obiit anno 43 in Vascon. Non constat de herede. Glouc.^ (199) DE UFFOED OF WEENTHAM. 339 Sir Edmund had issue by his wife Sibyl a son and a daughter, besides others who died in childhood. (194) I. RoBEET DE Uffoed, SOU and heir. II. Ela DE Uffoed, married before 1376 Sir Miles Stapleton Kt.,* of Ingham in Norfolk, who died in 1417. Ela and her husband are commemorated by a brass in Ingham Church. (206) Their son and heir. Sir Brian Stapleton of Ingham, married Cecily, daughter of William Lord Bardolfe, and was the ancestor both of the second Sir Anthony Chester and of his wife Elizabeth Peyton, as I have shown in the pedigree at p. 140. SlE ROBEET DE Uffoed, the SOU and heir of Sir Edmund by Sibyl de Pierre- point, was still a boy when his cousin Robert Earl of Suffolk left him by his Will ' the little horn mounted with gold, which had been given to him by the King,' for he was under age at the time of his father's death, and his wardship was granted by the King in 1375 to Isabel de Couci Countess of Bedford. He inherited from his mother Wrentham and the rest of the Pierrepoint estates in SuflPolk, and on the death of his cousin William Earl of Suffolk in 1381-2, he became the heir male of the family of De Ufford. He is constantly remembered in the Will of Earl William, but I cannot find that any of the remainders in his favour ever took effect. He married Eleanor, third daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Felton K.G., who was twenty years old v/hen her father died on 2Gth April 1381. (208) Sir Robert was still living in Jan. 1389-90, (209) but he died soon afterwards, for his widow Eleanor granted by deed as a femme sole in 1393, (210) and was in 1395 the wife of Sir Thomas Hoo Kt., afterwards one of the heroes of Agincourt, with whom she presented to Blythburgh in 1395 and 1397. (195) She was by her second marriage the mother of Thomas Lord Hoo and Hastings K.G., and died on 8th Aug. 1400. (211) Sir Robert de UflFord was the last male heir of his race, and left issue by his wife Eleanor three daughters and coheirs. (194) I. Ela DE Uffoed, married Richard Bowett Esq., and died without issue in 1400, when she was buried at Wrentham. II. Sibyl de Uffoed, a nun at Barking. III. Joan de Uffoed, inherited Wrentham on the death of her mother and sister Ela in 1400, and married Sir William Bowett Kt., the brother of her sister Ela's husband, with whom she jointly presented to Benacre Rectory in 1409 and 1418, (212) and to Blythburgh Rectory in 1418 and 1420. (195) Sir WiUiam Bowett was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Baug6 on 22d March 1420-1, and died soon afterwards, for his widow Joan Avas in 1422 the wife of Sir Henry Inglose Kt. of Loddon in Norfolk, who was also taken prisoner at the same battle. (213). Joan died long before her second husband (who lived u.ntil 1452, * The Wm of Sir Miles, dated in 1414, is printed in the Norfolk Archceologia, iv. 321. 340 THE CHESTEES OE CHICHELEY. and had children bj another wife), (2 14) for she was dead in 1427, when her son-in- law. Sir Thomas Dacre, presented to Blythburgh. (195) Joan had no issue by Sir Henry Inglose, but by her first marriage she had an only child, Ela Bowett, the heiress of Wrentham, who married Sir Thomas Dacre Kt., son and heir apparent of Thomas Lord Dacre of the North. Sir Thomas survived his wife, but died in his father's lifetime, leaving an only child Joan, the wife of Sir Richard Fiennes Kt. of Hurstmonceaux, who was on 7th Nov., 37 Hen. VI. (1458) declared Lord Dacre in right of his wife, (215) and was the ancestor of the present Lord Dacre. PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. (1) Inq. p. in. Job. Peyton Arm. 1 Eliz. 18 Oct. (2) Calendars of State Papers, Irish Series, vol. i. p. 388. (3) Calendars of State Papers, Domestic Series, under the dates. (4) Wm of Sir Robert BeU, at p. 121. , (5) Blomefield's Hist, of Norfolk, 8vo, vol. vii. p. 457. (6) Life of Sir R. Bell, in Cooper's Athense Can- tab, i. 365. (7) From the information of Rev. W. G. Searle, M.A., the historian of Queen's Coll. Camb. (8) Lansdowne mss. 79, fo. 57. (9) Cotton MSS. Galba C. x. fo. 59. (10) Leycester Correspondence, Camden Soc. p. 61. (11) Collins' Peerage, 1779, vol. ii. p. 10. (12) Dugdale's List of Knights in Bodl. Lib. (13) Chamberlain's Letters to Carleton, 11 June 1597, Camden Soc. (14) Seymour's London, i. 66. (15) Autogi-aph letters, preserved amongst the Hatfield iiss. and printed in the Corre- spondence of James I. and Cecil, Camden Soc. 1861. (16) Will of Henry Cuffe, printed in the Appendix to the CoiTespondence of James I. and Cecil. (17) Chamberlain's Letters to Carleton, 28 Feb. 1602-3. (3) (18) Nichols' Progresses of James I. i. p. 58. [ (19) Public Records, Letters Domestic, James I. vol. ii. No. 91. (20) Notes and Queries, 4th Series, vol. ii. p. 188. (21) Public Records, Letters Domestic, James I. vol. iv. No. 14. (22) Lodge's Illustrations, 8vo, vol. ii. p. 531. (23) Collins' Peerage, 1779. (24) Correspondence of James I. and Cecil, Cam- den Soc. (25) Wotton's Baronetage, 1741, vol. i. p. 366. (26) Bp. Goodman's Court of James I. vol. i. p. 14. (27) Lysons' Hist, of Cambridgeshire, 4to, p. 176. (28) Wotton's English Baronets, 1727, vol. ii. p. 459. (29) Wood's Antiquities of Oxford, ed. Gutch,4to, 1786, p. 504. (30) Gage's Hist, of Thingo Hundred, p. 354. (31) Movant's Essex, vol. ii. p. 287: Hedingham Sible. (32) Idem, vol. ii. p. 378 : Gosfield. (33) Yillani, Storia Fiorentina, quoted by Gough. (39) (34) CartsB Antiquse in Brit. Mus. 51 D. 6. (35) Mon. Angl. iv. 437 : Hedingham. (36) Essay on Parish Registers, by R. E. Chester Waters Esq. 1870, p. 31. (37) M. 1. at East Horndon : Essex Archseologia, vol. V. p. 294. (38) Dugdale's Baronage. (39) Memoirs of Sir J. Hawkwood, in vol. vi. of Nichols' Bibl. Top. Brit. (40) Froissart's Chronicles, ed. Johnes, 8vo, 1844, vol. i. p. 574, (41) Fuller's Worthies : Essex. (42) Ritratti ed. Elogii di Capitani lUustri, 4to, Roma, 1535, p. 45. (43) Froissart's Chronicles. (44) Documenti Diplomatici tratti dagH Archivi Milanesi, par L. Oslo, fol. Milano, 1864. (45) Testamenta Vetusta, i. p. 87. (46) Ammirato, Istorie Fiorentine, lib. xiii. 704. (47) Corio, Historie Milanese, part iii. (48) Rot. Pari. 51 Edw. III. vol. ii. p. 372. (49) Rymer's Foedera, under the dates. (50) Harl. MSS. 6989, fo. 1. (51) Machiavelli, Hist, of Florence. (52) Ammirato Istorie Fiorentine, 1641, lib. xvi. (53) Calendar of State Papers, Venetian Series, vol. i. p. 26. (54) Rot. Pat. 8 Hen. IV. m. 18. (55) Cal. Rot. Pat. 14 Hen. IV. m. 18. (56) Ped. of Coggeshall in Morant's Essex, vol. ii. pp. 162, 378. (57) Proof of age of Joan de Welles, 25 Edw. III. PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. 341 2(1 App. to ith. Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records, p. 132. (58) Ped. of Doreward in Morant's Essex, vol. ii. p. 385. (59) Inq. p. m. Joli. Doreward Arm. 8 Hen. V. No. 104. (60) Men. Angl. vi. 718 : Rocking. (61) Inq. p. m. Joh. Doreward Arm. 20 Edw. IV. No. 79. (6a) Inq. p. m. W. Doreward Arm. 21 Edw. IV. No. 21. (63) Inq. p. m. Joh. Doreward 11 Hen. VII. ; Gage's Hist, of Thingo Hundred, p. 354. (64) Edwards' Life of Sir W. Raleigh, vol. i. p. 373. (65) Cotton Mss. Galba F. i. 412. (66) Progresses of James I. vol. ii. pp. 449, 515. (67) Cotton MSS. Julius C. iii. fo. 294. (68) Public Records, Letters Domestic, James I. vol. xciv. No. 23. (69) Sidney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 328, &c. (70) Carleton's Letters, 4to, 1757. (71) Chi'onicque de la traison et mort de Richard II. ed. WUliams, 1846, p. 146. (72) From the information of Rev. G. E. Walker, Rector of Doddington. (73) From Col. J. L. Chester's mss. Collections. (74) Burrell's Sussex Collections ; Add. mss. in Brit. Mus. 5698, Brighton, pp. 42-44. (75) Add. MSS. in Brit. Mus. p. 491 : Slinfold. (76) Athenoe Oson. 1721 ; Fasti, i. p. 178. (77) Blomefield's Norfolk, Svo, ix. 171. (78) Sir John P'ortescue's Life and Works, edited by Lord Clermont, 4to, 1869; Ped. of Fortescue of CookhiU in vol. ii. (79) Printed List of Members of the Inner Temple, 1571-1625. (80) Par. Reg. of Chicheley. (81) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, x. 307. (8 a) Pedigree of Peyton, edited by Dr. Howard for the Vis. of Suffolk, 1561. (83) Gage's Thingo Hundred, p. 513. (84) Harl. MSS. 1912 ; Register of Gray's Inn. (8 5) Chauncey's Hist, of Herts, Svo, vol. ii. p. 664. (86) Seymour's London, vol. i. p. 660. (87) Quoted in Bohn's edition of Lowndes, under ' John Nalson LL.D. ' (88) Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature, 1858, vol. iii. p. 161. (89) Preface to the 2d vol. of Peck's Desiderata Curiosa. (90) Hardy's Fasti Eccl. Angl. vol. i. p. 361, (91) From the Par. Register of Doddington. (92) Hardy's Fasti Eccl. Angl. vol. iii. p. 614. (93) Gent. Mag. vol. x. p. 148. (94) From a family Bible, quoted by Howard at p. 25 of his edition of the Pedigree of Peyton. (82) (95-98) Desunt. (99) Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 47. (100) Annals of Loch C6, Record edition, vol. i. p. 461. (101) Moore's Hist, of Ireland, 1847, vol. iii. p. 28. (102) Rolls of Parliament, vol. i. p. 376, and vol. ii. p. 14. (103) Rot. Pat. 54 Hen. III. m. 15. (104) Rot. Fin. 1 Edw. I. m. 20. (105) Inq. p. m. W. de Say, 56 Hen. III. No. 37. (106) Inq. p. m. Alexandri de Cheney, 24 Edw. I. No. 26. (107) Grace's Annales Hibernia3, ed. Butler, 1842, sub annis. (108) Rot. Cart. 11 Edw. I. No. 11. (109) Inq. p. m. R. de UfTord, 26 Edw. I. No. 32. (no) Collins' Peerage, 1779, vol. i. p. 53 ; Foss's Judges, vol. iii. p. 266. (in) Patent Rolls, under the dates. (112) Mon. Angl. iv. 69: Carrow. (113) Inq. p. m. R. de Valoines, 10 Edw. I. No. 15. (114) Inq. p. m. Rogeri Fitz-Petri et Sarr£e uxoris, 34 Edw. I. No. 58. (115) Inq. p. m. R. de Ufford Chev. 10 Edw. II. No. 76. (116) Rot. Clans. 10 Edw. II. m. 20. (117) Inq. p. m. Cecilire de Ufi'ord, 19 Edw. II. No. 74. (118) Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. i. partii. p. 217. (119) Weever's Ancient Funeral Monuments. (120) Blomefield's Hist, of Norfolk, fol. iv. p. 341. (121) Cal. Rot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 251, 32 Edw. III. (122) Cotton MSS. Otho D. iv. 96; Coll. Top. etGen. iv. 393. (123) Cal. Rot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 110, 10 Edw. III. (124) Idem, vol. ii. p. 146, 16 Edw. III. (125) Mon. Angl. vi. 585 : Campsey. (126) Mon. Angl. viii. 1555 : Brusyard. (127) Rot. Pat. 24 Edw. fll. 28 May and 10 June. (128) Beltz's Memorials of the Garter, p. 249. (129) Chronicque de la traison et mort de Richard II. ed. Williams, 1842, p. 268, &c. (130) Inq. p. m. Matildse Comitissse Oxon. 14 Hen. IV. No. 17. (131) Testamenta Vetusta, p. 182. (132) Inq. p. m. Rad. de Ufford, mU. 20 Edw. III. No. 16. (133) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, vol. viii. p. 462. (134) Inq. p. m. Edmundi de Ufford, 49 Edw. III. No. 55 ; Oal. Rot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 336. (135) Archfeologia, vol. xxvi. p. 341; Stapleton's Observations on Wardrobe Rolls, 10 & 11 Edw. II. (136) Rolls of Parliament, vol. ii. p. 57. (137) Fifth Report, Touching the Dignity of a Peer, Appendix v. pp. 31, 83, 38. (138) Hist, of Royal Navy, by Sir H. Nicolas, vol. ii. pp. 231, 526. (139) Beltz's Memorials of the Garter, p. 98, &c. 140) Inq. p. m. Thorn, de Cailli Chev. 10 Edw. II. No. 63. 342 THE CHESTEES (141) Inq. p. m. Margaiitse Comitiss. de Suffolk, 42 Edw. III. No. 59. (14a) Inq. p. m. Eoberti Com. de Suffolk, 43 Edw. III. No. 88. (143) Testamenta Vetusta, p. 74; Beltz's note at p. 100. (144) Eot. Franc. 