RIchard Fitz Gilbert, Earle of Aucencis and Brionniae in Normandy, came into England with William the Con­queror, who gaue him the Townes & Castles of Clare in Suffolke, and Tunbridge in Kent, with diuers other great Seigneuries in England. This Richard maried Roheisia, daugh­ter of Walter Gifford Earle of Longueuile in Normandy, and had issue, Gilbert, Roger Lord of Clauering, Walter a great Ba­ron and Founder of Tinterne Abbey, 1 [...]31 and Robert Lord of Woodham Water, and was after slaine in Wales, in the yeare, 1136.

GIlbert Fitz-Richard, sonne and heyre of Richard afore­said, was the first Earle of Clare, and married Adeliza, the daughter of the Earle of Cleremont, and had issue, Iohn the second Earle of Clare, who dyed without issue; Richard Earle of Clare, whom some say, dyed before his Father; Gil­bert sur-named Strongbow, Earle of Penbroke, Walter and Heruy de Montmauritio, and dyed in the yeare, 1152.

RIchard Fitz-Gilbert, third Earle of Clare, and Lord of Tunbridge in Kent, married Adelize, sister of Randoll Earle of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert that dyed without is­sue, and Roger who was after Earle of Clare and Hartford. This Richard dyed in the yeare, 1156.

Place this Catalogue of Clare and Clarence, betwixt page 52. and 53.

GIlbert, Earle of Clare and Hartford after his Father. He married (as William Gemeticensis hath) Elizabeth, sister of Walleran, Earle of Meullent, and dyed without issue.

ROger de Clare, brother and heyre of Gilbert aforesaide, was Earle of Clare and Hartford. He married Mauld, daughter and heyre of Iames S. Hillary (she married after, William Earle of Arundell) and had issue, Richard Earle of Clare and Hartford, and others; and died in the yeare, 1174.

RIchard, Earle of Clare and Hartford, sonne of Roger a­foresaid, married Amicia, second daughter and one of the heyres of William Earle of Glocester, and had issue, Gil­bert Earle of Clare, Hartford and Glocester; and Ioane, wife to Rice Grig, Prince of Demiciae, and dyed in the yeare 1218. and was buried in the Priory of Tunbridge.

GIlbert, Earle of Clare and Hertford, and Earle of Glo­cester by his Mother Amicia (after the death of his two Aunts without issue.) He was a witnesse to King Henry the thirds Charter, of Lands that he gaue (in the 9. yeare of his Reigne) to the Abbey of Peterborough, by the name of Gilbert, Earle of Clare, Hertford, and Glocester. He married Isabell, third sister, and one of the heyres of Anselme Mar­shall, Earle of Penbroke, and had issue, Richard Earle of Clare, Hertford and Glocester, and William de Clare; Isabell, wife to Robert Bruse; Amie, wife to Baldwin Earle of Deuon, and others. He dyed at Penrose in Britaine, as the Book of Teuks­bury hath, 1230. and lyeth there buried.

RIchard de Clare, the second Earle of Glocester, sonne of Gilbert aforesaid, married first Margaret, daughter of Hugh de Burgo Earle of Kent, but by her he had no issue. His second wife was Mauld, daughter of Iohn Lacy Earle of Lin­colne, and Constable of Chester, by whom hee had issue (as the booke of Teukesbury mentioneth) Gilbert, the second Earle of Glocester, &c. Thomas de Clare, that was Steward of the Forrests in Essex; Be [...]es, Treasurer of Yorke Mynster; Isabell, a Nun at Barking; Margaret, Wife to Edmond Earle of Cornwall; Rose, Wife to Roger Lord Mowbray. This Richard dyed at Fsmeresfield in Kent, 1262. and lyeth buried at Teukesbury; but others haue, he dyed in France, and was brought into Eng­land, and buried at Teukesbury.

GIbert de Clare (sur named the Red) after the death of Richard his Father, was Earle of Clare, Hertford, and the third Earle of Glocester of that sur-name. Hee married two Wiues, the first was Alice, daughter of Hughle Brun, Earle of Angolesme, and the Marchesse of Aquitaine, and had issue, Isabell, Wife to Morris Lord Berkley. This Alice fell lunaticke, and was diuorced from this Gilbert: After which, he tooke to wife Ioane (sur-named of Acres) daugh­ter of King Edward the first; with whom the saide Gilbert had neyther lands nor money, but onely the Kings fauour, which before he had lost, for refusing to goe with him the said King to the aid of Guy, Earle of Flanders, against the French King, 1287. He had issue by his last wife Ioane, Iohn that dyed young, leauing his three sisters his heires: Elianor, wife to Hugh Lord Spencer; Elizabeth, first married to Iohn Burgh Earle of Vlster in Ireland; and after to Theobald Lord Verdon; & lastly, to Sir Roger Damory, Baron of Armoy in Ireland; Margaret the 3. daughter, was first maried to Peter or Pieres of Gaueston, Earle of Cornwall; & after to Hugh Lord Audley the yonger, who after was Earle of Glocester. This Gilbert dyed in Wales, 1295. and was buried at Teukesbury. After the death of this Gilbert, the Title of Clare fell to the Crowne, which after King Edward the 3. bestowed that Title on Lyonell his sonne.

LYonell (sur named of Antwerpe, the place of his birth) third sonne of King Edward the third, was created Earle of Wiltshire, in the 26. yeare of his Fathers Reigne; and in the 36. yeare of the said Kings Reigne, he was created Duke of Clarence. He married to his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heyre of William Burgh Earle of Vlster, and had issue, Phillip his onely childe, married to Edmond Mortuomary, Earle of March and Vlster: and to his second wife he mar­ried Violenta, daughter of Galeas, Viscount of Millayne, and [Page]sister to Iohn Galeas, first Duke of Millaine, in whose right, the State and Lords of Italy did fully determine to crowne him King of Italy; but halfe a yeare be­fore the time appointed; he dyed at Venice, 1368. and was there buried, hauing no issue by his last Wife.

THomas Plantagenet, second sonne of King Henry the fourth, and brother to King Henry the fift, was created Earle of Albemarle, and Duke of Clarence, in the yeare 1411. He was also Lord Steward of England, and Constable of the Kings Hoste, and Lieutenant Generall of his Army in France and Normandy. He was also President of the Kings Counsell, after Prince Henry his brother was dismissed that Office, for striking the Lord Chiefe-Iustice, and after was slaine at the battaile of Bangy, by the Duke of Alanson (and the treachery of Andrew Forgusa a Lumbard, whom hee o­uermuch trusted) and with him was slaine, the Earles of Tankeruile, Sir Gilbert Vmfreuile, the Earle of Kent, and the Lord Ros: and the Earles of Somerset, Suffolke, and Perch, with the Lord Fitz-Walter, were taken prisoners, the 9. of King Henry the fift, leauing no issue of his body, and was buried in Christ Church in Canterbury.

GEorge Plantagenet, borne at Dublyn in Ireland, third Son of Richard Duke of Yorke, and brother to King Edward the 4. was created Duke of Clarence, 1461. and after the death of Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke, his Wiues Fa­ther, he writ himselfe, George Duke of Clarence, Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury, Lord of Richmond, & great Cham­berlaine of England. Hee married Isabell, eldest daughter and co-heyre of Richard Neuill, Earle of Warwicke and Sa­lisbury aforesaide, and had issue Edward, commonly called Earle of Warwicke (who dyed without issue, being beheaded in the Tower of London, the 15. of King Henry the 7.) and Margaret, Countesse of Salisbury, who was wife to Sir Richard Pole Knight, Father of Henry Lord Montague, and Reginald Pole Cardinall; which Margaret was also beheaded, in the 33. yeare of King Henry the eight. This George was secretly murdered in the Tower of London, 1477. and was buried at Teukes­bury.

ROger Montgomery, Earle of Belesmo in Norman­dy, sonne of Hugh Montgomery and Sibell his wife, daughter of Herfastus the Dane, (brother of Gonor, wife of Richard the first Duke of Nor­mandy of that name) came into England with William the Conqueror: vnto whom the saide William did giue (for his good seruice) the Earledomes of Arundell and Shrewsbury. He married Mabiria, daughter and heyre of William Taluays, with whom he had all her Fathers Inheritance, (as William Gemiticensis hath, page 686,) and had issue fiue sonnes and foure daughters, viz. Hugh and Robert, both Earles of Arun­dell and Shrewsbury; Roger the third sonne (surnamed Pictauensis) was Lord of the Honour of Lancaster; Arnulph the fourth sonne, was Castle-keeper of Penbrooke, and Philip was the fift sonne. His daughters were, Emma, Matilda the second daughter was married vnto Robert Earle of Moretaigne; Mahell was the third daughter, and Sibell the fourth daughter was maried vnto Robert Fitz-Hamon, Lord of Glamorgan in South-Wales; which Robert, founded or re-edifi­ed the Monastery of Tewkesbury. This Earle Roger was left by William Con­queror to be Gouernor to his sonne William Rufus, and was after slaine at Cair­diffe in South-Wales, 1091. and was buried in the Abbey at Shrewsbury, which before he had founded.

HVgh de Belismo, sonne and heyre of Roger aforesaid, was after his Father, Earle of Arundell and Shrewsbury, and was slaine at Anglesey in North-Wales, 1098, (by Magnus, a Pirate of the Isles of Orcades) with the shot of an Arrowe which strooke him in the eye. He dyed without issue, & was buried by his Father in the Abbey at Shrewsbury. I finde no Armes borne by him.

RObert de Belismo, after the death of Hugh his Brother, was the third Earle of Arundell and Shrewsbury; who entring into rebellion, manned and fortified his Castle of A­rundell, against King Henry the first, 1103. and was by the said King banished England, and his Castle and Honour of Arundell giuen in dower to Queene Adeliza, the Wife of King Henry the first. And after being taken at the battaile of Trenchbray in Normandy, with Robert Courtoise Duke of Normandy, were both brought into England & imprisoned in the Castle of Cairdiffe, where they had their eyes put out, & remained prisoners during their liues, as in the title of Shrewsbury is more at large.

WIlliam de Albeneio, sonne of William de Albeneio who came into England with William the Conqueror, and had giuen him the Castle of Bockenham and the Mannor of Wymondham in Norfolke, to hold of the King to him and his heires to be the Kings Butlers at their Coronations. He was after Earle of Chichester, in the 19. yeare of King Stephen as doth appeare by the Charter of King Stephen, of the pacifi­cation of the troubles betwixt him and Henry Duke of Nor­mandy (Holinshed, page 63.) and diuers other the said Willi­ams owne Charters. He married Queene Adeliza the widow of King Henry the first, and daughter of Godfrey Duke of Lo­raine, with whom he had the Castle and Honor of Arundell (being her dower) which Mauld the Empresse afterwards proclaimed him Earle thereof (which ti­tle it is said) that King Henry the second confirmed to the saide William and his heyres in the first yeare of his Reigne. This William, with Reginald de Warren, conducted Mauld the daughter of King Henry the first into Saxony, to be mar­ried vnto Duke Henry, after Emperor in the yeare 1114. He founded the Pri­ory of Bockenham, and dyed in the third yeare of King Henry the second, and was buried in the Priory at Wymondham by his Father, leauing issue by his wife Queene Adeliza, two sonnes, and a daughter, viz. William, Godfrey, and Alice; which Alice was married to Iohn Earle of Angie.

WIlliam de Albeney, the sonne of William and Queene Adeliza, was the second Earle of Arundell of that name: he was alwayes faithfull vnto King Henry the second, and ayded him against Henry the young King his sonne, & tooke prisoners at the battaile fought at Saint Edmundsbu­ry, 1173. Robert Earle of Leicester, Hugh Earle of Chester, and Hugh de Chasteles a Frenchman with many others, and sent them into Normandy to King Henry the second, who imprisoned them in the Castle of Faloys. He married Mauld daughter and heyre of Iames de Santo Hillary, and the wid­dow of Roger Earle of Clare, by whom he had issue, William the third Earle of Arundell and Alan; and after dyed at Wa­uerly the 4. Ides of October, 1177. and was buried at Wymondham (as Mathew Paris hath, page 127.)

WIlliam de Albeney, the third Earle of Arundell, vnto whom (as Roger Houeden hath, page 320.) King Henry the second in the yeare 1177. did giue the Earledome of Sussex: At which time he restored to Robert Earle of Lei­cester, and Hugh Earle of Chester, all their Lands which they were seized of fifteene dayes before the warre began. He married Mabell, daughter of Hugh Keuilioc Earle of Chester, and second sister and co-heyre of Randoll Blundeuile, the sixt Earle of Chester: and had issue, two sonnes & foure daugh­ters, viz. William and Hugh, both Earles of Arundell & Sus­sex, who died without issue: Mabell the eldest daughter, was married vnto Sir Robert Tatesall Knight; Isabell the second daughter was married to Iohn Fitz-Alan, Lord of Clun and Oswaldstre; Nicho­lea the thirde daughter was Wife to Roger Lord Somery; and Cecily the fourth daughter, was married to Roger Lord Monthault of Hawarden in Flintshire. This William dyed in the yeare 1196. and was buried at Wymondham.

WIlliam de Albeney the fourth Earle of Arundell, and second Earle of Sussex of that name, dyed without issue, in his returne from Ierusalem, in the yeare of our Lord, 1221. and was brought into England, and buried at Wymond­ham. Leauing his rich patrimony to his Brother Hugh, who being vnder age, Hubert de Burgo Earle of Kent and Chiefe-Iustice of England had his Wardship.

HVgh de Albeney, second sonne of William the third, and Brother and heire of William de Albeney, the fourth Earle of Arundell, was the fift and last Earle of Arundell, and third Earle of Sussex of that Family. He married Isabell, daugh­ter of William Earle Warren and Surrey, and dyed without issue, and was buried at Wymondham by his Ancestours, in the yeare of our Lord, 1243. the 28. of King Henry the third, leauing his foure sisters his heyres, who made partition of his Lands in the yeare aboue said. Mabell the eldest sister, had the Mannor of Bockenham; Isabell the second sister had the Castle and honour of Arundell; Nicholea had the Man­nor of Barrow; and Cecily the fourth sister had the Mannor of Rising in Norfolke, with diuers other Lands, and were married as afore­said.

RIchard Fitz-Alan, Lord of Clun and Oswaldstre in Wales, (sonne and heire of Iohn Fitz-Alan, grandchilde of a­nother Iohn Fitz-Alan and Isabell d' Albeney his wife (by their sonne Iohn) was the first Earle of Arundell of that surname. This Isabell being the second sister and co-heire of Hugh de Albeney, had the Castle and Lordship of Arundell by parti­tion allotted to her for her part. Which Castle and Seig­neury of Arundell, being now descended vnto this Richard, he claimed the Title and Name of Earle of Arundell; and by reason of the possession thereof only, was without any other creation, Earle of Arundell, and had place and voyce in Par­liament, by the name and tytle of Richard Earle of Arundel; [Page 5]as more at large is sette downe in an Acte of Parliament, made the eleuenth of King Henry the sixt; by occasion of that memorable competition betweene Iohn Mowbray Duke of Norfolke, and Iohn Fitz-Alan Lord Maltreuers, for the saide Earledome of Arundell, as heereafter is set foorth. This Richard marri­ed Alizon, daughter of the Marquesse of Saluce in Italy; by whom he had issue, Edmond Earle of Arundell; Isabell wife to Hugh Lord Spencer, Earle of Win­chester; Mauld married to Phillip Lord Burnell; & Margaret the third daugh­ter was married to William Boteler, second Baron of Wemme. Hee dyed in the 30. yeare of King Edward the first; & his wife dyed in the yeare, 1292. the 21. of Edward the first.

EDmund Fitz-Alan, sonne and heire of Richard aforesaid, was after the death of his Father, Lord of Clun and Os­waldstre, and second Earle of Arundell of that surname. He married Alice, daughter of William, and sister and heire of Iohn Earle Warren and Surrey, by whom he had issue Richard a sonne, and two daughters. Alice the eldest daughter was married to Iohn de Bohun, Earle of Hereford and Essex, and Constable of England; Iane the second daughter, married Warren Lord Lisle. This Edmund was borne in the Castle of Malborough: he was very hatefull to Queene Isabell, who by the meanes of her Minion Roger Lord Mortimer, was taken at Shrewsbury, and brought to Hereford, & there be­headed, in the twentieth yeare of King Edward the second.

