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21? A lo~7

GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS

OF THE

EXTINCT FAMILY

i»F

CHESTER OF CHICHELEY,

S^hrtr Ancestors and Clesccnbants.

LONDON
IIOBSON AND 80NB, PRTKTRRB, PANCRAS ROAD»N.W.

GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS

OF THE

EXTINCT FAMILY

CHESTER OF CHICHELEY,

^tit ^nmkts and §mtnimts.

AVTEMPTED BT

■ROBERT EDMOND CHESTER "WATERS, Esq., B.A.

A nARBISTER OF THE INNKB TEMPLE, ETC.

m TWO VOLUMES. V .y

VOL. I.

' 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.

[All rights nterred.]

21? . d .

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 genealo^ts 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 Manage was not ashamed to avow
that of all his works Tlie History of the House of Sable was 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 throw 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 with the Antiquary.

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 fttles ; and to
maintain that a genealogical memoir is satisfied by the construction of
a pedigree is practically to assert that men only differ 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 affection 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 office 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 indifferent to the glory and
genius of their ancestors ; and Gibbon the historian never carried with

PEEFACE.

him more completely the sympathy of his readers than in his well-known
avowal : ' For my oivn part, could I draw my pedigree from a general^
a statesman, or a celebrated author, I shouM study their lives with the dili^
gence of filial love.^ With generous minds, life is a continual 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.

T/ie 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 in 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

PREFACE.

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 dra^vn 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, whilst 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 which 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 was 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, Westminster,
August 1878.

POSTSCRIPT.

Mt cordial thanks are due to Henrt Uucks Gibbs Esq. of Aldenham, Herts, late
Governor of the Bank of England, for the seals of Archbishop Cranmer and the
pedigrees of Cranmer ;

The Master of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, for particulars of the present condi-
tion of the sermon and fellowship founded by Lady Milborne in 1544 for the repose
of the soul of her husband John Chester ;

Mr. Thomas Milbourn, for extracts from the Eecords of the Mercers' Com-
pany, and for the woodcut of the old sculpture on the Milborne Almshouses in
Aldgate;

B. W. Greenfield Esq. of Southampton, for the use of his valuable collec-
tions concerning the families of Bury and Tyndall, and for an abstract of the
several deeds and charters of the families of Drayton and Vere, printed in Robert
Halstead's Succinct Genealogies;

Bev. G. M. GoRHAM, Vicar of Masham, Yorkshire, for permission to reproduce
some of the seals engraved in his father's book, TTie Gleanings of a few Scattered
Ears during the Reformation ;

C. Massingberd Mundy Esq. of Ormsby Hall, for copies of his ancestor's corre-
spondence with Sir John and Sir William Chester, the 4th and 5th Baronets, of
Chicheley ;

Mrs. Edmund Huqhes, for the pedigrees of Shan and Hughes, and many
particulars of the Remington family ;

The late Colonel Charles Wood, formerly of the 10th Hussars, for many
anecdotes and particulars of his old friend the late Sir John Waters ;

The Rev. William Jeudwine, Vicar of Chicheley, for a mass of valuable infor-
mation relating to his parish, and for constantly permitting me to consult him in
matters of local interest ;

Mrs. Jeudwine of Chicheley Vicarage, for tracing from the originals copies in
facsimile of Sir Anthony Chester^s letter to his brother Henry, dated 20th Oct.
1646« and of Richard Cromwell's dispensation of non-residence to Sir Henry Chester,
when he was sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1659 ;

Miss Beatrice Backhouse, for a description of the portraits at Chicheley
Hall, and for drawings of Chicheley Hall and Shenton Hall ;

G. E. CoKAYNE Esq., Lancaster Herald, for many extracts from his genealogical
collections, and from manuscripts preserved in the College of Arms ;

J. R. Daniel Tyssen Esq., for the loan of his transcript of the parish registers
of Hackney ;

POSTSCRIPT.

WlLUAM Simpson Esq. of Mitcham, for permission to examine the family papers
and deeds of the Cranmers of Mitcham ;

Mrs. Kenrick of Tunbridge Wells, for particulars of the Kenrick family finom
the diary of John Kenrick of Flore (1652-1729), the nephew and executor of Sir
William Cranmer ;

Major WoLLASTON of Shenton Hall, for copies of all the entries of Wollaston
and Chester in the parish register of Shenton ;

G. B. Wollaston Esq. of Chiselhurst, for the use of his collections of extracts
from parish registers relating to the Wollaston family ;

Captain Gilbert Parry R.A,, for searching the registers of several parishes
in the island of Barbadocs ;

E. J. Sage Esq. of Stoke Newington, for extracts from the registers of Barking
and Homchurch, and for several particulars of Parsloes and of Aldborough Hatch ;

The Countess COWPER, for the loan of the Chartulary of St. John's Abbey,
Colchester ;

Lord Norton of Hams Hall, and Kev. Walter Sneyd of Keele, for par-
ticulars of Dame Frances Chester, who was successively the wife of Balph
Sneyd Esq. of Keele, Sir John Chester Bart., and Charles Adderley Esq. of Hams
HaU;

C. K. Mansel Talbot Esq., M.P., for communicating the old leases of Tyvry
preserved amongst his muniments at Margam Abbey ;

Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton Bart., and F. W. Steward Esq. of Lincoln's
Inn Fields, for the loan of the affidavits and exhibits filed in Chancery in the suit of
Dallas r. Hamilton ;

The late Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, Deputy Keeper of Public Records ;
Henry Morgan Vane Esq., Secretary of the Charity Commission ; F. C. Brooke
Esq. of Ufford Place, Suffolk ; Henry Murray Lane Esq., Chester Herald ; Miss
Emily Holt ; Mrs. Rose of Cransley ; Mr. Everard Green F.S.A. ; Mr. Charles
Bridger ; Mr. J. E. Martin, Librarian of the Inner Temple ; and Mr. W. H.
Turner of Oxford, for information contained in their courteous answers to my
inquiries ;

Mr. W. H. Overall, the Librarian of Guildhall, for extracts from the Records of
the City of London relating to Sir William Chester and Henry Wollaston, and for
the interesting details of the runaway marriage of Edmund Waller the poet.

Amongst the friends and correspondents, to whom I am indebted for information
from the registers in their charge, are :

Rev. Augustus G. How, Vicar of Bromley, Middlesex ; Rev. E. J. Moor, Rector
of Great BeaHngs, Suffolk ; Rev. J. S. Sidebotham, Rector of St. Mildred's, Canter-
bury ; Rev. G. W. Langstaff, Vicar of Whatton, Notts ; Rev. W. M. Falloon,
Rector of Ackworth, Yorkshire ; Rev. T. O. Goodchild, Rector of Hackney, Mid-

POSTSCRIPT.

dlesex ; Rev. H. Smith, Vicar of Easton Mandit, Northamptonshire ; Rev. John
Bond, Vicar of Weston, Somerset ; Eev. A. G. Hellicar, Vicar of Bromley, Kent ;
Rev. Martin Green, Rector of Winterbom Steepleton, Dorset ; the Venerable
Archdeacon TroUope; Rev. John Bathurst Deane, Rector of St. Martin's Out-
witch; Rev. 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 Ashbumham, 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 Heam, 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; R«v. A. K. Stuart, Vicar of Nettleham, Lincolnshire; Rev. A. W. Lane,
Curate of Grcenford Magna, Middlesex ; Rev. G. B. BlomeHeld, 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. Ghites 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 Eilworth, 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
JuruJIicialeSj p. 100.

P. 53. S. lY. Line 1 . Joan Billing was the third wife of Thomas Loyeit II., not III., as printed.

P. 56. Anne Lovett was the first of the three wiyes 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 ofco, Leic., ii. 540).

P. 69. William Cheater, the Constable of Wisbech Castle, did not maintain his father*s cha-
racter for humanity to the prisoners in his charge ; for Gamett the Jesuit writes to
Rome on 4 Oct. 1605 : 'The courses taken [against the Catholics] are more severe
than in Queen £lizabeth*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 &om 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 Gunpotoder Plot, p. 79, edited by Eev.
J. Morris, S.J.).

P. 69. Line 14, /or * were' rewl * was.'

P. 73. Cave op Yorksuire. It apj^tarsfrom the Register of Richard Kellaw, Bishop of Durham
(printed in the Bolls 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 Saxhy, Clemehce Saxby, the daughter of John by Amy GiiFard, married
Thomas Haselwood of Belton in Butland, 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 Bobert Bell, Lord Chief Baron. HLb wife Dorothy Beauprd had her father's
coat of arms confirmed to her by Bobert Cooke Clarencieux, on 7 June 1571 {ffarl,
MS, in Brit, Mus, 1422, fo, 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 BeauprS 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 Elizabeth, who was buried at St. Margarets,

* I am indebted to Dr. Jessop of Norwich for my extracts from the Registers of Lynn.

IV ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

Lynn, 17 Feb. 1503-4. His dangbter Frances, wife of Sir Heneage Fincb Kt., died

11th April 1627, and was buried at Ravenstonc, Bucks.
Sir RonEKT Bell III. His wife Mary Chester died 8 Sept. 1056. The baptisms of his

children at Outwell 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 Nicholas Le Strange had issue by Mary Bell two sons, who were both

baptized at St. Margaret's, Lynn:** JIamon on 14 July 1583, and Roger on 1 Nov.

1584.
P. 122. Note F. Sir Henry Uohart Bart., Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, died 29 Dec.

1625, and was buried at Blickling on 4 Jan. 1625-6. His \cldo\o Dorothy died at her

house in Covent Garden, and was buried at Blickling 30 April 1641.**
P. 123. Elizabeth Chester. The license for her fifth marriage is dated 18 Dec. 1661, and

was f onnd by Colonel J. L. Chester in the Yicar-Generars Registry :

1661, Dec. 18. Francis Layre o! Honingham, Norfolk, Esti., bachelor, aged about 40, to
many Dame EUzabeth Bowie of Lowdo, co. Lincoln, aged about 50, widow of Sir Charles
Bowlo Et., at St. Mary-le-Strand.

P. 131. Pedigree of Bankworth, 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 Jevjry), Their son and heir Bobert 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, not 1571-2 as printed ; for his Will is dated 12 Feb. 1576-6, and was
proved 7 June 1576 {see page 168).

P. 146. Pedigree of Audrey Boteltr'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 Archceologia, vol. i. pp. 138-47 ;
Collectanea Topographica, vol. ii. p. 60).
Robert Frost, the brother of Walter, was Chancellor to Arthur Prince of Wales, and
Rector of Thomhill near Leeds 1483-98, where he built the great east window and
choir (Whitaker's Loidis, voL ii. p. 319).

P. 221. Robert 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 Univcrsitie of Cambridge, and one of his Majestie's Privie

* I am indebted to Dr. Jessop of Norwich for my extracts from the Registers of Blickliug.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. V

Oounsaile.* The M9. is now in the Townley Collection, and is noticed in the fourth
Report of ihQ Historical MS, Commission (p. 413), bat the editor has failed to identify
the author, and mis-describes him as a Roman Catholic.

P. 223. Roger Mures Esq. and Mary Peyton had also a son Pe3rton, who was baptized at St.
Margaret*8, Lynn, 26 June 1623.

P. 231. Line 9. The first wife of Sir Robert Clarke was named Dorothy Maynard, not Margaret.

P. 233. Alice Osborne^ wife of Christopher 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 bom 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 bom until after his
father^s return. Her marriage portion was 2000^., and she had seven children (riot
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 Oshome^s husband was named William Buckby (not Buckley). He was bom 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, Cokayne, Lancaster
Herald). T

P. 236. Anne Welby, daughter of John Welby by Jane OHborne, was baptized at St. Margaret's,
Lynn, 27 Feb. 1609-10. She had a brother Thomas, who was bom 30 Oct. 1608, and
was baptized at St. Margaret's, Lynn, 15 Nov. 1608.

P. 238. Sir Eduoard Peyton was, with all his faults, superior to corruption, for he rejected with
indignation the offer of 10,000/. to withdraw his opposition in Parliament to the Bill
for enclosing the Fens. He bore arms against the King, and was taken prisoner at
EdgehiU. In his Divine Catastrophe he addresses the Parliament as ' Right Honourable
Senators,* and compares Oliver Cromwell to Alexander the Great.

P. 239. Henry Lavorence 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 f 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, reconmiending Lord Craven to his good
offices, is printed in the second volume of Thurloe's State Papers, 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

Lawronco, of virtnouB father, virtnons son.

She had also other children, whoso 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 (Genileman^s Magazine, July 1815), and was the maternal ancestor
of Lord Abinger (Scarlett's Life of Lord Ahingcr).
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 AND GOKHECTIONS.

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 ami Student^ but properly entitled
Dialogus de Fundamentis Lcgum Anglioi et de Conscientia, a Dialogue between a
Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Common Laws of England (Wood's ^(A«imb
Oxon,y 1731, vol. i. p. 54). Christopher died in 1540, and mentions in his WiU, 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, Bobert de Scales had issue by Alice the heiress of Kewcells four
sons : L Bobert ; II. Boger 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 Bobert 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 1547-1660, p. 337).

P. 321. Dr. John Nalson^ Bector of Doddingtou, was the son of John Kalson M.A., Bector 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. Studbs. 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
Hhe most noted person of his age that those late times have produced' (Athena 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, according to the editor of Mercurius Pragmaticus, he filled the office of
* Beadle of the beggars.' On the outbreak of the rebellion in 1641, Mrs. Stubbe 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 wrongheadcd 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. Dr. Nicholas Morton was buried in the chapel of the English College at Bome, 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 (Misccll. 730) :

•B. D. KiCHOLAO MORTONO, PRO. AnGLO,
SACRfi TUE0L0GI-« DOCTORI CLARO, QUI
AMICIS CUARUS C^TERISQUE BONIS GIBUS PRO
FIDE CaTHOLICA IN PATRIA AMIS8IS A*.

. . . LXXV, iETATIS VERO LXVI, BOM^G
MORTUUS EST, A.D. MDLXXXII, D. XXVII. M. Ja-
.... VOLUIT CODEM TUMULO CUM

ADDITIONS AND COUUECTIONS. Vll

.... CUM QUO EADEM RELIGIONIS

CAUSA ANGLIAU AUFUGIT RoMAMQUE 8IMUL VENIT.
.... MORTONUS NEPOS AMANTISSIMUS
PATRUO 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 Calyin, dated
13 Nov. 1552, and printed by the Parker Society (Letters relating to the Reforma-
tion before the Accession of Q, Elizabeth ^ p. 339).

P. 451. Note. There \a some slight evidence that the Cranmers of Tanworth were originally of
a higher grade, for Thomas Freeman of Batsford, Gloucestershire, and of Blockley,
Worcestershire (the ancestor of Lord Bedesdale), who died about 1639, aged 55,
married Margaret, daughter of John Bogers of Tanworth by . . . daughter
of . . . CrMLmer oi TBiiwor\h (Visitation of London 1687),

P. 464. Sir Walter Eirkham Blount also published a translation from the French of a
book written by Bapin the Jesuit. It is entitled The Spirit of Christianity^ and was
dedicated to King James U. It was printed in London in 1G8G 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, Bector of Kirkby in
Cleveland 1691, and of Long Marston 1694, and was buried in York Cathedral 17 Jan.
1704-5 (Yorkshire Archaologia^ 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 Bemers 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 Bobert Gardiner Kt. of Elmea-
well and Woolpit, Suffolk, who died Chief Justice of Ireland 12 Feb. 1619-20.
Anthony was the 4th son of William Webb Esq. of Brecclcs in Norfolk, who died
in 1624, and was the eldest son of Bichard Webb by Anne Gardiner, sister and heir
of Sir Bobert.

P. 5! 8. WiLUAM 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 wont 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 ; 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.

VUl ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

1740, at the age of 38. The comments on his death in Charles Wesley^s Joamal ore
painfully discreditable {^IJfe of George Whitejieltly by Rev. L. Tyerman, vol. i).

P. 631. Note f f. Rev, Jonathan Cateline, The note referred to at page 64G will be found at
page 648.

P. 639. Db. Dillingham was head-master of the Grammar 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^ imvatdy
printed hy Sir Charles Isham Barf. 1877).

P. 648. Line 25. My Irrother 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. George 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 G<x)d 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.

CorrectUms and A dditions p. xxii-xxyi

CHAPTER I.

•icrr.

Thtfoier distinct Families of Chester
The Cheaters of Chicheley, Bucks
The CheBten of Bristol, Barton-Begis

and Almondsbury .
The Cheaters of Boyston and Cocken

hatch, Hertfordshire ; of Blaby

Leicestershire; and of Wethers

field in New England .
The Cheaters of Leigh, Essex
IL Robert Chester of Stmo-on-thc-Wolt

1445

His foundation of a chantry at Stow

1445

Origin of his family .

He was not the father of Henry

Chester, Sheriff of Bristol 1470
IIL Richard Cliester^ Alderman and

Sherijf of London 1484.
His Will 1483 ....
Hia daughter Joan, wife of Thomas

Bnllisdon ....
IV. nis fffidow Dame A lice Chester
Her WiU 1504 ....
Proo& and authorities

CHAPTER IL

WilUam Chester of London 1467 .

Grant of Arms to him in 1467 .

Hia WiU 1476 ....

Hia charitable f oundationa .
IL nis widow Dame Agnes Chester

Her Will 1484 ....
nL Her brother Sir William Hilly vicar
of Walthamstow 1470-87

His prefermenta, epitaph, and Will

PAOC

1-2

SECT.

2
2

3-4

3
4

4-6
5-6

6
68
7-8

9-12

10-12

1315

13-15

15-17
15

IV. Elisabeth Chester^ wife of James

Bryce ......

V. Sir Hugh Bryce Kt.^ Lord Mayor 1 485
Hia Will 1492 ....
Will of Dame Elizabeth Bryce 1498
Hia grandson and heir Hugh Bryce

VI. Elizabeth Biyce, wife of Robert

A madas, and secondly of Sir Thos

Nevill Kt., and her heirs
Will of Robert Amadas 1531
Will of Sir Thomaa NeviU 1542 .
The heira of her firat marriage .
Ancient uaage of quartering Arma

VII. Pedigree of Dame Agnes Chester

and of the heirs of her daughter
Elizabeth Bryce .
Froofa and authoritiea

CHAPITER IIL

John Chester of London 1476-1513 .

Hia WiU 1513

n. His widow Joan Chester, afterwards
wife of Sir John Milborne Kt,

Her foundation of a fellowahip at St.
Catharine^a Hall, Cambridge, and
of an annual aermon at St. Tho-
maa of Acon*a

Sir John MUbome'a charitable foun
dationa .....

Hia WUl 1635 ....

Cheater'a aermon transferred to Mer
cers* chapel ....

Wm of Lady Milborne 1545 .

III. Her brother John Hill of London
His WUl 1614 ....

IV. Nicholas Chester of London and his

children 1550 ....

PAOB

17-19

18-19

20-21
20
21
21

w. 21

22
22

23-24
2324

26-30

25-29

26-27
27-28

29-31

31-32

CONTENTS.

8F.CT.

V. Pedigrees of Chester in the visitation
of London 1568 ....
Proofs and authorities

PAOB

32
32

fllCT.

CHAPTER IV.

Sir William Chester Kt., M.P., Lord

Mayor 1560 33-38

His munificence 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 .... 3-i

Funeral of his first wife, 23 July 1560 34-35
His patronage of the Protestant Dr.

Becon 35

Epitaph of Sir John Milbome and
Lady Chester in St. Edmimd*p,
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

n. The children of Sir William Chester 38-41
Thomas Chester Bishop of Elphin

1580-4 38

Epitaph of John Chester's wife at

Quainton, Bucks . : . . 39

Will of Bobert Tempest of Antwerp

1560 39-40

Will of John Trott of London 1600 . 40®
Appendix : Notes on Bobert Tempest's

Will 400-41

Life of Thomas Points of Antwerp, the

friend of Tyndal theBeformer 41

Proofs and authorities . . . 41

CHAPTER V.

The Lovetts of Astwell •
Errors in the received pedigree
Pedigree of Lovett and Billing
William Lovett of Domesday

410-46

410-43

Thomas Lovett II. of Bushton ac-
quires in 1471 Astwell Manor by
exchange .....

His two daughters by his first wife
Anne Grcyby ....

His children by his second wife Anne
Drayton

II. Pedigrees of Drayton and Vere of

Adding ton

The errors in Halstead's Succinct
Genealogies

III. Thos.Lovett IL of Astwell 1489-1492
Third marriage of Thomas Lovett n.

of Astwell

Will of his son Thomas Lovett 1510 .

Will of Thomas Lovett II. of Astwell

1491

rV. Joan Billing^ the third tcife of Tho-
mas Lovett 11,^ and her subsequent
husbands

Will of Alexander Quadryng 1504 .

Errors in Lord Campbell's account of

Sir Thomas Billing, the Chief

Justice .....

V. Thomas Lovett II L of Astwell 1473

1542

Epitaph of his mother-in-law Con
stance Yere ....

His children by his first wife Elizabeth
Boteler

His children by his second wife Jane
Pinchpolo ....

Will of Thomas Wogan 1566

Will of Gabriel Dormer 1557 .

Will of Peter Dormer 1583

Will of John Hawtrey 1593

Wm of Bridget Hawtrey 1598 .

Will of Thomas Lovett III. of Ast
well 1542 ....

Will of his widow Jane Lovett 1556

VI. Thomas Lovett IV. 1495-1523 .

VII. Thomas Lovett V. of Astwell 1517
86

His deer-park at Astwell dedicated in
1564

His granddaughter Elizabeth Shirley,
one of the foundress nuns of St
Ursula*s, Louvain .

PAOI

44-45
44

45-46

46-51

46-47
52-53

52
52

5355
53-54

5561

57-59
57
57
58
58
59

59
GO
61

62-63
62

CONTENTS.

SECT

Will of Thomas Lovett V. 1584
VIII. The uterine brothers of Elizabeth

Lovett^ L(idy Chester
James Bury of Hampton Poyle,

Oxon

His Wm 1557

William Bury of London .

His Will 15C1

John Bury, the translator of Isocrates

Proofs and authorities

The daughters of Giles Pulton .

CHAPTER VI.

William Chester of Chicheley^ Constable

of Wisbech Castle 1605
The parish of Chicheley, Bucks, and

the descent of the manors therein
Wisbech Castle used as a prison for

Catholic priests
Will of William Chester 1603 .

II. Ilis children ....
Epitaph of his son-in-law Thomas

Heton

His children by Elizabeth Chester
His widow re-marries Thomas Proc

tor of Wisbech
Her Will 1624 ....

III. Pedigree of Anne Freer e^ second wife

of William Chester ^ and of her de-
scendants ....
Proofs and authorities

CHAFrER VII.

The Caves of Stanford -on- Avon
Their true origin ....
Richard Cave Esq., of Stanford
His friendship with Cromwell, the

vicar-general

His two children by his first wife
His daughter Margaret, the mother of
Lawrence Saunders the martyr,
and of Sir Edward Saunders, Chief
Justice ..:...
His second wife Margaret Saxby
WiU of WiUiam Saxby 1517
Pedigree of Saxby of Northampton .
Will of Richard Cave of Stanford
1536

PAGE

63-66

63-64
64

64-66
65
66
67

n. 67

68-70

68-69

69
70
70

71
71

72
72

73-80

74-77

74
75

SECT. PAOB

His thirteen children by Margaret

Saxby 77-80

Sir Ambrose Cave Kt., Chancellor of

the Duchy of Lancaster . . 77

Dorothy Cave and her grandson

Henry Smith, the * English Chry-

Bostom* 78

Prudence Cave, wife of John Crokc,

Master in Chancery ... 79

Pedigree of Judges descended from

them 79

Bridget Cave, and her descendants.

Lord Chief Baron Tanfield and

Lord Keeper Lane ... 79

Errors in Lord Campbell's aocoant of

Lane 79

n. The Caves of Ingarsby, Leicestershire 80-82
Bryan Cave of Ingarsby and his

children 80

His wife Margaret Throckmorton

descended from Alice Neville, the

sister of ' the Eling-maker* . 80

wm of Bryan Cave 1590 ... 80

Henry Cave of Ingarsby ... 81

Will of his widow EUzabeth 1627 81

Captain Francis Cave, grandfather of

Sir John Chester's wife 82

III. Anthony Cave Esq.^ of Chiclieley . 82-86
His purchase of Chicheley Manor 82
His foundation of the grammar-

school at Lathbnry, Bucks . . 83
His monument and epitaph at

Chicheley 84

His WiU 1555 84

Schedule of his estates ... 85

IV. His vndow Elizabeth and her subse-

quent husbands^ John Newdegate
and Richard Weston Esqs. . . 86-88
Will of Richard Weston, Judge of

Common Pleas 1572
Will of his widow Elizabeth 1577 .
Proofs and authorities

87
87
88

75
-76

CHAPTER VIIL

75
76

The four daughters ami co-Jieirs of An-
thony Cave of Chicheley .

II. The Hampdens of Great Hampden^
Bucks

89
89-92

Xll

CONTENTS.

net. PAOB

WiU of Griffith Hampden 1591 . . 89

His children by Anne Cave . . 90
Anne Hampden, mother of Edmond

Waller the poet .... 90

Edmond Waller's runaway marriage . 90^

Will of William Hampden 1597 . 91

John Hampden the patriot . . 91

Will of his widow Dame LetticeVachell 91 ^

Pedigree of Hampden and Waller 92
nL Martha Cave, wife of John Newde-

gateEsq 93

TV.TheWestonso/Roxwell. . . 93-97
Their pretended descent from Regi-
nald de Baliol exposed . . . 93 95
Will of William Weston, Mercer of

London 1514 .... 94
Will of Robert Weston, Lord Chan ■

cellor of Lreland 1573 . . . 9i. 94
Will of James Weston of Licli field

1589 «. 94-

Arms of Weston .... 95
Richard Weston, Judge of Common

Pleas 95 9G

Sir Jerome Weston Kt., of Rozwell . 96

His Wm 1603 96

Anne Weston, wife of John Williams,

the author of * Balaam's Ass' 97

V. The Weatonsj Earls of Portland . 97-107
Sir Richard Weston, Earl of Port-

LindK.G 97-99

Declares himself a Catholic on his

deathbed 98

His Will 99

His children by his first wife . .99-100
His son-in-law Walter, 2nd Lord

Aston 100

His children by his 2nd wife Fran-
cos Waldegrave . . .100-101
Nicholas Weston, M.P. for Ports-
mouth 100

Benjamin Weston, M.P. for Dover . 100
Epitaph at Rome of Lady Catharine

Weston, wife of Richard White . 101
Will of Frances Countess Dowager

of Porthmd 1644 .... 102
Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland 102-104
His alliance with the royal family by

marriage 102

SECT.

His imprisonment and sequestra-
tion of his estates by the Parlia-
ment

Hb discovery of the statue of
Charles I

His Will 1G57

Charles Weston, 3rd Earl of Port-
land

Killed in the battle against the
Dutch 3 June 1GG5 .

His Wm 1665

Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Port-
land

He becomes a Catholic, and retires
to a monastery in Flanders

Frances Lenox, widow of Jerome
2nd Earl of Portknd

Her Will 1692 ....

Pedigree of Weston Earl of Port-
land

Proofs and authorities .

Parentage of Richard Weston the
Judge

Marriage of Sir Jerome Weston
Kt, at Chicheley

CHAPTER IX.

Sir Anthony Chester Kt., Bt., of

Chicheley, 1566-1636
He raises a troop of horse to oppose

the Spanish invasion in 1588 •
Knighted by James I. 27 June

1603

Created a baronet 23 March 1619-

1620

Purchases estates in Bedfordshire .
Epitaph of his first wife Elizabeth

Boteler

His second wife Mary Ellis of

Kiddall

The loyalty of her family to the

Stuarts, and their sufferings in

the Civil Wars ....
Monument and epitaph of Sir An-
thony Chester at Chicheley

His Will 1635

II. The inquest post mortem of Sir

Anthony Chester 7 Oct. 1635

PAoa

U>2

1(»3
104

105

105
105

105-106

106

106
106-107

108-109
109-110

n. 110
ft. 110

111-118

111

112
112 »-

113

115

113

114
114

115-118

CONTENTS.

• • •
Xlll

118-119
119

119-124

119

120

121-122

123-124
123

124

125

II. 125

n. 125

SSCT. PAa>

in. Dame Mary Chester y wUlow of Sir
Anthony, 1631-92

Her Will 1G92 ....

rV. The children of Sir Anthony

Chester by Jiis first wife Eliza-

heth Doteler ....

Mary Chester, wife of Sir Robert
Bell Kt. of Beaupre Hall, Nor-
folk

Pedigree of Bell ....

Notes on the pedigree of Boll

Elizabeth Chester and her five
husbands

Will of John Wingate Esq. 1642 .

V. Pedigree of Chester in the Visitation

of Bucks 1634 ....

Proofs and authorities .

Note on the family of Ellis .

Note on the entries of Bell in the
Register of Outwell .

CHAPTER X.

William Chester Esq. of East Iladdon

1595-1G82 126

His two wives and daughters . 126-127

Pedigree of the children of Dorothy

Chester, wife of John Nance Esq. 127

n. Sir Henry Chester E,B., of r»7«-

t/?ar^A, ^«/«, 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 ho

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

ni : . 130

Pedigree of his first wife Judith

Bankworth .... 131

His monument and epitaph at

Tilsworth 131

His Will 1666 132

in. Uis widow Dame Mary Chester

1604-1684 133

SECT. PAOV

Her WiU 1676 .... 133
IV. John CIt ester Esq. of Snelson,

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

Willof Robert Bankworth 1617 . n. 136

CHAPTER XI.

Elizabeth Boteler, first wife of Sir An-
thony Chester Kt, and BarL . 137
The descent of the Botelers of

Hertfordshire . . . . 137

n. Pedigree of Boteler and Mai^iion . 138-139

III. Royal descent of Elizabeth Drury,

wife of Sir Philip Boteler Kty

and pedigru of their issue . . 140-141

IV. Sir Henry Boteler Kt,, of Brant-

field, Herts, 153Q-U{)d . . 141-143

Will of Hugh Pope 1562 . . 141
Sir Henry Boteler^s children by his

first wife Catharine Waller 142

His WiU 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,

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CONTENTS.

•■CI, PAGE

Earl of Marlborough, and after-
wards of William Ashburnbam

Esq 14G

Oliye Boteler, wife of Endymion
Porter, courtier, poet, and scho-
lar 14G-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 Mountjoy
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

II. The descent of the manor of Walton

Woodhall 155

III. Notes on the pedigree of Boteler . 15G-158
John Gokayne, Lord Chief Baron of

the Exchequer .... 156

His WiU 1428 .... 15G

The true parentage of Constance,
2nd wife of John Boteler and
mother-in-law of Thomas Lo-
vett in. of Astwell ... 157

Will of John Boteler II. 1513 157

WiU of Sir John Boteler Kt. 157G,
and correction of the year of his
death 158

IV. Grisel Roche^ wife of Sir John

Boteler Kt 158 -ICO

Wrongly described in the received
pedigrees as the daughter of Sir
William Roche Kt., Lord Mayor
1540 . .... 158

SECT.

Will of Sir William Roche Kt.

1549

Will of Dame Margaret Roche 1559
Will of Bryan Roche 1514 .
Pedigree of Roche ....
Proofs and authorities .

CHAPTER XIL

Sir Anthony Chester Bart. II. 1593-
1G52

Married without his fa therms consent

Partially disinherited

Was present at the battle of Naseby

Chicheley Hall sacked and plun-
dered by the rebels

Sir Anthony took refuge in Hoi
land

Letter from him to his brother
Henry 1G4G

Schedule of his estates .

His portrait at Chicheley
II. His wife Dame Elizabeth Chester
1G03-1G92 ....

Her epitaph at Chicheley
in. Uer children

Alice Chester, wife of John Milli-
cent of Bergham

His Will 1G81

Pedigree of Millicent

Dorothy Chester, wife of C/olonel
John Fisher

Frances Chester, wife of Samuel
Wiseman Esq. of Barbadoes

Peyton Chester, Gentleman of the
Bedchamber to Henry Duke of
Gloucester ....

Will of Peyton Chester 1G8G .

Elizabeth Chester, wife of WilUam
Ryley Esq., Deputy-keeper of
the Records ....

Epitaph of John Chester at Chiche-
ley 1641

Ruperta Chester, wife of Edward

Cony Esq

IV. William Chester Esq. of Barba-
does 1639-1G87 ....

His Will 1687 ....

Elizabeth Chester, wife of Captain

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CONTENTS.

SECT. PAGE

John Nanfao, Governor of New

York 172

Lord Bellamont's government of

Now York 172

His Will 161)9 and his widow Catha-
rine ji. 172

William Chester of Barbadocs the

younger ..... 173

His Will 1G96 173

V. William Ri/ley Eaq. the eUler^
Keeper of the Records at the
Tower^ and William Ryley Esq.
the younger^ Deimty -keeper . 173-179
The elder appointed Lancaster
Herald by Charles L 1G41, and
Keeper of the Records by the
Parliament 1644 ... 174

Created Norroy King-at-arms by
Oliver Cromwell, and Claren-
cieux by Richard Cromwell . 174

Reduced to Lancaster Herald at the
Restoration, and appointed De-
puty-keeper of Records under

Prynno 175

His services at the Record OfHce

disparaged by Prynno . . 175

His family 175

William Ryley the younger . . 176-178
His passion for antiquarian re-
searches 176

Addison^s testimony to Bishop At-

terbury's love of such researches 176

Ryley*s Placita Parliamcntaria
praised by Lord Chancellor

Finch 176

Written by the father and son

jointly 177

The Ryley s jealous of Prynne . 177

William Ryley's petitions to Lord-
keeper Finch .... 177-178
Sir Philip Ryley, Sergeant-at-arms 178-179
His Will 1732 .... 179

Proofs and authorities . . . 180-181
Note on the family of Ryley . . 181

Pedigree of Fisher and Shan . . 182

CHAPTER XIIL
The Peytons of Peyton nail . . 183-186

SECT.

Their mythical descen t from William

Malet ....
Will of Sir John de Peyton 1317
Epitaph of Margaret Gemon, widow
of Sir John Peyton Kt. 1413

II. The Gcrnans ofBahewell ami East

Thorpe ....
Mythical origin of the Cavendish

family ....
Robert Gemon of Domesday .
His benefactions to the abbeys of

Gloucester and Abingdon .
His children ....
Matthew Gemon of Essex
Ralph Gernon of Bakewell .
Ralph Gemon II., founder of Lees

Priory 1230
William Gemon of Bakewell died

1258

Ralph Gernon IH., rebel Baron, re

deemed his estates under the

dictum of Konilworth
Sir John Gemon Kt. died 1334
His third wife Margaret Wygeton
Note on the Gemons of Ireland
Their pedigree
Sir John Gernon Kt. II.
Co-heir in 1369 of Robert Lord

ColeviUe ....
Genealogy of the Lords ColeviUe of

Castle Bytham .
Their pedigree
Errors in the received pedigree of

Ralph Lord Bassett of Sapcote
Litigation about the filiation of Sir

John Gemon II.
Pedigree of Gernon
The co-heirs of Sir John Gemon
Note on the pedigrees of Gernon

and Sackville ....

III. The Peytons of East Thorpe,
Wicken, and Iselham, 1384-1550

Error in the received account of the
parentage of Grace, wife of John
Peyton, and secondly of Richard
Baynard Esq

Thomas Peyton of Isclharo, jure
uxoris

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186

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CONTENTS.

SCT.

Pedigree of his wife Margaret Ber-
nard

Jane Pejton, wife of John Langlej
Esq. of Enowlton, and after-
wards of Sir Edward Ringeley,
Marshal of Calais

Pedigree of Langley

Will of Dame Jane Ringeley 1551 .

Will of William Mauleverer Esq.
1498

Will of Thomas Peyton Esq. of Iscl-
ham 1490

Pardon to Sir Robert Peyton Kt.
1509

Errors in Blomcficld^s account of
his wife's mother, Lady Clere of
Ormesby

Epitaph of Sir Robert Peyton at
Iselham 1518

His Will 1518

Inqnest held after his death .

Sir Robert P«yton Kt. of Iselham
husband of Frances Hasilden

His epitaph and Will 1 550

His children ....

Will of John Peyton 1577 .

Epitaph of Richard Peyton 1574

Dame Frances Peyton, foundress of
Iselham Hoq)ital

Her epitaph and Will 1582 .

IV. TJie 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 Pey tons of Iselham 1550-1G16
Robert Peyton of Iselham, the bus

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

PAOB

202

204-205
204
205

205

20G

200

207

207-208
208

209
209
210-211
210
210

211-212
212

213-218
213

213
215

213-214
216
217

218-225

218
218
218

■«CT. PAOl

His children 219

Will of his widow Elizabeth 1591 . 219

Sir John Peyton of Iselham created
baronet on the institution of the

order 220

His monument and Will 1615 220-221

His children 221-224

Will of Roger Peyton 1617 . 221

Error in the Peerages about the
date of the death of Sir Anthony
Irby Kt., who died in 1610 . 222

Will of Sir Philip BcdingSeld Kt.

1622 223

Epitaph of his widow . . . 223

Her 2nd husband Miles Hobart
Esq. of Intwood confused in all
the Peerages with Sir Miles Ho-
bart Kt., M.P. for Marlow . 223
Will of Dame Alice Peyton 1626 . 224
VI. Narrative of the families of Os-

home and Ucwctt . . . 225-237
Sir Edward Osborne Kt., father of

Dame Alice Peyton . . . 225-230
His Arms and parentage, traditions

of his marriage .... 225

Sir William Hewett Kt. Lord Mayor

1559 226-2^0

The first Lord Mayor of the Cloth-
workers* Company . . . 227
Will of Nicholas Leveson 1536 . 227
Will of Sir William Hewett 1567 . 228

His estates 229-230

Sir Edward Osbome^s second wife . 230

His children by his first marriage . 231-236
Sir Hewett Osborn Kt. . . . 231-233
The new fashion of giving surnames

at baptism as Christian names . 231

Sir Hewett Osborne's military ser-
vice in France and Ireland . 232
His Will 1599 .... 232
His widow re-marries Sir Peter

Frecheville Kt 233

Edward Osborne, father of the first

Duke of Leeds .... 233-234
Anne Osborne, wife of Robert Offley

of London, and her children . 234-235
Edward Osborne of the Inner

Temple and of Northill, Beds. . 235-236

Bxcr.
Erroneonaly said in the Peerages to

have died unmarried in 1625
His WiU 1625 . . . .
His two wives and children. See

Corrections ^ p. iv. . . .

Jane Osbomo, wife of John Welby

Pedigree of Osborne and Hewett .

VII. Sir Edioard Peyton Kt, and

Bcirt. ......

Author of libc'ls 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

Jtsarw. ......

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 XIV.

Tlie Pey tons of Knoxollon, 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 TynduUs of Deene .
Doubts of the origin assigned to

them by the Heralds .
Sir Simon Fclbrigge K.G. and his

Bohemian wife ....
Anne Tyndall, wife of Sir Henry

St. Germain (mis-described as

Henry Jenny). See Corrections ^

p. V. ......

Pedigree of the Lords Scales .

III. The Tyndalls ofUockwold 1485-

1539

CONTENTS.

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PAQI

BSCT.

WiU of Sir Anthony Woodville, Earl

rAOi

235

Rivers 1483 . . . .

255

235

Sir William Tyndall, co-heir of Lady
Scales, inherits in 1485 a moiety

2.36

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 Tyndalls

estates 1539 ....

257

239

His Will 1538 . . . .

258

His children by his first wife Am-

phillis Coningsby

258259

239

IV. The Coningshys of Hampton Court

259-263

239

Sir Humphrey Coningsby Kt., Judge

of K. B. .

260-261

240

His Will 1531 . . . .

260261

240-242

His children

Will of Dame Elizabeth Fitz James

261-263

1545

262

243

V. The Tyndalls of Uockwold .

263-277

244

Sir Thomas Tyndall surrenders hi8

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

264267

248-249

Baron de SIawata*s defenestration .

267

Will of WilHam Tyndall 1 591

268

249-250

The children of Sir Thomas Tyn-

250-254

dall by his second wife Amy

Fertnor

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 mamage with the Coun-

2G8-270

tess of Essex in 1578 .

268

253

His position amongst the Cam-

253255

bridge Paritans
His monument and epitaph in Ely

270

256259

Cathedral

270

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CONTENTS.

SICT. FAOI

HiflWmiGU 270

Francis Tyndall of Lincoln's Inn . 271

His purchases of estates 271

The inquest hold after his death . 271

His WiU 1620 272

Henry Tyndall of Old Buckenham,

Norfolk 272

Will of Margaret Ryngewode 1604 272

Pedigree of Fisher Bart. . . 273

Ursula Tyndall, wife of Coxey and

afterwards of Edward IJpcher . 274

Her epitaph and WiU 1628 . 274

William Tjmdall, the eldest son of
Sir Thomas by his second wife,
confused by the Heralds with
his elder brother of the same
name, and ignored in the evi-
dence of the Scales Peerage Case 274

His children 275

Felix Tyndall, rector of Plumstead 276

Thomas Tyndall of Low Leyton,
Essex, the last known male heir
of his family .... 275-276
Pedigree of Tyndall of Deene and

Hockwold 276-277

Simon Tyndall B.D. . . . n. 277
John Tyndall of St. Clement Danes

and his daughter Amphillis . n. 277
The true origin of the Tyndales of

Hayling Island . . . w. 277

VI. The Tyndalh of Great Majile-

sUcul, Essex .... 278-285
Sir John Tyndall Kt., Master in

Chancery 278-279

Erroneously supposed to be a co-
heir of the Barony of Scales . 278
His reputed descent from the Kings

of Bohemia .... 278

Purchases the estate of Chelmshoo

in Great Maplostcad . 278

His murder 279

His character vindicated by Bacon 279

His Will , . 279

His children 280

Margaret Tyndall, wife of John
Winthrop, the first Governor of
Massachusetts .... 280

Her children 281

SlCT.

The true origin of the Tindals of
Essex

WiD of Sir John Tyndall's widow
1620

Stephen Egerton,the Puritan divine

His WiD 1622

Will of his widow Sarah Egerton
1624

Richard Stocke, rector of All-Hal-
lows, Bread-street

William Gouge of Blackfriars .

Deane Tyndall of Great Maplestead

Entered his pedigree at the Visita-
tion of Essex in 1634

His children

WiU of Drue TyndaU 1663 .

Elizabeth TyndaU, sole heir of her
family and wife of Jasper
Biythman Esq. .

Her Wm 1738.

Pedigree of her descendants .

Proofs and authorities .

wm of Sir Simon Felbriggo K.G
1442

The marriages of Sir Thomas Pey-
ton Bart, of Knowlton

Pedigree of Peyton of Doddington,
showing their connexion with
the baronets of Iselham and
Knowlton . . . . .

PAGl

n. 280

281

281-282

282

282-283

n. 282

283

283-284

283

284

28 1

285

285-287

287

288

CHAPTER XV.

The Right Ilonounihlc Sir John

Peyton Kt, of Doddington 1541-

1630 289-299

Gains distinction in Ireland under

Sir Henry Sydney ... 289

Was the friend of Sir Philip Sydney

from his childhood . . . 289

Marries Lady BeU 8 June 1578 . 289

Death of Sir Robert BeU, Lord

Chief Baron .... 290

Addition to my pedigree of Bell at

p. 120 290

Peyton serves in Flanders under

the Earl of Leicester . . . 290-291
Is Governor of Bergen - op • Zoom

1586 200

CONTENTS.

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SECT. TAQE

His letter to the Earl of Leicester

1586 291

Knighted and rewarded for his

services 291

Becomes Lieutenant of the Tower

and Privy Councillor 1697 292

The duties of Lieutenant of the

Tower 292

EUs letter to tlie Council of State

18 February 1600 . 292

Is motioned in Henry Caffe*s Will

1601 292

His prudent conduct during the

last illness of Queen Elizabeth . 293

Sends his son to James I. to an-
nounce the Queen's death 293

Is appointed Governor of Jersey

and Guerlisey .... 293

Letter to him from James L 30

July 1603 294

Is called in question for his conver-
sations with the Earl of Lincoln
during Queen Elizabeth's last
ilhiess 294

His letter of explanation to Lord

Cecil 10 October 1 603 enclosing a 294

Narrative of his conversations with

the Earl of Lincohi . . 295-297

Obtains a grant of the Manor of

Doddington .... 298

His age at his death exaggerated in

the Baronetages 298

His epitaph at Doddington 298

Singular longevity of his descend-
ants n. 299

11. The descent of hia wife Dorothy

Lady Bell 299-310

Her pedigree 300

Her ancestor Sir John Hawkwood

Et, the condottiere captain . 301-308

Gilbert Hawkwood of Hedingham

Sible 301-302

His WiU 1340 301-302

Authorities for the life of Sir John

Hawkwood . . . n. 301

Examples of the ancient custom of
baptizing several brothers by
the same Christian name . 802-303

8XCT. PAOI

Birth and education of Sir John

Hawkwood .... 303

Description of his free-lances . 304

His career in France and Italy 304-307

His 2nd marriage with the daughter

of Bemabo Yisconti . 305

His semi-royal state 306

Is appointed ambassador to Naples
and Florence by Richard H. in

1385 306

His funeral and monument at

Florence 307

His children 308

His son-in-law Sir William de Cog-
geshall Kt., and his descend-
ants 308-310

m. The Peytons of Doddington . 310-322
Sir John Peyton 11. of Doddington 310-314
Was the first knight created by

James I. after his accession 310

His conversation with Lord Cob-
ham and Sir Walter Raleigh in

the Tower 310

His letters to Sir Robert Cotton

the antiquary .... 311-312
His letter of news to Sir Dudley
Carleton, the ambassador at the
Hague 1617 .... 312-314
Acts as Lieutenant-governor of

Jersey under his father 314

His Wm 1635 314

His children 315-318

Alice Peyton, wife of Edward Lowe

the musician . 315
Her epitaph at Christ Church, Ox-
ford 315

Her children 316

Her husband Edward Lowe . . 316

His Will 1682 317

Frances Peyton, wife of Francis
Fortescue Esq., Solicitor-general
of Queen Henrietta Maria 317

Susanna Peyton, wife of John

Richers Esq 318

Her granddaughter Elizabeth
Richers the gentlewoman of
Lady Chester .... 318

wm of Elisabeth Peyton 1659 . 31»

CONTENTS.

SECT.

PAOl

Dr. Algernon Peyton D.D. of Dod-

dington 318-319

Re-stocks the King*s park with deer
after the Restoration, and is re-
warded by a baronetcy to his son 319

Letter in his favour from Lord

Clarendon 319

Dies in the King's Bench Prison

1C68 319

Alice Peyton, wife of Dr. John
Nalson the historian, and after-
wards of John Cremer Esq. . 320-321

Character of Dr. Nalson's works 320

His Will 1682 320

His children. See CorrectionB^ p. v. 321

WiU of John Cromer 1703 . 321

Sir Algernon Peyton Bart, of Dod-

dington 321

Will of his widow Dame Frances

Peyton 1680 .... 322

IV. Genealogy of the Earls of Su folk

of the family of De XJff%rd . . 322-336

Robert De Ufford, Justiciary of

Lrelandl269 .... 322323

Robert Lord Ufford 1279-1316 323

His children 324-327

Sir Ralph De Ufford, Justiciary of

Lreland 1344-6 .... 324-325

His widow Maud Plantagenet,
Countess of Ulster, founds a
nunnery at Brusyard, and is pro-
fessed a nun there

His only child Matilda Countess of
Oxford

Difficulties about the heir named
in the inquest of the Countess
of Oxford

Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk .

His Will 1368

His children

Sur Thomas de Ufford K.G. .

Lord Campbell's error that John de
Offord, Lord Chancellor 1345
and Archbishop elect of Canter-
bury 1348, was the brother of
Robert Earl of Suffolk . 330

William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk 331-336

His first wife Joan de Montacnte . 332

325

326

n. 326
327-329
328-329
329-331
329

SECT. PAOS

Errors in the received account of her

father's marriages and children . n. 332

Isabella Beauchamp, 2nd wife of
William Earl of Suffolk, con-
fused by Dugdale with her sister
Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas
Ufford K.G 333-334

Will of WiUiam Earl of Suffolk

1381 334-336

His widow the Countess Isabel

takes a vow of chastity . 336

V. The Uffords of Wrentham, Suffolk . 337-340

Their ancestor Sir Thomas Ufford
Kt. confused by Dugdale with
his nephew Ralph, the Justiciary
of Ireland 337

His widow Eve Clavering re-mar-
ries Sir James de Audlcy Et. of
Stratton, and was the mother of
Sir James the hero of Poitiers,
who is confused by Dugdale with
James Lord Audley of Helagh. 337-338

Proofs and authorities . 340-342

CHAPTER XVI.

Sir Anthony Cheater Bt. Ill, 1633-

1698 343-348

Inherits an embarrassed estate 343

Subscribes to Dr. Walton's Polyglot

Bible 343

Marries Mary Cranmer 2 1 May 1 657 343

Inherits the estates of Sir Henry

Chester 344

Singular longevity of the three

Dowager Lady Chestors 344

Sir Henry Chester's old servants . 345

Mrs. Stubbs, the housekeeper at
Lidlington Park. See CorreC'

tionSj p. vi 345

Her epitaph at Chicheley . . n. 345
Examples of the aristocracy being
waited upon by servants of gen-
tle blood and of their own kin-
dred 345-346

Sir Anthony's friend Robert Earl

of Aylesbury .... 346

Portraits of Sir Anthony Chester

in 347

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Ills epitaph at Ghichcley . . 347

Verses written on his death 348

II. His widow Dame Mary Chester

1635-1710 348-349

Chicheley Hall rebuilt during her

widowhood .... 348

Iler portrait at Chicheley . . 349

Her Will 1710 349

in. The sixteen children of Sir Anthony

Chester III, .... 349-359
Mary Chester, wife of Francis Dun-
combe Esq 349-350

Her epitaph at Broughton . 350

Epitaph of her husband . . 350

Letter from him to Burrell Mas-

singberd Esq. 1710 ... 351

Elizabeth Chester, wife of Charles

Nicholas Eyre Esq. . 351

Her portrait 351

Her husband's places at court . 351

Her epitaph in Salisbury Cathedral 352

Her son Charles Chester Eyre 352

Diana Chester, wife of Rev. Thomas

Remington .... 352

Her husband's second wife and her

children 352-353

The disinheritance of his son Ger-
vase Remington by a mistake in
his father's marriage settlement 353

Diana Remington's only daughter

Barbara 353

Her husband Rev. John Shan,
Vicar of Chicheley, and their
descendants .... 353

Catharine Chester, wife of Sir

Henry Cambell Bart. . . 353

Her portrait at Chicheley . . 354

Will of Sir Henry Cambell Bart.

1G09 354

His only child Mary, wife of Thomas

Price Esq. of Wcstbury . . 354

Anthony Chester, son and heir ap-
parent, died July 1685 . . 354

sicT. rin
Portraits of Anthony and his bro-
ther John 354-335

Judith Chester, wife of Robert

OnebyEsq 355

Major John Oneby the duellist ti. 355

Robert Oneby 's second wife Susanah

Webb, and her son Robert . 355-35G
Dorothea Chester, wife of John

Wilson Esq 356

Her epitaph at Loughborough 356

Her WiU 1749 .... 356-357
Henry Chester of East Haddon . 357-358
Epitaph of his wife Theodosia 357

His epitaph at East Haddon . 358

Penelope Chester, wife of Rev.

John Allcyne B.D. . . . 358-359
His published sermons . . 359

Thomas, Csosar, and Robert Chester. 359

IV. Thomas ChesUr of London, 1674-

1731, and his descendants . . 359-363
Godson of his grand- uncle Dr.

Wood, Bishop of Lichfield 360

Apprenticed to Sir Benjamin

Thoroughgood .... 360

Resident at the Three Nuns in

Cheapside 360

Note on the families of Wigf all and

Plumptre n. 360-361

HistthUdren 361-362

John Chester of St. Paul's, Covent

Garden 362-363

Marries clandestinely at the Fleet
his cousin Elizabeth Chester,
24 August 1738 ... 362

His Will 1750 362

His only child Dorothea, co-heir of
the Wood estates and wife of
Sir George Robinson Bart, of

Cranford 362-363

Proofs and authorities . . . 363-365
Sir Anthony Chester's autograph
memorandum of the births of
his sixteen children . . . 366

GENEALOG[CAL MEMOIRS

OF THE EXTINCT FAUILT OF

CHESTER OF CHTCIIELEY.

CHAPTER I.

The fmtr distinct Families of Chester. II. Robert Chester of Stmo-oti-
ihe-Wold, 1445. III. Richard Chester, Alderman and Sheriff of London,
1484. IV. His Widow, Dame Alice Chester, 1504.

The Heralds' Visitations record four distinct fami-
lies of the name of Chester, who bore different Anns,
and were in no way related to each other.

1. The Chestera of Chicheley in Bucks, whose
history is now attempted. Tlieir ancestor, William
Chester of London, received a grant* of Arms 22 May
14C7, (i) and his descendants bore Purty per pale
Argent and SabU, a chevron engrailed between three
rams' heads erased attired Or, all couiiterchanged,
vnthin a lor dure engrailed bezanty.

2. The Chesters of Bristol, Barton-Ref^s, and
Almondsbury in Gloucestershire are all descended
from Heury 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 purchase<l the

* Thia gr&nt ia printril :it |i. in,

THE CHESTEKS OF CHICHELBV.

manors of Boyston and Cockenhatch in 1540. (3)
It has been asserted that these Chesters came out of
Derbyshire, where they had lost their estatea 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-Bamet, 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 £nglaud
in the reign of Charles I., and founded
a family at WethersSeld in Connecti-
cut. (6) All these families bore .Er-
mine, on a chief sable a grijin patsant
Argent. {5)

4. The Cheaters of Leigh in Essex
were founded by Richard Chester, a
native of Hartlepool in the county of
Durham,whowas Master of the Trinity
House in l(il5, 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 foUowiiig
coat in February 1639 from Sir John
Borough, Garter: Or on a /ess 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.

BOBEBT CHESTEB OF STOW ST. EDWABD.

EOBEBT Chesteb OF 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 tlie 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, llobert Chester, the whiche nowe is fallen in decaye.

Nothing has been discovered about the parentage and connexions of Robert
Chester, and there are no wjlls 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. (9) 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. (10) 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 CHESTERS 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
Almoiidsbury ; 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 sj)i'ang from a common ancestor, he must be looked for at an earlier
period than the reign of Henry VI.

HI.

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.' ( 1 2) 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 ^nd 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 Joan ; for

RICHARD CHESTER, ALDERMAN AND SHERIFF OF LONDON. 5

William Chester's will does not mention Richard's wife, although he leaves 1001,
to Richard, and 20L to Richard's daughter. This looks as if Joan were dead in
1476, and Alice not yet married.

Richard Chester's will is dated 25th May 1483, during the brief reign of King
Edward V.; and like most wills of this period contains legacies, which were
dictated by a sentiment now almost extinct. The migratory habits of modern
society have 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 aflfections ran in a narrower but
deeper channel, and the amor patrice, or strong aflfection 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 Richard Chester,
Marchaunt 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 bequetli and recommend my soule to almyghti god my 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 Botulpho withoute Aldgate of London wher I
am parysshen, that is to sey, by the place wher tlie body of tny broiler William CJiester lieth
berj'cd. Itm, I bequeth to the hygh auter of the same cherch for my tithes and ofDryngs forgoten
or negligently withholden, in discharge of my soule, vj«. viij</. Itm, I bequethe to be dealed and
distributed for the helthe of my soule among pooro people, xx^. Itm, I woUe that I haue xij
Torches of Wax to bryng my body to berying, and to bren at my dirige and masse of Requiem.
And I wolle that myn executrice underwroten, that is to sey, Alice my Wyfey afterwards gyve the
same xij torches unto dyvers chirches aftir her discrecion. Itm, I wolle that my seid executrice
do to be kepte in the forseid chirche of Saint Botulphe dirige and masse dayly bi note for my
Boule and all cristen soules from the day of decesse unto my monethes mynd. And I bequethe
to every preste of tlie seid cherche, being and helpyng to tlie same dayly seruice, vj«. viij</. Itm,
I wolle that my seid executrice purvey and ordeyne at my monethes mynde x or xij messys of
mete for my frendes. Itm, I bequetlie to tlie parj'she cliirche of Saint Edwarde's, Stow, x marc.
Itm, I bequetlie unto xx chirches next unto Saint Edwarde's stow aforeseid, wher I have boght
and sold, tliat is to sey, to every chirche, vj«. yiiyl. Itm, I bequethe to Johnn Chester my
dough ter iiij hundreth pound. Itm, I bequeth to evry servant of my fel hous, that is to sey,
William Hatfeld, Jamys Sheffeld, and John Crofte, x*. Itm, I bequeth to William Grantham
myn Apprentyce xx marc. Itm, I bequethe to Richard a dene, xx*. I bequethe unto Thomas
Chester whiche is with me, xl*. Itm, I bequethe to the Skynners' halle, iij £, Itm, I bequethe
to Margaret of Dagenham, vj«. viij</. Itm, I bequethe unto every ordre of the four ordres of freres
in London, xxvj». viij^. Item, I bequetlie unto every ordre of the four ordres of freres in Oxonford,
xx\j. viijJ. Itm, I bequethe unto every prison house in London, xx«. Itm, I bequethe to the
prison of the Flete, xiij». uiyl, Itm, I bequethe unto every lazarhouse within iiij Mile of London,
vj«. yiiyl. Itm, I wolle and ordeyne bi this my present testament that the forseid Alice my Wife
slialle haue all my landcs and tenements duryug the lyfe of the same Alice. And I wolle that
aftir lier decesse all my seid landes and tent* shalle remayne unto tlie forseid Johan Chester
my Dough ter to haue and to holde unto the same Jolian, and to the heires of hir body lawfuUy
begoten. And if the same Johan my dough ter decesse withoute heyr of her body lawfully comyng,

6 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

I wolle that tbay, all my seid landes and tenements, be sold by my forseid executrice or by her
executours, and that the money comyng of tlie seid sale be disposid for my soule in deedes of
almes and charitie. Itm, I bequeth unto the highe wayes aboute London, whiche haue most
nede of reparacion, xx^. Itm, I wolle that I haue of my goode wille aftir my decesse an
honest preest for to syng in the forseide Chirche of Saint Botulphe for my soule, the soules of
my fader and moder, the soule of Johan my tcyfe, 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 decesse in the forseid Chirche of Saint Edwarde Stow for my soule, and for the
soules aforsaid. The residue of allc 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 therewiUi all to do and dispose liir fre wille. And of
tliis 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 William Dunthorn Gentilman, and Thomas Bullisdon myn
attorney. And I bequeth to either of the saide Lord William Notyngham and Maister William
Dunthomj" for his labor, x^. 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 400Z., with the reversion of his lands and tenements after the death of
his widow. 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.

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 NottingJiavi bocaiyo Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 3d April 1479, and died within
a few days after the date of this will, for his sacceBBor 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 will of William
Chester in 1476, and constantly occurs as an executor in the wills of citizens of note. His epitaph in
Bt Alban's, Wood-street, is printed in Strype's editions of Stow.

DAME ALICE CHESTER. 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
aU the hole company of heven, the last day of August tlie yere of our Lord God one thousand
five hundred and foure.

I Dame Alyce Chester widows, being sometyme feble and hole of mynde, make ordeyue 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 Se3mt Botulfe's Church without Aldgate
of the citie of London, betwixt the hygh auter and the sepulchre, in the grave of my late
husband Richard 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, iij«. iiij</. To the bretherhede of Jhu without Aldgate, vj«. viij J. To
the frier and convent of seynt Mary Spitall, x«., and to evry suster then professed, 3ujJ. To
the freers of Grenewyche for a trentall, Ac, xiij«. uiyl. To the crossed freers in London for a
trentall, &c., xiij*. uiyi. To every order of the four orders of freers for like case, xiij«. iiij</. To
the lady abbess of the minores for dirige and masse there to be sung, iij«. iiij(/. To the Lady
Rich there, iij«. ihjd. To the Lady Hobbes, iij«. iiyr/., and to every lady there professed, xijrf.,
and to every novice, viij</. To the minister there without, i\j«. iiijri., and to every other of the
foure freers there, xxd. To evry lazar house within six myles space of the citie, xxd. sterling.
To Ludgate, Newgate, Pultry and Bridestrete, \}d. or the worth. To the King's Bench and
Marshalsea, every one v«. or the value. To Hugh Brice, beside a maser, I have given unto him
xx(i. To the Charter house in London for a trentall, &c., xiij«. myl. To the Steward in the
Minores, iij«. iiijrf. To the rents, xxd. To the clerk of the church there, xxJ. To the porter
and hys wif, xx</. To Annabel launder, xxd. To the three cokes, xij(i. To the two bakers, xij</.
To all our freers, viij«. ijd. Then to Sir John* Philipp, preest, xs. To the parish preest, to
pray for our soules in the pulpit, iij«. iiij^. To the morrow masse two preests to pray for our
Bouleys at masse, every one, xxrf. To Sir William Spire, preest, x*. To Sir Thomas Humfray,
X*. To Sir William Consitt, xm.

Then I give and bequeth unto Maistress Stallard, suster at Seynt Kateryne's, my Hake hode
of profesiion. 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, xx^f. 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 cupbo^^e with three locks. To my Lady Rich, my closed in the hall. To Maistress
Rollislay, 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 haugyng 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 hcde. To the morrow masse aulter, there to continue, a chest under my chamber
wjmdow ; to the same, my aulter cloth of [vacant space, sic] ; to the same, the

biggest vemacul 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 Sevemstoke, the other half. Item, I bequethe

• John Philippe was Rector of St. Swithin's, and died shortly before the testatrix, for his BUCceBsor
was appointed 23d December 1504. (15)

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

onto my cosyns William Grantham, iiij£; Edmond Grantham, iiij£. To Katteryn, every weke
hir lyff durying, iiijrf. To William Tynkar, a noble, or a gowne to the value. To Maude
Morgan, one of my gownys. To my lady Rich, ids. To my lady Hobbes, xl*.

Also here under ensueth that shall be done to ray 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 morrow. And the parisshe preest to have
eight torches at my burjdng after \iiyl. a peice, and foure tapers xij lbs. a peice, arg* xxiiij*.,
the makyng iiij». Torches to be given after the besiness ys done; to Seynt Botulfe's hych
aulter, a torchc ; 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 Kateryn*s, Christ Church, a torche ; to
Seynt GyUy's brethcrhede, a torche ; to Barkyng church, a torche. To the bretlierhede of sixty
preests, ids. ; to drynke, idil. ; to brede to the poore, yijs. ; in aile, a barrill and di [midium] ; in
cheese, xx(i. ; ffor neighbors and frends at dyner, Ac, xl*. ; twelve poore men, for torches and tapers
after, iiiyl. a peice, iiij«. To Seynt Botulfe's church for the grete bell, six houris song, a noble ; at
the month's mynde, in alms, iiia£ to twelve poore men ; iiij«. for torches and tapers ; to the parisshe
preest, vj</. ; to the chamber preest, iiij^Z. ; to the two clerks, for ryngyng and sjTigyng. xij//. ; in
brede, iijjr. ihyl. ; in aile, iiij«. ; and chcse, xxrf. 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 housbond'a detts and myn, and also of our
testament to perform, I make, ordeyne and conlfirme my well beloved son-in-law my sool
executor, Thomas Bullisdon, and he fully and holly to dispose all the residue of my goods. I
woU tliat my said Executor, Thomas Bullisdon, dispose and doo for us and our and all Cristen
soules, as he will aunswer to Almighty God.

And I Dame At.yce Chester, widowe and late the wife of Richard Chester, citizen and

SKYNNER OF THE CITIE OF LoNDON, AND ALDERMAN AND SHERIFF OF THE SAME, RcVokc and disanuUe

all manner of testaments and last wills made, or to be made, and tliis fermcly conferme and
afferme.

In wittnes of theis Doctor John Percy vale,* whom I pray to geve counseill 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, I bequethe to the said Doctor xx^. sterl. In wittnes
of and singular tlie 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 Bullisdon the executor, who
was sworn to produce a full and faithful inventory of the goods and chattels of the testatrix
before St. Bartholoraew's-day next. [35 Holgrave in C.P.C.]

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(i) Pedigree of Chester in Visitation of London,
1568 : of Bucks, 1675 and 1634.

(a) Pedigree of Chester in Visitation of co. Glou-
cester, 1583 and 1623, and of London,
1633.

(3) Pedigree of Chester in Visitations of Herts,

1572 and 1634.

(4) Clutterbuek'a History of HertSy iii. 363.

(5) Pedigree of Chester in Visitation of co. Lei-

cester, 1619.

(6) Itoyalut Composition Papers^ 1st series (L),

pp. 103-23. Hist, and Geneal. Register of
New England^ xvi. 233.

(7) Pedipjee 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 AngUcanum^ ii. 22.

(11) Hist, of Stow, by Rev. D. Royce, 1861.

(12) Stow's Survey of London ^ ed. Thoms, p. 193.

(13) Vo^^'q Judges, iv.472. Inq. p.m. 1 Rich. III. 37.

(14) Rudder's Hist, of Gloucestershire , p. 706.

(15) Newcourt's Repertarium, i. 643.

(16) Athence Oxon. 1721, i. 4.

♦ John Pcrccxmle, 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]

WltUAM CHBSTBR OF LONDON.

CHAPTER n.

William Chester of London, 1467. II. Vame Agries Chester, his
Widow, 1484. III. Her Brother, Sir WiUiam 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 all Nobles and GentiUes theise presentee L'res hei^ng
or Being, William Hftwkealowe, other wise c&Ued Clarencieolx
King of Armes of the Sonthe mnrches of EDglonde, sendithe
hTunbleAnddneRecomendationaaapperteynethe. ForBomurhe
as Wnj-iAU Chestbr, Genttlman, conrageonalj ino«ved To
exercise and use gen^l and comeudable guyding in anche
Laodable maner and fonrtne as may beut soniide nntoGentryce,
l^tite wichehe shall move withe Godes grace to att«iugne imto
honnre and wourshippe, Hath desjred and prayed me, the saide
King of armes, that I by the poirei- and anctorjte by the Kingea
good grace la me in that belialf comytt«d shaile devyae a cong-
nysance of armes for the said Gentn, iviche he and his heires
myght Boldly k avowably occupie, chaleage, and e^joye for
evermoTe without any p'judice or rebuke of eny estate or
Gkntill of tbii Reahne, att th' instance & request of whom I.
tbe said King of armes. taking respects and conssydration unlo
tlie goodly entent k disposition of the said Oentilman, Have
derisAdforbjm and his sayd heires, theis armes fotlowing. that
is to saye, AfMe oftylver and table party in pale, A cheueron
grtylUd enterchanged, iij Ramet heda rated of the tame armed
'golde, mtke a Bordure o/youllet greylled baaunte golde. Which
armes I, of my sayd power and anctoryte, hare appoynted,
geren, and granntsd to and for the said Gentylman and his
heires. And by theis my p'sentes L'res appointe, geve, and

10 THE CHESTBBS OF CHICHELEY*

graante onto them the same To have chalenge occupie and injoye w*oat eny p'jndice or em-
pechment for evermore. In witnes whereof I, the said King of armes, to theis p'sentes have sett
my sealle ofif armes w* my signe manuell. Geven at the citee of London, the xx^* 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 by his
descendants, until the bordure was discontinued by the fourth Baronet at the
beginning of the last century.

WiUiam 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 WilUam 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 oure Lorde God m^ccclxx^'vj (1476), and the v*^ day
of the moneth of May, I William Chestur, marehaunte of the Staple of Caleys and Citezein and
Skynner of London, being in my gode mynde make and ordeigne this my present testament in
foorme folowyng,

First, I comende and biqueth my soule to Abnighty God, to that blissed Virgin our lady saint
mary, and to all the holy saintes in heven. And my body to be buried after the wille of myn Ex-
ecutoors. Item, I will that their be delt to pour men and women from the day of my deceasing to
my monethes mynde, xx£ (^20). Itm, I biqueth to euery of the iiij orders of Freres in london,
ijj£ \}8. viijf/. (i-3. 6s. Sd.). Itm, I bequetli to euery of the iiy ordres of Freres in Oxenforde, xxxiij«.
iiijd. Itm, I biqueth to euery Lazar hous within iiij myle of london, xx*. Itm, I biqueth to the ij
Counters in london, to eche of thaim, xx9. Itm, I biqueth to the prisoners of Newgate, xb. Itm,
I l^iqueth to the prisoners of ludgate, xb. Itm, I biqueth to the prisoners of the Flete, xx^. Itm,
I biqueth to the prisoners of the Kinges benche, xx^. Itm, I biqueth to other prisoners wher node
is, xl^. Itm, I woll that their be ordeigned for my moneth day 50 torchies, gode and large, to be
delte 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, sliertes, and smokkes to pour people to pray for
me. Itm, I woll that from my decessing to my moneth day dirige and masse be daily said, and
euery preest daily present at tlieis obseruancez to my moneth day to haue for his labour vj#. Yujd.
And the parish preest viij«. iiijrf. Itm, I woll that euery pour man and woman daily present att dirige
and masse euery day within the moneth to haue j</., if their be iij hundred pour men and women, mete
and drynke for them, and other goode and worshipfull plentefully. Itm, I biqueth to the CMrch
of the glorious K3mg Saint Edward of Stowe, in CootiswoUly a sute of vestymentes to the value of
xx;£. Itm, I biqueth to the high Aulter of the same Chirch for tithes forgoten, xx^. Itm, I woll
that their be delt to an hundred parish chirches wher nede is, as it may be understand by myn
executours, an hundred nobilles, that is to euery Chirch vj«. viijrf. Itm, I bequeth to Saint Botulphe
Church w*out Algate a sute of vestymentes to the value of xxi*. Itm, I bequeth to the same Church
A Beell of v hundred weight for a clok, v score to the hundred. Itm, I biqueth to Walcom-
stowe chirch, in Essex, x*. Itm, I biqueath to Wekewon (Wickamford) chirche in the Vale of
Evesham, xx*. Itm, I geve and biqueth to Anneya Chestur my Wife my landes, rentes, tenementes,
plate, houshold, hole as long as she is vnmaried. And if so be that she marye, thanne I woll that
she haue v hundred marc, my plate, houshold, and A place conuenient in london to dwell in. And
noon other landes. Itm, I woU that after the decesse of the saide Anneys Chestur my Wife, or
elles that she marrye, that thanne John Chestur my sonne haue thies londes. Rentes, and tene-

WILLIAM CHESTER OF LONDON. 11

mentes, that is to witt yngamston, Brendwode, Walcomstowe in Essex, litill high, highborowe, and
my rentes in Saint Botulph's parish without Algate. Itm, I woU that aftur the decesse of the
saide Annejs Chestre my Wife, or elles that she marrye, that thanne my rentes in London and in
Sussex called Dymedale be sold and disposed for my sonle, my fader and my moder, and for al
cristen soules, and to perfourme this my testament and last wiUe. Itm, I wollthat after the decesse
of the said Anneys Chestre my Wife, or elles that she marrye, that thanne my landes and Rentes in
Southwerk called the Glene be nott sold but kepte for this entente, to maynteigne an Almesse in
brede perpetuell att Skynners halle extending to the valure of v«., the which Almes I woll that it
be delt to pour men and women euery Fryday in the yere, bitwene nyne and ten of the Clok, wt
the handes of iiij Freres of the iiij orders, euery frere wekely havyngfor his labours iiij penny worth
brede of the same almes, to pray for me, my Wife, my fiEider, my moder, and my Wyves fader and
moder, and for all cristen soules. Itm, I woll that of the same lyvelod in Southwerk called the
Glene therin be had aparte, after the discrecion of myn executours, to maynteigne A chauntrie in
Stowe in Coteswold in the Worship of the holy trenyte, mortaised by my fader Robert Chester ^ the
which nowe is fall in dekaye, to haue A preest, vertuous, of good condicions, singyng inperpetuell.
And euery Fryday in the yere to say dirige, butt it be double feest, for my soule, my Wyffes, my
faders and moders, my Wifes fader and moder, my children's soules, for my kynnes soules, and for
all cristen soules. Itm, I woll that the maister of the gelde and chirchewardeins of Stowe haue
the gifte of this chauntrie whanne it is voide. Itm, I woll if their be anny preest, vertuous and of
goode condicions, of my kynne, or of my Wifes, that desire this chauntere, and it be voide, I woll
that thay haue it bifore other, to remember us the more specially. Itm, I woll that of the same
lyvelode in Southwerke called the Glene, aftur the dethe of Anneys Chestur my Wife, or and if
die marry, their be had a parte to purchace a grounde in Ssdnt Edwarde of Stowe, as nygh the
church as it wolbe hade their vppon, to bilde an Almes hous with viij mansions for viij pour men
and women, vertuous and of good condicions, eueiy pour manne and woman sole wekely to haue
on the Satirday viijcl., A pour man and his wife dwelling to gider x^'<2., A woman to waish and
to attendende thaim euery weke to haue for her labour yu]d. daily, to be att dyyyne sendee but
lawfoll impediment be, praing for me, for my Wife, for my fader and moder, my Wives fader and
moder, my children, my kinnes soules, my frendes, and for all cristen soules. Itm, I woll if anny
of the Brethren or Sustres of the gelde of saint Edwarde of Stowe iaML to such pouertee that thay
haue nought to lyve with, I woll thay be raceived into this Almes hous bifore anny other. Itm, I
woll that of the same lyvelod in Southwerke yerly be had -eu. to kepe my yeres mynde, and ij«.
to the parish preest yerely to pray in the pulpytt by name for me, my Wif, my fader and moder,
my Wyves fader and moder, and for all cristen soules. Itm, I desire and pray myn executours, if
this IjTvelod in Southwerke called the glene woll nott extende to mayntene this Almes of v«. att
Skynners hall, to mortaise this chauntrie, and to purchase this grounde in Saint Edwardes Stowe
to bylde this Almes hous and to kepe my yeres mynde worshipfully, to purvey and provide for
more. Itm, I biqueth to my Wirshipfull brethren sli^mners of london xx^, ij Cuppes, and vj spones
of eiluer weighty. Itm, I biqueth to John Chestre my sonne, vpon his goode bevyng to my Wife
and myn executours, i\j c. £ (j£dOO), A quarter and A half of A ship called the mary Flower and
A ship called the John. Item, I biqueth to i} Children of my sonne John Chestre, to either of
thaim, xl^ ; And if thay decesse I will, if god sende him moo, Uiat they have that some of iiij xxjg
(j£80). And if none be I will that it be disposed for my soule wher nede is. Itm, I biqueth to
maister William hill, vicary of Walcomstowe, xxjg. Itm, I biqueth to my Neuiys daughter y xxjC.
Itm, I biqueth to John my Neuiys Sonne, x marc. Itm, I biqueth to Alyce Boilam, xb. Itm, I
biqueth to Alice Boilam Awnte, xb. Itm, I biqueth to Amy hill, my Wyves Cousin, 'xx£. Itm, I
biqueth to Richard hylle, my Wyves cousin, x^. Itm, I biqueth to Margarete my servant, xb., and that
ahe haue her wages. Itm, I biqueth to Thomas Chester of Stowe, x marc. Itm, I biqueth to Roger
Wykes, Xi£. Itm, I biqueth to Thomas Bullesdon, vpon a true accompt made to myn executours,
and elles nott, c£. Itm, I biqueth to Johanne Chester, my brothers daughter, xx.£. Itm, I biqueth
to Water Culle myn Apprentyce, xU., and discharge his fader of his \j obligacions. Itm, I biqueth
to the parish preest of St. Botulph, x marc. Itm, I biqueth to Sir Richard Dowbleday, vpon a trieu
accompt made to myn executours, xx«. Itm, I biqueth to Margery Courper, xl«. Itm, I biqueth to

12 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Ulyn Molder, x marc. Itm, I biqueth to Alice yong, in recompence, xx^. Itm, I biqueth to Agnes
Talour of Strattforde ypon Aven, xb. Itm, I biqueth to Johanne boilam, aunte, xl^. Itm, I biqueth
to euery Smyth of my shop, yj«. \u}d. Itm, I biqueth to euery seruant of houshold, except theis aboue
rehersed, xx«. The residue of my godes aftur my dettes be paied, and this my p'nt testament fulfilled,
I biqueth to Agnes Chester my Wife^ to Richard Chester my brother ^ to tnaister William Dunthom
of London gentelman, the which Agnes Chester, Kichard Chester, and maister William Dunthom
I make myn executours, to dispose for the welfare of my soule as they thinke moost expedient to
thaim, moost pleasire to god, and profite to my soule. And I woll that my brother Kichard haue
for his laboure c<£ and all his costis allowed. I will also that maister William Dunthom haue
for his laboure xxX' and all his costes.

Will proved at Lambeth, 27th September 1476, by Richard Chester the brother, and William
Dunthom, who were sworn to deliver in a full inventory of the goods and chattels of the deceased
before Martinmas-day next (11 Nov.). The widow, Agnes Chester, renounced. [t3 Wattys.]

The charitable directions contained in this will were duly carried into effect
The Glean Estate in St. Olave's Southwark had been originally conveyed by Chief
Justice Sir Thomas Billing and others to William Chester and his brother Richard
as joint tenants, and therefore devolved on Richard Chester by survivorship. (2)
Richard^ however, must have been a mere trustee, for in Trinity Term 1488 the
Estate was recovered from his heiress-at-law, Joan Bullisdon, by William Martin*
Master of the Skinners' Company, who conveyed it to seven trustees in Stow to the
uses of William Chester's will. The rental then amounted to 18/. per annum, and
5/. per annum thereof was appropriated to the chantry priest, who was also to keep
a school and instruct the children of the town.

The chantry and its appurtenances was in the next century confiscated under
the statutes for suppressing colleges, chantries, and free chapels, and for bestowing
the same on the King's Majesty. (3) The buildings were now left to decay, but
remained the property of the Crown until 1592, when Queen Elizabeth granted by
letters patent to William Tipper and Robert Dawe, inter cdioy the chapel called
Trinity Chapel, alias Chester's Chapel, adjoining the church of St. Edward at Stow,
together with a messuage formerly used as an almshouse, and a messuage now in
ruins called the schoolhouse adjacent to the churchyard, to hold the same at a fee
farm rent of one shilling per annum. (4) The Glean however was not lost to the
charity, for it was purchased by Richard Stepham Merchant Taylor of London, who
built a schoolhouse and almshouse at Stow in 1594, and by his will dated 20th July
1604 charged the Glean with 36/. per annum to repair and maintain them for
ever. (5)

This grammar-school and almshouse were by Royal Charter in 1612 subjected
to the corporation of Chipping Norton, and are still in existence. But the earlier
history of the charity is ignored by the Charity Conmiissioners in their report, (5)
and is misstated by Sir Robert Atkyns, (6) who makes no mention of William
Chester, and says that the Glean was the gift of William Martin. Sic vos non vobis.

* Sir William Martin, Skinner, was sheriff 1483 and Lord Mayor 1492.

DAME AGNES CHESTER. 13

•n.

Dame Aones Chester survived her husband, William Chester, above eight
years ; and in affectionate remembrance of him restored and decorated the sepidchre
in St. Botolph's church. She died on some day between 28th June and 13th Jidy
M84, and was buried beside her husband. Her will is a good example of the testa-
mentary provisions of a rich and charitable widow of this period.

In the Name of God, Amen. The xxyiii^ day of the moneth of June In the yere of o'lord god
m*cccclxxzii|j (1484), And the secunde yere of the Reigne of King Kichard the iij*** the secunde, I,
Dams Agnes Chesttr, of London, videloe, hoole of mynde and in good memorye, thanked be
aknyghti god, make and ordeyne this p'nt testament and last Will in maner and fourme folowing,
that is to saye,

First and principally I hequeth and Kedomend my soule to Almyghti god my Maker and
Saviour, and to the blissid Virgine our lady seynt Marye, and to alle the Seints of hevin, And my
body to be buryed within the parissh chirch of Seint Botulph withoute Algate, of london, that is to
say, in the burying place there of William Chester, late my houshand. Also the performyng and
peynting of the Sepulter of our lord in the said Chirch in Remembrance and Worship of the Re-
Burreccion of our lord my maker and saviour, I will that myne executours with my goodes in alle
goodly hast accomplissh, and that therein be made the markes and tokenys of my said late hous-
band, as they shall seme best afire their discreasons. Also I wil that I have brennyng aboute my
body and tombe at the tyme of my burying and at my monethes mynde xvj torches and iiij tapers of
Wexe, euiche of the tapers of the weght of zlb.. Of the whiche torches aftre my said monethes mynde
complete and finisshed, I bequeth ii^ torches to the said chirch of Seint Botulph, and ij torches to
the parissh Chirch of Seynt £dward of Stowe. Also a torche to the parissh Chirch of Seint Olyue
within Bysshoppesgate. Also I bequeth vnto the Werks of the same Chirch of Seint Oleue, i\jf .
iig<2. Also I bequeth to the Parissh Chirch where it shall happe me to be parisshener the tyme
of my decesse a nother torche of the torches aforesaid. And to the high Auter of the same Chirch,
for myn offerings forgoten or withholden in discharging of my soule, iij«. m]d. Also to the Werks
of the same Chirch other iij«. m^d. Also to the Chirch ofJiampton* where I was borne, ij torches. Also
to Offenham Chirch a torche. Also to the Chirche of Walcomstowe a torche. Also to the Chirche
of Badesey a torche. Also to Norton Chirch a torche. Also to leyton Chirch a torche. And to
hnntyngton chirch a torche. Itm, I bequeth to the Werks of the Parissh chirch of Berking in the
Countie of Essex, ^«. Yii^d. Also I will that myne executours ordeyne an honest preest of good
name and of good fame to singe his Masse and other Divine seruice in the saide parissh Chirch of
Seynt Botulphe, atte Auter of our lady in the same Chirch, by the space of an hoole yer after my
said Monethes mynde, for my soule and my said late housbandes soule, and the soules of alle my
frendes, benefactours, and all cristyn soules. And I will that the same Preest have for his said
yeres salarie x marcs. And I will that of the Wexe whiche aftre my monethes mynde shall remaigne
unspent of the iiij tapers aforesaid, okeyne Poells be occupied for lightes att Masses of the said
Preste atte Auter aforesaid during the said yer, and the residue to be kept toward the making of
the iiij tapers aforesaid, Which shall be occupied at my twelvemonethes mynde. And I will Uiat
aUe the Wexe whiche shalbe left of the said iiij tapers at my tweluemonethes mynde, shall remayne
to the vse of the beame light of the said Chirch of Seint Botulph. Also I bequeth and wille that
myne executours ordeyne iiij ^ iij«. uijd. in pens (pence), to be gevin to pouer and nedy people att
the tyme of my burying and monethes mynde, and ouer that ys. in pens at my said yeres mynde.
And I wil that ther be noon other coosts nor expenses doon in mete, drinke, clothinge, nor other-
wise at my saide burying and monthes mynde, but only as it is aforesaid, except the costes to be
doon to the Preestes and Clerks at my said burying and monthes mynde, as the maner and custume
requireth. Also I will that the soules of me and my saide late husband, amonges other soules, be

* The churches of Hampton, Offenham, Badsey, and Norton county Worcester, and of Huntington
county York, belonged to Evesham Abbey.

14 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Remembred by the Prechoor atte Sermons at Powles Crosse and Seint Mary Spittill, by the spafie
of ij yeres next after my decesse. And I bequeth to enery prechoor ther for sudi Remembrance, i^^
and to myne Execntours for making of enery bill therof and conveyannoe of the same, njd. Also I
will that myne executours ordeyne that I have a trentale of xxx c. (8000) Masses to be said and
Bonge in the chirch of Seint Botulphe for myne soule and the other soules aforsaid. Also to eaeiy
chirche of the iiij orders of Freres mendicantes, I bequeth X4. to thentent that euiche of theym in
ther nown (own) conuent chirch shall synge for me placebo and dirige and a trentall of Masses, and
also that to eiiiche of the said iiij orders I bequeth ys, towards the mayntenyng of ther chirch and
sustenyng of ther convent. Also I bequeth to the priour and convent of Crouched freres of londcm
Y8., and to the priour and convent of Howndeslow v«., to pray for my soule. Also I bequeth to ih»
Refresshing of the pour people in the hospitalles Undre wrytyn for the helth of my soule, that is
to say, Seint Mary Spedll Betheleem, Seint Thomas Spetill in South Werk, Seynt Barthlmewi
Spetill, and Elsyng Spetill, to every spetill of them, lad. Also I bequeth to the Refresshing <^the
Sike (sick) people in the v (5) lazer houses aboute london, that is to say, the lazer hows by yonde
myle ende, the locke, the house at Knythes brigge, Seint Gyles, and kyngesland, in euery hons of
them, Tod.y to pray for my soule. Also I bequeth for the wele of my soule to the Reparacion of the
high way between Algate and the brigge. Whereto myne Executoris shalbe thought moost
nedefuU, xx marc. Itm, I bequeth to euiche of my Serunts dwelling with me the tyme of my de-
cesse, vj«. viij(2. Itm, I bequeth to my cousin John Molder xlt. towards his finding to Scole. Itm,
to my Suster Elyn Molder a blewe Girdill of cheker werk harnessed, and a pair of coral bedes.
Itm, to my Couiin Richard Hylle, in houshold, the value of xxi. Itm, to Amye Burdmer, a Red
Girdill &ynged, harnessed. Itm, to John hills my cousin, in houshold, the value of \j$. YUjd.
Also I bequeth to John Chester, my Sonne, all my landes and tontes as they lye in lytilstone, in
Shire of Essex, to have and to hold to him and to his heres for evermore. And over that, I bequeth
to the same John, ex (110) marcs sterlings. Also I bequetli c£ (X'lOO) to be bestowed by the diss-
crecons of myn executours immediatly after my decesse, in purchassing of lande to the vse and
behoof of Elizabeth Brice my Doughter, To hold to the same Elisabeth for time of her lief. And
aftre her decesse the said lande to remayne to the heires of her body lawfuUy begoten. And if it
happe to said Elisabeth to dissease withoute heir of her body lawfully begoten, thenne I will that
the said landes immediatly after her decesse be sold by m^oie executours if they be thenne both
living, Or els if they be not thenne both alyve, thenne the same landes be sold by Uie parsonne and
Chirch Wardeyns of the forsaid parish Chirch of Seint Botulph than being, And I will that
being the said landes soo sold, the said parson and Warde^^ns for the tyme being do finde an
honest Prest of good name and fame to singe and say Divine Service in the said Chirch for the
soules of my said late husband, me, and the said Elizabeth, and all oristyn soules, by the space of
v\j yeres, having he by yere for his salarie x marc. And I bequeth to euiche of the saide parsonne
and Wardeynes takyng on him the charge hereof, for his labour to se this my Will deuly and treuly
to be fulfiled, xl^. And the Residue tlier of aboue the said Prests hire and ther Rewardes, I will
be bestowed by ther discresions in Reparacions of High Wayes aboutt the Citte of london moost
nedefull. Itm, I bequeth to Elsabeth my daughter all suche apparells as belongijig to my persons.
And I bequeth to my Sonne Jamys Brice, for to haue my Soul remembred, a Ringe of goold with a
Saphir. Itm, I bequeth to my Maistres Elsabeth Brice,* to haue my soule remembred, a Ringe of
Gold with a Saphire. The Residue of aUe and my singuler goods, dettis, and catailles, aftre my
dettes paied, my burying made, and this my p'nt testament fulfilled, I bequeth jointly to be
diuided by myne executours to John my Sonne and Elsabeth my Doughter aforesaid. And of this
my p'nt testament I make and ordeyne myn executours, tliat is to say, Sir Willm HyUe Clrrk my
brother, and Hugh Brown Citezin and mercer of london. And I bequeth to my said brother, for his
labour and besynes herein to be had, and for the love that I owe to him, xxi', and a litill prynted
Note conyd. And to the said Hugh Browne, for his labour in like wise to be had, v marc. And I
make and ordeyn Hugh Brice AUUrman of the Citte of London of my p'nt testament supvisour,
beseching him to geve his good aduice and onsight to the performyng of the same. And I bequeth

^ The wife of Alderman Hugh Bryce, and the mother of James Bryce who married Elizabeth
Chester.

SIR WILLIAM HILL OF WALTHAMSTOW. 15

to him, for his labour there in to be had, v maro sterlings. In witness whereof to this my p'nt tes-
tament my seale I have put the daye and yer abouesaid.

Will proved at Knole, before the Archbishop of Canterbury, by Hugh Brown, 18 July 1484.
[9 Logge.]

Sir William Hill, the brother of Dame Agnes Chester, had a legacy of 20/.
in 1476 from his brother-in-law, and was in 1484 one of the executors of his sister^s
will. Although he and his sister were nt^tives of Hampton in Worcestershire, it is
evident firom their wills that their family was connected with Essex, and his prefer-
ments lay in that county. He had taken the degree of M. A., and had probj^bly been
educated at Merton College Oxford, for his nephew John Holder was a Fellow of
that society. He was presented to the vicarage of Walthamstow on 16th May 1470
by the Prior and Convent of Christ Church Aldgate, (7) and on 3d April 1476
to the rectory of Chipping Ongar by Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham. (8)
He held both preferments until his death, which took place on 7th July 1487.

There is a brass to his memory in Walthamstow Church, bearing the eflSgy of
a priest in his robes with his bands clasped together, and this inscription at his
feet: (9)

Hie jaoet Dnus Wilhelmus Hyll, nuper Vicarius istius Ecclesiae, qui obiit vji. die mends
Julii An* Dni Mill^ccccLXxxvii. Cujus animsB propitietur Deus. Amen.

He had another sister besides Dame Agnes Chester, Ellen wife of John Holder
and mother of the Fellow of Merton already mentioned, and I presume that his
cousins Richard and John Hill and Amy Burdmer (called Amy Hill in 1476) were
the children of a deceased brother.

His will is extremely interesting, and shows him to have been a lover of music.

In the name of God, amen. The xvij^ day of the Moneth of May, The yere of oure lord god
micccclxxxvij (1487), I, S* Willum Hyll, Vikaji op Walcomstow, being in my good mynde, make
and ordeine my present testament in manere and fourme followyng, adnuUyng all other testa-
mentes before this tyme made :

In primis, I bequeth my soule to almyghty god, to hys blessyd moder our lady Saynt Mary, and
to all holy halowes in heven, and my bones to reste in the ohaunoell of the chirch of Walcomstow.
Itm, I bequeth to the trynyte light of the same chirch, ililU. Itm, to the saynt Mary light, lOLd,
Itm, to saynt Katerynes Light, xx(/. Itm, to the hockyng light, lad. Itm, I bequeth to the Chirch
of Walcomstow A Bordcloth, a towell of dyaper for people that be howsoulders on Ester daye.
Itm, a yonge man callyd John Saylebanke, to [sic] to me for grettf truste, liij«. and iiijrf., in money to
kepe, yff god dydde hys wyll by hym, I for to dyspose hyt for hys soule now, as I vnderstand tiiys
man ys dede. Wherfor, I woU that ther be a trentall of masses doon for hys soule, paying xs.
And xl^. to the makyng of a Birge called the loke, the foote path betwene Walcamstow and
Hakeney. Itm, I bequeth to my Gosyn John Chestre a standyng pece of Silver, with Cover of the
same. Itm, I bequeth to Elizabeth Bryce, my Cosyn, A fflatte pece of silver with a tokyn of Asp'U,
and a goldryng with a dyamont as I deme. Itm, I bequeth to my Cosyn Master John Molder a
blacke gowne of puke with hood of the same ; A grete masar gylte ; A ffurryd hood ; A lynyd
hood with purple sarcenet ; A surples ; all my bokes ; a newe chayre ; a dowble harpe : Itm, a
hamest gyrdyll of the olde facion gylte : Itm, a payre of bedys of Jasperes. Itm, I bequeth to
John Molder the elder a payre of bedys of gette (jet). Itm, I wolle also that all such stuffe as y
have in the kepyng of my Busier Elyn Molder , that ys to say pottes and pannys, be egally parted

16 THE CHESTEBS OF CHICHELBY.

be twene Elyn Holder, Master John Holder, and John Hyll, bo that there be noo dewte o^ryng to
her on my party. Itm, I bequeth to Issabell Bygon of Walcomstow A corse of silke hameiflte w^
siluer, the to syde murrey, the tother syde grene ; iij yardys and a half of new rossett, ij sponys of
silaer. Itm, I bequeth to Jone Birchere the elder iiij yardys of blew cloth, a sprose che^ a
spruse tabyll, ij sponys of siluer, A materasse, a couerlyt of grene and whyte, a peyr of blankettes,
A payre of shettes. Itm, I bequeth to Elizabeth Birchere a girdyll hameiste w* edluer and gylte,
a payr of bedys of whyte Aumbyr, ij sponys of Siluer, and a lytyU masar. Itm, I bequeth to Jone
Bircher the yonger A gyrdle hameiste w* Siluer and gylte, ij sponys of Siluer, and a lytyll masar.
These ij girdylle be plegges with a l3iyll goldryng for xb., of a woman of Southwerke callyd
Elizabeth Issabell Swete of my parissh ; she knowyt her; ther been bylle endenthyd be twene her
and me ; yff soo be that she plege hem owte, I wyU that Elizabeth Birchere and Jone Birchere
a fore sayd hath the money that the girdels lye in plege for. Itm, I bequeth to William ffoster,
Bume tyme my servant, xiij«. iiij(/., A lute, and a payre of dulcymers. Itm» I woll that Jone Bircher
the Elder have the kepjng of all bequeste to Elizabeth and Jone a fore sayd. Be the Ouersyth of
myn executors, so Uiat such bequeste be not alyened from them. Itm, I bequeth to Richard Hytt,
my cosen, a gorget of mayle, a gestren, a salet, a black byll, and iij yardys and a di of new russet
cloth. Itm, I woll that all such powre howsold as I have excepted, excepte that ys to sey, potts,
pannys, beddyng, Tabels, Stoles, be egally parted be twene Ric Hyll, Jone Birchere the elder,
Issabell Bygon, Elizabeth Bircher, and Jone Bircher the yonger. Itm, I bequeth to euery god chyld
in thys cuntrey, xxrf. Itm, I bequeth a sadle cloth of grene velvet to taynt Andrew of Hampton,
wher I was home. Itn^, I bequeth to John Swete, my servant, a long murrey gowne, and a wosted
hatte, and a table of elme. Itm, I bequeth to Elizabeth Swete hys Wyfe, a ouerweryd gowne of
vyolet, furryd with croppys of grey. The Residue of all and singuler my goodys movable I woll
that tbey be solde to perfourme thys my laste Wyll, and to paye my dettes, and also to have y
trentalls of Masses sayd and doen for my soule at my moneth's mynde or sone after. Myne exe-
cutors I make MasC John Holder, ffelaw of Martyn College ; Ric Hyll, my kynsmen.

Yeven the day and yer a fore sayd. These beyng Recorded and wiytten with my nawne
hande, John Swete, John Hewys, and John Wallys. And sealed whith such seale as I have vsed,
that ys to sey, with the holy lamhe. The superuysor of thys my present testament I make and
ordeyn Syr Hugh Bryce, Knyght and Alderman of the Citee of London. Thesse beyng witnesse,
John Swete, William Standley, and John Wallys.

Mkmorandm, that I, Syr Willia Hyll, vycab of Walcomstow, woUe, yff god doo hys
wylle be me at thys tyme of hys vysytacion, that Richard Hyll of Cogsall (Coggeshall), my
Cosen, have a tenement of viij Acres, with hoppers Acre, callyd William Krykylwoddys, to
hym and to hys eyrys of hys body lawfully be goten, so that yt be not solde, to pray for my
Boule, my faders and moders soule. Itm, I woll that John Bygon, Issabell Bygon, and Hany
Bygon, have a tenement of myne called John Krykylwoldys, to them and to theyr eyrys, to pray
for me, so that yt be not solde, and ij Acres in buryfeld buttyng on the same tenement; Itm, halfe
a Acre of medow. Itm, I wolle that Jone Bircher, some tyme servant with my Syster Dams Agnes
Chester, have a tenement of xvj Acres called Wolward. Itm, a place callyd Inham, that Brandley
dwellyth in, to her, to Elizabeth and Jone her doughters, A cause why for she payd a certayn
money that yt was purchased whyth. Itm, I woll that William Bradmer, my God-sone, have a
lytyll place of myn at the chirch gate of Walcomstow, berj ng quyte rent to John Benyngton jrf.
be yere, to hym and to hys eyrys of hys body lawfully begoten ; Itm, Cappe Crofte, and one acre in
buryfeld. Itm, I woll that Elizabetli Bircher, when she come to age, have a lytyU bowse standyng
be fore John Hews the Sextens, with vij acres lande called the orchard ; itie fyne was payd to
Thomas Longe, ij«. iiijrf., and to fontens,* Stuard at that tyme, and admitted tenante, how be yt
I had not my copy deliuered ; the fawt was in the Stuard. Itm, I woll that Jone Bircher, when
she ys of lawfull age, that she have a nother lytyll bowse, tyled, with a heme, sett yeven by with a
croft of iij acres vnder the vikarage, and iij acres of arable land in buryfeld buttyng to hyt. Itm,
I woll that John Hyll, my cosen, have a lytyll bowse called Jolles, and a crofte of iiy acres called
Secokkes, to hym and to hys eyrys. Itm, I woll that the Chirch of Walcomstow have a Acre of
medow of the lowhall, held vnder thys condycion, that yt be not sold ; but yerly the profit thereof

^ i.e. Mr. Fontens, Steward of the Manor.

SIB HUGH BRYCE, KT. 17

come to the Ghirch, so that the Ghirch Wardeyns of the same kepe my annyuersaiy, my ffaders anny-
uersary and moders, heryng snch charge as yt may be thought oonuenient, yoven the xv^ day of
the moneth of May, And surrendryd to hedboorys (head boroughs) of the same lord8ch3rp, and
sealed with my signe manuell the same day. Itm« I woll that certayn land in the parissh of leyton
be sold to pay my dettes with, and perfourme my last wyll. Also, I woll that none of thys land be
sold but for lak of heyrys ; then to be sold and don for them and for tho that purchased.

Yeven the ffyrst day of July, the yer of our souereyn lord Kyng Henry the vijth. Surrendryd
and wrytten with myn hawnde hande.

Also I woll that my co$en James Bryce shall have my grove, called the Grove at Leyton
biygge, with the croft adjoynyng, or elles som tyme the hogge, and a frame redy framed, he to
chose whether he woll have ; And I woll that that he chosyth not shall remayne to my co$9n
John Gkestyr^ Wherefore I made surrendre herin to John fan and William Poggar, in the presence
of them, and John Webbe, and William Hackewood, and Richard Heth.

Yeven the iiij*** day of July aforesayd.

Will proved by both executors, September 5, 1487, in the Commissary Court of London.

IV.

Eliz ABETH, the onlj daughter of William and Agnes Chester, is not mentioned
in her father's will; but this omission frequently occurs in the case of daughters who
had married and received their portions. She married, before 1476, James Bryce
Esq., the only son of Alderman Sir Hugh Bryce Kt., who had been associated with
his father by letters patent of King Edward IV. on 15th Feb. 1472, in the
o£5ces of Master of the King's Mint at the Tower, and of Usher of the Eng^s Ex-
change there. (lo) This patent was confirmed by Richard HI. on 9th March 1483-4.
(ii) James Bryce died in the lifetime of his father, after July 1487 and before
July 1492, and was buried at St. Martin's priory, Dover, leaving two children, Hugh
and Elizabeth. He left no will that I can find, but his widow and children were
amply provided for by his father Sir Hugh Bryce, who had long been intimate with
his daughter-in-law's family, and had been supervisor of the wills of Dame Agnes
Chester and of Sir William Hill. Elizabeth Bryce, the widow of James, inherited
in 1496, under the will of her father-in-law, his mansion and estate of Jenkins in
Barking, but no further trace of her has been discovered.

Before speaking of her children, something must be said about their grandfather
Sir Hugh Bryce, whose heirs they were.

V.
Hugh Brtce, son of Richard, was a native of Dublin, and settled in London as
a goldsmith in the reign of Henry VI. He prospered in his trade, and was appointed
with John Sandes by Edward IV., to be Governor of the King's Mint at the Tower,
under William Lord Hastings, on 24th March 1466. (12) This oflSce was confirmed
to him by Richard HI. and Henry VH., and he held it until his death, in 1496. He
was elected one of the Sheriffs of London in 1475, and was Lord Mayor in 1485,
being then Alderman of Langboume Ward. He resided in Lombard-street, and was
a great benefactor to the parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth, in which ^ he built the

18 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELET.

Chapel called the Chamell, as also part of the body of the Church and of the Steeple,
and gave money toward the finishing thereof.' (13) He died 22d September 1496^
and was buried in St. Mary Woolnoth, under the marble stone which he had erected
in his hfetime, and which bore * the image of myself, my wife, my son and daughter-
in-law, and their two children.'

Sir Hugh Brjce made two wills of different dates, for it was a common practice
in his time to separate the testament disposing of lands and tenements from the will
of personal estate. They are very long and tedious, but all that is of interest in them
is contained in the following abstract :

Sir Hugh Bryce Kt., late Maior of London. Testament dated 20 July 1492.

My lands and tenements in London, and at Barking and Dagenham, Estbury Marsh, Biple
Marsh, and my great messuage where I dwell in Lombard-street to Hugh Brice son of my son
James Brice deceased, with remainder to Elizabeth Brice, sister of the said Hugh.

My manor or farm called Jenkyns, in Essex, after the death of myself and my wife, to my daugh-
ter-in-law Elizabeth, late wife of my son James Brice deceased, with remainder to her son Hugh
Brice, remainder to his sister Elizabeth.

To my said daughter-in-law Elizabeth Brice, my Manor of Malmaynes in Essex, and divers
tenements in London.

Will dated 30th August 1496.

To be buried in the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, in Lombard-street, of which I am a pariah-
loner, in the body of the Church before the Rood, and on the side below the pulpit, and the marUe
stone to be laid on me with the image of myself, my wife, my son and daughter-in-law, and their
two children, which stone is already in the said Church.

My wife Elizabeth; Master John Bretayne, Doctor of Divinity; Master Thomas Jan,* Doctor
of Laws and Dean of the King's Chapel; John Fyneux,f one of the Judges ; John Shaa,| Alderman
of London; Bartholomew Rede, § goldsmith; Henry Woodcoke, scrivener, and Nicholas Worley,
goldsmith, to be my Executors, and ' I beseech them to be friendly to my daughter-in-law Elizabeth
and her children.'

To Hugh Brice, son of my son James Brice deceased, my plate, furniture, kc. ; and I will that
he * be brought up to the Law, but if he do not follow tlie Counsel of my Executors, then the said
goods shall go to his sister Elizabeth,' to whom 1 give 100 marks at her age of eighteen.

I bequeath a vestment to ' the Abbey of St. Thomas Compte in Dewlyn, where my Fader
and Moder are buried.' Also a Cope to the Church of Ruston in Yorkshire, * where my wife was

* Thomas Jan, D.D., Fellow of New College, Oxon, 1456 ; Yioechancellor of Oxford, 1459 and 1468 ;
Canon of St. Paul's, 1471 ; Archdeacon of Essex, 1480 ; Dean of the King's Chapel ; Canon of Windsor,
1496 ; Bishop of Norwich, 1499 ; died at Folkestone Abbey, near Dover, September 1, 1500, and was
buried in Norwich Cathedral. (14)

t John Fynenx was bo eminent and indefatigable in his profession, that he was steward of 129 manors,
standing coimsel to sixteen peers, and left behind him twenty-three folio volumes of notes relating to
8502 cases which he had managed. He was made Serjeant-at-law in 1486, on the accession of Henry
VII. ; Judge of Common Pleas, February 11, 1498-4 ; and Chief Justice of England, November 24, 1495.
He was one of the executors of Archbishop Morton and of Henry VU., and died in 1525, when he was
buried in Canterbury Cathedral. (15)

X Sir John Shaa, goldsmith of London, was Sheriflf in 1496, when he was knighted by Henry VH.,
with the liord Mayor and Recorder of London, for • good service against the rebels at Blaokhith Field.*
He was Lord Mayor 1501, and died in 1508, when he directed by his will his executors to rebuild the
church and steeple of St. Peter's Wood-street with a flat roof out of his estate. (16)

§ Sir Bartholomew Rede, goldsmith, was Sheriff in 1497, and Lord Mayor in 1502, when * he kept such
a feast in Goldsmiths' Hall' that even Stow rejects Grafton's account of it as incredible. (17) He founded
the free grammar-school at Cromer in Norfolk by his will dated October 9, 1505, and was buried in the
cloister of the Charter House. (18)

DAME ELIZABETH BRTCE. 19

bom.' Also a Cope to the Church of St. Martin's at Dover in Kent, ' where my son James lieth
buried.' The residue to my wife Elizabeth Bryce for her life.

Testament and will proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1496. [2 Home.]

Sir Hugh Bryce died 22d September 1496, and the usual inquest after his death
was held on Slst October following, whereby it was found that Sir Hugh Bryce
Kt. and Elizabeth his wife held of the Abbess of Barking the Manor of Jenkins or
Dagenham Place, and that Hugh Bryce his grandson was his heir.

His widow Dame Elizabeth Bryce survived until 1504. She was the only
child of Richard and Alice Ranfield of Ruston Parva in Yorkshire, and her arms
were borne by her descendants in the 7th quarter of their shield, as will be seen in
the pedigree at the end of this chapter.

Her will contains some interesting particulars, but relates exclusively to a small
rent-charge within the City of London, which she had purchased since her widowhood.

Dams Elizabeth Bryok of London widow, late wife of Sir Hugh Bryce Kt., Alderman Citizen
and Goldsmith of London.

Will dated 25 September 1498 (U Henry VII.).

To be buried in the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth near my late husband.

Whereas I purchased to the use of me and my heirs and assigns from Henry Woodcock scriyener
an annual quitrent of 20s. issuing out of three tenements, two of them in Lombard-street in the
Parish of St. Mary Woolnoth, in one of which Thomas Fermory scriv' sometime dwelt, and then
the said Henry Woodcock, and now John Leder scriv' dwelleth, and in the other Stephen Codde
pewterer liveth ; and the other tenement is in Comhill in the Parish of St. Michael.

I give the said quitrent (subject as hereinafter mentioned) to Maister Richard Rawlyns* D J).
Parson of St. Mary Woolnoth, and to Robert Weston and Nicholas Worley Churchwardens
of St. Maiy Woolnoth, or to the Parson and Churchwardens thereof for the time being, for
an Obit to be kept on 22 September and the morning following in every year, for the souls of
Sir Hugh Bryce late my husband, and of me the said Dame Elizabeth, and of James Bryce our
son, and of idl our Mends and benefactors. Also, I give 6«. per annum out of the said quitrent
to the Vicar of Ruston co. York, for an obit to be kept on 22 September in every year for the
souls of my husband Sir Hugh Bryce, of myself, and of our son James Bryce, and for the welfare
and prosperity of Hugh and Elizabeth Bryce, the children of the said James Bryce, while they live,
and for their souls when they die, and for the souls of Richard Ranfield and Alice his wife my
father and mother, and for the souls of my Mends John Arnold, William Goodyere, and Roger
Arnold.

Witnesses: Richard Heighamf Serjeant-at-law, Robert Gowsell, Richard Worley, Robert
Amadas Goldsmith, and Henry Woodcock.

Will proved in the Hustings Court before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London 10
December 1504 (20 Henry VH.) by Henry Woodcock and Robert Gowsell. (21)

Hugh Bryce, the heir of Kis grandfather, is mentioned in the will of his grand-
aunt Dame Alice Chester in 1504, but died not long afterwards unmarried, when

• Eiehard Rawlyns^ FeUow of Merton College, Oxon, 1480 ; Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, 15th
March 1494-6 ; Prebendary of St. Paul's, 1499 ; Subdean of York, 1604 ; Canon of Windsor, 1606 ; War-
den of Merton College, 1608-1621 ; the King's Almoner, 1614 ; Bishop of St. Dayid's, 1622 ; died 18th
February 16S6-6. (19)

t Richard Heigham, of Linoolns Inn, Serjeant-at-law 1473, Common Serjeant of London 1486, Judge
of the Sheriff's Court 1486, died 21st October 1600. He was granduncle of Sir aement Heigham Kt.,
Speaker of the House of Commons and Chief Baron of the Exchequer temp. Queen Mary. (20)

20 THE CHBSTEBS OF CniCHELET.

the estate at Barking descended to his only sister ETiTgSABKTH, who was under age
and unmarried in 1498.

Elizabeth Bryce who thus became the heiress of her family^ married Bobert
Amadas Goldsmith and Master of the Mint, who was one of the executors of his
wife's uncle John Chester in 1513. He was in high favour with Henry VHI., who
appointed him Master of the King's Jewels on 20th April 1526, (22) and is remem-
bered with grateful respect in his will. Amadas was as popular in the City as at
Court, and * the Comyns wolde have had him chosen Sheriff in 1531, but he wolde
not take it.' (23) His refusal may have arisen from his failing health rather than
from any dislike to civic honours, for he died at the end of this year, and was buried
in St. Mary Woolnoth.

Robert Amadas Citizen and Goldsmith of London. Will dated 3 July 1531.

To be buried in the Church of St. Maiy Wolnoth London, where I am parishioner.

(After the usual charitable and religious bequests,) to the company of Goldsmiths j8*20, and
I pray them to be good to my trife and children, to my kinsfolk £20 at my wife's discretion, to my
cousin Grene's wife* i-4. to Thomas Mille £6, to William Davy 60#. to Anthony Pontisbory £S.
to Brian Barwicke X'3. the residue to my tci/e Elizabeth, whom I appoint my sole execatriz. My
Lord Duke of Norfolk f and Sir Thomas More Kt. Lord Chancellor of England to each of whom I
give i;20, and also Richard Riche * Gentleman at the Law,' ^ to whom I give £G IBs. ^., to be Over-
seers of my Will My Executrix and Overseers to have a gold cup made of at least X'lOO valoe,
and to present the same to our sovereign Lord the King.

Elizabeth Amadas the widow neglected to prove her husband's will, and by
license dated 28th August 1532 remarried in the chapel of her Mansion House
at Jenkins SiR THOMAS Nevill Kt. one of the King's Pri^y Council and some-
time Secretar}^ of State. (24) Sir Thomas undertook in the next year the duty
which his wife had renounced, and administration of the estate of Bobert Amada«
was granted to him on 28th November 1533. (25)

This second marriage of Sir Thomas Nevill has been ignored in the Peerages,
but his identity is established beyond doubt by the successive grants of administration
to the estate of Robert Amadas set forth in the proofs of this chapter. (25)

Sir Thomas Nevill of Mereworth in Kent was a younger brother of George
Lord Abergavenny K;.G., the premier Baron of EnglaiMi, and married Catherine

^ This is, I presume, AUce, the daughter of John Chester, who^B mentioned in Lady Milbonme^a Will
in 1542, as ' Alice Grene, Master Chester's daughter.'

t Thomas, third Duke of Norfolk, K,G., commanded the English Army at Flodden Field ; Lord Trea-
surer of England, 1522 ; Earl Marshal, 1533 ; died 25th August 1554, having liyed in the reigns of eight
English sovereigns.

} Richard Rich, descended from a family of London citizens, became Lord Chancellor, and was
created a Baron in 1547. He is disgraced in history by his evidence against Sir Thomas More, with
whom he is here associated ; and he was one of the Executors in 1554 of the abovenamed Duke of Noiiolk.
His daughter, Elizabeth Lady Peyton, was great-grandmother of Elizabeth Peyton, the wife of Sir
Anthony Chester, the second Baronet of Chicheley.

THE HEIRS OF ELIZABETH BRTCE. 21

Dacre widow of George Lord Fitz-Hugh, by whom he had an only daughter Mar-
f^sLretj who married Ist May 1536 Sir Robert Southwell Kt. Master of the Rolls.
The Lady Fitz-Hugh died 20th August 1527, and Sir Thomas Nevill married
secondly, as we have seen, the rich widow of Robert Amadas, but she died before
him without issue. He died 29th May 1542, and was buried at Mereworth. (26)

Sir Thomas Nkvyle Kt. of Mereworth Kent. Will dated 28 May 1542.

To be buried in Mereworth Church.

To Sir Robert Southwell Kt. Master of the Rolls, and to my daughter Margaret his wife, sundry
plate, furniture, and jewels, to Henry Nevyle Lord of Bergavenny my nephew sundry plate, to
my cousin Sir Thomas Willoughby Kt. one of the Justices of Common Pleas a piece of plate, to
Sir Thomas Moyle Kt. a silver basin and ewer, to my nephew George Whetenhall a black gown,
and to his daughter Ann my goddaughter a bed, and to Thomas Whetenhall my godson a black
cloak, to my nephew John Brent a damask gown, and to my niece Anne his wife a gold ring,
to John Colepepper Esq. a gold ring, and to his son Thomas my godson lis. M. Sir Thomas Wil-
loughby and Sir John Baker Kts., William Barker, Thomas Baynes, and Robert Pyne Esqrs. to be
my Executors, and my son Sir Robert Southwell Kt. to be Overseer.

Will proved in Prerogative Court 23 October 1542. [11 Spert.]

Elizabeth Lady Nevill had issue by her first husband Robert Amadas two
daughters only, Elizabeth the mother of her heir, and Thomasine who married Sir
Richard Stapylton Kt. of Burton Joyse, Notts. (27)

Elizabeth Amadas, the eldest daughter, was the first wife of Richard Scrope
Esq. of Castle Combe,* whose wardship had been purchased by her father from the
Crown on 26th June 1518. (29) She died in the lifetime of her father and mother,
leaving an only child Frances, who carried the estate of Barking to her husband,
Martin Bowes Esq., second son of Sir Martin Bowes, Lord Mayor 1545.

Frances Bowes, the heiress of Jenkins, died young like her mother, for it is
recorded in Machyn's Diary ^ (30) that on 29th December 1556 'was bered at
Barkying towne yonge masteres Bowes, the daughter of my Lord Skrope, with
ij whytte branchys and j dossen torchys and iiij grett tapurs and a iij dosen of
skochyons of armes and after a grett doner.' Her descendants bore arms quarterly
of eight, (31) and their descent from the Chesters was commemorated by the arms
of Chester in the 8th quarter.f

^ Richard Scrope of Castle Combe came of age in 1526, and was Sheriff of Wilts in 1546. He paid
the fine to escape being made a Knight of the Bath in 1633, and again in 1553. He had three wiyes, of
whom Elizabeth Amidas was the first, and married his second wife Mary Lndlow in 1532. He died in
December 1572 ; and was succeeded by George, his son and heir by his third wife, who was then 26 years
old. (28)

t According to modem nsage, the descendants of Elizabeth Bryce wonld haye no right to bear the
arms of Chester, because John Chester's issue continued ; but formerly the more rational usage prevailed
of preserving the memory of successive owners of the family estate, and Bowes therefore used the quar-
tering of Chester to commemorate that Elizabeth Chester was once the possessor of the Manor of Jen-
kins, and other lands of their inheritance.

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

PEDIGREE OF DAMS AGNES CHESTER AND OF THE HEIRS OF HER DAUGHTER

ELIZABETH BRYCE.

Amu (borne by Martin Bowes, Esq. of Barking, 1695). Quarterly of eight: 1. Bowes, 2. Scrope.
3. Tiptoft. 4. Scrope of Masham, 5. Amidas. Az. a chevron erm. between three oaken slips Or.
within a bordnre engrailed Or. 6. Bryce lozengy Arg. and gules a oroes Arg. within a bordnre sable
charged with eight cinqnefoils Or. 7. Ranjield Arg. a chevron engrailed between three mascles gales
a crescent for difference. 8. Chester of London.

William Chester
of London, died 1476.
Will 1476.

>Agnes Hill
died 1484.
Will 1484.

WilUam Hill, Vicar of
Walthamstow, died
1487. Will 1487.

EUen Hill-RJohn Molder HOl^

1476,1484.
1487.

John Chester,

son and heir, Chester, wife,

ancestor of the 1484-1487.

Chestbbs of Widow, 1492-

Chichelet. 1496.

1487.

T 1

Amy Hill, John

nnm. 1476, Hill,

1 I

Elizabeth'TsFames Bryce, Esq., John Molder, Richard

only son of Aid. Sir schoolboy, 1484. Hill of

Hugh Bryce, Kt. of Fellow of Merton Coggeshall called i^my 1484,

Jenkins in Barking, Coll. Oxon, 1487. 1476, 1484, Bordmer, 1487.

1470, 1484. 1487. 1487. 1484.

Dead, 1492.

I 1

Hngh Bryce, son and Sir Thomas Nevill, Kt.= Elizabeth, sister and

heir, of Jenkins, occ. of Mereworth, Kent, 2 h. heir, not 18, and

1492, 1496, 1504, died Lie. to marry at Jenkins,

nnm. dated 28 Ang. 1532. Died

29 May 1542.

>1 h. Robert Amidas, Master
of the Mint and Keeper of
Jewels to Henry VIII.
Occ. 1513, 1526, 1531.
Dead, 1532.

r 1 ^

1. Elizabet^i Amidas, eldestp^'Richard Scrope, Esq. of 2. Thomasine, co-heir, married Sir Richard Sta-
danghter. Died before 1532. | Castle Combe, died 1572. pylton. Kt. of Barton Joyse, Notts.

anm. in 1496. Heir
of Jenkins. Died be-
fore 1542.

Frances Scrope, only child, heir of Jenkins, -f^Martin Bowes, Esq. of Jenkins, jure ax.
boried at Barking, 29 Deo. 1556. I 2nd son of Sir Martin Bowes, Kt.

I 1

Martin, son and heir. Jocosa.

Anne.

Mary.

— I
Ellen.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(i) Ex Libro L. x. p. 51 in Coll. Arm.

(2) Rudder's Hist, of Oloucestershire, p. 705.

(3) Stet. 37 Hen. VIH. 0. 4, and 1 Edw. VI. c. 14.

(4) Rot. Pat. 34 Eliz.

(5) Charity Reports, xxi. p. 176.

(6) Atkyns' History of co. Gloucester^ p. 696.

(7) Newcourt's Repertorium^ ii. p. 637.

(8) Newcourt, ii. p. 451.

(9) Seymour's London, fol. 1735, ii. 851.

(10) Rot. Pat. 11 Edw. IV.

(11) Rot. Pat. 1 Rich. in.
(la) Rot. Pat. 6 Edw. IV.
(13) Stow's Survey y p. 77.

(14.) AthemB Oxon. 1721. i. 641. Hardy's Fasti.

(15) FoBs's Judges, ▼. 168-6.

(16) Stow, p. 117.

(17) Stow, p. 114.

(18) Charity Reports, xxvi. p. 211.

(19) Life of Richard Rawlyns in Athena Oxon. i.

670. Hardy's Fasti, Newcourt, i. 229.

(20) Seymour, ii. 90. Ped. of Heigham in Vis. of

Suffolk, 1561, ed. Howard, ii. 214.

(21) Harl. Mss. 877, f, 30.

(22) Rot. Pat. 17 Hen. VIII. Brewer's Calendars.

(23) Greyfriars Chronicle, p. 25, Camden Society.

(24) Extracted by Colonel Chester from the Vicar-

General's books lately brooght from the
Bishop of London's Registry into the Coort
of Probate, which contains Wills and Mem-
oranda of marriage-licenses from 1520.

