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THE CAMDEN MISCELLANY,
VOLUME THE NINTH:
COXTAIMXR-
VISITATIONS OF CHURCHES IX THE PATRONAGE OF ST. PAUL'S
CATHEDRAL.
'•THE SPOUSELLS" OF THE PRINCESS MARY. 1508.
A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS TO
THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564.
PAPERS RELATING TO THOMAS WENTWORTH, FIRST EARL OF
STRAFFORD.
HAMILTON PAPERS. ADDENDA.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE.
THE JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER, M.P., 1687.
PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY
M.DCCC.XCV.
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Camden miscellany, vol. IX 1895
Vol.53
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COUNCIL OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY
FOE THE YEAR 1894-5.
President.
THE EIGHT HON. THE EARL OF CRAWFORD, K.T., LL.D., F.E.S., &c, &c.
JAMES J. CAETWRIGHT, ESQ., M.A.. F.S.A., Treasurer.
KEY. J. SILVESTER DA VIES, M.A.. F.S.A.
REV. J. WOODFALL EBSWORTH, MA... F.S.A.
JAMES GAIRDNEE. ESQ.. Secretary.
SAMUEL KAWSON GARDENER. ESQ., M.A., LLA^., Director.
REV. F. A. GASQUET, D.D.
DAY ID II ANN AY. ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM HUNT, M.A.
ARTHUR \V. HUTTON, ESQ., M.A.
J. BASS MULLIXGER, ESQ., M.A.
REV. CHARLES NEIL, M.A.
J. E. L. PICKERING, ESQ.
II. C. SOTHKHAX, ESQ.
HENRY R. TEDDER, ESQ.
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VISITATIONS OP CIUBGHES
BELONGING TO ST. TAIL'S CAIHEDEAI
19 ,." — 1252.
KDiTiiD FROM DRlGDfAX maxus.
BY
W. SPAKKOW SIMPSON P.P.. F.S.A..
SUB-PEAX AND LIBRARIAN OF ST. F.vrL':? CA THE
HONORARY LIBRARIANS OF 111- THE ARCV. - . > . 3EEY.
PRINTED FOB THE CAMDKN SOCIETY
3t.DCCC.XCV.
INTRODUCTION.
The Visitations of Churches now printed are of earlier date than
those contained in tlie Camden Society's volume entitled Visitations
of Churches belonging to St. Paul's Cathedral in 1297 and in 1458.
The)' are transcribed from a manuscript amongst the cathedral
records known as Liber L.,a a volume of so great importance that
Mr. Maxwell Lyte devotes nearly seventeen closely printed columns
to a calendar of its contents in the ninth report of the Historical
Manuscripts Commission.
Archdeacon Hale, in the preface to his Domesday of St. PauVs,
observes that " this is a most interesting volume." It is thus
described in Lisieux's b Catalogue : u Contenta in quodam antique
et notabili Begistro, de tempore Will'i Conquestoris, clauso cum
uno nodulo in- medio, 2° folio in Rubriea Privilegium, signatus cum
litera L." The book in its present state answers in every respect
to the description, except that the nodv.lus, or button, by which it
was fastened has been taken away. Xo part of it will bear out the
statement of its very early date but the first twenty-six folios ; the
remainder of the book is of the latter part of the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries, with some insertions (on parchment larger and
smaller than the original manuscript) written in the fourteenth
century.
Mr. Maxwell Lyte assigns the earlier part of the volume to the
middle of the twelfth century.
* See pages CO b— 60 a. The press mark of the MS. is W. P. •*•
b Thomas Lisieux, Ueau of St. Paul's, H41-14.r>6.
IV INTRODUCTION.
The Visitations now, for the first time, edited, were made during
the years ranging from 1219 to 1252. The churches visited arc
those of which a sufficiently full account has been given in the
volume of Visitations already referred to, and it will not therefore
be necessary to repeat in this place the topographical details which
have there been supplied. Nor has it been thought necessary to
repeat explanations of words which were dealt with in the other
volume, to which this is indeed a supplement.
In 1249 and 1250 Willesdon and Tillingham were visited; in -
1251 Twyford, Navestock, Walton, and Kirkby, and probably
St. Pancrus and Thorpe; and in 1252 Chiswick, Aldbury, Pelham
Arsa, and Pelham Furncaux, and probably Westlee, Barling, and
Heybridge.
During the period occupied by these Visitations Henry de
Cornhill was Dean of St. Paul's. Dugdale, in his list of deans,8
dismisses him in two lines ; and Henry Wharton b grants him only
fifteen, in which brief notice there is very little of interest unless it be
thought worth while to record that he bestowed upon the cathedral
some vestments and a book. The vestments were a cope, chasuble,
dalmatic, and tunic, " de purpurea sameto cum garbis breudatis," c
and the book, was a " Liber Ordinarii secundum Albcricum, per
eundem in aliquo emendatur, qui habet Kalcndarium in principio.
Incipit Ecce dies veniunt, ct continet Capital armm, et Collectarium,
Antiphonarium, et Ympnarium, et finit in Ympno Eerum Deus;
■ Dngdale, History of St. Pavl's, 224.
* Hhtoria de Ij>iscoj>is et Decants Londinensibus, 207, 309.
« An inventory of the plate, vestments, &c.s belonging to St. Paul's Cathedral,
taken in 1245, records another valaahle gift :—
"Pannns iriagnns sericas ruhens, euro magnis rotis et binis leonibns cristatis in
rotis pnrpnreis et (lores inter rotas. Rex dedit Decant/, et Decanus postea dedit
Ecclesiae."
Possibly also another entry may indicate a gift from the same liberal donor :—
"Capafascadepanna serico breudata cam minatis gladeolis ct minatis bisanciis
et. floribns minatis. Hanc brendarc fecit Henricns Caaccllarittfi ct postea Dccanns."
Printed in Arehaeolo/jia, vol. 50.
INTRODUCTION. V
et Psalterium imponitur, de novo, effigitur per cathenam in
vestibule." His obit was kept yearly at St, Paul's " expending
thereat xiijs. iiijd." a
But Henry do Cornliill is not to be dismissed in quite so
summary a manner. He played his part manfully in a xery
stirring incident, endeavouring to maintain the liberties of the
Bishop of London and the cathedral against the encroachments, as
he deemed them, of Archbishop Boniface.
- The venerated Bishop Roger Niger, " canonised by popular
acclamation," had passed to his rest on Michaelmas Day, 1241.
For three years the See of London was allowed to remain vacant,
and was at length filled by Fulk Basset, a nobleman of old Norman
blood, of whom Dean Milman has much to say in his Annals of
St. Paul's}' Fulk, Lord Basset, of Wycombe, was a baron by
tenure. He had been Provost of Beverley and Dean of York, and
w7as consecrated Bishop of London in 12-14. Pie was a firm
supporter of the national party, and certainly no lover of the proud
prelate who ruled the province with a rod of iron.
Boniface, a son of Thomas, Count of Savoy, was enthroned at
Canterbury on All Saints' Day, 12-19; Queen Eleanor of England,
daughter of his sister Beatrice (herself the mother of four queens),
was present at the gorgeous ceremonial. c He soon resolved to
make a visitation of his province, a scheme which encountered a
determined, though useless, resistance. As part of his plan, he
gave notice that he would visit St. Paul's Cathedral.
" On the day appointed he appeared, with an armed retinue, at
the great west door. Here he was met by the Dean, a venerable
old man, well versed in ecclesiastical affairs, Henry of Cornhill.
The Dean was attended by the Chapter. The Dean and Chapter
respectfully represented that, by their statutes, the Bishop of the
- ■ Dtigdale, History, 310, 321, 323, 32S.
b Annuls, second edition, 5«J ct seqq.
c Dean Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, in. 229, 230.
VI INTRODUCTION.
Diocese, and not the Metropolitan, was their visitor. The Arch-
bishop gave orders to his attendants, and they forced an entrance
into the cathedral. The cathedral was empty. The usual forms
and ceremonies adopted when a visitor entered a church were
omitted. No organ Bounded. There was no array of the priests ;
no choir. The . silence was only broken by the tramp of the
Archbishop's attendants, whose step was martial, though their
outer garments were sacerdotal. The primate approached the
choir; the doors were closed. He went to the Chapter House,
there to admonish, as he said, the clergy ; but he could not obtain
admission."" Greatly enraged, he excommunieated the Dean and
Chapter for having resisted the rights of the See of Canterbury.
That it required no little courage thus to withstand the proud
Archbishop will be sufficiently evident to those who read the
graphic account, given by Dean Hook, of the primate's visit to the
priory of St. Bartholomew on the day following his entry into the
cathedral. Here also solemn protest was made against his intrusion,
and it devolved upon the sub-prior to utter the firm but modest
protest of his brethren. " A blow from the young Archbishop's fist
was the -first answer which the aged sub-prior received : and when
he was felled to the earth the Archbishop rushed at him with
uncontrollable fury, dealing blow after blow, now on his head, now
on his face, now on his breast ; cursing, swearing, calling for
a sword to make an end of him, and shouting in his madness,
4 Thus, thus will I deal with these English traitors.' The canons
rushed to the rescue of their sub- prior. A tumult ensued ; but
nothing could appease the rage of the Archbishop. Tie crushed the
poor olcl man between two of the stalls, and redoubling his blows
at the same time almost annihilated him. The blood of the
English was now fairly up. They rushed upon the Archbishop ;
they dragged him from his victim. As they dashed him aside the
rattle of armour was heard, and tearing off his rochet, they exposed
» Dean Hook, Lies* of the Archbishops of Canterbury, in. 2.">.">.
INTRODUCTION. Vll
to public view the Primate of All England holding his Visitation
encased in armour.'1 B
The story is very picturesquely told by Dean Hook in the passages
just cited. Those who desire to compare this account with the
original authority should turn to Matthew Paris.** The Dean docs
not at all exaggerate the ferocity of the Archbishop. Matthew
Paris says: " Iratus valde. et comminans, Decanum et quosdam alios
de dignioribus ecclesiae praecipitantcr in spiritu irne et furoris ex-
communieavit." Whilst in recording the incident at St. Bartholo-
mew's his words are full of life and force: —
" Quod c audiens Archiepiscopus, in iram secus quam deceret aut
expediret furoris conversus, irruit in suppriorem, suacque conditionis
et suorum antecessorum sanctitatis immemor, ipsum sanctum virum,
sacerdotem et religiosum in medio ecclesiae existentem, pugno impic
turn percussit, turn in pectus senile, turn in faciem venerabilem,
turn in canum caput impulit truculenter multotiens, clamosa voce
dieens : c Siccine, siccine, decet Angiicos proditores impetere ' ; et
horribilius cum jurumentis irrecitabilibus delirans, gladium suum
expostulavit festinanter afFerri. Et cum multiplicarentur tumultus,
et niterentur canonici suum suppriorem de manibus tarn violenter
opprimentis liberare, ipse Archiepiscopus capam illam preciosam,
qua supplier indutu's erat, dilaceravit, et firmaculum, quod yulgar-
iter morsus dicitur, avulsit, et inter pedes catervatim irruentium
conculcatum est et amissum, quod auro et argento et gemmis fuerat
pretiosum ; sed et ipsa capa nobilissima conculcata et distracta
irrestaurabiliter violabatur; nee aclhuc aversus est furor archiepis-
copalis. Ipsum namque sanctum virum impetu violento repellens
et rctroire cogens, ad unam spondam, quae duos de stallis dividebat
et pro podio facta fuit, adeo senile corpus pressit, ut ossa cum
medullis conquassaret et praecordia collideret furibundus."
* Dean Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, iii. 257, 258.
0 Matthew raris, Chronica Mojora, v. 121-123, and Additamcnta, vi. 198, Sic,
iu the blaster of the Rolls scries.
e That is, the snb-prior's protest.
Vlll INTRODUCTION.
The hot blood of the Archbishop must have made him a
dangerous antagonist: and when to his extreme violence the
juramenta irrccltabilia were added, the very sanctuary itself in no
way restraining him, it is not surprising that four of the canons of
St. Bartholomew's carried the matter to the King, displaying before
him the " ictuum vestigia, cruorem scilicet, livorem, et tumorem,
et vestes laceratas." The sub-prior, meanwhile, lay groaning in
the infirmary, unable to recover from the shock. The King, how-
ever, defended the Archbishop.
Certainly Henry de Cornhill was a brave man, when he with-
stood to the face this turbulent prelate. The Dean, of course,
appealed to the Pope, and the excommunication was for a while
suspended. But u the uncle of the Queen of England, the now
wealthy Primate of England, could not but obtain favour with
Innocent. The Dean of St. Paul's was compelled to submit to the
supreme archiepiscopal authority." a The papal decree of Innocent
IV., compelling the submission of the Dean and Chapter, was issued
in 1252, just at the very time when these parochial Visitations were
in progress.
It is interesting to notice that when, some centuries after, Arch-
bishop Laud proposed to visit St. Paul's Cathedral, the Dean and
Chapter protested strongly against such exercise of jurisdiction.
Their petition to the King is printed in Dugdale, and in it they
state that " it doth not appear, by any records belonging to His
Grace or to the Church, that the Dean and Chapter have ever been
visited by any Metropolitical power, notwithstanding the rest of the
diocese hath been so visited." b
Had they forgotten Archbishop Boniface?
Their protest was unavailing, the King commanding their sub-
mission.
* Milman, Annals of St. Paul's, second edition, 58.
b Dugdale, St. Paul's, 415.
INTRODUCTION. IX
As the Introduction, to the Visitations of 1297 and 1458 is some-
what full, it will only he necessary in the present instance to draw
attention to any features in which this earlier series of Visitations
differs from the later, and to add a few details omitted from the
former volume.
It is certainly worth while to exhibit the exact mode of pro-
cedure in these parochial Visitations, and this can hardly be better
accomplished than by printing the Articuli Visitationis Ecclesiarum
as found in the Statuta Majorat a fine manuscript still preserved at
St. Paul's Cathedral. The original document contains not only the
articles for the visitation of churches, but also those for the visitation
of Manors and of Firmae) and the full title is here retained, although
the portion relating to the churches alone is printed. The docu-
ment may be dated circa A.D. 1320.
" Articuli Visitacionis Ecclesiarum, Maneriorum, et Firmariim
Capituli Sancti Pauli Londoniarum.
Primo de Spiritualibus.
§1. An cancellae et ecclcsiae cum suis cimiteriis, in ornamentis,
libris, vasis, .operimentis, clausuris, et ceteris necessariis, prout
convenit, custodiantur: et si non, qui sunt defcctus, et cujus
estimacionis.
§ 2. Item, de moribus, vita, et conversacione Vicariorum, Capel-
lanorurn, ct Clericorum ecclesiis serviencium, an sint sufficicntes ad
regendum curus eis commissas, et an Vicarii sint residcntes, prout
artantur; et si per eorum defectum ecclcsioa ofliciunij vel devocio
parochianorum minuatur, vel si aliquis parochianorum obierit sine
viatico, vel sacramentis ecclesiaj: qui et qualiter.
§ 3. Item, an predicti Vicarii, Capellani, vel Clerici, seu aliqui
de parochianis sint diffamati de usura, adulterio, fornicacione, vel
aliis crlminibus: qui et de quibus.
§ 4. Item, qui parochiani debeant redditus, in pecunia, cera, vel
" ■ Statuta Jfajora, folio 90. The volume is called Statuta Majora on account of
the large bokl character in which it is written : the Statuta Minora contains- more
statutes than the larger volume.
CAMD. SOC. b
X INTRODUCTION.
oleo, aut rebus aliis ad dcfectus ecclesiae reparandos, vel lurainaria
stistentanda : et si aliqua shit subtracts, quae et per quern." a
It is greatly to be regretted that very little is recorded with
regard to the matters treated of in the second clause, as much
valuable information in respect ot' local customs and usages might
have been gathered from the answers to such enquiries. A few
hints, indeed, are given, but that is all; and these are only of small
importance. Thus at Pelhani Arsa in 1458, b complaint is made
that the vicar keeps his horse in the churchyard " contra honesta-
tern ecclesiae"; and the Tnquisitores further say, "quod Vicarius
multum exercet forum contra honcstatein suam, ct quod dictus
Vicarius non publicat sententenciam excommunicacionis, etc. Et
dicunt quod Vicarius inter solempnia horarum canonicarum con-
fabulat cum parochianis suis, aliquando cum viris et aliquando cum
mulieribus."
Answers to the enquiries arising out of Clauses 1 and 4 are very
fully given.
A few notes relating to the service books, vestments, chrisoms,
lights, surnames, etc., will suffice to make this volume intelligible
if read in connection with the Introduction prefixed to the Visita-
tions of 1297 and 1458.
Service boohs. The service books enumerated do not call for special mention.
Some are found in poor condition, some deficient of leaves and
sections, some with an inaccurate text, whilst in many cases the
binding is defective.
At Aldbury the books appear to have been grievously neglected,
and the visitors have to set down a Missal " habens multa folia
» Archdeacon Hale, Domesday of St. Paul's, Camden Society, p. 156*. (The
mnnberings of the sections are not found in the MS.)
b Visitations in 1-97 and 145S, p. 105.
INTRODUCTION. XI
rupta "; a Breviary " male ligatus et male custoditus "; an ancient
Psalter " male sufficiens, quia male eustoditum"; an Antiphonary
"cum foliis ruptis et male custoditus"; and a Liber Ordinalis in
quires unbound.
Occasionally, as at Chiswick, the treasurer of St. Paul's had sent
a Missal to replace a defective volume; or, as at Kirkby, the Chapter
had sent an Omeliarium, as indeed they had also presented a good
Vcsthnentum Principale.
Of the ancient use of St. Paul's,8 an Antiphonarium is found at
Willesdon, and an Ordinale at Tillingham. At Aldbury it is
specially observed that the gradual is "non de Usu London
Ecclesic," from which it may perhaps be inferred that in other
cases tills service book was of that use. A similar notice occurs at
Xavestock. At Kirkby is a Missal, an ancient book " nulliua
ordinis"; and at Pelham Furneaux, a Breviary "quod in parte non
est notatum, nee London nee Sarum ordinem continet." At
Chiswick was a w vctus liber leccionarius cum Missis intersertis per
loca de usu monachali." It is clear that there was no rigid
uniformity as to the office books in use even in churches all of
which were under the same rule and patronage.
At Tillingham is an interesting entry of " panni crismales lvj." Pauni Cris
The Cltrisom was a cloth with which children were wrapped when
they were brought to the font. " At the churching of the infant's
mother the chrisom was presented to the priest to be used for
making surplices, or coverings lor the chalice, or for some similar
purpose." b
A child dying within a. month of his baptism was buried in his
chrisom. A monumental brass of the sixteenth century at Chesham
Bois Church, in Buckinghamshire, represents an infant enveloped in
this robe. It is figured in Dr. Lee's Glossary of Ecclesiastical ayul
Liturgical Terms. The inscription is:
■ See Visitations in 1297, etc,., \>y. lv., hi.
b Willi ott, Sac-ivd Archaeology.
xi| INTRODUCTION.
Of Roor Lee gentilma'heee lyeth the son Benedict Lee
CBYSQM WHOs SOULE IHU EDO.
In the ancient Ritus Baptizandi? printed in the Monumenla
Ritualia, the rubric orders that after the actual Baptism :
" Postea induatur infans veste chrismali, sacerdote interrogated
nomen ejus, et dfaente sic :
11 N. accipe vestem candidam, sanctum, et immaculatam, quam
perferas ante tribunal Domini nostri Jesu Christi, ut habeas vitam
aeternam et vivas in ssecula sccculorum. Amen.
"Licitum est autem pannum chrismedem secundo linire chrismate,
el super alium baptizatwm immittere, tamen ad communes usus non
debet pannus Me assumi : scd ad ccclesiam reportari et in usus
ecclesiae resei>vari."
In the Constitutions of St. Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury,
about the year 1236, it is ordered in Section 13 :b
" QuodpoAini chrismales tantum cedant in usum ecclesiae.
" Pannietiam chrismales non nisi in usus ornamentorutn ecclesiae
convertantur ; similiter alia ornamenta ecclesiae, quae pontilicalem
accipiunt benedictionem, nullo modo in usus profanos deputentur.
Et Arcliidiaconus in suis visitationibus, an hoc observetur, dih-
genter inquirat."
The number of these chrisoms at Tillingham seems remarkably
lar^e but the handwriting of the record is clear and the figures
distinct, At Pelham Furneaux there were "ad sacrarium parva
manutergia de crismalibus."
At Navestoek, two old and useless chasubles " jussae sunt destrui
et fieri f'rontalia."
Font. At Chiswick, the Font is in a bad condition. At Twyford,
occurs the curious entry, " plumbum est ibi rotundum pro bap-
» Occasional offices selected from the Manual and Pontifical of the Church of
Salisbury. MoHumtnta liitualia, second edition, i. 27>.
*> Wilkins' Concilia, i. C3G.
INTRODUCTION. Xlll
tistario ; " as if a leaden bowl may have been used for that
purpose. In the Visitation of 1297, the visitors report, " Bapti?-
terium plambeum sine serrura" at Twyford; and at Chiswick,
11 Baptisterium marmoreum intus plumbatum cum serrura." In the
latter case, the Visitation had produced a good effect, and a marble
font had replaced the " fons debilis et ruptus sine sera." ■
Few relics are enumerated, but those which are found are of Belies.
interest. At Tillingham is a small long comb which formerly
belonged to St. Thomas of Canterbury : " ut dicitur," as the cautious
scribe says. And at Walton is a cross, the gift of G., a former
vicar, in which is preserved a piece of the True Cross.
At Heybridge are five banners " et unus draco," that is to say, Draco,
the effigy of a dragon to be carried in procession : a symbol,
Ducange says, either of the devil or of heresy, over which the
Church triumphs.
Only once in these Inventories, at Barling, are Wimples Wimples,
mentioned. Here there are eight : four of silk, three of linen,
and one, also of linen, good and new.
Nor does the word Chalun or Chalon occur in the later Inven- Chalon.
tories. It is found at Burling and at Walton : at the latter place
with the explanatory words, " ad exequias mortuorum." It seems
to be a funeral pall.
At Heybridge, the maintenance of the bridge from which the Heybridge.
parish takes its name appears to have been a charge upon certain
of the parishioners. " Isti tenent oves ad emendacionem pontis."
Six names follow, and these persons have in all nine sheep available
for this purpose. The Hota or Rowell light was maintained at
Heybridge by the same kind of assessment.
At St. Pancras is a pax of somewhat unusual form and material : Pax.
" parvus lapis marmoreus ornatus cupro ad pacem deferendum."
It is more fully described in the Inventory of 1297 as " unum
osculatorium ligneum cum laminibus cupreis cum lapide marmoris
a Vi.iifat>07ts of 1207 rud145S, pp. 57 and 63.
XIV INTRODUCTION.
fixo in medio." The earlier entry might have been perplexing but-
for the later commentary.
Vestments. ^he vestments here enumerated have little to distinguish them
from those more fully described in the Inter Inventories. Several,
however, are said to be just good enough for funerals, or even as
not sufficiently good for the exposure which a burial service in
foul weather might entail. Thus, at Aldbury, there is a chasuble
M vetus et rupta sed sepulture tantum apta"; at Pelham Furneaux,
a " vestimentum vetus et insumciens, aptum sepulture " ; at
Pelham Arsa, a chasuble of fustian a cum corporalibus, sepulture
vix sufheiens " ; whilst at Xavestoclc, tiiere are " clue albe veteres
sepulture defunctorum tantum sufFiciens."
Field nanus. Qf field names only one appears, Yppele or Ippelega, at
Willesdon; unless, indeed, Assarting at Xavestock and Pastorel
at Willesdon are to be included in this category; it is doubtful,
however, Whether any save the first should be considered as real
field names.'
Lights of the rrj]ie provigion made for the lights of the churches is in some
cases, especially at Thorp, Walton, and at Kirkby, set forth with
great fulness. Each light in the last-named church seems to have
had. its special Gustos or guardian; and here, the paschal candle,
the light before the Altar of the Blessed Virgin, before the Cross,
before St. Peter, before St. Michael, the two lights in the Chancel,
and the Rowell light or Potella, had each its several Custos and
its body of parishioners bound to contribute to its support.
At Pelham Furneaux and at Pelham Arsa the provision for
lights seems to have been left almost entirely to voluntary gifts,
«« totum votivum et nichil certum." "But for the paschal taper
there was a special collection, towards which tenants holding
eighteen acres contributed one penny, and tenants holding half
that quantity of land paid in proportion. There was no rowel light
at the former parish, and the mention of the absence of the
Rotella seems to indicate that it was found in almost every other
place. At Pelham Arsa, indeed, a farthing was taken from every
INTRODUCTION. xv
Louse by custom for the paschal light, and one Galfridus Sarvors
gave two acres of land to supply two lights on the High Altar, but
of late the land had been unproductive. It is added that " re-
lictum luminare ecclesiae toluin votivum est." In other parishes,
the organisation for the supply of these lights was, as Ins been
indicated, very complete.
The names of the several parishioners are of some interest. A Names of
large number of them are designated from their place of abode, PW1S WRer8,
as : —
Gerardus de Vcnella, Adam de Marisco, Elyas dc Campo,
Henricus de Ponte, Gervasiusdc Ecclesia. Petius de Grace.
Clemens ad Moram, Johannes ad Portam,
Others from their trade, or profession, as : —
Willielmus Permentarius, Wyot Sutor,
Eadulphus Portarius, Randulphus Textor,
Fioger Pistor, Alexander Clericus,
Eudo Mercator, Eicardus Prepositus,
Elyas Molendinarius, Willielmus Bercarius,,
Richardus Carpentarius, Johannes li Poter,
WilHfelimis de Bruere, Hugo Carectarius.
Jordanus Faber,
Many from their father's Christian name, as: —
Gerardus et Stephanus filii Symonis,
Thomas filius Hugonis,
Eadwardus filius Davidis.
Some possibly from a personal peculiarity, as: —
Eadmundus le Brun, Stephanus le Petit.
Whilst one has the somewhat unusual name of
Ricardus Diabolus.
XVI INTRODUCTION.
It would have been easy to extend this fasciculus and the volume
to which it is a companion to double or treble their present dimen-
sions by introducing illustrative documents relating to the several
parishes from the rich store of unpublished material existing in the
Record Room at St. Paul's. The temptation to do so, no slight one,
has been steadily resisted. But no rule is without its exception,
and two important documents relating to Navestock selected from
the great mass of deeds preserved in the Cathedral appear to be of
sufficient interest to permit of a short notice in these pages.
Navestock. The first is a Demise by the Dean and Chapter to Master Adam
Murymouth, canon of the Cathedral, " on account of his residence,
of the Manor of Navestock, with its tithes and all other appur-
tenances, to hold so long as he shall be a canon, and shall serve them
well, and shall not be elected and confirmed as a bishop, rendering
yearly three firtria* to the bake-house, the brew-house, and the
almonry of St. Paul's, and with each firina forty shillings, and for
the tithes and revenue of the church of Navestock twenty marks a
year to the Chamberlain."
The house is thus described in the Inventory:
" Recepit etiam sub uno tecto domum ad pistrinam et daieriam,
unam eoquinam cum furno et duobus plumbis, unum gallinar, et
unam aulam cum buteleria et dlspensa ad occidentem aule, et
cameram ad orientcm cum tresanciis, et unam cameram cum celario
et solario tegulis cocpertara, et ad ipsam cameram unam capellam
de plastro de Parisis tendulis coopertam, et unum granarium vetus
cum quatuor interfiniis et unam Thoralliam veterem, et unam
parvulam domum ad vitulos extra portam, et unam fabricam, unam
Bercariam extra portam, unum Molcndinum ventriticum."
The list of utensils is as follows:
" Quatuor mensas, quatuor tripodes, unam securim, unum scacca-
rium, unum tabularium cum aleis, unum ciphum de mazero cum
pede et circulo argenti precii octodecim denariorum, duas mappas
* Firma : food for a siuglc week. Hale, Domesday, xlvi.
INTRODUCTION. Xvii
de canabo, unum manutergium, sexaginta ciphps, centum squdcllos,
viginti duas platellas, decern Balsaria, unum salsarium stagnenm,
duas ollas eneas, unam quinque galonum et aliam triura galonum,
unam parvam ollam eneam dimidii galonis, unam craticlam, unum
tripodem, unum grate, unum lavatorium, unam patellam, unam
pelam, sex cuvas, tres tynas, quatuor dolia, unam scalam, unam
mensuram quae continet unum quartum, aliam rnensuram quinque
busselles, tercium mensuram tres busselles, quartam mensuram duos
busselles."a
This document is dated Michaelmas, 1335. Canon Adam
iiurimuth, or Merimouth, or Meremonth, is the well-known
author who "wrote the history of this country from 1302 to
1380."* and the Inventory of his goods possesses considerable
interest. A short glossary of some of the more difficult words
which occur in it will be found in the note at the foot of the
page." Without some such assistance the deed might be found
rather perplexing to a student versed only in classical Latinity.
• Mr. Maxwell Lyte's Calendar, Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report ix.,
3Sa.
b Lc Neve, Fasti Ecdesiac Anglicanac, edition 1854, p. 3S3.
e Pistrina : a bakehouse. Thonllia : thorallum, or tornllum, is a
Daieria : a dairy. mound (perhaps, in this case, a heap
Coquina cum fnrno et duobos plumbis : of manure).
a kitchen with an oven and two leaden Bercaria : a sbeepfold.
▼ats. Molendinum ventriticum : a windmill.
Buteleria : a buttery. Ciphus de mazero : a mazer bowl.
Tresancia : " tresens, that is drawen over Squdelli : probably baskets.
an estates chambre-ciel."— Palsgrave. Platellre : probably pi tues.
" Ciel : the inner roof in a room of Salsaria : salt-cellars.
state."— Cotgrave. " A corridor."— Craticla : a giidiron.
Stratrnann. Patella : a pan.
Celarium : a cellar. Pela : a baker's peel.
Solarium : an upper chamber. Cava; : vats.
Tendnlis or cendnlis : shingles. Tyna; : tubs.
Granarinm : a granary.
CAMP. SOC. c
XV111 INTRODUCTION.
The second document relating to Navestock is a Demise by the
Dean and Chapter, between 1-122 and 1441, to Reginald Malyns,
Esq., of the Manor of Navestock, reserving to themselves certain
feudal rights.8 Among the utensils specified in the Inventory
these are the most interesting:
" Unum tabularmm cum aleis, decern salaam de ligno, unum
mortar, unum tripidem, unam molam manualcm, unum plumbum
in deiria, unum meschfatte, unum yilyngfatte, unum cowyll, unum
sigillum ad sigillandum mensuras, unum bikorn, unum scythe,
unum mallium magnum pro officio fabri, unam scalam, unum
pelvem cum lavacro de latone, unum par de stokkes, duo plumbea
in pandoxatria, unum markyng yren pro ovibus, unum cornu
ceratum ad suflandum in autompnum." ,J
It is curious to observe how the scribe is compelled to fall back
upon the vulgar tongue, when he has to set down such very
English objects as a par de stokkes, a mortar, a scythe, or a
markyng yren for sheep.
Willesdoii . A very lute Inventory, of about 1547, says Lysons in his
Environs of London,0 notes that there were then at Willesdon,
" Two masers that were appointed to remayne in the church for to
drynk yn at bride-ales."
The text has been scrupulously followed as regards the spelling of
■ Mr. Maxwell Lyte, Calendar, 38,a.
b Here also a short glossary may be useful : —
Molam mannalem : a hand-mill.
Meschfatte : Mash£at, the vat which contained the malt in brewing.
Yilyngfatte : Gylcfattc, the vat in which ale is worked. Gyle, wort.
Bikorn : probably the same as bica, a beehive.
Fandoxatria : a brew-house.
c Second Edition, vol. ii., part 2, p. 8 IS.
INTRODUCTION. XIX
the words, with two exceptions. The scribe has written indifferently
vas or tms, vestimcntum or vcstimentum : in this transcript the
uniform reading of vas, vestimentum, etc., has been adopted. In
like manner it has been thought better to print j instead of i, in
such words as maior, maius, iniunctum, and the like. The names
of the several parishes here inserted in capital letters in the text for
convenience of reference do not occur in the original manuscript.
VISITATION OF CEETAIN CHUBCHES
BELONGING TO TUE
DEAN km CMfTES OF ST. PAUL'S CATIIEDBAL
IN THE YEARS 1219-1252.
"WlLLESDON.* p. i3Gb.
Status ecck-siarum que pertinent ad capitulum tempore PL decani.
Omncs d'jcime garbarum de tota paroohia do Willcsdon cediint Hic®^
in usus Canonicoruin. Totum altaragium habet Vicarius et domum
qiiarridam prope ecclesiam cum ortho p et terrain ad eandem ecclesiam
pertinentem, et portat lionera d ecclesie debita et consueta.
Ornamenta illius ecclesie que reliquidc J. Vicarius.
Parvum missale bonum plenum sine nota cum kallendano.
Item aliud missale majus et vetus habens canonem misse in
principio sine nota et grossioris litere satis sufficiens. Antiphonar-
ium cum kaiendario contiuens legenda de bona litera et bene
• At the top of the first page are the words " Visitante Anno Domini M° CC° xlix°
ct lmo nt patet primo."
b Henry de Cornhill, Dean of St. Paul's from 15 August, 1243, till his death on
9 April, 1254.
c Cum ortho, that is, cum horto : with a garden.
d What these oncra were in Neweourt's time will be seen in his Rcpertjrium,
5., 760.
e Reliipiii] : so in MS. for reliquit.
CAMD. SOC. B
2 VISITATION OF CIIUECHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
notata, habena literam auream in principio libri, et p°. c . secundum
ordinem ecclesie London. Item antiphonarium notatum de debili
percamenob plenarium et competens. Duo gradalia bona et bene
notata, et iij c vetus et notatum cum parvo tropario in fine. Item
ij tropariu bona et bene notata, et iij c troparium paivum nota-
tum et competens. Item liber manualis cum exorcismis plenariis.
Item unum psalterium vetus et competens. Item calix argenteus
interius deauratus habens pomellum deauratum, et in patena manum
deauratam bencdicentem,d ponderis circiter xx s. Item unum vesti-
mentum plenarium cum paraturis et casula de serico veteri integro.
Item aliud vestimentum cum paraturis et cum veteri casula de
serico competent! sed minus bono. Item iij c vestimentum sollempne
cum paraturis et casula de viridi senduto cum panno croceo interius.
Item quartum vestimentum bonum et novum et plenarium cum
casula de arista et paraturis de eodem cum superpellicio bono et
novo et roclietto de dono quondam J. vicarij. Item iiij01' rocheti
et iij superpellicia majus trita. Item vj palle altaris benedicta c et j
pannus de Mediolano ' vetus ante altare. Item cum quolibet vesti-
mento corporalia. Item vexillum rubeum cum yconia beate Yirginis
de auripe]leg de dono J. vicarii et duo alia vexilla antiqua et tria.h
Item velum qnadragesimale vetus et tritum, et velum ad cooperien*
darn crucem in ecclesia de canopo. Item vas aquarium stagneum
» So in the MS. : perhaps, principio cajus.
b Percameno, that is, Pcrgameno : parchment, so called because it is said to have
been invented by Eumenes. King of Pergamum.
c Et iij, that is, tcrtiiun.
A Manum : the hand of the Deity in benediction.
* Benedicts : so in MS.
f De Mediolano : Dr. Bock observes that Lombard y (and especially its capital,
Milan) Mas famous for itc fine silk-weaving. There is a good specimen of this cob-
web weaving, opus araneum, in the South Kensington Museum. No. £2oi. Textile
Fabrics, p. 1C2.
s Auripellum, says Ducange, a Gall, auripcau, aurichalcnm, lamina auricalcea.
He also refers to anrirulatimi, metal semUant a orcbal.
h Tria : probably for trita.
CHAPTER OP ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN THE TEARS 1249-1252. 3
ct sufficient, due cruees in altari portatiles de esmallo.a Item vas
dc corco ad reponenda corporalia. Item pixis eburnea ad Corpus
Domini reponendum super altare in pixide de coreo cum bonis
seris. Item duo vasa crismatoria sta^nea et aliud vas starrncum
honestum ad circumferendum Corpus Domini ad egrotos. Item
offer tor ium de panno rubeo subtili. Item due magne iconee ct
sculptc de beata Virgine.
Sunt in dominico ecclesie de "Willesdon per particulas.
Due aero in campo que dicitur yppele b et j acra in campo
quondam pastorcl prope yppele. De terra Eal win i de Tuifcrd j
acra. De terra Radulphi filii Richardi dimidia acra. De terra
Walteri Pugnat? dimidia acra. De terra Richardi Bestien dimidia
acra. Dc terra Willielmi del Hek j virgata. De terra Richardi
Carpentarii j acra. De terra Radulphi Blik c j acra. De terra
Willielmi dc la Slade dimidia acra. Dc terra Ilugonis Achere
dimidia acra. De terra TV. Blundi dimidia acra. Dc terra
Eadwardi Blauet dimidia acra. De terra Eylwyni dc Wdeton
j acra. De terra Gilbert! dc Wdeton j acra et dimidiuin. De
terra Leuine j mesuagium ad portam cimiterij cum domo super
prebendam Magislri R, de Barthonad quam I. Virdeman defendit
versus dominum.
Quarum Sum ma j virgata xij acre et
j messuagium ad portam cimiterij
* Esmallo : enamel.
b Yppele, or Ippelega, as it is called in two deeds preserved at St. Paul's. Sec
Mr. Maxwell Lyte's Calendar, 33b.
c One " Tho. le Blic, son of Ralph de Blic,by his deed (but without date) granted
to the Church of the Blessed Mary of Willesdon half an acre of land, which licth
in Ilurlaud near Kalewestricke, in pure and perpetual alius." — Newcourt, Reper-
torium, i., 7G0.
d Robert de Barthona, or de Barton, was prebendary of "Willesdon ; he became
Precentors of St. Paul's iu 1246, and Dean in 1250.
4 VISITATION OF CHURCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
TUIJ-EJU).
Status Capelle de Tuiferd.
1C«^^ Ecclesfa Sancti Pauli recipit a Capella de Tuiferd xijd pro
deeimis annone, pro decimis ovium et capranim, que quidem
capella non est' alitor vicinarum ecclesiarum appcndula scd per-
misst! capituli Sancti Pauli baptizat infantes, sepelit mortuos
quomodo voluerit, dum modo non ad aliquam ecclesiarum
Episcopi, et in spiritualibus rcspondet Becana et Capitulo.
In Capella de Twiferd in crastino Conversionis Sancti Pauli invents
sunt ornamenta subseripta, Anno Domini M0CC°l°j0.
Calix argenteus in limbo pedis deauratus cum patena alba et
manu benedicta deaurata ; calix aliquantulum ruptus in pede.
Altare lapideum non dedicatum, et superaltare benedictum et
sufficiens, et j palla altaris vctus et lupta, et frontale lincum et
incisum. Item aliud frontale sericum rubeum honestum et
sufficiens. Item due palle altaris benedicte et integre et suf-
ficientes, quarum una babel para tu ram striclam de serico operatam
acu cum iimbriis sericis. Item vestimentum pulcrum cum apparatu
serico et casula de serico sufficient post tergum aurifrigio largo, et
corporalia ad illud vestimentum Integra et suffieiencia ; et illud
vestimentum habct aliud amictum integrum et ornatum serico.
Item fuit ibi aliud vestimentum magis trituin et ornatum serico
et corppralibus integris sed infusis, cum casula alba de histamine*
non ornata, et aliud frontale sericum honcstum cum furura1' linea.
Item sunt ibi duo altaria extra chorum cum tabuiis ligncis et
veteribus frontellis parvis, et duabus pallis vetcribus ut vidctur non
* Fnstameti : fustian.
b Furnra : the only meaning given by Dncange is Fellitium, Gall. Fourrvre.
The text, however, seems to require the sense of a border or fringe.
CHAPTER OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDPAL IN THE YEAPS 1249-1252. 5
bencdictia. Item inventa sunt ibi superpellicia duo, majus quod est
ruptum et parvum quod est integrum ; ct duo roebctti, minor qui
e>t integrum et major qui est defrustis." Item fuit ibi parvum
missale et insufficieris sine rota, et destructe rubric© in canone
misse et alibi in locia pluribus, sine kalendario, plurcs haben?
defectus. Item fuit ibidem gradale et troparium in uno voluminc
et aliquantulum sufficiens notatum. Item inventum est ibi anti-
plionarium cum ympnario capitulario et eolleetario do ordine Sarum.
haben s kallendarium in capite notatum et aliquantulum sufficiens.
Item !egenda vetus et rupta, multos babens defectus in principio et
in fine. Item est ibi psalterium cissum et male paratum : si esset
ligatum sufiiceret. Item liber manuale plures babens missas ct
oflkium divcrsum pro vivis baptizandis, ungendis, et pro defunctis
sepeliendis, babens in fine Commune Sanctorum de antipbonario
non notatum et aliquantum sufTicicns si esset ]i<raturn. Item est
ibi pixis vetus ad reponendum Coipus Domini sine sera, et vas
crismatorium ligneum sine sera et insufficiens. Item due pbiale
stagnce integre. Item est ibi crux una super altare lignca depicta.
Item v*"c candelabra stagnca integra. Kullus redditus est ibi ad
luminare nisi de gracia domini ville. Item plumbum est ibi
rotundum pro baptistario. Item vaS aquarium sta^ncum. Item
x aree habitate. sunt in parochia sine curia. Item Capellanus babet
x acras tcrre arabilis et unum mansum cum tribus domunculis, et
est capella de patrcnatu Bartbolomei de Capella qui prcsentat
Decano et Capitulo ut ordinario rectorem perpetuum ad capellam,
sed non sufficit ei ad sustentacionem. Item sunt ibi due campane.
Item unum tunibulum vetus,
S. Pancracitjs. p- i^b-
Status ecclesie de Sancto Pancracio.
Est ibi missale vetus sed sufficiens et notatum et plenarium
* Dtfrustis : torn..
6 VISITATION OF CHURCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
habens kalendarium in capite. Item gradale bonum plenarium
et notatum et sufficiens. Item liber antiphonarius bonus et notatus
et sumeiens cum ordinall intcrsertum. Item legenda buna et
sumeiens in uno voiumine, Temporale scilicet et Sanctorum. Item
duo psalteria satis sufficientia. Item duo libri manuales satis
sufficientes. Item liber troparius notatus ct eonvenientcr sufficiens.
Item collectarium et capitularium. Item calix argenteus albua de
piano opere pondens xxs., cum patena satis sufficiens. Item iiijor
pallee altaris bencdiete bene sufficientes. Item tria paria vesti-
mentorum, quorum duo sunt cotidiana Integra et convenienter
sufliciencia, cum una casula alba veteri et debiii, et tercium magis
sufficiens cum una casulade serico. Item sunt ibi tria superpellicia
sufliciencia et unus rcchetus vetus. Item superaltare benedictum
integrum et sufficiens. Item unum frontale sericum bonum et
integrum. Item j vetus et parvi precij. Item vas aquarium
stagneum et sufficiens. Item due phiale stagnee et trite. Item
unum turribulum parvum. Item vas erismatorium sine sera.
Item vas stagneum ad reponendum Corpus Dominicum sine sera.
Item fons lapideus sufficiens. Item duo candelabra stagnea Vetera.
Item parvus lapis marmoreus ornatus ciipro ad pacem deferendum.
Item ad Iuminare ecclesie nisi iiijor denary, quos dedit quondam
Johannes Pigun per manus heredis sui perpetuo. Ada de Basing
habet tenementum ct forciavitH per viij annos. Item j denarius
quern assignavit Ilenricus de la Ilulle per manual heredis sui
perpetuo quern reddit. Item sunt in parochia xxxvj raeeuao-ia,
exceptis mesuagiis de Tothale, Ruggemere^ et Northb[ur]i, et
Alkichesbri. De aliis mesuagiis redditur ob >lus ad rotellam, et
j quadrans ad cereum pasclialem.
'^S^ Item Vicarius perpetuus habct edificia prope ecclesiam que
Vicarius K. bene clausit et edificavit. Item habet iiij°r acras terre
arabilcs et omnes minutas decimaa paroch'udes et prcterea de
majoribus decimis rccipit c. s. ex assignacione Capituli. Item est
* Forciavit : has held forcible, or wrongful possession.
CEAPTKB OF ST. FAUlAs CATHEDRAL IN THE TEAKS ] 249-1252. 7
ibi ad nuuilonem ecclesie alia area ubi colliguntur deeirne majores,
c-t introitM ad illam aream obstrictus est per Rlagistnim W. do
Lichfa et f'acit ibi viani per majus altara.1' Item est ibi defectus
fenestrarum et muris cancelli extrinsecus.
Chesewith.
Ornamenta inventa apud Chesewith die Sanctorum Johannis et
Pauli c Anno Domini M°CC°L0 secundo.
Missale bonum et sufficiens missum ibidem de Thesaurario
Sancti P&uU. item duo gradalia suffieiencia. Unum troparium
Bufficiens sed male ligatum. Item vetus liber leccionarins cum
missis intersertis per loca de usu monachali. Item antiphonarium
bonum et sufficiens bene notatum. Item psalterium bonum et
sufficiens. Desit manuale.
Item calix argenteus parvus et parvi prccij titubans.'1 Item una
casula de sameto rubeo bene ornata aurifrigio. Item vestimentum
integrum instratum paraturis bonis. Item aliud vestimentum cum
alba casula debili et rupta intcrius, cum dupplicibus manipulis et
Stolis. Item tria eorporalia benedicta. Item vquu palle altaris
benedicte et integre, epiarum una habet paruram de rerieo. Item p. !•*«
pannus scricus de aresta, quam quidem parochianus dedit ecclesie
integre. Item crismatorium vetus. Item unum vexillum bonum
et sufficiens. Item nulla pixis ad reponendum Corpus Domini.
Item duo candelabra enea et duo candelabra stagnea. Item iijor
phiale stagnee. Item fons debilis et ruptus sine sera.
Item cancellum debile et coopertum male. Item ad luminare
nichil certum, nisi collecta ad ccreum paschalem, scilicet de
» "William de Lich. or do Lichefeld was canon and prebendary of St. Fuucras in
12^0 and 1258.
b Altara : so in MS. for altare.
•.Die sanctorum Johannis et Tauli, martyrnm, that is, Jnnc 20. See the Calen-
dar of the Sarum JJrcviuri/.
d Titubans: probably, leaning on one side.
8 VISITATION OF CHURCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
qualibet domo obolus. Item injunctum est parochianis similcm
collectam ad rotcllam. Item Johannes Bclemenis a habet dimidiam
maream ad caneellum emend uiri de tcstamento quondam A.
^^2^ Thesaurarij.b Item ecclesla non est dedicata. Item Vicarius
habet totum altaragium cum xij acris terrc arabilis, et unain
acram prati, et unam maream argenti per manum Camerarij.0
ECCLESIE DE LA LEE.
Status ecclesio de la lee.d
Descriptus anno eodem in crastino Processip et Martyris Ecclesia
ista in medietate subjecta est Decano et Capitulo, sed tamen nichil
recipient de pensione annua propter ejus paupertatem.
Ornamenta ejusdem ecclesie.
Calix argenteus parvus intus deauratus ponderis, ut creditor,
dimidie marce. Unum par vestimentorum integrum et sufficiens,
et una alba preter illud par. Due palle benedicte et una non
benedicta. Tria paria corporal! um. Pannus depictus ante majus
altare. Unum superpellicium. Unua Ilochetus debilis. Nullum
missale integrum ; Unum tamen vctus ab adventu usque ad Pascha
et a Pascha usque ad adventum, in quodani libro, non ligato,
continente psalterium, ympnarium, pars temporalis. Duo manu-
alia bona. Temporale integrum non ligatum. Antiphonarius
* John Belemeus, or Belemeyus, was prebendary of Cuiswick in 1223 and in
1252.
b That is, probably, Alexander Swerford, Treasurer of St. Paul's from January,
1231-32. He died in 124G, and was buried in the Cathedral. He appears to have
resigned his office sonic few years before his death.
c Camerarius : the Chamberlain of St. Paul's.
a Ecclesia de la Lee: called in the later Inventories Westlee. The parish at
this early date appears to have been very poor. Later on the church fell into
ruins.
e St. Processus, July 2 or July 9. His name occurs in a Litany in the Sarum
Breviary, Fasciculus ii., p. 209 of the reprint.
CHAPTER OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN THE TEARS 1240-1252. 9
dcbilis. Gradale dcbile cum tropario. Gradate novum et bonum.
Quidam liber non ligatus continens partem Missalts sanctorum
temporalis et psalterij. Turribulum sufficiens. Pixis stagnea
sine sera in qua deponitur Eukaristia. Crismatorium ligneum
sine scrura. Sacrarium contritum ct dampnatum. Baptisterium
piumbeum sulficiens. Non est ibi redditus a=sisus ad luminare,
nisi tan turn niodo de collecta inter paroebiinos.
Berling.
Inventarium apud Berling post mortem Walteri vicarij et
traditum Petro vicario tempore II. Decani. a
Fron< ale sericum. Tres palle altaris benedictc. Duo manu-
tcrgia nova. Tria manutergia Vetera. Pannus lineus ad lectrinum.
Tabula nova depicta ante magnum altare. Trabs nova depicta
super antiquam tabulam ante altare. Item vij Wimple'' quarum
iiij'-r de serico et tres linec. Item una bona nova et linea. Item
unum superpellicium cum uio roebcto. Item unum lintbeamen
et unum cbalun.c Item una arcba ad vestimenta de abieted cum
sero ferro ligata. Item una crux de admallo et alia lignea depicta.
Item tria lectrina ad libros. Item fons novus et bene paratu?.
Item lintbeamen retro crucem. Item ymago sancti Eirydij.
Item psalterium bonus. Item dimidia Marca ad calicem, de legato P 137b.
Walteri. Item alba nova cum parura et amita cum parura. Item
Yque candelabra stagnea ad cereos. Item iiijor ampulle ad vinum
et aquain. Item crismatorium cum sera. Item baculus depictus
ad crucem portandam. Item feretrum ad mortuos, et iij sconse
• That is, between 1243 and 1254.
b Wimple: Halliwell says, a kind of cape or tippet covering the neck anil
shoulders. Ducange gives Wimpla, Pepluru. Vide Guimpa, under which word
he says, •'• Pepltrra, velum muliebre, quo etiamnnm utuntur monachal."
' Chalun : probably a funeral pall. See infra, p. 27.
d Archa de abietc : a chest of fir wood.
CAilD. SOC. C-
K^w
10 VISITATION OF CHUUCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AKD
ad candelas. Item vaa etagneum ad aquam bencdietara cum
aspersorio. Item pelvis stagnca ad sacrarium ct due campane.
Status ecclesie de Barling.
o
Capitulum saneti Pauli habet omnes majores decimas de dominlca
et parochia ad luminare ecclesie beafi Pauli. Vicarius autem habet
unam virgatam terre in dominico cum manso honesto et domibivs
bene edificatis. Item etiam omnes minores decimas tocius villate
et decimas minutas de tolo villenagio et aliis terris antiquis que
tracts sunt ad dominieum. Habet ciium tricesimam partem minu-
tarum decimarum de toto veteri dominico, et portat onera ecclesie
debita et eonsueta. De spiritual bus respondet Decano et Capitulo.
Item Reginaldus Wile habet xij matrices oves de testamento
Walteri Pavery ad inveniendum eereum ante altare saneti Eoidij.
Item habet unam ovem de Walterd Upeton' ad eereum ante
crucem. Item habet unam ovem dc testamento .Ao-netis de la
Weylete ad eereum ante ymaginem saneti Nicholai. De qualibet
ove annuatim ij denary. Item Petrus Faber habet v oves ad
eereum ante crucem. Item Absalon habet xvj oves, de quibus
iiijor oves sunt ad lampades et alie ad eereum ante crucem et ante
ymaginem saneti Xicholai. Pern Willielmus filius Baudewini habet
x oves ad eereum ante ymaginem beate Yirginis. Item Bricius
tenetur invenire eereum ante altare saneti Egidij, dicit quod de
quad am terra quam dedit ei pater suqs. Item Johannes Crabbe
habet vj oves ad eereum beate Yirginis et saneti Xicholai. Item
Screwind habet unam overn ad eereum beate Yirginis. Item relicta
Cestre babet iij oves ad ruele8 et eereum. Item "Willielmus Per-
mentariusb habet ij oves ad eereum ante crucem. Item Ricardua
capellanus habet iiij01' oves ad eereum ante crucem.
Summa ovium ad luminare ")
ecclesie tempore hujus descripcionis J X^'
■ Ruele : the Rotniulale, or Rowel light.
b Pewnentarins, sen parmentarins, ex paramentarivs, qui vestes parat, id est,
ornat : iiostris olim I'annciitur, qui hodie tafflevr d'habits. — Ducan^e.
CHAPTER OF ST. TAVl's CATHEDRAL IN THE YEARS 1249-1252. 11
HeybregI*
Hec sunt orhamenta ecclesie de Heybreg.
Duo Gradalia scilicet unum bonum ct aliud vetus et tercium fere
nullius prccij. Ur.um temporale cum )rmpnario Sanctorum per
sc, consuctudinarius quia nullus. Duo antiphonarij, unus novus et
bonus, ct alius tritus et inveteratus. Unus portebors.a Unum
processionalc. Unum bonum missale. Duo psalteria, unum retus
et unum bonum novum ex dono dcmiai Gosselmi in presencia
domini Decani. Unus calix argenteus bene deauratus ihtus et
exterius. Tria paria vestimcntovum dobilium cum ornamentis suis,
ct post aliud bonum cum bona easula de serico. Quatuor pallee
altaris benedicte et quinta non bencdicta. Unum velum quadra-
gesimale. Unum lintlieamcn ante crucem. Tria paria corpora-
liura. Una pixis stagnca ad deponendum Corpus Domini. Unum
crismatorium competens cum sera. vquc vexilla et unus draco. b p. 13.
Una crux cuprea, ct alie trcs depicte lignee. Tres tabule ad
magnum altare posite gradatim in assensu,c et una tabula coram
altari beatc Marie, et alia tabula coram altari beati Jacobi. Duo
superpellicia et ij rocheta. Ecclesia dedicata est in honore sancti
Andree die translacionis sancti Benedieti.d Eodem die xxx dies
veniales.6 Item fons baptismalts bonus et novus.
Ex legato Radulphi sacerdotis ad lampadem in cancello ante
* Portehors : a breviary.
b Draco : Effigies draconis, qua; curn vexillis, in ecclesiasticis processionibns
deferri solet, qua vel Diabolus ipse, vel haresis designantur, de quibus triumpbat
Ecclesia. — Ducange. Diabolus enim, ut ait S. Aagustinus (Horn. 30" in Scripturis
Sanctis), Lro et Draco est : Leo propter imjictttm. Draco propter inshlias.
c Gradatim in ascensa : this arrangement does not reeur in these Inventories.
d Translatio S. Benedicti : July 11. Here, as in many other instances, the day of
the patron saint is not the day of the Dedication of the Church.
c Triginta dies Venialcs : an indulgence of thirty days of pardon to those who
beard Mass on this day.
12 VISITATION OF CHUHCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
altare bcati Andree j ovcm. Bartholomcus Faber j ovem. Egidia
vidua j overn. TVillielmus de Crabeham j ovem. Bartholomcus
Tuber respondet et lampadam sustinct modo Gunilda uxor ejus.
Item ad cereum faciendum in vigilia bears Marie. Egilia de la
Hale dedit j ruscam n et j vaccain, de quarum exitu Roger lc Ilert
modo responded ad sustcntacionem unius lampadis imperpetuum
ante altare beate. Marie. IdemTioger j angnnm b de legato habet,
modo est ovis. Johannes films Galfndi Meifey habet j ovcm.
Willielmus tester j ovem. Gilbcruis prepositus j ovcm. Juliana
filia Willielmi Gobbe j ovcm. Johannes de Fonte j ovem de
testaments Johannis filij Willielmi Standliard pro qualibet dabitur
ijd. In vigilia sahcte l rinitatis Alexander de Boseo recipet iiijor
matrices oves ex tcstamento Cristmc filie Sirich But, pro quibus
dabit viijd annuatim ad luminare trium altarium et ante crucem.
Memorandum quod Paganus de Boscho recepit j vaccain precii iiij s.
et iij oves prccij iij s. de tcstamento Johannis de Araz, ad
sustentacionem unius lampadis ante crucem imperpetuum, ct
ardebit singulis annis per iiij"r noctes festivales.
De ponte de Hegbreg.
Isti tenent oves ad emendacionem pontis.c Roger pistor d j ovem.
Bncius pistor iij oves. Jordanus de Bosco ij oves. Alexander
Sprot j ovcm. Ilieardus Buell j ovem. Pctrus de cruce j ovem.
Isti sunt tcnentes oves ad rotam. Eadmundus de Marisco ij
oves, Iiicardus Saucgel j ovcm, Eadwardus pistor iiij oves, Ro«er
Sprot j ovem, Eadwardus Seldarke j ovem, Villefredus Heselet ij
oves, Matilda de Mora j ovem, Matillda buclt j ovem.
• Kusca : Apinm cubile voce Hvtca revera inteiligendum esse confirrnant charta
annum circiter 10S0, c tabulario S. Allini Andcgavensis. Vide Thomani Blount
in Nomolexico Anglicano, et supra vocem Hatha, ubi Hugta butyri meinoratnr
pro certa botyri qnantitatc seu mass* ruscam apium fortcan referente. — Dncange.
b Angnnm : that is, agnnm.
c Pons : the bridge from which Ileybridge is so called.
d Pistor : the miller.
CHAPTER OF ST. TATTL's CATHEDRAL TK THE TEARS 1249-1252. 13
Status ecclcsic de Hcgbreg.
David vieariu? perpetuus habet domos bonas ct aream propc <<;
ecclesiam. Infra vicaria habet altaragium cum tcrris pertinentibus
ad vicaviam de curia et de tota villata, sed inter festum ad vincula*
non reditur decima de caseo vcl lacte curie, nee de ATolendinoquia
est in dominico. Decima dominij,et parocbie datur integraliter de
garbis ad luminare beati Pauli.b Keddit ecclesia synodales et
denarios ut in prima inquisicione \Yillielmic Decani Eadulphi. d
Tenentes de ecclesia dc Heubrcg.
Clemens ad Moram v acris in duabus croftis et reddit xx d.
Johannes Gobbe j acra et reddit vj d. Walter Seler v acris et
reddit xij d. Jobannes ad portam j parvam grovam et reddit iiij d
sed grava destructa est. Johannes Herde iij acras et reddit xij d
per Magistrum W. de Purle. Walter Trip j curtiiagium et reddit
vj d per Magistrum W. de Purle.
TlLLINGIIAM. p 138b
Ornamcnta ecclesie de Tillingbam in die Translaeionis beati
Wlstani Wvgomiensis Episcopi,c Anno gracie M° CC° xl° nono.
Yisitante Henrico Decano.
Missale satis bonum et novum notatum cum littera aurea in
principio. Item missale vetus sine nota. Item ordinale de usu
sancti Pauli. Item gradale cum suo tropario notato. Item
* Ad vincula : that is, S, Peter ad vinculo, August 1.
b Beati Pauli : St. Paul's Cathedral.
c Willielmi Decani : Up to this period three deans of St. Paul's had borne the
name of William. The first, William. 11 J 1-1138 ; the second, William de Basinges,
about 1212 ; the third, William de Sancta Maria. 1241-1243.
d Badnlphus : There is no Ralph amongst the list of deans until the well-known
Ealph de Baldock, 1291-1306. The name Williehni is marked with dots below it,
as for erasure, and the name Badulphi is inserted by a somewhat later hand ; but
probacy the original reading is correct.
« Translatio beati Wlstani : that is, June 7.
14 VISITATION OF CHURCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
gradate sine trbpario bonum ct novum. Item antiphonarium cum
collectario, capitulario, ympnario, in magno volumine. Item
legenda bona cum p.salterio in principio. Item ij psalteria Vetera.
Item processionale bonum. Item tropatium in uno volumine per
Be bonum ct bene notatum. hem manuale. Item martylo^ium
satis bonum et novum. Item antiphonarium sine collectario capell'"
ympnario.
Item ij paria vestimentovum festivalium parata serico, quorum
unum hnbe't casulam de serico cum laeia aurifriwiis. Item vesti-
mentum pcrtinens ad altare sancte Marie cum casula de vetcri
serico. Item ij paria vestiinentorum fori ilium trita cum casula de
fust.iminc. Item iiijnr paria corporalium. Item ij albe cum una
amicta de aurifrigio in trib-is liustis, quarum una bene parata
serico, et alia sine paratura. Item casula vetus non magni precij.
Item x palle bencdicte quarum due parate una serico ct altera
aurifrigio. Item eapa cliori crocea cum duobus tasseilis h brusdatis
Majestate0 et Maria. Item ij superpellicia et nullum rochetum.
Item velum bonum ct novum de pannis tinctis incisis. Item ij°
manutergia. Item iiijor lintlieaminia ad altarc. Item tres
panni vetercs ad cooperiendum altare. Item tria tapeta Vetera.
Item panni crismajes, lvj.d Item ealix argenteus intus ct deforis
deauratus. Item alius calls tantummodo deauratus cum pomello
deaurato. Item crux cooperta argento. Item due pelves de
• * Capcll': probably for capitolario.
. b Tassellas : pro humerali pluvialis seu anrco argentcove ant serico textili, qno
tribes sacra; postica para adnrnamr. — Ducange,
c Majestas : figura l'atris retcrui in throno sedentis, ant Crucilixi imn^o, quit in
anliqnis missal ibas picta est ante canonem .... nnde in qnibusdam legitur ha;c
rubriea, Osculctur Majcsta*, aut QteuTetitr Majcstatem. — Ducange.
d lvj : so in MS. " It would seem ib:it tbese chryeoms formed a part of tbe
small revenues of a parish church, being kept and lent on occasions to people too
poor to provide decent ones for themselves. In tbe odd collection of miscellaneous
matter called Arnold's Chi'onidc, we find an entry in ' the valew and styut of tbe
benefyee of Saint Magnus at London brydge ;«erly to tbe person,' as follows :
' C[ O'^soms and pre ivy tythes.' "
This is in 1494. Monument^ Jiitualia, second edition, i., 27.
CHAPTER OF ST. PATJl/s CATHEDRAL IN THE YEARS 1249-1252. 15
asmallo. Item duo urcci a de stagno. Item duo urcei de asmallo.
Item turribulum vetus. Item navicula ad imponendum incensum.
Item unum lavatorium ereum. Item iiij01' arche ad imponenda
vestimenta et alia ornamenta eeelcsie. Item pixis argentea ad
Corpus Domini. Item teca yburnea. Item tria vexilla nova
parata aureis pellis de nrmis Regiis.h Item iiij°r vexilla non nova.
Item reliquiare in fere'ro ligneo deiurato. Parvus pecten longum
quondam beati Thome, c ut dicitur. Item parvum ferctrura de
ossibus, cum parvis reliquiis.
Item ad luminare ejusdem ecclesie eodem tempore Pndulphus dc
I lore tenet j ovem pro ij d per annum, Kadulphus Crux iij oves
]>ro vj (1, Godefridus Groin j ovem pro ij d, Eobertus fi'ius Hugelot
j ovem pro ij d, Roger del Perer iij oves pro vj d. Eudo mereator
iiij oves pro viij denariis et obolo et manet extra parochiam,
Johannes Snot ij oves pro viij d et manet extra parochiam, Adam
de Gii-le j ovem pro ij d, Petrus de Gaysle j ovem pro ij d,
Ricardua Manctildus ij oves pro iiij d, Ricardus Passeauaunt j
ovem pro ij d, Henrieus Oches ij oves pro iiij d, Eadwardus Brid j
ovem pro ij d, Walterus King ij oves pio iiij denariis, Radulphus
de Campo j ovem pro ij d, Adam Tik ij oves pro iiij d, Williemus
Passeauant ij oves pro vj d, Johannes de Estware j ovem pro ij d
(t manet extra 'parochiam, Walterus Passeauant ij oves pro iiij d,
Waltcrus Pcrmentarius j ovem pro ij d, Mcholaus Bercher j ovem p< \m.
pro ij d, Reginuldus Bruri j ovem pro ij d, Johannnes filius
Aylwini ij oves pro iiij d, Johannes Cok j ovem pro ij d.
Kadulphus Hore tenet j vaccam ad lumen Sancte Marie. Leticia
uxor Gilbert! j vaccam et j ovem ad cereum Sancte Marie.
Henrieus Persona j vaccam ad lumen Sancte Marie et j ovem ad
lnmen Sancti Michaelis. "Walterus Clericus tenet j equum et j
ovem et j a^num precij viij S ad inveniendum cereum ante crucem.
Hugo Koc v oves pro x d. Godefridus filius Payn viij oves pro
• Urceus : a pitcher.
b Vexilla : banners -with the "Royal Anns.
c The comb of St. Thomas a Uccket.
16 VISITATION OF CHUECHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
xvj d per annum, et sunt in arreragio xvj s de xvj annis, de quibus
Saerus Vicarius fuit executor. Gunnor uxor Symonis iij oves
pro vj d, et detinet ij oves. Rogerus Godsaule j ovem pro ij d.
Johannes Bereher j ovcm pro ij J. Johannes filius Philippi ij
oves pro iiij d. Odo Carpentaria j ovem pro iij d ob. Waltenw
filius Beyneri iiij oves pro viij d. Godefridus Comes iij oves pro
vj d. Thomas filius Buldewini ij oves j)ro iiij d. Eustachius iiij
oves pro viij d. Symon de Slo v oves pro x d, et delinct omnes.
Badulphus Pach j ovem pro ij d. O«!o le Poter v oves pro xxd.
Odo de Gardino j ovem pro ij d. Elyas Molcndimuius j ovem pro
ii d. Gervasius ij oves pro iiij d. Matilda Bosse j ovem pro ij d.
Ipolitus ij oves pro iiij d, extra parochiam. Johannes Bosse ij
oves pro iiij d. Willielmus de Hida ij oves pro iiij d. Bon-erus
Grom j ovem pro ij d. Sawale Dote j ovem pro iij ob. Gumfridua
Hacun ij oves pro iiij d, extra parochiam. Bobertus Otewy ]
ovem j d, extra parochiam.
Status ecclesie de Tyllingham deficit hie quoad vicariam.
Aldebiri.
Status ecclesie de Aldebiri inventus est in festo Sancti Marci Anno
grade M° CC° Iij.
Missalc vetus cum gradali bene notato et de bona littera in
debili percameno et male ligatum, habens multa folia rupta. Item
Gradalc vetus et notatum male ligatum ncn do usu London ecclesie.
Item liber troparius notatus in debili percameno et paret sufficiens.
Item liber breviarius cum antiphonario notato de bona litcra, veteri
male ligatus et male custoditus, habens in capite kalendarium
vetus. Item liber manual is cum collcctis et capitulia et quibusdam
exorcismis, et cum ympnis in fine, non ligatis, aliquantulum bene
sufficiens. Bern psalterium vetus male sullieiens, quia male custo-
ditum. Item aliud psalterium aliquantulum sufficiens. Item pars
antiphonarij, incipiens a dominica prima post octabas Pcntecostes
CIIAPTEB OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN THE YEAUS 1249-1252. 17
usque nil priraam dominieam mensis Augusti; temporalis, scilicet
tio«tinodum sequituT Officium Trinitatis cum scquentibus festivita-
tibus Sanctorum usque ad festum Sancti Andree. Item offieium
Dedicacionis Ecclesie, et postmodum Commune Sanctorum. Anti-
phonarium usque commune Officium de Virginibus totum notatum
cum foliis ruptis et male custoditis. Item parvus liber ordinalis in
quaternis non ligutis.
Item calix argenteUs albus exterius cum tupsa* dcaurata intcrius
cum cupa vacillante, alius sufliciens. Item unum vestimentum
velus et plenarium cum corporalibus, sed casula ejusdem vetus et
rupta .^ed scpullure tantum apta. Item aliud vestimentum melius
cum paraturis de panno serico plenarium et sulliciens cum corporali-
bus, el cum casula de panno serico ornato paupere aurifrigio dissuta
antcrius, alias sufliciente. Item iiij01' palle altaris benedicte quarum
ij' habent paraturas. Item vas crematorium stagneum et sufliciens
bed non habet seram. Item nullum vas ad reponendum Corpus
Domini, nisi tamen una pixis ad portandum ad egrotos.
Item j rocbettum et duo supcrpellicia. Item units pannus de p. 13%.
reins,1' ut videtur, ad cooperiendos mortuos. Item iij panui
fron tales de f'emisc sullicientes aliquantulum. Item manutergium
unum ad sacrariufn integrum et sufliciens et aliud pjtrvum ad
lcctorium. Item' crux stagnea et depicta super maju< altare, et
alia parva et portabilis ad efTerendunu hem iiij°r phiale stagnee
aliquantulum sufHcientes. Deficit vas aquarium et candelabra
Btagnea deiliciunt et calix stagneus. Dcficiunt et cathene de
turribulo.
Ite*n due lampades sunt coram majori altari quas invenit Jamus d
* Tnpsa. So in MS. Did the scribe intend to write capsa ?
b De rems : that is, cloth of Rheims.
1 l)e i'einis. So in MS. Perhaps of Venice work. "The looms of Lucca,
Florence, Genoa, Venice, aftd Milan earned for themselves a good repute in some
particulars, and a wide trade for their gold and silver tissues, their velvets, and their
figured, silken textiles."— Rock, Textile Fabric*, Ixxi.
d Junius. The scribe seems to have lapsed into English with a Latin termi-
nation.
CAMO. SOC. D
18 VISITATION OF CHURCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
fratcr Johannia de Patemore ex gracia et quidera alii pafochiani
terciam lampadcm continue ardentem in officio debent invenire;
Thesaurarius non invenit, sed habet vij acras terre arabilis de dono
quondam Symonis Baard ad istam inveniendam. Item cereum
paschalem invenit, parochia per domos et fainillas et rotcllam simili
tnodo. Item cereos et aliud luminarc votivum inveniunt parochiani
secundum sua votaj item vexilla, quia nulla. Item f'ons baptismalis
in pariete undique discoopertus. Item cancellum vetus et male
obseratum ad quod reparandum quindeeirn marcc sunt prompte de
legato quondam A. Thesaurarii.8 De quibfls :nx solidi libeiantur
magistro Willielmo procuratori F. Thesaurarii h ad minutos lapidea
eolligendos per parochiam. Item ecclesia non est dedicata.
Dicitur quod J. Bayard habuit magnam partem illorum lapidum.
Ecclesia in lateribus male eooperta et instrieta. Cirniterium malam
habet claustratn. Item Capellanus qui ministrat ibidem habet
totum altaragium cum minutis decimis, et solvit Thesaurario xl§.
Pelliiam Fornell.
Status ecclesie de Pellham fornell c inventus in i'esto Sancti Marci
Anno Domini M°CC° lij.
Inventum est Missale plenaiiuin cum gradali bene notato et
suffieiens, habens kalendarium in eapite, finiens in collectis
omnibus pro defunctis. Item in uno volumine troparium et
gradale satis plena rium et notatum, Fed male ligatum cum foliis
ruptis ct veteribus. Item in uno volumine legenda bona et
sumcienSj temporale cum psaltcrio bono post legendam terminans
in fine cum antiphona naive JRegitut. Item legenda sanctorum in
quaternis, incipiens a festo Sancti Andree et terminans in brevi
■ A.: that is, probably, Alexander Swcrford, Treasurer of St. Paul's Cathedral,
1231-1233, or later.
b F.: tbat is, probably, Fulk de Sannford, Treasurer of St. Paul's.
1 Pellhaw Fornell: otherwise called, as in the later inventories, Pclham Furncaux.
CFIAPTER OP ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN THE TEAKS 1249-1252. 19
lc<*cntla in Dedicacione Ecclesie, sine legenda de Communi
Sanctorum. Item in alio volumine male iigato est breviarium
habena kalendarium in capite, collectarium interraixtum cum
anliphonario notato et psalterio et ympnario, et cum proprio
officio Sanctorum quod in parte non est notatum, nee London ncc
Sarum ordinem continet, Aniens in officio plurimarum Virginum.
Item deest liber manualis cum exorcismis et officio mortuorum et
baptismi. Item est ibi pavvuni psalterium bonum ct sufilciens.
Item inventum est ibi vestimentum plenum paratum dc serico,
cum casuli de serico Integra et sufficient!, et cum corporalibus
intcgris, ct cum tribus pallis altavis bencdictis, quarum due habent
p.uutunts de serico veteres. Item aliud vestimentum minus festivale,
or na turn paraturia sericis tritum ct debile, cum casula de Histamine
rubeo veteri et debili cum corporalibus. Item aliud vestimentum
vctus et insuflicicns, aptum sepulture. Non est ibi rocbettus, sed
sunt ibi tria superpellicia quorum duo integra et tercium tritum.
Item calix parvus vix ponderis x solidorum alba cum cupa interiua
dcaurata. Item crismatorium stagneum sufficiens tamen sine sera.
Item vetus pixis ossea, continens parvam pixidem stangneam ad P- 110-
reponendum Corpus Dominicum, res nihil et vilis. Item frontale
nullius precij ad majus altare, et majus altare habet tabulam
lapideam bonam et suffieientera non benedictam. Item tamen
Buperaltare parvum bencdictum et sufficiens ad tempus. Item
unicum est ibi manutergium ad ablucionem manuum sacerdotis
integrum. Item parvum velum quadragesimale vetus, nullius
precij. Item ad sacrarium sunt parva manutergia de crismalibus.
Est ibi turribulum parvum. Item iiijcr candelabra stagnea ad
ccreos portandos Vetera. Item iiijor pliiale stagnee veteres. Item
tantum unica crux ad portandum et ad offerendum. Item sunt ibi
extra cliorum iiij altaria, quorum tria habent lapideas tabulas bonas
et honestas, quart um est de fragmentis et nullum benedictum.
Item ad altare Sancti Nicholai frontale habet honestum de panno
inpiso, et pallam altaris bordatam dc panno serico ex provisione et
gracia R. Capellani. Item est ibi fons lapideus intus vestitus
20 VISITATION 01' CHURCHES BELONGING TO THE PEAN AND
plumbo BufficienSj sed non habct scram. Item ecclesia bene
cooperta.
Item nullus redditus assisus est ad luminare, nee est ibi rotella.
Cereus paschalis colligitur fortuito, tamen tenentes decern ct octo
acras dant obolum, tenentes medictatem solvunt pro medictate.
Reliqui cerei et lampades coram cruclbus et altaribua totum votivum
et nichil eertum. Item archa est in custodia Capellani ad reponenda
vestimenta et Iibros ccclesie. Item desunt vitrlnc due in cancello.
Item iiijor vexiila ad nichil apta. Item deficit vas aquarium
stagneum. Item cimiterium pessime clausum veteribus spinis.
Ik^j^ Item Capellarius ibidem niinistrans habct totum altaragium cum
minutis decimis et solvit xx solidos Thesaurario.
Pelham Arsa.
Status ccclesie de Pelham Arsam inventus in crastino Sancti Marci
Ewangeliste Anno Domini M°CCMijn.
Missale cum kalendario cum gradali bene notato plenarium et
sufliciens sed male ligatum. Item gTadale in uno volumine
silfliciens sed male ligatum. Item troparium in quaternis non
ligatum et semiplenum. Item breviarium in duobus voluminibus
temporale per se, cum antiplionario bene notato cum psalterio
ordinato pro majori parte. In alio [vo]lumine Proprie Sanctorum
et Commune Sanctorum, cum antiphonario nullius ordinis et
pessime utrisque ligatis. Deilicit autem ibi liber manualis et liber
ordinalis et media pars troparij.
Item calix argenteus albus cum pomello deaurato et circulo pedis
et eupa interius deaurata, ponderis circitcr j marce. Item est ibi
unum vestimentum cum casula vetcri ct insufficient!, et cum cor-
poralibus et plenarium. Item est ibi aliud vestimentum vcterius et
minus sufliciens, cum casula vcteri de fiistamine, cum corporalibus
sepulture vix sufliciens. Item vctus superpellicium et ruptum,
nullum rocliettum. Item iiijor palle altaris benedicte, quarum ij
p. 140b. iusufficientea ct rnpte. Item est ibi frontale dc serico honestum.
CHAPTER OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN TEE YEARS 1249-1252. 21
Item aliud frontale incisum de pannis lineis tinctis. Item nulle
palle ad eacrarium nee ad manus sacerdotis. Nullum velum quad-
ragcsimale' est ibi. Unuui vexillum de serico parvnm crocco et
rubeo. Item vas crismatorium Btagncum sufficiens sed sine sera.
Item parvula pixis Btagnea ad Corpus Domini reponendum debilis
et insufficient, in bursa pendens super altare in periculo. Item est
ibi tabula lapidea satis sufficiens ad ma jus altare, non benedicta.
Jtcm superaltare benedictum et sufficiens. Parietes cancelli sine
linoamento cementi. Deest vitrina ubi sedent ad psallendum. Est
ibi fons lapideus interius instructus plumbo sine sera. Unica crux
est ibi in majori altari nee altera ad efrerendum. Item tres veteres
pliialc stagnee. Item turribulum parvum et parum sufficiens.
Ad luminare ejusdem eeclesic est nichil certum, sed cereus
paschalis coliigitur, scilicet, quadrans de quolibet mesuatdo ex
consuetudine. Item ij candelabra stagnea Vetera. Due acre de
done- quondam Galfridi Sarvors sunt in dominico Thesaurarii, pro
duobuS ecrcis inveniendis in majori altari, sed tempore F.a
Thesaurarii niehil inde ministravit ecclesie. Relictum luminare
ecclesie totum votivum est. Altaragiuin preter medietatem primi s?^
legati reddit j marcam. De residuo sustentatur Capellanus et
Clericus suus animus. Ecelesia est de beata Yirgine et non
dedicata. Capellanus hospieiolum habet prope cimiterium in fundo
ecclesie. Palle non dantur eis ad stauramenta ecclesie. Item deest
aquarium. Due parve earnpane sunt ad efferendum coram
defunctis. Item cimiterium pessime clausum. Gradus ante altare
majus lutei sunt sine lapide sine ligno et sine cemento. Deest pixis
ad hostias.
■ F. Thesanrarii : see supra, p. 18.
22 VISITATION OF CHTJBCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
Nastok. a
Ornamenta apud XastoK inventa in crastino Sancti Gregorij Anno
Domini ^PCC'lj0.1'
Missale novum et plenarium et bene notatum, habens in capite
kalendarium, illuminatum auro, et duas primas literas ejusdem
missalis illumiaatas auro, et terminamr post Oflicium Defunctorum
in tribus collacionibua do Sancta Kadegunda. Item bona lcLrer.da
in duobus voluminibus paribus et ligatis in asseribus. Item duo
libri antiphonariis bene notatis, sed non secundum consuetudinem
London, quorum alter male ligatus. Item gradale bonum et bene
notatum sed male ligatum, cum tropario bene notato. Item aliud
missale bonum et bene notatum ted magis tritum. Item psalterium
bonum et sufficiens. Capitularium et ympnarium bene notatum,
habens in fine Commune Oflicium Sanctorum notatum et kalen-
darium in principio. Item parvus liber manualis non ligatus cum
oflicio defunctorum. Item liber qui dicitur ordinalis de bona litera
sed male ligatus, habens kalendarium debile in capite. Item calix
argenteus ponderis xiiijs et parum plus tenuis. Item ad majus
altare sunt tres palle benedicte et iiimm frontale vetus. Ad altare
beate Marie sunt tres palle benedicte et bone. Ad aliud altare
Sancti Jacobi sunt nlie palle non benedicte. Item sunt ibi tria ves-
timenta plenaria cum tribus casulis, quorum unum magnum
sollempnc et sufficiens, reliquum cum casula de serico debili et
paupere auiifrigio, tercium minus sufliciens cum casula de albo
fustamine. Item duo paria corporalium Integra et sulliciencia.
Item due ampulle et una pelvis stagnea. c Item unum turribulum de
■ In the margin is the following note : " Deficit Lie et infra de statu ecclcsiaram
prtterquam de enaamentia. Nastok', Thorp', Walton', Kyrkeby, Belcham, Wvkham,
Tylliugham, Chingelford, Berncs, Draytone, RonevreH."
'" St. Gregory's day is March 12.
c In the margin is a note : " Ornameuta apud Nastok' inrenta in crastino Sancti
Gregorij, Anno Domini M0CC°lj°.M
CHAPTER OF ST. PAUL'S CATUEDEAL IN THU YEAES 1249-1252. 23
tempore Limoniocensi.* Item crux una de codem opere. Item
crismatorium stngneum aliquantulum suilieiens. Item pixis eburnea P* UL
ad Corpus Domini, sed non habet vaa in quo reponatur. Item ij
Buperpeflicia sufficiencia et unum b vetus minus sufliciens. Item ij
rochctti veteres. Item ij veteres casulc inutiles preter supradictas,
jusse suM desttui et fieri frontalia; et duo albe veteres sepulture
defunctorum tantum suflicientes. Item ad rotellani colliguntur per
villatam xxxij d, scilicet de mesuagio obolus, et tantum colligitur ad
cereum paschalem. Propter supradicks denarios constitutus est
roddituc per Johannem de Bellies: scilicet, xxiij d, de Waltero
Tcrri et heredibus suis, et j d de liadulpho le Bunde de terra que
vocatur Assartum quam Johannes de Bernes tenuit de Johanne
Wig ct solvitur ad Pascha ad duosc cereos ante altare beate Virginis.
Item ccclesia dedicata iuit: ruptum et post superaltare. Item
velum quadragesimale vetus et debile.
Torp.
Ornamentn inventa in ecclesia de Torp'.d
Calix argenteus fi actus et parvi piecij. Item missale vetus et
notatum habeas kalendarium in capite aliquantulum suilieiens.
Item gradale vetus et notatum, non ligatum et male sufficiens.
Item breviariuin vetus cum psaltcrio in capite et cum antiphonario
non notato inter legend a, et male ligatum et ruptum. Item anti-
phonarium in asseribus vetus et notatum, multos habens delectus
et male ligatum, continens Officium Sanctorum cum temporale.
Item liber portehors, qui est Yicarij, de minuta litera habens
° Of Limoges work.
b The scribe has written unus, but he has placed a mark of erasure under the filial
letter.
* The scribe has written ad duos temiincs, but has erased the last word.
- Torp': that is, Thorpe.
24 VISITATION OF GHUBCHE8 BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
legendam et plura rcsponsoria et ympnarium cum capitulario et
collectario et psalterio. Item parvus liber ympnarius sine asseribus.
Item liber ordinalis in asseribus habens ofTieium quarandam pro-
cession um in fine. Item allud gradale vetus in ass&ribus et
notatum sine regula, habens troparium in fine m-ale sufficicns.
Item aliud veius notatum in asseribus. Item ij vestimenta
plenaria sunt ibi cum casulis, quarum una vetus et trita, et alia
nova de serico bona et sufficicns. Item iij pille altaris novc et
benediote. Item iij veteres quarum alio benedicte et j insufficiens.
Item parva pixis argcntea ad Corpus Domini reponendum, sed
deest lignea sine sera ad illam claudendam. Item ij paria corpora-
Hum sordida sed Integra. Item vas erismatorium vetus et ruptum
et sine sera. Item tres phiale cum pelvi stagnea. Item turribulum
ferreuin et vetus. Item velum quadragesimale vetus et omnino
insufficiens. Item duo superpellicia et anus rochettus nullius
precij. Item alia manutcrgia ad sacrarium sordida et rupta.
