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A    HISTORY    OF 


THE     FAMILY     OF     FORTESCUE 


IN    ALL    ITS    BRANCHES. 


BY 


THOMAS    (FORTESCUE)    LORD    C^LERMONT.. 


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SIR    JOHN    FORTESCUE,    KNIGHT, 
HIS     LIFE,     WORKS,     AND     FAMILY     HISTORY. 

IN    TWO    VOLLJMES. 

VOL.  II,  '       ; 


Kortoscu     Ju    Chtoiic- ,  Tulles, 

Beaui-egai.i,    etc    .-Ic.    l.iUJ. 

UuiUaume    Forlebcu,    Killed    al    Agi.iL-ourl    111? 

Kuharl    Fortescu,   Seigneui-    Uu   liu.hboi., 

Pl   de     S1,   Mei-ic  du    Muiit     14.6d.. 

(  See    Collou  M  S  .  TiL  .UAl  l'„l    7(i . 

Deeds    oji    Vellmri     leap,    l.il)    Pajis 

A/mcourt"  iy   De  Bellevai 


Porlescues    ol'    EugLiiid . 


.Itic<iu<-b    Joscjd,    dr    Forlesm 


(  Arm.  Our.     Cdb.u.-1     d-    Til..'    ') 


^irlesru     Seigneur     de     Coiaiiivdle  ,    cU- 
Elecliuu     do     Hayeui. 
(  Nobihaire    de    Norir.andie.  ) 


Tiisu.a     ToiU-icu 

du   Mcii.ii    A.ij.'ot ,  A.I),  1  u;  |.. 

(    Uficds    ,M,    \.-llmu     Im.|.  .   l.ib.  ) 


/ 


CHISWICK     press:      I'RINl  ED     UV     WHITTINGHAM     AND     WII.KINS. 
TOOKS     COURT.     CHAKCERV     LANE. 


CORRIGENDA    TO   VOL.    11. 

Page     20,  line  17,/tfr  "  iperange ''  /I'lVi/ "  iperanze." 

Page     64,  line  4  from  honom,  for  "  Co  the  peerage"  n-aJ  "  in  the  peerage.' 

Page  109,  line  S,/'or  "  appear"  rc\u/  "  appears.  ' 

Page  351,  line  y,/or  "  it  by"  red  J  "  or  by." 

Page  352,  Appendix /cr  "  Chapter  xiii."  niu/  "  Chapter  xiv." 


CONTENTS    OF    THIS    VOLUME. 


Preface       ...... 

List  of  Sheets  of  Pedigrees 

List  of  Illustrations  .... 

CHAP. 

L  The  Fortefcues  of  Winftone 

IL  The  Fortefcues  of  Prefton,  and  of  the  Second  Lin 

in.  The  Fortefcues  of  Spridleftone 

IV.  The  Fortefcues  of  Cookhill  and  Wheatley. 

V.  The  Fortefcues  of  Fallapit,  Second  Line 

VI.  The  Fortefcues  of  Norreis  and  Wood  ;  and  the  Fo 

VII.  The  Fortefcues  of  Caftlehil! 

VIII.  The  Fortefcues  of  Buckland-Filleigh 

IX.  The  Fortefcues  of  Dromilkin  and  Ravenfdale  Park 

X.  The  Fortefcues  of  Punfborne  and  Falkborne 

XI.  The  Fortefcues  of  Salden     . 

XII.  The  Fortefcues  of  Salden  continued 

XIII.  The  Fortefcues  of  Salden  continued 

XIV.  The  Fortefcues  of  Norinandy 

Appendix      ....•• 

Index  ...... 

Supplement  .  .  .  .  • 


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PREFACE. 


^^^HIS  family  hiflory  is  the  relult  of  a  dcfirc  felt  by  the  Author, 
>|,^^  when  colleding  the  Works,  and  examining  the  career  of  Chan- 
(Mm^   cellor  Fortefcue,  to  know  fomething  more   than  what  the   Peer- 

^^^^^^'^i&si:^^^—^  ages  record  of  the  links  which  conneft  him  by  defcent  with 
that  eminent  perion. 

He  had  at  firll  no  intention  to  inquire  into  the  hiltory  of  any  branch  of  the 
Fortefcues,  excepting  that  of  which  the  Chancellor  is  a  dired  anceltor.  In 
fearching,  however,  for  materials  to  carry  this  fcheme  into  effedl,  much  was 
found  which  related  to  other  branches  ot  the  houie ;  leveral  perlons  ot  the 
name  who  occur  in  the  Chronicles  or  Pliftories  ot  England  proving  to  be 
lineal  defcendants,  not  of  the  Chancellor,  but  of  his  brothers  ;  w  hile  others 
were  traced  to  forefathers,  who  formed  part  of  the  common  ftock  at  an 
earlier  period.  The  writer  therefore  having,  as  it  were,  drifted  into  this  more 
general  invefligation,  refolved  to  include  in  his  account  all  that  could  be  d  1- 
covered  relating  to  any  and  evecy  branch  oi'  the  Fortefcue  family,  not  excluding 
thofe  who  remained  in  Normandy  after  the  Conquell  oi  England. 

His  chief  fources  of  information  have  been,  in  the  hrCt  and  principal  place, 


viii  Preface. 

the  Britilh  Mufeum,  where  a  large  part  of  the  genealogic;J  and  biographical 
matter  has  been  drawn  from  the  Herald's  Viiitations,  from  the  "  Inquifitiones 
port  Mortem,"  and  from  colleftions  of  public  and  private  letters. 

The  Record  Office,  whofe  ftores  of  State  Papers  are  now  acccHible  for 
reference  through  the  printed  Calendars,  has  alio  furnillied  many  details  of 
intereft,  as  have  the  Carte  Papers  in  the  Bodleian  L.ibrary  ;  while  for  aftual 
genealogy,  baled  upon  the  records  of  birth,  marriage,  and  death,  he  Pedigrees 
and  extrafts  from  Parifh  Regiflers  in  "  Stemmata  Fortcfcuana,"  drawn  up  in  the 
year  1795  by  Mr.  Benjamin  Incledon,  and  now  belonging  to  Ivarl  Fortclc  le, 
who  kindly  placed  the  MS.  volume  at  the  Author's  difpofal,  has  been  largdy 
ufed,  together  with  the  Wills  at  Doctors'  Commons,  and  the  Funeral  Certificates 

at  the  College  of  Arms. 

In  arrani)ing  the  numerous  items  ot  this  lubjedt,  ipreading,  as  it  does,  over  a 
fpace  of  eight  centuries,  the  Author  has,  among  the  great  mais  ot  what  is  dry 
or  unimportant,  met  not  unfrequently  with  incidents  and  details  iufficient,  when 
read  by  the  light  of  contemporary  hiltory,  io  bring  out  tangibly,  to  his  own 
perception  at  leart,  fomething  of  the  life  and  cbaradter  of  the  perlon  to  w  hom 
they  refer;  and  he  trulls  that  by  putting  thole  incidents  on  record,  and  thus 
fupplying  to  the  dry  bones  of  a  fkeleton  pedigree  the  linews,  tlelh,  and  ipi  it  of 
adors  in  fcenes,  hillorical  or  focial,  of  real  life,  he  may  fucceed  in  unpartii.g  to 
his  "Coulins"  near  and  diftant,  the  only  readers  whicti  a  Work  ot  this  nature 
can  be  expeded  to  attrad,  --fome  of  the  interelt  in  tlie  lubjed  which  he  has 
himfelf  acquired. 

It  has  been  his  delire,  by  tracing  the  various  branches  of  the  Family  to  a 
common  ancelfor,  who  lived  at  the  time  when  the  hillory  of  modern   England 


SHEETS    OF    PEDIGREES    IN    THIS    VOLUME. 


Family  of  Wi.mstone 

Family  ok  Preston 

Family  of  Spridlestone 

Family  of  Cookhill  and  Wheatley 

Family  of  Fallapit,  second  line 

Family  of  Wood,  and  of  Fallapit   first  lin 

Family  of  Castlehill 

Family  of  Buckland-Filleigh 

F"amily  of  Sheebear 

Family  of   Dromiskin 

Family  of  Stephenstown 

Family  of  Whiterath 

Family  of  Punsborne  and  Falkborne  . 

Family  of  Salden 


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DRAWINGS   ON    STONE    AND    WOOD    INSERTED    IN 
THIS   VOLUME. 


Coloured  Sheet  of  Coats  of  Arms 

Signatures  of  Sir  Nicholas  Fort'escue 

Sir  Edmund  Fortescue 

Wear-Giffard 

Old  Castlehill  House 

New  Castlehill  House 

Second  Earl  F'ortescue 

First  Lord  Fortescue  of  Credan 

Buckland-Fh.leigh  Mouse   and  Church 

Right  Hon.  William   F'ortescue 

F"acsimile  of  a  Letter  by  Ale.x.  Fope 


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Drawmo-s  on  Sto?ie  atul  IFootl. 


First  I^ord  Chichester     .  .  .  .  .         •    ,      ■  : 

Banner  of  Sir   Faithful  Fortescue       .  .  .  .      ,■ 

Facsimile  of   a  Letter   by  Sir  Faithful  Fortescue 
'Fhe  Marchioness  of  Lothian,  by  Reynolds,  painted  for  thk  Karl 
Autograph   Receipt   for   Payment  for  the  forfgoinc.  Por-ikait 
The   Karl  of   Clermon't  ..... 

The  Countess  of   Clermont         ..... 

Ravensdale  Park  ...... 

Brasses  in  Falkborne  Church    ..... 

Sir  Adrian  Fortescue  (sitting)  .... 

The  same  (kneeling)       ...... 

The  same  (with  the  Executioner's  Axe  to  his  throa'i) 

Monument  to  Lady  F'ortescue  in   Welford  Church 

S.'VLDEN   House  .  .  .  .  .  .  .         ;  • 

F'.ACsiMiLE  of  Letter  of  Sir  John   Fortescue  of  Saldkn 
Monument  to  Sir  John  F'ortescue  in  Murseley  Church 
Monument  to  Sir  Francis  Fortescue  in  same  Church 
Facsimile  of  first  page  of  Chartrier   de   Richart  Fortescu 

Do.  of    second    page    (to    follow    the    FIRST) 


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Fallapit  House       ..... 

Buckland-Filleigh  Church 

Seal  of  Richart  Fortescu 

Carisbrook.e  Church  .... 

Seal  of  Sir  John  F'ortescue  of  Salden 

Sir  John  Fortescue,  with  Cecil  and  Popham 

Brass  to  Lady  F'ortescue  in  Murseley  Church 

Arms  of  Thomas  F'ortescue 

Seal  of  Jean  F'ortescu,  a.  d.    !37q 

Seal  of  Jean  F'ortescu,  a.  d.   1388 

Seal  of  Guillaume  F'ortescu,  a.  d.   1403 

Seal  of  Pierre  F'ortescu,  a.  ».  1419 

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AN     ACCOUNT    OF    THE     FAMILY 
OF    FORTESCUE. 


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Chap.   I. 


'J7if  Fortejcues  of  U'mjione. 

fiHl",  family  of  l<ortefcue,  like  many  others  of  our  ancient  lioufes,  claims  to 
have  fprung  from  Normandy,  and  to  liave  been  planted  in  England  hy  a 
companion  or  follower  of  William  the  Conqueror. 
(@|c^  1  he  venerable  and  almoft  uniform  tradition  relating  to  its  origin  and 

4^^§i'k^"^^Si^S^  name  is  as  follows:  —  Sir  Richard  le  Fort,  a  very  (Irong  man,  a  Norman 
knight,  and  Cupbearer'  to  the  Duke  of  Normandy,  landed  in  England  with  his  mafter  in  the 
year  1066,  and  fighting  in  the  great  battle  of  Haftings,  faved  the  Duke,  who  had  three 
horfes  killed  under  him,  from  fome  great  peril,  proteifting  him  with  his  fhicld  from  the  blows 
of  an  afHiilant.  In  allufion  to  this  deed  of  valour,  Richard,  before  named  Le  Fort,  under 
which  name,  as  b'ort  or  Forz,  he  appears  in  Gratton's  and  I  lolinflied's  copies  of  the 
Rolls  of  Battle  Abbey,''  was  thenceforward  known  as  "  Richard  le  Fort-Efcu,"  or  the  Strong 
Shield,  "which  furname,"  fays  llolinflied,  "is  deduced  from  the  ftrength  of  his  fhield,' 
whereof  that  familic  had  firft  originall." 

Afterwards,  when  the  n{\i  of  mottoes  was  introduced,  his  delcendants  chofe  one  with 
diftindl  reference  to  the  fime  event --"  b'orte  fcutum  falus  Ducum,"  that  is  to  fiy,  "a 
ftrong  fhield  the  fafety  of  leaders." 

The  tradition  further  fays  that,  after  the  Conqueft,  Sir  Richard  Fortefcu  returned  to 


'  See  Brown  Willis  on  Salden  IIouCi-.  in  Buck's  Records,  1854,  vol.  i. 

'■'  Grafton,  ii.  159.  '  Ilol.,  lii.  4:8. 


4  Faintly  of  lFi;nJ}o?ie. 

Normandy,  where  he  founded  a  flourifliing  family,  leaving  behind  in  Enghind  his  fon,  Si- 
Adam,  who  alfo  had  fought  at  Mailings,  and  who  was  the  anceftor  of  all  the  Englifh 
Fortefcues.  This  Sir  Adam  received,  we  are  told,  grants  of  lands  in  Devonfhire  and  other 
counties,  and  was  feared  at  Wymondeftone  or  Wimllon,  in  the  parilli  of  Modbury  and 
hundred  of  Ermyngton,  in  South  Devon,  where  he  was  in  ckie  time  fucceeded  by  his  fon, 
alfo  named  Adam,  who  was  followed  by  his  fm,  a  third  Adam,  who  was  the  father 
of  William,'  who  had  ilfue  three  fons,  namely,  Sir  John,  the  eldelt,  Sir  Richard,  and  Sir 
Nicholas,  the  fecond  and  third,  which  two  younger  fons  were  Knights  of  St.  John  of 
Jerufilem,  and  went  to  the  Crufades  with  Richard  Cceur  de  Lion.  Here  we  beain  to  leave 
the  period  of  tradition,  and  are  henceforth  alliited  by  contemporary  documents,  the  earlieft 
being  the  record  of  an  Ailize  de  Morte  d'Anceilre  of  the  year  1199,  '"  which  the  aforefaid 
Richard  Fortefcue,  with  William  Ballard  and  others,  are  ordered  to  be  ati.iched  for  non^ 
appearance.' 

It  can  hardly  be  faid  that  thefe  pre-hiiforic  rccolle^ftions  have  itrained  our  power  •  of 
belief  by  any  very  improbable  ilory.  There  is  nothing  more  likely  than  that  the  ancelfor  of 
Sir  John  Fortefcue,  who,  as  we  fhall  fee,  was  feated  at  Wimftone  in  King  John's  reign,  ind 
whofe  name  Ihows  his  Norman  extraction,  had  come  over  with  the  Conqueror's  aimy 
130  years  before,  had  fought  in  the  great  battle,  and,  gaining  by  his  acls  an  hont  un  ble 
furname,  had,  in  the  general  contifcation  and  transfer  of  land  which  enfued,  acquired  in  the 
Weft  of  England  fome  fettlement,  which  he  left  to  his  defcendants.  More  doubtful, 
perhaps,  is  the  perfect  correftnefs  of  the  names,  and  the  order  in  which  the  eftates  v  ere 
handed  down. 

I  am  alfo  inclined  to  confider  the  name  of  Le  Fort  rather  as  that  of  a  funily  thai  a;  an 
aftual  cognomen  given  to  the  aforefaid  Richard  on  account  of  his  extraordinary  powers. 
Thofe  who  excel  in  ftrength  are  too  common  in  all  large  bodies  of  men  to  be  thus  djillin- 
guiftied,  unlels  their  performances  are  fomething  marvellous.  He  probably  was  a  foidier, 
belonging  to  one  of  the  families  of  Le  Fort  or  Le  Forte,  well  known  from  early  times,'  near 
and  within  the  Cotentin,  that  cradle  of  iVnglo-Norman  houfes,  where  the  I-'ortefcues 
flouriflied  in  many  branches  until  the  laft  century. 

We  now  proceed  with  Sir  John  b'ortefcue  of  Wimftone,  the  eldefl:  fon  of  the  laft  Adam 
Fortefcue. 

In  the  tenth  year  ot  King  John,  a.d.  1209,  a  charter  was  obtained  ly  him  from 
that  king,  granting,  or  confirming  in  his  polTefliun,  the  lands  of  \\'inillone.''  This  deed 
was  known  to  Sir  William  Pole,  the  great  antiquarian  and  genealogift  of  Devonlliire,  who, 
in  the  year  1616,  included  it  in  a  collection,  which  he  calls  his  "  Great  Volume  of  Charters  ;" 


Scu  Fcdigic-e  in  College  of  .\rinb.  '^  Paljjrave's  Roluli  Curire  Reikis,  vol.  ii.  \>. 

•'  I'lincc,  p.  638,  aiul  Grugai'b  MS.  LcIIlis. 


Family  of  JVhnfloiie.  5 

"a  vaft  manufcript  volume,"  fiiys  Prince,  "as  big  as  a  Church  Bible."  Lord  l^'ortefcue  of 
Credan  alfo  had  a  copy  of  it.  It  began  thus:  — "  Kex  Johamiis,  jicr  literas  fuas  patcntes, 
anno  decinio  regni  fui  conceflct  Johanni  bortefcu  Wimondcftoii  in  Com.  l^cvon."  '  This 
Sir  John  I^'ortefcue,  who  was  a  commander  in  the  army  raifed  by  Lord  William  de  Brewer 
againfl:  the  rebellious  Devonlliire  barons  in  the  eighteenth  year  of  King  John,  is  fiid  to  have 
received  from  that  king,  in  reward  ot  his  iervices,  feveral  manors,  lands,  privileges,  and 
iionours." 

Wimftone,  the  firft  feat  of  the  Fortefcues  in  England,  remained  in  the  family  until  the  time 
of  Oueen  Elizabeth.^  Weftcote,  in  his  View  of  Devonlliire,  writing  before  ibcy,  thus 
treats  of  it: — "  It  were  blameworthy  to  leave  Wimpfton,  alias  Wymondfliam,  wliitli  hath 
bred  fo  many  worthy  perfonages,  unremembered.  VVimpfton,  the  fn-ll:  feat  of  the  clarous 
name  of  Kortefcue  in  this  kingdom  (which  name,  faith  Mr.  HoUenflied,  is  deduced  from  :he 
rtrength  of  their  fhield,  wherot  it  took  name  ;  as  if  you  woidd  lay  (that  I  might  explain  it), 
'  forte  fcutum  falus  ducimi,'  his  po(y). 

"  There  have  been  many  famous  antl  excellent  men  of  this  flirj^e,  both  in  arms  and  feat 
of  juftice,  and  feparated  into  divers  places  in  this  county  and  ellewhere.  In  moll:  of  them 
they  flourifh  in  this  age,  as  Wear-Giffiird,  Inllegh,  Buckland-Fillcgh,  i<'allopit.  Wood, 
Spurlellon,  Preilon,  ami  other.      I  will  enlarge  no  farther — VVimplloti  is  lately  alienated." 

John  Kortefcue  was  fucceeded  by  his  fon,  Sir  Richaid,'  whom  Vv'e  find  granting  lands 
called  Stoliford  to  Walter  Kaber  of  Modbury,  in  Devon.  To  him  fucceeded  Adam,  who 
was  alive  in  the  year  1302  ;  for  it  was  theii  ilated  that  he  held  W^ymondlfon  by  one  knight's 
fee,  of  the  honor  of  Tremeton,  in  Cornwall."  He  was  followed  by  his  ion,  alfo  y\.dam,  who, 
in  the  following  deed,  itylcs  himfelf  the  fon  of  Adam  b'ortefcue  : — "  Sciant  onmes,  l\:c.  .^c. 
Ego  Adam  filius  Ada;  Fortefcue,  dedi  Henrico  de  Lopperigge  feptem  lolidos  annul  redditus 
quos  Richardus  filius  Philippi  Gretun  folvere  folebat  pro  tenemento  fuo  in  Wymondilon, 
&c.  &c.  Lliis  Tellibus,  Domino  Andrea  Trelofk,  milite,  Petro  de  Prideaux,  Thoma  Boys 
de  Hele,  et  aliis. 

"  Dat'  die  Veneris  prox'  poll:  feilum  Sanc'ti  Ambrodi,"  anno  regni  Regis  Edwardi,  filii 
Regis  Henrici,  tricefimo."' 

To  this  deed  an  ova!  feal  is  affixed,  wherein  was  the  badge  of  a  flar,  and  round  the  leal 
"  Sigillum  Ada;  Fortefcu."'' 

To  him  a  third  Adam  was  fon  and  heir,  and  fucceeded  his  father.  This  lalt  Ad.im 
married  Anne,  daughter  and  co-heir  to  William  Delaport  of  Old  Port,  in  Devonlhire  (the 


'  Prince,  p.  383.  "  I.oiJt;c,  Pooiago  ot"  lulaml,  vol.iii.  341. 

■'  Weftcote's  Devon,  Exeter,  1845,  p.  394.  *  Nuliiia'  ami  rr(liL;ri.is. 

^  Pole,  MS.  Charters,  p.  428,  in  Collins.  ''  Al'iil  41I1,  St.  Anibiolc's  Day. 

'  Not.  and  Ped.  "*  Collins,  in.  33O. 


6  Family  of  U^iniflone. 

ancient  manfion  of  which  family  flill  exifts,  though  now  a  farm-houfe),'  by  whom  he  h:H 
ifTue  three  fons,  WilHani,  Richard,  and  Nichohis. 

William,  the  eldcft  fon,  fucceeded  ;  he  married  Alice,  daughter  of  Walter  Strechleigh  ; 
he  inherited  through  his  motlier,  at  the  death  ot  her  father,  William  Delaport  above  named, 
and  who  was  flill  alive  in  IJ42,  lands  in  the  parifli  of  Holbeton,-  in  South  Devon.  In  the 
nineteenth  year  ot  King  Edward  III.,  a.  d.  1346,  at  the  making  that  king's  eldeft  fon,  the 
Black  ]''rince,  a  knight,  William  de  I'ortefcu  paid  the  ufual  contribution  for  one  knight's 
fee  in  Wymondflon,  which  Adam  de  Kortcfcu  lield  of  'I'remeton.' 

In  the  twenty-eighth  of  E.dward  III.  (a.  d.  1354)  he  is  vvitnefs  to  a  deed  of  Walter 
de  Strechleigh,  who  thereby  enfeoffed  his  lands  in  Strechleigh,  Forfm,  Cokefland,  Broke, 
Dunftan,  and  Tamerton  on  his  daughter,  the  wife  of  the  faid  William  l''ort';fcu.* 

In  1360,'^  he,  with  Ivobert  de  Henton,  has  a  grant  from  Richard  M:  uldit,  commonly 
called  Somairter,  of  lands  and  tenements  in  Old  Port  and  Paynlfon,  dated  at  Old  Port  on  the 
Monday  before  the  Feaff  of  St.  Andrew,  34  Kdward  III. 

This  William,"  with  his  brother,  Nicholas  Kortefcu,  and  Sir  Waiter  Bluet,  granted, 
by  deed  dated  at  Orchefton,  in  the  forty-third  Edward  III.  (  a.  d.  1369),  to  Sir  fohn 
Prideaux  all  their  rights  in  the  manors  of  Orcheflon,  North  Allington,  ionie  in  Tenhed   &c. 

William  de  Fortefcu  was  fucceeded  by  William,  his  fon  by  Alice  Strechleigh,  an  1  1  e,  in 
his  mother's  right,  received,  in  the  year  1375,  from  William  Coffin,  a  grant  in  reverlijn  after 
the  death  of  his  grandfather,  Walter  de  Strechleigh,  of  all  William  Coffin's  lands  in  Strech- 
leigh, Forfui,  Cokefland,  Brooke,  Brinton,   Tamerton,  and  Donflan,  &c.  &c.' 

In  the  next  yeai-  (1376),'*  he,  with  Thomas  Champernoun  and  Walter  Strechleigh,  !;rant 
to  William  Yurie,  Vicar  of  Yalkhampton,  a  yearly  rent  of  40/.,  to  be  paid  out  )t  their 
lands.      To  this  deed  the  feal  of  the  Fortefcue  family  is  annexed. 

In  January,  1378,''  the  firlt  year  of  Richard  II.,  William  Forteft:u  grants  to  SiriFhilip 
Courtenay  and  Sir  Peter  Courtenay  all  his  lands  and  tenements  in  Old  Port  and  Pa\  nfton, 
and  in  the  next  year'"  he,  jointly  with  the  two  knights  juft  named,  had  a  gram  from 
Richard  Mauldit,  or  Somailler,  of  laiuls  in  Smythellon,  Wimpeli,  and   I'hurveton. 

This  William  was  alive  in  the  end  of  the  year  1394.  He  was  fucceeded  by  his  fon 
William,  who  had  married,  during  his  father's  lifetime,  Elizabeth  Beauchamp,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Beauchamp  of  Ryme,  in  Dorfetfhire,  great-grandfoii  of  Robert  dc  Bello  Campo  or 
Beauchamp,  Baron  of  Hatch  in  Somerfet."  She  afterwards  became  a  co-h-irels  with  her 
filler  Joan,  wife  of  Sir  Robert  Chalons,  to  her  brother,  Thomas  Beauchamp  t  f  Ryme,  who 
died  without  illue. 


1   Collins,  iii.  336,  and  Nol;tia>.  ''  Nofitia'  an.l  IV.ligriHs.  '  Collins,  noI.  iii.  336. 

•*   lb.,  from  Pole,  p.  215.  '-  Notilui'  and  l\d.  ''  Nol.  and  I'cd. 

'  Not.  and  Pod.  "   Not.  and  l\d.  "  Not.  and  IVd. 

'"  Collins,  iii.  337.  "   Pfd.  in  Stcmm.  Fort.  , 


Family  of  JFimflojie.  7 

She  was  the  widow,  without  children,  of  Richard  Branfcomb.'  There  was  an  anicnment 
of  dower,  dated  the  Tuefday  after  the  l-'eall;  of  St.  Martin,  i8  Richanl  II.,  a.  u.  1394, 
by  John  Martyn,  probably  a  truftee,  to  William  Fortefcue  the  younger,  and  Elizabeth  his 
wife,  over  all  the  lands  in  Over-Aller,  which  were  the  property  of  the  aforefaid  Richard 
Branfcomb.  This  aflignment  was  fealed  with  the  Fortefcue  arms,  with  a  crefcent  for 
difference. 

In  the  year  1406,  being  the  eighth  year  of  King  Henry  IV.,  William  Fortefcue  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife  left  their  manor  of  Eikxot,  *'juxta  Otcry  beatx'  Maria',"  to  John  Asfhe 
and  his  wife  for  their  lives." 

I  find  in  1  Jutchins'  Flilfory  of  DorfetlFire  the  following  particulars  of  the  inheritance  of 
Elizabeth  and  Joan  Beauchamp  :  — 

"  Ryme  Intrinfeca. — I'his  little  Vill  is  fituated  on  the  borders  of  the  co.  of  Somer(:t. 
It  was  the  feat  of  Sir  Humphrey  Beauchamp,  fecond  fon  of  Robert  de  Bello  Campo,  Baion 
of  Hatch,  in  Somerfetfhire,  whofe  fon.  Sir  John,  by  the  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Roger 
Novant,  had  ifllie  Sir  John  BeaLichamp  of  liyme,  father  of  Thomas,  who  died  iifuelefs, 
leaving  for  his  heirs  his  fillers,  wedded  to  Sir  Robert  Challuns  antl  John  (William)  Fortefcue. 
j  The  Fortefcues  do  not  feeni  to  have  polfeired  this  manor  long.  William  Fortefcue  was 
Lord  of  Wimpltone,  in  Devon."  ' 

The  children  by  this  marriage  were  two  fons,  William  and  John. 

The  family  eftates  appear  by  this  time  to  have  grown  to  a  confiderable  cvtcr.t,  iiicreafed 
from  time  to  time  by  feveral  marriages  with  heireffes.  From  the  foregoing  account  of 
grants  and  portions,  it  may  be  gatliered  that  this  William  of  Wympilon,  or  Wmillone^ 
poffeffed,  befides  that  eftate,  lands  in  Flolberton,  Strechleigh,  Forfm,  Cokclland,  ISruke, 
Donftan,  Tamerton,  Smythefton,  Wimpell,  Thurveton,  and  L'.fiecot,  all  of  them,  I  believe, 
in  South  Devon;  befides  the  manor  of  Ryme,  in  Dorfet,  inherited  from  the  Beauchamps. 
Upon  his  death  the  firlf:  offset  from  the  main  trunk  of  the  tree  of  defcent  occurs;  the 
eldeft  fon,  William,  fucceeding  at  Wimilone,  and,  as  we  fliall  prefently  fee,  becoming  the 
origin  of  feveral  branches  of  Fortefcues;  while  the  fecond  fon,  John,  although  he  inherited 
but  a  fmall  portion  of  the  paternal  effates,  was,  through  his  three  fons,  the  fource  whence 
at  leaft  as  many  confiderable  houfes  fprang. 

We  proceed  with  the  defcent  of  the  elder  line  of  Wimllone. 

William  Fortefcue,  the  eldell  fon  of  his  father  William,  by  Elizabeth  Beauchamp,  w:.s 
married,  about  the  year  1394,  to  Mabel,  daughter  and  heir  of  John  Falwell,  or  Fowcll,  ai  d 
was  fucceeded  by  his  fon  John,'  who  appears  to  have  been  returned  to  Parliament  as  a  burgcfs^ 
for  the  borough  of  Taviltock,  in  the  2nd  of  Henry  VI.,  and   again  in  the  following  year, 

'   Not.  and  Fed.,  and  Collins,  iii.  337.  "  Not.  and  IVd. 

3  llutchins'  Doilct,  iv.  2y5.  '   \Vdli»,  Not.  Par. 


8  Family  of  JVunjlom. 

and  in  the  4th  of  1  Icnry  VI.  he  fat  for  7'otnels  in  tlic  J'arhament  held  at  Leicefter,  and 
for  Plymton  \\\  tliat  held  Ijy  the  fime  king  at  Wcilniiiiller,  in  the  eighth  year  of  hi' 
reign.  He  married,  beiore  the  year  1450,  Joan,  daughter  and  heir  to  John  Prutfton, 
Frutefton,  or  I'lx-llon,  of  I'rutefton,  in  the  parifli  of  Newton  h'errers,  a  few  miles  foiith  of 
Plymton.  Me  was  the  lixtli  in  t^lefcent  from  VViHiam  de  [-"ruteifon,  who  was  feated  there  in 
the  time  of  P.dward  1. 

John  I'ortefene,  of  Wimrtone,  was  living  in  the  year  1461,  in  which  year  wc  find  liim 
witnefs  to  a  (.leed.  J  !e  died  before  his  wife.  At  the  death  of  the  hitter,  on  the  23rd  of 
May,  1501,  an  inquifition  poit  mortem  was  held  at  l''.rmyngton,  from  which  it  appear^; 
that  at  lier  death,  Joan  (de  Prutell:on)  was  feized  of  lands  in  Ermyngton,  Werthele,  Burra- 
ton,  and  Hef^brd,  to  which  her  eldeff  fon,  Jolm  h'ortefcue,  of  Wimftcae,  aged,  at  hi 
mother's  death,  more  than  iifty  years,  was  heir;  and  that  her  fecond  Ion,  V''illiam,  was  then 
alive.        This  iecond  fon    inherited  the  Prutell;on  elfate. 

There  was  a  third  fm  of  John  Fortefcue  by  Joan  de  Prutelfon,  named,  hke  h.s  i  Ider 
brother,  John,  according  to  a  pradice  not  uncommon  at  that  period,  but  which  mulf  lave 
been  moll  inconvenient.  He  inherited  an  eltate  at  Spridlefton,  or  Spirlfton,  in  the  pn-ilti  of 
Brixton,  in  South  Devon,  which  remained  with  his  poiferity  until  the  beginning  of  the 
prefent  century. 

John,  the  eldeif  fan  of  John  and  Joan,  fucceeded  at  Wimflone.  He  married  ilabella, 
daughter  of  Tliomas  Gibbs,  of  P'erriton,  or  benton  ;  and  tlied  m  1519,  aged  fixty  nine 
years,  feized  of  the  manor  of  Fortefcue,  alias  Wimflone,  and  ot  lamls  in  Stancomb,  Higher 
Falewyll,  Lower  b'alewyll,  Staverton,  Derlington,  Harbertijii,  'I'atcton,  CJttery  St.  l\  ary, 
Ermyngton,  Plympton,  lv'c,  leaving  iilue  two  fons,  Thomas,  iiis  heir,  and  John;  and  two 
daughters;  Elizabeth,  (marrieil  three  times,  ill,  to  Thomas  Cotterell,  of  Wafl-ibourne  ; 
2ndly,  to  John  Prideaux,  of  Orcharden  ;  and,  jrdly,  to  Richard  Troublefield) ;  and  a 
fecond  daughter,  Margaret.  'Phe  eklell  fon,  I'homas,  was  horn  .^.u.  T490,  being  twenty- 
nine  years  old  at  his  fither's  death.  Ide  married  Moience,  daughter  and  heir  ot  John 
Bountle,  of  Combraleigh,  and  one  of  the  heirs  of  —  Denys,  by  whom  llie  obtained  the  i|ianors 
of  Alfton  and  Sutton,  in  Somerfetfliire.  'Pliomas  b'ortcfcue  died  1554,  leaving  three  fons 
and  four  daughters  ;  i  il,  Thomas,  his  heir  ;  and,  William,  llyled  of  Moreleigh,  who  iharried 
Catherine,  daughter  of  John  WaKh  ;  jrd,  I  ienry,  who  died  December  i,  1587,  leaving 
a  fon,  Thomas,  aged  twenty-two  at  his  father's  death.  The  four  daughters  were,  ill, 
Aquila,  married  to  Robert  Afldord,  of  Wonnel  ;  dnd,  b'.h/abeth,  to  Jolm  Barnhoule, 
of  Kingfton  ;  jrd,  Jfabella,  to  Anthony  Honichurch  ;  4th,  Joanna,  to  \,illiam  Hele, 
of  Cornwood.' 


'   The    authoriUfS   t'ur    llu;    ll.ilniunt^   w\   this    ij;it;L-    ,ii.--    vanouj.    hiquilitioiir!,    I'ult    .M^.H^in,    iIk-    Sliinm.itu 
Fortelcuaua,  and  PoIl-';.  Collections. 


r. 


FAMILY    OF    WIMPSTONE,  1066  to   1631. 

Sir  Richard  Le  Fort,  temp.  William  the  Conqueror. 

I 
Sir  Adam  Fortescue  of  Wimpdone. 

I 
Ai.am. 

I 
Adam. 

I 

'     William. 
<i)SiB  JoiiNof  VVimpftonc,  tump.  Kichaud  I.        (2)  Sin'KicuAnu,  Kat.  of  St.  John,  living  a.  d.  1 199.         (3)  Siii  Nicholas,  Kt.  of  St.  John. 
t  .    Sir  Richard. 

I  '  •.  1  - 

Adam  (living  A.  D.  1302.) 

■  I 

Adam. 

I 
Adam=pAnne,  dau.  and  co-heircfs  of  William  de  la  Port.  , 


1. 


(I)  William  (living  a.  d.  i36o.)=pANNE,  dau.  of  Walter  Stbechleigh.  (2)  Richard.  (3)  Nichola 


William  (living  I3q4).= 


William  (living  i4o6).=j=Elizadetii,  dau.  of  Sir  John  Beauchamp  of  Ryme,  Dorfet. 


(1)  William  of  =^Mabf.l,  dau.  and  lieirefs  of         (2)  Sin  John,  Govtrnor  of  Meaux=j=ELEANOR,   dau.  and  heirefs   of 
Wimpftone.  John  Falwell  or  I<"owell.  in  I'Vance,  a.d.  1420.  |  William  Norreis,  of  Norreis. 


John  of  Wimpftone=j=j0AN,  dau.  and  heirefs  of  John  Pruteston,  See   the   Pedigrees  of  Wood,  Fnllapit, 

(living  1461.)  or  Preston.     She  died  May  23,  1  joi.  Filleigh,  Punjborne,  yc.  fjc. 

r        "  r      '  I 

(1)   John  of  WiTnp-=pIsABELLA,  dau.  of         (2)  William  ol=rELizALi;Tii,  dau.  and  co-  (3)  John  'ofSpridle-=pALiCE,  dan',  of 

(lone;  (ol).  1519.)  Thomas  Giuus  of         Prutefton,     oh.     hcirels     of    Richard  (lone.        .  John     Cook- 

Fenton.  1520.  Champernoun.  .     worthy. 


!l)  THOMASyFLORENCE,  d.  and       (2)  John.       (i)Joan. — i(l.   Thomas — 2nd,    John— 3rd,     Richard        (2)Mar- 
ob.  cir.  heirefs    of    John  Cotterel  of     PniDEAUxof    Troubleeield.        caret. 


BoNVILLEofCo 

berleigh. 


Wa(hbourne.     Oicharden. 


See  Prejion       See  Spridle 
Pedi^rree.  Jlone   Pedi 

grec. 


(I)  THOMASy Cicely,  d.       (2)  William— Catherine,       (3)  Henry  (of^JoAN.       ( l)Jo.AN,mar.       (2)Elizabeth,       (3)    Agnes       (5)IsABELmar. 
i,.rf      Wimp-     of  Thomas       of    More-         d.  of  John       Wimpftone,  af-  WalterHele       mar.    John  mar.RoGER       Anthony  Ho- 


of Thomas       of    Mo 
Strode.  leigh. 


d.  of  John       Wimpftone,  af- 
Walsh.  ter     his     elder 

brother),       oh. 

1587- 


WalterHele       mar.    John  mar. Roger 

of    Heie       in       Barnhouse  of       Aysford  of 
Comwood,  (or'      Kingflon.  Womwcll. 

William 
Hele). 


Joan.=F.dmonu  Babington  of  Wyke,  Worr;.  (lerfhii 

r 


Thomas,  ob.  i6oo.=p  . 


Family  of  lFi?nJlu?ie.  ■  g 

Thomas,  the  eldeft  fon,  fucceeded  at  Wimftone  on  the  death  of  his  father,  in  1554; 
he  married  Cicely,  daughter  of  Richard  Strode,  of  Newnham,  in  Devon,  by  whom  he 
had  iifue  an  only  daughter,  Joan,  married  to  Edmond  Babington,  of  Wyke,  in  Worcef- 
terfhire. 

His  fuccefTor  at  Wimftone  was  his  third  brother,  Henry,  who  died  December  i,  1587. 
He,  by  his  will,  dated  4th  AugLift,  1585,  defires  to  be  buried  with  his  anceftors,  within  the 
parifh  of  Modbury,  and  directs  that  his  "  wife  Joan  may  dwell  at  Wimftone,  or  at  my 
houfc  at  Kingfton."  Henry  was  fucceeded  by  his  fon  Thomas,  who  was  aged  twenty-two 
years  at  his  father's  death,  and  had  the  manor  of  "  Wymondeftiam,"  alias  F'ortefcue.  He 
died,  aged  thirty-five  years,  on  the  9th  of  March,  1600,  at  his  feat  at  Wimftone,  and  was 
fucceeded  by  his  fon,  Edmond,  born  in  1582;  of  whom  we  learu  from  the  probate  of  his  will, 
iti  l6j2,  that  he  died  in  parts  beyond  the  fca.  He  is  ftylL\l  in  that  document,  Edward 
F-'ortcfcue,  of  Wymftone.  He  left  a  fon,  John,  to  whom  adminiftration  was  gr  mted. 
Beyond  this  John  there  is  no  record  of  any  male  defcendant  of  the  Fortefcues  of  \\  ymp- 
fton.  The  manor  was  probably  fold  by  him,  if  not  by  his  father — moft  likely  by  the 
latter,  judging  from  the  language  of  Pole  and  Weftcote.  This  laft,  writing  about  1630, 
fays:  "  Wimpfton  is  totally  alienated;"  and  Sir  William  Pole,  who  died  in  1635,  writes  : 
"  This  auncient  lynage,  contynewed  from  the  raigne  of  King  John  unto  thefe  late  tymes  at 
Wymonfton  (out  of  which  all  the  Fortefcues  of  England  are  ifl'ued),  is  nowe  utterly  wafted, 
and  the  land  of  Wymfton  occupied  by  Mr.  Arthur  Srrobridge,  who  nowe  dwelleth  at 
Wymfton.'" 

Wimftone  parted  to  the  family  of  Champcrnoun  ;  thence  to  that  of  Ourry,  which  took 
the  name  of  Treby  ;  and  in  Lyfons'  time  (1822),  it  belonged  to  W.  L.  Prcttyjohn,  Efq., 
who  had  built  a  houfe  on  the  eftate.^ 

There  is  no  trace  of  the  defcent  of  any  of  the  numerous  denominations  of  landed 
cftates  which  were  found  to  belong  to  John  Fortefcue  of  Wimftone  in  15  19.  Some  were 
fold,  and,  poflibly,  others  went,  on  the  failure  of  male  heirs,  to  daughters.  Of  this,  how- 
ever, 1  have  not  found  any  notice. 


'  I'oL-  would  not  admit  anything  k-ft  formal  than  a   "charter"   as   evidence   of  pofsellion.      He    ignored    all 
tradition,  and  conlequently  that  which  gave  Wimilone  to  the  Forteicues  at  the  Conqueli. 
■'  I-'or  the  foregoing  particulars,  fee  the  Inquifitiones  Port  Mortem,  and  \\'il!s. 


10  Families  of  Prejion  and  Wood. 

Chap.  II. 
The  Forte/cues  of  Preftoii,  and  of  the  Second  Line  of  JFood. 

|N  the  difperfion  of  the  landed  eftates  of  the  elder  Wimftone  line,  and  the 
apparent  failure  of  male  reprefentatives,  the  pofterity  of  William  Fortefcue  of 
^^^^M  Wimftone  by  Ifabella  Falwell,  through  their  fecond  fon,  William  of  Prutefton, 
became  the  fenior  branch  of  the  family. 

This  William  of  Prutefton  or  Prefton  married  Elizabeth  Champernoun,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Richard  Champernoun,  of  Inworthy/  in  Cornwall,  by  whom  he  obtained  property 
in  the  parifh  of  Harecomb,  in  Devon,  as  well  as  a  third  of  the  manors  of  Innefwicke, 
Tregemare,  and  Alett,  and  other  lands  in  Cornwall.  He  died  in  1520.  ,  His  will,  dated 
April  4th,  1518,  being  the  earlieft  Fortefcue  will  extant,  fo  far,  at  leaft,  as  I  have  been  able 
to  afcertain,  is  here  printed:  — 

"In  dei  nomine  Amen,  vicefimo  quarto  die  menfis  Aprilis,  anno  dni  Mill'imo  quingmte  ilmo 
xviij"  Ego  Willielmus  Fortefcu  compos  mentis  et  fane  memorie  condo  teftamentum  meum  n  lunc 
modum.  Imprimis  lego  aiam  meam  deo  omipotenti  corpufque  meum  fepeliend'  in  ecclia  p  iro(  hiali 
de  Ermyngton.  ItiTi  lego  vicario  ejufdem  eccli'e  pro  decimis  oblitis  x\  Item  lego  eccli'e  \A\ii  '  ut 
Pro  me  oretur  in  Rutul'  Orator'  xx'.  Item  volo  quod  executor  meus  diflribuat  pauperihus  in  paruchia 
predifta  omni  die  Veneris  parafcev'  per  fpacium  Ceptem  annor'  vj'.  viij''.  viz.  unicuique  eorum  mj". 
Item  volo  quod  dominus  Danyell  capital'  meus  habeat  per  fpacium  duorum  annorum  annuatim  qu.auor 
marcas  cum  convidu  et  toga  ut  oret  pro  me.  Itm  volo  quod  Hcnricus  filius  meus  habeat  reverca  iiem 
oTm  illoru  mefuag'  cum  pertinen'  in  Newton  Sandi  Ciery  et  port  ejus  deceflum  fui  hered'  qi  am  hui 
ex  conceiTu  prioris  et  convent'  monafterii  de  Plympton  pro  termino  annor'  ut  in  quadam  carta  fpecificat'. 
Item  volo  quod  omi  conjugati  heant  iiij''  et  fui  uxores  iiij''.  Item  volo  quod  viduar  et  vidue  babeant 
fmguli  ij''.  Item  volo  quod  prior  de  Plympton  habeat  v'f.  viij>'.  et  unufquifque  canonicus  ejus  prioratus 
xij"  ad  celebrand'  mifllim  et  exequias  pro  me  et  hdel'  dcfund'.  Item  volo  quod  prior  de  Totton' thabeat 
iij».  iiij''.  Et  unufquifque  monacus  ibalem  viij".  ad  celebrand'  miflam  et  exequias  pro  falute  anime  mee  et 
omnium  fidelium  defunflor'.  Refiduum  vero  bono'  meo'  ulterius  non  Icgatorum  do  et  lego  Henrico  filio 
meo  quern  quidem  Henricum  ordino,  facio  et  conftituo  meum  verum  executoiun  ad  implenc"  banc 
meam  ultimam  voluntatem  prout  f.bi  melius  videbitur.  Item  ordino  et  conftituo  Johannem  Fortelcu 
fratrem  meum  fuperviforem  ad  hanc  meam  voluntatem  pcrimplend'. 

"  Proved  at  Lamehith  on  the  12  d.iy  of  February,  a.d.  1521,  by  the  oath  of  Henry  Fjrtefcu  executor 
in  the  s"  will  nominated." 

William  Fortefcue  was  fucceeded  by  his  fon  and   heir  Henry,  born  in    14V9,  married  to 
Agnes,  daughter  and  heir  of  William  St.  Maur,  of  North  Melton  ;  and  died  May  3,  1567,^ 

'1.  P.  M.  M.  P.M. 


U    •'.    1 


FAMILY    OF    PRUTFSTON,    OR    PRESTON. 


William  Fortkscue  of  I'rutcHon, --p  Klizaiu  tii,  dau.  .ind  co- 
rnel Con  of  John  FoiiiiMni-:  of  lu-iicfs  of  Kuhaiii)  Cham- 
Winfton,  by  Joan  I'liuiisKjN  or  I'liiNouN  ol'  Imvortliy, 
Pri.ston,  died  l'\b.  i,  1520.  Cornwall. 


(1  )  lIlNRY,- 

born  1499; 
died  1567. 


:Agnes,  dau.  and 
heirefs  of  William 
St.  Maur  of  North 
Melton. 


(,2)  KiciiARi).  (3)  William.  Jane.^^Joiin  Coislky  of 

Brightley  in 
Chittlehampton. 


T 


J<ilis,    died=pJuAN,d.and  Isabi;lla, 

at  WoodUy,     luircls  of 
April,  I  J87.     Anthony 

I'ORTFStUE 

of  Wood. 


^JoHN   Col'Lt- 
STUNE    of 

Bowden    in 
Wuilliainpton. 


Eliza 

11  hi  H. 


=SlMON    Wninil 
ofW.Mll,    u, 

WalhlKld. 


Catiie-  =  Willia.\     .Som  1 
RiNE.  irii    of  ,Faln.^f(, 

m  Allirpiiiitoii. 


William  of  Prefton,=  ifl,  .  .  .  dau.  of  =p2i!d,  Mar(!ari;t,  d.  Henii 

and    of   Wood,    ob.      Siii  John   l-'i'i.- 
January,  lb02.  eohij;  no  illiae. 


■f  John  FiiANi  is  ol 
Comb      Florey 
Somerfut. 


Francis,   ^.  .  .  .  dau.  of  Sir  Mahgaret.=Geoi(ge  Kkynkll. 

died  1694.     John  Simxcot  of 

Speccot  in  Thorn- 

bury. 


lu.IZAIlETH.  CATHERlNh. 


John,        Fhancis,        William,  Sir    PKTER=plft,  BRiiHii.T  d.=- 2nd.    .\mv,    d.    of       Kliza-        ,\nni. 


died 
S.  P. 


died  S.P. 


l'"0ItTISCLIK 

oi'     Woo<i, 
Baronet, 
died    1686. 


of  Sii;  .John  Pi  ii.r  Coriiii 
Eliot  of  Port  nay  of  St.  Miehael 
Eliot.  n  idow  of  Sill  Pi - 

TEH     CoUini  NAY. 


DiTIOllA 


Peter,  died  Amy.=John  Fortescue, 

an  infant  in  Ion     of     Arthur 

1675.  F'ORTESCUE       of 

Penwarne.     S.  P. 


T        T- 


Bhiijuet.  Mary.  Flizaiieih.^John     TiKiiERMLi.t .     b^lq.. 

1  (on    of  John    'fuiiiii  h   ii.i.i:, 
1667,  of   (ioldoii,    C.  . 
Somerfet. 


A  fon,  Fortescue. 


Fa7nily  of  Spj^idleJlo7ie.  i  i 

leaving,  with  other  children,  his  Ton  and  heir  John,'  born  in  15 19,  married  to  Joan 
l<'orteicue,  daughter  and  heir  of  Anthony  hortefcue,  of  Wood. 

This  John  Fortefcue  died  April  11,  1587,  at  Woodley  ;  his  fon  William  was  feized  of 
Prefton,  and  ot  Wood  alfo  on  the  death  of  his  mother,"  who  lived  after  his  hither.  William 
died  at  Armington,  January  29,  1602,  having  married:  —  hrll:,  the  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Fulford,  by  whom  he  left  no  illue  ;  and  lecondly,  P^dargaret,  daughter  of  John  h'rancis,  of 
Coombe  Klorey,''  in  Somerfet,  who  furvived  him.  By  her  he  obtained  a  third  of  the  manor  of 
Coombe  Florey.  His  children  were  one  ion,  b'rancis,  and  tour  daughters,  to  each  of  whom 
he  left  by  will  tour  hundred  pounds.'  Inhere  are  three  poll-mortem  inijuifuions  relating  to 
his  eftates  ;  one  taken  at  South  'laviftock,  one  at  'I'otnefs,  and  a  third  at  Taunton,  for  the 
Somerfet  property.  His  lieir,  Francis,  burn  in  1598,  married  the  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Speccot,  of  Speccot,  in  Thornbury,  and  died  April,  1649,  I'^'ivi'^g  by  his  will  1000/  each 
to  two  of  his  daughters,  Anne  and  Deborah.' 

He  was  fucceeded  by  his  third  lurvi\'ing  fon,  Sir  Peter  Fortefcue,  of  Wood,  createi.!  a 
Baronet  in  January,  1666-67,  married,  firll,  to  Bridget,  daughter  ut  Sir  John  Kliot,  of  Port- 
Eliot,  in  Cornwall,  and  fecondly,  to  -Vmy,  daughter  ot  IVter  Courtenay,  Elq.,  of  St. 
Michael,  and  widow  of  Sir  Peter  Courtenay,  Knight.  Leaving  no  male  ilTue — his  only  fon, 
Peter,  having  died  an  infant  -the  Baronetcy  became  extincT:  at  his  death  in  1685.  He 
left  three  daughters, — Amy,  married  to  John  Fortefcue,  ion  of  Arthur  Fortefcue,  of 
Penwarne,  in  Cornwall,  who  left  no  illiie  ;  Bridget;  and  I'Jizabeth,  married,  in  1667,  to 
John  Tin-berville,  Efq.,  fon  of  John  Turberville,  of  Goklen  in  Somerfet,"  and  had  ifiue  a 
fon.  Sir  Peter,  by  his  will,  dated  June  29,  1675,  ''-'•^ves  his  "real  eftate  in  trull  fur  iiich 
daughter  who  fliould  marry  a  lujrtefcue."'  hrom  this  it  ni  ty  be  fuppofed  that  his  daughter 
Amy,  the  wife  of  John  Fortefcue,  inherited  the  elbue.      ."'lie,  liowever,  had  no  ilTue. 

Thus  the  families  of  Preilon  in  the  male  line,  and  ot  Wood  in  both  male  and  teinale 
lines,  were  extinguiihed. 


Chap.   III. 

^The  Fortejciics  of  Spridlcjlone. 

;j"^HE  branch  of  the  Wimftone  Fortefcues  which  comes  next  in  order  is  that  which 
"i^    took    its    rile    from    John    h'ortelcue    the    younger,    third    fon    of    William    of 
^.^   Wimftone,  by  Mal)el    howell,  fhled  John   Fortefcue  of  Spridleftone  from   the 
manfion  and  eftate  of  Spridleftone,  in  the  parifh  of  Brixton,  near  Plympton,  lett  to  hii  1  bv 


'   1.  P.  M.  ^  See  the  Pedigree  of  Fortefcue  of  Wood. 

*  Wills.  '■'  Wills. 

'  N.B.  See  a  Will  of  Peter  Fortefcue  of  I-'refton,  1672. 


»  I.  P.  M. 

"^  WilU  :   ;iiid  :ill'o  in  -Stem.  Fort. 


;ril    i.t'.<d 


1 2  Family  of  Sp?-iiileJlo?ie. 

his  father.  He  married  Alice,  daughter  of  Jolin  Cockworthy  or  Keckworthy,'  of  Cockwortiiy, 
in  Yarnconib,  by  wlioni  he  had  ifTue, — firll,  Richard;  fecond,  Nicholas,  Groom  Porter  to 
Henry  VIII.,  who  died  in  1549,  and  was  ancellor  of  the  prefeiit  family  of  Knottesford 
Fortefcue  ;  third,  Lewis,  a  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  who  died  in  1545,  having  married 
the  heirefs  of  the  Fortefcues  of  h'allopit  ;  and  fourth,  Anthony,  Marlhal  of  the  army  m 
Ireland,"  to  which  office  he  was  appointed  by  Patent  dated  December  18th,  1547,38  Henry 
VIII.,  under  the  title  of"  Marefcall,  exercitus  et  aliorum  bclligerorum  in  regno  Hibernia;."-' 
He  had  two  years  before  ferved  in  the  expedition  to  Scotland,  undertaken  by  Henry  to 
enforce  his  defign  of  bringing  about  an  union  between  Kngland  and  Scotland  by  the 
marriage  of  his  fon  F.dward  with  the  Princefs  IMary.'  The  \'a\y\  of  Lennox  went  to  Ireland 
to  gam  troops  for  this  purpofe,  which  were  placed  under  the  command  of  the  Earl  of 
Ormonde.      The  Lord  Deputy,  St.  Leger,  writes  thus  to  the  Privy  Counci   :  — 

"  Kllmainluun,  October  loth,  154^;. 

"  The  Erie  ot  Leiuiox  hath  made  fiich  inltant  reqtieft  to  have  with  him  John  Travers, 
Mafter  ot  the  Ordonance,  and  Anthony  Fortefcue,  with  certain  gunners  and  archers,  ilkging 
to  me  that  it  was  his  Majefty's  pleafure  that  he  flunild  have  fuch  as  he  thought  ^oi  d,  I 
have,  by  the  permiOion  of  the  Council  here,  put  in  readinefs  the  fame  John  and  A  itl  ony, 
with  a  fon  of  mine  own  ;  and  with  them  one  hundred  gunners  and  archers;  fo  as  I  re  ;kon 
with  mariners  all,  they  Hiall  be  2400  men,  with  10  or  12  Htips  well  provided  with  good 
artillery,  befide  other  botes."'' 

This  Anthony  has  been  in  many  pedigrees  confounded  with  Sir  Anthony  Fcrte'cuc, 
brother  of  Sir  John  of  Saldcn,  and  a  much  younger  man,  being  born  about   1536. 

Richard  Fortefcue  of  Spridleftone,  the  eldell  Ion,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  Robert  Knolles  of  North  Mimms,  in  Hertfordfliire  ;"  by  this  lady,  who  furvived  hiin,  and 
died  October  25,  1549,  he  obtained  lands  in  Weke,  in  the  pariih  of  Sexley-Monacbjrum, 
in  Devon,  held  of  the  king  by  knight's  fervice.'  Their  ilhie  were  two  fons,  John  and 
Humphrey.  1 

John  of  Spridlefton,  the  eldefl  fon,  was  born  in  1515  ;  married  h'lorence,  daugliter  of 
Michael  Vivian  of  Trelawarren,  in  Cornwall ;  by  whom  he  had  iflue,  with  other  ch.ldren, 
his  fon  and  heir  John,  married  to  Joan,  daughter  of  Robert  Shapleigh,  and  a  fecond  fon 
Richard,  who  left  a  will  dated  March  3,  1578,  and  proved  May  3,  1580,  wl  icli   is  extant, 


'  Lodge  and  Afhmole  MS.  2  g^.^.  vifitatioii  of  .Surrey,  1530,  1572,  1623  ;    Harl.  MS. 

^  Pat.  Kolls,  3rd  Hen.  VIII.,  Lyfon's  Devon,  ii.  73.  '   U.ipin,  i.  83.<;  ;   Carte's  Ormonde,  vol.  i.  [).  51. 

^  State  Papers,  Hen.  VIII.,  Part  3,  p.  535. 

*  Pedigree,  Hajl.  MS,   1538,  fbl.  87.  '    I.  P.  M.,  p.   21. 


FAMILY    OF    SPRIDLESTONK. 


(l)  Richard; 
of    Spridle- 
(lone. 


^Elizabeth,  J. 
ami  c.  h.  oC  Ro- 
bert Knollks, 
of  North 
Mimms,  Herts, 
died  1 ,549. 


John  Fohtkscue  of  Spridle-  : 
ftone,  3rd  fon  of  John  I-'oti- 
TKSCUK  ol'  Wiin|)(ione,  liy 
Joan  I'miri-sroN. 


(2)  Nicholas,^ 
(ill),     Groom 
I'orter    to 
IlhNHY    VIII., 
died   1549. 


=KArHi:riiNK, 
d.of  Hoiii-iir 

fciKlNNlIl     of 
Silclllcld, 

W.iiwick- 
hhiie. 


Alick,  d.iu.  of  John 

COCKWOHTHV     ot 
Cockworthy  in  Varn- 
euinlK-. 


(3)  Nicholas,^Ri.iza- 
(2nd),  died,  in      lii.rii. 
1  551-),  without 
llILe. 


(4)    LKwis,=pKLizABtrrH, 


I'>,iron    of 
Ivvehcquer, 
died   1545. 


d.   and  heir 
of  John 

I'OHTI-SCUi; 

of  Fallajiit. 


I 
(5)  Anthony. 
Marfhal    of 
the    Army    ni 
Ireland, 
I.547- 


JOHN,=pJoAN,  dau. 


died 
1602. 


of  Robert 

SlIAl'- 
Li;iGH. 


Richard, 
died 
about 
1580. 


JoHN,=p  Fl(u!enci;,  dau. 


born 
1S15- 


Robert. 


of   Michael 
Vivian,  of  Tre 
lawarreii. 


T" 


Mary.=;1*eter 

Pahnfl. 


HUMI'HREY  . 


Honor.: 


-J— 

-TlIOM\S  liLIZABETH. 

Coefin. 


Barbara.       Mary. 


=SyMONUS 

of  .lal- 
be'  ton. 


John,     =p  .  .  .  dau.       Edwauu.       ELiZA-=/.ACHAiiy  John. 

b.  1580,  I  of  .  .  .  .  BEru.        F>LACii- 

d.  I  Com.      Pin-,  aelfn. 


John, 
b.  1U07. 


Edward,: 

died 

1702. 


Dorothy,  dai 

of     RiCHAKD 

Crossing. 


John.       Edward.        Richard. 


Joanna- 
Maria, 
mar. 
1  ^94- 


^Nicholas 
Webb,  of 
Fandulph 
in  Corn- 
wall. 


l.)OROrHEA,:=PHINEAS 

inar    1695.      An  phony 
of  E.xeter. 


Nicholas. 


Elizabeth, = John 
mar.   it)(|0.      Harwoou, 
of  Tamer- 
ton    in 
Cornwall. 


"1 

KFnECCA,=f=Gi:ORGE 
5th  dau.      1    FORTESCUK. 


brother  to 
Henry  F"or- 
tesclk,  of 
Buckland- 

F'illeigh. 


John   F'ortescue,  of  Bampton, 
afterwards  of  Buckland-Filleigh. 


{See  that  Pt-digrtt). 


Fcunily  of  Sp?^idle/lo?ie.  i  3 

and  of  which  a  few  particulars  may  be  given.  He  alludes  to  "  ai:  adventure  on  the  feas  " 
in  wliich  lie  took  part.  He  leaves  his  lands  called  Saltram,  in  Plympton-St.-Mary,  which 
he  liad,  by  dcmife  from  his  father,  to  liis  nejihew  John  L'ortefciiej  fon  of  his  late  brother 
Robert.  He  gives  a  bequefl  to  the  poor  of  St.  Andrew's,  Holborn,  and  of  Brixton  (in 
Devon),  and  direfts  that  five  gold  rings  with  a  tiger  engravetl  thereon  be  made,  one  to  be 
given  to  each  of  the  overfeers  of  liis  will,  namely,  to 

"  John  Fortefcue  of  Spurleflione,  my  lather  ; 

"  George  Davey  of  Clavelcy  ; 

"John  Fortefcue  of  Woode  ; 

"  John  Fortefcue  of  Fallapitt,  Efi|uire,  and 

"  Walter  Hele  of  Wollyngton." 
He  leaver  his  elder  brother,  John  fortefcue,  his  executor. 

This  elder  brother  died  in  the  year  1602,'  leaving  his  eldell:  fon,  John,  twenty-two  years  old 
at  his  fatlier's  death.  His  fecond  fon,  Edv/ard,  is  defcribed  in  his  lather's  will  as  "  a  piilont;'- 
at  Litchbourne  "  (Lifl^on  ?).  John,  born  1580,  only  furvived  until  1609,  when  he  left  his 
fon  and  heir,  alfo  John,  aged  1  years."  Of  this  John  Fortefcue,  who  lived  during  the  great 
Civil  War,  we  have  fome  particulars  preferved  in  the  "  Compolition  Papers."  He  was  a 
Royalift,  and  was  obliged  to  compound  for  his  eftate  for  202/.,  but  appears  afterwards  to 
have  joined  the  Parliamentarians;  for  there  is  a  certificate,  dated  April  24,  1649,  figned  by 
Fairfax,  of  his  having  been  a  "  Lieutenant-Cclonel  of  Reformadoes  in  Sir  James  Sm)  tlie's 
Brigade,  and  came  of}"  upon  the  articles  of 'rnn-u.  " 

He  in  his  turn  died,  and  left,  v.'ith  other  children,  a  Ion  and  heii"  F.dward,^  who,  in  1667, 
married  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Richard  Crolling,  and  died  in  1702,  having  had  three  fons, 
and  five  daughters. 

It  is  recorded  of  this  Mr,  b^ortefcue  of  Spridleftone,'  that  he  caufed  to  be  planted  near 
to  the  churchyard  of  his  parifh  of  Brixton,  In  the  year  1677,  a  fine  grove  of  elms,  for  the 
purpofe  of  their  being  in  due  time  fold  for  the  benefit  of  the  poor — a  thoughtful  and  bene- 
volent ai5t.  i\  Itonc  placed  on  the  fpot  bears  this  infcriptiun  :  "  This  colony  of  elms  regu- 
larly difpofed  into  walks,  was  planted  in  November  1677,  by  F'.dward  bortefcue  of  Spridlc- 
ftone,  Efquire,  churchwarden,  with  the  approbation  and  contribution  of  the  majority  of 
eftated  pariChioners,  to  the  intent  that,  when  perfect  in  growth  and  fold,  lands  may  be  pur- 
chafed  with  the  money  for  relief  of  the  poor  of  this  parifb,  and  that  pofterity  reaping  the 
advantage  of  our  benefaction,  may  be  encourageel  to  provide  for  more  fuccellion,  by  plait- 
ing others  in  their  place." 

We  are  told  by  the  hiflorian  of  Devonfliire  that  feveral  of  thefe  trees  have  from  time  to 


'   1.  v.  M.  '^  I.  P.  M.,  Compoluioii  PaixTb,  and  Biograph.  Brit.,  20uO.  ^  Stemm.  I'on. 

'  Lyfoii'b  Devon,  Part  ii.  p.  75,  and  truin  Brixton  Itcgiftcr  in  Stcmniata  I'ortulcuana. 


14      .  Family  of  Spridlcftone. 

time  been  blown  down  by  the  wind  and   fold,  and   that  in   the   year    1819   fixteen  of  them 

were  cut  down  In  fulfihiient  of  the  vvifli  of  tlie  planter,  and  produced  a  fum  of  92/.  is., 

which  was  funded  for  the  poor,  "  as  land  cannot  legally  be  jnuxhafed,"  and  their  places  were 

ordered  to  be  filled  with  young  trees.      1  he  lollowuig  hntb  were  copied   from  the   (lone  in 

1796  :— 

"  May  MithiidntL-'s  I'pirit  fiill  .illVif^ht, 
Such  as  our  liviiii^  gallary's  diljiit, 
Clcones  and  Agamemnon's  liile 

Si-izc-  on  I'uch  as  think  not  Jacrcd  \v'.  is  hate,  ' 

And  enemies,  deemed  to  iioor.  lo  Church  and  State."" 

The  fons  of  Edward  Fortcfcue  died  unmarried,  and  the  efhates  pafled  to  the  youngcll 
daughter,  Rebecca  Fortefcue.  She  married  George  Fortefcue  of  Taviitock,  younger  brother 
of  Henry  Fortefcue  of  Buckland-Filleigh,  who  by  her  had  a  foii  John,  01  Bampton  in 
Oxfordfliire,  who  inherited  that  ellatc  upon  the  death,  in  1752,  of  his  coufm  Niary,  daughter 
of  the  Right  Honourable  William  b'ortefcue,  Mailer  of  the  Rolls,  and  who,  in  right  of  iiis 
motlier,  the  heirefs  of  Spridletlone,  fucceeded  t(i  the  latter  property  alfo— he  had  no  ilTue, 
and  both  the  properties  palTed  at  his  death  to  his  fifter,  Rebecca  Fortefcue. 

Thus  it  appears  that  the  elder  line  of  the  Spridleftone  family,  which  began  with  ohi 
Fortefcue  the  younger,  third  fon  of  William  i'ortefcue  of  Wimtlone,  failed,  in  the  male  Im  ■, 
upon  the  death  of  F.dward  Fortefcue  in  170'2. 

Rebecca  Fortefcue,  who  fucceeded  to  Sj-ridleflone,  married  Caleb  Inglett,  Efquire,  ot 
Chudleigh,  and  was  fucceeded  at  Spridleilone  by  her  fon  Richard,  who  took  the  name  (  t 
Fortefcue,  antl  was  fucceedeil  in  his  eftates  by  his  only  fon,  juiin  Inglett  I'ortelcue,"  who,  1  1 
1785,  fold  both  Spridleilone  and  Buckland-JMlleigh  ell.ites. 

The  purchafer  of  Spridleilone  was  Mr.  Lane  of  Luflleet,  and  the  old  manfion  ot  the 
Fortefcues  is  now  Inhabited  by  a  farmer.'*  j 


Chap.   IV. 

The  FortcfcHcs  of  Cookhill  and  IVheatky.  I 


wmm 


)PON  the  ftihire  of  the  elder  line  of  Spi  idleilone,  as  above  defcribed,  that  wh'.ch 
Mpl^lr^?  fprung  from  Nicholas,  a  younger  fon  of  John  Fortefcue  of  Spridleilone,  by 
§^^^  Alice  Cockworthy,  becomes  the  fenior  lu.ule.      The  pedigrees  for   the  moll   part 

'  Stemmata  ForteCcuana.  A  very  oblcuie  doggrell  !  tlu'  note  lavs  '•  it  was  copied  as  exae^ly  as  |.  >lhhle"  from 
the  Regifter. 

-   LyI'on's  Devon,  ii.  73. 

^  See  Monuments  in  Buckland-Filleigh  Church,  and  I'orleleues  of  lUicklaud-l'illeigh  in  tins  work,  for  further 
particulars. 


FAMILY    OF    COOKHILL,    WHEATLEY,   AND    ALVESTON    MANOR. 


Nicholas  Fortescue,  2nd  fon  of  =j=  Katherine,    dau.    of  Robert 
John  Fortescue  of  Sprildeftone,       Skinnkk,  of  Shelfield,    War- 
by    Alice    Cockworthy  ;     was    |    wicklhire. 
Groom  Porter  to   Henry  VIII.;    I 
died  1549. 


William  of  Cookhill  and  Wheatley,  =p  Ursula,  dau.  of  Richard  Newport. 
died  Jan.  6.  1605. 


(1)  Sir  Nicholas  of  Cook-: 
hill,  Chamberlain  of  Ex- 
chequer, 1624;    d.  1633. 


:  Prudence,  dau.  of 
William  Whet- 
ley,  of  Norfolk. 


I 

1(^W«.-— Jane, dau.        (2)  Fran-=Fhances, 
ofSiK  John      cis.  dau.     of 

WiLDK,  Sir  John 

Worcefter-  Peyton, 

(hire.  CO.  Oxon. 


(2)  John  of  Cookhill  =f 
and      Wheatley,     c 
1663. 


{3)Ed-  = 

MUND, 


:  Frances, 
dau.    of 
Brydges 
Lord 
Chandos. 


:Jane,  dau.  of  —  D'Ewes 
of  Welbourne,  who  died 
1674 


(4)  Nicho- 
las, Knight 
of  Malta. 


is)  John. 


Mar-  =Nicholas 
THA.         Lewis,  of 
Wales. 


Pru- 
dence. 


John  of: 
Cookhill 


1692 


(I)  Nicholas, 
difinherited  by 
his  father  ;  no 
llfue. 


(2)  William,  =p  Katherine,       Mary.       Frances 


ofCc 
died  1706. 


dau.  of  Sir 

Richard 

Braune. 


:  Charles 
Knoites- 

FORD. 


Philadelphia. 


Francis,  a 
Roman 
Catliolic 
Pried,  died 
at  Douay. 


Arab 
ob. 


ELLA, 

732- 


Jane, 

died 

1739. 


John  of  Cookhill,; 
ob.  1758. 


:TllF.ODOSIA  BraUNE. 


0)  John, 
Captain 
ItN.; 
ob.   iflo8. 


Frances     (2)  William  ; 
Manton.     no  iflue. 


(3)  Charlotte, 
died  un-mar. 


{4)  Theodosia.=:j=Rev.  W 


T  Wil 


(5)    F'RANCIS,: 

mar    iR,  to 
Mary  Knot- 


2dly,  Frances. 
Trehearne. 


(6)C 
Rouf 


HARLES, 

rof 
linch 


(7)  Hugh, 
died  un-m: 


.IOIIS',=  . 

■iKd, 

Ir.ling 

4iug)iter. 


John,  : 

died 

1825. 


Mary  Glover. 


Francis,  in  Holy : 
Orders;  took  the 
name  of  Knottes- 
EORD  ;  died  1859. 


:Maria,  dau.  of 
Rev.  George 
Downing. 


children 
living. 


(1)  Francis, 
died  S.' P. 


(2)  Frances  =p  Rev.  J. 
Catherine.     I    Demi. 


m"-  TTi 

3  Sons  and  3  daughte 


(3)  George, 
died  1826. 

S;P. 


{4)  Maria 

Marga- 

retta. 


Rev.  F.  S. 
Jackson. 


4  Daughters. 


( 1 )  Edward  Francis; 
in  (lie  Army. 


Ill  I 

(2)  Mary.       (3)  John.       (4)  Laurence.       (5)  Georc; 


I 
(5)  Edward  Bowles, 

KnOTTESFORD    I'^OR- 

TESCUE,  in  Holy 
Orders;  Dean  of 
Perth  Cathedral  (born 
1816);  living  1867. 


FuanCes 
Aivne, 
dau.  of 
Ven. 
Arch- 
deacon 
Spooner. 


(6)  Vincent. 


(7)  Charles-Ninian, 
ob.  1855. 


Family  of  Cookhill  mid  Wheatley.  1 5 

make  Nicholas,  the  Groom  Porter,  and  anceftor  of  the   Fortefcues   of  Cookhill,   to   be   the 
fecond  fun  of  the  aforefaid  John. 

The  pedigree  in  the  Vifitation  of  Worccfter,'  in  1569,  aifigns  to  John  two  fons  named 
Nicholas — the  firil,  the  Groom  Porter,  being  by  a  namelels  wife ;  the  fecond  Nicholas  being 
by  "  the  dau.  of  Skinner,"  fecond  wife  of  John. 

In  the  Arms  and  Pedigrees  of  Devon  Families,'^  two  fons  Nicholas  are  recorded,  one  as 
legitimate,  and  the  other  as  "  baftard  fonne."  In  like  manner,  the  Vifitations  of  Surrey,  in 
1530,  1572,  1623,^  defcribe  one  as  "  bafe  fon,"  annexing  his  arms,  which  are  thofe  of 
Fortefcue  with  a  bordure  to  the  fhield. 

We  may  obferve  that  Louis  Fortefcue,  the  judge,  making  his  will  in  1543,  during  the 
lifetime  of  both  the  Nicholafes,  leaves  to  his  Brother  "  Nicholas,"  without  the  defignation  of 
the  elder  or  the  younger,  "  four  marks  in  gold  to  make  a  crofs  for  his  wife,"  as  if  he  ack  now- 
ledged  only  one  brother  with  that  name. 

There  is  fcarccly  a  doubt,  however,  of  the  f^d  that  John  of  Spridleflone  had  two  fons 
Nicholas  ;■*  becaufe  there  are  extant  two  wills,  one  dated  in  1546,  and  proved  in  1550,  made 
by  Nicholas  Fortefcue  of  "  Spridleftone,"  mentioning  his  wife  Elizabeth,  his  elder  brother 
Richard,  and  his  younger  brother  Lewis  ;  another,  dated  in  1544,  and  proved  in  1549,  by 
"  Nicholas  Fortefcue,  Groom  Porter  of  the  King's  Moft  Honourable  Chamber,"  made  on 
the  occafion  of  his  "  being  appointed  to  attend  the  King's  Grace  in  a  voiage  Royall  into 
France."  His  wife  Katherine  is  named,  and  a  fon  William  ;  and  Mabell  and  Jane,  his 
daughters,  to  each  of  whom  he  leaves  forty  pounds,  "  to  be  delivered  to  her  at  the  tlay  of 
her  marriage,  fo  that  flie  be  ruled  and  ordered  in  her  fiide  marriage  by  my  faide  wife  her 
mother."  He  bequeaths  to  his  fon  "his  manor  of  Wytheley,  Co.  Worcerter,"  afti":r  his 
wife's  death.     The  will  is  given  in  the  appendix  to  this  chapter. 

Now,  although  there  is  no  allufion  here  to  Spridleftone,  or  to  any  brothers,  yet  as  the 
Groom  Porter  is  everywhere,  with  a  fingle  exception,^  called  fon  of  John  of  Spridlellone,  we 
muft  believe  him  to  be  fuch,  and  confequently  that  he  was  brother  to  the  other  Nicholas, 
who  in  his  will  ftyles  himfelf  "  of  Spridleftone." 

The  Groom  Porter,  ftyled  in  feveral  documents.  Sir  Nicholas,  married  Katherine, 
daughter  of  Robert  Skinner,  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Shelfield,  in  Warwickfliire." 

'  Harl.  MS.  1 566.  Vifit.  of  Worccfter. 
'See  Harl.  MS.  1538,  tbl.  87. 
Ularl.  MS.  1561,  fol.  14. 

*  Two  brothers  with  the  Came  name  was  not  an  uncommon  occurrence. 

'  BuckUmd-P'illeigh  MS.  Pedigree,  which  abl'urdly   makes  the   Groom    Porter   to   be  the  (on  of  Sir  John  of 
Punfborne. 

«  Ped.  in  Proofs  of  Sir  Nicholas. 


J  6  Fafnily  of  Cookhill  and  Wheathy. 

In  1537,  29  Henry  VIII.,  he  was  appointed  Keeper  of  the    Park  of   Malwyke,   under 

the  Lord  Denbighe.' 

He,  for  his  fervices  to  Henry  VIII.,  received  from  that  king,  in  the  thirty-fourtli  year 
of  his  reign  (1542),  on  the  dilTolution  of  the  religious  foundations,  a  grant  of  the  lands  of 
the  Nunnery  of  Cokehill,'^  in  Cookhill  and  Church  Lench,  in  Worcefterlliire,  fituated  on 
the  range  of  hills  dividing  that  county  from  WarwickOiire,  a  few  miles  weft  of  Alcefter. 
"  Thefe  lands,"  fays  Nalh,  writing  in  1782,  "  Henry  the  Eighth  gave  to  his  fervant  Nicholas 
Fortefcue,  anceftor  to  the  prefent  Captain  Fortefcue,  who  was  one  of  thofe  that  went  round 
the  world  in  the  Centurion." 

I  am  informed  by  the  lineal  defcendant  and  reprefentative  of  Sir  Nicholas,  the  Rev. 
Edward  Knottesford  Fortefcue  Dean  of  Perth  Cathedral,  writing  in  1864.  that  the  manor 
and  eftate  remained  in  his  family  for  eight  generations,  until  the  time  of  John  I'^ortefcue. 
who  married  Mifs  Mary  Glover,  who  fold  the  property  early  in  the  prelent  century. 
"  The  old  houfe  is  now  (1864)  partly  ufl-d  as  a  farm    houfe,  and   traces  of  the  walks  and 

gardens  ftill  remain." 

At  the  fame  time  with  this  grant,  Sir  Nicholas  received  another  in  the  parift  ot 
Campden,  in  Gloucefterfhire,  very  near  to  where,  a  century  before.  Chancellor  Fcrtelcue 
had  bought  his  eftate  of  Ebrington.  This  was  alfo  part  of  the  property  of  the  C  ok  .hill 
nuns,  and  was  called,  in  confequence,  Ntm-heys,^  from  "  hai,"  a  hedge,  park,  or  m.lo  ure. 
All  thefe  grants  were  to  "  Nicholas  Fortefcue,  and  Catharine  his  wife,  and  to  the  heu'S  male 
of  the  faid  Nicholas."     Thefe  lands  were  held  of  the  king  by  knight's  fervice  m  chief. 

There  is  a  warrant  of  the  year  1  544,  "  ^ov  the  delivery  of  an  allowance  ot  ten  ft.d  mgs 
a-day  to  Nicholas  Fortefcue,  Groom  of  the  King's   Houfe,""  to  which  Sir  Nicholas's  ilgna- 

ture  is  attached.  .      ,     t  1 

Sir  Nicholas,  in  the  35th  Henry  VIII.,  .543,  bought  from  Maude  Lane  the  imanor 
and  eftate  of  Whethele,  or  Wheatley,  in  Warwickft^ire,  near  to  Cookhill.  He  died  .xugurt 
28,  1549  (being  the  fame  date  as  that  of  a  codicil  to   his  will),  leaving  his   fon  ana  he.r, 

William,  aged  nine  years.'  , 

From  an  entry  in  the  Court  of  Wards,  it  appears  that  the  preferment  of  Groom 
Porter  was  granted  to  Henry  Whelar,  Gent.,  one  of  the  Grooms  of  the  King's  Clumber, 
who  granted  his  intereft  to  Katherine  Fortefcue.  widow,  mother  of  the  ward,  and  that  the 
"  Ward  and  marriage  of  William  Fortefcue,"  her  fon,  was,  together  with  the  h  nd  defcending, 
fold  to  the  faid  Katherine  for  20/. 

This  William,  who  married  Urfula  Newport,  in  compliance  with  the  will  o^  his  brother- 


■  Patent  Rolls,  p.  2.  ^  N""-  WorcefteHlure,  vol.  ii    p.  8. 

3  Rudder's  Gloucefterfhire,  p.  3^-2-  *  '^>''l-  ^'^^  H^-  M.)  5753,  P-  H- 

*  Duedale's  Warwickfliire,  p.  591- 


Jil^i^^^> 


Sir     Ni,li,,h,s      l''.,,l..s,-u,.,     riianibMrlam     ot     tl.o    I'.rr  l,e<,  ,hm- ,  l)i  rd    A    1)     If, 


^/^///r^^l 


Sir     .Inl.n     K..1-I  .-sriic  -  Ala  ,,<)     tiisl     l.o.cl     K.iU.hc- „.>     ol'     (■■.■a.i,,,    Died    A.l).    17  IG 


23-  -?^^L^  /  7,5  L? 


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Family  of  Cookhill  cmd  Wheatley.  \j 

Pjn  in-law,  Weaker   Newport,  dated  34  Elizabeth  [i^cji],  which   liequeathed  a  fiim  of  money 

Wt  for  the  puipoie,  fettled  a  rent-charge  of  20/.  a-year  for  ever  out  of  his  manor  of  Wetheley, 

"  ji  for  a  fchool  for  the  poor  at  Awfeter  (Alcefter).' 
■p  William  lujrtefcue  died  January  6,  1605. 

#■  An  inqiiifition  port  mortem,  taken  July  24,  1607,'''  finds  that   he  died  inteftate,  leaving 

si  his  wife,  Url'ula  Fortefcue,  furviving.      I]e  hatl  two  fons,  Nicholas  and  John,  and  a  daughter, 

^  Dorothy.     Kach  of  the  fons  inherited  a  portion  of  the  landed  ellates  of  their   father,  and 

....  both  appear  to  have  lived  at  Cookhill, 

I  The  eldeft,  Nicholas,^  afterwards  Sir  Nicholas,  called   in  the  Compofition  Papers,   "  fon 

.  and  heir,"  v^as  refident  at  Cookhill  in  the  year  of  his  father's  death  ;  a  document  being 
;'  preferved  in  the  State  Paper  Office  relating  to  fome  armour  found  in  his  houlc  tht  re  in 
\>     November  of  that  year,  the  month  of  the  famous  Gunpowder  Treafon. 

[.  It  will  be  remembered  that  Cookhill  was  in  a  part  of  the  country  with  which  the  con- 

f;  fpirators  Catefliy  and  Winter  were  connec'fed,  and  to  which  they  and  their  aflbciates  betook 
;r    themfelves  on  the  failure  of  the  plot. 

'•■  Fortefcue  declares  that  the  armour  in  queftion  had  been  in  the  houfe  five  vears  ;   "  chat 

he  had  not  \tt\\  Winter  for  eight  years,"  and  that  he  had  not   been  fummoned  to  join   the 

rifing.' 

.)  There  is  alfo  a  letter  from  Chief  Juftice  Anderfon  and  Sheriff  Warburton  to  the  Privy 

t    Council,  dated  March  26,  1606,  complaining  "  that  Mr.  Fortefcue  of  Warwickfliire,  though 

^"■';;    fummoned  to  appear  before  them,  had  not  come  forward  to  be  examined." 

■     Thefe  I'ufpicions,  to  which  probably  every  l^oman  Catholic  in  that  part  of  luigland  was 
.  more  or   lefs  expofed  in  that  time  of  public  alarm,    do   not  appear  to  have  hindered  his 
i's."    advancement,  which,  according  to  the  writer  in  Biographia  Britannica,^  he  owed  in  a  great 
"'■     meafure  to  his  own  merits. 

"  lie  was  a  perfon,"  fays  the  author,  "  of  fo  dextrous  an  addrcfs,  that  v.'hen  he  came  into 
notice  lie  came  into  favour,  and  when  he  entered  the  Court,  had  not  only  the  chamber  but 
the  clofet  of  a  Prince  open  to  him;  a  gentleman  that  did  nuich  in  his  perlon,  and,  as  lie 
would  lay,  '  let  reputation  do  the  reft.'  1  le  and  Sir  Edmund  b'ortefcue  were  always 
|}-|"  obferved  fo  wary,  as  to  have  all  their  enemies  before  them."  We  find  Sir  Nicholas  receiving 
into  his  houfe  at  Cookhill  a  well-known  Benedie'line  monk  of  that  day — David  Baker,  born 
in  1575,  who,  it  is  laid,  "did  retire  himfelf  into  the  houfe  of  Sir  Nicholas  hortelcue,  ;  nd 
SjjrVt-  did  then  zealouily  continue  his  lecond  converfion,  or  attempt  upon  internal  prayer."" 


'  Dugdale,  Warwick,  p.  543.  -   I.  P.  M. 

"  Com.  Papers,  tailed  ■'  loa  and  licir."  ^   Ibui.  p.  253.      Cal.  Siate  Pnpe-vs,  Tom.  1003-10,  p.  304 

'  Biog.  Brit.,  iii.  2000.  '■  Wood's  Allien.  O.^onienles,  iii.  1  1. 


D 


'^  ■  ^^i^^^^'d'  of  Cookhill  and  JFheatley. 

Early  in  the  reign  of  James  I.   he  became  one  of  the  Commiflioners  of  the   Moufeh.ld 
and  Navy.      He  was  k.Mghted  by  James  at  either  Whitehall  or  Theobald's  '  on  the   ^nd  of 
I'cbruary,  16,7.      Me  alfo  obtained  the  office  of  Surveyor-General    of  "  the    king's   lands 
tenements,  and  hereditamenls,"  in  his  own  County  of  Worceller,  which,  in  the  ye  ir".  6  ^    be 
ref.gned   m   favour  of  his  fon   Kdimmd.'^      Me  held   at   the  fame   time,  and  until  the  2.  I 
ot  May,  1625,  when  he  refigned  it,  the  office  of  a  Chamberlain  of  the  Exchequer,^  to  which 
office  he  had  been  appointed  on  the   06th  of  February,  ,61b,  upon   the  death   of  Sir  frhn 
Pomts;'     His   colleague,    the    other  Upper   Chamberlain,  was  Sir  Nicholas   Carewe     Vhe 
grant,  which  is  extant,  confers  upon  him  the  office  for  his  l,fe,  "  vv.th  all  its  emoluments  and 
rights,  as  fully   and  perfedly  as  they  were   enjoyed    by    any   of  his   predecelTors,    namely 
Thomas,  late  Lord  De  la  Ware,  George  Younge,  Sir  William  Killigrewe    Sir  Walter  Co  ,e 
or   Sir  John    Points."'      It   may    be   remarked    that   Sir   Nicholas,  in  the  document  is  i^ylcd 
"Arm.ger,"    and    not    "Miles;"  fo    that   the   date   of  his    knighthood  given    in    Nichol's 
Progrelfes,  viz.  February  2nd,  16  17,  is  too  early  l)y  a  year. 

In  the  years  1622  and  1623  we  find  him  adively  employed  on  ieveral  fpecial  Com- 
miffions. 

J'irft,  in  the  former  year  he  is  a  Commiffioncr  with  the  Keeper  of  the  Great  Se  d,  the 
Lord  Manners,  and  others,  for  inquiry  into  defedive  titles  to  lands  granted  by  the   Cwn.^ 

Again,  in  March,  1623,'"  he  ferves  on  a  Special  Commiffion  with  the  Lord  Tn  afurer 
(the  Earl  of  MIddlefex),  and  others,  to  inquire  into  "  the  depredations  and  robberies  daily 
committed  on  the  fea  by  pirate-robbers,  calling  themielves  men-of-war." 

Again,  he  is  on  a  Special  Commiffion,  dated  May  y,  1623,^  with  fix  others,  "  To  i  iquire 
into  the  difcords,  difcontentments,  and  fundry  mifgovernments  of  the  Englilh  Col  jni  ;s  and 
Plantations  in  Virginia  and  the  Summer  IHands;"  the  preamble  reciting  that  the  aforefaid 
Colonies  "are  of  fpecial  importance  as  being  the  firft  foreign  Colonies  planted  by  ourjEngliffi 
nation,  and  tending  to  the  propagation  of  God's  Glory,  and  Chriftian  Religion,  and  the 
enlargement  of  the  dominions  of  our  Crown." 

And,  at  the  fame  time,  he  is  one  of  the  Commiffioners  "to  inquire  into  the  Hate  of 
Ireland,  and  to  confider  all  petitions  and  complaints  uf  grievances,  and  all  projec^fs  cor'cerning 
matters  that  may  arife  within  our  Realm  of  Ireland." 

He  married  Prudence,  daughter  of  William  Vv'heteley,  of  Holcome,  in  Norfolk, 
Efquire,  fometime  Prothonotary  of  the  Common  Pleas,  by  whom  he  had  iliue  rive  fons' 
.Kimely,— William,    his   fon    and   heir,   born   in    1603,"   died    in    January,    .049;'''  fecond! 

'  Theobald's  in  Nichol's  Prog.  Jamos  1.,  iii.  526.  ■'  0 .1.  Stat.  Pap,,  torn.  ,  bJ  5-25   p.  364 

■    Cal.  btatf  Pap.,    ,025-26,  p.   109.  ^   S.,  I,is  Patent  ,n  .VlhnK.k    MS. 

M'at.m,  Aflimole  MS.  M^  mo,  sn.  pa,t,  in.  p.  247. 

Hyme,,  vi,  partiv.  p.  46.  »    Ibul.  v,i.  pa,t  iv .  p.  b  V 

■'   1.  P.  M.  WilU.  ,„  ,,  ,,  '       ' 

Lomp.  Papers. 


Fauiilv  of  Coohhill  a?i(l  JVheatky.  i  9 

Francis,  of  the  Inner  Temple;  third,  Edmund,  Sewer  to  the  Oueen,  and  fuccefTor  to  his 
father  as  Surveyor-General  of  Crown  Lands;  fourth,  Nieholas,  a  Knight  of  Malta  ;  fifth, 
John  ;  and  two  daughters,  —  Martha,  married  to  Nicholas,  iow  of  Sir  Edward  Lewis,  of 
The  Vanne,  in  Glamorganfhire  ;   and  fecond.  Prudence/ 

The  funeral  certificate  in  the  College  of  Arms,  records  that  "  The  Right  VVorfhipfull 
Sir  Nicholas  h'ortefcue,  of  Cookhill,  in  the  Co.  of  Worceller,  Knight,  departed  this  mortal 
life,  at  his  lodging  in  Fetter  Lane,  Lontlon,  the  fecond  of  November,  1633;  and  was 
thence  conveyed  to  his  houfe  aforefaid,  and  interred  in  a  chaj^el  belonging  to  the  fiid  houfe 
the  twentieth  of  the  fame  moneth." 

This  chapel  was  that  belonging  to  the  old  nuiuiery  before  mentioned. 

"  Near  the  tomb  of  Ifibel,  Countefs  ot  Warwick,""  fays  Nafh,  "  lays  the  body  ot 
Sir  Nicholas  Fortefcue,  Chamberlain  ot  the  l^xchequer,  who  was  beloved,  and  d  ed 
lamented."  ' 

By  the  inquifition  pofi:  mortem,''  held  November  8,  12  Car.  L,  it  appears  that  Sir 
Nicholas  died  feized  of  lands  in  the  manors  of  Wheatley  and  Cookhill.  Llis  eldeft  fon, 
William,  ftyled  a  "  Popifli  recufant,"'  fucceeded  to  the  former  manor,  which  was  afterwards 
fequeftered  for  his  recufancy.  He  is  alfo  called  "  ot  Cookhill."'  He  married  Joane,'' 
daughter  of  Thomas  Wilde,  of  Glafeley,  in  Shropfhire,  leaving  by  her  three  Ions  and  one 
daughter,  and  died  January,  1649,  aged  46  years.' 

There  is  no  record  of  any  defcendants  from  the  fons  of  this  William  Fortefcue,  nor  trom 
any  ot  his  brothers. 

Nicholas  Fortefcue,  above  named,  fourth  fon  of  Sir  Nicholas,  became  a  Knight  of  St.  John 
of  Jerufdem  ;  he  was  a  devoted  Roman  Catholic,  and  about  the  year  1637,  having  been  com- 
mifiioned  by  Queen  Henrietta-Maria  confort  to  Charles  the  b'irft:,  to  endeavour  to  revive 
the  "Fnglifl-i  tongue"  of  that  order  at  Malta,  he  petitioned  the  Grand  Maifer,  Lafcaris,  for 
admilfion  to  its  ranks,  praying  him  to  appoint  commitfioners  to  examine  the  "  proofs  of  his 
nobility,"  and  to  hear  his  propofals  for  reftoring  and  giving  lite  to  the  F.ngliih  Tongue.  His 
requeft  was  granted,  and  the  commilfioners  reported  favourably  to  the  Grand  Mailer  .and 
Council  on  the  projected  revival,  but  feemed  to  doubt  the  poflibility  of  raifmg  the  lum 
required  to  meet  the  expefted  outlay,  namely,  twelve  thouftnd  crowns. 

They  find  that  Fortefcue  had  eftablifhed  "  his  nobility  to  their  fatisfa^lion,'"  and 
recommend  that  he  be  admitted  to  the  order  with  the  rank  of  "  Cavaliere,"  and  lay  that  the/ 
have  named  him  as  a  novice  to  await  the  proper  time  for  taking  the  habit,  and  tor  making  the. 


Funeral  Ccrtificatt',  at  Coll.  of  Arms.  -'  N.illi,  WorccdcrfliiiL-,  ii.  p.  8.  "   I.  P.  M  ,  p.  17. 

Comp.  Papers.  -'  Comp.  Papers.  "   I'unural  Certilicate. 

I.  P.  M.  Wills,  Comp.  Papers. 


20  Fcifnily  of  Cookhill  and  Wheatley. 

prefcribed  profeflion  ;  allowing  him  meantime  to  wear,  hung  from  his  neck,  the  golden  crofs 
of  the  order,  both  within  and  without  the  convent,  fubjeft  to  the  approval  of  his  Holii.efs 
Pope  Urban  the  Eighth,  and  of  Cardinal  Harbarino,  I-'ioteftor  of  the  Order. 

This  report  is  dated  the  26th  of  h'ebruary,  1638. 

In  January  of  the  following  year  (1639)  '^'^  appears  to  have  prefented  himfclf  to  tfe 
Grand  Mafter  ;  for  we  find  a  letter  of  recommendation  and  introduilion  in  his  favour  fro,n 
the  Pope,  and  another  hom  Cardinal  Bariiarino,  both  addrelTed  to  the  head  of  the  order, 
Lafcaris,  who,  with  his  Council,  approved  and  confirmed  the  report  of  the  conmiiflioners  .n 
the  next  month  (February  1^). 

The  negotiation  never  advanced  beyond  this  ftage.  The  fpirit  of  the  time  in  Engl:  nd 
had  little  fympathy  with  an  inlT:itutioii  whole  ufefulnefs  had  palfcd  away  with  the  objeft  for 
which  it  was  founded,  and  the  unfortunate  queen  of  Charles  tlie  h'irll:  had  foon  more  prefl  ng 
affairs  to  think  of.  Pozzo,'  the  Erifl.orian  of  the  Order,  tluis  clofes  his  account  of  tlie 
tranfaftion  :  — 

"  Tutte  quefte  cufe  furono  dal  Gran  Maeflro  e  Configlio  approvate  e  confirmate  otto  il 
di  25  di  Eebbraio,  ma  fi  come  il  trattato  no  haveva  maggiori  hmdamenti  ch'  in  d  boli  e 
lontane  fperange,  cofi  in  breve  fvani,  tanto  piu  ch'  occorlero  di  poi  le  gravilllme  tjrl  olenze 
d'  Inghilterra  che  polero  non  folo  in  concjuanb  e  ruina  le  cole  di  Cattolici  di  que!  Iv  jgi  o  ;  ma 
per  r  affettione  dimollrata  conduffero  nclla  catallrofe  d'  una  funelfillima  tragedia  1'  ik-  fa  cafa 
Reale." 

Sir  Nicholas  took  up  arms  for  the  king  on  the  outbreak  of  the  great  Civil  Wr^.r,  and 
was  killed,  in  1644,  at  Prcilon  in  L.ancafhire,  according  to  Ibme  authorities,"  or  at  the  battle 
of  Marfton  Moor  in  Yorkfliire,  if  we  follow  the  ilatement  of  Whitaker,;  who  fays  iiat  he 
died  of  wounds  at  the  latter  place. 

"  The  Loyal  Martyrology  "  contains  the  following  notice  under  the  head  ot  "Loyal 
ConfelTors  :  " — "  Sir  Nicholas  Fortefcue,  a  Knight  of  Malta  (fee  the  jullnefs  of  tlie  king's 
caufe,  which  invited  ftrangers  from  fo  far  countries  to  take  his  part),  was  flain  in  La,ncalhire 
in  defence  of  the  Royal  caufe." 

The  original  document  containing  "  the  proofs  "  of  Sir  Nicholas'  "  nobility  "  lVi'|l  exil1:s; 
its  prefent  poifefTor  is  Mr.  John  James  Watts,  who,  with  much  kindnels,  has  allowed  me  to 
infpedl  it,  and  to  have  it  copied  in  facfimile.  It  is  a  parchment  roll,  with  a  kr-ight  on 
horfeback  emblazoned  in  colours  at  the  top,  with  the  following  infcription  :-- 

"  ila.'c  effigies  reprefentat  Nobiliflu-num  Vinmi  Dominum  Richardu  n  a  Forti-fcuto 
equelTiris  ordinis,    qui  comitatus    ell  Gulielmum    Normanniie  Ducem    did  un   vulgo  Con- 


'    Pozzo,  Hifloiia  della  facra  Ruligiouc  de  .S.m  Giovanni  di  Malta,   1   vol.  410.  Vcnizia,   1  7  1 ,5. 

-  Winflanley,  Loyal  Martyrology,  ici'}.  x.wviii.  p,  68.     Dod's  C^liuioh  lliltoiy,  iii.  p.  58.   London,  ibbj. 

■*  WliitaUfr's  Craven. 


Family  of  Cookhili  and  JVJieatley. 


21 


queftorem  in  expeditione  Anglicana,  et  propter  res  ab  eo  fortiter  ac  fivliciter  gellas,  ibidem 
a  dido  Conqua.'ftore  donatus  cl1:  Caftello  in  Coniitatu  Devoiiienfis  di^to  Winftoii  cum  agris 
adiacentibus  ubi  primo  fedem  pofuit  anno  falutis  1069." 

There  is  alfo  a  lirawing  of  a  feal,'  of  which  a  woodcut  is  given  further  on,  with  this 
infcription  over  it  :  — 

"HcecFigura  refert  figilium  antiquum  h'amili;t  Forti-Scutorum  nupcrrimc  repertum  a 
NobiHOimo  viro  fideli  Korti-Scuto  de  l<'illy  Jiquiti  aurato  inter  numifmata  Johannis  Terdefkhen 
Belgi,  qui  habitat  Lanibheth  trans  Thamefm  1  .ondoni." 

The  arms  of  the  eight  famihes  iorming  the  iieceflary  number  of  quarterings  for  "noble" 
defcent  are  given,  namely,  i  b'ortefcue,  2  Skinner,  3  Newport,  4  Males,  5  Whetley,  6  Pepis, 
7  Skinner  (as  No.  2),  H  Billing. 

A  fecond  row  of  (hields  for  the  children  of  Sir  Nicholas  Fortefcue  and  Prudence 
Whetley. 

And  the  defcent  is  vouched  by  John  Talbot  Earl  of  Shrewfliury,  and  Sir  John  Fortefcue 
of  Salden,  who  are  ftyled  "  confanguinii  "  of  Sir  Nicholas. 

The  produdiion  ot  the  document  at  the  Papal  Court  is  certified  by  the  fignature  "  Ca^far 
Columna,'  dated  at  Rome,  January   i,  i6jy. 

The  date  ot  the  death  ot  Sir  Nicholas  is  not  known,  nor  is  there  a  record  of  any 
marriage. 

John  Fortefcue,  fecond  fon  of  William  Fortefcue  and  Urfula  Newport,  was,  equally 
with  his  elder  brother,  Sir  Nicholas,  ftyled  of  Cookhili  and  Wheatley.  lie  took  an  ac'live 
part  in  the  great  rebellion  as  a  Royalift:  leader,  for  which  he  was  heavily  fined  by  the  J-'ai- 
liament,  imprifoned,  and  forced  to  compound  for  his  eltates  for  234/."  On  the  .iiyth  of 
March,  1649,  '^^  "took  the  Aft  of  Abjuration ;"'  notwithftanding  which  we  find  him  (oon 
after  the  ReftoraticMi,  in  the  year  i66j,  receiving  a  grant  of  "the  remainder  invelfed  m 
the  Crown,  of  the  MefTuage  and  Chapel  of  St.  Giles,  Co.  Warvv-ick,  and  Cookhili  Priory, 
Co.  Worceiter,  long  pertaining  to  his  anceifors ;"  as  well  as  of  othei-  lands  granted  by 
Henry  VHP  to  Nicholas  Fortefcue,  becaufe  he,  "the  fald  John  Fortefcue,  has  been  adi'.  e 
in  promoting  the  Relloration,  and  has  fufFered  for  his  loyalty."*  He  married  Jane,^  daughter 
of  —  D'E^ves,  of  Welbourne,  who  died  in  1674.  Phe  illue  ot  this  marriage  was,  ill, 
John  ;  2ndly,  Francis,  who  let't  a  fon  Francis,  a  !\oman  Catholic  Prieif,  who  diei.1  at  Douay  ; 
and  two  daughters." 


'   .Sec  tlic  woodcut,  and   particulars  of  tliis  ical,  in   llic  notice  of  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue,  in  CliaiUer  1\.  ol   ttii' 
volume. 

■'   Compos.  Pajiers.  '   Ibid.  ■'•  Cal.  Stale  I'.ipers,  lLit)3-04,  pp.  4M.   I  l  i.   I.;;,. 

^  Wills.  "   Uev.  F.  B.  Knolcslurd-Foitelcue's  I'edijrree. 


2  2  Familv  of  Cookbill  and  JV heat  ley. 

John,  the  cldcft  fon,  fold  tlie  cftate  of  VVheatley,  and,  having  difinhcritcd  his  eideft 
foil,  Nichohis,  left  at  his  death,  in  1692,'  his  eftate  of  Cookhill  to  his  fecond  fon,  VViUiam, 
who  married,  in  1697,  Katherine,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Braune,  and  died  in  1706. 

His  eldeft  fon,  John,  married  Theodofia  Braune,  and  died  in  1758,  leaving  his  fon  and 
fuccelTor,  Captain  John  Fortefcue,  who  entered  the  Royal  Navy  in  17'jo,  and  was  in  Lord 
Anion's  fhip,  the  Cfiitiir!o>i,  during  his  firft  voyage  roiuid  the  world  in  the  year  1740,"  and 
faw  much  fervice  under  I.ord  Howe.      Pie  died  in  the  year  1808. 

His  eldeft  fon,  alfo  John,  fold  the  eflate  of  Cookhill ;  and  his  two  fons,  John  and 
Henry,  leaving  no  male  iffue,  the  elder  line  of  the  defcendants  of  Sir  Nicholas,  who  had 
the  grant  of  Cookhill  from   Henry  VIII.,  became  extinct. 

The  burying-place  of  the  family  for  many  generations  was  the  chapel  ai  Cookhill.  It 
was  reftored  by  Captain  John  Fortefcue,  the  circumnavigator,  who  was  the  lajl:  of  the  family 
that  was  buried  there. 

The  reprelcntation  of  the  family  now  devolved  upon  l<'rancis  F'ortefcue,  of  Al.'efon 
Manor  Houle,  only  furvlving  fon  of  Francis  I^'ortefcue,  who  was  third  fon  of  John  Fortef'ue 
ot  Cookhill,  by  Theodofia  Braune.  The  eftate  of  Bridgetown,  with  the  manors  of  Al/el  on 
and  Teddington,  were  bequeathed  to  him  by  his  father's  coufin,  John  Knottesford;  rnd  on 
his  coming  of  age,  he,  by  a  condition  of  the  will,  took  the  name  of  Knottesford. 

Mr.  Francis  I'ortefcue-Knottesford  married  Maria,  only  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Cieo -ge 
Downing,  Redor  of  Ovington,  and  Prebendary  of  Ely  Cathedral.  He  died  in  1859,  and 
was  father  of  the  prefent  Very  Rev.  Edward  Bowles  Knottesford- Fortefcue,  of  AKell;n, 
Dean  of  Perth  Cathedral,  who  has  refumed  Fortefcue  as  his  laft  name. 

Alvci-fon  Manor  Houfe,  of  which  he  is  the  proprietor,  was  tormeiiy  called  Bridietcwn 
Houie  ;  it  is  near  Stratford-on-^Vvon,  in  Warwickfhire,  about  twenty  miles  diftant  fronr 
Cookhill.  It  was  built  as  an  hofpital  for  the  fick  monks  from  Worceiter,  and  was]  fold 
upon  the  diflblution  of  that  monailery.  .  , 

Dean  F'ortefcue  married,  in  1838,  Mifs  Frances  Anne  Spooner,  fourth  daughter  of  V'en. 
Archdeacon  Spooner,  F-ieftor  of  FLlmdown,  and  has  had  ilTue,  i.  Edward  F'rancis,  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  Army  ;  2.  Mary  ;  j.  John  ;  4.  Lawrence  ;  5.  George  ;  6.  Vincent ;  7.  Ch  ules- 
Nmian,  who  died  in   1855. 

From  the  foregoing  defcent,  it  appears  that  Dean  Knottesford-horteicuc  is  now,  m 
1867,  the  reprefentative  of  the  eldeft  exifting  line  of  the  I'orteicues,  the  brarch  which  he 
reprefents  being  fenior  to  all  the  others. 


Wills.  -  TliL  foljowin";  information  is  iVom  KvV,  Iv  B.  KnottesCoid-Foittlcue. 


Fa)nily  of  Cookh'ill  and  JFheatley.  23 

Appendix  to  Chap.   IV. 

The  Will  of  Nicholas  Fortefaie,  Groom-Porter  to  King  flenry  11  If. 

In  the  name  of  God,  amen,  the  ix"'  day  of  July  in  the  yere  of  our  Lorde  Cjodd,  1544,  and  in  the 
xxxvj"'  ycare  of  the  reigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lorde  Henry  the  eight  by  the  grace  of  Ciod  Kinge  of 
Englande,  Fraunce  and  Irelande  dek-ndor  of  the  faith  and  in  earthe  of  the  churche  of  Eiiglandc  and 
alfo  of  Ireland  the  fupreme  hedd,  I  Nicholas  Fortefcue  grome  porter  of  the  Kinges  moft  honurable 
Chamber  being  appointed  to  attende  upon  the  Ivinges  Majeltie  in  this  ins  graces  voyage  royall  into 
Fraunce  entending  to  lett  in  ordre  and  difpoficion  fuch  poore  fubltaunce  and  living  as  (jod  hath  lent 
me  at  my  departure  whatloever  fliall  become  of  me  do  ordeyn,  make  and  declare  my  kill  will  and 
teftament  in  manner  and  furme  hereafter  following.  And  iirlf  I  bequeath  and  rect)mende  my  !<  ulc  to 
the  handes  and  will  of  almightie  God  my  maker  and  redeemer  and  my  body  to  the  earthe,  alk)  I 
dyvife  and  bequethe  unto  Katheryne  my  welbeloved  wife  my  manor  of  Wytheley  with  th'appuite- 
naunces  in  the  countie  of  Worceter,  and  all  my  landes  and  tenementes  in  Wyuheley  in  the  lame 
countie  for  terme  of  her  life.  Item  I  give  and  bequethe  to  my  fonne  W  iUiam  a  balon  and  Ewer  of 
filver  and  parcell  gilt.  Item  I  give  and  bequethe  to  Mabel  my  doughter  iourtie  puundes  to  be  delyvered 
to  her  at  the  day  of  her  mariage  fo  that  (lie  be  ruled  and  ordered  in  her  faide  mariage  by  my  laide 
wif  her  mother.  Iten>  I  giv'e  and  bequethe  to  my  doughter  Jane,  touitie  pounder,  to  be  delivered 
to  her  at  the  day  of  her  mariage,  fo  that  flie  in  likewife  be  ordered  by  her  faid  mother.  Ami  il  it 
fortune  any  of  them  to  dye  before  mariage,  'Fhen  I  will  that  her  faid  portion  (hall  gt)o  and  remaijie 
to  the  furvivor  of  them  towardes  her  better  preferment  in  mariage  ihe  being  ruled  and  ordered  therm 
as  is  aforefaide  and  if  they  bothe  happen  to  dye  before  marriage  then  I  will  tliat  my  wife  ihall  have 
and  retayne  the  faide  fome'..  to  her  owne  ufe.  Item  I  will  that  my  faide  fonne  \\'illiam  fnall  have 
after  that  he  fhall  come  to  the  full  age  of  xxj  yeres,  foure  poundeb  yerely  paide  unto  h)m  by  my 
faid  wife  during  her  life  towardes  his  fynding.  Alfo  I  will  that  my  fcrvauntes  William  Mylles,  Chril- 
topher  Bankes,  John  Humfrey,  William  Oking,  William  I'atefon,  Alorice  Bulle  and  Markcs  Wynter 
being  in  my  fervice  at  my  departure  of  this  traniuorye  worlde  iliall  have  every  of  them  one  yeres  wages 
with  the  quarter  of  the  yere  that  I  dye  in,  to  be  compted  one  of  the  iiij  quarters  of  the  yere.  Alio 
I  will  that  within  a  convenient  tyme  after  my  dethe  fyve  poundes  in  redy  money  be  diltributed  and 
bellowed  emonges  poor  houleholders  dwelling  in  Saindl:  Martyns  paryihe  belides  Channg  crolle  or 
elles  where  by  the  difcrecon  of  myn  executrix.  Item  I  bequethe  and  give  to  Alargerye  i-oreman  a 
blackc  gowne  requyringe  her  to  praye  for  me.  Item  I  give  and  bequethe  to  John  Rowland  page  fo 
the  robes  a  ringe  worthe  twentye  iliiUin-es.  Item  I  give  and  bequethe  to  my  frcnd  M\  ^Ventwo^th, 
clerke  of  tlie  kechen  IVF.  'Fhomas  Wortli  and  M'.  Stephen  Darrell  and  every  of  them  a  ring  of  the 
price  of  xiij\  iiij''.  for  a  remembraunce.  Alfo  I  give  and  bequethe  to  my  filler  in  l.iw  Alice  W  ■  Imer 
a  ring  of  the  value  or  xiij'.  iiij'.  The  refidue  of  my  goodes  and  cattalles  as  plate  redy  money,  juelles, 
apparell,  houfehold  iluf,  lealles  and  other  goodes,  moveable  and  unmoveable,  my  debtes  paide  ai  d  n.y 
faide  legacies  and  bequefles  duely  performyd  I  will,  give  and  bequethe  fully  and  holly  t,.  the  laide 
Katherine  my  wife  whome  I  ordeyn  and  make  my  onely  executrix  milling  verely  and  allu  h.irtely 
defiring  and  requyring  her  in  confideracon  that  1  have  allured  all  my  hole  loiides  and  pofkliiun  to  her 
for  a  joyntsr  during  her  life  that  (he  fe  this   my  lall  will  and  tellament  in  every  poynt  to  be  well  and 


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Family  of  Cookbill  and  IVheatlcy. 


trucly  accompliftied  and  performed,  And  alio  that  file  be  loving  and  natural!  to  her  faide  children  and 
niyiie.  And  overleers  hcreot  I  ordeyne  and  make  my  trullie  and  derely  beloved  Trend  M'.  1' itz 
William  gentilman  uflrer  of  the  jirinees  pryvy  chamber  hartely  deiiring  him  to  fe  this  my  lalt  will  ;  nd 
tellamcnt  fulhlled  and  executed  and  to  put  his  heipe  and  adiilance  therunto.  And  tor  his  payiies 
therin  I  give  to  hyni  a  gelding  of  the  price  of  hve  markes.  In  witiies  wherof  1  have  herunt) 
fubfcribed  my  name  and  lette  my  feale. 

Nicholas   Fortescuk. 
Ultima  Voluntas. 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen  the  xxviij"'  daie  i)f  Augutt  in  the  yere  ot  our  Lorde  (jod  a  thouland 
five  hundreth  fourtie  and  iiyne  I  Nycholas  Fortefcue  grome  porter  of  the  Kinges  moil  honorable, 
chamber  in  th'accomplifliment  and  further  declaracion  of  my  lail  will  made  the  ix"'  day  ot  July  in  the 
yeare  of  our  Lord  God  1544  concerning  my  maner  of  Wytheley  with  th'appurtenances  fpecified  in 
my  faide  will,  I  will  and  bequeathe  the  fame  with  all  my  landes  and  teneme  its  in  Wytheley  to 
Katheryne  my  wile  fo  terme  of  her  lyfe,  and  after  her  deceafe  to  remayne  ti'  my  lonne  William 
Fortefcue  and  the  heyres  of  his  body  lawfully  begotten  and  for  lack  of  fuche  yilue  I  wi;l  the  faid 
maner  and  all  and  finguler  the  premifles  fhall  remayne  to  my  doughter  Mabell  Fortekue  .  nd  to  the 
lieyres  of  her  body  lawfully  begotten,  and  for  defaulte  of  fuch  ilTue  I  will  the  faid  maner  and  all  and 
finguler  the  premill'es  fliall  remayne  to  my  doughter  Jane  I'"ortefcue  and  to  the  he)Tes  ot  her  body 
lawfully  begotten,  and  for  defaulte  of  fuch  yll'ue  I  will  the  faide  maner  and  all  and  hngule:  tl  e  pre- 
milTes  Iliall  remayne  to  Mailer  William  Fifz-William  and  to  his  heires  for  ever.  In  pre  era  ia  mei 
Johannis  Bell,  cle'ci  hoc  tellamentum  ledtuin  et  approbatum  per  dictum  tellatorem  unacui  1  c  idicillo 
Richard  Haywood. 

Proved  together  with  a  codicil  at  London  on  the  27th  day  of  September,  a.  d.  1549  b)  the  jath  ol 
Katherine  the  relict  and  executrix  in  the  above  will  nominated. 


Chap.  V. 

The  Forte/cues  of  Fitllap!t,J'eco>id  line.  'I 

^ACwn^  now  rettirn  to  Louis  Fortefcue,  third  and  youngeft  Ton  ot  John  Fontfcue  of 
^VAW^;  Spridleftone  by  Ahce  Cockworthy,  and  brother  to  Nichohis  the  Groom 
^M^pk  Porter,  and  to  Anthony,  Marflial  of  the  army  in  [reland.  He  was|bred  to 
the  law  ;  and  fo  diftinguiflied  himfelf,  that,  in  the  autumn  of  i  536,  he  was  appointed  a  Reader 
of  the  Middle  Teniiije,'  where  he  had  Ihidied  ;  and  on  the  6th  of  Auguft,  1  542,"'  in  the 
thirty-tourth  year  of  Henry  VIIL,  he  was  made  fourth  Baron  of  the  Excl  equer,  quamdiu 
fe  bene  geflet."  His  falary  was  46/.  13J.  4.</.  per  annum.'  Baron  Fortelcue  1  ved  about  three 
years  longer,  dying  in  the  autimin  of  1  54.5.  His  arms  were  phtced  in  the  H.  II  ot  the  Middle 
7'emple,  in  the  third  window  towards  the  north. ^  He  married  Ehzabetli  bortelcue, 
daughter  and  fole  lieir  of  John  Fortefcue  of  b'allapit,  and  thus  acquired  that  property,  which 


Fofs,  Judges  of  England,  v.  p.  1  S  1 
Exchequer  Tellers  Rolls. 


f)ut;(Uile,  Chroii.  Series,  p.  SO. 
l)uL;dale,  Chron.  Series,  p.  8b. 


Pau  lit  Rolls 


Fcvnily  of  Fallapit^  fecojid  line. 


25 


defL-endcd  through  his  fon  John,  to  the  hifl:  male  polTcdbr  of  that  cftate,  and  afterwards, 
as  will  be  feen,  through  an  heircis  to  the  prefent  proprietor.  By  his  will,  dated  26th  ot 
January,  1543,  and  proved  on  the  23rd  of  October  following,  after  bequeathing  his  lands 
in  Plynipton  and  Morleyth,  he  leaves  "  ilx  of  my  heft  feather  beds  to  my  wife,  witli  appur- 
tenances, for  her  life,  if  llie  live  fole,  and  at  Fallapit.  To  my  brother  Nicholas  four 
marks  in  gold,'"  which  his  wife  is  to  make  into  a  crofs,  "  in  what  talliion  to  her  it  fhall  ieem 
meet." ' 


— .1 


i 


m^^Mi;:r  -- 


Fallapit  House. 


^i'^:^- 


The  ifTue  of  Baron  Fortefcue  was  fix  fons:— John,  Peter,  Thomas,  Benet,  Philip, 
and  Nicholas  ftyled  in  Fortefcuana,  "of  Mawgan  in  Cornwall;"  and  four  daught  ts, 
Anne,  Joan  or  Jane,  Mary,  and  Anne,  all  living  in  1543." 

The  eldeft  fon,  John,  inherited  Fallapit,  and  fo  preferved  to  the  l-ortefcue  name  tor 
feveral  generations  that  ancient  feat. 


Will,  Doc.  Com. 


Wills  aid  Pediiirees,  Stem.  I'ori. 


26  Family  of  Fallapit^  fecojul  line. 

He  married  Honour,  daughter  of  Sir  T.  Speccot,'  of  Speccot,  and  died  December  i^th, 
1595,  aged  70  years,  leaving  iflue  three  foiis  and  four  daughters.  He  was  buried  in  Eaft 
Allington  Church,  where  two  "  very  fine  effigies  in  brafs  "  mark  the  tombs  of  his  wife  a  id 
himfelf  ■ 

There  is  a  portrait  of  him  at  Fallapit  Houfe,  with  the  following  infcription  :  — 

"  John  ffortefcue  fil.  Ludovici  unius  Baron,  ex  Elizabethii  fil.  et  hatred.  John 
fFortefcue  de  fFallapit  de  ftirpe  Henrici  ffortefcue  Cap.  Juftic.  Hiberniir. 

Anno  Dom.  1598.     iEt.  fua;  LXX.  i 

This  day  brave, 
To-morrow  in  grave. 
,  Spero  in  Deo."^ 

Thomas  Fortefcue,  a  younger  brother  of  the  above  John,  married,  and  left  'iTue  two 
fons,  one  of  whom,  Thomas,  who  ftyles  himfelf  "of  Dartmouth,"  in  his  will  c'attd  10 
November,  1595,  and  proved  i  June,  1602,  leaving  bequefts  to  Exeter  College,  0::ford, 
to  the  poor  of  various  pariflies,  and  for  an  almflioufe.  To  feveral  friends  h;  eaves 
"  rings  with  the  following  pofies:"  "  Mortis  amici  pignus,"  "  Be  careful  to  pleafe,  '  "  Live 
in  hope."  His  "  wife's  ring  or  fignet  of  arms,  being  the  arms  of  Grenfyldes,"  (prol  ab  y  the 
old  form  of  Grenville),  he  leaves  to  his  coufin,  Edmund  Raynell.  This  Thomas  1-orLefcue 
does  not  appear  to  have  left  any  iffue.^      He  died  in  1602. 

John  h'ortefcue  ot  I^'allapit,  who  died  in  1595,  was  iiicceeded  by  his  elueft:  fon,  E.dmund, 
born  in  1552.  He  was  High  Sheriff  of  Devon  in  1623.  He  married  Mary,  daughier  of 
Henry  Champernoune,  and  fifler  of  Sir  Richard  Champernoune,  of  Modbury  Court,^  \,'here 
this  ancient  fmiily  lived  for  many  generations,  from  the  reign  of  Edward  II.,  in  great 
fplendour.  By  her  he  had  four  fons,  viz.  Henry,  who  died  young,  born  a.o.  1594.;!  John, 
his  heir;''   hrancis,  and  Nicholas  ;  and  three  dauiditers,  viz.  Honour,  Mary,  and  Elizabeth. 

He  died  in  July,  1624.  I'here  was  an  inquifition  pofl  mortem  held  at  Kingfbrii'lge,  on 
the  20th  of  the  following  Oftober,  by  which  it  apjjears  that  Edmund  Fortefcue  wa'  ieized 
at  his  death  of  the  lands  of  Great  Vallepit  in  Eall  Allington,  of  the  Manor  of  Lamlide,  in 
the  fame  parifli,  and  of  the  advowfon  of  the  Church  of  Eafl  Allington,  of  the  Manors  of 
Aifhrudge  and  Dorfley,  in  Harberton  ;  of  the  Manor  of  Prefton,  in  Blackawton  ;  of  the 
Manor  of  Blagdon,  in  Wefl  Allington,  '•  with  many  others." 

He  was  buried  in  Eafl  Allington  Church,  where  is  alfo  the  grave  of  his  wife  Mary,  who 
died  in  161 1,  with  this  infcription  : — 


'  Mr.  Fortefcue's  Letter  ;    Stemni.  Fort,  makts  her  dausjhter  of  Edmund  Speccot. 

-  Cliurch  Ikriildry  ot'Devon,  by  Urban  de  Valeiicourt,  Kt.,  p.  7.  '  Mr.  Fortefcue's  Letter. 

'  Wills.  '"  Handbook  for  DeNOii,  59.  "   L  V .  ^L 


Fmnily  of  FaJlapit^  fecoiul  line.  27 

"  Here  lieth  a  wight  of  worthy  defcent, 

Whofe  lofs  for  her  worth  the  people  himent ; 
The  l^ich  for  her  love  and  kind  afFabihtic,  ■ 

Tlie  Poor  for  her  alms-deeds  and  J  Ior])iralitie. 
oh.  28  Jan.   16  II."' 

Emund  Fortefcue  was  fucceeded  by  his  fon  John,  who  married  Sarah,  daughter  ot 
Sir  Edmund  I'rideaux,  Baronet,  of  Netherton,  who  died,  aged  44,  in  1628,  by  whom  he 
had  ilTue  five  fons,  viz.  Sir  Edmund,  John,  Thomas,  Peter,  ftyled  "  of  Crutt,"  whofe  fon 
eventually  fucceeded  to  Fallapit,"  and  George  ;  and  two  daughters,  Mary  and  Bridget. 

This  John  Fortefcue  lived  in  the  troublous  times  of  the  great  Civil  War.  He  took 
arms  againft  the  Parliament,  but  having  furrendered  himfelf  to  Sir  Thomas  Fairfax,  was,  in 
the  year  1643,^  committed  a  prifoner  to  "  the  Clinke,"  or  Winchefter  Houfe,  along  vith  his 
fon  Sir  Edmund.  It  appears  that  another  fon,  Peter,  had  been  previoufly  imprifoned,  for 
there  is  an  order  in  the  Commons  Journals  at  this  time,  direfting  that  Peter  Fortefcue 
fhall  be  removed  to  VVinchefter  Houfe,  and  fhail  have  liberty  to  attend  his  father.  Both 
father  and  fon  were  foon  after  exchanged  for  two  Parliamentarians. 