20 Edw. III. (145) Inq. p. m. W. Latimer Chev. 9 Edw. III. No. 51. (146) Coll. Top. et Gen. vol. v. p. 155. (147) Cal. Eot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 134, 13 Edw. III. (148) Foss's Judges, vol. iii. p. 473. (149) Beltz, p. 127. (150) Topograpliei- and Genealogist, ii. 271-6. (151) Eot. Pat. 25 Edw. III. part ii. m. 23. (152) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, vol. ii. p. 424. (i';3) Hardy's Fasti Eccl. Angl. vol. ii. pp. 487, 161. (154) Godwin de Prsesulibus, p. Ill; Parker's Ant. Eccl. Brit. p. 263. (155) Hardy's Fasti, vol. i. p. 18 ; Foss's Judges, vol. iii. p. 473. (156) Hardy's Fasti, vol. ii. p. 327; vol. iii. p. 201 ; Foss, iii. 472. (157) Banks' Baronia, i. 440. (158) Placitorum Abbrev. p. 266. (1 59) Cal. Eot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 50, 5 Edw. III. (160) Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, 1845, vol. i. p. 249. (161) Gage's Hist, of Thingo Hundi-ed, p. 44. (162) Inq. p. m. Joh. de S. Philiberto, 7 Edw. III. (163) Inq. p. m. Joh. de Willoughby Chev. 46 Edw. III. No. 78. (164) Inq. p.m. W. de Ferrers Chev. 45 Edw. III. No. 22. (165) Testamenta Vetusta, vol. i. p. 76. (166) Harl. Mss. 10, fo.^11. (167) Proof of age of Joan de Ufiford, 37 Edw. III. ; 2d App. to 3d Eeport of Deputy Keeper of Public Eecords, p. 208. (168) Inq. p. m. Edw. de Montacute Chev. 35 Edw. III. part ii. No. 7. (169) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, vol. v. p. 368. (170) Mon. Angl. vol. i. p. 438: Barking. (171) Inq. p. m. Marias Comitiss. de Norfolk, 36 Edw. III. part ii. No. 9 ; Cal. Eot. Orig. 36 Edw. III. vol. ii. p. 271. (172) Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 653. (173) Beltz, p. 210. (174) Inq. p. m. Joh. Le Strange de Blakemere, 49 Edw. III. part ii. No. 8. (175) Esch. 3 Eich. II. No. 14. (176) Walsingham's Hist, of England. (177) Inq. p. m. Will. Com. de Suffolk, 5 Eich. II. No. 57. (178) Suckling's Hist, of Suffolk, vol. ii. p. 410. OF CIIICHELEY. (179) Harl. MSS. 370, fo. 66; Ereve Eegis, 49 Edw. III. (180) Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 235 ; Liber de Antiquis Legibus, ed. 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(197) Idem, vol. v. p. 26. (198) Herald and Genealogist, vol. v. p. 65, &c. (199) Beltz, p. 76. (200) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, xi. 155. {201) Inq. p. m. Evse de Benhale, 45 Edw, III. No. 2. (202) Inq. p. m. Joh. de Ufford Chev. 35 Edw. III. No. 87. (203) Eot. Franc. 30 Edward III. m. 15, 202. (204) Cal. Eot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 265. (205) Domesday, vol. ii. p. 399. (206) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, vol. ix. p. 320-5. (207) Deest. (208) Inq. p. m. Thom. de Felton Chev. 4 Eich. II. No. 22 ; Beltz, p. 279. (209) Harl. MSS. 10, fo. 134. (210) Charters in Brit. Mus. 84, B. 10. (211) Sussex ArchKologia, vol. viii. p. 131; Pedi- • gi-ee of Hoo. (212) Suckling's Hist, of Suffolk, vol. ii. p. 130. (213) Harl. MSS. 782, fo. 49, printed by B. Williams at the end of Gesta Henrici Quinti. (214) Inq. p. m. Hen. Inglose, mil. 29 Hen. VI. No. 9. (215) Eot. Pat. 87 Hen. VI. m. 20. SIR ANTHONY CHESTER, BART. III. 343 CHAPTEK XVI. Sir Anthony Chester, the third Bart., 1G33-1698. II. His loidow Dame Mary Chester, 1635-1710. III. Their sixteen children, IV. Thomas Chester of London, 1674-1737, and his descendants. Sir Anthony Chester, the third Baronet, (the son and heir of Sir Anthony Chester II. and Ehzabeth Peyton) was only nineteen years old when his father died //e in February 1G51-2. The fortunes of the family were then at their lowest ebb, for c^l Chicheley Hall was in a state of dilapidation from the raids of the rebel garrison at Newport Pagnel, and the estate was so much reduced in extent and value that the young Baronet, after paying his mother's jointure, had barely 300Z. a year to spend. He found a careful and affectionate guardian in his nncle Henry Chester, who managed his nephew's affairs with his usual discretion and success. He Avas prevented by the confusion of the times from finishing his education at a viniversity and an inn of court, but he was through life a lover of letters and of learned men, and it is recorded to his honour that he contributed, out of the slender income of his youth, to the expense of printing that noble monument of English scholarship the Polyglot Bible of Dr. Brian Walton. (8) His affectionate relations with his guardian were not interrupted at the close of his brief minority, and three years afterwards new ties of connexion between them were created by his marriage. In the mean while he kept clear of politics, and devoted himself to the improvement of his estate; and it may be guessed that his marriage was delayed, by his uncle's advice, until Chicheley Hall was thoroughly restored to habitable order. Sir Anthony married at Chicheley, on 21st May 1657, Mrs, Mary Cranmer, (r) who was just two years younger than himself. She was the only daiighter of Henry Chester's second wife by her first husband Samuel Cranmer, a wealthy alderman of London, who purchased in 1628 the manor of Astwoodbury in the next parish to Chicheley, and died in 1640, leaving a son and a daughter, both of tender age. The Alderman was lineally descended from John Cranmer Esq. of Aslacton in Notting- hamshire, the eldest brother of Archbishop Cranmer, as will be shown in a subsequent chapter. His wife Mary Wood has been already noticed in my account of her second husband Sir Henry Chester (see pp. 130, 133), She was the elder sister of Sir Henry Wood Bart, of LoudhamPark in Suffolk, and her son Sir Caesar Cranmer assumed the name of Wood on the death of his cousin, the Duchess of South- ampton. Sir Caasar's posterity died out in the next generation, when the heirs of his sister Dame Mary Chester succeeded to the Cranmer moiety of the inhei'itance of Wood. Sir Anthony received a handsome fortune with his wife, for the marriage portion XX 344 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. provided by her father's Settlement and Will had been considerably increased by a legacy from her grandfather Wood, and by the savings of her long minority. From the time of his marriage he constantly resided at Chicheley Hall, where all his sixteen children were born. He had seA^en sons and nine daughters, as appears from a memorandum in his own handwriting now lying before me, in which the birthday of each child, and the hour of birth, is set down with scrupulous care ; and it is characteristic of his old-fashioned piety, that he never forgets to express his gratitude to God for the blessing vouchsafed to him. This multiplication of blessings would have proved a grievous burden, if his prospects of fortune had not materially improved soon after his marriage ; but Henry Chester lost his only son in 1659, and when he died in 1666, Sir Anthony was the executor of his uncle's Will and the heir of his great estates. Sir Henry Chester died seised of Lidlington Park and of Tilsworth Manor in Bedfordshire, which he had inherited from his father the first Baronet, and of 658 acres in Chicheley which he had purchased from his brother the second Baronet. The rest of his estates were in reversion, and comprised the jointure of his stepmother in Bedfordshire; the manor and impropriate rectory of East Haddon, which his brother William Chester held for life ; and the manor of Snelson in Lavendon, Bucks, which John Chester afterwards surrendered to his nephew for a life annuity of 200/. a year. All these estates now devolved upon Sir Anthony, but notwithstanding this accession of fortune he was for a long time straitened in his income, for the rents of TilsAvorth were appropriated for the next twenty years to provide portions for his five daughters born in Sir Henry's lifetime, and the other estates in possession were heavily charged with annuities and legacies. This will account for Sir Anthony's unpunctuality in his payments, of which John Chester so bitterly complains in the letters ; which were printed in my tenth chapter.* It must be added, injustice to Sir Anthony, that during the greater part of his life he had to provide for the jointures of three Dowager Lady Chesters, who were all li^ving at the same time, and were so singularly long-lived that their united ages amounted to 256 years, of Avhich 113 were years of widowhood. The first of these dowagers to die was the widow of Sir Henry Chester, who died in April 1684, at the age of 80, after eighteen years' enjoyment of the house at Lidlington and of a rent- charge of 300/. a year. The next to die was Sir Anthony's mother Dame Elizabeth Chester, who died 3d June 1692, at the age of 90, after forty years of widowhood. Her death was followed in September of the same year by that of Dame Mary Chester, the widow of the first baronet, who was 88 years old, and had survived her husband fifty-seven years. It was therefore not until 1692 that SirAntho ny came into full possession of the whole estates of his grandfather. Sir Henry Chester was buried in Tilsworth Church, where his nephew erected a stately monument in the chancel to the memory of his benefactor.! His gratitude was further proved by the care which he took of his uncle's favourite servants in * See p. 134. t See p. 131. SIR ANTHONY CHESTEl?, BART. III. 345 their old age. A tablet on the outside wall of the chancel at Tilsworth preserves the memory of John Quinny, and of his long and faithful services to his master : Hee departed Aug . 18, 1669, aged 72 yeares. Hee was servant 56 yeares to Sir Henrey Chester Kt. of the Honourable Order of the Bath. John Quinny belonged to a family, with whom fidelity to the Chesters was hereditary, for his father Thomas Quinny was the valued servant of the first baronet, who left him a legacy* of bl. John was only 16 years old when he began to wait on Sir Henry Chester in 1610, and his master was four years younger. In his later years he was assisted by his son Daniel Quinny, who was brought up to the same service. Both father and son were rewarded with annuities for life by Sir Henry Chester's Will. Mrs. StubbSjthe housekeeper at Lidlington Park, could boast of a still longer service than John Quinny, for she served three generations of the Chesters during a period of seventy years. She entered the household of the first Sir Anthony Chester in 1622 as the gentlewoman of Dame Elizabeth Chester. After the death of her mistress in 1629 she married John Stubbs a gentleman in Lincolnshire and had two sons, the younger of whom, Henry Stubbs, was a physician of some reputation. Being left a widow, with a slender income, she came back into the family in 1656 as housekeeper to Henry Chester at Lidlington, and stayed with him until his death in 1666. Sir Henry's Will relieved her from the necessity of further service by an annuity of 30^. for life, but she insisted on remaining in the family as housekeeper until her death in spite of age and infirmity. She died on 20th June 1692 in the 93d year of her age, and was buried at Chicheley, when Sir Anthony Chester was the executor of her Will, and placed in Chicheley Church an inscription to her memory.f Such instances of lifelong attachment and fidelity are equally honourable to master and servant, for if servants of this stamp are seldom found, the kindness and respect with which Sir Henry Chester and his nephew treated their dependents are equally rare. Sir Anthony was one of the last of the provincial aristocracy, who kept up the old fashion of being waited upon by persons of gentle blood and of his own kindred. Lady Chester's waiting-woman Elizabeth Eichers was related to Sir Anthony through the Peytons, and the relationship was recognised and respected.J * See p. 114. t Her tombstone is on the floor of the north aisle of Chicheley Church. The centre of the stone is so much worn that the inscription is in great part illegible, but Mr. Jeudwine has been kind enough to supply me with a copy which was made some sixty years ago. The words in italics have since perished : ' Here lies the body of Mary Stubbs wid. y<= relict of John Stubbs of Lincolnshire