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The Verney Family LET-TERS AND PAPE RS OF THE VERNEY FAMILY DOWN TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1639. PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. IN THE POSSESSION OF S I R H A R RY V E R N E Y, B A R T. EDITED BY JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, BY JOHN BO,VYER NICHOLS AND SONS, PARLIAMENT STREET. M.DCCC.LIII. LONDON: J. B. NICHOLS A.ND SONS, PRINTERS, P..1.RLU.MEN'.1' STREET. [NO. LVI.j COUNCIL OF 1,HE CAliDEN SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1852-3. President, THE RIGHT HON. LORD BRAYBROOKE, 13'.S.A. \VILLIAl\i HENRY BLAAU"\V, ESQ. 1\1.A. F.S.A. JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. Treas. S.A. Director. JOI-IN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. V.P.S.A. '1'reasurer. C. PURTON COOPER, ESQ. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. \VILLIAl\I DURRANT COOPER, ESQ. F.S.A. BOLTON CORNEY, ESQ. l\I.R.S.L. \VILLIAl\I RICHARD DRAKE, ESQ. :F.S.A. SIR HENRY ELLIS, ICH., F.R.S., Sec. S.A. ED\VARD FOSS, ESQ. F.S.A. THE REV. JOSEPH HUNTER, :F.S.A. THE REV. LAMBERT B. LARKING, :M.A. PETER LEVESQUE, ESQ. F.S.A. FREDERIC OUVRY, ESQ. F.S.A. THE RT. HON. LORD VISCOUNT STRANGFORD, F.R.S. Dir.S.A. \VILLIAi1 J. THOMS, ESQ. F.S.A., Secretary. The CouNcIL of the CAMDEN SocIETY desire it to be under­ stood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observa­ tions that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several works being alone responsible for the same. INTRODUCTION. THE Members of the Camden Society are aware that the collection of original papers from which the follow­ ing pages are derived is extensive and miscellaneous. Its most important contents possess not only an interest directly historical, in the ordinary sense of that word, that is, as connected with public events of the periods to which they belong ; they have also a separate and personal interest, in relation to the fortunes of a par­ ticular family. In editing the present selection I have thought it right to keep this double interest of the papers in mind. I have, therefore, not sent forth the book merely as containing a body of historical papers, ,vhich would tell their own tale without comment or connection. I have sketched the history of the family, and have introduced the papers in the places into which they fall naturally as illustrations of the fortunes of the Verneys. This is a course which will meet, I hope, with general approval. The most val11able materials, even for general . VI INTRODUCTION. history, are to be found among the records of private and personal experience. More true knowledge of the spirit of an age, more real acquaintance with the feelings and actual circumstances of a people, may be gleaned from a delineation of the affairs of a single family than from studied historical composition. The one is the expres­ sion of contemporary and spontaneous feeling, and, although limited, is unquestionably genuine ; the other is a deduction from knowledge, imperfect even when most extensive, and too frequently coloured by the feel­ ings and prejudices of a subsequent and altered period. I have given an account of the descent of the V erneys, not from a mere antiquary's love of resuscitating every­ thing that belongs to the past, but because, without a knowledge of the history of the family, it would have been impossible to judge correctly of .the character and value of their papers. For my own part, I venture to think that it ,vould be a great excellence in our litera­ ture, and would make publications of this description far more valuable than they generally are, if attention were more frequently given to the precise circumstances and social position of the persons from whom original papers emanated, or to whom they relate. It is an erroneous, although among antiquaries by no means an uncommon notion, that unofficial papers are only of importance when they can be connected with the most interesting events or the most noble fa.milies. I should contend, on the contrary, that the value of such papers is to be esti- .. INTRODUCTION. vu mated by the degree in which they give an insight into the feelings and opinions, the real inner life, and not the mere outside appearance, of the men and women, what­ ever their station, to whom they relate. In adopting the course which I have described, I have endeavoured not at _all to overlook the public events to which these papers relate, or in which the V erneys were involved. In the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV. I