In  1645  'i'^  obtained  from  Fairfax  an  order  for  the  protection  ot  "his  home  at  Eaft 
Allington  from  plunder,"  and  petitioned  the  Committee  to  prevent  the  falling  of  his  timber 
there.  Flis  previous  "  delinquency,"  however,  was  not  altogether  forgiven,  but  appears  to 
have  been  ftridly  inveftigated,  and  he  was  forced  to  compound  for  his  eftates  for  the  fum 
of  661/.  4i.  \od.  There  is  a  certificate  in  the  "  Compofition  Papers,"  that  "John  Fortefcue 
of  Fallapit  took  the  oath  and  covenant  on  the  4th  November,  1646;"  and  another,  dated 
June  28,  1649,  to  tefiify  "  that  he  was  an  inhabitant  of  the  City  of  Exeter  for  feven  months 
before  its  furrender."  This  certificate  may  have  been  obtained  to  prove,  by  way  of  alibi, 
his  abfence  from  more  aftive  operations  againft  the  Parliament.  Exeter  was  furrendered  to 
Fairfax  in  April,  1646. 

It  appears  from  his  will,  dated  in  1647,  that  John  Fortefcue  had  married  a  fecond  wife, 
who  furvived  him.  Pier  name  is  not  given.  He  defires  to  be  buried  at  Eaft  Allington,  "  on 
the  north  fide  of  the  grave  of  his  never-to-be-forgotten  deceafed  wite  Sarah,"  who  had 
died  feventeen  years  before.  He  died  in  1649,  having  furvived  his  eldeft  fon  Sir  Edmur.d, 
the  well-known  Royalift,  and  was  fucceeded  in  his  eftates  by  his  grandfon,  the  fecond  Sir 
Edmund. 

Sir   Edmund  Fortescue. 

Sir  Edmund  Fortefcue,  the  eldeft  fon  of  John  Fortefcue  of  Fallapit,  was  born  at  Faliapit ; 


Polwhcll's  Devon,  iii.  466.      Conip.  Papers.  "  Stemm.  I'ort. 

Journals  of  Houfe  of  Commons  (1642,  1643),  vol.  ii.  903,  909;  vol.  iii.  203,  212. 


28  Family  of  Fallapit^  feco?id  line. 

and  baptized  in  the  church  of  Eaft  Allington,  July  15,  16  10.'      He  married,  in  i6jj,  Jane 
Southcotc  of  Mohun's  Ottery.'^ 

Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  he,  hke  his  father  and  fiinily,  took  the  king's 
fide.  In  the  year  1642  he  was  appointed  by  Charles  High  Sheriff  of  JDevonfliire,  a  poll:  to 
which  he  certainly  would  not  have  been  chofen  at  that  nioft  critical  time  if  he  had  not  ihown 
other  qualifications  befides  that  of  his  Nation  as  fon  and  heir  to  a  gentleman  of  large  eftate. 
The  year  of  his  fhrievalty  was  deftined  to  be  a  memorable  one.  The  Royal  Standard  was 
raifed  by  the  king  at  Nottingham  on  the  25th  of  Auguft,  and  in  Oiftober  of  that  year  the 
firft  confli(5l  between  the  two  parties  took  place  at  Edgehill,  when  each  fide  claimed  a  vicftory. 
Then  followed  in  nioit  counties  armed  rifings  of  the  people.  In  Devonfhire  the  Parliamen- 
tarians were  led  by  the  Earl  of  Bedford,  and  at  firft  carried  all  before  them  ;  but  towards  the 
end  of  the  year.  Sir  Ralph  Hopton  having  arrived  with  a  confiderable  bo  iy  of  troops, 
recovered  many  of  the  towns  for  the  king,  and  upon  reaching  Modbury,.  a  town  near 
Fallapit,  was  joined  by  the  fherifF  at  the  head  of  his  "  Pofle  Comitatus,"  where  they  were 
foon  furprifed  by  Colonel  Ruthven,  "  the  Scotch  Colonel,"  with  500  Parliamentarian  hore 
from  Plymouth,  and,  notwithftanding  their  fuperior  numbers,  were  entirely  routed,  and  Sir 
Edmund  taken  prifoner.  The  following  account,'  although  not  impartial,  will  be  read  wiih 
intereft,  having  been  written  immediately  after  the  events  :  — 

'•  PHmoiith,  Deccmb.  9,  1642. 

"  Sir  Nicolas  Slaning  and  Sir  Ralph  Hopton  have  entered  Devon,  as  you  have  alrcadie 
heard,  with  two  or  three  thoufand  foote  and  horfe,  and  firft  tooke  Taveftocke,  and  next 
Plymton  neere  Plymouth ;  and  after  went, to  Modberry,  leaving  thefe  townes  fortified,  where 
the  high  Sheriffe  of  Devon,  Sir  Edw.  Fortefcue  met  them,  and  by  his  warrant  of  Pol  "e 
commitatus  called  many  thoufands  together  at  Modberry  on  Tuefday  and  Wednefday  ial:, 
where  they  thought-  by  examining  everie  man  to  perfwade  the  people  to  ftand  againft  the 
Parliament,  either  by  faire  or  foule  meanes,  and  alfo  to  increafe  their  armie  by  taking  ujl  of 
volunteeres,  ind  arming  them  'with  the  armes  they  could  take  from  honeft  men  that  \v,ere 
unwilling  to  follow  their  defines,  by  which  meanes  they  would  certainely  have  gotten  muny 
to  ferve  them,  for  that  moft  part  appeered  from  i  8  yeares  to  60  yeares,  but  it  hath  pleafed 
God  to  fruftrate  their  defigiies  for  this  time,  by  meanes  the  Scottifli  Colonell  went  hence  on 
Wednefday  morning  by  foure  of  the  clocke  with  foure  troopes  ot  horle,  viz.  Bar.  Drakes, 
Captaine  Tompfons,  Captaine  Pimmes,  and  Captaine  Gooldes,  and  about  200  Dragoneeres ; 
and  comming  to  Modberry  about  nnie  of  the  clocke,  all  the  Countrie  people  fl-d,  moft  of 


'   Eafl  Allington  Regiftry.  '^  Pt<l.  in  Stomni.,  and  Burke  Ccmni 

^  Remarkable  Falfages,  newly  receiTed,  of  the  great  Overthrow  of  Sir  Ralph  Hopton  and  his  Forces,  at 
Madburie,  12  miles  from  Flimouth.  With  the  taking  of  the  Higli  Sherilo  ^Sir  Kdmond  Kortefcuc)  jirifoners,  and 
divers  others  of  Note,  their  names  being  here  infertod.  The  which  I'aitiLiilars  were  ieiit  in  two  Letters  to 
Gentlemen  of  good  Credit  here  in  London.      London;   Printed  lor  HLiiiy  Overlun.  Decemb.  14,  1O42. 


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Family  of  Fallapit^  fecoiid  I'nie.  29 

them  being  naked  men,  and  thofc  that  had  armes  aHo  threw  them  down  and  ranne  away 
without  any  armes  or  horfes  ;  by  which  means,  with  the  lofTe  of  one  man,  they  tooke 
the  high  Shereffe  Sir  Edmond  Fortefcue,  Baronet  Seymer  and  his  eldeft  fonne  which  was 
Knight  of  the  Shcire  for  Devon;  in  Parhament,  and  Squire  Arthur  BafTet  of  the  North 
of  Devon:  (a  notable  MaUgnant)  but  the  Clarke  of  the  Peace,  and  about  thirteene  Gentlemen 
more,  which  they  carried  from  Dartmouth,  and  this  day  fent  them  hither  by  fea  (God  fend 
tliem  a  faire  winde,  I  hope  there  will  be  jo.  or  40.  great  Malignants  fcnt  from  hence 
to  London).  Sir  Nicholas  Slaning,  and  Sir  Ralph  Hopton  efcaped  very  narrowly  :  Captaine 
(loold,  1  heare,  is  fent  with  his  troope  to  Exon  to  defire  fome  aide  from  thence,  which  if 
they  come  to  joyne  with  our  forces  with  Dartmouth  and  Plimouth  (I  hope,  by  God's 
afliflance)  they  will  be  fpeedily  fuppreflcd.  Our  foldiers  are  heartie  to  the  Worke,  at 
Madbury  tliey  got  great  ftore  of  monie,  horfe,  and  armes  from  the  Gentrie  they  met  thei ;. 

"Vale."  '     ' 


"  Master  Stock  and  Loving  Friend, 

"  Since  the  writing  of  my  Letter  a  friend  is  come  hither  upon  purpofe  from  Exeter,  to 
bring  us  tidings  of  a  brave  exploit  done  by  the  Plimouth  Forces,  worthy  to  be  Chronicled, 
a  neat  and  true  relation,  and  fit  for  the  Prefl'e,  is  as  followeth. 

"  Upon  Tuelday  lail  at  night,  being  the  6.  of  this  inftant,  the  Commanders  of  the 
Garrifon  at  Plimouth  entered  into  confultation  concerning  v/hat  was  fit  to  be  done,  and 
having  intelligence  that  the  Sheriffe  lay  at  Madbury,  where  the  trained  bands  by  vertue 
of  his  PolTe  Comitatus  met  that  day,  and  the  next,  the  Cavaliers  chiefe  quarters  being  at 
Piympton,  within  3.  miles  of  them,  thereupon  they  framed  their  defigne.  Very  early  in  the 
morning  Captaine  Thomfon,  Captaine  Pym,  and  Captaine  Goold,  and  fome  others,  with 
500.  Horl~e  and  Dragooners,  marched  away  very  privately  Northward,  toward  Roubard 
Downe,  as  if  they  meant  to  goe  to  Tavellock,  and  then  wheeled  about  toward  Ivie  Bridge 
on  Plimouth  road,  and  fo  went  to  Madbury,  where  in  Mafter  Champernons  houfe,  and  in 
the  Towne,  they  found  the  Sheriffe,  with  divers  other  Gentlemen  of  quality,  and  2000. 
trained  Souldiers,  and  Voluntiers;  prefently  on  their  approach  the  Trained  bands  crying  out, 
the  Troopers  are  come,  run  away,  many  of  them  leaving  their  Armes  behind  them  The 
houfe  was  befet,  and  the  Sheriffe  ftood  upon  his  defence  imtill  it  was  fired,  and  lW\ 
the  AITailants  breaking  in,  polTeffed  the  houfe,  and  tooke  divers  prifoners,  to  the  number  t  f 
20.  or  thereabouts,  amongft  which  were  thefe  that  follow.  Sir  Edmond  Fortefcue,  hign 
Sheriffe,  Sir  Edward  Seimor  Baronet,  Mafter  Edward  Seimor  Knight  of  the  Shire,  Matter 
BafTet,  Captaine  Champernon,  Captaine  Pomeroy,  Captaine  Bedlake,  Captaine  Peter 
Fortefcue,  Mafter  Barnes,  Mafter  Sheptoc  Gierke  of  the  Peace :    After  which  they  marched 


30  Family  of  Fallapit^  fecofid  line. 

aw.iv  towards  Dartmouth,  with  their  prifoners,  where  that  night  they  fafely  arrived,  bringing 
good  ftore  of  Amies  with  them. 

"  This  good  newes  I  could  not  but  write,  although  lo.  at  night  ;  I  conceive,  nay  I  h  .-are 
they  will  there  Ship  thefe  prifoners  for  London,  I  wifl-i  them  a  fiire  wind  to  bring  them  unto 
Winchefler  houfe,  or  fome  fuch  place  :  Mafter  Hill  underftanding  the  wayes  of  the  Marth, 
will  lay  it  is  as  brave  an  exjiloit  as  liath  been  attempted  a  long  time,  unto  whom,  with  all 
my  good  friends  that  fliall  be  at  the  reading  hereof,  1  pray  remember  him  that  is  always 
ready  to  ferve  you,  &.c. 

'R.  R. 

•■  Dated  Deccmb,  0.   1642. 

"  We  have  now  Letters  from  Portfmouth,  where  they  are  very  coura^ious,  and  read)  to 
doe  exploits." 

"  The  houfe  "  mentioned  in  the  narrative  where  Fortefcue  and  his  companions  defended 
themfelves  was  Modbury  Caltle,  the  refidence  of  the  Champernounes. 

Sir  Nicholas  Slanning  did  not  leave  the  neighbourhood,  but  entrenching  himfelf  n  ar  the 
town  with  2000  men,  held  out  until  the  i'ebruary  tollowing,  when  he  was  deteatid  by  the 
DevonHiire  clubmen.' 

Sir  Edmund  was  forthwith  fent  to  1  .ondon,  and  was,  after  a  few  days,  tran-fered  to 
Windfor  Caflle,  whence  he  was  removed  to  "  VVinchefter  Houfe." 

On  the  wall  of  the  chamber  in  Windfor  Caftle,  fituated  near  the  Norman  Gati ,  and 
Round  Tower,  fome  writings  were  found,  not  very  many  years  ago,  which  identify  the  fpot 
of  his  imprifonment.  i 

SIR  EDMVND  FORTESCVE  PRISONER  IN  THIS  CHAMBER,  j 
THE   I2TH   DAY  OF  ANNARIE  1642.  ^  1 


Poi'R  LE  ROY  C^ 


FORTESCVE. 


Here  is  a  rude  outline  of  the 
family  fliicld  of  arms. 

S^ 
Forte-SCUTVM  E  F 

SALVS  DVCVM  1643    ■ 

22  OF  MAY. 


■  Lyfon's  Devon,  ii.  341,  quoting  Vicar's  Parliamentary  Chronicle,  i.  lib,  I'X.        See   Clarendon,  iv.  p.  61: 
Appendi.\,  for  death  of  Sir  Nicholas  Slanning.  -  See  Jelle's  Windfor  and  Eton,  p.  101. 


Family  of  Fallapit^  fecond  line.  3  \ 

Sir  Edmund  did  not  remain  long  in  prifon.  The  date  of  liis  releafe,  by  exchange  or 
otherwife,  does  not  appear  with  thole  of  his  father  and  brother  Peter,  but  it  was  not 
later  than  the  autumn  of  1643.  I'''  '^'"'^  following  year  he  was  once  more  adively  engaged 
againft  the  Roundheads  in  Devonfhire,  as  his  letter  to  Colonel  Seyniour,  the  Governor  of 
Dartmouth,  will  fhow. 

The  Royalifts  then  dill  held  out  bravely. 

Sir  Edmund  Forte/cue  to  Colonel  Seymour. 
"  My  Dearest  Friend, 

"  Prefently,  upon  the  receipt  of  your  letter,  I  adrefled  myfelf  to  his  Majefty,  and  made 
known  to  him  your  juiT:,  fair,  and  moft  neceffary  defires. 

"  His  reply  to  me  was,  that  he  wiflied  the  thing  done,  but  now  he  could  not  poHihly 
fpare  any  horfe  or  foot  for  the  redemption  of  thofe  parts  from  the  perjured  devils  that  are  nc  w 
in  them. 

"  But  with  this  I  did  not  reft  fatisfied,  but  with  fury  made  it  known  to  fome  of  my 
friends,  who,  with  zeal  in  the  bufinefs,  again  a.flaulted  the  King  for  a  fupply  ;  but  his 
anfwer  was  the  fame  to  them  as  he  formerly  gave  me. 

"After  which  I  met  with  Sir  Thomas  ]-Iele,  and  then  we  joined  forces  and  went  at  it 
again.  But  the  king  was/einper  idem  ;  and  yet  we  did  not  defpair  ;  but  almofl  difheartened 
at  laft  we  delivered  all  to  the  Lord  Hopton,  who  was  tender  of  it,  and  promifed  to  do  his 
utmoil  for  oin-  endeavours  ;  who  after  much  difcourle  with  his  Majeily,  plainly  told  us  that 
till  this  argument  was  thoroughly  difputed  with  EfTex  no  man  could  have  a  placet. 

*'  This  made  me  almoll  mad,  and  then  having  a  difh  of  claret,  1  hartily  chirped  your 
health,  and  another  to  the  fair  lady  governeis,  and  then  ngam  to  the  noble  governor  on  top: 
and  after  fome  few  roimds,  as  long  as  the  b'rench  fpirits  lafled,  in  a  merry  and  undeniable 
humour,  I  went  to  Maurice,  of  whom  I  had  good  words  and  promifes,  which  again  was 
affured  me  by  Wagftaff, — one  that  loves  you, — and  I  am  confident  I  fliall  prevail  very 
fpeedily  for  fome  horfe,  either  Sir  Thomas  Hole's  or  Sir  Henry  Cafey's  Regiment. 

"  Sir,  nothing  Ihall  be  neglefted  by  me  in  which  1  may  do  you  iervice.  Ralph  can  tell 
you  that  in  the  profecution  of  it  I  was  near  a  mifchange  on  a  rotten  bridge  near  the  Court, 
where  we  are  ;  and  what  we  do  I  fhall  leave  to  honeft  Enfign  Hemmerfon's  relation.  This 
is  the  lall  ad  of  the  play.     God  grant  that  each  man  may  do  his  part  well. 

"  My  molt  humble  and  ever  beft  fervices  fliall  attend  you,  your  fair  lady,  and  your's. 
This  is  the  unalterable  refolution  of  your  ever  conftant  and  moll:  faithful  lervant, 

"  E.    EORTESCUE.  : 

"  From  the  army  near  the  rebels  in  Loftwithiel,  23rd  Auguft:,  1644. 
"  My  fervice  to  Major  Fitzjames,  Ranfield,  Turner,  cum  multis  aliis.'" 


'  The  foregoing  Letter  is  printed  in  Warburton's  Prince  Rupert  and  the  Cavaliers,  vol.  iii.,  from  the  Duke   of 

Somerfet's  MSS. 


32  Family  of  Fallapit^  feco7ul  line. 

Sir  Edmund  was  at  this  time  ferving  under  and  in  prefence  of  the  king  himfelf,  who, 
with  Prince  Maurice  and  Sir  Richard  Grenville,  were  encamped  near  Lortwithiel  in  Cornwall. 
Here  they  prefled  fo  hardly  upon  the  Earl  of  EfTex  and  his  army,  thit  but  a  few  days  after 
this  urgent  letter  was  written,  he  was  forced  to  embark  from  the  port  of  Fowey,  which  lay 
in  his  rear,  and  fo  to  efcape  to  Plymouth,  leaving  liis  army  with  General  Skippon  to  make 
what  terms  they  could  with  the  king.  They  foon  furrendered.  The  men  were  allowed  to 
march  to  Poole  and  Wareham  after  giving  up  their  artillery,  arms,  and  ammunition.  Their 
numbers  amounted  to  about  6000,  after  the  departure  of  Sir  William  Balfour,  who,  with 
the  horfe,  had  broken  through  the  Royal  army  fome  days  before  with  the  lofs  of  100 
troopers.' 

We  next  find  Sir  Edmund  engaged  in  repairing  and  defending  for  the  king  the  Fort  of 
SaJcombe,  which  proteds  the  entrance  of  Salcombe  harbour  near  Kingibridj  e,  and  not  far 
from  Fallapit. 

In  1643  he  had  received  the  following  commifiion  from  Prince  Maurice  :  — 

I 
"  Prince  Maurice,  Count  Palatine  of  the  Rhine,  Duke  of  Bavaria," 

"  To  Sir  Edmund  Fortefcue  Knight. 

"  Forafmuch  as  I  have  received  very  good  fatisfaclion  that  the  tort  called  the  Old  Bi  11- 
worke  near  Salcombe,  now  utterly  ruined  and  decayed,  which  being  well  fortified  and  inai  'd 
may  much  conduce  to  ye  advancement  of  his  Mat\  fervice  in  annoying  the  rebells,  and  fecur- 
ing  thole  partes  from  their  incurfions. 

"And  whereas  you  the  laid  Sir  Edmund  Fortefcue  have  given  mee  aflurance  of  yc  ur 
readinefs  and  diligence  in  re-fortifying  and  re-manmg  ye  laid  fort : 

"  Thefe  are  to  will  and  require  you,  heerby  giving  you  full  power  and  authority,  by  all 
poiTible  ways  and  meanes  to  refortify  and  man  the  fame,  willing  and  requiring  the  Sherifi.e  of 
the  County  of  Devon,  and  all  others  his  Mat",  officers  and  loveing  fubjecfts,  to  ayde  and 
alfift  you  in  perfecting  of  the  fiid  fortification,  which  fort  with  the  officers  and  louldiers 'you 
fhall  for  his  Mat^  fervice  by  vertue  of  this  commiflion  receive  into  your  charge  and 
comand,  requiring  all  officers,  fouldiers,  and  others  belonging  thereunto,  you  to  obey,  reiidily 
to  receive  and  accomplifii  your  direccons  and  comandes.  And  you  yourielfe  in  ;dl  thuigs 
well  and  duely  to  acquitt  yourfelfe  for  the  bell  advancent  of  his  Mat\  fervice  for  which  this 
fhall  be  your  warrant. 

"  Given  at  WHiitley  under  my  hand  and  feale  att  armes,  this  cjth  of  Decemler,  1643. 

"  M.-  UR'CE." 


See  Lingard,  x.  1  18.     Clarendon,  book  viii.,  a.  d.  1644. 
Hawkins's  Hiftory  of  Kingitndge,  1819,  p.  88,  iScc. 


Family  of  Fallapit^  fecotid  U?ie. 


33 


This  old  caftle,  of  Saxon  origin,  now  known  as  Salcombe  Caitle,'  was,  after  it  had  been 
repaired,  named  Fort  Charles.  It  has  now  again  and  long  fince  become  a  ruin.  It 
ftands  on  a  rock  cut  off  trom  the  mainland  at  high  water,  and  almoft  covered  by  the  tide. 
Hearne  calls  it  "a  round  fort  built  in  the  reign  of  Q.  Elizabeth,  a  little  before  the  Spanilbi 
invafioii."' 

\w  purfuance  of  thefe  orders  Fortefcue  fet  to  work  to  re-build  the  fort,  and  then  to  gar- 
rifon,  arm,  and  provifion  it.  Me  has  left  behind  him  an  account  of  the  details  by  which 
thefe  operations  were  effefted,^  which  are  here  given  in  full  : — 

"  Payments  and  difburfements  on  Fort  Charles,  both  for  the  building,  viituallyngc,  and  fortifying 
it  with  great  guns  and  mulquets.      Pcrfcded  January  ye  15th,  aimo  doni.  1640  ( 1645). 


In  the  building      ......... 

And   for   timber,  ordnance,  powder,  fliot,  mufkets,  fwords,  and    various  warliiie 
articles  ...  ...... 

A  true  and  juft  particular  of  all  the  provifions  in   Fort  Charles,  January    15th,  i 
time  it  was  (urroundcd  and  bcfieged  by  Sir   Fhornas  Fayrefa.xc  the  Parliament  General  :- 


1355  li;    q 

1031    19     9 
645,  at  which 


Imprimis — ibuttoffacke     .... 

Item,  10  hogfbeads  of  punch — nine  at  5/.  per  hogfliead 

Item,  1  tun  of  March  beer    .... 

Item,  10  tuns  of  cider  at  3/.  lOj. 

Item,  22  hogflieads  of  beef  and  pork  at  7/.  lOi.  per  hogfliead 

Item,  1  butt  of  oyle 

Item,  3  hogfheads  of  vinegar 

Item,  48  bufliels  of  peafe  at  id.  per  bufhel     . 

Item,  2  hogfheads  of  meat    . 

Item,  4  hogfheads  of  grits     . 

Item,  2000  of  poor  jacks 

Item,  6000  of  dried  whitings  at  8,/.  per  cent. 

Item,  300  of  ox  tongues 

Item,  500  weight  of  candles 

Item,  of  bifquet,  8000  weight,  at  9/.  per  thouland 

Item,  12,000  weight  of  butter,  at  5^.  per  hundred 

Item,  6  pecks  of  fruit 

Item,  100  weight  of  almonds 

Item,  15  quarters  of  coales,  at  3/. 

Item,  ICO  bufhels  of  charkole 


20  o 

50  o 

17  o 

35  o 

165  o 

20  J 


4 

0     c 

16 

15     c 

2 

16     c 

8 

0     c 

15 

0      0 

24 

0       0 

6 

0       0 

12 

10       0 

72 

0       0 

30 

0     c 

6 

0       0 

5 

0       0 

45 

0       0 

5 

0       0 

'  Mr.  Fortufcue's  Letter.  ^  Ilearne's  MS.  Diary,  vol.  Ix\ii,  pp.  154-162. 

^  Hilfory  of  Kinglbiidge,  and  MS.  from  Mr.  Fortefcue  of  Fallapit. 


34 


Family  of  Fallapit^  feco?id  U. 


Die. 


Item,  2  cafes  of  bottles  full  with  rare  and  g(jod  rtrong  waters 

Item,  20  pots  with  fweetmeats,  and  a  great  box  of  all  forts  of  efpecially  good   dry 

prelervcs  ..... 

Item,  the  Churgion's  cheff     .... 

Item,  100  weight  of  raw  milk  cheefe 

Item,  30  barrels  of  powder,  at  6/.  per  barrel 

Item,  1000  weight  of  mufquet  balls,  at  22  per  cent. 

Item,  ID  rolls  of  tobacco,  being  600  weight  at  lid.  per  pound 

Item,  for  three  fides  of  bacon  . 

Item,  for  three  doz.  of  poultry  .... 

Item,  for  5  Iheeps      ...... 

Item,  for  35  tunne  of  calTces  for  beer,  cider,  beef,  pork,  fifh,  grits,  meat,  peafe,  and 

water,  at  i6j.  per  tuime 
Item,  for  200  of  lemons         .... 

The  total  fum  is 
More  for  great  fhotte  .... 


In  all  it  makes  the  full  fum  of 

Long  live  King  Charles 


180 


30 

0 

4 

0 

2 

5 

3 

15 

28 


16 


7+^ 
3' 

3157 


17     6 
1/     6 


Amen. 


Memorandum. — That  in  thefe  accounts  of  3157/.  17^-  61/.,  not  one  penny  is  put  down  f  ir  1  eds, 
bedfteads,  cerecloths,  flu'ets,  blankets,  bolfters,  pillowes,  curtinges,  vallances,  curtain-rodds,  pc\  ter, 
table-boards,  cupboards,  Ipoons,  buckets,  tubbs,  potes,  glalTes,  bedroods,  matts,  all  the  beams  and 
timber,  chayres,  ftools,  chells,  firepanns,  (hovels,  tongs,  and  irons,  bellowes,  and  all  other  forts  of 
houfehold  fluff  with  which  'tis  fully  furiiiihed. 

Attelled  by  me, 

E.     FoRTESCt  E. 

£  ;  s.    d. 
Item,  more  for  forty  halberds,  at  6).  H./.  each  halberd  .  .  .  .  1568 

Item,  for  86  great  balketes  to  Itand  full  with  earth  on  the  upper  decks,  and  on  the  1 

tops  of  the  walls,  at  5j-.  6,/.  each  halkett  .  .  .  .  .  23     2     o 

Item,  for  4O  lefs  balketts  for  the  lame  purpofe,  at  I0</.  each  balkett     .  .  I    18     4 

This  fumme  is     .  .  .  .  .  .  ■  38      7     o 

This  fumme  of  38/.  yj.  od.  being  added  to  the  former  fumme  of  3157/.  17J.  6,/.,  make 

both  together  the  full  fumme  of  ......       £319'^    H     ^ 


Ita  eft. 


E.    FoiTESCUE." 


"Here  followes  the  names  of  the  officers  and  foldlers  in  Fort-Charles,  the  15th  day  of  January, 
1645,  at  which  tyme  twas  befeiged  by  Sir  Thos.  Fayrefaxe'  commande,  the  Parliament  Generall. 


'Jlt.'ii  ,.'v.u  .(i;? 


M    opi;*! 


,!).,<  .11 


"  . -.'ji'n' ■•■I  ..'I 


Family  of  Fal/apit,  feco?id  line. 


35 


Sir  Edmund  Fortefcue,  Governor. 


Sir  Chriltopher  Luckner. 

Mr.  Tiuimas  Fortefcue. 

Captain  Peter  Fortefcue. 

Major  Syms. 

Major  Stephenfon. 

Captain  Rock. 

Ca|)tuin  Kingrton. 

Captain  Powett. 

Captain  Peterfield. 

Captain  Doues. 

Mr.  Snell  (chaplain). 

Hugh  Harris. 

James  Cownes. 

Thomas  Lightfoot. 

Patrick  Biacket. 

John  Harris. 

Samuel  Stodard  ((hot  through  the  head,  31ft: 

March,  1646). 
Robert  Nugent. 
Hugh  Haedway. 

Lieut.  John  Ford  (ran  away,  27th  March,  1646). 
Matthew  Bordfedd,  (urgeon. 
I'etcr  Davye,  fergeant. 
Andrew  Morgan,  iergeant. 
James  Dackum,  fergeant. 
Briant  Browne,  mafter-gunner. 
Richard  Lamble,  his  mate. 
Henry  Browne,  another  mate. 
George  Lindon,  armorer. 
Arthur  Scobble,        "1 
John  Powell,  I 

Ale.v.  Weymouth,    (.corporals. 
Richard  Wolver, 
Robert  Terrye,         J 
John  Hodge,  corporal  (fliot  and  lame,  went  by 

leave,  loth  April,  1646). 

Total,  66  men,  befides  two  laundrefl'es. 


^■{;i.o54G} 


Chriftopher  Wife. 

John  Frolh 

William  Cookworthy  (ran  away,  8th   March, 

1645-6). 
John  (jould. 
John  Stone. 
Michael  Small. 
Thomas  Phillips  (fhot  through  the   left  arm 

and  fide,  12th  March,  1645-6). 
Robert  Prittiejohn. 
Peter  Crofs. 

Walter  Merrifield.  i 

Stephen  Crofs  (ran  away,  1  ith  April,  1646).  ' 
James  Froft. 
Edwd.  Ycabfly. 
Thomas  Caufe. 
Geo.  Kingfton  the  younger. 
John  Evans. 

Hercules  Giles  the  younger. 
Peter  Joynter. 
Thomas  Ouarme  (being  fick  went  by  leave, 

19th  January,  1645-6). 
Hugh  Perradey. 

Richard  Winter.  ! 

Arthur  Lidfton. 
Thomas  Wakeham. 
Nathaniel  Port. 
Peter  Michellmore. 
Thomas  Hupkins. 

Laurence  Meyle.  ; 

James  Cookworthy. 
Richard  Martin. 
Briant  Browne  the  younger. 
Zachary  Hupkins. 


viz.,  Mary  Browne,  and  Elizabeth  Terrye." 


*'  For  the  expenfes  of  this  garrifon.  Sir  Edmund  Fortefcue  had  an  order  from  the  Com- 
miffioners  of  the  county  of  Devon,  dated  from  the  Charter  Houfe,  Exeter,  the  1 2th  day  of 


36  Family  of  Fallapit^  feco7id  I'me. 

Auguft,  1644,  aligning  him  the  weekly  contributions  of  the  pariflies  of  Marlborough  and 
Portlemouth,  the  former  amounting  to  11/.  15^.,  and  the  latter  to  6/.,  making  together  x 
total  oi"  17/.  1 5 J.,  and  this  he  continued  to  receive  from  the  conftables  of  thefe  parifties  ti  1 
the  firft  day  of  November  in  the  fxme  year,  when  it  was  further  ordered  by  the  faid  Con> 
miirioners  that  he  fliould  be  paid  14/.  a-week  by  Mr.  George  Potter,  fuppofed  to  be  the 
receiver-general  for  the  county  of  Devon  ;  and  this  perhaps  proceeded  from  the  Parliament 
army  having  by  that  time  poifeffed  themfelves  of  the  neighbouring  diftrift,  fo  as  to  prevent 
thefe  payments  from  being  made  by  the  parifhes  to  the  Royal  party.  On  the  firfl  day  of  January 
following,  Sir  Edmund  was  empowered  to  receive  the  fiid  14/.  weekly  from  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Modiford  ;  and  from  him  it  is  believed  the  knight  continued  to  be  fupplied.  By 
fonie  papers,  which  are  fo  much  defaced  that  it  is  impolfible  to  make  out  more  than  detached 
parts,  it  appears  that  the  governor  received  a  weekly  contribution  of  7/.  \s.  'id.  for  fom; 
time  from  the  conflables  of  Weft  Alvington  (a  parifli  adjoining  to  Marlborough),  and  that 
he  was  paid  by  them  to  the  amount  of  245/.  i6i.  \od.  This,  it  is  prefumed,  was  what  he 
had  prior  to  the  order  of  the  r2th  day  of  Auguft,  1644. 

"  Sir  Edmund  declares  ••  that  he  had  not  taken  one  fingle  penny  for  himfelf  as  govei  nor,' 
nor  made  any  charge  for  the  furniture  of  the  chambers  of  the  caftle."' 

Very  foon  after  the  preparations  were  complete,  the  Parliamentarians  approaciec  the 
fort.  It  was  inveik'd  on  the  15th  of  January,  1645-6,  by  order  of  Sir  Thomas  Fa  rfax. 
There  is  no  account  of  the  way  in  which  the  fiege  was  carried  on;  but  as  there  was  a 
battery  on  the  fouth-eaft  fiiore  of  the  harbour,  exaftly  oppofite  to  the  caftle,  it  was 
probably  by  the  fire  of  its  three  guns  that  the  tort  was  reduced  to  an  untenable 
condition. 

It  is  related  that  one  night  the  flumbers  of  Sir  Edinund  were  difturbed  by  th;  kg  of 
his  bedftead  being  carried  away  by  a  ftiot,  cauling  his  fudden  appearance  among  his  men  in 
his  fhirt. 

The  little  garrifon  managed  to  hold  out  for  almoft  four  months,"  though  fome  accounts 
fay  for  fifty  days  only,  when  they  were  obliged  to  capitulate  ;  and  finally  agreed  to  furrender 
on  very  honourable  and  favourable  terms,  to  Colonel  Ralph  Weldon.  The  following  is  a 
copy  of  the  Articles  agreed  upon  on  the  7th  of  May,  1646  : — 

"  Articles  agreed  one  betweene  Sir  Edmond  b'ortefcue,  Governor  off  Fort  Charles,  of  y' 
one  party,  and  Major  Pearce  and  Captain  Flalle  of  the  other  party,  for  y"  furren- 
dering  of  the  faid  fort  into  y°  hands  of  Corronell  Ralph  Weldon  of  Plymouth,  for 
the  ufe  of  King  and  parlement,  to  the_which  articles  the  faid  Corronell  Weldon  fully 


'  Taken  from  the  Millory  of  Kingfbridge. 

'^  Sprigg's  England's  Recovery.      AVliitelock  gives  the  date  of  I'urrender  as  June  1,  and  Vicars  as  June  3. 


Fajiiily  of  Fallapit^fecond  I'nie.  t^'j 

agreed,  as  witnefs  his  hand  and  feale  to  thefe  prefent  articles  y'  feventh  day  of  May, 
1646,  as  heare  after  followeth. 

Imprimis.  That  fir  Edmond  Fortefcue,  y'  gouernor,  and  fir  Chr.  Luckner,  with  there 
fervants  and  all  &  every  of  the  officers  and  fouldiers  now  in  y"  faid  fort  Charles,  fhall  have 
and  en  joy  e  in  there  and  every  of  thare  feverall  and  refpe^tive  places,  capacities,  and  degrees, 
full  liberty  in  thire  profeffion  of  the  true  proteftant  religion  profelTed  and  vowed  by  both 
houfes  ot  tliis  prefent  parlement,  in  their  firft  grand  protelbition,  and  fliall  not  art  any  time 
hearafter,  by  letter  or  cenfure,  in  theire  or  any  off  theire  placefs  or  aboads,  for  perfeuinge 
in  y"  practice  and  exercife  of  popery :  Soe  itt  is  agreed  y'  if  any  papilf  there  be  hee  will 
I      forfeit  y"  benifitt  of  y"  articles. 

II.  That  the  gouernor  anci  Mr.  John  Snell  his  chaplinge,  and  all  officers  and  fouldiers 
belonginge  to  the  faid  fort,  fhall  have  free  libertie  to  go  to  there  owne  homes,  in  any  pla:e 
or  county  within  this  kingdom,  or  places  bee  yund  feays,  and  they  not  to  bee  moleftcd 
for  y'  future,  they  fubmittinge  themfelfes  to  all  orders  and  ordenances  of  parlement. 

III.  Hiat  the  laid  tort  may  not  bee  knovvne  by  aney  other  name  than  fort  Charles  as 
now  itt  is,  or  any  coate  off  arames  in  y"  dininge  rimie  dehiced ;  or  any  thing  beelonginge  to 
the  faid  fort. 

IIII.  That  fir  F.dmond  Fortefcue  y"'  gouernor,  fir  Chr.  Luckner,  capt.  Geo.  Kingflon, 
with  there  fervants,  bee  permitted  to  goe  to  there  owne  homes,  fir  Chr.  Luckner  to  Fallapit, 
thare  to  remaine,  or  elfewhare  within  this  kingdom  under  the  pouer  of  y"  parlement,  for 
the  fpace  of  three  months  time  unmolelled.  And  if  they  cannot  make  theire  peace  with 
the  parlement,  then  to  have  tree  liberty  to  pafs  from  any  port  within  this  kingdom  bee 
younde  y"'  ieayes. 

V.     That  the  gouernor  fir  F.dmond  Fortefcue,  his  fervants,  and  all  officers  and  foldiers, 

bee  quietly  permitted  to  carry  any  cloathes,  monneys,  or  other  goods  which  they  can  juftly 

clayme  as  there  owne,  to  thare  houfes,  and  to  injoye  them  without  moleftation. 

I'  VI.   That  tenn  horfes  be  permitted  for  the  gouernor's  ufe  from  hence  to  Fallapit,  and 

;     that  any  officer  &  foldiers  have  free  libertey  to  tranfport  his  or  any  off  theare  goods  by  boat 

i     or  other  wayes  to  Kingfbridge,  and  then  to  difpofe  of  them  att  there  plcaiures. 

VII,  That  on  faturday  the  ninth  off  this  prefent  May,  by  tenne  of  y'  clock  in  y" 
morninge,  y'  gouernor  and  all  his  officers  and  foldiers  of  fort  Charles  ihall  then  march 
out,  &  furrender  y""  fame  into  the  hands  of  Corronell  Welldon,  or  whome  hee  fhal 
appoynte,  Widi  all  the  ordnance,  arames,  amonition,  vic^ualls,  and  every  other  thing  then. 
unto  pertayninge  not  mentioned  in  thele  articles,  without  fpoyling,  breaking,  demifkinge 
i     or  confuminge  of  the  fame. 

%  VIII.      That  the  gouernor,  fir  Chr.  Luckner,  thire  ferv",  and  all  officers  and  fouldiers 

\      in  the  tort,   have  free  liberty  to  march  from  hence  to  I'^allowpit  with  there  uluall  amies, 
drumes  beaUng  and  collers  flyinge,  with  bondelars  full  of  powder,  and  mufkets  apertinable, 

I 


38  Faniilv  of  Fallapit^  fccond  line. 

and  after  three  valines  to  yield  up  theire  arines  to  thofc  whome  Corronnll  VVelldon  ih:dl 
appoint  to  receive  them,  the  gouenior,  fir  L'hr.  Luckner,  with  both  theire  feruants,  1, lee- 
way fe  y"  officers  in  common  excepted. 

IX.  That  noe  officer  or  i'oldier,  oi-  any  other  under  y'  command  of  Corronell  Ral-ih 
Welldon  gouernor  of  Plymouth,  ffiall  any  way  reproach,  fpoyle,  philter,  or  molleft  any  of 
the  officers  or  foldiers  of  the  fnme  fort  in  their  march  from  thence  to  Fallowpit,  or  elie- 
where  att  the  fame  diftance  from  hence,  or  in  theire  or  any  theire  refpertive  pl.ices  aforefa'd. 
Untill  y'"  time  of  furrender  of  y*'  laid  fort,  their  be  none  pafs  in  or  out,  or  tranfport  any 
thinge  by  feay  or  land  from  thence,  without  y"  knowledge  of  both  parties. 

X.  That  fufficient  holtage  bee  delivered  on.  butii  fides  for  the  fiithfull  performance 
of  thefe  articles. 

Rai.ph    Welldon. 

RiCHD.     PtAkCE. 
EUMOND    HaLI  E." 

The  MS.  account  of  the  fiege  before  referred  to,  flates  "  that  Fort-Charles  hail  fi  ftained 
two  fieges  before,"  and  there  is  faid  to  have  been  an  item  in  the  governor's  acccun  s  "  for 
greate  ffiotte  and  mufquet  ffiotte  when  Fort-Charles  was  formerly  twice  befieged." 

The  articles  of  furrender  were  adhered  to,  and  Sir  Edmund,  with  his  garrifon,  marched 
out  ot  the  tort  with  flying  colours,  and  proceeded  to  I<'allapit.  I  am  informed  by  the  pre- 
fent  iVlr.  Fortefcue  that  the  key  of  the  calHe  Itill  hangs  in  the  cntrance-hall  there. 

Three  months  were,  as  we  have  feen,  allowed  to  the  officers  to  decide  wh;th.T  they 
would  make  tiieir  peace  with  the  Parliament,  or  go  beyond  feas.  Sir  F.dmund  chjfe  the 
latter  alternative,  and  croffied  over  to  Holland,  where  he  took  up  his  refidence  at  Delft, 
remaining  there  during  the  ffiort  refidiie  of  his  life.  There  is  a  notice  of  hir/i  in  the 
"Articles  of  Peace,"  July,  1646,  printed  in  Thurloe's  State  Papers,  vol.  i.  p.j  81.  It 
is  there  ordered  that  certain  perfons,  chiefly  Knights,  about  forty  in  number,  among 
whom  is  Sir  lLilmuni.1,  "  be  removed  from  his  Majellie's  counfels,  and  be  rellrairied  from 
coming  within  the  verge  of  the  Court  ;  and  that  they  may  not,  without  the  advice  and 
confent  of  the  Parliament  of  England,  bear  any  office  in  the  State  or  Commonwealth." 

Ele  died  at  Deltt  in  1647,  not  later  than  February;  his  father's  will,  dated  March  ift, 
1647,  mentioning  him  as  his  "  fon  Sir  Edmund  l<'ortefcue,  deceafed."  He  .vas  confequently 
not  more  than  37  years  old  at  his  death.  He  was  buried  at  Delft,  where  a  moniunent  was 
ere6ted  to  his  memory.  There  is  a  portrait  of  him  in  armour  at  Fallapit  Houle,  and  a  very 
rare  print,  engraved  by  Dawkes,  at  the  Plague,  of  which  a  taclimile  is  given  in  this  work, 
taken  from  a  drawing  ot  the  original  engraving,  in  the  Sutherland  Collet!:l:ion  at  the 
Bodleian  Library. 

Of  his  charaifter  we  know  nothing  beyond  what  is  exprefll-d  in  the  faying  already  men- 


.I'Ui,.  ;nvn>^'.'^.J    t. 


I.    :•    •M.j.io'j 


Vt-m!.';  ".I'nvj ) 


Family  of  Faliapit^  fecoud  line. 


tiomd  ill  the  account  of  Sir  Nichohis  l-'ortefcue,  viz.  that  both  theft;  perfons  "  were  obferved 
fo  wary  as  to  have  all  their  enemies  before  them."'  He  may,  however,  be  fiirly  ranked 
If-      among  the  Devonfhire  celebrities  of  the  period  of  the  great  Civil  War. 

Sir  Edmund,  theeldeit  fon  of  the  exile  of  Delft,  was  baptized  in  September,  i64'2,-  and 
fuccecded  in  the  year  1649,  being  then  feven  years  old,  to  the  ellates  ot  his  grandfather, 
John  l''ortefcue.  Me  married  Margery,  daughter  of  Henry,  fifth  Lord  Sandys  of  the  Vine  ; 
was  knighted  before  1660,  about  the  eighteenth  year  of  his  age;  and,  on  the  3 ill:  March, 
1664,  was  created  a  Baronet.^  In  the  year  1660  he  petitions  Charles  II.  for  the  appoint- 
ment of  Governor  of  Korc  Charles,  alleging  his  father's  fervices  and  expenditure  there,  and 
that  the  h'ort  was  ufeful  for  the  defence  of  the  country.'' 

In  "  Kennett's  Regifler  and  Chronicle,"  1660,  p.  317,  vve  are  told  that  Sir  Hdmund 
publiflied  in  that  year  a  "  Letter  on  the  Spirit  of  Cockfighting ."  f  Ic  died  at  the  early  age 
of  twenty-four,  and  was  buried  at  ]>".a(l:  AlHngton  in  January,  1666.  His  wife  furvi.yed 
until  1687.  There  is  a  monument  to  her  memory^  in  the  Church  ot  St,  I'aul,  Coverit 
Garden. 

The  iffue  of  this  marriage  was  Sandys,  an  only  ion  ;  and  three  daughters, — Jane, 
Elizabeth,  and  Sarah. 

Sir  Sandys,  who  fucceeded  at  Fallapit,  was  baptized  in  July,  1661  ;''  he  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Lenthall,  of  Bafingleigh,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  child, 
a  daughter,  and  died  in  1680  ;  when  the  Baronetcy  became  extind:,  and  the  eftates  paflcd  to 
*'  the  fon  of  his  grand-uncle,  Peter  b'ortefcue,  of  Cruft,  by  Elizabeth  Bartond,  of  Garfton. 
This  was  Edmund  Fortcfcue,  born  1660;  he  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Sampfon  Wyie, 
Efq.,  of  Dittefham  ;  and  died  in  1783,  aged  feventy-four.  Mr.  I'ortefcue,  and  his  wife,  who 
died  in  1722,  were  buried  in  Eaft  Allington  church,  where  is  a  monument  to  them  and 
to  their  fix  children.  He  left  no  fon  to  fucceed  him,  and  was  confequently  the  lall  male 
Fortefcue'  poffeflbr  of  his  ancient  ellate.  He  had,  however,  five  daughters,  viz.— Mary, 
f  Elizabeth,  Dorothy,  Sarah,  and  Grace.  Mary,  the  eldelf,  married  the  Right  Honourable 
William  Fortefcue,  of  Buckland-l-'illeigh,  but  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  at'ter  giving 
birth  to  an  only  daughter,  Mary,  in  1710,  who  married  John  Spooner,  h'lq.,  and  dying 
without  furviving  iflue,  the  eftates  palTed  to  Elizabeth  Fortefcue,  her  aunt.  This  lady,  who 
was  never  married,  died  in  the  year  1768,  aged  feventy-three,  when  the  property  palled  out 
of  the  Fortefcue  family  to  her  grand-nephew,  Edmund  Wells,  Efq.,  having  been  in  the 
Fortefcue  name  for  almoft  350  years. 


'  Eiicyc.  I5rit.,  iii.  2001.  '   Parifti  Kegiftcr  of  Eiift  AlliiifTton,  in  Stemm,  Fort. 

••  BurU-'s  Commoners,  ii,  543.  ■■   Cal.  Statu  Papers,  ibGo-lOOl. 

'  Stow's  Survey  of  London,  vol.  ii.  book  vi.  \>.  90.  ^  Eall  Allington  Regiiler. 

'  Ikiike's  Commoners,  ii.  554. 


40  Family  of  Fallapit^  fecond  line. 

Family  of  Wells-Fortescue. 

Dorothy  Fortefcue,  fourth  daughter  of  Edmund  Fortefcue  of  Fallapit  by  Maria  Wyfe, 
married  Thomas  Bury,  younger  fon  of  Sir  Tliomas  Bury,  Knight ;  and  dying  in  lyjj,  left  a 
daughter,  Catherine  Bury,  married  to  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Wells,  of  the  aneient  Lincolnfhire 
family  of  that  name,  Redor  of  EaiT:  Ailington,  the  parifli  in  whieh  I-'allapit  is  placed,  by 
whom  rtie  had  ilTue,  with  other  children  (for  whom  fee  the  pedigree),  Edmund  Wells,  who 
on  the  death  of  his  great  aunt,  Elizalieth  I'^ortefcue,  in  1768,  inherited  h'allapit,  and  alTumed 
the  name  and  arms  of  Fortefcue  only.  Me  married  Mary  Anne,  daughter  of  Peter 
Blundell  of  Collepriert:,  in  Devonfliire,  and  had  iflue  a  fon,  Edmund  Nathaniel  William,  and 
a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  to  Thomas  William  Sturgeon,  fon  of  h'.  Sturgeon,  Efq./  and 
Lady  Henrietta  Wentworth,  youngell  daughter  of  the  firft  Marquis  of  Rockingham.'  Mr. 
(Wells)  Fortefcue  died  in  177^,  aged  tvventy-feven  years,  and  was  fucceeded  by  his  fon, 
Edmund  Natlianiel  William,  born  1777,  Major  of  the  South  Devon  Militia;  married,  Ma/, 
1803,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  late  William  Long  Trolfe,  Efq.,  of  Trecolland,  "n 
Cornwall,  and  had  iiTue,  with  other  ciiildren  (lee  pedigree),  the  prefent  William  15lu  uli  11 
Fortefcue,  Efq.,  born  May  Jiil:,  1816;  fucceeded  to  his  father's  cliates  at  his  death  n 
July,  1821  ;  married,  in  1837,  Harriet  Maria,  lecond  daughter  of  Major-General  Thomis 
William  Taylor,  C.B.,  of  Ogwell  Iloufe,  Devon,  and  had  ilTue,  —  Edmund,  born  I^3c,; 
Reynell  John,  born  1845;  Arthur  Troffe,  born  1848;  Flonor  Georgina,  Mary  Emlyn, 
Geraldine  Eliza,  bVances  Amelia,  and  Ethel  Sufm. 

We  have  now,  with  the  account  of  this  fecond  line  of  Fallapit,  finiflied  the  hiftory  of 
the  feveral  branches  of  I'^ortefcues  fettled  in  South  Devon.  It  will  be  feen,  by  a  referen  .e  .o 
the  map  of  Devonfliire,  how  the  feats  of  Wimprtone,  Prefton,  Spridlellone,  Wood,  and 
Fallapit  lie  near  together  in  the  fouth-eaftern  extremity  of  the  county,  between  the  hills  ;ind 
the  coaft,  all  of  them  between  the  Yealm  and  the  Dart,  two  ot  the  many  dreams  fupplied,  by 
the  rains  and  mifts  of  Dartmoor,  to  water  one  of  the  moil:  imihng  and  beautiful  diftrid:'  ot 
England. 

That  retired  region  murt  have  been  alinoft  peopled  by  families  of  Fortefcues,  f.eld 
together  both  by  neighbourhood  and  frequent  intermarriages.  Of  the  above-named  fe  its, 
l'"allapit  alone  remains  to  the  defcendants  ot  its  ancient  owners. 

It  was  Martin,  the  Chancellor's  (on,  who,  by  his  marriage  with  the  heirel'  of  ^^'ea^- 
Giffard  and  Buckland-Filleigh,  firll  took  the  name  into  the  north  ot  the  county. 


Burke's  E.xtiiufi   Fci-ragi;,  559. 


4r>?. 


SECOND    LINE    OF    FALLAPIT. 


Lrwis  FoKTKSri'K,  4ih  fon  of 
John  KoRri-.scuK  ot  Spridlc- 
(ionc.liyALici-:  CooKwunTiiv ; 
J  Karon  ol  the-  Exchcciucr, 
oIj.  1.545. 


EUZABITH. 

dau.  aiiii  hcirel's 
of  John 

KoRTKSClK 
of  l-allajjil. 


KalLipil, 
oil.  1541;. 


lIoNOUii,  dau.  of 
lujMimii  Si'i:ccor 
of  Spiccot,  01  of 
Sill  I'".  Si'Kccor. 
oh.  160b. 


I  1,1  I 

Jani;.  =  Gkohok  Pi.Ti:n,  Bf.nnkt,  Philip 


Ki^ 


livii 


154.3-  1543-  1543-  gi 


.Nicholas  =j=Jane,  dau.  of 
of  Maw-      I  Roni-RT  Hill   of 
Ileligan  widow  ol 
Cornwall.    I  Kiciiaiii.  Vivian. 


(1)  K...U' 
ob.  1624. 


=j=Maiiy,   dau. 

lIl'NllV      Cll. 

I'l-iiNoimi..  i\ 
10  Kill  Hicii, 


of    (2)  OnonoK, 
M-     bap.  1557. 


(3)  HiiWAnii, -p 
hap.  15(H 


Annk.=Joiin  I'lum- 

l.l.KMl   of 

IJ.irlmoutli, 


'V 

Maiiy.= 


jANK.=-^llf,  RiCllA 
flALS  of 


2nd,  Silt  11. 

RULLE. 


"1 

Annis 


r 

LrwLS.^LoWKR, 
dau.  of 
John 
Sam- 


WiLLiAM,  mar.: 

ifl,  liLIZADKTIl, 

dau.  ofW. 
Slkman.     No 
iilUu. 


■Christian,  Aonks, 

dau.olJoiiN  mar. 

Vivian  of  Gkorok. 

Trcla-  HoWDiiN. 
warren. 


Klizaih;™,         TiK 


of  Dai  I 
(noutli. 


.  .   .  .  dau.      Ni. 

of     (IllAlIN- 


(1 

)Ill 

2)J( 

1 
UN,  blip. 

586;- 

b: 

p.  1 

S7'i ; 

.1j.    k 

pi.  11. 

mar. 

di 

.dj. 

""•A- 

2ud\y 

iM.l/AMEl 

1  .  .  . 

T       7T' 


II,   dau.    of  Sill     (.3)  I'liANCis;     (4)  Nicholas,     Honour, 
JNIJ  I'rihkaiix.        ba|i.  1571).        Ii.ip.   1587.  to  S.Shi 

.b.  1628,  aged  '  TON. 


i(l^2nd  to  HuMiRKV     M.vitv, 

,1-  I'lllUKALlX,  liii-d 

1  boo.  young- 


-John 
nvcholls, 
iboi . 


Gi'ORGE.     John.     Rali'h.      Edmund. 


3  dauglitcrs 
inarrii-d  to 
Ami-:hidi-;th 
Ilii.I-:, 

I.USCOMIlE. 


A  d.Tu.  mar.  Siiikli.a.      Honour.         Aonis,  I.hwis.     Maruaret. 

Walter  Dotino 
of  TolHL-s. 


(1)  Sir  Udmond  of: 
Fallapil,  Knight,  hap. 
1610;  mar.  1C33. 


Jane,  dau.  of  South- 
cote,  of  Moluin's 
Ottciy,  mur.  ifa42. 


(2)  John, 
bap.  ibi4. 


(3)  Thomas 
liap.  Ibl5. 


(4)  Pkter  of  =p  Elizabeth,  dau.  of         (5)  George 
C'ruft,  b.ip.  John  Baseahd  of  bap    ibio. 

1617.  G.iino 


I  1 

IVIary.  =  R.    Wise    of  Bridoit. 

ToHu-s,  i62g.  Ifa20, 


Sni  lOitMiiNii, 
Baiontt.  h.  ib4J 
oh.  ibbb. 


~  Maruerv,  dau.  ol 
5th  l.oRi)  Sandys 
of  Vint,  Hants. 


-  G.  SoUTIlCOTE  of 

BuekLuul-Monath, 
ib54. 


Jank,  bu 
1641 


Catherine,  =  John  Gl.^ 
mar.  1652.         ofMiildlu 
Ttmple. 


Edmond  of  Cruft  =p  Mary,  dau.  of  Samp- 
and  l-'aljapit,  bur.  son  Wise  of  Dittig- 
1733.  '  ham,  bur,  1722. 


John.  Peter  of        =  Anne 

Pit-nwin,  l,ur. 
1696.     S.  P. 


1 

1 

1 

Sill  Sand 

s. 

-  ELIZARETli,  dau. 

Jane.  d.=WiLLiAM 

Bart,  bur 

ifa8o. 

of  Sir  John 

IbSj.              CoLMAIIof 

Nov.  2. 

Lenitiall. 

Gombay. 

Sarah,  bur 
1685- 


( 1)  Mary, 

fuc-      =; 

cc-L-dcd  lie 

father 

at  Fallapit 

Rt.  Hon.  William 

FoRTESCUE  of  Buckli 

Killeigh,  ob.  1749. 


(2)  ELlZADl-mi,  fuc- 
ceeiled  her  lifter  Mary 
al  Fallapit,  ob.   I76S. 


(3)  D0R0THV.=pTlI0MAS,  lb 

Sir  Tho.ma 


Peter,  Edmund,  S, 
These  4  died 


VRAII,    GrA 

young. 


Mary,     - 
oh.   S.P. 


:J0HN   SpOONER, 

Ell|. 


Catherine.  =p  Rev.  N.  Wells. 


hf.  .vu-:;i  :-.."} 


Edmund  Wells  fucceedcd  liis 

aunt  ELiZAiiErrH  I-"ortescue  in  .- ,  .  ^       .     , 

the   Fallajiit    eftates,  and   took  U((,.    // Ul  ••.J  tH. 

the  name  of  1'"ortfsC"Ue. 


V' .--  c 


ITI 


in?' 


F, 


Family  of  Fallapit^  frfi  line.  41 


Chap.  VI. 

'The  Furtefcues  of  Norreis  and  JVood ;  and  the  Fortejcues  of  F alia  fit  {frft  line). 

MTmAVING  completed  our  account  of  the  various  branches  of  the  family  defcended 
from  the  eldeft  fon  of  WilHam  1^'ortcfcue  of  Wimpftone  by  IsHzaheth  Beauchanip, 
we  mull  now  revert  to  their  fecond  fon,  John  h'ortefcue,  generaUy  diftinguifhed 
from  the  others  of  his  name  as  Sir  John  of  IVIeaux. 

He  ferved  in  the  I'Vench  wars  under  Henry  V.,  and  was  prefent  in  the  battle  of 
Agincourt  in  141  5.  Upon  the  taking  of  Meaux,  the  capital  of  the  province  of  La  Brie,  in 
1422,  Sir  Jolm  b'ortelcue  was  made  captain  of  that  llrong  place  and  governor  of  the 
province.  Me  returned  to  England  before  the  year  14JI,  and  appears  to  have  had  his 
refidence  at  Shepham,  in  South  Devon.'  He  alfo  pofrefled  Norreis  in  right  of  his  wife,  iincl 
we  gather  from  a  deed  quoted  in  Biographia  Britannica"  that  he  had  the  manors  of  Overcomb, 
EfFord,  and  Alfton,  in  the  parifli  of  I  lolboughton,  or  Holberton.  \n  the  Patent  l^olls, 
7  Henry  VI.  (1429),  there  is  a  grant  by  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  Knight,  to  John  Longford,  of 
If.  lands,  &c.  &c.  in  Norden,  in  the  parifh  of  Brigerenwell,  in  Devon.  There  is  little  mention 
i  of  him  in  contemporary  documents  beyond  thofe  here  quoted  ;  a  Clofe  Roll,  however, 
of  the  6th  of  Henry  V.  (141 8)  mentions  '' Johannis  h'ortefcu  nuper  lifcaetor  Nofter 
Cornubia;,"  who  probably  was  this  Sir  John. 

We  find  by  the  Pedigrees  that  he  married  Joan  (or  Eleanor),  daughter  and  heir  of 
William  Norreis  of  Norreis,  in  the  parifh  of  North  Huifli,  by  the  daughter  of  Roger 
I  de  Collaton,  by  whom  he  left  ifilie  three  fons,  viz.  Henry,  the  eldell  fon,  afterwards  Chief 
Juftice  \n  Irelanci ;  John,  the  fecond  Ion,  who  became  Lord  Chief  Juftice  of  England 
and  Lord  Chancellor  to  I  lenry  VI.  ;  and  Richard,  anceftor  of  the  Fortefcues  of  Herts, 
Effex,  and  Bucks. 

His  wife  inherited  her  father's  eftate,  and  became  the  reprefentative  of  the  very  ancient 
family  of  Norreis  ;  fhe  being  the  ninth  in  defcent  from  Laurence  le  Norreis.  At  her  death  the 
i?  property  paffed  to  her  eldeft  fon,  Sir  Henry  b'ortelcue,  and  to  his  defendants  of  the  elder 
line.  Sir  William  Pole,  writing  about  1620,  fays,  "  Phis  land  (of  Norreis)  is  defcended 
from  Henry  b'ortefcue  unto  Francis  Fortefcue  of  Pruteflon  and  Woode  that  nowe  liveth,  and 
is  Lord  of  Norreis."^  Sir  John  alfo  acquired  an  eftate  in  Hertfordfliire,  which  he  lef't  to  h.is 
youngeft  fon,  Richard,  who,  through  his  fecond  fon,  Sir  John  of  Ponfbourn,  was  the  found -r 
of  three  families,  of  whom  we  ihall  treat  in  a  later  chapter.  ; 

John  Fortefcue  is  returned  among  thofe  who,  in  the  i2th  of  Henry  VI.  (1433-34),  had 


'   Polt;'s  Collcdions,  Lift  of  Knighls,  at  p.  64.  -    Vol.  iii.  \>.   1()S6. 

•  KiCcJo]!,  Survey  of  Devon,  1S9;   Fuller's  Worthies,  i.  41  1  ;   Pole's  Colleif^ions,  joi. 
II.  C 


42  Fcunily  of  Norreis  and  JFood ; 

lands  in  Herttordiliire,  enabling  tliem  "  to  fpend  Ten  pounds  p''.  annum."    This,  Chauncey  ' 
calls  "  a  fair  eftate." 

His  death  occurred  between  1431  and  1437,  probably  in  1435.^'  VVeftcote,  the  hirtorian 
of  Devonfliire,  writing  in  1630,"  calls  Sir  John  of  Meaux  "a  worthy  ai.d  fortunate 
commander  under  that  terror  of  France,  and  mirror  of  Martiahlls  Menry  the  fifth  ;"  and 
Rifdon  and  Fuller  follow  in  the  fame  tone. 

Ot  Sir  John  of  Meaux's  three  fons,  two  chofe  the  profellion  of  the  law,  and  they  both 
rofe  to  diftinftion.  Henry,  the  eldefl:,  appears  to  have  (hidied  at  Lincoln's  Inn  ;  for  we  find 
in  the  lill  of  Governors  of  that  I  loufe  his  younger  brother,  Sir  John,  ftyled  [''ortefcue 
"junior  "  in  the  6  Henry  VI. ■*  He  no  doubt  diftinguiflied  himfelf  more  or  lefs  in  the  courts, 
although  we  have  no  particulars  of  his  career,  unlefs  he  is  the  Henry  Fortffcue  v;ho  was 
member  of  Parliament  for  Devon,  9  Henry  V.  (i42i),-'  until  he  is  fent  to  In  land  as  Chief 
Juitice  of  the  Common  Pleas  in  the  4th  Henry  VI.,  his  appointment  bearing  date  June  ■25th, 
1426,  "  quamdiu  fe  bene  geflerit."  We  learn  from  entries  in  the  Irifh  Chancery  Polls 
that  his  falary  was  fixed  at  forty  pounds  per  annum,  and  afterwards  by  a  fecond  Patent 
altered  to  forty  pence  per  diem.  He  alfo  received  a  grant  of  the  cuftody  of  ceitai  1 
manors.'' 

Sir  Henry  did  not  hold  this  office  long;  for,  whether  through  fome  intrigue,  cr 
by  his  own  wifh,  he  was  "  relieved  "  from  the  office  on  the  8t!i  of  November,  I427,'  bj  th ; 
king's  writ.  If  we  may  believe  Fuller,  his  charaftei-  for  uprightnels  as  a  judge  flood  high, 
he  being  "jutl:ly  of  great  efteem  for  his  many  virtues,  efpecially  for  his  fincerity  in  f  1 
tempting  a  place."      He  is  ftylcd  bv  the  Lord  Lieutenant  "  Chief  Juflice  of  Ireland."  ° 

His  fault,  in  the  eyes  of  thole  who  had  fent  him,  may  have  been  too  much  f'ymp;  th<- 
with  the  Englilli  fettlers  in  Ireland;  although  Lodge  affirms  that  "he  enjoyed  a  large  fliare 
of  the  royal  favour"  He  certainly,  foon  after  he  had  ceafed  to  be  Chief  Jullice,  was  feijit, 
with  Sir  James  Alleyn,  by  the  Commons  of  Ireland  into  England,  "  to  lay  before  the  king 
their  complaints,  and  the  ifate  of  the  country."" 

And  again,  in  November,  1428,  the  Lonls  and  Commons  in  Parliament  ailembled  at 
Dublin,  with  Sir  John  Sutton  the  Lord  Lieutenant,'"  drew  up  Articles  of  Complaint,  whiJ.h 
were  fealed  with  the  Great  Seal  of  Ireland,  and  delivered  to  Henry  Fortefcue,  ftil!  ftyFd 
"  Capitalis  Julliciarius  de  capitali  placea,"  and  Sir  'I'homas  Strange,  Knight,  empowermg 
them  to  lay  the  articles   before  the  King  and  Council  in  London. 

'   ClutterLuck's  Herts,  ii.  348,  quoiini;-  CluiuiicL-y,  lleils.  p.  310.  .    ; 

'^  Proceedings  in  Chancery,  temp.  ICIiz.ibetii,  printed  in  1830,  \ol.  ii.  p.  .wiii. 

^  Weflcote'b  View  of  Devon,  395  '    Duud.de.  On-.,  p.  ly,. 

^   Willis,  Not.  I'.ui.       I  do  not  know  any  one  elle  ot  his  name  at  lli.it  ju nod. 

"  Rot.  Pat.  Cone.  Mil..,  5  Hen.  VI.  ''    Koi.  Cl..n,.  Cone,  llib.,  0  llenr^,  VI. 

»  Rot.  Clans.  Cone.  I  lib.,  7  Hen.  VI.,  p.  24.1. 

^  Rot.  Clans.  Cone.  Hib.,  7  Hen.  VI.  '"  Rot.  Claus.  et  Pat.  in  Cone,  lid,.,  7  Hen.  VI.,  p.  247 


■   ■  ^'    I 

/  /.«  II    .III  .. 

■  ,1  Jl  ■ .  ,'1i    . 


FAMILY    OF    WOOD    AND    FALLAPIT. 

(first   line). 


Sill   John    KonriiscuK,  =p  Iu.i.anoh,  dim. 

Governor  of  Me;uix   in 

and    heir  ol' 

A.u.   1420,    Jnil   Ion   of 

William 

William  l''ouri-,s(i'K  ol' 

Noniii-.is 

Wimiilion,    by    ICliza- 

of  Norrtia. 

Biril   Idl-.AUC1IAMI>. 

ift,  wife  Joan, 
d.iu.  to  Edmunii 
BozuN,  of  lioz- 
un's  Helc  and 
Wood. 


T 


(1)  Sin  Hknuy 
Fori  KsciiE.  Lord 
Chief  Juftiee  of 
Common  Fle.is 
in  Ireland,  1420. 


2nd  wife  .  .  .  dau. 
ol  Nil  IIOLAS  UK 
I'ALLAl  IT. 


(2)    Sill    .John, 
Chaneellor    to 
IIl.nrv  Vl.(ancefior 
to  Eaul  I'OHTKSCUI- 
and  to  Loiu>  Cllh- 
mont). 


(3)     Silt      KiCHARU, 

(anceilor      to      the 
KORTKSCUES    of 
Punlborne,      Falk- 
borne,  and  Salden). 


[oiiN  of  Wood  ■ 


Richard  Foutkscuk,  =p  Marcahkt,     dau.     of 


of  Fallapit. 


Koiii  in  lIu.L  ol  Shil- 
rton  in  Mudbury. 


William  of  Wood  : 


John  (of  lull  .ii 
belijre    I  4451. 


Maiigarkt.   dan.  and 
co-hen     of    WiI.LIA-M 

lIl.NCihSIONofWonib- 

Nvell. 


KORKRI   of  Wood  ^ 


FLiZAinrii  l''oiiTi-srui-:.  =p  Lkwis  FoRTr,.ci'K. 
I  jrd  Ion  of  .)onN 
Foimsri'i-  ut  S|>n- 
dledon.  He  was  a 
Baron  ol  t!ie  E.vchc- 
i|uer  temp.  IIknry 
VIII.      Died  1545. 


Anthony  of  Wood  =f=  Ellen,  dau.  of  Humi'Hhky 
i    Wai.dhoN.  of  Hradlield. 


John  Fortiscui-  of 
Fallapit.  died  1595. 
leavinj;  lUue. 

( Hee  the  Pedigree  vl 
theSecund  l.ineuf  Foi  - 
lefcuis  0/  Fcilhplt). 


Joan      I'"outlscui:, 
only    chdd,    and 
heiress. 


John  Fohtkscuk,  Kfq.  of 
I'ruhlton  01  I'reOon.  who 
<lied  A.u.    1587. 


William  Fohtkscuk  of 
Frillon  and  Wood,  died 
[bvi,  leavmjj  illue. 


(See  Prejlvn  I'edigiee). 


atid 


I  Family  of  Fallap'u^  fir  ft  Ibie, 


43 


Their  chief  grievances  appear  to  have  been  the  frequent  change  ot  governors,  and  the 
afTaults,  robberies,  and  arreils  perpetrated  upon  Irillmien  travelling  in  England,  and  the  filfe 
accufations  made  to  the  king  againil:  the  Governors  and  Jufbces  of  Ireland.  They  pray 
that  debts  incurred  by  fornicr  Lord  Lieutenants  may  be  paid  off;  that  Ihidents  going  from 
Ireland  to  lludy  the  Law  fliould  be  received,  as  formerly,  into  the  Inns  of  Court,  anci  not 
continue  to  be,  as  then,  excluded  ;  and  they  complain  efpecially  of  the  "late  aggrcHion 
committed  upon  Ch.ief  Jullicc  l'"ortefcue  and  Sir  James  AUeyn,  when  on  then-  late  milHon  to 
England,"  and  pray  that  the  guilty  parties  may  be  puniOied. 

After  this  fecond  miflion  we  hear  no  more  of  Sir  Llenry,  who  ieems  to  have  returned  to 
Devonfliire,  until  about  the  year  14JI,  when  the  Records  of  Chancery  Proceedings  inform 
us  that  he  was  charged  by  llichard  Sackville,  antl  Maigery  his  wife,  with  having  wrongfully 
difpofleffed  them  from  their  lands  and  houling  at  iNIethercombe.  The  Bill  complains  that 
"the  faid  Herry  Eortefcue,  late  JulHcc  of  Ireland,  with  Richard  his  brother,  and  great 
people  of  Iryfshmen  and  Scottys,  in  the  manner  of  werre  arrayed,"  did  break  open  their 
doors,  &c.,  as  will  be  {tKiw  by  reading  the  document  in  tail,  which  here  follows  :  — 

Richard  Sackville  and  Margery  his  Jl'ife  v.  Uenry  Fortefcite,  late  Jujlice  of  Ireland. 

To  recover  poffelTion  of  land  and  houflin^  in  Nethercomhc,  in  Devtinflurc,  of  which  the  Defendant 
has  wrongfully  dilpofielled  them. 

To  the  Chancellor  of  Englonde  our  gracious  Lorde  : 

Befeecheth  you  mekiy  gracious  Lorde  your  pore  oratours  liicliard  S.ickville,  and  Margene  his 
wyf,  that  where  the  faid  Richard  and  Alargery,  dieir  aunceftcMs  and  tlio  whofe  allate  they  haddei;,  fithe 
the  tyme  of  King  Edward,  the  xxiii  yeare  of  lii^  leigne,  have  h.iJde  and  conteined  polleirioii,  and  other 
perfones  by  their  graunte  of  a  ferthying  <if  loiidc,  with  huwiynge  theruppon,  in  N ythercomhe,  in 
Devenfchire  (by  grante  of  one  Hugh  Cumba  to  one  John  Shijiluun,  and  to  his  hcires  for  evermore, 
referving  xvj.s.  of  rente  whiche  Margerie,  John  her  fadere,  and  Richard  thir  aiel,  and  all  other 
whofe  affate  they  hadden  yn  the  fed  londe  and  howfynge,  have  paid  the  fed  xvj  iliillings  ot  rente  unto 
the  feide  Hugh  Cumba,  and  to  his,  difendablye  fro  him  unto  one  I  lory  hoyti-fcui.,  lati'  ju/lii^  of  Irlmdc^  hc.^ 
cofyn  unto  the  feide  Hugh,  which  yeres  and  dales  was  paid  of  the  feide  xvj.s  of  rent  by  the  feide 
Richard  and  Margerie,  unto  now  late,  that  the  feide  Herry  with  Iryfshemen,  Scottys,  and  other,  yn 
the  manere  of  werre  arraied,  wrongefully  put  out  the  faide  Richard  and  Margerie  their  fefles,  their 
tennants  in  taille,  yn  dower,  tyme  of  lyf,  and  other  which  ther  not  pourfue  for  thair  righte  of  the  faide 

londe   and   houfynge,  and   of  other  londe.      And  fo poflefliou    lc\v\d  afli.  e 

by  grete  lotolte  and  maintenance,  which  is  dylcontinued  and  no  judgement  yevyn,  and  \et  he  oecupicd 
his,  faid  wronge  poflefllon,  and  hath  made  grete  deilruccion  and  walte,  and  lo  mannalied  the  lai-ie' 
Richard  that  they  durft  nouzt  come  ne  occupy  there  .      kir  dowte  of  death.      And   alter  that  by 

mediacion  of  certayne  perfones  was  made  awarde  at  Holbeton  ye   viii'''  dai  of  March,'  the   i\ii'  )ear  ot 


A.  11.  1431. 


44  Family  of  Nor?'eis  and  Wood  ; 

the  K.yng  that  now  ys,  our  molt  fouveraine  and  gracious  lordt:,  which  award  the  faide  Richard  and 
Margerie  were  redy  to  have  performed  (to  their)  power,  and  as  ytt  appeareth  ot  record  ;  butte  thi^ 
faide  Herry  for  to  deftroie  and  diflierit  the  faide  bifechers  and  other  forfaide  wrongfully,  he  and  other; 
of  his  afTent  ymagined  an  untrue  awarde,  wretyn,  endented,  and  feled,  of  the  faide  londe  and  howfynge, 
and  berynge  an  hande  that  the  faide  Richard  ne  Margerie  wolde  noutz  performe  that  awarde  made  att 
Holbeton  ;  and  becaufe  of  nounpayment  of  xx.i  att  fefte  of  Efter,  when  it  was  twelvemonth  and  more 
after  the  feide  felle,  or  the  feide  befechers  knew  the  feide  awarde,  coiidempned  the  feide  Richard 
to  an  cxl.  marke,  uppon  the  feide  untrewe  awarde,  and  cntrarie  thereto,  and  to  the  plee  of  the  laide 
Herry,  by  caufe  of  an  untrue  and  deceveable  entre  yn  the  rolle  (jf  a  clcrke  by  procuringe  of  one 
William  Elyot  attourney,  and  by  other  of  his  alFcnt,  and  after  that  ferved  execution  of  all  their  londes, 
goodes,  and  cattels,  i^^  that  they  had  nouzt  to  leve  ne  hem  to  fufteigne  thereuppon  in  no  manner  wyfe, 
butte  made  hem  beggars;  and  noutwithftandynge  that  their  friends  after  that  vaf  hem  goode  t> 
fufl:eine  and  helpe  hem  and  thair  children  therewith  of  almneire,  yet  the  faide  Aerry,  Richard  Im 
brother^  with  grete  peuple  of  Iryslhemen  and  other  in  the  manore  of  werre  ariaied,  come  to  the 
dwellyne  of  the  faide  Richarde  Sackville  (he  and  his  wyf,  here  moder,  and  here  children  bLuige  in 
thair  bedde)  and  brake  tiiair  dores  and  cofrcs,  with  horrible  gov'naunce  cryinge  and  ihotte  and 
come  to  hys  bedde,  and  toke  hym  with  oute  warrante,  and  toke  his  bedde-clothes,  artraied  and  call ;  out 
the  faide  children  al  naked  fore  wepyng  and  cryinge,  and  toke  other  goodes  and  catelles  a.  a  bille 
reherfeth,  lete  his  wyf  beynge  grete  and  quyckle  with  childe,  her  moder,  and  her  fonne,  and  Irfte  hem 
there  for  dede,  which  was  caufe  of  the  faide  childe's  deth,  and  of  mo  other  yt  God  hadi  e  i  ouzt 
fortuned,  and  ledde  hym  forth  to  Exeftre,  and  ther  kept  hym  in  prifone  till  they  hadde  a  waran:  fro 
the  juftice  of  pees,  and  berynge  an  hande  that  they  tokyne  hym  by  that  warant,  and  after  that  ferved  a 
capias  of  execucion,  and  fo  ledde  hym  to  London,  and  ther  have  kept  hym  in  prifone  all  this  hree 
yeare  and  more  uppon  the  feide  untrue  awarde,  and  by  caufe  that  the  faide  bifechers  wol  nouzt  gr;-unte 
unto  the  faide  Herry,  and  to  his  heirs  the  faide  londe  and  houfynge,  where  the  mowe  nouz:e  in  no 
wyfe,  and  wher  the  faide  Herry  hath  no  right,  as  it  i)rith  by  the  faide  evidence  and  poflelfioi  ,  ai  d  by 
othere,  and  alio  by  the  favynge  of  John  Fortej'cu^  fader  of  the  jaide  Herry  atore  his  dcth. 

Whrfor  the  faide  bifechers  .  .  .  bifecheth  your  gracious  Lordfliipe  to  conlider  how  they  ha.  e  lued 
this  6  yeare  and  more,  and  both  utterly  deftroyed,  and  in  priione,  and  may  nouzt  few  we  have  ihe  coe 
lawe  by  caufe  of  pov'te  and  imprifonment,  and  by  caufe  of  grete  maintenance,  aflurance,  and  Ipjurie, 
and  for  other  divers  caufes,  befechynge  youe  gracious  lorde,  to  call  hem  that  been  p'fent  and  ptie  in  thes 
materes,  and  to  fende  for  the  faide  Herry,  and  for  hem  that  been  .]itie  and  ali'ente,  to  appear  before  your 
gracious  prefence,  and  after  the  commaundement  of  oure  mofte  drede  fovraine  lorde,  to  be  dewly 
examined  of  alle  the  premifl'es  of  this  biUe,  with  other  circumltances  therof,  as  the  faide  bifechers 
fchalle  more  openly  declare  afore  your  gracious  prefence,  and  to  do  dew  jullice  and  remedye  to  the  faide 
bifechers  and  ....  and  in  faviiige  of  the  right  of  our  feide  fovraine  lorde  l,ir  pite,  for  the 
love  of  God,  and  cliite. 

Declaracio  Rici  Saclieville  et  Margie  Uxis  ejus.' 


'    See    rriiccL-Jiiig^s    in    Chancery,   rci^m  of  Queen    Elizabeth,  uilh    Earlier   rrocetdiiigs   from    RicluuJ    II.   to 
Ricliaid  111.,  3  vols,  lolio,   1S30,  vol.  ii.  p.  -wili.,  Ileiiiy  VI. 


,..and  Family  of  Fallapit,  firj}  line.  45 

^j  Sir  f  Tenry  married  twice,  each  time  to  an  heirefs.      His  llril  wife  was  Joan,'  daughter  to 

Edmunil  Bozun,  of  Bozuii's  1  Jcle,  heir  to  the  family  of  Wood  in  South  JJevon,  by  wliom 
he  had   a  fon,  John,  who  inherited  the  eftate   of  Wood,  and   left   it  to   his  heir,  as  we  fliall 

k.  prefently  fee.  1  Jis  fecond  wife  was  the  daughter  and  heir  of  Nicholas  de  h'allapit,  by  whom 
he  had  a  fon,  Richard,  who  inherited  Kallapit  from  his  mother. 

The   I'^ORTESCUES   of   Wood  (ist   Family).  ' 

;;'  Sir  Henry    Fortefcue   was   fucceeded   in  his   eftates  by   his  eldeft   fon,  John,"  who  alfo 

i*?^'  inherited  Wood  from  his  mother.  John's  fon  and  heir  was  William,  who  left  a  fon,  Robert, 
j:,^  who  was  lucceeded  by  his  fon,  Anthony  h'ortefcue  of  Wood,  who  married  Ellen,'  daughter 
!.'|,  of  Hu!nfrey  Waldword  of  Bradfield,  by  whom  he  had  not  any  male  heir,  and  oi.Iy  one 
Ivv  daughter,  Joan;  who,  marrying  John  Fortefcue  of  Prefton  (who  died  1587),  conveyed  the 
[,,|:,     Wood  eftate   to  that    branch,   as   has   been   already  narrated.     There   is   no   record   in    the 

l^edigrees  of  the  names  of  the  fimilies  into  which  the  foregoing  poflelTors  of  Wood  married; 

nor  of  any  children    befides  the   fons  and   heirs  ;   nor   have    I   been   able  to  trace  them  in 

the  Inquifitions  Poft  Mortem,  or  in  the  family  wills. 

The   Fortescues  of  I''ai.i,apit. 

"  Fallapit,"  fays  Pole,  "belonged  unto  the  name  of  h'alleput;  of  which  name  I  find 
fuccellively  to  enjoye  the  fame,  Robert,  John,  John,  Pliilip,  and  Nicholas,  whofe  only 
daughter,  .  .  .  was  fecond  wife  unto  Henry  I'ortefcue,  Juftice  of  Ireland,  and  eldell 
fon  of  Sir  John  h'ortefcue.  Captain  of  Meaux."^ 

The  Fallapit  or  Valeput  family  pofiened  the  eftate  from  the  end  of  the  thirteenth 
century.  If  not  earlier,  and  It  has  pafted  from  them  through  the  Fortefcues  of  two  branches 
I  to  the  Wells  family,  with  whom  It  ftlll  continues,  fo  that  the  prefent  Mr.  Wells  h'ortelcue 
'[■,:'      may  boaft  of  an  Inheritance  almoft  fix  centuries  old. 

1^:;  The  fon   of  Sir   Henry  Fortefcue   by  the    I'allapit    heirefs  was   Richard,  who,  marrymg 

I''     Margaret,  daughter  of  Robert    Hill   of  Shilfton,  In  the  parifh   of  Modbury,  left  a  fjii  ana 
Ji'  ,    heir,  John,  who  married  Margaret,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  William  Hingefton  ot  Wombwell, 
in  the  fame  parlfti.      This  "  John  Fortefcue  of  Vallepit  "  Is  named  among  thofe  who  accom- 
panied Courtenay,  16th  Earl  of  Devon,  to  the  relief  of  Exeter,  befieged  by  Perkin  Warbeck 


'  Collins,  vol.  V.  337,  and  Visitation  of  Devon,  1564,  &.C.  Lodge,  Peerag-e  of  Ireland,  makes  her  daughter 
of  Wood. 

'  Stenamata  Fortefcuana,  Coll.  of  Arms  Pedigree.  •"  See  Stemm.  Fort. 

'  Pole,  Coll.  of  Devon,  p.  2qo.  Sclden  in  his  preface  to  De  Laudibiis  quotes  from  the  Colfm  MS.  "  John 
Fortefcue  de  Vakpit  held  8th  Edwd.  1.  Stancourt-Prior  in  Coliug.  llund.  Devon.'' 


■■   /.i  i"..:-':':,H 


46 


Fa}} lily  of  CafthhilL 


about  1495.'  He  had  no  foii,  and  only  one  daughter,  EHzaheth  I'^ortefcue,  his  heirefs,  who, 
however,  by  chooling  a  h'ortefcue  for  her  hufLand,  kept  her  patrimony  in  the  name.  She 
married  Lewis  h'ortefcue,  third  Ibn  of'  John  h'ortefeuc  of  Spr.dlellonc,  as  we  have  be  ore 
Icen.  He  became  a  Baron  of  the  Exchequer  in  the  end  of  the  reign  of  Henry  V^III.,  and 
died  in  1545-  'llieir  ilTue  was  fix  fons  and  lour  daugliters  ;  of  whom  the  eldell  fon,  foLn, 
fucceeded  at  b'aliapit,  being  the  firil:  ot  the  lecond  family  there,  whofe  hiftory  has  be  -n 
already  traced. 

Thus  the  male  delcendants  of  Sir  Henry  b'orteicue  filled,  as  well  thofe  fpringing  from 
his  firft  marriage  with  the  Wood  heirefs,  as  thofe  by  his  fccond  marriage  with  the  daughter 
of  Nicholas  de  I''allapit. 

Chap.   VII. 

The  Fortejcites  uf  Caft'ehill. 

^^l^vyO)  REFERIlNCE  to  the  genealogical  tree  fiiows  us  that  we  have,  by  the  comple- 
Q^^^W,  tion  of  the  account  of  the  defendants  of  Sir  John  Fortelcue  of  Meaux,  tl  rough 
^fe^y-|s^  his  eldell  fon,  Sir  Henry,  come  down  to  the  fecond  fon  of  the  laid  Sir  John, 
namely.  Lord  Cliancellor  hortelcue.  iVs  liis  life  is  given  fepararely  at  the  beginni  ig  ot  his 
collecffed  works,  it  is  only  neceflary  to  re[ieat  here  that  he  was  born,  probably,  ar  ^  orreis 
about  the  year  1395  ;  that  he  married  Ifabella,  daughter  of  John  Jamys,  Efquire,  of  Philip's- 
Norton,  in  Somerfetfliire,and  had  iifue  by  her,  who  died  before  a.  o.  T47  2, 'an  only  fon,  Niartin, 
who  died  before  his  father;  ami  two  daughters,  I^lizabeth,' married,  about  1456,  to  Edrnond, 
fon  of  Thomas  VVhalefburgh,  I'Tquire,  (jf  C-oiaiwall  ;  and  Maud,  tlie  wife  of  Robe  r,  on  ot 
Sir  Ivobert  Corbet.' 

We  fhall  now  inquire  into  what  is  on  record  of  the  pollerity  of  the  Chancellor,  through 
his  only  fon  Martin  Kortefcue,  or  Sir  Martin,  as  he  is  fometimes  ftyled. 

Martin  l^'ortefcue  married  Elizabeth  Denzille  or  Devnfell,  daughter  and  heirefs  ot  Richard 
Denzille  of  I^'illeigh,  Wear-Giffard,  and  Buckland-Filleigh,  all  in  North  Devon;  and  in 
South  Devon  jiolTelling  Landfend  in  Colebrook,  Combe  in  Holbeton,  and  Tanierton^on  the 
i'amar.'''      Their  marriage  lettlemetit  is  dated  September  10,  Jj  Henry  \'F  (a.  d.   1454)." 

The  delcent  of  this  heirefs,  and  of   her  large  polTellions,  was  as  follows  :  — 

The  manor  of  Wear-Giffard'  was  given  to  one  of  the  Giffards  by  William  the  Conqueror; 


'  Gilbeit's  Parochiiil  Iliftory  of  Cornwall,  vol.  ii.  p.   190.  -   Inq.  V .  M.  12  l''d.  IV..  in  .\  iijendlx. 

^  Exchequer  ol'Pleas,  34  IKii.  VI.  '   Ijloonu  floKi's  Xoilblk.  ix.  y     i:w.  J^o.  ediiion. 

'  Vi'tftcote's  Dtvonfhire,  p.  352. 

^  Mr,  Iiicledon,  in  Stemmat.i  rorlclciiana,  relates  that  Ik  liad  (len  lliis  documenl.  See  ..ICo  Mr.  \'onije''s 
letter  in  fame  compilation. 

'  Letters  to  the  author  from  Rev.  J  W.  Weare  of  liamiaon  Uoule,  lleieforil.  wiitten  in  1SO3;  ,uid  Pole':. 
Colledtions  for  Devon,  p.  385. 


H' 


FAMILY     OF    CASTLEHILL. 


(  John  Fonrrscuf.,  2nd  fon  of  Srii  John  of  Me 
n  iibout  1395  ;   Cliancclior  to  King  HtNiiv  VI. 


pISADKLLA,  dau.  and  heireirof  Jo 
I  of  Philips-Norlon,  Somerfet. 


^  Jamys,  Efq. 


!■-  1454:  died  =p  nLlZABicTH,  dau.  an 
2,  1472.  land  Killi-igh :  furv 


r  of  RicHARu  DtNziLLE  of  Filleigh,  Wear-Giaard,  and  Buck- 
r  firfl  hufband,  and  re-mar.  Sm  Kk 


John,  agc-d  1 2  years  a(  his  father's  death  1  =j=  a.  d.  1 480,  Jacquet,  dau.  of  R 
born  1460;  d.ed  June  2,  1503.  Efq.  of  Amony,  in  MonM 


Family  of  Combe. 


Ar-  = 

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Fran- 

=j=K.ATHERINK 

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Freurica. 

born 

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born 

d.  of  Capl. 

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1826. 

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Kfq. 

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Henry,  Francis  III 

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born    Alex.,    Ci 

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Fmnily  of  CaftleJtill.        '  47 

from  which  circuniftancc,  and  bccaufc  there  vvay  a  fifli-wear  in  the  river  Torridge  on  the 
manor,  the  name  arpfe.  An  heirels  ot  Sir  Walter  Ciiffan.!,  who  was  lon.1  (;f  the  nianoi-  m 
1242,  married  a  Cornifli  Knight,  Sir  Walter  Tre-wen  or  Tre-awne,  whofe  grc.i:  grandfuii 
William  "called  liindelt  Weare  ol"  his  dwellinge;"  and  about  the  ijth  of  1  knry  IV., 
(a.  U.  1411-12),  marrying  Elizabeth  de  l-'illeigh,  daughter  and  heirefs  of  John  de 
iMlltigh,  (ixth  in  defcent  from  Simon  de  Killeigli,  became  thereby  feized  of  the  lMlleiu;h 
and  the  Buckland-l''illeigh  ell:ates.  This  William  Weare,  and  Elizabeth  de  iMllei'di, 
had  illiie,  an  only  daughter,  Joan  Weare  (Pole  calls  her  Elizabeth),  who  carried 
hoth  h.er  father's  ani.1  mother's  polTeflions  to  her  hiifl)and  Richard  Denzill,  whofe 
foil  Richardj  marrying  j\nne,  daughter  of  Sir  Philip  Courtcnay  of  l\)wderham,  and 
widow  of  Sir  Williani  Palton,  had  ilTue,  an  only  child,  I'dizalieth,  married  to  Martin 
l''ortefcue  ' 

There  is  little  mention  of  this  perfon,  who  died,  at  rather  an  early  age,  a  few  years  bef'ire 

his  father.      He  lived  on  his  wife's  eftates  at   Filleigh,  the  prefent    Caftlehill,  where,  fays 

Rifdon,'  he  had  "  large  demefne  with  a  park  thereto  belonging,"  and,  he  adds,  writing  about 

.K.  u.  1620,  "  where  the  franknefs  of  the  houfekeeper  confirmeth  the  welcome  of  friends;"  and 

alfu  at  Wear-Giftard.      Mere  he   enlarged   and   remodelled   the   manfion,  leaving  it  much   in 

the  ftate  in  which  it  now  rem.iins,  although  fome  years  ago  the  Plonourable  George  Fortefcue 

did  much  to  reftore  and  prclerve  it.      It  is  a  very  intereiling  memorial  of  the  lall  half  of  the 

fifteenth  century  ;    the  church,  handet,  and  manfion,  the  walls  of  the  latter  covered  with  ivy 

I',    myrtles  and  vines,  lying   dole  together  on   the   banks  of  the   Torridge,  four    miles   above 

Bidetord,  in  the  valley  through  which  that  river  comes  down  from  Torrington,  form  a  pleafing 

group.      The  following  delcription  is  partly  from  notes  which   1    !nade  on  the  fpot   in  June, 

1858,  but,  as  to  the  herahlic  details,  from  information  very  kindly  fupplied  by  the  Reverend 

'■    J.    W.    Weare,    of     Hampton    Houle,     Hereford,    a   delceiidint   of   the   old    family   above- 

j,   mentioned,  as  well  as  from  the  "  Stenunata  h'ortefcuana  ":  — 

The  principal  features  are  the  old  Gothic  gate-houfe,  built  by  the  Weares,  or  Denzills,  which 
formerly  hood  \\\  a  wall  that  lurroiinded  the  manfion,  but  was  deilroyei.i  in  the  great 
Civil  War;  and  the  hall,  built  by  Martin  h'ortelcue  about  1460,  with  "one  of  the 
^'  fined  oak  ceilings  in  England,  as  richly  carved  as  that  of  the  Cliapel  of  Henry  VII.  at 
'i;  Wellmiiiller."^  It  has  at  one  end  a  range  of  ibdis  in  oak  and  panel-work;  at  theoppolite  end 
,j'  ii  niufic-gallery  alio  of  oak,  it  is  wainl'coated  all  round.  'Idie  fire-place  is  large  and  of  ifone, 
■;['  its  archway  with  heraldic  memorials,  as  follow  :  —  The  crell  of  Weare,  three  hlh  embowel 
\\  and  interlaced,  in  allufion  to  the  name  of  the  manor  affumed  by  the  Trewens  after  the  mar- 
L  riage  with  GifFard.      Two  coats  of  arms  over  the  fireplace  in  llone,  viz.  :  — 


I'ole's  CollcTtions  for  Devon.  -   KiMon,  p.  3  1  3. 

Murray's  Handbook  lor  Devon  ami  Cornw.ill,  p.  131. 


48  Fafuily  of  Cajllehill. 

I.    Fortefcue  impaling  Deynfell,  Weare,  and  Killegh  ;   and 

1.   Fortefcue  quartering  the  fame  three  coats. 

Round  the  hall  in  oak  panel  are  the  following  coats  in  order  : — 

I    GifFard.  2   Weare.  3 4  

with  heirefs  of  with  heirefs  of 

Giffard.  and 

Giffard. 
5   Weare  6   Deynfell  7   Deynfell,  Wear,  and  Fiilegh, 

with  heirels  of  with  heirefs  of         impaling  Courtenay.  \  • 

Fillegh.  Weare  and 

FiUegh. 
Martin  alio  enjoyed,  through  his  wife,  the  manfion  of   Buckland-Fillei^h,  lying  high  ap 
the   valley  ot  the  Torridge,   about   twelve   miles   from    Wear-Giffard,   ii'    a    wooded,    hilly 
diflrift,  the  outfkirts  of  Dartmoor.      He  was  the  firft  of  his  name  who   fettled    m   North 
Devon,  all  the  feats  of  the  I'ortefcues  being  hitherto  in  the  fouthern  parts  of  the  county. 

He  left  ifilie,  two  fons,  John  and  William,  and  died  on  the  Feail:  of  St.  Martin,  Nov  niber 
1 2th,  1472,  as  we  learn  from  an  inquifition  polt  mortem  taken  at  Torrington,  on  the  12th 
of  May,  in  the  next  year.' 

His  widow  re-niarried  Sir  liichard  Pomeroy,  whom  fhe  alfo  outlived — hei  l.'cond 
hufband  dying  in  1498-99.'^ 

John  Fortefcue,  eldell;  fon  of  Martin,  born  in  1460,  fucceeded,  at  her  death,  t  )  his 
mother's  eflates  of  Wear-Giffard  and  Filleigh,  now  Caftlehill,  and  on  the  Chanci  llor's 
death,  to  F.brington  in  Gloucerterfhire,  and  to  the  manor  ot  Combe,  in  Holbeton,  n  :^outh 
Devon.  The  former  remains  in  the  family  as  part  of  F^arl  Fortefcue's  eltate  ;  aim  he  \\i\\ 
receives  a  head-rent  from  Combe. 

John  Fortefcue  married  Jacoba ,  and  died  on  the  2nd  of  June,  1502,  leav- 

'ing  his  fon  George,  aged  nineteen,  who  fucceeded  him,  and  a  fecond  fon,  Bartho'imew. 
The  fecond  fon  of  Martin  b'ortefcue  was  William,  who  inherited  Buckland-Filleigh  from  his 
mother,  and  founded  that  family  as  well  as  its  branch  ot   Dromifkin  and  Ravenldale  l^ark. 

John  Fortefcue's  eldeft  fon  was  George,  born  in  1484,  being  nineteen  years  old  at  his 
father's  death,  as  we  learn  from  two  poft-mortem  inquifitions.  It  is  Grange  that  he  ;hould 
have  been  pafied  over  without  mention  in  all  the  numerous  pedigrees  ot  thi;  family ;  luch 
neverthelefs  is  the  cafe.  It  mufl:  therefore  be  aflumed  that  he  died  early  without  illue,  and 
that  his  brother  Barthuloniew  inlieiited  his  lather's  ertates  icon  after  the  death  of  the  latter. 
Bartholomew  married  Ellen,  daughter  of  Maurice  Moor,  of  Moorehayes,  ii.  Collumpton, 


See  the  A])peiulix    to  tliis  chapter. 

l.cttei  liom  J.  IJ.  ^■ollge,  Elquiie,  oCPuflinch,  in  Slcmni.  Fort.,  p.  I  17. 


Family  of  Cafllehiil.  49 

by  Agnes,  daughter  of  Sir  Lewis  Pollard,  and  had  iffuc,  two  ions,  Richard,  his  fuccenbr,  and 
Lewis,  who  died  in  1595,  having  married  Wilmot,  daughter  of  Sir  Roger  Giffanl  ;  and 
four  daughters,  of  whom  Gertrude  married  Sir  Hernard  Drake'  of  Arti,  and  died  i6oi  ;  and 
Mary  married  Robert  Yeo  of  Lleanton-Saekville,  leaving  illue  an  heirel's,  who  carried  that  elLite 
to  Henry,  third  fon  of  John  Rolle  of  Stevenllone.  Bartholomew  I'^ortefcue  died  September 
12th,  1557,  at  Wear-Giffard.  Two  poft-mortem  inquifitions  held  at  Wells  in  Somerfet- 
fliire,  and  in  Exeter  Cartle,'  iind  that  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  feized  in  Somerfet,  of 
the  manor  of  Coricombe  held  ot  the  king,  and  in  Devon  of  the  manor  of  Wear-Giffard,  held 
by  military  fervice  of  the  co-heirs  of  Edward  Earl  of  Devon  ;  of  Filleigh,  Bralegh,  Brod- 
land,  and  Upcott,  held  of  the  fame  lord  ;  of  Eaft  Buckland,  &c.,  &c.,  held  of  John  Marrow, 
Efquire,  by  military  fervice,  and  of  Combe  in  Holbeton,  Overconilie,  Nethercombe,  liet- 
tokefbridge,  Efford,  and  Alllon,  held  ot  the  lieirs  of  Charles  Duke  of  Suffolk,  by  mil  tary 
fervice. 

Richard,  his  eldeft  fon,  iucceedcd  to  thcfe  eftates  ;  he  married  Joan,  daughter  of —  Moreton 
of  Kent,  and  had  iflue  two  fons,  Hugh  the  eldeft,  of  whom  prefently,  and  Cieorge  ;  and  two 
daughters.  George,  the  fecond  fon,  received  from  his  father,  by  conveyance,  in  1557,  his 
lands  in  Colebrook  and  Bridgerfvvell,  and  by  his  father's  will,  dated  March  28,  1570/ he  was 
left  his  "  capital  houfc  of  Combe  in  Holbeton  alias  LloJberton  in  the  County  of  Devon,  with 
appurtenances;"  and  afterwards  his  brother  LLigh  gave  him,  by  deed,  in  1581,  lands  at 
Combe  or  Barrels-combe,  in  liolberton,'  "pro  traterno  amore,  et  condolentia."  He  married 
Joan,  daughter  of Norlegh  of  Inwardlegh. 

Georae  Lortefcue  is  ftyled  "  ot  Combe,"  which  he  handed  down  to  his  defcendants  ;  its 
laft  portdTor  of  the  h'ortelcues,  excepting  io  htr  as  its  head-rent  is  concerned,  appears  to  have 
been  John  Lortefcue,  who  made  his  will  in  Auguft,  171  8,  proved  Oc^tober  17  of  that  year, 
in  which  the  only  relatives  mentioned  are  a  (illci-,  Upton,  and  three  coulins  Pollexten.' 

Richard  Lortefcue  died  in  1570,  and  was  buried  in  the  church  of  Lilleigh,"  where  there 
is  a  good  brafs  to  his  memory.  He  is  rejirefentcd  in  armour,  kneeling  as  in  prayer,  with 
this  infcription  :  — 

"Here  lyeth  Rychard  Lortefcue  of  Lilleigh,  Efquire,  who  died  on  the  lall 
"  Day  of  June,  in  the  yeare  of  oure  Lorde  God,  1570." 

In  the  corners  of  the  brafs  there  are  two  coats  of  arms  ; 

1.  b'ortefcue  quartering  Denzille,  I'^illeigh,  and  Weare. 

2.  Lortefcue  with  the  quarterings,  impaling  Moreton. 

Hugh,  his  fon  and  heir,  fucceeded  his  father  Richard  ;   he  was   born  in  1544,'  mam  xi 


'  Stomm.  Fort.  ^  Inq.  Port  Mort.,  4  and  5  I'liil.  and  Mary.  ■'  Wills  in  Stemm.  I'ort. 

'   Yonge  in  Stemm.  Fort.  ■"'  Wills,  lljid.  "   Stcinni.  I'ort.,  witli  pl.il.- 

'  Ini).  I'ofl  Mort.  on  Richard  Fortcicuc,  1 1  Eliz. 
II.  H 


50  Family  of  Caflkhill. 

Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Chicheiler  of  Ralegh,  and  fifter  of  Arthur  Lord  Chichefter, 
Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland  ;  and  by  her  had  two  fons  and  four  daughters.  John,  the  eldelt 
fon,  who  fucceeded;  Hugh,  the  fecoiid,  married  Elizabeth,  dauglitcr  of  Richard  Coffin,  Efquire, 
of  Portledge,  and  died  without  ifllie  in  1650;   Hugh  Eortefcue  died  Augull  i,  1600. 

The  eldeft  fon,  John,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Humfrey  Speccot,  of  Speccot,  in  Thorn- 
bury,  leaving  ifiue  Hugh,  Robert,  and  Richard,  and  fix  daughters.  He  died  March  29,  1605. 
Hugh,  his  fon  and  heir,  was  born  in  1592  ;  married,  in  1612,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Robert 
Rolle,  of  Heanton-Sackville,  anceftor  of  Lord  Rolle,  and  died  in  1661. 

He  erefled,  in  the  church  of  Wear-Giffard,  a  very  large  and  elaborate  monument  to  his 
grandfather  and  grandmother,  Hugh  and  Elizabeth,  his  father,  John,  and  his  mother, 
Maria,  with  the  tollowing  infcriptions  : — 

Memoriale  Hugonis  Fortefcue  Arm.  et  Elizabeth.^  ux  ;  fil.  JohTs  Chichefter 
Eq.  itemque  Johis  Fortefcue  eorum  fil.  Arm:  et  Maria;  ux :  fil.  Humphreai 
Speccot  de  Thornbury  Arm  :  funt  hi  ab  Jcihe  b'ortefcue  Equite  Duce  Caftri  de 
Meaux  in  Gall,  fub  H.  5'°  oriundi  qui  pntfepia  Forteicutorum  de  Winfton 
Devon,  ortus.  habiiit  fil.  Johein.  fununum  Jullic  :  et  Cancell.  fub  H.  6'  . 
fepultuni     libertoniai    Gloceft''.     familia    quidem    perantiqua    et   etiamnum    felici 

fobole  propagata. 

Sepulti  funt  Hugo  Aug.  i\  1600.      Elizabetha  May  7".  1630.  1 

Johes  April  5°.   1605.       Maria  April  11°.  1637. 

Stay  (Reader),  ftay,  this  ftrufture  feems  t'invite,  , 

Thy  wand'ring  eyes  on  it  to  fix  thy  fighte  ; 

In  this  pile's  fummitie  thou  may'il  delcrie 

Heaven's  all  beliolding  and  all  guiding  eye,  ' 

That  fheds  his  benedidions  gracious  beames  ,  I 

Of  Love  and  goodnelfe  on  thefe  fruitful  llrcames 

Of  numerous  Iflue  il:rong  from  Nuptial  tyes  1  '| 

With  various  ancient  worthy  families. 

Here  is  in  briefe  prefented  to  thy  view 

The  long-lined  race  of  honoured  Fortescue  I 

Combined  in  holy  rites  on  Time's  fair  fcrole 

With  Chichefter,  then  Speccot,  lafT:  with  Rolle,  ^  , 

And  long  and  wide  may  sacred  Grace  and  Fame 

Produce  and  propagate  this  generous  name, 

That  it  may  brooke  (what  honoLU-  gave  in  field), 

Le  FoRTESCU  the  ftrong  and  lafting  fliield, 


W'f  t\ 


Family  of  CaJlleJiill.  5 1 

A  fhield  not  only  theyr  own  right  to  fence 

But  alfo  to  repell  wrong's  violence, 

Which  that  it  may  accordingly  be  done 

Pray  (Reader)  pray  Goij  ise  U'heir  siieilu  anij  sunne. 

HUGO  .  FORTESCVE  .  SCVTIGER  .  SVPERSTES  .  VIR  .  MARIE  . 
ROLLE  .  ISTUC  .  FIERI  .  FECIT  .  HONORIS  .  CAVSA. 

Hugh  Fortefcue^  had  iHue  an  eldeft  fon,  John,  who  died  young.  Colonel  Robert 
Fortefciie,  the  fecond  fon,  who  fucceeded  to  the  family  eftates,  was  born  in  1617,  married 
firft,  Grace,  daughter  of  Sir  Bevil  Grenville,  of  Stowe,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter,  Grace, 
married  to  Sir  Halfwell   Fynte.  , 

His  fecond  wife  was  Sufannah,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Northcote,  by  whom  he  alfo  had 
one  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  to  George  Horner,  Efquire,  and  had  ilTue. 

Colonel  Fortefcue,  by  his  will  proved  June  6,  1677,'-'  bequeaths  "fifty  or  fixty  pounds 
to  be  employed  by  my  truftees  (Sir  Halfwell  Tynte  and  others),  in  the  new  poliiFing  and 
adorning  the  monument  in  the  Parifh  Church  of  Ebrington,  of  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  Knight, 
fometime  Lord  Chancellor  of  England,  my  worthy  and  renowned  ancertor."  He  mull  have 
died  in  the  year  1675,  becaufe,  at  the  date  of  his  will,  in  January  of  that  year,  his  wife 
wasfuppofed  to  be  with  child,  and  was  ftill  fo  fuppofed  when  her  hu(l)and  died.  The 
teftator  leaves  all  his  eftates  in  Devon,  Somcrfet,  Gloucefterftiire,  and  VViltftiire  to  his  male 
iflue  if  fuch  ftiould  be  born  ;  if  no  fon  be  born,  then  to  his  brothers  Arthur,  Edmund,  and 
Samuel  fucceftively.  I'here  was  no  fon,  and  Arthur  of  Penwarne,  the  next  brother,  fucceeded. 
We  (hall  return  to  him  prefently.  It  may  be  obferved  that  the  foregoing  mention  of  eftates 
of  the  Fortefcues  in  Wiltftiire  is  the  firll  fiiice  the  Chancellor's  time,  who  acquired  lome 
in  that  county,  probably  thofe  now  referred  to. 

Edmund  Fortefcue,  fourth  fon  of  Hugh  by  Mary  Rolle,  married  Sarah,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Henry  Aland,  of  Waterford,  Efq.,  and' had  two  fons  ;  of  whom  the  eldeft, 
Edmund,  of  Speccot,died  unmarried  in  1704,  having  taken  the  additional  name  ot  Aland; 
and  the  fecond  fon,  John,  became  Lord  Fortefcue  of  Credan,  and  will  be  mentioned  further 
on.  Hugh,  fifth  fon  of  Hugh  and  Mary,  married  a  lady  whofe  name  has  not  furvived,  (but 
who,  when  a  widow,  married  Thomas  D'Oyley,  Efq.,)  and  had  a  fon  John.  Joieph,  fi.\th 
fon  of  Hugh,  by  Mary  Rolle,  died  without  IlTue.  Samuel,  their  youngeft  fon,  was  ftyled  ol 
Cleeve  or  Clift,  in  the  parlfti  of  Weare-GIffard ;  he  married  Mary  Yeo,  and  left  iftlie,  at  lu^ 
death  in  1681,  his  eldeft  fon,  John  of  Cleeve,  who  died  in  17JI  ;'  and  three  daughters, 
a  fecond  fon,  George,  having  died  young  before  his  lather. 


See  the  I'oft-Mortem  Inquifition.  ''  Stemm.  Fort.  '  Sec  Pedigree. 


52  Family  of  Call UbiU. 

Of  the  four  fifters  of  the  feven  brothers  above  recorded,  Elizabeth  married  Sir  George 
Chudleigh,  of  Afliton,  Baronet.  Fhe  names  and  marriages  of  the  others  will  be  found  in 
the  Pedigree. 

We  now  return  to  Arthur  l<'ortefcue,  fecond  furviving  fon  of  Hugh  iMjrtefcue  by  Mary 
Rolle.  Jie  was  feated  at  Penwarne  in  Cornwall,  during  his  elder  brother's  life.  He  married 
Barbara,  daughter  of  John  Klford,  of  Shepfton,  Efquire,  and  had  iiTue  by  her,  four  fons. 
Hugh,  the  eldell,  of  whom  hereafter,  John  of  Penwarne,  fecond  fon,  ferved  as  High  Sheriff 
ot  Cornwall  in  the  year  1741  ;  married  Amy,  daughter  of  Sir  Peter  bortefcue,  of  Wood, 
Baronet,'  but  had  no  iffue  by  her.  Arthur  of  St.  Endar,  antl  of  Penwarne,  third  fon, 
married  Dinah,  daughter  of  John  Yerman  of  Lamornan,  in  Cornwall,-  and  had  a  fon,  John 
of  Penwarne,  who  died  in  1776;  and  Jofeph,  fourth  fon.  Clerk  of  the  Peace  for  the 
County  ot    Devon,  for  whofe  marriage  and  iffue  fee  the  Pedigree.  , 

Hugh  I'ortefcue  of  JMlleigh,  eldeft  fon  of  Arthur,  by  Barbara  Elford,  married, 
fu-il:,  Bridget,  only  daughter  and  heir  of  Elugh  Bofcawen,  Efquire,  of  Tregothnan  in  Cc  rn- 
wall,  by  his  wife,  the  Lady  Margaret,  fifth  daughter  of  I'heophilus  Clinton,  Earl  of 
Lincoln  ;  by  whom  he  had,  befides  four  fons  who  died  in  infancy  or  childhood,  three  fons  ;  nd 
two  daughters,  viz.  the  eldefl:  fon,  Hugh,  afterwards  liarl  Clinton,  of  whom  hereafter;  f  co  id, 
Bofcawen,  born  1701,  and  died  1719  ;  third,  Theophilus,  born  in  1707 — he  ferved  ii  P  ir- 
liament  for  the  borough  of  Barnftaple  in  the  two  fucceilive  Parliaments  which  met  in  1727 
and  1734,  and  in  1741  was  chofcn  a  knight  of  the  iliire  tor  Devonfliire,  and  fo  continued 
until  his  death  in  March  1745. 

The  daughters  were  Margaret,  born  in  1693,  and  died,  in  1760,  unmarried  ;  and  Bride ."t, 
born  169J,  and  died,  in  1743,  alio  unmarried. 

Mrs.  bortefcue  died  In  1708;  and  her  hufl)and,  Hugh  b'ortefcue,  married,  fecondly, 
laicy,  daughter  to  Matthew,  firll  Lord  Aylmer  ;  and  by  her,  who  died  February  18,  1(67, 
aged  eighty,  had  iffue,  a  fon  Matthew,  born  i  7  i  9,  who  became  the  fecond  Lord  Fortefcue 
on  the  death  ot  his  half-brother  the  Earl  Clinton;  and  a  daughter  Lucy,  born  about  r,  17, 
who  married,  in  1742,  George  Lyttleton,  afterwards  firil  Lord  Lyttleton,  dillinguiflied  as  an 
hiftorian,  poet,  ftatefman,  and  Chriftian  philoiopher;  with  him  fhe  lived  in  a  ftate  ot  wet.  ded 
liappinefs,  which  became  almofl  proverbial,  foimded  i:pon  the  lolid  balis  ot  the  virtues  and 
piety  with  which  they  were  both  endowed.  This  h.ippy  union,  however,  was  fevered  by 
her  death  in  childbed,  in  the  year  1746.  She  left  an  only  Ion,  Thomas,  atterx'ards  fecond 
Lord  Lyttleton,  who,  in  his  lite  and  death,  was  a  lingular  and  mel.mcholv  coutralf  to  his 
parents.  It  happens  that  defcriptions  of  the  charaders  and  lall  moments  ot  botli  hither  and 
fon  are  in  print  ;   the  one  in  Johnfon's  "  Lives  of  the  Poets,"  the  other  probably  in  feveral 


His  Will.  ■  Stem.  I'ort.  for  inoft  of  tliib 


Fa?nily  of  Ca/Jlehill.  53 

works;     certainly     in     "Notes     and    Queries ;"     and    both     will    repay     the     trouble     of 
;*     rctcrcnce.' 

The  good  Lucy  Lyttleton  was  buried  in  the  church  of  Over  Arley  in  Worcefterlhire  ; 

i     but  her  monument  is  in  that  of  llagley  in  the  ianie  county^  with  two  infcriptions,  in  Englil'h 

and  Latin,  which,  as  they  are  not  unworthy  o\  the  pen  of  her  hufband,  whom  Johnfon  has 

atlmitted  among  the  poets  of  England,  it  will  be  proper  to  infert  here,  as  well  as  the  better 

known  "  Monody." 

To  the 
Alemory  of  Lucy  Lyttleton, 
j;_  Daughter  of  Hugh  Fortefcue  of  Filleigh 

111  the  County  of  Devon,  Efq., 
Father  to  the  iirefeiit  Earl  of  Clinton  : 

By  Lucy  his  Wife,  i 

The  Daughter  of  Matthew  Lord  Aylmer, 

Who  departed  this  Life  the  19th  of  Jan.   1746-7, 

Aged  twenty- nine, 

Having  employed  the  fliort   Term  alTigned  to  her  here 

In  the  uniform  Pradlice  of  Religion  and  Virtue. 

IVIade  to  engage  all  hearts  and  charm  all  eyes  ; 
Though  meek,  magnanimous  ;   though  witty,  wile  ; 
Police  as  all  her  life  in  Courts  had  been  ; 

Yet  good  as  flie  the  world  had  never  leen  ,  ; 

The  noble  hre  of  an  exalted  mind, 

With  gentleft  female  tendernefs  combined  ;  ! 

Her  fpeech  was  the  melodious  voice  of  Love, 
Her  fong  the  warbling  of  the  vernal  grove, 
Her  eloquence  was  Iweeter  than  her  fiuig, 
f:  Soft  as  her  heart,  and  as  her  realon  flrong. 

Her  form  each  beauty  of  her  mind  exprell, 
Her  mind  was  virtue  by  the  CJraces  drelL 


'  Notes  and  Queries,  2nd  Series,  vols.  v.  and  vi.  Lord  Lyttleton 's  other  chiklnii  by  Mils  Fortclcut-  u^rc  Lucy, 
mairicd,  ill  1767,10  Arthur  Earl  of  Mount  Norris,  and  M:uy,  who  died  m\  infml.  Loul  L\nluoii  ni.inuil.  as 
his  lecond  wift,  Iili/abcth,  (hiuglUer  of  Sir  Rohurt  liieh,  by  whom  he  hud  no  ifsuc. 


54  FamHy  of  CaJlkhilL 


M.  s. 

LUCIJE   Lv'TTLETON 

Ex  antiquinimcjruin  Fui  tcl'cuturum  guncrc  oitrt  ; 

Uuae  aniios  nata  viginti  novein, 

Formae  eximia;,  indolis  optima;,  ingenii  maximi, 

Supra  aetatem  et  fexum  exculti, 

Sine  fuperbia  laude  florens, 

Morte  immatura 

Vitam  pie,  pudice,  fantle  aflam 

In  tertio  puerperio  claufit, 

Decimo  nono  die  Januarii, 

Anno  Domini  1746-7. 

Fleta  etiam  ab  ignotis. 

Uxor!  dileftiffimo  , 

Quinquennio  felicifTimo  conjugii  nondum  abfoluto 

Immenfi  amoris  ac  dcfiderii  hoc  qualu  cunque  monumenturn 

Pofuit  (jeorgius  Lyttleton, 

Adhuc  cheu  !   fupcrlles, 

At  in  eodL'm  lepulchro  ipfc  olini  (epcliendu'-, 

Et  per  Jeium  Chriltum  Salvatorem  fuum, 

Ad  vits  melioris  diuturniora  gaudia 

Lachrymis  in  aeternum  abfterfis, 
Se  cum  ilia  rclurredlurum  contidcns. 


TO  THE   MEMORY  OF  MISS  LUCY  FORTESCUE  OF  FILLEKiH, 
WIFE  OF  GEORGE  LORD  LYTTLETON, 

By   Her  Husband,  a.  d.    1747-  , 

Ipfe  cava  folans  ;»;grum  teftudine  amoieni,  '; 

Te  dulcis  conjux,  te  folo  in  littore  fecum, 
Te  veniente  die,  te  decedente  canebat. 

I. 

At  length  efcap'd  from  every  human  eye. 

From  every  duty,  every  care,  '   ' 

That  in  my  mournful  thoughts  might  claim  a  fliare, 

Or  force  my  tears  their  flowing  ftream  to  drv, 

Beneath  the  gloom  of  this  embow'ring  fliade, 

This  lone  retreat,  for  tender  forrow  made, 


^k.n  . 


I  -ju.wi  •;;'!  ,)' 


J 


Family  of  Caftlehill.  55 


I  now  may  give  my  burdeii'd  heart  relict, 
And  jjour  fortii  all  my  ilores  of  griet, 

Of  grief  furpalTing  every  other  woe, 

Far  as  the  purcft  hlifs,  the  happicft  love, 
Can  on  th'  ennobled  mind  bellow, 
Exceeds  the  vulgar  joys  that  move, 

Our  grofs  defues,  inelegant  and  low. 


Ye  tufted  groves,  ye  gently-tailing  rills, 

Ye  high  o'erfliadowing  hills. 
Ye  lawns  gay-fmiling  with  eternal  green, 

Oft  have  you  my  Lucy  teen  ! 
But  never  iliall  )ou  now  behold  her  more  ; 

Nor  will  file  now  with  fond  delight 
And  tafte  refined  your  rural  charms  explore. 
Clos'd  are  thofe  beauteous  eyes  in  endlefs  night, 
I'hofe  beauteous  eyes  where  beaming  us'd  to  thine 
Reafon's  pure  light,  and  Virtue's  (park  divine. 


Oft  would  the  i^ryads  of  thefe  woods  rejoice 

To  hear  her  heavenly  voice, 
For  her  defpifing,  when  (he  deign'd  to  fing. 

The  I'weetelt:  I'ongiters  of  the  fpring  : 
The  woodlark  and  the  linnet  pleas'd  no  more  ; 

The  nightingale  was  mute, 

And  every  fliepherd's  flute 

Was  call  in  lilent  fcorn  away, 
While  all  attended  to  her  tweeter  lay. 
Ye  larks  and  liinicts  now  returne  your  long, 

And  thou,  melodious  Philomel, 

Again  thy  plaintive  flory  tell, 
For  death  has  ftopp'd  that  tuneful  tongue, 
Whole  mufic  could  alone  your  warbling  notes  e.xcel 


In  vain  I  look  around, 

O'er  all  the  well-known  ground, 
My  Lucy's  wonted  foottleps  to  dcfcry  ; 

Where  oft  we  us'd  to  walk, 

Where  oft  in  tender  talk, 
We  faw  the  fummer  fun  go  down  the  fky  ; 


S6  Family  of  CaJlUhilL 


Nor  by  yon  fountain's  fidL-, 

Nor  where  its  waters  glide, 
Along  the  valley,  can  flie  nov,'  be  found  : 
In  all  the  widc-ftretcird  profped's  ample  bound, 

Nor  more  my  mournful  eye 

Can  aught  of  her  efpy, 
Hut  the  fad  fecret  earth  where  her  dear  relics  lie. 


O  Ihades  of  Hagley,  where  is  now  your  boaft:  ? 
Your  bright  inhabitant  is  loih 

You  flie  preferr'd  to  all  the  gay  reforts, 

Where  female  vanity  might  wifli  to  ihine. 

The  pomp  of  cities,  and  the  pride  of  courts. 

Her  modeli:  beauties  (liuim'd  the  public  eye  ; 
To  your  iequeiler'd  dales 
Aiid  Ht)\v'r  embroider'd  vales 

From  an  admiring  world  ihe  chofe  to  ily  ; 

With  Nature  there  retired,  and  Nature's  God, 
The  filent  paths  of  wifdom  trod. 

And  banifh'd  every  paffion  from  her  breaft. 
But  thofe,  the  gentlell  and  the  bell, 
Whofe  holy  flames  with  energy  divine 
1  he  virtuous  heart  enliven  and  improve, 
The  conjugal,  and  the  maternal  love. 

VI. 

Sweet  babes,  who,  like  the  little  playful  fawns, 
Were  wont  to  trip  along  thefe  verdant  lawns, 

By  your  delighted  Mother's  iide. 

Who  now  your  infant  iteps  fliall  guide.'' 
Ah  !   where  is  now  tlu  hand  whole  tender  care 
To  every  virtue  would  have  form'd  your  \'outh, 
And  ftrew'd  with  flow'rs  the  thorny  ways  of  Truth  I 

O  lofs  beyond  repair  I 

O  wretched  Father  left  alone, 
To  weep  their  dire  misfortune,  and  thy  own  ' 
How  fhall  thy  weaken'd  mind,  oppreil'd  with  woe. 

And  drooping  o'er  thy  Lucy's  grave. 
Perform  the  duties  that  you  doubly  owe. 

Now  fhe,  alas  !   is  gone. 
From  tolly,  and  from  vice,  their  helplels  age  to  (avc  '. 


11-.' I' 


Family  of  Ca/lkhill.  57 


Where  were  ye,  Mufes,  when  relentlels  Fare 
From  thefe  fond  arms  your  fair  diiciple  tore, 

From  thefe  fond  arms  that  vaiidy  ftrove, 

With  haplefs  ineft'eflual  Love, 
To  guard  her  bofom  from  the  mortal  blow  ? 

Could  not  your  fav'ring  pow'r,  Aonian  maids, 
Could  not,  alas  !    yuur  pow'r  prolong  her  date. 

For  whojii  (o  ott  in  thefe  inlpinng  fliades, 
Or  under  Canipdeii's  mois-clad  mountains  hoar. 

You  open'd  all  your  (acred  ftore, 

Whate'er  your  ancient  fages  taught, 

Your  ancient  bards  fublimely  thought, 
And  bade  her  raptur'd  brcait  with  all  your  fpirit  glow  ? 


