'f H E U NT O N I NV E N rr O R IE S1
&ELATING TO WADLEY AND FARINGDON,._
CO. BERI{S.
IN THE YEARS 1596 AND 16~0,
FRO:!\I THE ORIGIXALS IN THE POSSESSION OF EARL 'G'ERREF S.
1 " ITH .A. lIE:\IOIR OF TI-IE F.A.1IILY OF UXTON,
BY
JOHN GOUGH NICl-IOLS.2 ESQ. F.S.A.
LONDON: PRIXTED FOH TIIE ~ DERKSIIIHE .ASill\IOLE.\~ SOCIETY, BY JOU~ B0WYEll ~ICH0LS AXD .SON, PAHLIA:\IEST S'fREF.T.
?tl.DCCC.XLl.
COUNCIL
OP THE BERKSHIRE .A.SHMOLE.A.N SOCIETY,
ELECTED l\IAY 23, 1840.
President, THE RIGI-IT ~ON. THE EA.RL OF .t\BINGDON, D.C.L. LORD LIEUTE~AXT OF THE COUNrI'Y OF BERKS. Vice-P·residents, ·THE lIOST NOBLE TI-IE ~1ARQGESS OF no,vNSI-IlRE, K.P. D.C.L. THE VENER.c\BLE ED"rARD BERENS, l1.A. ARCHDEACON' OF BERKS. JOifN BLIGH ~IOXCI{; ESQ. Di:rector. RICHARD H. ALLNI\.TT, ESQ. :\I.D. CI-IARLES BL.. -\.XDY, ESQ. Treasurer. JOIIN BilUCE, ESQ. F.S .. A.. ADAlI DUFF, ESQ. CH.A.RLES EYSTO~, ESQ. JA1IES ORCHA.llD I-I.A.LLI,V.ELL, ESQ. F.R.S., F.S.A. \YILLIA11 FULLER 11.:\.ITLAND, ESQ. lI.A.. , F.S.A.• PlfILIP PUSEY, ESQ. ~I.P. JOIIN RICII ..-\..IlDS, J"U~. ESQ. F.S ..:\. Secretary. TI-10:\1.AS XOOX T.AI..1FOUilD., ESQ. Se-rjeant-at-Law, l\I.P. 1 ,, 1I"Ll.:\.lI J. TI-IO:\IS, ESQ. l.,.S ..A.. RICII.AllD TlIO~I.:\.S ,YOODIIOUSJ~, l1.D. l~EV. SA.11UEL \VILD~L:\.N YA.rI'ES, 11 .. A.
CONTENTS.
Page PREFACE • • • .. • • • vii l\lEMOIRS OF THE FAlIILY OF UNTON- Henry Unton, Chirographer of the King's Bench xvii The Untons of the City of London • • xviii Hugh Unton and Agnes Danvers • • xx Hugh Unton, and Sibella Fettiplace • • i!J. Sir Thomas U nton, of l\Iinstcr Lovell • • xxii The lVILL of Dame Elizabeth Unton, 1530 • xxv Sir.. Alexander U nton • • • -• XXX Sir Edward Unton, K.B. and ...,:\.nne Countess of \Varwick . • • . • xxxiv 111c ,,,..ILL of Sir Edward Unton 1581 • • xxxix Colonel Edwar
Index of Places auc.l l">~rsons • • • •
PREFACE.
· ToPOGRAPIIY, or local history, l1as no,v for :nany ge nerations recehred considerable attention in this country; but, ,vhile it has been diffused widely, it has, for the 1ncst part, been acco1nplished very superficially; and, sucl1 is the pervading nature of its ramifications, that c,~en ,vhere • it has been best executed there ,Yill eyer arise additional materials ,vbicl1 1nay be inter\voven in its varied texture, by ,vhich its lacunre n1ay be supplied, and the chain of its evidence strengthened nnd confirmed. The subjects of Topography may be classed under the tl1ree general heads of-natural features, the ,vorks of mnn, and the descent of property. S01nc of our early to pographers directed their attention principally to the for1ner of these subjects, as })lot, l\Iorton, and llorlnse; "·hilst others, of ,vho1n the 1nost successful in the elder line ,rere l~rd( 1 :;,Yick, Dugclale, and 1''horoton, adopted for their staple the records of prop('rty and genealogy, and their follo,rcrs ha\·c for1ncd the 1nore nu1nerous ~chool; or, to speak 1nore precisely, those subjects hayc occupied ••• Vlll PREFACE. by far the greater proportion of the pages of our later topographers. As, in all ages, family in1portance bas been mainly deriYed fro1n ,vealth, and as all ,veal th formerly arose from or was quickly vested in land, the descent of lauded property involves the entire history of distin guished families, and in their distribution and alliances is included 111uch of the public history of tl1e country. Aslunole, tl1e principal labourer for Berksl1ire, an.d the tutelary patro11 of our Society, paid chief attention to the sepulchral and heraldic me1norials of parisl1 churches ; and Browne ,,rillis, the topographical labourer in the adjoining c·ounty of Buckinghn111, was oue of the first ,vho opened those n1ines of genealogical information, the p~~ rochial registers. The sphere of the local historian, ho,vever, is not to be narro,ved to n1ere genealogy. He must be per111ittcd, anc'! ,vill be expected, to pay attention to every 1nattcr, ancient or 111odern, natural or artificial, that has a local relation- Florifcris ut apes in saltibus 0111nia libant, Omnia- Yet these occasional subjects ought not to branch off into digressions, nor to lead to essays and disquisitions, either in geology, natural history, or ngriculturc, nor e,·cn in antiquities or biography; for such generalisations are con1111only 1nisplaccd, in a confined locality, fro1n not n1ain- • PREFACE. JX
tainiug any exclusive connection with it. All that is re quired of the topographer is to describe, and illustrate -in tl1e siinplest ,ray, the particular exan1ples ,vhich arise around l1is path ; or to discrhninate, and elucidate, those parts of already '\Yell-kno,vn history, which bear any re lation to the localities of his ,vork. A similar rule applies even in genealogical matters ; for the history of any great and far-spread race is innp propriately introduced on occasion of son1e petty estate where its men1bers ,vere seldo1n, if ever, resident ; but it shoulcl be rescr,·ed for the heads of baronies., for their • principal m~nsions, and actual seats. One of the 1nost successful topographers of n1oclern thnes ,vas the late Dr. T. D. '\V11itaker, as his talents ,verc displayed in his earlier ,vorks, the Histories of Crnxen and \Vhalley. This intelligent ,vriter paid attention not only to every relic of antiquity that ca1ne ,vithin his range, but more especially to every document ,vhich appeared to thro,v light on ancient 111anncrs ; thus extending the n1aterials of fa1nily history fron1 pedigrees, registers, aucl cpitapl1g, to those 1norc Ii-rely n1irrors of tl1e past, the diary, the letter~ and the Yarious records of don1cstic ccono1ny and expenditure. An1ong these ,vcrc son1c Invrntorics of the nature of those ,vhich arc no\v presented to the not.ice of the n1cn1- bcrs of the Berkshire 1\.slunolcan Society. Docun1ents of BERKS. ASll~I. SOC. /, X PREFACE. this kind, when tl1ey have been published, haYe generally been considered as replete with curious illustrations of the don1estic liYes of our forefatl1ers ; but it is remarkable that -very fe,v hav-e appeared in print, tl1ough probably many hundreds are in existence, not only in fa1nily ar chives, but especially among the records of testamentary courts. -,v'ith the exception of the volu1ne of ,vnis and Inventories [ extending to the year 1580] fro1n tl1e Bisl1op's Registry at Durban1, published by the Surtces Society in 1835, their ap11earauce has been only acci dental ; and the follo,ving is a list* of all that have, in a printed sha1)e, fallen under the observation of the present ,vriter. In each case the reacl<'r ,vill please to under stand the ,,ords-Goocls, Chattels, Furniture, &c. of
1459. Sir J 01111 Fastolfc, at Caslre in .Norfolk. ArchLCologia, ,·ol. 3txi. p. 238. - 1517. Sir R.alph Shirley, at Staunton IIarol
• In,·cntorics of Church 1-'urnilurc have been pulJlislu.•tl in grt.·atcr nunibcrs, hut tlaC':-:c form a ~wpa1·atl~ class. PREFACE. XI
ticularly curious document, and its illustrations by Dr. ,vbitakcr arc very interesting. 1581. Sir Thon1as Boynton, at Darmston, Yorkshire. Poulson's Ilistory of Holderness, 4to. 1840, p. 215. 1591. Some brief Extracts fron1 another In,,entory of Skipton Castle. ,,rhitaker's CraYen, 1812, p. 336. 1003. Sir rfhon1as Kytson, at flengraTe llall, Suffolk. Extracts in Gage's IIistory of Hengra,·e, p. 21. 100-1. Sir \\rilliam Reade, at Fenha111. Raine's North Durham, p. 177. , 1618. Lady !\fargaret Read, at Fenhan1. Extracts, ibid. p. 179. · 1022. Sir George Shirley, (the husband of Lady Dorothy, whose Inventory is printed in the present Yolun1c,) at Astwell, N ortbamp tonsl1ire. Exti;acts in Stenuuata Shirleiana, p. 71. 1641. Roger ,Yiddrington, -Esq. at llarooltlc. Raine's N ortb Durham, p. 222. 1043. IIenry fifth Earl of Cumberland, at Skipton Castle. Ex tracts, '\'hitaker's CraYen, 1812, p. 342. 1050. lnl"entory of the Goods at Ludlow Castle, being part of an In,·entory of the llousehol
ture at Kenilworth Lclon 1rin°· to Il.ohcrt Earl of Lcicc~tcr, is pre• , ~ ~ scr,·cd in a l\IS. at I>cnshurst. ( llowitt's ''isits lo llc111ark. l~laccs, 1010, p. 41.) •• Xll PREFACE.
Th~ highly curious Description of England, ,vritten by ,villiam Ha1Tison, Chaplain to Lord Cobham, and pre fixed to Holinshed~s Chronicles, in tl1e year 15 77, con tains some very interesting remarks on the mansions and furniture of the Elizabethan rera. "The ancient manours and houses of our gentlemen are yet for the most part of strong timber, in fra1ning ·whereof our car·penters have beene and are worthilie pre ferred before those of like science a1nong all ot11er na tions. Ho"-beit, such as be lately builded, are co1n monlie either of bricke or hard stone, or botl1 ; their roomes large and comelie, and houses of office further distant fron1 their lodgings. 1"hose of the nobilitie are likewise ,Yrought ,vith bricke ancl hard stone, as provision may best be 1nacle : but so 1nngnificent and statelie as the basest l1ouse of a Baron dooth often 1natch, in our daies, ,,ith son1e honours of princes in old tiine. * * " The furniture of our houses also cxcccdeth, and is gro,vne in 1nancr even to pas~ing dclicacie ; and l1ercin I doe not speakc of the nohilitic and gcntrie onlic, but likc,,~ise of the lo,Ycst ~ort in 1nost places of our south countric, that haYe anic thing at nll to take to. Certcs in noble 1nen's house::; it is not rare to see abundance of Arras, rich hangings of tapistric, silYcr ,·csscll, uud so 111ucb other plate, as n1ay furni~h sundric cupbur,h;, to the su1n1nc oftcntiinc~ of a thousand or t \\·o thous:uu.l PREFACE. xiii pounds at the least ; wl1ereby the value of this ancl th<' rest of their stuffe dooth gro,v to be almost inesthnal,le. Like,Yise in the houses of knights, gentlemen, 1nercha11t- 1nen, and some other wealthie citjzens, it is not geson to bel1old generallie their great provision of tapistric, Tu~·kie worke, pewter, brasse, fine linen, and thereto costlie cupbords of plate, ,vorth fi-v-e or six hundred or a tl1ousa11d pounds, to be dee1ned by· esthnation."* After this 1)ertine11t conten1porary statement, ,vhich ·or itself for111s the most appropriate introduction to the ensuing pages, it appears only necessary to acknon·ledgc the source ft·om ,,·hich the Editor has derived the po"·t·r of making the present offer of his good ,vill to,varcls the objects of the Ilerkshh~e Ashmolean Society.. I-laving oh serred that l\Ir. EVELYN P111LIP SHIRLEY, the present beir of the l1ouse of Eatington., l1ad 1nade mention of these Berkshire Inventories, among tl1ose n1e1norinl:; of tl1e Shirley fa1nily, \\·l1icl1, ,-rith a true regard to the merits of his ancestors, and tl1c obligations ,vhich he O\Yc-s . to the1n, he is at present 1)er1>etuating in n printed forin, the Editor requested the fa,.. our of being allo,vcd to copy
• Description of England, Dook 1 I. chap. x. 1,11c r~issagc:; ex tracted aho\'c nrc tho.:;e only \\'·l1icb relate to tho upper classes : hi~ particulars of the impro,·c1ucnts in the cou,·enicnccs anc.l lux.uric:-; of tho lower 01·dcrs, wuich succecll, are perliaps still u1ore curious. -xiv• PREFACE. them; a favour ,vhich was not only i1n111ediately granted, but he was further very kindly assisted by transcripts being made-for him. . The ,·vill of Dame Dorothy Shirley, as recorded in the PrerogatiYe Court of Canterbury, has been added, as being, fro1n the general cl1aracter of its bequests, a com panion entirely correspondent to the In,cntory. Indeed, many ofthe articles described in both docu1nents are the san1e, and tl1ey therefore thro,v reflective light on one another. The ,,rn1 confir1ns ,vhat the lnYentory suggests, the fact of the great ituportance ,vhich ,vas attached, as property, ·to the rich stores, "for n1any years," ,Yhich were accuu1ulated in the mansions of our forefathers. Two other ,,Tills, ,vhicl1 are inserted in tl1c frunily memoir, will be found to be highly illustrative of the nature of the inco1ne and 1nodc of life of the gentry of Berksl1ire in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, aucl· of
1 tl1e character.. of the surrounding country. ( 011:-;idcra- ble use l1as also been 1nadc of the other ,vill:-; of the '- fa1uily; and the Editor may further n1ention that, ,rithout tl1eir aid, he sl1ould have been ,vholly unable to nrrangc the 1narriages and descent of the fiunily. In old }H·
• Pro1nptorhnn }>ar,·uJoru1u, to Le printed by the _Camden ~o cicty. XVl• PREFACE. the willing co-operation of JoHN R1c1IARDS, jun. Esq. F.S.A. the zealous Secretary of the Berksl1ire Ashmolean Society. GENEALOGIC.A.L NOTICES
OF THE
FA 1\1 I LY O F U N T O N.
TnE Untons "·ere for some generations men of higl1 consideration in Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Three of thcn1 represented the latter county in Parlian1ent; and among their alliances "·e find the_ illustrious names of Dourchier, Seyn1our, and I-lastings. The last of the male line, Sir I-Ienry Unton, ,,·as a 1nan "·hose abilities ,vcre evidently highly estee1necl by his conte111por'1rics, and ,vhosc prcn1ature death, "·hilst resident ..:\.1nhnssador in FratH'e, \\ras lamented in terins scarcely exceeded hy those "·hich hall follo"·cd t11e loss of Sir 11hilip Sydney, his kinsn1an. The family had not, ho·wever, risen into in1portance before tl1c rrudor period. rrhe name docs not occur in the printed Calendars of Inquisitiones post ~Iortem, or in other public records of an early date. Their armorial coat, \\·hich "·as Azure, on a fess cn grailcd or, bet\\~ecn three spearheads argent, a greyhound curn·nt ~able, ,vas one of those granted by Barker, Garter I~ing of .. Anns, in the rci3n of IIcnry \TIJI.; and no other coat of l:nton is to he found. 'l'hc greyhound, one of tl1c royal hcast.s, ,yas probably introduced in allusion to the grantee, Sir 'fhomas U nton, bciug a fanner under the Cro,vn. The earliest * Dated on the 10th Aug. l-170, (in wl1icb month he di\'.!d) an<.J pro,·ctl at L:nnbrth 011 tlie ith July 1-1; 1. llt: desir.:s, therein, to be buried bcfol"c the imnge of the IJoly Trinity llJ~ltK8 • .ASH~I. SOC. C ••• XVlll GENEALOGICAL NOTICES King's Bench in the reign of Ed·ward t11c Fourth. lie appears to ha,,.e con1e fron1 the parish of Chorley, in Lancashire; but, haYing purchased estates in Norfolk, "·as buried at Sculthorpe in that county, ,\"ith the follo,Ying epitaph : "I-lie jacet I-lenricus Un ton, Gentlen1an, quondam Chirographus Don1ini I?egis de Banco, qui obiit 27 Aug. 14jO,"-on a brass plate.;)i: It seems probable that the U ntons, "·ho flourished as citizens of London,t "·ere descended fron1 John, the son of this llenry; in the church of Skulthorpe; to the high altar of which church he leal"es 20d., to the fabric 6a. 2d., ant! to the neighbouring church of Dunton the same sum. He directs Jnnsses to be performed for three year:S at ~kulthorpe, for his soul, and those of -- .Bonefaunt and ,Yilliam Skene, to which ohjcct lie bequeathes 2-1 marks; also other masses for three years at Chorley, co. L~nc. for lais soul, those of Richard Towulcy, and his ancestors, for which he bequeathes 21 marks. He and that tl1e more distinguished branch, ,vhose history forn1s the subject of the f ollo\\·ing pages, ,,.. ere descended f ron1 his brotl1 er Hugh. Under some contingencies, apparently dependent on the failure of his issue, 3001. w:is to be bestowed for the reparation of the " more noyous v.·ayes next the Citie ;" and the residue, at the disposal of his Company, upon four householders free of the same, upon the redemption of poor prisoners in the city g:1oles, and upon the marriages of poor maydens. He ga\"e 100!. to the Drapers' Company, to remain in their ti-easury, and be distributed in various ways during ten years; and another 100/. for yearly obits. He also gat"e to Father Robert the hermit [probably :it Cripplegate] for the repair of the high way, 51. Among the relations he mentions are his wife Alice, bis fathe1·-in-law Roger Sadler ; bis brother-in-law John Sl.dler ; his brother-in-law Thomas Robertes, his godson Kyrrell Robertes, and his five sisters; and bis si:;ter Bodley; and his cousi1i TAomaa l.impfCJn, Esq. To the church of Scowthorp in :Xorfolk, u·lzere ldsfather an.d ...... motIler tcere !Juried, he left 10/. for repairs, and the same sum to the church of Dun- ton and Doughton. From the list of Obits kept by the Drapers' Company, printed in Herbert's History of the Tn-eh-e Great Companies, 8,·o. 1837, ,·ol. i. p. 452, "·e find that Hug11 Un1pto11's obit was kept at St. Lawrence Poultc:ncy, on the 5th Jul;, anu mass on the morrow. On the occasion was paid, pursuant to his will, "To the :'\Ia.st<'r, being present, ~s.; to each of the "'."'ardens, l~tl.; to e,·ery past '\Varden 4d.; to every Jireryman present ~d.; to the clerk 12d. ; tlie porter 12d. and the beadle Bel. No potation. '' The l\"ill of bis son Tuo~IAS U:,.1 I'TON, mercAanl fJf the Staple of Calais, is regis tered in ~O Buck. It is datedJulv 1S, 1551, and was pro,;cd on tl1e Gth of the follow- - . ing month. He desires his body to be burietl in the cha pd of the St:iplc of Calais. He mentions his si.'t brothers, Jasper Umpton, Jolin L"mpton, l':ml l:mptou, Hugh Umpton, Thorua.s Plomcley, and :Francis Brown: to cad1 of whom be lt:an~s -10/i. i also his niece Anne l.Jmpton, Thomas Bekington his nephew anti gtJc.lson, son of his si~ter Anne Umpton, his niece AJicc Trappcs, his undc S.1tllcr, hi:; aunt Bouley, JJis brother Dekington, hi::; brother Thomas Drown, his si::;tcr lkkin;ton, his si:-ter IIarryson, his • cosvnJ Uo..,.crO Sadler, his cosYn• H.ich.u-tl Askew, \l"ife to his cou:-in EJmouJ, an HUGH.] The first mentioned by the 1-Ieralds in the U nton respect to the "goodness and friendship" be bore to Powle Unton (v.·ho was probably a natural son), he referred to his e~ccutors for tl1e fulfilment of bis intentions. Ile forgh·es the debts due by his brothers Gcspr:r and John; antl lea,·es .5/i. to liay:;tres Barnard, widol\· [whose name occurred in the preceding will]. He appoints as bis executors Ms widow Bridget, and Sir Christopher Draper, alderman of London. The will is witnes.sed by ""illiam l\lerick, Curate of St. Dunstan's in the East. The wife or this Hugh w-as Bridget, second daughter of Sir Christopher Draper, Lord :\Iayor in 1566. Shew-as the wife, secondly, of Stephen ,voodruffe, c,f London; nnd thirdly, of Sir Henry Billingsley, Lord l\foyor in 1596. She die Sin TnoltAS UxTo~.J Thon1as, tl1c son and J1cir of I-Iugh and Sy bell, occurs by the na1nc of 'rhon1as U nton, Esq. ns one of the executors appointed by the "·ill of the c111incnt faxouritc of IIenry ,rIII. Sir ,Yillian1 Co1upton, the ancestor of the Earls of Nortl1ampton, ,Yhich "·ill ,-ras 1naclc in l 5~:?-3.§ Ile ,vas styled. 'rhon1as U nton, of :\Iinstcr Lo,·cll, co. Oxford, esquire, in the :.?0th llcn. ,:r11 I. 15~8, when a sale and cxcliangc was ncgociated "-ith tl1c ~Inrqucss of l~xctcr; by "·hich the ~Iarqucss agreed to transfer to hint the n1auor of Shrivcnlia1u Stnlpitts and the ln.uulrcc.l there, in the couuty of 13crks, a prc hcu • See Sir Alexander Crokc's Gcncdo;ic:i! lli~tory of the Croke Family, 4to. 18~3, p. 4-19; rcpcatc Roant in Oxfordshire : in exchange for Thomas U nton's re·v·er sionary interest in the manor of ,,rest 1-Iorsley, co. Surrey, after the death of John Bourchier lord Bemers; his present tenure in fee of tl1e manor of ,,r eeke in the san1e county; and the sum of 520/. The liarquess, to perfect the exchange, paid on his part '/001. to Lord Berners.* The residence of "liaster Unton" at llinster-LoYell, as farmer, under the Crow·n, of tl1c f orfei ted estate of the Lords Lovell, is --L!--.J 1.. __ T _,,,, ___, --'Lo L 1---- 1·--n... ~-- ... L 11- -)1ace UULl\;!l;U U) .1...1e1c:1.11u, \\"11 LUU::; llt:l llUll:S lJ. ~ J lc. - _ ~, llynster ,illage, havynge the nan1c of Lovell son1tyn1e lorde of it. There is an auncient place of the Lovels harde by the churche. lfastar Unton, of ''"adeley by Farington, hathe it of the Kynge in f ern1c. '' t ·. In another place t "·e find hin1 styled of Fingest in Bucking hamshire, ,d1ich \\·as a n1anor of the Bishops of Lincoln, and Yery probably may haYe been farn1cd by hin1, in the sa1ne way as l\finster-1,ovell and ,,,.ad Icy. In 23 lien. ,TIII. 153 I, )fr. Unton scrYed the office of Sheriff of the counties of Berks and Oxford, ,vhich "·ere then in that re spect united. Lysons,~ on the authority of the list of Sheriffs, supposes that l1is scat "·as then at ,,... adley near Faringdon, a manor belonging to Oriel college, Oxford, of "·hich his descendants continued lessees until the extinction of the family. Sir Thomas Unton received the honour of Knighthood very s11ortly before l1is death ; being one of the " I~nightes 1nacle ,rith _the sl\·ordc,'' (in distinction to the l{ni~hts of the Ilath,) at the co- * See the abstract of deeds rcln.tin~ to tlais tran5action in the Appcnuix, p. lx:ni: a contribution, it may he remarked, to the History of Surrey, for it is statctl ia 1 .Manning and Bray, iii. 39, that • by what means thi~ (the manor of "·est llor~ley) came into the po:::se~s.iun of Iknry Courtney, )bnr~is oi Exeter, we know not." T ltin. vii. G3•. The name of l~nton i::i niisprinkll "\"inton '' by Hearne; anti this. bas been further nltcrrd into Yi11tor in a ,·ery goo * ~tS. Cotton, Claudius, C. 111. 11p. 112, 11-1. t An interior vic\v of this chapd, ~hewing tl1e po.sition of tbc monuments tkscrihcJ in these pages, an<.1 gh·iu; a :-li~ht hut im1 1crfrd idt·a of their character aml forms, is cngrm.