RIchard Fitz-Alan, sonne of Edmond afore-said, was the third Earle of Arundell of that sur-name, Lord of Clun and Oswaldstre (and by his Mother Earle Warren and Surrey, Lord of Bromfield, Yale, Chircland, and Dinas bran in North- Wales.) He was restored in bloud by King Edward the third, and entailed the Castle, Honour, and Lordship of Arundell, in the 21. yeare of king Edw. the third, to himselfe for terme of life, the remainder to his heires male of his body begot­ten and to bee begotten of the body of Elianor his Wife, Daughter of Henry Plantagenet Earle of Lancaster, and Si­ster of Henry Duke of Warwicke; by whom hee had [Page 6]issue, three sonnes, and foure daughters, viz, Richard after Earle of Arundell, Sir Iohn of Arundel, knight (that married Elianor, daughter of Iohn Lord Mal­treuers, and sister and heyre of Henry Baron Maltreuers; in whose right he was after Lord Maltreuers, and sayling into little Britaine, was drowned neere vn­to the Coast of Ireland, the fifteenth of December, 1379. Leauing issue, Iohn Lord Maltreuers, & others.) And Thomas the third sonne of the said Richard, was Archbishop of Canterbury, & L. Chancellor of England. Alice the eldest daughter was married to Thomas Holland, Earle of Kent; Elianor the second daughter dyed young; Ioan the third daughter was married to Humfrey de Bo­hun Earle of Hereford, &c. and Mary the fourth daughter, was married vnto Iohn Lord Strange of Blackmere. This Richard dyed in the Castle of Arundell, the 49. of King Edward the third, and was buried in the Priory of Lewis.

RIchard Fitz-Alan, sonne of Richard aforesaid, was the fourth Earle of Arundell and Surrey, and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter. He married Elizabeth, daugh­ter of William de Bohun, Earle of Northampton, and had issue three sonnes, and foure daughters, viz. Thomas Earle of A­rundell and Surrey; Richard and William dyed both yong without issue. Elizabeth the eldest daughter, was married to Thomas L. Mowbray Earle of Nottingham; & after to Sir Ro­bert Gousell knight. Ioan the second daughter, was married to William Beauchampe Baron of Abergauenny (Father of Ri­chard Earle of Worcester.) Margaret the third daughter, was married to Sir Rowland Lenthall knight, and had issue, Edward that dyed without issue. Alice the fourth daughter was maried to Iohn Charlton Lord Po­wis, and dyed without issue. This Richard the fourth Earle of Arundell, marri­ed to his second wife, Phillip daughter of Edmond Mortimer Earle of March, widow of Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbrooke, and had issue Iohn that dyed yong. This Richard, with Thomas Duke of Glocester, Thomas Earle of Warwicke, and Thomas Mowbray Earle Marshall and others, combined and sware each to o­ther, against Robert Vere Duke of Ireland, and Michael de la Pole Duke of Suf­folke, for abusing and misleading the King. For which, and some other causes King Richard the second obiected against them, some of them were banished, others condemned to perpetuall prisonment, and this Richard beheaded at the Tower-hill by London, whose body was buried in the Augustine-Fryars, in Lon­don, the 21. of King Richard the second.

THomas Fitz-Alan, sonne of the aforesaid Richard, was restored in bloud the first yeare of King Henry the 4. and was the fift Earle of Arundel and Surrey of that name. He maried Beatrix, base daughter of Iohn king of Portingall, in the Citty of London, 1405. in the presence of King Henry the fourth, but had no issue; by reason whereof; all his Lands pertaining and belonging to the Earldomeof Surrey, was diuided and went amongst his sisters before mentioned, and the Earldome of Arundell, with the Lands thereunto be­longing and intailed, went to Iohn Fitz-Alan Lord Maltre­uers, son of Iohn Lord Maltreuers, grandchild of Iohn Fitz-Alan, Lord Maltreuers, and Elianor his wife, sister and heyre of Henry Lord Maltreuers: (which last Iohn, was Vnckle of this Thomas the fift Earle of Arun­dell, who dyed in the yeare of our Lord God, 1416.

IOhn Fitz-Alan Lord Maltreuers, sonne of Iohn Lord Mal­treuers, granchilde and heire of Iohn Fitz-Alan Lord Mal­treuers, and Elianor his wife, sister and heyre of Henry Lord Maltreuers: vpon whom (as next heire male vnto Thomas Fitz-Alan, Earle of Arundell aforesaid) the Castle and Seig­neury of Arundell descended, by vertue of the entaile for­merly made by Richard Fitz-Alan the third Earle of Arun­dell, in the 21. yeare of King Edward the third. In right of which his possession of the said Castle and Lordship of A­rundell, the saide Iohn Fitz-Alan Lord Maltreuers by Petiti­on in Parliament, the 11. of King Henry the sixt, pursued his claime to the Earledome of Arundell (before set on foote by his Father Iohn Fitz-Alan Lord Maltreuers, vpon the death of Thomas Fitz-Alan late Earle of Arundell) alledging that all his Ancestours, as well before as since the Con­quest, which had beene seized of the Castle, Honor and Seigneury of Arundell, had beene Earles of Arundell. Vnto which Petition, Iohn Mowbray Duke of Norfolke appeared, who as heire to Elizabeth, second sister and co-heire of the foresaid Thomas Earle of Arundell (from whom the saide Duke stood already possessed of the Earledome of Surrey) made his claime likewise to the Earle­dome of Arundell. Whereupon the King and the Lords then assembled in Par­liament, vpon a deliberate hearing of the matter, approuing the aforesaid alle­gations of the Lord Maltreuers, touching the Castle and Seigneury of Arun­dell; and finding him accordingly to be by descent lawfully seized of the saide Castle and Seigneury of Arundell; did by acte of Parliament declare the saide [Page] Iohn Lord Maltreuers to be without any other creation, Earle of Arundell. This Iohn married Mauld, daughter and heire of Robert Louell and Elizabeth Brian his wife, daughter and heyre of Sir Guy de Bryan the yonger, and had issue, Humfrey Fitz-Alan the seuenth Earle of Arundell; & Amicia married to Iames Boteler Earle of Ormond and Wiltshire. He dyed in the thirteenth yeare of King Henry the sixt, and was buried at Lewis in Sussex.

Milles, page 656. setteth downe, that King Henry the 6. by his Charter bearing date the 12. yeare of his Reigne, did giue the Dukedome of Torraine to this Iohn and his heires male. To this, M. Camden in the Margent of this my Booke, replieth and saith, That true it is this Iohn had the profits of the said Dukedome giuen him, but not the Title, Name, and Stile of Duke. Which I meruaile greatly at, considering that in his last Impression of his Britannia, page 310. hee saies, that this Iohn was created Duke of Torraine Which if he say truely, then had he both the name & stile of Duke.

HVmfrey Fitz-Alan, after the death of his Father was the seuenth Earle of Arundell, and dyed yong without issue, in the sixteenth yeare of the Reigne of King Henry the sixt, leauing William his Vnckle to succeed him in the Earledome of Arundell.

WIlliam Fitz-Alan, Vnckle and heyre of Humfrey a­foresaide, was the eight Earle of Arundell of that name, and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter. In this Williams time the 18. of king Henry the 6. there grew a que­stion in Parliament for precedency of place, betweene him and Thomas Earle of Deuonshire; who alledged, that the said William Earle of Arundell, holding by the late creation (as he supposed) of Iohn Fitz-Alan Lord Maltreuers, in the 11. yeare of the fore-saide King, ought not to haue priority of him: whereupon the Acte of Parliament aforesaid concer­ning Iohn Earle of Arundell, was had into consideration [Page 8]by the King and the Lords of the vpper house, and the Lords Comitties, after great consultation and perusall of Euidences (as is there said) did conclude, that the saide William was not Earle by way of any late creation, but was de­clared Earle of Arundell, in as much as he was Lord and Heritor of the Castle, Honour, and Seigneury of Arundell: and that the Name and Title of Earle, belonged to the said Castle and Honour, and had alwaies done to the Lords of the said Castle, of time that no minde is, & long before. So as it was then by the King, with the aduice of the Lords spiritual & temporal, declared and decreed, that the said William Earle of Arundel shold haue, keep, & enioy his seat, roome, and place in the Parliaments and Councels, and in other places in the Kinges presence, by way of preheminence and worship, as euer had any of his Ance­stors, Earles of Arundell afore this time; as in the saide Parliament Rowle is more at large. This William married Ioan, daughter of Richard Neuill Earle of Salisbury, and sister of Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke, by whom hee had is­sue, Thomas Fitz-Alan the 9. Earle of Arundell; William, George, and Iohn, and a daughter named Mary; and dyed in the third yeare of King Henry the sea­uenth.

THomas Fitz-Alan, after the death of William his Father, was the ninth Earle of Arundell of that name, Lord Maltreuers, and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter, and married Margaret, daughter of Richard Wooduile, Earle Riuers and Baron of Wimington, slaine at Banbury the 10. of King Edward the fourth, and second sister and one of the heires of Richard Earle Riuers her brother; & had issue, two sonnes and two daughters, viz. William the tenth Earle of Arundell, and Edward: Margaret the eldest daughter, was married vnto Iohn de la Pole Earle of Lincolne; and Ioan the second daughter was married vnto George Neuill, Baron of Abergauenny. He dyed in his Parke of Dunlee, the 16. of King Henry the 8. & was buried at Arundell the 21. of Nouember, 1524.

WIlliam Fitz-Alan, sonne and heire of Thomas afore­said, was the tenth Earle of Arundel, Lord Maltre­uers, Clun, and Oswaldstre; hee married to his first Wife, Anne daughter of Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland, & had issue Henry the eleuenth Earle of Arundell, Anne and Katherine, which two daughters dyed both without yssue. His second Wife was Elizabeth daughter of Robert Wil­loughby Lord Brooke, by whom he had issue two daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth that dyed also without yssue. This William dyed in the 35. yeare of King Henry 8. and was bu­ried in the Castle of Arundell, 1543.

HEnry Fitz-Alan, sonne of William aforesaide, was after his Father Earle of Arundell, Lord Maltreuers, Clun, &c. and Knight of the honorable Order of the Garter. He married two Wiues; the first was Katherine, daughter of Thomas Gray Marquesse Dorset, Lord Bonuile and Haring­ton, and sister of Henry Gray Duke of Suffolke; by whom he had issue Henry Lord Maltreuers, which married Anne, daughter and sole heyre of Sir Iohn Wentworth Knight, and died and was buried at Bruxels without issue, 1556. being but nineteene yeares of age. Hee had also two daughters his heires, Iane the eldest was married to Iohn Lord Lum­ley, and had issue Charles, Thomas, and Mary, which dyed all three without issue. Mary the second daughter and co-heire, was married to Thomas Howard the last Duke of Norfolke of that family; and had issue Phil­lip Howard after Earle of Arundell. This Henry maried to his second wife, Ma­ry daughter of Sir Iohn Arundell of the West Country Knight, the widdow of Robert Radcliffe Earle of Sussex, by whom he had no issue. He was Gouernor of Callis when King Henry the eight besiedged Boloine, and Lord Marshall of his army, Lord Chamberlaine to King Henry the eight, King Edward the sixt, and Lord Steward of the Houshold to Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth, and dyed very old the 25. of February, 1579. the 22. of Queeene Elizabeth, & was buried at Arundell with his Ancestors.

PHillip Howard eldest son of Thomas late Duke of Norfolk, attainted as aforesaid, & of Marie his wife, second daugh­ter and co-heire of Henry Fitz-Alan abouesaid (vnto whom was conueyed the Castle and Honour of Arundell) did in right thereof (vpon the death of Henry Fitz-Alan his grand father) assume the Name and Title of Earle of Arundel, be­ing not as yet restored in blood, and by that name was sum­moned to the Parliament holden at Westminster, the 16. day of Ianuary following, in the 23. of Queen Elizabeth, and sate there in presence of the said Queene as Earle of Arun­dell almost two monthes before his restitution in blood, which was concluded in the vpper house of Parliament, on the tenth day of March after, as doth appeare by the Iournall booke of that Parliament. He married Anne daughter of Thomas Lord Dacres, and sister and co-heire of George Lord Dacres of Gillesland, by whom he had issue Thomas Howard now Earle of Arundell, 1619. This Phillip was attainted of Treason the 14. of A­prill, 1589. and died a naturall death in the Tower of London, the 19. day of Nouember, 1595.

THomas Howard Earle of Arundell and Surrey, the onely sonne of Phillip Earle of Arundel, was restored in blood by King Iames in the second yeare of his reigne, 1604. and after made one of the saide Kings most Honourable Preuy Councell, Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter, and one of the Lordes Commissioners for the office of Earle Marshall of England. This Noble Lord out of his loue and honourable disposition (with the other Lords Commissio­ners) was the means that his Maiesty did augment and dou­ble the pensions of the Kings Heraulds and Pursuiuants of Armes, with an allowance of ten pounds the yeare for euer, towards the maintenance and repairing of their Office or Colledge. He mar­ried Aletheia yongest daughter and coheire of Gilbert Talbot Earle of Shrews­bury, by whom he had issue Iames Lord Maltreuers, and Knight of the Bath, Sir Henry Howard knight of the Bath: Thomas and Gilbert died both young, William and Charles Howard, Anno 1618.

STephen, sonne of Eudo, Earle of Blesensis and Champaine, by Matild his Wife, halfe sister by the Mother to William Conquerour, was Lord of the Citty of Albemarle in Norman­die, (by the gift of Odo, Bishop of Bayon and Earle of Kent his Vnckle) Of which Citty, King William Ru­fus in the sixt yeare of his Reigne, did not onely create him Earle of, but also gaue him the Isle of Holdernesse, with the Castle and Towne of Bitham, and other great Seigniories & Lands in England and Normandie. In the fiue and twentieth yeare of King Henry the first, this Stephen was Witnesse to the saide Kings Charter of Lands that he gaue to the Abbey of Reading. He married [...] daughter of Roger Mortimer, sonne of Raphe, and had issue three sonnes and foure daughters; William Earle of Albemarle, Stephen, and Ingeram: the daughters were all married out of England, but the youngest, who was first married vnto William de Romare, Earle of Lincolne, and after to Peter de Brus, who dyed in the Holy-Land, in the sixe and twentieth yeare of King Henry the first.

VVIlliam surnamed le Gros, sonne of Stephen, was after the death of his father Earle of Abemarle, and Lord of Holdernesse; he married Cicely daughter of William Fitz Duncan (sonne of Malcolme King of Scots) by Alice de Rume­ly Lady of Harwood, with whom he had in marriage the Ho­nour and Lands of Crauen in Yorkeshire, and had issue Hawis his onely daughter and heire, first married to William de Mag­nauile Earle of Essex, and after to William de Fortibus, (or de Forts) Baron of Olem, by whom she had issue William de Forts Earl of Albemarle, father of Aueline, wife of Edmond first earle of Lancaster (sonne of King Henry the third:) lastly the said Hawis married Baldwin de Betun. This William le Grosse founded the Abbey of Melsa, Anno one thousand one hundred and fiftie, and dyed the seauen and twentieth yeare of King Henry the second, and was buried in the Abbey of Thornton, which was of his owne foundation.

VVIlliam Magnauile Earle of Essex, and Lord of Plesse; and in right of Hawis his wife, daughter and heire of William le Grosse, was also Earle of Albemarle, and Lord of Holdernesse, in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hun­dred seuenty and nine, and died at Roane, in the second yeare of King Richard the first, without issue.

WIlliam de Fortibus, Baron of Olem, second husband vnto Hawis Countesse of Albemarle, Daughter and heire of William le Grosse, in whose right he was Earle of Al­bemarle, and Lord of Holdernesse, by whom hee had issue, William Earle of Albemarle (father of Aueline wife of Edmond Earle of Lancaster.) This William de Forts, by the name of Earle of Albemarle, in the sixt yeare of the reigne of King Ri­chard the first, was a witnesse to the saide Kings Charter of Lands that hee gaue to Reginald de Argentyne, and died in the seuenth yeare of King Richard the first.

BAldwine de Betun (by consent of King Richard the fir [...] married, and was the third husband to Hawis Counte [...] of Albemarle, Daughter of William le Grosse; in whose right [...] was Earle of Albemarle, and Lord of Holdernesse, by who [...] he had issue one only daughter his heire named Hawis, whi [...] was married to William, sonne and heire of William Marsh [...] Earle of Penbrooke, and died without issue. Maister Lambert in his Perambulation of Kent page 533. saith, That this Ba [...] wine de Betun liued, and was a Testie in the seauenth yeare [...] King Iohn; and therefore I holde him the third husband to Hawis Countesse of Albemarle, and not the second, as Ma [...] ­ster Camden and Maister Milles haue set him downe to be, her other two h [...] ­bands being dead long before. This Baldwine dyed in the thirteenth yeare o [...] King Iohn, and was buried in the Abbey of Meaux, whereof he was the Foun­der.

WIlliam de Fortibus, sonne of William de Forts by Ha [...] Countesse of Albemarle aforesaide, after the death of his mother, and her three husbands, was the sixt Earle of A [...] ­bemarle, and Lord of Holdernesse: He maried Auelyne daugh­ter of Richard Lord Montfichet, and by her had issue William which was after Earle of Albemarle. This William died in the six and twentith yeare of King Henry the third, and was bu­ried in the Abbey of Meaux.