Nor  then  did  Pindus'  or  Cailalia's  plain, 
Or  Aganippe's  fount  your  ileps  detain. 
Nor  in  the  Thefpian  valleys  did  you  play  ; 

Nor  then  on  Mincio's  bank 

Befet  with  ofiers  dank. 
Nor  where  Clitumnus  rolls  his  gentle  Iheam, 

Nor  where  through  hanging  woods, 

Steep  Anio  pours  his  floods, 
Nor  yet  where  Meles,  or  lliU'us  ilray. 

Ill  does  it  now  befeem, 

1  hat,  ot  your  guardian  care  bereft. 
To  dire  difeafe  and  death  your  darling  ihould  be  left. 


Now  what  avails  it  that  in  early  bloom, 
When  light  fantalHc  toys 
Are  all  her  lex's  joys. 
With  you  file  fearch'd  the  wit  of  Cireece  and  Rome 
And  all  that  in  her  latter  days 
To  emulate  her  ancient  praife 
Italia's  happy  genius  could  produce  ; 
Or  what  the  (jallic  tire 
Bright-fparlding  could  infpire  ; 
By  all  the  (iraces  tcmjier'd  and  rehn'd  ; 


Family  of  CafilchilL 

Or  what  in  Britain's  ifle, 

Moft  favour'd  with  your  fmilc, 
The  powers  of  ii.'.if)n  and  ut  lancy  juin'd 
To  full  pcrfciitiiMi  liave  ci)ul|iircd  to  railc  r 

Ah  '    what  is  now  the  ulc 

Of  all  thefe  trL-afurcs  that  cnrich'd  her  mind  ; 
To  black  oblivion'^  gloom  for  ever  now  eonfign'd  ? 


At  leaft,  ye  Nine,  her  fpotlefs  name 

'Tis  yours  from  death  to  fave, 
And  in  the  temple  of  immortal  Fame 
With  golden  charaiters  her  worth  enii;ra\'e. 

Come  then,  ye  virgin  lifters,  come. 
And  itrew  with  choiceft  flow'rs  her  hallow'd  tomb. 
But  foremolt  thou,  in  fable  vettment  clad, 

With  accents  lueet  and  fad, 
I  hou,  plaintive  Aiule,  whom  o'er  his  J^aura's  urn 

Unhappy  Petrarch  call'd  to  mourn, 

O  come,  and  to  this  fairer  Laura  pay 
A  more  impaiFion'd  tear,  a  more  pathetic  lay. 


Tell  how  each  beauty  ot  her  mind  and  face, 

VVas  brigluen'd  by  (oiiie  Iweec,  peculiar  t;race  ' 
flow  eloquent  in  every  loul;. 
Through  her  expreffive  eyes  her  fuul  dirtiniUv  Ipoke 
Tell  how  her  manners  by  the  world  rclin'd 
Left  all  the  taint  of  modifli  vice  behind. 
And  made  each  charm  ot  poliili'd  lourts  airree 

With  candid  Truth's  fimplicity. 

And  uncorrupted  Innocence  I 
\  ell  ht)w  to  mote  than  manlv  (enle 

She  join'd  the  fiift'ning  influence 

Ot  nuire  than  temale  tendernels  ; 
How  in  the  thoughtlefs  days  of  wealth  and  joy, 
Which  oft  the  care  of  others'  good  deftroy, 

Her  kindly-melting  heart, 

To  every  want  and  every  woe, 

To  guilt  itlelf  when  in  dilhels. 

The  balm  of  pity  would  impart. 


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And  all  relief  that  bounty  could  beilovv  ! 
Ev'n  lor  the  kid  or  kmb  that  pour'd  its  lite 

Beneath  the  bloody  knife, 

Her  gejitle  tears  would  fall, 

Tears  trom  Iweet  Virtue's  fource,  benevolent  to  all 


Not  only  good  and  kind, 
But  ftrong  and  elevated  was  her  nnnd  ; 

A  fpirit  that  with  noble  pride 
Could  look  fuperior  down 
On  Fortune's  fniile  or  frov\'n; 

That  could  without  regret  or  pain 
To  Virtue's  lowelt  duty  (acrihce 
Or  int'relt  or  ambition's  higheit  prize  ; 
That  iii'iur'd  or  oflended  never  try'd 
Its  diginty  by  vengeance  to  niainiaiii, 
But  by  magnanimous  difdain. 
A  wit  that  temperately  bright, 
With  inofteniive  light 
i\ll  pleafmg  llione,  nor  ever  paft 
The  decent  bounds  that  Wifdom's  foher  hand, 
And  fweet  Bcnevi;lcnce's  mild  command, 
And  balhful  Modelty  before  it  calh 
A  prudence  undeceiving,  undeceived, 
That  nor  too  little,  nor  too  much  believ'd. 
That  Icoru'd  unjufl:  Sufpicion's  ct)ward  fear. 
And  without  weaknefs  knew  to  be  fiiicere. 
Such  Lucy  was,  when  in  her  iaireft  days, 
Amidft  th'  acclaim  ot  univerfal  praife, 

In  life's  and  glory's  trelhefl:  bluom 
Death  came  remorfelel's  on,  and  fuidi  her  t.i  the  tomb. 


So  where  the  hlcnt  ftreams  of  Liris  glide, 
In  the  loit  bo(o[n  ot  Campania's  vale. 
When  now  the  wintry  tempefts  all  are  fled. 
And  genial  Summer  breathes  her  gentle  gale. 
The  verdant  orange  lifts  its  beauteous  head  : 
From  ev'ry  branch  the  balmy  flow'rets  rile. 
On  every  bough  the  golden  fruits  are  I'een  : 


6o  Family  of  Ca  ft  I  chill. 


With  odours  fweet  it  tills  the  (miliiig  fkies, 
The  wood-nymphs  tend  it,  and  the  Idalian  queen  : 
But  in  the  midlt  of  all  its  blooming  pride 
A  fudden  blafl:  from  Appeiuiinus  blows, 

Cold  with  perpetual  luows  ; 
The  tender  blighted  plant  flirinks  up  its  leaves,  and  di 


Arife,  O  Petrarch,  from  th'  Elyfian  bow'rs, 

With  never-fading  myrtles  twin'd, 

And  fragrant  with  ambrohal  Howers, 
Where  to  thy  Laura  thou  again  art  join'd  ; 
Arife,  and  hither  bring  the  filver  lyre, 

Tun'd  by  thy  Ikilful  hand. 
To  the  foft  notes  of  elegant  delire. 

With  which  o'er  many  a  land 
Was  fpread  the  fame  of  thy  difallrous  love  ; 
To  me  refign  the  vocal  (hell. 

And  teach  jiiy  furrows  to  relate 

Their  melancholy  tale  fo  well. 

As  may  ev'n  things  inanimate. 
Rough  mountain  oaks,  and  defart  rocks,  to  pity  move. 


What  were,  alas  !   thy  woes  compar'd  to  mine  ? 
To  thee  thy  miftrefs  in  the  blifsful  band 

Of  Hymen  never  gave  her  hand  ; 
The  joys  ot  wedded  love  were  nevei   thine. 

In  thy  domellic  care 

She  never  bore  a  (iiare. 

Nor  with  endearing  art  ■ 

Would  heal  thy  wounded  heart 
Of  every  fecret  grief  that  fellcr'd  there: 

Nor  did  her  fond  aft'ettion  on  the  bed 

Of  ficknefs  watch  thee,  and  thy  languid  head, 

Whole  nights  on  her  unwearied  arm  fulfain, 
And  ch.irm  away  the  (enle  ot  pain  : 
Nor  did  (lie  crown  your  mutual  (lame 
With  pledges  dear,  and  with  a  father's  tender  name. 


Family  of  Cajlhhill. 


6i 


O  btlT;  of  wives  !      O  dearer  far  to  me 
Ihaii  when  thy  virgin  eharnis 
\Vere  yielded  to  my  arms, 
How  can  my  foul  endure  the  lofs  of  thee  I 
How  in  the  world,  to  me  a  defarC  grown, 

Abandoned,  and  alone. 
Without  my  Iweet  companion  can  I  live  r 

Without  thy  kively  fmile. 
The  dear  reward  of  every  viituous  toil, 
What  pleafures  now  can  pall'd  Ambition  give  ? 
Ev'n  the  delightful  fenfe  of  well-earn'd  prail'e, 
Unfliar'd  by  thee,  no  more  my  lifclefs  thoughts  could  raiie. 


For  my  dillrafted  mind,     - 

What  fuccour  can  I  find  ? 
On  whom  for  confolation  lliall  I  call? 

Support  me,  every  friend, 

'^  our  kind  afflilance  lend 
To  bear  the  weight  of  this  oppreffive  woe. 

Alas  !    each  friend  of  mine. 
My  dear  departed  love,  fo  much  was  thine. 
That  none  has  any  comlort  to  belfow. 

My  books,  the  bcif  relief 

In  every  other  grief. 
Are  now  with  your  idea  ladden'd  all  ; 
Each  fav'rite  author  we  together  read 
IVly  tortur'd  mem'ry  wounds,  and  fpeaks  of  Lucy  dead. 


We  were  the  happieft  pair  of  human  kind  I 
The  rolling  year  its  varying  courfe  pertorm'd. 

And  back  return'd  again  ; 
Another  and  another  fmiling  came. 
And  faw  our  happiiiefs  unchang'd  remain  ; 

Still  in  her  golden  chain 
Harmonious  Concord  did  our  wiihes  bind  : 
Our  ftudies,  pleafures,  tafte,  the  fame, 

O  fatal,  fatal  ftroke. 
That  all  this  pleafing  fabric  Love  had  rais'd 

Of  rare  felicity, 
On  which  ev'n  wanton  Vice  with  envy  gaz'd. 


62  Family  of  Cafthhill. 


And  every  fchemc  of  bills  our  hearts  had  tornied, 

With  foothliig  hope,  for  many  a  future  day,  , 

In  one  lad  moment  broke  ! 
Yet,  C)  my  foul,  thy  riling  murmurs  (fay, 
Nor  dare  th'  all-wife  Dilpofer  to  arraign, 

Or  againit  his  fupreme  decree 

With  impious  grief  complain,  ■   . 

That  all  thy  full-blown  joys  at  once  {hould  fade, 
Was  his  moll  righteous  will,  and  be  that  will  obey'd.  ' 

XIX. 

Would  thy  fond  love  his  grace  to  her  controul, 
And  in  thefe  low  abodes  of  fin  and  pain 

Her  pure,  exalted  loul  i 

Unjulfly  for  thy  partial  good  detain  ?  '  ■ 

No — rather  flrive  thy  grov'ling  mind  to  raife 

Up  to  that  unck)uded  blaze. 
That  heavenly  radiance  of  eternal  light,  ^ 

In  which  enthroii'd  llie  now  with  pity  fees, 

How  frail,  how  infecure,  howflight, 

Is  every  mortal  blifs  : 
Ev'n  love  itfelf,  if  rifing  by  degrees 
Beyond  the  bounds  of  this  imperfe£l  ftatc,  ' 

Whofe  fleeting  joys  fo  loon  mull  end,  • 

•  It  does  not  to  its  iov 'reign  (Jood  alcend. 

Rife  then,  my  foul,  with  hope  elate,  ; 

•  And  feek  thofe  regions  of  ferene  delight, 

Whofe  peaceful  path  and  ever-open  gate,  ■  t 

No  feet  but  thofe  of  harden'd  Guilt  fliall  mifs. 

There  Death  himfelf  thy  Lucy  (hall  redore,  >  |        ■ 

There  yield  up  all  liis  power  e'er  to  divide  you  more. 

I 
Htigh  Fortefcue  of  Filleigh  fat  in  Parliament,  from  tlie  year  16S9  all  thruthj;h  the  reign 
of  William  III.,  until  the  clofe  of  the  Parliament  elecled  in  the  feventh  of  Qiieen  Anne  in 
1708  ;  dtn-ing  that  time  he  reprefented  firft  Tregony,'  then  Grampound  and  Truro  in  Itic- 
celTion,  then  Tregony  again,  and  finally  St.  Michael's.  It  is  likely  that  fo  ne  at  lead  of 
thefe  Corni/h  boroughs  were  under  the  infiuence  of  his  wife's  family,  the  Bolcawens,  whole 
heirefs  (he  became."  The  following  letter,  dated  at  Tregothnan  in  1693,  frcm  the  Cornifh 
member  to  Robert  Harley,  afterwards  the  great  minifter  and   Earl  of  Oxford,  favours  this 


'  Willis's  Notitia  Parliamentaria.  '   Harl.  MS.,  7524.*"  ^^- 


:.l     ..■-:.  I     hi::.     -. 


Family  of  Cafllehill.  63 

fiippofition.  Tlvj  term  "brother"  muft  he  there  iifed  to  Ilarley  as  a  member  of  a  ehih, 
of  which  the  writer  was  alfo  a  member.  'I'here  was  a  cullum  in  the  "  (X'tobcr  Chili  "  and 
others'  by  which  the  members  thus  addrelTed  each  other. 

..  ,      '■.  ■       •',      "Tregothnan,  M'rch  Sth,  93. 
"  Deak  Brother,  ■  •  '       ' 

"  By  y'  votes  I  find  you've  fent  for  all  yc  members  up  to  attend  ye  fervice  of  ye  houfe. 
I'm  forry  that  tis  almoll  impoHible  tor  me  to  come  up,  lor  my  wife  (who  expefted  to  have 
had  a  childe  three  weeks  fince)  houlds  out  yet,  but  tis  judged  by  ye  fkilfull  that  (he  will  be 
brought  to  bed  in  few  days  ;  and  is  now  very  ill  ;  and  you  knowe  t'will  looke  very  unkind 
to  leave  her  at  fuch  a  jundture,  and  may  be  ill  refented  by  her  neareft  relations  that  I  fhoud 
doe  fuch  a  thing;  fo  confequently  be  very  prejuditiall  to  my  intreft  ;  you  knowe  what  I 
meane  ;  this  therefore  is  to  retjueil:,  ye  favour  of  my  D  Bro'  Ilarley  that  he  would  ufe  h's 
intrefl;  that  I  may  be  excuied  :  if  you  thinke  it  convenient  to  ipeake  to  him  I'd  allte  ye  fame 
favour  from  S'  Chrifto.  Mufgrave  in  particular;   w"''  will  infinitely  oblige 

"  Y''  affectionate  humble  Ser'. 

•     .  .",    .    .  "J.    FoRTESCUE.'' 

"  AdrefTed  :   For  Robert  Harley,  Efqr. 

"  A  Member  of  Parlm".  ., 

"  London."^         .'    , '  .         •'      •    .  ;       ■       •   • ' 

Hugh  I<'ortefcuc,  whofe  will  is  dated  January  5,  17 14,  died  in  1719,  and  was 
fucceeded  by  his  eldeit  fon,  Hugh,  born  in  1695;  who,  in  confequence  ot  the  death, 
without  ifl'ue,  of  luiward,  thiricenth  Baron  Clinton  and  fifth  Earl  ot  Lincoln, 
obtained  that  ancient  barony,  which,  on  the  i6th  of  March,  1721,  was  called  out 
of  the  abeyance  into  which  it  had  fallen  in  the  year  1692,  by  a  writ  of  iummons  to 
him  as  fourteenth  barun,  in  right  of  his  mother  Bridget  Bofcawen,  only  child  of  Lady 
Margaret  Clinton,;  youngeft  daughter  of  'Lheophilus,  twelfth  Baron  Clinton  anil  fourth 
Earl  of  Lincoln.  Lord  Clinton  was  appointed,  in  1721,  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Cullos  Rotu- 
lorum  of  Devonfhire  ;  in  1723  he  became  a  Lord  of  the  Bedchamber  to  King  dcorge  I., 
and  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  in  1725.  In  1733  he  refigned  his  Lord  Lieutenancy  and  place 
in  the  bedchamber;  why  he  did  fo  does  not  appear.  .Horace  Walpole  fays  that  "  loon  atter 
he  received  the  Order  of  the  Bath  he  went  into  .oppofition,  anddeft  off  his' ribbon- and  fia- 
for  one  day,  but  thought  better  of  it,  and  put- them  on  the  next.'"     If  the  fame  golliping. 


'   Soe  Rolco./s  Lite  of  I'oiif,  i.  p.-58.  ,    ,  ,    .  .        .    .     '  \  .      '  .  ■ 

■'  1  conclude  that  the  copjili  h;i.s  wriucn  J.  in  pUce  of  11.  ior  Hugh   FoiIlIcuc,  who  m.inic.l  Mil's  Bol'ceiwcn  ot 
Trc£;othnnn,  ;ind  had  a  cliild  bom  in  idOJ.  ■      .  •      ■    r 

^  Afterwards  Earl  of  0.\lurd.  ''      '  ^  Wa'fpole's  Letters  (Cuiminghani ).  vol.  i. "p.  2gS. 


64  Faniilv  of  C a  filch  ill. 

writer  is  correal,  Lord  Clinton  was  employed  by  the   miiiillry  upon  fonie   negotin.tion  vvii^ 
!' ranee  in  1744. 

In  1746,  July  5th,  George  II.  created  him  Lord  Fortefcue  of  Caftlehillj  (with  a  ipecial 
remainder  of  the  barony  to  his  half-brother  Matthew),  and  Karl  Clinton.  Lord  Clintui 
changed  the  name  of  his  refidence  from  Tilleigh,  which  it  had  fo  long  borne,  to  Callehill 
which  it  now  bears;  he  alfo  rebuilt  the  houie  about  a.  u.  1740.  The  firll  Earl  Fo,  tefcm*. 
writing  to  Lyfons  the  topographer,  in  January,  i  821,  fays:'  "This  houfe  was  fo  entirely 
altered  infide  and  outfide  by  my  uncle  Lord  Clinton  (my  father's  half-broiher),  about  eighty 
years  ago,  that  very  little  remains  of  the  ancient  houfe  except  its  fite."  The  facfimile  (yf 
an  old  print  on  the  oppofite  page  fliows  the  appearance  of  the  former  manfion. 

The  Earl  died  May  3,  1751,  when  that  title  became  extini!!:,  while  his  barony  of  Clintoi 
went  to  his  lifter  Margaret,  who,  however,  does  not  feem  to  have  ;  llumed  the  title,  and  ai 
her  death  paffed  to  Margaret  Rolle,  Countefs   of  Orford,  grand-dau';hter  of  Lady  Arabella 
Clinton,  fecond  daughter  ot  Theophilus,  tourth  Earl  of  Lincoln  before  menti<jned. 

Matthew  Fortefcue  of  F'i Heigh,  fon  of  Hugh  by  his  fecond  wife  Lucy  Aylm.-r,  became, 
on  his  brother's  death,  fecond  Lord  Fortefcue.  Me  married,  in  June,  1752,  Ann;,  dauglrtt*- 
of  John  Campbell,  Efq.,  of  Calder,  in  Scotland,  and  of  Stackpole  Com-t,  in  I  en.brokelliire'; 
anceftor  of  Earl  Cawdor,  and  had  iffue  by  her  three  fons  and  two  daughter.;  Hugh,  thi 
eldell  fon,  who  iucceeded  his  father;  Matthew,  the  fecond  fon,  a  captain  in  the  Royal  Kavy, 
born  April  r2th,  1754,  married,  firll,  in  May,  1778,  Henrietta,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Archer,  which  lady  died  in  1794;  fecondly,  June  6th,  1795,  Henrietta  Anne,  d  lughter  of 
Sir  Richard  Hoare,  Baronet,  and  widow  of  Sir  Thomas  Acland,  Baronet.  Captain  1^'ortefcue 
Irad  iflue  by  both  wives,  for  which  iee  the  Pedigree.  Lie  died  in  1^42.  Jo.'m,  the  third 
fon,  born  in  1733,  died,  in  1755,  unnrarried. 

The  two  daughters  of  Matthew,  fecond  Lord  Fortefcue,  were  Anne  Lucy,  who  died  in 
1841,  and  Sophia,  who  died  in  1833,  both  unmarried.  I'hcir  father  died  in  17S5,  and  was 
fucceeded  in  his  eftates  and  title  by  his  eldeft  fon,  Hugh,  born  March  12,  1751.' 

He  was  eledted  Member  of  Parliament  for  Beaumaris  at  the  general  election  of  1784, 
but  in  July  of  the  following  year  became  by  his  father's  death  a  member  of  tije  Houfe  of 
Peers.  He  was  for  fome  years  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Cuftos  Rotulorum  of  i^evonfhire. 
He  married,  on  the  loth  of  May,  1782,  Hefter,  third  daughter  of  the  Right  .lonourable 
George  Grenville,  and  fifter  of  George,  Marquis  of  Buckingham.  On  the  15th  of  Auguft, 
1789,  he  was  promoted  to  the  Peerage,  being  created  Vifcount  E.bringti  n  of  Elirington,  in 
Gloucefterfliire,  the  feat  of  his  anceftor  the  Chancellor,  and  Earl  h'ortefcu^  Lord  I-'ortefcue 
died  at  Caftlehill  on  the  22nd  ot-  June,  1841,  at  the  venerable  age  of  eighty-eight  years, 
during  fifty-five  of  which  he  had  been  a  member  of  the  Houfe  of  Lords. 


l-jlun's  Top'jgrnpliical  Coik-L^tions,  Add.  MS.  9427.  I"   100  (But.  Mu-).  -  Slcinmata,  and  Lodije. 


Fajiiily  of  Cafllehill.         '        ■  65 

I  find,  in  fome  correipondence  between  this  nobleman  and  Mr.  Lyfons  the  topographer, 
the  following  paragraphs,  which  are  intereiling,  as  fliowing  the  numbers  of  the  red  deer  on 
Exnioor  at  that  time.  \\\  anfwer  to  queries,  Lord  Forteicue,  writing  from  Calllehill  on 
the  and  of  December,  1821,  fays  : — 

"  The  Stag-hunt  comes  very  much  within  my  knowledge,  as  I  kept  the  hounds  myfelf  till  within 
thefe  three  years,  and  then  Cent  them  over  to  Mr.  Lucas,  of  Brecondown,  who  keeps  them  by 
I'ubfcription.  The  late  Sir  Thomas  Acland  and  his  father  kept  them  before  me,  as  did  Mr.  Baflett 
after  the  late  Sir  Thomas  Acland's  death.  They  were  formerly  kept  by  Mr.  Dykes,  the  father-in-law 
of  the  firft  Sir  T.  Acland. 

"  I  generally  killed  about  ten  Hags  in  the  year,  and  about  double  the  number  of  hinds." 

And  again,  on  the  i  2th  of  December  :  — 

"  I  don't  know  that  I  can  add  anything  to  the  details  1  gave  you  on  the  fubje6t  of  the  Stag-l,unt 
in  my  lalt.  The  deer  arc  certainly  found  nodlurnal,  and  inhabit  the  woods  in  this  part  of  the  country 
fouth  of  Exmoor,  and  likewife  thofe  in  the  vicinity  of  Purbeck  and  Dulverton,  on  the  other  fide  of 
Exmoor,  which  occafions  their  frequently  leading  us  chafes  acrofs  the  Foreft:." 

Earl  b'ortefcue  left  iffue  three  fons  and  {\y.  daughters  :  firft,  Hugh,  fecond  Earl ;  fecond, 
George  Matthew,  of  Boconnoc  in  Cornwall,  born  May  21,  1791,  married,  February  19, 
1833,  Lady  Louifa  Elizabeth  Ryder,  fifth  daughter  of  the  firft  Earl  of  Harrowby,  and  has 
iffue  ;'  third,  John,  born  May  5,  1796,  Prebendary  of  Worcefler  and  Rei5i:or  of  Poltimore, 
married,  in  1842,  Sopliia,  daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  Henry  Neville,  lienor  of  Cottefmore, 
Rutland,  and  has  ifliie.'^ 

The  daughters  were:  firft,  Hefter,  born  December  17,  1784,  married.  May  20,  1804, 
to  Peter,  feventh  Lord  King  ;  2nd,  Katherine,  born  30th  Auguft,  1786,  married,  June  24, 
1820,  to  the  Honourable  Newton  F'ellowes,  afterwards  fourth  Earl  of  Portfmouth  ;  third, 
Anne,  born  3rd  Odlober,  1787,  married,  in  18 14,  to  George  Wilbraham,  Efq.,  of  Delamere 
Lodge,  Chefliire  ;  fourth,  Mary,  born  15th  September,  1792,  married,  5th  F'ebruary,  1823, 
to  Sir  James  Hamlyn  Williams,  Baronet;  fifth,  Eleanor,  born  2nd  April,  1798  ;  fixth, 
Elizabeth,  born  10th  July,  1801,  married,  27tli  December,  1830,  to  Vifcount  Courtcnay, 
now  1 2th  Earl  of  Devon. 

Hugh,  Vifcount  Ebrington  and  fecond  Earl  F'ortefcue,  was  born  Febr  ary  13,  1783. 
He  was  educated  at  Eton,  and  at  Brafenofe  College,  Oxford.  In  i8c54  he  was  firft  returned 
to  the  Houfe  of  Commons,  being  elet^led  for  Barnftaple.  From  1820  to  1831  he  iat  for 
Taviftock  ;  and  in  the  latter  year  he  was  chofen  Knight  of  the  Shire  tor  the  northern 
divifion  of  Devonftiire,  which  he  continued  to  reprefent  until  he  was  appointed  Lo;  d 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  on  which  occafion  he  was  called   up  to    the    Houfe   of   Lords,  in    his 


See  the  PcdiKree.  -  '  See  the  PedisTee. 


66  Family  of  Caftlehill. 

father's  barony  of  Fortefcue.  He  held  the  high  office  of  Lord  Lieutenant  until  Sir  Robert 
Peel's  acceffion  to  office  in  1841. 

In  May  of  that  year  the  firft  Earl  died,  and  Lord  Ebringtoii  became  fecond  Karl 
Fortefcue.  From  1846  to  1850  he  was  Lord  Steward  of  the  Oueen's  Moufehold.  He  was 
a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  Lord  Lieutenant  and  V^ice-Admiral  of  Dcvonlhire,  and  Colonel  of 
the  firft  Devon  militia. 

He  married,  firft,  on  the  4th  July,  1817,  Lady  Sufan  liyder,  dauGjliter  of  the  firft 
Earl  of  Harrowby,  by  whom,  who  died  July  30,  1827,  he  had  iffue,  ift,  Hugh,  the 
prefent  Earl,  born  April  4,  1818;  and,  John  William,  born  1819,  Ni.P.  tor  Barnftaple, 
Lieut.-Colonel  of  the  Eaft  Devon  Militia,  died  at  Madeira  in  1859  >  3""^^'  Dudley  PVancis, 
born  in  1820,  M.P.  for  Andover,  married,  in  1852,  Lady  Camilla  Eleanor  Fellowes, 
daughter  of  the  4th  Earl  of  Poi-tfmouth. 

Fie  married,  2ndly,  in  1841,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Piers  Geale,  Efq.,  ai'd  widow  of  Sir 
Marcus  Somerville,  Bart.  By  this  lady,  who  furvives  him,  he  had  no  iffue.  He  died  at 
Exeter,  14th  September,  1861,  aged  78  years. 

Lord  l^ortefcue  was  a  perfon  of  confiderable  abilities,  with  a  refined  and  accomplifi  ed 
mind.  Fie  was  a  confiftent  and  moft  upright  politician,  held  in  high  refpeft  as  wrll  by 
opponents  as  by  friends;  while  as  a  refident  landlord  and  country  gentleman,  he  deL-r\ed 
and  enjoyed  the  efteem  of  all. 

It  may  be  truly  faid  here  that  in  the  Fortefcue  family,  which  has  flouriflied  throuL',h  fo 
many  generations,  few  have  been  more  diftinguilhed,  and  none  more  worthy,  than  the  Ite 
Earl  Fortefcue. 

Hugh,  Vifcount  Ebrington,  fucceeded  as  third  FLarl  on  the  death  of  his  fitther.  He  lat 
in  the  Floufe  of  Commons  for  Marylebone,  from  1854  to  1S59,  '""^^  '"'  December  of  tae 
latter  year  he  was  fummoned  to  the  Houfe  of  Lords  in  his  father's  barony. 

Fie  married,  in  1847,  on  the  1  ith  of  March,  Georgina  Augufta,  eldeft  daughter  of  *  the 
■Right  Flon.  Lieutenant-Colonel  G.  L.  Davvfon-Damer,  uncle  of  the  prefent  Earl  of  Porbar- 
lington,  and  by  that  F.dy,  who  died  on  the  Sth  of  December,  1866,  he  has  illiie,  fix  Ions 
and  feven  daughters  :  i.  Hugh,  Vifcount  Ebrington,  born  1 6th  April,  1854;  2.  Seynipur 
John,  born  h'ebruary,  1856;  3.  Lionel  Henry  Dudley,  born  November,  (857;  4.  Arrnur 
Grenville,  born  at  Madeira,  December,  1858;  5.  John  William,  alio  born  at  Madeira, 
December,  1859;  6.  Charles  Grenville,  born  Odober,  1  86  1 .  Fhe  daughters  are  :  i .  Sufan 
Elizabeth,  born  September,  1848;  2.  Mary  Eleanor,  born  OcT;ober,  1841),  3.  Lucy 
Catherine,  born  March,  1851  ;  4.  Georgiana  Seymour,  born  June,  1S52;  5.  Elea  lor  Hefter, 
died  September,  1864;  ^-   Alice  Sophia ;  7.   A  daughter,  born  1866. 

There  is  a  branch  of  the  Caftlehill  family,  of  which,  becaufe  of  the  diil:ind:ion  attained 
by  one  of  its  members,  it  will  be  proper  to  give  a  particular  account. 


Fa)} lily  of  Cafllehill.  6  7 


Lord   Fortescue  of  Credan. 

Hugh  Kortefciie,  of  Filleigh,  who  married,  in  1612,  Mary  Ivolle,  of  Heanton-Sack- 
ville,  had,  as  we  have  ah-eady  mentioned,  a  third  ilirviving  fon,  Edmund,  ftyled  "  of 
London,"  who  married  Sarah,  eldeft  daugliter  of  1  lenry  iVland,  of  Watertord,  Efq.  This 
lady  became,  by  the  death,  without  idiie,  of  her  only  brother  Henry,  in  the  year  1683,  the 
podenbr  of  the  ellates  of  her  family  in  Ireland.  By  her,  Edmund  Fortefcue  had  three  fons : 
I.  Ednumd,  who  took  the  additiunal  name  of  Aland;  he  refided  at  Speccor,  and  died, 
unmarried,  in  1704;  1.  John,  afterwards  Lord  Fortefcue  of"  Credan;  and,  j.  Henry,  born 
1678,  and  died,  unmarried,  in   1702. 

Edmund  b'oitefcue  died  in  168  i.  He  had  purcliafed,  in  1670,  the  manor  of  Biu'ton,' 
in  Aylefliury  Hundred,  in  Bucks,  which  defcended  to  his  Ions  and  grandfon. 

John,  his  iecond  fon,  fucceeding  to  his  mother's  property,  on  the  death  of  his  elder 
brother,  took  her  name  after  his  own.  He  was  born  March  7th,  1670.  \\\  1688  he 
entered  the  Middle  I'emple,  but  afterwards  removed  to  the  Inner  Temple,  of  which  he 
was  chofen  Reader  in  17  [6.''^  He  was  returned  to  Parliament  as  member  for  Midhm-ft  in 
the  firfl  Parliament  of  George  I.,  but  foon  left  the  Houfe  of  Commons  for  the  Bench.  On 
Oiflober  the  22nd,  1714,  two  months  after  the  acceflion  of  George  I.,  he  was  appointed 
Solicitor-General  to  the  Prince  of  Wales,  afterwards  George  II.;  and  on  December  21, 
1715,''  he  became,  on  the  refignation  of  Sir  Nicholas  Lechmere,  Solicitor-General  to  George  I. 
This  place  he  held  only  until  the  beginning  of  17  17,  being,  on  the  24th  of  January  in  that  year,^ 
raifed  to  a  feat  on  the  Bench  as  a  Baron  of  the  F'.xchequer,  upon  the  death  of  Sir  Samuel 
Dodd,  and  knighted. °  On  Nlay  19,  1718,'  he  was  removed  to  the  Court  of  King's  F5ench, 
and  continued  one  of  its  judges  until  the  accellion  of  Guorge  II.  On  the  i  1  th  of  June, 
1727,  he  was  fuperfeded,  but  fpeedily  rellored  to  the  office  of  judge,  becoming,  on  January 
28,  1728,'  a  Jufl:ice  of  the  Common  Pleas;  thus  going  through  the  three  courts  of  law.  In 
this  lall  he  may  be  ffid  to  have  ipent  the  remainder  of  his  life,  continuing  to  difch.arge  his 
duties  until  Trinity  Term  of  1746,  when,  being  now  old,  and  fo  infirm  as  to  be  imable, 
even  in  fummer,  to  go  circuit,  he  refigned.  b'of's  informs  us  that  four  years  earlier  h-; 
had  aflced  for  his  retiring  penfion,  and  wiflied  to  become  again  a  member  of  Parliament. 
In  Augufl  following  he  was,  by  patent  dated  the  15th  Augufl,  1746,  "  in  confideration  ui  his 
merits  and  fi^rvices,"  created  a  Peer  of  Ireland,  with  the  title  of  Baron  b'ortcfcue  of  Cre  Ian, 
the  name  of  a  headland  on  the  eadern  fhore  of  VVaterford  harbour,  and  forming  pai :  ;of 
the  Aland  eftates,  which  included  feveral  townlands  in  that  portion  of  Waterford  county. 


'   Lipfcomb'b  Buck.,  ii.  lOO.  ''■  Fofs,  Judges,  viii.  99.  •'  Collins'  I't'cragL-  lays  1716. 

■*  Beatlbn,  Poiit.  Index,  ii.  313.  ^  Chalmtrs,  Biog.  Diifl. 


68  Family  of  CafikhilL 

Some  fuch  difl:in(5live  addition  was  callctl  for  by  the  creation,  only  a  month   before,  of  Earl 
Clinton  as  Baron  Forteicue,  with  remainder  to  his  half-brother,  as  we  have  {^ttn. 

Lord  Fortefcue  did  not  long  furvive  his  retirement,  dying  on  the  19th  of  December, 
1746,  aged  76  years. 

By  his  will,  dated  29th  September,  1746,'  he  names  "his  kinfman,  William  Fortefcue, 
Mafter  of  the  Rolls,  as  one  of  his  rruilees  and  F!,x6i's,"  with  "his  trufly  friend,  Donre- 
Parkhurfl:,  of  Hawk  Hall,  Staffordlhire,  and  his  dear  wife  Klizabeth."  I  le  leaves  his 
ertates  of  Knollefhill  and  Lambourne  to  his  foil  Dormer  for  life,  with  remainder  to  Loru 
Clinton  (Hugh  Fortefcue),  and  50/.  to  the  poor  of  South  Molton,  and  the  fame  fum  to 
the  poor  of  Bideford.  The  Mafter  of  the  Rolls  was  a  very  tlllbmt  kinfman  ;  but  as  they 
were  quite  contemporary  in  tlieir  career,  fitting,  indeed,  for  a  titne  as  judges  in  the  fame 
court,  they  probably  were  intimate  friends. 

The  following  anecdote  has  been  preferved  in  the  "  Conveyancer's  Guide"  : — 

"  The  Baron  had  one  of  the  ftrangell:  nofes  ever  ieen  ;  its  iliape  refembled  much  the 
trunk  of  an  elephant,  '  Brother,  brother,'  faid  the  baron  to  the  coimfel,  'you  are  nanJling 
the  caie  in  a  very  lame  manner.'  '  Oh  no,  my  Lord,'  was  the  reply.  '  Have  patience  with 
me,  and  I  vv'ill  make  it  as  plain  as  the  nole  in  your  Lordlliip's  face.' "^  I  have  foi  ie\  here 
met  with  a  different  verfion  of  this  ftory,  where  a  very  ublcure  cafe  was  faid  by  the  co  uifel 
"  to  be  as  plain  as  the  nole  on  the  judge's  face" — a  reading  which  his  portraits  favotir  r  ither 
than  the  other. 

Lord  Fortefcue  left  behind  him  a  very  refpeftable  reputation  as  an  excellent  lawyet  and 
an  able  and  upright  judge.  His  judgments  are  on  record  in  the  Report  books  ol  the 
time,  l^'ofs  gives  this  example  of  his  "  manner  on  the  bench,"  from  a  cafe  called  "  Bjntley's 
cafe."  "  l"he  laws  of  God  and  man,"  he  faid,  "  both  give  the  party  an  opportunity  to  make 
his  defence,  if  lie  has  any.  1  remember  to  have  heard  it  obierve^l  by  a  very  learned,  man, 
that  even  God  himfelf  did  not  pafs  fentence  upon  iVdam  before  he  was  called  to  maf.e  his 
defence.  'Adam  (fi)s  God),  where  art  thou  ?  Hail  thou  not  eaten  of  the  tree  wll'creof 
I  commanded  thee  that  thou  fliouldeil:  not  eat.'''  and  the  fame  qiieilion  was  jiiit  to  Eve 
alio."  I 

Lie  was,  moreover,  very  learned  in  the  Saxon  language  and  literature,  and  has  left  behind 
fome  refults  of  his  fludies  in  the  Prefaces  to  both  his  works,  where  he  infills  on  the  import- 
ance of  a  knowledge  of  the  laws  and  cuftoms  of  our  Saxon  forefathers  to  all  who  fludy  the 
confiitution  of  England.  He  had  a  deep  and  deferved  veneration  for  his  ancellor  the 
Chancellor,  whofe  tone  and  fl:yle  he  copies  when  treating  of  the  excellence  of  the  legal  inlli- 
tutions  of  this  country,  as  compared  with  thofe  of  other  nations. 

'  Sltm.  Fort.,  \i.  105. 

''  ConvcjancL-i'b  Guide,  p.  107,  qiiolcd  by  Fol's,  from  whoi'e  "  Lives  of  the  Judjas"  much  of  the  foregoing 
information  is  derived. 


Family  of  C a  filch  ill.  69 

Some  authorities  f^iy,  I  do  not  know  on  what  grounds,  thnt  Lord  l^'ortefeue  was  educated 
at  Oxford.  1  lis  name  occiu'S  in  the  hil  oi"  Oxford  grailiiates  only  as  a  D.C.L.  by  diploma, 
dated  May  4,  173  J,  without  the  mention  of  a  college;  and  it  will  be  {\:<t\\  in  that  document, 
given  at  the  end  of  this  chapter,  that  theie  is  no  reference  to  his  being  pre\'iouny  a  member 
of  the  Univerfity.  The  language  of  the  diploma  is,  as  ufual,  highly  complimentary.  After 
likeniiig  him  to  his  great  anceftor  in  talents,  learning,  love  of  his  coimtry,  and  loyalty  to  his 
king,  the  chancellor,  mafters,  and  fcholars  go  on  to  acknowledge  lome  fpecial  fervice  which, 
by  a  decifion  in  its  favour,  he  rendered  to  the  Univerfity,  in  thefe  words  :  "  Ut  dum  Ampli- 
tudini  et  Privilegiorum  Incolumitate  fus  Curia;  prudenter  confulit,  idem,  pro  fingulari  fua 
moderatione  et  Abftinentia,  Jura  conceflli  Noflra  Nobis  non  invideat." 

He  was  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society. 

His  works  are — a  Preface  and  Notes  to  the  Ti-eatife  "On  /Vbfolute  and  Lii, iitei.1 
Monarchy,  by  Chancellor  T'ortefcue,"  which  he  edited,  and  printed  for  the  firlt  time,  i^tiiis 
volume  was  publifhed  in  London  in  17 14,  and  a  fecond  edition  in  1719);  and  "  !\eports  on 
Select  Cafes  in  all  the  Courts  of  Wertminlfer  Hall,"  with  a  long  and  learned  preface,  in  one 
volume  folio,  publifhed  by  Lintot  in  the  Savoy,  in  1748.  Lord  b'ortefcue  here  gives  his 
opinion  at  length  upon  a  queflion  referred  by  King  George  L  to  twelve  judges,  as  to 
his  right  to  the  guanlianfhip  of  his  grandchildren,  the  children  of  George,  Prince  of  Wales. 
This  was  called,  "  The  Grand  Opinion  tor  the  Prerogative."  As  the  junior,  he  is  the 
firft  to  ileliver  his  jutlgment.  PTe  decides  for  the  king,  although,  as  he  himfelf  obferves, 
"  he  had  been  Solicitor-General  to  the  Prince  of  Wales,  and  one  of  the  firll  of^icei^s  in  his 
fervice."  In  this  he  is  followed  by  the  majority,  the  numbers  being  10  to  2.  Pollibiy  this 
decifion  may  account  for  Lord  b'ortefcue's  dilmifTal  from  the  Bench  when  the  prince  became 
George  II.,  a  fuppofition,  however,  not  very  favourable  to  that  king,  as,  if  true,  he  mull  have 
kept  up  his  refentment  tor  thirteen  years.  He  was,  neverthelefs,  fatisfied  by  a  not  very 
fevere  punilliment,  as  the  fuperfeded  judge  was  loon  reftored. 

It  may  be  remarked  that  his  appointment  as  baron  bears  date  the  very  fame  day  as  that 
on  which  the  judges  met  for  the  fecond  time  on  the  foregoing  queltion  ;  they  had  met  firll, 
two  days  before,  on  the  i2nd  of  January. 

I  find  by  a  reference  to  the  MS.  correfpondence  of  Mr.  bVancis  Gregor,  tiie  editor  and 
trantlator  of  l)e  L.audibus  Legum  Aiigli.c,  kindly  allowed  by  the  prelent  owner  ot  Trevvarthen- 
nick,  that  Lord  Fortefcue  was  frequently  confulted  by  him,  and  that  he  tuggeited  to 
Mr.  Gregor  feveral  alterations  and  emendations.  This  correfpondence  bears  dates  of  the 
years  1731  to  1737.  ■■ 

He  married  twice,  each  time  into  families  of  diftinguifhed  lawyers.  His  firlt  wife  \\as 
Grace,  daughter  of  Lord  Chief  Juftice  Pratt,  great- great-grandfather  of  the  prelent  Marquis 
of  Camden.      Bv  her  he  had  two  fons  and  one  daughter,'  who  all  died    before  their    father. 

'   Scu  Monuincnl  in  Slaplcibid  Cliurcli 


"Jo  Fcwi'dv  of  Cajllehill. 

The  eldcft  ion,  John,  was  horn  in  1722.  He  was  called  to  the  bar,  but  died  at  the  age  of 
thirty-one,  at  lours,  in  France,  December  9th,  1743,  as  recorded  by  an  infcription  over  his 
grave  in  the  chincli  of  Stapleford-Abbots,  now  paved  over,  which  goes  on  to  fay  that  "  he 
was  brought  over  thither  out  of  a  Popifh  country  for  a  tiecent  Proteftant  burial." 

Lord  I'ortefcue  mari'ied  a  fecond  wife  on  the  2yth  of  December,  1721,  viz.  Klizabi.  th, 
daughter  of  Mr.  Juflice  Dormer,  a  Judge  ut  the  King's  Bench,  and  formerly,  in  1701, 
member  of  Parliament  for  the  County  of  Bucks,  who  afterwards  fucceeded  to  the  eftates  of 
his  nephew,  Sir  William  Dormer  ;  and  L.ady  Fortefcue  of  Credan  then  became  a  co-heir 
to  her  father;  and  thus  her  ion,  the  fecond  lord,  tor  a  time  poflelled  part  of  the  Dormer 
ei1:ate  in  Buclcingharnfliire,  name!)',  tlie  Manor  of  Lee  Grange,  until  he  I0II:  it  by  the  iuit  of 
a  male  relation  of  Judge  Dormer's.' 

By  Mifs  Dormer,  Lord  Fortefcue  had  an  only  fon,  Dormer,  born  in  1722.  She  died  in 
x'\pril,  1748,  furviving  her  hufband  one  year  and  four  months,  and  was  1'iuried  by  his  iidc  in 
the  chancel  of  Stapleford-Abbots'  church. 

The  old  Judge  had,  many  years  before  his  death,  ellablifhed  himlelf  in  EiTex.  He 
bought  from  the  Barefoot  Family  the  Manor  of  Lambourn,  in  the  pariili  of  that  nar, \e,  and 
Hundred  of  Ongar  ;  and  al'terwards,  in  the  neighbouring  parifli  of  Stapleford-Abbi-ts,  the 
manfion  of  Knowles,  or  Knollihill,  formerly  the  feat  of  Henry  Spicer,  Bifhop  of  Norwich. 
This  houfe,  with  its  grounds,  he,  "  by  feveral  improvements,  rendered  a  delightful  ilace," 
fays  Morant.'  It  il:ood  on  a  high  ground  about  a  mile  from  Stapleford  churcli,  overlooking 
the  narrow  remnant  of  Hainhault  Foreft,  which  in  the  Judge's  time  ipread  far  a -ound. 
The  original  manfion  is  fuppofed  to  have  been  built  in  the  fixteenth  century.  VVrij.ht,  in 
his  hiftory  of  Eflex,  mentions  that  the  ornaments  of  wood,  and  the  date  1571,  lead  t  >  that 
conclufion.  He  adds,  "there  are  alio  ieveral  Proverbs  arul  moral  ientences  on  paiiels  near 
the  ceiling  (in  one  of  the  rooms),  and  well-ex'ecuted  portraits  of  the  b'amily  of  l''urtei"cue 
have  been  preferved."  Soon  after  the  death  of  the  iecond  and  laii  lord,  Knolliliill  was 
fold,  in  1782,  to  the  Rev.  Edward  Lockwood,  whofe  defcendants  became  l>oc|:wood- 
Percival,  and  it  now  (in  1865)  is  the  property  of  Colonel  Mark  Wood. 

It  is  now  many  years  fmce  the  greater  part  of  the  manfior.  was  pulled  doN^n,  the 
remainder  being  uied  as  a  farm-houfe.  This,  too,  including  the  old  room  juft  mentioned, 
was  lately  (about  1861  or  1862)  demolirtied,  and  the  pielures  dilperfed  by  aucLion  in 
i86j.  Three  of  them,  namely,  a  good  jwrtrait  in  the  ilyle  of  Sir  (jodfl  ey  Kneller,  of 
Dormer,  fecond  Lord  b'ortefcue,  a  portrait  of  the  firlt  lord,  and  one  of  I  idy  Fortefcue, 
his  iecond  wife,  I  have  been  enabled  to  fecin-e  trttm  their  ])urchalers  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood. 

The  laft  traces  of  the  liouie  have  now  dilappeared.      In    May,  1864,  while  I  was  on  the 


'  Lipl'coinLie'.s  Ikitks,  vol.  i.  415.  ■  Moranl's  KIFcx,  i.  172. 


Fa?nily  of  CaftlehilL  71 

fpot,  workmen  were  employed    in   taking    up    the    brick   foundations,  of  which  a    few  ftill 
remained  clofe  to  the  new  brick  tarm-houi'e. 

From  thence,  on  the  occafion  mentioned,  I  went  about  half  a  mile  down  a  lleep  waggon- 
track  tlirough  the  patch  of  foreft  below  Knolllhill,  where,  in  the  valley  half-way  to  the 
oppofite  height  on  which  the  church  ftands,  is  an  old  charity  fchool  houfe.  Mere  the  mailer 
receives  25/.  yearly  from  the  endowment.  His  fcholars  confifted  of  about  thirty  boys.  Over 
the  door  ot  the  houfe  is  the  following  infcription  : — 

"  Glory  to  God. 
Knolls-Hill  Free  School  for  teaching  poor  children  to  read  and  write,  erefted  and  endowed 
at  the  fole  expenfe  of  Sir  John  F'ortcfcue  of  Knoll-Hill,  in  this  parilli,  Knight,  formerly 
Solicitor-General  to  King  George  II.,  foinetime  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  afterwards  a  Judj';e 
of  the  Common  Pleas,  Docflor  of  Laws,  and  l^'ellow  of  the  J^oyal  Society,  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  Chrilf,  1734,  in  the  reign  of  the  fame  moft  excellent  Prince." 

Dormer,  the  fecond  Lord,  never  married.  He  died  in  178  i,  and  was  buried  with  his 
parents  in  Stapleford  church.  On  the  north  wall  of  the  porch  there,  is  a  i'mall  tablet,  with 
the  following  infcription  :  — 

"  Near  this  place  are  depofited  the  mortal  remains  of  the  Right  Hon'''^  Dormer  I<'or- 
tefcue-Aland,  Baron  Fortefcue  of  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland,  who  departed  this  life  on  the  9"' 
day  of  March,  178  i,  in  the  (jc)'''  year  of  his  age. 

"  His  Lordfliip  was  the  only  fon  of  Sir  John  Fortefcue-Aland,  Lord  Fortefcue  of  Credan, 
feme  time  one  of  the  Juftices  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  by  Elizabeth,  his  fecond  wife, 
daughter  of  Robert  Dormer,  Efquire,  one  of  the  Juftices  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench. 
John,  Lord  Fortefcue,  died  in  December,  1746,  and  F^lizabeth,  Lady  Fortefcue,  his  wife,  in 
April,  1748,  and  their  remains  are  buried  in  this  church. 

"  The  firft  wife  of  the  faid  John,  Lord  I'^ortefcue,  was  Grace,  daughter  of  the  late  Lord 
Chief-Juftice  Pratt,  and  by  her  he  had  two  fons  and  a  daughter,  who  all  .died  before  their 
father." 

The  eftates  of  Lord  Fortefcue  of  Credan  paffed,  under  the  will  of  the  firft  Lord, , to  the 
heir  of  Earl  Clinton,  who  was  Lord  Fortefcue  of  Caftlehill ;  ai)d  the  Aland  prpperty.is  ftill 
poflefTed  by  the  prefent  Earl  Fortefcue,  as  he  has  informed  me.'  .  .■      :.     ;.■: 


Letter  from  Lord  Fortefcue,  Nov.  6,  1865. 


72  Family  of  Ca  ft  I  eh  ill. 

Appendix  to  Chap.  VII. 

A. 

Inqiiifition  upon  the  DcatJi  of  ALirt'rn  Fortefciie. 

Iiiquifitioii  port  mortem,  12  Edw.  IV.     N'\  39.      May  12''',  1472.  '   . 

Inquisicio  capta  apud  Toryngton  magna  in  Comitatu  predidlo  duodecimo  die  Maii  Amio  Regni  R  :gis 
Edwardi  quart!  duodecimo,  coram  Johanne  Perpons  Efcaetore  di6li  domiiii  Regis  in  Comitatu  pre- 
diito,  virtute  brevis  ejufdem  domiiii  Regis  eidem  Efcaetori  direiSli  et  huic  Inquifitioiii  confuti  per 
(acramentum  Humfridi  Courteiiay  armigeri,  Roberti  Budokyfhyde  arm.  Johannis  Speccote,  armigeri, 
VVillelmi  Merwode,  Ricardi  S[)eiifer,  Thome  Broune,  Henrici  Southcote,  WiUelmi  Yeo  de  Atte- 
worthy,  Johannis  L'olviiie,  Johannis  Paflew,  Willelmi  Cruys,  Walteri  Braggeman  et  Johannis 
Stephen,  Oui  dicunt  fupe'r  facrameiitum  luum  quod  'JohdHHei  Fortejcue  mila  ct  ll'diclhi  uxor  ijiii  tuerunt 
leifiti  de  manerio  de  Combe  cum  pertinentiis  et  quatuor  mefuagiis,  uno  columbario,  tribus  garJinis,  lex 
l'"erlingis  terre  quinque  acris  prati,  duodecimo  acris  bofci  et  viginta  et  feptem  foHdatis  et  o:io  denariis 
redditus  et  redditu  unius  cere  de  cera  precii  duodecim  denariorum  et  unius  Hbra  cere  cum  pe  tinentiis - 
in  Molbeton,  Overcombe,  Nythercombe,  Battoii-kyitourgh,  Eftord  et  Alflon  in  Coniita  u  irediclo, 
videHcet,  idem  'Johannes  For-tefciw  in  dominico  I'uo  ut  de  feodo  et  eadem  IjuhAla  ad  termini  m  ite  fue. 
Et  lie  inde  leifitus  per  quandam  finem  in  Curia  Henrici  fexti  nuper  de  laiito  et  non  de  juje  Regis 
Anglie,  anno  regni  fui  tricefimo  quarto  coram  Johanne  Pryfott  et  fociis  (uis  Juilicianis  eju'deia  Regis 
de  Banco  et  aliis  tunc  ibi  prefentibus  de  eildem  manerio  tenemento  et  redditu  inter  Martinwn  Fortejcue 
et  Elizcibetham  uxorein  ejus  querentes,  et  dittos  'Johannem  Fortejcue  mihte  et  Ijiihellum  uxor  m  ejus 
deforcieiites  levatam,  idem  Johannes  Fortejcue  idem  "Johannes  Forte/cue  et  Ijabclla  concelTerunt  predictis 
Martina  et  Elixahethe  predictum  manerium,  tenenaentum  et  redditum,  cum  pertinentiis,  et  ilia  eis 
reddiderunt  in  eadem  Curia,  habendum  et  tenendum  eildem  Martino  ct  Ellzahethe  abfque  impjticione 
valU  de  eifdem  Johanne  Fortejcu  et  Jfabelhi  et  heredibus  ipfius  Johannis  tota  vita  ipfius  Elizabctbe. 
Reddendo  inde  per  annum  unam  rol'am  ad  feihim  Nativitatis  SaniSli  Johannis  Baptifte  pro  om^.i  fervicio 
coniuetudine  et  exaccione  ad  prediiSlos  Johannem  t-f  y/i//'t//(v;/;  et  heredibus  \\i^\\iij-jl:iittnis  pertijientibus. 
Et  poit  dccefium  ipfius  Elizabethe  predittum  manerium,  tenementum  et  redditus  cum  pertinentiis 
integre  remaneant  predifto  Martino  et  heredibus  quos  idem  Murtinus  de  corjiure  predicte  Ehzabethe 
procreaverit.  Tenendum  de  prcfatis  Johanne  Fortejcue  ct  Ijabclla  et  heredibus  ipfius  Joh,\nnls  per 
predittum  fervicium  ficut  predidtum  elt  imperpetuum.  Et  fi  contingat  quod  idem  iMartlnus  obierit 
fine  heredibus  de  corpore  predidte  Ellxabethe  procreatis  tunc  poft  decellum  ipfius  Alartlnl  p  edidtum 
manerium,  tenementum  et  redditus  cum  pertinentiis  integre  revertentur  ad  pred'dlos  Johannem  et 
IJabellani  et  heredes  ipfius  Johannis  Fortcfcu  imperpetuum,  virtute  cujus  finis  ii  lem  Martlnus  et 
EUzabitlia  ut  in  jure  ejuldem  Elizabethe  fuerunt  inde  feifiti  in  dominico  luo  ut  de  iibero  tenemento. 
Et  pofiea  diila  Ijabclla  obiit.  Et  eciam  dicunt  quod  eadem  manerium  tenemento  et  edJitus  tenentur 
de  predidto  Johanne  Fortejcu  militc  per  fidelitatem  et  redditum  dJiSte  Role  pro  omnibus  lerviciis  et 
demandis.  Et  ulterius  dicunt  quod  iidem  AJarthius  ct  Ellzabctha  leifiti  fuerunt  ut  in  jure  ejufdem 
_  Elizabethe  in  dominico  fuo  ut  de  feodo  de  manerio  de  Weregyftard  ac  de  advocacione  ecclelie  San£te 
Trinitatis  de  Weregyftard  eidem  manerio  pertinente.    Et  de  manerio  de  Eftbokelond  ac  de  advocacione 


Family  of  Cajliehill.  jt^ 

ecclefie  Sanili  Michaelis  Archangeli  eidem  manerio  pertinente.  Et  de  rnanerio  de  Fillegh  ac  de  advo- 
cacione  ecclefie  beate  Marie  eidem  manerio  pertinente.  Et  de  maneriis  de  l.amertone,  Hokelond 
Fillegh  et  Brodebray.  Ac  de;  diiabus  mefuagiis  et  centum  acris  terre  cum  pertineiitiis  in  Hertelegh. 
Et  de  tribus  meluagiis  et  ducentis  acris  terre  cum  pertinentiis  vocatis  Londefyende  juxta  Criditon.  Et 
de  quatuor  mefuagiis  et  tricentum  acris  terre  cum  pertinentiis  in  Bredewicke  yerde  et  Fen.  Et  de 
duabus  mefuagiis  et  fexaginta  acris  terre  cum  pertinentiis  in  Bredewike  yerde  et  Mukford.  Et 
ulterius  dicunt  quod  di£lum  manerium  de  Weregift'ard  tenetur  de  Georgio  Duce  Clarencie  per  fideli- 
tatem  pro  omnibus  ferviciis.  Et  quod  idem  manerium  valet  per  annum  in  omnibus  exitibus  fuis  ultra 
reprifas  xx".  Et  quod  diihla  advocacio  ecclefie  de  Weregift'ard  prediita  nichil  valet  per  annum  ultra 
repriias.  Et  quod  didlum  manerium  de  Eftbokeland  cum  fuis  pertinentiis  tenetur  de  Anna,  DucilTa 
Exonie  per  fervicium  militare.  Et  quod  idem  manerium  valet  per  annum  in  omnibus  exitibus  fuis 
ultra  reprifas  C'.  Et  quod  diifta  advocacio  ecclefie  de  Ellbokelond  prediiila  nichil  valet  per  annum 
ultra  reprifas.  Et  quod  diihim  manerium  de  Fillegh  cum  fuis  pertinentiis  tenetur  de  didto  Georgi  i, 
Duce  Clarencie  ut  de  honore  fuo  de  Okehampton  per  fervicium  militare.  Et  quod  idem  maneriu  n 
valet  per  annum  in  omnibus  exitibus  fuis  ultra  reprifas  x".  Et  quod  ditta  advocacio  ecclefie  de  Fillegh 
preditla  nichil  per  annum  ultra  reprifas.  Et  quod  diftum  manerium  de  Lamerton  tenetur  de  diiilo 
Georgio  Duce  Clarencie  ut  de  honore  fuo  de  Plympton  per  fidelitatem  pro  omnibus  ferviciis.  Et  quod 
idem  manerium  valet  per  annum  in  omnibu^  exitibus  fuis  ultra  reprifas  xx".  Et  quod  didum  manerium 
de  Bokelond  Fillegh  ac  diit.i-  terras  et  tenementa  in  Hertlegh  tenentur  de  dicSla  DucilTa  Exonie  per  ler- 
vicium  militare.  Et  quod  idem  manerium  terre  et  tenementa  valent  per  annum  in  omnibus  exitibus 
fuis  ultra  reprilas  x''.  Et  quod  didlum  manerium  de  Brodebray  tenetur  de  Fulcoiie  Fitz-Waren  per 
fidelitatem  pro  omnibus  ferviciis.  Et  quod  idem  manerium  valet  per  annum  in  omnibus  exitibus 
fuis  ultra  reprifas  x".  Et  quod  di£le  terre  et  tenementa  vocate  Londefyende  tenentur  de  Johanna 
Arundell  milite  per  fidelitatem  pro  omnibus  ferviciis.  Et  quod  valent  per  annum  in  omnibus  exitibus 
fuis  ultra  reprifas  iiij".  Et  quod  didle  terre  et  tenementa  in  Bredewike  yerde  et  Fen  tenentur  de 
Johanne  Cholewill  per  fervicium  militare.  Et  quod  valent  per  annum  in  omnibus  exitibus  fuis  u'tra 
reprifas  iiij".  Et  quud  ditle  terre  et  tenementa  in  iVlukford  tenentur  de  eodem  Johanne  Cholewill 
per  fidelitatem  pro  omnibus  ferviciis.  Ft  quod  valent  per  annum  in  omnibus  exitibus  fuis  ultra  reprifas 
xl'.  Et  ulterius  dicunt  quod  idem  Maitinus  nulla  alia  neque  plurima  terras  feu  tenementa  tenuit  de 
di(Sto  domino  Rege  nunc  nee  de  aliquo  alio  in  doniinico  neque  in  lervicio  in  Comitatu  predicto  die  quo 
obiit.  Et  quod  idem  Martinm  obut  in  fcflo  San£ii  Martini  in  Ytinc  ultimo  prcti-rila  ct  diila  Elizabetha 
eum  fupervixit  et  ad  hue  fuperjlites  e/t  et  I'eifitam  exiftit  de  omnibus  maneriis,  mefuagiis,  terris,  tene- 
mentis  redditibus  et  advocationibus  prediflis  cum  fuis  pertinentiis  in  forma  predi£ta.  Et  quod  quidem 
Johannes  Fortefcu  eji  jiUui  et  heres  diiti  Alartini  propiiiqnior.  Et  eft  etatis  duodecim  Annorum  et 
Amplius.      In  cujus  rei  teftimonium  Juratores  predifti  prefentibus  figilla  fua  appoluerunt. 


B. 

Lord  Fortefcue  of  Credan's  Diploma  of  D.C.L.  Oxford. 

Cancellarius,  Magiftri  et  Scholares  Univerfitatis  Oxon.  omnibus  ad  quos  prefentes  iiteras  per- 
venerint  Salutem  in  Domino  Sempiternam.  Cum  eum  in  finem  Gradus  Academici  a  Majoribus 
noftris  prudenter  inlUtuti  fuerint,  ut  viri  de  Academica,  de  Ecclefia,  de  Principe,  de  Republic;!  optime 

II.  L 


74 


Family  of  BiickLmd-Filkigh. 


meriti,  feu  in  greinio  Noflrre  Matris  educati,  feu  aliunde  bonarum  arti  jm  Difciplinis  eruditi,  Iftis 
Iniignibus  a  Literatorum  vulgo  feceriierentur  ;  fciatis  quod  Nos,  ea  fola  qua  poflumus  via,  Gradu 
Dottoris  in  Jure  Civili  libenter  {ludiofequ;  coiiceilo,  teftamur  quanti  facinius  Johannem  Fortefcue 
Militeni  e  Curia  Communium  Placiturum  Julliciarium  Juris-peritifrimuni,  mini  feniper  in  haj 
Mufarum  fedes  benevolentia  propendentem,  nee  minorem  inde  reportantem  ;  Virum  perantiqua  Illius 
Johannis  Fortefcue  Militis,  cjui  regnante  Henrico  Sexto,  Summi  Jufticiarii  Officium,  tania  cum 
dignitate  per  viginti  annos  impievit,  flirpe  ortum  ;  et  quod  pluris  sftimanius,  ad  Magni  fui  Anteceiloris 
exemplum  fe  feliciter  ubique  componentem,  five  cum  eo  in  fcriptis  Leges  Anglis  eleganter  coUaudit, 
five  Monarchiam  juftis  limitibus  conclulam  Abfolut;K  pr;eponat,  five  iis  artibus  qua  optimum  quemque 
ornant  Judicem,  audiendi  lenitate,  explicandi  fcieiitia,  a^qualitate  decernendi  niirifice  excellat  ;  Virum 
quern  pari  cum  fit  indullria,  pari  excrcitatione,  pari  ingenio  uberiori  fortalfe  D  )£lrina  locupletat  >, 
pari  crga  Patriam  amore,  erga  Pnncipeni  fide  parem  etiam  Honoris  gradum  coiifecuturum  h..n 
dubitamus  ;  Virum  dcnique  cui  non  fatis  elfe  vidctur,  relichmi  a  Majoribus  gioriam,  et  Doniclticam 
laudem  tueri,  nifi  et  hoc  proprium  furt  Famiii;e  Decus  altruat,  ut  dum  Amplitudini,  et  Privlegorum 
Incoluinnitati  fua  Curi*  prudenter  confulit,  idem  pro  finguiari  (ua  moderatione  et  Abftinentia,  Jura 
conceda  Nollrs  Nobis  non  iiivideat. 

Idcirco  in  Solenni  Convocatione  Doilorum,  Magillrorum  Regentium,  et  non  Regentium  <  uarto 
die  Menfis  Maii  Anno  Domini  Millefimo  Septintengefimo  tricefinio  tertKj  habita,  confj.ira  itibus 
omnium  luftragiis,  Eundem  Honorabilem  et  Egregium  Virum  Johannem  Fortefcue  Militem  l)od  orem 
in  Jure  Civili  creavimus  et  conftituimus  ;  Eumque  virtute  prsefentis  Diplomatis  Singulis  Juribus, 
Priviiegiis  et  Honoribus  Gradui  ifti  qua  qua  pertiiientibus  Honoris  Caufa,  frui  et  gaudere  juirimus. 

In  cujus  rei  teftimonium  Sigillum  Univerlitatis  Oxon',  commune  quo  hac  in  parte  utiniur.  prs- 
lentibus  apponi  fecimus. 

Dat'  in  Domo  Noftrne  Convocationis  Anno  Dn'  die  et  Menfe  pr;edi£t.'  ^ 


Ch..k    VIII. 


The  Forte/cues  of  BuckLiud-Filleigh. 
(iM  ^x'WING  In  the  foregoing  pages  traced  the  pofterity  of  the  Chancellor  throitgh  his 


eldeft  grandfon,  John  l^'ortefcue,  we  fhall  now  go  back  to  his  youngiT  grandfon, 
William,  fecond  fon  of  Martin,  and  fee  what  were  the  fortiuies  of  that  branch, 
which,  although  extinft  in  the  male  line  as  to  its  main  ftem,  is  continued,  certainly  by 
the  lub-branch  of  which  the  writer  of  thefe  memoirs  is  the  reprefentative,  and  probably  by 
others  which  have  efcaped  his  notice.  I'heir  Devonlhire  ertates  have,  howfver,  all  pafled 
away  by  fale  fince  the  beginning  ot  the  prelent  century. 

William  Fortefcue,  fecond  fon  of  Martin  Fortefcue  and  F.lizabeth  Denzill,  inherited,  at 
his  mother's  death,  the  manor  and  manfion  of  Buclcland-Filleigh.'  FJe  married  Maud, 
daughter  and  heir  of  John  Atlcyns,  Efquire,  of  Milton-Abbot,  in   Devonfhire,  and   by  her 


Lylbn's  Coirtriiondence,  MS.  Itltcr  Irom  Mr.  hiijlL'U  KorU'lcuc 


Family  of  Biickhmd-Filleigh. 


75 


had  iffue  three  fons,  John,  Fdmund,  and  James,  and  one  daughter,  Jacquctta,  who  married 
William  Dennis,  of  Southcombe,  Efquire. 

John,  the  eldeft  Ton,  fucceeded  to  the  ell:ates  on  his  father's  death.  He  married  Chriftian, 
daughter  of  John  Arfcott,  of  Hollefworth,  Efquire,  and  had  ifilie,  ifl;,  WilHam,  2nd,  John; 
and  a  daughter,  Alice,  married  to  William  Farry,  Efquire.  William,  the  eldeft  fon,  fucceeded 
his  father.  He  married,  in  1555,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Roger  GifFard,  of  Brightley,  near 
South  Molton,  in  the  parifh  of  Chittlehampton,  the  feat  of  a  younger  branch  of  the  ancient 
family  of  the  GifFards  of  Halfbury.  The  manfion  and  chapel  ot  Bnghtley  are  now  in  ruins,  a 
farm-houfe  occupying  part  of  the  former  ;  and  the  park  is  broken  up.  TJie  ifiue  of  their 
marriage  was  four  fons  and  eight  daughters,  of  whom  prefently.  By  his  w  11,  dated 
15th  April,  1580,  and  proved  6th  April,  1583,  he  leaves  his  manor  and  lands  "within  the 


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BUCKLAND-FILLEIOH    CHURCH. 


parifh  of  St.  Peter's,  Marland,"  to  his  three  younger  fons,  Faithful  (afterwards  Sir  Faithful), 
Martyn,  and  Bartholomew;  bequeathing  Buckland-Filleigh  to  his  eldert  fon,  John,  and  his 
heirs.      He  died  in  1580. 

The  fecond  fon  of  this  William  Fortefcue  and  Anne  Giffard  was  Sir  Faithful,  bom  about 
the  year  1512,  "  diflinguifhed  for  his  eminent  abilities,"  fays  the  Biographia  Bri.annica.' 
He  ferved  in  the  army  in  Flanders  for  feveral  years,  and,  when  the  Spanilli  invafion  was 
threatened,  received,  in  the  year  15S8,  a  commiffion  from  Ouecn  Elizabeth  to  raiie  men  and 
arms  for  the  camp  at  Tilbury,  and  he  was  knighted  by  the  queen.      He  wrote  the  memoirs 


111.  p.  1999. 


76  Fafiiily  of  BiicUand-Filhigh . 

of  his  family,  which  he  left  behind  him;  and  his  grandfon  continued  them  to  the  year  1718. 
No  trace  of  thefe  records,  however,  can  now  be  toiind.  Me  lived  to  be  upwards  of 
ninety-fix  years  old,  dying  about  the  year  1608.  One  of  his  daughters,  of  whom  he 
had  feveral,  lived  to  be  102.  Sir  Faithful's  fons  were  three— John,  the  eldert,  who  was  of 
Northam,  in  Devon,  and  died  about  1662,  leaving  ilTue  ;  Faithful,  the  fecond  ;  and  Arthui , 
the  third.  Of  thefe,  Faithful '  entered  the  army,  and  ferved,  like  his  father,  in  Flanders  with 
diflin^lion.  After  his  return  from  abroad,  he  went  into  Ireland  on  a  vifit  to  his  cuufin.  Sir 
Faithful  F'ortefcue,  the  governor  of  Carrickfergus  ;  and  it  is  mentioned,  as  a  proof  ot  his 
military  knowledge,  that  being  prefent  at  a  muftering  of  the  army,  both  horfe  and  foot,  on  the 
Curragh  of  Kildare,  by  the  Duke  (at  that  time  Marquis)  of  Ormonde,  he  was  allowed,  at 
the  requeft  of  his  coufin,  to  draw  up  and  form  the  whole  army  in  order  of  battle,  which  le 
performed  fo  well  that  the  duke  gave  him  a  captain's  commiirion  in  the  fie  d.  He  afterwar  Is 
became  a  lieutenant-colonel,  and  was  preient  on  the  Royal  fide  at  feverai  of  the  battles  in 
the  great  Civil  War. 

After  the  Reftoration  he  was  reinftated  by  Charles  II.  in  the  poll:  which  he  had  held 
under  the  king  his  father,  and  died  aged  eighty-two.  Colonel  Faithful  F'ortefcue  left  a  fon 
of  his  own  name,  who  held  a  commiflion  in  a  foot  company,  under  Sir  Thomas  For  eicue  of 
Dromifkin,  in  the  army  in  Ireland,  and  ilied  a  lieutenant  in  1679.  This  lieuten;  nc  '  was 
given  by  the  Duke  of  Ormonde  to  a  kinfman  of  the  dcceafed  lieutenant,  William  I'urti  fcue, 
fecond  ion  of  the  aforelaid  Sir  Thomas.  The  original  comminion  is  in  the  pollellion  of  the 
author.  Bartholomew,  the  youngefl:  fon  of  William  b'ortelcue  of  Buckland-Filleig  1  by 
Anne  Giffard,  is  thus  mentioned  in  his  nephew's,  Sir  F'aithful's,  memoir  of  Lord  Chichellitr : — 
"  He  (Lord  Chichefter)  went  firft  into  Ireland,  taking  with  him,  for  companion,  Barth.jl&mew 
Fortefcue,  my  father's  younger  brother,  whom  he  much  loved,  and  he  being,  as  I 
have  heard  his  lordfhip  fay,  very  good  company,  a  valiant  ftrong  man,  and  one  of  the  bell: 
wrefllers  of  thofe  times.  They  flayed  awhile  with  Sir  George  Bourchier,  who  was  then 
Mailer  of  the  Ordnance  in  Ireland,  and  fbn  of  the  F,arl  of  Bath,  and  father  of  this  carl,  a 
noble  gentleman.  They  had  been  actors,  with  other  young  gentlemen,  of  a  youthful  rafh 
trick  in  F'.ngland,  and  when  their  friends  had  obtained  their  pardon  of  Queen  Eliz'ibeth, 
they  returned  to  England.  Soon  after  my  Lord  Chichelter,  who  was  then  but  Mailer 
Chichefler,  adventured  abroad  for  advancement,  and  Fortefcue  turned  fea-captain,"  and  died 
in  that  employment." 

We  now  return  to  John  bortefcue  of  liuckland-lMllelgh,  the  eldefT:  foi  of  William 
Fortefcue  by  Anne  Giffard.  He  married  twice;  firft,  Anne,  daughter  of  \^'aFer  Porter, 
Efquire,  of  Thettbrd,  in  Norfolk,  by  whom  he  had  one  fon,  Roger.  His  fecond  wife  was 
Sufaiuiah,  daughter   to   Sir  John  Chichefler  of  Raleigh,  near   Barnllaple,  and   filler  to  Sir 


'  Lodge,  Peerage  of  Ireland.  '■^  That  is  to  fiiy,  captain  ol"  a  queen's  fhip. 


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Martin  FoRTrscuR,  only  fon  of: 
Chancellor  Sili  JojrN  FoRrKSCUK, 
mar.   ]454;  di^il   1472,  vit.  pat. 


:ELlzABKTn,  clau.  and  bcirt)'' 
Richard  Drnzili.k  of  Kii- 
leigh,  Wcar-GiffarJ,  and 
ButUland-lMlkigh. 


John  (eldell  fon)  of  Filleigh  and 
Wear-Giflard,  anctttor  of  Earl 

FORTESCUI:. 


William  (fecond  fon)  of  =p  Maude  (or  Matilda)  dau.  and  heir  of 
liuckland-FillL-igh.  I   John  Atkyns  of  Milton-Abbot,  Devon. 

She  re-mar.    .  .  .  Coffin,  EUi. 


(l)  John.  =p  Christian,  dau.  of  John  Arscott  of  Hollefworth,  Efq. 


Jacquetta.  =  William  Dennis  of  Southcombe,  Efq, 


(1)  William  of  Buckland-Filleigh,  mar.  1555;  died  1583.  =j=  Anne,  dau.  ofS™  Rogkh  Gimard  of  Biighlley. 


=j=ANNE,  dau 


O)  Jo 


Alice  =  William  Farry,  Efq. 


Anne,  dau.  of  Walter  Porter  =f=  John  of  Buckland- =p  Si 


of  Thcllord,  Norfolk  ;  widow  of 
D.  TljoliN,  Eflj.  (l(i  wife). 


Filleigh,  died 
1604. 


dau.  ofSiR  John         (2)  Sir  Faithful, 
CliiCHESTiMi  of  Raleigh,  Knt.  bom  cir.  1512; 

(2nd  wife).  died  in  1 60S. 


(3)MA„TlNofH,,ther-=j=jA 
ley  and    Iddeneigh, 
dead  in  lbo6. 


(0  Jane.     (2)  Phili 
married.        married. 


(3)  Elizabeth,  mar,     (4)  Frances.  4  more  dauchters 

to  ,|0HN  Veo,  Efq.  not  named 

of  Hench. 


Roger  of  Buck- 
land-Filleigh, 
bur.  I  big. 


Mary,  dau.  of        John,  died     Sin  Faithful,  d.  =Anne,  dau.      Grace.       Ann 


Richard  Noii- 
Eloll  of  In- 
ardleigh. 


l666ianccftorof     ofViscoUNi 
Earl  Clermont.      Moore. 
(Sec  DromitJiin 
I'edigree.) 


(I)  John  of 
Norlham, 
died  1622. 


1)  John  or=pTHOMAZiN,  dau.  of         (2)  Bar-     (3)  Fran-     (4)  Wil-     Anne,. mar.     Pascha,     Gertrude,        Elizadlth,      Katherinf 
"r;.""',-''""';^'^'     ™"'-°-  "'■  "■"'•  '"Jo""  mar.to      mar.  to  m.toJoHN      m.inlb26 

eldertlon  01  Sir  Ni-        mew.  Hjjtch.ngs.      John  Adah  Lugge     Sh.k 


luckland- 
filleigh, 
lur.  1055. 


(2)  Faithful,  =^. 
a  I.ieul.-Col., 
died,  aged  82.    | 

1      ' 


Hugh  of=pLETTiCE,  dau. 
ofNiciioCAs 

WiCHALSE  of 

Barndaple. 


John  ^  I  lizadeth 


I  of 


Solden. 


h      to  Reed 

Cory         of  Barntyle.      ofCobleigh.     Fortescuf. 
of  Cory.  ofCornwood. 


T 


Martin.         Thomas.         John. 


T 


(1)  William -j=Emlyn,         (2)  James=j=  M,>ry,  dau.  of         (3)  Roger  Ul  Humphri 

orBuckl:,nd-T.U.of  of  Ford.      T  .  .  .  , 'wooLO-  bai.  16341  bap.,"™" 

combe  of  bur.  1672.  bur.  1639. 

Roborough, 

Efq. 


Filleigh.     ■     i    .  .  .  .  in  Milion- 

bap.  1622  ;        Trosse,         Abbot, 
bur.  1679  Elq.  bap.  1625, 


(5)  John  =p  Ellen,  dau.         Mary,  ba] 
of  Sheb- 

-Badcocic, 

Eli,. 


1623;  mi 
William 

III, LAND, 


Eli,. 


(1)  Henry  ofBuckland- 
Fitleigh,  born  1659  ; 
bur.  1691. 


Agnes,  dau.  of  Niciio 
Dennis  of  Barnltaple. 


T 


=  George  For-  Honoha,  Thoma 

William  baj).  1  627  ;       tescue,  mar 

Staniiury  mar.  1 644.       Efq.  of  Blacii- 

o'N.  Ta-  Combe.  man,  bap. 

merton,  Elq.  ,63.,. 


bajj.  1640; 
bur.  1667. 


John,  Willia* 

bur.  bur.  172 

1710 


(2)  Roger,       (3)  George  of  T,avi(lock,  =p  Rebecca,  5th  dau.  of 
bap.  1666.  bap.   1668;  mar.  1697;     I    Edward  FoRTESCUE 

dieJ  1700-  ofSpridlellone.Elq. 


( 1 )  George : 


Rt.  Hon.  William,  Mafte 
of  the  Rolls,  bap.  1687; 
mar.  1709;  died  1749. 


Mary,  dau.  of  John 
BARRETtofSt.  Vely, 
in  Cornwall,  E(q. 


John,        Thom,vzin, 
hap.  bap.  1662. 

I6j9- 


Mary,  dau.  and  co-heir  John  ofBa; 


of  Edmund  Forti 
of  Fallapii 


in  Oxon,  MB,,  d.     m,  1724; 
1776,  un-mar.  d.  1764. 


CaIedIng-  James,  D.D.  of  Exeter  Coll.     George,     John,        William,     Anne,  mar      Mary  mar  to  NicHo 

LOT  of  Daw-  Oxford   Reflor  of  Wotton,     died  died  died  to  Thomas      Venning  of  Hampt, 


1 
George 


liHi,  Efq 


1  Northamptonihiri 


Luxmore.        living  1795. 


Mary,  only  d.au.  and  heir,  born  July==  |ohn  Sra 
lb,  1710  ;  died  July  24,  1752. 


RiciuRD  iNGLF.rr  of  Buckland-Filleigh,and  of  Spridleftone  ;  took  the  name  of  Fortescue=p  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Lucy  Wfston 
on  inlienlnig  the  clbite  onthe  death  of  John  Fohtescue  of  Bampton,  in  1776.  |    fon  ol  the  BisilOD  of  Kx 


Mary  Si-ooner,  only 
dau,,  died  an  infant. 


'TER  C^Rc™,LL  eT,;      L  ,  .r  tJ,       f  M'^r  .  ^^'If  •„"""• '"  ^°'"'  ^'"'^'"'"''^'  E(q.         JoHN  InglJtt  Fortescue,  Lieut.-Col, 

,wl  ft     n™  i  fue  '■     D  V         ■  f  ''■  f;^"^^""''  '"  °   Weft  Monckton,  Somerletftire,  and  of  North  Devon  Yeomanr;  Cavalry,  d, 

iwnih  ,  no  illue.  Devon,  and  had  dfue.  „|  Stoodleigh,  in  Devon,  and  has  illiie.  Nov.  24,  1840,  a.ed  82  vears 


ifl  wife,  Ann,  dau.  of  Tho-  =  and,  Sarah,  fifter  and 
MAS  Saunders  of  Exeter,  died       co-heir  of  James 
1815,  ogsi  59'  Benedict  Marwood. 


John  F   Fortescue  Brickdale  of  Newland  Houfe,  Coleford,  Gloueelterlhir 
who  died  1867,  leaving  a  fon. 


John  Dicker  Inglett  Fortescu,;,  only  child,  bom  Aug.  3,  17S5;  died  Aug.  8,  i860. 


'I 


!-■! 


','^tf 


;,.^;'::-:''Vj--- 


Family  of  Buckla?id-Fi Heigh.  77 

Arthur  Chichefter,  afterwards  Lord  Chichller  of  Belfallj  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland.  This 
lady  bore  him  two  fons,  John,  who  died  unmarried,  and  Faithful,  afterwards  Sir  Faithful, 
of  whom  hereafter;  and  two  daughters,  Grace  and  Anne. 

John  Fortefcue  died  in  1604,'  and  was  fucceeded  hy  his  eldell  fon,  Roger,  who  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  Norleigli  of  Inwardleigh,  and  died  in  1629,"  leaving  four  ions 
and  five  daughters,  whofe  names  are  given  in  the  Pedigree.  Of  thefe  the  eldelT:  fon  was 
John,  of  Buckiand-Fiileigh,  entered  at  the  Inner  Temple,  May  j,  1619,  though  never 
called  to  the  bar,^  who  married  Thomazin,  daughter  of  Humphrey  Prideaux,  eldcft  fon  of 
Sir  Nicholas  Prideaux  of  Solden,  by  whom  he  had  five  fons,'  William,  James,  Roger, 
Humphrey,  and  John.  John  Fortefcue  died  June  7,  1665,  aged  fitty-nine.  His  monu- 
ment is  in  Buckiand-Fiileigh  Church,  with  rather  pretentious  infcriptions  in  Englifii  and 
Latin.      One  of  the  latter  runs  thus: —  .      ■ 

"  PrKclariofe  Fortefcutorum  Tribu  '     • 

En  hie  fepultus  Armiger 
Nunc  dormit,  at  tuba  cum  fonabit  ultima 
Exurget  iterum  ad  gloriam." 

His  fecond  fon,  James,  born  in  1625,^  was  fettled  at  Ford  in  the  parifli  ot  Milton-Abbot ; 
he  left  a  fon  George,  whofe  fon,  James  Fortefcue,  D.D.  of  Exeter  College,  Oxford,  became 
redor  of  Wotton  in  Northamptonfliire.  Fie  left  behind  feveral  literary  produdions ;''  the 
principal  being  two  volumes  of  "  E flays  Moral  and  Miicellaneous,"  publifhed  in  I.,ondon,  in 
8vo.,  in  1759,  including  a  poem  called  "  Pomery  Hill,"  firlf  publifiicd  leparately  in  1754; 
it  was  "  humbly  addrefTed  to  his  Royal  Highnefs  the  Prince  of  Wales  ;"  alio  three  delcrijuive 
poems,  two  of  them  on  Caillehill,  and  one  on  "  Devonia."  Doctor  l-'ortefcue  was  a  Fellow 
of  Exeter  College;  he  took  his  degree  of  B.A.  Oftober  14,  1736,  of  M.A.  June  22,  1739. 
He  vvas  Senior  Proflor  of  the  Univerfity  in  1748;  B.D.  April  11,  1749;  and  D.D. 
January  20,  1749-50. 

He  died  unmarried  in  1777,  and  his  library  was  fold  in  1779.  I  am  indebted  to  the 
writer  in  "  Notes  and  Queries,"  at  the  place  referred  to  in  the  foot  note,  for  moll  of  this 
information. 

His  works  which,  to  judge  from  contemporary- opinions,  have  no  great  value,  are  ieldom 
met  with  in  libraries. 

We  return  to  William,  the  eldeft  Ton  of  John,  Fortefcue  by  Phomazin  Prideaux.       ie 


__  I 


Stemmata  Fortefcuana,  and  his  Will,  proved  May  5,  1604.  '•'  Sue  John  Fortefcuo's  Will  in  Stem.  1  ort. 

3  See  Inner  Temple  Records.  ■■  Stemmata.  "   H:ip.  Dec.   iS,   1025. 

"  Watts'    Bibliotheca    Kiitannica.      Davidfon's     Bibiiotheca     Devonienlis.       Supplement   Notes     and     Queries, 
April  30,  1864,  3rd  feries,  vol.  v.     Monthly  Review,  vol.  vi.  1752, .and  ve>l.  .\xi.  I7i9- 


78  Family  of  BucUcmd-Filleig}}. 

was  born  in  i6'2'2,  and  fucceeded  to  his  father's  eftate;  he  married  Etnlyn,  daughter  o.'" 

Trofle,  Efquire,  and  had  iffue  three  Tons,  Henry,  Roger,  and  George.  At  his  death,  in 
1679,  '^*-  ^''^^  iLicceeded  by  thceldeft  ion,  Henry,  born  in  1659,  married  to  Agnes,  dai.ghter 
of  Nicliolas  Dennis,  of  Barnftaple,  Efquire,  and  died  in  1691,  leaving  an  only  fon  William, 
afterwards  Mafter  of  the  Rolls. 

Henry  Fortefcue's  monument  in  Buckland-Filleigh  Church  defcribes  him  as  one  v/lofe 
early  death  was  regretted  ;  its  inlcription,  which  follows  here,  is  in  better  tafte  than  the  greater 
part  of  fuch  produflions. 

Defideratifs.  Hen.  Fortescue 

Armit^.  qui  obiit  Decern,  die  nono  •      .    "  ' 

An".  Dom.  1691,  IV,vx\  fua  33^. 

Miri  indoles  juventus  pr.-ematura  ■ 

Brevioris  asvi  prscones. 

Hunc  non  longx-vum  fore  prasnunciant  : 

Sed  annos  antevertit  virturc, 

Moruni  gravitate  icnex  ; 

Et  quorfum  in  agro  effet  cum  maturat  feges, 

Aut  in  mari  navis,  qure  portum  appulit. 

Hie  maturus  ccelo,  et  confefto  feliciter  curfu  reconditur 

Diuturnior  fieri,  vix  poterat  mclior, 

Sat  fibi  et  gloria,  nobis  hcu  !    quaiitilluni  vixit. 


The  Right  Honourable  William   Fortescue. 

William  Fortefcue,  the  only  fon  of  Henry  Fortefcue  of  Buckland-Filleigh,  by  Agnes 
Dennis,  was  born  in  the  fiimily  manfion  there  in  1687,  and  was  baptized  on  the  ';6th  of 
June  in  that  year.  Three  years  later  his  father  died,  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-three,  leaving 
his  fon  an  infant  of  three  years  old.  We  know  nothing  of  his  boyhood,  and  do  not  hear  of 
his  place  of  education,  either  fchool  or  college.  There  is  no  record  of  hmi  in  either  the 
Oxford  or  the  Cambridge  lifts  of  graduates.  His  name  firft  occurs  again  at  the  beginning 
of  his  twenty-third  year,  as  marrying  his  diftant  kinfwoman  Mary  Fortefcue  of  Fallapit, 
who,  by  the  death  of  her  brother  Peter'  in  1707,  had  become  a  co-heirefs  jf  her  father, 
Edmund  Fortefcue  of  that  place.  This  lady  was  two  years  younger  than  himldt,f>ie  having 
been  born  in  1789."  The  marriage  took  place  at  the  church  of  Eaft  Alli.igton,  July  7, 
1709,'  and  he  lived  with  his  wife  at   Buckland-Filleigh,  where,  on  the  i6th  of  July  in  the 


Stem.  Fort.  ''■  Stem.  Fort.  '  Stem.  Fort.,  E.  .-Mlington  Monuments,  p.  50. 


1      i.;    ','      ■■"••     • 


,.  ,i„li/      1  •  ' 


Right  Hon.  JFilliam  Fortefctie.  79 

next  year  (17 10),  their  firft  and  only  child,  a  daughter,  was  born  ;  the  young  mother  fur- 
viving  its  birth  not  many  days.  She  was  buried  on  the  4th  of  Auguft  at  Eaft  Allington.' 
The  parifh  in  which  b'allapit  is  fltuated,  where,  many  years  later,  her  huiband  put  'ip  a  monu- 
ment to  her  memory. 

Soon  after  this  event  William  Fortefcue  fettled  in  L.ondon,  having,  much  to  his  credit, 
determined  to  follow  a  learned  profeilion.  This  decifion,  and  tlie  fteadinefs  with  which  he 
adhered  to  it,  mull:  be  taken  as  proofs  of  an  energetic  mind  anxious  to  excel  ;  for  he  had  in- 
herited a  fair  eftate,  on  which  his  forefathers  had  contentedly  lived  for  many  generations  as 
country  fquires,  and  his  marriage  and  tlie  birth  of  his  child  held  out  the  profpetl  of  a  further 
accellion  of  property  hereafter. 

In  September  of  this  year  he  entered  the  Middle  Temple,'*  where  he  kept  his  terms  tor 
four  years;  changing  to  the  Inner  Temple  in  November,  1714,  whence  he  was  colled 
to  the  bar  in  July,  1715.^ 

How  much  of  his  time  Fortefcue  devoted  to  his  law  lludies  we  cannot  fay,  but  he  loon 
began  to  mix  with  the  wits  and  clever  men  and  women  who  adorned  the  firft  half  of  the  lall: 
century.  In  1714'  he  was  already  on  familiar  terms  of  friendfhip  with  Pope,  his  contem- 
porary, he  being  only  a  year  older  than  the  poet.  This  intimacy  and  correfpondence 
lafted  until  the  death  of  the  latter  in  1744,  and  has  caufed  William  Fortefcue's  name  to  be 
ftill  remembered.  The  firfi:  dated  letter  from  Pope  which  has  been  preferved  bears  the 
date  of  1720;  but  we  find  him  afterwards  alking  his  friend  "  to  fend  what  letters  you  have 
been  fo  partial  to  me  as  to  keep  efpecially  of  an  early  date,  before  the  year  I720."''  From 
whatever  caufe,  none  of  thefe  letters  were  found  among  Pope's  papers,  although,  he  con- 
tiimes,  "  I  may  derive  great  fervice  from  feeing  them  in  the  chronological  order ;  and  I  find 
my  colledlion,  fuch  as  it  is,  mufh  be  hailened,  or  will  not  be  efl^iclual." 

In  Pope's  imitation  of  the  firft  fatire  of  Horace  he  lubllitutes  Fortefcue  for  Trebatius, 
and  thus  addrefl'es  him  at  the  beginning: —  ' 

"  Tim'rous  by  nature,  of  the  rich  in  awe, 

I  come  to  counfel  learned  in  the  law  :  ; 

You'll  give  me,  like  a  friend  both  fage  and  free. 
Advice,  and  (as  you  ufe)  without  a  fee." 

And  in  one  of  his  letters  at  the  time  (1731-33)  the  poet  thus  writes  :  — 


'  Eaft  Allington  Regiftiy  and  Monuments  in  Stom.  Fort. 

■■'  Buckland-Filleigii  Kcgiftry  ;    Stini.  I'ort.  ;   and  Records  oi' Inner  Ttinplc. 

■'  Fofs,  Lives  of  Judges,  vol.  viii.  ■■  Pope  to  Gay,  1714.  WorUs,  x.  32-33. 

*  Pope  to  W.  F.,  Letter  47,  Auguft  2,  1735. 


8o  Family  of  Biic}.la7id-FHlei(rh. 

"  Have  you  {iztw  my  imitation  of  Horace  ?  I  fancy  it  will  make  you  fmile ;  but  though 
when  firfl  I  began  it  I  thought  of  you,  before  I  came  to  end  it,  I  confidercd  it  might  be 
too  kklicrous,  to  a  man  ot  your  fituation  and  grave  acquaintance,  to  make  you  Trebat  us, 
who  was  yet  one  of  the  moll;  confiderable  lawyers  of  his  time,  and  a  particular  friend  of  a 
poet.  In  both  whicli  circumftances  I  rejoice  that  you  refemble  him,  but  am  chiefly  pleafid 
that  you  do  it  in  the  latter." 

Fortefcue's  name  occurs  in  many  memoirs  of  the  time ;  and  it  is  evident  that  he 
lived  in  the  molf  inteiletflual  fociety  of  the  day,  with  Swift,  Gay,  Lady  Suffolk,  Lady  Mary  , 
VV.  Montague,  Atterbury  Bifliop  of  Rochefter,  Lord  Oxford,  Arbuthnot,  Congreve,  &c. 
He  was  alio  in  conflant  intercourfe  with  Sir  l^obert  Walpole  ;  and  that  minifter,  when 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  to  which  office  he  was  firfl:  appointed  in  i  715,  made  him  .lis 
Private  Secretary,'  a  connection  to  which  he  may  have  owed  his  advancet-ient  in  his  profef- 
fion.  He  appears  during  this  period  to  have  regularly  gone  circuit  ;  but  Pope's  iettc-rs  do 
not  contain  many  allufions  to  his  practice  at  VVefl:minfl;er,  which  probably  was  neve;  very 
large.  At  the  general  election  which  took  place  after  the  death  of  George  L,  in  17  -.7,  he 
was  returned  to  Parliament  as  member  for  the  borough  of  Newport,  Ifle  of  \\  igl  t,  for 
which  place  he  continued  to  fit  until  his  elevation  to  the  Bench. 

In  1730  he  was  made  a  King's  Counfel,  and  the  fame  year  was  appointed  Attc  rney- 
General  to  the  Prince  of  Wales,  father  to  George  III. 

His  vacations  were  Ipent  in  Devonfliire  at  Buckland-Filleigh,  and  he  occafionally  \  ifited 
Fallapit. 

We  do  not  find  that  he  fpoke  in  Parliament,  but  he  fupported  by  hi&  votes  Sir  Robert 
Walpole's  adminillration ;  and  thus,  as  well  as  by  his  focial  qualities,  he  obtained  in  1736,  having 
been  previoufly  made  a  fergeant-atdaw,"  a  feat  on  the  Bench,  for  which  his  refpedable,  if  not 
profound  legal  knowledge  may  be  held  to  have  qualified  him,  for  he  ranked,  as  we  are  lold,  as 
a  "good  lawyer."  A  vacancy  occurring  by  the  removal  from  the  Exchequer  to  the  Cdmmon 
Pleas  of  Sir  John  Comyns,  he  was  made  a  Baron  of  tlie  former  Court  on  the  9th  of  February, 
in  this  year.  Here  he  remained  fcarcely  two  years  and  a-half,  following  for  the  fecon^i  time 
Sir  John  Comyns,  when  this  judge  was  raifed  to  be  Chief  Baron  on  the  7th  of  July,  1738. 

After  three  years  more  Fortefcue  exchanged  his  feat  on  the  Bench  for  the  more  agreeable 
and  lefs  laborious  poft  of  Mafter  of  the  Rolls,  to  which  he  was  appointed  on  the  5th  of 
November,  1741,  and,  at  the  fame  time,  he  was  fworn  as  a  Privy  Councillor.  Pie  remained 
at  the  Rolls  until  his  death  on  December  i6th,  1749,  in  his  fixty-third  year.  He  feems  to 
have  avoided  the  knighthood  frequently  conferred  upon  Judges,  and  almofl:  a;  a  matter  of 
courfe,  upon  Mafl:ers  of  the  Rolls. 

'   Fofs,  Lives  of  the  Judges.  "  See  Foi's.  ; 


:':S?.!''''\  JL I -•.(»'■'!';  li-i'"''!.'  .-f'i'^;..;'.>.X.'»n  "-r'^^' 


:':,:!. I.: i.  ri:- 


Right  Ho?i.  Williafn  Fortefcue.  8i 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  ib  few  memorials  of  him  remain.  Me  kept  a  diary,  which  muft 
have  contained  mucli  that  would  now  he  iiiterefling  beyond  the  fmall  circle  of  perfons  of  his 
name  or  family.  This,  as  I  am  informed  by  Mr.  Fortefcue  Brickdale,  remained  at  Buck- 
land-JMlleigh  until  after  the  death  of  Mrs.  Spooner,  William  Fortefcue's  only  child,  when  it 
is  fuppofed  to  have  fallen  into  the  hands  of  her  hufband's  relations,  and  has  not  fmce  been 
recovered,  notwithftanding  many  attempts  which  have  been  made  to  trace  it.  His  library  and 
papers  were  finally  fcattered  at  the  fale  of  Buckland-Mlleigh  by  Colonel  Inglett  Fortefcue. 

Some  rough  notes  made  on  the  fly-leaves  of  a  Gazetteer  in  ten  volumes  called  "  Magna 
Britannia,"  which  he  carried  about  on  his  circuits,  are  all  that  has  been  recovered. 

Tlirough  Mr.  Brickdale's  kindnefs  I  am  able  to  give  a  few  of  them.  Thefe,  with  a 
letter  to  Lady  SufFolk,  and  four  notes  of  no  importance,  are  now  printed,  as  the  only  fpeci- 
mens  which  we  have  of  his  writings.  The  latter  owe  their  prefervation  to  their  blank  I  des 
having  been  ufed  by  Pope  for  the  rough  copies  of  his  tlomer,  and  are  in  the  BritilF 
Mufeum.' 

I  ought,  however,  to  add  his  contribution  to  "  Martinus  Scriblerus."  The  burlefque  report 
of  the  cafe  of  "  Stradling  verjiis  Styles  ;  or  the  Pyed  Horfes,"  a  witty  and  lively  little  piece 
ffill  much  in  favour  with  lawyers.  It  will  be  found  further  on.  He  was  chofen  to  be  the 
''  legal  advifer"  of  the  "Scriblerus  Club,""  and  befides  the  above,  contributed  feveral  legal 
corrertions  and  hints  to  its  other  papers. 

Jervas  writes  of  him  as  "  ridente  bortefcuvio,"''  and  Bowies'*  tells  us  that  lie  was  a  man 
of  great  humour,  as  well  as  of  great  talents  and  integrity. 

Fortefcue,  dying  while  in  office,  was  buried  in  the  Rolls  Chapel  ;  his  grave  is  immediately 
in  front  of  the  communion  table  there,  and  on  the  wall  near  the  place  is  the  following 
infcription  : —  ■  . 

In  this  Chappel  iyeth  buryed  The  Right  Honourable  ,  .     '      ' 

William   Fortescue  .    . 

Of  Buckland-b'illeigh  and  Fallapit  in  the  County  of  Devon  Kfquire     '       ,.  , 
Who  having  been  one  of  the  Barons  of  the  Court  '  . 

Of  Exchequer  and  afterwards  one  of  the  Juflices  : 

Of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  was  made 
Mafler  of  the  Rolls  the  5th  day  of  November  1741, 
And  dyed  the  16"'  day  of  December  1749 

In  the  63"'  year  of  his  age.  : 


'   1  am  indebted  to  Mr.  Moy  Thomas  of  Oakley  Cottage,  Upper  Cheyne  Road,  Chell'ea,  for  calling  my  atten- 
tion to  theCe  papers.      Cotton  MS.  Pint.  4809,  &c. 

'^  Letters  of  Countefs  of  SulfolU,  vol.  i.  p.  202.  ^  Bowles's  Pope,  .\.  22fa.  ''  Uud.  vi.  iqq. 


82  •  Family  of  Buckla?id-Filleigh. 

He  never  married  again  after  tlie  early  death  of  his  wife.  Mis  mother  and  his  unmarried 
fifters- in-law,  Grace  and  Elizabeth,  lived  much  with  him,  and  aHifted  in  the  care  of  his  on  y 
child.  Grace  died  in  March,  174J.'  A  letter  of  the  period  I'lys,  "The  Mafter  of  the 
Rolls  has  loft  his  fifter  Grace.  She  was  an  exceedingly  good  woman,  and  he  is  very  much 
afflicted." 

Horace  Walpole,  in  174J,  thus  refers  to  the  houfehold  :'' — "I  am  jufl:  come  tired  from 
a  family  dinner  at  the  Mafter  of  the  Rolls,  but  I  will  write  to  you,  though  my  head  aches 
with  maiden  fifters'  healths,  forms,  and  Devonfhire,  and  Norfolk." 

And  he  adds  as  a  note,  perhaps  to  account  for  the  Norfolk  element,  and  his  admifiion  to 
a  family  party  :— "  William  I'^ortefcue,  a  relation  of  Margaret,  Lady  Walpole;"'  in  which  I 
imagine  he  is  in  error.  Lady  Walpole,  it  is  true,  was  a  coufin  of  Hugh  Fortefcue,  Lord 
Clinton,  but  I  cannot  find  that  fhe  was  related  to  the  Mailer  of  the  Rolls. 

His  other  fifter-in-law,  Elizabeth,  furvived  until  176S,  having  fucceeded  to  the  Fallapit 
property  upon  the  death,  in  1752,^  without  furviving  iiliie,  of  her  niece,  Mary  lujrtefcue, 
only  child  of  the  Mafter  of  the  llolls,  who  had  inherited  I'^allapit  from  her  mother,  and 
Buckland-lMlieigh  from  her  father,  and  married,  in  1733  or  1734,  John  Spooner,  Efq.,  by 
whom  file  had  an  only  child,  Mary,  who  died  an  infmt ;  Buckland-Filleigh  pafti  ig  to  a 
coufin,  John  F'ortefcue  of  Bampton  (fon  of  George  Fortefcue  of  Taviftock,  uncle  to  A'i  Ham 
Fortefcue),  who  was  the  laft  F'ortefcue  pofteiTor  of  the  eftates. 

As  fome  details  of  William  Fortefcue's  life  are  to  be  gathered  from  Pope's  letters  to  him, 
I  ftiall  prefently  give  feveral  of  them,  as  the  beft  fupplement  to  the  foregoing  very  meagre 
fketch. 

William  Fortefcue  to  Mrs.  UotoarJ.^  • 

Inner  Timple,  Ju/>'  \jl,  1726. 
Madam,  1 

With  this  you  will  receive  the  Hiftory  of  the  Sevarambi,''  which  I  promifed 
your  ladyfliip.  It  is  a  conftitution  of  government  quite  different  from  any  that;  hath 
yet  appeared  in  the  world,  and  I  think  much  the  beft.  By  that  only  inftance  ot 
making  money  of  no  ufe  either  to  the  necelfities  or  pleafure  of  lite,  what  a  train  of  ev'lr,  are 
at  once  prevented  .?  And  how  happy,  of  courfe,  nudT;  a  people  be,  when  doing  gocd  and 
loving  their  coimtry  are  the  only  means  of  efteem  and  preferment  I 

I  am,  I  believe,  the  only  perfon  who  thinks  it  real  ;  and  were  it  not  for  fome  few  things, 
and  fome  few  friends  whom  I  do  not  care  to  leave,  I  lliould  certainly  be  for  taking  a  voyage 

'  Lutter  from  Right  Hon.  Sir  J.  Willis,  in  Nicliol'.s  l.ilfraiy  llluftr;itions,  vol.  iv.  394. 

"  VValpole's  Letter  to  Sir  11.  Mann,  Mny  19,  1743,  Ciiiiningham's  Eilition.  \ol.  i.  247. 

*  Burke's  Commoners,  article  Furtei'cue  of  Fallapit.  '   Alierwauls  Coumcls  ofSutlblk. 

^  A.  French  Utopia,  the  fcene  of  which  was  laid  in  South  America. 


V  u  Tjni.i*.'    i'>l 


Right  Hofi.  JFillia)}!  Fort ef cue.  83 

thither.  Nay,  I  am  fo  far  gone  in  extravagance  that,  as  this  wife  people  have  always  perfons 
refiding  in  every  country,  I  hardly  fee  a  tall  man  in  an  American  drefs  but  I  take  him  to  be 
one  of  them,  and  can  icarce  forbear  afking  him  a  hundred  queftions  about  Sporoundi  and 
Sevarinde.  I  make  no  doubt  but  you  will  laugh  heartily  at  me  ;  and  fliall  be  very  happy 
if  either  the  book  or  my  tolly  give  you  any  tiiverfion. 

I  hope  to  be  able  to  do  mylelf  the  honour  of  waiting  on  your  ladyfliip  fome  time  next 
week  :  be  pleafed,  Madam,  in  the  meantime  to  accept  of  my  humble  thanks  for  your  great 
goodnefs  to  me  when  I  was  laft  at  Richmond,  and  give  me  leave  to  affure  you  that  I  ever 
am,  with  all  polfible  gratitude  and  truth,  your  lady/liip's,  &c.  &c. 

W.    FoRTESCUE.' 


William  Forte/cue  to  John  Gay. 
Dear  Gay,"^ 

Not  having  heard  anything  of  you  to-day  1  iuppofe  this  may  find 
you  at  Chifwick  ;  pray  give  my  humble  fervice  to  Mrs.  Pope,  Mr.  Alexander  Pope  the 
elder,  Mr.  Alexander  Pope  ye  younger,     .     .     .     and  I'm  jull:  going   to  forget   the  chief 

end  of  my  letter,  which  is  yt  Mr.  et  has  (as  he  fays)  got  a  very  eafy-going  little  horfe 

which  you  may  have  ...  5  guineas  ;  he  rid  him  .  .  himfelf,  and  fays  he  knows 
no  fault  in  him  :  (o  if  you  don't  lucceed  with  my  L"*.  Burlington,  (you)  may  at  ieaft 
with  him. 

My  head  aches.     I  am,  your  moft  affec'., 

W.  F.      f 


PViUiam  Fortejcue  to  yllexander  Pope. 
Dear  Sir, 

The  account  Bowery  left  at  my  houfe  yefterday  of  Mrs.  Pope's  continuing 
ill,  and  your  being  out  of  order  likewife,  gives  me  the  greatcfl:  uneafinefs  in  the  world. 
I  would  have  waited  on  you  myfelf  but  that  I  fear  any  company  may  be  troublefome. 

I  have  fent  John  to  know  how  you  both  doe,  and  I  hope  he  will  bring  me  a  better 
account  than  I  had  yefterday. 

Pray  confider  how  much  all  your  friends  are  interefted  in  your  health,  and  how  much 
their  happinefs  depends  upon  it,  for  all  our  fakes,  therefore,  as  well  as  for  your  own,  let  nu 
beg  you  to  take  all  poffible  care  of  it. 

'  From  Letters  to  and  trom  Henrietta,  Counteft  of  Suf!blU,  2  vols.  8vo.,  London,  1824,  vol.  i.  )>.  101 
^  Pope's  Iliad  Autographs,  vol.  i.  4807.     Plut.  cxiv.  B.  Brit.  Mus. 


84  •  Family  of  Biichland-Filhigh . 

Same  to  fame. 
T>\  Sir, 

I  am  very  much  obliged  to  you  for  your  kind  letter,  and  am  glad  to 
hear  that  Mrs.  Pope  is  fomething  better.'  Confidering  how  ill  flie  is  you  can't  cxjicl-I  her 
to  recover  but  by  degrees,  and  therefore  you  ought  to  hope  the  bell:  ;  but,  above  all,  let  me 
renew  my  requeft  to  you  to  be  careful  of  your  own  health. 

I   have  fent  John  for  the  lead,  and   hope   he  will    be  able   (to)  procure   feme    to   fend 
with  this. 

I  am,  in  the  greateft  hafle, 

Dear  Sir,  Yours, 

W.  F. 

Monday  morning.  ' 

Remember  me  kindly  to  Gay.     ■  '     '  . 


Extracts  from  Judge   (William)   Fortescue's  Diary   while 
ON   HIS   Circuits. 

Le>it  Affixes,  1738-9,  Oxford. 

March  8. — I  go  to  church  about  10.  The  Vice-Chancellor  waits  upon  us,  and  goes  with 
us  in  ye  coach. 

One  Mr.  Perrott,  formerly  of  Balliol  College,  but  now  Fellow  of  Oriel,  preached  a  very 
impudent  fermon,  viz.,  that  God  often  inflidled  national  punifhments  for  the  wickednefs  of 
ye  King  and  Rulers.  That  this  had  been  the  fate  of  our  nation  formerly  —  for  fome  of  thefe 
caufes  our  nation  now  mourned  even  unto  this  day.  He  alfo  faid  that  one  great  mifchjef  a 
wicked  King  did  his  people  vvas  appointing  ignorant  Judges. 

N.B. — We  ware  a  pair  of  our  gold  law  gloves  to  church.  .   '.  |  . 


Canterbury,  July  ij,  1741.      15  Geo.  II.  ' 

July  14. — I  got  to  Canterbury  by  10.  The  Sheriff  met  me  with  his  coach  juft  within 
the  gate.  1  was  in  my  riding-gown  and  tye  wig,  and  I  went  direflly  to  thi  Town  Hall 
where  the  Mayor  and  Recorder  were  in  their  robes.      We  opened  the  Commiilion  and  then 


'  Mrs.  Pope  died  in  January,  1733. 


L,f'.j;  ,?u 


'K'jtl,   y..'>    JEJ 


Liii.  n  Milt,  (•',.,  .    .  . 


Right  Ho7i.  lp'"illiani  Fortefcue. 


'5 


I  went  to  the  Sheriff's  houfe,  which  was  inconvenient  and  without  the  town,  and  put  un  my 
full  robes,  troni  whence  I  came  again  to  court. 

N.B. — When  I  firft  came  to  Canterbury  I  was  informed  yt  one  Mr.  Bell  the  Pltf.'  Arty, 
a  very  pert  young  man,  had  ordered  a  dinner  at  the  King's  Head  (N.B. — this  is  the  Whio- 
Inn  and  the  lied  Lyon  the  Tory),  where  it  feems  I  was  to  dine,  and  his  Coiiniel,  the  Jury, 
and  Witnefles  being  to  dine  there  too.  I  was  very  angry  to  be  treated  in  yt  manner,  and 
fent  word  I  would  not  dine  there,  and  ordered  Deaves,  C.  Brackley,  and  my  ferv"  to  dine 
by  themielves,  pay  tor  what  they  had,  as  well  as  for  my  horfes,  which  they  did.  The 
Sheriff  laid  he  was  very  forry  the  Corporation  did  not  entertain  me,  for  they  had  made  an 
order  only  to  get  me  lodgings,  but  that  I  ffiould  be  welcome  at  his  houfe,  and  faid  he  would 
get  me  anything  I  would  have.  I  defired  him  only  to  get  fome  beans  and  bacon,  a  joini  of 
mutton  or  chicken,  and  a  tart — fo  I  had  thefe  four  difhes.  Mr.  Underwood  dined  with  ne. 
I  told  him  I  thought  it  the  duty  of  the  Magillrates  to  take  care  of  me  as  I  was  at  fo  much 
trouble  in  coming  to  do  ye  town  Juftice,  and  therefore  whatever  expenfe  I  put  him  to  fhould 
be  allowed  in  his  cravings.  He  fiid  he  took  it  as  a  very  great  honour  1  would  dine  w.'Ai 
him,  and  I  was  fo  pleafed  with  his  kindnefs  that  I  ordered  a  guinea  among  the  ferv'" ;  but  i 
foon  repented  my  generolity,  for  he  gave  a  bill  for  my  dinner  (he  having  fent  for  it  to  the 
Red  Lyon),  for  which  I  ordered  Deaves  to  pay.  It  came  to  above  i/.  ioj".  Oif.  and  two  or 
three  bottles  of  wine  were  left.  Upon  which  I  told  him  and  his  LTnder-Sheriff  that  they 
need  fend  no  bill  of  cravings  for  I  thought  the  Sheriff  had  been  paid  for  everything  as  much 
as  he  deferved. 

The  Corporation  had  a  treat  for  themfelves  at  the  Red  Lyon. 

N.B.— Jofeph  Green  H.  Sheriff,  ' 

a  malfter. 
Jofeph  Sawkins  Under-Sheriff. 


A  Specimen  of  Scriblerus's  Reports.  ; 

Stradling  verfus  Styles. 

Le  Report  del  Cafe  argue  en  le  commen  Banke  devant  touts  les  Juftices  de  mefme  le  Banke,  en  le 
quart  an  du  raygne  de  Roy  Jacques,  entre  Matthew  Stradling,  Plant,  et  Peter  Styles,  Def.  en  un  AiSli  m 
propter  certos  Equos  coloratos,  Angiice  Pyed  Horfes,  port,  per  le  det  Matthew  vers  le  dit  Peter. 

Le  recitel.     Sir  John  Swale,  of  Swale  Hall,  in  Swale  Dale,  faft  by  the  River  Swale,  K'.  made  I  is 

del  cas.        lafl  Will  and  Teftament  :   In  which  among  other  Bequefts,  was  this,  viz.,  "Out  of 

the  kind   Love  and   Refpeft  that   I   bear  unto  my  much   honoured  aiul  good    Friend   Mr.  Matthew 

Stradling  Gent.   I    do  bequeath   unto  the  faid    Matthew   Stradling    Gent,   all    my   black   and  white 

Horfes." 


86  Family  of  Biickla?ic{-Filkigh. 

The  Teftator  had  fix  black  Horfes,  fix  white  Horfes,  and  fix  pyed  Horfes. 

Le  Point.  The  Debate  therefore  was  whether  or  no  the  faid  Matthew  Stradhng  fhould  have  the 
faid  pyed  Horfes  by  virtue  of  the  faid  Bequefi. 

Puur  le  PI.      Atkins  Apprentice  pour  le  PI.  Moy  femble  que  le  PL  recouvera. 

And  firft  of  all  it  ieemeth  expedient  to  coiifider  what  is  the  Nature  of  Horfes,  and  alfo  vvhat  is  the 
Nature  of  Colours  ;  and  fo  the  argument  will  confequently  divide  itfelf  in  a  twofold  way,  that  is  t( 
fay  the  Formal  Part,  and  the  Sublhmtial  Part.  Horfes  are  the  Subftaiitial  Part,  or  things  bequeathed  . 
iilack  and  White  the  Formal  or  JDefcriptive  Part. 

Horle,  in  a  phyfical  fenfe  doth  import  a  certain  Quadrupede  or  four-footed  animal,  which  by  the 
apt  and  regular  Difpofitioii  of  certain  proper  and  convenient  Parts  is  adapted,  fitted,  and  conftituted 
for  the  Ufe  and  Need  of  Man.  Yea  fo  neceflary  and  conducive  was  this  animal  conceived  to  be  o 
the  Behoof  of  the  Commonweal,  that  fundry  and  divers  A£ts  of  Parliament  have,  from  time  to  time, 
been  made  in  Favour  of  Horfes. 

r'  Edward  VI.  Makes  the  Tranfporting  of  Hori'es  out  of  the  Kingdom  no  lefs  a  Penalty  than  the 
forfeiture  of  40/. 

I"""  and  3"'  Edward  VE  Takes  from  Horfeftealers  the  benefit  of  their  Clergy. 

And  the  Statutes  of  the  27"'  and  32'"'  of  Hen.  VHE  condefcend  fo  far  as  to  take  Care  of  their  very 
Breed.  Ihefe  our  wife  Anceftors  prudently  forefeeing  that  they  could  not  better  take  care  of  thei.  own 
Porterity,  then  by  alfo  taking  care  of  that  of  their  Horfes. 

And  of  fo  great  Efleem  are  Horfes  in  the  Eye  of  the  Common  Law,  that  when  a  Knigiit  cf  the 
Bath  committeth  any  great  and  enormous  Crime,  his  Punifhment  is  to  have  his  Spurs  chopt  o^  v  ith  a 
Cleaver,  being,  as  Mafter  Brafton  well  obferveth,  unworthy  to  ride  on  a  Horle. 

Littleton,  Sec".  315,  faith.  If  Tenants  in  Common  make  a  Leafe,  referving  tor  Rent  a  Horfe,  they 
fiiall  have  but  one  AiTize,  becaufe,  faith  the  Book,  the  Law  will  not  fufter  a  Horfe  to  be  fcvt'ed  ; 
another  argument  of  what  high  eftimation  the  Law  maketh  a  Horfe. 

But  as  the  great  Difierence  feemeth  not  to  be  fo  much  touching  the  fubftantial  Part,  Horfts,  1  -t  us 
proceed  to  the  formal  or  defcriptive  Part,  viz.,  What  Horfes  they  are  that  come  within  this  Bequeft. 

Colours  are  commonly  of  various  Kinds,  and  different  Sorts;  of  which  White  and  Black  a,re  the 
two  Extremes,  and  confequently  comprehend  within  them  all  other  Colours  whatfoever. 

By  a  Bequell  therefore  of  Black  and  White  Horfes  grey  or  pyed  Horfes  may  well  pafs  ;  fori  when 
two  Extremes,  or  remoteft  Ends,  of  any  thing  are  devifed,  the  Law  by  common  Intendment,  will 
intend  whatever  is  contained  between  them  to  be  deviled  too. 

But  the  prefent  Cafe  is  Itill  llronger,  coming  not  only  within  the  Intendment,  but  alfo  th.:  very 
Letter  of  the  W^jrds. 

By  the  word  Black,  all  the  Horfes  that  are  Black  are   devifed;   By  the  word  White,  are  devifed 

thofe  that  are  White;  and  by  the  fame  words,  with  the  ■conjumition  copulative ,  Netween  them, 

the  Horfes  that  are  Black  and  White,  that  is  to  fay  Pyed,  are  devifed  alio. 

Whatever  is  Black  and  White  is  Pyed,  and  whatever  is  Pyed  is  Black  and  Whitt  ;  ergo.  Black 
and  White  is  Pyed,  and  vice  verfa  Pyed  is  Black  and  White. 

If  therefore  Black  and  White  Horfes  are  devifed,  Pyed  Horfes  fliall  pal's  by  fuch  Devifc  ;  but  Black 
and  White  Horfes  are  deviled  ;   ergo,  the  PI.  Ihall  have  the  Pyed  Horfes. 

Pour  le  Defend.  Catlyne  Serjeant.  Moy  femble  al'  contrary,  The  Plaintiff  fliall  not  have  the 
Pyed  Horfes  by  Intendment;  for  if  by  the  Devife  of  Black   and  White  Horfes,  not  only  Black  and 


'  -jlK  ,»l(tl7/   bici'. 


JkJ  . 


Right  Ho?i.  IVilliafH  Fortejcue.  87 

White  Horfes,  but  Horfes  of  any  Colour  between  thefe  two  Extremes,  may  pals,  then  not  only  Pyed 
and  Grey  Horfes,  but  alfo  Red  or  Bay  Horfes,  would  pafs  likewife,  whieh  would  be  abfurd,  and  againll 
Reafon.  And  this  is  another  ftrong  argument  in  Law,  "  Nihil  quod  elt  contra  Rationem  eft  licitum  :" 
for  Reafon  is  the  Lite  of  the  Law,  nay  the  Common  Law  is  nothing  but  Reafon  ;  which  is  to  be 
underftood  of  artificial  Perfection  and  Reafon  gotten  by  long  ftudy,  and  not  of  Man's  natural  Reafon; 
for  "  Nemo  nafcitur  Artifex,"  and  Legal  Reafon  "  eft  fumma  Ratio  :"  and  therefore  if  all  the  Reafon 
that  is  difperfed  into  fo  many  difterent  Heads,  were  united  into  one,  he  could  not  mal^e  fuch  a  Law  as 
the  Law  of  England  ;  becaufe  by  many  fucceftions  of  ages  it  has  been  fixed  and  refixed  by  grave  and 
learned  men;  fo  that  the  old  Rule  maybe  verified  in  it,  "  Neminem  oportet  eile  Icgibus  fapien- 
tiorem." 

As  therefore  Pyed  Horfes  do  not  come  within  the  Luendment  of  the  Bequeft,  fo  neither  do  they 
within  the  letter  of  the  Words. 

A  Pyed  Horfe  is  not  a  White  Horfe,  neither  is  a  Pyed  a  Black  Horfe  :  how  then  can  Pyed  He  rfes 
come  under  the  Words  of  Black  and  White  Horfes  \ 

Beiides,  when  Cuftom  hath  adapted  a  certaine  determinate  Name  to  any  one  thing  in  all  Devifes, 
P'eoftments,  and  Grants,  that  certain  Name  fhall  be  made  ufe  of,  and  no  uncertain  circumlocutory 
Defcriptions  fhall  be  allowed  ;  for  Certainty  is  the  Father  of  Right,  and  the  Mother  of  Juftice. 

Le  refte  del  argument  jeo  ne  pouvois  oyer,  car  jeo  fui  difturb  en  mon  place. 

Le  Court  fuit  longement  en  doubt'  de  c'eft  Matter  ;  et  apres  grand  deliberation  eu, 

JudgmeJit  hiit  donne  pour  le  PI.  nifi  caula. 

Motion  in  arreft  of  Judgment,  that  the  pyed  Horfes  were  Mares  ;  and  thereupon  an  Infpeilion 
was  prayed. 

Et  fur  ceo  le  Court  advifari  vult. 


Letters  from  Alexander  Pope  and  John  Gay  to  the  Right  Hon.  U^'illiain  \ 

Forte/cue,  M.P. 

S,pt.  17." 
The  gaiety  of  your  letter  proves  you  are  not  fo  ftudious  of  wealth  as  many  of  your  protcilion 
are,  fince  you  can  derive  matter  of  mirth  from  want  of  bufinefs.  You  are  none  of  thulc  lawyers  who 
deferve  the  motto  of  the  devil,  "  Circuit  quxrens  quern  devoret."  But  your  circmi  will  at  leaft  pro- 
cure you  one  of  the  greateft  of  temporal  bleflings,  bealth.  What  an  advantageous  circumrtance  is  it, 
for  one  that  loves  rambling  fo  well,  to  be  a  grave  and  reputable  rambler  ;  while  (like  your  tellow- 
circuiteer,  the  fun)  you  travel  the  round  of  the  earth,  and  behold  all  the  iniquities  under  the  heavens.? 
You  are  much  a  fuperior  genius  to  me  in  rambling;  you,  like  a  pigeon  (to  which  I  would  fooner 
compare  a  lawyer  than  to  a  hawk)  can  fly  fome  hundred  leagues  at  a  pitch  ;  I,  like  a  poor  fquirrL-l, 
am  continually  in  motion,  indeed,  but  it  is  about  a  cage  of  three  foot  ;  my  little  excurfions  are  but  Ike 
thofe  of  a  fhopkeeper,  who  walks  every  day  a  mile  or  two  before  his  own  door,  but  minds  his  bufimfs. 
Your  letter  of  the  caufe  lately  before  you,  I  could  not  but  communicate  to  fome  ladies  of  y<  ur 
acquaintance.      I  am  of  opinion,  if  you  continued  a  correfpondence  of  the  (ame  (ort  during  a  whole 


This  is  an  eaily  letter,  probably  wiittcn  when  Pope  \^a^  at  B.ith,  ii\  1714. 