-ed in the Gcntkn:a.u·s ~hi;azi:::: fo:- r;~lG,i,. l(J(j!J. t In the ).JS. ,·olumc of StanLlard::, compktc,lbetwcen tI1c }"ears 1510 nud J.5';?5, now in the College of .Arms,1. ~, the followi11~ is g-i\·cu for" ::u. Thomas Umpton." The fiehl wllitc i in the principal tli\·i:-ion, on a ,ul·ath ar;;~nt a.ncl gulcs, n demi.grf'yhounll cou11c,l sable, coUarcll or, lw1tling iu the mouth n brokt·n sp~ur, point upwards, or. The re• maioder of t}u: drawin0 im11c:rfcct. E.iccrpt:1 llistorica, Eh·o. 183 I, p. 31-1. • XXIV GENEALOOICAL NOTICES holing at her feet. The sculpture of these figures is on tl1e ,vhole of an inferior order; but they are curious for their costume. Round the three sides of the tomb are scYen shields of arms ,¥itl1in circular \\Teaths, beinu-, alternately, the arms of U nton and ...... - - Fettiplace quarterly, and the sa111e impaling the coat of griffins above described. This coat has been assigned to the na1ne of Y ongc,~ and in some pedigrees Sir Tho1na.s's ,vife is nan1cd Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of ,Yilliam Yonge.t 'fhere ":-as a family of Yonge at Brig11twaltou .aucl Letcon1he llegis in Berkshire,! ancl it appears not improbable that Sir Thomas U nton n1ay hnxe n1arried for his first wife a lady of that family; but further proof of such a mar riage bas been sought in Yain. There is an1 plc eYidcnce that his ,\ido,v, and the n1othcr of his sons Sir .A.lexan * GloTer's Ordinary or Arms. . t As in E. 13, in Coll• .-\rm.; l\IS. Harl. t 139, fol. 51 ; and the pedigree of Unton printed by Sir Alexander Croke. In any case, it must have been in error that the griffins were after~ards included in the U nton <1u:irtcrings (sec hereafter, p. xl\""i) ns the family ccrt..1.inly desccnlkd from the marri:tgc with Hyde. i In the will of John Yonge, 1-172, both places are mentioned. He desires to be buried at 13urghwalton, and mentions his "·ifo .Agnes, chil (From the registry of tbe Prerog. Court of C:mterLury, 37 Hogen.) "Ix DE1 XO:'\IIXE, L\n1cn. The xxjti clay of .Aprill, the ycre of our Lord Goel a thousand fyyc hundrcth xxxvj, and in the ycrc of our SoYcraignc Lorcle I~ing l I en rye the eight xx,·ijti, I, I•:lizabcth Unton, of the parishc of Faryn,g(lt_>n, in the countic of Dcrkcs, ,vido,\·c, and late "·ifc of Sir 'fhon1as U ntou, l~nyght, dccessccl, being sike in body, and hole of 1nynd, and good mc1nory, orclcyne ancl n1akc tl1is 1ny tcsta.1ncnt and last ,,·ille, in man er and f onne following: DERK~ • .ASlllI. SOC. xxvi GENEALOGICAL XOTICES "F1RsT, and before all thingcs, I '"'·ille and bequetl1e my soule to God, and to his mercy,. and "·illc n1v., bodv. to be buried in the Trinitie chapcll, in the parishe churche of Faryngdon aforsaid, \\·here n1y l1usbondc lycth. Ite1n, I bequethe to the high awter there ijs. and also to the 1nayntenaunce of the helles there iijs. iiijd. I bequcthe to eYcry one of n1y servants, for their labours in carying of my body to be buried in the church and place aforesaid, Yjs. Yiijd. "Item, I bcquethe to 1ny sonne A.lexancler U nton the great _ palett, ,Yith all thingcs thereto belonging, a chaffingdishe of silver, and t\\·oo candelstickcs of silYer, a diapre table clothe, a cupbord clothe. of diapre, and vj napkyns of diapre, fyve hundred shepe, after they be shorne, Yiij oxen, and a plowe, wt all thinges thereto belonging, and fourty beastcs that \Yere bred sence my husbonde dyed. "Item, I bcqucthe unto .Anne ,,.am page, my doughter, twoo go,vnes, twoo kirtells of sat ten, a vel wet bonnett, tenne ram mes, after tl1ey be shorn, and my hakncy horsse. "Item, I hequeth to Dorothc Dora111 a gow·ne of clothe, a go,,·ne 0£ say, a kirtell of ta"·nye sattcn, a Ycl wet bonnet, a black frontlet, a score of shepc, after they be shornc, an "Item, I bequcth to my sonne Thomas U nton fy,·e l1undreth ewes, "·ith lan1bes, tenne hundreth \\·ethers, xxxti ra1nn1es, after they be shorne, viij oxen and a plo"·gh ,Yith th'appurtenances, all my carte and n1y carte horses-,Yith their appurtences, fourty kyne with their cah·cs, tenne steres, the be • Probahly tv.·o 11ricsl~. . OP THE F.AllILY OF UNrrON. XXIX Regis, in the hundred of l{entbury Eagle, and married Ann Cottys ·more, but apparently died ".-ithout issue, leaving his estates to his maternal relations, the 1-Iydes. In that docu1nent, ,Yhich is dated 19th Sept. 1542, and proYed the san1e year,* he is styled" Thomas Unton., gentleman, no,v in the parish of Lctco111be Regis, in the ·diocese of Sarum.'' He desires his bodv to be buried in the • church of Farington, in the isle there; bequeathes ,iijd. to the cathe- dral church of Sarum ; leaYcs estates cl1iefly in the Isle of lVight and else\\·l1ere in I-Ian1psl1ire., to l1is wife ..r\.nne for life, or till she married agajn; remainder to Thomas son of ,v·illiam Ilyde, and his heirs male ; and other remainders to Lovingcote I-I yde ; Thon1as Cox, of Henney; Antl1ony Hyde; J>ctcr I-I ydc; John Hyde, son of ,,:rilliam; 1-Iugh Ilyde; Thomas, son of Robert Cooke; Ja1nes, son of Philip J4'etyplace; and Elizabetl1 liyde. He mentions also his uncle ''"illia111 I-I ydc ; his cousin \Yilliam Hyde, and .. his cousin John Erncley ;t and Charles Cottysmorc, his ,,ife's brother, to "·born he leaves an annuity of ..1/i. 8. Eclith, who ,,...as married to Sir John H.usscll, of Strcnshan1, in ,,r orccstershire, and "·as mother of Sir 'rhon1as llusscll, ,vho continued that fan1ily -t They were zealous Protestants. Sir John Russell "departed forthe of this ,\·orld, in the faithc of Jesus Christ," the 15th .r\.ug. 1536: "and tl1e said clnn1e E • Prerog. Court of Cant. !?O Spcrt. t These nnmes will l,c fomul in the 11c . 4$ Anne, ,vife of John , 7an1page, esquire,* ,vho ,T'as also of a ,v orcestersl1ire fan1ily, and seated at ,,'." ollashull in the parish of Eckington., in that county. Sin ALEXAXDER U:xTox.] The son and heir of Sir Thomas Unton ,vas named .Alexander. The articles of agreement for his first n1arriage, dated· the. 10th June 8 I-Ien. \rill. 1514, l1avc been printed at length in Collins's Baronies by ,,~rit, fol. 1734.. His bride "·as ~Iary Bourchier, elder daughter and coheir apparent of John Lord Berners, the translator of Froissart, by Lady I{atharine I-Io,-rard, daughter of John first Duke of Norfolk. By this settlen1ent various manors in Norfolk and Suffolk "Were settled upon ~Iary Bourgchicr and her issue; and, according to the practice of the tin1es, the Lord Berners "·as " to delh·er his daughter ~Iary into the hands of Thon1as U nton (the father) or l1is assigncs, to be }Jrovided "·ith meat and drink, and apparel conYenicnt, according to her degree, till she attained to the age of ... t\\·enty years." Thon1as U nton covenants "·ith the Lord Berners, that if ..Alexander die, living ~Iary, not being married to her, he or his assigncs should re-deliver ~!ary to the Lord Bcrners in tw·o months after the death of Alexander; and to deliver in joynturc, if married to .A.lcxandcr, v.·hen she shall be t,venty years of age, the inanors of ]~xchcqucrs t in Oxfordshire, of the yerely value of 1 40 • &c. * ,i: 'fho111as Unton covenants tl1at all the n1anors ancl lands \\·hich he hath or shall haxe by any "·ay, shall rc111ain to Alexander after his death and his heirs, sa:ving-thc jointurc of Eliza beth \\·ifc of 'rho1nas. ;;.: ~ The J... ord Dcrncrs \Yas bound to 'fho1nas U nton in 2000 inarks, Thonuts U ntou to the Lord in 500 n1arks, to pcrfonn covenants. This lady died "·ithout issue', and her sister Jane the ,vifc of • Sec a pedigree of Yampage in Nash's ,\·orceskrshirc, ,·ol. ii. p. )83; where the last. Jol111 anJ l1is wife .\1111~, arc probalJly the parties abo\·e-mentionctl. f llis1uintcd "£:;t llrgncrs •• by Collins. • OF THE FAlIJLY OF UNTOX. XXXl Edn1und Kny\"'ett, esq. became in consequence the sole heiress of her father.* His second ~dfe was Cecily, daughter of Ed"·ard Bulstrode, esquire of tl1e body to I{ings l-Icnry VII. and Henry ,r111. This marriage took place in July 1533, as appears by an inquisition taken in Berkshire after his death, in ,vhich the settlen1ent of the manor of Sheprige in that county, upon the marriage and its issue, is citcd.t In 154-0 Alexander U nton bccan1e the purchaser of the manor of ,v yke in Faring • Her descendants st ill exist, and their cl.um to tbe bnrony of Ilerners \t"3.S ac knowledged by the termination of its abeyance in fa,·our of Col. Robert ,Yilson, in 1832. t -" per indenturam inter ipsum Tho. et '!\forgarctam llulstroJc ,·iclm1m, nupcr uxorem Edwarui Bul.5trodc arm. There are kneeling figures, 15 inches high, representing Sir Alexander U nton bet\\·ecn his t,Yo wiv-cs. He is bareheaded, in armour surn1ountcd by a tabard of the arins of U nton and Fctti place quarterly; "·ith sc,·en sons kneeling behind him. "\.boYe bis head is a scroll, inscribed, En 1ltillttt bri (the rest broken away). The first "ifc has a veil falling behind her head, and a mantle of arms, on her right side U nton quartering Fettiplace, and on tl1e left Bourchicr quartering Berncrs._ There are no c11ildren behind her. The second lrife is similarly altered, the arn1s on her left side l>eing 1 and 4. Hulstrocle, 2. l{nyfts, 3. Chobington (as bl_azoncd below) ; behind her are two daughters. Below· tl1e figures is this inscription : "Here vnder lycth syr .A lcxnndcr Un ton knyght l\'Iary and lady CecyH J1is "·yfes "·ich .Alcxanclcr dcccsscd the xyj day of cleccbr Ano ~11 ye ~lvij. In ye ffyrstc ycr of or sotlaigne lord l~ynge Ed"rard then on "!'hose soutte and all cristcn soutte Jhii haue mercy.'' . There "·ere also four sl1ields of brass, the two uppcrn1ost of '\Yhicll arc no,v supplied hy plaster; viz. I. Or, a cross cngrailed gu. bet"·· four ·watcr-hougcts or, Bourchicr; impaling Gu. a bend bet,Yecn six crosslets fitchcc ar. (without the augmentation of Scot land), Ilo\\·anl. II. Unton irnpaling ]Jourchicr; III. and 1,;. Unton and Fcttiplace quarterly. ()n the first wife's n1antlc, the nnns of Bourchicr arc quartered with C:iulcs, uillct.y and a fess or, I. .. ouYaiue. The quart~rin3s of ]3ulstroc1c "·orn hy tl1c second lady arc I and ,.J. Sa. a. stao-'s.:::, head cahoshcd, cnsi~ncd.... on the fore head ·with a cross bch,·ccn t11c antlers, and pierced through the nose with an arro\\· sable, ]3ulstro • R<'gistered in tl,e Pn·rr.gath·e Court of C:uitcrhury, 30 l'opulwell. ••• OF THE FAl(JLY OF UNTON. XXXlll Unton, of ,,radlcy in the parish of Faringdon, knight, is dated 14 Dec. 1547, and was proved 19 ~lay 15-1-9. It contains very long directions respecting the disposal of his estates, \Yhich were nun1crous. He mentions his parsonages of Offchurch and Dench""orth, "·hich are left to his ,vife for life; his fcrn1e of Wadley; his manor of Shallingford, left to his ,vife for life; his farm of J\Iinster Lov-ell, left for tlie pro,·ision of his younger children ; his manor of Shcprege in Berkshire ; lands at S"·allo"·- 1ield, Aston Ro\\·ant (co. Oxford), East I-Ianney, and Southbury in East Hanney (Berks) ; and others in ,viltshirc, the Isle of ,,right, and elsewhere. He mentions his ,vife Cecily; his son and heir Edward; his younger children I-Ienry, Thomas, and Elizabeth; his brother Ilichard Boulstrod, to "?horn he be queathes his night-gown of damaske; l1is brother Ed1nond Ashefyld; his brother Christopher Ashefyld, to ·whom he bequeathes l1is go"·ne of dan1aske furred _,vith martynes; l1is brother ,rampaige; his cosyn Thomas Fetyplacc, and .Alice Fcty place; his cosyn ]3riggcs, and his cosyn Ilornc, to each of whon1 he gh·es "a gelding of the best that arc yonge ; " his cosyu Cockes, to whom he gives 40 shcpc. .Also to Jarncs Richards 40 sheep. His son and heir Ed\\·ard ,,·as to ha,·e his bed of sattcn figured, on reaching the age of twenty-one years. Dame Cecily, having sun·iYed Sir I\lcxander U nton, ·was n1arried secondh~. to Sir Robert I(clhray,. Surycyor. of the Court. of ''"ards, ,,:ho became resident at llinstcr I~ovell. ''fhcy hacl an only daughter and heiress, .Anne, the ,rife of John · Lord I-Iarrington, and n1othcr of the cC'lcbratccl l,ucy Countess of Bed ford, as also of .Anne, the "·ife of Sir llohcrt Chichester, l{.B. f ron1 \\·l1ose daughter .Anne, Lady ]Jruce of J{inloss, the ~Iarqucss of Aylesbury is descended. Sir .t\lcxandcr had no children by liargarct )3ourcliicr; but by Cecily Bulstrode lie had seven sons and two daughters, as rcprc- BEKKS. ASlllI. SOC. e : . XX.XIV GENEALOGICAL NOTICES sented on the n1onumcnt, of "rhom the names of three sons and one daughter are on record :- 1. Sir Ed"·ard, his son and heir. 2. Henry; of "·hon1 nothing further appears. 3. Thomas, whose w·ill is dated 6 1Iarch, 1563, and proYed .1 Feb. 1564. I-Ie bequeaths all his property to his brother Sir Ed,vard Unton, I~nt. and leaves him his sole executor.* - 4. Elizabeth, n1arricd to Sir John Croke, of Chilton, co. Bucks, who died the 10th Feb. 160S, ret. 78; and she died the 24th June 1611, ~t. 73. There is a ,·ery fine monument at Chilton, ~ith their effigies, and large kneeling statues of their cl1ildrcn, among "·hon1 are Sir J c,hn Croke, and Sir George Croke, both judges, in their official robes.t 1.'hrce members of this family after ,varcls bore the lHln1e of Unton. The first "·as Unton Croke, esq. of 1\-Iarston near Oxford, a serjcant at law·, and J1.P. for ,,,.. alling ford, a younger son of Sir John Croke, the judge; and the second ·was Captain U nton Croke,! second son of the serjeant ; both of ,Yhon1 ,Yere distinguished in public life, and forrn subjects of extended n1cn1oirs by the fan1ily historian. rrhe latter hacl a son of his own nan1e; but "·hat became of his fa~ily is not known. SIR En,Y.ARD U~TO:\", 1(.13.] The succcrcling head of the fan1ily formed, a few· years after his father's death, during the reian of !\Iar\'·, a n1atrin1onial alliance ,vith a n1embcr of the then 0 "' • • Rt>gist. Prcrol"I'.0 Court Cant. 4 )Iorrison. t A plate rcpr~~entiu; this monu1J1rnt, will be seen at ll· 452 or Sir Alcxmulcr Croke's Gcnc:ilogi<'al lli::tory of the Croke Family ; and the epitaph at p. 45-1. Thi! author states (p. -1.;s,) that in Lat.ly Croke's will, cl:.1t"J 1st Feb. 1G09, are mcn 1 tione • The tutor or Anne, l\farg:u·ct, and Jane, the Duke of Somerset's three cldc::-t daughters, "·as a Frenchman name,1 i\icholas Dl'nh:ot; anJ a portical tribute to the memory of )fargaret Queen of X ..warrc, written in Latin, :u1J transl:itcd into Greek, ltafo1n an,l l-'rcnch, aml printed at Paris in 1;,:.1, un,lcr the title of " Le Tombr:iu tic }.forguerite de Yaloi~, Royuc de ~avarr,,,'' has been attrib11tc,l to tht•:;c three ~istc:r:s - of course under the r11iJaucc of thcil" tutor. They are further sai c, 1549 June 3. The king cam to Schein, ,,·her ,Yas a mariag mad bet\,·en the L. Lisle th'erl of \Y'ar,\ics sone and the lacli Anne, daughter to the duke of Somerset; ,vich don and a faire diner made, and daunsing finished, the king and the ladies ,vent into tow cl1ambers mad of bowis, wher first he sa,v six gentlemen of on [ e] side, and six of another, rune the course of the fild t,vis 0\9er. Ther nan1es hiere do folo,v : The L. Ed\,ard and Sir Jhon .Aplcby. [Tlze ot/1,er na1nes not inserted.] Last of al came the count of Ragonnc wt 3 Italians, ,Yho ran \\ith al the gentlemen fo\l·re cou-rses, and aftern·ards fought at tornay. I\.nd so after souper lie returned to 1\1 l1estminster.* And aften,·ard cam three mascers of one side and to"· of another, \\icb rane fo"prc courses apcce; ther names be (blank.) " The rejoicings upon tl1is marriage w·erc soon changed into tears. In the course of a f~,v "reeks, perhaps days, the hride n1ust baYe "·itnessed fresh cn1uity springing up bet\\·een tl1e fan1ilies of her l1usband and l1er father: "·hich very shortly brought the latter to the scaffold. rrhen follol\·cd, ,vithin t"·o years, tl1c ruin of her J1usband's house; the rctributiYc execution of N ortlnunber }and: and the in1prisoruuent of his four sons. The Earl of ,,rar\\·ick "·as arrested together ,Yith his fat.lier, at Cambridge, on tl1c 25th of July 1553, and arraigned and condcnn1cd ,\·ith hin1 at ''"'estn1inster, on the l Sth of the following 1nontl1. :\fter his fatl1er's decapitation, lie continued a prisoncr,t and on the 10th of September, the Countess of ,r-an\"ick had license given her to have access to her husband, nnd to tarry "·ith hin1 so long, and at such tirncs, as by the lieutenant of the 'fo,vcr should be thought convenient ; the san1c pcnnission l1aving been granted on the • 0( course in hi~ barge, by water. It was on the next day that Sir Uobcrt Du • In the Beauchamp tower, on the right-hand side of the fire-11lacc, is a very curious and elaborate can-ing, (engraved in the Archreologia, ,·ol • .xiii. pl. 111. and al~o in Bayley's History of the Tower of London, pl. xvi.) cut by the hands of '' IOIIN DVDLE,'' and representing bis family insignia of a ch:tincd bear nud lion, supporting betv,cen tbem a ragged staff, within a border of tlowers, antl this inscription below: YOU THAT THESE BEASTS DO WEL BEUOLD AXD SE, MAY DE!\IE WIT.HE CARE WIIEIU:"ORE JII-:RF. ~IA.DE THJ::Y BE, WITHE BORDERS EKE WRERI~ (u11finished) 4 BROTHERS XA~n-:s WHO LIST TO s1:nc1u: 1"JlE Gno,·sn. (Tico 71l0re lines prepared, but uot scu.lptured.) The fourfloW'ers, or plants, in the border, which l\""Cre "left as a.n intercstingpuzzle" hy ~Ir. Bayley, may be interpreted as the Jom1uil, the ,·ose (for .\mhra.,·P), the hcrb-Ru!Jert (not." oak-sprigs''), nn,l the Gilly-flower (fur Gnil,lfurcl). ::\1 r. Ihylcy lost :-:ight of the sculptor's own name, and confu:-cd hirn~clf with that of a yonn;cr son, llt·nry, who appears to ha,·e escaped imprisonment with his 1,rotlu:rs, prol1ahly from his youth at the time. The Rel". Jolin llrand, in the .-\rcha.:oh,gia, with still greater mis:ipprc!Jen sion, attributed t'!ic c:u·,·ir:.g to the Duke of ~orthmnbcrbnu l1imself. f Strypc, )lemorials, iii. ~o~. i lnquis. £-l Eliz. Oxon. ~o. l '21 (quoted a;ai11 hc_rcaftt•r). Strypc places his death 011e week earlier, "Ol~tohcr the ~bt. ahout midnight, at Sir Henry Sy,lnt!y's J>Jacc in Pensl1urst." )lcmorials, iii. ~u..!. Godwin, in his llcign of Quccu l\lury, (Kennett, vol. ii. p. 332,) states th:tt "the Earl of \\~arwick Jy'd iu pri::;on." ••• XXXVlll GENEALOGICAL NOTICES small ancl sequestered church of Hatford in Berkshire,* at a short distance fro1n Sir Eel "·arcl' s o,vn mansion of ,,~adlcy ., • Sir Ech,·ard U nton "·as one of the Knights of the Bath, made at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, in Jan. 1558-9. In 1563, (or n1orc probably 1564,) he made a tour in Italy. In the British ~Iuscun1, (~\ddit. 118S. 1813,) is preseryed a Yery small pocket Yolu1nc, containing "1.,he J omcy of Sr Ed\'\·ard Unton and liis coinpany into Italy, ''"hcrin is conteined the nan1es of the towncs "·here he havtcd. and lave,. and the distance of myles., bet\\·ene the111," ,Yhich ""·as ,vritten by Richard Sn1ith gentleman, son1etimc servant to Sr E 'l'hc other is a copy of "I"'c Antichita • Sec the c~trilcls from the l'arish Rcgi:sler of llatfonl. hrn:aftcr. . O~- TUE -F ..\'!\IILY ·oF UNTO~. XXXlX written:- Questo eil libro di Tlurm,ll$0 Tltitono e costaua-16". oh. And on the last leaf "·ere intended to be enumerated, by the same hand., Tuite le cosse notahile qui sono per esser viste in ~rapole, but the task "·as neyer performed. On the title page of this book, Sir llenry Unton has placed his initials, H. V. - _ In 9 Eliz. 1567, Sir Edward Unton served the office of Sheriff of Berkshire, being the first Shcrifr for that county alone, on its separation in that respect fron1 Oxfordshire. Ile "·as elected for Berkshire to the Parlia111ent ,vhich met on the 8th of 1Ia.y 15 72. In July 15 i 4 he rcceh·ed the Queen at ,vadley, on the comn1ence ment of her sumn1er progress; and presented her ,vith a hand some je"·ell, ·which ,ve find thus officially described, i: among the 0 '' Juells git·en, to 11.er 1llajestie in Progress-tinze anno rcgni sui I G • " First, one jucll of golde garnisl1ecl with dyamondcs and rubycs and f y,e perles pendantc, one bigger than the rest. Gh·en to lier llajestie by ~ir EchYard U mpton, Knight. The san1e delivered to 1\-Ir. Secretary,,... alsingham, by her liajcstics com1naunclcn1ent.'' __ "re may l1cre notice t,Yo similar offerings, which Sir Ed,va.rd madet to his royal n1istress at New·-Y car's tide: In 1571-2, "one fayrc flo"·cr of gol _* Sec Nicliol:i's Pro_~rcsscs, &c. of Qm,cu Elir.ibcth, 1823, vol. i. pp. 379, 391. t )bid. YOI. i. J>. !J!)j ; vol. ii. p. JO l. xi QENE.ALOGICAL NOTICES in the yeare of tl1c raigne of oure soYeraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of Englandc, Frauncc and Irelande Queene, Defender of the Faithe, etc. the three and t,,·entithe, and in the yeare of oure Lord God one tl10-wsanclc fyve hundred eightie one. I Snt En,vARDE , 1 xTox of ,,... adley in the countie of Berks. knighte, being of good and perfect n1e1nory, I humbly thancke my Lord God tl1erefore, doc n1akc, ordayne, and constitute this n1y last ,vin and Test.a1ncnt, in n1anner and fourme. follo,Ying, that is, _ "FIRST, I con1n1cnd my Soule unto my Lord God my creatoure and unto Ihesus Christ n1y H.cdcmer, to enjoye the licaYenly lief which he hathe prepared for his clccte children before the begin ninge of tl1c '"'orl • These p:iss:ige:; nre cntirc:.:ly in corrc.