VVIlliam de Fortibus, the last of that name and Familie, was the seauenth Earle of Albemarle, and Lord of Holdernesse, &c. He married to his first wife Christian daugh­ter of Alan Earle of Galloway in Scotland, who died without is­sue, the 30. yeare of King Henry the third, and was buried in the Abbey of Thornton. His second wife was Isabel daugh­ter of Bauldwine, the fourth of that name Earle of Deuon, and sister and heire to Baldwine the fift and last Earle of Deuon of the surname of Riuers; by whom he had issue two sonnes, and two daughters. Thomas the eldest sonne died without is­sue, and was buried at Stamford; William the second Sonne [Page 13]died at Oxford without issue, and was buried by his brother; Auice the eldest sister died also without issue, and was buried in the Abbey of Melsa; and Aue­line the second sister and co-heire of Baldwine aforesaid, was married in the fifty foure yeare of king Henry the third, to Edmond Crooke-backe Earle of Lancaster, second sonne of the said king Henry the third. This Countesse of Albemarle and Deuon, and Lady of the Isle of Wight (for so she writ her selfe) ouer liued her husband, and in her widdow-hood sold the Isle of Wight, and a great part of the Earledome of Deuon, and counselled her daughter Aueline to giue her whole in­heritance, after her death (from the Courtneis her next heires) to Lord Edmond her husband and his heires, which she accordingly did. This William died in the fortith yeare of king Henry the third, and was buried in the Abbey of Meaux.

THomas of Woodstocke, sixt son of King Edward the third, was by King Richard the second, created Earle of Albe­marle, (he was also Earle of Buckingham and Northampton, Duke of Glocester and Constable of England) and married Elianor daughter and co-heire of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford, Essex, and Constable of England, and had issue, Humfrey Earle of Buckingham, and Anne married to Edmond Earl Stafford. This Thomas of Woodstock was taken by force out of his Castle of Plessy in Essex, by Thomas Mowbray Earle Marshall of England, and conueied secretly to Callis, and there most cruelly murthered: his body beeing brought ouer into England, was buried at Westminster the xxij. of King Richard the second, 1398.

EDward Plantagenet, sonne and heire of Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke, in the thirteenth yeare of King Richard the second, was Earle of Rutland and Corke, his father then liuing; and in the one and twentith of the said Kings reigne, hee was created Duke of Albemarle, from which Dukedome he was deposed by Parliament, in the first yeare of King Henrie the fourth. He married Phillip daughter and co-heire of Iohn de Mohun Lord of Dunsten, and was slaine at the battell of E­gencourt 1415. and was buried at Fotheringale without issue.

THomas Duke of Clarence (second sonne to King Henrie the fourth, in the thirteenth yeare of his Fathers reigne, was created Earle of Albemarle, and was after slaine by the Duke of Orliance at Bangie bridge in France, the ninth of K. Henry the fift, without issue; and his body being brought o­uer into England, was buried in Christ-Church in Canter­burie.

RIchard Beauchampe, Earle of Warwicke (Lieutenant Gene­rall vnder Iohn Duke of Bedford Regent of France) was by King Henry the sixt created Earle of Albemarle. Hee mar­ried for his second wife Isabell the Widdow of Richard Beau­champe Earle of Worcester (his cousine Germane) daughter and heire of Thomas Lord Spencer, and Earle of Glocester, by whom he had issue Henry Duke of Warwicke, &c. He dyed at Roan in the 17. yeare of King Henry the sixt, and was bu­ried at Warwicke.

GIlbert Vmfreuile, Earle of Anguish, Lord of Prodhoo, Ot­terborne, Harbotle, and Ridesdale, a man of great Fame heere in England in King Henry the thirds time, and King Ed­ward the first; married and had issue Gilbert and Robert, both Earles of Anguish.

GIlbert Vmfreuile, sonne and heire of Gilbert aforesaid, was after the death of his Father also Earle of Anguish, Lord of Prodhoo, &c. He fought the battell of Argile: after which, hee with William Valence Earle of Penbroke, encountred Ro­bert Brus King of Scots, at S. Iohns Towne in Scotland. This Gilbert sate in Parliament helde at Northampton in the first yeare of King Edward the first, by the name and Title of Earle of Anguish, in which yeare he died without issue.

RObert Vmfreuile (second sonne of the first Gilbert, & bro­ther and heire to the last Gilbert) was after his Brother Earle of Anguish, Lord of Prodhoo, &c. He sate in Parliament held at Westminster, the second yeare of King Edward the se­cond, and so continued vnto the seuenteenth of the same Kings reigne, as Earle of Anguish, and then dyed. He marri­ed Luce daughter and heire of Phillip de Kime, a great Baron, and had issue Gilbert, Robert, and Thomas; and a Daughter named Elionor, married to Sir Gilbert Borrowdon, Knight.

GIlbert Vmfreuile (sonne and heire of Robert) was after his Father Earle of Anguish, Lord of Prodhoo, Otterborne, Harebotle, and Ridesdale, and by his mother Lord of Kyme. Hee married to his first wife, Iane daughter of Robert Lord Willoughby; and after, he married Matild, daughter & heire of Sir Thomas Lucy of Cockermoth knight, and dyed without issue in the yeare 1384. (His last wife was maried afterwards vnto Henry Percy first Earle of Northumberland.) This Gil­bert fought the battell of Gladesmore, at which time hee was Marshall of Scotland, & sate in Parliaments in England from the eight yeere of K. Edward the third, vntill the fourth of King Richard the second, by the name and title of Gilbert Earle of Anguish.

RObert Vmfreuile (second Brother of the last Gilbert) in the eight yeere of King Henry the fift, was created Earle of Kyme, and was after slain by the Duke of Orleance at Ban­gie-bridge in France, the ninth of King Henry the fift, & was buried at Calice, and after remooued from thence and inter­red in the Monastery of Kyme. Hee married Anne, daughter of Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland.

This Robert haue I made to be Earle of Kyme (vpon the cre­dit of Claurenciux Cooke) and yet do I greatly doubt therof, for that I cannot euer finde any of that Name and Family to sitte in Parliament after the last Earle Gilbert (in the fourth yeare of King Richard the second) brother of this Robert. This descent of Vmfreuile is diuersly set forth by sundry persons, who haue made many heyres male to the last Gilbert more then I can finde any good proofe for. Therefore for the better cleering thereof, take this out of the Kings Records: Gilbert the last Earl of Anguish, with Mauld Lucy his wife, did entaile diuers lands to themselues, and the heyres of their two bodies: and for default thereof, to Robert his brother, and to the heirs male of his body: and for default thereof, to Thomas Vmfreuile his third Brother, and to the heires male of his body: and for default thereof, the remainder to Elizabeth (or Elionor) his Sister, wife of Gilbert Borrowdon, and the heires of their two bodyes: and that Elionor the wife of Henry Talboys is daughter and heire of Gilbert Borrow­don, and Neece and heire of the saide last Earle Gilbert, and is forty yeares of age.

DAuid (sur-named) Strathbogie, Earle of Atholl in King Henry the thirds time, married Isabell, one of the Daughters & Heyres of Richard of Chil­lam (base sonne of King Iohn) and had issue, two sonnes, Iohn and Dauid, Iohn was hanged, and died without issue: Dauid his Brother succeeded him in the Earledome.

DAuid Stratbolgie or Strathbolgie, second sonne and heire of Dauid, Earle of Atholl, married Ioane, daughter & one of the heires of Iohn Lord Comen of Badzenoth; and of Ioane his Wife, second sister and one of the heires of Aymer de Va­lence Earle of Penbroke, with whom hee had in mariage the Barony and Castle of Mitford in Northumberland, and sate in Parliament by the name and title of Earle of Atholl, the 17. yeare of King Edward the second, and the fifteenth of King Edward the third, and had issue, Dauid Earle of Atholl, Elizabeth and Philip, and was slaine by Andrew Murrey, in the yeare 1335.

DAuid Strathbolgie, after the death of his Father Dauid, was Earle of Atholl in Scotland, and Baron of Mitford in England: he sate in Parliament helde at Westminster, the 43. of King Edward the third, by the name and title of Earle of Atholl, and died in the 44. yeare of the same Kings reigne. After whose death his inheritance was diuided betweene his two sisters and heires: Elizabeth the eldest sister was maried to Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester; and Philip the second, was married to Sir Iohn Halsham Knight, and had issue. After the death of this last Dauid, the title of Earle of Atholl went to the Family of Stewarts in Scotland.

WAlter Gifford, the second of that name, Earle of Longuile in Normandy, came into England with William the Conqueror, and was a Wit­nesse to King Henry the first his Charter, for the reformation of the Lawes and Customes of England. He married [...] and had issue Walter the se­cond Earle of Buckingham, and Hugh. Hee had also a Sister, named Rhohisia, married to Richard Fitz-Gilbert, Lord of Clare and Tunbridge, Grand-father of Gilbert sur-named Strongbow, Earle of Penbroke (by his sonne Gilbert.)

WAlter Gifford, the second Earle of Buckingham, and of Longuile in Normandy in France, married one Er­myngard, who with her said husband founded the Abbey of Notley neere to the Towne of Buckingham, in King Henrie the seconds time. The said Walter dyed without yssue, and was buried in the saide Abbey, in the yeare 1164. leauing al his entailed Lands to Osbert Gifford his nephew (by his bro­ther Hugh:) and all his other Lands to William Marshal earle of Penbroke, who had married Isabell daughter and heyre of Richard Strongbow, sonne of Gilbert Earle of Penbroke, grand­child to Rhohisia Gifford aforenamed.

THomas of Woodstocke (sixt sonne of King Edw. the third) being Constable of England, was in the first yeare of K. Richard the second created Earle of Buckingham, and sate in Parliament the same yeare by that name and Title; and in the ninth year of the said Kings reigne, he was created Duke of Glocester. He married Elianor daughter and co-heyre of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, and Constable of England; by whom hee had issue Humfrey Earle of Buckingham; and Anne, who was married to Ed­mond Earle Stafford. This Thomas was strangled to death vnder a Feather-bed at Callis, by Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolke, and Marshall of England, 1396.

HVmfrey Plantagenet (sonne of Thomas of Woodstocke) af­ter the death of his Father was Earle of Buckingham, and being banished England into Ireland, was re-called backe a­gain by King Henry the fourth, in the first year of his reigne, in which returne hee dyed of the plague at Chester, (others haue at Couentry) and was buried in the Abbey of Walden in Essex, without issue.

HVmfrey Stafford (sonne and heire of Edmond Earle Staf­ford, by Anne Plantagenet, daughter of Thomas of Wood­stocke) was created the first Duke of Buckingham, in the 22. yeare of K. Hen. 6. 1443. and to haue the precedent place of all other Dukes in England. He married Anne, Daughter of Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland, and had issue foure sonnes and three daughters, viz. Humsrey Earle of Stafford the eldest sonne slaine at S. Albons the 33. yeare of K. Hen. 6. (in the life time of his father) Iohn Stafford the second sonne was Earle of Wiltshire; Richard the third sonne dyed young; and Robert the fourth sonne was Archbyshop of Canterbury. Katherine the eldest daughter, was married vnto Iohn Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury; Iane the second daughter, was married first to William Lord Bardolph, and after to Sir William Knyuet Knight; and Anne the third daughter was first maried to Aubrey de Vere (son and heire of the Earle of Ox­ford) and after to Sir Tho: Cobham Knight. This Humfrey with Iohn Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury, Thomas Lord Egremont, and Iohn Viscount Beaumont, was slaine at the battell of Northampton, in the 38. yeare of K. Hen. 6. 1460. (the king being then taken prisoner) and his body buried in the Gray-Friars at Northampton.

HEnry Stafford (sonne and heire of Humfrey Earle Staf­ford, slaine at the first battell of S. Albons, 1455.) after the death of Humfrey Duke of Buckingham his grand-father, was Duke of Buckingham, Earle Stafford, Hereford, and Nor­thampton, Lord of Brecknocke, Kimbalton, and Tunbridge, was by King Richard the third, 1482. made Constable of Eng­land. Hee married Katherine daughter of Richard Wooduile, Earle Riuers, and sister and heire of Anthony Wooduile Earle Riuers, by whom he had issue Edward Stafford D [...]ke of Buc­Kingham, Henry Earle of Wiltshire, and Humfrey that dyed [Page 20]young. Elizabeth married to Robert Radcliff Lord Fitz-Walter. Anne the se­cond daughter was first married to Sir Walter Herbert, Knight, and after vnto George Lord Hastings, and Earle of Huntingdon, by whom she had issue, Francis Earle of Huntingdon and others. This Henry Duke of Buckingham was behea­ded at Salisbury, the 2. of King Richard the third, for plotting with Henry Earle of Richmond, against the said King.

EDward Stafford (sonne and heire of Henry aforesaid) be­ing restored, the first of King Henry the seuenth, 1486. was the last Duke of Buckingham; he maried Elianor daugh­ter of Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland, and had issue, Henry Lord Stafford (who married Vrsuld daughter of Sir Richard Pole, knight, and of Margaret his Wife, daughter of George Duke of Clarence) and three daughters, viz. Elizabeth married to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke, and Earl Mar­shall of England. Katherine the second daughter, was married to Raffe Neuill Earle of Westmerland: and Mary the third daughter, was married to George Neuill Baron of Abergauen­ny. This Edward, for consulting with a Monke (or Wizard) how he might ob­taine the Crowne; was araigned at Westminster Hall, before the Duke of Nor­folke, then high Steward of England, and found guilty of high treason, and af­terwards beheaded at the Tower Hill by London, the 13. of King Henry the 8. 1521.

SIR George Villers Kinght, (a yonger sonne of Sir George Villers of Leicestershire, knight) was created Baron of Whaddon, and Viscount Villers at Woodstocke, the 27. of Au­gust, 1616. and the 16. of Ianuary after, hee was created at White-Hall, Earle of Buckingham: lastly, he was made Mar­quesse of Buckingham, at White-Hall the first of Ianuary, 1617. by the deliuery of a letters Patents: he was also knight of the honorable Order of the Garter, Master of the Horse, & one of his Maiesties most honourable priuy Councell, and in commission for the Office of Earle Marshall of England, 1618.

MAry, Daughter of Anthony Beaumont, second Sonne of William Beaumont of Cole Ouerton in Leicestershire, was by the great and extraordinary fauour and bounty of Iames King of Great Britaine, made Countesse of Buckingham, by the deliuery of a Letters Patent, bearing date the first of Iu­ly, 1618. And had giuen her for the maintenance of the saide dignity, an yearly fee or rent of twenty pounds, issuing out of the saide County during her life. She married three Hus­bands; the first was Sir George Villers of Brookesby in Leice­stershire, Knight; by whom shee had issue Sir Iohn Villers Knight, Sir George Villers Marquesse of Buckingham; Christo­pher Villers, and Susan wife to Sir William Feilding of Newen­ham, in the County of Warwicke Knight. Her second Husband was William Rey­ner Gentleman, by whom she had no issue. Her third and last Husband, now liuing, is Sir Thomas Compton Knight, second sonne of Henry Lord Compton, & brother of William Lord Compton, now Earle of Northampton, 1618.

Place this leafe of Buckingham betwixt Follio 20 and 21.

INgelram de Coucy (sonne of Ingram by Ka­therine the daughter of the Duke of Austria) Seigz de Coucy, D'Oysy et Mountmirall, was created Earle of Bedford the fortith yeare of King Edward the third, 1365. and married Isabel the said Kings daughter, with whom he had in marriage the Mannor of Morholm, the moities of the Mannors of Wirisdale and Ashton, with the third part of the Lordship of Whittington, in the County of Lancaster, and had issue two daughters his heires, Blanch and Phillip; and as Clarenceus Cooke hath, Blanch married Harman Earle of Cely; and had issue Barbara wife to Sigismond the Emperor. Phillip the second daughter was married to Robert Vere, Duke of Ireland, and Marques of Dublyn. M. Glouer Somerset saith, hee had a third daughter named Mary, married to Henry of Barre, and had issue Robert de Barre; and Ioan married vn­to Lewis of Luxemburg, Earle of S. Paul. And M. Aiscu in his Chronicle, page 84. hath, that Mary the daughter of this Ingelram de Coucy, was married to A­lexander King of Scots for his second wife:(and thus do Writers varie.)Hee died at Bars in [...], 1397.

This Ingelram de Coucy had a base daughter named Mauld, married vnto the Lord Strange, by whom she had issue Ancarat, wife to Sir Henry Husee, knight.