'.r.  i<\vi 


Family  of  Buchlaiid-Filleigh. 


circuit,  it  could  not  fail  to  pleafe  the  fex  better  than  half  the  novels  they  read.  There  would  be  in 
them  what  they  love  above  all  things,  a  moll  happy  union  of  truth  and  fcandal.  I  allure  you  the  Bath 
.iti'ords  nothing  equal  to  it.  It  is,  on  the  contrary,  full  (.)f  ^rai'c  <;//(/ y,/(/ m.'n  :  Mr.  Baron  S.,  Lord 
Chict-Jultice  A.,  Judge  P.,  and  Counfellor  B.,  who  has  a  large  pimple  o\\  the  tip  of  his  nofe,  but  thinks 
it  inconlilk-nt  with  hii  gravity  to  wear  a  patch,  notwithftanding  the  precedent  of  an  eminent  judge. 

I  am,  dear  Sir,  yours,  iVc. 


•Sep/,  io,  1724. 
DiLAR  Sir, 

1  heartily  thank  you  for  yours  ;   and  the   rather,  becaule  you  are  lb  kind  as  to  employ  me, 

though  but  in  little  matters  ;   I  take  it  as  an  earnelt  you  would  do  fo  in  greater. 

As  to  the  houfe  of  preparation  for  the  fmall-pox,  why  fhould  it  not  be  my  own?  It  is  entirely  at 
your  fervice  ;  and  I  fancy  two  beds,  or  three  upon  necelTity,  (belides,  your  fervaats  m  ly  be  dil'poled  of 
in  the  next  houfe  to  me),  will  amply  furnifh  your  family. 

It  is  true  the  fmall-pox  has  been  in  Twitnam,  but  is  pretty  well  gone  off.  I  cannot  hnd  any 
village  niore  free  from  it  i'o  near  London,  except  that  of  Peterfham,  where  I  hear  it  has  not  bee.i  ;  ]ut 
1  will  further  inform  mylelf  upon  your  next  notice. 

As  to  the  receipt  ot  Sir  Stephen  Fox's  eyewater,  which  1  have  found  beneht  from,  it  i>  v  ;ry 
fimplc,  and  only  this  :  take  a  pint  ot  camphorated  Ipirit  ot  wine,  and  infute  therein  two  fcru|  les  of 
elder  Rowers.  J.,et  them  remain  in  it,  and  wafh  your  temples  and  the  nape  ot  your  neck,  but  ito  lot 
put  it  into  your  eyes,  for  it  will  fmart  abominably. 

When  you  have  taken  breath  for  a  week  or  two,  and  had  fidl  pofleffion  of  that  bletTed  indolence 
which  you  fo  juftly  value,  after  your  long  labours  and  peregrinations,  I  hope  to  fee  you  here  aga'n; 
tirft  exercifing  the  paternal  care,  and  exemplary  in  the  tender  olfices  of  a  paterfamilias,  ana  tlien 
confpicuous  in  the  aSive  fcenes  of  bufinefs,  eloquent  at  the  bar,  and  wife  in  the  chamber  of  c(  un.  il, 
the  future  honour  of  your  native  Devon  ;  and  to  till  as  great  a  part  in  the  hiflory  of  that  coui  ty  or 
your  fagacity  and  gravity  in  the  laws,  as  Efquire  Bickford  is  likely  to  do  tor  his  many  experiments  in 
natural  philofophy.  1 

I  am  forced  to  defpatch  this  by  the  poft:,  which  is  going,  or  elfe  I  could  not  have  forborne  to 
expatiate  upon  what  I  laft  mentioned.  I  muft  now  only  give  Mr.  Bickford  my  fervices,  and  join  rlhem 
to  thofe  I  fliall  ever  ofler  to  your  own  family. 


Gay  was  well  five  days  ago  at  Chifwick. 


Believe  me,  dear  Sir,  ■  '| 

Your  fiithfullefl,  atfe(£lionate  fcrvant. 

I 
TwrrN.-iM,  .SV/j'.  17,  1724. 


Dkar  Sir, 

Your  friendly  and  kind  letter  I  received  with  real  joy  and  gladnefs,  to  hear,  aiter  a  long 
filence,  of  the  welfare  of  a  wliole  family  which  1  lliall  ever  unfeignedly  wifll  well  to  in  ail  regards. 
1  knew  not  in  what  part  of  the  land  to  level  a  letter  at  you,  or  elfe  you  had  heard  firll:  from  me.  My 
mother,  indeed,  is  very  ill  ;  but  as  it  feems  only  the  effedl  of  a  cold,  which  always  handles  her 
leverely,  I  hope  not  in  any  danger.      T  am  in  the  old  way, — this  day  well,  however,  and  the  pail  and 


Right  Hon.  W illiaiji  Fortefcue.  89 


future  arc  not  in  my  power,  fo  not  much  in  my  care.  Cjay  is  at  Bath,  with  Dr.  Arbuthnot.  Mrs. 
Howard  returns  your  fervices  ;  and  A'larblchiU  waits  only  for  its  roof — the  rcH  imilhcd.  The  little 
Prince  William  wants  Mifs  Fortefcue,  or,  to  fay  truth,  anybody  elle  that  will  play  with  him.  You 
fay  nothing  at  what  time  we  may  expert  you  here.  I  wifli  it  loon,  and  thought  you  talked  of  Michael- 
mas. 1  am  grieved  to  tell  you  that  there  is  one  Devonfliire  man  not  hoiieft  ;  for  my  man  Robert 
proves  a  vile  fellow,  and  I  have  difcarded  him.  "  Auri  facra  fames"  is  his  crime — a  crime  common 
to  the  greatelt  and  meanell,  if  any  way  in  power,  or  too  much  in  truft. 

I  am  going  upon  a  fhort  ramble  to  my  Lord  O.xford's,  and  Lord  Cobham's,  for  a  fortnight,  this 
Michaelmas;  and  the  hurry  I  am  at  prefent  in,  with  preparing  to  be  idle  (a  common  cale),  makes  it 
difficult  for  me  to  continue  this  letter,  though  I  truly  defire  to  fay  many  things  to  you.  Homer  is 
advanced  to  the  eighth  book;  I  mean  printed  fo  lar.  My  gardens  improve  more  than  my  writings  ; 
my  head  is  Hill  more  upon  Mrs.  H''.  and  her  works  than  upon  my  own.  Adieu  I  God  blefs  you  ; 
an  ancient  and  Chriltian,  therefore  an  unmodilh  and  unulual  lulutation. 

I  am  ever,  fmcerely  and  alfeiitioiiately,  yoi'rs. 

DearS.k,  ^'/.-^S.  .7^5. 

I  am  again  returned  to  Twickenham  upon  the  news  of  the  perfon's  death  you  wrote  to  me 
about.  I  cannot  fay  I  have  any  great  profpedt  of  fuccefs  ;  but  the  aflair  remains  yet  undetermined, 
and  I  cannot  tell  who  will  be  his  fuccellor.  I  know  I  have  fmcerely  your  good  wifhes  upon  all 
occafions.  One  would  think  that  my  friends  ufe  me  to  difappointments,  to  try  how  many  I  could  bear  ; 
if  they  do  fo,  they  are  miltaken  ;  for  as  1  do  not  expert  murh,  I  can  never  be  much  difappointed.  I 
am  in  hopes  of  feeing  you  in  town  the  beginning  of  Ortober,  by  what  you  write  to  Mr.  Pope  ;  and 
fure  your  father  will  think  it  reafonable  that  Mifs  Fortefcue  fhould  not  forget  her  French  and  dancing. 
Dr.  Arbuthnot  has  been  at  the  point  of  death,  by  a  fevere  fit  of  illnefs,  an  impoffhun\ation  in  the 
bowels  ;  it  hath  broke,  and  he  is  now  pretty  well  recovered.  I  have  not  iecn  him  lince  my  return 
from  Wiltflnre,  but  intend  to  go  to  town  the  latter  end  ot  the  week. 

I  have  made  your  compliments  to  Airs.  Howard  this  morning.  She  indeed  put  me  in  mind  of  it, 
by  inquiring  after  you.  Pray  make  my  compliments  to  your  fillers  and  Mrs.  Fortefcue  ;  Air.  Pope 
defires  the  fame. 

Yours  moft  afi'e£tionatelv, 

J.  G.' 

TwiTNAM,  Sept.  6. 
Dear  Sir, 

I  cannot  exprefs  the  joy  your  letter  gives  me.      I   was  in  great  fears  after  I  had   written, 

learning  no  further  of  your  flate,  when  I  fent  three  days  to  A'Ir.  Thory.      Your  giving  me  thefe  lines 

under  your  hand  is  a  kindnefs  I  fliall  long  remember.      I  hope  in  God  your  recovery  increafes  as  faf  as 

I  really  wifh  it  ;  one  of  my  great  apprehenfions  was,  you  might  not  have  a  fkilful  phyfician  in  a  difl.irit 

country  place,  of  which  you  have  eafed  me  ;   I  hope  you  keep  him  near  or  with  you.     I  defire  earnestly 

to  hear  of  you  foon  again,  though  I   hope   the   danger   of  a  relapfe   is   over  ;   but  (urely   you    niuft   not 

hazard  cold  by  too  quick  a  removal.     Without  pretences  1   have  been  lo  long  and  lo  imcerely  your 


'   John  Gay,  the  Poet.      All  ihc  other  letters  are  from  Pope. 


90  Fa  mil  V  of  Biakland-Fi/leigh. 

friend,  that  this  alarm  was  a  Hvely  and  deep-felt  one  to  me.  Clod  forbid  it  fliould  ever  be  renewed!  I 
may  now  have  Ipirits  enough  to  quote  Homer  to  you,  who  fays,  "  A  friend  is  better  than  a  kinlman." 
Your  iiifer,  I  hope  is  well  ;  and  as  (he  ought  to  receive  no  harm  from  lo  irtuous  an  enterprize,  fo  I 
trulf  file  will  have  her  reward  complete  in  feeing  you  perteitly  reftored. 

I  am  ever,  dear  Sir, 

Your  truly  afteftionate  and  faithful  friend. 

Is  there  anything  at  this  diltance  that  I  can  procure  for  you,  or  any  corroborative  advice  that  I  can 
get  for  you  from  any  of  our  phyficians,  or  any  builnefs  I  could  eale  you  the  care  of,  or  a.iything  you 
would  have  laid  or  done  I 

,^  „  Down  Hali,,  in  EOl-x,  Jan.  5. 

JJeak   biR, 

1  had  writ  the  pofb  after  my  receipt  of  yours,  but  it  followed  me  thirty  ir.ih  s  beyond  London 

where  I  fpent  part  of  the  Chrillmas.     I  yet  hope  this  will  find  you,  and  I  wiih  that  the  very  next  day 

you  may  begin  your  journey,  becaufe  fincerely  I  cannot  fee  you  too  foon.     I    am  lejoiced   that  your 

gout  left  you  the  day  after  I  did  ;  may  it  never  return  !   though  it  bring  many  compliments  along  with 

it  :   for,  let  my  friends  willi  me  as  long  a  life  as  they  pleale,  1    Ihould   not   wifli    it   to    mjfelf  witl,  the 

allay  of  great  or  much  pain.     My  Lord  Dorfet  laid  very  well  in  that  cafe,  the  tenure  is  not  wort!    the 

line.      1  hope  .he  joys  of  a  marriage,  both   to   thole  who   pofi'efs,  and    to   you    who   procure   (iioQ-lfly 

fpeaking),  will  obliterate  all  thofe  melancholy  thoughts.     I  wifli  the  new  couple  all  felicity.      And    iray 

make  hade  to  town  with  the  remainder  of  your   family,  and   put    them   into   the    like   happy  Cwnd  tiou 

with  all  fpeed. 

r,  c  ■'^""-  -4.  1730.  ■ 

De.\r  Sir, 

I  had  no  fooner  received  your  kind  letter,  with  the  ill    news  of  your  being   feized  with  the 

gout  at  Buckland,  but  your  clerk   acquainted   me   that  you    were    e.Ktremely  ill,  which    gives    me    un- 

expreffible  concern.      My  fears  of  your  being  diilant   from  your    family,  and    what   help    by    pliyfieian 

may  be  to  be  procured  in  a  lone  coimtry,  do  fmcerely  much  trouble  me.      I   beg  to  know  by  tlie  firll: 

opportunity,  by  a  line  either  from  yourfelf  or  any  other  hand,  how  you  are  ;   and  chat  you  are  iiol  in  fo 

much  danger  as  I  apprehended.      I  will  add  no  more  words,  fiiice  none   can   tell  you   how  much    I   am 

in  pain  about  you,  and  iince  they  can  only  be  troublefome    to   yourlelf,  if  you   are  very  ill.      Bu'  God 

and  my  own  heart  know  with  what  warm  afteiSlion,  and  willies  for  your  recover)",  and  tor  your  every 

happineis  and  comfort,  I  am  ever,  dear  Sir,  I 

Yours. 

MoNMAv,  ./pn7, 
Dear  Sir, 

I  was  two  nights  in  town,  and  aimed  at  li.eing  you   on   both  ;   but   the  curled    ittcndance  on 

the  excife  bill  deprived  me  of  it,  and  I  grumble  with  the  reiir,  up. on  that  Icore,  at  it.      W  ur  prefent  life 

is  labour  ;    1  hope  your  future  will  be   in   more   repofe,  and   that   you  may  lleep   either  01    the  bench  or 

ofl,  jult  as  you  pleafe.     Twickenham  will  be  as  much  at  the  llrvice  of  my  lord  judge  as  it  was  of  my 

learned   counlel ;   and  I  flatter  myfelf  in   the   im.igiiiation  lliat  your  hours  and  days  in  t^eneral  will  be 

more  mine  when  they  are  more  yours.      Adieu  !    and  keep  my  fecret  as  long  as  it  will   keep.      1   think 

myielt  lo  happy  in  being  approved  by  you,  and  ionie  few  others,  that  1  care  not  for  the  public  a  jot. 


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Right  Hon.  IV ill  I  am  Fortefciie.  .    91 

LoNiioN,  Mamh  2;,  1734-35. 
Dear  Sir, 

I   deferred  this  two  or   three   polts  to  fend   you   an   anfwer  from    Dr.  A-lead,  of  the  truth  of 

what   you  heard.      But  he  knows  no  example  that  can  quite  be  depended  on  of  the  pulvis  A.  curing 

after  anyone  began  to  rave,  or  otherwile  tha]i  if  taken  very  foon  after  the  wound.     I  gave  Mr.  B 1 

the    account,  which    will    be    paid   as    foon   as   you    pleafe,    if  your   clerk   have   the   receipts   from  the 

attorney's  ;   or,  if  not,  when   you   return.      Mr.  Bethel   has   been  with  Air.  C s  about  it,  who  told 

him  to  defer  it  till  you  come.      1  have  feen  your   family  twice;   once  at  Mr.  Jervas's,  and  laft  night  at 

home.     They  are  all  well,  e-xcept  a  little  cold  which  Mils  Fortefcue  has,  but  was  very  merry.     I  hope 

you  have  this  week  feen  Buckland  with  pleafure,  and  in  a  ftate  of  improvement;  and  that  you  will 

fee  Fallapit  with   the   fame.     Twitnam  is  very  cold   thefe  eallerly  winds  ;    but  I  prel'unie   they  do   not 

blow  in  the   happy  regions   of  l^evonfliire.     My  garden,  however,  is  in  good  condition,  and  pror  lifes 

fruits  not  too  early.     1  am  building  a  Itone  obelilk,  making  two  new  ovens  and  itoves,  and  a  hot-houfe 

for  ananas,  of  which  1  hope  you  will  tafte  this  year.   The  public  news  and  votes  tell  you  all  the  bufinefs 

of  the  feafon.      It  is   generally  thought  the  P.irliament  will   be    up   in   the   middle  of  April.      Adieu  ! 

May  fuccefs,  health,  and  money  attend  you  in  all  your  circulations. 

I  am,  faithfully  and  aflei^tionately,  dear  Sir, 

Yours. 


Auovfi  23,  173S. 
Dear  Sir, 

I  am  fummoned  unexpectedly  to  South.mipton,  to  take  leave  (I  fear  my  laft)  of  Lord 
Peterborough  ;  from  whence  I  return  in  a  week,  he  going  for  France  at  the  montli's  end.  But  I  firll 
take  care  of  yt)ur  houfe  ;  the  window  is  done,  and  the  other  bricked  up  ;  as  to  the  back  window,  1 
think  it  will  do  as  it  is  ;  the  painters  have  done,  and  next  week  the  upholfterer  lets  up  the  beds. 
I  have  not  had  one  quiet  day  to  pollefs  my  foul  there  in  peace.  I  (hall  die  of  hofpitality,  which 
is  a  fate  becoming  none  but  a  patriarch,  or  a  Parliament  man  in  the  country.  Thofe  who  think  I  live 
in  a  rtudy,  and  make  poetry  my  bufinefs,  are  more  miftaken  than  if  they  took  me  for  a  Prince 
of  Topinambou.  I  love  my  particular  friends  as  much  as  if  I  knew  no  others,  and  I  receive  almoft 
everybody  that  comes  near  me  as  a  friend:  this  is  too  much;  it  dillipates  me  when  I  (hould  be 
coUeiEfed  ;  for  though  I  may  be  of  fome  (not  much)  value  to  a  icw^  yet,  divided  among  io  many, 
I  mull  be  good  for  nothing.  Life  becomes  a  mere  pallime.  When  fliall  you  and  I  lit  by  a  hreiide 
without  a  briefer  a  poem  in  our  hands,  and  yet  not  idle,  not  thoughtlefs,  but  as  lerious,  and  more  lo, 
than  any  bufinefs  ought  to  make  us,  except  the  great  bufinefs — that  of  enjoying  a  reafonable  beii^g, 
and  regarding  its  end  I  The  looner  this  is  the  cafe  the  better.  God  deliver  you  from  law,  me  fri.m 
rhyme,  and  give  us  leifure  to  attend  to  what  is  more  important.  Believe  me,  dear  Sir,  with  all 
atfedlion,  but  in  great  hurry,  for  my  foot  is  in  the  coach  the  moment  my  hand  is  oil  this  paper.  [May 
all  happinefs  wait  on  Buckland  and  Fallapit.] 

Entirely  yours. 


92  Family  of  BiicklaJul-F'iUcigh. 

SipiemUr  3,  1737. 
Dear  Sir, 

It  is  long  that  I  have  not  writ  to  you  ;   but  want  of  materials  ii  a  good  realbn  for  not  writing 

at  any  time  ;  and  that  which  I  never  want,  friendfliip  and   affcilion,  have  not   niueh  to  fay,  though 

they  feel   much.     The  knowledge  you  will  not  fail,  from  long  experience,  to  have  of  mine  for  you, 

though  it  has  had   i^^  means  to  prove  itfelf,  and  the  opinion  which,  I  Hatter  myfelf,  you  have  of  my 

being  no   ungrateful   man   to   thofe  who   have   proved   theirs   to    me,  will    fufficiently  convince  you 

1  am  always  thinking  of  and  wilhing  well  to  you.      I  have  this  fummer  contrived  to  make  a  circuit 

almoft  as  long  as  yours,  though  lefs  ufeful,  from  which  I  am  not  yet  returned.    I  have  been  now  a  full 

month    on   the    ramble,   iirit    to   Southampton    and   Portfmouth,   but   the   llorniy  weather   prevented 

my  defign  on  the  Ifle  of  Wight;  thence  to  C).Kford,  Cirenceller,  and   Hath.      It  will  be  near  IVlichael- 

mas  before  I  fliall  fee  Richmond  or  A'lrs.  Blount,  who  went  thither  (as  I  hear  by  the  hitt  port)  but  two 

days  ago,  to  enjoy  the  palace  you  left  her,  being  much  rejoiced  to  be  at  repofe  after  a  ramble  flie  has 

alfo  made.      I  hope  Mrs.  Spooner  is  now  in  perfedl  health,  though  (lie  had  been  ailinj^-  when  I  laft  faw 

her  before    her  journey.      I    hope  you   are   all  together   by   this   time,   or   will   about  the   tin.e   this 

letter  reaches  you,  which  comes  to  congratulate  you  on  the  Sabbath  of  your  l.ibours,  and  to  e.xf  ort 

you  to  concert  this  Michaelmas  fonie  improvements  of  your  wood,  &c.  at  iJuckland,  fa^ilura  nepoti'ius 

umbras.       But    cut    out   fonie   walks   for    yourfelf  while   you    yet    have    legs,    and    make    fonu    p  iin 

and  fmooth  under  your  trees,  to  admit  a  chaife  or  chariot  when  you  have  none.     I  find  myfelf  .Ire  .dy 

almoll  in  the  condition,  though  not  the  circumftances,  of  an  aged  judge,  and  am  forced  to  be  ran  led 

in  that  manner  over  Lord  Bathurft's  plantations.     Do  not  be  difcouraged  fVom  o-ivin"-  me,  oner  ni  )re 

at  leaif,  an  account  of  yourfelf.     If  direded  to  Twitenham,  it  will  find  its  way  to  me.     Be  allured  I 

am,  with  old  fincerity,  and  ever  fliall  be,  dear  Sir, 

Your  rnofl  afteclionate  and  obliged  friend  and  fervant. 

Dear  Sir, 

I  am  forced  to  write  to  you  upon  this  red-lined  paper,  for  I  have  not  a  flieet  in  the  houfe 
befide.  I  fent  Bowry  to  afk  you  when  I  might  hcjpe  to  fee  you,  I  really  want  it,  for  I  am  very  near 
funk  in  melancholy,  having  been  full  fix  weeks  here,  attending  a  very  melancholy  cure.  [  utould 
otherwile  have  tried  to  fix  a  day  to  meet  you  at  Sir  R.  W.'s  (with  his  permiffion,  and  )-our  coadjutor- 
fliip).  I  have  a  particular  reafon  to  defire  to  know  a  thing,  which  I  believe  he  will  tell  me  if  yra  afk 
it, — Who  was  author  of  a  book  called,  "  An  Kflay  on  the  Tafle  and  AVritiiigs  of  this  .X^e," 
dedicated  to  him,  as  a  libel  upon  me.  I  formerly  fent  it  to  Sir  R.  by  you  (as  I  think).  Pray  afk  'lim, 
and  allure  him  of  my  ref'pedlful  fervices. 

I  am  ever,  dear  S-r,  yours. 

Dear  Sir, 

It  was  my  intention  fooner  to  have  told  you  of  what,  I  know,  is  the  news  a  friend  chiefly 
defires,  my  own  ftate  of  health.  But  I  waited  thefe  three  weeks  almoll,  to  give  you  a  better  account 
than  I  can  yet  do  ;  for  I  have  fufFered  a  good  deal  from  many  little  ailments,  that  do  not  altogether 
amount  to  a  great  difeafe,  and  yet  render  life  itfelf  a  fort  of  one. 


Right  Hon.  IFilliam  Fortefcue.  93 

I  have  never  been  in  London  but  one  day  fince  I  parted  from  you,  when  I  (aw  Mrs.  Spooner  and 
the  reft  of  yours;  and  this  day  1  took  it  into  my  head  they  might  be  at  the  Vineyard.  I  went  thither, 
but  Mrs.  Shepherd  told  me,  in  a  voice  truly  lugubrious,  that  nobody  had  leen  her  walls  iince  you  were 
laft  there.  I  comforted  her  over  a  dilli  of  tea,  and  recommended  her  to  read  Milton  on  all  fuch 
occafions  of  worldly  difappointments. 

I  fliould  be  glad  to  hear  of  any  place  or  thing  that  pleafes  you  in  your  progrefs.  Lord  Burlington 
was  very  adh've  in  ifl'uing  orders  to  his  gardener  to  attend  you  with  pine-apples  ;  he  goes  into  Yorklliire 
next  week. 

Pray  remember  me  to  Mr.  Murray.  You  need  not  tell  him  I  admire  and  eftcem  him,  but  pray 
afl'ure  him  that  I  love  him. 

1  am,  fincerely,  dear  Sir,  yours. 

Saturday  Night,  Jivne,  '74^. 
Dear  Sir, 

I  have  twice  had  the  ill-fortune  to  mifs  you  when  I  went  to  the  Rolls;  the  lail  time  Mr. 

Solicitor  and  I  were  together;  and  now  that  he  and  I  are  at  Twitenham  (for  one  day  on!)'),  my  Lord 

Bolingbroke  happens  to  be  I'o,  which  hinders  us  from  feeing  you.      I   fliall  be  in  town  again  in  two  or 

three  days,  and  hope  then  to  dine  and  lup  with  you.     I  am  really  troubled  to  meet  you  fo  rarely,  as  I 

prelerve  the  memory  of  fo  many  hours  and  days   formerly   pafl'ed   together  ;   and   am,  with  that  fort  of 

truth  which  was  to  be  found  in  old-fa(hioned  friendfliips,  dear  Sir, 

Your  faithful  and  ever  mofl  affeflionate  fervant. 

George  Fortefcue,  the  fecond  ftrviving  fon  of  William  P'ortefcue  of  Buckland-Filleigh, 
married,  in  1697,  Rebecca,  fifth  daughter  and  eventually  heirefs  of  Edmond  Forteiciie  of 
Spridlell:one,  and  was  father  to  John  P'ortefcuc,  who  lived  at  l^anipton,  in  CKfordlltirc. 
John  inherited  the  family  eftatcs  at  the  death,  in  1752,  of  Mary,  only  child  of  the  Mafter 
of  the  Rolls.  He  died  unmarried  in  1776,'  and  thefe  effates  went  to  the  fon  of  his  lifter 
Rebecca  Fortefcue,  who,  through  her  mother,  had  alfo  fucceeded  to  Spridlellone. 

She  married,  in  1726,  Caleb  Inglett,  of  Dawiilh,  Efq.,  and  died  in  1764,  leaving,  by 
her  hufband,  a  fon,  Ivichard  Inglett,  born  in  1731  ;  he  married,  in  17513,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Lucy  Wefton,  fon  of  Stephen,  Bifhop  of  Exeter,  and  fucceeding  to  the  two 
properties  of  Buckland-Filleigh  and  Spridleftone,  took,  in  1776,  the  additional  name  of 
Fortefcue.  He  had  one  fon  and  three  daughters  ;  the  fon,  John  Inglett  Fortefcue,  born 
in  1759,  ^^^s  educated  at  Oxford,  and  held  a  commilfion  in  the  Royal  Ilorle  Guards  (blue); 
he  was  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  North  13evon  Yeomanry  Cavalry.  This  gentleman  was 
obliged,  by  pecuniary  difficulties,  to  fell  the  ancient  family  property  a  fliort  time  betor ;  his 
death,  which  took  place  at  St.  Servan  in  France,  on  the  24th  of  November,  1840,  in  his 
82nd    year.      The   eftate    had    defcended    to    him    by    dired    inheritance    from    Snnon    De 

'    Pedigree  in  Stcmmata,  p.  20. 


94  Family  of  Dro/iiijk'ui^  etc. 

Filleigh,  a.  d.  1154,  in  tlie  reign  of  Henry  II.,  through  a  long  line  of  ancellors :  Filleighs, 
Weares,  Denzilles,  and  I'^ortefcues. 

Colonel  Inglett  Fortefcue  married,  in  1788,  Ann,  daughter  of  Thomas  Sanders,  o  ' 
Exeter,  and  after  her  death,  in  1818,  a  lecond  wile,  Sarah,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
James  Marvvood,  Efq.,  of  Sutton  in  Devonlliire.  By  his  lail  wife  he  had  no  ifTue.  By 
Mifs  Sanders  he  had  an  only  fon,  John  Dicker  Inglett  Fortefcue,  born  in  17S5,  and  died  in 
i860.  He  lies  buried  in  the  family  vault  at  Buckland-Fillelgh.'  At  his  death,  without 
iffue,  the  remainder  of  his  father's  property  devolved  upon  the  ifllie  of  his  fxther's  three 
fifters.  Thefe  were  Margaret  \Veil:on,  who  married  Peter  Churchill,  Kkp,  of  Dav^lifh 
in  Devon,  and  left  no  iffue  ;  Elizabeth,  married  to  John  Davy  Foulkes,  Efq.,  of  Medland 
in  Devon,  who  left  ill'ue ;  and  Ann,  married  to  John  Brickdale,  Efq,.  of  Weft  Monckton 
in  Somerfetfhire,  and  of  Stoodleigh  in  Devonfliire,  wiio  alfo  left  ilTue.  Her  eldeft  fon, 
John  Faithful  Brickdale,  Efq.,  of  Birchamp  Houfe,  Newland,  Gloucefterfliire,  a  Magif- 
trate  and  Deputy  Lieutenant  for  that  county,  affumed  in  1861  the  name  and  ainu  of 
Fortefcue  before  his  own. 

This  gentleman,  who,  with  much  courtefy  and  kindnefs,  gave  me  valuable  intormaiion 
about  this  branch  of  the  family,  died  in  the  prefent  year  (1867).  He  is  lucceeded  by  his 
fon,  the  prefent  Mr.  Fortefcue- Brickdale. 

Chai'.   IX.  . 

Tlie  ForteJcii.es  of  Drojuijkin  and  Raven/dale  Park.  ', 

E  now  revert  to  a  branch  of  the  Buckland-Fillelgh  Fortefcues,  beginning  with  Sir 
gy,  v,^.y,=^  Faithful  Fortefcue,  who  was  palled  over  in  his  place,  in  order  that  the  narrative 
^Qf^^S^  of  the  elder  line  feated  there  might  be  carried  down  without  interruption  to  its 
clofe. 

It  will  there  be  found  that  John  Fortefcue  of  Buckland-l'^illeigh,  who,  by  his  tirft 
wife,  was  father  of  Roger  his  fucceflbr,  married,  as  his  fecond  wife,  Sufannah  Chiche'l.-r, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Chichefter,  of  l-ialeigh,  near  Barnftaple,  by  Gertrude,  daughter  of  Sir 
Wil]iamCourteney,ofPowderham,  and  fifter  to  Fdizabeth  Chichefter,  wife  of  Hugh  Fortefcue, 
of  Filleigh,  now  Caftlehill.  By  this  fecond  marriage  John  Fortefcue  had  iffue  two  fons, 
John,  the  eldeft,  who  died  unmarried,  and  Faithful,  tlie  fubjec'l  of  this  memoir ;  alfo  two 
daughters,  Grace  and  Anne.  ■ 


;)tion  in  l?ucl.laiicl-l''ilU  itrli  Cluiixh. 


FAMILY    OF    DROMISKIN   AND    RAVENSDALE   PARK. 


'7i. 


Sin  Faithful  Fortescue.  3rd  Ton  of  John  Fortescue  of  Buck-=p  Hon 
land-Filleigh,  by  Susannah  CniCHFSTKR,  died  May  29,  1 666, 


—  Hon.  Anne 
Viscount  M( 


ORF,  dau.  of  irt 
E,  died  1634. 


for  Charlei 
1642, 


1  Lieut.-^ELlZABlvrH,d 
ny.M.F 

■     ■        Vorkfhi 
in  Vi 


I.  ofS^nWIL- 
'  of  Kipp.ix, 


John,  a  Capt.  in  the  An 
killed  by  the  Rebels  in 
land  about  1642^  un-mai 


R  Thomas,  a  Col.  in 
•  Army;  born  1620; 
;ceeded  his  father ; 


:lft,  SVDNEY,= 

dau.  of  Col. 


=2nd,  Elizabrth,  dau 
of  Sin  Feruinanuo 
Cary,  grandfon  of  ifl 
Lord  Hunsdon. 


(2)  Eleanor,  mar.,  1 
to  Thomas  Burnet, 
lCft|. ;   2ndly,  to  Col. 


ISre 


■Mo 


Elizas  CTH, 
1705,  leavin 


L.D.=SlR  RiCI 

of  No: 


D  Graham 

I  Conyers. 


(1)  Chichester,  eldeftfon,  of  Do 
Down,  a  Col.  in  the  Army  ;  m.ir 


pFRiDEswiDE,  dau.  of  Francis  Hall, 
Efq.  of  Mount  Hall,  Down. 


(2)  William  of  NewragTi,  born  about  1641 
a  Capt.  in  the  Army;  mar.  1681;  d.  1734. 


Margaret,  dau.  and  hei 
NON,  Efq.  of  Miltow 


ofNic. 
,  Louth. 


1716  ;  died 
1725- 


-Anne,  dau.  of     Syd 


Ef,|.  of  Bra- 
ganftown. 


Efq.  of  Knt 
died  1749. 


Chichester,  M.V.  for  Trim, 
born  June  1718;  mar.  174J; 
died   1757. 


to  Thomas  St. 
Ly.dKU,  fon  of  Sir 
W,  St.  Leger. 


:HoN.  Elizabeth  Wel-        John, 
LESLEY,  dau.  of  Richard,     born 
ift  Lord  MoRNiNGTON.        1719. 


Anne,  born  1720; 


d.  1769. 


Elizabeth,  dau.  of  James     Chiciies 
Hamilton  of  Tollymore,     of  Dellii 


R.N.    (.Sff  Corderry;  M.P. 

Stephenflcmn     forLoulh,  1  727  ; 
Pedigree.)  died   1740. 


of^FRANCES,  dau. 
of  Colonel 


■  Hon.  James  of=f 
Idale  I'jrk,  born 
died  1782. 


of  Thomas 
Tipping  of 
Cattletown. 


Faithful,=p  . 
died  June 

4,  1785. 


JOH 

Ordi 
about  178^ 
mar.  1729, 


Holy. 


HAM  of  Cafllebel- 
lingham. 


(For  the  ifiuejee  Whiteraih  , 


pTllOMAS,: 

M.P.  for 

1744; 
d.  1778. 


Efi|. 


ClIICUESTER, 

died  an 
infant. 


ditd 
'774. 


.Frances 
Anne,  d. 
of  D. 


April  3, 
174i- 


= 5th  Mai 

QUIS  Ot" 


Louisa, 
m.n-.  1778 


Thomas  Jam 
of  Ravenfdal, 
Park,  M.P., 
born  1760; 
died  1795, 


1742; 


b.  1764; 
l829,un- 


in  Holy 
Orders, 
b.  1769; 
d.  1798, 


ria,  born    1763; 
r.  Ift,  Capt.  Sloper; 
I,  G.  P.  Barlow,  Efq.; 
}    1853,  having  h,id 
aughter,  Maria,  died 


E,  Bart.; 
,g  hud  , 
RV    JA. 


Goou- 
ir.  1833. 


Emily  Grace,  born 
1778;  mar.  181  1  to 
Major  Grantham 
of.Ketton  Grange, 
Rutland;  d.  1864; 
no  ilPue. 


Anna  Maria,  boi 
Juljt",  1773;  ma 
J.in.  1802,  to  Wii 
LiAM  Parkinson 
Ruxton,  M.P.  foi 
Ardee;  died  Aup 
25,  lS6i 


Chichester,  bom  Aug.: 
12,  1777,  M.P.  forHillf. 
borough;  Lieut.-Col, 
Louth  Militia ;  mar. 
1809;  died  Nov.  25, 


ITue. 


:MAnTHA  Angel,  dai 
ofS.  Meade-Hoiiso 
Efq.  of  Muckridgc 
Houl'e,  Youghal ;  0 
died  Nov.  25,  1824, 


Faithful   of 
Corderry,  b. 
1781  ;  d.  1844; 
mar.  dau.  of .  .  . 
BuRSTON,  Efq.; 
no  ilfue. 


1841, 


2nd,  Rev.  Geor 
H.  Riade;  livin 
1868;  has  illiie 


R.  Evan- 
fon,  Efq. 


1782; 


Francis 
Eager, 
Efq. 


Anne,  ^W.  R.  Hopkyn 

died  NORTHY  of 

1864,       Oving  Houfe, 
Bucks. 


iffue 


ving 


MAS,  Lord  Clehmont,^Lady  Louisa  G.  Wa 
March  9,  I  8 1  i  ;  Butler,  3rd  dau.  of  J 

Sept.  26,  1840.  Marquis  of  Ormonde. 


Rt.  Hon.  Chichester  Samuel  Park-=Frances,  Dowagi 
iNsoN  Fortescue,  M.P.  for  Louth,  born     Waldegrave,  dau.  of  J 
Jan.  18,  1823;  mar.  Jan.  1863.  Brauam,  Efq. 


Ma 

iTHA  Anne,  b.  Aug.=REV.  Edward  M.  Hamilton     Mary  Flo 

1  li 

18  10:  mar.  Dec.  2,     of  Brown  Hall,  who  d.  May     b.  Aug.  5, 

182 

8,  and  has  iffue.            16,  1861.                                     died  1820. 

Harriet  Angeuna,=:David  Urquhart 
b.  Nov.  14,  1824;  of  Cromarty,  Efq. 
mar.  Sept.  5,  1854, 


Sir  Faithful  Fortejcue.  95 


Sir   Faithful   Fortescue. 

Sir  Faithful,  the  fecond  fon  by  the  above  marriage,  his  father's  third,  and  youngeft  fori, 
could  hardly  have  been  born  later  than  158  i  ;  for  in  the  year  1606  he  was  made  Conftable 
ot  Carricktergus  Caftle,'  a  port  to  which  no  one  was  likely  to  be  appointed,  in  thofe  warlike 
times,  at  an  earlier  age  than  25  years.  We  know  almoll  nothing  of  his  youth  ;  he  tells  us 
that  he  had  his  education,  from  coming  young  from  fchool,  with  his  uncle  the  firft  Lord 
Chichcrter,  "and,"  he  adds,  "by  him  the  foundation  of  my  advancement,  and  fortune  I  ac- 
quired m  Ireland." 

Lord  Chicheller  firfl:  went  to  Ireland  in  command  of  a  regiment,  in  the  year  1598  or 
1599,  and  Sir  Faithfid  in  all  probaliillty  v.ent  with  him  ;  akhough  f  cannot  find  any  nvntion 
of  him  earlier  than  that  of  his  appointment  as  joint  Condable  of  Carncktergus,  wlun  his 
uncle  had  been  two  years  Lord  Deputy. 

Sir  Rogi'r  Langford,  Knight,  was  his  colleague;  each  of  them  having  a  fee  of  jj.  4^. 
per  day,  and  twenty  warders,  who  muil  be  Englillimen,  under  their  command  at  id.  per 
day  each.  Sir  Faithf\d  v/as  afterwards  fole  Conn;able  with  6s.  8<7.  per  day  fee.  There  were, 
befides  the  falary,  large  emoluments  attached  to  the  office.  The  Conftable  received  the 
King's  fhare  of  the  cufloms  of  the  port,  and  he  and  his  warders  had  one  hundred  cows  grazed 
free  by  the  Corporation.  He  had  alfo  the  tithe  of  the  bell:  fiili  that  were  brought  into  the 
port,  and  a  "  iair  lodging"  in  the  ca'tle.  Me  was  always  a  perlon  of  high  rank  and  trull, 
according  to  M'Skinunin,  from  whofe  hiftory  of  Carrickfergus  the  toregoiiig  particulars 
are  taken.  This  place  was  alfo  called  Knockfergus.  It  was  long  the  chief  I'eat  and  garrifon 
of  the  Fnglifli  in  Ulfter.  The  caflle  ftands  well  on  the  weiliern  fliore  of  Belfaft  Lough,  where 
it  is  a  confpicuous  objeft. 

His  fiither,  John  l''ortefcue,  died  early  in  1604  f  his  v.'ill,  dated  February  10,  1603, 
being  proved  on  the  5th  of  May  in  that  year)  ;  an  even.t  which  could  not  have  made  nuich 
difference  in  Sir  Faithful's  circumftances,  for  he  was  left  only  the  modeil:  lum  of  fifty  pounds  ; 
in  thele  terms  :  — 

"  Item,  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  Faithfiill  I^'ortefcue  my  (o\\  50  pounds  in  money  to  be 
paid  with  within  fix  years  next  after  my  death."'"' 

To  this  was  added,  at'ter  the  cullom  of  thofe  days  : — 

"Item  to  the  faid  Faythfull  b'ortefcu  my  fon,  a  good  feather-bed  with  his  bolfler,  fh.eets 
and  blankets,  and  alfo  my  lecond  bell  gelding  (the  bell  had  been  left  to  his  elder  broJier, 
John,  with  50/.  and  a  feather-bed)  with  his  faddle  and  other  furniture." 

The  family   eflate  charged   with   thefe  two  legacies,  and  with  the  comparatively  large 


'  See  the  King's  Letter  ot'Oiftober  14,  1661,  in  A[>pendix.      Nov.  I4lh  was  the  date  of  the  iipiiointmeiit. 
^  John  l"oilefeue'.s  Will  in  Difiriiil  Reyiflry  Courl  of  lixeter.      See  Ap;iendi.\:. 


96  Family  of  Dro/nijhin^  etc. 

funis   of  300/.  each  fur  liis  two  daughters — equaling  about  3000/.  each  at  the  prefent  value 
of  money — went  to  his  eldeft  brother,  Roger. 

Soon  after  he  was  ertabliflied  at  Carrickfergus,  Sir  Faithful  married  the  Honourable 
Anne  JVIoore,  daughter  of  Gerald,  or  Garret,  firil:  Vifcount  Moore,  anceftor  of  the  prefent 
Marquis  of  Droghcda,  belonging  to  the  family  of  Moor  of  Moor  Park,  in  Kent.  By  this 
lady,  who  died  September  5,  1634,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,'  he  had, 
according  to  Lodge,  no  fewer  than  ten  fons  and  {\x  daughters.  Of  theie  fixtecn  children, 
five  died  young. 

In  the  year  1610,  8th  of  James  I.,  he  obtained  a  patent  granting  "  to  b'aithful  Fortefcue, 
Efquire,  antl  Francis  Hlundell,  L^fquire,  three  parts  out  of  four  of  the  benefit  oi  intru- 
fions,  and  alienations  without  licenle,  and  concealed  wardfliips,  in  Cork  c  junty,  the  othei 
fourth  to  remain  with  the  Crown." 

And  on  the  27th  of  January,  16 12,  another  patent  grants  to  him  "  the  wardfliips  of 
Callough,  otherwife  Charles  O'Connor,  fon  and  heir  of  Daniel  O'Connor,  late  of  S  igo, 
Efquire,  deceaftd."  '^ 

Such  were  fome  of  the  modes  of  rewarding  the  fervants  of  the  Crown  at  that  timi . 

In  the  year  16 13,  a  new  Parliament  was  fummoned;  when  many  places  in  Ireland,  )e)  ond 
the  Englifli  pale,  returned  members  for  the  firll  time  ;  among'  tliem  was  Charlemoni  in  the 
County  of  Armagh,  for  which  "Faithful  Fortefcue,  I'.iquire,  of  Dromyfkin,"  was  chofen 
member  on  the  12th  of  May,  1613.  This  defignatlon  fhows  that  he  had  already  begun  to 
live  there,  finding  himfelf  at  Carrickfergus,  and  at  his  Antrim  manor,  too  tar  from  the  feat 
of  Government  at  Dublin. 

Dromifkin  is  incidentally  mentioned  in  a  contemporary  narrative  by  Sir  Edward  Bn  reion, 
who  thus  writes:  "July  8,  1635. — ^^^  ^'^^^  Dundalke^  and  came  to  Tredagh  (Drogheda), 
which  is  accounted  fixteen  miles,  but  they  are  as  long  as  twenty-two  miles.  About  five  iniles 
hence,  i.  e.  from  Dundalke,  we  fiiw  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue's  houfe  or  caftle  wherein  for  imoft 
part  he  is  refident,  which  he  holds  by  a  long  leafe  upon  a  fmall  rent,  under  my  Lord  Primate 
of  Armath.  I'his  is  a  dainty,  pleafant,  healthful,  and  commodious  feat,  and  it  is  worth  unto 
hini  about " 

This  leafe  ftill  continues,  and  Sir  Faithful  afterwards  bought  a  confiderablc  freehold 
eftate  around  it,  itili  in  the  family.      The  caftle  and  grountls  have  long  fince  diiappeared. 

It  does  not  appear  that  he  remained  at  this  period  altogether  in  Ireland.  In  16 17  he 
was  in  Flngland,  and  in  that  year  was  knighted  by  King  James.  Chichefter  ctafed  to  hold 
the  reins  of  government  in  the  year  161  5,  but  Fortefcue  continued  in  his  port,  employed  under 
his  fuccelTors.     His  pon'efllons  continued  to  increafe  ;  in  the  beginning  of  161  8  he  obtains  a 

I   Lodge.  -  Sec  RcpLrtory  of  thr  Patent  Ilolls  of  Cli.iiKery  in  Ireland. 

'   Bitrcton's  Journey,  p.   134.  printed  by  the  Cliethani  Society.  i 


'.-.'-.:),■!    ■:      II    ?,i..-   jOJ.T 


■.Jh'.i\>.^:\ 


Sir  Fait/ifiil  Fortcfcue.  97 

grant  from  the  Crown,  dated  May  the  30th,  of  the  territory  of  Clinap;hartie,  and  all  the 
lands  whicli  had  been  granted  to  Rory  Oge  Mac  Ouillane,  by  patent  of  the  10th  of  March, 
5th  of  James  I.  l^hey  were  fituate  in  the  Lower  Clandeboye,  in  the  county  of  Antrim.  The 
patent  "  erefts  the  lands  into  the  Manor  of  Fortefcue,  with  one  thoufand  acres  in  demefne, 
and  gives  power  to  create  tenures,  to  hold  Courts  Baron  and  Leet,  and  a  monthly  Court  ot 
Record;  to  appoint  Senefchals  and  Bailiffs;  to  enjoy  all  waifs  and  rtrays ;  and  to  impark 
one  thoufand  acres,  with  free  warren,  chafe,  and  park."  He  alfo  acquired  in  the  fame 
neighbourhood  twenty-one  townlands,  forming  in  all  a  very  extenfive  territory.  The  village 
of  Galgorm  ftands  within  its  bounds.  The  greater  part  of  this,  however,  lie  fold  within  a 
few  years'  time,  the  licence  to  alienate  being  dated  in  1624.  It  was  fold  in  equal  Hiares 
to  two  Scotchmen,  namely,  Mr.  tAlmonftone,  of  Dunreath,  and  Mr.  William  Adair, 
Laird  of  Kinhilt,  in  Galloway.  The  fliare  of  this  lafl:  Itill  continues  in  his  fam.ly,  and 
is  now  the  property  of  Colonel  Shafto  Adair,  eldeft  fon  of  Sir  Robert  Shafto  Adair, 
yielding  about  fix  thoufand  pounds  a  year.  Edmonftone's  half,  including  the  Manor  ot 
l*'ortefcue,  paffed  by  inheritance  to  the  Moore  family,  and  was  fold  a  few  years  ago  by 
the  prefent  Earl  of  Mountcafliel,  when  part  of  it  was  bought  by  Colonel  Shafto 
Adair.  The  Manor  of  Fortefcue  is  ftill  defignated  by  that  name.  I'^or  much  of  this 
information  I  am  indebted  to  the  ]\everend  Doctor  l^eeves,  the  well-known  antiquarian. 
Sir  Faithful  alfo  poffefled  in  iVntrim  the  lands  of  Gortfadda,'  and  other  denominations  not 
included  in  the  foregoing  territory.  A  rather  remarkable  relic  of  Sir  h'aithtul's  occupation 
of  his  Antrim   eftate  came   to  light  foine  years  ago,  namely,  ^    -    —    -_ 

an   ancient   feal  of  arms,  as  fhown  in   the  annexed  woodcut,  -^       ,-«*ifS 

with  the  words  "  S.  Richart  I'ortefcu."      It   was  found   either      /     iJA^   >^  .     1    •  -r, 
upon  or  clofe  to  the  former  l<"ortefcue  property.      'J'he  arms  ^t^l^   °1rHA?'-tfi\    S 

are  tliofe  of  the  Norman  Fortefcues,  viz.,  a  bend,  not  en-  '  \\%'^J^rZ^J%/*^h  r 
grailed,  between  two  bendlets,  quartering  the  arms  of  the  <  \\V^-/).— i*i^...vSp''|^'  P/ 
Englilli  I'ortefcues,  where  the  bend  is  engrailed.  This  coat 
implies  a  marriage-alliance  between  one  of  the  Norman  and 
one  of  the  Englifh  houfes.      The  feal  has  been  pronounced  by  ~"     ■" 

experts  to  be  French,  of  the  fourteenth  or  fifteenth  century,  l^ighteen  years  later,  in  the 
year  1863,  when  examining  the  roll,  dated  a.  u.  1628,  of  the  proofs  of  the  defcent  of 
Sir  Nicholas  Fortefcue,  already  defcribed  in  a  previous  chapter,  I  perceived  that  thi-  leal 
above  mentioned  was  identical  with  one  figured  upon  that  document,  with  an  infcription  below 
it,  as  follows:''^ — "  ILrc  figura  refert  figillum  antiquum  h'amiliie    I'^ortefcutorum   nupe -rime 

'   Inquis.  Rot,  Cone.   Illb.  Rt'iieitorium  Ullonia,  No.   120,  Ciiiolus  1.  (aAk  1  637),  Anlriin. 

^  It  is  thus  in  Englifh  : — "  This  figure  repreients  an  ancient  i'eal  of  the  Family  ol'  llie  I'uit.l'cues,  lately  found  by 
Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue  of  Filleigh,  Knight,  in  the  coileifiion  of  John  Terdefldien  (Tiadel'c.iiit)  a  I'leming,  living  at 
Lambeth,  beyond  the   Thames,  in  London  "      This  collee^ion  of  antiquities  was  afterwards  [ilaced  in  the  Afhmolean 

II.  O 


98  Family  of  Droinijkin^  etc. 

repertum  a  Nobiliffimo  viro  P'uleli  de  Fortefcuto   de   lulley  Equiti  aurato  inter  numifmata 
Johannis  Terdefkhen  Belgi  qui  habitat  Lambeth  trans  Thamefm  Loniini." 

About  the  fame  time,'  he  acquired  lands  in  Down,  near  to  Scarva,  by  purchafe  from  the 
native  fimiiy  of  Maginnis.  This  eltate,  which  was  foon  very  thickly  "planted"  with 
Scottifh  fettlers,  remained  in  his  direcft  defcendants  until  the  year  1S27,  when  it  was  fold, 
during  the  minority  of  the  writer  of  this  account,  by  his  guardians,  to  the  late  Marquis  of 
Downfhire  for  68,000/.  The  diftrift  is  iViU  known  in  the  neighbourhood  as  "  i'ortefcue 
Eftate." 

Eortefcue  was,  m  1624,  appointed  to  the  command  of  a  company  In  the  contingent  * 
raifed  to  ferve  under  the  Count  Mansfeld  in  the  Low  Countries  againfl:  Spain  and  x\.ull:ria;' 
but  as  there  is  a  letter,  here  given,  written  by  Lord  Chichefler,  then  fitting  :  s  a  member  of 
the  Council  of  War,  to  Secretary  Conway,  making  interell;  with  the  Duke  oi  Buckingham, 
the  King's  favourite  minifter,  to  get  for  Sir  Faithful,  in  exchange,  a  company  in  the  troops 
defigned  for  Ireland,  it  is  unlikely  that  he  ever  embarked  for  the  Continent.  The  defued 
exchange  was,  at  all  events,  effefted,  and  he  employed  himfelf  in  raifmg  men  for  the  Ir  fli 
fervice.  We  find  a  lift  of  fifty  names''  of  men  levied  tor  him  by  the  Deputy  Lieutena  us  of 
Cumberland  in  March,  1625. 

Lord  Chichester  to  Secretary  Conway.' 
Sir,  ' 

Upon  the  receite  of  the  inclofed  from  your  brother,  I  thought  it  not  amifTe  to 
haften  them  unto  your  honor,  for  that  I  conceive  in  iome  poyntes  he  expecfts  aifwer 
or  advice  from  you,  and  I  have  now  a  meffenger  by  whom  I  maye  tranfmitt  it  unto  1  im  if 
you  pleafe  to  fend  it  me. 

I  geve  you  hartie  thankes  for  fettinge  downe  my  nephew  Frances  BalTett  for  a  captain 
in  this  employment  under  the  Count  Mansfeilde,  he  fliall  do  as  others  do  albeit  in;  my 
opinion  they  are  to  receive  the  Commaund  of  their  men  upon  hard  conditions,  if  your  fervant 
mifiooke  not  your  directions  in  penninge  the  letters  :   wee  underlland   not  how  manie  inen 


Mufeum  at  Oxford.  The  Teal  was  dug  up  near  "  the  Old  Battery,"  at  Purti^leiione,  on  the  15tli  of  January,  1  J45, 
together  with  Iome  human  bones  and  fome  copper  eoins  of  Louis  XIII.  ol'  I'"ranie,  dated  1O34.  .\  \\.i.\  iriiprel- 
iion  i'lom  the  original  was  fent  to  me  by  a  relation  ol' the  Alexander  I'amily,  the  ])rel'ent  pioprielors  of  Ivniglcnone, 
a  few  months  after  the  difcovery.  Tlu-  fi;d  itfelf  has  been  iliiee  loll  or  millaid.  Tluie  were  ever.il  perfons 
named  Riehart  Fortefcu  in  Normandy  in  the  lilteenth  eentury,  but  we  liave  no  reeord  ol'  any  inte  marriage  with 
an  Engiifli  namefake. 

'   Inquis,  Rot.  Cone.  Ilib.  Repertorium  Ultonia,  No.  35,  Carolus  I.  Down. 

^  Sec  the  letters  of  Cliicheder  to  Conway,  dated  Sept.  ibJ4  ami  Nov.  3,  1624,  and  of  Conway  to 
Chichefter,  Nov.   17,   1624,  in  the  State  Paper  Calendars,  iJomeftic,   ibiyiS- 

^  State  Pajier  Calendars,  Domeftie,  1623-25,  March  lO,  1O25. 

*  State  Paper  Calendars,  Domeflic,  1023-25. 


Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue.  99 

fhall  be  under  a  cullers,  nor  who  are  the  collonells  nor  the  divifion  of  the  Captains  under  the 
collonells,  upon  what  foote  they  lliall  ferve  for  paye  ;  in  thcfe  and  fome  thinges  elfe  wee  of 
the  Councell  of  Warr  have  prayd  your  honors  more  ample  and  plaync  direcT-ions. 

In  the  late  lift  I  finde  my  nephew  S"'.  Faythfull  Fortefcue,  I  never  fought  to  gctt  him  a 
a  companie  in  this  employment  under  Count  Mansfeild,  but  1  j^rayd  my  Lord  the  Duke  to 
honor  him  with  the  commaund  of  one  of  the  companies  to  goe  for  Ireland,  and  I  prayde 
your  honor  to  further  my  Sute  unto  his  Grace  in  his  behalfe,  and  to  putt  his  Lorddiip  in 
minde  of  him  when  tyme  ferves  (as  now  I  thinke  it  will.)  your  brother  writt  unto  you  in  his 
behalfe  and  in  placinge  a  companie  upon  him  yon  will  do  us  all  a  great  kindnes  wourthy 
acknowledgment. 

As  Sir  Cary  Lambeart  writtes  unto  me  he  was  promifcd  a  companie  in  this  employerient 
with  the  Count,  it  it  pleafe  my  Lord  the  Duke  and  you  he  maye  have  this  companie  alhgned 
to  S'.  Faithfull  Fortefcue,  he  is  a  brave  younge  gentleman  and  in  conferringe  of  a  companie 
upon  him  it  will  be  a  teftimonie  that  the  lervices  and  deferts  of  his  father  are  had  in 
Remembrance. 

The  Earle  of  Thomountl  now  with  God,  had  a  Troope  of  horfe  and  a  companie  of 
foote  in  Ireland,  his  fonne  is  a  noble  lord,  and  beinge  countenanced  and  fupported  will  be 
able  to  do  the  Kinge  and  KIngdome  great  fervice  in  thofe  parts,  I  wifh  he  might  retayne  the 
companie  ot  foote,  or  beinge  otherwife  difpofed  that  he  might  have  one  of  the  companies 
now  to  be  fent  thether,  which  I  conceive  to  be  woiu-thy  of  as  much  confideration  as  anie  one 
perticulare  concernuige  the  good  Governeinent  of  thofe  parts  as  anie  that  can  come  into 
debate  wliich  I  recommend  to  yom-  noble  refpe6l  of  the  younge  Lord  and  of  the  publique. 

In  our  memonalls  unto  you,  I  finde  that  the  care  of  fendinge  minefters  of  the  worde  of 
God  with  thefe  Troopes  to  goe  with  the  Count  Mansfeild  is  omitted,  thofe  that  goe  anie  wher, 
or  into  anie  aclion  without  Gods  blelhnges  can  not  profper,  and  how  can  wee  expeft  that 
God  will  blefle  our  indevours  when  wee  neglect  to  ferve  him,  and  how  can  foldiars  ferve  him 
without  teachers  to  inftruft  and  call  upon  them  to  humble  themfelves  before  him  ;  I  praye 
thinke  upon  this  as  a  matter  of  greatelt  moment  and  fpare  not  to  putt  the  Kinge  in  minde 
of  it,  his  majefties  owne  fpeeches  are  A  fore  principhim. 

I  am  your  honors  in  much  love  and  iervice 

Arthur  Chichester. 

Weftminfter  the  1 1"'  of  November  1624. 
Att  neight. 

(Indorfed)  For  Sir  Edward  Conwaye  Knight 
principale  Secretary  of  State. 


loo  Family  of  Dro)nifkin^  etc. 

Lord  Chicliefter  died  in  London  on  the  19th  of  l<'ebruary  in  the  year  1625.  His 
remains  were  taken  for  burial  in  the  tollowing  Odober  to  Carrickfcrgus,  where  Si: 
Faithful  attended  the  funeral.'  He  there,  at  the  head  of  the  body,  carried  the  banner 
of  Courtenay  ot  Powderhani,  while  his  Iccond  Ion,  John  Lortefcue,  carried  at  its  feet  that 
of  Bourchier,  another  Devonfhire  name. 

Sir  Faithful  drew  up  the  following  fketch  ot  Lord  Chichefter's  life  :  — 

i  '    • 

An  Account  of  the  Rt.  Honourable  AKTHV9.yfirft  Lord  Chichester,  Lord  Deputy  of        •. 
Ireland,  by  his  Nephew,  Sir  Faithful  Fortescue,  Kni'j^ht. 

Arthur  Lord  Chichefter,  Barron  of  Bellfaft,  in  the  county  of  Antrim,  in  the  Province  o^ 
Ulfler,  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  was  a  younger  foime  of  S'.  John  Chichefter  of  Rawly,  near 
Barneftable  in  Devonfliire,'  where  he  attained  to  cappacity  for  the  univerfit)  ;  he  was  fent  to 
Oxford,  and  was  of  Exetter  Coledge.  He  was  only  a  Gramer  Schollur,  and  being  very 
adlive,  ftrong,  and  Ingeinous,  tooke  affeftion  to  a  millltary  courfe.  He  went  firll  into 
L-eland,  takeing  with  him  for  companion  Bartholetnew  P'ortefcue  my  Fathers  }'ouiger 
Brother,  whom  he  much  loved,  and  he  being,  as  I  have  often  heard  his  Lo^.  fay,  vei  y  jood 
company,  a  valiant  ftrong  man,  and  one  of  the  beft  wreftlers  in  thofe  times;  thty  Icayd 
awhile  with  S''.  Georg  Bourchier,  who  was  then  Mafter  of  the  Ordinance  in  Irela  rd,  and 
fonne  oi  the  Earle  of  Bath,  and  Father  of  this  Earle,  a  noble  gentleman.  They  had  been 
adors  (with  other  young  gentlemen)  of  a  youthfull  rafli  trick  in  England,  for  which  they  fled 
into  Ireland,  and  when  their  friends  had  obtained  their  pardon  of  Oueen  Elizabeth  ~hey 
returned  to  England,  foon  after  my  Lord  Chichefter  (who  was  then  but  mailer  Chit  he  ler) 
adventured  abroad  for  advancement,  and  flbrtefcue  turnd  lea  Cap\  and  died  m  that 
imploy"".  Chichefter  was  afterward  made  Cap',  of  one  ol  the  Oueen's  beft  ftiips,  under 
command  of  the  Lord  Sheffield,  at  the  lea  fight  with  the  Spanilh  Armado  in  88. 

He  had  the  command  of  one  of  the  Queen's  fhips  with  500  men  in  S'.  P'rancis  D!  ake's 
laft  voyage  to  Weft  Indies.      S''.  Francis  then  died  there. 

He  was  a  vollunteer  in  the  Earle  of  ElTexe's  voyage  to  Spayne,  and  at  Cades,  Cap'.l  Paul 
Chichefter,  who  was  an  able  darring  man,  being  flayne  with  a  bullet,  the  E.  of  KlTex  gave 
him  his  company  :  he  was  Sergeant  Major  Gen",  of  the  Qj-ieen's  army  in  Pickardy,  under 
command  of  S''.  Thomas  Baslkerville,  and  at  the  ficge  of  Ameons  was  iFott  in  the  Ihoulder, 
and  for  his  courragious  good  fervice,  then  (and  in  thole  warrs)  was  knigl  ted  by  King 
Henry  the  fourth.  When  thofe  Civill  warrs  were  ended  he  went  into  the  Lonv  Countries, 
where  he  had  a  company  of  200  men  which  then  was  his  fubfiftance,  but  S'.  Rob'.  Cicell, 
Secretary  of  State  to  the  Qtieen,  being  very  much  his  nolile  friend,  telling  her  Majeftie  what 


'   Ullier  Journal  of  Arclui'ology,  vol.  ix.  p.  196. 

^   By  his  will-  Gertrude,  daughtur  of  t>ir  W'dliam  Cuui'.tr.ay,  of  Powduiham. 


TllU     IIIGUT    WISi;    A.NU    VALIANT    AKTIU.'K    CIUCIllWTElt,     niiST    I.OUb    CIIlCllL.sl  KK. 

U'lvm  (.«  <.W  Vi'intt. 


Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue.  loi 

pitty  it  was  fo  able  a  gentleman  fhould  bury  his  time  in  that  country  with  a  fmgle  company, 
he  haveing  imployment  for  him  in  Ireland  where  his  brother  S''.  John  Chichefter  was  flayne 
with  a  bullet,'  got  leave  of  the  Queen  to  fend  for  him  (he  being  then  garrifo.id  at  Oftend) 
and  to  employe  him  in  tlie  Service  of  Ireland,  with  a  Regm'.  of  1200  men,  with  which 
command  he  was  fent  thither,  and  according  to  his  commiilion  landed  them  with  himfelf  at 
Dublin,  S''.  Adam  Loftus  of  Rathfern"'".  Lord  Chancelor,  and  S^  Robert  Gardner,  Lord 
Chiefe  Juftice,  being  Lords  Juftices  in  the  intervale  between  the  death  of  the  Lord  Burrows, 
Lord  Deputy,  (who  dyed  at  the  Newry)  and  the  comeing  of  the  Earle  of  Eflex,  Lord 
Lieutenant. 

From  Dublin  he  was  fent  with  his  Reg',  to  garrifon  at  Tradath."  Within  a  fhort  time 
after  the  Earle  of  EfTcx  arrived  at  Dublin  with  the  Gallantree  of  England,  and  hearing 
much  in  praife  of  S''.  Arthur  Chichefter,  and  perfcilition  of  his  Regment,  made  a  jorney 
purpofly  with  his  Gallants  to  ke  them,  and  S''.  Arthur  haveing  drawn  his  Regm'.  up  in  a 
fayre  field  and  exercifed  them  perfertly  (at  which  he  was  excelent)  they  being  in  clofe  order, 
the  Earle  thinking  to  put  a  fally  on  them  by  breaking  thorow  them,  charged  at  them  with 
his  Galant  Cavallrie,  but  the  Collonell  (not  being  ufed  to  receive  foyles)  had  fo  ordered  his 
Pikes  as  they  forc't  the  Earle  to  a  carry  coale,  and  upon  his  wheele  a  faucie  fellow  with  his 
Pike  prickt  his  Lords'',  (fiveing  y''  reverence)  in  the  rump,  and  made  him  bleed,  fo,  he 
haveing  enough  of  that  fmarting  fport,  he  retreated,  giveing  the  Collonell  and  his  Reg',  high 
Prayfe';  his  Lord^.  llayd  but  a  fliort  while  in  Ireland  ;  then  came  S".  Charles  Blunt,  Lord 
Mountjoy,  Lord  Deputty,  and  was  after  Earle  ot  Devonlliire,  who  within  few  moneths  made 
S''.  Arh'.  Chichefter  Serjeant  Major  Gen",  of  the  Army,  he  well  knowing  his  ftrong 
abillityes  in  ffrance,  and  the  Low  countries,  where  they  had  been  intimate  friends.  S''. 
Harry  Danvers  who  was  afterward  made  by  K.  James  Lord  Danvers,  and  Earle  of  Danby, 
was  liefore  Major  Gen".  About  fix  moneths  after,  he  was  made  Governor  of  Carrickfergus, 
and  thofe  parts,  which  being  fo  flirr  off  from  the  Lord  Gen",  as  he  coud  not  attend  to 
receive  and  diflribute  his  orders,  S"'.  John  Barkly  was  made  Major  Gen",  who  about  a  year 
after  was  flayne  with  a  bullet  on  takeing  of  an  Ifland  in  a  Lough  called  Maherle'coo,  in  the 
County  of  Armagh. 

Then  was  S'.  Arthur  Chichefter  made  Major  Gen",  againe,  and  at  length  had  that  office 
by  Patent  dureing  life,  and  after  his  invadeing  the  County  of  Tyrone  by  boats  over  Logh 
Neagh  from  MaiTerin,  in  the  County  of  Antrim,  and  raifeing  a  tort  at  his  landing  pl.ice, 
which  was  after  named  Mountjoy,  he  was  made  Govern'',  thereof  and  the  adjacent  cont  y,  by 
Pattent,  and  Admyrall  of  Logh  Neagh,  by  the  name  of  Logh  Chichefl:er. 

The  next  year,  the  Qiieen  dying.  King  James  made  the  Lord  Deputy  Mountjoye  Lord 


'   lie  was  killed  by  the  MacDonnells  of  Antrim  in  1597.      It   is  to   be   remarked   tliat  tliis   .Sir  John  had  an 
elder  brother,  alfo  Sir  John,  who  died  at  Exeter  in  158 J.  '^  Now  Droghcda. 


102  Family  of  Droniijk'ni^  etc. 

Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  and  S''.  Arthur  Chichcrter,  S''.  Harry  Doewry,  and  S^  W™. 
Godolphin,  privy  Councellors  of  IrclandT'which  was  when  they  were  upon  their  march  with 
the  army  in  Munfter  to  reduce  the  Citty  of  Waterford,  Cork,  and  Limerick,  that  rebeled 
and  wold  not  proclyme  King  James  as  their  King  ;  but  they  were  forced  to  it,  and  fome  of 
the  chief  aftors  hanged  at  Cork. 

The  next  fpring  the  Lord  Lieut,  went  for  England,  all  being  at  Peace  in  Ireland,  foe 
did  S''.  Arthur  Chichefter ;  and  S''.  George  Carry  of  Cockenton,  in  Devonfliire,  who  was 
then  Trealurer  in  Ireland,  was  tor  the  prefent  left  Lord  I^eputty  ;  and  about  2  years  after, 
or  lefs,  it  being  in  1604,  S"'.  Arthur  Chichefler  was  made  Lord  Deputty,  which  he  held 
twelve  years,  which  was  longer  than  ever  any  did  before  or  fince  ;  and  towards  his  end  of 
that  Cover',  he  was  made  Barron  of  Belfaft,  his  own  town,  and  after  his  rendering  up  of  the 
Kings  fword,  was  made  Lord  high  Treafurer  of  Ireland.  Then  he  retyred  to  his  eltate  and 
Gover*.  in  Ulfler,  and  about  3  years  after  was  by  letter  trom  King  James  caild  into  iMigland 
and  imployd  Ambaffader  to  the  Princes  ot  the  imion  m  Cicrmaiiy  ;  and  in  fliort  time  after 
his  returne  was  made  one  of  the  Councill  of  war,  and  within  tew  moneths,  one  of  the  L(jrds 
of  the  Privy  Counccll  of  England,  and  in  few  years  after  dyed  at  London  much  lamei  ted 
bv  all  that  knew  him.  Me  was  burried  at  Carrickfergus,  where  he  had  built  the  .lol  left 
Moufe  in  the  kingdom,  and  hati  prepared  a  neat  Tomb  to  receive  hmi  when  God  ihoud 
pleafe  to  fend  him  to  it. 

He  was  one  fo  farr  from  Ambition  anti  covetoufnefs  that  he,  neither  bv  friends  nor  of 
himfelf,  moved  for  advancement  Millitary  or  Civill,  but  ftill  it  was  contered  on  Inm  ni- 
iought,  as  all  thofe  commands  and  honours  were  which  he  had  by  the  favor  of  S".  R  ib'. 
Cicell,  Earle  Salifbury,  the  Earle  of  Devonfliire,  and  laftly,  froni  King  James  ;  foe  ii<e'.  ife 
was  his  Knighthood  by  the  King  ot  JM-ance  ;  all  which  ceitainly  wold  not  have  been  layd  on 
him  had  he  not  been  a  very  meriting  man,  and  of  fuch  deportment  as  gained  him  gCMcrall 
good  opinion  and  love. 

To  my  knowledge,  the  Earle  of  Devonlliire,  in  time  of  his  being  Lord  Deputty, !  fayd 
he  wonderd  at  S''.  Arthur  Chichefter,  for  others  preft  liim  for  many  things,  but  he  tor 
nothing;  but  grumbled  like  a  Right  Weftern  Man,  and  that  he  had  twice  made  him  iVIajor 
Gen",  and  given  him  two  Govern",  thofe  of  Carrickfergus  and  Tyrone,  and  knew  not  what 
more  to  do  for  liim  at  piefent,  but  make  him  Lieut'.  Generall  of  the  Army,  which  he  wold 
doe  if  he  found  him  grumbling  ftill  —  and  then,  unlefs  he  could  make  him  Gei.".  and  Lord 
Deputty,  he  had  done  as  much  as  was  in  him  to  do  lor  him  ;  at  length  he  ma  le  him  both, 
loveing  of  him  very  much. 

Lie  never  fought  the  honnor  of  a  Barron,  nor  knew  itwascomeing  to  him  untill  the  firft 
Lord  Caulfield,  who  was  then  S''.  Toby  Caul  held,  brought  him  a  Patent  tor  it  trom  the 
King,  as  a  prefent  from  S"".  Humphry  May,  who  had  in  P'.ngland   the  mannge  and  dilpotall 


Sir  Faitliful  Fort ej cue.  103 

of  all   Irifli    affaires,   and   procured   it    for   him,   loveng    Him   heartily,  they   being  ancient 
acquaintances  and  friends. 

I  well  knew  that  when  King  James,  by  Imjetters  of  favor  and  grace,  called  my  Lord 
Chichelter  into  ILngland  in  i6ij,  he  being  then  Lord  Deputy,  S"'.  Humpry  May  (who  had 
flrong  power  with  the  King)  ofFerd  to  get  him  made  an  Earle,  and,  as  I  heard.  Knight  of 
the  Garter,  if  he  would  but  court  a  little  the  then  Favorite,  the  Earle  of  Somerfett,  which  he 
faid  he  could  not  doe,  and  that  he  had  more  honnor  by  being  a  Barron  than  his  Lfl:ate  could 
(becoming  a  Noble  Man)  fupport. 

He  moved  not  to  be  a  Privy  Councellor  of  England,  King  James  knowing  well  his 
abillities,  his  well  deferveings,  and  his  difcreet  and  honorable  manage  of  his  Negotiations  in 
his  Embaflage  in  Germany,  did  it  of  himfelf 

He  was  noe  very  good  orator,  but  had  a  fmgular  good  Expreflion  with  his  pen,  fublii  le 
and  fuccinkt,  according  to  the  fubjecT;  whereof  he  wrote,  and  the  perlbn  to  whom  ;  his  letti;rs 
to  King  James  were  fo  acceptable,  as  he  gave  him  encouragement  and  command  to  write 
often  to  him;  and  once,  when  the  King  received  a  letter  from  him,  he  gave  it  to  his 
favorite,  Somerfett,  bidding  him  learn  it  without  book,  laying  he  had  not  received  fuch  a 
letter  fince  he  was  King  of  England — and  the  Secretary  of  State,  the  Earle  Saliflniry,  and 
Lords  of  the  Councill,  would  give  the  Lynes  high  prayfe.  He  was  a  greatc  Statefnian,  and 
good  Common-wealths  man,  and  as  knowing,  able  a  Souldier  as  any  of  our  Nation  in  thofe 
Tymes ;  he  was  acaref'ull  performer  of  his  managements,  and  keeper  ot  his  word  ;  noe  man 
knew  his  compofition  and  difpofition  better  than  myfelf,  therefore  I  may,  with  confidence  and 
truth,  fay  this  :  that  he  was  a  man  of  great  Honor,  Piety,  prudence,  Juftice,  bounty  and 
valour;  very  Hofpitable,  Charitable,  affable,  and  excellent  good  company  within  and  with- 
out Doors,  being  a  lover  of  all  civill  becoming  fports,  games,  and  recreations.  His  Eftate 
was  all  of  his  ov/n  acquifition  by  faire  purchafe,  only  the  King  gave  him  S''.  Cahier 
O'Dogherties  country,  it  being  by  his  rebellion  Efeheat  to  the  crown  ;  and  he,  with  his 
adherents,  being  cutt  off  by  the  induftry  and  aClivIty  of  my  Lord  Chicheftcr.  that  land 
was  then  worth  about  looo/.  a  year  within  thofe  times  of  danger ;  and  in  that  Kingdom,  and 
at  the  furtheft  point  North,  was  noe  great  Gift  or  reward  from  a  King  to  a  SuhJeLl  that 
had  been   li  years  his  Viceroy,  and  fo  well  a  Deferver. 

His  eflate,  being  about  8000/.  a  year,  he  left  to  his  good  brother,  S'.  Edward  Chichefler, 
who  alfoe  inherited  his  honnor  of  Barron  of  Belhill:,  and  in  fliort  time  after  was  made  \'ihi'.  of 
Carrickfergus  and  Governor  of  that  towne  and  country,  and  3  or  4  years  before  his  death  hr 
fonn  was  made  by  King  Charles  Earle  of  Duiuiagall  in  the  North  of  Ulfler,  in  which  countr) 
he  hath  20  miles  of  land  at  leaft ;  he  was  bred  with  and  by  his  noble  uncle  Arthur  Lore 
Chichell:er,  and  in  much  is  a  good  coppie  of  that  originall.  Upon  the  grand  horrid 
rebellion  iii  Ireland,  he  advanc't,  at   his   owii   charge,  a    Regm'.   of  horle,  and   a    Kegn^'.  of 


IC4  FcDnily  of  Dro/nljhin^  etc. 

foot,  for  the  Service  of  the  King,  and  did  very  acceptable  Service,  he  being  a  gallant  gentle- 
man, couragious,  fteddy,  juft,  and  noble-hearted. 

With  the  firft  Lord  Chichcfter,  that  man  of  great  Honor  and  noble  Endowments,  I  had 
from  coming  young  from  fcliool  my  education,  and  by  him  tlie  foundation  of  my  advance- 
ment, and  fortune  I  acquired  in  Ireland. 

Ffavth:  Ffortescue. 

In  i6j2  Lord  Wentworth  (afterwards  ^Earl  of  Strafford)  was  appointed  Lord  Deputy  ; 
he,  before  his  arrival  in  Ireland,  commillioned  Sir  Faithful  to  raife  liim  a  troop  ot  horfe,  an 
honour  which  he  grumbled  at  confiderably  on  the  fcore  ot  trouble  and  expenfe  without  pay 
or  profit,  as  detailed  in  the  following  iTiatement  : — 

S".  Faithful  Fortescue's  relation  of  pajfages  of  the  Earle  of  Strafford,  concearning   ■ 
himfelfe,  giiien  to  y'  Ld.  Lieut,  in  y'  yeere  1645. 

About  15  monethes  before  the  Earle  of  Straffbrde  came  Lord  Deputie  into  Ireland  'lee 
fente  mee  a  warrant  to  raife  him  a  I'roope  of  horle  and  coilianded  them  as  his  Capt.  Lieut', 
vnfought  or  vnknowne  to  me  vntill  my  receipt  of  the  warrant,  and  w"'in  16  dayes  after  I  Jiad 
his  Troope  full  in  the  Fielde  of  proper  men  well  horffe  (as  is  well  knowne  to  fome  yet  in 
beeing  in  and  neare  Dublin)  And  condiconed  w'''  them  not  to  expedte  pay  vntill  the  arriuall 
of  his  Lop.  in  Ireland,  or  untill  they  fhould  bee  prefented  vnto  a  mulfer  from  w"''  I  kepte 
them  notw"'ftanding  the  Mufter-M'.  Generall  called  often  at  mee  to  giue  him  a  lifte  and 
view  of  them  vntill  his  Lo"'.  came  over,  by  w"''  deuice  I  brought  all  their  pay  for  13  monethet 
into  his  Lo*".  purfs,  but  fome  fortie  or  fittie  pound  w"''  I  diilnbuted  amongell  them  at  feuerall 
times  to  encourage  them  w"'  cheertulnels  and  patience  to  attendance,  they  beleeuing  that  Ijis 
Lo''.  at  his  coming  would  giue  them  fome  handfome  confideracon  tor  it.  But  his  Lo''.  w"'in 
few  dayes  after  his  arriuall  difcharged  40""  ot  them  at  a  blow  to  make  roonie  for  his  gentlL-- 
men  and  other  leruants  and  gaue  not  them,  nor  any  of  the  rcll;  that  llayed  m  the  Troope  any 
thing,  But  left  them  to  clamour  and  rayle  at  mee  for  theire  foe  coarfe  ufage  hauing  kepte 
themfelues  and  horfes  foe  longe  without  pay,  Llowfoeuer  I  not  only  fhuffled  them  of  ill- 
fauoredly  but  agreed  w"'  thole  that  remained,  to  ferve  tor  10//'.  a  yeere  and  keepe  theire  owne 
horfes,  foe  did  I  w"'  all  other  that  afterwards  came  into  the  Troope,  foe  as  I  faued  10  his  Lo''. 
8//.  5J'.  out  of  euery  mans  pay  yearly,  untill  the  jtretended  expedition  to  Scotland  or  Noith 
of  England  or  I  know  not  wheare,  tor  then  his  Lo''.  ordered  mee  to  giue  them  the  kirgs  full 
pay  w'''  accordingly  I  alTured  them  but  could  not  get  it  for  them,  foe  as  they  likewife  bauld 
at  mee  as  thinking  mee  faulty  therein  and  I  loil;  love  with  them. 

When  this  unfortunate  imployment  to  mee  was  call  on  mee  my  refidence  was  at  my 
poor  home  in  the  Countie  of  Louth  (where  I  could  haue  lived  at  more  eafe  to  my  perfon 


■'li    i.j   ffni'ij 


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S'lr  Faithful  Fortefcue.  105 

and  puiTe,  then  I  did  during  my  attendance  on  his  Lo''.  but  to  fhew  my  tliankfuhiefs  to  liim 
for  the  honor  he  had  done  mee  in  making  me  his  officer  foe  frankly  w"'out  my  feeking,  I 
(to  brinee  myfelfe  at  a  nearer  diftance  of  attending  his  perfon  and  ieruice)  bought  a  k-a(e  of 
a  houfe  in  Dublin  wliich  coll:  mee  two  hundred  fine  and  ten  pound  a  yeare  rent,  remoued  my 
wife  and  family  from  home  thether,  putt  my  felfe  to  an  expence  wth  men  liorfes  and  many 
other  waies  more  then  I  needed  to  haue  done  in  the  Cuntry,  waited  on  his  Lo''.  in  England, 
and  euer  w"'  afFeftion  an  diligence  attended  him  and  his  feruice,  and  I  thinke  lined  foe  be- 
coming a  gentleman  and  his  officer  as  I  did  him  noe  difhonour  nor  dilTeruice,  and  neuer  had 
anything  of  him  in  all  his  time,  but  a  hundi'ed  and  twenty  pounds  or  thereaboutes,  being  part 
of  my  entertainment  w*  at  twife  hee  fent^mee  ;  indeed  I  thought  he  woukl  haue  given 
mee  fome  caft  of  his  fauor  fome  time  or  other  w*-''  induced  mee  to  make  iome  reufor.able 
requeftes  to  him  but  they  thriued  not  handfomely  w"'  mee,  w'''  were  foiu'e  onely  and  noe 
more. 

The  firfl:  was  that  hee  would  pleafe  to  lielpe  mee  to  I'looli.  arreare  of  entertainment  due 
to  mee  for  my  foote  company  and  my  ward  of  his  Mat"-'.  Caftle  of  Ivnockfargus,  w"''  hee  faid 
hee  could  not  doe  it  being  an  arreare  before  iiis  time,  but  if  1  could  procure  a  particular  re- 
commendation to  him  for  it  from  the  King  hee  would  finde  a  way  how  to  helpe  mee  to  It, 
w'^''  accordingly  I  got  from  his  Mat",  w'''  coft  me  lo//'.  to  Secretary  Windebanke  but  could 
never  get  his  Lo''.  to  help  mee  to  any  of  my  money. 

The  fecond  was  that  his  Lo'\  would  confer  my  foote  Company  vpon  my  fonne  Chichefter 
Fortefcue  who  had  volimteird  it  in  his  Troope  two  yeares  w"''  his  L.o''.  refufed  though  he  had 
donne  it  for  the  foimesof  tlie  Lord  Baltinglafs,  Lord  Blany  and  S'.  John  Burlafs,  but  a  while 
after  upon  confideracon  (as  fhould  feeme)  how  ill  it  would  become  him  not  to  granL  mee 
equall  favor,  in  foe  poore  a  particuler,  Llee  fent  mee  (by  his  Brother)  a  farr  fetcht  reafon  of 
his  not  doing  my  requeft  at  firft,  and  notwithflanding  hee  would  doe  my  defire  therin,  but  hee 
had  foe  fullied  it  by  his  former  dcniall  of  it,  as  I  would  not  have  had  it,  had  I  durft  have 
fcorned  it. 

The  third  was  that  about  2  yeares  after  my  foune  had  my  Company  S'  Robert 
Loftus  dying  and  his  Lo''.  tlien  in  England  I  (by  letter  to  S'  Geo.  Wentworth) 
befought  his  Lo''.  to  giue  mee  his  Comjiany,  but  I  had  a  coynd  excufe  retorned  to  mee 
for  that. 

My  laft  requefl:  was  that  the  Lord  Caufeield  beeing  dead  I  might  haue  his  Company 
hauing  mift  the  former,  but  to  that  I  neuer  had  replie. 

Soe  as  I  had  the  ill  luck  that  his  Lo''.  was  not  advantagious  to  mee  in  liono'  or  elUte 
for  my  poore  efhate  that  I  had  before  I  fiw  him,  A  Lord  Deputies  Capt.  Leif.  I  had  for- 
merly beene  7  yeares  a  Capt.  of  a  foote  Company,  I  was  when  hee  came,  and  Cunllable  ot  his 
Ma"".  Caftle  of  Knockfargus,  and  to  this  hee  added  nothing,  but  was  pleaied  to  rewarde  my 
long  attendance  and  feruice  with  difgrace,  for  when   hee  was  in  his   lait  trobles  and   in  the 


io6  Fat/lily  oj  Droniijk'ui^  etc. 

Tower  hee  by  letter  ordered  his  Steward  to  difcharge  mee  from  my  comand  of  his  Troope, 
without  [licwing  reafon  tor  it,  as  if  I  liad  beene  his  Mercinary  ferua'it  or  Sculhon,  of  his 
kitchen  (and  not  the  King's  officer)  to  bee  tlirowne  owt  by  the  toungc  of  his  Steward,  but  I 
coidd  not  bow  to  his  Lo''\  hurling  mee  of  foe  ilbtauoredly  and  indeetie  vnfouldierly  of  him 
that  was  ioe  great  a  Generall  without  laying  any  mifcarriage  to  my  charge  and  bringing  mee 
tliereupon  to  a  triall  at  a  court  of  warr ;  wherfore  I  helde  my  place  till  hee  died  and  then 
quitted  It,  But  thought  it  not  a  peece  ot  diicretion  to  ijultt  my  pay  due  for  my  \\\x\t  yeares 
leruice,  therfore  I  required  it  of  his  Lo''\  Steward  M'.  Carpenter  who  by  accounte  found 
about  400//.  to  bee  due  to  mee  at  the  kings  bare  pay  at  34//.  per  anh.  aboue  w"''  hee 
could  not  reckon  w'''  mee,  though  his  Lo''.  had  ordered  mee  w"'  the  rell  of  tlie  Captaines 
of  toote  companies  to  giue  our  Leivtstenants  50//.  a  yeare  and  that  noe  Gene  all  or  priuate 
Captaine  euer  held  theire  Leiuetenant  to  the  kings  bare  pay  it  they  were  o;  a  deferuing 
capalitie. 

And  I  had  formerly  when  I  was  a  Lord  Geueralls  Capt.  Leiut.  a  iiundred  pounds  a 
yeare  and  what  profitt  I  could  make  by  his  Troope,  But  I  come  not  to  lay  the  poore  kind  (  f 
ufige  I  had  at  lait  tor  matter  ot  pay  vpon  his  Lo'".  Steward  as  a  taulte,  hee  hailing  not  powc  r 
to  deale  better  w"'  mee,  But  in  this  I  thinke  hee  did  not  handfomely,  that  after  hee  liai 
giuen  mee  an  allignement  to  the  Vice  Treafurer  tor  my  pay  due  upon  account  hee  ill  jul  1 
demaude  and  receive  it  troni  him  in  my  ablence,  and  now  not  make  mee  repayment  therecf 
vpon  my  ciuill  intreaties,  having  had  it  in  his  hands  and  employed  it  to  aduantage  this  tive 
yeares  pall. 

And  now  that  I  have  fhewed  that  noe  haiidfome  requital  1  I  have  had  trom  his  Lo^  for 
my  great  expence  ot  time,  money,  and  indullry  to  doe  hini  fcruice,  it  may  bee  obiefted  tlu.t 
iure  I  gaue  him  fome  realon  to  disfauor  mee  and  ufe  mee  noe  better,  elfe  hee  that  was  foe 
noble  would  haue  dealt  more  gallantly  with  mee;  to  that  I  lay  and  protell  to  Almitie  G0.I1  I 
neither  know  nor  can  imagin  any  caiife  liee  could  haue  tor  it  vnlefs  he  flioiilde  make  it, of 
thefe,  I'hat  I  beeing  foe  nearely  linckt  to  tome  peribns  ot  cjuallitie  in  this  Kingdome  c]';at 
weare  in  oppofition  againjl  him  could  not  Iceepe  my  iiearty  loue  and  leruice  to  him  (wheriii 
hee  caried  a  great  mifunderllanding  of  mee)  or  tor  tliat  1  and  S'.  Robert  i-'arrer  in  compa  ly 
w"'  others  had  talkt  of  his  Lo''.  vifiting  a  Noble  Lady  w'''  beeing  toulde  him  by  a  falfe 
brother  at  an  ill  tone  or  worfe  then  merrolie  was  fpoken,  his  Lo''.  qLieilioned  mee  rouglily  tor 
it,  but  when  hee  vnderftood  our  taike  (w"''  I  truly  tould  liim)  was  to  neither  ot  their  Lhlhonors, 
hee  feemed  to  bee  well  latisfied,  but  I  doubte  hee  was  not,  and  that  this  and  his  ambiguety 
of  my  integretie  to  him  were  the  motiues  that  induced  him  to  throw  mee  out  c  t  lus  good 
opinion  and  fauor,  other  reafons  hee  could  not  haue,  my  confcience  alluring  mee  I  neuer 
trefpafl:  againft  him  in  thought  worde  or  deede,  vntiU  his  Ihevving  his  dilatleftior.s  to  me  by 
denying  mee  foe  poore  a  thing  as  a  toote  company  (when  I  beleued  hee  thought  1  i.lelerued 
a  greater  fauor  of  him)  and  the  oil-cring  to  oute  mee  of  the  cofnaiidc  ot   his  Troope  in  fuch 


Si?'  Faithful  Foi'tefcuc.  1 07 

difgracefuU  manner  and  declention  of  my  reputation,  tlicn  i  confcfs  I  could  not  hould  fron\ 
padionately  fpcaking  in  vindecation  of  my  felfe  and  condemnation  of  him  for  that,  But  I 
neuer  appeared  againft  liim  in  any  thing  but  for  what  concerned  my  owne  particular  nor  noe 
man  can  truly  fay  I  did,  or  will  auow  it  to  my  face  though  1  haue  heard  it  hath  bcene  faid  I 
fhevved  nigratitude  to  hisLo''.  w'''I  thinke  I  could  not  doe  when  hee  by  noe  obliegation  bound 
mee  to  him,  but  rather  fliewed  ingratitude  to  mee. 

KArrH.    KoRTESCUIi.  ' 

Encloied  in  the  toregoing  letter  was  a  paper  endorfed  : — 
"  270  :  17  :  6  due  to  S'.  Faith.  Fortefcue 
tor  the  Cunftablefhip  of  y''  Caftle  of  Carrickfergus  from  y"  y^^re  1640  ; 

to  y''  yeerc  1645  &c."  \ 

On  the  infide  : —  ^ 

"  Due  to  me  for  my  perfonall  haitertaynements  as  Cunftable  of  his  Ma"".  Calf  le  of  Knock- 
fergus  at  ■!$.  6d.  per  diem  from  the  lafte  of  Sep'.  1640  to  the  firft  of  Od.  1645,  ^^  ^Y 
vvarr"'.  of  full  paye  doth  appeare     .....  270/.  171.  6d." 

Ffayth.  Ffortescue. 

Fortefcue  was,  in  1633,  charged  by  the  Lord  Deputy  to  vifit  the  garrifons  and  military 
ftores  in-the  province  ot  Leiniler ;  Strafford  affirming  that  he  and  his  colleagues  in  the  other 
provinces  would  aft  "  honeilly,  ably,  and  impartially. "- 

In  1634  a  Parliament  v/as  called  in  Dublin,'  to  which  Sir  l^'aithful  was  elefted  ;  tirft,  on 
the  17th  ot  June,  for  the  borough  of  Dungaiuion  ;  and,  on  the  14th  July,  lor  the  county  (jf 
Armagh.  His  eldefl:  ion,  Chichell:er,  defcribed  as  of  l^onoughmore,  County  of  Down, 
fucceeding  his  father  as  member  for  Charlemont.  With  reference  to  this  Parliament,  we 
find  the  following  pailage  in  Sir  Fdward  Brereton's  narrative  of  his  journey  : — "July  7th, 
1635. — This  towne  of  Dundalke  is  governed  by  the  Bailiffs,  Sheriffs,  and  Aldermen.  The 
greateft  part  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  towne  are  popifhly  affefted,  and  altho'  my  Lord 
Deputy  at  the  lafl:  election  of  15uigeiTes  for  the  Parliament  commended  unto  them  Sir 
Faithfull  I'ortefcue,  and  Sir  Arthur  jerningham,  yet  they  rejet'ted  both,  and  elected  a  eounle 
of  recuiants."* 

In    1639    Sir    Faithful  was  again  returned  for  Armagh  County.      In  April,    1640,'' he, 
appears  in  a  lift  of  officers  of  the  army,  appointed  for  the  expedition  to  Scotland,  to  iupp  )rt 
the  King's  caufe,  then  under  the  F,arl  ot  Ormonde,  which,  however,  never  took  place.      Sir 
Faithful  was  to  be  attached  to  the  Lord  General's  Reiiiinent  of  Floiie. 


'  Carte  MS.  xvi.  241.  '^  VVV-ntworth  to  Secict^ry  Coke,  OJiobi-r  23,  163,5. 

^  Liber  Muntium,  llib.  "*   Hnixton'.-,  ,luiniK'_\,  in  Clulfi:iin  Society's  Sciics.  ^  C.irli;  l\i[)i 


io8  Family  of  Droinifkin^  etc. 

In  the   next  year  he  makes  the  hberal  offer  to  advance   money  for  the  pay  of  troops  at 
Armagh,  as  will  be  feen  in  the  following  letter  : — 

I'd  the  right  honorable  the  Eark  of  Ormuiid  and  OJfury,  Lieut'.  Generall  of 
His  Ma'",  forces  i>i  Ireland,  prefent. 

Right  honorable  and  my  moft  honored  good  Lord, 

Haueing  obferued  yo''  Lo^ps.  CoiTiands  by  vertue  of  two  patents  (igned  under  yo'' 
Lo''ps.  hand,  to  my  Captaine,  and  Captaine  Trappes,  forthwith  to  riie  and  march  to  the 
Citty  of  Armagh,  which  accordingly  wee  have,  and  foe  exa;^l:ly  that  in  our  march  wee  had  not 
the  Complainte  ot  the  value  of  a  fliilling  ag' any  of  the  twoe  Companies;  but  how  wee 
ffiall  continue  being  willing  (the  relation  to  y'  Lo'p.  confidered)  to  gaine  the  good  repute 
wee  nowe  haue  and  pleafe  our  men,  wherby  our  Coniands  to  them  may  bee  be':ter  obferued 
(money  beinge  fhorte)  &  nowe  quite  diminifl-ied,  haue  indeauored  our  felues  by  all  the  good 
words  and  perfwafions  wee  can  to  the  towne  to  afforde  to  the  foldiers  meate  at  twoe  fliillingi 
a  weeke  which  the  coinpaniss  are  willing  to  accept  of,  but  the  towne  will  noe  waj 
hearken  to  it,  and  generally  conclude  without  money  in  hand  they  will  afforde  noe  rele.'iti 
to  the  foldier,  although  wee  are  willing  to  engage  our  felues.  which  confidered  doth  put  u; 
to  the  turtheft  of  extremity  what  to  doe,  for  neither  having  meate  nor  money,  wee  are  ver) 
doubtfull  of  keeping  them  in  foe  good  order  as  wee  wifh,  and  dayly  and  hourly  fhall  indeuor 
to  doe.  Nowe  foe  it  is  may  it  pleafe  yo''  Lo'p.  that  S''.  Faithfull  Fortifcue  beinge  one  of  the 
cheefe  in  theife  parts,  whoe  being  defirous  both  for  our  good  and  the  good  of  the  cuntry,  hath 
thought  of  a  convenient  way  to  pleaie  both,  and  hath  defired  us  to  intimate  foe  nuich  to  yo' 
Lo'p.  which  is  that  if  yo''  Lo'p.  and  the  ftate  thinke  fitt  that  the  lubfidies  nowe  to  bee 
Leuied  for  this  county,  which  will  not  bee  foe  fpeedy  as  hee  could  wifh  for  our  releefe,  doth 
voluntarily  of  himfelfe  promife  to  bee  our  paymafler  out  of  his  owne  purfe  forthwith,  hee 
being  fecured  from  yo''  Lo'p.  and  the  ftate,  by  diredions  to  liee  paide  out  of  the  fubfidiits, 
as  they  fliall  bee  collected.  All  this  wee  humbly  offer  to  yo''.  Lo'ps  gratious  Confideration, 
and  will  allwayes  Remayne  as  wee  are,  I 

Yo"'.  Lops,  mofl:  humble  leruants,  ; 

Tho:   Salvin,  ' 

Robert  King,  ' 

HeNRIE    BuTILlR,  ' 

Edward  Povniz. 
Armagh  Aprill  the  23"'.  1641.' 


Carte  MS.  i.  230. 


Sir  Faithful  Forte/cue.  109 

Very  ftormy  times  were  now  approaching  for  the  three  Britifli  kingdoms.  The 
antagonifm  of  Charles  and  his  Parliament  was  daily  becoming  greater  ;  while  in  Ireland,  the 
rebellion  of  Sir  Phelim  O'Neale,  and  the  horrid  mafllKre  of  the  Proteftants,  was  deftined  to 
complicate  the  political  motives,  and  to  embarrafs  the  actions  of-  both  Uoyalifts  and 
Republicans. 

The  growing  interference  with  the  executive  by  the  Parliament,'  from  which  it  refulted 
that  all  who  fought  for  preferment  in  the  army  were  obliged  to  apply  to  leaders  of  the 
legiflature,  appear  in  the  following  entries  in  the  Journals  of  the  Houfe  of  Commons. 

"  Wefliminlter,  27  January,  1641.  16  Car.  I. — The  humble  petition  of  Sir  Faithtull 
Fortefcue,  Knight,  was  this  day  read.  And  it  is  ordered  that  he  the  faid  Sir  Faithtull 
Fortefcue  be  earneilly  recommended  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland  for  a  Colonel's  place 
in  this  fervice.  This  Houfe  being  very  well  fitisiied  that  he  is  a  man  of  honnour  and 
experience,  and  worthy  of  fuch  an  employment." 

"  28  January,  164I.  Ordered  that  Sir  Sanruel  Rolle  and  Mr.  Carey  fliall  recommend 
Sir  Faithfull  Fortefcue  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  according  to  the  order  of 
yefterday." 

"February  i,  1641.  Ordered  that  Sir  Paithfull  Fortefcue  be  recommended  from  this 
Houfe  to  tlie  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland  to  be  a  Colonell  in  one  of  thofe  three  Colonell's 
places  prefented  in  the  Lift  to  be  Void,  and  Sir  Samuel  Rolle  is  ordered  to  go  v.irh  this  Lift 
to  the  Lord  Lieutenant."  1 

The  Lord  Lieutenant  was  the  Earl  of  Leicefter,^  who  was  fo  nominated  at  Straftord's 
fall,  but  who  had  not  as  yet  proceeded  to  Ireland. 

In  Oftober  of  this  year,  on  the  24th  of  the  month,  the  rebellion  broke  out  in  the  north 
of  Ireland,  (o  fuddenly  and  with  fuch  violence  that  the  Proteftants  were  taken  by  furprile, 
and  the  Irifti,  almoft  unoppofed,  advanced  towards  the  fouth,  plundering  and  mallacring  ; 
and  were  before  long  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Drogheda,  the  only  fortified  place  between 
them  and  Dublin.  Sir  l^'aithful  had,  a  fhort  time  before,  been  made  governor  of  the  town, 
which,  fays  the  hiftorian  Leland,  "was  by  no  means  ftrong  or  well  provided.'"  He 
continues,  "  On  the  firft  alarm  from  the  North,  the  Governor,  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue,  had 
received  a  fmall  reinforcement  from  Lord  Vifcount  Moore  (his  brother-in-law,  who  lived  at 
Mellifont,  a  few  miles  off).  He  prepared  it  for  defence,  reprefented  to  the  ftate  the 
neceffity  of  an  additional  fuccour,  and  offered  even  to  raife  foldiers  at  his  own  expenfe.  His 
zeal  was  applauded,  but  he  found  his  fervices  by  no  means  acceptable.  Dilcouraged,  uiti 
difappointed  of  fupplies,  he  refigned  his  conmrand  ;  and  Sir  Henry  Tichbourne,  a  n  ore 
adventurous  officer,  was  fent  to  fucceed  him." 


'  See  Clarendon,  ii.  22.  nferrinfT,  however,  to  tome  months  later.  "'   l.el.inJ,  ili.   107. 

^  Leland'.s  Uilloiy  ofheUuul,  hi.  156. 


iio  Fmiiily  of  Dromijkin^  etc. 

"  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue,"  (fays  another  author),  "  refigned  his  comniilfion,  not  being 
vvilHng  tolofe  liis  reputation,  though  he  was  forward  enough  to  hazard  his  perfon."'  lie  left 
two  of  his  fons  in  the  garrifon,  of  whom  his  eldeft,  Chichefter,  a  major  in  the  army,  and 
having  a  company,  railed  at  his  own  charge,  in  Lord  Moore's  regmient,  liied  during  tlie 
iiege ;  and  his  fecond,  John,  was  killed  by  tlie  rebels  there. 

He  then  at  once,  without  more  than  a  tew  days'  delay,  went  to  London  to  urge  the 
Government  to  lend  fupplies  to  Ireland,  and  employed  hmifelf  in  railing  men  tor  that 
fervice.'' 

In  December  of  this  year,  1641,  we  find  him  again  recommended  tor  lervice  by  the 
Houfe  ot  Commons.^ 

'•  31ft  Di  ctmbtr,  I  64 1. 

"  Ordered  that  Mr.  Robert  Goodwin  and  Mr.  Carey  do  repair  unto  the  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  Ireland,  and  from  this  Houfe  recommend  unto  him  Sir  FaithfuU  Fortefcue  for  pla;e  jf 
command  in  confideration  that  he  has  the  keeping  of  the  Calfle  ot  Carricklergus  tor  his  life 
by  patent;  the  which  calfle  is  now  agreed  by  this  Houie,  among  other  places,  to  be  put  in  o 
the  hands  of  the  Scotts." 

This  arrangement  with  the  Scotch  Commiffioners,  reludlantly  entered  into  by  the  King 
under  the  prefliire  of  tha  rebellion  in  Ireland,  was  carried  out  in  April  of  the  next  year,  win  n 
the  lirlf  Scotch  detachmJnt  landed  at  Carricklergus.' 

The  fame  neceflity  was  llrong  enough  to  compel  an  agreement  between  tiie  King  ant',  tl  e 
Parliament  to  provide  troops  tor  the  fpecial  fervice  of  the  reduction  ot  Ireland,  at  a  time 
when  thofe  two  eftates  were  all  but  in  arms  againft  each  other. 

It  was  in  this  way  that  Sir  Faithful!  railed  and  comnianiled,  as  colonel,  the  Third  Troop 
of  Llorfe  engaged  for  the  Irith  expedition,''  for  which  the  officers  were  chofen  and  appoinjed 
by  the  commidioners  fitting  at  Guildhall  in  June,  1642;  the  king  confenting  to  fign  their 
commiflions.  I  le  alfo  railed  for  the  fame  fpecial  fervice  a  company  ot  toot,  which  afterwa^'ds 
was  attached  to  the  Karl  of  Peterborough's  regiment,  of  which  Sir  b'aithfuH's  name  a[)peaicd 
as  lieutenant-colonel.  The  foot,  as  well  as  the  horfe,  were,  on  the  breaking  out  ot  the 
civil  war,  after  the  raifmg  of  the  Royal  Standard  at  Nottingham  in  Auguft,  1642,  draughted 


'    lliftory  oCthe  Infli  Kcbrllion,  lr,u-.<l   lioiii   m;iny  pn  ccdiiii;   ;il'Is  lo   tlir  (ir.in.l  Kxiu-ilition   to   1  uiil.n,   17.)3. 

!>■  44- 

-   .See    Lift   of  the    Fielil  Otileers   tur   the    IiHh  ['xpediliuii,  ehol.n   liy  ill'    CV.ininilliouei  ■,   :.t  (niiliUKill.      Carte 

MS.      June,   \b.\l. 

■'•  Commons  JouiTirils.  vol.  ii.  y.  364.  I.eLind,  iii.  175.  ■ 

■'   I'.imiihlel,  entitled.  ••  Si.x  Matters  Worthy  of  N'ole."      London.  4I0,   l()42.  in  lioillei.in  Lit).  , 


Sif^  Faithful  Foriejcue.  1 1 1 

into  tl:e  Parliamentarian  army,  without  any  regard  to  the  opinions  or  mchnations  of  officers 
or  men. 

Sir  Faithful's  horfe  had  all  affembled,  and  had  arrived  at  Briftol  to  embark  for  Ireland, 
but  were  now  ordered  and  compelled  to  march  to  the  midland  counties,  then  under  the 
authority  of  the  Earl  of  Bedford,  to  join  the  army  of  the  Earl  of  EfTex. 

In  reference  to  this  breach  of  contrail,  we  find  Charles  complaining  "  that  many  foldiers 
raifed  under  pretence  of  being  lent  to  Ireland,  were,  contrary  to  their  expecftation  and  engage- 
ment, forced  to  lerve  under  the  Earl  of  Eifex  againll  the  King;  of  which  he  named,  with 
others,  Sir  Faithfid  Fortefcue's  regiment  of  horfe."' 

It  thus  came  to  pais  that  Torteicue  and  his  men  found  themfelves,  on  the  2jrd  ot 
Odober,  at  Edgehill,  arrayed  in  oppofition  to  their  king,  and  to  their  own  loyal  fynipaihies 
and  affedlions. 

What  followed  will  be  beil  told  in  the  words  oi  Lord  Clarendon."  In  defcril)ing  the 
battle  he  fays:  "As  the  right  wing  of  the  King's  horl.-  advanced  to  charge  the  left  wing, 
which  was  the  grois  of  the  enemy's  horfe.  Sir  I'\uthful  Fortefcue  (who  having  his  fortune 
and  intereft  in  Ireland,  was  come  out  of  that  kingdom  to  hailen  fupplies  thither,  ami  had  a 
troop  of  horfe  railed  for  him  tor  tliat  lervice  ;  but  as  many  other  of  thofe  forces  were,  fo 
his  troop  was  likev/ife  difpc)lt;d  into  that  army,  and  he  was  now  Major  to  Sir  William  Waller, 
he)  with  his  whole  troop  advanced  from  the  grols  of  their  horfe,  and  difcharging  all  tlieir 
pillols  on  the  ground,  within  little  more  tiian  carabine  fhot  of  his  own  body,  prefented 
himfelf  and  his  troop  to  Prince  Rupert,  and  immediately  with  his  Ilighnels  charged  the 
enemy. 

"  Whether  this  Hidden  accident,  as  ir  might  very  well,  and  the  not  knowing  how 
many  more  v/ere  ot  the  fame  mind,  each  man  looking  upon  his  companion  with  the 
fame  apprehenfion  as  upon  the  enemy,  cjr  whether  the  terror  of  Prince  Rupert,  aiui  the 
King's  liorfe,  or  all  together,  with  their  own  evil  confciences,  wrought  upon  them,  I  knov/ 
not,  but  that  whole  wing  having  uiillvllfully  difcharged  their  carabines  and  piivols  into 
the  air,  wheeled  about,  the  King's  liorie  charging  In  the  fFink  and  rear,  and  Jiavir.g  thus 
abfolutely  routed  them,  purfued  them  flying,  and  had  the  execution  ot  tliem  above  two  miles." 

This  exploit  of  Sir  b'aithful  and  his  troopers  mulT;  be  confidered  a  very  gallant  and 
hazardous  one,  and  their  abhorrence  of  the  pofition  into  which  they  had  been  torced  by  a 
grofs  breach  of  faith  on  the  part  of  the  leaders  of  the  Parliament  mulT;  have  been  ve-y 
ftrong  to  impel  them  to  face  the  rifle  which  they  ran  of  being  attacked,  as  well  by  thole 
whom  they  were  leaving,  as  by  thofe  whom  they  were  anxious  to  join.  \V'e  read  that  :  ii' 
Faithful,"   "  detelHng  tlie   force   put  upon   him   in  that  fervlce,  was   relolved  to  recover  his 


Clavtndon,  iii.  470.  -   CLireiidon.  iii.  277.  ■'   Loilgc.  Poeriii;!.'  ul  Iii-i;.ii.!,  v.  35O. 


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Family  of  Drofnlfki?!^  etc. 


freedom  by  quitting  that  army  the  firft  opportunity  that  offered  ;"  and  that  at  the  beginning 
of  the  fight  he  had  contrived  to  fend  his  cornet,'  (who  feems  to  h;  ve  been  his  own  fon 
Thomas'),  to  announce  his  intention  to  Prince  Rupert ;  but  the  prince's  fubordinates, 
Kilhgrew  and  Byron,  were  not  aware  of  it ;  and  fo,  fays  Clarendon,'  "  they  had 
not  as  good  fortune  as  they  deferved  ;  for  by  the  neghgence  of  not  throwing  away  their 
orange-tawney  fcarfs,  which  they  all  wore  as  the  Earl  of  Mfiex's  colours,  and  being  imme- 
diately engaged  in  the  charge,  many  of  them,  not  fewer  than  feventeen  or  eighteen,  were 
fuddenly  killed  by  thofe  to  whom  they  had  joined  themfelves."  This  was  a  large  proportion 
of  the  whole  number  of  fixty,  of  which  the  troop  confifted.' 

Fortefcue  was  foon  appointed  a  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  loth  regiment.''  He  remained 
with  the  army,  and  was  with  the  King  at  Oxford,  and  in  the  operations  again  ft  the  Parlia- 
mentarians, which  were  carried  on  from  that  city,  as  head-quarters,  during  .ihe  four  next 
years,  until  Charles  gave  himfelf  up  to  his  victorious  enemies."  The  two  following  papers 
refer  to  this  period.  The  high  terms  in  which  the  King  refers  to  Sir  Faithful  are  worth / 
of  remark.  , 

Charles  R. 
Right  trufty  and  entirely  beloved  Coufin  and  Councellor  Wee  greete  you  well.  Wh.reis 
by  the  humble  peticon  of  S^  Faithful  Fortefcue  kn'  (a  perfon  and  officer  in  Our  Army  here 
whofe  merites  are  in  fingular  eftimacon  w"'  Us)  Wee  are  given  to  underlbmd  that  three  cf 
his  Sons  are  lately  dead  in  Our  Service  in  Ireland,  His  eldeft  Chicheiter  Fortefcue  ;'t 
Drogheda,  being  Capt;iiiL_of  I-^oote  of  the  old  Eftablifhment  and  Serieant  Maior  of  the 
Lord-Vifcount  Moore's  Regiment  :  His  fecond  foune  flayne  by  the  Rebels  there.  And  a  ihnd 
dying  whileft  he  was  in  Service  in  that  Our  Army.  Forafmuch  therefore  as  the  iaid 
S^  Faitlifull  Fortefcue  hath  yet  another  Sonne  left,  (being  now  his  Eldeft,  by  name  Thomas 
Fortefcue,  bredd  a  Sould''.  in  the  Low  Countries,  where  he  was  his  Colonels  officer,  and  hprn 
thence  came  to  ferve  Vs  here  as  he  hath  done  Captain  of  a  Troope  of  Horle  vnder  the  Lord 
Herbert  with  great  fatisfaccon  and  approbacon  of  Vs)  whom  he  is  deln'ous  to  prefer  to  pie 
fnd  Comailds  of  his  eldeft  Son  Chichefter  deceafed  in  that  Our  Kingdom  :  Wee  are  therefore 
graciouily  pleafed,  in  tender  confideracon  of  the  premiffes,  &  for  the  better  encouragemmt 
both  of  the    Father  and    the  Son,  whom  Wee   defire   to    cherifh    for  their  emi'ient   loyall 


'   May,  Iliftory  of  the  FMrliiiment,  book  3,  chap.  i.  i    ' 

'■^  See  Lift  of  Forces  (or  h  illi  iixpedilion,  by  Pcacocl-i. 
••  Cfarendon,  iii.  281. 

*  Army  Lift  of  Cavaliers  and  Roundheads,  pp.  44,  53,  A.  D.  1642. 

5  Ibid.,  p.  15;  and  p.  27,  where  he  is  alio  curioufty  found  ftill  in  ihe  l'...li.,mcritanan  lift  a^  Lieut. -Col.  ot  the 
Earl  of  Peterborough's  regimenl.  ; 

•■   Carte  MS.  v.  fol.  185,  and  ibl.  212. 


S\^aMnCL      CPoricJ^iu 


BRIT  MU.SSLOANE  M  .S..V2-1.7  W 


Sif^  FaitJifid  Fortejcue.  1 1 3 

Afteccons  to  Vs  and  to  our  Service,  to  recomend  to  you  the  faid  Captain  Thomas  Kortefcueto 
be  inftantly  vpon  receipt  ot  the(e  Our  Letters  admitted  and  contirmed  in  the  places  and 
charges  of  his  faid  Brother  Chichcfter  deceafed.  To  w'''  Wee  doubt  not  but  Our  Coufin  the 
Lo:  \'ifc'.  Moore  as  well  as  )'o'' i'elf,  wilbe  readily  confentiiig ;  Allureing  you  Wee  fiuilbe 
therew"'  exceedingly  fatisfyd.  And  foe  Wee  bid  you  hartily  farewell.  Given  under  Our 
Signet  at  Our  Court  at  Oxford  the  25"'  day  of  JMay  in  the  Nineteenth  yeare  of  our  Reigne. 

By  his  Ma"".  Comaund 

Edw:   Nicholas. 
Lo.  Marq.  Ormond. 

Addrejs : — "  To  our  right  trufty  and  entirely  beloved 
Coufin   and   Cuuncellor  James    Marques 

Ormond  Lieuten'.  grail,  of  Our  Army  in  i 

Our  Kin.gdom  of  Ireland." 

AddreJJed : — "  To  the  right  ho''''  the  Lord 
Marquis  of  Ormond." 
My  LorDj 

After  the  writing  of  my  other  tre  to  yo'  Lo''.  I  heard  how  the  Lord  of  Lefler  had 
difpofcd  of  my  fonnes  Company  to  S'.  Richard  GrenviJl,  of  w'''  I  told  the  King,  And  that  1 
thought  he  would  fend  him  a  Coniinion  for  It  by  S".  Robert  Llanna,  who  had  then  newly 
kifl:  the  kings  hand  to  be  gon,  whereupon  he  coiiianded  me  to  cale  S'.  Robt:  ILmna  to  him, 
whome  he  prefently  fent  to  the  Lord  of  Lefter  to  let  him  know  how  he  had  giuen  the 
Company  to  my  fonne,  what  anfwere  he  gave,  and  what  doeings  there  hath  ben  aboute  it, 
S".  Robt.  llanna  will  informe  yo'  Lo''*.  And  that  it  is  beleeued  by  the  King,  Prince  Jiupert, 
my  Lord  Generall  and  others  that  yo'  Lo''.  will  fpeed  his  Ma"",  warr'.  before  the  Lord 
of  Lerters,  yo'  Lo''.  beft  knows  what  to  doe  in  the  matter,  this  1  thought  fitt  to  let  you 
vnderftand,  And  loe  humbly  take  leave. 


loft  humble  fervant 

Ffayth  :   Ffortescue. 


Oxford  I"  June  43. 


A  few  particulars  of  l<"ortefcue's  regiment  are  taken  from  "  Notes  of  the  King's  An  ly, 
Garrifons,  etc.  etc.  1643-44,  by  R.  Symonds,"  preferved  in  the  ILirleian  Colledion.' 

Colonel — Sir  Faithf'.ll  Lortefcue. 

Lieut.  Col. — Sir  Francis  Chockke,  Com    Berks. 


Harl.  MS.  c,S6,  fol.  88. 


114  Family  of  Di'oniifk'ui^  etc. 

Cornet — M'.  Jenkenfon. 

Serjeant-Major — 1  lenry  Colcer,  Com.  Dors'. 

r'  Cap'.  —  Thomas  Percivall,  Com.  Som'lett. 

2'"'  Cap'. — -John  Yerbury  of  Trowbridge,  Com.  Wilts. 

3''  Cap'.  —  Henry  Baynton,  2'"'  Ion  to  Sir  Edward  Baynton. 

Thefe  now  in  being  May  23'  1644. 

There  were  at  fiill  in  this  Reg'.  10  colours  flying;   now  in  all — 200. 

Sir  Faithful  was  again  in  Ireland  in  September,  1646.'  Upon  the  imprifonment  of  the 
King,  in  1647,  fli^  Marquis  of  Ormonde,  the  lord-lieutenant,  and  other  leading  royalifls  in 
Ireland,  were  compelled  to  decide  whether  they  would  join  the  Roman  Cathi  lie  leader  of 
the  Itill  unfupprefled  rebellion,  or  the  Parliamentarians.  Their  attachment  to  the  Protelbint 
faith  decided  them  in  favour  of  the  latter;  and  articles  were  agreed  upon  under  which 
Ormonde  handed  over  to  the  Parliament  the  girrifon  of  Dublin.  iVmong  the  conditions 
was  one  in  favour  of  Sir  h'aithful,  fecuring  him  from  the  elTeJls  of  the  relentment  ot  the 
iioundheads,  which  he  had  incm-red  by  his  efcape  fiom  them  at  P.dgehill,  or,  as  they  ten  led 
It,  his  defertion.  Pie  feems,  however,  to  have  had  doubts  ot  its  efficacy;  tor  Ormonde  lad 
hardly  left  Dublin,  on  the  2Sth  of  July,  1647,  ''^''icn  he  betook  himielf  to  the  Ifle  of  Man 
"  to  avoid  oflenfive  foldiers,  and  to  live  quiet  and  cheap."  But  after  a  time,  palling  over 
to  Wales,  he  was  put  under  rellraint  by  the  Parliamentary  commander  at  Beaumaris,  in 
November  following.  This  officer,  under  orders  from  his  fuperior,  fent  him  a  prifoner  to 
Caernarvon  Callle,  where  he  was  kept,  notwithftanding  the  carneft  remonllrances  of  Lord 
Ormonde,  for  nine  months,  and  then,  by  fpecial  order  of  the  Mouie  ot  Conmions,  dated 
the  2nd  of  Augulf,  1648,  he  was  transferred  to  tlie  cuilotly  of  the  governor  of  Denbitth 
Caftle,  who  was  direifled  by  a  warrant  from  the  Speaker  to  keep  him  prifoner  there. 

The  letters  which  paffed  between  Sir  Kaithful,  Lord  Ormonde,  and  General  Fairfal, 
are  here  fuhjoined. 

I 

Letter  indorjed : — "  S'  Faith  full  Fortefcue,  dated  the  ''-         '■ 

30''' of  November  1647." 

I 
Addrefjed: — "  To  my  Lord  Marques  of  Ormond, 

My  moft  ho'''".  Lord,  At  London." 

Mv  MOST  Ho"'^  Lord, 

W"'in   few  dayes   after  yo'  Lops,   departm-e   from    Dublin   I   (to  avoyd  ofTenceiue 


'  Ste  Lord  Lnmbcrl's  LcttLr  to  tin.'  Lord  Lieutenant,  Sc'ptL-mb>;r  fa,  1646,  in  .'Appendix. 


-^   L(ovi; 


Sir  Faithful  Fo?'tefcue.  \  1 5 

fouldiers,  &  to  live  quiet  &  cheape)  went  to  the  He  of-  Man,  And  being  weary  of  tliat 
barren  place,  &  defirous  to  be  in  l'',nglaiul,  uiiderftaiuiiiig  that  all  men  included  in  yo'  I. ops. 
condicons  w'''  the  Parliam^  pall  in  England  &l  Wales  vv'''oiit  interruption,  I  came  hether  to 
Beaumorris  upon  Satterday  lalle,  v/''  intent  to  flay  heere  initill  I  could  have  forne  money 
from  Dublin  &  then  wayte  on  yo'  Lop.  at  London;  Beleeving  the  Articles  pall  to  yo'  Lop. 
from  the  Parliam'.  to  be  (upon  inch  high  ingagenients  of  honor)  fecurity  and  warrant 
fufficicnt  to  Let  me  pafs  through  England  &  Wales.  But  one  Capt.  Simpkins  (w  ho  coiliands 
heere)  finding  my  Pafs  expird.  And  not  willing  to  underlland  thofe  Articles  to  be  offeree, 
hath  put  me  vnder  reftraynt,  untdl  he  know  from  Generall  Mittin  (who  is  now  at  London) 
how  to  difpofe  of  me, 

I  luunbly  befeech  yo'  Lop.  that  as  foone  as  polTible  (lealT:  the  mifchiefe  whercw'''  I  am 
threatned  fhoidd  happen)  you  wilbe  pleafed  to  giue  me  }'o'  favour  in  healping  to  ir^  e  me 
of  this  danger  &  trouble,  ether  by  way  of  Parliam'.  or  warrant  from  S''.  Thomas  Fairfax,  w  ho 
I  beleeve  will  not  denie  it  yo'  Lo|').  having  granted  it  to  S'.  Arthur  Afton  who  irath  ben 
much  a  greater  offender. 

This  (my  Lord)  is  the  humble  fuite  of 

Yo'  Lops,  moft  humble  fervant 

FfAYTH  :     I'~FORTESCUE. 

Capt.  Simpkins  hath  written  to  Generall  Mittin  of  me,  who  I  feare  will  lend  order 
agaynrt  me,  if  it  be  not  timely  flopt. 

Be.iu  Morris  30  Nov.  47.' 

Letter  indorjed : — "  A  Coppy  of  the  letter  to  Generall 

Fairfax,  Dated  the    13"'   of   Dec. 

1647,    concearning    S'.    Faithfidl 

Forteicue." 
S". 

I  underfland  by  a  letter  which  I  lately  received  from  S'.  Faithfull  Fortefcue  that  he 
is  reftrained  at  Beaumaris  by  one  Capt".  Simpkins  an  officer  under  the  coinand  of  Generall 
Mittin  uppon  pretence  that  the  pafs  graunted  unto  him  by  the  Comillioners  ot  I'arliam'.  in 
purfuance  of  the  Articles  agreed  on  betweene  them  &  mee  is  expired,  to  avoid  this  obje(f';ion 
1  fliall  only  mention  to  yo'  Ex'"',  that  in  vertue  of  my  conditions  (wherein  he  is  compii  ed) 
he  may  live  in  any  part  of  England,  Ireland,  or  the  Dominion  of  Wales  under  the  protection 
of  the  Parliam'.  and  their  forces.  And  therefore  (haueing  already  had  experience  of  yo''  ju  lice 
in  a  Cafe  not  unlike  to  this)  I  am  incouraged  to  defire  you  to  ilTue  luch  orders  tor  has  enlarge- 

'   Cartu  MS.  xxi.  I'ol.  328. 


I  1 6  Fa/iiily  of  Dromijk'ui^  etc. 

mcnt  as  you  fliall  adiudge  fitt,  as  likewife  to  grauiit  him  yo'"  proteftion  purfuant  to  the  faid 
Articles  as  you  haue  been  plcafcd  to  doe  for  others,  in  doeing  vvhereot'  you  fliall  add  much 
to  the  oblcegcm".  of  S'. 

Yc/  Exc"'.  moll  humble  ferv'. 

London  tliis   13"'  Dec.  1647.'  OrMONDE. 