(25) Will of Robert Amadas, registered 7 Hogan in

Prerog. Court, Cant. Admon granted 28th
Not. 1533 to Sir Thomas Neyill Kt, the
Executrix renouncing.

Admon de bonis non, 26th May 1542, to Wil.
Barker, Alured Randall, Thomas Raynes,
Robert Pyne, and the said Sir Thomas
Nevill.

Further admon granted, 5th July 1542, to Sir
Robert Southwell Kt., FranoiB SoathweU,
John Corbet, and Alured Randall Esqrs.

(26) ColhnB' Peerage, 1779, vol. vi. 291. Notes and

Queries, 4th S. ii. 577.

(27) Tonge's Visitation of Northern Counties, 1580,

Surtees Society, p. 3.

(28) Scrope's Hist, of Castle Combe, p. 801.

(29) Rot. Pat. 10 Hen. VIII. Brewer's Calendars.

(30) Machyn's Diary, p. 122.

(31) Vincent's Essex, 124 f. 105, in Coll. Arm. and

Harl. Mbs. 897, f. 21. These pedigrees
omit the wife of James Bryce, and misname
his daughter, by calling her Margery.

JOHN CHESTER OF LONDON. 23

CHAPTER m.

John Cliestei^ of London^ 1476-1513. II. His Widow Joan Chester,
afterwards Wife of Sir John Milbourne Kt III. Her Brother John Hill^
1514. IV. Nicholas Chester of London and his Children^ 1550. V. Pe-
digree of Chester in the Visitation of London, 1568.

John Chester, the only son of William Chester and Agnes, was already a
married man with two children when his father died in 1476. He was then engaged
in trade, but he neither followed his father's business nor lived in his father's house,
for he was a parishioner of St. Mary Abchurch, and a member of the Drapers' Com-
pany. The name and trade of a Draper in those days implied something different
from modem usage, for the Drapers were not dealers but manufacturers of woollen
cloths, and were usually merchants of the Staple at Calais and Antwerp, (i)

John Chester inherited considerable wealth, and in 1480 purchased from the
Crown 700 acres of the foreshore lately reclaimed from the sea at Playden in
Sussex. (2)

He had two wives. The name of the first has been forgotten, and her two chil-
dren bom before 1476 must have died young, for we hear no more of them ; but she
left a daughter Alice, to whom her father bequeaths 20/. * upon condicion that she be
gentell, and good in worde and dede to my wife without trouble or vexacion.'
Alice is mentioned in her stepmother's will in 1542 as * Alice Grene Master Chester's
daughter,' and was then evidently a widow and a nun.

John Chester's second wife was Joan the sister of John Hill, Citizen and Haber-
dasher of London, and the widow of Richard Welles, Mercer, who by his will, dated
6th September 1505, desires to be buried in the Church of our Lady of the Bow in
London, and makes his wife Joan his executrix and the guardian of his children. (3)
She proved his will on 26th of October 1515, and soon after married John Chester,
by whom she had two sons Nicholas and William Chester. We hear nothing more
of the children of her first marriage, except that John Chester leaves ViL 6«. 8d. to
< Anthony Wellys my wife's son upon his lowly obeying to his mother.'

John Chester died 26th May 1513, for his obit was kept on the morrow of that
day in Mercer's Chapel, where he was buried.

In the name of God, Amen. The xii^^ dale of the moneth of Ma\j in the yere of oure Lorde
God m"v®xiij (1518) and in the v*** yere of the Reigne of King Henry the viij'^, I, John Chester,
Citezen and Draper of London, hole of mynde and in good memorye beyng, thanked be Almighty
God, make and ordeyne this my present testament contayning my last Will in maner and forme
following, that is to sey,

First and principally above aU other things I bequeth and recomend my Soul to Almighti God

24 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHEI^EY.

my Creator, Maker, and Saviour, and Redeemer of all the world, to our blessed Lady Seint Mary
the Yirgyn his mooste glorious Mother, and all the holy company of heven, my bodie to be buried
within the Churche of Sent Thomas of Aeon, in Westchepe of London, in suche place there as my
WyfT shall thinke most convenient. Itm, I bequeath to the highe Aulter of the Parishe Churche of
Abechurche, for my tithes and ofiferings by me forgotten or negligently withholden, in discharge of
my Soul, iij«. in^d. Itm, I will that my bodie be brought to the erth and my funerals and
exequies doone in suche maner as by the discrecion of my Wiff shalbe thought most convenient.
Itm, I bequeth vnto euery of the iiij orders of Friers in London, that is to sey, the Grey Friers, the
Blacke Friers, the White Friers, and the Augusteynes, xx«., to the intent that euery of the same iiij
orders of Friers shall bring my body to the erth and sey for my Soul in their Conuentuall Churche
a trentall of masses. Itm, in like manner I bequethe to the Crouched Friers, xx«. Itm, I
bequethe to be distributed in brede to euery of the ii^ prisons of Newgate, Ludgate, Marshalse, and
the Kings Benche, xiii«. injd. to praie for my Soul. Itm, I bequeth to pour maydens mariags, xli.
Itm, I bequeth to be distributed amongs pour householders, true men and wymen, where shall
seeme most nede, idg. Itm, I bequetke vnto the Charter house in London, xiij«. ihjd. to praye for
my Soule. Itm, I bequeth to Greate Sente Bartilmewys in Smithfeld, xiij«. mjd. Itm, I bequeth
to Sente Bartilmewys Spitell to praie for me, xiij«. iiijJ. Itm, I bequeth to the minors, xi^«. iiijcf.
Itm, I bequeth to the Priori of Ledys, xiij«. iiije/. Itm, I bequeath to the house of Bonhommes of
Assherugge, to praie for my Soule, xl^. Itm, I bequeth to the bretherhed of Ix prests, xiij#. iiijrf.
Itm, I will that my Wyflf as long as she lyveth shall cai^se a solempne obite or anniuersary yerely to
be kept and holden by note for my Soule, in the seid Churche of Seynt Thomas of Aeon, expendyng
yerely for the same in abnes suche a conuenientsome as to my said Wyff shall seem requisite. Itm,
I will that my Wyff provide that I maye be praide for in the pulpitt of the Parishe Churche of
Abchurche by name euery Sondaie. Itm, I will that my Wyff yerely duryng her lyff shall cause
a trentall of masses to be seid for my Soule and all cristen Souls. Also, I require my Wyff
that she so provide both for her selfe and for me in doing of good dedes of Charitie and Almes
that for ever ower Soules maye be praid for. Itm, I bequeth to Alice my daughter vpon condition
that she be gentell and good in warde and dede to my Wyffe, without trouble or vexacion, xx^. to
be delyvered to her at seuall tymes as she shall nede, and iij yerds of black cloth of injs. eny
yarde for a gowne. Itm, I bequeth to Anthony WeUis my Wyffe s Sonne, vpon his lowly obeyng to
his Mother, xiij^. vj«. viijrf. to be delyvered to him when he cometli to the full age of xxiiij yeres.
Itm, I bequeth vnto Crists Churche in the Citie of London, xiij«. iij<2. The residue of alle and singoler
my goods, detts, and cattallis, after my detts paide, my burying and funall expenses made and done,
and this my put testament fulfilled, I give and bequeth hoUy vnto Johane my Wyff and to
Niohcu Chester and William Chester my Sonnes and heires betwene them to be devided, that is to
sey, my Wyff to have the oon half and my sed Sonnes the other halff (and my seid Sonnes either
of them for their parts to be others heire) . And I make this my bequest the larger vnto my seid Wyff
under condicion that she shall never after my decesse mary as she hath said vnto mee. And if die
mary, I will that than my seid Sonnes shall have the more parte of my goodes, requiryng her to do for
my Soule good dedis of Almes and Charitie as she wolde I shulde do for her, and wold If I onlyved
her ; and yf it happen my seid Sonnes to decesse before they come to their lawful ages or manages,
I will that then the porcions to them belongyng, as aforesaid, shall remayne to my seid Wyffe
to distribute and bestowe the same for my Soule, the Soules of my said Children and all cristen
Soules ; and of this my put testament I make and orden the seid Johane my Wyff my sole Execu-
trice, and ouerseers of the same my testament, I make and ordeyn Maister Doctor Yong* Maister
of Seynt Thomas of Aeon aforesaid, Nicholas Warley and Bobt. Amadas\ of London, Goldsmythes.
And I bequeth to euery of the seid ouerseers for ther labors and besynes in the premisses to be
hade xb. stg. In Witness whereof to this put testament I have sett my seale geven the daye and
yere above rehersed.

Proved at Lambeth, 7th July 1613, by Joan Chester the widow and executrix. [18 Fettiplace.]

^ Dr. John Young, D.D., was appointed Master of the Hospital of St. Thomas of Aeon, 16th
September 1510, and died 28th March 1526. (4)

t Robert Amalas was the husband of Elizabeth Bryce the niece of the Testator.

JOAN LADY MILBORNU. 25

. Joan Chester soon married again notwithstanding her promise to her husband,
for we find her in 1515 the wife of Alderman Sir John Milbome, who was then
Master of the Drapers* Company, and had been Sheriff in 1510. Her remarriage
however did not prevent her from scrupulously performing the injimctions of John
Chester, to provide for the welfare of hjs soul and hers, * in doing of good dedes of
charitie and almes,' and in these good works she had the hearty cooperation of Sir
John Milbome. By her endowment, Chester's anniversary w^ solemnly kept
on the morrow of 26th May in the Church of St. Thomas of Aeon, and ^ three preach-
ers at St. Mary's Spyttyll received an annual fee from the Drapers' Company to
pray for his soul.' (5) Moreover, she founded a fellowship at St. Catharine's Hall
Cambridge, the holder of which was to be called the Fellow of John Chester of
London, and was especially to devote himself to pray for John Chester^s soul and to
preach a funeral sermon on his anniversary,

The following account of this foundation is taken from tl^e Becords of the
Mercers' Company. (6)

By an indenture dated 20 February 17 Henry Yljl. (1616-16) and made between the Master
and Fellows of Catharine Hall Cambridge of the first part, the Master and Brethren of the
College of St. Thomas of Aeon in London of the second part, Sir John Milbome Kt. and Alderman
of London and Dame Joan his wife of the third part, and the Master and Wardens of the Drapers'
Company of the fourth part, after recitiag that the said Sir John Milbome and his wife had of
their charity given 124/. to Catharine's Hall to be expended in purchasing land of the yearly
value of 10 marks, it was covenanted that Catharine's Hall should thenceforward maintain a
Fellow beyond its previous number of four Fellows, who should receive 4/. yearly for his salary
with the usual profits of a Fello^^ship and should be called the Fellow of John Chester of London,
Draper, and should by himself or some other Fellow of Catharine HaU preach a sennon in the
Church of the College of St. Thomas of Aeon in West Cheap once a year for ever on the Sunday
next after Trinity Sunday, in which sermon he should pray for the soul of the said John Chester,
the good estate of the said John Milbome and his wife whilst living, and for their souls after their
death. Catharine Hall to pay to the said preacher 6«. Sd. for his cost in coming up to London to
preach the said sermon ; and to celebrate a Dirige or anniversary for the said John Chester on
26th May in every year, and for default to forfeit certain specified sums by way of penalty to the
said College of Aeon.

This endowment for a fellowship seems scanty to our modem notions, but it was
equal to the requirements of that period, for it appears from the accounts of Corpus
Ghristi College Cambridge in 1545, when Dr. Parker (afterwards Archbishop of
Canterbury) was the Master, that the stipend of the Master was fixed at 6L 13«. 4d.
per annum, and that of the Fellows at 5/. 6«. 8d. per annum. (7)

Again, we read that on 21st July 1518, Alderman Sir John Milborne and his
lady ^ late the wife and executrix of John Chester, Draper of London,' gave to the
Drapers' Company ^ a Beryall cloth of the value of 100 marks for the wele of the
soul of the said John Chester in especiall, and all other his good friends in generall.'
This gift was long treasured by the Company as their ^ best beryall cloth,' and was
only used on great occasions. (5)

26 THE C HESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Sm John MHiBORNE was elected Lord Mayor in 1521, and had the honour of
entertaining Henry VIII. and the Emperor Charles V. on their visit to the City
6th June 1522, when he met the King and Emperor ^ well horsed and dressed in
scarlet.' (8) His memory however has been more honourably preserved by his
foundation of the well-known almshouses in Crutched Friars, lately removed to
Tottenham.

By deed poll dated 5th March 1584-5, Sir John Milbome granted to William
Dolphin, Draper of London, as Trustee, thirteen cottages which he had lately erected on
a plot of ground adjoining the Church of Crutched Friars for the use of thirteen poor
and aged men, who were to live there rent free, and were to receive 2s. 4A each on
the 1st of every month for ever. William Dolphin by his will (dated 24th March in the
same year) devised to the Drapers' Company these thirteen cottages and also two
messuages in St. Mary Aldermary, which he held by the gift and feoffment of Sir
John Milbome, Dame Joan his wife, and Nicholas and William Chester her sons,
together with nine other messuages, upon trust, to repair and maintain the said alms-
houses, and to pay Id, per day to each of the thirteen poor men, who were to be called
* the poor bedemen of Sir John Milborne and Dame Joan his wife.' (9)

Sir John Milbome had erected in his lifetime a tomb in the Church of the
Crutched Friars, and he directed that his thirteen bedemen should come daily to this
church, and should remain in some convenient place near to his tomb during the
whole mass, which should daily be sung or said for ever at 8 A.M., at the altar of
our Lady in the middle aisle of the said church, to the intent that the thirteen
poor bedemen before the beginning of the said mass, ^ one of them standing right over
against the other and encompassing his tomb,' should say the De Profundis and Pater
Noster, Ave, Credo^ and Collect for the good estate of him the said Sir John and Dame
Joan his wife, and their children and friends whilst they live, and after their deaths
for their souls and for the soul of Margaret his first wife, and all Christian souls. (10)

These charities were intrusted to the Drapers' Company, and in 1838 produced
a rental of 589/. 13*. lOd. per annum. (9) The almshouses were afterwards increased
to sixteen, and remained on their ancient site in Cooper's-row until 1862, when they
were removed to Tottenham, where the Drapers have built a school for fifty boys and
twenty-four almshouses at a cost of above 20,000/. The new almshouses have the
arms of Sir John Milborne on the front of each house, and the sculptured stones
from the arched gateway* of the old buildings, so familiar to Londoners, have been
carefully transferred to Tottenham. This rude specimen of mediaeval sculpture is
now partly defaced, as will be seen in the woodcut. On the centre stone is repre-
sented the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin supported by six angels. The armorial
shields on each side sufficiently tell their own tale. On the right hand are the arms
and monogram of Sir John Milbome, and on the opposite side are the triple crowns
of the Drapers' Company with the arms of Lady Milborne below.

® There is an etching of this gateway in Archer's Vestiges of Old London,

SIK JOHN HILBOBNE, KT.

Sir John Milborne had no children by Joan Chester, but by a fonner wife
Margaret he had two daughters and an only son, Gilbert, a priest. He died 5th April
1536, (ii) and was buried in the Church of the Crutched Friars in Aldgate, but his
body was afterwards removed by his stepson Sir William Chester to St. Edmund's
Iximbard-street. His will, with its numerous bequests to religious houses, gives the
lie direct to those, who assert that the old devotions had become obsolete amongst
the citizens of London, in the generation which witnessed the change of religion.

Sib John Milbochne Kt. and Alderman of London. Will dated 10 June 1535.

To be buried before the Altar of oqt Ladj in the midat of the middla aisle in the Church of Qie
Crossed Friars within Aldgate. at which Alttu* the Prior and Convent there shall be bound dailj for
evermore to saj or sing a mass for mj sool and mj wives' souls, Ac, Mf funeral and exequies ' to be
done in honest wise' after the discretion of my Executors : to the Prior and Convent there for my
sepnlture, and that they may pray speciallj for mj sonl, £6. to the High Altar of St. Edmond'a
Lombard -street, of which Church I am a Parishioner, tli. M. to the High Altar of St. Bartholomew
the Little in Bread-street, where I was sometime Parishioner. 6*. Sd. to every of the four Orders of
Friars in London 20*. each, to the intent that Uie Prior and Convent of each Order shall fetch my
body to its sepulture and say a trentall of masses for my soul within seven days after my death ;
and to the like intent I give to the Prior and Convent of the Crossed Friars 20#. My Execntora
to have 1000 masses said or sung for my soul within three months after my death, which masses
are to be song by priests who have not any benefices, and who are not charged to pray for any
other ; every pri<«t to have for his labour M. to 153* poor men and women each a black gown of
cloth, a blacli gown of linen or cotton, and a pair of black beads, to aBsiat at my burial and mass
of reqniem. and to pray specially for my soul and the sonls of my wives, *o. to the Charter
House beside London, the Charter House at Shene, the Abbess and Convent of Sion, and the
Brotherhood of 00 priests in London, of which I am a Brother, 40». each, to the intent that they
come to my burial and pray specially for my soul and the souls aforesaid. My Executors to dia-

« Bo Dean Colet founded Bt. Panl's School for 163 boys. The miracnlonn draught of Athea has al-
ways been a favourite anbject of contemplation with the citizens of London.

28 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

tribute in bread, drink, and victaal within thirty days after my death d£12 amongst the poor prisoners
of Newgate, Ludgate, the two Compters, King's Bench, and Marshalsea ; and also to pay ^13 6«. Sd.
for the redemption of the fees* of such poor prisoners, to the poor within the Lazar Houses of
London M ISs. 4d., and to each of my thirteen poor bedemen 12 pence, to evexy Sister in the four
Spitels of London 12 pence, and towards the repair of the beds for poor people in the said
Spitels 100 ells of canvas at ^id. or 6d. the eU. to the Church of St. Edmond Lombard-street a
suit of vestments of red cloth of gold of the value of JUO or j£50 sterling or upwards, to the
marriages of sixty poor maidens of Long Melford in Suffolk £20. to thirteen poor people of Long
Melford thirteen penny loaves every Sunday for ten years after my death, on condition that they
kneel before the Holy Sacrament at the High ^tar in the Church of Long Melford, and say there
a Pater Noster, Ave and Credo for my soul and the souls aforesaid. The Churchwarden of Long
Melford to have 4«. per annum for distributing these thirteen loaves, and my Executors to dis-
tribute .£6 ISs. 4d. amongst the Poor of Long Melford within thirty days after my death, to my son
Sir Gilbert Milhome\ ^40, to be paid to him at the rate of 13«. ^. quarterly, to my d<iughter Marion
Burtonl ^600, provided always that if my son Sir Gilbert or my daughter Marion shall not be
content with these bequests to them, and shall vex or trouble my Executors, then such bequests
shall be void and they shall neither of them have any part of my goods or my blessing, to Thomas§
and Halph Burton, Uie sons of my said daughter Marion, 100 marks each at twenty-one. to the
Brethren of St. Thomas of Aeon ilO, and to the Prior and Convent of St. Mary Overy in South-
wark jglO, to pray specially for my soul, to the Abbess and Convent of the Minories without
Aldgate 100 marks, on condition of their performing such obits, anniversaries, and obsequies for
my soul and the souls of those whose names have been written done and delivered to the said
Abbess, as they have promised, and I bequeath to each of the Ladies of die same Convent 12J.
to pray for my soul. My Executors to found within the Fellowship of the Drapers a good sure
and substantial foundation for the pa^onent of 4rf. each to thirty of the said Fellowship, who shall
come yearly in their liveries with the Master and Warden of the Drapers to my obit or anniver-
sary in the Church of the Crossed Friars, to the Master and Wardens of the said Company of
Drapers my standing cup of silver with a cover all gilt weighing 63J ounces, to my cousin Cath-
arine Smyth.W now apprentice to Cuthbert Becher citizen and draper and Alice his wife, all my
lands and tenements in Long Melford. The residue of my estate to be at the disposal of my
Executors, namely. Dame Joan Milhoume my wi/cy Bartholomew Linstedll Prior of St. Mary Over}',
and the said Cuthbert Becher.** My right trusty friend John Baker Esq. Recorder of London to
be Overseer, and to have £4. sterling for his labour in that behalf

Will proved 12th May 1636 in C.P.C. [35 Hogan.]

Lady Milborne had been executrix of all her three husbands, and in those days
the executorship carried with it the gift of the residuary estate not otherwise disposed

^ The fees extorted from prisonerB by the keepers of gaols were for centnries a standing grievance,
and have only been abolished within living memory. Similiar extortions are still practised by sherifls*
officers in levying execations.

t Gilbert was not a Knight, bat a priest. Priests who were not Masters of Arts were nsnally styled
Sir for Dominns. Bachelors of Arts are still so styled at Cambridge.

J Marion Burton remarried Robert Fermor, citizen and leatherseller, of London. (12)

§ Thomas Burton was apprenticed to Sir William Chester, and occurs in Lady Milbome's Will.

II Catharine Smyth was evidently the child of a deceased daughter of the Testator. Women were
then admitted into the London Gailds, and the Sisters of the Fellowship had the same right to take
apprentices as the Brethren.

H Bartholomew Linsted, of Fowle, was elected Prior of St. Mary Overy, 26th January 1513, and
was the last Prior of that Honse. He surrendered his priory to the King, 14th October 1639, when he
was gratified with a pension of £100 per annum, which he enjoyed until 1563. (13)

o^ Cuthbert Becher, draper, was buried at St. Mildred's Poultry, 17th October 1640. His Will, dated
18th July 1637, contains these items : ' Item, 1 bequeath to my lady Milboume, iiij yardes of black clothe
of tenne sbillinges the yarde for a gowne. Item, I bequeath to Sir Gilbert Milhoume maister Milbourne's
Ronne fyve yardes of rossett of vj«. a yarde for to make hym an Abye.'

JOAN LADY MILBORNE. 29

of. Lady Milborne was therefore a rich widow, and was assessed for the subsidy of
1542-3 in Langboume Ward at 3000 marks, for which she had to pay 221. 4«. 6rf. (14)
Sir John Milborne was a native of Long Melford, and his widow is thus mentioned:
in the will of Roger Martyn Esq. of that place, a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, who
died in 1542,

' I bequeath to my Lady Milborne for a poor remembrance a ring of gold with a stone, and
two old nobles.' (15)

One of the last acts of her life was to secure by new arrangements the perman-
ence of the sermon for the soul of John Chester, by a Fellow of Catharine's Hall, for
the deed of 20th Februarj' 1515-16, already recited, had been materially aflFected by
the dissolution of the College of Aeon in 1539, when the church and site were pur-
chased by the Mercers' Company. Accordingly, a new indenture was made on 26th
September 36 Henry VHI. (1544), between the Master and Fellows of Catharine
Hall of the 1st part, the Master and Wardens of the Mercers' Company of the 2d
part, Dame Joan Milborne widow of the 3d part, and the Master and Wardens of
the Drapers' Company of the 4th part, whereby, after reciting the indenture of the
20th February 1515-16, it was covenanted that Catharine Hall should cause one
of their Fellows, being a Priest, Master of Arts, and Student in Divinity, to preach
and make a sermon in the Church of St. Thomas of Aeon, now called Mercers' Chapel,
upon the Friday next before Easter Sunday in every year, between the hours of 6
and 7 o'clock in the forenoon, in which sermon he should specially by name pray for
the souls of the said John Chester and John Milborne, and for the good estate of
the said Dame Joan Milborne whilst living, and for her soul after her death, and
that the Master and Fellows of Catharine Hall should yearly pay 65. 8d. to such
Fellow for his costs for going up to London to make this sermon, under certain
penalties imposed by the former indenture, but now made payable to the Mercers'
Company.

The Church of St. Thomas of Aeon was burned in the great fire of London,
but the sermon was continued in the new Mercers' Chapel, and in 1688 was
preached by Strype the historian, who has given some account of it in his edition
of Stow. I am informed by the Master of Catharine Hall that this sermon
is still annually preached on the afternoon of Good Friday by a Fellow of the
College, and that the Chester Fellowship is still in existence, although its value
and position have been materially changed by subsequent benefactions and arrange-
ments. (6)

Lady Milborne died 21st September 1545, (11) and was buried in the Church of
St Edmund's Lombard-street, where her son William Chester erected a monument
to her memory in 1563.

Dame Joan Milbourne, Wmow of Sir John Milboubne Kt. and Alderman of London.
Will dated 1201 November 1642.

To be boried in the Church of St. Edmund's Lombard-street, * where I am parishioner.' to
the High Altar of that Church 3/4. to the Brotherhood of Sixty Priests in London, to the

30 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Brotherhood of Pappey *and the Brotherhood of Clerks in London 10«. each, to come to myboiial
and to pray for my soul. My Executors to distribute in bread, drink, and yictual amongst the
prisoners in each of the six prisons in London 40«. to the marriages of eighty poor maidens £iO,
namely 5«. to each maid, to pray for my soul, to my very good friend Bartholomew Lynsted, some-
time Prior of St. Mary Overy's, £Q 13*. 4</. to pray for my soul, to my son Nicholas Chester ^00, to
be paid to him at the rate of £b every quarter until fully paid, and if the said Nicholas die in the
meanwhile or anticipate the said legacy, then the said bequest shall be void, and the unpaid
portion of the i9400 shall be divided into two parts, whereof the children of the said Nicholas shall
have one part, and the children of my son William Chester shall have the other part at twenty-one,
provided always that if the said Nicholas or his Executors shall claim or challenge any farther
portion of the personal estate of John Chester his father or of mine, then my legacy of ;C400 shall
be void, and the ^400 shall be equally divided between the children of Nicholas and William
Chester, to the children of my son Nicholas at twenty-one ;£200. to the children of my son
William Chester ^300 at twenty-one. to Alice Grene, Master Chester's daughter ^ 40«., to pray for
my soul, to Robert Tempest,! apprentice to my son William Chester, ;C10. to Thomas Burton,
apprentice to my son William Chester, 40«. to Cornelius Hughgynson^ sometime my servant 26«. 8J.
to Robert Curteys and William Eton sometime my servants 20^. each, to each of the twenty-five
Wards in London 20«., to be divided among poor people to pray for my soul, to Anne Harrys my
goddaughter 20«. when she marries, to the Company of Drapers a silver cup of the value of
jee 13». 4d. to Pancrase Wood 20». to Sir John Baker Kt.§ Under-Treasurer of England, * my fedth-
ful and loving friend,' a ring of gold with the five wounds. || to Lady Baker his wife a ring of gold
with a tablet diamond, to my cousin Anne Corbet^ £9 6*. Sd. to her daughter Anne Corbet £6 13#. 4d.
when she marries, to every sister in the four Spitel houses in London 12 pence to pray for my
soul and to come to my burial. My Executor, as soon as conveniently may be done, to cause to
be mortised as many messuages and lands as will amount to £7 10s. Od. per annimi beyond all
reprises, for the finding of five poor women within the City of London for ever, to each of them
7^. per week, and for the like purpose I bequeath ^250, provided always that if I purchase lands
of this value in my lifetime, this bequest shall be void. The residue of aU my goods, jewels, and
chattels, to my son William Chester absolutely, and I appoint him my sole Executor. Sir John
Baker Kt. to be Overseer, and to have .£20 for his trouble.

This Will was read to the testatrix at her desire by Thomas Argall on 8th January 1542-3 in
the presence of Thomas Curties and William Chester.

Codicil dated 16th July 1543 — * Forasmuch as since making my Will I have been at divers
charges for my son Nicholas Chester for his business, and for certain causes me especially moving
thereto,' I reduce my legacy to him of X*400 to £*300, to be paid to him at 5 marks a quarter.
And whereas the said Nicholas hath received from me his full portion of all such goods of his
father's, as were due unto him by his father's Will and the custom of London, I hereby direct
that if the said Nicholas make any further claim or vex my Executors in respect thereof, my
bequest to him of ^300 shall be void. I direct that an honest priest of good conversation and
living shall for the space of two years after my death sing for my soul and the souls of Sir John

* The Brotherhood of St. Charity and St. John the Eyangelist, called the Papey, was founded in 1430
for poor impotent priests, and their house was in Aldgate Ward. (i6)

+ Robert Tempest afterwards married Frances Chester, the granddaughter of the testatrix.

J Cornelius Hughenson, cordwainer, a German, had a patent of denization, 27th July 1486. (17)

§ Sir John Bakery of Sisinghurst Castle, in Kent, had been the overseer of Sir John Milbome^s WUL
He filled the offices of Speaker of the Honse of Commons, Recorder of London, and Chancellor of the
Exchequer ; and was one of the Trustees of the will of Henry VIII. He was the only Privy Councillor
who persisted in refusing to assent to the Will of Edward VI. in favour of Jane Grey, and died in
1658. (18) His wife Elizabeth, widow of George Barret, Esq., of Belhouse, in Essex, was the only
child of Thomas Dineley, Esq., of Wolverton, Hants ; and was, through her mother Philippa Harpsfield,
related to many wealthy citizens of London. (19) Sir Richard Baker ' the Chronicler' was their grandson.

II Such rings had five beads, and were used for the devotion of our Lord's wounds.

^ Anne Corbet was the niece of the testatrix, being the only child of her brother John Hill.

NICHOLAS CHESTER OF LONDON. 31

Milbome Kt. and John Chester* and all Christian souls, in the Church of St. Edmond's Lombard-
street, and shall have a convenient stipend for his labour.

Witnesses : Thomas Blower, f Thomas Curties, Thomas Argall, Thomas Perpointe.f

Will and Codicil proved by William Chester, 28 Sept. 1645, in C.P.C. [36 Pynning.]

Lady Milbome seems to have belonged to a di£ferent family from her husband's
mother Dame Agnes Chester, although both of them bore the maiden name of Hill.
Her only relations that I have discovered, are her brother John Hill and his daughter
Agnes or Anne Corbet, who had some family connexion with Ashridge in Hert-
fordshire. John Hill was a member of the Haberdashers' Company, and had been
supervisor of the will of his brother-in-law Eichard Welles in 1505. He died in 1516,
and it may be gathered from the silence of his will that his sister's subsequent mar-
riage had not been to his liking.

John Hill, Citizen and Haber4asher of LiOQdon, Will dated 16th March 1518-14.

To be buried in the Church of St. Thomas of Aooii in London, where my wife lies buried, to
the High Altar of the Church of All Hallows in Honey-lane where I am parishioner Ss. 4^1. to my
daughter Agnes Corbet j£50 and one-third of my household stuff, to the parish Church of St. Mary
at North ChurchJ j£3. 6*. Sd. to the Church of the House of Assheryge 20 marks. Many other
religious and charitable legacies, to the wife of John Bevyn taylor one-third of my household
stuff. The residue of my personal estate to be disposed of by my Executors in charity and alms
for the welfare of my soul. My daughter Agnes Corbet and John Bevyn taylor to be my Executors.
Eichard Corbet, John Bukmaister Hector of Asherige, William Power gent., and William Cackeke
to be Overseers of my WiU.

Will proved 24th July 1516 in C.P.C. [27 Holder.]

IV.

Nicholas Chester, the eldest son of John Chester and Lady Milbome, was
bred to his father^s trade, and occurs with his brother William in a list of the
Liverymen of the Drapers' Company, in 1537. (20) He was a troublesome and
extravagant son to his mother, who in great part disinherited him, and made her son
William her principal heir. Nicholas was so completely thrown into the shade by
his more prosperous and distinguished brother, that he is commonly said to have died
without issue, so that the whole inheritance fell to William ; but he is mentioned in
his mother^s will in 1542 as a married man with children, and it is certain that he
left two sons and three daughters. He was living on 30th August 1550, when
Robert Tempest the husband of his niece bequeathed to him lOZ. by his will, and it
may be gathered from the reference to him and his children in this will that his
intimacy with his brother's family had not been interrupted by his disinheritance.
His wife's name and the date of his death are unknown, but he died before 1563,
leaving two sons and three daughters.

® It is remarkable that Lady Milbome never expreBsea any solioitnde for the bouIb of her first hus-
band Richard Welles, and of his children by her.

t Ttumuu Blower and Thomas Perpointe occnr in the list of Drapers in 1537. (ao)
\ Northchurch is now known as Berkhamsted St. Mary's.

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

John Chester, his eldest son, was not yet of age in 1550, when he received a
legacy of 20/. from Robert Tempest. He was a Citizen and Draper of London, and
a Merchant of the Staple at Calais, and died unmarried at the end of 1563, for admin-
istration of his personal estate was granted on 3rd December 1563 to his three sis-
ters and his brother, namely Anne wife of Thomas Gyles, Elizabeth wife of John
Robinson, Mary Chester spinster, and Richard Chester.

Richard Chester was living in 1568, and is duly recorded in the visitation of
London of that year ; but all the authorities are agreed that he died without issue,
and that the elder line of Chester thus became extinct. (21)

PEDIGREE OP CHESTER IN THE VISITATION OP LONDON, 1668.

William Chester of London, Gent.

Hill of London.

John Chester, eldest sonne, of London, Gent.*pJoan, d. of

I 1

Nicholas Chester, Joan, d. of John Tnr-— Sir William Chester, EisyBElizaheih, d. of Thos.

1 filins. '^ ner, and widowe of Mayor of London, 2

Alderman Beswick. sonne, 1560. 2 Eliz.

Richard Chester,
now living, 1568.

Jill
Thomas,

2 Sonne.

3. John.

4. Daniel.

LoTett of Astwell, in
Com. Norths Ar. Iwife.

1 1 r

Francisca, Jane, wife to William-
wife to Fran- Richard Of- Chester of
cisRohynson flej, hrother London,
of London, to Sir Thos. sonne and

5. Francis. Grocer.

Qffley.

heire.

Anthony
Chester,
his only
sonne and
heyre.

r— I

'Judith, d. and Emme, wife

co-heyre of An- to John

thony Cave of Gardener

Chicheley, in of London,

Com. Bnck. Ar. Grocer.

Susanna, .
wife to John
Trott of
London,
Draper.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(i) Herhert's Hist, of the 12 Oreat Livery Com-
panieSt i. 898.

(2) Rot. Pat. 20 Edw. IV. * De 700 acris salsi

marisci et forland in Playden &c. in* com.
Sussex, noviter de mari inclusis, concesBis
Johannis Chester ciri Londiniensi in 20
Edw. lY.* Cat. of Ashmol. Mss. p. 436.

(3) Registered 41 Holgraye in Prerog. Ct. Cant.

(4) Mon. Angl. Ti. 646.

(5) Herbert, i. 889-476.

(6) I am indebted to Mr. T. Milhoum for these

extracts from the Records of the Mercers'
Company, and also for the woodcut at page
27, which illustrated his most interesting
account of the Milbome Almshouses in the
London and Middlesex Archaologia*

(7) Masters* Hiit. of C.CC, Cambridge , App. No.

24.

(8) Grafton's Chronicle.

(9) Charity Reports, xxxii. part ii. pp. 895-7.

(10) Seymour's XoTKion, i. 888.

(11) Harl. Ms. 894. f. 18.

(12) Rot. Clans. 28 Hen. VIII. p. 1, No. 76.

(13) Mon. Angl. vi. 169.

(14) Subsidy Roll, 84 and 85 Hen. Vm. m.48.

(15) Vis. of Suffolk, 1561, ed. Howard i. 218.

(16) Stow's jSttirey, p. 55.

(17) Rot. Pat. 8 Rich. lU.

(18) Burke^B Extinct Baronetage, p. 82.

(19) Herald and Genealogisty v. 127.

(20) Herbert, i. 892.

(21) Vis. of Bucks, 1634, Harl. Ms. 1588, f. 102.

SIR WILLIAM CHESTER, KT. 33

CHAPTER IV.

Sir William Chester, Kt, M.R, Lord Mayor 1560. II. The Children

of Sir William Chester.

William Chester, the younger son of John Chester and Joan afterwards Lady
Milbome, was bom in London about 1509, and was educated at Peterhouse Cam-
bridge, where he acquired that love of learning and leaning towards the new religion
for which he was distinguished through life, (i) He left the University without
taking a degree, and embarked in his father's trade as a Draper and Merchant of the
Staple. His wealth and reputation grew apace, and he was assessed in Langboume
Ward for the subsidy of 1542-3 at 400Z., when his share of the tax amounted to 13Z.
6«. 8d. (2) His fortune was considerably increased by the will of his mother in 1545,
but he was before her death already well known in foreign marts as one of the lead-
ing merchant adventurers of London, for Secretary Paget writes from Brussels to Sir
William Petre on 3d March 1544-45, in reference to the embargo on English merchan-
dise which had just been ordered by the Emperor Charles V.,and its probable conse-
quences to English merchants : (3) ^ Some in dede shall wynne by it, — who owe
more than they have here^ but Mr. Warren^ Mr. Hill, Cheater and dyvera others a
greate nombre are like to have a great swoope by ity having much here and owing
nothing or littleJ This crisis was ftdl of danger to Chester's growing prosperity, but
his wealth and prudence enabled him to weather the storm.

William Chester took an active part in the affairs of the Drapers' Company, of
which he was one of the Wardens in 1537, and was several times Master. (4) In his
capacit}' of Warden he took possession on 19th July 1541 of Cromwell's mansion in
Throgmorton-street, which had been forfeited to the Crown by the attainder of the
Earl of Essex, and had been purchased by the Drapers for their Hall. In 1551 he
was Master of the Company, and negotiated with the Crown for the purchase at the
price of 1402 Z. 6«. of the chantries and obits vested in the Company, and lately placed
at the disposal of the King's Majesty by statute.

He was honourably distinguished during the reign of Edward VI. by his zeal
and munificence in contributing to the foundation and endowment of the great
hospitals of the City. The name of William Chester stands among the first bene-
factors to Christ's Hospital, for he built at his own cost the partition wall between
that hospital and St. Bartholomew's, and he vaulted with brick the town ditch from
Aldersgate to Newgate, which had hitherto been very ^ noisome and contagious' to
the hospital. (5) To St. Bartholomew's he gave by deed on 19th March 1551-2, ten
messuages in Tower-street and Harp-lane * to find six poor women,' which now pro-
duce a rental of above 600/. per annum. (6) In 1552 he was one of the twelve

34 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELET.

persons appointed by the City to petition the King for the grant of the ancient palace
of Bridewell for the reception of vagrants and mendicants^ and on 17th January
1552-3 he was elected Alderman of Farringdon Ward Without. (7) On 2l8t
June 1553) with his brother Aldermen and the Common Council^ he subscribed as
a witness the will of Edward VI. in favour of Lady Jane Grey and the Protestant
succession, (8) for it has always been the privilege of the City to concur inde-
pendently in the act of recognising and proclaiming a new Sovereign. (9)

He was elected one of the Sheriffs of London in 1554, the first year of Queen
Mary. The year of his shrievalty was marked by the burning of the Protestants in
Smithfield, and it was his miserable duty to carry out these executions. He has
been eulogised by every writer from Fox downwards for his gentle and courteous
behaviour to the prisoners in his charge, which was in striking contrast with the
harshness of the other Sheriff David Woodroffe. But Chester's religious opinions
were secretly on the side of the sufferers. One of them, Lawrence Saunders, the
Rector of All Hallows Bread-street, and the brother of Sir Edward Saunders the
Chief Justice, had been his apprentice ; but Chester, observing his capacity for
learning, had cancelled his indentures, and persuaded him to return to King's Col-
lege Cambridge, to which he had been elected from Eton in 1538. (10) Saun-
ders was condemned for heresy at St. Mary Overies Southwark on 30th Januar}'
1554-5, but he was burned at Coventry, so that his old master had not the pain of
assisting at his death. Chester's love of learning equalled his charity. He set on
foot the custom of holding on St. Bartholomew's day public disputations amongst
the scholars of Christ's Hospital, and the Sheriffs' prizes of gold and silver pens were
first given in 1554. (11) He was knighted at Greenwich by Queen Mary on 7th
February 1556-7 with the Lord Mayor Sir Thomas Offley. (12)

In December 1557 his wife's nephew John Bury dedicated to him a translation
of Isocrates. This little book is now very rare, and is entitled,

* The Godly advertisement or good counsell of the famous orator Isocrates, intitled Panenesia
to Demonicus : wherto is annexed Cato in olde Englysh meter. Anno Di. mdlvii. Mense Decemb.'

The dedication is thus expressed : ' To the ryght worshypfull Syr Wylliam Chester Knyght, my
syngular good Uncle, by your lo vying cosin John Bury.'

The accession of Queen Elizabeth on 17th November 1558 freed Sir William
Chester from all apprehensions on the score of religion, and on 19th July 1559 he
was appointed one of the Royal Commissioners for putting into execution the two
Acts of Parliament lately passed, for the uniformity of prayer and for restoring to
the Crown its ecclesiastical supremacy. In the next year (1560) he was elected
Lord Mayor ; but this year had been clouded for him by a great domestic cala-
mity, for the wife of his youth and the mother of his children had died in July.
Her funeral at St. Edmund's Lombard-street is thus described by Machyn : (12)

* 1660. The xxiij day of July was hered my good lade [Chester] , the wyff of ser Wylliam Chester
Knyght and draper and altherman and marchand of the stapull, and the howse and the cherche

SIR WILLIAM CHESTER, KT. 35

and the strette hangyd with blake and armes, and she gayff to xx pore women good rossett gownes,
and he gayff onto iiij althemen blake gownes» and odor men gownes and oottes to the nombnr (tf a
c, and to women gownes. . . . and there was ij harold (s) of armes; and then came the corse and
ii^ momers beyrying of iiij pennon of armes abowtt, and came momers a-fore and after, and the
darkes syngyng ; and master Beycon dyd pryche over nyght ; and the morow after to the howse
to doner.'

The selection of Dr. Thomas Becon to preach the funeral sermon throws much light
on Sir WilUam's religious sentiments, for Becon had been convicted of heresy under
Henry VULl. in 1543, and had been committed to the Tower as a seditious preacher
on the accession of Queen Mary ; he was now Rector of St. Stephen's Walbrook and
a Canon of Canterbury, and stood in high esteem as a preacher with the extreme
Protestants. The character of his sermons may be gathered from his published
writings, which have long been a byword for irreverence, unseemly jesting, and un-
charitable invective. (13)

Lady Chester had married in extreme youth, and was the daughter of Thomas
Lovett Esq. of Astwell in Northamptonshire by his second wife Jane Pinchpole, the
widow of James Bury Esq. of Hampton Poyle Oxon. Her father was one of the
principal gentlemen in Northamptonshire during the reign of Henry VIH. and
her Arms of eight quarterings were recorded with pardonable pride by Sir William
Chester in the Visitation of 1568. Lady Chester is affectionately remembered in
the will of her son-in-law Robert Tempest in 1550, who leaves to her 50Z. for a tablet
or chain of gold, and her epitaph expresses with more than conventional fondness
the devotion and grief of her husband, to whom she had borne fourteen children.
Her monument was erected in the wall of St. Edmund's Church in the south side of
the chancel, and bore this inscription : (14)

D. Joanni Milbomo, Vitrico,
D. Joanni Chestero, patri,
D. Roberto Tempesto, genero,
Guliehnus Ghestems, posuit.
Elizabetha suo post quam Chestera marito

Sex natos, natas octo dedisset, ait ;
Non opus in terris, nee fas me vivere supra,

Jam sat habes comitum, chare marite, vale,
Quam quoniam nequiit vivam revocare sub auras,

Quod potuit fecit, dum fuit ilia super,
nia ex parte suam faciem de Marmore duci

Jussit, at ex ista, co^jugis ora suae,
Hac natas, ilia natos subjunxit, eodem

Vultu, quippe albos Mors facit ipse sues.
Hseo cecidit, manet ille super, quando moriturus
Inscius, et certus quod moriturus erit.
D. Joanni Milbume, secundo marito matris susb optimae, Gulielmus Chesterus posuit, a.d. 1563.

St. Edmund's Church, with its monuments and registers, was destroyed in the
great fire of London.

The mayoralty of Sir William was very different in its religious aspects from his

36 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Shrievalty, and must have been much more to his taste. The late Abbot of West-
minster, and the Dean of St. Paul's, with the deposed Archbishop of York, and the
deprived Bishops of Ely, Lincoln, Bath, and Exeter, were now lying in prison for
refusing to take the oath of supremacy, whilst their Protestant successors were
preaching the new doctrines at Paul's Cross, and before the Lord Mayor. But it
may be doubted whether the cause of Christian charity had gained much by the
change, for we read(i2) that on 16th April 1561, ^ all the altars in Westminster Abbey
were thrown down,' and that on 22d April, ^ Sir Edward Waldegrave, and my lady
his wife, as good almsfolk as be in these days, and devotedly attached to each other,'
were committed to the Tower for hearing mass, and keeping a priest in their house.
Their confinement was so strict, that it * kyld the good and gentyll knyght, who died
on September 1, for he was swollen very great.' (12). The year was more honour-
ably distinguished by the foundation of Merchant Taylors' School, and it is cha-
racteristic of the period that Chester's successor as Lord Mayor was Sir William
Harper, the munificent founder of the grammar-school and charities at Bedford,

Sir William Chester was elected M.P. for the City of London in the second
parliament of Queen Elizabeth, which met on 11th Jan. 1562-3, and commenced its
labours by enacting that it should be high treason to refuse the oath of supremacy
after it had been twice tendered. The only notice that I have found of Sir William's
parliamentary career is, that he was one of the committee appointed on 30th October
1566 to hold a conference with the Lords touching the petition of both Houses to
the Queen about her marriage. (15) Parliament was dissolved on 2d January 1566-7,
and no other parliament was called until April 1571, when Sir William was on the
point of retiring from public life. He had been in 1566 one of the Commissioners
appointed by the City to purchase the land on which Gresham built the Royal
Exchange, and had contributed 10/. towards the purchase money. (16)

In the next year he contracted a second marriage. His home had for some time
been solitary, for his sons were all launched into life, and his daughters were all
married. He married at St. Lawrence Pountney, 10th November 1567, Joan,*
daughter of John Turner of London, and widow of William Beswicke, alderman and
draper, who had died 5th May 1567, and whose daughter Anne had married in the
preceding year William OflBey, merchant taylor, the brother of Sir William Chester's
son-in-law Richard Offley. (17)

Very little has been recorded about Sir William after the period of his second
marriage. In 1568 he entered his pedigree at the Visitation of London, from which
it appears that he had then living four sons and four married daughters. The pedi-
gree of Chester stands first in this Visitation, and has been printed at page 32 of
this volume. It is worth observing how imperfectly these heraldic pedigrees set
forth the complete genealogy. The three married daughters of Nicholas Chester

® Parish Registers 0/ St. Lawrence Pountney, London. 1565-6, Feb. 11, Mr. William Offley and
AgneB Beswicke married. 1667, May 13, Mr. William Beswicke, Draper, buried. 1667, Nov. 10, Sir
William Chester, Kt. and Alderman, and Mrs. Jone Beswicke, widow, married. 1572, Deo. 23, Dame
Joan Lady Chester, buried.

SIR WILLIAM ^HESTER, KT.

ftnd his eldest son John (who died in 1563) are completely ignored by the heralds,
whilst no notice is taken of the five children of Sir William Chester, who were
dead in 1568, although one of them had lived
to be married. It b sUll more difficult to ex-
plain why the wife of John Chester is omitted;
for we know that he married in 1566, and that
ahe lived until 1593. The arms and crest of
Chester in the Visitation are those which were
granted in 1467 to William Chester, the grand-
father of Sir William, and have been already
engraved at page 9 ; but the heralda also re- *'
corded the arms and quarterings of Elizabeth

Lovett, the first wife of Sir William Chester, , , „ , ,.

and the mother of his ehddren. g. Torrme. 6. JeweU.

Sir William Chester is named in the special 3. Billing. 7. Cruilord.

commission of Oyer and Terminer for London *■ Gifforf. b. Dr»rton.

of Ist August 1571, under which John Felton was indicted for treason, for publish-
ing the Bull of Pius V. deposing Queen Elizabeth. He is also mentioned by Queen
Elizabeth on 27th September 1571, amongst 'my greatest and best merchants,*
to whom the pri\-ilege was then granted of trading with the Shah of Persia,
(i8) Sir William's foreign trade extended far and wide, for he was a Govemour of
the Moscovy Company, and made frequent ventures to the Coastof Africa. In 1571
he began to prepare for retiring from business, and on 2d November certain persons
were deputed by the City to talk to him concerning the resignation of his alderman-
ship. The result of this conversation was, that Mr. Lumley was on 19th February
1571-2 appointed by the Queen's prerogative alderman of Langboume Ward, in
the room of Sir William Chester, 'displaced for dyvers caufles.'(7)

At the end of this year he lost his second wife, for Joan Lady Chester was
buried at St. Lawrence Fountney on 23d December 1572, beside her first husband.
Their union had been childless, but William Beswicke, the eldest son of her former
marriage, founded a family of wealth and reputation at Spelmonden in Kent. After
the death of his wife. Sir William at once carried into execution his long meditated
project of retirement from all worldly affairs. He had, like all his family, shown
through Ufe a strong sense of religion, and had retted the predilections of his
youth for classical and theological studies. He, therefore, resolved on removing
from London to Cambridge. His relations with the University of Cambridge had
never been completely broken off, for the Senate had passed a grace on 2d May
1567, conferring upon him the degree of M.A., with the special permission, that in
case he could not come to Cambridge to be admitted, the act of admission might be
performed in London by the Bishop of London, in the presence of one of the bedeUs
of the University, on his being presented by the Dean of Westminster to the Bishop
pnd on his being sworn by the Dean of York. From this time he had taken a

88 THE CH£ST£B% OF CHICHELST.

renewed interest in University affairs, and his signature is appended to the p^ticm
in favour of the amendment of the new Statutes on 6th May 1572. (i)

It is not known whether he became again a member of his old College, but he
resided at Cambridge as a Fellow Commoner until his death, with a great reputation
for piety and learning. The precise year of his death is not known, and he made no
will, having probably distributed his personal estate amongst his children when he
left London in 1573, but it is certain that he lived to a good old age, and probably
until 1595, for on 13th May 1595 the administration of his goods and chattels was
granted by the Prerogative Court to his son, John Chester. He died at Cambridge,
but his body was removed to London, and he was buried beside his first wife in his
own vault in St. Edmund's Lombard-street.

His mansion in Lombard-street was over against the George, a hostelry of great
repute and antiquity, and was sold to Sir George Bame by William Chester his son
and heir. The history of its successive owners is detailed in the will of John Ver-
non, merchant taylor, and merchant of the staple. He says, (8th December 1616):

' Itm, the house which I now dwell in did first belong to Bichard Offley my master, who
married Sir William Chester's daughter, and for some pleasure that he did Sir William Chesttf
both on the other side of the sea and here in England, Sir William Chester gave him a lease of
the same for eighty years at M rent per annum, and the said house after the death of Sir
William Chester was sold by William Chester his eldest son to Sir George Bame and John
Bame his brother, and since the death of Lady Bame 1 have taken a new lease thereof of
Frances Bame.'

Sir William Chester had issue by his first wife Elizabeth Lovett six sons and
eight daughters, of whom three daughters died in infancy, and their names have not
been preserved. His surviving children were

1. William Chester, his son and heir, the ancestor of the Chesters of Chicheley.

2. Thomas Chester, bom in London, and a student at Oxford in the reign of
Henry Vm. He took the degree of B.A. in that University, and afterwards entered
Holy Orders ; but nothing is known of his career except that he was appointed by
Queen Elizabeth in 1580 Bishop of Elphin in Ireland, and died, June 1584, at
Killiathan in that diocese. (19) He is said in all the baronetages to have married
the sister of Sir James Clavering of Axwell, co. Durham ; but it is clear from the
Clavering wills of this date, (20) that no such marriage ever took place.*

3. John Chester, married, 23d August 1566, Elizabeth, to whom his cousin-
gennan, Peter Dormer Esq.f of Shipton Lee in Quainton, bequeathed by will, 26th
June 1583, ^ all the jewels that were my late wife's.' She had no children who

* It is not difficult to acoonnt for this mistake. The family traditions of the eighteenth century
oonfnsed Bishop Thomas Chester with Bishop Thomcu Wood, who was similarly related to the Chesters
of Chicheley, heing their uncle seyeral times removed, and who indispatahly married Grace, sister of
Sir James Clavering, Knight and Baronet of Axwell.

t Peter Dormer was the son and heir of Gahriel Dormer of Lee Ghrange hy Bridget Lovett, the sister
of Elizabeth, Lady Chester. Some account of this family of Dormer wUl be found in the next chapter.

CHILDREN OF SIR WILLIAM CHESTER, KT. 89

survived infancy, and died 7th April 1593.* On a brass in Quainton Church,
Bucks, below the effigy of a woman in a close plain dress with a ruff, was this in-
scription (21) :

* Heare lieth the body of Eljrzabeth Chester, that was Wyfe to John Chester Gt. 26 yeares
8 monethes and 15 dayes, and died the 7 of Aprill 1593 without ishew lyvinge.'

John Chester was the executor of the above-named Peter Dormer, and proved
his will 18th January 1583-4, whereby Dormer bequeathed to him 40Z. per annum
for his life, charged on his estate at Purston in Northamptonshire, and directed that
he should enjoy and occupy Lee Grange for eight years during the minority of his
son and heir Fleetwood Dormer. He was evidently still living there in 1593, when
his wife Elizabeth died and was buried at Quainton. He afterwards removed to
London, and on 13th May 1595 administered to the personal estate of his father
Sir William Chester. He died intestate, in the summer of 1603, in the parish of
St. James's Clerkenwell, where his burial is thus recorded in the register: ^ 1603.
John Chester Esq., buried 22d August.' The further administration of Sir Wil-
liam Chester's estate was granted on 28th October 1603 to Andrew Mathew of
Si Martin's Ludgate, barber surgeon ; but William Chester of Gray's Inn took
out letters of administration on 16th January 1603-4 to his uncle John Chester,
who is described as late of St. Andrews in the Wardrobe, London.

4 and 5. Daniel and Francis Chester, both living in 1568, and both died un-
married.

6. Anthony Chester, admitted in 1 562 a student at Gray's Lin (22) ; but died
unmarried before 1568.

1. Frances Chester, the eldest daughter, married before August 1550 Robert
Tempest, citizen and draper, and merchant of the Staple at Calais, when her father
gave her a marriage portion of 1000 nobles. Tempest had been apprenticed to Sir
William Chester, and had a legacy of 10/. in the will of Lady Milbome. His career
was brief, but singularly prosperous, as is evident from his will. He died at Antwerp
on 1st July 1551 without issue, and his widow died in 1559. (23) His father-in-law
afterwards erected a monument to his memory in St. Edmund's Lombard-street.

RoBEBT Tempest, Citizen and Draper of London and merchant of the Staple at Calais.
Will dated 30 August 1550 at Antwerp.

£10 to poor householders in the parish of St. Edmund Lomhard-street London. £20 to
preachers for sermons. £25 to * the poor of this town of Antwerp.' jB50 Flemish to S. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital Smithfield. £'4 Flemish for repairing poor box at Mrs. Poynges. £20 to
poor householders of Calais. £300 Flemish towards founding a free school for poor men's chil-

* I doubted at first whether this lady might not be identical with Elizabeth Allen whose marriage
to John Chester in 1565 is recorded without any day or month in the parish register of All Hallows
Barking. But all doubt was removed by the will of her father George Allen, citizen and skinner of
London, which is dated 6th November 1583 ; for he distinctly says therein, that his daughter Elizabeth
had a son, George Chester, and was then remarried to Thomas Gay. I find on further research, that
John Chester, the husband of Elizabeth Allen, was a citizen and pewterer of London, who resided in the
parish of St. Dunstan's-inthe-EaBt, and died in the autumn of 1580. His will, dated 8d September
1580, mentions his six children, George, Rose, Alice, Elizabeth, John, and Edward Chester, and was
proved by Elizabeth Chester, his widow and executrix, 20th October 1580 in C.P.C. [87 Arundell.]

40 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

dren in Calais, under direction of my master William Cheater and the merchants of the Staple
at Calais. £10 to Sir Thomas Chambcrlajne Kt. for a remembrance. .£20 to my friend Thomas
Hunt. £20 to my friend Tybawlt Prunce for a gilt cup &c. £10 to Nicholas Chester. £20
among my godchildren. £20 to John Chester son of Nicholas Chester at 21 ; and if he die
before, then to be divided amongst the other children of Nicholas Chester. £50 Flemish to
Mrs. Poyngnes without deducting the sum laid out for her husband Thomas Poingnes. £40
to Fernando,* Susanna, and Robert Poyngnes at 21 ^r marriage. Rings of 4 nobles each to
divers persons. £10 to Myles Hording. £10 to Anne PerpojTit. A standing cup of £10 value
to William Bury. £60 to my sister Anna Adyson alias Harrison towards bringing up her
children. £50 to my nephew Richard Adyson. £40 to my nephew John Adyson at 21. £100
to be divided among the children of my master William Chester. £10 to Thomas Ellis school-
master. £60 to my mistress Elizabeth Chester for a tablet or chain of gold. £60 to Nemme
Chester my master WiUiam Chester's daughter, towards her marriage, and if she die before, to
be equally divided among his daughters to their marriages. £100 to my master William Ches-
ter. £50 to Thomas Wogan, with remainder to his children. £10 each to Walter Garroway,
S}anon HorsepoU and Richard Saltonstall. All these my bequests amount to £1245, and I esti-
mate my assets at £3652 Ids. lid., and also ^my master William Chester oweth me for my mar-
riage money £366 13«. 4rf.* I bequeath to my wife Frances Tempest £1333 6«. Sd. and all * the
residue to my child if my wife bring forth any (as I pray God she may) before my death ; the
same to remain in the hands of my master William Chester until the said child be 21 or married.
My wife Frances Tempest and William Chester my master to be my executors. Thomas Wogan
to be overseer.

Codicil dated at Antwerp 9th April 1551 :

My wife Frances and my child (if any) to have the benefit of the increase in my estate since
the date of my will.

Will and codicil proved 25th October 1651, in C.P.C. [80 Bucke.]

2. Emma, called Nemme Chester in Robert Tempest's will, was living in 1568,
the wife of John Gardener, citizen and grocer of London. In spite of the differ-
ence of name, I cannot doubt that Emma is the same person as ' Anne Chester of
St. Edmund's Lombard St. Spr.,' who married by license dated 28th January 1561-2
John Gardener of St. Stephen's Walbrook. (24) Gardener was concerned with Sir
William Chester in one of the two sugar-houses in London, to which the home
trade of refining sugar was then confined. (25)

3. Jane Chester is mentioned with her sister Susan in 1556 in the will of
their maternal grandmother Jane Lovett, She married before 1568 Richard Offley
of London, who was Master of the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1572 and 1582,
and was a brother of Sir Thomas Offley Kt. Lord Mayor.

4. Susanna Chester married before 1568 John Trott, citizen and draper of
London. He was the son of a father of the same names and trade by Rose Cart-
wright ; and they must have been persons of wealth and consideration, for the fune-
ral of his mother Rose Trott, on 6th January 1574-5, was conducted by the heralds
with great solemnity; and it appears from their certificate that John Trott and
Susanna his wife were then both living, and had issue two sons and six daughters,
namely, John, Richard, Rose, Elizabeth, Agnes, Jane, Margaret, and Susanna Trott.
(26) It will be seen from the will of John Trott, that Rose and Susanna died in his

® Fernando Poyntes, grocer of London, was one of the CommiBBioners for the relief of insolyent
idebtorB in the Letters Patent of 2 Elizabeth, dated 16th April 1576.

CHILDREN OF SIR WILLIAM CUESTER KT. 40*

lifetime ; and that besides the daughters already mentioned, he had issue, after 1575,
Jane, Frances, Judith, Hester, and Sarah. All these daughters were unmamed in
1601 except the elder Jane, who was then the wife of Richard Potter, Merchant
Taylor of London. John Trott retired from trade, and settled at Colney Hatch in
the parish of Friern Barnet, where he died early in 1601.

John Trott, late of London, Draper, and now abiding at Colne Hatch in the rarish of Fryern
Barnett, co. Middlesex. Will dated 7tli May IfiOO.

To be buried in tlie cliurcli3'ard of Fryern Barnett. My lands and tenements in Middlesex
and in the parishes of St. Andrew Undershaft and St. John Walbrook in the City of London to
be sold by my son John Trott to pay my debts and legacies.

My now wife Susan to dwell with my said son Jolin in the tenement which I have lately
built in Colne Hatch. To my daughter Jane Potter, wife of Richard Potter sometime of London
Merchant Taylor, £'4 per annum. To my wife Susan one tliird part of my personal estate.
Another third part tliereof to be equally divided amongst my sons and daughters, namely, Jolm
Trott, Richard Trott. Ehzabeth, Anne, Margaret, Jane, Frances, Judith, Hester and Sarah Trott.
The portions of the said Frances, Judith and Hester Trott to be paid at their respective ages of
21 or marriage. To my wife Susan and my son Richard Trott i:100 each beside their portion.
To my servant Christopher Nicholson, £10. The residue to my said wife. My wife Susan and
ray son John Trott to be my executors, and my friend Laurence Campe Draper to be overseer.

Witnesses, Francis Strange, scrivener, and his servants, WilUam Bengcr and Augustine Smith.

Will proved in Prerogative Court, Ist April IfiOl, by James Ireland notary public, for John
Trott the executor, power being reserved to Susan Trott the widow, ['li Woodhull.]

Susan Trott survived her husband, but the date of her death has not been
discovered. Her two sons founded families of reputation in London and Hert-
fordshire. Judith Trott married soon after her father's death Laurence Cam])e,
draper of London, the overseer of her father s will, and secondly Thomas Tooke
Esq. of Pope's Manor in Bishop's Hatfield. She died 8th July 1638. (27) Her
sister Hester Trott married Bernard Hyde Esq. of Bore Place, Kent. (28)

5. Frances Chester was living in 15(58, the wife of Francis Robinson, citizen
and grocer of London.

APPENDIX.

Notes on Robert Tempest's Will. {See pp. 81)-40.)

A. I had not recognised at first that Robert Tempest's friend Thomas Poinynes of Antwerp,
whose wife had a poor-box in her house, was tlie same person as Thomas Poytitz tlie friend and
generous host of William Tyndale, tlie ti*anslator of the Bible. The identity, however, is of great
interest, because the intimacy between the families of Tempest and Poyntz in 1550 supplies
another proof that Sir William Chester's household was thoroughly Protestant, and that his
children w-ere educated in sympathy with the Refonners. It is clear that Tempest shared tlie
sentiments of Laurence Saunders tlie martyr, who had been his fellow-apprentice, and tliat
although Chester outwardly conformed to tlie Catholic faitli whilst he was serving the office of
Sheriff of London in 1554, all his religious sympathies were on the side of tlie sufi'erers.

Thomas Poyntz was the second son of William Poyntz Esq. of North Ockeiidon in Essex,
by Elizabeth, sister of Sir John Shaa Kt., sometime Lord Mayor of London. (29) He married
Anne, daughter and co-heir of John Van Calva, a German, and was settled at Antwerp as a
merchant when Tyndale took refuge there from England in 1534. Poyntz was a zealous
disciple of the new doctrines, and received Tyndale into his house as a member of his family.

•ik

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

He had been lodging there three-quarters of a year, when he was arrested bj command of the
Emperor, and was carried a prisoner to the fortress of Vilvorde. (30) Pojntz was away firom
home at the time ; but so soon as he heard of his friend's arrest he wrote to his brother John to
beg the interposition of King Henry VIIL John Poyntz was in high favour at Court, and had
attended Henry VUI. in 1520 to the Cloth of Gold. He was also the bosom-friend of Sir
Thomas Wyatt the poet, whose leaning to the Reformers is well known. The letter is dated 25th
Aug. 1535, but had no effect. (31) After writing to his brother he set out in pursuit of his
friend, but was himself thrown into prison, from which he escaped to England with difficulty at
Christmas 1535. Tyndale was less fortunate, for all the efforts made in his behalf were ineffec-
tual, and he was executed on Friday, 0th Oct. 1536. His last act before his death was to
give to the gaoler a letter of farewell, addressed to Mrs. Poyntz. (30) Poyntz soon returned with
safety to Antwerp, for the English factory was too powerful to be interfered with on tlie score
of religion, and many of the merchants were Protestants. He inherited the family estates in
Essex on his brother's death in 1547, but he remained at Antwerp for several years afterwards,
and the exiled Reformers in the reign of Queen Mary found in his house constant hospitality
and assistance. He returned to England on the accession of Queen Elizabeth, and died in his
own house in Essex in 1502. His sufferings for religion are recounted on his monument in
North Ockendou Church. (29) He left three children, I. Gabriel, H. Fernando, lU. Susanna ; for
his son Robert did not live to receive Robert Tempest's legacy.

Gabriel Poyntz inherited his fatlier s estates, and entered the pedigree of liis family at the
Visitation of Essex in 1570. (32) He was knighted by James I. on 13th May 1604. (33)

Fernando Poyntz was a citizen of London, and free of the Grocers' Company. He was a
man of great enterprise, and presented to the Council of State on 27th June 1582 estimates for
constructing a pier at Dover for the sum of i:l5,780 13*. (34) He left an only daughter Sara,
who married Thomas Harbie Gent., and was buried at Hillingdon, Middlesex, in 1000.

Susanna Poyntz, the only daughter of Thomas, married Richard Saltonstall, one of Robert
Tempest's legatees, who was afterwards a Knight and an Aldenuan of London. He was Lord
Mayor in 1597, and died 15)th March 1001-2. He had several children by Susanna, who survived
him eleven years, and was buried with him at South Ockendon on 12th Feb. 1012. (29)

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(1) Life of Sir W. Chostor in Cooper's Atlietue

Cantabrig lenses, i. 311.

(2) Subsidy RoU 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. Trollope'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 libnuian of Guildliall.

(8) State Trials, ed. HowoU, 1816, vol. i. p. 760.

(9) Palgrave's Hist, of England and Normandy,

iii. 343.

(10) Athena Cantab, i. 122, Laurence Saunders.

(11) Seymour's Survey of London, i. 167.

(12) Machyn's Diary.

(13) Life of Thofl. Becon in Athena Cantab, i. 246.

(14) Stow, ed. Strype, 1720, vol. i. book ii. p. 156.

(15) Pari. Hist, of England, 1800, vol. i. p. 709.

(16) Burgon's Life of Gresham, i. 259, and ii. 501.

(17) Pedigree of Beswick in Wilson's Hist, of St.

Lawrence Pountney.

(18) Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series,

1513-1616, p. 8.

(19) A thence Oxon. 1721, i. 708, Thos. Chester.

(20) WiUB of Robt. Claveriug, 1582 ; Wm. Claver-

ing, 1586; Robt. Clavering, 1600; printed
in Durham Wills, Surtees Society, vol. ii.

(21) Lipscomb's History of Bucks, i. 429.

(22) Harl. MSB. 1912.

(23) Sjnteutia in C.P.C. dat. 18 July 1559.

(24) Marriage licenses in Vicar- General's Registry.

(25) Seymour's London, ii. 409.

(26) Funeral certificate in Coll. of Arms, i. 12, p. 17.

(27) Clutterbuck's Herts, vol. ii. p. 352.

(28) Le Neve's Knights, Pedigree of Hyde,

(29) More about Stifford, by Rev. W. Palin, 1872,

p. 129, &o.

(30) Anderson's Annals of the English Bible, 1845.

(31) Cotton M8S., 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.

CHAPTER V.

The Lovetts of Astwell. II. Pedigrees of Drayton and Vere of Ad-
dington. III. Thomas Lovett 11. of Astwell^ 1489-1492. IV. Joan
Billing^ the third Wife of Thomas Lovett 11.^ and h^r svhsequent Husbands.
V. Tfiomas Lovett IIL of Astwell, 1473-1542. VI. Thomas Lovett IV.
1495-1523. VII. Thomm LoveU V. of Astwell, 1517-1586. VIII. The
uteiine Brothers of Elizabeth Lady Chester.

I TUBN 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 Stemijiata Shirleiana by one of their descendants, who is a genealogical
writer of considerable pretensions, (i) The heraldic pedigree of Lovett in the
Visitation of Nortliamptonahire 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 Baker'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 Gifford, 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

THE ClIESTERS OF CIIICHELEr.

5. Prajets.

6. JowolL

7. Cnnlord.

8. Dreytoo.

THE DESCENT OF LOVETT FROM GUTORD AND BILLING OF A8TWELL.

Rofier Gifford Esq. of Twyford.-plMbell* Stretloy ; romarr. Hit John

Bncks, ajid of Hellidou and AstwHll,
NortboDta ; died 11 Apr. 1409. (Eich.
WIltn.IV. le.)*

Thoa. Oiflbrd E sq . , son

uid heir, leBB thnn 8
yean old !□ 1409 ; oou-
firmed GiObrd'a Manor
inABtvelltoBirThas.
Billing in 1447 (Sol.
Fin.) ; Sberiff of Bnoke
1446. -r

Kathmrine Gifford, ol
tondor years in 1409 ;
died 3 Marcb 1479-80.
M.I. at Wappenham. [

'Sir Thomu Billing=2 ir. Mary Folrylle,

Kt. of AatwoU, Jndge hoir of Robert de We»-.

of King's Bench 1464 ; onhun of Coningtoa,

Lord Chief Jnstice Bsnta ; widow of 1 h.

1469; died5H>yl4ei. William Cotton Esq.,

M.I. at Wappenbam.l wbo ^ed 1456 ; and of

3 h. Thoe. Laoy Esq.,

Uiing 1477; died 14

Mar. 1499-9

Thomas Lovett Esq.
of Rtuhton, North -
ante ; dead before
14G5.

Edmond Thome ;
godmother to her
grandBDD 1473.

died 23 March
1468-9. M.I. I
Wappenham.J

I w. Anne'^Thomaa Lovett II.,'¥=8 w. Joan Billing.

Drayton.
(Pedigree

atpp.48-9.)

grandson and heir,
pnrohaBad Astwetl
1471 ; marr. eetUe-
ment with Joandat.

ooheir, widow of
Jolin Hangh, Jndgo
ol C.P- ; remarried
3 hnabands (itt pp.
63-64); died 20 Oct.
1617-

Siby], coheir, wife
1490 of Robert de
lugloton .Chancellor
of thu Eichcqncr,
wbo died 1603.

RoBO Billing, ooheir,
wife 1490of Biohaid
Tresham Esq.

Eathanne, coheir,
wife 1490 of

• rodigrce of Gifford, in Baker's HUt. of Norlhamptomhire, toI. i. p. 3D6.

t Pedigree of Billing of AltweU, in Baktr, vol. i- p- 736.

] Harleian hbb. in British Mascam. No. 4068, Shirley Evideticei.

§ Pedigree of Bma of ConingtoE, in Tht Herald and QmealogUt, 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 was his cousin Joan BilHng, 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.

WiLLLVM 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 enfeofled by the Engaines in the manor
of Rushton, and it ntay 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 with 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 which 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 Covett of Rushton, whose age, estates, and marriage are sufficiently ascer-
tained.

T90MAS Lovett Esq., son of Nicholas, lord of the manor of Rushton and Great
Oakley, occurs *in 1407 (8 Hen. IV.), with his wife Mary, daughter of WilKam
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 Thorne 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 grant(5V's wife, during the life of the said Margaret, with remainder after
her decease to her son Thomas Lovett in tail male, remainder to the right heirs of
the grantor. (4)

Thomas Lovett survived his wife Mary, and was still living on 4th Dec. 1464

44 THE CIIKSTERS OF CIITOHELKV.

(4 Eclw. IV.), when he conveyed the manor of Rushton to John Billing and others,
in trust for his grandson and lieir-apparcnt 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 Margaret was on 30th Oct. 1455 the wife of Edmund
Thorne or Dome Esq., by whom she had two sons Thomas and John Thome, who
are both mentioned in the will of their half-brother Thomas Lovett, in 149L

Margaret was the godmother of her grandson Thomas Lovett HI., 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 Gifford, for in no other possible way could the Lovetts have been
entitled to quarter, as they did, the arms of Billing and Gifford, 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 24tli Nov. 1470, directs Sir Thomas Billing,
Chief-Justice 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 daughtei's 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 of Whitfield, married Richard Osborne Esq.,
who died 29th Oct. 1509. She then married John Todenham, Gent., and survi\'ing
him, died 28th Nov. 1524, leaving Thomas Osborne, her son and heir, aged 32. (7)

2. Margaret contracted in 1471 to John Brooke Esq., of Great Oakley, whom
she afterwards married. She died young and without issue, for her husband married
before 1482 his second wife Isabella Wake of Blisworth, who was 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 hei*ein-
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 Phihp
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 Astw ell and Falcote and lands in
Wappenham (amounting to about 2170 acres), with Edmund Dome and Margaret

LOVETT OF ASTWELL. 45

Ills wife (late wife of Nicolas Lovett Escj., deceased), and Thomas Lovett Es(j. and
Anne his wife, for the inauoi's of Rushton 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
should * do and here all maner of costes and charges in the man'iage of the said
John and Margaret, and kepe and bere 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., Richard III^
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.
Richard 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 Gloucester-
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 Abbev. On the dissolution of monasteries the monu-
ments of theLovetts and the Billings were removed from Bittlesden to Wappenham,
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 Dra}'ton 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 HI., 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 Richard Preston Esq., of Chftoii and
Bureote, 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, was aged fifteen, and had married in
1519 Agnes, daughter of Giles Pulton Esq. of Desborough by Catherine Lovett his

46 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

wife, (lo) Nicholas Lovett lived on terms of intimate aflfection with his sister
Catherine Pulton 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. Catharine Lovett married Giles Pulton Esq. of Desborough Northauts,
who died 26th Febiiiary 1551-2. They had four sons and five daughters, of whom
Anne mamed 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. Eliz^vbeth or Isabel died unmarried in London, in July 1492, and was
buried in St. Alban's, Wood-street.

Elizabkth Lovett, daughter of Thomas Lovett Esq., deceased. Will dated 17 July 149*2.

to be buried iu St. iVlbans Church London near my father Thomas Lovett. to Isabel my
keeper my wearing appaiel, &c. my mother Johane Quadnjmj, late the wife of my father Thomas
Lovett, to be my sole executrix, and to have tlirce trentaUs 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 othei-s.

Will proved 27 July 1402 in C.P.C. by Jolian Quadryng the Extrix. [12 Doggett.]

3. Margaret Lovett ocenrs unmarried in her father's will.

II.

Something must now be said about the ancestors of Anne Drajiion, whose mar-
riage brought so many lands and quarterings to the Lovetts of Astwell.

The family of Drayton was Uneally descended from a cadet of the noble house
of De Verc, 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 IU. The pedigree of
Drayton, is included in that scarce and costly folio, Succinct Genealogies of the
nohU and ancient Houses of AlnOy Broc^ Latimer j Drayton ^ Vere^ ^-c, which was
published in 1685 under the name of Robert Halstead, but is known to have been
compiled by the second Earl of Peterborough, with the assistance of his chaplain
Mr. Raus, 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 Bibhomania. (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 literar)^ value consists in its containing some charters and do-

!•&£ DBAYTONS OF BOTOLPH BRIDGE. 47

cuinents not printed elsewhere. The text abounds with errors, and lias 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 untrustworthy cha-
racter of Tlie Succinct Genealogies^ when he gravely quoted the idle legend, that Sir
Henry Green, the Chief-Justice, was 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 worse than
the rest of The Succinct Genealogies. A thread of truth runs through the whole,
but it is di£5cult 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 ftx)m 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, WilUam 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 WilUam de Mande>411e 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 CrowTi 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 granted 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)
Twjrwell and Addington, which I hold by the grant of Walter de Drayton.' [HaUteiid.l

THE CHBSTEBS OF CUICHBLET.

1. Lorett.

2. Tnirille.
8. BiUisg.
4. Gifford.

e. JeireU.

7. Cranford.

8. DrajtoD.

PEDIGREE OF DRAYTON ASD LOVETT.
Aabr«y ile Ver«, DomeBdaj Boron in EBBoi-p-Beatrix,

1 Ang. llSa.'^Adeliza, dan. of Gilbert da Cltzt.

Aubrey deVere III., Connt of Guisnee'^ vr. Agnee,
jure ni Beatricis; made Earl ut Oilord j Hcury de Et
1165. Died 119*. ACoDstable.

Eabls of Oxfomi.

Robert de Vero o!^

and Addington 1

{Lib. Nig. i. 217).

1 irite^Ueniy de Vere, Coa--F>2. Matdlda de Cailli, Wm. de Vere Robert de Vere^Margaret, e

by the grant
othisnepheiT

■Walter.

of ThrapBton

by the grant of

Baldwin Wake.

Walter de Drayton,=
son and heir of
Henry. Of Draj-
toD,Ao. Died 1210.

set, to •horn
her onclo
Alan BasBet

Pytchley.

Henry de Drayton, heir of Walter,^
Died in 1253 ; seized of Drayton,
Ifllip. and Addington (Each. 37
H. III.).

Baldwin de Drayton, aged 80 in ISSS.fldoiiia, dan. and co-heir Simon-

did homage for Drayton 26 Ang, 1253
(Fin.). Rebel with Montfort. Died
127S, seized of Drayton and jnre ni
of Botolph Bridge, Hunts (Esch. 6
E. I.).

of Hugh do Qimegee. by
Sibyl, dan. and heir of Draj-
Hugb de Licnres, of ton.

Botolph Bridge, HnnU.

■Ivotta, dan. and co-heir of
'William Boardon of DeB<
borongh. Died, widow,
34 Ang. 1270 (Esch. 1

Fhilippa, dan. of Robert de= John do Drayton, Cbevr., aged'F>2ir. Alice, William de

Ardcme of Wappenham 22 in 1278. Died in 1293, seized widow in Drayton, agsd

(Baker i. 72E). of Drayton and Botnlph Bridge 12 E. II., SOittiaTS-

(Each. 20 E. I.). 1318(0.)

Bimon de DrajtoD, Chovr., aged 9 in 1292.'
Seneschal of the Honsehold to Queen Isabel.
M.P, for NorthanU 1326, 1327-37. Died
SI May 1357, seized of Drayton and Botolph
Bridge (Esoh. SI E. UI.).

Margaret, occ. wife 1818, 1321, 1S55 ; held Botnlph
Bridge tor life. (H.) Died II Sept. 18S8 (Esch. S3
E. III.).

PBDIGREE OF DHAYTON.

John de Drayton, aged 40 in 1357,"pChriBtian, dan. and co-heir of Gilbert de Lindesey of Moles-

with his son Baldwin conveyed Dray-
ton in 1361 to Sir Henry Green. (H.)
Living 1865. Dead 1372. (H.)

worth, Hnnts. Wife and of fall age in 1358. (H.)

Sir Baldwin Drayton, Et , son and heir,«
of Botolph Bridge in 1358. Confirmed
Drayton to Sir Henry Green, 1372. (H.)
Of Strixton and Dorsington jore ux. Liv-
ing 1395. Dead 1399. (H.)

'Alice, dan. and heir of Sir Henry de Prayers,
Kt, of Strixton, Northants, and Dorsington,
CO. Glonc. Occ. wife, 1356, 1395. Widow,
UOl, 1413. (H.)

Gilbert,
Rector of
Warkton,
1376-9.

Sir John Drayton, Kt., son and heir, of Botolph Bridge, Strixton and=pMargaret. Wife, 1429 ; widow,

Dorsington. SetUed his estates 15 May 1439. (H.) Died 1445. I June 1445, 1454. (H.)

1 ,

Thomas

Lovett, Esq.

of Rashton

and Great

Oakley. Occ.

1455, 1464.
I

John Drayton, Esq.,«
son and heir appa-
rent. Died before
SO Nov. 1429. (H.)

>Anne, dan. and co-heir =2 h. Thomas Halle,
of Robert de Cranford Occ. married 1 Oct.
of Soath Newington, 1430. Dead 1454.
Oxon. Widow, 80 Nov. (H.)
1429. Living 16 Apr.
1454. (H.)

WiUiam
Drayton.
Occ. 1439,
1445. (H.)

William Drayton, Esq., grandson and heir.«n»Grace. Wife, 1445. Nicholas Lovett,

A minor and married in 1445. Died 2 Sept.
1465 (Esch. 5 E. IV.). Bar. at Botolph
Bridge. Will dated 31 Ang. 1465.

(H.) Execntrix,
1465.

son and heir-
apparent. Died
before 1455.

'Margaret, dan.
of Sir Thomas
Billing, Kt.
Chief -Jastice ;
remar. before
1455 Edmond
Dome, Esq.

1 I '

Richard Drayton, Esq., son and heir, aged 13 Anne Drayton ,-7»Thomas Lovett, Esq. II.=3 w. Joan

in 1465, of Strixton, &c. Proved his age 1478. sister and heir.

Died nnmar. 20 Jnly 1479 (Esch. 19 E. IV. Heirof Botolph

44). Bridge, Strix-

ton, Dorsing-
ton, and Sonth
Newington.
Wife and aged
30 in 1479.

grandson and heir. Pnr-
chased Astwell by ex-
change, 1471. Died 16
Feb. 1491-2.

Billing.

Married

5 Feb.

1489-90.

Died

1517

1 w. Elizabeth, dan. of John Boteler, Esq."f=Thomas Lovett III., son^r^ w. Jane, dan. and heir of

of Watton Woodhall, Herts, by Constance,
dan. of Richard Yere, Esq. of Thrapston and
Addington.

and heir of Astwell. Bom
29 Sept. 1473. Died 16
Dec. 1542.

Thomas Lovett IV., son and heir^Anne, dan. of Sir

John PiQchpolc, Esq., widow
of Edmnnd Bnry, Esq. Died
1556.

apparent. Died 19 Jnly 1523.

John Danvers, Et.
Died 11 July 1523.

Elizabeth^pSir William Chester, Et.
Lovett. !

Chester of Chichelet.

Thomas Lovett V. , grandson and
heir, of Astwell. Died Oct. 1586.

r M^

1. Jndith Cave, heir of 2. Anne Cave, coh. ; marr.

Chicheley ; marr. Wil- Griffith Hampden, Esq.

Ham Chester, Esq. of Great Hampden.

Chester or Chichelet. See Chapter VIII.

remar. "iRAnthony Cave, Esq. of Chiche-
3d 1577.

T ^ : n

Elizabeth Lovett ; remar. «?=.

two husbands. Died 1577. ley. Died 9 Sept. 1558.

3. Martha Cave, coh. ; 4. Mary Cave, coh. ; marr.
marr. John Newdigate, Sir Jerome Weston, Et.
Esq. of Harefield, Mid- of Roxwell, Essex,
dlesex. ^j^ /k

See Chapter VIII. Weston Earls op

Portland.

(H.) refers to deeds and charters of the Draytons amongst the Shirley Evidences in Harl. Mss. 4028.

THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY.

The families of Dra}'ton and Vere, sprung from a common ancestor^ were re-
united in the Lovetts by the marriage of Thomas Lovett HI., the son and heir of
Anne Drayton, with Elizabeth Boteler, the granddaughter of Kiehard Vere of
Addington. I have therefore attempted to reconstruct from Records 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 OP VERE OF ADDINGTON.

Robert de Vere of Drayton and Addington,«T=
brother of Anbrey Ist Earl of Oxford. I

Henry de Vere of
Drayton and Ad-
dington.

•I

Dbayton

(page 48).

— r 1

William de Vere, grantee Robert de VereofMargaret, annt of
of Twywell and Adding- of Thrapston

ton. jure nx.

Baldwin Wake.

I 1 1

Thomas de Vere of Baldwin de Vere of Thrapston Robert de Vere of Twy-^

Thrapston ; dead 1204. (C.) Rebel, restored 1217. weU and Addington by
13 Oct. 1204 ; (C ) Crusader 1220 ; died 1221. grant of his uncle WU-
brother of Bald- (D.) liam (H.) ; paid seat-
win. (C.) age 1217. (C.)

Baldwin de Vere of Addington. (T.) Grantee
of a Fair at Thrapston 18 June 1226. (C.)
Ambassador 1236 (M.); occ. 2 Nov. 1241
(Fines) ; dead 1245.

Robert de Vere of Addington of Twy-*
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.

>Elena. Widow
1251. (H.)

r : r

Baldwin de Vere, son and heii"f"Margarct, Joan, dau. and coh. (1 w.)-pJohn de Vere Et

dan. of of Reginald de Waterrill,

Gilbert de heir of Marham ; dead

Segrave. 1287. (P.)
(H.)

of Thrapston and Addington.
A minor in 1251, and ward of
Gilbert de Segrave. (H.) ;
dead 1277. (B.)

Robert deVere.son and heir, ob^

Thrapston. A minor in 1277.

M.P. for Northants 1305 ;

presented to Islip 1296, 1307 ;

occ. 1320 (H.) ; dead 1329.

of Twywell ; occ.
1280, 1298. (P.)

:3 w. Ida.
Widow 8
E. II. (0.)

Robert deVere, s. and h. of-pMatilda. Wi-

Ranulf de Vere, son and heir,*
of Thrapston. Fair confirmed
to him 1329 (Q.W.) ; pres.
to IsUp 1340 ; dead 1350.

Twywell and Sndborough.
Heir of Marham 1287. (P.)
Shcrifi' of Northants
1299-1301; died 1301. (S.)

Robert de Vere, s. and h."

of Sadborough. Rebel at

Borough Bridge 1316.

(Pari.)

dow 1301. (S.)

Sir John de Vero=pAlice
Kt., son and heir;
dead 1319.

I
John de Vere,

son and heir ;

died a minor.

(H.)

Widow
1385 (H.) ;
dead 1388.
(H.)

Robert de Vere, uncle and*
heir of Thrapston and Ad-
dington ; presented to
IsUp 1350. 1355, 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.)

1 .

Dau. and heir,

mother of

RanulphBoys,

grandson and

heirofSirR.de

Vere. (Pari.)

Elizabeth, 2 w.=Robert do Vere, Bon=T=Annc, d. and h.

pres. to Islip
1391, 1397 (B.);
occ. 1402. (H.)

and heir, of Thrap-
ston and Addington ;
occ. 1390 ; dead
1391. (B.)

of Sir Thomas
MalBores, Kt.;
dead 1390.

BaldwinVere, Esq., of Den-«
ver, CO. Norfolk. Grantee
of 100«. rent in Addington
from Robert, 20 March
1385-6. (H.)

PBDIGBEE OF VERB OF ADDINGTON.

Robert de Yere, son aud»f=
heir, of Thrapston and
Addington. Sherifif of
CO. Leic. 1394 ; died
1420.

Baldwin Vere, nncle and<
heir, of Tbrapston and
Addington, Eeqaire of
Edmnnd Earl of March.
Treaeorer of Meath 1423
(H.) Will dat. Dec. 1424;
died Aug. 1426.

Thomas Ashby,:
Esq. of Losebj,
CO. Leic. Quit-
claimed Adding-
ton 13Jan. 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."

8. and h. A minor

in 1427; presented

tolsUp(B.)14Deo.

1448 ; died seized

of Thrapston and

Addington 1480.

(E8ch.20Edw.IV.)

=Elena.
Widow
3 Sept.
1427.

(B.)

Elizabeth, dan.

and heir ; man*.

Thomas Der-

ham, Esq. of

Denver, jure ux. ;

died 1425. (Bl.

vii. 324.)

HenryVere,Esq.
son and heir, of
Addington and
Drayton ; died
1494(Esch.9H.
VII.), leaving 4
danghters and
coheirs.

Thomas Lovett,:
Esq. III. of Ast-
well; died 1542.

Constance^T^Tohn

Vere ;
died

widow 16
May 1499.
M. I. at
AstwelL

Boteler,
Esq. of
Watton,
Herts.

Bald

win

Vere.

1 —

■Isabella, dan. of Eliza-
John Green.Esq.of beth.
Drayton, grand-
annt and coh. in
her issue of Edw.
Stafford Earl of
Wilts.

I 1

Amy. Ed-
ward.

1 "T

Elizabeth; Margaret ;

marr.

marr. John

Vere; Vere.

i. William

Bemers,

marr.

Dounhall,

Esq. of Writ-

John

Esq. of

tie, Essex.

Ward.

Gedding-

Esq. of

ton.

Irtling-
borough.

T 1

Amy Elena^Thomas

Isham,

Esq. of

Pytch-

ley,aged

54 in

1510.

"Elizabeth Bote-
ler. Wife 1492 I
dead 1514.

Enseby Isham, Esq., son<=
and heir, of Pytohley, had
20 children.

See page 49.

'Anne, dan. of Giles Pulton, Esq.
of Desborough, by Catherine,
daughter of Thomas Lo?ett, Esq.
U. of AstwelL

Giles Isham, son and
heir, of Pytchley ;
died 31 Aug. 1559,
8. p. m.

Gregory Isham, Esq. 3 Bon,=
merchant of London. Pur-
chased Braunston 1554 ;
died 4 Sept. 1558.

"Elizabeth, dau.
Matthew Dale of
Bristol.

of=i=2

h. William Rose well,
Esq. of Ford Abbey,
Sol. -Gen. to Q. Eliza-
^beth.

Sir Euseby Isham, Kt. son
and heir. Aged 8 in 1558.
Of Braunston and Pytchley.

Elizabeth Isham ; occ.<
wife 1592; widow 1617;
died 1633.

Sir Bryan Gave, Et.
son and heir, of Ingars-
by, and afterwards of
Bagworth. Sheriff of
CO. Leic. 1611; marr.
Frances, dau. of Sir
Erasmus Dryden, Bt.

— I I I ' I —

2. Euseby;
died unm.
1621.

2. Anne.

3. Barbara.
6. Mary.

=Henry Cave, Esq., of
Ingarsby. Aged 40 in
1592; died before 1611.

I I

Thomas. Mary.

Sir Wm. (1 h.)=7=Rebecca,da.=|=2 h. Fran-

Villiers, Bart,
of Brooksby ;
died 12 June
1629.

of Robert
Roper, Esq.
of Heanor,
CO. Derby;
widow 1660.

ViLLIEBS, BaBTS.

cis Cave,
Esq., 3rd
son, Capt.
of Horse ;
died 1646.

I.Elizabeth; maiT.
Tho. Marbury, Esq.
of Warden, Beds.

4. Margaret ; marr.
Rev. Edw. Marbury,
Rector of Si James,
Garlick Hithe.

Elizabeth Cave, only child; occ. wife=r»William Wollaston, Esq. of Shenton,
1660; bur. at Shenton 28 March 1717. co. Leic; Sheriff 1672; died 19

J^ August 1688, aged 65.
Chesteb of Chichelet.

(B.) Bridges' Northants.
(C.) Close Rolls.
(Ch.) Charter Rolls.
(D.) ChKHL of Duutable.

(H.) Halstead.

(M.) Matthew Paris.

(O.) Rot. Orig.

(P.) Chron. of Peterborough.

(ParL) Rolls of Parliament.
(Q.W.) Quo Warranto Rolls.
(S.) List of Sheriffs.
(T.) Test de NeviL

52 THE CHESTERS OF CniOHELEY.

Thoi^iAS 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 Hangh of Long Melford, a Judge of Common
Pleas, who 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. VIL), whereby
Brooke's Manor and Gifford's Manor in Astwell were settled to the use of the said
Joan for Ufc, 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 Thome, tlie 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 Gilford, father of Katharine late wife 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 whom she was the eldest coheir ; but if this were the
case, it is difficult to understand why 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 Lovett had issue by his third marriage an only child Tho^L^S, who was
an infant when his father died, and was entitled under the marriage settlement of
his parents to a provision 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 unman-ied in London at the end of 1510, in his mother's lifetime, before
reaching his majority.

Thomas Lovet, son of Thomas Lovet dec**, late of Astewell co. Northampton, by Jane his wife,
late wife of Thomas Intylsam dec**.

WiU dated 27th Dec. 1510 (2 Hen. VIII.).

To be buried in St. Albans Wood-sti-eet near my said father Thomas Lovet Esquier. Small
legacies to the Churches of St. Albans Wood-street, and St. Mildreds Bread-street, to Richanl
Cotton Citizen and Fishmonger of London and to Agnes his wife xx^f. each, to Kobert Bnuinie
Citizen and Cooper of London and to Emote liis wife x*. each, to Rowland Chalk kinsman to
the said Robert Bruame xxrf. to Margaret Stacy my keeper \is. \inil.

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 QuadnTig. and also the lands
wliich my father-in-law Thomas Intylsam gave me.

Witnesses. Sr. Cuthbert Bame,* parish priest of St. Mildred Bread-street. Robert Bruame,
Cit. and Cooper of London. Richard Cotton, Cit. and Fislmionger of London.

Will proved 20th Jan. 1510-11 by Joan Intylsam, the mother and Executrix of the deceased,
in C. P. C. [36 Bennett.]

Thomas Lovett was again High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1490, but died
in London on 16th Feb. 1491-2. Notwithstanding the direction in his Will, that

* Cuthbert Bame is not mentioned in Newconrt*g list of the Rectors of St. Mildred : bat it appears
from his monument in that church, that he died 16th Oct. 1521. (18)

LOVETT OF ASTWELL. 53

he sliould be buried beside his two first wives in Bittlesdeu Abbey, he was buried
by his widow and executrix in the church of St. Albans Wood-street, in London,
whei'e 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, whereby it was found that Thomas Lovett, then aged 17 years and
37 weeks, the eldest son of tlic 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, Botolphbridge,
South 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 i>9th Nov. (7 Hen. YU.) 1491.

to be buried at Bittlesden Abbey by my wj'ffs there, to Johanc my wife, late wife of John
Hawlis one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, three potts of silver parcel gilt and other plate,
and also illoO in gold, and also all my wool &c. * to the performance of a purchasse of xx marcs
wortli of lande for Thomas Lovett sonne of me the said llios. Lovett and Johane my wife, or for
buch other issue as shall happen to be begotten between oui* bodies, as in indentures of covenauntes
of maniage between me the said Thomas and Johane more plaj-nly it apperith.'

to Xichol'is Ijovett my son my tenn of years in the faim of Wedon &c. to Isabel Lovett and
Maryarct my dauyhters iilOO, wliich is owing to me by John Boteler of Woddehall Herts Esq. for
the mai-riage of my son. to Thomas Lovett my son and heir a ^'iolet gown funed with martyns.
to my brotlier Thomas Thome, my son lUchard Osborne, and my brother John Thome 40*. each,
to my son Nicholas Lovett my crimson gown, to Richard Osborne's wife five bullocks, to my
brotlier Thomas Thome a crossbow, to Stephen Ilaicyhes son and heir of my wife Johane 40 sheep,
and to little Roger a bullock. The residue to my wife Johane, whom I appoint my executrix. * I
charge Thomas Lovett my son and heir, as he will answer before God and have my blessing, that
he trobill not Johane my ^^ife 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. 14J)>.8 by Johane Lovett the >vidow. [11 Doggett.]

IV.

Joan Billixg the third wife of Thomas Lovett HI. survived him nearly twenty-
five years, and married again within three months after liis death. Her third hus-
band was Alexander Quadryng Esq. of Folkingham 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 Quadiyng Esq. of Ingoldmeles, co. Lincoln,
and by deed dated 12th Feb. 1493-4 (9 Hen. VH.) 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.

Alexaxdkb Qdadryno, dwelling in St. Bartilmews London. Will dated 25th Aug. 1504.
to be buried in Folkingham Church.

to my nephew Thomas and his heirs ' my hanging in my Hall in Folkingham, the which my
awnceterii anues and myne be on, to gyve liim instruction how lie shoidd here them.' My wife

54 THS CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Joan to have all my debts in Buck$, Herts, Essex, and London, and all my silver plate except a
* blak 8tauding nuttc/ wliich is to go to my niece Catherine Quadiyng, and if she die nnmanied
to her brother Lyonel, and if ho die, then to his next brother. All my other plate to my said vi/e
for life, and after her deatli * I will it go to Thomas Lovet, as well as all my said debts.' My
wife 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 Quadryng, all that I have or ought to have in right of my
mother in Boston and WjTisbe and the lands I purchased in Kell ; and to my brother Thomas
in fee tail, with remainder to my nephew Jjyonel, all my lands in Folkingham. My lands called
Lesscrcroft to my wife for life, and afterwards to be bought by my nephew Lyonel if he will, but
if not, tlien to go to Thomas Luffed [Lovett] in fee. My brother Thomas to be supervisor.

* Witnesses. Cliristopher Harbotell, clerk : Sr. Thomas Grarton, priest : John Raventhoip,
yeoman.'

Will proved in C. P. C. 18th Feb. 1504-5 by Joan Quadryng, widow. [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, hut
she afterwards took a fifth husband named Waryn, of whom nothing has been dis-
covered 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 on 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 was aged forty years and upwards. (22) By
another inquest at Lincoln on 18th April 1518 it was found that Lionel Quadryng
aged twenty-five, was heir to the lands w^hich Joan, late the wife of his tincle 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 Gifibrd. 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 hfetime 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
character 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 Parliament in 1448 as M.P. for the City of
London, and of his intimacy with the families of Paston and Lord Grey de Ruthyn
are sufficient to raise a presumption against the story of his mean origin, but the

LOVETT OF ASTWELL.

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 Gifibrd, the daughter of Roger GifFord Esq. of Hellidon and
Astwell, who died in 1409, and was one of the principal gentlemen in Northamp-
tonshire. He was then veiy young and probably a minor, for he married again in
1480, and presided in his court uj) 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.

Thomas Lovett HI., the son and heir of Thomas Lovett Esq. and Anne Dray-
ton, was only eighteen years of age, when his father died. He was bom 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 were his godfathers, and his grand-
mother Margaret Thome 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 lOOL 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 Adduigton. 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* Joh'is Butler Armigeri soror Henrici Veer Armigeri que obiit
xvi* die Maii A^ Mccclxxxxix cigus animse Deus p 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 difli-
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 Arthingworih 1461| Holoot 1466, WeBton Favell 1470, Wappenham
1470, Bliflworih 1473, and Castor 1477 (Baker, i. 76).

56 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHBLEY.

I. Tho^LVS Lovett, son and heir apparent.

II. WiLLLVM Lo\'ETT, maiTied 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 Kng
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-married John
Ileneage Esq. of Pendeston, co. Lincoln. She is misdescribed by Baker and others
as the daughter of Thomas Lovett, she being in fact his daughter-in-law only. She
survived her second husband, and sold her estate at Helmdon in 1563. (27)

in. 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, Ivjaving issue four
sons and three daughters, of whom William his son and heir was then aged 32. (28)

John Mathewe of Bradden co. Northampton Esq. ^Vill dated 8tli April 1557.

He then lying sick in the dwelling-house of one John Barnes Mercer of London in the Parish
of our Ijady of Colechurch, made liis noncupativc will as follows :

to my tlireo younger sons Thomas Robert and Richard Mathew £W each, my eldest son
"William to see them paid and to give to my ser^-ants and to tlio poor of Bradden at liis discretion.

Administration with the "Will annexed gi'anted in C. P. C. I'ith Apiil 1557, to William Mathew
son and heir of the deceased. [10 AVrastley.]

John Barnes the Mercer, in whose house John 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 Feh-
niary 1554-5, Barnes was accused of being accessor)^ to the outrage, and was com-
pelled to restore the image at his own charge. (29)

n. Margaret 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 Ravensthoq), and was greatgrandmother to Mary Breton, who occurs hereinafter
as the wife of William Chester Esq. of East Haddon. (3 1)

in. Elizabeth Lovett married James Bury Esq. of Hampton Poyle, Oxou,
the eldest son of her father's second wife by her first marriage. Thomas Lovett had
bought his wardship and marriage from the King on 27th June 1515, and they
probably married soon afterwai-ds. 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

firom his childhood, 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 bv her first husband, and had issue bv Thomas Lovett
four children, a son and three daughters.

1. George Lo\^TT of Wedon Pinkney man-ied (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 158(5. George Lovett had also a daughter Jane, who is
mentioned in her grandmother's AVill in 1556.

L Elizabeth Lo\t:tt married Sir William Chester Kt. of London, and was
the ancestor of the Chesters of Chicheley.

n. Mary Lovett married Thomas Wogan, Merchant of the Staple, who died in
December 1566. She died before him, leaving two children, AVilliam and Judith.

Thomas Wogan, Merchant of the Staple of England. "Will dated 10th Dec. 1500.

to the poor of St. Sw-ithin's London Stone I'i. to the poor at my burial -kOs. to my cousin
Blaiinche Abell,* a gold ring worth ^Os. to my cousin Richard Oftleyf a ring worth -iOs. The
residue to be equally divided between my son "William Wogan and my dau. Judith Wogan, whom I
appoint to be my Executors, my cousin John AbcU Citizen and Haberdasher of London, and
Phillipe Bolde Citizen and Clotliworker of London to be Overseers of my will.

Will proved 14th Jan. 150C-7, by both Executors in C. P. C. [1 Stonard]

rH. Bridget Lovett married Gabriel Dormer Esq. of Shipton Lee in Quaiii-
ton, CO. Bucks, who died in 1557, leaving three sons and three daughters.

Gabhiell Dormer of Shipton Lee in tlie parish of Quaynton Bucks Gentilman.

Will dated 28tli Sept. 1557. to be buried in my parish churcli of Quaynton.

to my friends Sir William Chester Kt., Ambrose Dormer Esq., William Bury and James Bun*,
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 sou Peter in tail, remainder to my son Raaf, remainder to my son
William, remainder to my tliree daughters in equal shares.

to my said wife my lands in Kingsey and Towcrscy, on condition of her paying tliereout £'8 per
annum to my brother John, to my said Avife 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 younger sons X'lOO each, to my three sons at 21 my lease of Tachewiek. to m}'
cousin Ambrose Dormer my cygnettes, 3 horses and 200 sheep, to my sister Osbaston 20 sheep.
to my sister Cryspe 20 sheep, to John 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 bo Overseers of my Will.

® Blannobe, wife of John Abell, was the daughter of William Bury, the uterine brother of Mary Wogan.
t Richard Offley married Jane Chester, daughter of Mary Wogan*B sister, Lady Chester.

58 THE CHBSTEBS OF CHICHELE7.

to my brother Parson Bury my best crossbow, and to my brother James Bury my next best bow.
Witnesses, Robert Barons physician, James Bury, Richard Thomson, John Grange.
Will proved 10th Nov. 1557 in C. P. C. [4» Wrastley.]

Bridget Dormer was now left a young and rich widow, and soon married agdn.
Her second husband was John Hawtrey Esq. of Ruislip in Middlesex, whose younger
brother Edward afterwards m.arried 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, who died in 1576,
lea^^ng 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.

Peter Dormer of Shipton Leigh in the parish of Quayntou Bucks gentilman.

Will dated 20th June 1583.

to the poor of Quaynton ^10. to 20 poor scholars at the University of Oxford ^20. to each
of the children of my sister Jane Merye £10. to Marie Arden daughter of my sister Marie Arden
j£10. to each of the childi*en of my sister Elizabeth Arden i- 10. to Hester Denger servant with my
cousin John Chester 205. to Marie Fraunces and Anne Lyndford natural children of Wilham
Lyndford one of my Executors i:0 ISs, 4d. each, to William Robinson £3. to Edward Johnson,
whom I placed a servant with Gregory King notary pubHc, £1.

to my son Fleetwood Dormer, 40 marks per annum until he is 18, and then ^40 per anniun
until he is 21, and also my ring or signet of gold which has my amis engraven thereon.

to Elizabeth wife of the said John Chester all the jewels tliat were my late wife's, to Frances
wife of the said WilHam Lyndford iilO in plate, to my cousin NichoU's wife a ring wortli 20«. to
Lucy Dormer daughter of my cousin Jolm Doimer X'20 at her marriage, to my son Fleetwood
Donner all tlie residue of my personal estate.

My well-beloved cousins and loving friends John Chester and W^iUiam Lyndford to be my
executors, and I give to the said John Chester £40 per annum for his life out of my lands at Purs-
ton in Northamptonshire, and to the said WiUiam Lyuford £'20. I will that the said Jolm Chester
enjoy my messuage and tenement of Shipton Leigh where I now dwell, for eight years after my
decease. I beseech my father-in-law John Hawtrey to cause my Executors to be bound in 500
marks each to perform my will, and I desire that my legacies be paid out of my manor of Sliipton
Leigh.

I devise all my manors and lands to my son Fleetwood Dormer in tail male, remainder to
WiUiam son of John Dormer Esq. of Barton in Bucks, remainder to John Dormer brother of the
said WiUiam, remainder to my own right heii's.

WiU proved 18th Jan. 1583-4 by John Chester, WiUiam 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 Hawtrey of RuisUp co. Middlesex Esq. WUl dated 10th May 1593.

to the poor of PiuLsUp EUesborough, LudgershaU and Quainton, 40*. to each parish, to tlie
poor of NorthaU, Pinner, Ickenham, Hillingdon, Uxbridge and 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 sons £o. to my sister Margaret Clement j£15, besides £6 pre-
sently given to her husband, to Ralph Bennet her son £20.

LOVETT OF A ST WELL. 59

to Ralph Mails sou of my brother-iu-Iaw Robert Matts ilO, to Edmund Matts anotlier of his
ROUS j£40, and to W'iUiam Matts another of liis sons £biK to I'rsula Fermor dau. of the said
Robert Matts £o.

to my son-in-law Jolm Ardeme of Lee i:10. to my son-in-law Edward Ardeme of Quaintou
^10. to Bridget wife of Edward Rawson of Colnbrook, Mercer, and dau. of my said sister Warde
£'iO. to Bridget my wife i'lOO, and tlie use of one moiety of all my plate goods and chattells during
her life, with remainder to my nephew Ralph Hawtrey the son of my deceased brother Edward.

To John Enghsh als Smyth als Hawtrey my supposed base son ^'10 p. a. during Ids life, out
of my Manor of Rousham Oxon.

My said wife Bridget and my said nephew Ivalph Hawtrey to be my Executors. William
Gerrard Esq., Richard Greneacres Gent., Richard Edling of Woodliall, and John Thomas of
Pinner to be Overseers of my Will.

Will proved Uili June 1503 by both Exors. in C. P. C. [ IH NevcU.]

Bridget Hawtrey survived her husband nearly four years, and was buried at
Euislip beside hini. She must have attained a great age, for her brother and sisters
had all long been dead.

Bridget Hawtrey of Ruishp co. Middlesex widow. Will dated 10th Jan. 1697-8.

to be buried in Ruishp Church beside my late husband John Hawtrey Esq.

My dau. Ardeme to have the rent of Reading's house in Ruislip for her life, and also the Httle
house in Ruishp which is now void, with such ground to it as Mr. Ralph Hawtrey shall think good.

to the three daus. of my dau. Ardeme ^*10 each, and to each of her otlier children £5 at 21 or
marriage, to the children of my dau. Mary £o each at 21 or marriage, to each child of my duu:^'
Carter ^5, except that i;5 for one of her cliildien is already paid to her liusband. to the poor of
I*inner and of Quaintou 20«. each, to the wife of John Newdegate Esq. late of Harefieldf dec**, a
ring, ^^ith the posie *Let likinge last.' to my dau. Arderne ^'10. to my son-in-law John Ardeme
the rent which he owes mo. to my son'' Fleetwood Dormer Gent, tlie aiTcarage which he owes
mo except £'30, wliich he is to pay to my soti'^ Ralpli Hawtrey for my funeral charges. William
Gerrard Esq. of Harrow to be my Executor.

Will proved 14tli Apiil 159R by William Germrd in C. V. C. [:>U Lewyn.]

These Wills materially correct the received ^>edigrees of Dormer and Hawtrey.

Thomas Lovett III. was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1505 and his
name frequently occurs in the next reign in the roll of gentlemen i)rickedfor Sheriff,
(25) but he never filled that ofHce during the reign of Henry VHI. 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 Nortliamptonshire in 1528 and 1533. He 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)

Thomas Lovett of Astwell co. Northampton Esq. * sicko and not yet fully Recover}-d, but of
mynde and memory (thankyd be god) hole and pcr^'tt ynowgh.' Will dated 20th Nov. 15 12.

* Elizabeth Carter, Fleetwood Dormer, and Ralph Hawtrey were in fact the grandchildren of the
testatrix, and possibly her godchildren. * Son* and *dan.' are often vaguely nsed in Wills of this
period to denote persons to whom the Testator stood in ! )co parentis. In like manner Jane Lovett, 1556,
calls Thomas Lovett * my son,* although he was really the grandson and heir of her late husband.

f Winifred Wells, widow of John Newdigate Esq., whose first wife, Martha Cave, was grandniece to
the Testatrix.

60 TIIK CI1E8TKRS OF CIIICHELKY.

to be biuied in Uio parish churcli of AVappculmm, * under a ccrteyn stoone that I bought '/t
Byttihden that lay upon my iryj'cs then'.'

Bequests to the poor of Wuppeuliaiu, Hohuedcii, Siiesliaiii, Wcdon, Weston, Slapton, Braddon,
lladston, Strixton and Abtliorpe; and to the churches of Wappenham. Ilehneden. Syresham and
Wedon. To repairing the ways in Falcot-lane and Blakemay-lane 20*.

To luy irife Jane, my goods at Strixton, ^nth my lease and farm of the parsonage there, and
tlie .'kl part of my goods in my manors of Astwcll and Falcot.

To my son Uco. Lovet, tlie lease of Wedon WaiTcn and lands in Helmeden and Strixton.

To Oeorye Lovett, my son's son, lauds in Weston and Wedon, and also i-0 V^s. -k/., and to John
Tmrtt brother of George, i*20. To Sr Henry Tildysley my chaplain the advowson of Strixton.*

To Amy Loret my sons daughter ^10 at her maniage, if she be guided in it by her brother
Tlio. Lovett. To my godcliildren, a bullock or heifer, each. To Wattes the * brome maker '2i.

My said wife, my brother Nicholas Lovet, my cousin and heir apparent Thomas Lovett, and
my son-in-law James Buiy, to be my executors.

To William Palmer, my daughter's son, * being lame,' 4*0 V^s. Ul. to find him to Grammar
School, and to his sister Grace Palmer £'0 V^s, 4//.

To all the other of my cliildren's children ' not yet bestowed, a young beast.'

Witnesses: Tho. Lovet, James Bury, Geo. liOvett, John Lovett, Sr Hen. Tyldesley, Bichard
NicoUes, Sr Edwd. BaweU, Uie Vicar of Cleydon,j* a * phisicion,' Wm. fTernham. John Pores.

WDl proved 19th Dec. 1542 in C. P. C. by Jane the ^ndow, Nicholas Lovett the brother, and
Thomas Lovett the grandson of the deceased. [14 Spert.]

Jane Lovett, the widow of Thomas Lovott III., survived her husband fourteen
years, and died in September 155G at her jointure house at Strixton.

Jane Lovet widow, somethuo wife to Tho. Ijovett esq. ' sicke and weake of bodye, but whole
and parfitte of mynde and memorie.* Will dated 2d Sept. looVi.

To be buried in tlie chancel of Strixton Church. To the poor of Strixton C)«. 8//.

To the poor of Wollaston, Eston, Grendon, l^osyot and Dodyngton i:'20 among tliem.

To my goddaughter Jane Baker in Stiixton, sheep &c. To Anne Pahner, bedding &e. To my
cousin Ahcll '20s.

As to my lands in Wedon and Weston co. Northampton, part to llws. Dury, one of my youngest
sons, and the rest to Geo. Lovet my youngest son. Legacies of cattle and sheep to Jane, Elizabeth
and Mary Dormer, daughters of my ilau. Bridget Dormer, and also to her sons, also to my son
Parson Bury, also to my son Wm. Bury and liis wife and tlieir son Edward Biuy, also to John
Bury and Tho. Biuy his brother and to every of the other children of the said Wm. Bury, also
to lialph CelyJ my dau. Burj's eldest sou.

To my son OJiester, a colt, and to my dau. Chester's children (save Jane and Susan Chester)
(\s, Hd. each, and to the said Jane and Susan Chester an heifer each.

To my eldest son James Bury, plate and furniture, and to his daus. Elizabeth and Ursula,
linen &c. To my son-in-law Mr. John Mathewe,ji and to my cousin Wm. Mathew and his dau.
Maiy, cattle. To Margaret and Alice Bury, daus. of Ralph Buiy, [ linen. To my goddaughter
Anne Cave, one heifer. To Jane Ijovetii dau. of my son Tho. liOvet, (js. Sd. To Mr. Grene, Geo.

* Henry Tildesley, Parson of Strixton, witnessed tho Will of Jano Lovett, widow of the testator, in
1556, but is omitted by Bridges in liis list of the Rectors of Strixton.

t Edward RaweU is called Peter Rowell by Lipscomb {Ilist. of Bucks, i. 171), who says that he was pre-
sented to the Vicarage of East Clnydon 2d December 1537, and that his successor was instituted in 1651.

\ Thomas Bury, son of tho testatrix, seems to have married a widow named Cely with children, and
to have had a son, Ralph Bury.

§ I should have infen-ed that Constance Lovett, the wife of John Mathow and tho mother of William,
was the daughter of the testatrix, but that the age of WiUiam, who was bom 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 reoUty the grandson and heir of her late husband. The word * son' is
similarly used in Bridget Hawtrey^s will.

LOVETT OF AST WELL. 61

Lovet's brotlier-in-law, one heifer. To Sr. Heiin*. i)aison of Strixton, a powii &c. To Tho. Baker,
a load of liay. To Elizabeth Cuilis my maid, and other ser^'antiJ. To P^nchpole Lovet, .3 lambs.

the residue of my goods to my son Geo. liOvet ; to Pynchpole his son and Jane his dau. silver
cups.

My son-in-law Mr. William Chester, and my sons James and Wm. Biuy, to be my Executoi*s.

Witnesses : Sr. Henry Tilsley parson of Strixton, Charles Brotherton, John Pore, Patrick
Pctj-^ere, Robert Medos, Ahnere Nashe.

Will proved notli Sept. 1550 in C. P. C. by WilHam Clie.stcr aVldeiinan of London and Wil-
liam Bury. [15 Kitchen.]

VI.

Thomas LovETT IV., tlie sou and heir apparent of Thomas Lovett Esq. of Ast-
well by his first wife Elizabeth Botelei, died before his father, and therefore never
suc<;eeded to the estate. He married Anne daughter
of Sir John Danvers Kt. of Dauntsey, AVilts, the
ancestor of the Earls of Daub} . This nian-iage must
have taken place before 2d January 1514-15, when
Sir John Danvers made his Will, leaving to each of
his unmarried daughters, Margaret, Susan, and Con-
stance 100/. Ho 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 15th 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 sous and three daughters :

1. TH03IAS Lovett, heir to his grandfather in 1542.

IL George Lovett occurs with his brother John in his gi-andfather's Will.

III. John Lovett is said to have settled at Adderbury in Oxfordshire.

I. Elizabeth Lo\t:tt, 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 ^vidow in 1 577. Her history and marriages
are fully related in Chapter ^^I.

II. Anne Lovett, married before 1538 Thomas son and heir-apparent of Fulke
Barker Esq. of Astrop, and had four children, of whom Edmond Barker and Fris-
worth Bishop are mentioned in the Will of their aunt Elizabeth Weston in 1577.
Thomas Barker died 30th December 154G, 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
Baker's Narthamptonahire (i. 704) is strangely defective and incorrect.

III. Amy Lovett was still unmarried in ] 542, but was afterwards the second

62 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

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 benefi't of the Statute for the protection of deer parks. (39)
He married Elizabeth daughter of Richard 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 memor}\ (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 conunu-
nity, and of the virtues of Mother Margaret Clement, has lately been published by
Father Morris in The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers related by themselves.
She died 1st September 1641, aged 75.

Thomas Lovett sui'vived his wife and his only child, and died in the beginning
of October 1586. He is commemorated by a slab in Wappenham Church, wdth a
small brass figm'e, 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 xxvui day of September, in the yere of our Lord God MCCGGCLXXXVI.
which Thomas had issue by Elizabeth his wife Jane mamed to John Shirley Esquier.'
It is clear irom his Will, being published on 3d October 1586, that his death did
not take place on 28th September, the day stated on his monument.

Thomas Lovett of Astwell co. Northampton Esq. Will dated 1st March 1583-4.
to be buiied in Wappenham Church in tlie He called Brook's He near my grandfatlier Lovett.
to the poor of Wappenham, Helmdon, Falcote, Radston, Siresham, Weedon and Weston, 20^.
to each parish.

to George Sliirley Esq. all the deer in my park, and also all the lands in AstweU which I

BURY OF HAMPTON POYLE. 63

purchased from Sir George Peckliam Kt., and Marie his wife, on condition of his paying ^£20 p. a.
to John Willard and Isahel his wife daring tlicir lives.

to Isabel 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 all my personal estate to Jolm Willard the elder and Isabel Ids wife, and to my
loving cousin George Gifford, and I appoint them to be my Executors.

My friends William Gierke of Croton (Croughton) and Bennett Wilson of Woolsthorpe Esqs.
to be supervisors of my Will.

Will sealed and pubUshed 3d Oct. 158C in the presence of Pynchpole Lovett and others.

Proved by the Executora 14th Oct. 158(5 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 brothel's 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, wh6se 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. Ja3I£S 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 William 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 was 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 tsvo children of her first marriage married
the two children of her second husband by his former wife. (43)

2. Elizabeth, heu-ess 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 CHESTteRS OF CHICiHELEY.

3. Ursula was unmarried and acjed eighteen in 1558. She afterwards married
Sir Ileniy Cocke Kt. of Broxbourne, Herts, Cofferer of Queen Elizabeth, who died
24tli March 1()()0, leaving two daughters and coheirs. (45)

Jkamks Bi luiYK of Hampton l^oile Oxon. "Will dated tlie last day of February 155G-T^

to be buried in the Church where I shall depart and if it happen witliin 7 miles of Hampton
Poilc to be buried tlierc as iwjhe Elizabeth my wife late dead and buiied as may be. As to my
lands, I have made a full dechinition thereof in a Deed indented and sealed: whereof int/ son-in-lav
Mr. Ambrose Dormer hath the counterpajTie in parchment, and tny son-in-law Mr. Edmond Har-
well a time copy. As for my goods : to sell so much as Bliall fully content to pay my brother William
Bur}' so much as I do owe him, and also to pay my assured old friend ^Ir. Harry llathbome which
is of an old debt X'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 silk, and to my daughter the
best gelding next, and half my liogs 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 bolt^j. my best
feather-bed bolster and coverlet, and half my swine, and a nightgown shepes couller faced with
budge, and all my Latin books save one called Destnictorium Viciorum, which I give to my Parson
of Ilampton PoUe. Item to my brother Donuer my tliml best gown, and my gieatest crossbow
witli the bend and belt, to my brother Oeoryc Loirt a crimson sattin doublet, my go\vn faced vnih.
fox tailes, my djmy laiuice liames and longest spere. to my godson Nicholas Foxley all my
long bows, quiver, anows and shafts, to my brother Dormer and to my sister his wife my second
best carpet, to my ser\'ants the residue of my apparel not bequeatlied and one of my best heifers
to bo distributed amongst them, my son Doiiner and his wife and whoever shall inherit the
Manor of Hampton l^oile, to pay £20 a year for five years to my daughter Ursula, to wliom I be-
queatli all my household stuff not specifically bequeatlied. Item, all my books of the law being in
French or Latin, whereof Fitz Herbert's Abridgements is one that cost 40^/., I bequeath to my cossin
John Burry, and also all my Statute books ; and all my otlier English books I bequeath to my cossin
Thomas Bm*iy, and also my Riding skynn and walking wood knyfe. Item, to my cosin Edwaiti Buny
my Hakeney gelding with my saddle and bridle. Item, to my daughter Harwell my gilt coupe and
cover. Item, whereas my brother Sir William Chester and I together occupy the manor of Hampton
Gay. the getting and storing whereof cost between i'520, tlie reckoning whereof appeareth in a brode
book of reconjniges, wliich beginnetli but at our sixth year of occupjring, and this reconynge that I
mean is sett in the thii'teenth leave of the same book at tliis sign -f , I will tliat my said brother Sir
"William 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 i* 40 due to us from our landlord
La^^Tence Bariy gent.