IOhn Plantagenet (third sonne of King Henry the fourth) in the second yeare of King Henry the fift, was created Duke of Bedford, Earle of Richmond, and Lord of Kendall, & in the fift yeare of the same Kings reigne, hee was made Protector of the Realme of England, and head of the publike Weale. Also in the fift of King Henry the sixt, he was made Regent of France, and was styled, Iohn Regent of France, Duke of Bedford, Aniou, and Alanson, Earle of Mayne, Harecourt, Drux, Richmond, and Carlell, and Viscount Beaumond. Hee Knighted King Henry the sixt, in the yeare 1425. and marri­ed to his first wife Anne daughter of Iohn Duke of Burgundy, but by her had no issue; and to his second wife he married Iaquelline, daughter of Peter Earle of S. Paul, and by her had no issue: (she was after married to Ri­chard Woodiule Earle Riuers, and had issue Elizabeth wife to King Edward the [Page 22]fourth.) This Iohn as Constable of England, determined the controuersie be­tweene Reginald Lord Gray of Ruthen, and Sir Edward Hastings Knight, for the bearing of the Armes of Hastings. And at the winning of Vernoyle tooke the Duke of Alanson prisoner, and with the losse of 2100. of his common soldiers, slew of their Enemies fiue Earles, two Viscounts, one and twentie Barons, se­uen thousand French, and two thousand fiue hundred Scots: and after dyed at Paris, the fourteenth of September, and was buried at Roane in our Ladie Church, An. 1435. vnder a sumptuous Monument; which when Lewis the ele­uenth, King of France was counselled to deface, he answered saying: What ho­nor shall it be to Vs, or to you, to breake this rich Monument, and to pull out of the ground the dead bones of him whom in his life time, neither my Father, nor your Pro­genitors, with all their puissance, were once able to make flye one foote backwards? Wherefore let his bodie now lye in rest, which when he was aliue, would haue disqui­eted the proudest of vs all. And for the Tombe I assure you it is not so decent nor conuenient as his honor and Acts deserued.

GEorge Neuill (sonne of Iohn Neuill Marquesse Mounta­gue) was created Duke of Bedford, and his Father Mar­quesse Mountague in the tenth yeare of King Edward the fourth: and in the seuenteenth yeare of the said kings reigne, both the saide George and Iohn his Father, were by Acte of Parliament deposed from all their honourable Titles, the words whereof followeth.

The King by aduice and assent of his Lords Spiritual and Tem­porall, and by the Commons of this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same ordained, establisheth & enacteth, That from henceforth, the erection and making of Duke, and all the Names of Dignity, giuen to the saide George, or to the saide Iohn Neuill his Fa­ther, be from henceforth voyde, and of no effect. And that the saide George and his heires from henceforth, be no Dukes, nor Marquesse, Earle, nor Baron, nor be repu­ted nor taken for no erection or Creation afore made: but of that name of Duke and Marquesse, Earle and Baron, in him and his heires cease, and bee voide and of none effect, the said Erection or Creation nothwithstanding.

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

Gueulles, au Saulttur d'argent aulambell gobonne d'argent & d'azur.

I Asper of Hatfield (sonne of Owen Tuder, by [...] the Widdow of King Henry the fift, and brother to King Hen­ry the sixt by his mother) was created Earle of Penbroke in the 3. yeare of King Henry the sixt: and in the fift yeare of King Edward the fourth, he was attainted by Parliament, & his Earledome of Penbroke giuen vnto William Lord Herbert, slain after at the battel of Banbury the ninth of King Edw. the fourth. This Iasper, with his Nephew Henry Earle of Rich­mond returning out of Britaine into England, in the last yeare of the reigne of King Richard the third, who beeing slaine at the battell of Bosworth, 1485. Henry Earle of Richmond, was crowned King by the name of King Henry the seuenth: who did not onely restore this Iasper his Vnckle to the Earledome of Penbroke, but also crea­ted him Duke of Bedford in the first yeare of his reigne. He died in the yeare of our Lord 1495. and was buried in the Abbey of Kensham, without any lawfull yssue. He had a base daughter named Ellen, married to William Gardner of Lon­don.

SIr Iohn Russell, Knight of the Garter, Controller of the houshold to King Henry the eight, and one of his priuie Councell, was created Lord Russell in the thirty yeare of the said Kings reigne, 1538. and in the third yeare of K. Edward the sixt, he was created Earle of Bedford. This Sir Iohn Russel was before made Lord Admirall, and Lord priuy Seale by King Henry the eight. He married Anne daughter and sole­heire of Sir Guy Sapcotes Knight; by whom he had issue Fra­ces Lord Russell, after Earle of Bedford. He died at his house by Iuy bridge in the Strand neere London, and was buried in the parish. Church of Cheyneys, in the yeare 1555.

FRances Lord Russell, and Earle of Bedford (son and heyre of Iohn Earle of Bedford) was Knight of the Garter, and one of the priuy Counsell to Queene Elizabeth. He married two wiues; the first was Magaret daughter of Sir Iohn S. Iohn, and sister of Oliuer Lord S. Iohn of Bletso, by whom hee had issue foure sonnes, and three daughters, that is to say, Edward Lord Russell that dyed without issue; Iohn Lord Russell, se­cond sonne, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Antho­ny Cooke Knight, and Widdow of Sir Thomas Hoby Knight, by whom hee had issue two daughters, Elizabeth that dyed without issue; and Anne married to Henry Lord Herbert, son [Page 24]and heire of Edward Earle of Worcester. Frances Russell the third sonne, after the death of Iohn his Brother, was Lord Russell, and married Iulian daughter of Sir Iohn Forster Knight, Lord Warden of the middle Marchesse against Scot­land, and was slaine by the Scottes at a day of truce (in the life time of Frances his Father) hauing issue Edward after Earle of Bedford. Sir William Russel, knight, fourth sonne was created Lord Russell of Thornhaugh, in the Tower of London by King Iames, in An. 1603. and had to wife Elizabeth, daughter and heyre of Longe of Chengie in the Countie of Cambridge Esquire. Anne the eldest daughter, was wife to Ambrose Dudley Earle of Warwicke: Margaret the second daughter, was married to George Clifford Earle of Comberland, and had issue Lady Anne Countesse of Dorset: Elizabeth the third Daughter, was married to William Bourcher Earle of Bath, and hath issue Edward, now Lord Fitz-Warren. This Frances Earle of Bedford, married for his second wife, Brid­get daughter of Iohn Lord Hussee, the Widdow of Henry Manners, Earle of Rut­land, but by her had no issue. He died the twenty eight of Iuly, in the 27. yeare of the reigne of Queene Elizabeth, and was buried at Cheyneys by his Father, in the yeare of our Lord, 1584.

EDward Lord Russell (Granchilde to Frances Earle of Bed­ford by his sonne Frances slaine by the Scots) succeeded his Grandfather, and is now Earle of Bedford, 1618. and ma­ried Luce daughter of Iohn Lord Harington of Exton, and Si­ster and co-heire of Iohn Lord Harington of Exton, by whom he hath [...] yssue.

ALan (sur-named Fergant, or the Red) Earle of Britaine and Richmond, (sonne of Hoel, second sonne of Alan Caignard, by Hawis his Wife, daughter and heire of Alan Duke of Britaine, and great Aunt to William Conquerour) to whom the saide Conqueror in the fourth yeare of his Reigne (at the siedge of Yorke) did giue vnto him and his heires, all the Lands & Ho­nours, late belonging vnto Earle Edwin in Yorkshire. This Alan Fergant married first, Constance, daughter of William Conquerour, who died without issue. And after he married Ermingard, daughter of Foulk Rechin Earle of Anion, and had issue, Conan, sur-named le Grosse; vnto whom also was giuen the Earledome of Britaine; but the Earledome of Richmond, the saide William Conquerour gaue to his Cousin Alan, sur-named Niger, or the Blacke, (Sonne of Eudo, the sonne of Geffrey, first Duke of Britaine of that name, by Hawis his wife, daughter of Richard the first Duke of Normandy.) This Alan Fergant di­ed in the yeare of our Lord, 1093. and was buried in the Monastery of Rhedon, in the seuenth yeare of King William Rufus.

STephen Derien Earle of Ponthiur, Lord of Goelo and Tre­guer, was after his Brother Alan the Blacke, the third Earle of Richmond, vnto whom King Henry the first did giue Wal­tham with the Soke in the County of Lincolne. Hee married Hawis, Countesse of Guingamp, and had issue, Alan sur-named the Sauag; Henry, Earle of Ponthieur; Geffrey, sur-named Bot­terell, and others. Henry, Earle of Ponthieur had issue, Alan, to whom King Iohn did confirme Waltham with the Soke in these words. I Iohn, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Earle of Aniou, &c. Know [Page 26]you, that I haue giuen and granted vnto Alan, sonne of Henry of Britaine, sonne of Earle Stephen, Waltham with the Soke, &c. Witnesse, William of London, Henry of Winchester, Bishops; and Geffrey Fitz-Piers Earle of Essex, and others, of which Henry, is descended Lords Fitz-Alans of Bidall. This Stephen Derien (as Somer­set Glouer hath) died in the yeare, 1104 and was buried at Begar, and his heart was buried in the Monastery of S. Maries at Yorke, as he himselfe desired.

ALan (sur-named the Sauage, Lord of Auangour, sonne of Stephen Derien, was after the death of his father, the 4. Earle of Richmond; and married Bertha, eldest daughter and co-heire of Conan le Grosse, in whose right hee was the third Earle of Britaine, and had issue, Conan le Petit. This Alan was faithfull to King Stephen, in his warres with Mauld the Em­presse; and besiedged the Citty of Lincolne in her behalfe, and Henry Duke of Normandy her sonne: Hee dyed in the yeare, 1166. and was buried in Britaine, in the thirteenth yeare of King Henry the second.

COnanle Petit (sonne of Alan the Sauage) was the fourth Earle of Britaine, and the fift Earle of Richmond: He mar­ried Margaret, daughter of Henry Earle of Huntington, and sister of William, King of Scots, by whom he had issue, one only daughter named Constance, his heire, who was first mar­ried to Geffrey Plantagenet, third sonne to King Henry the se­cond; afterwards shee married Randolph Earle of Chester (from whom shee was diuorced:) her third husband, was Guydo, Viscount of Torraine, by whom shee had issue, two daughters; Alice the eldest, was married vnto Peter de Dreux, Duke of Britaine; and Katherine the second daughter, was married to Andrew de Vetre. All which three husbands, the said Constance honoured with the Title of Earle of Britaine and Richmond. This Conan, founded the Monastery of Richmond, and was there buried, in Anno, 1170.

GEffrey Plantagenet, (third Son of King Henry the second) in the 17. yeare of his fathers reigne, married Constance, daughter and sole heire of Conan le Petit; in whose right, hee was both Earle of Britaine and Richmond, and had issue, Ar­thur, and Elianor, whom King Iohn kept in prison in the Ca­stle of Bristow, where she dyed a Virgin, in Anno, 1241. and was buried in the Monastery of Ambresbury; vnto which Monastery, she gaue the Mannour of Mekesham, with the ap­purtenances. This Geffrey dyed, and was buried at Paris in France, the 33. yeare of King Henry the second, beeing but twenty and eight yeares old.

ARthur Plantagenet, Earle of Britaine and Richmond, (Son of Geffrey aforesaid, by Constance his wife, the heire of Britaine) was proclaimed King of England, and Duke of Nor­mandy, after the death of King Richard the first, his Vnckle; and being ayded by King Philip of France, whose daughter he had married, made warres against King Iohn his Vnckle; & being taken prisoner at the Castle of Mirobel in Norman­die, was carried to Roane Castle, where leaping from the Wall thereof, with intent to escape, was drowned in the Ditch, without issue, in the yeare, 1202.

GVY, or Guydo, Viscount of Thouars (second husband to Constance the heire of Britaine) was also in her right the next Earle of Britaine and Richmond, and by her had issue, two daughters his heires, Alice and Katherine; Alice was married to Peter de Dreux; and Katherine was the wife of Andrew de Vitre in Britaine.

RAndoll, sur-named Blundeuille, the sixt Earle of Chester, (third husband to Constance, the heire of Britaine and Richmond, and daughter and heire of Conan le Petit) was in right of the saide Constance his wife (and permission of king Iohn) Earle of Richmond, Anno, 1204. and was after diuorced from the said Constance for her incontinency, hauing no issue by her: he dyed at his Castle of Wallingford, in the 17. yeare of king Henry the third.

PEter Brian Earle of Dreux (after the diuorce, and surren­der of Randoll Blundeuile Earle of Chester) was both D. of Britaine and Earle of Richmond, in right of Alice his wife, daughter and co-heire of Guy, Viscount of Thouars, and Con­stance his wife, daughter and heire of Conan le Petit, as by this Charter following it doth appeare. Petrus Dux Britanniae & Comes Richmond, habet honorem de Richmond sibi redditum quem Ranulphus Comes Cestriae & Lincolne prius habuit. Teste Rege apud Nantes, 22. Maij. Anno. 1229. He had issue, Iohn Duke of Britaine, and Ioland that was married vnto Hugh de Brun, Earle of the Marches of Picardy.

PEter of Sauoy (Vnckle to Queene Elianor, wife to K. Hen­ry the third) came into England in the yeare, 1241. At which time, king Henry the third gaue him the Earledome of Richmond, and made him Chiefe of his priuy Counsell, and in the 29. yeare of the said Kings Reigne, this Peter began to build the house, now called the Sauoy, in the Strand neere London. This Peter surrendred the Earledome of Richmond, and after dyed in Sauoy, in the yeare, 1267. He married Ag­nes, daughter and heire of Aimon, Prince of Falcianack, and had issue, Beatrix, wife to Guy, sonne of Andrew, Dolphin of Vienna.

IOhn de Dreux (sonne of Peter Brien) had the Dukedome of Brittaine, and Earledome of Richmond, made ouer vnto him in these words. De comitatu Richmond recepto in excambi­um a Petro de Sabaudia & concessi Iohanni Duci Britanniae. Te­ste Rex, apud Northampt. 5. Maij. pat. Anno. 50. Hen. 3. So that I hold this Iohn, to be both Duke of Britaine, and Earle of Richmond (although some Writers deny the same:) He mari­ed Blanch, daughter of Theobald, King of Nauarre, by whom he had issue, Iohn the second of that name, Duke of Britaine, and Earle of Richmond. He dyed in the yeare, 1286.

IOhn de Dreux (sonne of Iohn de Dreux afore-saide) was Duke of Brittaine and Earle of Richmond, in the 44. yeare of king Henry the third, and married Beatrix the saide kings daughter, and had issue, Arthur Duke of Britaine, Iohn Earle of Richmond, Peter and Henry that both dyed young; Alice, Abbesse of Fount-Euer [...] Mary married to the Earle of S. Pole, and Blanch the third daughter, was wife to Philip, sonne and heire of the Earle of Arthoys. This Iohn dyed at Lions in France, in the yeare 1305. with the fall of a wall.

ARthur Duke of Britaine (sonne and heire of Iohn, the se­cond Duke of Britaine of that name) was after his Fa­thers death, Duke of Britaine: he married two wiues, the first was Beatrix, Viscountes [...]t of Limogen, and Lady of Auennos in Hennault, by whom hee had issue, Iohn Duke of Britaine, that dyed without issue, and Guy, Earle of Pentebria (who married Iane, daughter and heire of Henry de Auangour, and had issue, Ioane, wife to Charles Earle of Bloys, nephew to Phi­lip de Valois, King of France.) The said Arthur tooke for his second wife, Yoland, daughter and heire of Almericke Earle Montford, by whom he had issue, Iohn Breno Earle Mount­ford, and after Duke of Britaine; Blanch, wife to Robert de Flanders Earle of Marle; Alice, Countesse de Vendosme; and Beatrix married to Guy Earle of Lauall. This Arthur died in the yeare, 1312. as Bertram de Ar­gentre affirmeth.

IOhn de Dreux (second sonne of the second Iohn Duke of Britaine, and Beatrix his wife, daughter of King Henry the third) and second Brother to Arthur Duke of Britaine a­foresaide, sate in Parliament helde at Westminster, by the name and title of Iohn de Britaine, Earle of Richmond, the 34. of King Edward the first, and so continued vntill the ninth of King Edward the third, and did his homage at New-Castle for the saide Earledome, 1332. Hee built the body of the Church of the Gray-Fryars in Newgate-Market, in the 34. yeare of King Edward the first, which cost him three hundred pounds, and gaue many rich Iewels and Orna­ments to be vsed in the same; he dyed without issue, and was buried in the said Church, the ninth of King Edward the third. M. Milles, in Somersets Booke, saith he died in Little-Britaine, and was buried at Vanys, Anno, 1334.

IOhn de Dreux, sonne and heire of Arthur Duke of Britaine, after his fathers death, was Duke of Britaine, and after the death of Iohn his Vnckle, Earle of Richmond. This Iohn had three Wiues, and dyed in Britaine without issue, Anno 1340. leauing Iohn Mountford his halfe brother by the father, to succeed him in the Dukedom of Britaine, who had issue, Iohn the Valiant.

RObert de Arthoys, a Noble-man borne, of the blood roy­all of Erance, descended from another Robert, sonne of Lewis the eight, and brother to Saint Lewis King of France: he was Councellor vnto Philip de Valois, King of France, who sentenced the Earledome of Arthoys from the said Robert, vn­to Mauld, Countesse of Burgundy (the saide Roberts Aunt) which sentence so discontented the saide Robert, that in his greefe he vttered these words: By mee was Philip made King, and by me he shall be deposed againe. For this, was this Robert proclaimed traytor throughout all France, and was driuen to flye into England, to King Edward the third, who kindly receiued him, and created him Earle of Richmond, in the 16. yeare of his Reigne. This Robert was the first that mooued King Edward to make his title and claime to the Crowne of France, in the right of Queene Isa­bell his Mother: he was Admirall of the English Fleet, and Generall of the wars in France; and was after hurt in the head at the siedge of the Citty of Vannes in Britaine, and being conuayed to London for the cure of his hurts, shortly after died there, in the yeare, 1342. and was most honourably buried in Saint Paules Church in London; the King being at his Funerall, did weare blackes.