~ponikncc with LrbnJ.'s description of the cou1Jtry bclwcc>n OxforJ an:l Faring- my saide daughter Cicen in suche sort as I haYe lyn1yted the pay mentes of the t,Yo hundred poundes appoynted to be made unto her by my saide sonne Ed,Yard Unton; and for the better per fourmance of this my bequeaste to my said daughter Cicell ,,rent worthe, I "·ill that my saide sonne Ed"'"ard Unton, uppon reason able request to l1in1 to be 1nadc, by my executors or one of then1e, shall putte in sufficient bond to n1y executors for the payment of the saide sornme of tw·o hundred poundcs ly1nyted by this my ,Yill to be payde by hin1 to n1y saydc daughter Cicell ,,-enhvorthe, ac cordinge to the effecte, intente, and tre,Yc meaninge of this 1ny last ,,rill and Testament. And if my said sonne Edw·ard U nton sl1all refuse to putt in sucl1e sufficient bond, then I will that n1y executours shall deteyne in theire handcs to the use of 1ny saide daughter Cicell ,v· cnt"·orth, so n1uchc of the goods and cattells before bequeathed to n1y saide sonne Edward U nton as maie rea sonablie be ,Yorthe the son1e of two hundred poundes, and that for so n1uche as shall be s·o dcteyned the lJcqucast before n1acle to 111y saidc sonne Echvard U nton shalbc yoidc antl of none cffcctc. "Also I will ancl bequeathc unto n1y sai ~, This ,,ill '\Yas dclvYered by Sr Ed,Yard U nton the nn1e and - ~ . twentit11e daic of ~Iayc one tho"Wsand fyve hundrethe eightie t"·o, in the presence of J OII~ Y oxG1~, R1cn.:\RD S)IYTHE, PETER Tnus'l'E~, R1c11Ann I{~RLEs markc, En,Y.ARD Co~·Ls. · "Item I "·ill and bcqucnthe unto my sonne II en rye U nton nll tl1e cornc in the hnrnc at ,,Tadlcy or in any ho,Yses tl1ere. Item I bequeath unto n1y snide sonnc llcnry all my landc in Oxford shire "·hiche appcrtcyncth to t.he ~Innor of l\Iylton ,-rhich I bougl1te of the Quccnc, the "·hicl1e did once belonge to Bren1ore; and also 1ny t,,.-o copiscs ,vhich I boughte of the Osbnstons. Iten1 I ,vill that 1ny sonne IIcnryc sl1all payc unto .Anthony Popleyc fortie pounds to be taken of n1y guiftc for his serYice and his ·wifes, to be paidc '\Yitl1in one ycare after n1y decease. En"-ARD ,:r XTOX. Jo11N YocxGE, 11 IEllOl1g G n1-:con.1E, ,Y ILLI.:\lI 1IAsox." On the.. 25th Oct. 2-l Eliz., between the date of Sir Ed·ward Unton's death and tl1at of liis funeral, an inquest ·was taken at Burford in Oxfordshire, to inquire rcgar * Cole's Escbcats, )IS. 11:irl. -;,;o, p. -1:...s. "!\fy Lncly ,Y:irwyk's lunacyc" is men tioned in a lctti'r of Ruh,.-rt E:irl of Lc:it"t'.sfrr to Lon! Bt:rghky, July P., l:i-? I, in wllic-h he makes a n•cptc.st fur a grant, ,lurin~ its coutiuuance, of "the kqlin; :mtl n1askrshipp of the ~:unc of tht• C"lia--~ nf :\bh-c-rn,'' whid1 foul hC'cn tli~rc~:irJcJ hy :\[ r. Umpton. (Collius's L('Hcrs nwl ~Icmori:tls of Stntc, fol. 17-W, I'· ~~i.) The date of the Countess's lh•atb tlo~s not appl·ar. t J·•ro111 the ori~inal iu Cull. Aru1. l 10. 99; cngro~sctl iu I l '!. r..;. OF TIIE FAMILY OF UNTON. _ "Sir Ed\\·ard U nton, of ,,.,. ndley in Con1. Berkes ICnight of the Bath, sonne and heire of Sr .A.lcxancler U nton knight, departed this lyf at London the xyjth day of Scptc1nbcr in the yere of our Lord God 1582 the X."'iiij th yere of the rcigne of our gracious Soveraigne Queene Elizabeth. ''"hose corps, "·ell accompanyd, ·was very orderly from thence conyeyed to \\"a Valentine I~nio·htlcy..::, . .,. sonnc-in-lawc to the defunct, \\·ho hayc hereunto suhscribctl their na1ncs, the ·son-in-la\\·, as already stated; but in ,vhat \Yay "Edmond Bray esquire" was connected ,vith the fan1ily has not appeared. On the cast "pall of the ti·anscpt at Faringdon, ,Yhich forms the Unton mausoleun1, is erected a large n1onument of Yariously coloured marbles, consisting of a den1i-sarcophagus flanked by TI\"O Corintl1ian pillars, "·hich support a pediment, and as the crO\Yning men1bcr n shichl of arms wit.hin a frame of scroll-w·ork, supported by t\\·o reclining fe111ale figures. The background of the monument is diYi ~ Heere lyethc Sir En"'"ARDE ,r.xTox, l(nigl1tc of the Noble Order of the Bathe, ,vhoc married ..::\nnc Countesse of ,v· ar,vicke., daughter to Ed"·arde Seymer Duke of Son1crsett and Protector of Englande, by whome he l1ad ffyye sonncs; ,vlicreof 3 died younge in the life of their Father; t,,·o, nmuclyc Ech-c:ard nnd Ilenry, onely survyved, and succedcd hi1n the one after the other in tl1cir Father's inheritance; and t\,·o claugl1tcrs, .Aun married to Sir Valentine l{uightlcy knigl1t, an • Sec tl1c note in p. hiii. l1crc11ftl'r. f Sec before, Pl'· :\X ••,~i,·. rq;anlin!, these •1u.1rtcrings. OF TUE FAlllLY OF UNTON. xlvii in the attitude of supporters, viz. Dexter, a unicorn argent, gorged with a ducal coronet and chained or; Sinister, a bull azure, gorged and chained in like manner. \Vi thin the recess are 11ine shields of arms,-three of them in the spandrils, and three w~thin each of the arches, viz. J. Unton, impaling, Azure, a chevron between three lozenges or, probably intended for Ilycle, but in error. (seep. xxiv.) II. Unton, hnpaling Bulstro The Countess of ,,.,. arwick bore a ·-·111.unerous family to Sir Edw·ard Unton. Besides three sons, ..Alexander, Ed111und, and Francis, "·ho died young, they had t,vo sons and t"·o daughters. · 1. Ed,,arcl Unton, csq. of ,v· aclley. 2. Sir lle;nry U nton, successor to l1is brot11er. · 3. Anne, the "·ife of Sir ,r alcntine l(nightlcy; of w-I1om also hereafter, as. succeeding to the property. 4. Cecily, 1nnrried on the ,1th :\Iarcl1, 1580,* to John ,,.,.ent worth, esq. of Gosfield in Essex, "·ho died on tl1e 10th Fch. 1613; and secondly to Sir Edward I-Iohr, of Bishmn in Berkshire., knt. She died in 161 S, having selected as her place of burial the church of Aston l{o,\·ant in Oxfordshire, in consequence of that haYing been for111crh·., the residence of her ancestors; and a n1emorial tl1ere ren1ains for her, of ,vhich the substance has heen published, t as f ollo-n·s : "Against the nortl1 ,rall of the north cl1apcl is a n1ural n1onu mcnt to the J~acly Cicill IIohhec, "·ifc of Sir EchYard llohbce, of Bis11a1n, !~night; and fonncrly "·ifc of John ,,.,. cnt,Yorth, of Gos ficld, Essex, Esq. by whi<"h fonncr husband she hacl Sir Jolin ,,r cnt\\·orth, !~night mul Baronet; ]Jaine .:\unc, "·ifc of Sir ]~d,\·a1~cl ~ostwickc, of ,Yilliugton, Bedfordshire; Danie Cccill, wife of Sir Tho1nas l~ynch of l~a~twrll, l{cnt; Diaua, v,·ifc of Lewis Do,rlcs, * Tbi~ date occurs in Yinc. 1 U. Cull. Arm, p. 102. :t In Skclton's Antiquities of Oxfonl~hire. OF THE FAMIL\. OF UNTON. xlix of Wallington, I-Iertfordshire; and Katharine ,v·ent\\·orth, un married. The said Lady Hobbee died 6th June, 1618, at Bisha111, Berks, being a ~·ido"·, aged 57 years. She desired to he buried in this place, "·hich ,Yas the ancient inheritance of the U ntons, her ancestors : she ,Yas the daughter of Sir Ed"·ard U nton, and .A.nne Countess of ,,,,.ar,vick, daughter of the Duke of Somerset." CoLo~EL En""ARD UxTox.] This gentleman \Yas twenty-fi,·c years of age at his father's death in 1582. He adoptecl the profession of arms; and, as he ,Yas not present at his father's funeral, it is pos sible that l1e "·as then engaged in foreign ·service. Ile did not execute tl1e office of Sheriff; but he ,-ras one of the !{nights for Berkshire in the Parlian1ents of 27 and 28 Eliz. 1585 and 158G. I-le ,vas one of the Colonels of the forces raised fro111 that county for tl1e defence of tlle kingdon1 fron1 the intended Spanish Invasion- in 158S, commanding.... t\YO bodies of 200 men each, classed as Trained and Untrained, and each of ,vhich consisted of 100 men armed with calh.:ers, cig11ty (pikemen) in corslets, and twenty bo,vn1cn. * lie \\·as "slainc in the Portugall voyagc,''1· l\·hich \\·as undertaken in aicl of the restoration of Don .A.ntonio to the throne of that kingdom, under the conduct of Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake, in the year 1589. "Collonell V1npton" is one of t11c ofilccrs mentioned in the narratiYc of the expedition quoted by Sto\\·c in his Chronicle, and also hy Ca1nden in his ..~nnalcs, as making a hot assault "·ith their regiments upon the base tO"wn at the Groyne (Corunna) on the 7th ~lay; and in the sn1ue account is afterwards 1n~11tioncd the fall of Colonel Brett at Lisbon, but not that of Colonel U 1npton. Ilis first "·ifc \\·as Dorothy, daughter of Sir Richard I(nightlcy, of l~awslcy, nnd of Norton, co. Northan1pton, I~nt. by l1is first \\·ifc ~Iary, daughter of ltichard Fcnnor, of l~aston X cston, ]~sq. ancestor of the ]~arls of Po1nfrct, and sister to Sir v·alcntinc l{uightlcy, already n1cntioncd as the husband of llr. Unton's • ?.lurdin's Cl'cill PJ.pcrs, p. 59:;. t l\lillcs's Catalogue of Honour, 1'· 8·~0. JlERKS. ASllll. SOC. 9 1 -GENEALOGICAL NOTlCES sister Aune. Sir Richard Knightlci's second "·ife was Lady Elizabeth Seyn1our,* the youngest sister of the Countess of ,,rar wick, and therefore aunt to "Colloncll ,rn1pton.'' The Colonel's second ,vifc, to \\"'hon1 he ,yas married in 1581,t ,vas Katl1arine, elder daughter of Sir George Hastings, of Gopsal, co. Leicester, l{nt. hy Dorothy, second daughter ancl co-heir of Sir John Port, of EbYal, co. Derby,. I{nt. ...\.s in the case of Colonel U nton's first n1arriage, there ,vas a preYious fan1ily con- nection "·hich n1ay., haYe led to this alliance~ for l{atharine Countess of II untingdon, aunt (by marriage) of tl1e lady, and "~ife of Henry third Earl of 1-Iunting Sin HE~RY U XTO~.] ,,.. e arc no,y arriYed at the last ancl n1ost distinguisl1ed n1e1nber of this "·on,hipful fa.1nily; the par ticulars of \Yhose career n1ight ten1pt an historical ,Yriter into a ,vider range than those of the "·hole of his predecessors. But tl1e Editor, bearing in n1in • Tllis fo.Jy t!icd in 1,;02, a1ul was buril'd. at Xorton. 1:-uuc-ral Certific-ak, I. lG, 3,:!. 1- PcJi0rce in Yinc. 1-tJ. 10·.:. Sec, ho\,:-c,·cr, in the .Appendix, a record rdath·c to tbc lady's dower, uatcll two yc:u~ hcforc. In Collins\; Pl'l·ragc (by Hrytli;l·s) ,·i. G.-.~ > ]1l'r lm~LanJ is crroncuu:,ly styled •• Euw.u-d \; nton, of\\' a and travelled. After his return, being esteemed a person ·well qualified, he had some employment under Sir Christopher Ilatton, Lord Chancellour, "·ho, finding him a man of business and experi ence., co1nmended hin1 to the Queen.''* In 1586 he ,-ras present at the siege of Zutphen, ,vhcrc }1is kinsman,t Sir Philip Sydney, \\·as slain ; and having, as may be presumed, conspicuously distinguished himself, he recei,·e • Antlu,ny A ""'ood, Athc-nre O.xon. (by Bliss,) i. G-17, e,·idently in part on th,~ au thority o( the ci,itaph inserted bcrcnfter. t Though not relatccl in blood, Unton stood in :1. some"'·hnt similar r('lation~laip to I.,(>iccster as Sydney himseli. Sydney "·as the sor1 of Leiccstl!r's si!"tcr, iUltl l"nton uf lais brother•:; widow. But Sy,lney, und in the q-t"S of some of his coulcml'oraries it wouid not be his lca:5t merit, was Leicester's p1"CS1!:npth·c heir. : Stowa:'s Chronicle. LorJ Hurghlcy rlec111ed the occurrence one '\l"Orthy of rt"rord in liis diary: "Sept. ~9- Sir \Villian1 Hatton and Sir II. tJmpton maJc Kni;ht-1 hy tlac Erle of Lcyccster at Zutph!:n." § Rull of tlw Funcr.i.l Proc{':-sion of Sir Philip Sp.lncy, cn;ra.vcd hy Dt? Brij, J.i~7, dcscribc,l iu Thor1>c's Antiquiti<.•s of Kent, p. 1-11; Progrcssc:;, &c. of Qm•l~n ElizaLl'lh, 1823, ii. -1~8. II Ashley's Ur:mi:1: sec its titl&: hcrc:ift..-r, p. bii. f " Anglire cum l-li~p:mia collationcm,9' tran~l::ated fro10 the Frcnc-11. It is not ,·cry lii GENEALOGICAL NOTICES '\'\'illian1 IIatton,-and lie could not sufficientlv. characterise the intimacy of their friendship ,vithout calling in the aid of the Greek language, "illustrissimo equiti D. G. I-Iattono 0µ691.Xtt sh,.e opo-.pvx'l' tuo dicatan1,''-considcrcd hin1self bound to offer the like compli ment to Sir I-Ienry U nton, "lest, haYing saluted Castor, I should be thought to neglect Pollux.'' This re1ninds us of the ,vcll-known boast of Sir Fulke Grc,·illc of l1aving been" 'I'hc Friend of Sir Philip Sydney," a parallel, it 1night be thougl1t, much nearer at hand. But in that instance son1c allo,-rancc n1ust be made for feelings of pride, as \\"ell as regret: :\Ir. Fulkc GreYille (he \Yas not then a l~nigbt) ,yas certainly one of Sir Philip Sydney's "dear friends,"* but there ,ras not that equality in their stations \Yl1ich existed in the instance before us. Our two friends "·ere again together "·hen they both receiye clear what this was, nor dors it nppcar to ha,·e been printed, as it is not mentioned in tl1e memoir of Hobert A:-hh·y, in \\" ooJ•s .Ath~n:-c Oxon. • ., I gi\·e a11J bc<1ucath to my dear frit·mls )lr. Edward Dyer and ~Ir. Fulke Grc\·ille all my buuks. '' Sir Philip Syllnc-y's \\·iU. t See bis Funeral Ccrtiricatc in the Cullcctanca Topog. ct Gencal. ,·ol. iii. I'· 2!H. l Lodge's Illustrati,rns His passport*bears date exactly one month later, on the 21st of July. He departed two days after, and appears to have continued attendant upon the French King's camp until June •following, "-lien he departed from La Fcrc in Tartanoys, (a forti fied to,n1 in Picardy,) convoyed by 120 horse on account of the dangerous state of the country, and, returning by ·way of Dieppe and Dover, arriYed at home, at the Court, the l 7th of June 1592.t * This passport is in the Cottonian volume Vespasian, C. xiv. f. 14; and is printed in Nichols's Progresses, &c. of Queen Elizabeth, 1823, vol. iii. p. 8:i. f There are tW"o large volumes of the papers relating to this Embassy in public libraries, Tiz. 1. Ju the British )lu5eum, the Cotton. !\IS. Caligula, E. vu. It contains the origi nal letters from the Queen, Lord Ilurghley, and others, together W"ith the draft copies of a large number of Sir Henry Unton's own letters to Lord Burghley and various other persons. They are not put together in order of time, or in any regular arrange ment; and the '\"Olume is considerably injured from fire. Its contents are very fully described in the Catalogue of the Cottonian l\ISS. in which those documents that are in-. serted in Rymer's Fredera are pointed out. i. In the Bodleian Library, No. 3-198 of Bcrna.rd's Catalogue. This is a folio book containing copies (probably made by Sir Henry Unton's secretary) of the same docu ments (for the most part) as those in tbe Cottonian \"Olumc, but also unarr::mged. Among tbcm are bis Commission, Instructions, Expenses, a:i in the other volume, and Letters from July 13, 1591, to June 12, 1592. In the XYlth "'olume of Rymcr's Freder:i are printed, from the Cottonian i1s. Sir Henry Unton's Instructions a.nd Credentials (p. 103), and ,·arious letters of Ilurghlcy and the Queen (pp. 109-118), which are also tlcscrihcJ aud abstracted in \Vhatley's Acta Regia, fol. li33, pp. -12-1-7. TW"o letters, written by Sir H. Un ton during ti.is embassy, to the Earl of Essc-x, i7 Oct. 1591, and to Lord Burghley, 12th April l,59~, are J>ri11ted in :\Iurdiu's Cecill Papers, Jlp. G-ta, 651. In Nichols's I>ro;resses, &c. of Queen Eliiabcth, 18~3, Toi. iii. Pl.,• 85-89, are printe,l, together with the pa~sporl as alre:\tly mentioned, Sir Henry's ,·arious accounts of the expenses of the passage, &c. These appear to have Leen r.ollcctc,1 from several parts of the Cottoni:in \"olumc, but thl·y a1:-:o o,·cur in the ,·olumc in the Bodlcian Library. There is one letter, of Lord ll11rghh·y to ~ir JI. Unton, dated Dec. 1~, 1591, in the ?.IS. Cotton. Titus, n. 11. :ind printt"tl in Strypc's ..\rrnal~, Appx. to yol. iii. Book I. No. I. It i:; noticed by the :mtlil,.- in l1is text nt p. -1 ; and, supposing that it was written in 15~ l, he ~peaks of the embassy ns 011e "wbich our historians, for ought I find, are silent of." That he should find nothing is of course not sttrprh;ing, if he looked ten years too early. This is one of the mauy instances in which Strypc bas liv ·0ENEALOGICAJ4 NOTICES During this embassy Sir Henry Unton suffered considerably from ill health. By a letter of Sir Christopher I-Iatton, \Yritten on the 5tl1 Sept. 1591, it appears that he had then experienced an attack of yellow· jaundice. In the-Queen's letter* of the 22d .A.ug. 159 I, she graciously condoles "·ith hin1 on his being sick of an ague at Dieppe, and concludes v;ith this very flattering fare"·ell, "And so ,ve ende, "·ishing you to have care of youre o\\·ne health, ,vhich ,re desire as n1uch to heare of as any freind youe have, ex- cepting youre o,Yne "·ife.'' · A lettert dated fron1 the French I{ing's camp on the 26th of December, and ad • See letters of Henry, and of Henry de la Tour (de Turcnne), both to Queen Eliza beth, expressing their regret at U nton's dep3rture, in the Fred era, x\·i. 99. f It was first published in ::\Iilles's Catalogue of IIon,,ur, lGIO, and thence quoted i11 Fuller's "~orthies of England (13crksl,ire), :ind in Lloyd's Statesmen and Fm·ourites, 1665, p. 4-17. It may at;o be seen in the .Antic1uari:m Rc-pertory, Queen Elizabeth's Progresses, vol. iii. p. ~j, tlic Gt.:ntkman's )fogazine fur l i 96, vol. b.d. i. 13, \\·uo " Nor would I ha,e you to thinke any inequality of person beh\·een us, I being issued from as great a race and noble house (eYery way) as yourselfe." By this he could sc~rcely have 1neant the Untons, but probalJly referred to the Scymours. After paying his respects to the Queen, upon his return from France, Sir llenry U nton repaired to his country residence. The foJlo\\ing note,* which he received ,vithin a ·week from the Earl of Essex, affords strong proof of tl1e high cstcc111 in ,Yhich he ,vas held by that pov,erful and influential personage : "Sir, June 24, 1592. " This gallant and I haYe had a greatt deal of discourse. I do assure yo"· he ,-ras the best messingcr, and the ,,ellcomest yo,v could have sent. I-le is in tl1c best Yayne tl1at ever yo,v hard him. rfhe text lie doth preach on is my Lady U mpton's nott haying of a child. ,,Tell, Sir, I thank yo,v for sending. I can heare fro1n none ,vhose kindnes is more pleasing, and of ,vhose ,vcllfarc I cold more "·illinglie hcarc. If I con1e into Berkshire, it shall be only for your sake : yo,,, s11all know the tymc as soone as I knowe it n1yselfe. Fare"·cll, noble !{night, and constantly loYe him, who ,vill be ever To 111,y J-lonourable and dee1·e Your n1ost true Friend, Friend Sir JI. lhnpton. EssEx." Sir Henry ,,as elected !~night of tl1c S11irc for Berks in the Parliament of 35 Eliz. 1593 ; and his 11a1nc occurs as taking part in a debate on Supply:J- In Oct. 1595 he is n1cntionc • ltlurJin's Cecill Pa11crs, p. 655. t Cobbett's Pad. Dd,atcs, i. 8?.f,, where his nnme is mi:-printc • CoUins's Letters and 1\Iemorials of State, fol. I 7-16, vol. i. p. 3;5. In scT"eral sub. sequent letters written during the S.'.l.me month the progn•::-s of his" ARMS. Unton, impn.ling, Quarterly of four: 1. Argent, a che,ron gules betw-een three boar's heads couped sable, ,vroughton; 2. At:. a chevron between three bird•s heads erased sable ; 3. Bendy or and az. a bordure gu.; 4. Ar. a che,'Ton engrailed gu. betw-een three unicorn's heads erased az. "Sir llenrie U nton, called commonlye U mpton1 of ,,r adley in the Countie of Berksh. I{nighte, "·110 n1nried Dorathy first daughter o( Sr Thon1as ,,r rough ton of Brodehinton in the county of ,,'."ilton, Knight, by "·horn he had no yssue. "Tlie sayd Sr Henry Unton, l(night, dyed Lord .A.mbassador resident in France., in the French I{ynges Campe lying before Lafere, f ron1 ,,·l1encc he ,yas brought oyer to London, and fron1 tl1encc lie ,Yas ,yorshipfully accon1pnnied and caryed in a coache to \\'°aclley, and from thence l1e ,,·as carycd to l4'arringclon, in the county of Berks aforesaicl, and in the parish churcl1c there buried on Thursday the 8th clay of July 15~lG, ,vth a Baron's hearse, and in the degree of a Baron, because lie dyed .A.mbassador Leiclgcr for France." A n1onun1ent to Sir I-Icnry Unton "·as erected in }.,aringdon Church by his "·idow (of who1n hereafter, p. lxvii.), hut it appears to have sufiered 1norc 1natcria1ly than the other montunents, during the mischief "·ltich bcfcl the church in l frl6; aud it ,vas in con sequence rebuilt in 1 G5 S, perhaps not in its original forrn. ~ It is * There is a female kneeling <'ffigy, no\,. loose in the ch.1pd, v:hid1 has been as signed to Lad; Dorothy, Sir Henry's wife (llistory of F:uing,lon, by a Society c,f Gen tlemen (llr. Johu Stone, the organist] Svo. 1i98, p. ~'7 ; aqd letter by the same writt.'r OF THE F.Al\lILY OF UNTO:S. lix no,v affixed to the ·west "·all of the transept, and consists of a large tahlet, flanked by t"·o Corinthian columns, and surmounted by a shield charged ,vith the arms of Unton, hnpaling Or, a chevron gules bet"·een three boar's heads couped sable, 1Y rough ton. The inscription is as fallows : VIRTUTI ET IIO~ORI SACRU~I. HEXERICO UxToxo, Equiti .....\.urato, Edovardi Untoni equitis aurati :filio, ex Anna Comitissa ,Y arvici, filia Edovardi de Sancto liauro ducis S01nn1ersetti et ..Angliro Protcctoris, qui optin1arum artiun1 studiis a prima etate in i\.caclcinia Oxon enutritus, .n1agnam orbis Ch!istiani partem perlustraYit; ob virtutcm bellican1 in Zut phenire obsidione dignitati equestrc donatus, proptersingularem pru dcntiam, spectatam fidem, et n1ultiplice111 rerum usum iterum Lcga tus a serenissimn ...r\.nglire regina ad ChristianissiJnun1 Ilegem 1nissus in Galliari1, e qua ad celesten1 patrian1 cn1igrayit xxiii0 die 1'Iartii anno salutis t596. Dorothea uxor chnrissin1a, :filia clarissimi viri Tho1nre ,,rroughton ex equestri ordinc, qure maximo cum luctu corpus hue transferendum curnvit, in n1utui a1noris ct conju galis fidci testimonium hoc n1onun1entum 1nrestissitua posuit 160G. 1658. The last date refers to tl1e renewal of the monun1cnt lJy George ·Purefoy, esq. as thus noticed by ....