My brothers "NVilham Burry and Thomas Buny to be my Executors, my sons-in-law uVmbroso
Donner and Edmond Hanvell and my brother Parson Buny to be Overseers of my Will. My dan.
Ursula to be residuary legatee.

Witnesses: Sr. Audrean Burrv- Parson ofOddington, Sr. Richard Ploometon'*' Parson of Hamp-
ton l\)ile * my ghostlie father,' Thomas Buny ^larchamit of the Staple, Ursula Buny, AUce
Hunter, Margaret Lawrence, and the good ^\if Mcriik of Bloxam.

The Will conceniiug liis lands is annexed, whereby *I Jeames Burrj' Gent, devise to iVmbrosc
Dormer and his ^^ife Jane my eldest daughter my Manor of Hampton Poile subject to certain an-
nuities, and to Eli/abetli my middle daughter my Manor of Winricho co. Gloucester subject to like
annuities.'

Will proved in Prerog. Court, 7 Sept. 155H. [11 Nodes.]

n. William Bury (second son of Edmund) was a Citizen and Draper of London
* Riehard Plumpton was presented by the testator to the Reotoiy of Hampton Poyle 10 June 1553.

BURY OF CULHA^f. 65

and Merchant of tlie Staple at Calais. He piu'chasecl from the Crown on 1st Sept.
1545 the Manors of Culham and Water Eaton in Oxfordshire 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 Ladv Jane Grev.
(47) He married two wives who were both named Christian. By his first ^vifc
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-
sently.

William Bury had no issue bv his second wife Christian, who was the daughter
of John Bustard Esq. of Adderbury, Oxon, and the widow of Edward Wilmot
Esq. of Newent 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
Burj' is dated 14th November 1559.) William Bury died 12th July 15G3, and was
solemnly buried on 16th July, in the Church of St. Swithin's London Stone, when
^ the Cherche was hangyd with blake and armes, and there were all the craft in
their leverey ; Ser Wyllyam Chester Cheyff Moniar, and Master Argall next, and
Master John Bere, and then the corse with a pall of blake velvett — when the sermon
was made and all dune, there was a grett doner.' (48)

WiLLLVM BuRiE of Cuhieliam (Ciilham) Oxon Esquier. Will dated :50tli Nov. 15G1.

As to my lands and manors : to Ohrislum my wife for her life, all my manor of Culneham,
according to the lease thereof made my mo to her before our marriage, as appears in a pair of in-
dentures dated 14th Nov. 1559, my said wife to pay thereout £51 IXs. p. a. to tlio Queen, and also
.£•20 p. a. to John Burie my son and heir apparent, and after the death of my said wife my son
John Burie to have the said manor, but only on condition, that within months after my death he
assures to my younger sons Thomas and Edward Burie, an aimuity of 20 marks each out of my
manor of Water Eaton, during my mfe's life, and tliat he also assures to them the reversion of the
said manor after my wife's death to hold in equal moieties in fee tail.

to my said son John Burie the rent charges in the Isle of Shepey, which I lately purchased
from Sir Thomas Cheney Kt., late Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, he pa^-ing X'll l'2s. p. a.
to Sir Thos. Cheney at his house at the Blackfriars Jiondon.. As to such lands as I have in
Kent by right of my first wife, 1 leave the same to my heirs according to law. I have given my
leasehold manor of Russenden to my four daughters Blanche Jone Alice and Katharine.

touching my personal estate. I give to my sous John Thomas and Edward Burie and my
daughter Blanche 100 marks each ; to Alice and Katharine Burie £100 each ; to the Fellowship
of Drapers in London £10, and to 80 poor of the said Fellowship, £7 \0s. to my son Abell and
hi» wiffy to my brother Thomas Burie and his children, to the Lady Wliite, wife of Sir Thomas
AVhite, 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 i^Os. value if tliey survive me.
The residue to be equally divided between my wife, executors and children. Mr. Jolm Ploiden
Esq., and my son John Burie to be my executors, my brothers in-law, Sir William Chester Kt. and
Mr. Thomas Argoll Esq., to be overseers of my will, 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 : my brother Thomas Burie, John Abell, m}' sons John and Tliomas Burie. Item
to my brother George Lovet a ring of 30«. and I forgive liim such debts as he oweth mc.

Will proved in C. P. C. 1st May 1504. [14 Stevenson] .

His widow Christian Bury married thirdly Paulet of Winchester, and

dying at Twyford in Hampshii'e in 1571 was bimed in Winchester Cathedral.

66 THE CHESTEKS OF CHICHELEY.

William Bury had by his first wife three sons and four daughters, namely,

1. John Bury his son and heir, bom in 1535, and educated at Cambridge, where
he gi-aduated B.A. in 1553 and M.A. iu 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 Court, 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 Jul?
1563, being then twenty-eight years old, and on 30th August following married
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Stafford Esq. of Bradfield, 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 widow 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 Biu'y, the only sou 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 Bur\^ carried the Manor of Culham to her husband Sir
Cecil Bisshopp Bart.

2. Thomas Bury. 3. Edward. 1. Bl.vxche Bury man-ied John Abell,
Citizen and Haberdasher of London. 2. Jo^VN married Lawrence Argall. 3. AuCE
married Edmund Knightley Esq. of Grandboi'ough 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 27th May 1532, by his stepfather Tliomas Lovett III. of Astwell, to the rector}*
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 Gliinucci at Worcester. (51)

xxvn. die mensis Mali 1532, aclmissus fuit dominus Adrianus Bury, Clericus, ad ecclesiam
parochialem de Dorsington, Vigomiensis dioecesis, per mortem domiui Joliannis Sharppe ultimi iii-
cumbentis ibidem vacantera, ad quam per Thomam Lovett anuigerum, venun ut dicitur ipsius
ecclesiae pati'onum, domino extitit pnHsentatus, &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 vacant by his death, and his successor was
presented by Dorothy Poore, widow, 21st January 1558-9. (52)

IV. Thomas Bury (fourth son of Edmund) was a Citizen and Draper of London
and a Merchant of the Staple of Calais. He survived all his brothers, and seems to

have married the widow of Cely, by wliom he had children: but he left no Will,

and I have not discovered the date of his tleath, or what became of his children.

LOVETT OF ASTWELL.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

The pedigrees of LoYett in the Visitation of Northamptonshire of 1566, Shirley's Stemmata Shir-
Uiana^ the Histories of co. Northampton hy Bridges and Baker, Betham*s BaTonetage^ and other like
authorities, have all heen carefully consulted and corrected by comparison Tsith the Lovett deeds and
eharters in Harl. Ms. 4028 and 6680, family wills, and other records.

(i) Stemmata Shirleiana, 4to, 1841; hy E. P.
Shirley, Esq. M.P.

(2) Plao. Abbrev. p. 41. Coll. Top. et Gen. vi. 299.

(3) Ped. of Loyett of Helmdon and Liscomb, in

Baker, i. 628.

(4) LoTett deeds and charters, amongst the Shir-

ley ETidences in Harl. Ms. 4028.

(5) Lovett deeds quoted by Baker, i. 732.

(6) Will of John Greyby, quoted by Baker, i. 751.

(7) Inq. p.m. ElizabethsB nuper ux. Johis. Tud-

denham et quondam nx. Ricardi Osborne,
16 Hen. YIII. Northants.

(8) Title-deeds of Brooke and Loyett in Harl. Ms.

6680.

(9) Inq. p.m. Ric. Drayton Arm. 19 Edw. lY. 44.

(10) Inq. p.m. Eliz. nuper nx. Nicolai Loyett, 13

Hen. VIII. Oxon.

(11) •Ped. of Pulton in Vis. of Bucks. 1574. Life

of F. Pulton in AtJiena Oxon, 1. 426.
(ii) Dibdin, JEdei Althorpiana^ i. 186.

(13) Baker, L 32.

(14) Herald and Genealogist, yi. 257.

(1 5) Monasticon Angl, ii. p. 603.

(16) Stapleton, Rot, Norman^ ii. 116.

(17) Life of John Haugh in Foss*s Judges ^ y. 54.

(18) Seymour's London, i. 71L.

(19) Idem, i. 586.

(20) Inq. p.m. Thoms) Loyett Arm. 7 Hen. VII.

Hunts, Northants, Oxon, and co. Glonc.

(21) Lipscomb's Bucks, in, 353. Essex Archao-

logia, iy. 29.

(22) Inq. p.m. Johannie nuper ux. Thomas Loyett

Arm. 9 Hen. VIII. Northampton, and Inq.
p.m. JohanuA Waryn nuper ux. Alexandri
Quadryng Arm. 9 Hen. VIII. Lincoln.

(23) Ped. of Billing in Baker, i. 736.

(24) Life of Sir Thos. Billing in Foss's Judges, iy.

410, and Campbell's Chief Justices, i. 145.

(25) Rot. Pat. Hen. VIII., Brewer's Calendars.

(26) Inq. p.m. AnnsB nuper ux. Johis. Cope Arm.

5 Hen. VIII. 38 Northants.

(27)
(28)

(29)
(30)

(31)
(32)
(33)
(34)

(35)
(36)

(37)

(38)
(39)

(40)
(4')
(42)

(43)
(44)

(45)
(46)
(47)
(48)
(49)
(50)

(51)

(52)

Baker, i. 028.

Ped. of Matthew in Baker, ii. 37.

Machyn's Diary, pp. 82, 343.

Ped. of Foxley in Baker, ii. 31.

Ped. of Breton in Baker, i. 416.

Inq. p.m. Geo. Loyett, 10 Eliz. 56 Nortkaaia.

Cole's Escheats, i. p. 428, in Harl. Mss. 756.

Inq. p.m. Thorn® Loyett Arm. 24 Hen. VIII.
Northants.

Will of Sir John Danvers, C.P.C. (4 Holder).

Inq. p.m. Thomae Loyett Arm. 15 Hen. VIII.
Oxon.

Ped. of Barker in Coll. of Arms, Vincent, 112,
p. 188, and ped. of Duncombe in Vis. of
Bucks, 1574.

Ped. of Leeson in Baker, i. 517.

English Deer Parks, by E. P. Shirley, Esq.
p. 35.

Stemmata Shirleiana, p. 57-63.

Rudder's Hist, of co, Glouc, p. 831.

Vis, of Oxon, 1566-74. Edited by Harleian
Society, 1872.

Herald and Genealogist, i, 224.

Ped. of Harewell in Nash's Hist, of co, Wor-
cester, i, 77.

Ped. of Cocke in Clutterbuck's Herts, ii. 55.

Rot. Pat. 36 Hen. VIU.

State Trials, ed. Howell, i. p. 760.

Machyn's Diary, p. 311.

Life of John Bury in Athena Cant. i. 174.

Proceedings in the Court of Requests (13
EUz.).

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.

Extracted from the Bishop of Oxford's Re-
gister by Mr. W. H. Turner.

* The Heralds giye to Giles Pulton four daughters only, yiz. Anne m. Enseby 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 haye stated at p. 44. Jane Brooke left
issue, but died before her sisters, who were all liying'in 1558. Gregory Isham (son of Enseby) by Will
dated 8d September 1558 giyes * to my mother £10, to my nncle Brooke, my aunt Hampden, my aunt
T^ckham, my aunt Calcott, and my cousin-german Thomas Brooke 20«. each. Item, to my cousin For-
dinando Poulton while 6tnd3ring for the law £10 yearly tox ten years, except his own lands come to him in
the meanwhile.'

68 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY,

CHAPTER VI.

William Chester Esq. of Cliiclieley^ Constable of Wisbech Castle, 1605,
II. His children. III. Pedigree of Anne Freere^ Im second trife^ and
her descendants.

William Chester, 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 Chicheley, 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
fall possession of her 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 ' f air^ house at the southern end of Lime-street, within the parish of
St. Dionis Fenchurch, wliich he occupied for moi'e than forty years, until he re-
moved from London altogether in 1605. Here his son Anthony, afterwards Sir
Anthony Chester Bart., was bom, for he was 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 bom on 16th 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 5th April 1586. (i)

William Chester was 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 Broughton's Manor in
the adjoining parish of Crawley, and the site of the Manor House is only separated
from Chicheley Hall by the brook which divides the two paiishes, and by three
fields. This Manor seems to have been purchased by Sir William Chester for his
son, when he married Judith Cave, and was conveyed to their son and heir Anthony
Chester, on his marriage in 1589, by his father's deed of gift. Lipscomb has con-
fiised Broughton's Manor with Balney, the estate of the Mansels in Chicheley (3),
which was 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. 69

in Domesday, which is one of the many proofs that local names in that record were
spelled according io the Italian pronunciation by the clerks of Archbishop Lanfranc.
It then contained three manors, which were all included in the vast domains, of
William 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 Marraoutier, and two of his manors in Chicheley formed part of
the endowment. (5) These two manors, afterwards known as the Manors of Chicheley
and Thickthomes, 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, which has
no separate existence in Domesday, but was divided at a very early date, when 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 liis father's mansion, and therefore sold it to Sir George Barne.
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 South wark, 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 gi'ave. His
only daughter Elizabeth had niamed in 1594 Thomas Ileton 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 7th 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/. 12«. for the diet of certain Romish priests then in prison there. (9) It is to be
hoped that he displayed towards these unhappy prisoners the same gentleness and
courtesy, for which his father was so honourably distinguished in the reign of
Queen Mar}'.

Wilham Chester died at Wisbech Castle, and was buried in the church of St
Peter's Wisbech on Uth April 1608.

William Chester Esq. Citizen and Draper of London.

Will dated 27th Dec. 1003 Lyme-street London.

To be buried in St. Denny's Chui*ch 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 Chicheley,
in Chicheley Church w-ith ray second wife Ann Frier the mother of my son Wm. Chester and
Elizabetli Heton.' To the poor of the parish where I may he buried £5. To each of the four
hospitals in Loudon £0. My Innds in Lombard-street London to my son Antony Chester Esq.
remainder to Antony Chester his son and his heirs for ever. To my said son Antony Chester * my
best gilt standing cup, hoping he will be good to his half-brother and sister, and content himself
with considering that I advanced him by giving him liis house in Chicheley, furnished with house-
hold stuflfto tlie value of I'lOO, besides the gift of the Manor of Broughtons in Chicheley given
him by Deed at his marriage with Sir Henry Boteler's daughter.' To my dau. Elizabeth Heton
* a bill of <€20, due to me by my Lord I3p. of Ely,' and also a memorandum for jglOO, due to me in
the name of Martin Heton Dean of Winchester upon sole of tlie lease of Wolston. To my son-in-
law Thomas Heton £oS0 which he owetli me. To my son WiUiam Chester my lands at the
Clynck in Soutliwark. 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 dan.
Ehzabeth Heton to be overseers of my Will.

Codicil dated the last day of March 1008, ' dwelling now in Wisbech Castle.'

to my dau. EhzabeUi Heton widow * my standing Nutt bordered with silver gilt and carved with
the story of the prodigal Child.' I have to the casement of her debt to my Master Laurence Camp
Draper disbursed X'CO.

Will proved 8d June 1008 by William Chester son and Exor. in C.P.C. [67 Windebark.]

William Chester 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, Elizabeth and William.

William, baptized at St. Dionis 18tli July 1574, (1) 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
3d June 1608, under which he inherited a leasehold estate' in Soutliwark. 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 ^Vll 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 ParUament 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. Hb died at Wisbech 6th January 1G05-6, 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 niarryd Elizabeth ye only dau. of WiUiam Chester Esq., by
which he had ten children, whereof at his death fyve 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 Elleyn.

Of the ten children of Thomas and Elizabeth Heton, the names of six only have
been preserved.

1. Thomas survived his father, but died unmarried before his mother.

2. George, 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, unmaiTied in 1624.

6. Anne, wife in 1624 of Mr. Richard Parke.

Elizabeth Heton was still a widow when her father died, but married afterwards
Thomas Procter Esq. of Wisbech, who died before her, leaving an only child Ellen,
whom her mother bequeathed to the care of Lady Mary Bell of Beaupr^ 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 Procter of Wisbech in the Isle of Ely, widow.

Will dated 28th October 1624.

to be buried in the Chancel of the Church of Wisbech St. Peter's, in the same gi'ave mih my
late husband Tho. Heton esq. and a marble stone to be placed over us with oiu' arms upon it.

to Mr. Emerson vicar of Wisbech 22«. 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
kc. to be in the hands of my Executors for five years after my death, upon tiiist to pay to my son
Geo. Heton j820 yearly for tlie said five years, and tlie 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 tlien living, or shall have married in the meanwhile witli the conseut of my
niece Lady Mary Bell.

my houses and lands in Wisbech to my said dau. Hellen Procter, with remainder to my son
Geo. Heton.

To my niece Lady Mary Bell (wife of Sir Robt. Bell) a house and lauds for the maintenance
of my said dau. Hellen Procter. To my son Geo. Heton jEIOO. To my dau. Margeiy Heton the
lease of lands in Wisbech, called Tillary, which lease I had of the Bishop of Ely, for the natural
lives of the said Margerie, Anne Parke wife of Eichd. Parke, and Hellen Procter, my daughters.

To my son-in-law Richard Parke my book of martyrs and 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. Elizabeth
his wife a border of gold &c. To my grandchild John Goodman their son a *nutt cup' engraven
with the History of the Prodigal Child.

To my brother Sir Anthonio Chester Knt and Bart., a piece of gold with this superscription
' Augustus Constans.'

72 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Mr. Tlio. Edwardes and Mr. \Vm. Edwardes the elder, of Wisbech, to be my E^^utors, and
my cousins Mr. Arnold Lobcrry and Mr. John Daye, to be supervisors of my Will.
Witnesses, Wm. Edwardes junr., Jolm Hayward, Hugh Cooper, SamL Bucke.
Will pi-oved 7th Feb. 1624-5 by the Executora in C.P.C. [26 Clark]

in.

PEDIGREE OF ANNE FREERE, SECOND WIFE OF WILLIAM CHESTER ESQ..

AND HER DESCENDANTS.

Geoflfrey Frecre, M.P. for Wor-
cester, temp. Hen. IV.

Thomas Freere Esq. of Charl-
ton Castle, CO. Wore.

•Elizabeth, dau. and heir of John Littelton Esq. ,
second son of Thos. Littelton of Frankley.

■Margaret, dan. and heir of John Wysham of
Charlton Castle.

Humphrey Freere of Charlton Castle and of^Anne, dan. of Richard Walsh Esq.
the Blankets in Claines, co. Wore. of Sheldesley.

I 1 ■

Richard Freere, son and heir. Robert Freere-pElizabeth, dan. of John Lewes.
1 ,

Robert Freere Judith Cave of (1 w.)-f*William Chester Esq. , Constable-f^ w. Anne Freere ; manied

1671 ; bur. 6 April 1686.

of Kent. Chicheley. of Wisbech ; died 1608.

Chester of Chicheley.

I 1 '

William Chester of Gray^s Thomas Heton Esq., I h.*
Inn ; bapt. 18 July 1674 ; High Bailiff of Ely ; marr.
ezor. 1608 ; died nnmar. 20 Oct. 1694 ; died 6 Jan.

1605-6.

Elizabeth Chester ;-p2 h. Thomas Procter

bapt. 21 Dec. 1572 ;
died 6 Not. 1624.

Esq. of Wisbech ; marr.
after 1608 ; dead 1624.

Ellen, only child ; ward
to Lady Bell 1624.

II II i I

1. Thomas; 2. George, only 8. Martin; 4. Elizabeth; 6. Margery; 6. Anne; wife m

occ. 1606 ; dead son surriving died infant, wife in 1624 of nnm. 1624. 1624 of Richard

unm. 1624. 1624. Mr. J. Goodman. Parke.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(i) Extracts from Parish Registers relating to William Chester, Constable of Wisbech.
SL DionUf London. 1666, April 10. Anthony, son of Mr. William Chester, bapt

1570, July 6. Judyth Chester, the wyfe of Mr. William Chester, buried.

1572, Dec. 21. Elizabeth, dau. of Mr. William Chester, bapt.

1574, July 18. William, son of Mr. William Chester, bapt.
All Hallows Barking y London. 1594, Oct. 20. Thomas Eaton and Elizabeth Chester, marr.
Chicheley y Bucks. 1586, April 5. Anne Chester, wife of William Chester, buried.
St. Peter's f Wisbech. 1605-6, Jan. 7. Thomas Heton Armiger Sepult.

1608, April 14. WiUiam Chester Armiger Sepult.

(2) Ped. of Freere in Ilerald and Genealogist, v. 429.

(3) Lipscomb's Bucks t iv. 94.

(4) Domesday Book, i. 149.

(5) Mon. Angl. v. 203.

(6) Test, de Nevilla.

(7) Nichols* Progresses of James I. vol. i. p. 188.

(8) Watson's Hist, of WUhedh, 1827.

(9) Domestic Calendars in State-Paper Office.
(10) Registers of Gray's Inn. Harl. Mss. 1912.
(I i) Yis. of Cambridgeshire 1684 in Coll. of Arms.

(12) Athena Oxon, i. 720. Bentham's Ely Cathedral, p. 197.

CAVE or STANFORD. 73

CHAPTER Vn.

The Caves of Stanford-on-Avon. 11. The Caves of Ingarshy. III.
Anthony Cave Esq. of Chicheley. IV. His widow Elizabeth and her two
8^id)sequent husband^.

Anthont 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 derived 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 Cave
her uncle continued the male line, and was the father of John Cave Abbot of Selby,
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 purchased 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 j
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 Jolm Cave of Yorkshire in a Roll of Arms of the date of Edward HI., (3)

74 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

and were still to be seen in Glovei-^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 nephew of the Abbot, and the brother of Peter Cave of Stanford, who married
Margarct Burdet of Rowell, and who is commemorated by a brass engraved with
this inscription under the figures of a man and his wife. (2)

* Cliiisti genitiix Petii Cave sis luiseratrix
Et . . . . tuc de penis Margeri scn-a ;
At fuit ille Pater Thome Cave, hseo sua Mater
Funde pieces Doinino pro 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

Solvator Muudi Thome Cave Tu Miserere,

Cui precor alme Deus Coeli Gloiiam det.

Qui moritiir festo Lambeiii Turiis Ahui,

Mille semel qiiater et Centos etiam Nonaginta

Adjicias quinqne Domini certos habet annos,

Sterne wxt Anima, proque hiijus orate
Then Mercy Then Mercy

Richard 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. VHI. 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 Wolsey, and was fast rising to power. Several letters from Richard 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 i)rovide 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.

Richard Cave had two wives. Bv his first wife Elizabeth Mervin of Church

CAVE OF STANFORD. 75

!jawfonl in Wanvicksliire, wlio died 9tli August 141)3, lie had only two cliildren
Edward and Margaret.

1. Edward Cave married Doi'othy, daugliter and colieir of Nicholas Mallorv
Ssq. of Newbold Revell, co. Warwick, and died in his father's lifetime, leaving two
laughters Catharine and Margaret. Catharine married beforc 153G Sir Thomas
Vndrew Kt. of Charwelton, and died 18th August 1555. Their son Thomas An-
Irew had the lamentable honour of presiding at the execution of Marj' (Jueen of
ycots on 8th February 1586-7, he being the High ShenfF of Northamptonshire in
hat year. (5) Margaret married after 153G Thomas Boughton Esq. of Causton in
iVarwickshire.

2. Margaret Cave married Thomas Saunders Esq. of Sibbertoft, co. Leicester,
?ho died 1st March 1528-9, leaving seven sons and six daughters. (6) Two of their
ons were personages of some note. Lawrence Saundei's sometime apprentice to
>ir William Chester, and afterwards Rector of All Hallows Broad-street, was burnt
o death for heresy at Coventry 8th Feb. 1554-5, and has been already noticed in
ny account of Sir William Chester. His brother Sir Edward Saundei's was a
ervent Catholic and a zealous partizan of Queen ALiry, who appointed him a Judge
>f Common Pleas 4th Oct. 1553. He was knighted by King Philip on 27th Jan.
.554-5, just two days before his brother's conviction, and his letters are extant by
vhich he vainly implored his brother to retmct his errors ^ about the most Blessed
md our most comfortable Sacrament of the Altar.' He became Chief-Justice of
Sngland 8th May 1557, but soon after the accession of Queen Elizabeth was re-
noved, on account of his attachment to the old religion, into the Court of Exchequer,
>f which he was Chief-Baron until his death. (7) He died in London 12th Nov.
.576, and probably of some contagions fever, as his chaplain died at the same time.
iis bodv was removed to his seat in Warwickshire at Weston-under-Weatherlev,
vhere his monument still remains; but his interment is thus noticed in the Burial
legister of St. Peter-le-Poor London : ' 1576. Nov. 26. Sir Edward Saunders
Liord Chief-Bai'on and John Smyth clerk, his chaplain, whose corpses were carried
nto the countr)'.' Sir Edward was one of the supenisors of the Will of his uncle
\jithony Cave of Cliicheley.

The second wife of Kichard Cave was Margaret Saxby, the sister of William and
rohn Saxby, who were considerable Merchants of the Staple at Northampton and
Calais. William Saxby brought up his nephew Anthony Cave to his own business,
tnd died without issue in April 1517. There is a brass to his memory in Stanfonl
Jhurch.

William Saxby, Merchant of the Staple at Cales. Will dated 5th Apiil 1517.

to be buried in the church of St. Nicholas of Stanford in co. Northampton, if I die there.

to TSij brother John Saxby i'lOO and to each of his five chikh'en i;50. to my brother Jolm
Sftxby my tlirec wool houses at Cales, and the dwelling house tliat Hugh Smyth now dwelleth in, and
)ther tenements in Wade-street at Cales, but if said John Saxby die without issue male, tlien my
laid houses in Cales to go to Anthony Cave and Thomas Cave, to John Saunders a wool house in
Watergate-street and to Anthony Cave another wool house there, to Anthony Cave JEIOO. to my

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

brother Cave X'lOO to be divided among all Ids childi-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 mv
sister Robertson certain rings &c. to my Lady Butler a ring, to Elizabeth Cave otlierwise called
Elizabeth Wyrley dan. to my said sister Cave :J gilt goblets. (Numerous religious and charitable
bequests.)

My friends Wm. Uobyns and llobert Daynam Merchants of tlie Stai)le at Cales to be ex(-cu-
tors, Mr. Thos. Scanner iVldorman of Londcm to bo supervisor of my ^Vill.

Proved at Lambeth (Ith May lul7 by the executors. [:\{) Holder.]

I liave tlirown together, in the shcape of a pedigree, wliat little I have been able
to collect about the family of Saxby.

PEDIGREE OF SAXBY OF NORTHAMPTON.

William Saxby, mer-
chant of the Staple at
Calais ; died 1517.
M. I. at Stanford.

Margaret; man*.
Richard Cave
Esq. of Stanford.

— I

John Saxby, mer-^

chant of the Staple

at Northampton.

Occ.l536,deadl544.

=Amy, daughter of=
Thos. Giffard
Epq. of Twyford,
Bucks.

Samwell Barts.

'1 h. Richard Sam-
well Esq. ofNorth-
ampton ; died 3
May 1519.

William Saxby ,mer-=
chant of the Staple
at Calais ; will dated
4 Aug. 1544, proTed
1 Aug. 1545.

Anne, dau. of^^ h. Christopher

Robert Bayn-
ham, merchant
of Calais ; bur.
5 Mar. 1558-9.

Breton of Ravens-
thorpe ; marr. 20
Jan. 1545-G;bur.l8
Sept. 1556.

— r
Clemence

unman*.

1536.

Thomas Saxby, a
priest ; presented by
Anthony Cave to the
Vicarage of WiUen,
Bucks, 19 Oct. 1540.

Two
chil-
dren.

John Saxby, 1544.

Thomas, 1544.

Anne, 1544.

Frances, 1544.

Margaret Cave died before her husband in Miu'ch 1531-2, leaving eight sons and
five daughters. Richard Cave died 20th April 1538, and the brass effigies of him
and his two wives still remain in Stanford Church. (3)

Hie jacet Ilicard* Cave, qui obiit xx. die Mensis Aprilis Anno Dni. Mcccccxxx\dii. et Eliza-
betlia prima Uxor ejus, quae obiit ix. die Mensis Augusti An. Dni. Mcccclxxxxiii. et Margaretta
secunda Uxor — Mensis Martii An. Dni. ah Incamatione ^Icccccxxx. primo, quorum Animabus
Propitietur Deus. Amen.

l^icHARD Ca\'e of Stanfoi*d co. Northampton, Esq.

WiU dated I'Mli June (28 Heniy VIII.). [153fi.]

to be buried in the parish church of Stanford, before the Rood loft, by my wives Elizabeth and
Margai'et late deceased. I confirm all previous deeds &c. conceniing the maniages of my sons
and daughters, to mj'^dau. Elizabetli W5Tley towards the maiTiage of her children i,*100. whereof
I have paid to my son Wj-rley her husband £oL. to my dau. Dorothy Smyth to the marriage of
lier cliildren 100 marks, and to my daughter Chauntrell 100 marks to the marriage of her chil-
dren, as well as tliose now married as unmarried, to my dau. Pnidence Croke my silver salts,* and
also 40 marks towards the marriage of John 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 i:100. to every one of the six childi*en of my cousin Thomas Cave
5 marks, to Richard son of my son Thomas Cave tlie 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 heii'loom ; for Sir John Croke says in his WUl, 2d July 1607i
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
Bhe was.* Hist, of Croke Family, ii. 828.

CAVE OF STANFORD. 77

Stanford, to my son Bryan Cave my lease that I have of the Comauudiie of Bottcsford and
Dingeley. to my son Richard Cave my lease of a pasture called Blakden, and my interest in the
parsonage of Lylbome. to Thomas Hardyman 40/*., and to his two brothers each 'ZOs. to Katherine
Andrewes and her sister Margaret Cave, dans, of my son Edward, £*0, that I lent their mother in
her widowhood, to Richard my son 100 ewes and lambs, to my brotlier Jolm Saxby M^O of ^50
which he owes me, to the marriage of his dan. Clemence my goddaughter, to my son Antliony Cave
^200, whicli he oweth me. To my son Richard Cave X'lOO, and also ^-200 more to the maniage
of his children, to my cousin Thomas Cave what he oweth me. to my daughter Dorothy Smyth
^£'50, which her husband owetli mc. to my godson liaurence Cave son of my cousin John Cave
5#. -id. per an. which tlie said John his father should pay to me or my said son Thomas. My
said sons Thomas, Francis, and Brjan Cave to be my executoi's and residuar}' legatees. Edward
Montague, Sergeant-at-Law, Sir Ambrose Cave my son * Knight of the Roodes,' my sons-in-law
Jolm Croke and Robert Chauntrell to be overseers of my will.
Will proved nd June 153S in C. P. C. [IH Dingeley.]

Richard Cave had issue by his second wife Margaret Saxby thirteen children^
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 liad held so long as lessees. He
died in 1558, and his surviving son and heir Roger Cave married 24tli November
1561, Margaret Cecil, sister of the famous Lord Burghley,* who remari'ied 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.

n. 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.

rV. Sm 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

Leicestersliire in two Parliaments of Queen Mary, and then for Warwickshire until

his death. On the accession of Queen Elizabeth he was sworn of her Privy Council,

and on 22d December 1558 was made Chancellor of the Duchv 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 rojal mistress. He was constantly employed by

Queen Elizabeth until his death, which took place on 2d April 1568. He died in

* 8L Clement Danes ^ London, * 1561, Nov. 24, Roger Cave Ocnt. and Mrs. Margaret Cecile, married.'
Par. BegiBter*

78 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHBLEY.

London, and his obsequies were solemnly performed in the Church of the Savoy on
lOtli April 15G8,but his body was afterwards carried to Stanford. His only daughter
Mar^ix»t was born 25th April 1559, and married before her father's death Henry
Knollys, 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 him 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)

V. Francis Cave was 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.

VL Richard Cave of Pick well, co. Leicester, married Barbara daughter of Sir
William Fielding Kt., ancestor of the Earls of Denbigh. His gi'eat-grandson Doctor
William Cave, Canon of Windsor, was the well-known author of the Scri2)toiwn
Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria.

VII. Brian Cave of Ingarsby, of whom hereafter.

VIU. Augustine CA^^, a monk. On the suppression of religious houses he
had an annuity settled on him by his brother Anthony Cave of Chicheley.

I. Elizabeth Cave, mamed before 1517 WiUiam Wyrley Esq. of Hanisted in
Staffordshire. They were both liWng in 1556 with children.

II Cave (her Chi'istian name is unknown to me), married Robert

Chauntrell 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, the widow of his cousin Roger
Cave. His son Heni^y Smith was the eloquent lecturer of St. Clement Danes, who was
commonly known as ^ silver-tongued' Smith, and was called by his contemporaries the
Chrj'sostom 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 univei'sal 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 ^inany pei'sons of honour and
worship, ladies and great gentlewomen, 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 Ingai-sby during
his Shrievalty in 1582 to reclaim Dickons, a blasphemous heretic, who had been
brought before the Justices, and Dickons was so much impressed by his preaching
that he I'enounced his blasphemies, and lived peaceably for the rest of his life. Smith
died at the early age of thuty-oue, and was buried at his father's seat of Husband's

CAVE OF STANFORD.

Boswortli 4th 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, and even the modern reader will find
it difficult to name any English preacher who has since excelled Smith in pulpit
eloquence. (9)

IV. Prudence Cave married about 1528 John Cix)ke Esq. of Chilton, Bucks. He
was one of the six Clerks in Chancery who were allowed to maiTy 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
remai'kable how many of his descendants achieved distinction at the Bar or married
personages of high legal rank. The pedigree below is from considerations of space
confined to the most noteworthy examples. (10)

John Croke Esq. Master in Chancery, of^Pmdence Cave, sister of Anthony Cave

Chilton, Backs ; died 2 Sept. 1554.

of Chichelcy.

Sir John Croke Et. of Chilton ; M.P. for Backs 1572 ;<=t»Elizabcth, dan. of Sir Alexander Union Kt. of Wad-
Sheriff 1575 ; died 10 Feb. 1608-9, aged 77. [ ley, Berks ; died 24 Jane 1611, aged 72.

1. Sir John Croke Et. ;
Speaker of the H. of Com-
mons 1601 ; Jndge of
King's Bench 1608 ; died
23 Jan. 1619-20, aged 65.

8. Sir George Croke Et.;
Jndge of Common Pleas
1624 ; Jndge of King's
Bench 1628 ; died 15 Feb.
1641-2.

Cicely Croke ; remarried'
in Jane 1608 Sir John
Browne Kt. of Flam-
berds, co. Essex.

Mary Croke; married
Sir Harbottle Grim-
ston Bart, Master of
the Rolls.

*£dward
Balstrode
Esq. of
Hedgerly,
Backs.

1 —

Elizabeth; wife^2 h. Sir Richard In-

of ThoB. Lee
Esq. of Hart-
weU.

goldsby E.B., the
Parliamentary Ge-
/^neral.

Elizabeth Balstrode ; married in 1602
Sir James Whitelocke Kt., Jndge of
King's Bench, and was the mother of
Balstrode Whitelocke, Commissioner
of the Great Seal 1647.

V. Bridget Cave mamed Francis Tanfield Esq. of Gay ton, who died 21st No-
vember 1558. She sm'vived him many years, and died 20th June 1583. Their son
and heir Clement Tanfield of Gayton was the father of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Kt.
Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1607-24, whose grandson Lord Falkland was
one of the heroes of the civil wars. (11)

Anne Tanfield daughter of Francis Tanfield and Bridget Cave maiTied Clement
Vincent Esq. of Harpole Northants, who was one of the executors of Anthony Cave
of Chicheley, and their daughter Elizabeth was the mother of Sir Richard Lane,
Lord Keeper to Charles I. (11) Lord Campbell with his usual recklessness asserts
that Lane was of unknown 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
tinder the powerful patronage of his kinsman Lord Chief Baron Tanfield, and was
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 OF CHICHELEY.

at the 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)

II.

Bryan Cave, the seventh son of Richard Cave Esq. of Stanford, by liis second

wife Margaret Saxby, was one of his father's exe-
cutors and residuary legatees. On the dissolution of
Leicester Abbey he liad a large share in the plunder;
for the impropriate Rectory of Hungerton and the
Manor of Ingarsby were granted to him by the Cro^n
in 1540. He was Sheriff of the united counties of
Wanvick 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 Niclioliis Lord Vaux, by Elizabeth daughter of
Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh, by Alice Nevill sister of

Richard Earl of Warwick K,G., ^the king-maker.' She had issue four children,

namely :

1. Edward Cave, son and heir apparent, married Barbara daughter and coheir
of Sir William Dcvereux 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. Hexry Cave, son and heir, of whom presently.

3. FR.VNCIS Ca\TE married and had children.

4. Mary Cave married Thomas Brown Esq. of Wistow.

Brian Cave married secondly Bridget daughter of Sir William Skipwith Kt. of
Oiinesby, co. Lincoln, one of the Maids of Ilonoiu* 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 Ingarsbie co. Leicester Esq. of ' reasonable good heltlie of bodie and of per*
fecto mindc and memoric.'

Will dated .^Otli July 150n.

to be buried in the chancel on the North side of Hungerton church, to the poor of Hiuigerton
20*. and to tlie repairs of Hungerton church, 21V.

to my son and heir Heniy Cave all my household stuff and the residue of my estate, to Brian
Cave, the eldest sou of my son Henry, X20 and sundiy pieces of plate, and to each of liis brothers
and sisters bom before my death i*20 each, to my youngest son Francis Cave other pieces of
plate &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 i'lO each, to my godson Brian Vincent 80 marks.

GAVE 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 i,*.') cacli. My nephews Thomas Skeffington and
William Cave of Pickwell to he overseers of my Will, and I give them each a ling worth 40«.

Will proved 10th Nov. V/Xl in C. P. C. [^« Hanington.J

Henry Cave was above 40 years old in 1592, wlien lie succeeded his fatlier at
Ingarsby. Ho married Elizabeth daughter of Gregory Ishaiii Esq. of Braunston,
in Northamptonshire, whose descent from the Lovetts and the Veres of Aadington
has been shown at page 51. »She was a postlunnons child, and was the sister of Sir
Euseby Isham Kt. of Py tchley, the ancestor of the Baronets of this name. Henry
Cave died before 1611, when his son Sir Bryan Cave was Sheriff of Leicestershu'e.

Henry Cave had issue three sons and five daughters. (15)

1. Sir Brian Cxye Kt. of Ingarsby, married in or before 1G()2 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 greatlv 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. AXNE Cave, nnmaiTied 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 ^Tiarf, 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 Bedfordshire widow. Will dated 28tli Jan. 16:26-7.

to my son Sir Bryan Cave £^0 and to my dau. the Lady Cave i'lO. to my grandchild Eliza-
beth St. John* wife of John St. John i'20. to Brj'an Cave son of the said Sir Bryan £20. to
John, George, Erasmus, Mar}', and Amie Cave children of the said Sir Br3'an £:\0 each at 21. to
my dau. Elizabeth Marbury, for her life, witli remainder to her cliildreu, i- 100 whicli I lent to my
Bon Thomas Marbury on the mortgage of certain of his land**, to my gmndchild Euseby Marbury
^'10. to my dau. Anne Cave ^£200. to my dau. Mary Cave XT)0. to my son Francis Cave tlio
.£100 which I lent to Sir Edward Villiers Kt. to my son Tliomas ^larbury £6. to my cousin
Robert Tanfield ;£10. the residue of my estate to my daughtei*8 Mary Cave and Magdalen (sic)
Marbury. My son Francis Cave and my cousin Robert Tanfield to be my executors. I give no-
tiling to my daus. Margaret and Barbara because I have in my lifetime given them £oO each.

Will published 19th Jan. 1020-30, and proved oili Dec. 10;J3 in C. P. C. [Ill Russell.]

Francis Cave, third sou 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 LeiceBtershire in 1632. (19) Their daughter Anne St. John married her coasin Rev. John Cave, M.A.
Beetor of Cold Overton and of Nailston, who preached the funeral sermon at Shenton on the death of
young Francis Wollaston in 1684.

82 THE CIIESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

executors iiiul iimiTied Kebccca Lady Villicrs,the well-jointured widow of Sir William
Villiers Bart, (the eldest brother ofGeorge Duke of Buckingham), who died 12tli June
1G29. She was the daughter and coheir of Robert Roper Esq. of Heanor iu Derbv-
shire, the uncle of Samuel Roper the well-known antiquary,* and by her husband's
will was the guardian of their son Sir George Villiers of Brooksby and their four
daughters, of whom Mar}* was aftenvards 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 Wars. He was sening
in the royal garrison at Leicester, when that town sun^endered to Fairfax 18th June
1C45 on articles, and was fined 100/. by the Parliament, but dying before it was paid
the fine was remitted 10th June KUG. (20) He had then been dead some months; for
on the 28th April 164G, his widow. Lady Villiers, formally renounced the administ-
ration of his estate. He left an only child Elizabeth Cave who married about 1060
William Wollaston Esq. of Shenton in Leicestei'shire. Their daughter and heir
Anne Wollaston was the wife of Sir John Chester the 4tli Bart, of Chicheley, as will
be seen in a subsequent chapter.

IU.

Anthony Cave, the second son of Richard Cave Esq. of Stanfoitl by his second
wife, was bred by his uncle William Saxby to the trade of a merchant of the Sta^e
at Calais, but 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-
sey, 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 was
from the Crown in 1545, when Henry VIII. granted to him the Manor of Drayton
near Daventry and the Manors of Chicheley and Thickthonies in Bucks, with other
possessions of the dissolved Abbey of Tickford, wdiich had formed part of Wolsey's
endowment 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 Thickthonies as lessee for a term of 70
years at the rent of 38/. lis, llhcL per annum under a crown lease dated 30th April
1541, and he proffered for the purchase of the fee simple 632/. 5^., which was com-
puted to be twenty years' purchase of the net annual value. These terms were not
accepted, but on 4th Dec. 1545 the King gi-anted to Anthony Cave Esq. of Tick-
ford by letters patent, in consideration of 788/. 18.*?. 9c/., the Manors of Chicheley and
Thickthonies, with the Rectory and Advowson of Chicheley, to bo held by the service
of one-twentieth part of a Knight's fee at the rent of 3/. lOs, Id. per annum. (21)

* The maternal descent of Bebecca Lady ViUicrB is set forth in the Herald and GenealoffUt,

ANTHONY CAVE OF CHICHELEY. 83

Anthony Cave was M.P. for Liverpool in the first Parh'ament of Edward VI.
1547-52, but during the last years of his life 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 she.

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 51. 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 12Z. 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
VL (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 40«. 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 6/. 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,

THE CHESTEBS OP CHICHELBY.

aged 14 on 24th February 1558-J

Martha Cave, aged 13 on 24th February 1558-9;
and Mary Cave, aged i on Ist
November 1558. (ii) What be-
came of the«e 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 beaiing
brass effigies of a man in armour,
and his wife, with this inscrip-
tion :

Hie jacet Anthonins Cav« Aimiger,
quondam mercator stapnle Calicie. Do-
minus de Chicheley. qui ofaiit nono dia
Septembns A°* D"* Mdiraiviij. Cnjnj
animK ppicietur Dens. Amen.

Some eighteen years aAer-
wards his widow, who had in the
mean iihile buried two subsequenl
husbands, became mindful of the
husband of her youth, and erected
a stately monument to the m&
mory of Anthony Cave, which is
afRxed to the wall of the north
aisle Anthony Cave in full ar-
mour IS kneehng before a desk, with his son behind him, and his wife is kneeling
opposite to him « ith their five daughters , and on a tablet is written :

' For the good memorie of her deere husbande Antonie Cave Esqnier, which died 9 Sept
A.D. ms^, his myndeful and loving wiie Elizabeth hathe erected to posteritie this monument a. a

Anthony Cave's Will was made three years before his death, and is too long to
be printed except in abstract, but the Scliedule 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.

AsTHONV Cavb of Chicheley Bncka Gentihnan. WiU dated Slst May 1S55.

If I die in Bucks or within id miles of Tickford, I wish to be buried in Cliicheley cborch OO
the NorUi side near the upper side of the aisle, and near the wall. Charitable bequests to the
poor of Newport Pagncl. Northampton. Bedford, Stony Stratford, Olney, Chicheley, North
Crawley, Hardmead, Astwood, Emberton, Tyringham. *c. to Jack Scarlet 5 marks when he is 14
years old. U) Mrs. Margaret Bajnam widow a gold ring, to George Graunt HiO. to my niece
Anne Tanfield £10 at her age of 20 or her marriage, to my brother Wyrley and my sister his wiie

ANTHONY CAVE OF CHICHELBY. 85

a gold ring of 40*. each, to Elizabeth now my wife, £'Z00, and 100 marks worth of plate, all her
jewels, sundry household stuff, 200 ewes and 100 lambs, to each of my daus. ^£206 13«. 4rf. at
their ages of 20 or marriage, in case I die without issue male, Judith Cave now my eldest daughter
is to have my manors of Chicheley and Thickthomes in Bucks, and of Drayton near Daventry
in Northants, and my parsonage place and rents in Lathbury Bucks, as they were purchased by
the King'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 viy two duus.
Anne and Martha Cave 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 Elizabeth, 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 conta3med the whole yerely value of all the mannours landes tene-
mentes and hereditamentes that I Anthony Cave off 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 thirde parte of my saide landes to be to th use of the Kinge and Queues Majesty
according to a statute made in anno xxxg. of the late Kinge of ffamouse memory Henry e the eight
for declaracon of willes. And the residewe of the same I doo appoincte to be to th'use and perfour-
mannce of my last wille and testament for the preferrement of my wif and children and paying of
my debtes in manner and fourme as foUowith according to the said statute.

Chicheley.

And fyrsste the manners of Chicheley and Thickethornes with all and singulier 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 xxxv/i. iij«.

And also other landes and tenementes in the same parishe, purchaced of Sir Kobert Dormer
Knight and of John Chibnall of Astwood, to the yeerly value of viii/t.

Draighton.
The manner of Draiton in the parishe of Daventrie in the countie of Northtn. like as I pur-
chaced the same of the saide late King, being of the yerelie value of . vij/i xviij^. xjc/.

Whitechurch.
The manner of Powers in Whitchurche in the countie of Buckes, and the water mylne called
the dune mylne, of the yerelie value of xiiij//.

Ovyny.
Also in Oving in the saide countie the iiijth parte of the manner, of the yerely value of xxs. xx</.

Lathebury.

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 v/t. v*. iiijd.

Also certaine other landes and tenementes there, purchaced of the lorde marquis of Northamp-
ton, of the yerelie value of xiiy/i.

And also of Thomas Whalley and one Rowche, twoo tenementes, of the yerely value of xvj*.

Also certaine other landes and tenementes there, purchaced of Mr. Denny, of the yerelie
value of ' iiij/t. xiij«. iiijd.

Also other landes there and in Stoke Goldington in the said countie, purchaced of the late noble
Kinge Edward the Sixt, of the yerelie value of xj/i. xyj«. ui^d, and one pomide pepper and for a
porcion of tithes in Willin, x^. yerelie Summa xij/i. vj«. viij</.

Bedford.
Also in the towne and feeldes of Bedford, landes and tenementes in the tenure audoccupacon of
Willm. Smithe, of the yerelie value of v^t. xix*.

86 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEV.

Muche Lynford.
Also in the parishe of Muche L jnforde in the countie of Buckes, certaine landes and tene-
mentes, of the yerelie value of iij/».

TAcheford.
In the parishe ofNewportein Tickford ende, three cotages and certaine free landes there, of the
yerelie value of. . k

Callait.
In the town of Callice, certajm woUehouses and other, of the yerelie value of . . rJi.

The whole some of the yerely value of all whiche my saide landes and tenements as ap-
peareth, is cxx/t. xiij#. vijrf.

Whereof is to he deducted, that I am yerelie charged with certayne payments out of the saide
landes as foUowith, viz. to the scole maister of Lathehurie for Ixxxxiiij. yeres out of the parsonage
of Chicheley yerelie xij/i. and to John Massie late Vicar oflf Chicheley by my deede to him graunted
for his yerely pencion or annuite during his Hfe v/t* , also for the tenthes of Chicheley yerelie is due
to be paid to the King and Queues use iij/i. x^. nyl, also for the tenthes of Draighton in the coon-
tie of Northampton due yerelie to be paid xv«. and for the tenthes in tlie parsonage place in Lathe-
hurie vij«. 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. vj«. viijrf. and
more paid yerelie for my landes in Bedford to the chapiter of Lincoln and to the King and Queues
majesties for chief rentis xyj«. ix^. Also there is yerehe paid for chief rentis of my landes in
Whitechurche for the late maunor of Powers to the lady of Oxford liiij*. Deductions out of the
totall some of my hole landes, whiche I am yerelie charged to pay out of my saide Landes appear-
ing by the particuliers here above declared, amounts imto xxviijZi. xi. viij<i.

So remayneth clerely to be divided landes and tents to the clere yerelie value of

lxxxxij7i. y^$. xyi.

Wherof, first, I do appoincte unto the King and Queues maiesties parte the manor of Draighton
aforesaide in the countie of Northampton, of the yerelie value of . . . vij7». xvig^. xj(/.

The manor of Powers with the mylne there in Whitechurche in the countie of Buckes, of the
yerelie value of xiiij/i.

Also the iiijth parte of the maunor of Oving in the countie of Buckes of the yerely value xx«. xx^.

Also in Muche Linforde in the said countie, twoo farmes and one cotage of ye yerely rent iijZt.

Also iuTickeford and in the parishe of Newporte, certayn landes and tenementes of the yerehe
value of li.

Also all my landes in the towne and feeldes of Bedford of the yerelie value of v/t. xixi.

Summa totalis of this parte appoincted and sett out for the King and Queues majesties parte is

xxxii\j7i. vu, vijd.

And the just thirde parte according to the divident, the deductions allowed as befor appearithe
is but xxxZi. xiiij«. ixrf.

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, parcell of the premisses, that is to saye, the man-
nors of Chicheley and Tickthornes aforesaid with all other landes and tentis in the parishe of
Chicheley with all and singuUer the appurtenances being of the yerelye value above mencyoned.
And all the Residewe of my landes and tenementes herin conta3aied not appoincted to the King
and Queues majesties nor to my wife I doo appoinct to be to the execution and perfourmaunce <^
my last wille and testament. **

Wm proved 6th Dec. 1668 in C. P. C. [7 WeUes.]

IV.

Elizabeth, the widow of Anthony Cave, held in jointure the Manor and Man-
sion of Chicheley, and soon married again. Her second husband was Johu Newdi-

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 Conmion Pleas. She was his third wife, and her youngest
daughter Mary Cave married Jerome 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 1554 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.

Richard Westone * one of the Queen's Maiesties Justices of her Common Pleas at Westmin-
ster.' Will 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 Pamdon, Har-
low and Latton in Essex until my second son Nicholas Weston be 21, and until my daus. Wjme-
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, witli remainder to my son and heir
Jerome Weston.

After the death of Elizabeth my wife, my executor to receive the rents of my lands in East and
"West Tilbury 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.y 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
Slade| Joan Mylbome's sister ^0. My said son Jerome to be my sole executor. John Pyncheon
of Writtie Esq. and John Glascock of Roxwell Gent, to be overseers of my Will.

Will proved in C.P.C. 29th July 1672. [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 Chicheley co. Buckes widow. Will dated 24th July (19 EUz.) 1677.

to be buried in the parish church of Chicheley, 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 mills 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-

• Fram the parUh register 0/ Chicheley : * 1666, July 7, Richard Weston and EHzabeth Newdigate
married. 1576-7, March 1, Bichard Weston son of Jerome bapt. 1677, Aug. 21, Elizabeth WeBton buried.

t Margaret^ second wife of the testator and the mother of his children, NioholaB Winefred and
Margaret, was the dan. of Eustace Bnmeby Esq. and was buried April 10, 1666.

I Mary Slade and her sister Joan wife of John Milbome of Marks Hall in Dunmow were the daugh-
ters of John Slade of Coventry by the testator^s sister. (26)

88 THE CHESTEBS OF CHICHELEY.

digate and my late dau. Martha his wife, and of my son Hampden and Ann his wife, ^100 among
them equally, to each at 18 or marriage, sundry plate and jewels to my said son Weston and his
wife, and to William Hampden and Elizabeth Hampden son and dau. of said Griffith, and
to EUzaheth 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 jBIO. to Eliza-
beth* Vincent my goddaughter and kinswoman i!10. Numerous bequests to servants and to poor
of various places, to my dau. -in-law Audrey Conquest .£3 6*. 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 £6. 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 acyoining
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 Griffith 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 liis 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 W^eston to be my executors, and Robert Price Esq.
and Robert Williams Gent, to be Overseers of my WilL

Will proved 20th Nov. 1677 in C. P. C. [44 Daughtry.]

* Elizabeth^ dau. of Clement Vincent Esq. of Harpole, by Anne Tanfield, niece of Anthony Care of
Chicheley (see p. 79), married Richard Lane Esq. of Courteenhall, and was the mother of Sir Bichard
Lane, the Lord Keeper. (27)

t Edmund Barker and Frideswide^ wife of Thomas Bishop of Dnnton, Bucks, were children of Thomas
Barker of Astrop, by Anne LoTctt, sister of the testatrix.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

The pedigrees of Cave in Nichols* Hist, of co, Leicester^ Bridges' Hist, of co, Northampton^ Wotton'i
Baronetage 1741, and the Visitation of co. Leicester, 1618, have been consulted, and corrected by wilb
and records.

(i) Mon. AngL iii. 496.

(2) Bridges, i. 582.

(3) Rolls of Arms t edited by Sir H. Nicholas.

(4) Brewer's Calendars of Henry VIII. 1628, 18

Jane and 8 July.

(5) Ped. of Andrew in Baker's Northants^ i. 296.

(6) NicholB' Hist, of co. Leic. ii. 564, 792.

(7) Life of Sir Edw. Saunders in Cooper's Athena

Cantab, i. 359 ; and in Foss's Judges^ vol. v.

(8) Life of Sir Ambrose Cave in Athena Cantab.

i. 251.

(9) Life of Henry Smith in Atfiena Cantab, ii.

103 ; Fuller's Church Hist. v. 8.
(10) Sir A. Croke's Hist, of Croke Family.
(i i) Ped. of Tanfield in Baker, ii. 276, 282.
(12) Campbell's Chancellors, ii. 608.

(13) Athena Oxon., Fasti, ii. 37.

(14) Inq. p.m. Bryan Cave Arm. 34 Eliz.

(15) Nichols, iii. 290.

(16) Progresses of James I. ii. 260.

(17) Nichols, iv. 989.

(18) Newcourt, i. 367, 628.

(19) Nichols, ii. 656.

(20) Nichols, iii. 1136.

(21) Particulars of Grants, 37 Hen. VIII. in Re-

cord Office.

(22) Inq. p.m. Antonii Cave Arm. 1 EUz. Backs.

(23) Lipscomb's Bucks, iv. 208.

(24) Morant's Essex, ii. 71.

(25) Life of Richard Weston, in Foss's Judges.

(26) Ped. of Milbome in Vis. of Essex 1634.

(27) Baker, i. 181.

UAMFDEN OF GREAT UAMPDEN. 89

CHAPTER VIII.

The daughter's and coheirs of Anthony Cave of Chicheley. II. The
Hampdens of Great Hampden^ and pedigree of Hampden and Waller.
III. Martha Cave^ wife of John Newdigate Esq. IV. The Westons of
RoxwelL V. Tlie Westons^ Earls of Partland.

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 1 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 Qriffith Hampden Esq., Martha married John Newdigate
Esq., and Mary married Sir Jerome Weston Kt.

AXXE Cave, the second daughter of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, was born on
24th Feb. 1544-5. Her godmother was Mrs. Lovett of Strixton, the widow of
Thomas Lovett Esq. III. of Astwell (her mother's grandfather), who, by her will
m 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)

GaiFnTii Hampden of Great Hampden Bucks Esq. (no date, but early in 1591).

To bo buried in tlio Chancel of Great Hauipden Church. To my wife Anne my whole stock of
cattle, kine, &c., but if Bhe 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 William come of
age. To my said son William my great chain of gold, and my ring of gold with the seal of my
amis, with remainder to my son Edmond, remainder to my right heirs. My wife to have the
care of my unmarried daughters, imtil they be 17. To my daus. Elizabeth and Anne Hampden
1000 marks each, and to my dau. Mary Hampden X500, to be paid to tliem 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 >vriting the above, concluded a marriage between Jerome
Horsey Gent, and my said dau. Elizabeth, and have agreed to pay liim ^700 for her portion, I
revoke my former bequest to her.

Codicil dated 27tli Aug. 1592.

My wife Anne and my son William to be my executors. My good friend Mr. Myles Sandes,

90 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

iny cousin John Croko tlie elder, my cousin William Sheppard of Littlecote, my friend Mr.
llobert Clialloner D.D., my cousin Alexander Hampden, my cousin John Croke junior, and my
cousin William Hampden, to be overseers of my AVill. To my dau. Hatley my gilt goblet and the
cover having a gi-ifiin on the top, wliich was bequeathed to her by her grandmother my mother,
iind also sundry bowls of silver gilt that were my mother Weston's. To my dan. Oglethorpe othur
bowls. To my gi*andchild llobert Hatley a gilt cup. I forgive my son Hatley and my dau. hi^
wife the i'iO 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 tlie Will is dated 15th July 15HSK

Will and Codicil proved by the widow and son ^Oth Apr. i:.0-2 in C.r.C. [*2U Hamngton.]

His widow Anne Hampden died 31st Dec. 1593, and was buried at Great
Hampden 9th Jan. 1593-4.

Griffith and Anne Hampden had issue three sons and five daughters, who were
all bom and baptized at Great Hampden. (2)

I. WiLLLVM, their son and heir.

H. 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)

HI. JOUN was baptized 2d Nov. 1578, was buried on the 12th Feb. following.

I. Dorothea was baptized 2Gth March 15()9, and married 24th Oct. 1587 (2)
llobert Hatley Esq. of Bedfordshire, by whom she had issue.

H. Elizabeth, married in 1592 Sir Jerome Horsey Kt., who was knighted at
Whitehall 23d July 1603, (5) and was Sheriff of Bucks in 1611. Their son and
heir Jerome was baptized at Great Hampden 25th Jan. 1593-4.

HI. 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 Scudamore Kt., and thirdly, Henry Leigh Esq. of Rushall, who
was Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1622, and was buried at Iiu.-h:iil 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 gcrman of Elizabeth Boteler, the wife of the first
Sir Anthony Chester. He 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.

lloBKiiT Wai.lkr of BKcoNsriKM) Blcks Oent. AVill dated :>lst Dec. KjI.").

My son and lieir Edmond AValler to have all my estate, real and personal, not otlior\vise
disposed of, but my wife is to ]iavc the use of my house, &c. until he comes of age. To my
younger sons Griffith and Steven Waller, X'500 each at 21. To my daughters who arc unmanied
at the time of my death, loUi) each at the ago of !(>. My wife to be my sole executiix.

CoDKii,, dated IDtli Feb. lOlo-lO. To my son John, who was born since the date of my Will,
£oOO at n.

Will proved in C.P.C. 7th Feb. ir.KM? by the widow Anue Waller. [17 Wcldou,]

HAMPDEN OF GKEAT IlAm'DEN. 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 AValler 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 liis 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 1043. (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 Robert and a daughter Anne, the wife of Sir Frederick Hyde Kt., Chief-
Justice of South Wales.

Anne Waller of Beconsfikld Bucks Widow. Will dated 8tli Nov. 1052.

To be buried in Beconsficld 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 Tom plans and Ursula Dobbins, JclOO each. To my grandchild Robert Waller, the
Bell Inn at Beconsfield, which I bought of my cousin Edmond Waller Esq., of Gregory's. To my
grandchildren llobert and Anna Mary Waller, my two great diamond rings : Robert to choose
one, and his sister to have the other. To my grandchild Mary Waller, daughter of my son
Edmond, i:lOO at her age of 11. To my said son Edmond, all my household stuff, furniture, and
plate. The residue of my personal esUte to be equally divided between my said gi-andchildren
Robert and Anna Mar}' Waller. My loving friend Mr. George Gosnold to be my executor. To
my grandchild Edmond Petty Esq., Mo.

Will proved in C.P.C. 2d Aug. 1()5;3 by the executor.

Edmund AValler'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 lie ' 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 monument 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 8000/., 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

• Rev. S. J. Bowles, Rector of Beaconsfield, assures me that this is the true date, and that the poet's
M.I. is incorrectly jmnted in Lipscomh's History of Bucks (iii. 201).

t Commnnicated by Mr. W. H. Oyerall, the conrteons librarian of the Corporation of London.

91 THB CHESTBRS OP CHICHELKY.

the custody of her person was intrusted to her uncle Robert 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 o£f from Alderman Tichbome'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 14th June, when the Lord Mayor
reported that ^ Mr. [Edmond] Waller hath diverse tymes attempted to >^sit 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. AValler 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 8000/.) 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 2000/.
at her own pleasure, the Court was pleased Ho 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 Ha^ipdex, 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. (1590-7).

My dearest wife Elizabeth to have the chamber in Hampden House she shall chuse, with the
furniture thereof, also i'lOO in jewels and j£iO in plate, which she brought with her. To my friend
Sir Henry Cromwell £6 for a ring. To my uncle Warren my best gray ambling gelding, and to

HAMPDEN OF GREAT HAMPDEN. 91*

my aunt Warren liis wife a ring. To each of my sisters ^5 for a bracelet. To my brother
Horsey a gelding or £Q 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 uncle Weston
my bay mare called * bale Peter;' and to my cousin William Hampden of Emmiugton her colt.
To my brother Oglethorpe the colt of my gray mare. To my brotlier Edmund Hampden my
black trotting gelding. To Mr. Richard Cromwell a gray gelding. To Mr. Robert Heines my
gray mare. To Nicholas Bosse my little gray mare. To each of my sister's children who are
my godchildren ^10. To Francis Cooper M 13«. -kl. To Dorotliy 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 ^iO.
My cousins William Hampden of Emmington and George Croke of Chilton Bucks Esquires to
be my executors.

Witnesses : E. Oglethorpe, Richard Woodcock, and R. Heines.

Will proved in C.P.C. 9th June 1597. [52 Cobham.]

John Haisipdf^ ^ 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 Parish of St. Mary's, Reading,
Bebks, Widow. Will dated 25th Sept. 1006.

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, ray 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 J Mrs. Ehzabeth
Hamond, my diamond lockett and my gold tablet, wherein is my father's picture. To my
grandchild:^ Mary Hamond, a diamond ring. To my grandchild^ Letitia Hamond, my
wedding ring, &c. To my niece Durham, a bed, &c. To my faithful pastor Mr. Christopher
Fowler, ^20. To Leticia Tliistlethwaite, 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, i*25, and to his wife ^largaret, ^'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.

Will proved 22d May lOGO in C.P.C. [90 Mico.]

* Alexander Hampden of Hartwell was knighted at his own hoase by James I. on 30th Jane 1603,
when the King was on a visit there. (5) Nichols has on this occasion confascd Hartwell House with
Hampden House (Progrestes of James I. i. 198).

t Griffith Hampden was admitted at the Inner Temple in November 1560. (3)

^ Lady Vachell was doubly connected with the Hamonds. Her * nephew Robert Hamond' was the
son of her sister Elizabeth, and the executor of his grandfather Sir Francis Knollys in 1648. Her
* grandchildren Hamond' vere the children of Colonel Robert Hamond, the well-known Governor of
Carisbrook Castle, who died in 1653, by Mary Hampden, daughter of the patriot*B first marriage.

THE CIlESTKliS OF CIIICHELEY.

PEDIGREE OF HAMPDEN AND WALLER.

Arms. — Argent, a Baltire Gales between foar eagles displayed Azure : Hampden. Sable, three
walnut leaves Or in bend between two cotizes Argent : Walleb.

Anthony Cave Esq.
of Chicheley ; died
9 Sept. 1558.

1 wifo=f=Thoma8 Ball, 2 h. of =Elizabeth, dau. of Wil-=T=1 h. Robert Waller

Beaconsfield. WUl
dat. 13 Oct. 1658.

liam Duncombe;
widow 1562.

occ.

I —
Judith

Cave,
heir of
Chiche-
ley; marr.
William
Chester
Esq.

Chester of
Chicheley.

— I
Anne Cave,=

coh. ; born

24 Feb.

1544-5 ;

died 31

Dec. 1593.

William Hamp-=

den Esq. of Great

Hampden. Son

and heir ; bapt.

5 Nov. 1670 ; died

2 April 1597.

'Griffith
Hampden
Esq. of
Gt. Hamp-
den ; died
27 Oct. 1591.

of Beaconsfield ; died
1545.

Cecily
Ball; mar.
at Amer-
sham 7
Oct. 1665.

=Edmund
Waller of
ColeshiU
Bucks ;
bur. 10
April
1603.

Hugh Pope, cit.=T=Catha- =p2 h. Sir

and haber-
dasher of Lon-
don. Will dat.
22 Nov. 1562 ;
proved 14 Jan.
1562-3.

rine
Waller;
died
1672.

=Elizabcth, aunt Two

of Oliver Crom- sons ;

well ; bur. 21 four

Feb. 166 1-5, aged daus.
90.

— I
Anne Hamp-=

den; bapt. 10

Dec. 1689 ;

died 9 April

1653.

Henry Bo-
teler Kt of
Hatfield
Woodhall;
marr. 26
July 1563.

John Hampden

THE PATRIOT.

^Robt. Waller Elizabeth Boteler ;

Esq. of ColeshiU ; marr. 24 Oct.
bur. at Beacons- 1689 Sir Anthony
field 2 Sept. 1616. Chester Bart, of

Chicheley.

Richard Hamp- Edmund Waller Four

den; bapt. at the poet; born daus.

Barking Essex 3 March 1605-6; thico

7 Nov. 1696. M.P. died 21 Oct. 1687. sons.
forWendover; bur.
13 Jan. 1659-60.

III.

Cecilia Waller ;

marr. 10 Feb.

1624-6 Nathaniel

Tomkins Esq. of

Waller^s plot.

Chester of
Chicheley.

Martha Cave, third daughter of Antliony Cave of Chicheley, was boru 24tli
Feb. 1545-6, and married John Ncwdigate 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 John 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 KOXWELL. 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. Warwicky burned.' (13)

IV.

Mary Cave, the youngest daughter of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, was bom
Ist Nov. 1556, nearly eighteen months after the date of her father's Will, and
married Sir Jerome Weston Kt. of Skreens Manor in Roxwell, the son and heir
of her late stepfather Judge TVeston. 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 (ver^* inaccurately) in Harwood's edition of Erdeswick's Survey of Stafford--
ghirej 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 firom 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 CHE8TERS OF CHICUELEY.

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. W^ill dated 20th June 1614.

If I die in the parish 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 * Masyudewe' [Maison Dicu] at Dover, on condition that the Master and
Brethren pray for the souls of Sir Harry Overe, John Chapman, Kobert Basey, and Agnes
Sislington.

to my cousin Joan with my sister at Keldon (Kelvedon) vij \md. and to my sister x». One
tliird part of my estate to be divided between my five children, viz. to Master Weston in the New
College at Oxford J^o, to Richard Weston X*10, to Thomas and John Weston £20 each, and the
residue to Mary Weston on her marriage.

One other Uiird 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 WiUiam Weston her eldest son, and Thomas Weston her son, to be my
executors.

Will proved in C. P. C. 6th Feb. 1614-15. [31 Fettiplace.]

John Weston, the fourth son of WilHam the testator, is said by Morant to

^ I subjoin an abstract of the Wills of Robert and James Weston io 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 in his Will (p. 85) is equally silent about his supposed brothers and sisters.

Robert Weston, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Will dated 2d May 1673.

to my wife Alice, whom I make my sole executrix, all my goods and chattels whataoever, and es-
pecially my lease of the parsonage of Isleworth and Twickenham, with the advowson and prebend of Saw-,
ley in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, now in 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, <fec. to my dan. Alice, now wife to the Lord Bishop of
Meath, all my arras hangings in the great chamber of St. Pulchers, and my great gilt cap. to my young
nephews (grandsons) Luke and Elizabeth Bradie two angels each, io my sUter Ball a lease, to my
dau. Elizabeth Weston 200 marks towards her marriage, to my cousin John Ball all my books.

Wm proved in C. P. C. 18th July 1573. [25 Petre.J

James Weston of Lichfield the elder. Will 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, until he is 24, and then £30 a year for his wife, to be paid to him by my eon
and heir Simon Weston. My ancestors having long been tenants to the Myttons of the lands which I
hold at Newlands, 1 will that either my son Simon or my dau. Alice give a reasonable portion for it. to
my two sisters and my brother Christopher rings of 20«. each. John Mytton Esq. of Weston, my son
Simon, and my dau. Alice Weston, to be my executors. My brother Lowe, my cousin Bardell, and mj
son-in-law Humfry Wells, to be overseers of my WiU.

Will proved 24th May 1589 in C. P. C. [48 Leicester.]

' The two sisters* mentioned in James Weston's Will were evidently Alice Ball and Cathezine Djott,
both of Lichfield.

WESTON OF ROXWELL. 95

Tiave been the father of Richard 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 Ermhie^ on a chief azure five bezants y 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 Richard Weston in the Visitation
of Essex in 1614. They are wholly different from the arms of the Westons of
Rugeley, which were Ch^j 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 Richard Weston of Rugeley 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 Rox-
well, which he purchased in 1554. (20) He was made Solicitor-General in 1557,
and was raised to the Bench as a Judge of Common Pleas 16th Oct. 1559, which
o£Sce he retained until his death. (20) He died 6th July 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,
(2 1) 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 Robert.
(21) This settlement is dated 1st April 12th Eliz. (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 still 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 Not. 1521. He mentions his wife Cecily, his four sons —
William Weston the elder, John, Humphrey, and William the younger — and his daughter Cecily. The
testator was evidently a man of considerable substance and advanced in years, for his eldest son William
was already the father of four sous, who were named William, Richard, 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 Christian names of both
families.

96 THE CHESTKRS OF CHXCHELEV.

Dunmow and Joan Slade cousin (consanguineam) of Richard 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.

Richard Weston had three wives. By his first wife Wiburga, daughter of
Michael Catesby Esq. of Seaton in Rutlandshire, and widow of Richard Jenoure Esq.
of Great Dunmow, he had issue Jerome his son and heir, and Amphillis wife of Sir
Benjamin Tichbome Kt. and Bart, of Tichbome Hants. By his second wife Mar^
garet, daughter of Eustace Bumeby Esq., whose burial is recorded at Roxwell 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
Roxwell 3d March 1590-1. Margaret, baptized at Roxwell 3d May 1564, married,
first John Loveday Esq., and secondly Andrew Glascock Esq. of Eltham Park Kent
Richard Weston married thirdly at Chicheley on 7th July 1566 fUizabeth, the
widow of John Newdigate and of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, but had no fiirther
issue.

Jerome Weston, the son and heir of Richard 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 Sheriflf of Essex in 1599,
and was knighted at the Charterhouse by James I. on the 11th May 1603. (s)
He married two wives. His first wife, Mary Cave, was the mother of his children,
and was buried at Roxwell 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 Jerome Weston survived his second
wife and died 31st Dec. 1603, and was buried at Roxwell 17th Jan. 1603-4.

Sir Jerome Weston Kt. of Roxwell co. Essex.

Will dated 28th Dec. 1603.

to William 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 Richard and him, I desire that the said accounts
may be settled by Henry Glascock Gent.. Wm. Loveday Gent., and William Courtman Gent,
or two of them. My son Sir Richard Weston and my son-in-law Sir Edward Pincheon to be my
executors.

Mem. that the testator after making his Will devised to Anne Williams his daughter, wife of
John Williams Esq., an annuity of ^10. (Signed. Richd. Weston. Edwd. Pjmchon.)

Will proved 21 Nov. 1604 in C. P. C. [84 Harte.]

Sir Jerome Weston had issue by his first wife four sons and six daughters.
I. Richard, his son and heir, of whom presently.
n. WiLLLVM, mentioned in his father's Will.

WESTON OF ROXWELL. 97

III. John, bapt. at Roxwell 27th Sept. 1581, was buried 27th May 1585.

IV. Jerome, bapt. at Roxwell 12th Dec. 1585, was buried 2d Jan. 1585-6.

I. Anne Weston, married at Roxwell, 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 Charing-cross on the Monday following. (22) He left
several cliildren, of whom Robert was baptized at Roxwell 12th March 1599-1600.

II. Elizabeth Weston married Nicholas Cotton Esq. of Hornchurch Essex, and
had a son Richard, baptized at Roxwell 30th Sept. 1599, and Jerome, baptized there
11th March 1607-8.

m. Mary Weston, baptized at Roxwell 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 June 1603, (5) and died 6th May 1625, leaving issue. He has a noble monu-
ment in the chancel of Writtle Church. (2 j)

V. Winifred Weston, baptized at Roxwell 3d March 1589-90, had a marriage
portion of 800/. under her father's Will, and married at Roxwell, 27th Aug. 1607,
Richard Gardiner Esq. of Leatherhead Surrey.

VI. Margaret Weston, baptized at Roxwell 5th August 1593, had the same
portion as her sister Winifred, and married Edward Leventhorpe Esq.

Richard Weston, the son and heir of Sir Jerome, was born at his grandmother's
house at Chicheley, and was baptized there Ist 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. Richard was knighted at Whitehall by
James I. on 23d July 1603, (5) and was M.P. for Midhurst in the first parlia-
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 CHESTEBS OF CHICHELKY.

appears, from the Treasurer's account of free giflts bestowed by the King, that Sir
Richard Weston received 200Z. in 1605, 3001. in 1606, 1700/. 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 Richard 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
with 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 100/. 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 Pire Cyprien of Gamachc*,
who relates that he had long been in private correspondence with Father Joseph 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, Hampdens, and
Newdigates, were staunch Protestants. The fact that his wife and sisters were zeal-
ous adherents to the Church of Rome 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

RICHARD EARL OF PORTLAND K.G. 99

Maria to the French Court on the subject of religion. (30) A statesman in his
position would be likely 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, bs 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 Treasurer 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 Strafford. (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 rated 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 Richard, who died young, and two daughters.

L 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. 1654t {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. Richard Weston, Lord High Treasurer of
England, was buried March 24th.

t From the ParUh Register of St. Giles in the Fields. 1664, Sept. 16. Lady Elizabeth Nettenrille
buried. 1655, Oct. 15. Major Symon Nettenrille, from Tichbome, buried. 1659, Sept. 3. John Lord
Yisoount Netteryille buried.

100 THE CHESTEES OF CHICHELEY.

II. Lady Mary Weston was baptized at Eoxwell 2d Jan. 1 602-3, 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.

L Jerome succeeded his father as second Earl of Portland.

n. Thomas Weston succeeded his nephew as fourth Earl of Portland.

in. 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 against the Bill for the attainder of Lord Strafford. (33) He was expelled
from the House with his colleague Colonel George Goring 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 Uttle is known about his wife and child. His
widow Margaret is mentioned in the Will of EarlJerome 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 Roxwell 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-Tliames, 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 RegitUr of Waltonon-Thanut. 1662. The Right Honhle. Elizaheth Countess of
Anglesey buried 18 April, at night. 1662-3. The Bight Honhle. Jerome £ari of Poriiland buried 22 March.

RICHARD EARL OF PORTLAND K.G. 101

(38) He left no Will, and I have 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 Roxwell 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-
serv'ed 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. O. M.

KxTHARiNiE Weston,
Comitis Portlandi^e Magni Angliad
Thesaurarii filiae, singulari pictato,

integritato, modestia pnedita;.

quae fidci Catholics causa Angliam

descrcns cum viro et familia, tandem

Homam vcnit, ac post varias triennio

placidissime tolleratas aerumnas, relictis

octo liberis, ad meliorem vitam abiit,

ii. CaL Nov. anni mdcxlv. aetatis suae xxxiix.

Kichardus Wliite, ex Albiorum Essexien.

antiqua stirpe, conjngi amantiss. posnit.

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
Mimdo. He was sub-rector of Douay College, and died in 1676.

IL Lady Frances Weston, baptized at Roxwell 29th March 1612, married
Philip Draycote Esq. of Paynesley in Staffordshire.

m. 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 4000Z. 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. 1
have not found when she died, but she survived her brother Earl Jerome, and was
living at St. Monica's in 1658 with her niece Dorothy Weston, the daughter 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 24th Feb. 1643-4.

My debts to be aU paid, as my servant Bridget Draycote knoweth them, to the said Bridget
Draycote i-200. to my servant Edward Lyon ^20, besides iglO which I owe him. to my servant
Florence Powell ^10. to my sister Whitebread all the gold that is in the house, to my god-
daughter Mary Walgrave my ruby Jewell, 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 £100. my son Benjamin Weston to be my sole executor.

Will proved in C. P. C. 6th April 1646. [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 13th March 1634-5,
when he sold for 12,000/. 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 Treasurer 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
Richmond. 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 urged 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 the 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 From the Parish Register of Putney Surrey. 1632. June (no day) Jerome, son to the Right Honblt.
Rich. Lord Weston, High Treasurer of England, and the Lady Frances Steward married.
1G34. 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 ( — ) . . . daughter of Jerome Earl of Portland and Lady Frances, bapt

JEROME EARL OF PORTLAND. 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 royal
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
his 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
firom 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
lOOOZ. to the Earl and securing an annuity of 200L 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 ^;ie could in his then posi-
tion obtain, rather 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 this 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 firom 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 OF 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 was buried on 22d March 1662-3.

Jerome Earl of Portland. Will dated 4th Nov. 1667.

Whereas by deed dated 6th May 1662, and made between mjrself, the Lady Frances Ck)imte88
of Portland my wife, and Nicholas Weston Esq. my brother, of the one part, and Benjamin Weston
Esq. another of my brothers, Chaloner Chute of the Middle Temple Esq., and Ghaloner Chute his
son and heir apparent, of tlie other part, the manors ofWhittlesea, St. Andrew, and Whittlesea St
Mary were settled to such uses as I should appoint, I do now direct and appoint that in case I
die without issue male, or in case my issue male shall not attain the age of 21, then the said
manors shall stand to the use of my brother Thomas Weston Esq. for life, 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 1664-6 and made between my brother Benjamin Weston
of Walton-on-Thames Esq. of the one part, and myself of tlie other part, a certain capital mes-
suage and 600 acres of land in 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 600 acres be sold and the
proceeds applied in pa3rment of my debts and legacies.

to my sister Lady Mary Weston £100 per annum for her life, 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 6«. ^. to Sir John
Meux Bart. £60. to Mr. William Ashbumham £40. to Mr. WiUiam Moore £100. to Mr. William
Page £160. to Mr. Charles Cotton the elder £30. to my servant Christopher Robinson £100.
to Thomas Nuttall £26. the residue to my wife. My brother Benjamin Weston to be my sole
executor.

Codicil dated 27th Oct. 1660. I revoke the bequest of my capital messuage in Whittlesea to
my wife, and I bequeath the same to my brotlier 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 £200
per annum to my son Charles Lord Weston, and to take care of my daughters.

Will confirmed 8th Oct. 1661. Admon granted in C. P. C. 8th Sept. 1663 to the widow
Frances Countess of Portland, the said Boiyamin Weston having renounced. [115 Juxon.]

CHARLES EAEL OF PORTLAND. 105

Earl Jerome had issue five children, a son and four daughters :

I. Charles his son and heir, third Earl of Portland.

L 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.

HE. Catharine, baptized at Putney 5th May 1636, died unmarried before her
mother.

IV. Elizabeth, baptized at Putney ( . . ) Jidy 1637.

All these daughters eventually entered religion, and became nims in the Convent
of the Poor Clares of Eouen (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 m
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 ofi^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 29th 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 uncle 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 Cambridgeshire, 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
Hoose 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 £-^0 per annum, as 1 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. 1666-6 by Francis Bramston, and on 2d March 1666-6 by
Wm. Glascock. [23 Mico.]

Thomas Weston, the second son of the Lord Treasurer by his second wife, was
baptized at Roxwell 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 OpiCHELEY.

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 poorj and retired to Flanders, where he lived in a
monastery, ^ cheerful and well contented.' (55) Just before Christmas 1687, James
II. sent him 100/. fix)m his privy purse through James Porter; (56) but he died the
next year at Louvain, when the Earldom of Portland became extinct.

Frances Countess of 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 famiUes
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 III. 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 lOOOZ. 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 Dowaoeb of Portland. Will dated 21st Sept. 1692.

to be buried in Westminster Abbey, near the Countess o£ 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 Inn Esq., all my estates in trust, &c. to my daughter the Lady Henrietta
Weston ^600, also .£50 per annum for life, and the plate, Unen, and pictures belonging to my
chapeL to my daughter the Lady Frances Weston i-30 per annum for life, to my daughter
the Lady Elizabeth Weston £20 per annimi for life, to my niece Lady Elizabeth Mack-

• Henry Charles Howard of Greystoke, father of Charles ninth Dnke of Norfolk, was the son and
heir of Charles Howard of Deepden, brother of Henry sixth Dnke of Norfolk, and fourth son of Henry
Earl of Anmdell by Lady Elizabeth Stuart, sister of the testatrix.

t Henry Hortdeznell occurs in 1684 Recorder of Tangiers, and in 1688 Chief-Justice of the Baha-
mas. (56)

FRANCES COUNTESS OP PORTLAND. 107

Donnell'*' jglOO, and to Mr. Randolph MackDonnell her son j£60 per annum for life,
and sundry plate, to the Marchioness of Albarez,f sister to the present Duke of Norfolk, j£500. to
the Marquis ofDouglasj sundry hangings and pictures, to the Duchess of Gordon§ the picture
of her grandmother the Lady Arundell. to the Countess of Abbercone|| £300. to the Lady Dorothy
Walkerir £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 £100. to Miss Rupert,** daughter to Prince Rupert, the Queen 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 £30 per annum for life, to Mary Phillips my
woman, £300. to Lewis Marist £50 beyond his wages, to Mr. Tillingham £50. to Mr. Edward Aisley
£100, and £20 p. a. for life, to my Lord Viscount Balewff 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, | j wife of Sir Joseph
Williamson, 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 Whittlesea Isle of Ely. to my
nephew the Marquis Duglass of Scotland sundry pictures, and to my niece the Countess of Aber-
com £200 &c., beside their former bequests.

Proved 50th March 1694 by both executors in C. P. C. [63 Box.]

^ Lady Elixabeth MaeDonnelly 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. (5S) 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 MarchioneMt of Albarez was Lady Frances Howard, daughter of Henry sixth Duke of Norfolk,
who married in Flanders in 1680 the Marques di Yalparessa of Spaia. Her father the Duke of Norfolk,
in his Will dated 5th January 1683, says, * to my daughter the Lady Frances Marchioness of Yalparessa
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 Madrid, and my son
Thomas is to see that this is done.* The Marques came to England in 1685 as Envoy Extraordinaiy 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)

X The Marquess of Douglas was the son of Archibald Earl of Angus by Anne Stuart, sister of the
testatrix.

I Elizabeth, wife of Alexander first Duke of Gordon, was the daughter of Henry sixth Duke of
Norfolk, and died 16th July 1732.

Ij Catharine^ wife of Charles fifth Earl of Abercom, was the only child of James Lord Paisley, the
uterine brother of the testatrix.

IT 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
Yisoonnt How.

f f Walter second Lord Bellew married in September 1686 Fraoces Arabella, sister of Thomas Earl
of Strafibrd and Maid of Honour to the Queen of James II.

%% Lady Catharine O'Brien, wife of Henry Lord O'Brien who died let December 1676, and then of
Sir Joseph Williamson Kt. Secretary of State, was the only child of James Duke of Richmond aad
Lennox, the eldest brother of the testatrix.

108

THE CHESTEBS OF CHICHELEY.

PEDIGREE OF WESTON EABLS OF PORTLAND.

Arm B : Ermine, on a chief azore fiye bezants, with a martlet for difference, Wbston.
Or, an eagle regardant and displayed aable, Eabl of Pobtlamd.

RegUters not tpecified are from Roxwell, f from Putney.

Anthony Cave (1 h.)*
Esq. of Chicheley
Bngks; died 9 Sept.
1558 ; M. I. at Chi-
cheley.

Mary Gave (1 ■

w.) coheir, bom

1 Nov. 1556 ;

bur. 6 Oct.

1593.

■Elizabeth dan. of :
ThoB.LoTett£Bq.
IV. of Astwell.
m. 2 h. John Newdi-
gate Eeq. who died
1565 ; marr. Sdly
7 July 1566 at Chi-
cheley; died widow
1577.

:3 h. Richard Weston-
Esq. of Skreensin
Roxwell 00. Essex,
Judge of Common
Pleas 1559-72 ; died
6 Jnly 1572 ; bnr.
at WritUe.

'1 w. "^bnrga, dan. -f^ w. Margaret,

of Michael Oatesby
Esq. of Seaton co.
Rutland, and widow
of Richard Jenoure
Esq. of Danmow.

dan. of Eustace
Bnmeby Esq.;
bur. 10 Apiil
1565.

'Sir Jerome Wes-=2 w. Mar-
ton Et. of gery, dau.
Skreens, son and of Qeo.
heir; Sheriff of Pert.
Essex 1599; died
31 Dec. 1603 ;
bnr. 17 Jan.
1603-4.

I r 1

AmphillisWes- Nicholas; Winifred; Margaret; bap.

ton; marr. Sir oco.1572. died 8 May 1564;

BenjaminTich- num.; bur. m. 1, John

borne Et. and
Bart.

8 March
1590-1.

LoTeday Esq.;
2, Andrew
Olascock
Esq. olElt-
ham Kent.

Eliz.,dau.of(l-f-S
w.) William
Pincheon
Esq. ofWrittle;
bur. 15 Feb.
1602-8.

lir Richard Wes-
ton E.G., Baron
Weston 1628, Earl
of Portland 1688,
Lord High Trea-
surer ; died 18
March 1684-5; bur.
in Winchester Ca-
thedral.

Richard, Elizabeth ; Mary ;
son and m. 1628 bapt. 2
heirappa- John Vis-
rent ; died oountNet-
young. terrille.

Jan.

1602-8; m.
Walter
Lord As-
ton of
Tixall.

w. Frances,
dau.ofNioholas
WaldegraTC
Esq. of Bore-
ley Essex, died
1645.

n \ r

2. William.

8. John; bap.
27 Sept. 1581 ;
bur. 27 May
1585.

4. Jerome;
bapt. 12 Dec
1585 ; bur. 2
Jan. 1585-6.

— I \ r-

1. Anne ; m. 5

Dec. 1590 John

Williams Esq.

2. Elizabeth;
m. Nicholas
Cotton Esq. of
Homchuroh.

8. Mary;bap.
26 April 1579;
m. William
Clarke Esq. of
Wrotham
Kent.

— I 1 1

4. Dorothy;

m. Sir Edward
Pincheon Et.

5. Winifred;
bapt. 8 March
1589-90; m. 27
Aug. 1607
Richard Oar-
diner Esq. of
Leatherhead.

6. Margaret;
bapt. 5 Aug.
1598 ; m. Ed-
ward Leven-
thorpe Esq.

1. Catherine ; bapt.
8 June 1607; m.
Richard White
Esq. of Button
Essex; died 22
Oct 1645.

2. Frances; 8. Anne; m.

bapt. 29 March Basil Earl of

1612;m.PhiUp Denbigh; died

Drayoot Esq. 10 March

of Paynesley 1684-5. s. p. .
CO. Staff.

4. Mary

Weston ;

occ. unm.

1685, 1660.

PEDIGREE OF WESTON.

109

Jerome 2d«

Earl of Port-

landyBon and

heir; died

17 March

1662-3; M.

LatWalton-

on-Thames.

■Frances,
dan.ofEsme
Stewart
Dnke of
Lennox; m.
Jane 1682 ;t
bnr.atWest-
minster Ab-
bey 24 Mar.
1693-4.

2. Thomas =
4th Earl of
Portland,
nnde and
heir; bapt.
9 Oct. 1609;
m, 1667 ;
died 1688.
s. p.

Anne,
widow of
Moontjoy
Earl of
Newport;
died 1669.

Charles SdEarl
of Portland;
bapt at St.
Margaret's
Westminster
19 May 1639 ;
diednnm. 5
June 1665.

1. Henrietta
Maria; bapt. 2
May 1633; ooc.
1692, a nun.

2. Frances ;
bapt. 3 July
1634 ;t occ.
1692, a nnn.

3. Catherine;

bapt. 5 May
1636 ;t occ. a
nun 1665 ; died
before 1692.

4. Elizabeth;
bapt. 11 July
1637; t occ.
1692, a nan.

3. Nicholas
Weston ;
bapt. 10
May 1611 ;
M.P. for
Portsmoath
1640; died
1656; m.
Margaret,
occ. widow,
1660.

Dorothy, a
child 1658.

4. Benjamin^
Weston; bapt.
4 Aag. 1614 ;
M.P. for Dover
1640; of Ashley
Hoase,Walton.
on-Thames ;
occ. 1676 ; died
before 1688.

-Elizabeth, wi-
dow of Chris-
topher T^lliers
Earl of Angle-
sey ; bar. at
Walton 18 April
1662.

Elizabeth ; m. Sir Anne ; died
Charles Shelley yoang.
Bart, of Michel-
grove ; died 1695.

The Bey. Thomas T. Heam, Viear of Boxwell, has been kind enoagh to extract from his Parish Re-
gister all the entries of the family of Weston.

BAPTISMS.

1564, May 8. Margaret Weston.
1579, April 26. Maria Weston.
1581, Sept. 27. John Weston.
1585, Dec. 12. Jerome Weston.
1589-90, March 3. Winifred Weston.
1598, Ang. 5. Margaret Weston.

1602-3, Jan. 3. Marie Weston.

1607, Jane 8. Catherine, dan. of Sir Rich. Weston.

1609, Oct. 9. Thomas, son of same.

1611, May 10. Nicholas, son of same.

1612, March 29. Frances, danghterof same.
1614, Aag. 4. Benjamin, son of same.

KABBIAGES.

1590, Dec. 6. John Williams and Anne Weston.

1607, Aag. 27. Mr. Richard Gardiner and Mrs. Winifred Weston.

BUaULS.

1565, April 10. Mrs. Margaret Weston.
1588, May 27. John Weston.
1585-6, Jan. 2. Jerome Weston.
1590-1, March 8. Mrs. Winifred Weston.

1598, Oct. 6. Mrs. Marie Weston.
1602-3, Feb. 12. Mrs. Elizabeth Weston.
1603-4, Jan. 17. Sir Jerome Weston.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(i) Progresses of Qaeen Elizabeth, iiL 660.
(i) Parish Register of Great Hampden.

(3) Printed List of Students of the Inner Temple,

1571-1625.

(4) Baker's Northamptonshire, L 15.

(5) Progpresses of James I.

(6) CoU. Top. et Gen. t. 214.

(7) Fed. of Waller in Lipscomb's Backs, iii. 182.

(8) State Trials, iv. 682.

(9) Life of Waller in Johnson's Lives of the Poets.

(10) Seymonr's London, i. 699.

(11) Life of John NewdigateinAthenflBCantab.ii.l2.

(12) Wotton's Baronetage, 1741, iii. 618.

(13) Hist, of Si Mildred's Poaltry and St. Mary

Colecharch, by T. Milboam, 1872.

(14) Dagdale's Baronage, iii. 432.

110

THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY.

(15) Add. Mss. 18667, in Brit. Mas.

(16) Ejton'B Shropshire, vii. 206; Notes and

Queries, 4th S. ix. 856, and x. 50.

(17) Morant*s Hist, of Essex, ii. 171.

(18) Herald and Genealogist, iii. 426.

(19) Ck>mmimicated from the Records of the Col-

lege of Arms hy my friend, Mr. G. E.
Adams, Lancaster Herald.

(10) Morant, ii. 71 ; Life of Rich. Weston in Foss's

Judges, vol. v.

(11) Inq. p. m. Johis. Milbome, 86 Eliz. Essex.

Court of Wards and Liveries, part 15, f . 44.

(12) For the Case and Trial of John Williams, see

State Trials, ed. Howell, ii. 1086 ; Rolle's
Reports, ii. 88; and Court of James I.
vol. ii. p. 147, 157-160.

(13) Morant's Essex, ii. 66.

(14) 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. 831.

(30) Howel's Letters, 1688, vol. i. p. 284.

(31) Lodgers Peerage of Ireland, 1754, ii. 804.

(32) The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, re-

lated by themselves. Ed. Morris, 1872.

(33) Vemey'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) Hutehins* Hist of Dorset, 1870, vol i. p. 31

(37) Journals of the House of Commons.

(38) Additions to Dugdale^s Baronage in Coll.

Top. et Gen. ii. 882 ; Herald and Geneal-
ogist, iii. 192.

(39) Ped. of White in Morant*B Essex, i. 195.

(40) Rawlinson*s ms. in Bodleian Library, quoted

in Notes and Queries, 3d S. vii. 443.

(41) Evelyn's Diary, 18th Oct. 1671, and 25tli

May 1651.

(42) Strafford Papers, i. 468.

(43) Letters of Nicholas to Charles I., printed in

voL iv. of Evelyn*8 Memoirs.

(44) ParL Hist. iii. 181.

(45) Journals of House of Lords.

(46) Memoirs of Bulstrode Whitelocke 1860, p.

459-81.

(47) Pari. Hist. iv. 44.

(48) Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 759.

(49) Waller's Poems, ed. Bell, 1854, p. 228.

(50) Dugdale*B Origines Judio. p. 157.

(51) Letter from the Earl of Northumberland in

the Sidney Papers.

(52) Manning and Bray's Hist, of Surrey, ii. 767.

(53) Herald and Genealogist, iii. 426.

(54) Pepys's Diary.

(55) Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, p. 103.

(56) Secret Services of Charles II. and James n.»

Camden Society.

(57) Luttrell's Diary.

(58) Lodge's Peerage, 1754, i. 106.

(59) The Howard Papers by Causton, p. 247.

Note on the Paeemtaoe of Richard Weston (p. 98). The doubts expressed in the text respecting
Segar's statement, that John Weston of Lichfield was the father of Richard Weston the Judge, apply with
still greater force to the statement, that his mother was Lady Cedly 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 iu any way to their illustrious connexions. The whole stoiy seems to depend on
a deed, abstracted by Segar, ' Sciant omnes &c. quod ego Johannes Weston de Rugeley Senior, gen. dedi
<S:c. ad usum Johis. Weston junioris filii mei et Cecilie uxoris ejus, sororis Radi Com. Westmoreland, Ac.
Dat. Lichfield 15 July, 18 Hen. YIU.* (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. Tlie 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 p<n\ regUtev of Chicheley) :

• ir)7-2, November 25. Jerome Weston and ^larie Cave married.'

SIR ANTHONY CHESTER KT. AND BART. Ill

CHAPTER IX.

St?* Anthony Chester Kt. and Bart, of Chidieley^ 1566-1635. II. The
Inq.p. m. of Sir Anthony Chester^ held at Olney 7th Oct. 1636. III. Dame
Mary Chestei\ second wife of Sir Anthony Chester Bart. 1631-1692. IV.
The Children of Sir Antho7iy Chester Bart, by hisjh'st wife Elizabeth Boteler.
V. Pediffree,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 bom in London at his father's house in Lime-street, and was
baptized in the adjacent Church of St. Dionis Fenchurch-street on 10th April 1566.
(i) He was little more than four 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 Queen 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 Henrj- 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 was insti-

^ Thomas Gardiner may have been a grandson of Sir William GicBter. He was buried at Chicheley
6th June 1632. [Par. Reg.]

112 THE CH£ST£RS OF CHICHELEY.

tutcd in the ninth year of his reign. Every Baronet was required to pay a fine of
1095/, on his creation, but the new honour was eagerly sought after by the countn'
gentlemen, since knighthood had lost much of its ancient repute by the indiscrimi-
nate manner in whicli 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 they
were men of quality and good reputation, who were gentlemen of coat armour for
three descents at least, and who possessed in land lOOOZ. 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 Chestcrs. 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 ofRhee in 1627 Sir Anthony's youngest son Robert 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, wliich 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 : ' Sobrie. juste, pie. 1601.' The historians
of Buckinghamshire have failed to identify the Hansel's estate in Chicheley, and
therefore have fallen into the mistake of supposing that it was the estate purchased
by the Chesters in 1565. (6) But it is certain from the parish registers that the
Mansels were resident in Chicheley until after 1607, and that Balney was sold by
John Mansel some few yeai-s before the date of his Will in 1621.

Sir Anthony completed his purchases by obtaining from the Crown on 23d Dec.
1623 a grant of the impropriate rectory of Chicheley. (7) An increased estate
brings with it increased burdens, and accordingly the Privy Seal addressed to Sir

SIR ANTHONY CHESTER KT. AND BART. 113

Anthony Chester in 1626 demanded a loan of 40/., although in 1604 his contribu-
tion to a similar loan was fixed at SOL only. (8)

In 1627 he obtained the royal license to settle his manor of Tilsworth and his
Bedfordshire estate on his favourite son Henry, who was then on tlie point of mar-
riage, and this was carried into effect by deed dated 10th March 1627-8. At the
end of the same year (on 2d Dec. 1628) he executed a similar settlement of Chi-
cheley in favour of his eldest son Anthony, wlio liad married some years before
without his sanction Elizabeth Pej-ton, the granddaughter of that distinguished
veteran Sir John Peyton Kt., some time Lieutenant of the Tower, and afterwards
Governor of Jersey.

Sir Anthony was in 1628 appointed High SheriflF of Bedfordshire, and had the
royal license on 4th Dec. 1628 to reside at Chicheley Hall during his term of
office. (9) This permission was highly necessarj^, for at that time the Sheriff was
required to reside within his bailiffwick under the severesf penalties. In Hilary
Term 1629 Walter Long Esq. Sheriff of Wilts and M.P. for Bath was convicted in
the Star Chamber for absenting himself from Wiltshire in order to attend in Par-
liament, and was condemned to pay a fine of 2000 marks and to be imprisoned in
the Tower during the King's pleasure. (10)

Sir Anthony was still Sheriff when he lost his wife, for Elizabeth Lady Chester

died 5th April 1629, having been the mother of twelve children, seven of whom

survived her. She was buried in Chicheley Church, in a vault on the north side,

and a tablet to her memory bears this inscription :

* Dame Elizabeth Chester diet 6 April 1620 at the age of 03, by whoso vertue and wisdomo
that fieanilj is much advanced.'

Sir Anthony Chester followed the example of his forefathers in making a second
marriage after a short widowhood. His choice fell upon a young lady from York-
shire, who was younger by some years than any of his daughters.

Mary Ellis, the only daughter of John Ellis Esq. of Rowhall and Kiddall in
Yorkshire, belonged to an ancient and loyal family. Her father John Ellis was one
of the first to join the royal standard at Nottingham, but soon after the outbreak of
hostilities * was slain in his own house of Rowhall by the Parliamentary soldiers.'(i i)
His eldest son, William Ellis, was a * Captain of Horse under Lord Inchiquin in
Ireland in the service of Charles I., and was slain in 1647;' whilst his brothers
Henry and Charles both lost their lives in the battlefield, fighting for the King.(ii)
These martyrs to loyalty suffered in an ungrateful cause, for their services were for-
gotten at the Restoration, and their heir William Ellis of Kiddall lived to the age
of eighty without title or reward. {See note at p. 125.)

Sir Anthony Chester married Mary Ellis at Chicheley on 5th Sept. 1631, (i) and
by their marriage settlement dated on 31st Aug. preceding, the manor and impro-
priate rectory of East Haddon in Northamptonshire, with the mansion near the
church there called the parsonage house and 202 acres adjoining, and also an

114 THE CHESTSB8 OF CHICHSLET.

estate of 300 acres in the parishes of Kempston, &c. in Bedfordshire, and of North
Crawley in Bucks, were conveyed to John Ellis Esq. and Walter Calverley Gent,
of Rowhall in Yorkshire, to the use of Lady Mary Chester for her jointure after
the death of Sir Anthony, with remainder to the issue male of their marriage in tail
male. They had issue an only son KoBERT, who was named after the gallant youth
who had fallen in the service of his country in 1627, and was baptized at Chicheley
on 1st April 1633; but with the fatality which has often been observed to attend
the repetition of the same Christian name, he died in boyhood at the age of twelve,
and was buried at St. Martin's in the Fields, London.

We hear little about Sir Anthony after his second marriage, except that he
entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Bucks in 1634, and that he was actively
employed as Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant in that county, (9) His
influence at Court had not been extinguished by the death of the Duke of Buck-
ingham, for his cousin-german Sir Richard Weston was now Lord High Treasurer
of England, and had lately been created Earl of Portland and a Knight of the
Garter. But Sir Anthony was now getting old, and the title of Baronet was suffi;
cient for a coimtry gentleman's ambition. He died at Chicheley on 1st Dec. 1635,
and was buried on 3d Dec. in the church there, beside his first wife.

His son Henry, who was the executor of his Will and his principal heir, erected
a stately monument in the north aisle of Cliicheley Church to his memory. A
knight in armour, and a lady with a long veil thrown back on her shoulders, arc
both kneeling at a desk under a pediment supported by Corinthian pillars and sur-
momited with the amis of Chester quartering Cave andJJoteler, and this inscription:

' Consecrated for tlic memory of his much honoured Father, Sir Antliony Chester, Knight and
Barronett, who died y^ 2 Dec. at y® ago of tlireescore and ten. An. Dni. 1635, Henry Chester,
his third Sonne, hath erected this monument to y« memorie of posteritie, May 1037.'

His will was made on his deathbed, and is very brief.

Sir Anthony Chkstku Baht. of Chicheley Bucks. Will dated 20th Nov. 10.35.

To bo buried in the north part of Chiclieley Church in the same vault with Dame Elizabeth
Chester Baronet,* my first wife : to tlie repairs of Chicheley Church X'lO : to tlic poor of Chicheley
JtlO : to the poor of neighbour-towns £20 : to Thomas Quinney and Francis Franke £?> each : to
the rest of my servants one half-year's wages above what is duo to them : to my sons William
Chester and John Chester £50 a year each, to be paid out of my manor and lauds at Lidlington
Beds : to Dame Mary Chester my wife all my silver plate and household furniture. The residue of
my personal estate to my son Henry Chester, whom I appoint my sole executor.

Will proved in C. P. C. 9th Dec. 1635 by Henry Chester. [123 Sadler.]

This Will in favour of his third son Henry was disputed by the other children, but
sentence was pronounced in its favour in the Ecclesiastical Court on 17th Feb.

^ By the terms of the original patent the wives of Baronets were to * use and enjoy the appeUation
of Lady, Madame, and Dame respectively, according to the custom of speaking,' but their legal designa-
tion seems to have been Baronettcss. Sir Cornelius Spillman, a Dutch General, was created Baronet
9th September 1686 with special precedency for his mother, who was to enjoy the rank and title of a
Baronette$8 of England, (12)

SIB ANTHONY CHESTER KT. AND BART. 115

1636-7, in a suit between Henry Chester the executor, plaintiff, and Lady Mary
Chester als Bell, Sir Anthony Chester Bart., William Chester, John Chester,
Elizabeth Chester als Cressy, and Judith Chester, the other children of the deceased
Baronet, defendants. It may be gathered that the suit had ended in a compromise,
for we find from Sir Henry Chester's Will in 1666 that he voluntarily surrendered
to his brother William in tail male the estate of East Iladdon, and to his brother
John an estate at Snelson in Bucks worth 200/. per annum.

As Sir Anthony Chester had been a tenant in chief of the Crown, the law re-
quired that an inquest should be held after his death to ascertain the lands of which
he had died seised, and the relief due to the Crown from his heir. Accordingly a
writ of diem extremum clausit was duly issued, and in virtue thereof an inquest was
held at Olney on 7th Oct. 1636, before John Hickes Esq. the King's Escheator,
and a sworn jury of seventeen persons. The jurors found by their verdict —

1. That Sir Anthony Chester of Chicheley Bart, had died seised of the manors
of Chicheley and Thickthomes, and also of the impropriate rectory of Chicheley
and the advowson thereof, and also of divers lands and tenements lying within the
parishes of Chicheley, Sherrington, Hardmead Par\^a, Crawley, and Emberton in
Bucks, and that the same were held of the King in chief by Knight's service, and
that their yearly issues beyojid reprises were worth 54/. 135. 4rf. And that by a
certain indenture dated 4th Dec. 1528, and made between the said Sir Anthony
Chester of the first part. Sir John Peyton senr. of Doddington co. Cambridge Kt.
Governor of Jersey, and Sir John Peyton junr. Kt. his son and heir apparent,
John Hampden of Hampden Bucks Esq., and Richard Hampden Esq. his brother,
of the second part^ and Anthony Chester Esq. son and heir apparent of the said
Sir Anthony Chester and Elizabeth his wife, one of the daughters of the said Sir
John Peyton junr. Kt., of the third part, he the said Sir Anthony Chester cove-
nanted with and granted to the said Sir John Peyton senr., Sir John Peyton junr.,
John Hampden, and Richard Hampden, that (in consideration of the marriage be-
tween the said Anthony Chester and Elizabeth his wife, and for the maintenance
and advancement of the said Anthony and Elizabeth during the life of him the said
Sir Anthony, and for a competent and convenient jointure to the said Elizabeth
Che.ster in case she should survive her husband, and in consideration of 3000/. paid
to him by the said Sir John Peyton senr. for the marriage portion of the said Eliza-
beth, and for his natural love and affection to his said son Anthony and to the heirs
male of his body, and to the intent that the said manors and lands sliould remain and
continue in the name, blood, and consanguinity of him the said Sir Anthony Chester
as long as it shall please God) they the said Peytons and Ilampdens, their heirs
and assigns, should thenceforth stand seised of all the said manors and lands to the

116 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELET.

uses following ; that is to say, as to 351 acres specified in the said indenture, to the
use of Anthony Chester the son during his life, and after his death to the use of the
said Elizabeth Chester his wife during her life, and aft«r her death to the use of
Henry Chester Esq. son and heir apparent of the said Anthony and Elizabeth
Chester in tail male, with remainder to the heirs male of the said Anthony and Eliza-
beth Chester in tail male, with remainder to the heirs male of the said Anthony
Chester in tail male, with remainder to Henry Chester Esq. son of the said Sir Anthony
in tail male, with remainder to John Chester Esq. another son of the said Sir Anthony
in tail male, with remainder to William Chester Esq. another of the sons of the said
Sir Anthony in tail male, with remainder to the right heirs of the said Sir Anthony
Chester for ever ; And as to 90 acres of pasture called the Nether ground, to the
use of the said Sir Anthony Chester duiing the joint lives of himself and his said
son Anthony, and after the death of tlie survivor of them to the use of the saiil
Elizabeth Chester during her life, and after her death to the same uses as the 351
acres ; And as to all and sinmilar the residue of the said manors and lands not
already limited to uses, to the use of the said Sir Anthony Chester during his life with-
out impeachment of waste, and after his death to the use of the said Anthony his son
during his life, and after his death to the use of the said Henry Chester son and
heir apparent of the said Anthony and Elizabeth Chester in tail male, with the same
remainders over as were expressed respecting the 351 acres.

2. Also, that the said Sir Anthony Chester had died seised of the manor and
impropriate rectory and the advowson of Tilsworth in Bedfordshire, and of divers
lands in the parishes of Tilsworth and Stanbridge, and that he held the same of
the King in chief by Knight's service, and that the yearly issues thereof beyond
reprises were worth 15/. 55. OcZ., and that by a certain indenture dated 10th March
1627-8, and made between the said Sir Anthony Chester of the one part and
Robert Bankworth D.D., Anthony Abdy, and John Cordell merchant of Lon-
don, of the other part, he the said Sir Anthony Chester having first obtained the
royal license to that effect, covenanted that (in consideration of the marriage then
intended between Henry Chester Esq. his third son and Judith Bankworth one of
the daughters of Robert Bankworth deceased, and also of 2000/. the marriage por-
tion of the said Judith, and also for establishing the said manor and lands in the
name and blood of the said Sir Anthony Chester, and also to provide portions for
the daughters of the said Henry Chester who might be born of the said Judith, and
also for a jointure to the same Judith in case she should survive the said Henry
Chester) he the said Anthony Chester and his heirs would, before the end of
Trinity Term next, levy a fine in due form of law before the King's Justices of
Common Pleas at Westminster, by which he would acknowledge the said manor
and premises to be the right of the said Robert Bankworth, Anthony Abdy, and John
Cordell, and that they stood possessed of the same to the uses following ; that is to
say, as to the mansion house of Tilsworth, and 331 acres adjoining, to the use of
the said Henry Chester during Iiis life without impeachment of waste, and after his

SIB ANTHONY CUESTEU KT. AND BAUT. 117

deat^ to the use of the said Judith for her life for her jointure, and after her death
to the use of the heirs male of the said Henry Chester by the said Judith in tail
male, with remainder to the heirs male of the body of the said Henry Chester in
tail male, with remainder to the said Sir Anthony Chester and his heirs for ever.
And as to the rest of the said manor and premises not already limited to uses, to the
use of the said Sir Anthony Chester during his life without impeachment of waste,
and after his death to the use of the said Henry Chester and the heirs male of his
body in tail male, with remainder to the said Sir Anthony Chester and his heirs for
ever. Provided always, that in case the said Henry Chester should die without
issue male by the said Judith, but shoidd leave issue female, the said manor and
premises should, after the death of the said Sir Anthony Chester and Judith, stand
charged with 2000/. to be paid to such daughter or daughters at their age of 21 years
or day of marriage which should first happen, and that in the mean while during
their minorities 20/. per annum should be paid to their guardian for their mainten-
ance and education. And the jurors found that in pursuance of the said recited
indenture a final concord between the said parties was levied at Westminster in
Easter Term 1628.

3. Also, that the said Sir Anthony Chester had died seised of 309 acres lying
within the parishes of Kempston, Wootton and Stackden in Beds and of N. Crawley
in Bucks, held of Kalph Snagge, as of his manor of Ken Dawbeney, by fealty, suit
of Court and a rent of 5«. 3(/., and that the yearly worth thereof beyond reprises
was 20*., and also that he died seised of the parsonage house with its appurts at
East Haddon in Northamptonshire, and also of the impropriate rectory of East
Haddon, and also of 202 acres of glebe land and other premises in East Haddon
which he had purchased from Robert Hickes Gent., and that the same were held of
the King, as of his manor of East Greenwich, by fealty only, in common socage, and
that they were yearly worth beyond reprises 20*. ; and that by an indenture dated
Slst Aug. 1631, and made between the said Sir Anthony Chester of the one part,
and John EUys of Rowhall in Yorkshire Esq., Walter Calverley Gent., and Mary
EUys dan. of the said John Ellys of the other part, he the said Sir Anthony Chester
in consideration of the marriage then intended between himself and the said Mary
Ellys, and to provide a competent jointure for the said Mary in case she should sur-
vive him, and to make due provision for the issue male which might be born of the
said intended marriage, granted and confirmed to the said John Ellys and Walter
Calverley and their heirs all and singular the said lands, rectory, and premises, to
hold the same to the use of the said Sir Anthony Chester during his life without
impeachment of waste, and after his death to the use of the said Mary during her
life for her jointure, and after her death to the use of the heirs male of the said Sir
Anthony to be bom of the said Marj^, with remainder to the right heirs of the said
Sir Anthony Chester for ever. And the jurors found, that after the death of the
said Sir Anthony the said Mary his widow had entered upon the said lands, rectory,
and premises^ and was now seised thereof fur her life by virtue of the said inden-

118 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

ture, and that the said Sir Anthony Chester and the said Lady Mary his wife had
issue male between them Robert Chester Esq. their only son.

4. Also, that the said Sii* Anthony Chester had died seised of the manor and
mansion house of Shitlington als Lidlington in Bedfordshire, held of the King, as
of his manor of Greenwich, in free socage without rent, and worth yearly beyond
reprises 3/. 6^. 8^/. ; and also of the watermill called Whatwell Mill, held in like
tenure by a rent of 135. Ad. and worth beyond reprises is. yearly; and also of
the Park called Combe Park als Lidlington Park, held in like tenure by a
rent of 13/. 65. Sd.y and worth yearly beyond reprises 40«. ; and also of the manor
of East Haddon and tlie advowson of the vicarage thereof, held of the King, as of his
barony of East Iladdon, parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, by a rent of 23 pence,
and worth yearly beyond reprises 5/. ; and that by two indentures dated respec-
tively 1st and 3d June 1633, and made between the said Sir Anthony Chester and
Henrj^ Chester Escj. his third son of the one part, and Richard Thornton Gent, of
the other part, all and singular the said manor and premises, and also all the estate
and interest of the said Sir Anthony in the lands and premises comprised in the said
recited indenture of 31st Aug. 1631, were assured unto the said Richard Thornton
to the use of the said Sir Anthony Chester during his life without impeachment of
waste, and after his death to the use of such person or persons as the said Sir An-
thony should by deed appoint, and in default of such appointment to the use of the
said Henry Chester his heirs and assigns for ever.

5. Also, that the said Sir Anthony Chester being so seised as aforesaid of all the
said manors and premises, died on 1st Dec. 1635 (11 Charles I.), and that Sir An-
thony Chester Bart, is his son and next heir, and was at the time of his father's
death aged forty-two years and upwards.

Lady ALoiy Chester, the widow of Sir Anthony, removed after her husband's
death to London, for in her wish to restore peace amongst her stepchildren she
had relinquished to Henry Chester her jointure-house at East Haddon, to enable
him to settle that estate on his brother William. She resided in the parish of St.
Martin's in the Fields, where she lost her only son Robert Chester, who died at the
age of twelve, and was buried in the chancel of St. Martin's Church on 6th June
1645. (i) She married secondly, on 8th June 1658 at St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf,
London, Samuel Lodington Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, and Clerk of the
Midland Circuit ; but notwithstanding her second marriage she retained the affec-
tionate regard of her stepson Sir Henry Chester, who left her in 1666 by his Will
101. for a ring. She had no issue by her second husband, who died long before
her, and was buried in the Temple Church 29th January 1662-3. She survived
him nearly thirty years, and was buried beside her son Robert Chester in St.
Martin's Church on 24th Sept. 1692. (i)

SIB AKTHONT CHESTER KT. AND BABT. 119

Dams Mast Chesteb, otherwise Maby Lodinoton, widow. Will dated 10th July 1677, and
republished 10th Sept 1602.

To be buried in the Chancell of St. Martin's in the Fields in the same grave wherein my sonno
lies buried. My son in law Samuell Lodington Esq. to be my executor.

Will proved 26th Sept. 1602 in C. P. C. [164 Fane.]

IV.

Sir Anthony Chester had issue by his first wife Elizabeth Boteler five sons and
seven daughters, all of whom were bom and baptized at Chicheley. (i)

I. Mary Chester, baptized at Chicheley 23d Aug. 1590, married Sir Robert
Bell Kt. of Beaupre Hall in Norfolk, who was the cousin-german of Elizabeth Pey-
ton, the wife of Sir Anthony Chester the second Baronet. Sir Robert was knighted
by James L on 26th Nov, 1613, (13) and was M.P. for co. Norfolk in 1626 in the
second Parliament of Charles I. If his character may be fairly estimated from two
anecdotes recorded of him in the Jest-book of his cousin Sir Nicholas le Strange
of Hunstanton, he was a man noted for bitter and sarcastic jesting : (14)

* The Earle of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlaine, receited a disgracefull switch over the face by
a Scott (by occasion of tlie lye) at King James his first comming into England * The Impression
of which a£&ont, so patiently put up, remained in the memorie of many, a foule staine to his hon-
our. And being at boules in the Spring- Garden afterward, there grew an hott contest between
this Lord and Sir Robert Bell about the distance of two boules, and so far that the Lord gave the
Knight the lye : Sir Robert startles and stormes about, and in a well dissembled rage (knowing
how to wound him deepe without a stroako) cryes out, '' Give me a sicitch r The company smiled,
and the conscious Lord scornfully replyes, " And what dare you and that doe ?" ** Measure the
cast and heate you, my Lord, Tie warrant," says he.'

* Sir Robert Beil, being in company with Sir John Hobart,t Sir Charles Grosse, &c in a merry
humour would goe make his will, and give every man a legacie ; but when he came to Mr. Fasten,
says he, '* I know not what to bestow on thee : my witt I shall not neede, for thou must needs be
well stor'd with that, because thou hast the witt of at least three generations," for his great-grand-
father, grandfiather, and father were all fooles.'

Sir Robert Bell was buried at Outwell the parish church of Beaupre on 31st Odt.
1639. (15) He died intestate, and administration of his estate was granted by the
Prerogative Court on 25th Feb. 1639-40 to Theophilus Norton, a creditor; ad-
ministettion having been renounced by his widow Dame Mary Bell, his sons
Edmund Bell Esq. and Bobert Bell Gent., and his daughter Mary Bell.

Lady Mary Bell survived her husband nearly seventeen years, and was buried
at Outwell on 10th Sept. 1656. (15) She had been the favourite niece of her
fieither^s half-sister Mrs. Procter of Wisbech, who in 1624 bequeathed to her guard-
ianship the only child of her second marriage, Ellen Procter. Her eldest son,
Edmund Bell of Beaupr6 Hall, was trustee to the estate of his uncle Sir Anthony
Chester in 1646, and died unmarried. His brother and heir, Francis Bell, was
the grandfather of Beaupr6 Bell the antiquary, with whom the family expired.

* For the details of this scandal, see Frogrestet of Jamet I, ii. 438-41.

t Sir John Hohart, son and heir of Lord Chief^Jastice Hobart, by Dorothy Bell, was cousin-german
to Bir Bobert BeU.

120

TH£ CI1£ST£BS OF CHICHELEY.

The pedigree of the Bells printed in the History of Norfolk (16) is so deficient and
inaccurate,* that I have put together from their Wills a fuller account of them.

Arms : Sable, a fees ermine between three bells Argent, Bell Argent, on a bend azure a pallet between

two crosBlets Or, Beaupri.

Sir Robert Bell Et., Speaker o&y>Dorothy
the House of Commons, Lord Chief-
Baron of Exchequer ; marr. 15
Oct. 1659 ;t died 26 July 1577.
(A.)

3 w. Meriel,-
dau. of Sir
Thomas
Enevei Ki ;
widow 1608.

Sir Edmund^

BeU Et. of

Beaupr6 Hall,

son and heir ;

bapt. 7 April

1662 ; bur. at

Southacre 22

Dec. 1607. (C.)

2 w. Elizabeth ;

bur. 18 June

1605.

, dau. and heir of Ed-
mund Beaupr^ Esq. of Beau-
pr6 HaU Norfolk ; died in
Feb. 1602-8. (B.)

h. Sir John Peyton Et. of Dodding-
ton. Privy Councillor, Lieutenant of
the Tower, Goyemor of Jersey ; m.
8 June 1579 ; died 4 Nor. 1630.

4 w. Anne,
dau. of
Peter Os-
borne Esq.
Treasurer's
Remem-
brancer in
the Ex-
chequer.

2. Sir Ro-
bert Ben IL
Et.; m.
Eliz. Ink-
pen, widow
of Edmund
Anderson
Esq. of Ey-
worth Beds.

1 I I r

3. Sinol-

phus.

4.Beaupr4.