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

IOhn Breno, third sonne of Arthur Duke of Britaine, begot­ten of his second wife Ioland, Countesse of Mountford, Daughter and heire of Almericke Earle Mountford; whome Phillip de Valoys King of France did confiscate in his Earle­dome of Mountford, because hee ayded King Edward the 3. In consideration whereof, King Edward the third gaue vnto this Iohn the Earledome of Richmond in England. He sate in Parliament held at Westminster in the 34. yeare of the sayde Kings reigne, by the name and Title of Iohn Earle of Rich­mond. He was bound by Indenture, bearing date 1373. to serue King Edward the third in his warres in France and Bri­taine, against Phillip of Valoys: in which Indenture, he is stiled Iohn Duke of Britaine, Earle Mountford and Richmond. He married Ioan daugh­ter of Charles King of Nauarre, after married to King Henry the fourth of Eng­land. This Iohn had issue, Iohn Mountford surnamed the Valiant; and a daugh­ter named Ioan, wife to Rafe Basset of Drayton. This Iohn was taken prisoner at Nantes by the Earle of Bloys, and dyed after in prison at Paris in France.

IOhn Mountford (surnamed the Valiant, sonne and heire of Iohn Breno) after the death of his Father was Duke of Bri­taine, and Earle of Richmond: which Earledome hee was de­posed of by Acte of Parliament, the fourth of King Richard the second. He married Mary daughter of King Edward the third; and had issue, Iohn Duke of Britaine, sur-named the Sage (who had issue Peter and Frances, both Dukes of Bri­taine, that dyed without issue;) Richard Earle of Estamps, and Arthur the third of that name, who was also Duke of Brit­taine, and Earle of Richmond, after his two Nephewes, Peter and Frances. This Iohn Mountford slew the Earle of Bloys.

RAphe Neuill, first Earle of Westmerland, was made Earle of Richmond for terme of life by King Henry the fourth, and dyed the fourth of King Henry the sixt, as in the title of Westmerland is more at large.

IOhn D. of Bedford, third son of King Henry the fourth, was Regent of France, Duke of Bedford, Aniou, and Alawson, Earle of Mayne, Harecourt, Dreux, Richmond, and Carlell, and Viscount Beaumont. He died the xiii. of Henry the sixt, as in the Title of Bedford is more at large.

EDmond of Hadham (the place of his birth) sonne of Owen Teuder by Queene Katherine, and halfe brother by the mother to King Henry 6. was created Earle of Richmond at Reading in the 31. yeare of the said Kings reigne, notwith­standing that Arthur Duke of Britaine was then liuing, and did vse that Title. He married Margaret, daughter and heire of Iohn Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (Granchilde to Iohn of Gaunt, by his sonne Iohn) and by her had issue, Henrie Earle of Richmond, after King of England, by the name of King Henry the seuenth. This Margaret in the yeare 1491. by the commandement and authority of King Henry the seuenth, her sonne, made the Orders (yet extant) for great Estates of Ladies and Noblewomen for their precedence, Attires, and wearing of Barbes at Funerals, ouer the chin, vpon the chin, and vnder the same; which Noble & good Orders at this day is greatly profaned and abused, by euerie meane and common woman, to the great wrong and dishonour of honourable Estates. This Edmond dyed in the yeare 1456. & was buried in the Gray Friars church in Carmarden in Wales, 35. of Hen. 6. And Margaret his wife died in the yeare 1509. and was honorably buried in the Abbey of Westminster.

RIchard Duke of Glocester (brother to King Edward the fourth) did stile himselfe Earle of Richmond. And Mills in Glouer Somersets booke, page 614. sayeth, That this Ri­chard had the saide Earledome of Richmond giuen vnto him, and the heyres of his body, the twelfth day of August, in the second yeare of King Edward the fourth. Hee bare for his Armes

HEnry Earle of Richmond (sonne of Edmond of Hadham, and Margaret his wife, Countesse of Richmond) in the 11. yeare of King Edward the fourth, fledde with his Vnckle Iasper Earle of Penbroke into Britaine, where they remained vntil the third yeare of the reigne of King Richard the third; and then returning again, landed at Milford Hauen in Wales, and fought a battaile with the said King Richard at Bosworth Field, where he slew the said Richard, and after was crowned King of England, by the name of King Henry the seauenth. He married Elizabeth, daughter and heyre of King Edward the fourth, and had issue, Prince Arthur that dyed without issue, and Henry Duke of Yorke, who was after King of Eng­land, by the name of king Henry the eight.

HEnry Fitz-Roy, base sonne of King Henry the eight, (be­gotten of the Lady Talboys, daughter of Sir Iohn Blount, Knight) was in the 17. yeare of his Fathers reigne, created Duke of Richmond, &c. He married Mary, daughter of Tho­mas Howard Duke of Norfolke, but by her had no issue. Hee dyed at S. Iames house beyond Charing-Crosse, beeing but 16. yeares of age, and was buried at Thetford in Norfolke, the 28. of King Henry the eight (as Grafton hath;) Others haue, that he lyes buried at Framingham in Norfolke. He bare for his Armes,

LEwis Stewart, Duke of Lenox, and Lord Aubigny, created Earle of Richmond and Baron of Setterington in Eng­land, by Letters pattents vnder the great Seale of England, (without any ceremony of creation) in the yeare, 1614. He was also Lord Darnley, [...]rebant and Methuen, Lord Great Chamberlaine and Admirall of Scotland, Lord Steward of the houshold to King Iames, and one of his Maiesties most honourable priuy Counsell, Knight of the Garter, and one of the Commissioners for the Office of Earle Marshall of England, 1618.

PHilibert de Chandew a Britaine, borne in France, a kinde friend to King Henry the seauenth in the time of his ba­nishment out of England; which to requite, the said King in the first yeare of his Reigne, from the degree of a Baron, cre­ated him Earle of Bath, and gaue him also a hundred markes yearely, issuing out of the profits of Somersetshire & Dorset.

IOhn Bourchier, Lord Fitz-Warin of Tauestoke in Denonshire [...] (sonne of Foulke Bourchier, Lord Fitz-Warin of Tauestoke) was created Earle of Bath at White-Hall the ninth of Iuly, in the 28. yeare of King Henry the eight. He married Cecily, daughter of Giles Lord Daubeny, and sister and heyre of Hen­ry Lord Daubeny, Earle of Bridgwater, and had issue, Iohn Bourchier, second Earle of Bath, and two daughters; Eliza­beth the eldest, was married vnto Sir Iohn Chichester of De­uonshire, knight: Dorothy the second daughter, was married to Sir Iohn Fulford, knight. This Iohn the second Earle of Bath, dyed in the 31. yeare of King Henry the eight.

Iohn Bourchier, Lord Fitz-Warin, the 2. of that name, and 3. Earle of Bath, married to his first Wife, Elizabeth, daugh­ter of Sir Walter Hungerford, knight, and had issue, Elizabeth. His second wife was Elianor, daughter of George Mannors, Lord Ros, by whom he had issue, Iohn Bourchier, Lord Fitz-Warin that died before his father, sir George Bourchier, knight, and Henry; he had also two daughters, Mary the eldest, was married vnto Hugh Wyot of Exeter; Cecily the second daugh­ter, was married to Thomas Peyton, Customer of Plimouth. This Iohn married to his third wife, Margaret, daughter and heire of Iohn Donington, Esquire, and had issue, Susan & Brid­get; Bridget was married to [...] Price of Montgomerishire in Wales. This Earle dyed in the third yeare of Queene Elizabeth.

WIlliam Bourchier (sonne and heire of Iohn Bourchier, Lord Fitz-Warin that died before his Father) grand­childe to Iohn Bourchier second Earle of Bath, was the third Earle of Bath, of that sur-name, and Lord Lieutenant of De­uonshire and Cornwall, married Elizabeth, daughter of Fran­cis Russell Earle of Bedford, and had issue, Richard, how Lord Fitz-Warin, and Frances a daughter, 1618.

Quiporta, d'argent à la croix engreslee de gueulles entre quatre Bouces de sa­ble, à lambell d'azur chargee de neuf fleurs de liz d'or.

HEnry Lord Daubeny (sonne of Giles Lord Daubeny, Chamberlaine to king Henry the seuenth) on the 21. day of Iuly, in the 30. yeare of king Henry the eight, at his Mannour of Ocking, was created Earle of Bridg-Water in Somersetshire; and married Katherine, daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke, and the wid­dow of Sir Rice ap Thomas, Knight of the Garter, and dyed without issue, leauing Cecily his sister and heire married vnto Iohn Bourchier, Lord Fitz-Warin, and first Earle of Bath.

IOhn Egerton, Knight of the Bath, at the Coronation of king Iames, second sonne and heire Male of Thomas Egerton, Ba­ron of Ellesmore, Viscount Brackley, and Lord Chancellor of England, was by Letters Patents, bearing date, 1618. made Earle of Bridg-water. He married Lady Frances, daugh­ter and co-heire of Ferdinando, late Earle of Derby, and hath issue, Iames, Viscount Brackely, and nine daughters, viz. Frances, Arbella, Elizabeth, Cecily, Mary, Penelope, Katherine, Magdalen, and Anne.

HEnry Lord Beaumont of Fokingham, came into England with Queene Isabell, wife to king Ed­ward the second, and married Alice, daughter and one of the heyres of Alexander Boughan, Earle of Boughan in Scotland, (which Alexan­der was sonne of Alexander Comen, Earle Boughan by Eliza­beth his wife, third daughter and one of the heires of Roger Quincy Earle of Winchester) & had issue, Iohn L. Bello-Monte, who married Elianor, daughter to Henry Earle of Lancaster, and had issue, Henry Lord Beaumont. This Henry Lord Beaumont of Fokingham, sate in Parliament held at Westmin­ster the ninth of King Edward the third, by the name and ti­tle of Henry de Bello-Monte Earle of Boughan, and so continued vnto the thir­teenth of the same kings Reigne.

HVgh, sur-named Lupas, a Norman borne, (sonne of Richard, Viscount of Aurenges in Normandy, by Margaret his wife, halfe sister by the Mother to William Conquerour) came into England with William the first, who gaue vnto him and his heires, the Earl­dome of Chester, to hold as freely of him by the sword, as he the said William held England by the Crowne. This Earle Hugh in the 12. yeare of king William Ruphus, conquered Anglesey in Wales, he married Ermentrude, daughter of [...] and had issue, Richard the second Earle of Chester, Ro­bert, Abbot of S. Edmonsbury, and Otwell that was Tutor to the Children of king Henry the first: he dyed, and was buri­ed by Ermentrude his Countesse, in the Abbey of S. Werburge in Chester, which was of his owne foundation, 1103.

RIchard, sonne of Hugh Lupus, after the death of his Fa­ther, was the second Earle of Chester, after the Norman Conquest, who in the 19. yeare of King Henry the first, was married in France, to Lucy, daughter of Stephen, Earle of Bloys and Champaine, by Adela his wife, daughter of William Con­queror; and in the 20. yeare of King Henry the first, hee with his wife, the Kings sonne, and daughter, and Otwell his Bro­ther, and others, to the number of 160. persons were drow­ned, comming out of Normandy into England, without issue; leauing Randoll Meschines his cousin-germane by Margaret his Fathers sister, to succeed him in the Earledome of Chester.

RAndolphe, sur-named Meschines, sonne of Randolphe Mes­chines Earle of Carlell, by Margaret, the sister of Hugh Lupus the first Earle of Chester, was the third Earle Palatine of Chester after the Conquest. He married Lucy, daughter of Algar the Saxon, Earle of Leicester, and sister to Edwin Earle of Mercia, and Mocar, Earle of Northnmberland, who before was the Wife of Roger Romara, and Mother of William Roma­ra Earle of Lincolne. This Randolphe surrendred Carlell, his Fathers Earledome, to King Henry the first; and dyed in the yeare, 1129. and was buried at Chester, in the 30. yeare of the saide Kings Reigne; leauing issue, Randolphe sur-named Ger­nonijs, the fourth Earle of Chester; and William, Earle of Cambridge; and a daughter named Adeliza, married to Richard Fitz-Gilbert, Lord of Tunbridge, Auncestor to the Earles of Clare, Glocester, and Penbroke, (as William Gemiticensis affirmeth.)

RAndolphe, sur-named Gernonijs, sonne of Randolphe Mes­chines, was after his father, the fourth Earle Palatine of Chester after the Conquest: hee, with his Brother William, Earle of Cambridge, was Witnesse to the Charter of Alexan­der Bishop of Lincolne, of his gift of the Island of Hafreholme, to the religious Nuns of S. Maries, of the order of Sister-sen­ces, 1139. the fourth of King Stephen. And in the yeare, 1141. this Randoll, and Robert Earle of Glocester, tooke the saide King prisoner at Lincolne. He married Mauld, daughter of Robert Earle of Glocester, base sonne of King Henry the first; by whom he had issue, Hugh the fift Earle Palatine of Chester, and Richard; and died poysoned by the practise of his Wife and William Peuerell Lord of Nottingham, in the yeare, 1156.

HVgh, sur-named Kiuilioc, sonne of Randolphe Gernons, was the fift Earle Palatine of Chester; he married Bertrade, daughter of Simon Earle Mountford and Eureux in Norman­die, and had issue, Randolphe Blundeuile, the fixt Earle Palatine of Chester, and Earle of Lincolne; and foure daughters, Mauld the eldest was married to Dauid Earle of Anguish, Gallaway, and Huntington: Mabell the second daughter, was married to William de Albenieo Earle of Arundell: Agnes the 3. daugh­ter, was married to William Ferrers, Earle of Derby & Lord of Chartley: and Hawis the fourth daughter, was wife to Ro­bert Quincy Earle of Winchester, & had issue, Margaret, mar­ried to Iohn Lacie Earle of Lincolne; and Mabell, wife to Hugh Lord Audley. This Hugh died the 27. of King Henry the second, 1180.

RAndolphe, sur-named Blundeuile (sonne & heire of Hugh Kiuilioc) was the 6. Earle Palatine of Chester, as also Earle of Lincolne, whom K. Hen. the 2. made knight, in the 33. yeare of his reigne, and gaue him in marriage, Constance the onely daughter and heire of Conan, Duke of Little Britaine, & Earle of Richmond in England (the widdow of Geffrey his son) with the Dutchy of Britaine, & Earldome of Richmond: and in the second yeare of K. Iohn, this Randolph was diuorced from the said Constance, and after married Clemence, daughter of Willi­am de Fengeres, and sister of Geffrey. He had also a third wife, which was Margaret, daughter of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford, and Constable of England, but had no issue by any of them. This Randolph was restored to the Earldome of Lincolne, in the 3. yeare of K. Hen. 3. as Cousin and next Heire of William Romara Earle of Lincolne: and in the 9. yeare of the said kings reigne, he was a Witnesse to the kings charter, of lands that he gaue to the Abbey of Peterborow, by the name of Randolphe Earle of Chester & Lincolne; and after his returne out of the Holy-Land, he died at his Castle of Wallingford, in the 17. yeare of K. Hen. the 3. and was buried at Chester; leauing his foure sisters his heires, before mentioned. This Randolph was of great fame and esteeme in the times of King Henry the second, King Richard the first, King Iohn, & King Henry the third: In which time he built the Castles of Bee­ston and Chartley, and the Monastery of de la Croix.

IOhn (by the place of his birth) sur-named the Scot, was Earle of Huntingdon and Cambridge, by his Father Dauid▪ Earle of Anguish and Huntingdon aforesaid, (which Danid, was brother to William, king of Scots) and by Mauld his Mo­ther, eldest sister and co-heire of Randolphe Blundeuile Earle of Chester, he was also the seuenth Earle Palatine of Chester. Also in the 21. yeare of king Henry the third, he was restored to the Earledome of Northampton, as cousin and heire of Si­mon Seintlize Earle of Northampton; and in the 22. of the said Kings reign, he died at Darnall, & was buried at Chester, with­out issue, hauing married Helyn, the daughter of Llewellyn ap Iorworth Prince of North-Wales. Which Earldome of Chester, King Henry the 3. 1238. assumed into his owne hands, and gaue other lands to the saide foure Si­sters of Iohn (surnamed the Scot) afore named; the issue of whom, after clay­med the kingdome of Scotland, in King Edward the firsts time, since which time, the Princiality of Chester, hath beene vnited to the Principality of Wales, by Acte of Parliament held at Westminster, the 21. of King Richard the second; at which time (as Somerset Herald hath) the King created William Brugs, Chester Herald by his Letters Patents, sealed with his Seale of the said Principality.

EDmond (sur-named Crowch-backe) second sonne of king Henry the third, was by his Father created Earle of Che­ster; which Title and Earledome, hee surrendred to his Bro­ther Prince Edward, and was after made Earle of Lancaster; and after the attaindore of Simon Mountford, & Robert Earle Ferrars, he was also made Earle of Leicester and Derby, as in the Title of Lancaster is more at large.