gent she first came to live y in this family with the lady of Antho. Chester Bar* y'^ first of that name about y^ yeare 1622 she icas the mother of two sons and Henry who was a phishiftaii ck a man of great imr aming at her second coming into y^ family she lived ivith Chester K. of y^ Bath from y*^ year 1656 to July 1666 y* time of his decease, and remained in family as housekeeper at Littleington Park in Bedfordshire to y^ time of her death w. happened on y<= 20* of June in y^ 93'''^ year of her age An. Do. 1692 and was interred by S"" Antho. Chester Bar* thii'd of name being her Executor.' I See p. 318. Cases of this kind were common enough before the civil wars, and I have collected a few from Wills and Records. Dame Mary Cordell, widow of Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls, says in her Will, dated 2d 346 THE CHfiSTEES Ol' CHICHELEY. Sir Anthony was Higli Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1G71, and took an active part in county business as a justice of the peace and a deputy-heutenant, but his habits and tastes were inconsistent with the life of a courtier and a politician, and he took no prominent part in public affairs during the reign of Charles II. On the accession of King J ames he Avas prevailed upon to serve in the new Parliament for the neigh- bouring town of Bedford, (17) for the King personally interested himself in procuring the election of country gentlemen on whose loyalty he could rely, and Sir Anthony's near relations Sir Csesar and Lady Cranmer had been for many years amongst the most trusted* members of the royal household. His political connexion was rather with Bedfordshire than Buckinghamshire, for his larger estates lay in that county at Lidlington and Tilsworth. Lidlington Park is close to Ampthill, where Kobert Earl of Ajdesbury, Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, resided. The earl was a Tory after Sir Anthony's own heart, for he, was a lover of learning and of the clergy, and was equally devoted in his loyalty to the Church of England and the House of Stuart. (14) He was the leader of the Tory landowners in Bedfordshire, who fiercely contested the local supremacy of the Russell family, and was one of the godfathers of Sir Anthony's youngest son Robert, on 8th Nov. 1677. (15) Parhament assembled on 19th May 1685, but within the next two months Sir Anthony was overtaken by a severe domestic calamity, for his eldest son and heir apparent Anthony, a young man of great promise, who had taken his degree at Oxford three years before, died at the age of 22, and was buried at Chicheley on 10th July 1685. (i) Sir Anthony Chester made no further appearance in public life after the death of his son, for this Parliament never met again for the dispatch of business except for a few days in November 1685. He diedf at Chicheley on Tuesday, 15th Feb. Feb. 1584-5: (9) 'Item, I give to my niece Huhhard, my ivayting woman, a blacke gown and ia money, and lykewise alittel jewell of golde sett witli three little stones and three peiies.' Dr. John Spencer, President of Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, gives by Will, dated 25tli March 1614, 'A copyhold of 10 acres in Northgrove to my kinsman and servant Christopher Spencer.' (10) Lady Hatton alleges in her conii)laint to the King against her husband Sir Edward Coke in 1634, ' Sir Walter Aston, now Lord Aston, married my waiting- woman, a gentlewoman of a good house and well allied.' (n) Roger Bedingfield of Oxburgh Gent, (grandnephew of Sir Henry Bedingfield Kt.) mentions in Ms Will, dated 5th Aug. 1640, ' My aged lady and mistress Lady Elizabeth Bedingfield, and my master Sir Henry Bedingfield.' (12) Catharine, wife of John Willson, addresses a petition in 1634 to her cousin-german Francis Lord Cottington, Chancellor of the Exchequer, praying for relief, and stating, 'lam the daughter of James Dyer late of Grove Park, Warwickshire, who was brother to your lordship's mother. After my father's death I was for a while brought up by my uncle George Dyer, and by him put to service to a mistress, who by a blow struck in my nose dejected my fortunes in maniage. Ever since I have been enforced to take hard pains for my living, as my poor husband doth for his,' &c. (11) * Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, was reconciled to the Church of Kome by F. Hunt, a Franciscan monk, in August 1670, but the secret was communicated to no one except Lady Cranmer, a lady of her bed- chamber, and M. Dupuy, a gentleman in the Duke's confidence, who were both present at the death-bed of the Duchess on 31st March 1671, and received the Holy Communion with her according to the Roman ritual. (13) t I can scarcely think that Sii- Anthony died intestate, but no Will or Administration can be found in the Eegistiy of London, Oxford, or Northampton. SIR ANTHONY CIlESTEB, BART. III. 347 1697-8, at the age of 65, and was buried there on Saturday evening following, 19th Feb. (i) There are three portraits of him in existence, taken at different periods of his life, and two of them are at Ghicheley Hall.* The earliest in date (a full length of life size) shows him in the prime of life. He has a round jovial face, with blue eyes, fair complexion, and light wavy hair parted in the middle. He is sitting in an arm- chair with a thick stick in his right hand, and his left hand rests on the head of a favourite hound. The other portrait at Ghicheley is in an oval frame dated 1695, and was taken in his old age, for his long hair is now gray and his features have a careworn expression. The third portrait (a half length of full size) was taken in his middle life, for he has still the jovial look of his youth, and appears as a fair florid man of about 50. This picture formerly belonged to his daughter Dorothea (Mrs. Wilson of Knight Thorpe), and is mentioned in her Will. Sir John Chester erected a tablet in Ghicheley Ghurch to the memory of his parents, which is affixed to the north wall of the church. Above the inscription are the arms of Ghester (without the bordure) impaling Cranmer, a chevron charged loith three cinquefuils between three pelicans, with the crests of both families — 1. a rams head erased (Ghester) ; 2. a griffins head erased, the neck transfixed loith an arrow (Granmer). lu antique hnjus ^dis couclitorio, Genti sufE sacro, cleiDosuit cineres Vir vere magnusi Antonius cTe Castro, veteris Prosapiffi multarum imaginiim gloria illustris, et Baronetti Titulo a majoribus insignitus : nec Genere clarior erat, quam Virtute. Raro invenies, qui vel Pii hominis vel subditi vel mariti vel Patris vel amici officio fungebatur fidelius, Bonos et cordatos unice amabat, Literas fovebat, omnes benigno excipiebat liospitio, singulis Virtutibus inlisesit, iis inclaruit, qua Honoratiores viros illustrant, ita tamen ut Pietate simplicitate constantia et Fide vicerit, plane triumphaverit. Tanti viri desiderium nos merito lugemus. Talem fuisse gaudebunt Posteri. Uxorem sibi adjunxit iUustrissimam Foeminam Mariam Samuelis Cranmer Armigeri Filiam, de qua numerosam suscepit prolem, cujus prmcipuus erat Dnus Joannes de Castro, Paterni Honoris et Virtutis Hteres, qui pulchruni hoc monumentum perpetilse tanti Patris memorifE lionorifice sacravit. Obiit 15° Feb" A° Dn' 1G97, £etat. 65. Una cum dilectissimo marito requiescit hand minus dilecta Domina Maria De Castro r/eneris gradus AmamQmyii a mag no illo Oranmero -vemxa religionem velut ex traduce liauriens Beformato- rum Principe tanti Antistitis vestigiis quantum potuit per omnia institit, etfide vimilis etmoribus vimilis Uteris et amicis vixit chara. Obiit plorata Maii 21"° An° Dom 1710 tetat. . . . It is to be hoped, for the credit of Sir John's good taste, that this long Latin inscription, with its allusions to himself, was set up in his absence without his approval. It bears internal evidence of having been composed by the same author as the following copy of verses, which has accidentally survived many documents better worth preserving : * I am indebted to Miss Beatrice Backhouse, the stepdaughter of the present Vicar of Ghicheley, for a detailed description of all the family portraits now remaining at Ghicheley Hall; 348 THE CHESTEKS OF CHICHELEY. On the Death of S' Anthony Chester Bae. To /Si' John Chester Bar. His Son. Had Virtue Wisdom Honour Blood Estate Power to bribe inexorable Fate ; Could Love of Friends Relations Neighbours save A Dying Man one moment from the Grave ; Could Prayers of Poor Relieved Avith Death prevail Or Fortitude against that Foe avail ; Chesteu had told yet larger summes of Years And longer much forborn our debt of tears. But since on 'earth 'gainst Death there's no Relief Why should we spend ourselves in vain with grief ? State but this seeming sad account a right, And we shall find that none are loosers by 't. Far better State S'' Anthony preferr'd, Where aU His "\'irtues find a Vast Reward. His Friends who did partake the Influence Which in His Sphere of Life He did dispense, With just Applause S"^ John and pleasure view His Virtues Honours Wealth survive in You. II. Dame Maey Chester, the widow of Sir Anthony III., continued to reside at Chicheley after her liusband's death, for Sir John Chester remained during his mother's life at Shenton Hall in Leicestershire, the seat of his wife's family, where he had lived from the time of his marriage. Chicheley Hall had suffered so much damage in the civil wars that it required constant repairs, and the old manor-house built by Anthony Cave in the reign of Plenry YIII. was ill suited in its accom- modation and arrangements to the fortune and taste of his descendants. Sir John therefore, on succeeding to the estate, immediately pulled down the old house, and built a new one on a larger scale and on a more convenient site. The old materials were partly used in the construction of the new mansion, and Lady Chester was therefore obliged to remove for a time to Lidlington. I cannot determine the precise date at which she took possession of her new home, but I gather from some accounts of that period that the fabric was finished in 1701, and that the new hall was inhabited before 1704. The old lady's household consisted for some time of her two unmarried daughters Dorothea and Penelope Chester, and of her orphan grand- daughter Mary Cambell, who was born at Chicheley in 1689, and was left by her father's "Will in 1G99 to the guardianship of her grandmother. Dorothea married in 1701 Mr. Wilson of Knight Thorpe in Leicestershire, and her sister married in 1707 Mr. AUeyne, the Rector of Loughborough, so that when Mary Cambell married Mr. Price of Westbury in 1709, Lady Chester was left quite alone in her old age. Whatever might be the grandeur and convenience of the new hall, her thoughts must often have gone back to the dilapidated old house in which DAME MAEY CHESTER, 349 the best years of her life were spent, and which was haunted with memories of the husband of her youth, and of so many cliildren who were now all dead or dispersed. She died on 21st May 1710, aged 75, and was buried beside her husband in Chicheley Church on 26th May. (i) There is a fine full-length portrait of her at Chicheley Hall, in which she is sitting with a little fair-haired girl standing at her side. She wears a white-satin dress, cut low to show the neck and arms, with a blue scarf, and her long brown hair flows over her shoulders. She is a brunette of slender figure, with bright black eyes, a long thin face, and a small mouth, and wears the pearl necklace, which had been her mother's and is mentioned in Sir Henry Chester's Will. Dame Mahy Chester of Chicheley, Bucks, widow. Will dated 3d Feb. 1709-10. To my niece Anne Cranmer, daughter of Sir Ctesar Cranmer, als. "Wood, deceased, my fine suit of tapestry hanging. To her brother Charles Cranmer, my nephew, the pictures of my father and mother and of Sir Greville