5. Philip ;
bapt. 14 June
1574.

8. Frances;
m. Sir An-
thony Ber-
ing Et (D.)

1 1

1. Mary; m.

6 Aug. 1582
Sir Nicholas
Le Strange Et.
(E.)

2. Dorothy;
m. Sir Henry
Hobart Bart. ,
Chief -Justice
of C. P. (F.)

Sir John Pey-
ton Et., son
and heir, of
Doddington;
died 1635.

Sir Robert BellFj^Mary t dau. of

in. Et. of
Beaupr6 Hall,
son and heir ;
M.P. for Nor-
folk 1626; bur.
31 Oct. 1639. t

Edmund Bell

Esq. of Beau-

pr6 Hall, son

a^d heir; occ.

1666; died

unm.

Sir Anthony
Chester Bart. ;
bur. 10 Sept.
1656. t

T^ I I I

2. Philip.

3. Henry.

4. Peter.

5. Sinolphus.

6. Humphrey.

1. Frances ; m.

Sir Heneage
Finch Et. Speaker
of House of Com-
mons.

Finch Earls of
Winchelsea and
Nottingham.

1-7— I

2. Susan.

8. Jane.

4. Catherine;
m. Charles
Trippe Esq.
of Wingham
Eent. (G.)

Elizabeth Pey-
ton; m. Sir An-
thony Chester
2dBari

Chbstebof
Chichelxt.

2. Robert;
occ. 1640 ; died
num.

8. Mary; died
num.; bur. 16
April 1646.

I \ I I

4. Henry.

5. Bcaupr6.

7. Sinolphus.

8. Elizabeth.

9. Anthony.
All died young.

6. Francis BeU«
Esq. of Beaupr6
HaU, brother and
heir ; bapt. 5
March 1626-7; bur.
4 Nov. 1680. WilL
(H.)

Beaupr6 BeU'

Esq. of Beau-

pru HaU, son

and heir ; She-

riflf of Norf oU£

1706 ; bur. 13

April 1737. (L)

■Margaret, dau.
of Sir John
Oldfield Bart,
of Spalding ;
bur. 20 Oct.
1720.

1 \

Elizabeth ;

bur. 5 Aug.

1678.

Dorothy ;
bur. 4 Sept.
1676.

I r I

Mary;
bur. 20

"Dorothy, dau.
of Laurence
Ozburgh Esq.
of Emneth, by
Dorothy Pey-

10. Phmp,of
Wallington;
Gkrr. of Bar-
badoes; died
B.p. ; bnr. 8

ton. Executrix March 1677-8.
1681.

Cather-
ine; bur.
May 1685. 14 Sept.

Frances. ^^®^-

Jane.

PhUipBeUEsq.-
of WaUing-
ton, heir to
hisnnde
PhiHp; m. at
Elm 15 June
1698;diedl746.

1. Mar-
garet; m.
Joseph
Jackson
Esq. B.p.

>Aime, dan. of
Sir Algernon
Peyton Bart
of Doddington;
bar. at Elm
19 Oct 1737,
aged 68.

2. EUzabeth:
BeU, sister and
heir; m. 15
April 1742 ;
died 1766, B.p.

:WiUiam Greaves Esq. of Fulboume,
CO. Cambridge, Commissary of Cam-
bridge University, assumed the
name of BeauprC' BeU ; died 10 March
1789.

Beaupri) BeU
Esq. of Beau-
pr6 HaU, son
and heir; died
num.; bur. 6
Sept.l741.(E.)

^ Amongst other errors. Sir Robert BeU III. is confused with his uncle of the same name, who mar-
ried Elizabeth widow of the son and heir ai)parent of Lord Chief-Justice Anderson,
t Registers not specified are from OutwcU. Sec note at p. 125.

BELL OF BE AUPRE HALL. 121

NOTES ON THE PEDIGREE OF BELL.

(A.) Sib Robbbt Bell, Lobo Chief Babon. His life is included in Manning's Lives of the Speakert ;
Fo88*8 Judgest Tol. t. ; and Cooper's Athena Cantabrigienses, vol. i. All these lives are meagre and
defeotiTe, bat Cooper's is beyond comparison the best. Sir Robert canght gaol-fever at the Black Assize
at Oxford in the sommer of 1677 (Plot's Natural History of Oxfordshire, pp. 8-10), and died on Circuit
from the effects of it at Leominster in Herefordshire 25th July 1577. He was buried there the same day.

His Will contains many details hitherto unknown.

Seb Bobebt Bell Et. Chief Babon of the Exchequeb. Will dated 27th March 1577.

Beanprey my son to have when 21 all my lands, &o, in North Walsham, Mundesley, Edingthorpe, or
elsewhere in Norfolk, which were sometime in possession of Geo. Heydon in right of his wife, excepting
always the Manors of Longham, Titleshale, and Gunton, provided that my wife, who is joint purchaser
with me, enjoy the said premises for life. My youngest son Philip to have when 21 in feetail all my
lands called Ketches lying in Thorpe, which I lately purchased from Mr. Francis Thursby, saving my
wife's life estate therein as aforesaid. If my wife die before my said two sons, her executors or adminis-
trators to have the profits of the said premises till my sons be 21 towards the advancements of my
daughters. I leave to descend to my eldest son the residue of all my manors and lands in Longham,
Titleshale, King's Lynn, Castleacre, Upwell, Outwell, Elm, Ely, and elsewhere in England, after my said
wife's death. My second son Robert standeth assured at my purchase of the Manor of Chamberlens,
Herts, by a deed of feofi&nent My third son Synolphus is by a like title seised of the Manor of Thorpe.
If my eldest son dispute my Will, then the premises devised to him to go to my two youngest sons
Beanprey and Phillippe equally, with benefit of survivorship between them.

Codicil dated 25th July 1577, to be attached to my Will, remaining at my house at Beaupre Hall.

To be buried where I may die. All my manors and lands in North Walsham, Mundesley, Knapton,
Bradfield, &o., and my house at Lynn to be sold for payment of my debts, and bringing up of my children.
Mr. John Payton to have the one moiety of the lease of Long Sutton, bought lately of Mr. Tamworth, he
paying one half of the purchase money thereof. *

Residae of all personalty to my wife Lady Dorothy Bell, whom I appoint my sole executrix. My
servant Robert Chabnor Gent to be supervisor of my Will.

ym and Codicil proved 5th Sept. 1577 in C.P.C. [85 Daughtrey.]

(B.) DoBOTBT Ladt Bell aftebwabds Lady Petton. Her death is mentioned by Chamberlain in a
newB-letter dated 28th Feb. 1602-8 to Dudley Carleton {Domestic Calendars),

(C.) Sib Enicuin) Bell Kt. He was M.P. for Aldborough with his father-in-law Peter Osbom in the
sixth Parliament of Queen Elizabeth. He had three wives, and besides the children mentioned in the
pedigree, he had by his second wife, Richard, who was baptized at Outwell 9th June 1605, and by his
third wife, Edmund, who is mentioned in his Will. It is remarkable that he, like his father, made his
Will, died, and was buried all on the same day.

Sib Edmund Bell, of Sonthacre, Norfolk, Kt. Will dated 22d Dec. 1607.

To the poor of Upwell, Outwell, and Southacre iOs, each : to my wife Dame Meriell Bell her apparel,
jewels, &c. The residue of my personal estate to my executors, viz. my friend Sir Ralph Hare, my
nephew Sir Hamon Lestrange Kt., and my brother Synolphus Bell Esq., for the performance of my Will.
To my son Philip Bell £20 p. a., and to my son Heniy Bell £100, to be paid to him seven years after my
death. My son and heir Robert Bell when he comes of age to grant the next avoydance of the Church of
Upwell to my said son Henry Bell.

To my sons Peter Synolphus, and Humphry Bell £20 p. a. each : to my dau. Frances Bell 1000
marks at 20 : to my dans. Susan, Jane, and Catherine Bell £500 each at 20 : to the child my wife now
goeth with £100. My executors to receive the rents of my manors and lands in Upwell, Outwell, Stow
Bardolph, and Emneth during the minority of my heir : my brother-in-law Sir Henry Hobart Kt. Attorney-
General to be overseer of my Will.

Codicil dated 22d Dec. 1607.. If the child my wife now is with shall not live to the age of 15, the said
£100 to go to my son Richard Bell. If my son Richard or my son Edmund Bell die under age, Uien their
share of my estate to go to my executors.

Will proved 9th Feb. 1607-8 by Synolphus Bell in C.P.C. [9 Windebank.]

From the Parish Register of Leominster :

X577. Dnns. Bell Capitalis Baro Scaccarii Anglifo sep. fait xxv"* die Julii.

122 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELET.

(D.) FnAMcss BsLL, the second wife of Sir Anthony Dering Ki, was the mother of the fftmoDB Sir
Edward Dering, who was created a Baronet 1st February 1626-7. He was M.P. for Kent in the Long
Parliament, and published in 1642 * A Ck>llection of Speeches in matters of Religion.' Hia learning and
abilities were considerable, but Clarendon says of him, that he * was a man of levity and vanity, easily
flattered by being commended.' Frances was a posthimioas child, for she was baptized .at OntweU 2d
Deo. 1577, above foor months after her father's death.

(E.) Mabt Bell, Ladt Lestbanox, was the grandmother of the well-known writer Sir Roger Leetrange.

(F.) Dorothy Bell was baptized at OntweU 19th Oct. 1672, and married at RHckling 22d April 1590
Henry Hobart Esq. who was afterwards a Baronet, and Lord Chief -Jostioe of Conmion Pleas. Uiey were
the ancestors of the Earls of Buckinghamshire.

(G.) Catherine Bell was the second wife of Charles Trippe Esq., * Councillor at Law and Justice of
the Peace for Kent,' whose funeral certificate is printed in Howard't edition of the Visitation of Kent,
1619, i. p. 43. He died at Trapham in Wingham 12th Jan. 1624-5, and was buried at Win^iam 14th
Jan. His Will is dated 29th Dec. 1624, and he left issue by his second wife Catherine two sona, Charles
his son and heir aged 3, and John.

(H.) Francis Bell Esq. of OntweU, co. NorfoUc. WiU dated 18th Oct. 1678.

To be buried with my ancestors in OntweU Church.

Whereas my late brother Philip BeU Esq. deceased, by WiU dated in Januaiy last past, devised to me
his lands, &o. at UpweU, Norfolk (which he recovered from Edward Partheriche Esq.), to be sold for pay-
ment of his debts, and also gave me Uberty to feU timber on his lands in Wallington. And to enalde me
to pay his debts and my own, and to raise portions for my four dans. Maiy, Frances, Jane, and Eatherine,
he gave me aU the rents of his manors and lands in Norfolk and elsewhere, until such time as my son
Bewpre BeU should be aged 16, to whom he then gave in taU male aU his lands, Sto. in OntweU and
TJpweU (which he purchased of Edmund BeU my brother and Geo. Underwood). And my said brother
PhiUp also devised his manors of Wallington cum Thorpeland to my second son PhiUp. In puraoanoe o!
the said trust I now transfer to my friends and brothers Lawrence Hewar Oxburgh Esq., Henry Ozbnrgk
Gent, and Hewar Oxburgh the said lands in trust for the above-mentioned purposes, and also the next
presentations to the Rectories of UpweU, Helme, and Wallington, which are to be sold, and the proeeeds
to go to pay my debts and to raise portions for my aforesaid four daughters, to be paid to them at 21
respectively in the foUowing proportions, viz. to my eldest dau. £1500, and to the others £1000 each.

And whereas my wife Dorothy is now with chUd, if it be a son, he is to have £60 p. a. at his age of
16, but if it be a daughter, she is to have £500 at 21 or marriage. My said wife Dorothy to be the
guardian of my son and heir during his minority. My said wife and my brothers Lawrence Hewar
Oxburgh and Henry Oxburgh to be my executors.

Witnesiet : WiUiam Basset, BeU Hobart, AUce Nalson, AUce Fisher, Jo Prouse.

Codidl dated 19th Oct. 1678. My wife to have over and above her jointure £150 p. a. for the main-
tenance and education of my four daughters.

Wm and CodicU proved by aU the executors in C.P.C. 5th Feb. 1680-1. [20 North.]

(I.) BbaupriS Bell Esq. died 1787. He was a man of most eccentric habits, and scarcely gave hia only
son a sufficient aUowance for food and clothing, whUst he let Beaupr6 HaU fell into ruins, and kept 500
horses wUd in his park, many of which were thirty years old and unbroken (Nichols* Literary Aneedotes).

(E.) Beaupr^ Bell Esq. died 1741. He was elected a King's Scholar at Westminster in 1719, being
then ^teen years old {Alumni Westnunuuti, 8vo, 1852, p. 272, 274). He matriculated at Trin. CoU.
Cambridge as a pensioner in 1722, and was elected a schohur of Trinity in the next year. He proceeded
B.A. in 1725, and M.A. in 1729. He devoted himself to antiquarian researches, and was eepedaUy eon-
versant with ancient coins. In 1734 he published proposals for a book to be called TabuUe Augutt^, to
contain a chronological account of the Roman Emperors, deduced from coins and monuments. This work
was to have been printed at the Cambridge University Press, but like most antiquaries he forgot the
shortness of life, and died before it was completed to his mind. He had succeeded to Beanpr6 HaU on
the death of his father in 1737, but chiefly resided at Stamford, which was then a favourite residence with
the country gentlemen whose estates lay in the Fens. Ho died unmarried on his road to Bath, and was
buried in the famUy vault at OutweU on 6th Sept. 1741. By his WUl he devised Beaupr6 HaU to hia younger
sister Elizabeth, and gave aU his iiss. and coins to the Library of Trin. CoU. Cambridge (Cole's m 88.).

8IB ANTHONY CHESTER KT. AND BABT. 123

n. Dorothy Chester, baptized 20th Feb. 1591-2, was buried 15th July 1597.

m. Anthony Chester, baptized 25th March 1593, sacceeded as the second
Baionet.

ly. Elizabeth Chester, baptized 2d April 1594, was buried on Ist June
following.

V. WHiLlAM Chester, baptized 27th April 1595, was of Gmy's-inn and East
Haddon, and will be noticed in the next chapter.

YL Elizabeth Chester, baptized 2d June 1596, is celebrated in the family
annals for having ^married five husbands all gentlemen of good estates.* Her
first husband was Oervase Cressy Esq. of Berkin in Yorkshire, by whom she had
an only son, Everingham Cressy. She married secondly John Wingate Esq. of
Harlington in Bedfordshire, a widower with children. He had no issue by his
second wife Elizabeth, and died in July 1642.

John Winoatx of Harlington Beds Esq. Will dated lOth July 1642.

To be bnried in Harlington Church near the body of Alice my deceased wife ;* to the poor of
Harlington and Sharpenhoe ^5 ; to my younger son George Wingate and to my two daus. Hester
and Amy Wingate ^1000 each at 21 ; to my mother Amyf Long widow a basin and ewer of
silver now in my house at Harlington ; to my wife my coach and coach-horses, and her jointure
of J^IOO p. a. to be paid out of certain lands which are charged with an annuity of £S0 p. a. to
my unde Henry Wingate. Whereas I am a suitor to the Court of Wards and Liveries that my
brother-in-law WUliam Small man Esq., Edward Wingate of Lockleys, and Edmund Wingate of
Ampthill Esqs. my near kinsmen may compound for the marriage of my son and heir and the
custody of his lands during his minority. The residue of my real and personal estate to Francis
Wingate my son and heir, whom I make my sole executor.

William Smallman, John Vaux, Edward Wingate, and Edmund Wingate Esqs., Richard Taver-
ner and Thomas Machell Gentlemen to be supervisors of my Will.

To the poor of Luton ^5. My m/e to have her jointure and to live in my house at Harlington,
and to have all sufficient furniture &c. for her use and comfort.

To my kinsman Francis Tavemer Esq. jOIO ; to the said Edmund Wingate JglO.

Witnesses : Henry Chester , Everingham Cressie, Edmund Wingate, Edward Glascock, Peter
Martin.

Will proved in C. P. C. 20th Aug. 1G42, when admininistration was granted to John Yaux
Esq., Edward Wingate Esq. and Richard Tavemer Gent supervisors named in the said Will,
during the minority of Francis Wingate the executor, who proved the Will in person 4th June
1656. [103 Campbell.]

BSs widow Elizabeth married^ thirdly^ Kichard Duucombe Esq. of East Claydon
Bucks. He too was a widower with children, and married Elizabeth after 4th July
1643) the date of his Will. They had no issue, abd he died in 1653.

Elizabeth Duncombe the widow married, fourthly, at St. Giles in the Fields, Lon-
don, on 16th Sept. 1655 Sir Charles BoUe Kt. of Hough co. Lincoln. She was his
third wife, and he had no issue by her. He was buried at Louth 17th Feb. 1660-1.

Lady Bolle is mentioned in the Will of her brother Sir Henry Chester in 1666,

* Alice the first wife of the testator was the daughter of Francis Smallman Esq. of Einnersley Castle co.
Hereford. Their eon and heir apparent Bobert Wingate was agod 7 in 1634, but died before his father. (17)

t Amy mother of the testator, and widow of Robert Wingate Esq. of Harlington, was the daughter of
Roger Waire Esq. of Hestercombe co. Somerset. (17)

124

THE CHESTER8 OF CHICHELET.

and married fifthly Francis Layer Esq. of Norfolk. She is supposed to be the Lady
Bolle, who was buried at Chislehurst in Kent 4th Oct. 1679. (i8)

VII. Henry Chester, baptized 2d May 1598, afterwards Sir Henry Chester
Knight of the Bath, of whom in the next chapter.

Vni. Jane Chester, baptized 2d Nov. 1599, died in childhood.

IX. John Chester, baptized 7th June 1601, was afterwards of Snelson
Bucks, and is noticed in the next chapter,

X. Judith Chester, baptized 7th November 1602, was living unmarried in
1637. I have some suspicion that she married later in this year Richard Thornton
her father's trustee, and that she died in the next year, for on 9th June 1638
administration of the estate of Judith Chester als Thornton of St. Nicholas Cole
Abbey London was granted to a creditor George Robson clerk, with the consent
of Richard Thornton, husband of the deceased.

XI. Anne Chester, baptized 4th March 1603-4, died in childhood.

XII. Robert Chester was baptized 12th Dec. 1606, and attended the Duke
of Buckingham as a volunteer in the expedition to the Isle of Rhee in 1627, where
he was slain.

It will be interesting to compare this detailed account of Sir Anthony Chester's
children with the pedigree in the Visitation of Bucks 1634, which is verified by Sir
Anthony's signature. (19) The mistake in the age of Henry Chester his grandson
and heir apparent, and the omission of the Christian name of his youngest grand-
daughter, are curiously suggestive of Sir Anthony's estrangement from his eldest son.

PEDIGREE OF CHESTER IN THE VISITATION OP BUCKS 1634.

Butler of Brantfield Herts.

Elizabeth, dan. of Sir Henry^Sir Anthony Chester Bart. of^Maiy, dan. of John ElUs of Kid-

Chicheley, Justice of the Peace, j dall 00. York.

* 1

Robert, youngest son by 2d wife.

Anthony,*
Ist son.

2.TOr
liam.

4. John.

"Eliz., dan.
of Sir John
Peyton Kt.

8. Henry =Jadith,
of Tyls- dan. of
worth Robt.

Beds. Bank-

worth.

Mary; nz.

Sir Robt.
BeU Et. of
WeU, Nor-
folk.

Elizabeth ;
nx. Oerras
Cressy of
Berkin co.
York Esq.

^ 1
Jndith.

Anne;

died

young.

Henry Chester, Anthony,

eldest son ; 2d son.

about 7 years

old 1634.

1 1 1

1. Alice. 2. Dorothy. 3. A daughter.

(Signed)

ANTHONY CHESTER.

SIB ANTHONY CHESTER KT. AND BART. 125

PROOFS AND AUTHOBITIES.

(i) Extrftcts from Parish Begistera.
St. Giles Cripplegate, London.

1589, Oct. 24. Anthony Chester Esq. and Elizabeth Butler m&rr.
ChieheUyt Bucks (Terified by Bev. W. Jendwine, Vicar).

1590, Aug. 23. Maiy, dan. of Anthony Chester Esq. , bapt.

1591-2, Feb. 20. Dorothy, dan. of same, bapt. ; buried 15th July 1597.

1593, March 25. Anthony, son of same, bapt.

1594, April 2. Elizabeth, dau. of same, bapt. ; buried Ist June 1594.

1595, April 27. William, son of same, bapt.

1596, June 2. Elizabeth, dau. of same, bapt.

1598, May 2. Heniy, son of same, bapt.

1599, Nov. 2. Jane, dau. of same, bapt.

1601, June 7. John, son of same, bapt.

1602, Not. 7. Judith, dau. of same, bapt.
1603-4, March 4. Anne, dau. of same, bapt.
1606, Dec. 12. Bobert, son of same, bapt.

1629, April 7. Elizabeth, wife of Sir Anthony Chester, buried.

1631, Sept. 5. Sir Anthony Chester Bart, and Mrs. Mary Ellis married.

1633, April 1. Bobert, son of Sir Anthony Chester, bapt.

1635, Dec. 3. Sir Anthony Chester Bart, buried.
St. Martin's in the Fields ^ London. (From CoL Chester's mss. Collections.)

1645, June 6. Bobert Chester, Armiger, buried.

1692, Sept. 24. Dame Maiy Chester buried.
St. Peter^Sf Pauls Wharfs London, (From Col. Chester's uss. Collections.)

1658, June 8. Samuel Luddington Esq. and Dame Mary Chester married,
(i) Lipscomb's Bucks, iv. 95.

(3) Progresses of James I. i. 188.

(4) Selden's Works, t. 846.

(5) Baker's Northants, i. 348.

(6) Lipscomb, iv. 44 ; Sheahan's Hist, of Bucks, 515.

(7) Bot. Orig. 21 James 1. No. 95.

(8) Yemey Papers, p. 277, 285, Appendix, Camden Society.

(9) Calendars of State Papers, Domestic.

(10) State Trials, ed. Howell, iii. 234.

(11) Ped. of Ellis in Visitation of Yorkshire 1665, Surtees Society.

(12) Chamberlayne's Angliie Notitia, ii. 47.

(13) Progresses of James I. vol. ii

(14) Anecdotes and Traditions, Camden Sociefy, pp. 12, 71.

(15) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8yo, tIL 474.

(16) Idem, TiL 460.

(17) Ped. of THngate in Vis. of Beds. 1634.

(18) Harl. MSS. 1082, fo. 119.

(19) Vis. of Bucks, 1634, 1. C. 26, p. 100 in Coll. of Arms.

Note on the Fahilt of Ellis of Eiddall (p. 113). The account given in the text of Lady Chester's
father and brothers differs materially from, the pedigree of EUis printed in Burke's Commoners ; but it is
literally taken from Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire in 1665, when William Ellis of Kiddall (son and
heir of William, who was slain in 1647) entered the pedigree of his family. Mr. W. Smith ElUs of the
Middle Temple has, in his Notices of the Ellises^ p. 172» thoroughly exposed the untrustworthy character
of Burke's pedigree of Ellis.

Note on the entries of Bell in the Pabish Beoisteb of Outwell (p. 120 note). Besides those
printed in the pedigree, there are the following entries of the children of Sir Bobert Bell III. and Mary
Chester: Henry, bapt. 28th Maroh 1622. Henry, bapt. 13th June 1623. Beaupri, bapt. 29th Oct. 1625,
buried 27th Aug. 1638. Sinolphus, bapt. 30th July 1628, buried 25th Nov. 1028. Elizabeth, buried 2d
Aug. 1629. Anthony, bapt. 24th April 1631, buried 20th May 1631.

126 THE CHESTEHS OF CHICHELEY.

CHAPTER X.

Willtam Chester Esq. of East Raddon, 1595-1682. 11. Sir Henry
Chester K. B. ofTUsworth^ 1598-1666. III. Dame Mary Chester his widowj
1604-1684. IV. John Chester Esq. of Snelsor^ 1601-1669-

For the sake of greater clearness in the narrative, I have collected in a separate
chapter what I have found about the three younger sons of Sir Anthony Chester
and Elizabeth Boteler, who all died without leaving male issue.

WniilAJi Chester, the second son of Sir Anthony Chester Kt. and Bart, by
his first wife Elizabeth Boteler, was baptized at Chicheley 27th April 1595, (i) and
was admitted a student at Gra/s Inn 21st May 1617, by which Society he was in
due time called to the Bar. (2) He was evidently no favourite with his father,
for he is postponed in the settlements of the family estates to both his younger
brothers. His sole inheritance under his father^s Will was an annuity of 50^ a
year charged upon the Lidlington estate, but his brother Henry made over to him
inunediately after their father's death the estate at East Haddon in tail male, where
he usually resided during the rest of his long life. The date of this gift is inferred
from an entry in the Registers of East Haddon, that William Chester E!sq. was the
sponsor of James son of Hamnet Brasgirdle on 3d March 1635-6.

He married at Ravensthorpe Northants, on 22d April 1645, Mary the eldest
daughter of Robert Breton Esq. of Teton in Ravensthorpe, by Elizabeth daughter
of Sir Francis Harvey Kt., a Judge of Common Pleas, (3) and had issue by her
three children.

I. Elizabeth Chester was baptized at East Haddon 20th April 1648, and
married there by license* on 27th Dec. 1669 Henry Dottin Esq. of Clemenf s Inn,
Filazer for Cornwall, (i) She, like her sisters Anne and Dorothy, inherited 1200i
under the Will of their uncle Sir Henry Chester, and died before 10th Sept. 1679,
on which day her widower had a licensef to marry his second wife.

IL Anthony Chester was baptized 19th March 1649-50, and was buried at
East Haddon 14th March 1651-2. (i)

m. Anne Chester married at East Haddon 12th Oct. 1670 William Guavers
Esq. of the Middle Temple and of Huntingfield in Suffolk, (i)

William Chester married secondly in 1654 Dorothy daughter of Robert Child
Esq. Merchant of London, and had issue by her an only daughter Dorothy.

• Marriage License^ from the Vicar OeneraVa Registry, 1669, Aug. 8. Henry Dottin of Clement's Inn
London, Gentleman, Bachelor, aged abont 28, to marry Mrs. Elizabeth Chester of East Haddon Noiihants,
Spinster, aged abont 23, and at her own disposal — to many at Heyford Northants. (i i)

t Marriage License, from the Bishop of London's Registry. 1679, September 10. Henxy Dottin of
St. Clement Danes London Esq. Widower, to many Elizabeth Dard of St. Dnnstan's West, Spinster, aged
22 — to marry at Maiylebone, or St. Giles in the Fields, (i x)

WHXIAH CHESTBB ESQ. OF BAST HADDON.

127

Dorothy Chester was born at East Haddon on 22d July 1655, and married
there by license" on 26th Feb. 1673-4 John Nance Esq. of TrengofFin the parish
of Warleggan, Cornwall. He was a barrister of the ftliddle Temple, and was ad-
mitted to that Society on 28th Nov. 1670, when he is described aa the ' son and
heir of Henry Nance Esq. of Dlugan, Cornwall, deceased.' He had many children,
and Chesteb Nance his son and heir was born at East Haddon, and was baptized
there on 27th March 1677. Mrs. Dorothy Nance was buried at Warleggan 21st
Aug. 1722, and her husband John Nance was buried beside her on 9th June 1726.
What is known to me about their children is embodied in the pedigree below.

^lUgiiteTi not tpeeified an from Warleggan.)

Jtdin KuM Esq. of Trengoff in Wui<
man. at EMt Haddon 26 Feb. 1673-4 ibnr.
>t Waiieggan 9 Jnne 1726.

■Dorothy, dan. and ooheir of William ChMtet
Esq. of East Haddon; bom 22 Jal7 1666;
bnr. 21 Aug. 1723.

diMrter Nanoe
Eaq. mm and
b«ir : iMpt. at
East Haddon
S7 March
1677; bnried
as Jnlf 1736.

3. John; bapt 31 Oat.
1684; diedyonng.

4. William ; bnr. 11 Deo.
1667 ; infant.

6. Dorothy; bapt. B
June 1690 ; died onm. ;
bnr. 17 Deo. 1767.

7. Lnoy; bapt. 16
Not. 1697 ; died num. i
bur. 1 Aug. 1729.

and heir ; bapt.
24 Jan.
16M-6; bur.
13 March 1772.

William Chester was an Ancient of Gray's Inn, and was elected to the Bench
of that Society on 23d June 1645; {2) but I doubt whether he ever derived much
profit from his profession, as I find no traces of his
employment as counsel, and his daughters were por-
tioned by their uncle Sir Heniy Chester. Ho was
a subscriber to Blome's Britannia, published in 1675
and his Anns are engraved in that book. He lived
to the great age of 87, and was buried at Chicheley
on 11th May 1682. (i) He died intestate, fur
letters of administration issued out of the Court
of the Archdeacon of Northampton.t As he died
without male issue, the estate at East Haddon de-
scended to his nephew the third Baronet. His widow
Dorothy Chester went to reside with her daughter
at Trengoff, and was buried at Warleggan on 11th
August 1698. (i) Administration of her personal
estate was granted on 12th July 1699 to her grandson Chester Nance.

• Marriage lAeatte, from the Vicar QeMraVt Regittry. 1673-4, Feb. 16. John Nance of the Middle
Temple Eaq. Bachelor, aged about 22, to marry Mrs. Dorothy Chester of East Haddon, Spiiwter, aged
abont 18, wiUi the eofuent of herfatherWiUiomChester Esq.— to mtury at East Haddon. (ii)

t I am informed by Mr. Gates, the HagiBtrar of Northampton, that the Act Book containing the ad.
miniatrationH between 1677 and 1704 has been mislaid, bnt tlkat the name of William Chester ocenn in
the index between these dates.

128 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

11.

Henry Chester, the third son of Sir Anthony Chester and Elizabeth Boteler,
was born at Chicheley on 30th April 1598, and was baptized there on 2d May
following. ( i) He was from childhood the favourite son of his father, who settled upon
him and his heirs male the Bedfordshire estates in 1628, and preferred him to his
brother William in the subsequent entail of Cliicheley. He further settled on him
in 1631 the whole of the lands remaining within his disposition, and appointed him
the sole executor and residuary legatee of his Will. These deeds of settlement
have already been fully set forth in the inquest of Sir Anthony Chester, and there-
fore need not be repeated here. Henry Chester displayed his prudent and con-
ciliatory temper in the litigation which arose out of his father's Will, for without
waiting for the sentence which was finally pronounced in his favour, he voluntarily
settled on his brother William in tail male the estate of East Haddon, and on his
brother John an estate at Snelson in Bucks worth 200L per annum, in lieu of the
annuities of 50Z. a year given to each of them by Sir Anthony's Will.

He was High Sheriflf of Bedfordshire in 1636, but stood aloof from public affairs
after the Civil Wars began. His political sympathies were with the Parliament;
but he was wholly incapable of that generous enthusiasm which led his brothers and
cousins to stake their lives and fortunes on the cause of King or Parliament. Like
most rich men of his temperament in stormy times, he shrank from making enemies,
and adhered to the winning side without zeal for his own party or offence to the
other. This neutral attitude in a Royalist county and his family connexion with the
Hampdens and Cromwells gave him much influence with the ruling powers, which
he was always ready to use in aid of his relations and neighbours who were suf-
fering for their loyalty. He deservedly retained the full affection and confidence
of his brother Sir Anthony, who fought at Naseby, and was zealous for the King ;
and in 1646, when Sir Anthony was obliged to take refuge in Holland, he intrusted
his whole estate and the care of his wife and children to his brother Henry, who
faithfully discharged this onerous duty, and saved the family estate from sequestra-
tion. He was in like manner one of the trustees of Dame Mary Digby of Gay-
hurst (the widow of the famous Sir Everard Digby who was executed for his share
in the Gunpowder Plot), and after her death in 1653 he succeeded in securing her
estate for her grandsons, although their father Sir Kenelm Digby was specially
exiled by the Parliament. (4)

Under the Protectorate he acted as a Justice of the Peace, and held about the
same position amongst his Cavalier neighbours, as Mr. Justice Inglewood held
amongst the Jacobite squires of Northumberland in the immortal novel of Bob Boy.
He had a large estate in Bucks ; for besides the lands inherited from his father he
had purchased in 1646 from his brother Sir Anthony 568 acres in Chicheley for
6300/. He was therefore appointed in 1658 Sheriff of Bucks ; but as he had no
mansion in that county, he obtained a license from Richard Cromwell the Pro-

SIR HENRY CHESTER K.B. 129

tector to reside in Bedfordshire during his Shrievalty. I have been enabled to
print this document verbatim from the original office copy, which is preserved at
Chicheley Hall.*

Richard P.

Bichard, by the grace of God Lord Protector of this Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and
Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging. To all to whome these presents
shall come greeting. Whereas Our trustie and well-beloved Henry Chester Esq., Sheriffe of Our
Gofontie of Bucks, hath humblie besought Us in regard his mansion housse is situate in Our
Conntie of Bedford (but near a^joyning to Our said Countie of Bucks), and that it will bee most
inconvenient for him to change his habitation. That therefore Wee would please to give him leave
to continue the same at his mansion house in Our said Countie of Bedford, Know you that Wee
tendring the ease and conveniencie of the said Henry Chester, and being persuaded that what
fiaivour Wee shall therein shew him shall in no wise tend to the neglect or hindrance of Our
Service, arr well pleased to dispense with his non-residence in Our County of Bucks, although
by the law hee is enioyned to dwell in the County where hce is Sheriff during the time of his
£Uierivalty ; and We hereby license and authorize him to continue his dwelling in Our said
County of Bedford during his Sherifalty aforesayd, but so as the publique service bee not thereby
neglected. Given under Our Signet at Our Palace of Westminster this tenth day of February 165B
[1658-9] .

The year of his Shrievalty expired in November 1659, but owing to the confusion
of the times no new Sheriffs were appointed, and Chester remained in office. The
nation was now clamorous for the restoration of the Monarchy, and the Royalists in
Bnckinghamshire were encouraged by Richard Ingoldsby, who had been one of
the regicides, joining their party. He had been one of the most trusted officers of
his cousin Oliver Cromwell the Protector, and had married a daughter of Sir George
Croke the Judge, who was related to the Chesters (see p. 79). Henry Chester was
as usual on the side of the majority, and presided at a county meeting in January
1^60, when the Freeholders of Bucks resolved on presenting an address to Monk,
then on his march to London, complaining of the tyranny of the Rump, and de-
manding a fi'ee Parliament. (5) This address was resented by the Rump, and one
of its last ordinances was to order on 7th Feb. 1659-60 that Mr. Chester, Sheriff of
Bucks, be sent for in safe custody by the Serjeant-at-Arms; but on 21st Feb. the
secluded members resumed their seats, and directed that Mr. Chester be discharged
from his imprisonment. (6) He was still Sheriff at the Restoration, and was re-
warded for his well-timed loyalty by being one of the Knights of the Bath created
at the coronation of King Charles H. on 23d April 1661. We learn from the amus-
ing autobiography of Sir John Bramston, that this honour was preferred by many
to the title of Baronet; and we may well believe that this was the case with Sir
Henry Chester, whose only son was dead, and whose nephew and heir was already
a Baronet of an older creation. The Knighthood of the Bath was the more costly

® I am indebted to the kindness of Mrs. Jendwine, the wife of the Vicar of Chicheley, for copies in fac-
Btmile of this license and of Sir Anthony Chester's letter to his hrother Heniy, which will he printed in
my twelfth chapter.

1 30 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

honour of the two, for Sir John says, ^ I might have been much cheaper a Baronet,
for though I paid nothing for the letter but the Lord Chamberlain's secretary's fee,
and might have had a warrant for a patent for Baronet gratis too, yet the equipping
myself, page, and servants with the fees cost me 500i, whereas the fees of the
patent would have been under 200/. a great deal.' (7) Knights of the Bath wore a
gold medal suspended from the neck by a red ribbon, as the badge of their honour.
Sir Henry's gold medal was long preserved in the family as an heirloom, and was
specifically bequeathed in 1710 by Dame Mary Chester to her grandson William
Chester, afterwards the fifth Baronet.

Sir Henry Chester had two vrives. He married in his father's lifetime (his
marriage settlement is dated 10th March 1627-8) Judith, the youngest daughter of
Robert Bankworth of Bow-lane, a rich scrivener in London. She had a portion of
2000Z. under her father's will, which was proved 10th Feb. 1620-1 by her only
brother Dr. Robert Bankworth D.D., (8) and had issue an only son Robert Chester,
who died unmarried, and was buried at Tilsworth on 1st June 1659. (i) The
precise date of Judith Chester's death does not appear, but Henry Chester married
again in or before 1G46, for his marriage settlement is dated 16th Dec. in that year.
His second wife Mary was the widow of Samuel Cranmer Esq. Alderman of Lon-
don, who purchased from Lord Zouche the Manor of Astwoodbury adjoining
Chicheley, and died 5th Oct. 1640, leaving two infant children, Caesar, after-
wards Sir Caesar Cranmer als Wood Kt., and Mary, afterwards the wife of Sir
Anthony Chester the third Baronet. She was the eldest daughter of Thomas
Wood Esq. of Hackney, Clerk of the Pastry to Charles L, and sister of Sir Henry
Wood Bart., and of Dr. Thomas Wood Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, whose
lives are the subject of another chapter. She had no issue by Sir Henry Chester,
who, after the death of his only son by his first wife, sufiered a recovery of his estates
and provided marriage portions for the daughters of his nephew Sir Anthony, who
were at once his own grandnieces and the grandchildren of his wife. He carried
this into effect by deed dated 25th Oct. 1664, whereby his stepson Caesar Cranmer,
his friend John Rotherham Esq. of Luton, and his wife's nephew Thomas Wood of
Hackney were empowered as trustees to raise the necessary amount out of the rents
of Tilsworth. Their portions were not equal, for Mary and Elizabeth were to have
2000Z. each, whilst Diana and Catherine had only 2000Z. between them ; but the
youngest daughter Judith, who was his goddaughter and was named afler the wife
of his youth, had her portion increased to 1500Z. Subject to these provisions the
whole estate was settled on Sir Anthony Chester in tail.

Sir Henry Chester took an active part to the last in county business as one of the
Deputy Lieutenants of Bedfordshire, for in those days, when the Militia was the
only standing force, the office was one of trust and importance, and had many con-
fidential duties attached to it. (9) He died 30th July 1666, and was buried

SIB HENRT CHESTEB K.B.

131

on 1st Aug. at Tilsworth, in a vault which he had built there for his first wife and
their only son.

Sarah, 1 w.-pBol>ert Bankworih, Citizen and=2 w. Elizabeth, widow of =3 w. Maiy;
Scriyener of London ; bom at — Peart, and sister of living 1617.

Aylesbnry Bucks ; bur. at St. Anthony Abdy, Aid. of

Maiy-le-Bow London. Will dat. London.
21 May 1617, and proved 10 Feb.
1620-1.

Bobert
Bankworth
D.D.; exor.
1621 ; dead
1655.

Maxy, 1617.

T
Deborah ;

m. Ed-
ward Pol-
hiU, and
died be-
fore 1617.

Sarah;

m. John
Cordell,
merchant
of Lon-
don ; tni8-
tee 1628.

JudithBank--

worth ; a

minor 1617 ;

m. 1628 ;

dead 1646.

Sarah PolhiU ;
occ. 1617.

I tee 161

I 1

COBDELL

Babts.

'SirHemyCheB-
ter Kt B. of
Tilsworth ;
died 80 July
1666, aged 68.
M. L at Tils-
worth.

:2 w. Mary, sis--
ter of Sir Henry
Wood Bart.;
bur. 24 April
1684, aged 80.

■1 h. Samuel
Cranmer Esq.
Aid. of London ;
m. 4 July 1638 ;
died 5 Oct. 1640.
M. I. at Ast-
wood.

Bobert Ches-
ter; died unm.;
bur. at Tils-
worth 1 June
1659.

Sir CflBsar Cranmer
alsWoodKt. ofAst
wood, Equeny to
H.B.H. Duke of
York.

Mary Cranmer ; m.

- 1657, Sir Anthony

Chester, 8d Bart.,

nephew and heir of Sir

Henry Chester E.B.

Chebteb of Chichelbt.

Ohester^s monument is still one of the chief ornaments of Tilsworth Church, and
stands in the chancel. It was erected by the gratitude of his nephew and heir Sir
Anthony Chester after the fashion of the monument which Sir Henry had raised at
Chicheley to his own father and mother. He is represented as kneeling at a desk,
with his son kneeling behind him and his wife kneeling opposite. There are two
inscriptions, one in English and the other in Latin :

Memoriae et aetemitati sacnun
D. Henricns Chester honoratiss. ordinis de balneo miles, ex antiqua
£t vere yenerabili Ghesterorom fomilia oriundus, patrem habuit
D. Antonium Chesterom de Chichely in agro Buckinghamiensi Baronetum,
FiliuB nata tertios yicum hone de Tilsworth (ingens patemi animi
Indicium) haereditarium accepit, snoque adeo hio sepulchre et voluit,

£t conditus est.
Native adeo valnit ingen^j rebere, ut marte preprie magis qnam ulle
Mercorio mnsanim alumnum et delicias crederes, prudenti sagacique
Snarum reromqne publicarum administratienem familiarem rexit, auxit,
Betinnit, et arescente ramo sne qnem habuit unicum, £amiliae snae
Snperieribus dedit, diffudit, prepagavit. dissidentium animes invicem
Omnium sibi cenciliavit, proculcatae maiestatis rebus etiam calamitesissimis
Privatus piosque culter, et ad hunc criminis premptus publicusque vindex.

Omni maier monumento, nisi quod miner

Ire nen peterat devetisBima nepotis pietas.

Here under lyes buried the body ef Sr Henry Chester, Knight ef the Heneurable order of the
Bath, created to tiiat dignity at the coronation of our soveraigne King Charles the 2nd and also the
bodyes of Ivdeth his first wife, and Robert his only son. By the wisedome care and prudence of the

132 THB CHESTEBS OF CHICHELET.

said Sr Henry Chester the famvly was restored and advanced, and therefore his gratefdll nepher
Sr Anthony Chester of Chichely Baronett hath consecrated this Monument to his memory, as an
eternal testimony of honour love and thankefubiesse. Hee died on the 30 of Ivly 1666.

Sir Henrt Chester of Lidlington Parke in the parish of Lidlington co. Bedford, Knight of
the Honble. Order of the Bath. Will dated 2d April 1666.

To be buried in the Chancel of Tilsworth Church. To my beloved wife Mary, my coach
with coachhorses and harness ; also the furniture of her chamber, and the freedom of my dwell-
inghouse with the brew house and dairy house standing in Lidlington Park for her life to dwell
in, she keeping the same in good repair; also pasture for beast and horses; and a reason-
able fsurm out of the Park, one buck in summer and one doe in winter, if and so long as my heir
or executors think fit to continue it a park. I devise in fee to my nephew Sir Anthony Chester
Bart, my reversion of the estates at East Haddon co. Northants, bought by my deceased fiather of
Robert Hicks, subject to the life interest of my brother WHliam Chester and the jointure of his
wife therein. I bequeath j£1200 each to Elizabeth and Anne daus. of the said William Chester,
and the same to Dorothy by his now wife ; to be paid within 6 months after William Chester's
death ; but on condition, that the executors and heirs of William Chester allow Sir Anthony
Chester to take peaceable possession within 2 months after William Chester's death, and in de&ult
I give only ;£4 each to Elizabeth and Anne Chester, and £6 to Dorothy Chester: to my brother
William Chester and his wife £6 each. Whereas my father only left my brother John Chester
;£50 a year for life, and out of affection I settled lands in Snelson Bucks of the value of X'200 a
year, and to avoid sequestration a deed was executed, expressing a consideration of ^000 for
securing ^200 a year to the said John and j£100 a year jointure to his wife, but no money was
ever really paid : I confirm such settlement, and direct the said John (in default of his having male
issue) to convey the reversion of the said lands in Snelson to Sir Anthony Chester in fee ; and on
John's signing such conveyance I bequeath to him j£200, but in default he and his wife to have
£6 each only in full of all legacies. To my nephew Peyton Chester X'50 a year for life out of my
lands in Chicheley, which are already charged with £300 a year to my wife. I charge on the
impropriation of Tilsworth £Q. 168. Od. per annum for the Vicar of Tilsworth in augmentation of
his annual stipend of £13. 5«. Od. To my servant Mrs. Mary Stubbs* j£dO p. ann. for life : to my
old servant John Quinney £S p. ann. for life :f to his son my servant Daniel Quinny £6 p. a. for
life. Legacies to other servants. To the poor of Astwood and Chicheley £6 each : to the poor
of Litlington, Ampthill, and Tilsworth £6 each : to CsBsar Cranmer and his wife JglO each : to
Henry Cranmer £^0 at 18 : to my mother-in-law Lady Chester £10 for a ring: to my sister Lady
Bolles £6 for a ring : to my niece Frances Chester £20 p. ann. Whereas by deed dated 25th
Oct. 1664 (18 Chas. II.) my lands in Tilsworth were conveyed unto Csesar Cranmer Esq., John
Eotherham of Luton Esq., and Thos. Wood of Hackney my wife's nephew, upon trust to take the
rents, &c., and raise portions for my nieces the daus. of Sir Anthony Chester by his now wife, viz.
for Mary and Elizabeth Chester £2000 each ; for Dyana and Catharine £1000 each ; for my god-
daughter Judith Chester £1500 : I direct that if sufficient money cannot be raised from the rents
within 20 years, each legacy shall abate in due proportion. To each of my said trustees £10 for
rings : to said Mr. John Eotherham £5 a year above his expenses whilst he acts as trustee. My
nephew Sir Anthony Chester Bart, to be my sole executor. To my niece. Sir Anthony Chester's
Lady, the chaine of pearle her mother hath of mine, after her said mother's death ; upon condition
she have it for her son's wife ; also my diamond necklace upon condition of her giving it to her
eldest dau. Mary on her marriage.

Proved 6 Nov. 1666 by Sir Anthony Chester Bart, in C.P.C. [168 Mico.]

^ Mrs. Stabbs was honsekeeper at Lidlington Park 70 years, and died 20th June 1692 aged 93.
t John Quinney did not long surviye his master, and has a gravestone in Tilsworth Church.
* Here lyeth the body of John Qninny. Hee departed August 18, 1669 aged 72 yeares. Hee was
searvant 56 yeares to Sir Henrey Chester Knight of the Hononrable Order of the Bath. *

DAME MARY CHESTER. 133

Dame Mary Chester, the widow of Sir Henry, survived him many years, and
besides her jointure of 300Z. per annum enjoyed a pension of 100/. per annum from
the Kin^, payable by the Coflferer of his Majesty's Household. She was appointed
by the Will of her brother Sir Henry Wood in May 1671 the guardian of his
daughter Mary Wood, who was betrothed to the King's natural son Charles Duke
of Southampton, and Sir Henry bequeathed to his sister 450Z. a year to provide for
the tuition and education of her niece until her marriage. The story of her ward's
premature marriage, and of the litigation which ensued, will be more conveniently
told in my account of the Woods hereafter. Lady Chester survived the Duchess of
Southampton, and died at the age of 80 in April 1684. She was buried at Astwood
on 24th April beside her first husband Samuel Cranmer, where her son Sir Caesar
Cranmer als Wood raised a noble monument to the memory of his parents.

Laot Mabt Chester, widow. Will dated 2d Oct. 1676.

To be buried at Astwood Bucks. All my estate personal as well as real to my only son Csesar
Wood heretofore Caesar Cranmer. My marriage settlement dated 16tli Dec. 22 Charles I. (1646) and
made between Francis Bedcott and others of the one part and Sir Henry Wood and others of the
other part secures to me a jointure of j£300 p. a. My said son to be my sole executor.

Will proved in C. P. C. 28th June 1687. [75 and 169 Foot]

IV.
John Chester, the fourth son of Sir Anthony Chester and Elizabeth Boteler,
was baptized at Chicheley 7th June 1601, and was admitted a student of Gray's
Inn 5th Nov. 1619. (2) He, like his brother William, inherited a bare annuity
of 50Z. a year from his father, but his brother Henry voluntarily settled upon
him in tail male an estate at Snekon in Bucks of the value of 200Z. a year, with
the power of creating a jointure of 100/. a year in favour of any wife he might
marry. He served in the Royal Army during the Civil Wars, and was an ensign
in Sir Bernard Astley's Regt. of Foot at the battle of Naseby on 14th June 1645,
when he was taken prisoner. (10) He married Catherine Ashton, who was sister of
the wife of Rev. William Bouncher, Rector of TifBeld Northamptonshire, but had
no issue. Under the settlement made by his father in 1628, John Chester should
have succeeded to the Bedfordshire estates on the death of his brother Sir Henrv
without issue, but Sir Henry had cut oflf the entail, and had settled the reversion
on his nephew the third Baronet. By his Will in 1666 Sir Henry left a legacy of
200L to his brother John, on condition of his assuring by deed to Sir Anthony
the estate at Snelson subject to his own life interest. This direction was faithfully
performed, but the arrangement did not turn out well, for John was almost entirely
dependent on his annuity of 200L per annum from this estate, and his nephew was
unpnnctual in his payments. Two letters of remonstrance on this subject have been
preserved at Chicheley Hall, and are printed below. They are without date, but
were evidently written from Tiffield in the beginning of 1668 or 1669. They give
one a high opinion of John*s good breeding and literary power of expression.

134 THE CHBSTEBS OF CHICHELEY.

Lettertfrom John CheiUr E$q, to Sir Anthony Chester Bart.

Sr, — ^Thd last time I sent my man to you he brought me an account that I should hear from yoa
within a fortnight. I have wayted that fortnight and now allmost two more, and heard nothing,
so that now my ncssessities have overcome my patience, and my importunate occasions prompt
me to press you beyond the limits of friendship. What those occasions are I have already spread
before you, and I dierefore need not repeate them. Save only this that I enterd into an ingage-
ment for which I am threatened to be sued this term. I hope you will take care to prevent all
inconveniences that may arise both to yourself and mee, which will be done, if you pl^ise to send
me that money which is due to mee, Ihat is to say, the j£100 due upon bonds, and the ;£100 due
now for rent, without both which my subsistence this winter will be but uncomfortable. I know
Sr that this frequent pressing of you for money is as troublesome to you as it is unpleasant to mee,
and I would heartyly wish that some expedient could be found out for both our case. I for
remember you once made a proposal in order to it, which was that I should dispose of my land
myselfe, (I mean for the life only) and that you would make such an addition to it as should
make up the rent, or something to that purpose : if you continue in the same minde still, and inH
signify soe much to me, I will consider of it, and return you a speedy answer, for although I do
not love troubles in the worlde, yet if I must have them I had rather it be with another than with
you, for as the neare relation that is between us obliges mee to studdy the preservation of our
friendshipp soe I hope you will take care to decline all wayes that may tend to the breach of it,
and then I shall allwayes subscribe myselfe yor most affectionate unckle

John Chester.

mine and my dames service to you and your Lady.

To his honour'd kinsman S'

Anthony Chester Baronett

At Chicheley,

These.

Sr, — In one of your letters you tell me that I have persuaded you to the ingagement, which
I marvell at. I may forget, or mistake, but truly this I do not conceive, neither any thinge in the
Deede, which was not first proposed — offered by your selfe. But however, if you had been content
with your owne, as every man should be — And let that alone which you had nothing to doe with-
er proceeded in a milder — fedrer way. It might happily have been better between us — But now please
to have ye patience to consider what I have and doe suffer, And that upon ye time and upon je
occasion of your greater fortunes.

1. My Estate seized, soe as it may seeme, you were resolutely willfull — ^you would have the
Keversion at last, whether I would or noe, which (besides the nature and manner of it,) As a
Beverend Father at ye Counsell of Basil said of expectative graces — ^were — ^may — ^might be against
Charitye. Filius ante diem &c.

2. Urged — enforced to the charges and vexations of Lawyers, whereas I yet thinke might as
well, as securely for you, have been done without them.

8. Slowe paiments — ^not only after Articles agreed upon, but (and I thinke worse,) after — since
ye Deeds were sealed.

4. My poore Friends extremely distressed thro me.

6. I necessitated — forced to straine a protestation or solemne promise, which I had kept
inviolate — about thirty years, Not to be bound for any man for above Ten pounds.

6. You have kept me as in the tye, that I could not conveniently — civilly provide, — ^prepare
my Selfe either to follow my owne occasions, or waite upon and enjoy that naturall desire of friends.

7. You have — doe confine me to ye place of my present habitation, which is against my long
earnest desire — conveniency — enjoying my Selfe. And I doubt to ye danger of my — ^health — climbs
—life — For whereas both the last yeare and this, I had ye offer of some convenient places— I

JOHN CHESTER ESQ. OP SNELSON. 135

durst, dar not launch into ye worlde, soe as to ingage to a stranger for Rent, and enter into—
undertake the continnall Charge of housekeeping upon soe slow and uncertaine receiving of my
owne Rent, haveing nothing else to live upon : Soe that I am reentred into ye Gates of Winter to
me fearfall>-dreadfull as the gates of a prison.

d. And now as for a close of Comfort, in yo ur Letter Jan. 21 ; you told me that you could not
conceiTe it safe to pay any more. But I pray, tell me truly, did you thinke or conceive it safe, to
have kept — held my land for nothing and sent me a hegging, pray tell me truly. But yet however
for all these, you are — or you say you are — ^my dutifiill — nephew to serve me to the utmost of
your power.

9. That — unjust — undutifull — unnaturall Act — of cutting off the Intaile of Tillesworth, tho
it was not yours, yet was it done in and for ye hehoofe of you and yours.

10. A deht of some six hundred pounds (I would speake with the least) about twenty yeares
ago— And which began about thirty yeares agoe continually increasing, (which I thinke you are
not altogether ignorant of, voluntarily acknowledged by your Uncle in his sicknesse And after
promised in his Health, which never being paid to me is fallen into your hands.

If with besides your owne Estate, these Accessions, And the Accumulation of such an Executor-
ship, you cannot make good your Contracts, may suspect some Fate upon your House.

This I am sure of, that I stand ingaged in a Bond sometime forfeited And may (for aU I know)
be carried — hurried — to the Goale tomorrow or before these come to your hands.

Soe that I cannot conceive how I can justly stile my Selfe Your servant, being Bondman to
another man.

Your poor Kinsman

John Chester.
To his honoured Nephew

Sr Anthony Chester

At his house in Chichelye,

These present.

John Chester died very soon after writing these letters, and was buried at
Chicheley on 11th June 1669, where there is a tablet to his memory. Administra-
tion of his personal estate was granted on 23d Aug. 1669 to his widow Catherine ;
but she did not long survive him, for she died 3d March 1670-1, and was buried
beside her husband on 6th March at Chicheley.

Catherine Chester of Tiffield co. Northampton, widow. Nuncupative Will dated 21st Feb-
mazy 1670-1.

The deceased said to her nephew Paul Bouncher, ' 1 give my estate to you and your sisters/
meaning Catherine Bouncher, Marcella Shooter als Bouncher, Rebecca Bouncher, Hester and
Rose Bouncher, to be equally divided, and 1 make you my executor.'

Will proved in CP.C. 6th April 1671, by Paul Bouncher. [46 Duke.]

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(i) Extracts from Parish Registers.

Chicheley, Bucks (verified by Rev. W. JendwiDe, Vicar).

1595, April 27. William, son of Anthony Chester Esq. , bapt.

1598, May 2. Henry, son of same, bapt.

1601, Jane 7. John, son of same, bapt.

1669, June 11. John Chester Esq., buried.

1670-1, March 6. Catherine, relict of John Chester Esq., bnried.

1682, May 11. William Chester Esq., buried.

136 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHBLEY.

East Haddon, Northanta (verified by Col. J. L. Chester).

1648, April 20. Elizabeth, dan. of \^ailiam Chester Esq., bapt

1649-50, March 19. Anthony, son of same, bapt. ; bnried 14th March 1651-2.

1655, Jnly 22. Dorothy, dan. of same, was bom.

1669, Dec. 27. Mr. Henry Dottin Esq. and Mrs. Elizabeth Chester, marr.

1670, Oct. 12. William Gwavers Esq. of the Middle Temple and Mrs. Anne Chester, mur.
1678-4, Feb. 26. John Nance Esq. and Mrs. Dorothy Chester, marr.

1677, March 27. Chester, son of John Nance Esq. , bapt.
WarUggan, Cornwall (certified by Rev. D. Clements, Rector).

1698, Aug. 11. Dorothy Chester, Gent, of Trengoflf, buried.

1722, Aug. 21. Dorothy, wife of John Nance Esq., buried.

1726, June 9. John Nance Esq., buried.
Tilsworth, Beds (certified by Rev. T. Simpson, Vicar).

1659, June 1. Robert, sonne of Henry Chester Esq., buried.

1666, Aug. 1. Sir Henry Chester, buried.
Astwood, Bucks (verified by Rev. C. Ware, Vicar).

1684, April 24. The Lady Chester, buried.

(2) Registers of Gray*s Inn ; HarL ms. 1912.

(3) Ped. of Breton in Baker's Northants, i. 220.

(4) Royalist Composition papers, Ist Series, xiv. 399, xx. 477.

(5) Kennett's Register, fol. 1728, p. 43.

(6) Journals of House of Commons, vii. 886, 847.

(7) life of Sir John Bramston, Camden Society, p. 118.

(8) Will of Robert Bankworth in C. P. C. [15 Dale.] *

(9) Calendars of State Papers, Domestic Series.

(10) Martin's Hist, of Naseby, 1792.

(11) From CoL Chester's mss. Collections.

* RoBEBT Bankwobth of St. Mary le Bow, London, Scrivener. WOl dated 21st May 1617.

To be buried in the south aisle of St. Mary le Bow Church in the chapel, where my late wives Sara
and Elizabeth and some of my children lie buiied. My personal estate to be divided into three parts
according to the custom of the City of London : of which one part to my wife Maiy, but as she oontncted
before marriage to accept £2000 in lieu of her thirds, the overplus of her third part is to go to my execu-
tors. One other part to be divided equally between my three children Robert, Mary, and Judith, Judith's
portion to be paid to her at 21 or marriage. The other third part to be applied as follows : to my said
dau. Mary such sum as will make up her portion to £2000, to be paid to her within one year after her
marriage, provided that she marry with the consent of my son Robert and of my son in law John Cordell
and my dau. Sara his wife ; to my said dau. Sara £500, and to her son Robert Cordell my grandchild and
godchild £100 at 21.

I commit my dau. Judith to the care of the said John and Sara Cordell during her minority, and if
she marry with their consent her portion is to be increased to £2000. To my grandchild Sara Polhill
dau. of my late dau. Debora Polhill deceased £500, at 21 or marriage, if she marry with the consent of
her father Mr. Edward Polhill my son in law ; to my brother William Bankworth £20 p. a. for his life ;
to Elizabeth Peard dau. of my late wife Elizabeth £100, and certain other monies of my late wife Eliza-
beth to be disposed by my wife's three brothers, Mr. Edmond, Humphrey and Anthony Abdie, to the
use of her dau. Mary Peard for her marriage. To the poor of Aylesbury Bucks, where I was bonit £20;
to my sister Blount late wife of my brother Richard Bajikworth £10 for a diamond ring, and to the three
sons of my said late brother, viz. Richard, Robert, and John £10 each at 21, and my executors to allow
them £5 per cent p. a. for their portions in my hands, with the consent of Uieir father in law Edward
Blount. To Edward, John, and Elizabeth, children of my late brother Henry Bankworth £40 each at 21.
To my cousin Smith £20 which she oweth me, and to her sister Sara Bankworth my brother William's
dau. £20. The residue to my son Robert Bankworth, whom I appoint my sole executor. My son in law
John Cordell to be overseer of my will.

Will proved 10th Feb. 1620-1 in C. P. C. by Robert Bankworth [15 Dale]; and on Feb. 27, 1664-5,
Admon. de bonis non was granted to Edward Leigh, administrator of Robert Bankworth D.D. deceased.

BOTELEB OF HERTFORDSHIBE. 137

CHAPTER XI.

Elizabeth Botder^ first wife of Sir Anthony Chester Kt and Bart. 11.
Pedigree of Boteler and Marmion. III. Royal descent of Elizabeth Drury^
wife of Sir Philip Boteler Kt^ and pedigree of their descendants. IV. Sir
Henry Boteler Kt. of Brantfidd^ 1530-1609. V. John Lord Boteler, 1565-
1637, and his issue.

Dame Elizabeth Chester, the first wife of Sir Anthony Chester Kt. and
Bart, and the mother of his heir, was the eldest daughter of Sir Henry Boteler Kt.
)f Brantfield in Hertfordshire. She was bom in 1566, in the same year as her
losband, and was his cousin in the fourth degree, for Sir Anthony was descended
orom the Botelers through his mother. {See pedigree at p. 49.)

The Botelers of Hertfordshire were a knightly family of great antiquity and
consideration, and one of the few families in England who traced their descent
through an unbroken series of male ancestors from a Norman origin. Their founder
Ralph le Boteler derived his name from his office of Butler or Pincema in the
princely household of Robert Earl of Mellent and Leicester, the famous Councillor
of Heniy I., who rewarded his services with great estates in Warwickshire and
Leicestershire. Ralph was the founder of Alcester Priory, and his descendant of
the same name in the reign of Henry HI. married the heiress of the Shropshire
Barony of Wenmie, by whom he had issue William and Ralph. William, the
elder son, was the ancestor of the Lords Boteler of Wemme and Sudeley, who were
conspicuous in the Baronage of the Plantagenet Kings. Ralph, the second son,
married the coheiress of the historic family of Marmion, who brought to him the
manors of Pulverbatch in Shropshire and of Norbury in Staffordshire. Their eldest
son Ralph settled in Hertfordshire on marrying Hawyse Gobion, the heiress of
GK>bion's Manor in Staplef ord and of Higham Gobion in Bedfordshire. Ralph and
Ebwyse had three sons, who all married heiresses ; but the elder lines soon failed,
and the inheritance of Boteler and Gobion devolved in 1413 on the heir of the
third son Ralph Boteler. This Ralph had by his marriage in the reign of Edward
in. acquired the estate of Watton Woodhall, which continued to be the chief seat
of the Botelers, until they became extinct in the reign of George IH.

The succession of Lady Chester's ancestors, and the different matches from which
they derived their estates, will be more conveniently set,forth in a tabular pedigree,
from which, for the sake of greater clearness and brevity, the younger branches are
excluded.

138

THE CHESTEB8 OF CHICHELBY.

ABMS OF BOTELEB.

PEDIGREE OF BOTELEB AND MABmON.

Balph ls Boteleb, Pin-"f*Ayice.
cema of Bobert Earl of Mel-
lent and Leioester, of Oven-
ley 00. Warwick ; founded
Alcester Priory 1140.

BoBSBT DE MabhioKi Sienr^Hadegolsa, widow, a:
de Fonienay in Normandy. I a nnn at Caen 1101.

Boger de Mar-"
mion, of Tamworth
Castle; diedabont
1180.

Bobert le Boteler, of Orersley^ Geoffirey.

Bobert de Marmion, of Tam->"pMilliee&i
worth Castle ; died 1148.

1--P1

Balph le Boteler, of Oversley^

Matilda (1 w.>
sister of William
Beanohamp of
Elmley; oco.
1181.

Maurice le Boteler, of Orersley^

■Bobert de Mar--f"d w. Philippa;
mion, of Tam-
worth Castle ;
founded Barbeiy
Abbey; died 1218.^

Lords Marmion of Tanfleld.

ooc. widow
1221.

Bobert de Marmion, of Tam--fsrnliana, dan. of

worth Castle; living 1241;
dead 1248.

Balph le Boteler, oh^Matilda, dan. and heir of

Oversley , and of Wem-
me jure nx. ; m. be-
fore 1248; diedSJnly
1281.

William Pantnlph, Baron of
Wemme; rem. in or before
1288 Sir Walter de Hopton
Ki ; she died 1291.

Philip de Mar-
mion, of Tam-
worth Castle ;
died 1292.

Philip de Yassi

1. William le Boteler, son
and heir, of Orersley and of
Wemme ; ancestor of the
Lords Boteler of Wemme and
Sndeley.

2. Sir Balph le Boteler Et.«
of Polverbatch and Norbnry
jure nx. ; died 1807.

"1 w. Joan, dan. and heir of
Hngh de Kilpec, of Kilpao
CO. Hereford, and PnlTer-
batch, Salop ; ooc. wife 7 Feb.
1248-4.

'Matilda, dan. and coheir of
Philip de Marmion, of Tamworth
Castle ; inherited from her mo-
ther Pcdyerbatch co. Salop, and
Norbnry co. Stafford.

PEDIGREE OF BOTELEB.

139

Iphle

Sir Balph le Boieler St., B<m and heir,"^HawiM, dan. and ooheir of Riohard

of Pnhrerbatoh and Norbnxy, and of
GobioQ^s Manor jure ox. ; died March
1842.

Golnon, of Stapleford, Herts, and of
Higham GoUon, Beds. ; bom 29 Sep.
1282 ; 000. wife 29 Jan. 1800-1 ; died
1860. Esch. 84 Ed. HI,

Sir John Bo--7<roan, dan. of John de 2. Sir William Bote- 8. Sir Balph 1

heir

is'«nt
^39.

son

ap-

died

Argentine hj Joan, ler Ki ; m. Eliaa- Boteler Et. , of

dan. and heir of Sir beth dan. of John Watton Wood-

Boger Bzyan Et. of de Argentine ; died hall jnre nx.

Throcking; ooc. wife b. p.
1819.

3.. Balph le Boteler, 2. &ir Edward Boteler Et ,
Rnmdson and heir, brother and heir, of Pnlrer-
«ged 14 in 1342, of batch and Norbnry; bom
IPnlyerbatch ; died 20 Jnly 1337 ; heir of his

1848. grandmother HawifleGoUon

1860 ; died 1418. Eioh. 14

H. IV. 8. p.

■Eatharine,dan. and heir
of Sir Philip de Peletoyt
Ei, of Watton Wood-
hall, Herts, M.P. for co.
Herts; remar. Sir Ed-
mund Bardolf Et., who
occurs 1866-85.

Sir PhiUp Boteler Et ,-f-Elizabeth ;

son and heir, of Wat-
ton Woodhall ; died
1893.

oco. 16 Feb.
141112.

Sir Philip Boteler Et, son and heir,^Elizabeth, dan. of John Cokayne,

bom 1388, of Wation Woodhall;
sncoeeded his consin Sir Edward at
Pnlverbatch and Norbnry in 1418;
died 6 Nov. 1421. Esch. 8 H. V.
Brass at Watton.

Lord Chief Baron of the Exche-
quer ; remarried Laurence Cheney
Esq. of Fen Ditton co. Camb.

1. Edward Boteler, son 2. Philip Boteler Esq., brother and heir,>jFElizabeth, ooc.

and heir; died a minor of Watton Woodhall and Pulverbatch,
and nnm. 80 Nov. 1421. bom 1412 ; Sheriff of Herts 1450 ; M.P.

for Herts 1451 ; died 1458. Esch. 81

H. VI.

widow.

Elizabetli, 1 w. ;^^olm Boteler Esq., son and heir,"?^ w. Constance, dan. of Riohard
died280ct 1471. I aged 18 in 1453, of Watton ( de Vere Esq. of Addington,
M. I. at Watton.

Woodhall, Pulrerbatch, and Nor-
bnry ; Sheriff of Herts 1490.

Northants (see pedigree at p.
50) ; died 18 May 1499. Brass
at Wappenham.

Elizabeth Boteler, mar. before 1491 Thomas Lovett
Esq. of Astwell, Northants. (See p. 49.)

^Catherine, (1 w.)= Dorothy, dan. (2 w.)«T^ohn Boteler Esq., son and-r*8 w. Margaret, dan.

•'^^ of thomas Acton of William Tyrell Esq.
^at ; M. L at Wat- of Gipping, Suffolk. M.
^ I. at Watton.

heir, of Watton Woodhall, Pul-
yerbatch,&c.; died 11 May 1514.
Will dated 7 Sept 1518.

of Henry Belknap
Esq.; died 18 Aug.
^1513.

Sir Philip Boteler Et., son and heir,«r>Elizabeth, dan. of Sir Robert
of Watton Woodhall and Pulver- J Drury, Et. of Hawsted, Suf-
batch. Sold Norbnry Manor 20 Jan. folk; died 11 Dec. 1574.
1520-1. Enight of the Body to Henry
VIIL; died 28 March 1545. X.

(Pedigree continued at p. 140.)

140

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

I interrupt the pedigree at this point in order to show the royal descent of
Elizabeth Druiy, the wife of Sir Philip Boteler and the great-grandmother of Lady
Chester. She was ninth in direct lineal descent from King Edward I. and Eleanor
of Castile, and had issue no less than nineteen children, twelve sons and seven
daughters, whose births are recorded at the end of a Latin Bible preserved in the
library of Christ's College, Cambridge, (i)

ROYAL DESCENT OF DAME ELIZABETH BOTELEB.
Edwasd I. Kino or ENaLANi>.«T«ELBANOB of Castile.

$«T-Gilbert de Clare Ei
) I and Hertford; m.
died 7 Dec. 1295.

Joan, called of Acre, rem. in 1296«pOilbert de Clare Earl of Gloncester
Balph de Monthermer; died 23 | and Hertford; m. 80 April 1290;
April 1807.

EUzabeth de Clare, widow of John de Biirgh«f"B(^er liord D'Amory ; died 1822.
and of Theobald Lord de Verdon ; foundress
of Clare Hall, Cambridge ; died 4 Not. 1860.

Elizabeth D^Amory; only child. "j»John Lord Bardolf ; died 81 July

aged 50.

TJohn!
1868,

William Lord Bardolf; died 1886, aged^Agnes dan. of Michael Lord Poynings ;

rem. Sir Thomas Mortimer Ki ; died
widow 12 June 1408.

86.

Cecilia Bardolf, occ. wife 1414;"7'Sir Brian Stapylton Et. of Ingham,

died 29 Sept. 1482.

CO. Norfolk; died 29 Ang. 1438,
aged 61.

Sir Miles Stapylton Et. of Ingham,'
son and heir ; died 1 Oct. 1466.

'Katharine, dan. and heir of Sir Thomas de la
Pole Kt., ton of Michael Earl of Sn£Eblk ; re-
mar. Sir Richard Harconrt Et. of Ellenhall.

Elizabeth Stapylton, dan. and coheir ; rem. 1. Sir^Sir William Calthorpe Et of Bnmham

John Fortescne Kt. of Ponsbome, Herts, who died
28 July 1500; 2. Sir Edward Howard KG. Lord
High Admiral of England ; she died 1509.

and of Ingham jnre nz. ; died 1494,
aged 84.

AnneCalthorpe,"f-Sir Bobert Drory Kt. of Elizabeth Calthorpe m. Francis Hasilden

Hawsted, SnffoUc, M.P. Esq. Their only dan. and heir Frances

for Sa£folk, Speaker of mar. Sir Bobert Peyton Kt. of Isleham,

the Honse of Commons ; and was the ancestor of Elizabeth Peyton,

died 1535. the wife of Sir Anthony Chester n.

Istwife; bnr. at
St. Mary*s
Bury.

Sib Philip Boxbleb Kt. of Watton Wood-»pElizabeth Dmry ;

hall. Knight of the Body to Henry YIII. ;
died 28 March 1545 ; M. I. at Watton.

Other issne.

died 11 Dec. 1574 ;
M. L at Watton.

Sir John Boteler Kt. son and heir,>?>Grizel, dan. of Sir William Boche

bom 26 Ang. 1514-5, of Watton
Woodhall and Pnlverbatch ; M.P. for
Herts 1554 ; bnr. at Watton 6 March
1571-2.

Kt., of Lamer, Herts ; Lord Mayor
of London 1540 ; occ. wife 10 June
1540 ; bnr. at Watton 26 Feb. 1581-2.

Sm HENRT BOTELRB KT.

Sir Philip Boieler Kt. OAthAiine (1 w.) widow o^^ir Henry Boieler Kt. ad STir-^ w. Alice,
son and heir, bom 11 Hugh Pope, dmn. of Robert
Dec. 1534, of Walton Waller Esq., grandaont of
Woodhall; Bold PnlTer- Edmnnd W^er the poet ; m.
batch temp. Q. Eliz. at Watton 25 July 1568 ; died

1572.

▼lying son, of Hatfield, Wood-
hall, and Brantfleld, Herts ; She-
riff of Herts 1602, knighted May
1603. WiU dated 1 Oct. 1608,
proTed 15 May 1609; died 20
Jan. 1608-9 ; bnried at Higham
Gobion.

dan. of Ed-
ward Pnlter
Esq. ; occ.
widow 1609.

Sir J(dm Boteler Kt. and Bart >
Lord Boieler of Brantfleld, son
and heir, aged 43 in 1609;
knighted Jn]^ 1607, baronet
12 April 1620, baron 20 Sept.
1628 ; died 27 May 1637 ; bur.
ti Higham Gfrobion.

■Elizabeth
Villiers, sis-
ter of George
Dnkeof
Bnokingham
K.G. ; occ.
wife 1609.

ELIZABXTH,-f-SlB AmTHONT

bom 1566;
m. 24 Oct
1589; died
5 April
1629.

Chbstsb Kt.
AMD Babt. of
Chioheley.

— "H

Katharine,

m. Sir John

Browne Kt.

of Flam-

Mary, mar.
Henry
Lynne Esq.
of Bassing-

berds, Essex, boom, oo.
Camb.

ChXSTXB or C&ICHBLET.

I 1 1

Sir Henry Boteler Kt. son and heir William Lord Boteler, son and Six danghten and

apparent ; knighted 7 Sept. 1616 ; heir, an idiot from his birth ; ooheiri.

di^ nnm. before his father. died 1647.

IV.

Sm Henry Boteler, the father of Dame Elizabeth Chester, was the second
surviving son of Sir John Boteler Kt. of Watton Woodhall by his wife Grizel, the
only daughter of Sir William Roche Kt. of Lamer in Hertfordshire and Lord
Mayor of London in 1540. Henry was nobly provided for by his father, who settled
on him the lordships of Brantfield and Hatfield Woodhall in Herts, and of Higham
Oobion in Bedfordshire. He was serving the office of High Sheriff of Herts when
James L succeeded to the throne, and was knighted by that King at Theobalds on
7th May 1603. (2)

Sir Henry Boteler had two wives. His first wife was Catharine Pope, the
daughter of Sobert Waller Esq. of Beaconsfield, and the grandaunt of Edmund
Waller the poet, whose pedigree has been given in chapter viii. (p. 92). She was
the widow and executrix of Hugh Pope, a rich citizen of London, who died at the
end of 1562.

Hugh Popb, Citizen and Haberdasher of London. Will dated 22d Nov. 1602.

To be buried in the Lady Chapel in St. Martin's, Lronmonger-lane, London.

To my wife Catherine one third of my estate: to my son Hugh Pope, and my dau. Frances
^ope, one other third of my estate to be equally divided between them at 21.

Legacies to Peter, Richard and Agnes Bradwyn at 21, the children of John Bradwyn late of
X^ondon, Haberdasher deceased, by his first wife : also, to my brother-in-law John Sam and his
>?vife Alice and their children.

To John Pope the younger, son and heir of my brother John Pope the elder, the advowson and
^ext presentation to the Rectory of Lylly, Herts.

Legacies to the children of Richard Gronwyn and Anne his wife at 21 ; also to my sister Eliz-
abeth Allen widow ; also to my wife's mother Elizabeth Ball* of Beaconsfield, widow ; also to
XU>bert Dawbcney* of Beaconsfield ; also to Robert Good, Citizen and Haberdasher of London.

• Elizabeth Dnnoombe, widow of Robert Waller, remarried Thomas Ball of Beaconsfield a widower.

142 THE CHESTEBS OF CHICHELET.

My capital mesBoage called the Plough in St. Andrew's, Holbom, and my lands at Hexton,
Herts, to he sold.

My wife Catherine to he my sole executrix, and my friends Christopher Edwards, Citizen and
Haherdasher, and his brother William Edwards to he overseers of my Will.

Will proved 14th Jan. 1662-3 by the widow in C.P.C. [2 Chayne.]

Catherine Pope the widow married at Watton, Herts, 26th July 1563 *Mr.
Henry Boteler' {Par. Reg.)y and had issue four children.

I. John, son and heir, afterwards Lord Boteler.

n. Elizabeth married 24th Oct. 1589 Sir Anthony Chester Kt. and Bart.

ni. Catherine was the first wife of Sir John Browne Kt. of Flamberds in
Essex, and was the mother of his children. He married secondly in 1608 Cicely
Croke {see p. 79), and died 18th May 1619. (3)

rV. Mary n^arried Henry Lynne Esq. of Bassinghoum in Cambridgeshire^ (4)
the brother and heir of William Lynne Esq., who died 22d July 1589, and was the
first husband of Ohver Cromwell's mother Elizabeth Steward. (5) Jane Lynne, one
of the granddaughters of Henry and Mary, married in 1670 Edmund D'Oylj,
second son of Sir William D'Oyly Bart., when her cousin Jane Boteler Countess of
Marlborough gave her 500 guineas as a wedding portion. (6)

Catherine Boteler died in 1572, and was buried at ELigham Grobion. In
consequence of her death administration de bonis non of the estate of her first
husband Hugh Pope was granted on 14th June 1572 to Frances Pope their
daughter.*

Sir Henry Boteler married secondly Alice daughter of Edward Pulter Esq. of
Great Wymondley, Herts, and by her had seventeen children, of whom (Jeorge
Boteler was created a Baronet on 7th Dec. 1643.

Sir Henry died 20th Jan. 1608-9, and was buried at Higham Gobion. His
second wife survived him.

Sir Henrt Bctleb of Brantfield, Herts, Kt. Will dated Ist Oct. 1608.

To be buried in the Oianccl of Higham (Gobion) in the tombe that I have there made many
years ago for the same purpose, as a monument for myself and both my wyves and my one and
twenty children.

Black oloakes or gowns to be given to my wife and her waiting woman, to all my dans, and
sons' wyves and to each of my sons and sons in law, and to my three brothers Thomas, Nicholas,
and William Butler, and to my cousins and Mends Sir Kafe Coningsby Kt.,f Sir John Fexren

whose only child Cecily by his first wife married Edmund Waller the son of his second wife. Thomas
BaU by his will dated 13th Oct. 1568 bequeathed 40s. * to my goddaughter Frances Pope' and 20f . ' to my
son Robert Dawbeny. '

* Frances Pope renounced the administration when her brother came of age, for it was granted on 8d
Feb. 1578-4 to Hugh Pope. Frances and her brother Hugh were much older than their mother's ohildren
by Sir Heniy Boteler, for their uncle Francis WaUer of Beaconsfield, in his WiU dated 18th Jan. 1548.9,
mentions * the heirs of my sUter Pope. *

t Sir Ralph Coningsby Kt of North Minns, Herts, son and heir of Sir Heniy Coningsby bj Elisabetli
Boteler sister of the testator.

JOHN LOBD BOTELER. 143

Ki,* Sir Bobert Butler Kt.,f and Sir John Brown Kt.4 &nd to my cousins John Shotbolt,§ and
Nicholas Bristowe,|| and Thomas Shotbolt,§ and Henry Coningsby my grandson.

To my Lady Elizabeth Butler my son's wife two coach geldings, and to Heniy Butler her
eldest son my grey Hobbie and my jewel that was his grandmother's.

To my wife my coachhorses and certain goods, some of which were the gift of her grandmother
Mrs. CavelF and some the gift of her mother my Lady CottonH — ^my wife to have the use of my
house called Brantfield Place for life, paying to her son Harry ^£20 per annum : my wife to
receive during the minority of my sons Anthony and Thomas their annuities of i;20 per annum,
whilst she remains unmarried, but if she marry again, my son Cason to receive the same for
Anthony towards bringing him up, and my son Frankland to receive the £20 per annum for Thomas,
my son and heir Sir John Butler to receive the j£20 per annum for his brother John to bring
him up.

I hereby confirm the deed of settlement made between myself and Sir John Butler my son and
heir of the one part and Sir Ralph Coningsby Kt., Anthony Chester, John Browne, Edward
Cason, and Tyringham Norwood Esqs., my Mends and sons-in-law, of the other part. Also, I
oonfinn certain leases which I have bestowed on five of my younger sons Edward, George, John,
Anthony, and Thomas Butler.

My son and heir Sir John Butler Kt. to be executor, and my sons-in-law"^' Edward Cason
and William FranMand to be overseers of my Will.

Will proved 15th May 1609 in C.P.C. [58 Dorset.]

Sir John Boteler, the only brother of Lady Chester, was forty-three years of
age when his father died in 1609. He had been knighted by James I. at Greenwich
in July 1607, (2) and had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Villiers Kt.
of Brooksby. Lady Boteler was the favourite sister of George Duke of Bucking-
ham, and through this powerful connexion the family of Boteler was eventually
restored to its ancient rank and splendour. Sir John was created a Baronet 12th
April 1620, within a few days after his brother-in-law Sir Anthony Chester, and on
20t]i Sept. 1628 was raised to the Peerage as Lord Boteler of Brantfield. He died
in London 27th May 1637, and was buried at Higham Gobion. His son and heir
apparent, Sir Henry Boteler, had died unmarried before his father. He was a
fiftvourite with his uncle the Duke, and was knighted at Windsor on 7th Sept. 1616.
(2) But if we may believe the scandal of the period. Sir Henry's death was hastened

* Sir John Ferrers Ki of Flamsted, Herts, son and heir of Jolins Ferrers Esq. by Cedly Boteler,
nster ol the testator.

t Sir Bohert Boteler Kt. of Watton Woodhall, grandson and heir of the testator^s eldest brother Sir
PluUp Boteler, was knic^ted 80th March 1617, and died in 1622.

^ Sir John Brown Kt. of Tolethorp, 00. Rutland, son and heir of Anthony Brown Esq., by Dorothy
Boteler, aunt of the testator.

§ John and Thomas Shotholt, sons of Thomas Shotbolt Esq. of Yardley, Herts, by Mary Boteler, sister
of the testator.

I) Nicholas Bristowe^ son and heir of Nicholas Bristowe Esq. of Ayot 8t. Lawrence, by Margaret
Boiider, sister of the testator.

IF Edward Palter Esq., the father of the second wife of the testator, married Julian daughter and
lieir of Edmund OsTe, Citizen and Draper of London, and died 8d Aug. 1574. His widow remarried Sir
Thomas Cotton Kt. of Oxenheath, Kent.

** Edward Cason Esq. of Hertford married Jane Boteler ; and WiUiam Frankland Esq. of the Bye
mairiad Laey Boteler, daughter of the testator by his second wife.

144 TUB CU£ST£BS OF CUICHELET.

by youthful dissipation ; for he was sent to Spain with a tutor in 1617 * to cure him
of the disease of drinking, which, young as he was, he was akeady much given to.' (7)

William Lord Boteler, the only surviving son, was an idiot from his birth,
and the custody of his person and estate was granted by the Court of Wards to his
father's executors, Francis Lord Dunsmore and Endymion Porter. These guard-
ians were superseded for delinquency by the Parliament in 1646, in favour of the
notorious Edward Lord Howard of Escrick, their brother-in-law, (8) but Lord
Boteler died in 1647, when the inheritance was divided between the heirs of his six
sisters. These ladies had the good fortune to be marriageable whilst their uncle
the Duke of Buckingham was at the height of his power, and had in consequence
all married persons of consideration at Court. Their descendants include some of
the most distinguished personages in English history, and as they were related to
the Chesters, I shall give some brief account of them.

I. Audrey Boteler, the eldest daughter and coheir of John Lord Boteler,
married Sir Francis Anderson Kt. of Eyworth, Beds, who died 22dDec. 1616, leav-
ing an only son John, who was created a Baronet 3d Jan. 1628-9, and died unmarried
in 1630. Lady Anderson is mentioned in Chamberlain's Letters (9) as a ^ fair young
rich widow,' and was immediately surrounded by a host of suitors, who were aiudoos
to connect themselves with the ruling favourite. On 6th Jan. 1616-17, within a fort-
night after her husband's death. Chamberlain recommends her to Sir Thomas
Edmondes the new Comptroller of the Household ; (9) and he writes in Aug. 1617
that her marriage had been arranged with Sir Fulke Greville the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. (6) Her choice, however, fell on Sir Francis Leigh of Newnham Regis^
who, by his wife's influence and his own abilities, rapidly rose to great honours, for
he was created a Baronet 24th Dec. 1618, Baron Dunsmore in 1628, and Earl of
Chichester in 1644. This last creation was made at Oxford, where he was attending
the King as Captain of the band of Pensioners, and was therefore not recognised by
the Parliament. On 3d April 1646 it was announced to the House of Commons
that Lady Dunsmore with two coaches-and-six had arrived at Kingston with a pass
from Fairfax by the name of the Countess of Chichester. The House refiised to
take notice of any such person, and ordered the Committee of Surrey to send her
back to Oxford forthwith. On the 5th of April a letter was read that Lady Duns-
more positively refused to go back to Oxford, when the Conunittee were ordered to
send her out of the Parliament's quarters immediately, and Mr. Wallop, M.P, for
Hants, was directed to dispose of Lord Southampton's child and its nurse, whom
Lady Dunsmore had brought with her. (10)

Lord Dunsmore is described by Clarendon (ii) as ^a tnan of a rough and ien^r
pestuous naturey^ who was so much opposed to innovation that he used to say, ^ that
xoay was best which Iiad been least reforrned — when ace is on the top^ sise is at the
bottom,^ (12) He surrendered on the articles of Oxford, but managed to escape
collision with the Parliament, until Lord Howard moved against him in September

AUDREY COUNTESS OF CHICHESTER.

145

1646 in order to obtain the custody of their lunatic brother-in-law Lord Boteler. (8)
He was, however, soon discharged from the custody of the Black Rod on his parole
that he would remain at his house at Abbscourt in Surrey. (8) Two years after-
wards he compounded for his estate, and it was resolved 14th March 1647-8 that
his sequestration be removed on his paying a fine of 2854/. and on his settling the
Rectory of Thurleston in Warwickshire, which was valued at 840/. It being certified
that his whole estate was worth 3300/. per annum, and that it was charged with
1500/. debts, (lo) He died at Newnham Regis 2 1st Dec. 1653, and left two
surviving daughters and coheirs.

1. Elizabeth; married Thomas Wriothesley Earl of Southampton K.G., some-
time Lord High Treasurer of England, whose only daughter Elizabeth was the wife
of Josceline Percy the last Earl of Northumberland, and was mother of the ^ red-
haired' Duchess of Somerset, so famous in the reign of Queen Anne.

2. Mary; married her cousin George Villiers Viscount Grandison. Her grand-
daughter Harriett Villiers married 9th July 1703 Robert Pitt Esq. M.P. for old
Saruin, and was the mother of William Pitt the great Earl of Chatham.

pedigree of the descendants of AUDREY BOTELER.

Sir Fnmois

Kt., of Eyworth, Beds. ;

died 22 Deo. 1616.

Anderson-rAuDBBT

John Anderson

Birt. of St. Ires,

onljson; diednnm.

1680.

eldest dan.<
and coheir of John

LOBD BOTXLEB.

h. Sir Francis Leigh Bt.,
Baron Dnnsmore and Earl
of Chichester; died 21 Dec.
1658.

Thomas Earl of Soath-«^Elizabeth Leigh, Mary Leigh, daa."RGeorge T^lliers
ampton and of Chiches- " . - . _ —

ter K. G., Lord High-
Treasurer; died 16 May
1667.

JoeoeUne Percy, 1 h.<
Eail of Northmnherhind;
m. 28 Dec. 1662; died at
Tnzin 21 May 1670.

dan. and coheir. and coheir ; died

7 July 1671.

Viscount Gran-
dison ; died 16
Dec. 1699.

Elizabeth Wriothes-^ h. Ralph Lord Edward ViUiers, son«f<!atherine

ley, dan. and heir;
died Sep. 1690.

EUsabeth Lady Percy ,*7<9iarle8 Seymour

Montagu E.G.,
Duke of Mon-
tagu.

and heir apparent.
Brigadier - General ;
died 1693.

Fitz-Gerald.

dan. and heir, bom 26
Jan. 1666-7 ; marr. 1679
Hemy Earl of Ogle, who
died 1 Not. 1680; died
23 Not. 1722.

Duke of Somer-
set K.G. ; m. 30
May 1682; died
2 Deo. 17i8.

John Villiers Earl Robert Pitt Esq., M.P.-r-Harriett

GrandisoUfgrand- for old Sarum, Clerk
son and heir. of the Board of Green

aoth; died 20 May

1727. '

Dukes of North-
umberland.

1. Thomas Pitt,

father of the 1st

Lord Camelf ord.

Villiers;
died 21
Oct. 1736
at Paris.

2. William Pitt created
Earl of Chatham.

n. Helen Boteler, second daughter and coheir of John Lord Boteler, married
Sir John Drake Kt. of Ash in Devon, and died his widow 2d Oct. 1666, according
to her monumental inscription in Holyrood Church, Southampton. Her eldest son

146 THE CHESTEKS OF CHICHELEY.

Sir John Drake was created a Baronet at the Restoration, and her daughter ElUza-
beth Drake married Sir Winston Churchill Kt., the author of Dirt Britanniei^ by
whom she was the mother of John Churchill the great Duke of Marlborough.

The fact that John Duke of Marlborough and William Pitt Earl of Chatham
were descended from the blood of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham supplies a
remarkable illustration of the law of ^ hereditary genius.' For these three men of
preeminent distinction in English history had one striking point of resemblance.
Their talents were great, but their brilliant success in life was mainly owing to the
advantages of a fine person, a noble presence, and a manner which alternately
fascinated and awed all who came in contact with them. (13)

III. Jane Boteler, third daughter and coheir of John Lord Boteler, married 011
Wednesday 4th July 1621 (14) Sir James Ley Kt., Chief Justice of England, who
was made, by the influence of his wife's uncle the Duke of Buckingham, Lord High
Treasurer of England 21st Dec. 1624, Baron Ley 31st Dec. 1624, and on 5th
Feb. 1625-6 Earl of Marlborough, with special remainder to his heirs male by his
third wife Jane Boteler. The Earl died 14th March 1628-9, aged 77, when his
Countess was ^ left a young, beautiful, childless, and rich widow.' (15) She remarried
William Ashbumham Esq., Cofferer to Charles I. and Charles 11., whose excellent
discourse is enthusiastically praised by Pepys. (16) It is recorded on their monu-
ment at Ashburnham that the Countess ^ lived almost forty-five years most happily'
with her second husband, who ^ lived after her to a great age, and gloried in nothing
in this world but in this his wife.' (15) She was buried at Ashbumham 28th March
1672, and he was buried beside her on 16th December 1679.*

IV. Olive Boteler, the fourth daughter and coheir of John Lord Boteler,
married about 1620 Endymion Porter, one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to
Charles I., and celebrated in history as a courtier, poet, and scholar. His mother
was of Spanish extraction, and her son's proficiency in the Spanish language led to
his attending Prince Charles as interpreter in his romantic visit to Spain. In this
expedition he completely gained the favour and confidence of the Prince, and was
from this time permanently attached to the royal household. His advancement was
powerfully assisted by his aflSnity with the Duke of Buckingham, and he rose rapidly
at Court, where he filled several offices of profit and distinction. Besides being
Groom of the Bedchamber to his Majesty, he was Receiver of Fines in the Star-
chamber, and was constantly employed in confidential missions to foreign princes.

In 1628 Gervase Warmstrey dedicated his poem entitled * England's wound and
cure Virescit vulnere virtus' * to that great patron of all ingenious men, especially of
poets, Endymion Porter Esq. ;' and Anthony Wood takes occasion to say that * he
was beloved by two Kings: James I. for his admirable wit, and Charles I. for his

• From the Parish RegUten of Ashbumham, Sussex :

1672. The Right Honble. Jane late Conntess Dowager of Marlborough, wife of the Ho&ble. M^Hliam
Ashbiiniham, Co£ferer to his Majesty, was buried March 28th.

1679. The Honble. WiUiam Ashbumham Esq., late Cofferer to his Majesty, was buried Deo. the l(Hh.

OLIVE WIFE OF ENDTMIOK PORTER. 147

general learning, brave style, sweet temper, great experience, travels, and modem
languages.' (17) The baptismal register of St. Martin's in the Fields contains a
remarkable testimony to his reputation for ability, for his son Endymion is recorded
on the 1st Oct. 1624 as ^filius sctgacissimi viri Endymionis Porter.'

He was one of the executors of his wife's father Lord Boteler in 1637, and for
nine years afterwards was joint guardian with Lord Dunsmore of the person and
estate of their brother-in-law, the lunatic Lord Boteler.

His wife Mrs. Porter was one of those ladies of rank in the Court of Queen
Henrietta Maria who returned to the Catholic faith, and with the zeal of a convert
she persuaded her sister Lady Newport in 1637 to follow her example, to the great
indignation of her brother-in-law. (18) She accompanied her husband to York in
1642 in the suite of Charles I., where she lost her daughter Mary, who was buried
in York Minster 15th March 1642-3.* As being at once a Papist and a Royalist
she was especially obnoxious to the Parliament, and when it was announced that
she had arrived from Oxford within the lines it was resolved on 6th April 1646 that
she have the Speaker's pass to go to France, and that the Serjeant-at-Arms should
send one of his servants at her charge to see her shipped at Dover or Rye. (10) She
did not obey this mandate; and it was peremptorily ordered on 25th April that Mrs.
Porter depart the lines before Tuesday next, or be proceeded against as a spy, and
that she leave the kingdom before the 1st of May. (10) She managed however
to procure a pass to London at the end of the next year; but she was soon in trouble
again, for the House of Commons resolved on 17th Jan. 1647-8 that the license to
Mrs. Porter to remain in London be revoked. (10)

Endymion Porter's services at home and abroad to his royal master in the Civil
Wars were so conspicuous, that he had the honour to be excepted out of all the Acts
of Indemnity, and it was the boast of this loyal family that no less than twenty-six
gentlemen of the name of Porter suffered for their devotion to the royal cause. (19)
After the surrender of Oxford he took refuge in France, and, like many of the
Royalist exiles, was reduced to utter poverty. He writes from Paris on 9th Dec.
1647 to Secretary Nicholas: (20)

* I am a sad man to understand that your honour is in want, but it is all our cases, for I am
in 80 much necessity, that, were it not for an Irish barber, that was once my servant, I might have
starved for want of bread. He hath lent me some monies, which will last me a fortnight longer,
and then I shall be as much subject to misery as I was before. Here in our court no man looks
on me ; the queen thinks I lost my estate for want of wit, rather than my loyalty to the king my
master/

His pecuniary distress was partially relieved within a few months, for he was per-
mitted on 1st March 1647-8 to compound for his estate by a fine of 1500/., but was
forbidden to return to England. (10) This prohibition, however, was removed after

♦ From the RegUter of York Cathedral :

1642-8, March 15. Mrs. Mazy Porter danghter of Mr. Indemion Porter, boned.

148 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELBT.

the King's execution, for Evelyn foand him examining Gildron's collection of
paintings on I2th May 1649. (21) Endymion died within the next three months,
and his being openly seen in London so short a time before his death led me to
doubt the truth of the received story that he died abroad in great distress. In point
of fact he died in London, and was buried at St. Martin's in the Fields on 21st
Aug. 1649.* He is described as ^ of Westminster^ in the letters of adniinistration
which were granted by the Prerogative Court on 19th Oct. 1649 to Sir William
Bussell Bart, and Edward Cooke Esq., his creditors.

His widow, Olive Porter, survived the Restoration, and was buried at St. Martin's
in the Fields 13th Dec. 1663.* It would seem that she died at her old house * in
the Strand, over against Durham House Gate,' to which Endymion addressed a
letter from Welbeck Abbey on 1st Aug. 1634. (22)

Endymion Porter had by his wife Olive nine sons and Mary, who died a child
at York in 1643. Four of their sons, Endymion, Mountjoy, William, and Endy-
mion died young, and were buried* at St. Martin's in the Fields. Their surviving
issue* were

I. George Porter, son and heir, was Comptroller of the King's Post in 1640,
(23), and compounded for his estate on 23d March 1645-6 by a fine of lOOOi. (10)
He was a Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles H., and married Diana, daughter
and coheir of George Goring Earl of Norwich, and widow of Thomas Covert Esq.
of Slaugham in Sussex, by whom he had with other issue George his son and
heir, who was Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Catherine. He died 11th Dec, 1683,
aged 63.

II. Charles, baptized 15th Feb. 1622-3,* was slain in the Civil Wars.
HI. Pmup, baptized 15th July 1628,* died unmarried.

IV. Thomas Porter, baptized 28th Jan. 1635-6,* a major in the royal army,
married his cousin Lady Anne Blount daughter of Mountjoy Earl of Newport, and
had a son George, to whom his grandmother the Countess of Portland Irft 5000^
by her Will in 1669. ^Tom Porter' in July 1667 kiUed his friend Sir Heniy
Belasyse in a foolish duel described by Pepys, (24) and was obliged to fly the
country in consequence.

V. Ja^ies Porter, baptized 11th Feb. 1637-8,* was a colonel in the army, and

o From tJu Pansh RegisUr of St, Martinet in the Fields, London : (38)
1622-3, Feb. 15. Charles son of Endymion Porter Esq. and Olire, bapt.

1624, Oct. 1. Endymion Porter filins gagacissimi Tiri Endymion Porter Arm. et OHts nxoris, bftpt ;
bnried 24th Nov. 1626.

1626-7, Feb. 8. Mounioy, son of Endymion Porter Gent, and OUve, bapt. ; bnried 27th March 1629.

1628, Jaly 16. Philip, son of same, bapt.

1682, July 28. William, son of same, bapt. ; bnried on the same day.

1684, Deo. 21. Endymion, son of same, bapt. ; buried 18th Sept. 1685.

1685-6, Jan. 28. Thomas, son of same, bapt.

1687-8, Feb. 11. James, son of same, bapt.

1649, Aug. 20. Endymion Porter, buried.

1668, Dec. 13. Dame Oliya Porter, mulier, buried.

MABY LADY HOWABD OF ESCBICK. 149

took the oaths 8th March 1686-7 as Vice-Chamberlain to James 11. (25) He
married Anne widow of Sir Henry Audeley Kt. of Berechurch in Essex.

V. Mary Boteler, fifth daughter of John Lord Boteler, married at York
House 30th Nov. 1623 Su* Edward Howard Kt. of Escrick, the youngest son of the
first Earl of Suffolk. (26) The Duke of Buckingham promised at their marriage
feast that he would * be not only an uncle but a father to them,* and Sir Edward
was accordingly created a Baron 29th April 1628. Lady Howard died before her
father, and was buried at St. Martin's in the Fields 30th Jan. 1633-4. Her husband
Was one of the few peers who actively espoused the cause of the Parliament against
the King, and is spoken of with bitter contempt by Clarendon, who says : ^ The
Lord Howard of Escrick married a niece of the Duke of Buckingham, and having
his whole dependence upon him was by him made a Baron ; but that dependence
being at an end, his wife dead, and he without any virtue to promote himself, with-
drew himself from following the Court, and shortly after from wishing it well, had
now delivered himself up body and soul to be disposed of by that party most averse
and obnoxious to the Court and Government.' (27) In the beginning of the troubles
Lord Howard was one of the Committee appointed to attend or ^ be a spy upon'
his Majesty in Scotland. The Lords agreed that he ^ had deserved well of the king-
dom,' and the Commissioners of the Royalist estates were ordered to pay Lord
Howard 50^ a week. (28) His necessities however continued, and a resolution was
passed on 2d June 1645, that Lord Howard should have bestowed upon him the
benefit of the two next assessments as should come into the Committee hy the
discovery of his Lordship. (10) In the same base spirit of pursuing his own interest
he procured his own advancement to an Earldom to be included amongst the grants
Toted to themselves by Parliament, which were to be confirmed by the King
amongst the conditions for a peace. When the Commons declared themseli^es the
supreme power of the nation. Lord Howard was one of the three peers who con-
descended to be elected by the people, and on 5th May 1649 he took his seat as
ALP. for Carlisle. His baseness, however, was at last publicly acknowledged, and
on 25th June 1651 Parliament resolved that Edward Lord Howard had been guilty
«f bribery, that he should for ever be disabled from sitting in Parliament, and bom
l>earing any office of trust, and that he should be fined 10,0002. and be committed
ix) the Tower during pleasure. (10) He was released from prison in the following
August on a medical certificate, and in the next year the fine was discharged; but
from this time he sank into insignificance and contempt, although he lived until
1675. Some doubts have been raised about the date of his death from the state-
ment in the Peerages, which has been repeated by so many writers, (29) that he was
the false witness against Lord Russell in 1683 ; but it is certain that he died 24th
April 1675 and was buried in the church of the Savoy.

150 THE CHESTEBS OF CHICUSLEY.

Edward Lord Howard Baron of Esorioo. Will dated 22d April 1675.

To be buried in the Parish Church of St Mary le Savoy in the Strand near my late brother
Sir William Howard.

To my sons Sir Cecil Howard Kt. and William Howard £'250 each : to Sir Bichard Graham
Kt. the husband of my grandchild the Lady Anne dau. of Charles Earl of Carlisle ^600, to be
applied to such uses as my dau. the Countess of Carlisle shall appoint, and for default of her
appointment JB250 to go to my said grandchild the Lady Anne Graham, and ^250 to her sister
the Lady Katherine Howard at her age of 21 or marriage : to my son in law the Earl of Carlisle
jglOO, and to my dau. the Countess of Carlisle my beds, linen, &c.

To my servants John Davies and John Stacy £20 a year each out of my manor of ToUesbory
in Essex : to my servant Richard Stanley £20, and to Henry Wynne of Clifford's Inn Gent £20.
The residue to my eldest son Thomas Howard. Charles Earl of Carlisle to be my sole executor.

Witnesses : Daniel Tupper, Edward Ellis, Henry Wynne, Thomas Marriott.

Wm proved 26th April 1675, in C.P.C. [35 Dycer.]

Lord Howard of Escrick had issue by his wife Maxy Boteler, who was buried
on 30th Jan. 1633-4/ six sons and a daughter.

I. Thomas, second Lord Howard, commanded one of the Regiments of Foot
sent into Flanders to the assistance of the Spaniards, and died «nmamed-at Bruges
in August 1678 ; but his body was brought over to England, and he was buried at
St. Martin's in the Fields 24th Sept. 1678.*

n. William Howard began life as a trooper in Cromwell's Life Ghiards, and
an Anabaptist preacher. (30) He afterwards intrigued with the exiled King under
the pseudonym of Mr. Fisher, and was committed a close prisoner to the garrison of
St. James's on 13th July 1658, (31) but was released by the favour of Richard
Cromwell in the December following. After the Eestoration he was MJ*. for
Winchelsea, and in 1678 succeeded his brother as third Lord Howard. In his sub-
sequent conduct he proved himself the worthy son of his infamous father, and his
false evidence against Lord Bussell and Algernon Sidney has disgraced his name in
history.

nr. Cecil Howard was originally an officer in the ParUamentary Army, but
afterwards joined Charles H. on his march from Scotland with his troop of 100
horse, and was knighted by the Eling at Penrith on 8th Aug. 1651. (32)

IV. Edward, baptized 18th Dec. 1627» was buried at St. Martin's in the Fields
15th March 1629-30.*

V. Philip, baptized 19th Dec. 1631,* died young.

VI. Edward was slain before Dunkirk during the Civil Wars.

Anne Howard, the only daughter, was betrothed to the Honourable Robert

• From the Parish Rfgitter of SU Martin's in the Fields, London : (3$)

1627, Deo. 18. Edward, Bon of Sir Edward Howard Kt. and Lady Mary his wife, bapt. : Iraxied 15th
March 1629-80.

1681, Dec. 19. Philip, aon of same, bapt.

1688-4, Jan. 80. Domina Maria Howard uor pnenobilis viri Domini Ednardi Howard Mpulta fui in
Bacello.

1678, Sept 24. Thomas Lord Howard of Esoriok, buried.

ANNE COUNTESS OF NBWPOBT. 151

Bojle, 'the Philosopher;' and the great Elarl of Cork his father, by his Will dated
24th Nov. 1642, bequeaths * to Mrs. Anne Howard, in case she be married to my
son Bobert, my silver cistern weighing 688 oz., my silver bottle or pot weighing
162 oz., and my silver ladle weighing 27 oz.' But this marriage never came to pass^
for she married her cousin Charles Howard of Na worth, the first Earl of Carlisle.

VI. Anne Boteler, the youngest daughter and coheir of John Lord Boteler,
married at Whitehall 7th Feb. 1626-7 (33) Mountjoy Blount Lord Mountjoy of
Ireland, who was created in 1627 Baron Mountjoy of Turweston, and in 1628 Earl
of Newport. Lady Newport was persuaded by her sister Mrs. Porter and her aunt
the Duchess of Buckingham to become a Catholic in 1637, and one evening as she
came irom the play in Drury-lane she drove to Somerset House, and was received
into the Church by one of the Capuchin Friars attached to the Queen's Chapel.
The Earl was highly indignant at her conversion, and hastened to Lambeth Palace
to lay a formal complaint against all concerned. Archbishop Laud on the next
Sunday urged this complaint on the King in Council, when his Majesty expressed
himself highly offended, and the Queen ^ admonished the Rector of the Capuchins
against doing the like again, especially to women of quality.' (iq)

Lord Newport was Constable of the Tower in 1641, and attended the King at
Oxford. His judgment was held in high esteem by Charles I., but ^ his counsels
are blamed for being always over dilatory and cautious^ (34) He escaped with
difficulty from the assault at Dartmouth 17th Jan. 1645-6, but afterwards com-
pounded for his estate by the payment of 40/. per annum in land and 4179/. in
money. He was one of the most trusted counsellors of Charles II. during his exile,
and was one of the Lords of the Bedchamber after the Restoration. He died at
Oxford, whither he had taken refuge from the plague, on 12th Feb. 1665-6.

Mountjoy Earl of Newport had issue by his wife Anne Boteler five sons and
three daughters, of whom Charles, Henrietta Maria, and Charles died in childhood.
Their other igsue were : (35)

1. George, second Earl of Newport, died at Newport House unmarried, and
was buried at St. Martin's on 20th March 1674-5.*

2. Thomas (miscalled Charles in the Peerages, (36) ) succeeded his brother as
third Earl of Newport, and died within two months afterwards unmarried at Weyhill
in Hampshire, where he was buried on 4th May 1675.t

3. Henry, succeeded his brother as fourth Earl of Newport, and died without

• From the Parish Register of St. Martin's in the Fields, London .(38)

1631, April 23. Charolns Blonnt filing Moantjoy Blount Comitis Newport et DominaB annae, sepoltus.

1632, Sept. 16. Henrietta Maria Blount filia Mounioy Blount Earl de Newpoart, bapt.

1633-4, Jan. 10. Dnus. Carolus Blount filins prenobilis Mounioy Blount Comitis de Newport et honbilis.
DominjB annie nxoris ejus, bapt.

1634, April 1. Domina Maria Blount filia prenobilis Domini Newport, eepulta.

1674-6, March 20. Dominus Newport, vir, sepultus.

t Weyhill, Hants. 1675. Thomas Dominus Blount Comes de Newport sepultus est, May 4to.

152

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHBLEY.

issue, when the Earldom became extinct. He was buried at Great Harrowden in
Northamptonshire 25th Sept. 1679.*

I. Isabella Blount was the first wife of Nicholas KnoUys, who claimed to be
Earl of Banbury, and died before 1655. She had a daughter Anne, who married
Sir John Briscoe Kt. of Boughton, Northants. (37)

n. Anne Blount was the first wife of her cousin-german Major Thomas
Porter, by whom she had a son George.

Anne Countess of Newport remarried Thomas Weston the fourth Earl of
Portland, but had no further issue. She died in 1669, for her Will, dated 17th
July 1668, was proved 23d June 1669, whereby she left 5000Z. to her grandson
George Porter, and all the rest of her estate to her husband,

* Great Harrowden^ NorthanU. 1679. The Rt. Honble. Hener; Earle of Newport was buiyed Sep. 25.
This entry corrects the statement of Sir H. Nicolas, and other ^ters, (36) that the last Earl of I^ew-
port died in 1681.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

The pedigree of Boteler is taken with some corrections and additions from Cltitterback*8 Herts,
iL 475, &c. The pedigree of Marmion is mainly derived from Stapleton^s Rot. Normanniie, L 96, &c

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CoU. Top. et Gen. vi 92.

Niohol's Progresses of Jamtb I.

Morant's Hist, of Essex, i. 850 ; Whitelocke's

Liber Famclicus.
Vis. of Devon, 1620 ; ed- HarL Soc. p. 176.
Bentham's Ely Cathedral, Appendix, p. 49.
Hist, of D'Oily FamUy, p. 157.
Coort of James I. vol. ii. p. 12.
Jonmals of House of Lords.
Letters of these dates printed in Coiwt of

James I.
Journals of House of Commons.
Clarendon's Hist ii. 203.
Lloyd's Memoirs of Royalists, fol. 1661, p. 658.
Notes and Queries, 4th S. vii. 452.
Court of James I. vol. ii. p. 266.
Collins' Peerage, 1779, v. 7.
Pepys' Diary, 14th Dec. 1666.
Wood's AthenaB Oxon. 1721, vol. ii. p. 1.
Strafford Papers, ii. 128.
Lloyd, p. 657.

Ellis' Historical Letters, 2d S. iii. 314.
Evelyn's Diaiy, 12th May 1649.
Calendars of State Papers, Domestic, 1634.

(23) 30th Report of Deputy Keeper of PubUo Re-

cords, p. 302.

(24) Pepys' Diary, 29th July and 12th Aug. 1667.

(25) London Gazette, No. 2228.

(26) Court of James I. vol. ii. p. 441.

(27) Clarendon's Hist. i. 297.

(28) Whitelocke's Memorials, fol. 1732.

(29) Banks' Baronage, iii. 379 ; Howard's Historical

Anecdotes, p. 114; Godwin's Hist, of
Commonwealth » iii. 841.

(30) Clarendon's Hist. iii. 625, 638; Thurloe's

State Papers, v. 39a.

(31) Clarendon Papers, iii. 407, 421, 658.

(32) Letter from Lord Wentworth quoted in Pari.

Hist. XX. 4.

(33) Court of Charles I. i. 192.

(34) Lloyd, p. 651.

(35) Townsend's Additions to Dugdale, inCoU. Top.

et Gen. vL 85.

(36) Synopsis of Peerage, ii. 469 ; Croke's Hist of

Croke Family, ii. 246.

(37) Baker's Northants, i. 38.

(38) From Col. Chester's mss. Collections.

GOBION OF HIOHAM GOBION. 153

SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER XI.

Pedigree of Gabion. II. The Manor of Watton WoodhaU. III. Notes
on the pedigree of BoteUr, IV. Grisel Boche, wife of Sir John Boteler Kt

My prefatory sketch of the Botelers of Hertfordshire was so brief, that I have
collected in a Supplement some particulars of their history, which are ignored or
misstated in the received pedigree.

Hawise GrOBlON, the wife of Ralph le Boteler of Pulverbatch and Norbury,
was bom on 29th Sept. 1282, and was already married in 1300, when her father
Richard Gobion died, (i) On the partition of his estates, she had for her share
the manors of Higham Gobion and Streatley in Bedfordshire, whilst the manors
of Knaptoft in Leicestershire, Horton in Northants, and Gobion's manor at North-
ampton were apportioned to her younger sister Elizabeth. (2) Hawise joined her
husband in 1312 in levjdng a fine of their estates of inheritance, and in settling the
same on their three sons successively in tail male, and by force of this entail the
estates devolved in 1413 on Sir Philip Boteler of Watton Woodhall (3) The
manors of Higham and Streatley had belonged to the family of Gobion from the
reign of Henry I., and were held of the Honour of Bedford.

The pedigree of Gobion is printed in four County Histories* of reputation, but
the descent is so inaccurately stated in all of them, that I have endeavoured to
deduce from the Public Records a better account of the family.

Hugh Gobion of Northampton, the first recorded ancestor of this family, is
charged in the Pipe Roll of 1131 with a debt often marks of silver to the Crown
for a plea of single combat. If he was, as may be supposed, the brother or father
of Ralph Gobion, Abbot of St. Albans 1146-1151, he was an Englishman by
descent — * Anglica natione oriundus.' (4) He was tenant in chief of a manor
called the Grange in the suburbs of Northampton, just outside the eastern gate of
the borough, and was dis-seised thereof without trial by King Stephen. (5) But
fiis chief possessions were in mesne tenancy, for he held of old feoffment (that is,
before the death of Henry I.) the manors of Higham and Streatley from the barony
of Bedford, (6) the manor of Horton in Northants from the barony of WahuU, (7)
and he was enfeoffed by Robert de Ferrars Earl of Nottingham, who died in 1171,
in three parts of a knight's fee at Yardley in the same county, which is still known
as Yardley Gobion. (8)

n. Richard Gobion, son and heir of Hugh, was certified in 1165 to be the
mesne lord of these same manors. He died before 1185, when Beatrice his widow
was in the King's gift and held 18 librates of land in the Hundred of Fleet in
Northants from Simon de Beauchamp of Bedford. She was then forty years old
and had seven sons and six daughters. (9) Of these seven sons I can only identify

• Chauncy'B Hwf. of HertforcUhire, p. 270; Ciniierhxick'B Hist, of Herts, ii, 217; Nichols* if wC of
Leicestershire, W. 225 ; Hodgson's Hist, of Northumberland, vol. ii. part ii. p. 452.

154 THB CHESTEBS OF CHICHELEY.

three : Richard, lier son and heir, Henry and Ralph. Henry had by his father's
gift the manor of Yardley Gobion, where his descendants long flourished. (8) Ralph
was a Benedictine monk, and Prior of Tynemouth. Worn out by age and. conten-
tions, Re laid down his office in 1216 and retired to the parent abbey of St. Albans,
where he was the friend and councillor of Abbot William until his death. (lo)

III. Richard Gobion, son and heir of Richard, fined forty marks to King John
for restitution of his grandfather Hugh's manor at Northampton, (5) which was
confirmed to him by charter dated 15th April 1201. (11) He increased his estate
by marrying the daughter of Roger de Merley, the powerful Baron of Morpeth, who
brought to liim in frank marriage the manors of Knaptoft in Leicestershire, (12)
Shihington in Northumberland, (13) and Yedingham in Yorkshire. Richard
joined the rebel barons in 1216 and suffered forfeiture of his estates, but they were
restored to him in the next year on his returning to his allegiance. (14) He died
in 1230, (15) and had issue four sons : 1. HUGH, his son and heir. 2. RiCHARD, who
inherited Knaptoft from his mother, and died unmarried before 1234. (12) 3. An-
SELM, who was a priest and Rector of Knaptoft in 1235. (12) 4. WiLLlAM, to whom
his cousin Roger de Merley IH. of Morpeth granted without the King's license ten
librates of land in Long Horsley. (16)

IV. Hugh Gobion, son and heir of Richard, paid relief for his manor at North-
ampton 27th Dec. 1230. (15) In June 1257 he granted to the nuns of Little Mareis
in Yorkshire all his land in Yedingham for the souls of his uncles Roger and Wil-
liam de Merley and of his brother Richard Gobion. (17) In the Civil Wars he
took part with the rebel barons, for he was in Northampton Castle with the younger
Simon deMontfort in Lent, 1264, when that fortress was besieged and taken by the
King's troops. (18) His estates were forfeited and were still in the King's hands in
1269,(19) but he afterwards redeemed them under the dictum of Kenilworth, for
he was in full possession of them when he died in 1275. (20) He had issue by his
wife Matilda, who was living on 5th July 1271, (15) three sons: Richard, his son
and heir, Hugh and Roger. HuGH GOBION was a knight, and had by his father^s
gift the manor of Shilvington. He was Sheriff of Northumberland from 1292 to
1296,(21) and was returned to Parliament as one of the Knights of that Shire in
1302. (22) He married Joan, daughter and heir of Michael Morrel of Middleton
Morrel, and had an only daughter Margaret, who married Sir Robert Ogle Kt. and
was the heiress of Shilvington and Middleton Morrel. (23) Sir Hugh was dead in
1317, when his heirs held Shilvington of the barony of Morpeth by the service of
half a knight's fee, and the manor was rated at 20L per annum. (24)

V. Richard Gobion, son and heir of Hugh, was thirty years old when his
father died, and was summoned amongst the barons of the realm to attend the
King with horses and arms at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 1st March 1295-6. (25) He
died in 1300, leaving two daughters and coheirs, of whom Ha wise, wife of Relph le
Boteler, was the elder, (i) Her mother Margery was still living in 1312. (2)

156 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELBY.

death of Hugh Lord Bardolf. (29) Eudo died early in the reign of Edward 11., for
his son Sir Philip was one of the Knights of the Shire in 1312, and was found to
hold one knight's fee and a half of the seigneur}^ of Bennington on 4th Jan. 13234.
(30) ^le was again M.P. for Herts in four Parliaments of Edward III., and is said
to have died 14th Aug. 1301, but the legend on his tomb at Watton is imperfect,
and the year of his death is broken off. (31) He bore Pa/?/ o/sia: Or and Vertj a chief
indented of th^ last. Sir Philip had by his wife Isabella Roger two sons, William
and Thomas, who both died unmarried ; so that his daughter Katherine, the wife
of Ralph le Boteler, became the heir of Watton Woodhall. It is doubtful, how-
ever, whether Ralph Boteler ever had actual possession of his wife's inheritance ;
for he was dead, and Katherine was the wife of her second husband Sir Edmund
Bardolf Kt., on 18th Nov. 1366, when Sir Edmund presented in her right to the

rectory of Watton. (27)

III.
Sm Philip Boteler Kt. of Watton Woodhall succeeded his cousin Sir Edward
in 1413 in the estates entailed in 1312 by their common ancestors Ralph Boteler and
Hawise Gobion. (3) He died 6th Nov. 1421, (32) and his widow Elizabeth married
secondly Laurence Cheney Esq. of Fen Ditton, by whom she was the ancestor of the
Dukes of Norfolk, the Peytons of Iselham, and other noble families. (33) She was
the daughter of John CokajTie, who purchased from Sir Edward Boteler the manor
of Bury Hatley in Beds, and was one of the executors of John of Gaunt, who calls
him in his will ^ chief steward of my lands.' (34) He was raised on the accession
of Henry IV. to the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, which he held during
the whole of this reign ; but he was also a Judge of Common Pleas from 1406 until
his death in 1429. (35) He was the second son of John Cokayne of Ashbourne in
Derbyshire by Cecilia Irton his wife, and is confused by Foss with his nephew of the
same name, who died in 1438. (35) He married Ida, daughter of Reginald Lord
Grey of Ruthyn by Eleanor le Strange, who died in 1424, leaving four sons and two
daughters. (29) Their surviving children were :

1. Reginald, son and heir, ancestor of the Cokaynes of Cokayne Hatley.

2. Henry occurs with his wife Grace in his father's Will.

3. John. 4. Thomas, a priest, who was presented to the rectory of Pulver-
batch by his brother-in-law Philip Boteler on 19th July 1413. (36)

1. Elizabeth, married Sir Philip Boteler Kt., and secondly Laurence Cheney
Esq., and had issue by both marriages.

2. Margaret, married Sir Edmond d'Odingsells Kt of Warwickshire.

John Cokayne died in 1429, and desired by his Will to be buried at Bury Hatley,
but his moniunent stands in Ashbourne Church, and is acciu'ately figured by Dug-
dale as a specimen of the judicial robes worn at that period. (37)

John Cokayn. Will dated lOtli Feb. 6 Henry VI. (1427-8).