\nthony ,Yood *: '' In .A.n: 1658 tl1is last stone was put up because ye formcr "·as pulled do,vne in the Civill ,,~arr I\n: 1643t or thereabouts.'' .A.nd again by J4'ullcr :t " 'l'his ancient and "·orsl1ipfull na1nc "·as extinct in the days of our fathers for ,vant of issue n1alc·, and a great part of in Gent. 1'1ag. for JiDG, p. 10;0). 'l'his np}'ears net irnproha.Llc, as we may imagine that tlie monument she ori~inally erected tl> l,er hu~ban,l wuulll be more smnptuou:s than the 1,resent, and may hnxe h\~cn ac\~urn11a11ic:J. by ht·r figure, as wdl as his. • \Yood's )ISS. 8jl';', D. 11. in .:\:-hut. )Ins. Oxfurcl. t It \\·as in IG-H; that the chnn.·h n·cdn•J rn'.?ferfal injury· Christopl1cr) Hatton (in 1591) is introduced. There is, ho,veYer, little information to be gleaned from these effusions of the lIuses, and the follo\\·ing piece is selected merely as a short and not un favourable specimen,~ and as showing the contemporary estima tion of the names of 'l'alsingham, Drake, Sydney, Grey (.A.rthur ·Lord Grey of ,,.. ilton), and Unton: 0 stultos homines ,·anis qui Ycrsibus ornant Frustra magnanimi mresta trophrea Yiri; Creditis Untono n1odo tot ,;rtutibus an1plo, Tot titulis magno, vestra placere n1etra ? Fortunas, vitan1, splcndorcm nominis omnen1 Largitus patrire, carmina sola petit? Sed bene convcniunt Yirtus, et Yersus; utrumque Altcrutri dos est; tcrtia nulla datur. 1JTalsinga11zus opes per cunctas dissipct oras, Deferat ut patria! quwqne futura sure; TransYolet aurifcros confcstin1 Dracus acl Indos, NaYibus in1n1ens1.un per n1arc n1ensus itcr; Be/gas Sidnceus repetat, Dux Greius ll!Jbernos, Celtas Untonus, pncn1ia magna fcrcnt. Hrec duo nin1irum, )Iortcm Canncnquc: quid ultra? · Amplius ecce nihil sccula nostr~ crcant. Pergite frelices Procercs. N arn prrc1nia rcstant Hrec cade111 Yo bis : Car1nina, ~I ortis ho nos. Carmina ne dcsint, quan1Yis yulgn.ria nostra, Sex vobis, salte1n quatuor ipsc clabo. Laurentius lfurnfred1ts llrliu,n .Jlagist. e Collegio ilfagd. • The two pieces contributed by the Editor have been reprinted, one by ,rarton in his Life of Sir Thomas Pope, p. 3!,:), :mu the other 1,y Hli~.:; iu ):is memoir of\\" ri0ht, Atb. Oxon. i-r. 8UJ. Tue Italian contribution of Dr• .AliJcrico Gentili i~ also extracted, ibid. ii. 93. "·ootl, in his lifo of Gcoq;c Cal..-crt, Lord Baltimore (Athcme, ii. 5:!J,) commences the list of his works with the followiug title: " Caru1cn .Funcbrc, iu D. llen. Untou aJ Gallos Lis k;;:itum, ihi ,,1e have several n1emorials remaining of Sir Henry Unton's regard for literature, and patronage of literary men, of which it will here be right to take some notice. He '\l·as still in early manhood, and \Ye n1ay presume just re turned from his traYels in Italy, "~hen he gave assistance to the author of a book called ".A. Briefe Discourse of Royall ~Ionarchie, as of the best Con1monw·eale. By Charles l!erbury, Gentlen1an. London, 1581," 4to. The author, in his address to the Ileader, st.ates that he had been " not a little incouraged by the Yertuous and learned companie of n1y good friende maister IIcnry , 7nton, ,vith "·home I had both in the languages, and in other good letters, wl1erin he is rarely indued, daily conference;" and afterwards, ,vith respect to a collection of Italian ProYerbs ,vhich is appended to the yolume, he says, "son1c partc "·hero£ also I borro"·ed of my friende maister I-Ienry ,rnton.'' Following this address, is another by U nton himself, and headed " I-Ienry Vnton to the vertuous Reader," very w·armly co1nmcnding his friend's ,York. If erbert, in his edition of Ames, p. 1 Oj2, supposes this book to have been only priYatcly circulated; but I do not perceiYe the grounds of that opinion. A Latin translation of one of the l~rench poen1s of Du Bartas, ,vritten by Robert .Asl1ley,=il= and published under the follo\\·ing title: '' L''Tranie, ou lIuse Celeste ,. GCrJrgiua Calrert, coll. S. Tri'llit.'' Cah·rrt ,~as then Pightecn years of age.-Thc "Fnnebria '' it::clf is a rare book. At ~Ir. Jfonllt·y's sail~ in 1819 a copy was soM for 3/. 3.t. (l1art II. lot l~:.:j.) There is one in the lll"iti~h .?\lU:ieUm; hut tl1at at Oxford ('V'ood's StuJy, -lGO) wants the preface. • See a mco10ir of tlais author in \r ood':s Atlacnz Oxon. (by Illi:;s), iii. ~O. f This 11robably alludes lo the work mentioned in p. liv. note, as a )IS. formerly in Thurc.sby's collection. OF THE FAMILY OF UXTOX. lxiii "A Sermon preached at Paules Crosse, by R. Lewes, Bacchelor of Dhinitie, concerning Isaac his Testament, &c~ Oxf. 1594,'' 12n10. is dedicated "To the right worshipful and most ·worthie knight, Henry , 1nton, his most loving and n1agnificent patron.'' In this address the author mentions that l)c had been recommended to publish by his "good friend l\laster IVriglll, your ,,.,. orship's n1ost diligent and learned Preacher (at ,Yhat time you most honourably managed your "·orthy Embassage in Fraunce of late);'' and further that he '' might some,vhat testific my most gratefu1l minde to wards you, _and my very singular good Lady, for your sundry rare and undeser,·ed faYours, heaped and multiplied upon me. If apy of God's 1ninisters have just cause both to love and honour their loving and liberal benefactors and patrons: then n1ay that learned Preacher ~laster Jennings, that gra,e ])ivinc, )laster Slleward, that zealous Trumpettor of God's ,Yord, :\Jaster lVright, "·ith others of good note in that famous universitic, but chiefly I, ackno,vlcdge your w·orship a true patternc of all patrons. A.11 men sec your magnanimity, prudcn·ce, ten1perancc, afiability, constancy, and zeale to God's glorie: but \Yee fccde daily on your vcrtue, and magnifie God for such a stay at hon1e, and such an ornament abroad, as is a spectacle of justice, sobriety, and true godliness.'' A passing reference n1ay here be made to another of .Anthony \Vood's '"'orthics,* l\Iatthew· Gwinnc, ~I.D. "·ho ",vent in tl1c quality of physician to the l1onourahlc Sir I-Icn. U nton, knt. leaguer ambassador to the I{. of :France fro1n qu. Elizabcth.t'' * Athenre Oxon. (by Bliss), ii. 41.i. t This circumstance (Gwinue being of )lcrdrn.nt-taylors' School and St. John's Col lege) has led Dr. ,Yilson, the author of the lli~tory of ~krc-11:mt-taylors' School, into a great error. In p. 10!} of that work he has_id,~utiricJ one'' :\Ir. Dr. Huuton,'' who r.as an examiner at the school iu Jj!)-t, with "l:nlon, who ha There ,Yas a very curious picture, commen1orath·e of the history of Sir J-Ienry U nton, "·hich attracted attention several thnes during the last century~ and two portions of it ·were engra-'\"'ed; but its present place of deposit, if it be still in existence, I l1aYe heen unable to ascertain. It ,vas probably painted for his "·ido"·, ancl v,as tl1e san1e which is mentioned in her \\'ill as bequeathed to her niece Lady Unton Dering.* Its subsequent fate can be traced only at interv·als. Oldys had heard of it:" I haxe been told there is in being a painting of seYcral incidents in Sir Henry Unton's life, distinctly, or perhaps in several groups, all in one picture.''t It "·as brougbt to sale in "I\ Collection of Paintings belonging to a gentleman deceased, to be sold Dec. 15, 1743, [or 1744,] at St. Paul's Coffee-house," ,rhcn it ,Yas described, ,Yith the customary accuracy of auctioneers, as '' 1\.n old original historical picture of the late Sir J ohn[!J.. Unton, ,d10[!] married i\.nne Scyn1our of the Somerset family, and had the honour to be Secretary of State[!], Ambassador to France and Spain[!] and to hold n1any other places under l{ing Edw·. III.[!!!] In this picture is represented the wl1ole }1istory fron1 his cradle to his graxe."t In 17 76 ~Ir. Strutt published, as the Xlth plate of the third Yolume of l1is '' l\Ianncrs and Customs of the English;'' a portion of that part of tl1e paint ing "·11ich represented the n1asquc at Sir I-Icnry U nton's n1arriage.§ * See p. 3-l of this ,·olume. · t )IS. notes in a copy of Fuller's \\·orthics, printed in the Antiquarian Rrpcrtory. i Froro n letter of l\lr. Gough in tlw Gcntlcu1.111's :\fngaziue for 178G, Gent. l\fog. 'VOi. LYI. p. ~93, in wl1ich he made inc,uiry after tbc J>icture, being then unaware of its recent notice in tlie .Antiquarian Repertory· (s~c p. 919 of the same year's )fo;azine). § The rr.prcscntation of the 11ws<1uc is thus described: "Herc we see the maskers march in order round the table, where the musicians arc seated; going up the fli~ht of stc1>s to the ll·ft, come up into the chamber where the company are sitting as at dinner (the dinner table and gut.:sts nrc omittt·ll in the 11bte, for want of ron.w); the cl!icf ma.,;kcr is Diano., who is preccdctl by .:\h-rcury; bdorc him sta.nd. two Cupids, the one black, tl1c other wlaitt.', and a 111c;-;:-;c·11;a is bt•aring a 1-,ap<'r (that rnight P'-·rhaps contain the intention of the m:1~k ,) which lw 1'r6e11ts to one of the chief pcrsonagt·s nt the fr·a!!-t. Diana is follow-t!d n!krnat<-ly hy two of her Nymphs, and two Cupill:::, the one in white, and the other ,Ji!.:guiscd as a black ; each of lhc Kymphs, who ,rnlk t~"fO nn "This plate (he stated) is done from a large picture on board, in the possession of :\Ir. 'rhane, printscller. The picture contains a large portrait of Sir 1-Ienry U nton, and on either side· the portrait is represented not only the most ren1arkable passages of l1is life, as his birth, his education, his travels, and l1is marriage, but also his deatl1, his burial, and the n1onument ,·d1ich ·was after,-rards erected for him. It "·as probably painted soon after l1is death, at the desire of son1e of his fa1nih·.''.. It l'\Yas still in the possession of :\Ir. Thane, "·hen the head of Sir Ifenry w-as- cngraYed fro1n it, and inserted in the Antiqua rian R-epertory, "Pubd Dec. 1st 1779, by lHchd Godfrey, No. 120, Long ...\.ere." At that date further portions of the picture were pron1ised to he gi\~en in future numbers of the .A.ntiquarian Repertory, a pron1ise ·which ,vas not fulfilled. The following in scription "·as on the picture: '' This \\·orthic and fa111ous Gent. Sir Henry Unton,"\vas son unto Sir Edward {_;nton, l{night. I-Iis grandfather ,yas Sir .A.lexa~ .....n 1·reII of Jc_>l1.n ,,_ .. (\__ n_t_.\,l,"Cl __ rt_·J.1___ 'l'h(':l- ..... __ 1~n,i(.: ...... _ .. _ ~rn, •• ._.. l"lll'll11"H'U•r,,+,,...,1""" .... , ••• "-'"lc.1.1.\..u ..,,..~ , •.., 1u11u,,(,..11 ...... • " llan. Farrington alias 1-;,arriragtlon 1nagnn, al's Chcping F. ac * Cole's Abstracts, :Ms. Harl. iGO, f. 8. (Berk:;. lGi .) • JIERKS. ASllll. SOC. I -ixvi GE~EALOGICAL NOTICES advoc. eccl. et Rector. et vicar. &c. lI. ,,r estbrokc, &c. I-Iundred. de F. tenentur de Regina in capite per 40 part. 1 feodi m.-SOli. · ll. et hundr. de Shrevenhan1, &c.-tenr in cap. per serY' n1il. 5 -4Gli. 12 • 8d. ob. * Prerog. Court of Canterbury, 159G. Adm. 1G2. On the 8th Dec. 16 ➔ 8 further administration ·was granted to E,hrnnl Earl of .:\l:mchc:-kr consang. D'ni II. Unton. (Berks. 147 .) The following noticl'S of matters after Sir Henry's death occur in the printed Calendar of Proceccling:; in Cb:mccry : John and Richard Southbye pl. J uhn \\" cut worth and Yal. Knightlcy def. Claim under a ]ease, and also claim umh·r st3tutc of 3[J and -10 Eliz. to establish possc:5-:;ions of Sir Henry l:nton, and to 11ay his ckbts. Premises, pasture ground called .:\ve rylls Lcaze, and one dose of meadow c-:1lle don, {or the benefit of the poor of that part of the town called the Port; "·hich charity is still in useful operation.~ DA~lE DoRoTRY UNTON, after,Yards SHIRLEY.] The ,vife of Sir Henry U nton ,vas Dorothy, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas \Vroughton, of Broadhinton in ,·viltshire, by Aune, daughter and coheiress of John Barwick, of ,Y.ilcot, in the same county. She ,vas a lady, "who, for her good parts and education, ,vell deserved so Yirtuous and fair-conditioned a gentleman."t ,·ve baYe seen tbat she w·as married before 1591, ,yhen she ,Yns mention~d in her :\Iajesty's letter to Sir Henry ;! but she liad no children, a circumstance alluded to in the Earl of Essex's letter.§ At Sir Henry's death in 1596, she 1nust haYc been left a ,Ycalthy and unincumbered ,vidow; both the Inventories in the present vo!un1e exhibit the extent of her personal property; and her ultimate disposal of it appears in her ,,yill, "·hich has been added as a sequel to them. Lady Unton ,Yas again married in 1598. Iler second husband, George Shirley, esq. had. then been '' three "·hole years" ,the ,vido"·er of li'rances, second daughter of llenry Lord Berkeley, by "·ho1n 11e ],ad his fan1ilv of children. He \Yas Sheriff of North- J amptonsl1ire in 1603, "~hen he conducted J an1es the First through that county on his first entrance into the kingdon1; on • See the inscription commemorating it, placed upon the gallery in tl1e clmrch, rrinted iu tbe Gcnth::man's ::\Iaga,:iue for 1;·9G, p. 10-;o; and the Ili:;t. of Fa.rin~ don. 1 Hl~, p. 6~, but in both places n line is omitted, and it should read, "in rursu auc~ of the Stat. of -13 Eliz. by a decree in Chancery April 3, }(j3..J, that the four ~ur -vh·ing trustees," &c. .A full account of tlic mana• .. emcnt of the trust will be fonntl in 0 the 3~d Report of the Commissioucrs for inquiring concerning Charities, 1837, Part I. pp. 3;:2-3';-I. · t lJS. note in ~r r. Oltlys's copy of Fuller's "-orthies, communicatc;d to the Anti qua.rfan Repertory by Gcor;;e Stcevcns, rsll· In the sam~. place occurs a 5can Sia VALR~1·1xE I{x1c ll1'LEY, (w11ose father Sir Ricl1nrJ lh·ed to tl1e year ~Gl5, when he dictl at the nch-ancccl age of eighty-two, Sir \ra.lcntinc bring then sixty!') 11ppcars lo liaxe bccon1c resident • Stemm:1.ta Shirlt'i:mn, p. Gi. t Ibid. p. 73. % See Nicbols's Prosrrsst·s, &c. of King James I. vol. i. pp. ~jO, 2!i7. OF. THE F.AlIILY OF UNTO~. at l\radley in the reign of James the First. He had sat in Parlia ment for the to~rn of Northan1pt.on in 35 Eliz. 1593, and for the county of Northampton in 1 and l~ Jae. ·1603 and 1614. He was knighted at the Charterhouse, liay 11, I 603; and created }I.A. at Oxford on the occasion of the King's visit in 1605. In 15 Jae. I. 1617, he v:as called upon to serve the office of Sherifr of Berkshire, being then styled of ,,T adley, and his death occurred at that place,* as \Ye find it recorded in the follo,ving Certificate :t '' Sr , 1al~ntine I{nightley, of the county of Northampton, Knigl1t, departed this mortall lyfc at his l1ouse at ,v adlcy in the county of Berks in the beginning of Decen1ber 1618. I-le n1arried Anne, daughter of Sr Ed,Yard U nton of the county of Berks, knight, and had issue Elizabeth eldest daughter, 1narried to Sr Oli~er Luke knight, Anne second daughter, nui.rried to George Pure£ey esquire. This certificate ":-as taken by Samson Lennard, Blcwmantle.'; This statement liow·ever is imperfect ; for Sir ,ralcntinc Knightley and Anne U nton had three daughters and cohcircsses. 'fheir childrcn:I: \\·ere I. Richard, ,vho died before his father, un married; 2. Elizabetl1, n1arried at Upton, co. Npn. Aug. 7, 15f19, to Oliver Luke, esq. (aftcr,Yards Sir 01i,·er, of lYoodend, co. Bed ford, and the father of Sir Sa1nuel, the famous prototype of I-Iudi bras), and "·as deceased in 1619, leaving issue; 3 ..A.nne,~ nutrricd at Fa\\·slcy June 2, 1601, to Richard Chctwodc, of lVarkworth, co. Npn. esq. and had issue; 4. ~Iary, \\·ho ,,·as the first ,rife of George Purefoy, of Drayton, co. Leicester, csq. and died .A.pril 18, 1617. The ,,·ill of Sir Valentine l{nigl1tley, which is undated, "rns * In l\lr. Baker's pedigree (N'orthamptoush. i. 3'32), his de:tth is stated at Fuw~lcy 9 Dec. only thrc.•e d.iys before his burial nt the fatter place; but his epitaph (ibid. :~Ul) says Dec. -1. t Co11. Arm. I. ~2. 3. l From Baker's History of Nortl1ampton~birc, vol. i. p. 382. § Returned a~" R!;Cd 30, •• on 1,cr fc.&thcr•s death in I (j] 9; but she was nearly -W, li:.n-- ing becu 16 in 1:>96 (~ec p. h,· .) · GENEALOGICAL NOTICES proYed on the 19th Dec. 1618.* I-le bequeathed his leases of ,vadley and ,y·yckcnhan1 to bis executors for six years, to pay his funeral expenses, debts, and particular legacies : after all ·\\·hich \\·ere duly dischn.rgecl to the last penny, he left them to l1is grandchild George Purefoy the younger, he paying to his grand child Samuel Luke 5000!. in yearly payn1ents of I000l. to be paid at the church porch of Faringdon, and also the further sum of 1001. a-year until the ,vl1ole "·ere discharged; in failure of ,vhich ihe leases ,Yere to dcYolYe to Luke, on condition of his making the like payment to Puref • Rcgist. Prcrog. Court Cantcrb. 1 '.?-I )kacl!!. The bequests in this will of phte, remainiu; chit-fly or cntirdy nt Faw~lcy, arc p:!.rticubrly curious. )!uch of it had belonged to .A.nnc, Dnd11 ::s of So,m·rst't, the mother of his father's second wife. f 1'he Ch:irity Comn1i:-::-ioul'rs notic1..• the latter be,1ucst, and state that it is stiU annually 1)aid by Thomas :'.\Ii!is Coo,llakc, es<1- of \\" .. ulicy House, the present proprietor of the tithes of LilllcwOJ th and Thrupp. 'fliirty-scconcl Report, }>art I. p. 3i,1; where the will is crronrou~ly :,tatctl to l,avc Ll·cn pro\·cd iu Hi20. f Sec Ilro\\·ne- \\"illis's History of the llumlrc Knights of the Royal Oak in 1661, his estate being 80001. "·as tl1c person con1memorated by ,,T ood and Fuller as ha,9 ing repaired the Unton monuments at Faringdon ; but his own intern1ent took place at Drayton in 1661.* His son, George Purefoy, esq. died at Herriard., Hants, about 1670; very probably afflicted ,Yith insanity, for it is otl1erwise difficult to account for his son Sir Henry, a boy of only nine years of age, being created a Baronet during his father's lifetime, Dec. 4, 1665. He resided at ''"adley, but died a young 1nan, and unn1arried, ~\ug. 14, 1686, ,Yhen the baronetcy became extinct. · His epitaph, placed on a large mural monument in the north east corner of the cha1Jel at Faringdon, is as f ollo\\·s : Hoc nomini sacrum HENRICI PunEFOY de 1'7adley, in Bercl1cria, Baronetti, Parentum l1reredis tum Georgii ibiden1 armigeri, tum Catharinre 2° genitre cohcrcclis 1-Ienrici ,,~ilughby, de 1?.isley, in Darbiensi agro Baronetti, x1111 Augusti anno rerre Christianre ~IDCLIY nati, xv11 prefati mensis die lIDCLX..~XYI denati, Juxta quicquicl ejus an1ori potuit erigendum curaYit W1LUGIIBY AsTox, Baronetti. Sir ''"'ilughby Aston, Bart. sold tl1c lease of '\"\.. ac.llcy, about 176-1, 1· to the family of Pye, ,rl10 had previously 11urcl1ascd the manor of Faringdon, of the executors of Sir I·Icnry Untou, in 1622.t • Hist. or Leic. Browne ,vnlis says'' dying 1659,'' whicla is an error. t Lysons, p. 278. ·: Ibid. p. 2;7. EXTRi\.CTS FRO:\I THE REGISTER OF H.A.TFORD, CO. BERKS.• 1555. l\Ir. Edward Umpton esquire and the ladie Anne Countessc of \Varn-ick were married in the parish church of Hatford the tl1ird caiends of l\~ay in the first and second yeares of the raignes of Phillip and :\Iarie. 1590. John \\neeler was married to Avis Umpton th~ xxvth daie of June. 1601. John Rayer and Elizabeth Umpton were married the tenth daie of l\Iay. BAPTISMS. 1592. Edward, the sonne of Ambrose Unton, was baptized the xxvth day of l\Iarch. 1594. John, the sonne of Ambrose Unt.on, was borne the xxvijth day.of February, and baptized the third day of l\Iarch. 1596. .Ambrose, the sonne of Ambrose Unton, was borne the vith day of Januaric, an~l baptized the ixth of the same. 1598. l\Iargaret, the daughter of .A.mbrosc Unton, was borne the vijth 0£ Dece1uber. * ""'itb the exception of the remarkable marri:tge with which these e:ttracts com mence, the entries relate to junior members of t11e Unton family, whose place in the pedigree has not been ascertained. The narne of Ambrose caJh; to mind .Ambrose DuJ ley, F.arl of \\·arwick, the brother-in-law of tht! Countess above-mentioned. This register, which begins at the ,·cry early date of 15:;a, is a thin Ycllum folio, wl1ich has ah•:ays been kept ~vith remarkable neatnes!; ; and, from the smallnci-s of the pari::b, was by no means filll' 1601. Anne, the daughter of Ambrose Unton, was borne the tenth daic of Januarie. 1604. Raphe, the sonne of Ambrose Unton, was born the iiijth of i\Iay. 1607. )Iary, the daughter of Ambrose Unton, was bon1e the tennth of September. BuRIED.-1594. John, the sonne of Ambrose Unton, was buried the fifth day cf )!ay. 1597. John Unton was buried the xxth daic of July. 1602. Alice U'uton was buried the xxijth of October. EXTRACTS FRO~[ THE REGISTER AT F ARI~GDOS.=r.- Avis filia George Unton and Avis his wief, July the 28, 1654, born. Avis Umpton, Jan. 29, 1658, buried. • "nen at Fnringdon, a book commencing in 1653 was shown me as the earliest re gister. In the Population Return 1831, Parish Register Abstract p. 10, I find, ho"·· ever, a joint Regis/er of Faringdon and Little Co::\.·wcll 1582-1,62. I regret that this memorandum has been observed too late to institute further inquiries. Note. The name of Unton has not occurred in any other place besides those men tioned in the memoir, el::cept at Drayton, co. Salop. Respecting Sir Tl!Otnas Aston, of Aston in Cheshire, who died in 1613, it is stated that'' Sir Thomas had a second wife, called :Mary, daughter of \Villiam lJnto11 of Draiton in Shropshire; but had no issue by her." Sir Peter Leycester, in Ormerod's Cheshire, i. 534. The \Yill of II umpbrcy U n1pton, of Drayton in Balles, co. Sal op, is dated 18 Sept. 1589, and pro\·ed on the 19th Nov. follo\'\·ing. He desires to be buried in the church o( Drayton " before tl1e door of our Lady chancel, at my formP., where my father aud other ancestors do lie.'' He mentions Agnes his v.