Letter  uuiorjed : — "  M'.  Rulliworth's  concearning  S'.  ; 

Faitliful  Fortefcue." 
Addrejfed : — "  For    Richard    Lane    Efq".   Secretary 
to  the  mofl:   ho'"''',   the   MarquelTe   of 
Ormond." 
S^ 

I  received  yo'  Letter  and  prefented  that  of  my  Lord  to  the  generall  concerning 
S'.  Faithtull  Fortefcue,  who  exprefl:  himfelfe  verie  ready  and  defirous  to  doe  what  in  him  lies 
to  make  good  thofe  Articles  of  Dublin,  as  hee  hath  already  done  in  fome  other  cafes;  but 
this  of  Sir  Faithful!  l''ortefcues  hapning  to  bee  different  from  any  other,  by  reafon  that  he 
Parliam'.  hath  taken  Cognizance  of  his  Reftraint  and  have  giuen  order  for  the  bringing  ot 
him  uppe  :  I'he  Generall  cannott  foe  imediatelie  a6l  uppon  his  owne  auiilhoritie,  as  bet  jre 
this  accident  hee  might  haue  done  ;  The  Generall  fatt  uppe  late  this  night  with  the  Com'",  of 
Parliam'.  concerning  the  bufuieffe  they  were  fent  aboute,  foe  that  itt  was  nott  po(ril)le  for 
him  to  returne  an  Anfwer  himfelf  unto  My  Lord  Marcjuefle  as  hee  fully  purpofed :  And 
therfore  I  make  bold  to  give  you  this  brief  Account  of  that  bufmeffe,  and  doe  only  offer 
tliis  to  yo'  Confideration  ;  That  itt  will  bee  moft  feafonable  unto  the  Generall  to  improve 
his  intereft  after  S'.  Faithfull  bee  come  nearer,  then  foe  fuddainlle  after  a  frefli  vote  of 
Parliament,  efpeciallie  confidering,  That  this  Knight  is  very  obnoxious  to  moll:  in  Parlianf . 
&  indeed  to  all  their  partie  for  an  action  done  foe  unlike  a  Gent'  in  defcrting  his  Colou.s 
uppon  the  ffeild  att  Edgchill,  &  running  to  the  FInemy,  which  will  make  him  have  ti'c 
fewer  freinds  ;  but  had  hee  biti  in  Oxford  or  any  Garrifon  wee  euer  tooke  in,  if  Articles  had 
bin  granted  him,  dcferve  hee  never  foe  ill  they  ought  to  bee  obferued  :  probably  if  tl^c 
Marquefle  pleafe  to  ingage  S'.  Robert  Kinge  or  M'.  Onflow,  if  they  bee  heere,  who  was  two 
of  the  Com'\  who  are  foe  much  concerned  in  honour  to  fee  the  Articles  performed,  I  beleevc 
itt  may  produce  a  timelie  and  good  effed  ;  ffor  the  Generalls  t'ngagement  is  butt  (ollaterall, 
yet  hee  will  nott  bee  wanting  att  a  fitt  feafon  to  ferve  my  Lord  in  this  particulai- :  This  1 
only  intimate  unto  you  :   Defiring  yo'  pardon  for  this  trouble  ;   I  remayne  :  • 

Y'  moft  humble  ferv'. 

Wind.or  ISMO"'"  1647.'-'  Jo:     RuSHWORTH. 


Caitc-  MS.  xxi.  fol.  329.  ''■    13th  of  December.      Carte  MS.  \xi.  ful.  33 1. 


:  .'-n- 


Sir  Faitliful  Fortcfcue.  wj 

S'.  I  fhould  have  returned  you  an  Anfvver  of  yo'  former  Lette'  concerning  the  Horfe  you 
intimated  unto  mee  was  fent  to  the  General!,  but  being  then  abfent  from  the  Mead  Ouarter 
occafioned  that  omiflion,  indeed  the  Horfe  is  of  much  dehght  to  the  General],  Hee  riding 
him  every  day,  and  1  fuppol'e  a  due  acknowledgement  hath  bin  made  of  it. 

Letter  vuiorjed: — '■  14  Dec.  1647.     ^  Coppy  ot  the  Letter 

to  the  lords  of  the  Comniittee  at  Derby  I 

howfe    &c.    concearning     S'.     Faithtull 

Fortefcue." 
My  Lords, 

I  am  aduertifed  by  S'.  Faithful!  Fortefcue  th:it  hee  comeing  into  Wales  in  con- 
fidence that  hee  miglit  fecurely  foe  doe  by  virtue  of  the  conditions  made  with  mee  upo  i  the 
furrender  of  Dublin    to   the    Par"",  is  notwithftanding  &   in  maniteft  breach  ot  the   layd 

conditions  made  prifoner  by at &:  being  further  informed 

that  upon  notice  giuen  to  the  hon'''"'.  the  houfe  of  Coiiions  there  of  they  were  plealed  to  reffer 
the  confideration  of  his  impriionment  and  of  what  (hould  bee  done  thereon  to  your  L''". 
I  conceiue  it  my  parte  in  behalfe  of  S".  Faithfull  Fortefcue  humbly  to  claim  tlie  benefit  ot  the 
fecond  Article  agreed  unto  by  the  Com",  thereunto  Authorifed  by  the  Par"",  wherein  I 
humbly  conceiue  it  is  moft  cleere  that  all  Proteftants  whatfoeuer  of  the  kingdome  ot  Ireland 
without  exception  of  Perfon,  place  of  their  then  abode,  or  pall  offence  againll  the  Par'",  other 
then  haueing  bin  in  the  Irifli  Rebellion,  are  to  bee  lecured  in  their  Perfons,  eftates,  &  goods, 
&:  may  live  quietly  &  fecurely  under  the  Protection  of  the  Par"".  &  their  forces,  ether 
within  England,  Ireland,  or  Wales,  &  as  cleere  it  is  that  S'.  Faithfull  h'ortefcue  for  his  long 
and  neare  relations  to  &  in  that  Kingdome  may  as  properly  bee  efteemed  a  Proteilant 
of  Ireland  as  any  man  whatfoeuer;  All  w'"  when  your  L'".  fhall  haue  confidered  I  doubt  not 
but  fuch  a  courfe  will  bee  taken  for  this  Gentlemans  prefent  releafe  and  future  fecurity 
purfueant  to  the  forementioned  Article  as  becomes  the  honour  i^'  juftice  of  the  Par"",  but  it 
objeelion  Ihould  bee  made  or  doubt  arife  in  hinderance  of  his  fpeedy  enlargement  I  humbly 
defire  that  I  may  bee  made  acquainted  therewith  &  heard  therein  before  any  finall  determi- 
nation of  the  matter,  it  being  a  mater  in  the  confequence  whereof  myfelf  and  very  many 
others  for  whom  I  conditioned  are  highly  concearned,  &  iot  I  remame 

.  Yo'  Lo'".  humble  fervant 
1      1     .1  ■    ,  ti,    ,■  n       A ..,  1  Ormonde. 

London  this  14     of  Uec.  1647.' 
This  is  the  order  referred  to  in  one  of  the  foregoing  letters  :  — 

Commons  Joitrnals,  December  ij,  1647. 
"Ordered.    That  Colonel  Mytton  be  required  to  fecure  Sir  Faithfull  Fortefcue  until  the 

'   Carte  MS.  xxl.  Ibl.  332.  '  Vol.  v.  |..  280. 


l,.l 


.''..>.■'  I 


'  I       li.".':      •     I   li./lcl 


ii8  Fajnily  of  Droiiiijlun^  etc. 

Hoiife  tiike  further  order,  and  that  it  be  in  the  meantime  referred  to  the  Committee  for  the 
affairs  of  Ireland  at  Derby  I  loufe  to  confider  of  the  articles  made  with  the  L,ord  Ormonde 
upon  rendition  of  Dublyn,  and  to  (late  how  far  Sir  ]<'aithfull  bortefcue  is  concerned  in  thofe 
articles." 

This  fecond  order  fliows  that  Ormonde's  remonftrance  was  not  fiiccefsful. 

Commo}'.s  J  our  )i  tils,  Jiigujl  2,  1648.' 
"  Ordered.  That  Sir  b'aithfull  Fortefcue  be  removed  from  Carnarvon  Callle  to  Denbigh 
Caflle,  and  be  kept  Prifoner  there,  and  that  iVI'.  Speaker  do  grant  his  warrant  to  Colonel 
Mafon  the  Governor  of  Carnarvon  to  deliver  over  Sir  Faithfull  b'ortefcue  to  the  Governor 
ot  Denbigh  Caftle ;  and  that  M'.  Speaker  do  alfo  grant  his  warrant  to  he  Governor 
ot  Denbigh  Callle  to  fecure  to  Sir  Faithfull  Fortefcue,  and  to  keep  him  a  Prifc'aer  there." 

The    Parliament    was   not    at    that    time    to    be   prevailed   upjn  to  fet  him   at  libi  rt) . 
We  do  not,  however,  know  how  long  his  confinement  laftevl,  not  licaiing  of  liim  again  unt'l 
he  is  reported  as  one  of  thofe  who  followed  Prince  Charles,  now  Iviiig  Charles  II.,  to  Scot 
land,  and  who  were  with  him  and  his  army  at  Stirling  in  April,  1651.      I  lere  is  the  li  l  i  1 
tiill,  in  its  original  Scotch  : — 

"  The  ftrangers  that  followit  and  dependit  on  the  King  at  this  tyme  fa  fer  as  I  coukl  fij 
and  tak  notice,  ar  thefe — viz.  Duke  Buckinghame,  tlie  Flrle  of  Claveland,  the  Erie  of  Sant 
Paull  (Frenchman),  Lord  Wilmot,  Lord  Witlieringtoun,  Lord  Wcntworth,  Mr.  O'Neill 
(Yrifcheman),  Mr.  b'anfchaw  Clerk  of  Counfell,  Mr.  Jackfoun  Gentleman  ot  the  privii- 
chalmer.  Sir  William  Blackitoun,  Sir  Oratio  Cary,  Sir  ]''aithfull  Falkie,  Mr.  La^ne, 
Mr.  Harden  and  his  Brother,  Colonel  Graves,  Capitaine  Titus,  Mr.  Povvlie,  Mr.  Bray, 
General!  Major  Mallie,  Mr.  Windome,  Mr.  Bunfche,  SirTimothie  Fatherftoun,  Mr.  Smitlh, 
Major  Galzairt."'  1 

He  accompanied  Charles  from  Scotland,  on  his  march  to  the  fouth  to  flrike  a  blow  lor 
the  Englifli  crown,  and  was  prefent  in  the  great  and  decifive  battle  of  Worcefter,  tought  on 
the  3rd  of  September,  1651, —  Cromwell's  "Crowning  Mercy,"  and  the  death-!)low  to  tie 
hopes  of  the  King  and  his  friends.  I  may  here  fay  that  I  cannot  find  any  trace  of  eviden;e 
to  fupport  the  iLitement  of  I-odge,  that  Sir  b'aithful  accepted  a  regiment  tiom  Cromwell  for 
the  reduftion  of  Ireland,  which  he  led  to  Worcefter  to  fight  for  the  King.  The  miftake 
may  have  arifen  from  a  confufion  between  Colonel  liichard  Fortefcue  the  Parliamentarian 
officer,  and  Colonel  Sir  l-'aithtul  ]*"ortelcLie. 

He,  after   this  final  defeat  of  his  party,  fled  with  Charles  to  the  Continent,  remaining 


Vol.  V.  p.  657.  Nichols'  L>i;iry,  16JO--1OO7,  piiiiicd  L))   lianiicml)  iK  Club,   iSjb,  p.  S>-- 


:jnii>nt),  3    .mi   jju. 


■I'V.  i\  r.'xi  ,;  M.-ivfi'. 


Sir  Fait/ifui  Fofiefcue.  119 

there  until  the  Reftonition  in  May,  1660.  We  have  no  mention  of  him  while  abroad,  but 
we  know  tliat  his  ei^atcs  in  the  nortli  of  Ireland  were  over-iun  by  the  rebels,  and  that  he 
had,  under  the  Parliament,  loft  all  his  appointments  in  the  army  ;  and,  eonfequently, 
that  now  in  his  old  age, — neai'ly  eighty  years, —  he  mull:  have  been  in  ifraitened  cir- 
cumftances. 

The  King  did  not  forget  his  father's  old  fervant  ;  he  at  once  reftored  him  to  the 
governorfliip  or  conftable's  place  at  Carricktei-gus,  which  he  allowed  him  to  refign  a  tew 
months  later  in  tavour  of  his  fon  Sir  Thomas,  with  the  title  of  (iovernor  inllead  of  C'onftable 
conferred  on  the  latter.  Tlie  patent  reciting  that  thii  favour  was  granteil  "  in  conflderation 
of  the  eminent  fervices  done  Our  Royal  Father  and  Us  by  or.r  ffid  trull:y  and  well-beloved 
iervant.  Sir  Faithfull  Kortefcue."'  I  here  give  the  warrant  and  King's  letter  for  his 
reftoration  :  — 


Sir  Faithfull  Fortescue  reftored  to  he  Conftable  of  K}iockfergiis,  21  Aug.   1660. 

Charles  R. 

Whereas  our  Royall  Grandfather  did  by  his  Li'es  Patents  grant  to  our  trufty  and  well 
beloued  S".  ffiiithfull  ffortefcue  k"'.  the  Office  of  Conftable  of  Our  C.1III.;  of  Knockefergus  in 
Our  kingdome  ot  Ireland,  and  that  by  reafon  of  the  troubles  and  fid  diftraccons  of  the  late 
Times  the  faid  office  was  diipofed  of  by  our  Royall  ffiither  of  blefled  memory  to  other 
hands.  Now  (out  of  hopes  of  futm-e  fettlement  ar:d  a  defire  that  all  things  may  returne  to 
their  wonted  Order  and  Contlicon)  Our  Will  and  pleaiine  is  that  the  faid  S''.  ffiuthfull 
fforteicue  be  rei^ored  to  the  fiid  Office  of  Conftable  of  Our  Caltlc  of  Knockfergus  in 
Ireland,  and  that  lie  enjoy  all  rights  priviledges  proiits  coiliodities  aiul  advantages  therevnto 
belonging  in  as  full  and  ample  manner  as  he  the  faid  S''.  ffaithfull  ffortefcue  or  any  plon 
formerly  hath  held  and  enioyed  the  fame  And  for  foe  doing  this  iliall  be  your  Warrant. 
Given  at  Our  Court  at  Whitehall  this  21  day  of  Auguft  in  the  Twclte  )'eere  ot  Our 
Reigne. 

To  Our  right  trufty  and  right  entirely  beloved  Coufin  and 

Councell"''  George   Duke  ot   Albemarle,  Our  Lieutenant 

Generall,       And  To  Our  right  trufty  and  well  beloued 

Comicello''  John  Lord   Roberts  of  Truro  Lord   Deputy 

of  Ireland.     And  to  our  Lieu'.  Deputy,  Juftice,  Juftices,  '  '■ 

or    other    cheife    (joverno'    or    Governor",    Chancello^ 


'  See  the  Patent  of  Odober  I4tli,  1661,  to  Sir  Thomas  l''orte(ciic,  in  Api)en(iix. 


120  FcDfiily  of  Droniiffcifi^  etc. 

Keeper,  or  Com''",  for  y"  greate  Scale  of  that  Our  King- 
dome,  And  to  all  other  Our  Officers  there  whom  it  may 
concerne. 

By  his  Ma"".  Coniand, 

Einv.   NiCF-iOLAS. 
S^  ffiiithfull  ffortefcLie.' 

In  dor  fed  :—'■'■  11^^'  of  Aug.   60.      The  king's  warr'.   con- 
cerning S''.  ftaithfiill  ffortclcue."'  i 

Indorjed :  —  "Duke     of     Albemarle     his     Grace     to     y'' 
\A}\    Juftices     Dat.     18     Dec".    1660.      In 
behalfe     of    S''.     l-'aithfull     Fortefcue    to     be 
Conflablc  of  y''  Caftle  of  Knockfergus." 
Mv  Lords, 

I  fend  yo'  Lps.  hcere  inclofed  his  Maj"^'.  warrant  fignifying  his  Royall  will  and 
pleafure  that  S'.  ftaithfuli  ffortefcue  bee  reftoared  to  the  office  of  Conllable  of  his  Ma".  Caftel 
of  Knockfergus  in  Ireland  as  is  more  fully  therein  exprclTed,  And  I  defire  yo''  Lps.  10 
derive  vnto  the  fiid  S'.  fiaithtull  ftortelcue  the  tLill  benefit  of  his  Maj"".  gracious  intentioi  s 
to  him  therein,  I  remaine 

Yo''  Lps.  very  affedionat  frend  and  ferv'. 

Albemarle.        i 

Cockpitt  18  Decembr.  iC6o.^ 

Addrejs  on  hack  : — "  To  the  right  ho'''''  the  Lords  Judices  of 
the  kingdome  of  Irehuul  thele." 

Indorjed : — "  S'.  Faithful!  b'ortefcue,  Conftable  of 
Knockfergus  Callle.  Kings  Ire  for  it 
dated  8  l''ebr.  1601." 

Charles   W. 


Right  Trufty  and  wellbeloved  Counfellor,  and  R'.  Trudy  and  wellbeloved  Coufins  and    , 
Coimiellors,    Wee    Greet  you   well.       Whereas    Oiir  'I'rulty    and   wellbeloved   fervant   Sir  1 
Faithful)  Fortefcue  Kn'.  for  no  other  caufe  but  his  loyalty  ^i  good  affeiftion  to  Our   Ixoyall 
Father  of  bleffed  memoric,  ii  to  vs,  hath  been  for  many  ycares  laft   pad:  difponelTed   ot   his 
Office  of  Conftable  of  Our  Callle  of  Knockfergus  in  Our  kingdome  of  Ireland,    Vpon   his 
humble  Peticon  prefented  to  Vs  for  reftoring  him  to  his  faid  office.  Wee  have  tliought  good, 


C;;rte  MS.  xli.  fol.  2q.  -    Caitc  MS.  .\li.  tol.   29, 


>niJ  Iv' 


io  '.vl: 


^?/^  7-iJ 


AutOfSraph    I.eUt-i-    liom    Sir  l-'ailWul    I'orlfs.  ii.'    lu    M'.    C.ocii.lpliiii , 
Cii-i-a    ll'.lir,  ,    I„    IVblic    Krroi.l    ()in>-t> 


Si?^  Faithful  Fort ef cue. 


121 


&  do  hereby  require  you  forthwith  after  the  receipt  of  thefe  Our  Letters  to  give  order  for 
re-ellabHdiing  him  in  his  faid  office  according  to  the  exprefTe  words  of  his  Letters  Patents 
from  Our  Royall  grandfather.  Vox  which  this  fliall  he  your  Warrant.  Given  at  OLir 
Court  at  Whitehall  the  8"'  day  of  1^'ebruary  1661  in  the  tliirteenth  yeare  of  Our  lieigne. 

To  Our  R'.  Trufty  and  Wellbeloved 

Counfellor   Sir    Maurice    Euftace    Kn'. 

Chancellor  of  Our  Kingdome  of  Ireland,  By  his  Ma"",  coniand 

and  to  Our  R'.  Truliy  &  well  beloued 

Coufins  and  Counl'ellors  Roger  Earl  of  Will.   Morice. 

Orrery  and  Charles  Earle  of  Mountrath, 

Juftices  of  Our  faid  Kingdome. 

He  was  at  once  named  a  gentleman  of  the  Privy  Chamber,'  which  office  he  Ijcld  until 
his  death,  remaining  with  the  court.  We  find  documents  fhowing  that  the  King  gave  him 
feme  finecure  appointments,'  and  on  one  occalion,  as  here  fliovv'n,  a  grant  of  one  hundred 
pounds  to  relieve  his  wants. 

Order  for  a  warrant  to  pay  to  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue  100/.  as  a  free  gift. 
Right  Trufly  E.  Reflecting  graciorifly  on  the  many  good  Services  hertofore  done  to 
our  Ivoyal  h'ather  and  Our  Selfe  during  the  late  rebellion,  by  our  trufT:hy  and  well  beloved 
S".  Faithfull  Fortefcue  Knight,  We  canot  but  be  moved  with  a  Princely  Senfe  of  his 
preding  wants  and  contribute  what  the  prefent  ftate  of  our  Owne  affaires  will  fufFer  towards  his 
reliefe  and  eafe,  and  therefore  We  have  thought  fitt  herby  to  fignify  Our  Royall  pl^afure  to 
you  and  accordingly  our  will  and  pleafure  is  that  you  forthwith  give  efTeefuall  Order  for 
the  paying  to  him  the  fiid  S'.  b'aithfull  Fortefcue,  or  liis  Affignes  the  fume  of  one  hundred 
pounds,  out  of  fuch  monyes  as  are  remaineing  in  the  Receipt  of  Our  Exchequer,  as  of  Our 
free  guift  and  Royall  bounty.     For  which,  &c.     Given  ye  November  16"'  1664. 

By  his  Majeflies  command  ' 

FL  B.= 

He  flayed  with  the  King  until  the  frightful  vifitadon  of  the  plague  in  1665  drove  all 
who  could  leave  it  away  from  London,  and  then  betook  himfelf  to  the  Ifle  of  Wight, 
where  he  occupied  the  Manor  Floule  of  Bowcombe,  one  mile  from  Cariibrook.  flere  he 
fell  ill  ;  and  after  a  long  illnefs,  during  which  his  friend  and  connexion,  Colonel  ^Valter 
SlingAiy,  the   Deputy  Governor  of  the  Ifland,  frequently  vifited  him,  died  there  bt  tween 


'   See  the  Patent  of  Oiftobtr  14th,  1661,  to  Sir  'Ihomas  Foitelcue,  in  Appendix. 

2  One  of  them  was  that  of  Wat.  r-liaililf  and  Seuicher  of  Ri\eis  in  Kngland,      See  Appendix. 

*  From  Record  Office. 

11.  R 


122  Family  of  Di'oinijhn^  etc. 

the  ■24th  and  aSth  ot  May,  1660  ;   clofing  a  long  and  eventful  life  at  the  age  of  more  than 
eighty-five  years. 

He  was  buried,  either  in  the  church  ur  in  the  graveyard  of  Carifbrook,  on  the  29th  of 
that  month.      On  the  Regiftry  of  that  parilh  is  the  following  entry  :  — 

"  1666.   May.   Ikiried  29  day.   Sir  I''aithlul  I'orteicue,  Knight." 

Soon  after  the  two  hundredth  anniverfary  of  this  event,  i.  e.  on  the  13th  of  July,  1866, 
I  vifited  the  church,  and  after  copying  the  above  lines  from  the  Regifter,  proceeded  up  the 
valley  to  Bowcombe,  to  vifn  the  old  Manor  Houfe,  which  (till  exifts,  being  now  a  farm-hotife 
on  Sir  John  Simeon's  eftate.  The  Vicar,  the  Rev.  E.  Boucher  James,  has  had  the  kindnefs 
to  caufe  a  clofe  fearch  to  be  made  both  in  the  church  and  churchyard  for  any  flab  with  Sir 
Faithful's  name,  but  without  (uccefs. 


CAinsBKOOKK    CHUltCII,    ISI.l.    Ol'    WII- 


I  have  caufed  a  brafs  tablet  to  be  affixed  to  the  wall  at  the  call  end  of  the  church,  'vith 
this  infcription  :  — 

"In  memory  of  Colonel  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue,  Knight,  fon  of  John  Fortefcue,  Efqii-e, 
of  Buckland-Filleigh  in  Devon,  by  Sufannah,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Chichefter  of  Raleigh. 

"  He  was  a  diftinguifhed  Royalifl  officer,  and  fought  in  feveral  battles  of  the  Great 
Civil  War.  At  the  Iveftoration  he  became  a  gentleman  k^{  the  Privy  Chamler  to  King 
Charles  II. 

"  Having  left  London  to  avoid  the  contagion  of  the  plague,  he  retired  to  thi:-  ifland,  and 
foon  afterwards,  being  then  of  a  great  age,  died  at  the  manor  of  Bowcombe  in  this  parirti, 
and  was  buried  within  thefe  precinds  on  the  29th  day  ot    Ma)',  a.  d.   1666. 

"  This  tablet  is  placed  here  by  his  eldeft  male  repreientative,  Thomas  (Fortefcue)  Lord 
Clermont,  a.  u.  1866." 


Si?'  Faithful  Fortefcue.  123 

He  did  not  leave  a  will.  There  is  in  the  Regiftry  at  Winchefter  an  inventory  of  the 
articles  of  apparel  and  books  which  he  had  with  him  at  Bowcombe  at  his  tieath,  for  which 
adminiftration  was  granted  to  a  local  creditor.' 

ITe  married  a  fecond  wife  not  later  than  the  year  1637,  She  was  I^leanor,  daughter  of 
Sir  IV'Iarmaduke  Whitechurch,  Knight,  and  widow  of  John  Synionds,  Elquire,  who  left  her, 
as  a  dowry,  lands  in  Armagh  and  Monaghan."     By  her  he  had  no  iffue. 

Sir  Faithful's  eldeft  fon,  Chichefler,  entered  at  the  Inner  Temple  on  the  26th  of  April, 
1633,  as  "  Chichefter  P'ortefcue,  Armiger,  filius  et  ha;res  apparent,  Faithfull  Fortefcue  de 
Druminifkin  in  Com.  Louth  in  regno  Hibernia',  Milit."^ 

Jn  1634  he  was  returned  to  the  Irifh  Parliament  for  the  borough  of  Charlemont ;  and 
in  1642,  a  few  months  before  his  death,  for  Carlingford;  being  defcribed  as  "  of  Donough- 
more  in  the  County  of  Downc,"  a  portion  of  his  father's  eftate  near  Newry.  Fe  had  a 
company  in  Sir  Charles  Coote's  Regiment,  railed  for  Scotland  in  164O.' 

lie  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Slingfbv,  of  Kippax  in  Yorkfliire,  by 
whom  he  had  one  child,  Elizabeth,  who  married  Sir  Richard  Graham  of  Norton  Conyers, 
near  Ripon,  and  was  the  anceftrefs  of  the  prefent  Sir  Reguiald  Graham.  She  died  in 
1705,  and  was  buried  in  the  parifli  church  ot  Warth,  June  25,  1725.  Fler  portrait  was 
at  Norton  Conyers  until  the  removal  of  the  pidures  in  1864,  upon  the  fale  of  the  manfion 
and  eftate,  and  the  arms  of  Graham  impaling  Fortelcue  are  (till  cjii  a  fliield  over  the  entrance 
door  there.'' 

Chichefter  Fortefcue  is  flyled  Sir  Chicheller  in  Burke's  account  of  the  Graham  family, 
but  I  find  no  record  of  his  knighthood  ;  he  had  the  rank  of  a  colonel  in  the  army,  but  wiien 
fent  from  Dublin  in  1641,"  to  ailift  in  the  defence  of  Drogheda,  under  Tichbourne,;  he  only 
commanded  a  company  of  foot  "  on  the  old  eil:ablifhment,"'  and  was  fergeant-major  of  his 
uncle  Vifcount  Moore's  regiment.  Fie  took  an  ac'tive  part  in  the  defence,  but  died  during 
the  fiege  in  1642.  He  "  raifed  his  company  of  100  men  for  the  fervice  at  his  own  proper 
charge."" 

I<'our  years  later  his  widow  petitions  the  Houfe  of  Lords  for  her  hufband's  arrears. 
She  re-married  to  John  Villiers,  Vifcount  Furbeck,  brother  of  George  Villiers,  Duke  ot 
Buckingham.     Fler  burial,  in  1695,  is  thus  regiftered  at  Warth  : — 


'   See  Appendix. 

■^   Sec   Decrees   of  Chanecry   in    Irelaiifi,    Henry  VIII.,    2    Geo.    III.,  ami    In.|.    Rot.    Cone.    llib.   Rep.    Ultonii 
Armagh,  No.  33,  Car.  i.  .  _    , 

'   Records  of  Inner  Temple.  ^   Carte  MSS.  i.  fl'.   11  3- I  17.  '    ' 

^  Letter  from  Mr.  John  R.  Walbran  of  Fall-Croft,  Ripon,  Now  23,  1865,  to  Mr.  R.  Sims. 
^  Hiflory  of  Irilli  Rebellion  traced  to  the  Grand  lirnption,   1743,  p.  44. 

'   Letter  of  Charles  1.  of  May  1$,  1643,  granting  Chiehefter  I'ortefcue'.s  counnillion  to  his  brother  Thomas, 
"   Lords'  JouniLils,  vol.  viii.  p.  515,  Oe^tober  C),   1646. 


.Vllf'^tt 


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u'.i       a.')    vH 


,  i!lV   y^injH 


..1.1,.      .„!li. 


124  Fatnily  of  Dro))iiJkl?i^  etc. 

"  January  23,  1695." 
"  Norton.  —  The    Right  Ilonble.    Lady  l^hzabuth  Vifcoiintefs  of  Pourbeck,  buried   in 
hnnen,  but  information  of  it  made  to  Sir  Edward  Blackett." 

There  was  a  law  tlien  exifting  intended  to  encourage  the  woollen  maniifafture,  which 
ordered  that  dead  bodies  fliould  be  Hirouded  in  woollen  cloths ;  a  magiftrate's  licence  was 
required  to  allow  a  linen  fhroud. 

Sir  Faithful's  fecond  fon,  John,  was  killed  by  the  rebels  in  Ireland  in  1642.'  He  had  a 
captain's  commiHion  in  the  army  intended  for  Scotland  in  1640.     He  died  unmarried. 

The  third  fon  was  Sir  Thomas,  who  iucceedcd  to  his  fither's  eftates.  The  other  fons 
were  Roger,  Garret,  and  William. 

The  daughters  were  Lettice,  married  to  Sir  Thomas  Meredith  of  DollardlTiow  1  ;  Eleanor, 
married,  firft,  to  Thomas  Burnet,  l^iquire,  and  lecondly,  to  Colonel  Brent  Moore,  an  officer 
in  high  employments ;   Mary,  Elizabeth,  and  Alice. 

The  other  children  of  Sir  Faithful  died  young. 


Sir  Thomas   Fortescue. 

Sir  Thomas  Fortefcue,  the  eldeft  furviving  fon  of  Sir  Faithful,  fucceeded  to  his  father's 
eftates,  not,  however,  at  once,  or  as  a  matter  of  courfe ;  for  his  father  dying  without  a  will, 
the  property  went  to  Vilcountefs  Purbeck  and  Lady  Graham,  his  elder  brother's  widow  and 
daughter.  Sir  I'homas  fays,  "that  he  purchafed  his  eftate  from  Lady  Purbeck,|and  enjoys 
nothing  in  right  or  by  vertue  of  any  fettlement  made  by  his  father  or  elder  brother."'  Lie  was 
born  about  the  year  1620,  and  at  an  early  age  fervcd  in  the  army  in  the  Low  Countries, 
where,  as  his  patent  recites,  "he  was  bredd  a  fouldier,  and  was  his  colonel's  officer."'  LI  • 
then  returned  to  England,  and  became  "  Captaine  of  a  troop  of  horfe  under  the  Lord 
Llerbert,  with  great  fatisfacT:ion  and  approbation"  of  Charles  I,  who  when  he  was  twenty- 
two  years  old,  gave  him,  at  his  brotlier  Chichefter's  death,  in  1642,  tlie  foot  companv 
which  that  officer  had  railed  at  his  own  expenfe,  and  led  to  the  defence  of  Drogheda,  the 
pi-evious  year.  j 

He  was  his  father's  cornet  in  the  troop  which  he  raifed  in  1642,''  and  with  him  joined 
the  King's  army  at  Edgehill,  and  ferved  in  feveral  of  the  battles  that  enfued. 

In  1649,  °'^  "-^^^  '-'"-^  of  Auguft,  he  was  taken  prifoner  by  the  Parliamentariars,   in  an 


'  Carte  MS.  i.  (f.  113-117. 

■•^  iMom  a  MS.,  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  Thomas's  fecond  fon,  Capl.iin  William  Fortefcue. 

'   Letters  Patent  from  Charles  I.  of  May  25,   1643.     See  Appendix. 

^  See  Peacock's  Army  Lift  of  KuLindheads  and  Ca\alicis,  London,   1863.     ■ 


Fmiiily  of  Droniijki?!^  etc.  125 

adion  fought  before  Dublin  againil  the  King's  troops,  under  the  J)uke  ot  Ormonde.  We 
learn  this  from  a  pamphlet  entitled,  "  Letters  to  Councell  of  State,  of  a  greate  Viflory 
againft  the  Earl  of  Ormonde  and  Earl  of  Inchiquin,  before  Dublin.  iogether  with  a  Lill 
of  the  Prifoners."  ' 

"  Field  Officers  taken. 

Col.  C.  Plunkett,  Earl  of  Fingall. 

Col.  R.  Butler,  Lord  Ormonde's  brother. 

Lt.-Col.  Michael  Searl,  Adjutant-General. 

Lt.-Col.  Aldworth,  Lt.-Col.  Staneley,  Lt.-Col.  Fortefcue,  Lt.-Col.  Jones." 

Lodge  flates  that  he  was  lieutenant-colonel  in  Prince  Charles's  Horfe  Guards ;  and  we 
find  him  again,  as  Colonel  I^'ortefcue,  attached  to  him  in  Scotland,  when,  atter  his  father's 
execution,  King  Charles  was  preparing  to  invade  England,  for  the  recovery  of  h.s  liere- 
ditary  crown.  Sir  I'homas  was  left  behind  in  Scotland,''  where,  in  Augull,  1651,  he 
was  engaged  in  a  flcirmifli  with  the  Parliamentarians,  and  loft  all  but  four  of  "  his  convoy 
of  eighteen  troopers."  He  was  ioon  atter,  with  twenty-eight  men  of  his  company,  taken 
prifoncr  by  the  Mofs-troopers  between  Leith  and  Berwick,  on  his  way  to  England,  and 
he,  no  doubt,  but  for  this  accident,  would  have  been  at  the  battle  of  Worcefter.  Only 
four  days  after  that  battle,  i.e.  on  the  6th  of  September,  1651,  there  is  an  order  by 
Cromwell,''  "  difcharging  Colonel  b'ortefcue  from  reifraint,  he  giving  a  bond  of  400/.  and 
two  fureties  of  200/.  each,  that  he  do  nothing  prejudicial  to  the  Commonwealth." 

lie  is  next  mentioned  in  the  year  1660,  as  receiving  a  major's  commillion,  on  the  13th 
of  December,  in  the  regiment  of  foot  which  Colonel  John  Cole  commanded.'  And  in  the 
year  1661  he  is  appointed  governor  of  Carrickfergus  Caftle,  in  his  father's  place,  who  is 
allowed  to  refign  in  his  favour,  by  a  patent  dated  14th  of  Ocflober,  reciting  that  the  per- 
nuilion  was  "  in  confideration  of  the  eminent  fervices  done  our  Royal  bather  and  us  by  our  '  j 
trufty  and  well-beloved  fervant.  Sir  l''aithful  Fortefcue."^ 

He  feems  to  have  refided  for  fome  years  in  his  caftle  of  Carrickfergus,    feveral  of  his     ' 

letters  bearmg  that  date.      The  following  one  refers  to  the  dangers  of  the  time  : —  • 

■  i 

/Wo;/f^/;—"  L'.-Coll.  Fortefcue  C;[J5(  May  1663."  .-     '         ' 

Sir,  I 

I  receiued  my  Lord  Dukes   letter  dated  the  19'"  of  this  month,  I  fhall   according  to 
my  duty  oblerue  his  Graces  commands   with   my  vtmoft  care   and  dilligence,   and       fhall 

'   The  pamphli't  witli  the  above  title  was   |irinted  in  London,  in  4to,   1  Ith  Angiift,   1669,  by  \'A.  lUilband  ;   it  is 
in  the  Bodleian  Library. 

^  WhitelocU's  Memorials,  8vo.  edition,  iii.  327,  328.  ^  State  Paper  Office,  Dom,  Car. 

■*  See  the  King's  Letter  in  Carte  Papers,  vol.  xli.  ^  See  Patent,  in  Appendix. 


126  Family  of  Droiiiijhin^  etc. 

endeauor  to  dilcouer  all  fuch  confpiritors  and  giiie  you  an  account  of  them,  wee  hauc  lieere 
many  Rebellious  harts  with  fmoath  Tongues,  profefing  great  loyalty  to  the  king,  but  thek 
Iheep  f!<^in  wolues  are  generally  known,  therfore  conceaue  them  the  lefs  dangerous.  I  can 
giue  you  nothing  that's  Itrang  from  thefe  parts,  my  prayers  cV  good  wiflies  fhall  euer  wait 
on  you,  my  good  I.ady  and  all  yours  (Deare  S'.)  bee  pleafed  to  beleeue  that  I  am  : 

Your  moll  faithfull  louer  &  obeadient  feruant 

ThOS  :     FoRTESCUE. 
CnnicktL-rgus  ihe  2  2  of  May  1663. 

AddreJ's : — "  For  S'.  George  Lane  K'. 

Thefe  .  •  ■ 

Dublin.'" 

In  1663  he  was  knighted.  In  16S2  he  ferved  as  Fligli  Sheriff  for  the  county  of 
Down. 

Sir  Thomas  continued  to  hold  the  governorfliip  at  Carrickfergus,  and  to  command  a 
regiment  of  foot,  under  Major-Cieneral  Lau'tax,"  initil  the  change  of  policy  confequent  u  -)on 
the  acceHion  of  James,  and  his  encouragement  of  the  Roman  Catholic  party,  when  lie  .vas 
cafliiered  from  all  his  appointments  ;  his  fon's  acftivity  in  the  defence  of  Derry  being  alleged 
as  one  of  the  reafons  for  this  feverity,^  and  was  afterwards  imprifoned  in  Dublin  Callle, 
where  he  lay  until,  with  many  perfons  of  note,  he  was  releafed  upon  the  defeat  of  Jamci  at 
the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  in  1688.  '■ 

He  lived  to  the  great  age  of  ninety,  dying  early  in  the  year  17  10.  | 

His  will  is  dated  the  3rd  of  December,  1709,  and  was  proved  on  the  22nd  of  May, 
17 10.  » 

He  was  twice  married;  firfl:,  to  Sydney,  daughter  of  Colonel  Kingfmill,  of  New  I'ark, 
whofe  fiffer  married  Matthew  Peniiefather,  Efq.,  a  member  of  Parliament  for  the  boiough 
of  Cafliel.      By  her  he  had  two  Ions,  Chicheffer  and  William. 

Fie  married,  fecondly,  Elizabeth,'  daughter  of  Sir  Fcrdinando  Cary,  grandfon  of  tlefirll: 
Lord  I  lunfdon,  l)y  whom  he  had  no  ifllie.  .  :         .. 

Chichefter  Fortefcue,  the  eldefl  fon  of  Sir  Thomas,  died  before  his  father.  He  was 
colonel  of  a  regiment  of  foot,   and  was  accoiuited  one  of  the  beft  fwordlmer  of  his  time. 


'  Carte  Papers,  vol.  xxxii.  fol.  272.  In  ibmu  of  Sir  Tliomas  Foitcfcuf's  Letters  to  Sir  George  Lane  he  figns 
himl'elt'"  your  aflic^fionate  kinl'man."      1  have  not  been  able  to  linfl  the  connecHion  between  them. 

-   See  printed  cafe  of  William  Fortefeue  for  Iloufe  of  Commons. 

■'   See  MS.  Statement  of  Captain  William  Fortefcue,  in  the  aulhoi's  polbcllioii. 

'  For  information  on  this  marriage  1  am  inthbled  to  llu  Kev.  Cliarles  J.  Kobinlon,  of  Harewooil.  in  Herefont- 
(hirc.     His  authorily^is  the  MS.  copy  of  Segar's  Haroiiaginm.  at  the  UeiaWs  College. 


Family  of  Droniijk'vi^  etc.  127 

He  refidcd,  during  the  reign  of  King  James  II,  on  his  fiither's  eftate  at  Donoughmore, 
in  Down/  until  difturbed  by  the  troubles  which  marked  its  clofe.  In  the  fpring  of  1689, 
James's  Irifli  foldiers  having  come  in  force  from  Newry  to  difperfe  the  Proteflant  inhabitants, 
all  who  were  able  fled  the  country  ;  Colonel  I'ortefcue's  wife  and  three  children  being  lent 
for  fiifety  to  the  Ifle  of  Man,  while  he  himfelf  raifed,  at  his  own  charge,  a  troop  of  dragoons, 
and  led  them  to  the  defence  of  Londonderry.  He  died  there,  fome  time  before  the  relief 
of  the  city,  of  the  prevalent  diieafe." 

He  married,  in  1681,  Fridefwide/  daughter  of  Francis  Hall,  Eiq.,  of  Mount  Hall,  now 
Narrow-water,  in  Down,  by  whom  he  left  one  fon,  Thomas,  and  four  daughters ;  the 
eldeft,  Sydney,  married  to  Thomas  Bolton,  of  Knock,  Efq.,  brother  to  Theophilus,  Arch- 
bilhop  of  Cafhel ;  Lettice,  married  to  the  Rev.  Thomas  Tifdall,  and  died  in  1726;  Ger- 
trude, married  to  Thomas  St.  Leger,  Efip,  of  Doneraile;''  and  Anne. 

Thomas  Fortefcue  of  Dromiflcin,  the  only  fon,  fucceeded  to  the  eftates  of  his  grand- 
father, Sir  Thomas,  in  the  counties  of  Down  and  Louth,  on  the  death  of  the  latter,  in  1710. 
He  married,  in  1716,  Anne,  eldeft  daughter  of  John  Garftin,  F/q.,  of  Braganftown,  and 
died  May  19th,  1725.  Llis  children  were,  Chicheller,  born  June  5th,  1718;  John,  born 
June  9th,  1719  ;   and  Anne,  born  June  jo,  1720,  who  died  unmarried  in  1751. 

Chicheller,  the  eldefl,  and  heir  to  his  father,  ferved  as  High  SheriiT  of  Down  in  1744; 
was  returned  to  the  Irifh  Parliament  for  the  borough  of  Trim,  October  15th,  1747,  which 
he  reprefented  until  his  death.  He  married,  April  9th,  1743,  the  Honourable  Elizabeth 
Wellefley,  eldefl  daughter  of  Richard,  firft  Lord  Mornington.  She  died  OcTrober  loth, 
1752,  having  had  feven  children,  of  whom  two  died  while  inf^ints. 

Mr.  I^'ortefcue  was  one  of  the  one  hundred  and  twenty-four  Members  of  Parliarnent 
who  were  prefented  by  the  country  with  gold  medals  for  a  popular  and  patriotic  vote  on  the 
17th  of  December,  1754,  which  is  explained  by  a  memorandum  attached  to  Chichefler 
Fortefcue's  medal,  by  his  grandfon,  the  late  Lord  Mark  Kerr,  as  follows:  — 

"  The  Irifh  Treafury,  being  i)U'iiiiibered  by  a  iurplus  of  300,000/.  it  was  claimed  for  the 
King  ;  this  was  reje(5ted  by  many  of  the  members,  who  infifled  it  ought  to  be  applied  i;o  the 
benefit  of  Ireland.      This  medal  was  given  to  thofe  who  voted  for  the  latter." 

Mr.  Fortefcue  and  his  wife  are  mentioned  in  the  correfpondence  of  Mary  Granville,  • 
whofe   friends   they  were.      She   writes    of   them    to    Mrs.    Dewes  ■"  : — "You    know__Mrs. 


'  Tliixii  ol'tliu  townlands  on  this  property,  viz,,  MiuMydriimbrocrt ,  Moncyniorf,  and  Aughintobbcr,  were,  aloiit 
feventy  years  ago,  fold  to  the  Corry  family  ol  Newry. 

'^  See  Mackenzie's  Siege  of  Deny.      Walkei's  do.  and  Alh's  account. 
5  She  died  in  1708  ;  fee  her  Will  in  Armagh  Dirtricfl  Kegiliry. 
■*  Lodge's  Peerage  of  Ireland,  vi.  1  18,  article  "  VifconiU  Doncraile." 
^  Letters  of  Mary  Granville,  vol.  ii.  501  ;   OeT;obcr  jth,  1748. 


128  Family  of  Droinijkin^  etc. 

Fortefcue — flie  was  always  a  favourite  of  mine  ;  her  pretty  hufband  was  abroad,  which  I  was 
forry  for,  as  he  would  have  been  an  agreeable  addition  to  oiu-  fociety." 

And  agani,  writing  to  the  fame  from  Dangan,  Lord  Mornington's  feat,  June  3rd,  1752  :-- 
"  At  twelve  the  coaches  were  ordered,  and  we  drove  to  Mr.  Fortefcue's  ert:ate,  which  he 
purchafed  about  four  years  ago,'  and  which  joins  to  LorcT  IVIornington's.  He  is  preparing 
tor  building ^here,  and  (liowed  us  the  fituation,  which  will  be  very  fine,  not  two  miles  from 
hence. 

"  Mr.  Fortefcue  propofes  having  his  houfe  ready  to  receive  him  by  the  time  Mr.  Wefley 
is  of  age  and  brings  honie  a  wife  ;  but  I  wiih  before  that  happens  there  may  not  a  misfortune 
befal  this  family  that  will  damp  all  their  joys  ;  for  I  think  Mrs.  {•''ortefcue  is  in  a  very 
dangerous  way,  though  rather  better  than  flie  was.  She  would  lie  an  infinite  lofs  to  hi  r 
young  family;  to  her  father  an  irreparable  one;  and,  as  far  as  one  cai.  judge  of  mans 
affetftions,  a  great  one  to  her  huA:)and,  who  is  one  of  the  bell  fort  of  young  U'en  I  was  ever 
acquainted  with,  and,  withal,  perfe6tly  polite  and  well  bred."" 

"  Mrs.  Fortefcue  died  laft  Tuefday  fe'nnight  at  Lord  Mornington's  houfe  in  Dublin. 
How  I  feel  for  all  the  family  !  Such  a  hufband  !  I  hardly  ever  heard  of  anything  f )  tt  nder 
and  fo  afFc6tionate."' 

Mr.  Fortefcue  died  June  i6th,  1757.  His  fons  were,  firft,  Thomas,  who  ficcceded 
him  ;  Richard,  born  May  7th,  1749,  and  died  in  1774  ;  Sir  Chicherter,  born  June  71!  ,  1  750, 
was  a  Rear- Admiral  in  the  Navy;  he  obtained  the  office  of  Ulfter  King-at-Arms  in  1788.  and 
was  allowed  to  perform  its  duties  by  deputy  ;  he  was  returned  Member  of  Pftrliament  fo  ■  the 
borough  of  Trim  in  the  year  1798,  through  the  influence  of  Lord  Mornington,  whole  :lofe 
borough  it  was.  The  following  letter  on  the  fubjeft  from  Lord  Mornington's  l)ro;her, 
the  Honourable  Arthur  Wefley,  afterwards  the  great  Duke  of  Wellington,  who  was  firft 
coufin  to  Sir  Chichefter,  is  not  without  interefl.  It  was  written  during  the  Duke's  tirll 
campaign  in  command  of  a  brigade  in  Llolland. 


From  the  Honourable  Arthur  IVeJley  to  Admiral  Sir  Ctiichcjier  Fortefcue.        '-. 

Vzerdom,''  Deciiiiher  20,  l7<-4- 

Mv   DEAR  Chit,  , 

1    have  received  your  letter,  and  I  wifli    you  joy   of  the  circumitance  which  in- 
terrupted you  at  the  clofe  of  it.     The  intelligence  which  you  give  me  that  I  Jrd   Headfort 


'  This  eftate  was  called  Adamftown.      I  do  not  belicVL-  tliat  the   inttndod  lioule  was  ever  built  ;   and  the  eftatc 
was  (old  again  at  the  beginning  of  the  prelent  centuiy. 

'^  Letters  of  Mary  Granville,  vol.  iii.  130.  ^  Ibid.  iii.  165  :  Oolober  20,  1752. 

''  This  name  is  indiflin(5l  in  the  oriijinal. 


■I   .u.     .K^n.-jAl 


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■'JM'iU    li;''>(ii'X"J''>ir->i'l''' 


Fainily  of  Dro7?7iJkin^  etc.  129 

intends,  in  cafe  of  his  father's  death,  to  fet  up  Clot,  for  the  County  Meath,  furprifes  me 
much  ;  firft,  becaufe  I  thought  him  too  prudent  to  enter  into  the  elecflioneering  politicks  of 
that  county,  unlefs  certain  of  holding  the  helm,  and  next  becaufe  I  could  not  conceive  it 
polTible  that  a  family  iliould  fo  totally  throw  off  one  of  its  branches  in  favour  of  another,  as 
it  feems  to  be  the  intention  of  that  family  to  do  in  the  cafe  of  Robert  and  Clotvvorthy 
Taylor.  However,  I  fliall  certainly  profit  of  the  intelligence,  and  fhall  make  fuch  arrange- 
ments with  Mornington  when  1  go  to  London,  as  fhall  prevent  us  from  being  taken  by 
furprife.  I  have  now  a  propofal  to  make  to  you,  which  I  beg  you  will  take  into  your  con- 
fideration,  and  let  me  have  your  anfwer  upon  my  arrival  in  London  ;  it  is  to  bring  you  into 
Pari',  for  Trim.  I  fhould  have  defired  it  when  I'aylor  came  in,  only  that  I  then  imagined 
a  feat  in  Pari',  was  incompatible  with  your  fituation  in  the  Houfe  of  Lords  ;  but  I  am  now 
of  a  contrary  conviftion,  and  I  am  fure  I  need  not  endeavour  to  perfuade  you  that  if  to  bring 
you  into  Pari',  can  turn  to  your  advantage,  nothing  will  give  Mornington  more  pkafure. 
In  confidering  this  fubjeft,  firft  revolve  the  advantage  of  which  it  will  be  to  you  and  your 
family  fhould  matters  go  on  fmoothiy  ;  next,  the  difiidvantage,  of  which  there  is  only  a 
poflibility,  fhould  they  be  otherwife.  Upon  the  firft  part  of  the  queftion  I  need  fay 
nothing  ;  we  all  know  that  in  Ireland  nothing  is  given  for  nothing ;  upon  the  fecond  I  mufi: 
urge  to  you  that,  even  if  matters  fhould  change,  Mornington,  confidering  your  fituation, 
would  not  poilibly  defire  you  to  rifk  anything.  I  deliver  this  opinion  upon  the  prefent  view 
of  Irifli  politicks,  but  as  circumftances  may  alter,  it  is  not  one  upon  which  I  fiiould  wifli 
you  to  place  a  certain  reliance  ;  but  even  fhould  Mornington  defire  you  to  go  into  opppfition 
with  him,  your  office  was  given  to  you  long  ago,  long  before  you  became  a  Member  of 
Pari'.,  and  if  one  may  judge  of  the  future  condiifl  of  Irifh  minifters  by  their  former,  your 
oppofition  will  not  deprive  you  of  it.  Should  my  reafoning  upon  this  ground  appear  falle, 
you  are  to  confider  that  you  will  always  have  a  power  to  vacate  your  feat  ;  and  in  cafe  you 
confent  to  be  brought  in,  I  fiiall  certainly  ftipulate  with  Mornington  on  your  part,  that  to 
vacate  when  he  goes  into  oppofition  is  not  to  be  confidered  a  fiiabby  proceeding.  I  have 
written  long  enough  upon  this  fubjeft.  Dired  your  anfwer  to  Meyricks,  Derby  Street.  I 
intend  to  go  to  England  in  a  few  days  ;  that  is  to  fay,  if  the  French  remain  quiet,  and  if  the 
reg\  is  relieved  from  the  advance-poft  upon  the  river  Waal,  where  it  has  been  for  above  fix 
weeks.  At  prefent  the  French  keep  us  in  a  perpetual  ftate  of  alarm  ;  we  turn  out  once, 
fometimes  twice,  every  night.  The  officers  and  men  are  harafied  to  death,  and  if  we  an  not 
relieved,  I  believe  there  will  be  very  few  of  the  latter  remaining  iliortly.  1  have  not  had 
my  clothes  off  my  back  for  a  long  time,  and  generally  fpend  the  greateft  part  of  the  night 
upon  the  bank  of  the  river,  notwithftanding  wliich  I  have  entirely  got  rid  of  that  diiurder 
which  was  near  killing  me  at  the  clofe  of  the  funmier  campaign.  Although  the  French 
annoy  us  much  at  night,  they  are  very  entertaining  during  the  day  time.  They  are 
perpetually  chattering  with  our  officers  and  foldiers,  and  dance  the  Carmagnol,  &c.  &c.  upon 

II.  s 


I  30  Family  oj  Droin'ijkin^  etc.  .   ■ 

the  oppofite  bank  whenever  we  defire  them  ;   but  occafionally  the  fpedtators  on  our  fide  ar-; 
interrupted  in  the  middle  of  the  dance  by  a  canngn  ball  from  theirs., 
With  befl:  comp".  to  Lady  Fortefcue, 

Believe  me,  yours  moft  aft'edionately, 
, ,  A.   Wesley 

From  the  Honble.  Sir  Arthur  Wellejley\  to  Admiral  Sir  Chichejier  Fortefcue. 

Beucflee  (or  Brewedot-,  iniJilliin?l),  Oc^t'.  30"',  1805. 

My  Dear  Chit. 

I  received  from  George  Pomeroy  your  letter  of  the  15'"  Nov',  flioi  dy  after  you  haci 
written  it,  but  I  was  lo  much  hurried  previoufly  to  my  departure  trom  England  that  I  ha  1 
not  leifure  to  acknowledge  and  thank  you  for  it,  indeed  I  might  perhaps  at  this  i^ioment 
urge  a  fimilar  excufe  for  a  further  delay  ;  but  it  has  hiin  by  me  for  fuch  a  length  of  ti  ne  and 
fo  many  years  have  elapfed  fince  I  have  had  any  communication  that  I  Should  be  i[uite 
afhamed  of  myfelf  if  I  did  not  take  the  firft  mcJ^fnent  which  I  could  fpare  to  write  to   /oi  . 

I  am  very  much  obliged  to  you  for  the  care  which  you  have  taken  of  my  goods,  an  i  as 
I  am  embarked  again  in  a  new  fcene  of  fervice  the  refuh  of  which  I  cannot  torefee,  I  iTiall 
be  obliged  to  you  if  you  will  take  care  of  them  for  fome  time  longer. 

You  have  not  told  me  how  you  fare  in  the  world  at  preient.  I  hope  that  you  took  care 
of  yourfelf,  or  had  fomebody  to  take  care  of  you  at  the  time  of  the  Union,  vUiich  eve.it  .nuft 
have  made  a  material  alteration  in  the  nature  of  your  fituation.  1 

Our  old  friends  at  Trim  have  imagined,  I  fancy,  that  the  diffolution  of  their  Corj  on  tion 
ought  to  diflblve  all  connection  between  them  and  our  family  ;  not  a  man  of  them  (not  even 
Elliott)  has  written  me  a  line  fince  I  returned  to  ILngland,  and  1  know  no  more  abo  it  my 
old  accjuaintance  in  that  part  of  the  world  than  if  they  were  at  Japan. 

I  exped  that  Lord  Welleiley  will  have  arrived  in  England  about  Chriihnas,  I  kno  ■/  that 
you  will  write  to  him  upon  his  arrival;   but  leaft  you  fliould  forget  or  omit  to  do  lb,  !  men- 
tion that  he  will  be  much  annoyed  if  he  fhould  not  hear  from  you. 
God  blefs  you,  my  Dear  Chit. 

Believe  me  ever  your's  moft  afFeftionately, 

Arthur  \V  iiI.lesley. 

Admiral  Fortefcue  married,  in  179 1,  Frances  Anne,  third  daughter  of  David  Jones, 
Efquire,   of  Bensfurt,  by   whom   he  had  ifTue,   Richard,   Chichefter,  Sydney   (a  daughter), 


The  Hon.  A.  Welleiley  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  September  1,  1804. 


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Fauiily  of  Dro9/iiJkin^  etc.  '    ■  131 

Elizabeth,  PVances,  married,  firlt,  to  Rev.  George  Hamilton,  Ton  of  the  Bifliop  of  Oflory, 
and,  fecondly,  to  the  Rev.  George  M.  lieade,  and  has  ifiue ;  and  Harriet,  married  to  Richard 
Tonfon  Evanfon,  ECquire,  who,  after  her  death,  re-married  Lady  WilHam  Montagu. 

Gerald,  the  fourth  Ton,  was  Iiorn  Nov.  15,  1751,  and  died  Ort.  27,  1787;  he  married 
EHzabeth,  daughter  of  John  Tew,  Efquire,  and  had  iflue  (i)  a  fon  Thomas,  born  1782,  who 
tor  feveral  years  was  in  important  employments  in  India,  appointed  thereto  by  his  coufin,  the 
Marquis  Wellefley,  then  Governor-General,  and  was  afterwards  Civil  Comminioner  at  Delhi; 
he  married  March  19,  1859,  LouiHi  Margaret,  fecond  daughter  of  the  late  Francis  Ruffell 
Eager,  Efquire;  and  (2)  a  daughter  Anne,  married  to  William  Richard  Hopkyns  Northey, 
Efquire,  of  Oving  Houfe,  Bucks,  by  whom  fhe  had  one  fon,  Richard,  and  five  daughters  ; 
of  thefe  Fanny  Elizabeth  married  in  1830  to  George  Lord  Bofton  ;  Geraldine,  in  i8]8,  to 
Jofeph  Pratt-Tynte,  Efquire;  Margaret  Antoinette,  in  1850,  to  John  Lord  De  Saun.arez  ; 
and  Eulalie  Emily,  to  James  Agg  Gardner,  Efquire. 

L^lizabethj  the  only  daughter  of  the  above  Chichefler  Fortefcue  and  Flonourahle  Elizabeth 
Wellefley  (born  April  3,  1745),  was  married,  June  9,  1763,  to  William  John  Lord  New- 
battle,  afterwards,  by  the  death  of  his  grandfather  the  third  Marquis  of  Lothian  in  1767, 
Earl  of  Ancrum ;  and  finally,  by  the  death  of  his  father  the  fourth  Marquis  in  1775,  Mar- 
quis of  Lothian. 

We  retljrn  to  Thomas  Fortefcue,  eldeft  fon  of  Chichefter,  who  died  in  1757.  He  was 
horn  May  i,  1744 ;  fcrved  in  Parliajnent  for  the  borough  of  Trim,  from  July  2,  1768,  until 
his  death  in  1779;  married,  firft,  in  March,  1770,  the  Honourable  Mary  Pakenham, 
fecond  daughter  of  the  firft  Lord  Longford,  and -of  Elizabeth,  afterwards  created  Cguntefs 
of  Longford  ;  after  her  death,  in  1775,  ^c  re-married,  in  1776,  Mary,  daughter  of  L^dward 
Nicholfon,  Efquire,  by  Henrietta,  daughter  of  Robert  Sandford,  Efquire,  of  Caftlereagh, 
(whofe  grandfon  was  created  Lord  Mountfandford),  and  of  Lady  Henrietta  O'Brien, 
daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Inchiquin. 

By  his  firft  wife  he  had  Chichefter  and  Elizabeth,  who  died  young  ;  and  Anna  Maria,  born 
at  Touloufe  in  France  July  the  6th  1773;  married,  January  18,  1802, 'to  William  Parkin- 
fon  Ruxton,  Efquire,  of  Redhoufe,  Louth,  member  in  the  Irifh  Parliament  for  the  borough 
of  Ardce  until  the  Union,  and  died  Auguft  25,  1865,  aged  92  years.  ,  Mr.  Ruxton  died 
Oftober,  1847. 

By  his  fecond  marriage  he  had  Chichefter,  who  fucceeded  his  father,  born  Auguft  12, 
1777  ;  and  Harriett,  married,  Nov.  12,  1812,  to  the  Right  Honourable  George  Knox,  tifth 
fon  of  the  firft  Vifcount  Northland,  and  brother  to  the  firft  Earl  of  Ranfurly,  and  died, 
January  21,  18 16,  having  had  ifllie,  Ifabclla,  married  to  John  Tifdall,  Efq.  of  Charlesfort, 
and  John  Chichefter,  married  to  the  Lady  Louifa  Damer,  fifter  of  the  thnd  Earl  of 
Portarlington. 

Chichefter  Fortefcue,  of  Dromifkin,  fucceeded  to  the  family  eftates  on  the  death  ot  his 
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Fcunily  of  Dro/nijkin,  eic.  133 

from  June,  1857,  to  March,  1858,  and  again  from  June,  1859,  to  November,  1865,  when 
he  was  appointed  by  liarl  Ruffell  Chief  Secretary  for  Ireland,  which  office  he  vacated  on  the 
refignation  of«the  Miniftry  in  July,  1866,  and  in  December,  1868,  on  the  formation  of 
Mr.  Gladftone's  Government,  refumed  the  Chief  Secretaryfhip,  and  was  admitted  to  a  feat  in 
the  Cabinet.      He  was  fworn  as  a  Privy  Councillor  at  Windfor  on  the  7th  of  April,  1864. 

He  married,  January,  1863,  Frances,  Dowager  Countefs  Waldegrave,  daughter  of  John 
Braham,  Efquire,  widow  of  the  7th  Earl  Waldegrave,  and  of  George  Granville-Harcourt, 
Efquire,  of  Nunehara,  Oxford  ;  in  1862,  he  took  the  furname  of  Parkinfon  before  his  own, 
in  compliance  with  the  will  of  Mr.  Parkinfon  Ruxton,  of  Redhoufe,  who,  as  we  have  (ttn, 
was  married  to  his  aunt,  and  who  left  him  his  eftate  in  Louth. 

We  now  go  back  to  William  l<'ortefcue  of  Newragh,  fecond  fonof  Sir  Thomas  Fortefcue. 
He  was  born  about  the  year  1647,  ^^^  ferved  in  the  army  from  his  youth,  being  mace  an 
enfign  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  and  by  a  commiffion  figned  by  the  Marquis  of  Ormonde,  dated 
the  19th  of  June,  1680,  the  J  2nd  year  of  Charles  II.,  he  became  a  lieutenant  in  his  father's 
toot-company.  The  commiflion  thus  obtained  had  been  held  until  his  death  by  his  kinfman. 
Faithful  Fortefcue,  fon  to  Captain  b'aithful  Fortefcue,  and  grandfon  to  the  firft  Sir  Faithful 
of  Buckland-Filleigh,  mentioned  before.  The  printed  ftatement  of  his  loffes  when  employed 
in  the  defence  of  the  town  of  Bandon,  in  the  fouth  of  Ireland,  under  King  William,  gives 
an  account  of  what,  no  doubt,  were  the  principal  events  of  his  life,  and  is  here  annexed, 
with  the  addrefs  of  the  Floufe  of  Commons  in  his  behalf. 

1 
'The  Cafe  of  ll'iiruim  F-'orlefiie,  Efq. 

That  the  faid  JVilliam  Fortefcue,  feme  fhort  time  before  the  late  happy  Revolution  in 
this  Kingdom,  purchafed  a  Company  of  b'oot  in  the  l^egiment  then  Commanded  by  the 
now  Major  General  Fairfax,  and  foon  after  by  the  Earl  of  Clancarty. 

That  foon  after  his  late  Majefly  King  IVilltam  of  Glorious  Memory  landed  in  England, 
the  faid  William  laid  down  the  faid  Command,  and  joyned  in  an  AfTociation  with  the 
Proteftant  Nobility  and  Gentry  of  the  Province  of  Miinjler,  and  Commanded  that  Party 
which  feized  on  the  Irijh  P'orces,  then  Garrifon'd  in  the  Town  of  Bandon,  whereby  he 
fecured  the  Town  for  the  ufe  of  their  late  Majefties  King  IVilliam  and  Oueen  Mary,  'till  the 
whole  Province  was  Reduced  by  Lieutenant  General  Macarty,  when  the  faid  Town  was 
forced  to  Surrender  upon  Articles  to  the  faid  Lieutenant  (leneral  ;  which  Articles  were 
Ratified  by  the  late  King  fames. 

*^*  That  notwithil:anding  the  faid  Articles  and  Ratification,  the  faid  IFilliam  Fortefctie 
was  immediately  after  the  faid  Surrender,  apprehended  by  Vertue  of  a  Warrant  from  the 
(aid  King  James,  and  committed  to  Cork  Gaol,  where  he  Remained  Eleven  Months,  among 
Condemned  Malefaftors,  being  Daily  Threatned  to  be  Hang'd,  During  which  time  he 
received  not  one  I-'arthing  towards  his  Subfillance,  but  on  the  Ci^ntrary,  was  itripped  of  what 


I  34  Fafnily  of  Droinifkin^  etc. 

Money  and  Apparel  he  had,  when  he  was  fo  Apprehended,  and  foon  after  all   his  Fortune  ■ 
was  feized  by  Direftion  of  the  then  Powers,  and  his  Wife  and  Children  were  turned  out  of  ' 
the /aid  William  Forte/cue's  Houfe,  and  Reduced  to  fo  great  Extremity  of  Want,  that  fome 
of  his  Children  Periflied  in  Ditches. 

That  the  faid  ll^illiiUH  Forte/cue's  Father,  Sir  Thomai  Forte/cue,  was  Lieutenant  Colonel 
to  the  faid  Major  General  Fairfax,  and  was  upon  the  late  King  William's  Landing,  broke    ' 
by    Exprefs  Order  of  the   faid   King    James;    and    the  faid    William's   Brother,    Chichefter 
Fortejcue  joyn'd  the  Lo>ido>i-Derry  Men,  and  Dyed  a  Lieutenant  Colonel  in  Defence  of  that 
City. 

That  the  faid  William  and  his  Anceftors,  have  upon  all  Occafions  firmly  adhered  to  the 
Proteflant  Religion,  and  the  Intereft  of  the  Crown  of  England;  and  the  faid  JVilUam  has  by 
means  of  the  great  Severities  and  Loffes  he  Sullain'd  by  Reafon  thereof,  b  :en  very  much 
Reduced  in  his  Fortune,  and  never  received  any  Compenfation  for  his  laid  Services  and 
Sufferings. 

*^;*  That  the  faid  Town  of  Bandon  was  the  firft  Garrifon  Town  in  this  Kingdom,  that 
was  fecured  for  the  late  King  William,  and  the  lail  that  flood  out  againll:  the  faid  Lieuten;  nt 
General  Macarty,  in  the  Province  of  Miinfter,  for  which  Reafon,  the  faid  King  James  ufjd 
the  faid  William  with  the  utmofl:  Severity,  in  order  thereby,  to  Deter  all  other  Proteltants, 
from  Imitating  his  Example. 

For  which  reafons  the  fliid  JVilliam  Fortejcue,  humbly  hopes  the'  Honourable  Houfe  of 
Commons,  will  take  his  faid  Services  and  Sufferings  into  their  Confiderafion,  and  will 
Recommend  him  to  his  Excellency  the  Lord  Lieutenant,  as  a  Perfon  that  deferves  Her 
Majefty's  Princely  Favour,  and  befeech  His  Excellency  that  he  will  be  pleafed  to  movt  L  cr 
Majefty  to  make  fuch  Provifion  for  the  faid  IFilliam  Fortefcue,  as  Her  Majefty  in  Her 
Princely  Goodnefs  and  Compaifion  fhall  think  fit. 

We  Certifie,  That  purfiiant  to  an  Afociation  of  the  F  rot  eft  ant  Nobility,  &c.,  oj  the 
Province  of  Munfter,  Captain  William  Fortefcue  laid  down  the  Command  of  a  Foot  Comp-iny, 
in  the  Earl  0/ Clancarty's  Regiment,  to  take  Service  for  their  Majefties,  and  accordingly  was 
by  the  Earl  of  Inchequin,  i£c.  Pofted  to  Command  in  Chief  the  Inhabitants  of,  and  about  the 
Corporation  of  Bandon  ;  who  form'd  us  into  Troops  and  Companies,  and  A£ied  as  our 
Governour  in  Seizing  the  Irijls  Forces  ^lartered  here  in  February,  1688,  under  the  Command 
of  the  Lord  Upper-Offory,  Sir  Dan.  O'Neile,  i£c.  with  whom  we  had  a  Jhi.rp  DiJ'pute, 
wherein  fome  were  Kill' d  and  Wounded;  by  tvhich  the  Town  was  Secured  for  thtir  Majefties 
Vfe,  and  remained  under  the  /aid  Captain's  care,  till  the  whole  Province  was  Reduced  by 
Lieutenant  General  Macarty  :  And  notwithftanding  the  Articles  perfctled  to  us  by  the  faid 
Lieutenant  General,  and  the  late  King  James  Ratifying  the  fame ;  and  the  Receipt  of  1000/. 
for  Enfuring  them,  i^c.  the  Jaid  King  James  by  his  own  Warrant,  caufed  the  faid  Captain  to 
be  Apprehended  by  fome  of  his   Ofticers,  who  Robbed  him  of  his  Alony,  Apparel,  &c.  to  a- 


Family  of  Drojnijkni,  etc.  135 

conftderable  value  ;  nwfi  Ignominioujly  expojed  him,  Committing,  him  to  Cork  Goal  amongst 
Condemned  MalefaHors,  dayly  menacing  Jiim  with  Death  ;  rontinued  his  Rejlrai>it  about  Eleven 
Months,  to  our  great  Regret ;  without  any  Allozvance  from  the  /aid  King  James  for  his 
Support.      Dated  at  Bandoii  the  Ftrfl  0/ March,  1694. 

Chrift.  Grinnaway,  Provoji.  Sam.  Sweetc, 

James  Jacklbn,  Tlio.  Forftcr, 

John  Nafhj  The.  Sweete, 

Abra.  Savage,  Rich.  Sweete. 
Saml.  Bruce, 


Addrejs  of  the  Houfe  of  Commons  in  favour  of  IFilliam  Forte/cue,  EJq.,         1 
June  23?v/,  1 7 10. 

To  his  Excellency  Thomas  Earl  of  Wharton  Lord  Lieutenant  General,  and  General 
Governor  of  Ireland. 

The  humble  addrefs  of  the  Knights,  Citizens  and  Burgefles  in  Parliament  affcmbled. 
May  it  pleafe  your  Excellency, 

Her  Majefty's  faithful  Commons  in  Parliament  alTembled  do  moft  humbly  inform 
your  E',xcellency  that  William  Fortefcue  K/q.  in  the  beginning  of  tlie  late  happy  Revolution 
laid  down  the  Command  of  a  Foot  Company  which  he  then  had  in  the  fervice  of  the  late 
King  James,  in  order  to  enter  into  the .  fervice  of  their  late  Majcfties  King  Williism  and 
Queen  Mary  of  glorious  memory,  and  foon  after  feized  on  the  Town  of  Bandon,  then 
garrifoned  with  Irifh  forces,  which  proved  of  great  advantage  to  their  faid  late  Majerties,  and 
to  the  Proteftant  intereft  in  this  Kingdom. 

That  the  faid  Town  of  Bandon  continued  under  the  faid  William  Fortefcue's  care  and 
government  till  all  the  other  Towns  in  Muniter  were  furrendered.  Then  the  laid  Town  was 
only  furrendered  upon  Articles  which  were  ratifyed  by  the  late  King  James. 

That  the  faid  William  Fortefcue  (contrary  to  the  faid  Articles)  was  comnnttted  to  Corke 
Goal  where  he  continued  eleven  months  being  continually  threatened  to  be  hanged.  That 
the  faid  William  Fortefcue's  fortune  was  on  that  account  feized  and  confifcated,  and 
his  Wife  and  children  reduced  to  fo  miferable  a  condition  that  fome  of  them  penihed 
thro'  Want. 

That  the  faid  William  Fortefcue  hath  not  hitherto  had  any  recompenii;  made  hin  'or 
his  faid  fufferings  and  fervices. 

We  therefore  moft  humbly  befeech  your  Excellency  that  you  will  be  pleafed  to  lay 
before  her  Majelly  the  cafe  of  the  faid  William  Fortefcue,  and  to  intercede  with  her  Majefty 
that  Ihe  would  in  confideration  of  the  faid  William  Fortefcue's^early  and  exemplary  zeal  for 


136  Family  of  Dro?nijki?i,  etc. 

the  Proteftant  intereft  and  the  late  happy  Revolution,  and  his  great  fervices  and  fufFerings, 

be   gracioufly  pleafed  to  make  fuch  proviiion  for  hini  as  her  Sacred  Majefty  in  her  Princeh' 

Wifdom  fliall  think  fit. 

Veneris  23"  die  Junii  1710. 

"  Ordered  that  fuch  Members  of  this  Houfe  are  of  Her  Majefty's  Mod  Honourable 
Privy  Council  do  attend  his  Excellency  the  Lord  Lieutenant  with  the  Addrefs  oi"  this  Houfe 
in  fivour  of  William  Fortefcue  Kfq.  and  prefent  the  fime  to  His  Excellency  as  the  addrefs 
of  this  Houfe." 

"  In  confequence  of  the  above  addrefs,  and  upon  further  application  from  the  Houfe  of 
Commons,  His  prefent  Majefty  in  the  year  1733,  was  pleafed  by  his  VVf  rrant  to  grant  ; 
penfion  of  ^twenty  (hillings  a  day  to  the  faid  William  Fortefcue  to  comnscnce  from  Lad; 
Dav  1733.  That  the  faid  William  dyed  in  June  1734,  whereby  the  Penfion  vas  dif- 
continued.  Tliat  none  of  his  family  have  ever  received  any  recompenfe  or  fatisfa'lic  n  in 
lieu  thereof." 

William  Fortefcue  married,  in  168 1,  Margaret,  only  daughter,  and  eventually  fole 
heirefs  of  Nicholas  (iernon,  of  Miltoun,  in  Louth,  by  tlie  Honourable  Elizabeth  Phmhett, 
daughter  of  Matthew,  Lord  Louth,  and  obtained  in  her  right  a  confiderable  ellate  in  that 
county,  now  poflefled  by  the  prefent  writer.      Lie  died  in  June,  1734- 

His  children  were  five  fons  and  two  daughters:- — Thomas,  his  hein;  Chichdk,-  of 
Dellin,  died  in  1747;'  Matthew,  a  lieutenant  in  the  Royal  Navy,  great  grandfather  of 
the  prefent  Lieut. -Col.  Charles  I-'ortefcue  of  Stephenftown,  as  the  fheet  of  the  Stephcnfiown 
Pedigree  will  fhow  ;  Faithful,  of  Corderry,  knight  of  the  fhire  for  the  county  of  Louth 
in  1727,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  I'homas  Tipping,  Efquire,  of  Caftletown,  and  died 
in  1740,  having  ilTue  two  fons;  John,  in  holy  orders  (fifth  fon  of  Captain  William 
Fortefcue),  became  recTior  of  Hayneftovvn,  in  the  dioccfe  of  Armagh,  in  1738  ;  n.arried 
Elizabeth,  eldeft  daughter  of  Henry  Bellingham,  Efquire,  of  Caftlebellingham,  and  died 
about  178 1,  leaving  iflue,  as  will  be  feen  in  the  annexed  Pedigree. 

William  Fortefcue's  daughters  were  Alice,  married  to  George  Vaughan,  Efquiri-,  and 
Mary,  who  married  John  Fofter,  Efquire,  of  Dunleer,  and  was  grandmother  to  the  Right 
Honourable  John  Fofter,  the  lail  Speaker  of  the  Irifli  Houfe  of  Commons,  creati/d  Lord  Oriel. 

Thomas  Fortefcue  of  Randalftown,  afterwards  Clermont  Park,  and  of  Ravendfdale  Park, 
the  eldeft  fon  of  William  of  Newragh,  was  born  1682;  was  returned  to  Parhainent  for  the 
borough  of  Dunleer,  November  8th,  1715,  and  for  Dundalk,  September  26th,  1727.  He 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  James  Llamilton,  Efq.  of  Tollymore  Park,  in  Down,  and 


Will  provnl  April  8,   1747,  Armayli  Rfgifiry. 


FAMILY    OF    STEPHRNSTOWN. 


Captain  Matthew  Fortf.scuk, 
Royal  Navy,  3rd  fon  of  Captain 
William  P'ortescuf,  of  Newragh, 
by  Margaret  Gernon,  left  iffue — 


Matthew  Fortescue  =p  Mary  Anne,  dau.  of  John 


of  Stephenflovvn. 


MacClintock,  Efq.  of 
Drumcar. 


Catherine=Rf.v.  John  Fortescue, 
who  died  1 833. 


Matthew,  =p  Catherine, 

Anna 

Sir  G 

eorge            Harriett, 

Emily.  =:  J.  H 

Thursby, 

born  Sept. 

dau.  of 

Maria 

Forster,                  died  young. 

Efq. 

of  Abbing- 

3,     1791 

; 

Colonel 

Bart. 

ton  Abbey,  co. 

mar.181 1 

; 

Blair  of 

Northampton. 

died    Jan. 

Blair. 

22,  1845 

1 

1 

1 

Charles 

John    Charles 

^G 

JRALDINE, 

Frederick  =; 

P  Maria 

William 

Clermont 

Maitiiew, 

William, 

dau.  of  R 

i;v. 

F. 

Richard 

Jane, 

Hamilton, 

Matthew 

born  1813; 

Lieut. -Col.  in 

M 

Fare, 

by 

Norman, 

dau.  of 

born  1824 

Augustus, 

died  1814. 

the  Army,  born 

II 

DN.  GeRALDINE 

born  July 

General 

(Dec.  17); 

born  1829 

April   17,   1822; 

D 

:  Ros,  d 

m. 

of 

11,  1823; 

Garstin. 

died  1858, 

(24th 

mar.    1857  ;     in 

Lord  He 

SRY 

M.ijor   in 

un-mar. 

March); 

herited   the  Ste- 

Fitzgerald 

the  Army; 

died  1834. 

phenftown     and 

an 

d  the 

mar.  i860; 

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Frederick     Richard 

Eumond,  born 

July 

Gekaluine,  born 

Norman,  born  July  29, 

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6,    1861  ;    living 

Sept. 

29,  1862; 

1867 

died    Feb.    3, 

868. 

living 

1868. 

1868. 

FcwiiU  of  Dro?nijki?i^  etc.  i  37 

lifter  of  the  firft  Earl  of  ClanhrafTil.  This  gentleman  added  by  purchafe  to  his  Louth 
eftatcs,  and  formed  two  extenfive  feats  upon  them.  One,  near  Dromiikin,  he  named 
Clermont  Park  ;  and  the  other,  in  the  valley  of  Ravenfdale,  between  Dundalk  and  Newry, 
where  he  reclaimed  and  planted  a  large  traft  of  moorland  on  the  range  of  hills  that 
intervene  between  thefe  towns  —  a  diftricft  which,  hardly  150  years  before,  was  thickly 
covered  with  natural  wood,  but  fo  effeftually  cleared  during  Tyrone's  rebellion  for  the 
purpofe  of  depriving  the  Irifti  of  their  fhelter,  as  to  have  become  bleak  and  almoft  treelels. 
The  traveller  Arthur  Young,  writing  in  1776,  thus  defcribes  what  the  then  proprietor  had 
eftcdled  : — 

"July  '22,  1776.  Took  the  road  through  Ravenfdale  to  Mr.  Fortefcue,  to  whom  I 
had  a  letter,  but  unfortunately  he  was  abfent.  Here  I  faw  many  good  ftone  and  flate 
houfes,  and  fome  bleach-greens;  and  1  was  much  pleafed  to  fee  the  inclofures  creeping  high 
up  the  fides  of  the  mountains,  ftonev  as  they  are.  Mr.  Fortefcue's  fituation  (at  Ravenfdale 
Park)  is  very  romantic,  on  the  fide  of  a  mountain,  with  fine  woods  hanging  on  every  fide, 
with  the  lawn  beautifully  fcattered  with  trees  Ipreading  into  them,  and  a  pretty  river  winding 
through  the  vale.  Beautiful  in  itfelf,  but  trebly  fo  on  information  that  before  he  fixed  there 
it  was  all  a  wide  wafte."  ' 

Thomas  Fortefcue  died  January  23,  1769,'  aged  eighty-five  years,  and  was  buried 
at  Clermont  Park,  in  the  churchyard  there  ;  leaving  ifiiie  by  his  wile,  who  died  at  Bath  in 
1756,  William  Henry,  afterwards  Earl  of  Clermont,  and  the  Right  Honourable  James 
Fortefcue;  and  one  daughter,  Margaret,  who  was  born  in  1728,  and  married,  in  175  i,  Sir 
Arthur  Brooke,  Baronet.  1 

The  eldeft  fon,  William  Henry,  was  born  on  the  6th  of  Auguft,  1722.^  He  was 
returned  as  knight  of  the  fiiire  for  Louth  county  in  October,  1745.  Fie  married, 
February  29,  1752,  Frances,  eldefl:  daughter  of  General  Murray,  of  the  county  of 
Monaghan.  In  her  right  he  enjoyed  for  his  life  the  eftates  of  her  family  in  Monaghan, 
which  then  pafled  to  the,  VVeftenras,  Lords  Roffmore.  In  176 1,  he  was  elefted,  at  the 
general  elecftion,  both  for  the  county  of  Louth  and  for  the  town  of  Monaghan,  for  the 
latter  of  which  he  chofe  to  fit,  his  brother  being  returned  for  Louth  in  his  place.  \\\ 
1764  he  was  made  one  of  the  Poftmafters  General  for  Ireland  and  a  Privy  Councillor; 
and  in  1768  he  was  made  Cuftos  Rotulorum  of  Louth  county.  He  was  alfo  a  Governor 
of  the  county  of  Monaghan;  and  in  1768  was  again  returned  for  Monaghan,'  and  alfo 
for  Dundalk,  choofing,  however,  to  fit  for  the  former,  which  he  reprefented  until  his  eleva- 
tion to  the   Irifh  peerage.   May  26th,  1770,  by  the  title  of  Baron  Clermont.      Flavi  ig  no 


'   Arthur  Young's  Tour,  vol.  i.   126.  ^  liilcriiJlion  on  tombfione  at  Clirmoiit  Church. 

■'   Infcription  on  lilver  cup,  l;ite  Honourable  Mrs.  Grantham's. 

^  Lord   Clermont  received  at  the  Union  the  ufual  "  compeidation ''  fur  a  dilLnlianchUcd  borough — viz.  3750'. 
for  Monaghan.     See  Cornwallis  Corref])ondencc,  iii.  323. 

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138  Family  of  Dromijli?!^  etc. 

foiij  he  obtained,  in  1776,'  a  patent  creating  him  Vifcount  and  Baron  Clermont,  with  a 
fpecial  remainder  to  his  brother,  the  Right  Plonourable  James  Fortefcue,  of  Ravenfdale 
Park,  and  his  iiTue  male;  and  on  January  24th,  1777,  he  was  raifed  to  an  earldom  as  Ear! 
of  Clermont.  He  was  an  original  Knight  of  St.  Patrick  on  the  inftitution  of  that  order  in 
the  year  1783. 

Lord  Clermont  lived  to  an  advanced  age,  dying  at  Brighton  on  the  29th  of  September, 
1 806,  a  {cvj  weeks  after  the  completion  of  his  eighty-fourth  year.  Fie  was  buried  at  Little 
Creflingham,near  Watton  in  Norfolk,  the  parifh  in  which  his  feat  of  Clermont  Lodge  ftands. 
A  tablet  wifh  this  infcription  is  in  the  church  there  : — 

"Near  this  place  lyeth  the  body  of  William  Henry  Fortefcue  Vifcount  Cltrmont,  and 
Earl  of  Clermont  in  Ireland,  who  departed  this  life  on  the  29th  day  of  September,  1806,  in 
the  85th  year  of  his  age. 

"This  monument  is  erefted  in  obedience  to  his  Will  by  his  Executor  William  Charles 
Fortefcue,  now  Vifcount  Clermont,  who  was  in  Ireland  at  the  time  ot  his  deceafe." 

The  Regifter  contains  the  following  : — 

"  1806.  William  Henry  Fortefcue,  Earl  of  Clermont,  was  buried  06lober  loth, 
1806."    .  .  .#. 

Clermont  Lodge,  well  known  in  Norfolk  as  fhooting  quarters,  was  left  by  Vifcouni 
Clermont  to  his  nephew.  Sir  Harry  Goodricke  ;  and  by  him  to  the  late  Sir  Francis  Holy- 
oake,  who  took  the  name  of  Goodricke,  by  whom  it  was  fold. 

The  old  Earl  of  Clermont  was  a  iirft-rate  ihot.  He  once,  for  a  wager,  killed,  in  one 
day,  in  Donaweale  Wood,  on  Lord  Farnhum's  eltate  in  Cavan,  fifty  brace  of  woodcocks, 
fhooting  with  a  fingle-barrelled,  and  of  courfe  "  flint,"  gun.  Having  mified  every  lliot 
before  breakfall  from  the  exceflive  "  kicking  "  of  the  gun,  he  then  by  the  advice  of  nhe 
late  Earl  of  Ennifkillen,  who  was  prefent,  padded  his  coat-fleeve,  and  in  a  fev/  hours 
killed  his  hundred  birds.  The  above,  with  fome  inaccuracies,  is  mentioned  in  Yarrell's 
"  Britifh  Birds,"  from  Daniell.  My  account  was  given  me  by  Lord  Ennifkillea's  fon,  the 
Honourable  John  Cole,  M.P. 

Sir  Nathaniel  Wraxall,  in  his  memoirs,  gives  a  lively  Iketch  of  this  genial  and  well- 
known  old  gentleman,  and  of  his  equally  popular  lady,  which  will  place  them  before  us 
better  than  any  other  defcription  of  their  charafters,  fayings,  and  doings  that  I  have  met 
with  :'' — 


Date  ot"  Patent.  Jul}'  23,  177b.  '  WVaxall'b  Pofthumous  Mcmoius,  vol.  ii.  p..35i 


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Fa/nily  of  Dromifkin^  etc.  .  139 

"  Among  the  perfons  of  high  rank  whom  the  Prince  of  Wales  difliiiguiflied  by  his  par- 
ticular intimacy  at  this  period^  and  in  whofe  fociety  he  pafled  many  of  his  hours,  may  be 
enumerated  my  friends  the  Earl  and  Countefs  of  Clermont.  They  were  both  In  the  decline 
of  life.  I  have  fcarcely  ever  known  a  man  more  fitted  for  a  companion  ot  kings  and  queens 
than  was  Lord  Clermont.  Nature  had  formed  his  perfon  in  an  elegant  mould,  uniting 
delicacy  of  configuration  with  the  utmoft  bodily  activity,  the  foundeft  conftitution,  and  unin- 
terrupted health. 

"  When  he  was   near   fixty-five,  while  on   a  fhooting  party — I  think   in   Norfolk — the 
Prince  of  Wales,  who  was  one  of  the  company,  had  the  misfortune  to  wound  him  with  fmall 
lliot,  in  feveral  places.      Lord  Clermont,  however,  fufFered  only  a  fhort  temporary  confine- 
ment in  confequence  of  the  accident.      His  royal   highnefs  not  long  afterwards  made  him  a 
gentleman  of  the  bed-chamber.      His  manners  eafy,  quiet,  calm,  yet  lively  and  ingratiating, 
never  varied.      Endowed  with  great  fiiavity  and  equality  of  temper,  pofTeiling  a  very  amplr 
fortune,  almoft  a  flranger  to  bodily  indifpofition,  and  having   no  ifTue,  male  or  female,  hi 
enjoyed  every  hour  of  human  life.      Defcended   from   a  branch  of  the  antient  and  nobK 
family  of  Fortefcue,  he  had  been  fuccefTively  raifed  to  the  Irifh  dignities  of  a  baron,  vifcount 
and  earl.       Such  was  his  pafTion  for  the  turf,  that  when  menaced  by  his  father  to  be  difin 
herited  if  he  did  not  quit  Newmarket,  he  refufed ;   preferring  rather  to  Incur  the  fevereft 
efTefts  of  paternal  Indignation  than  to  renounce  his  favourite  amufement.      His  underftandlnr- 
was  of  the  common  order  ;   but  though  his  whole  life  had  been  pafled   In  the  fports  of  tht 
field,  or  among  jockeys,  yet  he  wanted  not  refinement ;  and  he  ufed  to  flicker  himfelf  urdei 
Horace's  Sunt  quos  ciirriculo  pulverem   Olympiciini,   when  juflifying  his  ardour    for    races. 
Having  mixed  in  the  higheft:  circles  during  near  fifty  years,  both  ui  this  country  and  on  the 
Continent,  he  had  colleAed  much  original  as  well  as  curious  Information. 

"  Inhabiting,  as  Lord  Clermont  did,  a  fplendid  houfe  In  Berkeley  Square;  niaintainingj  a 
table  at  once  elegant  and  luxurious,  choice  In  the  feleiftlon  of  his  wines,  and  In  every  accom- 
paniment of  tafle  or  opulence  ;  the  Prince  of  Wales  ufed  frequently  to  make  one  of  t^ie 
number  of  his  guefts.  He  enjoyed  indeed  the  privilege  of  fending  at  his  pleafure  to  Lord 
Clermont,  of  commanding  a  dinner,  and  naming  the  perfons  to  be  invited  of  both  fexes :  a 
permiflion  of  which  his  royal  highnefs  often  availed  himfelf.  Notwlthftandlng  fo  clofe  a 
conneiflion  as  he  maintained  with  the  heir- apparent,  yet  few  noblemen  were  better  received 
at  St.  James's ;  and  fcarcely  any  were  detained  a  longer  time  in  converfation  by  hi ;  Majefty, 
whenever  he  appeared  at  the  drawing-room.  Nor  was  he  lefs  acceptable  at  the  Court  of 
Verfallles,  where  he  and  Lady  Clermont  repaired  almoft  every  yzxx  ;  and  where  they  were 
admitted  to  all  the  parties  made  by  the  Duchefs  of  Pollgnac  for  the  amufement  of  the  queen. 
The  very  title  of  '  Clermont,'  which  he  afTumed  when  raited  to  the  peerage — and  which 
might  be  efkeemed  fadltlous,  as  no  fuch  place  I  believe  exltlied  In  Ireland — afruiillated  him 
to  the  blood  royal  of  France  ;  a  younger  branch  of  the  Illulh-ious  line  of  Conde  having  been 


140  Family  of  Dt^ofniJkiN^  etc. 

denominated   '  Comtes  de  Clermont.'     Probably  he  was  nut  oblivious  of  this    fad,  in    his 
felccition  of  the  tide.' 

"  When  about  eighty-four  he  breathed  his  laft  in  September,  1806,  at  Bri^fhtheimltone, 
fcarcely  a  fortnight  after  Charles  Fox  expired  atChilwick.  'I'hey  always  lived  much  together, 
efpecially  during  the  autumnal  feafon  ;  as  box  ufually  vifited  Norfolk  in  order  to  enjoy  the 
amufement  of  fliooting  among  his  friends.  Lord  Clermont  poflefled  a  feat  in  that  prrt  of  the 
kingdom  for  the  fame  purpofe.  I  well  remember  an  extraordinary  bet  which  he  made  with 
Fox  and  Lord  F"oley,  for  a  hundred  guineas,  namely,  that  he  would  find  a  heifer  which 
fhould  eat  twenty  flone  of  turnips  in  twenty-four  hours.  He  won  the  wager.  I  faid  that 
he  breathed  his  laft  at  eighty-four;  an  exprelllon  peculiarly  fitted  to  exprefs  the  mode  of  his 
death;  tor  he  was  carried  off  by  no  fpecific  difeaie,  nor  fuffered  any  pain,  unlv.fs  it  was  intel- 
leftual ;  an  augmenting  weaknefs  and  extenuation,  which  left  undiminilhed  all  his  faculties, 
lenfes,  and  power  of  converfation,  gently  conveyed,  or  rather  wafted  him  out  of  life.  I  v  as 
accuftomed  very  frequently  to  dine  with  hini  in  a  fmall  fociety  of  friends,  till  within  five  or 
fix  weeks  of  his  deceafe  ;  and  though  then  evidently  wafting  away,  yet  at  table  he  foon  bt  cai  le 
animated.  Even  his  memory  remained  frefh,  and  he  bore  no  rel'emblance  to  S wile's 
Struldbrugs." 

Horace  Walpole  writes  to  Lady  O/Tory,  Nov.  26,  1780  :  — 

"  I  dined  with  the  Lucans  yefterday,  after  dinner  Lord  Clermont  informed  us  that  in 
the  courfe  of  his  reading  he  had  found  that  Scipio  firft  introduced  the  ufe  of  topth-picks  frt  m 
Spain.  I  did  not  know  fo  much  ;  nor  that  his  lordiliip  ever  did  read  or  knbw  that  Scij  io 
was  anybody  but  a  race-horfe.    His  claffic  author  is  probably  '  Marfli  upon  the  Gums.'  "  '^ 

Of  Lady  Clermont,  Wraxall  writes:' —  ' 

"  The  Countefs  of  Clermont  was  formed,  like  her  lord,  for  the  atmofphere  of  a  cciirt. 
Endowed  with  no  fuperior  talents,  though  polTening  a  cultivated  mind  ;  her  manners  fub- 
dued,  yet  exempt  from  fervility  ;  with  an  agreeable  perfon,  but  deftitute  of  beauty  ;  uni  ing 
confummate  knowledge  of  the  world  to  conditutional  ferenity  of  temper ;  fhe  difph^yed 
almoll;   every   qualification   calculated  to  retain,   as  well  as  to  acquire,    royal   favour.      'Die 


'  I  cannot  fuppofe  that  Lord  Clermont  was  influenced  by  any  motive  fo  empty  and  nflPeifleii.  ;  I'he  name, 
common  among  I'rench  towns,  probably  (irucii  him  as  well  founding,  and  he  changed  the  appcilatica  of  one  of  his 
feats  in  Ireland  to  it,  calling  Reynoldftown  "  Clermont  I'ark  ;"  and  then  took  his  title  from  his  refidence.  The  fact 
of  the  name  of  Fortefcue  being  made  up  of  two  French  words  may  have  fuggefted  tlie  idea  oi  giving  a  French 
name  to  his  eflate.      For  fome  time  Lord  Clermont  was  "  Father  of  the  Turf" 

'^  Walpole's  Letters  (Cunningham),  \ol.  vii.  p.  467. 

■'  Wraxall's  Pofthumous  Memoirs,  vol.  ii.  p.  359.  1 


Fanii/y  of  Dro?niJk'm^  etc.  1 4  i 

Prince  of  Wales  profefled  and  exhibited  towards  her  a  fpecies  of  filial  regard.  All  his  notes 
addrefled  to  her  difplayed  equal  affetftion  and  confidejice.  As  Lady  Clermont  enjoyed  fo 
diftinguifhed  a  place  in  Marie  Antoinette's  efteem,  it  was  natural  that  fhe  fhould  endeavour 
to  transfufe  into  the  Prince's  mind  feelings  of  attachment  and  refpeft  for  the  French  Oueen, 
fimilar  to  thofe  with  which  fhe  was  herfelf  imbued.  Making  allowance  for  the  difterence 
of  fexes,  there  feemed  to  be  indeed  no  incon/iderable  degree  of  refemblance  between  their 
difpofitions.  Both  were  indifcreet,  unguarded,  and  ardent  devotees  of  pleafure.  But  the 
Duke  of  Orleans,  irritated  at  her  fucceistul  oppofition  to  the  marriage  of  his  daughter  with 
the  Count  D'Artois'  eldeiT:  fon,  had  already  prepufTefled  the  Prince  of  Wales  in  her  dif- 
favour.  He  was  accuftomed  to  fpcak  oi  her  on  the  Duke's  report  as  a  woman  of  licentious 
life,  who  changed  her  lovers  according  to  her  caprice.  She,  indignant  at  fuch  imput, .tioiis 
which  foon  reached  her,  exprefl'ed  herfelf  in  terms  the  moft  contemptuous  refpe6tinj  the 
heir-apparent;  whom  fhe  charafterized  as  a  voluptuary  enflaved  by  his  appetites,  incapable  of 
any  energetic  or  elevated  fentiments. 

"  About  this  time  Count  Ferfen,  then  the  Swedlfli  envoy  at  the  Court  of  Fran  :e,  who 
was  well  known  to  be  highly  acceptable  to  Marie  Antoinette,  vifited  London  ;  bringing 
letters  of  introduftion  from  the  Duchefs  de  Poiignac  to  many  perfons  of  difliniftlon  here, 
and  in  particular  for  Lady  Clermont.  Defirous  to  fhew  him  the  utmoR  attention,  and  to 
prefent  him  in  the  beft  company,  foon  after  his  arrival  (he  conducted  him  in  her  own  carriage 
to  Lady  William  Gordon's  aflembly  in  Piccadilly,  one  of  the  moil:  dillinguifhed  in  the 
metropolis.  She  had  fcarcely  entered  the  room  and  made  Coimt  Ferfen  known  to  the 
principal  individuals  of  both  fexes  when  the  Prince  of  Wales  was  announced.  h  (hall 
recount  the  fequel  in  Lady  Clermont's  own  words  to  me,  only  a  fhort  time  lubfequent  to 
the  fact. 

"  '  His  Royal  Highnefs  took  no  notice  of  me  on  his  firll  arrival  ;  but  in  a  f'evv  minutes 
afterwards,  coming  up  to  me,  "Pray,  Lady  Clermont,"  faid  he,  "  is  that  man  whom  I  fee  here 
Count  h'erfen,  the  queen's  favorite?"  "  Hie  gentleman,"  anfvvcred  J,  "  to  whom  your  royal 
highnefs  alludes  is  Count  Ferfen;  but  fo  far  from  being  a  favorite  of  the  queen,  he  has  nut 
yet  been  prefented  at  Court."  "  God  d — m  me,"  exclaimed  he  ;  "  you  don't  imagine  I  mean 
my  mother  ?"  "  Sir,"  I  replied,  "  whenever  you  are  pleafed  to  ufe  the  woni  '  queen'  without 
any  addition,  I  fliall  always  underftand  it  to  mean  my  queen.  It  you  ipeak  ot  any  other 
queen  I  muft  entreat  that  you  will  be  good  enough  to  fay  the  queen  of  France  or  of  Span." 
The  Prince  made  no  reply  ;  but  after  having  walked  once  or  twice  round  Count  Fer  en, 
returning  to  me,  "  He's  certainly  a  very  handfome  fellow,"  oblerved  he.  "  Shall  I  have  the 
■honour,  fir,"  faid  I,  "to  prefent  him  to  you.'"'  He  initantly  turned  on  his  heel,  without 
giving  me  any  aniwer ;  and  I  foon  afterwards  quitted  Lady  William  Gordon's  houle,  carrying 
Count  Ferfen  with  me.  We  drove  to  Mrs.  St.  John's,  only  a  few  doors  diltant,  who  had 
likewife  a  large   party  on   that  evening.      When   I    had   introduced  him    to   various  perlons 


iwujd'rn  >//» 


142  Fa?nily  of  Drotnijkm^  etc. 

there,  I  faid  to  him,  "  Count  ['"erfen,  I  am  an  old  woman  and  infirm,  who  always  go  home 
to  bed  at  eleven.  You  will,  I  hope,  amufe  yourfelf.  Good  night."  Having  thus  done  the 
honours  as  well  as  I  could  to  a  ftranger  who  had  been  fo  highly  recommended  to  me,  I 
withdrew  into  the  antichamber,  and  fate  down  alone  in  a  corner,  waiting  for  iny  carriage. 

"  '  While  there  the  Prince  came  in;  and  I  naturally  expeifted,  after  his  recent  behaviour, 
that  he  would  rather  avoid  than  accoft  me.  On  the  contrary,  advancing  up  to  me,  "  What 
are  you  doing  here.  Lady  Clermont?"  aflied  he.  "  I  am  waiting  for  my  coach,  fir,"  faid  I, 
"  in  order  to  go  home."  "  Then,"  replied  he,  "  I  will  put  you  into  it,  and  give  you  my  arm 
down  the  ftairs."  "  For  heaven's  fake,  fir,"  I  exclaimed,  "  don't  attempt  it !  I  am  old,  very 
lame,  and  my  fight  is  imperfeft.  The  confequence  of  your  offering  me  your  arm  will  be, 
that  in  my  anxiety  not  to  detain  your  royal  highnefs,  1  fhall  hurry  down,  and  probably 
tumble  from  the  top  of  the  ftaircafe  to  the  foot."  "  Very  likely,"  anfwered  he,  "  but  if  you 
tumble,  I  fhall  tumble  with  you.  Be  afiured,  however,  that  I  will  have  the  pleafure  of 
artilHng  you,  and  placing  you  fafely  in  your  carriage."  I  faw  that  he  was  determined  to 
repair  the  rudenefs  with  which  he  had  treated  me  at  Lady  William  (jordon's,  and  therefore 
acquiefced.  Lie  remained  with  me, till  the  coach  was  announced,  converfed  moft  agreeably 
on  various  topics,  and  as  he  took  care  of  me  down  the  ftairs,  enjoined  me  at  every  fi:e;)  nit 
to  hurry  myfelf.  Nor  did  he  quit  me  when  feated  in  the  carriage,  remaining  uncovend  en 
the  fl:eps  of  the  houfe  till  it  drove  off  from  the  door.' 

"  I  have  recounted  this  anecdote  at  more  length  than  it  may  feem  to  merit,  becaufe, 
trifling  as  are  the  circumftances  which  compofe  it,  they  prove  how  gracetidly  the  Prince  of 
Wales  could  redeem  an  error."  ; 

We  may  take  a  few  more  trifles  from  her  contemporaries.       .'.■.,, 
Mrs.  Delany  writes.  May  25,  1773,  from  St.  James's  Place: — 

"  My  fine  neighbour,  Lady  Clermont,  fent  cards  lafl  week  to  '  a  few  of  her  acquaint- 
ance' (not  exceeding  300),  '  to  drink  tea  and  walk  in  the  Park.'  I  fiy  it  lliould  have  1  een 
to  eat  rufks  and  drink  milk  under  the  cow." ' 

Horace  Walpole  tells  the  Rev.  William  Mafon,  May  1  i,  17B3  : —  ' 

"  Lady  Clermont  made  a  great  dinner  and  affembly  for  the  Duke  de  Chartres  (^Fgaiite) 
on  Thurfday.     He  came  dirty,  and  in  a  frock  with  metal  buttons  enamelled   in   black,   with 
hounds  and  horfes,  a  fafliion  I  remember  here  above  forty  years  ago."' 
Again,  to  Lord  Harcourt,  Auguft  5,  1783  :  ' — 

"  The  Prince  of  Wales  dined  lately  at  Gunnerfbury.  Before  they  rofe  from  table, 
Lady  Clermont  faid,  '  I  am  fure  the  Duke  of  Portland  is  dying  tor  a  pinch  of  fnuff,'  and 


'   Corrclpondonce  of"  Mary  Granville,  2nd  series,  vol.  i.  p.  504. 

-   Cuniiinoliam\  Walpole,  viii.  3O4.  ■'   Ibid.,  p.  397 


ji'iii'ji;;:    ';'.  H)Trir:';';(r;:ii;  ;\?  ::^    'D'ff  ^:':}{^'}K}'!^Mv'W' 


■irn.  a  J'.'i'ni:..'  / ,  Sir.  'oshnd.  .':•  x'n.  Us  in  At  po.fsr-isavi  ,fl.-rd('!fnu^ii; 


^j  s 


'IU^;3-'>  i~ 


Family  of  D?'o??iJjkin,  etc.  143 

pufhed  her  box  to  him  acrofs  the  Princefs  (Ameh'a),  who  faid  to  her,  '  Pray,  madam,  when 
did  you  learn  that  breeding  ?      Did  the  queen  ai  France  teach  it  to  you  ?' 

"  Thefe  are  the  golTiping  anecdotes  our  village  affords,  but  they  are  better  than  the 
news  ot  burning  towns  and  finking  fhips." 

The  Plon.  Grantley  Berkeley'  gives  an  amufing  account  of  Lady  Clermont's  way  of 
"  lacing  her  tea"  at  Brighton,  by  turning  up  the  back  of  the  teafpoon  to  the  liqueur-bottle. 

She  lurvived  her  hufband  for  feveral  years.  I  do  not  know,  however,  the  date  of  hei 
deathj  or  the  place  of  her  burial. 

The  Riglit  Hon.  James  h'ortefcue,  of  Ravenfdale  Park,  younger  fon  of  Thomas 
Fortefcue,  of  Clermont,  was  born  May  15,  1725;  he  flit  in  the  Iriili  Parliament,  fill:  for 
Dundalk,  for  which  place  he  was  eletlied  in  1757.  In  1761,  on  the  12th  of  Decemt'ier,  he 
was  returned  for  the  county  of  Louth,  in  fuccelTion  to  his  brother,  who  eleded  to  fit  for 
iVlonaghan,  and  continued  to  be  chofen  a  knight  of  the  fiiire  for  that  county  until  his  death 
in  1782.  He  was  a  Privy  Councillor  for  fome  years  before  his  death.  His  remains  were 
buried  in  the  churchyard  within  Clermont  Park. 

Mr.  Fortefcue  was  an  a6tive  and  public-fpirited  gentleman,  and  did  much  to  improve 
the  fyflem  of  farming  in  his  neighbourhood,  and  to  encourage  the  linen  manutaifture  in  the 
North  of  Ireland,  for  which  he  received  teftimonials  from  feveral  towns.  An  extindl  local 
periodical,  the  Newry  Magazine,'''  records  one  of  his  fervices  to  his  neighbours  as  follows  :  — 
"  The  cut  (fiiip  canal)  from  Newry  (to  the  fea),  at  Fatham,  was  made  about  54  years 
ago.  This  valueable  addition  to  the  Canal  was  accomplilhed  under  the  aufpices  of  tihe  late 
Right  Honourable  James  Fortefcue,  father  of  the  prefent  Lord  Clermont,  aided  by  the  late 
Robert  Scott,  M.P.  and  William  Ogle,  Efq.  Hence  the  lock  at  h'atham  had  the  name  of 
'  Fortefcue-lock'  for  many  years." 

The  following  panegyric  appeared  in  one  of  the  Dublm  newlpapers  at  the  tmie  of  his 
death : —  .,.'.■•  , 

■     '    ■■  •■Satuiday,  May  y'  11"',  1782. 

■  '■■       "  Epitaph.  ' 

"  Here  depofited  in  duft  Lyeth  {fic)  the  remains  of  the  Right   Honble.  James  Fortelcue, 

who  for  upwards  of  20  years  faithfully  Reprefented  the  County  of  Louth  in  Parliament. 

1  le  was  a  man  who,  equally  defpifing  the  Vice  of  Faftion  and  of  Defpotifm,   Ihidiec    the 

true  interefts  of  this   Country.      A   zealous  encourager  of  the  Linen  Trade,    Promoti  r  ot 


'   Life  and  Recollections,  by  Hon.  Grantley  Berkeley,  1864,  vol.  i.  p.  59. 
''  Newry  Magazine,  1815,  p.  115. 


Mf5  Ut 


I 


ID  1  1^1  non 


144  Faf/iily  of  Dromijki?!^  etc. 

Agriculture  and  ufcful  improvement,  and  the   Patron  of  riiing  Genius.      He  lived  a  fteady  . 
friend,  and  knew  no  enemy  but  Vice." 

Horace  Walpole  in  one  of  his  letters  thus  mentions  him  :  — 

"  November,  1773.  The  cafe  of  a  propofcd  tax  on  Irilh  abfentees  was,  that  Mr. 
Fortefcue,  an  Irifli  Patriot,  fond  of  popularity,  though  brother  of  Lord  Clermont  a  moil: 
devoted  Courtier,  did  intend  to  propofe  fuch  a  tax.  It  was  as  true  that  the  Court  intended 
to  avail  themfelves  of  the  idea,  and  carry  it  into  execution;  but  were  foon  forced  to 
relinquifh  it."' 

Mr.  Fortefcue  married  Mary  Henrietta,  daughter  ot  Thomas  Orby  Hunter,  FTquire, 
of  Crovvland,  in  Lincolnfliire.  This  lady  died  December  2jrd,  18 14,  and  lies  buried  at 
Ketton  Church,  Rutlandiliire.  By  her  he  had  ifTue  four  Ions  and  thiee  daugliters." 
The  fons  were: — firft,  Thomas  James,  of  Ravenfdale  Park,  born  Februar  '  ifth,  1760; 
fucceeded  to  his  father's  ellate,  and  was  knight  of  the  fliire  tor  Louth  fr'jm  December 
18th,  1784,  to  1790;  and  dying  unmarried  in  1795,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard 
in  Clermont  Park;  fecond,  Francis,  born  1762,  and  died  unmarried;  third,  William 
Charles,  afterwards  Vifcount  Clermont,  born  Oiflober  12th,  1764;  fourth,  George,  in  hcly 
orders,  Rector  of  Killalla,  in  Mayo,  where  he  was  when  the  French  expedition  unccr 
General  Humbert,  in  aid  of  the  Iriili  rebels,  landed  at  that  place  on  the  23rd  of  Aiguil, 
1798,  and  loyally  took  his  lliare  of  duty  with  the  yeomanry,  although  his  profellion  iiight 
have  excuied  him. 

The  particulars  of  the  event  are  taken  from  a  publifhed  narrative  of  the  time  -.^ — 

"  On  the  morning  after  his  arrival,  Flunibert  began  his  military  operations  by  pufhiiig 
forwards  to  Ballina  a  detachment  of  a  hundred  men,  forty  of  whom  he  had  inounted  upon 
the  beft  horfcs  he  could  lay  his  hands  upon  in  the  country.  On  the  road  he  concealed 
under  the  arch  of  a  bridge  adjoining  to  Killalla  a  fergeant's  guard,  to  watch  the  motions  of 
any  ftraggling  party  from  the  enemy  ;  a  meafure  of  prudence  which  proved  fatal  to  the  l^.ev. 
George  l-'ortefcue  (nephew  to  Lord  Clermont),  a  clergyman  of  the  diocefe,  of  the  f:;j-eft 
charader.  This  young  gentleman,  who  had  been  enrolled  in  his  brother's  troop  ui  the 
county  of  Louth,  had  put  himfelf  at  the  head  of  a  reconjioitring  party  from  Ballina,  md 
falling  in  with  the  ambufcade,  received  a  wound  in  his  groin,  ot  which  he  died  in  great 
agonies,  but  with  the  moft  exemplary  patience  and  refignation,  a  few  days  after.  The 
carabineers  and  yeomanry  of  Ballina,  after  a  fhort  refiftance,  confulted  their  iafeiy  by  flight, 
leaving  the  town  in  the  hands  of  tlie  l*Vench,  and  one  ot  their  compajiy,  a  Newp  )rt  cavalier, 
who  was  furprifed  in  his  bed  before  he  had   time   to   elcape.      The  perfon  of  this   priloner 


'   Walpole's  Lcift  Journals,  by  Doran,  vol.  i.  p.  269. 

'^   For  the  dates  of  birth  of  thel'e  children  of  James  Fortefcue,  I   am  indebted  to  extracts  from   memoranda   by 
the  Honourable  Mrs.  Barlow,  fent  me  by  Mp.  Edmond  Tiarlow. 

••  Narrative  of  what  palled  at  Killalla  in  1798  by  an  Eye-witnefs.      London,  1800,  \t    iS. 


i  ctiiunonism   'nt. 


Family  of  Di'omijki?!^  etc.  145 

chancing  to  be  large  and  corpulent,  General  Humbert  chofe  to  make  a  public  exhibition  of 
liim  as  the  Jpolia  ophna  of  his  vidiory.  Placing  him,  therefore,  in  his  uniform,  at  his  left 
hand,  in  a  curricle  drawn  by  two  handfome  horfes,  late  the  property  of  poor  Mr.  Fortefcue, 
the  General  rode  back  from  Ballina  into  Killalla  in  triumph." 

I  give  the  fequel  trom  the  fame  narrator,  as  it  refers  to  another  member  of  the   family, 
,  the  late  Vifcount  Clermont,  explaining  that  the  writer  was  fon  of  the  Proteftant  Bifliop  of 
Killalla,  Dodor   Stock,  who,  with   his   family,  was    kept   prifoner  for   fome   weeks   by   the 
French  in  his  own  See-houfe,  here  called  the  Caftle  :'  — 

"September  the  12th,  in  the  evening,  the  light  of  hope  began  to  open  on  the  loyalifts 
of  Killalla.  Something  mui1;  have  happened,  they  whifpered  one  another,  to  the  prejudice 
of  the  h'rench  arms.  Next  morning  a  prifoner  was  brought  in  from  Ballina,  fuppof  d  to  be 
of  note,  becaufe  the  Commandant  wilhed  the  Bifliop  to  be  prefent  at  his  examination. 

"  It  proved  to  be  William  Charles  Fortefcue,  Efquire,  nephew  and  heir  to  Lord  Clermont, 
and  Member  for  the  County  of  Louth.  He  announced  himfelf  to  be  the  brother  of  the 
young  clergyman  already  mentioned,  as  having  received  a  mortal  wound  in  the  firft 
encounter  with  the  French.  No  certain  intelligence  of  his  death  had  reached  Dublin;  fo 
that  Mr.  Fortefcue  was  infl:igated  by  afFe6tion  for  an  excellent  and  only  brother  to  fet  out 
on  horfeback  for  Ballina,  attended  by  one  fervant,  refolved  to  take  his  chance,  if  that  town 
fliould  yet  be  in  the  hands  of  the  rebels ;  though,  when  he  left  the  capital,  it  was  believed  to 
have  returned,  along  with  the  reil;  of  tlie  country,  to  the  King's  peace.  .  .  .  He  did 
not  difcover  his  miftake  until  he  was  arreflied  by  a  patrol  within  a  fliort  diftante  from 
Ballina.  The  commanding  officer  there,  M.  True,  with  his  ufual  brutality,  charged  him 
with  coming  there  as  a  fpy,  to  intimidate  the  friends  of  liberty  by  a  falfe  report  of  the  defeat 
of  their  army  (which  he  had  met  on  their  way  to  Dublin  as  prifoners),  detained  the  fervant 
and  baggage,  and  fent  the  mafl:er  to  Killalla  to  be  examined  by  M.  Charoll."  Here  Colonel 
Fortefcue  remained  a  prifoner  in  the  Bifliop's  houfe  until  the  relief  of  the  place  by  the 
King's  troops.  "  The  prefence  of  this  gentleman  was  ot  great  fervice  in  fupportnig  the 
fpirits  of  the  company  at  the  Caflle  ;  for,  having  attained  to  the  rank  ot  major  in  the  army 
he  poflefled  a  fteadinefs  of  mind  in  danger,  and  a  prudence  which  often  fuggefted  the  mofl 
falutary  counfels."  At  one  time  he  had  a  narrow  efcape  with  his  life,  when  the  rebels  began 
to  fire  on  the  Cafl:le.  "  Mr.  Fortefcue  very  humanely  took  upon  him  the  direcT:ion  of  the 
women  and  children,  whom  he  placed  as  far  as  he  could  from  the  windows,  and  made  them 
remain  proftrate  on  the  carpets  till  the  bufinefs  was  quite  over.  He  himl'elf  coull  not 
refrain  from  taking  his  ftand  at  a  window  of  the  library  looking  feaward,  which,  wii  .  i.'.e 
other  windows  of  that  room,  he  had  barricaded  with  beds,  leaving  room  to  peep  over  them. 
A  rafcal  in  the  fea-grove  obferved  him,  and  calling  to  a  woman  in    the  road  to  (land  out  of 


'   Narrative  of  what  paffed  at  Killalla,  p.  92. 


146  Family  of  Droinijkin^  etc. 

his  way  till  he  fliould  '  do  for  that  tall  fellow,'  difcharged  the  contents  of  his  carabine  fiili  at 
the  window  with  fuch  effed:  that  twelve  flags  made  as  many  holes  in  palling  through  t  le 
glafs,  two  of  which  lodged  in  Mr.  F.'s  forehead." 

"  A  contemporary  of  Lord  Clermont's,  Lady  Morence  IJalfour,  has  told  the  writer  that 
(lie  remembers  his  return  from  Killalla,  with  the  wounds  in  his  forehead." 

The  Rev.  George  Fortefcue  died  unmarried. 

The  daughters  of  the  Right  Honourable  James  Fortefcue  were  : — firfl:,  Maria,  born  in 
1763,  married,  in  1787,  to  Captain  George  Francis  Barlow,  and  died  in  1853,  having  had 
one  daughter,  who  died  before  her  mother,  unmarried  ;  fecond,  Charlotte,  born  in  1766,  ' 
married,  in  1796,  to  Sir  Henry  (joodricke  of  Ribil:on,  fcventh  baronet,  (by  whom  fhe  had 
Sir  Harry  James  Goodricke,  born  September  i6th,  1797,  and  died  Augi  ft  21ft,  1833,  ..t 
Ravejifdale  Park,)  and  died  in  1842;  third,  I'Imily  Gr.ice,  born  Augufl:  19-h,  1798,  marrii  ^1 
to  Major  Grantham,  of  Ketton  Grange,  Rutland,  in  iSii,  and  died  at  Ketton,  without 
iffue,  February  27tli,  1864,  and  is  buried  in  the  churchyard  there. 

William  Charles  Fortefcue,  fecond  Vifcount  Clermont,  the  fecond  fon  of  James  Fortefcue 
of  Ravenfdale,  a  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  army,  inherited,  at  the  death  of  his  elder  br  )ther  . 
in  1795,  the  Ravenfdale  Park  property;  before  that  event  he  had  lucceeded  hin  ii  the 
reprefentation  of  Louth,  having  been  returned  for  that  county  in  March,  1790.  He  con- 
tinued to  fit  for  it,  in  the  IrifVi  Parliament,  until  the  Union  in  1800  put  an  end  to  that  ^ 
aflbnbly  ;  and  was  then  its  reprefentative  in  the  Parliament  of  the  United  Kingdom  until 
the  death  ot  his  uncle,  the  t-arl  ot  Clermont,  in  1806,  caufed  him  to  vacate  the  feat;  the 
Vifcounty  and  IJarony  of  1776  delcending  to  him,  as  well  as  the  Loutli  and,  Norfolk  ellxtes. 

Lord  Clermont  never  married;  and  having  furvived  his  three  brothers,  the  titles  exjiircd 
at  his  death,  which  took  place  at  Ravenfdale  Park,  on  the  24th  of  June,  1829. 

By  his  will  he  left  his  eftates  in  the  firlt  place  to  his  only  nephew.  Sir  Harry  fames 
Goodricke  of  Ribfton  Hall,  in  Yorkfliire,  with  remainder  to  the  heirs  male  of  the  late 
Colonel  Chichefter  Fortefcue  ot  Dromifkin,  the  reprefentative  of  tlie  elder  line  fron  Sir 
Faithful,  as  we  have  feen. 

Sir  Harry  Goodricke,  who  was  well  known  in  the  fporting  circles  of  the  day,  died 
unmarried  on  the  2 ill:  of  Auguil,  1833;  when  the  Louth  and  Armagh  eftates  palT.'d,  as 
provided,  to  Thomas  Fortefcue  of  Dromifkin,  who  had  inherited  his  father's  eftates  ot  Dro- 
mifkin and  Glyde  Farm;  and  on  the  iith  of  h'ebruary,  1852,  obtained  a  -evival  in  his 
favour  of  the  Barony  of  Clermont,  with  remainder  to  his  only  brother,  as  betoe  mentioned. 


FAMILY    OF    WHITERATH    AND    MILTOWN-GRANGE. 


fecond   Ton  of  Sm   Tii 
Dromidiin,  m: 
(bns,  of"  whom 


FonTEScUK  ofNewragll, 
iniiiscui!  of 
734 :  1m(1  S 


MAncAiiKT,  dau.  and  fole  heir  of  Nicholas 
Gebnon,  lifq.  of  Mihown,  co.  Louth,  by 
Klizahlth.  dau.  of  Matthew,  7th  Lord 
Louth. 


The  5th,  I!kv.  Joi 

Reflor  of  Ileyncftown  and  Dr 

1782,  and  was  buried  at  Drom 


;  of  Whitcrath  Hnufe,=j=  Elizadeth,  da 
,  died  1781    or       Caillebellingh; 


[■  Bellingham  of 

out   1729. 


,  b.  July  29,  1733; 


Rebecca  Disney, 
in  March,  1767. 


(2)  Hen. 
died, Jan. 
of  Cork. 


I.  June  24,  1736;: 
1812;  Pofi.Midler 


:jANEj0VCE 

about  1755. 


1 

r 

I'AiTiiEui.  William  = 

Jane,  dau.  ol 

(i)Jo..N,  m^ 

(jfMillitwii  (iiange. 

.  .  .  AnAlii, 

Holy  Orders, 

mar.  Nov.  179b; 

Ef<|.  of 

Chancellor 

M.P.  tor  Monaghan 

Helmont, 

and  Preben- 

Horough to  1 8uo  ; 

Queen'B  Co. 

dary  of  Cork, 

died  1824  S.I'. 

died  Nov. 
1833. 

Dun.Kilk. 
Lorn    1780; 


Cathehine 
fortescue 
of  Ste- 
))!w;nrto\vn. 


(2)  James, 
Captain  in 
E.LC. 
Navy,  died 
at  Bombay, 
1802,  un- 


llENIlV 

William  H 

Thomas, 

died  alfo  in 

died  in 
Ceylon, 
■845. 

Ceylon,  in 
from  a  ti  ee 
ing  on  him. 

born  1818; 
ferved  13 

Civil  Engineer, 
ferved  in  Confede- 

year, in  the 
Royal  Navy ; 
living  at  Clon- 

rate  Army  in  Ame- 
rica; wounded  at 
the  battle  of 

tarf,  1868, 

ManalTas,  and  died 

un-mar. 

of  his  wounds,  Aug 
31,  l8l)2. 

(3)  Heniiv 
Poft-Mafte 
of  Cork, 
died  May, 
1836,  un- 


(4)  William  ■ 
Henhy,  born 
April   2, 
1779;  died 
at  Clontart, 
Jan.  11, 
1866. 


Thomas  Knox 
Maoee,  El'q. 
(Surveyor- 


July,  1807. 


(3)  JoHN(cfMalahide),  bo 
was  at  the  taking  of  Queb 
Rcgt. ;  died  Jan.  1831 


I  about  1  739  ;  =F  Miss  De 
c,  in  the  24th       of  Canada. 


(I)JOHN,  in^M 
the  Army, 
died  June 
1821  ;   bur 
at  Mal.diid 


Eft,. 


Alicia.  =  Anthony 
O'Reilly, 
Efq.  of 
Battrafna, 
and  has 
iflUe. 


(2)  William  I'aitiiiul,  : 
an  olficer  in  the  Army, 
wounded  at  the  battle 
of  Waterloo,  and  died  of 
his  wounds ;  buried  at 
Mallow. 


Ef,|.,  i 
1793. 


John  Chat 
in  the  Arm- 


StisAN,  m. 

r. 

MAniA,  born 

Captain  L 

-NNV. 

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to  TnAvtns 

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Blachley 

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Susan, 

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died 

Efq. 


Montpe 


William  Mark  Millar  Fortescoe,  late  of  the 
60th  Rifles,  bom  at  Trichinopoly,  in  India, 
1838;  m.irricd,  in  1862,  a  daughter  of  An- 
thony 0'Ri:illv,  Ell|.  of  Ballrafna,  (who  died 
loon  after,  S.P.);  living  l8b8. 


A  daughte 


A  daughter, 
living  1868. 