Item vas aquarium stagneum ct sufficiens. Item ij yconie beat©
sialic honestc ad ma jus altare, ct tabula depicta loco frontalis.
Item ymago lignea.
Isti subscripti tenent peeora ad sustentacioncm luminaris ecclesie
de Torp', scilicet oves.
Ricardus Sap . . ij Gervawus Derman . . ij
p. 141b. Hugo earectariua . . iij Edilda vidua j
Andreas Turben . • ij Wiilielmus de Hida . . j
Radulphus Belle . . iiij Johannes filius Kicardi . j
Alicia relicta Almere . ij Radulphus portarius . ij
Heymuudus filius Marci . ij Wiilielmus Bercarius . ij
Sa^rim ij Thomas filius Symonis . ij
Summa xxviij et de qualibet redduntur ij d ]
per annum ad roteliam. j
CHAPTER OF ST. PAUl/s CATHEDRAL IN THE YEARS 1249-1252. 25
J tern alia pccora ad luminare ad cercos coram cruce.
Thomas filius Symonis
Tholnas Crol .
liogerus Goldwin
Kicardus Gulidcnkewold n
Eadmundus Campe .
"Walterus Hubert
Summa x>:
Sagfim .
Radulphus dc Duna
Ricavdus Diabolus h
Walterus Baz .
Cristina vidua .
Robertus Walsrorum
de qualibct redduntur ij d ad /
ccreos coram cruce.
Item alia pccora ad luminare Sancte Margarcte.
E idmundua Campe .
WilHelmus bercarius c
Johannes li ooter
Hugo eareetarius
Hevmundus sutor
J
"J
J
Summa vj et de qualibet redduntur ij denarij ^
ad luminare beate Margarcte in capella >
extra ecclesiam per annum. )
Item alia pccora ad luminare Sancte Marie in capella extra ecclesia'n.
Robertus Walgor . . j Eadmundus Campe .
Hugo Sagor j Heymundus sutcr
Johannes Blundus . . j
Summa v et de qualibet redduntur ij denorij ad
luminare beate Marie in capella extra ecclesiam
per annum.
■ The fourth letter in this name has a dot beneath it, marked, probably, for
erasure.
b Kicardas diabolus. Is this a village nickname, or can it possibly be an attempt
to latinise Devillc ?
c Uercarius: a shepherd.
CAMD. SOC. K
26 VISITATION OF CHUECIIES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
Item alia pecora ad cereos coram beata Yirginis" juxta majus altare.
Hugo Horencok . . ij StephanUs li Petit . . iiij
Gervasius de Ecclesia . j YTalterus Godcholt . . j
Matilda relio.ta Hcymundi. vj Thomas Barkere . . j
Gervasius filius Jordani . ij Kicardus prepositus . . ij
Thomas Grim j
Summa xixb et de qualibet redduntur ij denarij }
per annum ad cereos coram beata Yirginc >
juxta majus altare. )
Item de dono Symonis Yicarij ad sustentandum cereum in qualibet
missa majoris altaris.
Una marcata ovium vel aliorum de suo proprio dum vixit et de
bonis ipsius defungentis providcnda ut sir lumen perpetuum. Item
de dono Andree filij Stephani ad cereum unum in perpetuo
sustinendum modo simili super majus altare j vacca prccij v
polidorum et vj oves qualibet precij xij d. 1st a tradita sunt in
manu Roberti Fabri qui rcddct inde xij soliuos in festo Sancti
Laurencij ad coram emendam. Item de legato Kieardi filij Thome
unam vaccam precij vj s, est in manu relicte ipsius, et reddet inde
xij d per annum ad alium cereum ad predictum festum. Xullus
redditus est ad cereum paschalem. Item de legato quondam
Asceline de Campo v oves ad unum cereum sustinendum coram
altari predicto bcate Virginia precij cujusque xij d. Et sunt in
manu Eieardi lilij Atatilde et reddet inde x denarios per annum.
Walton.
Ornamenta invents in ecclesia de Walton'.
Inventum est ibi dominica passionis c Anno Domini M°CC°]j0.
» Beata Yirginis. So in MS.
b xix. So in MS., Lnt the sum is xx.
c Domiuica i>assionis : Passion Sunday, the fifth Sunday in Lent.
CHAPTER OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN THE YEARS 1249-1252. 27
Miotic optimum ct notatum ct suiliciens ct plenarium habens in
capite kalendarium ct in fine partem troparii. Item allud missale
debiie. Item antiplionarium in duobus voluminibua optimum p. u:.
suiliciens et plenarium cum legenda psalterio capitulario collectario,
ct notatum secundum medietatcm anni et aliud antiplionarium
minoris precij, Item unum ordinale. Item j gradale. Item j
troparium. J tern j manualc. Item calix argenteus cum duobus
paribus corporalium. Item ij paria vestimentorum quorum j
casulam dc serico est dc proquisito a Alcxandri et parocbianorum.
Item iij ivdle bcncdictc ad majus altare et ij ad altare beafe
Virginis. Item capa serica ornata aurifriiriis de dono Magistri
It. dc Stanford.1' Item ij superpellicia debilia et j rochectus.
Item ij candelabra. Item j chalonc ad exequias mortuorum.
Item j cista parva ex donacione G. quondam Yicarij, plures
rcliquic ex donacione ct concessione predict! G., cum quadam cruce
in qua est pars al'iqua de Dominico ligno.d Item est ibi defectus
vasis crismatorij et pixidis ad rcponendum Corpus Domini. Item
lapis sacrarij nimis humilis est et exdtandus. Item ij tabule
lapidee. Desunt duobus altaribus inferioribus duelibst est nunc ex
ij frustis et non possunt dedicari. Item desunt tres lucerne in
tribus parochiis c ad precedendum Corpus Dominicum. Item est
parva navieula ad incensum. Item ij phialestagnee. Item turri-
bulum bonum. Item fons lapideus bonus tamen sine sera. Item
velum quadragesimale vetus et ruptum. Item crux portabilis
honcsta et suiliciens. Item alia crux bona et suflieiens super
majus altare. Item desunt tres calices stagnei in tribus parochiis.
Item eeclesia est dedicanda. Item tabula depicta loco frontalis.
^ * De proquisito. So in the MS.
^ Kulke of Stanford was Archdeacon of Middlesex from April, 1214, for a short
period. He was also Prebendary of Ealdiand. Perhaps the person named in the
text may have been a kinsman.
c Chalon : ehalo. chalonus, pars supelleetilis lecti, straguli species.— Dueange.
1'robably a funeral pall.
d Domiuicum lignum : the wood of the Cross.
* Probably ihe three parishes called N The Sokeus,'' Walton, Kirkby, and Thorpe.
28
VISITATION OF CHURCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
Isti tenent pecora ad sustentacioncm himinaris
de Walton' ad rotellam.
Eicardus li But j ovem
solvet
Wiilielrnus filius Galfmli
ij ovcs
Eadwardus le May ij
ovcs
Alicia relicta Tixtoris ij
ovcs
Eadmundus le Brun j
ovem
Adam filius Cecilie de
Marisco v oves
iiijd
iiij u
iiijd
ft*
xd
Ricardus filius Ileyneri
vij oves . . . xiiij d
Johannes de la Hulle j
ovem
Galfridus Hamelin ij
ovcs
Juliana de la Holtc j
ovem
Alicia relicta Blanci ij
oves
Summa a iiij sot, viij d.
Item ad luminare ante crucem.
Eadulphus de Marisco j Gerardus filius TVyberti
ovem . . i j d j ovem
Walterus filius Goldive Eicardus Crisp j ovem .
j ovem . . ij d Henricus Crisp de dimi-
Walterus filius Davidis dia ovev .
j ovem . . iij ob
Summa b x denarij.
iiij d
iiij a
job
Item luminare beate Yirginis.c
Alicia mater Hcnrici j Hugo filius Davidis
ovem
yd
ij oves
iiijd
* Snraina. So in MS. ; lege iiij sol. iiij d.
b So in MS.; lege xij den. ob.
c At the foot of the page is a note : "Isti tenent pecora ad sustentaeionem lumi-
naris tie Walton' ad rotellam ; " but it is not clear to M'hoin it refers.
CHAFTEB OF ST. PAUl/s CATHEDEAL IN THE YEAKS 1249-1252. 29
Willielraus filius Gal-
fridi y ovcs
Ricardus le Buc j ovcm
Jacobus de Marisco ij
xd
oves .
iiij d
Eadwardus
filius David
is
j ovcm
.
8«
"Walterus
Tubbing
j
ovcm
•
ya
S a ful filius Alani iij
ovcs . . . . v j d
Brumman Ewe ij ovcs iiij d
Thomas filius Kobcrti
iiij ovcs
Sabina de Spina j ovcm
Ricardus Bancum vj
oves ....
Ricardus Hcndi j ovem
Eadmundus le Brun ij
ovcs . . .
Radulphus tixtor j ovcm
Jordanus de Olta'vj oves xij d
Henricus Turstan vj
oves . . . . xij d
Walterus Band' j ovem ij d
Summa a xj sot iiij d et oft
viij
A
ij
6
x»j
d
]*j
d
i»j
c1
ij
a
Radulphus de Marisco
j ovem .. .. . ij d
Alicia rclicta Jordani
j ovem . , . , . ij d
Robertas David ij oves iiij d
Walterus de. Stroda j
ovcm . . ij d
Matilda filia Roberti j
ovcm . . . ij d
Galfridus Hamelin j
ovem . . . ij d
Henricus Crispus de
dimidia ove . j ob
Robertas de North ij
oves .... iiij d
Henricus de Ponte pro
anima W. de Burn-
ham . . . xij d
Idem Henricus de vj
ovibus . . xij d
Ricardus de Stroda j
ovem . . . j d
Alexander filius Rich-
olde j ovem . . ij d
Item ad luminare beati Michaelis.
Gerardus filius Wyberdi Johannes Kio-bel v oves
j ovem . . ij d Robertus de North j
Willielmus filius Galfridi ovem
iij ovcs . . . vj d
■ So in MS. ; lege y) J.
p. I 12b.
xd
30 VISITATION OF CHUBCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
Alicia relieta Livig' j Alexander Clericua ij
ovcm i j d oves. . • . . iiij d
Alexander li Gant ij "Walterus Goldive ij
oves . . . . . iiij d oves .... iiij d
Eadiiiuiidus de la Dune Andreas filius Aldivc j
ij oves . . . iiij d oveni . . . j d
Summa iij sot iij d.
Item ad luminare ad altare mains,
Jordanus Kelbel ij Eobertus de north j
oves . ... . iiij d
Eadwinus de Marisco
sive relieta ejusdem j
ovem . . ij d
Ead.wardus lc May viij
oves .... xvj d
Saphul filius Estrad ij
oves . • . . • . iij d
Eicardas Buucun iij
oves . . . . iiij d
Summa" iij s vj d.
Item ad luminare ad idem altare,
Ricardusle Brit viij oves xvj d Relieta Dannani iiij oves iiij d
Alicia relieta Joliannis Alexander Clericus j .: .
Livig j ovem . . jd ovem . . . ij d
Summa xxiij d
Summa tocius reddendo xxvs v j d ot> non est aliquis redditus ad
cereum pasehalem.b
a So in MS. ; lege vij d.
b The total is correct if the amounts given by the scribe are accepted. It will
require slight modification if the totals are taken as amended.
ovem
.
ya
Andreas le Grant j ovem
8*
Walterus de la Strode
j
ovcm
y*
"YYillielmus filius Galfri
ili
j ovem
.
ij"
Randulphus textor
j
ovem
.
U*
Robcrtus David
ij
oves
.
iiij d
CHAPTER OF ST. RAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN THE YEARS 1249-1 2f>2. 31
KlRKEEY.
Ornamcnta invcnta in ecclesia de Kirkeby.
Jnventum est ibi Dominica Passionis Anno Domini j\I0CCc,]j°
Missale vetus nullius ordinis cum gradali noil nototo. Item
gradalia duo quorum imuin cum tropario et aliud non ligatum
sine tropnrio. Item tropariutn parvum et vetus. Item antiphona-
riuin bonum et notatum in asseribus sufficiens et bene ligatum.
Item liber manualis habens psalterium in capite collcctarium
capitularium et ympnarium, cum omnibus antiphonis ad Laudes et
super Benedict us ct Magnificat) tarn in tcmporali quam in festis
Sanctorum. Item legenda vetus insulliciens et non ligata. Item
alia legenda ab Adventu usque ad Dominicam in ramis palmarum,
cum historiis legenda et ympnis de Sancto Michaele a et introitu
misse. Item omeliariurn bonum; temporale a Pascha usque ad
Septuagesimam de dono Capituli Sancti Pauli. Item calix
argenteus ponderis x solidorum habens pedem debilem. Item
pixis eburnea ligata argento ad Corpus Domini reponendum. Item
crismatorium vetus ct omnino insufficient Item aliud novum
stagneum et suMiciens. Item tres fiale stagnee. Item pelvis
stagnea. Item duo candelabra stagnea. Item vas aquarium stag-
neum et suiliciens. Item turribulum vetus eneum et insufllciens.
Item crux processionalis lignea aliquantulum suiliciens. Item p. HO
quatuor palle benedicte ad majus altare, quarum due suiTicientcs
ct alie due fracte ct minus sufScientes. Item tria paria corporalium
sufTiciencia. Item duo paria vestimentorum plenaria cum casulis
et aliis, quorum imum bonum principale cum easula de sameto do
dono Capituli, et aliud minus suiliciens cum casula de i'ustanno, et
tercium vestimentum omnino insufficiens et fr actum et suspensum.
Item duo frontalea de linea tela. Item tabula depicta loco frontalis
coram major! altari ct omnes lapides majoris altaris dissoluti sunt.
• Tbe church of Kirkby was dedicated to St. Michael.
32 VISITATION OF CHUJBCHES BELONGING TO THE DEAN AND
Missa est post mod um tabula lapidea bona et sufiiciens. Duo alturia
inferius in ecclesia unum de beata Virgine et aliud de Sancto 1'etro
cum tabulis depictis: nichil est eis depositum ad benedicendum.0
Item fons marmoris sufiiciens sed sine serum.
Ad cereum paschalem rcdditus, custos Alexander filius Robcrti.
Augus Artur . . j bidentem Alexander Rewere . j bidentem
Robertus Cora . j bidentem Willielrnus de Geu-
Jurdan de Holm . j bidentem deford . . j bidentem
Kicardus do Campo. j bidentem Agnes de Fercles . j bidentem
Ad luminare beatc Marie, custos Jordanus Dives ct Robertas
de la Bruere.
Jonannes filius Gode- Aliz Luteras . . ] bidentem
lote . . . iiij bidentes Agneta de Flck . j bidentem
Robertas de la StephanusdeVenelta j bidentem
Bruere . . iij bidentes Thomas de Tilers . iij bidentes
Johannes de Bruario ij bidentes Robertus Laude . viij bidentes
Felix . . . j bidentem llicardus de Campo j bidentem
Robertus May . j bidentem Ely as filius Mii . j bidentem
Willielrnus Credepol j bidentem Johannes del Hel . j bidentem
Thomas Hamiger . j bidentem Johannes Cok . j bidentem
Cristiana de Britii . ij bidentes Gilbertus de Villa . viij bidentes
Ad luminare ante crucem, custos Alexander.
Willielrnus Chabot ij bidentes Agnes de Ferkel ij bidentes.
Andreas filius Kadulphi ij bidentes.
Ad cereum Sancti Petri.
Thomas de Fiulerfb . iiij A Willielrnus Bidunt . . vj d
Cors . . . . i j d Domina Lucas . . . ij 3
Felix .... viij d
» Probably no relics h;ul been inserted. *> Finleif or Fuilcrf.
CHAPTER OF ST. PAUl/s CATHEDRAL IN THE YEARS 1249-1252. 33
Ad luminare Sancti Petri, custos Johannes Turstan.
Johannes Turstan . vj bidentes Tredepel . . . j bidentem
Radulphus dc IJulc . j bidentem Felix . . . j bidentem
Eedditus ad Rotain.
Pctms de Mariseo . xj bidentes Wyot sutor . j bidentem
RaduJphus del Hel . ij bidentes Tredepel . . ij bidentes
Thomas (iiius Hugonis ij bidentes
Ad luminare Sancti Michaelis.
Gerardus de Venella iij bidentes Benjamin dc la
Aliss Lucas . . j bidentem Brucrc . . ij bidentes
Walterus Sugge . j bidentem Jordanus Dabrehe . ij bidentes Tl> jj ■,».
Robcrtus de Gelde- Elyas de Campo . ij bidentes
lord . . . j bidentem Agnes de Ferkel . j bidentem
liobcrtus Gendei'ord j bidentem AYillielmusdeBrucrc ij bidentes
Johannes llereward j bidentem Adam dc Mariseo . ij bidentes
Alive de Frene . j bidentem Hugo Tredepel . ij bidentes
Sumnia vij sot x den.
Ad duas lampades in Caneello.
Ricardus Fugge . ij bidentes Alexander de Rewere . ij bidentes
Aug films Luce . j bidentem Gerardus et Stephanas
Barchalot . . j bidentem filij Symonis . . j bidentem
Ad luminare ante erueem, custos Gerardus dc Ycnell-.i.
Adam de Mariseo . vij bidentes Jordanus Faber . j bidentem
Aliz Liicas . . j bidentem Ricardus Scavi . j bidentem
Henrieus Ailmariis . j bidentem
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I.
INDEX OP NAMES OE PERSONS
AND PLACES.
Aldbnry, iv., x., xi., xiv., 16
Alkichvsbri, 6
Baldoek, Ralph de, Dean, 13
Hurling, iv., xiii., <J
Barling, Walter and Peter, vicars of, 9
Bartholomew, Priory of St., Archbishop
Boniface visits, vi., viii.
Bartholin, Robert de, Dean, 3
Basset, Fulk, Bishop, v.
Bclcmeus, or Belemeyus, Johu, Preben-
dary, S
Blic, Thomas de, 3
Boniface, Archbishop, v. — viii.
Ilis visitation of St. Paul's Cathedral,
v.
His violence at St. Bartholomew's
Priory, vi., viii.
Chcsham Bois, Bucks, monumental brass
at, xi.
Chiswick, iv., xi., xii., xiii., 7, S
Cornhill, Henry de, Dean, iv. — viii.
His courage in withstanding Arch-
bishop Boniface at St. Paul's, vi.
Edmund, St., Archbishop of Canterbury,
constitution of, xii.
Hale, Archdeacon, his Domesday of St.
Paul's quoted, iii., x., xvi.
Heybridge, iv., xiii., 1 1
David, vicar of, 13
Maintenance of the bridge at, xiii.,
Kook, Dean, his Lives of the Archbishops
of Canterbury quoted, v., vi.
Hurl and, 3
Innocent IV., Pope, viii.
Ippelega, a field at Willesdon, 3
John and Paul, Saiuts, 7
Kalcwestrickc, 3
Kirkby, iv., xi., xiv., 27, 31
Laud, Archbishop, his Visitation of St.
Paul's Cathedral, viii.
Lee, Benedict, monnmentaLbrass to, xi.
Lee, Parochia de la, 8
Lich, or Lichfield, William de, Canon, 7
Lisieux, Thomas, Dean. iii.
London, St. Magnus, 14
St. Pancras, iv., xiii., 5
Malyns, Reginald, xviii.
Matthew, Paris, quoted, vii.
Milman, Dean, his Annals quoted, viii.
Murymout.h, Meremouth, Adam, Canon,
xvi., xvii.
Navestock, iv., xi., xii., xiv., xvi.-
xviii., 22
Niger, Roger, Bishop, v.
Northbnri, t>
| Pelhain Arsa, iv., x., xiv., 20
.
SGO'\L
INDEX.
Pelham Fnrneanx, or Forncll, iv., xi.,
xii., xiv., 18
Processus, Saint, S
Radegumla, Saint, 22
Kicardns Diabolus, xv., 25
Rnggemere, 6
Saunford, Fulk dc, treasurer, IS, 21, 27
Swerford, Alexander, treasurer, 8, 18
Thomas of Canterbury, St., relic of, xiii.,
15
Tliorpe, iv., xiv., 23, 27
Thorpe, Simon, vicar of, 2G
Tillingham, iv..xi., xii., xiii., 13
Tillinghaiii, Saeras, vicar of, 1(1
Tothale, 6
Twyford, iv., xii., xiii., 4
Walton, iv., xiii., xiv., 2G
AVestlee, iv., 8
Willesdon, iv.. xi., xiv., xviii., 1
Willesdon, Pastorel, a field at, xiv., 3,
Yppele, a field at. xiv., 3
William, Dean of St. Paul's, 13
Wlstani, translatio bcati, 13
Yppele, or Ippclega, name of a field at
Willesdon, xiv., 3
II.
INDEX OE MATTERS.
Admallnm, asmallmn, enamel, 9, 15
Arena de abietc, a chest of firwood, 9
Assartnm, terra qu;e vocatnr, xiv., 23
Auripcllnm, 2
Bcrcaria. a sheepfold, xvii.
Bcrcarins, a shepherd, 25
Bikorn, or biea, a beehive, xviii.
Books, service, x.
Treasurer of St. Paul's provides a
missal, xi.
Chapter of St. Paul's provide an
omeliurium, xi.
Badly kept at Aldbury, x.
Butcleria, a buttery, xvii.
Camcrarius, the Chamberlain of St.
Paul's, S
Celarium, a cellar, xvii.
Chalon, or chalun, a funeral pall, xiii.,
9,27
Chrisom child, a monumental brass to,
xi.
Chrisoms, constitution relating to, xii.
Ciphus de mazero, a mazer bowl, xvii.
Coquina cum i'urno et duobus plumbis,
xvii.
Craticla, a gridiron, xvii.
Cri^males panni, xi., xii., 14, 19
Cuva, a vat, xvii.
Daieria, a dairy, xvii.
Defrustis. 5
Dies veniales, 11
Dominica passionis, 26, 31
Draco, at Hey bridge, xiii., 11
Esmallum, enamel, 3
Pemi*, panni frontales de, 17
Field names, xiv.
Firma, xvi.
Forciavit, 6
Fnrnra, 4
Fustamen, fustian, 4
Granarium, a granary, xvii.
Bights, in churches, xiv.
Bights, the custos of, xiv., 32, 33
s
Majestas. 14
Masers for use at bride-ales, xviii.
Meschfatte, the vat which contained
malt in brewing, xviii.
Milan, silk-weaving at, 2
Molendinum ventriticum, a windmill.
xvii.
Mola manualis, a handmill, xviii.
Names of parishioners, xv.
Orthus, for hortns, 1
Pandoxatria. a brewhouse, xviii.
Panni crismales, 14, 19
Patella, a pan, xvii.
Pax of wood and marble mounted with
plates of copper, xiii., 0
Pela, a baker's peel, xvii.
Fercamenuii), parchment, 2
Pcrrnentarius, a tailor, 10
Pistor, the miller, 12
Pistrina, a bakehouse, xvii.
38
INDEX.
Platellffl, plates, xvii.
Portchors, a breviary, 11, 23
Relics, xiii., 27
ltelic of St. Thomas a Becket, xiii., 15
Rems, pannus de, 17
Powell light, Rota, Rotellum, xiii.,
xiv., 10
Rosea, a beehive, 12
Salsaria, salt-cellars, xvii.
Solarium, an upper chamber, xvii.
Squdelli, probably baskets, xvii.
Statuta Majora et Minora, ix.
Tassellas, 11
Teodulis, or cejidolis, shingles, xvii.
Thorallia, xvii.
Tresancia, x\ ii.
Tyme. tubs, xvii.
Urcen-;, a pitcher, 15
Use of St. Paul's, Autiphonarium of, xi.
Ordinale of, xi.
Vcxilla with the Royal Arms. 15
Visitation of churches belonging to St.
Paul's, articles of enquiry at, ix.
Wimpla, a wimple, xiii., 0
Yilingfatte, the vat iu which ale is
worked, xviii.
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PREFACE.
IK the year 1814 Mr., afterwards Sir Henry, Ellis called the atten-
tion of the Society of Antiquaries to an English tract printed by
Pynson, of which a unique and fragmentary copy existed in. the
British Museum, giving an account of a really remarkable event in
the end of Henry VII. 's reign, of which very little notice had been
taken by historians. This was the reception of an embassy
from the Emperor Maximilian to make a final conclusion, so far as
diplomacy could do so, of the marriage already negociated between
Henry's daughter Mary, said to be then about eleven years old
(though I am afraid she was a little older) a with Maximilian's
grandson, Charles Prince of Castile, a boy in his ninth year, who
ultimately became the renowned Emperor Charles V. Of the
contents of this tract, or of the portions then extant, Mr. Ellis gave
a pretty full description, accompanied by copious extracts, in a
letter to Mr. Samuel Lysons, which was printed in the eighteenth
volume of the Archceologia; and in 1818 the whole of the existing
text wus reproduced in lithographic facsimile by the Koxburghe
Club. Such an interesting typographical curiosity, illustrated as it
was by two woodcuts — the one a frontispiece, the other a colophon
with Pvnson's mark and an ornamental border — seemed well to
» Sec note as to Mary's age at the end of this Preface.
iv PREFACE.
deserve reproduction by lithography. The unique original copy
had certainly been maltreated ; the existing leaves were slightly
mutilated, and from the stain upon the margin they seemed to have
been used for the interior of a book-cover. The original remains
to this day a very imperfect copy; but one leaf of the lost portion
lias since been recovered, and, having been purchased by the British
Museum from the Trustees of Canon Greenwell in 1SS5, it is now
inserted in the tract.
A narrative of such a description printed by Richard Pynson
must of course have been published by authority; but Ellis was
not aware that it was published at the time in Latin as well as in
English. Nor would the fact be readily discovered even now by
searching book catalogues under the name of Mary or of Charles;
for the Latin edition did not bear either name upon the title page.
The existing copy in the Grenville library appears to be perfect;
and the only title that it bears is '"' Petri Carmeliani Carmen,"
which is merely that of the introductory poem.a It is most
sumptuously printed upon vellum in a rather larger type than the
main text of the English, and illustrated with four woodcuts, two of
which are identical in design with those which adorn the English
edition, but are finer in execution.'1 The other two were probably
not included in the English edition at all; both the beginning and
the end of the English tract are perfect, and though there is no
pagination, it is pretty certain from the signatures of the sheets
a It seemed to me at first that a title page must have preceded the prefatory poem
and been lost ; hut the leaf which contains the 1 toe in is dearly the first leaf of the
first sheet, the next leaf bearing the signature A ii. This, in the opinion of Mr.
Graves of the British Museum, proves that there could hare been no general title-
page. The title prefixed in this Edition, " Solennes Ceremonial et Triumphi," is
borrowed from the text. See page 2.
b The two sections of the lower part of the frontispiece may be from the same
blocks in both editions ; but the higher part, though the design corresponds in the
minutest details, is much coarser work in the English edition than in the Latin.
PREFACE. V
that the text, apart from the title page unci colophon, extended
only to twenty-three pages; while the Latin, omitting the illustra-
tions, the title page, and the poem at the end, to which there i.-
nothing corresponding in the English, amounts actually to forty-
three pages. Now, though the exact proportion varies in different
parts of the narrative, a. page of the English, which is, with the
exception of the first paragraph, in a smaller type than the Latin
throughout, generally contains all but a few lines less than the
matter contained in two pages of the other. It would seem, there-
fore, that the twenty-three pages of the English tract must have
been fully occupied by letterpress, and that there was no room for
the two other illustrations.
The Latin, therefore, was the finer and more sumptuous edition
of the two, being intended for the use of a more refined and highly-
educated public, abroad, no doubt, as well as at home. The English,
which was probably translated from the other (for it does not
strike me as being the original), was most likely a cheap edition to
gladden the hearts of Henry's own loyal subjects. The text of the
Latin, like the prefatory poem and the poetical epilogue by which
it was accompanied, was probably the work of Peter Carmelianus,
Henry YIl.'s Latin Secretary.
The original frontispiece prefixed to both editions of this tract
has been drawn and engraved on wood by my friend Mr. Ebsworth,
who had generously offered to make drawings of the three other
woodcuts also and engrave them himself for this edition. Un-
happily his state of health has prevented him from fulfilling this
intention, and the reader must now be satisfied with the descrip-
tions of the other woodcuts given by the Editor in the places where
they occur in the text.
It will be seen that the two tracts are printed here on the same
pages, one above the other, so as to enable the reader easily to
VI PREFACE.
' compare the two. The translation is on the whole pretty close,
but there are parts where the Latin gives somewhat fuller details
than the English, as, for instance, at pp. 28 — 31, where the
English, although the text is perfect here, omits altogether the
substance of some paragraphs, and condenses others so -much that
it only gives a single page to what occupies four pages in the Latin
edition.
So much for the form of these original documents, and for what
concerns the editing. It remains to say a word or two about their
substance and historical value. To the modern reader it may
perhaps appear that their contents are litilc more than a flourish of
trumpets over an ambitious project which led to no result. And
it is true the project itself was in a few years set aside. The future
of Europe was not actually shaped in accordance with the patient
and skilful diplomacy which seemed to be crowned with such
brilliant success in December, 1508. But if we are to dismiss from
the page of history, as unworthy of serious attention, all the pro-
jects which have ended in smoke, we shall take pretty nearly the
whole life out of the record. The tilings for which men strove
(whether statesmen or common men J deserve, surely, quite as much
attention in history as the things which they accomplished.
The " espousal," or, as we may call it, the betrothal of his
daughter Mary to young Charles, Prince of Castile, was a master-
stroke of Henry the Seventh's policy achieved at the very end of
his rehni — only four months, in fact, before his death. It was not
altogether without important results during the five years follow-
in<*, and it was really a far more wholesome piece of business in
itself than what the other leading powers of Europe were nego-
tiating during that very month of December at Cambray. Partly,
no doubt, it was a move of Henry, with a view to pay off old
scores against Ferdinand of Arragon, who, though still an ally, had
PREFACE, vii
treated him very badly. But the main object was to increase the
power and influence of England all over Europe, and secure for the
King of England's daughter a most enviable position by allying
her with a young prince, the possibility of whose succession to a
large number of rich and important kingdoms was even then quite-
visible to the eye of a politician.
The uncertain thing about it, of course, was whether the House
of Austria could be relied on to fulfil its engagements. But these
were made as binding in the meantime as such engagements could
be ; and the mere prestige of what was actually done was a con-
siderable guarantee for its ultimate completion. The cyc'3 of
Europe were dazzled by the alliance, and when the ambassadors
come and Lord Berghes as the proxy for the young prince actually
set the ring upon the finger of the girlish bride, England really
seemed to have taken quite a new position in the world. The Bed
Bose of the Tudors, to use the flowery simile of the narrator, now
bloomed in Imperial gardens ; and whatever statesmen, who knew
its secrets, may hove thought of the glory of the Holy Roman
Empire, it is. certain that it had a powerful influence still on the
popular imagination.
The Emperor Maximilian, indeed, was unsteady enough, and
Henry was undoubtedly aware that all the securities taken would
have been quite insufficient to hold him to his engagements if at
any time hereaft?r more tempting offers were held out to him else-
where. But for the present there was no fear. Always in want of
money, and not least so now when bewitched by France into
a league for the spoliation of Venice, he looked, to Henry as a
money lender and pledged to him a valuable jewel for 50,000
crowns. Henry, who had warned Venice beforehand of her danger,
had no sympathy with the plot which his other allies were hatch-
ing, and did not expect Maximilian to reap much profit from it ;
Vlll PREFACE.
there were too many other freebooters engaged, far more sharp-
sighted than the Emperor. But he had a plan of his own to
suggest that would do Maximilian good and himself too. Maxi-
milian, if he played his cards judiciously, might use his new friend-
ship with France to cool that which had lately sprung' up between
France and Arragon, and then he could effectually demand of
Ferdinand the government of Castile, in right oi" his grandson
Charles. This was the policy which Henry was secretly urging
Maximilian to pursue, and it is a curious question whether the
English King, if he had lived but a few years longer, would not
have succeeded in using the Emperor as an automaton to wrest the
government of Castile from Ferdinand and to govern it himself.11
That such was Henry's intention there can be very little doubt ;
and Ferdinand very well knew that it was his intention, though
Englishmen at home were profoundly ignorant of it, and have
remained so almost ever since. Lord Bacon, indeed, in his History
-of Henry VI I., says that this was "a tradition in Spain though not
with us," and he evidently thinks it not at all improbable, though
later historians have passed over the matter in silence. But the
diplomatic records brought to light in our day have made the
matter certain ; and the following extract from a ciphered despatch,
of John Style, Henry VII.'s ambassador in Spain, will show how
well Henry had studied the situation, and how valuable the little
treatise we are discussing was in promoting the object that ho had
in view. Style's English, it is true, is a little uncouth, but there is
no mistake about his meaning : —
" And it please your Grace, I delivered unto the King of Arragon the
copy written in Latin of the noble triumph of the noble marriage of my
lady Mary your noble daughter and the Prince of Castile. The Bang
commanded Almacan to copy it into Castelyas; howbe that your Grace
may be right well insured that it is much more displeasure to the K\n<r
* Sec my Letters ami Papers, Ric. III. and Henry VII., i. HGO-t.
PREFACE. IX
and all his affinity than comfort to hoar of the said nohle marriage ;
insomuch, and it please your Grace, that they say and will not believe
that the said excellent marriage is so concluded. x\.nd the true Cas-
tilians, as the Great Captain,0 and many other, to whom I have given
copies written in Castilian, they do believe it, and take great rejoicing
therein, and thereby they do trust for to have right much succour and
comfort. And as to the said Great Captain, as by my other letters of
late, 1 have certified unto your Highness that he was determined for to
do his service unto your Grace and unto the Emperor, and in tin right
and fa voi of the Prince of Castile, his natural lord ; how be that the
saying of the said Dukeb is, and it please your Grace, that he of late
eonsidereth the great slackness that is in the Emperor in many ways,
saying that it is nearby a whole year that a servant of his hath been in
the Emperor's court for to know his pleasure, of the which he can have
none answer; the which putteth him in great fear how that he and his
company should be entreated in case that he and they came thither.
And also he saycth that he saith not what service that he should do in
that parts, unless that the Prince's coming should be hithenvarls
shortly. That notwithstanding the said Duke's saying is that in case
that your Highness shall please for to command him, or the Emperor or
the Prince's Council will write unto him, assuring him that he shall be
by them entertained and entreated to his honor, that then immediately
he will repair unto them with all diligence to him possible, the which he
may not do without great danger or jeopardy of the losing of a great
part of his goods here, and all the lands that he hath in the realm of
Naples ; for in case so were that the said Duke were departed from
hence, all this land should be in trouble and his friends; how be that,
and it please ycur Gran.e, that no man's departing from this land may be
more to the comfort of the Prince and to the displeasure of the King of
Arragon than this Great Captain, the. which as yet lie, nothcr his friends.
have not been favorably dealt withal by the King of Arragon. How be
that, and it please your Grace, now daily I understand that the King
* Gonsalvo Fernandez of Cordova.
b Gonsalvo had the title of Duke of Terranova. See Calendar of State Tapers
of Henry VIII., Vol. I., No. 3533, at the end of Style's despatch.
X PREFACE.
maketb moans to the said Groat Captain and to the Marquis de Plego,
the Count dc Cabra, and other, for to have them incline unto him ; the
which I fear me that tiny will so do of very necessity, unless that they
shall shortly have other comfort from your Highness and from the
Emperor and the Prince's Council. As unto the Marquis dc Villena
and the Count de Benavci.te, the King hath rewarded them with great
rents, so, and it please your Grace, that the said Marquis and Count do
continue in this Court with the King, how he that trust his Highness
hath none unto the said Marquis. Many great estates he well minded to
the Prince, but in especial the Puke de "Najara and the Count de
Miranda, and in no wise there can no man be suffered to pass into
Flanders ; for many lords, gentlemen, and other would depart in case
that they might pass, and such as that be taken going or coming from
the Prince be sore prisoned without favor.
" Your Grace may he well insured that the King of Arragon is sore
displeased with the conclusion of the marriage of the Prince of Castile,
and so the bishop Don Pedro said unto me in secret that" the King his
lord had reason so for to be discontented, seeing the Prince which that
should be his inheritor for to be married without his assent, the said
bishop saying it would grieve a poor man for to see his inheritor for to be
married without his assent, and much mure a great prince as that the
King my lord is."a
Ferdinand was relieved from many apprehensions by the death
of the astute king who had made this dangerous move against
him. Henry Y1II. succeeded his father and established at once
better terms with Spain by marrying Katharine of Arragon, But
the marriage of Charles of Castile with Mary was not dropped.
Ferdinand, indeed, did not love it much better than before, but he
agreed to ratify it, and not only told the English ambassador that
he was entirely satisfied with it, but promised to make his satis-
faction publicly known in Spain. b How could he do otherwise?
» Memorials of Henry VII. (Rolls Seres), pp. 433 -440.
"> Calendar of Henry VIII., Vol. I., Nos. 27, 240, 100 (p. GS).
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PREFACE. XI
The thing had gone too far not to be frankly recognised. Xot
only had the proxy marriage been effected, but the young bride-
groom had actually written to Mary calling her his wife, and to
her father calling him his father, and to her brother calling him
his brother. So far, we are told (see pages 33, 34), Charles had
actually committed himself, or rather been committed (for it must
be remembered he was not yet nine years old), soon after the
return of the embassy; and though the letters to Henry VII, are
not extant, nor to his son Prince Henry, there is one to Mary
herself which seems to have been written, not after the return of
the embassy in December 1508, but while it was yet in England.
It is couched in the following terms : —
Charles of Castile to the Princess Mary.
Ma bonne eompaigne, le plus cordialement que je puis a v[ostre]
bonne grace me reeommandc. Jay charge le Sieur de Uerghfez] et
auties mes ambassadeurs ordonnez par de la vous deviser [de la] dispo-
sition dc ma pcrsonne et de mes affaires, vous priant l[es] vouloir
croire ct par eulx me faire savoir de vostre sante [et autres] bonnes
nouvclles, qui est la chose que plus je desire, c[omme] scet le benuit
Filz dc Dieu, auquel je prie, ma bonne com[paigne], vous donner par sa
grace ce que desirez. A Malines, [ce] xviijc jour de decembre.
Vostre bon mary
(Signed) Charles.
(Countersigned) P. Haxeto[n]
(Addressed) : A dame Marie ma bonne compaigne.a
This letter has been hitherto attributed to the year 1513 and
is noticed under that date in the Calendar of State Papers of Henry
VIII., Vol. I., No. 4G06. Even in that case it is the earliest
letter extant (so far as I am aware) of the future Emperor Chaik-s
V. But there is no other evidence of the Sieur de Cerghes
• MS. Cott., Galba B III. 93. The original letter is slightly mutihued.
xii PREFACE.
having been sent to England in embassy in December, 1513,
though he had negotiated with Henry VIII. at Lille in the pre-
vious October. And here it is to be observed that Eerghes is not
only ambassador for the young prince in England, but it is dis-
tinctly indicated that he had colleagues with him in his embassy.
Moreover, the extremely boyish signature attached to the docu-
ment (the subscription " vostre bon mary, Charles," is all that
is in his handwriting) is much more like that of a lad in his
ninth year than that of one in his fourteenth. And this argu-
ment gains strength when we compare it with a signature of his
after he had just completed his fifteenth year, that is to say, in
his letter to Henry VIII., written on the 8th March, 1514[-15].a
Here the handwriting is already that of a well-practised writer.
Charles was evidently precocious in bis handwriting, as in other
things, and his signature at fifteen has a freedom and vigor about
it quite beyond his years. But the words « vostre bon mary,
Charles " in the letter above transcribed, though very well written,
are distinctly in the hand of a young schoolboy.1'
Ferdinand could easily afford to wait a year or two before in-
triguing to set aside the match. Young Henry VIII. was not yet
such a skilled diplomatist as his father had been. He at once
celebrated his own marriage with Ferdinand's daughter, which his
father had purposely delayed, and seemed disposed, for his part,
to cultivate the best relations with his father-in-law. Not many
years-, however, elapsed before he had bitter experience of Fcrdi-
■ MS. Cott. Galba B. III., 138. Calendar of Henry VIIL, Vol. tl., No. 234.
b One arsmnent, indeed, scoma to militate against the (hue of this letter being
150S It is countersigned by Iluneton, who \sa> actually n member of the embassy
then in Englaud. But it is dear that it was written and prepared for signature
some time before ic was actually signed; for both the mouth and the day of the
month were originally left blank, aud the "xviij" and " deccmlre " have been
distinctly filled up iu the blank spaces by another h:ind.
PREFACE. Xlll
nand's perfidy as an ally when he himself was engaged in a war
"with France ; and shortly afterwards he became well aware of the
King of Arraeon's intrigues to break off the marriage between
Charles and Mary. There was nothing Ferdinand dreaded so
much as the coming of Charles to Castile; and it was credibly said
that he would be glad if the young prince died.a Even after
the match was broken off. it was believed that he paid a pension to
Margaret of Savoy to keep him in the Netherlands.11 But he took
care not to show his hand in what he did. It was no use saying
anything against the marriage so long as Maximilian and the
Prince's own councillors did not raise objections; and while Maxi-
milian was co-operating with Henry in the war against France in
1513, not a syllable was uttered against it. The marriage was to
take place just after the Prince had completed his fourteenth year
(it was a shameful 'fashion, but it was the fashion, to make marriages
so early), and it was more definitely fixed by a treaty made at
Lille in October, 1513, to take place before the 15th May follow-
ing.6 Ferdinand himself once more expressed his assent to itd; and
everything seemed going smoothly, although Henry very well
knew that his father-in-law was secretly trying to interrupt it.e
Nay, we find Henry VI II., when at the camp before Therouenne,
granting an annuity of 20/. to a Fleming named John de Serffe
until the marriage should take place. f But as the time drew near
in 1514 the Prince's councillors began to raise objections. They
disliked the disparity of age, and Maximilian was anxious about
his grandson's health. "When the English proposed that the mar-
riage should be at Calais, Margaret of Savoy could not be got to
> Calendar of Henry VIII.. Vol. I., Xo. 403S.
b Venetian Calendar, Vol. II., No. 5G4.
c Calendar. Vol. I., Xos 4 50;;, 4512, 45G0.
d lb.. Xo. 42:<o, ii. « lb., Xo. 432S.
f lb., Xo. 4416, and Kymer. XIII., 374.
XIV PREFACE.
answer. She delayed and put off as long as she could, to consult
her father the Emperor, and Maximilian, who was then in Austria,
wanted it put off at least to the end of May, in order (forsooth)
that he might he present.'1
The explanation of it all was this. Ferdinand, after the death
of Isabella, depended generally on an. alliance with France to secure
him in possession of Castile. Soon after the conclusion of the
league of Cambray, however, it seemed as if France was ^oino- to
win all the profits, and Ferdinand made a league with Henry VIII.
against France. An English army landed in Guipuscoa expecting
aid from Ferdinand to conquer Guienne. Their presence helped
him to obtain possession of Xavarre, but he sent not a single soldier
to join them, and when he had secured his own object he made a
separate truce with Louis XII. From that time he took no plea-
sure in the success of the English, and his neutrality was of the
highest value to Louis. It became the policy of France to promote
the interest of Ferdinand; the chief councillors of the Prince of
Castile in the Low Countries were always French at heart, and the
Emperor. Maximilian was very easily won over.
But-before many months had passed, Henry was able to requite
the double-dealing alike o^ Ferdinand and of Maximilian. "While
the Emperor was still wasting breath and energy in insincere ex-
cuses which Henry declined to accept,1" Henry had struck the final
blow and caused Mary to renounce the marriage.0 He had turned
the tables on his enemies, and laid the foundation of an advantageous
peace and alliance : and Mary, instead of being the bride of a boy
four years her junior, was now destined for an old man on the verge
of the grave, Louis XII.
■ Calendar, Henry VIII., Vol. I., Nos. 4932, 497G, 501$, 5029, 5030.
*> Calendar, Nos. 5041, 5126, 5162, 5290.
• lb., No. 5212.
PREFACE. XV
NOTE AS TO THE AGE OF THE PRINCESS MARY.
A lady's age is often a delicate subject when she is alive, but
it is perplexing to find that the best authorities are contradictory
centuries after she is dead. Here the Latin tract (and, of course,
the English said the same) tells us, perhaps with studied ambiguity,
that she was "about" eleven (agebat circitcr undecimv.m atalis
annuni)? ]f she was in her eleventh year she must have been
born in 1497 or 149S. But the spring of 149(3 is, as we shall sec,
the very latest date to which we can refer her birth. Her own
brother Henry VIII., writing to the Pope when her engagement
was broken off, tells him that she was betrothed at thirteen or
when she was nearly thirteen {cum vix annum tertium decimum
atiigissct) to the Prince of Castile, then in his ninth year {annum
tunc nonum agcnti).h There is no doubt he gave the age of the
Prince correctly, and he could have had no object in attempting
to deceive the Pope as to that of his own sister, who, from what he
wrote, must have been born either in 149G or in the very end of
December, 1495. This date, moreover, is confirmed by a news
letter of 1st March, 1499, written from London (Calendar of
Venetian Papers, Vol. I., No. 790), which says that Henry had
just told the Duke of Milan's ambassador that he declined to give
his daughter to the Duke, she being then three years old. Further,
Erasmus in a letter to Botzheim (Catalogus Erasrni Lucubrationum,
Basle, 1523), describes a visit that he paid to the royal household
at a date which we can fix with certainty to the latter part of the
year 1499, or, at latest, January, 1500. Arthur, Prince of "Wales,
* See page 19.
b See the letter iu Fabronio, Leouis X. Vita, 27S.
XVI PKEFACE.
was then absent, but Erasmus saw his brother Henry (afterwards
Henry YIIT.), who, he says, was then nine years old (he was born
in June, 1491), Margaret (afterwards Queen of James IV.), who
was " nearly eleven " (.-he was born in November, 14^9), Mary,
who was four, and Edmund (born in February 1499, and. dead
within a year after), an infant in arms. The reckonings of
Erasmus, it is clear, are not absolutely accurate, but they are
pretty close; and they also would place Mary's birth either in
1495 or in 1496. Further, there is positive evidence that it could not
have been later than the early part of 149G, and that it was probably
in March ; for Mrs. Green discovered long ago a Privy Seal Bill
authorising a payment of 50 shillings to the child's nurse, Anne
Skeron, for a quarter's salary due at Midsummer, 11 Henry VII.
(1496), along with the usual half yearly payments of some other
attendants at the Court. The nurse, therefore, was probably
engaged in March (see " Lives of the Princesses," Vol. V.,
p. 2 note).
SOLENNES CEEEMOXLE ET TEITJMPHI.
Petri Cannelloni Carmen.
Anglia, pcrpetuos fcibi dat rosa rubra triumphos,
Perpetuum nomeo, perpctuumque decus.
Hec tua Ccsareis rcdolcns crosa rescit in liortis.
Atque aquilam llgnis jungit utranque suis.
Septimus Henricus, sapiens Rex, regula morum,
Celeste ingeniuin cum probitate tenens,
Ad tantos solus vigilans te vexit honores.
Ergo abs te debet jure volente coli.
Below these verses is a frontispiece (reproduced in fac-
simile opposite), filling three-quarters of the page, re-
presenting the royal arms supported by angels, with the
Tudor double rose and portcullis below.
\_English Edition.']
The Solempnities & triumph es cioon & made
at the Spouselles and Manage of the Kjiiges
donghter the Ladye Marye to the Piynce of Castile
Archeduke of Austrige.
Below this is a reproduction of the engraving described above.
I)
2 THE SrOUSELLES OF
Hoc present] libello humili stilo cdito ad faciliorem a legentium b
iutellectum cont'mentur henorifica gesta, solcmnes ceriinonic ct
triumphi nuper habiti in suseipienda magna atque egregia sacratissimi
principis Maximiliani Romanorum Impcratoris semper Augusti,
simul et Illustrissimi ac potentissimi sui filii Karoli, Principis Cas-
tellc Archiducis Austrie legatione ad serenissimum potentissimnm-
que principem Henricum Septimum, Anglic et Francie Regem
dominumque Hybornie destinata, pro sponsalibus et matrimonio
inter prcfhtum Illustrissimum principem Karolum et illustrissirnam
ac nobilissimam principem Dominam Mariam, prenominati Piegis
Henrici filiarn charissimam cotrahendis ; Xecnon Eitus et ordo in
hujusmodi sponsaliorum et matrimonii celebratione adhibiti et ob-
servati, cum immenso gaudio ct mutua hinc inde leticie expressione
ac demostratione,c simul et hylari atque jucundo vultu, munifi-
cientia et liberalitate ipsis Oratoribus qua[m]diu in Regno Anglic
immorati sunt exhibiti? ac demonstratis.
IIerafter folowe and ensue suche honourable and notable actes,
solempnyties, ceremonyes and triumphes that were lately doon made
and shewed, as well for the reeeyvynge of the great and noble
Ambassade lately sent to the Kynges hyghncs frome the moost
excellent Prynce his inoost dfere] and entierly beloved Broth.erand
cousyn Them per onre and his good sone Charles the vonge Prynce
of Castell, Archeduke of Aostriche, for the spouselles and manage
to be had and made betwixt the said Prynce and the kynges right
dere and noble doughter the Ladyc Marye, nowe Pryncesse of
Castyle. As also suche forme, ordre and maner as was used and
had in the solempnvsacion and oontractynge of the sayd spouselles
and mariage, with the cherefull and honourable entretaignynge of
the sayd Ambassadours durynge their abode within this Peainc.
* Misprinted u facmorem." b Lcgetiu in original. c Sic.
THE LADYE MAltYE. o
Et primum qnidem, quoniam inter oratorea dictorum Imperatoris
et principis Karoli ex una, et Oratores antedicti liegis Anglic
Ilenriei S^vtimi, ex altera parte, in oppido Calisie tractatus eon-
ventio et concluslo perantea esset habita et determlnata ; non
solum pro perpetua pace et amicicia inter ipsos Imperatorem a et
Karolum principcm ac Pegcm Anglie invicein ineunda et percu-
tienda, scd etiam pro jugali federe sponsaliorum et matrimonii
inter prefatos illustrissimos priheipea Karolum et Mariam feriendo.
Idcirco, pro plehiore complemento eorum omnium que prius con-
clusa et determinata in dicto oppido fuissent, prenominatus Doini-
nus Imperator suam magnain et laudabilem legationem octo
insignium virorum ad ipsum serenissimum Regeni Ilemicum
ox o
misit.
Quorum primus fuit dominus de Bergis,1' ex majoribus patric
illius dominia unus.
Secundus vcro gubernator Brissie,c vir magni honoris et esti-
mationis.
Firate, where as here tofore a treatie, convencion and conclusion
was had and taken at ye townc of Calays, betwixte the kynges
Ambassadoura on y- one partie. And Thambassadours of the said
Emperoure and yonge Pryncc on the other partie, as well for a
perpetuall peax and amytie betwixt the sayde Emperoure, the
kynges highnes, and the said yonge Prynee Charles, As also for
mariage to be made betwixt the same Prynee an[d the] kynges
said right dcre doughtcr the ladyc Marye : So it is y1 for the
perfects accomplisshement of all suche thynges as were there passed
the sayd Emperour now of late sente his right great and honourable
Ambassade, beynge in nomhre eyght parsonages : — Whereof the
firstc was the lord Bargezb oon of the gretest lordes of those parties.
The secondc was the govcrnour of Bresse,c a baron of great honour.
• Misprinted " Irnpocatore."
• b John lord of Benches, the Emperor's Chamberlain.
c Laurence de Gorrevod, eovernor of I5rcsse.
* TIIE BPOUSELLE8 OF
Tertius, Doctor Splonke," non medlocris apud Cesarcam !Mnjcs-
tatei; .uctoritatis homo.
Quartus, Presidens Flandrie,1' vir admodum prudens et litte-
ratus ac magno in precio habitus.
Quintus, dominuo Andreas de Burgo, Eques, Cesarec -majestatis
consiliarius, singularis sapientie doctrine ct experientic Orator.
SextuSj Casselcnsis propositus,0 vir prestans, littcratus et cir-
cumspectus.
Septimus vero, Secretarius unusd apprime inodestus ac moribus
compo&itus.
Octavus, e Regibus Armorum Anrei Vellcris unus.
Orcnes sane honorifico amictu et splcndido apparatu conspicui,
simul et decora ac decenti familia stipati. In quorum societatem
The thirde doctoure Fploneke," in great favour and auctorite
■with Themperoure. The fourth Avas the president of Flaun-
dres,b havyng grcatc wysdome, lcrnyng and auctorite. The fvfthe
Meayi Andrea dc Burgo, a knyght of Themperours Counsayll,
of great wysedome, lernynge, and experience, The sixth the
provost of Cassell,c a goodly personage, right discrete, sadde and
vrell lcrned. The seventh a secretary.'1 And yc eyght a kyng at
armys called Toysan dore. All bcyng honourably appoynted and well
* Splonke. Fploneke. The name, which was really Pflug, is misprinted both in
the English and in the Latin. In Uynier it appears in one place (Vol. xiii. 22S)
as Pileng, and in another as Plough £238); while Wolsey, in his despatches to
Henry VII., calls him Dr. Flncke. His Christian name was Sigismnnd, and his
degree was Doctor vtrhifijuc juris or LL.D.
b Jean le Sauvaigc.
c George de Theimscke, of whom Sir Thomas More speaks in Lis Utopia as "a
man not only by learning, but also by nature, of singular eloquence, and in the laws
profoundly learned ; but in reasoning and debating of matter, what by his natural
wi* and what by daily exercise, surely he had lew fellows."
d This was Philip iIanctou,thc Emperor's rirst secretary and audiciitiarius.—Sce
Rymer xiii. 2M0.
THE LADYE MARYE. 5
complurcs magni generosi ac domini vencvunt. Inter quos a
Dominus de Boners,1' Dominus de Walleync ct alii itidem ejus
patrie nobilcs, numero non mediocri ct valde honorifico.
Pro tanta igitur Legatione suscipienda ct a littore maris usque
ad Picgis present iam adducenda plurimi magnates, turn ecclesiastici
turn scculures, Equites, insuper scutiferi, ac alii nobiles innuiucri,
vaiiis locis e regie- mandate- sunt constituti ac deputati.
Ut primum itaque oratorcs ipsi Calisiam applicuere, confestim a
regio inibi deputato'1 atque ab ofiiciariis ct armigeris ejus oppidi
bumaniter atque honorificc sunt exeepti hospitatique, ct benigne ac
libcraliter tractati : simul ct omni co tempore quo ibidem moram
traxere pluribus muncribus donati.
Inde vcro prefatus regius deputatus, vir nobilis ac strcnuus,
decenter apparatus ct arsociatus, una cum ipsis oratoribus ct eorum
sequacibus, simul ct tota illorum familia ac caterva comitante ab
accompanyed. In whose company there came dyverse ^reat lordes,
as monsyr de Beversb and monsire de Walieync and other o-entylmen
of those parties, a good and honourable nombre.
For the me-tyng and comluctynge of whiche Ambassadours at
and from ye see syde to the kynges presence, there were at sundrye
places deputed and assigned many and dyverse great Lordes, bothe
spiritucll and temporall. And also knyghtes, squyers and other
gentyll men to a great nombre.
And firste, after that y° sayd Ambassadours at ye kynges towne
of Calays had ben by the kynges deputied and the hedde oiucers
with all the Retynue there goodly receyved, honourably lodged,
cherefully cntcrtaigncd and presented durynge theyr abode in the
sayd towne ; the kynges sayd depulie, well appoynted and accom-
* Misprinted " quoe."
b_A(lulphc de Bourgogne, Seigneur dc Bcrres (Beverenj.
« John de Berghcs Seigneur de Wnlhain eldest son of John lord of Berghes
ahove mentioned.
J Sir Gilbert Talbot.
THE SPOUSELLES OF
ipso oppido Calisie, quod Caletum veterea dixere, mare fcrajecit atque
ad portum Dobre secundo vcnto applicuit : ubi Prior Eeclesie
Christ! Gantuarie8 et dominus Edwardus Ponynghs, Eques, primum
ipsos oratores exceperunt : eosque ad civitatem usque Cantuariam,
primariam Regni metropolim, honorific^ adduxcrunt : tradito
fills et assignato in eadem Christi ccclesia hospitio. Quo iu loco
Abbas Sancti Augustini,b majorque et priniarii ejus urbis cives,
aldermanui vulgo nuncupati, ipso? oratores salutarunt, pluribusque et
egregiis donis atque humaniseimig ofliciis sunt cos prosecuti.
Deiiide a dictis Priore et deputato Calisie ac domino Edwardo
Ponynghs aliisque multifariani nobilibus eomitati, ad oppidum
Sittyngborne vocatum, atque abindc ad aliuu oppidum, Darford
nuncupatum, adventarunt ; ubi comes Salopic,c Regie domus mag-
nus Senescallus, necnon et Episcopus Wyngorniensisd ac prior
sancti Jobannis,e simul et dominus Thomas Brandon, Ordinis Gar-
terii Eques, ac Dominus Doctor West,f Regius comiliarius, egregie
panyed, passed with them from tbense to Dovoure, where the
pryourc of Cristes Churche8 at Caunterbury and Sir Edwarde
Ponyn«res receyved the sayd Ambassadours, and conductynge theym
to thcCy'tie of Caunterbury, lodged theym in the pryoure of Cristes
OLurchc lodgyng, where thahbot of say net Augustines,'' the flayer
and Aldremcn of that Cytie welcomed theym and give great pre-
sentes and pleasures unto theym.
From thensc they were conveyed by the sayde Pryoure, the
deputie of Calays and Sir Edwarde Ponynges well aoeompanyed
with dyucr [From this point name pages in the English text are
missing. ~\
■ Thomas Gohlstone. b John Dygon.
f Georire Talbot, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury.
c John de Giglia Bishop of Worcester, Pupal agent in England.
r Sir Thomas Docwra, prior of the Knights of St. John at ClerkenwelL
f Dr. Nicholas W'c-t, afterwards Bishop of Ely.
THE LADYE MABTE. 7
apparati, plurimis Equitibus, scutiferlg et nobilibua sumptuoso
habitu et equitatu associati ipsis oratoribus facti sunt obvii ; eosque
ad civitatem usque Londonianim perduxere, eisdem continue
assistentes.
Porro Alnjora et Ablcrmanni ejus urbis simul et ordines artificum
raox in unum recta linea congregati sunt ad eos oratores exci-
piendos, et ut eorum adventui gratificarentur ; sicque per urbem
leniter adequitantes, ad preparata illis diversoria, ditissimis auleis
tapetibusque et aliia ornamentis decora, ac nccessariis quibusqne et
oportunis rebus provisa, tandem sunt adducti. Erat equidem dies
quinta Deeembris currente anno a Natale Christiano ]\Iil]eno
Quingenteno octavo, et serenissimi Regis Henrici Septimi
vicesiino quarto.
Poslera vero die illucescente "Revercndissimus Arcbiepiscopus
Cantuariensis,b Anglic Cancellarius, ac illustris comes Oxonie,
Magnus Camerarius et Admirallus Anglic, ipsos oratores (Rege
mandante) visitarunt salutaruntque, eorum aduentui gratulantes.
Inde Consul urbis quern majorem vocant, simul et })lebis tribuni
quos vulgus Scliirifos t appellat, et ipsi dictos Oratores visitarunt,
egregia munera illis offerentes. Prcterea mercatores Stapule et
alii quaniplmimi cives proxima post illam die adveniente itidem
feccrunt. Cum itaque oratores ipsi biduo in primaria ipsa regni
Urbe commorati essenl, sese a longi itineris turn terrestris turn
maritimi tedio atque incommodis susceptis reficientes, Regia majes-
tas Palatio suo Grenwici existens ecclesiasticis ac secularibuS sui
regni dominis, proceribus, equitibus, scutiferis, et nobilibus ad
Eegale suum obsequium convocatis ac dispositis ditissime apparatis,
cum aurcis, videlicet, sericeisque omnifarium vestimentis, torqui-
bus item aureis innumeris, ipsos Oratores a dicto domino Senescallo
\_Uere the English text is lost.-]
■ The mayor this year was Sir Stephen Jennings, merchant taylor.
b William Warluun, Archbishop of Canterbury.
c The sheriffs this year were Thomas Exinewc and Richard Smith.
8 THE SrOUSELLES OF
atquc aliis primoribus regni dominis acciri. associarique, ct in sue
majestatis conspectum adduci jussit, per Humeri Thamesim cum
magna quadam ae decora sumptuosaque regia cymba tunc nuper
fabrLata, atquc pro illis advehendis constitute et apparata. Quod
si enarrem fastigiosum ilium ac ditissimum tanti regis et sue regie
domus apparatum, sinnil et honorificentissimum ordincm ad ipsos
Oratores denuo susc'ipiendos constitutum, difficile namque mibi
esset admodum et nimis prolixum. Nichilo tamen minus, quanto
brevius et magis compendiose potero aliquam ejus rei partem hie
informs perstvingam.
Primo namque Oratores ipsi, tit primum in regiam introisscnt,
per inferioris aule medium non invenustis aulcis apparate ducti
sunt, Ecgiis magistratibus et ministris seriatim dextra levaque con-
stitutis ; illincque primum in amenissimam porticum, quam galeviam
vulgo numcupamus, non multo antea ab ipso re^e erectam. Mox
in magnum cubiculum rcirium sunt introducti : ubi milites Penrie
Custodie* quam plurimi aiiuere sumtuoso acdecenti apparatu amicti,
breviori, videlicet quisque chlamide auro et argento intexta, aureo-
que panno, veluto et sericeis cujusvis coloris adornata. Post hec
in aliud anterius cubiculum p netrarunt, quo Capitaneus re<Tie
Cnstodie plurimis equitibus scutiferis ac nobilibus secum astantibus
aderat atquc una cum ii> puerorum Regii status ma»ister, necnon et
ipsi pueri, quos nostri pagios, Galli vero Infantes honoris vocant,
cerulei veluti chlamidulis induti, rubeis magnis rosis ac liliis den-
sissimo auro intextis. Ilic Oratores aliquantulam moram fecere,
i'rigus quod c flumine Tliamesi contraxerant igneo secus caminos
colore pellentes.
Cum itaque rex inierea temporis in suo cenaculo sub sui status
aurco tentorio mancrct, Serenissimi Regis Aragonum Oratorem b
[lle>c the English text is lost.]
■ The Knights of the Royal Body, called frequently milites pre carport llrrjis.
*> Rodxigo de Prtcbla, LL.D.
THE LADYE MAE YE. 9
penes sc a dcxtro latere liabens, pauloque inferius abeodem latere
non parvuin dominorum spiritualium, archicpiseoporum et episco-
porum numerum, atque a leva manu Illustrissimum Wallie princi-
pcm,a Cornubie ducein, ac Cestrie comitem, filium suum cbarissi-
mum, una cum dominis secularibus, Ducibus et Comitibus, aliquanto
inferius ab eodem latere stantibus; insuper cenaculurn ipsurn quan-
tumvis latum. et dimensum ingenti procerum, Dominorum, Equitum
et Consiliariorum regiorum numero rcpletum esset; jussit Oratores
predictos in suum conspectuni adduci. Quibus adductis, post
humilem ac debitam eorum obedientiam prestitam atque in redden-
dis Cesaree Majestatis litteris singularem eommendationem factam.
Rex nobilissimus atque omnium regum pisstantissimus divinam
potius quam humanam pre se ferens maj estate m ac veram regie
dignitatis excellentiam, humanissimis gratiosissimisque illos suscepit
verbis, dicens cos bene et feliciter ad sese et suum regnum adven-
tasse. Quo facto Oratores ad scdilia illis assignata paulum retro-
ccssere.
Here occurs a ivhole page illustration, representing the
King on his throne, and the President of Flanders, whose
back is turned to the spectator, di recti g opposite to him, in
the act of addressing him, the lords on either side being
seated.
• Henry Prince of Wales, afterwards Henry VIII.
10 THE SPOUSELESS OF
Rege sub suo aureo tcntorio sedente, Oratoreque regis Arago-
mim ac spiritualibus dorninis a dcxtro comuj ut dictum est, in
declivi loco, atque Illustrissimo principe genito regio prcdicto
aliisque secularibus dorninis eque ac pari modo a sinistra manu,
item et Oratoribus predictre ex Regis adverso consedentibus, turn
presidens Flandrie Latinam concionem propalam habuit, adventus
suoruni eollegarum ct suiipsius causa in, vimque legationis ostendens;
Cujus quidem tenor ac sensus hie fu.it: quod scilicet pro extrema
manu imponenda iis omnibus que jampridem in oppitlo Calisie super
amicicia ct matrimonio predictis transacta ct conciusa fuissent, ad
serenissinuun Anglic Regem Venissent a Cesarea majestate destinati.
Cui quidem eoncioni Reverendissimus Dominus Arehiepiscopus
Cantuariensis,8 Anglie Cancellarius, liege mandante, dignum atque
honorificum dedit responsum.
Cum itaque hec sic acta cssent Screnissimus Bex Oratores ad se
And thus, the kinges highncs beyng under his clothe of estate,
the Ambassadoure of Aragon and the iord.es spirituell syttyno'e on
his right hande downewarde, and my lorde the Prynce with other
Lordes temporall syttynge in like wyse on the leftc hande. and the
sayd Ambassadours syttynge also dircctely before his grace, the
president of Flaundres purposed a proposicion contaignynge the
cause of their eommynge; which was for the parfect accomplissemcnt
of all thynges passed and concluded fur the saydc amiticand Mariage
at the towne of Calays.
To which proposition Tharchebysshop of Caunterburv chaunceller
of Englonde by the kynges commaundeincnt made a good and
honourable ana we re.
This doon the kynges grace called the Ambassadours unto hym,
■ William W'arham.
THE LADYE MAEYE. 11
accivit et illos est allocutuscum taut a verborum majcstate, gravitate
et facundia, at Orator insignia atque cxccllens a cunctis audien-
tibus judicatus sit ct immcnsam sui admirationem atque incredibilc
gaudium omnibus qui aderant reliquerit.
Qui cum finem dicendi fecisset, urbano supra modum vultu ac
regio gestu Oratores ipsos in penetralius suum et magis sccretum
cubiculum secuin adduxit : Ubi de magnis ac secretis non parvi
ponderis rebus, diu invicem sunt collocuti.
Que cum acta essent Oratores, prima ilia babita audientia, Serenis-
simo Regi pro eo die vale facientes, Londonias sunt rcversi a
dominis supra recitatis honorifice reducti.
Sequent! vero luce Reverendissimi Domini, Archiepiscopus Can-
tuariensis* et Episcopus Wyntoniensis,b Comes HarundeUie,c com-
pluresquc alii magni domini et consiliarii regii, liege jubente,
eosdem Oratores visitarunt, ut commissionem auctoritatemque
quam a suis principibus haberent, simul et scripta que secum attu-
lissent pro pcrfcctione singulorum tractatuum et conclusionum
and famylierly entred communycacion with tbera upon many and
goodly devyses, bryngynge tlieym into his Inner chambre, where
after the}' had longe contynued and talked of and upon many great
and weyghty matieis they departed for that tyme to London accom-
panyed with the lordes and others before wryttcn.
The daye folowynge Tharchebysshoppe of Cauntcrbury, the
Bysshop of Wynchcstre, Therll of Arundell, with dyverseand many
great lordes and other of the kynges counsayll by the kynges coni-
maun dement reasorted to y° sayd Ambassadours to se and examyne
suche commyssions and wrytynges as they had brought with them for
thaccouiplisshement of all and synguler suche treaties and conclusious
a William Warham. b Kichard Fox.
c Thomas Fitz-Alan, 10ih Earl of Aruu<]el.
12 TI1E SPOTJSELLES OF
perantea in oppido Calisie habitorum diligenter viderent ct
examinarcnt.
Que sane omnia scripta postquain visa et lecta essent, graviterque
et mature, ut in tanta re conveniebat, examinata, adeo per feet a plena
et Integra atque effectualiter confecta reperta sunt pro dietorum
amicitie et matrimonii corroboratione, ut perfectiora pleniorave aut
mtegriora vel mngis efficacia esse nullo modo possent.
Quoniam in lis primum eontineretur Acceptatio et confirmatio
Cesaree majestatis suo nomine pro dicta amicicia tantopere lata et
ampla quantopere excogitari queat; sua sub manuali signatura et
ma<;no sl^illo.
Deinde Confirmatio ejusdem Cesaree majestatis tanquam tutoris
proteetorisque et defensoris illustrissimi Karoli principis Castelle
prenominati, insimul vigorose junpta et per ipsos lmperatorem ac
principem facta sub eoruradem manualibus signaturis et si^'illis.
Peramplius inter ea scripta certc obligationcs et pene ipsorum
Impcratoris et principis eonjunctim ac divisim separatimque in
as were taken at the sayde towne of Calays ; whiehe wrvtynges by
good deliberation well and substantially seen, the same were founde
as perfyte and effectuell as coudebc devysed to be. So that for the
corroboracion of yc sayd amy tie and manage there can not by marines
reason more be desyred to be had.
For there is first Thempcrours acceptacion and confirmacion by
hymselfe of ye said amytic, which is as large as can be thought,
under his signe and scale.
There is also a confirmacion tor the sayd Emperoure as tutor and
manborne of the said yonge Prynce joynctely togydre, substancially
made by the sayde Emperoure and prynce with their signe manu-
ellis and scales.
There be also obligations and baudes of the sayd Emperoure and
THE LAPYE MAETE. 13
solidum fucrant apposite, sese ac suos heredeSj terras et subditos in
magna pecuniarum summa obligantium, quam quidem sum mam et
pecuniariam penam pint fofisfacturi casu quo istud matrimonium
inter Illustrissimum principem Karolum predictum et serenissimi
Regis filiam predictam suum non sortiatur effectum.
Ad hec eidem Blustrissime principi regie filie in patria pjusdcm
Illustrissimi domini princip'is honorifica dos est assignata, in terris
videlicet et prediis ac dominiia quorum ipse princeps ad presens est
pacificus possessor, atque etiam in aliis terris fundis et dominiis
que illi imposterum accrescere vel quovismodo obvenire poterunt,
longe largior et amplior quam aliqua Burgundie ducissa antca
unquam fuerit assecuta.
Pro qua nempe dote sufficiens et idonea cautio ac fidojussio est
prestita ; atque ex super habundanti terre et subditi ejusdem illus-
trissimi I'rincipis Karoii de auctoritate et consensu sacratissimi Im-
peratoris in consimiles penas obligantur.
yonge pryrice, aswell joynctcly as a parte and severally, byndyno-
themself, thcyr beyres, landcs and subgiettes, under right great
sommes of money for penalties whiche tbey shall for fay te in caas this
mar i age betwixt ye yonge prynee and the kynges doughter take not
effect.
There is also an honourable dower assigned to the kynges sayd
doughter in the sayd yonge Prynceslandes that he is nowe possessed
of and that shall in any maner wyse discende unto hym herafter,
largelycr thenne ever had any duchesse of Borgoyne, and good
assurauhce made for the same.
The landes countrayes and subgettes of the sayd yon^e Prynee
by the Emperours auctoritc and assent be also bounden in lyke
penalties.
14 TIIE SPOUSELLES OF
Qua in re illustrissima quoque domina Margarets ducissa Sabau-
die relicta, pro sua parte, eodem modo sub magnia penis est
obligata.
Postremo, magnus dominorum vulgariumque populorum sub
obedientia dicti principle Karoli existentium numerus pari modo in
similes penas sub eorum manualibus subscrlptionibus et sioillis obli-
gatur.
Consimilique et pari modo pro dictarum rerum omnium comple-
ment ex parte dicti domini Regis atque etiam pro pcrfectione
matrimonii et dotis solutione a sua maj estate dicte sue filie assimilate
et coneesse pro suo connubio, que larga admodum et honorifica est,
obligationcs et seciiritatcs prestite sunt in cadem forma et tenore ac
consimilibus penis.
Quare ex premissis constat banc confederationem et affinitatem
tanta cum maturitate, circumspectione et consilio stabilitam ac firma-
tam esse, et utrinque indissolubili nodo conncxam, ut, nisi morte
alterius horum duorum principum (quod Deus avertat) contino-ente
The duehesse of Sauoye is also bounde in lyke wyse undre a
greate penaltie for hyr parte.
And over that a great nombre of the lordes and townes under
tbobeissaunce of the sayd yonge Prince be semblably bounden in
lyke penalties under theyr signcs and scales.
And for thaccomplisshemcnt of all the sayde matiers on the
kynges partie, as well for the perfeccion of the Manage as the pay-
ment of the dote to be yeven by his grace with his sayd dou^hter
for hir mariage, whiehe is right large and honourable, lyke bandes
and suerties be made under semblable penalties.
By the premysses it is manyfestc and opennc that this aliaunce and
alVinite is by so great aforo sight and deliberacion suerly establisshed
and knytte on both parties that it can not be dissolved or broken
oonles it be by dctbe of any ol the bothe parties contrahent. Whiehe
THE LA DYE MAP. YE. 15
neque dissolvi ncque infringi quovismodo possit aut valeat. Quod
si mors etiam superveniret, nihilorninus amicitia et confcdcratio in
sua plena vinutc et robore permaneret.
Certissimum est autem absque ulla prorsus hesitatione quod nus-
quam antea aliqua amicitia confederatiove inter aliquos alios prin-
cipes inita est et conelusa, meliore animo et magis. sinceva mente,
absque ullo fraudis seu doli vel simultatis astu interveniente, quam
hec ipsa una, que inter sacratissimum Romanorum Imperatorcm et
serenissimum Anglic ac Francie Regem ad presens est inita et
conelusa. Que haud dubie hoc tempore est nobilior confederatio,
simul et grandius matrimonium quod in tota re publica Christiana
existat : attentis presertim consideratisque tot regnis, patriis et re-
gionibus quas dictns lllustrissimus princeps Karolus vero et justo
titulo sibi debitas, vita coinite, faventcque Altissimo, est recepturus
hereditarias. Qua ex re qualis quantusve honos potestas et forti-
tude dictis Imperatori, Regi et Prineipi atque eorum patriis, dominiis
et subjectis obvenict, babentibus ex hujusmodi confederatione Ger-
God defende. Howe be it thamitie neuertbeles sbal stande in full
strength and vigour.
And it is of trouth and undoubted that there was never amy tie or
aliaunce hertofore made aud concluded betwixt any Prynces with
better wyll and mynde, without coloure or dissymulacion, then this
that nowe is taken betwixt the sayde Emperour and the kvnges
hyghncs, whiche at tin's daye is the most noble aliaunce and gretest
Manage of all Christendome., consideryng the sundry and manyfolde
Regions and Countrayes that the saydc yonge Prynce by right nyghe
possibilite, if God sende hym lyf, shal enherite. And what honour,
strengthe and coramoditie shal ensue unto the saydc Emperour the
kynges iiighncs and the yonge Prynce, thcyr landes, countrayes and
subgcttes havynge by this aliaunce Almavne, Englonde, Castile,
•16 THE SPOUSELLES OF
maniam, Angliam, Castellam, Legionem, Granatam ac omnes in-
feriorcs Flandrie partes sibi adjunctas ct innodatas, non facile judi-
cal! potest, ob multos egregios ac notabiles efTectus exinde secuturos,
tnm ad honorem, commodum et securitatem utriusque partis quam
etiam confedcratoruui et alligatorum suorum, necnon et eorundem
regnorura, patriarum ac subditorum.
Hoc igitur pacto serenissimus Rex Anglic Ilenricus Septimus, pro
sua celesti et incomparabili sapientia ac procidentia, binas sins filias
duobus maximis prineipibus sibi vicinis ac propinquis matrimonio
locavit ; Regi videlicet Scocie Illustrissimo alteram natu gran-
diorem," et clarissimo principi Castelle Archiduci Austrie aliam.
Quo fit ut hoc Anglic regnum cum eisdem principibus et eorum
regnis dominiis ac patriis lute ac secure magnoque cum lionore ac
dignitate et auctoritatc versetur.
Postea A_ero quam ea scripta perfecte ac legittime confecta reperta
sunt at que bine inde vicissim tr.-idita et accepta, illico Rex ad
castellum suum dc Richmonte* pro sponsalibus et matrimonio
inter prefatos illustrissimos Castelle principes Karolum et Mariam
contrnhendis et celebrandis inovit ; ad quern locum dicti Oratores
Lyons, Granate, and all these lowc Countrayes knytte and joynetl
tcgydres, it can not lightly be estemed ; for many great ar.d notable
eflectes maye and shall undoubtedly ensue thereby, aswel to the
honour, weale and suertic of both parties, theyr confederates and
lilies, as also to their Realties, countrayes and subgettes.
[Her« occurs another gap in the English text.]
0
* Margaret married to James IV. of Scotland.
b The old palace at Sheen, as the place was tlien called, was burned down on the
21st December, 1497. It bad since been rebuilt in most snmptnons fashion, and
called by Henry Richmond iron, the title which he bore before he was King. The
locality, it is needless to say, is known by that name still.
TIIE LADYE MARYB. 17
pluribus et mngnis dominie ac nobilibus comitati fuerunt adducti
(fuitautcm sextadecima dies mensis Decembris supra nominati). Ubi
non solum fucrant omnes hospitati in separatis semotisque et dis-
junctis cubiculis, diti.-simis auleis tapetisque et lectis supra quam
credi possit apparatis, sed etiam quinque aut sex dierum spacio
continuato honorificentissime tractati et applausi regio sumptu fuere.
Quod si ipsius regie domus de Ricbemonte decorem et ornatum
atquc tarn Sacelli illius et magne aule quam cubiculorum preciosis-
simum apparatum litteris maudare velim, longum sane et mirum
admodum ac perdifficile opus esset. Potissimum in recitanda poin-
posa et supc-rba illorum structura ac eorum apparatu splendidissimo,
simul et loci atquc aeris amenitate ac salubritate, una cum artificio-
sissimis ac ditissiuiis auleis tapetisque quibus eo tempore domus
ipsa fulgebat et tota erat corusca. Quibus rebus facile judicari
potuit talem tamque magnificam domum toto terrarum orbe com-
periri non posse ; quandoquidem terrestrem magis paradisum quam
domum aliquam sive palatium representabat.
Aula siquidem ditissimis auleis auro argentoque et serico contextis
undique nitebat. Qua fuit magnus et excelsus abacus vasis argenteis
inauratis onustus, ferine a terra usque ad altissima laquearia erectus,
miri quidem et rion facile estimabilis valoris aut precii ; ubi diversi
panni status au'rei preciosi valde in altum erecti tendebantur.
Sacellum vero quo res divina celebratur pannis aureis ditissimis
opertos parietes habuit. Altare autem Regium totmagnis sanctorum
imaginibus, partial auro partial argento inaurato fabricatis, quibus
preciosorum lapiduin et margaritarum immensus numerus erat infixus
opertuai fuit ut non potucrint plures superiaiponi. Insuper omnia
tarn magaa quam parva cubicula, non solum quibus Rex utitur, sed
quibus defuncta Kegina,* dum in huaianis agerct, usa est, et tunc
iliustrissiaia princepa regia filia utebatur, exquisitissimis preciosis-
\_IIcre the English text is lost.']
• Elizabeth of York, Queen of Henry VII., died on the 11th February, 1503.
D
18 THE SPOUSELLES OF
simisque auleis auro et serico intextis fucrunt apparata cum pannia
statuum aureis accomodatissimis.
Ad hec duo ampla cubicula in proprio liegis diversorio fuere pre-
ciosis mirum in modum et supra omnem fidem pannis aureis parietcs
opertos habentia cum ditiovibus et magis preciosis lectis quam usquam
visi fuevunt auvo margaritis et carioribus gemmis consutis. Sed ne
longior fiam quam meuin fuerat institutum, hoc pulcherrimum
palatium absque aliquo alio pari palatio apparatum relinquo. Hoc
unum tautum adjiciena : quod neque Cresi Lidorum regis gaza,
neque Hide Phrygutn opes, aut Tagi Pactolive sen Padi a.uree arene
hujustanti Regis opibus conf'erri queant. Scdjam redeo ad egregiam
excellentium sponsaliorum et matrimonii solermitatem, que habita
est die dominica proxima, qui sextus decimus a ejusdem mensis
antedicti fuit dies. Quo die, post sol is or turn, ubi Oratores precioso
amictu induti magnum Illustrissime principis domine Marie Re^ie
filie cubiculum, preciosissime, ut antca dictum est, ornaturn, et innu-
meris dominis ac magni honoris matronis decentissime ornatis reple-
tum, ingressi sunt: Turn Pex a suo cubiculo secus ipsam iliustris-
simam dominam posito movcns, illuc cum suis primoribus dominis
et Consiliariis ac aliis magnatibus concessit, ipsosque Oratores
placidis et benignis verbis ad pauculuin temporis detinuit, donee
illustrissima princeps ejus (ilia, ab Illustrissima Principe TVailie,
Eegis Aragonum et Rcgine Hellisabet6 nuper Castelle genita, aliis-
que nobilissimis et dignissimis matronis associata ad predictum cubi-
culum pervenisset.
Pro declaranda autem et litteris mandanda eximia tantc principis
forma modestia et gravitate quam pre se tulit ac aliis laudabilibus
[Here the English text is lost."]
* This is an error, for the 16th December was Saturday in JoOS. Of course the
reading should have been decimus scptim.ua. The ICtfa of the mouth has been
already mentioned in the narrative (p. 17).
b Isabella the Catholic.
THE LADYE MARYE. ] 9
gestibus et moclis tante principi pertinentibus eo tempore in ilia
compertis ac deprehensis, hand dubia non essct in. mea potestate
ullo sermonc vel pagitia comprelicndere. Illud tamen non preter-
mittam quod ad formam venustatemque alterius cujusvis principis
sen regine ca in etate tain tenera constitute (agebat namque circiter
undecimum etatis annum) vel nulla vel rarissima admodum fieri
posset comparatio. Sua namque regia liumanitas et nobilis ac vere
paterna quantum tenera etas patiebatur gravitas omnibus advenien-
tibus cxhibita ; habitus insuper ac gestus et bonorum morum com-
positio tanta fuit ut libcre ailirmare possim tantas tamquc ogregias
ac certe Regias virtutes apud aliquam aliam etiam provectiorem quara-
cumque principem aut dominam in his tam magnis mysteriis diutius
exercitatam educatamve depreheirdi nusquam posse.
Quicquid enim revercntie aut humilis subjectionis, simul et gravi-
tatis ac continentie, suo sercnissimo patri debebatur ; et quicquid
insuper humanitatis atque afFabilitatis erat Oratoribus prestandum :
id totum tanquam veterana et sapientissima princeps exhibult.
His itaque cerimoniis sic peractis, illustrissima princeps filia Regia
in altiorem locum honorifice pro ilia suscipienda apparatum se
recepit, ubi sola sub aureo tentorio stetit, predicta principe "Wallic
spacio multum inferiore permanente.
Here occurs a full page illustration representing the Prin-
cess under the gilded canopy giving her hand to lord Berghes
on her right hand, the King and Prince Henry standing
by. Catherine of Arragon, Princess of Wales, is on -the
left, and a number of spectators occupy the foreground.
20 THE SPOUSELLES OF
Moxque aliquantula temporis intercapcdine ct silentio b-abitis,
Arcbiepiscopus Cantuariensis,a Angelie Cancellarius, clcgantem ac
iloridam habult orationem, non modo matrimonii dignitatem et
illius commendation.em, sed etiam sanguinis et prosapie utriusque
partis quas inter id matrimonium esset eelcbrandum, necnon et
utrarumque progenitorum exccllentiam tangentem; inultiplices de-
nique bonos effectus qui exinde sequi possent, tarn pro utraque
parte et earum regnis patriis et subjectis quam etiam pro universe
rei publico Cbristiane conservatione commodo et accrement:).