-ife, Elizabeth Umpton his daughter in-la,Y, bis nepl1ew Thom;is 'C mpton (under age) 5on of the said Eliza Leth; a marriage contemplated between Thomas anJ Agnes or lz:.1hell the daughter of George Barker of Coul::;hurst, gent.; his niece llaryc Cmpton, sister to Thoma.s; ~\mie Iremou;er, l1i:; "Wife's dauglttcr; to Catharine Cottou ~O~·.; to his dau;l1tcr Anne Tron·ll to he:;tow :.unong Jacr children I 0/.; )fart ha Tron:11 his .Ahstracts of Clta1"ters relating to ille Estates of tlte Farnily of Unton; situate cltiefly at Farringdon and Sllrirenlla1n in Berk illire, Radcott in o~rfordsilire, and 11"eeke in Surrey. From the T .ansdowne lt S. No. ~55, fol. 368 ; probably taken about the close of Elizabeth's reign; written in the original w-ithout any arrangement, but now placed in chronological order. 14 NorJ. 17 Eclw. 3. (1343.)-...\.. licence of alienation to Geffrye de Besoyls to alien his manor of Rotcott in comitatu Oxon. unto Robert \Valle and John of Erlestock and their heirs. And also a licence therein to the said Robert and John to rcconvaye the san1e to the said Geffry for his life, the remainder to Thomas his sonnc, and Beatrix daughter of Per ~h·all Simeon, and the heircs of theirc 2 boddies. The remainder to the right heirs of Gcffryc. Inrollcd Pascl,. :?8 Eli;. e.-,; pa1·tc Rem. Tlzesaur. 11 Hen. 6. (143:2-3.)-Thomas flc-amont, knight, and Thon1as Bcamont, esquire, reciting that, whcr\•as 1:-:abell late wife of \Yilliam Bea mont was seised in fee of the 1nanor of Stalpitt and hundred· there, and by her deed, dated 6 llen. 5, convaycd the san1c to )Iichacl Lerchdcknc, Richard Knight, Tho111as Pyllond, and John Lawrence, nowc liYinge; and ,villiam 1-Ialle, ,villian1 Squire, )fathcw Donne, and Tl1omas Rayrnonde, deceased; and their heirs; the which foffccs by indenture and heir of the said Isabell, and his heirs for ever ; and the c,ther moity to the said l\Iatilda for her life, the remainder to the said Sir Thomas Bea mont and his heirs for e,·er. 12 Jan. 33 lien. 6. (1454-5. )-Sir IIugh Courtnaye, sonne of Sir Hugh Courtney and of 11atilda his wife, reciting that, whereas the said l\Iatilda 3 Junii, 31 If. 6. convaycd to J-Icnry ,,.. cbbcr, Tho1nas Paye, \Villiam Pawlyu, John Jones, \rillimn Ifeyugston, John )Ioore, Thomas Dowrish, Henry Drewe, John Thryngc, .John Lymingtou, and Adam Su master, and their heires, the manor of Stalpitt ancl hundred there; nowc the said Sir Hugh doth ratifyc and confinnc that fcff1nc11t. 25 Junii, 4 Edw. 4. (l-:164.)-John linclcnlon aud John Lufl1ngcotc, at the request of )Iatilda, late wife to Sir Ilugh Courtney, convaycd the mannor of Stalpitts with the hundred t11erc to l-Icnry ,vcbbcr, dcanc of Exeter, Roger Keyes, Thomas Pay, ,,·n1ian1 Pawlin, Siiuon ,Yhitc, John Cheney, John ,vaddam, Gilbert Ycrde', Thomas Dourish, \Yi1lia1n Fowcll, and ,villiam Rowe, and theire heirs. ..\ h•ttcr of attornve annexed. ~ . 4 Edw. 4.-)Iawdc late wife of Sir 1-lngh Courtnay recites that shce had infeffcd Thomas Paye, '\Villiam Pawlin, John John, ,rillimn 1-Icngston, Adam Sumaster, John ::\Ioorc, Thomas J)ouri~h, llc-nry l)rcw, John Thringc, and John Lyrningtou, and tl1cir heirs, of th<' 1nanor and liund1·cd of Stalpitts in comitatu Berks, iu t.rust to pcrformc lwr willc. The survivingc f(•ffces by her a.poyntment infi.•ilt·u thereof John l:nder don and John Luffingcotc, and their heir~, in tru:-;t as aforesaid. They by her apoyntiuent infcffed thereof Ilcnry · \\9 t•bhc-r dcauc of Exeter, Roger Kaye cliauntc:;r there, Tho1nas Paye, \Villi:un Pawlin, Simon \Yhitc, darks, John Chcvn(), John ,Yaddan1, Gilbert Yar . [ Temp. Hen. T7I.~] Sir John of \Yillington, k11ight, infeffcd Thomas of ,villington his brother, Nicholas \Yhitinge, John Pawlctt sonnc of John Pawlett, and John Bole\'\"orthyc, and their heirs, of the manors of Y eate and Poulton in comitatu Gloccst.rire, the manor of Asserton in comitatu \Viltes, his third part of the manor of Shrh·enham in co1nitatu l~crk', and his ma nors of Bcauforde, I-!onyshauc, and Langley, and the bayliweek of the hun dred of ,,·estbudleigh, in comitatu Devon'; and of all his lands in the townes aforesaid, exccptinge all his lands in the towncs aforesaid which he held of ~e Kingc in capite. · 8 Aug. 7 Edw. 4 (1467.)-Sir ,Yilliam Pawlett, cosen and heir of Jolin Pawlett, and Thomas Boleworthie, coscn and heir of John Bolewortl1ic~ in fcffed Phillip Beaumont esquire, cosen and heir of Sir John of \Yillington knight, of the manors of Yate and Polton in comitatu Glocester; the 1nanor of Asserton in comitatu ,viltcs; the third parte of the manor of Shriven ham in con1itatu llerk'; the manors of Bcaucford and Honishauc, and Langley, and.. the bayliwick of the hundred of \Vestbudleigh in Cl)mitatu Devon ; which the said John Pawlett and John Bolcworthie had together with Nicholas ,,11itinge (who died in theire lives) of the fcff1nent of the said Sir John of ,Yillington. _ 16 llicdj, 20 llen. 8. (1.528.)-An indenture of covenants was made be tween Ilenry Lord l\Iarqucs of Exeter e:c u11a, and Th01nas Unton of J.Iinstcr Lo\"ell in the county of Oxon, csquir~, ex altera. '!'hat, whereas the lord ~Iarqucs or others to his use weare seiscd in fee of the 111a11nor of Shrivcnham Stalpitts and the l1uu • In the )t S. misJ:itcd " ➔ :l Eliz.'' t i.e. John nourchicr, Lord Berner!--. In the !\IS. it is miswritl~n. John Dom,cr Lord Caru~. ABSTRACT OF "rllE UNTON CHARTERS. lxxvii pitts and hundred aforesaid, aud of the said advowsons which of them the said Thomas should elect, and the said manor of Aston Roant; But this exchange could not be pcrfectcd duringe the Lord Barners' life. 22 Octobris, 20 Hen. 8. (I 528. )-Indenture reciting the indenture afore said, and that sithence the said lord i\larques did for 7001. purchase the es tate. of the Lord Barners, the said manor or ,v esthorslcigh, nowc therefore the lord marques doth co,enant with Thonias unton in consideration of 5201. to him paid by the said Thomas, a.nd in consideration that the said lord ~Iarqucs should presently cnjoyc the manor of \Veeke, that the said Thomas and his heirs should from th('nccforth hold the manors of Shriven ham and Aston Rouant, and the said hundred and advowson, and that all personcs seised, &c. should bee thereof scised to thcirc use, &c. and soc likewise Thomas Unton dotb coyenant for the residue ofthe lands, &c. · 5 Junii, 26 I/en. 8. (1534.)-John llrowningc, abbott of the monastary of the lady l\Iarye the Virgin of Bcawlie in comitatu Southampton, and the conYent, &c •..d.id by.. indenture dcn1isc unto \Villia1n Plevcla.11,., of Co1cshull, their capital messuage or mannor of \Vyke near Cheping Faringdon, with all lands, woods, coppices,. trees, undcrwoods, waifcs, straycs, and all ot11er goods forfeited, mc.adowcs, f ecdings, pastures, and demesnes to the sa111c bc longinge, with all lands, meadow cs, fccdings and pastures, and the fi5hiugc late belongingc to tl1e myllc of Kindlcwca.re, and thirty-five acres and a half of land lyinge in Portcrofts, Rye.Ion hill, the Racks and the Coon1bs ( ex cepting a certein meadow joyninge to the ~aicl manuor or n1cssuagc then in the tenure of the tenants of I~arringdon and \\\•:;tbrookc, and all okes grow ing or to be growing uppon the premis~s, with ingrC'ssc for the cari:igc, &c.) Habcndum, fron1 )Iichaclmas then llC'Xt con1in!!"c'·- for D6 .,vc-ar~, at the .Yt•arlv . rent of 401. }Os. at the .Annunciation and :\Iichaclmas. Tlic nhlmt mHl convent \\·care to pay all cpiscopall :tml archd<'aeonall d1arg('s, and to acquitt tbc lessee of nll tythes against the Ht"ctor of Farringdon. The ll'SH'C was to bcarc all other char uppon condicion to re-~nfcffc the said .A.lexander and Ci cell his wife, and the heirs of the said Alexander. The refeffment was made 120 December f ollo\\""in g. • 26 .Jllco·tii, 31 Hen. 8. (1540.)-The Kinge, by his letters pattcnt, granted (7291. considerac.) to Alexander "C'nton ihe mannor or capital mes suage of \Yyke in the parish of Farringdon, late belongingc to the monas tery of Bcawlie in comitatu Southan1pton, and all lands, tenements, mca -dowes, feedings, pastures, woods, undcrwoods, waters, fishings, commons, rents, re,·ersions, senices, knights' -fees, cs cheats, releifs, Yiews offrauckplcdge, waifs, strayes, to the said capital messuagc bclonginge or therc·with demised or used.t: And all lands, meadowes, feedings, pastures, and fishingc to the late mylle of Kindleweare adjoyning or belonginge. and thirty-five acres and a half of lande lyinge in Portcrofts, Ridonl1ill, the Uacks, and Coombes in Faringtlon aforesaid, late in t.he tenure of ,Yillfo.m Plcydall, parcell also of the said monastery, and the tythcs of the premises ( excepting all advowsons of churches, ckanteryes and chappells ), Ilabenclum to him and his heirs to hold i1l capite by the 20th part of a knight's fee, and ycalding and payinge 41. 12d. at )Iichaclmas yearly. The Kingc grants to discharge Alexander and his heirs of a pencion of 6l. 3s. 4cl. issuing out of the prc1nises and payable to the rector of the parish churcl1 of l~aringdon. T'here is also granted within the n1annor aforesaid view of franckplcdgc, assaye and assisc of bread, wine and beare, waifs, strayes, chattclls of felons and fugi tives, free warrens, and all sucl1 and the like jurisdictions, prh·ilcdgcs, fran- • In another place is this memor:indum.-0 Quere the Charter of Kingc John made to the Abbot of Deawlie touchiug the libertycs of Farrin,;don; and in the booke of Doomescb.y, it appears that Farcn * The Queen was at "·iuchcstcr. in order to solemnise her niarrfa;;c -n·ith Kiug Philip, nnd these letters 11atc11t arc JatcJ ouly three Jays before their nuptials took placc.-E,lit. bxx ABSTRACT OF THE UNTON CHARTERS Engl cfeild, master of the court of wards and lcv~rycs, and J ol1n Y ate esquire, the mannor of Farringdon, alias Farriugdon Jiagua, alias Farring ton, in the counties of Berk. and Ox.on. late belonginge to the Lord Seymor of Sudely, attaintcd of high treason, and late bclonginge to the monastery of Beawlye, &c. And the hundred called Farringdou hundred and all those fayrcs, marketts, libcrtyes, franchcsics, tollneta., stallagia, picagia, and courts of pyepowder to the premises belongingc, and all other lands in Farringdon, and the tythinge of,\"'estbrooke, late the said Lord Scytnor's or late belong ~gc to the said .....\bbye ( exccptinge all ad,·owsons of churches or Yic carcdgcs), to hold in capite by the ser,·icc of the 40th part of a knight's fee. · 4 Nov. 1 et 2 Phil. et J.1Ia,·ice. (1554.)-Sir Francis Englefeild re leased all his riQ:ht.... in the pren1iscs to the. said John Ya.te. 20 Jttnii, 1 et 2 Ph. et J.1Ico·ice. (1555.)-John Yate, reciting t11e letters ·pattcnt aforesaid, and the release aforesaid made by Sir Francis Englefeild, bargained and sowlde the mannor and hundred of Farrington, &c. to Thobye Pleyd..111 and his heirs. This deed was acknowledged before Sir John \Vhiddon, 3 Octubris, 2 et 3 Ph. et J.lI!cr. and is inrolled in the King·s benche, J.llichaelmas, 2 et 3-Pl,. et J.1la1·. besides livery and seisin was made uppon this deed, 16 August, 2 et 3 _PIL. et J/ar. 2 Aprilis, 3 Eli::. (1561.)-.A. licence of alienation to B.csell Phctc placc, Hellen his wife, and Richard 1:ettipfo.cc gentleman, and Eleanor his wife, to alien the n1anor and hundred of Shrynnm, alias Shrivcnham-Salop, and 40 messuag(\s, 40 gardens, 30 orchards, 40 barneg, -:1 dovchowses, iOO acres of land, 600 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pa5turc, 40 acres of wood, 100 acres jainpnortun and 31. 6 5• Sd. rcut in Shrynmu alias Shrivcnha1n Salop, Longcrott, Fcrnam and Burton in con1itatu Berk. unto Sir IIcnry Unton and his heirs. 2 Ap>·il. 3 E/i.::.-John O:;baston and .A.rthur Q5baston by iudentnre, in consideration of 851. did bargain and sell IIascley coppice and lllack morc coppice atlll all other thcire copic-rs in \Vhichwood to Sir Edward Unton and his heirs. The tll'e Pasch. 3 Jlli.:-.-E,lward Cnlon recon~rcd azaiust..... John Osbaston and A1-t.lmr O:-b:1:-:ton l 00 acre's of pa~iurc and 100 acn·s of wood in Chac.llyng- ton, and the forrcst of\\"hi_C'hwood, __)~J1crein they vouched to warranty John ...... -= 1\vissc the common vouchcc. · 14 }lov. 1G Ij"/i:. ( 157a.)-Sir Edwar Tracy esquire, the rectory or parsonage of Chippinge Farrington, Haben dum from the dave of the decease of Sir Edward Lnton for 60 ,·ears then w - follo,ring if dame A.nne, ";fe of the said Sir Edwa1·d, sl1ould soc longc liYc. 20 1\701.,. 16 Eliz. (1573.)-John Tracy esquire, by indenture, demised and assigned oYer t-he rectory, parson3ge, and tythcs aforesaid unto Edward Unton esquire, sonne and heir of Sir Edward, and .Arthur ..A.shefeild gen tleman, Habendzon from the death of Sir Edward for 59 years if the saiddame Anne Unton should soe longe live, at the y~arly rent of 471. payable at the Annunciation and )Iichachnas, the first payment to begin at such of the said feasts as should next happen after that the s:iid dame Anne, oYerliving the said Sir Edward, should enter into the 1nanor of Chcdworth in the county of Gloucester, and thereof evict the said John Tracy. 6 JJia,·tii, 21 Eliz. (1579.)-Sir Edward Cnton, in consideration of a mariage bet\\·cen Edward Unton his sonnc and l1cir, and Katherine one of the daughters of Sir George I-lastings kuigl1t, granted an annuity of 1401. per annum out of the 1nanor or monastary of Brucrne in the county of Oxon. to the said.. Katherinc for her life, to bl'ginnc after the death. of Sir Edward Unton and 13 Dec. 27 Eliz. (1584.)-Edward Unton, in consideration of 35001• in hand paid, bargained and sowld to Sir Henry lTnton and· his heirs his manoi- or capital messuage called ,vyke in comitatu Berk. late bclonginge to Beawlyc, and all privilcdgcs, proffitts, &c. .-\nd all lands, m{\adowes, ft")ed ings, pastures, and fishings adjoyninge and belongingc to the late n1yllc called Kindleweare and 35 acres of land and a halfe in Portscroft, n ydon hill, the Racks and Coombs, in the pari5h of Faringdon, late in the tenure of ,\"illiam Plcdall, and late also bclonginge to Bcawlye, and the tythe of the premises, in as ample maner as Sir .. Alexander L nton knight, grand father of the said Edward, held the same with other the prcn1ises by letters pattents dated 26 .J.lla1·tii, 31 Hen. 8. A. co,cnant with 3 years to make f~rther assurance to the use of Sir IIenry and his heirs. Inrollcd in the Chancery 24th of the same December. C,~astino Trinitatis, 27 Eliz. (1585.)-Edward Unton esquire, lcvyed a ffine to Sir Henry Unton of the mannor of \Yykc, and of l mcssuage, 10 tofts, I nu11e, 1 doYchowse, 10 gardens, 300 acres of land, 200 acres of meadow, ldOO acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood, 100 acres jampnorum, &c. and xs. rent in ,Yyke et Farringdon. 10 Jan. 31 Eliz. (1588-9.)-Bcscll Feteplace and Richard his sonc and heir, in consideration of 17001• in l1and paid, bargained and sowld to Sir I-Icnry -Unton and his heirs the n1anor of Radccott alias Ratcott, and the capital messunge there, and all other the lands, &c. in Hadccott, whereof .Sir John Fctepl:tcc, father of Besill, had an inheritance at the tyme of his death, and then or late wcarc in the tenures of :\Iargarct Denton, Christopher Kempstccd, ,Yaltcr Jones, John l\Iescy, )Iargarctt Broderick, Francis Broderick, and Tho1nas )Jcscy, and all the royalties, &c. of the prc1niscs and tbc eycdencC's ( except the royalties in Grafton in con1itatu Oxon.) .A. covenant within 7 years to make fm·thcr assurance to the use of Sir I I(•nry and his hc-ir~. Provisoc, that ,,·hercas Sir I-Icury Umpton lrnth convayl'd to tl1c ~a.id IlC'scll and Ellen his wife and the ht•ir~ of the said Bcsill the dcn1csncs of the manor of )Tarcham a.11d ·such eviction, charge, or incombrance of the prcn1ises according to the cove nants of the said conveyance, then this bargain and sale or soc n1uch thereof as shalbcc to the treble valcw of any such eviction, lossc, charge, &c. shalbcc &c. Xot inrolled. ' Yovd,. - 12 Aprilis, 31 Eli:. (1589.)-Bcs~ll F<'tC'placc and Richard his sonc did giYc and grant to Sir llenry Unton and his heirs the hundred of Shrivcnhrun, with all lccts, proilits, &c. and the e,·iucnces, &c. Ila.bend. &c. in as large and an1plc manner to all intt.-nt:; :ind purposes as t.hcy then heldc, or at any tyme before held the same. A covenant that Sir Hcu~y shall enjoye it freed of all former bargains, sales, &c. Conditions, &c. had or done by the1n or ether of them or thcire consent, and without the lctt, troblc, intcruption, C\"iction, expulsion, or contradiction of thc1n or either of thcn1, or theire heirs or assigns. · 21 1.1IaiJ, 31 Eliz. (15S9.)-Bcscll F~t~pla.cc, of Besclls Leigh in the county of Derk', Ellen his wife, Ric-hard 1:l"ltcplace his sonne and heir, and Eleanor his wife: in consideration of 15001. in ha.nd paid, bargained and · sowld to Sir I-fenry. l;nton and his heirs the 1nauor of Shr\"nam. alias Shrivcnham-Salop, in con1. Berks. and all royalties, fishings, proffitts, &c. thereunto belongingc, mid all other thcirc lands in Shrynam alias Shrivenham-Salop, Longcott, Fcrnham, and Uurton, in con1ltatu l3crk.-..-\ covenant for further assurance to the use of Sir 1Icnry Unton and his heirs, wl1ich is 5 •years. Inrollcd in the Chanccrv• 9 Junii followino-c.e Crasti120 T,·lnilatis, 31 ]~Ii::. (la~9.)-Edward Unton and Kathcryuc li:is wife lc,·ycd a ffync to J-Icn1·y lJnton of the 1nanors of liatford alias liawtcford and \\·eek~, and of 20 nws~u .."l~t•~, 10 tofts, 30 gardens, 30 orchards, 1500 acres of land, GOO 3crcs of 1nl':ulow, 1000 arrcs of 1>astnrl', 100 acres of wood; 500 acn's jampnornm &c-. l•t .,10-;. rt.'nl in llawtforJ, Fai·• rington, and \Ycckc.', antl of nll tythL·s of rornL', grayne, aud hayc, growingc and rC'ncwinCTl" in Farrin•rton and I..ong-C'ott. C ~ "'"' 2 Srpt. 31 Eli::. ( J.j~9. )-A licence of alienation to BL'::;cll l;-<.,ttcpla<:l', lldlcn l1is wift~, and Richard l·\·ttt-plarl', t,> ;llit•n the manor of Hadl•<:ott alias ltatkott, and •1 1ne~~uages, ~~·c. ,,.,. i11- liie n,•.l·t. Octa bi.~ J.llicll~u:li.,·, 31 l.:."'li..:-.-Bt..•:-tll F1.·tii'l.1ce, I Ic.,Icn his wife, and Uichartl FC'tC'place, 1t~,·yt·1l a ffyzw to Sir 1IL·tn·y lJnton of the nrnnor of lladC'cot alias Hotcot in the eotmty <,f (hon, a11 Sir llC'nrv• Unton ex altera. The said John Plcvd:ill,-inw cousideration of 30001. to bee paid, ,·iz. 10001. 20 :N0Yen1l1cr, lfl9 I, in the )Iid * Sec the petligree of Ph·y,ldl iu Rowc.:'\lorcs's .Account of Gr1.·at Coxwell, -Ho. littJ. p. !?. (llibl. Topo0. Brilauuica, ,·ol. IV. 1,art i.) lxxxvi ABSTRACT OF THE UNTO~ CHARTERS. pasture, (lately lyinge in common and nowe incloscd unto the said- Sir Henry Unton and other the freeholders and copieholdcrs of the said manor), which did perteyne to the said Richard Birte, out of the common and pasture of the manor of Grc-ate Farington and tything of ,Ycstbrooke, and in consideration that Richard Birt convaycd to the said Sir 1-Ienry Unton 5 acres and 3 yards of earablc land 1ying in the N orthfeild and Southfeild of Farrington aforesaid-doth dc1nise to the said Hicliard Byrt for 2000 years one pasture ground as the san1e was then appoynted to bee inclosed, l)ingc in the Grcatc ,voodleaze abutting uppon the stc-ppe in the parish of Farrington, contcyuinge about 6 acres and a halfe for his parte, and part of the lott near the leycs called 1-Icywards Lcyes, &c. and 5 acres and 3 yards of carable, particularly abuttablcd in the deed. r\t the rent of one pepper-con1e. 20 Julii, 33 Eliz. (1501.)-Sir Henry Unton, in performance of his agreement with his tenants, ut sup1·a, and in consideration of 2 acres, 3 yards of carablc land in the N"orthfcild and Southfeild of Great Farrington convayed to the said Sir I-Ienry, demised unto Edn1und Pratte for 2000 years all tliat pasture grownde called 1\.bwcll in Farrington aforesaid, con tcyning by estimation 2 acres and a halfe, and pa.rte of Heywards Leyes &c. 20 ~liaii, 34 Eliz. (1592.)-....\.n acquittance of John Plcydall of the wholle 30001. 1nentioncd in the conva,·ancc aforesaid to Sir I-Icnrv Unton; ~ - and therein also a. release of all his right, and of the provisoc contcyncu in the said indenture. 20 .i.,To1}. 1591, 34 Eli:::.-John Plcydall and ,villian1 l-IC'nnagc, re citing the 3s~ignment n1adc 2:! clan uarg, 3~ E"li=. of the lease to Sir Thomas Parry and John Crooke, doc ]1crcby acknowkdgc the rc-ceipt of all the monies mentioned in that deed, and doc n~lcase the provisoc in that clecd and all there right in the prt•miscs. 12 Dec. 37 Eli::. ( 1£>D-!. )-Hoger Gr<.'cnc, of Clare, in comitatu Oxon. cooper, convayctl to Sir I l(\nry Luton nnd his hl'irs, in consideration of 2Gl. 13-;. 4d. one ml'~suage or tc-ncmcut. called Bennetts lyingc in Ilampton ~trect in Chippi11gl' Farriugton.-..i.,'ute. There is 1wthcr lh·ery indorsc-d nor iurollcd. 1 l{oi·. ;Ji ]:."'Ii:. ( 15!>5.)