have unfolded the clever management by which sir Ralph Verney, the Y orkist lord mayor, was able to recover for his son the lands of the Lancastrian sir Robert Whittingham (pp. 12-22). In the reign of Henry VII. I have indicated the gay life led by the courtier sir Ralph, the chamberlain of princess Margaret, and one of her attendants into Scotland (pp. 29-34). i have also been - able to establish his marriage with lady Eleanor Pole (p. 31), and have identified as his a tomb at King's Langley traditionally reported to be that of Piers Gavestone (p. 47). In the reign of queen Mary I have unravelled the details of Dudley's conspiracy, iri. which two of the V erneys were implicated, and in respect to which our historians have been much at fault (pp. 59-76). In the 1'"eign of Elizabeth the documents I have selected may be properly said to begin. The table which follows these observations will be found to indicate their general character. Under James I. the fortunes of sir Francis Verney Vlll INTRODUCTION. have led me to say something upon a curious question, which will bear a good deal more investigation ;-the adventures of the English pirates in the Mediterranean (pp. 95-101). I have also had occasion to give some particulars of prince Charles's journey to Spain, sir Edmund Verney having been one of his attendants (pp. 107-113). In the same reign I may point out the order at p. 117 to control " the bold and barbarous insolency'' of those who presumed to join the royal hunting parties without permission. With the accession of Charles I. the papers acquire great importance. I have printed such of them as relate to some of the _grievances of that period;. the levy of money upon privy seals, with the excessive amount assessed upon Hampden (pp. 118-129, and 277-288) ; coat and conduct money (pp. 126-127, and 289); the billeting of soldiers (pp. 132-134) ; and the oppres­ sions of the court of wards (pp. 146-186). Glances also are caught at the feeling engendered by the impe­ rious policy of lord Strafford (pp. 155-171) ; the cruelties in the star chamber (p. 157) ; the persecution of the puritans by archbishop Laud (pp. 178-180) ; the revival of old forest law grievances (pp. 180-183) ; and the multitude of monopolies by which the people about the court conver.ted the royal authority into a sour?e of personal profit (pp. 184-186, 224). All these great counts in the indictment which the people of England preferred in the long parliament against the . INTRODUCTION. IX government of Charles I., will be found more or less proved or illustrated in the following p~ges. Nor will the adventures of Thomas Verney (p. 174), the particulars of his outfit for New England (p. 160), his description of Barbadoes (p. 192), the account of the faux pas which led to the separation between Essex the future parliamentary general, and his second wife (p. 168), the early lives of Edmund (pp. 160, 173, 208, 237, 268) and Henry Verney (pp. 175, 267), J\,lrs. Pul­ teney's troubles on account of her suitors and her second marriage (pp. 198, 213,261), and the particulars respect­ ing lord Craven (p. 189) and the hon. James Dillon, the father of Roscommon the poet (pp. 147, 173, &c.), be overlooked. The latter part of the volume (pp. 200-276) relates principally_ to the armament set forth by Charles I. against the Scottish covenanters in 1639. The letters of sir E_dmund Verney, who attended the king upon that miserable expedition, contain one of the best accounts of it with which I am acquainted. It is not necessary that I should recommend these letters to general con­ sideration. No one who has not acquainted himself with the true nature of the movements in Scotland in 1639, can rightly understand the struggle which ensued in England. It was intended to carry down this volume to the battle of Edgehill, but the length to which the corre­ spondence ran rendered it necessary to bring the book CAMD. soc. b X INTRODUCTION. to an earlier close. It wants, in consequence, the com­ pleteness of story which, in that case, it would have possessed. On that ground, as well as on account of many other imperfections, of which no one can be more sensible than myself, the work is submitted to the candid consideration of the Members of the Camden Society, and of its readers generally. JOHN BRUCE. 5, Upper Gw~tcester Street, Dorset Square, March, 1853. LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME. PAGE Grant from Ralph De Verney to John Nernuit of a moiety of the advowson of the church of St. Mary, of Fletemerston, temp.
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