Qua oratione finita presidens Fiandrie, unus oratorum, partem
ejus orationis babite reassumens, novum atque elegantem liabuit
orationem, laudes amieicic matrimoniique ac ubercs multifariam
fructus ex iis manantes : simul et immensa atque incredibilia bona
ex hujusmodi nova confederationc et ailinitate secutura com-
memorans.
Quibus sic actis, quoniam dominus de Bergis solus auct.oritate
fultus erat ad id matrimonium cum dicta illustrissima principe
nomine prefati illustrissimi principis Karoli contrabendum, intcrro-
gatus est si quam sccretiorem faCultatem aut magis speeialem ultra
generalia cum suis collegis mandata haberet. Qui quidem dominus
commissarius et procurator, suiRcienti ct plena auctoritate in hac
parte siiffuhus suam comrriissionem ct privatam procurationem
palam exbibuit atque ostendit; que distincte et aperte lecta est; per
quam sufriciens et ample* potestas atque auctoritas ad contruhendum
dictum matrimonium validiori et magis eflicaci quo fieri posset
modo per Imperatorem ac principem predictos conjunctim ac divi-
sim f'uerat illi tradita.
Qua re cognita ac pcrspecta causavit rex ipsuin dominum de
Bergis una cum aliis oratoribus ad catbedram status qua illustrissima
princeps manebat appropinquare pro dictorum sponsaiiorum et
matrimonii eclcbratione ac perfectione fienda : ubir dominus ipse de
[Here the English text is lost."]
■ William "Warliam.
THE LADYE MARYE. 21
Bcrgis, post debitas reverentias, humiliori quo fieri protuit ac
debuit modo ct forma exhibitas, ostensamque maximam afFectionern
et commendationem illustrissimi principis Castelle erga illam,
accipiens ipsam illustrissimam dominam per man us, reeitansque
auetoritntem sibi ad contrahendum cutn ilia matrimonium nomine
dicti illustrissimi principis Karoli concessam, legit juxta informa-
tionem predicti president.is verba perfectum et lcgittimum inatri-
monium per verba de prescnti contrahentia. Que quidera verba
perantea in scriptis posita i'uerant atque effectualiter previsa et pre-
meditata, tuiu-que per cundem Dominum de Beigis prolata et
ostensa, prout presidens ipse ea sibi de verbo ad verbum legit.
Post bee vero utraque manus dextra, tain Jllustiissime principis
doniine Marie filie regie quam ipsius domini de Bergis, invicem
juncta est et inde disjuncta, veluti in tali contractu moris est et
fieri consuevit. lllustrissima siquidem princeps tenens dictum
dominum de Bergis per dextcram manum maxima cum prudentia
et regali continentia absque ulla prorsus sibi matrimonialia verba
And after due reverence in moost humble maner shewed and
doon by the sayde Lord Bar[ges] with moost effectuous recommenda-
cio[nm]ade on the behalf of the Pry nee of Castile, he then, takynge
my sayd lady by the hande, and eftsoncs declaryng thauctorite
yeven unto hym to contracte matrimony with hir for and in the
name of the sayde ydnge Prynce, rehersed and uttred at the infor-
macion of the sayd presydent the wordes of parfect matryhionye
per verba de present! whiehe were before substantially devysed,
put in writyng and by the sayd lorde Barges then spoken and uttred,
lyke as the said president redde theym unto hym.
And that doon, the handes withdrawen and dysulosed as the
manor is, the Kynges sayde doughter, eftsoncs takyng the sayd loid
Barges by the hande, with moost sadde and pryncely countenaunce,
havyngc noo maner of persone toreherse the wordes of inatrymonye
22 TnE SPOUSE LLES OF
recitantc; perfecte pro sua parte ac distincte ipsa verba lingua
Gallica longo intervallo protulit.
Que quiJem verba rationc commissionis dicto domino de Bcrgis
facte fuerant admodum prolixa: nihilo tamen minus ab ipsa
Dornina absque ulla prorsus animi perturbatione morave aut inter-
ruptionc sunt prolata.
Que res sane eomplures diversosque nobiles et alios astantes
atque audientes non solum mirari et obstupesccre sed etiam pre
nimio gaudio et cordis dulcedine in laciirimas ferine coetjit
irrumpere.
Postca vera quam ea verba pronunciata sunt, prefatus dominus
de Bergis, illustrissimi principis Karoli prcdicti procurator, pro
corroboratione ac confirmationc dicti contractus, non modo scriptia
omnibus superinde confectis verba matrimonii continentibus per
ipsum tunc osfcensis se subseripsit, prout ipsa quoque illustrissima
domiria Maria pro sua parte fecit, Sed etiam omni cum revcrentia
dictam dominam est exosculatus, atque uni illius digito aurcum
to hir utterd, spake parGttely and distinctely in the frensche tonce
by a longe circunstaunce the wordes of matrimonye for hir partie,
v/hichc by reason of the rehersall of Ins commission were vcraye
longe. Howe be it she spike the same without any basshin" of
countenaunce, stoppe or interrupoion therin in any behalf; whichc
thyng caused dyvcrsc and many, as wel nobles as other, then
beynge present and hcrynge the same, not oonly to mervayle but
also in suche wyse to rejoyse that for extreme cont[en]tc and
gladnes the tcrvs passed out of thevr ies.
After the prolaciOh and utterance of whiche wordes yc snyd lord
Barges, as ]>rocuratour to the sayd yonge Pryncc, for corroboracion
and confirmacion of the s.iyde contract, not oonly subscribed the
wrytyng conteignynge the wordes of matrymonyc by hym then
uttred, lyke as my forsayed ladye dydc also for her partie, but also
THE LADYE MAEYE. 23
annulum imposuit : proque dicti contractus sic celebrati testimonies
tabellionea duo interfuere ab utraque parte rcquisiti, at dc ea
re publica conficerent instrumenta : Omnesque doraini ac domine et
nobilcs premissa intuentes et audientes tunc ibidem instanter
sunt requisiti, quatenus de iis que in eorum prcsentia essent acta
testes essent et apud omnes omni tempore verum perhibcrent testi-
monium. Mpx tube ad classicum clangentes et innumcra cuj us-
que generis musica instrumenta increpuerunt, suosque ad longum
temporis spacium sonitus dederunt, tante rei geste tantique triumphi
gaudium ct exultationem indicantes. Statimque Rex serenissimus
Dominum de Bergis, Commissarium prcdictum, Cesaree legationis
caput, per dextrum cub i turn apprehendens. ceteris oratoribus magno
atque honorifico dominorum cetu associates preeuntibus, ad suum
sacellum perrexit, altam et solemncm missam auditurus que eo
die ab episcopo Londoniarum a inibi csset celebranda.
tbe sayd lorde in reverent maner kyssed the sayd ladye Glaive
and put a Evng of golde on hir fynger, and in wyttenesse and
testymonye of the sayd contract there were two notaries there
beynge present, requyred on bothe parties to make instrumentes upon
the same. And'all thelordesladyes and nobles heryng and seyngthe
prcmysses then and there were desyred to here wyttenesse therunto.
This doon the Trumpettes and other Instrumentes to a great
nombre blewe and played by a good space upon theyr Instrumentes
in rejoysynge this noble Acte and triumphe.
Then immediatly the Kynges grace taking the Lorde Bargis,
beynge pryneypall of Thambassadours by the arme, all the other
Ambasradours accompanyed with many great Lordes and nobles
goynge before his grace, passed and resorted unto his closet.to here
the hyghe and solempne Masse that daye sayd by the Bysshop of
London a in his Chapell.
a Eicbard Fitz j aruei.
24 THE SPOUSE LLES OF
Cumque in suum tentorium ex purissimo panno aurco confectum
se recepisset, tibi rem divinam audire assolet, Oratorcs in proximum
contiguumque majus saeellum sunt adducti, in quo pro illis suscipi-
endis locus status locupletissime fuerat apparatus.
Ut vero majori misse finis est datus et psalmus Te Deum lent-
damns cum cantus jubilatione et veneratione decantatus, Oratorcs
in aliud saeellum quo Regem reliquerant reducti sunt; Ubi rex
inodo ac forma supradictis prefatuin dominum de Bcrgis sccum
assumens, aliis ut dictum est Oratoribus anteeuntibus, ad suum unde
fuerat egressus cubiculum retroversus est, immensa Dominorum
Equitum Scutiferoru.no que et aliorum n obi Hum ditissime apparatorum
precedente sequenteve caterva.
Quo die Rex voluit cundem dominum de Bergis, necnon et
gubernatorem Brissie secum epulari. Reliqui autem oratorcs ad
aliud proximum contiguumque cenaculum diverterant; ubi hono-
And when the Kinges grace was entred into bis travcrs, which
was of pure and fyne cloth of golde, the sayd Ambassadours were
brought in to the Chapell, where was a place richely appointed and
ordeigned for theym.
And after the byghe Masse was doon, and Te Deum laudamus
with great rejoysyng songe, the sayd Ambassadours were eftsones
broughte into the kynges closet. Where the kynges highnes in
fourmc and marier as before is sayd tokc yc sayd Lorde Barges by
the armc. And all the other Ambassadours, goyngc before his
grace, went and entred into his Chambre, accempanyed with a ri«*ht
great nombre of Lordes, Knightes, squyrcs, and other nobles richely
appointed. ' '
That daye the kynges highncs caused the lorde Barges and the
Govemourc of Bresse to dyne with hym at his owne table, thother
Ambassadours departyng to another chambre next adjoynyngc, where
THE LADYE MAE YE. 25
rificum pro illis prandium fuerat provisum. Quibuscum divcrsi
turn spirituals turn ternporales regni Anglic domini commessati
sunt. Missa faciam in presentiarum adhibitam scrvicia, solemni-
tates ordinesque, lautas insuper atque exquisitas dapes: simul et
varia ac preciosa vinorum genera, neenon et auream argenteamque
inauratam supellcctilem, qua regie majestati atque oratoribus eo
die est ministratum. Certissimum est autem nullum craterem
calieemve aut ciatiim vel urccum sive salinum vol gutturnium,
nullamque aliam supellcctilem iis mensis fuisse appositam que non
veia ex perfectissimo auro denso ac lato margaritis preeiosisque
gemniis ornato, aut saltern ex argento tarn dense inaurato esset
f'abricata ut integrum purumque aurum appareret.
Finite- autem tarn regali et sumptuoso prandio atque amotis
mensis, ailuerunt illico diversi domini ac strenui Equites armati
ad torniamenta seu hastiludia in decus et ornamentum ac laudem
ejus solemnitaris facienda parati. Cum quibus Eex una secum
provysion was made for tlicm in moost honourable maner, and there
dyned, accompanyed with dyverse of the grettest Lordes sperituall
and temporall of the Ilea me.
I shall not reherse what solempnitie and ordre in servyce, what
delicate and sumptuous metes, wdiat dyversytie of pleasaunt wynes,
what plate of gold and silver gilted, the kynges grace had and was
served with that daye. But this is certaync that there was no sake,
cuppe or layer that that daye was set on the horde but it was
of fyne glod,b great and large, preciously garnysshed with perles
and stones, ne yet noo dische or sawcer but it was gilte and as
bryght as golde.
The dyner fynisshed, there were dyvers grete Lordes^and valiaunt
knyghtes armed and preprayredb to Justin ye honoure of that feest;
whiche to se the Kinges grace with the sayde Ambassadours
• vel non in orijr. b Sic.
26 THE SrOUSELLES OF
Oratorcs chicens quo lancearum eoncursus et ipsos armatos invicem
congredientes videret, in magnam atque egregiam ejus palatii por-
ticum, quam galeriam vocant, superior! bus ranis miro ac sumptuoso
opcrc a se edifieatam se convertit. Ibi namquc patentes fenestre
plurime sunt ex adverso loci quo futurus erat eoncursus ad tntissi-
muin apertissimumque spectaculum accommodate. Erat autem
ipsa porticus ■ auleis tapetibusquc decenter ornata, tot preterea
musicis et variis ludorum instrumentis fertilis et copiosa, ut nulla
ferine honesta volupras quam quisquam optaret ibi deesset. In
quern quidem locum prefata illustrissima domina Maria jam prin-
ceps Castelle, simul et illustrissima prince}. s Wallie, non parvo
decentissimarum dominarum uumero comitate, insimul spectandi
gratia venerunt,
Interea milites ipsi, fortibus equis armisque et ceteris rebus ad
mili tar em disciplinam pertinentibus abunde ailluenterquc et preciose
provisi, tentoriis videlicet; phaleris cquorum, lanceis et omnifariam
bellicis instrumentis ac quibuscunque ad ipsa torniamenta conducenti-
bus ornamentis, apparatibus insupcr multis aurifabrorum artificio
fabricatis, panno identidem aureo sericeoque et cam pan is ac nolis
arfTcntcis atque aliis multimodis preciosis et novis rebus, quas
nimis loftgumcsset recitare, ad ineundum inter sese certamen presto
erant. '
reasorted to his galarye, bcynge ricbely hanged and appointed ; and
.vhyther also came my saide lady Marye Pryncesse of Castile and
the Pryncesse of Wales, aecompanyed with a goodly nombre of
fayre Ladycs. Howe well horsed and harneissed, howe richly
appoynted were the said lordes and knyghtes, with pavylyons,
trappers, bardes, and other ornamentes and ap^areyll of goldsmyth
werke, clothe of golde, silke and other ryche garnyssynge. ana with
belles of silver and many diverse devises, it were to longe a pro-
cesse to wryte. For by the space of thre dayes these justis con-
TIIE LADYE MAEYE. 27
St'abat etenim e regione loci quo congressus illc futurus erat
circiter medium locus prominens et editus in facicm lati et oblongi
pulpiti, tabularum structura erectus, super quo heraldi regii
splendido apparatu et amictu decori, una cum regiis tubicinibus
consedebant ut bellatorum ictus annotarent et eorum qualitatem
tubis (ut moris est) clangentibus indicarent conscriberentquc.
Ceptum est igitur inter ipsos belligeros atrox prelium, quod
absque ulia iniermissione, quantum lux diurna post meridiem passa
est, continuis tribus dicbus fuit continuatum : quolibet eorum
armatorum singulo quoque die durante co triduo cum recentiore
splendidioreque ac snmptuoso magis apparatu in campum pro-
deunte.
Aderat ingens ntrineque sexus tarn nobilium quam populariuni
nmltitudo, que videndi gratia illuc confluxerat : et que fractarum
Iancearum fragore audito ac tubarum clangore lignum dante intel-
lecto innnenso's ad celum clamores mittebat et modo uni modo
alteri armato prout sua cujusque in eorum aliquem major inerat
devotio majores favores voce prestabat. Pulchrum autem erat
in tanto certamiue innumeras lanceas armis collisas atque hinc inde
confractas videre : et earuni frusta in altissima usque aera sepenu-
mero conscendcre.
Eadem die dominiea civitas omnisLondoniarum invicem gaudens
tynued, and day by day every lorde and knygbt bad dyversite and
cbaungc of appareilles every day richer than other.
And finally on the last day was also a goodly torneye, and
certaynly all the sayd lorde?, knyghtes and men of amies acquited
theymself soo valiuuntly as well in justes as tourney that they
atteigned and had mervaylous great prayse, both of strayngicrs and
others.
The sayde sondaye nyght also in rejoysynge this fcest and
28 THE SPOUSELLES OF
his tarn celeberrimis ct memorandis triumphis ad omnia festivitatis
et leticie signa se convertit : nocturnos ignes pvrasque ct lignorum
altas congeries succensas cxigens : Organis, tympanis, lyris, citha-
risque ct crotalis ac musicis quibusquc instruments undique per-
sonantibus ; innnptis virginibus ac nuptis, pueris juvenibus et gran-
devis largos ignes cirenmeuntibus, choreasque sonoro ac jubilo cantu
admixtas dueentibus, dulci mcro ct saccaro conditis aromaticis non-
nunquam sc rcficieritibus, donee nox intempesta ad quietem somnum-
que cunetos invitaret.
Cum autem tertius dies torniamentorum adventasset et lancearum
incursui primum data esset opera non sine pari aut non multum
absimili omnium certantium laude et gloria, tandem lanceati ipsi
lanceis desposifis, fortibusque in earum locum gladiis assumptis,
fortiter ac strenue insimul dimicantes, tantum dc sese experimentum
fecerunt ut non minorem in eo genere pugne quam in priore
hastarum ccrtamine lauclem apud omnes astantes sint consecnti, et
tarn curialium quam advennrum ct exterorum omnium judicio
magnopere fuerint commendati. Nullus etenim gladius, quantum-
vis forti et sincero metallo fabricatus, in ca gladiatoria pugna extitit,.
qui vcl non in partes confringeretur vcl prorsus recurvus aut con-
triumphe fyres were made in diverse and many places through the
cytie of London with other demonstracions and signes of joye and
gladnesse.
Thus with dyverse and many other goodly sportes passed the
tyme by the day, and at night sumptuous bankettes were made.
AVhcre at some tyme the kynges grace havynge the sayd Ambassa-
dours with hym aceompanyed with a goodly nombre ofladves were
present. And at oon of yc whiche Lankettes the sayde Ambassa-
dours delyvcred thre goodly and right richc tokens and Juelles to
iny sayd ladye Marye, oon frome Themp^roure conteignvn»-e an
orient rubye and a large and a fayre diamondc garnvsshed with
THE LADTE MAR YE. 29
tusus vel inutilis mancret : Sicquc his etaliis ludis jocisque ct honcs-
tissimis voluptalibus, utpote ferocium equorum taurorumve indomi-
torum atque ursorum cum ingenti mordacissimorum canum nuinero
certantium, dies illi jucundidatis et leticie peracti sunt. Prius
namque et aucupiis et venatibus cervorum damarumque La utroque
vivario regio quod ipsi regie domui adjacet non parvam animi
voluptatem oratores ipsi susccperant : Quorum quidem vivariorum,
quos pareos vulgus appellat, alterum innumeris mire magnitudinis
cerviSj aliud vero damis, quarum nonnulle toto prorsus corpore
candent spectaculum de se prcbcntes est repletum.
Postquam autem nox tertie diei supervenisset sumptuose admo-
dum private cene parate sunt, ad quas Rex nobilissimus atque
omnium regum sapientissimus et human issiraua Oratores ipsos mag-
numque cum his delectarum matronarum numerum secum adduxit;
cepitque primus conscedere," deinde alios omnis ad conscssum
in vita re.
Quibus concessisb Oratores in quadam e pluribus mensa tria pul-
cherrima ae preciosissima dona illico prefato lllustrissime principi
domino Marie dono dedere; quorum ummi ab sacratissimo Romano-
rum imperatore Maximiliano missum erat, rubeus scilicet lapis
Zndicus qui a nostris rubimis dicitur. Magnus siquidem et pre-
ciosus simul et adamas magnis unionibus munitus.
Aliud vero ab illustrissimo principe Karolo destinatum littera
K. aurca fuit, nomen Karoli represcntans, preciosis adamantibus ct
margaritis munitum : Quo quidem monili hec verba inscripta lucre,
videlicet, Maria optimum partem elegit, que non auferetur ab ca.
great perles, ye other from the vonge Prynce, which was a K. for
Karolus, garnysshed with diamondes and perles, wlierin those wordes
were written : Maria optimum patrem* elegit, que non auferetur ab ca,
* Sic, for cantidere. b £/&J!or cvrisessis. c Sic.
30 THE 8POUSELLES OF
Tertium autem ab illustrissima principe domina Margareta
Ducissa Sabaudie relicta fuerat profectum, Balagius scilicet, quem
balasion vulgus nominat, preciosis margaritis circumdatus.
His igitur ccnis, turn Iautis tamque oprparis ut nihil omnino
egregium quod vel terra vcl freto aut ilumine creseat illis ab-
fuerit, non defuerunt ludi Mauroi quas morescas dicunt, ct sal-
tantium juvenum generosa virensque propago, simul et comedianim
tragediarumque hystrionica et ludicra queque spectacula previsa sane
prius ac sumptuose preparata. Ea nocte dominus de Bergis" Cesaree
majestatis et illustrisshni principis Karoli predict!, jam serenissimi
Regis Anglie filii dilectissimi, instantissime petiit a Regia Majcstate
et illam requisivit quatenus placeret ei dictum principcm Carolum
snum filiuni nobilis Ordinis Garterii Equitem eligere ac creare.
Quod Iiex optimo animo atque ex corde concessit, providitque
illico ut ipse priueejps suus fiiius non solum in unum sociorum
equitum dicti Ordinis essct elcetus, sed etiam ut ipsa Gartera cum
and ye thirde from the duchesse of Savoye, wherein was a o-0odly
balas garnysslied with perles. Att whiche banket there was no
cuppe, salte no layer but it was of fyne golde, ne yet noo plate of
vessayll but it was giltc.
There lacked no disguysynges, inoriskcs nor entreludos made and
appareiiled in the beste and richest maner.
That nyght the lord Barges, on the behalfe and by the commaunde-
ment of Thcmperoure and the kynges good sone y° yono-c Prvnce
made instant request and desyre that it woid please his grace to
elect and make the sayd Prvnce knyght of his noble ordre of the
Gartier. Whereunto the Kynges grace with right herty wyll
graunted. And not oonly hath caused hym to be electid as oon of
the companyons and knyghtes of that ordre, but also entendeth
• Apparently the word mandatu has been omitted here.
THE LADTE MARYE. 31
omnibus ornamentis ad illam spectantibus brevi ad ilium mit-
tcretur.
Postremo, cum omnia negocia commissionem dictorum oratorum
conccrnentia essent cxecutioni mandate, quoniam dies Xatalis
Domini appropinquaret, Oratores ipsi, ad propria rcdire cupientes,
a sercnissimo Rege veniam abeundi supplices expostularunt.
Bex autctn, quanquam mngnopere cuperet eorum prescntia
diutiug frui, et illos in dies magis ac magis sua munilieentia et
liberalitate confovere, ad illorum tamen prccipuam instanliam et
gingularetn rcquisitioncm ipsos dimisit magnis ac prcciosis mune-
ribus argentce supellectilis, necnon et levibus equis, Oliuis nun-
cupatis, falconibus canibusque et pluribus aliis non injucunuis don is
donatos.
Postea vero quam dicti oratores tan to Pegi vale iecissent et
honestissima hincinde gratulationis et intiine amicicie signa essent
ostensa, prefatus lllustrissimus princeps Karolus, post oratorum
within brief tyme to sende unto the said Prince the Gartier with all
other ornamentes belongynge to the sayde ordre.
And whan all matiers concernynge the commyssion of the sayd
Ambassadours ■were accomplisshed, for asinoche as the feste of
Cristmas approched, They desyred to take theyr leve of the
kynges highnes to reatourned" tc their countraye.
And albe it the kynges grace was greatly desyrous that they
sliuld have lenger taryed, yet at theyr instaunte poursuyte his grace
despeched they in, and with mervaylous great and honourable giftes
of goodly plate rewarded theym, besydes horses, hobies, hawkes,
hoondes, and many other goodly pleasures.
And for further coniirmacion and approvyng of yc forcsayd
mariage, the sayd yonge prince sythens the departyng of his
Ambassadours hathe sente dyverse letters subscribed with his ownc
32 THE SPOTJSELLES OF
suorum legationcm solutam, pro ampliore confirmatione et appro-
batione dicti Matrimonii sepe ac scpius suas litteras propria sua
manu subscriptas, tain ad Sercnissiuuim Regem, nominando et
acceptando ilium in suum bonum patrem, et ad illustrissimum
principem Henricum, fiiium regium, nominando et aeceptando eum
in suutn amantissimum fratrem, quam etiam ad ipsam Illustrlssimam
dominam Mariam suam sponsam dedit, exprinaahs* ac norninans illam
suam uxorem et consociam, cam aliis gratioribus atque amicabilio-
ribus verbis quam vel seribi vel excogitari valeat.
Gaude ergo giudio magno. Gaude, inquam, et letare, 0 feli-
cissima hoc tempore Anglia, atque tuo nobilissimo victoriosissi-
moque et sapientissimo supremo Regi Henrico septimo da laudein,
honorcm et gratias sempiternas, quandoquidem pro sua innata pru-
dentia, studio, ingenio, et providentia non solum in pace (iima ac
quiete, tranquil lit ate et justicia es posita, eum summa rcrum omnium
hande,aswell to the kyngeshighnes,namyngeand acceptyng his grace
for his good fader, and to my lorde the Prince, takyng and callyng hym
his lovyng Brother, as also to my sayd lady Marye, expressely
callyng hir his wyfe and compayn, with other as kyndc and lovyng
wordea as can be devysed to be written.
Kejoyse, Englande, and to thy mooste noble victorious and fortu-
nate sovcrayne lorde and Kinge yeve honoure, prayse and thankes,
by whoes hyghe wvsedome, studie and provydence thou arte not
oonly set and establysshed injustice, peace, rest and tranquilite with
habundauuce of all commodities necessarye, but also thy honoure is
in suchc wyse nowc enhaunced and exalted that all Christen regions
poursue unto the for aliaunce, confederacion and amytic. Thy
ilorisshyng redde roses be so planted and spredde in the highest
imperial! gardcyns and houses of power and honoure that by suche
spectous11 buddes and braunches as by Goddes grace shall proceed of
them, all Christen regions shall heraftcr be unite and alied unto
• Sie.
TIIE LADYE MARYE. 33
tibi necessariarum copia, fertilitate ct affluentia, sed etiam tuum
omne decus splendor et gloria in tantum attollitur et sublimatur
at Christiana omnia religio cupiat et optet finno tibi amicicie et
confederationis nexu ac vinculo adjungi.
Tue, siquidem, tue iste redolcntes rubee rose liac tempestate adco
crevcre. patuleque et prominentes facte sunt, suusquc radices ad
altissimos usque imperialcs hortos ac domos potentie et honoris ex-
tenderunt ac propagamnt, ut ex eorum gemmulis ct palmitious
generalis totius rei publice Christiane Pax unio et confederatio Deo
favente sit proventura. Ad quern quidem honoris cumulum et
dignitatis apicem ante hac nusquam potuisti attingcre : Ilic est
nempe tuus nobilissiinus suprenms doininus et Rex qui to ad tain
subliincm glorfe statum evexit, quern non modo colore venerarique
et observare jure meritoque debes, atque illi fidelitcr libenterque
servire, veruni etiam pro i'elici diuturnoque illius statu incolumitate
et continue* sueccssu ac quotidiano incremento tuis devotis et
continuis precibus teneris Altissiinutn deprecari.
the, whichc honqure tyll now thou coudes never attaigne. This is
thy noble sovcrayne lorde and Kyng that to so hyghe honoure
hathe the avaunced. ^'hoiu thou hast cause not only to love and
truely serve, hut for whoes noble estate with longe and happye eon-
tynuaunce in prosperous helth thou arte specially hounde with
devoute orisons contynuelly to praye.
Imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the Sygne of the George
by Eicharde Pynson prynter unto the Kynges noble grace.
[Colophon, as in the Latin edition. See p. 35.]
34 THE BPOUSELLES OF
Petri CarmeHanipe illmtrissimorum principum Caste! le
Karoli et Marie spousal/bus Carmen.
Festa dies ftrtget, cunetis mortalibus Evi :
Et solito Titan clarior orbe micat.
Vir bonus et pradens et qtiisquis pacis araator
Gaudeat, et supero dot pia thura deo.
Ang]ica Burgundc domui domus inclyta elare
Sanguinis cterno fodcro juncta manet.
Ecee datur Karolo Maria speciosa puella,
Virtute insignia, moribus atque nitens.
Septimus Henrieus, Hex inclytus, est pater illi,
Qui gemma est regum, precipiramque deeus.
Regina Hellisabet mater, dum viveret3 orbis
Inter reginas floruit absque pari.
Henrieus frater princeps, eui nemo secundus,
Oonspicuum toto fundit in orbe jubar.
Margarets soror Regi conjuneta potenti
Scotoram, sapiens, pulcbra, venusta, decens.
Defnnctos taceo fratres simul atque sorores,
Qui Ieti in eelo regna beata tenent.
At Karolo genitor fuerat Rex ille Philippus,
Quern brevis (ah nimium!) substnlit bora sibi.
Cesaris Augusti spes unica, filius unus,
Magnanimus, prestans, strenuus atque potens.
Sed Regina sibi est genitrix prcclara Joanna,
Ileres regnoruni non dubitata trium.
Ipse tamen tanto prineeps orbate parente r
Rursus babes patrem, sorte favente novum,
Hie est Henrieus, qui te et tua jura fovebit,
Hostibus imponens fortia frena tuis.
THE LADYE MARYE. 35
Hie est qui pacem, sua cum vexilla inovebit,
Gentibus et regnis imperilarc potest.
Ast igitur laudes Supero, dominoque potenti,
Reddamus, nobis qui bona tanta dedit.
Utque salutiJerum sit* nobis omnibus istud
Conjugium, demus noete dieque preces.
U Laus Deo.
[Colophon, a very ornamental woodcut with Richard Pynson's
name and design in a central square surrounded by a square border
with various figures. In the left hand at the bottom is a Virgin
crowned, with the Child in her arms. On the other side, opposite, is
a portrait of the princess crowned, standing erect, and behind on a
lower level her father with crown and sceptre. Onh the upper part
of his body is seen, down to the right arm, which holds the sceptre
and seems to be resting on a table.]
INDEX.
Admiral of England. See Oxford,
Earl of
Almayue. See Germany.
Arragon, Ferdinand King of, 18
. Ambassador of.
See Paebla, ftodrigo de
Arundel, Thomas Fiizalan, lGth Earl
of, 11
Austria, Aiehdukc of. See Charles
Berghes, John lord of , chambcrlaia to
the Emperor Maximilian, .'J, 1!», 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 30
Berghes, John dc, Seigneur do Wal-
hniu, son of the preceding, 5
Bevreaj Adolphc dc Bonrgogne, seig-
neur de, 5
Borgoyne (Burgundy), 13
Brandon, Sir Thomas, K.G., 6
Bresse, governor of. See GorrevOd
Burgo, Andrea de, knight, of the Em-
peror's council, 4
Burgundy (Borgoyne), duchess of, 13
Burgundy, house of, 31
Calais, 5, 6, 10, 12
, deputy of. See Talbot, Sir G.
Canterbury, 6
-. archbishop of. See War-
ham, "W.
church. 6
-, cathedral priory of Christ-
prior of, See
Goldstone, Thomas
, St. Augustine's, abbot of, 0
mayor and aldermen of, G
Caruielianus, Petrns, Henry VII.'s
Latin secretary, his poems, 1. 34
Cassel. provost of. See Thcimscke,
George de
Castile, 16, 17
, Prince of. See Charles
— , Princess of. See Mary, d. of
Henry VII.
Catherine. See Katharine
Chamberlain of England. See Oxford,
earl of
Chancellor, lord. See Warham, W.
Charles I'rinceof Castile. Archduke of
Austria, 1. 2, 3, 12, 13, 14, 15, 10.
20. 21, 22, 2'.), 30, 31,34 ; embassy
of, 2, 3, et passim
Chester, earl of. See Henry, Prince of
Wales
Cornwall, duke of See llenrv, Prince
of Wales
Hartford, Kent, 6
Docwra. Sir Thomas, prior of the
Kuiyhts of St. John at Cierkcnwell. G
Elizabeth of York, Queen of Henrj
VII., 17. 31
Ely, bishop of. See West, Dr. X.
England, 15, 18
Exmewe, Thomas, shcrilf of London, 7
Ferdinand, King of Arragon, 18
Eit/.james, Pic., bishop of London, 23
Flanders, or Lou- Countries, 1G
, president of. See Sauvaige,
Jean le
INDEX.
37
Fox, Richard, bishop of Winchester, 11
Fploncke. Sec lJilug
Garter, order of the, 30, 31
Germany ^or Almaync), 15
Giglis, John de. bishop of Worcester, G
Goidstone. Thomas, prior of Christ-
church, Canterbury, G
Gorrevod, Laurence de, governor of
Ercsse, 3, 21
Granada (Granate), 1G
Greenwich, palace at, 7
, the gallerv at, built
by Henry VII., S
Haneton, Philip, Maximilian's secre-
tary and audlentiarivs, A
Henry VII., ], 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 1G. 23,
25, 32, 31 ; his wealth, 18
Henry, prince of Wales, duke of Corn-
wall, and carl of Chester. 9, 10, 32
i! Ilobies " (obini), light horses, 31
Isabella (Elizabeth), the Catholic,
Queen of Castile, 18
James IV. of Scotland, 10
Jennings, Sir Stephen, mayor of Lou-
don, 7
Joanna, Queen of Castile, mother of
Prince Charles. 34
*' Just'" (to tourney), 25
Katharine of Arragon, princess of
Wales (widow of Arthur, prince of
Wales, and affianced to prince
Ilenrv), daughter of Ferdinand and
Isabella, 17, 18, 26
Leon (or Lyons), kingdom of, 1G
London, 7, 11, 27. 29
, mayor and aldermen of, 7
, sheriffs of, 7
, Fleet Street, sign of the
George, 33
, bishop of. See Fi.'/jamcs, Eic.
Low Countries. See Flanders
Lyons (Leon in Spain), kingdom of, 1G
Margaret, daughter of Henry VII., mar-
ried to James IV. of Scotland, 1G
Margaret, duchess of Savoy, Regent of
the Netherlands, 14, 30 "
Mary, daughter of Henry VII., 1, 2, 3,
13, 14, 16, 17. IS, 19, 21, 22. 28, 29,
31, 34 ; her deportment, beauty, and
grace, 18, 19 ; called princess of
Castile (after her proxy marriage),
2G
Maximilian, the Emperor, 2, 10, -12.
15, 20, 29, 30 ; embassy of, 2, 3, ct
passim ; his letters, 9
" Moriskcs" (morris dances), 30
Obini. See " Ilobies."
Oxford, John de Vere, thirteenth earl
of. Great Chamberlain and Admiral
of England, 7
Pflug, Sigismund, LL.D. [his name.
misprinted by Rynson " Splonke "
and " Fploncke "] 4
Philip I. of Castile, father of Prince
Charles, 34
Ponynges (or Povnings), Sir Edward,
G
Pucbla, Rodrigo de, LL.D., Ambassa-
dor of Ferdinand, King of Arragon, 8
Pynson, Richard, printer to the king,
33, 35
Richmond, castle or palace of. 1G. 17
— — — — , gallerv at, built by Henry
VII., 2G <**
Royal Body, knights of the, 8
, captain of the, S
St John's, prior of. See Docwra, Sir
Thomas
Sauvaige, Jean le, president of Flan-
ders,'^, 10, 20, 21
Savoy, duchess of. See Margaret
Sheen (Richmond), palace at, 1G note
Shrewsbury, George Talbot, seventh
earl of, steward of the king's house-
hold. G, 7
Sittingbourne, in Kent, G
Smith, Richard, sheriff of London, 7
Staple, merchants of the, 7
Steward (scnescaUux) of the king's
household. Sec Shrewsbury, earl of
38
INDEX,
Talbot. See Shrewsbury
Talbot, Sir Gilbert, deputy of Calais, o
Thames, the river, S
Theimseke, George dc, provost of
Cassel, 1
Toisou d'Or, king-at arms, 4
Tournaments, 2.~>-29
Wales, prince of. See Henry
, princess of. See Katharine
Walbain, John de Berghes, seigneur
ile, 5
Warbam, "William, archbishop of Can-
terbury, lord chancellor, 7, 10. 11, 20
West, Dr. Nicholas (afterwards bishop
of Ely), i>
Winchester, bishop of. See Fox,
Richard
Worcester, bishop of. See Giglis. John
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PBISTED BT NICHOLS AND SONS. 25, I'AltLlAMENT STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W.
COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL LETTERS
FROM
THE BISHOPS TO THE PEIYI COUNCIL,
' ' 1504,
WITH RETURNS OF THE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND OTHERS
WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE DIOCESES, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING
TO THEIR RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS.
EDITED 1?Y
MARY BATESON.
PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY
MDCCCXCIII.
PREFACE.
IN the calendar of the MSS. of the Marquis of Salisbury, Pari I.,
p. 306 (No. 1024), will be found a brief summary of the contents
of a MS. preserved at Hatfield House (pressmark, c. c. 5), which
contains the replies sent by the archbishops and bishops to questions
put to them by the Privy Council in a letter of October 17, 1584.
This letter is not now known to be extant, but from the answers
of the bishops it appears that they were asked to classify those who
were already justices of the peace according as they were favour-
able, indifferent, or hostile to the proceedings of the Government
in matters of religion, and also to name the persons who in their
opinion were fit to be put into office and those who should be
removed from office. To this end they were asked to consult those
of the leading men of their dioceses who were favourable to the
Government, and with their help to make suggestions for the
remedying of disorders, for the fuller repression of popery, main-
tenance of justice, promotion of God's gospel, and punishment of
those who afflicted the honest and godiy and maintained the
perverse and ungodly. As the same method is not adopted by each
bishop it is difficult to tabulate the results with accuracy ; roughly
estimated, the total of justices marked favourable is 431 ; marked
indifferent, neuter, or not favourable, 2G4 ; hinderers or adversaries,
157. The dioceses reported to be most hostile to the Government
were those of the north and west ; Carlisle, Durham, York,
Worcester, Hereford, and Exeter were strong in opposition.
Staffordshire was troubled by a knot of " hinderers" led by the
Yernons, and in Buckinghamshire Sir Robert Dairy, Sir Robert
Peckham, and Sir "William Dormer were the leaders of a. large
IV PREFACE.
band of men " not lit to ho trusted." Where the towns are
mentioned these are found to be in nearly every case more hostile
to tire Government than the counties. Xewcastle-on-Tyne alone is
an exception.
These lists serve as a measure of the progress which. the doctrines
of the Reformation had made among the middle classes, for the
administrators of local government arc here classified as they sup-
ported or opposed tire doctrines of the Church of Rome : the bishops
were not as yet concerned to exclude the advanced reformers from
office, and there is nothing in these lists to show that they included
among the men "not fit to be trusted" any persons other than
those who were reputed to have leanings towards Roman
Catholicism. These lists should prove valuable to local historians,
lor they give a complete religious census of the leading men of
each county. Most of the names may be identified in the large
county histories, but as a rule genealogical evidence alone is here
forthcoming; the bishops' remarks give to many a distinct political
and religious identity.
It would be interesting to trace the results which attended the
Council's efforts to secure a body of justices willing to carry out
its wishes, but this cannot be done with any completeness until the
lists of justices of the peace, which may be found on the backs of
the Patent Rolls, have been printed. So far as I have been able
to compare these lists it docs not appear that the Council effected
any sudden changes ; hinderers and persons not conformable some-
times remained in office, and signed the Act of Supremacy in
15G9.a Several of the bishop- were obliged to recommend the
retention of the services of men who were u noted adversaries of
religion," either by reason of their intimate acquaintance with the
law or because they could not recommend any persons as fit to fill
their places. The steady increase of the powers of the jtistices of
the peace in religious matters which went on throughout the reign
is proof enough that the Council found that it could secure the co-
■ KHz. D.S.I*. Ix. 22.
PREFACE. V
operation of this body. It was the Act of the preceding year
(5 Eliz. c. i.) which necessitated an inquiry at this particular
time, for the Council had begun a new system when not justices
of assize only, but also justices of the peace, were made respon-
sible within the limbs of their commission for the execution of the
Act for preserving the power ol the Crown against the usurpation
of the see of Rome.
Only favourers of religion and godly proceedings could afford to
laugh with Falstaffat " Robert Shallow esquire/-' " in the county of
Gloster justice of peace and coram" ay and cust-alorum. ay and
rato-lorum too, "a gentleman who writes himself armigero on evety
bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation arrrdgefo" but men not staid in
religion trembled when Robert Shallow esquire made a Star Cham-
ber matter of their doings or let the Council know of them.
The same careful watch which the Council kept on justices of
the peace was kept upon the corporations, especially when the
aldermen were by their municipal privilege also justices of the
peace. From lists like these the Council got the information
which enabled it to decide who should be appointed as mayor,
aldermen, and capital burgesses when charters of incorporation
were to be granted or "confirmations" of old charters drawn up in
which only the most important sentences of the originals were
changed. Since the mayor, aldermen, and capital burgesses
appointed in the first instance were to fill up all vacancies in their
ranks by co-option, care had to be taken to avoid the appointment
of adversaries of religion."
These returns afford a most characteristic illustration of that
infinite care for detail and love of minute inquiry which inspired
* Take for instance the charters granted to Leicester, 15S8, 1599 (J Thompson,
pp. 2S5 and 307) ; in the second the major, bailiffs, and burgesses are all named ■
so too at STewbnry (Jleney/p. 228) in 13JW, the mayor, six aldermen, and twenty
fooj capital burgesses are singled out by name; at Beverhy (l'oulson, p. 12) the
charter of 15 KHz. names the governors to he called the Common Council, they are
to appoint to all vacancies. An interesting collection of cases of this kind mfght be
made to illustrate the growth of oligarchy in Kurdish towns.
VI PREFACE.
the Elizabethan Government. The lists of justices of the peace
contain the great names of each county, for it was not beneath
the dignity of a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council to sit at
quarter sessions, but they also contain the names of many small
men unskilled in the Laws ; all were watched with equal zeal by the
Council's jealous eye ; nobody could hope to k"eep his religious
convictions a secret from the Council ; however outwardly con-
formable, if inwardly he was frowardly superstitious the Council
knew it. Matthew Parker alone shrinks from ticketing the
religion of every man, and writes tartly when he sends the list of
names commended to him for the dioceses of LlandafTand Oxford a
that " what these be nnd what others be your honours of the
Council know much better than we can inform you, and as for
myself J know them not and sometime informers serve their own
turn and gratify their friends." The remedies for disorders sug-
gested by- the bishops are the favourite remedies of the time and
show no originality ; they recommend those in authority to receive
the communion frequently in order to set a good example, and to
hear sermons and discourses before quarter sessions in order to keep
their religious duties well in mind ; oaths cannot be too frequently
administered to suspected persons and to those in authority. The
evil of privileged jurisdictions exempt from their control is one
which several bishops were anxious to remove.
My best thanks are due to the Bishop of Peterborough, who
drew my attention to this manuscript, and to Mr. R. T. Gunton,
the Marquis of Salisbury's secretary, who kindly made arrange-
ments for my convenience in copying it. Owing to the exigencies
of space it has been found necessary to print the names in lines
instead of in lists, and in some minor particulars to abandon the
arrangement of the manuscript. Abbreviations arc expanded, and
square brackets used where the sense is doubtful.
Mary Bateson.
* Then vacant.
LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS TO THE
PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564.
1024. f.-la. Press mark, c. c. 5.
My dutie humblie remembrid ; your Lordships letters datid the
xviitU of this instant I rcceavid the xxth of the same at night, and
acordiag to my bounden dutie I haue with all diligencie travelled
to accoinplishe your commaundement, and have herinclosed sent
unto your honors a true Certifieat aunswearing the Seucrall pointes
of your lettres acordinglie. I thank god I am well acquainted with
my floeke and namelie with the affections of such as be bell weathers
and leaders of the Same. Sure I am I haue dealt fkithfullie herin,
for in this my report neather haue I fearid partis or respectid person
but Simplie folowed a plaine truthe, vsing the aduise of Such as be
zelous in religion, skillfull in the state of their Countreie and good
members of the commenwealthe. Ffor Worcester Shire 1 vsed the
Counsell of Sir Thomas Russell, knight, for t^e Citie of Worcester
I vsed the Counsell of Christopher Dighton, a grave and a wise
Citizin. Ffbr the Towne of Warwick and that percell of my
dioceses there I vsed the Counsell of William Huddisdon, gent,
and Nicholas Jackson, person of I Ldfoid. I wold haue consulted
with mo in this matter, but Such as I thought most meete for the
purpose were out of the Countreie and men are loth to meddle in
matters that may tuine to their displeasure. The repressing of
caiid. soc. B
LETTERS feom the eishops
poperic, the punishement of Offendors/ the reforming of religion,
the raaintenaunce of Justice and the promoting of goddes gospel],
I referre to your honorable consideration?, authorise and wisedomes.
God graunt good Successe to your godlie intendementes. The
right waie to Stablishe a kingedonie is first to rectiiie religion ;
where god is trulie Sought, there is greate Safetie ; and if he
keepe not the Cine, the watchmen labor but in vaine. Goddes
kingedome is first to be Sought, his house is first to be built,
his church is first to be pourgid. Josophat, Ezechias, Josias, the
good princes, wrought this waie. Christ entering into Jerusalem
first pomged the temple. The Church, Saieth Chrisostome, is as
the Stomack of a man; yf the stoma ke be pourged and made
eleene, the bodie wil be Safe from Sicknes. Sainct Paule
wold haue old leaven cast out. The Shipp was not Safe vntill
Jonas was hurled into the Sea. But wine trouble I your wise-
domes with wordes. Seing that ye can not forgett to remember
these matters, zeale carieth me further than becomith me. I
praie your honors pardon me. Meanes to redresse Such thinges
as be amisse your wisedomes can best Consider, yet forsomuche as it
plenseth your Lordshippes to require my poore aduise, I will
Simplie Saie that which vpon the Sodaine I thinck.
If all Such as mislike and contemne true religion, now by
common order Set forth, were put out of auctoritie and publique
office.
Yftheothc for the queues maiesties Supremacie were tenderid
to all Such as beare rule or be of auctoritie in their Countreie and
yet knowen to be adversaries to true religion.
If Such as be put in Commission foi he peace or arc callid to
other offices in the common wealth Should take their othes openlie
at the Sessions or some other publique place for the Queues
Supremacie.
Yf the Justices of Assise at eyerie of their Sessions should first
heare a s(ermon).
Yf Justices of Assise and also of the peace in their Sessions wold
TO THE PETTY COUNCIL, 1564. 3
diligentlie enquire of matters of religion and effectuouslie punishe
transgressera of the Same.
Yf gcntillmcn and Such as be in auctoritie were Inyoined everie
quarter once to receave the Communion and to hcare a Sermon
to the good example of others.
f. lb.
Yf popishe and perucrse pricstea which, misliking, religion hauc
forsaken the ministerie and yet line in corners, are kept in gentill-
mens houses and had in grcate estimacion with the people, where
they marvailouslie pervert the Simple and blaspheme the truthe,
were restrainid of their libertic & put to the othe lor the quenes
Maiesties Supremacie.
Yf commaundement were giuen to Cities and tonnes Corporate
that they should specialise regard to those Such officers as were wise,
godlic and favorers of the truthe.
Yf Justice and iudgement were severelie without respect of
person executed, and vice and Sinne in all Sortes of people sharplie
punished.
Yf the ministers of goddes word were all compelled to consent in
one truth and preachc one doctrine, faithfullie and prudentlie with
all diligeneifi to do their oilice and to Hue in good order.
Then I wold not doubt but god should haue his glorie, this
realme should florishe, the prince Hue in greate comfort, and the
people in good order and much quietnes. Tims praing the all
mightie god to graunt you the Spirite of wisedome, that you may
governc to his glorie, the honor of the prince and to the good of the
Commenwealthe, I Commend your honors to ms gratious direction
and merciefull tuition.
Ffrom my house at Hartilburie, this xxviitu daie of October 156-i
Your honors humble at Comandement,
E. S. AVlGORN.*
* Edwiu Sandvs.
4 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
f. 2a.
[The first column contains a list of " Gentillmen of anie worshipp
or name now abiding in Worcestershire \" these are then classified
as below. To avoid repetition the names of the residences which it
supplies have been added to the classified list. The only names
not classified are those of Richard Hobble of Elmsleie Castell, gent. ;
Anthonie Wollmore of Kington, gent.; and John Hall of ITallowc,
gent. The note is added that John Talbot, Esquier, and Gilbert
Talbot, Junior, are now not resiant within the shire.
The second column contains a list of the " Justices of peace
resiant within Worcestershire." To avoid repetition, the informa-
tion this column supplies is added to col. 4. It then continues:]
Col. 2.
Kedde officers and other rulers temporall within the countie of
Wigorn :
Sir Edward Saunders, knight, Lord chief baron, iustice of
assise ; Thomas Cams, esq., Sergiant at Lawe, Justice of Assise ;
William Sheldon, esq., custos rotulorum. ; Sir Thomas Baskervile,
knight, High Sherif ; Sir Robert Throckmorton, knight, Hi^he
Steward of the landes of the dissolvid monasterie of the abbaie of
Evesham ; Sir Robert Throckmorton, knight, llighe Steward of
the landes. of the bushopp of Wigorn.
Sir John Bourne, knight, high Steward of the landes of the
House of Wigorn ; Sir Thomas Russell, knight, Surveior of the
landes of the bushop of Wigorn : William Conniers, esq., Surveior
of the queues majesties landes with in the countie of Wigorn; John
Wallwen, gent., Surveior of the landes of the house of Wigorn ;
William Cookeseie, esq., vndersteward of the landes of the dissolvid
monasteiie of Evesham ; Clement Swalow, gent., vndersteward of
the landes of the bushop of Wigorn ; Thomas Ceeill, gent., vnder-
steward of the landes of the house of Wigorn ; Edmund Colles the
queues maiesties Excheater for Worcestershire; John Hornieold, esq.,
Auditor aswel of certen of the queenes landes as also of the
busshoppes whole Landes.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 5
[Col. 3 contains a list of Coroners, whose names will be found
below; of " Htdde officers within the Citie of Wigorn," whose
names will be found below except that of John Throckmorton,
esquire, recorder ; a note that " The bailiffee and aldermen are
allwaies Justices of the peace with in the Citie by their Corporacion ;
of Hedde officers for the ecclesiasticall politic, whose names and
offices are entered below ; " and a note that " Bailiffes of small
corporate Townes arc here omitted because they are remoYeablc
everie yeare."
Col. 4.
Favorers of true religion :
Edwinus episcopus ; Sir Thomas Russell, knight, of Strensham,
Justice of peace rcsiant within Worcestershire ; Sir Thomas
Pakington, knight, of Hampton ; William Ligon, esq., of
Madresfield ; John Littelton, esq., of Frankleie ; Thomas Blount,
esq., of Kitterminster ; Robert Hunckes, esq., of Bloekleie ; Miles
Sandcs, esq., of Fladburie ; Anthonie Daston, esq., of Bradwaie ;
William JeiTreis, esq., of Homme Castell ; Richard Smith, esq., of
Upton on Severn ; Frauncis Welsh, esq., of Shellesleie Welsh ;
Anthonie Washburn, esq., of Wichenford ; John pakington, esq.,
of Chaddesleie ; Thomas Horton, esq., of Staunton ; Edmund
Harewel, gent., of Besford ; Gilbert Littleton, gent., of Claines ;
Roger Littleton, gent., of Grovcleic ; William Bouse, gent., of
Aberton ; Robert Gower, gent., of Witleie ; Kettilbie, gent.,
of Codderidge ; Thomas Barnabie, gent., of Bockleton ;
Bartholomewe Hales, gent., of Fladburie ; William Harrison,
Coroner, of Parshor; Thomas Doding, bailif, of Wigorn ; Richard
Bullingham, alderman there; John peddar, deane of the Cathedral
Church; Thomas powell, Chauncelor and Archdeacon.
Nota.
Adversaries of true religion :
Sir Thomas Baskervile, knight, of Birlingham (High Sheriff) ;
Sir John bourne, knight, of Holt ; a Henry Dingleie, esq., of
■ Signs at J. P. to Act of Uniformity, 1509. On his enmity to Sandys, see State
Papers, p. 223.
6 LETTERS FKOil TEE BISHOTS
Croptliorne ; John Knottesford, esq., of Greate Malvern* William
Cookcscie, esq,, of Stulton, Justices of peace resiant within Worces-
tershire ; Michaell Ligon, esq,, of Powikc ; William Conniers,
esq., of Belbroughton ; John middemore, gent., of Kingesnovton j
William Sparrie, gent.,' of Kingesnorton ; William Heath, gent,,
of Allchurch ; Robert Blount, gent., of Asteleie ; Thomas Lewkener,
gent., of Allchurch ; Lench, gent., of Dardall ; JefFreie
Markham, esq., of Feckenham ; Arthur Wood, gent., of Claines;
Thomas Bourne, gent., of St. Johns ; Connand Richardson, gent.,
of Parshor; William Moore, gent., of Powike ; Morgan,
gent., of Hanburv; Richard Badland, (Bailiffe in the eitie of
Wigorn) ; John Concher,8 alderman (in the Citie of Wigorn);
Thomas Cecil! ; Thomas p(o)pe of .Malvern, Coroner; Edward
Darnell, (Town clerk) ; William Warmesbrcie, Register.
Col. 5.
Indifferent in religion or else of no religion :
William Sheldon, Esq., of Beoleie (Gustos Rotulorum), John
ffolliot, esq., of Pivton, Edmund Colles, esq., of Lighe, John Rouse,
esq., of Rouselench, Justices of peace resiant within Worcestershire ;
William Gower, senior, esq., of Woddall ; Charles Acton, esq.,
of Elmeleie Lovet ; Walter Bl-unt, esq., of Sillingtou ; John
Hornieold, esq., of Biakmore park ; Erauncis Braze, esq., of Dardoll ;
John Abington. esq., of lLllowc ; William Xani'and, gent., of
Berrowe ; Nicholas Clifton, gent., of Clifton ; William Gower,
Junior, gent., of Boulton; William Gower, gent., of Witleie; Richard
Barnabie, gent., of Acton; Henry field, gent., of Kinges Norton,
Coroner ; William Child, Clerik of the peace ; Thomas Cottcrell,
of Erlescrome, Coroner.
Men fit to be Justices of the peace in the countie of Wigorn :
Episcopus ; Sir Thomas Russell, knight ; Sir Thomas paking-
ton, knight ; William Ligon, csquier ; John Littelton, esq. ;
■ Signs Act of Uniformity, 15C9
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1664. 7
William Sheldon, esq. ; Thomas Blounr, esq. ; Robert Hunckes, esq.;
Miles Singles, esq ; John flblliot, esq. ; Edmund Colics, esq. ;
Anthonie Daston. esq. ; Richard Smith, esq ; John Rouse, esq.;
"William Jeffreis, esq., mort.a ; Prauncis Welsh, esq.; John
Abington, esq. : Edmund Harewell, gent. ; John Peddar, deane ;
Thomas Powel, chauncclor.
Men fit to be Shiriffes :
Sir Thomas Russell, knight ; Sir Thomas Pakington, knight ;
William Ligon, Esq. ; John Littleton, esq. ; William Sheldon, esq. ;
Eobert Hunches, esq. ; Thomas Blount, esq. ; John ilolliot, e:q. ;
Anthonie Daston, esq. ; Frauncis Welsh, esq.
[Col. 0 contains a list of " Justices of peace in that part of War-
wickshire which is within the dioceses of Wigorn," whose names are
classified below ; of " Iiedde ofiicers and other rulers within that
part of Warwickshire" — Sir James Diar, knight, Justice of
Assise ; Sergiant Benlose, Justice of Assise, & the High Sheriff &
the Queen's Receiver (see below) ; & of" Hcdd. ofiicers in the ton
of Warwick," whose names, except that of John Ditch, are classified
below as Governors.]
Col. 7.
Ffavorers of true religion :
John ffisher, esq., high shirif; Thomas Lucie, esq., of Charle-
cote, Clement Throkmorton, e.-q., of Haseleie, Justices of peace in
that part of Warwickshire ; Robert gibbes, esquier, of Honington;
Giles Palmer, gent., of Barton on the heath ; William Huddcsdon,
gent., of Warwick, Governor; James Langwurth, gent., of Tisoo ;
Charles Ramesford, gent., of Wotton Worwcn.
Adversaries of true religion :
Sir Robert Throkmorton, knigh(t), of Coughton, Justice of peace
in that part of Warwikshire ; Sir William Wigston, knight,
* Note in Burleigh's hand, " William Jeffreis " is scratched out.
8 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
recorder ; John Somerfield, esq., of Eddenston ; Frauncis Smith,
esq., of Wotton Worwcn ; Edward ferrys, esq., of Cock Levington;
Thomas fisher, esq., of Warwik, tlic queues rcceaver ;
Thomas Ynderhiil, esq., of Etington ; John Vnderhill, esq., of
Grimstoke ; Thomas Knottcsford, gent., of Studleie ; Hedgock,
gent., of Salford ; John Comes, gent., of Stratford ; G rami I,
gent., of Snitterfield ; William Skinner, gent., of Rowington ;
Clement Swalow, gent. ; Richard Roo. bnilif.
Richard ffisher, John ilisher, Thomas Barrett, William
Edmundes, Richard Towncsend, Roger Edgeworth,a town clerk,
Govc(rnors).
Indifferent in religi(on) (or) of no religion :
Sir John Conwaie, knight of Arrowc ; fouke grivell, esq., of
Beauchamp Court ; Thomas Throkmorton, esq., Justice of Peace in
that part of Warwickshire ; Anthonie Trussell, esq., of Billesleie ;
Anthonie Ingram, esq , of Litle Wolford ; Thomas llowleie, gent.,
of Utlecote ; Richard Middlemore, gent., of Studleie ; Richard
Hall, gent., of Utlecote.
John Butler, Thomas Oken, John Xason, William Hill, governers.
Robert Gibbes is a fit man to be a J(ustice) of peace.
Endorsed : To the queues Maiestie most honorable. Privie
Counsell.
f. 5.
My dutie humbly considered. Ynderstandinge by your honorable
lettres the Queues maiesties most earnest intention for thadvaunce-
ment of true religion to reprcsse obstinate adversaries, as I greatly
reioyce, so haue I employed my endevour (as shortnes of tyme
would suffer) to satisfie your lordshippes commandement requiring
spcad. Ffirst, thankes be to ahnightie god, through the Quenes
most gracious government, assisted by your lordships providente
circumspections this Countye of Sussex whereof, as an humble
■ Written Sogwortb in col. 6.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 9
scrvitour, I execute the ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction, is fre from all
violent attemptes eyther to afllite the godlye or to distourbe the
stablisshed (rood orders of this Realme. Notwithstanding I doubte
of secrett practises which perhappes myght breake oute into open
violence, were yt not for feare of your Lonlshippes vigilante
Aucthorite. It is to be wished that men of honour, whyles they
be resiante in the sheire, to haue learned preachers of their own or
others, shewinge themselves wyllinge to hcare the worde of god,
whose example draweih a nombre of people after them. Con-
cc-rnino-c the matter I haue vsed conference with Mr. Dean of
Sarum and Mr. Augustine Bradbridge, my Chancelour, bothe of
them borne in the shire and thoroughly acquainted with the state
of the same. I refrayned to communicate so franckly with others
because I doubted of there secretnes, that retinue and alliance
bein^e so great in theis partes. Also the chefest to be trusted
nighe vnto me at this pointe were from home. Thus commendinge
your honours to the tuition of our saviour christe,
Ffrom Allingborne the xxviitie of this Octobre,
Humblie at Commandment,
W. CllESTKEN.*
f. 7.
The countye of Sussex very narrowe in breadeth is about lx myles
in Length and is devided into two partes East and West.
Col. 1.
In the west parte:
Justices of peace which be favourers of religion and godlye
orders :
Sir Thomas Palmer of gadwode, knight. A fainte furtherer;b
Mr. Henry Goringe of Westburton; Mr. Jhon Apleye of Thacham,
learned in the lawe; b Mr. Henrye mervin of Eogate j Mr. William
Bartlett of Stopham.
* William Barlow, Bishop of Chichester. b Xotes iu another ink.
CA\ID. SOC. C
10 LETTERS FROM TTIE BISHOPS
Justices of peace which be myslykers of religion and godlye
procedures ;
Mr. William Shelley of michelgrovc ; Mr. William Dautrcy of
moore^ Ycrye supersticious ; a Mr. Edmonde Forde of Chartinge,
Extremely perverse;"
Gentlemen being no Justice? favourers of godlie procedinges:
Mr. Jhon ffennour of Amberley; Mr. William Stanney of the
manwoode; Mr. Richard Crulie of Cackhara.
Gentlemen beinge no Justices myslykers of godlie orders:
Mr. Richard Lewknour of Ttrotton ; Mr. Thomas Stoughton of
Stanstedj a stoute scorner of godlines; ;'- Air. Thomas Lewknour of
Tangmer; Mr. William Devenishe of Chichester; Mr. William
Stapleton of Ovinge, wickedly obstinate; 8 Mr. Arthure Gunter of
Rack ton.
Col. 2.
In the East parte :
Justices of peace which be favourers of Religion and godlie order:
Mr, George Goringe of Ovingdean, learned in the lawe';
Mr. Jeferye of Chittinglye,1' learned in the lawe ; a Mr. Jhon Hussey
of Gukfilde; Mr. Richard Eklerton of Wiston; Mr. John
Limmesford of Easthothly.
Justices of peace which be myslykers of religion and godly
procedinges :
Sir Edward Gage of ffeile; Mr. Jhon Thatcher of "Westham;
Mr. Richard Coverte of Slowham;'' Mr. William Culpeper of
Ardinglie; Mr. Henry Poole of Dcchelinge; Mr. Edward Bellingham
ofNewtymber; Mr. Thomas Parker of Wellington j Mr. Thomas
Dorrell of Stackney ; Mr. Robertes.
Gentlemen being no Justices favourers of godly procedinges:
Mr. Anthony Pelham of ; Mr. Jhon Pelham of
* Notes in another ink.
b Signed ilie Act of Uniformity, 1569. D.S.P. Ix. 22.
to TriE privy council, 15G4. 11
Lawghton;" Itr. Jhon Selwyn of iTiiston ; "Sir. Laurence
Ashbumeham of Gcstlinge ; Mr. William Morleye of Glyne ;
Mr. Anthony Stapley of ffranfeld ; Mr. fTrunecs Spilmaa of Hartfeld.
Gentlemen beinge no Justices mysHkers of godlie orders:
Mr. James Gage of Broyle, A common herborer of obstinates ; b
Mr. Shelley of Patchinge; Mr. Drewe Barrcntynof llorstid kayncs;
Mr. Scott of Edon. . .
On the back (f. Ga), Col. 1.
The tonnes in the west parte :
Laurence Andreu, maior, Rafe Cliantelor, Steward, notorious
obstinate aduersaries.1'
Thomas Addams, Thomas Palmer, Jhon Moyses, Jhon Cooke,
Thomas fiaringdon, frowardly supcrsticious.b
Of whom the last three he Justices of the peace within there
Liberties by a late Commission which were better for gover(n)mente
of the poors Citie to be revoked and the Cittizens to be as they
were before vnder som order of the Justices at Large.
Col. 2, parallel column.
The tonnes of the east parte:
Rye, Hasttnge, Lewes, and Brighthelmeston ar governed with
suche officers as be fay th full favourers of goddes worde and earnestly
given to mainteyn godly orders.
Endorsed f. 8 b.: To the right honorable Lordes of the
Queues majesties privie counsell.
f. 9a.
My dewtei most .humbly vnto your honors remembred. These
ar to aducrtise the same that I reccaved your most honorable
letters the 20 of October dated at S. James the 17 of the same
monthe : which according to my bounden dewtey I haue with all
diligence considered and altho I am persuaded that to certefie your
honors according to your commaundment maie procure me moare
hatered (which neadcth not) and what as hatered can do, yet my
■ A J. P. Oct, 13G9. b Notes in another ink.
12 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
dewte of obedience to your honors, the advauncement of goddes
honor and the comfort of good and faithfull subiectes (winch your
honors will me herein to respecte) bathe for the present driven
awaie fearfulnes of offending any person. So that I haue frely,
planely and also truly (so far as either myne owne skill and know-
lege or the skill and knowlcgo of others whome in this matter I
hauc vsed can reache) certefied your honors to euery point of your
said letters.
ffor tliis certeficat (because my chauncelor doeth ordenarely ride
abought my diocese vi or vii tyraes yeareley and therfor like to
hauc good knowlege of gent(lemen) in the same) I vsed his counsell
and advise. In like manner 1 vsed the dcane of the cathedrall
church of Hereford and singularly euery deane rurall for his owne
deanery wherin he ys deane, which do best knowe the gent(lcmen)
in their severall deaneris and thus thorowe their skill and myne
owne, I haue certefied as foloweth ; most humbly beseching your
honors to take in good parte owr simple & plain e dealing and by
your discrete and godly wisedomes so to \ise and order both us and
this good cause that we be not brought hereby in to further
hatered, contempt or daungcr tnan must neades folowe.
Your honors to comma und
Jo. Hlref.8
The names of soche peisons as now boarc rule in the countei of
Hereford and diocese of the same which be denied not favorably to
this religion :
John skudamor b of Home, esq., one of the counsell of the
Marshes of Wales iustice of peace. Custos rotulorum. Hie stuard
of vrching fic(l)d and stuard of the cytye of Hereford.
Richard Seborne of Sutton, esq., on of the said cowncell *k iustice
of peace ; John skudamor of Kenchurch,c esq., iustice of peace ;
* John Scory.
b Signed the Act of Uniformity, 1569. D. S. P. lx. 22.
■ Refused to sign.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564. J 3
Thomas Havard of Hereford, esq., justice of peace; Thomas Clynton
of Estenor, esq., iustice of peace ; John Huband abbots Hybottcsa
of Hampton, esq., iustice of peace ; Richard Harford of bosbery,
esq., no iustice, but the Queues majesties generall surveior (as I
haue learned) of all Hereford shere, and receivor to her majestei
of Soche landes as belonged lately to the bishop of Hereford ; John
Clarke of Hereford, gent., no iustice, but he ys clarke of the peace
and exerciseth the office vndcr Mr. Hggen of bishopes castell in
Shropshire which favoreih not this religion.
John James of Stretton ; John Crouse of brobery, no iustices,
but thci be the crowners for the county of Hereford.
f. 9b.
The names of soche persons as now beare rule in the cowntei of
Hereford and diocese of the same which be derned newters in
religion.
Sir James baskervile,1' knight of , iustice of peace ;
John Harleyb of bramton, esq., iustice of peace and rular of
Wigmures land ; Symon Apparry b of , esq., iustice of
peace ; george Apparry b of paston. Hie Shrefe of the countei
of Hereford the yeare now past and ended ; Richard monington of
Sarnisfeld, iustice of peace ; gregory price of Hereford, esq., iustice
of peace.
The names of soche as now bcarc rule in the countei of Hereford
and diocese of the same which be iuged favourable to this
religion.
John b bushop of Hereford on of the counsell of the marshes &
iustice of peace.
Sir James Acroft, knight, of croft, iustice of peace, Sii Robert
Whitney of Whitney, knight, iustice of peace ; Hughe Apparry b of
Aconbury, esq., iustice of peace ; Walter Vauhan of brodwardene,
esq., iustice of peace.
• Culled below John Hi!>otes of Hampton. b Signed in 1569
14 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
James Warmecombe a of Wington, iustice of peace; John Pats ill
of the forde, esq., iustice of peace ; James boyle of Hereford, esq.,
insiice of peace. These iii be learned in lawes of the realise.
John Abrall of Eustane, esq., iustice of peace.
The names of soche as be now no iusticcls in the countci of
Hereford which, for t lie favourc which thei beare to this religion
and of good giftes, are mete to be called to be iusticeis.
John Ellys,8 deane of the cathedrall churehe of Hereford, a
divine.
Edward threlkeld of ledbcry, doctor of the lawes and chauncelar
of the dyocese of Hereford ; Edmond Horwcll of Cradley, esq.
This gentleman (because part of his house standeth in Worcester-
sherc notwithstanding bothe his bedchamber and parishe churehe
called cradley aforesaid ar in Hereford shere) aeeounteth himselfe
of & with that shere of Worceter & neverthe(less) because ther be
moarc in Woreetershire that favore this religion than be in Ilere-
foidsherc. your honors shuld do very well to command him to
seme the Queues iniiestie in Hcrefordshere.
Nicholas Debden of ludford, esq. ; John Howard of ledbery,
gent, ; John myntrige of cradley, gent. ; John gar nans of Hereford,
gent., meanely learned in the lawes of (the) realmc ; Thomas Kirll
of Walford, gent., learned in the lawes of the realme.
f. 10a.
The citei of Hereford ys fraunchesed and ys governed by a
Mayer whomc thecomens do yearcly chose of the common cowncell
or election.
The names of the common counscll or election which be denied
no favorers to this religion.
Thomas Havard, iustice of peace, which by common fame ys a
daily dronkard, a receivar «fc mayntainar of thennemcys of religion,
a mayntener of supersticion and namely of abrogated hclydaies.
a Signed in 1509.
TO TJ7E PRIVY COUNCIL, 15G1. 15
Pie vseth to praie vpon a Iaten primer full of supersticions. His
wife <fc maydens vse bedes and to be short he is a mortall ennemy
to Christen religion (thus doeth Mr. Pcane of hcreford write vnto
me, which I partly knowe and partly beleave to be true.)
Rowland rice ; Harry Dodson ; Walter caredyne ; Thomas
churche;a William raulyins; Richard partriche,* Senior ; Richard
partriche, Junior ; William runell ; James EUon ; John Clarke,
tounc clarke; John Darnell; Richard bromwich ; John Seward;
Father Chalice; Mathewe gc fires ; John Clyotes, an atturney at
the lawe ; John Hyde ; John partriche of bothale ; Humfre
Wilbram ; William benct.
The names of soche of the said councell or election that be raged
CD
neuters in religion:
John gibbes ; a John maylar;* mayer for this yeare ; Thomas boyle ;
Richard vele; Harry grene; John pearle; Thomas russell ; Thomas
currant; John AYhitlache : Edward Welche;
So that of the holl counsall or election ther is not on that ys
counted favourable to this religion.
f. 10b.
The names of soche persons as nowe bcare rule in the countei of
Salope that dwell in or vei i neurc the diocese of Hereford which be-
demed not favorable to this religion.
"William gatacre of clarely. esq., iustice of peace; Adam "Watley
of pitsfoid3 esq., iusticc of peace ; Richard amytton of Salope, esq.,
iustice of peace: Thomas eyton of e-iton, esq., in-tice of peace; John
farmer, dwelling in Briggonorth paike, esq., iustice of the peace.
The names of soche persons as now bcare rule in the countei of
Salope and dwell in the diocese of Hereford which be counted
newters in religion :
Sir gcorge blunt, knight of Ivcnlet, Hie shrefe of Shropshire this
a Siirncd in 15C0.
16 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
last yeare now almost ended; Charles Soye of bromfild, esq., Secre-
tory to the counsell of the marshes and iustice of peace ; Richard
Cornewall of burford, esq., iustice of peace.
The names of soche persons as now beare reule in the countie of
Salope which be denied favorable to this religion and dwell m
Hereford diocese:
Harry lord Stafford of Cawas iustice of peace; Edward leighton
of Wattesborowe, esq., iustice of pence ; Symon Kemsei of ponsbery,
esq., iustice of peace; Thomas Willyams of Wollaston, esq., iustice
of peace. This gent maye also serue in mungommery shere because
he dwell very neare that s(here).
The names of soche as be favorers of this religion in the countei
of Salope and dwell in the diocese of Hereford not yet in office,
neuertheless thought mete to be called to be ius'ices:
Richard lawley of Wenlocke, esq. ; Thomas lodlowe of the
morehouse, esq., baily of "Wenlock ; William leighton of p'ashe,
esq., learned in the lawes of the realme ; Rowland lacon of "Willey,
esq. ; Lewes Jones of bushopes castell, esq. ; John Hopton of Mor-
caild, esq.; Fraunceis Cresset of Staunton lacey, gent. ; Edmond
Cornewall of burford, gent. ; Edward Hoptou of bitterley, gent.;
Adam lutley of broniscroft, gent.
f. 11a.
Radnor :
The tounes of old r ad nor, new radnor and prestene be in the
diocese of Hereford and veri litle moare of that cowntei ys in the
said diocese, whereas none of the iustices of peace that be now in
office ar cownted favorers of this religion but the best of them ys
iu^ed but a newter.
Ther names be :
John bradshawe theldar of prestene, esq., iustice of peace; John
bedo of prestene, iustice of peace; Perse lloyd of prestene, iustice
TO THE PEIVY COUNCIL, 15G4. 17
of peace ; Roberd Vauhan of prestenc, iustice of peace, but counted
a poore man ; Edward pre of Kington, esq., iustice of peace; Thomas
lewes of old radnor, iustice of peace.
The names of soche as favoure this religion in the countei of
radnor, and dwell in the diocese of Hereford, which ax now no
iusticeis hut yet meete to be called thervnto :
John blayney of Stcpleton in the parish of prestene, gent.; John
madockes of barlanton in the parish of old radnor, esq. ; Edward
threlkcld of ledhcry, doctor of the lawes and chauncelar of flercford
(because he rideth ordenarely vi. or vii. tymes yearely in to that
part of radnorshere that ys in Hereford diocese as well as in to
others, might serve well ther in the place of a iustice of peace
considering ther ys so lille choise of soche as be favorable to this
religion.
Worcetorshcre :
Certeinc villages also of Woreetershere be in the diocese of Here-
ford, whearas be iii. gentlemen, The first ys John throgmorten of
ribbisford, esq., on of the councell of the marshes and iusticeis ther,
denied not favorable to this religion. The second ys William
genres of Homme Castcll, esq., now iustice of peace and iuged to
favoure this religion. The iiillc ys fraunces Welshe of litle shelseyf
esq., accounted a favorer of this religion, no iustice now but mete
to be called thervnto.
monmoth :
The toune of monmoth ys in the diocese of Hereford and no
moare of that countey, and ys gouerned by a mayer which ys
yearely chosen by the commens of the toune and ii balies.
The names of soche as be not counted favorable to this religion
in the toune of monmoth :
!More Appowell, recorder of the towne.
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18 LETTERS FE03I TIIE EISHOrS
William G[ui]ll[i]m, Thomas Williams of the priory, Roberd
Williams, his sonne, of the common counsell.
The names of soche as he denied favorable to this religion in" the
toune of monmoth :
"William bunting, mayer this year.
Huegh baker, Edward Ag[ui]l![i]m, balies this year.
John knight, Crown ar, John Waters, ckrke of the peace, James
leifhton, gent., insanely learned in the lawes of this realme.
f. 12a.
Hereford :
The toune of lempster in the countci & diocese of Hereford
ys fraunchesed and gouerned by a baley yearely elected.
George Monons a balei this ycare a simple man and a neuter in
religion denied.
The favorercs of religion in the said toune as counted to be these
folowing :
Fraunces Philips, gent. ; John Hingeley, gent. ; John strete ;
Thomas Dallow, gent. ; b Richard stede ; John poll, baker.
I cannot heare of any ennemcis to this religion in the said towne
that be of any reputacion.
Sal ope :
The towne of lodlowe yn the conntei of salope & diocese of
Hereford ys also a fraunchesed towne, whear the counsell of the
marshes do commonly lie.
The names of soche as ar denied to favoure this religion in the
said towne ar these :
Laurence Beck, Richard raskall/ bailies this yeare.
« Monox. G. F. Townsend, p. 203. b Bailiff. Townsend, p. 203.
c Minor tor Men of Ludlow, p. 107. Ric. Baskoll,1596, was pot into the new corpo-
ration made by Elizabeth, with William Beck, Richard Blashfiekl, and — Walker.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 19
•Simon thornton, Scolemaster ; Nicholas Delxlen of lodford, esq.,
he dwellith hard by the said townc ; Richard Walter, gent.,
learned in the lawes of the realm e ; Thomas Blasfeld, gent.
The rest of this towne are cownted either enncmeys or newters.
Hereford :
Ther be also in this diocese and conntey of Hereford diucrse
fostered and nrcayntayned that be iuged & estemed some of them to
be learned, which in Queue -Marys daies had livinges and oflieeis in
the ehurche, which be mortal! and deadly ennemys to this religion.
Their names be blaxton, mugge, Ardcn, Ely, frier gregory, Howard,
Rastall of gloeeter, Jonson, menevar, Oswald, Hamerson, ledbery
and certcyne others whose names I knowe not. These go from on
gentlemans house to another, whear thci know to be welcome which
(as S. Paule writcth of some soche like totitus) tolas domus subuer-
tuntj docente's quae non oportet, turpis lucri gratia*
The cheafe and principall receivers & maynteners of these ar
William lnson, canon residensari of Hereford, the vecars of the
q\tere ther, Thomas Havard of Hereford, iustice of peace. John
skudamor of Kenchurchc, iustice of peace; John Hibottcs of
Hampton, iustice of peace; Richard Harford of bosbery, esq. ;
Thomas Croft of Ocley, esq. ; William berington of Winsley, esq. ;
Thomas Clynton of Esttior, iustice of peace ; Thomas berington of
cowarne, gent ; James eiton, William Russell, John Ely ec John
Hide citezens of Hereford and of the common counsell ther.
And of these ther be certeine thought to haue masseis in their
houseis, which come very seldome or not at all to ehurche, which
neucr received the communion since the Quenes majesties raigne
openly in the church, which keape as it wer scoles in their houses
of popery, deriding and mocking this religion & the ministers
Titus i. 11.
20
LETTERS FEOM THE BISHOPS
therof, which be a marvelous stombling block to the Quenes
majestes loving subiectes in this countei. Being in them and som
tyme also hearing of them, sochc contempt of religion without
correction or controlment as for my part I remember the wise saing
of iesus the sonne of Syrac, index evadere ue contendas, ne inique
factis par esse non posfis.* I must neades confesse that I am not
able to reforme these, except I shuld be mightcly backed by your
honorable auctorite, and haue those Worshipfull iusticeis which ar
denied favorers of religion to be more emestly ayding than thei
haue ben ; to enterprise a matter, and not able to finishe the same
accordingly, shuld encrease furtlie derisiott, contempt and hatcred
with out profit. Therfor 1 referre this to your most honorable
consideracion and godly wisdom.
I 13a.
Hereford :
Further whearas your honors willed me by your said honorable
letters that I shuld also acluertise the same yf ther war any other
thing within the said diocese of heieford that might tende to the
redresse of the disorder you wrote of, (which you meane to remedei)
Maye yt" please your honors to be advertesed that yf the psthedrall
churche of Hereford war reformed, the citei also and the countei of
hereford, yea, the holl dyoccse, wold sone be by goddes grace be (sic)
in like maner reformed. Besides myne owne knowle^e Mr. John
Ellvs, deane of the said churche, hathe certcfied me as foloweth :
thet all the canons resedensaries ("except Jones, qui elicit, et i<on
feicit which ys rashe, hastei and ondiscrete), ar but discemllers and
rancke papistes. And these banc the rule of the churche, and of
all the ministres and officers of the same, and ar neither subieet to
the ordenary iurisdictyon, neither of the deane, nor of the bushop
but war reserued inmediately to the vsurped iurisdiction of the
bishop of romc, and nowe to the Queues mojestei (as thei saie)
which thei clay me and hold by prescription. So that now thei
1 Eccl. vii. G. Ed. Tigurina.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1 5G4. 21
maie do what thei list without controlmcnt. Tliei neither obserue
the Queues mnjestes iniunctions given vnto them in her highnes
visitacion, nor the archebusshope of Cantorbcris iniunctions given
them in his visitacion, nor yet the iniunctyons of the Queries
maiestes hie commissioners (wherof I send herein vnto your honors
a copei). The communion wus not ministred in the cathedrall
churche since ester (as I. am enformed). The canons will neither
preache, reade homelis nor minister the holy communion, nor do
any other tiling to commend, beautefie or set foi wardes this religion,
but mutter agenst yt; receive and mayntaine the ennemys of reli-
gion. So that this churche which shuld be the light of all the
diocese ys very darkenes, and an ensample of contempt of true
religion, whome the citei and countre abought fblowe apase.
The said deane hathe also ccrtefied me that the vecars of the Quere,
the deacons and sextons be all mortall ennemys to this religion,
receivears and mayntenars of soche as themselves be.
S. Paulo compareth false doctrine and religion to the kanker
called ganyrena which (except yt be quickly cured & healed)
neuer ceaseth creping and infecting on part & member after another,
tyll )t hath distroied the holl bodey.
Your honors by your wisdome can consider howe daungcrous and
perlous vnto -the holl eccles'asticall and politicall body of this
dyocese this fretting and creping canker ys, when yt doth once
posscsse the heade churche of all the diocese. The only remedy
wherof ys, that yt maie please the Queues majestei to committe
either an ordinary iurisdiction or soche auctorite as shall please her
highnes, to whome yt shall please her majestei, that maie and will
vrge them either to do as becommeth good christean subiectes and
faith full ministers or els to place others in their rom ther that will
do accordingly.
f. 13b.
Die veneris xx die februarii a0 dni 1561 pad lambeth coram Iievm0
patre Matheo Cantuar archiepiscopoao IlevJu patro Edm.mdo London
episcopo et lloberto ^Veston legum doctorc cemmissioniariis regiis.
99
LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
Hereford :
An order for Mr. William hison prebendary of Hereford and
others the prebendaries thcr, enyonved vnto them by the said com-
missioners to be executed and red inmediatly after the reading of
the homelys every daie in their order and corse.
Good people, yt ys very requisite that some publike testification
be made that the ministers of the church consent and agre in on
vnitc of doctrine and religion, by reason wherof yt ys very "".veil
ordered in this ehurche agreable to the Queues maiestes iniunctyons
that the principal! ministers of the same sliuld so do by preehing,
reading of homelys and other declaration, that no scruple shuld
remayne in the myndes of the people of any difference or dissentyon
to be emongst vs, and therfor for my part do willingly testefei my
assent to the godly publike reformacions established by the lawes of
this realme and namely in these two artikells folowing: —
Ffirst I am in conscience persuaded that the ehurche of en gland
ys a true member of the holy cathoiike ehurche. And that the
Qucnes maiestei ys by right and iuste title the supreme gouernor • of
the same ehurche of England next and inmediatly vndcr our saveor
iesus christ, bothe in matters ecclesiasticall and temporally and that
neither the bushop of romc nor any other foreine povrre, pote:itate
or prelate hathe or ought to haue any maner auctorite or iurisdic-
tyon in or o ver the said ehurche of England. c„
I am also persuaded and do confesse that the order of adminis-
traeion of saeramentes, the common praires and other rytes and
ceremoneis prescribed by the boke of common praire ar sincere,
true and good, and consonant to the doctrine of holy scriptures,
and the auncient vsagc of the holv catholiko ehurche of christ.
Item, that the said Mr. luson shall minister the communion in
the cathedrall ehurche of Hereford on some sondaie or holy daie
after thendc of ester wcake next eomming.
Item, that he shall rcade the homely of salvacion on that daie or
some other sondaie in the said cathedrall ehmvhe before the first
daie of mayc next eomming, so that en of the Canons of the said
TO THE PKIVT COUNCIL, 15G4. 23
cluirche, being no prechar, doo reade on before him, and all other
canons of the said churche being no prcchars to do the like in their
tuines, on soche daies as ther shall be no sermon.
Concordat cum regisiro, William bedell.
f. 14a.
Yf your honors wold cause these formal iniunetions to be put in
execution, yf the canons thcmeelues wold not receive any good
therby, yet I trust that the people shuld. or at lest this good must
neadcs come hereof, that thei shuld discredite thcmselucs, yf thei
shuld in secret speake ayenst that "which thei had confessed openly
in ther churche : because I cold not get any of the canons that
dwell in Hereford to reade the fiist homely according to the formar
order, I sent in to shropshere to on Parson Normcrote," a canon of
that church of Hereford, to come and reade an homely according to
the said order : who did yt, and that very well : whervpon I
thought that Mr. luson & the rest wold have folowed but thei did
not, nor never will except thei be forced by auctorite & cetera.