-Sir IIcnry Unton, in consitk•ration of his mariagc had with tlau1c Dorothic his wifo, and. for her joynture, ,md in con- ABSTRACT OF TIIE UNTOS' CHARTERS. lxxxvii sideration of his naturall love and nffcction to the heirs of his own boddy, and for default of such issue to the sones and issues males of his sisters, Anne ,,ifc of ,:ralentinc Knightley, and Ccccly \\ife of John ,Ycntworth, doth covenant with Sir Tho1nas ,vroughton, Sir John Harrington, Sir \Vtlliam Knowles, Sir Henry Poole, Sir \Villian1 Hatton, Sir Christopher Litcott, and John Crooke, to convaye unto them before Christmas next, the manors of i:·arrington and ,vestbrooke, and the hundred of Farrington, late purchased of John Plcydall, and the mannor, capitall mcssuage and farme of ,rceke, and all those lands, tenements, and hcrcditamcnts called Kindlewcare or ,Yick, late belonginge to the monastary of Beawlie, and purchased by Sir Henry Unton of his brother Edward, and the parsonage of Farrington and the ad vowson of the ,·icarcdgc and the manor and hundred of Shrivenha.,n, and the manor of Iladccott alias Rottcott in comitatu Oxon. and the manors of Shelingford and Hatford, and all his lands, &c. in Farringdon, \Ycstbrookc, \Vick, Shrivenham, Shclingford, Hateford et. Uadecott, IIabend. to them and thcirt? heirs to the use of Sir Henry Unton Tor hi.:; life; and after his death, then, touchinge the 1nanors of Farrington and ,YestbrookC', the mrsstllgc and farmc of \Vick, the hundred of Farrington, the lands and fishiug, &c. c.-alk•d I-Gndlewcarc or \Yick, the parsonage of Farrington and advowson of the Yicarcdge, the n1anor and hundred of ShriYcnham, and n1anor of Radccott, and all other the prcn1iscs in the to"11cs aforcsaid to the use of the said Dame Dorothie for her life, and afterwards to the use of the heirs of tlw boddy of Sir I-Ienry Unton; the re1nainder to tlie covcnautecs aforesaid and thcire executors, untill some issue male b~gotten on the boduy of Anne Knig11tlcy shall ac complish the age of 21 y(\ars, in trust for the payment of Sir I I~nry Unton's debts, as he should apoynt umll'r 11is hand and scale. Remainder to such issue male, and the Jieirs mal4.• uf his bodtly; remainder to tl1c next issue male of the said Anne Kuiglith·y nn -THE l~YE~TORIE indented, contcyning all and singuler the goodes, cattelles, and chattellcs of the l1onorable Sr IIenrie U nton, Knight, Ambassator in Fraunce, late decessecl there: taken, valued and praised, by Tho1uas ,,r ood,\"ard, 'rhomas Yate, John Southe bye, and John Ry,·e, tl1c eleventh daye of :\Iaye, in the eight and thirtieth yeare of the reiguc of or soYeraignc Ladie Elizabeth, hy the grace of God, Queene of Englan xxxv5 • In - Sr Henrie Unton's Studie.-Itn1, ,·ij hanginges of gilded }ether, one table there, daxte shelves, ,,-th many bookes of clh·crsc sortes, to the ·nun1ber of cc.xx, nnd one cheast of virrc, pised at xx.Ii. In Afr. Payne's Studie.-Itm, one fethcr bccldc, j bolster, j matterice, j paire of blanketes, j coYerlet of tappestric, one trunckc ,vt11 evidences, and ij han1pers of wicker, prcised at li1j 5 • iiijll. In the Long Gallerie.-Itm, one fran1e, and one trunckc "•th evidences of Faringdon, xxs. In tl1e .Arn1oric ho·ws~.-Itm, six musketts ·with ban at xxxiijs. iiij1-1• · In ye 13rc,Ycho\\·sc Chn1nhcr.-Itm, one fcthcrbcdc.lc, j hobtcr, nnd one rcdc.lc covcrlctt, prciscd at xxxiijs. iiijJ. 8 THE U~TO~ IXYEXTORIES. In the Coke's Chan1ber.-Itn1, one playne hedstede, j fether bedde, j bolster, j blankett, ij rugge coverlettes, j olde cubborde, and j joyned stoole · xlv5• , In Jerom's Cha1nber.-Itn1, one joyned bcdstede, j litle fether beddc., j bolster, ij bla.nkettes, j olde red coYerlett, one great chaire, one litle horde, and hYo stooles, preised at xx....dij 5 • iiij In the Barne.-Itn1, iiij quarters of wheate, and iij quarters of. rye, by estimation, viijli. vj5• ,·iijd. In t11e Stable.-Iti11, iij coche horses, one coche and the furni- thereunto, preised at xlll. ltm, one greye stone horse, and j blacke blynde stone horse, preised at vijli. Itm, one blacke gelding, one dunne gelding, one rone gelding, one grey gelding, t\'ro sorell coltes, preised at xxvijli. Inn, in the rµyddle stable six mares., one dunne nagge, and one baye gelding, preised at xxxij1i. 5 467li. 12 • Sd. Wadley Lynnen.-Itn1, ij dosyn of diaper napkins for the table, xxiiij playne napkins, ij table clothes of diaper, ij square table clothes of diaper, ij diaper cubborde clothes, ij diaper towelles, preised at vjli. ij5• Itn1, iij paire of fyne sheetes, ij paire • of lockcran1 shectcs, xlti paire of canYas sheetes, iij brode clothes for the hall, iij paire of pillow·e beares, preised at xiiijli. xvijs. ltn1, iiij close stoolcs ,yth theire pottes, and foure other pottcs for close stooles, and xij chan1bcr pottes, xxvjs. viijJ. In tl1c llome Grounde.-Itn1., one hundred and fourtene "·ether 5 sl1ee1>e, at Yijli. the score, xxxixli. xviij • Itn1, t,Yo hundred teggcs and thc,·cs, at yjli. the score lxli. In the IIcarne Closc.-Itn1, seventcnc bullockcs, or stearcs, at 1~. 5 tl1c hullocke, xliiijli. x • In t11c IIeysc or Barton.-Itn1, xxsxj l1oggcs and piggcs of all sortes, prcisctl at ,·ijH. T ,. __ ...... ,,, ",1,..1 ---, ..... •·• • ------• ~ ...,. -··, ---1 -- --• • l., ---,--. • • • l .1.1..au, vu~ v.au\.: '-'" l\;, .&J p,&.U\,; U.l \\ Ut:\:u;.::,, JJ lUllb~ -)ottcs! , llJ }) -owes "it11 sl1ares, cultcrs, "·hcclcs, and hoggc tro,rcs, prciscd at iiijli. lbn, iiij broode geese, ij ganders, Yiij go~liugcs, iiij tirkics, vj 1 duckcs, and one drake, prciscd at :xiijs. iiij' .• C 10 THE UNTO~ INVE'N'TORIES. Come in the Fieldc.-Itm, xvj acres of rye, and vj acres of w~eate, preised at xvjli. vs. iiijd. ltm, six and fourtie quarters of barlic so,Yen in the fielde xlyjli. Heyford Do\l·nes.-Itm, seven hundred and twentie gradlinges and theves, preiscd at ccccxli. FARRINGDON. In the IIall thcrc.-Itm, one long table, iij tressells, ij fourmes, and j square table, preised at xij5 • Itm, one paire of iron andyers., ij court cubbordes, and one liYerye cubborde, prcised at xxvj5 • Yiij saye, j dow.-ne bedde, j bolster, j paire of blankettes, one mattericc, and j n1att, vjli. ltn1, one chaire of needle "·orke, ij stooles, ij lesser stooles, one liveryc horde, one litle round table, one cussyn, j nest of boxes, j litle box, j paire of cloggcs, and a paire of billo,ves (to·rn) Itm, ,·ij peeces of Dornex for hanginges.,j greene cubborde clothe, and two greene curtyns xx,.. js. Yiijd. In my Ladies Clossett.-ltm, one cubborde of boxes, J)reisecl at vj 8• ,;ijJ. In tl1e Gentlewornen's Chamber.-ltin, one Frenc11e bedste In ye Chamber oYer tl1e Hall.-Itm, one .6.elde bedstede, one mattciice, j matt, j litle square table., j liverie cubborde, j paire of andyers tipped "-th hrasse, and one greene curtyn xiij9 • iiijd. In the t,vo Inner Chan1bers and tbe Chan1ber o~er the Parlor. ltm, ij bedstedcs, j n1atterice, j litle table, j greene curtyn, and the hanginges of the cl1amber "-th gilded lether, j liverie cubborde, one litle square table, one paire of andyers, preised at liiij5 • Yiijd. In tl1e Chamber over t11c ''"'yne Scller.-ltn1, one fielde bed stede, ,vth a co,·er of grccne saye, j fctl~erbed, j bolster, one pairc • of blankettes, j coverlett, j matterice, j yello,Ye satten chaire, 01~e long cussyn of yellowe satten, j olde chaire of tyssue, one long cussyn of russett damaske, j lo"\'\·e stoole, j paire of andyers, one square table, and one olde truncke, preised at iiijli. xs. . In the ''"'yne Seiler.-Itm, one great brasse pott, j great brasse kettell, j lc$ser kcttcll, one bras chafer, ij kettellcs, one perfumyng panne, ij sky1nn1ers, j bras ladell, j cl1afing IIADE I:S 1620. Tu1s lNDE'-TURE, made the firste daie of 1-Iarch in the yeares of the Raigne of our Soveraignc Lord J amcs, by the grace of God of England, France, and Ireland lunge, Defender of the Faith, &c. the Nyneteenth, and of Scottland the FiYe and Fiftieth, BET\YEE~E Sr.George Shirley of A.smell in the Countie of North ampton, Barronett, and Dan1e Dorothye Shirley l1is "·icf, of the one }Jartie, And Sr Tho1nas Edn1undcs, l(nightc, Treasurer of his lfatics most llonorble Howseholde, and one of his llatics most honorable prh·ie Councell, And Sr George ,,Trough ton, of Barton in the Countie of ,,riltes, l{uight, of the other partie. lV n I~RE.·\S heretofore the .. said Sr George Shirley, for the love and affcccon which he did carryc and beare to the saide Daine Dorothyc, and for her better maintenance and estate, ""as contented and pleased before their entermarriage that the said Dan1e Dorrothyc Shirley should from tin1e to time duringe her naturall lief dispose and use att her "~ill and pleasure .A.11 such Goodcs, Chattells, Je\\·clls, Plate, I-Io"·scholdstuffe and Y1nplcn1entes of llo,Yscholdstuffe "·hat soever ,vhereoff she the said Danie Dorrothye Shirley stood or \\·as poss~ssecl before the 1narriage had and solc1nnizcd bct\'\·cenc her and the saidc Sr George Shirley, i\nd for the performance thereof the said Sr George Shirley became bounden by his "-ritingc obli gatoric in a great som of n1oncy to some of the fricn Sr George Shirley should, by his said writinge obligatorie, stand charged to paie the said Eight Ifundred Poundes, ,vhich '\Yas never the intent or purpose of the said Sr George Shirley, or of the said Dame Dorrothye. For the clearingc of ,vhich doubte, .c\nd to the end the said ,Yritinge obligatorie should bee delivered upp to the said Sr George Shirley to be cancelled, Tu1s IxnENTURE "itt nesseth that the said Sr George Shirley, for the love and entier affection "·hich he carricth and bcareth unto the said Dan1e Dorrothie Shirley, his belov-ed v.ief, HATH Given, graunted, aliened and solde, and by these presentes doth fullie, clearelie and absolutelie giYe, graunt, alien, and sell unto the said Sr 'l"hon1as Edmundcs and Sr George ,,r rough ton All such Goodes, Chattells, Plate, J e·wells, llow·sehold stuffe, and Y mplementes of howsehold stuffe ,vhatsocvcr, con1prised, n1entioned, and ex pressed in a certen Schedule indented hereunto annexed, to the entent and --purpose that the said Sr 'rhomas Edmundes and Sr George ,v rough ton, and the surviYor of then1, and the executors and adn1inistrators of them, and the strr,ivor of them, shall from ty1ne to ti1nc dispose, transfer, or alien, att the will and pleasure of the said Dan1e Dorothyc Shiriey, .All the said Goodes, Chatte1ls, Plate, J e,vclls, I-I o"·scholdstuffe, or Y n1ple ments of I-Io,Yscholdstufl~, or anic of thcn1, in the said Schedule hereunto annexed specified, to auic person or persons ,Ylu1.tsocYer, ·without the deniall or controulc1ncnt of the said Si- George Shirley ·his executors or acln1inistrators. .A.xn the said Sr George Shirley, for his executors or achninistrators nnc.l for cyerie of thc1n, co venantcth pron1iscth and graunt(•th to and with the s~id Sr Thomas Ed1nundcs and Sr George ,Y rougliton and the sur;·h·or of thcn1 and the executors and adn1i11istrators of the sur\·ivor of thcn1, and to and "·ith c,.. cry of then1, by th~sc Prcscntcs, that if hereafter anic of the saidc Gooclc-s, Chattclls, J cwclls, Plate, Ilowschol One longe cushion of greene ,vrought velvett. Sixe Turkye cushions. One carpett cloathe longe, couler greene, broad cloath, with crimson and yellowe silke frindge. One carpett for a square table. One cubbert cloath sutable to the former. One carpett for the side table, greene broad cloath, frindged \\11th red and ble,v. · Three greene coYeringcs of trebnall for the three carpettes. In tke Great Chamber. 01~e dra,rlnge table and frame, one square table, one side cubbert. One red velvctt chaier, and one red veh·ett back chaier in1hroy dred. Tlvo back chaiers of black Yelvett imbroydred. One great chaier.. of silke needle ,vorkc • Fh·e back chaiers of silke needle worke. SeaYen stooles of silke n.eedle,vorke. Fo"·er longe ·windo,v cushions silke needlew·orke. One longe cushion of red YelYett imbroydered. Three longe cushions for windo,ves of cloath of silver. One couch furnished. Two needle \Yorke cushions. 'renn leather stooles. One longe table carpett of grccne Yelv·ett, £ringed ,vth yello,v. One square bourcl carpett of greene velvett. One cubbcrd carpett of grcenc vclvett, ,vth yello,v frindge, all sut.1.blc. One paier copper andirons. One paier of tongcs, a fire sho,.. ell, and a pare of bcllow·cs. A per£ 1uningc pann. A skrcine. FiV'e pccces of 1\rras hanginges. Five curtens of grcenc wcbnall, fiyc curtcn rods. 20 THE UYTOX INVE~TORIES. One copper back, three pictures in frames. One cipres cl1est of coveringcs for stooles and "1ndow cloathes. ]11, tlze best Chamber ore1· the Hall. One gilt bedstedc "•tll testern and double vallance, and bed's head imbroydred and double fringd "·th silke and silYer. Five curtens of branched ·dan1askc, laied ,vm gold buttons, loopes and gold lace. One do"·ne bed, one ,voll bed, one bolster of downc, and :fiye do"·ne pillo·wes. One pare of blankettcs, one quilt of taffatie. A matteris, n1att, ancl cord. -- A foulclinge bedstede, ,Yith canopic curtens, fetherbed, fether bolster, t\\·o blankcttes, one scarlett coverlctt, "•th matt and cords and n1atteris. One chaier of "·rou~ht crin1son Yelvett, one back cl1aire silke, sih·er and gold needle,Yorke. Tw·o low· stooles of crimson YelYctt, one imbroiclrcd Io,v stoole upon satten. One longe stoolc crin1son cloath, sih·cr lace. One longe stoolc cloath of sih·cr "·rought. T\\·o longe ,vinclo\\· cushions of ncc<.lle "·orke silkc. One table board, one .side cubbord, one skrcinc. Three '"-indo\\· curtcns "·th rods : one pare copper andirons. One pare doggs, a :ficr shovcll, a pare of tongcs, and a pare of bellowcs. One greenc vch·ctt carpctt fringd ,\·th greenc silkc and gold. One crimson cuhbcrt cloath of silkc. Fi,·e pceccs of ..Arras hangingcs. In lite J)arke Clunuher. One bcdstced, one canopic ,rth fethcr bed, bolster, blankcttcs, rugg, n1nttris, two stoolcs, one c}1aicr, one coiirt cubbert, wth cubbcrt cloath. FARRINGDO~ IN 1620. 21 In lite Close Ro1ne, next tlte Darke Cllarnhe-r. One curten, one curten rod, ,v-th case for close stoole. In llte Passage from lite Great Cllanzher. One square table!' one joyne stoole, one curten, a curtcn rod. In tl,e Blew Bed Cha1nber, or sr Geor9e Shir/yes Cluunbr. One stanclinge bedsteed ,,,.th black velvett tcstcrn, black Yallancc fringed and laced, one fether bed, one flock bed, one ,voll bc One pare copper andirons. One pare tonges, one fier sho,cll, one pare bellow·es. One steele glas, one foldinge table att the staier head. In the Nurse'rie. One bedsteede [of] yello,v say, testen1 yello,v, Yallance frindged and laced, yello"'· say curtens, one fether bed, one bolster, t\\·o pillow·es, one pare of blankettes, one yellow rugg, matt and cord. One foldingc bedsteed, one n1attris, one fetl1er bed, one bolster, one pare of b1ankettcs, one stuffe chaier, one lo"' stoole of needle worke, one Turkey-"·orke stoole wth a backe. One table bourd, one court cubbert, three joyned stooles. One yarne co,erlett, one carpett, one cubbert cloath, fringed wth yellow·. One yello,v "-indo,v cushion of satten, w·th greenc lace. T,·ro curtens, t."·o curtcn rods, tl'ro Turkey-"·orkc cushions. A pare oi andirons, ficr shovell, tonges, bellO'wes, and leather hanginges. In my Ladies C/1a1nber. One bedsteed and tcstcrn, and valance of black Yelvett, laced wth gold lace and gold fringe, one mattris, one do,Yne bed, one ,l"oll bed, one downc bolster, two do,vne pillo"·es, one pare blankettcs, one "·bite rugg, one ycllo,v silke quilt, v curtens changable taflatyc, one other old blankett. One chaier, t"·o low· stoolcs of black and oringe "·rouglit velyctt. One chaier needle ,vorkc crucll, one back chaier of ta"~ney ,vrought ,·clYett. One lol\" stoolc ta"·ncy "·rouil1t vch·ctt. One back c11:,icr, t,,·o stoolcs, needle ,,·orkc crucll. One "·icker chaicr lined "·th grcenc, one stoolc ,rth a back, and one footcstoolc. One table bourd \\"th a cubbcrt, one foldingc table, one court FARRINGDON IN I 620. 23 cubbert wth a dral\:ng boxe, two joyne stooles, fo,ver peeces of Arras hanginges. One greene carpet, printed, fringed wth blew and greene. One red carpett of cloath, fringed "·th red and yellow, a greene say coYer for tl1e carpett, a covering of ,vebnalJ. 'l\veh"e covers for stooles of unshorne red velvctt. One "indow cushion of stitched taffatic, tw·o curten rods, tw·o curtens. One pare copper andirons, a back of iron, a pare dogges, a fier shovell, a pare of tonges, a pare of bello'\'\·es, two pare of snuffers, . . . a tostin_ge iron. Fower chestes, ,vth the frames they stand on, tl1ree cabhanctts, wth the frames they stand on in my Ladies Chan1ber, and in the passage into my Ladies Chamber. 'I'wo small cab banetts standing on the table, one steele glass, :five pictures in frames. In tlte Cllamher,naids Cltarnber. One fetherbed, one pare of blankettes, a yello,v rugg, a yarnc coverlett, ,vth a canopie and curtens of yello,v, "'th bcdstecd, cord, and n1att. One joyne cubbcrt, one emptie trunk, a joyne stoole. One old Dornex hangings, one Dornex curten, one old grcci.1e curten, two curten rods, a pare of andirons. One bell to ringe to prayers. In 1',Jr1 Ann Gibbs lt.er Cllamhcr. One bcdsteed "-th testerne and five curtcns, an In 1J'Ul'1n Gregories Chanibe1·. One bedstced, one fctherbecl, one bolster, one pare of blankettes, a rugg, a table board, a carpctt, a leather stoole. In tile New TVardropp. One yellow taffatie quilt, one velvett square table-cloath, fi,c ash-coulered curtens. One cl1est, one table, one back chairc, one Turkey-,vork cushion, two curtens and curten rods. In tile Gallerie. '1\vo pare of virginalls, one oldc chcste. Three frames for stoolcs, fowcr chaicrs, one of them needle,\~orkc, one of satten, the other t\\·o of red leather, one black vcI,~ctt chaicr, laced ""th gold lace. A couch, t"·o longe cushions, ".tb covcringc to the same, one long joyne stoole, a "'-rouglit covering for a chairc, a pare of and irons, a skreine. Fifteen English pictures, hangd in tables att the upper end of the gallerie. xxviij pictures of Romans and Empcrours at the lo,vcr end of the gallerie. The hangings round about the gallcric, being grecne stuffc. In tile old IVa'rdropp. One bedstecd, one fethcrhccl, one bolster, one pare of blankcttcs, one ruo-o-,o::> matt and cord, chest and dcskc. One dozen black taffn.tic firr stoulcs. three in1bro,·drcd cord- ~ ., yngcs for cushions, two Ynllan<:l·, t,ro heads for canopic-s, one doat.h of gold, the other taffatic, one yellow-red Spa11ish sattin quilt, three ruggs, a grcyt skrcinc cloath of \\·cbnall. A ~01'E 01,• TIU•: 1.. r~xEx, 'fakcn the last of .. \ugust 1G20. ]Jain a she. Eight longc cloathcs of Afy Ladies l"uhhert of Plate att Aslzcell. One bason and yew·er., one disl1, one perfumynge pann, one little merlin cupp ""th a cov-er, iiij tunns, ij ,vth covers, one small boule ll•th a longe stalke, one tunn dish, t,Yo boules ,yth short stalkes, one possett cupp "•th a coyer, one tankerd, one little merlin cupp wth a coyer, one silver dish ,vth one care, one little cracknell boule, one little boate and greater, iij posncttes, one spoute pott, one cast inge bottell, one little perfumynge pann, a little candlesticke, a little sponnge boxe, two little c"·ers, a little chafingdish, a dish "'-th ij eares, one lo~ge ladle and skin11ncr (in ,veight 336 oz. erased.) xx.ij little plates and dishes, a boate, a sugar boxe, one scollopp dish,- a standish., a 1nullinge cupp \\-th a cover, t11ree spoones, one sugar boxe spoone, (,Yhich ,Yeighinge 210 oz ..•.•••• erased.) In, t/1,e J{ittchin. · Sixe brasse poottes, one copper boylcr, ij kcttells, ij pare of rackes, xvij ~ broaches, ij drippingc panns, ij frying panns, vij skillettes, ij brassc posnettes, ij pott hangers, iij trayes, a pare of scales, one cullen In the Beare Seller. Fo,-rerteene hoggshcac1s and butts and pipes, the frames they stand on, "•th other lombcr. In the Butlerye. T,~o binns, iij cuhberds, one glasse cubberd, one settle, one square table, ij joyne stoolcs, one lo\V forme. One pewter cesterne, Yiij pe,vter flaggons. In the Pastrey. Shelves a~d boardes, ij bakinge panns, iij halfe tubbs, one traye. In tl1.e Dl"ye larder. One safe, ij cubbcr ln tke Brewlto1.11se. One brasse furnace, one mashingc fatt, one triYett, ij coolers, one brassc Jlann, one longe kiver, one olde trough~ onc·hoggeshead, iij wash fattes, one malt mill, iij hogg-,vash fattes, wth other lomber there. In tne Boultinge howse. One dough trough, ij boltingc ,\·ittc11cs, one meale kiver, iij meale tubbs, ij mouldinge boards, "·th other lomber, ij- searches. In t/,.e Balie howse· Chamber. One bedsteed matt and cord., one fctherbed and bolster, one blan~ett, one Arras coverlctt. I11, 11.fr. Dolc1nan's Cluunher. One bedsteed, "-th ,Yainscott testornc and vallance of silke, one fetherbeed, one bolster, one pillo\\·, one pare [ of] blanketts, one greene rugg, pne yarne coYcrlett, one Turkey-,vorke car1)et, one greene chaier, iij stooles, one for1ne, a table horde and shelves, fire shoYcll, curten rods, and curtcns for "~indo"·es. In },fr. Thomas Sl,irley !tis lllut1nber. One bedsteed, ,vainscott testornc, hle,v fringed Yallance, blew curtens, one flock bed, one nu1.ttris, one fether bed, ij bolsters, one pillo,v, one J)are ofblankct.tes, one grccnc rugg. One taffatie chaier, one ,vainscott chaicr, one red leather stoole, ij joyne stoolcs, one foldingc tahlL·, one court cuhbert, one Dorncx carpett, one cuhhcrt cloath of l)orncx, one "·cbnall cubbert cloath, one Turkey chushion, one pare of hcllo,Ycs, one pare of doggcs, ,vith shelYcs, and other stuffc. In tJ,e J>orler's Lodge. T,,·o bcdstcccls, iij fc.thcrbcds, iij bolsters, ij pare of hlankcttes, ij coYcrlcttcs. In //,e Cook's Cluanbcr. Tw·o bcdstccds, ij fct herl><.