VerneJ^''•■ To my granddaughter Mary Price, the picture of herself which she gave me, and the picture of the Duchess of Cleaveland. f To William Chester, son of Sir John Chester Bart., the gold medal which Sir Henry Chester deceased wore in his lifetime as Knight of the Bath. To my grandson John Chester, son of Thomas Chester, linendraper, sundry linen and a travelling-trunk. To my cousin Elizabeth Eichers,! my waiting-woman, the diamond earrings which I usually wear, and all my wearing apparell, except my point lace. To my goddaughter Anne Cliarnock,§ my little outlandish Japan box. To my daughter Dorothy Willson, my sable tippets, my wedding-ring, and my turquoise ring which I usually wear. To my daughter Remmington, all my croceat or sett of diamonds which was my mother's. The residue to my daughters Penelope Allen and Dorothy Willson, whom I appoint my executors, desiring them to cause me to be wrapped up in a sheet of lead and put in a coffin and buried near my late dear husband Sir Anthony Chester, in the x)arish church of Chicheley. Will proved at Oxford, 18tli Aug. 1710, by Penelope Allen, wife of John Allen, clerk, and Dorothy Willson, wife of John Willson Esq., daughters of the testatrix. in. Sir Anthony Chester IH. had issue by his wife Mary Cranmer sixteen children, who were all born and baptized at Chicheley. (i) I. Mary Chester was, with her twin sister Elizabeth, born at Chicheley Hall on Friday, 11th Feb. 1658-9, at 9 P.M., (15) and was baptized with her on 14th Feb. following, (i) They had each of them a marriage portion of 2000Z. under the Will of their granduncle Sir Henry Chester j but Mary was to receive in addition, on her wedding-day, the chain of pearl which had been her grandmother's, and which had been given to her mother on that condition. She married at Chicheley, on 26th April * Sir Greville Verney was a friend and Warwickshire neighbour of Lady Chester's father Alderman Cranmer, who mentions in his Will that Sir Greville owed him 700Z. The alderman was a native of Alcester, and his patrimony consisted of lands in that neighbourhood held on lease from the family of Greville. t The mother by Charles II. of Charles Fitzroy, Dnke of Southampton, who married Mary Wood, cousin german of the testatrix. t See p. 318. § The second daughter of Su- Pynsent Chernocke Bart., M.P. for Bedfordshu'e in the Tory interest. 350 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. 1683, Francis Duncombe Esq. of Broughton in Bucks, (i) by wliom she had an only child Mary, who was baptized at Chicheley on 4th Sept. 1684, (i) and scarcely survived her birth. Mrs. Duncombe died on oOthSept. 1686, at the age of 27, and was buried at Broughton. A black -marble slab in Broughton Church bears the arms of Duncombe, Party per pale argent and gules, a chevron engrailed between three talhots' heads erased, all coimter-changed, impaling the arms of Chester, with this inscription : S. M. Here lyetli Maiy, eldest daugliter of Sir Antliouy Chester of Chicheley Baroiiet, and Dame Mary his wife. She married Francis Duncumbe of tliis place Esq., the 20tli of April 1088, and died the 30th Sept. 1080; at whose feet lyeth Mary, their only child, who died an infant. At her feet, on a slab of freestone : Mary Duncumbe. Qui moritur, Cliristo vivit ; qui vivit in illo Non moritiu- ; mors non est, uhi Christus adest. Francis Duncombe soon married again, for his son and heir by his second marriage was baptized at Broughton on 2d Sept. 1690. (i6) His second wife Frances Baron was a great heiress, and their grandson John Robinson Esq. of Cransley in Northamptonshire married on 23d Dec. 1744 Dorothea, one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir William Chester, the fifth baronet. Mr. Duncombe was M.P. for Amersham in two Parliaments of Queen Anne, 1708-1714 ; (17) and like his brothers-in-law Sir John Chester and Mr. Eyre he was a Gentleman of her Majesty's Privy Chamber. (18) He died 31st Jan. 1720, aged 69, and was buried at Broughton on 3d Feb. following. (16) His tomb in Broughton churchyard bears the arms of Duncombe between those of Chester and Baron Avith this inscription : (16) Here lyeth the body of Francis Duncumbe Esq. His first wife was Mary, daughter of Sir Anthony Chester of Chicheley Bart., bj^ whom he left no issue. His second wife was Frances, daughter of James Baron Esq., citizen of London, by whom he left one son and one daughter. He departed this life 31st Jan. 1720, in the TOtli year of his age. Vir egregio tarn erga Ecclesiara quam erga Patriam amore prsestans. The last paragraph in this epitaph means that he was a High Churchman and a High Tory, like most country squires in the reign of Queen Anne. Their senti- ments are amusingly illustrated by a letter from Burrell Massingberd* Esq. of South Ormsby in Lincolnshire to INIr. Duncombe, of which the draft copy has been preserved at Ormsby. It was written on 20th Nov. 1710, soon after Dr. Sache- verell's trial, when the Tories had just come into power: * Mr. Massingberd was the intimate friend and correspondent of William Chester, afterwards the fifth baronet, and of aU his family. Many of the letters which he wrote and received are preserved at Ormsby Hall, and I am indebted to the courtesy of his descendant Mr. Massingberd, the Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, for copies of some of them, which will be printed in the course of my narrative. SIE ANTHONY CHESTER, BART. III. 351 Dkaft Letter feom Bukrell Massingberd Esq. to Francis Duncombe Esq. Indorsed, ' Mine to Mr. Duncombe, 20th Nov. 1710.' Dear Sir, — I presume by tliis time your hurrey both as to polliticks* and matrymonyf is pretty well over, and that you are looking towards London, where I hope to be so happy this winter as to meet you and some more honest Sacheverelles with a pleasing serenity in their countenances such as they have been strangers to for some years past, and though some have shown a more happy tranquillity of mind above being rufHed at disappointments, yet soon they can't but receive an addition of joy from the pleasant alteration in those of their friends who had not temper enough to keep themselves from discovering the acid and the fretfull, and as I can't but confess myself an instance of the latter sort, so I can't direct this to Broughton without meditating upon the former, and with humble respects and due salutes to all at Broughton, am yours, &c. B. M, P.S. Jack Toller :|: is in Town, but I doubt it will be near Christmas before I get up. II. Elizabeth Chester bore a strong personal resemblance to her twin sister Mary. They were rival beauties, and are painted together at full length in a large picture at Chicheley Hall. They have each of them dark eyes, clear-cut features, and a straight nose, with well-pencilled eyebrows, and dark-brown hair which curls closely over the head, with a long ringlet on either side§ falling on the shoulders. Elizabeth, in a low white-satin dress with a cerise scarf, is buckling a bracelet of pearls and amethysts on the wrist of her sister Mary, who wears a green-satin dress with a pink scarf. They have a lapdog at their feet. Elizabeth married by license, (7) dated 21st May 1687, Charles Nicholas Eyre Esq., who was appointed by the King Governor of Harlech Castle in North Wales on 8th March 1691-2, (19) and held several places of honour in the Courts of William III. and Queen Anne. He was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and one of the four Cup-bearers of State to Queen Mary II. and Queen Anne, (18) and was appointed on 15th Aug. 1706, with a salary of 100/. a year, one of the four Gen tlemen-in- Waiting on Prince George of Denmark, in the room of Colonel Durell, then made an equerry. (19) Mrs. Eyre died on 11th May 1705, aged 46, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, where her monument bears this inscription : (20) Mr. Duncombe was reelected M.P. for Amersham in the Tory interest in October 1710. (17) t Mr. Duncombe's only daughter Anne had then just married John Robinson Esq. of Cransley. \ John Toller (son and heir apparent of John Toller Esq. of BiUingborough, High Sheriff of Lincoln- shire in 1707) married in 17J-8 Catherine, daughter of Sir John Chester, the fom'th baronet. The friendship between the two families of ToUer and Massingberd was of very ancient standing, for their respective ancestors, Drayner Massingberd of Ormsby and Richard Toller of BiUingborough, were indicted together for high treason at Grantham in 1643. § This fashion of wearing the hair stUl found favour in the reign of Queen Anne, for Pope says in the Bape of the Lock : ' This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourish'd two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. > Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains. And mighty hearts are held in slender chains.' YY 352 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELBY. M. S. Elizabeth Eyre, claugliter of the Honourable Sir Anthony Chester of Chicheley in the county of Bucks Baronet, and wife of Charles Nicholas Eyre Esquire, by whom she had Charles Chester Eyre. She was born, 11th Feb. 1G59. Died 17th May 1705. Mr. Eyre survived his wife above eight years, when he died intestate, for letters of administration were granted on 3d Feb. 1713-4 to Alexander Deane Esq., his principal creditor ; his son Charles Chester Eyre (then a minor) having renounced administration by John Chamberlaine, his guardian. Chakles Chester Eyre, his only son, was already in 1706 one of the four Gentlemen Sewers of Queen Anne, although he was only a boy of 13. It was the duty of his office to wait on the Queen when she dined in public, and to set on the royal table the dishes which were brought up by the Yeomen of the Guard. The Gentlemen Carvers then carved for the Queen, and the Cup-bearers served her Majesty with drink, with one knee on the ground, having first tasted the liquor in the cup. Their fee was 33Z. 6s. 8d. a year each. (i8) Before he was of age, Chester Eyre was promoted to be a Groom of the Removing Wardrobe, with a salarj' of 130Z. a year, and he was continued in that office by George I. on his accession. (21) The rest of his career is unknown to me ; but he died unmarried and intestate before 1726, when his name disappears from the Red Book, and administration de bonis non of his father's estate was granted on 9th April 1756 to Hugh Gordon, a creditor. III. Diana Chester was born on Sunday, 6th May 1660, at 4 p.m., (15) and was baptized at Chicheley on 10th May following, (i) Her portion under Sir Henry Chester's Will was 1000/., and she married at Chicheley in 1695 the Rev. Thomas Remington M. A., (i) Rector of Hunmanby in Yorkshire. Mr. Remington was pre- sented by the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1699 to the vicarage of Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire, which he held thirty-six years. He also held until his death the rectory of Stoke Goldington in Bucks, to which he was presented on 5th May 1702 by the heirs of the Digbys of Gayhurst. (23) Mrs. Remington died at her husband's vicarage of Easton Maudit on 2d Sept, 1715, aged 55, and was buried at Chicheley in the family vault of the Chesters on 7th Sept. following, (t) She had issue a son John, who died young in his mother's lifetime, and was buried at Chicheley on 27th Sept. 1709 ; (i) and a daughter BARBARA, her only surviving child, who was 12 years old when her mother died, and was taken charge of by her aunt Dorothea (Mi's. Wilson of Knight Thorpe) on her father's second marriage in 1718. (24) Mr. Remington married secondly Catherine, daughter of Sir John Robinson of Denston in Suffolk, by Amy, daughter of Sir Gervase Elwes Bart, of Stoke-by- Clare in the same county, who died in childbed 25th April 1720, aged 33. (25) She had issue two sons, 1. Gervase, who was born 23d March 1718-9 ; (3) and 2. Robinson, who