Endowed : To the moste honorable the Queues maicstes
privei cownsell my veraie good lordes.
f. 15a.
Blessed be the almighty and everlasting god, in whose handes
ar the hartes of all kynges and princes, who hath moved the harte
of our most gratiouse Soverayne, and the hartes of her maiestes
most honorable cownsell, to consydcr in tyme the state of goddes
true religion, daungerously declyning in the most partes of the
churches in this realme. Our heavenly father who hath moved her
maiestes harte and yours also graunt your Maiesti and you all her
honorable cownsell, as godly courage as god wisshed and gave to
Moses, Josue, David and opershis godly gouernours, to thintent this
realme may be blessed, and goddys holy name glorified, et vos
rep&rtetis immarcessibilem gloriae coronam,h Now for answere to
* Kojrer Normecote, collated £3 March, 15G0-1. Le KeTe, i. 505.
b 1. Peter y. 4.
24 LETTERS FORM THE BISHOrS
your honours letter. Towching the Justices in Cambridge shyre,
I haue conferred with Mr, Chicheley, Mr. Hutton, Mr. Hynde and
Mr. Pygot. Towelling the Justices of the Isle of Ely, I haue
conferred with Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Dixon and .Mr. Adam. Towchino-
the Justices for Cambridge, I haue conferred with Dr. Hawforde,
Dr. Ithel, Dr. Stokes, Dr. Kclke, & William Mownsey now Maior,
and in Cambridge it is most requisite to have Justices of good
religion. And as I can learne, there ar iii sortes of Justices con-
cerning godly religion, sum good, whom J. haue noted with this
letter "g." Sum conformable, whom J haue noted with this
letter "c." Sum mislyked, npon whom I haue sett no signe.
And because your honours do rcquyre me to signifie whom I thinke
most mete for service that way, who commonly serue in the
quorum, I have enterprised to note my fansye with this letter
uq" apon their heads, who ar thought metest. And further
because your pleasure is, that if I consyder of any other thing,
tending to your godly meaning for the redresse of this disorder, I
shulde signifie the same to your honours, I have noted my poore
opinion in a by papyr, to be expended of your wisdoms. And
thus I trust I haue answered your honours expectation after my
rude maner. Ffor my parte I will after my poore witt and vnder-
standing trayaile according to your most godly meaning, and call
apon god with my harty prayers, alwayes to assiste you in this
most nedeful busyncs. The lorde Jesus prosper all your fodiy
affayers. Ffrom Ely the vith of Xouember, 1564.
Youre honours to coramaunde,
ElCHARDE ELY.a
f. 16.
Commissioners for the peace with in the countye of Cambrydf*e :
g. c. Edwarde Lord Northe of Kellynge; q.c. Sir Gyles Alvmrton
of llorshed; Sir Robert Chester of Royston; q.cj. Sir Roger Northe;
Sir John Coton of Landnad ; q. c. Barnet Ffrevell of Shelforde :
• Cox.
•V-
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 25
q. c.Mr. Robert Payton oflsleam; g. Mr, Frauncys Hynde of Mading-
Icy ; g. Mr. Henrye Pygot of Abyngton ; q. g. Mr. John Hutton of
Drydrayton; c. Mr. Jhon Myllccent of Berham;a Mr. Thomas
Homes of Barrogrene ; q. g. Mr. Chycheley not in commission.
Commissioners for the peace in the Isle of Elye :
q. g. Mr. Antonye Stapleton cheffe iustyce hear.
Commissioners rcsiant with in the Isle :
g. Mr. Gefferey Colvill of Newton ; q. g. Mr. Robert Balam of Wys-
biche; g. Mr. Edwarde stewarde of Chatteresse; g. Mr. Thomas Wren
of Hadnam ; q. g. Yvillyam Adam of Tyd ; g. Mr. William Bryan of
Leneryngton ; q. g. Mr. William Hopkyns of El}-e ; g. Mr. Raffe
Dyxon of Duddyngton.
Commissioners of peace not resiant in the Isle:
<7. Mr. ffrauneys Hynde ; c. Mr. Robert Payton ; g. Mr. Henrye
Reppys; c. Mr. Rycharde Payton ; g. Mr. William Thorneton ; g.
William Adam of Ely, mete to be in commission ; q. g. Dr. Ithell
channcelar, to the Bysshope.
Commissioners for the peace in Cambridge :
The vycechauncelar and the mayor for the tyme beyno-e.
Jhon Poryc b Dr. of Dhiinitye ; c. Henrye Hervey,'' D. of Lawe ;
Alexander Raye, Alderman ; g. Robert Shutt, recorder;0 Phylyp
baker, D. of Dyuynytye ; q. g. Thomas Ventris, Alderman ; c. Henrye
Searle/ Alderman ; g. Roger Slegge/ Alderman.
• All these signed the Act of Uniformity, 15G9.
b Signed the Act of Uniformity.
e M.P. 1571. See Cooper's Annah.
d Enquiries on their conduct in State Papers, Addenda, 1504, No. 29, p. 553.
See too State Papers, September 11 and October 21, loG4.
CA3ID. SOC. E
26 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
Men mete for the commission there :
q. <j. Dr. Hawforde, Master of Christes college ; q. g. Dr. Bewmant,
Master of Trynytye college j q. g. W. Mounsey nowe maior ; g. Dr.
Stokes, Master of Queues College. The multitude of Justices
thought not ncdefull.
Endorsed : To the Quenes Maiestes most honorable cownsell.
f. 18a.
My dewtie first accordinglie remembered to your honours. Hit
may please the same to be aducrtisedd that for the accomplisshinge
of your pleasures yttered vnto me in the lettres, which I receaved
the xxth daye of October last paste, 1 haue conferred with certen
archdecons Comissaries ande Officialla exercisinge Jurisdiction
within the precincte of my office whom I know to be men bothe
learned and honeste, and likewise to have good knowledge bothe
of them that are in auctoritie and in commission for the peace at
this present in the place where they exercise Jurisdiction ande also
of others, beinge owte of commission, who in their opinions are
mcete to be called R therevnto. The efFecte ensuinge of
that owre conference your honours shall perceaue by the shedells or
papers he-revnto annexed. In the which allso I haue written certen
articles, which in my opinion may scrue for remedies of certen
disorders, levinge the same to your godly consideracions ande
commendinge yowr honors to the blessed gouermente of all
myghtie godd. Ffrom Bugden this viith of November lofi-f.
Your honours to commaunde
f. 20a. N. Lincoln.''
Lincoln :
Justices of pece there :
Richard Dismy, armiger, Edmund Hall, armiger, Robert Garr,
esquier, Anthonie Harrold, earnest in religion.
Ivoberte Dymocke, esquier, Roberto Ilarringtonnc, mort,c esquier,
William Tharrold, esquier, hindereis.
■ A word illegible. b Nicholas LulliiiyLam.
* Note in Burleigh'a haad.
TO THE PBIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 27
Kesteven :
Richard Bartie, esquier, Thomas Saintpoll, esquier, John Aclmer,
archdeacon of lincoln, Thomas Godwine, canon residenciarie of
lincoln, William Porter, esquier, Charles Wynfeld, gent, Richard
Meares, armiger, James Harrington, gent., Earnest in relligion and
to be trusted there.
Justices of peace there : „
Adland Welbie, esquier, Hunston, esquier, Johnne
Manne, gent., earnest in relligion.
Leonard Irbie, gent., Holland, esquier, Ogle, gent.,
indifferent.
Holland :
Richard Bartie, esquier, Thomas Saintpoll, esquier, John Aclmer,
Archdecon of lincoln, Thomas Godwine, canon residenciavy of
lincoln, Edmundd Lyall, esquier, "William Derbie, esquier, Laurence
Meares, esquier, Earnest in relligion and to be trusted there.
f. 20b.
Justices of peace :
Sir Richard Thimelbie, knyght, Sir William Skip with, knight,
Thomas Saintpoll, esquier, Roberto Mounson, esquier, Laurence
Meares, esquier, Adumd Welbie, esquier, Earnest in relligion
Sir Edward Dymocke, knight, Richard Bolles, esquier, Charles
Willoughbie, esquier, Cristofer Wraw,a esquier, James Smyth,
esquier, Tristrame Tirwhite, esquier, William Manbie, esquier,
Antonie Tomenev,b esquier, Richard Craicroft, esquier, Indifferent.
Sir Roberte Tirwhite, knight, Johnne Copledicke, esquier,
Humfrey Litlebury, esquier, hiuderers.
Richard Bartie, esquier, John Aelmcr, Archdeacon of Lincoln,
Thomas Godwine, canon residenciary of lincoln, Thomas Morrisonne,
gent., earnest in relligion and fitt to be trusted there.
* I Wraye,in S. P., il 17. L 2 Tourney, in S. T., ii. 17.
28 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
f. 21a.
Countie of the citic of Lincoln :
Aldermen there :
Iohn Hutchinson, Maior, Nicholas Ffawkoner, earnest in
relligion.
Thomas Wright, George Stampe, William Goodknap, William
Kent/ George Porter,1' Ffulbecke,c Leon Ellys,u indifferent.
Richard Caiter,e William Scolfeld/ Edward Hallelary/ hinderers.
Martine Hollingwourth, late alderman, veray earnest in relligion,
honest and pollitique.
The names of them with whom I haue conferredd :
Mr. Jhon Aelmar, archedecon of lincoln, Mr. Thomas Taylor,
regester, Mr. Thomas Sainctepoll, esquyer.
f. 21b.
The Corporacion of Grauntham, Combiirgisies (sic):
Ro^er Jonsonne, Thomas Tilson,h John Tailor, earnest in relligion.
Simon Hanson, Gabriel Best, John Picke, Thomas Sympson,
Robert Gibbon, indifferent.
Humfrey Duckar, alderimm, George Atkinson, Roberte Wright,
John Brotherton, Edward Mortonne, hinderers.
f. 22a.
Bedfordshire:
All Justices now in commission:
Lewes Mordent,1 esquyer, Lewes Dyve,1 esquier, Thomas pygott,
esquier, John Thomson,1 esquier, Thomas Leigh, i esquier, Robert
Xedegate,1 esquier, Earnest in religion.
Humfrey Katlilf,' knight, Peter Gray,1 esquier, Raulf Astrye,'
esquier, indilFerent.
John Gascoync,1 knight, John Cowlbeck,1 esquier, John Ffuller,'
esquier, hinderers.
* Mayor 1572. See Liucolu, names of Mayor?, &c b Mayor 1575.
c Mayor 15G5. d Mayor 1 57-'. * Mayor 1577.
f Mayor 157C. * Mayor 15G7.
b Robert Gibbon scratched out.
1 All in Tat. RolL, 0 Eliz., pt. 3, mem. 1.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 15G4. 29
Henry Cheney, knight, Reynold Grey, esquier, John Burgoyne,
esquier, John Swif'te, esquier, Thomas Snager, esquier, Henry
Ackworth, irent., earnest in religion and fvtt to be trusted.
The Corporacion of Bedford. Out of Comission:
Thomas Leigh esquier, Thomas Dyve gent., Earnest in religion.
Eye-herd Laurence, William Bull, hinderers.
Henry Laurence, Alexander Hunt, Earnest in religion and fytt
to be trusted.
The names of them with whom I have conferred:
Maister Addams, minister, Maister leighe, esquyer.
f. 22b. •
Huntingdonshyre :
All Justices now in Comission :
Robert Tyrwhit, knight, Rychard Darington, esquier, earnest in
religion.
Laurence Tallard, knight, William Laurence, esquier, Gylbert
Smithe, esquier, Robert Fi'orest, esquier, indifferent in religion.
Thomas Cotton, esquier, a hindcrer of religion.
Oute of Comission:
Henry a Cromwell, knight, William Mallary, esquier, Thomas
Worlcge, gent., Robert Awdeley, gent., earnest in religion and
fytt to be trusted.
Thauncient of the corporacion of Huntingdon r
William Symcotes, gent., Thomas Harrys, Robert Blynethorne,
John Turpen, earnest in religion.
Henry Backhand* gent., "William Wallys, William Bushe, John
Rychardes, hinderers in religion.
Charles Rigges, Rychard May re, Anthony Dixon, indifferent in
religion.
■ Henry scratched out.
30 LETTERS FEOil THE BISHOPS
I haue conferred with maister William Slacd, eomyssary for this
shere.
f. 23a.
Hertfordshere :
Justices and now in comission:
John Broeketc, esquier, George Horsey, esquier, Thomas Dock-
wray esq., Rowland Lutton, esq., Nyeholas Bristow, esq., earnest in
religion.
John Butler, knight, John Twynco, esquier, Mr. Burgoyne, esq.,
Mr. Purvey, esquyer* hindcrers of religion.
Oute of Comission:
Mr. Tucke, esquier, John Nedam, esq., earnest in religion &
fyt to be trusted.
1 haue conferred for this shore with Mr. William Slayd, comissarie
and Maister smythe, minister.
f. 24a.
Leicestershire :
All Justices n owe in commission :
Sir Thomas Novell of Holt, knight, George Hastingcs, esquier,
Adriane Stookes de Barrowe, esquier, Ffrancisce Cave de Baggrave,
esquier, Brians Cave de Ingersbie, esquier, George Turpyn de
Knaptoft, esquier, Nicholas Beamount de Coloverton, esquier,
Brokesbie de Sholbie, esquier, Leonard Dan net t de dannet hall,
esquier, Ffrancisce Broune de Ivilbie, esquier, earnest in religion.
Migliell Purefey, esquier, George Vincent de peckleton, esquier,
Smyth de dalbie purva, esquier, indifferent.
William Skevington de Skevington armiger, hinderer ; Maurice
Bartlcy de Womendham, esquier, indifferent ; Laurence Saunders,
gent., hinderer.
Mr. Outreade de Burton lazars, esquier, learned and wise, William
Blounte de Osbaston, gent., Thomas Boose de Lutterwourth, gent.,
Thomas Ashebie de Loscbie, gent., 1 nomas Brahm de Barrowe,
gent , John Xowell de Willesborough, gent., Temple de
eadfcin], gent., earnest in relligion and fit t to be trusted.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1 5G4. 31
f. 24 b.
The Oorporacion of Leicestre. Aunceantes of the Corporacion
there :
William Manbie, Johnnc Hericke,a Richard Davie,'' Parker/
Inglish,d Clarke/ Gillott f senior, earnest in religion.
Halame,s Raignoldes,u Stamford,' Tatham,J indifferent
Nix, Maior,k Ffletcher, Ffowler,1 Morice,"1 hindcrers.
The names of them with "whom I haue conferred :
Maister John Aelmer, Maister Thomas Larke, comissary and
officall.
f. 20a.
Buckinghamshyre :
Justices and now in comission :
Paule Parrcll, esquier,n Thomas Pygott, esquier,0 Thomas
Fflitwood, esq.,11 John Cheney of Amersham/1 Mr. Cade . of
Dorney, John Doyley, esquier, Willelmus Day, prepositus Eton,
Thomas Tyrringham, esq.
William Garrett, knight, Edmund Ashfield, esquier,1" John
Goodwyn, esquier,5 Nicholas West, .esquier,' William Ilawtree,
esquier," Richard Hamden, esquier, indifferent in religion.
Robert Druryc, knight, v Edmund Wyndzore, esq., John Cheney
of Chessham boves,w hinderers of religion.
* J. Thompson. Leicester, p. 251, gives him as Mayor, 1572.
b /*., 15G3, 1575. c lb., 1560. d lb., 1570.
' lb., 15G9. f lb., 1571. s lb., 1561, 1574.
h lb., 15G2. ' lb., 1573. J lb., 1567, 1577.
k lb., 156-1. ' //'., 15G5. °> ? Noryce, ib., 1579.
0 Lipscombe, I. xvii., High Sheriff, 15G2. ° lb., 1570.
p lb., 1503. t Ib.,1567. r High Sheriff, 15GS.
* lb., 15G1. * Signed the Act of Uniformity.
0 High Sheriff, 155S ; signed the Act.
T High Sheriff, 15G0 ; signed the Act. w High Sheriff, 15G5.
32 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
Oute of C omission :
Henry Lee, knight, Thomas Packington, knight, Robert Stafford,
knight, "William Filitwood of the temple, Robert Mordant, gent.,
By chard Craiford, gent., Roger A 1 ford, gent.,a John Purefrey,
gent., John Burlacye, gent. ,b Wilkin Shepherd, gent., Mr. Croke of
Chilton, gent.,c Pauls Went ford, gent., earnest in religion & fitt
to be trusted.
f 25b.
Thomas Pigott, esquier,d Mr. Tyrill, esquier, Rychard Hichcok,
gent., Alexander Denton, gent., Mr. Harcote of lecnamstede, William
Cornewalle, gent., William Biseley, gent., Thomas Rede, gent.,
Thomas WTayncman, gent., William Clarke, gent., Bobert Xewde-
gate, gent., Walter Wynzore, esq., William Wyndzore, esquier,
]\Jr. Pymme, Baron of thexchecour, Bychard Payne, esquier,
indifferent in religion.
Bobert Pcekham, knight,6 William Dormer, knight/ Robert
Pygott, gent., Thomas Giflord, esq., Mr. Hamdon of JIartwell, Mr.
Scrope of Hambledon, Davy Pen, gent., John Xewdegate, gent.,
George Hansley, George Peckham, gent.,s Edward Ardes, gent.,
Bychard F farmer, gent., Half Hay don, gent., Mr. Rookes of Ffawley,
hindcrers of religion.
These bee they with whom I did conferre :
Jolin Lon gland, Archdeacon of Buckingham, John Cheney,
esquier, Mr. Ffyssher, preacner.
f. 27a.
Remedies for disorders :
1. A comission tobegraunted to certen chosen persons bothe of
the Clergie and laitie to extende as well to places exemptc as not
* Signed the Act. " Mr." is corrected to " lioger." b Signed the Act.
c High Sheriff. 1574. d High Sheriff, 1570.
« Died at Rome, IV.. 451. * High Sheriff. 1567.
e High Sheriff, 1572.
TO THE PEIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 33
exerhpte, •within liberties and withoute, for reformacions of disorders
in religion.
2. That the said comissioners haue auctoritie to reform all suehe
papistical! orders and wages in cathedrall and collegiat cherches as
by theire discrecion shall appeere woorthie reformacion.
3. Som conuenyente order to be taken with the romisshe
sectuaries, as well beinge in durance as straglinge abrode, for
reformacion of theire obstinaeie which dothe mvtche harm
amongstc the people of god and the queen her maiestes subiectes.
4. The iustices of pens to be charged to be present at everie
quarter sessions where the}'' shall cawse the articles, accorded vpon
for vniformitie in religion, to be openly redd and then to be
confyrmed and allowed of by theire severall actes in subscribinge
openly to the same.
5. That thenqueste then to be panyelled may be charged to
certifie in theire veredictes all suche whom they shall learn to
maynteyn any contrarie opinion, and that the forsaid comissioners
may haue auctoritie to reforme suche offendours accordinglie.
G. That the archedecon comissarie and officiall or the woorthiest
of them may be in the commission of peas with in the circute of
his office and that the same haue in charge to be presente at everie
quarter sessions, where on of them or som other learned man vpon
theire appointement, shall make a sermon concerninge the setting
forthe of the doctrin conteyned in the said articles.
f. 27b.
To everie cathedrall cherche the dean and residensaries shall by
coarse make everie of them ones in a quarter a sermonde. And in
the same, after the prayers, shall read openly and distinctly the
said articles of religion allowingc then of the same by his open
confession and shall allure others therevnto.
Endorsed : To the moste honorable lordes of the queen her
maiestes priuie cowncell.
camd. soc. F
34 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
f. 30.
Certavnc brefe notes of vour honors to be considered : a
1. F first the learned aduersaries being ecclcsiasticall persons to be
ether banished or scquestred from conference with such as be
fawtors of there religion, or elles the othe to be tendrcd vnto them.
Forthwith, considering thei haue so litle passed of the Queues
maicsties clemeneve, to them shewed these six yeares, whereby it
doth appeare that they be more stubburne & more incoraged than
thei ware before.
2. Item, that the stragling doctors & pricstcs who haue libertie
to stray at there pleasures within this realme do much hurte
secrettlve and in corners, therefore it weare good that thei might be
called before the highe commissioners and to shew there con-
formitie in religion bv subscribing or open recantacion or elles to
be restrained from there said libertie.
3. Item, a proclamation to be sett forth by the quenes maicsties
aucthoritie, to represse the bold talk and bragges of the aduersaries
of good religion, and by the same proclamation that the ministers
of goddes word might be incoraged to vse there function without
feare, who be now in a manner nothing estemed.
4. Item, a commission to be awarded as the highe commis-
sioners haue at London at this present, whearein the bysshopp of
the diocesse and other lei nod men &, good gentellmen might haue
aucthoritie bothe to inqnyre and reforme the aduersaries of good
religion and to represse the fawtors of the same.
5. Item, whereas Kcgestcrs for the most parte haue there office
by patent being corrupt in religion, who do more hurte knowing
the state of the diocesse and being in greate estimacion with the
aduersaries of good religion then the prechers are able to do good
nthenvaves, therefore it weare mete that the bysshopp might haue
aucthoritie to remove them owt of there roomes allowing them a
ceitayne resonable stypend and to place theim that did lavor the
setting forth of good religion.
» This appears to be from the Bishop of Peterborough, Edmund Scambler,
TO THE PEIVY COUNCIL, 156 i. 3-5
6. Item, whereas the chefe Constables of euerye hundred which
be rino-e leders of the people and whom the people haue in greate
credytt and for the most parte he fa w tors of naughtie religion, that
it might be provyded that the commissioners by the consent of the
the bysshopp, vppon iust occasion might haue aucthoritie to remove
them and to place other in there places.
7. Item, there be diuerse gentellmen of euell religion that kepe
scholemasters in there houses pmatelye, who be of corrupt
iudgementes and do exceding greate hurte as well in those houses
O DO
where thei teaches as in the Oountrie abrodc abought them, that it
might be provyded that the sayd gentellmen should not kepe
privatelve in there houses no maner of scholemasters but ssuch as
should be examined by the hysshop of the diocesse and admitted
thereunto bv licence vndcr his scale of office.
f. 30b.
8. Item, that the Prebendaries of euerye Cathedral! churche
mayc be inforced by aucthoritie to make a manifest and open
declaration of there faithc before the congregacion by thappoynt-
ment of the Bysshopp of the diocesse, and in there said declaration
to sett forthe the aucthoritie of this religion by parliament
established and by goddes word confirmed, and that thei do openly
professe and geve there consent to the same, detesting all other
religion to the contrarye, and also shall subscrybe to the articles of
Religion agreed vppon in the presence of the Bysshopp and other
commissioners appoynted for the reformation of religion.
f. 31b.
Comitatus Northamton :
^sowe in the commission of the peace :
Sir Walter Mvldmaye, knight, Sir Eoberte Lawe, knight, Mr.
Edwarde Mountague, esquyer, Edmonde Elmes, esquier, George
lynne, Mr. Moungomerye, Mr. Wattes, esquiers, earnest furtherers
of religion*
36 LETTEES FEOM THE BISHOPS
Mr. Ffrauncys Saunders, esquyer, Thomas Spencer, esquyer,
indifferent in religion.
Nowe in the commission of the peace :
Mr. Valentyne Knightley, Sir John Spencer, Sir Thomas
Gryfiyn, Sir John Ffarmcr, knightes, Edwarde gryffyn, Mr.
Cateshye of Whyshyn, Thomas Lovett, esquiers, greate letters of
religion.
And now owt of the commission of the peace :
Edmounde Brudenell, John Wake, esquiers, John ffosbrooke,
Bartholomew Tate, Jhon Pyckeryng, Mr. Coope of
cannonsashbye, John Dreyden,8 James Crewes,b Roberte Pemberton,
gentellmen, Mr. Anthonye Burton, bachelor of diuinitie and chan-
cellor of Peterboroughe, earnest furtherers of religion and worthic
to be trusted.
f. 32a.
Burgh Socon being a peculiar libertic :
Esquiers and now in the commission of the peace of that
libertie.
Koberte TYyngfelde thelder, Fraunceys Quarles, Eoberte
"Wyngfelde the younger, Boberte Browne, earnest furtherers of
Religion.
Jhon Mounstwing, gentellman, a greate letter of religion, and
now in commission for the peace within the same libertie.
Peter Kemppe, gentellman, an earnest furtherer of Religion
within the same libertie, and now owt of the commission of the
peace.
The Corporacion of Northampton :
Mr. Bawgyc, Mr. Cole, earnest furtherers of religion and now in
the commission of the peace within the same towne.
1 Jhon Wake, scratched out. k Wake corrected to Crewes.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 37
Conitatus (sic) Rutland :
James Harrington csquyer, earnest furtherer of religion and now
in the commission of the peace there.
Mr. Dyckbye of Stoke, indifferent in religion.
Mr. Anthony Collye, Mr. John Hunt, Mr. Calcott, esquyers,
greate hynderers of religion and now in commission of the peace
there.
Mr. Anthonye Burton, Bachelir of divinitie and Chancellor of
Peterburgh, Mr. Mack worth, Mr. Jhon Harrington of
Exton, Mr. Fflowre of "Whytwell, earnest furtherers of religion
there & worthy to be trusted, and now owt of the commission of
the peace there.
f. 34a.
Eight honorable, after my most humble commendations, it maye
please your honors to understand, that upon your honours letters
lately directed unto me, I have considered of the Justices for the
peace wythin the counties of Wiltshyre, and Barkshire, whiche
counties bothe lye wythin the dioces committed to my charge, and
in seueral schedles haue noted owt bothe theire names and
dwellinge places, and also theire sundrie inclinations towardes the
furtherance of Goddes truethe, and that sincerely, and uprightly,
and wythout al partialitie, accord inge to the trust that your honours
haue reposed in me toutehinge the same, wherin also I haue used
thaduise of sutche gentlemen as in the seueral schedles unto your
honours maye appeare. Thus I humbly take my leaue and wyshe
unto your honours the sprite of wysedome, and thencrease of
Goddes grace.
From my poore house in Sarum, 9 Xouemb. 1564.
Your honours most humble
Jo. Sarum.5
• Jewell.
38 LETTERS FROM TIIE BISHOPS
f. 3.5*.
The names of the Justice? for the peace wythin Wiltshire :
John Meruin of Fountel, knight, Xo hinderer ; John Thinne of
Longleate, knight, A furthercr earnest; John Zouche of Ansty,
knight, A furtlierer earnest ; George penruddock of luychurche, A
furthercr earnest ; Nicolas Snel of Kington S. Michaelis, No
hinderer; Edward Baynton of Rowdon, Xo hinderer ; Edward
Baynard of Lakeham, A furthercr earnest; Henry Sharington of
Lacockc, A furtherer earnest ; Richard Kingesmyl of Ouerton, A
furthercr earn(est); Jo. Sainctjohn of Lidiard, Xo hinderer; Jo.
Byre of Chalfyld, Xo hinderer; Christofer Willugbee of Litle
Knoelj Xo hinderer ; Christofer Dodington of Meere, A furthercr •
Jo. Berwike of Wilcote, Xo hinderer; Jo. Hooper of Sarum,
Xo hinderer ; Giles Thistlethwaite of Winterslowe, A furthercr •
Henry Boddinham of Fulstone., Xo hinderer.
Other gentlemen of your honours to be consydered :
George Ludlowe, a furthercr, Laurence Hyde, a furtlierer, Henry
Clyfford, a furthercr, Al wysc and politique and liable to serue.
Wyth thaduise of Sir Jo. Zouche.
f. 30a.
The names of Justices for the peace wvthin the Countie of
Berkshyre :
Henry Xeuil of Rnscombe, knight, A furtherer earnest; Richard
Warde of Hurste, as it ys supposed no hinderer ; Thomas Welden
of Cookham, A furtherer; Thomas Stafford of Bradfild, A furtherer-
John Winchcomoe of Bucklelmry, A furthercr; Edmund plowden
of Shiplake, as it ys supposed a hinderer ; Jo. Cheyney of AVood-
hay, A furtherer ; Griffith Curteis of Greenham, A furtherer earnest-
Roger Yonge of Bustyldeane, A furtherer earnest; William*
* Cor. fruni Jo.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 39
Dunche of Litle Wittenham, A furtherer earnest ; Jo. Fetiplace
of Beselslygh, A furtherer ; Robert Kelaway of Shallingford, A
furtherer ; William Hyde of Denchworthe, No furtherer.
Jo. Yate of Buckland, neuer yet received the holy Communion
sythence the beginninge of the queues maiesties reigne, and there-
for nowe excommunicate, and returned into the kinges bench for
the same.
One gentleman of your honours to be consydcred :
Edmund Dokwra, of Chamberhouse,8 a furtherer and learned.
Wythe thaduise of John AVinchecombe and Griffith Curteis.
Endorsed : To the right honorable and my singular good Lordes,
the Lordes of the queenes maiesties most honorable privy
councel.
f. 38a.
Rioht honorable <fc mv verv irood lordes, with all humblenes tliesc
may be to signifv vnto you, that having receaved the xxvi'1' day of
October tast.vour honores lettcres, bearing date the xviith day of the
same monethe, according to my bounden duety, with all speed and
diligence that I cold vse in suche diepnes of waies, and distance of
the persones from me with whom I might confer, I have ende-
voured mv self taccomplishe vour commaundement, and answer
your expectation in certifying of suche Justices of the peace as ar
communly resiaunt within the severall shyres of my Dioces or
Jurisdiction. Wherin for my better procieding, I first vsed the
counsell of Mr. Nowell, Dean of Lichfield & James Weston, my
Eeo-istcr, men godly <Sc zelous, of lunger continuance, and therby
of more knolegc and experience in my Dioces than I ; by whose
advvse I sent for suche persones as were thoght most miet, for love
* Inserted.
40 LETTERS FE03I THE BISHOrS
to Justice & zeal for religion, to confer with for suclie effect as in
your honoures letteres is specified, and so vsing & folowing their
advise to that end, I have first simply made certificate after the
same, adding consequently that opinion which I have of them
severally conceived, hy commun reporte of suche credible men as I
have to do with in my dioces, and myn oun daily experience :
Partly that your honores may vnder stand the opinion of those with
whom I have conferred, and partly what I here & vnderstand of
them by commun reporte of good men otherwys. And Wheras
vour honoures moved me to advertise you of anv other thinges
tending to the redres of disorderes within my dioces, ffor the
county of Stafford where my habitation is, by mcanes wherof I
have better vnderstanding of the commun doinges then in other
places, thies few thinges I have to signify, vnder your honores
correction.
ffirst, for the county of Stafford bicaus ther be not many learned
men in the same, it is thoght a great hinderance to Justice, that
they which be lerned & Justices, ar also commun counselleres in
the shyr, by which meanes ether the Quenes maiestie is not faith-
fully served or the clientes not iustly helped ; of thies I here diverse
complain.
Secondly, the number of attorneis, frequenting the assizes and
sessiones at Stafford, are raged to bried and norishe matters of
stryf & contention betwien party & party for their lucre sake :
which if it might be otherwys helped, is thoght good to many
men.
Thirdly, wheras the cuntry is to miche hinderly in all good
thinges perteining to religion, yet the abyding of Doctor Poole,
late bishop of Peterboro, in that shyr with Bryan ffowler, esquier,
a litle from Stafford, causeth many pieple think wurs of the regi-
ment & religion then els they wold doo, bicaus that diverse lewd
priestes have resort thither : but what conferens thev have, I can
not learn. "VYherfor if it pleas your honores to remove him from
TO THE I'PJVY COUNCIL, 15G4. 41
thens, you shall doo miche good to the cuntry, and frustrate
thexpectation of evill disposed pcrsones.
ffourthly, 1 have bien moved diverse tymes by many godly men,
to labour vnto the Queues maiestie or to your honores for a com-
mission, wherby I might better do my deuty, for that many
ofFenderes ar ether born with by M [aster] ship, which I alone can
not redres, or els fly into exempt places & peculiar Jurisdictiones
and so avoid ordinary correction, not "without great offence and
slaunder bothe of the gospell & ministeres therof, which thing
I refer to your godly wisdom to consider as occasion shall move
you.
f. 38b.
Last of all, the greatest disorder within my hool Dioces, hathe
bien in great tounes corporate ; for there when I have required
thassistaunce of the bailiffes or other officercs, I have found open
resistance in matteres of charge, wherof it is niedfull to place good
men in office there : & yet presently I am not able to make certifi-
cate who be best affected in those tounes, for that many of them ar
visited with the plage. And therfore thies may be to desyr your
good honores to take this certificate in good parte, even so com-
mitting the same to the mighty & mercit'ull protection of almighty
God, who kiep you all in long, peacefull and helthfull lyf.
this xth of November 1564, at Eccleshall Castle.
Your good honores with ail humblenesand obedience to command
Thomas Coven. & Licn.a
f. 40a.
An Information or Certificate made to the Quiens maiesties
most honorable privy Counsell by Thomas, Bishop of Coventrv &
Lichfield of all the Justices of peace resiaunt within the severall
shyres of his Dioces, and of suchc pcrsones as ar miet to be called
to the said office as folowethe. Novembris, 10, a0 1564.
* Bcntham.
CAMD. SOC. G
42
LETTERS FIIOM THE BISIIOPS
Of Stafford shyr, after tliadvicc of Thomas Wirley, John Lane
& Roger ffoullc, esquieres.
The Lord Viscount Hereford of Chearkley, The Lord Stafford of
Stafford Castell, The Lord Dudley of Wombnm, Sir William
Snede of Brood wall, knight, Sir George Blunt of Knightley, knight,
Sir Baffe Bagnall of Delacres, knight, Humfrcy AYells of Horecros,
esquicr, Baffc Okover of Okover, esquier, Thomas Wirley of
Hamstede, esquier, Edmund James of Corbenes, esquier, John
Levcson of Wolverhampton, esquier, Rafe Adderlcy of the Holt,
esquier, Bryan ffcwler of the .Manor of Sowe, esquier, miet to
continue in oiBee.
Sir Edward Aston of Tixall, knight, Sir William Greisley of
Colton, knight, Simon Harecourt of Ranton, esquier, a knot hurt-
full to Justice & great Alainteincres.
Henry Vernon of Hilton, esquier, an adversary of rellioion.
Sir Edward Litleton of Piliknoll, knight, Sir Raffe Egerton of
WreinhiH, knight, John Rotte.-ley of Rottesley, esquier, John Lane
of Hyde, esquier, Roger ffoulke of Gonstone, esquier, miet to be
called to the office.
f. 4.0b.
The Bishopes advise & opinion for the Justices of Staffordshvr
as foloweth.
Althogh by thopinion of those men whose advvse I vsed for
Stafford shyr, dyvcrsmen be thoght miet to continue in office
of whom I hear litle eommciuk.cion otherwvs, Thies may signify
vnto your honoures that by the conunon report of many men godly
& credible & by that know lege & vnderstanding that I have, thies
persones folowing, viz. : —
Sir William Snede, knight, Sir George Blount, knight, Humfrey
Wei?, esquier, John Leveson, esquier, Rafe Adderley, esquier,
Bryan ffowler, esquicr, ar accounted of good men adversaries to
religion & no favoureres therof, nether in died nor woorde.
Concerning the hurtfull knot & Henry Vernon esquier, I nied
TO THE PEIVY COUXCIL, 15G4. 43
say no more. Ffor I looke that that which is by otheres confessed
wilbe laid to my charge, if you stand not my good Lordes.
As touching suche pcrsones as ar tlioglit miet to be called to the
office, I have nothing to say to the contrary bicaus I hear well of
them all.
The best learned in the county of Stafford.
Thomas Wirley of H'amstcd, Edmund James of Corbenes, Roger
ffonlk of Gunstone, no Justice as yet, favourerea of Relligion &
Lerned.
Humfrey Wells of Horecros, Rafe Adderley of the Holt, Bryan
Ffowler of the manor of So we, no favoureres of Religion but better
learned than the rest.
f. 41a.
01' Darby shyr, after thadvyse of Sir Thomas Kockein Knight,
AY altar Horton, esquier, ct Aden Berisford, esquier, as foloweth : —
Sir John Zouche * of Codner castle, knight, Sir William Sentlow
of Chattesworth, knight, Sir George Vernon of nether Haddon,
knight, Sir Ff rauncis Lekea of Sutton, knight, Sir Thomas Cockeina
of Ashburn, knight, Godfrey fluliambe* of Walton, esquier, Thomas
Stanhope'' of Ai-bley, esquier, Thomas Sutton of Over Haddon,
esquier, James- Hardwik b of Hardwik, esquier, Antony Gell of
Iiopton, esquier, miet to continew in office.
Sir Humfrey Bradborn* of Lee, knight, Henry Vernon of
Sudbery, esquier, adversaries to religion.
Richard Blakwall'1 of Calk, a lawier, Godfrey Boswell6 of
Beighton, esquier, miet to be omitted.
Walter Horton of Catton, esquier, George Curson of Croxall,
esquier, Thomas Kniveton1 of Mirkaston, esquier, Richard AA^enslow
of Wenslow, esquier, Aden Berisford of Bently, esquier, Rafe
* Signed for the supremacy. b Absent at the signiug.
e Sheriff, 1503, lo7i. Other sheriffs were Zouche, Leke, Cockeiu, Ffuliambo,
Stanhope.
d Not a Justice, 15C0. e Signed the supremacy, 1509.
f A Justice, 15G9.
44 LETTERS FR031 THE BISHOPS
Sacheverell of Staunton or Eadburn, good men & miot to be called
to office.
r. 4ib.
The bishopes advyse concerning the Justices of Darbyshyr.
Concerning the certificate made before, I judge' all very well
done, according to my knolege and vnderttanding save only in
two persones viz : —
Sir George Vernon," knight, is knowen to be a great Jester at
Religion as well as in all other thinges.
Also I have a good opinion of Mr. Blakwall, a man of good
learning with whom I have diverse tymes talked & so do lyke well
of him and think him miet to continew in office.
And as touching those which are thoght miet to be called to the
oflice, they all have a good reporte bothe for civill Justice and
favour to religion as any men that I know or hear of.
Anthony Gcllb of Hopton, esquier, is accounted learned.
f 42a.
Of the countie of Salop, after thadvyse of Sir Andrew Corbet
knight, Sir Richard Newport, knight, and George leigh, Bailiff of
Salop, as foloweth :
In dioeesem Coventry etc. :
Justice Corbet of Stoake super Tern, Sir Andrew Corbet0
of Mourton Corbet, knight, Sir Richard Newport0 of Arcoll
Magna, knight, Sir Arthur Manwavring c of Hight field, knight,
Kichard Corbet of Painton,c esquier, Georg Bramley of Worfield,
esquier, James Barker of Haghmond, esquier, Adam Otley °
of Pitehford, esquier, Thomas Seriven c of iTVodisley, esquier,
Humfrey Onslow of Salop, miet to continew in office.
Extra dioeesem Coventrv :
Edward I.eighton c of Wattelsboro, esquier, Simon Kensey of the
* Not a Justice, L'.GO. b Signed the supremacy, 15G9.
c Signed the Act of Uniformity.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 15G4. 45
Okes, csquier, Thomas Powell R of Whittington, esquier, Lewis
Johnes* of Bishopes castell, esquier, Charles ffox of Bramhill,
esquier, Pichard Cornwall a of Burford, esquier, miet to continew
in office.
William Charlton of Wombmlge, esquier, "William Yong of
Kainton, esquier, Thomas Eton of Eton, esquier, William Gatacre8
of Gatacre, esquier, adversaries of religion.
Robert Corbet of Stannerton, esquier, .Robert Neidham of
Shcnton, esquier, John Ilourd of Bridgnorth esquier, George
Leigh of the toun of Salop, bail if, William Gratewood of Adderley,
esquier, Pafe Cliff of Wayvart. esquier, Peter Banister of Hadnall,
esquier, Miet to be called to office.
f. 42b.
The bishopes advyse for the countie of Salop :
Concerning the certificate before made of the Justices of the
county of Salop I iudge it to be well done, so that I can nether
iustly chaunge, add or take any thing away, for that knolege
which I have : and yet I do know well all the persons save only
those which be extra diocesem Coventry, etc.
I know the learning of none muche reported, but of Justice
Corbet, and George Bramley.
As touching the toun of Salop :
Humfrey Onslow, csquier, Edward Hosier, esquier, George Leigh,
now bailif, Robert Ireland tlielder, Robart Ireland theyonger, alder-
men cv counselleres of the toun miet to bear office, bicaus many tymes
corrupt men ar chosen to be bailifes.
Thomas Aston, Scholemaster, and a worthy man emon^st them.
Ffor Bridgnorth :
John Ilourd esquier, a wyse and godly man.
Of Warwikshyr after thadvyse of Edward Eglamby esquier.
Sir Piichard Verney of Compton Yerney, knight, Thomas Lucie
* Signed the Act of Uniformity.
46 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
of Chalcot, esquier, Basill Fiielding of Munkeg kirby, esquier,
Clement Throckmorton of Ilaselye, esquier, Simon Arden of
Warden, esquier, John fifisher of Packington, esquier, Edward
Eglamby of Meryden, esquier, Henry Godyer of Polesworth, esquier,
Good men & miet to continew in office.
Sir William Wlgson of Woolston, knight, William Devereulx of
Meryvallj esquier, Simon Rawleighe of Ffarmboro, esquier, John
Hibalt of Ipsley, esquier, John Middlemore of Edgebaston, esquier,
Thomas Lysley of Moxall, esquier, indifferent pcrsones.
Sir Robert Throckmorton of Conghton,8 knight, Thomas Throck-
morton of Morehall, esquier, Michael Purefey of Caic&t, esquier,
no favoureres of religion.
The bishopes opinion touching the certificate made of the
Justices of the county of Warwik.
Fforasmiehe as rnyn abyding is far of frome that parte of my
Dioces, and partely through good Justices of peace, & partly bv the
diligence of myn Archdeacon Mr. Leaver, £ other Rurall Deanes,
I have bien litlc trebled with any matters, by meanes wherof I
have not travilled so miehe that way to get any vnderstanding by
myn own experience. I do here confes to your honorcs that I
iudge this former certificate made good and sufficient for that shyr.
Adding this, that I wrote & sent for mo of that shyr to confer with,
namely for Clement Throckmorton, esquier & Henry Goodvere,
esquier, who presently be at London, or els the certificate had bene
witnessed with mo.
Now if it may stand with your honores pleasure to consider of suche
a commission as in my lctteres is meneioned with humble (f 43b)
peticion, and think the same miet to be graunted. Then thica may
signify vnto you with lyke humblenes, the names of certain
Ecclesiasticall persones whom I do think & iudge miet for that
purpose to be Joyned with suche of the reste as your wisedomes
may appoint, being noted ether as miet to continue or to be called'
vnto office, within this former certificate, viz. :
» Corrected from Morehail.
TO THE l'lUYY COUNCIL, 1564. 47
Lauren cius Xowell, Decanus Lichfield ; Robertus Weston,
Cancellarius Episcopi ; Thomas Levir, Archidiaconus Coven-
try ; Thomas Bickley, Theologiae Baccalaureus ; Arthurus
Bedle, Legura Baccalaureus ; Thomas Ashton, Clericus, Ludima-
derator (sic) Salop ; Robertus Aston, Rector de Muccleston ;
Petrus Morwing, Rector de Langforde ; Augustinus Bernhear,
Rector de Southam.
Thomas Coven. & Lich.
f. 44L.
A certificate of the Justices within the Dioces of Coventry &
Lichfield.
Endorsed : To the right honorable and his very good lordes of
the Quienes majesties Privy Counsell thies be given.
f. 45a.
Suffolk.
]\iy humble dutie vnto your honours remembred, pleaseth it the
same to be advertised that having rcceved your honorable lettres to
certefie such Justices and hed officers of the Shire of Suffolk as be
eyther favorers or myslikers of the orders of this Realme established
for thccclesiasticall pollicye of the same, and that I shold do the
same by thadvice of such men of gravitie and knolege as I shall
thinke mete for that purpose to enforme me for the vnderstondino-
therof, having the rule and authoritie evther as Justices of peax or
other hed oilicers within my Jurisdiction, being not favorable to
the ordinary good procedinges of this Realme, in the orders and
cawses of Religion, and likewise who they be that be well o-even
and mete to continew in ofiice, with their names and dwelling
places, as I haue donne for the shire of Norffolk as may farther
appere to your honours by my certifieat of the same,a and meaning
to do the like for Suffolk where, perceving ther ys some discention
as well for religion as otherwise, least the mallice of the one part or
* Below f. 58.
48 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
the other might be occasion for me to certifie more than trutlie,
and yet not meaning to omitt my dutie, I haue thought good to
vse thonlie advice of myne officers there, by whom I vnderstond
that thes persons vndenvritten are not so well bent vnto the
advauneement of the godlie procedinges of this Realme in cawses
ecelesiasticall as other the Justices of that Shire be : viz. : Sir
Clement Higham and Sir John Tyrrell," knightes. Mr. Talmach
of Helmingham, Mr. Robert Gosnall of Otley, Mr. John Sowthwell
of Buitham, Mr. Fibster of Copdoek, Mr. Payne of Burie,
Mr. Barbour, baylif of ypsewich, and yet I must tcstefie as in my
certificat of Kornblk that I nether know or yet can lerne probablie
of anie fact, that cyther Sir Clement Higham or Mr. Gosnoll are to
be charged withall, but for the rest I dare not testiGe so farr, beino-
not by common fame accompted of such zeale and good affection
toward the religion now established as ys necessarilie required in
men of their authoritie and calling, the displacing or reformacion
of which I must holie committ to your honorable consideracions, as
one having little aceesse thither or acquaintance among them. And
so loving farther to troble your honours I commend the same to
the protection of Almightie god. Ffrom Norwich this sixth of
Xovembcr 1564.
Your honours humble to commaund
John NoEwic.h
f. 46a.
In most humble manner ccrtifiethe vnto your honours that
accordinge to your letters to me directed and dated the xviith of
October I have hadd conference with suche grave, wyttve men,
good in Relligion as favourers of the policie of the Realme nowe
■ State Papers, vol. 00, Xo. G2, iv. Among those who have been of the Commission
and presently be not.
b Parkhnrst.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 49
established, namelye Mr. Alane Bellingham, Mr. George Lamp-
leughc, Mr. Henry Towson, Mr. Richard Dudley, Mr. George
Seroope, sub-warden ; for with men of eontrarye Relligion I
durst haue no conference. And haue send vnto your honours the
names of all the Justices of peace of the two shyers within my
dyocese, herin enclosed, with notes of Relligion, Learninge and
wysedome bothe according to myne ownc knowledge and that I by
conference could learne, and lykwise the names of suche as in
Relligion are syncere & favouringe the politie are most fytt men to
be appoynted in place of some of the other. And as concerning
other officers, in myne opynyon ther is nothinge that more
hyndreth the good Successe of the policies estableshcd nor dothe
the perpetuall contynuaunce of the SherifFwyke of Westmorland,
by which nieanes ther is allways suche in office as in no wyse
favors the true way, and suche are suffered to passe through the
countre vnapprehended as talke at their pleasure, and some haue
in the wyld mountaynes preached in Chappells. The Quenes
llcceyvours and other officers of the lower sort, being not good
them selfes, discourage often suche as darre not displease them.
And to speake plainly to your honours, the nohlemens tenauntes
in this countre Darre not be knowen to favour that way for feare
of losse of their fermholdes. And finally the Justices of Assyse
which, only making a good face of Relligion in gevihge of the
charge, in all other their tulkes and dooinges shewe them selfes not
favourable towardes any man or cause of Relligion, which the
people mochc marke & talke of. And thus according to my
dewtie and the trust which your honours have putt in me, not
fearing any man but setting god before myne eyes, I have doon
my best endevours to avaunee the glory of god by youe, prayenn-e
god to preserve the Queues highnes in long healthe of bodye,
contynuaunce of this good mynde and your honours harttes
prepared of god to contynue in the diligent & most faythfull service
of god and the Quenes maiestie as youe haue to your great praise
CAMD. soc. H
50
LETTERS FROM TflE BISHOPS
begonne. Ffrom tlic Piose Castle in "Cumberland the xviiith of
November lofU.
"iour licnours most humble at comandment
JOANKES CaRLIOLEX.8
f. 4Sa.
Justices of peace at this pointe viz. a0 dni loC-i within the
Countie of Cumberland, scilicet :
The bushoppe of Carlill, The Lord Dacre. My Lord Dacre, butt
especial!;/ my Lady his wyfe, are to be reformed in Relligion.
Sir Thomas Dacre of Lanncrcost, Knight custos Rotulorura
within the Countie of Cumberland, to be admoneshed iu Relligicn
and verie vnfytt for that ofiice.
Hcnrye Curwen of Workington, armiger, William Pennington of
Muncastcr, armiger, John Lampleugh of Lampleugh, armiger,
Thomas Myddleton of Skyrwith, armiger, In Relligion good & meat
to contynue & the said myddleton lerned somethinge in the
Lawes.
John Aglionby of Carlill, armiger., Richard Blanneihasset, deade,
armiger, not staid in Relligion but to be admoncshedd and within
the liberties of the Getie of Carlill none other able but poore
men.
Richard Salkeld of Corby or Rosgill, armiger, not good in
Relligion.
William Myddleton, gent., William Pyckringe, gent., in Relligion
evcll & not meatt.
Justices to be appoynted at your honours election and pleasure
for the said countie :
Henry Lord Scroope, Lord Warden, Mr. George Scroope, his
brother.
Best.
TO THE PPJVY COUNCIL. 15G4. 51
George Latnplcuglie of Cockermouth, armiger, Henry Towsone
ofBrydekyrk, armiger, Thomas Laytonof Dalemayne, armigcr, Mr.
Anthony Twhattes of vnerigg, clerk, men of wysedomc & good
Relligion, experyent and Icrned but not in the Lawes.
Thomas Carleton of Carleton. gent., Andrewe Huddlestonc, gen-
tleman, in Relligion good & wyttye men.
f . 48b.
Justices of peace at this pointe a0 dni 1564 within the countie of
Westmorland, scilicet:
Sir Thomas Wharton of TVhartone, knight, evill of Belligion.
Alane Bellingham, armigcr, de Hclsone lethes, Walter Streyck-
land dc Syzer, armiger, Anthony Duckett de grarigg, armiger, all
thrc of goo 1 Relligion c^ meat men, and the said Bellingham Icrned
in the Lawc.
John Myddleton, gentleman, John Prestone, armigcr, not of the
shier, Richard Salkcld de Corkby & Rosgill, armiger, Oliuer
Mvddlcton, sent., Richard Kiizce, armiger, not c;ood in Relligion,
not fytt men.
Justices to be appoynted at your honours election and pleasure
for the said countie :
Thomas Warcoppe dc Smerdale, armiger, Lancelott Pyckring de
Crosby Rawnrwath;" armiger, Richard Dudley of Yenwath, armi-
ger, Henry Crakenthorpe de Xebyging. armiger, William Gylping
of Kentmyer, armiger, all verie good in lielligion & fytt men.
JOAKNES GaKLIOLEX.
f. 4 fa.
Glocestershire :
Myne humble dutie to your Lordships remembred, hauinge
receaued your honorable Lcttres dated the xyiith of this lastc
• Kavcuswortb.
52 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
octobre, wherin yt pleased your Lordships to command me to eon-'
sydre the state of my dyocesse touching th'obseruacion of lawes
established for the ecclesiasticall pollicie and therof with others to
certyfie your honors. It may please the same to be adu^rtysed that
hauinge had conference with Sir Thomas Throckmorton, knight,
Richard Pate, esquier, and other?, touchinge the contentes of your
Lordships lettres for the reporte of discorde in Justices of the peace
and men placed in auctoritie, doo signifie vnto the same, that (god
be praised) their arc no Justices nor men placed in auctoritie within
my dyocesse, eyther by them selfcs disordered, or meynteyners of
disordre in others, but have alwayes shewed them selfcs redie to
represse suche arrogansic and contempt of auctoritie as hath at
any tyine bene offered before my beinge placed, and sythence
verv redie and willinge for myne assistance when node hath
required. I farther thinke there is nothing that bredeth at
this tyme more vnquietnes and lesse credyt to the Queues maiesties
moste godly and honorable procedinges then that some regard
Jy tie or nothin^e such ordre as is alredie established by the
Queues highnes ffor ecclesiasticall pollicie, whom I haue called
and wylled to kepe ordre sett forth, but they contynue disor-
dered as before, to whome lawe semeth to be no lawe & ordre
no ordre* Ther is also a preacher, a man of great zeall & competent
Iearninge, whom many of the countrie follow from place to place
and rcceaue the communyon at his hand far from theire owne
parisshes. I here men of good credyt, that he ys to populcr in his
sayenges, the redresse wherof I leaue to your Lordships wysedomes.
The worshipfull of this countrie can certefie your honors farther
herein, yf they (f. 49b.) be required. Theise thinges I can
rayther lament then amend and refourme, or gcue your honoures so
mete advise tendino-e to the redresse therof as your create wysc-
domes of your sclfes can conceaue, beinge indede a man of smale
experyence and lytic obseruacion in matters of pollicie & govern-
mente; trystinge that your Lordships wyll take in good parte this
my vnskyliull dealinge in these causes, for that I haue not bene
TO THE ritlVY COUNCIL, 1564. 53
trailed therm and yet with all humblencs moste redie to doo mve
dutie, so far as my poore knowledge wyll serue and as I shall be
commaunded. Greate dysordrc groweth of indyfferent thinges,
which are in the appoyntment of the pryncc, wherin I wyssh we
might draw one waye, acceptinge them with onto supersticion or
geuinge to lytle estimaeion to auctoritie and ordre by which they ar
established. 1 thinke also good to put your Lordships in remem-
braunce as well of wylliam Reade of Boddington and George
Huntley of Fforocctor, esquiers. Late shrifes of this shire, to be
placed agavne in commyssion of the peace, as also of John Hunger-
lord, esquieiv, a man of worship and faire possessions, dwellinge
moste communlie in this shire at Downe auney,a wher ther services
in thoffice and Admynistracion of Justice ar verie nedefull as I
here &, as I thinke yt may therfore please your Lordships to con-
sydre of them accordinglie; And so moste humblie takinge my
lcaue I commytt your Lordshipe to the tuycion of the almightie, who
prcserue you, from Gloucester the xxth of Xovembre 1564.
Your lordshippes most humble to commaund
Ric. GLouc.b
Endorsed : To the right honorable and my moste singuler good
Lordes of the Queues maiesties moste honorable preuye
Counsell.'
f. 51a endorsed ibid.
f. 52b endorsed ibid.
Hast hast hast
Hast with all diligence.
f. 53b.
To the Quene her maiesties most honorable Prjwie Councell.
f..54b.
My duetie in moste humble wise to your honors. Maie it
please the same to be advertised that accordinge to your
honors late requeste to be certified by me of the favorers and
» Atkins, p. 401, Ainnoy. l Cheyjiey.
54
LETTERS rr:OM THE BISHOPS
mislikers of tli3 present estate of religion, T have for aunswei
thereunto diligcntlie conferred with Sir William Kcilwcye, Sir
Adrian Poyniuge?, Mr. "William Vnedall, Mr. William Kyngesmill,
Mr. Richard Xbrton, Air. William Jephsonrie, Mr. James Pagett
and others of good religion. And for liable and mecte menne
to be putt in commission for the peace besides those (that I
have hereafter .noted to be favorers), I think vnder your honors
correction it shalbe verie expedient aswell that the savd favorers
continewe in commission as that Air. Thomas Carye, capitaine of the
Hurst Castle, Mr. William Bowyer of hambled(on) and Air. IL.mrie
Clifford of Fl'awleye were ioyned vnto them and also that by your
honorable wisdoms the Lordcs herewith certified might be moved
to favor religion and to countenaunce the fautores and folowers
thereof. And the two younge Lordes, thole of Southampton and
the Lord S.ti rules, might no we in there youthe be so trayned in
religion that hereafter when they come to there aucthoritie and
rule they shoulde not hinder the sime. And because the citie of
Winchestre is moste noted in hampshiere either for good example or
evill (all that bear aucthoritie there except one or two bcinn-e
addicte to thold supcrsticion and earnest fautores thereof), It should
be well donne to associate for the commission in the sayde citye
the Bueshopp of Winton, Sir Henrye Seamour. William Vnedall,
henrye Wallopp, John ffoster and George Aeworthe, the bussliopps
chauncelour, and for hecld oflicers there, and in other tounes
fraunchised with Liberties, as Southampton, Basingstoke, Andevcr,
Romescye, Petersfvelde and Portesmouth, Lymmington and Newport
in thisle of Wight and through the whole shicre, for cunstables and
bayhffes of hundredes and for gencrall enquestcs by graund Juries
that by your honors Litres earneste chardge and commandement be
given to the whole bodie of the commissioners and oflicers, that non
be app >ynted vnto nor continue to exercise anie of the sayde ollices
or callinges but they whose religion is approved, nor none likewise
placed or displaced by one or two, but by the common consent (of)
to the prnvy council, 15G-J. 55
the beriche at some generall session, which will easelie drawe the
common p(cople) to one good conformityc when they in aucthoritie
goe all one wave, or dothc not crosse or hinder the well doinges of
another. As for Surrey, (by) reasonne of my smale continuance
and lacke of acquayntaunce there, I (have) not vsed suche advise
whearby throughlie to satisfie your honors but but (sic) partelie
by credible reporte and partelie by myne ownc knowledge have
gathered this, and for incorporations, fraunchises, liberties and
hundrede(s) within this shicre, suche ordere were good as is before
mentioned for hamp(shire) as shalbe best consydered by your
Lordshippes wisdomes, whome I praie almightie (God) Longe to
prosper and maynteinc in honorable estate to his glorie and
government of his rcalmc. ffrom ffarneham the xiuth daie of
November a0 1JG4.
Your honorable Lordshippes moste humble to commaunde,
Hon. WlNTON.8
f. 54b., Col. a.
The Justices of peace in Hampshicre, Ffavorers :
The Busshopp of Winchester; Sir John Masson ofWintney;
[Sir] "William Pawlett ; [Sir "William] Keilwave of Bockborne;
[Sir] Hemic Seamer at Maxwell; [Sir] Adrian Poyninges at
Portesmoutfo; [Sir] John Barcktley at Christchurdi ; [Sir]
Richard Pexall at stevington ; [Sir] Oliver ^\allopp at Ffar-
lcighe ; William Ynedall at Wykham ; [William] Kingesmyll at
Sydmanton; Richard Kingegmill, learned in the lawe; John
Thomborough at ; Richard GyfTord at Kingesstun-
borne ; Ilenrie Wallopp at fifarlcighe ; William Jephsonne at
ffroyle ; Richard Norton at Tistyd ; Thomas Dearinge at Lyese;
James Pagctt at Burie ; John fibster at Badisleye ;
Worsleye capten of thisle of Wight; George Milks in the wight ;
George Acworthe, doctor of the eivill lawe, the bushopes
chauncelor.
* Honie.
56 LETTERS FKOM THE BISHOPS
Mislikers or not favorers:
The Lord S* John at Lettley (sic) castle; The Lord Chidiock
Pawlett ; William Pawlett of Ypclatford ; William Bulckley at
ffordyng- bridge; Robert Pcnrodocke of Charforde ; Thomas
Shellcye of Buryton.
John White of Southwirk, whoe notwithstandinge for skyll <fc liis
good administration of Justice maie is it veine so good to your
honors continue still in the Commission (s/'c).
In the Citie of winchestre mislikers of religion of the chiefe
aucthoritie.
Hodsonne the Maiorj Bethcll thelder and Bethell the younger;
William Lawrence; White towardes the La we & Potteno-er;
Coreham towardes the Lawe and Skinner, Ffavorers.
Added at the side in Burleigh's hand :
Favorers in the Citie of Wynchester :
Colley ; Bran tor.
Col. b. '
The Justices of Surrey, Ffavorers :
Mr. John Birche barron; [Mr.] Gilbert Gerard, atturnie general!-
William Moore of Loseleye; Richard Onsclowe of Cranluye; John
Egmundsham of Hursleye; Thomas Browne of Biechworthe •
Thomas Doile, stewerd to my Lord Caunturburies grace; William
Bowyer of Camerwell.
Indifferent ministers of Justice within the countic of Surreye :
Sir Thomas Saunders of Cherl[\vood] ; Nicholas Lee of Adino--
ton; John Skinner of JRigat thelder; ^Nicholas Steydol of
Mickleham.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 15G4. 57
Gentlemen to be putt in commission of peace in Surrey e :
Thomas Litle, keapcr of Bagshott parckc ; Thomas Dodmare
dwelling aboute kea. . . . ; John Skinner the younger of Rigat j
John Hurleston towardes the Lawe.
Endorsed^ f. 55 b : To the right honorable the Lordes and
others of the Queenes maiesties privie Counsell.
£. 5G.
Pleasith it your honorable estates to be advertised that after
your Lettres directed vnto me for your informations what per-
sonagis maye be thought mete to be placed orcontynued as Justices
of the peace and who ought to be removed from the same, within
my diocese and Jurisdiction of Cantcrberv, I haue the longer
differred my answere for want of such sufficient Instructions as I
laubored for to haue had. But concernyng the Countye of Kent
I haue conferred with certen wise men therof. So that I haue ?,lr Jhomas
Htton>
gathered partly by myn owne knowledge and bi conference with Mr John
others that these parsons in shedule inserted maye wel contynue tnttou-
to serue, with iii. others lastly named, of all which parsons though
not of like zeale in religion yet such as I must save that the fufdest
of a in fauorable affection toward the state of religion, be outwardly
men conformable and not chargeable to my knowledge of any gretc
extremyties vttered bi them in afflicting the honest and godly,
or in mayntenyng the perverse and ongodly, as your Letters
do speke.
Thus trusting that I haue satisGed your honors request, I
wysshe the same long preseruacion in grace and fauorable estate.
Ffrom my house at Lamhith this xxiiii,h of Xovembre.
Your honors
Matthue Cantuar.
» For " off."
CAMD. SOC. I
5° LETTERS F20M THE BISHOrS
f. lvii.
^ Percivallus Hart, Martiims Bowes, Willelmoa Damsel], Henricna
Cripse, Thomas Kempc, Georgiua Howard, Thomas Cotton, Chris-
tophorus Aleyn, Henricus Cheyney, milites.
Thomns Wotton, Warhamus Sl leger, Puchardus Baker, Johannea
Cobham, Johannes Tuiton, Thomas Scott, AVillelmus fetey, Hum-
fredus Hales, Willehnns Cromer, Johannes Lennard, Anthonins
Weldon, Thomas Stanley, Thomas Ashelcy, Robertas Rudstone,
iMcholaus Barnam, Thomas Watton, Rogcrug Manwood, Willelmug
Lovelace, Johannes Meyney, Thomas Lovelace, Radnlfus Bos^evile
Georgins Darrell, Robertas Bynge, Thomas Doyley, Johannes
Beere, Robertas Riches, Hugo Cartwright, Georgins Moulton,
Georgins Ffame, Johannes Goldwell, Thomas Honywood, Thomas
Hales, Hugo Darrell, Edwardus Boys, Gualterus Robcrtcs
Nicliolaus Sf. Leger.
f. 58. •
Norfolk.
My bounden dutie vnto your honours humblie remembred, for
answer of your honorable lettres reeeuid the xxvii'1' of Oetobe/and
dated the xviilh of the same, yt may like yov to be advertised that
vppon conference and good advice taken with the duke of Norffolk
his grace, Sir Edmund Windham, Sir Christofer heydon Sir
William Buttes, Sir Thomas Wodhowsc, Sir Nicholas Lestran-e
kmghtcs, the metest men in my opinion in this shire of Xorffolk
for this required serui,e, by whose advice and certified vnto me the
Justices of peace of this Shire be verey well affected and -even to
the executing of the orders and lawes of this Realmc established for
the ecclesiasticall policie, except Sir Thomas Lovell, Sir Thomas
Tyndall," knightes, Edmund Bowpre and M». Gybon of Lynne
Espuires, who are not thought by common fame to be so well bent as
the other, yet I assure your honours, I know not of my part nor
yet can lcrne by anie probable meane, of anie fact that anie of them
• Sheriff, t. Elk. Fuller's Worthies,
TO THE raivY COUNCIL, 1564. 59
are to be charged with, and so leve it to your honorable eonsidera-
cions. And for augmenting of the number of the Justices of this
Shire, although there he divers mete parsons and well affected, yet
considering (thankes be to god) the Shire being alredie in so good
quiet with the advice of the above written persons I thinke the
number sufficient for this Shire. And so leving to troble your
honours I humblie take my leave, beseching god to send you much
encrese of honour, ffrom Norwich this xvii* of November 156-1.
Your honours humble to commaund
John Noinvjc.a
f. 59.
It maye please your honours to be advertised that accordinge to
the tenour of your honorable letters directed vnto me I haue
sente herewithe, according to the forme in your said letters pre-
scribed, a certificate in writinge, conteyninge the names as well of
those Justices of the peace who are iudged not to be favourable to
the ordinarie good proccadinges of the Realm in the ordrcs and
causes of lieligion, as also the names of those Justices that are well
geven and mcete to continue in office. And with all the names of
some thought meete to be called to the said office. Of the which
it may please your honours to have suche consideracion as to vour
honorable wisJomes shall seme good. Thus ceassinge to trouble
your honors, I humblie commend the same to the grace of god.
Ffrom my house at Powles this xviith of November, 1564.
Your honorable Lordshippes
att Comman dement
EDM. LONDON.b
f. 60.
Diocese London. — Ciultas London.
The state and governcment of the Cittyc of London is allwaies
subiecte vnto the eyes of your honors and therfore I haue not
thought it greatlie necessarie to make anie reporte at this time of
• Parkehnrst, b Grindal.
60 LETTERS PEOM THE BISHOPS
the governours therof being well ynoughe knowen, and in myne
opinion (as in suchc a state) not to be misliked at this present.
f. 60 b.
Nomina Justlciariorum pads 1564,
Middlesex.
Thomas Wrothe, miles, Edwardus Warner, miles, favourers of
godlie Religion.
Rogerus Cholmeley, miles, Martinus Bowes, miles, indifferent.
Thomas Chamberleinc, miles, Thomas Sackeford, Master Requists,
Gabriel Goodman, Decanus christi. Gilbertus Gcrrard, attorney
general, Willelmus Rosewell, sollicitor, Ricardus Onslow, recordator
Civitatis London, Robertas Now ell, attornatus Curie Wardae,
Johannes Asheldy, Edwardus ffitzgaret, Kobertus lluycke, Petrus
Osborne, Edmundus Marten, Jasperus Fiisher, Tho. Wilson, legum
doctor, Kobertus Chidley, Anthonius Stapleton, Johannes Newdi-
gate, all favourers.
f. 61 a.
Edwardus Bashe, I know not his Religion.
Johannes Marshe, Armigill Wade, favourers of Religion.
Edwardus a Randolphe, Indifferent, Henricus Iden, A favourer,
Robertas Harris, Indifferent, Rogerus Carewe, A favourer, Thomas
Elrington, not persuaded in Religion (as I am enforraed). but in
his outwarde doinges semethe to me conformable.
Edwardus b Taylour,e Johannes Leake de Edmunton,0 hindercrs.
Christoferus Richc, indifferent.
Item, for the better governement of this Countie of Middlesex, it
is to be considered that sithens the death of Mr Hamondesham
there is never a Justice of the peace resient in the bodie of the
Shiere, for Mr Elrington liethe altogether in Surrey, Mr Newdi-
■ Corr. from Barnavdus. b Corr. from Edus.
c The Leakes of Edmonton occnr as recusants in Middlesex Sessions Bolls
(County Records) ; also Edm. and Edw. Taylor.
TO THE PEIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 61
gate moste parte in Buckingham shier e, Mr Pithe (*/r) moste com-
rnonlie at Lincolns Innc, Mr Carew, Mr Taylour and Mr Leake are
in one extreme parte of the Shiere, the restc remaine about the
Courte and about the Cittie : And yet for remedie herof.I cannot
hitherto finde owt anie apte men dwellinge in the harte of the
shiere to exercise tlioffice of Justice other then be alredie named.
f. G2a.
Nomina Jusiiciariornm Pads in Comitatu Hartford. — Commoro.n-
tinm intra diocesan London.
Hartford :
Radulfus Sadler, [Radulfus Rowlet], milites, favourers.
Ri card us Lee" [miles], indifferent; Robertus Chester*1 [miles], an
hinderer; Edwardus Caple [miles], indifferent but a verie good
Justicer.
Alex. Nowell, decanus Sancti Pauli, Willelmus Barleve, Thomas
Barrington, Georglus Gill, favourers.
Edwardus Bashe, vide supra in Middlesex.
Fraunciscus Walsingham. a favourer.
f. C2b.
Georglus Penruddocke, "Willelmus Hide, favourers.
Georglus Iladley, Thomas Hauehet, Edwardus Taylor, hinderers.
Meete men to be put in the Commission of the peace in this
Countie of Haiford :
Mr Thomas Laventhorpe of Albery, esquier, a favourer; and
William Ilamond of Moudon gent., a favourer and skilfull in the
Lawe.
Item, there is one Birkehead,c clerke of the peace in the said
Countie, a notoriousc adversarie to religion of myne oun knouled^e,
and a great afilieter of the godlie and well disposed persones, whose
removinge frcm that office (if it maye be lawfull) should do moche
good.
* Got monastic property. Clutterbuck, iii., p. 7.
b A Sheriff. Fuller. « Cor. from Dirkebead.
62 LETTERS FEOM THE BISHOPS
f. 02. (sic.) '
Nomina Justiciariorum pacis, 15G4. Besides the Lordes Counsel-
lours & two Justices of the coinmone pleas.
Essex :
Robertus Rich?, Authonius Cooke, milites, favourers of Religion.
Johannes Wentworth,' [miles], an hinderer.
Thomas Wrothe, Franciscus Jobson, Thomas Smythe, milites,
• favourers.
Thomas Goldinge, miles, indifferent.
Willelinus Bendlowes, Seruiens ad legem, an hinderer.
Thomas Sackeford, vnus magistorum curie Requistorum, favourer.
Thomas Mildmiye,8 [Thomas] Powle, indifferent.
Willelmua Waldgtave, Thomas Lucas/ Kenelmus Throkmorton,
Willelmus Aylife,a [Willclmus] Cardynall, E lwardus Barret,8
Thomas Barrington," Edwardus Berye, Johannes Tomworthe,
favourers.
Comitatus Essex.
George Iladley, a hinderer ; Georgius Xicolles, favourer, learned
in the lawe and to be trusted.
Jacobus Altham, indifferent. Edwardus Bockino-e, George
Christcpias; these two in wordes seme to favour Religion, but
are (as I am enformed) not favourable to the ministers of the
same, and are besides noted to governe vndiscretlie, and in_-vn-
cerelie, makinge gaine ot the office, and this is affirmed to be
true by divers graue and godlie persones of that countrey with
whom I haue conferred.
Rogerus Amys, Clemens Syceley, favourers.
Willelmus Cheshull, an liinderer. Thomas ffranke, reported to
be an hinderer, but in his wordes to me he hathe protested the
contrarie ; yt' it be thought good he maye be tried for a time till I
may searehc owt the truthe more certeinlie.
Henry Goldinge, Edwardus Daniell, favourers.
* Sheriff. Puller's Worthies.
TO THE FKIYY COUNCIL, 1564. 63
f. 63.
ad hue Essex,
Johannes Wiseman, an hindercr ; Mattheus Bradburic, indif-
ferent ; Edwardus Riche, favourer.
Men meete* in myne opinion to be putte into the Commission of
the peace within the Oduntie of Essex which hitherto haue not
bene in the Commission, viz. :
Mr Edward Tsacke, Esqitier, a favourer & of good trnste; Mr John
Moore, of Orsette, gentleman, a favourer skilled in the lawes and
trustie.
Item, it is to be wisshed that one Jerome, longer, who moche
afflictethej vnder colour of arrerages of theX chequer bothe the poors
ministers and also other simple people beyond good ordre, maybe
vtterlie excluded from all directs and indirecte exercise of anie office
vnder the Queues maiesty and namclie for anie recept of money or
levieng thinges dewe to the prince.
f. 64.
Somerset tshy re :
In most humble wise, as to dewtie appartayneth, it maie please
your honors to be advertised that I vppon the sight of your Lettres
concerninge the iustices of Peace wrote immediatelie to Sir Morrys
Barckley, Sir Eaff llorton and to Mr. John Homer to have their
advice accordinge to the tenor of the same. And for further
intelligent I have ppmmoned with Justice Wealche, harry
Portman, William llalley and John Hipetley, iustices, and can
understand nothinge of them, but that everie iustice in the shire of
Somerset doo diligently (as they saie) cxequute their ofryce. I
have not muche to saie against any man, but only by reporte,
where with to trouble your honors I have not thought it good. I
have hard ffood commendations of one Mr. John Carre, late of
Bristoll, who nowe dwelleth in the said sheire in a place called
Brent" Mearsche, the Countrey there ys verie rcwde and there ys
• Corr. from "might."
64 LETTERS EEOM THE BJSTIOTS
no Justice nighe save only ]Mr. Cuffer, who, for wantc of healpe, ys
not able to answcre everie suyter, the said Mr. Carre I knowe to
be wise, sobre, wealthio, and verle well affected to religion. There
ys also commended one William Hyll of the Towneof Taunton, elder
brother to Robert Hyll, one that ya well eastemed. amonges his
neighbours, and verie well knowen of all those that professe the
Gospell, to be a sincere favorer thereof. There ys also one John
Sydenham of Dulvcrton in the west parties of the said sheire,
where there ys no Justice nighe, savinge Sir John Wyndhara, who
for age, sickenes and other cawses ys not nowe verie mete to doo
service in that Offyce. The said John Sydenham ys well knowen to
be wise, sobre and discrete, verie well affected to religion, a man
well esteamed of his neighbours rounde aboute him. My humble
suyte vnto your honors ys, that for the better performans of dewtie
it might please youe to take Order, that every one that nowe ys, or
hereafter shal be, called to the Office of a Justice, maie personallie
take a solenme Othe before such as please your honors to appointe.
And further if it be thought good to your honors, that they shall
subscrybe their names to that Commission, that shall first be geven
out to the Sheriff of everie Sheyre. 1 iudge verilie God shuld be
better served, his worde more reverenced, the Queues maiesties
procedinges more humblie obeied, lessc grudge, and dowte amon^e
the common people, and so God fynallie, and on everie parte, most
amplic glorified and all wee the Queues maiesties most faithe-
full and humble subiectes bound to praie pcrpctuallie for her
highncs longc and most prosperous raigne, and for your honors
godlie successe in all your doynges durvnge our Lyves. At
London, this xxviif of Xovembre Anno 15G4.
Your honors humble and dailie Orator,
Gil. Batue & \Yelles.6
Endorsed : f. 65 b.
To the right honorable my verie good Lordes the Lordes of
the Queues Maiesties most honorable privey Councell.
1 Berkeley.
TO THE I'EIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 65
f. 66 a.
My singular good lordcs for answer to your honorable letters of
the xvii"1 of Gctobre and received by me the xxv"1 of the same,
may it please your Wisdomes to vnderstand thus muche. I have
conferred Acording to your apointment with suche menne as
hereafter he named in this schedule, concerning sucli Justices as be
in autoritie for their aptness to the same and favoring of religion
and also for suche as be not placed and yet fitt for that place, and
hane declared your honors their opinions severally as they send me
theim in writing. And bicause it was your farther pleasure that I
shuld declare severally my opinion also of suche other thinges that
doe hynder these gudd procedinges, in the latter ende I have done
it also. I wold have answered soner butt that they, dwelling farre
of, did something prolong the tyme, and partly I my self have bene
troubled with sickenes of late. Praised be the lorde of hostes that
hais putt this zelous mynde in to the Queues maiestie, not
onely to scke his glorie so zclouslye butt also to represse the
hinderers of the same. And godd grant yor honors that contynuall
erncst love of Justice, that thexequlion of suche godly lawes may
be dulic practised and such good example come from you that the
peple may be encoraged to doe the like. Thus with the commen-
dation of my se .'ce I commend your honors to thahnightie, who
for hi3 vndeserved mercy sake long preserve her highnes and your
honors to thadvanccment of his glorie and cumfort of his peple.
ffrom Awcland the xxiilh of Xovembre 1564.
Your honors most bounden & obedient
Ja. Dtjresme.8
f. 68 a x
My Lord of Bedford sais that within his charge there is never a
Justice of peace nor none that he can commend as mete for that
purpose.
» Pilkington.
CAMD. SOC. K
66 LETTERS FKOM THE BISHOrS
Sir John ffoster, Lord Warden of the mydell marche, thinkes
these menne mete to be Justices and vsed in service.
Northumberland :
Cuthbert Lord Oyle, Sir Ilenry Percie, [Sir] John Witherington,
[Sir] J. George Ratclif ; Robert lawson, Cuthbert Horsley, skilled
in the lawes ; Johu Dalavell, George Heron, Nicholas Rydly,
Cuthbert Carneby, Robert Mydelton, Sir Rauf Gray, Shiref vnder
my Lord of Bedford, Sir Robert Ellercar he sais is a verie papist
and all together vnlerned. lie mislikes also Thomas Bates of
Morpeth, and Sir John Mitforde of High ill he dowtes.
The towne of newcastell hais tenne aldermen, a maier and a
shiref. everie alderman by their privilege is a Justice of peace as I
here, they say that both theimseli'es will be obedient to the lawes
and kepe the towne so to with all their diligens, and surely if welth
made theim not willfull both of their owne substance and the towne
chamber by their impost of sea coole:i it wold be one of the best
townes on this side trent. The poorer sort hire theimselfes a precher
butt none of theim or few gives litell or nothing to the precher.
Sir Robert Brandling, maior, Cuthbert Ellison, Bertram An-
derson, Richard Hodshon, Christofer mytford, Oswold Chapman,
Robert Ellison, Cuthbert Musgrave, John Wilkinson, William
Dent, Robert Anderson.
f. 67 b.
In the Bishoprioke of duresme, my Lord Evers and I think gudd
to commend these Justices to your honors.
Charles, erle of Westmoreland, William Lord Ewrie, [William]
"Whittingam, deane, Sir George Bowes, Thomas Calverley, [Thomas]
louton, lawers.
1 Brand, Newcastle, ii. p. 200. The corporation was receiving £10,000 per
annum from its duty on coal of lii. per chaldron,
to tiie rrjYY council, 15G4. 67
These other live quietly and obey the lawes: — Sir George
Conyers, [Sir] William Bellas-e, Robert Tempest, John Blaxston,
Robert Swyfte, chancelor spirituall, William Hilton, Thomas
My del ton, Francis Bambrigge, Robert Bowes, Shiref, Cluistofer
Chaitcr, Gerrerd Salvyn, Ed word Parkinson, William Smyth,
Robert Lawson. John Swynborne kept a preist to say him masse
butt he hais paid his fyne for it.
There be twoe other thinges in ray opinion which hynder
religion here muche. The Seottisshe preistes that are fledde out of
Scotland for their wiekednes and here be hvred in parisshes on the
borders bicause they take lessc wages than other, and doe more
harmc than other woldc or colde in disswading the peple, I have
done my diligence to avoide theim, butt it is above my power. The
other thing is the grcte number of scholers borne here about nowe
lieng at lovan a without lycense, and sending in bokes and letters
which caiise many tvmes evill rumors to be spredde and disquiet the
peple. They be mayntened by the hospitals of the newcastell and
the welthiest of that towne and this shire as it is iudged and be
their nere cousins.
f. 69a.
My humble duetic considered vnto your honors, whereas by your
honors lettres I was cominaunded to signifie vnto youe the names
as well of those Justices of peace as of others, placed by atrie meanes
in auctoritie within my iurisdiction, whlche are not well allected to
the moste godly state and order of theeclesiasticall policie of this
Realme of England, But are rather of contrarie dispositions, and
afflicters or at the leaste hindcrers of the sayde ecclesiastical state,
and that also I should certifie your honors of suche persons, who
are well o-even and mecte to be called to oilice, withe thevrc names
and dwellinge places, These are to advertise your Lordships that
I have, abowte this your will and commaundemente, conferred and
vsed thadvise of the moste worshipfull and wiseste of my dioces,
* Louvain.
68 LETTERS FROM THE ElSHOrS
namelie Sir Peter Carewe, Sir John Chichester, Sir John Moore,
Mr. Soathcotte of Shillimrforde, Mr. John Parker of Northmolton,
Mr. John Carewe of Bickleyo by Tiverton, who all withe good
advisement and deliberacion gaue notice vnto me of suche persons,
as well of thone to be displaced owte of office, as the other to
be by the Qucenes maiestie and your honors placed in oflice and
auctoritie, whose names I have written in the schedule heare
inclosed, setting the names of the disi'avorcrs of this case on the one
side, and the names of the godlie affected on thother side and do
moste humblie beseche youre honors to take in good parte this my
shorte and rude answer vnto your Lordshippcs lcttres. And
especiallie that youe will not be offended for that I haue not certified
your honors withe suche expedition and convenient speede as youe
required me. My onlie staye and Lette of no sooner answering'
was thexpectinge the rcturnc of Sir Peter Carewe and Sir John
Chichester from the vttermoste partes of Cornwall, where than they
were, in exploitinge theyr diligence vpon certaine vrgente affaires
of the Qucenes highnes, and your honours eommandemente, abowte
vewing the portes of this whole countrie. And because it was
verie Longe or they returned, I thought it good to suspend mine
answer vnto your honors vnto suche tyme as I mighte vse theyr
advises and counsels. Thus moste humblie subinittinge my self
vnto your honours, I committe the same to the tuition of
Almightie god, who Longe preserue youe in most prosperous
healthe and wealthe vnto his goalie will £ pleasure, from Excestre
the xxvith of November 1564.
your humble suppliante to commaunde,
Will. Exox.a
f. 70.
The names of suche Justices as were in the countie of Cornwall
as in the countie of Devon, who are enemies or at the Lsaste, no
favourers of thecclesiasticall policie of this llealme.
» Alky.
TO THE PKIVY COUNCIL, 15G4. 69
Cornwall :
Inprimis, John Bevoll/1 Justice of peace, but a verle greate
enemye. Item, [John] Polewhecle, Justice, but an extreme eneraie.
Ite;->i, John Reskimer,'' Justice, but an extreme enemy and an ill
Jiver. Item, Richard Riskeracke, Justice, yet a Verie cnemye.
The names of those whiche are mecte to be Justices and to be
called to office in the saydc Countie o( Cornwall :
Inprimis, John Killigrewc the younger. Item, John Carminowe.
Item, Nicholas [Carminowe]. Item, Richarde Trevanion. [Item],
John Traiawine.1' Item, Samson Mainton. Item, Kichard Chaman.
Item, John Andevton. [Item], Mr. Movie of saint Germans.
Devon ;
Tlie names of these whiche are not counted worthic to be
Justices in the Countie of Devon :
Inprimis. Marke Slader. Item, Christofer Copston, althoughe he
be no enemie, yet he is not thoughte to be rneete for the office of
Justice by the reason ot diuerse disorders. Other there be, who are
not so carneste to mainteync thecclcsiasticall policie as they are
wished to be, but yet for theyre Learningc, knowlege and wisdome
they are thoughte mecte men to continue in the saide office of
Justice sliippe.
The names of them who are counted meete to be placed in
authoritie in the countie of Devon :
Inpiimis, Mr. Edgccome.0 Item, Mr. Butteshead. Item, Mr.
John Care we of Bickleye.
f. 70 b.