To be buried in the parish church of Bury Hattele. To my nephew John Cokayn of Ashbourne
Kt., to his Tvife, and to his daughter Alice, wife of Kalph Sherley Kt, one gold ring each.

I desire that 3 marks a year be paid by my son Reginald Cokayn and his heirs to pray for the

BOTELER OF WATTON WOODHALL. 157

sonls* health of Heniy yj., of myself, of the said Reginald and Beatrix his wife, and of all mj sons
living, also for the sonls of John late Duke of Lancaster, Richard ij., Henry iv. and Henry v., of
John Cokayn my father, and Cecilia Irton* my mother, of Edmond Cokayn my brother, Ida my
late wife, and my dead children. To Sir William Babingtonf Kt. a book of statutes and ^10 from
the heritage of die heirs of Sir Philip Boteler Kt. To Reginald Coka3m, my son and hefr appa-
rent, all my armoury and my ornaments in my chapel at Bury Hatley. To Henry Cokayn, my
2^ son, and Grace his wife two silver cups ; to John Cokayn my S^ son one cup ; and to Thomas
Cokayn my 4^ son my missal, psalter, and all books of canon and civil law. To Laurence Cheyne
and Elizabeth his wife my daughter a cup. To Margaret D odyngsells my daughter a cup, and
I forgive her husband Sir Edmond D Odyngsells Kt. his bond debt to me.

Sir William Babyngton Kt., Reginald Cokayn, Laurence Cheyne, John Chichele Parson of Hat-
tele, and Thomas Cokayne to be my executors.

Will proved in 1429 {no month or day) in C.P.C. [12 Luflfnam.]

Philip Boteler Esq., son and heir of Sir Philip by Elizabeth Cokayne, was
one of the executors of Sir Hugh Willoughby Kt. of Wollaton, Notts, whose Will is
dated 15th Sept. 1443. (40)

John Boteler, son and heir of Philip, was Sheriff of Essex and Herts in 1490,
and was still living on 29th Nov» 1491, when Thomas Lovett II. of Astwell made
his Will. (See p. 53.) The precise date of his death has not been discovered ; for
neither Will nor inquest are forthcoming, and the inscription on his tomb at Wat-
ton has lost the year of his death. (31) It can, however, be determined within narrow
limits ; for his fvidow Constance Vere died at Astwell on 16th May 1499. (See p. 55.)
Constance is wrongly described in both the Histories of Hertfordshire as the daughter
of Downhall of Geddington, but her real parentage is stated on her monu-
ment, and is shown in the p^igree at p. 51.

John Boteler H., son and heir of John, mentions in his Will three children of
his third marriage, who are ignored in the printed pedigrees.

John Bdttelkr Esquier. Will dated 7th Sept. 1518, and written with myne own hand.

To my executors the issues and profits of my manors of Pulvrebach co. Salop, sele co. Herts,
and Bromham co. Beds, for eight years, to be disposed at their discretion for my soul's health and
for the souls of my father, my mother, and my wives.

My cosyn Wylliam Bensted and Maister Robert Orwell Parson of Watton to be my executors.

My most gracious Maister {sic) Maister Thomas Louett to be supervisor of my Will, and I
bequeathe to him a sauter book as a poor remembrance.

My executors, out of the profits of my said manors, to give 100 marks each for the marriages of
my daughters Marie and Joys, and to give my son Richard enough to set him forth in the world.

Will proved 11th July 1515. [8 Holder in C.P.C]

PhtTiTP Boteler Esq., son and heir of John n., sold by deed dated 10th January
1520-1 to Thomas Skrjmsher Gent, the reversion of the manor of Norbury, co.
Staflford, subject to a rent-charge of forty marks per annum. (41)

The same Philip Boteler, then a Knight, with Dame Elizabeth his wife and
John Boteler Esq. their son and heir and Grysselle his wife, sold by deed dated
10th June 1540 to the same Thomas Skr\Tnsher the advowson of Norbury, and the
rent-charge of forty marks per annum reserved on the previous sale of the manor. (41)

• Not Cecilia Vernon^ as stated in the Peerages. (38)

t Sir Wm. BabingUm Kt. was Chief Justice of Common Pleas from 6th May 1428 to 9th Feh. 1435-6.
He belonged to a well-known family in Notts, who resided not far from Ashbourne. (39)

158 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Sir John Boteler Kt. of Watton Woodhall, son and heir of Sir Philip, is said
m all the printed pedigrees to have died in March 1571-2, but it is clear from his
Will that the true year of his death was 1575-6.

Sir John Boteij:r Kt. of Lamere in the parish of Whethamsted, Herts. Will dated 12th
I'eb. 1675-6.

To be buried in the new chapel of the Church at Watton-at- Stone which I lately erected.
To iny wife Dame Griselde one half of all my plate, jewels, and household goods for her life, with
remainder to my son Philip. To my sons Richard and Thomsts j£0 13«. id, p. a. each for their
lives. To my sons Nicholas and William £'18 (it. Sd. p. a. each for their lives. To my daughter
Martha Bottler i'SOO on her marriage. To Francis Bristow,* whom I have brought up, £S 6*. Sd.
p. a. for his life. To my brothers and sisters ,£50 between them. To my children's children £'100
amongst them. To my wife Dame Griselde the lands called Ambries, which Thought from Thomas
Bigge, for her life. To my son and heir Philip all my manors and lands^ with remainder to
his issue male, with remainder to his daughter Elizabeth Boteler for two years only ; with re-
mainder to iny sons Henry, Richard, Thomas, Nicholas, and William successively, in tail male ;
remainder to my brothers George, Henry, Antliony, Richard, and Francis Boteler successively, in
tail male ; remainder to my own right heirs. The residue of my estate to my son Philip.

My sons Philip Butler (sic), Henry Coningsbye, and Henry Butler to be my executors.

Will pToyed 7th June 1570 in C.P.C. [U Carew.]

iv.

I must now correct the account which T have given at p. 141 of the parentage
of Grisel Roche, the wife of Sir John Boteler. She is said in hoth the Historiea
of Hertfordshire to have been the only daughter and heir of Sir William Roche
Kt., Lord Mayor of London In 1540, and to have inherited from her father the
manor of Lamer in Wheathamstead. (43) This descfiption of her was manifestly
incorrect, because it app<3ared from the inquest held after the death of Sir William
Roche on 16th April 1550, that his heir was his son John Roche, then aged twenty-
four; that he did not die seised of Lamer; and that his estates, which lay in Horn-
church, Essex, did not descend to the Botelers. (44) But it never occurred to me
to doubt that Grisel was his daughter, although not his heir. I have, however,
gince discovered that the only daughter of Sir William Roche was Elizabeth, the
wife of Ralph Latham, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, who purchased the manor
of Gaines in the parish of Upminster in Essex. (45)

Sir William Roche Kt. Citizen and Alderman of London. Will dated 12th July 1549.

My goods to be divided into three parts, whereof one part to Margaret my wife, and another
part to John Roche my son. To the high altar of St. Peter le Poor, where I am parishioner, 4j.;
to the poor of the Ward of Bassishaw, where I am Alderman, 40«. ; to the poor of Homchurch,
where my wife Julian lieth buried, ^4 ; to tlie poor of Aldenham and Hickmansworth, 40i. each.
To Ursula my wife's sister £4. The residue to my wife Dame Margaret and my son John, whom
I appoint to be my executors. To my daughter Elizabeth, wife of Rauf Latham, Citizen and Gold-
smith of London, ^50 for her children.

Will proved 13th Nov. 1549 by both executors in C.P.C. [42 Populwell.]

* Francis Bristow, grandson of the testator, was baptized at Watton 24th Feb. 1565-6, and was the
third son of Nicholas Bristow Esq. of Ayot Bt. Laurence, Clerk of the Jewels to Queen Elizabeth, by
Margaret Boteler. (42)

GRISEL ROCHE LADY BOTELER. 159

Bame Margaret Roche, the widow of Sir William, was his second wife, and not
tile mother of his children. She was the widow of John Long, Sheriff of London
'w 1528, by whom she had an only daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Robert Colte
"Esq. of Rickmansworth. She died in February 1559.

X>AME Maboarct Roc^e of Aldenham, Herts, widow. Will dated UMh Feb. 1558-9.
*I?o be buried in the parish church of Aldonham* in the Qucre ou tlic north side of the tomb
^iierein my late husband John Longo doth lie.

^ ^0 Roger Colte £20 p. a. out of my parsonage of Borden in Kent, with remainder to his mother
;abeth Colte. To Margaret, Mary, Joan, and Constance Colte, 100 marks p. a. for eight years
reen them, with sundry plate and household stuff. The residue of my household stuff at my
^P^Xses in Aldenham and Rickmansworth to the said Roger Colte after the death of Robert and
*^*i^abeth Colte his father and mother, who are to have the use of the same for their lives. To
^^tJierine Bereman my sister, my great ring with pearis. To Jane Wood my sister, 40*.

The residue to my daughter EUzabeth wife of Robert Colto, whom I appoint my sole execu-

William Blackwell Gent, to be overseer of my Will.
Will proved by the executrix 14th Jime 1559 in C.P.C. [27 Chayney.]

Who, then, was the father of Dame Grisel Boteler f The only solution of this
l^^roblem that I am able to offer is suggested by the baptismal entry of her son
-Philip, which is registered amongst others in the fly-leaf of an old Latin Bible
^ow in the Library of Christ's College, Cambridge. (47)

• Philip Buttler, son of John Bnttler, son and heyer of Phillip, and son and heyer of Grysill,
^oughter an4 heyer of Bryan Roocke, wiff of the seid John Buttler, was bom the xj. day of
I>ecember in the yere of Our Lorde MDXXxiiij.*

The verbal accuracy of this register cannot be implicitly relied on, because in one
of the previous entries Sir William Calthorpe is miscalled Philip ; but it is certain
that Sir William Roche had an elder brother Brian, who died in May 1514, seised
of lands at Wixley in Yorkshire. (48) Brian Roche was Serjeant of the Kitchen
to Henry VU. and Henry VIIL and was Purveyor to the Royal household, (49) but
he made his fortune by contracts for victualling the army and navy at home and
abroad. (49) It is implied by his Will that he had property in Hertfordshire, bu*
he mentions no children by name except his son Nicholas, who must have died
unmarried, if Grisel was her father's heir.

Brtan Roche. Will dated 12th May 1514.

One-third of my estate to my wife Elizabeth ; another third to be divided amongst my children
at 21 or marriage. My son and heir Nicholas ; my brother William Roche ; and my uncle Thomas
Boche. To Wixley Church in Yorkshire, 40*. ; and to the repairs of the liighway between Bimt-
ingford and Royston, Herts, ^10.

Will proved in C.P.C. 29th May 1514.

Grisel Lady Boteler called her eldest daughter Elizabeth, which was the name

* This Will enables ns to fill np a blank in Machyn*B Diary (so admirably edited by Mr. J. G. Nichola

for the Camden Society), where we read : * 1658-9. The xxiij day of Feybruary was bered at Alder

my lady Roche, the wyff of ser Wylliam Roche draper, latte mare of London.' The note attached statea
in error that she was buried at St. Peter Poor. (45)

160

THE CHE8TERS OF CHICHELEY.

of Brian Roche's wife, and one of her sons was named Nicholas, but I must leave
further proof of her parentage to those who have better opportunities of research.

PEDIGREE OF ROCHE.

Abms: Argentf a bull passant gules^ between three roches hauriant azure afess checquy Or and

Azure^ granted by Fellows^ Norroy^ 22d June 1541.

John Roche of Wixley,

Yorkshire.

1 w. Julian/
died 1526 ;
buried at
Homchuroh.

Thomas Roche, 1514, ancle of

Brian.

Sir William Roche Et.=2 w. Margaret,»f^ h. John Long, Brian Roche of^Elizabeth,

Citizen and Draper ;
Sheriff 1524 ; Lord
Mayor 1540; died 11
Sept. 1549. Will.

d. widow; bur.
at Aldenham,
Herts, 23 Feb.
1558-9. Will.

John Roche, Bon«
and heir, aged 24
in 1549.

Eliza, dan. Elizabeth, m.
and heir of Ralph Lath-
Sir Wm. am Esq. of
Forman Kt. Gaines in Up-
Lord May- minster, who
or 1538. died 19 July
/K 1656.

Sheriff of Lon-
don 1528; bur.
at Aldenham.

Wixley, Ser-
jeant of the Kit-
chen and Pur-
veyor to Henry
VII. and Henry
Vin.; d. May
1514. Will.

widow
1514.

Elizabeth Long,
dau. and heir, m.
Robert Colte Esq.;
oco. wife with 5
children, 1559.

Nicholas
Roche, son
and heir
1514.

Gbisel Boci
m. SiB Joa

BOTELEB El.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(i) Inq. p. m. 29 Edw. I. No. 49.
(a) Fines, 5 Edw. II. ; Baker's Hist, of North-
ants, i. 152.

(3) Inq. p. m. 14 Hen. IV. No. 16.

(4) Gesta Abbatum Mon. S. Albani, i. 106.

(5) Rot. de Oblatis, temp. R. Job., p. 4.

(6) Liber Niger, L 199 ; Test de Nevill, p. 249.

(7) Liber Niger, i. 201 ; Test de Nevill, p. 26.

(8) Liber Niger, i. 221 ; Baker's Northants, ii.

227.
^ (9) Rot. de Dominabus, p. 17.

!xo) Gesta Abbatum Mon. S. Albani, i. 271.
1 1) Rot. Cart. R. Job. p. 93.

(12) Nichols' Hist, of co. Leio. iv. 216.

(13) Testa de Nevill, p. 383.

!i4) Rot. Clans. R. Job. et R. Hen. III.
15) Fines, Hen. III. 27 Dec. 1230.

(16) Hodgson's Hist, of Northumberland, vol. ii.

part ii. p. 100 ; Hundred Rolls.

(17) Mon. Angl. iv. 276.

(18) Annales Monastic!, vol. iii. p. 229.

(19) Esch. 53 Hen. III. No. 12.

(20) Inq. p. m. 3 Edw. I. No. 15.

(21) List of English Sheriffs in 3l8t Report of

Deputy Keeper of Public Records.

(22) Parliamentary Writs, ed. Palgrave.

(23) Hodgson's Northumberland, vol. ii. part ii.

p. 453.

(24) Inq. p. m. 10 Edw. II. No. 65.

(25) Rot. Claus. 24 Edw. I.

(26) Testa de Nevill, p. 271.

(27) Clutterbuck's Herts, ii. 485.

(28) Dugdale's Baronage, i. p. 116.

(29) Liber de Antiquis Legibus, p. 85.

(30) Inq. p. m. 17 Edw. II. No. 43.

(31) autterbuck's Herts, ii. 489.

(32) Inq. p. m. 8 Hen. V. No. 78.

(33) Pedigree of Cheney in Baker's Northants,

i. 714.

(34) Testamenta Vetusta, p. 143.

(35) Foss's Judges, vol. iv. p. 803.

(36) Eyton's Antiquities of Salop, vol. vL p. 204.

(37) Dugdale's Origines Judioiales, 1671, p. 100.

(38) Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 1754, iii. 12.

(39) Foss's Judges, vol. iv. p. 283.

(40) Test. Ebor. vol. ii. p. 130 ; Surtees Society.

(41) Add. MSB. in Brit. Mus. Nos. 5080-5084.

(42) Clutterbuck's Herts, ii. 254.

(43) Chauncy's Hist, of Herts, p. 523 ; Clatter-

buck's Herts, i. 513.

(44) Inq. p. m. W. Roche mil 16 April 1560.

(45) Morant's Essex, i. 108.

(46) Machyn's Diary, pp. 190, 871.

(47) Coll. Top. et Gen. vi. 93.

(48) Inq. p. m. Briani Roche, 1517.

(49) Brewer's Calendars of Henry VHI. vol. i.

pp. 152. 269, 768.

1 62 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

were sequestered, while Sir Anthony himself was so completely overwhelmed by
pecuniary and political entanglements, that he was obliged to sell a great portion
of his estate to his brother Henry, and to take refuge in Holland to save himself
from arrest. His letter to his brother Henry, written on the eve of his flight, has
been preserved at Chicheley Hall, and by the kindness of the Vicar of Chicheley I
am enabled to print a copy of it. It is without date, but the schedule which accom-
panies it is dated 20th Oct. 1646.

A Letter from Sr. Anthony Chester to Henrt Chester EsQw

* Brother Henry,

* I have made my Cosen Toby Pedder* a power for the making good of my Estate,
which you shall purchase of mee, for it is so that I dare not stay in England, for feere of being
taken by the Parliment, or upon execution for my own or other men's debts. I am now going for
Holland, where I purpose to reside till I may safely return without danger of my person. I hare
put you and my Cosen Lehuntf in trust for my whole estate for maintenance of my Wife and
children, and for the raising of portions for my children according to your instructions only
reserving an hundred pounds annuity during my naturall life. I hope you will be as a husband
to my Wife and a father to my children during my absence, for I have no friend in the world that
I dare trust in as yourself. I have given him a scedule of my debts and of what is owing to me,
in all which I must crave your assistance. Good Brother, have an especial care that Sr Ed-
mund's Writ bee satisfied however, that the estate may be in your hands, then I hope there will
be no danger ensue to mc or mine. Brother, if you plase my Cosen Peder can send me my
annuity so send it him, for I know no friend so fitt as he, for he can send to me every month with
conveniency for returne of monies at the best advantage. Thus desiring your wonted assistance
and favours in all these my occasions I rest your ever truly loving Brother and Servant

* Anthony Chksteb.

* Good Brother give Vicar NokeJ for the tithes of Chicheley for as yet we are so cond . . . ed
{Uleyible) for them, tlierefore I leave that to your discretion.'

* For my louing

* brother Henery

* Chester Esq.

• This.' [illegible.)

The arrangements referred to in this letter are clearly explained by the Schedule,
which has been preserved with it. Sir Anthony empowered his cousins Edmund
Bell of Beaupr^ Hall and Toby Pedder to deal with his whole estate in the follow-
ing manner: 1. They were to complete the sale to Henry Chester of 568 acres in

^ I cannot define the precise connexion of Toby Pedder with the Chesters ; bat it appears from the
M. I. of his daughter Mrs. Vowel Arford at Brancaster, that Toby was of Htmstanton in Norfolk. (4)
This parish belonged in 1646 to Sir Hamon le Strange Et., who was consin-german to Lady Chester
through bis mother Mary Bell. I should guess therefore that Toby's relationship was derived throagh
the Bells, and that he was a merchant at Lynn.

t * My Cosen LehunV would be the son of Sir George le Hunte Kt., of Little Bradley in Suffcdk, by
his second wife Elizabeth Peyton, the widow of Sir Anthony Irby Kt., and the maternal aunt of Sir
Anthony Chester's wife.

X Josiah Noke was presented to the Vicarage of Chicheley by Sir Anthony Chester 7th June 1642,
and I gather from the verses which he inscribed on the tomb of his daughter Elizabeth Noke at Chiche-
ley, that he was the author of those affecting lines on the monument of John Chester, the infant son of
his patron. (5) He was buried at Chicheley on 26th March 1662, and is called in the Eegister 6 ficucapfnif.
He was not educated at any university, and a story of his pious simplicity is told by Sir Nicholas le
Strange in his jcet book. (6)

SIB ANTHONY CHESTER BART. II.

163

Chicheley at the price of 6300Z. 2. They were to convey the rest of his estate to
Henry Chester and his cousin Le Hunt, upon trust to pay him an annuity of lOOZ.
per annum during his life, and subject thereto, to raise out of lands valued at
277/. 3«. 4rf. per annum portions for his younger children and payment of his per-
sonal debts. 3. Chicheley Hall and the lands adjoining valued at 657/. per annum
were to be reserved for his son and heir Anthony Chester, subject to his mother's
jointure of 377/. per annum.

A particular of the Pasture and Meadow in the occupation of Richard Ffbllott and Win.

of Chicheley in the County of Bucks.

Imprimis all that capitall Messuage with y* appurtenances called Mansells, situate and

being in Berry End in Chicheley aforesaid, whereon Richard Ffollott doth now dwell

and inhabit, with y* pasture grounds hereunto belonging contajniing by Estimacon .
And all the pasture called great Balney adioyning to the forementioned pasture grounds

on the East, y* cont by estimacon

Item all that Tenemt. wherein Wm. Eyles doth now dwell and inhabit with that pasture

thereto adioyning called Thickthome cont. by estimacon

All that great pasture (with Clerk's pightles) lying between Thickthome and Hardmead

Grounds cont. by estimacon

AH that pasture called Butlers, adioyning to the great pasture cont. by estimacon

All that pasture called Pryors ffield adjojnoing to great Butlers cont. by estimacon .

All that great pasture called Jeggs grounds adioyning to great Butlers and Pryors ffields

on the East cont. by estimacon

All that pasture and meadow ground called Longcroft, lying between Jeggs grounds and

Thickthome Wood cont. by estimacon

All that pasture called Chappels pightles adioyning to Thickthom Wood cont.

All that ground called Lyhill and Hardmead adioyning to Thickthom W^ood cont. by

estimon

All that pasture called Branons Close adioyning to Lyhill and Hardmead cont.
All that pightle called Woods pightle adioyning to Thickthom Wood cont ■,
All that Close called Tills, lying between Eastend Close and Dean ffield cont. .
All that pasture called the little fforest in the Parish of Emberton, lying between great

fforest pasture and south ffield cont. by estimacon

Eyles
Acres.

106

032

066

120
080
000

070

006
005

014
008
003
009

009
568

The grounds above written to be sold to my Brother Henry Chester for the sume of ^6300.
I am to receive of Eyles and Ffollott their Lady -Day Rents next coming.

Antho. Chester.
October 20th, 1646.

The lands underwritten to be set out for raising portions for my Children and sattisfying the debts

due imediately from my selie.

. . . ponds ffield and Longcroft in the tenure of Math Osmond
Stockings Slyes and Parsonages in the ten. of Page

firancis Goodnod's groimds

Beny end green with a cottage in the ten. of Brittein
New Cottage in the tenure of Parkes

Reads house and Close

two Clay -hills with one little Close adioyning

Carried forward ^6159

?50

164

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Brought forward

two Closes in the tenure of Ambrose Cowley
Osmonds house and home Close ....

Sams Cottage and pightle

Dean ffield and meadow with Cookso lejrs
Anslowes Closes with the Woods ....

Grabnooks ffarm

The Leas and meadow on the backside home ground
The plowed ground in Crawley ffield 100a. .
The plowed ground in Sherington ffield 17a. .

For my daughter Alice and Dorothy at their marriage a Thousand Marks apiece
w"* amounteth to

For my other four daughters, to wit, Ffrances Diana, Eliz. and Huperta .£400
apiece at their marriage w"* amounteth to

For my son Peyton out of the lands reserved for my son Anthony (if it cannot be
reserved out of the Lands above specified for my daughters portions and peculiar
debts) the yearly sum of

To my Sonne William to bind him Prentice and to raise him a Stock .

The Lands underwritten to be reserved for my sonne Anthony, to wit,

The Manor House with appurtenances —
The Home Ground on the backside &c.
3 Single Closes at the end of it next East End
Margaretts and Pinfold Leas
The fiarm close . ...

Strattons close with another adioyning
John Gardeners House and Close .

Kichard and Widow Coates

Wm. Parker 8 House and Close

Pollards

Edward Boons House and Close .
Robert Chamock's House and Close

Close .....

Perry

Thickthom Wood ....
The grounds in joynter to my Lady
The little Balney, being plowed ground

All the arable Land in the Pish, of Chicheley not formerly disposed off for sale

J^'159
14
05 10
02
25
11
14
08
83
05 13 4

£271 3 4

jeissa 18

1600

800

100

007

024

008

Oil

004

008

012

016

006

012

030

377

006
M51

Cosen Bell and Cosen Peder,

I desire you would take the best care you can for the settling of Chicheley according to this
scedule with all expedition that may bee, for whch you shall engage

Your Mend and kinsman,
October 20th, 1640. Antho. Chester.

Henry Chester nobly performed the trust reposed in him by his brother, and
by his nominal possession of the Chicheley estate protected it from sequestration*
Sir Anthony resided at the Hague during his exile, and by his brother^s good offices

DAME ELIZABBTH CHESTER. 165

was enabled in 1650 to return home, when he found Chicheley Hall almost in ruins.
But the broken cavalier came home ruined in health as well as in estate, and dying
in the next year was buried at Chicheley on 15th February 1651-2. (i) His chil-
dren were left under the guardianship of their prosperous uncle Henry ; but Sir
Anthony left no will that I can find. The ecclesiastical Registries were then in
the utmost conftision ; but after the settlement of 1646 Sir Anthonv had a bare
life annuity of 100/. per annum, and therefore had nothing to dispose of by will.

There are two pictures at Chicheley Hall which are reputed to be the portraits
of the second Sir Anthony Chester and his wife; but they are fixed in the panel-
ling, and are without any names or dates« Lady Chester appears as a handsome
brunette, who may or may not be Elizabeth Peyton. But the portrait attributed
to Sir Anthony is the full-length figure of a middle-aged man with long fair hair,
an oval face, and a sunny expression, singularly free from the lines which would be
imprinted on it by a life of warfare, exile, and misfortune. He also wears the red
ribbon of the Bath, which makes it certain that the person portrayed is Sir
Henry Chester, the only member of the family ever admitted to that Order.

His widow. Lady Elizabeth Chester, is honourably recorded for * the Chris-
tian patience and singular courage with which she endured the calamities which
adverse fortune in those deplorable times had exposed the family to.' (7) She sur-
vived her husband above forty years ; but I have found no notice of her during her
long widowhood, except that she is incidentally mentioned in the Royalist Composi-
tion Papers as holding a mortgage of 300L on the estate of Sir John Wake Bart,
at Hartwell in Northamptonshire. (8) I gather from the silence of Sir Henry
Chester's will, who takes no notice of Dame Elizabeth or any of her daughters
except Frances, that they were not on affectionate terms. It may easily be imagined
that the enthusiastic Royalist lady, who had never quite forgiven her brother-in-law
for his prudent acquiescence in the Commonwealth, would feel a certain indignation
at the honours bestowed on his timely loyalty. It would seem hard that her hus-
band's sufferings and her own were forgotten at the Restoration, whilst the whole
reward was reaped by one who had borne no part in the heat or burden of the day.
She was, however, not without a sufficient provision, according to the notions of
those times ; for the lands settled upon her in jointure by the deed of 1628 pro-
duced in 1646 an income of 377/. per annum, and she had other resources besides.
I presume that she was living in London, in the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields,
when her youngest daughter Henrietta Maria was buried there on 3d September
1668. She inherited from her grandfather the doubtful blessing of a long life, and
died aged eighty-nine on 3d July 1692, She was buried at Chicheley on 4th July,
and a slab in the pavement of Chicheley Church bears this inscription :

166 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Here lieth the body of Dame Elizabeth Chester, Wid. Relict of Sir Anthony Chester Bart,
y* 2nd of that name, by whom She had 5 sonns and 8 daughters. She was the eldest Dangfaer
of Sir John Peyton, of Dodington in y* Isle of Ely, Kt. who was y* only sonn of Sir Jonn Peyton,
sometime Lieutenant of y* Tower, and afterwards Governor of Jersey to his Death. She lived to
a good old age, being in her 8fith year, and dyed y* 3rd of July 1602^

Srr Anthony Chester 11. had issue by his wife Elizabeth Pfeyton thirteen cb.-il.
dren, five sons and eight daughters, namely :

I. Henry Chester, son and heir apparent, is mentioned by name in the Settle-
ment of 2d December 1628, and is described as being seven years of age in tie
Visitation of Bucks 1634, but it seems that in reah'ty he was two years older.* (jj
He died young, and was buried at Chicheley on 29th June 1641.

U. Alice Chester, and her next sister Dorothy, were provided by tKeir
father's settlement in 1646 with a marriage portion of 1000 marks each, althougi
their younger sisters had only 400f. a piece. She married on 1st June 1647 Join
MillicentEsq.of Bergham Hall, in the parish of Linton in Cambridgeshire. (9) He was
a captain in the army of Charles I., and had to compound for his estates by a fine
of 162 i. (10) On the Restoration he was returned as one of those Cavaliers who
were fit and qualified to be made Knights of the Royal Oak, and bis estate was
estimated at 700^ per annum ; but the projected Order was abandoned as likely to
rekindle political animosities. (11) He had issue Robert, John, and Henry, who
all died in infancy ; 4. William, bom 6th February 1650-1, died 26th December
1659 of smallpox at Newport School in Essex; and 5. John, his only surviving
child, who was born 30th June 1657. (9)

John Millicent Esq. died 24th June 168.6 aged sixty, and was buried in Milli-
cent's chapel in the north aisle of Linton church.

John Millicent, of Bergham co. Cambridge, Esquire. Will dated 20tli June 1681.

My Mansion-house and Manor of Bergham in Lynton, and all my other lands to my wife
Alice for life, Remainder to my son John for life. Remainder to the Right Hon. \Vm. Lord May-
nard, the Hon. Banastre Maynard of Estaines co. Essex, Esq. ; William Maynard of Bow Middle-
sex, Esq. ; Henrj' Maynard of Estaines, Esq. ; George Shiers of Slyfield Surrey, Gent. ; and Charles
Wright D.D., Rector of Runcton Norfolk, to the use of the sons of my said John by any woman
he may marry, excepting Alice the dau. of Dorotliy Fisher, now or late of Bloomsbury Middlesex,
widow ; Remainder to the daughters of my said son John, with the like exception. But in case
my said son dies without heirs of his body, or in case such heirs be the children of the said Alice
Fisher, I will that my said Mansion-house Manor and lands go to found a Maison de Dieu or
hospital, to consist of a mistress and six sisters, who are to spend their time in prayer and work-
ing and instructing young maidens to read and work.

The residue to my wife Alice, whom I appoint my sole executrix.

Will proved 11th Feb. 1686-7 in C.P.C. [26 Foot.]

® I Buspect that Henry wrb bom in 1626, and was younger than Alice and Dorothy.

168 THE CHESTERS OF CHICIIELEY.

John Millicent died in 1716, and was buried at Linton on 24th Febniarj',
leaving three sons, who were all educated at Westminster School and Trinity
College, Cambridge, and successively inherited the family estate. Their mother
Dorothy lived to the great age of ninety-four, and was buried at Linton on 7th
August 1763, having survived all her children. Her last surviving son, Robert
Millicent M.D., was buried on 18th January 1740, aged twenty-eight, and as his
only son John died in childhood of smallpox, he devised the Bergham estate to his
widow. She married secondly Rev. Christopher Lonsdale, Rector of Stathem in
Leicestershire, but had no further issue. She died a widow in 1807 at the age
of ninety-three, when by her Will she devised Bergham Hall and Manor to the
Master and Fellows of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, who have made it the country
seat of the Master for the time being* (14)

III. Dorothy Chester was bom on 10th May 1625, in the house of her great
grandfather Sir John Peyton at Doddington, (15) and married Colonel John Fisher
of Wisbech, a colonel of horse in the army of Charles I. He was serving under
Prince Rupert at Worcester, when the Prince and his officers negotiated with the
Parliament for passes to go beyond seas, (16) and a pass was granted to Colonel
Fisher on 13th December 1G45 on condition of his taking the Protectant oath
about the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. (10) He was permitted to compound
for his estate on 1st June 1647 by payment of a fine of 80/. (10) Dorothy Fisher
was a widow residing in Bloomsbury in 1681, and on 28th October 1686 proved the
Will of her brother Peyton Chester, of whom she was the residuary legatee. She
had issue five children, 1. John, and 2. Charles, who both died unmarried ; 3. Eliza-
beth married John Shan Esq. of Methley in Yorkshire, the grandfather of John
Shan, Vicar of Chicheley {see pedigree at p. 178) ; 4. Dorothy married Ingilby
Daniell, son of Sir Thomas Daniell Kt. of Beswick in Yorkshire ; 5. Alice, already
noticed. Mrs. Fisher died 19th February 1717, at the great age of ninety-one,
* and had all her senses very good to her last moment.' (15)

IV. Anthony Chester succeeded his father as the third Baronet.

V. Frances Chester, like her sisters Diana, Elizabeth, and Ruperta, received
a marriage portion of 400Z. under the Settlement of 1646. She was still unmarried
on 2d April 1666, when her uncle Sir Henry Chester made his Will, leaving her an
annuity of 20/. per annum ; but she married in the same year at Paris Samuel
Wiseman Esq. of Barbadoes. (17) They had no issue, and he was buried at St.
Michael's Bridgetown in Barbadoes on 2d February 1691-2. His widow Frances
long survived him, and inherited in 1696 an annuity of 501. per annum by the Will
of her nephew William Chester of Barbadoes.

VI. Diana Chester died unmarried before her brother Peyton, and was buried
at Chicheley, but her burial is not noticed in the Register.

Vn. Peyton Chester was born at Blunham in Bedfordshire, and was baptized
there 9th March 1635-6. (i) He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge^

SIB ANTHONY CHESTER BART. U. 169

but left the university without taking a degree. He was admitted a student of
Gray's Inn 7th Feb. 1653-4, of which Society his uncle William was a Bencher,
and his father had been a member ; (2) but the Inner Temple was then the more
favourite resort of young men of fashion, and Peyton Chester migrated there on
13th June 1654. (18) His principles and associations were those of a high Cava-
lier, and he soon deserted the Inns of Court for the exiled Court at Brussels, where
he resided for some years as Gentleman of the Bedchamber to his royal highness
Henry Duke of Gloucester. He returned to England with his royal master at the
Bestoration, but lost his employment at Court on the Duke's death. He was
created M.A. at Cambridge by royal mandate in 1666, and was reputed * a most
accomplished gentleman.' (8) He died unmarried at the age of fifty, and was
buried at Chicheley on 29th September 1686. (i>

Peyton Chester Esq. of Chicheley Bucks. Will dated 2d Aug. 1686.

To be buried at Chicheley beside my sister Diana Chester : to my sister Dorothea Fisher all
airears due to me from my nephew Sir Anthony Chester on account of two annuities payable out
of Chicheley and Crawley : to my said sister Dorothea all my books, clothes, and other goods
whatsoever. * In November 1674 I made up my accounts with Sir Antliony Chester, when Jt*139
was due to me. I do not know what the arrears now amount to, but I desire that they may be
left to Sir Anthony's own accoimt of them.'

My said sister Dorothea to be my executrix.

Will proved in C.P.C. 2Bth Oct. 1086. [127 Lloyd.]

VIII. Elizabeth Chester was baptized at Chicheley 10th July 1637, and mar-
ried about 1658 William Ryley Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple and Deputy
Keeper of the Records at the Tower. He was the eldest son of William Ryley the
Herald, who was Keeper of the Records during the Commonwealth, and who is
constantly confused with his son by Noble, the careless and inaccurate biographer
of the College of Arms. (19) Both father and son devoted their best years and
abilities to historical research, and my sympathy with their devotion to these un-
grateful studies has led me to attempt to recover the story of their lives. But not
to interrupt my narrative of Sir Anthony Chester's children by so long a digression,
I reserve what I know about the Ryleys for the last section of this chapter.

IX. Penelope Chester, baptized 23d May 1638 (i) ; died in childhood.

X. Whjja^i Chester, baptized at Chicheley 10th July 1639. He emigrated
to Barbadoes, and is the subject of the next section of this chapter.

XL John Chester, died an infant aged nine months, on 13th March 1640-1,
and was buried on the same day. (i) He was tenderly loved by his parents, for he
Jl8 the only one of their children to whom they erected a memorial. A black marble
alab in the floor of the north aisle of Chicheley church bears this inscription :*

* To the memory of John Chester Esq. 5th son of Sir Anthony Chester, Barronet, 3 Qrs. old,
deceased 13 Mar. An. Dni. 1640.

® The age of John Chester is mis-stated * 3 years' in all the printed copies of this inscription. The
-wording is clearly * 3 Quarters,* and the date of his brother William's baptism confirms this reading.

170 THE CHESTER8 OF CHICHELBY.

Grieved at the world and crimes, this early bloome
Looked round and sighed, and stole into his tombe.
His fall was like his birth, too quick this rose
Made haste to spread, and the same haste to close.
Here lies his dust, but his best tomb s fled hence,
For marble cannot last like innocence.'

Xn. RUPERTA Chester was in 1646 the youngest child of her parents, and
was the goddaughter of Prince Rupert, under whom her father was serving at the
time of her birth. She married at Chicheley, on 18th August 1666, Edward Cony
Esq., (i) the fourth son of Sir Sutton Cony Kt of North Stoke, Lincolnshire, by
Sarah Wortley, daughter of Elizabeth Countess of Devonshire. He was godfather
to his wife's nephew Thomas Chester on 30th March 1674, but the precise date of
his death is unknown to me. I gather that Ruperta was a widow in narrow cir-
cumstances in 1696, when her nephew William Chester of Barbadoes left her an
annuity of 50/. a year by his Will. She lived to a great age, and is described
by Arthur Collins, the author of the Baronetage of 1720, as ^a lady of a singularly
good memory who is now li\ing, and to whom I am obliged for several particulars
before related of her family.' (8) She was buried at Chicheley on 3d May 1721, (i)
and a portrait of her painted on wood is still in existence.

Edward and Ruperta Cony had issue nine children, of whom Thomas, Eleanor,
Wortley, Ruperta, and Anthony died in childhood. (20) Their survi>'ing children
were:

1. Edward Cony, son and heir, a Captain in the Hon. John Caulfield's Regi-
ment of Foot, was stationed at Barcelona in 1705.

2. William Cony, Captain of one of his Majesty's men-of-war, married Cathe-
rine, daughter of Thomas Pleydell Esq. ofMudgell, Wilts.

3. Elizabeth Cony, was hving unmarried in 1705.

4. Sutton John Cony was bom in 1 680, and was brought up by his relations
the Millicent family at Bergham, with whom he lived until the death of his cousin,
John Millicent Esq. in 1716, when he was one of his Executors. (21) He afterwards
married Anne, daughter of Sir John Barrington Bart, and widow of John Flacke
Esq. of Hinxton in Cambridgeshire, who died 8th Nov. 1702. (22) Mr. and Mrs.
Cony resided at Linton in a house near the church, where Cole the antiquary de-
scribes him as * a large jolly well-looking man,' and Mrs. Cony as ^ a tall thin woman,
much beloved and well spoken of by her acquaintance.' (20) He was on intimate
terms with Mr. Alexander of Baberham, where Cole used to meet him, and died 13th
Oct. 1748, aged 68. He was buried at Linton, but his wife, who survived him and
died 3d Feb. 1750, was buried near her first husband at Hinxton. (22)

Xni. Henrietta Maria, the youngest daughter, was born after her father's
flight to Holland, and probably at the Hague, She died unmarried, and was buried
at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields 3d Sept. 1668. (i)

WILLIAM CHESTER ESQ. OF BABBADOES. 1 7 1

IV.

William Chester, the fourth son of Sir Anthony Chester and Elizabeth Pey-
ton, was baptized at Chicheley on 10th July 1639, and was destined from boyhood
to a mercantile life, for in the Settlement of 1646 his father set aside 300/. for him
* to bind him Prentice and to raise him a Stock.' He was accordingly bound appren-
tice for eight years, on 19th Nov. 1656, to Robert Wilding, Citizen and Haberdasher
of London.* This Robert Wilding was a citizen of much note in his day, and was
Colonel of the Tower Hamlets Regiment in 1660. (23) He resided at Hackney, and
was connected with Northamptonshire by his marriagef with Katherine, widow of
Edward Knightley Esq. of Fawsley. (24) Soon after the Restoration William
Chester was enabled by the returning prosperity of his family to cancel his inden-
tures, and to emigrate to Barbadoes, which loyal colony was then frequented by
many cadets of Cavalier families in search of fortune. He traded there as a mer-
chant ^dth great success, and acquired large estates in the island. He resided in
the parish of St. James, Bridgetown, and married Sarah, daughter of Major Thomas
Helmes of Barbadoes, who survived him. He died at the end of 1687, soon after
making his Will.

WnxiAM Chester of the Parish of St. James in the Island of Barbadoes Esquire. Will dated
23d Nov. 1687.

To my dear wife Sarah all my household goods ; to my three younger children Dorothy, Eliza-
beth and Anthony Chester ^4000 each, to be paid to my said daughters at 18 and to my son at
21 ; and if my estate can spare it during the minority of my heir, a further sum of ^1000 each to
each of my younger children.

To Elizabeth dau. of Catherine Church deceased late wife of Robert Church, Planter, j05OO at
her age of 20 ; to my sister Frances Wiseman £40 ; to the poor of the parishes of St. James and
St. Thomas £10 each.

The residue to my son and heir William Chester whom I appoint my Executor. My wife to
be Guardian of my children during her widowhood, but if she marry again, my friends Charles
Collins, George Hannay, and Abel Alleyne Esquires to be tlieir Guardians in her stead.

Will proved in C. P. C. 24th March 1703-4, by John Eginton Esq, tlie Executor of William
Chester Esq. the son, who died before taking on himself the Executorship of his father's Will.
[69 Ash.]

William Chester of Barbadoes had issue ; three children, Sarah, Thomas, and
Henry, who died in infancy (25); with two sons and two daughters, who survived him.

I. William Chester, his son and heir.

n. Dorothy Chester married after her father's death — Butler Esq. of Bar-
badoes, and had issue a son Jame^ and a daughter Sarah, who are mentioned in the

• From the Binding Book of the Haberdashers Company :

1666. Not. 19. William son of Sir Anthony Chester Bart. deed, to Robert Wilding Cit. and Haber-
dasher. 8 yean. (47)

t From the Parish Register of Hackney:

1661-2. March 20. Robert Wilding Esq. widower and Catherine Knightley of Oravesend widow,
married.

1668. May 5. Mrs. Catherine Wylding wife of Robert Wylding Esq., buried.

1673. Aug. 9. Robert Wylding Esq., buried.

172 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Will of their uncle William Chester in 1696. Dorothy was then a widow, and
married secondly in 1697 Midleton Chamberlen Esq., a son of Dr. Hugh Chamber-
len the elder. (25)

III. Elizabeth Chester married at St. James, Bridgetown, 24th Feb. 1697-8,
Captain John Nanfan, Lieut.-Governor of New York, (i) He was the nephew of
Bridges Nanfan Esq. of Birts Morton in Worcestershire, whose only child Catherine
was the wife of Richard Coote, Earl of Bellamont. (26) The Earl had been selected
by William III. in 1696 for the government of New York, as being a man of reso-
lution and integrity, who would put down with a strong hand the illegal trade and
piracy which then prevailed in the American seas, and by his influence his wife's
cousin John Nanfan was appointed to be his lieutenant at a salary of 200L per
annum out of the 600Z. per annum assigned to the Governor from the Colonial Be-
venue. (27) Nanfan had been a captain in Sir John Jacob's Regiment of Foot, as
appears from his petition to the Treasury dated 5th August 1697, wherein he prays
for immediate payment of 175Z. arrears of military pay, as he was preparing for
his voyage to New York. (27) The Earl of Bellamont and his suite sailed from
England in October 1697, (27) and touched at Barbadoes on their voyage. They
would naturally be received there with much distinction, and during their short
stay Captain Nanfan wooed and won Elizabeth Chester, who had lately become by
her brother's death a considerable heiress. Lord Bellamont 's reputation as a Colo-
nial Governor was clouded by the scandals arising out of his unfortunate employ-
ment of Captain Kidd, who abused his commission to commit acts of the most daring
piracy, and the earl did not live to see the conclusion of Kidd's trial, when all the
facts of the case were brought to light, for after a short illness he died at New York
on 5th March 1700.* The government now devolved on Nanfan, under the terms
of his commission as lieutenant-governor, but he happened at the moment to be
away on leave at Barbadoes, (28) and this temporary absence was afterwards made
the excuse for disputing his authority. He acted, however, with firmness and vigour,
and the two chief malcontents. Col. Bayard and Alderman Hutchins, were executed
for high treason in February 1702-3, whilst Nanfan carried on the government
until the arrival of Lord Cornbury, whose commission was dated 1st Dec. 1702.

One of the first acts of the new governor was to reverse the attainder of Bayard
and Hutchins, (28) and I presume that on Lord Corn bury 's arrival Nanfan was
superseded in his office and retired to his wife's estates in Barbadoes. He came to
England on a visit some three years afterwards, and died at Greenwich, but was buried

o The Wm of Richard Earl of Bellamont is dated at New York 23d May 1699, and was proved in
C. P. C. 23d Feb. 1704-6 b;^ the executrix Catherine CountesB of Bellamont widow of the testator, and then
the wife of Rear- Admiral William CaldweU. [23 Gee in C. P. C] The Admiral died 17th Oct. 1718, and
his widow Lady Bellamont married thirdly Samuel Pytts Esq. M.P. of Kyre-Wyard. She married
fonrthly in 1737 William Bridgen Esq. Merchant of London, and died 12th March 1738, aged 73, when
she was buried at Birts-Morton with her ancestors. (26) Her Will is dated 11th March 1738, but no
Executor is named, and administration with the Will annexed was granted to her son Richard third Earl
of Bellamont on 17th June 1741. [146 Spurway in C. P. C]

WILLIAM CHESTER ESQ. OF BARBADOES. 173

at St. Mary Abchurch, London, on 18th June 1706. He had left his wife Elizabeth in
Barbadoes, and letters of administration to the estate of ^ John Nanfan Esq., late Lieu-
tenant^ovemor of New York in North America,' were granted by the Prerogative
Court on 3d Feb. 1707-8 to ' Midleton Chamberlen Esq. the attorney (and brother-in-
law) of Elizabeth Nanfan widow, then resident in the island of Barbadoes.' What
subsequently became of Mrs. Nanfan,* and whether she had any children, has not
met my view.

IV. Anthoxy Chester was bom in 168G, (25) and sun-ived his father, but died
young, before his brother William.

Sarah, the widow of William Chester and the mother of his children, married
secondly John Eggington Esq. of Barbadoes, and had a daughter Elizabeth born
before 1696. She and her husband were the Executors of William Chester the
younger in 1696, but she died before 14th March 1703-4, when the Will was proved
by her husband.

William Chester, the son and heir of William and Sarah Chester of Barba-
does, scarcely lived to enjoy the great estate left to him by his father. He waS born
17th Oct. 1675 (25) and died on 17th Oct. 1696, on the verj^ day of his coming of
age. He was buried at St. James's, Bridgetown, on the next day. (i)

William Chester now resident in the Island of Barbadoes Esq. Will dated 14th Oct. 1096.

To my mother Sarah Eginton ^'1000 ; to my father-in-law John Egiiiton Esq. i'lOOO ; to my
sister Elizabeth Eginton I'lOOO at 18 or marriage; to my nephew James Butler i:lOOO at 21; to
my niece Sarah Butler £'1000 at 18 or marriage ; to my kinsmanf Henry Chester gent. jglOOO ; to
my aunt Mary Clutterbuck, widow of Capt. Tobias Clutterbuck ^500 ; to my aunt Frances Wiseman,
widow, £'50 a year for her life ; to my aunt Iluperta Coney £*50 a year for her life ; to the Hon-
ourable Francis Bond Esq. and«Elizabeth his wife i'lOO for mourning.

To the poor of the parish of St. James Bridgetown £oO ; legacies to divers servants.

To my mother Sarah Egington my negro slaves.

Whereas my father-in-law the said John Eginton hath engaged himself to pay to Colonel Abel
Alleyne Esq. certain sums of money on my behalf and that of my sister Mrs. Dorothy Butler
widow, I direct that the same be repaid to him out of my estate.

As to the residue, I give one half therefore to my said sister Dorothy Butler, with remainder to
her son James Butler, if she die leaving no other issue than she now has ; and I give the otlier
half to my sister Elizabeth Chester, * my cousin J Charles Nicholas Eyre having been first satisfied
with X'200 to be paid to him.'

To Mr. Urwin Minister of St. James's Church £S0 a year for five years. My said father-in-law
and mother to be Executors of my Will.

Will proved 14th March 1703-4 in C. P. C. by John Egginton (sic) the surviving Executor.
[69 Ash.]

I now proceed to relate all that I have been able to discover about those two in-

• It has been snggested to me whether the following entry from the Parish Register of St. Olave's in
the Old Jewiy, London, can refer to her : * 1742-3. Jan. 23. William Hoskyns of Somerset House Esq.
widower and Elizabeth Nanfan of St. Catherine Oreo Church widow were married. ' (47)

f Henry Chetter of East Haddon was the second surviving son of Sir Anthony Chester III.

X Charles NichoUu Eyre married in 1687 Elizabeth daughter of Sir Anthony Chester III.

174 THE CHESTER8 OF CHICHELEY.

defatigable students of the Records, William Eyley the Herald, and his son of the
same name, who married Elizabeth, the fifth daughter of Sir Anthony Chester.

The elder Wh^liAM Ryley was employed in the Record Office from his youth,
for the period of his service extended over forty-seven years, which throws back its
commencement to 1620. Tlie place of Keeper of the Records was then invariably
held by a Herald, and his deputies were usually admitted into the College of Arms,
as vacancies arose. Ryley accordingly, being one of the deputies of Sir John Borough
at the Records, was created Rouge Rose poursuivant Extraordinary on 31st July
1630, and on 11th Nov. 1641 was promoted to the rank of Lancaster Herald. The
Heralds form part of the household of the Sovereign, and Ryley, with the rest, fol-
lowed Charles I. to Oxford ; but on 31st July 1643 he obtained the royal warrant to
repair to London and to attend to the safety of the Records in the Tower during
the absence of his chief. Sir John Borough, Garter, who remained at Court (29)
Ryley now declared for the Parliament, but his political conduct was vacillating and
suspected, and he was committed to prison in January 1643-4 for ^ intelligence tcUh
Ojrford' (30) He was accused before the Committee of Examinations at West-
minster of being with Sir Basil Brooke the chief agent in a plot * to make a differ-
ence between the Parliartie^ii and the Citt/, to divert the Scots advancing hitherj and to
raise a general combustion under the pretence ofpeacCy (30) but he was released after
a few weeks' imprisonment ; and when Sir John Borough died in April 1644 was
appointed by the Parliament to succeed him as Keeper of the Records. In Septem-
ber 1646 the Parliament resolved that their late General, the Earl of Essex, should
be buried in state in Westminster Abbey at the expense of the nation ; and in order
that the ceremony should be marshalled with due pompjand solemnity, three Kinga-
at-Arms were created, of whom Ryley was Norroy. His patent of creation is dated
20th Oct. 1646, two days before the funeral, which he officially attended. Ryley's
employments, however, were (to use his own words) ^places of quality rather than of
profitj for in 1 648 he was compelled to present a petition to Parliament to settle on
him a competency, on the ground that he had attended them in the Records for the
last seven years without any remuneration. (31) This petition was read on 11th
Aug. 1648, and it was ordered that 200Z. be advanced for his present subsistence.
(32) The salary of the Clerk of the Records was fixed at 100/. per annum by Crom-
well, and Ryley became one of his cordial adherents. When the committee was.^
appointed for the sale of the royal forests, Ryley was agent to the commission, and wess
find him writing to Secretary Thurloe on 19th April 1654 to solicit that his appoint — ■
ment might be changed from agent to commissioner, on the ground that he ^ had cov"^
dially served his Highness the Ijord Protector and the State in all trusts reposed in hii
and that he was most willing to serve with the best of his skill his Highness to whose
he was devoted.^ (33) He assisted as Norroy at the pageants of Oliver the
tor's funeral and of Richard's installation, and was created Clarencieux by Richi
Cromwell, by patent dated 25th Feb. 1658-9. (34) When the King's return

WILLIAM RYLEY ESQ. THE HERALD. 175

imminent, Ryley's loyalty reyived, and he was one of the three Heralds who pro-
claimed Charles 11. at Westminster Hall gate on 8th May 1660, in obedience to the
commands of both Houses of Parliament. (29)

On the Restoration the appointments made by Cromwell and the Parliament
were set aside as void, and Ryley was reduced to his former rank in the College as
Lancaster Herald, whilst the place of Keeper of the Records was given to the famous
William Prynne, with a salary of 500/. per annum, but Ryley and his son remained
in the office as his deputies. Prynne's impracticable temper soon embroiled him
with the government, and Ryley was encouraged to hope that he might be super-
seded. But the ministers of Charles were too wary to provoke a controversy with
80 bitter a writer as Prynne ; so they suffered him to retain his office, whilst they
withheld payment of the greater part of his salary. In the mean while Ryley assisted
his son in publishing a folio full of high Prerogative doctrines, and besieged the
Court with petitions for a salary and promotion. But he died two years before
Prynne, and was buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey on 25th July
1667. He died intestate, and administration of his estate was granted to his son
William on 22d Oct. following. (47)

The real value of Ryley's long services at the Record Office is disputed, for

Prynne speaks disparagingly of his abilities and research. ^ He promisedy* says

Whitelocke, 17th July 1658, ^ great service to the Parliament about Calendaring the

Records in the Tower^ (35) But his work was so carelessly performed that Prynne

composed his Brevia Parliamentaria Rediviva out of bundles of Records which Ryley

had thrown aside, because they were covered with dirt and dust. (36) This, however,

is rather a reflection on his industry than his ability, and it must be borne in mind

that his labours were most inadequately remunerated. Prynne, too, was scarcely

an impartial critic in matters where his predecessor was concerned, and his own

book did not escape censure in the next generation, for Browne- Willis says that

^}£r. Prynne has been very defective^ and is guilty of many omissions and mistakes. (37)

Very little is known about Ryley's family. He was a native of Lancashire, and

Was, I suspect, the brother of Thomas Ryley, a King's Scholar at Westminster School,

ivho was elected to Cambridge in 1625, and was afterwards a fellow and tutor of

trinity College. (38) Also I have no doubt that he was the William Ryley who

tfeuuTied Martha Fuller on 4th Sept. 1623 at St. Benet's, Paul's Wharf, London.

fie had many children, but none of them are known to me except William, his eldest

^on, and Dorothy, who married George Barkham, one of the intruding Heralds under

"the Commonwealth ; but I presimie that ^ Mr, Philip Ryley y who was buried at

-^cton on 20th Oct. 1671,* was another of his sons.

• From the Parish Register of Acton^ Middlesex : (47)

1654. July 5. John son of George Barkliam Gent, and Dorothy his wife was bom.
1671. April 12. George Barkham was buried.
1671. Oct. 20. Mr. Philip Ryley was buried.

1 76 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

William Ryleythe younger (who was the husband of Elizabeth Chester) has
left on record the details of his education in a draft petition which is preserved in
tlie State-Paper Office. (29) He says: ^ I received my education from Mr. Busby at
Westminster, from whence I went to Christchurch, Oxford, where I received the
degree of M.A., and was then admitted of the Inner Temple.' It must be remarked
tliat his name does not occur in Anthony Wood's list of Oxford graduates, or in the
Matriculation Books of the University, but the University Registers were irregularly
kept during the confusion of the Civil Wars, and the petition seems to have been
presented by his wife's cousin. Lord Chancellor Finch, who was himself educated at
Westminster and Christchurch.

Ryley was admitted a student of the Inner Temple on 26th April 1652, when he
is described as the son and heir-apparent of William Ryley Esq. of Acton in Middle-
sex, (18) and had then been for some time employed in the Record Office imder his
father. He inherited a taste for antiquarian researches, and gave up all his profes-
sional prospects to attend to the study of the Records, for he was not called to the
Bar until 12th Feb. 1664-5. (18) In these days of superficial reading and second-
hand erudition, his delight in exploring the sources of history will be construed as
the mark of a narrow and contracted intellect. But such was not the judgment of
our greatest writers in the golden age of English literature, for Addison, in a famous
paper of the Spectator^ bears remarkable testimony to tlie fascination which this
study exercised over Bishop Atterbury, who was singularly free from every taint of
pedantry. Addison says of him: (39)

* I have heard one of tlie greatest geniuses this age has produced, who had been trained up in
all the polite studies of antiquity, assure me, upon his being obliged to search into several roUs and
records, that notwithstanding such an employment was at first very dry and irksome to him, he at
last took an incredible pleasure in it, and preferred it even to the reading of Virgil or Cicero.*

It appears from the age of their grandson Reginald Ryley, who was bom in
1681 , that Ryley married Elizabeth Chester before the Restoration ; and this alliance
with a family of approved loyalty and some influence at Court was of great service
to him and his father in enabling them to remain in the Record Office under the
new keeper. Ryley was intimately associated with his father in all his literary pui^
suits and undertakings ; and so much so, that it has been doubted which of them
was the author of the Placita Parliamentarian The title-page of the original edition
in 1661 bears the name of ^William Ryley of the Middle Temple Gent.,' w^ho is the
father; but another edition was published in 1662 with an Appendix by * William
Ryley of the Inner Temple Gent.,' who was certainly the son. This edition is dedi-
cated to Lord Chancellor Clarendon, and was formally approved by Sir Ileneage
Finch, afterwards himself Lord Chancellor and Earl of Nottingham. (40) Finch
was, through his mother Frances Bell, nearly related to Ryley's wife Elizabeth
Chester, and he recommends this folio as being full of instruction and interest. The

WILLIAM RYLEY ESQ. THE YOUNGER. 177

Placita ParliamentartOyhoyi every is one of those books which most men would rather

praise than read. It consists of * Pleadings in Parliament iti the Reigns of Edward

L and Edward IL to prove the homage of the Kings of Scotland due to the Crown of

England^ whilst the Appendix vindicates the inherent right of the Sovereign to

command the Militia. The true story of the authorship is told in a joint petition

to the King by William Ryley senr. and WilUam Ryley junr., in which they assert,

amongst their other merits and claims on the royal bounty, that ^ the father and son

had discovered amongst the Records that original memorable recognition of the King's

Royal Grandfather* 8 title to the Empire of Great Britain^ which the father presented

to hU Majesty in 16G1 ;' and that ^ in 1662 tlie younger Ryley vindicated Vie Militia

for the King as his just right belonging to him and his royal predecessors^ (29)

Ryley also fully shared in his father^s hopes of superseding Prynne, and lost no

opportunity of exposing his shortcomings in the execution of the duties of his office.

Pepys has shrewdly noted in his diary: (41)

' 1664. May 13. I saw old Hyley the Herald and his son, and spoke to his son, who told me in
Teiy bad words concerning Mr. Pr3mne that the King had given him an office of keeping the Records,
bat that he never comes thither nor had been there these six months, so tliat I perceive they expect
to get his employment from him.'

After his father's death in 1667 Ryle/s relations with Prvime became more
friendly, for Prynne's Will, dated 11th Aug. 1669, contains this item: ^ I give to
Mr. William Ryley one of my last tomes of a chronological vindication! He had in
Prynne's lifetime sent in a petition for a grant in reversion of the office of Keeper,
but his hopes were disappointed by the appointment of Sir Algernon May in Feb-
ruary 1669-70. His situation therefore was not improved by Prynne's death, and
tlie rest of his life is only known to me by a series of petitions setting forth his ser-
Wces and embarrassments. One petition (without date, but not earlier than 1673)
declares that he has served twenty-eight years in his place, which his late father*
ield forty-eight years, with little profit since the dissolution of the Court of Wards ;
^^ that he had been at great charge about carriage and transcript of Records for
the Parliament, and had received no benefit for twelve years past ; he begged there-
fore for a royal grant of the old brick tower and two ruined houses in the Tilt Yard
*^ Greenwich. Two petitions of later date have been preserved, which were evid-
^tly written in 1675, very shortly before his death. The first of them is addressed
to his old patron Lord Keeper Finch :

* Being in a declining condition through dropsy, consumption, and several other distempers,
*> that many of the College of Physicians declare tliere is but little hope of recovery, I am de-
sirous of leaving the llecord Office in the same condition as my father left it to me, and tliere-
fore request the return of Uie calendars of the liberate, fine, and patent rolls, which were lent to
your Lordship when Attorney- General, a book in folio with clasps and marked by you in several
places, your Lordship then intending to have something " excribed" out of those roUa.'

^^ This allasion to the death of his father, which took place in 1667, ought to have prevented the
editor of the printed Calendars of State Papers from assigning this petition to the year 1662, as he has
dmie.

178 THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY.

The other petition is still more afifecting in the account of the distress to which
he was reduced ; but it does not clearly appear to whom it was addressed for pre-
sentation to the Secretary of State. I should suspect that it never was presented,
but found its way to the State-Paper Office amongst his papers, which were pur-
chased after his death by Sir Joseph Williamson. He says : (29)

' In my declining condition I have pursued the doctor's directions so long as I had wherewithal
to satisfy him and the apothecary, and having had little or no support out of the office, I desire that

will do me the honour to present my petition to Sir Joseph WilHamson, so that I may die in

his good opinion, and that he will he pleased to look with a favourable eye upon my dejected widow
and poor children, and intercede with his Majesty, that I (or they after my departure) may have
some compensation for all my services, having had so inconsiderable a support from the office, that
I with tears express it, that I shall not leave wherewithal to bury me. I am afraid that when my

head is layd no person will be found fit to manage the office. I desire that do take care that

the collections of my dear deceased father's labours of above 47 years and my own of 26 years, with
my printed books, may be sold to the best advantage. I was born a gentleman and received my
education from Mr. Busby at Westminster, from whence I went to Christ Church, Oxon, where I
received the degree of M.A., and was admitted of the Inner Temple. I have lost all preferments to
attend to tlie study of the Records, wherein I took my delight ; and now after all my endeavours
and constant services to his Majesty must by sad experience die a beggar.'

He died very soon after writing this petition, and was buried in the little church
of St. Peter ad Vincula near the Tower on 12th Nov. 1675.* He left no Will, and
I have been unable to discover any further traces of his wife Elizabeth, but I hope
that she lived to witness and to share the prosperity of their eldest son Philip
Ryley.

William Ryley left several children, but I have been unable to find any trace of
more than three of them, viz. Philip, Richard, and Reginald, and of the two last
very little is known to me.

Richard Ryley was living at Acton in December 1687, when his daughter
Elizabeth was baptized there.f I suspect that she afterwards married John Finch
Esq. of Little Bradley in Suffolk, and is the niece whom Sir Philip Ryley mentions
in his Will.

Reginald Ryley was appointed on 20th Aug. 1702 Serjeant-at-Arms in the
place of his brother Philip, (42) but he either died or resigned early in 1706, for on
12th February in that year Philip Ryley was reappointed in his room. (42)

Philip Ryley, the son and heir of William and Elizabeth, was a more prosper-
ous man than his father, and whether for his father's merits or his own, was pre-
ferred at an early age to the honourable office of Serjeant-at-Arms attending the
Lord High Treasurer of England. I have not discovered the date of his appoint-
ment, but half-a-year's salary (50/. Ss. dd,) was paid to him on 29th Sept. 1685. (43)
Early in the next reign he was made one of the agents of the Exchequer, with 200L

^ From the Pariah Register of St. Peter ad Vincula, London : (47)

1676. Nov. 12. Mr. Reyley {sic) buried,
t From the Parish Register of Acton, Middlesex : (47)

1687. Dec. 9. Elizabeth danghter of Richard Ryley and Elizabeth his wife was baptized.

SIB PHILIP RYLEY KT. 179

per annum, an office which he vacated in 1698, when he was appointed one of the
Commissioners of Excise, with a salary of 800/. per annum. (44) On the accession
of Queen Anne he resigned his post of Serjeant-at-Arms in favour of his brother
Reginald, but was reappointed 12th Feb. 170(), and contmued to hold it with his
other offices until his death. On 30th May 1711 he was made a commissioner for
collecting the duties on hides, at 500/. per annum, (42) and he was for many years
Surveyor of the Royal Woods and Forests. He was knighted by George 11. 26th
April 1728, (43) and died at Norwich 25th Jan. 1733. (46)

His long possession of so many lucrative offices enabled him to acquire consider-
able wealth, and he purchased the Manor of Great Hockham near Thetford in
Norfolk, where he usually resided in his later years.

By his wife (whose name and parentage are unknown to me) he had an only son,
Reginald, who was bom in 1681, and matriculated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, on
6th July 1697, being then 16 years of age. (47) He died before his father, leaving
two daughters Philadelphia and Elizabeth, and an only son PHILIP Reginald
Ryley, who was heir to his grandfather.

Sir Philip Ryi.ey of Great Hockham Norfolk Kt. Will dated 30tli Aug. 1732.

To my grandson Philip Reginald Ryley and his heirs my manor of Great Hockham and my lands
and tithes at Little Hockham and the advowson of the Vicarage there ; also my house at Thetford,
and the shopyard against it ; also all my other lands in Norfolk and Suffolk ; also my house at
Kampstead in Middlesex, and the Bear Inn there ; also my farm of Dallys at Hendon in Middlesex ;
also the unexpired term of my leasehold house in Dover-street, and all other my real estate, and
all my plate, pictures, &c.

To my granddaughters Philadelphia* and Penelope Ryley ^1600 each at their age of 24 or
marriage, and I leave to them ' the damask hed they lie in' and other furniture specified.

I give ^300 towards building a steeple to the Church of Great Hockham ; £'3 a year for ever
to the poor there.

To my said grandson the Duke of Ormond's picture set in gold, &c., but if he die without issue
or leaving only a daughter, then X'TOO is to be raised out of my estate for building Almshouses at
Great Hockham. Sir Thomas Hanmerf Bart., Roger Millart Esq., Mr. Robert Martin of Thetford,
and Mr. John Finch of Little Bradley to be Trustees of my Will, and I give to the said Sir Thos.
Hanmer ^20, to the said Roger Millart ^50 and a ring, to the said Robert Martin £10, and to the
said John Finch and his tri/e my niece £6 each.

To each of my said granddaughters £20 for mourning ; to that honest man William China of
London £5 ; to each of the two widow Pindars a ring worth 20*. My grandson Philip Reginald
to be my executor, when he is of competent age.

Will proved in C. P. C. by the said Philip Reginald Ryley 7th May 1733. [161 Price.]

Sir Philip Ryley bore Sable, on a pile Or three crosslets pattc^e Jitchee of the fieldf
the arms granted to his grandfather WilUam Ryley when a Pursuivant by Sir John
Borough, Garter. (49)

• Philadelphia Ryley married Richard Baylis Esq. of Breccles in Norfolk, and had a son Robert. (48)
f The well-known Speaker of the House of Commons.

180

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(i) Extracts from Pariuh Registers.

Chicheleyy Bucks (verified by the Rev. W. Jeudwine, Vicar).

1593, March 25. Anthony, son of Anthony Chester Esq., bapt.

1637, July 10. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Anthony Chester Bart., bapt.

1638, May 23. Penelope, dan. of same, bapt.

1639, Jaly 10. William, son of same, bapt.
1640-1, March 13. John, son of same, buried.
1641, June 29. Henry Chester, son of same, buried.
1651-2, Feb. 15. Sir Anthony Chester Bart. , buried.

1666, Aug. 18. Mr. Edward Cony of North Stoke in Lincolnshire and Mrs. Raperti
Chester married.

1686, Sept. 29. Mr. Paten Chester buried.

1692, July 4. Elizabeth Lady Chester buried.

1721, May 3. Madame Ruperta Cony buried.
DlunJiamy BetU. (47)

1635-6, March 9. Paten Chester, son of Sir Anthony Chester Et., bapt.
St. Martin' t-in-the-Fields^ London. (47)

1668, Sept 3. Henrietta Maria Chester, puella, buried.
St, MichaeVn^ Bridgetown^ Barbadoet (verified by Thomas Lacey, parish-clerk, 9th Dec.
1868).

1691-2, Feb. 2. Samuel Wiseman Esq. buried.
St, James's, Bridgetown, Barbadoes (verified by Thomas Lacey, parish -clerk of St. Michiel'B,
1868).

1696, Oct. 18. William Chester Esq. buried.

1697-8, Feb. 24. Eliza Chester and Capt. John Nanfan, Governor of New York, marriei
St» Mary Abchurch, London. (47)

1706, June 18. John Nanfan, brought from Greenwich, buried.

(2) Registers of Gray's Inn.

(3) Calendars of State Papers, Domestic, 4th Dec. 1638.

(4) Blomefield's Hist, of Norfolk, 8vo, x. 301.

(5) Lipscomb's Bucks, iv. 97.

(6) Anecdotes and Traditions, ed. Thoms, p. 21, Camden Society.

(7) Chester of Chicheley in vol. i. of CoUins's Baronetage, 1720.

(8) Royalist Composition Papers, 2d series, xxvii. 70.

(9) Cole's MSB. in Brit. Mus., toL xi. 168, and vol. xlvii. 297, 432, &c.

(10) Journals of the House of Comm(ms.

(11) Wotton's Baronetage 1741, iv. 364.

(12) Le Neve's Memoranda, printed in Topographer and Genealogist, iii. 33.

(13) Pedigree of Fisher in Harl. ms. 6776, fo. 17.

(14) Mon. Angl.,vi. p. 1586.

(15) From the family Bible of Shan of Methley, penes Mrs. Hughes.

(16) Whitelocke's Memorials, fol. 1732, p. 183.

(17) Rev. D. Royce, Vicar of Nether Swell, assures me that the year and place of Frances Wise-

man's marriage are given in the Pedigree of Chester in the Library of Queen's Coll. Oxon,
M8S. No. cxxv.

(18) Registers of the Inner Temple.

(19) Notices of W. Ryley in Noble's Hist, of College of Arms, 4to, 1805.

(20) Cole's Mss., xi. 202.

(21) Cole's MSB., xlvii. 444.

(22) M. I. on a gravestone at Hinxton, communicated by the Rector.

(23) Ped. of Wilding in the Visitation of Middlesex 1663.

(24) Ped. of Knightley in Baker's Northants, i. 32.

(25) Large ms. Pedigree of Chester at Chicheley Hall, drawn up by Peter Le Neve for Sir John

Chester Bart, in 1698.

(26) Ped. of Nanfan in Nash's Hist, of Worcestershire, i.'p. 86; Lodge's Peerage of Ireland 1754,

i390.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. 181

(27) Calendar of Trearary Papers, 5th Aug. 1697, 22d Jane 1700.

(28) State Trials, ed. Howell, xiy. 471-615.

(29) 30th Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records, p. 249.

(30) Whitelocke's Memorials, fol. 1782, p. 79.

(31) Peck's Desiderata Cnriosa, p. 384.

(32) Journals of the House of Commons.

(33) Thurloe's State Papers, ed. Birch, toL ii. p. 232.

(34) 4th Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records, p. 199.

(35) Whitelocke's Memorials, p. 674.

(36) Piynne's BreYia ParUamentaria Rediviva, Prefdce.

(37) Browne-Willis's Notitia ParUamentaria, 1715, preface, p. 3.

(38) Alumni Westmonasterienses, 8to, 1B52, p. 97.

(39) Spectator, No. 447.

(40) Kennett's Regrister, foL , pp. 487, 542.

(41) Pepys* Diary, 13th May 1664.

(42) Privy Seal Warrants of Queen Anne, printed in 30th Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records.

(43) Secret Services of Charles II. and James II., p. |18, Camden Society.

(44) Luttrell's Diary, 14th July 1698 and 29th June 1700.

(45) Townsend's Catalogue of Knights.

(46) Gentleman's Magazine.

(47) From CoL Chester's mss. Collections.

(48) Blomefield's Hist of Norfolk, 8vo, ii. 276.

(49) Mss. in College of Arms, marked E. D. N. 56, fol. 83.

(50) Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1661-2.

(51) Noble's Hist, of College of Arms, p. 262.

(52) Idem, p. 292.

Note on the Faxilt of Rtlet. I must leave it to those who have better opportunities of research
) complete in detail the pedigree of Ryley ; for there are several members of the family whose precise
nmection with the Herald I am unable to determine. Francis Ryley, clerk at Goldsmiths' Hall, lived
I the Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, (29) and had dealings with William Ryley the younger, who is
illed * his cousin.* (50) He was Chester Herald under the Protectorate, and was deprived at the Restora-
m; but Noble is mistaken in calling him the brother of the elder William Ryley. (51) Noble also
iggests the question, whether Colonel Ryley who was serving in Ireland in 1653, Henry Ryley Esq.
nunil at Aleppo in 1656, Henry Ryley Esq. a Gentleman Pensioner to Charles II., and John Ryley the
inter who was bom in 1640 and died in 1662, were not all sons of William Ryley the Herald. (52) It is
rtain that they were not all his sons, but they were probably all related to him.

182

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEr.

PEDIGREE OF FISHER AND SHAN, DESCENDED FROM CHESTER.

Colonel John Fisher of Wisbech ;=
a colonel in the army of Charles I.

I 1

1. John Fisher,

died nnmar.

2. Charles
died onuL

'Dorothy, dan. of Sir Anthony
Chester Bart. II. ; bom 10 May
1625 ; died 19 Feb. 1717, aged 92.

1. Elizabeth <
Fisher, died 2
Nov. 1716 ; M.
I. at Methley.

= John Shan =2 w. Elizabeth ;
Esq. of Meth- died widow 6
ley, Yorkshire; June 1722; M.
a barrister of I. at Methley.
Gray's Inn.

2. Anne Fisher,

mar. Ingilby
Daniell Esq. of
Beswick, York-
shire.

Alice, claimed to

be wife of her coo-
sin John MiUicent
of Bergham.

John Shan Esq., son and heir, of>=pAnne, dan. of Shan Esq. ;

Methley; bom 7 Sept. 1674, in
Eing*s-street, Westminster.

Rev. John "

Shan, M.A.,

son and heir, of

Methley; bom

28 Oct. 1700 ;

vicar of Chiche-

ley, and rector

of Famdish ;

died 29 Aug.

1783 ;M. I.*

marr. at Ardsley 20 April 1699 ;
died 7 Dec. 1769, aged 94; M. I. at
Chicheley.

Daniel Shan ; bom

18 Nov. 1676.

> Barbara, dan.
of Rev. Thos.
Remington, vi-
car of Easton
Mandit, by Di-
ana Chester ;
died 22 Jan.
1774, aged 70;
M.I.

1^
2.

bom

1701

fant.

bom

William, 4. Charle8,bom
2 July 23 June 1704 ;
died in- had two sons.

5. Francis,born
1706; died in-
fant.

Lawson,
14 June
1703; died 17
Sept. 1736,
nnm.

6. William,
bom 13 April
1707; died 14
Ang. 1726.

7. Elizabeth,
bom 22 Aug.
1708; died i
May 1716.

Rev. John Rev. Lawson

Shan, M.A., Shan, M.A.,

son and heir, rector of Great 1779, aged 48 ;

of Methley, vi- Linford, M. I.*

car of Arreton, Bucks ; died

Isle of Wight ; nnm. 22 Jan.

died nnmar. 15 1770, aged 36;

Aug. 1799. t M. I.*

1 1

Barbara, died Dorothea, mar.
unm. 30 June 1756 Rev. Ed-

mund Smyth,
M.A., rector of
Great Linford ;
she died 1780.

Anna Maria, <

coheir of her

brother John;

bom 1 Aug.

1737; died 1

June 1828 ;

aged 91 ;M. I.*

- Benjamin Cape
Esq., of London;
mar. 1767 ; died
1811.

* The monumental inscriptions are from Chicheley, when no other place is mentioned. The rest of
the pedigree is derived from the family Bible of the Shans, now in the possession of Mrs. Hughes, who
is the granddaughter of both the sisters of the last John Shan of Methley.

t The estate of the Shans at Methley was sold on the death of the Rev. John Shan in 1799, when
the proceeds were divided between his surviving sister Mrs. Cape and the issue of his deceased sister
Mrs. Smyth.

rSTTON OF ISELHAM.

183

CHAPTER XIII.

The Pey tons of Peyton IlaU. II. Tlie Gernons of Bake well and East
T/iorpe. III. ThePeytons of East Thorpe^ Wicken^ andlselham^ 1384-1550.
IV. Pedigree of Ilasilden. V. The Peytons of Iselham^ 1550-1616. VI.
Pedigree of Osborne and Hewett. VII. Sir Edward Peyton Kt. and Bart.

Elizabeth Peyton, the wife of the second Sir Anthony Chester, was descended
from two Hoases of Pejrton, for slie was the eldest daughter of Sir John Peyton
Kt., of Doddmgton in Cambridgeshire, by Alice, the daughter of Sir John Peyton
Kt. and Bart, of Iselham in the same county.

The ancient and knightly family of Peyton derived their name from the Manor
of Peyton, in the parish of Boxford in Suffolk, which belonged to Reginald do
Peyton in the reign of Henry I. (i) He was Sewer
to Hugh Bigod, the King's steward, and was a great
benefactor in 1135 to the Priory founded by Roger
Bigod at Thetford. (2) His liberality to the monks
was quickly followed by his death, for in 1136 King
Stephen addressed a writ* from Eye to the Sheriff
of Norfolk and Suffolk, commanding that * John, son
of Reginald de Peyton, have his whole land of Peyton,
with sac and soke and all liberties, as his ancestors
held it.' (i) The Heralds assume that Reginald dc
Peyton was a younger son of Walter of Caen, who
was enfeoffed in the Barony of Horsford by Robert
Malet of Eye, and that Walter of Caen was the son
of William Malet, ^ the gossip of King Harold,' but I am unable to discover a particle
of evidence for either of these assumptions. Nothing is really known about the
origin of the Peytons, except that John de Peyton was related to the Norman
family of De Quesnay, who were Barons of Horsford and hereditary Sheriffs of
Norfolk and Suffolk. This appears from a Deed, by which William Fitz-Robert

* Printod in a footnote to the early pedigree of Peyton at p. 244.

184 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Baron of Horsford granted, in the reign of King Stephen, the services of Robert de
Ramsholt in Boxford to his cousin {cognato suo) John Fitz-Reginald de Pe}'ton. (i)

John de Peyton, son of Reginald, seems to have been the father of NiGEL DE
Peyton, who had two sons, John and William ; for Sir Simond D'Ewes transcribed
in 1631 *a most ancient original deed' from the charter chest of Sir Edward Peyton
of Iselham, whereby John de Peyton granted lands in Stoke Neyland to his brother
William, and gave warranty to him for the land which their father Nigel held in
free socage. (3) This deed is without date, and is wrongly attributed by D'Ewes
to the first John de Peyton, (4) who is proved to have been the son of Reginald.

John de Peyton, son of Nigel, had several sons, two of whom were named
John : for John de Peyton sold by deed, without date, to his eldest brother John
{Johanni de Peyton fratn nuo primogenito) his lands in Boxford and Stoke Neyland,
of the fee of St. Edmunds, which formerly belonged to their father John de Peyton
and their uncle William. (3)

John de Peyton, son and heir of John, was, I presume, the Knight of that
name who, in the reign of Richard L, confirmed to William Fitz-John Fitz-Leo the
grant of his brother Robert de Peyton in Stoke Neyland. (5) But the number and
succession of knights of this name, who were lords of Peyton Hall, and held lands
in Stoke Neyland under the Abbot of St. Edmunds Bury, are by no means clearly
established, and the received pedigree (printed in Wotton's Baronetage) is chrono-
logically impossible. It makes John de Peyton, who lived in the reign of Stephen,
the father of that John whose brother, Robert de Ufford, died in 1297. I have
attempted in my tabular pedigree {See page 244) to restore by conjecture the
omitted generations, but the proved pedigree of Peyton begins with Sir John do
Peyton of Peyton Hall, late in the reign of Henry III., whose brother Robert was
called Do Ufford from his manor of that name in Suffolk, and was made Justiciary
(Viceroy) of Ireland in 12G9. Robert died in 1297, and was the ancestor of the
Earls of Suffolk of the name of Ufford.

Sir John de Peyton and his brother Sir Robert de Ufford were signed with the
cross with Prince Edward, and on 10th May 1270 received the customary patents of
protection from the King to Crusaders during their absence in the Holy Land. (6) Sir
John died in 15 Edward I. (1287), when his widow Matilda recovered against Richard
do Spain her dower in Canewdon and Finchingfield in Essex. (7) She belonged to
the family of Bures of Stoke Neyland, and her son John was a witness with Sir
Robert de Bures to a local charter in 1312. (8) Sir John de Peyton had issue
John, his son and heir, 2. James, 3. EoroiA, 4. AONES, wife of Robert Gernon,
and 5. Reginald, Canon of St. Osvths.

H. Sir John de Peyton Kt., son and heir of Sir John and Matilda, had a
grant of free warren in his lands in Boxford, Stoke Neyland, &c., in 27 Edward I.
(1298), (9) and served in two Parliaments (1299-1300) as one of the Knights of the
Shire for Suffolk. He built Peyton's Chapel, adjoining the parish church of

186 THE CHESTERS OF CmCHBLEY,

at her funeral shows that a multitude of guests were present, and that the price of
wheat in 1325 was extraordinarily low. Amongst other items, 50 quarters of
wheat cost 4Z. 10«.,* one hogshead of wine 53«. 4d., 4 muttons 5«., 8 barrowhogs
24«. His second wife was Joan de Mamey of Layer Marney in Essex, who
was the mother of his heir, and with whom, by a fine levied in the Bang's Court
at York in 1338 (12 Edw. III.), he settled his estates on his issue male with
remainder to his brother John. Sir Robert Peyton made his Will on St. Hilary's-
day (13th Jan.) 1348-9, wherein he mentions his sister Hawise and his wife Joan-
(lo) He died in 1351 (25 Edw. III.), and was buried near his father at Stoke Neyland.

IV. Sir John de Peyton Kt., son and heir of Sir Robert by Joan Mamey,
greatly increased the wealth and consequence of his family, by marrying Margaret,
one of the two daughters and coheirs of Sir John Gernon Kt., who had large
estates in Essex, Derbyshire, and Northamptonshire, (ii) Margaret was thirty-four
years of age when her father died, on 13th Jan. 1383-84, and on the partition of his
estates had for her share the Manors of East Thorpe and Birch and the Hundred of
Lexden in Essex and the Manor of Wicken in Cambridgeshire. This partition took
place in 1395 (18 Richard II.), and Sir John Peyton presented in right of his wife to
the Rectory of Little Lees in Essex, 19th March 1395-6; (12) but he died soon
afterwards, and was buried with his ancestors at Stoke Neyland.

His widow Margaret survdved him about sixteen years, and died 6th June 1413,
aged sixty-three. She was buried at Wicken, and a monumental slab, with a brass
figure on it, still remains in that church, and bears this inscription :

* Hie jacet Margarita qiue fiiit uxor Johannis Peyton mil. qose obiit vi^ die Jonii ▲.o. Mccccxm
ffitat. suae lxt]i<>.'

It was found at the inquest after her death, that she died seised of the Manors
of East Thorpe and Birch, held of the King by the service of three knights' fees,
and also of the Hundred of Lexden, held of the King by a fee farm rent of four
marks per annum ; and that John Peyton, her son and heir apparent, had died in
her lifetime, leaving issue a son John, who was heir to his grandmother, and 21
years of age. (13)

The marriage of Sir John de Peyton with the heiress of Gtemon so materially
advanced the fortune and position of the Peytons, that their history would scarcely
be complete without some better account of the Gernons than any to which I am
able to refer my readers.

The pedigree of the Gernons is inserted in the Peerage to give lustre to the
origin of the noble house of Cavendish. When that great family rose to wealth
and distinction at the end of the sixteenth century, the Heralds thought it becoming

* I give these figures as I find them, bnt with some misgivings, because this extraordinary cheapness
of wheat in 1325 was unknown to the learned author of the Ckronicon Preciotum,

ROBERT GERNON OF DOMESDAY. 187

to trace their descent from a Norman stock, and Geoffrey Gemon, a younger son of
Sir William Gemon of East Thorpe and Bakewell, was selected for their ancestor. (14)
The ingenious author of this theory was too modest or too prudent to divulge the
proofs on which he relied, and therefore it is highly unsatisfactory to find that his
account of the earlier generations, which we are able to test by records, abounds
with palpable errors and omissions.

The proved pedigree of the Gemons begins with Matthew Gemon, who lived in
the middle of the twelfth centur}'^, and married Hodiema,a coheiress of the Norman
family of Sackville. But there is no reasonable doubt that Matthew was descended
from Robert Gemon, a Domesday Baron, of whose life so few particulars are recorded,
that no one has hitherto cared to collect them.*

KOBERT, sumamed Gernon, was one of the greater Barons in Domesday, for he
was tenant-in-chief of ninety*K>ne manors, of which forty-four were in Essex, and all
the rest (except two) were in neighbouring counties. Stanstead, on the borders of
Hertfordshire, was the head of his Barony, to which the office of the King's Forester
in Essex was attached ; but his favourite residence was Langley Castle, in the parish
of Wraysbury on Thames, which he held in demesne. Considering the extent of
his possessions, it is marvellous that so little should be known about Robert and his
family. Morant, the historian of Essex, suggests in one place that he was descended
from the Counts of Boulogne, (15) and in another that he was of the same family as
the fourth Earl of Chester. (16) But these statements had evidently no other origin
than the fact, that Eustace Count of Boulogne, who died in 1093, and Ranulf Earl
of Chester, who died in 1153, bore the sobriquet of Gemon from wearing a mous«
tache. (17) It is well known that the Barony, of Gernon passed in the reign of
Henry I. to William de Montfichet, although Dugdale does not notice it in his ac-
count of the Montfichets, and it has thence been assumed in all the printed pedigrees
that William de Montfichet was Robert Gemon's son and heir, and was the same
person as William who figures in Domesday as Robert's principal tenant. But it
will be shown that William obtained the Barony of Gernon by the grant of Henry I.
and not by inheritance, and it is suflBciently clear that he was the son of another Wil-
liam de Montfichet, who with his wife Rohais and his son William granted to the
Abbey of St. Albans the Church of Letchworth in Herts, which he held under
Robert Gernon in Domesday. (18) The elder William de Montfichet evidently
derived his name from the Forest of Montfichet, near Bayeux, for with the consent
of William the Chamberlain, his overlord, and of King William (and therefore

^ Miss Fry has recently published in the Essex Archaologia a paper on the Barons Montfichet, which
handles with mnch skill and research the Domesday estates of Robert Gemon in Essex. Bat her brief
notices of the family of Gemon are confnsed and inaccurate, and she has entirely overlooked the Charter
eyidence, on which our knowledge of Robert Gemon mainly depends. This is the more to be regretted,
because the Chartulary of Gloucester would have convinced Miss Fry, that Gilbert de Montfichet
immediately succeeded his father, and that the Baron whom she calls William de Montfichet III. never
existed in the flesh.

188 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

between 1082 and 1087) he granted the Church of St. Marculf to the Abbey of
Cerisy, which stands on tlie verge of this forest. (19) This same church had been
granted in 1074 to the Abbey of St. Wandrille by Robert de Rhuddlan, (20) and
the advowson was a bone of contention between the two Abbeys for centuries. (21)
It is worth remarking that another great Baron, with whom Robert Gemon had
dealings, was also connected with the Abbey of Cerisy. Domesday records that ten
of Robert's manors in Essex were acquired by an exchange with Hubert dePort, (22)
and as Hubert at the time of tlie survey held only a single manor in Hampshire, it
must be assumed that the lands which he received in exchange were in Normandy.
William de Montfichet's high rank* is indicated by his known position in the Courts
of William H. and Henry I., and it may be inferred from the extent of his mesne
tenancy that he was nearly related to his lord paramount in England. This infer-
ence is strengthened by the long continuance of a feudal connexion between the
two families, for Ralph Gemon was the tenant of Gilbert de Montfichet in 1165, (23)
and the Norman branch of the Gernons had an interest in the forest of Montfichet
in 1180. (23)

Robert Gemon occurs in Normandy before the Conquest of England, for he was
one of those Barons of the Cotentin who witnessed the charter, by which William
Duke of the Normans erected the parish church of Our Lady at Cherbourg into a
royal chapel with three regular Canons, in satisfaction of the vow which he had
made to the Blessed Virgin in case of his recovery from a dangerous illness. (24)
This foundation was attested by Robert Count of the Man9eaux, and was therefore
subsequent to the conquest of Maine, which took place in 1063.

It is certain from Domesday that Robert Gernon was resident in England
during the reign of the Conqueror, for we find him exercising jurisdiction in the
forests of Essex; (25) but he is not mentioned in any English charter or chronicle
before the reign of Henry I,, when he was advanced in years, and a benefactor to
the Abbeys of Abingdon and Gloucester. Some hints, however, of his earKer
career are suggested by his holding in demesne two small manors in Herefordshire,
which did not descend with the rest of his Barony. Robert held in his own hands
the chatellaneiy of Richard's castle and the adjoining manor of Yarpole, which
belonged in the time of the Confessor to Richard Scrupe the builder of Richard's
castle, and ultimately reverted to his heirs. (26) All the rest of Richard's manors,
with his castle, descended to his son Osbem, and I can only explain Robert Gernon's
possession of the chatellanery by supposing, that it was assigned to him as a resi-
dence, when he was associated with the Lord of Richard's castle in the defence of
the Marches of Wales against Edric Sylvaticus and the Welsh Princes.

* Geofi&ey Gaimar relates that William de Montfichet was one of the courtiers who were hnnting
with William Knfns in the New Forest on the day of his death, and that the King's corpse was shrouded
in the gray cloak in which William de Montfichet had heen duhbed a Knight on the day before {Chroniques
AnglO'Normandes^ 1836). William de Montfichet was one of the witnesses of the great Charter of Heniy I.
to the citizens of London.

BOBEBT OEBNON OF DOMESDAY. 189

Oar real knowledge of Robert Gernon after Domesday is derived from the car-
tularies of Abingdon and Gloucester, which throw some light on his family and on
the transfer of his Barony.

Bernard Bishop of St. David's certified in the reign of King Stephen to Alex-
ander Bishop of Lincoln, that he was present, when Robert Gernon granted to
Abbot Peter and the monks of Gloucester the churches of Wraysbury and Laver-
stock. Also, that he was an eyewitness, when our Lady Matilda, Queen of Henry I.
conducted Robert Gernon to the altar of St. Peter's, Gloucester, where, in the pre-
sence of the Queen and many others, he confirmed his grant by a knife upon the
altar. (27) Some twenty-five years afterwards (in 1174), when Gilbert de Mont-
fichet was disputing with the Abbey of Gloucester about the patronage of these
same churches, Nicholas Bishop of LlandaiF, 'who was then in the twenty-sixth year
of his episcopate, and was previously for thirty years a monk at Gloucester,' testified
solemnly to Pope Alexander III. that sixty-two years ago Robert Gernon, who then
had full disposal of these churches, gave them to Abbot Peter and the monks of
Gloucester, who from that time had quietly enjoyed them with the assent of the
Bishops of Lincoln and of the King, except for a short time during the civil war
of Stephen, when Gilbert Earl of Pembroke, the guardian of his nephew Gilbert de
Montfichet, intruded a clerk. Tlie Bishop also testified that Gilbert's father William
de Montfichet, who, when Robert Genion died vnthout an heivj succeeded to his
Baix)ny by the grant of Henry /., came into the chapter-house at Gloucester, and
recognised the grant of his predecessor. (27) Robert's donation is attributed to the
year 1112, and could scarcely have been later, as Abbot Peter died in 1113. (28)
King Henry's charter of confirmation is attested by Queen Matilda. (27)

Robert's benefaction to the monks of Abingdon was made some six years before,
but it is remarkable that Queen Matilda was equally concerned in it. It is recorded
that when the Queen visited Abingdon on the Feast of the Assumption (15th Aug.)
1106 during the absence of Henry I. in Normandy, she granted to Abbot Faricius
a house at Langley, to be a half-way house for the monks to rest at on their journeys
to London. This house, with the land and services of Robert Fitz-Hervey, had been
given to the Queen by Robert Gernon, the lord of the fee, and the Queen's transfer
was made with the consent of Robert Gernon, and of his sons Alured and Mat-
thew, and of his grandsons (nepotibus) Goisfred, Fulk, and Payn. (29) The Queen,
on her return to London, ratified this gift by a charter, which is attested by Roger
de Courcelles and Robert Malet, and was carried to the King in Normandy for his
approval by Roger de Courcelles, who witnessed the King's charter of confirmation
at St. Denis in the forest of Lions. (29) Henry I. returned to England at the end
of Lent in 1107, and confirmed this grant (amongst others) to Abingdon in his court
at Westminster at Whitsuntide (2d June) 1107. (30) It would seem, however, that
Robert Gernon disputed the Queen's transfer, for the King subsequently addressed
to him a mandate from Rockingham, attested by the Queen and Robert Count of

190 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Mellent, to leave Robert Fitz-Hervey and his land in peace. (29) Later in his
reign, and after the death of Queen Matilda, Henry I. addressed a similar writ to
William de Montfichet, commanding him to restore to the monks of Abingdon the
land at Langley which had been given to them by Queen Matilda, and which they
held in the time of his predecessor. (31) It being thus proved that, although Robert
Gernon had sons and grandsons, his whole Barony was bestowed on William de
Montfichet by Henry I. about the middle of his reign, it follows that this was one
of those baronies which escheated to the King by reason of the disaflPection of its
possessor or his heirs, and it is significant that the same fate befell the only other rela-
tive of Robert Gernon of whom we have any certain knowledge. Picot, the Domesday
Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Baron of Bourne, received three manors in frank
marriage with his wife Hugolina by the gift of Robert Gernon, who was almost
certainly her father. (32) It is recorded in the annals of Barnwell Priory, of which
Picot and Hugolina were the founders, that their son and heir Robert was guilty
of treason against Henry I., who deprived him of his Barony and gave it to Payu
Peverel. (33)

The sons of Robert Gernon were permitted to retain some fragments of their
father's Barony, for his Domesday Manor in Wormingford remained with Mat-
thew's descendants until the fifteenth century, (34) and Alured Gernon occurs as
a landowner in Essex and in Cambridgeshire in the Pipe Roll of 1131. Matthew
Gernon witnessed William de Montfichet's foundation in 1135 of the Abbey of
Stratford, to which, with the consent of the founder and his wife, he gave lands in
Cowbridge, a manor in the parish of Ginges Mounteney. (35) It is possible that
he was the son of Robert Gernon, as Collins and Morant contend ; but whether or
not this be true, I cannot for chronological reasons accept their statement, that
Robert's son Matthew Gernon, who occurs in 1106, was the same person as Matthew
the grandfather of Ralph Gernon, who died in 1247. I should rather guess that
they were father and son, and that the elder Matthew died before 1130, leaving
a son of his own name, who is called in the Pipe Roll of Essex, 1131, * Matthew
Puer,' and was the benefactor to Stratford Abbey in 1135. I should guess also
from their names, that Ralph and William Gernon, who were amerced in 1130 for
a breach of the peace in Cambridgeshire, were brothers to the younger Matthew.

I now pass from guesses to certainties, for it is clearly established by legal
records that Matthew Gernon, a landowner in Essex and the husband of Hodiema
de Sackville, was the ancestor of the Gemons of East Thorpe and Bakewell.
Ralph Gernon of Bakewell, in the reign of King John, impleaded Richard Fitz-
Hubert and Isabella his wife to recover the Soke of Downham in Essex, of which
his grandfather Matthew Gernon was seised in fee ; but Richard produced a fine
levied in the Court of King Richard, by which Downham was conveyed to hia
wife's ancestor. (36) Again, some forty years afterwards, in 1244, the same Ralph

GEBNON OF BAKE WELL AND EAST THOBPE. 191

Gemon claimed as the heir of his grandfather Matthew Gemon lands within the
inheritance of Sackville in the parish of Monnt Bures in Essex, and he produced
the deed of gift by which his ancestor William de Sackville granted the same to
his daughter Agnes and Hodiema. The plea goes on to say, that Agnes married
Richard de Anesty, and had issue Herbert, the father of Nicholas, the father of
Denyse the wife of William de Monchesni ; and that Hodiema the sister of Agnes
married Matthew Gemon, and had issue Balph Gernon, who lived in the reign of
Richard I., and was the father of the plaintiff. (37) Ralph succeeded in establishing
his claim, for when Jordan de Sackville died in 1275, it was found at the inquest
post mortem that he held sixty acres of arable in Mount Bures from the heir of the
Gemons. (38) William de Sackville, and his younger brother Robert, were the
sons of Herbrand a noble Norman knight, and came to England in the reign of
Henry I. in the train of Stephen of Blois, who rewarded their services by lands in
Essex and Suffolk held of his Honour of Eye. (39) William de Sackville had issue,
besides Agnes and Hodierna, a son William and a daughter Beatrice, who married
William de Glanville, and was the mother of Ranulf the famous Justiciary of
England. The younger William de Sackville died without legitimate issue in 1159,
when he made his sister^s son Richard de Anesty his heir ; but his succession was
disputed by Mabel de Francheville, William's daughter by Adelicia de Valoins, who
claimed to be her father's heir, although the marriage of her parents had been
formally adjudged null and void twenty years before on account of William's pre-
contract to Albreda de Tregoz. This sentence was pronounced by Bishop Henry
of Blois the Pope's Legate in England, after consulting Pope Innocent thereon,
and had remained without appeal, whilst William de Sackville repudiated Adelicia
and ignored her children. It seems, however, that William on his death-bed
expressed to Gilbert Abbot of St. John's, Colchester (1147-1165), some compunction
for his conduct to Adelicia, and Mabel was thereby encouraged to challenge the
justice of the sentence. As questions of legitimacy were of ecclesiastical cognisance,
Richard de Anesty after two years' litigation in the Civil Courts appealed to Rome,
and John of Salisbury in a letter to Pope Alexander III. written in 1161 sets forth
the whole story in detail. (40) The Pope replied on 16th April 1161, by referring
the matter to the decision of the Bishop of Chichester, (40) who confirmed the pre-
Tious sentence.

Matthew Gernon, besides these estates in Downham and Mount Bures, held
the Manor in Wormingford, which had belonged to Robert Gemon in Domesday,
for with Ralph, the Sheriff, and his wife, Matthew granted two virgates therein
valued at 20«. per annum to the Abbey of St. John's at Colchester. (41) This
donation proves that Matthew was still living in 1161, for the only Sheriff of Essex
named Ralph was Ralph de Marci, who held office during the last three quarters of
the seventh year of King Henry II. (42)

n. Ralph Gernon, son and heir of Matthew and Hodiema, held half a knight's

192 THE CHESTEBS OF CHICHELEY.

fee of new feoffment within the Barony of Montfichet in 1165. (23) He was the
cousin-gennan through his mother of Rannlf de Glanville the famous Justiciary,
and married the sister of William de Briwere the founder of Dunkeswell Abbey,
who stood high in the favour of Henry II. and his successors. These powerful con-
nexions procured for Ralph Gemon a grant from Richard L of the Manor of Bake-
well in Derbyshire, which was valued at 16/. per annum, and was held from the
Crown by the service of one Knight's fee. (43) This grant was confirmed to him
by King John, soon after his accession, by a charter dated 26th April 1200. (44)
Ralph Gernon had issue three sons, who all rose high at Court by the influence of
their uncle William de Briwere. They were:

1. Ralph Gernon his son and heir.

2. WniLiAM Gernon, chaplain to King John, whom WilUam de Briwere was
empowered on 6th July 1203 to present to the first vacant benefice in the King's
gift within the diocese of Exeter of the value of twenty marks per annum, (45)
and whom the King presented on 1st May 1206 to the Rectory of Mereden in
Wilts. (45)

3. Richard Gernon, who married Joan daughter and coheir of Hugh de
Morvill, Constable of Scotland and Baron of Burgh-upon-Sands, whose wardship
was purchased in 1202 by William de Briwere for 500 marks, in order that she
might marry Richard de Briwere his son or Richard Gemon his nephew. (46)
Joan inherited one moiety of her father's barony in Cumberland, and her husband
was Sheriff of that county in 1217. (42) Richard died long before his wife, leaving
two daughters only, and his widow, according to the common practice of heiresses
in those times, resumed her father's name. She died in 1247, (47) when her estates
were divided between her two daughters and coheirs, whose husbands did homage
for them on 22d April 1247. (48) Her daughters were named Helewise and Ada.
1. Helewise Gernon, the eldest daughter, married Richard de Vernon, and died
a widow without issue in 1270, when her sister Ada was found to be her heir, (49)
and did homage for her sister's lands on 6th April 1270. (48) 2. Ada Gerkon
married first Ralph de Levington, who died in December 1253, (48) leaving an only
daughter Helewise. Ada married secondly William de Fumival, who died without
issue in 1264. (48) Ada died in the beginning of 1271, when Helewise, the only
child of her first marriage and the wife of Eustace de Baliol, was found to be her
heir and to be twenty-three years old. (50) Helewise de Baliol died without issue
in the next year, (51) when the posterity of Richard Gemon and Joan de MorviDe
became extinct, and both moieties of the barony of Burgh-upon-Sands were reunited
in Thomas de Multon. (52)

HI. RiVLPH Gernon, son and heir of Ralph Gemon, and nephew of William de
Briwere, succeeded his father early in the reign of King John, at whose Court he
was in constant attendance. He was one of the few who never wavered in his
loyalty to King John and his son, and his fidelity was rewarded by grants of lands

GERNON OF BAKEWELL AND EAST THOBPE. 193

from time to time in different counties. On 7th Nov. 1207 King John confirmed to
him by royal charter the Hundred of Lexden, which was his inheritance, and the
Manor ofTheydon, which Ralph Fitz-Peter had given him in exchange for lands in
Rivenhall.* (44) This grant was followed by others, which need not be set forth in
detail. Some of them, such as Warminster in Wilts, were mere grants during
pleasure, and were restored in the beginning of the next reign to the former owner
on his returning to his allegiance ; but the manors of East Thorpe and Birch in
Essex, Compton in Berks, and Somerton in Suffolk, were permanent additions to
the inheritance of Gemon. Ralph was Marshal of the King's household in 1206, (53)
and a Justice Itinerant in 1219. (54) In 1220 he was twice sent on a mission to
Poictou, and the object of his second journey was to escort to England the King's
gister Joanna. (55) In the next year, 1221, he was made Constable of Corfe Castle^
and he was Sheriff of Dorset in 7 & 8 Henry III. (1222-3). (42) On 20th April
1228 Ralph gave 200 marks to the King for a royal charter, granting to him in fee
by the service of three knights the manors of East Thorpe and Birch, which were
already in his possession by the gift of King John. (48) These manors had escheated
to the King, when Roger de Plaines, their Norman owner, elected to become a
French subject on the cession of Normandy, and had been granted before 1211 to
Ralph Gemon to hold during pleasure. (56) Ralph, like his uncle William de
Briwere, was a friend to the regular clergy. He founded Lees Priory in Essex
fibont 1230 for Austin Canons, and the advowson remained with his heirs until the
diuolution of monasteries. (57) He died in extreme old age in the autunm of 1247.
rV. William Gernon, son and heir of Ralph, was upwards of sixty years of age
when his father died, (58) and did homage for his lands of inheritance on 10th Nov.
1247. (48) He had a grant of free warren in his manor of Bakewell, by charter
dated at Millans 29th Feb. 38 Hen. III. (1253-4), (59) and died on Wednesday
after the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle (4th Dec.) 43 Hen. III. (1258). (60)
According to the heraldic pedigrees William married Beatrice the daughter and
hdr of Henry de Theydon, but this marriage was manifestly invented to accoimt
fcrhis possession of the Manor of Theydon Gemon, which, as we have seen, was in
&ct acquired by his father in 1207. He is said by the same authorities to have had
issue, hesides Ralph his son and heir, two younger sons, of whom Geoffrey was the
ancestor of the Cavendish family. Geoffrey Gemon was living in 1275, and was
entitled for his life to a corn-rent in Bures, (38) but of his descendants I can find
no evidence whatever.

V. Ralph Gernon, son and heir of William, was thirty years old when his
ftther died, (61) and did homage on 8th Jan. 1258-9 for his inheritance (48), of
vhich he had livery on the Saturday following. (60) He was one of the Barons
who were summoned by writ on 18th Oct. 1261 to hold a Parliament at the Tower,

* Thia estate in Bivenhall had deecended to Ralph Gernon through his grandmother Hodiema, for
Iter Iffother William de Sackville gave hinds in this parish to St. John's Ahhey, Ck)lchester. (41)

194 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELKY.

on the morrow of St. Simon and St. Jude, in aid of the King ; (62a) but Ealph
was false to the loyal traditions of his family, for he took an active part on the side
of Simon de Montfort and the insurgent barons, and fortified his castle at Birch
against the King's troops. After the battle of Evesham all hb estates were seized
by Hugh Bigot on behalf of the King, but he was permitted to redeem his lands
imder the Dictum of Kenil worth, (62) and died in full possession of them in 1274.
(63) Ralph Gemon married two wives, of whom the first (whose name and parent-
age are unknown) was the mother of WiLLlAM his son and heir.

His second wife Hawise was the sister of Nicholas Tregoz of ToUeshunt, and had
at least* two sons, JoHN and ROBERT, who were very young when their father
died.

1. John Gernon was bom in 1270, and had by his father's gift the Manor of
Theydon. (63) He was twenty-three years of age in 1292, when he was found to
be one of the coheirs of his uncle Nicholas Tregoz. (64) He died in 1323 seised of
lands in ToUeshunt Tregoz, when William his son and heir was aged seventeen years
and a half. (65)

2. Robert Gernon was living at Birch in 34 Edw. I. 1306, (66) and is, I pre-
sume, the person who married Agnes, sister of Sir John de Peyton Kt., and is
mentioned in his brother-in-law's Will in 1317.

VI. Wdlltam Gernon, son and heir of Ralph, was aged twenty-four and up-
wards when his father died in 1274, (63) and had a grant of free warren in his
Manor of East Thorpe in 1293. (67) He died in 1327, aged seventy-seven. (68)

Vn. Sir John Gernon Kt., son and heir of William, was thirty years old and
upwards when his father died in 1327. (68) He had married in extreme youth,
and was twice a widower in his father's lifetime. His first wife Isabella Pirot died
at the age of thirteen in 1311, and was buried at Messing in Essex. (69) Two
years afterwards he married Alice the daughter of Roger Lord Coleville of Bytham,
and the widow of Guy Gobaud of Rippingale in Lincolnshire, who died in 1313,
leaving two daughters, and an only son John, then thirteen years old. (70)
Alice married again so quickly, and was so much older than her second husband,
that doubts afterwards arose, whether John Gemon the younger, who was bom in
1314, was her son, or the son of his father^s first wife ; but it was judicially proved
in 1380 by witnesses of his birth, that Alice was his mother, and that she had also
other issue by her second marriage, which she survived ten years. (69)

Sir John Gemon married, tliirdly, Margaret daughter and heir of Sir John de
Wygeton Kt., of Wigton in Cumberland, and lord of the Manor of Aldham in Lex-
den Hundred, who died in 1315. (71) She was then the wife of John de Crokedayk,
and her legitimacy was disputed by her father^s five sisters, but on the Bishop of
London certifying the validity of the marriage of her parents, livery of her inherit-

* I BTiBpeot that Roger Gemon, who died Rector of East Thorpe in 1828, (12) was another son of
Ralph Gemon and Hawise.

GERNON OF IRELAND. 195

ance was granted to her in Trinity Term 1319. (72) Her husband John de Croke-
dayk died without issue in 1323, and she enjoyed the Manor of Crokedayk for her
life. (73) The precise date of her second marriage does not appear, but Sir John
Gemon and Margaret his wife had license on 5th Feb, 6 Edw. III. (1331-2), to
convey to the Abbey of Holm Cultram the advowson of St. Mary's Wigton, and to
found a chantry therein for the souls of themselves and of Margaret's ancestors. (74)

Two months afterwards the younger John Gemon (son and heir apparent of Sir
John by Alice Coleville) was married, for on 14th April 1332 Sir John paid a fine
of one hundred shillings for the King's license to enfeoif John, Rector of St.
Gregory^s London, and Richard de la Pole in his Manor of Bakewell, to the use of
himself for life, with remainder to his son John and Alice his son's wife and the
heirs of their bodies. (75) In the same year he executed a similar settlement of his
estates in Essex by a deed, which Morant transcribed from the original.

Sir John Gemon died within the next two years, for on 28th March, 8 Edw. IH.
(1333-4), his widow Margaret had the royal license to convey to Robert Pamyng,
Serjeant-at-law, her reversion in the lands in Cumberland, which her stepmother
Denyse, widow of John de Wigton, held in dower for her life. (76) Margaret mar-
ried, thirdly, before 1344 (77) Sir John de Weston Kt., Constable of Carisbrooke
Castle, whom she survived. She died a widow without issue in 1349, when Richard
de Kirkbride her cousin was found to be her heir. (78)

NOTE ON THE GERNONS OF IRELAND.

I long doubted whether Sir John Gemon above named was not the same person as his namesake and
contemporary Sir John Gemon of Gemonstown in Ireland, whose connexion with the Gemons of Essex
1 am otherwise nnable to determine. It is certain that each of them was the son of William Gemon,
and that each of them had a son and heir John, who died withont male issne. But their identity seems
to be disproved by the fact, that Sir John Gemon of East Thorpe was dead in 1334, leaving a widow
Margaret, whilst Sir John Gemon of Ireland was Chief Justice of Gonmion Pleas in that kingdom 1341-
44, and left a widow Matilda. I have therefore collected in a separate note what I have discovered
about the Gemons of Ireland, but their connexion with the Gemons of Essex has completely baffled my
powers and opportunities of research.

John Gsbnoit, son of William and brother to Roger and Simon Gemon, achieved in his youth honours
and lands by military service in Ireland, for with his brother Roger he distinguished himself at the battle
of Dundalk on 14th Oct. 1318, when Edward Bmce was defeated and slain. The gallantry of John and
Boger Gemon on this occasion was fully recognised by Edward II., who, on 16th March 1318-19, com-
manded Roger de Mortimer, the Justiciary of Ireland, to reward them out of the estates forfeited by the
rebels, (a) In compliance with the royal mandate the castle and manor of Taghobrecock, which had
belonged to Hugh de Lacy, were granted by letters patent under the great seal of England, dated 28th
May 1319, to Roger Gemon and his heirs, (a) whilst John Gemon had lands assigned to him in the
County of Louth, which thenceforth were known as Gemonstown. John lost his right hand at the battle
of Dundalk, and his being thug maimed in the King's service is mentioned in the petition which he
addressed to Edward II. in 1320 for a grant of the fishery from Gemonstown to the sea. (b) But this
^d not prevent him from taking an active part in the disturbances of Ireland, for John and Roger Ger-
^xon were strongly suspected of abetting the murder of the Earl of Louth by the native Irish on the 10th
«June 1329, when they exerted their influence on behalf of the murderers, that they might be tried by
Ckmimon Law. (c) In 1333, when William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, was murdered at Carrickfergus,
mnd his widow Matilda of Lancaster took refuge in England, Sir John Gemon was appointed by the
Countess her attorney to manage her estates in Ireland; and this appointment was recognised by the
^King's letters patent 28th Nov. 1333. (o) His administration was successful and recommended him to

196

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

higher employments in the King's servioe. Accordingly in 1838 he was made a Jndge of Common Pleas
in Ireland, (e) and in 1341 he was promoted to he Chief Jastice of the same Conrt; (s) hat after holding
this office three years he was sncceeded in 1344 hy Thomas de Dent, (e) The vacancy was not canted
hy his death, for on 6th Deo. 1344 he had the King's pardon for purchasing without license two-thirds of
the Manors of Kell and Arthnrstown. (f) This is the last occasion on which he is mentioned in the Irish
Records, and I presume that he died soon afterwards, learing a wife Matilda, who ocours in 1359 the
wife of John Keppoch, afterwards Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland. Sir John Gemon had issoa
hy a former wife (whose name and parentage are unknown to me) two sons, John and Roger, and pro-
hahly a third son Nicholas.

1. John Gebnon, son and heir of his father, had the King's license on 12th Sept. 1359 to convey to
John Keppoch and Matilda his wife the reversion of lands in MoUnestown in Lonth, which the said
Matilda held for life hy the gift of her former hushand John Gemon. These lands had heen acquired by
John Gemon the father, and had heen given hy him to his hrother Simon, who with the assent of the
grantor enfeoffed therein his hrother Roger son of William Gemon. Roger Gemon afterwards leiied a
fine of them, and settled them on John Gemon the father and Matilda then his wife, to the use of them
and the survivor of them for life, with remainder to the heirs of their hodies, and in default of such israe
to the use of John Gemon son and heir apparent of the said John and his heirs male, with remainder to
Roger Gemon hrother of John Gemon the younger in tail male, remainder to John Gemon the elder in
fee. (a) John Gemon the younger must have died without male iasue, for his hrother Roger died in
possession of Gemonstown.

2. Roger Gernon, to whom King Edward III. granted in 1876 the Manor of Donagh Maine in Louth,
(o) inherited the Irish estates of the family under the entail created hy his father, when his brother Jolm
died without issue. He died before 11th July 1414, when Henry V. confirmed to Roger Gemon his son
and heir his father's manors of Donagh Maine and Gernonftown. (▲) His descendants long flourished
at Gemonstown.

8. Sir Nicholas Gebnon Kt. was, I suppose, another Hon of Sir John Gemon, although I cannot
account for his omission from the entail of the Irish estates, which has been already recited. He was
rewarded for his services on 30th August 1345 by the King's grant of 46Z. 13«. 4cf. per annum out of the
fee-farm rent payable to the King by the town of Drogheda^ (▲) Nicholas, like his father, stood high in
the confidence of Matilda of Lancaster, Countess of Ulster, and when she became a nun at Campsey, on
the death of her second husband Ralph de Ufford, Justiciary of Ireland, Sir Nicholas Gernon was
appointed on 9th Aug. 1347 to be one of hor executors and attorneys for the management of her afihirs.
(d) Acting in this capacity he conveyed the lands for the Countess Matilda's foundation of Brusyard
Nunnery, which was confirmed by royal charter 4th July 1363. (o) He was one of those Englishmen
possessed of estates in Ireland who were summoned by the King on 15th March 1360-1 to a great Council
at Westminster, convened for the purpose of taking into consideration the disturbed state of Irish afEaiis.
(a) But on 21st Feb. 1368-9 he was exempted by the King from military service in respect of his estates
in Ireland, * because he was then in attendance on our cousin the Countess of Ulster in the house of the
Minoresses at Bmsyard to console her and arrange her affiedrs. ' (d) He was still living in Ireland on
12th March 1873-4, (a) when he disappears from my view.

Pedigree of Gernon of Ireland.
William Gernon^

I ■ n 1

1 w.«pSir John Gemon Kt.=2w. Matilda, Roger Gemon Simon,
oco. 1318; Judge of rcmarr.John of Taghobreoock.
C.P. in Ireland, 1338; Keppoch.
Chief Justice, 1341-44.

John Gemon, son and
heir, of Gemonstown ;
occ. 1359 ; died s. p.

Roger Gemon*
brother and heir,
of Gemonstown.

Sir Nicholas Gemon Ki

Gemon of Gemonstown.

(a) Rot Pat. Hibemiffi, under the dates.

(b) Rolls of Parliament, i. 385.

(d) Rot Pat. Edw. III., under the dates.

(e) Cal. Rot. Pat 12 Edw. m. pt ii. 84. Idem, 15

Edw. III. pt. iL 27. Idem, 18 Edw. IH. pi. iL 40.

(f) Rot. Clans. Hibemiie, under dates,
(a) Rot. Clans. 85 Edw. III.

197 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHBLET.

PEDIGREE OP COLEVILLE OF BYTHAM.

Arms. — Or^ afess gules,

William do Colevillo of Aubome and Leadcnham, co. Lincoln, grantee of Bytham^Mand,
Casllc from Wm. do Mandeville, Earl of Auraale, about 1184, dispossessed 1216, wife
restored by Henry III. 1221 ; died 1230 (Escheat 1-4 Hen. III.). 1217.

I 1

Roger de Coleville, fou and beir apparent, Robert de Coleville, surviving son and heir, did homftg«Fp

died after 1227 before bis fatber. for Bytham 1233, grantee of a fair and market 1247.

Walter Lord Colevill of Bytbam, summoned to Parliamcnt=y=
14 Dec. 1264 ; died 1216 (Esch. 5 Edw. I. 14).

Roger Lord Colevill, son and beir, of Bytbam, agcd=T=Margarct, dan. of Sir Richard Brewes Kt of Stintoii

25 in 1276 ; died 1288 (E$ch. 16 Edw. I. 37).

in Norfolk; died 1335 (E$ch. 9 Edw. IIL 8).

Edmond Lord Coleville, son and beir, born 25=T=Margai*et, dau. of Elizabeth CoIeTiUejaFsRalphBaBseU

Jan. 1287-8 ; died 1316 [Esch. 9 Edw. IL).

Robert de Ufibrd. cob. in her issue. | of Sapcote.

I -■

Robert Lord Coleville, son and beir, aged 11 in 1316;=f=Cecily. Simon Bassett of^plsabel, dan. and coL

Baron 16-39Edw. III.; died 1369 [Esch, 42 Edw. III.).

Sapcote, son and
heir.

of Wm. Lord Boteler
of Wemme.

Walter de Coleville, son and heir appt. , aged=j=Margaret, dau. and heir of Giles Ralph Lord Bassett of Sap-

Bassingboum, wife, and aged 14 cote, son and heir ; cob. of
in 1348 ; died before 1368. Robt. Ld. ColeviUe inl370.

8, and marr. in 1248 ; died 1368 before his
fatber [EschAl Edw. III. No. 15).

Robert Lord Coleville, grandson and heir, aged 4 in 1368; died 1370 [Esch, 43 Edw. III. 25).

the restoration of his estate.* A Royal precept issued to the Earl of Aumale, com-
manding him to restore Bytham Castle to Coleville ;t but the Earl was unwilling
to disgorge the reward of his fidelity to King John, and at Christmas 1220 he
broke out in open rebellion, and set the King at defiance. An army was quickly
raised, and was led by the young King in person. He reached Bytham on 8th Feb.
1221, and after a siege of five days the castle was taken by storm and burnt to the
ground.J Coleville was then reinstated in possession of Bytham, but the tenure
was changed, for the scignorial rights of the Earl of Aumale were extinguished,
and the Honour was thenceforth held directly under the Crown.

Coleville now proceeded to rebuild the castle, but he was burdened by heavy
debts to the Royal Exchequer and the Jews, and his reputation in his old age was
clouded by a scandalous quarrel with his son and heir Roger.§ He survived, how-
ever, his disobedient son, for when he died in 1230 his son Robert was his heir.||

Robert de Coleville did homage for his lands of inheritance in Lincolnshire

* Rot. Pat. 1 Hen. III. m. 6.

t Rot. Pat. 2 Hen. IIL m. 10.

J The siege of Bytham Castle is related by Matthew Paris and Roger do Wendover.

§ Rot. Claue. 10 Hen. III.

II Inq. p. m. Willielmi de Coloyille, 14 Hen. IIL

COLEVILLE OF BYTHAM. 197*

and Leioestenhire in 1233, and obtained the King's charter on 22d July 1247 for
an annual fair and a weekly market at Castle Bytham.* His son and heir Walter
DE COLEVlLLE was one of the barons who were summoned in 1264 to the Parlia-
ment called by Simon de Montfort in the name of the King. He was taken
prisoner by Prince Edward at Kenilworth in 1264, and his lands were forfeited,
bat he redeemed them under the dictum of Kenilworth, and died in full possession
of them in 1276.t

BOGER DE COLEVILLE the SOU and heir of Walter was twenty-six years old when
his fiither died, and is strangely confused by Dugdale with a much older man of

Sir Boberi de (JolevUlo Kt., godfather
35 Jan. 1287-8 ; Uying 1335.