was born 20th April 1720, and was buried at Easton Maudit on 10th May in the same year. Mr. Remington afterwards married a third wife, whose SIR ANTHONY CHESTER, BART. III. 353 name and parentage are unknown to me, and died at his estate in Yorkshire on 7th Jan. 1736. (3) He belonged to a family of ancient gentry in Yorkshire, whose pedigree is included in Dugdale's Visitation of that county in 1666, and whose estate was at Lund in the East Riding. In order to secure the continuance of this estate to the male line of the Remingtons, it was provided by the settlement made on the occasion of his marriage to Diana Chester, that in case of his having no sons it should pass to a cousin of his own name. But by a strange oversight the settle- ment made no provision for the contingency of his surviving his wife Diana, and having a son by a subsequent marriage, so that Gervase, the son of his second wife, was excluded from his natural inheritance. After some litigation the estate was confirmed to the cousin on the terms of his paying 1000^. to the son. (24) Gervase Remington then bought a commission in the army, and had risen to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, when he died unmarried on 2d March 1780. (26) Barbara Remington, the only surviving child of Diana, lived with her aunt Mrs, Wilson from 1718 until her marriage. (24) She married in 1730 her kinsman, the Rev. John Shan, Vicar of Chicheley, 1725-1783, whose descent from Sir Anthony Chester II. has been shown at page 182. She was in 1754 the residuary legatee of her aunt Wilson, jointly with her cousin Anthony Chester of East Haddon, (afterwards the ninth baronet,) .and died at the age of 70 on 22d Jan. 1774, leaving five children, of whom her two sons and eldest daughter Barbara died unmarried. Her second daughter Dorothea Shan married in 1756 the Rev. Edmund Smyth M.A., Rector of Great Linford, and has many living descendants, amongst whom are the Rev. W. Smyth of Elkington Hall in Lincolnshire, Sir Charles Locock Bart. M.D,, and the Right Honourable Stephen Cave M.P. Her youngest daughter Anna Maria Shan mai'ried in 1767 Mr. Benjamin Cape, and had twelve children, all of whom died without issue, except John Cape, who married his cousin Catharine Smyth, and was the father of Dr. Lawsou Cape M.D. of Curzon-street, Mayfair, and of Mrs. Catharine Hughes, widow of the Rev. Edmund Hughes, Rector of Welton-le-Wold, a lady to whose excellent memory and affectionate interest in her ancestors I am indebted for many particulars of the families of Remington and Shan. IV. Henrietta Chester was born at 1 a.m. on 4th Sept. 1661, (15) anddying- an infant was buried at Chicheley 14th Jan. 1661-2. (i) V. Catherine Chester was born between 4 and 5 A.M. on Saturday, 11th Oct. 1662, (15) and was baptized at Chicheley on the next day. (i) She had a marriage portion of 1000^. under the Will of Sir Henry Chester, and married in 1688 Sir Henry Cambell Bart, of Clay Hall in the parish of Barking in Essex, by whom she had an only child MARY, who was born at Chicheley, and was baptized there on 2d June 1689. (i) Sir Henry was a year younger than his wife, for he was born on 14th Nov. 1663, (4) and he had been at Oxford with her eldest brother Anthony, for he matriculated at Christ Church on 15th June 1680. (22) Lady Cambell died on 18th Jan. 1691-2, (27) and was buried at Barking on 21st Jan. (4) There is a B54 THE CSESTERS OF CaiCHELEY. portrait of her at Chicheley Hall, whicli shows that she was fair, with blue eyes and light hair, like her brothers Anthony and John, whom she greatly resembled. Sir Henry Cambell married secondly Katherine, widow of Anthony Markham Esq. of Sedgebrooke in Lincolnshire, a colonel in the Guards. She was the daughter of Sir William Whorwood Kt. of Stourton Castle in Staffordshire, and married her first husband at Highgate Chapel near London on 12th Aug. 1688. (5) Sir Henry had no issue by his second marriage, and died at Kensington on 23d May 1699.(28) He was buried at Barking on 26th May following (4) in the mortuary chapel on the north side of the church, which his father Sir Thomas Cambell built in 1642 as a burying-place for himself and his family. Sm Harey Cambell of Clay Hall, Essex, Bart. Will dated Ctli May 1699. To be buried in the parish church of Barking. To mj dear vnie Dame Catherine Cambell for her life, the manor of Bj'rch Hall in Essex, with the farm and lands belonging, and also Horsey Island and Upper-street Farm in the same county, in lieu of dower. The guardianship of my dear daughter Mrs. Mary Cambell, during her minority, to remain with her grandmother, the Lady Chester, but my said wife and my honoured father-in-law Robert Sheffield Esq. are to have the management of her estates until she be 21. My said wife and father-in-law to sell my four-sevenths of the manor of Glaston in Somerset, and of the liberty and hundred of Glaston to pay my debts. The residue of my land to my daughter Mary and her heir, with remainder to my sisters, the daughters of my mother, the Honourable Lady Cambell, by the said Robert SheiSeld. My said wife to be my sole executrix. Will proved in C.P.C. 26th June 1C99. [128 Pell.] Dame Katherine Cambell proved her husband's Will and survived him above fifteen years. She died in London in the parish of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, and was buried at Barking 6th Oct. 1714. (27) Mary Cambell, the only child of Sir Henry, and the heiress of Clay Hall, was scarcely 10 years old when her father died, and was the ward of her grandmother Lady Chester. She married in 1709 Thomas Price Esq. of Westbury, Bucks, by whom she had an only son Cambell Peice. (29) She died in childbed, and was buried at Barking on 30th March 1713. (27) Her widower died at Bath 25th May 1733. (26) VI. Anthony Chester, son and heir apparent, was born at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, 6th Oct. 1663, (15) and was baptized at Chicheley on 20th Oct. (i) The birth of a boy after so many girls naturally gave rise to great rejoicings in the family ; and Dr. Thomas Wood, then Dean of Lichfield, travelled down to Chicheley expressly to christen the infant heir of his niece. (15; Anthony matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 17th Dec. 1679, (22) and proceeded B.A. on 7th July 1682 ; but he died unmarried in his 22d year, in the lifetime of his father, and was buried at Chicheley 10th July 1685. (i) There is a picture at Chicheley Hall, in which he and his brother John are painted together as boys of about 16 and 12 respectively. They have both of them long fair hair cut short across the forehead, and resemble their sisters in the regularity of their features. Anthony is dressed in pale blue, with a SIR ANTHONY CHESTER, BART. III. 355 scarf of blue and gold, and John, the fairer of the two, is in yellow with a crimson scarf. They both wear white shoes with amethyst buckles, white stockings with amethyst garters, and white-lace neckties with amethyst clasps. VII. Judith Chester was born at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, 18th April 1665, (15) and was baptized at Chicheley on 20th April, (i) when her godfather Sir Henry Chester gave her the name of his first wife, and in consequence increased her marriage portion from 1000/. to 1500/. by his Will. She married by license, (7) dated 20th May 1692, Eobert Oneby Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, the eldest son by his second wife of John Oneby,* a rich puritanical attorney of Gray's Inn, who purchased the manor of Barwell in Leicestershire in 1681. (30) Robert Oneby was born at Signett in the parish of Llanvair, near Ruthin (the seat of his maternal grandfather Robert Davies Esq.), on 7th Sept. 1665, and was admitted a student of the Inner Temple in 1684. He was called to the Bar by that Society in 1692, and in the same year his father settled on him the manor of Barwell by deed of gift, on the occasion of his marriage to Judith Chester. Mrs. Judith Oneby died on 29th Sept. 1706, aged 41, and was buried at Chicheley on 3d Oct. following, (i) She had six children, of whom three died in their infancy. Her surviving children were : 1. Chester Oneby, her eldest child, who was born at Chicheley, and was baptized there on 21st May 1693, but died in boyhood soon after his mother. 2. Elizabeth, who married after her father's death Richard Ryder Esq. of Nuneaton, and died without issue. 3. Anthony Oneby, surviving son and heir, who was born in 1697, and succeeded on his father's death in 1721 to the manor of Barwell. He died in 1727, leaving two daughters and coheirs, of whom the survivor died without issue in 1812, when the posterity of Robert and Judith Oneby became extinct. (30) Her widower Robert Oneby married secondly in 1709 Susanna Webb, the cousin of his first wife and the sister of Bethia Webb, wife of Sir Francis Chester, the eighth baronet. She was the eldest of the four daughters and coheirs of Thomas Webb, als. Wood Esq., Clerk of the Kitchen to William III. and nephew and coheir to Sir Henry Wood Bart., and her marriage took place without the sanction of her father; for Thomas Wood in his Will, dated 9th July 1709, bequeaths Ho my eldest daughter Susan, loho very lately ivent from me, and is married ivitJiout my * His grandson by liis first marriage was tlte notorious Major John Oneby 'oi HonejTvood's Dragoons, who killed Mr. William Gower (the son of a Roman Catholic gentleman of 12,0002. a year) in a gambling squabble at the Castle Tavern in Drury-lane. The Major was tried at the Old Bailey for murder, when a special verdict was given for the consideration of the twelve judges. He was remanded to Newgate, where he remained above a year without further proceedings being taken, and was indulged by Akerman the gaoler with a commodious room in which he used to receive his friends. But at length he was fool- ishly induced to move the judges to hold a Consilium for arguing the special verdict, when he was found guilty of wilful murder, and the day of execution was fixed for 3d July 1727. His friends made strong interest to obtain a reprieve ; but the King refused to interfere, and Oneby anticipated the hangman by severing the artery of his arm with a razor on the night of the 2d July. (30) His grandfather and uncle Robei-t happily did not live to witness his disgi-aceful end. 356 THE CHESTER S OF CHICHELEY, knowledge or consent, one guinea in gold.'' He had issue by his second wife Susanna an only son Robert, who was born in London at Southampton-buildings on 9th April 1710, and was baptized at St. Andrew's, Holborn, on 13th April. (30) Robert Oneby died at Barwell on 5th Feb. 1720-1, aged 55, three months before his father. His widow Susanna survived him many yeai's, and on the partition of Sir Henry Wood's estates in 1743 between the coheirs of his two sisters she inherited Loudham Park in Suffolk, as being the eldest coheir of her grandmother Elizabeth Wood. (31) She died 17th July 1745, aged 68, and was succeeded at Loudham by her only son Robert, who was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1750, and died without issue 16th June 1753. (30) VIII. John Chester, surviving son and heir, was born at 6 A.M. on Sunday, 24th June 1666. (15) He succeeded his father as the fourth baronet. IX. Dorothea Chester was born just before midnight on Saturday, 10th Aug. 1667, (15) and was baptized at Chicheley on 19th Aug. following. She married by license, (7) dated 24th July 1701, John Wilson Esq. of Knight Thorpe in Leicester- shire. The marriage took place at Chicheley, but neither the month nor the day is recorded in the parish register, (i) Mr, Wilson was a widower without children, and his first wife Mary, the daughter of Sir Edward Walpole K.B. of Houghton in Norfolk, died 15th June 1686.