EDward, first sonne of King Edward the first, was Prince of Wales, Earle of Cornwall and Chester, and after King of England, by the name of King Edward the second. This Prince Edward, in Anno, 1298. vpon complaint made by Doctor Langton, then Byshop of Chester, was committed to prison; and Pierce of Gaueston banished England, and not to returne againe vpon paine of death.

EDward, first sonne and heire of king Edward [...], was Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and [...] of Chester and Flint, and after, king of England, by the name of king Edward the third.

EDward, sur-named the blacke Prince, sonne and heire of king Edward the third, was Duke of Cornwall, and Aqui­taine, and Earle of Chester and Flint. This Edward died be­fore his Father, 1376. and was buried at Canterbury.

RIchard of Burdeaux, sonne and heire of Edward the black Prince, was Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of Chester, and after, king of England, by the name of king Richard the second.

HEnry of Monmouth, sonne and heire of king Henry the fourth, was Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, & Earle of Chester, and after, king of England, by the name of king Henry the fift, as more at large is set downe in the Title of Cornwall. This Henry was dismissed of being President of the kings priuy Counsell, for striking the then Lord chiefe Iu­stice.

HEnry Plantagenet, sonne and heire of king Henry the fift was Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and [...] [...] ­ster, and after king of England, by the name of [...] the sixt.

EDward Plantagenet, sonne and heire of king Henry the 6. was Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of Che­ster. This young Prince was murdred at Tewkesbury, 1471. & there buried, as in the title of Cornwall is more at large.

EDward, sonne and heire of king Edward the fourth, was borne Duke of Cornwall; and after, in the yeare, 1470. was by Parliament created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester; and was after king of England, by the name of king Edward the fift, and was murdered in the Tower of Lon­don.

EDward, sonne and heire of king Richard the third, was al­so Duke of Cornwall; and in the first yeare of his fathers Reigne, he was created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester; and after dyed without issue.

ARthur, sonne and heire of king Henry the seuenth, vvas Duke of Cornwall; and in the fifte yeare of his Fathers reigne, he was created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester, and dyed without issue, being but 14. yeares of age.

HEnry, second son to King Henry the seauenth, was Duke of Yorke, and after the death of Arthur his brother, was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester, in the 19. yeare of his Fathers reigne; and was after king of England, by the name of king Henry the eight.

EDward, sonne and heire of king Henry the eight, was D. of Cornwall, and after created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester; he was after King of England, by the name of king Edward the sixt.

HEnry Frederick, sonne and heire of Iames, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland; the fourth of Iune, 1610. was created Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of Chester, and died without issue, 1612.

CHarles, second sonne of Iames, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, being Duke of Albany, Marques of Ormount, Earle Ros, and Lord of Ardmanoch, was Created Duke of Yorke at White-hall, the sixt of Ianuary, 1604. and afterwards at the same place, the 4. of Nouember 1616. he was created Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of Chester.

RObert Earle Mortaigne, sonne of Harlowyn de Co­mitis Villa, and Herlot his wife, Mother of William Conqueror, who coming into England with the said Conqueror, had giuen him the Earledome of Cornwall, and made Earle thereof. He maried Mauld, daugh­ter of Roger Montgomery, Earle of Shrewsbury and Arundell; by whom he had issue, William Earle Mortaigne and Corne­wall, and Mauld wife to the Earle of Tolouse, who had issue a daughter named Helen, married to William Duke of Aqui­tame. This Robert was slaine in Northumberland, in the yeare, 1087.

WIlliam Earle Mortaigne in Normandy, sonne of Robert aforesaide, was after his Father the second Earle of Cornwall, who with Robert de Bellismo, William Estoteuile, and William Crispin, did aide Robert Curthose Duke of Normandy, against king Hen. 1. his brother, at the battell of Trenchbray in Normandy; where they were taken prisoners in the eight yeare of the said kings reigne: the said William being before disinherited, and his Earldome giuen vnto Stephen, sonne of the Earle of Champaigne, (who was after King of England) and were sent ouer sea into England, to be kept in perpetual prison; Robert Duke of Normandy being sent to the castle of Cardiffe in Wales, had his eyes put out; and this William became a Monke at Bermondsey in Southwarke, and there dyed without issue. His Armes, as Glouer Sowerset hath, is, d'hermines au chief endented de gueulles.

REginald, base sonne of king Henry the first, begotten of his Concubine, the daughter and co-heire of Robert Cor­bet, Lord of Alencester in the County of Warwick, was made the third Earle of Cornwall, in the fift yeare of king Stephen. He maried Beatrice, & had issue, 4. daughters his heires: Hawis the eldest, was married to Richard de Riueris, the third Earle of Deuonshire, and Lord of the Isle of Wight; Matild married Robert Earle of Mellent; Vrsul [...] the third daughter, was wife to Walter Dunstanuile, Baron of Castlecombe; and Sarah the fourth daughter, was married to the Viscount of Lymocense. He had also issue by his Concubine Beatrix de Vannes, a sonne sur-named, Henry filius Comitis, who dyed in Gasconie, with­out issue. This Reginald died at Cicester, in the yeare, 1176. as Robert Montencis hath; and was buried at Redding.

RIchard Plantagenet, (sur-named Cuer-de-Lyon) the third sonne of king Henry the second, was Earle of Poictiers, and the fourth Earle of Cornwall, as doth appeare by the Corporation of the Towne of Helleston in Cornwall. He was after the death of Henry his brother, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and writ himselfe king of Ierusalem. He con­quered Cipers, and died of a shot out of a Crosse-bow, at the fiedge of Limosin in Britaine, in the yeare, 1199. He married Berengaria, daughter of Sanchius, King of Nauarre, but by her had no issue: he had a base sonne, named Philip. I haue his Seale of Armes to a Charter, wherein is a Lyon rampant onely.

IOhn, (sur-named Without Land) fourth sonne of king Henry the second; first married Alice, daughter and one of the heires of Hubert, Earle of Moriton, in Anno, 1172. In whose right, his father made him Earle of Moriton, and after, Lord of Ireland: this Alice died without issue; after whose death, he married to his second wife, Isabell, third daughter and one of the heires of William Earle of Glocester, from whom he was diuorced, without issue. He was also Earle of Glocester (and after king of England) and by king Richard the first his bro­ther, Earle of Cornwall, Lancaster, and Somerset, Lord of the honours of Wallingford, Tikell, Marlesborough, and Ludgar­shall. Lastly, this Iohn married to his third wife, Isabell, daugh­ter of Aimer, Earle of Engolesmi, by whom he had issue, king Henry the third, & Richard, Earle of Cornwall, &c.

RIchard, second sonne of King Iohn, in the eleuenth yeare of King Henry the third, his brother, was created Earle of Poictou and Cornwall; and in the twelfth yeare of the said Kings reigne, the king gaue him all the Lands in England, which were Reginald Dampmartins Earle of Bologines. And in the yeare, 1257. he was by the Princes of Germany, chosen king of the Romaines, and crowned at Aquisgrane. Hee did write himselfe, Richard, King of the Romaines, and alwayes Augustus, and married to his first wife, Isabell, sister and one of the heires of William Marshall, the younger Earle of Pen­broke, and had issue, Iohn that dyed young, Henry slaine by Guy and Simon, sonnes of Simon Mountfort Earle of Leicester, in the Church of S. Siluester in Viterbium in Italy, 1272. in reuenge of their Fa­thers death, that was slaine in the Barons wars in England; and Richard that di­ed without issue. His second wife was Sanchia, daughter and one of the heires of Reymond Berengar Earle of Prouince, and sister to Queene Elianor, by whom he had issue, Edmond Earle of Cornwall, and Richard that dyed at the siedge of Barwicke, with an Iron shot in his head, 1296. He had also Richard a base sonne, who was the Father of Sir Geffrey Cornwall, knight, of whom is descended the Family of Cornwalles of Burford. This Richard dyed at his Castle of Bark­hamsted neere London, 1272. and was buried in the Abbey of Hales in Gloce­stershire, which was of his foundation.

EDmond Plantagenet Earle of Cornwall, (sonne and heire of Richard, King of Almaine, and Earle of Cornwall) with Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester, had the gouernement of England, in the absence of king Edward the first beyond the Seas. He married Margaret, daughter of Richard de Clare, Earle of Glocester and Hartford, and dyed without any law­full issue, at Ashbridge in Buckinghamshire, the 29. of king Ed­ward the first; where he had built an Abbey of Bonhommes Order, and was buried by his Father, in the Abbey of Hales, 1300.

EDward, first sonne of king Edward the first: In the 27. yeare of his Fathers reigne, 1298. Doctor Langton then Byshop of Chester, complained grieuously to the King vpon this Prince Edward, who (by the lewd aduice of Pierce Ga­ueston, his gracelesse companion) brake forcibly into his Parke, and made hauocke of his game; for which, this Prince was committed to prison, & Gaueston was banisht the land, and commanded not to returne againe vpon paine of death. This Prince in the thirteenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne, 1301. came to Chester, and receiued homage of the free-hol­ders of Wales; in which yeare he was created Earle of Corn­wall, and after King of England, by the name of king Ed­ward the second.

PIerce Gaueston (a Gascoigne borne) was made Baron of Wallingford, and after, in the first yeare of king Edward the second, was created Earle of Cornwall, and Lord of the Isle of Man; and in the third yeare of the said Kings Reigne, hee married Isabell, second sister and co-heire of Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester and Hartford; and in the sixt yeare of the said Kings reigne, (after he had bin banished England twice) he was taken by Guy Beauchamp Earle of Warwicke, and be­headed at a place neere vnto Warwicke, called Gauershi [...] (or Blacklow) and was after buried in the Fryars at Langley, with­out issue.

IOhn of Eltham (so named of the place where he was borne) second sonne of King Edward the second, and brother to King Edward the third, in the second yeare of his said Bro­thers reigne, was made Earle of Cornwall; and in the ninth yeare of the said Kings reigne, he died at S. Iohns Towne in Scotland, without issue; and was buried in the Abbey of West­minster, 1334. After whose death, king Edward the third in the 12. yeare of his reigne, made the Earledome of Cornwall a Dukedome, and gaue it to his Sonne Edward the blacke Prince, with the Earledome of Chester: since which time, the Kings eldest sonnes haue bene Dukes of Cornwall.

EDward, sur-named the Blacke Prince, sonne and heire of King Edward the third; in the eleuenth yeare of his Fa­thers reigne, was created the first Duke of Cornwall, & Earle of Chester, and in the 17. yeare of the said Kings reigne, hee was created Prince of Wales; and in the 36. yeare, he had gi­uen him the Principality of Aquitaine: and in the 42. yeare of of king Edward the third, he sate in Parliament by the name and title of Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine; he tooke Iohn the French King prisoner, at the battaile of Poictiers, in the yeare, 1356. He married Ioane the repudiat wife of Willi­am Mountague Earle of Salisbury, and daughter of Edmond of Woodstock Earle of Kent; by whom he had issue, Edward that dyed yong, & Richard, sur-named of Burdeaux, who was after king of England, by the name of king Richard the second. This noble Prince Edward died at Can­terbury, the 8. of Iune, 1376. and was buried in Christ-Church there.

RIchard sur-named of Burdeaux, sonne and heire of Ed­ward the blacke Prince, was after the death of his Father, Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester; and after created Prince of Wales, at Hauering at Bowre, in the [...]0. of King Ed­ward the third his grand-father. He married Anne, daughter of Wesela [...]us king of Bohemia, who died, and was buried at Westminster, in the 17. yeare of his reigne, without issue. And to his second wife, he married Isabell, daughter of Charles the French King, being very young, but by her had no issue: hee was after King of England, by the name of king Richard the second, and was deposed from the kingdome, and she sent in­to France againe, the first of king Henry the fourth, and mar­ried vnto Charles, sonne of Lewis, Duke of Orleance.

HEnry, sur-named of Monmouth, the place of his birth, sonne and heire of king Henry the fourth, was in the first yeare of his Fathers reigne, created Prince of Wales, he being Duke of Cornwall before; for the eldest sonne and heire ap­parant of the king of England, is Duke of Cornwall by birth, but he is Prince of Wales by speciall creation, inuesture, and donation of the lands thereunto belonging, and not by birth. He was after king of England, by the name of king Henry the fift.

HEnry Plantagenet, sonne and heire of king Henry the fift, was borne Duke of Cornwall; and being not full [...] moneths of age, was proclaimed king of England, in the yeare, 1422. by the name of king Henry the sixt; and on the 6. of Nouember, 1429. (being the eight yeare of his reigne) he was crowned king of England at Westminster; and in the yeare, 1431. he was crowned king of France in Paris, in our Ladie Church there; and after was murdred in the Tower of London, 1470. by Richard Duke of Glocester (as the re­port then commonly went.) The body of this king was con­ueyed from the Tower, to the Church of S. Paul in London, and there laide on a Beere, bare-faced, which did bleed in the sight of all the beholders. From thence, by boate it was carried vnto the Mona­stery at Chertsey, fifteene miles from London, and there was first buried, and after remoued to Windsore, and there in a new Vault entoombed.

EDward, sonne & heire of king Henry the sixt (being borne Duke of Cornwall) in the 32. yeare of his Fathers reigne, was created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester, by Acte of Parliament. This young Prince, at the battell of Tewkes­bury, 1470. was taken prisoner by Sir Richard Crofts, and af­ter murdered by the Dukes of Clarence and Glocester, and by Thomas Marquesse Dorset, & the Lord Hastings. This Prince married Anne, second daughter and co-heire of Richard Ne­uill, Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury, but had no issue by her; she was after married to Richard Duke of Glocester, after king of England.

EDward, eldest sonne to king Edward the fourth, borne in the Sanctuary at Westminster, the 49. yeare of king Henry the sixt, was created Prince of Wales, by authority of Parli­ament, and Earle of Chester, in the eleuenth yeare of his Fa­thers reigne, (being before Duke of Cornwall) who with his young brother the Duke of Yorke, was murdred in the Tow­er of London, by the wicked practise of Richard Duke of Glocester, his Vnckle; who after vsurped the Crowne of Eng­land.

Edward, the onely sonne of king Richard the third, was Duke of Cornwall; and in the first yeare of his Fathers reigne, he was created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester, and died (being but ten yeares of age) without issue.

ARthur Duke of Cornwall, sonne and heire of king Henry the seuenth; in the fift yeare of his Fathers reigne, was created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester; and married Katherine, daughter of Ferdinando Duke of Austria, and king of Spaine, when he was but fourteene years of age, & dyed in the next yeare after, 1501. without issue, at Ludlow, and lieth buried at Worcester.

HEnry Duke of Yorke, (second sonne of king Henry the seuenth) after the death of Arthur, his brother, was D. of Cornwall; and in the nineteenth yeare of his Fathers reigne, was created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester; & after, he was king of England, by the name of king Henry the eight.

HEnry Stewart, sonne and heire of Iames, king of great Britaine, France, and Ireland, was created Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of Chester, the fourth of Iune, 1610. and died after at S. Iames, neere Charing-Crosse, with­out issue; and was buried in the Abbey at Westminster, the seuenth of December, 1612.

RAndolphe Meschines, sonne of Randolphe, Viscount of Baieulx, and Alice his wife, base daughter of Richard the third, Duke of Normandy, came into England with William the Conquerour, who gaue him the Earledome of Carlile. He married Margaret, sister of Hugh Lupus, the first Earle of Che­ster after the Conquest, and Aunt and heire of Richard the second Earle of Chester; by whom he had issue, Randolphe the third Earle of Chester, William Meschines Lord of Egre­mont, and Geffrey Lord of Gillesland, and died, Anno,

Andrew de Harcla of Westmerland, knight, for his good seruice in vanquishing and taking prisoner, Thomas Earle of Lancaster, and other his abetters, the kings enemies & dis­loyall subiects; was by king Edward the second, in the 14. yeare of his reigne, girt with a sword, and had giuen him the Title and Earledome of Carlile, (for this was the vsuall ma­king of Earles in those dayes.) But afterwards, this Andrew proued vngratefull to his King and Country, in his warres in Scotland, receiuing secretly from the Scots, a great sum of mo­ney for a bribe, to betray his Master; for which his offence, [Page 52]he being apprehended and taken, was degraded first of his knight-hood, and af­ter, of all honourable Titles, by cutting off his Spurs from his heeles, then by disgirding of him, & breaking his sword ouer his head; and lastly, by tearing his Coate of Armes off his body, by a Herald. This done, he was drawne and hanged, beheaded, and quartered, the last day of October, 1322.