1 ,1^ 


Family  of  Droniijk'ni^  etc.  1 47 

Appendices  to  Chap.  IX. 


Letter  Addrejfed: — "  For  the  Lo:  Lieutenant  oft" 
Irland  his  Excellency." 

May  itt  pleafe  your  Excellencie, 

Since  the  wrightinge  oft"  my  Let'',  off  this  dayes  date,  S'.  ft'.iithtuU  fortefcue, 
Si.  Edmond  Varney,  and  Lieut.  Col:  Brent  Moore,  came  to  the  Lines  where  the  Councell  were  mett, 
and  havinge  fent  us  word,  that  they  had  fome  thinges  to  imparte  unto  us,  vv'''  much  concerned  the 
(auetie  oft' this  place,  they  were  inftaiitly  admitted,  when  S'.  ftaithfuU  in  the  naine  ot  them  all  beganne 
&;  (aide  that  the  ("ervice  was  necleiiled,  &  that  the  trenches  and  walles  oft"  the  cittie,  had  n  Jt  bine 
viewed,  and  that  noe  courfe  was  taken  for  repayringe  oft'  the  defeftes,  nor  for  anie  men  to  wprke  in 
the  trenches,  w"''  he  faid  was  the  Gouernors  fake  ;  And  the  Lords  hauinge  afterwards  declared  their 
knowledge  oft' my  care  and  indeuours  therein,  S''.  ft'aithfull  faide,  thatt  the  Gouernor  had  neclefted  itt, 
&  that  irt  an  other  man  had  had  to  doe  w"'  itt,  more  had  bine  donne,  then  now  has  bine  dunne  ;  and 
when  I  taxed  him  w"'  the  aftronte  offered  mee,  he  faid  that  what  he  had  laid  was  from  them  all  ;  And 
fpoke  other  words  as  oft'enfiue,  as  what  I  haue  before  exprelled. 

I  (liall  futficiently  vindicate  my  felfe,  from  theire  falfe  imputacons,  when  I  fhall  next  haue  the 
Honnor  to  fee  your  excellency;  And  fliold  not  haue  trobled  your  Lo''.  w"' this  relacon  att  prelent, 
were  not  the  iniurie  and  aftronte  foe  greate  as  w"'  oute  the  contentment  of  hauinge  certified  yo' 
excellency  therofF,  nott  to  be  fufpended  for  anie  time.  I  haue  good  refonne  to  beleeue  that  this 
profeeded  from  a  premeditated  confpiracy  againft  mee;  for  y'  my  lord  of  Rolcomon,  fome  4  ori5  dayes 
fince,  brought  a  propoficon  to  the  bord,  written  by  S"^.  Edmond  Varney  w'''  (as  his  Lo''.  faid)  was  the 
aduife  of  S'.  Edmond  &  S'.  ft'aithfull  ft'ortefcue  ;  Namely  ;  That  theire  Lol'^  f]iold  grante  a  CoriiniifTion 
to  certaine  perfonnes  to  bee  named,  to  haue  the  power  and  authoritie  oft'  a  Councell  oft  warr  ;  and  that 
fuch  ftiold  haue  power  to  order  and  decree  all  thinges  conlerninge  this  place  and  foruice  heere,  foe  fully, 
that  whatfoeuer  they  (hold  order  fliold  be  put  in  execucon  without  contradicon  oft"  anie  ;  w'''  wold  haue 
bine  a  full  fuperfedinge  off  my  Commiftion,  h  was  as  foon  reiedfed  by  the  Lords  as  propounded  ;  And 
S'.  Edmond  meetinge  A  cheefe  officer  this  morninge,  tooke  occafion  to  fpeake  oft  mee,  and  told  him 
that  w"'in  three  dayes  there  ftiold  bee  an  other  courfe  held,  &  other  orders  giuen.  I  will  fufter  much 
untill  yo'  excellencies  returne,  rather  than  anie  interruption  (halbe  giuen  to  the  feruice  in  hand  ; 
And  though  theire  proceedinges  tend  to  noe  Icfs  than  mutine  &  diforder,  they  haue  noe  power  to 
efte£te  other  preiudice  then  by  theire  tonges.  I  am  foe  defirous  to  fulhll  &  efte6tually  to  difcharge  the 
truft  your  Excellency  has  repofed  in  mee,  thatt  noe  difficulties  ftiall  dilcorage  or  hinder  mee  from 
approuinge  myfelfe, 

My  Lord,  ,  , 

Your  excellencies  moft  affured  and  faithfull  fervant, 

Cha:   Lambart. 

Dublin  the  g"'  od' Septcmb'.  1G41.' 


Cartf  MS.  xviii.  fol.  246. 


148  Family  of  Droinifkin^  etc. 

B. 

To  the  king's  moft  Excellent  Majeftie. 

The  humble  Petition  of  Sir  FaithtuU  Fortefcue 
Sheweth, 

That  when  Sir  Phelim  O'Neill  went   into    Rebel!",  he  owed  mee  upon  a  Mortgage  of  Land 

of  his  fome  years  before which  Land  being  difpofed  of  by  The  Ufurpers  to  as  good  fubjedts 

as  themfelves,  I  can  neither  have  that,  nor  my  money,  unlefs  y'  Majeftie  will  be  gracioudy  pleafed  to 

relieve  me  with  the  ordering  them  to  pay  mee  what  is  juftly  due,  or  render  to  me  the  Mortgage  Land, 

which  is  my  humble  Prayer.' 

Note. — Sir  Faithful  then  ofi'ers  the  form  of  a  Provifo  to  be  introduced  into  the  A61  (17  &  18 
Car.  n.  cap.  2.)'  then  preparing  for  the  Explanation  of  the  Adt  of  Settlement,  that  nothing  fliould 
prejudice  his  right  which  he  had,  on  23''.  0£l.  1641,  in  Sir  Phelim  O'Neil's  Lands.  But  no  fuch  Pro- 
vifo was  introduced. 

c. 

To  the  Kings  moil:  Excellent  Majeftie. 

■  The  humble  peticion  of  S'.  Faithful!  Fortelcue 
Sheweth, 

That  the  offices  of  Water  Bailift'and  Searcher  of  rivers  of  this  Kingdome  being  voyd,  your 
Maieftie  was  gracioufly  pleafed  to  grant  it  unto  me,  aboute  a  yeare  paft.  And  to  that  end  referred  m  / 
peticion  to  your  Attorney  General),  requiring  him  to  give  your  Maieftie  his  opinion  in^poynt  of  !av\  , 
what  may  be  done  therein,  And  I  having  left  my  peticion  in  truft  with  a  friend  that  promift  to  fo  lov 
the  buftnes,  he  better  knowing  how  to  doe  it,  hath  loft,  or  fo  miflayed  my  peticion  as  it  cannot 
be  found,  Wherefore  I  moft  humbly  pray,  that  your  Maieftie  will  be  pleafed  to  regrant  me  the  like 
referment  to  your  Attorney  Generall. 

And  as  in  duty  I  ftiall  pray,  hc.^  ,  | 

D.  '  I 

To  the  Kings  moft  Excellent  Maieftie.  •  ■  '  ' 

The  humble  peticion  of  the  Servants  and  Creditors  of  S'.  Ffaithfull  Ffortefcue,  Knight,  late  deceafed 
Anthony  Taleham,  Samuel!  Mutton,  Margery  Stewftoji,  Henry  Ruthen  of  the  Iflc  of  Wight, 
and  John  Cary  and  Several  others,  Creditors, 

Humbly  Sheweth, 

That  the  fliid  Faithful!  Ffortefcue  dureing  his  aboade  in  and  aboute  tlie  citty  of  London  had 


Record  Tower,  Duljlin,  lib.  U.  f'ol.  I36.  ^   a.d.  1660,  tlic  year  of  Sir  Iviitliiul'!,  death. 

'  State  Papers,  Charles  11.,  Doineltic,  vol.  142,  Record  Otlice. 


Fa^nily  of  Dromijkhi^  etc.  149 

contrafted  feverall  debts  and  then  in  the  tynie  of  vifitation  he  repaired  to  the  ide  of  Wight  for  refuge 
from  the  contagion  where  dureing  his  aboade  and  a  very  tedious  Sickneis  he  did  not  only  contra£le 
certaine  debts,  but  left  his  Servants  your  faid  petitioners  in  a  moil  diftrefled  Condicion  in  a  ftrange 
country  in  danger  of  arrelts  from  their  Creditors  and  wholy  deftitute  of  any  releife  or  Subfiflance, 
That  dureing  the  Sickneffe  of  the  laid  S'.  FfaithfuU  Ffortefcue  he  was  often  vifitcd  and  relieved  by 
Colonnell  Walter  Slinglliy  Deputy  Governor  of  the  faid  Ifland  to  whom  in  confideration  of  the  per- 
forming the  funerall  rites,  the  payment  of  debts  and  Servants  Wages  of  him  the  faid  S^  Ffaithtull,  he 
did  affigne  in  writeing  unto  the  faid  Colonell  all  his  clayme,  intereft  and  pretencion  to  a  certaine  gratiou  . 
graunt  I'rom  your  faid  Majeflie  of  your  Moyety  of  all  ftynes  and  forfeitures  impofed  by  law  upon 
retaylers  of  Wyne  who  exceede  the  prizes  mentioned  in  the  A6f  of  Parliament  and  your  A-Iajefties 
proclaniacions  as  may  appere  by  the  annexed  aflignacion  made  by  the  faid  S'.  Ffaithtull  before  his  death 
to  the  faid  Colonell. 

In  tender  confideration  whereof  your  faid  petitioners  doe  moft  humbly  implore  your  Majeflies 
gratious  favour  for  the  conhrmation  of  the  faid  graunt  unto  the  faid  Colonell  ot  all  Your  JV'ajei1:ies 
moyety  of  all  forfeitures  made  by  the  reteylers  of  wync  from  the  tyme  ot  your  Majetlies  laft  pardon 
unto  your  faid  Majclties  late  ptrmillion  to  advance  the  prizes  of  wyiies,  That  thereby  the  laid  Colonell 
may  be  enabled  to  performe  the  will  of  the  faid  S'.  FfaithfuU  in  difcharging  his  funerall  ritcb,  paying 
his  debts  and  Servants  Wages. 

And  your  petitioners  fliall  ever  pray,  ^'c. 


Ajjtgnment  referred  to  in  the  foregoing. 

Whereas   his  Majeftie  (upon   my  humble   petition)    was   gratioufly  pleafed  to  grant  untoi  me  his 

moyety  of  fuch  tines  as  fliall  loyallye  bee  impofed  upon  wine  Viiitners  for  fhow  of  contempte  ip  felling 

wine  by  retaile  beyond  the  rates  ordered   by  arte  of  Parliament,  and  commaunded  by  his  IVlajefties 

proclamations.    I  do  herby  adigne  to  my  worthy  friend  Colonel  Walter  Slingfby  a  third  part  of  the  faid 

moyetye  due  to  mee  by  his  Majeilics  grant :   bee  making  payment  of  the  other  two  parts  unto  mee  or 

my  Servant  Margerye  Stewfton,  and  doe  fuch  needefuU   things  as  concerne  my  particular.      And  for 

our  true  performances  hereof  wee  have  interchangeably  putt  our  hands   and  feales  this   24"'  ot  May 

1666. 

P'f.ayth.   Ffortescue. 


Indorfed :—'■'■  Wis  Ma"".  Lres  Dat   14'"  8ber  1661, 
f^or    Thomas    Fortefcue    efq''".    to    be 

Conftable    of   the   Cattle    of    Knock-  , 

fergus,  at  bs.  %d.  per  diem." 

Charlks  R. 

Right  trutly  and  right  welbeloued  Councello'^  and   right   trutly   &    right  welbeloued  Coufins   and 
Couiicelo'^''  Wee  greet  you  well    Whereas  Our  Royall  Grandfather  of  Famous  memory  by  his  Letters 


1  50  Family  of  Dromijkin^  etc. 

pattents  under  the  great  Scale  of  Ireland  bearing  date  the  14"'  day  of  November,  in  the  fourth  yeare  of 

his  reigne'   did    give    &   grant    unto    Roger    Langford   Efq^    and   Faithfull    Fortefcue    Gent.    &    the 

Survivor  of  them  the  Office  of  Conilable  of  our  Caitle  at  Knockfergus  in  the  Province  of  Ulfter  in 

Our  Kingdome  of  Ireland  with  the  Fee  of  three  fliillings  Fower  pence  ftert  ji  diem  for  the  Exercife  ot 

the  faid  Office  and  alfo  twenty  Warders  for  the  Defence  of  the  faid  Caflle  and  Eightpence  llert  a  day 

wages    for   each   of  the    laid  Warders     The   faid  Office    Fee   k.   wages   to  be    held   by  the  faid  Roger 

Langford  and    Faithfull   Forteicue   and    the    furvivour  of  them   as  long  as   they  well   behaued   them- 

felves  in  the  faid  Office  with  other   large   Conditions   as   by   the   faid   Letters    Pattents  apperreth     And 

whereas  the  faid  office  fome  years  after  by  the   Death   of  the  faid  Roger   Langford  cam   wholly  by 

Survivourfliip  to  the  s*".  Faithfull  Fortefcue  (whom   Our  Royall  Grandfather  made  Kn'.  and  is  now 

one  of  the  Gentlemen  of  Our  Privy  Chamber  attending  Our   Perfon)  and   hath   by   Petition  humbly 

befought  Us  to  accept  of  a  Surrender  of  the  faid  Letters   Pattents  and  be  gracioudy  pleafed  to  grant 

unto  his  fon  Thomas  Fortefcue  other  Letters  Pattents  of  the  faid  Office  with  the  Title  of  Governour 

of  Our  faid  Caftle  and  the  Fee  of  lix  fliillings   Plight   pence   by    the   day   for    the   ExOrcife  of  the   faid 

Office  &  eight  pence  a  day  for  each  of  the  fd.  twenty  Warders  in  Our  faid  Callle,  which  peti.ion  in 

confideration  of  the  Eminent  Services  done  Our  royall   Father   and    Us   by  Our   faid  trufty  anJ  vel- 

bcloued  Servant  S'.  Faithfull  Fortefcue  wee  are  pleafed  to  grant,  therefore  Our  will  and  plealure  is    md 

wee   do  hereby  will   and  require  you   that  upon   Surrender  made  of  the   laid  Letters  Patents  bel  )re 

mentioned  in  Our  Chancery  of  Our  Kingdome  of  Ireland  you   forthwith   by  Advice  of  fome  cf  (>ur 

learned  Councell  there,  do  caufe  other  Letters  Patents  to  be  made   in  due   forme  of  Law  und.-r     he 

great   Seale   of  that   Our   Kingdome   containing  a  grant  unto  the  fd.  Thomas  Fortefcue  of  the  Oh  ce 

of  Governo''  of  Our  faid  CaIHe  at  Knockfergus  in  Our  faid  Kingdome  of  Ireland  and  alfo  of  the  Fee 

of  fix  {hillings  eight  pence  of  Lawfull  money  of  and  m  England  a  day  unto  him  for  the  Exercife  of  /he 

faid  Office  and  twenty  Armed  footmen  or  Warders  for  the  better  Defence  and  Safeguard  of  Our  fiid 

CalHe  with  eight  pence  of  like  lawfull    money    by   the   Day   for   every  one   ot   the   fuid  Pootnen  or 

Warders     To  haue   hold   and   Enjoy  the    faid  Office   of  Governo'  of   Our  faid   Caifle   unto    th  j   fid 

'Fhomas  Fortefcue  his  fufficient  Deputy  or  Deputies  as  long  as  hee  ftiall  well  behaue  himlelfe  in  the 

faid  Office     And  alfo  to  receiue  the  faid  fix  Shillings  and  Eight  pence  Fee  a  day  for  himlelfe  and  eight 

pence  a  day  for  each  of  the  faid  twenty  Warders  or  Souldiers  in  Our  faid  Caftle  for  and  during  all  the 

time  the  feid  Thomas  Fortefcue  fhall  live  and   enjoy  the   faid   Office,  to   be   paid   by  Our  Treat irer 

under  Treafurer  or  Receivo'  (ienerall   of  Our   Kingdome  of  Ireland  for  the  time  being  monthly  and 

every  month,  whifh  wee  require   may  be  duely   paid    them   in    regard   the   laid  Thomas    Portefcur   as 

Governo'  of  Our  laid  Caitle  or  his  Deputy  iY  the  laid  Warders  are   conilantly  to   attend  their  Duty  in 

Our  Service  in  Our  faid  Callle    And  alio  that  the  faid  Thomas  Foitefcue  fhall  haue  all  fuch  P'ees  Du  yes 

Cuftome  lifli  ProUits  royaltyes  and  Advantages  whatfoever  as  were  at  anytime  formerly  belonging  unto 

Our  faid  Caftle  and  the  fd  Office  of  Conftable  thereof  by  virtue  of  any  Letters  Pattents  heretofore  made 

&  granted  by  any  of  Our  PredecelTours  to  any  Conftable  or  other  Coinander  of  Our  faid  iJaftle     And 

wee  will  and  require  you  to  caufe  fuch  claufes  of  Grace  and  P'avour  and  non  obftantes  ti.  be  therein 

inferted  as  were  contained  in  the  former  Letters   Patents  granted   unto  the   laid    Roger  Langford  & 

Faithfull  Fortefcue  cS:  alfo  fuch  other  claufes  and  Advantages  as  by  Our  Learned  Councell  theie  or 

by  fome  of  them   ihalbe  deviled  or  Advifed  for   makeing  this   Our  grant  Advantagious  &  Etreduall  to 

'   A  D.  1  bo6. 


Faniily  of  PunJhor?ie^  etc.  151 

the  faid  Thomas  Fortefcuc,  i5c  thefc-  Our  Letters  fhalbe  as  well  to  you  Our  JulUccs,  as  to  all  our 
OlHcers  and  Minifters  whom  it  may  conceriie  a  Sufficient  Warr'.  in  that  Bchalfc  Giv':nat  Our  Court 
at  Wiiitehall  this  14"'  day  of  Oftober,  1661,  in  the  13.  yeare  of  Our  Reigne. 

By  his  Ma"".  Coinand. 

Edw:  Nicholas. 
Jddrejfed:—''- To  Our  Right  trully  and  Right  wel- 
beloued  Councello',  and  to  Our  Right 
trufty  and  Right  welbeloued  Couiins 
and  Councellor*  Our  Lords  Juftices  or 
other  Our  Cheife  Governo"^  or  Governo"^* 
of  Our  Kingdome  of  Ireland  for  the 
time  being." ' 

! 

Chap.  X. 

The  Fortejaies  of  Punjhorne  and  Falkborne. 

fpTSJ  FTSm-IE  completioii  of  our  accounts  of  the  defcendams  ot  Sir  John  l''ortefcue,  tlie 
^^Wi  ^r^  ... 

gfVJ  :<~^    Governor  of  Meaux,  through  his  eldeft  fon,  Sir  Henry,  and  his  fecond  fon.  Sir 

^l-^^z^  John,  the  Chancellor,  leads  us  to  confiJer,  in  the  next  place,  the  third  fon  of  that 

perfonage    and    his   defcendants.       This    was    Sir    Richard    Fortefcue,^'  ot    whom    we    firil 

hear   as    going    to    France    in    1421    or    1422.      In    one    of    thofe    years    L^etters  of  Pro- 

teftion  are  iffued  to  hini  to  go  "  in   partes  tranfniarinas ;"  '  he  is  rtyled  "  of  Erniyiigton," 

the   parifK   where   VVympftone,   his    fimily    feat,    was    fituated ;    and    he    no   doubt  joined 

his  father    in    the    French   wars.      lie    was    in    Dcvonfhire   again   before  1431,    as  maybe 

feen  in  the  petition  of  the  SackviUes  in  a  former  chapter.    At  his  fither's  death,  about  1435, 

he    fucceeded    to    his    Hertfordfhire    eftate,    and    is    ftyled   "of    Pundiourne,"  "*    otheruife 

Ponfbourne,  otherwife  Ponnyfbourne,^  a  manor  near  Hatfield. 

He  married  Alice,"  daughter  of  Sir  Walter  de  Windefor,  of  Windfor,  in  Yealmpton, 

and  by  her  had  iffue  three  fons  and  one  daughter.      The  fons  were  Richard,  the  eldell,  and 

a   fecond   and   third   fon,    both   of  whom   were   named  John,    according   to  a  not  unulu..l 

but  mofl:  inconvenient  pra6tice,  efpecially  fo  at  a  time  when  a  fecond  Chriftian  name  was  never 

'   Carte  Piipcrs,  xlii.  fol.  2ig. 

*  Pedigrees  of  Devon  Families,  IIuil.  MS.  1538,  fol.  87  ;  Vilitation  of  Devon,  1564,  collated  with  \.irioiis 
Pedigrees  at  Oxford;   Biograph.  Hritt.  iii.  1987,  2001.  ^   (J.ifcon  Rolls,  1421-22. 

^   Pedigree  in  Rawlinfon  MS.  Brit.  Mus.  V>.  75,  f  93,  95,  97.  ■"'  (..luttiThu.-K's  IKils,  ii.  3.(8. 

'  Some  authorities  give  Agnes  Molecombe  as  Sir  Richard's  wile,  whereas  Ihe  was  the  wile  ol  his  eldert  Ion, 
Richard,  as  we  (hall  fee.  I  have  followed  the  Pedigrees  in  the  College  of  Arms,  in  the  Iful.  MS.  5S71.  m  the 
Vifitation  of  Devon,  1584,  and  the  Vilhation  of  Cornwall  in  Had.  MS.  Alio  RilUon  (p.  389),  who  fiys  that  ■■  the 
I'ortefcues  of  the  Eall  parts  of  England  are  defcended  fiom  Richard  Fortefcue,  whole  wife  was  Agnes  de  Windfor."  , 


152  Fainily  of  Pujijhorne^  etc. 

added.  The  daughter  was  EHzabeth,  who  married  three  times ;  laftly  to  Sir  John  Crocker, 
of  the  old  family  of  that  name,  feated  for  many  generations  at  Lynham,  in  Devon,  and 
a  branch  of  which  afterwards  inherited  Windfor  from  the  Windfors. 

Sir  Richard  is  not  heard  of  again  until  the  beginning  of  the  Wars  of  the  Rofes.  It  fo 
happened  that  the  firll  conflift  of  Henry  VI.  with  the  Yorkifts  took  place  at  St.  Alban's, 
in  the  immediate  neighbourhood  of  his  refidence.  Me  adhered  to  the  King's  caufe,  and 
fighting  under  the  Duke  of  Somerfet  againft  York,  in  what  is  called  tlie  firll:  battle  of 
St.  Alban's,  he,  with  many  others  and  their  leader,  was  killed.  Stow,  in  his  Chronicle,  thus  ■ 
narrates  the  ifl'ue  of  the  fight : ' — 

"  The  Earle  ot  Warwicke  took  and  gathered  his  men  together  with  liim,  and  brake  in 
by  the  Garden  fide  into  the  fiid  Towne,  betweene  the  fign  of  the  Key  and  the  Exchequer  .n 
Elolywell  Streete  ;  and  anon  as  they  were  within  the  faid  Towne  they  blev  the  trumpet  and 
cried  with  an  high  voyce  '  a  Warwicke  a  Warwicke,'  that  marvel  it  was  to  heare.  And 
till  that  time  the  Duke  of  Yorke  might  never  have  entry  into  the  Town,  and  tiien  with 
rtrong  hand  they  brake  by  the  barriers  and  fought  a  fierce  and  cruel  battell,  on  the  n'hich 
were  flain  on  the  King's  party.  Lords  of  name:  b'.dmund  Duke  ot  Somerfet,  Elenry  Earle 
of  Northumberland,  the  Earle  of  Stafford,  the  old  Lord  Clifford,  Sir  Robert  Vere,  Eerten 
Entewfell,  William  Chamberlayne,  Richard  b'ortefcue,  and  Ralph  Ferrers  Knights,  &c  &c. 
and  many  others  flaine  to  the  number  of  five  thoufand  ;  and  on  the  other  part  were  flain 
about  {\Y.  hundred  perfons.      The  King  was  fliot  into  the  neck  with  an  arrowe." 

By  his  father's  death  the  eldelt  fon,  Richard,  fucceeded  to  fome  Devonfliire  property. 
He  married,  about  1453,  Agnes,  daughter  and  heirefs  of  Richard  HoUacombe,  or  Hole- 
combe,  of  Holecombe,  in  Devon,  and  had  by  her  an  only  child,  Anna,  his  heir,  aged 
twenty-fix  years  at  her  father's  death,  who  married  John  Moyle,  of  Bake,  in  Cornwall,  and 
left  a  fon,  married  to  Eliza,  daughter  of  William  Fortefcue  of  Prefton.  Richard  died 
February  27th,  1480."  An  Inquifition,  taken  at  Ermyngton,  on  the  26th  of  Ojitober, 
20th  Edward  IV.,  found  him  to  be  feized  at  his  death  of  lands  and  meffuages  in  Holecomb, 
Kayton,  Doveton,  and  Langwell. 

Of  the  elder  of  the  two  Sir  John  Fortefcues,^  fons  of  Sir  Richard  of  Punfborne,  mentioned 
in  the  Pedigrees,  we  know  but  little ;  he  muft  have  become  a  knight  at  an  early  age,  tor  we 
find  a  Sir  John  Fortefcue'  in  the  34th  of  Henry  VI.,  1455-56,  who  can  be  none  other  than 
our  prefent  fubjed:,  receiving  from  John  Troyer  a  conveyance  to  him  an4  his  heirs  of 
the  manor  of  Mymmefiiall,  with  all  the  lands,  &:c.  which  formerly  belonged  to  John  Broke- 
man,  in  the  parifl\  of  Northmymmes. 


'   Stowe,  Chronicle,  p.  399. 

''■  See  the  liKiuilhioii  in  (he  A])pendix,  a.  d.   1 480,  iind  Vilitation  ul' Cornwall  in  II. ill.  MS. 

^   See  for  two  Sir  Johns,  brotheis,  I'edigree  in  Vililaliun  of  HueUs,  15J5  .mil   l(>;,4,  and  I'edigree  in  \il.talion 
of  Bediordniire,   1 582.  '  ■"    Clofe  Rolls,  Ueniy  Vl.,  p.  9- 


FAMILY    OF    PUNSBOURNE    AND    FALKBOURNE. 

■       Sin  John  F.inri.scui.,  Governor  of  Mfaux, in  1422 


Sm  RiruAiiD  KonxESCUE,  third  Ion,  l,illLd--f:AuNi;s,  il.iu.  i.CSiii  Waltkii 
14J5,  at  the  Battle  of  St,  Albans.  |  WiNUSoil,  ot'Windfor  Ml  Ucv 


(1 )  RiciiAni,=pALici-:,  dau.       (2)  1!:liza-=i(1,  JoHN=2nd, . . .  =3rd,  Sm       (3)  Sir  Joiin=^Alice,  d.       (4)  Sir  Joim=ALicE,diiu.orSniJo"N  Mon 


(of   llol 

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John  ofPonP 

CnoKEli,       bourn,-,    died 


Iheyonnger,      ooMKRy,  and  (iller  ;  n,l  co^h 
(had  no  of  Sir  Thomas  Ml. NT1H1MHH  • 

ilTue).  K.  G.   ,      (She    nui^     lnd\\ 

HOIIERT    LaNOI.EV,    who     died 

1499  ;  a'tllj".  En-  VVisFMAK 
in  Jan.  1501.  She  di.d 
Sept.  1508), 


Sir 


John 

M0YL1-:  John, 

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wall.  died 

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1-Iic.iard=Eliza,  dau. 


=Phii.ipim,  d.  and  h.  Sir  Adrian,     ANNE.=  lli,  Sir  — 2nd,  Sir     Ma 

ofHlJMPnREV,fonof  beheaded 

Clement  Srice,  of  1539.      -See 

Black  Nolley;   be-  SahlenPedi- 

came  heirefs  of  Iler  gree. 
uncle,  Sir  Thomas 

MONTGOMI--nY. 


Stonor,       Til 
in  1495.       Ei 


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of  William  of  Sir  William  Stai-eord  I  the  Privy  Chamber,  and 

l-'oRTESCUE  of  Bradford.  j  Squire   of  the  Body   to 

I  Queen  Elizabeth  ;   born 
1514;  died  IJ76. 


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of  Hardinge, 
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July  24,  1590.  Ij82.  buned   1  ^<l  1 


of  Rober-i- 
Chane. 


John  of  Falkborne.=pCA 


William  Fortescl-e. 
Who  fold  Falkhorne  tt 
the  Bullooks  in  1637. 


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Sir  yohn  Fortefcue.  153 

He  married  Alice,  the  elder  of  the  two  fifters  of  the  fome  name  (who  was  in  this  refpeft 
in  a  like  cafe  with  her  hulbaiid),  daughter  of  Sir  John  Montgomery,  and  fifter  and  after- 
wards co-heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Montgomery^  Knight  of  the  Garter,  of  Falkborne  in  EfTex. 

They  do  not  appear  to  have  left  any  children,  for  we  find  that  Alice  Spice,  his  wife's  niece, 
who  married  Fortefcue's  nephew,  John  Fortefcue  of  Punlliorne  (commonly  ftyled  m  the 
Charters  "John  Fortefcue  of  Herts  "),  inherited  eventually  the  whole  of  the  Montgomery 
eftates — a  fubjeifl  to  which  we  ihall  revert  further  on. 

This  Sir  John  died  before  his  wife.'  She  married  a  feeond  time,  to  Robert  Langley, 
who  died  Augufl:  28,  1499;  and  a  third  time,  on  the  17th  of  January,  1501,  to  Edmund 
Wifeman  of  Rivenhall  in  EfTex.  Alice  herfelf  died  in  September,  1508,  and  was  buried  in 
the  Church  at  Falkborne. 

Sir   John   Fortescue  the  Younger,   of   PuNsnoRNE. 

The  younger  of  the  two  Sir  Johns,  born  not  later  than  1440,  inherited  Punfborne  from 
his  father.  He  appears  to  have  received  grants  either  of  lands  or  office  before  1464;  the 
Ad  of  Refumption  for  that  year  including  a  (living  "  to  John  Fortefcue,  Efcjuire,  of  all 
graunts  made  to  him  by  our  Letters  Patentes.'"' 

In  1471  the  King,  to  whom  he  was  an  Efquire  of  the  Body  ("  Armiger  de  Corpore 
Noftro"),  fent  him  into  Cornwall,  which  was  ill-affeded  to  his  caufe,  and  was  looked  upon 
as  "  the  back  door  of  the  rebellion,"^  as  fherifF  of  that  county  and  duchy  ;  and  he  was  re- 
appointed as  fuch  from  year  to  year,  until  the  end  of  1476  ;  unlefs  we  except  the  year  ^475, 
when  the  king's  brother,  Richard  Duke  of  Gloucefler,  appears  as  fherifF,  although  Fortefcue 
was  almoft  certainly  his  deputy.  Hals  informs  us,  indeed,  that  the  Duke  of  Glouceil:er's 
appointment  was  for  life,  and  that  "  all  the  perfons  in  the  lift  let  down  after  Fortefcue  were 
not  abfolutely  fherifFs,  but  deputies  under  the  iaid  duke." 

When  Fortefcue  was  in  the  feeond  or  third  year  of  his  flirievalty  he  was  called  on  to  aft 
againft  one  of  the  principal  furviving  adherents  of  Henry  VI,  namely,  John  De  Vere,  Earl 
of  Oxford,  who,  after  the  battle  of  Barnet  and  capture  of  Henry,  had  fled  into  Scotland  and 
thence  into  France.  He  was  fo  uneafy  in  his  exile  and  fo  daring  in  his  difpofition,  as  to 
colled:  fhips  and  men  with  which  he  for  fome  time  kept  the  fouth  coafl  of  England  in  alarm . 
by  his  frequent  landings  and  captures  ;  and  finally,  on  the  30th  of  September  in  1473,  he 
furprifed  the  fortrefs  of  St.  Michael's  Mount,  that  well-known  object:  near  Penzance  in  .he 
extreme  weft.  Here  he  was  befieged  and  aflaulted  by  Sir  John  Arundel  of  Trerice,  lu>t 
always  without  fuccefs,  until  at  laft  Arundel  was  flain  on  the  fands  at  the  foot  oi-  the  mount.^ 
Then  Henry  Bodrugan  commanded  the  hefiegers,  but  made  no  progrefs  ;   but,  on  the  con- 

'  Morant's  Efie.K,  ii.  lib.  ,  ''  Roltb  ot  Fuiiiamunt,  v.  ,540. 

■=  Hals's  MS.  Hiftoiy  of  Cornwall,  quoted  in  Polwhclc's  Cormvall,  iv.  p.  45.  ■"  Hals,  in  I'oKvhelc. 


Hr;  ^  n.  .«U.ll  ' 


1 54  Family  of  Pu^ijlorne^  etc. 

trary,  was  thought  to  have  ai\  underltaiiding  with  the  earl,  whom  he  fccretly  favoured,  and 
allowed  to  lay  in  frefli  fupplies  of  provifions.  When  this  fufpicion  hecanic  known  to  the 
King,  he  iflueA  a  commirtion  "  empowering  John  Fortefcue,  one  of  the  Efquires  of  the  Body, 
and  Sheriff  of  Cornwall,  Sir  John  Crokker,  (who  had  married  Fortefcue's  fifter,)  and  Henry 
Bodrugan,  to  oppofe  the  Earl  of  Oxford  ;'"  the  effeft  of  which  was  to  fuperfede  Bodrugan, 
and  to  place  the  condud:  of  the  fiege  altogether  under  Fortefcue  the  Sheriff,  who,  however, 
was  hardly  more  fuccefsful  than  his  predeceffor ;  for  his  "  frequent  affaults  were  alwav's  and 
in  all  places  repulfed  with  lofs,  the  fort  being  as  ftoutly  defended  within  as  it  was  affaulted 
without."  The  place  thus  appearing  too  ftrong  for  its  affailants,'^  "  and  all  the  circumftances 
being  tranfmitted  to  the  King  by  Mr.  Fortefcue  the  Sheriff;  the  King,  for  the  prevention  of 
further  bloodflied,  ordered  him  to  have  a  parley  with  the  Earl,  who  returned  for  anfwer, 
'That  if  the  King  would  pardon  the  offence  of  himielf  and  his  adherents,  and  grant  them 
their  lives,  liberties,  and  eitates,  that  then  he  would  yield  up  the  fort  to  his  ufe  ;  ctherwiie, 
they  would  fight  it  out  to  the  laft  man.'"  Accordingly  the  King  ordered  a  free  pardon  under 
the  broad  feal  of  England  to  be  made  out  to  them  ;  which  was  fei  down,  and  by  Mr. 
Sheriff  Fortefcue^  delivered  to  the  Earl,  who  accepted  its  conditions,  although  lefs  lenii-nt 
than  he  defired,  "  to  the  great  quiet  and  content  of  all  parties."  Whereupon  the  fort  \'as 
yielded.  The  Earl  remained  a  prifoner  in  the  Sheriff's  hands,  becaufe  the  pardon  extenc  ed 
only  to  the  lives  of  himfelf  and  his  companions,  and  not  to  their  liberties,  as  Hals  implies. 
This  will  be  feen  by  reference  to  the  document  in  "  the  Rolls  of  Parliament,"  where  the  King, 
grants  "  to  the  aforefaid  Earl  and  to  his  brothers  George  and  Thomas  De  Vera  grace  and 
pardon  for  their  lives,  their  bodies  to  be  kept  in  fafe  cuftody  in  whatever  place,  ai^id  for  what- 
ever time  it  may  pleafe  him  ;  their  lands  and  tenements  to  be  at  his  dilpofal  in  whatever  way 
he  fliall  fee  fit.' 

In  accordance  witli  thefe  conditions  Oxford  was  fent  to  the  Fortrefs  of  Hammes  i  i 
Picardy,  where  he  remained  in  confinement  during  the  reft  of  the  reign  of  Edward,  and  unt.l 
his  efcape  before  the  clofe  of  that  of  Richard  III.,  when,  as  we  fliall  fee.  Sir  John  Fortefcue 
was  again  in  his  company.  The  earl's  eftates  were  fo  rigoroufiy  confifcated  that  his  countels 
was  forced  to  live  upon  the  alms  of  her  friends.' 

The  defence  of  the  mount  lafted  for  feveral  months  ;  and  even  after  the  di^- 
miffal  of  Bodrugan,  and  notwithftanding  Fortefcue's  more  aftive  mcafures  agamft  it,' 
the  place  held  out  from  December  23,  1472,  to  the  15th  of  February,  147J.''  Oxford's 
provifions    would    have   fufficed    until    the    next   fummer,  lb    well    had   he   vidualled    his 


'  Lyibn's  Cornwall,  p.  140.  -  W.  Hnls  in  Polwhulu,  iv.  45. 

^  Fortel'cue  is  ftyled  in  the  oritjiniil  Hocumcnt   "  Johaniiis   I'Vrtctcue   ArmiiTCV   pro   Coiporc   Nollro."     Roll 
of  Parliament,  vi.  149,  14  Edward  IV. 

*  Kennetl's  Complete  Ililtor^  of  England,  vol.  i.  p.  457. 

^  Warkwonh's  Chronicle,  lad. page  ;  and  Holinllied,  iii.  428.  , 


Sir  JoJm  Forte/cue.  155 

ftronghold.      I  lolinflied  gives  the  ftrength  of  his  party  at  three  hundred  and  ninety-feven 
perfons. 

The  accoinit  of  the  tranfadlion  in  "  Warlcworth's  Chronicle  "  is  fo  quaint  and  graphic 
that  1  fubjoin  it.      He  fays  : — ■ 

"  In  the  xiii.  yere  of  the  regne  of  Kynge  Edvvarde,  Sere  Jhon  Veere  Erie  of  Oxenforde 
that  withdrew  hym  frome  Barnetfelde  and  rode  into  Scottlonde,  and  from  thence  into 
I'Vaunce  afailed,  and  ther  he  was  worlchiptully  received. 

"  And  in  the  fame  yere  he  was  in  the  fee  withe  certayne  fchippes,  and  gate  grete  good 
and  rychefle,  and  afterwarde  came  into  wefte  coLintre  and  with  a  fotule  poynte  of  werre  gate 
and  enteryd  Seynt  Michaels  Mount  In  Cornwayle^  a  ftronge  place  and  a  mygty,  and  can  not 
be  geett  yf  it  be  wele  vytaled  withe  a  fewe  menne  to  kepe  hit ;  for  xx"  menne  may  kepe  it 
ageyne  alle  the  world. 

"  So  the  feyde  Erie  with  xx.  fcore  menne  fave  iii.  the  lafl:  day  of  Septembre  the  yere 
aforefayd  enteryd  fyrft  into  the  feyde  Mount,  and  he  and  his  menne  came  do"ne  into  countre 
of  Cornwayle  to  befeige  the  feide  Mount,  and  fo  he  dyd  ;  and  every  day  tnt  I^de  of  Oxen- 
forde's  menne  came  doune  undcre  Trewis  and  ipake  with  Bodrygham  and  his  menne  ;  and 
at  the  lafi:  the  faide  Erie  lacked  vytayle,  and  the  feyde  Bodrygham  fufFred  hyme  to  be  vytailed  ; 
and  anone  the  Kyng  was  put  in  knowlache  therof ;  wherfor  the  feide  Bodryghan  was  dif- 
charged,  and  Richard  (Jolm)  I'^ortefcue,  Squyere  for  the  body,  by  autoryte  of  the  Kynge 
toke  uppone  honde  to  lay  fege  to  the  forfeide  Mount  &c.  &:c.  And  fo  gret  dyverfione  roofe 
betwyx  Bodrygan  and  Fortefcu  whiche  I<"ortefcu  was  fliireve  of  Cornwayle.  And  the  feide 
Fortefcu  layed  feige  the  xxiij"  day  of  Decembre  the  yere  aforfeide  ;  And  for  the  moft  party 
every  day  eche  of  them  fought  with  the  othere,  and  the  feide  Erie's  menne  kylled  diverfe  of 
Fortefcu's  menne ;  and  fomtyme  when  tliei  hade  welle  y-foughte  thei  wulde  take  a  trewis 
for  one  day  and  a  night,  and  fome  tyme  for  two  or  thre  dayes.  In  the  whiche  trewis  eche 
one  of  them  fpake  and  communde  with  other. 

"  The  Kynge  and  his  counfale  fent  unto  dy verfe  that  were  with  the  Erie  of  Oxenforde, 
prevely,  their  pardones,  and  promifed  to  them  grete  giftes,  and  landes,  and  goodes,  by  the 
whiche  dyverfe  of  them  were  turned  to  the  Kynge  ayenft  the  Erie  ;  and  fo  in  conclufion  the 
Erie  had  not  paflynge  viii.  or  ix.  menne  that  wolde  hold  wythe  hym,  the  whiche  was  the 
undoynge  of  the  Erie  ;  For  this  is  proverbe  and  a  fayenge,  that  '  a  caftelle  that  fpekyth.-  and 
a  womane  that  wille  here  thei  vville  be  gotene  both.' 

"  For  menne  that  bene  in  a  caftelle  of  name  that  wille  fpeyke  and  entreat  with  their 
ennemys,  the  conclufione  therof  is  the  lofynge  of  that  caftelle;  and  a  womanne  that  wille 
here  foly  fpokynge  unto  hyre,  if  fche  afient  not  at  one  tyme,  fche  wille  at  anotiier. 

"  And  fo  this  proverbe  was  prevede  trewe  by  the  feide  Erie  of  Oxenforde,  whiche  was 
fayne  to  yelde  up  the  feyde  Mount,  and  put  hyme  in  the  Kyngis  grace  ;  If  he  had  not  do 
fo  his  owne  menne  wulde  have  brought  hyme  oute. 


156  Fa7nily  of  Pwijhoj'ne^  etc. 

"  And  fo  Fortefcii  enterd  into  the  feyd  Mount  the  xv.  day  of  Februraiy  the  yere  afore 
fayde,  in  the  whiche  was  vytayle  enogh  tylle  Midfonier  aftere. 

",  And  fo  was  the  Erie  aforefeyd,  the  Lord  Bemonde,'  two  Brotheres  of  the  feyde  Erie, 
and  Thomas  Clyfforde,  brought  as  a  prefonere  to  the  Kynge;  and  all  was  donne  by  ther 
oun  foly." 

This  tafk  performed,  Sir  John  was  ftlll  continued  as  flierifF  in  Cornwall  until  the  end  ot 
1476  or  beginning  of  1477  ;  he  received  during  this  lad  year  of  his  Ihrievalty  (as  a  /eward 
for  his  fervices),  a  penfion  from  the  King  of  forty  marks  yearly,  and  a-  confirmation  of  his 
appointment  as  Efquire  of  the  Body." 

His  marriage  mull:  be  referred  to  fome  time  in  this  period  ;  it  could  hardly  have  taken 
place  later  than  the  year  1475j  j^Jgi^g  by  the  age  of  his  fecond  fon  Adrian,  who  was  a 
married  man  in  the  year  1499.'  ' 

His  wife  was  Alice,  youngeft  daughter  of  Sir  Geoffrey  Bullein  or  Boleyn,  of  Nortulk, 
Lord  Mayor  of  London  in  1457,'  who  had  married  Anne,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Thomas 
Lord  Hoo  and  Haftings,  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  who  was  by  her,  father  of  Tlioma- 
Bullein,  created,  in  confequence  of  the  marriage  of  his  daughter  Anne  Boleyn  v\ith 
Henry  VIII.,  Earl  of  Wiltfhire  and  Earl  of  Ormond.  Camden,  in  his  "  Annals  of  the 
Reign  of  Elizabeth,"  thus  dilates  on  that  queen's  connection  with  the  Boleyns  : — 

"  Abavus  (Elizabeth;!-)  erat  Galfridus  Bolenus,  Pnvtor  Urbis  Londini  anno  1457, 
eodemque  tempore  Equeftri  dignitate  ornatus  ;  vir  integer,  ea  exillimatione  ut  Thomas  Baro.' 
Hoo  et  Haftings,  ex  ordine  Georgiano  filiam  et  heredem  unam  illi  in  uxorem  clederit ;  Ea; 
opulentia  ut  filias  in  fplendidas  familias  Cheniorum,  Heidonorum,  et  Fqrtefcutor-mi 
elocaverit,  filio  autem  patrimonium  reliquerit,  et  mille  libras  moneta;  Anglic^  egenis  in  ui  be 
Londino,  et  ducentas  in  Norfolcia  erogandas  legaverit.'"^ 

Sir  Geoffrey  Boleyn's  eldeft  daughter  Elizabeth  married  Sir  Henry  Heydon  of  Bacon,- 
thorp;*^  his  fecond,  Alice,  married  Sir  John  Fortefcue  ;  and  the  third,  Ifabel,  married  William, 
fon  and  heir  of  Sir  John  Cheyney. 

He  is  next  heard  of  on  the  occafion  of  the  inftallation  as  Bifliop  of  Ely  of  John  Morten 
afterwards  Archbilliop  of  Canterbury  and  Lord  Chancellor.  This  remarkable  man  had  beei., 
as  may  be  remembered,  one  of  Chancellor  Fortefcue's  fellow-exiles,  and  they  had  bee  1 
both,  upon  their  fubmillion  to  Edward  IV.,  admitted  to  his  favour.     Sir  John  of  Puniborne, 

'   Beaumont.                              '^   I'nnch  R,.lls  I'.il.  lO  K.lwaid  IV.  '  I'^'tent  Kolls,  10  llc-nry  Vll. 

■•  Cluttcrbuck's  Herts,  iii.  94.  See  prai^iee  of  llie  I'.aU^n-,  there  given;  and  Blomelield's  Norl'i  Ik,  vi.  387. 
In  proof  that  Alice  Montgomery  did  not  m^nry  ;i  direct  tuufillier  of  Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue,  obfer\e  that  at  Salden 

tlic  Fortefcue  and  P.uilein  arms  were  tiuarterc.l  together,  but  not  the  Fortefcue  and  Nbintgonicry  coats,  as  Cole's 
MSS.  will  fhow. 

'■>  Camden's  Annales  Rerum  vAnglic,  reg.  Fliz.,  by  Ilearne,  3  vols.  Svo.  vol.  1.  p.  1. 

«  Blomefield's  Norfolk,  vi.  387. 


Sir  yohn  Fortefciie.  \  57 

on  the  29th  of  Auguft,  I479)  ^ttt;ncied  his  uncle's  friend  at  this  ceremony  ;  and  at  the  great 
banquet  afterwards,  he  is  named  as  one  of  eleven  laymen  of  note  who  were  feated  at  the  "  high 
dees  "  in  the  great  hall,  on  the  left  hand  of  "  my  Lord  of  Ely.'" 

In  the  year  1481,  Fortefcue  ferved  as  Sheriff  of  Hertford  111  ire  and  Eflex  ;  and  in  the 
next  year,  or  the  next  but  one,  he  was  fen t  to  Calais  as  one  of  the  chief  officers  in  conmiand 
there.  Upon  the  death  of  Edward,  on  the  '29th  of  April,  1483,  he  was  continued  in  his 
port  by  Richard  III.  by  an  order  dated  the  '28th  of  June  in  that  year,"  being  two  days  after 
his  acceffion  and  before  the  murder  of  Edward  V.^  He  is  then  ftyled,  "  Maifter-porter  of 
the  town  of  Calais." 

The  perfons  ferving  at  Calais  and  its  marches  at  the  time  were  Lord  Dynham,  Governor 
of  the  town  of  Calais,  and  the  King's  Deputy  there;  Sir  Humphrey  Talbot,  Marfliall  ;  John 
Foflcewe,  Maifter-porter  ;  Adryan  Whitell,  Controller;  Sir  Richard  Tunftall,  Deputy  .of  the 
Caftle ;  and  Sir  John  Dunn,  Deputy  of  the  tower  of  Riflianke  ;  all  of  whom  were  continued 
iluring  the  King's  pleafure. 

And  not  many  days  later  he,  as  one  of  "the  Councellors  of  the  King"  at  Calais,  and 
nine  others,  of  whom  Sir  John  Dynham  and  Sir  John  Blount  of  Mountjoye  are  the  two 
firft,  were  named  on  a  commiffion,  to  inquire  into  and  arrange  fundry  breaches  ot  the  truce 
between  France  and  England  by  fubjecils  of  both  countries.'  Fortefcue  is  called  here 
"  Major  villa;  Noftra-  Calefii ;"  while  Stow^  calls  him  "  Protec'lor"  of  the  town,  and  Rapin, 
"  Governor  of  Calais.'"' 

We  find  two  Patents,'  both  dated  the  5th  of  March  in  the  next  year,  {484,  cone  of 
wliich  appoints  him  Efquire  of  the  Body  to  the  new  King,  and  the  other  adds  a  gi^ant  ot 
fifty  marks  yearly,  as  a  falary  for  that  office. 

Fortefcue,  however,  was  not  fated  to  remain  long  in  the  fervice  of  the  uiurping  monarch, 
for,  before  the  end  of  this  year,  liichard's  fubjefts,  on  both  fides  of  the  ftraits  of  Dover, 
were  ready  at  any  time  to  revolt.  The  Earl  of  Richmond  was  then  in  Paris,  received  by 
the  French  king ;  and  the  E.arl  of  Oxford,  ftill  a  prifoner  at  Hammes,  found  no  difficulty 
either  in  leaving  his  prifon  or  in  taking  along  with  him  Sir  John  Blount,  in  whofe  keeping 
he  was,  as  well  as  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  the  Mafter-porter  of  Calais.  Thus  Fortefcue  and 
the  Earl  came  together  once  more,  and  with  Blount,  proceeded  to  join  the  Earl  ct 
Richmond  in  Paris.  I  will  give  Holinfhed's  account  of  the  tranfaJlion  in  his  own 
words  -^ — 


'  Bentham's   Hiftory  of  Ely  Cathedral,   vol.   i.   p.    179;  and  the  bill   of  fare,  .iiid   religious   veii'es   relit 
etween  each  courfe,  in  the  Ajipendix  to  that  work. 

■^  Letters  and  Papei-s,  Rich.  111.  and  Hen.  VII.  by  Gairdner,  \ol.  i.  p.  14. 

^  The  date  of  the  munler  of  the  two  princes  is  luppofed  to  be  Auguft  I,  14S3. 

■"  Rymer,  V.,  i)art  iii.  p.  135.     Ed.'  Ilaga.'.  ^  Annals,  467.  '   R.ipin,  sol.  i.  644. 

'  Patent  Rolls,  1  Rich.  111.  »  llolinftied,  iii.  427  (410.) 


158  Favi'ily  of  Ptmjhonie^  etc. 

"  While  the  Earl  was  thus  attendant  in  the  French  Court,  John  Vere,  Earl  of  Oxford, 
which,  as  you  have  heard  before,  was  by  King  Edward  kept  in  prifon  within  the  Caftle  of 
Hammes,  fo  perfiiaded  James  Blunt,  Captain  of  the  fame  Fortrefs,  and  Sir  John  Fortefcue 
Porter  of  the  Town  of  Calais,  that  he  hinifelf  was  not  only  difn\ifled  and  fet  at  liberty  ;  but 
they  alfo,  abandoning  and  leaving  their  fruitful  offices,  did  condefcend  to  go  with  him  into 
F'rance  to  the  Earl  of  Richmond,  and  to  take  his  part.  But  James  Blunt,  like  a  wife 
captain,  becaufe  he  left  his  wife  remaining  in  the  Caftle  before  his  departure,  did  fort'fy  the 
fame,  both  with  new  provifions  and  frefh  foldiers.  And  here,  becaufe  the  names  of  Vere 
and  Fortefcue  are  remembered,  it  fliall  not  be  amifs,  fomewhat  out  of  due  place,  yet  better 
a  little  out  of  order  than  altogether  to  omit  the  fime,  to  add  a  fupplement  for  the  further 
perfeiiling  of  a  report  recorded  in  page  329,  and  adding  fome  light  alfo  to  their  jirefent  place 
touching  the  faid  perfons,  with  others.  The  furname  of  Fortefcue  is  deduced  from  the 
ftrength  of  his  (Viield,  wherof  that  F'amily  hatl  firlt  original."  Then  follows  an  account  of 
the  fiege  of  St.  Michael's  Mount,  after  which  the  Chronicler  returns  to  his  narrative  thus  :  — 
"  When  the  Earl  of  Richmond  faw  the  Earl  of  Oxenforde,  he  was  ravlfhed  with  an 
incredible  gladnefs,  that  he,  being  a  man  of  fo  high  nobility,  and  of  fuch  knowledge  rnd 
practice  in  feats  of  war,  and  fo  conflant,  trufty,  and  afl"ured  (which  alway  had  fludied  for  he 
maintenance  and  preferment  of  the  Houfe  of  Lancafter)  was  now,  by  God's  provifi.)n, 
delivered  out  of  captivity  and  imprifonment,  and  in  time  fo  necefTary  come  to  his  aid,  fuccor, 
and  advancement." 

This  defeftion  of  Fortefcue  and  Blount  was  forthwith  punillied  by  the  attainder  of  both  of 
them.^  The  former  remained  with  the  Earl  of  Richmond,  and  attended  him  on  his  expedition 
to  England  in  Auguft,  1485,  landing  with  him  at  Milford  Havem  on  the  6th  of  that  month  . 
when  Menry  performed  an  early  atl  of  royalty'  by  knighting  his  follower,  who,  although  he 
had  long  been  commonly  called  "Sir  John,"  a  title  given  to  Efc]uires  of  the  King's  Body,  wi;S 
not  until  now  fo  named  in  formal  documents.  Fie  then  marched  through  Wales  into  Leiceftei-- 
fhire  with  the  army,  and  fought  at  the  decifive  battle  of  Bofworth  Field,  in  that  count), 
on  the  22nd  of  Auguft  ;  where,  after  aftruggle  of  fcarcely  two  hours,  Richard,  finding  himfeif 
defeated,  rufhed  into  the  thickeft  of  the  fight,  and  was  fiain.  He  had  gone  into  aftion  wit  1 
his  crown  on  his  helmet,  which  Lord  Stanley,  picking  up  on  the  field,  placed  on  the  Ea,  1 
of  Richmond's  head,  and  proclaimed  him  King  of  England.  Richard's  body  was  found 
amongft  the  dead,  ftark  naked,  covered  with  blood  and  dirt;  and  in  that  condition  was 
thrown  acrofs  a  horfe,  with  the  head  hanging  on  one  fide,  and  the  legs  on  the  otiur,  and  lo 
carried  to  Leicefter,  where,  after  lying  for  two  days  expofed  to  public  view,  it  wis  buried 
ill  one  of  the  churches  of  the  city  without  any  ceremony.' 


Rolls  of  Parliament,  vi.  274..  ''■  Raijin.  ^   Lodge.  '   Rapii 


Sir  yohn  Fortefcue.  159 

Sir  John  was  not  long  in  receiving  marks  of  favour  from  the  new  King.  He  forthwith, 
in  little  more  than  a  month  from  the  battle,  made  him  Chief  Butler  of  England,  a  lucrative 
and  dignified  office,  dating  from  early  times,  and  generally  held  by  perfons  of  diftinftion. 
*The  patent  appointing  him  is  dated  the  loth  of  September,  in  the  firft  year  of  the  reign, 
1485.  It  is  thus  headed:  "Rex  concedit  Johanni  Fortefcue  Militi,  officium  capitalis 
pincerns  Anglia;.'"  One  of  his  lateft  predeceflbrs  in  the  office  was  John,  Earl  of 
Wiltfliire. 

About  the  fame  time  he  received  the  pofts  of  "  Lieutenant  of  the  Tower  of  Riflianke,  in 
the  Marches  of  Calais,"  of  "  Mafter  of  the  Foreft  and  Chace  of  Enfield,"  and  of"  Keeper 
of  the  Park  "  there  ;  and  alfo  a  grant  of  the  "  Farm  of  Enfield." 

Henry  had  at  once  made  him  "  one  of  the  Knights  of  his  Body  ;""  and  at  his  coronation, 
or  rather  two  days  before  it,  that  is  to  fay,  on  the  28th  of  Oftober,  feveral  great^  perfons 
were  raifed  to  or  in  the  Peerage  ;  and  fome  of  the  moll  ad:ive  of  thofe  knights  who  had 
helped  him  to  his  kingilom  were  made  bannerets  ;  among  the  latter  was  Sir  John  Fortefcue. 
Stow's  Lill:  is  as  follows  :— "  On  the  morrow,  being  the  feail  day  of  Simon  and  Jude,  King 
Henry  created  Thomas  Lord  Stanley,  Earl  of  Darby  ;  Edwarde  Courtenay,  Earl  of  Devon- 
fhire  ;  and  Jafper,  Earl  of  Penibroke,  was  created  Duke  of  Bedford  ;  all  at  one  tinie  in  the 
Tower  of  London  ;  Bannarets  made  at  this  creation  :  Sir  Gilbert  Talbot,  Sir  John  Cheinie, 
Sir  William  Stonar,  Sir  William  Troutbeke,  Sir  John  Mortimer,  Sir  Richard  Crofby,  Sir 
John  Fortefcue,  Sir  Edward  Bedingfield,  Sir  Thomas  Cokefey,  Sir  James  Bafkerville,  Sir 
Humfrey  Stanley,  Sir  Richard  de  la  Bere."'  ' 

The  Parliament  was  called  together  in  a  week  after  the  coronation,  mev'ting  on 
the  7th  of  November;'  when  one  of  its  firft  afts  was  to  reverfe  the  attainders  pronounced 
by  Richard  againft  thole  who  had  fidcd  with  his  rival,  hortcfcue's  name  appears  m  the 
lono;  catalogue  of  one  hundred  and  feven  perfons  whom  it  reftores  to  their  rights  and 
properties. 

There  is  a  Patent  of  the  ijth  March  in  the  next  year  (i486),'  granting  to  him  and  to 
his  heirs  male  the  following  manors,  namely  : — "  Ey  worth,  in  Bedfordffiire ;  Mire  Hall 
(?  Moore  Hall),  in  Effex ;  a  third  part  of  Mytton-Clevedon,  in  Somerfet ;  Crowley,  in 
Buckinghamfhire ;  and  Brampton,  in  Northamptonflfire ;  on  account  ot  the  good  and 
praifeworthy  fervices  which  the  faid  John,  the  well-beloved  and  trufty  Knight  of 
the  Body  to  the  faid  King,  had  performed,  and  did  not  ceafe  to  perform."  O.  thefe 
manors,  Moorehali,  in  Eflex,  was  part  of  the  eftate  of  Sir  Richard  Charleton,  att  anted, 
after  the  battle  of  Bofworth,   as  a  partifan  of    Richard  IIL      It    remained   to    Sir  John's 


Patent  Rolls,  1   IK.n.  VII.      Rolls  ofFjilt.  \i.  377,  Nov.  7,  1485.  -  Sl-c  Inq.  V.  M.   10  Hen.  VIII. 

Stow's  Cluonick-.  p.  471.        •  '   Rolls  ol  I'lirlt.  vi.  p.  27  J. 

Patent  Rolls,  1   Hen.  VII,,  andlnq.  P.  M.  .11  Woburn,  10  Ikn.  Vlll. 


1 60  Family  of  Pimjhorne,  etc. 

heirs  until  the  fale  of  the  property  in  1592. '  A  third  of  the  manor  of  Trumpington, 
ill  Canibridgefliire,"  was  granted  at  the  fame  time  ;  and  in  the  fame  year  an  Ad:  of  Par- 
liament grants  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue  a  yearly  rent  of  one  hundred  marks  for  five  years  out 
of  certain  manors  in  Devonlhirc,  the  el^ate  of  Sir  William  Cary,'  with  power,  in  cafe  of 
arrears  accruing,  to  enter  and  levy,  beyond  the  rent,  40/.,  as  "  a  peyne  "  (or  penalty).  This 
is  part  of  an  A(5t  reverfing  the  attainder  of  Robert  Cary,  fon  of  the  aforefaid  Sir  William. 

In  i486  he  again  ferved  as  Sheriff  of  Herts  and  Effex,  but  only  for  the  laft  fix  months 
of  the  year,  fucceeding  Sir  Robert  Percy,  who  ferved  for  the  firlt  half  of  the  year.'  He 
joined  the  forces  colleded  by  the  King  to  oppofe  the  pretender,  Lambert  Simnel,  and 
afiified  in  his  final  overthrow  at  the  battle  of  Newark-upon-Trent,  tuught  on  the  i6th  ot 
June,  1487. 

In  14S8  a  patent  grants  to  him  the  guardianfhip  ot  the  eftates  of  Philippay  daughter  of 
Humfrey  Spice,  during  her  minority.  This  lady,  as  we  fliall  find,  afterwards  married  his 
eldefi:  fon.      The  patent  runs  thus  :^ — 

"  J  Hen.  VII.  Rex  19.  Junii  cone.  Johanni  Fortefcue  militi  cuftodiam  omnium  dniorm 
nianerioi',  terr',  ten'  et  ceteror'  premifs'  que  ratione  minoris  a:tatis  Philippe  filie  Humfied 
Spice  nobis  devenerunt." 

Such  wardfliips  of  minors  were  often  of  great  value  to  thofe  who  held  them,  and  vvert 
one  of  the  means  by  which  the  fovereign  rewarded  fervices  and  gratified  favourites. 

In  November  of  the  fame  year  he  received  by  patent  an  annuity  ol  twenty  marks."  1 

In  the  year  1494,  the  King,"  having  created  his  fecond  fon,  Henry,  afterWards  He.iry 
VIII.,  now  two  years  old,  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  and  Duke  of  York,  great  feftivities  enfued, 
including  a  grand  banquet,  when  we  find  Sir  John  Fortefcue  prefent  among  the  banner  ;ts, 
as  this  lift  will  fhow  :  — 

"  The  names  of  th'aftates,  lordes,  banerettes  and  knyghts,  beying  at  thys  feft — 

Furft,  the  Kyng,  '  i 

The  Owene, 

My  ladie  the  Kings  Moder."  ■  i 

Many  great  officers  and  Lords  and  Ladies  of  the  Court.  ;         i 

Then  the  Bifhops.  ' 

Then  the  following  Bannerets  : —  ' 

"  Sir  John  Cheny  Banneret  Knight  of  the  Garter,  ■ 

Sir  Thomas  Montgomery  Knight  of  the  Garter,  •   i  ! 

Sir  Johii  Arundell  Banneret,  brother  to  the  Earl  of  Arundell, 

'  Morant,  ii.  6b.  and  Inq.  1'.  M.,  10  Hen.  VIII.  -  Iii<|.  1'.  M,  10  H.-n.  VIII.,  at  Caxton. 

^  Rolls  of  Parli.  vi.  j).  31  511.  '  Clutterbuck,  i.  p.  xxxii.  '  Pat.  Rolls,  Hen.  VII. 

"  Pat.  Rolls,  Hen.  VII.  ■  '  Letters  and  Papers,  Rich.  111.  and  Hen.  VII.,  by  Gairdner,  2  vols.,  vol.  i.  p.  402. 


FiWiily  of  Punfbonie^  etc. 


i6i 


Sir  Gilbert  Talbot  Banneret, 
Sir  Edmund  Stanley  Banneret, 
Sir  John  Fortefcue  Banneret, 
Sir  tlumfrey  Stanley  Banneret," 

and  fix  more,  with  many  kjiights. 

At  fome  time  before  1495  his  wife  miift  have  died,  becaufe  about  that  year  he 
married  a  fecond  time,  a  widow  of  very  mature  age,  her  firft  marriage  having  taken  place 
in  1467-68,  namely,  HHzabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Miles  Stapleton,'  of  Ingham,  in 
Norfolk,  and  widow  of  Sir  William  Calthorpe,  "who  died  in  1494,  and  was  buried  by  his 
wife  in  the  Priory  of  Carmes,  in  Norwich."  '"  Sir  John,  after  his  fecond  marriage,  refided 
occafionally  at  his  wife's  "  city  houfe  "  in  Norvvicli,  and  at  her  feat  of  Ingham,  "  Kving  in 
great  hofpitality."  Blomefield,  thinking  it  worth  while  to  preferve  an  extract  from  the 
accounts  of  "John  Glavyn,  fteward  to  Sir  John,"  I  will  give  it,  to  fhow  the  prices  of  food 
and  labour  in  thofe  days  ;  — 


100  Salt  FiAi  called  Ling  ..... 

200  Salt  Fifh    ....... 

8  cades  of  Red  Herrings  ..... 

8  barrells  of  White  Herrings     ..... 

Malting  of  Barley  ...... 

Carriage  of  it  to  Sir  John's  City  Houfe  at  Norwich 

N.B.    This  was  from   Ingham.      The  City  Houfe   was  the  houfe  of 
the  late  Sir  William  Calthorpe  in  St.  Martin's  by  the  Talace. 
Paid  for  a  man  to  ride  to  Londoii  .... 

For  grinding  a  cpiarter  of  Wheat  (Wheat  then  4/8^/.  per  quarter) 
To  a  Chandler  for  making  Candles         .... 

Paid  the  tithe  of  Sir  John's  Garden         .... 

Fee  of  John  Glavyn  the  Steward  .... 


61  JJjiUings. 
66 /id. 

■28/. 

6d.  per  ^quarter, 
id.  per  quarter. 


2od. 

2d. 

4<:/.  per  day. 

2l6d.    ■ 

12! -^d.  per  anil. 


The  old  knight  appears  by  the  following  document^  to  have  been  engaged  in  a  turbulent 
feud  with  one  of  his  neighbours.  Sir  William  Say,  whofe  feat  of  Baile,  in  Hoddefdon 
parifli,  was  in   the    fame  part  of  Hertfordlliire  with   Ponfliorne.       The  threatened    ifFray 

'   lm|.  I'.  M.,  lb  Ilum-y  Vfl. 

■^  15lomclitld"s  Norfolk,  ix.  222,  and  Notitia;  and  Pedigrees  of  I'ortcfcuc  Family,  Ikit.  Miis.,  .\dd.  MS.  15,629, 
f.  626,  et  feq.  N.B.  Both  Blomelield  and  f'eter  le  Neve  millakc  Siijohn  of  funlfioine  ibr  Sir  John  the  Chancellor, 
as  the  dates  will  jirove.  The  Corppotus  roll,  from  which  the  items  are  taken,  bears  date  a  few  years  after  Sir 
John's  death,  as  will  be  feen  by  relen,nce  to  tlie  A|i|ier.tlix  to  this  clLipler.  His  Ion,  John  "  of  Herts,"  appearb  to 
have  continued  the  Norwich  eftablilhment  for  a  time.  ^   Elli.-.,  Oiiginal  Letters,  ift  Series,  vol.  i.  p.  39. 


1 62  Family  of  PunJlo?-?iey  etc. 

between  the  two  kniglits  aiul  their  followers  mull;  have  alarmed  the  peaceably  ijiclined  when 
they  applied  to  the  iovereign  to  prevent  it.  Henry  VII.  addreiTed  Sir  John  Fortefcue  and 
Sir  William  Say  thus  : — 

Henry  R.      By  the  King. 

Trufty  and  wellbeloved,  we  grete  you  wele,  And  have  herd  to  our  grete  difpleafer  that 
tor  certayne  variance  and  controverfie  depending  betwixt  you  on  the  oon  partie  .md  Sir 
John  Fortefcue  on  the  other,  ye  intende  with  unliefuli  afTembles  and  conventicles  of  our 
people  to  be  at  the  SeHions  next  to  be  holden  within  our  Countie  of  Hertford,  to  th'affraying 
of  our  Peas  and  diftourbance  of  the  fame  Seffions  which  we  ne  wold,  in  efchewing  fuch  trouble 
and  inconvenients  that  by  likelyhode  might  thereuppon  enfue.  Wherfore  we  w  rite  unto  you 
at  this  tynie  commanding  you  in  the  iTiraighteftwyfe  that  leveuig  the  faid  aflembles,  ye  forbcr 
to  be  at  the  faid  Sefhons,  and  neither  doo  ne  procure  to  be  doon  anything  there,  privately  or 
apertely  repugnant  to  the  equitie  of  our  Laws,  or  rupture  ot  our  fud  Peas,  at  your  utter_no  t 
perell — and  alfo  that  immediately  at'ter  the  fight  herof  ye  adrelfe  you  unto  our  prefence,  tj 
know  our  further  mynde,  and  pleafer  in  the  preniefies. 

Lating  you  wite  that  we  have  written  in  like  wife  herein  to  the  faid  Sir  John. 

Yeven  under  our  fignet  at  our  Paloys  of  Weftminfter  the  xxiii.  day  of  February. 

To  our  trufty  and  wellbeloved  Knight  Sir  William  Say. 

I 

The  only  letter  of  the  two  which  has  been  preferved  is  this  to  Sir  W.  Say. '  ' 

I 

We  now  ceafe  to  find  mention  of  Sir  John  in  public  or  private  papers'  until  a  /ery 
fhort  time  before  his  death,  and  then  once  only,  when  he  was  fummoned  to  attend  the  Kmg 
and  Queen  on  their  journey  to  Calais,  whither  they  went  to  avoid  the  plague  now  ragint  m 
England  (30,000  died  of  it  in  London  in  this  year). 

Sir  John  1^'ortefcue  landed  at  Calais,  May  15th,  1500.  There  the  Archduke  Ph  lip 
came  to  vifit  the  Englifii  fovereign,  and  at  the  ceremony  of  the  meeting  of  the  two  princes, 
he  was  in  the  King's  retinue.  His  name  is  hardly  dealt  with  in  the  lift  of  names,  appear Mg 
as  Sir  John  L'orkeflcewe. 

This  meeting  took  place  in  the  month  of  May,  and  on  the  28th  of  July  following,  Sir 
John,  who  had  returned  to  England,  died  at  his  houfe  at  Punfborne.-  He  wa^  buried  in 
the  church  of  Bifliops  Hatfield,  where  his  fons,  John  and  Adrian,  ereifled  a  marbk  tomb  over 
liis  remains. 

This,  as  the   latter  tells  us,  was  from  "  the  marbellars  of  Corft","  '-C,  Purbeck,  and  was 


'   Letters  and  Papers  of  Richard  III.  and   Henry  VII.,  by  Gairdncr,  vol.  ii.  p.  88;   and  Turpiivs  Chronicle  of 
Calais,  p.  3.  ■ 

''  Inq.  P.  M.  Hertford,  10  Hen.  VIII.  ' 


Fcunily  of  Piinjhorjie^  etc.  163 

enriched  with  "  images  and  armys."  The  tomb  was  in  a  chapel  fet  apart  to  his  memory. 
Some  years  later,  in  i  526,  Sir  Adrian,  in  one  of  his  expeditions  to  Cahiis,  bought  there,  "  in 
the  wartime  a  great  tabernacle  for  the  altar"  of  this  chapel.' 

His  widow,  notwithftanding  her  age,  married  again,  early  in  1502,  a  tliird  hiifL)and,  Sir 
Edward  Howard,  the  Lord  Admiral,  brother  to  the  Duke  of  Norfolk.  When  about  to 
take  this  ftep,  "  fhe  did,  in  the  17th  Hen.  VII.,  infeof  feveral  perfons  of  the  manor  of 
Ingham,  and  other  lands,  to  the  ufes  flie  fhould  declare,  notwithftanding  any  alignment  to 
be  made  by  Sir  Edward  Howard,  whom  fhe  intended  to  marry,  and  defired  that  after  her 
deceafe  a  prieft  fhould  be  found  to  pray  for  her  foul  and  the  fouls  of  her  hufbands.  Sir 
William  Calthorpe,  Knt.,  and  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  Knt."" 

Blomefield  aHerts  that  Lady  h'ortefcue  had  married  Lord  Scroop,  as  well  as  Sir  vVilliam 
Calthorpe,  before  Sir  John  l''ortefcue,  and  that  Sir  Edward  Howard  vvas  her  fourth  huiliand. 
He  is  not,  however,  fupported  by  Peter  Le  Neve ;  therefore  we  will  give  her  the  benefit  of 
the  doubt.  Her  only  ilTue  was  by  her  firft  hufband,  and  her  effates  defcended  to  her  fon, 
Sir  Francis  Calthorpe. 

Sir  John  left  by  his  firft  wife  two  fons,  John,  the  eldeft,  and  Adrian,  of  whom  here- 
after ;  and  three  daughters,  Anne,  married,  firft,  to  Sir  Thomas  Bawd,  fecondly,  to  Sir 
Edward  Lucye  ;  Elizabeth,  married  to  Simon  Elrington,  Efq.  ;  and  Mary,  married,  in  the 
year  1495,  to  John  Stonor,  fon  of  Sir  Walter  Stonor,  and  brother  to  Sir  Adrian's  firft 
wife.  The  leave  of  the  King  for  the  celebration  of  this  marriage  was  a^ked  for  ; 
and  obtained,  by  the  lady's  father;  there  being  a  Patent  Roll  of  10  Hen.  VII.,  15th 
February  (1495),  "granting  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  Knt.,  the  marriage  of  John  Stonour." 
Leland  thus  mentions  the  double  alliance  between  the  Stonors  and  h'ortefcues : — "  Olde 
Fortefcue  Doughter  in  Henry  the  VII.  tyme,  married  the  Sunne  and  Heir  of  Stoner ;  and 
after,  as  I  hard,  old  Fortefcue  Sunne  married  the  Doughter  and  Heire  of  Stoneher."  ' 

After  the  death  of  her  firft  hufband,  Mary  b'ortefcue  married  Anthony  Fettyplace.'     She  ' 
had  no  iftue  by  John  Stonor,  at  whofe  death   his   fifter   Anne  (Lady  Fortefcue)   became  his 
heir.^ 

John  Fortefcue,  of  Ponfbourne,'^  the  eldeft  fon  of  the  Sir  John  who  fucceeded  to  his  father's 
eftates,  was  probably  born  not  later  than  the  year  1469  ;  for  he  is  named  in  a  Clofe  Roll,' 
referring  to  Middlefex  and  Herts,  of  the  i6th  February,  1490,  as  John  Fortefcue,  Arriiger; 
fo  that  he  was  probably  at  leaft  of  age  in  that  year ;  and  the  inquifition  poft  mortt  m  on 
his  father  fays  that  he  was  more  than  twenty-one  years  old  at  his  father's  death  in  1 5C0, 


'  See  Sir  Adrian's  Rook  of  Accompts,  in  Aii[)i-nilix. 

'■^  Notitiie  and  Pedigrees  in  Add.' MS.   15,629;   and  Blomellcld's  Norfolk,  vol.  v.  p.  348. 

^  Pnt.  Rolls,  10  Hen.  VII.      Lehifid's  Itinerary,  iv.  p.  19.  "  Vililalion  of  Devon,  1564. 

5  Burke's  Commoners,  ii.  441.  ''  Inq.  P.  M.  16  Hen.  VII.  '  Clofe  Roll,  5  Hen.  VII. 


164  •      Family  of  Pirnflwrnc^  etc. 

The  following  t-ntries  in  the  Rooks  of  Accounts  of  Menrv  VII.  are  prefcrved  in  the 
Britidi  Miifeum  :— 

"  1  Novonber  150J.'  Anthony  Fettyplacc,  John  I'^ortcfcuc,  and  John  Cole  of  Devon, 
etc.  bounden  in  two  obligations  to  pay  fifty  marks  at  Candlemas  next  comyng,  and  fifty 
marks  at  Halotyde  after,  for  a  miirdor.      100  Marks  (folut.) 

"  I  Jpril  1504.  Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue  and  John  b'ortefcue,  etc.  bounden  in  an  obligation 
to  pay  at  Michelnias  next  coming  for  a  fyne  20/.  (fol.) 

"  12  June  1505.  Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue,  John  b'ortefcue,  and  Thomas  1  lalys  er  bounden 
in  three  obligations  to  pay  20/.  at  Halowtyde  next  comyng,  20/.  on  Afcenfion-tyde  after, 
and  20/.  at  Malotyde  cum  12  moneth  for  the  fyne  of  a  ryott,  60/. 

"  I  July  1 51 1.  3  Men.  VIII.  Henry  Bourghcher  Erie  of  EiTex  and  Jol  n  l^'ortefcue 
of  Pundefliorne  in  the  Countie  of  Elertford  Efquire  are  bound  by  an  obligation  to  pay 
m'uxiij"  within  two  months." 

It  does  not  follow  from  the  foregoing  that  Fettyplacc,  the  Fortefcues,  or  Cole  were' 
themlelves  guilty  of  murder  or  riot;  but  rather  that  fines  were  laid  on  their  eltates,  for 
the  harbouring  of  malef  nftors  by  themfelves  or  their  tenants. 

In  June,  1512,  John  "of  f^Ierts"  (as  he  is  often  called)  was,  with  his  brother,  Sii 
Adrian,  "  among  thofe  who  agreed  to  fend  a  certain  number  of  men  to  ferve  the  Kii.g";- 
grace  by  land;"'  and  accordingly,  on  the  ijth  of  AjM-il,  1513,  thele  two  brothers  "are, 
appointed  to  pafs  the  fea  in  the  middle  ward  with  50  Archers,  and  50  Bills,  to  be  fhipped 
from  Dover,  or  Sandwich."''  Their  "  protection  fur  going  to  the  war"  is  dafed  May  6, 
I  51  J,'  and  they  are  afterwards  placed  "  in  the  King's  Ward."^ 

John  of  Eierts,"  liaving  firfl:  made  his  will,  proceeded  to  France. 

The  "  Chronicle  of  Calais"  records  that  King  Henry  VIII.  "  landed  at  Calais  on  the  1:  ft 
day  of  June,  and  with  him  landed  (among  others)  Ser  John  F'ofkew;"''  and  he  is  in  "  t  le 
Lilt  of  Noblemen'*  with  their  retmues  that  went  over  to  Calais  with  the  King,"  appeariig 
there  as  attended  by  fifty  men.      He  was  at  this  time  a  Squire  of  the  King's  Body." 

The  objedt  of  this  expedition  was  to  make  war  againfl  Louis  XII.  ;  and  its  princij  d 
events  were  the  fiege  and  taking  of  Terouenne,  the  Battle  of  the  Spurs,  and  the  ta.cing  -jf 
Tournay,  with  which  the  campaign  clofed,  in  Oiifober  of  the  fune  year  (1513). 

"  Sir  John  of  Elerts"  returned  foon  to  lingland,  for  he  was,  on  the  9th  of  February 
following,  a  "  Juftice  of  Goal    Delivery  at   St.   Albans.'""     We   do  not  hear  more  of  liim 


'  Brit.  Mus.  21,480,  Hen.  VII.  Accounts.  '-^  Letters  and  Papers,  Hen.  VIII.,  vol.  i.  No.  3231. 

»  Ibid.,  No.  3890  and  39S0.  '  Ibid.,  4017,  401 S. 

'  Ibid.,  4307.  >  '"'   lni|    Poll  Mort.  10  Urn.  VIII. 

'  Chron.  of  Calais,  p.   13.      •  "    I.ellcr..  and  I'.ipLis,  Hen.  VIII.,  p    632. 

»  Ibid.,  4249.  "  '"  Ibid.,  4742. 


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Fd/niiy  of  Ptinjhor/ie^  etc.  165 

until  liis  death,  which  took  place  on  the  8th  of  Aiiguft,  15  17,  except  that  he  was  at  the 
King's  banquet  at  Greenwich,  on  the  yth  of  July,'  a  month  before  he  died. 

He  was  a  married  man  in  the  year  15 10,  for  the  will  of  Sir  Thomas  Tyrell, 
of  Eafl:  Hordon,  in  Eflex,  made  in  the  latter  year,  jirovides  "  that  if  Sir  John  I'or- 
tefcue  and  his  vvief  dye  without  yfTue  the  reverfion  of  the  manors  of  l-'alkborne  and 
Moche  Teye  in  the  County  ot  KiTex,  fliall  remain  to  my  fon  Thomas  and  his  heirs." '^ 
His  wife  was  Philippa  Spice,^  born  in  1484,  daughter  and  heir  of  Humphrey  Spic;, 
of  Black  Notley,  in  Eflex,  fon  of  Clement  Spice,  of  that  place,  by  Alice  Mont- 
gomery. This  lady  had  a  fifl:er,  alfo  Alice,  who,  as  we  have  {\:cn,  married  the  elder 
of  the  two  brothers  Sir  John,  fons  of  Sir  Richard  l-'ortefeue,  of  Ponfbourne.  They 
were  daughters  of  Sir  John  Montgomery  of  h'alkborne,  Knight  of  the  Bath,  ai  d  were 
co-heirs  to  their  brother,  Sir  I'homas  Montgomery,  born  in  1434,  called  by  Morant  "one 
of  the  moll:  eminent  men  of  his  time,  much  in  favour  with  Edward  IV.  who  made  him  a 
Knight  of  the  Garter  and  employed  him  in  embaflies  and  afl'airsof  the  greateft  conlequence." 
He  had  very  large  eftates  in  Eflex,  which,  upon  the  death,  without  ifl"ue,  of  his  filter,  Alice 
Eortefcue,''  centered  in  the  granddaughter  of  his  fifter,  Alice  Spice,  that  is  to  fay,  in  Philippa 
Spice,  our  prefent  fubjeft,  who,  Morant  fays,  brought  to  her  hulband  "a  very  great  eltate," 
although  fhe  did  not  inherit  her  father's  eltate  of  Black  Notley.  'I'hrough  her,  Ealkborne 
Hall  came  to  her  hufliand,  and  became  the  principal  refidence  ot  this  family. 

Philippa,  the  heirefs,  furvived  her  hullnmd  for  many  years.  She  re-married  Sir  Erancis 
Bryan,-'  and  was  alive  in  1534.  ' 

Sir  John's  ifl'ue  by  his  wife  were  three  daughters,  Anna,"  Ethelrcda,''  and  Elixabeth, 
married  to  b'ox  ;'  and  one  fon,  Henry,  born  in  1516,"'  who  fucceeded  to  the  elEites  ot  his 
father  and  mother,  on  their  refpeftive  deaths. 

EJenry  Eortefcue's  paternal  ellates,  as  enumerated  in  the  inquifitiones  poll  mortem  held 
at  his  accefllon  to  them,  were  :  —  Brokemanys,  Ponnyiborne,  Wynderige,  Comeflovve  Greene, 
and  Bayford;  with  lands  at  Bifliops  ELitfield,  Little  Berkhampftead,  and  Hertyngfordberry,  in 
Hertfordlldre  ;'■'    the   manor  of  Trumpington,  m  Cambridgelhire ;'"  the   manor  of  Moore 


'   Letters  and  Papeis,  Hen.  Vlll.  vol.  ii.  3446. 

^  Dodi'worth  MS.  22,  f.  IJ4  b,  (in  Regiblio),  Fetipkice,  fol.  11.     Will  proved  Oft.  10,  1512. 

^  Morant's  Efsex,  ii.  123  and  1  16. 

■*  The  ftatement  of  Moraut  and  others,  that  Alice  FortelLue  was  the  wife  of  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  of  I'u  ilLoinc, 
nnd  tliiis  mother  of  John  of  Herts,  is  inconliflent  with  the  well-eftahliOied  faft  ihat  the  mother  of  John  o.  Herts, 
and  the  witi;  of  Sir  John  of  Punfborne,  was  Alice  Boleyn.  The  millake  has  doubtleft  arifen  from  the  eonfufion 
caufed  by  two  Sir  Johns,  brothers.  Morant  gives  no  authority  for  his  ftatement.  There  is  no  doubt,  l.owevcr, 
but  that  Alice  Spice  and  her  luifliand,  John  Forlefcue,  of  Herts,  became  polTMli d  of  all  the  Montcjomery  eftates. 

■^  Morant,  ii.   1  17.  ''   ln<\.  V.  M.   laih  July,   iS  Hen.  VIII. ,  at  llerlford. 

'   Arms  and  Fed.  Devon  iMmilits.  ''   Inq.  I>.  M.   lO  Hen.  V  III. 

'  Inq.  P.  M.  at  Hertford,  l8th  July,  10  Ihn.  VIII. 

'»  Inq.  P.  M.  10  Hen.  VIII  ,  6  Auguft,  at  Caxton,  and  at  Kojilon,  July  20,  lame  year. 


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Fcwiily  of  Punjhorne^  etc.  1 67 

Knight  nor  to  his  heirs — nor  to  Sir  Francis  Bryan,  to  whom  the  King  had  granted  the 
cultody  of  the  body  and  hinde  of  the  laid  Menry,  as  relating  to  hindes  and  tenements  that 
were  late  Sir  Richard  Charleton's  Knight." 

Henry  Fortefcue  was  fucceeded  by  his  eldeil  fun,  b'rancis,  born  in  1546,  who  inarried 
Dorothea,  daughter  and  heir  of  Edmund  Ford,  of  Hartinge,  in  SufTcK,  and  died  July  y, 
1588,'^  leaving  ilTue,  Edmund,  his  fon  and  heir,  born  in  1566;  Flenry,  and  Richard. 
Edmund,  the  eldeft  ion,  fucceeded  at  F'alkborne.  He  married,  in  the  .;6th  of  I'.lizabeth 
(1583-84),  Ifabclla,  daughter  of  Sir  Edmund  Fluddlellon,  and  had  ilfue  by  her  a  fon, 
John,  born  in  1585,  "  whofe  Ward  (It  ip  and  Marriage"  was,  in  July,  1598,  fold  unto  Sir 
John  Fortefcue,  Chancellor  of  the  F^xchequer,''  for  the  fum  of  jo/.  Edmund  Fortefcue  died 
in  September,  i  596.' 

John  of  Falkborne,  his  ekleil;  fon,  had  ifliie,  William,  born  in  1613,  and  other  cliildren, 
as  the  pedigree  will  iFow. 

The  above  William  fold  Falkborne  1  lall  and  Manor,  about  1637,10  the  Bullock  famil)-, 
in  whofe  polfellion  it  ilill  remains  (1865). 

The  Manor  of  Ponfl)orne  was  alienated  fooner.  Clutterbuck^  fays  that  it  came  to 
the  Crown  fome  time  after  the  5th  of  I'.lizabeth,  and  was  granted  by  her  to  Sir  Henry 
Cock.  Moor  Hall  Manor  was  fold  in  1592;"  and  it  would  appear  from  Morant's  llilloiy 
that  all  the  Forteicue  eftates  in  Effex  and  Herts  were  fold  by  Edmund,  John,  or  William 
of  Falkborne. 

I  have  not  been  able  to  trace  any  defcendant  of  the  family,  nearer  than  the  Saldcn 
branch,  after  the  above-named  William,'  either  through  him,  or  through  Daniel,  fon  of 
Henry  of  Falkborne  by  his  fecond  wife.  l"he  family  feems  to  have  rapidly  ar  d 
completely  difappeared  from  view,  if  not  from  exiftence.  The  old  Manor  1  loufe  of 
I'alkborne,  near  Witham-Junftion,  has  been  much  added  to  fuice  it  came  to  the  poflefllon  o> 
the  Bullock  family.  There  is,  however,  at  lead  one  portion  —  a  tower  with  rooms  adjoining- 
— which,  as  the  prefent  owner,  Mr.  Walter  Bullock,  was  good  enough  to  inform  me,  i; 
ufually  affigned  to  the  fifteenth  century.  The  whole  houfe  is  of  brick.  'I'he  church  is  in 
the  park,  a  few  hundred  yards  from  the  houfe, — a  very  plain  building.  Its  onl\ 
b'ortefcue  relics  are  the  two  tombs  with  braffes,  before  mentioned,  reprefented  in  thi 
woodcuts. 


'  Morant  and  CluttcrbucL,  vol.  ii.  348.  -  Inq.  I*.  M.  30  F.liz.  ..nd  Villi.  F.IKx,  i(.,m. 

^  Court  of  Ward's  entries,  and  Ini).  I'.  M.  '  Vllit.  lillcx,  1634,  and  IVlorant ;   Falkborn.   r^Lgifter. 

''  I  lift,  of  Herts,  ii.  349  ''   Morant. 

'  In  D'Ewe's  Autobiography,  2  vols.  8vo.  London,  1845,  vol.  ii.  302,  there  is  a  Ltur  to  Thomas  Clopton, 
written  by  a  "  Dudley  Forlefque,"  from  Chilton,  I  ith  February,  a]ii)arently  in  1642.  This  may  be  a  fon  of 
Daniel  or  of  William.      The  letter  begins,  "  Cohne  Clopton.'' 


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Faviilv  of  Pinifborm^  etc. 


Al'PENblX    TO    CllAI'.     X. 

Abflrad  of  a  Compoius  of  the  Mnnor  of  Iiit^luun,  in  Norfi'lk.  in  the  22nd  year  of  Henry  VII. 
(a.  d,  1506). 

The  paper  roll  is  nearly  feven  feet  long,  imperfedl:  at  the  beginning. 

Sir  John  Fortefcue  with  whom  his  ileward,  John  Cilavyn,  here  accounts,  mull  be  Sir  Adrian's 
brother  ;  Sir  John  the  elder,  of  Punfborne,  having  died  in'  1500. 

The  roll  appears  to  have  belonged  at  one  time  to  Peter  le  Neve,  Norroy  King  at  Arms,  as  his 
autograph  notes  are  in  the  margin. 

It  formed  part  of  the  Fenn  collec^lion  of  papers,  fold  by  Mert'rs.  Puttick  and  Simpfon  in  July,  1866, 
when  it  was  bought  by  iMeirr>.  Houne,  who  allowed  ihcfe  extrads  to  be-  t.ikeii. 


Endcrfed: — Compotus  recejU'  Jo.  Fortefcue 
militis,  a".  22  Hen.  V'll.    .    .    . 


Ingham  Man',  compofi 
recep'  jo:  Fortefcue, 
mil.  22  Hen.  VII.  1506. 


Summa — quarteria  ordei — cclxvij  quart'  vij 
bus'  dimid'  denarii  -  xliiij//.  xiiji. 
yl.  ob.  viz.  quartcriu[ii  iijj.  \\\\d. 

Summa  totalis  rccept'  cum  arreragiis,  cxl//.  ixi.  iij7.  ob. 

Idem  computat  in  foedo  Thome  Sothertone  coniput'  receptarum  ibidem  hoc  anno  ex 
couvencionc  fccum  fa£fa  hoc  anno       ...... 

Ft  lolutus  Johaiini  Jermy  armigero  pro  focalia  ab  eo  empta,  ut  patet  in  pede  compotus 
predidti  anni  precedentis  ....... 

Ft  folutus  Johanni  Sparke  janitori  ut  patet  in  pede  dicfi  compotus 

Ft  (olutus  reiSlori  de  Wraxham  et  aliis  diverfis  tenentibu>  ibidem  pro  firma  xxxvj 
acr'  prati  ultra  xxvjy.  retent'  in  nianus  dni  pro  eo  quod  redlor  predictus  ell 
computar''  cum  domina  pro  diverfis  redditibus  ct  hrmis  annorum  precedentium 

Et  folutus  Thome  Joynour  de  Smalburghe  dccc  fai;otis  et  ci:  ailell  focalium  de 
Smalberghe  ulque  Norwich  ut  patet  in  pede  compotus  predidli 


iilj.;. 

xiiji.  iii  d. 
liji.    iij;.. 


Vllji 


Er  folutus   pro   pifFibus  falfis  ultra  viij//.   folut'   a',   proximo   preced'   ut   patet   in    pede 

compotus  anni  proxime  precedenti^     ...■•■  liijA. 

Ft  folutus  W'lllelmo  R'lader  de  Norwich  chaundeler  pro  I'aiihira  ibidem  candelarum 
ibidem  ad  diverfus  vices  pro  xx".  dies  capiend'  per  diem  iiij7.  ut  patet  in  |->ede 
compotus  anni  proximi  precedentis    ....■■  ^J*-  viij</. 


Ft  folutus  pro  i  equo  condudl'  pro  iij   diebus   pro  'Fhoma  ferviente   cocjuine  hoc  anno 
ut  patet  per  billam  prediclam  ...... 

Et  folutus  Johanni  Taillo'  pro  emendacione  ij  lex  Oucrnes  cum   hictura  ij  butters  ct 

alia  ibidem  hoc  anno  per  billam  prediclam         .  .  .  •  ■ 

Et  folutus  cuidam  molendin'ari'o  pro  moliacione  Ixxij  quart'  frumenti  quarterium  ad 


\\'yi. 
iijs.  \\\yt. 


Fa7nily  of  Pu?tJhor?2e^  etc.  169 

\\]il.  hoc  a",  pro  expcnfis   hofpicii   a  xxiij  die  Octobris  a°.  xiij   ufquc  viij  dlcm 

Aprilis  tunc  proxime  fcquentcm  ut  patct  per  billam  prcJicilani  .  .  xviiji.  i 

Et  folutus  Priori  de  Ingehani  pro  cxpcniis  fcrvicntis   doiiiini   ibidem  cum   aliis  diverfis 

expeiiiis  et  necellariis  per  billam  didi  Prioris  penes  domiuum  remanentem        .  cixi. 

Et  folutus  pro  iiij  caredtis  de  lez  firres  emptis  pro  focalia  et  pro  toriiaeio  hoc   anno 

precii  care£t::e  n'yl.  ut  patet  per  billam  manu  domini  fignatam  .  .  iiji. 

Et  folutus  re£lori  Ecclefie  Sandti  Martini  per  decimum  gardini  domini  apud  Norwicum 

pro  iij'"'^  annis  quolibet  anno  ijj.  \-]d.  ut  patet  per  billam  prediclam         .  .  viji.  vyl. 

»  *  »  i:  *  *  *  * 

Et  folutus  Johanni  Glabyn,  Senefcallo  curia.'  domini  ibidem  pro  anno  ultimo  preterito  '    ■ 

ut  patet  per  billam  manu  domini  fubfcriptam  ....  xiiji.  iiij</. 

Et  in  regard'  fad'  diverfis  hominibus  pii'cantibus  apud  Smalburgh  hoc  a",  per  maiium 

domini  folut'  ,......•  v.'.     , 

Et  folutus  pro  j  equo  condud'  pro  domino  Roberto  capellano  ad  equitandum  London 

hoc  anno  .  ....  .  .  .  •  xxd. 

Et  folutus  pro  cariagio  diverforuni   eftafur,  viz.  j   pipe  et  j  hogflicde  vini,  iij  pipas,  ^ 

cum  pifcibus  et  j  hoggefliede  cum  powder  de   Norwico  ulque  Vermouth  hoc 

anno      ....  ......  iijj.  iyl.  Ileie  follow 

it-  :>,-  #  «  #  #  *  *  ''■'v-  ral  en- 

trie  i  relating 
Et  folutus  pro  cariagio  xxxviij  quarteriariim  brafurre  de  Ingeham  ufque  Norwicum  ad  lo  |  ,g  (.^ir. 

hofpicium  domini  ibidem   cujuflibet  quarterii  ad   Vyl.  et  xiij  quarter'  de  Smal-  riage  of 

burghe  ufque   Norwich  prediil'  ad  hofpicium  predidtum  et  vij  quarteriarum  s^^ 

de  Kerllone,  ufque   Norwich   ad   hofpicium   predidum,  quarteria   ad   i\d.    hoc 

anno  ......-•  ^^-  viijd'.      He  c  follow 

»  »  *  *  *  *  *  ♦       ;  "^"l  '"^s  ''^- 

Et  folutus  pro  viij  cades  de  AUec'  rubiis  emptis  et  provifatis   pro  hofpicio  domini  hoc  niaking  of 

anno,  precium  cujuflibet  cade,  iij*.  vj,/.  .  .  .  •  •  xxvujj.         n,,,!!. 

Et  folutus  pro  viij  barellis  de  Allic'  albis  emptis  pro  expenfis  hofpicii   ejufdem   domini 

hoc  anno  precium  barelli,  vjs.  v'w'yl.     ....■•  I'ljj-  '"j"-      I 


Ixiy 


Et  folutus  proc™"  de  pifcibus  falfis  vocatis  lynges  emptis   pro  expenfis   domini   hoc 

anno,  precii     .....•••• 

Et  folutus  pro  cc  pifcibus  falfis  vocatis  faltfiflier  emptis  pro  expenfis  hofpicii  predidi 

hoc  anno  precii  cxxvjj.  viij^.  ..-•••  "'J^'  '"J"- 

Et  folutus  pro  expenfis  Thome  Sothertone  equitantis  pro  pifcibus  et  allec'  providendis 

et  habendis  hoc  a",  ad  diverfos  vices  et  diverfa  loca       ....  iijj-  ixd'.  < 

.*»»»**■* 
Summa  omnium  allocationum,  cvij//.  xixj.  vVyi.cl  debet  xxxij//.  ixj.  viij^A  oV,  q,.     De  quibus     Mere  follow 
allocatur  ei  xxijj.  iiij-/.  pro  colled'  cclxvij  quarteria  vij'-\  dimid'  de  diverfis  tenentibus    ^""^^^  "Jl^""^^' 
ibidem  hoc  a",  juxta  ratum  cujuflibet  quarierii,  j,/.      Kt  debet  xxxj/i.  vijr.  iiij,/.  of/  (j,.     „y(le  for 

«.„    i.„    ir  barky,  which 

Arc    ccc.  M.  ■''        , 

.  »  ,1  complete  thi 

I       roll. 


17°  Fiunily  of  Saldcfi. 


Chap.    XI, 

The  Forlefciics  of  Sahleii. 

^Mi  ^?^^^  above  defignatioii  of  a  fub-branch  of  the  Punnjorne  family,  originating  with 
pA  3<^'  Sir  Adrian,  fecond  fon  of  Sir  John  l-'ortcfciic  of  Punn)oriK-,  has  been  taken  from 
^^i^fcfe.^  their  principal  feat,  although  it  was  not  polfcircJ  by  Sir  Adrian,  but  was  acquired 
by  his  eldelT:  fon,  Sir  John,  in  addition  to  lands  in  ( jloucL-lk-rHiire,  and  jiollibly  in  Oxford- 
fhire,  left  to  him  by  his  hither. 

Sir  Aurian   Fortescue.' 

Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue  was  born  about  the  year  1476.'  There  is  no  nu-ntion  of  him 
until  Odober,  1499,  when  he  is  referred  to  as  already  married,  his  wife  being  Anne  Stonnr, 
daughter  of  Sir  William  Stonor,  of  Stonor  near  Ilenley-on-Thames,  in  Oxforddiire,  fifier 
and  afterwards  heir  to  John  Stonor,  who  had  married,  in  1495,"  his  fifler,  Mary  F'ortefci  e. 
Her  mother  was  the  Lady  Anne  Neville,  eldeft  daughter  of  John,  Marquis  of  Montagu, 
brother  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Warwick,  the  "  King- maker.'"  She  became,  by  the  death  c  f  jjer 
brother,  George,  Duke  of  Bedford,'  one  of  his  co  heirs.'  Jn  1  50J,  at  the  creation  of  Irinje 
Henry,  now  the  King's  eldell  fon,  as  Prince  of  Wales,  Sir  Adrian  was  created  a  Knight  of 
the  Bath.^  In  the  fame  year  he  and  eleven  knights  and  gentlemen  of  Oxfordfhire  were 
named  commillloners  tor  levying  two  aids  for  Henry  Vll. ;  one  on  the  occafion  of  the 
marriage  ot  his  eldelf  ion,  Prince  Arthur,  now  dead,  a  marriage  by  which  thediiftory  of  t)\e 
Reformation  was  fo  much  affeeHed  ;  and  the  other  for  the  marriage  of  the  King's  daughter, 
Margaret,  to  the  King  of  Scotland,  through  which  the  1  loufe  of  Stuart*^  came  to  the 
crown  of  England.  \\\  1504  and  1505  he  is  returned,  with  his  brotlier  John,  as  fmei.1  for 
"  a  riott."  '  In  1509  and  1510  he  purchafed  an  eftate  in  Hants  from  Edmund  Dudley.  In 
151 1  he  is  put  into  the  commillion  of  the  peace  for  Oxfordlliire.''  From  this  and  other 
entries,  it  is  probable  that  he,  iuon  after  his  marriage,  refided  principally  at  Stonor,  his 
wife's  family  ieat  m  that  county.  Lehuul,  almoll  a  contemporary,  defcribes  it,  in  his 
Itinerary,'"  as  "  a  three  miles  out  ot  Elenley.  There  is  a  fayre  Parke  and  a  warren  of  Connes, 
and  fayre  Woods.  The  Manfion  Place  ftandeth  clymbing  on  an  Hille,  and  hathe  two 
courtes  builded  with  Timbar,  Bryke,  and  b'lynte."  , 


'  A  ■■  Liccnlia  ingrcditndi "  to  Adrian  Forurciut  and   .^nne   his  \vili_-,  dated  Oift.  17,  l.|99,  fliow  .  that   lie  was 
then  married,  and  (it  may  be  aliumedj  at  leall  twenty-one  years  old.     I'ai.  Rolls,  15  Ilin.  V'll. 

'  Pat.  Roll,  10  Hen.  VII.  '  Burke's  Commoners,  •■  Stuiior."  '   I'at.  Roll,  O.  23  IKn.  Vll. 

'■'  Lodge,  Biog.  Brit.  iii.  p.  2001.  °  Rolls  of  I'arlt.  vi.  p.  538.  '   lien.  Vll.  Accounts,  I.  105,  127, 

»  Letters  and  Papers,  Hen,  Vlll.,  1212  (Calen<lar  ol),  and  I'at,  RolU,  2.)  Hen.  Vll. 
''  Letters  and  Papers,  Hen.' Vlll.,  1470.  '"   Lcl.l^d'.^  liincrary,  vii,  67. 


ftf^ 


FAMILY    OF    SALDEN. 


//^ 


ifl  wife  Annk,   riau.  of  Sm=j=Sin  AnniAN  FonTrscui:,  2n  I  fon;=p2nd  wile,  Annf,  dau.  of  Sin  Wii 
William  SroNdii;  uL).7si8.     bt-hcadtd  July,  l  .53q. 


^Thomas,  irt         ^'|[ANCl^s,^'^HOM:^s,  lolli 
Lord   Went-  no  inii.;.         IC.irl    ul     Kd- 

worth-  dare. 


(3)  Sin  l''RAN.-ls,  KM, 
M.P.  for  Buekingluim 
and  for  Bucks,  i  597  to 

1607  ;  buried  Jan.  .p', 

1623, 


:GlurK.  dau.ofSin 
John  M.in.m  ns  of 
ll.iddon.  Oerl.y- 
Hme  •,  buried  Jaie 
18.  1634. 


I  ft  wife  Cecilia,  dau.  Sir  Euhun 
HELD  of  Ewelm,  Oxon,  and  of  Tal 
Mucks;  died  February  7,  1.1:70. 


(4)  Sm  Wii 
iVl.  P.  for 
combe  in  I 
buried      Jai 


Sui  Joun.^Fhanci 
liap.l.WJ;     K1.W.111 

1 1)  l!..n.  O.von, 
buried 
lt)57- 


KnOiam, 
K.  H.  ; 


Robert, 
S..l>. 

Nv.ng 
■  623. 


GlLDERT,  ba|..=M  lllY 
I  m8;  buried  WuoL- 
1623.       (S.T     niu.,1,. 

*isivi/(,  1623, 

ilmiReg.uffil. 

.-Inc/reh's 
Wmdniht.) 


lf>29. 


AsH-^HiGUT  Honourable  Sm=p2nd  wife  Alice,  dau.  of 
John  FoRTESCUEofSalden,  Ciirlstopher  Smvtii,  Efq., 
born  1533:  died  1607.  Clerk  of  the  Pipe. 


Thomas,  born 
1 534.   "b- 


Sir  Anthonv.^Kathehini 

.ird  Ion.  I  Sir  Gcofi 

I  of  Lording 


=SiR  Thomas  Bromlev 
Lord  Chancellor  o 
linKlaral. 


(I,   VALrWINE 

=2nd. 

'looTT.    b;i;|., 

Iluiui 

'    158,;. 

Fl,|., 

.ulv 

boj 

MARGinv,  =Sin  Joi 
born  l,s8o;  Huitkni 
died   1613.     ofMille 


Elizaiietii,  born  t  589- 
90;  died  1582.  See 
regiller  of  St.  Andrew's 
Wardrobe. 


Antho 


William,  bap. 
1602;  4th  Ion 
of  Sir  Fr.aieis, 
KB. 


1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

■    1 

1 

1 

1 

pANN  Webb 

Adrian,  born 

Francis, 

Francis 

Roger, 

Dorothy,    mar. 

Cathe- 

Ma 

V  mir 

A    Daugb 

of    IIul- 

1601  ;     died 

born 

(2nd) 

died 

KoueiitThrog- 

a '.-ban-' 

lUNE 

Jon 

N   Tal- 

band's  Bol- 

1633.  (Mod- 

1603  ; 

died  S.P. 

1608. 

MORTON,  knight, 

Oileft.. 

bom 

lOlh 

worlll. 

linglon 

died  S.P. 

(M.  H.J 

S.P. 

bap.  1593. 

IJ90. 

Ear 

of 

Epitaph. ) 

S.P. 

Sbr 

wbury. 

F.LLEN,  dau.of 
Hal™  IIen- 
SLow  of  Bar- 
raid.  II;  ,iis. 


Anthonv  Forte; 
cue,  Relidcnt  11 
the  Duke  of  Loi 


I 
George,  Author     Ei.iza- 
of  "  Feria.  Aca-    oeth 


Ml 


Sin  J011.S, 

died  11)83. 


^Henrv     Eliza- 
r  F0UTF.8- 


P3ltlly.  EUZABKTH.  d. 
I  ofSinJoilNVVlNDOUR 
I  of       I.ydney,       died 


Sir  Edward,  knight 
1641  ;  mar.  lli.dau 
HouERT  Brooke.,  El 
nojUiie;  died  1662 


Frances;"  a  nun , 
in  the  Englilh 
Convent,  Ghent. 


born 
1633. 


(M   It.) 

I 

nKNEUlf 


I  -I 

Sin    John,  William 

3rd    Bart.,  born 

born  1044;  II14J. 

died  1717.  S.P. 


died 

young. 

(M.R.; 


born    ■ 
1664; 


.  born  I  bbb  ; 
died  young. 
(M.H.) 


of  Sm  John   I-uhtescue  of  Saldcn, 
death  in  1729  of  Sir  Francis  Fortesc 


Sir  FnANcis.'4lh  Bart.,=MAnv,  d.  ofRicHAr 

died      1729      (1^10V.     9th}^        IltlllULESIUNl!        ol 

Title  became  .  xtinel.        ,     Sa«llon,  Cambridg 


5, dau. of  Sir  Franc 
AM     of    Rye     Uai: 


April  13,  1697. 


bap. 
■632. 


died  S.P. 
1748. 


'  N.B.  It  is  Joublful  ivhtthcr  Sir  pHncis  il  fon  of  Fram 


r  of  Ills  cider  broihei 


he  foregoing  it  taken  from  Mr.  Fortefcue-Turville's  pedigree  given  by  Mrs 
lefcue.Turville  in  1864, 1'.om  Njpiei's  "Swyncombeand  Ewelm,"  from  Pedigre 

Vifiulion  of  De.oii ;  from  Murlley  Regiaer :  and  from  Cole's  MS.  on  Hundre. 
;otienow,  Bucks,  in  Briiiik  Mufeum. 


William  Tur\ille,  who  at  the  death  of  his  coufin  Maria  Alath*:a 
Fortescue,  May  21,  1763,  I'uccceded  to  the  ellate  of  Bofworlh, 
and  died  June  12,  I777,  leaving  a  fon,  Francis  Fortescue-Tur- 
VILLE,  who  married  Lady  Bertram  Talbot,  filler  of  Charles  Earl 
of  Shrewlbury ;  and  wasgrandfather  of  the  prefent  Francis  Charles 
FoRTEpcUE-TuRVlLLE  of  Bofworth  ILill,  boru  1 83 1 . 


(MW^^^kBi 


fcttt-jMtii  ii-mn--t\itmmmmmmmutmmmmmmtmimmiiimmam 


.''k"\:.'!i  '\T-.  'u-' 


Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue.  171 

About  this  time  the  young  King,  Henry  VIII.,  joined  with  I'crdiirand  of  Spain,  the 
Emperor  Maximilian,  and  Leo  X.,  to  check  the  progrefs  of  Louis  XII.  in  Italy,  he  having 
feized  the  duchy  ot  Milan,  and  threatened  the  Papal  States.  In  accordance  with  the  treaty, 
Henry  proceeded  to  collect  an  army  for  the  invafion  of  h'rance  tlirough  Calais,  and  Sir 
Adrian  was  one  of  thofe  who  agreed  to  raife  men  for  it.  Lie  accordingly,  with  his  brother 
John,  colletfled  fifty  archers  and  fifty  hills,  and  was  appointed  to  crofs  the  feas  in  "  the 
Middeward,"  although  they  both  belonged  to  "  the  King's  ward  "  of  the  expedition.  "  The 
Mawdelen  of  Pole  "  was  tlie  fliip  which  was  to  carry  them.  It  would  appear,  however,  that 
the  two  Fortefcues  remained  with  their  own  divifion,  becaufe  they  did  not  go  with  either  of 
the  other  two  who  had  preceded  them,  one  under  the  F.arl  of  Shrewflnny,'  and  the  other 
under  Lord  Plerbert,  and  did  not  land  in  France  until  the  end  of  June,  15  ij,  w  len  they 
appear  in  the  "  Lill  of  Noblemen  "  who  went  with  the  King  to  Calais  "with  the  number  of 
their  retinues,"  fifty  men  attending  each  of  them.  The  two  brothers  carried  their  banners, 
with  their  arms  thus  emblazoned  : — 

A  Defcription  of  the  Standards  home  in  the  Field  by  Peers  and  Knig/Us,  in  the  reign  of 

Henry  Jill.,  from  a  AAV.  in  the  College  of  Arms,  marked  1.  2, 

compiled  hetzueen  the  years  i^io  and  1525. 

Mayjler  John  Fortefiiie.' 

Vert,  A  an  heraldic  tiger  pafTant  Argent,  maned  and  tufted  Or,  with  two  antique  fiiields 
Argent,  each  charged  with  the  word  "  fort,"  and  four  mullets  pierced  Sable  ;  B  a  fimilar 
iTiield  between  two  inullets  ;   C  a  (liielil  and  three  mullets  as  before. 

Motto. — Je  penfe  loyalement. 

Arms. — Quarterly,  I.  and  IV.  Azure,  on  a  bend  engrailed  Argent,  cottifed  Or,  a 
mullet  pierced  for  difference ;  II.  and  III.  Argent,  fretty  Sable,  on  a  chief  ....  three 
rofes  Gules.  An  efcocheon  of  pretence,  Quarterly,  I.  and  4.  Argent,  on  a  chief  dancette, 
Azure  three  martlets  Or  ;  2.  and  3.  Gules,  a  chevron  I'j-mine  between  three  fleurs  de  lis 
Argent. 

Syr  Adryan  Forte/cue.  '  :        '       ' 

Vert,  A  an  heraldic  tiger  pafTant  Argent,  maned  and  tufted  Or,  charged  on  the 
fhoulders  with  a  crelcent  Sable  between,  in  the  dexter  bafe  and  finifter  chief,  two  a  itique 
fhields  Argent,  each  charged  with  the  word  "  fort,"  and  three  mullets  alf^)  Argent,  charged 
with  the  crefcent  as  before;  B  the  iliield  and  mullet;  C  the  fhield  and  three  mullets, 
as  before. 

Motto. — Loyalle  Penfee. 

'  See  Letters  nnd  I'Mixrs,  lien.  VIII.  vol.  i.  :uiJ  Tuiijin's  Chronicle  of  C;il.iis,  for  thefe  dates  and  entries.         , 
'  This  was  Sir  John  Fortel'cue  "ofllerts." 


\']i  Fcu/iily  of  Sdhlcn. 

Anns. — Oiiarterly,  I.  aiul  4.  Azure,  011  a  hund  engrailed  Argent,  cottifeJ  Or,  a  imillet 
Sable;  2.  and  3.  Argent,  frctty  Sable,  on  a  chief  ....  three  rafes  Gules;  in  middle 
chief  puint  a  crefcent  for  difFerence.  An  efcocheon  of  pretence,  Quarterly  of  five  grand 
quarters,  two  in  chief,  an^l  three  in  bafe  ;   I.  Azure,  two  bars  daneette  Or,  a  chief  Argent ; 

II.  Qiiarterly,  I.  and  4.  (iules,  a  faltire  Argent,  with  a  label  of  three  points;    2.  Argent,  a 
tefs  fufdly  (niles ;   j.  Or,  an  eagle  difplayed  Vert;   in   fefs  point  a  crefcent  for  difference; 

III.  Gules,  a  crofs  engrailed  Argent,   IV^  Argent,  a  faltire  engrailed  Gules;    V.  Aigent,  on 
a  Canton  a  cinquefoil. 

The  (Kort  campaign  which  enfued,  although  barren  of  final  refults,  was  a  brilliant  one. 
The  Arong  places  of  I'erouenne  and  Tournay  fell ;  and  at  the  "  Battle  of  the  Si)urs,"  under 
the  walls  of  the  former,  the  b'rench  cavalry,  10,000  in  number,  fled  in  n  panic  before 
a  fmall  force  of  Englifh  and  Germans ;  and  by  the  end  of  October  Henry  v/as  again 
in  England. 

Sir  Adrian  was  a  Gentleman  of  the  King's  I'rivy  Chamber,  but  the  date  of  his  appoii  t- 
ment  is  not  known.  In  July,  15  17,  he  was  at  a  royal  banquet  at  Greenwich,  of  which  a 
defcription  remains  among  the  State  Papers  of  the  period,  when  he  was  in  the  K  int  's 
retinue,  with  Lord  Fldward  Howard,  Sir  Edward  Hungerford,  Sir  Walter  Stonor,  his  01  n 
brother,  Sir  John,  and  many  more.' 

\n  1518  his  firll  wife  died;  "  on  the  r4th  day  of  June  anno  10,  Henry  VIII.  thi-n 
Monday,  at  Stonor,  my  wife  the  Lady  Anne  l*ortefcue  died."  Such  is  the  entry  in  his  book 
of  accounts  whicli  has  come  down  to  us.  ; 

She  was  buried  at  Pyrton  Church,  cloie  to  Shirburn,  where  afterwards  Sir  Adrian  lived. 
He  does  not  appear  to  have  intended  that  the  body  fhould  finally  relt  there,  for  we  fiiu!,  in 
the  next  year,  minute  details  of  a  marble  tomb  ordered  from  "  the  marblars  of  Corfl',  like 
unto  Sir  Robert  Southwell's  tomb  in  the  Cloiller  of  the  Black  l'"riars  in  London,"  to  be  finiihed 
by  "  tlie  marbelars  in  Powles  Churchyard,  with  piiftures,  writings,  and  armys  gilt,"  after  the 
rate  of  Sir  Thomas  of  Parre's  tomb;  and  that  the  laid  tomb  was  carried  by  water  to  the 
Priory  of  Byfham  in  Berkfhire,  to  the  church  of  that  celebrated  houfe.  Here,  after  feven 
years  from  her  death,  he  laid  his  wife  among  her  anceftors,  the  Montacutes,  Earls  of  Silif- 
bury,  Kichard  Neville  the  King-maker,  her  father's  brother,  and  her  father  himfelf,  the 
Marquis  of  Montague.  The  removal  took  place  on  the  "  lall  day  of  March  in  the  16th 
year  of  King  Henry  VIII."  (1525). 

The  total  cofl;  of  the  tomb  and  ceremony  of  removal  was  87/.  -js.  c^d.  —  a  larje  lum  if  it 
muft  be  multiplied  by  fixteen  to  bring  it  to  the  prefent  value  of  money. 


'  For  the  foregoing  dates  and   f;n51s,  fee  Letters  and   Papers,  Hen.  Vlil.  ;   Chronicle  uf  Culaib,  jip.   12  and  13;. 
Lingard's  Hid.  Eng.  vi.  chap.  i. ;  infcription  on  portrait  of  Sir  John  Fortefcuc  of  Salden. 


sir  Ad)-iaii  Fort ej cue.  173 

Lady  Fortclcue's  remains,  however,  did  not  reft  finally  in  their  new  place  of  depofit. 
The  religious  troubles  of  the  Reformation  foon  after  began,  and  in  15J8  the  old  Priory  did 
not  cfeape  the  tate  of  other  monalteries,  and  was  diflbived.  Upon  tliis,  which  Sir  Adrian 
calls  "  tlie  rafyng  ot  Bylliam  i'riory,"  he  again  removed  the  body,  fearing,  perhaps,  the 
defecration  of  the  church  where  it  lay,  which,  however,  did  not  take  place.  They  were  taken 
back  to  the  neighbourhood  of  Stonor,  although  not  to  Pirton,  and  were  tinally  depofited  in 
Brightwell-Baldwin  Church,  two  or  three  miles  dillant  from  it. 

We  find  from  the  mmute  details  extant  in  the  accounts  that  thefe  ceremonies  took  place 
at  night  ;  the  coffin  being  carried  in  its  "  hearie,"  on  a  horie-Htter,  attended  by  numerous 
torch-bearers,  and  followed,  at  the  firft  burial,  by  656  poor  perfons,  who  received  each  their 
penny  doles,  and  by  more  than  joo  others. 

At  each  church  pafl'ed  on  the  way  the  clergy  met  the  corpfe  with  lighted  tapers,  c.ianting 
dirges,  and  then  celebrating  malTes  in  their  churches.  Forty-two  priefts  at  Byfliam  ailifted 
at  the  mafs,  and  at  Pirton  a  funeral  fermon  was  preached,  for  which  the  preacher  received  a 
prefent  of  lOi.' 

The  "months  mind  "  was  duly  performed,  in  July,  151S,  by  the  devout  knight,  who 
expended  21/.  oj.  6 J.  on  fit'tecn  nialfcs  in  one  day  at  Pirton  Church  and  Stonor  Chapel,  as 
well  as  at  the  Savoy,  where  he  himfelf  was  at  the  time.  At  the  two  former  places  fifty- 
two  priefis  were  engaged  in  the  fervices. 

Brightwell  was  in  the  gift  of  Sir  Adrian  aiul  of  his  wife,  who  we  find  prefenting  to  it 
thus  : —  I 

Memorandinn  in  the  Will  Book  No.  1528-1543  at  the  beginning.         ! 

j\l.  ]\ichus  Ih-tulbrige  in  arribz  »idg''.  prefentatus  per  probiun  viriun  Adrianiiim  hjurtejcu  et 
Annam  uxor  ejus  fdiam  et  h.eredem  IVil'"  Utoner  militis  defuntli  ad  ecclejiam  paruchiatam 
de  Brtght'-iVell  Ba-zvdeivyn  per  mortem  did  Job/is  Porter  iiltimi  retloris  ejufdem. 

He  was  not  allowed  to  remain  in  undifturbed  poffelTion  of  his  late  wife's  inheritance.  For 
fome  years  before  her  death,  that  is  to  fay,  almofi:  as  foon  as,  by  her  brother's  death,  flie  had 
fucceeded  to  the  eftates  of  her  father,  her  right  to  them  had  been  difputed  by  her  uncle 
Thomas  Stonor  as  heir  male  ;  and  now  when  at  her  death  Sir  Adrian'  claimed  them  "  by  the 
courtefy  of  England  for  his  life,"  and  afterwards  for  his  daughters  Lady  Wentworth  and  the 
Countefs  of  Kildare,  the  difpute  became  more  bitter  and  violent  between  him  and  Sir  \  /alter 
Stonor,  fon  of  Thomas  before-named.  Llis  fortune  was  impoveriihed,  and  his  life  diilurbed 
by  many  "riotts,  afiirults,  and  afirayes"  between  his  followers  and  thole  of  the  oppofite  _)arty, 
and  it  was  not  until  after  fixteen  years  of  contention  that  the  cjueftion  was  fet  at  relL 


'  See  the  accounts  in  Appendix. 

-  Ad  of  Award,  Fortel'eue  and  Stonor,  28  Hen.  Vlll.  c.  30.  a.  d.  i  53b,  in  Statutes  of  tlie  Healin,  vol.  iii.  p.  690 


174  Fa))iily  of  Saldcji. 

In  the  year  1519  this  entry  occurs  in  the  items  of  the  "  firft  yeare's  mynde  "  for  hi' 
wife  at  Pirton  : — "l<"or  i^G  Skocliyns  of  armys  botii  in  metall  and  colours,  grett  and  large  tc 
give  to  dyvers  Chirches  in  the  country." 

Early  in  the  year  1520'  Sir  Adrian  was  appointed  by  Henry  to  accompany  him  and 
the  queen  to  France  on  their  expedition  to  meet  b'rancis  I.  in  the  Marches  ot  Calais,  at 
Guifnes. 

The  following  funimons  Oiows  that  he  was  one  of  the  knights  who  were  efpecially  to 
attend  the  queen.  Among  his  colleagues  were  Sir  Walter  Stonor,  the  claimant  ot  his  ertate, 
and  Sir  William  Rede  his  future  father-in-law,  with  feveral  befides.  The  gorgeous  tellivities 
which  attended  this  famous  interview  on  "  the  iMcld  of  the  Cloth  of  Gold  "  are  too  well 
known  to  be  repeated  here;  a  very  graphic  accoiuit  will  he  fomid  in  liohnfl  ed. 

Uenry  VIU.  to  Sir  A.  Forte/cue.      i  5  20.'^ 

HtNRY.  ' 

Right  trufty  and  well-beloved,  we  greet  you  well.  And  wlicreas,  this  ye;  r  1.1(1: 
pafled,  after  conclufion  taken  betwixt  us  and  our  right  dear  brother,  coufin,  confederate,  uid 
ally,  the  French  King,  as  well  tor  firm  peace,  love,  and  amity,  as  ot  alliance  by  wa)  ot 
marriage  (God  willing)  to  be  had  and  made  betwixt  our  dearcft  daughter  the  Princefs  und 
the  Dolphin  of  France,  a  perfonal  meeting  and  interview  was  alio  then  concluded  to  be  had 
betwixt  us  and  the  faid  French  King;  which,  upon  urgent  confiderations  and  great  re.peds, 
was  by  mutual  confent  for  that  year  put  over  and  deferred  ;  fo  it  is  now,  that  (he  laid  Freich 
King,  being  much  defirous  to  fee  and  perfonally  to  fpeak  with  us,  hath,  fundry  times  ly  his 
ambaffadors  and  writings,  inftantly  defired  us  to  condefcend  to  the  faid  interview,  ofterii.g  to 
meet  with  us  within  our  dominion,  pale,  and  Marches  of  Calais  ;  whereas,  hereto.bre, 
femblable  honour  of  pre-eminence  hath  not  been  given  by  any  of  the  French  Kings  to  our 
progenitors  or  antecefibrs ;  we  therefore,  remembering  the  manifold  good  etfecT:s  that  b,-,  in 
appearance,  to  cnfue  of  this  perfonal  meeting,  as  well  for  corroboration  and  affured  eftahliOi- 
ment  of  the  peace  and  alliance  concluded  betwixt  us,  as  for  the  univerfd  weal,  tranquillity, 
and  rellfulnefs  of  all  Chriik-ndom  ;  taking  alio  confideration  to  our  former  conventions,  and 
the  great  honour  offered  unto  us  by  the  b'rench  King  for  the  laid  meeting  within  our 
dominion,  have  condefcended  thereunto  accordingly;  the  lame  to  be,  God  wi'ling,  in  the 
month  of  May  next  enfuing. 