The names of those whiche are no Justices, yet being of some
auctoritie are iudged no favorers of the foresaide state:
Inprimis, the greate Arundell d of Cornwall. Item, one Tregian
* Sheriff. Fuller. b Sheriff. Fuller and Fohvhele.
c Sheriff. Fuller.
d Sir John Arundell of Lanherne. See Oliver's Catholics, p. 1G.
70 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
of Cornwall. Item, one John Tremame. [Item, one John]
Tregudicke. Item, John Hill. [Item], William Cavill of Cornwall.
[Item], Robarte Winter one of the Justices of the citie of Exeter.
Item, one Harte, the tosvne Clerke of Exeter. [Item, one] fYleayre.
[Item, one] Kirkham of Pinhovve by Exeter. [Item], other there
be whicae are of a contrarie disposition but these be the chief est e
or at the leaste so counted.
The certificate of Thomas a Arehbysshoppe of Yorke to the
righte honorable the Lordea and others of the Quccnes Maiesties
moste honorable piivie counsel]. Towchinge and concerninge
theyre lettres for Justices of peace within the Countie of Yorke
and Cittye of Yorke parcelles of the diocese of Yorke.
Westrydinge:
Thomas gargrave, miles, Johannes Yorke, [miles], Richardua
Corbett, Georgius browne, Henricus Savill, Thomas Waterton,
Willelmus Lyster, Richardua Beamond, Richardua goodricke,
Brianus Bayles, Willelmus Wombwell, Willehnus Swyfte,
Hugo Savile, Johannes lambart, Junior, Willelmus tancard,
ar(migeri), Justices that be favorers of Religion.
Westrydinge:
Willelmus Vavasour, miles, [Willelmus] Ingleby, [miles],
vicecomes, Thomas Danby, Willelmus Mallory, Milites, Frunciscus
"Woodrofe ar., Edwardiis Elltoftes ar. Necessarye men, frunciscus
Palmes, ar., Willelmus Ilamond, ar. ; Willelmus Hungate, [ar.] ,
Johannes Laeye of Cromwel bothom, Henry Gryce ar., Justices
that be no favorers.
Westrydinge :
ffruneiscus slirtgesbye, Richardua Malwerey, Rcbertus Lee,
* YouDir.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564. 71
Johannes Beverley, Richardua Ashcton, R[ichardus] Buny,
ar[migeri], men mcetc to be Justices of peace A: favorers.
Estrydinge :
Thomas gargrave, miles, henricua gate, miles, Johannes Vaghan,
Christoferua Estofte, Henricus Savile, Johannes Eglesfyld,
Thomas Eyuns, Christoferua Hylliard, Willelmus S'rickeland,
Anthouius Smcthlecy, Radulfus counstable de sepuleres, Thomas
Boyneton, aiTmigeriJ, Justices that be favorers of Religion.
Estrydinge :
"Willelmus Babthorope, miles, a Justice of peace & no favorer of
religion.
Estrydinge :
John Counstable, Knight, Symon Musgrave, George Dakyns,
Arthur [Dakyns], Bartholomewe Abbott, ar[migeri], mcete to be
Justices of peace & favorers.
f. 72a.
Xorthrydinge :
Thomas Gargrave, mile?, ^sicholaus ffiyrefaxe, [miles], Henricus
gate, [miles], Georgius Bowes, [miles], Rogerus Dallton, Roger
Ratelyf, Johannes Herbert, Walterus Strickland, Thomas Lay ton,
"Willelmus Davell, Averedus Vnedall, ar[migeri]j Justices and
favorers of Religion.
Xoithrydinge :
Christoferus Danbye, miles, Leonardus dacre, Thomas Rookeby,
Johannes Sayrc, Machaell YVandesiurth, Anthouius Catteracke.
a>[nngcri]3 Justices and no favorers of Religion.
72 LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
Northrydinge :
Christoferus Metcalfe, miles, "Willelmus toncaH, Thomas Gowcr,
Thomas Savile, Rohertus Barneton, Radulfus Bowrehyer, ar[migerij,
meete to be Justices & favorers.
Justices of peace within, the Cittie of Yorke :
James Sympson, maior, Robertus Hall, Thomas Apleyard,
Rohertus Ilekleton, Johannes Bene, Willelmus Cowpland, [Willel-
mus] Bcckkewh, Robertus Pecocke, Thomas Stanevcn, Thomas
Law son j Percyvall crayforth, Justices & no f'avores of religion.
"Willelmus Wattson, Radulfus Hall, Justices there & favorers of
Religion.
f. 73 a.
The certificat of Thomas Archbysshoppc of Yorke to the righte
honorable the Lordes and others of the qucenes maiesties piivie
Counsell towchinge & concerningc theire lettres for Justices of
peace within the countie of Nottingham parcell of the diocese of
Yorke.
Comitatus Nottingham, Justices of peace there and favorers of
religion :
, Sir John Herrsye, knight, [Sir] William Meringe, [knight],
Robert Markeham, esquier, John Byron the younger, George Nevill,
Bryan Staplcton, "William Burnell, [esquier s], Justices of peace
there and no favorers of religion.
Comitatus Nottingham predictus :
Sir Gervys clyfton, knighte, Sir John Byron [knighte], bothe
good subicctes & necessarie for service in theire countrie but in
religion vcaric cold.
TO THE FRIVY COUNCIL, 15G4. 73
Sir Anthony Styrrley, [knight], [Sir] William Holly s, [knight],
John Mannors, esquier, Thomas Stanhoppe, esquier, Ffrauncis
Mullenax, esquier, nowe sheryf, Gabriell Barewicke, [esquier],
Nicholas Powtcrell, [esquier], sargent at lawe.
f. 80.
Chester : ,
This cittie is governed Lie xxiiii1^ Aldermen, out of which
Noraber the Maior is yerelie chosen, who immediatlic apon his
othc taken is a Justice of peace and so after Continueth duringe his
lief and albeit the grauote of their Charter is so ample that neither
Alderman nor Justice of peace can he displaced, yet I have signified
who be favorers, who be not, and who be most mete bothe for
zeale and habilitie to be made Aldermen as any Rowme shall fall.
Justices favorable:
Laurence Smith, knight, William Gcrrard, Esquier, John
Websbow, Henry Hardware, Raffe Goodman senior, John
Cow per.
Justices not favorable:
Richard Poole maior, William Sneide, knight, John Walley,
John Smith, Thomas Smithe, John Oilley, William Aldersey,
Handle Bamvile.
Col. 1.
Aldermen not Justices yet favorable:
Richard Harper, armiger, sergeant at law, William Leche senior,
Adam Goodman, Morris Williams, Thomas Grene.
Col. 2.
Aldermen not Justices neither favorable:
Randle Manwaringe, Roberto Walley, Roberts Johns, RafFe
Goodman.
CAMl). SOC. L
74 LETTERS FE03I THE MSnOI'S
Col. 3.
Meete to be Aldermen for their zeale and habilitie :
Richard Sutton, William Hanmet, Henry Lethe, John iTisher,
Oliuer Smithe, Edward Marten, Edward Ilanmer, John Hankie,
Christopher Morvile, William Croi'ton, John Yerworthe.
ff. 81-83 are here arranged in tabular form to save space.
In the original the. names are arranged in three columns under
the hundreds or parcel! s.
TO THE PRIYY COUNCIL, 1564.
75
f. 81.
Countie Chester.
Hundred de Eddes-
bury
Justices favorable.
Not favorable.
John Savage de
Clifton knight
Raffe Dent de Vt-
kinton, anniger
Hundred de Bulkley j Raffe Leycester de
tofte, knight
Hundred de Maccles-
field
Edward Ffitton de
Gawswerth. knight
John Bryne de
S tap leford,
armiger
John Dutton of
Dutton, armio-or
Henricua Bierton
do hani'ord,
knight
William Davenport
d e b rom hal 1,
knight
Roberte Tatton de
With en sh a we,
armiger
Piers Leighe de
Lime, knight
John Warren de
Pom ton, armiger
Mccte to be Justices.
George Bieston de
Bieston. armiger
Richard. Birkenhed
of Manley, Gentle-
inen Learned in
the La we
Richard Brooke de
Norton, armiger,
Thomas Leighe de
Leighleighe, ar-
miger
John Grinnsdiche
de grinnsdiche.
armiger, Learnec
in the Lawe
Thomas Stanley de
Wever, armiger
Richard Sutton de
Sutton, armiger
Raffe Arderne de
Hardeine, armiger
William Dokenfield
de Dokenfeld, ar-
miger
Jaspar "Worthe de
Dittrington, armi-
ger
76
LETTERS FROM THE BISHOrS
Justices favorable.
Hundred de Naunt-
wich
Hundred de North-
wiche
Hundred ue Broxon
Hundred de Wirrall
Laurence Smith de
Houghe, knight
John Delves de
Aington, armiger
Non to my knoledge
Hugh Chohnondley
de Cholmondley,
knight
George Calvcley de
Ley, armiger
Richard Ilurleston
d e P i c k t o n ,
armiger
Richard Houghe
d e Leighton,
armiger
William Glastor,
armiger
Not favorable.
Meete to be Justices.
Nontomyknoledge jonn Mushull de
Mushull, armiger
Edmond Griffin de
Barihcrton, armi-
Yernam
Thomas Yenables
de Kinderton,
knight
ger
Roberte
de
Non to my knoledge
armiger
Henry Manwaringe
de caringham, ar-
miger
Charles M a n -
waringe de Crox-
ton, armiger
William Liversage
de Whelock, ar-
miger
Richard Clyve de
Huxlev, armiger
William Massie de j John Poole de
Podington," j Poole, armiger
armiger, a good
Ju.^tice
■ Sheriff. Fuller's Worth its.
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 1564.
/ /
f. 82.
COUNTIE LaNC'
Jnstic favorable.
Not favorable.
Meete to be Justices,
Hundred de
Lons-
Thomas Cants Ser-
Francis Tunstall de
Xon to my knoledge
dale
geaunt, ar'
Thurland, ar'
Hundred de A
moun-
Thomas Calvert de
George Browne de
Xon to my knoledge
denies
Sokerham, ar'
lubchester, ar'
Richard Shirburne
de Stannehurst, k'
John Rigmaiden de
Garstoinge, ar'
Hundred de
Blag-
Xon to my knoledge
John Sothworth n
Giles Parker de
burne
de Sampsbury, k'
John Osbaldestonde
Osbaldeston, ar'
John Townley " de
Townley, ar'
Richard Ashton de
Whalley, ar'
John Brad ill de
Whalley, ar'
Harropforth, gent
Brian Parker, gent,
learned in the lawe
Hundred de L
eyland
John FIctewodde
Thomas Hesketh de
Thomas Asliall de
de Pen worth am,
Rusforth, knight
Hill, ar'b
ar'
Edward stan dish de
Thomas Butlour de
standishe, ar'
Hugh Anderton de
Yexlon, ar'
Bewsay, ar'
■ Harland, p. 70, conformable.
b Above scratched out Thomas Stanley lie Wimveke.
78
LETTERS FROM THE LISIIOPS
Hundred dc Derby
Hundred de Saulge-
ford
Justic favorable.
X'»t favorable.
Meete to be Justices.
John Atherton de- Richard MoHnex de Thomas Stanley de
Athcrton, knight Sefton, knight Winweke, knight
Henry Halsail de :|
Halsall, ar'
Laurence Ireland
de hdeute, ar'
Edward Holland do
denton, ar1
Edniond Asliton de
Chatterton, armi-
ger
William Radcliffc
deordishall, knight
Roberto Barton de
Smethclles, ar'
Raffe Ashton de
Lcyver, ar'
Thomas Herle, gar-
dian of Mancester
Edfmond Trafford
de Trafford, ar'
Charles Eatcliffe
Todmerdcn, ar'
Richard Ratcliffe,
gent,ofxxuLandes,
zealous and wise
John A s h e t o n .
Clark, zealous and
learned
TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL, 15G-J.
79
f. 83.
The Archdeacon rye of Iiichmondc is in my Jurisdiccion Conteyneth in hit
diuerse Parcelles of sundric Countries, viz. : —
Justic fitVomLlc.
Justic not favorable.
Mete to be- Justic.
Parccllof the Count! e
Walter Strickland
William Tankard
Poorer brourdi de
York wherein be
de Croftc, ar'
de borrobrigge, ar'
1 >rough, ar'
theis Justic
John Saier de
Christopher Danbie
William Peper de
Merske, ar'
de Well, knight
Richmond, gent
Avery Ynedalle de
Machaell Wandis-
j.i o b c r t e 11 e b 1 c -
Mcripk, ar'
furth de Pickall,
thvaite, com-
ar'
missary of my
Theis be good Jus-
Archdeaconry of
tic altho not very
Richmond
favorable
William Inglebie
4e lxipley, knight
Richard Xorden de
■
Wath, ar'
Christopher Wivell
de Masharo, ar'
William Wicliffe
de W icliile, ar'
Antony Caterick de
stan wick, ar'
Antony Rokby de
liokbie, ar'
ParcelloftheCountie
William Penning-
Henry Cm wen de
Xon to my knoledge
Cumberland -where-
ton de Moncustcr,
Workington, ar'
in be theis Justic
ar1
John Lampluffe de
Lampluile, ar'
80
LETTERS FROM THE BISHOPS
Justic favorable.
Justic not favourable.
Mete to be Justic.
Parcell of the Countic
Alane Bellingharae
John Middleton de
William Gilpen de
Westm or elan d
de Kendall, ar'
lonsdale, ar'
Kenttnaire, ar'
wherein be theis
Antonie Duckett de
Justic
Kendall, ar'
Theis be good Jus-
tic altho not very
favorable
Oliucr Middleton
dc Bithonie, gc.it
Parcell of the Countie
Non to myknoledge
Antony Kirkby de
John Preston of
Lane' wherein be
Kiikbie, ar;
fTorncs, ar'
theis Justic
A good Justic
TO THE I'EIVY COUNCIL; 15G4. 81
f. 81b is endorsed To the right honorable the Queens Maiesties
Privie Counsell. On the remaining folios numbered xci-xevi the
lists of "mislikcrs" and of men (it to be justices arc again copied out.
f. 97 (unnumbered).
Syr. I send your honor the namys of such as be commended to
me in these sbiers ; what these be & what others be, your honors
of the councell knowe mcche better than we can enforme youe, and
'as for myself, I know them not and somtymc enformers serve ther
own turnc & gratifie ther frendes.
As for bristowe diocesse the commendatory therof shuld haue
sent his ccrtificat. thus Jesus be with your honor,
Yours euermore
Mattbue Cantuar.
In the dioces of Landaff:
Glamorganshire.
Sir George Herbard. Mr. Edward Manxel), [Mr.] Roberte
Gamage, [M*.»] Edward Lewes, [M*;] The. Lewes, [Mr/] Myles
But tan j comes, "William Evans, ehancellour, Christopher Turber-
feild, Mr. Dauid Evans of Xorth, Mr. Lesam price [Mr.]
William Jenkin.
Momworthe Shire.
The Erie of AVorceter, Mr. Tho. Mawgan, [Mr.] Charles
Somerset, [Mr.] Tho. llerberd, [Mr.] William John stroger3
[Mr.] Evans, Chauncellour.
In the dioces of Oxford :
Sir Tho. Benger, knight, Hen rye Nores, Esquicr, Mr. Wayman,
[Mr.] fynes, [Mr.] John Doyly, [Mr.] Roberte [Doyly,] [Mr.] Tho.
Wynchecombe, [Mr.] Gibbons, [M1.] Cowper, [Mr.] Moore, Mr.
Lea, [Mr.] Davas, Ambros Dormer.
CAJ1D. SOC. M
82 LETTERS FBOH THE BISHOPS
Justices of pcax in the Citio Oxon :
Doctor White, [Doctor] Warner, Mr. 1'odde, MM Taverncr,
Denton, Brostron, Chareltjm, Croker, Rawlyns.
Endorsed : To the right honorable Sir William Cecyll,
knin-ht.
Then follows an index of dioceses & counties: thus f. lxxxv.
(sic) :—
f. 64
48
48
57
7
80-81
82
83
83
41
40
42
43
68
1G
70
70
40
9
10
11
11
12
Com.it at us.
Bath & Welles
Somerset
Carlile
Cumberland
Westmoreland
Canterbury
Kent
Chichester
Sussex
Chester
Chester
Lancaster
parcell Yorkshire
of Westmoreland
Coventry &
Derby
Lichfield'
Stafford
Salop
Warwick
Duresmc
Northumberland
Ely
Canterbridge
Exeter
Devon
Cornwall
Glowcester
Glowcester
Bushops of
Hereford
Hereford
Salop
Wigorn
Radnor
Monmouth
TO THE PHIVY COUNCIL, 15G4. 83
Lincoln Lincoln 20-21
Bedford 22
Huntington 22
Herts 23
Leicester 24
Bucks 20
London • Middlesex Gl
Essex G3
Herts G2
Norwich Norffolk 58
Suffolk 4G
Peterborough Northampton 31
Rutland 32
Sarum "Wiltshire 35
Berks 36
Winchester Southampton 54
Surrey 54
Wigorn Worcester 2
Warrick 3
York Yorkeshire 71
Nottingham 73
Then follow 3 endorsements of letters to the Privy Council &
the volume concludes :
" Collection of original letters of divers Bishops sent to the
Privic Councill in the beginning of the Reigne of Q. Elizabeth &
certifying the names of persons qualified or disqualified for the Com-
mission of the Peace, as they are affected or disaffected to thestablished
Religion. A0 15GJ."
INDEX TO DIOCESES.
Bath & Wells
pp. 63-64
Carlisle
48-5 L
Canterbury
57-58
Chester
73-80
Chichester
8- 11
Coventry ec Lichfield
39-47
Durham
65-G7
Ely
23-26
Exeter
67-70
Gloucester
51-53
Hereford
11-23
Llundaff
81
Lincoln
26-33
London
59-63
Norwich
47-48 & 58-59
Oxford
81-82
Peterborough
31-37
Salisbury
37-39
Winchester
53-57
Worcester
1-8
York
70-73
PAPERS
RELATING TO
THOMAS WENTWORTH,
FIRST EAEL OF STRAFFORD.
FROM THE MSS. OF DR. WILLIAM KNOWLER.
EDITED BY
C. H. FIRTH, M.A.
PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY
ai.Dccc.xc.
PREFACE.
The papers hereafter printed are taken from the Manuscripts ot
Dr. William Knowier, editor of the two volumes of Strafford letter?
published in 1739.
On the death of William second Earl of Strafford in 1605 the
title of Lord Baby passed to his cousin Thomas, grandson of
William Wentworth younger brother of the first Earl of Strafford.
This Thomas Lord Raby was created Earl of Strafford in 1711,
and was one of the negotiators of the treaty of Utrecht. But the
second Earl of Strafford had devised most of his estates, including
Wentworth "Woodhouse, to his nephew Thomas Watson, son of
Edward second Lord Rockingham, and Anne daughter of the first
Earl of Stratford. Thomas Watson Wentworth, son of this Thomas
Watson, and therefore great grandson of the first Lord Stratford,
was created successively Baron Maiton (1728), Earl ot Maiton
(1734), and Marquis of Rockingham (1746). lie undertook the
publication of a selection from his ancestors' papers. They were
" selected," says the dedication which the editor addressed to his
patron, a from a vast treasure of curious manuscripts by yourself,
and published according to your Lordship's own directions and
instructions, to vindicate his memory from those aspersions, which
it is grown too fashionable to cast upon him, of acting upon
arbitrary principles, and being a friend to the Roman Catholics."
Of Dr. William Knowler, the editor of the two volumes printed
IV PREFACE.
in 1739, Nichols gives the following account: "William Knowler
was the third son of Gilbert Knowler, gent, of Stroud House at
Heme in Kent; baptised May 9, 1G99. lie was educated at St.
John's college Cambridge; B.A. 1720; M. A. 1724; LL.D. Com.
Reg. 1728. He was chaplain to the first Marquis of Rockingham,
who presented him first to the rectory of Irthlingborough (commonly
called Artleburrow, between "Wellingborough and Higham Ferrers),
and afterwards to the more valuable one of Boddington, both in
Northamptonshire. He died in December 1773." Dr. Knowler pre-
pared for the press in 17GG a translation of Chrysostom's Commentary
0:1 St. Paul's epistle to the Galatians, which was never published
(Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. ii.,
p. 129; see also for further particulars, vol. viii., 401, and Illustra-
tions of Literature, iv. 427).
It is possible that in the editing of the Strafford letters Dr.
Knowler had some assistance from William Oidys. " From the year
1724 to 1730 Oldys resided in Yorkshire and spent most of his
time at the. seat of the first Earl of Malton, with whom he had been
intimate in his youth. In 1729 he wrote an ' Essay on Epistolary
Writings, with respect to the Grand Collection of Thomas Earl of
Strafford, inscribed to the Lord Malton ' : (Thorns, Memoir of
William Oldys, 1862, p. viii.). Mr. Thorns, following the lead of
Mr. Bolton Corney, suggests that this Essay may have been of some
service to Lord Malton and his chaplain in the selection of letters
for printing (Bolton Corney, Curiosities of Literature Illustrated,
p. 113). The Essay itself is probably still at Wcnlworth YVood-
housc.
It remains now to give some account of the source of the papers
which follow. They are entirely derived from copies found amongst
Dr. Knowler's papers. In 1884 I purchased from Mr. George, the
well-known Bristol bookseller, a box of Dr. Knowler's papers,
which he had bought from the Rev. T. W. Openshaw, of Bristol
PREFACE. V
Grammar School, whose wife is descended from the editor of the
Strafford papers.8 The contents of the box were of a very
miscellaneous nature. There were a number of Dr. Knowlcr's
sermons, two imperfect copies of the Strafford letters in sheets,
the manuscript from which that work was printed, and a number
of miscellaneous notes made by the editor during its preparation. b
There were also copies of several papers relating to Strafford,
some of which are now printed. There was in audition a brief
correspondence between Dr. Knowler and a certain Henry Goddard,
which throws some light on the principles adopted by the former
in editing the letters.
11 Sir,
" I sd have made an earlier acknowledgment for ye civilities I
recd fm you at Wentworth but was desirous to send you at the same
time a copy of ye odd remark made by Sir John "Wentworthc upon
y* celebrated Ire of LJ Straffords to King Charles to persuade him
to give his assent to yc Bill of Attainder, wch I mentiond to you
\vn you communicated yr design of publishing the whole collection
cv sA have sent you much sooner but have been confmd by ye
weather & did not get to Howsham till yesterday. The remark is
0 Rev. John Knowler, LL.D. in. 1749, Mary Dalton.
Mary Knowler m. ] 772. Edward Derby, of Boddick, Oxon.
I
Mary Derbv in. 1S0G, Rev. John Hyde, Rector of St. Martin's,
| [Oxford.
Edward Hyde m. 1836, Rachel Early.
Anne Hyde in. Rev. T. W. Openshaw.
b Dr. Knowlcr's keys to the cyphers employed in Strafford's letters are now in the
Bodleian Library.
c Sir John Wentworth, of North Elmsal, Yorkshire, was created a baronet
July 28, l(i'J2, and died April 25, 1720. aged 17. The family of Wentworth of
North Elmsal was an early offshoot of the family of Wentworth Woodhonsc, to
which Strafford belonged (Hunter, South Yorkshire, ii. pp. 82, 151). The late
Lord Strafford referred to is William, second Earl, who died in \C<d3 (Collins, ix.
410).
V1 PREFACE.
in Sir John's hand as follows, They say my late TJ Stratford hath
if original Ire under his father's hand $ if this was but tomovepity,
no desire to die.
" As all the best Historians are clear in y° particular of L'1
Sn-affords writing yt Ire to the King one can't I think well doubt
of yc truth of it, but in my opinion tis so farr fm behur a irood
reason for the Kings passing the Bill yl He is less excusable than if
Ld StraiFord had never wrote such a letter.
" In looking over Sir John YTentworth's papers for this remark
I found copies of several Ires wch by y« dates & subject matter of
them must have been wrote by Ld Strafford wn L(1 Deputy of
Ireland, & in case they be not in y* collection I will send 'you
copies of them, I have taken down yc directions & a few lines at ye
beginning of each Ire by w<* you will easily see whether they be
copies of those you already have."
Mr. Goddard then gives a list of eight letters, copies of which
were amongst Sir John Wentworth's papers.
•" There are several more letters, but I imagine you have y«
originals & shall therefore trouble you no more at present nor untill
I have ye pleasure of hearing fm you w<* I hope will be as soon as
tis convenient & yt you will be so good to let me know if you have
these Ires, if not I shall copy them over at leisure & send em ye
first opportunity.
" Y* method of publishing the letters I think farr preferable to yt
of subscription on many accounts, all who either are or wou'd be
acquainted with english history will be desirous to have them so yt
you need not fear ye impression will lie long on yr hands; the
arguments you have drawn up in defence of 1> Strafford's conduct
in some particulars y* are objected to him seem to me very just &
clearly & strongly exprcss'd, but if I may take ye liberty of giving
you ray opinion you have confined yrself too much by bringing them
into yr dedication to L* Malton, whose zeal for y« true intefrest] of
his Country, the worth of his private character, [and] well piae'd
generosity as a Patron &c, will afford subject enough for y< part of
PKEFACE. vii
yr work & I think ought not to be passed by at a time wn it must
be own'd the moral taste is not very fashionable. Your defence
also of Ld Strallbrds conduct might be somew* enlarg'd,. I imagine,
by ye assistance of yc letters & you wd probably meet with some
circumstances in the historians of yl remarkable period for yr purpose,
I remember a passage in Dr. Welwood's memoirs, by wc» it plainly
appears yt his principal Accuser (& I suppose yp rest of yc purty of
wch Mr. Pym was a leader) hod resolved to endeavour his ruiue long
before it was possible for him to give them any just grounds; this is
•yc passage in Welwood p. 45." When the Earl, then Sir Thos
i Wentworth was upon making his peace with y° Court, he gave Mr.
I Pym some obscure intimation of it. Pym understanding his drift
< stopd him short with this expression, You need not use all this art to
I tell me y* you have a mind to leave us: But remember w4 1 tell you,
I you are going to be undone: & remember yt though you leave us
^now I will never leave you while yr head is upon yr shoulders. I
shall not trouble you with any other apology for ye freedom I have
us'd with you on this occasion except yt of yc obligation J thought
myself under to give you my opinion with sincerity wch is too often
an excuse for impertinence in others as well as, Sir,
u Yr oblig'd hmble servt
" Henby Goddakd.
" P.S. The length and dullness of my Ire may I fancy have prepaid
you to relish ye following piece of wit :
11 A receipt to preserve a Man
" Set him in ye Sunshine of a Court till his Volatile Spirits are
evaporated, take his Reason and place it under a Shade till it is
perfectly cool. Consult y1' Herbal to find in a proper soil an arm-
full of yc following Spring-flowers, Youth, Beauty & cheerfulness,
then take two Summer Plants Economy & Serenity & mix these
well together with an equal quantity of self denyal & discretion;
when yr man is fitly prepaid add these ingredients to him & set him
a Memoirs of tbc most material transactions in England for the last hundred year
preceding the Revolntion in 1688, hy Janus Welwood, M.D. 1700, p. 48.
Vlii PREFACE.
in a quiet place till they are all incorporated together & you will find
He is com plea tly Preserved.
" N.B. This is a Sweetmeat delicate to ye eye hut exquisite toy*
Taste. Confectioners often miscarry by putting sower & bitter into
ye composition, the best rec' is at Marston in ye good Ladys own
keeping & the sweetest flowers for ye use are thought to grow at
Oswaldkirk. [This was pinnd into the Lady's recf-book by her
husband].
"Direct to me at Foston near York, to be left at Mr. Stainton's
on ouse-bridire in York.
O
"To
"The Revd. Dr. Knollcr
at the Right Iloiiblc the Earl of
Maltou's at Wentwortli House,
near Rotherhani,
Yorkshire."
Dr. Knowler replied to Mr. Goddard in the following letter, of
which a rather illegible draft is preserved amongst his papers.
" Sir,
" I am much obliged to you for your kind Letter, and the
trouble you so generously offer to undertake to complete the Col-
lection of my Lord S t ratio rde's Letters. Those that you have are
undoubtedly his, but four or five of them are imperfect, & want a
complementary Introduction of four or five lines. I could wish
you would look into yl from Sr Arthur Hop ton, Nov. 24, 163S,
about yc middle you will find this Passage, / must not neglect to
tell your Lordsliip, that I find very good Inclinations brought
hither from 308 concerning 411. Who 308 is I am uncertain,
perhaps vou may have it in words, 411 is the Prince Palatine outed
at the time of his Patrimony. My Lord Strafforde's Reply to this
in your Copy is imperfect, it begins with a Passage concerning
Tyreonel, an Irish Hebell & Fugitive, and in speaking of him is
used some Cypher, which I am forced to turn into Asterisk, not
PREFACE. IX
knowing how to read it. I shall bo obliged to you for a Copy of 2
of my Ld Str. Letters —
" Feb. 10, 1638, to Cottington, and
11 Feb. 28, 1638, to L'1 Admiral.
11 These I never saw, tho' they are to two favourites, whom his
Lordship would be open to, & they fall in a critical time, which
makes me mare inquisitive & desirous to see them. I shall not
trouble you for any more, because it is not intended to publish every
Letter, but the Principal ones; there is four or five times the
number of Letters uncopied for one transcribed. & yet I believe
those that shall glean them over again wont find many things
material omitted.
" Historians give a Letter of yc 4th of May to the King8 & give
very different Reasons for it, some others strong desire to
settle yG Peace of yc Kingdom, as the letter itself bears, Sir John
Wentworth, art ; where Sr John Wentworth learnt my Lord Straf-
forde ye son had it, I know not, but neither my Lord nor his
Father ever saw it.
" The first Reason depends upon ye credit of Sr W" Balfour, the
second is contradicted by his dying Speech, where he begs the
Audience to consider, wr the beginning of a Reformation sha be
written in blood, that he thinks they are in a wrong way: and the
oa He was not capable of. Indeed the whole is contradicted by y
ejaculation of his upon the Bill's being past, Put not your trust in
Princes, hinting at yc story's solemn Promise, that he should not
suffer in Life, Honour or Estate. However be it as it will I have
no thoughts of cntring into disquisitions of this nature, my business
being solely to copy and print faithfully, & then leave the world to
■ The authenticity of the letter is attacked by Carte, Life of Ormond, eil. 1851,
vol. i. pp. 275-278. He affirms it to lie a forgery, and quotes a report that the
second Earl of Strafford used to say that his father told him, on the night before
his death, that " he had never wrote any such letter, and that it was a mere forgery
of his enemies, in order to misguide the King to consent to his death." But the
evidence of Sir George Radciiffe is conclusive proof of its genuineness. See
Gardiner, History of England, ix. 3G1, where the question is discussed.
CAMD. SOC. b
X PREFACE.
judge from these Letters wrote when the things were in agitation
long before any Impeachment was thought of or feared. Whether
his Lordship had these traiterous Intentions in every act he did
which the Articles charge him with. This point 'tis true is already
cleard up in his Answers upon Trial in Rushworth's Collection, but
that is so long as I fear f^w have patience to read it, otherwise I
think it would give them full satisfaction. But 1 must have done
& not tresspass too far upon your good nature. I have no such
Eeceipts to send back you gave me. & but little News, perhaps it
may not be disagreeable to Lady W. to know, .Mr. TYVilijye cc his
Lady are expected in a few days at Eewerficld, they have loft
Scotland above a week, but this 'tis probable is no News to her
Ladyship. Pray make my Compliments at Housham, and return
my thanks for this favour, as I heartily do to yourself & am
u Your obliged humble Servt,
" W. Know[leb].
" TYentworth House,
"Oct. 22J, 17o7/'
In a second letter which is not now in existence, Mr. Goddard
sent copies of the two letters to Cottington and Northumberland,
as desired by Dr. Knowler. They are printed on pp. 7. 8. He
also added a list of several others which were amongst Sir John
Wentworth's papers." '
■ As the originals are at present inaccessible, a list of those letters which are not
iu the printed collection is subjoined : —
(1). The Lord Deputy to the Lord Keeper npon his requesting that Lord Holland
might be examined its a witness in the Star Chamber case betwixt him and Sir Pier*
Crosby, dated Dublin, Dee. 10, 163S.
(2). To the Lord Keeper, 1G April, 1639, on the same subject.
(3). To the Lord Admiral, April 15, 1039.
(4). To Lord Cottington, April IG, 1639.
(5). To Sir Henry Vane, Dublin, April 29, 1G39.
(G). To Sir Henry Vane. Dublin, 11 May, 1639.
(7). 24th May, Strafford to — (no address).
(S). To the Lord Admiral. i'G May, 1C39, Dublin.
(9). To Sir H. Vane, Dublin, 30 May. 1639.
PREFACE. XI
Dr. Knowler acknowledged the copies and enclosures in the
following letter : —
" Dear Sir,
u I return you now not only my own, but what is much more
valuable, my Lord Malton'a thanks for yc trouble you have taken
about ye E. of Str. Letters. I drew out a List of those not
transcribed & presented it to his Lordship, who upon consulting his
books over again found every one of them, & told me, He had
passed over them by design, & did not think them proper to be
made publick at present. Indeed there was y* care taken by my
Ld Str. himself in having his Letters entered into Books, y1 I am
now persuaded there are none but w* my Lord Mai ton has, and
those which have been copied by some particular friends have not
been copied entirely, but yc principal parts only, as these of Sr
John's appear to be by ye beginnings of them, the Letter you sent
of 28 feb. 38' to yL' Ld Adm. has some pretty flowers in it, yet yr
matter is much yc same wth y* of yc 10 of the same month & year.
How ye Q. was instrumental to Straffordc's Death I am not able to
say/ but this I know that there was no love lost between them.
He ca not be at her superstitious worship, & had disobliged her in
not suffering the Papists to resort to S* Patrick's Well in Ireland
for miraculous cures, & I am persuaded all of that party rejoiced at
his Death. I know nut yet on w- footing they will be published,
can't guess at the Price of a Copy, nor yc Number, but be thev
more or less I doubt not but to be able to procure any number for
your friends, & I believe they won't think their money ill laid out.
I am entirely against Subscriptions, so that there will be no need of
any application till it be near finished, & then yc quicker thev are
called for, the better certainly for me, & I will make bold to trouble
you with a Letter when y* time comes. On Wednesday morning
a The notion that the Queen was instrumental to Strafford's death is founded on
the mistaken belief that she was his enemy; any hostility to Strafford on her part had
ceased to exist long before his trial. Sec Gardiner, History of England, ix. 366.
Xll PREFACE.
Lady M. was safely delivered of a d. The day is highly honoured
by the birth of the Princess Louisa the dutchess of Cleveland &
now of ye Lady H. W. I made your compliments to Mr. Wellby.
lie intends for London after Xstmas & I hear has some hopes of
sitting.
" I am, Dr Sir, vour obliged humble seiV,
" Wn K."
ERRATUM.
Page v., line 1 of footnote, for Rev. John Knowler, LL.D.,
read Rev. William Knowler, LL.D.
PAPERS RELATING TO THOMAS WENTWOKTH,
FIRST EARL OF STRAFFORD.
PAGE.
I. — Sir Thomas "Wentworth to Sir Robert Askwith,
Dec. 7, 1620 ..... 2
II. — The Lord Mohun to the Lord Deputy, Nov. 30,
1633 ...... 3
III. — Sir Francis Windebanke to the Lord Deputy, Oct,
22, 1635 ..... 4
IV. — The Lord Deputy to my Lord Cottington, Feb. 10,
1638 ...... 7
V.— The Lord Deputy to the Lord Admiral, dated
Dublin, 2Sth of February, 1638 . . 8
VI. — A perfect narrative of the days and times of the
Larl of Straliorde's first and second Journeys
from Ireland into England ; as also of his Lord-
ship's Journey from London to the North, and
so back to London, 1639, 1640 . . 11
VII. — Mr. John Cooke to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 14
VIII. — How the King should behave when the Bill of
Attainder against the Earl of Strafforde is pre-
sented to him for the Royal Assent . . 20
CAMD. SOC.
PArERS RELATING TO THOMAS WENTWOETH
I.
Sr Thomas Wentworih, Bar1, to Sr Robert Askwilh, K'.
Sir,
Having been enjoined by some of my nearest friends to stand at
this Election for Knight for the Parliament with Sr George Calvert
his Majesty's Principal Secretary, and having now declared our-
selves, are to try the affection of our friends, among which number
I have of long esteemed yourself to be unto me well assured. I
must therefore hereby move you very effectually, earnestly to solli-
cite all your neighbours and friends that you have interest in, in
York, to give their voices with us at this next choice, which is to
be made, upon Christmas day, which your kind and respectfull
endeavours, as I shall ever be mindfull to requite, as an argument
of your true a flection towards me, and in the nature of an espcciall
curtesy, so will 1 undertake, when I come at London (for I know
we shall have you a Member of the House) to carry you to Mr.
Secretary, make you known to him, not procure you only many
Thanks from him, but that you shall hereafter find a readiness and
cheerfulness to do you such good Offices as shall lie in his way
hereafter. Lastly, I hope to have your Company with me at Dinner
that day, where you shall be most welcome. And so desiring
answer, I remain your very assured and affectionate friend,
Th. "Wentworth.*
"Wentworth Woodhouse,
Dec. 7, 1620.
a Sec Strafford Letters, i.-ll, where this letter was originally to hare been printed.
On second thoughts Dr. Knowler, or possibly Lord Malton, decided to omit it.
FIRST EAKL OF STRAFFORD. a
II.
The Lord Mohun to the Lord Deputy.
Mr arosT honoured Lord,
Your great and weighty cause received two days ; the first in
proofs, the second in censure. Your envious and ingrate enemy
(as may they all be) is utterly confounded. Your Honour is
advanced and sett off to that politick advantage as the mouths of
the clamorous are stopped, -and the hearts of your hidden Enemies
are convicted, as conscious of your Integrity and Honour. The
Court had a full Presence both days, though, unfortunately, my
Lord Cottington's sickness held him thence, delations of particulars
are so exactly given your Lordship by others as (though 1 have
quoted all) I spare them as tilings which I fear would be imperti-
nent and troublesome.
Some observations of discernings between man and man in
passage of the censure shall in due time be rendred by your
servant. Let envy now mutter, she dare not talk. It was a brave
chosen cause, and directed by God for future ends of his own glory
in you.
I have also dived into the heads of the ablest Irish here, with
whom 1 have had good Relation since my Lord Chichester's time,
in accusation of whom they were then imployed. And, I protest,
my Lord, for ought 1 can discern, they all contribute their generall
affections to your Lordship's praise and honour, and vow they have
not greater hope in the Gods* than in your \Yisdom and Worth,
for the Reduction of that Country from Barbarism to Civility.
My Lord, your servant is now settled with his family in London
expecting your Commands, wherein he may do service, for other-
wise lie will assume the modesty to be spare in writing, knowing
how flat a tiling Complement is, to a man of your Fire and Xature.
That Modesty shall shorten these sudden lines, whose closure must
give your Lordship this assurance (that for ought your servant can
yet discern, for my Lord is not yet in London), the house of Clare
4 PAPERS RELATING TO THOMAS WENTWORTH,
stands affected as it was, which I beseech your Lordship believingly
to receive from the assured Faith and Duty of
Your Lordships
Most humble Servant,
J. Okehampton a
NovbrIj nit0, 1G33.
III.
[This letter marks one of the stapes of the quarrel between Strafford
and Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork. Cork was cited before the
Castle Chamber for illegally possessing himself of Church lands —
the lands belonging to the College of Youghal being specified. The
progress of the case is noted in Strafford's Letters (vol. i. pp- 305,
347, 370, 449). A detailed history of it is given in the diary of the
Earl of Cork recently printed by Dr. Grosart (Lismore Papers,
Series I, vol. iv. pp. 40, 53, 59, 61, 6S, 83, 106, 113-118). Find-
ing himself in danger of a heavy sentence, Cork sought to obtain
leave to come over to England, and submit himself and his cause to
the King (ibid. pp. 117, 125). On Oct. 20, 1635, his messenger
returned with letters in his favour, including that from YVindebrmke
which is now printed. The letters, says Cork, " signified his
Majesty's pleasure that when all examinations in the Starr Chamber
sute were taken and published, and that the Lord Deputy had
certefied the state of the cawse and his opynon therof, that then I
•
• John Mohun of Bocounock, Cornwall, -was created Lord Mohan of Okchampton,
co. Devon, 13 April, 1628, and died in 1644 (Dugdale Baronage, p. 461). See
Forster"s Life of Sir John Eliot, patsim. The cansc mentioned is the suit hetween
WentuorthaudSirBavidruulis. SeeKuilnw>rth,ii.215; Strafford Letters, i. 145,167.
FIRST EABL OF STRAFFORD. O
should be licensed to carry them over and present them to his
Majesty, and submitt myself to his own censure. I delivered those
two letters to the Lord Deputy, who was veary muche offended with
me for procuring them, as if I had appealed from his justice, and
from the power and integretic of this State, affirming he Avould wryte
to answer his Majesty and alter that direction if he could and would
reccav a new command from the King cr he would obey this ; we
discoursed privately in his gallery three howres at the least and in
conclusion he promised me to forbear doin<r or writing anything till
his certeficate was prepared till after examination and publication"
(ibid. p. 130). Strafford however had before this, on 2G August,
1G35, written to Laud arguing very strongly in anticipation against
the course of action ordered in Windebank's letter (Strafford Letters,
i. 459). He now wrote a brief Jetter to the King, pointing out that
the directions given in Windebank's letter were directly contrary to
those given him in a letter of Oct. 4, from Laud, and asking which
he Was to follow (ibid. p. 477). He succeeded apparently in
obtaining power to proceed with the case, or to stav further
proceedings as he thought fit. The Earl of Cork was eventually
obliged to pay a fine of £15,000, to avoid public disgrace and a
heavier sentence. u I prayed him to consider well," says Cork,
" whether in justice he could impose so great a fyne upon me.
Whereunto he replyed, Gods wounds, sir. "When the last Parliament
in England brake upp, you lent the King fifteen thousand pounds.
And afterward in a very uncivill unmannerly manner you pressed
his Majestic to repay it you. Whereupon I resolved, before I came
out of England to fetch it back againe from you, by one meanes or
other. And now I have gotten what I desired, you and I wilbe
fronds hereafter" (Lismore Papers, Series II. iii. 257).]
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Mr. Secretary Windebank to the Lord Deputy,*
My Lokd,
His Majesty hath been pleased to command me to acquaint your
Lordship -with a proposition lately made to him by the Lord
Chamberlain and the Earl of Salisbury in favour of the Earl of
Corke; who having offered to submit the business, for which he is
now questioned, entirely to his Majesty, and to make such acknow-
ledgements of his offence, and pay such sums of money by way of
Pecuniary Mulct, and to restore to the Church such lands and
possessions as he is charged to leave unduely gotten from it, as his
Majesty shall think fit, when the cause shall be certified by your
Lordship. And lastly, that this shall be done with such reservations
of Respect and Honour as are due to your Person, and to the
Place you hold under his Majesty there, humbly imploring your
favour and concurrence herein. Their Lordships have hereupon
been humble Suitors to his Majesty to take these Offers into his
Princely Consideration, and to remitt only that part of the publick
censure, which carries with it not only a present but a future note
and stain to remain upon Record to Posterity upon him and his
house. His Majesty therefore, well weighing these Offers, and in
his goodness liking well this dutifull Submission, which deserves
some mitigation, especially in a person of his quality now in the
declination of his years, and that heretofore had so eminent a part
in the government of that Kingdom, and finding them not altogether
disproportionate to his offence as it now stands charged, hath
commanded me to signify his pleasure to your Lordship, that
immediately upon Publication had in this cause, you make certificate
thereof, and of the true State of this Business to his Majcstv, and
that you forbear to proceed to an hearing untill you shall have
demanded of him, whether he will fully and freely submitt to his
a The Strafford Letters contain the Lord Deputy's answer to this letter, which is
addressed to the King (i. 477; see also pp. 449, 459, 479).
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Majesty or not ; which if he do, then you arc to suffer the said
Earl of Corke (otherwise not, but to proceed against him according
to Law) to repair hither immediately into England (any former
signification of his Majesty's Pleasure to the contrary notwithstand-
ing) to give his personal attendance upon his Majesty, that so his
Majesty may receive from himself such submissions and satisfactions
as shall be thought fit. In the meantime, his Majesty expects that
together with that Certificate your Lordship shall send your advice,
what Sum of Money, and what other satisfaction it is fit he should
give both to his Majesty and to the Church, together with what-
soever else your Lordship shall find most conducing to his Majesty's
Honour and Advantage. His Majesty is pleased to yield thus far
at the Intercession of the Lord Chamberlain and xhe Earl of
Salisbury, who desire nothing but to preserve this nobleman, now
so nearly allied to their family, from publiek disgrace; which his
Majesty holds not unreasonable upon the motives and grounds
before represented.
This being all I have in charge from his Majesty at this time, I
present my humble service to your Lordship and rest
Your Lordship's
Most humble & faithful] servant,
Fran: Windebank.
Westminster.
Oct. 22, 1635.
IV.
Tlie Lord Deputy to my Lord Cottington, dated lJublin, Feb. 10,
1638."
I am extremely overjoyed to understand of the greate forwardness
expressed in England towards his Majesty on this great occasion,
and his Majesty's so speedy advancing to Yorke will give a greate
• Copied by GodJard from Sir John Wentworth's papers and sent to Dr. Kuowkr;
see preface, p. ix.
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countenance to tlic cause itself; all here are for peace, and the Scots'
amongst us very quiet, but, however, wee will bee watchfull over
thein. Our standing army of 3, 000 horse and foote are in good
condition ; I shall have by Whitsontide eight thousand spare armes,
twelve field pieces, and eight great ordinance ; I am commanded to
quicken my Lord of Antrim to have his forces in readiness, but I
protest I neither know nor can I learne of any he hath, I knowing
that this terine an extent goes against all his lands for three
hundred pounds. It's appointed mce to furnish him with armes
but were it not best think you to kecpc them for ourselves, at
least unless we know how to be paid for them, etc.,
Wbntworth.
The Lord Deputy to' the Lord Admiral, dated Dublin, 28th of
February, 163&.a
The use that's made of my absense I feclc most sufficiently, and
a This letter was scut by Henry Goddard to Dr. Knowler ; see preface, pp. tL, Lx.
The list of letters which he gives includes several to Vane and Northumberland,
printed in vol. ii. of the Strafford Papers.
Lord Holland had for some time been hostile to Wentworth, and had carried
stories against him to the King (Strafford Letters, ii. 125, ]£'.•)• He objected to be
examined as a witness in Wentworth's case against Mr Tiers Croabj in the Star
Chamber, and pleaded his privilege as a Privy-councillor {ibid., 230. 277). Though
be was finally compelled by the King's command to give evidence, it does not appear
to have been of much value (p 307). See the reports of Crosby's ca>e, Rnsb worth,
vol. iii- 8S8-90O, Cal. State Papers. Dom. 1039. Wentworth had also just received
from the Earl of North amber laud, then Lord Admiral, the news that, thanks to
the influence of the Queen and the Marquis of Hamilton, Holland had been
made General of the Horse, for the northern expedition, in place of Essex (Strafford
Letters, ii. 270). "With reference to Wilmot, an old opponent of the Lord Deputy,
the latter observes iu a letter to Northumberland, "The cmleavonres I bear to
bring in my Lord Wilmot and some arc pleased to affect it the rather, as^that
which would much displease me " {ibid., p. 2Su).
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in consideration of it had once obtained leave to come over this
spring; but since his Majesty hath ordered my stay, which I shall
readily submit to. The question betwixt my Lord Holland and me
touching his examination by him avoided by mee pressed is not so
much whether I shall have any advantage by it as whether 1 shall
have it at all or noe, so as to my understanding I have granted as
much as I coveted, although not in so full a manner as I ought to
have had it, and yet why his Lordship should boast so much of his
gains good faith I see not, onely little things pleaseth some folks,
and [ am willing it should be so providing I suffer not by it. The
cause were very barren out of which that noble gentleman could not
fetch something to magnifie himselfe by, and a happyness perchance
it's to some natures that can delight and entertain themselves with
small things, with these nowc and then a gathering of cockle shells
on the Germain Coaste is a conquest of Britain; but his Lordship is
able to do yet more, can gather glory to himselfe by making my
Lord W'ilmot Governour of Newcastle, nay that he had many yeares
since obtained of his Majesty the making my Lord \Vilmot a
Barron of England, his Lordship may go on, as Sir K. Swift said to
a gentleman that had extremely wearied all the company with a
most tedious and impertinent discourse, but for all that his Lordship
shall be examined, and find it a very hard matter to slip from under
my fingers, but I shall advantage my cause as much bv the setting
forth his priviledgc as a Councillor to the concealing of a truth as if
he had ingeniously and nobly expressed it.
It troubles me to find your Lordship no better satisfied as to the
councells and purposes now a f'oote for the defence of his Majesty
and these Kingdoms; those great armies we speake of will I believe
leave most men to seeke where the money can be raised that must
defray them, for this not well foreseene aud provided for, to brinee
so greate a number together & leave them for the nccessitys of life
to plunder our own country were a remedy worse than the disease,
& no meanes as yet being settled in that important point motives
me to be of opinion his Majesty is of beliefe that by the name of
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those greatc armies and some other private intelligences he hath
there is yet (in the King)- some hopes of allaying the storme and
quieting the watters, wherein I beseecne God lie may not find him-
selfe mightily mistaken, and so indeed dangerously mistaken, and
that his Majesty's greate secresie turn not in a business of so many
pecces mightily to the prejudice of his affaires ; for he must be a
fortunate servant indeed as well as wise that untaught, unguided by
his Master's word and directions, can be able to serve according to the
mind and liking of his superiors; it would be well for our greate
chiefs that whilest they speakc of these powerfull armies they would
not scorn to take care oH lesser matters which may bee effected,
especially the securing of Carlisle and Berwick; good my Lord, press
the King home in it especially to secure Berwick; it's reported four
thousand arc to be put into Newcastle, what I beseech your Lord-
ship is your opinion if brought together under that pretence they seize
upon Barwick, which they may march day and night too having
their vituals carried by sea; certainly this would be a greate
security to the English and a greate reputation to his Majesty's
prudence and conduct: the bringing in the Earl of Holland was a
strain of power God knows to little purpose considering that I
do not take him to be so learned a Doctor in the Art as shoud
render him worthy to be contended for to the discontentment of
those who were placed before and every way as deeply skilled
in the practise and profession as himselfe ; but now it's done
if I may speake it without offence to his Lordship's imaginary pleni-
potence, I am most confident it's more done than Holland's power
was able to do for himself alone, and that he owes the glory of it
checfly to the Marquess'' — it's not my opinion without grounds that
the Marquess reserves some private expedient communicable only
with the King, whereby he fcedes perchance the passion that most
■ Note by Mr. Goddard:
" N.B. Tbc Moras above in the King, tbo' vi-it exactly as I have transcribed thciu,
in tbe copy, I look upon as a wise remark of Sir John Wentworth's by -way of
explanation."
b i.e. the Marquis of Hamilton.
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reigns in us with a belicfc to wind up all in conclusion with peace;
so long as he keeps all in that temper, he is sure to have a full
measure of grace and trust; but when wee shall to our costs feele
ourselves disappointed of that expectation, and by that means be
cast fearfully bchinde in the way to our preservation (which on my
faith I believe will prove true), then perchance we may give our eyes
the liberty to look about them, and shall plainly discern that our-
selves which we will not allow any other so much as to point at, etc.
Wejntwouth.
VI.
A perfect account of the days and times of the Earl of Strafforde 's
first and second Journeys from Ireland into England ; as also of
his Lordship's Journey from London to the Nortli, and so bach to
London, as folloiceth : —
My Lord's first
Journey from Ire-
land, Sept. 1G39.
[By Mr. Littell].
Upon thursday yc 12lh of September, 1G39,
his Lordship came from Dublin, took Ship,
and landed upon friday ye 13th; that nio-ht to
Chester.
Saturday the 14th to Cholmondley.
Sunday the latU to Stone.
Monday the 16th to Litchfield.
Tuesday the 17lh to Coventry.
Wednesday yc IS'1' to Daventry.
Thursday the 10* to Stony Stratford.
Friday the 20th to S* Albans.
Saturday the 21st to London to his Lord-
ship's House in Covent Garden.
His Lordship remained at London until
from London to thursday the 5th of Mar. 1G39, on which day
Ireland, Mar. his Lordship began his Journey towards Ire-
1G39. land, and in three laid Coaches came yc sd
5th of March to Stony Stratford.
My Lord's Journey
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Friday the 6th of March to Daventry.
Saturday the 7th to Coventry.
Sunday yc 8th after Sermon and Dinner to
Litchfield.
Monday ye 9!h to Stone.
Tuesday the 10,h to Chester.
Wednesday ye 11th to Hollywell.
Thursday yc 12th to Conway.
Friday ye 13th to Place Newith in Wales.
Sr Art. Tirringham's.
Saturday the 14"' ibidem.
Sunday 15th ibidem.
Monday the lGth to Lea.
Tuesday yc 1 7th at Lea.
Wednesday the 18th to Dublin, and there
his Lordship staid untill Good Friday the 3d
of Apr. 1640.
My Lord's 2d Jour- Upon friday the 3d of April 1G40, his
ney from Ireland, Lordship came from Dublin, took Ship, and
Apr. 1640. landed upon the day following, beino- Easter
Eve the 4th; about 12 o'clock at night his
Lordship came sick to Chester, and there
continued sick at the Bishop's house all the
week following, untill Saturday the 11th,
and y1 night in a Litter to Mr. Wilbraham's
house at Namptwich.
Sunday the 12th of April in Sr Thomas
Delves his Litter to Stone, and so all the way
to Lond. in ye same Litter.
Monday the 13th to Litchfield.
Tuesday the 14th to Coventry.
Wednesday the 15th to Daventrv.
Thursday the 16th to Stony Stratford.
Friday ye 17th to St. Alb.ms.
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Saturday yc 18Ul to London, to my Lord
of Leicester's House, where his Lordship re-
mained from the said1" 18 of Apnl until
Monday the 24th of August following, and
the most part of that time very dangerously
sick.
My Lord's Journey Monday ye 24th of Aug. in laid Coaches to
to the North, Huntingdon.
Aug. 1640. Tuesday yc 25th to Newark.
Wednesday yc 26th to York.
Thursday 27th ibid.
Fryday yc 28t'1 towards night his Lor Iship
being sickly to Topcliffe.
Saturday ye 29rh to Darington.
Sunday ibid-
Monday ye 31st back to North Allerton wth
ye Army.
Tuesday ye 1st of Sept. to Topcliffe.
"Wednesday the 2d to Tollerton.
Thursday the 3d to York.
And back to His Lordship continued at York from the
London, Nov. 1640. said third of September until Monday the 2(i
of Nov. that night late to his Lordship's
House at Wentworth Woodhouse.
Tuesday the 3(1, Wednesday ye 4th, and
Thursday ye 5th ibidem.
Fryday ye 6th at Newark.
Saturday yc 7th at Stamford.
Sunday ye 8th at Huntingdon.
Monday ye 9th of Nov. his Lordship came
of Horseback to Koyston, and in two laid
Coaches from thence to London.
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VII.
[The John Cooke who addressed the following letter to Strafford
was the man who afterwards as solicitor for the Commonwealth
conducted the case for the prosecution during the trial of Charles I.
A royalist newspaper, Mercurius Elenticus No. 5G, published in
1649 a somewhat scandalous sketch of Cooke's early life. After
describing him as leaving England for Ireland from reasons very
much to his discredit, it continues " Xow in Ireland we have him
strutting in his plush and velvet, cringing for acquaintance and
screwing into the favour of the Earl of Strafford, who at length
took notice of his fair deportment, and saw something in him that
might deserve his countenance, but all this while knew none of his
qualities; nevertheless the statutes at large being then to be printed
the Lord Deputy commits the care thereof to this Cooke, whom he
appoints to revise the same and sec they were faire and truly
printed. And deposited a large summc of moneys in his hands to
defray the charge of printing. But this worshipful gentleman-
instead of correcting the prooves proves the second time a publique
trecherous knave, for he run into Italy with the monev, where he
became a papist." For the mere fact of the identity of the Cooke
employed in Ireland with the solicitor for the Commonwealth this
evidence seems sufficient. The references to Geneva, and other
places where the regicide is known to have been durino- his travels
serve to complete the proof]
Mr. Cooke to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Right Honourable,
1 owe your Lordship more than I am worth for the r-racious
aspect vouchsafed me in Ireland, where had I not been wanting to
myself I might have passed that time in a comfortable practise,
FIRST EARL OF STRAFFORD. 15
which has been spent in a disconsolate Pilgrimage. However, no
man honours you more than myself, who do as cordially pray for
your Lordship's Happiness as ever I did for my own Recovery, and
not knowing how better to express my humble Duty than by
presenting my humble mite (which is but as the pissing of a Wren
to the Sea of your learned Counsell's Experience) I presume, in the
lowest Degree of Humility that dutifull observance can imagine, to
beseech your Honour not to disdain these few abrupt considerations
proceeding from an heart fraught with Zeal to do you service
Quod si fenesiratum ford, cevneret Dominatio vestra have fixam
hand jictavx fdem. Your Lordship though now confined, vet I
hope like Gold refined your Integrity by this Trial will be more
conspicuous.
We young Lawyers conceive, that the Article, which most
intrenches upon your Lordship is for supplanting and subverting
Municipal Laws, and attempting to reduce all in the nature of a
Lex Rcgia, which only the absolute Power of a Parliament can do.
I lived in Ireland almost two years, and, si ex pede Hereulcm I
believe your noble Soul is not guilty of any one such single Cogi-
tation. I have known many that have felt the reviving Heat of
your Lordship's speedy Justice, whose very Entrails now bless you;
and if upon lamentable Petitions, that poor Suitors were not able to
contest with the great ones in a circular course of Justice ytnir
Lordship have justly relieved them (that Tantalus like have spent
many years in other Courts) in a speedy way of Justice, certainly
this is not supplantatio but plantatio, not subversio but sitpportatio
Legis, for bis dat qui cito dat: Delay of Justice being a kind of
Denial of Justice, it being speedy Justice, which like spcedv Reme-
dies, cure the consumption of State. Your Lordship alwavs observed
Quod dubiies ncfeceris, never making any Order till clearly resolved
by the Reverend Judges, neither did your Lordship take cogni-
zance of any causes but such as had been long depending in Courts
of Justice, or those that concerned the Church, whereof there was
great necessity, for that I have known Juries to go strangely against
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the Evidence in those matters. But dato non coacesso, 'tis clear
that such an article is no Treason within the Statute of 25 E. 3, 4,
as being rather an advancement than a depression of the King's
Honour. For, if a Judge shall deny the View and Essoigns and
other Legal Advantages this cannot he Treason, for, if the Common
Pleas should hold Plea of Murder, it would be a nullity, but no dis-
loyalty. And if that statute be only declaratory, yet there is a
clause, that if any doubtfull case arise, the Determination thereof is
referred to the next Parliament. For, no penal Statute is to be
extended, the reason whereof is rendered in that famous arraignment
of Sr Nicholas Throckmorton recorded by Hollinshead in the Life
of Queen Mary, that considering the private affection of the Judges
in that they were men, and subject to Error, it would be dangerous
to the subject to rcferr the extending construction of penal Statutes
to them, which might cither through Fear of higher Powers be
seduced, or by ignorance and folly abused. Which report containing
much excellent learning about Treason is well worth your Lordship's
second Readings It was doubted upon that Statute of 25, whether
to go about to deprive the King were Treason, because the words
are, imagine the Death of the King, without which Intention there
might be a Deprivation, and thereupon Statutes were made Temp.
Hen. 8 <Sc E. 6 to that purpose, as the Book is in Be Treason 24.
And the putting of an old Seal to a new Patent is not Treason, with
many other cases. That the Judgment in Treason being so
ponderous, the Judges are not to extend any Laws beyond the
genuine Interpretation, and if any one had gone about to deprive
before those Statutes, although the next Parliament had made it
Treason, yet such a patty would not have been guilty, because
penal Laws are never retrospective, and a man may not regularly
be attainted by Relation. Mutare formulas Legis non est Prodltio,
saith Bartolus, quia non sunt dc Essentia Legis, for suum caique
tribuere is the principal, and the several forms of proceeding are but
-as the Cabinet to preserve the Jewell. All Justice is originally in
the crown, and his Majesty constitutes his Judges, ut Labor ei esset
FIRST EARL OF STRAFFORD. 17
levior, and it is requisite, that every Magistrate should keep his own
Jurisdiction, but if one pro zelo Justitia should encroach, this can
be no traitorous Intention, for to make Justice pass with an easy
charge, that those brambles of needless expence that grow about it
might be rooted out, must needs be most beneficial to the Subject.
Amulio Secretary to Grand Cosmio was accused quod proditorih
Leges antiques Etruria violasset, qui respjondet ilium ecleriorem
exequi Justiciam omissis Juris quisquilliis, cut concordatum est
formulas Juris non esse ipsum Jus, and expedite Justice can no
more be called Treason, than Mithridate may be called Poyson.
That your Lordship should assume regal Power is very generally
reported, but presumptive answer may stand for presumptive objec-
tion. 'Tis true you were Lord Deputy not Assignee of Ireland,
nothing in your own Plight, but loco Regis, non aliud est esse talem
aliud est haberi pro tali. I conceive it is high. Treason to kill a
Lord Deputy, as it is of a Prorex by the Civil Law, and I believe
your Lordship never extended your Commission. That your Lord-
ship hath born tod strict an hand in your Goverment. Who knows
what bridle is best for any horse 'till he knows his conditions? the
Asiatic must always be curbed, else all is lost. 1 know nothing,
but whilst I was in Ireland the poor cried never so good a Lord
Deputy before, as it was said of Pius Y felix est electio quia gaudent
pauperes, those that durst not speak to your Lordship, ignorahant
dementiam vestram, and in nil cases your Lordship did patenter
audirc, persjdcuv diseemere, and reete judicare.
That your Lordship did exercise Marshal Law tempore Paris :
for which some say there are Precedents that is High Treason, quod
non capio. For, exercising military Discipline being Bell urn rcpre-
sentativum and done in forma Guerra?, the same proceedings may
be used as in a real war ; (or, represent ans debet ei*e similis et par
reprcesentato, the Copy to the Original, as to abuse the Picture of a
Nobleman hath been punished in the Star-chamber; and the tender
of a Gentlewoman's picture has been decreed to be good in the
Court of "Wards for the double value of the marriage. And for
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Precedents Sr Edward Cooke says, that duo sunt ad omnes res ton-
firmandas instrumental saltern ratio et autltoriias'. in authority we
fee by other men's eyes, in reason with our own, but sapientis est
proprio lumine videre. It was formerly Murder to kill a man se
defendendo, and some Judgments arc only Lex temporis ad unum
intenta, qvee non debent train in cxemplum: but in all Treason
there must be either some Inimicitia against the King, or that
which the Civilians call Crimen Perduellionis, quando quis aliquid
directe molitur contra Rempublicam talis est hostis Patrice, as was
in Dr Story 13 Q. Eliz* which tends to the Destruction of the
King, for Majestas est major potestas: can a Lord Deputy committ
Treason against the State of Ireland ? If your Lordship did mistake
the Law, can that be Treason ? I conceive the Lord Kilmallotkes
case did much more approximate the nature of Treason than your
Lordship's. Stanley's case, tempore Hen 7, is not ad rem, for those
Tfi and Ands did imply a doubt of the King's Title, which is crimen
extbyandce Mujcstatis. Xor the Duke of .Norfolk's Case any jot
parallel, and Brooke in his reading upon 25 Ed. o, 2G, to do
Injustice no Treason. That 'your Lordship should tell a Peer of
Ireland, that he should have no other Justice than what was in this
breast. These words may admitt a fair construction; for Rex cen-
setur habere omnes leges in scrinio pectoris sui, and your Lordship
being Lieutenant may intend by that to do pure Justice, and Sr
August, lib. de Haer. cap. SG, defends Tertullian, quod dixerit
Dcia?i habere corpus, nam potuil intelligere de corpore concerto,
cum non sit quid ina?ie, sed omnino aliquid, et toiics ubique. no?i
autem uii corpus discretum habens partes majores et mincres prout
liabent corpora nostra, ergo non est Id asp/ton ia, quia melius est
reddere Deo rationem de Misericurdia quam de Crudelitaie. And I
know all good men desire your Lordship's Justification, that bein^
more honourable for all, as it is more credit for a Physician that his
patient recover than to die under his hands.
That your Lordship should be over-indulgent to the Catholicks
more than what Reason of State did require, I do not believe, for I
FIRST EAIIL OF STRAFFORD. 19
knew your Lordship zealous to suppress Mass-1 louses in Dublin,
which were converted to Temples, and if it be not too much pre-
sumption I would say what Monsieur Provost of Geneve said not
long since of your Lordship, Ce Seigneur quandil estoit icy parvvj
nous avait une tres genereuse ame, et assurcment il estoit en Vested
de Grace, from which there is no falling. What Acts are Treason
our French Advocates discourse copiously; and Popham says that
Wblfgangue, Treasurer to Maximilian, spent the Emperor four
millions, and yet they could not proceed capitally against him.
And that case in the 11th Report, fol. 91, that to embezzle Trea-
surc-trouve should be Treason, is such a wasting whereby a King-
dom is actually endamaged, and then causa causa est causa causati.
Your Lordship's Sentence left with Monsieur Cardonie (who
rejoices to show the Bed your Lordship lay in) Qui nimis notus
omnibus ignolus moritur sibi* where there is this likewise, Quamvis
injuria nullos. invidia viultos parit inimicos. 'Tis a high Presump-
tion (unless your Lordship please to give it another name) thus to
interrupt your serious affairs, but I hope your Lordship's Goodness,
as it doth exceed your greatness, so it will excuse this boldness, and
according to the Divine Nature (whose dear servant you are) accept
of my afiectual desires because voluntas est mensura actionum, t)-
impotentia excusat legem. I beseech your Lordship not to wrong
my good meaning, to think that 1 do any wav presume to advise
your sublime wisdom (though if Solomon should demand an Opinion,
he should receive si non bonum saltern jidele consilium). This
B "Among Milton's introductions at Geneva through Diodate or otherwise was
one to the family of Camillo Oerdogni or Cardouin, a Neapolitan nobleman, who had
been resident in Geneva since 1C0S as a Protestant refugee and a teacher in Italian.
The family kept an album, in which they liked to collect autographs of strangers
passing through the city, and especially of English strangers. Many Englishmen,
and some Scotchmen, predecessors of Milton in the usual continental tour, Lad
already left their signatures in this album, and among them no less a man than
Wentwcrth. whose autograph appears in it under date 1612" (Mosson, Life of
Milton, i. 833, ed. 1SS1). The album, according to Professor Masson, was once in
the possession of Charles Sumner, and is still in America. Strafford's motto is from
Seneca. Pope was fond of quoting the same lines (Courthope's Life of Pope, p. 72).
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humble presentation of my service, being only what I can testify of
it, might any way avail your Lordship, which is a Debt that I owe
to Verity. I trust in God, your Lordship will acquit yourself, as did
the Lord Wentworth 1 EHz. for which end my unhallowed prayers
shall horarily attend your Honour. The Lord of Life multiply the
days of your Lordship's Life, what Period better than Prayer.
Je suis,
Monseigneur,
Vostre tres humble serviteur a jamais,
John Cooke.
viii.
[This paper seems to have been written by Strafford himself, for
the writer, whilst usually referring to Strafford as " the Earl," twice
relapses into the first person and uses the word " me." It is undated,
but from the mention of Strafford's letter of May 4, and of the
passage of the Attainder Bill through both Houses, it must have been
written on or after May 8, on the morning of which day the bill
passed the Lords. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 9th the
King at last gave way, and promised to pass the bill. The royal
assent was actually given, by commissioners, on the morning of the
10th. This paper therefore must have been written on the 8th or
9th, most probably on the former day. Eushworth prints a letter
from Strafford to his secretary, Guilford Slingsby (Trial p. 774).
Unfortunately this letter also is undated, but it is said by Eushworth
to have been written " immediately after the Bill of Attainder did
pass both Houses." " Your going to the King," writes Strafford,
4 ' is to no purpose, I am lost, my body is theirs, but my soul is
God's; there is little trust in man, God may yet (if it please him)
deliver me." Then he goes on to refer to some scheme which is his
FIRST EARL OF STRAFFORD. 21
last hope, such as it is. M The person you were last withal at Court
sent to move that business we resolved upon, which if rightly
handled might perchance do something ; but you know my opinion
in all, and what my belief is in all these things."
It is possible that Strafford was referring to some plan for his
escape from the Tower. According to Sir "William Balfour's
deposition of 2 June " the Earl of Strafford sent for him some three
or four days before his death, and did strive to perswade him that
he might make an escape; and said, for without your connivance I
know it cannot be; and if you will consent thereto I will make you
to have 20,000 pounds paid you besides a good marriage for your
son'" (Husband's Exact Collection, p. 233).
It is however more likely that lie referred to some such plan as the
one described- in this paper. Strafford had evidently no great
confidence in the success of the plan he refers to. " That business
we resolved upon," I take to be the plan that the King should
attempt to save Strafford's life by a guarantee that he should never
again possess political authority or influence. The person who
" sent to move that business " I suppose to be either Bristol or
Savile, the prompters of the King's declaration of May 1 in which
a similar compromise was offered. This paper resembles that
declaration in some of its expressions and statements. Each alike
insists on the tact that the King was present all through the trial
and was not convinced by what he heard. Each alike insists on the
necessity of respecting the King's conscience, and proposes the life-
long exclusion of Strafford from power as the sole solution which
unites satisfaction for the fears of the people with respect for the
conscience of the King. It is the same policy developed and brought
up to date, with one new argument in its' favour added, viz. the
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unconstitutional pressure by which the Bill of Attainder had been
carried. In obedience to the suggestion thus conveyed to him, and
in order that the " business" might be "rightlY handled" Strafford
seems to have drawn up these notes, " How the King should behave
when the Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford is presented
to him."
It was probably sent to the King on the night of the Sih of
May. Strafford's letter to RadelifFe, written on the morning of the
9th, is less hopeless than his letter to Slingsby. " Let us see the
issue of to-morrow," he says (Whitakcr's Life of Sir George Kad-
cliffe, p. 224). His only hope must have been in the possible
success of the expedient propounded in this paper. " If the King
will speak thus much resolutely, it is thought the Earl might yet
be saved/' No doubt 'he expected that the King would at least
make the attempt, though he can hardly have expected that it
would succeed. Hence, what is otherwise unexplained, the sorrow-
ful surprise with which Strafford received the news that the King
had given his assent to the Bill. The news is said to have reached
him through Sir Dudley Carlelon, one of the Clerks of the Council.
" The Earl, amazed, seriously asked him whether his Majesty had
passed the Bill, as not believing, without some astonishment, that
the King would have done it. And being again assured that is
was passed he arose from his chair, and standing up lift his eyes to
Heaven, clapt his hand upon his heart, and said ' Put not your
trust in Princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no
salvation/ " This story first appears, I believe, in William San-
derson's History of the Life and Reign of King Charles, 165S. It
is not in the " Brief and Perfect Pi elation " of Strafford's trial, pub-
lished in 16-47, nor in L'Estrange's " Reign of King Charles/' pub-
FIHST EAKL OF STKAFFOKD. 23
lislicd in 1654, though L'Estrange is particularly full in his account
of the passing of the Attainder Bill.
Whitelocke's version of the story is copied almost verbatim from
Sanderson.
A third argument that this paper actually reached the King
seems to be afforded by the King's letter to the House of Lords on
May 11. He asks them to allow him to show mercy " by suffering
that unfortunate man to fulfil the natural course of his life in a close
imprisonment: yet so that if ever he make the least offer to escape,
or offer directly or indirectly to meddle in any sort of public
business, especially with me, by either message or letter, it shall
cost him his life without further process" (Lords'* Journals, iv.,
245). Strafford's paper had suggested " A Bill to disenable me
from all publick employments, or giving any counsel directly or
indirectly, and if the Earl should offer any such thing to make it
high treason, and he to suffer accordingly."]
How the King should behave when tlie Bill of Attainder against the
Karl of Strojj'ordc is presented to him for the Royal Assent.
After the title of the Bill of Attainder read, first his Majesty to
cause the Earl's letter of the fourth of May to be read. Then may
his Majesty speak something to this purpose: That although here
are the votes of both Houses, and the consent of the Party concerned
for the passing of this Bill, yet his Majesty may not forbear to
declare, that he hath found himself exceedingly perplexed in his
thoughts, whether or no to give the Royal Assent to the Bill,
wherein every man ought to be so charitable as to believe accord-
ing as Truth is; that he doth and will verily preferr the Peace of
his own Conscience above all other respects whatsoever; that his
Majesty had been throwout at the hearing of the cause, and now in
the conclusion must have the Libertv allowed him to direct his
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actions uprightly according to what he finds in his own heart. That
he understands this Bill endured a great Debate in the Commons
House, and finally a considerable Party gave their negative votes to
the Bill, and amongst them most of the ablest and best learned
Lawyers of the House. That likewise there were in the Upper
House a very considerable Party of the Lords, which also voted
against the Passing of the Bill. Which difference of opinions
leaves a greater Latitude in his Majesty, with the same freedom to
discharge his conscience as others in either House have done, and
that more especially in regard it is immediately the King that owes
an account to God for the Life of the very meanest of his subjects.
Besides there are other two considerations which weigh very much
with his Majesty, and which in his opinion set a great Prejudice
upon this Bill.
The first that the names of such as voted against the Bill in the
Lower House were in an infamous manner posted up and down in
several places of the town, to affright and take from men the free
delivery of their own opinions, which to endeavour is in itself the
greatest Breach of Parliament Privilege, and the most dangerous
subverting of Fundamental Laws that can be, thus endeavour in <>• to
corrupt the Fountains whence we receive and where all Laws are
preserved.
The second, that to the great scandal and offence of the Justice
of the Land, the Lords have been in a tumultuary way pressed
upon, sundry of them very uncivilly treated both in words and
actions, others by those means absenting themselves to avoid the
Danger, and others as may be thought less at Liberty to give their
votes than otherwise they might have been.
That he must profess, as in the Presence of God, he in his con-
science holds the Earl of Straflorde free from any act or intention
of Treason at all, and for those words charged and spoken in his
Majesty's presence, he also avows them truly to have been spoken
as the Earl hath set them forth in his answer and not otherwise.
And as foi the bringing the Irish Army over to reduce this King-
FIRST EARL OF STRAFFORD. . 2i>
dom, there was never any such thing spoken in his presence, or eve 1
in the thought of him, or any of that Committee to his knowledge,
that any part of that Army should have come on English ground.
Hereupon to tell them absolutely he dare not become guilty of
shedding bloud by pressing the Bill, but desire them to accept of a
Bill to disenable me from all publick employment, or giving any
counsell directly or indirectly, and if the Earl should offer any such
thing, to make it High Treason, and he to suffer for it accordingly,
which he will faithfully promise to observe, and so no possibility
left, that the Earl, if he had a mind to do it, could procure ill to
any body.
Or else that his Majesty would pass the Bill conditionally, that
the Houses would consent that his Majesty might at after follow the
guide of his own conscience, to pardon the Earl his Life.
That thus every man's Conscience and Fears might be provide'!
for, and his Majesty receive from the two Houses a irreat argument
of their Love towards him, without danger to any body, and in some
degree enjoy the Quietness and Repose of his own Conscience by
their means. If neither of these could be obtained at his earnest
intreaty, that so the publick Peace might more speedily be settled
to the contentment both of King and People, wherein he would be
wholly counselled by them, he must declare absolutely, that for no
respect or fear in the world would lie be constrained either actively
or passively to take away the Life of a man, where his Conscience
was fully informed, He was not guilty of the Crime wherewith he-
was charged.
And yet, if the King will speak thus much resolutely, and move
the Lords one by one, as also Mr. Solicitor, Pym, and some of the
Principal Lower House men, and in the mean time strictly to
command Newport* to have vie and this place in safe custody upon
the peril of his Life, it is thought the Earl might yet be saved.
a The Constable of the Tower.
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INDEX.
Antrim, Earl of (Randal Macdonell), 8
Askwith, Sir Robert, letter to, 2
Balfour, Sir William, ix. 21
Lerwick, 10
Bristol, Earl of (John Digby), 21
Calvert, Sir George, 2
Cardcnie, Monsieur, 10
Carletou, Sir Dudley, 22
Carlisle, 10
Charles I. (King of England) hopes to
come to terms -with the Scots, 10; how
to behave when the attainder bill is pre-
sented to him, 23 ; reasons for passing
ir, v. ix.
Chester, 11, 12
Chichester, Lord, 3
Cholmondley, 11
Conway, 12
Cooke. John, career in Ireland, 1-1 ;
advice to Strafford, 14
Cork, Earl of (Richard Boyle), quarrel
with Stra£L'ord,4; intervention of the
King, 5
Cottington, Lord, 3; letter from Strafford
to, ix. 7
Covent Garden, 11
Coventry, 1 1
Crosby, Sir Piers, 8
Darington, 13
Davcutry, 11, 12
Dublin, 11, 12
Eoulis, Sir David, 4
Geneva, 19
Goddard, Henry, letters to Dr. Knowler
v.; from Dr. Knowler, vii. xi.
Hamilton, Marquis of (James Hamilton),
8, 10
Henrietta Maria (Queen of England),
xi.
Holland, Earl of (Henry Rich). 8, 0, 10
Holywell, 12
Hopton, Sir Arthur, viii.
Huntingdon, 13
Knowler, Dr. AYilliam, life, iv. ; letters,
vii. xi. ; pedigree, v, 2
Lea, 12
Leicester, Earl of (Robert Sidney), 13
L'Estrange, Hamon, 22
Lichfield, 11, 12
Littell, Mr. 11
Loudon, 11, 13
Mohun. Lord (John Mohan), letter to
Strafford, 3
Nantwich, 12
Newark, 13
Newcastle, 9, 10
Newport, Earl of (Mountjoy Blount),
25
Northallerton, 13
Northumberland, Earl of (Algernon
Percy), letter to, 10
Oldys, "William, iv.
Pembroke. Earl of (Philip Herbert), 7
Place Newy th, 12
28
INDEX.
Provost, Monsieur, 19
Pym, John, vii. 25
Radcliffe, Sir George, ix. 22
Roystou. 13
Salisbury. Karl of (William Cecil), 7
Sanderson, William, 22
Savile, Lord (Thomas Savile), 21
Slingsby, Guilford, 20
St. Alban's, 1 1
St. John, Oliver, 25
Stamford, 13
Stone, 11. 12
Stony Stratford, 11
Swift, Sir Robert, 9
Thorns, Mr., iv.
Tirringham, Sir Arthur, 12
Toller Foil, 13
Topelifl'e, 13
Tyrone, Earl of, viii.
Welwood, James, viii.
Wentworth, Sir John, v. vi. ix. 8
Wentworth, Thomas, first Earl of
Strafford, at Geneva, 19 ; stands for
Yorkshire, 2 ; quarrel with Sir David
Eonlis, 4; quarrel with the Earl of
Cork, 4; quarrel with the Earl of
Holland, 8; criticisms of his gorern-
ment of Ireland. 3, li>-llJ; itinerary in
England 1639,1640,11; advice to con-
cerning his defence, 14 ; his suggestions
to the King concerning the attainder
bill. 23; his reception of the news that
the bill was passed. 22 ; letters from,
v. 2, 7, 8; letters to, 3, 6, 14; letter-
books, xi.; motto, 19
Wentworth, Thomas (Earl of Strafford,
1711), i.
Wentworth, Thomas Watson, Lord
Malton, etc., i. ii. sL
Wentworth, William (Second Earl of
Strafford), iii. vi. ix.
Wentworth Woodhonse, 13
Whitclocke, Bulstroue, 24
Wilbraham, Mr. 12
Wilmot, Viscount (Charles Wilmot), 8, 9
Windebanke, Sir Erancis, 6
York, 2, 13
Youghal, 4
STRAFFORD PAPERS. 29
A letter from the Earl of Strafford to Sir Edward Otborne anal
the Council of the North*
[This letter is printed (rem a copy amongst the Wharton papers
now forming part of the Carte Collection in the Bodleian Library
(vol. Ixxx., fo. 32). On the importance of the petition of the York-
shire gentlemen, see Gardiner, History of England, ix., 177. The
text of the petition is given in Bushworth, Hi.. 1214. On its origin
see Strafford's Trial, pp. GOO-G32, and the Memoirs of Sir Hugh
Cholmley, pp. G1-G4. It was presented to the King by Lord
Wharton. The answer of the Privy Council on the King's behalf is
veiy similar in its terms to this letter of Strafford's (Cal. State
Papers, Dom. 1040, p. 595)].
[The Earl (if Strafford to the Vice-President of the Council of
the North.]
After my heartv commenJacions unto you. Being this aftcr-
noone at the Couneell Board, there was sent by his Majestie to be
read and advised there a petieion to the King from the Gentrie of
Yorkshire, wheieunto I observed sundry of your hands subscribed.
The petieion was much misliked of all, as well for the matter as the -
way of expression, and held to be unusual in sueh numbers and in
such high tcarmes to gee eo familiarly and immediatly to the King
himselfe, passing by as cyphers not onely the Lord Lieutenants but
my Lords of the Couneell also, both which we conceive should have
been first acquainted therewith. And albeit I confesse it was my
hope that you (being my Deputy-Lieutenants, and my readynesse
to serve that Country considered) would not have directed com-
* Asl did not meet with this kttcr till after the others had heen printed off, it
has been necessary to place it after the Index.
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plaints of that nature, which concernc so immediately my charge, to
any other hands then mine owne, yet that shall not Iett me from
doing the hest offices to the service of tlie Country that I can.
Your answere to the peticion you are to expect from the Lords,
onely this I will say, If you had been pleased to have a litle advised
therein with me, I am per s waded I could have putt you in to a
better way for the ease and protection of tint people, and with lesse
exception and disadvantage to yourselves. However I moved his
Majestic in the behalfe of the country, ami (bund him graciously
mindfull of the good affections he mett with there the last yeare,
and resolved to use all possible speed and care to represse the insol-
ency of the soldyers, and so to provide for his good people as that
none of them should lose a penny through any injury offered by
that unruly company ; to which purpose my Lord Gcuerall wrytcs
instantly to all the officers of the army, most severely to punish any
soldier which shall trespasse in that kinde, and by example to
deterre others from anv the like insolency to be offered to the
Country people. His Majestic hath likewise been certified of a
desire (it seems) made to the Vice- President and the rest of the
Deputy-Lieutenants and Justice* of Peace by Sir Jacob Ashley,
that in case his Majesties Treasury might chaunce to arrive some
few daves. to late, you would be pleased to give the soldiers credit
in the places where the)' dyett for their vietualls some seaven or
fowevtecn dayes, with assurance that none should lose a penny by
that trust, which motion of his was not yeilded unto as I desire it
had, in regard I am most certaine the money wilbe justly and pre-
ciselv payd that had been upon that ingagement issued. Therefore
I doe most earnestlv desire your present endeavours herein, and that
you Mr. Vice-President would presently goe to Sir Jacob Ashley,
and use your best perswasion with the country to give the common
soldiers credit for their vietualls, allwayes provided they trust them
not to a oreater proportion then six pence a day, and to move them
that dvett the soldiers in my name to be contented to doe his
Majestic this momentany service, and I doe hereby assume and
FIRST EARL OF STRAFFORD. 31
oblige my selfc, not onely in point of law but in the word of a
Gentleman, that in case they should not he repavd (as indeed I am
most sure they will) what is due to them by the Treasurer of Warr,
I will not receive one penny of my rents in Yorkshire untill I have
thereout satisfied every man what shalbe due unto them in that kind
and upon this occasion.