·ds, ij hobtcrs, one Hocl;bccl, and one flock bolster, fi,·c hlankcltcs, au In tl1e Stahle Cl,an1,hers. Three bed steeds, iij f etherbeds, iij bolsters, iij pare of blankettcs, ijj coverlettes, one "·ainscott chest, '"'th other lorn ber. In tlte Stable, and Ladie Hall and Coacli Howse. One old conch, iij binns •wth rackes and n1angers, and other lomber in Latlie hall. Sixe milch kine, and ij roane geldinges, and a white nagg. A ne,v coach "-th iiij harnesse, iiij coachmares. In my Ladies Clossett and Cltanzher att Astwell. A chest of "'·alnutt tree, a great cabbonett, ij little cabbonctts, one. ebony boxe a spruce chest, a frame to sett the spruce chest upon, a deske t'O "'·rite upon of crimson Yelvett, ij dozen of fruite purslcn dishes, and tun dishes. · Linne'llS of1ny Ladies att Asticell. - ·Sixe pare ef ,,·rought pillo,vbcers, a sheetc "·rought ",.th black, a la,mc sheet stript "·th bone lace, iij ,vrought cushion cloathes, iij lawne cushion cloathes, iij la,vnc cubbert clo'1.thcs. 31 THE '''ILL OF DOROTI-IY Li\.DY SHIRLEY. 1634. (Extracted from the Registry oC the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.) El\fANUELL. THE cighte~nth day of July, in the Yeare of Our Lord .Goel, according to the co1nputation of tl1c Church of England, one thousand six hundred thirty and fower, and in the tenth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles, by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland I{ing, Defender of the fayth, I DoROTIIYE LADY SuEHl,EY, l\·iddowe, considering and belee"ing thab all t11e sonns of n1cn l1ave but their tymes of pil grimage upon earth, and must at the last end this transitory life at the liow·re appointed bj" their Creator, findeing myself in perfect men1ory, for "·hich I giYc God most harty thankes, doe hereby declare my last "\"\'.'"ill and Tcstan1ent in manner and form fol lo,vein aer :- First, I doe ackno,Ylcdge myself a most hcynous sinner, for which, both in general anrl particulcr, I unfeynedly repent fro1n the botton1e of 111y hart, beseeching nncl begging pardon at the hands of Aln1ighty Goel for the s:unc, thorough the n1errits of Christ J csus, the only SaYiour of 1na11ki11de, unto "·l1osc unspcake ablc n1crcics in all lnunility I prostrate myself; and, as concerning my body, n1y· desire is that the sa1nc n1ay he interred an Item I give and bequeath unto the poore of Farrington the some of thirty pounds, oYcr and aboyc the thirty pounds I ow·e to then1, and to the poore of \Y'appenha1n the some of tenn poundes ; the same seYerall sames to be payed to the sev-erall Overseers of the poore of the said scvcrall To,Ynes to the use of the said poore ·within six moneths after my decease, and my desire is, that the same should remain and be employed to the use of the said poore of the said seYcrall Parrishes, ancl remaine for stocks for them for eyer. Item I gh·e and bequeath unto my honorable frende Sir Thomas Edmonds, knight, Treasurer of his ~lats household, n1y nagget cupp. Item I give and bequeath unto my loving brother Sir Giles Wroughton, knight, the son1e of tenn poundes, to be payc • Gertrude "·rougliton, sister to Dame Dorothy Shirley, "'·as m::irricd to Sir Ralph Gibbcs, of lloningtllD, co. \\"ar\\'ick; au•l Anne, llaughter of Hobert Gi'!Jhes, and sister to Sir Ua1ph, was the first wife of Sir George "·roughto11. Hence the frequent oc currence of the u:ime in thi:: t.l,lcmnrnt. The La • )Iary Gihbes, wife of \\·alter lb!,·gh, Dl•:m of \\·ens, the ncphcn· of the grc·at Sir \\~alter. The Dc:rn's iJ.tlil·r, Sir C~Lr~·,\·, a1al hb hrothl'r Gilbert, both marrkd a \\"ruugh ton. See the Ral_t·gh 11cdi,;rt·c in .:\latcha1u's II unJrcJ of Downtou, ( lloarc-'s \\"ilts,) p. 37. BERhS. ASHll. SOC. F' 84 THE \l•ILL OF DOROTHY LADY !,HJRLEY-1634. tenn pounds, to be payed to her use \\·ithin si.~ monetl1s after my decease. Item I giYe and bequeath to my loYeing kins"·oman l{atherine Wrougl1ton, daughter to n1y uncle James ,v·roughton, fyfty pounds, to be payed ,Yitl1in one moncth after my decease. _I doe likewise giYe and bequeath to 11er the one half of all my ·wearing lynncn, and t,Yo fetl1erbcds, t,yo fether-boulsters, one silver cann that Doctor Ashw·orth did giYe mce, and one of n1y sih·er salts of the Yalue of fyye poundes ; t""o payre of Holland sheetes ; tw·o table clothes, the one of clamaske, the other of diaper; and tw·o dozen of napkins, the one dozen of diaper, and th'other dozen plaine. Item I give and bequeath to my cozen Charles ,,,.rough ton forty pounds, to be payed to him \\ithin six moncths after my decease. .. Item I gh·e and bequeath to my Lady Dorothy Sherley~ my little aggett "·atch. Item I give and bequeath to my Lady Frances Poole one little silver cawdle-cupp. Item I giYe and bequeath to Sir Thon1as Sherley knightt tenn pounds, to be payed ,,-itl1in six n1oncths after my decease. Item I giYe and bequeath to 111y much-rcspcctc • Lady Dorothy Dc,·crcux, daughter or Robert E:irl of Essex, nnll \\"ife oC Sir Henry Shirley, ll:irt. the ll'~tator's stcpsoa. t Brother to Sir Jl~nry. TIIE WILL OF DOll.OTIIY LADY SIIIRLEY-1634. 35 Iten1 I giYe and bequeath to my trusty sen·ant ,vnlian1 Gregory forty pounds, to be paicd to him "ithin sixe moneths after my decease. I do also give and bequeath to hitn all my bedding, ha11gings, and furniture in my ueece lla"·ley's chamber in my house at Farrington, and also one sil,·er trencl1er-salt. Item I do gh.. e and bequeath to llenry Gregory his sonnc one of my lesser silf'er tankards. Item I do giYe and bequeath to Tho111as Stedman n1y ser,·ant forty pounds, to be payed to him ,vithin six monct]1s after n1y decease, and one fethcrhed, one £ether boulster, one Jlayre of blankets, and one payre of sl1eets. .A.nd I desire my said servants \ \ .. illian1 Gregory and '11homas Sted1nan to be aydirig and assisting to n1y Executors "·ith their travell and best endeayors to see this 1ny last ,,rill and 'l'esta1nent perforn1ed. Item I giYe and bequeath to 1ny servant (blank) Gill t"·enty pounds to be·:payed to hi1n within six moneths after my decease. -Item I give and bequeath to n1y scr,·ant :\Iary Farr t\\·o of n1y best kync, one playne table-cloth, and one dozen of playne napkii1s, and tenn pounds to he payed to her ,vithin six n1oneths after my decease. Item I give and bcqucatl1 to lfargarct .A.ndro"res my chamber mayde tenn pounds, to be payee.I to lier \Yithin si:s: months after my decease. Item I give and bequeath to .Alice II utt h,·o of my kyne. Item I giYc and bequeath to n1y servant John Clifford tenn pounclcs to be payed to hitn "·ithin six n1oncths after n1y decease. Item l give and hcqucath to tny- scrv:tnt \Yeckcs n1y Porter three pounds, to he payccl ,rithin sixc 1noncths after 1ny decease. Itc1n I gh·c and bequeath tu 111y ser\·aut 'l'ho1nas Ilo"·se three pounds, to he p:1.ycd ,yithin six rnoncths after my dcccnsc. And I clo hereby request n1y loYcing frcndc the said Sir ltobert Pye knight and iny trusty scrn1ntcs ,Yillia1n Grrgory and 'I1hon1as Stedrnan to he ()Ycrsct·rs of this n1v- last ,Yill and 'J"csta- " n1ent .. dcsirin!! c,·cry of thc1n to call upon tny Executors for the 36 THE. WILL 01.- DOROTilY LADY SHlU.LEY-163~1. perfor1nance of this my last ,vn1 and Testament, and that they will fron1 time to tin1e ,Yith their best advise and endeavours be . ayding aud assisting to n1y said Executors for the performance thereof. Iten1, all the rest an DonoTII E Y SnARLEY. lVitness hereunto those ,Yhosc nan1es arc underwTitten and the l\"'Ords '' )Ir. George Purific'' in this last shccte ,yere intcrlyned before the scaling hereof and publishing of this "~ill, ,,... ILLIAlI GREGORY, En"·.:\.nD STEYEXS, 'ruo. STR.ATTOX. [Proved at Loildon on tl,e IG!lt J.llarclt; 1634 ; administration being granted to .J/ary JJ'";·o119ldo11, one of !he executors; and poioe1· resen:ecl to grant t!te like lo Geurge Purify sltould Ile denuau.l it.] GLOSSARiltL INDEX OF THE l'RINCIP.AL AND REl\IARK.ABLE ARTICLES IN TIIE INVENTORIES. Agate cup, 32. · the lower ends of tbc logs. These --little watch, 34. were also called creepers. A corre Alcumie, 26. Alkamye or .AJcamyn was spondent of the Gentlemau's l!aga a mixed yellow metal, supposed to be zine, who gi\"'es, in Feb. li89, nu produced by the processes of alchemy, amusina-o account o( the various and- and thence taking its name. See irons in his own ancient mansion, Nares's Gloss:iry. -1~..... _... ,c --A1•rliron$•. are a Jar:!cr_, and Andirons, andyers, iron, 4, 10. higher sort of irons, made to sup1 1ort ----·---- brass, 10. the wood, and ha\"'e usually long neck~, ------tipped with brass, 4, rising up before, to keep the v.-ooll 6, 11, 12~ from falling off. And creepera nre copper, 5, 18, 19, smaller and lower irons, with short 20, 22, 33. The etymology of this necks, or none at alt, ""hich arc placcll word is prolJably end-irons, their use between the andirons, to keep the cuds being to raise the ends of logs of wood of the wood and the brands from tbc v.·hcn on the fire. .Andirons l>ave hearth, that the fire may hum more been considered to be ic.lcntical with freely. * * In the great hall, the fire-do~s, but in our Inventories there andirons ~ere commonly larhl'r .inJ arc both, mcntionrd in the same apart stronger, to sustain the ro:1ri11~ ments; as, in the parlour at :Farriug Christmas fire, more oruamcnkJ, auJ, dou, we finJ t\'\·o great brascn audycrs, like knights with their s<1uin.•5, at antl j pairc of such I ha,e in my hall ; they are or Barn, 9. cast iron, at least two feet and a half Barrelles, (ether, 7. high, w'ith round faces, and much Barton, 9. ornamented at the. bottom." These, Basonand ewer, silver livery, 33, xxvii. then, were Doga.-Several handsome xliii. specimens of Andirons, in iron, brass, Beame, iron, 13. For weighing. and sil\"er, are represented in Shaw's Bed of satten figured, x::t:s.iii. Specimens of Ancient Furniture, Bedstead, joyned, 4, 6, 7, &c. 4.to. 1836, Plates Ln~. L YI. L vu. ---- boarded, i. Lv111. and see the letter-press, p. 23. field, 4, 11, one with eight Among some ancient sih-er articles plumes of feathers, 5. Probably a stolen f1·om ,,indsor Castle in l\I arch folding bedstead; see Field Stool. 18-n, were two pair or "silver fire ----livery, G, 13. See Lh·ery. dogs, very massh-e." One pair is fur ----plain, (several) 8. ther described as haring been " ~9 ---- truckle, 6, 7, (two) 8. inches high, with figure:; of Diana and ---- standing, 6 (three), one v.ith another on the tops, the ba.se formed its f,irniture described, 21. of mermaids, cupids,'' &c. --French, 11, 13. Armorie house, 3. ----gilt, 20. Aryste, Arras, 5. Beare seller, 28. Beer cellar. --- hangiugs, 4, 6, 21, 24. Bell to ring to prayers, 23. --- "With the story of Sampson, 32. Billowes, 4 his, 5 &c. Bellows. ---coverlet, G, ; , (three) 29. Su- Blacke jacks, 1. Vessels of leather. perior tapestry, so named from Arras, Illankettes, 4, et passim. the capital of .\rtois in the French Boat, of plate 2i. Netherlands, v.·hich ·was celebrated for Bone lace, 30. its mauufacture. )fony J>a1mi de - tables, See Tables. .Ares! are in the inYentory of St. Paul's Bonnett, veh·ct, xx.vi . Cathedral so early ~ l '295. Dugd. nooks, in number ccxx, 3. ?\Iona.st. Anglic. iii. 3~6. llouckfatt 28. The washing-tub, boucl.· being the same as sllcls, from the Gcrmnn. 'l'he Luci·-basket is familiar Backes nnd brcstes of proofc, 3. Uack from Falstaff's a.dvcuturc. anc.l bre:ist-plates of llro\"cd armour. ll OW 1ting . llO""SC, lJ , -•••o·, Bakehouse, 3. Bowlting whitch, S, ~9. Sec \\"hitch. u,~.,u.Tt--- .2 51u1.c,--- ,_ - n-• Bandilcars, 3. Hdts suspended Croan Ilrewhou:5c, 3, l;J, ~!1: · the ~houluer, to which the charges of Broches, 1, 2, " brochcs or spittes, 1 I, powder (about twdH! in nu1ubcr) were 12. attac11c,l rcacly for use. llutterie, l, ~8. GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 39 Cabbanets, 23, 26, 33. Chairs: various handsome chairs are de- Callyvers,m. 3 lJis. Hand guns, or large scribed in pp. 2, 5, 10, l 8. muskets, so named from being origi --- fouldicge. See Stool. nally harquebuse3 of a standard calibre --- straw, 10. (see Gent. )lag. April IS-10, p. 351.) Chamlet, 33. Canabye, 4. Canopy. See also 18. Chandelier, aee Hanginge lamps. Candle plates, 12~18, 2a. Probably the Chapel, 2. polished plates, sen·ing as reflectors, Chapel Chamber, 5. with branches for candles affixed, an .. Chargers of pewter, 12. A charger W"as ciently much in use for lighting up a a great Jllatter or large dish : grand room, and erroneously called Sconces. plat. PalsgraT"e. An old glossary eJ:: AtHengra\"e in 1603was in one Gallery plains cliarger, dobler, or platter, " one large copper plate for a candell," lan.r, latus discus. Horman says, and in another" one great copper plate "One swanne is ynoughe to fyll a for ij lights.'' Gage's Hcugra,·e, p. 3-t. charger.'' Candlesticks of sil,er, xxl"i., 26, 32. Cheese racks, 13. ---·--- tin, I. Chests, iron-bound, 2 bis. Cann, sil\"er, 34. .. --- of virre (tir ?) 3. Carpenter's Chamber, 13. --- cipres, 20. Of cypress W"ood. Carpets and carpet-cloth for tables, In 1531 was "paid to Henry Hurlon·e board,and cubboard, 19, ~O. (None for in rcl\·anle for a coffcr of Sypres that the floor.) .he gave to the King xls." Henry Casting bottle, 27. Vlllth's Household Book, 8vo. 182i, Cattle, 9, 30. p. 184. A Cyprus chest in possession Calltdle-cupp, sih·er, 3-t. of the Hon • .!\Irs. Leigh is engr~wed in Cellar, 1, 2. See Beer cellar. Hunt's Tudor Architecture, pl. niv. Cesterne of pe'\\·ter, 2a. Chests, Spruce, ·10, 30. Spruce was Chafers, 1. A nan1e gh·en to small &Jlplied to several articles in the sense Tessels for heating JiquiJs, no\\· gene or l'rus.!-ian, and 11robably to arti rally supcrseJc:d by the lc~s correct cles ma\lc of North-country wooc.l description, saucepan. Sometimes tl,cy generally. In the will of Henry were m:ule of sih·er, ns \\"C fincl among 1.Inton, I-iii [see p. :uiii.] is this: tbc l'late of Sir J olm Fastolfo, 1·J 5!), ltt'm, lcgo Thome \\·ood armigero occur~ "j chnufer to sr.ttc upon a tal,lc me:rn1 tnhulam mt'ns,1le ,·oc~t• le (or hote l\'ater, wciyng 93 unc. '' Spruce ta'/Jle.-\Ycul.so .•e3d of Danske (i. e. Vantzic) chests. Stowe, de Chafing-dish, ~ih-er, :XX\'i, ~G, 2;. A !-il sc"!rihing a b:irb:irous murder \'\"hich vcr clu1fing-di::h at llcngra,·c in lS·l~ Wai JlerpctrakJ in London in J.r,;~, weighed 52 oz. Gage's lh·ngrnn•, J>, snys the murJer~r " \\"'Oulcl ha,·c 127. trussed him (the ,lcml mnn's boJy) in Gl.,OSSARIAL INDEX. a Danske chest, but the same was too were doubtless those \\ith 'Which the short.'' Chronicle, fol. 1615, p. 6il. knight clothed bis retainers on public ---wainscot, 30. occasions. See Stamen. ---walnut tree, 30. Couch "or double chaier,'' of silk im- Chestborde (chess-board) with men, 18. broydered, 18, also 25. · Set Tables. Coverlet, of tappcstree, 3, 6, 7. Cheyne or gold, xniii. ---- of arras, 7 (three). Chinie stuffe, 26, see Purslen. ---- green rug, 4. Close room, 20. ---- livery, 5, see livery. Closet, my Lady's, at Farringdon, 26. ---- 11 et passim. · From the Coach horse beasts, 33. French couvrelite, or bed-co,er. The Coach howse, 30. modem namecounter-pane,substituted Coche, 9,30,33. On tl1e disputed etymology for this, occurs in old documents as of coach see the Remarks on the early counter-point, and is supposed to ha\"e use or Carriages in England, by J. H. originally applied to a peculiar mode l\farkland, esq. F.S.A. in the Archreol. of manufacture (Fr. r.onlre poi11,t). :xx. 453. Sir T. Kytson's coach in Cover panns, ~6. 1573, with alf its furniture belonging, Court-cubbordes, 10. These ~o court cost 3-11. 14s. The Coach at Hengra~c cup-boards in the Hall at Farring in 1603 was " CO\"ered l\·ith leather, don, answered to our modern side and lined with tawney leather, fringed boards. " Here sball stand my court with watchett silke." (Gage's Hen. cup-boai-d, with its funziture of grave, p. 36.) This " was a thick plate.'' (lions. D'Olh·e, Ant. Dram. burly square-sett fellow, in a donblct iii. 394.) The" oak cabinet,'' ancl the ofblacke leather, brass-button'd downc "side-board," represented in Plates the brest, backe, sleeves, and "·inges, xxvi, xxxii of Shaw's Ancient Furni ..,-ith monstrous "i cupboard was removed, as well a~_the chets, and other small articles of re joint-stools. (Romeo and J ulict, act freshment, candles, &c. served round L 1c. 5.) See further quotations in when the inmates of a mansion bad Nares's Glossary, su!J roce: but com retired to their o·wn apartments. A pare with Livery Cupboard below. cloth will be found generally accom Cowie, 1, 28, A tub, cula. See Ken panying each Lh-ery Cupboard. nett's Parochial Antiquities, Glossary, Cubborde, standing, 11. under Cou:ele. Cou:ler or Cooler is ----glasse, 28. See Court cub the diminuth-e. bord, Plate cubbord. The cup Cracknell boule, sil~er, 17. The biscuit lJoard was not originally a closet, or called craclmell or crackli1lg, is as Dr. Johnson e:l:plains it, a " case derived by :\linshe\\'" from the French with shelves,'' but what the word c,:_aqrtclin and Dutch /,;raeckelinck. literally implies, a board for cups (sec in Cruell needlework, 18, 21. Of fine p. 33 "the sih-er livery bason and ewer worsted. See ~ares. usually set upon my cupboard'') : and Cubbordc, lh-ery, 2, 4 (t\\'"o), 6 (three). the alandbzg cupboard we may sup Dr. ,·rhitaker, H~t. of Cr::n·en, 18 I 2, pose was little different from our side p. 243, says that " lh·ery cupbo:ircls board. See a long note on this word were ancient '\'\"'artlrobes, shaped liked in King Henry Vlllth's Household four-po.st beds, -with curtains, within Book, edited by Sir Harris :'\icolas, which all sorts of wearing apparel were Svo. 182,, p. 313; and at p. 2~H, kept from dust : '' but this is n conjec nnothcr note on "cupboarcls, some ture '\\·ide of the mark. Xeither was with am!Jreys and some without,'' Archdeacon Nares correct in suppos where tlie suggestion that "ambreys ing the Li'rery Cupboard and Court meant cupbo~rds within cupboards," Cupboard to be the same; nor yet ?.Ir. evidently admits of the simpler ex Hunt, that" the Lin•ry Cupbo:ird was planation, that some ,-rere mere probably the board on v,hich the lh·c shelves, nnd the other shelves "·ith ries W"Cre pn.rcelled out, pre11aratory to closets. Sc-e also a note on·cuphoarus being sent to the chamb~rs. '' (Exem nnd CUJlboard cloths, in Nicofas's plars of Tu iij quarters, and three bredtbes of those linens v.·hich they figured in the same_ cloth of gold." l\IS. Harl. imitation of the silks made at Da 1419, f. 20. mascus in Syria. See in Arch~ologia, Cubborde withdrawing.boxes, 10. Cub vol. x.~vii. p. 4::?l, a description of a borde of bo~es, 11. This would no"·, "hand-towell,'' be.:iutifully \\·rought in probably, be called a chest of drawers. damask-work, with the arms of Henry In the latter page is also a " nest of VIII. See Gowne aud Kightgown. boxes." Daxte shelves, 3. This word is obscure Cubborde cloths, nvi, 13, 20, 26. in the 1\1S. Culters, 9. Day house, (Dairy,J 28. Cups, standing, _26. Desk, writing, 30. - See l\!erlin, l\Iulling, Fossett. Deyrie house, (Dairy,) 4, 13. Curtyns, (curtains) of say, 4 bis. Diaper clothes, L"t\"i, 13, 26, 34. Linen ---,. of rich taffitie, 4, 5, bis. ornamented with a pattern in -wea~ing. ---- of sarcenet, 6. Dishes, pouring, (pewter,) 26. Cns3es, 3. cuisses, armour f1Jr the thigl1s. Dishes, purslen, 30. See Purslen. Cussin, cusltyn, cussyen, cushion. --- tun, 27, 30. --- of red s::ttin, laid with gold lace, 2. Dogges, 5 (four in this 11agc), 7, 10, 20, --- of Turkey work, 2. 29. A well known support for burning ---of gilded leather, 2. logs of wood ; but sec Andirons. ---waggon, of leather, 3. Dong pottes 9. Among the " Answers to --- for windows, ,·arious described, Berkshire Queries,', in Rowe ::\Iores's 4, 5, 18, 19. They occur i:i all the Collections, 4to. 1 i23, (Ilibl. Top. priucipalrooms. Stowe says," Cushens Brit. No. 16) at p. 56, the Re,·. and window }>illowcs of ,·cl \"Ct and Rich:,.rd Forster, Rector of Shcf damas'ke, &c. ,verc only (half a century ford, in noticing tl1c dialectical words before) used in the houses of the used in the neighbourhood of that cheifc princes and pccrcs of this lande ; locality, has tl1is passage: " Farm tl1ough at this originally made at .Dornick, \\"hich Flaggons of tin, 1. is the Flemish name of Tournay, ----of silver, 26, 33. (Panni Tornacenses, Coles.) They Fornace, of brass, in brewhousc, 29, 34. were aftern-ards made in England: Frontlct, ::<:tvi. for in 1557 an Act \\"as 11asscd " to Fuger sa.tten, 11. Figured or branched continue the :presen-ation nnd good satin. A "jakket of sateyne fugre," making of h:its, dornec'l,:s, nnd co\"'er occurs among Sir John Fastolfo's lets at Norwich, "·bich liavc of late l\·ardrobe, 1459. A material which years been begun to be 11ract.iscd there." by the sumptuary net of 3 Edu·. IY. With a fair da,·ne.r carpet of my own, W3S forbiddt!n to be worn by any Laid cross, for.the more state. person below the rank of a Knight. Beaum. ~ Fietek. 1'..,oble Gent. v. 1. Archreol. xxi. 253. See Bed. Bee Nares's Glossary,_ uncler Darnix and Darnick. Dr. "\Yhitakcr (Cra\"cn, GaUcric, Long, 3, 25, 34. 1812, p. 336) was at a loss to explain Gauntlet, 3. this word, aud he notices that l\Ir. Gentlewomen's Chamber, 5, 11. George Chaln1ers in his Caledonia Gowne of damaskc furred with martyne~, had made an unsuccessful attempt to ::t X."C: iii. do so. Grndlingcs, I 0. Drawing-boxes, 10. Now called drawers. Great Chamber, 4. Drawing chamber, 4. Gylc tubbc, 3. Gyle is the same :is Dresser-hordes, 1. wort; Prompt. Pnrv. Gy le or ncwc ale, Celimn. In an Inventory taken :it llishop's Auckland I-ms, occurs, 1 Ebony box, 30. Gylefate. Ye/fate, hereafter, is the Evidences, trunk of, 3. same ; and the word, as still used in ---- of Faringdon, ib. Shropslaire, occnrs at Ill/it in the Ewer, sih-er, nvii. Glossary puhlishcll in Hnrtshornc's Salo11ia Antiqua, 8\·o. 18-ll, p. 473. Fate (v:it) mt-al, 8. ----- mashin:1:, ~!). Haknay borsc, xxTi. ----- cliec:;r, •I. Sf!c Bouckfatt. lla!l nt ""~cllc:'y 1. At Farringtlon, Fc:ithcr barrclls, 7. 