(32) He died 21st May 1718, aged 59, without issue, and his heir was his half-brother Edward Wilson of Didlington in Norfolk, the lineal ancestor of Lord Berners. (32) His widow Dorothea had Knight Thorpe for her life, and survived her husband above thirty-six years. Her widowhood was marked by many acts of charity and piety. She gave to Loughborough Church two large silver flagons and two silver salvers, which are still used in the service of the Holy Communion, (33) and there is a massive silver flagon at Chicheley which is inscribed, ' Chicheley Church plate, given by D. Wilson 1735.' She acted a mother's part to her niece Barbara Remington, who came to live with her in 1718, when her father married his second wife, and stayed with her aunt until her marriage to Mr. Shan. Her affection for her nephew Anthony Chester, the son of her brother Henry, arose out of the same generous wish to be a mother to the orphan, for Henry's wife died in giving birth to her only child. Her favourite nephew and niece were jointly the residuary legatees of her Will. Mrs. Wilson resembled her mother in person, for she was of slender figure, with dark hair and eyes and a long thin face. She survived all her brothers and sisters, and died at the great age of 87 on 21st Nov. 1754. A gravestone in the chancel of Loughborough Church bears this inscription : (33) Here lieth the body of Mrs. Dorothea Wilson, widow of John Wilson Esq. of Knight Thorpe, and daughter of Sir Anthony Chester Bart, of Chicheley in the county of Bucks, and Dame Mary his°wife. She departed this hfe 21st Nov. 1T54, in the 88th year of her age. Dorothy Wilson of Knight Thorpe in the parish of Loughborough, widow. Will dated 13th May 1749. SIE ANTHONY CHESTEE, BART. III. 857 To my nephew, the Kev. Mr. Anthony* Chester, the picturef of my late honoured father Sir Anthony Chester Bart., and my own picture;! also ^50 and sundry plate. To my niece Mrs. Penelope AUeyne, £S0 for mourning. To my cousin John Shan junior, £20, and to his brother Lawson Shan, ^10 for mourning. To my nephew John Wilson Esq., one half of my household goods and linen at Knight Thorpe, and the other half to my niece Mrs. Barbara Shan. To Barbara, Dorothy, And Anna Maria Shan, the three daughters of my said niece Barbara by her husband, the Rev. Mr. John Shan, £100 each at 18. To Master Wilson, only son of the said John WHson Esq., my gold watch. To Mrs. Margery Glen, ^£10. To Mrs. AUsop, wife of Mr. Thomas Allsop of Loughborough, a ring. To my cousin, the wife of Mr. Thomas Hunt of Loughborough, .£30. To Mrs. EUzabeth Wilson, widow of Mr. Charles Wilson, £oO for mourniug. My said nephew Anthony Chester and my said niece Barbara Shan to be my residuary legatees, and the said Anthony Chester to be my executor. Codicil dated 31st Oct. 1753. To my nephew Captain Francis Chester, ^20 for mourning. WiU proved in C.P.C. 17th Dec. 1754 by Anthony Chester, clerk. [345 Pinfold.] X. Henry Chester was bom on Monday, 14tli Sept., (15) and was baptized at Chicheley on 29th Sept. 1668. (i) He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 19th March 1685-6, but left the University without taking a degree. (22) He inherited the estate at East Haddon, which had been regarded in the family as the second brother's portion from the time of the first baronet, and had lapsed to the third Sir Anthony in 1682, on the death of his uncle William Chester without issue male. His inheritance consisted of the impropriate rectory of East Haddon, with 202 acres of glebe-land and a mansion called the Parsonage, which had been reserved as a provision for him by his father when he sold the manor and advowson of the vicarage. For some unexplained reason Henry's title to this estate was not completed until some months after his father's death, when his brother Sir John Chester executed a deed of gift in his favour. (34) It may be assumed that the immediate occasion of this conveyance was Henry's approaching marriage, for he married at Chicheley on 14th Aug. 1698 Theodosia, daughter of Thomas Tower Esq. of Haddenham in the Isle of Ely. (i) From this time Henry usually resided in the Rectorial house at East Haddon, which must have been a residence of some pre- tension, as it is mentioned in the Red Book of 1707 amongst the seats of the principal gentlemen in Northamptonshire, (18) but he and his wife were staying at Sir Caesar Cranmer's manor-house at Astwood on 26th June 1706, when their only son Anthony was baptized there, (i) Theodosia Chester died on 1st July 1706, within a few days after the birth of her son, and was buried at East Haddon on 5th July, (i) A slabstone now nearly obliterated in East Haddon Church bears this inscription : (34) Here lietli the body of that eminently charitable and devout Christian, Mrs. Theodosia Chester, the virtuous and loving wife of Henry Chester of this parish Esquire, the only child of Thomas Tower of Haddenham in the Isle of Ely Esquire, and Elizabeth his wife ; on July 1st, 1706, her soul was carried to Abraham's bosom to receive the reward of her early, sincere, and lasting piety. She gave much alms to the poor, and prayed to God always. * Afterwards the ninth baronet, the only son of Henry Chester Esq. of East Haddon. t These pictures are now in the possession of Mrs. Hughes. See p. 353. 358 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. Henry Chester survived his wife twenty years, and died on 6th May 1726, within a few weeks after the deaths of his brother Sir John and his nephew Sir William Chester, the fourth and fifth baronets. He was buried at East Haddon on 16th May 1726, (i) and a marble tablet on the north wall of the chancel bears the arms and crest of Chester with this inscription : (34) To the memory of Henry Cliester Esq. (son of Sir Anthony Chester Bar* of Chiohely in the County of Bucks) and Theoclosia his wife. He departed this hfe May 1726, aged 59. She de- parted this life July 1^' 1700. His only son ANTHONY CHESTER succeeded his cousin in 1766 as the ninth baronet, and will therefore be fully noticed in a later chapter. XI. Alice Chester was born on . . . Nov. (day illegible) 1669, (15) and was baptized on 15th Nov. (i) She died unmarried in her 17th year, and was buried at Chicheley on 17th July 1686. (1) XII. William Chester was born on Saturday, 10th June 1671, between 5 and 6 A.M., and was baptized at Chicheley on 29th June following, (i) when Sir William* Tyringham Kt. and Mr. Alderman* Backwell were his godfathers, and his grandmother Dame Elizabeth Chester was his godmother. (15) He died a child, aged 2 years and 8 months, on 20th Feb. 1673-4, (15) and was buried at Chicheley on 22d Feb. (i) It is quaintly noted by Sir Anthony that .the cause of William's death was ' supposed to he ye Evill in ye Gutts.^ (15) XIII. Penelope Chester was born at 4 p.m. on Monday, 3d June 1672, and was baptized at Chicheley on 11th June following, (i) when her brother Anthony was her godfather, and her godmothers were her grandmother Dame Elizabeth Chester and her father's cousin Betty Fisher. | (15) Penelope figures as a fair-haired child of seven in her mother's portrait at Chicheley, and married in 1707 the Rev. John Alleyne B.D., Rector of Lough- borough and a Prebendary of Lincoln. He was a widower with an only son eight years old, and became acquainted with his wife when she was staying with her sister Mrs. Wilson at Knight Thorpe, which is in the parish of Loughborough. He had been a Fellow of Emanuel College, Cambridge, on Sir Wolstan Dixie's foundation, and was presented by that Society to the Rectory of Lough- * Sir William Tyringham was the last heu- male of a family who had been lords of the manor of Tyringham in Bucks from time immemorial. He was created a Knight of the Bath with Sh- Henry Chester at the coronation • of Charles 11. and ran through his whole estate, which was purchased by Edward BackweU, Goldsmith and Alderman of London. However, the Alderman's son and heh- Edward Backwell married Sir Wilham's only child Ehzabeth Tyringham, and the manor is stiU possessed by theu' descendants. (35) t Elizabeth Fisher married in 1673 John Shan Esq. of Methley Hall, Yorkshire. See p. 182. SIR ANTHONY CHESTEE, BAET. III. 359 borough on 27th July 1696. (36) He was installed Prebendary of Longford Magna in Lincoln Cathedral on 13th April 1705.(37) Two of his sermons are printed in quarto : 1. Episcopacy asserted and recommended as the great Bond of Union, preached at the Bishop's Visitation at Leicester, 3d April 1700 ; 2. Una- nimity in the Truth a necessary Duty, ivith the Means of obtaining it, an assize sermou, 1707. By his first wife Jane, daughter of Thomas Staveley Esq. of Leicester, who died 11th Nov. 1705, (6) he had an only son Thomas Alleyne B.D., who succeeded his father as Rector of Loughborough, and died unmarried at Bath 18th July 176L(36) ■ Penelope Alleyne was one of the executors of her mother Lady Chester in 1710, and amongst her mother's books was a Bible, which Mrs. Alleyne afterwards gave to her grandniece and goddaughter Frances Toller.* It is still in the possession of her descendant Mr. Conaut of Lyndon Hall. Penelope died before her husband, leaving an only daughter of her own name, who was born in 1708 and died unmarried on 16th Aug. 1773 at the age of 65.t Mr. Alleyne died on 25th March 1739, and has a monument of black marble, in the form of a pyramid, on the north wall of Loughborough Church with a long Latin inscription. (36) XIV. Thomas Chester was born at 10 a.m. on Thursday, 12th March 1673-4,(15) and was baptized at Chicheley on 30th March 1674. (i) He was a merchant of London, and is the subject of the next section of this chapter. XV. C^SAR Chester was born at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, 30th March 1675, and was baptized at Chicheley on 6th April (1), when his uncle Sir Csesar Cranmer of Astwoodbury and Dr. John Randolph, Vicar of Chicheley, were his godfathers. (15) His career is wholly unknown to me, except that he was still living in 1726, and that he died unmarried. XVI. Robert Chester Avas born at 2 a.m. on Friday, 19th Oct. 1677, and was baptized at Chicheley on 8th Nov., (i) when Robert Earl of Aylesbury and Sir Peter Tyrrell Bart, of Hanslope, Bucks, were his godfathers. (15) He was free of the Goldsmiths' Company of London, and carried on business as a goldsmith and banker in the parish of St. Mary Wolnoth. He married by license, (7) dated 16th Nov. 1705, EHzabeth, daughter of Henry Alleyne Esq. of Twickenham, a banker in London, but died without issue before 1719. IV. Thomas Chester, the fifth son and fourteenth child of Sir Anthony Chester HI. and Mary Cranmer his wife, was born at Chicheley at 10 A.M. on Thursday, 12th March 1673-4, and was baptized on 30th March 1674, (i) when his godfathers * Frances, the eldest daughter of John Toller Esq. and his wife CaUiarine Chester, was baptized at Ryhall in Rutlandshire 8th Sept. 1724. t This date is taken from a little mourning-ring in the possession of Mrs. Hughes. ZZ B60 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. were his grauduncle Dr. Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and Mr. Edward Cony, the husband of his aunt Ruperta. (15) If he had any hope of being the heir of his godfather the bishop, he was grievously disappointed ; for he took nothing under the bishop's Will except a legacy of 201. a year for life. It would seem, however, as if some expectations of the kind had been indulged in ; for it was not until after the bishop's death in 1692 that his career in life was decided on, and he was in his 19th year, when he was bound apprentice to Sir Benjamin Thorough- good, citizen and mercer of London. (38) His master was evidently selected on account of his political principles. Sir Benjamin Avas a linendraper by trade, and was known as one of the most thoroughgoing Tories in the City of London, for he was one of the grand jury who found a true bill against Lord Russell in 1682, and was nominated sheriff in 1685 by King James, as a citizen on whose loyalty and zeal the Court could thoroughly rely. He was knighted at Windsor Castle on 13th Aug. 1685, (3g) and was so active in assisting the Government prosecutions, that he was accused after tlie Revolution of having abused his office 'to pack a jury to murder Alderman Cornish.' (40) Thomas Chester was duly admitted to the freedom of the Mercers' Company in 1699, when the term of his apprenticeship expired, (38) and he immediately began business as a linendraper in Cheapside at the sign of the Three Nuns, in a shop Avhich was still occupied for the same trade withiia living memory. He married by license (7) on 2d July 1700 at St. Benet, Gracechurch-street, (2) Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Daniel Wigfall, merchant of London, who died in 1698 at the age of 57, and has a monument in the church of St. George's, Botolph-lane. (41) He was the second son of Henry Wigfall Esq. of Renishaw in Derbyshire, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Gell Bart, of Hopton, as will be seen in the note below.* The pedigree of Wigfall is recorded in Dugdale's Visitation of Derbyshire * Note on the Families of Wigfall and Plumptee. Geoege Wigfall of Carter Hall, in the joarisli of Ecldngton, Derbyshii-e, Yeoman, married 3d March 1G02-3, Anne, daughter of Nicholas Towers, Gentleman, of Eaton, Notts, and was buried at EcMngton 1st Oct. 1623. Heney Wigfall, son of George, was of Renishaw in Eckington, Estiuire, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Gell Bart, of Hopton Hall. He died in 1651, leaving issue two sons and three daughters. I. John Wigfall Esq. of Renishaw was baptized 28th Sept. 1637, and entered his pedigi-ee at the Visitation of Derbyshii-e on 18th Aug. 1662. He married three wires, and was buried at Eckington 5th Nov. 1711. II. Daniel Wigfall, of whom below. III. Maey. IV. Elizabeth. V. Judith. Daniel Wigfall, second son of Henry, was baptized 3d April 1642 at Eckington, and was afterwards a merchant of London, and free of the Vintners' Company. He married at Barnby, 21st Sept. 1676, Dorothy, daughter of . . . Elmsall of that place ; and, dying in the beginning of 1698, was buried at St. George's, Botolph-lane, London. He left by his wife Dorothy, who survived him, several children, of whom I can only identify five. They are : I. Daniel, merchant of London, who was living in 1703. II. Elizabeth, married Thomas Chestee, as stated in the text. III. Dobothea, of whom and her children below. IV. Maey, married at All Hallows Staining, London, 20th July 1710, Robert Oaldecott Gent. (**) THOMAS CHESTER OF LONDON, 361 in 16(32, and the arms are Sable, a sword erect in pale argent tuith a golden hilt ; on a cliief indented gules, a ducal croicn between tivo escallops or. (42) Daniel Wi^-fall and his son were both free of the Vintners' Company of London, and carried on business as- importers of Spanish wines. This connexion of his wife's family with the wine trade materially affected the fortunes of Thomas Chester. The lines of demarcation between retail and wholesale trade were then loosely drawn, and shopkeepers often employed their spare capital in foreign ventures. Chester gradually embarked in the trade of Spanish wine ; and such was his success, that when he died in 1737, he is described in the Obituary of the Gentleman^s Magazine (26) as ' . . . . Chester Esq., an eminent Spanish merchant.'' His eldest child Mary was born at the Three Nuns in 1701 ; but when his affairs prospered, he removed from Cheapside into the parish of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, which was then the fashionable quarter, and his youngest child Anne was born there in 1710. He died on 18th Aug. 1737, (26) and was buried on 21st Aug. at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, ' in the vault under the Charity School.' (2) He left no Will, but letters of administration were granted to his widow Elizabeth on 3d Sept. 1737. She survived her husband only a few months, and was buried in the same vault with him on 18th Jan. 1737-8. (2) Thomas Chester had issue by his wife Elizabeth Wigfall, three children. I. Mary Chester was born at her father's house in Cheapside on 18th April 1701, and was baptized on 24th April at St. Peter's, Cheap. (2) She was just under age when she married clandestinely at the Fleet, (44) on 10th March 1721-2, William Horton Esq. of Coley Hall, near Halifax, the grandson of Sir Eichard Musgrave Bart, of Hayton Castle in Cumberland. (45) He was a Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire, and died in the beginning of 1740 at the age of 38. (46) He had issue two children: A SON who died in childhood of the smallpox in Aug. 1730, and was buried at Elland, near Halifax, and a daughter MARY, who died unmarried in June 1769, and AA'as buried beside her brother. (45) V. Tempeeakce, married by license at All Hallows Staining, on 22d May 1710, Josepli Stables Gent, ^ of tbe parish of St. Dunstan's-in-the-East. (22) DoEOTHEA Wigfall, tbe second daughter of Daniel and Dorothy, married by license at All Hallows Staining, on 30th Aprill704, Thomas Stanley Gent., (22) a younger son of the Stanleys of Winchester. He soon died, for she married secondly at St. James's, Westminster, on 31st March 1709, Dr. Henry Plumptre, who was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1740 to 1745, and died 26th Nov. 1746. His widow Dorothea was one of the executors of her nephew John Chester in 1751, and was joint-guardian of his only child, Dorothea Chester, who was her goddaughter. She was buried beside her second husband at St. Mary's, Nottingham, on 5th Aug. 1760, and left two children. (43) L Russell Plumpteb was born 4th Jan., and was baptized on 16th Jan. 1709-10, at St. GUes's-in- the-Fields. He was Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge for fifty-two years, and died 15th Oct. 1793, leaving an only child, Dorothea, who married at St. Andrew's, Holbom, on 4th Sept. 1766, John Ward Esq. of WUbraham in Cambridgeshii-e. II. Amanda Plumptee was born on 29th Nov.,, and was baptized on 15th Dec. 1711 at St. GUes's-in- the-Eields, She is mentioned in the Will of her cousin John Chester, and died unmarried 26th June 1766, 362 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY. Mary Horton survived her husband many years, and was appointed; in 1750 by her brother John Chester one of the executors of his Will and one of the guardians of his only daughter. She was living in 1769 when her daughter died, but the precise date of her death is unknown to me. II. John Chestee, son and lieir. III. Anne Chestee was baptized at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, on 18th May 1710. (2) She died unmarried at the age of 37, and was buried at St. Paul's in the same vault with her parents on 17th Jan. 1747-8. (2)' John Chestee, the only son of Thomas Chester and EHzabeth Wigfall, was admitted a student at the Inner Temple on 12th Feb. 1723-4. (47) By the custom of London he was entitled to claim the freedom of the City by patrimony, as being the son of a liveryman of the Mercers' Company, and although he was never engaged in trade he took up his freedom in 1733. (38) He lived on terms of great intimacy with the widow and daughters of his cousin Sir William Chester, the fifth baronet, who were his father's neighbours in Covent Garden ; and he was so much in the confidence of Dame Penelope Chester, that when the license was obtained for the marriage of her daughter Penelope on 29th April 1737, she authorized him to express her formal consent to the marriage. Her confidence, however, was rewarded in the next year by his making a stolen match with her second daughter ; for John Chester mai-ried at the Fleet, (2) on 24th Aug. 1738, his cousin EHzabeth Chester, who was then only 19 years old. (48) His married life was of short duration; for Elizabeth died on 13th Sept. 1740, aged 21, and was buried at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, on 16th Sept. (2) She left an only child Dorothea, who was baptized at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, on 15th Oct. 1739. (2) John Chester survived his wife about ten years, and was buried in the same vault with her on 2d Jan, 1750-1. (2) He was scarcely 45 years old when he died ; and if he had lived to a good old age, he would have succeeded to the baronetcy of his family, which became extinct in 1769 for want of male heirs. John Chester of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Gentleman. Will dated 9tli Oct. 1750. INIy auut Dorothea Plumtre, widow of Dr. Plnmtre, and my sister Mary Horton of Coley Hall, Yorkshire, to be joint-guardians of the person of my only daughter Dorothea Chester, who is now 11 years old, and to have i'SOO a year for her maintenance during her minority. I give, so far as lies in me the power, the next presentation of the living of HoUesley," Suffolk, to the Rev. John Evans of the parish of S. Paul's, Covent Garden. To my cousin Amanda Plumtre and my niece Horton, ^10 each. My said daughter Dorothea to be my sole devisee and legatee. The said Dorothea Chester, Dorothea Plumtre, and Mary Horton to be my executors. Will proved in C.P.C. 7th Jan. 1750-1, by Dorothea Plumtre, again 14th March 1752 by Mary Horton, again 3d Nov. 1700 by Dorothea Chester. Doeothea Chestee, the only child of John and Elizabeth, was baptized at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, on 15th Oct. 1739, (2) and was therefore scarcely 12 months old when her mother died. When she was four years old she suc- * The advowson of Hollesley was included in his daughter's share of the Wood eBtates. DOKOTHEA CHESTEE, LADY ROBINSON. 363 ceeded to a considerable fortune in right of her mother ; for on the death of Charles Cranmer als. Wood Esq. of Loudham Park in Suffolk, in Sept. 1743, the coheirs of Sir William Chester of Chicheley became entitled to one moiety of the great estates of Sir Henry Wood. (31) Sir William left six daughters at his death in 1726 ; but three of- them died without issue before 1743, when his representatives were his two daughters Penelope Lee and Dorothea Chester, and his granddaughter Dorothea, between whom this inheritance was equally divided. Dorothea was 11 years old when her father died, and was intrusted by his Will to the guardianship of her aunt Mrs. Horton, and her grandaunt Mrs. Plumtre. She married on 2d Dec. 1764 Sir George Eobinson Bart, of Oranford in Northamptonshire, (26) who was related to her mother by their common descent from Sir George Villiers Bart, of Brooksby. Lady Eobinson eventually inherited, in right of her grandmother Penelope Lady Chester, the estates of the Hewett family at Stretton and Great Glen in Leicestershire, which still belong to her descendants. (49) She was the last survivor of the Chesters, and died at Cranford Hall on 27th Jan. 1815, leaving many children. The present baronet (1875), Sir John Blencowe Robinson, is her great-grandson through both his parents. PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. (i) Extracts from Parish Registers. Chicheley, Bucks (verified by Rev. W. Jeudwine, Vicar). 1657, May 21. Sir Antliony Cliester Bart, and Mrs. Mary Cranmer married. 1658-9, Feb. 14. Mary and Elizabetli Chester twins, dans, of Su- Anthony Chester Bart, and Lady Mary his wife, bapt. 16G0, May 10. Mrs. Diana Chester, dau. of same, bapt. 1661-2, Jan. 14. Mrs. Henrietta Chester, dau. of same, buried. 1662, Oct. 12. Mrs. Catherine Chester, dau. of same, bapt. 1663, Oct. 20. Anthony Chester, son of same, bapt. 1665, April 20. Judith Chester, dau. of same, ba^it. 1666, July 6. John Chester, son of same, bapt. 1667, Aug. 19. Dorothea Chester, dau. of same, bapt. 1668, Sept. 29. Henry Chester, son of same, bapt. 1669, Nov. 15. Alice Chester, dau. of same, bapt. 1671, June 29. Mr. WUliam Chester, son of same, bapt. ; buried 22d Feb. 1673-4. 