I doe ngaine and againc recommend this particular service, and
that you would use your uttermost endeavours and diligence therein ;
the rather for that I know it will not onely prevent all inconveni-
ences that may happen, but turne finally extreamflfry to the advantage
of the Country, as I shall make use thereof and applie it to their
good andbenefitt; and if it doe not prove soe, I wilbe content
never to expect their credit or beleife hereufter, which in good faith
1 would not deservedly lose for any thing that could be added unto
me in this world. And so desyring to heare from you with all
possible speed how you proceed and prosper in this businesse 1
remaine,
(Signed) Your most affectionate faith full
friend and servant
STBAFFOKD.
London this last
of July, IG40.
Directed
To my honourable good friend
Sir Edward Osborne, Vice-President of
his Majesties Councell established in
the North, and the rest of the
Deputy-Lientenants there,
July last 1640.
[Eudoi-sed : — ] My Lord Lieutenant of Ireland's
letter to vicepresident and deputy
Iientenaants of Yorkshire.
1. About thevr Petition to the
King for removal of soldiers.
2. About billeting them on the conntryes
trust for 7 or 14 days.
HAMILTON PAPERS.
ADDENDA.
EDITED BY
SAMUEL RAWSOX GARDINER. LL.D.
PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY.
M.DCCC.XCIII.
PREFACE.
The following are the greater part of the letters which I was
unable to copy, when I prepared the volume of the Hamilton
Papers for the Camden Society. Most of them are to a great
extent in cipher, the deciphers being enclosed in square brackets.
I succeeded in- deciphering these passages by the help of other
ciphered letters accompanied with the deciphers in the collection
of the Duke of Hamilton, which I was allowed to see some years
ago with the sanction of His Grace and the kind permission of
Sir W. Fraser, who at That time had charge of the papers.
Only four or live of the letters forming part of Lanark's cor-
respondence in 1G48 are omitted, as I had no clue to the cipher
in which they were written.
If some of the phrases used by the writers are still unintelli-
gible, this is probably owing for the most part to mistakes made
by the writers in committing them to cipher. If some of them
are due to myself I can but plead that a very short time was
allowed me for making the copies, and that I have not since had
it in my power to collate my copies with the originals.
HAMILTON PAPERS.
ADBEXDA.
. Doc. 31.
1. MUNGO MURRAY TO THE EAEL OF L AN ASK.
My Lord, . Jan' llic 10- 1G48-
[Sur William Flemingo is to bo dispacht with] in to or thre
days; for the Queen and Prince is to be at Paris this day. Sir J »; jan. 10.
John Barklay, who is governor to the Prince is to go from this
to Holland and some other of the Deukes R servants. [The ship
that Sir "William comes in is to go with the Loutenante of ■
Iriand.p Sir William [is to rescve aumnition, amies, and
monies.] I hope that [greate and noble worke you have in hand
may not stope upon the expectasion of that, nor the Prince his
cominge to you]. They [would lever [?] hav the worke ?c
withoute you] for whill ther is one other [houpes you will fynde .
delay esj. What I have writen to your Lo: heirtofore yow may
belive and so that I am
Your Lop humble and
faithfull servant
It is preste harde heir to have Latherdacl.
* * * * .
2. Mungo Murray to the Earl of Lanark.
My Lo., Jun- tbe 17, 1G48.
Sir William Fleminge went from hence the 15, and [is gon 164$. Jan. Tv
* The Duke of Hamilton. b The Marquis of Ormoud.
c The cipher appears to give " one."
CAMD. S0C. B
* HAMILTON PAFEBS.
to Ancardam* wlar lie iis to requve b sum ermsc and ainoniseon
and mone d when [?] they [?] have it,] and not know whar els
to bestow it, and so [shal you have the Prince when they know
not whar els to sende him. I most say that [my Lorde New-
castel] and the Louetcnant of Irlande [profescs in ouch to you,
and fanialy, and ne.>ion.e] The feu clarge* we have heir ar as
beter againe yow and the whole nation, as your own unhape B
clerge and profeses that they rather have the indepent1' prevell
then yow. I have often As-ret to your Lo: and ons mor lat me
take the freedom to tell yow [that it mouch concerns you and
the whol nesion to proviyde is] that you may be habell to stond
upon your own layges ']. They mouch pres to have monesj heir
for the Prince removal, hot hes mani delays put upon them.
The Queen and Prince ar both heir and is resolved [the Prince
to go to pales when and wher from thence as ocasion shal ofer]
I shall humbly wish your Lo : to be sparinge in your opinion of
the disposal of the Prince in ane sorte whatsoever. We have
great houpes heir that Rente and the asosiat Connies will doe
the bisenes without yow (God grant it may be done) but it will
not be weill for yow if yow have no hand in it. I often wrette
to your Lo. I know not if they cum to your handes.
3. Lord Digby to the Earl op Lanark.11
My Lord,
lGi8, Jan. ? I }iave received from [my brother Dives,]1 and from [my secrea-
• Amsterdam. b Receive.
• Arms. a Money.
• Nation. ' Clergy.
& Unhappy. h Independents.
1 Legs.. J Monies.
k The Scottish Commissioners, of whom Lanark was one, left London on
January 21.
1 Sir Lewis Dyves, half-brother of Lord Digby.
ADDENDA. O
tarie who waited on you at London] an aocompt of such noble lfi48» Jftn- ?
expressions of yours concerning us, notwithstanding those mis-
fortunes that with a lesse just and generous nature might have
exposed me to lasting prejudices, that I am encouraged by
them to make this addresse unto you of my most humble service
aud acknowledgements; noe way doubting, but that, since you
are pleased to admitt of so faire an interpretation of what reall
I ever esteemed the greatest unhnppinesse of my life (I meane
the part what I was necessitated to beare in some disservice to
you and your noble brother) nowe that [wee are united in
publick interests]" as to lett you and him see by my constant
faithfulnesse, and zeale to your service how unnatural and
forced a motion any thing was in mee to the contrary of what
becomes
My lord
Your most humble and
most affectionate servant
G, 2, 7, 10, 41, 20, 31, 40,* 13.
4. to the Earl of Lanark.
My Lord,
Your expressions highly endeare and might if possible make 1648, Feb. T'T-
mee more yours: at this time there is nothing of moment to give
you any informations of. The Generall dines this day at the
Tower, where I believe some results wilbe about the Citty : what
you shall know by my next. The busines wee whisper' d about
I am in hope may succeed. I sent a messenger thereabout, and
with probable instructions for the accomplishment : and since
it is more then a weeke and noe returne made, I conceive it
well takes as to the project, and desire the continued conjunc-
tion .of your prayers as to the successe, having soe litle of
consequence at present to write, I shall referr my enlargement
* Something is omitted in this involved sentence. •
4 HAMILTON PAPERS.
1043, Feb. Ty in it to the next opportunity, against when I shall doubtle sse be
furnished with abundance (and if expectations with eminent
wishes fade not) of pleasing newes. I am and shall to the
highest manifestations I am capabl of appear
My Lord
Your LoP3
most humble servt.
400.
February the first
As I was sealing up this, my messenger brought this inclosed
and assurance tilings goe well in the whisper'd businis, but not
a word thereof for your love sake.
T had an other wcU I delivered to your wife concerning my
father.
5. James Fenne to Edward Edgar.
Feb. the 3, 1647.
1(147, Feb. yV- I presume you A that have we goode intelligence will not care
for what falleth beside the cuppe, for mine is of noe more con-
sequence then such. Leate not to omitte servying of you, I have
sente you what, this weeke, hath beene any waies advertised to
me. Abusnehag1' shall come again to the King upon a new
undertaking treatye, therefore conseqnentelie imagine ex tmgue
leonem. The Queen [is] in grcatc irresolution whether [the Prince
maye bee trusted with the Scots] or noe. Uulesse you will
give [Germyn, Digbye, et cetera,] such conditions as I believe
wille neether bee thought consistent with the safctie nor hon-
nour of the future transactions; otherwise 'tis a contradiction
in ytselfe, and muste consequently debauch more moderate men
* Feune is evidently an Englishman, and Kdgar probably stands for Lanark.
b Sic. l'erhnps Ashburnham, sfe Hamilton 1'opcrs, 150.
ADDENDA. O
from the service of [the Nobility of Scotland] then y* can gaine 1647f?eb. ■&.
or pacefye the violent and unusefull. For my owne perticular
I confess I agree totallie -with your principales, never to foment
a new warre in case yt can be avoyded, but rather endeavour to
comprimize all interests by troatye, because noe partye, choose
wch you will of the 3, but is unsecuro enough withoute yt. How-
ever, if yt bee decreedc, you nor I cannot prevente y t ; nor doth
any thing afterwardcs remaine to bee don onely to maneige yt
to the best advantage with a pcrpetuall reflexion towardes peace
and the ancient liberties of our respective counetries. Theiro
is att this present anew cntercourse of negotiation now begnnne
between [the Queen] and [Ireland] by [Musire's a] mediation,
purposely to retarde [the Prince going into] Scotland, hoping by
that meanes to frustrate the alliance by destroyeing the season
of the confidence. All matters here continew much in the pos-
ture you lefte them, onely they bring troopes more or lesse
dayelie into the Citty and doubtless meane to garrison severall
greate towns that ar conveniently e [seated] for itt. The reso-
lution of your Convention is that we all looke uppon as the
guide starre of the daye, and, in the interim little Avill-bee
publick of intentions to the future. Eemembcr in yt the olde
rule ut paces jeut integral and a little sacrifice the greateness
and injuries of your familye to the publick rather then obsti-
nacye or disdaine, for uulesse there be [a general remission] of
sinne in Scotland, noething will come of all this seede ; Avherein
even [Muntrose] himselfe muste not bee omitted, though I knowe
'tis durus sermo. I am confident considering the tyme hee hath
had to looke, and experience of the King and Queen, will bee
no harde matter to lett him see the to much fougge b of his
former zealc; and to enclyne him altogether to the publick.
These I guesse ma}- bee considerations equaly proper whether
you make warre or peace, because besides the obligation yt
careeth along with yt of restoring men to there owne homes, 't will
» Perbaps Mazaric. b Fougue.
O HAMILTON PAPERS.-
1047, Feb. Tv bee safe and withowte wch noe other peace, but every minute will
Lee tottering into a warre againe. [The Westerne parts] will bee
unanimously yours, if the Prince come, of wch now all my doubtes
are knoweing how many officious ignorant persons there be
theire have ever beene averse to the publick ; and I beleeve so
that [Culpeper], whoe is the oracle of that place, out of [Ash-
bunams] consideration is like enough to oppose yt with all his
rethorick. Yf yt happen soe, I cannot suspect then that I, whoe
have ever beene a sufferer visiblye for the publick, and perticu-
larlye disgraced for avowcing I thought yt better the buisnes
shoulde ende by a peace then victorye, shall bee as well looked
uppon as those have don noething but the contrarye, and now, as
they save in Frauncc, sont Irs penitents au.v abboyes de la morte,
therefore beeing happilye the negotiation maye bee further ad-
vanced from thence with you then I can have notice of att this
distance, bee pleased to tako care of your servant both by yr
brother's meanes and your owne in that poinete, else as Cardi-
nall d'Ossat writte to Hen. the 4 from Rome, I shall wish I had
don soe toe ; and holde yt rather a weakeness then vertu to bee'
honncst-. Truely I can shew soe goode cardes uppon this occasion ;
. as if ever there bee a place of publick audience amongst vou
for such as I am, I will not be atfrayed to laye both my com-
plaintes and pretences uppon the carpett; though I hope yet I
am not soe inconsiderable to bee putte to that waie of mendican-
cye. I am confident the breaches heere are never to bee peeced
upp. Take heede of Soliman's beeing carried in a litter to the
iielde againste you; for every little matter giveth such an abun-
dance of jealousie. Yt is to copious a held for soe narrowe a
substance as the capacityo of man to manure as yt, wch maketh
mee conclude as confusedlye as 1 beganne desireng speedilve to
heare from you.
Your fayethfull frend ever
and humble servant,
J. Fen.
ADDENDA.
6. 499 to the Eael of Lanark.
My LORD, [London, Feb. 10 ?] 1648.
Soe unworthy of yon are my papers tliat I should not reason- jg^g y^ j.o
ably send you a second and yet they being soe, I may verie
pardonably hasten another to apologize for that which went
before. Besides other defects, it was much wanting- in the
use of the cypher, to which way of writing, I confess myself
• not much used. All men, my Lord, are here about at gaze,
looking Northward for a better settling to their expectations,
and are soe impatient of waiting for your resolves that men
undertake to spread them as things already declared. Most
talk wildly, and tell strange stories, bringinge your judgments
to theires. Some, not without confidence assure ns by diverse
demonstracions, that Scotland will not discountenance the
present proceeds of England : others say that Scotland will not
neglect the honour and advantage of being a ballance heere;
an issue to these our hopes and feares wee violently long for.
And truly My Lord (but that I may seeme to favour myself by
the intimation) I would have your leave to say that it will bee
verie necessary some persons (whom you may have faith in)
bee helped to understand at least your publick counceils and
transactions in which both kingdomes are concerned, by which
the truth may oftetimes bee faierly vindicated from such gloss
as the art of malice will studiously asperse it with. But, my
lord, 1 am now too bold with you, and am gonn beyond the
instructions given mee by 241. The varieties of this weeke
have not bin many. The declaracion justifying the votes
against the King'1 hath spent most of it. Some apprehends it
to bee a long, tedious, unsatisfactory satisfaction : wherein are
enumerated all his faults and errors charged home upon his
single" selfe : some clauses are recommitted (or pcrhapps laied
• Taken into consideration on Feb. 5, passed the House of Commons on Feb 11.
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HAMILTON PAPERS.
1648, Feb. $« ? l,yj 0ne concerning the death of K. James, another touching
the design e a of destroying severall lords and commanders of
Scotland. Tomorrow it will bee againe reported. Mr. Sadler's
pen laced it together, which hath allsoe finished an answer to
the Commissioner's papers. The Presbiterie is reviving and
seemes to bee strongly encouraged for present satisfaction, and
it is not doubted but that [Mr. Ashurst] will bee able to satisfy
[their clergic] though it bee feared that [Marshall is noe
more in[so]much] reputation will [them as heretofore]. Sir
Jo: Maynard made the Lords merry, denyed them right of
judicature, refused to kneelc, but as a compliment (as hee said)
hee bowed as low as a Bishopp to the altar. The lords fined
him,b and gave him a further timo to consider his duty. The
Lords gavo baile this morning for fcheire appearance, they beeing
to answere, the 11th instant. [The arruie] continues still in
the principles for [levelling] which spread afreshe. [Soldiers
are] a stomachfull. Som [Colonells arc discontented.] Rich
(upon the score of Sir II. Vane) is one. Sir II. Vane disclames
. earnestly, and [Ireton] is not pleased, though I think not on
the same ground. The Lifeguard are to disband presently,
but I do [?] no c that it is to be done, so — ? though no[?]
Colonell Arison is not pleased : his regiment is said to be dis-
banded or purged as affected too much to ?d
I have my lord troubled you too long, I shall make hast there-
fore to the subscription
My lord
most humble ?
and servant
i.e. the Incident. b On Feb. 5. • Know. <> ? the Levellers.
ADDENDA.
7. Dr. Alexander Fraser to the Earl of Lanark.
Sir,
Your [slow journey and the adjourning of your meeting] 1Mft> Fcb **•
hath only multiplied teares and jealousies [in] cavaliers [and
other persons] (ignorant and enviefull of [Scots' honour and
honesty)]. This day [the English Commi.ssioners' letter there8
reade ill Parliament] in which they [assure the Parliament
they have found more friends to Parliament and army then
they thought to have fund. Upon] Friday lastb at the voteing
of [Parliament's] of the declaration of the Commons of
England [Cromwell made a sever] invective [against King
and] monarchicall government. [They sent messenger
Cromwell to the Lords, that if the Lords would pass the four
bills and] disclaim [Scots' assistance, they would] suppress
[their declaration. The lords contemned their — ? , and]
expressed [much] aversion [to army, Parliament and all that
party]. Upon the return of this messenger, Parliament voted
five thousand]' soldiers [to go c King and messenger Crom-
well to bo one of the Lords in bedeehamber, and it is confidently
beleivedthat [upon'1 Cromwell will inarch] forthwith [with the
best part of his horse and foot to the Xorth, and if they] pos-
sesse Beruic and Carlil, your part will e ] small and of no
consideration. I much apprehend [thai] some f of [your great
Lords] in his wonted perplexed way looks here and in France] to
pcrswade the Queen that [no] considerable action [can be]
expected [from Scotland unless Argyll be the head of party]
acting [for the King in Scotland, and] powerfull person [is
despatched to Queen with instructions for that purpose. I
assure your Lordship that there is underboard dealin] : the
• i.c7. the letter of the English Commissioners in Scotland. See C. J., v. 4»".2.
b Febr. 11. « ? to guard. * ? upon this.
<■ ? will he. f ? some one.
CAMD. SOC. C
30 HAMILTON PAPERS.
1648, Feb. $§. particulars you may Lave [from a friend] That monster of
follie and knaveric (Disington8) is come from France, who]
openly professes [that P. of "Wales hath no desire] nor affection
[to come to Scotland] and [looks to] perswade and assure
[Parliament that France will not part with P. of Wales,] with
manie other thing's [of treasonable nature, of which] you
shall heare more fully [when I shall] discover [the design] ;
till with tyme [I shall] give [intelligence tobreake the design,
being bound to silence. It will lit to send a veri] prudent
[man of]1' no faction [to] aquaint you how [affairs goes, that ;c]
not that I distrust [the Queen, T. of Wales, Jermyn, but] some
inferiour disaffected persons [to the design. If you] compose
not in tyme your differences (if anie be) [you will louse your
friends and party in England. Ormond and his J. Berkeley are
shiped and gone to France, and that and other] newes from
Ireland] hath much dejected this day [Cromwell and his party.
Lord Northumberland willd] presently gone for France; Norfolk0
looks much to disswade, but all in vaine, and passionatly they
desire [Northumberland [ ? ] to meet Prince of Wales in
Flanders] which is more impossible then anie thing they could
desire. I have [no more] of consequence [to impairt to
your lordship], but well ever remainc [your Lordships
servant.
London, 15th Febri':.
8. 282 to-
SlR, February, 15.
That the declaration ag!t his Matief is past the House of
Commons and wilbee publike in 2 or 3 days I am confident wilbe
■ Disbington. b ? will be. c ? there.
* ? wUl be. ■ ? Norwich.
' Justifying the Vote of No Addresses.
ADDENDA. 11
no newes : [then what to expect is evident, yet] 'tis saved the 1648,Feb.£§.
King is well and merry [but what they intend you may judge
by their voting the shipps for f\m somers' fleet the [Parliament
of England*' not his Majesty's] is the [Hollanders till they [had
got] the mastery [used the King off Spaine's name. The Earle
of Denbeigh's going for France is a fable ane a I hope as false as
that yee and they here are agreed which is] confidently
affirmc[d but not belcived]. However [they fayle not to
irperse b yee as much as] may [be. Since my last I have had
twice advide c from France] implying that they persue their
interest as actively as rely on your declareing, and then] the
Prince is for Holland]. Pray Go d, [theypersue their interest
as actively as they] ought. Our party here is all for yee, and]
discontent [s the more then ever.] The Diumall will tell you
[publike actions, but 1] speake [from men of honour and]
interest [who expect] nothing [more then your presence, and
then the tide will qickly tunic. 1 have] offered [my way to
France of serveing them and yee. If they comply] with [it. I
shall act my part.] how [ever], in confidence [of your reality
to serve our distressed King, you shall as I may have d the
weakly advice of
Your faithfullest servent
282.
Shrovetuesday
15 Feb. 1647.
The Ld Willoughby of Parham hath wisely absented hiinselfe
a weeke since, and the declaration is come forth this day.
* aud. b asperse. c advice.
d Perhaps " the power " is omitted.
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HAMILTON PAPERS.
9. Edward Andrews to the Earl of Lanark.
1G18,
My LiORDE, February 20.
Feb. 20. I have here enclosed sent your Lop? yc cypher I promised you,
ilarTT. which I had sooner performed if my very urgent occasious had
afforded nice tyme to have composed it. As soone as I knowe
that it is come safely to your hands, I shall constantly (by all
opportunityes which I can lay holdo on) give your Lopr the
best advertisements of such occurrences here as I can come to
the knowledg of, and shall not fayle to apply my ondeavoures
to whatsoeDver may best manifest mee to bee what I really am
My lord your lop1*
moste humble
moste faithfull and
moste obedient servant
Ed : Andre wes.
Feb. the 20th, 164 7.
If your LopP knowes mee not by this name my Ld Lauderdalle
well informe you.
10. James Fenne to Mr. Edward Edgar."
Feb. 21 !§f§ ncw stile-b
1CIS, F.-— -2i- I heare you have beene ill since yr returne, else I presmne I
shoulde have hearde from you in answer to some of those I
have written. They save Ormondis gon from his uncle's howse
[into Ireland0] with approbation of the Parlf of Scotland [to
comand] the armie in Ireland, Scots army.] He is a most
gallant man, yeate was bredde att the feete of Gamaliel and a
greate frend of Digbyes, as you may see yf you please in print,
• See p. 4, note \
b This probably (iocs not refer to the day of the month.
e Should this be M France " ? See the next letter.
ADDENDA. 13
therefore though the consideration bee most proper in yt selfe 1CAS Feb. 21.
't well deserve very much caution to mingle the to physikes in
that oue prescription togcither soe equalye the chimicall maye
not totalie overcome the safety e of the Galenistes ; otherwise.
remember the olde verse 01c vos non vobt's, and prepare yr
lodgings before hand att [Ludlow] and [Pendenis]. A greate
deale of candor to your service maketh me save this and noe
private ende or consideration of my owne, therefore praye soe
esteeme of yt. The hopes of that and the underhand propositions
made by the [Papists in Irland] [to] the Queen, yf anything
doe, maye retarde the [cloca of the Prince in al union with
Puritans in England.] This cometh to mee uppon noe ill
ground, however I confess I holde faste to my former positions
to praye for an accomodation by treatye yf yt bee possible ;
wherein you shall finde mee fixed. I have noe more now to
saye, but to pray for yr well dooing and rccoverye if there bee
cause, not doubting youl letfe mee heare shortely from you, and
take that care of your servants they have formerly expressed
towardes you.
Ja : Fen.
1L. 282 to
My EVER HONORED LORD, [London] February 22.
I have received yors of the 15 and cannot but really
acknowledge your favor [in communicating your proceedings, of
which I shall make the best use I can to encourage our party] .
And I must as perticularly give you thankes for your resolution
[in order to my advantage with which I am exceedingly
satisfied.] In retornc of wch I can only say that since my
last, it is discovered that the Marq3 of Ormond is gonne into
• Sic.
1648, Feb. 22.
14 HAMILTON PAPERS.
1G48, Fob. 22. Fraunce where t'is believed that hoe meetes the Ldj Antrim and
Muskery, commissioners from Ireland to setle the Kingdome in
order to Lis Mau service, and 'tis reported tliat all parties are
agreed in Ireland, and that Inchiquen is joyned in the confed-
eracy wth them : [if so yon will have more helpe then wes
expected. Doubtles M. Orniond suddaine departure is nob
but for some good end. From France I have not] heard [lately
only they heere have intercepted letters from the Queen to the
Kinge, and it is reported an other letter from the D. of Yorke
to his Ma.tlc was taken implying his obedience to his father's
commands of speedily getting for Scotland. Uppon this 'tis
said hee is to bee confined to the Tower : others say that hee,
his brother and sister are to bo sent to the He of Wight (though
not to theire father) that so one guard ma}r suffice for all.
Yesterday Judge Jenkins was brought to the Comon's bar and
there refused to kneele and boldly denyed theire jurisdiccion :
however they intend speedily to condemno and execute him by
au Ordinance, and then by this example who wilbee safe ? He
was exceedingly applauded by the people in his passage to and
from the House. Fcmbrookc Castle still holds out against the
Army, [and all Wales expects but a faire advantage to gett out
of slavery]; Plymouth likewise disputes it with them about
arreares ; and to stop theire mouthes GOOO11 is ordered them,
W* the Citty, as I am told, refuse to lend. As yett Fairfax is
heere, but hath made made no further entry uppon the Citties
priviledges, who keepe theire armes and stand on theire owne
leggs. [Mr. Ashburnham and his party still hover about] in
the country and sometimes in the Citty, and I heave ave as much
trusted [by his Matie as ever]. Some say [they have a designe
to act] some [what to cleare of all aspersions if it prove for
his ]\iatie3 advantage I am sure you wish it success.] "
And so
Your faithfull
humble srvant
282.
22 Feb. 1G47.
ADDENDA. 15
12. James Fenxe to Mr. Edwards Edgar.
Feb : the 28 ? 1647,
My last weekes dispaclit I hope you received. I contineu Feb. 28?
this onely to lett you see my vigilauuee towards yr service Mar- y-
and those where you ar. We heare [The Prince's resolution
is taken withowt more ceremonye [to come into Scot-
land.] Yf that bee soe wch questionless you ar Lest able
to informs mee of, have a care to rivetto your owne partyc
soe before hand that new men doe not interpose to the de-
struction of the whole designe, for the same violent persons you
knew and suffered under before, will come theyther along
withowte dispute, but what disputes theyle make yf they maye
have an}- influence uppon the counsells, God knoweth. You
see how disunion ruined us before. Yf wee ar borne to perish
the seconde tyme by the same disease 'tis better never to doe
any thing but bee passive in all rather then fall oute of the
friing pan into the fire. You see my honnest plaineness is ever
the same, I confessc I abhorre all that violent caball from my
hart e , whoc noething but studdied to hinder as accomodation
by treatie att Oxford, wdi hath brought the monarchic of both
kingdoms to the sad posture att this present they ar in. Secure
mee in this scruple therefore speedelye, aud noething else can
hinder all you desire from hence. In the meane tyme bee con-
fident noe accommodation can bee made with [the Indepen-
dents] by [the Scots], [The English Parliament] beginne
now to raise great hopes to themselves from these disunions
approaching the publick and doe not stick almost to declare
yt. The buisness I wrote laste to you of in Ireland is all
this tyme machinating by them both there and in France.
They as a tribe a meditate noething but revenge and hate the
libertyes of the counctrys, which indeede is my proper quarrel!
* ? that meditate.
16 HAMILTON PAPERS.
1G48 Fcb- 2R ? to them. The Queene, letters saye from Fraunce, hath settled
'Mar. it. tjie prince»s howseholde aparte from hers. My lord Gerrard is
greatly in favour with him upon Prince Rupertes score, malum
omen futuri, therefore I conclude as I beganne, make sure of
a counter-ballaunce, and that those persons they woulde
not have come oute of that respect, as haringe to public sowles
bee sure they are not for that reason omitted, when they come
by waie of demanding right and justice, yf noe other capacitye :
for in this case the interest of any one private person soe
enclyned or persecuted, is the interest of the whole publick
weale, soe desiring to hcare att large from you what
Youl coiuaund yr humble Servant
I rest
Ja : Fen.
13. Edward Andeewes to the Earl of Lanark.
My Lorde,
164S, Mar. T]T. I have received your Lop?s of ye 21st of Feb. yesterday, and
shall bare great care y* ye enclosed bee securely conveyed to
your cozen ; having this day a good opportunity. By the laste
poste I sent your Lopp a cypher which I hope is come (ere this
tynie) to your hands. The late [ ? can on T\
well be to [ ? hath] almoste rendered the Duke of
York's escgape] impossible : at least [for a tyrue he hath en-
gaged himself to the powers not to escape but] if in order to the
necessity of having at (in the present conjunction of afiayres)
effected, it shall be thought expedient [to persuade him that a
promise] of that prejudice [to King and himself without his
father's knowledge or] consent [can not bind] him and by that
means prevayle [now with D. of Y. to be willing], the way I
once proposed to [you] is feseable [and unsuspected] ; but it
ADDENDA. 17
must be yr work of a little tyme; and if your Lop* shall thiuke 1G4S. Ma
fitt to give it, I shall desire your oppiniou concerning it. [My
way of adress to the King is yet sure and] I thinke the [one
remaining.] The business of association is very hopefull, and
I am most confident of what has been formerly promised by
some persons in the cittie be performed, which I finde will not
bee done withoute the continuance of [Scotland,] as substan-
tial] [assistance may thence] he reived on. I shall adil noc
more for the present, but that I am my Lordo jour Lop'15
mostc humble and moste faithful! servant
Ed. Andrewes.
March ye 1st, 1G47.
The enclosed from the [King] came hither the last week,
whilest I was in the country, but not to my hands till this even-
ing. I was not sure it was for [you], it not being mentioned
iu mine whoe it was for till Mr. [Horwod] informed mee.
14. ? to the Earl of Lanakk.
March 3.
I moght have been in great disorder as weal as other of your lots, Mar. ,'
friends, if your letter hade not come very seasonably for to
convince the reports of those mutino[us] Scots would invade
the . natione. Thanks be to the wisdome of vour powerfull
army, that give them work att home. Hop of gayne and per-
ticular animositye may secure our fears, if we can be faithful!
to our pious principles, and purge the hous and army of
malignants such as [Lanerick] a we are safe. Great industry
has b used to Kinge party]. Be sure to mak [that] yours [eon-
cerne, else vow are ruined. Argyll] will be right [when Par-
• I* this a joke or is the right name wrongly ciphered ?
b ? has been.
CAJ1D. S0C.
18 HAMILTON PAPERS.
1648, Mar. ,V lament] has [paid].8 Doc all you can to [gain England]. Mak
[hast] if you expect [assistance]1' Northumberland] or other
[lords] you will be deceaved. It is believed M. Harford is not
vigilant [in frends], Must be [flatteredc: Cliurcli] kept humble.
Carlyll co.c is yours hartily.
March 3.
15. James Fexxe to Edward Edgar.
March 6, 1647.
1048, Mar. TV I have received onely 2 letters from you with this but for the
addresse I conceive H*3 Edgar -never fayleth, therefore yf there
bee any stoppe 'tis farther of. The papour I desired from you
I saye noemoreof, leaving yt wholie to your discretion, as I did
then : onely I beleeve you I heare speediiye of the Princes
remove onto of Fraunce, and then, yf the occasion present yt
selfe, with his presence amongst you I presume you Avill reco-
mend yrc servants attendaunce as hee shall, when the scene
varies to Other partes, fayethfullye intend yr goode, and yr
Brothers. The resulte of ower parliaments in Scotland plese
to write to me, with the sooner, as alsoe some opinion touching
my particular, by wave of advise to the fayethfullest of your
creatures
James Fexxe.
I consider when my freindes can not write what they would
they says leasts of those perticulars as remedclisse, though I
am not soe wedded to my fancye as not to parte with yt very
easilye neare the presence of y1' judgement.
* Argyll had money owcil to him by the English Parliament, and the suggestion
is that he would join the llamiltons as soon as he received it.
b " From " seems to be omitted. c The Countess of Carlisle.
ADDENDA. 19
16. 282 to the Eat:l or Lanaiik.
My ever iionoked Lobs,
Yours of the 29th past came safe, yett was not altogeather so 101g ^Iur -
full of assurance as tke former though I hope by this time yee
have overcome the difficulties [the Kirk gives you : otherwise
I may feare wee of the Nobility may fall iuto the same]
prejudice [all those of honour have hcere by the violence of
that spirit!; but 1 hope yee are too wise and couragious to be
swayed by.! persons [so much your dependents]. I can say no
more of that subject, but shall acquaint you with what hath lately
come to my knowledge, first, from Fraunce I heare both the
Queen e and Prince are prepareing to quitt that kingdome, but
whether they intend is not yett discoverd, only thus much the
Queen intends to runne the Prince's fortune. 1 believe they will
receive no stop there, for Air. Ellis, a lawier of the House of
Comons, is retorned theare unsatisfied, beeing sent to enQ'ao-e
Card11 Mazarini and the State to stop the Prince his journey.
Those that come from Ireland report that Kingdome to bee in a
maniier lost to 'the Parliament party, and Inchequin and Sir
C. Coote discontented, lleere the Houses have been busied in
perfecting theire answere to your declaration, which, beeino-
past the Comons, was likewise on Satterday past in a full House
of the Lords (being five), whereof Manchester beeing one dis-
sented. 'Tis reported that lice, the E. of Holland and Countess
of Carlisle are goeing to the Spa to avoyde the storme they
have just cause to feare. The Lords have likewise sent downe
to the Comons an ordinance of indempnity for all those that
with the Speakers deserted the House and went to the Army,
which was debated on Satterday in the Commons House, who,
insteed of concurring, referred it to a Committee to report on
Thursday the reasons why they deserted theire charges, and
'tis thought they may rather suffer then bee acquitt. for the
20 HAMILTON PAPERS.
1648, Mar. -,77-. Presbiterian party carried this against them, 'tis reported like-
wise that the Speaker of the Conn nous House shalbe discharged
and Mr. Grimston seated in his chaire. Theire great scale
is taken out of his and Manchester's hands and disposed to the
custody of the E. of Kent, Sir TLo: Widderington and Mr.
Whitlocke. Uppon the dispute on Satterday Martin prayed the
House not to differ so much; but eyther to bee all for the King
or all against him. The Army is still mutinous, and the Liefe
Guard so discontented as that a Regta of Horse seeing the ill
usage those had received in the manner of disbanding without
money or good words, have sent to require satisfacion on theire
behalfe. Theerenppon the disbanded are this day to attend
Cromwell and to receive such satisfacion as heo hopes may
please them. The Army hath lately condemned 7 souldiers for
severall crimes but dare not execute them, martiall law beeino-
growen odious amongst them. But the news of this day, if it
bee true is best of all, wch is that Morgan late Goveraour of
Glocester is at the head of 3000 men in that county and hath
encountred some of the Army, slayne about 30, and taken above
100 prisoners. His Mahe for any thing I heere is as much a
prisoner as formerly, yctt it is constantly aflirmed the 2 Houses
endeavor and desire a treaty with him and desire hee would
write to require it, but 'tis said hee refuscth except yours, and
all interests may bee satisfied if they intend any such thiuo-.
'Tis believed they will speedily bring him to Hampton Court.
Besides I am assured they have underhand invited the Citty to
peticion them for a personall treaty with his Matie but they
refuse, because thereby they may offend the Scotts who are
theire freinds, and likewise incurre the danger of the votes.
The Citty hath also refused to lend them 2000001 uppon the
security of Cole-pitts in the Bishopricke of Duresme, and for
anything I can heere or observe, these old freinds of theires are
now totall averse from them, and theire proceedings. To con-
clude, [if your kirk can oppose your intentions, thev will be
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guilty of'] perpetual! warre and division [amongst us; whereas if
yee appeare this cloud will vanish, and all of us] enjoy the hap-
pines of peace wch is the prayer of
Yor most faithfull servant
333, 57, 282, 3G2, 40 [?]
7th of March.
17. 409 to the Earl op Lanark.
My Lord,
I feare you forgett you have a servant in these parts or take 1G48, Mar. T7f
not mee for one, otherwise I had been made happy with a more
frequent receipt of your letters. [Yours to the King I have
sent and shall send you an answer] shortly. [I doubt not if
designe faile not] he will make [his escape and be with you]
before you can hope it, soe well have I ordered the busines, as
nothing but [himseife can lett] it. \Yhat" service I mav doe
you for I shall hold a constant correspondence [with him, but
as] faithfull with you. Lot mee understand by the impose fate)
how much I have attained the ambition of being
My Lord
Your Lop11'
Acknowledged servant,
409.b
March 7,
1647.
■ ? Let me know what. b f irebrace.
22
HAMILTON PATERS.
18. The Marquis of Ormoxd to the Dcke of Hamilton
AND THE EiBL of Lanark [decipher].
Saint Jcrinins, 17"1 March, lt'AS.
1G48, Mar. ^. Your.Lop5 havcing perticuler and frequent intelligence from
hence I shall only remember you of some thinges were men-
tioned at our meeting more perticulier to the parte designed
for me, and first your Lop. may be pleased by the next safe con-
vcyence to send heather effectual] orders to those commanding
the Scots' armie and garrisons in Irland to obay my orders as
his Matiea governor of that King-dome, that when 1 have pre-
vailed for those assistances I expect from hence (where of I
have good hopes), 1 be not forced to delaye my goeing over
for want of soo necessary ane encouragement : in the next
place, you may please imediatly to give order to yo1' forces in
Irland to give all possible safe aversion a to Oeu Oneill that if
he intend interuption to those that wee heare are well inclyned
to returne to there due obedience, he maybe forced to looke
homewards. I the rather mynd yo'' Lop5 now of these perticu-
lers, for that I understand the gentleman I imployed tob is
safely with him, and that these c concur so many good sio-nes of
his declaiming with us in the King's service if I be furnished
with what is further necessary j hasten over to you1' Lops most
Humble Servant.
10. James Fenne to Mr. Edwards Edgar.
The 12 of Marc'.., 1647.
1648, Mar. £$. Your laste to nice whereof noething was written iu scypher
maketh me wonder att the forwardeness wee dayelie here the
a Sic, ? niis-eiphercd for *: diversion." b ? Inchiqnm.
« SU; ? '• there."
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23
allay res of [Scotland] ar in, because I praesume were the rela- ltus. Mar. \\
tioDS true in ajiy parte 1 should have received some intimation
from you to that effect ; however yf" the intermission of
ower letters, any thing to that effect hath happened, 1 expect
the rcsultes of yt first from your selfo, as Leeiug individuall in
my respect, withoute making these addresses to others. I
wrote you one very long letter, and fear that there was to much of
my owne perticular in yt ; 'tis a faulte I can easilie mende, though
againsle [the Prince of Wales] take his joiirny. 1 humbly
beseech you in convenient tymc to thincke -of. me, unless you
believe the subject uncapable of the pretence ; [then the passe]
desired before maye be neccssarye. Att leaste such a recom-
mendation iu general! to [the Queene] and [Prince of "Wales]
of [meo] by the Marquis of A'T ], or whoe you have or doe
thincke fo'tte [to sende into France]; it maye be visible to them.
I am one will be avoued [in Scotland. The Prince of Wales]
dott not remove this G weekes nor can sooner possiblye be
readye. I received lastc weeke to letters from him all written
with his owne handes; the tenure of them being I should
speedily receive orders whether to repayre unto him. [The
Queen's counsayle] ar hugely devided; to of them beeing dealt
with from henee and the only to c that have power to oppose
[Scotland] all they can, and devert the [Prince of Wales] from
yt. This 1 can assure you is truth, though I heare with all 'tis
not likelie to prevayle, since the generality's of English in
France second [the Queen's] inclynation to [Scotland.]
Xewes here is none but that the armye and the Parlia-
ment have indemnified one another like the brothers of the
Sword in the f King and noe King/ wch was don by a publick
vote of both houses. The ablest amongste them pretend to
desire an accomodation, and that the King maye be restored
to some moderate power again. I feare a lapwing cryeth.
farthest from the nest ; else eertainely 'tis the true interest of
■ "By" is probably omitted. " Antrim. c Two.
24 HAMILTON TAPERS.
1648, Mar. £5. ' both King-domes to accomodate this present difference specdilye,
and to applye, as you saved, lenitives rather than corrosives. To
conclude in the worlde you have not a fayethfullcr
serveut then
J. Fen.
By the post cometh I beseech you lett mee heare from you.
20. ■ to Lord Lanark-.
My Lord,
1G48, Mar. £*. Senco my last to [your Lordship little of any] moment hath
passed here more then the emission of [the Parliament's]
answere to [ ] papers (the woorke of [Master Nat
Feenes]) and the impeachment of the foure Aldermen in the
Tower, whom when they could not iuvite to submitt to their
wayes they now will force by their authoritie and power. Their
[design] now on foot is to [adjourn the Parliament] that therby
they may be the more easily dispose [of their army and] the
other advantages. I observe [King's party] and Presbiteriari
too much to apprehend this [design. No thing can hinder]
this, [but your armies march into England.] It is true Com-
missary Copley in Headsoare n hath desired me to acquaint
[your Lordships with a bussiness of great] consequence [and it
is] this [Henry Martin] (notwithstanding all his severe speeches
and writings [against the Scots' affairs) sente] to [Commisary
Copley] intreating him to [use his best endeavours] to recon-
cile him [to Scotland] ami that [ho] and [his party] (wcU would
appeare for Monarchic) might be [received into that] of [Lords]
and that nothing '• wdl they would not do to [destroy Cromwell
and his party] who was the falsest of mankinde ; and if [Scot-
land would] give him [assurance] and countenance [his] actions
* i.e. lladsor. b J there was nothing.
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in [Parliament] lie doubted not lint lie should [defeat Cromwell 1G1S, Mar. £j.
and his party]; assuring withall [he had four regiments] ready
at his [service] and indeed [that party is] at this [time very]
mutinous, and expects a faire [opportunity] to decline [Crom-
well's commands] (hearing" [Fairfax's and Cromwell's] resolu-
tion is to [despatch] the chief heads and abaters11 of that paitic)
and therfore [Master Copley] finding yl [design] of so great
consequence encouraged him to porsne [his design], assnreing
him [that little] interest [he had in Scotland] should be heartily
employed for so good a purpose, and he doubted not to give him
a good accompt, provideing y1 he would be as constant to these
second thoughts as he had been to the first. The consideracion
of this will not be unworthie of your serious [council] and [to]
returne [your opinion what is fit to be done. Colonel Ledger is
gone to York] weell advised to [ be h the Scots party].
[Your friends in France] are much astonished y* [they hear
nothing] both of [your] declarations [and] actions wch, as I
conceave, is the true cause yl vow have so litle assurance of
arms and money. Otherwise [?] you need not apprehend anie
thing of inconstancie or irresolution in there counsells, but the
particulars 1 leave to [Captain Moyle's letter.]
It is observable that these two last dayes the Cabinet coun-
sall men are much busied and destracted in their waves, and
men of good judgement here conceaves that, if vow have no
division amongst yourselves, they are confident this armie can.
never be brought unanimous to a rendezvous to ingage against
that party whieh will declare for Monarchic, and thogh great
art and diligence is employed for the raiseing of money, and
much money is alreadie gathered, yet the distempers and dis-
contents of their armie are so manic that they dare not pay the
souldyers anie part of the arreares, fearing that they would
desert the service. The consideration of these and manie other
* i.e. abetters. b ? be of .
CAMD. SOC. E
2G HAMILTOH l'APLIIS.
1648, Mar. $$. acccdents hath much encouraged all honest men of Hie Citie to
stand constant to their resolution and nothing1 can make them
weavre hut your delayes. This is all 1 have to represent to you
at this tjme being late and I indisposed to write. God prosper all
your loyall and religious endeavours.
London, 14th March.
21. MlINGO MtJERAY TO THE Eaul OF IjAXAUK.
My Lord,
1648, Mar. £g. [The schipes that] should a ben [in Scotland] sax weekes
[ago] is turned in on," which [com to Deipe] sax days [ago] and
[Sir vTilliem Fleniinge] is this day to he [despacht with his to]
Scotland. Ther [comes letters and reports dayly heir that putes
us in greate fearsj Lot the Queen and Prince [ar much] cher-
falcr1' [sine Magecr Putharfourde's [cuminge. The Prince] is
altogether sete [for goinge to Scotlande.] The Irish makes
[great prefers and wolde have] the [Prince to thar.]c Mr.
[Ashhurnham the clarge d of Englande] ar joyned with all their
pouer to make some reconsiliation [betwixte the Kino-e and
ermye] and at least if yon should enter England with an erme,c
it is beleved [that will] bringe the Kinge upon thade] of tharsf
and doe all thingos [in hes nem?] to deceaue [thepeipil.] The
French [wiris '' of u^.] Cod grante by his power you may be
the maine instrument of reestablishinge the Kin^e and his
posterity and recoveringe your cuntrie's honor. It shall be my
studeto express myself yor to
faithful and htunbol servant.
March the 2:,, 1CAS.
* i.e. returned in one. b Chccrfnller. e ? to »ro there.
d i.f. the clergy. e i.e. an army. I ? the head of theirs.
I i.e. name. '' Wearies.
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22. Ld. Jermyn? to the Earl of Lanark ? [decipher.]
j\Iy Lord,
Give me libertic to add some tiling besids what is newes lW8,Mar.££.
wreten to you by my lord Leiutenants, wch is that you wilbe
pleased to take care and soc give order that the Scotish forces
in Ireland, by there corespondence with Oeu Oneill, and those
of the Irish forces lying next to them give not him or those
forces, such assurenccs of sccuretie as maye leave them at
libertie to drawe there forces towards the southern e countries
of lrland, to molest those of the Irish there that are better
affected to joyn in the service now designed for the King.
Oeu Oneill being jelous of the other Irish forces is resolved to
drawe his forces towards them, wch wilbe a great interruption to
the service if some course be not in that case taken by the Scots
to use a diversione, wch I presume maye be done with such wari-
ness as it neid not at all ind anger the Scotish partie. The
bearer Sr William Fleming gocth hence soe full of the know-
ledge of all affaires here, he being also desired by Marq8 Ormond
to speake perticulerly witli you of all concerning your ownc 98.
4. and those of 1 GO Countie, in relation therunto, that 1 need
not at this time be any further troublesome to yow with any
other relations then such as he is able and authorised to make
onto yor Lop. The Queen and Prince of AVales aud all that are
considerable there' have placed ther conlideuce in yow and the
Duck Hamilton, though these want not those here that wola
doe yow prejudice and lave hould on Marqs representations
from some freinds of yours out of Scotland. But upon my
lyffe, they have no poure to begett any mistrust of yor affections:
this 1 imparte only to yor Lo1'.
From yor Lop3 most
faithfull and
humble servant.
* tSic, ? here.
28 HAMILTON PAPERS.
23. 143 to the Earl of Lanark.
My Lord,
iG4S,Mar. Your Lop1'3 of yc 7l!l of March i.s come to niee»; the enclosed I
shall deliver as sooue as I can finde him to whome it [is]
directed, weh yet I cannot, but am in hope I shall tynie enough,
that he may give your Lopp an accounte of the receipt of it him-
self. 624 tokle me that 1 sent you from 571 was for yourLop!\ J
have fowndc means to [have private conference with the Duke
of York], whoe is resolved notwithstanding [503 his engage-
ment to Parliament willing. I tokle him he] cowltle [onder1* not
make] any ingagement [in a bnssines of] soc publiqae concern-
ment in [relation both to K. and Kdoms without his fathcre's]
consent. If [King come in and him which he coneeaves will
absolve him from his pro]mise. to which you will I hope finde
617 [sally don. Shortly the designo of 022 c crowning in case
there he a necessity [that monarchi[i] call govern] ment
[must] continue, is freshly thought upone ; this for the present
/is all I shall trowble your Lop1' with, being
My Lorde, Your Lopr's
Moste humble and
most faithfull servant
143.
24. Earl of Lanark to D1' A. Fraser.
o Edinburgh. April 12.
1648 \ 13 Upon Munday last I received yours of the 4'h of this month.
Mv hopes that this expresse will come sooner to jou than the
» ? Bamfield. b Under age.
c ? The iHtke of Gloucester.
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ordinary post keeped »ee from -writing- to you by it last night. 1648, Apr. 12.
I findc you have been informed of my sickues.se. One day I
confesse it overcame me, but noe more, and I hope you shall
sooner hear of my death then that I shall be soe keeped from
performing- of my dutyes at this time; yet before you hear of
either, I despaire not Lut you will fmde that the prophctick
Lord whose prudence and asiatique eloquence you soe much
admire may he mistaken ; for all that hetherto hath heen done
[in the House of Lords a hath boon carryed in dispight of]
Argyle and "will be see still, if good be done at all, for yesterday1'
it was voted in Parliament that all the articles of the covenant
were highly broken in the sight of God, Angells, and men ;
and. many articles of the treaties were violated three demands to
the Houses of Parliament wer concluded upon. The first con-
cerning the coven [au]t and religion, the establishing of Pres-
byteriall Government], and against toleration : the second that
his Matie may come to some of his houses in or neere London
with honour freedom and safety, whore the Parliaments of both
Kingdomes may make their applications to him for settling a
religious and Well grounded peace. The third is that to the end
all the members of both Houses who have been faithfull in this
cause may with safety returne and attend their charges, the
Parliament may sitt and rot in freedome and safety. Both
kingdemes without interruption may make their applications to
his Matie, and the settling- of Religion and Peace be not longer
hindered or obstructed. The present army under the command
of Thomas Lord Fairfax of Cameron may be disbanded. To all
these and all the disputes concerning them only Argyle and
Cassillis, Waristou and L. of B. were discentiug. Balmerino
and diverse others of that party were ashamed of their imperti-
nent opposicion and voyced with us. Traquar and Calander
* There must l>e a mistake lure. One would expect Parliament to l>e indicated.
b April 11, Acta »f Purl, of Scvtl., vol. vi. part ii. 23.
30
HAMILTON PAPERS.
1C48, Apr. 12. were not soe mucli as present at the debates soe as what is done
is carried against the one and without the assistance of the
other parly. Yon may possibly think our demands concerning
religion impertinent : I doe soe too. Yet certainly they are most
necessary at this time and the more unreasonable the better,
for then wee are sure to have chem dcnycd and without a pre-
text of religion it is impossible to engage this Kingdom. Be-
fore these demands be sent, which we most resent, the orders is
to be passed and sent through the country for [puting] (which is
only to be by a messenger who is to have a time limited to him
for his returne) [the Kingdome in a pistur* of defence] and to
be ready to march as they shall be commanded. This wee are
to-morrow to resolve upon in Pari1, together with ane an s were
to eight demands presented to us by the Commissioners of the
Kirk, wherein wee have resolved to goe a very extraordinary
length- to give them satisfacion. [Yet we know it to be] impossi-
ble, [and so will be free to] proceed to our dutyes [without them],
wherin I confesse we make but a very dull and lazie progresse ;
yet this last week hath sett us now [soe] agoeiug, as nothing but
[the Parliament's granting] Lords a treaty [can preventt our
enga[g]ment though] ic will yet take a long time ere [we can be
ready to march with] an [army,] but believe it, that nothing
imaginable is left undone by [some of us.]
25. to James Giesox.''
S' Aprill 24.
Am "4 I was made believe that your servant who brought me the
May*, last favour from you was to returne so suddenhe that I could
scarslie give you thanks for it, butt I finde his stay to be now
such that 1 may give you a further trouble, for certainlie all
4 for "posture/' '• ? Lanark.
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tliat ever 1 can say may justli have tliat title though you are j-.g Apr. 24.
still pleased to bee more civil! then to forbid it me. Itt is much "V 4-
rejoycing to your servant that you so perfectlie overcome all
difficulties of health as those of bussnesse, for what can suceede
happilie ever to us, I am certaine comes from your care. The
greatest part of honest persons, beleeve now bussnesse in all
placs in a reasonable good condition so doth I am confident
301 ; for I spoke with one that saw how ycvv merrie too daies
since' those that have the kindnesse 306 hath to 313 have faith
enough to thinek they 3,95 bee 1G4, but generally people are-
afraid of examination 55 was afraid 702 would nott [?■] 239 strictly
presse a conscience to it, therfore left it bee forgotten. If you
doe nott 258, 552, 37, to 032, 275, 98 this king [?] domes affaire
without 285 healpe [heere they make that busenessc nothing)
315 said it would bee but ton daie more troable, butt one of the
chiefe men of their parts told 185, 200, 258, 134, 270, 02 his
strength 271, 202, 05, 253, 98, 00, 205 against 20-1 they were so
united and resolved there is yett no certaintie abroad of what
the Dukes though sometime they said it was gone 80, 284. I
shall wish all they may contribute to the 30, 142, 17 of 258,
301 glorie 205, 258, 312, there is some thing this day discovered
that much incensess 258, 07 which I know you will have a bettre
relation of the from 300. AVee expect every day 80, 103 now
that 284, 138" done her no good. I shall hope to live to see 284
to understand that affaire, and confirme you much more my
beeing
Yr constant
humble servant.
? bath.
32 hamilton tapers.
2(3. Thomas Howtox to -
Sir,
1CI8, Mny T\. We are Lore about nine score officers and gentlemen of
quality mounted and very nere an 100 gents on foote. There
are commmge out of the countrcy good store of foote (as the
gentlemen promise) but most part unarmd. We make use of
the townesmen for ordinary guardes, and places confidents of our
owne upon all places of consequence, but we rely upon our owne
selves, for wcU purpose wo for the most part of us are togeather
all the night either in the streete or in some place coveniont to
be in readinesse upon all occasions. We want amies exceed-
ingly, here being divers bronchos that will require fire amies. I
thanke vow for your infinite favours to me, and to the messenger
that brought vow the newes. Be confident whatsoever is in my
power shall conduce to your interest. I have herewith sent the
cipher desired, and begge your pardon for this plaine expression
of myselfe, it beinge your commande shall be obeied by
Your most humble servant
Thomas Howtox.
Berwicke,
30 April], 1G1S.
It is reported the post that brought the pacquett was staied
at Belfourdor Morpeth, and sent bakke to Newcastle. If it had
corned hether it should have passed. Sir Will. Selby is in this
towne come that day we came hither from Sir Arthur Hesel-
rigge, to whome he promised to secure this towne from the
cavaliers. Mr Maior brought me the commissioners' letter to
desire him to be caret' ull of the towns accordinge to the treaty and
to hinder the cavaliers from the surprizall therof. He returned
them noe answere, as he afirmes.
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27. 282 to the Eahl of Lanark.
My ever honored Lord
Although this possibly may miscarry and fall into the hands 16-18, May -^
of Sir Arthur/ yett hee shall not find any thing to please him,
because the successe of loyal] undertakings are everyday more
visible, nor shall I repeat what wee heare from our freinds in
the north, because the}" are better knowen there,, — but shall
assure you that our friends in Wales are still prosperous ; that
they have taken the Towno and Castle of Cardiffe, the most
considerable in those partes; that North Wales hath associated
with them and intend speedily to appeare, into wch associacion
the Marches of Wales and Staffordshire are said to bee included,
and the Lord Byron is reported to bee on foote in Lancashire,
with a good body of horse, intending fo assist the Welsh. It is
most certaine that Cromwell was advanced as far as Abingdon
ag* these with 5000 horse and foote and a trayno of 9 peeces :
some say hee is by this time at Glocester,'* but the generall
rumor is that hee is privately retorned, havcing in a mutiny of
his forces about Abingdon killed 2 or 3 of his souldiers, who
notwithstanding have seyscd on his artillery and amunicion and
declared ag< him (wee say for the King.) Tis most certaine his
forces are mutinous enough : yesterday the general sent againe
to have the 2 Regiments drawen from Whitehall and the Mews
who have the same spiritt of disobedience and say they will not
march. From the West 1 here that Bristoll is staggering, that
Plymouth hath not accepted a garrison, and that Pendennis is
not yett delivered ; but this is certaine the Cornish are highly
discontented, because at this time S* H. Waller is disarmeing and
• i.e. Sir Arthur Etazlerigg, Governor of Newcastle.
b Cromwell reviewed his forces at Gloucester on May 8.
CAMD. SOC. F
1C48, May ^
34 HAMILTON PAPERS.
secureiug all those hee cannot boo confident of. Thus much
for the matter of Avar; as for peace the Houses yett cannot find
the way to it, yett Marten on Thursday saved that hitherto hee
had been agl the King, but because they would have one hee
was contented, as seeing no possibility to bee governed without
one, and therefore hee proposed that, although they had very
hardly used both the King- and his party, yett that they might
joyne to restore them, and not to submitt to the Bcotts, who
would ruine them all. This part as from him, and nothing
was donne upon it. That day the Essex peticion was brought
through London by at least 2000 horse and foote, who were, as
they passed, received with infinite expressions of joy by the
Citty, but theire answere at Westminster was not so acceptable,
as you will find in the printed relation, which have so exasperated
them as they have forced the E. of Warwick to signe warrants
to put them all m a posture of defence ag* this day seavennight :
besides the whole county is resolved to pay no more excise,
■ taxes, or free q[uarter]. Theire neighbours of Norff. and Snff.
are following theire example. On Friday and Saturday the
Houses were busy about raiseing of new forces, and putting the
Kingdome into a' posture, and yett they voted they would main-
teyne the union betweene the 2 Kingdomcs and the Covenant,
and send againe the proposicions delivered the King at Hamp-
ton Court, but did not name the King or any addresse or per-
sonal! treaty with him. Yesterday I heare they voted that
theire General 1 shall have authority to levy men and money at
his pleasure for the defence of the Kingdome and Parliament, a
power they never thought fitt to bee in the King or consistent
with the safety of the people. To conclude they heere make a
shew of complyance \v,h yee, but feare nothing more then a
treaty with the* King (& wch is your second proposicion) and
intend nothing lesse. Therefore the [mere active yee are
espetially with an army, the more yee will shew your] affection [to
his Matic and his cause and if] a treaty ensue [make yours and his
ADDENDA. 35
conditions] the better. If the present distractions slionld hinder 1648, May -;\
future entercourse, yett I desire still to bee esteemed
Your most faithfull and
obliged servant
■282.
9 May 1648.
It were only the Lords that yesterday voted the General! the
power, but not concurred to by the Comons, and this day the
Comons have voted the Citty to have theire Militia and to place
the Ll of the Tower.
28. McNGO MUSRAY TO THE EAKL OF LANARK.
My LOED, • Paris, the 30 of May.
I have litell to say to your Lo. bot what I have wreten in my 1648, May §3.
formar and parteculnrly in niy last 3 befor the [last weeks
newes. Wee] wer exalted [but, upon that blow the Welch
got, we were humbled a litel; at this day's news upp againe].
The Prince is unexpresably disirous of himself and unpascient
to [be amonges you] ; for the Queen and hee ar heir [soliciting
for moneys;] fur what was [asayndto the Queen] the French
has [disposed]. The lousing* of Cutrie" is a great hindrance,
and the discontentes of the peipcll increases. I [belive Sr
William Fleminge] his [dispaeli will not be so soon as you ex-
pect] for we are heir of a slow mosion. Late nothinge rctarde
yow from that greate and nobell worke in preserveinge and
delayveringe your king and your nation and famalay. [Let
nothing hinder Lord Duke from] beinge [Generall], altho ther
besume [rubes] east in heir from whence [sover.] It is thought
■ Court mi.
36 HAMILTON* PAPERS.
1648, ^lav |g that this sursesicm in Irlande will contribeut mouch to the good
woorke in liande. The [Leiutenant of Ierland grows impasient
at ther delayes and so at] the "Welch. I shall think e myself
hape in resevinge your Lo. commandes for I am sincerlay
Your Lo. faithfnll
and humhcl servant.
Lat this present my most humbal service to 1113* Lo. Tre-
soronr by Sr William Fleminge. I will wret to his Lo.
20. to
Sir,
1648Qanfl 6. Upon the returne of 103, and that I feare all 154 misfortunes
157, 3, 3, were concluded to bee altogether 81, 302 action 306
was so much concerned that 155 resolved to begg the favour of
knowing some thing in that affaire, for it is impossible 300 can
beleeve 284, 244, l<8, 66, 2G5, 230, '161 handsomely as 303
would make it appeare 253, 185. I con fosse it might be likelv
enough to. have it in 28-1 power to revenge some little pretended
injury and that I could consent to, butt to act against that
honour 302 hath more then all the world beside 155, 243, 20,
creditt, but from 285, -10, 233, 726. I believe it never in their
powers to doe 284 any discourtesie if it were 300 cannot think
303 worthy of any friendship if they could but imagine those
uuworthinesscs, it is a great wisdom to trie many more then
trust, therefore 155 beseech 302 to put 30G kindness to the toueh-
stone b}- some sense that 284 may see how greedily 155 should
inibrace death to serve 302 in. I am sory this must bee with
you before they can bee any certain account given of what wee doe
inKentjthe expresse that the [Pari iament] bad yesterday 118,201
commissioners 277 2SG, to declare nothing that I can heare, but
of an answeare given you which they much boast of as a perfect
ADDENDA. 37
Victoria over all that hath bin given in against them. They ,.„ May 27
fe B J 1648, — - ..•
make very inconsiderable both what you can doe or say, though Jun(? '■>•
I believe they will nott have so much ocasion to brag before
you ieave them. Theythinck Lambert enough to destroy you
all, therfore the General is hastening with his strength to the
Kentish men. They have already maid good to Deepford a7id
taken some troupes of the Parliaments take all horses whoa they
can get of that side presoners. They have force enough butt
there is yett no head declard they solicitt much 310. Gentlemen
are fearfull of engaging before that appeare. The Cittie hath
made a new promises of fidelitie to [the Parliament]; butt their
[Mayor] tolde the House that hee could nott finde there would tow-
men goe out of a ward, therfore they were best to keep those in
towne of thearmie that they had orderedto remove. They sent out
five hundred horse last night, butt they deard goe no further then
Southwarke. It is thought whatsoever the masters consent to,
the apprentices will bee in a body on Tuesday, the day for
Kent, almost twenty thousand. It is beleeved by matiy that
part of 284, 151, 77, some 253, 2(3.1, allready. Certainly there
can be no such opertunitie as 250 if 312, 82 ready; for 258, 25-1,
146, ]324, 50, will bee drawne most 259, 272. There maybe-
little appearances of our docing good amongst ourselfes ; but
186 hopes 72, 157, 258, 312, therfor lctt them nott deceive any
that beleeves well of them. You will have by many I doubt
nott the story of the Prince of Kent.1' It hath discovered a great
affection of the people ; for the Lo. Thanett that was the first
man desired to command in that countrey and brought up the
relation of the affaires there, lice professed the multitudes were
so great to see the t hinge that called himself e Prince of Wales,
that the House was in a possibilitie of beeing pulled downe by
crouding. Hee hath gotten many presents of gold and rich
clothes, if hee can now make an escape with them. I have some
ocasion to keep me a little in towne, though I cannot beleeve
• ? "They take all horses and who."
* An impostor bad personated the Prince of Wales.
38 HAMILTON PAPEES.
May 27. myselfe very secure bear. 31 G hath left the towne with all
' 'June 6. his familie and ventured towards your quarter. There is only
to encourage me 303 and 313 whose feares are -great enough j
butt they are in phisick and cannot yett gde out of towne, or
otherwise they would daylie pray the Almightie to preserve 302
that 155 may live.
Your constant
humble servant
320.
May 27.
30. 450 to ? the Duke of Hamilton.
Mi Lord
Be mine to Lanerick and to Laua[derdale] you will perceave
1C4S,— Iay 27' the aecompt of that hath passed since Sir Will Fleamings
June 0. L , . .. . . , ,. . T
and "Will Murray s" arrival! is remitted to the next occasion. 1
am too full of the sense 1 have of the honour you have donne
mee to use y* method, and I will keep the same as long as I live,
not to let any one occasion escape mee that may shew you with
how much care I will bring- on my part all that shall invite yon
to continue it. I think it not irregular to publick considera-
tions that vou should know you may dispose of nice with all
authority nor nothing more agreeable to truth and justice then
that vou should bee confident of it, [and so had as much con-
tentment in the vowd] assurances they [receaved of your
affections as you can have] in the demonstrations ; [and will lie
no lessc careful in their] acknowledgments then you have been
to [obliJge them]. There will be oecasion now of saying much
to you daily, but I will not expect from you you should take tho
trouble of writing, you love it not. My lo. Lanerick will ease
- you therein. 1 have advised with Doctor Baylye, and shall
referre you to him for my behaveoir in that busines. I will
• i.c. LiiuJmlule.
ADDENDA. 39
now adde noe more but intreat vow to beleive y1 I am with iq-is, -^flv 27-
unfeined zeal and truth most perfectly
98, 412, 94, 236, 29, 18, 116, 62,
47, 290 most obedient faithfull
servant 28, 450.
31. Ml'NGO MUKRAY TO THE EaBI OF LANARK.
]\jy Lo. Jula.v the c> 1'''18-
My intensions was to a cnm'd8 in this ships my self [a purpos . „ ,, Jnne 26.
to a seine you, Lot Hay croste in it [?] as in moste things I Jul-V h-
intend.] The Prince gos from this on Thursday next the 9 of
this month. The first night he was with the Prince of Counte b
the Prince of Conde's brother who lies invayted him, for hishous
lays on the way to Callcs. [My Lord German sal go to Cales
with him and to Holand] and I am confident he wil [?]
deliver him into our hands. It is mouch fearde by sum heir
that the Prince wil say [?] Lo. Gerr.c tales'1 then he intendes.
The shipes and all the Kinges counsall that ar in France ar
to meete the Prince at dales. Prince Rupert gos with him, and
is to continew Generall as befor. I have harde nothing from
Sir "William Flemiuge since he went from hence, but I am tould
heir that they belive he is in Scotland before this. [My Lord
Newcastle is disconted e heir ? ' can nether get mone nor
comision. It's belived he is to greate a freind to the Scotes, —
and I have more then reson to belive [that Sir Mermdeuke
Laugedel wil [?] hand the design. I have reseved bot
on letter from your LoP since Sir William Flemminges cumming
heir. Ther lu-. not on weeke oscapte me that I have not wreten
to you Lo : this in heart which I shall ever be so to expres my
self your Lo. fathfull and humbell servant.
• Have come. b Conti. e ? Gerard.
* Tell him more tales. * Discontented. f The cipher reads t s d.
HAMILTON PAPERS. — ADDENDA.
41
INDEX.
Argyle, Marquis of, the Queen hopes to
win, 9 ; prospects of. winning, 17
Asbburnham, John, negotiates with the
King, 4; continues in England, 14;
tries to reconcile the King and the
army, 20
B
Berkeley, Sir Johu, movements of, 1 ;
goes to France, 10
Berwick, Scottish garrison in, 32
Charles I. said to be merry, 11
Charles, Prince of Wales', movements of,
1,2; places confidence in Hamilton,
24; starts for Calais, 39
Copley, Commissary, receives overtures
from Marten, 24
Cromwell inveighs against monarchy,
9; rumours of a mutiny against, 33
1)
Declaration justifying the vote <>f no
addresses, 7, 9, 10
Denbigh, Karl of, reported intention to
visit France, 1 1
Digby, Lord, letter of, 2
Disbington, alleged knavery of, lu
Fairfax, Sir T., dines in the City, 3
Fienncs, Nathaniel, the author of an
answer to the Scots, 2-i
Fleming, Sir VV., to be sent, to Scotland,
1 ; sent again to Scotland, 26, 27 ;
delay in sending, 35; sets out, '.i'J
F:ascr* Dr. A., letter of, 9
G
Gerard, Lord, in favour with the Prince,
10
H
Hamilton, Dnke of, 1, 22,38
Harrison, dissatisfaction of, 6
Henrietta Maria, movements of, 1 ; is
irresolute about trusting her -on to the
Scots, 4 ; divisions in the Council of,
23 ; confidence iu Hamilton 27
Ireland, news from, 14, 19; the Prince
oi Wales invited to, 20; proceedings
of O'Neill in, 27
Ireton, dissatisfaction of, 8
Jenkins, Judge, brought to the Com-
mons' bar, 14
Jermyii, Lord, letter of, 27
CAMD. SOC.
42
INDEX.
M
o
Manchester, Earl of, dissents from an
answer to the Scots, ][)
Marten, Henry, offers to support the
Scots, 24; wishes to restore the King,
31
Maynard, Sir John, anecdote of, S
Montrose, Marquis of, to be included in
an agreement with the Scots, 5
Murray, Mango, letters of, 1, 20, 35, 39
N
NorUiumberland, Ear! of, rumoured in-
tention to leave England, 10; help
not to be expected from, 18
O'Neill, Owen, jealous of the other
Irish forces, 27
Orniond, Marquis of, sails for France,
1, 10; rumoured journey to Ireland
of, 12; arrives in France, 13; his
letter to Hamilton, 22
Scotland, proceedings in the Parliament
of, 20
Vauc, Sir II., dissatisfaction of, 8
MEMOIRS
NATHANIEL. LOBD CREWE.
EDITED BY
.Rev. ANDREW CLARK
PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY.
M.DCCC.XCI1I.
PREFACE.
These Memoirs are published from a quarto MS. which was
bought by Lord Crewe's Trustees in the summer of 1891 for
the library at Bamborough Castle.
The author of 'An examination of the Life and Character
of N.C. . . . wherein the writings of his several biographers . . .
are critically reviewed and compared with a manuscript never
before published containing curious anecdotes of that Prelate/
published at Loudon in 1700 (111) pages, 8vo), Lad access to a
MS. closely resembling this but apparently not identical with
it. With that exception, the matter now published appears to
be as yet unprinted.
The Memoirs add very little to the facts of Lord Crewe's life
as set forth in ordinary biographical works; but they have
the interest of being written from the point of view of an
admirer, and are thereforo in strong contrast to other bio-
graphies, which are uniformly depreciatory in tone. At the
same time, the conception of a bishop's duties, by reference to
which the writer praises his patron, is so widely different
from our own, that it furnishes a pleasing example of uncon-
scious but bitter satire.
I have to thank Lord Crewe's Trustees for permission to
transcribe the MS., and their Librarian, the Bev. H. F. Long,
for his kind offices in the matter.
IV PKEFACE.
The Memoirs proper occupy 39 folios of the MS., written on
one side only of the leaf. The hand is a neat copy-book hand
of the eighteenth century, and there are several bad mistakes
which show that the scribe had difficulty in reading the
original and was without the meagre knowledge of history
and geography which would have helped him through. From
this I infer that he was an illiterate writing-master, employed
to transcribe from the author's MS. because he wrote a good
hand.
A former owner of the MS. has written a few notes in the
Memoirs proper, and has added at the beginning and end a
great many excerpts from Dugdale's Baronage, Guillim's
Heraldry, Browne Willis, etc., about the Crewe family and
their monuments in the chapel at Stcane. I have called this
writer "the second hand," but have omitted those of his
7iotes which have no direct bearing on the actual text of the
Memoirs.
The second hand has prefixed this title : —
" The Life of the R* Hon1,le Nathaniel, Lord Crew, Bishop of
Durham, compiled from the Minutes of the Bevd Dr John Smith,11
Prebendary of Durham ; with some curious Memoirs communi-
cated to him by his Lordship to whom he was sometime Chap-
lain ;
"With an accou[n]t of the Monuments of this Family in
their Burial place at Steane chapel ;
" And a copy b of Dr. Grey's Deposition c concerning ye Dis-
* John Smith was installed iu tbe 7th stall at Durham, 26 Sept., 1695, ami held it
till his death, on 30 July, 171."). He graduated D.D. of Si. John's College, Cambridge.
in 1 GOO, and was buried in the chapel there.
b This copy is written on a folio sheet inserted in the MS., by a different hand.
c The deposition of Richard Grey is printed at the end of the 18S8 edition of Tht
Laudian Code of Statutes.
PREFACE. V
tribution of Bishop Crew's Benefaction to the University of
Oxford.
"N.B., a copy of tin's MSS." is in Lincoln College Library."
As Dr. Smith died in 1715, the compiler must have added
from other sources the account of the closing- years of Crewe's
life. This last part of .the narrative is meagre in the extreme.
I have therefore appended some additional matter for the years
1717 to 1722 from contemporary papers among the Rawlinson
(Thomas Hearne's) and Ballard (Arthur Charlottes) MSS. in the
Bodleian.
Andrew Claret.
a This can refer only to the deposition, which is fonnd in a college MS. called
Exemjilificatio Chartarum, written by William Yesey, Fellow L703-1753. No copy
of John Smith's MS. Life of Lord Crave is known to exist in Lincoln College.
MEMOIBS
OF
NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE.
Sr Thomas Crew, Knight, King's Serjeant at Law, & Sona to
Sr Randolph Crew of ye antient Family of ye Crews of Crew in
Cheshire, dy'd in Loudon, Jan. 31st in yc Year 1633. He
was Speaker of ye House of Commons in ye last Parliam1 of
King James I. & also in yc first of Charles I., & one of ye Lords
Justices of Ireland before ye war. He marry'd a Daughter of
Reginald Bray, Esq1"., of Steene who was a Coheiress.
His eldest Son John Crew, Esq'., was Member of Parliam*
for ye County of Northampton. Petitions for ye Redress of
Greivances were sent up to him from ye County. The King
and Counsel insisted upon his laying those Petitions before
ym, but he decli'u'd doing it, for fear of being thought unfaithful
to his Trust. He was committed to y* Tower for this Refusal,
& went in at ye Iron-gate, thro' which none but Tray tors were
us'd to Pass. His Estate was about 4000£ a Year. He was in
ye Country during part of Lord Strafford's Tryal, & therefore
when he came to Town, he declin'd voting agl y* Lord. Where-
upon Letters were sent into ye Country wth these expressions,
" Crew is a Strafi'ordian," " Crew is a Papist/' At Uxbridge he
was one of yf' Commission™ for ye Parliam*. The king walk'd
wtu him in yc Garden at X1 Church in [Ox] ford b & discoursed
particularly concerning Episcopacy wth him; & Mr. Crew said,
* The second hand corrects "son'' to "yonnger brother."
b Two letters here, and several on corresponding places in folios 2-S, are eaten oat
by worms.
CAMD. S0C. B
2 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE.
f as far as he could Judge, yc kins' understood yc Controversy
as well as any of his Chaplains. At this Treaty yc king said of
him, " Crew, tho' he be agf me, is an honest Man."0 In 1346,
lie was one of yc Parliam* Commission" who rec'1 yc king from
ye Scots at Newcastle, & carry 'd him to Holdenby in
Northamptonsh. June yc 4* 1017, ye king & all f Com-
mission'8 were seiz'd by Cornet Fryce,1* & carry'd away from
Holdenby. In September 1648, he was sent a Commissioner
from r Parliam* to y8 king m yc Isle of "Wight, & in ye same
Year, December ye 5th, he voted ye kings Concessions a
Sufficient ground for a Treaty. The Day following, he & many
others were excluded yc House by yc Army, & confin'd in
Lodgings in yc Strand. He & all ye other secluded Members
were restored, Feb. 2Pf, by Monk in yc Year 1659, And in
order to ye accomplishing the Bestauratiou, there was a Meeting
at Mr." Crew's House in Queen Street, wth General Monk &
some of ye most eminent Citizens of London. They had not
been there above an Hour, before a Troop of Horse came and
beset ye House ; upon wdl all yc Company was let out yc back
way thro' the Stables, &byyl means a Discovery was Prevented.
When ye king was invited Home by yc Parliam', Mr. Crew's
eldest Son was one of ye Six Commission13 sent. over upon y*
occasion, & was knighted by his Majesty. His Father con-
tribited much to y* Kcstnuration, & if yl had not Succeeded,
had inevitably lost his Estate. In 1660, he was therefore
created Baron of Stecne, & yc Chancellors* of ye Exchequer
was offer' d to him, wcU he refund. Three Months after, he was
• ask'd again if he would take it, & again rei'us'd to accept of it.
He was wont to say, f if he was to be [gin e ye] World again,
he wo* never be concern'd in Publick affairs. Before he was
created a Baron he was first chosen Member of Parliam1 for
Agmondesham by yc Earl of Bedford's Interest, & afterwda
for ve County of Northampton. Ho was a Man of Perfect
» FoL 2. b Sic,iov "Joyce." c Letters eaten out by worms.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE. 6
Manners & good Breeding, of Piety and Learning, & Particu-
larly a Critick in yc Latin" Tongue. He dy'd Decr 12th 1G49.
He had 7 Sons & 2 Daiirs by his Lady Jemima who was Daur
to Edw. Walgrave Esq* of Lanford in yc County of Essex.
Nathaniel was ye 5th Son & born JanT>r 31, 1633. He had so
delicate an Ear,1' y*, when he was in his Nurse's Arms, upon
hearing Discord in Musick, he said, ffye Musick cries."
In 1642, he was sent to London & plac'd under ye care of
one Mr. Bishop,c who had been a Westmiust1' Scholar, & Student
of Xr eh. He quickly made so great a Proficiency in yc Latin
Tongue, y* ho Perfectly understood . . .d and acted a part in
2 of his Plays. From this Private Mast1, he was remov'd to
ye Publiek School at Cheynell in Bnckinghamsh., whereof
Mr. A^all was Mast1', who bred up many excellent Scholars.
He continu'd here, till lie was Head of ye School & become a
good Mast? of yL' Greek & Latin Tongues. The low & sinking
State of yu University prevented his going thither immediately
from School, & therefore he was assisted in his Studies for
some time at Steene, by Mr. Hickman ye ja Lecturer of
Brackley. He was also attended by Masters of Musick, &
made such Improve m1 undr ym at leisure hours, to divert
himself from his more Serious Employing y* he was able to
prform on Several Instrumts at Sight, & in Consort.
In Sepfc1 1052, he was sent to ye University of Oxon, &enterd
Commoner of Lincoln College,1' where his good parts & Diligence
recommended him so effectually to y' favour of yc Society, y* he
■ Fol. 3.
b But see Wood-* Life anil Times (edit. Clark, 1801). i. 2G4.
c Henry Bishop, see Alumni Wettmtm.
d Blank in MS. ; '• Terence *' is to be supplied.
e In the University Matriculation Register, under date 23 May, 1C53,. we have
" Nnthanael Crew, pxaiigeri filius " and '■ Samuel Crew," Nathaniel's brother. The
second hand notes here that " Dr. .1 n. Barnard was his " (Nathaniel's) " Tutor : vide
Dr. YVm. King's Hemaint, page 25.'' John Barnard, Fellow of Lincoln 1G4S-1G5G ;
D.D. G July, 1GG9.
4 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LOUD CREWE.
■was Chosen fellow of yc College as soon as lie was Batchelor of
Arts in y*' 3-ear 1650." In Xovemb1 yc same Year lie was appointed
Moderator of yc Disputat"3in Logick & Ethicks,'' being known to
be abundantly Qualify ed, tho' lie was BO Young, for yc Discharge
of y* Office; & yet Lis great Proficiency in Philosophical Studyes
had not interfcrd wtb his Progress in Classical Learning. For
he was exceedingly well versd in yc best Roman & Greek
Writers. He was wont to repeat an Iliad in Homer every week
for his Diversion, & wtl often say, yl if . . . .e could have puzl'd
him in Homer he w'1 have givQH him leave to whip him. His
Emulation wlh his Servitour, who was a Man of Parts it an In-
defatigable Student, made him rise at ye Earliest hours & spend
ye day in yc Closest Application, being apt to be fir'd w,h Emu-
lation, & unable to bear y'' thoughts of being out Done. His
Father sent him some Books wth an advice to read Multum, &
not Multa. Dr Watts/1 yn fellow of yc College, declared to c the
Fellows upon Mr. Crews being chosen Moderator, y4 he did not
at all doubt, but he wd be chosen Rector if yc old Rector f did
but live 7 Years; which happen'd aceordingly.
In 1058, he took y1' Degree of M.A., & was appointed by ye
Proctor Seniour of y* Act;8 & there being no Doctor in any
Faculty, y1 Year, he entertain'd, as ye Statutes directs, ye
* Nathaniel Crew and Samuel Crew took their B.A. on 1 Feh., 1655-6. Nathaniel
was elected into a Lincoln diocese fellowship on V May, 1656.
b The College titles of the offices are the Moderator in Logic, who presided over
the disputatious of undergraduates, and the Moderator in Philosophy, who presided
over the disputations of Bachelors of Arts. N. Crewe held both ofiiees from 6 Nov.,
1656, to 5 Nov., 165S. The combination of the two offices was unusual, and perhaps
dne to domestic dissensions in the College.
c Name or word lost, eaten out by the worm.
d Gilbert Wats, Fellow of Lincoln, 9 Fee., Kill, F.D. 1 Nov., ir,42, died 9 Sept.,
1657. lie had been Senior Fellow since li'Ao.
« Fol. 4.
' Paul Hood, D.L\ ; elected Rector 20 Nov., J620 ; died 2 Aug., lfiGS, aged 83.
p N. Crewe took his M.A. on 29 June, 1658, and in the Act in July that year was
" prior opponens" i.t. " senior inccptor " (in Arts).
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LOUD CREWE. 0
whole University (The Heads of Houses, Doet", &c.) at a
Vesper Supper in Lincoln College Hall wth equal Generosity &
Politeness, & was at y* time taken Notice of as a Grentlem* of
fine parts & ye most accomplished good Breeding. In ye same
Year, Mr. Thynne,a a Gentleman Commoner of X1 Ch., afterwds
Ld Weymouth, being in Private one Nignt wtb Mr. Crew at Lis
Chambers in Lincoln College, Mr. Crew said, " now we are
alone,! declare to you, I am for ye Restanration of KingCliarles
& ye Bpsj n & Mr. Thymic- used vo talk of this oftentimes, after
y° Ikstanration, to Mr. Crew's Honour & advantage. Some
time after, Dean Chvfeft b happening to see Mr. Crew pass by,
said, "there goes a rotten Cavalier."
Xovr. G, 1G59, being ys time of choosing ye Coll. Officers, Mr.
Crew voted himself Bursar,1' but notwithstanding y* instance of
his Modesty, y° Society elected him, young as he was, Bnb-
Rector. "Whose Office it is to govern in ye Hector's Absence, to
take care of yc Exercises of yc undergraduates, to Moderate in
ye Bachelors' Disputations in Physicks & Metapkysicks, & also
in y° Divinity Disputations'1 amongst ye Fellows in ye Chap pel.
And his Discharge of this Impotent* office gave so general a
Satisfaction, y'y0 Society chose him again into yc same office every
Year for 5 Years together. In ys Year he went to Cambridge,
& was admitted ad eundem, & because he had been Seniour of
ye Act at Oxford, ye University of Cambridge made him one of
ye Caput Senatus.
* Thomas Thymic, created Viscount Weymouth 11 Dee., M82l
b John Owen, (intruded) Dean of Ch. Ch. from l.6"»0-l to 11 March, IG^O-OO.
c The Bursarship and iSubrectorehip of Lincoln College were annual offices, elected
into every 0 Nov. The procedure was that candidates were named on the evening
of d Nov., the Rector asking the Fellows " wfeooffers himself for the Bursarship ? "
or '-thc Sub-rectorship?" and the election took place the next morning in Chapel.
Crewe was Sub- rector from 6 Nov., 16D9, to o Nov., ifUJl, and from 0 Nov., lG0;i, till
his election to the Rectorship in IGtiS.
d The Theology disputations took place on each Friday in Term and had to be
attended by all members <>1" the College of MA. standing or over.
* Sic, in error for " important.''
6 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE.
In 1G60 lie was ye 1st who appeared at Chappel in his Surplice
& hood, before any order relat* to yc Habits & Ceremonies came
out. The Rector, Dr Uood, questioned him about it; Mr Crew
answ'd, he thought every Body understood his Duty in so plain
a case, & therefore there seem'd no Necessity for a Meeting of
ye Society to settle it. About y* time, there being an Appeal to
ye Visitor/ ho waited on T)r Sanderson Bp. of Lincoln, & in ye
absence of yc Bp's Officers drew up an Appeal himself yc same
Evening yc came to Bugden. Whereupon y6 Bp. said, " Mr.
Grew has excellent parts." The next day yc Bp. Admitted Mr.