And,  inafmuch  as  to  our  honour  and  dignity  royal  it  appertaineth  to   be  fui  niflied  with 


'  Rymer  Fa'dera,  vol.  vi.  part.  i.  182  ;   and  Cliron.  of  Calais,  j).  24. 

■^  The  Letter  is  endorlVd  "  To  our  tniOy  and  \V(  ll-L.  lo\.d  (Irvant  Sir  ,\<lryan  rorttCquc,  Knight.'   The  two  or 
three  UW  lines  of  the  original  are  burnt  otK      Cotton  MS.  Caligula  D.  vii.  Art.   1  18.  , 


Si)^  Ady-'ian  Foricjcue.  175 

lu)noui:ible  perfonages,  us  well  fpiritiKil  as  temporal,  to  give  their  attendance  upon  us  at  fo 
folemn  an  ad:  as  this  fliall  be,  for  the  honour  of  us  and  this  our  realm,  we  therefore  have 
appointed  you,  amongft  others,  to  attend  upon  our  deareft  wife  the  queen  in  this  voyage, 
willing  therefore  and  defiring  you  not  only  to  put  yourfelf  in  arreadinefs,  with  the 
number  often  tall  perfonages  well  and  conveniently  apparelled  for  this  purpole  to  pafs  witli 
you  over  the  fea,  but  alfo  in  fuch  wife  to  appoint  yourfelf  in  appaiel,  as  to  your  degree,  the 
honour  of  us  and  this  our  realm,  appertaineth.  So  that  you,  repairing  unto  our  iaid  dearef. 
wife,  the  queen,  by  the  firft  day  of  May  next  enfuing,  may  then  give  your  attendance  in  her 
tranfporting  over  the  fea  accordingly  ;  afcertaining  you  that,  albeit  you  be  appointed  to  the 
number  of  ten  fervants  to  pafs  vvith  you  (as  is  above  faid),  yet,  nevertheleis,  inafmuch  as  at 
your  arrival  at  Calais  you  fliall  have  no  great  journey  requifite  to  occupy  many  horfi  s,  you 
fhall  therefore  convey  with  you  over  the  fea  for  your  own  riding,  and  otherwife,  not;  above 
the  number  of  three  horfes.  Howbeit,  our  mind  is  not  to  retrain  you  to  the  faid  prccife 
number  of  fervants  and  horfes  tor  your  own  journeying  unto  our  laid  wife  and  accompanying 
her  to  the  fea-fide,  which  thing  we  leave  to  your  arbitrement  ;  but  only  alcertain  you  of  that 
number  of  fervants  and  horfes. 

No  doubt  Fortefcue  appeared  there  with  the  "  ten  tall  perfonages"  of  his  fuite  "well 
and  conveniently  apparelled." 

The  alliance  between  the  two  monarchs  thus  oftentatioufly  compared,  did  not  laft  long. 
Henry  was  ftill  the  faithful  fon  of  the  Church,  and  Cardinal  Wolfey  his  minifter  ;  and 
Francis  was  ftill  too  powerful  beyond  the  Alps  to  fuit  the  views  ot  his  Molinefs,  or  of  the 
Emperor  Charles  V. 

In  1522  England  and  France  were  again  at  war  ;  and  in  July  ot  that  year,  the  F.arl  of 
Surrey  left  the  Calais  Marches  for  Picardy  with  a  large  army  ;  Sir  Adrian  accompanying 
him  as  one  of  his  principal  officers.' 

The  campaign  pafTed  over  without  a  battle;  the  Duke  of  Vendome  finding  his  forces 
too  weak  to  oppofe  the  Englifh,  or  to  protee't  the  country  from  the  burnings  and  devaluations. 
They  took  "  many  towns  and  caltles,"  including  Braye  and  Montdidier,  returning  to  Calais 
and  to  England  in  October. 

Sir  Adrian's  name  occurs  once  more  in  connexion  with  the  Inench  wars.  Me  may  have 
held  his  Oxfordlhire  eftates  under  conditions  of  military  fervice  ;  at  all  events,  in  152:;,  he 
received  "  Letters  under  the  King's  flgnet,""'  thus  :  — 

Henrv  R.  By  the  King. 

Trufty  and  welbeloved  we  grete  you  wele.  And  forafmoche  as  the  warres  whiche  longe  have 
Contynued  betwene  thempo'  and  theFVenfhe  King  bee  now  fa  quy kened  and  w'  el^e>.H-  po'lued  on 


Chron.  of  C:\laib,  p.  32.  ''  Chron.  of  Calais.,  205,  from  CoUon  MS.  Fauftina,  vii.  p.  I  13. 


176  Faniih  of  Salden. 

either  pnrtic,  that  dailly  cxco'fcs  hue  made  upon  their  tVontiLTS,  ami  the  [^arnifoiis  on  booth  fules 
largely  fo'nysflied  niui  cncreafcLl,  in  fuche  wile  as  Rodcs  and  other  lmiui'i  riies  bee  dailly  niailc  by 
the  0011  and  the  other  in  greate  nombres  al  alonges  and  foranenipfl  the  frontier  of  o'  towne  and 
m'chesofCalays,and  right  nere  untoo'Caftell  of  Guyfnes,\vherby  no  fmall  damage  might  enlue 
unto  the  fame  o'  Caflell,  and  femblably  unto  o'  faid  towne  and  m'ches,  And  in  caas  there  be 
nat  fpeciall  regarde  had  to  the  furniture  fuertie  and  defenfe  therof,  We  therfor  by  deiiherat 
advice  of  o'  Counfaill  have  ordeigneel  and  determined  to  fende  a  certain  crewe  of  men  wele 
eledt  and  chofen  unto  o'  faid  towne,  caftell  and  m'ches,  the  fame  to  bee  under  the  leading  of 
o'  right  trufty  and  welbiloved  Counfaillp'  the  lord  Sandes  our  Chamblain  and  Captain  of 
o"^  faid  Caftell  of  Guyfnes,  there  to  remaigne  for  a  feaion  upon  the  tuicinn  and  defenle  ot  the 
fame.  To  which  Crewe  we  have  appointed  you  to  lende  the  nombre  ot  x  perDiuies  fotemen 
archers  and  others  to  bee  wele  eleft  and  tryed  as  is  aforefiid,  wheretor,)  we  will  and 
comaunde  you  that  w'  all  fpede  and  celerite  upon  the  receipt  herof,  ye  prepare  and  pi  tt  in 
aredynes  yo'  faid  nombre  fufficiently  harneifed  and  apointed  for  the  warre,  In  fuche  \  eri  te 
haft  as  they  maye  bee  at  Guyldetord  the  iij'''  daye  of  the  next  moneth,  there  to  bee  vieweil  ly 
the  faid  lord  Sandes,  oonles  ye  fhall  before  that  tyme  have  from  hym  knowlcge  to  the  cc  n- 
trary,  where  alfo  money  fhalbe  delyvered  to  fuche  a  perfonne  as  ye  ftiall  appointe  tor  th  'ir 
coftes  and  conduyte  money,  So  to  pafte  forth  under  fuche  captains  To  whonie  they  1  lal  le 
letted  to  o'  fiide  towne  and  m'ches  for  the  po'jwfe  before  faid,  Faile  ye  nat  thertor  to  ule 
diligence  herin  as  o'  truft  is  in  you,  7\dverti(ing  the  faid  lorde  Sandes  incontinently  by  this 
berer  of  yo'  conformable  mynde  herin.  And  tliefe  o'  bres  ftialbe  as  well  'unto  you,  tor 
levyeng  raifmg  gathering  Jiiuftring  viewing  arraying  and  fending  of  yo'  iaid  Jiombre,  is  to 
them  fo  by  you  levied  raifed  gathered  muftred  viewed  arrayed  and  lent  as  fufficient  warau.it 
and  difcliarge,  as  though  the  fame  were  paffed  under  o'  greate  Scale,  any  acft  ftatute  proclama- 
cion  ordennaunce  or  cofnmaundement  palTeci  to  the  contrary  not  w'hftanding.  Yeven  uilder 
o'  Signet  at  o'  mano'  of  l^ichemont  the  firft  day  of  Aprill  the  xix"'  yere  of  o'  reigne.      ,  , 

AddreJJed — To  o'  trufty  and  welbeloved  _  ; 

S'  Adryan  b'ortefcue.  ' 

About  1530  Sir  Adrian  married  his  fecond  wife,  ftie  being  about  twenty  years  old  and 
he  at  leaft  fifty.  This  was  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Rede,  or  Read,  of  Boarftall  in 
Buckinghamflure,  of  an  ancient  family  there.' 


'  Pedigree  in  College  of  Arms.  Pedigree  and  Arms,  Harl.  MS.  1234.  f.  3 J.  I'ortefcuc  Pedigree  in  Vifita- 
tion  of  Devon,  1565,  Marl.  MS.  5871,  f.  18.  Fortefcue  Pedigree  in  RattlinCon  MS.  Hritilh  Mufeum.  Lodge,  and 
the  Biographia  liritannica,  make  this  lady  to  be  the  daugliur  ol  Sir  William  Rude  of  Hotkingliam  Caftle,  but 
without  gnir.g  their  authority.  At  the  fale  of  the  efliels  of  the  late  Mr.  J.  P.owyer  Niehols,  in  Sa\ille  How 
fale-rooms,  June  28,  1864,  a  piece  of  fiain^d  glafs,  which  1  f.iw,  was  fold,  m.irked  in  the  catalogue  as  Ihowing 
■'Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue's  Arms  quartering  Ch<imbeilaync  and  imp.iling  Keade  of  Boarflall. ' 


Sjr  Adj-'um  Fortejciie.  177 

The  College  of  Arms  Pedigree  makes  Anne  Reade  to  have  been  the  widow  of  Sir  Giles 
Grevill,  but  I  think  this  is  an  error,  becaufe  ihe  could  not  have  been  more  dian  twenty-one 
years  old,  being  born  in  1510,  when  fhe  married  Sir  Adrian  ;  and  alfo  becaufe  on  her  monu- 
ment at  VVeiford  two  hufbands  only  are  nientioneil,  vi/..,  I'ortefeue  and  I'arry. 

She  bore  him  three  fons,  John,  Thomas,  and  Anthony  ;  and  two  daughters,  Mary  and 
Elizabeth,  of  whom  v/e  Hiall  write  in  their  proper  places.  Sir  Adrian  leems,  during  this 
period  and  for  the  reit  of  his  life,  to  have  refided  chiefly  in  Oxfortlfliire,  where  we  find  him 
continued  in  the  commilTion  of  the  Peace,  either  at  Shirhurn  or  Stonor  Place,  with  occafional 
fojourns  at  his  houfe  in  London  "  at  the  lilack  Friars." 

A  manufcript  volume  in  his  handwriting,  with  the  date  of  15J2,  remains  to  rtiow  that  he 
iiad  literary  taftes,  and  that  he  admired  the  works  of  his  great-uncle  the  Chancello  .  l''art 
of  its  contents  is  the  treatife  "On  Abfolute  and  Limited  Monarchy."  It  was  from  tnis  copy 
that  Lord  Fortefcue  of  Credan,  two  hundred  years  later,  printed  the  work  for  the  firft  time. 
Preceding  the  former  in  the  volume,  is  a  large  part  of  the  old  poem  of  "  Piers  Ploughman," 
and  at  the  end  a  colleftion  of  proverbs  and  moral  fentences,  vvhicli  is  here  given  : — 

Many  man  makes  Ryme  and  lokes  to  no  Reafon. 

A  King  fekanf  trcafon,  fhall  fyndc  it  in  liis  loud. 

Trow  nut  to  the  bonde,  that  uhe  hiith  ben  broken. 

A  fdolc  when  he  hath  I'poken,  hath  all  don. 

A  budde  have  '  yron  Ihoune,  that  bydes  cike  mans  dedde. 

When  the  fawte  is  in  the  hedde,  the  niembre  is  ofte  iikke.  1  \ 

A  womaii  gyf  fhe  be  myke,  is  evill  to  kiiowc. 

Many  one  glowes  -  the  lawe,  ofte  again  the  pore.  j 

Who  I'i'.endes  his  gude  on  a  hoie,  hath  bothe  fkatlie  ..^  Ihanie. 

A  man  of  evill  name,  is  good  to  torbere. 

He  that  viith  molfe  to  I'were,  is  not  belt  traned. 

A  bovve  is  befl:  bowyd,  when  it  is  )'oiig. 

He  that  Rulilh  well  his  tongc,  is  holden  tor  wile. 

Money  goteii  at  the  dyfe,  riketh  not  the  heyre. 

A  woman  gyf  fhe  be  fayre,  may  hap  to  be  good. 

A  coUte  of  a  good  flodde,  proves  ofte  belt.  ; 

(jood  cannot  bringe  left,''  that  is  evill  woinie. 

.-\  warke  well  bigon,  hath  a  better  end. 

Fafe  not  ■*  moche  to  fpend  over  mokill  on  a  tolc 

\x.  is  eafy  to  crye  yole,''  at  anoth'r  mans  coil. 

A"  fhall  hunger  in  frofte,  that  in  hele  will  not  wyrke.  '    '•   ■ 

Obey  well  the  good  kirke,and  thow  Ihall  t.ne  the  bett'. 

A  woman  tyed  in  fett'.  that  is  an  evill  trelor. 

Eate  &  drink  by  meafo%  and  defye  thy  Icche. 


'    It  behoves  liim  to  liavc.  '      'Mnterprcts.  M^lcalure.  '  Kugard  nut.  ^Vulc. 

'■    Ikrc,  .md  in  two  oilier  placL-s,  A  Hands  lor  //c-. 


lyS  FiVn'ih  of  Saldoi. 


Men  ot  mokill  Ipcchc,  nioii  loin  tyme  lye. 
Th)  like  av  thuw  (liall  dye,  tluiw  Hull  not  jiladly  lyiiiieth 
A  may  be  of  good  k\'nne,  tS;  liinilelt  litell  wurthe. 
The  I'ule  byddes  go  furthe,  ^  hath  beth  fpore  and  wande.' 
He  that  is  of  evill  eland,  wylle  men  fufpeites, 
A  fcabbyd  fliepe  infe£les,  all  the  hoole  tlokke. 
Wherfor  ferves  the  lokke,  and  the  thefe  in  the  houfe. 
Yt  makis  a  wanton  moufe,  an  onhardy  catte. 
A  Svvyne  that  is  over  fatte,  is  caufe  of  his  owne  dedde. 
Flee  ay  from  fedde,"  for  fwcre  thinges  are  payfe.-' 
Thovv  mayfte  amend  thre  nayele  with  ones  fayng  yea. 
Ther  is  not  fo  litell  a  flea,  but  fonit)'me  he  will  nye.* 
Yt  is  not  good  to  ftryve,  w'''  to  farre  nor  to  bigge. 
He  that  vfeth  mofte  to  figge,'  is  lothe  to  lofe  his  crafte. 
An  olid  man  is  dafl'te,  that  maryes  a  yong  woman. 
Thow  mon  trow  foni  mail,  or  have  an  yll  lyte.  . 
Be  not  jeloufe  over  thy  wyfe,  for  fhe  will  wyrke  the  warre. 
He  that  toucheth  pyche  .Sc  tarre,  canot  longe  be  clenc. 
A  woiinde  when  it  is  grene,  is  beft  to  be  healid. 
A  byle  that  is  long  bealid,  will  breke  at  the  lait. 
Onkindenefs  bye  pait,  wolld  be  forgete. 
Be  blythe  at  thy  mete,  devout  at  thy  mafle. 
For  litell  more  or  lafle,  make  no  debate. 
Bett'  is  the  hye  gate,  then  the  bye  Rode. 
He  that  dredes  not  god,  fliall  not  fayle  to  fall. 
He  that  covetes  all,  is  able  all  to  tyne."^ 
About  thyne  h  myne,  ryfeth  mokill  ftryte. 
He  hath  a  blefTid  lyef,  that  holdes  him  content. 
A  bowe  that  is  longe  bent,  will  waxe  dulle. 
He  that  wotes  when  he  is  full,  he  is  no  lolc. 
Putt  many  to  fcole,  all  will  not  be  clerkes. 
At  every  dogge  that  barkes,  one  ought  not  to  be  anoyd 
He  that  is  well  lovyd,  he  is  not  pore. 
(iret  labor  and  care,  garres  a  man  to  be  olid. 
A  good  tale -yll  toUd  is  fpyllt  in  the  telling. 
In  byyng  and  fellyng,  is  many  grete  othe. 
Coniynly  the  bell  clothe,  is  belt  chepe. 
He  that  wotes  when  to  Icpe,  will  fomtymc  loke  a  bak. 
This  it  garres  me  to  make.  For  fliortncs  of  tynic. 
Many  mail  makes  ryme,  &  lokes  to  no  reafoii. 
L.  tin. 


'   Prick  and  niirciy.         -  Si^ort.         ^  Pays  means  pitch.         ■*  Annoy.         '  To  fig  is  lo  (idget. 


to  lofe. 


.f^^ 


']U^  A).i']i:::i/\K  l;M.;:-'iL']K^^<-'ir;ii.; 


./,„,,„•,//■,    ..I  I. (//,*•'-,  l/,;///,,.    /'/,//;      .-.''.!■  hi<  -   ii.i.iii.    i:i,il,i     \liil,, 


Sir  Adrian  Fortcfcuc.  179 

Oil  the  firlT:  fly-leaf  of"  the  volume  is  this  entry  :— 

"  Thomas  Fortefciie,  feconde  fonne  to  S'.  Adrian  Fortefcue,  Knight,  was  borne  at 
Shirbourne  in  the  Coiintie  of  Oxforde  the  Wenfday  being  the  xiij""  day  of  May  in  the 
xxvj"'  yere  of  Kinge  Henry  theight,  Anno  Dili  1534  liora  fecunda  poft  meridiem; 
Godfathers  att  the  Baptifme  were  Thomas  Rede,  Thomas  Whitton  ;  godmother  the  Lady 
Williams;  godfather  at  the  confirmation  the  Biflioppe  of  Oxon,  that  was  Abbot  of 
Thame." 

On  the  firft  page  we  find  the  following: — 

"Jefus.     Jefus. 
Ilk  liber  pertinet  Adriano   Fortelciie  Militi,  fua   manu   propria  fcripta   Anno    J)omini 

1532,— et  Anno  R.  R.  Hen.  VIII.  xxiiij". 

i 

Loyall  Penfe.  ' 

Injuriarum  Remedium — Oblivio. 
Omnium  Rerum  vicillitudo.      Parry. 

Anne  Fortescue.  ;     ■■ 

Garde  les  portes  de  ta  bouche,  -  ' 

Pour  fouyr  peryl  et  reproche."  ■  '  • 

The  writing  of  the  whole  volume  is  in  the  fame  clear  ftrong  hand,  the  maxims  being, 
perhaps,  more  haftily  written  than  the  refl:.  The  MS.  pafTed  into  the  poflefrion  of  Sir  Keiielm 
Digby,  whofe  name  and  initials  are  written  upon  it  ;  he  was  an  intimate  triend  of  Sir 
Adrian's  grandchildren,  the  F'ortefcues  of  Salden.  1  examined  the  book  at  the  Bodleian 
Library,  where  it  is  preferved,  in  1863,  and  through  the  kindnefs  of  Mr.  Coxe,  the 
Librarian,  obtained  the  fac-hmile  from  it  which  now  appears  in  this  work. 

We  may  as  well,  although  rather  In  anticipation  of  the  date,  notice  here  fome  other  relics 
of  the  knight. 

In  Nichol's  Hiftory  of  Leicefterniire,'  where  he  treats  of  the  Fortefcue  Turvilles  of  Huf- 
lands-Bofworth,  there  is  an  account  of  a  folio  mifTal,  which  was  once  Sir  Adrian's.  It  is 
"  fecundum  ufum  Salifbur.,"  printed  at  liouen  by  Martin  Morini,  1510.  On  the  back  cf 
the  title-page  is  written  in  his  own  hand,  "  Liber  pertinet  Adriano  F'ortefcue  Militi,"  and 
then  the  following  fentences.  The  date  of  1536  is  that  of  Queen  Anne  Boleyn's  execuiion, 
and  of  Jar.c  Seymour's  marriage.  We  may  well  imagine  how  diflafletul  mult  have  beei  to 
him  that  part  of  tlie  form  which  orders  prayers  for  Flenry  VIII.,  "as  fuperior  iicad 
immediately  under  God  of  the  fpirituality  and  temporality  of  the  Church,"  and  are  not 
furprifcd  that  he  fcratched  them  through  with  his  pen. 

'  Nichol's  LeicefterQiiru,  vol.  iii.  part.  i.  p.  528. 


i8o  Fa?/i!ly  of  Salden. 

^'-  An  order  and  form  of  hyddyng  of  hedys  by  the  King's  cowandinenL      y/.  Domini  1536." 

Ye  fhall  py  for  the  hole  congregacdn  ot  ChriiVs  chirche,  aiul  cTpecially  for  this  Chirche 
of  England. 

Wherin  I  firil  coniend  [to  your  dcvoute  jlyers  the  King's  moft  excellentc  Majcltie 
fupreme  hede  iniediately  under  God  of  the  fprualtic  and  teporalitie  ot  the  lame]'  Chirche, 
and  the  moil:  noble  and  vertuous  Ladye  Ouene  Jane  his  nioil  lawful  wife. 

Scondly,  ye  fchal  py  for  the  Clergye,  and  Lords  teporall  and  Commons  ot  this  realm. 

Befeechying  Almighty  God  to  gyfe  evcy  of  them  in  his  degree  grace  to  ufe  themfelves  in 
fuch  wife  as  may  be  to  his  contentacon,  the  Kynge's  honor,  and  the  wee!  of  the  realme. 

Thirdly,  ye  fliall  py  for  the  fouls  that  be  depted  abydyng  the  iTiyce  of  Alm'ghty  God, 
that  it  may  pleafc  liym  the  rather  at  the  conteplacbn  of  o'  pjrs  to  gut  them  thetruycon  of 
his  psence. 

God  five  the  Kyng." 

At  the  foot  of  the  Calendar  for  June,  referred  to  the  14th  day  is  : — 

"  Hac  die  Lune  anno  dni  M""°  V'-'""' xviii   (obiit)  Anna  uxor   Adriani    Fortefcue   Mili  o 

apd  Stonor  in  Cofn  Oxoii ;  et  fepiilta  ell  in  Kcclia  purat.  de   ByHiani   in  Cofii  Berk  a"  Rej. 

Henrici  oftavl  decinia  tia  dfiicale  C."' 

Againfl:  July  iSth  is  written  :  — 

"Obiit  J.  Fortefcue  Milit.  Pat^  Adf.  a"  Rg.  h.  vii.  xv.'" 

Sir  Adrian's  feelings  of  devout  attachment  to  the  Church  of  Rome  inclined  him,  wh  :i\ 
his  royal  mailer  threw  off  his  allegiance  to  the  Pope,  to  join  a  fociety  famous  for  its 
attachment  to  the  Holy  See,  and  bound  together  to  exth'pate  herefy  ;  accordingly,  in 
the  year  1532,  he  was  admitted  as  a  knigiit  of  St.  John  of  Jerufalem.'  Mr.  Edmund 
Waterton,  whole  courtefy  and  kindnefs  in  dircLrling  my  attention  to  Icveral  points  relating 
to  the  Order  I  defire  here  once  for  all  to  acknowledge,  informs  me  that  Sir  Adrian  went  to 
Malta  for  the  purpofe.  I'his,  however,  is  by  no  means  likely.  There  is  no  trace  of  any  fuc  1 
long  and,  in  thofe  days,  fcrious  journey  having  been  taken  by  him,  and  we  know  that  hj 
was  in  England  in  the  year  of  his  admillion.  Moreover,  in  Mr.  Winthrop's  Lift  of  Knights 
of  the  Englifh  tongue,  he  is  not  marked  as  one  of  thofe  who  were  known  to  havt  been  at 
Malta. 


'  N.B.  The  \vor(l.-5  between  brackets  are  in  tbe  original  (ladic-d  tliroiigli  with  a  pen.      Nicliol. 
''  Sic.  in  oriir.      Tbe  .Vccount-Book  dates  tbe  burial  March  31,  152_;. 

'  i.  e.,  J.  lurtel'cue,  Knif^bt,  father  of  Adrian,  died  in  the  1  5lh  )ear  of  Henry  VII.   l,?2,v 

■"  W.  Winthrop,  in  Notes  and  Queries,  Aug.  2",  1853.      Lid   of  Kngblh    Km- his  ol   Malt.i  ;   •■  thole  Kniiihls 
known  to  have  been  at  Malta  will  be  diflinguilhed  by  a  ftar." 


Sir  Adrian  Forte fciic.  i8i 

He  was  doubtlefa  receivcii  hy  the  Lord  Prior  of  the  Order  in  London.  Mr.  John 
James  Watts,  anotlier  obHging  contrilmtor  of  information  about  I'oth  tlie  b'ortefcues 
members  of  the  Order  to  which  he  is  fo  much  attaclied,  affirms  that  Sir  Ailrian,  being  a 
married  man,  could  onlv  be  a  "Knight  of  Devotion;"'  that  is  to  fay,  he  was  allowed  to 
wear  the  crofs  of  the  order  out  of  devotion,  and  to  fhare  all  its  fpiritiial  privileges  ;  but  he 
was  not  a  "  Knight  of  Juftice  "  in  gremio  religions  ;  the  "  Crofs  of  Devotion  "  having  been 
conferred  upon  him  as  a  mark  of  fivour,  as  one  who  had  deferved  well  of  the  order. 

Two  years  later,  in  1534,^  the  Order  was  aboliflied  in  England  by  Acfl  of  Parliament, 
and  its  property  confifcated  ;  a  body  of  men  fo  clofely  bound  to  maintain  the  Pope's 
fupremacy  being  fure  to  fall  under  Henry's  difpleafure.  Up  to  that  time  the  Lord  Prior  of 
England  fat  in  the  Houfe  of  Lords  above  the  fenior  Baron. 

We  Hull  get  fome  infight  into  the  details  of  Sir  Adrian's  life  by  examining  his  "  Book 
of  Accounts,"  kept  through  the  year  1534,  and  in  the  beginning  of  1535,  which  is  almoft  a 
journal  of  his  aflions.  The  beginning  of  the  former  year  found  him  living  at  Shirburn. 
In  January  he  receives  from  John  b'ord  payment  of  his  rent  for  lands  in  Devon.  We  find 
mention  alfo  of  ellates  in  Suffolk  and  Eflex,'''  for  which  his  fon-in-law.  Lord  VVentworth, 
paid  him  a  rent.  He  brings  his  greyhounds  to  Shirburn,  from  Stonor.  On  the  -3rd  ot 
January  he  rides  to  London,  by  Colnbrook,  with  "  Mafter  Chamherlayne,"  whofe  coils  for 
the  journey  he  pays,  his  fervants,  "  Robin  and  Thome,"  returning  home  with  the  horfes. 

Jn  London  he  ftays  at  "his  Lodging,"  which,  however,  as  other  entries  Ihow,  was  his 
own  houfe,  and  was  fituated  in  the  Black-Friars.  Items  of  payments  to  "  Mr.  Knighton 
for  coftes  of  the  law"  this  term,  fuggeft  the  nature  of  tlie  bufmefs  which  had  called  him  to 
London,  where  he  flayed  twenty  days,  taking  home  with  him  to  Shirburn  his  "  Couhn 
Lewis  Eortefcue."  This  was  one  of  the  Spridleftone  family,  who  afterwards,  in  1542, 
became  a  Judge,  as  Baron  of  the  E'xchequer.  \N'hile  in  London,  the  knight  "  gained 
at  play,"  7/.  t,s.  3!^/.  ■  j 

At  the    time  of  the  Spring  Allizes  he  goes  to   Oxford,  where  he  hail  a  caufe   at   Nifi 
Prius  againft  Ambrofe  Pope,  with  his  coufm   Lewis  for  his  counfel.      Then  comes  a  fecond       | 
trip  of  a  few  days  to  London  and  hack.     I'hen  a  journey  into  Gloucelk-rflnre  on  the  20th 
of   March,   with   fix    fervants.      His    bufmefs  now   was   to   vifit   the   Manor   of   Lafborow 
near  Tetbury,  and  Bradefton ;  the  latter  was  already  iiis  property,  and  the  former  he  now       | 
agrees  to  purchafe.      He  mentions   1500   fheep  belonging  to  him   there.      Paffing  tlirc  ugh        , 
Farringdon  on  his  way  home,  on  Lady  Day,  March  25,  he  hears  mafs,  and  returns  to  Shir- 
burn or  Stonor  with  four  lamprey  parties.     The  farmer  and  warden  of  Bradellon  entert;  uied 
their  landlord  during  his  ftay  without  coft  to  him. 

In  Paflion  Week  he  makes  a  third  journey   to   London,  flaying  from  home  only  five 


'  Notes  and  Queries,  Jan.  31,  1863.  SulliuLna's  IliRoiy  uIiIk   Ki.iulu-.  olMall.i,  ii,  p.  114. 

■^  Accounts,  in  Appendix. 


1«2 


Family  of  Set  I  den. 


days  This  time  he  is  fummoncd  by  a  King's  mLlTcnger,  with  letters  from  Cromwell,  the 
minirter,  ordering  him  to  come  to  the  King's  Grace. 

On  the  loth  ot  April  he  is  at  Shirburn  ;  on  the  •26th  he  leaves  it  on  a  fourth  journey  to 
town.  His  fuit  with  .Sir  Walter  Stonor,  in  which  matter  he  now  expec'ts  "  the  King's 
award  "  to  be  made,  and  an  alarm  left  he  (hould  fuffer  as  fecurity  for  the  old  Lord  Cobham, 
ns  well  as  the  purchafe  of  the  Manor  of  I.aiLorow,  now  concluded  and  paid  for,  employed 
him  there  until  May  22,  when  he  returns  to  .Shirburn,  taking  with  him  "four  tair  fmai 
fchone  for  his  lytel  fon  John,'  and  Mary." 

On  the  9th  of  June  he  leaves  Shirburn  for  London,  on  his  fifth  journey,  with  27/.  j.f.  (.)d. 
in  his  purfe.  Now  at  laft  the  feal  is  put  to  the  "  King's  arbitrement  "  between  him  and 
Sir  Walter  Stonor,  and  he  rides  home  on  Sunday,  the  2  ill:  day  of  June,  pie;  fed  to  fee  the 
end  of  liis  long  caufe.  , 

In  July  he  again  attends  the  Oxford  Afhzes  for  his  proceedings  againft  Ambrofe  l^ope ; 
and  in  this  month  two  hurried  trips  to  London  and  back  (eem  to  portend  tiie  tri.ubles 
which  were  about  to  fall  upon  him;  for  a  little  further  on  we  find  him  writing  that  "liere  on 
Saturday,  being  the  29"'  day  of  Auguft,  anno  26"'  of  Henry  tlie  8"',  I  was  committed  lo  ihe 
Knight-Mardiall's  ward  at  Woodftock,  Vaughan  the  Groom  of  the  King's  Chamber  C(  mi  ig 
for  me  to  Shirburn."  Although  there  is  no  exprefs  allufion  to  the  caufe  of  this  arreft,  thi  re 
can  be  little  doubt,  from  what  we  know  of  his  ftrong  attachment  to  the  Pope's  fupremacy, 
that  it  was  on  account  of  his  refuiiil,  or  hefitation  to  acknowledge  the  King  as  head  of  the 
Church;  this  being  the  moment  oi  Henry's  open  rujiture  with  Rome,  whtn  many  WLre 
imprifoned  for  their  "  obitinacy,"  and  fo  kept  until  the  general  pardon  in  the  autumn  c  f  t  le 
fame  year,  i  534." 

On  the  29th  of  Augull:  he  was  kept  fome  hours  at  Woodftock.  This  place,  as 
containing  a  royal  refidence,  was  within  the  jurifdiftion  of  the  Knight-Marfliall,  Sir 
Thomas  Wentworth.'  Sir  Adrian  was  taken  by  him  the  fame  day  to  Thame,  and 
remained  there  in  cuftody  during  Sunday.  Here  he  "has  a  Priefl  to  his  Inn  twee,'' 
to  fay  mafs,  for  which  he  pays  \6d.  On  Monday  he  fleeps  at  Uxbriilge,  and  next 
day,  September  [ii,  is  taken  firfl  to  his  own  houfe  at  Black- Friars,  and  then  to  Southv  ..rk 
to  the  Marflialfea.  I  k-re  he  is  kept  by  Wentworth  until  the  8th  of  OLtober,  being  allowed 
occafionally  to  vifit  his  houfe,  where  Lady  Fortefcue  had  come  to  be  near  him.  On  that 
day  "  Sir  Thomas  Wentworth  rode  northward  in  the  afternoon,  and  from  t  lencetorth," 
fays  Sir  Adrian,  "  I  boarded  niyfelf,  and  provided  for  all  manner  of  necefTaries  for  myfelf, 
my  wife,  my  fervants,  and  for  all  other  in  the  houie  there,  at  my  charge,  as  it  uppeareth  in 
the  houfchold   book   then   entered  and  written  at   the   defire  and   requed:  of  the  fame   Sir 


'  The  little  (on  was  Sir  Julin,  the  Chancellor  of  the  lixelRiiiier  lo  Iili/..iLeih.  -   Hapin,  vol.  i.  j*.  801. 

^  He  was  anceftor  of  the  Wentworths,  Earls  of  Str.iflonl,  and  is   nut  to  Le   confounded   with   Thomas    Lord 
Wentworth,  Sir  Adrian's  fon-in-law. 


Sir  yhlr'uvi  Fo7~tcJciie.  i8^, 

Thomas;  and  fo  continued  during  the  time  of  my  being  in  his  ward  and  cuftody."  His 
imprifonmcnt  muft  now  have  become  very  mild,  perhaps  ahiiol-l  nominal,  and  we,  may  prefume 
ended  loon  after  with  the  general  pardon  in  November.  1  lere,  however,  the  Hook  uf 
Accompts  comes  to  an  end,  after  fome  items  fhowing  that,  according  to  the  King's  award 
between  him  and  Stonor,  Sir  Adrian  removed  his  goods  from  Stonor,  and  had  "  an  inventory 
indentyd  of  the  deliverance  of  Stonor  Place,"  which  family  feat  was  to  remain  to  the  heirs  male. 

In  1536  an  Aft  of  Parliament  is  palled,  confirming  this  award  between  Sir  Adrian  and 
Sir  Walter  Stonor,  by  which  the  former  is  to  keep  for  his  life  one  fliare  of  the  eftates,  and  Sir 
Walter  Stonor  the  other  ;  Sir  Adrian's  part  to  defcend  to  his  two  daughters  by  his  firll  wife, 
namelv,  Margaret,  wife  of  Thomas,  Lord  Wentworth,  and  hranccs,  v.ife  of  Thomas  hitz- 
gerald,  Earl  of  Kildare.  As  to  the  latter,  it  is  enaited  that,  whereas  the  hufliand  of  Lady 
Frances,  Thomas  Fitzgerald,  was,  at  the  time  of  the  making  the  award  "a  deteftabh  and 
heinous  rebel  and  traitor  to  the  King's  Piighnefs,"  and  imprifoned  in  the  Tower,  and  there- 
fore not  able  to  agree  to  the  award,  that  neverthclefs  the  Lady  h'rances  fliould  have  the 
benefit  of  the  award,  and  that  flie  and  her  hufliand  fhould  be  bound  by  it. 

The  "  heinous "  rebel  was  Thomas,  tenth  Earl  of  Kildare  (furnamed  "  Silken 
Thomas,"'  becaufe  he  and  his  body-guard  wore  filken  fringes  on  their  helmets),  who  had 
rifen  againfi:  the  Englilh  government,  and  having  given  lumfcU  \.\\t  to  the  I^ord  Deputy 
on  the  iSth  of  Auguft,  1535,  was  fent  to  the  Tower,  and  there  imprifoned  until  the 
8th  of  February,  15J7,  when  he,  with  five  of  his  uncles,  his  father's  brothers,  "was 
executed  at  Tyburn,  being  drawn,  hung,  and  quartered."'  lie  was  only  twenty-four 
years  old.  His  wife  had  left  her  huiliand  upon  his  rebellion.  Agard  writes  to  Cromwell, 
May,  1535: — "I  thinke  Mr.  Pawlett  will  comme  with  the  nexte  wynde,  and  with  him 
Thomas  the  traytors  Wyffe.  Me  lovys  hir  well  (a  prima  facie),  Howbeit  I  cannot  perceyve 
that  fche  favors  him  foo  tenderlye."^  And  again.  May  15th  :  — "  Mr.  Powlett  has  brought 
over  from  Ireland  20  Hobbies,  and  Thomas  the  Earl  of  Kildare's  wife,  h'rances  h'ortefcue."' 
Lady  Kildare  liad  no  iffue,  fo  that  both  parts  of  her  mother's  fliare  of  the  Stonor  ellates 
fell  to  Lord  and  Lady  Wentworth.^ 

The  remainin£7  notices  of  Sir  Adrian  are  almofl:  confined  to   thofe   of  his  attainder  and 
execution. 

The  two  following  letters  to  Mr.'  Knighton  and  Lord  Efiex,''  dated  a  few  months  before 
that  event,  and  an  inventory'  of  the  goods  in  his  houfe,  dated  on  the  18th  of  Febru;  ry. 


'  Earls  of  Kildare,  by  Marquis  of"  Kildare,  vol.  i.  p.  131.  '^  Ibid.  p.  168. 

»  Ibid.  p.  170.  '  Cal.  Stute  I'apers,  Ii  iQi  S.  rus,  Hamilton,  1.509-'573- 

^  Lclaiul's  Itinerary,  by  Ilearne,  vol.  iv.  part  i.  p.  19,  \o. 

"  This  Lord  EITcx  was  Iltnry  Eourthier,  fecond  Earl  of  Effex,  who  was  KilUd  in  this  lame  yiar  (I5.;9),  by  a 
fall  from  his  horfe,  at  his  Manor  of  Balli;,  in  llcrtforddiire  ;  and  not  Cromwell,  made  Earl  of  ICIIix  before  the  end 
(,(■  ,  ..,(,.  '   '^ee  the  lusenloiy  in  the  Appendix. 


184  Fiunily  oj  Saldcii. 

1539,  wliich  not  iniprohahly  was  taken  upon   his  ari-efl;  for  higli  trcafon,  are  all  that  1  have 
been  able  to  dikover:' — 

To  Mr.  Knighton. 

M'.  Knighton  I  reconnnenJ  me  to  you,  And  here  inclolyd  1  (liid  a  letter  the  which  I 
pray  you  to  convey  to  my  Lord  of  Ellex,  it  is  to  fertyfye  hyni  of  the  new  fewte  cominenfyd 
this  laft  Hillary  terme  ayenft  his  Lordfchipe,  my  lady  Walgrave  S'.  b'raunceys  Bryane  6^ 
his  vvyff  &  ayenit  me  ;:^c  other  for  the  i  10''  that  hvs  l.ordlliipe  owyth  to  the  Ky  iges  grace 
&  alfo  for  42J.  6d.  that  I  have  paid  for  vvithdrawinge  the  fewtes  of  the  fame  now  6i  2  tyniys 
paft  (moreover  I  pray  you  Remembre  the  caufe  that  I  movyd  you  in  effeiftually),  And  thus 
fare  ye  well  in  helth  writyn  at  Londone  this  10"'  tlay  of  I-'ehiuarye  anno  30"  Regis  i  lenrici 
0(5tavi  with  the  hand  of  your  old  lovyng  i\:  acquayntyd  b'rend 

AuRVAN    KyRTESCU    Kt. 

{Indorfed). — To  my  lovyng  l'"rend  Thomas  '      ■ 

Knyghton  Gent,  dwellyng  at  : 

Bayford  in  Mertfordfchire  this.  ' 

To  the  Earl  of  EJfex. 

Right  Honourable  &  my  good  Lord  my  duetie  remembryd  this  is  to  advertyft  y.iu  I 
before  this  tyme  have  byn  fewyd  for  your  Lordfchipe  for  i  10''  that  J  with  other  ar  jointly 
boundyn  with  your  Lordfchipe  and  at  your  defyer  &  for  your  dettes  to  the  Kynges  graces 
ufe  &  fo  now  this  terme  lluild  have  byn  at  exegent  wherupon  I  made  requeft  ik  fuete  tc'  the 
Kynges  graces  councell  to  commenfe  a  newe  action  as  well  ayenll:  your  Lordlhipe  tv  my 
Lady  Walgrave  &  Sir  Fraunceys  Bryan  &  my  fuller  his  wyffe  as  ayenft  me,  6l  fo  by  my 
grete  fuete  it  is  grauntyd  &  done,  wherby  1  was  forfyd  to  pay  for  the  other  procefle  &  fo  I 
dyd  which  was  \is.  9^/.  which  I  now  paid  ^;  alfo  before  this  tyme  ;  tymys  I  payd  in  all  30J., 
which  I  pray  your  Lordfliip  to  fend  me  ageyn  which  is  in  all  42J.  (.jJ..,  And  alfo  that  your 
LordfTchipe  wolle  take  fome  pertyt  end  in  the  lame  caule  fchortely  or  els  yt  vvolie  "o  our 
farder  daungers  &:  your  difiionour  to  fee  us  thus  in  trobills  for  your  Lordfchipe,  And  if  your 
Lordfchipe  do  not  fee  fum  enci  herein  on  my  fayth  tor  my  ])art  I  Hiall  not  onely  comnlayne 
to  the  Kynges  highnes  herein  but  alfo  put  your  Lordfchipe  in  feute  upone  the  obligacioun 
that  1  have  of  your  Lordfchipe  to  lave  me  harmeles  which  is  forfeted  wherof  I  wol  be  loth. 
Good  my  Lord  fee  remedy  in  tyme  and  thus  our  Lord  preferve  your  Lordfhipe  in  helth  with 
increffe  in  honour  Wi-ityn  at  Lont.lone  this  9"'  day  of  b'cbruary  anno  30"  regn  regis  Menrici 
odavi  with  the  h;md  of  your  owne  to  my  power. 

Ai:)in'AN  F(j  riEscu  K. 

Indorjed.  —  I'o  his  Right  Llonorable  Lord 
the  Erie  off  Effex  this  ledtd. 


'  The  originals  of  thefe  two  letters  are  preferved  in  the  Record  OtHce,  under  tlie  head  of  Mifcellaneous  Letters 
temp.  Hen.  Vlll.  c.  2-4,  fecond  feries,  vol.  .\ii.     Their  dates  are  February  9th  and  loth,  I  539.  , 


Sir  Adria7i  Fortefciie.  185 

I  h;ive  fearched  in  vain  for  docunients  to  throw  liglit  upon  the  events  wliich  led  to  Sir 
Adrian's  attainder  in  the  fpring  of  1539.  In  all  the  hiftorics  of  tlie  period  he  is  mentioned 
as  included  with  Margaret  Countcfs  of  Salifbury,  her  fon  Cardinal  Pole,  Gertrude  Marchionefs 
of  Exeter,  and  Sir  Thomas  Dingley,  in  the  Aft  of  Attainder  palled  hy  the  Parliament 
which  met  at  Wcftminfler,  April  28,  1539. 

Burnet  fays  that  "  Sir  Adrian  I'^ortefcue  was  attainted  tor  endeavouring  to  raile  rebellion.'" 
Lord  Herbert'^  finds  no  more  againil  liim  but  tliat  he  was  accomplice  with  the  Ladies 
SalifLiury  and  f.xcter ;  and  that  in  the  houfe  of  the  former  at  Cowdray  were  found  Bulls 
granted  from  the  Pope;  and  that  flie  forbad  her  tenants  to  have  the  New  'reitament  in 
EngliOi,  or  any  other  new  book  the  King  had  privileged. 

There  fecms  to  be  no  doubt,  from  what  we  have  \ccn  ot  his  dilpofition,  bi  t  that 
Fortefcue's  treafon  confifted  in  his  retufal  to  acknowledge  the  lupremacy  ot  the  King  in  place 
of  that  of  the  Pope,  over  the  Church  in  England,  or  to  conform  to  Henry's  innovations 
in  religion,''  the  principle  for  which  More  had  died  four  years  earlier. 

The  A(5t  was  pafled  without  the  perfons  accuied  being  permitted  to  make  their  defence, 
or  without  any  examination  of  witnefTes  by  the  J'arliament.  It  any  were  examined,  "  it 
was,"  lays  Burnet,  "  either  in  the  Star  Chamber,  or  before  the  Privy  Council  ;  tor  there  is 
no  mention  in  the  journals  of  any  evidence  that  was  brought.  I'he  Houfe  of  Lords  made 
fome  efforts  to  oppofe  this  injuftice ;  but  Cromwell  i'o  bullied  the  Parliament,  that  he  made 
them  pafs  this  Bill,  which  was  afterwards  urged  againlt  himfelf.  It  palled  with  nuich  hafle, 
being  brought  in  on  the  10th  of  May,  and  read  that  day  tor  the  firif  and  lecond  times,  and 
on  the  I  ith  of  May  for  the  third  time."'  > 

I'ortefcue  was  one  of  the  firft  fufferers  under  this  tyrannical  mockery  of  judicial  legifla- 
tion.  "  Sir  Adrian  boflcew  and  Sir  Thomas  Dingley,  Knight  of  St.  Johns,  were,  the  tenth 
day  of  July,  beheaded,"'  is  the  brief  notice  of  Hall,  in  his  Chronicle. 

"  He  had  for  many  years,"  fays  an  hiflorian,  "enjoyed  the  King's  favour  in  an  efpecial 
degree,  but  notwithft:anding  his  great  fervices,  and  that  no  pofitive  proof  was  brought  againft 
him,  he  was  executed  ;  being  much  regretted  as  a  perfon  of  great  learning,  prudence,  and 
vvifdom  ;  a  gallant  man  and  a  great  officer,"  and  as  one  that  was  facriticed  to  the  King's 
peace,  and  gratification  of  his  fufpicions,  "  rather  than  from  his  being  guilty  of  any  formed 
defign  to  the  prejudice  of  the  Crown."" 


'  Hid.  oiRcf.,  i.  360,  folio.  •  ■ 

'  llcrbL-rt,  in  Kinnttl's  Complete  Iliftory  of  England,  vol.  ii.  p.  219. 

'  It  is  not  neteiTary  to  account  for  this  nfuliil  on  any  |i.irliLiilar  ^rrounds,  fucli  as  the  oatlis  by  which  the 
Knights  of  St.  John  were  bound  to  their  order;  tlie  repugnance  lo  tublliluH'  tlu;  Kinj;  for  ihc  I'upc  m  Cliuich 
Government  was  as  common  as  it  was  natural. 

^  Burnet,  Iliftory  ot  Reformation,  and  Rapin's  Aifla  Regia.  ^  rialfs  Chronicle. 

«  See  Playfair,  Brilifh  Family  Ilillory,  vol.  v.  I  25,  article  "Clermont  ;  "  and  Biog.  Brit.,  vol.  iii.  2003. 

II.  Ii   B 


1 86  FiViiily  of  Sahkn, 

By  the  Knights  of  Malta  he  was  looked  upon  as  a  martyr,  who  had  hiid  down  his  hfe 
rather  than  renounce  his  allegiance  to  the  Pope  ;  and  their  fucceflbrs  liill  obferve  the  day  of 
his  execution,  which  they  fix  on  the  8th  of  July,  "in  commemoration  of  his  fuffcriiigs,  and 
of  thofe  who  fuffered  with  him.'" 

In  their  church  of  St.  John's,  at  Valetta,  his  portrait  appears  in  two  places ;  "  one,  in  a 
fitting  pofture,  7  feet  high,  on  ftone,  is  jull  above  the  Cornicione  of  the  church,  at  the 
fpring  of  the  arched  ceiling  of  the  nave,  on  the  left-hand  fide  of  the  fitlh  window;  it  forms 
one  of  the  Beati  and  Mnrtiri  which  furround  that  part  of  the  church."  The  other  is  painted 
on  canvafs  the  dimenfions  of  which  are  fix  feet  ten  inches  by  five  feet  one  inch  ;  the  figure 
of  life  fize,  with  an  angel  holding  the  palm  of  martyrdom.  It  hangs  on  the  left  fide  wall  of 
the  Oratorio  della  Mifericordia  in  the  fame  church.  They  are  l)oth  by  Ca/alier  Mattias 
Prcti  furnamed  //  Calabrcfe^'  who  lived  at  Malta  between  1670  and  1699." 

In  the  Collegio  de  San  Paolo  at  Kabato,  near  Citta  Vecchia,  in  the  fiune  ifiand,  there  is 
a  third,  on  canvafs,  where  lie  is  fhown,  with  the  executioner's  fword  fevering  the  head  fro,n 
the  body.      This  infcription  is  at  the  bottom  of  the  picture  : — 

"  FR  .  ADRIANUS  .  A  .  FORTE  .  SCUDO  .  MILES  .  ORDINIS  .  S"  .  lOANNIS.  HIER"'  .  AB  .  HENl  ICd  . 
VIII  .  ANtJLORUM  .  RE(;E  .  Oli  .  CONSTANTEM  .  FIDEI  .  CAFOLIC/E  .  CONFESSION  EM  .  UNA.  C  U  ^  . 
ALTERO   .   EIVSDEM    .    ORDINIS   .    ECHUITE   .    CAI'ITE    .   PLEXUS   .   DIE   .    8    .    IVLII   .    I5J9." 

Of  thefe  three  piiflures,  of  all  of  which  I  have  obtained  excellent  coloured  copies,  the 
two  firfi:  are  evidently  rather  ideal  compofitions  than  acftual  likeiieires;  the  third,  however, 
that  at  Rabato,  has  all  the  appearance  of  a  portrait.  In  this  opinion  Mr.  Inglott,  of  Malti, 
agrees,  a  gentleman  who,  through  the  kind  intervention  in  my  behalf  of  Sir  Gafpu  i  e 
Marchant,  then  governor  of  the  lilands,  furniflied  many  details  and  much  ufehil  intorma- 
tion,  befides  taking  the  trouble  to  execute  very  efiiciently  my  commillion  tur  copies.  'I'hat 
gentleman  writes  that  the  portrait  is  on  canvais,  6  teet  8  inches  by  4  feet  10  inches,  of  lite 
fize,  and  that  it  is  fuppofed  to  be,  at  ail  events  in  part,  a  copy  of  a  good  original  of  'Jie 
early  part  of  the  fixteenth  century.  'Jdiis  aflertion  is  fi:rengthened  by  another  document 
from  the  Malta  Kecords — namely,  a  licence  given  at  Madrid,  dated  the  6th  of  Septemler, 
1621,  to  a  certain  Dodor  Fray  Vidal  Vital,  of  the  Order  of  St.  John,  who  applies  in  the 
name  of  the  faid  Order,  granting  him  a  certified  defcri])tion  of  a  portrait  (retrato)  of  die 
"  Beato  h'r.  Adriano  Fortefcudo,"  in  the  luiglifii  College  of  St.  George  in  ihat  Court, 
the  particulars  of  which  agree  with  the  Rabato  pidure  in  almoll  every  poini,  with  the 
exception  that  the  Madrid  picture  was  only  half  leiv;th,  while  that  at  Rabato  is  uill  length. 


'   Mr.  Winthrop,  in  Notes  and  Queries,  for  Auguft  27,  1853. 

■^  Tiiis  piiflure  has  been  lilliograptud,  with  llii-  twenly-livc  oilurs  oltlic  lerus,  ot  wliitli  it  I'ornis  No.   10.    'I'lic 
feries  was  publiflied  at  Malta  in  1859,  from  copies  by  Cultiitri. 

■'  See  Mr.  Inglott's  letter  to  nie.  ' 


Sir  Adrian  Fort ef cue.  187 

the  lower  part  being  probably  added  from  imagination,  to  make  a  larger  piL^iure.  I  annex 
the  wordy  old  Spaiiilb  paper  in  hill.  Whether  the  pidure  to  which  it  relates  ftill  cxills  or 
not,  1  have  not  been  able  to  afccrtain. 

En  la  villa  de  Madrid  a  feis  dias  del  mes  de  Septicmbre  de  Mill  y  leys  cientos  y  veinteun 
anos,  ante  el  S'.  Licenciado  don  Francifco  Valcac^er  del  Confcjo  del  Rey  nro  Senor,  Alcalde 
de  fuCala  y  corte,  y  ante  mi  Lorenzo  de  Vciiavides  Scribano  de  provineia,  en  ella  fe  prefenM 
la  peticion  del  tenor  figuiente. 

El  Doftor  Fray  Vidal  Vital  Penfionario  de  la  Orden  y  Cavalleria  de  San  Juan,  y  en  nombre 
de  la  dicha  orden,  digo  que  a  mi  derecho  comblene  lacar  traflado  autentico,  de  como  en  el 
Collegio  de  Ynglefes  de  ella  Corte  que  llaman  de  S'.  Jorge  elta  el  Retrato  del  Bea  o  l-Vay 
Adriano  EorteEfcudo,  Cavallero  de  la  dicha  orden,  y  de  un  traflado  de  la  partida  di,l  Libro 
de  la  dicha  Yglefia  tocante  el  dho  Beato  Fr.  Adriano  ForteEleudo.  Suplico  a  V.  M''. 
mande  que  qualquiera  Scribano  le  faque,  y  para  el1;e  efte^to  la  perlona  que  tiene  el  ilho  libro 
le  exiva  ante  el,  pues  es  julHcia,  y  pido  jiara  ello  &c.  \)\-.  V'ldal  Vitale  mano  propria. 

Y  vilto  por  el  dicho  S'.  i\lcaLle  proveyo  a  ello  un  dido  el  cual  y  los  demas  en  \u  virtud 
fechos  Ion  como  fe  figue.  "  Que  fe  le  de  al  contenido  en  ell:a  peticion  el  tellimonio  y  traflado 
que  por  ella  pide,  y  para  efte  effec^o  la  perfona  a  cuyo  cargo  ella  el  libro  de  la  dcha  Yglefia 
de  S".  Jorge, le  exiva.  El  S'.  Alcalde  Don  Fran",  de  Valcager,  lo  proveyo  en  Madrid  a 
feys  de  Septiembre  de  mill  y  feis  cientos  y  veinte  y  un  anos." 

Yo  Pedro  De  Figuerda,  Scrivano  y  not"',  publico  de  S.  Mag"*,  en  la  fu  Corte  Reynos  y 
Seiiorios,  de  pedimiento  y  requirimiento  del  Dodor  bray  Vidal  Vitale  del  haliito  de  S".  Juan 
fuy  a  la  Yglefia  del  Colegio  tie  S".  Joi-ge  cjue  es  de  nacion  de  Ynglefes  para  cumjtlir  con  el 
tenor  del  auto  de  arriba  ;  y  entre  otras  colas,  vi  que  entrando  en  dicha  Yglelia  a  man  y /quierda, 
que  eftando  en  el  altar  mayor  buelto  al  pueblo  vien  efer  a  man  derecha,  eltaba  un  Retrato 
pintado  en  tabla,  con  lu  marco  dorado,  de  un  Cavallero  en  medio  cuerpo  con  una  ropilla  azul 
alo  Ingles,  fm  fombrero,  con  una  valona,  y  las  manos  ligadas  con  una  loga  y  una  cruz  en  ellas, 
y  con  una  capa  amarilla,  y  en  ella  al  lado  yzquierdo,  el  havito  y  cruz  blanca  de  Sefior  S".  Juan, 
y  un  cuchillo  a  la  garganta  que  parecia  aver  fido  degoUado  con  el,  y  correr  la  de  la  fangue  ; 
y  por  lo  baxo  a  la  tabla  tenia  un  Rotiilo  fcrito  con  letras  mayufculas  Goticas  i|ue  decian  afi : 
"B.  Adriano  ForteScudo  Cavallero  del  habito  de  S".  Juan,  fue  degollado  por  la  bee  Cat\ 
con  otro  Cavallero  del  mifmo  orden  por  mandado  de  Enrique  8vo  en  8  de  Julliode  1^30."  Y 
efte dicho  Retrato  declararon  Guillelmo  Numan  y  Duarde  MilTendino  Sacerdotes  Yngle  es  fer 
el  que  en  el  dicho  pedimiento  fe  hace  mencion ;  y  q'  por  el  Libro  fcrito  por  el  Dr.  Nicjlas 
Sandero  cuyo  tit".  De  V'tfihili  Monarchia  Ecclcfue  {Lil/r.  7")  refiere  la  hiltoria  de  dicho  Caval- 
lero martir,  en  el  qual  fe  hablara  fu  vida  y  martirio,  y  de  otro  cavallero  fu  comp.uiero, 
llamado  Thomas  Yngley  ;  y  efto  declararon  y  firmaron,  viendo  teftigos  Juan  Sariel,  y  Juan 
Betris  eftantes  en  efta  Corte.  De  lo  qual  doy  fee  Guillelmo  Numan,  Duarte  Milendino,  Pedro 
de  Figuerva  Scriv"". 


i88  Family  of  SciUcn. 

En  l;i  villa  de  Madrid  a  feis  dias  del  mcs  de  Scptiemhiv  de  mill  y  fcis  cientos  y  veinte  y 
uno  aiios,  viftos  cllos  Autos  por  ul  Licenciado  Don  I'laif".  de  Valcager  del  conlejo  de  S.  M"*. 
Alcalde  de  fu  Cafa  y  Corte  dixo  q'  mandava  y  mando  dar  de  fodos  ellos  al  Diho  F'.  Vital 
\'itale,  y  las  denias  jierlonas  q''  los  qviifieren  todos  los  trallados  cjue  tuefen  pedidos  (ignados 
yen  publica  forma;  a  los  cjuales  y  a  elle  original  ynterponia  y  ynterpufo  la  aiitoridad  y 
decreto  judicial  que  puede  y  a  lugar  de  derecho,  paiM  que  valgan  y  hagan  la  fee  que  hubiere 
lugar  de  dicho  ;   y  lo  feiialo  L^oren^o  de  Venavides. 

Va  efte  Auto  en  juicio  y  tuerza,  y  fuera  del ;  y  lo  feiialo,  yo  Lorenzo  de  Venavides 
Scnvano  del  Key  nro  Seizor,  que  hago  Officio  de  Scriv".  de  provincia  de  fu  cai'a  y  Corte  por 
el  lobredicho  al  prefente  a  lo  que  de  mi  fe  hace  mencion,  con  el  S'.  Alcalde  que  aqui 
firmofe,  de  cuyo  mandam'".  efte  auto  fize  lacar ;  y  lo  otorgamos.  Y  en  teftimo  lio  de  verdad 
Cruets  >-p«  fignum  Notiuints.  I     , 

Lorenzo   de   V^enavides. 
El   LiCENCiAiJO  Don    Francisco   de   Valcacer. 

Los  Scribanos  de  fu  Mageftad  que  aqui  finamos  y  firmamos  y  damos  fee  que  Lorenzo  d^ 
Venavides  de  quien  va  fignada  y  firmada  la  cfcritura  defta  otra  parte  es  llfcrivano  de  S  i 
Mag'',  y  al  prefente  ufa  y  exerce  el  OfR".  de  Scriv".  de  provincia  en  ef1;a  Corte  por  Bias  Garcia  ; 
y  como  tal  a  las  Scritturas,  y  Autos  que  ante  el  han  paiTado  y  pafan  fiemprele  les  ha  dado  / 
da  entera  fe  y  credito  en  juicio,  y  tuera  del,  como  a  efcrituras  y  autos  feclios  y  otorgados 
ante  tal  Scriv".  ficl  y  legal  y  de  confianza.  Y  anfmiifmoel  S"".  Licenciado  Don  Fran",  de  Val- 
cacer de  quien  va  firmada  la  dicha  informacion,  es  del  confejo  de  Su  Mag'',  y  Alcalde  en  la 
Cal'a  y  Corte,  y  como  tal  ufa  y  exerce  el  dicho  Officio;  y  con  el  delpacha  el  dicho  Lorenzo 
de  Venavides.  Y  para  que  de  ello  confte  de  pedimiento  de  la  parte  de  l'"ra.  Vidal  Vitale  del 
habito  de  S".  Juan,  dimos  la  prefente  en  Madrid  a  diez  y  ilete  de  Septiembre  de  Mill  ieis  cientos 
y  veinte  y  un  anos. 

En  teftimonio  y^  de  verdad— En  teftimonio  ^  de  verdad — En  teftimonio  ^h  de  verd:'d, 
Jhoan  de  Bragos,  Antonio  Ruiz  de  Olea,  Scrv".      Marcos  Perez. 

EJlratto  del  Regijtro  delle  Bollc  di  Cavalleria  dell'  Ordini  Gerufulmhare  No.  145,  cu':>ii 

1620,  21,  f  2i,fol.  J45,  atergo. 

Certified  by  J.  Gasi'ar   Le   Marciiant,  > 

0<f^to6cr3i,  1864.  Lieut. -Gen.  and  Governor  of  Malta. 1 

Tranjlation  of  the  foregoing. 
In  the  city  of  Madrid,  on  the  6th  of  September,   in  the  year   1621,   in   prefe  ice  of  me, 
the  Licenciate  Don  Francifco  de  Valcacer,  of  the  Comicil  of  our  Lord  the   King,  Alcalde  of 
his  Lloufe  and  Court  ;  and  in   prefence  of  me,   Lorenzo  de   Venavides,    provincial   notary 
public,  was  prefented  a  petition  in  the  following  terms: — 

"I,  Doftor  Fray  Vidal  Vitale,  Penfionary  of  the  Order  and  Knighthood  of  St.  John,  and 
in  the  name  of  the  iaid  Order,  do  declare  that  I  have  a  right  to  a  certificate  to  this  it?li:di — 


Sir  Adr'hui  Fo7'tefciie.  189 

namely,  that  a  Portrait  of  the  BlclTed  I'Vay  Adriano  I'^ort-Efcu,  a  Knight  of  the  aforefaid 
Order,  exifts  in  the  EngHfh  College  of  this  Court,  called  the  College  of  St.  ^ieorge;  and 
moreover,  that  I  have  a  right  to  a  copy  of  fueh  part  of  the  contents  of  the  hook  of  the  faid 
Church  as  relates  to  the  faid  Adrian  h'ort-I'.fcu.  I  therefore  pray  your  worfliip  to  tlirei"-!:  that 
fuch  a  certificate  Hiall  be  drawn  up  by  a  notary  public  ;  and  to  this  end  that  the  perfon  in 
whofe  keeping  the  faid  book  is,  fhall  produce  it  to  the  faid  notary.  For  this  is  my  right, 
and  I  pray  tor  it.      Signed  with  my  hand,  <«  [),^    Viu-\i    Vitale  " 

With  reference  to  tliis  petition,  the  faid  Alcalde  iffued  an  order  in  behalf  of  the  peti- 
tioner, which,  and  other  orders  made  in  his  favour,  are  as  follows: — 

"  Let  the  certificate  and  copy  prayed  for  in  this  petition  be  given  to  the  petitioner,  and 
for  that  purpofe  let  the  book  of  the  aforefaid  Church  of  St.  Cieorge  be  produced  b  ■  the 
perfon  in  charge  of  it. 

"  llTued  at  Madrid,  by  the  Scnor  Alcalde  Don  Francifco  de  Valca^er,  the  6th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1621. 

"  I,  Pedro  De  Figuerda,  fcrivenerand  notary  public  to  his  Majefly  in  his  court,  kingdoms, 
and  lordfhips,  at  the  defire  and  requifition  of  l^ocflor  Fray  Vidal  Vitale  of  the  Order  of  St. 
John,  went  to  the  Church  of  the  College  of  St.  George,  belonging  to  the  Knglifii  nation,  in 
compliance  with  the  aforefaid  order,  and  there  obferved,  among  other  things,  that  on  the  left 
hand  as  I  entered  the  church,  and  on  the  right  hand  as  I  ftood  at  the  high  altar,  with  my 
face  towards  the  people,  tliere  was,  in  a  gilt  frame,  a  portrait  painted  on  board,  halt-length 
fize,  of  a  knight,  with  a  blue  veft  in  FLnglifli  hiHiion  ;  no  hat;  with  a  valona'  in  front,  and 
his  hands  tied  together  by  a  cord,  with  a  crofs  between  them  ;  a  yellow  cloak,  and  on  it, 
at  the  left  fide,  the  crofs  and  order  of  St.  John  ;  a  knife  is  at  the  throat,  appearing  to  have 
cut  throush  it,  blood  flowin";  from  the  fune.  At  the  bottom  of  the  board  is  puinted  a  roll, 
and  on  it,  written  in  Gothic  capitals,  thus  : — '  The  Blefied  Adrian  Fort-F.fcu,  Knight  of  the 
Order  of  St.  John,  v/as  beheaded  for  the  Catholic  faith,  together  with  another  Knight  of  the 
fame  Order,  by  command  of  Henry  VIII.,  on  the  8th  of  July,  1539.' 

"  Moreover,  William  Numan,  and  Kdward  MilTendino,  F.nglifli  priefts,  have  declared 
that  the  portrait  aforefaid  is  the  fame  which  is  mentioned  in  the  aforefaid  petition;  and 
they  fay  that  the  hiftory  of  the  aforefaid  knight  and  martyr  is  related  in  a  book  written  by 
Dodlor  Nicholas  Saunders,  with  the  title  of  D^  Vifibili  Monarchia  Ecclefix  {Libr.  7".  in 
which  his  life  and  martyrdom  are  treated  of,  as  well  as  thofe  of  Thomas  Yngley,  liis  com- 
panion. This  they  have  declared  and  figned  ;  whereof  are  witnefies  Juan  Sariel  and  Juan 
Betris,  of  this  court;  and  I  believe  them.  William  Numan,  Edward  MilTendino,  Pedro  de 
Figuerda,  notary,      Madrid,  this  6th  of  September,  in  the  year  1621." 

The  aforefaid  documents  being  fubmitted  to  tlie   Licentiate  Don  b'rancifco  de  Valca^er, 


A  Valona  is  tranll.itud  in  the  Lexicon,  "  \  pl.iitcJ  piixc  of  linen  hanging  from  the  collar  of  the  fhirt." 


19°  Family  of  Saldcn. 

a  member  of  his  Majefly's  Council,  and  Alcalde  of  his  I  loufc  and  Couit,  lie  has  direftcd 
that  copies  of  fuch  of  them  as  have  been  allced  for,  duly  figned  and  in  public  form,  fliall  1  e 
given  to  the  aforefaid  Fray  \'idal  Vitale,  and  to  others  v.ho  may  wifli  for  them.  And  to  all 
fuch  copies,  as  well  as  to  this  original,  he  attaches  the  authority  of  a  judicial  decree,  with 
the  power  and  right  of  law,  to  the  intent  that  they  may  have  the  force  and  credit  of  fuch  ffid 
right.  Signed  by  me,  Lorenzo  de  \'enavides.  This  decree  is  good  in  judicial  aLrLs  and  in 
all  others;  figned  by  me  Lorenzo  de  Venavides,  notary  of  our  Lord  the  King,  adual  pro- 
vincial notary  of  the  Lloufe  and  Court  of  the  faid  King,  in  that  which  concerns  my  office. 
Together  with  the  Alcalde  who  here  figns,  by  v/hofe  coaunaiid  I  liave  drawn  up  tliis  decree. 

We  approve  of  the  above.     Jn  teilimony  of  the  truth  whereof,  Crncis  >^  figniim  Notamus. 

Lorenzo   ue  Venavioes. 
Ei,   LicENCiADo  Don   b^RAXcrsco   i.'e  Valcacer. 

We  the  underfigned  notaries  of  his  Majefty  certify  that  Lorenzo  de  Venavides,  wlu  has 
figned  and  attefted  the  writing  on  another  part  of  this  paper,  is  a  notary  to  his  Ma'iefty, 
and  at  prefent  fdls  the  (5ffice  of  provincial  notary  at  this  Court  for  Bias  Garcia  ;  an  1  as 
luch  has  always  given  to  the  documents  which  pafs  before  him  entire  validity  and  cr  'dit, 
both  in  judicial  at'ts  and  in  all  others,  as  writings  certilied  and  approved  by  a  lot  iry, 
faithful,  loyal,  and  truftworthy.  And  we  further  certify  that  the  Licentiate  Don  Fram  ifco 
de  Valcacer,  who  has  figned  the  aforefaid  information,  is  of  the  Council  of  his  Majefty,  and 
Alcalde  of  his  Tloufe  and  Court,  and  performs  the  duties  of  that  othce  ;  and  with  him  ic'ls 
the  aforefaid  Lorenzo  de  Venavides.  And  to  the  end  that  by  him  fhould  be  ratifieti  the 
petition  of  Fray  Vidal  Vitale,  of  the  Order  of  St.  John,  we  have  ifllied  thefe  prel -nt ,  at 
Madrid,  this  17th  of  September,  1621.  Certified  as  true,  Jhoan  de  Bragos.  Certified  as  true, 
Antonio  Ruiz  de  Olea,  Scrivano.      Certified  as  true-,  Marcos  Perez. 

ExtraHed  from  the  Regifter  of  Stamped  Papers  cf  the  Order  of  Knighthood  of  St.  JJm  of 
Jerufalem,  No.   141;,  a.d.  1620,  21,  I'l^fol.  345.  ■  ' 

Mr.  Edmund  Waterton  has  fent  me  a  notice  of  a  fifth  portrait  of  our  martyr  at  Floi-.-nce. 
Writing  on  the  i6th  of  April,  1865,  he  fa)  s :  "  Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue's  figure  is  inti-ouuced 
In  a  large  frefco  in  the  Anunziata  Church  ;  it  is  rather  in  the  background,  and  wid  he 
recognized  from  being  drelTed  in  the  fighting-drefs,  or  '  fopra-vefte,'  of  the  order  of  St.  John, 
viz.,  a  fiiort  tunic,  like  a  herald's  tabard,  of  red,  with  a  large  crofs  of  white.  The  frefco 
is  the  one  at  the  end  of  the  church,  jult  over  the  flirine  of  Santa  Maria  dell'  Ai  unziata." 

In"Le  Martyrologie  des  Chevaliers  de  Sained  Jean  de  1  lierufdcm,"  in  he  Imperial 
Library,  at  Paris,  as  well  as  in  the  archives  of  the  order  at  Malta,  there  is  a  coat  of  arms  given 
as  borne  by  Sir  Adrian,  which  he  nuift  have  alTumed  as  a  knight  of  the  order,  defcribed  as 
"Azure,  with  three  fhcaves  of  corn  Or."  It  was  only  ufed  in  conneiStion  with  the  order, 
for  we  know  that  he  did  not  alter  his  family  arms. 

When  Oueen  Mary  came  to  the  throne   flie  did  not  forget  the  widow  of  the  man  who 


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MONUMENT    IN    WEI.FO[(|)    CIIL'KCH,    BKIMis,    To    ANNK.     l.AIA'    I'Oimj.SCUK, 

sLcoNij  Win;  OK  taa  adiiian  foute.suuk. 


Sir  AilriiDi  FoJ'tcfcm.  191 

had  fuffcrcd  through  her  father's  herefy,  but  took  her  at  once  into  favour.  She  appears 
among  the  hidles  \\\\o  attended  the  Qiieen  on  the  30th  of  September,  155J,  from  the 'lower 
to  her  palace  of  Weilminfter.  ''  Then  next  this  Chariot  rode  ten  Ladies  and  Gentlewomen  in 
crimfon  velvet,  their  horfes  trapped  with  the  fame,  viz. — 

The  Lady  Fortefcue,  Lady  Bruges, 

Lady  Walgrave,  Lady  Kemp, 

Lady  Manfel,  Mrs.  lunch. 

Lady  Clarentieux,  Mrs.  Gerningham,  and 

Lady  Peter,  Mrs.  Sturley."  ' 

Among  the  ladies  in  the  chariot  we  find  Sir  Adrian's  daughter.  Lady  Wentworth. 

In  the  fifth  year  of  her  reign  (July  25,  1557-58)  Lady  Fortefcue  received  from  the  Out  en 
grants  of  feveral  manors  in  Gloucefterlhire,  namely,  Pamington,  Gotherington,  Tredingtc^^n, 
and  Wafhbourne,  near  Tewkefbury,  and  the  Manor  of  FLunfteed  near  Chipping-Sodbury.-' 
Of  thefe,  Gotherington  and  Wafhbourne^  were  fold  by  her  grandfon.  Sir  b'rancis  Fortefcue,  in 
1 8th  James  L  (1620),  to  Elizabeth  and  William  Craven. 

The  feveral  grants  of  the  5th  of  Queen  Mary  are  made  to  "Anne  b'ortefcue,  v.'idow  of  Sir 
Adrian  Fortefcue,  and  to  the  heirs  male  of  Sir  Adrian." 

She  married  a  fecond  hufband,  Thomas,  afterwards  Sir  Thomas,  Ap-Flarry,  or  Parry, 
who  left  by  her  two  fons  and  a  daughter.  The  date  of  this  marriage  does  not  appear. 
Parry  is  firll:  mentioned  as  her  hufliand  in  a  licence  to  alienate  a  clofe  palture  at  Weftcott, 
near  Lafljorough,  in  Gloucefterfhire,  granted  in  the  3rd  and  4th  Philip  and  Mary,  1556-57, 
but  he  mufl:  have  been  fo  long  before.  Strype '  writes  of  him  that  at  Oueen  Elizabeth's 
firft  council,  after  her  accelTion,  one  of  the  chief  matters  done  was  that  "  Sir  Thomas  Parry, 
Knight,  who  had  been  a  fervant  much  about  her,  was  by  lier  command,  and  in  her 
prefence,  declared  the  Comptroller  of  her  Houfehold,  ami  fworn  of  her  Privy  Council." 
Fie  died  in  i  575. 

Lady  bortefcue  furvived  until  the  year  1585,  dying  on  the  5th  of  January  ni  that  year, 
aged  feventy-five  years.  She  was  buried  in  the  church  of  Welford,  near  Newbury,  m  Ik-rk- 
fhire,  where  her  fecond  fon,  Thomas  Fortefcue,  ereded  a  handfome  alaballer  monument  to 
her  memory,  with  this  infcription  : — 

"Anna    Gulielmi    Rede    militis    filia,    Adriani     b'ortefcu,    et    poltea,    Thoma;    Parry 
militum  uxor,  hie  fita  eft.      Reliquit  ex  numerofa  prole  fuperftites  ex    Fortelcue  filios  tre; , 
tilias  duas;   Ex  Parrio  duos  filios,   et  filiam   unam ;   ca-teris  inuuature  decedentibus.      Ipla 
vero  cum  utrifque   familia;  fundamenta  reftauralTet  a'tatis  fuir  anno  75,  humanit.item  exut , 
quinto  Januarii  anno  Dni  1585.      R.  Elizabetha  regnante. 

Thomas  Fortefcue  F.  Matri  oj)tiin;e  pofuit." 


'  Strype's  Memorials,  vol.  iii.  part  i.  p.  54. 

''■  Ruddi-r's  Glouceficrniire,  1779,  pp.  235-371,  777-788,  and  ti78. 

■'  Ori-inulia,  in  .\dd.  MS.  6367.  ■'   AnnaU  of  tilt-  Reformation,  xul.  i.  part  i.  p.  8. 


192  Family  of  Saldcn. 

The  monument,  wlien  k'cw  by  the  author  in  186^,  was  in  good  prefervation.  [t  is  well 
reprefented  in  the  woodeut. 

Sir  Adrian's  cliildren  by  his  firft  wife  were,  as  we  have  feen,  two  daughters,  viz.,  the 
eldeft,  Margaret,  married  to  Thomas  Wentworth,  firft  Lord  Wentworth  of  Nettlelted  in 
Suffolk,  fo  created  in  1529.  This  barony,  being  inheritable  by  the  heirs  general,  iVill  exifts, 
and  was  for  fome  years  held  by  Lady  Byron,  wife  of  the  celebrated  Lord  Byron,  and  tiow 
by  her  grandlon,  Lord  Ockham,  eldell  fon  of  the  Earl  of  Lovelace,  who  inherited  it  in  right 
of  his  mother  Ada  Byron,  only  child  of  the  great  poet. 

The  fecond  daughter,  Frances,  wife  of  Silken  Thomas  b'itzgerald,  tenth  Earl  of  Kildare, 
left  no  family.  It  was  her  lot  to  be  the  wife  as  well  as  the  daughter  of  men  whcfc  heads  fell 
by  the  axe  as  fo-called  "  traitors,"  the  one,  becauie  he  denied  Henry's  right  to  a  temporal, 
the  other  to  a  fpnitual  thi-one. 

Sir  Adrian's  children  by  his  fecond  wife  were  John,  the  eldeft  ion,  of  whom  we  (liall 
have  much  to  Hiy;   Thomas,  Anthony,  Mary,  and  E.lizabeth. 

Mary  married  John  Norris,  I'llijuire,  ot  b^yfield  in  Berkfliire.' 

Elizabeth  married  Sir  Thomas  Bromley,  Lord  Chancellor  of  England,  who  died  April 
12,  15B7,  anceft^or  by  her  to  the  Bromleys  Lords  Montfort  of  Morfeheath,  a  title  created  in 
1741.      She  was  buried  in  the  chapel  of  St.  John  the  Baptift  in  Weftminfter  Abbey. 

Of  each  of  the  three  fons  an  account  will  be  given  in  the  following  chapters.  I 

Appendix  to  Chap.  XL  '  } 

A. 
The  Book  of  Accounts  of  Sir  Adrian  Forte/cue,  Knight,  xo'th  to  i^tli  of  Henry  VIII.  (a.  d.  i  5  iS 
to  A.  t>.  1538).  Prejerved  in  the  Record  Office,  London. 

The   coftes    of  tlie  bcryyng   of  my  ful)'  d.ime    Aiuic    I'oitclcue  A".  R.  Rx.    II.  viij.  x'"".   1518,  and 

other  cxpenfes  done  after  as  within  appcrith.  \ 

A  toinbe  &  a  lay  ftone  bouglit  at  Abendoii. 

And  the  coites  done  at  ll)ilhopis  Hatt'cld  over  my  fathers  tombc  5^  chapLJl  thcr.  •  '' 

I 

Cojici  of  the  btryyri^  Is?  done  after  fcr  the  huly  Anne  Fortefciie  which  dyyd  the  xiiij"'  day  ofjinc  a".  D°. 

1 5 18  y  A".  R.  Rx.  H.  8".   10  then  monday  at  Stonor. 

£       i         d       ' 

For  me  &      I  T  r       ■         1      1  1  i    ,•  ......... 

Item,  for  XI  yardes  blak  fvne  .....      mj     xii|        iiij 

mydoughter  ) 

,  It.  xviij  yardes  &  iii  (luaitcis  blake  .  .  .  ■  .       iiij      xiij        ix 

Lyvereys.     '  It.  xxxij  yardcs  blake  ......  cvi        viij 

(  It.  X  yardes  cli  of  Blake  ......  xxvj     iij 

.  ■  — -j 

'  I.odffe. 


S//-  Ailria?!  Fort ejc lie. 


•93 


'Mmes  dole. 


It.  ij  yarilcs  di  blake  cotton   . 

It.  iiij  varJcs  blak.  cours  cotton 

It.  ij  lb.  tlu'ede  5c  nedyllcs     . 

It.  Fuftiaii  &  lynyng 

It.  For  coftes  to  &  fro  London 

It.  To  Jeiiet  Andrewe 

It.   To  Dame  Lewen 

It.  To  Mary  TeCdale 

It.  To  KathL-rine  Blackball    . 

It.  to  Margaret  Robyiilon 

It.  For  iiij  yardes  blak  tor  pelyons 

It.  For  iiij  yardes  blak  cotton  for  f.idylles 

It.  To  the  taylers  of  Henley 

It.  to  the  clerk  of  Henley 

It.  Bryngyng  the  chyrche  gere 

It.  To  the  clerk  of  Henley  y"  lull  tyine 
Sum' 

Item  to  the  chyrch  of  Henley  for  hanyng  th 

It.  for  the  colics  of  derigc  >?c'  niafs  tlicr 

It.  to  the  ifone,  for  the  hers  lyght  yet  is  for 
&  for  the  wait  ix  lb.  di  \]s.  Wiyl.  &  for 
y"  preit  had  as  dcwtie  to  y'^v)kar  funi 

It.  to  y'  preffes  at  Stonor 

It.  for  iiij  yardes  of  blak  for  y""  hers  . 

It.  for  vj  yardes  brode  cotton  for  y''  wall 

It.  tor  xij  yardes  narow  cotton  for  y''  r.iyles 

It.  for  ij  ells  lynyn  for  ye  hers  crol'e   . 

It.  makyng  &  fewyng  y"'  crolle 

It.  cofles  Rydyng  &  at  Pyrton 

It.  to  y"^  precher  of  y"-'  (ermon 
C  It.  in  almes  dole  to  beggers  . 
I  a  penny  a  pece  vj*^.  xlvj  perlons 

It.  to  a  prefte  fyiigynge  thcr  halt  .i  yere 

It.  to  y'^  clerk  of  the  chyrch  ther 

It.  for  wyne  &  wax 

Simi' 

Sum  of  both 

It.  to  y'  bell  ringars  at  y^  beryyng 

It.  to  Wodhous  &  other 

It.  to  ij  laborers  to  drelTe  for  ye  kech)  n 

It.  to  y'  clerk  of  Shyrburn    . 

It.  to  xxiiij  torche  berers 

It.  to  y'  parilch  preft  ther 

c  c 


xviij/, 
chyrch  ffutf" 

y''  workynges  x 
ij  tapers  vj  lb. 


lydei  xxxviij/.  v 


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FiWiily  of  Saldoi. 


It.  to  iiij  tavlors  drelTyng  y"  hers 

It.  to  Ric.  Benet  for  his  labor 

It.  to  y' dark  of  Watlington 

It.  to  y'  clarkes  of  Wathngton  at  dirige  &  malic  there 

It.  y*  wall:  of  Shirburn  torches  &  cariage 

It.  to  y"'  clerk  5<:  his  wife       .... 

It.  for  ye  w.\lt  of  Henley  torches 

It.  (oi  wait  ot  torchei  from  W'atlyngton 

It.  for  a  yard  of  blak,  luiyles  &  takettes  h  a  taylor     . 

It.  to  ye  Prcfles  (xlij)  &  clerkes  (iiij)  &  childern  (xij)  to  ferve  & 
mafl'e     ....... 

It.  for  wine  &  wax  ...... 

It.  for  mall'e  pens  thar  ..... 

It.  for  y''  waft  of  Cupham  torches      .... 

It.  for  vj  ryngars  at  ^V'atlington 

It.  to  y"^  clarke  for  ye  pitt  ^'  other  befyiies  at  Pirton  . 

It.  a  carpenter  making  y"  fr.ime  about  the  hcrfc  &  other  work 
It.  tor  ye  lay  ftone  in  ye  chauncell  payd  t(j  the  vykers  duputie 

Sum  Ixviijj. 
Dcncr  at  ye  Li-ryyng. 

Item,  for  ij  befes  iS:  ix  inottoiis 

It.  for  vij  Lanibys  than 

It.  for  iiij  calvys 

It.  for  X  gefe  &  ij  capons 

It.  for  xxiiij  copill  Conys 

It.  for  XV  pvgL^ts 

It.  for  creme,  butter,  egges,  fait  k.  coles 

It.  for  cuppes  and  trenchars 

It.  for  creme  diflies  and  pottes 

It.  for  viij  kylderkyns  here  from  Stonor 

It.  a  quarter  of  whete  in  bred  from  thens 

It.  to  y*^  cokes  and  helpers  ..Vc. 

It.  bryngyng  kechyn  rtufl"&  caryyng  it  home 

It.  fent  thether  xx  gaions  wyne 

It.  for  ale  from  Wathngton   . 

It.  for  bred  from  thens 

It.  for  caryyng  &  makyng  vi  lodes  wood 

It.  to  y''  harbor  of  \Vatlyngton  for  his  labor 

Sum  \l.  xiiij. 

M''.  the  nomber  of  pore  peple  ther  than  as  appcntli  by  y"^^  id. 

before,  war  in  al  vi''  xlvj  parfons  and  of  other  by  eftymacion 

Suin^  totalis  before  writtyn  is   xlij/.  ixj. 

M''.  ye  Wikers  depute  h.id  an  ambelyng  nagge    for  ye   mortuary 

ye  monethes   mynd  deliver\'d. 


help   I 


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Si7'  Adria}i  Fortefctie. 

The  monetbes  inynd. 

Iteni   to  the  wyker  of  Pirton  ..... 

It.  to  xlvj  prcflcs  tlur  ...... 

It.  to  cl.i;kcs  &  niad'c  hclpif^  ..... 

It.  to  Bcnet  for  drclTi.g  aivrcrs  ..... 

It.  to  y''  bell  ryiig.irs  thcr        ...... 

It.  the  niylTe  pciib  than  ther   ...... 

It.  (ur  the  \\  :\\  of  y'   hers  .ind  the  wall:  and  y^'  goodly  iii.ikyiig 

It.  at  St^inor  chapell  vj  Prellcs  ..... 

It.  maill"  pens  ther     ....... 

It.  to  y'-'  dark  &  pore  folk  ther  .... 

It.  at  y''  Savoy  than  I  beyng  ther  at  London  in  al  xv  nialles  that  day 

Ixxiy.   vj(/. 
It.  a  bolock  Si  X  fchepe  than  ther 
It.  XI  kylderkyiis  of  here  from  Stonor 
It.  xxi  dolyn  bred  from  W'atlington  . 
It.  for  ij  calvys  than 
It.  for  X  pyggcs  than 
It.  for  X  geffe  than     . 
It.  for  butter  to  b.ifl:  mete  than 
It.  p''  making  eC  cariage  o(  iij  lodes  wood 
It.  in  rewaides  to  iij  Cokes    . 
It.  fechyng  neceflarys 
It.  tor  lyngyng,  wine  i^C  wax  than 

v/.       V(.  viij^'/. 

Suin''  viij/.  xvijj.  i]l'i. 


195 


The  yeres 
mynd. 


.•  Item  for  the  fyrft  yeres  mynd  at  Pyrton  .... 

It.  for  xxxvj  (?)  fko[ch]yns  of  armys  both  in  (xij)  mettall  &  xxvij  ) 
colores  grett  &  large  to  geve  to  dyvers  chirches  in  the  cuntrey    .  ' 
Sum"  totalis  of  al  this  boke  before  wiityn  is  liiij/.  viijs.  \]\(l. 

Anno  .\j  R.  Re.  11.  viij. 
Item  paid  to  the  marbelers  of  Corfl' for  a  tomhe  of  marble  like  to  Sir  \ 
Rcjht.    Southwells   in  y' cloyfter  in   the   IJIak   Frere   al   Lcjiidoii      vi 
.'\nno  xj  r.  rs.  U.  viij  &  it  is  del''  at  London  to  me 
e  torn  le  _^    j^_  ^.t  ^^  ^  mmbkr  in  Powles  chirch  yard  for  the  pictures,  writynges  1 
o   marble.     |  ^  armys  gylt  after  y"-'  rate  of  Sir  Thomas  of  Parrcs  tombe  in  y"  [^ 

Blak  Frere  ther  &  to  fett  ycm  in   y"'  marble  as  apperith  by  a  bill  f 
[  indentyd  A",  xiij"  R.  Re.   IL  S    .  •  ) 

It.  gevyn  to   Pyrton  chirch  a  veflment  of  blak  vclvctt  with  thappur- 
tcnaunces 


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full  p". 
Ixvj      viij 


196 


Coflcs  at 
Byiliam. 


Family  of  Saldefi. 


(  It.  paid  tor  the  caryagc  of  the  ("aid  toiiibc  to   P(i\'.'les  chirch  vard  to  y' 

niaiblcr  thur      ....... 

It.  paid  to  the  iiiaibeiai-  ther  for  \vork\']ig  a  e.iter  over  tlic  one  eiul  of 

the  tomhe         ....... 

Item,  paid  foi"  the  caryage  ot  the  laid  tombe  to  y'  bai  Lie  witii  tlie  craiiane 

.k  oyer  colles     ...  .... 

It.  [)aid    for   the   water   carriage  o(   the  (aid   tombe    to    v"    priory    of 

Bifli.im  ill  lierkdiire        ..,..• 
It.  paid  for  the  dyggyng  the  pytt  ther,  the  biykkes,  the    morter,  the 

workman  niakyng  the  waite   i?c   the  coveryng  of  it   with   timber 
i?c  ye  pavyiig  and  helpyng  y''  marbehir  in  all 
It.  paid  in  reward  for  the  fettyng  up   &   fynylhyiif!;   the  laid   tombe  c^ 

necellariis  ther    .  ...... 

It.  p.iid  to  the  marbelar  of  the  Black  Krere   for  the  tombe  lyyng  with 

hym  ii  yere        ....... 

It.  gevyn  to  )"  iiiarbeJars  lervamit  for  comyng  to  Stonor 

ij/.  iiij).  vj(/. 


.xij 
viij 
xviij 


lllj 


Co/hi  !>i  the  removyng  of  my  fiiiil  luyfe's  body  to  Byjliain  priory  in  Barkfchir  the  la  ft  day  of  March  e 
in  the  xvj"'  yer  of  the  reyn^  of  Kyng  Hurry  the  rilJ"'- 


Item,  paid  to  mafter  prior  ther  for  her  layfloiie  yer 
Item,  gevyn  to  hym  &  liib   covent   for  the  dcnge   the   mafle   5i' 
belynefs  ...... 

It.  paid  to  y""  vyker  of  Bylhain  for  the  clayme  of  a  mortuary  . 
It.  paid  for  makyng  of  a  new  coflyii  &  puttyng  the  body  into  it 

fyrfl:  dyggyng  at  Pirton  none 
It.  for  makyng  and  orderyng  the  horfl)'tter     . 
It.  tor  bl.ik  colowr\ng  of  it    .  .  .  • 

It.  for  xxvi  yardes  of  blak  cotton  for  it  ^^'  ye  h ors 
It.  the  colles  lyyng  of  it  at  Redyiig 
It.  tor  an  ell  of  lynnyn  cloth  for  y''  crofle 
It.  to  a  taylor  orderyng  y'  litter  &  hors 
It.  for  VI  tkochyns  of  armys,  iiij  of  y'"'  at  Bylli.im 
It.  paid  for  xij  IhifF  torches  of  wax 
It.  paid  to  vi  torche  berars  all  the  way 
It.  gevcn  to  y"  vyker  of  Pyrton  for  his  payn    . 
It.  to  V  other  prelles  with  y"^^  body  al  tlje  way 
It.  to  y'  dark  of  Pirton  ber)-ng  the  crofe  al  y'  way      . 
It.  to  vij  pretk-b  of  iij  parillies  rec''.  y'=  body  by  y'  way 
It.  to  the  clarkes  of  the  fame  parillies 


oy 


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xxxi  vii 
vj         viij 


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viij 


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^j 

viij 

viij 

iiij 

viij 

iij 

iiij 

xvj 

Dene 


*S7/'  Adrian  Foi'tefcue. 

It.  gevyn    to    Pirton    chirch    iijj.   iiij,/,    to    'I'yfclJ   chinli    iiji.    iiij,/.    to 
Marlowe    chirche    iiji.    llij^/.   to    Billiam     |xuillic    chiicli    lij.    for    '• 
torcliwafl-es  .Si  Ryiigynggcs  .  .  .J 

Item,  gevyn  to  Henley  chirche  tor  y''.  crolle  aiui  v''  |ki1I 

It.  to  ye  torche  ber;irs  tor  drynkviig  homewaul 

Ir.  tor  men  ot  Ilenleys  Jrynkyiig  at  Henley 

It.  tor  Mailer  \\'liitton  &  y'=  prclies  chynkyng  at  Marlowe 

It.  gevyn  to  Thakkanes  Ion  for  his  labor  atid  bryngyngy""  liois  to  carv  | 
\ "  hurllytter        .  .  .  ,    S 

It.  paid  for  pavyng  agayn  the  chainicel  at  Pirton 

It.  for  bred  ^^v'  drvnk  at  Pirton  chirch  t\  rft      .... 

It.  tor  iij  kylderkyns  of  here  at  Tyrleld 

It.  for  viij  caif  of  manchettes  ..... 

It.  for  x.wj  call  of  houfliold  bred        ..... 

It.  lor  iiij  faltfisfhes  xx^/.  a  lynge  xij./.  iiij  ftokh.sllies  x,/.  one  filtfiiiiniul  . 
xiiijr-/.,  iiij  I'alt  eles  xvj,/.,  1.  white  herynges  xij;/.,  \1  redd  herynges  i 
viij^/.,  fresfyfch  iiijs.,  fiini  ..... 

It.  for  muflard,  fait,  &  ungcons  ..... 

It.  to  Sadelar  to  help  the  coke  ..... 

It.  for  makvng  cleiie  y'  vykerage  at  Tyt'eld  Si  y"  welTel 
.  It.  for  ale  ther  ....... 

It.  for  mete  for  the  ij  caryage  horles  ..... 

Ir.  for  bled  &  drynk  at  Hylham  priory  at  y''  buryall 

It.  tor  \\'illiam  Thomas  colics  at  Meidey        .... 
Sum  of  the  tombe  &  of  the  laid  removyng  is  in  .dl 
Summa  totalis  of  all  the  expenfes  in  this  boke  writyn  conlcrnyng    ( 
the  buryalles  of  y""  fayd  d.ime  Anne  Fortel'ciies  body  ys  .    ' 


197 


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xij 


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liij 


iiij 


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iiij 


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viij 

viij 

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xxiiij 

X 

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XXVll) 

xix 

V  1 

In  Augnjh.  A.  xxxo  R.  Ji,.   II.  II 1 1. 

Item  paid  for  my  tombe  agcyne  at  the  ralyng  of  B\llj,un  priory,  xxj., 
cV  paid  for  the  takyng  of  it  down,  and  for  the  colks  lo  tlie 
water  vjj.,  &  for  caiyyng  it  to  Henley  ijj.  \iii</.  ^^'  tor  the  image 
of  the  trinyte  \nyl.  and  for  a  new  fmall  cotfyn  \n'yl.  k  lor  my 
fervauntes  cofles  ij  days  wyl.  ic  lor  Ric.  11. dl  his  labor  m  the 
("aid  caufe  and  bryngyng  tlie  cotiyn  with  the  bonys  to  iirightweil 
chirche  iijj.  wyl.  ...■■■ 

Item  paid  to  the  clerk  for  makyng  the  grave  by  the  hyeawter  ther  the 
xj  day  of  Augull  .....  • 

Item  paid  for  the  cofles  of  my  cart  fetchyng  the  tombe  ij"  lodes  and 
hclpe  to  lode      ...  .  .  •  ■ 

Item  my  cart  caryyng  the  ij"  lodes    .  .  .  .  • 

Item 


xxxiiij  ^)''. 

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xxij  1 

IJ  p". 


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I  9  8  Fam  ily  of  Sa  L  Icii . 

In  Lent  A'  xxix-  R.  Rr.  11    ril/-. 

.C        s. 
I   Item  paid  tor  liole  rqiiaic  hve  marble  tunibL-,  c'v'  a   nothcr  great  lay  ] 
I  lloiie  bi.Mi^ht  at  ilic  laiviig  oi  Abciuinn  moiialtury  cliirchc,  witlic    ( 

■,  the   lyiies    &    Itejipis   &    appurteiiauiices   xxi.    and   paid   lor   the    r  xxi 

j  taicyng  of  it  dowiie  5:  cai^yng  of  it  to  the  barter  tlier  ^^  for  mv 

I  (ervaiiiits  coftes  theraboute  iij-  days  ixi.  vjil.  Iiiiiuun  totalis  .  J 

Expencei  done  iff  made  by  me  Sir  Adrian  Fortcj'cue  knight  In  is'  upon  my  fathers  chapell 
in  the  parijhe  chirche  off'  B\sJhopis  Hatfeld  in  the  countie  of  llertfurd. 

Fyrll  paid  for  the  tombe  of  marble  boiiiilit  of  the  marbelars  iit  Cortl,    i  ... 

,  ^         .  .  '  iij       x 

belidcs  xxiij.i.  iiij(A  paid  by  my  brother  fum  paid  by  me   .  .1 

Item,  paid  for  the  images  &  armys  and  ye  wrytyng  thereto  .  xx 

Item  paid  for  writyng  of  the  indenture  and  drawyng  of  the  armys 

Item  paid  tor  cariage  of  the  tombe  to  Hatfeld  .  .  .  x 

Item  paid  for  the  marbelars  coftes  to  fett  it  ther 

Item  tor  ij  gret  candleftvkes  for  the  awter      .... 

Item,  for  ij  papis  of  bone  &  glaflc      ..... 

Item  paid  tor  ij"  tynnc  crcvvettes         ..... 

Item  paid  for  a  t.ibill  of  the  criifyfyx  .... 

Item,  paid  for  the  tabiU  of  the  Oracion  .... 

Item  for  a  veftment  with  the  appurtenaunces  of  red  eh.nnlet  . 

Item  paid  for  ij"  gret  formes  &  the  cariage  thether 

Item  for  ij  towels  for  the  prefles  handes  .  .  .  • 

Item  paid  for  the  making  of  the  gret  dore   &   the  tymber  eS:    all   tlie    j 

iron  work  to  it  .  .  .  •    ' 

Item  paid  for  mendyng  of  the  glafl'e   the   ieade   y'  pavyiig  iijj.  iiij(/.  .V    ) 

for  the  locke  iiji.  \\\\d.     .  .  .  ■  ■   ) 

Item  paid  for  caryyng  of  y"  laid  ij"  gret  dore  .... 

\l.  xv'y/. 
Item  paid  for  a  gret  tabernacle   for  the   awter  bought  at  Cales  in   the    ) 

XX 

warr  tyme  •    ' 

Item  for  cariage  of  it  to  London  .....  vj         vnj 

Item  tor  cariage  of  it  from  I'chip  to  Strond      .  .  .  •  xx 

Item  for  cariage  of  it  to  Hatteld  .....  ^ 

Item  for  fettyng  &  mendyng  ye  tabernacle     .  .  ■  ■  ^'"} 

Item  paid  for  iiij  gret  formys  moo  .  ■•    .  vj         v 

Item  for  Sir  Humfrey  the  prellcs  coftes  to  come  to  inc  to  London     .  iij        iiij 

Item    lent    thether    at   Mighelmas   A"  xviij  R.  Re.    II    VIIL'   a  new  ^ 

awter   clothed   ij    curteyns   of  red    &:   grene    Frenehe  lay  1)  nyd     -  xj 

with  bokeram  &i  frengid,  price  in  all       .  .  • 


\XX11J 

"1 

lilj 

viij 

xl 

vj 

! 
viij 

xvi 

Sir  Adrian  Fortejcue. 


'99 


Lenr  ftufT 


Item.  p;iid  than  for  mendyng  the  glade  wyiidows 
Item  paid  for  mendyng  ^'  orderyng  the  awter  clothe  of  damafke 
Item  paid  for  iij  yardes  &  di  of  blevve  bokeram  to  cover  the  avvtcr 
Item  for  Sir  Humfreys  cofles  to  come  to  me 

Item  for  the  knelyng  hordes  ii  fettyng  &   orderyng  of  the  curteyns   ) 
irons      :  .  .  .  .  .  .  .    ) 

Item  feiit  thether  at  Whitfontydc  A"  xx  R.  Re.  H.  VIII.  ij  lyniiyii    ^ 
awtcr    clothes    i\'   a    lvini)'n    corporas   after   the    robbing   of  the 
chirch  price       .  .  .  .  .  .  .' 

Ixwj.  \]\(l. 
Summa  totalis  paid  by  me  xiij/.  xvjj.  x[(l. 

Tirmino  Hill'.  A",  xxv"'.  R.  Rr.  11.  I'll  I.  Sir  A.  Fortejcue  Knight. 
Item  brought  in  my  purs  from  Schirburn  the  xxiiij  day  of  January 
Item  rec''  ot  Harry  Rowley  in  full  payment 

Item  rec''  ot  John  I"i)rd  tor  y""  Criltmas  rent  ot  my  londes  in  Devon  . 
Item  rec''  of  Harry  Rowley  tor  cottes  in  the  accions  . 
Item  Sum        .  xxxvj/.  lij;.  \\\\d. 

Cojles. 
Item  paid  for  caryyng  mv  greyhouiuks  to  Schirburn 
Item  p''  for  all  Matler  Chnmberleyns  cotles  and  myn  at  Colbrok 
Item  p''  for  my  Coper  and  coiles  that  night    . 
Item  p''  for  a  torche  lynk  than  .... 

Item  delivered  to  Robyn  for  my  horfe  coftes  and  his  hoiiie    . 
Item  p''  for  my  horfe  coftes  in  all  now 
Item  p"'  for  a  male  pilion  viij(/.  is;  for  ij  colers  p''  xd. 
Item  [V'  tor    Thome  his  coftes  home 
Item  p''  tor  ij.  pfalters  x\\\]d.  Si  for  ynk  [-     . 
Item  p''  tor  a  lityll  piftiU       ..... 
Item  p''  fur  bote  hyer  to  Wednefday 
Item  gevyn  in  reward  to  J.  Coke  for  prefcntes 

Sum 


''  Item  p''  for  a  berell  &  i  of  white  hcrynges 
Item  p''  for  a  cade  of  redherynges 
Item  p''  for  iij  cades  of  fprottes 
Item  p''  for  XX  copil  of  betyn  ttokfilches 
Item  p''  for  vj  lalmondes 
Item  p''  for  xl  lake  eles 
Item  p''  for  4  a  bareli  to  put  yem  in 
Item  p''  for  ij  bafkettes  &  cord  . 
Item  p''  for  an  ell  of  canvas 
Item  p''  for  the  wharfage  e^'  water  bayly 


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viij 

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xviij 

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xviij  J 

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XX 


Fcviiilv  of  Salilen. 


Item  p''  for  ij  ropis  of  grct  (Hiyons      .... 

Item  p''  tor  C  or.iyiiiL's  Xi/.  5c  for  x.xiiij  fwctc  or.ivgfs  viijc/.    . 

Item  p''  for  ;i  pece  of  lygcs  dodes  eoiit.iiiV-  x\x  lb.  ijj.  \']il.  X'  for  xxx  lb 

ot  reyfoiis  ijj.  \'yl.  5c  for  x  lb.  iilmoiule^,  \]i.  \'yi.  h  for  vi  lb.  I'ug.ir, 

I,  \\s.  iij,7.  vj  lb.  prunys  vi(/.  a  b.ill<L-tt  and  lync  iiij;/. 

w)-ne.  Item  p''  fur  ij  hogefliedcs  of  claret  wyiie  h.  i^  colles  \iij^/. 

Item  p''  for  my  foper  5c  coltes  at  my  ludgyngeb  to  Frj'd.iy 

,  1    Item  p''  (ox  ili  yardes  of  lyveiey  price 

lyverey.  '  ■'  ■  i         .    \ 

{    Item  gevyn  to  Thomas  for  the  lynyng 

Item  p''  for  a  yard  of  tawny  L\)'  .... 

,    Item  p"  lor  ix  elles  and  \  of  holond  (or  ij  Ichyrtes  5;  n  kercliers  piic 

fchyrtes  ,  per  ell  wd  ...... 

■   Item  p''  for  half  an  elle  of  fyne  holondc  cloth  for  fch)'rt  liandes  w'yi 
Item  p''  fvjr  meiui)ng  the  glafe  vvyndowes  in  y''  parler  at  Lonilon 
Item  |V'  for  bote  hyer  to  Sonday  Candilmas  eyyn 
Item  gevyn  to  Andrewys  underfchryf  of  Oxoii  5c  Berks 
Item  p''  in  thelcheker  for  refpect  of  liomage  in  Oxon 
Item  p''  for  writyng  a  bill  of  new  to  the  Kynge  tor  Sowthwales 
Item  p''  for  v  fmall  Englifli  bokes       .... 

Item  p''  tor  a  large  matens  boke  for  m}lelt 

Item  p''  for  colles  at  my  loJgyngcS  to  Candilmas  d.iy 

Item  gevyn  to  the  gromys  in  y'^'  Kynges  chan\ber 

Skavage.  Item  p''  to  the  (kaveger  for  this  quarter  endyd  at  Crittmas 


Sum 


\l.  viiji.  ijr/. 


Item  p''  for  bote  h)'er  to  \V'ednefdav  ... 

Item  [)''  for  a  torche  lynk  o\\  l^eiiylday  at  night 
Itejn  p''  tor  x  qvvayres  ot  t)']ie  paper  \  a  reme 
Item  p''  for  vj  elles  of  bokeram  iijj.  5c  tor  j  ell  holond  w'yi    . 
Item  p''  for  vi  fawfcrs,  ij  difhes  h  a  ])l.ae  we))  ng  ix  lb.  5c  \  price  the  lb 
iiij  \d.  fimi  ...... 

Item  [)''  lor  a  \ard  5c   ;  IViak  fir  my  holyn 

Item  fur  an  ell  of  bokeram  for  my  bote  holyn 

Item  p''  for  makyng  of  them  both      .... 

Item,  p''  for  mendyng  my  cap  cafe     .  .  ■  ■ 

Item  for  mendyng  the  Kjkes  ij./.  5c  for  ilj  rubbers  '\d. 

Item  for  wyne  hi  codes  at  my  lodgyng  for  my  brother 

Item  p''  for  wyne  5c  orayngc  pyys  lent  to  Doi^tor  Cokkes  on  I-riday 

Item  fent  thethcr  on  Saturday  at  night  Ipocras  waters 

Item  p''  to  Mr.  Knighton  for  coftes  in  the  lawe  this  termc  by  bdl 

Item  gevyn  to  W.  Porters  clerk  to  remember  Hunteleys  reL-.ile 

Item  p''  to  Baflett  for  the  Ni  p'  again!!  Pope  5c  codes 

Item  p''  for  new  fealyng  the  write  of  extent  ayentt  Sir  K.  Chaniberleyn 


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Sir  Adriati  Fortefcue. 

Item,  p''  for  vvrj'tyng  thaiilxvL-r  in  parclicment  to  Ranluy 

Item  p''  lor  a  toiche  h'lik  on  S.itiiiclay 

Item  p''  for  coftes  at  my  lodgyno;  to  Soiul.iy    . 

Item  [)'  for  a  bonet  of  velvet  for  my  uite  price 

Item    p''   (or    ij     yard    of    fyne     1k)1oiuI    fur    my    vvifes    crelinnes    & 

ncceflarys  ..... 

Item  p''  to  John   Skute  for  niakyng  my  wifeb  lay  gown  i?C  ly'iyig  the 

playtes  &:  making  &  'yiyig  -i  P'li''  <jf  fitcn  llcvis  &  iitakyng  a 

fateii  patelette  in  all         ..... 
Item  p''  for  ix  red  horfliarnefs  ii  one  blak 
Item  p''  to  my  Ichom.ikci"  in  all  this  termc 
Item  p''  for  a  lylk  gyrdjll  for  me         .... 
Item  p''  for  a  galon  of  wyne  lent  to  my  wyfe . 
Item  gevyii  to  Dolphyn  for  bryng)iig  ..S:  caryyng  gere 

Sum      .  .  cxviiji 

Item  p''  for  fyllyng  the  )-nk  botell 
Item  p''  tor  ij  Hone  crewfys  for  my  lodgynges 
Item  p''  for  bote  byer  to  Fryday 
Item  gevyn  to  l''dmiindc  the  pcdeler  in  charite 
Item  |)''  tor  bote  h\-er  on  Sonday 

Item  p''  for  codes  in  tiie  counter  of  Robyn  horflceper 
Wages  Item  lent  to  Frogiiai  .... 

Item  for  vuriiidiyrig  of  a  pair  of  ftyropes,  a  pair  of  Ilyrope  lethers  bi 

one  yard  of  c.mv.is  for  a  duflyng  cloth  in  all 
Item  p''  for  vurn)'lcbyng  tS:  letheryng  my  fporcs 
Item  p''  for  mendyng  c'v:  fect)ng  the  flower  with  y"  iiij  [lerles 
Item  p''  to  the  freres  in  the  covent  place 
Item  p''  for  coftes  at  my  lodgyng  to  y""  Lift  Saturday  . 
Item  p''  to  Days  wife  for  walshyng  my  fliirtes 
Item  p''  for  hir  cju.irters  wages 
Item  p''  for   ij    botellcs  {x\\d.)   of  galons   Ictiierid    &   the   wy 

of  one    ...... 

Item  p''  for  a  loft  botell  of  a  galon  to  Th.  Spencer     . 

Item  p''  for  ij  lb.  of  fugar  to  cary  with  me 

Item  p''  for  the  coftes  of  me  &  iij  fervauntes  at  London  xx  days 

Item  p''  for  my  horfes  &  my  colyn  Lewys  Fortefcuys  at  my  inn 

Item  p''  for  the  hyryng  of  horfes  for  my  parte  home  . 

Item  p''  for  ij  elles  of  lymiyn  w'md.  ij  ounces   lafyng  rebend,  iji.  iiij 

one  ounz  Hat  rebend  xv,/.  a  quartern  of  threde  vj.7.  fum 
Item    del'    Ric.    Biftiop    for   the    coftes    of   the   accions,   for    Rob^ 

borlTccper  ..... 

Item  p'  for  my  coftes  at  Colbrok  homeward  . 
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expellees 
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codes  yii 

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Ihire 


Item  p''  for  caiyyng  the  males  to  Ihoiul  .... 

Item 

Sum        .  vj/.  viJ5.  iiij.y. 

totalis     .  xxiij/.  xiiji.  vij  [//. 

g.iyniJ  .It  play     \ij/.  iijj.  iij;,/. 
Item  brought  home  c^  lent  in  all  xi\/.  xii'p. 

f'  Item  expences  at  my  lodgyng  at  Oxlord  at  the  aflice  in  all  as  apperid  ) 
by  a  bill  ^'i  the  parcells  .  .  .  .  •  j 

Item  for  puttyng  in  the  Ni  p\  ayeiiit  Pope  ther 

Itemmy  attorneys  fee  ther  y.xd.  to  y"'  fryers  &  cryar  \\\]d.     . 

Item  to  the  underfchriff  for  returnyng  ij  writtcs  i!s;  of  Ni  |/.   . 

Item  a  waraunt  (iiij./.)  into  Bcrkfchire  .?^'  dryiikyng  at  Whatelcy  (iiij.-/.) 

Item  in  retaynyng  of  M'.  Holt  vji.  viij(/.  &  my  colyn  lewys  Fortel'cu  ( 
his  colles  vljj.  vj</  iS:  Rafe  V^yne  his  colies  iiijy.  \\\yl.  .  S 

Item  caryyng  the  hacney  horfes  to  London 
L  Item  gevyn  to  VV.  Dyker  for  kepyng  the  parke  iiij  da)'s 

Item  p''  to  G)llam  for  mendyng  gere  at  Caiulilmas 

Item  j)'  tor  Ichuyng  my  horfes  at  Candilm.is  .... 

Item  p""  for   my  horles  colies  >:v  fervaunt   to  l>ondon  for  me   at   Saynt  | 
Valentynes  day  ' 

Item  gevyn  to   M'.   Schryffes   fervaunt   at   Stonor  the  xxviij  d.iy  of  ) 
Marche  .  .  .  .  .  .  ^^ 

Item  fpent  that  day  at  Watlyngton     ..... 

Item  gevyn  for  caryyng  letters  &  a  male  to  London 

ItCEii  p''  for  Ichoyng  my  horles  the  fecond  d.iy  of . Marche 

Item  my  expences  at  London  &  thether  t^'  home  on   Fhorefday 

Item  p''  for  a  new  fword  gyrdil  of  velvet  blak 

Item  p'^  for  a  kniff  (ijc/.)  &  mendyng  my  gyrdill  ( j^/.) 

Item  p''  for  a  fubpoeiia  for  John  Hunteley  Ek|. 
ritem  my  codes  into  Gloceterfchire  that  is  to  fiy  vj  fervauntes  &   my  , 
felf  at  Abenden  at  Dener   the  xx  day  of  marche  iiijj.  xjr/.,  &   at  I 
Faryngdon   Fryday  at   night  iiiji.  vij^/.,  at 'Fyriyter '   at   dener  al 
Saturday  iiiji.  vj^/.,  coftes   at  'Fetbury  v^    hoilbred   to   Lan)arowe 
ij).    iiiji/.,    rewardes    at    Hradelfon   ijj.    xd.   collet   home  ward   at  [- 
Fayerford  on  our  Lady  day  at  night  iiijj.  '^\]\ji  at  Faryngdon  our 
Lady  day  at  made  xviij(/.  at  Abendon,  at  dener   ijj.  x]\d.      Item 
Ric.   codes   \\]d.  h  caryyng   the   iiij    lampery    pallyys   \Y.d.   fum 
tot.dis     ...■.■•■ 

Mem"\  Saturd.iy  at  night  h  Sonday  al  day  I  lay  at  Biadcfton  \Vherc 
the  farmor  &  warden  with  other  with  prefentcs  paid   for  al  my 


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Tlub  mud  be  an  i:rror  lor  "  Cvilvtiv,"  i.e.,  Ciiencidirr. 


Rcwardirs 


rentes 


S/r  Adria?!  Fortejciie.  203 

£        s.        d. 

coflcs  which  hy  boke  colic  the  farnior  xj.  \\d.  and  the  warden 

xxix^.  \]d.  and  at  Laftiarovvc  1  was  Monday  c'^i  Tcuylday  at  dcner 

at  M''.  Nic.  Wykes  cofte 
^  Item  gevyn   in  reward   at  Lafbarowe   the  xxiiij  of  Marche  to  Jolni  ~> 
I  Boughton  &  ^V.  Cokkes  of  Burton  for  comyng  to  me  to  vyewe  vij 

my  XV'.  fchepe  at  my  receipt  of  tliem  of  AI''.  Nic.  Wikc  ' 

']   Item  gevyn  than  to  M'.  Alatftons  clerk  for  writyngthe  n^-w  indenture  | 

&  other  thynges  betwene  me  &  AI'.  Wykc  .  .  .   ' 

L  Item  gevyn  to  Rye.  Fordes  wyfi'e  at  my  feeyng  my  yong  fon  iiij        viij 


Rewardes. 


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xxviij  p'' 

XX\'j    p'' 


Cojhs  to  and  at  London  In  Pajjijn  ivckc. 
Item  gevyn  to  Swalowe   the  kyngcs   mefenger  bryngyng   iM'.  Crom-  | 

welles  letters  to  me  to  come  to  the  kynges  grace  .  ' 

Item  my  coftes   in  all  to   London   the  xxvj  day  marche  &  ther   tyll  | 

monday  the  morowe  after  Palmefonday  that  is  fyve  in  all  ont       .  ' 
Item  del'^  than  to  Thomas  Spencer  in  full  payment  for  a  hogeflicde  of  | 

redwyne  xxvj.  &  for  the  colles  to  the  barge  x\\d.  .   ' 

V,  Item  p''  for  Ichoyng  of  my  horfes  into  Glouceterlchire  .  .  xvij 

Item  p''  to  Gyllam  for  work  before  h  than     ....  ij 

Item  p''  for  J-  a  bufh'.  of  make  foi'  my  horfes  ...  v 

houfe-  (  Item  fent  by  Elyn  Day  to  Ric.   Bysfliop  to  pay  my  houfe   rente  at  |  ■       ^^■ 

London  due  at  this  Efter  .  .  .  ■  •' 

Item  p''  for  ij  lether  badges  for  my  ij  fylk  jakettes       ...  ,  I'j 

Item  p''  for  a  pynt  &:  \  a  pynt  w^'iie  pottes    ....  xv 

Item  p'^  for  ij  dofyn   fylk  poyntz  .\ij«/.  a  tewkc  bage  \\\\yl.  a  yard  &   I  \  ' 

of  tawney  fay  xvij^/.,  ij  yardes  tpiart'.  fuilyan  for  dobelct  lynynges    -  iiij         vuj 

xiij7.       .  .  .  .  .  .  .  ■> 

Item  p''  for  a  yard  of  blake  bokcrain  for  bagges  for  my  cotes  .  v 

Item  gevyn  to  ForJes  wyfe  the  viij  day  of  AprcU  in  reward  at  Schir-  ]  j|-         ^■- 

burn  .  .  .  ■  ' 

Item  to  William  Thomas  wife  &  hir  mayde 

Item  fpent  at  Allenden  at  Hoktyde  court       .  .  .  • 

Item  gevyn  to  the  wifes  of  Salley  \  FylhuU 
I  Item  gevyn  to  the  wyfes  of  Pirioji  for  the  chirche 
I  Item  gevyn  to  the  wyfes  of  Schirburn  for  the  chirche 
Item  p**  for  caryyng  my  cofFer  to  Henley        .  .  .  • 

Item  p*"  for  fchoyng  of  my  horfes  at  Hocktyde 

Terimno  Pafchc  A',  xxvj''.  R.  Re.  H.  viij".  Sir  J.  Foyt.-fcu  hit. 

Item  brought  in  my  purs   from  Schirburn  the  xxix  day  of  Aprell   in  )       

,  '  I    xliiij  IX         nij 

money  in  all       .  .  .  •  -' 

Item  rec""  of  John  Ford  for  r^evonfchire  rent  now  .  ■       ^'U      ^'J         ^'"J 

Item  reC'  from  my  wife  the  xij  day  of  Alay  in  a  letter  .  l^vij     ij 


vj 

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viij 

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204  Faz/iily  of  SaLUu. 

Item  borowyd  of  Wni.  ])auiuefey  mercer  wlu-riii  l.)ll  in  all  viij/.  xixj.  a 
m]tl.  with  xs.  to  the   broker  &  ixi.  \\\'\.l.    p''.   fur  y*  Ihuiite   l^   tlie  [-    1 
defefuaiiiit  fum  to  be  borowyd  ot  the  (aid  \^'illialn  .  .  J 

Item  rec''  of  my  Lord  Wentworth  for  the  Kik-r  rente  of  my  loiules  | 

in  Suff.  c^'  Elfex  by  a  bill  del''  to  Harkcr  ,  t   '^ 

Item  reC*  of  the  Archebilhop  of  Cauiiierbures  executor^  in   parte  of  ( 
payment  of  c.  marks  agreed  .  .  .  ) 

as  aperith  by  acqiiitauiice  iiulentyd  dated  xx"  die  maij 
A^  xxvj'".  R.  I'.'.  H.  viij. 

Cojh-i. 

Item  p''  for  my  dener  &  others  at  Colbroke  than 

Item  bote  hycr  to  my  lodgyng  that  night       .... 

Item  my  foper  that  night  &  codes  to  Sonday  at  my  lodgvng 

Item  coftes  of  my  horfes  &  the  horfkeper  ij"  days 

Item  gevyn  to  ij  of  the  Kynges  mefangers  \s'ith  letters 

Item  the  horfkepers  coftcs  home        .....  \ 

Item  del''  to    Th.  Honychirche  for  his  full  Elter  wages  .  .  v 

Item  jV'  tor  v\Tityng  my  [jarte  of  LalLarowe  milentures  .  .  vi         viij 

Item  p"*  tor  ij  Iwath  b.mdes  xij(/.  ij;lb.  wliite  lope  wyl.  iiijlb.  comlelles  | 
iji.  iiij(/.  Ilim       .  .  .  .  .  .  •  .' 

Item  bote  hyer  to  Sonday       .......  xij 

Item  gevyn  to  M'.   Brown  &  RI^  Chenley  &  Sir  H.  Wyngfeld  xxj.  n  , 

&  to   Bradlliawe  xs.  &c  to  AI^  Baldwyn  vs.  for  a  drauyng  iS:  de-   >       ;    xxxv 
vyiyng  of  the  anfwer  to  Sir  Water  Stonors  articles  .  .  -' 

Item  p''  for  writyng  the  anfwer  to  the  Articles  of  Stt>nor  .  ij 

Item  p''  for  the  copey  of  the  fame  articles      ....  xx 

Item  for  bote  h)  er  to  Thorefday        .....  xvii 

Item  gevvn  to  the  procelfar  to  ftay  all  the  accions     .  .  .  v 

r  Item  gevyn  to  lewer  of  the  Kynges  proceflc  to  ilay  pro- ^ 

cede  in  (ewte  ayenll  mc  as  fewertee  for  the  old   Lord  Cobham 
tyl  the  matter  be  tryyd  between  the  K)'ng  lS:  the  Lady  Cobham  f  •    J         -' 

1  late  wife  to  the  faid  old  lord  in  reward   .  j 

Item  gevyn  to  the  fecundary  of  the  counter  for  difchargyng  his  bokc  "j         viij 

Item  p''  for  iiij  pair  of  fmal  I'chone  for  my  lityl  I'un  John  &  Mary        .  .xj 

Item  j)'^  for  certeyn  oyntmcntcs  i.\'  a  powder  fur  my  vvylc        .  .  i| 

Item  lent  to  my  wyfe  a  frefch  gret  conger  (ijj.  x</.)  k  ij  loles  (viij(/.)  .  i  j  '      vj 

Item  gevyn  to  Robyn  to  carye  yt  home         ....  iiij 

/  Item  p''  to  the  parfon  for  the  tythc  of  my  hous  rent  at  London  after  j 
tythes  -  x'y/.  of  the  nobill  of  xl.  xvjj.  vW'yi.  old  rentes  &  due  for  one  ycrc  |-  vj        v  p 

'  at  Efter  A",  xxv'"  .  R.  Re.  H.  viij".  fum  .  •  -' 

Skavage  Item  p"'  than  to  the  fkaveger  for  this  quarter  .  .  .  iiij 


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ihumakc 


Item  p'  for  a  boke  of  the  aiftes  of  parlemeiit  A",  xxv'"  .  .  x 

Item  p''  for  my  horfkepers  colles  in  all  XV(/.  &  the  horfes  colles  xii./.  ] 

'  .  I  'J  ^'"J 

.5c  for  fchoyng  vr/.  I'um  .  .  .  .  .   ' 

Item  p''  for  bote  hyer  to  Grenewich  on  Sonday  the  x  day  of  May  ij 

Item  p''  for  bote  hyer  at  London  to  Afcencion  day     .  .  .  ij  vj 

Item  p''  for  writyng  a  new  obligation  betvven  Sir  Water  Stonor  t*c  me  x 

delyvd   to  Wylliam    [        ^''"■''''  J"'"'''''    [    of    Meaile   vij   liefeks   ches 
'  or  Klarke  fonn       ' 

bewyct  hailf'a  vv.iye  ij  lb.  tal   \  ij  chefes   at  p'.  xi.   [endorled]   vij 

chefes. 