1672, June 11. Penelope Chester, dau. of same, bapt. 1674, March 30. Mr. Thomas Chester, son of same, bapt. 1675, April 6. Mr. Ctesar Chester, son of same, bapt. 1677, Nov. 8. Mr. Robert Chester, son of same, bapt. 1683, April 26. Mr. Francis Duncombe and Mrs. Mary Chester married. 1684, Sept. 4. Mary, dau. of Francis Duncombe Esq. and Mary his wife, bapt. 1685, July 10. Anthony Chester Esq. buried. 1686, July 17. Mrs. Ales Chester buried. 1689, June 2. Mrs. Mary Cambel, dau. of Sir Henry Camhel and Catherine Lady Cambel his wife, bapt. 1693, May 21. Mr. Chester Oneby, bapt. 1695 (no clay or month). Mr. Thomas Remington and Mrs. Diana Chester married. 1697-8, Feb. 19. Sii- Anthonie Chester Bart, buried. 1698, Aug. 14. Mr. Henry Chester was marryed to Mrs. Theodosia Tower. 1701 (no month or day). Mr. John Wilson of Loughborough and Mrs. Dorothea Chester marr. 1706, Oct. 8. Mrs. Judith Chester buried (Mrs. Oneby). 364 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. 1709, Sept. 27. Jolm Eemington, ye son of John {sic) Eemington and Diana his wife, buried. 1710, May 20. Maiy Lady Chester buried. 1715, Sept. 7. Mrs. Diana Remington, the wife of ... . Eemington, clerk, buried. Astivood, Bucks (verified by Rev. C. Ware, Vicar). 1706, June 26. Anthony, son of Henry Chester Esq. and Theodosiahis wife, bapt. East Haddon, Northamptonshire (verified by Col. J. L. Chester). 1706, July 5. Mrs. Theodosia Chester, wife of Henry Chester Gent., buried. 1726, May 14. Henry Chester Esq. buried. (2) St. Benct, Gracechurch-street, London. (22) 1700, July 2. Thomas Chester of St. Peter's Cheap, London, draper, and Elizabeth Wigfall of St. George's, Botolph-Iane, spinster, married by license. St. Peter's Cheap, London. (22) 1701, April 24. Mary, dau. of Thomas Chester, linendi-aper at the Three Nuns in Cheapside, and of Elizabeth his wife, bapt. ; born 18th April. St. Paul's, Covent Garden, London (verified by Col. J. L. Chester). 1710, May 18. Anne, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth Chester, bapt. 1737, Aug. 21. Thomas Chester, in ye church vault under ye charity school, buried. 1737-8, Jan. 18. Elizabeth Chester, widow, buried (in the same vault). 1739, Oct. 15. Dorothea, dau. of John and Elizabeth Chester, bapt. 1740, Sept. 16. Elizabeth, wife of John Chester, in the church vault under the charity school, buried. 1747-8, Jan. 17. Anne Chester, spinster, buried (in same vault). 1750-1, Jan. 2. John Chester, buried (in same vault). Fleet Registers (from Burn's History of Fleet Marriages, 1834). 1721, March 10. WiUiam Horton Gent., Covent Garden, and Mary Chester, spinster, Covent Garden, married. 1738, Aug. 24. John Chester, St. Paul's, Covent Garden, bachelor, and Elizabeth Chester, spinster, married. (3) Easton Maudit, Northants (certified by Rev. H. Smith, Vicar). 1715. Diana, the wife of Thomas Remington, clerk, vicar of this parish, died at this vicarage here on the second day of Sept. and was buiied at Chicheley, in the vault of Sir John Chester Bart, under the chancel of that church, on the seventh day of the same month. 1719. Gervasius, FUius Thomse Remington, clerioi, hujus Parochi£E Vicarii, et Catharine Uxoris ejus natus erat 23 die Martii a.d. 1718 et baptizatus primo Aprilis a.d. 1719. 1720. Robinson, FiUus Thomffi Remington, clerici, hujusce Parochiaa Vicarii, et Catharine Uxoris ejus natus erat 20° et baptizatus 28° Apiilis. 1720. Catharina, Uxor Thomse Remington, clerici, hujusce Parochite Vicarii, Mortua est Festo Sti Marei Sepulta 5i'° Kal Maiar. 1720. Robinson, Filius suprascripti Thoma3 Remington, sepultus 10° die Maii. 1736. This year, Jan. ye 7th, dyed the Rev. Thom. Remington at Garwoly in Yorkshire, who had been thirty-six years vicar of this parish. (4) Barking, Essex (communicated by Mr. E. J. Sage). 1663, Nov. 14. Hariy, ye sonne of Sir Thomas CambcU Baronett, borne this day in ye parish of S. Andi-ewes, Holborne in London, and baptized by Dr. Cartwright on Tuesday 24th of the same. 1691-2, Jan. 21 wife of Sii- Henry Cambell Baronett, buiied. 1699, May 26. Sii- Henry Cambell Baronett buried. (5) Highgate Chapel, Middlesex. 1688, Aug. 12. Anthony Markham of Sedgebrooke, co. Lincoln, Esq. and Katherine Whorwood of Sturton Castle co. Stafi'ord, manied. (6) Loughborough (from Nichols' Hist, of Leicestershii'e, iii. p. 894). 1697, Sept. 22. John, son of Mr. Ailing, minister, bapt. ; buried 5th Jan. 1698-9. 1699, Feb. 9. Thomas, son of Mr. John AUin, minister, bapt. 1705, Nov. 13. Jane, wife of Mr. John Alleyne, buried. (7) Marriage Licences (from Col. J. L. Chester's mss. Collections). From the Vicar-General's Registry. 1687, May 21. Nicholas Eyre of St. James in the Fields, Middlesex, Esq., bachelor, aged about 29, and Mrs. Elizabeth Chester of Chicheley, Bucks, spinster, of full age and at her own disposal ; to many at St. Martin's in the Fields, Knightsbridge Chapel, or Kensington. PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. 365 (8 (9: (1°: (II (i-: (13 (h: (15 (16: (17 (18 (19: (20 ( \ (zz (23 (24- (25 (26; (27 {28 (29' (3°. (31 (32 (33 (34; (35 (36 (37 (38 (39 (40, (41 (42 (43 (44. Us (46 (47: (48 (49. 1692, May 20. Robert Oneby of Barwell, co. Leicester, Esq., bachelor, aged 25, and Mrs. Judith Chester of Chicheley, spinster, above 19 (sic), with the consent of her father Sir Anthony Chester Kt. The marriage settlement being agreed upon between the parents of the said parties. License granted on the allegation of Thomas Oneby of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street, citizen and fishmonger of London : to marry at Chicheley. 1701, July 24. John Wilson of Loughborough, co. Leicester, Esq., widower, and Mrs. Dorothy Chester of Chicheley, Bucks, spinster, aged 28, and at her own disposal : to marry at Chicheley. 1705, Nov. 16. Robert Chester of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, goldsmith, bachelor, aged 27, and Mrs. Elizabeth Allen of Twittenham, Middlesex, spinster, above 19, with consent of her father Henry Allen, of same place, Gent. : to marry at Twittenham aforesaid. Fj'om the Faculty Office. 1700, July 1. Thomas Chester of Cheapside, London, linendraper, bachelor, about 26, and Elizabeth Wigfall of St. George's, Botolph-lane, London, spinster, 21 and a half, with consent of her mother Dorothy Wigfall : to man-y at St. Peter's, Cornhill. Wood's AtheuEE, Oxon. 1720 ; Fasti, ii. 48. Wills of Cordell family, printed in vol. i. of Dr. Howard's edition of the Visitation of Suffolk, 1567. Dr. Spencer's Will 1614, 65 Lawe in C.P.C. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1634. Wills of Bedingfield, printed in the Norfolk Archseologia, vol. vii. part i. Memoirs of James II., ed. Clarke, vol. i. p. 452. Strickland's Queens of England, vol. x. p. 244, CoUins's Peerage, 1779, vol. v. p. 474. Wood's Fasti Oxon. vol. i. p. 887. Memorandum in the handwriting of Sir Anthony Chester HI. printed in extenso in the 2d volume of Dr. Howard's Miscellanea Genealogica, Monthly Series. See also page 366. Lipscomb's Hist, of Bucks, vol. iv. p. 82. Notitia Parliamentaria, by Browne Willis. The Present State of Great Britain, 1707. Luttrell's Diary. Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana, 1717, p. 100. Historical Register, Gazette, 15th Feb. 1714-15. From Col. J. L. Chester's mss. Collections. Lipscomb's Bucks, Stoke Goldington. From the information of Mrs. Hughes. From her M. I. at Easton Maudit. Gentleman's Magazine. From the information of Mr. E. J. Sage, Editor of the Fanshawe Genealogy. Le Neve's Memoranda, printed in vol. iii. of the Topogi-apher and Genealogist. Lipscomb's Bucks, vol. iii. p. 143 ; Morant's Essex, vol. i. p. 7. Mr. Nichols has paid particular attention to the pedigi-ee of Oneby, and my knowledge of this family is derived from the Hist, of Leicestershire, vol. i. p. 145 ; vol. iii. p. 1147 ; vol. iv. pp. 475, 480, 729. See also Bibl. Top. Brit. No. Ixiii. p. 342. Pedigree of the coheirs of Wood in Gage's Hist, of Things Hundred, p. 393. Nichols' Hist, of Leicestershii-e, vol. iii. p. 514. Idem, vol. iii. p. 902. Baker's Hist, of Northamptonshire, yol. i. p. 164. Le Neve's Knights, Ped. of Tyringham, p. 24, Harleian Society. Nichols, vol. iii. p. 894, 900, 902. Hardy's Fasti Ecclesiie Anglicana). From the Freedom Book of the Mercers' Company, examined by Col. J. L. Chester. Le Neve's Knights, p. 399. Journals of the House of Lords, 20th Feb. 1692-3, Seymour's Survey of London, vol. i. p. 440. Harleian mss. 6104, fo. Ill, Ped. of Wigfall. Pedigree of Plnmptre in Burke's Landed Gentry, with Additions and Corrections. Burn's Hist, of Fleet Mamages, 1834, p. 109. Watson's Hist, of Halifax, 4to, 1775. Pedigi-ee of Horton in the CoUege of Arms, 5 D. 14, P, 237. Admission Book of the Inner Temple. Burn's Fleet Man-iages, p. 100. Nichols' Hist, of Co. Leic. vol. ii. p, 581. 366 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. MEMORANDUM OF THE BIRTHS OF THE 16 CHILDREN OF SIR ANTHONY CHESTER, THE 3ed BARONET OF THAT NAME AND FAMILY, AS SET DOWN BY HIM IN A PAPER WRITTEN IN HIS OWN HAND. 1658. Memorandum that God was pleased to dubble his blessinges upon me on Friday ij* of February abought nine of the clock at night and emediatly after my two daughters were borne— names Mary and Elizabeth. 1660. Memorandum that God was pleased to ad to Ms former blessinges in giving me a third daughter on Sunday May y^ 6*'^ abought foure of the clock in the afternoone — Diana. 1661. Mem' that God was pleased to send me a fourth daughter on Sep. y^ 4"* abught one of y^ clock in y^ morning — Henrietta. 1662. Mem' that God was pleased to send me a fifth daughter on October y^ ij*'^ betwixt foure and five in y^ morning being Saturdaj- — Katharine. 1663. Mem' that God was pleased to give me y® greate blessing of a sonne y^ sixth day of October being Tuesday abought seven of y^ clock in y^ morning which was chrisoned on Tuesday y« twentith of y* same month by y° Deane of Litchfield and Coventrye — Anthon3^ 1665. Mem' that God was pleased to give me y^ blessing of a sixth daughter on Tuesday y" eighteenth day of Aprill abought eight in y^ morn' — Judith. 1666. Mem' that God was pleased to give me y® blessing of my second sonne, on Sundy morn abought six of y^ clock being y^ 2i*'' of June — John. 1667. Mem' that God was pleased to give me y^ blessing of my seventh daughter on Saturday night betwixt eleven and twelve being y^ tenth of August — Dorothy. 1668. Mem' that God was pleas'd to give me y® blessing of my third sonne on Munday y* 14"* of September — Henry. 1669. Mem' that God was pleased to give me y*^ blessing of my eighth daughter on y^ of November — Alice. 1671. Mem' that God was pleas'd to give me y^ blessing of a forth sonne on Saterday y« 10"^ of June betwixt 5 and 6 in y« morn he was christoned on Thursday y^ 29 of y^ same month — WilHam. S"" WiU. Tyringham and Alderman Backwell being Godfathers, and my mother Godmo. He died Feb. 20*'* 1673, supposed to be y'^ Evill in y^ gutts. 1672. Mem' that God was pleas'd to give me y^ blessing of my ninth daughter June y® 3'' being Munday abought 4 in y« afternoon. Christoned on tuesday y* ij*'*, Anthony God. my mother and Betty Fisher Godmothers — named Penelope. 167|. Mem' that God was pleas'd to give me y^ blessing of a fifth sonne March y« 12"' being Thursday abought tenn in y« morning. Godfathers y^ Bish. of Litchfield and my bro. Conye — Thomas. 1675. Mem' that God was pleas'd to give me y« blessing of my sixth sonne March y= SO*"* being Tuesday att eleven of y« clock att night. Godfathers my brother Cranmer and Dr. Randolph — Cesar. 1677. Mem' that God was pleas'd to give me y'= blessing of my seventh sonne on Fryday morning ab't 2 in y^ morn being y^ 19*'* of October and cluistoned y'= 8^^ No. My Lord of Ales- bury abs. and S' Peter Tyrrell Godfathers present — Robert. GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 3 3125 012031643