Crew to his Presence and heard the Appeal read, butb being
unable by reason of his Weakness to attend to Business,
appointed Dr Piene,c Dr Bailey and Dr Fell, Ueads of Magdalen
and Sl John's College and Xt. Church, his Commissioners to
deteimiine it. In 1663 yc choice of a Proctor of ye University
belonging to Lincoln College, Mr. Crew was elected Proctor; ''
at which time0 yL' King & all ye Court came to Oxford, & were
entertained wth a Banquet in y' Publick Library, where Mr
Crew made a Speech to y" King. This was ye 1st of his being
personally known to his Majesty; and yc Opportunity of being
made" known in these Circumstances was very favourable, for as
no Man Understood good Speaking & Address better yn King
Charles, So no Man spoke hotter, and address'd wtU greater
Advantage yn Mr. Crew. After his Speech ye King wo(l have
» The Bishop of Lincoln is by statute Vi.-itor of Lincoln College. The appeal
was made bv John Robinson and Henry Fonlis, fellows, in behalf of Christopher
Pike, M.A*, against the admission of William Adams, B.A., Wadh., to the fellow-
ship to which he had been elected on 13 Dec., 1662. The question at issue seems to
have been about the particular preference given by the Statutes to natives of the
parish of Kotherhain, Yorks. The Visitor's Commissioners deeided in favour of
Adams.
b Tol. 5.
c Sic, in error for " Tierce."
<* On 29 Apr., 1663.
* Sept., 1003 ; see a narrative of this Royal Visit in Wood's Life and Times,
i. 490.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LOUD CREWE. /
conforr'd ye Honour of Knighthood upon him, but y* Favour
was, at his own desire, & by yc Heads of yR University, Pre-
vented, both, because lie designed to go into Holy Orders,8 &
also, of its being unnecessary for liim who was yc Son of a Peer.
In the close of his Proctors* he delivered up ye black book,b wth
this remark " Ne vel Una macula nigriori/5 And yc Convoca-
tion gave a Publick Testimony0 of v1' great Satisfaction in Lis
conduct.
In 1664, lie was created Dr of Laws;'1 ho Lad this degree &
his Bachelor's conferred upon him as a favour by Accumulation,
fur having deferred to take his Bachelor's Degree on Account
of Lis Proctors*, & on condition of Lis Answering ye D1"5 at the
Publick Act. Sr Lionel Jenkins was Moderator at ye Act & ye
Question he disputed upon " An Solius Principis E sit Leges inter-
pretari?" Dr Pienef President of Magdalen College took
great Notice of his Accuracy in Disputing, & Laving given him
his thanks for it, very earnestly desired him to enter into holy
Orders. Dr Crew reply'd, he "was Apprehensive of some
People's entertaining unjust and groundless Opinions of him
on Account of his Education, & he was unwilling to undertake
that Office, while there was any Suspicion that he was not
a A* he was required to do by the statutes governing bis fellowship. On 21 Jan.,
\C>u\, Crewe bad a dispensation from the College to defer taking priest's orders till
12 July, ltW',:> ; and OB »> May. 1664, he received a further dispensation to defer
taking Holy Orders till Ember Week in the next Lent following.
b The Liber Niger Procuratorum is a register, in enstody of the Senior Proctor,
of the graver sentences inflicted by the Proctors.
c Probably only by applauding his speech. Wood thought it " a light vaiue sillie
speech." {Life and 'Dintvs, ii. la.)
d All the Fellows of Lincoln, except the Canonist, were required to graduate in
Divinity. Crewe had been elected into the Canonist fellowship on 22 March, 1658-
(I, and, as there was now no degree in Canon Law, was on 21 Jan. 166J ordered by
the College to graduate iu Civil Law, before July, 16G3. lie tookD.C.L. on 2 July,
1664.
« Pol. 6
1 i.e. Pierce.
8 WEM0IIJ3 OF NATHANIBLj LORD CKEWE.
thoroughly well affected to ye Service of yc Church." After-
wards when these Jealousies were vanished, he went up to
London & was ordained at y° Xew Chureh in Westminster by
ye Bishop of Winchester (Dr Morley) who was also Dean of ye
Royal Chappel. lie had a faculty from yc ArchBp. for being
Ordained Deacon and Priest ye same Day. D1. Dolben, Dean of
Westminster and Clerk of ye Closet, as Arch Deacon presented
Dr Crew, & another Person, who was to be Ordained with Him,
& told Dr Crew yl he must Examine him. Accordingly he
required him to turn this into Latin, u 1 have examind ym, and
find ym qualify'd." Dr Crew immediately answer'd " Satis Ex-
ploraios" habui, eosque idoneos judico ut in sacros ordines
initeautur." The Dean immediately reply'd " 0 111 examine you
no further." After he was Ordained; Bp. Morley Presented
him to the King, Acquainting his Majesty y* he was in Holy
Orders. Whereupon ye King said, " i am glad y* Gentlemen
takes upon ym ye Service of yu Chureh, & I promise to take
Particular care of you."
In 1GGG, upon yL 5th day of Xovembr, ye Earl of Manchester,
Ld Chamberlain of yc Household, enter'd Dr Crew one of his
Majestie's Chaplains in Ordinary; & as he Officiated, ye Kino-
took b XotiGe of him, and said " he has an Honest Countenance."
This was told Dr Crew by Mr Crofts. In 1GG7 ye Kinr>- gave
him a Sinecure in Lincolnshire. Upon ye Chances at Court LJ
Clarendon being dimiss'd, ArchBp. Sheldon's Interest, Bp.
Morley's, & Dean Dolben's fell w1'1 him. D1' Crofts, Bp. of
Hereford, was made Dean of ye Chappel, Dr Blandford Warden
of Wadham, Clerk to ye Closet, *v Dr Crew, his Deputy. In a
little time Bp. Crofts using some Freedom w"1 ve Kin"-, wUl
regard to his Mistresses, & laying before him ye Inconsistency
of some Practices w'1' ye receiving yc Holy Sacram1, and bavin*'
a cold answer, immediately desired Lave to retire. AVhen L<(
• u Exploratcs," in MS. k Fol. 7.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE. 9
Clarendon was sent for to ye King in order to bo dismiss'd yc
Lariy Castlemain seeing him come out of Whitehall without ye
Mace & Purse, got into a Balcony over agf him and clapt her
Hands to testify her joy. Whereupon my Lord look'd up and
said " 0 Madam is it you, pray remember y* if you live you will
grow old." It was remark'u by Cardinal Mazarin, upon Ld
Clarendon's Marrying his Daughter to ye Duke of York, yl it
was far from beingo Wisdom in so great a Politician to marry a
Daughter into the Royal family.
Great Notice was taken at Court of Dr Crew's good breeding;
& King Charles wou'd often use him with familiarity & freedom
of Conversation wdl he well knew how to receive in ye manner
y1 became him. In 1GG3 Dr Hood Hector of Lincoln College
dyes a <k ye Society Unanimously desired Dr Crew in a Letter
sent to him at London y1 he wou'd please to accept of ye Headsp.
He did so, and went down to Oxford, his absence being dis-
pens'd with by the King, at the request of yc Lord Chamber-
lain, who h informed yc King of w1 ye College had done. He
went from London on Monday, & got to Oxford by Tuesday
Noon, and being Sub Hector Summon'd a Meeting of ye Fellows
& on Thursday morning his Election was unanimously agreed
to.c He went away y' evening to Henley, & on Fryday Morn-
ing appeared at Court & officiated before his Majesty.
In 1608, he was appointed a Lent Preacher. His 1st Sermon
was upon these Words " If we say we have no Sin we deceive
ourselves, &c." The King stood up, all y« while; & ye Sermon
• Paul Hood died 2 Aug., 1668, in the S3rd year of his age aud the 48th of his
Rectorship.
b Fol. 8.
c On Tuesday, 11 Aug.. the election of Rector was fixed for Wednesday, 12 Aug.,
and on th-it d:iy Crewe was unauim >udy elected, and a letter sent off to the Visitor
(William Fuller, l>p. of Line.) requesting his admission. On Sth Sept. he was
admitted-Rector l>y the Visitor; and oa 17th Sept. after the 2nd lesson at Morning
Prayers installed Rector K in the chiefest seat of the quire of All Saints Church'"
(Oxford).
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10 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE.
was highly Applauded. The Duke of York wish'd his father
had heard him; weh wish was chiefly owing to his having used
this Expression in his Prayer " Remember not Ld our Offences
nor the Offences of our Forefathers."
About this time yc Dean of Windsor Dr Reeves was Danger-
ously ill; & ye Kiug was asked by Prince Rupert, who was to
be his Successor; yc King said, D1' Crew; but ye Deau re-
covered .
In 1GG9 yc Deanery of Chichester became vacant; Dv Bland-
ford told y° King of it, & recommended Dr Crew to his Majesty;
ye King said, " if it was Worth D1' Crew's Acceptance, he sh'1
have it;" D1' Blandford reply 'd, " it was not so much yc Profitt
Dr Crew consider'd, as it's being a Mark of his Majestic's
favour " : yc King said, he shd have it. In the Patent, leavo
was given him to hold yc Deanery w'h any other P'fcrnr1 in ye
same Church.
The Presentorship of ye Church wch his Predecessor held
being in the Gift of ye Bp, Dr King, he offered it to him wo!l ho
accepted and was collated to it April 28, 1(309, & ye day follow-
ing instairda Dean. After this, he was elected by y* Chapter
to be one of yr Body, and thereby entitled to ye Common Dividend.
Some time after an Impropriation held by Lease from the Dean
and Chapter was to be renewed, & ye fine was set for 1000£.
but ye Dean proposed and prevailed, y* 500£ of it sh(1 be apply'd
to ye Augmentation of yc Vicarage, & ye rest Divided amongst
ye Chapter.
His Turn falling out upon ye Feast of yc Annuntiation of ye
Blessed Virgin, as a Lent Preacher, & he having prepared a
Discourse on y* Festival, observed amongst other Things, y*
f some of ye Moderns were so far from doing Honour to ye
Virgin Mary, yl thev will not so much as allow her ye respect
wcU is due to her Memory': Ld Saville & others having
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MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE. 11
publickly and Shamefully cast Reproaches upon her. This
was thought a very Seasonable Remark at y1 time.
He was Desired by the Heads of Houses in Oxford, (Arch B?
Sheldon who was then Chancellor" declining to Act, & thereupon
leaving ye choice of a A' ice-Chancellor to yc University) to
accept of y* office, but he excused himself on Account of his
Obligations to attend at Court.
In May 1070 while ye King and Court were at Dover, he
beg'db leave of vc Kim>- to go over with his Ambassador, who
was sent to Complement ye King of France, on his return from
viewing his Conquests in Holland. The King of France staid
at Calais wth his whole Court a few days/ and Sr Henry Jones
Captain of y° Band of Pensioners, shew'd ye Doctor every thing
that was to be seen to ye utmost Advantage. Some time after
his return, in discourse wth yc Dutchess of York, he told her he
" much admired ye Paintings in ye Chnppel of Calais, & thought
they were indeed very fine, if they were put to a good use " —
her Answer was, " put to a good use ! " wch shewd her early-
Inclinations to Popery. April 1G71 he was elected, & on ye
16th of June confirmed, B^ of Oxon; July yc 2d he was con-
secrated & gave so noble an Entertaium1 yx ye ArchB1' said it
was the finest he ever saw. The Duke of Buckingham had
endeavoured to get ye Bishopriek of Worcester for D1' YVilkins :
but he faild in y* Point, yu Duke of Ormond having obtained
y* See for yc Bp. of Oxon Dr. Blandford: by which means
way was made for advancing Dr. Crew to Oxford. And Hen-
shaw Bp of Sarum was used to say it was Crewe's Interest,
a " Vice Chancellor " in MS. in error. Archbishop Sheldon was eloctcd Chan-
cellor of Oxford University 20 Dec, 1C67, and nominally held it till his resignation
on 31 July 16G9; But he was never formally installed, and the powers of the
Chancellor were excreised informally either by tho Heads of Houses or by
Convocation.
k "bag'd" in MS.
<= Fol. lft
12 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE.
y4 push'd Blandford up to Worcester. At the Arch Bp'4 request
yc Rectory of Witney in Oxford-Shire, worth abl G00£ a Year,
was given him by ye King, to be held in Oommendam w"1 his
Bprick, & lie was collated to it before his Consecration.
Bp Cozens told kirn vn, if he were but old enough, he beh'iv'd
he wd be his. Successor at Durham.
He held yc Bpriek of Oxon & yc Rectory of Lincoln College
together8 for one Year, wdl, D* Fell told him, was improper, '• but
yc Bp had a good reason to Offer for it, Yiz{, That0 the College
Statutes Permitted ye Headshp to be held cum quocunque
Beneticio Ecclesiastico, <.V y* having no house belonging to ye
See to live in, he could no where more properly reside w1-1,
regard to ye care of his Diocese yn in ye very Centre of it.
October IS, 1072 he resigned ye Headship of Lincoln College;
he had been some days there, & had entertained ye Society in
ye Handsomest and most generous manner y* was possible.
Upon his .going away, yp Society attended him to his Coach, &
as soon as he was gone out of ye College Gates he gave them
his Resignation, thinking it Proper to continue Governour of ye
College as long as he was in it.
In 1072 The Dnke of York having been absent from Church
on Good Fryday, Easter Eve & Easter clay, upon ye Tuesday
after, ye Bp. step'd out of \° King's Court, in his Lawn Sleeves,
to the Duke's Apartment, & desired to speak with him. He
was admitted, and said, he was Sorry to observe y* his Royal
Highness had been so long absent from Chappel. The Duke
answered j he could not Dissemble wth God and Man any longer,
& y* he wod come no more. The Bp. of Oxon said, Whosoever
• " Togather," in MS.
6 Dr. Fell afterwords withdrew his censure, on the conjunction of a Headship with
a Bishopric and held the Deanery of Cb. Ch. in eormnendum with the Bishopric, of
Oxford 1676-lOeo.
< Fol. 11.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE. 13
advised his Royal Highness to tins, -was none of his Friend;
The Duke replyd "My Lord, 1 take nothing ill y* you say."
The Bp. upon Occasion of Yates's a Plot, represented to the
King ye great Mischief done ye Xation by the Jesuifes; to wcU
ye King said Hy* Truth is, they are an odd Sort of People."
From these two Passages we cannot but take Xotice of his
Watchfullness agth the Influences of ye Papish,c or any ye least
Deviation in ye King or Duke from ye Established Church &
consequently ye Injustice of those who wd reproach Ins Lordship
with having been a favourer of Popery.
In 1G72 The Fail of Sandwych, who had marry'd yc Bp's
Sister, was blown up and drowned in Sole Bay. Whereupon
the Bp having spoke to the King, His Majesty vas pleased to
say, ylhe "he had a grout loss of him; " The Bp replyed, "since
he is lost, Fine glad it was in yr Majesty's Service."
The Duke of York in lG7o' entered into a Treaty of Marriage
with the Princess of Modeua, & desired ye Bp of Oxon to Marry
them. This being known, ye House of Commons immediately
voted an Address to y* King ag( ye Marriage, & sent it up to
the Lords for their Concurrence. While this was debating, ye
Duke said, y' if yc Address shd puss both Houses, he wa by no
means put y1' Bishop upon doing y! Office. But the Lords putting
a Negative upon it, ye Duke immediately sent ye Bp to Lambeth,
to Arch-Bp Sheldon to know in wl manner he marry'd King-
Charles and Queen Catherine. The Earl of Shaftesbury said to
ye Bp, "I hope, if you marry yc Duke you will be so wise as to
take out ye broad Seal, " intending not to grant it, & so to
hinder yc Bp from having this Honour. The Duke told him,
"my Lord, y1 you may be Safe in what you do, the King will
Empower you under his Signet."
uThe Bp marry'd ym at Dover, & upon his return to Town,
* Sic in MS. * Fol. 12.
c Probably a slip for " Papists." d Fol. 13.
14 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE.
ye Duke said in his Drawing room yc next Morning, y* he shd be.
ready to do the Bp any kindness, & yc Dutches w'1 willingly join
wth him in it. Upon wcl' ye Bishop waiting upon y° Duke, about
a Week after told his Royal Highness he was pleased to
Encourage him to ask some favour; y* there was but one Thing-
vacant yn in y" Church, which was so great a Pfeferm* y* he
durst not presume to Mention it. The Duke said, " what is it " ;
ye Bp answered " yc Bprick of Durham." The Duke said he
wd Speak immediately wth yc King, & use all his Interest for
him. Great Interest was made for Dean Dolben ; Dr. Compton a
also apply 'd very Strenuously to ye Duke of York, & magnify'd
yc Loyalty and Sufferings of his Family; oc upon ye Article of
Family Services, took ye Liberty of railing very much ag1 y* of
ye Bp of Oxon. The Duke of York told him, that this great
Bprick wo4 not be given to one who was not already a Bishop,
& Dr Compton was decently put off with this Answer.
The Duke of York told y- Bp he had a great many Enemies;
the Bp reply'd, he " valued y,a not, if Ins Royal Highness wd
please to be his Friend " ; iC My Lord," says yc Duke, " I promise
you, I will stick by you." A Man of Quality took occasion to
say something to the Bp's Disadvantage in ye Drawing room
before the Duke of York; Whereupon yc Duke said, " My Lord
of Oxon is my Friend."
b The Bp's Youth was objected to the King, who reply'd
" y* is a fault which will mend every day." The Bp was taken
Notice for speaking well in the House of Lords agl ye Duke of
Buckingham and y° Earls of Shaftsbury & Danby. Bp
Reynolds left his Proxy wlh him, yc Bp told some of yc Lords
y* he had it, & yl how0 he would make him vote right.
The King delaying still to till up ye Bprick of Durham, Dr.
Crofts Bp of Hereford waited on yc King it ask'd him why his
Majesty did not give orders for a Conge d'elire to elect yc Bp
• Henry Compton, Cauon of Ch. Ch. since lOG'J ; be succeeded Crewe in the see of
Oxford.
*» Fol. 14.
e A slip for " now.*'
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of Oxon j ye King answered, " my Lord, lie shall be sure
of it,"
On the 18th of August ye Bp was elected by ye Chapter by
vert no of ye Conge d'elire, yc return to his Majesty & yc Archbp
of York under yc College Seal, in order to his Translation.
Before ye Bp was chose,. Duke Lauderdale" said he beleived
ho sh'1 "eat a peck of Salt before ye 13prick of Durham wou'd bo
filled ." b The Bp was enthrond by Proxy yc 10 of Xovembr J C7-1,
His Lords1*3 Entry & Reception upon his 1st going down to
Durham was exceeding Pompons & Magnificent. The Bp had
two Coaches and Six, Six Gentlemen, 12 led Horses & a great
Number of running footmen arid Servants on horse-back.
The long Vacancy of ye See prevented all enquiries into0
Dilapidations, w'h at the Bp's own Death amounted to no more
yn 100£. The Bp was created Lord Leiutenant of ye County
Palatine & Admiral of Sunderland Loth wc!l high Offices were
so commonly Tested in ye Bps of Durham, y* till yc year 1588
they were look'd upon as belonging to ye See. One of yc titles
of ye Bishop of Durham is Earl of Sadburgh. He constantly
entertains ye Judges of Assize and yc Justices at yc Quarter
Sessions; & yc Civil Offices of Chancellor, Attourney General,
Sollicitor General, High Sheriff & Undersherifi are in his
Disposal.
April 23, 107*3, he was Sworn Privy Councellor. The Bp
thank'd the Duke of York for it, & kiss'd his hand as soon as
they were come out of ye King's Presence. After the Duke of
York was disabled from sitting* in ye house of Lords, ye Bp
spoke to ye King to this Purpose yc Duke being only present in
his Bedd Chamber, " Sr3 yc great Drift and Design of Your
Majestie'srEncmies, is to Divide yr Majesty & yr Brother, for
who can bo supposed to be so entirely yr Majestie's friend as yr
own Brother."
• MS. Lis " Landerdak."
b Bp. Coin .lied 15 Jan., 1671-2. Wood (Life and limet, ii 241) says "his
bishoprick waa kept void to please a woman."
1 Fol. 15.
d Sic, for " Bed."
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MEM0IP9 OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE.
In 167G yeBp made his first Visitation in his Diocese, wcl> was
very Solemn and Pompous. He preach'd himself at Newcastle,-
in S4 Nicholls Church, Sr William Blackett, Mayor, &all ycAlder-
man in their Scarlett attending his Lordship. At Alnwick yc
Clergy appeared before him, & ye next day he went to a Bentrick,b
where ye Governor, ye Duke of Newcastle's eldest Son, had
given Orders, to receive ye Bp, wth yc same Formalities, as they
did Himself. The Garrison consisting of 500 Men were drawn
up to receive his LordsP who was conducted by ye Mayor to his
Lodgings where two Soldiers stood Gentmels, & yc Bp gave yc
Word to ye Garrison every night. He slayd there 3 or 4 days
& confirm'd most of yc Garrison besides a great Number of
other Persons. When he went to Church for y* Purpose yc
Mayor and some of ye Aldermen who waited on his Lordship to
ye Door, desired to be excused from going any farther because
they were of Different Principles from ye Church of England.
The next Morning ye Bp went round ye works of yfc Garrison
& yc Mayor desired him to see the Bridge, wth stood upon
Many Arches. When they came to yc middle of it ye Mayor
laid down his white staff & said yr Lords'1 is now in yr own
Country.
In the same Year y° Bp Visited the Dean & Chapter of
Durham. The Dean c was a Morose Man. & sate down upon his
Name being called ; yc Bp said to him " Mr Dean, yr Posture
does not become you." The Dean roply'd, "My Lord, your
Predecessors always bid us sit;'' y° Bp Answered "when I bid
you, do so."
In November 1G77 ArchBp Sheldon Dyed ; Mr Mountanroe/
afterwards Duke, sent to ye Bp, to desire him to stand for ye
Archbprick. Bp Compton also was a Candidate for it. These
■ Fol. 16.
b An error for Berwick.
« Dr. John Sudbury, admitted Dean 21 Dec., 1C61, died in 1GS4.
» Fol. 17.
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2 families were so great and Powerfull & yc Duke of York being
unwilling to have our Bp put by for Dr Compton, as ye Duke of
Leeds was loath to haw Bp Compton set, aside by my Lord's
Superiour Interest, yc ArcliBprick was given to Dean Sancroft/1
by yc Interest of Lord Bellasyse a Roman Catholick, Jjord
Falconbridgc (a Protestant, who marry'd Cromwell's Daughter),
& other Popish Lords, who iniagin'd, 1)0 never wod hurt ye
Popish Interest, tho' he bad taken yfl Covenant at Cambridge.
The Bp's Lather said to him, " Son, I pray'd that you might
not be removed." Insomuch yl yc Bp wo'1 sometimes say
pleasently, y1 he "lost this Preferment by his Lather's Prayers."
This is yc only attempt he ever failed in during yc whole Course
of his life. And considering yc Difficulties he must have been
involved in, if he had succeeded, his falling short of this
Preferment was not so much to be counted a Disappointment,
as a Providential Deliverance.
Soon after,1' yc ArchLp said to King Charles ye 2'1, " Sr yr
ArcliBprick of York is vacant." It was twice offer'd to him, &
yc Bp answerd, " I humbly thank y1' Majesty for ye PrefermT 1
have already, but I dont want y* Grace."
In 1079 ye Duke of Monmouth was sent to command as
General ;igf ye Rebels in Scotland, & ye Bp was dispatch'd from
London to raise ye Militia at Durham. He set out from thence
on Monday and came to Ins Castle at Aukland near Durham by
Fryday noon; ° and yc Deputy Leiutenants being Suinmond,
they waited upon him at Dinner; at wch time an Express came
to yc Castle w,h an Order from yc Council to raise y* part of ye
Militia, w'1' is near Berwick.
After y° Duke of Monmouth had Defeated ye Rebels, in his
return he call'd at Durham Castle, where he was Nobly enter-
* William Sancroft, Dean of St. Paul's, was consecrated Archbishop of Canter-
bury, "27 Jan., 1 077-8.
b Archbishop Sterne dwd IS June, 1683, and was succeeded by John Dolben.
e lot. IS.
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18 MEMOIKS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CEEWE.
tamed by yc Bp at Dinner; nfter wch lie say'd he wd ride Post
to Darlington, wch was 14 Miles in yc road towards London.
The Bp Proffered to lend him his Coach, wcl1, he said, sh'1 carry
him in as short a time ns any Post horse could. AYch he did &
went thither in less y" 2 hours, & observed upon it, y* he was
never Driven so fust in any of ye King's Coaches. In this time
of Absence yc Bp lost much of his Interest at Court, chiefly by
means of ye Earl of Lauderdale.8 Secretary Coventry said, he
heard yl ye Scots were come Even to Durham. This and such
Tilings were given out as Insinuations y* ye Bp, as Lord
Lieut enaut, was not a good Governour.
In November 1079 he entertained ye Duke & Dutchess of
York for 2 or 3 days at Durham Castle, as ye Duke was going-
Commissioner to Scotland. The Bp received him at ye Hall
steps, & ye Duke kiss'd him as an high mark of las favour; &
gave a Private Intimation that no Paptisi sh'' come to him,
while he stayd at Durham. The Bp went with his own Coaches,
attended by all the Coaches of y" Country, & a grent Numbei of
Horse-Men as far as Pearco bridge wch was 12 miles from
Durham, to Welcome their Royal Highnesses into yc Countrv.
He also raised a Company of Militia to attend y1". In yc \Ya\-
from Piarce bridge a Bottle of Wine was offered to ym on vc
Part of one Air. Smith a !' Roman Catholick, by the hands of his
Brother Narrative Smith. The Duke and Dutchess both drank
a Glass, not knowing ye P'son who presented it to ym. After-
wards, when they did, yr Dutchess said, she wd have thrown ve
Glass in his face, had she known it sooner. The Entertainm'
was remarkably great & Sumptuous, & all vc Duke's Attendants
. * '
who could not be recd in ye Castle, were provided for at my
Lord's expence in yc Town. The Duke took particular Notice
of this great Instance of his Respect, and often mentioned it to
yc Bp's Honour.
» MS. has " Landerdale.' *• Ful. 19.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LOED CfiEWE.
19
Duke Lauderdale a also when lie went High Commissioner to
Scotland, & his Dutchess, were cntcrtain'd by yeBp at Durham.
At Dinner y" Duke said, " v\y Lord, ye Major part of ye Nobility
of Scotland are now at yr Lords*3 Table." The Bp had sent two
Gentlemen as far as Berwick to invite ym. The Duke said, his
Attendance was too Numerous: ye Reply was, " ye greater ye
Number, y° more Welcome they will be to my Lord/'
In 1679 ye Earl of Danby was impeach'd. ArchBp Sancroft
ask'd ye Bp " why he was so great an Enemy to ye Earl of
Dvanby." The Bp reply 'd, ''because he is an Enemy to yc Duke
of York my Principal Friend." Upon ye Question for committing
ye Earl, ye Bp wont out of ye house, and two other Bps his
friends followed him. He was committed. These Votes wd
have sav'd him.
About this Time, Oates was at Dinner one day at ye Chap-
lains' Table, when yfi Bp was there as Clerk of ye Closet.
"Pray," says ye Bp, "Mr. Gates, who was to have been Bp of
Durham if ye Plot had Succeeded ; " " My Lord," said he, Such a.
One, naming ye Man. Tho attempts were made to blacken ye
Bp, this Confession of b Oates being abundantly attested, no
harm could be done to him.
December 12, 1G79, yc lip's Father Dyes, & is Succeeded in
his Estate and Honour by his Eldest Son, Thos. L*1 Crewe.
In 1081, Mr John Crewe yc Bp's Brother dies, & leaves to y-
Bp ye Manor of Newbold in Leicestershire, worth about 5 or
GOO £ a Year, well Wooded and Water'd w,u a tine Park & all
ye Conveniences & Ornaments of a good Seat. He said he
would " leave it to one y* wou'd make ye Chimney smoak,"
alluding to ye Bp's Hospitable & generous Spirit.
On Fryday Feb? 6Ul 10.S1 King Charles ii'1 dyes. The Bp
scarce ever stirr'd from him day or Night during his illness ;
having Lodgings in ye Palace as Clerk of ye Closet. On ye
• MS. has " Lauderdale." k FoL 20.
20 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CBEWE.
Sunday before, ye King Supp'd at ye Dutchess of Portsmouth's,
& eat a Swan's egg Wcb lay heavy on his Stomach. The
Dutchess wd have been admitted to Kiss ye King's hand; but J*
King, as soon as lie saw her, said, " pray Madam, dou't come
near me."
One day at Dinnor ye Bishop waiting as Clerk of yc Closset
upon King Charles, recommended Dr Tully who had been long
a Chaplain, & was a very learned Man, to the Deanery of
Rippon; yc King immediately granted ye Bp's request, &
gave orders to Secretary "Williamson for yc Warrant. The first
time Dr Tillotson preached before King Charles, ye Bp desired
ye King to Command ye Sermon to be Printed, we!l was immedi-
ately done, & yc Bishop ordered to carry ye Message. Dr South's
Promotion to X1 Ch. or Westminster was entirely owing to yc
Bp. Great Minds are forwd in Advancing Worthy Men, &
happy it is for a Prince to "have such discerning & faithfull
Men about him.
The Bp was very constant & diligent in his Attendance upon
ye King as Clerk of ye Closset, but happen'd one Morning tc be
Absent* when ye King went to Chappel. He beg'd Pardon for
it & told yc King he had been Marrying a Couple. The King
said, "my Lord, 1 hope youask'd forgiveness of ym, before you
did it."
The Bp assisted as Supporter to King James on his Ptl hand,
at his Coronation, wl'!l is ye Antient Privilege of ye Bps of
Durham.
In a Short time, ye King dismissal Dr Compton from being
Dean of yc Chappie, & offer'd yc Place to ye Bp of Durham ; my
Lord beg'd to know, if Bp Compton had offended his Majesty,
ye King reply 'd, " my Lord, I am positive, he shall not be there."
The Bp said, " since yr Majesty is resolved upon it, & I cannot
have ye Honour of being so near to yr Majesty, as I was to yr
Royal Brother in ye Chappie, I shall be very glad to receive
» Fol. 21.
MIMOIES OF NATHANIEL, LORD CKEWE. 21
this mark of yr Majesty's favour/' & accordingly he was made
Dean of yc Chappie. This was rather a Constraint yn a Satis-
faction to him.
He was Sworn a Privy Counsellor soon after the King's
Accession to ye Throne. In yc Year 1685, Lord Cheif Justice
Jeffreys went yc Northern Circuit & laid a fine of 5 £ upon
Mr Badily a Coroner, for not rising up when his Name was
call'd, Saying, "you are so Lazy, you can't rise up when you're
call'd, but ill a make you pay for it." At Dinner time Badily
came into yc Room, where yc La Cheif Justice Dined wth ye Bp.
" How now," says the Cheif Justice, "I suppose you are come to
Beg off yr Fine;" "No," Says y° Bp, "my Lord, there can be no
such thing done; you have Maid it, but no body can take it off
but my self;"" which put ye Cheif Justice much out of Counten-
ance. For Fine.- and Amercements are always excepted out of
ye King's Commission of Assize for Durham, as of right belong-
ing to yc see; & .therefore ye Bp wo'1 not allow Ld Cheif Justice
Jones to read yc Common Assize Commission there, wch he wd
have done, as in other Places.
In 1080, ye Bp hinderd Dr Cartwright's being made a Bp,
but he Struck in wth F. Peters, & by his Interest Succeeded.0
In ye same Year, }e Commission for Ecclesiastical Affairs were
set up. The Bp was then at Durham. ArehBp Sancroft did
not oppose it in Council, but when was spoke to, rose up, as
giving a tacit Consent to it. All ye Judges yn Prsent, except
one, declar'd, they thought it was legal. The Bp was sent for
from Durham by order of Council to appear at ye opening of
this Court, wrh he did. The ArehBp being call'd, did not
appear in ye Court. A Messenger was sent to give him Notice
of their second Meeting, but still he did not come. The Bp, ye
next time he saw his Grace, discoursed with him about it, &
• Sic in MS., for " I'll."
b Fol. 2C.
* Tboiraa Cartwri^ht, Dean of Iiipon, was consecrated Bishop of Chester, 17 Oct.,
1086.
22 MEM0IKS OF XATIIA.NIEL, LORD CREWE.
particularly, represented his having given a tacit assent to it,
by rising- up, when he was call'd upon in yp Privy Council.
This gave yc ArchBp great Uneasiness, but still he did not
appear. At Hounslow yc ArchBp waited on yc King, who told
him of his Consenting to, & approving of it, upon wohhe reply'd,
yl upon farther Consideration he could not Act, & beg'd his
Majesty's Pardon for not appearing ; wcL he never wJ do.
In August 168G ye Bishop of Loudon was Suspended. Upon*
which, yc Bp of Durham said in Court; "my Lords, I suppose
yr Lords'15 mean only a Suspension abOiRcio;" & his Motion
was agreed to, Commissioners taking care of ye see of London
were nominated at y1' same time, & they allow'd ye Bp himself
to dispose of all ye preterm* in his Grift as they fell.1'
October 20, 1080, The Bp w'1' ye other Ecclesiastical
Commissioners pass'd Sentence of Degradation upon Johnson.0
It was said, y* they order'd him to be whip'd, but y* was false,
for it was done by order of ye Chief Justice of y* King's P>euch.
'Die Bp 2 Years before ye Revolution orderd 5001 to be paid
him in Consideration of his Sufferings, by Yearly Paymt3 of
100£ a Year for 5 Years, it my Lord should so long continue
Bp of Durham.
When .the Duke of Monmouth was making his attempt in
King James's Reign, Suspicions were raised at Court ag* yc Bp,
upon ye Account of his having shewn so great respect to yc
Duke when ho went into Scotland, lie was therefore not
thought so Proper a Person, to be trusted as Ld Leiutenant, in
raising ye Militia, on yl Occasion. Wliereupon Sr. John Penwick
was ordered to raise ym, We!l he did, & kept y"1 up 14 Days; &
according to ye Account lie had given the King, his Majesty
was pleased to tell ye Bishop, y1 ye Militia of Durham was y*
most regular & best Disciplin'd of any in ye Kingdom. This
» Pol. 23. '• MS. has " sell."
• Siiinticl Johnson, author of Julian th ■ Apogtrfe.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LOUD CKEWK. 23
was said to soften my Lord upon Sr John's being put over
him.
Upon the Revolution when King William & Queen Mary
came in, ArcliBp Tillotson desired yc Queen to give leave to yc
Bpa of Durham to "Wait upon her & ask her Pardon for what he
had done in ye late Reign. And accordingly ye next day he
Waited upon her Majesty,, being introduced by yc Arch-Bishop,
and upon his asking her Pardon she was pleased Graciously to
Answer, y' she did forgive him. The Bp desired ye ArchBp
also to introduce him io kiss ye King's hand. His Majesty
demurred upon it ; ye ArchBp said, " Sr, ye Queen has forgiven
him, & besides, S1' 'tis now near X*mas, which is a Solemn
season of Exercising forgiveness." Whereupon vc King crave
leave, y* he shd be admitted to kiss bis Hand.
No Person was Suspended by ye Bp (as Eachard b asserts, but
wth great untruth) for not reading ye Declaration. As for D1'
Morton0 who is mentioned Particularly, this is ye Truth of ye
Case. D1' Morton did not appear at yc Bp's Visitation, & said he
was excused as an Arch Deacon; & for this he was Suspended,
& removed from being ye Bp's Chaplain. But so great was yc
Bishop's goodness towards him, in forgiving his Offence, & in
Testifying ye true Spirit of a X'iun, y1 he afterwds removed him
• Fol. 24.
b Laurence Kchard, in his History of England, vol. iii (pnbl. 1718) p. S7G.
c John Morton, fellow of Lincoln College 166S-167^, B.D. 11 Nov.. 1074, D.D.
6 Apr., 1692; Prebendary of 6th stall in Durham, 9 Nov., 1G7G ; removed to 1l>
stall, 13 July, lGSo ; Archdeacon of Northumberland, o Oct., 1685 ; Hector of
Egglescl'ffe, co. DurhM lii7('» ; Rector of Sedgefield, co. Durh., 1711. Thomas
Hcarnc has the following note, MS. Collections vol. 143, p. o : '• 1731, July 2r>,
Thursday. Mr. Baker t,in his letter to ine from Cambridge of the 4th inst.) observes
that Dr. Bcnth goes on at Trinity College there as formerly, not wtu standing the
Bishop of Ely's sentence, hut he notes that he would be under some tryal this month
when the Bishop should visit his diocese and come to Cambridge, being one of his
Clergy. When Mr. Baker was in the Bishop of Durham, Dr. Crew's, family in ldiss
he remembers one of hi< Arch-Deacons was suspended for contempt, only for tot
appearing at his Visitation, tho' another reason was probably at the bottom. Mr.
Baker hop'd there would be no occasion for it here."
24 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LOUD CHE WE.
from a lesser Prebend to one of ye best in ye Church, & from a
small Parsonage to ye very best in ye Diocese. Sr Thomas
Ilaggerson, Bar*, a Considerable Roman Catholick in Northum-
berland, as be pass'd thro' Durham, enquired, whether ye Bp
had taken care to Lave yc Declaration Bead, & was answered,
No; he reply'd, " if he does uot, care may be taken to have a
Bpyt5Will/*
The Bp of Durham with three others of yc Ecclesiastical
Commissioners were appointed to Visit Magdalen College in
Oxford. "\\ "hereupon a the Bishop went to Windsor & desired
his Majesty to excuse him, & accordingly he did not appear.
When ye Proceedings at Magdalen College were finished, yc
three Commissioners came up to London, & w'1 have made a
report to ye General Board of y1' Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
but yc Bp of Durham moved y' theirs being a Particular
Commission, it did not belong to ye General Board to receive
y« Report of it. But this was overuld, and y* Beport received,
& ve three Commissioners were admitted into y" General
Commission.
The Story of yc Bp's meeting yc Pope's Nuntio was entirely
false. Tho' so much respect was then shewn to him, y! ho
Dined wth my Lord Mayor, & Sate above ye foreign
Ambassadors.
In 10S7 Father Peters was Sworn Privy Counsellor, unex-
pectedly. The Bp not knowing it, was Surprized when he
Saw him at yc Council Table. After this his Lordship declin'd
going to Council; whereupon La Preston wrote to ye Bp, by ye
Kim'-s Order, his Majesty having observed, y1 he had not
appeared at Council for a Month. The Bp waited upon ye
Kin"- about it, & his Majesty used this Expression to him, umy
Lord you abandon mc." The Bp said, y* he could not come to
Council while F. Peters was there; ye King reply 'd, "y* my
Lord, he shall come there no more ; M wch he did not. At the
» Fol. 25.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE. 25
Council Table, ye King sfl, " lie that is not with me, is against
me."
After King James was gone off, ye Bp going to yc Privy "
Council, there were but Six Present, & fewer cannot make or
Sign any order. The Bp joined wlh ym in an order for appre-
hending Father Peters, ye Warrant Was accordingly issued out,
but yc F. Slip'd away beyond Sea, before it could take
effect.
In 1G87, ye Queen was with Child. Whispers were spread
about in yc Court of her Miscarriage. The King said, "there
was a Rumour of y? Queen's Miscarriage, but it was not so," &
all was hush'd. At yc Pretender's Birth, June 10, 1688, yc
Bp was at Durham, & Did not see him till 3 Months after, & yn
seem'd to him to be 8 Months old. The Dutchess of Powis's
Observation was, y* it lifted up its Eyes to Heaven.
In 1G88 ye High Commission Courts was Dissolved. The Bp's
Pardon was Dated October ye 20"' in ye same Year. It was su'd
out by Judge Dormer, & dated a day or two before ye time yT
King "William's Exceptions took place. The Bp of Sarum, Dr
Burnet, mov'd yc Queen, to have the Pardon examined, to see
whether it was Valid. Mr. Wortley SenT produced it at ye
Attourncy General's Lodgings ; S1' Francis Pemberton said it
was a good one, <v of yc same Opinion was ye Attourney General,
who was to make ye Report of it.
In 108S, King James ask'd several Bps, according to their1'
Seniority, beginning with yc ArchBp, Whether they were
concerned in inviting ye Prince of Orange over; & when he
ask'd our Bp yl Question, he said, " Who, I, Sr, I know nothing
in ye World of it ; 1 sh? be a Monster if I sha do it." The King
yn said to ye Bps, '■' My Lords, you have ruin'd me, iv I have
ruin'd you." Arch-Bp Saucroft at y* time made such Strong it
full Professions of Duty to ye King, y* Perhaps this was one
• Fol 20. b Fol. 27.
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26 MEMOIBS OF NATHANIEL, LOKD CKEWE.
reason afterw'1* why he wa not take ye Oaths to King
William.
The Association was brought up to y° Ll1s house, being
Signed by thousands of People Voluntarily. The Bp being
moved to Sign it, said, "when it is Law, I will, but not
before."
In the same Year December ye 1G King James returu'd to
London ; yc Bp waited upon hiui, & kneeling down to kiss his
Majesty's hand, he took y1' Bp by ye hand & seem'd very glad
to sec him. The Bp being spoke to concerning the Question
for declaring yc Prince of Orange King or Regent, could not
remember y* he was in ye house at yl time.
In the Latter end of Febry Wj^S, ye Bp went over to Holland,
about ye time yl yfi Princess came hither. lie heard ye Guns in
Essex on his Journey. Before he went, he committed ye care
of his Library and Manuscripts & some other A'aluable things
to Dr Eyres'' one of his1' Chaplains who was y" in London. The
Dr placed 'em in yc house of his Taylor M1 Miller, who soou
after broke, & had all his Effects Seiz'd on for Debt, unknown to
ye D1. Quickly after ye Bp's return, D' Eyres Dy'd, & by y*
means, my IP* Sermons, & a Noble Collection of Books, k other
Things of Value, were irretrievably lost. This is one Reason,
why ye World is depriv'd of ye Benefit of many Excellent
Discourses, from one who was a Lent Preacher at Court 20
Years, wth yc utmost applause.
The Bp's caution was very remarkable, in never admitting
any Stranger whatsoever to discourse alone w,h him ; but in
ordering always some of his Servants to stay in ye Boom with
him ; wc]l has often defended him from several designs y' were
form'd ag' him. Three Gentlemen once came to his Boor at
Midnight, and ask'd y° Porter where he was; yc Porter assured
» Samuel Kyre, Fellow of Lincoln 1C71-1CSJ, D.D. S July, 10S7, Prebendary of
Durham, It Oct., 1G90 ; ilie-.l in IC'Ji.
b Fol. 28.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LOL'D CEEWB. 27
ym y* lie was in Bed, wch was yc Truth, but they Vehemently
affirm' d at yc Door, yf he was y" at Mass.
When he went into Holland, he took along w1'1 him, as his
Companions, Mr James Mountague, his Nephew, Son to ye Earl
of Sandwyoh, a good Master of ye French Tongue, and Mr J.
Turner an ingenious pleasant man, who was fellow of King's
College in Cambridge. He took a also a SeiV in Holland, an
English $£an, who Spoke Dutch. He went over in a New
Yatch wdl He hired, and had but four Seamen w,h him, and
was in a Violent Storm for 5 Days. They S.teer'd the Vessel!
into ye Brill, ye Wind being turu'd fair, but the Tide contrary.
He was ever particularly delighted w'1' yc 105th Psalm, which is
read ye 22d day of ye Month, ye day of his being in ye Storm.
On Sunday about Xoon he got to Rotterdam, where as soon
as he had refreshed himself, he went to church, to bear a part
in their Publick Devotions. He staid there three days and y11
went to hayden,1' where be continued three Weeks, & Went to
Church every Sunday. He appear'd in a Wig & Sword, & was
supposed by yc Dutch to be some great Man in disguise, & Par-
ticularly they took him to be ye Earl of Northumberland. He
was never in ye"french Dominions.
King William and Queen Mary were Crown' d during ve Bp's
stay abroad. He was kindly invited to assi[s]t at ye Coronation,
& had yL' Promise of a Welcome Reception, but excused himself.
He return'd to England in July,' 1G89, but was becalm'd in his
Passage, so y' he got to London, but two Days before ye Expira-
tion of yc time appointed for taking the Oaths. The House of
• Fol. 29.
b An error for '•' Lcyden."
c The second band iroces here : — "Vide l)r Denis Granvill, yc Dean o£ Durham's,
Letter to Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham, Dated from Koucn, July 1, 1 689, upon
yc Revolution v."1 ye reasons of his abdication and his not complying wth his
Lordship's advice, \v'" other particulars therein recited. The said Letter was
published by ye Dean in his Book intituled Y* Resigned <y Re&olvd Xt'n <j-
Faithfull tf undaunted Ifoyalist, iu ll", very scarce & hard to be met with."
28 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LOUD CKEWE.
Lords was adjourned for tho.se two days, so, ye Oaths could not
be taken there. The Lord a Mayor was desired by Sr Thomas
Stampe, Aldermen, to call a guild upon ye Bp's Account, and
he took ye Oaths at Guild-hall. The News of this was presently
carry d to Court, and rec'1 wlh some Surprize. L(1 Falconbridge
said, lie had done Wisely. In a little time, ye Bp went down
into Leicestershire & whilst he was there, ye Puhlick Papers,
particularly the Gazette, reflected upon him, as being gone over
to France, and added oilier Things, very false & injurious to
his honour. Narrative Smith came to him at y* time, and
desired to speak with him in Private, 3 or 4 of my L,Ti Gentle-
men were in ye room ; y8 Bp desired him to let him know what
his Business was, and commanded his Servants to observe what
passed. Whereupon Smith quickly took leave, & went away in
great Disappoinm' ami Confusion.
Sr William Bowes al/ yl Time told ys Bishop he was asked
whether there was not some Address intended from Durham,
Wch his Lords1' was concern' d in ? & added y' he shd be asked
ye same Question again, and therefore desired ye Bp to tell him
w4 answer he shd give to it ; y° Bp reply'd " say all you know."
In King William's Ac! of Oblivion yc Bp was expected;'' but
this could not do him any great Prejudice^ tho' it was a Mark
of ye King's Displeasure. My Lord Spoke upon this Occasion
in the House of Lords. llisc Speech was Applauded by many
■who heard it, who ( )lTorM his Lords1' to speak to yc King for
him, to take off y'1 Exception. He thank'd'em, but said he wod
not desire it. Afterwards he was wont to say to his Private
Friends, y* he wo'1 have y' Exception engraven upon his Tomb
Stone. Aubrey, Earl of Oxford, said in ye Court of Bequests
" ye Bp of Durham has Spoke like an Angel. " L(l Maulesfield
said to ye Bp himself, " 'Twas your Speech y* sav'd you."
» Fol. 30. b Sic, for " excepted." c Fol. 31
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE. 29
Stillingfleet, as Bp Ball reported from him, said, y* " ye Bp's
Speech was ye most natural piece of Oratory lie ever heard in
his Life ; " & said also, as Dean Sharp declared, y* it was " ye
best Speech he ever heard in y* house." The Speech was
this,
" My Lords,
" I am very unfit at any time to speak before yr LordsP3 ;
much more now, upon such an Occasion as this, when so many
thousands have ye Benefit of this Act of Pardon, & I am to be
one of these few, y* are excepted out of it.
"My Lords, I am very far from envying- ye Happiness of
those who are thus Pardoned ; nay, rather I heartily congratu-
late ym upon it, for, God forbid, y1 when ye King's Eye is good,
mine should be Evil. My Lords, I remember when an Act of
this Kind was sent down to this House in Treasurer Clifford's
time (I )n had the Honour to sit * here), in y* Act there was no
Exception of Persons ; only Crimes were excepted. If yc same
forme had been observed in this, I humbly conceive there wod
have been more room for Justice ; I am sure there would have
been less reason for so long a Debate as this.
u My Lords, I am very far from going about to Justifve mv
own Conduct ; nay, father I am heartily Sorry for it, & be^
Pardon of Heaven, Pardon of yr Majesties, Pardon of all vr
Lords/5, and more Particularly I ask this Pievd Prelate's pardon'"
(laying hand upon y° Bp of London's Shoulder) " which I have
already done in Private, & am glad I have an Opportunity of
doing it again in Puhlick before all yr Lords''3.
"But one great Satisfaction to rue, is, y' 1 never had a hand
in Blood. The truth is, I was hurry'd on wth such a. Notion of
Obedience, as I will never be Guilty of again, for ye greatest
King or Prince in Xtendom. Xo, my Lords, I resolve for
• Fol. 32.
30 MEMOIRS OF NATHAMIELj LORD CREWE.
ye future, to Make The Laws, — The Standard of my Actions,
according to y° Royal Example.
" A Golden Sentence, This indeed, drop'd down from the
Throne above, for I dare he bold to say, 'tis yc first time it was
ever delivered, from that Throne. My Lords; seeing yta this
Pardon is so necessary for Preserving ye Pnbliek Peace of this
Nation,. & y* you may see how much I am a Well- Wisher to ye
good of my own Country, rather y" I shd give any further delay
to ye Passing of it, ] wd throw my self up for a Sacrafice, & am
willing yc Bill sh1' Pass."
Then ye Bp w,hdrew, Avhilc; ye Question was put. It was
imagin'd, y* ye Duke of Leeds was y* cheif occasion of his being
excepted, on Account of yc Bp's going out of yc House, when ye
Question was put for Committing his Grace to ye Tower in 1G79.
The Bp stood excepted 5 or 6 years, and nothing was alleged
agl him'.
In Confutation of wf Bp Burnet says y* yc Parliam* in King
James's ye 2l!'s Reign was made up of Weak, poor inconsiderable
Persons, I have heard from very good Hands y* King James
Closetted four of ycmost considerable Members of it, SrChristoph.
Musgrave, my Ld Preston, Mr Finch, and Mr Cholmondley of Vale
Royal, and y* they all refused to come into his Measures in
taking off yc Test, except my L'1 Preston, and y* Sr Christoph*
Musgrave told ye King, his Majesty might Strip him to his
Shirt, if he pleased, but y' he wl1 sell y' Shirt, if he had nothing
else, for a Sword to tight for his Majesty.
When ye Bp went down to Durham, a few Weeks after
Dr SaeheverelTs Trvall, ye Bells rung in all ye Towns as his
Ldship pass'd, & when he came to )c Elvetmore about a
mile'' from Durham, he was met by 3 or 4,000 People (Sr Harry
Bellasyse said they were 5,000 Horse), all yc Gentry and Clergy.
• Fol. 33. b Fol. ?,i.
MKMOIKS OF NATHAMIEL, LORD CBEWE, 31
& other Principal Inhabitants of yc Country, & received wtb a
Speech by Mr Henry Lambton, Attourney General; & yc
Trading Companies appear* d on yc Moor wth yr Banners. In
a short .time after, yc Bp held a Visitation of ye Dean and
Chapter & spoke to y1" as follows :
" .My Brethren of y(' Chapter and Clergy, Is this another
Triennial, or rather is it not my Primary Visitation ? So extra-
ordinary has been my Reception this Tear, in this obliging
Country, justly cnll'd yr Bprick. So yl instead of yc 36th Year,
this may not be improperly stiled ye first of my Translation.
Which is enough to set my Dial back, & to renew my age, tho'
drawing1 near y* of Labour and Sorrow, by filling it wth Joy &
Exultation. But I pray, my Brethren, wherefore is all this ?
Why ? what good have I done more than my duty, if so much ?
y* I shl1 Merit this more y" double Honour, altogether unsought
by me, & indeed unthought of, 'till after I heard of ye Unani-
mous & most obliging Resolutions of ye Gentry, Clergy and
Multitudes of others to signalize yr Approbations of my poor
Endeavours to serve her sacred Majesty, & the Apostolical
Church of England. A Church, wch tho' often struck at in all
Ages, yet still keeps its ground, holy ground, as being founded
on a "Rock, y1 is impenetrable & can never be a Sap'd or under-
min'd by its Adversaries.
"Neither Atheism, Deism, nor Papism on y° one hand, nor
ye Corahs, Dathans and Abirams, w!h such like Republicans on
ye other, can ever be able to touch yc Border of vs Mount, this
rock, wlhout being Split and dash'd in Peices y™ selves. While
ye Monarchy wth its just Prerogatives & ye Church wUl it's
Hiercrety b and Wonted Discipline are thus secure from
Danger, What Blessings may we not expect from this most
excellent Constitution ? And more especially under so
Fol. r>5. >' Sic, for <; Hierarchy.
32 MEM01ES OF NATHAKIEL, LORD CREWE.
Gracious a Queen, who is ye Tutelar Angel, & true Defender
of our Faith.
" A Queen who by her Exemplary Ticty, & unparalleld
Virtue, who by her indefatigable pains & her own Particular
Inspection, labours to convey these Blessings safely down to
ye latest Posterity, y* they may enjoy yc same.
"And now, my Brethren, having thus Introduced myself here
amongst you wUl this Breviate of Home-Occurrences, this Short
Narrative of this Summer's Domestick Campagne, I shd proceed
to y* wch is more properly the Business of yc day, Expecting
your Answers to my several Articles of Enquiry; but your
Dean being not yet returned, the' Shortly expected, I shall
adjourn this Visitation to another day, & because I will not
trouble you again wth uoisc & Procession, I do appoint it to be
at my Castle on ... R betwixt y* Hours of 9 & 12 in ye
Forenoon, & accordingly this Visitation is ihusb adjourned.
In ye Mean time God's Blessing light on you all."
Bp Ken was once Sumtnond to appear before y* Privy Council
where he told King William there was nothing to be feared from
him, nor any Matter yl could give Offence, to be charged upon
him, unless it were he was reduced to be a beggar. When he
was Withdrawn, !>' Compton, Bp of London, being yn Present
in ye Council Chamber said, it see in d hard upon Bp Ken to be
sent for so far when there was nothing to be alleged afl him. &
so beg'd leave, y: he might invite him to take a Lodging at
Fulham. King William said, " my Lord, you have encouraged too
many of my Enemies already." When Bp Compton told this
to ye Bp of Durham, he said, " My Lord, it was worth your
Paius indeed to do yl."
The Bp of Durham was to have marry'd Bp Croft's Daughter,
and her Portion was to be o()00£, but she Dy'd of ye Meazles.
m Blank in MS. b Fol. 30.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL. LORD CREWE. 33
In 1G91, on Sl Tho9 day, yc Lady Tynt, Widow of Sr Hugh
Tynt, was Marry 'd to ye Bp.
The Bp attended S1' John Fenwick's Tryal constantly & Sate
up till 3 in yc morning;, on yc last day of it, & enter' d his Protest
in favour of Sr John three times. On this Account, King- James
who was not pleased wth yc Bps Compliance at ye Revolution,
said, as my Lord was told, y* he forgave him n every thiug.
Lord Portland ask'd yc Bp on this Occasion, why he left yra,
alluding to King William's having pardoned him; my Ld said
' because he could not Answer it to his Conscience, to do other-
wise. The Bp always waited on y° King & Queen upon his
coming to Town, & going to yc Country.
Nov- 30: 1G97. Ld Tho : Crew yc Bp's Brother dyes, & yc
Barony and av,u it an Estate of 3000JL a Year falls to ye Bp, his
Brother having cutt off yp Entail of about 3000£ a Year more,
wch belong'd to 3"e Family. From this Time he was summon'd
to Parliament by two Writs, one by L'1 Crew, ye other as Bp of
Durham. He was constantly in his Diocese every Year 'till his
Sickness in London in 17 15-1 G iv yc 82nd Year of his Age. His
Visitations till yf time were Constantly Triennial, & his Confir-
mations Annual."
A Divorce was su'd for in y° House of Lords betwixt ye Earl of
Anglesy iv his Lady, now Dutchess of Buckingham; The Bp
was for yc Divorce & it was carry'd; upon wcl' Bp Burnet said
to my Lord, "you Encourage Whores."
In 1713 yc old Duke of Leeds met wth my Lord at Court, &
said to him, " how does yr L''ship do ? I have known you a long
time;" "yes," says my Lord, "above 40 Years, you have
rememb'red me ever since 1679." My Lord attended yc house
very late at Night to yc Hazard of his Health, when Ld Oxford
was sent to ye Tower, & voted against his Imprisonment.1*
1 Fol. 37. h FoJ. 33.
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34 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CEEWB.
August 1, 1714: Q. Anne Dyes; y* V>]> proclaimed K. George
of B Durham & assisted as ye R* hand Supporter at li is Majestie's
Coronation. L'1 "Wharton said to y* Princess,. ye Bp yn standing
by, "Madam, La Crew is four score;'" my La reply'd, "may it
please y1' R. H. I am above 80 Years of Age, & Ld Wharton
remembers me yc greatest part of y* time." The Bp went to
wait on K. George, but no Bed-Chamber Man was in ya Way to
introduce him; Whereupon he said to some Person Present,
"pray tell ye King, 1 only came to pay my Duty to him, for I
have nothing to ask of him;" The King gave orders, y* when-
ever y* good Man came to see him, he sh'1 be admitted immedi-
ately. When ye Bp of Sarum dy'd, my L(1 said to ye King;
" I have Buried my Successor j " The Xing reply'd, he hop'd it
wcl be many Years before he sh'1 name his Successor.
InOctoV 1715'' Lady Crew dy'd k f Winter my Lf1 fell Sick
at London. The next Year he came to Steene, his Seat in ye
Country, & resided there by reason of his Infirmity (wch
* li Of,*' in eiTor for "at."
b The second band notes here : — " i 7 1 (T : vide JUat. Hegr. p. 70. Lord Crew's 2'
Lady was ye Dan* of Sr \Yni Forstor of Balmborough Castle iu Korthnsibd who was
to have been his first wife, and when bis L'ship asked her Ladyship bow she came
to refuse his first offer, she replyd y1 she was ' so many years older, and hy con-
sequence so nmch wiser, nnd therefore ye fitter for his Lordship.' She resided in
her Infancy' ranch at Durham : at wcU time Mr. [Joseph] Smith (afterwards [1730-
1756] Provost of Queen's College [Oxford!) going frequently to her Father's
(Mr. Foster), thev were play Fellows together, & v\"in company w"1 him wn they
grew np.she w1 take a pleasure in talking of ye little Tricks in their Youth, & being
of a lively Temper & disposition mj occasionally he very jocular, and among other
things relate his taking her up in his arms and setting her hare upon a cold stone in
ye Garden, when she said " by my Faith, you have nsd me very senrvily, you took
Dp my Cloaths & set mc upon my bar Breach'.'" Thomas Hearne has a note (MS.
Collections, vol. i>-\ p. Dl) : " 1722, Sept. -C, Tuesday. I am told that the late
Bishop of Durham's second lady was sister to Foster that acted treacherously lately
al Freston, that she was the prettiest young Woman in England (in so much that
she was commonly called yretty Dolly Foster) but that she never enjoyed her self
after Marriage but pin'd away, the bishop being old.''
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LOUD CREWE. 35
prevented his Appearance either in yc Parliament, or at his
Diocese) till his Death.
Aug* 12, 1717 yc 13p wont to Lincoln College.11 On ye same
day of ye Month 1G6S'J he was chosen Rector. Such respect was
shew'd him there by ye City, as well as University, y* anc order
from ye Court of Chancery being sent at that time, for his
Paying- ICOO.C Costs of Suit betwixt his Ld Ship & Sr Henry
Lyddall, there was no Attonrney in Oxford, yx could be prevail* d
on to Serve ye Writ.
The 13 p was ye kindest Master to his Servants, & Landlord to
his Tenants, of his time, Scarce any of his Fines or Rents
having even been raised by him. His Hospitality and Charity
at Steene was remarkable ; as also ye Care he took of his
Diocese, in Appointing Commissioners to give Institution, and
to Perform all Acts except those which requir'd ye Presence of
a Bishop.
He gradually dcclin'd for several "Weeks ; expected his
Death with Perfect Satisfaction & case ; was entirely resigned,
compos'd and Serene, & kept his parts and Memory to ye last
Moment of his Life; & expired, while his Soul was Recom-
mended to God in y' form wch yc Church appoints to be used on
such Occasions.
His Will contains an Account of his Benefactions wch was to
* Tbe visit was to intimate to the College that he was going to execute in his life-
time the provisions of his will for the benefit of the College. On 8 Oct., 1717, he
nominated bis first twelve exhibitioners ; and a College order of '21 Julv, 171S,
provides that tbe directions lie bad given about tbe allocation of his benefaction of
£47-4 6s. 8rf. a year to the College (including tkc-e exhibitioners), which sum he
had already began to pay, "be engrossed ou vellum and placed in the College
treasury amongst tbe rest of our archives as a perpetual monument of our duty aid
gratitude to bis Lordship."
b '' 1078 "' in MS iu error.
c FoJ. 3i>.
36 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE.
have been here Inserted if these Memoirs had been Printed by
[Dr.a Smith] as were intended.1'
a " Dr. Smith " is inserted by the second hand, in error.
b At the end of the MS., among other notes by the second hand, is this following :
— " Mr. [John] Offley [husband of Anne Crewe] chaugd his name to Crew as being
heir to Sr J" Crew. He was Father to Mr. [John] Crew of Crew-hall, who mard
Sarah King who was Chamber Maid at ye Crown Inn at Oxford belonging to Sr
Sebastian Smith. She was much followd by Lord Brook's son of X1 Church & as
she was a strong well-made woman she made nothing of throwing j* nobleman's son
into y° bason in yc great Quadrangle there : and afterwds being drove out of Oxford
by Mr. [Joseph] Smith,)0 [in 170! Senior] Proctor of y« University, for keeping
company w,b ye Gownsmen, and particularly w!'' y* young nobleman & Mr. Crew, she
■went to London, & Mr. Crew was to fired w:h y* beautiful & excellent frame of her
Person y* to allay them he went after her to London k was there tempted to marry
her altho' he had before two illegitimate sons by her. [John] the eldest of them was
obligd to procure an Act of Parliam' for bis naturalisation before he cJ make a
settlement on his marriage wth Miss [Anne] Shuttleworth ye Dan* of Mr. [Richard]
Shuttleworth, member for Lancash* : otherwise Dr. Joseph Crew who was the 3d,
and only son born in wedlock wa have been ye lawfull Heir. He took his name
from Dr. Joseph Smith, as he was undesignedly ye Instrument of his Lather's
maT=e. This rash act of Mr. Crew's mar1-''" to her did at first cive great disgust
to the Family ; hut, contrary to expectation, she behaved so extremely prudent >.v:
was so courteous and obliging to her Hush'1'3 Friends y' she soon gaind their esteem &
by her good management & Frugality she not only paid of [f ] a considerable debt y*
was owing on ye Estates but savd Ten Thou-andp'* apeice for her younger children.
Dr. Joseph Crew was ye 3'1. & only son born in wedlock : this gentleman, who is pre-
ferred to ye considerable living of Crew hall, mar1 a Daur of Mr. Haywood of
Oxford."
APPENDIX
TO THE MEMOIRS OF LORD CREWE.
The very imperfect account of Lord Crewe's declining years
given in the MS. ma}- be supplemented from contemporary
diaries and letters.
1717: Lord Crewe's visit to Oxford. This attracted much
attention at the time, and is noticed at some length in Thomas
Hearne's Diary.
Hearne MS. Collections, vol. 64, p. 93:— "Aug. 16, Ffriday,
1717. Dr. Crew, Bishop of Durham, is now in Oxford.* He is four-
score and eight months old.'" Ibid., p. 109: — "1717, Aug. 26l1',
Monday. The Bishop of Durham, Dr. Crew (who continues still
in Oxford) hath given (as I hear) an hundred Pounds to the
new Building (which is designed for a Library) carrying now
on on the south side of Peckwater Quadrangle at X1 Church,
an hundred Pounds to the carrying on of Queen's College, an
hundred libs, for an Altar Pk-ce at the new church of All-
Hallows, two hundred libs, towards the spire of the said Church
of All-Hallows, and withall hath augmented the Eectorship of
Lincoln College twenty libs, per an., and the fellowships of the
same college ten libs, per an., which Augmentations are to bc"-in
at Michaelmas next. He Lath, likewise given Exhibitions to
* A dinner was given to Lord Crewe in Lincoln College Hall on the occasion of
this visit. The dinner cost £0 15,?. Gd. ; new table-linen was provided for the High
Table, costing " for linen and making cloths and napkins, £2 4*. Qd." The
Accounts mention also " for wine in ball at entertainment to the Bp. of Durham
our Benefactor, £3 15s. 0</.: to the University musick at the same time, £1 1*. G</."
38 MEMOIRS OF XATITANIEL, LORD CREWE.
the same College. So that this Bishop may he looked upon as
a good Benefactor to the University of Oxon." Ih'ul., p. Ill : — •
" 1717, Aug. 29, Thursday. On Tuesday last (Aug. 27) at two
clock in the Afternoon was a Consort of Mnsick in the Theatre
for the Bishop of Durham; who was there. This was
Dr. Charlett's contrivance and is laugh'd at. For indeed it was
not at all proper to entertain him with Musick, unless there had
been also a Speech, which would have been decent enough, and
it should have been spoken by one of the ffellows of Lincoln
College, to which College he hath keen so great a Benefactor,
as I have observed above. I am told the Exhibitions he hath
given arc about 12, and all 20 libs, per an. But I am not yet
certain. He hath likewise augmented the Income of four
Churches (ten Pounds each) belonging to that College, viz. All
Hallowes, Oxon., St. Michael's, Oxon., Comb by Woodstock,
and" [Twyford m Bucks]. Ibid., p. 114 :—" 1717, Aug. 31,
Saturday. The Bishop of Durham went out of Town on Friday
Morning last. I do not find that it holds true that he hath
given an Hundred libs, to Queen's College.3 Dr. Lupton b is
his Chaplain, and he was with him. Old Mr. Giffard tells me
that he was formerly well acquainted with the Bishop.
Mr. Giffard offered to make a visit to his Lordship, and the
1 The second hand in John Smith's MS. has this note : — " Cop}' of the Register
of 13p. Cress's benefaction to Qneen's College as it is entered among the rest of the
benefactors of that College : — Capellae Omnium Sanctorum in Coll'' Keg" Bcnefac-
tores — N:tthul, Baro Crew, EpM Dun''5. Ut actios deo opt0 max" dicatae pulchrius
enitescerent, utqne in atrio. tarn clcganti qnam sancto Rcginenses Domm adorarent
suam esse voluit enram suae aetatis praeaul omnium munificentissimus, »', permiss.
Div. Dun''* cpu*, it Baro Crewe <le Steane, qui nt opus adco pium promoverct ex
innata auimi benigftitate 'ccntnm libras lubcntissime donavit. Idem, no in cacteris
acdificiis erigendts deficeret socictas, anno inscqucnte centum aureos largitus .>t.''
b William Lupton was adm. Fellow of Lincoln 22 Dee. 169S, and died 13 Dec.
172G. lie had been promoted by Crewe to the 9th stall at Durham, 13 Sept. 1715.
A note by the second hand in John Smith's MS. say- : — "Dr. Lupton was recom-
mended to his Lordship for his chaplain by Dr. John Smith, prebendary of Durham,
who had a particular interest in the Bishop.'1
MEMOIES OF NATITAXJI-L, LOKD CREWE. 39
Matter was made known to Dr. Lupton, tlio' Mr. Giffard desired
that his Ldship might know that lie was a Non-Juror,
Dr. Lupton when lie heard this said that the Bishop did not
( care to have a vi.sit from any stranger/ So Air. Giffard did
not go. He afterwards was informed that he did not care to
see Non-Jurors." Ibid., p. 115: — "I find that the Bishop of
Durham is older than I said he was. lie is fourscore and four,
as I have it from many hands. He hath given twelve Exhibi-
tions to Lincoln College, of twenty Pounds per an. each."
The visit is noticed also in contemporary letters : e.g., MS.
Ballard 32, fol. 42, a letter from William Bishop of Gray's Inn
to Dr. Arthur Charlett (Master of Univ. 1602-1722)," dated
29 Aug. 1717 : — " W the Good bishop of Durham has don lately
is wonderfully great and Good, and He is commended and
praised by All here, yl wish well to our Church and Univer-
sities."
1718 : a further gift to All Saints' Church, Oxford. In MS.
Ballard 83, fol-. 10Gv,is a letter from Francis Taylor to Dr. Charlett ,
dated Univ. Coll. 15 May 1718, which contains this sentence: —
"On Monday y(' Bp of Durham sent a 100"' by Mr. Gray" of
Lincoln for carrying on ye New Steeple."
1710: Lord Crewe is offended by Lincoln College.
The second hand in John Smith's MS., on fol. 39b and fol.
40, has this note : — " Having no children (not marrying till
King "William's time, in whoso reign the title fell to him which
is now by his death extinguishd) he became a great benefactor
to the University of Oxford, and particularly to Lincoln College
where he founded several scholarships and augmented ye head-
ship and fellowships, tlio' he wou'd have been a better bene-
factor to that College, if they had not disobligd him in refusing
* Richard Grey, adm.to Lincoln Coll. as servitor on 20 June 1712 : B.A. lb May
1710 ; num. bj Lord Crewe on 8 Oct. 1717 to the rlr>t of his newly founded
Exhibitions in Line. Coll.; M.A. 1718-9; D.D. 17i>l ; died Archdeacon of
Pedford 28 Feb. 1771.
40 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL; LORD CREWE.
of his recommendation of Dr. \Vni Lupton (then prebendary of
Durham, and sometime his Lordship's chaplain) to succeed Dr.
Adams in the Rectorship of that College, after thn College had
actually paid a compliment to his Ldship to leave it to his
nomination to fix upon a proper person for them. This extra-
ordinary proceeding of that society was occasioned by the
apprehension they were under of Dr. Lupton's being too great
a disciplinarian/' and the inclination they had of bringing in Dr.
Morley. Therefore they hastened their election, pretending
afterwards for their excuse that they did not receive his Lord-
ship's letter of commands in due time. However Dr. Lupton
was in all respects well qualifyed for that station and his Lord-
ship had so great an opinion and regard to him that he made
him executor of his will in conjunction with auditor Harley and
Dr. [Thomas] Eden, prebendary of Durham, uncle to Sir
Eobert Eden of "West Auckland, Bar*. His Ldship gave Dr.
Lupton by his will a dozen silver plates besides his picture
which the Dr. since deposited in the picture gallery in Oxford.'*
In Hearne's Diary we have these notes, MS. Collections,
vol. S3, p. 74 :— " 1 710, June 29ft, Mond. On Saturday last dyed
in the evening aV 9 clock Dr. Ffitzherbert Adams,'1 Rector of
Lincoln College and Prebendary of Durham. He died of the
Gout in the Stomach."' Hid., p. 77 :— " 1 719, July 1, Wedn.
Last night between 8 and 9 clock the Rector of Lincoln Dr.
Adams was buried in All Hallows Church Oxon." Hit., p. 02 :
* According to Anthony Wood (IAfe and Times, \\\. 112) the same consideration
had determined the prccediug election : " May 2, Sat., 1»;S.">, Fitzherbert Adams
chose rector of Line. Coll. against Dr. George Hickes. He had 'J voices and l)r.
Hickcs but 3. Occasioned by John Radcliffc and Edward Hopkins that they might
have agovcrnour that they might govern. Radcliffe represented Hickes to he a
turbulent man, and that if lie should l>e rector they should never be at qnict "
b Fitzbcrbert Adams, adm. Fellow of Line. Coll. 17 Oct. 1672a res. 2i> Sept.
1GS4 ; elected Rector 2 May ICS5. He. had long been a persona grata to Lord
Ciewc, who ultimately, on 11 April 1711, conferred on him. the 11th stall (the
4i golden prebend " ) at Durham.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE. 41
— "1719, Saturd. July 18th. This Morning Dr. John Morley,
D-D., was chosen Rector of Lincoln College in opposition to Dr.
William Lupton D.D. Dr. Morley had niuc votes and Dr. Lupton
only three. Dr. Morley is a very honest worth Man. Dr. Lupton
is also a worthy Man, but not being near so standi as Morley."
According to College tradition, the Fellows had asked Lord
Crewe to indicate to them the person he wished to see elected
Rector. He refused at first; but, upon a second or third
request, he nominated Dr. Lupton. The College Register states
that Morley a was elected " unanimi consensu sociorum b prae-
sentium ; " so that Lupton's three votes must have stayed
away from, the election. They were Lupton himself, Knightley
Adams, and William Watts.
Contemporary letters sufficiently indicate the Bishop's morti-
fication and the amazement of the public at the action of the
College. In MS. Ballard 2i, fol. 210*, is a letter from Robert
Shippen to Dr. Charlett, dated Oxford, 2 Aug., 1710, which
says : —
"The Bp of Durham has received the new Rector, with great,
very great, coldness; said he { knew nothing of him ' when he
sent up his name. The Bp. asked ' if he had any busyness; '
he answered '-onely to pay his duty.' Went away immediately
after dinner, and made Mr. Watts0 his Chaplain that day, by
a John Morley was adm. Fellow of Line. Coll. 30 Nov., 1689, and res. 27 May, 1712.
In the interval he had been Rector of Scotton, co. Liuc. He died 12 June, 1731, and
was buried in Scotton church.
b Morley 'a will directed a mourning-ring to be given to each Fellow who had been
present at his election. It appears from the accounts of his executor that nine ring*
were paid for.
« William Watts, adm. Fellow of Lincoln 22 Dec, 1706, resigned 20 Sept.. 1721.
Dr. Adams, the deceased Rector, had been the Bishop's Chaplain ; Crewe passed
over Morley, the new Lector, and made Watts, who had strongly opposed Morley"s
election, his Chaplain. Other promotion soon followed. In MS. Ballard 33,
fol. ir>()v, is a letter from Francis Taylonr to Dr. Charlert, dated Univ. Coll.,
Oxou., 9 Aug., 1719, which says : — " Mr. Watts of Lincoln goes down to Durham
G
42 MEM0IKS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CliEWE.
way of Indignation, he being always for Lupton." In MS.
Ballard 18, fol. 44v, is a letter from Anthony Hall of Queen's
College to Dr. Charlett, dated 7 Aug., 1719, in which lie says : —
ff It is matter of wonder to some people why Ly [n]coln College
should chusc Dr. Morley, after the Bp. of Durham, their great
Benefactor, had recommended Dr. Lupton." In MS. Ballard
8, fol. 118, is a letter from Thomas Lindsay, Archbishop of
Armagh, to Dr. Charlett, dated 13 Aug., 1719, in which he
says:— "At the same time I am much troubled to hear \x
Lincoln College have lost so great a Bene fac tour as the Bp. of
Durham by refusing of Dr. Lupton."
1719: Visit of John Robinson, Bishop of London. The
Bishop of London paid a visit to Oxford in August this year,
and went over to Stene. In MS. Ballard 21, fol. 200v, is a letter,
dated "Trim Coll. Aug. [13 or 15] 1719," from Will Jam Dobson
to Dr. Charlett. Here it is said : — " Yesterday morning at 5,
he," the Bishop of London, "took yc Vicechancellor a with him
in his Coach to Stene. The Bishop of Durham having some
Intimation of his Intent recd him with great Solemnity, in his
princely purple Robes ; had a very real Dinner for their
Entertainment, having for that purpose procured (from his
Neighbour Mr. Cartwright) a fat Buck, and. good French wine,
which uses to be a Rarity at Stene. The Bishop brought the
Vicechancellor home the same night."
1720: Gift to the Bodleian Picture-Gallery. Hearne in his
Diary, MS. Collections vol. 8», p. 152, says :— " 1720, July 9th,
Saturday. This afternoon I heard of five Pictures that the
this week to be Xnstall'd prebendary " [of the fith stall, rice John Dollen removed
tothc 11th stall, vacant by Dr. Fitzherbert Adams' death]. "The Bishop, he says,
has promisd to give him a living, his Design being never to prefer any in his
Church, hut to give the Benefices likewise in his Diocese to his Residentiarics."
Watts in 1720 was presented by Lord Crewe to the Rectory of Hinton, Xorthts.,
and in 1721 to that of Wolsingham, co. Durh.
» Robert Shippea Principal of Brasenose.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE. 43
Bishop of Durham, Dr. Crow, hath given to the Bodlejan Gallery
viz. K. Charles II and his Queen, K. James II and his Queen,
and a picture of himself (the Bishop)." In MS. Ballard 83, fol. lo7,
is a letter dated, London, 18 July, 1720, from Francis Taylor to
Dr. Charlett, which says : — "I have lately had a kind letter from
Cos11 Bourne of C. C. C. telling yc Benefactions of ye Bishop of
Durham to ye Picture. Gallery."
1721 : Lord Crewe's episcopal jubilee. At the end of John
Smith's MS. there is a note by the second hand: — "Lord
Crew had a. grand Jubilee at Stone on ye day of his being
oO yrs Bishop. On wcU occasion he invited over ye A'ice-
chaur of Oxford/ all yc beads of yc Colleges and Halls, and
ye proctors; and they all went in their formalities; and a
Grand entertainm* was provided for ym w,h a band of musick
playing yc whole time. The Bishop set at ye Head of ye 1st
Table; Dr. Lupton, of ye 2d Table; and Dr [Thomas] Mangoy,
at ye head of ye 3d Table."
Thomas Hearne's note about this is as follows (MS. Collec-
tions, vol. 91, p. 212):— "1721, July 3d, Monday. Yesterday
being the day on wcl' Bp. Crew, now Bp. of Durham, was conse-
crated Bp. of Oxon., this day a Visit was pd him by our Yice-Ch.,
both the Proctors, and several others, at his Ldship's seat at
Stean in Xorthamptonsh., purely to flatter the Bp. and to try
for Money."
1721: Lord Crewe and Anthony Wood's Aihenae Oxonienses.
Wood's venom against Crewe was well-known, and the gossips
of the day were on the alert to find out what Y\"ood had said
about the Bishop in the continuation of his Aihenae, which on
his death-bed he had entrusted to Thomas Tanner (1095), and
which was now on the eve of publication.
Tanner baulked their expectations. In MS. Ballard 4, fol. 131,
is a letter from Tanner to Dr. Chanctt dated Norwich, 22 Apr.,
* Sbipi'cn, again.
44 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LOED CREWE.
1 7 19, which contains the following passage : — " Some . . . will
be disappointed in not finding" [in the new edition of Wood's
Athcnae] " so much Scandal] as probably they might expect. I
believe a good deal was confounded in the bonefiro a made by
his order a little before his death. Otherwise, I would, I think,
have met wth the Life of that worthy old Gent", your Friend,
Dr. Walks, not set forth to advantage— against whom, you
know, Mr. W[ood] had entertained a g1 aversion1' — but I never
had any such Paper. Some few others I also want. The worst
in truth that 1 have is that of L'1 Bp. of D[urham], which by
chance came uppermost to the sight of a certain Archdeacon,
to whom I last summer shew'd these Papers for half a quarter
of an hour, and who, unwarily and ag-' the confidence I reposed
in him, mention'd it at Cambridge, where it got wind, and
about which I could tell you a good deal if it was worth while
or time could permit. In shore, a Northern Dr told me if such
a Paper had been in his possession he would have managed it
so as to have got a prebend of Durham; but my Ld's reputa-
tion and character is safer in the hands it is, of one that scorns
such mercenary views, and without such is inclined to let
nothing pass which is inconsistent with good manners and that
regard that ought to be paid to his high station in the Church,
or, however, to Ids late Benefactions and Charity which should
cover him from many reflections."
Heariie's Diaries contain several notices of this matter. MS.
Collections vol 83, p. 83 :— " 1719, Wedn. July 8"'. Dr ffouikes
also told mn that he was assured that the Athena* Oxon. were
either now printing or ab{ to be printed at London again with
Additions and yl D1' 'Fanner had declared that he had surren-
dered up Mr. Wood's Papers to another but y* he had no hand
■ Wood's Life and Times, iii. 49S.
b Wood's Life ami Timest\. :>•',!', (Wallis "lives upon rapine and perjury'');
ii. 424. 4SS, i89, 507-508 : iii. S4, 320, oOt!.
MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE. 45
in the Edition it self. If so, this is base in the Dr who hath be-
trayed his Trust, when he promised to print the Papers faithfully
himself and to perfect and compleat them. But he is a Whig, and
is therefore afraid he shall disoblige the Party/* MS. Collec-
tions vol. 92, p. 42 :— " 1 721 , Aug. 28th, Monday. On Thursday
the Vice-Chancellor was very busy about a new Edition of
Athenae Oxon that has come out tho' I have not yet seen it, and
he toJd my Friend that there is a Passage in it about the Bp. of
Durham, which he would not for all the World the Bp. should
see. It seems the Bp. is said in it to have been first a Puritan,
then a Papist, and at last an Orangian. As I do not look upon
this to Lave been written by Ant. a AVood,a so I suppose and
believe that there are many such spurious Additions/ so that
this Edition will be of little or no Authority, with respect to
the first. Tho' Bp. Crew was an Olivarian and stuck in with
the wicked Revolution, and hath been always a Trimmer and a
very stingy ungenerous Man, yet he never was a Papist, and
therefore the Passage on that account is false." Ibid., p. 44 : —
" 1721. Aug. 30, Wedn. Yesterday I saw the new Edition of
Athenae Oxon. The Words ab1 Bp. Crew are not just as repre-
sented above"/ Yet I cannot but think from manv Thinsra in the
* o
» Spluttering? of Wood's ill-will to Crewe will be found in Wood's Life and
Times i. 268, 332-333, 500 ; ii. It'. ; iii. 2SS, I'DS.
b Heafnc several times speaks of the 1721 edition of the Athenae Oxon. in terms
of extreme depreciation. A careful examination of the sources of the edition has
convinced me that Hcarne's suspicions are quite unreasonable.
e The reflections on Crewe are as follows :— " At the Restoration . . . Mr. Crew
. . . turn'il about, and no man seemed greater for the royal cause and prelacy than
lie .... [He showed] himself ready to keep pace with the humour of King
James II. . . . But when Dr. Crew fully saw that the Prince of Orange would take
place he began in some respects to flinch from and desert his master, by sneaking
after and applying himself to the Orangian party." — Athenae Oxon. edit. 1721, vol.
ii. eol. 1177, 1178. What I Iearne had heard "is therefore a concise but not unfair
summary of what is found in the printed text. It must be borne in mind that it had
been positively reported that Crewe '" bad declared himself a Roman Catholic," and
that Wood had noted this in his Diary, 3 Apr. 10S7 — Wood's L\fc and Times, iii.
217 ; Lnttrcll's Diary, i. o'J'J.
46 MEMOIRS OF NATHANIEL, LORD CREWE.
Book that A nth. a Wood would never own abundance that is in
it, were he living. No doubt Tricks have been plaid and Dr.
Tanner hath neither done Justice to Anthonv nor erot am-
Credit by letting the Papers come out in this manner."
In MS. Ballard 2, fob IS, is a letter from R. R. {i.e.
Dr. Richard Rawlinson) to Thomas Rawlins, dated 15 Apr., 1737,
in which it is said : — " Bp. Tanner has assured me that there
was no alteration in any one character, except an omission in
that of Bp. Crew, who was spared as he had been a great
benefactor to the University and Lincoln College. The
original was left many months in the bookseller's hands for the
satisfaction of all that were curious."
1721 : Lord Crewe's death. At the end of John Smith's MS.
is the following note by the secondhand : — " lie dy'dn Sep1' 18,
1722, and was buryd at Stenc. He held ye Bishoprick of
Durham 47 years as he had done y* of Oxford 3, continuing a
Bishop 50 years 3 months and 2 days; being a longer time yn
any Englishman ever enjoyd yl Honour, except Thomas
Bouchier, ArchBishop of Canterbury, who held ye sees of
Worcester Ely and Canterbury 51 years and 21 days. He was
succeeded by Wm Talbot, Bishop of Oxford and then of
Salisbury." Hearings Diary notices the death in these terms,
MS. Collections, vol. 02, p. 83:— "1722: Sept. 20, AVednesd.