IOhn Plantagenet, third sonne of king Henry the fourth, was in the second yeare of king Henry the fift, his brother, crea­ted the first Duke of Bedford, Earle of Richmond, and Lord of Kendall; and in the fift yeare of the said kings reigne, hee was made Protector of the Realme of England (as in the Title of Bedford is more at large) and Earle of Carlile: (which di­uers late Writers deny,) for thus do I finde him written in his owne Deeds and Charters. Iohn, Regent of the Realme of France, Duke of Bedford, Aniou, and Alanson, Earle of Mayne, Harecourt, Drux, Richmond, and Carlile, and Viscount Beau­mont. He married (in the yeare, 1433.) Iaquelline, daughter of Peter of Lucemburge, Earle of S. Paul, but by her had no issue. He dyed in France, the tenth of September, 1435. and was buried in the Cathedrall Church in the Citty of Roane in Normandy, in a very stately Toombe.

RIchard, fourth sonne of Richard Duke of Yorke, (and bro­ther of king Edward the fourth) was in the first yeare of the said kings reigne, 1460. created Duke of Glocester, and Earle of Carlile, and after was made Constable and Lord Admirall of England. And lastly, when hee had caused his two Nephewes, king Edward the fift, and Richard Duke of Yorke, his brother, to be murdered in the Tower of London: He vsurped the Crowne, and was king of England, by the name of king Richard the third.

HEnry Clifford, Lord Clifford, Skipton, Westmerland, and Ves­cie, was by king Henry the eight, created Earle of Cum­berland, at Bridewell, the eighteenth of Iune, 1525. the 17. year of the said kings reigne; and married Margaret, daughter of Henry Lord Percy, fift Earle of Northumberland, by whom he had issue, Henry Earle of Cumberland, and Sir Ingram Clif­ford, knight; and foure daughters, Katherine the eldest, was married to Iohn Lord Scroope of Bolton; Matilda was wife to Iohn Coigniers of Hornby; and Elizabeth was married to Sir Christopher Medcalfe, knight; and Iane was married to Sir Iohn Hudleston, knight. This Henry dyed the 22. of Aprill, in the 34. yeare of king Henry the eight.

HEnry Lord Clifford, sonne and heire of Henry aforesaide, after the death of his Father, was the second Earle of Cumberland, Lord Clifford, Skipton, Westmerland, and Vescy, & married to his first wife, Elianor, daughter and co-here of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke, by his wife Mary, Queene of France, (second daughter to king Henry the seuenth) by whom he had issue, Margaret, married to Henry Stanley Earle of Derby, by whom he had issue, Ferdinando Earle of Derby, that dyed without issue Male, and William now Earle of Der­bie, 1618. This Henry maried to his second wife, Anne, daugh­ter of William Lord Dacres of Gillesland, and by her had issue, George Lord Clifford, the third Earle of Cumberland, & Fran­cis the fourth Earle of Cumberland; and three daughters, Frances the eldest daughter, was married to Philip Lord Wharton, Elianor and Mary dyed both young. This Henry dyed in Anno, 1569. the 12. of Queene Elizabeth.

GEorge Lord Clifford, after the death of Henry his father, was the third Earle of Cumberland, Lord Clifford, Skip­ton Westmerland, and Vescy, and Sheriffe of Westmerland by in­heritance: a most Noble and Martiall man, both by Sea and Land, and honoured with the honorable Order of the Gar­ter, 1592. He married Margaret, daughter of Francis Lord Russell, and Earle of Bedford, the 25. of Iune, 1577. and had issue, Francis Lord Clifford, and Robert that died young; and a daughter named Anne, married to Richard Sackuile, Baron of Buckhurst, and Earle of Dorset. This George dyed in the Strand at Landon, in the yeare, 1605. without issue Male.

FRancis Clifford, brother of George aforesaid, succeeded and was the fourth Earle of Cumberland, Lord Clifford, Skip­ton, Westmerland, & Vescy, now liuing, 1618. he maried Grizell, daughter of Hughes of Vxbridge, Esquire, and wid­dow of Henry Neuill, Father of Edward Neuill, now Baron of Abergauenny, 1618. and hath issue, Henry Lord Clifford, Margaret and Frances.

WIlliam Meschines, sonne of Randolphe Earle of Che­ster, and second brother of Randolphe Gernonijs Earle of Chester, was the first Earle of Cambridge, & by that name and title, I finde him a Witnesse to the Charter and guift of Alexander Bishop of Lincolne, of the Island of Hafreholme, which the said Alexander gaue to the religious & holy Nuns of the order of Sister-sences, bearing date, the fourth of king Stephen, 1139. Whom hee married, or what issue hee had, I finde not.

WIlliam Marquesse of Iuliers, (or Iuliac) vnto whom king Edward the third, on the seuen [...] day of [...]ay, in the 14. yeare of his reigne, did giue the Earl [...] bridge, with the Towne and Castle, and twenty pounds by yeare in fee, to him and the heires of his body begotten: and inuested him into the said Earledome, at Westminster, by the girding of him with a sword, and besides, gaue him by letters patents, a thousand pounds of yearely rent. He maried Ma­ry, sister and heire of Edward Duke of Gelderland, Nephew to king Edward the third, and had isssue. Mary, married vnto Iohn, sonne and heire of Iohn Duke of Cleeue.

IOhn of Henault (Vnckle to Queene Philip, wife to king Ed­ward the third) a younger sonne of the Earle of Henault, was in the sixteenth yeare of the said kings reigne, 1342. cre­ated Earle of Cambridge, which honour & Earledome soone after he lost, by reuolting to the French king.

EDmond of Langley (so called of the kings Mannor house of Langley, where he was borne) fift sonne of king Ed­ward the third, was created Earle of Cambridge, in the 36. yeare of his Fathers reigne; he was also Lord of Tyndall, & after Duke of Yorke, and married Isabell, daughter and one of the heires of Peter king of Castile and Lions, and had issue, as in the Title of Yorke. He dyed in the third yeare of king Henry the fourth, 1401. and was buried at Langley by Isabell his wife.

RIchard of Conesburgh, second sonne of Edmond of Lang­ley, aforesaid, was created Earle of Cambridge, at a Parli­ament held the second yeare of king Henry the fift; and in the yeare after, by the procurement of the Dolphine of France, he with Henry Lord Scroope of Masham, then Lord Treasurer of England, and Sir Thomas Grey of Northumberland, knight, did conspire the kings death at Southampton, as the said king was shipping his men for France; for which their treason, they were beheaded there. He married Anne, sister and heire of Edmond Mortimer, Earle of March and Vlster; and had issue, Richard Earle of Cambridge, and Duke of Yorke, and Isa­bell, married to Henry Lord Bourchier and Earle of Essex.

RIchard Plantagenet, sonne of Richard of Conesbourgh, in the fourth yeare of king Henry the sixt, was created D. of Yorke, Earle of Cambridge and Rutland, and Lord of Tyn­dall; he was also Earle of Marche and Vlster, Lord of Wig­more and Clare by his Mother. He married Secily, daughter of [...]alphe Neuill. first Earle of Westmerland, and had issue, Ed­ward, who was after king, by the name of king Edward the fourth, Edmond Earle of Rutland, and Richard D. of Glocester, and after king of England, by the name of K. Richard the 3. & diuers daughters, as in the title of Yorke. This Richard with his Son Edmond, was slaine at the battell of Wakefield, 1460.

RIchard de Riparijs, (sonne of Baldwine Riuers) to whom (M Camden saith) king Henry the first gaue the Towne of Tiuerton, and the honour of plimpton, and created him Earle of Deuonshire; and granted to him the third penny of the yearely reuennew of the same County, being ten Marks. Lastly, the said king gaue him the Isle of Wight, whereby euer after he was called Earle of Deuonshire, and Lord of the Isle. He married and had issue, Baldwine de Riuers, Earle of Deuon.

BAldwine de Riuers, sonne of Richard aforesaid, was the se­cond Earle of Deuonshire, and builded three Monasteries, viz. Christ-Church, Quarara in the Isle of Wight, and Lira in Normandy; he fortefied the Citty of Exeter, against king Ste­phen, and was banished England, with his wife and children; and had the Isle of Wight taken from him, in the yeare, 1136. He married Adelizia, daughter of [...] by whom he had issue, Richard, Henry that dyed yong, and William, sur-na­med Vernon, (the place where hee went to schoole, or was brought vp in.) This Baldwine dyed in the yeare, 1155. and was buried in the Abbey of Quarara.

RIchard de Riuers, eldest sonne of Baldwine aforenamed, was the third Earle of Deuonshire, and did giue lands to the Abbey of Quarara (in the 13. yeare of king Henry the second) to pray for the soules of Baldwine his father, & Ade­lizia his mother, Countesse of Deuon. He married Hawis, daughter and one of the heires of Reginald Earle of Cornwall (base sonne of king Henry the first) and had issue, Baldwine and Richard, both Earles of Deuonshire, who dyed without issue. This Richard dyed in the Citty of Cenomania in Franc, in the yeare, 1161.

BAldwine de Riuers, sonne and heire of Richard aforesaid, was after his father, the fourth Earle of Deuon, and mar­ried Alice, daughter of Raphe de Dol in Berry, (as Milles hath, pag. 457.) he was Earle but a while, and dyed without issue; leauing Richard his brother to succeed him in his Earledome and lands.

RIchard de Riuers (second sonne of Richard, the third Earle of Deuon, and brother and heire of Baldwine, the fourth Earle of Deuonshire) was the fift Earle of Deuonshire, and married Margaret, daughter and one of the heyres of Iohn Lord Biset, and gaue lands to the Abbey of Bruer, to pray for the soule of Earle Richard his Father, his own health, and Margaret the Countesse his wife, hee died without issue, and was buried at Montbroge in Normandy, the thirtieth of King Henry the second. Etportoit, d'or, au lion rampant d'a­zur. This is the first man that bare this Armes, that euer I could finde: and for the Griffyn which hath bene vsually set downe for their Armes, it is but a deuice, and no Armes.

WIlliam, sur-named de Vernon, of the Towne of Vernona in Normandy, where he was borne, as some haue (but the booke of Forde Abbey hath, where he went to schoole) af­ter the death of Baldwine and Richard, his two Nephewes, without issue, was the sixt Earle of Deuonshire, and Lord of the Isle of Wight. He married Mabell, daughter to Robert Earle of Mellent, with whom her Father did giue in marriage all his lands of Kiderminster, Moreis, and Redeliston, which were be­fore the lands of her Mother Mauld, one of the daughters & heires of Reginald Earle of Cornwall, (base sonne of K. Henry the first;) by whom, this William had issue, Baldwine, who mar­ried Margaret, daughter of Waryn Fitz-Gerald, Chamberlaine to king Iohn; and dyed before his Father, leauing issue, Baldwine his sonne and heire. This William had issue also, two daughters; the eldest was Iane, mar­ried vnto William Bruer, the younger Lord of Torbay, who dyed without issue: Mary the second daughter, was first married to Sir Robert Courtney, knight, sonne of Reginald, and after, to Peter de Prouz, and had issue. This William de Vernon, by his Deed or Charter, bearing date the fourth of September, 1206. did giue lands to the Abbey of Quarara, to pray for the soules of king Henry, and Bald­wine his father, and A lelicia the Countesse his Mother, and Earle Richard his brother, and for the health of Mabell the Countesse, his wife, and Baldwine his sonne; and after dyed, in the yeare of our Lord, 1216. the first of king Henry the third.

BAldwine de Riuers, the fourth of that christen name (Son of Baldwine the third, which dyed before his father) was after the death of William de Vernon, his grand-father, the se­uenth Earle of Deuonshire, and Lord of the Isle of Wight. He married Amicia, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Glocester and Hertford, by whom he had issue, Baldwine the fift, and eight Earle of Deuonshire of that sur-name, and Isa­bell de Fortibus, Countesse of Albemarle, the wife of William de Fortibus Earle of Albemarle. This Baldwine in the 25. yeare of the reigne of king Henry the third, was created Earle of the Isle of Wight, at the sute and petition of Richard Earle of Cornwall, the kings brother, (whose Ward this Baldwine had bene:) and in the 29. yeare of the said kings reigne, the saide Baldwine dyed in his youthfull yeares. After whose death, his Countesse Amicia gaue lands to the abbey of Bruarne, to pray for the soules of Gilbert de Clare, late Earle of Glocester, her Father, and for Isabell the Countesse her Mother, and Baldwine late Earle of Deuonshire, her husband, and for the health of her owne soule, & Bald­wine her sonne. She dyed in the yeare, 1283.

BAldwine de Riuers the fift of that name, and eight Earle of Deuonshire, of that sur-name, & Lord of the Isle of Wight. Hee married Auice, daughter of [...] a Sauoyan borne, and neere kineswoman of Queene Elianor, and had issue, a sonne named Iohn, that dyed yong in France without issue. This Baldwine the fift, dyed in the 46. yeare of K. Henry the third; leauing Isabell de Fortibus Countesse of Albemarle, his sister and heire.

HVgh Courtney, knight, (the second of that name) cousin and heire of Isabell de Fortibus, Countesse of Albemarle, that is to say, sonne of Hugh, grand-childe of Mary de Riuers, sister of Baldwyne the third (that dyed before his Father) grand-father of Isabell de Fortibus, Countesse of Albemarle; was by Letters Patents made the ninth Earle of Deuonshire, the ninth of king Edward the third; and married Agnes, sister of Sir Iohn S. Iohn, knight, by whom he had issue, foure sonnes and three daughters, viz. Hugh Courtney, the tenth Earle of Deuonshire; Thomas the second Son, married Mur [...]ell, daugh­ter [Page 60]of Iohn de Mules: Iohn the third sonne was Abbot of Tauestoke; and Robert was the fourth Son: Elianor the eldest daughter, was wife to Iohn Grey; Elizabeth the second daughter, was married to Bartholmew de Lasle, of the Isle of Wight; & Egelyne the third daughter, was wife to Robert Lord Scales. This Hugh dyed in the fourteenth yeare of king Edward the third, 1340. and was buried at Co­wike.

HVgh Courtney, the third of that christen name, (sonne of Hugh the second) after the death of his father, was the tenth Earle of Deuonshire, and married Margaret, daughter of Humfrey de Bohun, the eight Earle of Hereford and Essex, and Constable of England, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of K. Edward the first, & had issue Hugh Courtney that dyed without issue, Edward that was after Earle of Deuonshire, Sir Thomas Courtney, knight, Philip Courtney of Powderham, Wil­liam Courtney, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Humfrey and Peter that dyed young: Hee had issue also, three daughters, Katherine the eldest, was married to William Lord Haring­ton; Elizabeth, to William Lord Moune of Dunster Castle; and Margaret, wife to Iohn Lord Cobham, &c. This Earle Hugh dyed at Tiuerton, in the last yeare of king Edward the third, 1376. and was buried at Exeter.

EDward Courtney, sonne of Hugh Earle of Deuon aforesaid, was the eleuenth Earle of Deuonshire, and married Eme­line, daughter of Sir Iohn Dauney, knight, and had issue, Ed­ward Courtney, the twelfth Earle of Deuonshire, and Sir Hugh Courtney of Haccombe, knight; and dyed in the 16. yeare of the reigne of king Richard the second, 1392.

EDward Courtney, sur-named the blinde, suc [...]eeded Ed­ward his father, and was the 12 Earle of [...], and sate in Parliament, the sixt of king Henry the fift: he married Elianor, daughter of Roger Mortimer, Earle of March and V [...] ­ster, and had issue, Hugh, the thirteenth Earle of Deuonshire. This Hugh (sur-named the blinde) by his Deed, bearing date the second of king Henry the fift, did giue to Sir Hugh Court­ney, knight, his brother, the Mannors of Gotheringdon, Stan­combe-Dauney, and Southalington in the County of Deuon, & dyed in the seuenth yeare of the said kings reigne, 1418.

HVgh Courtney (sonne and heire of Edward, sur-named the blinde) after the death of his Father, was the thir­teenth Earle of Deuonshire, and sate in Parliament by that Title, the same yeare his Father dyed. He married Anne, daughter of Richard Lord Talbot, and had issue, Thomas Earle of Deuonshire, and dyed in the tenth yeare of the reigne of king Henry the fift, 1421.

THomas Courtney, sonne of Earle Hugh afore-said, succe­ded his Father, and was the fourteenth Earle of Deuon­shire, and Lord of Ochampton: he married Margaret, daugh­ter of Iohn Beaufort, Earle of Somerset, and Marquesse Dor­set, by whom he had issue, three sonnes and two daughters: Thomas the eldest sonne, beeing in the battell [...] with king Henry the sixt, against king Edward the fourth, was there taken prisoner, and had his head smitten off. Henry the se­cond sonne, was likewise beheaded at Salisbury, the eight of king Edward the fourth; and Iohn the third sonne, was slaine at Tewkesbury, in the tenth yeare of king Edward the fourth, Ioane the eldest daughter, was married to Sir Roger Clifford, knight; and Eliza­beth the second daughter, was wife to Sir Hugh Conwey, knight. This Thomas, being at the battell of Touton, 1460. was taken prisoner, and beheaded at Yorke.