1 h. Ony Goband of Rip-^Alioe Coleville, co-=2 h. Sir Jolin Gomon
pingale, died 7 Edw. II. I heir in her issue. Kt , died 133 i.

I : T"^ — : 1 1

John Ck>band, Guy Gohand, brother and Eliza-
son and heir, heir, sold his estates to beth.
died 1336, 8.p. Robert ColeviUe.

John Wyke of Scredington, co.'
line., plaintiff with his wife 1375.

'William Annsell, Mabel.'
brother and heir
of Sir Alexander.

r-rn r

=William
Lampet

'Alice Aonsell, William. Thomas Lampet, Alice, marr. Wm.

dan. and heir. ^^i. witness 1375. Boyton, witness

''^^"- 1375.

Bobert.

a dififerent family, namely, Roger de Coleville of Norfolk. He married Margaret,
daughter of Sir Richard de Braose or Brews of Stintoii in Norfolk, a younger son
of John Lord Braose of Gower by Margaret, daughter of Llewellyn Prince of
North Wales. Roger was never summoned to Parliament, and died in April
1288, leaving issue Edmond his son and heir and two daughters Elizabeth and Alice.
Edmond DE Coleville was only three months old at the time of his father's
death, for he was bom at Bytham Castle on 25th Jan. 1287-8, and was baptized
there in the Church of St. James on the same day, when Robert de Coleville and
William de Bergh were his godfathers. He was named Edmond out of devotion
to St. Edmond of Pontigny, the canonised Archbishop of Canterbury, for his father
had been on a pilgrimage to Pontigny, and had there made a vow that if he had a
son he should be named Edmond. These particulars and the parentage of his
mother appear from the formal proof of his majority, which was made at Corby on
14th Fet. 1308-9. (79) His wardship and the custody of his lands during his
minority were purchased from the King by William Lord Braose of Gower by
payment of 100/. fine and a rent of 83/. 1()«. 3^^. per annum, and were transferred

* Placita de Quo Warranto, Edw. I. Lincolnshire,
t Inq. p. m. Walteri de ColeYillo, 5 Edw. I. No. 41.

198 THE CHESTERS OF CUICUELEY.

by him to his brother Richard the grandfather of the infant heir. (80) His marriaf;e
had been expressly reserved to the Crown in the grant of his wardship, and was
purchased by Robert de Ufford the ex-Justiciary of Ireland for one of his daughters.
Edmond w^as only four years old, when the Royal assent was given on 10th Feb.
1291-2 to his marriage with Margaret de Ufford,* who brought him for her
portion the manor of Weston in Cambridgesliire, which is still known as Weston-
Colville. Sir Edmond de Coleville was never summoned to Parliament, and died
in 1316 at the age of 28, leaving an only child Robcrt.f

Robert de Coleville was under eleven years of age when his father died, and
was the ward of Robert de Kendale.J Soon after he came of age he purchased from
his cousin Guy Gobaud the manor of Rippingale in Lincolnshire, (69) and during his
long career greatly increased the rank and wealth of his family. lie served with
distinction in the wars in France, and w^as summoned as a baron to all the Parha-
ments from 1342 to 1366. He had an only son Walter, who was found in 1348
to be eight years old, and to be the husband of Margaret, the grandchild and sole
heir of Humphrey Bassingbourne. (81) She was six years older than her husband,
and on her marriage her grandfather settled the manors of Abington and Benefield
in Northamptonshire in default of her issue on her husband's father, Robert de
Coleville, in fee. (8r) Walter surnved his wife, and died in 1367 before his father,
leaving an only son Robert, then four years old, who was the heir of his grand-
father in 1368. The infani Robert Loud Coleville died in the next year
(1369), at the age of six, when his estates devolved on his cousins and coheirs
Ralph Basaett of Sapcote and Sir John Gernon, who were respectively the grand-
son and son of the sisters of Edmond de Coleville. These estates consisted of the
castle and demesnes of Bytham, the manors of Abington and Benefield, Wicken in
Cambridgeshire, and Thornton Steward in Yorkshire, and writs issued in 1369 to
the Sheriffs of these counties, to make due partition between the two coheirs, when
Abington, Benefield, and Wicken were allotted to Gernon. (82)

Ralph Bassett, the other coheir, was one of the heroes of Cressy, and was in
1369 fighting bravely in France in the retinue of the Earl of Warwick, and by the
King's favour his homage for the Honour of Bytham was respited, whilst livery
thereof was made to him in his absence. The acquisition of this honour raised him
to baronial rank, and he was summoned to Parliament as a baron on 8th Jan. 1371 •
It should be remarked that Ralph's descent is gravely misrepresented by Diigdale,
who omits two generations in the pedigree. (83) The husband of Elizabeth Cole-
ville was not Ralph Bassett the rebel baron who fought at Evesham, but Iiis grand-
son of the same name who died in 1326. It is clear from records and chronology
that Dugdale, and the numerous writers who have coj)ied him, have overlooked the

* Patent Bolls under the date.

f Inq. p. m. Edmondi de Coleville, 9 Edw. II.

J Abbrev. Rot. Orig. 10 Edw. II. No. 1.

GERNON OF BAKE WELL AND EAST THORP. 198*

fact, that there were two Ralph Bassetts of Sapcotc, who were each succeeded by
a son Simon, so that five generations of the family have been reduced to three in
the received pedigrees.* (84)

Sir John Gernon was not allowed to take possession of his moiety of the Colc-
ville estates without a struggle, for his right of succession was disputed by the elder
coheir of his mother's first marriage. She had issue by Guy Gobaud two sons
John and Guy, who died without issue ; and two daughters Elizabeth and Mabel.
Mabel Gobaud married William Lampet, and had many children ; but her elder
sister Ehzabeth left an only child Alice, who was in 1370 the wife of John Wyke
of Scredington, Lincolnshire. Wyke and his wife now asserted a claim to the
inheritance of Coleville, on the ground that Sir John Gernon was not the son of
Alice Gobaud, but of his father's first wife Isabella Bygot. They alleged that
Alice Gobaud was past the age of child-bearing when she married her second
husband the elder Sir John Gernon, and they appealed to the testimony of Monsieur
Thomas Roos, who deposed that when he was about ten years old the elder Sir
John Gernon and his son paid a visit to his mother at Donnesby, and that when
they told his mother that Sir John Gernon the son (who was then between eight
and ten years old) was boni of Isabella Bygot when she was only tliirteen, she
expressed great surprise that a woman of such tender age could bear a child so well
grown and well formed; whereupon the elder Sir John Gernon replied that Monsieur
John St. John, who was one of the tallest and propercst knights in the country,
was bom when his mother was only twelve years old. This witness, however, was
contradicted by the evidence of several relations of Lord Coleville, who agreed in
asserting that Sir John Gernon had always been recognised in the family as the
son of Alice Coleville, and their testimony was supported by Monsieur de Argentine,
who deposed that Robert Lord Coleville at the siege of Calais acknowledged Gernon
as his cousin, and as the son of his aunt Alice. The evidence of Sir Peter de
Braose and of Sir John de Braose the elder and younger, who were Alice Coleville's
cousins through her mother, was confirmed by Thomas Lampet the son of Alice's
daughter Mabel Gobaud, who had been educated in his uncle Gernon's household,
and was himself one of the coheirs of the Coleville family, if Sir John Gernon was
not the son of Alice. Lampct's brother-in-law WiUiam Boyton of Suffolk (the
husband. of his sister Alice Lampet) bore testimony to the same effect, and judg-
ment was pronounced in favour of Sir John Gernon by the Court of King's Bench
in 1380. (69)

Sir John Gernon had two wives: Alice Bygot, who has been already men-
tioned, and Joan, who survived him. He had issue by Alice three children.

1. WnJiTAM Geknox, son and heir apparent, married, as we have seen, in 1351

• Nichols, the candid and nncritical Historiau of Leicestershire (vol. iv. p. 891), handles this matter
characteristicaUy. He repeats Dugdale's mistake without detecting the error, and then proceeds in his
text to snpply the evidence for the true story of the family.

199

THE CHESTERS OF CniCHELET.

PEDIGREE OF GERNON.

Abms. — Argent, three pilet in point gulet.

Robert Gemon, Domesday Baron in Essex, occnrs 1064, 1086, 1106, 1112.

T . . _

I : 1

Alarcd Gemon Matthew Gemon^
occ. 1106. occ. 1106.

Hugoiina=y=Picot, Domesday Sheriir

ia=T=iacot,
j of CO.

Cambridge.

Matthew Gemon of'=pHodiema, sister and co-

Downham and jure ox.
of Mount Bares in
Essex; occ. 1161.

heir of William de Sack-
ville.

Robert Picot, of Boomc,
disinherited by Henry I.

I I

Ralph Gemon, son and heir; grantee of«=T» sister of William Geoffirey,

Bakewell, co. Derby, from Rich. I. I de Briwere. Matthew, 11

Ralph Gemon, son and heir ;«
grantee of East Thorpe and Birch
from King John. Founded Lees
Priory 1230; died 1247.

Richard*7Joan, dan. and coh. of Hugh William Gem.

Gemon.

de Moreville, Constable of Chaplain to
Scotland; died 1247. 7ohn.

■T'Wiiiam Gemon, son and heir; aged
60 in 1247; of Bakewell, East
Thorpe, Lexden, and Theydon;
died in Dec. 1258.

Helewise, coh. m.
Richard de Ver-
non, and died a
wid. 1270, s. p.

Ih. Ralph de=T=Ada Gemon, =2rh. Wi

Levington ; d.
1253.

coheir; died de Fnmi
1271. died 1264,

1 w.'

Ralph Gemon, son and=p2 w. Hawise, sister and coheir

heir ; aged 30 in 1258 ; died
1274. (Esch. 2 E. 1. 19.)

of Nicholas Tregoz of Tolles-
hunt.

William Gemon, son and heir;-
aged 24 in 1274 ; of Bakewell, East
Thorpe, &c.; died 1327. (Esch. 1
E. lU. 35.)

John Gemon of They-
don Gemon ; aged 23
in 1293 ; died 1323.

Helewise, dan. and heir;

mar. Eustace de Balliol;

died 1272, s. p.
-| . . . . -|
Robert, Roger a
1306 ; priest ;
m. Ag. Rector of
ncB de East Thorpe ;
Peyton, died 1328.

I'w. l8a-=2 W.Alice, dau. of=f=Sir John Gemon=3w. Margaret, d. and h.= 3 h. Sir John d<

bella By- Roger Lord Cole-
got; died ville, of Bytham,
1311. widow of Guy Go-

baud.

Kt., son and heir ; of Sir John do Wigton Weston Kt., Con-
aged 30 in 1327 ; Kt., and widow of John stable of Cans-
died 1334. do Crokedayk ; died brooke.

widow, s. p. 1349.

2 w. Joan, = Sir John Gernou Kt., son and heir,^l w. Alice, widow

widowl384. coheir of Robert Lord Coleyille
in 1369; died 13 Jan. 1383-4.
(Esch. 7 R. II. 43.)

of John Bygot ;
mar. 1332.

William Gemon, son and Joan Gemon»7=John de Mabgabet Gernom,^Sib John dk Pbtton

heir apparent ; mar. died before
Elizabeth in 1351, and her father,
died before his father,
8. p.

Botetourt, coheii*, and aged 34
of Gest- in 7 Rich. II. ; died
ingthorpe. widow 6 June 1413 ;
M.I.at Wicken.

Kt., of Peyton HaU,
and jure ux. of East
Thorpe and Wicken.

Joan Botetourt, only child ;^Sir Robert Swinboume Kt.,

coheir, and aged 30 in
1384; died 4 March 1482-3.

of Little Horkesley; died
19 Oct. 1391.

GBRNON OF BAKEWELL AND BAST THORP. 199*

a wife named Elizabeth, when the Hundred of Lexden was settled upon them, (75)
but he died without issue long before his father.

2. Joan Gernon married Sir John de Botetourt Kt. of Gestingthorpe in
•Essex (a younger son of John Lord Botetourt), and died before her father, leaving
*n only child Joan, who was in 1384 the wife of Sir Robert Swinboume Kt. of
i'ittle Horksley, and thirty years old.

3. Margaret Gerxon was aged thirty-four and upwards at the time of her
father's death, and was the wife of SiR John de Peyton Kt.

Sir John Gernon died 13th Jan. 1383-4, acjed GO, when it was found that

^^ granddaughter Joan Swinbourne, and his daughter Margaret Peyton, were his

^^h^irs, and^that his widow Joan held in jointure the manors of Wicken and

''^^ston-Colville, which had been settled on her at her marriage by her husband's

*^<>flEees Sir Thomas de Mandeville and Sir John de Sutton Kts. (85)

NOTE ON THE PEDIGREES OF GERNON AND SACKVILLE. (See pp. 186-7.)

Since my account of Matthew Gernon and his wife Hodiema de SackviUe was written I have been

^J^bled, by the courtesy of the Dowager Lady Cowper, to read the Ghartulary of the Abbey of St. John's,

y^^Ichester, to which the families of Gernon and SackviUe were early benefactors. The only two deeds

j^ the register to which Matthew Gernon was a party are printed below, but they supply little informa-

^On beyond the proof that Matthew was a land-owner in Wormingford and Mount Bures.

Db U YiBOATIB T*BE WlDEBlfUNDEFOBO (fo. 108).

^ Notum sit omnibus pracsentibus et futuris quod Mahthbl Gbbnun et Rad* vice comes et Chbistuna
^^OB ejus et filius eobum Walt* dederant Monasterio Sti Joh*is de Golecestr* duas virgatas t*re in

▼Vidermondeford [Wormingford] ; salv* virgatam et dim. quam Henricus clericus tenet pro X sol quae
^Uit fra Willi Dod, et dim. virgatam quam Sigarus filius Siwardi de nemore tenet pro X sol ; in perhen-
^em elemosinam et liberam et quietam ab omnibus servitiis et scntagiis et expeditionibus et omnibus
%lii8 exactionibus nisi quod dim hidam debent defendere praedicti sochemanni inter quatnor bancos regis
Bohimmodo. Ita dederunt hoc tenementum Sto Joh'i quod nihil omnino supradicti aut heredes eorum sibi
^^tinent potestatis, si sit elemosina libera et quieta pro salute animarum suarum et dominorum suomm,
^t anathemati subjaceat qui damnum inde aut malum Sto Joh*i quesierit. Testes sunt, Rann' Gebnun,

«t Rob' de Maneden, et Hug' de Bretewelle, et Renel, et Rann' Pincerna, et Rob' Cl'lcus, et Gaufr* nepos

^bbatis, et Rann' et Turst' Portan', et Ermeng'.

De TENXntA WiCHGABI p'SBT'i IN BuBES (fo. 108).

Mahtel Gebmun et uxob ejus Hodiebna concesserunt in pcrhennem elemosinam Monasterio S*ti
Joh'ifl de Colec' et Monachis totam tcnuram Wichgari presbytci-i sicut ipso Mahtel eandcm tcnuram
nnqnam melius in feodo habuerat, consentiento Petro de Halcstcde de quo tcnebat partem ipsius feodi, et
reservato serritio de decem et octo deuariis Rob' Manant de quo tcnebat alteram partem feodi. - Et ipse
Mahtel enndem Wichgarum presbyterum per manus obtulit super altare S'ti Joh'is et Petrus de Hale-
Btede quantum ad se attinebat de ilia tenura posuit super altare S*ti Joh'ia cum Oaufrido filio Mahtel
libere et quiete semper tenendum pro salute sua et suorum.

Dlio testes fuement Ogar' et Wills* et Wib'n presbyleri ; Reinald' Clericus, Turstan', Ermenger'
Huno, Ansgems.

The confirmation of this grant by John Manaut expressly states that the tenure of Wiohgarthe priest
wu at Bores.

200

TUK CHESTERS OF CIIICUELKY.

The date of the grant in Wonuingford mnst bo fixed at 1161, for the attesting witness, Ganfrid
nepos Abbatis, was the nephew of Gilbert, who was Abbot of St. John's 1147-1165; and Balph the
Sherif can scarcely be any other person than Ralph dc Marei, who was Sheriff of Essex daring the last
nine months of the 7th year of King Henry II., and who made a grant in Fanlkbome to the Abbey of
St. John's by deed which is dated 15 Aug. 117'2, and was attcstctl by Richard, William, Robert, and
Walter de Marci (fo. 101).

The Chartolary contains no other reference to the family of Gemon, unless it be Alnred, the son of
Robert Gemon of Domesday, who is mentioned in the grant of the manor of Witham by Henry I. to
Endo Dapifer, which is addrcsFcd to Maurice Bishop of Loudon, Hugh de Bocland, Alttrfd, and all hia
barons of Essex, and was attested at Brampton by Waldric the Chancellor (fo. 11). I am, howcTer, still
convinced that Matthew Geruon, the husband of Hodiema, cannot for chronological reasons be the son
of Robert of Domesday, and I am now inclined to guess that he was the son of Goisfred, and the grand-
son of Matthew, who assented to Robert Gcmon's grant in 1106. (29)

The Chartolary throws more light on the pedigree of Sackville, and especially on the descendants of
Robert, who became a monk of St. John's in the reign of King Stephen, and was the ancestor of the
Sackvilles of Bnckhurst. His son and heir Jordan de Sackville married Ela de Den# the heireii of
Buckhnret and the foundress of Begham Abbey in Kent; but it appears from this Chartnlary (fo. 103)
that Ela was also the wife of William de Marci, which explains the connexion between these two
families.

Sir Francis Palgrave has printed in his History of the English Commonwealth during tlie Anglo-
Saxon Period the Record of the legal proceedings taken and the costs incnrred by Richard de Anesty in
recovering the inheritance of his uncle William de Sackville. The subject and issue of the suit have
been sufficiently related at p. 187, but it is necessary to correct the received pedigrees, for (as Palgrave
observes) it is impossible that Richard de Anesty could be at the same time the son-in-law and the heir
of William de Sackville. The succession, however, will be clearly seen in the pedigree below, for the
confusion has evidently arisen from the fact that William de ^Sackville and Richard de Anesty were
each succeeded by a son of his own name, who have been ignored by genealogists. The younger
William de Sackville gave on his deathbed to the monks of St. John's a rent-charge of 5«. a year out of
his mill at Rivenhall, which was separately confirmed to them by all the claimants of his inheritance,
viz. Albreda the widow; Richard de Francaville and his wife Mabel the repudiated daughter; and
Richard de Anesty the nephew and heir (fo. 84).

CORRECTED PEDIGREE OF SACKVILLE.
Herbrand dc Sackville, a noble Norman (Orderic Vitalis, p. 605)»f=

Jordayne de Sack-
ville, died in Nor-
mandy.

William de Sackville,*
Tenant in Essex of the
Honour of Boulogne,
temp. Hen. I.

Robert de Sackville, died^Letitia.
monk of St. John's, Col-
chester, temp. Stephen.

A\
Sackville of

Bnckhurst.

1 •

A vice, marr.
Walter de
Hngleville.

Albreda, sister = William do Sack-=f=Adeliza, Agnes de=f=Richard

of Geoffrey de ville,Bonandheir,
Tregoz, widow, died 1159, s.p.l.

repudi-
ated.

Sackville. do Anesty.

Hodiema,

marr. Mat-
thew Gernon.

Beatrix, marr.

William de

Glanville.

r^ r .1

Richard de Fran- = Mabel de Sackville, Richard de Anesty, nephew Herbert do Anesty, brother

caville, husband declared illegiti- and heir of W. de Sackville and heir of Richard, ancestor

1161. mate 1161. 1161, died P.p. of Denyse de Monchesni

202

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELET.

Vni. Thomas Peyton, the posthumous son of John Peyton by Grace Bur-
goyne, was in his sixteenth year when he succeeded his brother John, for it was
solemnly proved at Cambridge on Ist Nov. 1439, that he was bom and baptized at
Dry Drayton, the seat of the Burgoynes, in Cambridgeshire, on St. Valentine's-
day, 5 Hen. V. (14th Feb. 1416-17). (92)

He had two wives, who were both great heiresses, both named Margaret, and both
died before him. His first wife Margaret was the eldest daughter and coheir of Sir
John Bernard Kt. of Iselham in Cambridgeshire by Ellen daughter arid heir of Sir
John Mallory Kt. of Welton, Northants, (93) and she brought the manors of Iselham
and Welton to the Peytons. She had issue Thomas Peyton, son and heir apparent,
and two daughters MARGARET and GRACE. It would seem that she was buried at
Melf ord in Suffolk, for in that church are portraits in old glass of Thomas Peyton
and his wife Margaret Bernard, with the arms on their surcoats of Peyton impaling
Bernard and Lilling. (93)

PEDIGREE OF MARGARET BERNARD, WIFE OF THOMAS PEYTON ESQ.

Abms. Bernasd: Arg.^ a hear rampant sable muzzled and eoUared or. Lilltno: GuUt within a
bardure engrailed three piket naiant arg, Mallobt : Or^ a lion rampant double-queued guUt,

Sir John Mallo ij ' ^ ' J ane.

Et., of Welton,

Northants.

Sir Nicholas Lillyng Kt., of Abington,
Northants M.P. for Northants, 1381;
Sheriff 1383 ; died 1417. (Esch. 5
Hen. V. 47.)'

Elizabeth Lillyng, dan. and
heir ; oco. wife 16 Dec. 1416 ;

-Mary, presented
to Abington 18
Feb. (24 Hen. YI.)
1445-6.

M. I. at Clare, in Suffolk. f

Robert ' Bernard
Esq. , of Iselham,
00. Gamb.

Ellen Mai- (1 w.)'^Sir John Bemard=2 w. Elizabeth

lory, heir of Wel-
ton ; died 13 Oct
1440; M. I. at
Iselham. I

Kt. son and heir, Sackrille ; died

of Iselham, and widow 10 Joly

jnre ux. of Wei- 1464; M. I. at

ton ; died 24 Mar. Iselham. §
1451-2 ; M. I. at
Iselham.

2. Thomas Ber-
nard Esq., of
Abington ; died
1464. (Esch. 4
Edw. IV. 11.)

Bernard Barti.

8. Henry, 1416.

4. Mary, 1416. m.
Thomas Myld.t

Margaret (1 w.)-T-Thoma8 Peyton

Bernard, heiress
of Iselham, and
of Welton.

Esq., of Iselham,
Jore ox. ; died 80
Jn]yl484.

Catherine, coh. ; Mary, coheir ;

m. Sir Thomas m.

Jermyn, Et. of Le Strange.

Rnshbrooke, in

Suffolk.

PxTTON or Iselham.

* Sir Nicholas Ltllino Et. directed his feoffees, by deed dated 16th Deo. 4 Hen. V. (1416), to enfedf
In his manors of Abington and Brington his grandson Thomas Bernard (second son of Robert Bernard
Esq. by Elizabeth Lyllyng) when he attained his majority, to hold the same in fee tail with remainder to
his brother Henry, remainder to his eldest brother John, remainder to his sister Maiy Bernard (Baker's
Northants t vol. i. p. 101).

t In Clare Chorch were formerly on painted glass figures of Robert Bernard of Iselham and his wife
Eliz. Lilling, and also of Thomas Myld and his wife Mary Bernard, who are identified by the anna on
their sorcoats (Topographer and Genealogist^ toI. u. p. 400).

I Ellen Mallobt married first Swinnerton of Whilton, Northants, and is described as Elena

Swin'ton, dan. and heir of Sir John Mallory Et., in her M. I. at Iselham. (94)

S Elizabeth Sacxtills is not noticed in the pedigree of Saokville in CoUins* Peerage, 1779, yoL H.

PEYTON OF WICKEN AND ISKLHAM. 203

The second wife ofThomas Peyton was Margaret, widow ofThomas Gameys Esq.,
who died 12th Dec. 1458. She was the daughter and coheir of Sir Hugh Fraun-
ceis Kt. of GifFord's Hall in the parisli of Wickhambrook, Suffolk, and had issue
three children, Christopher, Francis, and Rose.

1. Christopher Peyton was executor to his father, and built the roof of
Iselham Church. (94) He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 12 Henry VH.
(1496), and married Elizabeth daughter of Leonard Hyde Esq. of Hyde Hall, Herts,
but left no issue, for their two children died young. He died 27th June 1507, and
was buried at Iselham. The figures of a man and woman and two children between
them, from which the brasses have been removed, are still to be seen on the west
wall of the south transept of Iselham Church, and beneath is this inscrip-
tion : (94)

' God have mercy on the soul of Cristofer Peyton Esquier, A. Elizabeth his wife, which Cristofer
deceased the xxvii day of June in the yere of our Lord mccccctii.'

EBs widow Elizabeth survived nine years, and under a brass cross in the same
church is inscribed :

* Pray for the soul of Elizabeth Peyton, which deceased the zv. day of Novembre, the yere of
our Lord mdxyi. on whose soul Jesu have mercy.'

Under this inscription are the arms of Hyde: a saltire ingrailed with a chief
ermine, (94)

2. Francis Peyton, who was heir to his brother Christopher, and married
Elizabeth daughter of Reginald Brooke Esq., by whom he had many children. He
died in 1529, and was buried in the Church of St. James, Bury. (87) His posterity
long flourished in Suffolk, and the existing families of Peyton in Virginia are
probably descended from him. (95)

3. Rose Peyton married Robert Freville Esq. of Little Shelford in Cambridge-
shire, who died in April 1521, leaving three sons and five daughters, who were all
under age. His Will is printed in the Testamenta Vetusta^ by Sir Harris Nicolas,
and therefore need not be repeated here. (96) His widow Rose survived him eight
years, and her Will was proved on 31st May 1529. Her second son George Fre-
ville succeeded to the family estates on the death of his brother John in 1551, and
was created a Baron of the Exchequer 31st Jan. 1558-9. (96)

Thomas Peyton was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 21 Hen. VI. (1443), and
again in 31 Hen. VI. (1453), and made Iselham Hall the principal residence of the
family. He began to rebuild the parish church there, but the works were completed
after his death by his son and executor Christopher. He died 30th July 1484, and
was buried in the chancel of Iselham Church, where an altar-tomb beneath a triple
canopy bears brass effigies of him and his two wives with this inscription : (94)

* Orate pro animabus Thomse Peyton, Armigeri, et Margaret® ac Margaretse uxoris ejus. Qui
quidem Thomas obiit xxz® die mensis Julii a.d. mooclxxziiu. Quorum animabus propitietur
Deus. Amen.*

204 THE CHESTERS OP CHICHBLEY.

It was found by the inquest held after his death, that Thomas his son and heir
apparent had died in his father's lifetime leaving issue, and that his son Thomas
Peyton was heir to his grandfather. (97)

IX. Thomas Peyton, the only son of Thomas by his first wife Margaret Ber-
nard, followed the example of his ancestors in marrying an heiress, for his wife was

Joan the only child of Calthorpe, of Barn ham St. Martin in Suffolk, and

heiress of Calthorpe's Manor in that parish. Thomas Peyton died before his father,
leaving four sons and four daughters. I gather from the Will of his son Sir Robert
Peyton that he died in London, and was buried in the church of St. Giles, Crip-
plegate. His children were :

1. Thomas Peyton, his son and heir. 2. Robert Peyton, heir to his brother.

3. John Peyton died without issue before 1518, and was buried at Wicken.

4. Edward Peyton was one of the Gentlemen Ushers of the Chamber to Henrv
Ylll., and was in waiting on the King at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in June
1520. (98) He was still living on 24th July 1543, when his brother-in-law Sir
Edward Ringeley made his Will, but he died unmarried before 1551.

1. Elizabeth Peyton married Edmund Langley Esq. and died without issue.

2. Jane Peyton married John Langley Esq. of Knowlton in Kent, who was
high-sheriff of Kent in 1504, and died without issue 3d Nov. 1518, aged forty-six,
when the family of Langley became extinct, and the three daughters of his uncle
Edmund Langley were found to be his coheirs. (99)

Walter Langley Esq. of Atherstone oo.^plBabella, dan. and heir of Wm. de la

Warwick and of Knowlton ; died 4 Mar.
1470 ; bur. at the Gray Friars, London.
(Coll. Top. et Gen. vol. v.)

Pole, Serjeant-at-law; heiress of Grims-
cote and Higham, Northants; died wi-
dow 1474. (Esch. 14 Edw. IV. No. 40.)

-pWilliam Langley Esq. 2. John of Grimscote, 3. Edmund Langley ;*Yvroan, d. of John Tame
son and heir; died 1482. and by exchange 1474, died 1502. (Esch. 18
(Esch. 4 Hen. Vn. 72.) of Atherstone. Hen. VII.)

of Fairford.

— I I 1 ■ 1 1

John Langley Esq. = Jane Petton of Isabella, m.lh. Christian, m. 1 Alice, aged 30, Walter,

son and heir ; aged Knowlton ; rem. Henry Ketilby; h. Wm. Pye ; 2 wife of John son and

16 in 1488; sheriff 1519 Sir Edw. 2 h. Edw. Sen- h. Roger Wig- Huntley Esq. heir; died

of Kent 1504 ; died Ringeley Kt. damore ; aged ston ; aged 36 of BoxweU co. nnm.

3 Not. 1518, s. p. 40 in 1519. in 1519. Glouo. 1503.

John Langley's manor of Knowlton did not descend to his coheirs, for in pur-
suance of an agreement with his brother-in-law Sir Robert Peyton he had in 1515
levied a fine of all his manors and lands in Kent, and had conveyed them by deed
to feoffees, to the use of himself and his wife Jane and the survivor of them for
life, with remainder to Edward Peyton, youngest son of Sir Robert, in fee tail;
remainder to John Peyton, brother of Edward, in tail ; remainder to Robert Pey-
ton, brother of John, in tail ; remainder to Sir Robert Peyton in fee. (99)

Jane Langley married secondly (early in 1519) Edward Ringeley Esq., who
was knighted in the field by the Earl of Surrey, Lord High Admiral of England

FEYTON OF ISELHAM. 205

on 1st July 1522, for his gallantry at the raid on the coast of Brittany. (lOo) He
was High Marshal of Calais 1532-1541, and one of the executors of Lord Bemers,
the Captain of Calais and translator of Froissart, who died 19th March 1532-3. (lOi)
It would appear that Lady Ringeley usually resided at Knowlton whilst Sir Edward
was at his post in Calais, for several letters written by her in 1539 from Knowlton
to Lady Lisle, the wife of the Captain of Calais, complain affectionately of his
absence. (102) Sir Edward Ringeley died before his wife, and his Will, dated
24th July 1543, is printed in the Tesiamenfa Tetusta (p. 702). Dame Jane Ringe-
ley survived him eight years, and died without issue about Christmas 1551.

Dame Jane Rinoelet, of St. Mary's in Sandwich, Kent, widow, late wife of Sir Edward Ringe-
ley Kt. deceased. Will dated 14th Dec. 1551.

To be buried on the north side of Jesus's Chapel in the Church of Our Lady at Sandwich,
near my late husband Sir Edward Ringeley. Prayers to be said there for my soul and the souls
of my father and mother, of my husbands John Langley and Sir Edward Ringeley, of my brother
Sir Robert Peyton Kt. and my sister Dame Elizabeth Peyton his wife, of my brother Edward Pey-
ton Esq., and of all Christian souls.

To the parson of Knowlton 20«. and sundry religious and charitable bequests at the discretion
of my Executor. All the rest of my estate and goods whatsoever I have given and delivered into
the hands of my nephew John Pe3rton, whom I appoint to be my sole executor.

Will proved in the Court of the Archdeacon of Canterbury. (No date, but in 1551.)

3. Anne Peyton married John Ashby Esq. of Harefield in Middlesex, whose
Will was proved 1st July 1496. She died 22d Oct. 1503, and was buried at
Bickmansworth. (103)

4. Dorothy Peyton was living unmarried in 1518.

Joan, widow of Thomas Peyton, married secondly William Mauleverer Esq.,
to whom Richard III. granted on 17th Aug. 1484, for his good ser\'ice against the
rebels, lands in Kent, forfeited for treason by Sir John Fogge. (104) He died
without issue in 1498, and was buried at Clerkenwell, when he bequeathed * to our
Lady of Walsingham the little ring with a diamount that King Kichard gave me.'
His Will is dated 18th April, and was proved 14th May 1498.

X. Thomas Peyton Esq. of Iselham, son and heir of Thomas by Joan Cal-
thorpe, succeeded his grandfather in July 1484, and presented to the Rectory of
East Thorpe 12th Feb. 1484-5. (12) In Hilary Term (2 Rich. HI.) 1484-5 he
joined his mother and her second husband in selling to William Catesby Esq. the
manor of Welton in Northants, which had formed part of the inheritance of his
grandmother Margaret Bernard. (105) He too married an heiress, and his wife
was Joan, daughter and heir of Thomas Yerde als Earde Esq. of Denton in Kent,
who bore Ermine^ three saltires gules. (106) He died without issue 1st Aug. 1490,
but the usual inquest post mortem was not held until 16th Nov. 1492 (8 Hen. VII.),
when it was found that his brother Sir Robert Peyton was his heir. (107)

Thomas Peyton. Will dated 1st Aug. 6 Hen. VIl. (1490).

My wife to have Bamham (St. Martin's) for life, and such stuff as is needful to her. To my
brother Robert Peyton my roan horse : to my brother John Peyton a gown of French tawney

206 THE CHBSTERS OF CHICHELEY.

furred with cony ; to my servant Thomas Le3rton a yearly rent of 40f . arising from the mill called
Cadmill in Bedfordshire for his life, and also a grey gelding and a gown. My debts to be paid,
viz. to the steward's wife of Glerkenwell £5 which I borrowed from her, to the skinner 5 marks, to
my Sadler and cordwainer what I owe them. To Sir William Uvedale my damask gown ; to
Walter Frost my raye gown ; to Mr. Frost chaplain to the Lord Prince a camlet gown ; to Wil-
liam Maoleverer my father-in-law a russet gown ; to my lady Maisteres my mother-in-law 26i. 8i.
The residue to Widter Frost Gent, to be disposed in deeds of charity, and I appoint him my
executor.

WiU proved in G.P.C. [39 Milles.] No date, but in 1490.

XI. Sir Robert Peyton Kt., brother and heir of Thomas, had already dis-
tinguished himself by his gallantry and loyalty before he succeeded to the family
estates ; for he was created a knight banneret on the field after the battle of Stoke
Heath on 16th June 1487, when Lambert Simnel was taken prisoner, and his
party was completely broken up. (io8) Sir Robert had livery of the lands
of his brother Thomas in 1492, and was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 14
Hen. VII. (1498). Soon after the accession of Henry VIH. he sued out a general
pardon from the Crown. Not because he had committed any particular offence, but
because in those days of prerogative and penal statutes a man might forfeit his
whole estate by outlawry in a personal action, and no man who had held office felt
himself secure without obtaining from the Crown from time to time a general par-
don as his protection. These pardons enumerated every imaginable crime, great
and small, known and unknown, which he could possibly have committed ; and the
supposed delinquent was described by every name, address, and style which he had
ever used or could have ever possibly used. Sir Robert Peyton's pardon runs in
the common form, and I have inserted the clause of designation as an example of
the pains taken by lawyers of that age to guard against the pardon being set aside
for a misnomer of the person intended. (109)

Henricus Dei gratia &o. Omnibus Ballivis &o. Sciatis quod nos pardonavimus Hobertam
Peyton de London nuper generosum, alias diet' Robert' Peyton nuper de Esthorp in comitatu
Essex armiger', alias diet' Robert Peyton de Wyken in Com' Cantabrig' milit', alias diet' Robert
Peyton de Iselham in Com' Cantab' milit', alias diet' Robert Peyton milit' nuper Vicecomit' Can-
tabr' et Huntingdon, alias diet' Robert' Peyton milit' fratr' ot hered' Tho. Peyton annig', alias
diet' Robert' Peyton mil' consanguin' A hered* Tho.Pey ton nuper de Iselham senions armigeri, alias
diet' Robert Peyton milit' consanguin' & hered' terrarum A. hereditamentorum Christopheri Peyton
armigeri nuper Vicecomitis Comit' Cantab' & Huntingd', alias diet' Robert' Peyton milit' un'
Justiciariorum Domini Henrici patris nostri ad pacem ipsius in Comit* Cantab' conservand' &o.

Dat. apud Westm. Maii 22, anno regni R Hen. octavi primo.

He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Clere Kt. of Ormesby in Norfolk,
by his first wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Hopton Kt. Most genealogists
have been misled by Blomefield's statement, in the History of Norfolk^ that Lady
Peyton was the daughter of Sir Robert Clere's second wife Alice Boleyne, the aunt ^
Queen Anne Boleyne, (no) but it is certain that Lady Peyton was a wife with
children at least eight years before her father married his second wife, for her son
and heir Robert Peyton was bom in 1498, (m) whilst the first wife of Sir Robert

PEYTON OP ISELHAM. 207

Clere only died 23d Jan. 1505-6, (no) and moreover Alice Boleyne was still un-
married on Tth Oct 1505, when her father Sir Wm. Boleyne made his Will, (iii)
Sir Robert died 18th March 1517-18, and was buried at Iselham. Under an
arch in the wall of the south transept are figures of a man and his wife with six
children, and under them on a brass plate is inscribed : (94)

* Of your charite pray for the sooles of Sir Robert Peyton, Knyght, which departid to God the
zTm day of March the yere of our Lord mdxvii, and for tlie soule of Dame Elizabeth Peyton his
wyfe which departid to God the yere of our Lord md . . . .'

The date of Lady Peyton's death has never been filled up, for the plate remains
smooth, (94) which accounts for the statement in the printed pedigrees that she died
in 1500. She is known to have survived her husband, for Dame Elizabeth Peyton,
widow, of Iselham contributed 140/. to the Loan of 1522. (98) It has been said
(87) that she married secondly John Bedingfield, but this match is not mentioned
in the pedigrees of that family, and the notice of her in Lady Ringele/s Will raises
a presumption against her second marriage.

Sib Bobebt Peyton Kt. of Iselham co. Cambridge. Will dated 18th March 1517-18.

To be buried in Iselham Church, and to the High Altar there 20f . ; to the repara9on of Wyken
[Wicken] Church 20f . to the intent that they pray for the soul of my brother John Peyton ; to the
Churches of Denton and Knowlton in Kent hs. Sd. each ; to the Church of Wickesho [Wixoe] 20s.
Mj gown of crymsyn velvett to be made into a cope and vestment, the cope for the parish Church
of Wyken, and the vestment for the parish Church of Boxford in Suffolk, upon eche of them being
a Bcocheon of my Arms and my wife's Arms. I will that a rememberance be made upon a
Boocheon with my father's Armes and sett upon the wall of the Church of St. Giles Cripullgate
in London.

Bobert my eldest son to have 500 shepe of those at Wyken ; my flockes of shepe at Iselham
Chippenham and Barton-beside-Mildenhall to go to the performing my WiU. Item, I will that
John my 2d son shall have my manor in Bamham St. Martin in Suffolk called Calthorpes. Dame
Elizabeth my wife to have two parts of my household stuff. Robert Peyton my eldest sonne to
have my chain of Gold, and Frances Peyton his wife to have another chain of Gold. My 3d son
Edward to be provided for by my executors. To Elizabeth and Margaret my daughters 300 marks
each for their marriages ; to Edward Pe3rton my brother ;£10 ; to Jane Langeley a silver cup with
my Arms to keep me in her sisterly remembrance ; to Dorothy Peyton my sister 10 marks ; to
Frauds Peyton my uncle my blake gown furred with blake ; to Christopher Peyton son of my said
unde Francis 10 shepe.

I will that the yearly anniversary of me. Dame Elizabeth my wife, and of Thomas Peyton Esq.
and Jane his wife, my &ther and mother, be solemnly kept. My wife Dame Elizabeth Peyton and
William Butts* of Cambridge to be my executors ; and Lord John Abbot of Bury St Edmundsf
and my well beloved fader-in-law Sir Kobert Clere Kt. to be supervisors of my Will.

^ WiUiam ButU, FeUow of Gonville Hall, Cambridge, was in 1518 just at the outset of his distin-
goished career, for he commenced M.D. at Cambridge in this very year. He was afterwards the favourite
physician of Henry VIII., and his friendship with Archbishop Cranmer is familiar to every reader of
Shakespeare. He died 17th Nov. 1545, and lies bnried at Fnlham. (i 1 3)

t John Reeve J called Melford from the place of his birth, became Abbot of St. Edmunds Bnry 24th April
1514. He was compelled to surrender his Abbey to the King 4th Nov. 1539, when a pension of 500 marks
wai assigned to him, and he retired to a small house in Bniy. He snrrived his degradation only a few
months, and died Slst March 1540, when he was bnried in the Church of St. Maiy's, Bnry. The Peytons
were hereditary offidals of the Abbot of Bury, and on the dissolution of the Abbey Sir Robert Peyton
the younger was compensated for the loss of his office by an annual pension of 40 shillings, (i 14)

208 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY,

Will of lands dated 18th Jan. 1517-18.

Whereas it was agreed hy Indentures dated 18th Jan. 7 Hen. VJLUL. (1515-16) between me of iia
one part and Francis Hasilden Esq. of the other part, that Robert Peyton my eldest son and heir
apparent should marry Frances Hasilden daughter and heir apparent of the said Frands before
the feast of the Purification then next ensuing, and whereas the said marriage was duly cele-
brated, but by cause of the youth and tender age of both has not yet been consummated, I now
confirm the settlements then made, whereby my manors in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk were set-
tled to the use of the said Robert Peyton and Frances and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to
Robert my eldest son in fee tail, remainder to John my second son in fee tail, remainder to
Edward my tliird son in fee tail, remainder to my own right heirs. And whereas Sir John Fyneux
Kt. and others are seised of the manors of Denton and Tapington in Kent to my use for life, witli
remainder to such uses as I should appoint, I give the reversion of the same manors to the siid
Robert my son to the uses of his marriage settlement.

Both Wills proved 20th April 1618 in C.P.C. [7 Ayloffe.]

The usual inquests were held after the death of Sir Robert Peyton in the
different counties in which his estates lay, when it was found that he had died on
18th March 1517-18, seised of the manors and lands following, (m)

Cambridgeshire. The manor of Wicken, held of the Honour of Richmond by the service of
half a Knight's fee, and rated at ^50 per annum.

The manor of Caldecoie, held of the same Honour by the service of a quarter of a Enigfat's
fee, and rated at £^ per annum.

Bernard's manor in Iselham, held of the Earl of Northumberland^ and rated at 40 marks per
annum. And the advowson of the parish Church of St. Nicholas at Iselham.

Three messuages in Iselham, which lately belonged to Christopher Peyton Esq., held of the
King in free socage, and rated at -iOs. per annum.

Essex. The manor and advowson of East Thorpe, and the Hundred of Lexden, and 645 acres
of land and 6 marks of annual rent in East Thorpe and Birch, held of the King in chief by the
service of three Knights, and rated at £2-^ per annum.

Suffolk. The manor of Peyton Hall in Boxford and Stoke Neyland, held of the Abbot of
St. Edmunds Bury by Knight's service.

The manor of Calthorpe Hall in Bamham St. Martin, held of the same Abbot by like serrice.

The manor of Leyham Hall, held of the Honour of Clare by Knight service.

The manor of Water Hall, held of Lord Fitz -Walter by Knight service.

These estates in Suffolk were charged with the jointure of Sir Robert Peyton's widow.

Kent. The manors of Denton and Tapington and the advowson of Denton, held of the Eng
by castle guard of Dover Castle.

Sir Robert Peyton left issue by his wife Elizabeth Clere five children.*

1. Robert Peyton, son and heir.

2. John Peyton succeeded to Knowlton by the death of his brother Edward,
and was the ancestor of the Baronets at Knowlton and Doddington, who are the
subjects of the next chapter.

3. Edward Peyton had the reversion of Knowlton settled upon him in 1515 by
his uncle John Langley, but died young and unmarried.

1. Elizabeth Peyton and her sister Margaret were both unmarried in 1518,

♦ He had also a son, William, who died young, and has this epitaph at Ormesbj: * Pray for the toid
of William, son of Robert Peyton Knyght: (no)

PEYTON OF ISELHAM. 209

mnd had each a marriage portion of 300 marks. Elizabeth married Sir William
Wigston Kt. of Wolston in Warwickshire.

2. Margaret married Francis Jenney Esq. of Knodishall in Suffolk.

XTT- Sir Robert Peyton Kt., son and heir of Sir Robert by Elizabeth Clere,
was twenty years old when his father died in 1518. (i 1 1) He had married in Jan.
1515-16 Frances the only child of Francis Hasilden Esq. by Elizabeth daughter of
Sir William Calthorpe Kt., whose descent from the blood royal of England has been
shown in the pedigree at p. 140. Frances was a great heiress, for on her father's
death in 1522 she inherited the manors of Gilden Morden in Cambridgeshire, Little
Chesterford in Essex, Lyndon in Rutlandshire, and Shillingstone in Dorset. (115)
Sir Robert was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 17 Hen. VIH. (1526), and again
in 27 Hen. VHI. (1536), and on 1st Oct. 1536 had a license from the King to
sell the manor of East Thorpe and the Hundreil of Lexden to Lord Chancellor
Audley. He was one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber to Henrj' VHI., and
was in attendance on the King when he went in state to meet Anne of Cleves at
Greenwich in 1539. (116)

He died 1st Aug. 1550, and was buried at Iselham, where a blue slab with the
arms of Peyton impaUng Hasilden bears this inscription : (94)

• Pray for the soole of Syr Robert Peyton Knyght, the sonne of Syr Robert Peyton Knight,
whych married Fraunceys the daughter and hejTe of Fraunceys Hassylden Esquire decessyd,
which Syr Robert decessyd the first day of August A* Dn* m.dl, whose soule God pardon.'

SiB Robert Payton Kt. of Iselham co. Cambridge. Will dated ;Ust July 1550.

To be buried in the parish church of St. Andrew the Apostle at IseUiam in the chapel of
St Catherine next to the tomb of my fatlier and mother. My executors to place a stone on my
grave with two scocheons, one of my own ^Vrms and the otlior of my Arms and those of my
wife. To the poor of Iselham 10s. ; of Wicken (>*. h</. ; of Gilden Morden (is. 8</. ; of Little Ches-
terford Qs. Sd. To my daughter Anne ^'240, she to be advised in taking a husband by my wife
and my son Robert, and to be married i^-ithin a year after my deatli. To my son Jolm Paj-ton 250
marks ; and to my younger sons Richard, Christopher, and William Payton 200 marks each.

My wife Dame Frances to be my sole executrix, and I give to her for her own use for 14 years
after my death my manor of Wicken and other lands there, also my purchased lands in Iselham
(except the manor of Iselham, and the lands I purchased from Mr. Gresham), also my lands called
Helgeyes which I purchased from my brother John Peyton, also my lands in Chippenham and
Fordham.

To my son John Payton my leasehold farm in Iselliam. which I hold from Pembroke Hall in
Cambridge, except the Priory Close which I give to my wife Dame Frances. My son and heir
Robert to rent the aforesaid lands at Wicken, and to pay jC50 yearly rent to my said wife. Item,
my said wife to have a yearly rent of i-6 Ids. -id. out of the manor of Payton Hall in Boxforth.

Witnesses : W^iUiam Cooke,* Serjeant-at-law ; Henr}' Walker,f Dr. of Physic ; Robert Payton
Esq. ; John Payton Gent. ; Henry Gotobedd.

Will proved 20th Nov. 1550 in C.P.C. [27 Coode.]

* William Cooke, a native of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire, and a barrister of Gray's Inii, was made
Beeorder at Cambridge in January 1545-6, Serjeant-at-law 3d Feb. 1546-7, and Judge of Common Pleas
16th Nov. 1552. He died 25th Aug. 1553, and was buried at Milton near Cambridge, where his monomeut
remains. (117)

t Henry Walker, of Gonville Hall, Cambridge, proceeded M.D. in 1632, and was Regins Professor of
Physic in 1555. He was a zealous Catholic, and a Commissioner for inquiry against heretics in 1556. He
died in May 1564. (11 g)

210 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Sir Robert Peyton had issue by his wife Frances Hasilden five sons and a
daughter.

1. Robert, his son and heir.

2. John Peyton was amply provided for by his father, who bequeathed to him
his leaseholds in Iselham. He presented for his mother to the Rectory of Little
Chesterford, 21st June 1555, (12) and died immarried in London in the parish of
Christchurch, Newgate, in the beginning of 1578. Letters of administration were
granted on 6th May 1578 to his brother Robert Peyton, who supposed that he had
died intestatej; but a few days afterwards his will was found, and was proved on
13th May by the executrix, when the letters of administration were revoked.

John Peyton of London Gent. Will dated 2d Sept. 1677.

To be buried in the Church of St. Sepulchre's Without, Newgate, London, in the chapel thew
where my brother Christopher Peyton was buried.

To my mother Dame Frances Peyton of Iselham widow all the money which she owes me, and
also a tablet of gold which I usually wear ; to my cousin and goddaughter Mary Peyton dan. of
my brother Robert Peyton Esq. of Iselham j£10, which I lent to my said brother's wife when she
was in London ; to my nephew Jolm Peyton son and heir apparent of my said brother Robert, and
to Frances and Wini^d Peyton his sisters ,^12 ISs. between them, which money I also lent to mj
brother Robert's wife.

To my youngest brother William Peyton 100 marks and also three chests, which belonged to
my brother Christopher ; to Ralph Holmsley son of John Holmsley of Kingston-on-Thames £6 :
to Joan White, wife of Edward White of St. Clement Danes 40f . ; to Elizabeth Lodyan wife of
William Lodyan of St. Clement Danes 20s. ; to my niece Frances Willianu 40«., and to each of her
children 20s. ; to Thomas Jones son of Jones the Printer at the Cardinal's Hat Without, Newgate,
London, Us. Sd.. and to his playfellow Peter Johnson 6s.

Elizabeth wife of Gyles Androesof Gilden Morden, co. Cambridge, Yeoman, to be my executrix
and residuary legatee. To Jolm Deane of London Grocer £A.

Will proved in C.P.C. 13th May 1678 by Eliz. Androes executrix. [21 Langley.]

3. Richard Peyton was a barrister of Gray's Inn, and Reader of that Society in
Lent Term 1569. (119) He married Mary, daughter of Leonard Hyde Esq., of
Hyde Hall in Herts, and died without issue 13th April 1574. He was buried at
Iselham on 16th April, (120) and has a monument in that church. On a laiji^
slab are brass figures of a man and his wife. The man wears a coat and furred
gown and hose ; his right hand is on his breast, and his left hanging down holds
a book. The lady wears a coif and hood, with a standing cape, pinked sleeves
and short ruffles. Above are the Arms of Peyton, quarterly of eight, with a mullet
in the centre for difference impaling Hyde ; with this inscription : (94)

Here under lyeth a woorthy Squyer that, Richard Payton hyght,
An honest Gentleman, and thyrde sonne to Robert Payton, Knight.
In Greys Inn student of the lawe, wheare he a Reader was ;
He feared God and loved his Worde, in truth his lyfe did passe,
In practysing of justice, lore was all his whole delyght;
He never wronged ani one to whom he myght do ryght.
Whome he esteemed an honest freend, whom he might stand in stede,
He never left to do him good with worde, with purse, and deed.

FBTTON OF ISELHAM. 211

For tenne yeares space he married was onto a faythfiill wyfe,
By parent named Marje Hyde, they lived deT(^de of stryfe,
The earth hym hare twyse twentie yeares and virtaoosly he lyved,
A godly lyfe he dyd embrace, and vertuously he dyed.

Below in a lozenge ^ Anno Domini 1574/ and on a plate :

The thirteenth daye of Apryll yeares seventy and foore
A thousand fyve hundred being put to yt more.

Richard Peyton died intestate, and his widow Mary remarried in or before
1577 Sir John Gary Kt., afterwards the third Lord Hunsdon, by whom she had
issne. She died a widow at her hoose in London in the parish of St. Benet's Paul's
Wharf on 4th April 1627, and was buried at Hunsdon on 7th April. (io8)

4. Christopher Peyton died intestate and unmarried before his brother John,
and was buried in the Church of St. Sepulchre's Without, Newgate, in London.

5. William Peyton was living in 1582, when his mother made her Will.

L Anne Peyton was unmarried in 1550, but married soon afterwards Thomas
Wren Elsq., of Haddenham in the Isle of Ely, by whom she had two daughters :
1. Frances, married before 1577 ..... Williams Esq. 2. Elizabeth, married
before 1582 Edward North Esq., grandson of the first Lord North. (i2i) Thomas
Wren died before 1582, when his widow Anne was the wife or widow of William
Medley Esq. (122)

Dame Frances Peyton had in her husband's lifetime joined with him in the
sale of the Peyton estates in Essex, and in her widowhood she joined with her sons
in alienating all the lands of her own inheritance. In 1552 the royal license was
granted to Frances, widow of Sir Robert Peyton Kt., to her son and heir apparent
Bobert Peyton Esq. and Elizabeth his wife, and to John and Richard Peyton Esqs.
brothers of Robert, to convey the manor of Lyndon in Rutlandshire to John Hunt,
Gentleman. The manor and advowson of Lyndon and lOL rent in Lyndon and
Tickencote had been settled by fine levied in Easter Term, 27 Hen. VIII. (1536), to
the use of Sir Robert Peyton Kt. and Frances his wife and the survivor of them for
life, with remainder to Robert Peyton their son and heir apparent, remainder to
John his brother, remainder to Richard his brother, remainder to the heirs of the
bodies of the said Sir Robert and Frances, remainder to the heirs of the said Frances
in fee. (i) Dame Frances presented to the Rectory of Little Chesterford 22d Dec.
1571, (12) but the reversion of this manor had been sold by her and her husband in
1536 with East Thorpe and Lexden, for Lord Audley died possessed of Little
Chesterford in 1544. (123) The manor of Shillingston in Dorset was also sold by
Dame Frances during her widowhood, (124) for it was still in the possession of Sir
Robert Peyton when he died in 1550. (125)

Li 1580 Dame Frances Peyton founded Peyton's Hospital in Iselham for six
poor men and six poor women to dwell in, and obtained from Queen EUzabeth letters
patent, dated 3d Feb. 1578-9, which erected the master, the six brethren, and six

212 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

sisters of the hospital into a corporate body, with the privileges of a common seal
and of holding lands in mortmain to the value of 200 marks per annimi. The
foundation was not completed in her lifetime, for by feoffment, dated 4th Aug.
1582, her son and executor Robert Peyton conveyed to the corporation the hospital-
house built by his mother with another house adjoining and thirty-nine acres of land
in Iselham. (126)

Lady Peyton died 18th March 1581-2, and was buried at Iselham on the follow-
ing day. (120)

Hie jacet Francisca Peyton, nuper Uxor Robert! Peyton Militis, Eximium Charitatis & Religionis
Exemplar, qusB, in sempitemam Nominis sui memoriam Publicum Hospitium, de 8uo Nomine
vulgo dictum (Peyton's Hospital) propriis suis sumptibus in Iselham extruxit, perpetuis censibus
dotavit & confirmavit.

Obiit 18 Martii a.d. 1581.

Quid tua vita ? Dolor. Quid mors nisi meta dolorum ?

Mors vitam sequitur, vita beata necem,
Ergone Franciscse vitam lacrimabimus ? Absit.

Poscit abesse viris ; possit ut esse Deo.*

Dame Frances Peyton, widow, late wife of Sir Robert Peyton Kt. deceased. Will dated 2d
March 1681-2.

To be buried in the church of St. Andrew, Iselham, near my husband. To the poor in the alms-
houses which I have built i-10 ; to my dau. Anne Medley, late wife of Thomas Wren ;glOO ; to Dame
Elizabeth Lovell widow ^40, and if she dies before receiving it, then to her youngest son Thomas
Lovell ; to Mrs. Elizabeth Peyton my daughter-in-law tlie wife of my son and heir Robert Peyton
Esq. ^10 ; to her son John Peyton i- 20 ; to Mary and Frances Peyton my goddaughters and Wini-
fred Peyton their sister, daughters of my said son Robert, £20 each ; to my goddaughter Frances
Williams dau. of my dau. Medley by my late son-in-law Thomas Wren i-10 ; to my goddaughter
Frances dau. of the said Frances Williams X'lO ; to my goddaughter Elizabeth North dau. of my
dau. Medley £10 ; to the Vicar of Iselham for tithes forgotten 40«. ; and to the repairs of Iselham
Church £6. To William Methwoldf of South Pickenham and my cousin Susan his wife £5 each
and one dozen of napkins, and to their dau. Frances Methwold my goddaughter £10 ; to Mrs.
Margaret Stokes 20«. for teaching my children ; to my dau. -in-law Mary Carye, late wife of my son
Richard Peyton dec*. £5 ; to my said son Robert Peyton my wedding ring, and my other ring with
arms ; to my son William Peyton a silver salt, and to my nephew John Peyton two spoons ; to Mar-
garet Veysey, now wife of John Veysey of Frekenham and late wife of William Gee, a cupboai'd and
coffer &c. with remainder to her son and heir Nicholas Gee.

My son Robert Peyton Esq. to be my sole executor, and my cousin Sir John Heigham Kt j to
whom I leave £5 to be overseer of my Will.

Will proved 28d April 1682 by William Lloyd, Notary Public, for Robert Peyton Esq. in C.P.C.
[14 Tirwhit.]

^ I copy this inBcription from Wotton's Baronetage 1741, but Gough does not notice it, and the pre-
Bont Vicar finds no vestige of it in Iselham Church.

t William Methwold or Methold, of South Pickenham in Norfolk, married Susanna, daughter of
George Alington Esq. by Anne, sister of the famous Sir John Cheke. (127) The families of Hadldenand
Alington were distantly related to each other by their common descent from the Cheneys of Fen Ditton.
Frances Metholdy the younger daughter of William Metbold, and the goddaughter of Lady Peyton, was
the wife of Firmage when her father made his Will on 29th Aug. 1586. (128)

X Sir John Heigham Kt, of Barrow was the son and heir of Sir Clement Heigham Et., Speaker of the
House of Commons and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by Anne, daughter of George Waldegrave
Esq. by Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Drury Kt of Hawstcd. (See pedigree at p. 140.) (129)

HASILDEN OF GILDEN MORDEN. 213

IV.

Francis Hasilden, the father of Lady Peyton, was a gentleman of good descent

and large estates. His rank in the court and camp of Henry VIII. is sufficiently

shown by his name being included in the official catalogue, compiled about 1510,

which describes the standards borne in the field by the chief personages at this

period: (130)

Franceys Hasylden de Gyldon Mahdon Cambrydoeshyre.

Standard : Argent, on a wreath a bull's head sable armed Or, with several spots on the nose
Ermine [the remainder imperfect in the mss.] .

Arms : Quarterly, I. and IV. Argent a cross patonce sable charged with a mullet. [Hasilden.]
n. Sable three battleaxes Argent. [Daneys.]

TTT. Quarterly, 1 and 4, a lion rainpant Or ^th a label of three points azure. [Colville.]

2 and 3, Argent a lion rampant queue fourchee gules.

The first recorded ancestor of this family is THOMAS HASILDEN, who had a royal
grant of free warren in his manors of Steeple and Gilden Morden in 1374. (131),
He was then resident at Morden Hall, for on 19th May 1375 he had leave for a
twelvemonth from the Bishop of Ely to hear Mass on days of obligation in the private
chapel of his manor-house. (132) Morden Hall is still standing; an ancient double-
moated mansion, and the domestic chapel is still pointed out to visitors. (133) He
was Comptroller of the household of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and was
retained for life to serve him in peace or in war. Accordingly, he was in 1372 one
of the duke's feoffees in the Manor of Soham in Cambridgeshire, and in July 1381
was conmianded to meet the duke at Berwick with seventy men-at-arms and sixty
lances. (134) He was one of the gentlemen of coat armour who gave evidence in
the great heraldic controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Gros-
venor, and it appears from his deposition that he was bom in 1322, and that he had
served in the wars forty-six years. (134) He was also lord of the manor of Little
Chesterford in Essex, which he settled by fine in 1385 on his son and heir
Richard and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their bodies. (135) He was
elected one of the Knights of the Shire for Cambridgeshire in 1384, and served in
four other ParUaments during this reign. He was again elected in 1400 in the
second Parliament of Henry IV., (136) but he died in 1401.

He married Joan, sister and coheir of Sir Thomas Burgh Kt., of Burgh Green
in Cambridgeshire, and was buried with her at Steeple Morden. (115)

n. Richard Hasilden, son and heir of Thomas, married in 1385 Elizabeth,
daughter and heir of Stephen de Turberville, of Shillingston in Dorset, and with her
presented to that rectory on 20th April 1394. (137) He was M.P.for Cambridge-
shire in 1394, and was elected a Knight of the same Shire in Oct. 1399, in the first
f arUament of Henry IV. (136) His father was then still alive, and had served in
'the preceding Parliament, and his retirement was not caused by age or infirmity, for
lie was re-elected in 1400. But the wary courtier stood aloof from the dangerous
task of passing judgment on the deposed King : and scruples of the same kind had

214 THE CHESTEBS OF CHICHSLET.

so much weight with the House of Commons, that when the sentence was pronounced
of perpetual imprisonment, they begged not to be considered parties, 'as such
judgements belonged solely to the King and the Lords.' Bichard Hasilden died
in 1406. (138)

in. Thomas HASKiDEN, son and heir of Bichard, was twenty years of age when
his father died, and was High Sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon
in 1409. He married Isabel Colville, of a knightly family in Cambridgeshire, who
was evidently an heiress, as her arms were quartered by her descendants. He pre-
sented to the Rectory of Little Chesterford on 9th July 1411, (12) but died soon
afterwards, for his widow Isabel was the wife of John Newman Esq. on 16th July
1416, when she presented to Shillingston jointly with Nicholas Caldecote the
guardian of her infant son. (137) Her second marriage was not of long duration,
for she was the wife of George Langham Esq., of Pantfield in Essex, when she
presented to the same rectory on 18th July 1420. He was High Sheriff of Essex
in 1449, and died 13th Sept. 1462, when he was buried at Little ChesterfonL (139)
His tombstone stands within the altar rails of that church, and fcnmerly bore
the effigies in brass of a man in armour and his wife, with this inscription :

Hie jacent Oeorgius Langham Armiger, quondam Dnos. higos Villa, qui obiit xin* die
Septembris 1462, et Isabella uxor ejus

But not a vestige of this inscription is now to be seen, and only the female figure
remains. Isabel survived her third husband, and lived to a great age, for she pre-
sented to Little Chesterford on 20th Nov. 1469. (12)

rV. William Hasilden, son and heir of Thomas, was an infant when his father
died, and his wardship was granted to Nicholas Caldecote Esq. M.P. for Cambridge-
shire. He married Elizabeth, the younger daughter of Sir John Daneys Kt,
of Lyndon and Tickencote in Rutlandshire, by Elizabeth, sister of John Lord Tip-
toft and aunt of John Tiptoft, the accomplished and unfortunate Earl of Wor-
cester. (140) She inherited the manor of Lyndon in 1435, when her only brother
Robert Daneys died unmarried, being then Sheriff of Rutlandshire. (141) She died
before her husband, and her anniversary was kept on 20th October, but the year of
her death is unknown. (115) William Hasilden was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire
and Hunts in 1452, and died 23d April 1480. (142) ,

V. John Hasilden, son and heir of William, was thirty-two years old when his
father died. He married Elizabeth, the only daughter of Sir John Cheney Kt., of Fen
Ditton, by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Rempston K.G., and had
issue two sons and two daughters. The precise date of his death is unknown, but-
he presented to the Rectory of Shillingston on 1st Aug. 1499, and his son Francis
was patron in 1505. (137) The four children of John and Elizabeth Hasilden arcp
mentioned in the Will of their uncle, Sir Thomas Cheney Kt., of Irthlingborougb,
which is dated 16th Oct. 1512. The testator devised his estates, in case of th^
extinction of the Cheneys, to his cousin Francis Hasilden, remainder to his cousio

HASILDEN OF GILDEN MORDEN. 215

Anthony Hasilden, remainder to his cousins Catherine Lane and Grace Caldecote,
sisters of the said Francis and Anthony. He also devised his manor of Pj'tchley,
Northants, to the use of Ralph Lane and Catherine his wife, with remainder to John
Docwra, son of the said Catherine Lane. (143)
John Hasilden had issue :

I. Francis Hasilden, his son and heir.

II. Anthony Hasilden, of Meldreth in Cambridgeshire, married Jane Mar-
shally an heiress, who survived him. He died in 1527, leaving issue a son and two
daughters.

1. William, son and heir, died unmarried on 3d Aug. 1537, when his two sisters
were his coheirs. (144)

2. Elizabeth was intended by her father to marry his ward George Anstey,
but afterwards married Richard Bury Esq., of Hem Grange, Bedfordshire. She
was found on 17th Aug. 1543 to be one of the coheirs of her brother William, being
then twenty-four years old and upwards, and the wife of Kichard Bury. (144) She
was the ancestor of the Burj's of Meldreth.

3. Beatrice was still unborn on 25th March 1526, the date of her father's Will.
She was found to be fourteen years old and upwards in 1543, (144) and afterwards
married Robert Freville Esq., but she died without issue.

Antobtt HA8nj)KN of Gilden Morden, co. Cambridge, Esq. Will dated 25th March 1526.

To be buried at Walpole in the Parish Church or Cliapel. My cattle, grain, fanning imple-
ments, &c. to be sold, and the proceeds to be invested in land to be in the hands of feoffees to the
nse of William my son and the heirs of his body, remainder to my daughter Elizabeth in tail,
remainder to charitable uses, especially for a priest to sing for my soul and the souls of my father
and mother and of my brother Francis. My feoffees to hold the manor of Wasys to the use of Jane
my wife, she paying ^0 to my sUter Grace Maister, late wife of Thomas Caldecote, and also £*0 to
Dorothy Wynd. My purchased lands to Jane my wife for her life, with remainder to my said
children W^illiam and Elizabeth. Sundry plate to my son William, with remainder to my daughter
Elizabeth, remainder to my niece Peyton. The residue of my goods to my wife Jane. Thomas
Ghichele, William Chamber, and my wife Jane to be my executors. To my cousin Lawrence*
Cheney, to my cousin Dokwray, and to my nephew Peyton harness,! my own hamessf complete to
my cousin Bruton. My wife Jane to be one of my executors only so long as she continues un-
married, and follows the counsel of my nephew Chichele, and if she do otherwise, * I will she
deliver William my son and Elizabeth my daughter and George Anstey my ward into the hands
of my nevewe ChicheleJ and his wife : and George Anstey to marry my daughter Elizabeth, and
also that my said nevewe have Thomas Decon and Frances § his mother.'

* Lavrrence Cheney was the son of Sir William Cheney Et., a maternal uncle of the testator. (See
pedigree of Cheney of Thenford in Baker's Northants, i. 714.)

t Harness was the term used at this period for body armour. Hence Stow relates in his Chronicle
XbaX on Candlemas-day 1553-4, when Sir Thomas Wyatt and the rebels were within one day's march of
Xiondon, ' the most part of the householders of London with the Mayor and Aldermen tcere in harness, yea,
this day the Jastices, Serjeants at the law, and other lawyers in WeetminBtcr Ka)! pleaded in harness.'

J Thomas Chicheley Esq. of Wimpole in CambridgcBhire married Elizabeth Docwra, niece of the
"^esUitor and the widow of Edward Tnrpin Esq., by whom he had issue Clement his son and heir and two
Slaughters. (145)

§ Frances Deeons^ the widow of Richard Decons Esq. of Marston in Bedfordshire (who died in

216 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELET-

My nevewe Chichele to have one half of my household stuff, with remainder to Clement Giichele
my godson. The child my wife goeth with to have £40 &c. To my nephew William Caldecote i'20
at his age of 24. My nephew John Docray to be supervisor of my WUl. To my cousin Christopher
Burgoin two pairs of my best Rivetts.

Will proved in C.P.C. 1st June 1527 by Thomas Chichele, power being reserved to Jane the
widow and William Chamber. [20 Porch ]

m. Catherine Hasilden married James Docwra Esq,, brother of Thomas
Docwra, Lord Prior of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, by whom she had
issue John Docwra, her son and heir, and Elizabeth, who married, first, Eidward
Turpin Esq., of Knaptoft,* co. Leicester (their marriage settlement is dated 14th
Feb. 1506-7) ; (148) and secondly Thomas Chicheley Esq. of Wimpole. She had
issue by both marriages.

Catherine married secondly before 1512 Ralph Lane Esq., of Orlinghury,
Northants, and jure ux. of Pytchley, but had no further issue.

IV. Grace Hasilden married Thomas Caldecote Esq. and had a son WUliam.
She married secondly after 1512 Maister Esq., and was living in 1526.

VI. Francis Hasilden, son and heir of John, succeeded his father before 1505.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Calthorpe Kt., of Burnham in No^
folk, by Elizabeth Stapleton, the heiress of Ingham in the same county, whose
descent has been shown at p. 140. He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and
Hunts in 1509, and died early in 1522, when he was buried at Gilden Morden.

His Will was made five years before his death, and he devised his estate at
Meldreth to his brother Anthony, but the rest of his manors passed by a settlement
to his feoffees to the use of his only child Frances, who had married in Jan. 1515-16
Sir Robert Peyton Kt., of Iselham; and accordingly on 6th Feb. 1521-2 livery o»
the lands of Francis Hasilden, deceased, was granted to Robert and Franc^^^
Peyton. (98)

Francis Hasilden of Gilden Morden, co. Cambridge, Esq. Will dated 23d Aug. 1517.

To be buried in the Church of Gilden Morden in the Nortli Aisle before Jesus's Altar, and a toDC^-
to be made there for mo to cost i;20. To the Yicar of the said Church 40«. for tithes forgott^^
or negligently withholden. Wliereas my grandfather William Hasilden bequeathed by his Willf "^

1521) (146) and the mother of his infant son and heir, was the daughter of Thomas Chicheley
mentioned. Her son Thomas died without issue in 1550, when his three sisters were Yds heirs. (147)

* Edward Turpin died in the lifetime of his father, leaving two daughters Catherine and
who were found to be the coheirs of their grandfather William Turpin Esq. when he died on Ist Sept. 152
(Inq. p.m. 16 Hen. VIII.)

Margaret Turpin the younger of these two daughters, 'being then of the full age of 18 years and a
and more,' married on 3d Nov. 18 Hen. VIII. (1526) * John Docwra, son and heir of Thomas Docwra
Kyrkebykendal in Westmoreland, Gent,* who was of the age of 18 years and more. This marriage u
celebrated * within the howse of St. John's Clerkenwell, in the Buttery of the same, my lord Thoi
Docwra, Prior there, being present.' (148) ^

Thomas Docwra was made Prior on 1st May 1602, and ranked by virtue of his office as the Prem^^*
Baron of England. He was the last Prior but one before the change of religion, and the Editors of ^^
Moncuticon (vii. 799) found no notice of him after 1519 ; but the marriage contract above recited
that he was still living a Prior seven years later.

f This Will is not to be found in the Calendars of the Prerogative Court.

HASILDEN OF OILDEN MORDEK.

217

PEDIGREE OF HASILDEN.

Abms. Argent, a erats patonce sable, charged with a mullet.

Thomas Hasilden Esq. of Gilden
Steeple Morden, Hunts, and Little
Chesterford, Essex; born 1322; M.P. for
CO. Cambridge ; died 1401.

andnnJoan

sister and coheir of Sir Thomas
Bnrgh Kt. of Burgh Green, co. Cam-
bridge.

Richard Hasilden Esq., son and heir, of=
Horden and jure ux. of Shillingston ;
H.P. for CO. Camb. 1394 and 1399 ; died
1406. (Esch. 7 Hen. IV. 9.)

•Elizabeth, dau. and heir
of Stephen do Turberrile
of Shillingston, Dorset;
occ. wife 1385, 1404.

A dau. marr.Thos.

Mjnot, secretary

to the Abbot of

Walden.

omae Hasilden^Isabel, dau. and=2 h. JohnNewman=Sh.Geo. Langham

1. son and heir;
d 20 in 1406;
sriffofco.Camb.
i9; presented to
kla Chesterford
ii]j 1411.

heir of ... . Col- Esq.; oco. 16 July Esq., of Pantfield,
Tille Et. ; oco. wi- 1416. Essex ; occ. 1420 ;

dow 1469. sheriff of Essex

1449 ; died 1462.

John Hasilden, 2d

son ; marr

Hampton, and had
two dauB. , Eliza-
beth and Alice.

tliam Hasilden Esq., son and heir ;•
niffof CO. Camb. 1462; died 23 April
0. (Esch. 20 Edw. IV. 2.)

■Elizabeth, .dau. and coh. of Sir John
Daneys Et of Lyndon and Tichen-
cote, CO. Rutland, by Elizabeth, sister
of John Lord Tiptoft ; aged 20 in 1435.

Joim.

in Hasilden Esq. son and heir ; aged-f*Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Cheney (George. Richard.

hi 1480; presented to Little Chester-
1 1 Aug. 1499.

jieis Ha-*

BO Esq.,

and heir,

•ented to

Uing-

1, 1605;

iriffolco.

Qb.l509;

1 1522;

'Elizabeth,
dau. of Sir
Wm. Cal-
thorpe Et.
of Bumham,
Norfolk; wi-
dow 1522.

Kt., of Fen Ditton, co. Camb.

Anthony^TsTane, dau. Catherine,"7<Iames Do

Hasilden, 2d
son, of Gil-
denMorden ;
died 1527 ;

wm.

of occ. 1512 ;

Marshall, wifeofRalph
widow, 1527, Lane, of Or-
lingbury.

John Do-

owra, son

and heir,

1512-1526.

cwra Esq. ;
1st hush.

Grace, 1512;

marr. I. Thos.

CaldecoteEsq.;

Maister Esq* ;

oco. 1526.

Elizabeth; marr. 1. Edw.Tur-
pin Esq. of Knaptoft, Leic. ;
2. Thos. Chicheley Esq. of
Wimpole, Cambs.

fnuscms Ha8il--?>Sib Robbbt William Hasilden, Elizabeth Hasil- Beatrice, coh. ; marr.

r, dau. and heir; PettonKt.; son and heir, of den, sister and Robert Freville Esq.

r. Jan. 1515-16 ; died 1 Aug. Meldreth ; died heir; marr. Rich- s.p.

d widow 18 Mar. 1550. unm. 3 Aug. 1537. ard Bury Esq.
11-8.

Peyton or Iselham.

2 1 8 THE CHESTEBS OP CHICHELEY,

tlie Church of Little Chesterford a Chalice of M value, which Chalice has not yet heen delivered,
my executors are to deliver the same to the Vicar of that Church within three years after my death.
To the highways of Gilden Morden ^6. To my brother Anthony Hasilden Esq. £40 in money with
horses, cattle, sheep, com, &c.

All my other goods to my wife Elizabeth whom with my brother Anthony I make my executors.

My manors of Lyttlyngton called Huntingfields and of Meldreth called Wasy^ to my said
brotlier Anthony and Ms heirs. My manors of Little Chesterford in Essex, Lyndon in Rutland-
shire, and Pedill in Dorset to feoffees for the purposes of my Will.

Will proved at Lambeth 21st Nov. 1522 by Anthony Hasilden, power being reserved to the
widow. [29 Maynwaring in C.P.C.]

Xin. Robert Peyton Esq., son and heir of Sir Robert Peyton Kt. of Iselham
by Frances Hasilden, was twenty-seven years old when he succeeded his father id
1550. (i2s) He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Hunts in 1553, and
again in 1567, and he was one of the Knights of the Shire for Cambridgeshire in
the last Parliament of Philip and Mary. (136) He married Elizabeth Rich, the
seventh daughter of Richard Lord Rich, some time Lord Chancellor of England, by
whom he had five children. The precise date of this marriage is unknown, but
Robert Rich Esq. of Iselham, the brother of Lord Rich, by his Will, dated 12th
April 1557, gave a gold ring to his * cousin Elizabeth Peyton, wife of Robert Peyton
Esq.,' and appointed her husband to be one of his daughter's trustees, and to be the
overseer of his Will. (149)

Robert Peyton was never a knight, although he is so called in all the printed
pedigrees, but in the reign of Elizabeth titles of honour were so frugally distributed
that knighthood was often withheld from families in which it had hitherto been
pmctically hereditary.

He died in London on 19th October 1590, and was ^solemnly buried'* at Iselham
on 12th November following. (120)

His monument has the figures of a man and his wife in alabaster, under a
canopy supported by four pillars, and on the fascia is written in gold letters : (94)

* Yeeres of sixtie seaven did pass in governing.
Both just and wise he was
By antient stock, but more by merit.
His body the earth, his soule Heaven inherit/

Robert Peyton of Iselham, co. Cambridge, Esq. Will dated 12th Oct. 32 Eliz. (1690).

To be buried in the South Chapel of IseDiam Church, where I have prepared a place. To
my son John Peyton a silver basin and ewer and one moiety of my household stuff, the other moiety
to belong to my wife Elizabeth : to my said son John my leasehold manor of Uphall, except 46 acrea
which I devise to my wife : to my daughters Balam, Hagger, and Osborne a silver bowl each, and
to my daughter Peyton another silver bowl. The residue to my wife and my said son John, whom
I appoint to be my executors.

* This expression * solemnly buried^ occurs only three times in Iselham register, and is confined to
the burials of Richard Peyton Esq. 1674, Mr. Robert Peyton Esq. 1690, and Mrs. Elizabeth Peyton 1691.
It means that the funeral was marshalled by a Herald, who recorded the proceedings in a formal oertificate,
which was registered at the College of Arms.

PEYTON OF ISELHAM. 219

Witnesses ; Edward Osborne, Robert Lnkyn,* Geo. Steame.f William Mase, and Symon Clarke.
WiU proved 19th Nov. 1690 in C.P.C. [74 Drury]

Robert Peyton had issue by his wife Elizabeth Rich five children.

1. Robert Peyton, his son and heir apparent, who was admitted a student of
Gray's Inn in 1565. (150) He had, by the pft of his uncle Richard, who died in
1574, the profits of certain booths in CambridgeJ Stourbridge Fair after the death of
Richard's widow, but he never came into possession of them, for he died unmarried
in 1577,§ in the lifetime of his father.

2. John Peyton, surviving son and heir, afterwards Kt and Bart, and the ma-
ternal grandfather of Elizabeth Lady Chester.

1. Mary Peyton married in her father's Ufetime Charles Balam Esq. of Wal-
soken near Wisbech, who died 31st May 1592, leaving Robert his son and heir then
twelve years old. (151) Mary married secondly Sir Richard Cox Kt., second son
of Dr. Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely. (152)

2. Frances Peyton married John Haggar Esq. of Bourne Castle in Cambridge-
shire, and had issue. (153) Their son John was baptized at Iselham on 17th Sept.
1588, and was buried there eleven days afterwards. (120)

3. Winifred Peyton married at Iselham on 11th Dec. 1587 Edward Osborne
Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple. (120) He was the executor named in the
Will of his wife's mother, but died intestate at the age of thirty-one on 24th March
1591-2, and Ues buried in the Temple Church. (153 a) Winifred married secondly,
at Ash near Sandwich in Kent, on 4th Sept. 1592, Samuel Harflete Esq. of Ash,1[
who was also a barrister of the Inner Temple ; but he died within two years after
his marriage, and Winifred married thirdly, at Iselham, on 21st Jan. 1594-5,
Richard Homeby Esq. (120)

Madame Elizabeth Peyton died in the next year after her husband on 17th Oct.
1591, and was ^ solemnly buried' at Iselham on 26th Oct. following. (120)

Elizabeth Peyton widow, late wife of Robert Peyton Esq. deceased. Will dated 20th Sept.
38 Eliz. (1591).

To be buried in Iselham Church, in the tomb erected by my husband. My goods to be equally
diyided between my three daughters, viz. Mary wife of Charles Balam Esq., Frances wife of Jolm
Haggar Esq., and Winifred wife of Edward Osborne of the Inner Temple Gent. I bequeath
nothing to my well-beloved son John Peyton Esq., for that I have been very beneficial to him already.
My son-in-law Edward Osborne to be my sole executor.

* Robert Lukyn Gent, was buried at Iselham on 30th Nov. 1616. (no) His family is constantly men-
tioned in the early register of that parish.

t Dorcas, wife of George Steame^ was buried at Iselham on 27th Oct. 1592. (120)

X Stourbridge Fair, one of the largest* and most celebrated in the kingdom, is annually held at Bam-
well in the suburbs of Cambridge, on 18th September, and lasts upwards of three weeks.

§ I have not hesitated to fix his death in 1577, because it is certain that he died in the interval
between the death of his uncle Richard on 13th April 1574 and the date of his uncle John's Will
2d Sept. 1577, whilst the parish register of Iselham, in which his burial would naturally be recorded,
is perfect up to the beginning of 1577, when a page is missing, and there is a gap of three years.

U From the parish register of Ash : 1592. Samuell Harflete and Wynefrede Osborne married iiij Sep-
tember.

22U THE CHESTKRS OF CHICHELEY.

Administration with Will annexed was granted in C.P.C. 21st Jane 1592 to Winifred Peyton
als Osborne, daughter of the deceased, because the said Edward Osborne the executor died before
proving tlie Will. [60 Harrington,]

XIV. Sir John Pexton, son and heir of Robert by Elizabeth Rich, married in
his father's lifetime, at St. Dionis Backchurch, London, 29th June 1 580,* Mrs.
Alice Osborne, the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Osborne Kt. Lonl Mayor of
I^ondon in 1583 and ancestor of the Dukes of Leeds. His bride was little more
than seventeen years old, for she was baptized* on 4th March 1562-3; and her
marriage i)ortion was considerable. It was the general custom in those days to
make a larger provision for the eldest daughter than for her sisters, and Alice's
portion was increased by a legacy from her grandfather Sir William Hewett. He
succeeded his father in 1590, and was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 35 Eliz.
(1592). He was elected one of the Knights of that Shire in 1593, (136) and
was knighted at Court by Queen Elizabeth on 1st Nov. 1596.t He was not a
member of the last two Parliaments of this reign, but was re-elected for Cambridge-
shire in the first Parliament of King James. (136) He was again High Sheriff
of Cambridgeshire in 1604, and had the King's pennission on 27th Nov. 16()4
to reside twelve weeks during the next winter in his house at Great Bradley in
Suffolk. He was created a Baronet on the institution of that Order, and his name
stands eleventh in the first batch of eighteen created on 22d May 1611.

Sir John Peyton was buried at Iselham on 19th Dec. 1616, (120) and has a
noble monument in that church, bearing portrait figures of him and his wife,
under a canopy supported by four pillars, but without any inscription. (94)

Sir John Peyton of IseUiam, co. Cambridge, Kt. and Bart. Will dated 2l8t Nov. 1616.

To be buried in tlie South Cliapel of Iselham Church, where many of my ancestors are
entombed. To my son Roger Peyton and his heirs all my booths in Cambridge Stourbridge
Fair, wliich I am to have after the death of my aunt the Lady Hunsdon, for my uncle Mr. Richard
Peyton gave them to her for her life and after her decease to my brother Robert Peyton deceased,
of whom I am the next heir. To my daughter Susan Peyton my goods and chattels in Iselham or
elsewliere, but my wife Dame Alice to have for her life those in my house at Bradley in Suffolk-
My said daughter Susan not to marry without the consent of my kinsman the Lord IUch.| To
my said son Roger Peyton X200.

Wliereas before tlie conveyance of my estates made to my eldest son Sir Edward Peyton Kt. I
granted certain annuities to my sons and daughters, viz. to my sons William and Thomas Peyton

• From the parish register of St. Dionis Backchurch^ London :

1580, Jnne 29. John Payton of Islam parish in the County of Cambridge Gent and Mrs. Alice
Osborne of this parish, married.

1562-3, March 4. Ales daughter of Edward Osborne, bapt.

t It is erroneously stated in all the printed pedigrees that Sir John was knighted by James I., but the
true date is supplied by Dugdale's list of Knights in the Bodleian, and is confirmed by the parish register
of Iselham. For Susan Peyton, baptized on 10th July 1696, is described as the daughter of John Peyton
Esq. ; whilst * John Sparrow, servant to Sir John Peyton Kt.,' was buried on 12th Feb. 1597; and he is
thenceforth invariably styled Sir John Peyton Kt. in the register.

\ Robert third Lord Rich, nephew of Madame Elizabeth Pejton, and cousln-german of the testator,
was created Earl of Warwick on 6th Aug. 1618, and died at Warwick House, in Holbom, on 24th March
1618-19. His second son Henry Rich was created Earl of Holland, and acquired, with his wife Isabel
Cope, the mansion at Kensington since known as Holland House.

PEYTON OF ISELHAM. 221

£50 per annum each for their lives, and to my three daughters Mary, Frances, and Susan £100 a year
for 21 years between them, and whereas my said daughters Mary Meeres and Frances Peyton
have received their portions, and my son Mr. Roger Meeres and my daughter Mary his wife have
made tlieir release to my daughters Frances and Susan, and likewise Mr. Philip Bedingfield who
is to marry my dan. Frances has received her portion, I now direct that my wife Dame Alice
shall receive the said XlOO a year for my daughter Susan until she be married, and also the
two annuities of my sons William and Thomas till they be 21. To my son Sir Edward
Peyton all my evidences and title deeds. My said daughter Susan Peyton to be my executrix.

Codicil, dated 1st Dec 1016. My son Sir Edward to pay to my executrix .£120 he owes me
for the board and diet of his first wife.

Will proved by Susan Peyton 14th May 1017 in C.P.C. [46 Weldon.]

Sir John Peyton Kt. and Bart, had issue by his wife Alice Osborne seven sons
and seven daughters.

1. Edward Peyton, son and heir, succeeded as the second baronet.

2. John Peyton died unmarried before his father, and was buried at Iselham,
25th Jan. 1611-12.

3. Robert Peyton was baptized at Iselham on Palm Sunday, 24th March 1588-9,
and was educated at Eton, whence he matriculated a pensioner at King's College,
Cambridge, 10th April 1609. (154) *He travelled into Italy, studied the law, and
was a justice of the peace, but afterwards took Holy Orders,' and was presented in
1629 to the vicarage of Broadchalk, Wilts, by the Provost of King's College. (154A)
He married a widow named Hammond, but had no issue, (87) and was buried at
Iselham on 17th Oct. 1639.

4. Roger Peyton was baptized at Iselham 10th Feb. 1593-4, and died un-
married in June 1617, aged 23, at his mother's jointure house of Great Bradley in
Suffolk. This testamentary paper was found in his desk on 30th June 1617 :

I desire my mother to distribute my estate between my brothers Robert, William, and Thomas
Peyton. I give to my brother Robert my booths of Stourbridge Fair, which I am to enjoy after
my Lady Hunsdon's* decease ; to my brother William my lease of Helgeyes ; to my brother Thomas
my land at W^icken.

Administration, with tliis paper annexed, was granted on 13th Aug. 1617 to Dame Alice
Peyton, mother of the deceased. [123 Weldon in C.P.C]

5. TVlLLlAM Peyton was one of his mother s executors, and lived at Worling-
worth in Suffolk. He married Tabitha, the widow of Samuel Bigge Esq., who
was buried at Alphamstone in Essex on 9th Dec. 1639. She was the only surviving
daughter and heir of Henry Payne Esq. of Alphamstone, who died on 22d Jan.
1606-7 when she was scarcely seven years old. (155-) She had issue by both mar-
riages, and died before her second husband William Peyton, who seems after her
death to have lived with his sister Dame Susan Brewes at Little Wenham in Suffolk,
for he is described as a widower of that place in the letters of administration, which
were granted on 13th Oct. 1669 to Henry Gosnold his principal creditor.

6. Thomas Peyton, baptized at Iselham 21st June 1599, was admitted a student

^ Lady Hansdon was the widow of Roger^s granduncle Richard Peyton, who died in 1574.

222 THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY.

of the Inner Temple in 1617. (156) He never married, and ^ was slain on the
Bourse in Holland.' (10) I gather from the silence of his mother^s WiD that he
died in her lifetime.

7. Nicholas Peyton, baptized at Iselham 19th Oct. 1600, died an infant, and
was buried on 26th Nov. following. (120)

1. Anne Peyton married at Iselham on 22d June 1598 Robert Bacon Esq.,
third son of Sir Nicholas Bacon the Premier Baronet of England. She died 27th
Sept. 1640, and was buried at Ryburgh Magna in Norfolk. (157) Her husband
succeeded his brother Sir Edmund in the baronetcy in 1649, and died 16th Dec
1655. (157) They had many children, of whom Nicholas their son and heir was
baptized at Iselham on 6th May 1599, and Edmund their second son was baptized
there on 13th March 1599-1600. (120)

2. Alice Peyton married at Iselham on 25th Nov. 1602 her father's cousin
John Peyton Esq., son and heir apparent of the Right Honourable Sir John
Peyton Kt., a member of Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council, and Lieutenant of the
Tower of London. They were the parents of Dame Elizabeth Chester, and will be
fully treated in another chapter.

3. Elizabeth Peyton is not mentioned in her father^s Will, because she, like
her sisters Anne and Alice, had been married many years before, and had long
received her portion. Elizabeth married in Feb. 1603 Sir Anthony Irby Kt.,
son and heir apparent of Anthony Irby Esq. of Whaplode in Lincoln, one of
the Masters in Chancery. He was knighted by James I. on 23d July 1603, (158)
and was M.P. for Boston in the first Parliament of that reign. He died early in
1610, aged 32, and has a noble monument in Whaplode Church with a long inscrip-
tion. His epitaph omits the year of his death, which is mis-stated in all the Peer-
ages to have occurred in 1623. (159) But there is no doubt that he really died
in 1610, because administration of his estate was granted on 21st June 1610 to his
father Anthony Irby Esq., power being reserved to his widow Dame Elizabeth. He
left five children, of whom his eldest son Anthony, afterwards Sir Anthony Irby
Kt.^ was the ancestor of the Lords Boston, and his youngest child Elizabeth died
soon after her father at the age of twelve months, and was buried at Iselham on
31st July 1610.* Dame Elizabeth Irby married secondly at Iselham on 1st June
1614* Sir George le Hunte Kt. of Little Bradley in Suffolk, by whom she had a
daughter Alice, who is mentioned in Lady Peyton's Will. She had also two sons
by her second marriage, the younger of whom, Richard le Hunte, was captain of
Cromwell's Lifeguards, and is said to have afterwards settled in Ireland. (160) He,
or his brother, was the trustee of the second Sir Anthony Chester in 1646. (See
p. 162.)

• From Iselham Parish Register :

1605-6. March 11. Edward, bod of Sir Anthony Ereby Kt., bapt.
1610. Jnly Sl. Elizabeth Ereby,daa. of the Lady Ereby, widow, buried.
1614. June 1. Sir George le Hunte Kt married the Lady Erbie.

PEYTON OF ISELHAM. 223

4. Mary Peyton, baptized at Iselham 4th May 1590, married there on 19th
Jane 1609 Roger Meeres Esq. of Houghton in Lincolnshire, by whom she had
seven children, John, William, Thomas, Edward, Barbara, Mary, and Alice. (i6i)
Her eldest son John was baptized at Iselham on 16th April 1610, and was buried
there eleven days afterwards. Roger Meeres and his wife and their daughters Bar-
bara and Alice were all living in 1626, and are mentioned in Lady Peyton's Will.

5. Mary Peyton was baptized at Iselham on 3d Aug. 1592, and was buried
there three days afterwards. (i2o)

6. Frances Peyton was baptized at Iselham 16th April 1595, and married
there on 27th Nov. 1615 Philip Bedingfield Esq. of Ditchingham in Norfolk, who
was afterwards knighted, and died without issue 19th Feb. 1621-2, aged 28.

(162)

Sir Philip Beddjofield Kt. of Ditchmgham in Norfolk. Will dated 5th Feb. 1021-2.
• To be buried at Hedenham. Sir Edward Peyton Kt. and Bart., Sir George Le Hunt Kt., and
Edward Osborne Esq. to be my executors. My estates, subject to the jointure of my wife Dame
Frances, to my cousin Philip, eldest son of Thomas Bedingfield Esq. of Darsham, in tail male.
Legacies to my sLiter Margaret, wife of Robert Morse gent, of Tivetshall, and to her son Philip
Morse.

Will proved in the Bishop's Registry at Norwich, 28th Feb. 1021-2.

Dame Frances BedingBeld married again within the year, and her second hus-
band was Miles Hobart Esq. of Intwood in Norfolk, the second son of Sir Henry
Hobart Bart, of Blickling, Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas. Miles Hobart
is confused in all the Peerages with his namesake and distant cousin Sir Miles
Hobart Kt., M.P. for Marlow, who distinguished himself by locking the door of
the House of Commons on 2d March 1628-9, and thereby preventing the disso-
lution of Parliament until a solemn remonstrance had been formally passed. (163)
This identity has been clearly disproved in a series of well-argued papers in the
Gentleman s Magazine^ to which I must refer my reader. (164) It is difficult to
understand how this error ever arose, for Sir Miles Hobart M.P. died immarried
29th June 1632, whilst Miles of Intwood was never either a knight or a member of
Parliament, and lived until 1639.

Dame Frances BedingBeld had issue by her second marriage two sons.

1. Henry Hobart died an infant in April 1624, and was buried at Hedenham.

2. John Hobart, only surviving son and heir, who succeeded in 1647 to the
title and estate of his uncle Sir John Hobart Bart, of Blickling, and was the
ancestor of the Earls of Buckinghamshire.

Dame Frances Bedingfield died in 1631, and was buried beside her first husband
at Hedenham, where this inscription preserves her memory : (162)

Here lyeth the body of Dame Frances Bedingfield, daughter of Sir John Peyton of Iselham
in Cambridgeshire Knight and Baronet, first married to Sir PhiUp Bedingfield of Ditchingham,
and after to Miles Hobart of Intwood Esq. by whom she had several children. Her only surviving
son is Sir John Hobart of Blickling Bart., who about 33 years after her decease laid this stone in
ltt(>4.

224 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Her widower Miles Hobart married secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edmund
Mondeford Kt. and had a son Miles, afterwards of Morley in Norfolk, who died in
1671. Miles Hobart the father died in 1639, in the lifetime of his elder brother
Sir John, of whom he was the heir presumptive.

7. Susan Peyton, baptized at Iselham on 16th July 1596, was her father's
executrix and proved his Will on 14th May 1617, being then still unmarried. Her
father intrusted the care of her marriage to his cousin Lord Rich, whose consent
she was required to obtain. She married before 1626 Sir John Brews Kt. of Little
Wenham in Suffolk, by whom she had issue. She was still living and a widow in
1659, when her son and heir William Brews Esq. sold the Manor of Topcroft in
Norfolk and the greater part of his patrimony in Suffolk. (165)

Da3IE Alice Peyton, the widow of Sir John and the mother of his children,
survived him nearly ten years, and resided in her widowhood at Great Bradley in
Suffolk. She died in 1626 at the age of 53, and desired by her Will to be buried
at Iselham, but I gather from the silence of the register that her wish was not
fulfilled. There are no means of knowing if she was buried at Great Bradley, for
the extant register of that parish begins in 1703.

Dame Alice Peyton of Great Bradley, Suffolk, widow. Will dated 29th Jan. 1625-6.

To be buried in Iselham church in the vault where my husband lies interred. To my eldest
son Sir Edward Peyton Kt. and Bart, my gold tun,* to descend as an heirloom, and if he go to
break or alter it, my eldest daughter Anne Bacon to sue him for it ; to my daughter Mary Meerea
a suit of damask, &c., to go after her death to her daughter Alice Bacon (sic)^ my god-daughter;
to my daughter the Lady Peyton of Dodington a gilt cup of i£10 value, which she is to leave to
her daugliter Alice Peyton, my god -daughter; to my daughter the Lady Le Hunte sundry fumitare
and plate, which she is to leave to her daughter Alice Hunte, my god-daughter ; to my daughter
Meeres other linen and plate, which she is to leave to her daughter Barbara Meeres; to my
daughters the Lady Bedingfield and the Lady Brewce other hangings, linen, &c. ; to my daughter-
in-law the Lady Peyton of Iselham my diamond ring, which my husband's mother gave me, and
she is to leave it to her son Thomas ; to Elizabeth Pettit, wife of Giles Pettit gent., for her love
and former service to my husband and myself, my best silver bowl or Jg3 ; to my nephew and
niece Adrian my watch and sundry furniture in the chamber I lie in, and three pieces to preach
at my funeral ; to my grandchild Jolm Peyton a ring that his mother gave me, and another that
was old Sir Robert Peyton's ; to my grandchild and godson Edward Peyton my wedding-ring ; to
my grandchild Robert Peyton a ring, which liis grandmother Livesey gave me ; to my grandchild
Amy Peyton my jewel-box ; to my grandcliild Barbara Meeres my cabinet, and sundiy linen to
be divided by my daughter Le Hunt between the said Barbara and my niece Anne Welby ; to my
six sons-in-law, and to the eldest sons of my six daughters, and to my sister Offley and to my
nephew John Offley a ring each ; to my grandchild Anne Bacon my maudlin-cup ; to my grand-
child Alice Irbyf my casting bottle ; J to the poor of Iselham 40«., and to the poor of Bradley 20#.

* The possession of this • tnn* can be traced through five generations of Lady Peyton's maternal
ancestors, for her great-grandmother Denyse Lcveson says in her Will (dated let Aug. 1560) : * I bequeath
to my daughter Dame Alice Hewet my tun of silver and gilt, which my mother Dame Jane Bradbniy
gave me.' (166)

t Alice Irhtjy the only surviving daughter of Lady le Hunte by her first husband Sir Anthony Irby
Et., married, first, Francis Jermy Esq. of Gunton in Norfolk, and secondly, Edmnnd de Grey Esq. of
Merton in the same county. She died 30th July 1665, aged 56, and was buried at Gunton. (159)

\ Casting bottles, for casting or sprinkling perfumes, were in common use amongst people of fashion

SIR EDWABD OSBOBNE KT. 225

The residue to my sons Robert and William Peyton, whom I appoint my executors. My
eldest son Sir Edward Peyton Kt and Bart, and my son-in-law Sir George Le Hunt to be
supervisors of my Will. My nephew Adrian to preach at my fimeral.

Witnesses : Roger Meeres, Bartholomew Adrian, Symon Clarke, and Giles Pettit.

Will proved by both executors 6th Dec. 1626 in C.P.C. [149 Hele.]

VI.

Sm Edward Osborne, the father of Dame Alice Peyton, founded a family
which has enjoyed the Dakedom of Leeds since 1694. (167) The Osbomes rose
almost by a bound to the highest rank in the English peerage, although they had
no pretensions to ancient descent or great wealth, and have never produced either
before or since a single man of preeminent distinction.

Edward Osborne, a lad of gentle birth but obscure parentage, was apprenticed
^to William Hewett, citizen and clothworker of London, and afterwards a Knight
and Lord Mayor, whose only child he eventually married. He was the son of
Richard Osborne of Ashford in Kent by Jane, daughter of John Broughton of
Broughton in Bridekirk, and heiress to her brothers Edward and Lancelyn Brough-
ton ; but nothing is really known about his parents* beyond their names. His de-
scent, however, from the Broughtons of Cumberland is confirmed by his bearing their
arms (Argent ttw bars gulesj on a canton of the lasty a cross of the first in chief a
crescent for difference) in the second quarter of the coat allowed to him by the
Heralds, (168) which is impaled on the monument of his son-in-law Sir John Peyton
at Iselham. (94) There was a family of ancient gentry of the name of Osborne
in Kent ; but they bore wholly different arms, and no relationship was ever sug-
gested in early times, although the two families were connected in Sir Edward's
lifetime by their both intermarrying with the Peytons.f

There is an old tradition that, when Osborne was an apprentice and his future
wife was a child, the nurse let her fall into the Thames from a window of her father's
house on London Bridge, when young Osborne plunged into the river and saved the
child's life at the risk of his own. The father declared in his gratitude that the
preserver of his only daughter should be her husband ; and he kept his word, al-
though several matches of high degree were proposed to him for so considerable an
heiress. I should be sorry to cast doubt on so romantic a tale, but I must remark
that Sir William Hewett did not reside on London Bridge, but in Philpot-lane, in
the parish of St, Martin Orgar's, However this may be, it is certain that Edward

at the end of the sixteenth centnry. Amongst other examples of their use, there is the following stage
direction in the third act of Marston*s Antonio and Mellida : * Enter Castilio and his page ; Castilio
with a casting bottle of sweet waters, sprinkling himself.'

* The donbt has occurred to me whether the following entry from the Parish Register of St. Dionis
Backchnrch can refer to Sir Edward's father :

1583-4. Feb. 18. Richard Osboorne, dwelling with Mr. Alderman Osborne, being Lord Mayor this
year, buried.

f Edward Osborne of Kent married in 1587 Winifred Peyton, the sister of Sir John Peyton, who
married Sir Edward Osborne's daughter.

226 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Osborne married Anne, the only daughter and heiress of Sir William Hewett, with
her father^s full consent and approval, for Sir William was godfather to their eldest
child Alice, and made his son-in-law one of the executors of his Will. The precke
date of their marriage cannot be ascertained, for the parish register of St. Martin
Orgar's was destroyed with the church in the Great Fire of 1666 ; but Anne Hewett
was unmarried on 1st Aug. 1560, when her grandmother Denyse Leveson left to
her by her Will 100 marks to be paid on her marriage, (i66) whilst her eldest child
Alice (afterwards Lady Peyton) was baptized on 4th March 1562-3. (169) Her
marriage, therefore, probably took place in 1562 when she was 18 years old, for she
was 23 years of age when her father died in 1567. (170) As Osborne owed his
whole fortune and position in life to his marriage, I turn aside to give some account
of his wife's parents.

William Hewett, son of Edmund, was bom at Wales, a hamlet in the parish
of Laughton-en-le-Morthen in South Yorkshire, where he acquired in later Ufe a
considerable estate. (171) His family had been settled there for several genera-
tions, for John Hewett and Isabella his wife erected a window in Wales church in
the reign of Henry VI. Another branch of the family resided in the adjoining
county of Derby, but as the Hewetts never attended at the Heralds' visitation, their
early pedigree and the precise connection between their different branches are im-
perfectly known. That they were of gentle blood and good position is sufficiently
proved by the families with whom they intermarried, and the local magnates with
whom they associated. Sir William Hewett was cousin german to Francis Bodes,
the opulent judge, who built those fine old mansions at Barlborough, Hickleton, and
Great Houghton ; and he was intimately acquainted through life with the Earl of
Shrewsbury and his family, who were then usually resident at Sheffield Castle.

He was bred to the trade of a clothworker, and after serving his time as an ap-
prentice was made free of the Clothworkers of London. He then engaged in busi-
ness, and so rapid was his success, that several of his neighbours and relations were
induced to join him in London, and to embark in the same trade. Amongst his
apprentices was Henry Bosvile, whose elder brother Godfrey Bosvile of Gunthwaite
married Jane Hardwick, the sister of the famous Elizabeth Lady Cavendish who
built Chatsworth, and was afterwards the wife of George sixth Earl of Shrewsbury.

(172)

Another of his apprentices was his cousin and namesake William, the second son
of Robert Hewett of Killamarsh in Derbyshire, who lived in the parish of St. Dionis
Backchurch, and was a benefactor to the Clothworkers' Company by his Will.* He
died on 12th June 1599 aged 76, and was buried in Old St. Paul's with a long

o Wiliiam Hewett gave by Will dated 4tli April 1599, £300 to the Clothworkers' Company upon trust,
to pay to Christ's Hospital, St. Bartholomew's and St. Thomas's Hospitals £5 per annum each. Tbii
£300 was invested by the Company in an estate in King-street, Chcapside, and Billiter-lane, which is
now of great value. (174)

SIB WILLIAM HEWETT KT. 227

epitaph. (173) He was the ancestor of the Baronets of Headly Hall in Yorkshire,
and of Viscount Hewett of Ireland.

The Cloth workers were then already a wealthy company, but had hitherto taken
little part in the government of the City, and Hewett was the first of their mem-
bers who filled the oflSce of Lord Mayor. (175) He was elected one of the Sheriffs
of London and Middlesex in 1553 and Lord Mayor in 1559, and was knighted at
Greenwich by Queen Elizabeth on 21st Jan. 1559-60. (175) He was connected
by marriage with several of the leading families in the City, for his wife Dame Alice
Hewett was the third daughter of Nicholas Leveson of Hailing in Kent, a rich
mercer of London, and sheriff in 1534. Her father died in 1539,* when Alice was
still unmarried, and was left to the guardianship of her mother Denyse, who was the
daughter of Dame Joan Bradbury, the foundress of Walden School, by her first hus-
band Thomas Bodley of London.

Sir William Hewett had several children, but they all died in infancy except
Anne, afterwards Lady Osborne, who was bom in 1543. Lady Hewett is called in
MachyrCs Diary * the good lady* for her works of piety and charity ; but she did
not live to witness her daughter's marriage, for she died on 8th April 1561, and was
buried with great pomp on 17th April at St. Martin Orgar's. (175) Sir William
survived his wife nearly six years, and died on 25th Jan. 1566-7 w^hen he was
buried beside his wife. The precise day of his death is known to me from an ob-
scure but genuine record of contemporary date. Sir William had a country house
at Highgate, in the northern suburbs of London, and, being one of the principal in-
habitants of that hamlet, was selected by Sir Roger Cholmeley, sometime Chief Jus-
tice of England, to be one of the six governors of the Grammar School which he
founded at Highgate in 1565. The charter of foundation is dated 6th April 1565,
and Hewett's name stands first in the original list of governors. He was also the

* Nicholas Leteson, Citizen and Mercer of London and Merchant of the Staple of Calais. Will
dated 7th Nov. 1536.

To be boned in the tomb I have made on the north side of the church of St. Andrew Underehaft,
London. To my wife Denyse one-third of my goods and also £100. Another third to be divided amongst
my children unmarried at my decease. To my brother James Leveson [of Trentham^ Staffordshire'\ £100
and a ring, and to his wife [Margaret^ dau, 0/ William Offley] a ring. To my sister Margaret Gett
£6 13<. 4d. The residue to be divided amongst my sons John, Thomas, Nicholas, and William, and my
daughters at their respective ages of 21. To my sons-in-law [John] Sadler and Ralph Davenett and to
my cousin Guy Crayford £20 each. Sir John Buttill, Parson of Cokston (Cuxton), and Sir Thomas
SnydoU, Vicar of Hailing, to pray for my soul. To my daughter Gresell [Sadler] a cup with mine arms
to be set upon it. To my daughter Joan Davenett a cup of silver gilt. To my son John Leveson the
lands in Staffordshire which came to me on the death of my father Richard Leveson, and also my lands
in East Ham and West Ham, Essex, and also my lands in Middlesex, Hunts, and Herts. My wife
Denyse to have my dwelling house in the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft, and also my manors and
lands at Hailing, Cuxton, &c. in Kent ; with remainder to my sons Thomas and Nicholas Leveson, with
remainder to my daughters Grissell, Joan, Alice, Mary, and Denyse. To my said wife my Manor of
West Thnrrock in Essex and my lands at Gillingham in Kent, with remainder to my son John. My said
wife and my said brother James Leveson to be my executors.

Witnesses : Guy Crayford, John Sadler, and John Buttyll, Parson of Cokston.

Will proved in C.P.C. 13th Oct. 1639. [31 Dingeley.]

228 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

first of them who died, for it is recorded in the minute* book of Highgate School
that John Langley Esq. Alderman of London was, on 2l8t Feb. 1566-7, chosen a
governor in the room of Sir William Hewett Kt., who had died on 25th Jan. pre-
ceding.

Sir William Hdett Kt Alderman of London. Will dated 3d Jan. U Eliz. (1566-7).

To be buried in tlie church of St. Martin Orgar's, where I am a parishioner, near my late
wife Dame Alice Huett. To the Clothworkers' Company, of which I am a member, £16 for a
dinner on the day of my funeral. To the poor of Wales in Yorksliire, 40^.; of Harthill, £H; and of
WoodhaU, Yorksliire, £S ; and to every poor maiden's marriage, that shall be wedded in Wales or
Harthill within a year after my decease, 6«. Sd. each.

To my goddaughter Alice Osborne, the daughter of my son-in-law Edward Osborne, ^100 at
21 or marriage. To Dyonise Calthorpef now dwelling with me, iilO at her marriage. To my god-
son John Leveson, son of Thomas Leveson mercer, J a cup; and to his other children 40*. each.
To Brigett Huett, daughter of my brother Thomas Huett, ^50 at 21 or marriage. To Dyonise
Huett§ now dwelling with me, ^200 at her marriage. To Saunder Huett || my servant, ^10. To my
brother Thomas Leveson and his wife, my brother-in-law Edmond Calthorpe and his wife, my
friend John Stonarde of Loughton in Essex and his wife, and to my kinsman W^illiam Huett^ of
St. Dyonis Backchurch and his wife, gold rings of the value of 40«. each and mourning. To the
poor of Cuxton in Kent, 20«. ; and to the poor of Hailing, 20«. To Robert Wilson of Wales in
Yorkshire my baiUff, 10«.

To my kinsman Kandall Symes** apprentice with my cousin William Huett, £10 ; and to his
brother Richard Symes, 40«. To my godson William Streteft and my goddaughter Dyoniseft
Strcte, £3 0«. 8rf. each at 21. To Francis Huett son of my cousin Henry Huett, £10 towards his
education at the University of Cambridge. To the children of my cousins Nicholas and Thomas
Symes, 40«. esush.

To Richard Bellamy draper, and to Mr. John Mynors deputy of my ward and to his wife, a
ring each. To Mr. James HawcsJJ Alderman of London and his wife, to William Heton§§ and
his wife, to Robert Sharpe goldsmitli, and to Mr. Rosse mercer, mourning.

To my especial good Lord the Erie of Shrewsbury || || a gold ring worth £4, with my initials W. H.

* The date of the death of each goyemor is noted in the Minutes, in order to show that the vacaiu^
was filled up within the period prescribed by the Charter, which provides that at the end of six weeks
the right of appointment should lapse to the Bishop of London.

f DyonUe Calthorpe^ daughter of Edmand Calthorpe, mercer of London, by Mary Leveson, sister of
Lady Hewett, * married in the house of Mr. Edward Osborne, on 10th Sept. 1571, Robert Woodrooffie of
St. Andrew Undershaft. ' — Par, Reg. of St. Dionis BoAiltchurch.

\ Tfwmas Leveson^ the eldest surviving brother of Lady Hewett, married Ursula, daughter of Sir John
Grcsham Kt. of Titsey in Surrey, and was the ancestor of the Levesons of Hailing and Trentham, now
represented by the Duke of Sutherland.

§ DyonUe Hewett married 22d April 1567 at St. Dionis, Richard Staper of St. Martin's Outwich, and
had five children, Thomas, Huett^ Anne, Joan, and Mary. (i68)

4* Alexander Huett, servant to Mr. Osborne,^ was buried on 29th Deo. 1567 at St. Dionis.
The ancestor of the Hewetts Baronets and of Viscount Hewett of Ireland.

*** Randall Symes frequently occurs in the Par. Reg. of St. Laurence Pountney. (176)

ft The children of WilUam Strete by Dyonise Leveson, the youngest sister of Lady Hewett.

1 1 Sir James Hawes Kt. Citizen and Clothworker of London, was Sheriff in 1565 and Lord Mayor in
1574. He married Audrey, daughter of John Copwood Esq. of Totteridge, Herts. (168)

§§ William He tan. Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, married Rose Copwood, siater of Lady
Hawes. ( 1 68) He seems from his Arms to have been in nowise related to his contemporary George Heton,
Chamberlain of London, the father of Martin, Bishop of Ely. {See p. 70.)

II II George ^th Earl of Shrewsbury, being the Lord of Hallamshire, would naturally inspire great
respect in a native of the neighbouring village of Wales. He is said by Stowe to have oondesoended
to solicit the hand of Sir WiUiam Hewctt's daughter for one of his sons. His intimate acquaint-
ance with Sir William Hewett is proved by the fact, that when Robert Dethick, son of Sir Gilbert

SIR WILLIAM HEWETT KT. 229

and the posy ' Forget not me ;' and to my Lady now* his wife a ring worth 40«. ; and to the Lord
Talbott his son and heir apparent, and to the Lady Talbott his wife, rings worth 40«. each. To
my friend Sir Grervase CUftonf Kt., a ring worth 40*. To my nephew Henry Huett son of my
brother Thomas Huett, my messuage called tlie Three Cranes in Candlewick-street, with remainder
to his father for Ufe, remainder to my son Edward Osborne in fee. To my godson WiUiam Huett, J
my parsonage of Dunton Bassett in Leicestershire and my lands at Mansfield, Notts, with remainder
to his brother the said Henry Huett.

To Edward Osborne, my farm Ac. at Wodsettes in Yorkshire ; to the said Edward Osborne and
his wife my daughter Anne, all the household goods and plate in my dwelling-house in Pliilpot-
lane. To Katherine Wilson daughter of Robert Wilson of Wales, illO. To my cousin Francis
Rodes,§ a ring worth 60*. To my brother Thomas Huett, a house in St. Clement's-lane. To my
cousin Henry Huett of Beilby, ^6 which he oweth me ; and to his brother Joseph Huett, ^10. To
Robert Harrison of Blythe, a ring worth 40*. To Mr. Justice Southcote|| a ring worth ^3, and to
his wife a ring worth 40*. To my brother Thomas Huett, ^600 ; and to my nephew Henry Huett,
JC400. The residue to Edward Osborne and my daughter Anne his wife. My brother Tliomas
Huett, my son-in-law Edward Osborne and his wife Anne, and my nephew Henry Huett to be my
executors.

Witnesses : John Mynors, John Broke, John Feylde chirurgeon, William Heton, and Richard
Reason scrivener.

Will proved in C.P.C. 11th March 1567 by Edward Osborne and his wife, the other executors
renouncing probate. [9 Stonarde.]

Sir William Hewett's Will takes little notice of the landed estates, in which the
bulk of his wealth consisted, for in conformity with the usual practice they were
dealt with by deeds of settlement. It appears from the inquest held after his death,
that (besides the lands and tenements devised by his Will to his brother Thomas
and his nephews Henry and William Hewett) he died seised of the manor of
Parsloes in the parish of Dagenham in Essex ; of the manors and capital granges ot
Bilby and Ranby in the parish of Blyth, the pastures at Gotham and other lands in

Dethick Oarter, was christened in state on 16th July 1561, with Queen Elizabeth for his godmother
and the Earl of Shrewsbuiy for his godfather, the Earl was represented by Sir William Hewett as his
proxy. (175)

^ Gertrade Coontess of Shrewsbuiy did not live to receive her ring, for she died a few days before
the testator, and was buried at Sheffield on 16th Jan. 1566-7. She was the eldest daughter of Thomas
let Earl of Bntland.

t Sir Gervase Clifton Kt. of Clifton, Notts, was the ancestor of the Baronets of this name. He died
29th Jan. 1587-8, and is remembered by the distich of Queen Elizabeth about the four principal knights
of Nottinghamshire : * Gervase the gentle. Stanhope the stout,

Marcham the lion, and Sutton the lout.'

X His grandson William Hewett of Dunton Bassett, Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1647, married
Frances dan. and heir of Edward Nele Esq. of Glen Magna. (177) Their great granddaughter Penelope
Hewett, the heiress of Glen Magna, married in 1717 Sir William Chester of Chicheley, the 5th Bart.

§ Francis Bodes was the son and heir of John Bodes Esq. of Stavely Woodthoi-pe in Derbyshire,
by Attelina, daughter of Thomas Hewett Esq. of Wales, the uncle of the testator. He greatly increased
his patrimony by the profession of the law, and was made a Judge of Common Pleas on 29th June
1585. He built three noble mansions for his three sons, and founded three considerable families who
long flourished at Barlborough, Great Houghton, and Hickleton. He died early in 1591, for his Will was
proved on 28th April in that year. (178)

I John Southeote^ Serjeant-at-law 27th Oct. 1558, was made a Judge of the Queen's Bench 10th Feb.
1562-3. He married Elizabeth daughter and heir of William Bobins of London, and died 18th April
1585, aged 74. He was the founder of a family which long flourished at Witham in Essex, and has a
stately monument in the chancel of Witham Church. (179)

230 ' THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Notts ; of a capital messuage and freehold and copyhold lands at Wales, and a farm
called Woodsetts in the parish of Laughton-le-Morthen ; of the manors of Keveton
and Woodhall in the parish of Harthill in Yorkshire ; of lands at Killamarch in
Derbyshire ; and of freehold houses in Philpot-lane and in the parish of Si
Margaret Patten's in the City of London : And that his sole heir was his daughter
Anne, then 23 years of age and the wife of Edward Osborne. (170)

There was more than one mansion on the Yorkshire estates, but they were too
far distant from his place of business for a London merchant to reside at. Osborne
therefore made his country home at Parsloes, and built there a manor house of
moderate pretensions, which is still standing and is still occupied by the Fanshawes,
who purchased it from the Osbornes in 1619. It had been somewhat enlarged, but
the exterior preserved its primitive simplicity until 1814, when it was disfigured by
modern improvements.

Osborne's accession of fortune was quickly followed by civic honours. He
became one of the sheriffs and an alderman in 1575, Lord Mayor and a knight in
1583, and was elected M.P. for the City of London in the fifth Parliament of
Elizabeth, which met on 23d Nov. 1584. (136) The wife of his youth, to whom
he owed all his prosperity, just lived to witness and to share her husband's honours,
for she died in 1585, lea\dng five children, and was buried with her father and
mother at St. Martin Orgar's on 14th July 1585.* Rich widowers in those days were
seldom left without consolation, and Sir Edward married secondly on 15th Sept
1588 Margaret Chapman of St. Olave's, South wark;* but this union was not of
long duration, for he died three years afterwards, and was buried at St. Dionis
Backchurch on 14th Feb. 1591-2.* He left no Will, and there is no grant of
administration to his estate on record. He must therefore have settled his whole
estate real and personal by deed on the occasion of his second marriage, for we
know that the payment of his daughter Jane's portion was postponed until the death
of her stepmother.

Dame Margaret Osborne remained a widow scarcely two months, for she married
secondly on 10th April 1592* Robert Clarke Esq. of Pleshy in Essex, one of the
Barons of the Exchequer, who was afterwards knighted. She had no children by
either of her marriages, and by deed dated 5th Sept. 1600 gave to Christ's Hospital
a rent-charge of 4Z. per annum, issuing out of two messuages in Philpot-lane called
respectively ^ The Cock' and * The Bell on the Hoop.' These messuages had be-
longed to Sir Edward Osborne, and had been settled by his daughter J^ame Osborne

• From the Parish Register of St. Dionis Backchurch^ London .•

1685. July 14. My Lady Osboome of this parish was buried at St. Martin ye Org^ynes.

1588. Sept. 15. Sir Edward Osborne Enyght of this parish and Margaret Chapman of St. Olave's,
Son th wark, married. '-^

1691-2. Feb. 14. Sir Edward Osbonme Knyght buried.

1692. April 10. Robert Clarke, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and Margaret Lady OBboome,
widow of this parish, married.

1602. May 20. The Lady Margarett Osborne buried.

SIR HEWETT OSBORNE KT. 231

for a term of 1900 years to the use of Dame Margaret for life, and then to such
further uses as she should appoint. (i8o) Dame Margaret died before her second
husband, and was buried at St Dionis Backchurcli on 20th May 1602.* She had
exercised her power of appointment in favour of Sir Robert Clarke, for by his Will
dated 10th Dec. 1606 he devised to his son and heir Robert these houses in Philpot-
lane, subject to four further rent charges of 21. per annum each, which were to be
paid respectively to the poor of St. Dionis Backchurch, to Christ's Hospital, to St.
Thomas's Hospital, and to the poor prisoners in the two Compters of London. (i8i)
Sir Robert die4 on 1st Jan. 1606-7, when his son Robert, by his first wife Margaret
Maynard, was found to be his heir and to be 25 years of age. (182)

Sir Edward Osborne had no issue by his second wife, but by his first wife Anne
Hewett he had five children, who were all baptized at St. Dionis Backchurch.