On Monday night last [Sept 18] died Dr. Crew, Bp. of
Durham, at his Seat at Stene in Northamptonshire, of a great
Age. He died ab{ 0 Clock." Ibid., p. 01:— "1722: Sept. 27,
Wednesday. Mr. Catteral of Oriel College hath just put to the
Theatre Press a Poem upon the Death of Bp. Crew. This is
the same Catteral who published a Poem about Socrates, and
another call'd The Conflag ration. "
E There was a service of commemoration held in Lincoln College, on which occa-
sion the College allowed Richard Hutching, Fellow, two guineas " for a speech in
chapel upon the death of the Bishop of Durham."
INDEX.
Adams. Dr. Fitzherbert, 40, il
Anne, Queen, 32, 84
Baker, Thomas, of Cambridge, 23
Belasyse, John, 1st Baron, 17
Bentlcy, Dr. Richard, 2:3
Berwick, l (J. 19
Blandford, Bishop of Worcester, 83 10-
12
Buckingham, George, 2nd Duke of, 11.
14
Buckingham, Catherine, Duchess of, 33
Burnet, Bishop of Sarum, 25, 3u, 33, 34
Calais, 11
Cambridge, 5, 23, 44
Cartwright of Aynbo, 42
Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, 21
Castlemaine, Lady. 9
Charles I., 1,2
Charles II., 2. 6, 8-15, 17, 19, 20, 43
Cbariett, Dr. Arthur, v.. 3S-43
Cheyncli ( "'). in Bucks, 3
Chichester, 10
Clarendon, Edward, 1st Earl of, 8, 9
Comptou, Bishop of London, 14. 1G, 17,
20, 22, 29, 32
0>sin>, Bishop of Durham, ]2
Crewe of Crewe, family of, 1, 36
Crswc of Steane, family of, iy., 1
Crewe, John, 1st Baron, of Steane, 1-3,
17, 19 ; John (ab. 1681), 19 ; Natha-
niel, 3rd Baron, passim ; ^ir Thomas
(ob. 1C34), 1 ; Thomas, L'nd Baron, 2,
19, 33
Croft, Bishop of Hereford, S, 14. 32
Danl.y, Thomas, 1st Earl of. 14. 19 ;
created (1694) 1st Duke of Li-ed?, 17,
30, 33
Declaration for liberty of conscienee.
23, 21
Dolben, Archbishop of Yoik, 8, 14, 17
Durham-
City and di>trict, 17. 18, 30, 31
Prerogatives of the See of, 15-17, 20,
21,31
Chapter of, 16, 31
Militia of, 17, IS, 22
Ecclesiastical Commission, the, 21. 22.
24, 25
Eyre, Dr. Samuel, 26
Fancohberg, Thomas, 2nd Viscount, 17.
28
Fell, Bishop of Oxford, C, 12
Fenwick, Sir John, 22. 33
Forster, Dorothy, 34
George I., 34
Grey, Dr. Kiekard, iv., 39
Halifax, Marquess of. see Savile
llearne, Thomas, v., 23, 34, 37, 40, 44-
4(".
Hickman, llenrv, 3
Holland, 11, 2G,"27
Homer, 4
Hood, Dr. Faul, 4, G, 9
James. Duke of York, 9, 10, 12-15, 17-
1'.'; James II.. 20-22, 24-2G, 30, 33,
43. 45
Jeffreys. Chief Justice of King's Bench,
21
Jenkins, Sir Lcoline. 7
Johi^on, Samuel (" Julian "), 22
Ken, Bishop, 32
Lauderdale, John, Dnke of, 15, 18, 19
Leeds, Duke of. see Danby
Luptou, Dr. William, 3S-43
48
INDEX.
Mary, the Virgin, 10
Mary Beatrice, Queen, see Y"ork
Mary, Princess of Orange, 20 ; Queen,
23*, 25, 27, 33
Mazarin, Cardinal, 9
Militia, the, 17, IS, 22
Monk, George, 2
Monmouth, Duke of. 17, 22
Montagu, Ralph, 1st Duke of, 16
Morlev, Bishop of Winton, S
Morlev, Dr. John, 40-42
Morton, Dr. John, 23
Musgravc, Sir Christopher, 30
Newbold, county Leicester, 19
Newcastle, 16
Non-jurors, 26, 32, 39
Oates, Titus, 13, 19
Orange, Prince of, see William
Ordination, farcical examination for, 8
Owen, Dr. John, 5
Oxford. Robert Harley, Earl of, 33
Oxford-
Christ Church, 1, 30, 37
Lincoln College, 3-7, 9, 12, 3."., 37-41,
40
Magdalen College, 24
Queen's College, 34, 37,38
All Saints Church, 9, 37-40
Crown Inn, 30
Picture Gallery, 40, 43
Proctors' Black book, 7
Vesper Supper, 5
Petre, Edward ("Father''), 21, 24. 25
Portsmouth. Duchess of, 20
Preston, Richard, 1st Viscount, 21. 30
•'Pretender,'' the, 25
Rawlinson, Dr. Richard. 40
Robinson , Bishop of London, 12
Running footmen, 15
Sacheverell, Dr. Henry. 30
Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, 17.
19, 21, 22, 25
Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln, 0
Sandwich, Edward, 1st Earl of, 13, 27
Savile, George, afterwards Marquess of
Halifax, 10
Scotland, 17-19
Shaftesbury, Anthony, 1st Earl of, 13, 14
Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 8,
11. 13, 16
Shippen, Dr. Robert, 41-13
Smith, Dr. John. iv.. 38; Dr. Joseph,
31. 30: '; Narrative," IS, f?S
South. Dr. Robert, 20
Steane, countv Northampton, iv., 1, 34,
35,42,43,46
StillinjjhVet, Bishop of Worcester, 29
Surplice, (i
Tanner, Thomas, 43-40
Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury,
20, 23
Tully, Dr. Thomas, 20
Wallis, Dr. John, 44
Watts, Gilbert, 4; William, 41
Weymouth, Thomas, 1st Viscount, 5
Wharton, Thomas, 1st Manjuess, 34
Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, 11
William, Prince of Orange, 25, 20, 45 :
William III., 23. 25-29, 32, 33
Witney. H'
Wood, Anthony, 40, 43-40
York, Duke of, see James
Anne, Duchess of, 9. 11
Maria, Duchess of, 13,
Queen. 25
14, IS ;
THE JOURNAL
OF
MA JOE RICHARD FERRIER, M.P.,
WHILE TRAVELLING IN FRANCE IN THE YEAH 1087.
WITH A BRIEF MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE.
COMPILED BY
RICHARD F. E. TERRIER
AND
JOHN A. II. FERRIER,
TWO OF HIS LINEAL DESCENDANTS.
PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY.
M.DCCC.XCIV.
NOTE ON" THE DATE OF THE JOURNEY.
As Major Ferricr in his Diary gives an account of the statue of
Louis XIV. set up in 1GSG, the journey cannot have been earlier than
1687. As it could not have taken place after war had been declared
between England and France, it cannot have been later than 168S.
Of the two possible 3"ears, 16S7 is shown to be the right one by the
date of Monday, March 28th, given at the commencement.
MEMOIR OF THE LIFE
OF
MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER
MJEYFOH GREAT YARMOUTH IN 1708, 1710, AND 1713.
Major Riciiakd Ferrier, the author of this interesting journal,*
a descendant of a family who had for 200 years supplied mayors
to Norwich and bailiffs to Yarmouth, was the only son and heir
of Richard Ferrier, Esquire, and Judith, one of the daughters and
co-heirs of Major Thomas \\ ilde.1'
The family flourished during the fourteenth and fifteenth cen-
turies in "West Norfolk, occurring lords of the manors of Grcssen-
hall, Weudling, and neighbouring villages. About the middle
of the fifteenth century a younger branch of the family settled in
Norwich, where they soon became prominent, Richard Ferrier
having been elected mayor of that important city no less than five
times in 1473, 1478, 1483, 1493, and 1493. His son Robert was
elected mayor of Norwich in 1520, and took a prominent part in
the quelling of Rett's Rebellion, and his son Richard was also
■ The journal which follows was bequeathed with many other interesting family
documents to one of the writers of this Memoir by Miss Judith Terrier, of Hemsby,
a great-great-granddaughter of the author.
b The Wildes resided at Lowestoft, and were a family of old standing: there.
Early iu life Major Wilde resided iu Yarmouth, where, says Swindon, he was in
1G1S appointed Lieutenant of the Horse raised for the defence of the town when
threatened with an attack by the fleet which joined the Duke of York at the Hague.
Ilis epitaph says he was " slayn by the Dutch in the defence of bis King and
country."
4 MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF
elected mayor of that city in 1596. Robert," his son, was the
first of the family to settle in Yarmouth, and ever since that time
the family have resided there.1' Ho soon began to take a leading
part in the troublous times of his day. In conjunction with
John Carter/ his brother-in-law, lie had been prominent amongst
those who came forward with voluntary loans of plate and money
for the payment of the parliamentary soldiers at the beginning
of the civil war, contributing on that occasion £'20 lis. 8d. in
plate. He was elected bailiff of Yarmouth in 1613.
Robert, his eldest son, was for many years an alderman of
Yarmouth. He married Elizabeth, the second daughter of Sir
George England, and left one son Benjamin, who married Eliza-
beth, the heiress of Nathaniel D'Eye of Eye, Esquire, and left one
son Robert, an attorney-at law, who, on August 21st, 1739, was
appointed town clerk of Yarmouth, and being chosen mayor in
17o0 was allowed to carry out the duties of town clerk by deputy ;
but on the 3rd February, 1753, when probably the political power
11 '• In 1630 there was an appeal to the Privy Council as to the right of Mary, the
•wife of Holiert Ferrier, to sit in a pew in Sr. Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth,
appropriated to the wives of aldermen. Such were the tritles about which the Lords
of the Privy Council were at t lie time troubled." (Palmer's Pcrlustratioa of Gri\ at
Yarmovth.y
Robert Ferrier by his will, made in 1G48, bequeathed <; To upholding and main-
taining the Artillery Company in Yarmouth, £10."
b The following will of Richard Terrier of Thame, near Great Yarmouth, and
dated in 14, is very carious : —
" 1 will that my dead body be handsomely trussed up in a black bullock's hide
and he decently burred in the churchyard of Thnrne at the chancers end there. . .
lu witness, &c ," " and thus I take my leave of this world Deo Gloria, Ainicis Gratia,
mild misericordia, Amen. 11. Ferrier."
c John Carter married Alice, one of the daughters of Richard Ferrier ; their son
Nathaniel married at Stoke Xcwington, iu L(i7S, Mary, daughter of General Ire ton,
and granddaughter of the Lord Protector.
John Carter was appointed bailiff in 1642, and two years afterwards the Earl of
Manchester, the Parliamentary General, appointed him commander-in-chief of the
militia of Yarmouth with authority '• to execute martial law upon all offenders and
delinquents."
MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER. 5
of his party had waned, the corporation resolved on a ballot of
29 to 20 that, unless Air. Ferrier resign his office of alderman,
he no longer remain towii clerk, and he, refusing to give up that
office, was dismissed.
Shortly after his appointment to the town clerkship Avar was
declared against Spain, and Ives,8 in his diary, informs us that on
the 31st October, 1739, Mr. Mayor and a body of gentlemen met
at the town hall and thence proceeded to the cross, where the town
clerk (Mv. Robert Ferrier), read the declaration for war against
Spain with the naked sword, thence to the bridge foot and read the
declaration, and thence drank success to his Majesty's forces by
sea and land.
He possessed considerable landed cstntes in Norfolk and Suffolk,
and died in 17G8, and was buried in Starston Church, Suffolk,
where there is a mural monument to his memory. He left one
son, Robert England Ferrier, of Cuius College, Cambridge, who
died s. p., and two daughters, Catherine and Elizabeth. Cathe-
rine married William Blake, Esquire, of Swanton Abbotts. Norfolk,
who assumed by Royal license in 1837 the arms and surname
of Jex, and Elizabeth married Robert Purvis, Esquire, of Beccles,
Suffolk, and left several children, two of whom entered the Royal
Navy. '
Richard, the second son of Robert the Bailiff, in 1013, also
interested himself greatly in the politics of his day, having been
for many years an alderman of Yarmouth. He was elected to fill
the office of Bailiff in 1691, and then had the honour of receiving
at his house, Dr. Moorc,b Bishop of Norwich, on his primary
visitation.
He married, as has been stated, Judith, one of the daughters
* John Ives, Suffolk Herald Extraordinary, author of the remarks upon the
Garianonnm of the Romans.
b The Bishop had previously been waited upon by a deputation of the Corporation,
who presented his lordship v iili half a tun of wine and desired him to take a bed at
Mr. Bailiff's. ^Palmer's JPtrlmtrat ion of Gnat Yarmoutli.')
6 MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF
and co-heirs of Major Thomas Wilde, and left one son, Major
Richard Ferrier, the author, of the following journal.
Major Richard Ferrier headed what was then known as the
Jacobite or High Church Party in Yarmouth, and took a great
interest in the affairs of his native town. At the age of 19 he was
chosen a common councilman, and shortly after this at the age of
23 he was elected to fill the aldermanic chair, vacant by the death
of his uncle John Ferrier, who had played so conspicuous a part
in the affairs of the town, having been for many years an alderman
of Yarmouth and Bailiff in 1680, when he had the honour of enter-
taining the Puke of York, afterwards James II. upon his visiting
Yarmouth on the 10th March, 1681, in one of the Royal yachts.
At the very early age of 21 Major Ferrier was for the first
time elected to till the office of Bailiff, when great exertions
were made to equip a powerful fleet to counteract the designs
of France, which threatened an invasion, and Mr. Ferrier, writing
to his "dear partner," Mr. Godfrey, his co-bailiff, then in town,
savs : — "The Admiralty have directed the convoy to stay till
further orders ; 1 suppose on the news of y'- French taking so
many ships bound to Ostend. Last post came orders to Captain
Stephens, Commander of ye ' iioebuek,' a pretty frigate of 32
mms, to attend our directions as Captain Lvall did. T'would
do well, did you as one of the Bailiffs wait on yc board and
thank them on behalf of ye Corporation, and pray the continuance
of their ldsps further favour, perhaps such an address may do us
more favour than you are aware of, for great men will be courted,
and 'twere pity, for want of a little smoolh language to lose what
is of so much importance to or trade. You had not better carry
Mr. Fuller (then member for the town) with you. His deport-
ment is not very pleasing to yc board ; and 'tis thought here he
has done us great dis-servicc by his carriage to those com-
missioners (but this inter nos)."*
In 1695 he married Ellen, one of the daughters and co-heirs of
a Palmer's continuation of Manshifts History of Great Yarmouth.
MAJOR RICHARD TERRIER. (
Robert Longe," of Rcymerstonc and Spixworth, by Ellen bis fourth
wife, one of the daughters and co-heirs of Thomas Gurney, Esquire, b
of West Barsham, "and on his return to the Town for the first
time after his marriage, the inhabitants made great preparations
with marks of the utmost honour and respect. A great many flags
and banners were set out along the quay from the bridge to the
south fate. The ships in the river had all their colours set the
whole day and their guns charged to salute him, a great many of
the inhabitants going out to meet him. Between seven and eight
in the evening they entered the town, the cavalcade consisting of
about 300 horse, which marched in good order along the quay
from the bridge to Major Ferrier's house. After the horse followed
a considerable number of chaises and chariots, and his own closed
the procession, which was very fine and gave great satisfaction to
several thousands of spectators who were assembled to behold it,
and the ringing of bells, firing of guns, and the loud acclamations
of the people, sufficiently demonstrated what great and just esteem
and respect they had for so generous and worthy a gentleman." c
In 170G he was for the second time elected mayor. In 1708 he
was returned to Parliament for the borough of Great Yarmouth
with Colonel the Honourable Roger Townshend, and at the general
election in 1710 " Captain Ferrier," as he was then called, was
•Robert Longe of Reymerstoue married four times, and by Elizabeth Lis wife,
daughter of Sir Francis Bacon, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was the father of
Francis Longe, who, through the influence of Major Kuban! IVrrier, who had
married his half sister, was appointed Recorder of Yarmouth in 1712. The latter
gentleman married Susannah, daughter and heir of Tobias Frere of Redenhall, ard
died in 1724. The Longes have for several centuries maintained a good position in
the county of Norfolk. They are at present represented by Robert Bacon Longe,
Esquire.
b The old knightly house of Do Goumey in the main line thus became extinct,
this lady representing them in right of her mother. According to Mr. Gurney in
the Record of tin House of Gournay the Gurncys of Noiwich and Kcsw uk descend
from Francis Gournay, sixth son of Henry Gournay, of "West Barsham, by Ellen
Blennerhassett, his wife, and John, his grandson, born in 16C5, is stated to have
settled in Norwich, and became the founder of the present family.
e Palmer's Prrht strut ion of Great Yarmouth.
O MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF
returned at the head of the poll, having Benjamin England3 for
his colleague, the numbers on the poll1' being —
Ferrier 278
England 2G9
Townshcnde 231
Ellysd 173
On this occasion a sum of £1.3 was voted to Mr. Ferrier to buy
wine " as a token of respect for his services."
Mr. Palmer tells that Ferrier and England were of the " honest
Church Party," which meant they were supporters of Dr. Sache-
verell, then at the height of his ephemeral popularity, and thev were
returned, said their friends, " notwithstanding the undermining
tricks usual to the Whigs." The names Ferrier and England were
inserted in the " true and exact" list of those "'worthy patriots" who
had remedied the evils of the then late ministry and to their "eternal
honour " had supported and retrieved the credit of the nation and
* lie was the tbird son of Sir George England, who was knighted ou the occasion
of Charles the Second's vi-ic t<> Great Yarmouth in 1671. Major Ferrier was a
connection of the England* through the marriage of his uncle Robert with Elizabeth,
the second clang-brer of Sir George England. The Englands played a conspicuous
part in local politics during the latter part of the seventeenth ami the .beginning of
the eighteenth centuries. Mr. George Kugland, eldest son of Sir George, represented
Yarmouth in the six Parliaments 1C79. 168G, 1681, 1690, 109$. 1700, and also in the
Convention of 1CSS. He was also Recorder of Yarmouth, and his nephew, Major
Ferrier, writing to his " dear partner" in London, on the 10th of February, lii'Jtf,
says, "T7e yesterday ended ye Sessions. I begin to abate of my hopes of Mr.
Recorder's recovery — he seems to decay now sensibly. I pray God restore him to
us, for we shant be presently aware of y* greatness of our loss should it please God
to take him from ns."
b Dec. 10th, 1710. — The Chamberlyos were ordered to pay the charges of the
booths of the several candidates of the late election of burgesses.
e Second son of the first Viscouut Townshend.
riLc Neve, amongst his pedigrees of knights, tempore Car. II., gives a pedigree of
Anthony F.Ilys, of Great Yarmouth. His grandson, Anthony Ellys, married Judith,
sister of Major Ferrier. Chalmer's Biograj.hie.nl Dictionary contains an interesting
life of their sou Anthony, who afterwards became Bishop of St. David's.
MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER. 9
preserved the Church from being overthrown by fanatics — Mr.
Terrier's name appearing in eveiy division in favour of the
Doctor.
He was returned a third time in 1713, and as a reward for his
political services was in tin's year made a coasting waiter in the
port of London, a sinecure place," which was confirmed to him on
the accession of George I. " with all the profits, perquisites,
'advantages, and emoluments'* to the same belonging, and was the
same year appointed a Major b of* the Battalion of Fusileers of
Militia of Great Yarmouth. Ever anxious for the welfare of his
town he was mainly instrumental in the building of the Town
Hallc (then called the New Hall) in 1715, also in the Guildhall
and Charity School and in obtaining an act for making a cause-
way between Yarmouth and Caister.
He took a great interest in church matters, for many years
acting as one of the churchwardens at the old parish church,d an
appointment his ancestors had hold on several occasions. He also
interested himself in obtaining what was then a long-felt desire,
* This patent, beautifully engrossed on -vellum, with the king's portrait engraved
and also the major's commissions, are now in the possession of the family.
b The commission as " Major of the Battalion of Fusileers of Militia of Great
Yarmouth in 1713 was granted by James, Duke, Marquis and Karl of Ormonde.
Earl of Ossory and Brecknock, Viscount Thinks, Baron of Arklow. Dingwell,
Langtheny and Moon: Park, Lord of the Regalities and Liberties of the County
Palatine of Tipperary, one of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council,
Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant General and
General Governor of Ireland, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset, Lord
Lieutenant and Gusto- l'otuloriun of the County of Norfolk, Chancellor of the
Universities of Oxford and Dublin, High Steward of the Cities of Westminster,
Bristol, and Exeter, Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, Captain Genera]
and Commander-in-chief of all her Majesty's forces, etc.*'
c This building was in ltWJO demolished and the preseut town hall erected in its
place.
d-Manshi]> in his History ef Yarmouth, referring to St. Nicholas Church,
says " a gallery was als > constructed across the arch, leading into the chancel- from
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10 MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF
namely, a church, or chapel-at-ease, in the south part of the town
of Great Yarmouth, and it was by his exertions that an act was
obtained, lie being then one of the town's representatives in
Parliament."
The chapel was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich in 1715,
and the sermon preached at the consecration by the liev. Barry
Love1' was printed and dedicated to the " Mayor, Aldermen, and
Councillors and to Major Richard Ferricr." c
In 1720 he was for the third time elected mayor. He resided
in a fine old Jacobean house situate at the south end of the Quay
erected in the 17th century by Roger Drury, where he gathered
around him a large circle of literary and other acquaintances.
Dean Davies during his stay in Yarmouth having been a constant
visitor at his house. d
the south trancept ; when this gallery was removed in 1846 it was found to rest
upon four columns bearing these inscriptions —
Anno doin. S. Mortimer.
loOO. R. Ferrier.
R. Woolhcrase. C. W.
J. Harris. T. II. B. T.
* A facsimile in silver gilt of the corporation mace in miniature was presented to
him as a souvenir of hi> services in connection with this movement.
b Mr. Love was minister of Yarmouth from 1 GDI to 1722. The Rev. William
Lyng, father of the Rev. Benjamin Lyng, who married Anne, one of Major
Ferrier's daughters, succeeded him as lecturer of Yarmouth in 1*»7^.
c In 1720 Lis nephew, Anthony Ellys, afterwards Bishop of St. David's, was
appointed minister.
d The Bean in his Diary makes frequent mention of Richard Ferrier, the bailiff
in 1691, and his son, Major Richard Ferrier.
On July 18th, 1080, he says : " I spent this evening with Dr. Ilutson in company
with Captain Ferrier and Mr. Fuller."
On Oct. 20th, 1089 : ** I went and waited npon Br. Godfrey, Mr. Ferrier, Captain
Ferrier, Mr. England, Captain Fuller, and Mr. Bransby, and then came home and
supped with Lieutenant Ellys and his lady, who presented me with a broad piece of
gold."
Feb. ICth, 1691 : "I preached my farewell sermon, after which I waited upon
Mr. England and the Bailiff, then on Mr. Ferrier, who gave me a broad piece."
Bee. 22nd, 1001 : '*I dined this day at Alderman I'errier's."
MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER. 11
He also enjoyed a considerable estate at Hemsby, Norfolk,
where lie had a house in which the family partially resided for
generations. His town house, as •well as that of his son, is depicted
on Corbridge's map." He died in 1728, aged 57, when he was,
says Ives, interred in St. Nicholas Church with great pomp and
splendour, and very much lamented by all who knew him, and
there is a highly laudatory epitaph to his memory there, as
follows : —
" Eichdi Ferrier Armigeri
Hujus Burgi et decoris ft desiderii
Exundantem Ingenii Font em, morum Snavitatem,
Et qua: gencrosam ornant ct cohoncstant
Dicant Familiarics ;
Eximiam rei politicae pcritiam,
Regni Comitia ;
Labores indefessos, et pne cieteris Delicias,
Solum Xatalc.
Qua; snscepit mania (et varia certe)
Grariter explevit, aifabrc expolivit
Vixit fatis parrhe
At qnantula est aura popularis
Quantula gloria fluxa et fragilis
Vixit ct sibi et suis
Obiit die quarto Calend XblU
A f (Etat 57mo
Anno -i.
L Domini 1720VO"
But there were those who decried him and by them a free
translation was circulated, of which the following are some of the
verses : —
"Beneath this stone lies Richard Ferrier, Esquire,
Of this Boro' the ornament and the desire,
Who in sweetness of manner and generous o'erflowing
Was in all that belongs to a gentleman. Knowing.
His acquaintance this vouch — for his politic skill,
"We refer to his votes on the French Commerce Bill.
The posts he enjoyed tho' quite varied in kind,
Could not he more varied than was his own mind.
» This map, published in 17:?.j, is a south-west prospect of Yarmouth, containing
views of the public buildings and principal houses then existing.
12 MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF
The mayor— the member — the placeman being proof,
Till his country cried out he had lived long enough.
How transient is popular, honour, and glory
May be learned from the sum of this famous man's story." *■
He left one son, Richard, upon whom the following satirical
poem "was written : —
" Here lies the body of Richard IT..
Whose genius and manner of life being reckoned.
We all must admit was Daddy's own son,
As witness my hand, Tom Missenden." ''
This gentleman had, like his father, served his town politically
and was elected mayor in 172-1, and it was during his mayoralty
that Dr. Camil, 1 vector of Brad well, Suffolk, preached his famous
sermon reflecting upon the conduct of certain gentlemen holding-
positions of power in the town. This sermon much offended the
mayor, who called the council together, and then sent for the
clergymen and severely reprimanded them for allowing Dr. Camil
to preach such a sermon in the parish church, and ordered them
to forbid him to enter the pulpit again. Thereupon the doctor
published his sermon, to prove that it only contained some expres-
sions against the crying vices of the age.c
Besides the above-mentioned Richard, Major Ferrier left the
following daughters •. — Ellen, who married Dr. Gallant,*1 an eminent
physician: Judith, who married Joshua Smith,6 Esquire, of
Thrigby Hall, Norfolk ; Anne, who married the Rev. Benjamin
Lyng, rector of St. Lawrence, South Walsham ; Elizabeth, who
* These verses are. given in Palmer's "Per lust ration of Great Yarmouth."
b " Tom Missenden was lecturer here, and doubtless an unwarrantable use was
made of his name." (l'almer's Perlustrativn of Yarmouth?)
c The late Charles John Palmer, F.S.A., says, " Just fancy the mayor offended
with the sermon, calling the Council together and reprimanding the clergy for too
much freedom of speech in the pulpit."
a This family of Gallant is extinct.
e This family of Smith is also extinct, their estates and property passed to their
descend act, Mi*s Lydia Buret, and thence to the Terriers.
MAJOR RICHARD FERR1ER.
13
died unmarried, and Mary, who married Thomas Milles, Esquire,
of Billockly Hall, whose only child Mary married James Iliddell,
Esquire, of Caistcr, created a baronet in 1778 by the title of
Sir George Iliddell, of Ardnamurchan, and left two sons, Sir
Thomas Milles Iliddell and George James Iiiddell.
George James Iliddell died in a duel in 1783, aged 24. Sir
Walter Scott, in his last edition of the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish
Border/' in reference to the duel, says : "A circumstance more
painful to the feelings of a father and a man of high sense of
honour cannot be imagined than that which befel Sir James
Iliddell, Bart By some accident (the particulars of which I have
forgotten) he became possessed of a letter which he knew con-
tained a challenge for his son. If he concealed the letter, his
son would incur the disgrace of having avoided a duel without
sufficient cause ; and if he suffered the letter to reach his son
and lie should fall, his father might be considered accessory to
his death."
tl He determined to allow the matter to take its course. The
son accepted the challenge — went out and received a wound of
which he died on the following day (the 22nd April, 1783)/'
There is an engraved portrait of this unfortunate young man,
Mho was a lieutenant in the second troop of Horse Grenadier
Guards, under which is an inscription stating that " His conduct
as an officer and a gentleman was agreeable to the sentiments of
his corps, and it met with the approbation of his king, who
expressed the greatest concern and regret at his unfortunate
fate." a
"Richard II." married Elizabeth, one of the daughters of
John Smith, Esquire, of Yarmouth, and died in 1739, aged -14,
leaving two sous, Richard and Robert, and one daughter Judith,
who married Captain James Smith, R.N.
Captain James Smith afterwards married Lady Ward, who,
Bays Palmer, in his PerJustration of Yarmouth, lived in the
• The diary of the lute Charles John Palmer.
14 MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER.
household of a Yarmouth butcher. One day the butcher invited
some friends to dinner, and Mary Fair, for that was her name,
made ready the table. Ilc-r mistress wanting her found her
seated at the head of the table dispensing imaginary good things
to her supposed guests seated round it, all of whom she addressed
by titles of honour. She, however, could not abandon the idea
that she should one day really preside at such a table, nor was
she disappointed, for in 178S John, third Viscotmt Dudley and
"Ward, fell in love with and married her.
Richard, the eldest son of " Richard II.," held a commission
in the army, and died s.p., while his brother Robert was a captain
in the Royal Navy. Robert, on the death of his brother Richard,
retired from the navy and went to reside on the family estate at
Ilemsby, but, unlike his ancestors, took no active part in politics.
His rrrandson, the late Mr. Richard Ferrier, for many years one
of the leaders of the Yarmouth lory party, died in 1S68, leaving
one son and two grandsons, the compilers of this memoir .resident
in Yarmouth. &
Great Yarmouth,
September, 1S03.
* The arms borne by the family aie, Argent, on a bend sable three borseshoes of
the first ; crest, a na^VfewiJ erased argent.
JOUENAL
OF
MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER.
March yc 28th being Monday we left Yarmouth and in ye stage
'coach rode to London in which City we arrived two dayes after
where having stayed about a week and furnished ourselves with all
things necessary for our ensuing voyage we did on ye eighth
A prill following lake boat for Gravesend just stopping at Eriffa
small village by ye Thames side, from whence we proceeded up to
Town. We rested nut long there but forthwith hired horses to
Suttenborn (where we lodged y* night) passing through a great
many little country towns before we came to Rochester, which
lying in our way ought to be mentioned, and also Chattum in which
river we saw seyerall of His Majesties Men-of-AYar (ships of great
bigness) at anchor. \\ e also passed by a great many pleascnt
plantations of cherry trees which in yl part of England are very
frequent. From thence we did ye day following ride to Canter-
bury (not meeting anything in any way worth our observation),
where we lodged at ye King's Head and were treated very civilly ;
ye first thing we took notice of in ye city was ye Cathedral], yl
report of which we had heard before our approaching it ; it is a
very fine building beautified on y° outside with severall small
turretts, 2 large steeples and a spire, one whereof (it being y*
which we ascended) is accounted by all to be as high if not
exceeding y1' Monument of London in height ; at your entrance,
within with eighteen stately pillars which support ye body of it.
Passing further we descended some steps into y* French Church,
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which being under the Quire is upheld with a great many small
arches, it is somewhat dark, but very large, and contains a vast
number of people, they being there reputed to be near half ye
town. Coming from thence at yc west end of ye church we saw
several! tombs one whereof we took particular notice of, which was
of Dean Forthesby being covered with black alabaster, and on the
sides cut all yc bones of man's body. There is another of Nicholas
AVotton, yc first Archbishop of ye Diocess,* over against them is
that of Henry the Fourth and his Queen, and hard by them lies
Edward the Black Prince curiously cut out in brass, with his
sword by him, at; his feet at leopard, and over his head his coat of
mail and head peicc. Something lower is the monument of
Cardinal Pool and abundance more of less note. There arc two
windows shewing all ye places and stories in scripture most finely
painted, not far from whence is yc place where St. Thomas' shrine
stood, nothing in y'' least remaining to be seen but yc stones
wheron they kneeled, which are very much worn. There is in ye
Cathedrall 2 Quires, one whereof is not now used, the roof
of which is of Irish Oak that no vermine may breed in
it ; the other is no ways curious but adorned like others of vc same
nature. The City of Canterbury is old and not very lar^e though
yc circumference of y° walls runns out a great way, there are six
gates, and on yc south side of y* town a decayed castle stands
opposite to a high mount which is there cast up. There is but one
good street running East and \\ est with other small lanes and
allyes crossing it. There are 17 Parishes all of which are small &
to one or two of ym not above 12 persons resort. Ir is situated
very pleasently at ye bottom of a valley & and has delicate gardens
& greens to walk on which are delightfull. Aprill ve eleventh in
ye morning we came forward for Dover riding for yc most part
over hills and vales, yc way being also very stony ; after having
taken up our lodgins we visited yc Castle, which east of ye town is
1 Wotton was the first dean.
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seated on ye Clifts, from whence we could easily perceive those of
Callicc. It is strong having much cannon and being guarded with
O O O CD
a exceeding thick wall on all sides onely yf which ye sea defends
up which ye hills being so steep is no ascent. Ye square Castle is
full of decayed old roomes, which we passed through but were afraid
lest by ye giving way of yp rotten planchers we should have (alien
to ye bottom; there is a small chamber where at y° King's being in
those parts he used to lay, it is cut out of yc main wall & is fourteen
foot & a half in thickness ; yc leads wherewith y° Castle is covered are
very thick Sc on one side near ye walls we saw ye King's foot cut
out. In ye Court there is an old Church which w" a garrison kept
there was frequented but is since run to ruin, there are ye remains
of a great many fine tombs wrh now can just be seen to have been
such. The Cannon y* Queen Elizabeth gave to be placed there is
twenty-four foot long & is ever since in remembrance of her called
Iter pocket pistol. The Town is small standing just by yc sea, they
have a very good harbour which dos flow 15 foot at }-e nape tides.
There is very strange fish taken on yL' beach, yR body like an ele, a
long beak & a broad tail, & on ye stones yrt lyes there there
dos grow a very pleasant flower called Coles which they eat with
their boil'd meat, yL top whereof tasts like speragrass &, yc bottom
like collyfiower. Aprill yc 13,h we came from Dover at 8 of ye
clock in yfc morning in yc packet boat towards Calais, which having
a fair wind we ran in five hours & an half, but could not by reason
of yc lowness of ye water cither goe into harbour with our ship or
goe ashore at seaside with ye boat. \Ve got as near ye shore as we
could, which was about a bow shott from whence we were bv men
who wctt themselves on purpose carryed & sett on land. We
walked into town & took up our lodginsaf ye Golden Lyon, a house
standing close to ye market. \Ve stayed there two days & yu hired
horses for Dunkirk, the way thither lying by yc seaside. We
passed through a great many villages before we came to Graveling,
which being a place of good importance ought not to be passed
through without some observation. It is garded with a double
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mote & double wall, very strong gates, k draw bridges, we
going over them -were taking by ye soldiers k cfirryed before yL'
.Mayor, who giving us leave to pass we were no more stopped till
we came to Dunkirk, where riding over six bridges we were
hindered from proceeding any further till we had told our names
& of what country we were, which having done we came into
Town. It is surrounded with a treble wall & six motes onelv on
yc side towards ye harbour which to admiration d<>s flow twenty-
five foot, ye peers running into sea near half a mile ; at ye end of
ym stands a very strong castle called yc Ricebanck, which is well
fortified & wherein is continually a good garrison of soldiers.
Afterwards demanding leave of yc Governor we went into yc
cittadle, which in circumference is bigger yu ye town itself & is
very much stronger it being defended with a high wall &
rampierd, & just within that a broad mote which is filled or
emptied by yu sea according to pleasure, & next such strange
fortifications y* as one would think they were impossible to be
taken so they are impossible to be described. From thence
Ave walked to see yc dock ye King of France is making
to lay his men of war in. It is cut out of a very hi^h hill
on ye west side of the River. There are continually a great
number of soldiers at work in it they having for their labour 3d. a
day, their ordinary pay being so small y* without some addition to
it they could never subsist. Dunkirk itself is handsome ye streets
being large & yc houses high ; but ye noblest part of y" town is
yc place whereon they exercise yc soldiers, which is a square that
can contain above 1,000 men placed in order. "We staved there
but just so long as to take a view of its fortifications & other
curiosities, which was one night, & so returned back to Calais.
We there took up our old lodgins, it being not far from ye
Messenger's & a eivill house. The town is very full of inhabitants
though they be for ye most part very poor; it is surrounded with
a double wall & rampiers & very strong gates which are always
garded with musqucters.
JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER. 19
Aprill ye 28t!l Ave took horse for Paris, being fourteen in com-
pany, not meeting any tiling considerable (onely a small Castle
standing about half a league from ye town which seemed rather a
pallace yn a fortified place) till our comming to Bulloign, which is
a small walled town seated on a hill, below which is ye Basyillc,
which is neither defended by walls nor strengthened with ammuni-
tion, where we lodged that night & yc next day, by five of ye clock
went forward & dined at Montroil," a place situated like ye former.
There runs through each of ym a harbour with a strong stream,
and in ye last is a fine small church adorned with all things y* can
make it pleasent or delight full to ye sight. We brought night
with us, from thence to Barny,1' a small village where we stayed
that night, and ye morning following rode to Abbeville (which
is accounted ye half of ye way between Paris & Calais), ft is
a town seated like all great ones in France in a valley, there are
in it several! fine churches wch being beautified with spires dos
at your approaching it when on y° hills give a very pleasent
prospect. We were there at yc time of ye fair & so saw what
there chief merchandise consisted of — namely, flax, hemp, sheep,
horses, mules, & such like, & pistols also which are there made
& sold in great quantities, it being a place for that sort of work
ye most remarquable in France. We laved y* night at Poix, a
small village, & ye next day dined at Beauvois, where is nothing
considerable but ye Cathedrall which is nowise beneath y* in
Canterbury but in ye smallness of it, it being set forth with
monuments, stately pillars of brass & marble, fine paintings
& carved work. From thence we rode & rested at Tilliard, &
betimes ye morning following went to Beaumont, a cleanly town
situated by a River's side, with severall small churches & old
buildings. We that evening got to Paris, ye way being paved
with stones & ye rain yl then fell hindring us from riding fast.
We could not see ye city till we were in y* subburbs it standing
at yc back of severall very high hills. We lodged in La Piue
• Montrenil. b Benmy.
20 JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER.
Truanderie from whence we went to take a view of its curiosities.
Ye first thin<r we took notice of waa ye kind's statue which is
called La Yictoire seated all most by yfi Louvre in a large square
built round with houses of stone of a great height ; it stands on
a pedestall sixteen or eighteen foot high, of marble. Ye image
is gyant like wearing ye cloathes he had on at his Coronation ; his
posture is upright with a reed in his hand treading on a lyon
& an angel behind him in token of Immortality crowning him
with laurels. There are at ye corners of ye Pedestall 4 skives
signifying yc 4 seasons of yc year sitting on old armour being
chained to it with gold chaincs ; it is round about full of his titles.
Just under his feet is written : Yiro immortali a Augustus, toto
jam nullis hostibus orbe Paccm agit ; armato Lodoix pacem
imperat orbi.
Something lower is written :
Ludovieo magno patri cxereituum [etj duetori semper felici.
Domitis hostibus, protectis sociis, adject is imperio fortissimis
populis, extructis ad tutelam finium firmissimis arcibus, oceano
& mediterraneo inter se junctis, predari vetitis toto mari piratis,
emendatis legibus, dclata Calviniana impietate, compulsis ad revc-
rentiam nomin[is], gentibus [r]emotissimis cunctisque summa
providentia & virtute domi iorisque eompositis. Franciscus vice-
comes D'Aubusson dux de la fuillade ex Francice paribus & Tribunis
equituin, unus, in Allebrogibus, prorex <!t prretoraniorum peditum
prefeetus ad memoriam posteritatus sempitcrnam. P.D.C.
Sa ferniite en ses douleurs rasseura ses peuples desolcs au mois
de Kovcmbre 1G8G.
II avoit sur Pied 240,000 homines d'lnfanterie, et C.0,000
chevaux sans les troupes de ses amies navales lorsquil donna la
paix a l'Europo en Tan 1678.
* The inscriptions are given, with an engraving of the monument itself, in
" Description da Monument erige a la gloire du Boy," par M. le Mareschal Due
de la Feuillade, a Paris, par Sebastieu Mabre-Crainois, Imi>rimeurs dn !\<>y et
Directeur de Imprimeric Koyale, MDOLXXXYI. Corrections on the text made
from this book are placed in square brackets.
JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD TERRIER. 21
This is written on ye front. On ye right side is —
Seqnanicam [Cesar gemmo]* vix vineere gente Mense valet
Lodoix ter quinta luce subegit.1' Hie laaclnm cumulus Ludovico*
vindice vietrix Kcligio et Pulsus male partis sedibus error. d II a
basti plus dc cent eglises quils ont de Revenues considerables, ct il
a ctnbli l'entretien de quatre cens jcuncs damoiselles dans la
magnifique maison de S* Cyr.
Deux cent & dix places, fortes, cittadelles. portcs & liavres
fortifiez & revestus depnis 1681 jusqua 1G84, J 40,000 homines de
pied 30,000 chevaux payez par mois asseurent ses front teres.
Behind him is; — •
Indocilis quondam [potiori eederc] e Gallos Ponit Iber tumidos
fastus et cedere discitf A Louis lc Grand le pere & conducteur
des Armees, avoir vaineu ses eunemis, protege ses Allies, adjoustes
do trcs puissants ? peuples a son empire, asseure les frontieres par les
places impreghables, joint 1 'ocean a la mediterranec, chasse les
pirates de toutes les mors, rcformc les loix, detrui 1'lieresie, porte
par la bruit de son horn les nations les plus eloignees a le h venir
reverer des extremites de la terre & regie parfaictement toutes
choses audedans ct an dehors par la Grandeur de son courage & de
son genie.
Le nombre de G0,0(:0 matelots enroles dont 20,000 sont
employe/, a son service, & les 40,000 autrcs au commerce de ses
sujets marquez la Grandeur & bon ordre de sa marine. 11 a basti
un superbe & vaste edifice pour les orficiers & soldats que l'age Sc
les blessures rendent incapables de servir k il a attache 500,0001.
de rente.
* C;usar peniino. — MS.
b Referring to '; La derniere oourjueto dc la Franche Comtc, 1C74."
* Lndovicc. - MS.
* Referring to " L'bx-resic dctruite, lGSo."
e "Potere inderc." — MS.
f Referring t<> " La prestmce de la Fiance Reconnne par 1'Espngne, 1CG2.'
k Puissante. — MS.
h La.— MS.
22 JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD TERRIER.
On his left hand is,
Granicuni Macedo, Rhenum secat agmine Gallus. Quisquis
facta voles conferre & flumina conferre" Impia, quae licuit licgum b
componerc nulli Prcolia, voee tua, Lodoix, composta quicscunt,c
Apres avoir fait dutiles reglements pour le conimerce & reforme*
lcs abus dc la justice il donna un grand exemple d'equite en
jugeant centre ses propres interests en faveur des habitants de
Paris dans un affaire de plusieurs milliers.
Six mille jeunes Gentilshommes separez par compagnies gardent
ses cittadelles, il on rempli les officiers de ses troupes et leur
education & est digne de leur naissancc.
The whole is mighty stately & magnificent, it was made by Mr.
do Feuilladc a gentleman of ye city. There was a young noble-
man in ye King's presence not long since who speaking to ye
Duke de Feuillard among other discours brought out this verse —
Fcnillard par bleu sc croy que tu nous heme,
l'our metfcrc le SoleU entre quatrc lanternea.
Its said ye King smiled to hear him ; ye English of it is,
Feuillard by bleu I belieue you laugh at us, to put ve sun
between four lanterns. There being at 4 corners of ve square
4 lanterns which are to give light in ve night time to
yc guard which is continually there kept. We walked after
haying taken a full view of yc statue to ye Goblins, ye place
where are all sorts of artificers at work for ye King, there is
doubtless yc finest tapestry y4 eyes can look on, it being made of
silver silk & gold, & so naturally done y* no painting whatsoever
can represent both men women & all sorts of creatures more
lively yn they are there exprest. There is a gallery y* is going to
Versailles which is made of a certain stone every inch whereof is
worth a great deal more yu gold, it is of a white & grayish
colour. There is also a man that is making a table of stone, he
* Referring to " Le Passaic da Khin. 1G72."
b Kcgum lieuit in MS.
c Referring to " Les Duels Abulia."
JOURNAL OF MAJOB RICHARD FERBIEB. 23
has been about it these 3 years & has not yet finished it, it is full
of birds and beasts (onely at ye corners where are to be yc King's
arraes). It is not painted, but stone inlaid so artificially y* in
ones judgment there is nothing wanting to set it forth. We being
so near would not neglect seeing ye observatoir where lives ye
chief Astrologer of yc city ; it is a square house built of stone of
an indifferent height standing on a hill. He has made severall
engines wch we saw but could understand none ofyra; there is a
burning glass of so strange a force y* it would melt a copper
farthing in a moment & burnes all things y* comes near it if set
in yc sun. And also in ye side of y° hill he has built a small room ;
it is square, & if you put your mouth into any of yc corners &
another pat his into any of y° others & whispers never so easily
you shall understand him very plain, when standing at his back
you shall not hear \c least noise.
As for fine' buildings in yc city, they are innumerable : ye
chief we took notice were ye pallaco otherwise ve Foeuvre.
ye pallaec of Luxenbourg, ye pallace of Monsieur ye Kings
Brother,11 & ye Jnvalieles. The Lceuvre is a very stately
building of stone & so large y* it makes a small town of
itself, though ye back part of it be not finished neither doe anv
supj)ose it will by this King's days, he taking no delight in ye
City. On the west side is ye garden of ye Tuilleres, which is
accounted one of ye finest in Europe, there being so many fair
gravel walks & fountains, so fine a grove and a theater on which
heretofore they used to act, y* yc like arc rarely seen. The
walks arc so made y* at ye end ofym, which is near a mile,
you see either a tower or a large1 portal of y* part of yc
l'ceuvre yl fronts hit*) the Garden, which is very noble. Next ye
Lauivrc comes ye Pallace of Luxembourg, which dos also front
into a garden larger y" that of ye Tuilleres, though it comes near
it in nothing but yc walkes, which are both long and beautiful 1 ; vc
house is very large & is built exactly uniform, which adorns it
* The Duke of Oilcans.
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very much. After y* ye pallace of Monsieur yc King's Brother3 is
a very fine building, though neither y* nor yc Garden y1 belongs to
it he near either of yc former in bigness, there are continually a
great number of people walking in those walks every night because
when it once begins to be dark they are not so easily permitted
into ye former. The Invalides is an edifice worth yc noting, ye
King has lately built it for those soldiers of his y* either age or
wounds has made uncapable of serving hiin. It is a building of all
yc Hospitals in France, I daresay even in Europe, y° most noble, it
seeming to be rather ye pallace of a great Prince v11 what it really
is. There is in it at present 2,000 soldiers, every one of whom has
his bed by himself, and is served every flesh-day with a quarter of
pound of meat both noon & night, every fish day with four eggs
at each meal, a pint of wine, & for bread they have a pound for
two days. They are kept in very good order, being governed by
officers y* are in yc same condition with themselves. They keep a
good guard there, being continually six hundred in amies. These
are ye chiefest rarities we made remarque of in yc city : nothino-
now remains but a slight description of ye whole city & those
curiosities which are to be seen without. The City of Paris is of a
great liigness, though, in all our opinions, when we viewed it from
one of their steeples it came not near London bv a third. It. is
roundish & in ye largest place is not a league from one side to
another. It is adorned with abundance of fine pallaces there being
scarce a nobleman but has his house in ye City. There is several 1
indifferent good streets which would show a great deal better were
they adorned as those in London with handsome shops,, but there
you shall scarcely see any but seems rather to be a Cooler's hole vn
of any trade, & pittifull signs to set ym forth, they counting it a
very noble one if it cost 1 b or twenty livers. There are severall
fine Churches but y* which they bragg of so much is that of Xotre
Dame which was built by y* English.1* Those they have newly
» The Palais Royal. *> This is untrue.
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built seem on ye outside like dovehouses, though they he very fine
within. Ye Chief are yc Grand Jesuits, yc Val de Grace & yc
Carmelites de chausse,8 in which is Madame la Valiere who is
turned Nun. The River Sein y* runns between ye city &
subburbs is not very broad or extraordinary deep, it is worth yc
seeing, to see what huge flat-bottom boats they make use of to
carry their marchandise up & down yc river, there being some of
ym yt wjjj eon tnin six or seven hundred tunns & whose
rudders are four or five & twenty foot long. There is several!
fine bridges over it. New Bridge is y* whereon is con-
stantly ye greatest concourse of people, it being about y°
heart of y° city, yc River dos there divide itself: in yc middle of it
stands yc late King on horsback, and on ye end next ye City is a
fountain casting up water, with our Saviour and ye Samaritan
Woman standing by it. The houses through ye whole city are
of a great height being some seven, some 8, & some nine stages
high; but there .being very few together of ye same height it
shows but badly.
As for those curiosities which we made note of out of the town,
we visited one after another, namely Versailles, St. Clue,b & yc
tresor at Saint Denys.
First we went to Versailles, where a mile before our approaching
ye town we had a prospect of ye pallace, it looking down into ye
main rode at your going up to it you pass through two very large
courts ye least whereof is near a furlong square where you have a
view of as fine a building as one can possibly make, it being built
of stone & set forth with a great number of turrets & lanterns
which, being guilded, dos almost da/.le your eyes to look up. As
you proceed ascending some steps you pass into a garden where
before you, down a large gravel walk, you see a fair small River
which yc King has there cut to take his pleasure on, there being
severall yotts, one whereof was brought from England by land, a
» Descbaussces. b St. Cloud.
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galley royal! & severall other boats for his attendants. On yQ
right & left hands are two groves wherein are all manner of birds
which do there fly up & down & sing very melodiously. There is
through the whole garden, which is of a vast bigness, such curious
water works, as horses, cows, toads, & such like, casting up water
out of their noses, eares, mouths, k eyes, as is very strange, & in
yt grove on ye left hand you see all Esops Fables, namely all yc
birds beasts & other creatures spitting water one at another.
There are also ye finest images of marble y* can be seen, & so well
done y* you can hardly perswade yourself v' they are dumb statues.
After having walked about ye garden & viewed ye vast number of
strange flowers & plants that were there, we went into y* Pallace,
where we had ye honour to see ye King, Monsieur, & ye Dauphi-
ness at dinner with abundance of ye nobility standing round yc
table. Ye Dauphin was that day gone a hunting ye wolf, a sport
lie takes great delight in, though not long after we saw him at
Paris by ye place of Yietoire. The dinner ye King had was but
ordinary, there being a dish of soupe, some chickens & a quarter
of lamb, of all which he made no scruple to cat though on a Friday.
Before our entrance into ye Chamber we had a caution given us
by one of ye company to take care of our pocketts, though ye same
person, before he stir'd out of yL' chamber, had six or seven guineas
& a louis do'r taken out of his. From thence we walked to ye
Minagerie, where are all yf strange creatures ye King has. We
saw there a muscovite cat, a leopard, a red & white fox, a bird
y* has neither wings nor feathers but a kind of hair all over his
body, severall ostriches, ^ce&e and ducks of all sorts, & colours,
& yl we took for ye greatest raritie were ye pelicians, they have
their body about y1' bigness of a goose, their neck & leggs being
short, a long bill with a fleshy matter hanging on it, they did,
contrary to our expectation, take ye water as freely as any other
birds. After having took notice of y,u all we went back to the
Pallace where (ye King being ye next day to part for Luxembourg)
we had a sight of his mules, who being laden were just then a going
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away, they are stately beasts & all of ye same height & colour.
But to return to yc Castle as tis called, it is a saying of ye French
that after having seen Versailles there remains nothing worth ye
seeing in France, and certainly nothing can by art be made more
noble, but it is almost impossible for a person yl never saw it to
judge of ye greatness of ye work, yc greatest fault that can be
found with it, is in its situation, which is extraordinary bad, it
being in ye summer time nothing but dust, & in ye winter but
dirt. The noblemeifs houses y' are round about it are verv high
& well built, they are all of stone & being new do show mighty
well. There is a latin verse on a pillar wcU we took great notice
of, ye words I have forgot but y° sence I'me sure in English is
thus :
This was heretofore a chaos but at ye word of Louis yc fourteenth
all these things appeared.
The next curiosity we saw was ye Palla.ce of Monsieur ye King's
Brother at Saint Clue, a small town about 2 leagues from Paris, it
is counted by all that see it, for pleasure to exceed Versailles, and
onely by reason of its situation, it being seated on a hill of a creat
height from whence you have a full prospect of yc City. On ve
side of y° hill there being so many delicate medows, at ye bottom
ye garden & at yfi back of yl y Rivet Sein, which is y': great
cause of its being so continually clean yc water draining into ve
River. Ye house is very fine within, but not anyways beautiful!
without, ye greatest satisfaction vl is hereto be taken is in seeing
ye gardens, & ye walks, which are so shaded in summer yl tis
impossible for sun or rain anyways to molest you, they are not
gravePd but are nevertheless very hard there being men always
beating ym. It is set forth throughout with all things y* can
please either sight or smell, for yc smell with flowers Sc lor ye sight
with both Images and Fountains not much inferior to those at
Verseilles.
After y* we visited ye Thresor at St. Denys which is kept by
Benedictine Friars in y1' Church. There are a great many relieks,
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which being garnished with all manner of precious stones, silver,
and gold, are of* inestimable value. First in a great Cross of Gold
enricht with pearlcs and jewels there is a piece of yc true cross on
which Our Saviour was crucified, there is a thorn of his Crown, a
piece of ye sponge & some of vc water & blood y* came out of His
side, one of the nails wherewith He was nailed, & one of yc pitchers
wherein was ye water He changed into wine, one of the lanterns
y* was with Judas when ho betrayed Him, all full of stones and
pearles. There is alsoy* sword of Joan of Arc, ye head of St. Denys
which he brought with him from ye Suburbs of Paris under his arm
after it was cut of, set in gold & so many other relicks as teeth,
pieces of ye sculls of their Saints &■ such like as would fili y' book
to describe \m. After we had seen ym ail we went down into ye
Church where all ye Kings Queens and Princes of France are
emtombed. We took notice of nothing there y* was curious ye
monuments being raised frora yc ground with ye Portraitures of
those who were enterred under y1" very plainly cut. At our return
from thence into ye City we met with a great procession of Priests
who carried ye thigh of Saint Honore wdl the Pope had sent
thither, it cost a hundred thousand livers, it delivers all women
from their pains when they pray to it, & dos many more miracles
which 1 have now forgotten. After having seen it pass we returned
to our lodgins, where we stayed some small time till we had taken
places in ye coach & did on ye eleventh of May proceed towards
Lyons, y8 first day dining at Meloin,a a small village not having
anything in it worth ye noting. From thence we rode to Pont,1'
where we stayed that night. \Ve passed not through any towns of
importance till our coming to Sens, which is but small consisting
but of one good street, though it be an xlrchbishop's seat. We
that forenoon dined at Arse c and so rode to Ancillafranck,'1 we
• Melrfn;
b Pont-snr-Yonne.
c Arces.
d Aricv-le-Fraric. St. Florentor lies between Arces and Ancv-le-Franc.
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lodged there and vc morning following went to Florentine'1 & so
direct on to Dijon, which is a large town & of indifferent trade, Sc
wherein is yp Parliament kept for ye Province of Burgogne.
We from thence rode to Chalon ; '' yc coach going no further
we there took water for Macon, where laying we did, on Sunday
ye -fifteenth of May, arrive at Lyons. We had a very pleasant
journey & good weather, y° way is very smooth we going for
ye most part over plains, some of which are ten leagues over.
Yc Provence of Burgogne, being heretofore a Sovereigniv of
Itself, there is scarce a town, though never so small, but is walled,
though now they fall to decay, being no wise looked after.
Besides y* Provence we came through part of Madmoisclles e
country, which is called Doinbe, yc People, there acknowledging
no other Prince yu her, & ve Lawyers doing all tilings in her
name. We passed by Trevoux, a small walled town in her
Provence ; it is' at present ye only soveraing place in France : it
stands by ye side of yc Soanc. It goes to nothing now every-
day there being few or no houses in it. At our arrival! at Lyons
we took up our Iodgins at yc Golden Tunn y* being near ye heart
of yc City. The first place we visited was ye Jesuits Colledge
in ye Court, whereof we saw all manner of Pictures so excellently
well drawn y* all France cannot show ye like. They shew us
their Library, which is large^ there is above ten thousand books
of all sorts both historical!, philosophical! & sacred & vet they
are going to enlarge it. \\ e saw yc Holy Scripture trans-
lated ten or twelve severall waves by their Fathers & Saints.
Some time after we went to Sl John's Church,11 which is
very fine, adorned like others of ye same nature with Crosses,
Pictures ec such like ; but yc chief rarity that is here to be seen
is ye clock. I shall say no great matter of it but refer you to ye
* This seems to be a mistake.
b Chalon-sor-Saone.
c La Grande Mademoiselle, daughter of Gaston, Duke of Orleans.
d The Cathedral.
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description I have of it, which I do assure you is both full & true.
From thence we went to the Hospitall where are all manner of
sick & aged persons who knowing no ways to help themselves are
taken in here. It is a handsome building, but not like yc Charity,
which being near also visited. It is of a great circumference &
being of stone seems like some lord's habitation yn yc dwelling of
inferme persons. It dos contain a vast number of people of all
ages & conditions, there are at least two thousand bastards which
are put out to nurse at its charge & almost as many y1 are
continually there who, as they grow up, do work, some of whom
twister, others net, &c. We saw there several! protestant women
who are coop't up into a little yard & are fed with nothing but
bread & water. We would fain have gone into their yard to have
talk't w,h them, but demanding leave were answered y* it was
not permitted to any to goe to them. We ascending some steps
went into their corn chamber, we seeing it large measured it &
found it an hundred and fifty paces long & twenty five broad.
It was full of wheat from one end to ye other, there is GO ryemen
to turn it every day, they eat very good victualls of all sorts &
drink nothing but Ptisanne which an Apothecary (whom they
there- maintain) dos make. There number mav be guest if yu
consider y€ quantity of bread they eat, there being baked every
week six hundred loafs weighing six pounds a piece. The next
& greatest rarity & which was really worth yc going from Paris
thither to see, is 3Ir. Cervierc's Cabinet, a Gentleman of vc City,
Curiosities y1 he himself has made since twenty years, he is about
four score years old ye greatest part of which time he has spent in
ye King of France his service, but his decaying age as he told us
he thought he could better spend in employing it yn idly. There
arc so many strange things y* tis impossible to relate ye hundred
part of them, ye first lie shew, & which he made since he began to
be lame was a chair which running on wheels can by a scrue be
guided by those y* set in it with yc greatest ease imaginable either
backwards or forwards as they please, after he shew us perpetual!
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motion contrived several] ways, one whereof is by an hour glass
which standing before a great box dos when yc sand is run from
yc upper into yc under glass turn of itself & on yc front of ve box
one after another appears all ye houres of ye day very exact &
when once set true never fails — ye other are wyers placed round
on which you put a ball which being at ye bottom is by an
engine cast up again & .so goes continually. He has a clock
which stands on an instrument lie has made of thin dale &
tapring round down y* height of two foot it goes from the
top to ye bottom once a week at ye term of which time
it is removed up again ; it is made so artificially that if
it be set on an even table or stool it goes not at all but on
its own instrument, never stops till it be taken of. There are
all sorts of engines for fortification and battery made very
ingeniously, there is a bridge )-t lias neither pillars to support or
nails to hold it together & yet is very strong t£ handsome. There
is another he made for ye King when he had Mars in Flanders
built on a boat to be drawn wth wheels when on places where little
water, it is to be doubled up for ye more convenience. He has for
those that understand ye Mathematieks all manner of curiosities ;
he has turned xevy fine things on Ivory, to say plainly there is
hardly any thing- y* is curious to be named but you find it there.
He is almost blind & yet he takes yc greatest delight imaginable in
showing ym not to every person but to those y* look any way civil]
he makes no scruple at all.
At our being at Lyons we one day took boat for Neuve Yille a
a small town about two leagues from ye City, to see ye Arch-
bishop's house ; it stands by y' water side very pleasentlv. 33s an
old Castle though no ways fortified, there is on yc backside a park
of at least three leagues about & for all its great circumference it
is walled round with a very high wall. There are in it abundance
of deer of ye largest size. He is a great lover of hunting & to y*
• KeuTille-sur-Suoiip.
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end lie keeps a stable with a great many good horses & a hundred
& fifty hounds yc finest that ever I saw, some of yin are as high as
any ordinary greyhound. AVe saw him as lie was walking in his
garden after dinner, he is a little old man cloathed like yc meanest
Paisant of all ; every thing he had on, if at a mart, I dare say
would not have sold at ten shillings; he is about 80 years old & is
also much troubled with ye gout & yet he is one of those that
follow ye stagg yc closest, & for ye most part is nearest him at his
death. The garden is small but there are in it fine walks covered
overhead so thick with roses & sucklings y* at your being under
ym besides ye pleasant smell they give, they hinder the sunn from
troubling you. There are both fountains & images but there beino-
nothing extraordinary in y"1 shall pass them by. At ye end of one
of ye walks there is a Banqueting house, which is painted in-
differently well, but there is a small black table of stone which did
deceive us all there being a pack of cards so curiously well inlaid
in ye stone y* we offered to take them up & when we saw how it
was Ave could the least ditrerence between them & reall ones.
After having taken a view of all y* Ave thought anyway curious Ave
returned to Lyons, Avhere we saAv on ye Feste Dieu which was ye
day after ye great procession which is constantly every year made
on y1 Feast; first there went four or five thousand men, each one
carrying a lamp in his hand, next Avent ye Priests in their surplices
singing as they passed', two of ye last of them cast Incense before
ye host which after Avas carried by a Priest under a Canopy
supported by four more ; after them Avent almost as many men
as there Avere before ; it shew very finely & y' which added to its
setting forth Avere y° streets, which were hung A; adorned with
Altars ifc Crucifixes.
The City of Lyons is large & a place of extraordinary great
trade, they having some privileges beyond any other city in France ;
it is seated on two rivers ye Soan & ye lihosne, OAer each of which
is a fair stone bridge, the Avails run out a great way beyond yp
houses, the}- are not strengthened by ammunition but are very
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strong as built on a perfect rock. From Lyons yc twenty-fifth
May avc came forwards Rohan" dining at La breele,b a small town
of little note, we laved y1 night at Terrara0 such a place as ye
former & ye next morning got to Sf cefarioir4 & so to Roan, where
we took water, it is a pretty town having yc River* coming up to
the walls ; it being extrecm bad weather at our being there, we had
not yc opportunity of seeing it. We took boat the twenty-seventh
of May about 9 of ye clock in ye morning & y4 night something
late £ot to Digofn, from whence betimes v- morning following we
went towards Decisc' where Ave arrived about ten of yc clock, & so
saw nothing of ye town, which nevertheless Ave perceived to be but
small. Ye next day avc came to la Charite, a small Availed toAvn
with a bridge cross y° River supported with sixteen or 18 arches,
from thence ye forenoon after avc got Nevers,8* which being ye half
of ye way & a pretty place we stopped an hour to dine. There
they make all maimer of glass toyes as snufF boxes & ye stones of
rings, some of which are donne so well as seem to be reall. That
night Ave stayed at Gene,1' between which place and Chatteauneuf
where Ave lodged ye night; after avc took notice of Saucer,1 a Availed
town about half a league from y* River seated on a high hill which
Charles yc Fifth" besieged with an army of fifty thousand men for
yc space of six weeks and at last was forced shamefully to raise
his siege. We intended to go that day for Orleans but ye wind
blowing something harder then ordinary & our boatmen not being
accustomed to such Aveather avc laved six leagues short; but, ye
wind appeasing y° next morning, avc soon got to town ; Ave stayed
there three or four days to see it, it is indifferent large & very
clean with good streets & well built houses, though ye churches
that be there be no ways fine. There are several handsome Walks
* Hoanne. b L'Arhresle. c Tarare.
' St. Simphorien. e The Loire. fDeeize.
B This is another mistake, Severs lying between Dccize and La Charite.
k Gien.
1 Saneerre really lies between La Charite and Gien.
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one whereof, which is a decayed Mell, being set thick -with trees,
is mightily frequented especially at or about midnight, at which
time all ye young persons of ye town are without fail there. There
is a fair bridge over yc River at one end whereof is placed ye
statue of Joan of Arc la pucell D'orleans with our Saviour on her
lap, two warriors playing by her & behind her a cross crowned
with laurells. Every year, on a certain day, all yc soldiers of
ye town are in amies to preserve her memory. The second June
about nine of y,e clock we took boat for Blois, where we arrived
before sunset ; we stayed there two or three days to see its rarities
"which we expected to have been a great many more yn we found
them to be, it being a town next after Paris, as much spoken of
as any in France, but contrariwise did find it a small place with
scarce one good house & not one good street in it. The reason of
its being so much resorted to is y° pleasentness of its situation,
there being on ye other side yc water very fine plains & two
large forests y' are full of deer. Behind it abundance of curious
walks, some of which are near two miles Long".
June ye 4th we came to Amboise, a small town on ye River, there
is nothing extraordinary but ye Castle, which dos also now fall to
decay every day, it is of a good bigness & could be made very
strong, it being built en yc side of a hill, but it being in an inland
town it is not regarded. In yc chappell y* is in it hangs those
famous buck's horns we had heard so much discourse of in our
travelling. We took great notice of them, they being eleven foot
and a half long and eight over. There is also a bone that came
out of his neck which ordinarily is not above 6 inches about, ec is
there above three foot. There are also 4 of his ribs which are two
yards and a half long, lie was nine hundred years old at his
taken, and tis three hundred since. From thence we took boat for
Tours, not remarking anything in our way but ye chappell of Xotre
Dame de bon desire, where are "wrought miracles every day at
Tours. We took up our quarters at S( Louis, where we staid two
davs to see ye town. It is about ve bigness of Orleans but seated
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on a plain where as yc other is seated on a hill, there are in it
pleasent streets running from one end to ye other and several} high
spires especially two on yc Cathedral! which adorns the Town.
June ye Sixth we came to Saumnr where we were set ashore at
ye famous Chappie of Notre Dame des Ardiliers, who is there wor-
shipped & who dos work a great many more miracles y" ever our
Saviour did in curing all sorts of distempers. The image is small
& of stone holding her son on her lap with one of his armes hanging
down. They say it was sent from God, no one knowing its origin*
The Chappie it stands in is very tine there being constantlv a great
concourse of Pilgrims from all parts who come to pay their devo-
tions to Our Lady, there being Mass said night & day. AVe from
thence went into town, where staying two days we took notice of it
but saw nothing rare in it, ye houses being old, no handsome streets
& ye circumference of ye whole not great.
June yc Eight we came to Angers, which is a fine Town set forth
with large streets, well built houses So neat curious Churches, but
is since this last persecution very much depopulated. Our stay
there was but short being willing to be at Nantes where we arrived
ye 10th about four o'clock in yc afternoon ; we were all of us tired
with being in ye boat so long & so were resolved to rest ourselves
there some days, in which time had leisure to view ve whole town
whieh is indifferent large, high houses & a good kev for their ships,
it stands about 30 miles from y* sea & is yc last town of note on y*
River Loire ; this River runns up into countrey very near two
hundred leagues; ye greatest, fault there is is its want of water ;
there being above Nantes bridge not four foot water & in some
places not two, yet something lower yu yc town, ships of good burther
ride at anchor ; there are at least twelve or fourteen bridges over
this River, ye most considerable whereof is y* at Orleans, which is
supported by three or four and twenty arches.
June ye lath we took horse for Rennes dining at a small village
called Lout de Lois, which consisted not of above three or four
houses, one of whieh being an Inn received all passengers y* o-oe
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y* way, there being no other town near. That night Ave layed at
Deervall a a little villnge from whence ye next morning we got to
Bien,1' where dining we got into Rennes betimes ; we stayed there
some short time to see it, but took notice of nothing extraordinary
but yc Paliaoe ; which is a very fine piece containing severall
large Roomes especially that where ye Parliament sitts, which
is both painted and hung with curious Tapestry of Silk, ye
other roomes are for ye most part cieled with wanscot carved.
The Parliament which used constantly to be here for ve
Provence of Bretagne is now removed to Vannes, a town of
less rcmarque. From Rennes we took horse towards Cain ;
passing to Sautager c (where we dined). We were forced to
goe through a very dangerous forest which though small there
are a great many people loose their lives in it. There were not
above a week or 8 days before our being there severall men taken
out & condemned. We layed that night at Montnnall d & next
morning took in our way some small observation of .Mount St.
Michell, a rock so called. It is about a musquett sliott from ye
shore & has a fair Chappie built on it, wherein are kept thirty
fryars ; there are abundance of Pillgrims goe thither from all
parts. We soon got to Avranche, where dining we rode to Pont
farci.0 "We layed there, ye day following we stopped at Blanche
maison, from whence by five of ve clock we crot to Caen. We lodged
there four or five nights finding it very pleasant. The town is
seated in a large valley having on ye south side meadows with
such fine walks as when out of yc walks you seem rather to be in
ye Country then near so great a place. It is large, beautified with
good Streets, well built houses & stately spires. There are ten
Parish Churches besides i8 Convents, which have every one their
Chappel. Yc most remarqueable is ye Abbay of S* Stephen, which
is kept by Benedictines, it is of a great bigness, in ye heart of it
4 Derval. b Bain-de-Bretagne.
c Can this be St. Alibin ? d Montanel.
' 1'ont Farcy, on the Yire.
JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER. 37
stands ye monument of William ye Conquerour covered wth a black
marble stone about eight foot long, at each end arc his coat of
Amies & on yc sides arc written :
Hoc Sepulehrrmi invictissimi juxta &a clementissimi Conques-
toris Gulielmi, clum vixeret,1' Ano-lorum lieiris, JSTormanorum,
Cenomarumqiic c Principis, hujus insignis Abbatiae pissimid
fundatoris. Cum A.i>. 1562 e vesano lueretieorum furore direp-
tum fuisset ; pio tandem nobilium ejusdem Abbatize Religiosorum
gratitudinis sensu in tarn Beneficium/ Largitorem instauratum
fuit, a.d. 1612. Domino Joanne de Baiihnchc acceterij 8 proto-
priore.h
On ye other side :
Qui rexit rigidos Normanos atquc Britannos
Audacter vicit, fortitcr obtinu.it,
Et Cerromanenses virtute eocrcuit enses
Imperijquc sui legibus applicant.
Eex magnus parva jacet Gulielmus in urna
Suflicit & magno parva Domus Domino
Tcr septem gradibus so volverat atque duobus
Yirginis in grcmio Phoebus ' . . hie obijt.
We lodged at the Royall PJace, which is a fine square, in ye
middle whereof stands yc King's statue of white marble and on ye
pedestall are written a great many of his deeds, which being of yL'
» " Juxta et " is emitted in the- inscription as given by Hippcan, L' Abbaye de Saint
Etienne de Caen, Caen, ISSo.
b Yiveret, Hippenn.
c Coenonianornmqne, lb.
d Piissimi, lb.
e Anno, lh.
f Bcneficnni, lb.
£ Asceterii, lb.
b Hippeau adds tbat tbc following was added according to a MS. published by
Boucl and M. Bordcau, but omitted by Ducarel : — " Per Mathamm de la Dangie dc
Bench!, Doctorem et celerarinm hujus Abatise, D.D."
1 "et" is omitted after Phoebus.
38 JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICBAUD FERRJEE.
same nature with those on ye place of Yictoire at Paris, I .shall
omit them. Their harbour is not worth ye naming, it seeming- to
be liker a Dike y" a receipt for ships.
From Caen, June ye 21 Ave came for Rouen, dining at Pont
Eveque.a We got to Pont can do mcr,1' where laying we the
next day arrived by 3 of ye clock in ye Afternoon in yc City. We
stayed some small time there to see it, but found it, though bigger,
neither so handsome nor so pleasent a place as Caen, ye houses
being old and ye streets very narrow. It is a town of great trade,
being full of shops from one end to ye other. There is a fine key
which on that side dos show very well, ye Churches are fair, so is
yc Pallace, which is great help to ye adorning of yc Town.
June ye 25th we came from thence to Diepe where (being desirous
to get something more then we had in yc French languidge) we
stayed a moneth, at ye end of which time we went to board about 3
leagues in ye Country for as much longer, which being also expired
we returned to town, in order to our passing through Flanders &
Holland. It is a place of good bigness, there is in it 2 parishes &
4 or 5 good streets, the chief whereof & which is not much inferior
to any I have seen in France, is ye Grand Rue, noty* the buildings
are any way sumpteous, but that they are of an even height, and
extraordinary streight. August ye 25th we took horse for St.
Omcr, dining at Eu, a small walled town about half a league from
ye sea. There is in h ye house of Mademoisell yc King's Aunt/
which is without gardens. It fronts into ye coast and has pleasent
walks on either side it. She was not there that day, being gone to
a farm of hers about three miles from thence. We laid at Abbey -
ville & ye morning following got wet through to y* skin to Edin,d
a place which has heretofore been a frontier & so is of good strength.
We were carried before ye Mayor, who was very civill & seemed to
be mighty angry that ye Guards, after having declared ourselves to
* Pont l'lEvcqae. b Pont Aiulcmer.
c The Kiris's first cousin. a Kesdin.
JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER.
39
be English, should offer to stop us. \Ve could not get that night
to St. Om'er, wherefore took up our lodging at Fruges, from whence
ye next day got soon to town. The first thing we visited was ye
English Jesuits Collodge, which is now rebuilding, the greatest part
of it being about 3 years since burnt to the ground, it will be very
fine when finished but as yet can sec little of it.
40 JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER.
£'s. d.
April G. For a Coat ... 1 15 6
For a Sword ... 1 0 0
„ S. For my passage to
Graresend ... 0 2 0
For liorse hire to
Sittenborn ... 0 5 0
,, 9. For charges at
Sittenborn ... 0 2 4
For horse hire to
Canterbury ... 0 4 8
„ 10. For charges at
Canterbury ... 0 7 G
„ 11. For hors hire to
Dover ... ... 0 4 3
„ 12. For charges at Dover 0 7 0
For passage to
Callice 0 8 0
For carriage of
cloaths and boat 0 2 0
0 0
\ '
\y'
\ ,
\
%
JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER. 41
£ s. (1.
April 13. Received of
Mr.
Hays*...
20
0
0
„ 16. Received of
Mr.
Hays ...
55
0
0
75
0
0
71
0
0
4
0
0
Ls.
sous.
% ' "
■ '
April 13. For landing
0
13
; r
., 1-1. For money paid
at
Custom House
...
2
0
For charges
at
Callice...
...
1
1G
„ 15. For charges
at
Dunkirk
...
o
18
For charges
at
Manlike
0
12
For washing
1
0
„ 1C. Fur charges
at
Callice ...
2
7
„ 17. For charges
at
Callice...
...
1
17
„ 18. For hors hire
to
Dunkirk
4
10
For hors hire
to
Paris ...
30
0
For portage
of
s
hardcs to Paris
1
18
For sealing yc port-
mantles
0
5
For Father A than
ase
0
10
For charges at Cal
ais
o
10
,. 23. For yf Messenger
1
14
For charges on
y
road
2
0
For portage hardes
to lodging
0
3
,. 24. For yc barber
0
4
For charges
at
Marqnise
...
0
9
For a whip
0
13
,, 2G. For charges
at
l'Image St. Jaqoey
3
0
For change
of
Flanders money
0
13
For Sisors and
Flute ...
...
0
12
., 27. For a Cravat String
1
10
* The amounts in France are in livres and sous.
CAMD. SOC. F
42
JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER.
Ls. sous.
April 25. Rest due other
siile ... ... 4
Received of Mrs.
Couteulx ...210
May 10. Received of Ditto
Messieurs ...120
334
141
192
17
April 28. For housekeeping...
For my coat
„ 30. For mending my
shoes ...
For houskeeping ...
May 1. For a letter
For dinner abroad...
„ 2. For hois hire to
t Versailes ^ ...
For charges there...
,. • 3. For "coach hire to
Bois Vinceut and
charges... ... 3
„ 4. For coach hire to
St. Denys and
charges... ... 3
„ 5. For boat hire to and
from St. Clou
For charges there...
„ 6. For yc' Chirurgeon...
For charges and
coach hire to ye
incurables
„ 7. For seeing y° opera
For washing
,, 11. For charges at Paris 1
For washing my
hose
For our chambers . . .
For seeing yc
comedy...
„ 12. For expenses at
Paris ...
For supper given
Mr. Cox & Coy on
coming from Paris 3
Ls.
sous
2
10
G8
0
0
9
24
0
0
10
1
0
4
6
1
10
16
0
8
3
14
2
0
3
0
1
10
1
10
11
0
0
18
10
0
1
10
3
0
141
JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER. 43
Ls. sous. Ls. sous.
Rett due p' other side ...192 17 May 12. For Coachirc to
140 3 Lyons ... ... 75 0
For portage of
hardes to couch ... 0 12
For portage of
hardes to Lyons... 2 12
For expenses at
Paris 1 10
,. 15. For yc Coachman... 1 0
For carriage of
hardes to Lodgings 0 3
For boat hire up yc
River ... ... 0 15
For spent on ye
road ... ... 3 0
„ 17. For paid at Post-
house ... ... 0 4
„ „ For mending my
cloaths 0 8
„ 18. For ye Clock S*
Johu 0 12
F,or a writing book 0 S
For seeing Mr.
Cuvier's Cabinet... 1 10
For charges at
Lyons ... ... 7 0
., 20. For boathire to and
from N. Ville ... 0 15
For charges there... 2 0
., 21. For washing ... I 0
For seeing ye 2
hospitalls ... 1 12
For mending my
sword ... ... 1 0
„ 23. For charges at
Lyons ... ... 9 0
For a letter ... 0 10
For clou thing yc
boy 3 12
for expenses at
Lyons ... ... 2 0
June 1. For charges from
Ljon to Orleans... 24 0
140 3
44 JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERRIER.
Ls. sous. Ls. sous.
Jane 2. P,c?t due p' other June 1. To a pay' shoes ... 3 0
side ... ...51 14 „ 2. For wash in- ... 0 1-1
Keceived of Mr. Fortfpay'glores... 1 0
Geunebaml ...48 0 „ 3. For a knife ... 0 ?
99 14
42 8
For an iukhorn ... 0 G
For charges at
Orleans ... 7 10
57 G For hoath ire to
Bloys ... ... 1 (i
„ 4. For charges at
Bloys ... ... 6 10
For boathire to
Tours ... ... 1
„ „ For carriage of
cloaths... ... 0 4
„ G. l\»r charges there... 4 5
For boathire to
Amboisc
„ 7. For charges there... 3
For seeing yc homes 0
„ 8. For charges at M.
Turro ...
For boathire to
Saurnur
I\jr charges there...
„ 9. For boathire to
Angers...
For charges there...
10. To boathire to
jS'antes... ... 1
For carriage of
things ...
For ye barber
For washing
For mending my
coat
For mending my
shoes ...
1
0
3
0
0
3
2
13
1
0
3
5
1
0
2
0
. 0
4
. 0
4
. 0
10
0
15
0
Q
42
8
JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FEBRIER.
45
Ls.
June 10th. Rest p' other side 57
Received of Mr.
Devonnc Lucas ... GO
,, 20. Received of Mr.
Mimtel... ... 92
July 27. Received of ditto
Miimel ... 30
sous
0
239
110
12S 11
June 14. Por charges at
Nantes...
For horshire to
Rcnnes...
Tor portage of
cloaths...
Por given Messen-
ger
,, 10. Por charges at
Rennes...
Por a false scabbard
„ 17 Por horshire to Caen
Por given Messen-
ger
,, „ Por given Servants
from Lyons to
Caen
For expenses from
Lyons to Caen ...
Por a payr Shoes ...
Por our male
,. 20. Por charges at Caen
Por j* Dog
Por horshire to
Rouen ...
„ 23. For charges there
, 24. Por horshire to
Diepe ...
For charges at
Diepe ...
27. For horshire to
Lunary
For Ivory toys
For Franeiou
For letters from
Merseillc
2$. For a letter
Ls.
12
11
10
0
0
10
0
5
0
15
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
0
0
10
0
110 15
46 JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD TERRIER.
Rent due p' other side
Ls.
sous.
Ls.
sous.
128
11
June
28.
For washing
1
0
55
4
„
30.
For a Sundial
1
10
July
1.
For eharges
at
73
7
Diepe ...
...
7
1
10
10
;>
4.
For Don Quixot ...
For a letter
0
G
For yc Barber
0
•1
For eharges
at
Diepe ...
3
5
For mending
my
cloaths . . .
0
10
?:
7.
For charges
Diepe ...
at
5
10
?)
8.
For washing
hose
my
0
12
For a pay* gloves...
I
0
5)
11.
For charges
Diepe ...
For a caue
at
5
1
0
5
11.
15.
For charges
Diepe ...
For yc bobins
For a letter
For a letter
Fur washing
For mending
shoes ...
at
Bay
i
7
0
0
1
0
10
0
3
G'
3
S
>»
19.
For charges
Diepe ...
at
7
0
For y* cane hea
ds...
3
0
»?
20.
For toys sent Sister
1
1G
For a letter
...
0
G
For y* barber
0
4
55
i
JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD FERR1ER. 47
July
Ls.
sons.
Rest dne as p'
other
side ...
... 73
7
.tig. 24. To a liver miscast up 1
(l
Received of
Mr.
Minull ...
... 50
0
124
7
. 62
1ft
CI
S
An-
La.
sons.
20
. To washing
0
10
22
. To a pr garters ...
0
7
23
, For charges at
Diepe ...
G
6
To horshire to
Lunary...
1
10
27.
To clear at Diepe...
4
10
For given servants
0
15
Pd & spent while at
Diepe ...
G
0
For portage of hardes
to Lunary
0
10
C.
For charges at Diepe
G
0
For a map of France
1
10
For ye Place da Vic-
toire
0
2
For ye king's picture
0
1
For my sword mend-
ing & for a new
scabbard
1
10
7.
For paper
0
4
For pens and ink ...
0
2
»j
For needles and
thread ...
0
2
For Reveille matin
0
12
For my shoes mending
0
12
For portage of ye
Dictionary
0
3
24.
For board in ye
country...
25
0
For bringing hardes
to Diepe
0
0
25.
For a payr shoes ...
For charges at
3
0
Diepe ...
2
15
For y* Tailour
0
S
G2
48 JOURNAL OF MAJOR RICHARD TERRIER.
Ls. sous. G. st.
Rest due p' other side ...Til 8 Aug. 25. For greasing my
29 9 boats ... ... 0 G
„ 28. For horshire and
charges from
Dieppe to S* Oir.er 25 10
For my hat ... 3 10
For a letter ... 0 3
By 31 livers 19 sol?
French is gilders
Received of Col Brown
25
lla
60
0
85
11
G4
■1
21
7
29
9
G.
St.
28.
For charges at
S1
Omer ...
2
0
For boathire
to
Dunkirk
0
14
29.
For charges
at
Dunkirk
1
15
For boathire
to
Fnrsne ...
...
0
0
30.
For charges there
For waggonhire
to
1
5
Ostend...
0
15
For charges there
0
10
31.
For boathire
to
Bruges...
0
15
For charges there
1
11
For portage
of
har-des thither
...
0
16
For boathire
to
Newport
...
0
7
For charges there...
0
7
For boathire
to
Slays ...
...
0
10
For charges there...
6
17
For passage
to
Rotterdam
...
1
1G
1>J portage
0
a
FJ at quarters
...
0
10
For passage
to
Turgow
0
H
l>d on ye road
...
0
i
Fd for Will
15
0
Fd Mr. John
27
0
(U
Remaining as p' other side 21 7 To charges at
Tnrgow ... 1 0
» Amount in Gilders and Stivers.
f
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