10, I~. --- beds, X;tvii. 3-1. llitn;;ings, xxvii. Fidel tent, 3. llangin~s of gihkd lC'alhcr, 3, 10, 1~. Fihlc stool, see Stool. Hangings of this kind a.re ~till cxi~t }'ire fork, 1, '2i. inti at H:ultlou hall, Dcrhy::;lairc. )_,'ire pykc, IO. Pyke i5 l11c ~:tmc :is pick. llanging-lampl·, with ix c:111,ll,·st?d-:~, J:t'laggo11s of pc\\·trr, 1·!, 2~. 18. .A claaulldicr fl)l" nine c:uullcs. 44 GLOSSARIAL INDEX. Harness, 30. Leather {gilt) cushions, 2, 11 his. Head-pceces, 3. Iron helmets. Leyses, 13. Leyse, lay or lea. Ang. Heare, 1ee Host heare. Sax. ley, grassy ground, or meadow. Heyse or Barton, 9. Linen, 9, 12, 13, 30, 33, 34. Holbeardes, 1. Halberts. Lippe, 8. Prompt. Parvul. leep or bas Hops, e. ket, calatlzus, co1·ois. Horses, 9, 30. Livery horde, 11. Lh-ery, applied to Host heare, and Host kitchen, 8. Ost articles mnde in a quantity, according occurs in the Forme of Cury a.s a to a fi:s:ed pattern, for distribution kiln, nnd it appears in this case to be in the se\"eraJ ap:irtmcnts; see Ba.sou, a malt kiln. Bedstead, CoYerlct, Table, also LiYery Cubbord. Lockeram, 9. A co.irse clotb, from the Joyned stoole, l et passim. A stool German lock--ramn, q. d. thick thread. framed by joinery v.·ork, at first so Long Gallcrie, 3, 25. called in distinction to stools rudely formed from a single block. ---table board,.. 3. )le.It loft, 8 • Malt mill, 29. Karscy, 11. •Kersey: '' cloth wo-ren ~Iatche for shottc, 3, 8. The match was with a sort of rib." Ash's Dic m:ide in the form of a slow-buruing tionary. One of the etymologies sug rope. 'l'he word slzotte is used for gested for the ~ord (in Skinner's the nzen who "·ere armed with muskctts Etymologicon) is course say. The or caliYcrs. French hat"e tl1e word, as cariset. l\Iatt of the Drawing Chamber, 4. This Kirtells of s.:itten, 3..~l"i. sen-ed in lieu of the niodcrn carpet, Kitchin 1, 27. v.·bicb does not occur on any floor, ---- llost, a. but for a table only. Kitcl1in Chamber, 4, 2-l. 1\1:nyclens' Chamber, G, £8. Kyvers, I &c. covers .. l\leal fate (\·at), 3. ?-lease fate, 13. My Ladies Chamber, 5, 10, l\Ierlin cu1,p, 2i (t~o). A merlin was a }.fy Ladies Closet, 30. name for a small kind of hawk; but --- at Astwcll, 30. whether these cups arc conncctcJ Lndie Ilall, 30. with that acceptation of the worJ Larder, Ury, ~, ~8. docs not appear. --- ,rct, ib. 28. l\Iotber-pcarl shell co\·crcd wiLh golJ, ~(j. Leather (gilt) hangings, 3, JO, 12. Sec -----box (the same), 3J. Hanging~. :Moulding boanl,iu the Dakchousc,3, 2!J. GJ .. OSSARIAL INDEX. 45 Mowldes, 3, for casting bullets (qu ?}. arc directed to be provided '• 2 longe )lulling-cup, silver, 27. and 2 square pillo'\\·s, every of them )lusketts, 3. with 2 beeres of reines." Hall speaks l\fusterd mill, 2, 28. or ,v olsey's " pillowe becre or cace Mynsing knyfe, 1, ~7. llincing knife. broudered" carried before him at the ' congress at Guisnes, 15~0. Pistols, x]i. Nagget cu1>p, 32; "my naggct" is/or Placket, 3. Or plackard, a continua- " mine agate.'' tion of the cuirass. Napkyns of diaprc, :u::vi. Plate at Faringdon, 26. Needle-work chairs, 18, 23. - at Astwell, 27. Nightgow~ of datriaske, x.,xiii. - {cupboard), 33. Nurserie, 22. Plate cubborde, 2, 5. Platters, pel\"tcr, 2. Porter's Lodge, 13, 29. Orrisse, ,ee Arras. Posnettes, 27. Small basins. Possctt cup, 27. Palett, the great, L"td. Pov.·dcring tub, 2, 28. Parlor, 2. ----trowe (trougl1), ~. 28. Pasterie howse, g, 28. Pow-ring dishes (pewter), 2G. Peale, iron, 1. Press, 2 !;is, 6, 28. Pecockes, xxxil. Presse, joync, 2-1. Pewter, lZ. Puldrous, 3. Armour for the shoulder Perfuming-pan, 1 ~, 19, 27 his. and uvpcr part of the arm, e11auldron. Pictures in frames, 20. Purslcn dishes, 30. ---fifteen English, hnngd in ta --stuffe, 26. Porcelain. At this bles, 25, 35. period porcelain was nn object of ra _.,.___ t'\\"cuty-eight of Romans nnd rity and value. In Italy, so early ns • Emperors, it,. See Tab1cs. 132-t, were vnscs "<1u~ Porcellanre ---- of Sir Henrie Unton, lxi\". 31. patrioscrrnone nppcll:mtur." In 13,0, Pile, 21. mention is made of vessels of pource Pillow of downe, 5 (twice). binc. The first occurrence I l1n,·c Pillow bearcs, 9, 12, 26, 30, 33. The case found of its introJuctiou into England or a JliUO\V" was terlllcd the here. Tuye is in 158i-8, "·lien, among the Kew d'ortiller, a pillow-bc:1rr,-Cot~r:ixc. Year's Gifts to Queen Eliz=ibcth, the Tile tcrrn is not of frc,p1cnt occurr~ncc. Lord Treasurer DurgbJcy otfL'rcd one 'J.'hey occur, ns here, in }'airs. Thus, porryngcr of ·white ror~clyn gnr in tile Ln"ly :Margaret's Onlu1auccs, ni:ibc Cecill a cup or grene pursselyne. '' Salscrs of pe'\\1:er, 26. Sa~·cers, origi- Nichols's Progresses, ii. 528. In 1598 nally made for salt, Lat. salsaria. Florio, in his Italian Dictionary, Salts, gilt, xnil. sih-er, 3-1. speakcs of Poreelane and Chin 3. cl is hes: - sih·er trencher, 34. see Porcellana. It is probable that at Salte sellers of tin, 1. this period the Italian enamelled ware, Say, 4, 11, 21, 22. .A.. kind of woollen properly called maiolica, or majorica, stuff. passed by the same name of porcefain. School-howse Chamber, 6. Thus l\Iinshew in bis Sp,mish Dic Scollop dish, silver, 27. tionary, 1599, speaks of costly fruit Seats in theileofFaringdonchurch, xxviii. dishes of fine earth painted, ""c.;scls Serces, 2; sercers, 3; searches, 29. A of China mettaU or earth, that is, fine sieve or cullender, from the French dishes painted, such as are brought sas. Our native scribes n1ade en ol the bed, wliicb formerly h~d the early use, as seen on the most ancient more usual name of the apar?Jer, great seals of our Kings. Compare though more recently the tester. It Fouldinge Chair, 24. was sometimes used for the whole Stools, close, 9, 21. bed; as in the -will of Anne Duchess v.·~lnut-tree, 10. See Joyned or Buckingham, 1-180. " To my son stool. of ,viltsbire a spen·er, called a bctl, Storc-bowse, 2, 3. of red Telvct, 11artly goltl. '' 1ts dcri\·a Studie, Sir Henrie Unton's, 3, 2-1. tion is from the French e,1crt1ier, as ---?wlr. Payne's, ib. being originally m:ide of net•\\·ork. Sugar-box, gilt, 26, S7. S1lice box, 22. ---- spoon, ...c, , • Sponge box, 27. Sumpter clothes, 8. The word szmq,ter Spoui pott, sih·er, £6, 27. was a1>plied to pack-horses, or those Spruce, &ee Chest. which carried furniture, &c. on their Stable, 8, 9, 30. backs. At Hengrat"e in 1G03 "°ere Stamell, 3. A coarse kind of reJ, in " two sumpter-clothcs of blewc cloth, ferior to scarlet- Sir Thomas Kytsou and my la.dyes Red-hood, the,fir:it that doth appear am,es embroydcrcd, ,·cry fayer, lyned In itamel. A. Scarlet is too dear. withcan\"as.'' Gage's llengra:ve, p. 3G. Be,, Jonso,i, l/nilerwooda, \"'Ol. -vii. 5-l. Other quotations may be seen in Nares's Glossary. Table, cross-legged, 4. Standdls, 2, 3. --dra,ving, 4, 18. Standish, sih-er, 27. An inksbuld. --folding, 22. Steel glass, 2~, 23, 2G. Probably maJc --joyucd, 3. The word ta!Jle was at Venice. The composition for mak originally npplicd to tl1e slab only: ing steel glasses, of brass, tin, anu Queen Elizahcth•s Artides, 136-1, rc !ih-er , is gh·en ln·. Dr. )l<:rritt iu hi::i c,uir~ "a decent tal,lt>, sf a>z1/i;19 o,i a translation of Xcri's Art of GJ:i:,;s. The fl"amc, for the Communion Table." in,cntion ap1le:1rs to h;ne b\!cn Ita --long, in the hall at Faringtlon, 10. lian. Sometimes a Jlri,lc was t:ikcn in h:n;ng Stillho,\"se, 2;. a Hall T~1Uc of a larg\! ~izc. It is Stillitoric, 2. A still. sbtc1l tLat nt ,.\3twcll, in ~ortli~mp Sti1ls, e7. tonsLirc, (th~ house mcnti:.mc.! ia enc Stockcs, p.1irc of litli.:, in the C:h:1p,·I, ~ of c,ur l:in·ntoric:;, p. :;o,) ,i there was Stools, Tari,ms, ,ll·!=t:rif,1•d, ~. -l, :,, G. I~. forun·rly in the Great lfoll a. t~bfo 30 --- filtlc, of lctl11.:r, ·!, fil·hl n. Pro- foct long, 3 fed LroaLl, a11d 3 inches bably a folding or fc11.l ~Looi, umkr Jt•t·p, ull of one plank of wood." J>cn-ert~cl ~1>clli11:; : uu article of ,·ay llctliau,'s Uarundagc, iv. !JI. GLOSSARIAL INDEX. Table, square, 5. - Boards to form tables, upon movea· --livery, 5. ble legs, or tressels. --round glasse, 18. Probably a Taft"atie, branched, 18. mirror suspended in a frame of wood ; ---changeable, 5. and if so, this is an early instance of Tankerd, gilt, 26, silver, 3·1. the use or such an article of orna Tapestric co\"crlet, 3, 6, 7. See Arras, mental furniture. Dornex, Hangings. --banging, blazed t-,,.ith arms, 18. Tasses, 3. Flaps or armour attached This was a painting of armorial bear to the bottom of the breast-plate. ings, or ~hat is now called a hatch Tcgges, ::di. 9. Palsgrave giYes Tegge ment (atchie,ement), but painted on or pricket, saillant,, which is a young -the more permanent material of wood male deer. In Hampshire tegge is a insteaa of can\"as. sheep of a year old, called also tv.-o Tables of pictures in frames, 13, 25. teth (two teeth, hidens.) In other Framed pictures, generally painted on counties it is termed a hogge. woodo Tester, 6. Tables, paire of, I. Paire of bone ta ---span-ill, 4. bles, 10. Tlfe boards for the game. Testern, 2, 29. or Tables, resembling back-gammon, Theves, 9, 10. Theve or theaue, gi\"'en or· for chess. They were sometimes by Elyot, 1543, as an Esse:t wor Valens, valiance 4, 21, 2~, ~3, '.29. ing-pans of brass, v.·ith ornamental Vambraces, 3. Armour for the arms. lids, and the dates rcspecti\"cly 16~0 Virginalls, 2, 10, 2S. A \·irginal is thus and 1635, are engraved in Shaw's explained by )Ir. Ayrton: "The Specimens of Ancient Furniture, Virginal w-asthatwhichafterwari.ls took Plate LV. the name of Spinnet, and dirft:rcd ,varrener's Chamber, 13. from it only in shape. The Spinnct \\"'ash liouse, 28. was triangular, the Virginal oblong, \Yatcb, little agate, 34. like our small piano-fortes." Ellis' s \V'atcr-bottle, covered with silver and Original Letters, second series, vol. gilt, 26. I. p. 2i2. Aniten1 in Henry Ylllth's \\'."ebnall, 19 liis, 23, 25, 22. Apparently Household Book~ p. 37, describes some inferior cloth, used like green the different kinds of Yirgicals with baize for table-co\"ers and curtains. their l'CSpecth·e prices ; two pair in \\"ell house, 13, 28. a box, with four stops, cost 31. ; two "·ctchet, 5. ""atchet, a blue colour. pair in one coffer, cost 3/. and a little "~heat loft, 8. pair 20,. }.,or fit"e pair, on another oc ""hitcbe, 2, 3, wittche, 29. The same casion 81. 61. Sd,, were paid. Queen word as hutch, under another or Elizabeth's three virginal rlaycrs were thography, from the Anglo-Saxon paid 3011. per annun1, a-piece,. being llwtPcca, a bin or box. 7 nearly double as much as was allowed \\ indow cloathes, 20. to any other J}lUsician. A lady play \nne-cellar, 12, ZT. ing on this instiument is repre~ented ,r ool, xxvii. in the series of care.ls bcautiful!y en graved by Jost Amman ; copied iu Sin ger on Playing Cards, p. 18-l. (Xotcs Yelfate, 13. See Gyle tubbe antea. A to King Henry Ylllth's Household yelfale occurs in Sir John Fastolfe's Book, pp. 359, 3i~.) inventory, 14-59, Arcl1~ol. :x.:ti. 2i7 ; Virrc, 3. Perhaps fir-woou._, I n p. o.,.;, and in a receiJlt for brewing ale, (uot occurs one dozen of firr stooles. a1,parcntly of ,·ery early date) quoted in Strutt1s Borda, ,·ol. ii. p. ,3, fro1n the llS. Harl. 6816, the use 7 " ainscot chamber, 4. of the yecling fatt in the last stage of Wardrobe, 2. New anc.l Olcl ~5. the process is s11ccinlly mentioned. Warmiog-1lan, 10, 2G. Two ""nrm- l1ERKS. ASllll. SOC. JI INDEX OF N.. :\:\IES AND PERSONS. ADAMS, Theophilus, lxvi. Berners, John lord, xxii, x:n:, wvi. Andrewe, Thomas, sen. and jun. lxxxi. Billingsley, Ilridget, Henry, :u. Apleby, sir John, nx~i. Birt or Byrte, Richard, b:xx,·, lx.'tx,·i. Archdekne, see Lercbdekne. Blake, nu. 6. Arundel, Beatrix countess of, x:xi. Bodley, xi-c Us. Ashbery, l.x..'t:!.i. Bolew·ortbie, John, Thomas, ]xx.vi. Ashefyld, Christopher, xniii. Edmond, Boncfaunt, mr. xriii. xniii, llldi. :Michael, lxvi, lxxYii. Bourcl1ier, Jane, )lary, xxx. Arms, Ashley, Robert, lii, hii. nxii. see Berners. Ashworth, doctor, 3-1. Bowles, Diana, Lewis, ~1~m. Askew, Edmond, Richard, xh:. Box, Ed\Yard, Thomas, "-illiam, h:xxii. Asserton, co. "-ilts, h':xri. Besoyls, Beatrix, Geffrey, Thomas, b:xiv. Aston Roant, x..xi bis, xx:::tiii, xii, lxvi, Bray, Edmond, xlv, Xl\"'i. church, xkiii~ Bremorc, :di,. Aston, sir \Yilugl1by, l:txi. !.Iary, sir Brigges, xxxiii. Thomas, h:xiii. Brightwalton, xxiv. Astwell, 27, 30, 47, 48. Brown, Francis, :xi,:, Thomas, i!J. Bro\\"llinge, John, hx.vii, lxxxiv. Badham, Annes, n::,·i. Bruce, of Kinloss, Anne lady, :u.. " Chetwynd, John, Katharine, "-alter, 1. Dudley, arms and quartfrings, xlvii. Chichester, Anne, sir Robert, n::tiii. John, l"iscount Lide nn Faringdon, charities, lxxvi, 1.x:u:. Harper, Rauf, nvi. ---- pasture lands, l~\"i. Harris, John, bu,·. Fermor, l\lary, Richard, :tli:t. Harryson, Alice, Lancelot. Thomasyn, Ferneham, co. Berks, b:a, Ixxxi,lxx."tiii. xix, xx. Fettiplace arms, niii. Alice, xxxiiii. Hastings, Dorothy, sir George, Katha Beatrix, m. Besill, Ellen or Helen, rine, I, h..-u:i. h:u, luxii. J~mes, xxix. Sir Hatford, manor, x."tu·iii, :xli, b:vi,l:s:::uiii, John, mxii. Philip,::c:tix. Rfohard~ xx.~vii; advowson, hvi; extracts from hsx, hnii, lxniii. Sybill, ni. the parish register, bxii. Thomas, :xx.xi, x:i::xiii. ".illiam, :xxi. Hatton, sir Christopher, li, Iii, lh·, bi. Fingest, Bucks, nii. Sir ""'illiam, xuvii, Ii, Iii. Flambards, Essex, :u:. Hawley, mrs. Jane, 33, 3-1. Dorothy,33. Frillford, co. Berks, lxllii. Hayford downes, 10. Fulbrok, manor, :xlii. Hayward, ,Yilliam, x,·iii. Fynch, dame Cecill, sir Thomas, !xvii. Hoby, Cecily, sir Edward, xhiii. Honyshawe, co. DeYon, Jxxvi. Gadley, 1\Iargarct, lui:<. Horne, xxxiii. Garford, co. Det·ks, lxnii. Horsley (\Vest), Surrey, xxii, lx:ni. Gentili, Alberico, b:i. llumfrcys, Laurence, lxi. Gibbes, Anne, 23, 2-1. Lady Anne, 32. Hulcott, mistres, xx.viii. Elizabeth, Frances, 33. Gertrude, Huntingdon, earl of, xlii. Katharine 32, 33. l\fary, 33. Sir Ralph, 32. countess or, ) • Robert, 32. Unton, 32. Hunton, Dr. lxiii. Goodlakc, 'l11omas )lills, hx. Hyde, arms of, :cxiv. Anthony, :it.XIX. Gostwicke, Anne, sir Edward, xlviii. Anne, xxix. Elizabeth, :-t~h-, x.ux. Gray, the lord, X\'iii. Hugl1, xxi..~. John, llt'Jll, X.."ClX. Greene, Alice, ,Ymiam, h::xix. Loviugcote, nix. Oli'rer, XXIV". Greene, Roger, lxxxt"i. Peter, xxix. Thomas, :X:XlX. "ril- Grcgorie, Ilierome, xliv. Henry, " .. jJ. liam, xx.viii, :x.x.ix. l\Iris. 11. liam, 35. Grcville, sir Fulke, lii; )lr. Francis, 11. ltaly, tours of the Untons in, ~:t~\·iii. Grey,· Arthur lord, of \Yiiton, bi. Gwiuoc, Dr. l\IattLew, lxiii. Jenning~, master, b:iii. llalcs, Chri.;tophcr, :en·. Kelhrn.y, Aune, Cecily, sir Robert, lla:u1ey, xii. xx:itiii. llanney (E1.st) xxxiii. Kcrlc, Richnnl, xliv. Harington, Anne larly, John lord, xxxiii. Kuiglstlt'y, Anne, xh-. xhi, xh-iii, bx, 1ir John, lxxx,·ii. bh, hx:U'ii. _Dorothy, xii.~. Eliza- INDEX OF NAMES AND PERSONS. -53 beth, lxv, lxix. llary, ::div, lxv, lxix:. ?tlalvern chase, xliv. Sir Richard, xlii, xh·, xlix, 1, b;:\"iii, ?.Ian chester, Edward earl of, l'tvi. hix. Sir Valentine, xlv, xlvi, :xhiii, liary I., Queen, at \Yinchester, hxix. ilix, hv, h'"i, b:nii-lxx, lnxvii. l\linster Lo\"'ell, x.m, xxxiii bis. Knowles, sir \Yilliam, lxnvii. liylton, xliv. Knyff'~ arms, xx.:fii. Knyvett, Edmund, n.i. Jane, xn. Newington, xix. Norris, sir John, xlu. LmgCord, Oxon, h.:u:iv. Norwich, sir Robert, xxv. Langley, co. Devon, h.xvi. Notynghale, Elene, J obn, x,·iii. La Fere, liii, h·iii. Offchurch parson~e, :x.uiii. Lee, sir Henry, xlii, Iii. Osbaston, :div. Arthur, John, Lu.,:. ·Leicester, earl of, Ii. Owen, dr. George, .xxviii • .Lerchdekne, ::\lichael, b.:tlv. Letcombe Regis, :c:xiv, xx viii. Parry, Thomas, l:u:dv, h.::tx\"i. Lewes, R., B. D. !xiii. Pawlett, John, sir "~illiam, lxxvi. Lily, Edmund, B.D. Ix. Payne, mr. 3, 12. Lisle, sir George, lil:. Penshurst, xxx\"'ii. Litcott, &ee Lytcott. Pimpeloo, Henry, xx\"i. Littlecote, hviii. Pleydall, xli. Eliza.beth, h ..ui. John, Little-worth, titl1cs, h:x. Katharine, London, St. l\lar; Abcburch, xi.~. hni, Inxv. Toby, lxxx, h:x:xiv-v. --- Drapers' Company, x.i:s:. \Villiam, lx..xvii, h .."\:.,iii, b.:xxii, lxxxv. --- St. Lawrence Poultency, xviii, Plokenet alias Yonge, :Margaret, ".il xix 1Ji1. liam, m,. --- Cripplcgate, hermit at, xix. Plomcley, Thomas, xi:<. Longcott, xli, b:x.'\'., lx.xxiii. Poole, lady Frances, 3-1. sir Henry, Lovingcotc, Anne, Thomas, xxix. luxvii. Luftingcotc, John, b.xv. Popley, Anthony, xliv. Luke, Elizabeth, sir Oliver, lxi:c. Sir Port, Dorothy, sir John, 1. Samuel, h:i::t, Ixx. John, lxx. Porter, mr. 7. Lytcott, Christopher, Jane, xliii, l:uxi, Poulton, co. Glouc. l:u:,i. hxxvii. Pratte, E(lmuncl, lxxx,·i. Lyon, mr. 12. Purcfoy, George, lix, lx, h:i.~, hx, bxi, 3-1, 36. :,.rnry, xxxi\·, lxix:. sir l\larkebam, mr. xiii. Henry, b:xi. ?tfarcham, co. Bciks, 1:u.xii. PJc, sir UolJert, lix, 3-1, 3;,. :\lason, \\'illirun, xlh·. I>5got, ltichanl, l. )Ier bury, Charles, IA.ii. INDEX OF NA lf ES AND PERSO~S. Quartermains, arms, .xlvi. Agnes, Rich Skene, """illiam, x,·iii. ard, xx. Smith, Richard, x:s:l:viii. Smythe, Richard, xliv. Radecot manor, hTi, Ixxh-, bxxii, bx:i:iii. Somerset, Anne duchess of, lxx. Ed Ralegb, Sir Carew, Gilbert, ~Iary, \Yal- ward duke of, xxxv. The learning of ter, 33. his daughters, .:cxxv, note. Rayer, Elizabeth, John, lxxii. Southbury in East Hanney, xxxiii. Richards, James, ll:tiii. Thomas, x:x,i. Southebye, John, b:Yi, I, Richard, b:,·i. Rigbere, co. Lane. X\"iii. Stalpitts, ace Shrivenham. Robcrtes, Kyrrell, xix. Thomas, xix 6i1. Stanhope, mr. John, h-i. Robynson, Thomas, ll"\iii. Staunton Harold, lxl"iii. Rooke, ,\.illiam; h:tix. Stedman, Thomas, 35 'bis. Rotcott, see Redcott. Stevens, Edward, 36. Rudham, co. Norr. xviii. Stewarde, mr. 6. Ruffins, lxxxi. Stokenchurch, ni, lxl"i. Russell, Edith, xxi:t. Sir John, xxi:t, Stone, mr. Jolm, author of the Hi~tory nxi. Sir Thomas, xxix. of Faringdon, h-iii. Ryer, John, 1. ,. Stratton, Thomas, 36. Strensham, co. """ore. nix. Sadler, John, xix. Roger, xix Ua. Swallowficld, xuiii. Sculthorp, co. Norr. :uiii, xix. Sydney, sir Henry, xxx\"ii. sir Philip, li. Seymour arms and qu:irterings, xh-ii. lii, Ix, b:i. sir Robert, lvi. Anne (countess of "'\\"arwick), XL'tv. Lady Elizabeth, I. Talbot, Beatri"C lady, ~xi. Seymour of Sudeley, lord, lxxx. Throppe, x."'Cvi, tithes, lxx. SheJlrige, Berk, x.~xi, xxxiii. Thustcn, Peter, xiii. Shefford, 4 ~- Townley, Richard, :niii. Shellingford, manor, xxxiii, xli, lxvi, Tracy, John, lxlli. lxxx\"ii. Trnp1>es, Alice, xi."t. Stev.-::ird, master, Jxiii. Tv.isse, John, Ix.xx. Shilton, manor, lx"ti. Shi11ton, :tlii. Undcrdon, John, h""Xv. Shirley, dame Dorothy, see Unton, bdy Unton, arms granted hy Darker, .u·ii; Dorothy, 34. sir George, hvii, 15, crest, ~xiii, xh·i; stanJanl, ib.; quar . 21, 48. Frances, lx\"ii. !-ir Henry, 3-1. teings, :dvi. mr. Thomas, '?9. sir Tliou1as, 3-1. --- Agnes, x\·iii, hxiii. Sbrh·cnlmm Sta.lpitts, xxi, lxxh·. manor -- Agnes (Dann·r~), wifo of II ugh, and bmulrcd, lx\·i, lxxi\", ct seq. Simeon, Beatrix, Pcrch·~tll, lxxiv. INDEX OF NA:\IES AXD PERSO~S. 55 Unton, Agnes, daughter of Thomas, her Unton, Hugh, citizen of London, his Will, 1563, ~~. will, 1529, xviii. --- Sia ALF.XA~DER, xxvi, xxvii, --- Hugh of London, will, 1562,:xix. nx-xxxiv, b:di, b:x,ii. l"t..~viii. --- Hugh, son ofThos. 1551, xix. --- Alice, w:fe of Hugh. 1529, xix. --- HuGn, gent., and Agnes Dan- --- Alice, w. of Henry, 1470, xviii. vers his wife, x:c. --- Alice, b::tiii. --- HuGH, and Sybell Fettiplace --- Ambrose, and his children, Jxxii. his \\ife, xx. V --- Anne, niece to Thomas, 1551, Henry, son of Sir Ale::c. xniv. xix. --- Humphrey, of Drayton, co. --- Anne (CottysmoreJ, wi(e of Sa.lop, his ,vn1 1589, l:txiii. Thomas, 154~, nix. --- Jasper, xix, xx. ---. Avis, hxii. --- John, son of Ambrose, Ix.xii, A vis, wife of George, lx~iii i w:iii. !14u. or George, ib. --- John, brother to Thomas, 1551, -- 'Bridget, :xx. xix, xx. Cecily (B ulstrode), wife of Sir --- John, son or Henry, 14;0, X\"iii· Alexander, :x:u:~ xx."tiii, h:s:viii. Katharine, b:ui, lxx.xiii. --- D.-\.~E Dono1:HY ("\"roughton) --- l\Iargaret, xviii. aftern'ards SnIRLE'\·, hl"ii-~viii, ------dau. of Ambrose, hxii. Ju, 15. Her ""ill, 31-2. --- Dame l\Iary (Bourchier), wife --- Edith, :txix. of Sir Alexander, :ui. --- Edward, son of Ambrose, ln:ii. --- IIary, dau. of Ambrose, lxxiii. Sin. EDWARD, x.xxiv-:xlviii, --- 1'Iary, wife of ".illinm, lxxiii. lxn, ln..~i. His 'Yill, x:ui."C. --- Paul, bro. to Tbomas, 1551, xix. --- Co1..o~EL EowARD, ::di, xlli- --- Paul, son of Hugh, 156~, xi:s:. 1, ln."ti, 1-tmi. --- Ralph,. son of Ambrose, h:ciii. --- Elizabeth, x,iii. --- Sybell, ni. --- Elizabeth (Croke), xxxiv. --- Thomas, xviii. · -- Elizabeth, v.ifo of Jolin Rayer, --- Thomas, merchant of the staple 1601, b::d. of Calais, his ,~m, J 551, xix. --- Dame Elizabeth (Hyde), .xxiv. -- Thomas, son of Sir Alexander, Her ,vm, 1536, :tX\". will, 1563, xxxiv. -- George, h:xiii. --- Thomas, son of Sir Thomas, --- Henry, Chirographcr of' the xxvii, J1i~ ?.·ill, l 5-12, xx\· iii. King's Ilcncl1, ,... m nod c-pit:iph, X\"ii. --- SIR Tuo:i.rAs, X."t.i-xxv, bxvi. -- S1R IIE~nY, xiii, 1-lx\·ii, --- Thomnsyn, xx. lxsxii, luxviii, l!!, 31,3-1, 39. I --- \Villfam of Drayton, lx:tiii. 56 INDEX OF ,:AllES AXD f'ERSO~S. Vampage, Anne, x:xd, n.x. John, xxx, ,Yickingham, XL"" LONDON: PRINTED BT J. u. ~ICUOJ.~ .A~f> ~o:;, '25, J•AKLI.\MF.:,.;·r STRF.F.T.