I. Alice Osborne, married on 29th June 1580 John Peyton Esq., of Iselham,
afterwards Kt. and Bart.

n. Hewett Osborne, son and heir, was baptized on 13th March 1566-7, when
his grandfather's surname was given to him as a Christian name after the new
Protestant fashion. Before the change of religion baptismal names had been inva-
riably taken from the calendar of the saints or from Scripture ; and zealous
Catholics observed this rule so strictly, that Arthur Faunt the Jesuit in 1575
changed his name from Arthur to Laurence, ^ because no calendar saint was ever
named Arthur.' (183) But the new fasliion was recommended to Protestants by
the double attraction of violating an old Catholic precept and of gratifying the
love of singularity. It therefore grew rapidly in favour, and before the end of the
sixteenth century was in general use. Still this departure from the practice of
antiquity offended the prejudices of many stanch Protestants of the old school,
and amongst others Sir Edward Coke observed its growth with a dislike coloured by
superstition. That great lawyer gi'avely lays it down as the result of his experience,
that most people who had received surnames in baptism had turned out unfor-
tunately. But Fuller, a writer of the next generation, remarks with equal gravity
that the practice was then * common,' and that * the good success of many men so
ndmed had confuted the truth of Coke's observation.' (184)

Hewett Osborne was admitted a student of the Inner Temple in Easter Term
1585, (156) not that he intended to follow the profession of the law, but because in
those days the education of a gentleman was usually completed by his keeping terras
at one of the greater Inns of Court. He attained his majority in 1588, and on
Tuesday 26th Dec. in that year married Joyce Fleetwood, the daughter of the
late Master of the Mint, Thomas Fleetwood Esq. of the Vache in Bucks. Her
sister Bridget Fleetwood married on the same day Sir William Sraijth of Hill Hall,
Essex, the nephew and heir of Sir Thomas Smijth the famous Secretary of State.
The precise date of this double marriage is known by a letter from Fleetwood the
Recorder of London to the Earl of Derby, written on New-year's-day 1589. (185)

® See footnote on opposite page. G

232 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Joyce must have been many years older than her husband, however young she may
have been at the time of her father's death, for the Recorder expressly says that he
died 'near xxviii yeres now paste.' (185)

Ilewett Osborne had a strong predilection for a military life, and he had scarcely
been married twelve months, when he attended Lord Willoughby as a volunteer in his
expedition to France. (171) Willoughby was one of the most distinguished generals
of his time, and was sent in 1590 with 4000 auxiliary troops to assist Henry IV. in
his wars against the League. He was attended in his campaign by many young
gentlemen of good family and estate, who served as volunteers at their own expense,
and the King gratefully acknowledged in a letter to Queen Elizabeth the good
service rendered by the English troops and the gallantry of their officers.

On the death of his father Sir Edward Osborne in Feb. 1591-2 Hewett suc-
ceeded to all the family estates, but he never resided in the North, and his three
children were bom at Parsloes. He was harassed for some years by litigation about
his copyhold lands of inheritance at Wales, for the lord of that manor, John Lord
Darcy, refused for a long while to admit him as tenant ; and such was the deference
then shown to peers of the realm by the Lord Keeper, that Osborne did not obtain
a decree in his favour until 1596. (171) He lost no occasion of active senice,
for he attended the Earl of Essex in his expedition to Cadiz m July 1597, (186)
and when the Earl went to Ireland as Lord Deputy in April 1599 with an army
to subdue the rebel O'Neil, Osborne accompanied him, and was intrusted with a
military command. He acquitted himself with so much gallantry, that he was
knighted by the Earl at Maynooth in the summer of 1599 ; (187) but he never
returned from Ireland, for he was killed there later in the same year in a skirmish
with the rebels. The news of his death reached London 8th Sept. 1599. (188) He
was fully aware of the dangers of an Lrish campaign, for he made his Will a few
days before he sailed from England.

Hewet Osborne of Parsloes in the County of Essex Esquier. Will dated 28th March 1599.

If my two stocks adventuring into Turkey return in safety to England within two years, and
amount to £1500, I will that my executoi*s buy land worth ^£100 p. a. in my son Edward's
name, and my wife Joyce is to have the proiit thereof till he be 21, if she remain a widow so long.
If my son Edward die before the said land is purchased, it shall be bought in the name of my son
William, and he is to have the same at 21. To my wife Joyce during her widowhood my un-
expired term in two leases, one of Clacton, the other of Thorpe Parkes in Essex.

As to my goods and chattels, I will that my brotliers Robert Ofilie of London haberdasher
and Edward Osborne of the Inner Temple Gent, shall appraise them, and take bond of my said
wife that before her marriage or betrothing to any person she will dehver the same or the value
thereof to my said brothers.

To my wife Joyce those pastures caUed Gotham Closes in Notts for life. To Edward my son
and his heirs for ever my manors and capital granges of Bilby and Ranby in Notts, being the full
third part of all my lands wliich I have in possession and in fee simple. To my said wife till my
Bfidd son Edward be 21, or, if he die before, till my son William be 21, if she remain a widow, my
manors of Harthill, Woodhall, and Keveton, my capital messuage of Wales Wood, all my free
and customary lands in Wales and Wales Wood, Yorkshire, all my lands in KQlamershe, Derby-
shire, my farm called Woodsets in Yorkshire, and my other lands in the counties of York, Derby,

234 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

sale of Parsloes was completed by deed, dated IGth Feb. 1618-19, whereby Edward
Osborne and Margaret his wife conveyed the mansion and manor for 1150t to
William Fanshawe Esq., with whose posterity it still remains. (191) In the next
year he was created a Baronet, and is styled in his patent, which is dated 13th July
1620, as of Kiveton in the County of York. Kiveton Hall continued to be the
principal seat of his descendants until 1811. He was the intimate friend of his
neighbour Sir Thomas Wentworth, afterwards Earl of Strafford, and when Went-
worth, who was President of the Council of the North, went to Ireland as Lord
Deputy in 1629, Osborne was made his Vice-President at York. He died 9tli
Sept. 1647, aged 50, and was succeeded by his son Thomas, who acted a conspicuous
part in an age of corruption and intrigue, and after a long political career, for which
I must refer elsewhere,* was created Duke of Leeds by William III. in 1694.

3. William Osborne was born at Parsloes, and was baptized at Dagenham on
20th Feb. 1598-9.t

III. Anne Osborne was baptized on 25th March 1570,J and married on 3d
Feb. 1588-9t Robert Offley, merchant of London, the son and heir apparent of
Robert Offley, Citizen and Haberdasher. The elder Robert Offley was brother to
Sir Thomas Offley Kt., Lord Mayor in 1554, and is honourably remembered for
his charitable munificence. He died in 1596,§ and by his Will gave 600/. to the
Corporation of his native City of Chester to be lent to young tradesmen. He also
gave 200Z. to decayed members of the Haberdashers' Company of London, and 200/.
more to be invested for the maintenance of two scholars at the University, and,
moreover, he gave large legacies to Bethlehem and the other London Hospitals and
for the relief of poor prisoners. (192)

Robert Offley, the son, was one of the executors of his brother-in-law Sir
Hewett Osborne's Will, and had twelve children by his wife Anne, who were all
baptized at St. Benet's, Gracechurch-street.§ He was buried there on 16th May
1625,§ and, as he died intestate, letters of administration were granted to his eldest
surviving son John Offley on 27th May 1625. His widow Anne survived her hus-
band, for she is mentioned with her son John in her sister Lady Peyton's Will.
Her burial is not recorded in St. Benet's Register.

^ The fullest and fairest of the lives of the Duke of Leeds was published soon after his death in the
octayo volume entitled Lives and Characters of the most lUustrioiu Persons, British and Foreign, who
died in 1712. 8vo, 1714.

•j* From the Parish Register of Dagenham, Essex: (191)

1598-9. William the sonne of Huet Osbume Esquier was baptized the xx daye of February.

\ From the Parish Register of St. Dionis Backchurch, London:

1570. March 25. Anne, dau. of Mr. Edward Osborne, bapt.

1588-9. Feb. 3. Robert Offley the younger of Gracochurch parish, and Anne Osboume of this parish,
married.

§ From the Parish Regi>iter of St. BeneVs, Gracechurch-street, London. (108)

1672. Oct. 8. Mrs. Offley, wife of Mr. Robert Offley, Haberdasher, buried.

1592-3. March 5. John, son of Robert Offley, Merchant, bapt.

1596. April 29. Mr. Robert Offley the elder, Haberdasher, buried.

1626. May 16. Robert Offley, Merchant, buried.

OSBORNE OF NORTHILL. 235

John Offley, the eldest surviving son of Robert by Anne Osborne, married
Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Moore, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, by whom
he had fourteen sons and three daughters. He died 28th Aug. 16G7 aged 73, and
was buried in the old church of St. Pancras in the Fields. (192A) Like his father
he died intestate, and administration was granted to his widow Elizabeth on 7th
Oct. 1667. She survived him eleven years, and died 17th Oct. 1678 aged 74.
(192 a) Their son and heir Robert Offley was a Bencher of the Middle Temple,
and died 10th Sept. 1678 aged 43. (192A)

IV. Edward Osborne was born on 27th Nov. 1572, and was baptized on 30th
Nov.* He was admitted a Student of the Inner Temple in Michaelmas term 1591,
and was called to the Bar in 1600. (156) He followed his profession with some
success, for he was elected a Bencher of his Inn in 1616 and was the Autmnn
Reader in 1617. (193) His early career must have given promise of professional
distinction, for he was still a student when his brother Hewett left liim 50/. to be
paid when he was chosen to be the Reader of his Inn. This legacy was an affec-
tionate contribution towards the expenses of the sumptuous feast which Readers
were then required by the etiquette of the Bar to give, and on such occasions it was
the custom to accept presents in money and provisions from friends and relations.
These gifts, however, usually fell far short of the expenses, for Sir James White-
locke tells us that when he was Reader at the Middle Temple in 1618, he received
gifts in money to the amount of 130Z. 3^. and in provisions to the value of 40/., but
his expenses came to 369/. 12^. M. (194)

Osborne resided at Northill near Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, where he had
purchased an estate some years before his death. He is said in the Peerages to
have died unmarried in 1625 (167), but it is certain that he really died in 1628,
and that he married two wives, by both of whom he left issue.

Edwabd Osborne of the Inner Temple, London, Esq. Will dated 2d May 1025.

Whereas on my purchase of Norrell [Northill] in Bedfordshire I did appoint my son Edward
a purchaser of the same in tayle, which immediately will fall upon him on my death, I now con-
firm the same to him ; hut he is to release his right to the lauds and tenements which I have
conveyed to the Grocers of London.

Wliereas I have purchased lands in Awbome co. Lincoln, let at the rate of ^395 by the year,
and valued at the sum of Jt* 6450, and have made to my wife a jointure of part thereof, I now
desire my said wife Frances to release her right in the said lands at Awbone, and I direct that
they be sold by my executors, and that she accept other lands in lieu tliereof to cost .£2200, and to
be selected by my father James Harvey Esq. The residue of the money to arise from such sale
to be distributed among my three daughters Ursula, Anne, and Elizabeth, and my son William ;
my brother Taylorf and my brother Sir Thomas Botclerf to act for my daughters Ursula and
Anne and my son William, and my uncle MoulsonJ and my father James Harvey for my daugh-
ter Elizabeth. My Easf India stock to be divided between my said daughters and son William,

® See footnote \ p. 236.

t Richard Taylor Esq. of Lincoln's Inn married Elizabeth, sister of Sir Thomas Boteler Kt. of Bid-
denham and of the testator's first wife Alice.

X Alderman MouUon was brother to the wife of James Harvey Esq. of Dagcnham, the father of the
testator's second wife Frances.

236 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

but Ursula is to have ^100 more than the others, which her grandmother Boteler gave her ; my
Bfidd children's parts to be put out to their use till they be 21.

Sundry plate to my wife Frances, my son Edward, and my son William. To my daughter
Ursula a gilt bowl, &c. given to me by my aunt Fanshawe,* of Jenkins at my marriage. ' To my
daughter Anne an old-fashioned guilt bowl which was given my first wife at her baptisinge,
and to my sonne James my silver white salt and my other higher silver wine boule. and to my
dau, Elizabeth my silver and guilt salte.' The residue of my plate to my cousin Richard
Welby, the same to be sold and the money bestowed to apprentice him to an attorney. To my
dear wife i*40 in household stuff. My books to my two sons. My uncle Mr. Alderman Moulsoa,
my old friends Mr. James Westonf and Mr. Thos. Hobbs and my cousin John Offley to be my
executors.

Witnesses : Frances Osborne, Rich. Taylor, John Wilmer, Edward Osborne, Rich. Welby.

Will proved 6th Dec. 1628 by the executors, Moulson, Weston, and Hobbs, in C.P.C. [lOtJ
Barrington.]

Edward Osborne had two wives. By his first wife Alice, the daughter of Sir
William Boteler Kt., of Biddenham, Beds, (195) he had four children.

1. Edward Osborne, son and heir, was born in 1606, and like his father was
a barrister of the Inner Temple. He succeeded to the estate at Northill on his
father's death in 1628, and entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Bedfordshire in
1634. (iQb) He was still living at Northill in 1669. (197)

2. William Osborne was living in 1634.

3. Ursula Osborne, unmarried in 1625, was in 1634 the wife of William Buck-
ley B.D., Rector of Clifton, Beds, who died in 1649, leaving issue. (197)

4. Anne Osborne, unmarried in 1625, was in 1634 the wife of Ellis Yonge Esq^
of London.

Edward Osborne married secondly at Dagenham in Essex on 9th Dec 1615,
Frances, daughter of James Harvey Esq., of that place. She survived her husband,
and had issue three children.

1. Elizabeih was baptized at Dagenham 2d Jan. 1616-17, and was buried
there 7th Feb. 1618-19.

2. Elizabeth and, 3. James wei'e both living in 1625.

V. Jane Osborne, the youngest child of Sir Edward, was baptized on 9th Nov.
15784 and was still unmarried in 1599, when her brother Hewett made his Will.
She afterwards mamed John Welby Esq., of Tydd St. Giles near Wisbech, and
had issue Richard and Anne. She died before her sister Lady Peyton, who men-
tions her niece Anne Welby in her Will.

^ Dame Joan Fanshawey widow of Sir Thomas Fanshawe Et. of Jenkins, was the daughter of ' Cns-
tomer' Smyth of Ostenhanger in Kent, and died in May 1622. Her sister Ursula Smyth married Sir
William Boteler Kt. of Biddenham, and was the mother of the testator's first wife Alice.

f James Weston of Lichfield was knighted and made a Baron of the Exchequer in 1631. He w««
literally Oshome's contemporary at the Inner Temple, for they were both admitted in 1591, called to Uie
Bar in 1600, and elected to the Bench in 1616. (156)

{ From the Parish Register of St. Dionis Backchurchy London :

1572. Not. 30. Edward, son of Mr. Edward Osborne, bapt., born 27th Nov.

1578. Nov. 9. Jane dan. of Mr. Edward Osborne, Alderman, bapt.

237

PEDIGREE OF OSBORNE AND HEWETT.

Abh8 : I. QoArterly ermine and azore, a cross Or. Otbome, II. Argent two bars gales, on a canton of
the second a cross of the first ; in chief a crescent for difference. Broughton. III. Argent,
a chevron yert between three annnlets gnles. . . . IV. Azure, on a fess flory, connter-flory
between three lions passant. Argent as many lapwings proper. Hewett.

Edmnnd Hewett of Wales, in the parish ol
Langhton-en-le-Morthen, Soath Yorkshire.

Richard Os-fvTane, dan. of Rich- Sir William Hewett^Alice, dan. of Ni-

bome of

Ashford,

Kent.

ard Bronghton of Et., Citizen and

Broughton, near ClothworkerofLon-

Penrith, sister and don ; Sheriff 1553

heir of Edward and Lord Mayor 1559

Lancelyn Brough- died 25 Jan. 1566-7

ton. bur. at St. Martin

Orgar's.

Thomas'

cholasLeyeson,Citi- Hewett, liv-

zen and Mercer of ing 1567.

London ; died 8

April ; bur. 17 April

1561 at St. Martin

Orgar's.

2 w. Margaret Chap- = Sir Edward Osbome^AnneHewett, dan. and

heir ; buried at St.
Martin Orgar^s 14 July
1585.

, maiT. 15 Sept. Kt. , Citizen and Cloth-
1588 ; remarr. 10 worker of London ;
April 1592 Sir Robert Sheriff 1575 ; Lord
Clarke Kt.; buried 20 Mayor 1583; buried
May 1602. at St. Dionis Back-

church 14 Feb. 1591-2.

Alicx Osbobne,'

bapt. 4 March

1562-3 ; marr. 29

June 1580; died

1626. WilL

»SiB John Peyton,
Kt. and Bart, of
Iselham ; buried 19
Dec. 1616 at Isel-
ham. WilL

/K
Petton of Isblhah .

1. Henry
Hewett ;
Exor. 1567.

2.WiUiam
of Dunton
Bassett, co.
Leic. 1567.

-1 1

Dionyse, un-

mar. 1567.

Bridget,mar.
22April 1567
Richard
Staper of
London.

— r

Anne Osborne,'
bapt. 25 March
1570 ; marr. 3
Feb. 1588-9 ; wi-
dow 1626.

-Robert Offley, Mer-
chant of London ;
bur. at St. Benet's,

Gracechurch,
May 1625.

Jane Osborne, bapt.
9 Nov. 1578; un-
marr. 1599; marr.
John Welby Esq. of
Tydd St. Giles, co.
Line.

Sir Hewett Osbome°f=Joyce, dan. of Thos. 1 w. Alice, dan.-

Ki, son and heir;
bapt 13 March
1566-7 ; marr. 26
Dec. 1588 ; died
1600. Will.

Fleetwood Esq. of of Sir Wm. Bote-

the Yache, Bucks ; ler Kt. of Bidden-

remarr. 18 Oct. ham, Beds.

1604* Sir Peter

Frecheville Kt. of

Staveley; died 1619.

M.I.*

■Edward Osbome,<'f>2 w. Frances,dau.

Sir Edward Os-
borne Bart.,
son and heir;
Baronet 13 July
1620. Ancestor
of the Ddkss
OF Leeds.

bom 27 Nov. ; bapt.
30 Nov. 1572 ;
Bencher of the Inner
Temple; of Northill,
Beds; died 1628.
Will.

William, bapt.
20 Feb. 1598-
9.t

Alice, marr. 22

Sept. 1614*

Christopher

Wandesford

Esq.

Eabls
Wandesford.

I r

Edward

of James Harvey
Esq. of Dagen-
ham ; marr. 9
Dec. 1615.*

1 1

Os- Ursula,marr.Wm.

borne Esq. of Buckley, B.D.,

Rector of Clifton,

Beds.

Northill, son
and heir ; aged
63 in 1669.

William, 1625,
1634.

Anne, marr. Ellis
Yonge Esq. of
London.

"I rn

Elizabeth, bap.
2 Jan. 1616-17;
bur. 7 Feb.

1617-18.t

Elizabeth,
1625.

James, 1625.

Registers not specified are from St. Dionis Backchurch, London ; * from Staveley, Derbyshire ;
f from Dagenham, Essex.

238 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

vn.

XV. Sir Edward Peyton Kt. and Bart., the son and heir of Sir John
Peyton Kt. and Bart, by Alice Osborne, was educated at Bury School and at
Cambridcre, and married on 24th April 1604, at Streatham in Surrey, Martha,
daughter of llobert Livesay Esq., of Tooting, (87) when his father settled upon
him the Manor of Great Bradley in SuflFolk. He was knighted at Whitehall on
4th Feb. 1610-11, (158) and succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death in
1616. He was elected M.P. for Cambridgeshire in 1621, and sat as Knight of the
Shire in the last two Parliaments of James I. and the first two Parliaments of
Charles I. (136) He was at the same time Custos Rotulorum for Cambridgeshire,
but was deprived of his office by the influence of the Duke of Buckingham, who
detested country gentlemen of Puritanical opinions. This treatment disgusted him
with the Court, and in the war of pamphlets which preceded the Great Rebellion,
Sir Edward took an active and scandalous part in attacking the King and the
Church. His pamphlets on TlieKing^s Violation o/what he calls the Riff /its ofParlva-
ment 1641, and on The Duty of Receiving the LordCs Supper in a Sitting Posture
1642, display more acrimony than learning. But he is best known as the author
of Tlie Divine Catastrophe of tlie Kingly Family of the House of Stuart 1652, a book
which the Royalists highly resented, as being * a most desperate and libellous book,
full of lies, mistakes, and nonsense.' (198)

Absorbed in religious and political controversies Sir Edward neglected his own
affairs and ruined his family, for he became so much embarrassed that he was
obliged to sell all his estates. This took place before 1642, for Sir Simond D'Ewes
concludes the pedigree of the early Peytons with these words, ^ unde recta linea
mascula descendit Edwardus Peyton Miles et Baronettus, in vivis A.D. 1642 infelix
antiqui s\d patrimonii dissipatarj* (3)

Sir Edward died intestate in 1657, and is described as * of Wicken' in the letters
of administration which issued on 1st July 1657 to his widow Dame Dorothy
Peyton ; but there is no entry of his burial in the Parish Register of Wicken, and
it is certain that the lordship of that manor had passed long before his death to
Thomas Peyton Esq. of Rougham, the eldest surviving son of Sir Edward's second
marriage. This appears from the register of Wicken, which contains no other
entries of the Peytons between 1564 and 1667 than the two baptisms printed below.*

Dame Dorothy Peyton survived her husband twenty-four years, and marrie<l

® From the Parish Register of Wicken, Cambridgeshire :

1649. Charles, the son of Thomas Peyton Esq. and Elizabeth, was baptized at St. Martin's-in-the-
Fields, London, and is hero inserted. He was baptized on Feb. 16, 1648-9, and was bom on Sunday
before, being Shrove Sunday.

1650. Yelverton, the son of Mr. Thomas Peyton Esq., Lord of this toicn, and Elizabeth his wife, wa»
baptized at Mr. Peyton's house in Cambridge, the 24th of December, by me, William Walker, Curate of this
Church, and I was desired to insert it here. (Signed) W. Walker.

240

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHBLEY.

until the male line of Yelverton's descendants died out in 1815. Tliere stiD exist
in Virginia several families of Peyton, but it is stated by the best American gene-
alogists (95) that they are not descended from Robert Peyton, whose male issue
became extinct in 1830, but from Francis Peyton of Burj^, who died in 1539, and
has been noticed at p. 203.

Sir Edw. Peyton Et. and Bart., marr.'y=2 w. Jane, dan. of Sir James Cal-
6 June 1614 (place unknown). | tliorpe Et. of Cockthorp, Norfolk.

. . 1 L.

1. James, died 2. Thomas Pey-^

young ; bur. 18 Nov. ton Esq., bapt. 29

1620. March 1617. Lord

of the Manor of

3. William, bapt. Wicken. Died 1683.
19 May 1618; died
young.

1. WiUiam,
son and heir,
died 8. p.

"Elizabeth Yelver-
ton, died 15 Jane
1668 ; buried at
Rougham. WiU,26
Penn in C.P.C.

=1 h. Sir Edmond
Thimelthorpe Et.

Jane, died un-
marr. ; bur. 8
Feb. 1632-3 at
Sedistem.

Barbara Thimel-
thorpe, only child;
died aged six 25
July 1619. M.L at
Iselham.

2. Robert Peyton,
emigrated to Vir-
ginia, and had five
sons. =p

3. Charles Peyton^Elizabeth

of Grimston.

4. YelTerton.

BladweU.
Peyton Babtb.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

All the printed pedigrees of Peyton are more or less abridgments of the elaborate article on Peyton
of Iselham in the first volume of Wotton's Baronetage^ 1741, which was eridently compiled from Le
Neve's MSB. pedigrees of Baronets in the College of Anns, without reference to the original authorities.
Morant*8 brief account of the family under Lexden and East Thorpe (Hist, of EsseXf vol. ii. p. 179) seems
to be taken from an independent source, and supplies a few dates and details. The most recent and
complete pedigree of Peyton is contained in Howai'd's edition of the Visitation of Svffolk, 1561, and is
known to have been compiled by the late Rev. G. H. Dashwood, Vicar of Stow Bardolph, an antiqaaiy
of some local reputation : but the compiler has adopted most of the mistakes of Le Neve, and has added
several of his own. Gough has described in detail the monuments of the Peytons at Iselham in the second
volume of his Sepulchral Monuments ^ and has added in the Appendix a pedigree of Peyton with some
useful notes. He visited Iselham on 2d Sept. 1791, and his copies of the inscriptions made on the spot
often correct the older version printed in the Bai'onetages. But it is to be regretted that the arms and
quarterings on this interesting series of monuments were not described by some one, whose greater skill
in Heraldry would have enabled him to blazon them more accurately, and to assign each coat to its
true owner.

(x) Charters quoted in a note to the pedigree of
Peyton in the Appendix to Gough's Se-
pulchral Monuments, vol. ii.

(2) Mon. Angl. v. 144.

(3) Deeds of Peyton in Harl. mss. 639, fo. 136.

(4) Autobiography of Sir S. D'Ewes, i. 342.

(5) Gage's Hist, of Thingo Hundred, p. 165.

(6) Rot. Pat. 54 Hen. III. m. 15.

(7) Esch. 15 Edw. I. No. 38.

(8) Coll. Top. et Gen. ii. 125.

(9) Cal. Rot. Cart. p. 129.

(10) Le Neve's mss. pedigrees of Baronets in Coll.

of Arms, i. 62.

(11) Coll. Top. et Gen. vi. 154; Morant's Hist.

of Essex, ii. 159, 179 ; Baker's North-
ants, 1. 9 ; Glover's Hist, of Derbyshire,
ii. 68.

(12

(13
(H

('5
(16

('7
(18

('9
(20

(21

(22
(23

(25
(26

Newconrt's Repertorium.

Inq. p. m. 2 Hen. Y. No. 35.

Collins' Peerage, 1779, i. 276 ; Morant's Es-
sex, 1. 158.

Morant's Hist, of Essex, ii. 576.

Idem, ii. 52.

See Orani and Oemobadatus in Ducange.

Mon. Angl. ii. 229 : St. Alban's Abbey.

Mon. Angl. vii. 1074.

Stapleton Rot. Normann. i. 87 ; Neustria
Pia, p. 168.

Neustria Pia, p. 433.

Domesday, ii. 66, 67, 68.

Liber Niger, i. 234 ; Stapleton, i. 69.

Gallia Christiana, xL Instr. 229.

Domesday, ii. 7.

Eyton's Antiq. of Shropshire, vol. v. p. 225-6.

FBOOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

241

riolAriiun S. Petri Gloacestr. ii. 164-174.

em, L 14, 118.

iron. Abendon. iL 97-99.

em, ii. 107.

em, ii. 77.

dmesdaj, i. 197.

on. Angl. vi. 86.

oranVs Essex, ii 231.

<m. Angl. V. 587 ; Weever, p. 697.

Acitorom AbbreT. p. 93.

laeito de Banco, 28 Hen. in. ; Morant, ii.

224.
iq. p. m. 3 Edw. I. No. 26.
rderic VitaUs ; Ck>llinB' Peerage, 1779, ii 142.
pera Johannis Saresber, ed. Giles, 1848, i.

124-31 ; Rjmer*8 Fosdera, Record edition,

i 19, 20.
!orant*8 Hist, of Colcbcster, 1748 ; Addenda,
ist of English SberifTs in 81st Report of

Depnty Keeper of Pablic Records,
esta. de Nevill, p. 17.
oi. Cart. R Job., under the dates,
oi. Pat. R. Job., under the dates,
ot de Oblatis et Fin. R. Johannis, p. 184.
iq. p. m. 31 Hen. III. No. 32.
ines, Hen. III., under the dates,
iq. p. m. 54 Hen. III. No. 19.
iq. p. m. 55 Hen. III. No. 9.
iq. p. m. 56 Hen. III. No. 35.
ownsend^s Additions to Dugdale, in Coll.

Top. et Gen. vi. 86.
ot. Clans. R. Job., under the dates.
08t*8 Judges, ii. 349.
ot. Clans. Hen. III.
esta. de Nevill, p. 272.
[on. Angl. vi. 552 : Lees Priory.
Uendarium Genealogicum, ed. Roberts,

p. 179.
uo Warranto, p. 157.
esta. de Nevill, p. 414.
iq. p. m. 43 Hen. III. No. 24.
oiuU Selecti, pp. 130, 141, 249.
ot. Clans. 45 Hen. III. m. 3 ; Dorso.
iq. p. m. 2 Edw. I. No. 19.
iq. p. m. 21 Edw. I. m. 4.
ot. Orig. in Scacc. Abbrev. i. 269.
otton M88. Julius C. vii. 200.
aL Rot. Cart. 31 Edw. I. No. 11.
iq. p. m. 1 Edw. III. No. 35.
sch. 4 Rich. II. No. 29.
iq. p. m. 7 Edw. II. No. 49.
iq. p. m. 8 Edw. II. No. 61.
lae. Abbrev. p. 336.
iq. p. m. 16 Edw. II. No. 73.
[on. Angl. V. 599.
sch. 6 Edw. III. part ii. No. 56; Cal.

Rot. Orig. in Scacc. Abbrev. ii. 74.
ot. Pat. Edw. III., under the dates,
sch. 18 Edw. III. No. 28.
iq. p. m. 23 Edw. III. No. 86.

(78A)CaL Rot. Orig. in Scaco. Abbrev. ii. 106.
(78B)Inq. p. m. 48 Edw. III. No. 25.

(79) 32d Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Re-

cords, p. 262.

(80) Rolls of Parliament, I 845.

(81) Inq. p. m. 22 Edw. IIL No. 42; Baker's

Northants, i. 9.

(82) CaL Rot. Orig. in Scacc. Abbrev. ii. 303.

(83) Dugdale*B Baronage, i. 883 ; Synopsis of

EngL Peerage, by Sir H. Nicolas, Basiet
of SapcoU.

(84) Nichols' Hist, of co. Leicester, iv. 890, &o.

(85) Inq. p. m. 7 Rich. IL 43.

(86) Cullum's Hist, of Hawsted, pp. 129, 280.

(87) Pedigree of Peyton in Visitation of Suffolk,

1561, ed. Howard.

(88) Inq. p. m. 4 Hen. V. No. 42.

(89) Inq. p. m. 12 Hen. VI. No. 21.

(90) Inq. p. m. 17 Hen. VI. No. 47.

(91) Inq. p. m. 17 Hen. VI. Nos. 46, 59.

(92) Proof of age of Thomas de Peyton ; Esoh.

18 Hen. VI. 16.

(93) Ped. of Bernard in Baker*s Northants, i. 10 :

and in Visitation of Cambridgeshire 1575,
Harl. Mss. 1534, fol. 2 ; The Topographer
and Genealogist, ii. 400.

(94) Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, ii. 286 et

seq.

(95) Herald and Genealogist, vi. 345.

(96) Testamenta Vetnsta, ii. ^74 ; Cooper's Atheme

Cantab. L 407.

(97) Inq. p. m. 2 Rich. m. No. 87.

(98) Brewer's Calendars of Hen. VIII.

(99) Inq. p. m. Job. Langley Arm. 11 Hen. VIII.

No. 92 ; Chartulary of Langley family in
Harl. MSB. No. 7 ; Baker's Northants, ii.
286.

(100) Chronicle of CaUis, Camden Society, pp. zli.

32.

(101) Idem, p. 164.

(102) Lisle Papers in State Paper Office ; Wood's

Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies,
iii. 127.

(103) Coll. Top. et Gen.v. 128.

(104) Rot. Pat. 2 Rich. III. in 9th Report of

Deputy Keeper of Records, p. 128.

(105) Baker's Northants, i. 458.

(106) Hasted's Hist, of Kent, 8vo,ix. 359.

(107) Inq. p. m. 8 Hen. VII. Nov. 16.

(108) From Col. Chester's mss. Collections.

(109) Morant's Essex, ii. 180.

(no) Blomcfield's Norfolk, 8vo, vi. 393.
(in) Inq. p. m. 10 Hen. VIII. July 22.

(112) Testamenta Vetnsta, p. 465.

(113) Life of Dr. Butts in Cooper's Athensd Can-

tab, i. 87 ; Munk's RoU of Physicians.

(114) Mon. Angl. iii. 115, St. Edmunds Bury.

(115) Pedigree of Hasilden in Vincent's mss. 131,

p. 368, in Coll. of Arms.

(116) Chronicle of CaUis, p. 177.

242

THE CHESTEBS OF CHICHELET.

(117) Life of Judge Cooke in Cooper's AthensB Can-
tab, i. 114 ; Fobb'b Judges, v. 298.
fiiS) Life of Dr. Walker, Athenie Cantab, i. 231.
(119) Dugdale's Originee Jnridiciales, 1671, p. 294.

1 20) Parish Register of Iselham.

121) Collins' Peerage, 1779, v. 287.

122) Pedigree of Wren in Harl. mss. 1634, fo.

120.

123) Inq. p. m. Thonue Domini Audley, 36 Hen.

VIII.

124) Hntchins' Hist, of Dorset 1872, iii. 446.

125) Inq. p. m. Robt. Peyton, mil. 4 Edw. VI.

1 26) Charity Reports, xxxL 158.

127) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, vi. 73.

128) Will of William Methold. [49 Windsor in

C.P.C]

1 29) Pedigree of Heigham in Howard's edition of

the Visitation of Suffolk, 1561.

1 30) Exccrpta Historica, 1833, pp. 51, 318.

131) Cal. Rot. Chart. 47 Edw. III.

1 32) Cole's MSS. in Brit. Mus. xxiv. 8.

133) Communicated by Rev. J. R. Wilson, Vicar

of Gilden Morden.

1 34) Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, ed. Sir H. Nico-

las, ii. 173.

1 35) Morant's Hist, of Essex, ii. 557.

1 36) Notitia Parliamentaria, by Browne Willis.

137) Hutchins' Hist, of Dorset, iii. 449.

138) Inq. p. m. 7 Hen. IV. No. 9.

1 39) Salmon's Hist, of Essex, fol. 1740, p. 138.

140) Blore's Hist, of Rutlandshire, p. 61.

141) Inq. p.m. 13 Hen. VI. No. 15.

142) Inq. p. m. 20 Edw. IV. No. 2.

143) Coll. Top. et Gen. v. 38.

144) Inq. p. m. 35 Hen. VIII. No. 94.

145) Stemmata Chicheleiana, Nos. 21, 23, 317.

146) Inq. p. m. Rich. Decons, 13 Hen. VIII.

147) Inq. p. m. Thom. Decons, 4 Edw. VI.

148) Coll. Top. et Gen. vi. 91.

149) Will in C.P.C. [25 WeUes.]

150) Register of Gray'sinn, Harl. mss. 1912.

151) Pedigree of Balam in Harl. mss. 6830, fo. 51 ;

Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, ix. 131.

1 52) Life of Bp. Cox in Athenie Cantab, i. 442.

1 53) Pedigree of Haggar in Harl. mss. 1534, fo. 53.
i53A)Dugdale'B Origines Juridiciales, p. 181.

1 54) Registrum Regale Etone, 4to, 1774.
i54A)Hoare's Modem Wilts, Hundred of Chalk,

p. 153.

155) Morant's Essex, vol. ii. p. 262; Pedigree of

Bigge in Hodgson's Hist, of Northum-
berland, vol. ii. part ii. p. 97.

1 56) Register of the Inner Temple.

157) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, vii. 168.

158) Progresses of James I., ed. Nichols.
559) Collins' Peerage, 1779, viu. 87.
160) Burke's Commoners, iii. 366.

(161) Pedigree of Meeres in Harl. mbs. 1484, fo. 11 ;

Idem, 1106, fo. 62.

(162) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, x. 146.

(163) Autobiography of Sir T. Bramston, Camden^

Society, p. 67.

(164) Gent. Mag. April 1849; Sept. and Oct. 1851.

(165) Tanner mss. in Bodl. Library.

(166) Will of Denyse Leveson [60 Mellerahe in

CP.C.].

(167) Collins' Peerage, 1779, vol. i. p. 235.

(168) Visitation of London 1568, with Additioni,

printed from Harl. msb. No. 1463, by Hat*
leian Society, 1869.

(169) Par. Register of St. Dionis Backchorch,

London.

(170) Inq. p. m. W. Hewett, mil. 9 Eliz.

(171) Hunter's Hist, of South Yorkshire, I 141,

308.

(172) Idem, ii. 346.

(173) Seymour's London, i. 678.

(174) Charity Reports.

(175) Machyn's Diary, Camden Society.

(176) Wilson's Hist, of Si Lawrence Pountoej,

4to, 1831.

(177) Nichols' Hist, of co. Leic. iv. 166.

(178) Hunter's South Yorkshire, ii. 129.

(179) Morant's Essex, vol. iL p. 110.

(180) Charity Reports, vol. xxxvL part vL p. 107.

(181) Idem, p. 618.

(182) Morant's Essex, ii. 453.

(183) Fuller's Church History, ed. Brewer, v. 177.

(184) Fuller's Worthies, ed. Nuttall, i. 159.

(185) Lodge's niustrations, 8vo, voL ii. p. 382.

(186) Sydney Papers, ed. Collins, vol. ii. p. 62.

(187) Dugdale's List of Knights in the BodL

Library,
(i 88) Lives of Illustrious Persons who died in 1712,
8vo, 1714 ; Sydney Papers, ii p. 120.

(189) Coll. Top. et Gen. i. 26.

(190) Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 1754, id. 197.

(191) Genealogical Notes of the Fanshawe Family,

part V. p. 63. Edited by E. J. Sage,
Esq., to whom I am indebted for the
entries of Osborne in the Par. Register of
Dagenham.

(192) Will of ilobert Offley. [30 Drake in C.P.C.J
( 1 92A) Seymour's London, ii. p. 888.

(193) Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, p. 167.

(194) Whitelocke's Liber Famelicns, Camden So-

ciety, p. 73.

(195) Stemmata Chicheleiana, No. 262.

(196) Pedigree of Osborne in Visitation of Bedf,

1634 ; MSS. C. 31 in Coll. of Arms.

(197) Harrison's Collections in Coll. of Aims; mss.

D. 24, 31.

(198) Wood's AthensB Oxon. 1721, ii. 166.

PARISH REGISTER OF I8ELHAM. 243

I have been enabled, by the kindness of the Vicar, the Rev. S. W. Merry, to
examine thoroughly the Parish Register of Iselham, and to copy from it all the
entries of the Peytons. The earliest Register begins in Sept. 1566, and is a
transcript on vellum, in the handwriting of Rev. W. Catherell, Vicar, 1587-1611.
It is a folio volume, in excellent preservation, but two pages are missing, and there-
fore there is no record of the years 1577 to 1580, nor of 1585, 1586.

1674. April 16. Richard Peyton Esquier was solemnely buried.
1681-2. March 19. Dame Frances Lady Peyton was buried.
1587. Dec. 11. Mr. Edward Osborne married Mrs. Wenefride Peyton.
1588-9. March 24. Robert, son of Mr. John Peyton, Gent, bapt.
1590. May 4. Mary, dau. of same, bapt

1590. Mr. Robert Peyton Esquier died 19 Oct. and was solemnely buried 12 Nov. next
following.

1591. Mrs. Elizabeth Peyton, widow, late wife of Mr. Robert Peyton Esquier, died 17 Oct.
and was solemnely buried 26 October.

1592. Aug. 3. Mary Peyton, dau. of Mr. John Peyton Esquier, bapt.

1592. Aug. 6. Mary Peyton, dau. of Mr. John Peyton Esquier, a yong infant, buried.

1592-3. Jan. 16. Alice, dau. of Mr. Hewet Osborne Esquier, bapt.

1593-4. Feb. 10. Roger Peyton, son of Mr. John Pejrton Esq., bapt.

1594-5. Jan. 21. Mr. Richard Homeby, Gent., married Mrs. Wenefride Harflet, widow.

1595. April 16. Frances, dau. of John Peyton Esq., bapt.

1596. July 16. Susan, dau. of same, bapt.

1598. June 22. Mr. Robert Bacon married Mrs. An Peyton.

1599. May 6. Nicholas, son of Robert Bacon Esq., bapt.

1599. June 21. Thomas Peyton, son of y« Right Wpful. Sir John Peyton* Kt., bapt.
1599-1600. March 15. Edmond, 2»^ son of Mr. Robert Bacon Esq., bapt.

1600. Oct. 19. Nicholas, son of Sir John Peyton Kt., bapt. Buried 26 Nov. 1600.

1602. Nov. 25. Mr. John Peyton Esq., son and heir of the Right Wpful. Sir John Peyton Kt,
Lievetenant of the Tower of London, married Mrs. Alice Peyton, second dau. of the Right Wpful
Sir John Peyton of Iselham Kt.

1607. Nov. 2. John, son of Edward Peyton Esq., bapt.

1609. June 19. Roger Meeres Gent., married Mrs. Mary Peyton, dau. of Sir John Peyton Kt.

1010. April 16. John, son of Mr. Roger Meeres, bapt Buried 27 April 1610.

1611-12. Jan. 25. Mr. John Peyton, buried.

1613. Oct. 30. The Lady Peyton, wife of Sir Edward Peyton Kt., buried.
1618-14. Jan 1. Mr. Thomas Peyton, son of Sir Edward Peyton Kt, buried.

1614. June 1. Sir George le Hunte Kt, married the Lady Erbie.

1616. Nov. 27. Philip Bedingfield Esq., married Frances, dau. of Sir John Peyton Kt and
Bart.

1616. Dec. 19. Sir John Peyton Kt. and Bart., buried.

1617. March 29. Thomas, son of Sir Edward Peyton Kt. and Bart., bapt.
1618-19. March 19. William, son of same, bapt

1620. Nov. 18. Mr. James Peyton, son of same, bur.

1628. Oct. 21. Mr. Henry Lawrence Esq. and Mrs. Amy Peyton, dau. of Sir Edward Peyton Kt
and Bart., marr.

1633. July 29. Mrs. Mary Peyton, wife of Mr. John Peyton Esq., bur.

1639. Oct. 17. Mr. Robert Peyton, buried.

1640-1. Feb. 8. Dorothy, wife of Mr. John Peyton Esq., bur.

244

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

EARLY PEDIGREE OF PEYTON (tee p. 180).

Reginald de Peyton, of Peyton Hall in Boxford and Stoke
Neyland, temp. Hen. I. , (A.) Dapifer of Hngh Bigod ;
died 1136.

John de Peyton, to whom E. Stephen confirmed in 1136^
his father Reginald's Manor of Peyton. (A.)

Nigel de Peyton, father of John and Wm. de Peyton^

John de Peyton, granted in Stoke Neyland*^
to his brother William. (B.)

\^miiam. (B.)

John de Peyton of Peyton.-y*
(C.) (D.)

Sir John de Peyton Ki , of Peyton. «]BClemenoe ; oco. wife

1242.

— r

Robert.
(C.)

John de Peyton
Jonr. (D.)

Sir John de Peyton Kt., of Peyton*
Crosader 1270 ; died 1287.

■Matilda ; widow
1287.

Sir Robert de Ufford Et.,"f*Mary, widow o!

Viceroy of Ireland; died
1298.

Peyton of

ISELHAH.

Wm. de Saj.

De Ufford,
Eabls of Suffolk.

(A.) Stephanns Rex Anglis Jnstic, Vicec* de Norff* et Saff ^ salntem. Predpio qnod Johes filini
Reginaldi teneat terram snam de Peytona ita bene et in pace cnm soco et saca et oibas libertatibos sicnt
anteceesores soi tennenint &c. Test. Ando de Belm* apnd Eayam. (Le Neve's Mss.)

(B.) Harl. Mss. 639, fo. 136. Sciant tarn presentes qnam fntnri, qnod ego Johannes de Peiiune concedo
et dono et hac mea carta confirmo Willielmo fratri meo pro servicio et homagio sno ynam datam terre ad
Cmpht, et alteram datam terre in minori Redeles, et terciam datam ad Perier de Fnerstece et qnartam
datam ad Perier Ailred de me et heredibns meis eibi et heredibns ejns in fendo et hereditate libere et
qniete et honorifice habendas et tenondas et defendendas pro omni servicio per xiiii denarios per aminm
reddendos. Et preter hoc, qnod totam terram qnam habnit pater meus Nigellut in socagio defenders
dcbeo ab omni servicio : has partes terre predictas debeo ego Johannes et heredes mei warantizare Wil-
lielmo et heredibns eins adnersns omnes homines et feminas; qnas si warantizare non poterimns, dabimns
eis excambinm de terra qni vocatnr Walhaghe. Pro hoc concessn et donatione et pro carte mee confirma-
tione dedit mihi predictus Willielmns xii solidos argenti de Gersnma. Terminns predicti census reddendi
talis ; ad festom Sci. ^dmnndi vii*^ et ad pasca floridnm vij*^. Hi sunt testes, Robertns de Lindholt,
Marlinns de Vnost et Galfridns frater ejns, Willielmns filins Rogeri de Polsted, &e.

(Sealed with a hawk on a pendant seal in wax.)

Transcr. Dec. 13, 1631, ex pervetneto antographo a me reperto eodem anno inter ohartas Edwardi
Peytone militis et Baronetti apnd Iselham in comitatn CantabrigisB. S. D'Ewes.

(C.) Ex Regist. S. Edmundi. I John de Peiton confirm to William son of John, son of Leo, the land
which my brother Robert do Peiton gave him in Stoke. (Gage't Hist, of Thingo, p. 166.)

(D.) I John de Peyton Jnnr. grant to John de Peyton, fratri meo primogenitor my lands in Boxford and
Stoke of the fee of St. Edmnnds, which formerly belonged to my father John de Peyton and my nude
William de Peyton. {Le Neve's Mss.)

PEYTON OF KXOWLTON. 245

CHAPTER XIV-

Tlie Peytons ofKnowlton. II. The TyndaUs of Deene^ with pedigree of
Scales. III. The TyndaUs of Hockwold, 1485-1539. IV. Sir Humphrey
Coningsby Kt^ Judge of Kings 5^ncA, 1510-1535. V. The Tyndalls of
Hockwold. VI. The Tyndalls of Great Maplestead.

Sm John Peyton of Doddington, the father of Dame Elizabeth Chester, and the
husband of Alice Peyton of Iselham, was the second coasin of his wife's father,
Sir John Peyton Kt. and Bart.; for his grandfather, John Peyton Esq. of Knowl-
ton in Kent, was the second son of Sir liobert Peyton Kt. of Iselham by his wife
Elizabeth Clere. (See p. 208.)

John Peyton, the ancestor of the Baronets at Knowlton and Doddington, was
about fifteen years old when his father Sir Robert Peyton died in 1518, and was
admitted a student at Gray's Inn in 1521. (i) He inherited under his father's Will
the manor at Bamham St. Martin in Suffolk, which had been the inheritance of his
grandmother Joan Calthorp, and also the manor of Caldecote in Cambridgeshire ;
but on the death of his youngest brother Edward he became entitled in reversion to
large estates in Kent, and established himself in that county.

His father's sister Jane Peyton had married John Langley Esq. of Kjiowlton,
whose pedigree was set forth in the last chapter. (See p. 200.) They had no issue,
and Langley was the last heir male of Jiis family. He was therefore easily per-
suaded to sell the reversion of his estates in Kent, and to settle them after the death
of himself and his wife on his wife's relations the Peytons.

This arrangement was carried into effect by a series of deeds executed in 1514
and 1515, of which the first is the most important to the narrative. By deed dated
15th Dec. 6 Hen. VIII. (1514), and made between Sir Robert Peyton Kt. of Isel-
ham of the one part and John Langley Esq. of Knowlton of the other part, the
said John Langley, in consideration of 120/. paid to him by Sir Robert Peyton, and
for divers other considerations, granted the reversion of all his manors and lands in
Kent, subject to the life interest of himself and Jane his wife, to Edward Peyton,
the nephew of his said wife and the youngest son of the said Sir Robert Peyton, to
hold the same to him and the heirs of his body in fee tail, with remainder to John
Peyton another son of the said Sir Robert in fee tail, with remainder to Robert
Peyton eldest son of the said Sir Robert in fee tail, with remainder to the said Sir
Robert Peyton in fee. (2)

246 THE CHESTEBS OF CHICHELEY.

•

In order to give legal validity to this settlement, it was necessary to suffer a
recovery of the lands comprised in it, to discharge them from all entails and
remainders previously created. This was done by the usual circuitous process of
convej-ing the lands in question by a fictitious sale to trustees, who in their turn
suffered themselves to be ejected in a fictitious suit at law by feoffees, who became
seised of the lands to the uses desired. Accordingly John Langley and Jane his
wife, by deed dated 12th Nov. 7 Hen. VIIL (1515), granted to Thomas Burgoyne,
John Burgoyne, and Edward Redeknape Esqs. the manors of Knowlton, Shrj'nkling,
Thorneton, and Sandwich, and also the advowson of Knowlton, and also lands and
tenements in Knowlton, Eastry, Nonington, Tilmanstone, Goodnestone, Chillenden,
Woodnesborough, Sandown, Eythorne, Denton, and Northboume, to hold the same
to the use of the said John Langley and Jane his wife, and the heirs of the said
John. In Michaelmas term of the same year (1515) Sir Richard Wentworth, Sir
William Walgrave, Sir Robert Drury, Sir Giles Alington, Sir Arthur Hopton, Sir
Robert Cotton, Knights, and Francis Hasilden, George Walgrave, John Wentworth,
John Parj's, Robert Frevyll, Philip Parys, John Hynde, John Copuldyke, and
Humphrey Gay, Esquires, recovered the above-named premises against the said
Thomas Burgoyne, John Burgoyne, and Edward Redeknape, and became seised of
the same in fee to the use of the said John Langley and Jane his wife and the sur-
vivor of them for life, and after the death of such survivor to the uses declared in
the deed above recited of 15th Dec. 1514. (3)

John Langley survived the execution of this settlement about three years, for he
died on 3d Nov. 1518, little more than seven months after his brother-in-law Sir
Robert Peyton. It was found by the inquest, held at Canterbury on 28th Sept.
1519, that his heirs-at-law were the three daughters of his uncle Edmond Langley,
but that his lands had passed in accordance with the deeds already recited, and that
his wife Jane had received the rents until the January after his death, when she
married a second husband, Edward Ryngeley Esq. who had since received them. (3)
For the further account of Edward Ryngeley and his wife I must refer my reader
to the preceding chapter. {See p. 205.)

I have been compelled to recite thus in detail the deeds by which Knowlton
passed to the Peytons, because the Histories of Kent and all the printed pedigrees
are agreed in misrepresenting the facts of the case. (4) They all assume that Sir
Robert Peyton, who died in 1518, succeeded to Knowlton as the heir general of the
Langleys ; and in order to reconcile this theory with the pedigree of Peyton they
invented the very improbable story that John Peyton, who died in 1416 at the age
of twenty-four, and is known to have married Grace Burgoyne in 1407, married a
second wife of the name of Grace, who was the daughter of Langley of Knowlton,
and was the mother of his children. To omit all minor objections, it is sufficiently
evident from the pedigree of Langley that Grace Langley of this date (eVen if she
had ever existed) would not in her posterity have been the heiress of Knowlton, and

PEYTON OF KNOWLTON. 247

it 18 strong evidence that John Peyton's widow Grace was identical with his wife
Grace Burgoyne, when we have it on record that her posthumous son Thomas was
bom at Dry Drayton in Cambridgeshire, the seat of the Burgoynes. (5)

Edward Peyton, the youngest son of Sir Robert, who was preferred to his
brothers in the entail of Knowlton, died without issue long before his aunt Lady
Byngeley, when the succession fell to his brother John.

John Peyton married about 1537 Dorothy, the eldest daughter of Sir John
Tyndall K.B. of Hockwold in Norfolk, and was one of the witnesses who attested
his father-in-law's Will on 16th May 1538. He had agreed on his marriage to
settle on his wife the manor and advowson of Bamham in Su£folk, with the manor
of Caldecot in Cambridgeshire and his lauds in Caldecot and Iselham ; and this
settlement was completed by a fine and recovery in Michaelmas term 1538, when
he conveyed the premises to Humphrey Tyndall his brother-in-law and others as
trustees. (5a) He afterwards made a further provision for his wife in Kent, and
is described as John Peyton Esq. of Northcourt and Thornton in Kent, in a deed
dated 1st July 1544, whereby he settled the manor of Northcourt and lands in
Eastry called Thornton, subject to the life estate of his aunt Dame Joan Byngeley
widow, to the use of himself and his wife Dorothy as joint tenants. (2) It seems
that after the death of her second husband Sir Edward Byngeley, his aunt surren-
dered to him the manor of Knowlton, for she was living at Sandwich at the date of
her Will, 14th Dec. 1551, and she says in it that she has * given and delivered all her
estate and goods into the hands of her nephew John Peyton.' Lady Byngeley died
about Christmas 1551.

John Peyton of Knowlton survived his aunt seven years, and died on 22d Oct,
1558. EDis wife Dorothy survived him, and was still living on 18th Oct. 1559,
when the inquest after his death was held at Greenwich. (2) He died without a
Will, but by some deed of settlement made in his lifetime his leasehold manor of
Doddington, which he held from the Church of Ely, descended to. his second son
John. His portrait was long preserved by his descendants, and is mentioned in 1668
as the earliest of a series of family pictures of the Peytons of Knowlton. (6)

John Peyton had issue by his wife Dorothy Tyndall five children, three sons and
two daughters.

1. Thomas Peyton, son and heir.

2. John Peyton, afterwards Sir John Peyton Kt., the ancestor of the Peytons
of Doddington, of whom in the next chapter.

3. Edward Peyton died unmarried, and is described as of St. Sepulchre's,

London, in the letters of administration which were granted to his brother John on
27th Nov. 1576.

1. Elizabeth Peyton married Thomas Monins Esq., son and heir of John
Monins Esq. Lieutenant of Dover Castle, and had amongst other issue a daughter
called Peyton Monins, who married George Toke Esq. of Bere near Dover.

248 THE CHBSTEBS OF CHICHELET.

2. Frances Peyton was the first wife of Thomas Engeham Esq. of Goodneston,
Kent, but died young and without issue.

Sm Thomas Peyton Kt., son and heir of John by Dorothy Tyndall, was born
on 31st March 1540, and was therefore between eighteen and nineteen years old
when he succeeded his father at Knowlton. (2) He was admitted at Gray's Inn in
1561, (1) and married in London at St. Peter-le-Poor, on 26th March 1573,* Anne
daughter of Sir Martin Calthorpe Kt., who was Lord Mayor in 1588. He was
knighted on 13th May 1603, (7) and died early in 1611, having survived his wife.

Thomas Peyton of Knowlton, Kent, Kt. Will dated 20th Dec. 1610.

To my good, obedient, and only son Samuel Peyton Kt. all my manors and lands in Kent,
Berks, and elsewhere, and I make him my sole executor.
Will proved 22 April 1611 in C.P.C. [29 Wood.]

Sir Thomas Peyton had issue by his wife Anne Calthorpe seven children.

1. Thomas Peyton died an infant, and was buried 24th April 1574.*

2. John Peyton, baptized at St. Peter-le-Poor 19th Aug. 1576,* died young.

3. Alice Peyton, baptized at St. Peter-le-Poor 8th Sept. 1577,* was the first
and childless wife of Sir Robert Darell Kt. of Cale Hill in Kent

4. Mary Peyton married Sir Francis Clarke Kt. of Merton Abbey, Surrey.

5. Anne Peyton, baptized 2d July 1581,* married Thomas Hales Esq., the
ancestor of the Baronets at Beaksboume in Kent.

6. Elizabeth Peyton was the first wife of Sir Robert Banastre Kt. of Passen-
ham, Northamptonshire, and was the mother of his heir. He died 15th Dec. 1649>
aged eighty. (8)

7. Samuel Peyton, only surviving son and heir.

Sir Samuel Peyton Kt. and Bart, son and heir of Sir Thomas by Anne
Calthorpe, was bom in 1590, for he was sixteen years old when he matriculated at
Exeter College, Oxford, on 23d Jan. 1606-7. (9) He was admitted at Gray's Inn
in Hilary Term 1608, (i) and was knighted at Whitehall on 8th May following, (7)
although he was scarcely nineteen years old. He married at St. Andrew*s Ward-
robe, London, on 19th June 1610 Mary, the second daughter and coheir of Sir
Roger Aston Kt., of Cranford, Middlesex, the Master of his Majesty's Great Ward-
robe. Sir Samuel succeeded to Knowlton on the death of his father in 1611, and
was created a Baronet on the 29th of June in the same year. This was the second
Baronetcy which was conferred on the Peytons, although the Order was scarcely

• From the Parish Register of St. Peter-le-Poor, London (9) :

1573. March 26. Thomas Peyton and Anne Calthorpe married.

1574. Apr. 24. Thomas, son of Thomas Payton, Gent., hnr.

1576. Aug. 19. John, son of Thomas Pajton, Gent. , hapt.

1577. Sept. 8. Alice, dan. of Thos. Payton, Gent., bapt.
1581. July 2. Anne, dan. of Thomas Payton, Gent., bupt.

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five weeks old, for Sir John Peyton of Iselham had been included in the first batch
of Baronets created. Sir Samuel died intestate in 1623, and his widow Mary was
in 1626 the wife of Edward Cholmeley Esq. of Hiphgate, Middlesex.

Sir Samuel Peyton had issue by Mary Aston three sons and three daughters.

1. Thomas Peyton, son and heir, afterwards the second Baronet.

2. Samuel Peyton died young.

3. Edward Peyton, of whom nothing is known, except that he married and
had a son Edward, who was slain in Flanders in the lifetime of his uncle Sir
Thomas.

1. Anne Peyton was bom at Knowlton 16th May 1612, and married on 28th
Dec. 1632 Henry Oicenden Esq. of Barham, Kent, by whom she had issue. She
died 28th Aug. 1640, and was buried at Denton in Kent on 30th Aug. (6) Amongst
her household possessions were portraits of herself, of her father and mother, of her
grandfather (* old Sir Thomas Peyton'), and of his father John Peyton of Knowlton;
and her widower noted in his diary, on 4th Aug. 1668, that he wished these pictures
to be given to their grandson Richard Oxenden. (6)

2. Elizabeth Peyton died unmarried.

3. Margaret Peyton married Thomas Osborne Esq. of Chartham, Kent, and
died without issue 14th Dec. 1655. Her husband survived her about two years and
died 17th Jan. 1657-8, aged fifty-nine. (6)

Sm Thomas Peyton, son and heir of Sir Samuel by Mary Aston, was about
nine years old when he succeeded to his father's title and estates in 1623. He
married in London, at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, on 21st May 1636, Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Peter Osborne Kt., of Chicksands, Bedfordshire, the Governor
of Guernsey, (9) by whom he had three daughters. He married secondly by license,
dated 18th Jan. 1647-8, CeciHa, widow of Sir Thomas Swan Kt., of Southfleet,
Kent, (9) by whom he had two children. Dame Cecilia Peyton was buried on 30th
Oct. 1661, in Southfleet Church, when her funeral panegyric was preached by
George Eves, Rector of Hartley, Kent. (10)

Sir Thomas Peyton was a high Cavalier in the Civil Wars, and had to compound
for his estate by a fine of 1000/. to the Parliament. (10a) He was elected in 1661
one of the Knights of the Shire for Kent, and was afterwards rewarded for his
loyalty and the losses which he had sustained in the Civil Wars by being appointed
one of the Prize Commissioners, and by the grant of 2000/. per annum in the Coal
Farm. He married thirdly by license, dated 28th Feb. 1666-7, Jane, daughter of
Sir William Monins Bart., of Waldershare, and widow of Sir Timothy Thornhill Kt. ;
but she died before him without issue, and was buried at St. Bride's, Fleet-street,
8th Feb. 1671-2. (9)

Sir Thomas Peyton died on 11th Feb. 1683-4, and was buried in Westminster

250 THE CHESTBBS OF CHICHELEY.

Abbey on 15th Feb. He died intestate, and letters of administration were granted
to his unmarried daughter, Catherine Peyton, on 14th May 1684, wherein he is
described as late of Barham, Kent. The Baronetcy became extinct on his death,
but he left four daughters and coheirs, three of whom were by his first wife
Elizabeth Osborne.

1. Dorothy Peyton was baptized at St. Luke's, Chelsea, 23d Sept. 1637, (9)
and married there on 15th March 1659-60 Basil Dixwell Esq, of Brome, Kent, who
was created a Baronet 18th June 1660.

2. Catherine Peyton was baptized at St. Margaret's, Westminster, lOth July
1641, (9) and was still unmarried on 14th May 1684, when she administered to her
father's estate. She married shortly afterwards Sir Thomas Longueville Bart of
Wolverton, Bucks, who died 25th June 1685. She was his second wife, and
survived him above thirty years, for she died 30th Dec. 1715, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey on 7th Jan. following. (9)

3. Elizabeth Peyton married William Longueville Esq. of the Inner Temple,
the patron and literary executor of Butler, the author of Hudibras, by whom she
had three children. She died on 14th Jan. 1715-16, and was buried on 21st Jan.
in Westminster Abbey, where her widower was buried on 30th March 1721. (9)

Sir Thomas Peyton had by his second wife. Lady Swan, two children.

1. Thomas Peyton, son and heir apparent, died young in 1667.

2. Esther Peyton married Thomas Sandys Esq., and was living in 1684.
The coheirs of Sir Thomas Peyton sold the manor of Knowlton to Sir John

Narborough Bart., the well-known Admiral, with whose posterity it still remains.

Sir John Tyndall of Hockwold, the father of Dorothy Peyton, was descended
from a line of ancestors in whom my narrative is specially interested, for he was one
of the coheirs of the extinct family of De Uflford, Earls of Suffolk, who sprang from
Sir Robert de Uflford, Justiciary of Ireland, the younger brother of Sir John de
Peyton the Crusader.

The Tyndalls were settled in the northern division of Northamptonshire from
the reign of Edward I., for SiR WnJJAM DE Tyndall Kt. was mesne lord of
Tansover, and presented to the Rectory there on 22d Dec. 1286. (lob)

Another WiLLlAM DE Tyndall presented to the same living on 14th Aug. 1301,
and Elias de Tyndall was lord of the manor in 1315 ; but how these three lords of
Tansover were related to each other and to John de Tyndall, who was Rector there
in 1325, there is no evidence to show. The Heralds of the seventeenth century
strung together these and other names into a pedigree, which they have tacked on
to the Barons of Tynedale in Northumberland, whose male line failed in the reign of

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King John, (i i) This pedigree is printed in Blomefield's History of Norfolk, (12)
and has been gravely repeated by Morant and others, but I pass by such guess-
work to tread on firmer ground.

The proved pedigree of the Tyndalls begins with

William DE Tyndall, of Tansover, who fined one mark to the king in 1358,
for leave to purchase firom Thomas de Yarwell the office of Forester and the Baili-
wick of CliflF within the limits of the Royal Forest of Rockingham, together with
the Forester's lodge at Yarwell and the lands and liberties thereto appertaining ; and
accordingly the said Thomas conveyed the premises to William de Tyndall and
Elizabeth his wife and John their son, to hold the same in fee as tenants in chief of
the Crown by Scrjeantry. (13) Such employments in the Royal forests had long
become sinecure places of honour and enjoyment, and were eagerly sought by the
resident gentry, for the perquisites of venison and the opportunities of sport which
were attached to them. The Tyndalls retained possession of the Forester's lodge at
Yarwell until they removed into Norfolk at the end of the next century. William
de Tyndall is said to have died in 1366. (12)

n. John Tyndall, son and heir of William and Elizabeth, married Catherine,
the widow of Henry de Dene, who held in jointure for her life the manors of Deene,
Deenethorpe, and Stanion, in Northamptonshire. Clement de Dene, the son and heir
of her first marriage, sold in 1375 his reversion of these manors to his stepfather John
Tyndall, (14) who, after the fashion of those days, assumed the armorial bearings of
his predecessors in estate ; and the Tyndalls of Deene bore for many generations
simply the arms of Dene : * Argent^ a/ess dancettSy three crescents gules in chief. ^

The acquisition of these estates materially increased the consequence of the
family, for John Tyndall was Escheator of Northamptonshire in 1377 (15) and
High Sheriff of that county in 1391. He was also one of the Knights of the Shire
in six Parliaments of Richard H., of which the first met in 1380 and the last in
1393. He probably did not live to be reelected to the next Parliament, for he was
dead, and his son John was in full possession of his estates in 1397. (14)

ni. John Tyndall, son and heir of John and Catherine, succeeded to Deene
on his father^s death by virtue of a fine levied by his father and mother in 1384,
whereby they entailed their estates on their son John, probably on the occasion of
his marriage. (14) He is said by the Heralds to have married Catherine the
daughter of Sir Humphrey Zouche Kt., (11) but neither Catherine nor her father
is mentioned in the received pedigrees of Zouche. John Tyndall was elected to
Parliament in 1407 as one of the Knights of the Shire for Northamptonshire, and
died 21st July 1413, leaving two sons, Richard and William, who were both under
age. (16)

IV. RiOHARD Tyndall, son and heir of John, was eighteen years old when his
father died, and was then already the husband of Margaret, the daughter of Hugh

252 THE C HESTERS OF CHICHELEY,

de Brounege; (16) but he 8iir\'ived his father little more than two years, for he died
on 18th Sept. 1415, under age and without issue. (17)

V. WHiLlAM Tyndall, brother and heir of Richard, was bom at Deene on
31st Dec. 1397, (18) and was therefore only seventeen years old when his brother
died. He made formal proof of his majority in 1420, and had livery of his lands. (18)
He had then lately married Alana, the daughter and eventually the sole heir of
Sir Simon Felbrigge K.G. the King's Standard-bearer, by his first wife Margaret^
the cousin and Lady of Honour to Anne of Bohemia, the Queen of Richard H. (19)
Margaret Lady Felbrigge was related to the Queen through her mother Elizabeth,
the fourth wife of the Emperor Charles IV., but her parentage has never been
precisely ascertained. There is no doubt however that she was descended from the
blood-royal of Bohemia, and according to the most approved authorities she was
either the daughter or the niece of Przimislaus Duke of Teschen, the Queen's
granduncle, who escorted her to England in 1381, and is styled by the Emperor
Wenceslaus, in his letter of credence to Richard II., sororius nosier,* (20) Her
connexion with the Queen procured for her husband the high office of the King's
Standard-bearer, to which he was appointed on 7th April 1395, (21) and he was
soon afterwards elected a knight of the noble Order of the Garter. Sir Simon's
birth was not unworthy of these distinctions, for his father, Sir Roger Felbrigge,
was lineally descended from Roger Bigod, the Domesday lord of Felbrigge, whilst
his mother Elizabeth was the daughter of Robert Lord Scales, by Catherine de
Uflford, the sister and coheir of William Earl of Suffolk K.tt. This descent from
the Lords Scales exercised an enormous influence over the fortunes of his descendants,
for Sir William Tyndall, the grandson of Alana Felbrigge, was recognised by
Henry VII. as one of the coheirs of the last Lord Scales, and one-half of the great
inheritance of that family was apportioned to the Tyndalls.

William Tyndall, the husband of Alana Felbrigge, died on 4th Aug. 1426, at
the age of twenty-eight, leaving an only son Thomas, then four years old. (22)
His widow Alana soon married again, for she was the wife of Sir Thomas
Wanton Kt. on 21st Sept. 1431, when her father made his Will. (23) She sur-
vived both her second husband and her son, and died a widow in 1457. (24)

VI. Thomas Tyndall, son and heir of William by Alana Felbri^^, was only
four years old when his father died in 1426. (22) He married, whilst he was stiU a
minor, Anne, daughter of Sir William Yelverton K.B., a Judge of the King's
Bench, but like his father he was short-lived, for he died on Michaelmas-day 1448,
at the age of twenty-six, in the lifetime of his mother. (25) It would seem that at
the time of his death he was not in legal possession of the family estates, for it was
found by the inquest held at Bulwick on 4th March 1450-1, that he held no estates

® This expression obviously means * our Hater^s kinsmatiy^ because Przimislaiui is always called
contanguineiis nonter^ in the letters of the Empress Elizabeth, who was stepmother to Wenceslans. (20)

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in Northamptonshire on the day of his death, and that his son and heir William was
then aged eight years and upwards. (25) He left issue, besides William his son
and heir, two daughters.

1. Anne Tyndall, married Henry Jermy Esq. of Norfolk, and had issue.

2. Jane Tyndall was the second wife of John Bleverhasset Esq. of Frenge in
Norfolk, and Kelvedon, Essex, who died 28th Nov. 1510. (26) She died a widow
(hi 17th June 1521, leaving four daughters and a son John, who inherited his
father^s estate at Southill in Bedfordshire. (26a)

Vn. Sm William Tyndall Kt., son and heir of Thomas by Anne Yelverton,
was scarcely six years old when his father died in 1448, (25) and was found to be
fourteen years old and upwards when he succeeded to the estates of his grandmother
Alana in 1457. (24) He was the last of the Tyndalls of Deene, for by deed dated
8th June 1484 he mortgaged his Northamptonshire estates for 300Z. to Henry
Colet, Alderman of London, with a proviso of redemption if the mortgage money
should be repaid on Christmas-eve 1486. But when the time for repayment came,
Tyndall and his family were permanently settled at Hockwold in Norfolk, and he
discharged the mortgage by an absolute sale of all his estates in Northamptonshire
except the Manor of Helpston. (14) He had a twofold interest in Hockwold, for
his wife Mary Mondeford was the heiress of Mondeford's Manor in that parish, and lie
had himself inherited a considerable estate in Hockwold from the family of Scales.
When that noble family became extinct by the death of Elizabeth Lady Scales, on
2d Sept. 1473, John de Vere, thirteenth Earl of Oxford, and William Tyndall
were found to be her next cousins and coheirs in blood. (27) How these coheirs
were related to each other and to the last Lord Scales will be more conveniently
shown in a tabular pedigree, to which I have prefixed the early descent of Scales,
because it is grievously misstated in Dugdale's Baronage.

PEDIGREE OP THE LORDS SCALES.

Abmb : Gules six escallops Argent,

Roger de Scales, mesne lord of Middleion, Norfolk,^MarieL (A.)
founded Blackborgh Nunnery in Middleton, temp. H.
n. (A.)

I J- ^

1. William^ eldest son ; a monk 2. Robert de Scales, son and'
at Blackbnrgh in his father's life- heir ; gave Wetherden Chnrch to
time. (A.) St. Edmond's Bory in 1198; (B.)

died before 1203.

Roger de Scales, son^Mand, occ. wife of Robert. Margaret had in frank

and heir; died 1215. William de Bean- marriage one knight's

(!>•) champ in 3 Henry fee in Bensted, Eeeex ;

in. (E.) m. Hugh le Burgoin. (C.)

See next page.

254

THB CHBSTEBS OF CHICHELEY.

From lust page.

Kobert de Scales, eon and heir ; rebel 1216 ;-]FMarger7, dan. and coheir of Folk de

(D.) restored 1217.

Beanfo of Hockwold and Wilton, Nor-
folk. (F.)

Bobert de Scales, son and heir ; diedsp^Alice, sister and heir of Sir Peter de Bocester of

1249. (G.)

Bivenhall, Essex, and Newcells, Herts, who died
6 May 1255 ; widow 1256, 1275. (H.)

Bobert de Scales, son and heir ; did homage 24*^
Jan. 1249-50; (G.) dead 1267. (E.)

Boger de Scales of
Wetherden, Suffolk,
8 Nov. 1286. (I.)

I. Bobert de Scales, Lord Scales, son and heir ;-pIsabella de Bnmell ; dead 26 Jnly

a minor and the King*s ward 1268 ; Baron of Par-
liament 6 Feb. 1298-9; died 1305. (Esch. 83 Edw.
I. 80.)

1333. (L.)

II. Bobert Lord Scales, son^^Egeline, sister of Hngh de

and heir, aged 26, and did ho-
mage 8 Oct. 1305 ; died 1324.
(Eeoh. 18 Edw. II. 61.)

Conrtenay Earl of Devon ;
widow 10 May 1325. (L.)

' I

Eleanor, marr.

John Lord Snd-

ley. (Esch. 14

Ed. UL)

Catherine, Prioress

of Blaekbnr^

1328.

III. Bobert Lord Scales, son and heir; still^<!atherine, sister and coheir of William de
a minor, and had livery of lands 26 July 1333; Ufford Earl of Suffolk K.G. ; occ. wife 6 May
died 13 Aug. 1369. (Esch. 43 Edw. III. 22. ) | 1335. (B.)

, '

Iv. Boger Lord Scales, bom 1 Feb.^PHFoan, dan. of Sir Bobert Northwood«7-2 h. Sir Edmnnd Thorpe

1344-5; died 25 Dec. 1386. (Esch. 10
Bich. II. 50.) Will in Test. Vet. p.
120.

I
V. Bobert Lord Scales,'

aged 14 in 1387 ; died 7

Dec. 1402. (Esch. 4 Hen.

IV. 20.) Will in Test.

Vet. p. 161.

Kt. of Stonham Aspal, Suffolk ; she
died 11 Jan. 1414-15. (Esch. 2 Hen.
V. 149.) Will in Test Vet. p. 184. ^

Et. of Ashwell Thorpe;
died 1 Jnly 1419. (M.)

Elizabeth; died^-2h. Sir Henry Catherme Scales, = Sir Arnold Savage

1440. (Esch. 18
Hen. VI. 38.)

Percy Kt of
Athol ; died 25
Oct. 1433.

wife 1414; died
1438. (Esch. 16
Hen. VI. No. 39.)

Et of Shome,
Kent ; died 1411,
8. p. (Esch. IS
Hen. IV. No. 42)

VI. Bobert Lord Scales, VII. Thomas Lord Scales, bro-«npEmma, dan. of

aged 6 in 1402; died ther and heir ; did homage 28 Feb.
nnmar. 1 Jnly 1419. 1420-1 ; died 25 Jnly 1460. (Esch.
(Esch. 7 Hen. V. 48.) 88 Hen. VI. 55.)

John Wales-
borongh of
Devon.

Thomas, son

and heir app^;

died before

his father.

1 h. Henry Bonrchier,=Elizabeth Lady Scales, widow=2 h. Sir Anthony WoodTile
soi^ of Heniy, Earl of and aged 24 in 1460; died 2 K.G.,Lord Scales 1462 ; Earl
Essex ; dead 1460. Sept. 1473. (Esch. 13 Ed. IV. Bivers 1469 ; beheaded 24

45.) Jnne 1483.

(A.) Mon. Angl. iv. 206.

(B.) Blomofield's Norfolk, 8vo, ix. 20.

(C.) Plac. Abbrev. p. 44.

(D.) Bot Clans, 25 June 1215, 11 Oct. 1216.

(E.) Fines 8 Hen. IIL

(F.) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, ii. 180.

(G.) Fines Hen. III. 24 Jan. 1240-50.

(H.) Plac. Abbrev. p. 265.

(L ) Bot. Qno Warranto, p. 721.

(E.) Bot. Pip. 51. Hen. m.

(L.) Evidence in Scales* Peerage Case.

(M.) Holinshcd^s Chronicle.

TYHDALL OF HOCKWOLD.

255

This coheirship promised for some time to be of little profit to the cousins, for
H the estates of Lady Scales were in the possession of her widower, the accom-
lished Sir Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, who had been sunmioned to Parlia-
lent as Lord Scales in 1462, and was the brother of the reigning Queen. It is
ndent that the £arl never intended to allow these estates to return to his wife's
imily if he could help it, for by his Will, which was made at Sheriff Button
lastle on 23d June 1483, the day before his execution, he devised them, so far as he
>uld legally do so, to his brother Sir Edward Woodville. The Will runs as follows :

' I will that such lands as were the Ladj Scales's mj fyrst wyfe be unto my brother Syr £d-
ard and to his heyres male, and for £Etut of such heyres male unto the right heyres of my lord
7 &dre. This is my will and intent therein to take effect as feurie as conscious and law will.
nd that to be sene and determyned by ij doctours of London and ij of Oxford and of Cambrigge (or
Mtoors at the lest) with ij of the chefe Juges and ^ of the eldest Seriaunts of the la we. And if
ley fynde that this myn intent may not with consciens and lawe and any part thereof, that it be
lyded after their demyng, and if Uiey think that my said brother may have it all (or for faut of
pn ony of my seid lord my fadres heyres) he that shall have the land to pay, or he have posses-
on T.c. (500) marks, that to be employed for the soules of my late wyfe Lady Scalys and Thomas
fT brother and the soules of all the Scales blode in helping and refresshing hospitalls and other
3defi charitable.'

Tiis devise would probably have taken effect, and the inheritance of Scales would

ave passed absolutely to the Woodvilles, if Anthony Lord Rivers had died whilst

Margaret Scales.'^^ir Bobert Howard
ife 1365, 1380. died 3 June 1389.

John*f^ w. Alice
Tendring ;
died 1426.

Kt.,

Elizabeth Scales.

kiea.'^

Sir Roger de
Felbrigge Kt.

lays, 1 w. ;
led 14 Aug.
191.

Sir John

[ofwardEt,

maud heir

^parent;

led 1409.

Howard Kt.,
son and heir;
died 17 Nov.
1437.

2 w. Catherine, dau.= Sir Simon Felbrigg
of John Lord Clifton of K.G., son and heir ;
Bnckenham, and wi- the King's standard-
dow of Ralph Green bearer 1395 ; died 3
of Drayton ; died 23 Dec. 1442. (Esch.
March 1459-60. 21 Hen. VL 33.)

•1 w. Marga-
ret, of Bohe-
mia; died 27
Jane 1416.

Sir Robert-f-Margaret William TYN--f=Alana Fel-

Howard Kt.

Mowbray.

DALL, 1 h. of
Deene, North-
ants ; died 4
Ang. 1426,aged
28.

brigge, enr-
yiving dan.
and heir;
rem. 2 h. Sir
Thomas Wan-
ton Kt. ; died
widow 1467.
(Esch.36Hen.
VI. No. 4.)

Anne, a nan
at Brosyerd
1431.

— I
Elizabeth,

mar. Sir

Miles SU-

pleton Kt.

of Ingham,

B. p.

Elizabeth,-rsTohn Vere, 12th Earl
m. and heir, of Oxford; died 26
Feb. 1461-2.

Sir John Howard
K.G., Dnke of
Norfolk, 1483.

3hn Vere, 13th Eail of Oxford, co-
m of Elizabeth Lady Scales 1473.

Thomas Tyndall Esq. of Deene, son
and heir ; died 29 Sept. 1448, aged 26.

,___T

Sir William Tyndall K.B., son and heir,
coheir of Elizabeth Lady Scales 1473.

256 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELET.

his sister Elizabeth was Queen, for the elder coheir of Lady Scales, John Earl of
Oxford, was the avowed enemy of the House of York, and had long been under
attainder. As it was, Richard III., whilst he set aside the claims of the Woodvilles,
scarcely recognised the legal rights of the coheirs of Scales, for he granted the rents
and profits of the estates to his favourite John Duke of Norfolk, who had no pre-
tension to be the heir of his great-grandmother Margaret Scales. (28) The Duke
enjoyed the rents until the 6th of February 1484-5, when William Tyndall suc-
ceeded in getting them transferred to him, (28) and it may be gathered from the
silence of the Patent Rolls that he recovered them by judicial process. Tyndall
kept sole possession until the death of Richard HI., but on the accession of Henry
Vn., John Earl of Oxford was restored to all his rights and honours, and became
one of the most powerful nobles in the realm. The Earl's interest in the inherit-
ance of Scales was immediately recognised, and it is recited in the formal inquest,
which was held on 31st Oct. i486, that the Earl of Oxford and William Tyndall
had jointly received the rents and profits of the Scales estates since 22d Aug. 1485,
the day of the battle of Bos worth. (28) A partition was now made between the
two coheirs, when the Earl took the lion's share, for Newcells in Hertfordshire, the
head of the Barony of Scales, and Middleton Castle in Norfolk, were allotted to
him. He also assumed the title of Lord Scales, which descended to his nephew
and successor in the earldom ; but the fourteenth Earl died without issue on 14th
July 1526, when the Barony of Scales fell into abeyance between his three sisters
and his cousin John Tyndall.*

William Tyndall had for his share in the partition the manor of Haslingfield in
Cambridgeshire, and the manors of Hickling, Pudding-Norton, Hsington, and
Clenchwarton in Norfolk, with the manor and capital mansion of Scales Hall in
Hockwold. This apportionment was probably by his own selection, for his wife
Mary Mondeford was a native of Hockwold, and had inherited Moiidefords manor
in that parish on the death of her father Osbert Mondeford in 1480. (29)

Tyndall remained a simple esquire until 29th Nov. 1489, when he was made a
Knight of the Bath at the creation of Arthur Prince of Wales. (30) He is the
first of his family who is known to have borne the crest of a plume of ostrich
feathers issuing out of a ducal coronet, which is commonly but erroneously

* The Baronj still remainB in abeyance between the representatiyeB of these ooheirSf bat in 1856 Sir
Charles Robert Tempest Bart, addressed a petition to Her Majesty to determine the abeyance in his
faTonr. The petition was referred to the House of Lords, when Sir Charles proved that, by Tirtne of his
descent from Dorothea Lady Latimer, the eldest sister and coheir of John de Yere 14th Earl of Oxford,
he had vested in him one seyenty-second part of one moiety of the Barony. The minates of evidence
taken before the Committee of Privileges on this petition supply some new particulars for the history of
the Lords Scales, bat it is remarkable that whilst the infinitesimal interest of the petitioner is accurately
traced, the descent of one entire moiety of the Barony, which is vested in the heir of Sir William TyndaU,
is wholly misrepresented. It is assumed that Sir John Tyndall of Maplestead, the Master in Chancery,
who was murdered in 1616, was the head of his family, and his coheirs were duly served with the peti-
tion, but it will be shown hereafter that Sir John had no pretension whatever to be a coheir of the
Barony of Scales.

TTNDALL OF HOCKWOLD.

257

supposed to commemorate the descent of the Tyndalls from the Ejngs of Bohemia.
This crest was undoubtedly derived from Alana Felbrigge, for it is displayed on the
Garter plate and the monument of Sir Simon Felbrigge ; but it is equally certain
that Sir Simon got it from his mother Elizabeth Scales, and not from his Bohemian
wife, for Thomas Lord Scales, who was in no way connected with the Kings of
Bohemia, bore this same crest on his seal when he was Seneschal of Normandy in
1442. (30a)

Sir William Tyndall survived his wife, and died on 22d Feb. 1496-7 at the age
of 54. (31)

VIII. Sir John Tyndall Kt., the only son of Sir William by Mary Monde-
ford, was ten years old when his father died, and was then already contracted to
marry one of the daughters of Humphrey Coningsby, Serjeant-at-Law (afterwards
a Ejiight and a Judge of the King's Bench), to whom his wardship and marriage
had been sold by his father. (31) He married accordingly Amphillis Coningsby,
who died before him on 18th Jan. 1532-3, leaving nine children. A gray marble
slab in the chancel of Hockwold Church bears the e£Bgies in brass of a lady and
nine children, with this inscription: (12)

Quisquis eris qtii transieris, sta, perlege, plora,
Sum quod eris, fueramque quod es, pro me precor ora.
ObittLS Amfelicie Tendall decimo octavo die Mensis Januar. a.d. mccccc. xxxij^.
Sir John Tyndall was one of the Knights of the Bath created on 31st May 1533
at the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn, (30) and married secondly in 1534 Lady
Winifred Fermor, the widow of Sir Henry Fermor Kt., of East Barsham in Norfolk.
Their marriage settlement is dated 14th Dec. 26 Hen. VHI. (1534), whereby Sir
John charged the manor of Scales Hall in Hockwold with the payment of 42/. per
annum by way of jointure to Dame Winifred. (12) She was the daughter of
Thomas Cawse, an Alderman of Norwich, and was thrice married, for her first
husband was Henry Dynne Esq. of Heydon in Norfolk. She had no issue by her
third husband, whom she survived.

Sir John Tyndall died on 1st Oct. 1539 at the age of 53, seised of the following
manors and estates, which were valued at 223Z. 10«. per annum beyond all re-
prises : (32)

Norfolk. The manor of Hickling, value per annum

The manor and advowson of Pudding-Norton

The manor of Eedenhall in Harleston

The manors of Ilsington and Clenchwarton with the advowson of Clench-
warton ....
Cambridoeshjiie. The manor of Haslingfield
NoBTHANTs. The manor of Helpston .
NoBFOLK. Lands called Bamys .

Lands lying in Colston

The manors of Mondefords, Scales, and Stewkeys, with East Lexham and

the advowson of Hockwold . . . 46 q

. Me

. 26

. 24

. 43

258 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

All these manors and lands descended on his death to Thomas his son and hdr.

Sir John Tendall, of Hoccolde (Hockwold), Norfolk, Kt. Will dated 16th May 1538.

My body to be buried in the Chancel of Hocwold Church by my first wife. My wife to have
all her apparel and jewels ; also, 100 sheep ; also, 100 combs of malt. Item, I will that aU her
own plate be delivered to her, and one third part of my linen and two feather beds of the best,
and one gilt goblet and ten combs of winter com.

To the High Altar of Hoccolde Church for my tithes forgotten xx*; to the reparation of the
same Church ^10; to the Churches of Hoccolde and Wilton Y\j* each.

To my son Thomas the Elder, aU my apparel and harness, he paying ^10 for the same, yiz.
^5 to the daughter of Pyper of Caws, and the other £6 in two years after my death to my wife ;
and I give him one of my best jewels and one of my best horses.

To the children of Thomas Jaxon £4: and 50 wethers and ewes, and I desire my son Thomas
the Elder to see to the bringing up of his son.

I will that on tlie day of my obit as many as shall come to the Church to pray for my sool
shall have bread and drink, also that every priest that shall sing mass for me have vi^', and evexy
priest helping to minister iv^, and every singer one penny. To every household in Hoccolde and
Wilton vi**, and to every household in Monforde xy**. Item, I will that iv. trentals be sung for
my father, my mother, my wife, and for me in as hastie a manner as possible.

To my daughters Anne and Mary Tendall 200 marks each to their marriages. To my dau^-
ter Beatrix £'100 to her marriage. To the daughter of Thomas Baron ^0.

The residue of all my goods to be divided amongst my daughters and executors, and I appoint
my wife, my sons Thomas Tendall the Elder, Humphrey Tendall (sic)* the younger, and my
daughters Anne and Mary Tendall to be my executors. Item, I will that all such stuff that I
have of Doctor Clyff's,f the which is a counter price x*, a feather bed price xx*, and a horse price
iv nobles, be delivered to his executors.

Witnesses : William ConyngesbyJ Esq., Thomas Tyndall the younger, John Peyton, and
Robert Shacklocke.

Will proved 8th Nov. 1539 by Thomas Tyndall the Elder in C.P.C. [33 Dyngeley.]

Sir John Tyndall had issue by his first wife, Amphillis Coningsby, nine child-
ren, four sons and five daughters.

1. Tho^la^s Tyndall, called the Elder, son and heir.

2. William Tyndall, of Brentford, Middlesex, married Anne, daughter of
Thomas Beaumeys, of Boxford, Suffolk, and joined with her on 20th March
1559-60 in selling a small estate of her inheritance at Dunmow, in Essex. (34)
He had a son William, of whom nothing is known. (11)

3. Thomas Tyndall, the younger, witnessed his father's Will in 1538,§ and
then disappears from view.

^ So in the original copy; bnt it mnst be snspectcd that the copyist has omitted the wordi
* Thomas Tendall* between ' Humphrey Tendall* and 'the younger.*

t Robert Ch(ffe, LL.D., Warden of Manchester Collegiate Church 1509-18, was made Chancellor of
the diocese of Ely 25th Jane 1525. He was one of the Canonists summoned to the Convocation on the
subject of the King's divorce, and besides his other preferments was Rector of Northwold and of Ontwell
St. Clement's in Norfolk. He died early in 1538. (33)

J William Coningsby, brother of the testator's first wife, was made a Judge of the King's Bench cm
6th Joly 1540, and died about four months afterwards. (51)

§ He is often confused by the pedigree makers of the eighteenth centnry with Thomas Tyndale the
purchaser of Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire, and the ancestor of the Tyndales of Hayling Island, who
was in reality the son of Edward Tyndale of Tewkesbury, of an entirely distinct family. (34b)

TTNDALL OF HOCKWOLD. 259

4. HuiCPHRST Ttndall was godson to his grandfather Sir Humphrey Con-
ingsbj Kt,, who left to him by his Will in 1531 an annuity of five marks a year.
He is described as of Bishop's Lynn in an action for debt in Michaelmas term 15379
when William Reynesby, the executor of Richard Bartlett, Merchant Taylor of
London, recovered judgment against him for forty shillings, (34a) but he died in
London in the year after his father, and was buried at St. Mildred's in the Poultrj^,
14th Sept. 1540.*

1. Dorothy Tyndall had a legacy of 40Z. towards her marriage portion from
her grandfather, Sir Humphrey Coningsby, and married about 1537 John Peyton
Esq., of Eiiowlton in Kent.

2. Ursula Tyndall, married in her father's lifetime Richard Gawsell Esq., of
Watlington in Norfolk, who died in 1538. (35) She married secondly William
Butts Esq., of Shouldham-Thorpe in Norfolk, (36) by whom she had amongst
other issue Dr. Henry Butts D.D., the unhappy Master of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridgeshire, who committed suicide in 1632.

3. Anne Tyndall was unmarried in 1538, and was afterwards the first wife of
Robert Bacon Esq., of Harleston in Norfolk, by whom she had an only daughter
Frances, who was under age and unmarried in 1558, when her father died. (37)
Anne did not survive her marriage many years, for Edward Bacon, the son of lier
husband's second marriage, was bom in 1551. (37)

4. Mary Tyndall was unmarried in 1538. There is reason to believe that
she afterwards married, but I am unable to decide the name of her husband in the
conflict of doubtful pedigrees.

5. Beatrix Tyndall was unmarried in 1538 ; and was afterwards the second
wife of Robert Dynne Esq., of Heydon in Norfolk, the son and heir of her step-
mother^s first marriage. Beatrix and her husband were living in 1563 with five
children. (36)

IV.

I turn aside from my narrative of the Tyndalls to give some brief account of
Sir Humphrey Coningsby the Judge, who was the guardian and father-in-law of
Sir John Tyndall, for Sir Humphrey's Will materially corrects the received pedi-
grees of Coningsby. (38)

The Coningsbys were of Shropshire origin, and held lands at Neen Sollars in that
county from the thirteenth century, for Thomas Coningsby, of Neen Sollars, the
grandfather of Sir Humphrey, proved in a Court of Law in 1460 that he was sixth
in lineal descent from Roger de Coningsby of the same place, who was steward of
the household of the Earl of Warwick, and married in the reign of Edward I. the
heiress of Morton-Bagot in Warwickshire. (39) Thomas accordingly succeeded to

® From the Par. Reg. of St, Mildred's in the Poultry, London : 1540, Sept 14. Hmnfrey Tindall
Gent. , bnried.

260 THE CHESTBR8 OF CHICHELEY.

the inheritance of Morton-Bagot on the extinction of the family of De Lee, of Stat-
fold, to whom it had passed from the Coningsbys by a female heir. (39) He mar-
ried Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Whethill Esq. of Whethill, and had
two sons. 1. Humphrey, son and heir, who succeeded his father at Neen Sollara
and Morton-Bagot, where his family long continued; (40) and 2. Thomas of Rock
in Worcestershire.

Thomas Coningsby, the second son, died in 1498, and has a noble monument
in Rock Church, which, with its armorial bearings and quarterings, deserves more
attention than it has hitherto received from those who are interested in the early
descent of Coningsby. (41) He married Catherine Waldyff, an heiress, and had
issue Humphrey, his son and heir, and a daughter, who married Thomas Sollejr
Esq. of Hindlip, Worcestershire, and had a son Thomas, who is mentioned in his
uncle's Will. (42)

Sm Humphrey Coningsby Kt., son and heir of Thomas, was bred to the Bar
and practised his profession with great success, for he was enabled to purchase
large estates in Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Hertfordshire. He was made a
Judge of the King's Bench on 21st May 1510, and retained this office until his
death, during a period of more than twenty-five years. (43)

Sir Humphrey married three wives, of whom his first wife Alice, the daughter
and heir of Ferriby of Ferriby in Lincolnshire^ was the mother of his children.
His second wife Anne was the heiress of Scaleby in Cumberland, being the
daughter and heir of Christopher Moresby Esq. of that place, and the widow of
James Pickering Esq., of Killington in Westmoreland who died in 1498. (44)
Dame Anne Coningsby died at Scaleby on 5th Oct. 1523, (45) when, in the absence
of Sir Humphrey, her funeral was conducted by her cousin, the Lord Dacre of
the North. (46) Her next heir was her granddaughter Anne Pickering, for her
eldest son Sir Christopher Pickering Kt. had died in 1518 ; (47) and the wardship of
the heiress was granted by the King on 26th Jan. 1525-6 to Sir Richard Weston Kt,
of Sutton Place, Guildford, (46) whose son and heir Francis afterwards married her.

Sir Humphrey's third wife was named Isabel, of whom nothing is known, except
that she died before he made his Will in 1531, and was buried in the Church of
the Grey Friars, London.

Sir Humphrey purchased from the King on 26th Oct 1527 the wardship of
his grandson and heir apparent Humphrey Coningsby, who, on the death of his
mother Cecily Salway, had become the King's ward in respect of her inheritance
in Shropshire. (46) Sir Humphrey died on 2d June 1535, and the usual inquest
after his death was held at Eoss in Herefordshire, on 26th Sept. following. (48)

Sir Humfrey Conynoesby Kt., one of the King*s Justices of the Pleas.* Will dated 15th
Nov, 1631.

^ The technical description of a Judge of the Court of King's Bench, not, as might he supposed, of
the Court of Common Pleas.

SIR HUMPHREY CONINGSBY KT. 261

To be buried in the Church of the White Friars, London, near tlie grave of my htte wife
Isabel ; bnt if I die at Aldenham, or within seven miles thereof, then to be baried there ; or if I
die at Rock, or within forty miles thereof, then to be buried there.

To the Churches of Aldenham, Elstree, and Rock, 10«. each ; and to the repairs of the
Church of Neen SoUars, 20«.

To my daughter Elizabeth, late wife of Richard Berkeley, and now wife of Sir John Fitz-
James Kt, j£80, which was owing to me by the said Richard at the time of his death, for the
marriage of the three daughters of the said Richard Berkeley and Elizabeth.

To Dorothy f daughter of John Tendall E$q.^ and of my daughter Amphelicey his wife, ^40
towards her preferment in marriage ; and to each of the daughters of the said John Tendall and
Amphelice 40 marks for their preferment in marriage. To Anne, wife of William Thorpe, and
daughter of Christopher HyUyarde, and my daughter Margaret his wife, now deceased, £5. To
every daughter of my sons William 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, witli its appurts in Orleton,
Stoketon, Stanford, and Eastham in Worcestershire, to Humfrey Conyngesby, now under age
and my next heir 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 Alice and Anne and Isabel.

To Humfrey Tendall my cosyn and godson, son of John Tendall, and my 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 Will.

Will proved 26th Nov. 1635 in C.P.C. [80 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 Sal way 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 1635 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 Reader 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
m his place. (52)

• Sir Anthony Fitz-Herhert Kt., of Norbury, Derbyshire, the well-known author of the Natura
Bremum^ was made a Judge of Common Pleas in 1522, and died in 1538. (50)

262 THE CHESTEBS OF CHICHELET.

3. John Coningsby was also one of his father's executors, and inherited his
estates at North Mimms in Hertfordshire, where his posterity long floorished. (38)

1. Elizabeth Coningsby married Richard Berkeley Esq., of Stoke Giffordin
Gloucestershire, who died in 1513, leaving two sons and three daughters. (53)
Their eldest son, Sir John 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 Redlynch 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. 1646.

To he huried in the parish Church of Bruton hy my late hushand, if I die in Somersetshire ;
but if I die in Gloucestershire, then to be buried in the College of Westbury by my first dear
husbaud Richard Barckley Esq.

To my son Sir Maurice Barckley two silver salts, having the dolphinf on them, with other
plate and household stuff. To Richard Barckley, my son's son, | sundry plate, which Sir
Maurice is to keep for him till 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 Elizabeth 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 Richard Barckley, my son's son.J all my
' catall ' and household stuff in Gloucestershire, whereof my daughter Dame £lizabeth§ Barck-
ley, his mother, is to have custody till he be of full 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 Elizabeth§ 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 William Fraunceis to be overseers of my Will.

Whereas I, with my cousin Nycolas Fitz-James, was put in trust by one ELarman Devynshere
to have the governance of Elinor his daughter, 1 give her ^8 above the trust.

Will proved 8th May 1540 in C.S.C. [9 Alen.]

2. Amphillis Coningsby married Sir John Tjmdall K.B., of Hockwold.

8. Margaret Coningsby married Sir Christopher Hildyard Kt., of Wine-
stead in Yorkshire, who was a minor and her father's ward on 16th 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 nsoal recklessness of fact that
Sir John Fitz-James was of mean birth and obscure parentage. (55)

t The Arms of Fitz-James were Azure a dolphin embowed Argent.

I Richard Berkeley was the son and heir of the testatrix's eldest son Sir John Berkeley, who died
before his mother.

§ The widow of Sir John Berkeley Kt., of Stoke.

I Catherine, the first wife of Sir Manrice Berkeley, was the daughter of William Blount Lord
Monntjoy.

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when his guardian, Humphrey Coningsby, presented to the Chapel at Wmestead.
(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 Raleigh Esq., of Farnborough in War-
wickshire, and had issue.

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 Mar}' 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 Tjrndall, 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 John 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.

LL .

264 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Sir Thomas Tyndaij? Kt. WiU dated 20th Sept. 25 Eliz. (1583).

To my daughter Susan Tyndall .£200 over and besides that sum which she hath ahready in
her hands. To my daughter Ursula Tyndall 100 marks besides that which is already in her
hands. To my sonne William 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 Fraimcis and Henry Tyndall jBIO yearly daring their Uvea
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 tliey shall refuse or shall not perform my Will
in all tilings 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 children at the discretion of my executors.

Witnesses : John Hawes Gent., William Saunders Gent.

Will 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 by 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 ^ft, 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 Johr, 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 John Tyndall. (60) Thus
passed away from the Tyndalls every acre of their ancient inheritance.

A certain air of romance is thrown round the un thrift 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 mariiage of his ancestor with
Alana Felbrigge from the ancient monarchs of that kingdom, whose last male heir
died in 1526, and was succeeded bv his brother-in-law Ferdinand of Austria. The
new dynasty soon became embroiled with iheir subjects on the score of religion, for

TTNDALL 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 policy of
Ferdinand and his successor the free exercise of their religion. But the Emperor
Kudolph n. had been educated by the Jesuits, and could not endure to see the
decrees of the Council of Trent daily ^dolated 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
tliese royal ornaments with the offer of the crown to his son William, 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 CHESTERS 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 suss Haeredem Regni Bohemiae denunciatum. Sic
Heraldorum nostrorum Fasti ; sic me puero fama celebrisJ (64)

On the other hand, a geographical quarto, published in London in 1630, under
the title of Relations of the most famjous Kingdomes and ComnumweaUhs thorowout
tlie World J contains this passage at p. 276 :

' The kingdom [of Bohemia] is meerely elective, although hy 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. Which 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
sometliing 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 oflper 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 0¥ 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 Romaine against the House of
Austria, William 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 politics
in all their details. Bom 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 TjTidall was one of the witnesses to Sir Ambrose Jermyn's

* This document is still in the possesBion of the writer's lineal descendant Mr. John Warre Tjndale,

of Perridge Honse, Somersetf 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 children of Sir 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 puri^ose of
comparing my conclusions with his own.

f From the Par, Register of Hominonherth, Suffolk: 1674. Anno Tyndal, daughter of Sir Ambrose
Jermyn Kt., buried the 11th of September. (67)

268 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHBLEY.

Will, which is dated 28th March 1577, and contains a legacy of 10?. * to my son-in-
law TendalL' (68) His second wife survived him and proved his Will.

William Tyndali. of Boston, Lincolnshire, Esqtdre. Will dated 30tli Sept. 1591.

To my brother John Tyndali of Lincoln's Inn my bed called the bed of Boemia, with all the
fiimitnrc thereto belonging and with the cnrtajnes 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.

WitJieHses : Richard Stevenson, William Leeke, Eliz. Capland, Richard Robinson, Maiy Tattoft,
and Bridgitt 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 bom in 1546, for we have his sworn declaration
that on 13th March 1580-1 he was in his thirty-fifth year. (70) He matriculat-ed
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, Roger Lord North, Sir Francis
Knollys, and Humphrey Tyndall. (70) The knowledge of so important a secret pro-
mised rapid preferment, and Tyndall's favour with the powerful Earl was so notorioas,
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 young man like Tyndall, \vho belonged to another College and had no experience

HUMPHREY TYNDALL, D.D. 269

in University aifairs. (71) This remonstrance however was made in vain, for when
Dr. ChaJerton 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 Academice Cantahrigiensis lacryrncB tumulo nobilissimi equitis 1),
Philippi Sidneij sacratce^ per Alexandrum NeMlum. 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 Rectory of Wentworth; but he
resigned this Rectory 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 : * ilxoH sucb {guam senex dvjcerat)^ nimia
indulsity non sine ColUffii detrimentOy ccetera satis laudajidusJ (75) He married at
Hockington in Cambridgeshire, 20th Dec. 1593, Jane, daughter of Robert Russell
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. RegUter of St. Botolph's, Cambndge : 1610-11, Fob. 12. Johannes filius Umfridi
Tyndftlli Decani EUiens: sepnltns.

270 THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY.

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 :

* Umpuridus Tyndall, nobili Norfolciensidm Tyndallorum familia oriundus, Decanus

QDARTU8 I8TIU8 EcCLKSI.E, OBHT XII* DIE MeNSIS OcTOB. A.D. MDCXIV*, ANNO JETATIS SUuB LXV°.*

On a brass plate at his feet is inscribed :

* Usque quo Domine usque quo.

The body of the woorthy and Reverende Prelate Umphry Tyndall D.D., the fourth Dean of
this Church and Master of Queene's Colledge in Cambridge, doth heere expect y* coining 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 friende, 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 Tindall Doctour in Divinitie, President of the Queen's CoUege 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 £260 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 jCIO. 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, token up in trust for me by my brother Upcher, also £$0
due to me on a Bond by Thomas Taylor of Lichheld 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 sncceeded Dr. Tyndall as Master of Qaeen*8, and was oonsecrated Bishop of SalisbiuT
9th July 1620.

FRANCIS 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, was bred to the Bar at Lincoln's
Inn, 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. (69) This pleasant and profitable
connexion with Queen's College was gratefully remembered in his Will, for he
bequeathed 40/. to the Master and Fellows to buy a silver basin and ewer, and
5/. 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 tenns : * I would have my toife to
he ruled and counselled by 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 vnth 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)

272 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Francis Tyndall of Pinner in the parish of Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, Esqnire. 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. WQUs
the preacher of Pinner, £4: per annum for seven years out of my parsonage of Pinner. To my
sister Upcher ^10 per annimi for her life out of the same parsonage, and to Mrs. Wheldall, some-
time my brother William Tyndall's wife, ^15 per annum for her life. To Thomas Prior my servant
iglO per annimi for his life. To my sister's son Uxpphry Coxey JE20, and to his sister Amy, wife
to Mr. Hitch, preacher, £20.

To Queen's CoUege, Cambridge, for a basin and ewer of silver Jg40, and to poor scholars of the
same College £6. 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* £6. To my Lady Damellf
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, Middlesei,
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 J Bullock, sometime wife of Francis Bullock.

To my godson Francis Tyndall son and heir apparent of my nephew Deane Tyndall my houses
near the Holbom-bridge in London, but his father is to have the rents thereof till he be 21. To
Rebecca I wife of John Strougnell and to Deborah | wife of Daniel Bockocke a house in Cateaton-
street, London, each. My lands in Cambridgeshire 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 lOZ. 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 Will of their mother's aunt, Mrs. Ryngewode of Wymondham.

Margaret 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 J£10 each. To my nephews
Thomas Fox jim'. 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 life of the value of ^16 per annum out of lands
of inheritance ; and if he refuse, then my executors shall put out the said ;B100 to profit for the said
Dorothy for her life, and afterwards shall divide the same between the children which the $aid
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 Sii* Thomas Fowler Kt. and Bart.

t Sarah, wife of Sir Thomas Darnell Bart, of Heyling, Linoolnshire, was the sister of Sir Thomas
Fisher Bart. , and therefore niece to the testator.

\ 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-
sidoazy legatees.

Will proved by Francis Tyndall 22d Nov. 1606 in C.P.C. [75 Hayes.]

Henry Ttxdall, son and heir of Henry, settled in London, and is described as
of St. Stephen's, Goleman-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 T3mdall.

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 f ather^s lifetime Heniy 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 l633. (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 the^^Elizabeth, daa. of Edward Brocket
parish of Standon, Herts, 1556. | Esq.

I H

1. William. 2. lUohard Fieher.^f". . . . widow of John

Crouch of Standon.

"Susan, dau. of Sir Thos.
TyndaU Kt of Hockwold,
widow of James Whet-
haU.

I I

1. Richard. 2. Thomas Fisher, Citi-*

zen and Skinner of Lon-
don. Wm dat. 24 Nov.
1612; proved 29 April
1613.

r- r-- — :: — I

Sir Thos. Fisher Kt. and»
Bart. ; died 22 May ; bur.
25 May 1636 at IsUng-
ton.

*Sarah, dau. and coheir Sarah Fisher, mar. Sir Susan Fisher, mar.

of Sir Thos. Fowler Kt. Thomas Darnell Bart, of Sir Edward Law-

and Bart. ; mar. 2 March Heyling, co. Lincoln. ley Kt. of Wenlock,

1619-20 at Islington. Salop.

FXBHBB Babts.

274 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

4. Ursula TyndaJjL was bom 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 Boe come, Lord Jesu.

Tyndall by birth
Ursula-' Coxee by choice

^ Upcher in age and for comfort
Anno -Etatis 77.'

Uksula Upcher of Ely, widow. Will dated 12th Dec. 1628.

My lands at Coton held on lease from Qneen's Coll. Cambridge. My son Humphrey Coxee.
My daughter Amy Coxee now wife of William Hich, Clerk. Richard Upcher of Sutton. My
son-in-law William Hich to be my efltecutor.

Will proved in C.P.C. 9th Jan. 1628-9.

XI. William Tyndall, the eldest son 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 Arms (32 fo. 29) that Felix and his sisten
were the children of William Tyndall of Boston, the only son of the first marriage of Sir Thomas Tyndall,
and that their mother was his second wife, Anne Hnnt. Bat 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 TyndalPs Will * Mrs. Wheldallj aoynetime 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 lOOZ. 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 10/.
per aimum 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.

XH. 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 Stiff ord, Essex, who was buried at Stifford on 13th Oct. 1618.
He had issue by her a son Thomas, and perhaps other children.

Xin. 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 Deaue Tyndall of Great Maplestead, Essex, Esq., of

• From the Par, Register of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London : (9)

1619. April 22. Felix Tindall of Queen^s ColL Cambridge, clerk, and Sasan Bradshawe of St.
Stephen^B, Coleman-street, widow, late wife of Obadiah Bradshawe, clerk, deceased, married. Faculty
license.

276

THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

the one part, and Thomas Tyiidall of Low Ley ton, Essex, Gentleman, * cousin and
next heir unto Francis Tyndall, 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.

Abus, Argent a fesa dancettie^ in chief three crescents gules^ adopted from Deene, but in the 17th
century borne quarterly with Argent ^ on a jess sable three garbs Or, for TTin>Aiii..

William de Tyndall of TansoTer, Northants, and<^Elizabeth, wife 1358.
of Yarwell 1358. (Esch. 32 Edw. HI. 32.)

John de Tyndall, son and heir, of Deene and Sta-«f^^^®™®» ^^® 1375,*^°
nion, Northants, 1375, by the grant of Clement
de Deene. Escheator 1377 ; Sheriff 1391; M.P.
for Northants 1380-93 : dead 1397.

1384.

'1 h. Henry de Deene of
Deene, Northants.

John Tyndall, son and heir, of Deene, M.P.'
for Northants 1407; died21Jalyl413. (Esch.
1 Henry V. 46.)

Richard Tyndall, = Margaret, dan. William Tyndall, brother
Bon and heir, of of Hugh de and heir, bom at Deene
Deene, aged 18 in Bronnege; wife
1414 ; died 18 Sept. 1413.
1415. (Esch. 3 Hen.
V.7.)

31 Dec. 1397, of Deene
and Tansover ; died 4
Ang. 1426. (Esch. 5 Hen.
VI. 31.)

Clement de Deene, son and heir ; sold
Deene in 1375 to John Tyndall and
Catherine.

'Alana, dan. and heir =2 K Sir Thomas

of Sir Simon Fel-
brigge K.G. ; died
1457. (Esoh. 86 H.
VL 4.) ^

Wanton Kt;
hnsband 143L

Thomas Tyndall, son and heir, aged-
4 in 1426, of Deene and Tansover;
died 29 Sept. 1448. (Esch. 29 Hen.
VI. L)

'Anne, dan. of Sir WiUiam Yelverton
E.B., Jndge of King's Bench.

Sir William Tyndall-
E.B., son and heir, aged
8 in 1450 ; sold Deene in
1486 ; consin and coheir
of Lady Scales 1473 ; died
22 Feb. 1496-7. (Esch.

18 H. vn.)

'Mary, dan. and heir
of Osbert Monde-
ford Esq. of Hook-
wold, Norfolk.

Anne, marr.
Henry Jermy
Esq.

Jane, marr. John
Bleyerhaaset Esq.
of Frenge, Norfolk ;
died 17 June 1521.

1 w. Amphillis, dan. of Sir«f-Sir John Tyndall K.B., Bon=2 w. Winifred, widow of

Humphrey Coningsby Et.,
Judge of King's Bench ; died
18 Jan. 1532-3 ; M.L at Hock-
wold.

2. William Tyndall of
Brentford, Midx. ; marr.
Anne, dan. and heir of
Thos. Beanmeys of Dun-
mow.

and heir, aged 10 in 1497, of Sir Henry Fermor Kt.
Hockwold ; K. B. 31 May 1533 ;
died 1 Oct 1539.

1 1 —

3. Thomas,

1558.

4. Humphrey ;
died unmar.; bur.
14 Sept. 1540.

1. Dobothy; mar. John
Peyton Esq. of Knowl-
ton.

Peyton of Knowlton
and doddinoton.

2. Ursula, mar.
1 h. Richard (Hw-
sell Esq.; 2. h.
William Butts
Esq.

1 1

PEDIGREE OF TYNDALL.

277

8. Anne, marr.

Robert Bacon Esq.

of Harleston.

4. Mary, 1538.

1 w. Anne, dan."
of Sir Wm. Pas-
ton Kt.

■Sir ThomaB Tyndall Et.,<
son and heir, of Hock-
wold; bom 1505; knighted
1553 ; died 1583. WiU.

w. Amy, dan.
of Sir Henry Fer-
mor Et.

5. Beatrix, mar.

Robert Dynne

Esq. of Heydon.

1 w. Anne, dan. = William Tyndall:
of Sir Ambrose Esq. , son and

Jermyn Et. ;
marr. 1556 ;
bnr. 11 Sept.
1575.

heir ; sold Hock-
wold 1584 ; died
Oct. 1591. Will,

:2w. Anne;
Extrix.
1591.

2. William''
Tyndall* the
yonnger/
brother and
heir.

I r

1. Thomasine,

marr. Wm. Cal-

thorpe Esq. of

Ingham.

2. Elizabeth,

mar. Henry Page

of London.

3. Snsan, mar.
1 h. James Whet-
hall; 2 h. Thos.
Fisher of London.

4. Ursula, mar.

1 h. ... Coxey;

2 h. Edward Up-
cher ; died widow
1628, aged 76.

FisHEB Babts.

*MrB.Whel-
dall,' 1627.

3. Sir John Tyn- 4. Humphrey 5. Francis Tyn-
dall Et., Master Tyndall D.D., dall Esq. of Lino,
in Chancery. Master of Queen's Inn; died unmar.
^ Coll. Camb.,Dean 7 Sept. 1631.
Tyndall of of Ely ; died 12 Will.
Maplestead. Oct. 1614, s. p.

6. Henry, of
Bnokenham, Nor-
folk; mar. Doro-
thy Fox ; died 30
May 1592.

I ■ r

Felix Tyndall, son^Susan.widowof Hester, marr. Fran-
Rev. Obadiah cis Bullock Esq. of
Biadshawe; Low Leyton, who
mar. 22 April died 1625.
1619. A

andheir, M. A., Vicar
of Plnmstead, Eent ;
Adm. granted to
widow 2 Feb. 1631-2.

Thomas Tyndall Esq., son and heir, of
Low Leyton, Essex ; occurs 1644, 1651 ;
coheir of the Barony of Scales.

Rebecca, mar.
John Strug-
nell ; wife
1626.

Deborah, marr.
Daniel Bockocke ;
wife 1626.

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 natiye of Norfolk, and was (as I should guess) a younger son of Henry
Tyndall of Old Bnckenham, 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 Bncken-
ham and Banham, which formerly belonged to his father Thomas Tyndall Esq. deceased. (88)

John Tyndall Esq. of St. Clement Danes, London, married 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 Ist Aug.
1638. He left an only child, Amphillis, who was baptized at Greenwich 13th 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)

Eathebine Tyndall married at Greenwich on 28th Nov. 1655 John Merrick. (9)

There are two existing families 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 to p. 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 Tjiidale of Tewkesbury
was the brother of William Tyndale the reformer, and therefore belonged to a family which were settled
at Stinchcombe in Gloucestershire in the reign of Edward lY.

278 THE CHESTERS OP CHICHELEY.

VI.

Sm 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 Deanc 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 Lincoln's Inn, for Ralph Rokeby the younger writes to his nephew
as follows : (90)

' Also in Lincoln's Inn, in the north-east comer chamber, I placed oiu: coat of arms together
with my very loving chamber- fellows' Charles Calthorpe, John Tyndall, and John Stubbs.
So far from 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
TyndcUVg^'woTd of arms Propria quemque, and yet I tell you he beareth the coat arms of the Crown
of Bohemia, whereof by Felbrigg's daughter and heiress 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 would 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 I'eturn 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 charged 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
thoroughly 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 'i^^ndall's
character, for he says : (95)

'I send the case of Bertram, truly stated and collected, and the examination taken hefore
myself and Mr. Solicitor; wherehj it will appear to his Majesty that Sir John Tyndall, as to
his cause, is a kind of martyr ; for if ever he made a just report in his life this was it.'

Sir John 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.

Sib John Tyndall Kt. of Much Maples tead, 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 Will and testament, yet in my reasonable healthe
and understandinge, in manner and form foUowinge : 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 Tyndall 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 Tjmdall 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 Tyndall and his heirs after the death of my wife my house wherein I now
dwell in Much Maplestead, and all other my free land in that parish.

Will proved in C.P.C. 2d Dec. 1610 by Deane Tyndall, the above-named Anno Tyndall the
widow and Francis Tyndall the brother having renoimced probate.

280 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELET.

Sir John Tyndall left issue two sons* and a daughter.

I. Deane Tyndall, son and heir.

II. Arthur Tyndall was, like 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
wiuTidy attached to his brother-in-law John Winthrop that he accompanied him ia
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)

HI. Margaret Tyndall was bom in 1591, and was still unmarried when her
father died, but she married in April 1618 John Winthrop Esq. of Groton in
Suffolk. (9b) 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 oflSce 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
the 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 that the pedigree of the Tindals of Essex, printed in Niohohs's Xtt^ary Ante-
dotet (ix. p. 302), attributes to Bir John Tyndall a son Matthew, who is called Rector of BereaJBton in
Devon, and is said to have been educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, by his unde the Dean of Ely.
This pedigree was drawn up by Rev. Nicholas Tindal, Rector of Alverstoke, Hants, and translator of Rapin,
who describes himself as Matthew's grandson. But it is certain that Bir John l^dall of Maplestead left
no sons except Dcane and Arthur mentioned in the text, and also that Nicholas Tindal of Alverstoke was
the grandson, not of Matthew Tindal, Rector of Berealston, but of John Tindal B.D., Rector of BeerFerrU^
of which parish Berealston is a hamlet. This John Tindal was a native of Kent, and matriculated at
Corpus Chrifiti College, Cambridge in 1622, eight years after the death of the Dean of Ely. He wu
elected a fellow 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 proceeded 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 Rapin^ from whom the late Chief Justice of Common Pleas, Sir Nicholas Tindal,
was lineally descended. The parentage of John Tindal of Beer Ferris, the founder of this family, is
wholly unknown, but it is impossible that he belonged to the Tyndalls of Maplestead.

TYNDALL OF GREAT 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 Recorder 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. (gb)

2. Adam Winthrop was bom at Groton 7th April 1620, and died in New
England in 1652, leaving issue. (96)

3. Deane Winthrop was baptized at Groton 23d Mai-ch 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 June 1620.

To my eldest son Sir John Deane and my 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 silver standisli. 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 ^£4 to be bestowed in a pece of plate. To my son Deane Tindall and to his heirs my gilt
bason and ewer with nest of gilt cupps and salts sutable thereto, and the gilt spones ; and to my
loving daughter-in-law his wife my paier of best borders of goldsmith's work, and my cipresse box
with tills, with such trifles as she shall find in yt. To my goddaughter Ann Tindall my great
silver salt and the trencher salt belonging to yt and ;B20 in money ; and to my grandchild John
Tindall two silver boules, a bigger and a lesser, and my two livery potts and ilO in money. To
my son Arthur Tindall £'30. To our pastor Mr. BUth £S. 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 Freebome 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 Wintliorpe 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 208. value.

Will proved in C.P.C. 2d Nov. 1020 by Deane Tindall. [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 THB CHBSTERS OF CHICHELEY.

in 1 603 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 Eoerton of the Blackfriars, London, Minister. Will dated 12th April 1622.

To my reverend and loving brother Mr. Thomas Egerton £6. To my niece Mrs. Anne Gibson
^6. To my cousin Mary Smith £6. To my servant Christopher Smith ^6. To the poor of
Blackfriars 40*. The residue to my wife Mrs. Sarah Egerton, whom I appoint my sole executrix.
Mr. Richard Stockef and Mr. William Gouge,! ministers, and Mr. Ralph Bovey and Mr. John
Badger, Gentlemen, Attomeys-at-the-law, to be overseers of my Will, and I give to each of them
208. for a ring.

Will proved by the widow 3d June 1622 in C.P.C. [62 Savile.]

Stephen Egerton's widow 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.

Sarah 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, j£100. To my cousin Anne Gibson, widow, ^100. To my
cousin Mrs. Felix Hilderson £'20. To my cousin Mr. Thomas Egerton, Minister of Adstock, Bucks,
j£20, and to his sister Elizabeth Jones JS20.