HVmfrey Lord Stafford of Southwike, sonne of William Stafford of Hooke, Esquire; in the ninth yeare of king Ed­ward the fourth, was created Earle of Deuonshire, 1460. and maried Isabell, daughter of Sir Iohn Barry, knight, but had no issue by her. This Humfrey became vngratefull to king Ed­ward, and fell from him, and after was taken by some of K. Edwards friends, and carried to Bridgwater in Deuonshire, and there had his head smitten off, in the yeare, 1460. hauing bene an Earle but three Moneths and odde dayes.

EDward Courtney of Haccombe, sonne of Sir Hugh Court­ney of Bokonoke, knight, grand-father to Edward Courtney the eleuenth Earle of Deuonshire, was after the death of Hum­frey Stafford, restored in blood, and made the sixteenth Earle of Deuonshire, in the first yeare of king Henry the seuenth: he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Courtney of Mol­land, knight, and had issue, William Courtney Earle of Deuon­shire. This Edward had foure sisters, whose issue came after to be his heyres. The first was Elizabeth, married to Iohn Tre­therfe, of whom Viuian is descended: the second was Mauld, wife to Iohn Arundell of Taluerne: Isabell the third sister, was married to William Moune: and Florence the fourth sister, was married to Iohn Trelauny, and thus are they set downe in the said Edwards Will. He dyed in the first yeare of king Henry the eight, 1509.

WIlliam Courtney, sonne of Edward, was after his Fa­thers death, the seuenteenth Earle of Deuonshire, and Lord of Okhamton, and married Katherine, daughter of king Edward the fourth; and had issue, Henry Courtney Earle of Deuonshire, and Marquesse of Exeter; and dyed at Greene­wich, the ninth of Iune, in the third yeare of the reigne of K. Henry the eight, 1511. and was buried in the Blacke-Fryars in London.

HEnry Courtney, sonne of William aforesaid, by Katherine his wife, daughter of king Edward the fourth, was after his Father, the eighteenth Earle of Deuon, & Lord of Ochamp­ton. He was after created Marquesse of Exeter, at Bridwell, the eighteene of Iune, 1525. and married to his first wife, Eliza­beth, daughter and heire of Sir Iohn Grey, Viscount Lisle, by whom he had no issue: after, he married Gertrude, daughter of William Blount, Baron Mountioy (begotten of Elizabeth, the daughter & one of the heyres of Sir William Say, knight) by whom he had issue, Edward Courtney, the last Earle of De­uonshire of this progeny. This Henry Marquesse of Exeter, Henry Poole Lord Mountague, & Sir Nicholas Carew of Beddington in the Coun­ty of Surrey, knight, were attainted and executed for high treason, 1538. at the Tower Hill, for being priuy with Cardinall Poole (brother to the Lord Moun­tague) to procure forraine power (in the Popes aide) to inuade this Realme. Soone after, this Gertrude Marquesses of Exeter, Margaret Countesse of Salis­bury, with others, were likewise attainted for the same treason, but Gertrude was not executed, but died, and was buried in a faire Toombe in Wimborne Minister, in the yeare, 1557.

EDward Courtney, sonne and heire of Henry Marquesse of Exeter, and Earle of Deuonshire, being long prisoner in the Tower of London, was by Queen Mary, in the first yeare of her reigne, 1553. restored in blood, and made Earle of De­uonshire, at her Mannor of Richmond; and three yeares after, he dyed at Padua in Italy, the fourth day of October, 1556. without issue, (some haue, he was poysoned:) He was the last Earle of that Name and Family of Courtneys.

CHarles Blount, Baron Montioy, (second sonne of Iames Blount, Lord Mountioy, and brother and heire of William Baron of Mountioy) Lord Deputy and Lieutenant of Ire­land; who expulsed the Spaniards there, and compelled the Rebels to submission, was by King Iames in the first yeare of his reigne, 1603. created Earle of Deuonshire, the 21. of Iuly, at Hampton-Court. He dyed without any lawfull issue, in the Dutchy-house in the Strand, and was buried at Westminster with great pompe, in the Abbey, in the yeare, 1606.

WIlliam Cauendish, knight, was created Baron of Hard­wike, on Satterday, the fourth of May, 1605. and af­ter by King Iames, in August, 1618. he was made Earle of De­uonshire. He married two wiues, the first was Anne, daughter and heyre of Henry Kighley of Kighley in Lancashire, Esquire, & had issue, William Lord Cauendish of Hardwike, who mar­ried Christian, daughter of Edward Bruse, Baron of Kynlosse, and Master of the Rolles; Frances, wife to Sir Henry Maynard, knight, Mary and Elizabeth. This Williams second wife, was Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Boughton of Causton, and wid­dow of Sir Richard Wortley, knight, by whom hee had issue, Sir Iohn Cauendish, knight of the Bath, who dyed without issue.

HEnry Earle Ferrars, a Norman borne, sonne of Wake­line, came into England with William the Conquerour, who gaue him the Castles of Tutbury & Oucume, with diuers other great Seigneuries in England and Normandy. He married one Berta, and had issue, Eugenulphus, William, and Robert; and two daughters, Gundred, and Emelyn. He foun­ded the Abbey of Tutbury, in the yeare, 1080. Vnto which Foundation, were Witnesses Eugenulphus, William, & Robert his sonnes. And for proofe that this Henry was an Earle. (which some great and late Writers denie) I haue heere set downe the said Henries Epitath, which I finde printed in the yeare, 1577. and dedicated to the late Earle of Essex, and said to be found in the Abbey of Tutbury.

RObert de Ferrars, after the death of Henry his Father, and Eugenulphus and William his two Brothers, without is­sue, was the second Earle Ferrars, and by that name was Witnesse to king Henry the first his Charter, of lands which he gaue to the Abbey of Tutesbury. Also in the 31. yeare of the said kings Reigne, hee began the Foundation of the Ab­bey of Muriuall, and dyed in the 19. yeare of king Stephen, and was buried at Muriuall, leauing issue, William Earle of Tutesbury, slaine in his lodging in London, without issue; Robert Earle Ferrars, and Wakelyn de Ferrars the third sonne.

RObert de Ferrars, the second of that name, after the death of Robert his Father, and William his brother, was the third Earle Ferrars, whom diuers late Writers haue great­ly mistaken, they affirming him to be the first Robert, Founder of Muriuall Abbey, and to be Earle of Nottingham; when as in truth, it was this Roberts Father, that was Founder of Muriuall Abbey, and another Robert Ferrars, grand-childe of this second Robert by his sonne William, that was made Earle of Nottingham, as heereafter will appeare in his due place.

And where they say they haue seen Deeds and Charters, to approue their affirmation, it is vntrue; for those they meane, are vnperfect Notes and Abstracts, taken out of Glouer Somersets Booke of Miscellania; which Book I haue, and perusing the same, finde them of small cre­dite. This Earle Robert married, and had issue, William Earle Ferrars, the fourth Earle Ferrars; and died in the yeare, 1184. the 31. of king Henry the second: but others haue, that he dyed in the Holy-Land, in the yeare, 1190. the second of king Richard the first, which is mistaken.

VVIlliam Earle Ferrars, Lord of Tutbury in Stafford­shire, and Oucume in Rutlandshire, sonne of the se­cond Robert Earle Ferrars, married Margaret, daughter and heire of William Peuerill of Nottingham, (whose grand-father William was the base sonne of William Conqueror, begotten of the wife of Randolphe Peuerell of Hatfield Peuerell) and had issue, Robert and William: Robert the eldest sonne in the life time of his Father, was made Earle of Nottingham, and dyed without issue William the second sonne, after the death of his Father was Earle Ferrars, and first Earle of Derby. This Wil­liam Earle Ferrars the Father, dyed (as Roger Houedon hath, Fol. 390. b.) at Achon in the Holy-Land, in the yeare, 1190. But Milles (in Glouer Somersets Book of successions of Earles, pag. 870.) hath, that he dyed in the yeare, 1247. and Margaret his wife to dye in the same year, the 32. of king Henry the third, which I doubt of.

WIlliam de Ferrars, the second Earle Ferrars of that christen name, was by king Iohn made the first Earle of Derby of that sur-name. He married Agnes, the third sister and co-heire of Randolphe Blundeuile, Earle of Chester and Lincolne: in whose right he was Lord of Chartley, and had issue, William Earle Ferrars and Derby, Robert, Hugh, and Tho­mas de Ferrars; and dyed in the yeare of our Lord, 1242. and was buried at Muriuall, the 27. of king Henry the third.

VVIilliam de Ferrars, the third of that name, was Earle Ferrars and Derby, Lord of Tutbury and Chartley. He married two wiues, the first was Sibell, daughter of Willi­am Marshall the elder Earle of Pembroke, and one of the fiue sisters and heyres of Auncelme Marshall Earle of Pembrooke, (with whō he had 1520. pounds Rents of assize per annum) and had issue; fiue daughters, who inherited their Mothers in­heritance, and were married as followeth. Agnes the eldest, was married to William Lord Vescy of Alnwicke in Northum­berland: Isabell first married vnto Gilbert Basset, and after, vnto Reginald de Mohun the younger Earle of Somerset Ioane the third daughter, was married vnto Iohn Mohun, Sonne of Regi­nald aforesaid: Mauld the fourth daughter, was married to Philip de Kyme, Lord of Kyme, and had issue, Sibell wife to Franke de Bohun, Baron of Midhurst in Sussex: and after, she married William de Fortz Baron of Clapton; and thirdly, the said Mauld married William de Vallibus: Anne or Agatha the fift daughter, was married to Hugh Mortimer of Chilmersh, sonne of Ralphe Lord Mortimer of Wigmore. The foresaid William Earle Ferrars, married to his second wife, Margaret, daughter and one of the heyres of Roger Quincie Earle of Winche­ster, and Constable of Scotland, by whom he had issue, Robert Earle Ferrars and Derby, and William Lord and Baron of Groby, by the gift of his Mother; and a daughter named Agnes, married to Robert Musegros, sonne of Richard Lord of Derhurst. This William dyed of a bruise, taken with a fall out of his Coach, in the yeare, 1253. the 38. of king Henry the third.

RObert de Ferrars (sonne and heire of William Earle Fer­rars and Derby) was also Earle Ferrars and Derby, and combined with Simon Mountfort Earle of Leicester, and Gil­bert de Clare Earle of Glocester and others, to raise warre a­gainst king Henry the third, because he refused to stand to the Statutes made by Parliament at Oxford, for the banishment of Strangers, &c. In which ciuill discord, this Robert, in the fiftieth yeare of the said kings reigne, was taken prisoner at the Battell of Chesterfield, and imprisoned in the Castle of Chipenham, neere to Windesor; where he, for the obtayning of his liberty, became bound (before Iohn Chishull Lord Chan­cellor of England) and did assure ouer all his Lands in Eng­land (excepting Chartley, and the Towne of Bolbrooke) to diuers Noblemen his sureties, for the payment of fifty thousand pounds in one day, and at one entire payment, to Lord Edmond the kings sonne; which payment being not perfor­med at the day appointed; the said Lord Edmond, vpon the surrender of the a­foresaid Sureties, tooke possession of all the said Lands, which were then valued at two thousand pounds per annum: his Sureties were, the Lord Henry, Son to the king of Romans, William Valence Earle of Pembrooke, Iohn Earle Warren and Surrey, William Beauchamp Earle of Warwicke, Roger Somery, Thomas Clare, Ro­ger Walleron, Roger Glifford, Hamon Le Strange, Bartholmew Sudley, and Robert Bruse, Barons. This Earle Robert, married Elianor, daughter of Ralphe Lord Basset, and had issue, Iohn Lord Ferrars of Chartley; and dyed in the seauenth yeare of king Edward the first, 1278. After whose death, the Dukes and Earles of Lancaster had the Titles of Derby, vntill the first yeare of king Henry the se­uenth, that he bestowed the same vpon Thomas Stanley, his Father in law.

EDmond Plantagenet, sur-named Crowch-backe, second Son of king Henry the third, and Brother of king Edward the first, was Earle of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby; as more at large doth appeare in the Title of Lancaster.

THomas Plantagenet, sonne and heire of Edmond aforesaid, was after his Father, Earle of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby, as in the Title of Lancaster. He dyed without issue, leauing Henry his brother his heire.

HEnry of Lancaster, Lord of Monmouth, Brother to Tho­mas Plantagenet, (was after his Father & Brother) resto­red to be Earle of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby, with the Office of high Steward of England, as in the Title of Lanca­ster is more at large.

HEnry, sur-named Tortcoll (or Crook-necke) sonne & heire of Henry Monmouth, was in the life time of his Father created Earle of Derby, in the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the third, as in the Title of Earles of Lancaster.

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

HEnry of Bullingbrooke, sonne of Iohn of Gaunt, was crea­ted Earle of Derby, in the ninth yeare of king Richard the second, his Nephew; and in the twentieth yeare of the same Kings reigne, hee was made Duke of Hereford; and lastly, King of England, by the name of King Henry the fourth.

THomas Lord Stanley, and of Man, knight of the Noble Order of the Garter, and Lord Steward of the house to King Edward the fourth, was created Earle of Derby, in the first yeare of king Henry the seuenth, on Simon and Iudes day; and in the same yeare, he was made also high Constable of England. He married to his first wife, Elianor, daughter of Ri­chard Neuill Earle of Salisbury; by whom he had issue, sixe sonnes and foure daughters, viz. Thomas and Richard dyed young; George the third sonne, was Lord Strange, in right of Ioane his wife, daughter and heyre of Iohn Lord Strange of Knocking, and died before his Father, the third of king Henry the seuenth; William the fourth sonne dyed young; Edward the fift sonne, was Lord Monteagle; and Iames the sixt sonne, was Bishop of Elie: Ioane the eldest daughter dyed young; Katherine the second daughter, Anne the third daughter dyed young; and Margaret the fourth daughter, was married to Sir Iohn Os­berton, knight. This Thomas married to his second wife, Margaret, daughter & heire of Iohn Duke of Somerset, the widdow of Edmond Earle of Richmond, and Mother to King Henry the seuenth; by whom hee had no issue. Hee dyed at Lathum in Lancashire, in the twentieth yeare of King Henry the seuenth, 1104. And Margaret his wife, Countesse of Richmond, dyed in the first yeare of king Henry the seuenth.

THomas Lord Stanley, Strange and of Man, grand-childe to Thomas aforesaid, by his sonne George, was the second Earle of Derbie of that Family, and married Anne, daughter of Edward Lord Hastings, and sister of George, Earle of Hun­tingdon (who was after married to Iohn Radcliff, Lord Fitz­water.) This Thomas had issue, three sonnes and one daugh­ter, viz. Iohn Lord Strange, that dyed before his Father; Ed­ward that was after Earle of Derby, and Henry that dyed young of the sweat. Margaret the daughter, married Robert Radcliff Earle of Sussex. This Thomas dyed in the 13. yeare of king Henry the eight, 1521.

EDward Lord Stanley of Lathum, Strange of Knocking, & of Man, Son of Thomas aforesaid, was the 3. Earle of Derby of that Family, who had three wiues: the first was Dorothea, daughter of Thomas Howard, the second D. of Norfolke, by whom he had issue, three sonnes and foure daughters; Henry, who after his Father was the fourth Earle of Derby; Sir Ed­ward Stanley of Einsham in Oxfordshire knight; and Sir Tho­mas Stanley knight; who married Margaret, daughter and one of the heyres of George Vernon of Derbyshire, knight: Anne the eldest daughter, was first married to Charles Lord Sturton, and after to Sir Iohn Arundell of Cornwall, knight; Elizabeth was wife to Henry Parker Lord Morley; Iane married to Edward Lord Dudley; and Mary the fourth daughter, was wife to Edward Lord Stafford. This Edward had to his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Ellis Barlow of Lanca­shire, by whom he had issue, George that dyed young; Katherine, wife to Sir Tho­mas Kniuet, knight; Margaret, married to Iohn Iermyn of Rushbrooke in Suffolke. Lastly, the said Edward married to his third wife, Mary, daughter of George Cot­ton, but by her had no issue. He dyed at Lathum, the 24. of October, in the 14. yeare of the most happy Queene Elizabeth, and was buried at Burscogh, two miles from Lathum.

HEnry Lord Stanley of Lathum, Strange of Knocking, and of Man, sonne and heire of Edward, was the fourth Earle of Derby of that sur-name, and knight of the Garter. He married Margaret, daughter of Henry Clifford Earle of Cumberland, and Elianor his wife, daughter and one of the co-heires of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke, by Mary Q. of France, his wife; and had issue, Edward that dyed young, FErdinando and William, both Earles of Derby one after the other. He dyed in the yeare, 1593 and was buried at

FErdinando Lord Stanley, Strange, and of the Isle of Man, Sonne and Heire of Henry Earle of Derby, was after his Father, the fift Earle of Derby, Lord Strange, and of the Isle of Man; and married Alice, daughter of Sir Iohn Spencer of Northamptonshire, knight; and had issue, three daughters his heires generall, Anne married to Grey Bruges Lord Shandos, Frances the second daughter was married to Sir Iohn Egerton knight, and after Earle of Bridgwater, and Elizabeth the third daughter, was married to Henry Lord Hastings Earle of Huntingdon. He dyed in the yeare of our Lord, 1594 and was buried at