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-ring. To each of my other broUiers Mr.
Dr. Crooke and Richard Crooke, || Clerk, 40«. for rings. To my niece Alice Crooke daughter to my

® From the Parish Register of St. Anne^tf 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.

f Richard StockCy a native of York, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and was incor-
porated M.A. at Oxford, 15th Jnly 1595. (102) He was presented to the Rectory of All Hallows, Bread-
street, London, 8th March 1610-11, and held this preferment until his death on 20th April 1626. (103)
He was a zealoas Puritan, and held so high a reputation as a preacher and theologian, that Fuller do^
not hesitate to say that *he for thirty-two years did advance 6od*8 glory more than both the saints
St. Simon Stocke and St. Simon Stylites.' (104)

\ William Gmige^ 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 sacceeded 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 impropnations 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 hononrably mentioned for his piety
and learning by foreign theologians of the Geneva discipline. (105) He died 12th December 1658, at the
age of seventy-nine, and was bnried at the Blackfriars on 16th Dec.

§ Samuel Crooke^ a Presbyterian, the Minister of Wrington, Somerset, died in 1649. (108)

II Richard Crooke occurs Bector 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 40«. each for a ring. Mr. Gouge, Lecturer of the Blackfriars, to be supervisor of my
Will, and I give him 40». 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 TyndaU 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 bom 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 of Feering. (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 of Hock wold 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.

1. Francis Tyndall, son and heir apparent, was aged nineteen in 1634, and
died unmarried soon afterwards in his father's lifetime.

n. John Tyndall, surviving son and heir.

ni. Drue Tyndall was a merchant at Hamburg, and died without issue in
1665, leaving a widow named Abigail.

Drue Tyndall. Will dated at Hamburg, 30th Nov. 1663.

Legacies to my father if living at my decease, to my brother John Tyndall, and to the two
children of my sister Anne Bowater. My executrix to bind Samuel Vans apprentice to a Merchant
Adventurer 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. [64 Hyde.]

IV. Deane Tyndall died young and unmarried, and was buried at Great
Maplestead on 23d March 1633-4.

L 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 CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

II. Elizabeth Tyndall was living in 1634, and died unmarried.

John TynBALL, 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 Elizabeth Deane,
married at Great Maplestead on 8 th 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 3500^ 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 hushand by his Will dated 17th March now last past 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 disobliged me by her
marriage, notwithstanding which I wish to make provision for her and her issue ; I hereby devise
all my lands and tenements in Yorkshire and Essex to Hutton Perkins Esq. of Lincoln's Inn and
John Comthwaite 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 Comthwaite to be my executors.
To be buried in the Church 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 sufficiently dear from the Parish
Kcgister of Maplestead that Anthony was not her father, but her brother, for he was baptized' let Jvly
1630, and Elizabeth was baptized 9th Feb. 1682-3. (97}

TTNDALL OF GREAT MAPLESTBAD.

285

Lncy Blythman, dan. and heir of Jasper Blyth-*?»Rey. Charles King, of Chelmshoe House in Great
man Esq. by Elizabeth Tjndall ; marr. 1738. I Maplestead, jore ox.

Elizabeth Anne Eing,«
dan. and coh.; nnm. 1764;
wife 1768; bnr. at Ealing
27 April 1779.

'Rey. William Camp- Lnoy King, dan. and ooh. ;^Rey. Richard Bnllock D.D.,

bell, of Beading.

14 Aug. 1741 at
Maplestead ; mar. 1 Deo.
1768; bnr. 24 April
1784.*

Rector of St. Paul's, Coyent
Garden, and Streatham. Sur-
rey; d. 4 Oct. 1809, aged 80 ;
M.I.at St. Paul's, C.G.

Ellen Campbell,dau.
and heir ; bapt. 12
May and bur. 17
Oct. 1772.

William BullockEsq."
Secretary of Ja-
maica ; bapt. 29 May
1770 ;• d. 1832.

'Elizabeth,
wid. 1848.

Edward Bullock M. A.,
Rector of Hambledon,
Surrey ; bapt. 21 May
1774;* d. 11 Jan. 1850,
s. p.

— I 1

Lucy Bullock, m.

John Lateward

Esq.

Harriet Bullock,

nnm. 1809.

«^ I 1 r—

William, died Lucy, coh. Marianne, coh. ;= Sir James

31 Oct. 1812, 1860. marr. 7 Sept. Dawes

aged 16. 1815 at Hamp- Douglas

stead. K.C.B.

Emily, marr. 1 June^Y^ohn Cay Esq.,
1819 ; bur. 24 June Adyooate.
1836.

John Cay Esq., bom 13
July 1820; ooh. in 1860.

Registers not specified are from St. Laurence, Reading ; * from Dry Drayton, Cambs. The other dates

are deriyed from the printed Eridence in the Scales Peerage Case.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(i) Harl. M88. 1912; Register of Gray's Inn.
(i) Inq. p. m. Job. Peyton Arm. 1 Eliz. No. 104.

(3) Inq. p. m. Joh. Langley Arm. 11 Hen. YIII.

No. 92.

(4) Philipott Villare Cantianum, p. 209; Has-

ted's Hist, of Kent, 8yo, x. 87-94.

(5) Plrobatio SBtatis Thonue Peyton ; Esch. 18

Hen. VI. No. 16.
(5A)Common Pleas Rolls; Fines and Recoyeries,
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. Collections.

(10) Wilford's Memorials and Characters, fol.

1741, p. 469.
(ioA)Dring*s List of Compounders, 1655.
(lOB)Bridges's Hist, of Northamptonshire, ii. 476.

(11) Mss. in Coll. of Arms ; Philipot, 32, fo. 29;

Dale, H to Z, 25 ; Morant's Hist, of Essex,
yol. ii. p. 280 ; Harl. mss. 1411, fo. 69.

(11) Blomefield's Hist, of Norfolk, 8yo, yoL ii
p. 181.

(i 3) Esch. 32 Edw. HI. No. 32 ; Bridges' North-
ants, ii. 486.

14) Bridges' Northants, ii. 300; Idem, ii. 338.

15) Cal. Rot. Orig. in Scacc. Abbrey. 51, Edw.

ni. yol. ii. p. 350.

1 6) Inq. p. m. Joh. Tyndall, 1 Hen. V. No. 46.

1 7) Inq. p. m. Ric. Tyndall, 3 Hen. V. No. 7.

18) Probatio letatis Willielmi Tyndall, Esch. 8

Hen. V. 117.

1 9) Beltz Memorials of the Garter, pp. 369-73.

20) Rymer's Foedera, Blague edition, yol. iii.

part iii. pp. 110-11.

21) Rot. Pat. 18 Rich. II. part ii. 7 April.

22) Inq. p. m. Willielmi Tyndall, 5 Hen. VI.

No. 31.

23) Will of Sir Simon Felbrigge K.G. in Testa-

menta Vetusta, p. 245.

24) Inq. p. m. Alanaa Wanton, 36 Hen. VI. No. 4.

25) Inq. p. m. Thoma Tyndall, 29 Hen. VI.

No. 1.

26) Inq. p. m. Joh. Bleyerhasset Arm. 2 Hen. VIII.

4 April ; Cotman's brasses.
26A)Morant's Hist, of Essex, yol. ii p. 153.

27) Inq. p. m. Eliz. ux Antonii Comitis Riyers,

13 Edw. IV. No. 45.

28) Esch. 2 Hen. VII. 31 Oct.

29) Inq. p. UL Osberti Mondeford, 20 Edw. IV.

No. 19.
(30) Catalogue of Knights, in Cotton mss. Claudius
C. 111.

286

THE CHESTEB8 OF CHICHELEY.

(30A)Blomefield*8 Norfolk, Sro, ix. 23.

(3 1 ) Inq. p. m. Willielmi Tyndall Mil. 13 Hen. VII.

27 June.

(32) Close Roll, 31 Hen. YIII. part ii. 29 Oct.

(3 3) Life of Dr. Cljffe in Cooper's Athense Cantab,
i. 66.

(34) Close Boll, 1 Eliz. part vi. 20 March.
(34A)Common Plea RoUs, 29 Hen. YIII. ; Mich.

Reynesby v. Tendall.
(34B)6enealogy of the Family of Tyndale, by
B. W. Greenfield Esq., fol., London, 1843,
privately printed.

(35) Grants, il. 598, in Coll. of Arms.

(36) Visitation of Norfolk, 1563.

(37) Pedigree of Bacon, in the edition of the

Norfolk Visitation, 1563, printed with
Proofs and Additions in the Norfolk Ar-
chaBologia.

(38) Pedigrees of Coningsby in Clntterbnok's

Herts, vol. i. p. 444 ; and Collins' Peerage,
1741, vol. iii. p. 264, <fec.

(39) Shaw's Hist, of Stafifordshire, vol. i. p. 411.

(40) Dugdale's Hist, of Warwickshire.

(41) Nash's Hist, of Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 12.

(42) Idem, vol. 1. p. 584.

(43) Foss's Judges, voL v. p. 144.

(44) Inq. p. m. Jacobi Hckering, Arm. 14 Hen.

VII.

(45) Inq. p. m. Annaa ox Hnmfridi Coningsby,

mil. et antea Jacobi Pykering Arm. 17
Hen. Vin.

(46) Brewer's Calendars of Hen. VIII.

(47) Inq. p. m. Christopheri Pickering, mil. 10

Hen. Vin.

(48) Inq. p. m. Hnmfridi Coningsby, mil. 27 Hen.

VIII. 26 Sept.

(49) Ponlson's Hist of Holdemess, vol. ii. p. 518.

(50) Wood's AtheniB Oxon. 1727, toI. i. p. 60.

(51) Life of Judge W. Coningsby in Athense Can-

tab, i. 76 ; Foss's Judges, vol. y. p. 145.

(52) Dugdale's Origines JuridioiaL

(5 3) Inq. p. m. Rioardi Berkeley Arm. 5 Hen. VIII.;
Pedigree of Botetourt and Berkeley in
Blore's Rutlandshire.

(54) Ped. of Fitz- James in Hutchins' Dorset, 1871,

vol. iy. p. 129 ; ArohsBologia, zxzv. 305-9 ;
AthensB Oxon. 1727, vol. i. p. 661.

(55) Campbell's Lives of Chief Justices, vol. i.

p. 160.

(56) Poulson's Holdemess, vol. ii p. 470.

(57) Chronicle of Calais, Camden Soc. p. 175.

(58) Machyn's Diary, Camden Soc. p. 335.

(59) Rot. Pat. 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, 15 Nov.

(60) Close Roll, 26 Eliz. 20 Jan.

(61) Close Rolls, 36 Hen. VIII. 14 May.

(62) Master's Hist, of C. C. CoU. Camb. 4to, 1753.

(63) Patent Rolls, 7 Eliz. 18 Sept.

(64) Spelman's Icenia sive Norfolciie descriptio,

ed. Gibson, fol. 1727.

(65) Fuller's History of Cambridge.

(66) Vehse'B Court of Austria, translated by F.

Denmiler, 1856, voL i. p. 272.

(67) Gage's Hist, of Thingo Hundred.

(68) Will of Sir Ambrose Jermyn Kt. (15 Dongfa-

tiy in C.P.C.)

(69) Life of Dr. Humphrey Tyndall in Searie'a

Hist, of Queen's Coll. Cambridge, part ii
pp. 350-404.

(70) Public Record Office, Domestic, Eliz. roL

cxlviii. 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 Tyndall in Harl. mss. 6093, fo. 138.
(78A)Clo8e Roll, 38 Eliz. Aug. 13.
(78B)Close Roll, 7 James I. Feb. 23.

(79) Inq. p. m. Frandsci Tyndall Arm. 7 Car. I.

March 2.

(80) Inq. p. m. Henrid Tyndall de Buckenham

Norf . 36 Eliz. part ii. No. 28, and 40 Elii.
part u. No. 107.

(81) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, ix. p. 322.

(82) Pedigree of Fisher in HarL MSB. 1504, fo. 78.

(83) Clutterbuck's Herts, iii. p. 2da

(84) Tomline's Perambulation of Islington.

(85) Close Roll, 20 Chas. I. part iii. No. 11.

(86) Bill in Chancery, Tyndall v. Devisher, T. 7,

No. 10.

(87) Close Roll, 1651, pp. 2 and 68.

(88) Chancery Decrees, 9 Will. III. pt. 607, No.

12, Clarke v. l^ndall.

(89) Ped. of Tyndall in ^sitation of Essex, 1634.

(90) Whitaker's Hist, of Richmondshire.

(91) Hardy's Catalogue of Chancellors and Chan-

cery Officials, 1843, p. 89.

(92) Inq. p. m. Willielmi Deane Arm. 27 Eliz.

Oct. 27; Morant's Hist, of Essex, iL
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. 462.

(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) Atheme Oxon. 1727, voL i. Fasti, p. 125.
(100) Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. pp. 280, 915.
(loi) Fuller's Church History, 1845, vol. v. p. 265.

(102) AthenaB Oxon. 1727, vol. i. Fasti, p. 150.

(103) Newcourt, vol. i. p. 246.

(104) Fuller's Church History, yoL iii. p. 277.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. 287

(105) Athena Oxon. 1727, vol. L Fasti, p. 184. < (no) Morant'a Essex, ii. p. 171.

(106) Fnller's Church History, vi p. 69; Rush- (in) Inq. p.m. Roberti Weston Arm. 2 Jac. I.
worth's Collections, ii. p. 160. July 26.

(107) Smith's Hist, of Cork, 8yo, 1760, vol. i. p.

276.

(108) Atheme Oxon. 1727, voL ii. p. 661.

(109) Newcourt, i. p. 461.

(112) Ped. of Tyndall in Vis. of Essex, 1664.

(113) Gentleman's Magazine.

(114) Evidence in Scales Peerage Case, p. 686.

WILL OF SIR SIMON FELBRIGGE KG. (23)

The abstract of this Will, printed in the Testamenta Vetustay 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 Felbrigge Kt. Will dated at Nonvicli, on St. Matthew's day, 2l8t Sept. 1442.

To be buried in the church of the Friars Preachers at Noi-wich. To Felbrigge Church 100*.

AVhereas I am seised of the manors of Felbrigge, &c. in Norfolk, Braiseworth in Suffolk, and
Sharpenho and Streatley in Beds, jointly with my wife Catherine for life, with remainder to
Balph Lord Cromwell and my other feoffees to the uses of my Will; I direct that my said
manors in Norfolk be sold for payment of my debts and legacies, and for performance of my
Will. And I devise to my daughter Alana, wife 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, coloured red and white, with my arms (de serico, coloris rubei
et albi, cum armis meis), to Thomas Tendale when he shall come to his fuU 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 while ISs, 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, Oliver Groos Esq., John Damme, John Baker parson of Felbrigge,
Thomas Stanley clerk, and Thomas Hayleston to be my executors.

Will proved in C.P.C. 20 Feb. 1442-3 by Catherine the widow. [14 Rouse.]

THE MABRUGES OF SIR THOMAS PEYTON, 2d BART. OF KNOWLTON (p. 249).

From the Parish Register 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 Thomaa Peyton Bart., widower, aged about 33, to marry Dame Cecily Swan,
widow, about 83, in the Chapel of Durham House, Middlesex {from Bishop of London's Registry).

1666-7. Feb. 28. Sir Thomas Peyton Bart., of Knowlton, Kent, widower, to maiTy Dame Jano
Thomhill, of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, widow, at St. Mary, Savoy, or any other church in Londpu
or Middlesex {from Faculty Office),

288

THE CHESTBBS OF CHICHELEY.

PEDIGREE OF PEYTON OF DODDINGTON, SHOWING THEIB CONNEXION WITH THE

BARONETS OF ISELHAM AND KNOWLTON.

Sir Robert Peyton Et. of Isel-^^Elizabeth Clere.
ham, d. 18 March 1517-18.

1. Sir Robert=T*FranceB Hasil

Peyton Kt. of
Iselham, d. 1
Aug. 1550.

den, d. 1582
(ped.atp.217).

2. John Peyton-

Esq. of Enowlton,

Kent, d. 22 Oct.

1553.

"Dorothy
TyndaU
(ped. at
p. 276).

Robert=f»Eliz. dan. of 1. Sir ThoB. 2. Sir John-fDorotliy

Peyton
Esq. of
Iselham,
d. 19 Oct.
1590.

Sir John Peyton Et. and*

Bart, of Iselham, bar.

19 Dec. 1616.

Lord Chan- Peyton Et.

cellor Rich, ofKnowlton,

d. 17 Oct. d. 1611.
1691. y

Peyton Babts.
OF Enowlton.

Peyton Et. of
Doddington,
lient. of the
Tower andGoT.
of Jersey, d. 4
Nov. 1630.

'Alice Osborne, d. 1626
(ped. at p. 237).

Beanprg

Lady

Bell.i

Feb.

1602-3

(ped.it

p. 300);

Sir Edward Peyton Et. and
Bart, of Iselham, d. 1657.

Alice Peyton, marr. 25 Not.
1602 ; occ. widow, 1638.

n 1

1. Robert Peyton 2. Algernon Peyton^
Esq. of Doddington, D.D. brother and

-Sir John Peyton Et. of Dodding-
ton, died 1635. WilL

d. 1658, s.p.

3. Henry, d. nnm.

heir, of Doddington,
bur. 9 March 1667-8
at St. George's,
Sonthwark.

1. Sir John Pey-
ton, son and heir
appt. ; created
Bart. 1660; died
25Dec.l660,nnm.
1. Dorothy, died
young.

2. Sir Algernon-
Peyton Bart., son
and heir, of Dod-
dington; created
21 Mar. 1666-7;
marr. 19 Nov.
1667; died 1671.

'Eliza, dan. of
John Cooke
Esq. of Chis-
hall Magna,
Essex.

Elizabeth Peyton,

marr. in 1623

Sib Anthony Chesteb

Bart, of Chicheley.

•

Five dans. •U

married (see

p. 315-18).

Anne Peyton, marr.

at Elm, 15 Jane

1698, PhiUp BeU

Esq. of WalUngton.

■Frances, dan. and
h. of Sir Robert
SewsterEt.; rem.
18 Jan. 1673-4
CoLJohn Shelton;
died 1685. Will.

3. Henry, Brig'.- 3. Alice, mair. 1 h. Dr.

Gen^; died 1724, JohnNalson of Doddington,

who died 1686 ; 2 h. John
Cremer Esq. , who died 1703;
died widow 18 Ang. 1717.

unm.

2. Elizabeth, mar.
Gregory Parlet
Esq. of Down-
ham.

Sir Sewster Peyton Bart. of«
Doddington, son and heir;
Master of the Bnckhonnds to
Queen Anne ; died 28 Dec.
1717 ; bnr. 5 Jan.

I 1

Anne, mar. Richard

Dashwood Esq. ; d.

widow 1781, s.p.

Henrietta, d. unm.;

bur. 1 Nov. 1721.

'Anne, dau. of Qeo. Dash- Algemina,*f<!ol.George

wood. Aid. of London ; posthn-

marr. at Westminster mons; died

Abbey, 17 July 1701; widow

bur. 16 April 1761. 1748.

Sir Thos. Peyton Bart. = Bridget, dau. of Henry, d.

of Doddington, son and Thos. Skeffing- unm. 25

ton Esq. ; mar. Sept. ;

1732; bur. 29 bur. 8 Oct.

Dec. 1762. 1741.

B.p.

Dashwood,
m.atI>own-
ham,4Jnne
1698; died
1706.

Margaret^fOeo. Dash-

heir ; Sheriff of Cambs.
1743 ; d. 29 June 1771 ;
bur. 13 July.

Peyton, mar.
9 June 1728.

wood Esq.,
sonandheir,
died 1762.

Djlbhwood how Pxitov,
Babts. or Doddinotox.

PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 289

CHAPTER XV.

The Right Honourable Sir John Peyton Kt.^ of Doddington^ 1541-1630.
IT. Lady Peyton^s descent from Sir John Hawkwood. III. The Peytons of
Doddington. IV. 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 John 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 afiFairs
in Ireland offered the best field for gaining military distinction. His father's friend
and neighbour. Sir Henry Sidney of Penshurst, 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.*

• From the Parish Register of Outwelly Norfolk .•

1578. June 8. John Peyton Esq. and Dua Dorothea Bell married. [The year is misprinted 1579 in
the pedigree of Bell at p. 120.]

1567-8. Feh. 17. Edmond Beaupr6 Esqnier buried.

1559. Oct. 15. Robert Bell Esq. and Dorothy Beanpr^ married.

290 THE CHESTERS OP CHICIIELEY.

Dorothy Lady Bell was the only child of Edmond Beauprd Esq. of Beaupri Hall
in the parish of Outwell in Norfolk, by his second \vife 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* Robert Bell Esq.,
a barrister of the Middle Temple, who was elected M.P. for Lynn Regis in 15G2,
and Speaker of the House of Commons 10th May 1572. He was knighted by Queen
EUzabeth, 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. She 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 19tli Sept. 1585: (3)

* It being generally reported that I shall be 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 oflScer 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 suppHes.
One of his lettersj 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 mypedif^ree of Bell at p. 120, that Beaupre Bell, the fourth son of the Lord
Chief Baron and Lady Peyton, matriculated a Pensioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 2Bd Jan.
1587-8, and was elected a Fellow of Queen's College in Feb. 1592-3. (7) He was one of the Fellows of
Queen's who subscribed a letter written by the Society to Lord Burghley, on lOth Nov. 1695, (8) but
vacated his FeUowship before Michaelmas 1597. His brother Philip Bell matriculated a Pensioner
at Queen's College 3d June 1690, being then in his sixteenth year. (7)

I This letter is not included in The Correspondence of the Earl of Leicester during his Government 0/
the Low Countries 1586-6, edited by Bruce, and published by the Camden Society 1844.

PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 291

Mb. John Peyton to the Earl of Leicesteb.'^

Maye it please jour Ex*' moste humbly to be advertised, That whereas there are iij Dache
Companyes .... heather by your Ex*^' [illegible] Captayne Bodenburge his Companye, which
came owte of Sir Martyne Skynke his Skouce, 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 Martjme
Skynke's Redg [em*] being very weake and as yett unmustered, [nor] have thaye eny raony or order
taken for ther vyc [tualles] and our Companyes heare are so barely provyded for, [that] we cannot
spare them enythinge. There is also by . . . potent ofCounte(B)Hollockes, Captayne Marchant of . . .
Coronell Ffremyn his Redgement, Removed owt of . . . Slunart [Sluys] unto Wawe Castell. liis
Company 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 provyded for, I wyll procure amongst the Burghers some vyctualls as shall se [rvc]
them for viij or x dayes, by which tyme I hoope to hear fuilher of your pleasure the wliich I moste
humbly de [sire] with suche expedytyon as shall seem good unto your [Ex*''] . There hath byu at
Antwarpe a Tryommphe to persw [ade] the people 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 tliem as yett beleeve it. I understand
from them [that] there is a preparatyon made of fflatt bottome shypps for ordynance, and it is
gathered that thaye are prep [ared] for Germons, for otherwyse thaye holde a parcell .... unre-
coverable. Uppon this advertyzement I have sent unto Coronell 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 gar}'-

sones in his (viz. owt of Landercees, Cambrey, Quesnoy, Bond, and others) 600 or 700

horse men, and are yett in Halle and there abowtes neer Brusells. It is thowght that [they] ar
apoynted.for Flanders to be there employed by Lamott (c), whoe as it is sayed hatlie gatliered 2000
foot and lyeth abowt Bruges. Thus moste humbly yeldinge my selfe and ser\'yse unto your
Ex*'* disposyon, with my prayei*s for your Ex*^''** honorable successe I moste humbly take my leave.
Bargayne uppon Some, this xj of October 1580.

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 Beaupr^ 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 11 for t; and y for f /t, which were customary at that period, but are now more or less uninteUigible.

(a) Sir Martin Schencky a noble of Guelderland, was one of the most gallant captains in the EngUsh
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 serrice, but conceiying himself to be neglected by the Prince of Parma, he
went oyer to the Dutch in 1585.

(b) Count Philip of HohenlohCy who married Mary of Nassau, and was appointed by the Btates-
Oeneral 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-
tinni PardiKUB Mottse dominns.'

292 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELET.

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 who 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 50^ on his committal and as
much more on his discharge, and even prisoners of lower degree had to pay 201. on
tlieir entrance and 50/. on their release. (14) The conspiracy therefore 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 17tli Feb. 1600-1 to search the person and clothes of
the Earl of Essex for a paper which he was said to carry in a black bag or purse ;
and it appears from the following letter tliat the Lieutenant performed this hateful
office of a gaoler in person. (15)

Sir John Pkyton to the Earl of Nottingham, Lord Hcnsdon, and Sir Robert Cecil.

Bight honorable, according to her majestyes pleasure singniiicd in your honours letters, I hare
this morning repayred unto the Erie of Essex chamber and ther attended untill he called for a
sliirte to shifte hym selfe in his bedde, wher uppon I made knowno unto hym the cawse of my
cuming, and used pei*swading spenches unto hym toching the delyvery of the Blacke Bagge con-
ce3'ved to rema^-ne 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 apparrell, 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 speachcs the Erie used in the tyme I was making searche for the
bagge and papers : most humbly takeing my leave

Your honors humbly

John Peyton.

Towre, this 18 of feabruari, ICOO.

But although Peyton was strict in the performance of his oflSce, there is good
ground to believe that he was personally gentle and courteous in his behaviour to
the prisoners, for Henry CuflPe, the unfortunate secretary of Lord Essex, made his
Will after his conviction, and it contains the following clause: (16)

I doe alsoc desyre that £100 may be given to my worthy Mend Sir John Peyton, Lieatenant

PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 293

of the Tower, at whose haudes I have found all kynde favours aud Christiau 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 James, 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 tliere is
an opposition against right intended, the which I am sure is as far removed from every of your
Honours' resolutions, as it is from mine to do anything that may prejudice your 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 w^as 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 recommending 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 tirst person on whom he
bestowed the honour of knighthood. ( 1 8) 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 CHESTEBS OF CHICHBLBY.

Peyton's dismissal from the Lieutenancy of the Tower and his appointment to tlie

command of Jersey were communicated to him in an autograph letter firom tbe

King. (19)

King James I. to Sib John Peyton Kt.
Trusty and welbeloved
For asmuch as we have thought good to ease you of that charge, which you have of Lientf of
our Tower, wherein you have behaved yourselfe with great care and fidellitie both to the Qneene
our syster deceased and to us, We have appointed some of our Conncell to receave the same at
your handes and to delyver it over to our trusty and welbeloved 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 his ofifice of Captain of oar Isle of
Jersay, wliicli being a place of importance requirith to be speedely supplyed with a meet person
to looke to the government therof, we have made choice of you to supply that place. Andtheifore
doe require you ymmediately after the delivery up of your charge of the Tower to put yourself in
order to goe thither with all convenyent speed. 30 July 1603.

Sir John Peyton lost no time in obeying the King's commands, for it appears from

the records of Jersey that he assumed his oflSce as governor, and administered the

oaths to the local parliament on 2d Sept. 1603. (20) He was scarcely estabUshed

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 subject 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. His 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 uivolved, as to what would happen

on Queen Elizabeth's death. (21)

Sir John Peyton Kt. Governor 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 yonr
noble nature and honorable care, to coutynewe his Ma^*^' graceious good opinion Towards me, By
the wyche you have extended my former bands of affectyon love and servyse beyonde the
bowuds of 13'mytatyon, what therfore I shall want in extemall means or powre, I wyll supply
^vith my pray res to God that he maye multiply all honors and blessings nppon you and your pos-
teiytye. Tocheing tlie Erie of lyncolnes his imputatyous layed uppon me, his fassion is, to cod-
dempe the worlde, if therby he myght excuse hym selfe. I have therfore sent your lordship
hereinclosed, a Trewe relatyon of all his discowrses, witli there oryginall motyves and cyrcum-
stances depending uppon them, ha veing with the first wynde dispached this bearer mr. Fowleswith
them, desiring not to lyve one mynute longer then I may reste assured of my deare Soveraynge
liis favore, whom the lorde preseai've with all his Hoiall progeney, in happines and Tiiomphe 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 PETToar.
(Addressed) To the Bight honorable the lorde Cycell principall

Secretory to his Ma^< and one of the lords of his hyghnes

most honorable pryvy Councell at the Cowrte.
(Sealed with crest — ^A griffin scgant.)

PEYTON OF DODDINOTON. 295

Enclosure.

A trewe relatjon of some speacho as passed betwen my lorde of Ijncolne and me some feawe
dayes before her Ma^^* decesse ai^d witliin 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) discoviTsed of her Ma*^" weakenes concluding ther was no hoope of her
recoverj'e. The which I well understood from an Imminent per8one\ in the State, Unto whom I
^yh *^^^ "'y ionne to courte for that purpose. This occasion thus offered, and my former under-
standing (from some of his Ma*^*" minysters) of the Erie of Lyncolnes good affectyon to our nowe
soveraynge, moved me in generall to sownde liis resolution, in the poynte of succession ; carrying
me selfe in covert Termes ; for that I was not Ignorant of the nature 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 our 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 secur) tye (wliich I knewe he did somewhat respecte) as
I cowlde. I further perswaded hym that to wyshe and proteste well was not suffytyent, 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 fumishe hym
selfe, advyseing hym (that when God showlde determj'ne of her Ma*^** Tyme) to addresse hym
selfe with hys meanes and attendants unto some suche place as myght be of moste importance for
his Ma^* servyse. hereuppon he determyned to send his mony plate and Juells unto me into
the Towre, and to cum thether hym selfe with 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 tyme 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 cycurastances) 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*^** 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 tlie 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 allyance
frenda and means, no tyme myght be omitted in Interpoosing agaynst his purpoose, althowgth with
some danger, in regard of the present tyme, and therfore disired his lordship conceyve what was
to be done in that case, praying him to partyculerryse the cawse and personne in more open
Tearmes, wher uppon his 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 muche marvayled, for that ther was no great correspondence betwen them, this 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 Uttle credit or consideration. His
oondnot during his 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 addressed to the Lords of the Council, by Roger
Follshaw of Waddingworth in Lincolnshire, Gent., complaining of the most horrible outrages and praying
for protection against them. (22) The Earl's ciroumstances were embarrassed, and the extremities to
wliich he was redaced for raising money are pitifully set forth in a letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, which
ig dated 7th Jan. 1699-1600, and is printed by Lodge. (22) He died 9th Sept. 1616.

f 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 Cecil's sister ; but there was no friendship between them, for the Earl

296 THE CHESTEKS OF CHICHELET.

being onely but one of that qualytye dwelling there. This noble man and he, being (after dioner)
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 caro for the common good of tlie State in tlie cawse of succession, in the which
hym selfe, meaning the Erie of lyncolne, ought to have more regarde then others, becawse he had
a Nephewe of the bludde Hoiall, (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 frends that wolde make hj^m a partye, of the which ther was a president in
former tymes, he also as the Erie of lyncolne sayed invayed muche aga^-nste the natyon of the
Scotts, and began to enter into questyon of his Ma*^** Tytle, wher uppon my lorde of lyncolne las
he Towlde me) Brake of his discowrse, absolutely disalowing all that the great noble man had
moved in suche sorte as he desysted 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
suddaynly 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 actyon, 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 tlier wer eny
messwages or meetyngs betwen the Frenche imbassador and hym, whome I must confesse I
suspected.

At tlie firste aprehention of my lorde of lyncolnes 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 rayse eny combustyon in
the State, as I never feered eny danger to proseed from so feeble a fowndation ; but added a more
vigiUancye and care unto tlie 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 tlie victuallyng of suche extraordinary assistants as
were to be drawne into the Towre, for that it was certaynly informed botlie to me selfe, and to
my lord of Sowthamton ; from whome I did not conceale this discowrse, that her Ma*^ cowlde
not lyre 24 howres. Within lesse then Two dayes after (as I remember) It pleased God to call
her Ma*y* to His mercy, and our deere Soverayuge was proclaymed and the proclamatyon shortely
after printed, and the former spetyfied great noblemans name attested in the sayed proclamatyon,
as joyneing in the same with the reste of tlie 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*^* decesse at which tyme my lord of lyncolne spake not eny more of that
matter. The 3d tyme of my conferrence with ni}- lord of lyncolne was after my lord of kynloosse ic)
his arrivall ; at which tyme he being with me in the Towre, I towlde hym that nowe we myght
discowrse with more frecdome and leysure then when hir Ma"* lyved, and then I asked hym these

had taken mortal offence at Lord Bnrghley's refusal to save the Duke of Norfolk's life, for whom he had
earnestly interceded. It is recorded in the Parish Register of Hackney that * Edward de Yere Earl of
Oxenford' was buried there on 6th Jnly 1604.

(b) Henry Lord Hastings, grandson and heir presumptive of George fourth Earl of Huntingdon, was at
this time under sixteen years of age, and was the lineal heir of George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence.
Henry second Earl of Lincoln was his granduncle by marriage only through hia first wife Catherine,
daughter of Francis second Earl of Hantingdon. (23)

(c) Edward Bruce, titular Abbot of Kinloss in Elginshire, came to England as Ambassador with the
Earl of Mar in 1601, on the execation 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 Brace of
Kinloss in Scotland 22d Feb. 1602-8, and was sent to England with confidential instmctions immediately
after the King's accession. He was a member of the Privy Council of both kingdoms, and was api>ointed
Master of the Rolls for life 8th Jnly 1601. He died 14th Jan. 161011, and was the ancestor of the Earli
of Elgin and of Aylesbury. (13)

PEYTON OF DODDINGTON. 297

qaestyons, firste whether he had discovered eny other persons to be concenting unto the purpoose
of sending his nephewe, the lord Hastings into France, secondly whether he knewe of eny second
personne unto whom tlie 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 concerns
his Ma'y** servj'se, and so leafte the discovery of his owne knowleage to hym selfe, conceyving
that if he showlde fayle in the performance tlierof, he wolde also deny his reports made unto me.
Rather then to acknowledge it uppon the other Erie, who as h}Tn selfe dowbted wolde absolutely
disavowe the same, Uppon this consyderation also, tliat the noble man whom he accused, was
with the Cowncell and the other lords, at the proclamatyon of his Ma*^*, no lykelyhoode of prouflfe
or other circumstances but onely my lord of lyncolnes reporte, and the danger in all apparence
being passed. The which notwy thstanding I acquavnted my lord of kinloose with thus muche,
That all 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 (o) 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 this 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 tlieir Tume before his Ma^^' tytle and ryght were setled,
excepte her Ma*'" sycknes (which was unlykely) showld prove langwyshyng and contynew a longe
tyme, so as the preestes faction myght 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
piisoner in the Towre, whome I knowe to be faythfuU to his Ma*^®, and therfore 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 further corresspondence with
them, and this is all bothe in substance and cyrcumstances 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 loyall and an Intyre harte searve his Ma^, and his commands shalbe my
lawe ontyll the birthing 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 houBeLold in Scotland, was in the secret of Cecil's
eorrespoDdence 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 office of Cofferer 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 Went worth, and in 1633 was committed a prisoner to the Fleet, and impoverished by heavy fines
amounting to 8000/. (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)

(f) Chamoek the priest received a full pardon soon after the arrival of King James in London, although
Bishop Bancroft wrote to Cecil on 8th Aug. 1603 to protest against such indolgenoe to priests. (3)

298 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

record of any further correspondence on the subject, and he retained his 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 James granted the fee simple to Sir John Peyton for a
nominal consideration. (27) The manor of Doddington carried with it the advowson,
which was 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 1()28, 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 bom 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 prseclarce hujus Familiae funera,

Pater Algemonus Peyton, Baronettus ;

Proavus Johannes Peyton, literatissimas Miles ;

Neo non abavns Johannes, ejusdem ordinis lucidom decus.

Quern pro prudentia summa spectatissima fide

Et in arduis BeipublicsB negotiis peritia

Londinensis Turris Prsfectum,

Et a secretis constituit Elizabetha Regina ;

Quern etiam pacificus Rex Jacobus

Insularum JarseisB et Guemseiffi Custodem creayit.

Avi vero Algemoni Peyton S.T.P.

Hujus olim Ecclesiie Rectoris, ac manerii Dni,

Ecclesia Sancti Georgii de Southwark juxta Londinom

Tumulum gloriatur.

Placidum agite soporem

Dilecti, nobiles, beati Cinerei.

THE ANCESTORS OF DOROTHY LADY PEYTON. 299

Sir John Pejrton acquired great wealth during his long period of office, and
bestowed handsome portions on his granddaughters when they married. It appear^
fi-om Lady Chester's post-nuptial settlement (which has been set forth at p. 115)
that her grandfather gave her bOOOZ. ; 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 bom in his
bouse. Sir John made no Will, and letters of administration were granted on 12th
May 1631 to his only son Sir John Peyton the younger.

Dame Dorothy 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 OutweU.

Her father Edmond Beaupr^ 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 w^as only 14 years old when his father Nicholas Beaupre died
on 20th Feb. 1513-14, but a considerable portion of liis 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 wife Margery, daughter of Sir John Wiseman Kt. of Great
Thomham, 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 Beaupr6 Hall and Southacre. He
died 14th Feb. 1567-8, and was buried at OutweU on 17th Feb. (5)

The genealogy of the Beaupr^s is sufficiently set forth in Blomefield's History
of Norfolk^ (5) and therefore need not be repeated here ; but the maternal descent
of Edmond Beaupr^ from the famous Sir John Hawkwood, and the different families
of wliich 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 oyer a long period of time. Sir John Peyton was six years old
when Henry VIII. died, and he sui-vived by five years and a half the day, 10th May 1625, on which
Dorothy Chester was bom in his house at Doddington. Dorothy married Colonel John fHsher, a Cavalier,
whose estate was sequestered by the Parliament in 1645. She died in the full possession of her sdnses
and faculties at the age of ninety-one on 19th Feb. 1717, at Methley Hall in Yorkshire, the seat of her
grandson John Shan Esq. {see p. 168). Mrs. Fisher was intimately acquainted with her great-grandson
John Shan, for he was seventeen years old at the time of her death. He was afterwards Vicar of Chioheley,
and died there at the age of eighty-three on 29th Aug. 1783 [see pedigree at p. 182). Mr. Shanes grand-
daughter Miss Anne Cape was above five years old when her grandfather died, and 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 had 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-grandfather, who was bom in the reign of Henry VIII. There were therefore only two living
links between Miss Cape who died in 1859, 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
predeoessor.

300

THE CHE8TER8 OF CHICHELEY.

Abms

PEDIGREE OF DOROTHY BEAUPRE LADY PEYTON.

Argent on a chevron sable, three escallops of the field, Hawkwood. Argent, a cross between fonr
escallops sable, Coggeshall. Ermine on a cheyron sable, three crescents Or, Dorevard.
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, Beaupri.

Gilbert Hawkwood of Hedingham Sibley
and of Gosfield, Essex; died 1340. Will.

1. John Hawkwood= Margery,
senior, 1340; of Hed- wife 1344
Ingham Sible, 1344,
1360 ; dead 1363.

1. w.«

>Sir John Hawk-'"?^ w. Donnina,

wood Et., theCon-
dottiere General;
died at Florence,
17 March 1394.

Sir Wm. de Coggeshall Ei'
of Little Coggeshall and Cod-
ham ; Sheriff of Essex 1391,
1411 ; M.P. for Essex 1391-
1422.

I —

-Antiocha
Hawkwood,
wife 1379.

dan.ofBamabo
Visconti, sove-
reign of Milan ;
marr. at Milan
May 1377.

\ \

1. Agnes, m.

John Ruby ;
wife 1340.

2. Joan m.
JohndeGra-
vashale; wife
1340.

— m

3. Nicholas,
a priest
1363.
3. Alice,
num. 1340.
4.Margsret,
nnm. 1340.

Sir John Hawkwood
Kt. ; naturalised 8 Hen.
IV. ; of Hedingham
Sible.

Florentine, mar.

Lancelot del

Maigno; and had

issue.

two
daai.

Blanche de Cogges-^pTohnDorewardEsq. 2. Alice, coh.; marr.

hall, eldest dan. and of Booking ; Sheriff Sir John Tyrell Kt.

coh.; d. 1460 ; M. I. of Essex 1425, 1432; of Herons ; d. 1422.
at Booking. | M.P. for Essex

1453; d. 30 Jan.

1462. ^

T 1

3. Margaret, coh. ; 4. Maud, ooh. ;

m. 1 h. Will. Bate- m. 1 h. Robert

man, of Little Sand- Dacre Esq. ; 2 h.

ford ; 2 h. John John St George.

Roppeley Esq.; d.

5 June 1459.

^ I

Sir John Doreward Et., son and

heir, of Booking; d. 1476. His

only son John d. 1480, s.p.

William Doreward Esq., 2 son ;«
uncle and heir, of Southacre,
jure ux. ; d. 1481. (Esch. 21
Edw. rV. 21.)

'Margaret, dan. and coh. of Sir
Roger de Arsick Kt. of Southacre,
Norfolk.

John Doreward, son and heir ; Elizabeth Doreward, heir in her^pThomas Foderinghay Esq. of
d. 28 Feb. 1495-6, 8.p. issue. Brockley, Suffolk. Will 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 Boaupr6 Esq.,
of Beaupr6 Hall, in Out-
well, 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 in 1496; marr.
John de Yere, 14th
Earl of Oxford, s.p.

1 w. Margery, dau. of Sir»pEdmund Beaupr6 Esq., son and heir,BT»2 w. Catherine, dau. of Philip Beding-

John Wiseman Kt.,
Great Thomham.

of Beaupr6 HaU ; d. 14 Feb. 1567-8 ;
bur. at Outwell on 17 Feb.

Four daughters
and coheirs.

field Esq. ; remarr. John Winter Esq.

1 h. Sir Robert Bell=y»Dorothy, heir of *f^ h. Sir Johk Pet-

Kt., Lord Chief Baron;
marr. 15 Oct. 1559 ;
d. 25 July 1577.

Beaupr6 Hall; d. Feb.
1602-3.

Bell of Beaupb^.
(See p. 120.)

TON Kt., mar. 8 June
1678; d. 4 Nov. 1630.

Petton of
DoDDnroToir.

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 fourteentli 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 John Hawkwood w^as the son of Gilbert Hawkwood of Hedingham Sible in
Essex, who died in 1340, lea^dng 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 Villani, the contemporary historian of Florence, who says of Sir John
Hawkwood, * Tvito che non fosse di schiatta de* nohili con dignitiij il padre era gen,"
tiluoino mercatante e antico horghese^ 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 Will of Gilbert de Hawkwood, made on Monday
next before the feast of St. Margaret the virgin, 14 Edw. III. (18 July 1340).

Imprimis, I bequeath 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 in Morant's History of Essex are
mainly derived from the short Life of him by William Yalens, which is printed by Heame in his edition
of Leland'g Itinerary. But the main authority in English for Hawkwood's career is a Paper by
Gongh, which was read at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries on 25th Jan. 1776, and was printed
with additions by Nichols in the sixth volume of his Bibliotheca 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 wiU attach more value to the incidental
notices of contemporary chronicles and records than to the elaborate compilations of Paulus Giovius and
the claesical 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 Rolls in the Venetian archives, and by the
yaluable series of diplomatic records at Milan which were published in 1863, and were edited by Cav.
Osio for the Italian goyemment.

302 THB CHESTEKS OF CHICHELET.

be buried in the church of St. Peter at Hengham Sibill (Hedingham Sible). Item, to the fabric
of St. Paul's, London, 28. 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 6 marks. Item, for the
expenses on the 30th day 2 marks. Item, to buy wax 10«.

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 Kuby her husband 100s. : to my daughter Joan and
her husband John son of John Gravashale* 100^., 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 i'lO each. To John Calthf 40«. To the Vicar of Gos-
field lOs. 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 Philip and William Cumbwell half a mark each. To Basilia my maidservant 12d.
To John Munne the elder and his brother William 40rf. each. To Gilbert Fitz-Stephen ^Od. To
Agnes Munne 2s. and to her sister Matilda 12^/. To Richard le Clerk bd. To Walter Bernard
6*. To Henry my tenant {fermario meo) 40//. To Agnes Ostage 40rf. To Agnes Prioress of
Hedingham j half a mark, and to Sarah formerly Sub-Prioress d«., and to each of the other nans
for the time being 12</.

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 6 quarters of wheat and 6 quarters of oats each. To Walter Munne and
John Munne the younger 2s. each. To each of my shepherds 12//. each, and to Thomas Munne
2s. To my daughters Alice and Margery and my son John the younger, besides the legacies of
jglO already given, 100*. 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 alms to the poor as they
shall think most expedient for my soul and the souls of all tlie faithful. My sons John ths
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, CoBMuissary, who aflSxed his official seal at Hedingham Castle 10th Oct. 1340.

It will be observed that two of Gilbert Hawkwood's sons were named John ;
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 Grayashale was lord in 1407. It passed
with Hawkwood's manor in the same parish to Thomas Rolf of Gosfield, Serjeant-at-law temp.
Henry VI. (31)

t John Calth and John Galannt were in 1344 feoffees of Hawkwood's manor of Gosfield Hall, for a
Conrt was held there in their names in that year. (32)

J This Prioress is not mentioned in the Monasticon^ which gives a very meagre acconnt 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'i
chantry there in 1412.

SIR 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 (bom 1539, died 1621); and Sir
Edward Se}Tnour the king's godson (born 1548, died 1574). (23)

There is no positive proof as to whether Sir John Hawkwood 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 IMargery and John Hawkwood
jun.,* held their first manorial court at Gosfield in 1344. (32) John Hawkwood was
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 irom Froissart that he was kniglited 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 liis brother, and
was absent in the wars bevond seas.

Sir John Hawkwood was not one of those who owe 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 John 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
80 much gallantry and skill that he was 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 Burgundy 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 bj' 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, 'who had not read Gilbert Hawkwood^s Will, assnmed that John Hawkwood
jun. of 1344 was the son and heir of John sen. and Margeiy. This mistake has thrown the pedigree into
confusion, and induced Sir DaTid Dalrymple to deny Sir John Hawkwood's identity with the lord of
Hawkwood*! manor. (39)

304 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Hawk WOO J with his band of 1000 lances took service with the Pisans, and he became
their commander-in-chief in the wars against Florence. His name now appears 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 w^ars 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 Hawk wood's operations between
1363 and 1368.

On 15th June 1368 Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son of Edward IK,
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 re\"isited his native country ; for Thomas de Vere,
eighth Earl of Oxford, the lord paramount of Hedingham 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 secured Hawkwood's adherence, and on the redaction
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

SIB JOHN HAWKWOOD KT. 305

massacre of Cesina witli its wanton craelty shocked the English 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
Blorence and their ally Bemabo Visconti. (46)

It was the settled policy of the House of Visconti to connect themselves by
family alliances with personages whose enmity thej' feared ; and Bemabo now re-
solved on attaching Hawkwood permanently to his service by giving him one of his
daughters for a wife. Bemabo 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' Porn. 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 Achud (Hawkwood) on Sunday last took his wife home with much honour to the
honse in which the Bishop of Parma used to live, and at the nuptials were present the Lady
Duchess and all the children of Lord Bemaho with an honourahle company. Yesterday after
dinner Lord Bemaho went with his Porina (the hride's mother) to Sir John's house, w^here there
were tilting matches all day. I am told that the Lady Regina (Bemaho's wife) presented to the
bride yesterday after dinner 1000 gold ducats in a cup ; Marco (Visconti, Bemaho'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 like. 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 Bemabo 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 Coucy, * solely because he was
the husband of Eling 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 making 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 Bichard H. his ambassadors to Pope Urban, (49)

8U6 THE CHESTKRS OF CHICHELBY.

and were empowered to conclude treaties with the princes and states of Northern
Italy. (49)

Hawkwood's father-in-law Bemabo Visconti had since 1378 shared the sove-
reignty of Milan with his nephew John 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 husband 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. Bemabo's cruelty and treachery had alienated the
aflfections 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 * egregius et strenuus milesy D. Joliannes Haucud de Aiiglia^ con-
sanguineus dilectissimus Illmu DnL Galeaz. Vtcecomitisy 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 Hawkwoody whose usual
seal* I have appended to this charter J (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 H. 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 Republic
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 hawk volant with a label Usuing from its mouth. There are two impret-
Bions in the British Mnseum, attached to original letters from Hawkwood to the garrison of Sienna, and
date^Febmary 1877. (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
Patemo in the Cremonese 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 affairs 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 undiminished 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 mom*ning 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 CHESTER8 OP CHICHELEY.

wholly unknown, but it is certain that she was the mother of his daughter Antiocha,*
who married before 1379 Sir William de Coggeshall Kt. ; for a letter dated M
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 Coggeshally who had for some time been residing at Milan.' (53)

Hawkwood married secondly at Milan in May 1377 (47) Donnina, one of tlie
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 14:07,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 Hospital 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 without 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)

Sm William de Coggeshall was as we have seen on 3d March 1378-9 ahready
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 8th Sept. 1336. (57) He must therefore have been sent to Italy iu

® Ladj Antiocha Coggeshairs parentage is grossly mlBrepresented in Morant, (31) and in fact in all
the received accounts. Morant calls her the daughter and heir of the yonnger Sir John Hawkwoodp the
son of the General by Domitia Visconti. I have proved in the text that Antiocha was actually married
either before or just after her supposed grandparents.

t Johannes filins Joh. Hawkwood mil, natus in partihns Italiie factos est indigena anno 8 Hen. lY.
mater ejns nata in partibns transmarinis. (54)

THE ANCESTORS OF DOROTHY LADY PEYTON. 309

extreme youth, to learn the art of war under his father's countr3Tiian 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 return 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 iti 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 lOL yearly rent the Maison de Dieu, which he had built on two
acres of his own ground for seven ]X)or people of Booking. (60) He had issue four
sons and a daughter, for whom 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
Becking. He died 30th Jan. 1462, or as some read the inscription 1465. He was
succeeded by his eldest son John, whose 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 with Margaret de Aj^ick, and died in 1481, (62) leaving a son John and
daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Foderinghay Esq. of Brockley in Suffolk.

* His second dsnghter Alice CoggeshaU married Bir John Tyrell Et. , and has a monument in East
Homdon church, which is reputed to he the finest existing 8i>ecimen in England of an incised sepulchral
slah. She is represented at full length under a canopy with an armorial shield on each side of her head,
one hearing the arms of CoggeshaU and the other those of Coggeshall and Tjrell, dimidiated according
to the ancient fashion of impalement. The canopy has on each side of the figure five niches, which are
occupied hy statuettes of Lady Tyrell's children, six hoys and four girls, each hearing their name on a
scroU, namely, Walter, Thomas, William sen., John, William jun., and John clerk, Alice, Elizaheth,
Alianor, and a daughter unnamed. Round the slah runs the following marginal legend :

* Hie jacet humata Alicia filia Willmi Cogeshale militis et Antiochie consortis sue quondam uxor
Johis TyreU militis, qui quidem Johes et Alicia hahuerunt inter se exitum filios et filias quorum noia
hie scripta sunt ex utraquo parte istius lapidis, que ohiit a.d. millesimo ccccxxu^ cujus anime propicietur
Deus. Amen.*

There is a woodcut of this slab in the Essex Archceologia (v. 294), hut 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 TyreU, and married secondly John
Tiangham Esq. of Pantfield, who died in 1417. It is certain from the WUl of Sir William Tjrell of
Beedies, one of Alice^s sons, that his father Sir John survived his wife Alice, and left a second wife
named Catherine.

310 THE CHESTBRS OF CHICHBLBT,

John Doreward, son and heir of WUliam, 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 wife of Nicholas Beaupr6 Esq. of Beaupr6 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.

Sm John Peyton n. of Doddington, the only son of Sir John Peyton by Dorothy
Beaupr^, was 51 years old when his father died on 4:th Nov. 1630, for he was bom
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 father'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 Pejion
was distinguished through life by the title o{ ^ His Majesty^ s first Knight^ (18) The
elder Sir John Peyton was transferred from the Lieutenancy of the Tower to the
Governorship of Jersey on 30th July 1603, within a few days after the discovery of
Cobham and Raleigh's plot. The young Sir John was on friendly terms with botli
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, ho saw yonng Sir John Peyton talking with
Ilaleigh out of the window ; and thereupon when Sir John came to visit him two or three honrs
after he said, " I saw you with Sii* Walter Kaleigh. God forgive him ; he hath accused me, bat I
cannot accuse him." Then Sir John answered, " He doth say the like of you — that you have
accused him, but he cannot accuse you." * (64)

This conversation was afterwards intei'preted to Sir John's prejudice, for Carleton
writes on 15th Jan. 1603-4, amongst other Court news, that * Peyton has been dis-
gi'aced for entertaining intelligence between Cobham and Baleigh.' (3) But in the
mean while the King 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 248, under the date thereof.

PEYTON OF DODDIXGTON. 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 literarj' 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 Princess Elizabeth. (65)

Sir John Peyton the vorNOER to Sir Robert Cotton.

Sir,

I have heere sente you the i)lotte of Coeverden in such scale as I coulde guesse most
apte for your booke. if there be any other thiuge of like nature or any other in my power to
compasse for your satisfaction, give but direction what it is you desire. This was the bestc
fortiffication in these parts, and therfore I chose it to serve as a patterne for any RoyaU one that
you maye hereafter have occasion to propounde, and it will sute well to compare our owne rude
workes with the exceUente perfection of others; I can adde little unto my laste in matter of
occurrence ; only I heare the Count Palatines Herbinger shotte at Keysers warde is dead ; and
those which shot are sayde to be Hanefers. one or two of them maye be prefen'ed to a hangeinge for
the facte, or for some other factes allready perpetrated. The IMnce of Orange hath bin heere
from Bruxels to visite Ins nephew, but they saye he tooke one parte of his enterteynment unkindely ;
beinge invited to dinner, the Count Palatine brought liim to the dininge roome, but with drewe
himselfe, pretendinge indisposition of boddy. his counsellors arc 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 will 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.

TTie Count Palatine ^ieweth the picture with much devotion, tryes the ayre of the Sea, is pre-
sented with many brave horses, formally inviteth tlie Count Henry to accompany him, and so
soone as his trayne can be in order, will use tlie iirste winde if it be a fayre one, by the waye of
the Brill els by that more certayne of Flushinge.

I muste conclude with a weyghty buissines of mine owne, wherin I must entreate you to
become my soUicitoure with my moste honorable frende, unto whom I dare not wTite my requesto
untill I be more sure that the occasion wilbe offered, but with you I maye be more boulde. if Sir
lialphe Win wood be secretary,* it is thought Sir Edward Conwey shalbe embassadoure ; then cometh
the lieft Govemoures to begin, which Sir Hoi-ace Vere hath promised me if he be not overborne
by recommeofdations — now your love will easily finde out what it hath to doe for me ; and therein
I entreate you to watche diUigently 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 : BtUo novo.
[Addressed] To my worthy frend S' Robert Cotton Knight

these at his house in Blackfreers, 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 Bobert Cecil Earl of
Salisbury died, until 29th March 1614, when Winwood was appointed. (66)

312 TUE CHESTERS OF CIIICHELEV.

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 Peytoa.
There is a letter in the State Paper Office from the Earl of Northampton to
Secretary Lake, written in November 1G13, 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)

Sir John Peyton junior to Sir Robert Cotton.
Honorable Sir,

I thought good from my father and my selfe, and others Comissioners of Sewers dwellinge
in the He of Elye, to acquaint you, that there is a Session of Sewers to bee houlden at St. Ives by
adiomment upon the 18tli of tliis montlie, 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 iomye 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 Carlston.
Sir,

I wrote lately by Mr. Sutton ; yet hopeinge you will acoepte suche stuffe as these times
affoorde me, I am ready to seconde those you had with matter of as greate momente. I mij^te
then have toulde you, that one Mr. Hungerforde for challenginge Sir George Martiall, who had
deepely wronged liis father, was censured uppon tliat knightes complaynt, in starre chamber, lOOO/i.
fine, two yeares restraynte in the tower, seven yeares banishment from all three oourtes, 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 offender as well as the challenger deepely
censured ; yet in that place and time nothinge was done, though I heare since that the Knighte
hath lefte tlie courte where he was an officer, and I suppose it to have bin uppon some sentence
of the Earles Marshalls, who have on that parte power to puneshe by the Kinges EkUcte agaynste
duells. Sir Hcnrie (a) Riche is now possessed of his Captajmship of the Guarde, the price you
know 6000 pieces ; he hath no pattent, (only as the custome is) was swome, and so wayteth. his

(a) Sir Henry Rich, 2d son of Robert Earl of Warwick, purchased the office of Captain of the Gnazd
from Viscount Fenton, and wag formally appointed on 6th Nov. 1617. He was afterwards created Kari
of Holhind and E.G., and was beheaded 9th March 1648-9. He was the cousin of Sir John Peyton*!
wife, for her grandmother was a daughter of the first Lord Rich. (Set p. 818.)

I'EYTON OF DODDINGTON. 313

brother is actefe an other waye, hath many shippes and partes of shippes at sea. liis owne that
have bin longe abroade not yet by him hearde of, bat some merchauntes doe offer him X'OOO to
adventure three, which maketh him hope well that they have hearde what they conceale from
him of good, he is now mach beloved by his father, allrcady entrusted vnth the mannaginge and
disposinge of his whole estate.

The Lady Hatton feasted the Kinge very sumptuously, for besides other charges she gave
awaye at his requeste 2500/1. per an. to the Lord ViUers, I suppose after her owne life. Sir Edward
Coke gave out he should be there and obteyne a reconcilement with her ladysliip, and to tliis
purpose moved my Lord of Buckingham, 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 ^ame in at one dore, she would goe out at an other, so
his great expectations are (if not wholly) yet for tlie prcscnte layde downe. it is imagined that
this greate gaifte of hers wilbe an impediment to her in tlie mayne ende which she aymeth at, to
depresse her husbande ; but she hath more to give, and in tliat 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 tliat feaste ; all theyre names I knowe not, only Chapman her fathers
stewardc was one. you have scene by this time some fniites of her dominion in the letters man-
datory, which I heare are gone to younge Capt. Ogle and his unkle. we are very attentive to the
Buccesse of them, tlie rather because it is a rare precedent, and ma3'e conceme us all, we knowe
not how neerely. Capt. Bayly hath bin examined, his reporte of Sir W. Raleygh 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 \V. R. and
condemne 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 Muscovye Embassadoure had very sollemne reception and audience at courte : 30 of his
trayne marchinge by couples were all charged with presentes, Biche furres, white falcons &c. : the
wholl is to be vallewed at 10,000/i. his errande is only matter of commerce.

Sir Thomas Edmondes is tetomcd, but I cannot leame hatli bin yet at courte ; I suppose he
hath not much hope of what hfe well deservetli, for Sir Tho. Lake hath gotten the table and intel-
ligence money, though my Lord of Bucks keepe the scales and forrej^ne packets. I heare tlio
Kinge is fully resolved to reduce all his charge of house keepiuge, both his owne and the Queenes,
unto 50,000/i. per an. wheras hitherto many reducements have broughte it no lower tlien 72,000/t.
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 tlio
Bubiecte, but tlie fees wilbe worth him and liis instruments 10,000/t. per an. as some doe guesse.

We yet heare not of my Lord of Oxfordes retome home, the Embassadoure thinketh he
stayeth to see a full resolution of peace or warre, though we heare of actife warre allready, yet the
Kinge will needes beUeve that the peace wilbe consummated, because in Grayne it was ratefied.
of our matche with Spayne we 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 alh-eady deride our hopes therof.

if you will laboure to obteyne my leave to stayo heere I shall ever trade thus ; els Mr.
Deflfrayne (b) will put me to a winter jomey.

if my Lord doe forget, yet be pleased to take notice from me, that I was sent to Sir Rob.
Sidney to entreate his helpe in procuringe the successor to paye 120/t., which Sir Hunt[ingdon]
Colby did owe Fran [cis] Vere, and my Lord standeth 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 fiBherman of Dieppe, had a Ucense from the Warden of the Cinqae 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 Bergeont-Major of Flashing, and, after the death of Sir William
Bronne, Lieut. -Governor of that town under Sir Robert Sydney, Lord L'Isle. (69) On the surrender of
the cautionary towns in 1616, he was made Lient.-Colonel of the English regiment which was retained in
the pay of the States of Holland by the terms of the Convention. (70)

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. Robert Peyton, son and heir.

n. Algernon Peyton, heir to his brother Robert.

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.

n. Alice Peyton was 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 Cathedral. She died in childbed of her 7th son Robert 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 buryed the body of Mrs. Alice Lowe, wife to Edward Lowe of Salisbury
in the County of Wilts Gent., Muster of the Choristers and Organist of this Church, by whom shee
had 9 Children, 7 Boyes and ;J Girles, 5 whereof lye buryed by her, the other 4 survive. Shee
dyed in childbed of her 7th son the 17th of March 1048, the 42d year of her 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 30 years, then Governor of Jersey above
30 years more, and dyed tlie 105th yeare of his age, the 4th of November 1(530. Her Grandfather
by her mother was Sir John Peyton of Isleham in the Countye of Cambridge Baronnett.

Optima qusB fuerat Mulierum, Mater, et Uxor,

Conditur hie Sponsi cura dolorque sui.
At cinis exiguus tantam non continet umbram,

Exilit e busto, degenerique rogo
Surgit et aetemos animam coUegit in Orbes,

Hospes grata Deo tecta tonantis habet.
Nee doleat lector, lacr^-mis nee perluat Urnam,

Nam commutavit ssecula, non obiit.'

Abms : 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, five 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. Catliedral, Oxford : (73)

1646-7> March 14. Richard son of Edward and Alice Lowe bapt.
1648-9. March 19. Alioe wife of Edward Lowe buried.

PBTTON OF DODDINGTON. 317

Edwabo Lowe of Christ Church, Oxford. Will dated *2d Juno 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 arc there buried.

To my now wife Mary £6 per annum for her life, and all my household stuff. To my eldest
son Edward Lowe, clerk. Rector of Slinfold, Sussex, my great seal ring with his moUier'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, combmakcr, my clothes and
hye shillings in money, and to so many of her children as are christened accoi*ding to the rites of
the Church of England 40«. 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 poor
of the parish of St. Thomas in Salisbury, where I was bom, 40*. 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 1082 in C.P.C. [80 Cottle.]

III. Dorothy Peyton married Laurence Oxburgh 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 Beaupr6 Hall. {See p. 120.)

rV. 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 Cookhill 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 was 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 survived his wife Frances Peyton, and after
her death married a second wife Joyce, who was living his widow on 24th 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)

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V. Susanna Peyton was born in 1617, and married at St. Margaret's, Lpn,
10th 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 Uo mj/
coufdn Elizabeth RicherSy my waiting wotnatij 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 Inn 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 12th April 1650.

To my nephew Cliaries Warren £-kO at his age of 21 ; to my brother Bobert Anderson my
diamond ring which was my father's ; to my sister Frances Warren* my Annt Bowyer'st picture ;
to my nephew Heniy Anderson my father's picture ; to my niece Mary Warren my diamond
necklace. Legacies to my friends Master Thomas Griffith, Master Symond Smythies, Master
William Baylie, and Master Simcotts, all of Trinity College, Cambridge. To the poor of Trinity
parish, Cambridge, £4t. My niece Marj' Warren to be my residuary legatee and sole executrix.

Witnesses : Ilobert Eade, Hichard Pettit the elder, notary public, and W^illiam Maiden.

Will proved by the executrix 13th June 1059 in London. [342 Pell.]

Algernon Peyton, the second son and seventh child of Sir John 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
pedigrees 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, manied Eliaabetii
daughter of Francis Bowyer, Alderman of London, as appears from his M. L in the ohnxeh of St. Olavt
in the Old Jewiy. (86)

PEYTON OF DOW)mGTON. 3^19

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 Restoration 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
apparent, by patent dated 10th Dec. 1660. Sir John Peyton died unmarried fifteen
days after his creation, but further marks of the King's ftivour 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 suniving son and
heir Algernon Pc;y'ton, There was some delay in the fonnal completion of this
second creation, for the young Sir Algernon was still unmarried, 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 Aug,
1666 to the Secretary of State : (3)

' The King since his Restoration made tlie elder son of Dr. Peyton of tlie 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 Baronetcy to Algernon the second son, but lest lie 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 Peji;on's baronetcy is dated 21st March 1666-7, and
it 18 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.

I. 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.

in. IIenry 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.

n. 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. bnried.

MYTON OF DODDINGTON. 321

Dr. Nalson had issue by his wife Alice Peyton ten children, of whom three died
in his lifetime. His seven surviving cliildren 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 un-
married, and was buried at Doddington in the family vault of the Peytons on 25tli
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,
bom 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 300L 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 6th April 1703.

To my wife Alice all my lands and tenements at Grimston, Koydon, Snettisham, &c. in
Norfolk, and I appoint her to be my executrix.

WiU proved in C.P.C. 2l8t Feb. 1703-4 by Alice Cremer the widow.

Alice survived her second husband above thu'teen 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 Kaveley, 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
John Shelton of Bury, (82) and had issue by him two daughters. I. CATHERINE, bap-
tized at Horningsheath 27th Sept. 1675, (83) and H. 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 Pej-ton, by his Will (10th Sept. 1706), be-
queathed ^ 20/. 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. Jameses, Bury St. Edmunds :

1667. Nov. 19. Sir Algernon Peyton and Mrs. Frances Sewster, marr.

1679. July 8. Beata, dan. of John Shelton, Qent., and Dame Frances Peyton his wife, bapt.

322 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

grandniece Anne Dashwood, the sister of James. (94) Lady Peyton died in 1685,
in the lifetime of her second husband.

Dame France^ Peyton, now the wife of John Shelton Esq. of St. Martm's-in-the-Helds,
Middlesex. WiU dated 23d Dec. 1C80.

Whereas my late husband Sir Algernon Peyton Bart, by his Will dated 17 th May 23 Charles II,
gave to his daughter Anne Peyton at 21 or marriage ^1500, and to tlie 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 nntil the said
sum should be raised I should receive the rents and profits of tlie said manors and lands, and
after satisfying tlie annuity given to me by his Will should pay to our son Sewster Peyton i*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 my loving husband John Shelton, desire him
to undertake the care and education of my cliildren by tlie said Sir Algernon Peyton, namely, the
said Sewster Peyton and Anne Peyton and also Algemina Peyton tlie afterbom daughter of the
said Sir Algernon, and to receive Uie rents and profits of the said manors and lands until the said
legacies are raised, and I appoint him my sole executor.

Will proved 20th May 1685 by John Shelton in C.P.C. [62 Cann.]

The history 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 John 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 Uflford 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. (99)

Sir John de Peyton of Peyton Hall in Boxford, who lived in the reign of Henry
HI. 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' War. His administration was brief and barren of events, but
it is recorded that he built the castle at Roscommon, (100) and that a wTit was
addressed to him by the King to levy aurum reginw for Eleanor wife of Edward
Prince of Wales, (loi) to whom the lordship of Ireland had been gi-anted 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 QtM^'nAnnaU and some other anihoiitiM.

SIR BOBEBT D£ UFFOBD 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. (103) If Sir Robert actually went to the Crusade, ho 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 daugliter 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 UflTord 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 Fulboum, 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 Suffolk, and that his next heir was his son Robei't, 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
Colevillet of Bytham, who was then only four years old. (i 1 1)

Robert de Ufford H. was bom 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
Eling 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 AifAygT. de Uffobd, Prioress of Carrow, in the sabarbs of Norwich, 1289-1291, was
another daughter of Robert and Maiy de Ufford. (z ii)

t This mazriage should be added to my Coleville pedigree at p. 199.

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extinct family of Creke. (114) Robert de Ufford was summoned to Parliament as
a Baron on 13th Jan. 1308-9, and died in 1316 at the age of 37, when it was found
at the inquest held on 10th Oct. 10 Edw. 11., that his next heir was his son
Robert, who was bom 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 from the arms displayed on a tomb without inscription
in Eendlesham Church, Suffolk, that Eobert de Ufford and his wife Cecily lie
buried there; (118) but according to Weever they were buried in Woodbridge
Priory. (119)

Eobert Lord Ufford had issue by his wife Cecily six sons and a daughter :

I. WiLLlAAl, son and heir apparent, was living in 1311, and died before his
father. (120)

n. Egbert, surviving son and heir, afterwards created Earl of Suffolk.

ni. John de Ufford was a knight, and was associated with Maud Countess
of Ulster, the widow of his brother Ealph, in her foundation of Brusyard Priory.
He was living in 1358, (121) but died unmarried before his brother Earl Eobert.

rV. A SON, whose name is lost, but whose existence is proved by the fact that
Ralph and Edmund his brothers were resjxjctively 5th and 6th sons of their father.
I have some faint suspicion that his name was Thomas.

V. Ealph de 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 IH., who granted to him in tail male in 1336 the manors
of Chelrey, Berks, Up-Wimbome and Loders, Dorset, which had escheated to the
Crown by the attainder of John Lord Maltravers. (123) Five years afterwards
Sir Ealph was appointed Constable of Corfe Castle for hfe. (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
Carrickfergus 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 Ealph 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 Ealph 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

SIR RALPH DE UTFORD KT. 825

administration of affairs was highly 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 Valoines, the wife
of Robert Lord Ufford. (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 foimd 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 Ufford 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. (125) Eight years afterwards Lionel Duke
of Clarence, the son-in-law of the foundress, complained to the King that the objects
of the foundation 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 wliich 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
Suffolk, 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 Gemon had license from the

326 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHBLET.

King to be absent from his duties in Ireland^ in order to manage her affairs, (49)
but I have not discovered the precise date of her death.

Matilda of Lancaster had issue by her second husband Sir Ralph de Ufford 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 Kobert, 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.
(129) In the mean while the Countess encouraged the current rumours 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 fiill 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 UflTord and Cecily
de Valoines, bore a fleur-de-lys in his arms as a mark of cadency, (122) and was
called Sir Edmond le frire, or the elder, to distinguish him from his cousin of the

* Wrabness is not inclnded in the list of manors which are enumerated in the inquest held on 17th
March after the death of the Conntess, 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 Ufford in 1346
is confined to the lands granted to him in tail male by the King in 1336, which reverted on failure of his
male issue to the Crown on his death. (132) This, howeyer, is not the only or the chief difficulty in the
finding of the jurors at the inquest of the Countess ; for if the verdict be literally taken, it implies that
the Countess was the daughter of Sir Ralph de Ufibrd, not by Matilda of Lancaster, but by a former wife
Elizabeth, the sister of Alice, first wife of Robert 4th Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, whose parentage has
never been precisely ascertained. They found that the next heir 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.* (z 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 ihej
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 will be seen hereafter) Robert 6th Lord Willoughby was is
1418 the grandnephew and senior coheir of Sir Ralph de Ufford, her father.

BOBERT BE UPFORB EARL OF SUFFOLK. 327

flame name. He inherited the manors of Combs in Suffolk and of Hillingdon in
Norfolk, which had descended to his mother from the family of Creke, (1^4) ^iid
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 be Ufforb married Sir John de Brews Kt. of Topcroft and Stinton in
Norfolk, and had issue. She is mentioned with her sons John and Giles in the
Will of her brother Robert Earl of Suffolk.

Robert be Ufforb HI., 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-
tioned in the Wardrobe Rolls of the next year amongst the boys in ward to the
Bang. (13s) 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 Elilmeaden 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
m. from the beginning of his reign, and was with him at Amiens on 6th June
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
was 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. (^37) 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

* Dngdale follows Barnes in stating that it was the son of the Earl of Suffolk who was taken prisoner

BOBEBT DE UFFOBD EABL OF SUFFOLK. 329

the liigli altar and the chapel of St. Nicholas. To the King tlie ouche which my lady the
Princess gave me. To ray eldest son William the sword which the King gave me with the title
of Earl, the hed complete witli the eagle, the crimson robe powdered with leopards, and a chalice
for liis household chapel ; also all my arms which are in my wardiobo at Orford or elsewhere,
except those wliich I have otlierwise bequeathed ; also the gilt beaker which liis motlior bequeathed
to me ; also the jewelled cross and the book of Genesy {sic) for his life, to be heirlooms after liis death.
To Joan his \nfe 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 Wickham. To my daughter Maud
a ring and 100 shillings a year. To my very dear brother Monsr. Edmond de Ufford a silver cup with
a cover chased \ni}\ anus. To my dearest sister De Brews a ring and i;lO in money to be paid
within tliree years, and the bed witli the curtains which belonged to Monsr. Thomas de Ufford.
To my veiy dear cousin Monsr. Edmond [de Ufford] a pair of amber beads of Prussian fashion,
which the King gave me. To Robeit de Ufford the little horn* which the King gave me, mounted
with gold. To Dame Joan de Loudliam, Sir John de Brews and Sir Giles de Brews my nephews,
Monsr. Ralf de Hemenliale,f Monsr. Nicholas Gemon, 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 Ubster, Miuoress, 20 marks towards tlie building at Biiisyard, and also a ring
which was the Duke [of Lancaster's] her brother. My son William and my brotlier Edmond to
be executors.

Will proved by Sir William and Sir Edmond do Ufford Kts. 11th Nov. 1369 at Lambeth.
[Ill WhitUesey in C.P.C]

Bobert Earl of Suffolk had issue by his wife Margaret ten children ; namely,
five sons, of wliom only two surv ived their father, and five daughters.

I. Egbert de Ufford IV., son and heir apparent, was pardoned on 20th Aug.
1337 for maiTying without the King's permission (i 1 1) 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.J

n. Thomas is confidently identified by Beltz with Sir Thomas de Uffbrd, 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 had a son Thomas, who
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 was slain on this occa-
sion. (-149) He married Elizabeth one of the ten daughters of Thomas Beauchamp

* ' Item, k Robert de Ufford le petit com qne le Boi moi donna h'noise d*or.' This legacy has been
Indicronsly misinterpreted ; for the abstract of this WiU 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 Testanienta 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 retinae in France in 1846. (144)

\ Robert is miscopied Richard on one occasion in the printed calendar of the Rot. Orig., (147) which
misled Fosb into the assertion that the Earl of Suffolk had a sou Richard, (T4S)

WILLIAM DE UPPORD EARL OF SUFFOLK, K.Q.

881

lieir was granted in 1331 to Master John do Ofiford, 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 Ufford 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 lOth July 1334, (1 1 1) 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 Ufford married before 1348 John 3d Lord Willoughby d'Eresby,
who died 29th March 1372, having survived his wife. (163) Their son Robert 4th
Lord Willoughby 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

ni. Catherine de Ufford married before 6tli May 1335 Robert 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 Ufford married before 1355 William 3d Lord Ferrers of
Groby, who survived her many years, and died 9th 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 Ufford thereon.
(165) His eldest son Henrj^ 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 Ufford was a nun at Campsey, and is mentioned in the Wills
of her brothers William and John. She was still li\'ing in 1416. (166)

William de Ufford 2nd Earl of Suffolk,

the eldest surviving son of Earl Robert 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 Ufford IV.,
who was summoned to Parliament in February
1341-2. WiUiam 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.

WILLIAM EARL OF SUFFOLK. 333

The Earl was appointed on 16th July 1376 Admiral of the 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 senant, and joined the King at
St. Alban'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 15th Feb. 1381-2, as he was ascending the steps of the parliament-house, he
fell down dead in a fit, to the great amazement and sorrow 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,
Roger 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.

MARGiVJlET DE Ufford, their sister, was still livuig in the spring of 1375, when
the Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk was commanded by 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. (i 11) She was one of the
ten daughters of Thomas Beauchamp third Earl of Wai'wick K.G., and was,
therefore, the sister of Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Ufford 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, where all the Earl's daughters were curiously figured on

WILLIAM EAKL OF SUFFOLK, K.G. 335

Pyshall is enfeoffed for life, with remainder to Sir Adam de Ck>ckfield 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
annuity 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
chalice, and an entire set of vestments, all of which I use in travelling. Also, if I die witliout
heir of my body, tlie said Sir John is to have the manor of Denniugton and certain lands in
Wilby called Russels, for his life, as well as the manors before devised to him.

Item, to my dearest wife tlie red bed with the eagles complete, the robe powdered with leopards
complete, the large missal, a chalice, two cruets, a cup with the cover gilt and four eagles for
handles, a silver bell, the new hangings of arras, a little cross which Monsr. Ralph de Hemenhale
gave me, and a gold casket, and an image of our Lad3\ 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 which I
have bequeathed to her, and a diamond ring which my mother gave me.

Item, to my dearest nephew, De Willoughby Sieur do 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 my said nephew De Willoughby is to have the jewelled cross, the
book Genesy, and tlie diamond ring, wliich my fatlier appointed to be heirlooms. And if I have
an heir male, tlien my said heir is to have the sword which the King gave to my father, with Uie
title of Earl : and if I die without heir male, tlicn tlie 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 Stepilton a gilt cup. To Monsr. Nicholas
Gemon* £'10 and a cup. To my cousins Lady de Kerdcstonf and Lady de CaillyJ 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 saucei-s. To my cousin Monsr. Robert de Ufford|| a helmet with a complete
suit of plate armour, with a belly-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 40«., and to each lady there, except my dear sister, 20*., and to
the repair of their church 100 marks. To the House of Leiston 600 marks. To the House of
Bungay jC20. To the Houses of Sibton and Butley 20 marks each. To the Houses of Redling-
field and Hickling and Bromholm £20 each. To the Houses of Thetford, Lcworth, 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
tlie souls for which I am bound.

Item, I will 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 proveB that Sir Nicholat Gemon was living at a later period than I was able to trace his
career at p. 196.

t Cecilia^ widow of Sir WilUam de KerdesUm Et., was cousin-german of the testator, being a daughter
of Sir John de Brews Et. of Stintou, by Eva de Ufford (tee p. 327). Her younger brother Giles de
Brews has been already mentioned in this Will.

% Alice, widow of Sir William de Cailli Et. of Oby in Norfolk, was another daughter of Sir John and
Eva de Brews. Sir William died in Nov. 1380, and Alice was living in 1386 the widow of Sir Roger
NewentEt. (185)

§ Sir John de Burgh of Burgh (nowBurrough-green) in Cambridgeshire made his Will in 1384, and has
a fine tomb in the church there. (186)

II Sir Robert de Ufford of Wrentham became on the Earrs death the heir male of Ufiord.

DB UPFORD OF WKENTHAM. 337

It remains, to complete my account of the house of De Ufford, 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 Ufford,* the Viceroy of Ireland. (99)

Sir Thomas de Ufford 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 without 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 400Z. 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 was 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.

n. 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.

in. Edmund de Ufford, heir to his brother John.

Eve, the widow of Sir Thomas de Ufford, married thirdly Sir James 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 certain, from the Close Rolls (2 £dw. II. m. IS) and from the Inq. p. m. of Thomas de
Audley, (191) that the hnshand of Eve Clayering, who was the nndoahted ancestor of the Uffords of
Wrentham, was named Thomas and not Ralph de Ufford. It is also certain that Eve's third hnshand,
James de Andlej, was dead in 1333, (195) and that she sarvived nntU 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, snryived him ahove twenty years.

t Sir Thomas de Ufford and his descendants hore the arms of the Earls of Suffolk, dehmised by a
bend azure, by way of difference. (150)

DE UFFORD OF WRENTHAM. 339

Sir Edmnnd had issue bj his wife Sibyl a son and a daughter^ besides others who
died in childhood. (194)

I. Robert de Ufford, son and heir.

II. Ela de Ufford, 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.

Sir Robert de Ufford, the son 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
Suffolk, 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 when 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 Ufford was the last male heir of his race, and left issue by his
wife Eleanor three daughters and coheirs. (194)

I. Ela de Ufford, married Richard Bowett Esq., and died without issue in
1400, when she was buried at Wrentham.

II. Sibyl de Ufford, a nun at Barking.

in. Joan de Ufford, 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 William
Bowett was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Baug^ on 22d March
1420-1, and died soon afterwards, for his widow Joan was 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 until 1452,

* The Wm of Sir MiUi, dated in 14U, is printed in the Norfolk Arehaologia, ir. 831.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

341

2d App. to 4th Report of Depaty Keeper
of Pablic Records, p. 132.

(58) Ped. of Doreward in Morant's Essex, vol. ii.

p. 385.

(59) Inq. p. m. Job. Doreward Arm. 8 Hen. Y.

No. 104.

(60) Mon. Angl. vL 718 : Rocking.

(61) Inq. p. m. Job. Doreward Arm. 20 Edw. IV.

No. 79.

(62) Inq. p. m. W. Doreward Arm. 21 Edw. IV.

No. 21.

(63) Inq. p. m. Job. Doreward 11 Hen. VII. ;

Gage*B Hist, of Tbingo Hondred, p. 354.

(64) Edwards' Life of Sir W. Raleigb, vol. i.

p. 373.

(65) Cotton MSB. Galba F. i. 412.

(66) Progresses of James I. vol. ii. pp. 449, 516.

(67) Cotton Mss. Jolins C. ili. fo. 294.

(68) Public Records, Letters Domestic, James I.

vol. xciv. No. 23.

(69) Sidney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 328, «fec.

(70) Carleton*s Letters, 4to, 1757.

(7 1 ) Cbronicqae de la traison et mort de Ricbard II.

ed. WiUiams, 1846. p. 146.

(72) From tbe information of Rev. G. E. Walker,

Rector of Doddington.

(73) From Col. J. L. Chester's mss. Collections.

(74) Rnrrell's Sussex Collections; Add. mss. in

Brit. Mus. 5698, Brighton, pp. 42-44.

(75) Add. MSS. in Brit. Mus. p. 491 : Slinfold.

(76) AthenflB Oxon. 1721 ; Fasti, i. p. 178.

(77) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, ix. 171.

(78) Sir John Fortescue's Life and Works, edited

by Lord Clermont, 4to, 1869; Ped. of
Fortesoue of CookbiU in vol. ii.

(79) Printed List of Members of tbe Inner Temple,

1571-1625.

(80) Par. Reg. of Cbicbeley.

(81) Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, x. 307.

(82) Pedigree of Peyton, edited by Dr. Howard

for tbe Vis. of Suffolk, 1561.

(83) Gage's Tbingo Hundred, p. 513.

(84) Harl. MSS. 1912 ; Register of Gray's Inn.

(85) Chauncey's Hist, of Herts, 8vo, vol. ii p. 564.

(86) Seymour's London, vol. i. p. 560.

(87) Quoted in Bobn'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 tbe Pedigree of

Peyton. (82)
(95-98) Desunt.
(99) Dugdale'B Baronage, ii. 47.

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Annals of Loch C^, Record edition, vol. i.

p. 461.
Moore's Hist, of Ireland, 1847, vol. iii. p. 23.
Rolls of Parliament, voL i. p. 376, and vol. ii.

p. 14.
Rot. Pat. 54 Hen. III. m. 15.
Rot. Fin. 1 Edw. I. m. 20.
Inq. p. m. W. de Say, 56 Hen. III. No. 37.
Inq. p. m. Alexandri de Cheney, 24 Edw. I.

No. 26.
Grace's Annales Hibemis, ed. Butler, 1842,

sub annis.
Rot. Cart. 11 Edw. I. No. 11.
Inq. p. m. R. de Ufford, 26 Edw. I. No. 32.
Collins' Peerage, 1779, vol. i. p. 53 ; Foss's

Judges, voL iii. p. 266.
Patent RoUs, under tbe dates.
Mon. Angl. iv. 69 : Carrow.
Inq. p. m. R. de Valoines, 10 Edw. I. No. 15.
Inq. p. m. Rogeri Fitz-Petri et Same uxoris,

34 Edw. I. No. 58.
Inq. p. m. R. de Ufford Cbev. 10 Edw. II.

No. 76.
Rot. Clans. 10 Edw. II. m. 20.
Inq. p. m. Cecili» de Ufford, 19 Edw. II.

No. 74.
Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. i. partii.

p. 217.
Weever's Ancient Funeral Monuments.
Blomefield's Hist, of Norfolk, fol. iv. p. 341.
Cal. Rot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 251, 32 Edw. III.
Cotton Mss. Otho D. iv. 95 ; Coll. Top. et Gen.

iv. 393.
Cal. Rot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 110, 10 Edw. III.
Idem, vol. ii. p. 146, 15 Edw. III.
Mon. Angl. vi. 585 : Campsey.
Mon. Angl. viii. 1555 : Brusyard.
Rot. Pat. 24 Edw. III. 28 May and 10 June.
Beltz's Memorials of the Garter, p. 249.
Chronicque de la traison et mort de Richard II.

ed. Williams, 1842, p. 268, &c.
Inq. p. m. Matildie ComitissiD Oxon. 14 Hen.

IV. No. 17.
Testamenta Vetusta, p. 182.
Inq. p. m. Rad. de Ufford, mil. 20 Edw. III.

No. 15.
Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo, vol. viii. p. 462.
Inq. p. m. Edmundi de Ufford, 49 Edw. III.

No. 55 ; Cal. Rot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 336.
Arcbieologia, vol. xxvi. p. 341 ; Stapleton's

Observations on Wardrobe Rolls, 10 & 11

Edw. II.
Rolls of Parliament, vol. ii. p. 57.
Fifth Report, Touching the Dignity of a Peer,

Appendix v. pp. 31, 33, 38.
Hist, of Royal Navy, by Sir H. Nicolas,

vol. ii. pp. 231, 626.
Beltz's Memorials of the Garter, p. 98, &o.
Inq. p. m. Thorn, de Cailli Chev. 10 Edw. II.

No. 68.

SIK AKTIIONY CnESTER, BAKT. III. 343

CHAPTER XVI.

Sir Anthony Chester^ the third Bart.^ 1G33-1698. II. His iciJow 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, (tlie son and lieir of Sir Anthony
Chester II. and Elizabeth Peyton) was only nineteen years old when his father died
in February 1G51-2. The fortunes of the family were then at their lowest ebb, for
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 300/. a year to spend.
He found a careful and affectionate guardian in his uncle Henry Chester, who
managed his nephew's affairs with, his usual discretion and success. He was
prevented by the confusion of the times from finishing his education at a university
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
Cliicheley Hall was thoroughly restored to habitable order.

Sir Anthony married at Chicheley, on 21st May 1657, Mrs. Mary Cranmer, (i)
who was just two years younger than himself. She was the only daughter 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, ar\d her son Sir Caesar Cranmer
assumed the name of AVood on the death of his cousin, the Duchess of South-
ampton. Sir Caesar's posterity died out in the next generation, when the heirs of
his sister Dame Mary Chester succeeded to the Cranmer moiety of the inheritance
of Wood.

Sir Anthony received a handsome fortune with his wife, for the marriage portion

SIR ANTHONY CHESTER, BART. lit. 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 :
Jlee departed Aug, 18, 1669, aged 72 i/eares. Ilee was servant 56 yeares to Sir Henrey
Chester Kt. of the Honourable Order of the Bat/i. 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 5/.
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 gencmtions 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 Richers 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, bat Mr. Jendwine 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 S^ Antho. Chester Bar* y* first of that

name about y* yeare 1622 she was the mother of two sons and Henry who

was a phishi7ia;t ck a man of great par aming at her second

coming into y« family she lived with Chester K. of y« Bath from y* year 1656 to

July 1666 y® time of his decease, and remained in y^ family as housekeeper at Littleington Park in
Bedfordshb-e 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* third of y^^ name being her Executor.'

I See p. 318. Cases of this kind were common enough before the civil wars, and I haye collected a
few from Wills and Records.

Dame Mary Cordell, widow of Bir William Cordell, Master of the BoUsi says in her Will, dated 2d

346 THE CHESTER8 OP CHICHELEY.

Sir Anthony was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1671, and took an active
part in county business as a justice of the peace and a deputy-lieutenant, 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 11. On the accession of
King James he was 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 Caesar 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 AmpthiU, where Robert Earl
of Aylesbury, 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 Kussell family, and was one of the godfathers of Sir
Anthony's youngest son Robert, on 8th Nov. 1677. (15) Parliament 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 Chichcley 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 Ilubbardy vuj waylimj woman, a blacke gown and 20/. ia
money, and lykewiec a littcl jewoll of golde sett with three little stones and three perles.'

Dr, John Spencer, President of Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, gives by Will, dated 25th March 1614,
•A copyhold of 10 acres in Northgrovo to my kinsman and servant Christopher Spencer.* (10)

Lady Hatton alleges in her complaint to the King against her hnsband Sir Edward Coke in 1634,
* Sir Walter Aston, now Lord Aston, married my waiting- woman, a gentlewoman of a good house and
well allied.' (11)

Roger Bedintifield of Oxburgh Gent, (grandnephew of Sir Henry Bedingfield Kt.) mentions in his Will,
dated 5th Ang. 1640, ' My aged lady and mistress Lady Elizabeth Bedingfield, and my nuuUr Sir Heniy
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 reUef , and stating, * I am 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 marriage. Ever since I have been enforced to
take hard pains for my living, as my poor husband doth for his,' &c. (i i)

* Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, was reconciled to the Church of Rome 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. Dnpuy, 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 Boman
ritual. (13)

t I can scarcely think that Sir Anthony died intostatei but no Will or AdminiBtration can be found in
the Registry of London, Oxford, or Northampton.

SIB ANTHONY CnESTER, BART. III. 347

1697-8, at the ap;e of 65, and was buried there on Saturday evening following, 19th
Feb. (i)

There are three portraits of him in existence, taken at different i)eriods of his
life, and two of them are at Chicheley 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 ^tting 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 Chicheley 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 Chicheley Church to the memory of his
parents, which is affixed to the north wall of the church.

Above the inscription are the aims of Chester (without the bordure) impaling
Cranmer, a chevron charged with three cinquefoih between three pelicans^ with the
crests of both families — 1. a ranis head erased (Chester) ; 2. a griffins h^ad erased,
the neck tramfuved with an arrow (Cranmer).

In autiquo Lujus JEcUa conditorio, Genii succ sacro, dcposuit ciiiercs Vir vere magnus»
Antonius de Castro, vcteris Prosapitc multarum imaginum gloria illustris, et Baronetti Titulo a
majoribus insignitus : nee 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 hospitio, singulis Virtutibus inhflesit, iis
inclaruit, qu» Honoratiores vii-os illustrant, ita tamen ut Ketate simplicitate constantia et Fide
vicerit, plane triumphaverit. Tanti viii desiderium nos merito lugemus. Talem fuisse gaudebunt
Postcri. Uxorem sibi adjunxit illustrissimam Foeminam Mariam Samuelis Cranmer Armigeri
Filiam, de qua numerosam suscepit prolem, cujus pnecipuus erat Dnus Joannes de Castro,
Patemi Honoris et Virtutis Hffires, qui pulchrum hoc monumentum perpetu© tanti Patris
niemoriaj honorifice sacravit.

Obiit 15' Feb" A' Dn» 1097, rotat. 65.

Una cum dilectissimo marito requiescit baud minus dilecta Domina Maria De Castro generis
gradus dinumeravit a magno illo Cranmero veram religionem velut ex traduce hauriens Reformato-
rum Principe tanti Antistitis vestigiis quantum potuit per omnia institit, etfide vimilis et moribus
vimilis Uteris et amicisvixit chara. Obiit plorata Maii 21™" An* Dom 1710 aetat. . . .

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 BackhouBe, the Btopdanghtor of the present Vicar of Chicheley, for
a detailed description of aU the family portraits now remaining at Chicheley HalL

348 THE CHESTEKS OF CHICHELEY.

On the Death of S' Anthony Chester Bar.

To 8^ John Chester Bar, His Son,

Had Virtue Wisdom Honour Blood Estate
Power to bribe inexorable Fate ;
Could Love of Friends Relations Neighbours save
A D3ring Man one moment from the Grave ;
Could Prayers of Poor Relieved with Death prevail
Or Fortitude against that Foe avail ;
Chester had told yet larger summes of Years
And longer much forbom 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 tliis seeming sad account a right,
And we shall find that none are loosers by 't.
Far better State S' Anthony preferr'd,
Where all His Virtues 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.

Dame Mary Chester, the widow of Sir Anthony in., continued to reside at
Chicheley after her Imsband's deatli, 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 Henry VIH. 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 bom at Chicheley in 1689, and was left by her
father's Will in 1699 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 MARY 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 cliilcben 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 2Gth 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 Mary Chester of Cliicheley, Bucks, widow. Will dated 3d Feb. 1709-10.

To my niece Anue Ci*anmer, daughter of Sir CiEsar Cranmer, als. Wood, deceased, my fine
suit of tapestry hanging. To her brother Charles Cranmer, my nephew, the pictures of my
fatlier and mother and of Sii* Greville Vemey.* To my granddaughter Mary Price, the picture
of herseK 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 wliich Sir Henry Chester
deceased wore in liis lifetime as Knight of tlie Batli. To my grandson John Chester, son of
Tliomas Chester, linendraper, sundry linen and a travelling-trunk. To my cousin Elizabeth
Richers.J my waiting- woman, the diamond earrings which I usually wear, and all my wearing
apparell, except my point lace. To my goddaughter Anne Chamock,§ 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 Kemmington, 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 wTapped up in a sheet of lead and put in a coffin and
buried near my late dear husband Sir Anthony Chester, in the parish church of Chicheley.

Will proved at Oxford, 18th Aug. 1710, by Penelope Allen, wife of John Allen, clerk, and
Dorothy Willson, wife of John Willson Esq., daughters of the testatrix.

Sir Anthony Chester HI. had issue by his wife Mary Cranmer sixteen cliildren,
who were all born and baptized at Chicheley. (i)

I. ilARY 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 ; 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 Vemey was a friend and Warwickshire neighbour of Lady Chester'B father Alderman
Cranmer, who mentions in his Will that Sir Greville owed him 7007. 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, Duke of Southampton, who married Mary Wood,
cousin german of the testatrix.

I Seep. 318.

S The second danghter of Sir Fynsent Chemooke Bart., M.P. for Bedfordshire in the Tory intoMSi

SIB ANTHONY CHBSTBB, BART. HI. 351

Draft Letteb from Burreix ^Iassixgberd Esq. to Francis Buncombe Esq.
Indorsed^ * Mine to Mr. Diuicomhe, 20t?i Nov, 1710.'

Dear Sir, — I presume by this time your liurrey botli as to polliticks* and matrjrmonyf 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 tliough some have shown a more
happy tranquiUity of mind above being ruffled at disappointments, yet soon they can't but receive
an addition of joy from tlie pleasant alteration in those of their friends who had not temper enough
to keep tliemselves from discoveiing the acid and the fretfull, and as I can't but confess myself an
instance of tlie latter sort, so I can't direct this to Broughton without meditating upon the former,
and with himible respects and due salutes to all at Broughton, am yours, &c. B. M.

P.S. Jack Tollerj is in Town, but I doubt it will be near Christmas before I get up.

11. Elizabeth Chester bore a strong personal resemblance to her twin sister
Mary. They were rival beauties, and ai'e painted together at full length in a largo
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 IH. 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 lOOZ. 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. Dancombe*a only daughter Anne had then just married John Robinson Esq. of Gransley.
\ John Toller (son and heir apparent of John Toller Esq. of Billingborongh, High Sheriff of lancoln-
shire in 1707) married in 1718 Catherine, daughter of Sir John Chester, tiie fourth baronet. The
friendship between the two families of Toller and Massingberd was of yeiy ancient standing, for their
respectiye ancestors, Drayner Massingberd of Ormsby and Richard Toller of Billingborough, were
indicted together for high treason at Grantham in 1643.

§ This fashion of wearing the hair still found favour in the reign of Queen Anne, for Pope says in the
Rape 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 iyoiy neck.
Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains,
And mighty hearts are held in slender chains.'

352 THE CHESTEBS OF CHICHELET.

M. S.

Elizabeth Eyro, danghter 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
Eyie. She was bom 11th Feb. 1059. 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.

Charles 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 33/. ds. 8d. a year each. (i8) Before he was of age, Chester
Eyre was promoted to be a Groom of the Removing Wardrobe, with a salary of 130/.
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.

ni. Diana Chester was bom 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 Yorksliire. Mr. Remington was pre-
sented by the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1699 to the vicarage
of Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire, wliich 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 Gay hurst. (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, (i) 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 (Mrs. 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 bom 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 CEtESTER, 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 Utigation 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 RE^nxoTOX, the only surviving child of Diana, lived with her aunt
Mrs. Wilson from 1718 until her marriage. (24) She married in 1730 her kinsman,
tlie Rev. John Shan, Vicar of Chicheley, 1725-1783, whose descent from Sir
Anthony Chester 11. 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 Uving 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 married 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. Hexrietta Chester was bom at 1 a.m. on 4th Sept. 1661, (15) and dying
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 Henrj' 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

354 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

portrait of her at Chicheley Hall, which 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.

Sir Hahry Cambell of Clay Hall, Essex, Bart. Will dated Cth May 1699.

To be buried in the parish church of Barking. To my dear wife Dame Catherine Cambell
for her life, the manor of Byrch 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
\^dth her grandmother, the Lady Chester, but my said wife and my honoured father-in-law Robert
Sheffield Esq. are to have tlie management of her estates until she be 21. My said wife and
father-in-law to sell my four-sevenths of tlie 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 Sheffield. My said
wife to be my sole executrix.

Will proved in C.P.C. 20th June 1090. [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 Price. (29) She died in childbed, and was
buried at Barking on 30th March 1713. (27) Her widower died at Bath 25th May
1733.(26)

VL Anthony Chester, son and heir apparent, was born at 7 A.M. on Tuesday ,
Gth Oct. 16G3, (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 fau«r of the two, is in yellow witli 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, Robert 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 Leicestersliire in 1681. (30)

Robert Oneby was born at Signett in the parish of Llanvair, near Ruthin (the
seat of his maternal jgrandfather 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 sur\^iving children were : 1. CHESTER Oneby, her eldest child, who was bom 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 HI. and nephew and
coheir ta Sir Henry Wood Bart., and her marriage took place without the sanction
of her father; for Thomas Wood in his Will, dated 9 th July 1709, bequeaths ^to
my eldest daughter Susan, who very lately went from me, and is married without my

* His grandson by his first marriage was tho notorions Major John Oneby ot Honeywood's Dragoons,
who killed Mr. William Gower (the son of a Roman Catholic gentleman of 12,000^ a year) in a gambling
squabble at the Castle Tavern in Dmry-lane. The Major was tried at the Old BaUey for murder, when
a special yerdict was j^iven 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 ho 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 yerdict, when he was fonnd
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 ^e King refused to interfere, and Oneby anticipated the hangman by
severing the artery of his arm with a razor on tho night of the 2d July. (30) His grandfather ftnd uncle
Robert happily did not live to witness his disgraceful end.

856 THE CHESTER S OF CfllCHELElT.

knouoUdge or consentj one guinea in gold.^ He had issue by his second wife Susanna
on only son Robert, who was born in London at Southampton-buildings on 9th
April 1710, and was baptized at St. Andrew's, Holbom, on 13th April. (30)

Robert Oneby died at Barwell on 5th Feb. 1720-1, aged 55, three montlis before
his father. His widow Susanna survived him many years, 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)

VHI. John Chester, surviving son and heir, was bom at 6 a.m. on Sunday,
24th June 1666. (15) He succeeded his father as the fourth baronet.

IX. Dorothea Chester was bom 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 man*iage 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 salvera,
which arc 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 gmvestone in the chancel of
Loughborough Church bears this inscription: (33)

Here lieth the body of Mrs. Dorothea Wilsou, widow of John Wilson Esq. of Knight Thorpe,
and daughter of Sir Anthony Chester Bart, of Cliicheley in the county of Bucks, and Dame
Mary his wife. She departed this life 21st Nov. 175-1, in the 88tli year of her age.

Dorothy Wilson of Knight Thorpe in the parish of Loughborough, widow. Will dated Idth
May 1740.

SIB ANTHONY CHESTER, BART. III. 357

To my nephew, the Rev. Mr. Anthony'-' Chester, the picturef of my late honoured father Sir
Anthony Chester Bart., and my own picture;! also £oO and sundry plate. To my niece Mrs.
Penelope Alle3rne, £'30 for mourning. To my cousin John Shan junior, £'20, and to his brother
Lawson Shan, i- 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 tliree 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
Johu Wilson Esq., my gold watch. To Mrs. Margery Glen, £10. To Mrs. AJlsop, wife of Mr.
Thomas Allsop of Loughborougli, a ring. To my cousin, the wife of Mr. Thomas Hunt of
Loughborough, £30. To Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, widow of Mr. Charles Wilson, £50 for mourning.

My said nephew iVntliony Chester and my said niece Barbara Shan to be my residuary
legatees, and the said Antliony Chester to be my executor.

Codicil dated 31st Oct. 1753. To my nephew Captain Francis Chester, £20 for mourning.

Will proved in C.P.C. 17th Dec. 175-4 by Anthony Chester, clerk. [345 Pinfold.]

X. Hexry Chester was born on Monday, 14th Sept., (15) and was baptized at
Chicheley on 29tli Sept. 1068. (i) He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on
19th March 1085-6, 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
tlie third Sir Anthony in 1082, 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 Iladdenham in the Isle of Ely. (i) From this time Henry usually resided in the
liectorial 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 lieth tlie 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 no7 in the posseBsion of Mrs. Hughes. See p. 853.

858

THE CHfiSTEBS OF CBICUBLG7.

Heiuy Chester snrvived his mfe twenty years, and died on 6th May 1 7i6, wiUiin
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 IGth
May 1720, (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 Hcutj' Cliester Esq. (son of Sir Anthony
Chester Bar* of Chichely iu the Countyof Bucks) and Theodosia
his wifu. He departed Uiis life May C* 1720, aged 5!t. She de-
parted tliia life July 1" 1700.

His only son AsTHOXY CHESTER succeeded his
cousin in 1766 as the ninth baronet, and will therefore
be fully noticed in a later chapter.

XI. Alice Chester was bom on . . . Nov. (day
illegible) 1669, (15) and was baptized on 15th Nov.(i)
She died unmarried in her 17th year, and was buried at
Chiclieley on 17th July 1686. (1)

XII. William CHESTERwas bom on Satarday,10lh
June 1671, between 5 and 6 A.M., and was baptized at
Chicbeleyon 29th June fo[lowing,(i) when Sir William*
TjrinfThani Kt. and Mr. Alderman* Backwell were his

godfathers, and his grandmother Dame Elizabeth Chester was his godmother. {15)
He (lied a child, aged 2 years and 8 months, on 20th Feb. 1673-4, {15) and was
buried at Chicheley on 22d Feb, {1) It is quaintly noted by Sir Anthony that the
cause of William's death was ' suppofed to be ye Evill in ye Gulls.' (1^)

XIII. Penelope Chester was born at 4 p.m. on Monday, 3d June 1672, and
was baptized at Chicheley on 11th June following, (1) when her brother Anthony
was her godfather, and her godmothers were her grandmother Dame Elizabeth
Chester and her father's cousin Betty Fishcr.f (15)

Penelope figures as a fair-haired child of seven in her mother's portnut at
Chicheley, and manied 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 WiUiata Tyringham was the last beh' male of a fanuJy who had been lords of the manor of
Tyrinftham ui Backs from time immemorial. He iraa created a Knight of the Bath with Sir Henry
Cheater at the ooronation of Charles IL and ran through his vhole estate, which was pnrohased by
Edward BaohweU, Goldsmith and Alderman of London. Howerer, the Alderman's son and heir Edward
Baekwell married Sir William's only child Elizabeth Tyringham, and the manor is stiU posseSBed by
their descendants. (3 5 J

f ElUabith Fit/itr maiiied in 1073 John Bhan Esq. of Methley Hall, Yorkshire. Sie p. 183.

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SIR ANTHONY CHESTER, BART. 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, pi-eached at the Bishop's Visitation at Leicester, 3d April 1700 ; 2. Una-
nimity in the Truth a necessary Duty, with the Means of obtaining it, an assize sermon,
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
1761. (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 bom 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 (i), 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 was bom at 2 a.m. on Friday, 19th Oct. 1677, and was
baptized at Chicheley on 8tli 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, Elizabeth, 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 bom 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 ToUer Esq. and his wife Catharine Chester, wai baptized at
ByhaU in Bntlandshire 8th Sept. 1724.

t This date is taken from a little mooming-ring in the possesBion of Bfrs. Hughes.

S60 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

were his granduncle 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 20/. 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 was 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 sheriflf in 1685 by King James, as a citizen on whose loyalty and
zeal tlie Court could thoroughly rely. He was knighted at Windsor Castle on 13tli
Aug. 1685, (39) and was so active in assisting the Government prosecutions, that he
was accused after the 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
which was still occupied for the same trade within 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 Wiofall and Plumptbe.

Geoboe Wiofall of Carter HaU, in the parish of Eckington, Derbyshire, Yeoman, married 3d March
1602-3, Anne, danghter of Nicholas Towers, Gentleman, of Eaton, Notts, and was buried at Eckington
Ist Oct. 1623.

Henry Wiofall, son of George, was of Renishaw in Eckington, Esquire, and married Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir John Gell Bart, of Hopton Hall. He died in 1651, leaving issne two sons and three
daughters.

I. John Wiofall Esq. of Renishaw was baptized 28th Sept. 1637, and entered his pedigree at the
Visitation of Derbyshire on 18th Aug. 1662. Ho married three wives, and was boried at Eckington
5th Nov. 1711.

II. Daniel Wiofall, of whom below.

III. Mabt. IV. Elizabeth. V. Judith.

Daniel Wiofall, 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 Bamby, 2l8t Sept. 1676,
Dorothy, danghter 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 Chesteb, as stated in the text.

III. Dobothea, of whom and her children below.

IV. Mabt, married at All Hallows Staining, London, 20th July 1710, Robert Caldeoott Oent (aa)

THOMAS CHESTER OF LONDON. 361

in 16(32, and the arms are Sahle^ a sword erect in pale argent with a golden hilt ; on
a chief indented gules^ a ducal croitn between two escallops or, (42)

Daniel Wi^all 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 demai'cation 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.j 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 lefl no Will, but letters
of administration were granted to his widow Elizabeth on 3d Sept. 1737. She
sur\'ived 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 childi'en.

I. !NLvRY 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 Richard Musgravo
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
17G9, and was buried beside her brother. (45)

y. Temperance, married by license at All Hallows Staining, on 22d May 1710, Joseph Stables Gent,
of the parish of St. Dnnstan's-in-the-East. (22)

Dorothea Wigfall, the second daughter of Daniel and Dorothy, married by license at All Hallows
Staining, on 30th April 1704, 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 Slst March 1709, Dr. Henry
Plumptre, who was President of the Boyal College of Physicians from 1740 to 1746, 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 childi-en. (43)

I. Russell Plumptre was bom 4th Jan., and was baptized on 16th Jan. 1709-10, at St. Giles'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.
17C6, John Ward Esq. of Wilbraham in Cambridgeshire.

II. AsiANDA Plumptre was bom on 29th Nov., and was baptized on 15th Dec. 1711 at St. Giles's-in-
the-Fields. She is mentioned in the Will of her cousin John Chester, and died unmarried 26th June
1766.

862 THE CHESTEBS 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 Chester, son and heir.

III. Anne Chester 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 Chester, the only son of Thomas Chester and EUzabeth Wigfall, was
admitted a student at the Inner Temple on 12th Feb. 1723-4. (47) By the custx)m
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 married at the Fleet, (2) on 24th Aug. 1738, his cousin Elizabeth 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 0th Oct 1750.
My aunt Dorothea Plumtre, widow of Dr. Plumtre, and my sister Mary Horton of Coley Hall,
Yorksliire, to be joint-guardians of the person of my only daughter Dorothea Chester, who is now

11 years old, and to have X300 a year for her maintenance during her minority. I give, so far
as lies in me the power, the next presentation of the Hving of Hollesley,* 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
Dorotliea Chester, Dorothea Plumtfe, and Mary Horton to be my executors.

Will proved in C.P.C. 7th Jan. 1760-1, by Dorothea Plumtre, again 14th March 1752 by Mary
Horton, again 3d Nov. 1760 by Dorothea Chester.

Dorothea Chester, 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 advowBon of HoUeeley was included in his daughter's share of the Wood estates.

DOKOTUEA CHESTER, 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 172fi ; 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 Mi's. Horton, and her grandaunt Mrs. Plumtre. She married on 2d
Dec. 1764 Sir George Robinson Bart, of Cranford in Northamptonshire, (26) who
was related to her mother by their common descent from Sir George Villiers Bart, of
Brooksby. Lady Robinson eventually inherited, in right of her grandmother
Penelope Lady Chester, the estates of theHewett 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 Parifih Registers.

Chicheley^ Bucks (verified by Rev. W. Jendwine, Vicar).

1C57, May 21. Sir Anthony Chester Bart, and Mrs. Mary Cranmer married.

1658-9, Feb. 14. Mary and Elizabeth Chester twins, dans, of Sir Anthony Chester Bart, and

Lady Mary his wife, bapt.
1600, May 10. Mrs. Diana Chester, dan. of same, bapt.
1661-2, Jan. 14. Mrs. Henrietta Chester, dan. of same, bnried.

1662, Oct. 12. Mrs. Catherine Chester, dan. of same, bapt.

1663, Oct. 20. Anthony Chester, son of same, bapt.

1665, April 20. Judith Chester, dan. of same, bapt.

1666, July 6. John Chester, son of same, bapt.

1667, Ang. 19. Dorothea Chester, dan. of same, bapt.

1668, Sept. 29. Henry Chester, son of same, bapt.

1669, Nov. 15. Alice Chester, dan. of same, bapt.

1671, June 29. Mr. William Chester, son of same, bapt. ; buried 22d Feb. 1673-4.

1672, June 11. Penelope Chester, dan. of same, bapt.

1674, March 30. Mr. Thomas Chester, son of same, bapt.

1675, April 6. Mr. CsBsar 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, dan. 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, dan. of Sir Henry Cambel and Catherine Lady Cambel his

wife, bapt.
1693, May 21. Mr. Chester Oneby, bapt.

1695 (710 day or month), Mr. Thomas Remington and Mrs. Diana Chester married.
1697-8, Feb. 19. Sir 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. 3. Mrs. Judith Chester buried (Mrs. Oneby).

864 THE CH£STER8 OF CHICHBLEY.

1709, Sept. 27. John BemingUm, ye son of John {tic) Bemington and Diana his wife, bnried.

1710, May 20. Maiy Lady Chester buried.

1716, Sept. 7. Mrs. Diana Remington, the wife of ... . Remington, clerk, boned.
Attwood, Bucks (verified by Rev. C. Ware, Vicar).

1706, Jane 26. Anthony, son of Henry Chester Esq. and Theodosia his wife, bapt.
East lladdon, 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,
(a) St, Benet, Gracechurch street, London, (22)

1700, July 2. Thomas Chester of St. Peter's Cheap, London, draper, and Elizabeth Wigfall
of St. George's, Botolph-lane, spinster, married by license.

St, Peter's Cheap, London, (22)

1701, April 24. Maiy, dan. of Thomas Chester, linendraper at the Three Nuns in Chcapside,
and of Elizabeth his ¥dfe, bapt. ; bom 18th April.

St, Pauls, Covent Garden, London (verified by Col. J. L. Chester).
1710, May 18. Anne, dan. of Thomas and Elizabeth Chester, bapt.
1787, Aug. 21. Thomas Chester, in ye church vault under ye charity school, buried.
1737-8, Jan. 18. Elizabeth Chester, widow, bnried (in the same vault). »

1739, Oct. 15. Dorothea, dau. of John and Elizabeth Chester, bapt.

1740, Sept. 16. ElizabeUi, 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 Bum's History of Fleet Marriages, 1834).

1721, March 10. William 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) EasUm Maudit, Northants (certified by Rev. H. Smith, Vicar).

1715. Diana, the mie 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, Filius Thomsd Bemington, clerioi, hujns Parochiie Vicarii, et Catharine
Uxoris ejus natus erat 23 die Martii a.d. 1718 et baptizatus prime Aprilis a.d. 1719.

1720. Bobinson, Filius Thomsd Bemington, derici, hujusce ParochiiB Vicarii, et Catharine
Uxoris ejus natus erat 20** et baptizatus 28^ Aprilis.

1720. Catharina, Uxor Thomie Bemington, clerici, hujusce Parochiffi Vicarii, Mortua est Festo

Sti Marci Sepulta 5P*' Eal Maiar.
1720. Bobinson, filius suprascripti Thonue Bemington, sepultus 10** die Maii
1736. This year, Jan. ye 7th, dyed the Bev. Thom. Bemington 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. Harry, ye sonne of Sir Thomas Cambell Baronett, home this day in ye parish
of S. Andrewcs, Holbome in London, and baptized by Dr. Cartwright on Tuesday 24th
of the same.

1691-2, Jan. 21 wife of Sir Henry Cambell Baronett, buried.

1699, May 26. Sir Henry Cambell BaroneU buried.

(5) Ilighgate Chapel, Middlesex,

1688, Aug. 12. Anthony Markham of Sedgebrooke, co. Lincoln, Esq. and Katherine Whorwood
of Sturton Castle co. Stafford, married.

(6) Loughborough (from Nichols' Hist, of Leicestershire, 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 Allin, minister, bapt.
1705, Nov. 13. Jane, wife of Mr. John Alleyne, buried.

(7) Marriage Licences (from Col. J. L. Chester's hss. Collections).

From the Vicar- GeneraVs Registry,

1687, May 21. Nicholas Eyre of Si 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 marry at St. Martin's in the Fields, Knightsbridge Chapel, or
Kensington.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. 365

1692, May 20. Robert Onebj of Barwell, co. Leicester, Esq., bachelor, aged 25, and Mrs. Jadith
Chester of Chicheley, spinster, above 19 (sic), with the consent of her father Sir Anthony
Chester Kt. The marriage settlement being agreed npon 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 Loughborongh, co. Leicester, Esq., widower, and Mrs. Dorothy
Chester of Chicheley, Backs, 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.
From the Faculty OJlce.

1700, July 1. Thomas Chester of Cheapside, London, linendraper, bachelor, abont 26, and
Elizabeth Wigfall of St. George's, Botolph-lane, London, spinster, 21 and a half, with
consent of her mother Dorothy Wigfall : to marry at St. Peter's, ComhiU.

(8) Wood's AthensB, Oxon. 1720 ; Fasti, ii. 48.

(9) Wills of Cordell family, printed in vol. i. of Dr. Howard's edition of the Visitation of Suffolk, 1567.

(10) Dr. Spencer's Will 1614, 65 Lawe in C.P.C.

(11) Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1634.

(12) Wills of Bedingfield, printed in the Norfolk ArchiBologia, vol. vii. part i.

(13) Memoirs of James II., ed. Clarke, vol. i. p. 452. Strickland's Queens of England, vol. x. p. 244.

(14) Collins's Peerage, 1779, vol. v. p. 474. Wood's Fasti Oxon. vol. i. p. 887.

(15) Memorandum in the handwriting of Sir Anthony Chester III. printed in extenso in the 2d volomtt

of Dr. Howard's Miscellanea Genealogica, Monthly Series. See also page 366.

(16) Lipscomb's Hist, of Bucks, vol. iv. p. 82.

(17) Notitia Parliamentaria, by Browne Willis.

(18) The Present State of Great Britain, 1707.

(19) Luttrell's Diary.

(10) Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana, 1717, p. 100.

(21) Historical Register, Gazette, 15th Feb. 1714-15.

(22) From Col. J. L. Chester's msb. Collections.

(23) Lipscomb's Bucks, Stoke Goldington.

(24) From the information of Mrs. Hughes.

(25) From her M. I. at Easton Maudit. ,

(26) Gentleman's Magazine.

(27) From the information of Mr. E. J. Sage, Editor of the Fanshawe Genealogy.

(28) Le Neve's Memoranda, printed in vol. ill. of the Topographer and Genealogist.

(29) Lipscomb's Bucks, vol. iii. p. 143 ; Morant's Essex, vol. i. p. 7.

(30) Mr. Nichols has paid particular attention to the pedigree 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. Ixiu. p. 342.

(31) Pedigree of the coheirs of Wood in Gage's Hist, of Things Hundred, p. 393.

(32) Nichols' Hist, of Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. 514.

(33) Idem, vol. iii. p. 902.

(34) Baker's Hist, of Northamptonshire, Yol. i. p. 164.

(35) Le Neve's Knights, Ped. of Tyringham, p. 24, Harleian Society.

(36) Nichols, vol. iii. p. 894, 900, 902.

(37) Hardy's Fasti EoclesiiB Anglicano).

(38) From the Freedom Book of the Mercers' Company, examined by Col. J. L. Chester.

(39) Le Neve's Knights, p. 399.

(40) Journals of the House of Lords, 20th Feb. 1692-3.

(41) Seymour's Survey of London, vol. i. p. 440.

(42) Harleian mss. 6104, fo. Ill, Ped. of Wigfall.

(43) Pedigree of Plumptre in Burke's Landed Gentry, with Additions and Corrections.

(44) Burn's Hist, of Fleet Marriages, 1834, p. 109.

(45) Watson's Hist, of Halifax, 4to, 1775.

(46) Pedigree of Horton in the College of Arms, 5 D. 14, P. 237.

(47) Admission Book of the Inner Temple.

48) Bum's Fleet Marriages, p. 100.

49) Nichols' Hist, of Co. Leio. vol. ii. p. 581.

366 THE CHBSTERS OF CHICIIELEY.

MEMORANDUM OF THE BIRTHS OF THE 10 CHILDREN OF SIR ANTHONY
CHESTER, THE 3rd BARONET OF THAT NAME AND FAMILY, AS SET
DOWN BY HIM IN A PAPER WRITTEN IN HIS OWN HAND.

1058. Memorandum tliat God was pleased to dubble his blessinges upon mo on Friday y« ij^ of
February abought nine of the clock at night and cmcdiatly after my two daughters
were borne — names Mary and Elizabeth.

1000. Memorandum that God was pleased to ad to his former blessinges in giving me a third

daughter on Sunday May y* 0^ abought foure of the clock in the aftemoone — Diana.

1001. Mem' tliat God was pleased to send me a fourth daughter on Sep. y* 4'** abught one of

y* clock in y* moniing — Henrietta.

1002. Mem' that God was pleased to send me a fifUi daughter on October y« ij'** betwixt foure

and five in y* morning being Saturday — Katharine.

1003. Mem' tliat 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 Goventrye —

Antliony.
1005. 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* mom' — Judith.
1000. Mem' tliat God was pleased to give me y* blessing of my second sonne, on Sundy mom

abought six of y* clock being y* 24''* of June — John.

1007. 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.

1008. Mem' that God was pleas'd to give me y* blessing of my third sonne on Munday y* 14*^ of

September — Henry.

1009. Mem' that God was pleased to give me y* blessing of my eighth daughter on y* of

November — Alice.

1071. Mem* that God was pleas'd to give me y* blessing of a forth sonne on Satcrday y« 10"* of

June betwixt 6 and in y* mom he was christened on Thursday y* 20 of y* same
month — William. S' Will. Tyiingham and Alderman Backwell being Godfathei-s,
and my mother Godmo. He died Feb. 20*'* 1073, supposed to be y* Evill in y* gutts.

1072. 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***, Antliony God. my

motlier and Betty Fisher Godmotliers — ^named Penelope.
107 J. 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. Godfatiers y* Bish. of Litchfield and my bro.

Conye — Thomas.
1075. Mem' that God was pleas'd to give me y* blessing of my sixth sonne March y* 30'^ being

Tuesday att eleven of y* clock att night Godfathers my brother Cranmer and Dr.

Randolph — Cesar.
1077. Mem' that God was pleas'd to give me y® blessing of my seventh sonne on Fryday morning

ab't 2 in y* mom being y* 19*** of October and christoned y* 8*^ No. My Lord of Ales-
bury abs. and S' Peter Tyrrell Godfathers present — Robert,

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