Item  p'^  to  Will.  Nevyle  Efq.  in  full  paymentes  for  the  pmchale  of  the  > 
manor  of  Lafl)aro\ve   in  Glouc.    in   the   prefence   of  my   Lord  '•    1 
Chaunceleras  aperith  on  my  indenture  indofyd  &  lygnid  the  fum  of  ' 

Item  lofl  in  the  fchiffte  with   Will.  Dauntcfey  mercer  in  the  liim  t>f  \ 

£1.  in  wares  with  xj.  to  the  broker  h  ixj.  \\\yi.  for  the  llatute  l^  J-viij      ix         iiij 
the  defefuant  fum  total  loll:  .  .  .  .  -' 

Item  gevyn  to  Dolfyn  for  bryngyng  &  cary^'ng  letters  .  .  vj 

Item  p""  for  xiij  buslhelles  of  lalt  vj.  xj^  il  for  a  but  to  put  it  in  \\\\yl  \ 
h  to  the  porters  iiij(/.  &  to  the  cowpers  \\\]d.  ii  cariage  to  - 
Ouene  hithe  viijr-/.  fum  .  .  .  ' 

Item  p''  for  cc.  here  hoppis  xviijj-.  .?i  for  xij  kylderkyiis  vj.  and  vj  •, 
barelles  iiiji.  v'yi.  Sz  iij  bondell  of  liopis  xu'yL  &  for  [-  a  way  of  ■ 
chefe  x;.  ij.V.  vij  chefes  &  for  xij  bondelles  of  rusfhys  tjs.  (um'     •  ' 

Item  p''  for  ij  y.irdes  of  blak  lay  ..... 

Item  p''  for  vj  yardes  crane  Color  tult-)an  .... 

Item  p''  for  iiij  elles  of  lynn\'n  cloth   ..... 

Item  p''  for  a  pair  of  rydyng  glovys     ..... 

Item  p''  for 

Item  p''  to  John  Ramfey  by  the  arbyterments  &  order  of  iVL.  Sulyard  ] 
of  the  Kynges  graces  councell  for  the  full  arrerages  of  the  lee  <^ 
patent  of  Edmund  Ramfey  graunted  by  Sir  Will.  Stonor  Si  his  [ 
feoftees  k  the  faiJ  patent  is  delyveryd  to  me  &  cancelid,  and  alio  . 
I  the  faid  Sir  Adrian  have  a  general!  acquitaunce  ot  the  lame  | 
John  of  &  for  all  caufes — fum  paid  in  redy  money  •  j 

Item  p"  for  coftcs  at  my  lodgyng  afcencion  day 

Item  p''  for  bote  hyer  to  Grenewych  on  afcencion  day  .  '} 

Item  p''  ij  new  tewke  b my  lelt  .  .  'J 

Item  p"  for  bote  hyer  to  Grenewych  on  Fryday  .  .  •  'J 

Item  p"  for  bote  hyer  to  Grenewich  on  Sonday  .  ■  •  'J 

Item  p''  for  cuftcs  at  my  lodgyng  to  W^-dneld.iy 

Item  p''  to  my  fchomaker  tor  all  except  my  botes       .  .  •  \' 


vuj 


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iiij 

liij 


VJ        VIIJ 


XVIIJ 
\MJ 


VUJ  p' 

vnj  p 


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Family  of  SaldeJi. 


Item  p''  ^\"atcr  \\  ilcokkcs  in  partic  of  pnyinenc  of  Ixy. 

Item  p''  to  the  Kynges  attorneys  clerk  for  writyng  the  Kynges  aw.  rj 

Item   p''   for  my  apparaiince   to  ...  .   privy  fealc  iiji.   ^\'  and   for 
|)rivy  ical  for  my  old  l.idv  Cohluun  xi.  viij,/.  ret''  cralliiio  |idiaiini 

Item  p''  my  bote  hyer  at  London  to  Wednefd.iy 

Item  bote  hyer  to  the  Serjauntes  inn  dyvers  ty]ii\"> 

Item  p''  for  my  hole  cloth  iiijj.  &  for  the  makyiij^  xvj^/. 

Item  p''  a  bonet  for  me  &  one  for  Aufteyn 

Item  gevyn  tor  writyng  the  acquitaunce  indentyd  betwen  the  arche- 
bifhop  of  Caunterbures  executores  h  me  for  the  receyte  of  L 
fakes  parcel  of  c.  markes  .... 

Item  p''  for  vurnifshyng  my  fpores  &   .   .   pair  of  ftyropis 

Item  p''  for  ij  fyne  brofshys    ..... 

Item  p''  for  colics  c^'  necellarNS  at odgyng 

Item  gevyn  to  AI'.  Haldwyn  for  his  advyfe  ....  opis  mater     . 

Item  my  coftcs  &  my  ij  fervauntes  at  London 

Item  p''  to  Knighton  for  coftes  in  the  la  ...  .  ys  Efter  terme  by  bill 

Item  p**  for  ij  yardes  -[-  for  Auftevns  .... 

Item  p''  to  Days  wife  for  hir ages 

Item  p''  for  a  book  xijc/.  gevyn  to yar  '\\\\d. 

Item  p''  for  wafliyng  my  fhirte  .... 

Item  p''  fot  my  horfcolles  i\'  W'yl in  all 

Item  p''  for  ber\iig  the  male  to 

Item  p''  fur  my  colics  at  Colbrok  .......  he  x.xij  day  of  M.iy 


'"J 


XIIJ 


xij 
iiij 
idj 


XVJ 


VllJ 

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A.  Fortefcue  knt. 
Enilorfetl  J  Cofles  in  Hillary  terme  A",  xxv'"  R.  Rs.  H.  viij. 
V  Efter  terme  Anno  xxvj'"  R.  Rs.  fl    viii"'. 


Termini  Trin.  A",  xxv/'  R.  Rf.  II.  viij. — .V/V  //.    Forte/ate  kt. 

Item  brought  in  mv  |iius  from  Schirbujii  the  ix"'  day  of  June 

Item    rec''  ofi  John    Ford    for    m)-    mjdiumer   rent   of  my    londcs   in 

Devon  ....... 

Item  rec''  of  the  executors  of  my  lord  of  Cauntcrbiiry  decellid  rcltes 

of  a  c.  markes  in  fidl  payement  tor  all  duetes 

Item  p''  for  my  dener  at  Colbroke  that  ix."'  day 

Item  p''  for  bote  hyer  to  my  lodgyng 

Item  del""  to  my  horfkeper  for  coftcs  of  hyni  &  y^'  liorlcs  home 

Item  del'  to  hym  for  his  quarter  wages  cndyd  this  \Vhiilont\de 

Item  p''  for  a  fugar  lofe  weyyng  viij  lb.  . 


XXVIJ 


llj       IX 

xiij    iiij 


XXXIIJ       \]       VIIJ 


XXJ 


'■IJ     ^'.1 
llj     iiij 


Sir  Adria?!  Forte/cue. 


intratur. 
Nayles. 


Item  p''  for  colics  at  my  !oJ<^yng  the  firll  night 

Item  p''  for  ij  iicwc  peiine  kiiiftcs        ..... 

Item  jV'  tor 

Item  p''  for  ij  yarJes  of  fryf.iJoo  for  my  fclcveles  cote 

Item  p''  for  a  quartern  of  bukcnun  for  the  pokctts  for  yt 

Item  p**  for  m.ikyng  of  tile  cote  &  pokettes    .... 

Item  p''  for  iij  m.  fivepenny  nayles,  vijj.  iij  m.  fourpenny  nayles,  vj. 
vj  m.  ruft'iiayles,  iijj.  v'yl.  vj  m.  fprige  nayles  ijj.  v'yl.  ijci  tenpenny 
nayles  xiji/.,  iiij,  c.  f'mall  hoke  nayles  vj</.  ijc.  byger  hokiiayles 
viiji/.  ij  trays  for  niorter  viij,/.  iiij  pair  of  jemewys  and  c.  fmall 
nayles  viij./.         ....... 


1  he  (eale  or -^    ,  Hriririy  i-  i 

I   Item  p"  for  the  feale  of  the  Kynges  arbitrement    betwen 
the  Kyntres    -  tit-  ,       p 

■'    "  Walter  Stonor   ..... 


le   .^    Sir    ) 


payments 


Item  p**  for  v)  chefclles  5c  a  fmall  {.xwe.  price  ot  all      . 

Item  p''   for  a  fcheth   for  my   long  knit!'  &    for   new   drelTyng    and 

vurnifhyng  the  kniftc 
Item  p''  for  xij  brown  gyrthes 
Item  p''  for  a  new  byt  with  boces 
Item  p"  for  mendyng  the  pyn  of  the  bell 
Item  p''  for  vj  lb.  of  tyn  for  to  glafe  withall 
Item  p''  for  a  whelebarowe     . 
Item  p''  for  cofles  at  my  lodgyng  to  my  rydyng  home  on  Sonday  the 

xxj  day  of  June  .  .  ■    • 

Item  p''  tor  ccjifes  at  my  inne  than  of  my  horfes 
Item  p''  for  my  colles  at  Clbrok  that  Sonday  homeward 
Item  p'  for  my  horfes  fchoyng  iij  tymys  .  .  .  • 

Item  p''  to  AV.  Dyker  kepyng  the  parke  xxi  d.iys 
Item  p''  for  my  horfkepers  cofles  with  my  horfes  to  London  . 
Item  p''  to  Th.  Honychirch  at  Shirburn  for  mydfomer  quarter  wages  . 
Item  p''  to  Dolphyn  for  caryyjig  a  of  Awlleyns  gere 

Item  to  Gyllam  for  mendyng  the  childerns  apperell  . 
Item  p''  for  my  codes  at  Colbroke  the  iij''  d.iy  of  July 
Item  del"'  to  Thome  for  my  horfes  colics  home 

Item  p''  for  bote  hyer  to  my  lodgyng  .  •  •  • 

Item  p''  to  Will"'  Broun  mercer  in  full  payment  &  y"  ftatute  delyvcryd 
Item  p''  to  Roger  Yong  gent,  for  Brightwel  rent  due  at  Efter  laft 
Item  p''  for  a  yard  &  \  for  iij  [)air  of  hofyn  for  my  wite 
Item  p*"  for  makyng  of  them  .      •         . 

Item  p''  for  a  yard  l\-  \  for  my  hofyn  .  •  •  ■ 

Item  p''  for  the  makyng  of  them         .  ■  •  •  ■ 

Item  p''  to  Hawclif  for  parte  of  this  quarters  w.iges     . 


XXJ 


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iiij 


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■iiij 

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xvj 


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viij 

IIIJ 

xviij 

viij    ■ 
ix 


xij 


rewards. 


wood. 


hmilcrciu. 


2oS  Family  of  Scildcn. 


Item  p''  for  vijl  lb.  I'u^jj.ir  iiijj.  ij  lb.  pi-|icr  iiji.  viiji/.  iiij  lb.  cor.intes  .\^/. 

IcLiii  j)''  lor  .xviij  i;.iloiis  ill  i|u.u"tcs  wyiic  Ick  y''  g.  \>l. 

Item  p''  tor  xj  g.iloas  5c  i  pote  m.\lnulcy  y"  g.  X(/. 

Item  p''  for  c.uu.is  lo  llutic  tbem  in  l'V  caryiige 

Item  p'' 

Item  gevyii  to  Dolpliyii  tor  bryngyng  a  buk  . 

Item  p''  for  caryyng  for  a  letter  to  my  wyle  in  lialle  . 

Item  p"  tor  ^  lb.  of  blake  threde         ... 

Item  p''  for  ij  Iniall  latyles      ..... 

Item  p''  for  a  chell  to  trulTe  gkille  &  otlier  (hiff' 

Item  p''  for  iiijc.  wbite  nay!e^  lor  dores 

Item  p''  for  cofte^>  at  my  lodg)ng  to  Fryday   . 

Item  p''  for  botehycr  at  this  my  lait   being  at  London 

Item  p''  for  fchoyiig  my  horles  ^"s:  ther  eotles  to  London 

Item   gevyn   to   M'.  (Jhaunceleres   lervaunt    I)'.  L'okkes  lervaiintes  to 
)  make  mery         ...... 

I    Item  p''  tor  wntyng  the  ij  acijuitaimces  .5c  releafes 
'^  Item  gevyn  to  Al^  Doctor  Cokkes  porter 

.'Item   p''  to    Ric.   Hyl'shop   for   makyng  my    bl.ik   gownd,   ijj.  .."n:    to 
m.ikyng  my  rydyng  cote  ij.f.         .... 

]    Item  del''  to   Ric.  ISytchope  to  pay  for   my  wood  cariage,  th.it   is  to 

l  lay  X    lodes  water   cariage,  .\ji.  viij./.  &  viij    lodeS   cari.ige   to    my 

I  home  ij.f.  belydcs  ij  lodes  of  billettes  gev  to  hym 

V  Item  del''  to  Elyn  Day  to  bye  cc.  fagottes       .  .  .  , 

I    Item  p''  to  hiyr  for  this  quarter  wages 

I    Item  del'' to  Ric.  Byfshop  for  my  houfe  rent  for  this  mydlomer  qiiarte 

Item  p''  to  the  fkaveger  for  this  quarter 

Item  p''  tor  caryyng  my  fliilFto  barge 

Item  p''  for  xij  bondel'i!)  of  ....  rulsliys 

Item  p''  for  caryyng  my  m.ile  to  my  inne 

Item  p''  l(jr  codes  at  my  inne  oi  my  hoiles 

Item  p''  tor  my  colles  at   Colliroke  homeward  the   xj   day  of  Julii  l\' 
I'choyng  ..... 

(    Item  p''  for  my  cofles  and  my  ii  lervauntes  at  London  at  thes  ij  tymy 
I  by  the  fpace  of  xviij  days  .... 

Item  VV.  Tetdales  coftes  with  me  ther  .xj  days 

Item  p''  for  mendyng  the  bare  hyde    .... 
Item  p''  f(jr  I'choyng  my  horles  at  S.iynt  Jamys  tyde    . 
Item  p''  lor  my  codes  at  the  aflice-than  at  (Jxtoid 
Item  gevyn  to  the   fr)'ers  and  cryar  iher 
Item  p''  to  the  underlhrylf  for  Ambrofe  Pope 
Item  p''  for  withdrawing,  the  exigent 


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Sir  yldrian  Fortcfcue. 

.£ 
Item  ])''  to  Dvkcr  tor  kcpj'iig  the  paikc  iij  J.iyes 
Item  fpent  at  AlleiiJeJi  at  Jcncr  ..... 

Item  gevyn  to  the  ij  iiorl'es    ...... 

Item  p''  tor  a  yard  ot  bhik  I'ateii  lor  my  dobclct 

Item  p''  tur  a  boiiet  lor  Tliomas  Fortel'cu        .... 

Item  p''  tor  cartage  of  a  letter  to  LoiiJoii  by  Dolphya 

Item  p''  to  Cjyllam  tor  mciiciyiig  of  gere  .... 

Item  gevyne  to  Edmuiide  Schirwood  in  reward 

Item  p*"  for  laces  for  the  maydyiis       ..... 

Mem. — Here  I  was  commytted  to  the  Knight  Marihalls  ward  at  Wodlloke. 
ceyts  Mem.  in  my  purs  in  money  tVom  Schyrburn  the  xxi.x  day  of  /\iigiitl:    j 

A",  xxvj'"  R.  Rs.  H.  viii.  .  .  )  ''-' 

intratur  Alem.  receyvyd  trom  John  Havwood  by  Rob',  caryar   the   xxij  day  ot   ] 

Sept.  A",  xxvj'"  R.  Rs.  H.  viii.  .  .  .  .   )       v 

rekenid  Item  rec''  of  my  wifFe  at  London  the  iiij  day  of  Oclober 

A'lem.    I    receyvvd    of   Athony  Fortefcu   by    the   haiides    of  Lewys  ~^ 
Fortetcii   gent,  temie  powndes  to  the  ute  of  Awfteyn  Rede  otiier 
wyfe    callid  Aufleyn   tortelcu   due   to  the   laid  Aufteyn   tor  one 
hole  yeres  amiuyte  out  ot  the  parfoiuige  of  Ermyngton  in  Devon-    ^-x 
fliire  endyng  at  the  atmunci.icioii  ot  our  Lady  lall  palt  by  my  bil 
fygnid  &    te.iliJ   datyd    tiie   xij    day  of  October   A"  xx\'i    R.  Rs 
H.  viii. 
Rec''  of  John  Ford  in   full  payment  of  my  londes  in  Devon   tor  this    j 
yere  now  endyd  the  v  day  of  November  by  acquittaiince  del''.     .    I 
Item  rec"  of  Cokkes  of  Burton  in  full  payment 
Item  rec^  of  Lafbarowe  rent  &  Bradffone  rent  at  the  accompt 

xj/.  vjj.  Xil.  ;   rec.  Ixvji.  v'uy/. 

The  cojies  of  mc  Sir  Miitoi  Forti-fcu  knight  from  my  commyttyng  to  the  Marfchalhs  ward 
at  IVadfok  the  Saturday  hcyng  the  xxix  day  of  /lugiif  A',  xxvf.  R.  Rs.   H.  viij. 

Item  firfl:  paid  for  horirchoyng  at  Watlyngton 

Item  p''  for  my  fervauntes  dencr  h  horlmete  at  Woodftok  y'  day 

Item  gevyn  for  hous  rome  at  Sygewykes  to  fchifFte  me  y"".     . 

Item   gevyn  to  Vaughan  the   grome  of  the   Kynges  chamber,  tliai    | 

came  to  me  to  Schirburn  .  \ 

Item  p''  for  my  cortes  at  Thame  that  Saturday  at  night 
Item  p''  to  a  man  that  was  fcnt  to  fetche  me  ageyn  back  to  "Woodftok    | 

&  to  Sir  The.  Wentworthes  fervaunt  .  .  I 

Item  gevyn  to  Segewykes  wite  ageyn  for  rome  at  ^Vodft()k;   . 
Item  for  my  fervauntes  coflcs  &  hors  mete  ther  than 
Item  p''  for  my  coftes  at  Thame  on  Sonday  at  m'ght 
Item  gev}n  to  the  preffe  to  fay  mall'e  ij  days  .it  my  inne 
rr.  E  E 


209 

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XVIIJ 

xvj  . 

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FciDiily  of  Saltlcn. 


TewyfJay 
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ot  Scji- 
tember 


Item  gevyii  by  my  wife  to  Sir  Thomas  W'entwortlis  fcrvaunt  Ric. 

Item  pJ.  for  my  codes  at  Uxbricigeon  Moiul.iy  at  niL:lu 

Item  p''  for  bote  hyer  to  my  lodgyng  ^:  Southwark    . 

Item  p''  for  trullyng  conl  for  to  trullc  my  bcdJcs 

Item  p''  for  caryyng  my  .;ere  over  by  bote      .  .  .  . 

hem  p''  for  my  deiier  at  my  lodgyng  in  London 

Item  p'  for  a  qrte  of  wyiic  on  Wediiefday  at  ilener     . 

Item  p''  than  f)r  x  fagottes  wyl.  for  ij  lb  candilles  iij./. 

Item  p''  fir  bote  hyer  of  my  fervauntes  in  to  London  l^'  ageyn 

Item  p''  for  I.  ilawcliffc's  codes  to  Wylcm  ^^-  f)  to  London 

Item  gevyn  for  caryyng  a  letter  to  y"  Warden  of  liradeilone 

Item  p''  for  wyne  on  Saturday  at  night  C'c  peres  &  here 

Item  p''  f.ir  \v\iH-  on  Sonday  c^  peres  .  .  .  . 

Item  gevyn  to  Robyn  for  bryno;yiig  venyfon  l\-  a  firJell 

Item  del''  to  Sir  Tho.  W'entwoi  th  for  to  be  rekenid  in  my  charges  lV 

tees  the  ix  day  of  Sept.    ...... 

Item  |V'  tor  my  fopcr  on  Thorcfd.iy  wiih  .\1'.  \\'hittoii 

Item  |)''  for  ij  lb.  candilles  on  Friday  for  Jiiy  chambr 

Item  p''  tor  bote  hver  of  me  ^  my  lervauntes  on  Thorefday  . 

Item   p''  for  wyne  i\'   iiottes  on   Soiiday  ..^y;    holy   rede   d.iy   in   all  with 

parte  the'rof  gevyn  to  M'.  prior  at  my  ij  fopcrs  with  hym  th.in     . 

Sum  iiij/.  xvy.  vii  \il. 
Item  del''  to  Ric.  Wentworth,  lervaunt  to  Sir  T.  Wentworth,  k'  the 

XV  day  ot  September  to  he  rekenyd  in  my  charges 
Item  p''  tor  xx  fnggottes  on  W'ednelday  &  the  cariage 
Item  p''  tut  wyne  &  peres  on  Fryday  for  M'.  Spencer  ik  his  wife  c^'  oyers 
Item  del''  to  Ric.  Wentworth  fervaurit  to  Sir  Th.  Weiuwoith  k'.  tin. 

xxj  day  of  Sept.  to  be  reckenyd  in  my  charges   . 
Item  p''  to  Rob.  caryar  for  bryngyng  letters  Iroin  my  v\'yt"e 
Item  p''  for  wyne  &  peres  to  Thorefday 

Item  J)''  for  candilles  on  Thorefd.iy    .... 
Item  p''  for  c.c.  of  b)  llettes  xviii^.  xxv  fagottes  x./.  cV  the  bote  caryau 

iN:  biyngyng  up  iij,/.         ..... 

Item  p''  tor  my  bote  hyer  iij^A  &  for  wyne  to  Monday  viij;/. 

Item  gevyn  to  M'.  Priores  porter  to  fee  the  next  houle 

Item  p''  for  caiidHles  &:  botehyer  on  Alighelmas  d.iy 

Item  gevyii  to  Dolphyn  for  bryngyng  letters  on  Mighelmas  day 

Item  del''  to  Ric.  Wentworth  lervaunt  to  Sir  Thomas  Wentworth  k' 

the  laft  day  of  September  to  be  reckeiiid  in  my  charges 
Item  p''  for  my  wyfes  coltes  with  iiij  tervaunts  5c  lij  horfes  at  London 

from  Thorefday  at  afternone  to   Aloiula)   in   the   mornyng   in   all 

befydes  hir  baytyng  at  Colbroke  the  v  day  of  Oct. 


J 
xxiij 

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xvj 


XIJ 


VilJ 

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1       i.       d. 

Item  p"  for  caiulilles  5i  bote  hyer  on  iMonday  .  .  .  iiij 

Item  p''  to  llobyii  for  biyiikyng  pcres  to  me  from  M''.  TcfJ.ile  vj 

Item  del''  to  Ric.  W'cutworth  fervaunt  to  Sir  Tliomas  ^Vel1twortb  k.'.    |  xx 

the  vj"'  day  of  October  to  be  reekeniJ  iu  \\\y  charges       .  .  J      tolal  vj/.  del'' 

Item  p''  to   Sir  Thomas  Weutvvorthes  fcrvaunteb  for  goyiig  iij  tymys  "| 
wicli  me  to  my  houle      .  .  .  .    ) 

Item  gevyn  to  Ric.  W'entworth  a  lyon  &  a  colar        ...  xij 

Item  gevyn  to  M'".  Underniarfchell  to  hir  fervauntes  mariage  ofFeryng  viij 

M''.  —  Sir  Tho.  Wentworih  kt.  iMarlchell  rode  northeward  on  ii  after  none  the  viij  day  of 
October  A",  xxvj'".  R.  Rs.  [\.  viij.  oc  lo  from  thcnsfortli  I  bordyd  niv  fulf  and  provydyd  for  al  m.mner 
of  neceiFariis  for  my  felf  my  wylle  my  fervauntes  and  for  al  other  in  the  iious  ther  at  my  charge  as  it 
aperith  in  the  houfliould  boke  ther  entrid  ^S;  writyn  at  the  delyer  &  rcqneft  of  the  fame  Sir  'I'homa  5i  (b 
contended  duryng  the  tyme  ot  my  beyni;  in  liis  u'ard  jc  cuilod)e.  , 

Sir  AJrian  Fortefcu  his  lord  ijf  hii  fervaunt  a  to  be  rekenid  i^  p''  to  Sir  Tbomui  H'enticorth 

knight  nuirjhall. 
Inprimis  the  faid  Sir  Adrian  his  hord  t'rom  the  fjril:  day  of  September    , 

to  the  ix  day  of  October  which  is  fyve  wckes  .Sc  ij  days  for  every    .'  Iiij        iiij 

week  xj.  I'uni     . 

Item   for  Tho.  Ilonychirches   bord    fyve   wekes  ii.   ij   days   fir   every  

'  '  J        .■  ^  j^^,ij      ^,||j 

wckc  iijj.  iiiji/  lum  ...... 

Item   fir  John   ilavvcliff'  his  bord  iij  wekes  for  evry  weke  iiji.  '\\\]d. 

fum         .......  ■  : 

iiij/.  xij//. 

The  Flu  of  the  Marfchall  fc  ar  as  foloiue  ;—  ' 

Sum  p"*  to  Sir  Tho.  Wentworth  fro  the  firfl  day  of  September  to  the  ) 
viij  day  of  Oftobcr  which  is  fyve  wekes  and  ij  days  is    .  .  ) 

IVli^m''. — John  Hawclift'went  clerly  from  mc  the  Wcdnyfd.iy  the  xxiij  d.iy  of  September  l^  (o  he 
is  to  be  rekenyd  for  iij  wekes  bord  and  I  had  but  Thos.  Hoiiychirch  with  me  duryng  the  l.iid  v  wekes 
h  ij  days  but  only  the  faid  HawcliiFthe  fayd  iij  wekes. 

And  lb  is  to  be  rekenyd  for  my  bord,  fyve  wekes  &  ij  days  and  tor 
Tho.  Honychirch  fyve  weeks  and  ij  days  and  for  John  Hawclill 
iij  Wekes  wherof  is  paid  as  is  above  wiityn  .  .  •       ''j 

[Endorfement]. — Coltes  m  trobiUes  now  A",  xxvj. —Fortefcu. — &  payments  for  m)-  bord. 

Cojles  and  parcells  />''.  iif  bought  from  the  xxix  day  of  Auguf}  A",  xxvj  Rs.  H.  viij.  •.   • 

Item  p''  for  vj  yardes  of  blak  lynyng  formy  wife  iij  vj 

Iterp  del''  to  my  horfekeper  for  al  the  colics  here  &  home  iij  ix 

Item  p''  for  ij  yardes  &  \  lynyng  for  my  blak  gown  fclevys  xv 

Item  p''  for  viij  blak  bogy  fkynnys  for  that  gown        .  .  x  ij  iiij 

Item  p'' tor  furryng  of  the  fame  L:;i'.\ii  •  •  •  •  0  ' 


Fivnilv  of  Said  en. 


d. 


Item   p"   for    iiij    in.    Eiiglifh    fprigges    iji.    &   for    iiij    |).iir    of    fniid   \ 

jemowrs  with  CLTtc\'ii  iiayles   to   thL-in   vilj./.  t\'   tor  iiij  lb.   of  t)ii    r  iiij        ij 

for  fowJ  xviijr/.  .  .  .  .   ' 

Item  lor  a  new  fcheth  for  my  long  kniff         ....  viij 

Item  p''  for  walshyng  brofshes  for  Rob.  Thowii  .  .  viij 

Item  p''  tor  iij  yardes  bhik  rebend  tor  my  garters        .  .  .  \  xviij 

Item  lent  to  Thomas  Honychireh  beforehand  of  his  wages  .  .  v 

Item  p''  tor  a  yard  night  kercher  5»:  the  makyiig  ...  xv 

Item  p''  to  John  Hawelift  in  tul   payment  ot   his  veres  wages  endyng  \ 

.1?.  I  '^v 


in  till  paymtat 


the  xiij  day  Sept.   i^   fo  he  is   for  me   for  he  Ichalbe  fchortely 

maryyd  &  fo  p''  now       .... 
Item  p''  for  Water  caryage  of  my  cofFar  to  London  with  my  apparell  vj 

Item  p''  ■ 

Item  p''  for  ij  almery  dores  of  waynfkottes  with  ij  lockes  &  keyys  i^c  ] 

their  hcngcs       .  .  .  .  .  .  .   ' 

Item  p''  to  Ric.  Byl'shop  for  the  malmefey  velTell  &  one  potell  to  til  it  .\vj 

Item  [)''  to  hym  for  the  ferche  in  the  counters  for  accioiis  a)'eiiil:  me  .  xxj 

Item  |)''  to  hym  for  his  charges  aboute  my  belynefs     .  .  .  ij 

Item  p''  for  a  lowe  turnyd  cheyr  for  my  wyfe  .  .  .  viij 

Item  lent  to  Harry  Sir  Tho.  Darcy  his  fervaunte  to  be  repaid  by  his  n 

mafter  or  by  hym  to  heipe  hym  out  of  the  kynges  bench  in  ward  '.-  vij        vj 

for  a  fray  in  Southwark  .  .  .  •  ' 

Item  p''  for  iiij  fmall  hokenayles  vj  &  for  xiiij  peces  Iyer  viij;/.  xiiij 

Item  p''  for  the  tyke  of  a  fmall  bolller  reilymade  .  .  XX. 

Item  p''  for  iiij  Spanifli  fk)nnys  for  my  ij  patelettes    ...  viij 

Item  for  tawney  fufHan  to  lyne  it       .  .  *  .  i     xviij 

''^  P'  I  Item  p"'  for  makyng  of  that  patelett  .....  ij 

Item  p''  for  ij  conys  fkynnys  St  for  fiirr)ng  &  mendyng  the  furr  ot  it  |     x 

Item  p''  for  a  roll  of  fyne  blak  bokeram  ....  iiij        viij 

Item  p''  tor  a  yard  yclowe  bokeram  &  thred  .  .  .  '.  I      ^ji 

Item  p''  for  ij  lowe  candiHlikes  for  my  clofettes  ...  xiiij 

five  pair  of    f  Item  p''  for  mendyng  of  cours  fchetes  at  my  lodgyng  .  .  iiij 

cors  fhetes     I  Item  p"  for  a  fchete  to  make  t\  ve  pair  ....  xvj 

Item  p''  for  iij  tymys  my  llhwyng  to  Sonday  the  xj  day  of  October    .  vj 

Item  p''  for  a  lye  pott  &  ij  pictures  of  our  lady  in  p.irt  payment  \\d.     .  '      iij 

TtTinhio  M'uh.  A".  XXV}  R.  R^.  II.  via. 

Item  p''  for  vij  elles  of  holoiid  for  ij  fchirtes  for  me  moo  ^  paid  tor  xx  | 

elles  of  ell  brode  cloth  for  ij  pair  of  fchetes          .  ■  ' 

Item  p''  for  iij  elles  of  ell  brode  cloth  tor  ij   peloweberes          .  .                iiij 

Item  p''  for  xiiij  clles  ',  of  holond  tor  my  iiij  fchiites  .                xx 

'   Patelet,  or  I'artlct   .i  rufl'or  Ijaiul  worn  aljout  the  lUck.      Hall,  Arch.  Dic\. 


XVJ         vuj 


lyimyn. 


hofyn. 


houlrciu 


lyverys 

fc!U  to  my 
Lady  Rude 
of  giftes 


Sir  Adr'um  Fortefcue. 

Item  jy'  for  vilj  dies  for  fcliirtes  for  Awlk-yii  5:  other 

Item  p*'  for  vj  elles  of  bokeram  for  Brigitte  and  other 

""Item  p''  for  XX  &  vij  elles  of  canvas  of  dy  vers  fortes 

Item  p''  for  xij  elles  for  my  wyfes  fmokkes  .V  necellarys,  candilles 

Item  tor  —  elles  bokeram  for  ra)'les  for  my  wyfe 

Item  p''  for  ij  qrts.  of  white  threde  ... 

litem  p"'  for  an  ownce  of  blak  &  white  lylk    .... 

Item  for  bokeram  for  Market  Redes  ihiokkes 

Item  p''  for  viij  yardes  blak  lynyng  for  the  chiidern    . 

Item  p''  for  vj  yardes  of  white  lynyng  for  the  chiidern 

Item  p''  for  a  yard  J-  of  blak.  for  a  pair  of  hofyn  for  ine 

Item  p''  for  the  makyng  &  lynyng  of  them  .... 
1  Item  p''  for  a  yarde  &  ;.  of  blak  ell  brode  for  iij  pair  hofyn  fur  my  wyfe 
l^ltem  p''  for  makyng  of  tliofe  three  pair  of  holyn  for  hir 

Item  p''  for  a  call;ett  for  my  wide       ..... 

Item  p''  for  a  holy  Water  Stoper  of  pewter  with  y'=  fprynkyll 

Item  p''  for  fcheres  iij7.  thyinbilles  j,/.  white  threde  \d.  iz  for  hryngyng  ] 
of  canvas  ij  tym)s  iiij^.  .  .  .  .  .  j 

Item  p''  for  mendyng  of  a  brufli  ..... 

Item  p''  for  a  clule  h.unper  for  my  wifes  lynnyn 

Item  p''  for  a  dolyn  cotton  candilwyke  iiji-.  &  a  dofyn  other  w)  kes  .xij,/. 
f  Item  p''  for  my  houfieiit  due  at  this  nn'ghelmas  del''  to  Ric.  Befshop 
(  Item  p*'  to  the  fk.nx-ger  for  this  qrt'  .... 

Item  p''  for  a  frontelet  of  blak  velvet  for  my  wife       .  .  . 

Item  p''  for  a  yard  of  latteii  for  a  patclet  for  my  wife 

Item  p''  lor  a  gyrdil  lor  lOrdes  Wyfe  .... 

Item   p''   for   a   yard   ol    yelowc    bribes   fiten  Yor    Alargret   h   Briget  ] 
fclevys  .  .  •  j 

Item  p''  for  ij  rolles  of  bokeram  for  tliein        .... 

Item  for  iiij  gyrdilles  &  a  puis  fir  my  W)  lie 

Item  lor  ...  .  laces  for  my  wyfte 

Item  p'  for  vj  pair  ol  S|).inilh  glovys  for  my  wyfte 

Item  p''  for  ij  night  bonettes  for  'I'luimas  my  ("on 

Item  p''  for  one  yard  of  rebeiid  for  my  toyfys 

Item  p''  for  burnyfhyng  i^'  mendyng  vj  fylver  pottes  . 

Item  p**  for  iij  bokes  to  be  fent  to  Awlteyn  to  W'ynchellcr     . 

Item  p''  for  v  parchemcnt  fkynnys      ..... 
/  Item   p''  for  ix  yardes    of  lyvcrey   tawney   for    Ricliard   Gregory  i.\'  \ 
T  homas  xxxixf.  for  xviij  yardes  of  lynyng  vji.  &   for  iij  yardes    - 
'.  Iverey  for  Thomas  Horfman  x;.  &  for  his  lynyng  iiji.  fum  ■  ' 

Item  p''  for  xl  oravnges  for  my  Lady  Rede  iiijc/.  .  .  .   . 

'  Item  p''  for  vj  galons  i.V  a  potell  of  Sek  \i.  Mil.  a  fyrkyn  \\\]d. 
\  Item  p''  for  an  ell  ic  \  of  caiu.is  to  trulTc  it  in  vj(./..  .  ■  - 


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lent  to  Al'. 
Whitton  of 
gyftes 


cariage  of 
fhitF  from 
Stoiior 


coftes  at 
Woodliok 


codes  to 
M'.  Cave 


childerns 
bord 


Inventory 
of  Stonor 


childerns 
bord 


new  ycres 
gyftes 


FiiNiily  of  Salden. 

Item  p''  for  fyve  galons  5:   a   potell   of  Sck   iiiji.  vij,/.   a  fyrkyn   viii,/. 
canvas  inyl.  cariage  yl.  ..... 

Item  for  c.  oraynges  for  my  Lady  Rede  <?c  M'.  \\'liitton 
Item  p**  to  dyvers  perfons  to  help  to  trull'e  fluff  at  Stonor 
Item  p''  lor  dryv\  ng  &  markyng  my  catell  at  remevyng 
Item   |)''  to   h\'ryd   caites   to   carve   ni)'   iluty  Os:   goodes  from  Sf.)niire 
at     iMighelmas    belldes     gylle    cartes    i5c    myii    own     ij    cartes 
lum  p''  ....... 

'Item  p''  for  my  vvifes  coftes  at  \VodlK)k  at  Saynt  Alathcwys  tyde   in 
Sept.  in  all  ....... 

Item  bryngyng  a  buk  to  London        .  .  .  .  . 

Item  p''  for  my  brother  Leonard  Rcedes  coftes  M^  W'hittons,  Rob'. 
Belfons  &   other  to    be  my  fewei  tes  to  Sir  Th.  \\'ent\vorth  th  ■ 
firft  day  of  Sept.  .....' 

L_Item  p''  for  making  the  obh'gacion     .  .  .  .  . 

I  Item  p''   AT.  VV'hittons  coltes  5:  John  Grcnes  thcris  to  Mr.  Cave 
(  for  the  farme  of  W^iterllok         .... 

Item  p''  for  fchoyng  of  horfes  &  meiiilvng  fadill  &c. 
Item  p''  for  a   morneth   to   Tho.  Fortefcu   his  norile  c\  bcg\iuiyng  the 
iiij"'  day  ot  Sept.  .... 

^1  Item  p"'  for  a  montth   for  Alary  Fortefcu  to  \V^  Thomas  hegyniiyng 
I  the  x"' Jay  of  September  .... 

Item  for  vij  elles  bokeram  lor  mv  wvfte 
Item  makyng  my  ^\'ltcs  kyrtil  ol  tawney  Briges  laten 
Item  Ric''.  coftes  to  me  to  London  in  Septeinber 
1   Item  L^evyn  to  Air.  Ric.  Crifpe  for  writyng  of  the  Inventory  indeiityd 
(  of  the  delyveraunce  of  Stonor  [dace 

Item  lor  caryyng  a  letter  to  ^I^  Baranfyne    . 
Item  ior  my  vvyfes  coftes  at  Colbrok  up  ^;  dov\'n 
Item  p''  for  makyng  childerns  apparell 
Item  p''  fit  Tho.  Foitefcuys  norlyng  for  ij  monelhes  endyng  the  .x.wij 
diy  of  Nov.       ...... 

Item  p''  to  W.  Thomas  witf  for  Alary  Fortefcu  hir  bnrd  one  monet 
ciid)ngat  Haloutyde      ..... 

Item  gevyn  to  hir  whan  fche  caryyd  bar  to  my  Lady  Rede  tlio 
*-  day  of  Oa.  k  ther  del''  hir  .... 

Item  p''  for  fchone  for  Alarget  Rede  ic  Bryoytt 
/-  Item  p''  a  velvet  honet  for  to  geve  Al'.  Al.ulli.dl 
-'  Item  p''  for  a  dofyn  glovys  to  geve  AI'.  Alarlliall 
V  Item  gevyn  to  Al'.  AI)nton  xxi/.  &  to  ij  yong  boys  viij,/. 
Item  p'  for  quarter  &  ^  quarter  of  fl;.irlet  for  my  vvyles  ll.un.icher 
Item  for  iiij  blakconybfkynnys  xvj^.  5i  lor  the  \vorkmaiilhi|)  iiij./. 


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Sir  Adr'nui  Forte/cue.  215 

X        s.        d. 
Item  p''  tur  my  wyfes  bote  liycr  to  CJrenewych  before  Ciiftmas  l^  iij  j 
tymys  in  Criftmas  ;md  on  Sunday  after  Ciilhnas  .  .  ) 

Item  for  bote  hyer  at  London  dyvers  tymys  to  that  day  nj         iiij 

Item  p'' of  a  quartern  of  White  threde  iSc  nedilles       .  liij 

Item  p"'  tor  ij  pronofticacions  &  a  boke  of  aigrym'     ...  iij 

Item  gevyn  to  Ric.  Hall  for  comvng  to  me  for  bcl'ynefs  .  .  iiij 

Termino  HUi'.  A',  xxvj  '"  R.  Rs.  H.  viii. 
hous  rcnt^     \   Item  del'',  to  Ric.  Byfshop  taylor  tiie  xxx  day  of  Jamiary  to  pay  this  ') 

,    .  .        ■  ^  ■'  ^  '     '  r  XV]  VMJ 

A'  Ikavagc     '  lart  Crillmas  my  houfteius  .  .  ' 

Item  to  the  (kaveger  fur  this  quarter  ....  iiij 

1  Item  p''  tor   the   cope)'  of  tlie  ollice  towiid)n   yn  Cjlocetetlchirc  after 

the  deth  of  Edm.  Wykes  Klq.   . 
Item  p''  for  vj  vvoodcokkes  lent  to  AT.  ]>.  with  a  f'att  capon  .  ij  viij 

Item  for  bryngyng  a  letter  from  Henley  fent  from  Bradftone  .  iiij 

Item  p''  for  my  Cofyn  Fortefcu  his  bote  hyer  iij  tymys  xij 

Item  gevyn  on  SchrofF  Soiiday  to  Ric.  Hall  lor  his  coiles  home  .  xx 

Item  p''  for  the  acles  of  this  lati  parlement    ....  vij 

[On  a  fmall  flip.]  LtiyJ  owtt  by  mc. 

It.  for  fichefs  &  other  thynges  viii.  \d. 

It.  for  vij  eiles  of  clothe  tor  yor  I'cheites  viijy,  \\il. 

It.  for  bokeram  for  my  felft"  for  nyght  rails  iij;. 

It.  for  V  elles  oft' clothe  for  Auften  iij;.  \xd.  i 

It.  for  botte  hyre  to  dayes  xyl. 

It.  to  the  mayd  for  vj  wekes  ij;.  j 

It.  for  viij  ellcb  of  canvas  iiji.  iiij./. 

Sum  xxviij).  \\ul. 

At  Abi'iulon  A",  xxix  R.  Ri.  H.  viij  the  xiiij  <hty  of  AlarJie. 
Item  p''  for  the  marble  tombe  &  the  gret   m.irble  itonc  ic  laynt  Peter   | 

&  St.  Powles  images  in  all         .....'  \ 

Item  paid  for  the  carrayge  of  a  gret  marbelllone  .  .  xij 

Item  p''  tor  the  carrayge  of  the  tombe  wher  of  was  iij  lodys  .  xij 
Item  pd.  to  the  mafoiib  fur  brckyng  up  of  lhetombe&  for  the  labar-   |            •■■ 

reers  to  helpc  to  lode  the  floiiys  .  .  .  ' 

Item  p''  tor  iiieiulynL'  of  .i  tied  .....  ifij 

Item  [)''  to  the  AI, liter  ni.ilon  by  pioniys  ....  xiJ, 

Item  for  my  denar  Wenlday  .....  'n.l 

Item  for  my  horfe  mete         .....■•  U 

Item  Ipent  by  fydes    .,...••  'J 

Item  layd  in  ernyult  for  the  tombe     .  .  .  .  •  "ij 

'  i  e.,  Aritlimetic. 


2 1 6  Family  of  SuliUn. 

£  !.  d. 

Item  payd  for  the  carrayge  of  Peter  c^'  I'oulle  ...  ij 

Item  for  my  Jenar  'Duuluay  \\]J.      Item  k>\  my  foper  \\yl.       .  .  ■  vj 

Item  lor  my  denar  iij,/.  I'ryJay  &  Item  I'peiit  bylyiles  \\\(l.       .  .  vj 

Item  tor  my  hurfemete 'I'liuikl.iy  5:  Fryilay   ....  xij 

Slim".  .xxi.Vi.  vj//.  p''. 

Kndorfed.] — Mem''   dclyward   to    Wm.    W'ykcs   dwellyng  in   Abyntoii  .it    the   lyne 

of"  the  \\'h)tte  hartc  .xi.v  pefys  of  m.ubel  bLiydes  the  upper  llone 

ot  the  tombe  th.it  ys  in  v  i)elyb  Jv'  a  gret  hiylloiie  of  ix  fote   ^-   a 

halfe  loiige  t^'  iij  lote  ^'v:  a  halfe  brode 

Sir  Adrian  Fortefcuc,  K'. 

A  marble  tombe  &  a  notber  gret  lay  llone  of  marble  bought  at  the 

pullyng  down  of  Abeiulen  Abbey  chirch  the  xiiij  day  of  JVIarche 

A",  .vxix  R.  Rb.  H.  viij. 

I 

B 

The  Inventor le  of  all  imvcahle  and  vnmovcnhh  perteignynge  to  Sir  Adrian  Fojkeives  hotvfe  made  the  xviij 
dciye  of  Febrticirie,  in  the  xxx'"  y^re  of  the  Reigne  of  civ'  Sou'aigne  lord  kinge  Henry  the  viij"'} 
Furfte  a  Halon  and  E\ee'  filv''  and  p.ircell  gilt,  tlie  H.ifon  havinge  amies  in  the  bottome. 
Itii'i  twoo  pottes  filver  and  parcell  gilt  havinge  like  aiines  in  the  bulkell. 

Itfn  twoo  litle  fakes  filver  and  parcell  gilt  w'.  one  cover  havinge  a  Roman  .A  apon  the  toppe. 
Itin  vj  fmale  crufes  filver  and  parcell  gilt  w'  one  cove'  wherof  one  lakethe  .iii  lumdle  all  piaine. 
Inn  one  oither  crufe  w'  a  cove''  filver  and  parcell  gilt  chalcd.  ' 

ItiTi  twoo  faire  fakes  w'  one  cove'  filver  and  parcell  gilt  beinge  viij  fqiiares  of  dyvcrfe 'fortes. 
ItiTi  a  neither  bafon  and  Ewer  filver  and  parcel!  gilc   The  balbn  havinge  the  foiuie  in  the  bottonie. 
Itfn  a  fmale  cuppe  glafle  fafhion  w'  a  cove'  filver  and  parcell  gilt  wethen.  : 

Itin  xij  I'pones  filver  having  maiden  heddes  at  the  endes  gilt. 
Itm  .xij  oither  Ipones  filver  and  knoppes  at  the  endes  gilt.  ■  i 

JFhite  Plate  j 

Furft  iij  Goblettcs  w'  one  cove'  |-)l.ivne  all  filver  and  not  gilt.         j 
Inn  one  (male  crule  w'  a  cover  pla\iie  and  white.  ; 

ItiVi  xii  fpones  fiUer  and  flipped  at  theiules. 

Itni  a  litill  peice  like  a  cuppe  of  aflay  white.  '■  '' 

Itm  xij  ipones  white  w'  ipere  poynte.  ' 

Itiii  vj  other  fpones  w'  woode  howfes  at  thende  gik.  I 

Gille  I'late 
Furfte  iij  goblettes  filver  an  of  gilt  w'  one  cove'  all  thre  pounfedc  w'  armcs  in  the  bulkcll  of  the  cover. 
ItiTi  iij  oither  goblettes  filver  and  gilt  w'  one  cover  and  all  chafed  w'  flower  de  luces  and  oither  wilde 
flowers  havinge  S'.  Adrian  P'ofkewes  amies  apon  the  cover. 

Itii'i  a  ftondinge  cuppe  w'  a  cov''  all  gilt  havynge  a  Garland  aboute  the  cove'  ot  Roofes  and  braunches. 


'   Cotton  MS.  Appendix,  x.wiii.  fo.  171. 


Sir  Adrian  Forte  [cue.  217 

Itifi  an  uither  flandiiige  cuppe  \v'  a  cove'  all  gilt  iv'  a  bollc  in  tlu-  luilloiiK- 

Itin  an  noither  lionding  cupjie  w'  a  cover  all  gilt  bcinge  pownleil  \v'  wililc  (lowers. 

Itiri  an  noither  (hindyiige  ciippc  vv'  a  cove''  all  gilt  and  dialed. 

Itin  an  noither  liaiuling  cuppe  w'  a  cove'  all  gilt  bcyngc  playne. 

Itni  .ni  ale  criile  w'  ij  eres,  and  a  cover  .dl  gilt,  and  apon  the  cover  a  knoppe  w'  a  rool'c  pownledc. 

Itin  i|  (male  (.dtes  \v'  one  cove"^  all  gilt  w'  a  pounde  gaiaett  graiven  yiw  the  toiipe. 

Itni  thre  gilt  fpones  flippede  at  tliendes. 

Itin  a  noither  ilandynge  cuppe  w'  a  cover  all  gilt  beingc  pdayne. 

In  t}<e  further  Ijoivfe  next  the  '^urner . 
Furft  a  greate  cufFer  vv'  ij  lokkes  bovviuie  w'  jron   and   in   the  lame  a   I'pcrver  o('  bk-we  and  yelovvc 
(arccnet  w'  couiteyns. 

ItiTi  a  I'perve'"  of  tawny  chandei  t  and  blak  larcynet  w'  courte)'ns  tonie. 

Itni  vij  peices  of  greine  verdure.^  K  iied  w'  canvas. 

Itni  a  (yne  verdcrs  countcrpoynte. 

Itin  a  noither  (yne  verdcrs  couiiierpovtc  w'  the  armes  of  I'iaundcrs. 

Itin  a  iiewe  verders  cupberde  carpet. 

Itni  iiij  iiewe  longe  varders  carpettes  (or  wyndowCc. 

Itih  a  longe  benche  varders  caipett  lyned  vv'  canvas. 

ItiTi  thre  large  countcrpoynts  w'  Imagery  oft.ipelli)'  of  dyverle  fortes. 

Itm  vj  fhorte  carpettes  for  cupberdes  of  tiirk\e  worke. 

Itm  ij  longe  chapell  carpettes  covvOiens  lyned  vv'  lether. 

Itin  iij  fquare  carpette  coufliyiis  of  dyverfe  lortes. 

Itiii  iij  quishens  o(  cruell  and  nedle  worke. 

ItiTi  a  (yne  large  caipett  of  turke)'  worke  w'  beides.  '  i 

Itin  a  Iteynede  lynen  clothe  (or  a  bed. 

In  the  greate  C:ffer  w'  on  lokk  ther. 

ItiTi  dyyerfe  parcellcs  of  redde  greine  and  yellowe  (aye  for  haiigynge  of  chambers. 

//;  (/  notln-r  e-jjfer  ther. 

Itin  a  xj  pillovves  of  downe  covered  (ome  w'  (ullyan  and  lome  vv'  tike.  ] 

In  the  IVardrofpe. 

Furfl  a  hangynge  of  greine  fay  fleyned. 

Itin  a  (perver  w'  courteyns  of  darnek. 

Itm  a  (either  bed  a  bolfter  ij  blankettcs  a  torne  countcrpoynte  of  Imagery  a  mattrcs  and  a  bedlted. 

In  the  greate  c'lprei  eheijt  ther.  ^ 

Iti'h  a  countcrpoynte  of  vardures  vv'  bedes  cour(e. 
Itin  a  courfe  countcrpoynte  of  tapedry  w'  yniagery. 
Itin  a  greate  feler  and  tefter  of  payned  fay  redd  greine  and  white. 
Itm  vj  cowfhens  of  yellowe  varders. 
Itiu  a  longe  carpett  of  greine  varders. 
II.  F  F 


2i8  Fiinii/y  of  Sn/tlc/i. 

ItiTi  a  olde  cradle  clothe  of  tapeftry  w'  Imagery. 

Itin  a  Icier  and  a  teller  of  Satcyii  a  brigges  and  tlire  coiirtcyncb  of  red  and    iillctt  larcyiiet. 

Itn'i  ij  fuftyan  blankettes  and  a  couuierpoynt  of  pancd  verders. 

Itiu  a  Teller  and  ij  coiirtc)  lies  ol  greine  and  yellovve  Frenclie  faye. 

In  a  grcate  joyncd  prcjjc  ther. 

Itiii  dyverfe  peices  of  the  niaydens  weringe  gere. 

Itm  in  a  iiuthei  litell  cheill  a  liorle  harnes  for  a  gentill  wooni.m. 

Itili  in  a  greate  ftonderde  ther  bownde  w'  yron  a  goweii   of  nillctt  velvett,  furred  w'  martons   and   a 
gowen  of  blake  velvet  lyned  w'  fattyii  blake. 

Itui  an  olde  flemillie  chare. 

1)1  the  Entry. 

Itm  an  olde  pair  uf  virginallcs  and  one  olde  cheill  vv'  a  niafle  booke,  and  dyvers  thynges  beloiigynge 
to  a  Chapell. 

In  the  grente  C'ui/nter  at  the  neither  end:  of  the  halle. 

Furfl:  a  hangynge  of  greine  and  red  lay  pancde. 

Item    one    greate   truflinge   bed    w'    ij    feitherbedeh,  whe'of  tbone  is  dovvne   withe  ij    bolfters    md    ij 
pillowes  of  downe. 

Itin  thre  blankettes  of  woollen  clothe. 

Itni  a  coverlett  of  vardure  woork  vnl)'ned. 

ItiM  a  niantiU  ot  redde. 

Itn'i   a   fniall  truliynge  bed  and  a  feicherbed,  apon   the  fame   covered   w'  full)  .in  and  a  bolfter  to  tSe 
fame  \v'  a  mattres.  '- 

Iti'il  a  pair  of  blankettes  one  double,  thotlier  fmgle.  ■  j 

Itifi  an  olde  coverlett  of  tapeftry  woike  with  Images  and  an  olde  red  mantill. 

Itfn  a  trutkell  bed  w'  a  feitherbed  and  a  mattres,  ij  bolllers,  iij  blankettes,  and  a  courfe  coverlett  of 
tapeftrv  and  a  fperver  w'  courteyns  ot  blcwe  bokker.im.  j 

Itm  a  vv\'ned  cupberd  w'  a  counterfctt  carpet  apon  it. 

Itni  a  fliorte  table  joyned  w'  a  courle  carpet. 

Itni    ij    chcilles  bowiidc  w'  yion  whe'm  is  .\ij  pair  of  canvas   Iheites  and  ij  lynen  auhcr  clothes  u'  a 
furplice  for  a  preift. 

Itin  iij  olde  cufhyns  and  a  olde  flcinilhe  chaire  and  a  turned  chane,  and  thre  olde  cheilles.  ; 

ItiTi  twoo  Awndyerns  a  fyer  pan,  and  a  pair  of  tonges.  , 

Itm  a  chafer  of  brafle  w'  twoo  balons,  and  one  chamber  pott  ot  pewter.  I 

Itn'i  ij  joynede  ftolles. 

Ill  tl:e  Inner  Chantbr. 

Fuft  ij  bedftedes  w'  ij  feither  bedes,  ij  bolllers  and    iij  blankettes  and  twoo  courfe  cove  kttcs  an  olde 
tefture  of  darnyx  and  a  noither  of  olde  white  lynen. 
The  Iviiiivng  Itm  an   olde  greate   coffer  w'  ij    lokkes   xx  pair  of  canvas  Iheites  iiij   pair  of  fync  Iheites  iiij  pair 

of  pillowbers  iiij  dyaper  table  clothes,  iiij  dyaper  towellcs,  ij  dofen  of  diaper  napkyns,  and  twoo  dofynu 
of  playne  napkyns,  ij  fyne  table  clothes,  iiij  fyne  playne  copberde  clothes,  vj  playne  towelles,  ij  longe. 
hall  borde  clothes  courfe.      Itm  an  old  ihipe  cheill  bownde  w'  yron. 


Sir  Atlrin7i  Forte  (cue.  219 

In  the  hrufshynge  hoiuje, 
ItiM  dyverfe  olJc  cliciflcs  w"  trumpery  w;irc. 

In  the-  hall,: 
Iti'u  a  hangynge  ofgrcine  Icy  boidcrtd  w'  cl.iriiexe,  ij  grcatc  fuli;  talilL-s  vv'  llaiulingc  trell'cls. 
Itin  a  Imale  joyiicJ  cupbcrdc  of  vvayiilcott,  and  a  Ihorte  pcice  of  countcrt'ctt  c.irpctt  apon  it. 
Itni  a  fqiiarc  cupberJ  and  a  large  peice  of  couiiterfett  carpctt  upon  it/  a  Ihortc  pcicc  of  carpett  in  the 
wyndowc/  and  v  tornics  w'  ij  cajidlc  plates. 

/;;  the  perler. 

Itni  a  hangynge  of  greine  fay  and  red  pancdc. 

Itn\  a  table  w'  ij  treftilles  and  a  greine  verdcrs  carpi-tt  apon  it  oldc/  iii)  olde  grcyne  vardre  ciifshins, 
a  joyned  cupbcrd  and  a  iiolde  carpett  apon  it.  An  oKk-  pcIlc  of  vardres  carpett  in  the  U'vndow ;  and  a 
pece  of  counterfet  carpet  in  the  oithe'  wyndowc  and  one  ilemilhe  cluiite  iiij  joyned  llolleb,  a'joyned 
for. lie/  a  wylcer  iT^ryne,  ij  lardge  awnd)erns,  a  t)er  forlce/  a  lyre  pan,  a  pair  of  toni^cs. 

Itni  a  lowe  jovned  Itole,  ij  joyned  loote  Holes  a  ruwiide  t.ible  of  Cipre.s,  and  a  pece  of  counterfet 
carpett  apon  it. 

Itni  a  peynted  table  of  the  epiph.iiiy  of  o'  lord. 

Tl)e  ChcunLr  over  the  perhir. 

Fuft  a  hangynge  of  red  and  greine  lay  p.meJe. 

Itni  a  fperver  of  greine  and  blak  ley  \'.ith  coiirteyns  of  the  fame.  A  truflynge  bed  framed  of 
weynlkott,  ij  feitherbedes,  one  greate  bolller,  ij  fulfyans,  ij  |)illou's  of  downe,  a  lartje  counterpoynt  of 
greate  verders,  ij  joyned  formes,  a  turned  ehair,  and  a  joyned  eupberd  vv'  a  eounterfett  carpett  ailon  it. 

Itni  a  wyndowe  clotlie  ol  panede  ley,  ij  lui.ile  .uvndieriis,  .i  paire  of  tonges.  , 

Itni  a  greate  ll.indarde  vv'  dyvers  appairell  belo;]\;ynge  to  the  lady  holke-we. 

In  the  Inne'  Chambr  tlu-r. 
ItiTi  a  hangynge  of  flammed  clothe  a  fperver  ot  blewe  bokker.im  a  bedlKiJ,  a  ni.ittics,  a  feilherbed,  ij 
litle  bovvllters,  ij  olde  blankettes  and  an  olde  coverlett. 

/;;  the  Cellcn . 
Ithi  a  coupbcrde,  and  a  avvmery  of  heirc,  .ni  oilter  bord  and  dyverfe  olde  bottelles. 

In  the  buttery. 
Item  ij  batons  and  ij   ewars  of  pewter,  a  latten  lliavmge  bafon  xij  greate  candellftickes,  viij  Irrialie 
candellftickes  dyverfe  lether  pottes  and   bottelles,  .1  joyned  fiame   to   leit  cu|)pes  apon,  a   brede   byn.  and 
dyverle  olde  tubbes. 

Itni   vj   table   clothes   of  dyverfe   fortes,  iiij    cupberde   clothes   and    .wx    plaine   napkyns    iiij    p  ainc 
towelles. 

/;;  the  hutlnrs  ehamhr . 
Fuft,  a  feithe''  bed,  a  bolfter,  ij  blankettes,  and  a  coverlett,  a   piece  of  red   fey  lor  a  teller  and  a  table 
w'  treftilles. 


220  Fain'ily  uf  SahL 


C)l. 

The  prcijh'i  cltaiiibr. 
Itifi  ;i  hangyngc  of  It.iyncil  clothe  .irnl  ;i  tclliuc  uT  tin;  lame   ij    Icithcilicilcs   ..iid  ;i   boUicr,  ;i  ni.ittics, 
thrc  bl.mkcttcs  ;iik1  :iii  oKIc  countui  puyiitL-  of  red  .iiul  )vKnvL-  vardies  .1  pillowc  ot  dowiic,  ;i  joyiK-J  ihilc. 

In  thi  lowc  pi-rlar. 
Itm    a   haiigyiigc   of  gieiiie   anil   red   (:iy    paneilc,  a    Ipcrvcr   of  lymiL-ii,  a   licdllcid,  ij    fcithcrbcdcs    ij 
bolrters,  a  nKittfcs,  ij  blajikcttc,  ij  oldc  coinucrpoyiuc-,  of  t.i|H(li\',  ij  pillowLs  ofduwnc,  a  tiiinrd  thaire     . 
a  longe  ctipbcrde  w'  a  pecc   of  touiitci  fetl    cupitt   apiui    it,  a    llioitc    table    w'tuoo   trellille!>,  a   joyiied 
itolle  and  an  olde  forme. 

The  horfe  keepirs  chainhre. 
Itiu  iij  olde  bedelteids,  v  olde  r.'.attres  and  x   bollters   iij  bl.uikettes  and  v  olde  covcrl  ;ttes  of  dyverle 
fortes.  I 

hi  the  next  chamhr. 
itni    iij    be''rteiiles,    thre    feitberbedcs,   ij    bl.inkettes,    iij    olde   covei letter,   nj    boUteis,    one    Ip.nMr 
bokkeram  panede  white  and  blevve,  and  one  teller  of  lyniien,  and  a  noilher  ol  (jj)  nted  elothe. 

In  the  eocie's  ehcunbr. 
Itin  a  bedrted,  a  fcitlurbed,  and  a  bolller,  ij  blankettes    ij  coverlettes  and  in  the  next  chanibi-  d  'vc  s 
olde  hordes  and  tralshe. 

hi  the  chanihertyns  ehiinil  ?.  ' 

Itm  a  bedelteide,  a  feitherbed,  a   mattres,  a   bolilcr,  ij    blankettes,  ij  olde  coverlettes  and   a  teller  of 
blewe  btikkeram  olde.  ; 

hi  the  keihyn. 

Furft  xviij  plattejs,  xviij  difhes  and  xviij  fawcers  and  one  charger  of  the  bell  (orte.  . 

Itm  xviij  platters,  xviij  fawcers,  vv'  x\'uj  dilshes  ut  the  coiirle  lui  u. 

Itfn  vj  bralle  pottes  grcate  and  linale,  \j  panus  greaie  and  fniale,  one  ketiU  Iniale,  a  poflenett,  a  la|ien 
ladle  vv'  a  fkommer,  a  chaliyiige  difhe,  a  pewter  collenda',  a  pewtei  potte  lor  verioce,  vj  broches  grcate 
and  fmale,  ij  drippynge  painies  and  a  gredeyron,  ij  fryeiige  painies,  a  rielhe  hooke,  ij  greate  yroii  Rak!;cs,  . 
iij  potte  Rackes,  iij  pair  of  pott  howkes,  thre  yron  doggcs  to  ley  on  woode,  a  greate  bralon  mortier  v  '  a 
yron  peftill",  a  litle  bralbii  iiiorter,  w'  the  pelhll.  A  Ibume  niorler  and  a  wodden  pelfle  a  ilriky.lgc 
knyff  and  ij  fniale  knyfes,  a  fyer  fliull,  thre  tryvettes  greate  and  Imall,  a  Helbe  axe,  a  wode  axe,  three 
yron  wegges,  dyverle  trayes,  a  nuillard  qiieriie  w'  a  llatFc,  a  braleii  challer  and  a  grydyngt  lomie  w'  an 
oron  handle,  and  dyverfe  oitl.er  olde  tubbes. 

hi  the  larder. 
Itm  a  bryiie  tubbe,  a  powderynge  trowghe  vV  a  cover  and  oitiicr  dyvers  nccclTarics. 

In  the  tni/tinoe  howje. 
Itn'i  a  knedin<re  trow";he  and  oither  necellaries  beiongyiu'c  to  the  lame.  ^ 


Sif  Atlria/i  Fof^tcjcue.  221 


///  the  fyjhe  hoivfc. 
Furllc,  ilv\L'rlc  lyngcs,  h.ilK-i Jcii;.,  .iiiJ   (tokki.-   Iillic  as   is   lor   the  |)ro\'ilii)n    tor    the    hcwib  w'  white 
heaiyiiL;  and  red. 

Itiri  xviij  buz  of  thatcheis. 

In  the  garner. 

Itiii  in  Oites  by  eftiniacon  .......  viij  (jti's. 

Itn'i  ill  make  made  and  unmade      .......  ix  ijrtrs. 

Itin  in  vvheite  thrclshede    ........  iij  (|rtrs. 

In  the  Barnei. 
Itni  in  oivz  barne  ij  beye  ot  whete  vnthrel'shed  and  a  jj.ircell'  of  hey  in  the  oither  ende. 
Itni  in  tile  oither  barne  peal'e  lb  awe  and  liarley  Itrawe. 

//;  the  Cjyten jliihle.  ■       • 

Itin  one  thille  horfe  and  viij  oxen  tor  a  carte. 

Itni  ij  eartes  lliowed  and  all  maner  ot  li.irneis  tor  the  lame  cartes  the  horle  .ind  o.\en. 

Qitall. 
Itni  vj  kyne  ayd  ij  weiiers. 
Itin  one  bore  and  tliurteyne  hog^^es. 
Itm  one  Catery  horle,  and  ij  holies  lor  the  t'adle  thone  b.iye  thoither  blal:. 

In  the  ol.le  howfe  hefidei  the  buttery. 
Furft  dyverfe  olde  tiibbes,  holies  .ind  ciules  with  oither  necellaries. 

"*  lit  tl.ie  breiue  h'ywje. 

Itin  a  t'tirnes  and  three   taates    more   and    lelle,  and   a   thinge  to   kcle  worke    ni    dyvcrl'e   tubbes,  and 
kylderkvns  with  t;ither  iiecellaiies. 

Att  S'.  .'liirian  Filleiuei  logmg  befulei  the  black  Freer)  in  Lomlone. 
Furrte  in  the  perlar  ther  a  hangynge  ot'yelowe  and  greiiie  lay  panede.  i 

Itin  a  cupberde  with  a  flemilhe  cliaire. 

Itin  a  longe  table  w'  ij  trellilles.  i 

Itin  vj  joynede  ftalles. 

Itin  a  title  pece  of  lay  hangynge  before  the  wyndowe  yclowe  and  greiiie  paiiede. 
Itm  a  longe  fetell. 

Itm  ij  awndycrns  and  a  tyer  torke  w'  a  ])air  of  tonges. 
Itni  a  pair  of  tables. 

In  ih.  buttery. 

Itni  a  dofen  platters,  a  dofen  dirties  w'  .i  dofen  fawcers,  a  chafynge  dilhe  ix  cindell  (lickes,  greate  and 
fniale,  ij  quarte  pewter  pottes,  a  pottell  pott  of  pewter  and  a  pj'iite  wyne  poll  pewtei. 
Icin  a  bafon  and  Ewer  of  pewter. 


222 


Family  of  Sal(le?i. 


Itiu  a  rowmle  w;ifshiii[;c  bafoii,  a  hrafcn  mortcr  \v'  a  [U'dill. 

Itifi  a  pair  ot'  Rackcs  vv'  dyvurs  hoitlcs,  lialkcuus,  crult!,  and  oitlu-r  traflie. 

ItiTi  ij  bredde  bynnes  withe  covers. 

J)i  >/',■  l.viw/,: 
Itiii  twoo  peices  of  fla\  iied  clothe. 
Itm  a  longe  table  w,  twoo  treltilles  w'  a  fhortc  joyned  forme. 

I/i  the  kechyn. 

Itm  iiij  pottes  greate  and  (male,  ij  pannes,  one  biggar  and  a  noiiher  JelTar,  a  grcdyern,  a 
trienge  pan,  a  dryppinge  pan,  a  longe  fpitt,  and  a  birde  ij)itt,  ij  clevingc  knyfles  w'  dyverfe  uldc  bordes 
and  traflie. 

Itm  ij  IVyvettes  one  byggar  and  a  noither  leller. 

In  a  chamh?  over  tl  e  keehyn.  ,      . 

Itm  a  bedeftede,  a  fetherbed,  a  boliler  vv'  a  pillowe  ami  an  ol.le  white  coverlett. 
Itfii  a  pair  of  blankettes.  , 

//;  //;(•  ftrehc  ehaniber 
Itm  a  bedefteide  w'  dyverfe  olde  hordes  and  trallie. 

/• 

In  tlje  Stu.iy  ehciinhJ-. 

Item  a  litill  peice  of  fta\  nedc  haiiijynge. 

Item  a  litill  horde  covered  vv'  greiae  cotten.  , 

Item  a  chaire.  I  ' 

Item  a  chelf  vv'  one  lokk  w'  dyvers  writynges.  i 

//;  the  chamher  at  thejlere  hedde. 
Item   a   bededed  with   a   feithe''  bed,   a   bolder,   a  pdlowe,  a   |)air  blankettes,  a  redd  coverlett  \\ '  the 
fparver  of  greine  fay  and  courteyns  of  tlie  fame. 
ItiTi  a  chefte  w'  one  lokke  w'  writynges  in  hit. 

Itin  the  hangingc  of  greine  lay.  I 

Itfii  ij  I'malle  awndierns  a  cupbord  w'  a  counterfett  carpett  apon  it.  ^ 

I 

/;/  Si' .  Ah  Kill  Fcjleivei  ozven  Ciimnher. 

Itm  a  truilynge  beddc,  a  feither  bed,  and  a  mattres,  a  bollfer  a  pair  of  blankettes  a  covei  iige 
of  vardures.  , 

Itm  a  fjierver  w'  courtaynes  to  the  fame  of  yellowe  and  greine  tiike. 

Itin  the  hangyriges  of  red  fay. 

Itin  ij  awndiarnes  w'  a  pair  of  tonges,  a  chair,  a  joyned  forme  a  chefte  .it  the  h.  dies  teete  vv' 
writinges. 

Itm  a  cheft  of  napery  ther. 

Itin  nyne  courfe  fheitcs  for  I'erv'untes,  ij  pair  of  fyne  flicites,  vj  olde  lowelles,  iiij  tabic  clothes 
ij  cupbord  clothes,  iij  fyne  napkyns  olde  and  x  courfe  olde  na|>kyns,  iij  fyne  pillowbers  vv'  olde 
torne  fheitcs. 


Right  HoJi.  Sir  John  Foj-tcfciie. 


223 


hi  the  Inner  Chamlr. 

Itm  a  bedcftcJ,  with  a  fcitherbcd,  a  buHlc.-,  a  pair  i,C  bla.ikctL-s  a  whuc  covL-rlett,  a  prcffc,  a  chdle 
bownde  w'  yron  w'  apparel  bdotigyjige  to  his  cwcn  bcdy  in  hit  as,  a  VL-lvct  gowcn  biacke  furred  w' 
martans,  a  chamlctt  govvne  bhick  welted  with  velvet,  and  furred  w'  lambe  a  doubleti  <.f  blake  fattyn,  a 
Jackett  of  blake  fatten  a  pair  of  blak  hoofe  w'  a  flieite  to  wrappe  the  gere  in. 

Itm  a  longe  counterfett  carpett  for  the  perlar  w'  fyve  lliorte  ones  of  the  lame  (or  cupbordes. 

ItiTi  viij  carpett  cowfshens. 

Itm  thre  pair  of  newe  girthes  double. 

Itm  a  fparver  of  olde  lynnen  clothe. 

In  the  Cellar. 

Itin  a  kwe  billittes  w"  dyvers  olde  boxdcs  and  trafhe. 

Itin  at  M".  Maddox  howfe  in  cheipefide  a  chelle  with  Evidences. 

Eiuhrfeii—Thc  Inventorie  of  S'.  Adrian  , 

Portel'cues  jroodes.  '      ' 


CHAI-.     XII. 

T/ie  l-'orlej'cues  of  Salden  continued. 

^  The   Right   IIoNouRAiiLE   Sir  John  ]'"orti;scue. 

^Sl)^'OHN  FORTESCUR,  the  eldefl  Ton  of  Sir  Adrian,  was  born  early  in  the  year 
^.^,  IM  '^S2>'i'>  t;ither  at  Stonor  or  Shirburn,  in  Oxlbrdlhire.  Me  hinifelf  relates  tiiat  he 
^(iiii=rv45  came  into  the  world  in  the  fume  year  as  C^ieen  Elizabeth,  about  fix  months 
before  her.'  His  mother,  as  will  be  remembered,  was  the  daughter  of  Sir  William  Ivede  of 
Boarftall,  Sir  Adrian's  lecond  wife. 

His  father's  execution  having  taken  place  when  he  was  ijiily  eight  years  old,  he  was 
brought  up  under  his  mother's  care  and  direction  ;  though  we  do  not  know  from  whom,  he 
learned  the  rudiments  of  Latin  and  Greek,  languages  in  which  he  afterwards  excelled.  He 
is  faid  to  have  gone  to  Oxford  ;  and  he  afterwards  finidied  his  edtication  at  one  of  the  Inns 
of  Court.' 

In  the  Statute  Book  for  the  5th  and  6th  of  Edward  VI.  we  find  an  Adl  for  his  "  RelHtu- 
tion  in  blood  "  to  remove  the  eflcets  of  his  father's  attainder  ;  and  the  Lords'  Journals  for 
1552  record  the  pafling  of  the  Ad  in  that  year. 

He  was  foon  after  chofen  to  be  precejitor  to  the  i'rincefs  I'dizabeth,  being  reconunended 


'  Lord  Northampton's  Letters  to  Earl  of  Marr.  ([uoted  in  Bucks  Uceords,  vol.  i.  Klizabith  «  i.^  born  ut  Green- 
wich, September  17,  1533. 

'^  Lodge's  Peerage  of  Ireland,  vol.  iii.  346.  His  name,  however,  does  not  appear  in  Hcamc's  carefully  made 
MS.  regiller  of  graduates  troni  1505  to  1659,  eont.iining  about  Jo,<-.oO  names. 


2  24  FainUv  of  8a  Id  OK 

to  her  by  the  I'.arl  of  I  Icrtfora  ;  nnd  poilihly  ali'illcd  by  his  own  rchitioiillup  to  the  Pi-inc'fs 
through  the  Boleyns. ' 

Fie  \v:is  much  trulled  :uul  coiifulted  by  ]•  lizabeth  ;  and  up^)ii  her  accelhon  to  the  throiu 
the  kept  him  about  lier,  by  at  once  naiDiiig  him  licr  "  Mailer  or  lvee]ier  of  the  (Jreat  Ward- 
robe, an  office  of  great  antiipiity  and  dignity,""  which  he  hekl  until  her  death.  His 
appointment  bears  date  July  22,  1559,  in  the  rirfl:  year  of  the  reign.' 

"  The  King's  (ireat  Wardrobe  "  at  that  titr.e  was  in  the  Ulackfriars,  and  in  it  were  kept,  fays 
h'uller,  "  the  ancient  clothes  of  ourEngHfli  Kings  which  they  wore  on  tneat  tellivals;  {\i  that 
this  wardrol)e  was  in  efteft  a  library  for  antiquaries  therein  to  read  the  mode  and  fafliion  of 
garments  in  all  ages."  '  It  was  alfo  a  depofiiory  "  for  the  fecret  writings  and  letters  touching 
the  fl-ate  of  the  realm  which  were  wont  to  be  there  enrolled  ;  and  not  in  the  Chancery,  as 
appeareth  by  the  Records.""' 

Stow  writes  alfo,  "  Here  was  of  late  years  lodged  Sir  John  h'ortefcue,  Kniglit,  Mafter  of 
the  Wardrobe,  Cliancellor  and  Under  Treafurer  of  the  Exchequer,  and  one  of  her  Niajefty's 
J-'rivy  Coimcil,"  Oiowing  that  he  ftill  lived  in  Pdackfriars  after  his  pnjmotion  to  iugher 
offices  as  well  as  before  it. 

The  rcfidence  was  defcribeil  by  .Sir  John  as  "  my  houfe  at  the  Standing  Wardrobe,  near 
Carter  Lane.""  The  "Standing  Wardrobe"  was  a  term  to  dillinguilh  the  houfe  and  (  ffice 
in  Blacktriars  from  the  "  Removing  Wardrobes  "  eftabliilied  in  various  places  for  the  feivice 
of  the  Court. 

He  did  not,  upon  receiving  this  appointment,  ceafe  to  diredt  the  Queen's  fludies,'  but 
continued  to  prefide  over  them  long -afterwards  ;'  thus  occafioning  the  quaint  remark  of  I.'oyd 
that  Sir  John  bortelcue  was  "  one  whom  flie  trulled  with  the  ornaments  of  her  il  ul  and 
body.""* 

He  appears  by  his  prudence  to  have  early  begim  lo  increafe  the  cftate  which  he  had 
inherited  from  his  father;  for  in  1559  the  Patent  Rolls  contain  a  licence  to  Sir  Tiiomas 
Parry,  Knight,  to  alienate  the  hte  ot  the  manor,  c*cc.,  of  Salden  in  Bucks,  to  :  |olm 
I'ortefcue,  Pfquirc,  and  tithers;''  the  purchaleot  the  uIkjIc  property,  however,  was  ncjt  com- 
pleted, accorduig  to  l.ipfcomb  and  Brown  Willis,  before  1580. 

In  the  next  year  (1560)  the  (^ueen,  as  a  mark  of  favour,  gives  him  the  ker-perfliiji  of 
Cornbury  Park  in  Oxfordlhire,'"  with  its  ri:2ht  of  grazing-,  herbage,  and  paimage.  (LV'-Z'rt- 
gium  et  pdniiii.yiiDii.) 

'  Lodge.  -  Ikallon'-s  I'olllical  liukx,  i.  p.  v.  '  I'aKiit  li  .lis.  1  HIizabith. 

'  Cuiiiiinijhain's  IliinilliOoU  of  I.oriiloii. 

'•"  Stow's  tJiiiNLy  olLciKloji.  vol.  i.  I'.uoU  iii.,  pajjo  11^,   "  I'.irKh  of"  .St,  .\nclr.  n  Wauiioljc.'' 

•^  Letter  fiom  Sir  J.  I'urttCciie  to  Julin  I'.iic-.,  Feb.  2,  1590,  in  Ilarl.  MS. 

'  CamfUn's  Aiinalcs  Kerum  Aug.  Keg.  Eliz.,  by  Ileal nc,  vol.  iii.  013,  15^9-  "  Libenlibus  Hefjina'  ftudiis 
et  Kegix-  i'vmlicli  iive  Garderoba;  diu  pricfutral." 

»  Lloyd's  State  Wo.thies,  vol.  i.  p.  442.  ^  I'at.  UolU,  1  and  16  Lli/..  '"  I'at.  Hells,  j  Ivliz. 


RigJit  Hon.  Sir  yo/m  Fortefcice.  225 

Sir  John  was  married  before  his  appointment  to  the  wardrobe,  hardly  later  than  1556. 
His  wite  was  Cicely,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Edmund  Afhfield  of  l^welme,  in  Oxtord- 
(liire,  and  afterwards,  in  right  oi-  his  wife,  of  Tattenhoe  in  Bucks.  She  was  the  youngeft  of 
three  daughters,  the  eldell:  being  Avice,  married  to  l:\ljnund  Lee  of  I'iehelilhourne  in 
Bucks;  and  the  fecond,  Ldizabeth,  wife  of  William  l<"ettypiace  of  Childrey,  Ikicks,  whofe 
grandfather,  Anthony  Fettyplace,  of  Childrey,  Kfquire  of  the  Body  to  Henry  VIJ.,  had 
married  Mary  Fortcicue,  Sir  Adrian's  filler,  and  wii.low  of  John  Stonor  ot  Stonor.  By  this 
lady.  Sir  John,  at  her  father's  death,  in  1577,  became  poHeHed  of  Shenley,  SnelKliall 
Priory,'  and  of  other  parts  of  Sir  b'-dmund  Allifield's  eftates  in  Buckinghamfliire,  in  the 
neighbourhood  ot  his  own  eftatcs  at  Salden. 

The  Oueen's  confidence  in  Sir  John  does  not  appear  to  have  been  fliaken  by  the  raOi  co  iduift 
at  this  time  of  his  brother  Sir  Anthony,  who,  as  will  be  feen,  was  a  leading  confpiratoe  with 
the  Poles  in  their  plot  againrt  her.  His  elcape  with  imprifonment,  inllead  of  lofing  his  head, 
has  been  generally  attributed  to  Sir  Jolm's  interceHion  with  his  Royal  miftrefs. 

In  1570  he  had  the  misfortune  to  lofe  his  wife  after  flie  had  borne  him  nine  children. 
She  died  on  the  7th  of  February  in  her  thirtieth  year,  and  was  buried  in  the  church 
of  Murfly,  the  parilh  in  which  Salden  ilood."  Of  her  nine  children  three  died 
before  her. 

As  her  huA^and  uas,  thirty-feven  years  later,  laid  in  the  fame  tomb,  we  will  give  its 
defcription  and  epitaphs  when  we  come  to  his  death. 

There  is  a  Patent  Roll,  in  1573,  granting  him  "free  warren  in  all  the  lands  of  the 
manor  of  Salden  in  the  county  of  Buckingham  for  ever."^ 

He  had  fome  years  before,  in  i  56;,'  obtained  from  the  Oueen,  for  423/.  2.;.  4^/.,  a  grant 
for  ever  of  the  neighbouring  manor  of  Drayton-Parflow  (fo  called  from  Ralph  de 
Pa/Ta-aqua,  or  PalTe-l'eau,  who  held  it  foon  after  the  Conquefl:),  with  the  advowfon  of  the 
Redlory  there. 

Befides  thefe  acquifitions  in  Buckinghamfliire,  he  added  the  manor  of  Swyncombe  to  his 
patrimony  in  Oxfordfliire  ;  obtaining  from  the  crown  in  1565  a  leaie  ot  it  fur  twenty-one 
years,  from  1575,  for  9/.  per  annum  rent,  which  leafe  was  twice  renewed;  the  lall  time 
for  fixty  years,  from  1596;^  alfo  "the  (ite  of  the  manor  of  Cadwallo,"  in  the  fame 
county.'' 

Fortefcue   being  now  fettled  ujxjn   his  purchafed  eftate   in    Bucks,   and  living   in  the 


'  Lipfcomb,  iii.  506,  and  iv.  327.  '  Sec  lu-r  nionumcnt.  ^  Pat.  Rolls,  16  Eliz. 

*  Lipfcomb  iii.  339,  and  Pat.  Rolls,  4  Kliz. 

'  Napier's  Swjncombe,  pp.  207,  208,  20g.  N.R.— The  fecond  leafe  in  January  24,  I  582,  is  to,).  I'",  .nnd  Alice 
his  wife,  (liowing  that  he  had  married  again  before  that  date.  Napier  quotes  "  Land  Revenue  Record  Ollice  "  for 
this  date,  and  Pat.  Rolls,  7  Eliz. 

8  Pat.  Rolls,  7  Eliz.,  May  22. 

II.  G  C 


2  26  Fcunily  of  SahleJi. 

old  manfioii  which  he  found  at  Salden,  a  feud  arifes  between  liini  and  his  principal 
neighbour,  l.ord  Grey  of  Wilton,'  the  owner  of  Whaddon  Hall,  and  Ke.;])er  of  the  Chafe  and 
Park,  which  almofl:  coft  hini  his  life.  There  is  a  full  and  minute  account  of  the  circumftances 
of  the  ejuarrel  in  the  State  Papers  of  the  period.  It  (liows  us  fo  nuich  of  Sir  John's  charadter, 
and  of  the  mode  of  life  which  he  and  others  followed  in  the  rural  parts  of  I'jigland  three 
hundred  years  ago,  that  I  give  it  here  at  length." 

Complaint   by  Air.  'John    Fortijcue   (7gitin/l   Lord   Grey,  auj  his  men,  for  hunting  lulthln   bis   ALinor  of 
iiti/deii,  an, I  of  the  "  uneivH"  language  of  Lord  Grey  to  him  in  the  Prefenec  Chamber. 

About  three  years  paft,  upon  dirordcr  of  my  Lord  Gicy's  fcrvants  for  hunting  my  \\arrcn,  bruakinji; 
my  hedges,  and  dillurbancc  of  mine  inheritance  at  S.ddeii,  I  came,  at  \Ve{l:miafter,  in  ilie  chamber  of 
Prefence,  to  the  Lord  Grey,  and  defircd  his  Lordfliip  that  "  he  would  take  order  with  hiS  fervants,  and 
keepers  of  Whaddon  Chafe  [in  liuckiiigliamfliire],  thai  they  would  not  injuiie  me  in  my  lawful  nglu; 
and  ufe  thefc  ojipreflions  upon  his  Lordlhip's  poor  neighbour,  and  always  to  my  power  his  well-wilier." 
whereunto  he,  fomewhat  moved,  anfwered,  that  he  "  had  done  nothing,  but  that  of  light  he  might,  ai  d 
that  they  fliuuld  hunt,"  with  other  hoole^  fpeech  to  the  like  puipol'e.  I  then  leplied,  "  It  w.is  mine  ii  hei  i- 
tance,  and  place  of  habitation,"  and  therefore  "  dcfired  his  Lcjidfliip  th.u,  wiili  his  good  i.ivoiir,  I  i  lig  it 
enjoy  fuch  grants  of  free  warren,  as  I  had  in  mine  own,  which  I  meant  not  to  hjl'e,  lo  long  as  law  ler  ed  " 
iMy  Lord  therewith  in  a  choUer  faid,  "Tii/h,  a  Lord  in  y(jur  teeth,  1  will  hunt  it,  and  it  Uudl  be  hunted 
in  fpite  of  all  you  can  do."  1,  therewith  moved,  faid,  that  "his  uncivil  fpeech  were  unfit  for  that  place 
and  his  honour,  and  that  I  took  fome  fcorii  therewith,  befides  that  I  might  jullly  think  many  good  offici  s 
of  good-will  on  him  bellowed,  very  evil  placed  to  find  this  recompenlc."  'l"he  Lord  Grey  then  faid,  "  I 
know  Mr.  Fortefcue  well  enough  ;"  and  I  anfwered,  "  So  do  I  alio  know  the  Lord  Grey  :"  and  f>  we 
departed  at  that  time. 

Two  d.ays  after,  the  Lord  Grey  came  to  me  in  the  lame  place,  and  faid,  "  Mr.  Fortefcue,  I  would 
gladly  fpeak  with  you,  if  you  go  alide  with  me."  I  anfu'cred,  "  1  would  w.ut  upon  his  Lordfliip."  '  V'e 
then  went  into  the  gallery  in  the  backlide  of  the  Queen\  Lodging  at  Wellminller,  where  he  laid  unto 
me,  "  Mr.  Fortefcue,  you  the  other  day  feemed  to  be  much  oU'ended,  and  llirred  in  fpeech  ;  1  mai  vel 
thereat."  "My  Lord,"  I  anfwered,  "  my  requell  to  enjoy  my  own,  by  you  denied,  together  with  your 
injurious  fpeeches,  were  caufe  to  ftir  any  man,  I  think."  "  I  ufed,"  laid  the  Lord  (Jrey,  "  no  evil  fpcLrh 
unto  you."  Then  I  charged  him  with  his  words,  which  in  part  my  Lord  denied,  and  in  the  wh'de  quali- 
fied, laying,  that  he  "tendered  the  friendlhip  of  Sir  Edmund  Aflifield,  and  me,  as  much  as  any  geiidc- 
men's  in  the  fliire."  Whereunto  I  anfwered,  that  "  he  had,  and  fhould  find  us,  as  re.idy  to  do  1  im  honour" 
He  rcquefted  that  "I  fliould  not  be  an  evil  neighbour  to  the  game."  I  anfwered,  that  "  1  would  iiut 
myfell,  nor  that  no  fervant  of  mine  fhould  hunt  my  grounds,  nor  yet  fulTer  any  Puiley  men  t  .  hunt  them 
at  any  time."  And  fo  we  departed,  all  griefs  fatistied,  as  to  me  then  did  leem ;  and  the  l.iid  j.  r>  u.ids  have 
never  been  hunted  by  me  fythence,  nor  any  of  my  fervants. 

On  the  Monday,    I2ih  of  Augufl,  I,   tending  the  keeper  Wynton  his  boy,  hunting  my  grounds. 


Lipfcomb,  iii.  496.  -  See  Nai.ici's  Suyncombe,  p.  390.  '  ^^I'C'l';. 


Right  Hon.  Sir  Johu  Fo?-tcfcne.  227 

namely,  Rie  Clofc,  dillli.iiged  him  of  that  doing,  and  required  that  he,  nor  any  other  of  the  fcrvants  of 
the  Lord  Grey,  fliouid  intromit  with  my  warren  grounds,  in  which  I  flood  feifed,  as  hy  divers  yants 
might  at  large  appear,  and  therefore  I  required  this  to  be  taken  as  a  warning. 

(^n  the  next  morrow,  being  Tuefd.iy,  Joliii  Savage,  Ranger  under  the  Lord  (irev,  came  to  my 
houfe,  complaining  of  the  interruption  made  to  Wyntoii's  boy.  To  whom  I  anUvcred,  that  "  I  was,  and 
ahva_\'s  would  be,  good  friend  to  my  LortI,  and  his,  in  all  might  lie  in  my  power  ;  and  further  pr.iyed  him, 
that  neither  by  his  ine.uis,  nor  any  other  of  his  fellows,  occafion  might  be  miniilered  of  breach  of  the 
good-will  and  triendfliip  1  had  borne,  and  profefied  by  all  means  to  bear  unto  my  Lord  (Jrey,  nor  that 
they  would  ofler  me  the  injury  to  hunt  my  warren,  and  diihnb  my  polleflion,  opprefling  me  in  my  own 
feveral  grounds."  Whereunto  he  aiifwered,  "  He  had,  would,  and  mull  hunt."  I  replied,  that  "  I  had 
grant  to  the  contrary,  and  it  was  niy  warren,  whereof  he  might  be  allured,  if  he  would  credit  me."  And 
further,  I  afked,  "  To  what  end  he  would  hunt,  or  interrupt  my  pofleftion  in  mine  own  r  and  whetl  er  I 
had  been  a  good  neighbour  or  no  to  the  Chacei""  which  part  he  granted  1  had,  and  all  my  ferv  nits. 
Then,  I  added,  "  What  if,  when  you  hunt,  and  I  do  Hand  up  with  bows  and  d(jgs,  and  ll.iy  your  deer, 
may  I  not  fo  lawfully  do  I  "  which  he  alfo  gr.mted.  "  Then  tendeth  your  hunting  to  fmall  purpofe.  Yet, 
neverthelefs,  if  you  will  thereunto  agree,  for  that  I  honour  my  Lord,  and  feek  quietnefs,  I  will  be  con- 
tented, until  my  Lord  return,  to  forbear  mine  own  commodities,  and  neither  myfelf,  nor  any  I'urley  men, 
fhall  hunt  any  of  my  grounds,  fo  that  you  and  your's  will  be  contented  with  the  fame  oiier."  Wherewith 
he  feemed  fatisfied,  and  fo  we  came  in  to  breakfafl,  he  faying  to  me,  he  would  "  go  to  Layton,  and  thence 
to  Sheldon,  his  fair  in  Worcellerfhire,  on  Thurfday  following:"  and  fo,  after  divers  fpeeches,  and  proofs 
of  the  boy's  lying  tales,  we  went  into  the  Hall,  where  we  break  our  faff  ;  and  I  dcfired  Savage  to  be  no 
ftranger  at  Salden,  which  he  [)romil'ed  not  to  be  ;  and  fo  we  (le|)arted,  fatisfied,  as  I  fuppofed,  in  all 
points. 

On  the  Wcdnefday  afternoon,  I,  finding  the  keeper's  boy  nut  oidy  hunting,  but  alfo  to  have  broken 
divers  gaps,  and  ploddmc;  at  my  conies,  f'lrfl,  having  caufed  his  hounds  to  be  rated,  I  commanded-  him 
to  depart,  together  with  Birde  (Savage's  man),  in  his  company;  Whereupon,  the  boy,  giving  not  only 
levvde  words,  but  alfo  threats,  I  pulled  a  horn  from  his  neck,  and  offered  with  the  ftring  to  have  given 
him  a  jerke.  But,  perceiving  his  felU)w  neftling  hiinfelf  towards  me,  with  the  horn  I  gave  him  a  blow  ; 
and  fo,  carting  the  boy's  horn  again  unto  him,  I  willed  them  to  depart  my  ground  with  fpced  ;  and, 
crofTing  the  clofc  to  the  path,  I  met  with  Wynton,  whom  "  1  charged  with  his  injurious  dealings,  and 
that  he  feemed  to  make  my  warren,  chafe,  or  at  the  Icall  common."  lie  aniwered,  he  came  "  to  make 
home  deer."  Whereuntol  laid,  "  Although  it  be  wholly  unirue,  for  there  neither  are,  nor  any  have  been 
there  a  good  while:  yet  if  there  were,  you  may  not  hunt  my  free  ch:irtered  warren,  but  that  if  default 
of  mounds  be,  if  it  were  by  my  default,  it  fliould  be  amended  ;  if  by  his,  he  might  look  better  thereunto." 
He  anfwered,  he  "muft  hunt  thole  grounds."  I  anfwered,  "  1  think  not  that  beft  for  you  to  do,  for  t'lat 
I  would  not  lofe  the  right  of  mine  inheritance,  but  defend  the  fame  as  I  would  my  life  and  body,  as  I 
lawfully  might.  But  it  is  thou,  Wynton,  that  procureth  thefe  dealings,  thou  makeft  common  of  ny 
grounds,  both  with  cattle  and  hogs,  and  all  other  difordered  means.  But  take  this  for  a  warning,  .  nJ 
provoke  me  no  farther,  nor  interrupt  me  in  mine  uiheritance,  more  than  I  difturb  yoa  in  your  Chafe,  or 
other  places  in  your  charge."    And  fo  we  departed. 

On  the  Thurfday  night,  at  1 2  of  the  clock,  I,  being  in  bed,  and  in  fleep,  as  1  hear  by  my  fervant's  report, 
and  by  Savage's  confefTion  underrtood.  Savage,  the  Ranger  of  the  Chale,  bringing  with  him  i  5  other  perfons, ' 
with  bows,  foreft  bills,  and  long  picked  ftafis,  came  into  my  grounds,  my  Warrenerat  that  time  being  in 


228  Fiimily  of  Saldcn. 

my  warren;  and  perceiving  by  their  noife  that  hunters  were  entereJ,  as  he  fuppcfeJ,  came  home  to  the 
houle,  and  called  up  my  lervants,  laying,  that  "hunters  were  ciime  to  hunt  m)  grounds."  Wlierewith  3 
of  his  fellows  came  out  with  ftatFs  with  him,  before  his  return  they  having  call  olF  hounds,  blowing 
horns,  and  making  hallooing,  and  loud  cry,  had  begun  their  hunting,  fliogging  down  to  the  wood  clofe, 
wherein  the  gully  between  both  woods,  my  fervants  overtook  them  :  and  Jenkens,  my  Icrvant,  alkcd, 
"  What  good  fellows  are  there  ?  "  They  anfwered,  "  Hc-re  are  good  fellows."  Jenkens  faiJ,  "  What 
make  you  here  ?  "  They  anfwered,  "  AV'e  hunt  the  grounds  ! "  "What,"  faid  Jenkens,  "this  is  my 
Mailer's  kveral  grounds  ;  here  may  he  no  hunting  fuftered,  and  therefore  depait."  "  Nay,'  laid  they, 
"  we  have,  and  wdl  hunt  Salden."  Jenkens  laid,  "  Neither  you  niav,  nor  Ihall  hunt,  and  therefore  ihmd." 
There  appeared  but  three  at  this  fpeecii,  but  nnmediaCely  came  lea])in:;  in  at  a  gip  out  of  the  wood  the' 
whole  company,  and  environed  my  men  ;  and  Underwood,  the  Keeper,  (Iruek  at  my  lervants,  and  an 
arrow  was  (hot,  wherewith  Bartelmew  Corniflie  is  wounded  ;  "awiS  Io,  without  any  f  rther  fpeecli,  the 
fray  began  ;  in  which  are  hurt  of  my  men,  liartclmew  Cornidic  in  the  thigh  with  an  ;^rrow,  and  m  tin: 
head  with  a  forell-bill  ;  and  Jenkens,  tluull  into  the  breaft  with  the  pike  of  a  bill;  and  Richard  Iloule, 
on  the  head  with  a  torell-bill  :  many  arrows  were  by  llieni  (hot,  as  \vell  forked-heads,  .is  other,  in  the 
end,  by  the  coming  of  (j  other  of  mv  fervants,  their  fellows  v/ere  refcued.  Savage  liiicken  down  .md 
taken,  divers  of  their  company  hurt,  and  the  rell  lied  aw.iy,  leaving  Sav.ige  behind,  who  was  biou[;h  to 
my  houfe,  and  there  drelied,  and  ulld  in  the  belt  nianner  I  could  devife,  and  being  by  me  charged  ol  his 
evd  dealing,  anfwered,  he  "would  not  have  done  it,  if  he  had  not  been  commaiuled  by  the  i.ord  (j  ey, 
whofe  Lift  words  to  him  in  Wales  were,  that  he  fliould  hunt  Salden,"  with  other  like  fpeeches. 

That  they  came  of  purpofe  appeareth  by  their  company,  and  aifo  for  that  Underwood  had  an  led 
himfelf,  with  (lieetes  and  clothes  for  his  ilefence. 

Their  whole  hunting  in  my  free  v\'arren  was  injurious,  and  I'vthc  W}'iiton,  Keeper  x>\  that  walk,  by 
his  own  contellion,  was  g'jne  to  bed,  alter  the  m.iking  in  ot  his  charge,  .uid  finding  no  (oyle  nor  i^  ilt, 
but  called  up  by  Savage  and  the  rell,  it  appearetli  that  their  piirpole  tended  not  to  make  home  dcr,  juc 
to  Ijioil  my  warren,  or  fome  like  intent. 

'I"he  fpeech  of  Gwynethe,  who,  in  his  bed  before  witnefs,  confelTed  the  purpofe  of  their  coming  to 
be  either  to  hunt,  or  receive  hurts,  m.iketh  iliow  of  their  meaning.  ' 

My  Lord  Grey's  men  hath  continually  fince  ulcd  their  huiuing,  and  other  provocations,  to  1  ivcrs 
perfons  enforcing  quarrels,  if  any  acceptation  would  li.ive  been  made.' 

T})e  examination  of  ILnry  Jf^arrener^  alias  l.yfolly^  Pjitrthol'ininu  Conitjhf,  Thormu  Jenkem,  Richard 
Howfe,  John  /iborowe,  Edmund  A)re,und  IVilliam  Symondi,  taken  at  /lylejbury  the  6'''  day  of(K'tober^  the 
l^"'year  [l^Jj^.]  of  the  reign  of  our  SovL'feign  Lady  the  .Queen's  Alajejly.  Bifre  Sir  IVilliam  Do,  mer^ 
Knight,  and  AJichael  Bhnte,  Efquire,  Ju/liai  of  Her  Alajejlfs  Peace  within  the  County  of  Uuck,  uf>on 
certain  Interrogatorici  on  the  party  and  behalj  of  our  Sovereign  Lady  the  J^ieen,  Oi  follnvetl  : — 

The  examination  of  Henry  ll'arrener.  i 

To  the  (irll  Interrogatory  he  faith,  that  he  doth  Well  remember,  that  upon  a  Wednefilay,  (not 
knowing  what  day  of  the  month  it  was),  when  Tiiomas  IJiide  and  William  Wynton,  being  in  St.it}brd's 
fields  within  the  parifh  of   .Vlurredcv,  in  the  forefaid  county,  th.it    his    malter,  Mr.   John   Fortefcue,  and 


'  Domeftic,  Elizabeth,  vol.  92,  No.  34.     Statu  Paper  OlFitc. 


Right  Hon.  Sir  JoJin  Fortcfcuc.  229 

Mr.  John  l-'ortcTcue,  his  kinfm.m  ;iiid  H-rv;uU,  James  Fuordc,  WiUl.im  DoJtl,  Ricliard  Howfc,  and  this 
examinant,  all  thel'e  came  iiurj  ihc  luiclaid  held;  and,  beini;  in  the  fuld,  Mr.  (nhii  I'tiricrcue,  his 
Maftcr,  commanded  this  examiiiant  to  go  and  ihiy  the  above-named  Tluimas  Hirde  and  W  illiaiii 
A\'yntoii,  the  which  he  did  upon  his  Mailer's  coniniandnient.  Aiid  coining  to  them,  willed  them  to 
come  back,  and  fpeak  with  his  Maftcr;  they  refufing  I'o  to  do,  laying,  that  their  "  Malter  wa^  not  there  : 
neverthelels,  if  he  were  there,  they  would  Itay  till  his  Mailer  came  ;"  and  feeing  his  Mailer,  they  went 
back  towards  him.  And  being  come  together,  this  examinant's  Malkr  willed  them  to  go  out  of  his 
ground,  for  they  fliould  not  hunt  there  without  his  leave  :  whereupon  they  de|).irted,  and  went  towards 
the  Chale,  where  old  AVynton  llaid  U[)on  the  bounds  of  the  Ch.d'e,  the  boy,  yciung  \Vynton,  running 
away  a  great  pace,  and  his  Mailer,  .Mr,  Fortefcue,  following  him,  till  the  boy  came  to  the  Chale,  this 
deponent  coming  after  a  good  way  ;  fo  that  he  he.ird  not  what  talk  was  between  his  .Mailer  and  the 
other  at  their  departure,  but  for  any  allault  there  at  the  beginning,  or  ending,  he  can  fay  nothing. 
Neverthelels,  he  confelTeth,  for  his  part,  that  he  had  then  prefently  a  pike  ftalF  on  his  neck  feven  (eet 
long,  James  Foorde,  and  William  Dodd,  having  bows  and  arrows  ;  but  for  what  purpole,  or  by  whole 
commandment  they  came  out,  he  knoweth  not. 

To  the  fecond  InterroL-.itory,  he  faith,  that  upon  the  Thurfday  next,  his  ALiller,  being  accompanied 
with  7  of  his  men,  \'iz.,  .Mr.  John  Fortefcue,  his  kinfman,  with  a  crofs-bow  ;  John  I'jarber,  with  a 
crols-bow  ;  William  Dodd,  with  a  loiii^-bow  ;  Thomas  Jenkens,  with  a  llalf  ;  William  Symonds,  John 
Heyward,  and  himfelf,  \\  ith  others,  whole  names  he  doth  not  remember,  neither  remembering  what 
weapons  they  had,  only  himfelf  having  a  picked  Ifaft".  All  thele  went  to  .Murrefley  Grove  about  2  ot 
the  clock  ill  the  afternoon,  and  there  remained  uj)  and  down  by  the  fpace  ot  2  hours,  or  thereabout;  but 
they  had  no  hounds,  nor  took  no  flanding  to  fhoot  at  anything  to  his  knowledge,  but  lo  returned  home 
again,  not  remembering  any  woids  fpokcn  there,  cither  of  the  keepers,  or  of  my  Lord  Grey's  men. 

Item  :  he  faith,  that  he  never  knew  his  M.ilUr  do  the  like  in  hunting,  or  walking  in  luch  lort  to 
the  laid  grove,  before  this  time.  ; 

To  the  third,  he  faith,  th.it  he,  with  Jenkens,  and  Richaid  llowfe,  being  in  his  .Mailer's  warren 
the  fame  night,  he  heard,  about  lO  of  the  clock,  .i  great  noile  of  horns  and  hounds,  and  whooping  of 
men,  by  eltimation  20  fcore,  from  his  Mailer's  houfe,  in  a  piece  of  ground  ot  his  AL.ller's  called  Myller's 
Clofc;  whereupon  they  went  all  three  home,  to  call  for  their  fellows  ;  whereupon  there  went  with  him 
thefe  following,  viz.  William  Symonds,  with  bow  and  arrows;  Edmund  Ayre  ;  Bartholomew,  with  a 
ftalF;  James  Ford,  Mr.  John  Fortefcue,  and  William  JJodd,  with  bow  and  arrows,  Richard  Howfe, 
having  a  black-bill  :  all  thefe,  except  John  Fortefcue  and  Willi.im  Dodd,  who  came  after  the  ti.iy  was 
ended,  went  together  to  fee  what  this  noife  meant.  And  Jenkens,  with  Corniihe  and  Howfe,  overgoing  . 
the  reft,  this  deponent  coming  after,  found  a  fray  begun,  but  who  was  the  beginners  thereof  he  knoweth  ' 
not.  Notwithrtanding,  he  and  the  others  before-mentioned,  (except  thofe  betbre  excepted,)  took  part 
with  their  fellows  at  their  coming  in  ;  but  whether  their  Alalter  had  any  knowledge  of  their  going  foi.h, 
he  knoweth  not,  for  that  he  neither  law  him,  nor  heard  him  Ijjeak. 

To  the  fourth  Interrogatory,  he  can  fay  nothing,  more  than  commonly  he  himfelf,  with  Howfe  ;  nd 
Jenkens,  when  he  is  at  home,  do  ufe  to  walk  in  the  night  the  warren  grounds  of  his  Mailer. 

To  the  fifth,  he  faith,  he  hath  oftentimes  before  met  with  the  K.eepers,  having  no  other  words 
between  them  than  friends  ought  to  ufe. 

To  the  hxth,  he  l.iith,  to  his  knowledge,  none  did  levy  hue  nor  cry,  neither  heard  he  any  there. 


2^0  Fa II I  ily  of  Sale  le?i . 

by  word,  hid  keep  the  Ouetn's  peace;  but  found  them  fighting,  and  fo  took  part  with  his 
tellows. 

To  the  feventh,  he  faith,  he  did  know  Wynton's  (on,  and  one  Philip  Rirde,  who  he  faw  the  day 
before  the  fray  began  ;  and  the  boys  he  had  feen  at  other  times  before,  and  he  thinks  they  came  to 
hunt  in  their  deer  into  the  Chafe;  but  he  knoweth  not  John  Gvvynneth,  for  that  to  his  knowledge  he 
never  law  him. 

To  the  eighth,  he  I'aith,  when  the  keepers  came  into  the  ground  o('  Salden,  there  was  thefe  forts 
of  warren  game  that  he  knew  of,  viz.,  partridge,  pheafant,  hare,  ajid  conies,  all  being  his  Mailer's  game, 
this  deponent  and  Barber  having  the  charge  of  the  lame  warren. 

To  tlie  ninth,  and  lall:,  he  futh,  that  hitherto  he  hath  been  found,  fince  liis  coming  to  the  jail, 
as  he  hopeth,  at  the  charge  of  his  Alafler,  and  fo  trufteth  his  Alafter  will  henceforward  pay  his 
charges. 

The  Examination  of  Barthdomnu  Covnijhc.  ' 

To  the  firft,  he  faith,  that  he  was  not  with  his  Alaflier,  till  his  Alafter  was  ready  to  depart  from 
old  Wynton,  which  was  upon  the  edge  of  the  chafe  in  Stafford's  field,  and  there  he  heard  his  Mailer 
give  this  charge  to  him,  and  to  the  reft  of  his  men,  "  that  if  any  of  the  Keepers  come  any  more  hither  to 
hunt,  difcharge  them;  and  if  they  will  not  be  difcharged,  bi  ing  them  before  me."  And  there  wi  re 
prelent  when  his  Mailer  fpake  thelL-  words.  Air.  John  Fortefcue,  Henry  Warrenner,  and  Ricli.ud  lluw  e, 
and  no  more  to  his  knowledge.     To  the  reft  caji  lay  nothing. 

To  the  fecond,  he  fiith,  he  can  fa)-  nothing,  for  that  he  was  not  that  day  with  his  Alafter. 

To  the  third,  he  faith,  that  he  fn  ft  knew  of  the  Keeper's  hunting  in  His  A'lafler's  ground  by  the 
^V'arrenner,  and  Richard  Howie,  the  boy,  who  came  and  called  him  and  his  fellows  ;  whereupon  tl  is 
deponent,  and  Tliomas  Jenkens,  William  Symonds,  Edmund  Ayre,  and  Mr.  John  Forteicue  we  it 
towards  the  Keepers,  where  the  noife  was,  which  was  in  a  Clofe  called  Barnabic's  Clole,  (fo  calkd  I  ir 
that  one  Barnabie  dcjth  rent  it;)  and  being  there  together,  they  asked,  "  What  good  fellows  h.ivj  we 
there?"  They  anfwer,  "  Here  are  good  fellows."  "Ye  ought  not  to  hunt  here,"  faith  we.  They 
anfwered,  "  Wc  have  hunted  here,  and  will  hunt  here;"  and  therewith  fell  together  to  blows,  witl.tjut 
faying  on  either  fide,  "  Keep  the  peace,"  or  making  either  hue  or  cry.  And  more  than  this  he  knoweth 
not. 

To  the  fourth,  he  liiith,  th.it  no  man  did  watch,  to  his  knowledge,  but  the  Warrcner  and  his 
boy. 

To  the  fifth,  iixth,  feventh,  and  eighth,  he  can  lay  no  more  than  already  he  hath  faid. 

To  the  laft,  he  faith,  he  hath  been  found  during  the  time  of  his  imprii'onment  at  the  charges  of  his 
Alafler,  as  he  thinks.  I 

The  Examination  of  Thornoi  jfenieni.  ■ ' 

To  the  firft  and  fecond,  he  can  fay  nothing. 

To  the  third,  he  faith,  that  he,  this  examinant,  Henry  Warrenner,  and  Richard  Howfe,  being 
abroad  in  their  Alafter's  warren,  as  they  were  accuilomed,  heard  a  great  blowing  of  horns,  and  Ihouting 
of  men,  near  his  Mafter's  houfe,  about  12  icorc  off,  or  thereabout,  to  his  judgment ;  whereupon  he,  this 
examinant,  and  the  other  two,  went  home,  to  fignify  the  fame  unto  their  Alafter  ;  but  when  they  did 
underftand  their  Mailer  was   in   bed,  they  called  divers  of  their   fellows,  viz.,  Bartholomew  Cornilhe, 


Right  Ho7i.  Sir  Jo  Jin  Fortcfctie.  231 

William  Synionds,  Edmund  Ayre  :  tliefe  went  forth  with  this  examinant,  and  his  follows,  towards  the 
place  where  the  hue  was;  and  when  this  examinant,  and  his  fellows,  came  to  the  place  where  the  noife 
was,  they  found  that  the  makers  of  the  noife  were  gone  back  :  then,  upon  another  fhout,  this  examinant 
and  Cornilhe  followed  them  further,  and  in  that  manner  they  followed  the  noife-makers,  from  place  to 
place,  almoft  three  quarters  of  a  mile,  until  they  came  to  a  clofe  of  Mr.  Fortefcue's,  called  IJarnabie's 
clofc,  where  the  laid  noife-makers  did  Hay.  Then  this  examinant  did  call  unto  thcni,  and  laid,  "  What 
good  lellows  are  there  ?  "  Theyanfwered  that  "they  came  to  hunt  ;''  this  examinaiu  told  them,  that  "they 
might  not  hunt  there,  nor  fhould  Jiot."  They  aniwered  that  "  they  came  to  hunt,  and  would  hinit." 
Whereupon  the  fray  began,  liirde  (Mr.  Savage's  man)  drawing  his  bow,  and  Ihot  at  one  of  his  fellows  ; 
and  at  the  end  of  the  fray,  Mr.  Savage,  a  gent  of  the  Lord  Cirey's,  was  found  upon  the  ground,  hurt  ; 
the  which  Mr.  Savage  was  taken  by  this  examinant,  and  his  fellows,  and  led  home  by  them  to  their 
Mafter  his  houfe,  whereby  they  knew  that  the  refidue  of  Mr.  Savage's  com|)any  were  the  Keepers  of 
^Vhaddon  Chafe,  and  the  Lord  Grey  his  men. 

To  the  fourth,  fifth,  fixth,  feventh,  eighth,  and  ninth,  he  can  fay  nothing,  otherwifc  than  that 
which  is  faid  before,  more  than  to  the  fixth  article,  he  faith,  that  there  was  neither  hue  nor  cry  levied  by 
any,  nor  nobody  bade  keep  the  Oueeji's  peace. 

The  Examlnatlm  of  Richard  Ilnvfe. 

To  the  firfl:  and  iecond  Interrogatory,  he  can  fay  nothing  more  than  that  before  is  faid  by  Henry 
Warrenner. 

To  the  third,  he  faith,  that  he,  this  examinant,  was  abroad  in  the  field  with  Heniy  Warrenner, 
and  that  they  heard  a  noife  of  horns,  and  a  great  noife  of  men  ihouting,  about  12  fcorc  from  his  Mafter's 
houfe;  whereupon  he  went  with  the  Warrenner  to  his  Mafter's  houfe,  to  call  forth  his  fellows,  and 
there  came  forth  with  them  Thomas  Jenkcns,  Bartholomev/  Cornifhc,  Edmund  Ayre,  and  William 
Symonds,  and  the  Warrenner;  and  they  went  all  together  to  the  place  where  they  heard  the  noife;firft, 
and  they  fuuiid  nobody  there,  for  the  noife-makers  were  gone  back.  Then  this  cxamuiant,  and  his 
fellows,  heard  the  like  noife  again  further  oft",  about  the  length  of  half  a  furlong,  to  his  judgment;  where- 
upon this  examinant  went,  with  his  fellows,  towards  the  noife,  and  always  when  they  came  to  the  place 
where  the  noife  was  made,  they  found  nobody,  and  thus  they  were  led  from  place  to  place  atter  the  noile 
to  the  quantity  of  three  quarters  of  a  mile,  or  thereabout,  to  a  place  called  Harnabie's  Clole,  bemg  ni 
the  tenure  of  one  Barnabie,  whofe  cattle  went  there  the  fame  time.  Then  two  ot  this  cxammant's 
fellows,  viz.,  Bartholomew  Cornifhe,  and  Thomas  Jenkens,  overtook  three  of  the  men  that  made  the 
noife.  And  this  examinant,  and  the  refidue  of  his  fellows,  followed  their  two  fellows  that  were  gone  ■ 
before,  and  they  found  them  fighting  with  twelve  or  thirteen  men,  to  his  judgment  ;  and  then  this 
examinant  took  part  with  his  fellows  till  he  was  Itricken  down,  and  afterward  he  could  not  tell  what 
was  done  ;  and  more  than  this  he  knoweth  not,  as  for  any  that  bade  keep  the  peace,  or  made  hue  or  c  y, 
he  heard  not.     To  the  refidue  of  the  Literrogatories  he  can  fay  nothing. 

William  Symonds  being  examined,  faith  to  all  the  Interrogatories  as  Thomas  Jenkcns  hath  f.^d, 
faving  to  the  third,  he  faith — 

That  where[as],  he,  this  examinant,  came  to  the  place  where  the  noife  was  made,  by  blowing 
of  horn;,  and  (houting  <,f  men  ;  that  they  found  the  noife-makers  gone,  and  they  fled  from  thcin,  from 
place  to  place,  until  they  came  to  a  place  called  Barnabie's  Clofe,  (a  piece  of  ground  that  hath  been  let 
to  one  William  Barnabie,  by  the  fpace  of  5  or  6  years,)  and  whether  he  occupieth   it  ftill   or  not,  he 


232  .  FdDi'iIy  oj  Sci/i/uWi. 

kiioweth  not,  and  there  Thomas  Jcnkcns,  and    Bartholomew  Corniflie,  being  fomcwhat   before  the  reft, 
began  the  all'iay. 

Examination  of  'John  Jboroe,  alias  Broiught. 

To  all  the  whole  matter  he  can  fay  nothing,  more  than  that  at  the  beginning  of"  the  art'ray,  he 
faith,  he  was  in  Mr.  Fortcl'ciie's  houfe,  iiaving  there  a  brewing  to  brew  for  Mr.  Fortefciie  ;  but  what  was 
done  abroad  among  Mr.  Fortefcue  his  men,  he  knoweth  iiothijig  ;  and  the  ne.xt  morning  he  went  home 
to  his  mafter,  Mr.  Dorrell's  houfe,  and  there  did  remain  till  fuch  time  he  was  committed  to  the  iaii  ;  and 
at  whofe  charges  he  is  now  during  his  imprifonment  he  knoweth  not,  but  faith,  if  it  be  at  his  own  charges 
he  is  undone. 

The  Examination  of  Edmund  A^re. 

To  the  hrrt  and  lecond,  he  fiith,  he  can  fay  nothing,  for  that  day  he  was  notwi.h  liis  Mafter 
biitwas  on  ha  wking. 

To  the  third,  he  faith,  that  about  11  of  the  clock  in  the  night,  the  Warrenner  fenkens  and 
Richard  Howfe,  came,  and  called  him  out  of  his  bed;  anil  after  he  was  rifeii,  he,  this  examinant  'vei  t 
after  the  faid  W^uiener  Jenkeas,  and  Hou  le,  who  were  gone  forth  before,  and  foimd  thoie  three  dealinif 
of  blows  with  certain  men,  who  he  knew  not,  in  a  place  called  Barnabie's  Clofe  ;  and  there  he  took  pai  t 
with  his  faid  fellows,  till  fuch  time  the  affray  was  done  :  the  which  being  ended,  both  he,  and  his  fell  jw  , 
went  home,  leading  Mr.  Savage  with  them. 

To  all  the  reft  lie  can  fay  nothing,  neither  doth  he  know  at  whofe  charges  he  doth  here  lie. 

W'lLLiAM  Dormer. 

A'llCHAELL    BlOUNTE.'       ' 

A  Declaration  of  the  Controverjy  betwixt  me^  the  Lord  Grey,  and  John  Fortefcue,  unto4he  Right 
Honourable  and  my  very  good  L.L.  the  L.L.  of  the  Privy  Council. 

It  may  pleafe  your  L.L.  Mr.  Fortefcue  hath  a  manor  in  the  County  of  Buck,  called  Salden, 
the  grounds  whereof,  on  the  one  fide,  but  with  a  hedge,  are  divided  from  the  Chafe  of  W  h.iddon,  I'no 
which  daily  the  deer  of  the  faid  Chafe  do  feed  and  fly.  Now  hath  it  been  a  continual  cuftom,  time  ouj.  of 
mind,  (as  hath  been,  and  is  well  to  be  proved,)  the  Keepers,  with  hound  and  horn,  to  iiuiit  and  to  m.'ike 
in  the  fame,  without  any  reflflaiice,  orjuft  gainfaying :  till  that  about  Shrove-tide  laft  was  a  twelvemonth, 
(as  I  remember,)  the  faid  Fortefcue  came  one  day  unto  me,  in  the  Chamber  of  Prefeiice  at  the  VVfiire 
Hall,  with  a  ereat  complaint,  that  my  Keepers  had  uled  him  very  evil  in  the  hunting  his  faid  gr-iunds  at 
Salden,  and  killing  of  deer  out  of  the  fame.  Whercuiito  by  me  w.is  anfweied,  th.it  "  if  tliey  had  there 
hunted  to  kill,  I  would  not  like  of  it,  but  would  (ce  it  redrelled.  Marie,  that  if  they  had  but  hunted  to 
fetch  home  the  game,  that  then  he  was  not  to  miflike  with  that,  for  that  liimlelf  did  know  -.he  Keepers 
ever  to  have  ufed  the  fame."  Whereunto  he,  the  faid  Fortefcue,  replied,  that  "  they  fliould  do  neither, 
for  that  he  had  a  charter,  and  that  he  would  be  as  able  to  defend  the  right  thereof,  as  I  the  right  of  my 
office."     Whereupon  I,  finding  the  cowlder  and   curtizer  I  was,  the  warmer  and  braver  him  to  wax, 


'   Domeflic,  Elizabetli,  vol.   g2,  No.  35.      State   Paper  Otiicc.      In   the   printed  C.ilciuiar  this   pipir   is   dattd 
Oflober  6,  1573. 


Right  Hon.  Sir  jfo/i//  Fortefcice.  233 


could  no  longer  forbear  ;  hut  with  lume  unfccmly  fpcuch  here  to  be  recited,  though  feenily  then  enough 
for  him,  did  flatly  tell  him,  "it  fliould  be  hunted  as  it  had  been,  tdl  law  luui  oiherwile  or.'ered  the  right 
of  his  charter  to  be  better,  than  that  of  the  Chafe's  prefcription  ;  and  that  I  knew  what  Fortelcue  was 
well  enough."  To  which  he  anfwered,  "  that  he  alfo  knew  what  the  Lord  CJrey  was  ;"  and  {^  Hung 
away. 

A  two  or  three  days  after,  I,  not  feeing  Mr.  Fortelcue  in  any  other  ()lace,  nor  well  brooking  his 
laft  fliort  fpeech,  finding  him  m  the  Chamber  of  Prelcnce,  told  hmi,  that  "  I  had  to  Ipeak  with  him, 
and  prayed  him  to  go  afide  with  me  out  of  the  Chamber  ;"  the  which  he  doni,r,  "  1  did  challenge  him  for  ' 
his  whott'  and  Ihort  Ipeeches  before  ufed  unto  me  ;"  wlio  did,  with  (uch  curtefie  and  reverence  therein 
fatisfy  me,  as  more  could  not  be  craved,  and  from  the  quarrel,  entering  into  talk  of  the  making  in  of  his 
purliue,  with  great  friendfliip,  as  I  thought,  ended  thus  ;  that  I  lliould  "  continue  the  wonted  manner  of 
fetching  home  the  game,  but  not  to  hunt  for  the  killing  of  any  deer  out  of  the  fame  :"  and  fo  we  j  irted, 
my  Keepers  having  ever  fmce,  without  an)'  fault  found,  or  refinance,  accordingly  luinted  it.  Till  iiow, 
the  lOth  of  Augult  lalt,  (I  being  then  in  Wales,,)  the  Keeper's  boy  of  that  lidc,  finding  deer  to  have 
gone  out,  lliook  otf"his  hound,  and  followed  the  lame  to  make  them  home  airain  :  the  boy  thus  hunting, 
Mr.  P'ortefcue  himfelfcame  unto  him,  and  forbade  him  the  hunting  of  it  any  more,  with  great  words, 
that  "  wholbever  did  adventure  again,  fliould  be  made  to  repent  it."  The  hoy  brought  word  of  this  to 
one  Savage,  (my  Leivetennt"  there;)  whereupon  the  next  morning  himl'elf  did  go  to  Mr.  Fortefcue, 
(then  at  his  houfe  of  Salden,)  and  Ijaeaking  with  him,  told  him,  that  he  was  "come  to  know,  whether 
lie  had  forbidden  the  boy  to  hunt  Salden,  and  ufed  I'uch  threats,  or  no."  Mr.  Fortelcue  ariirmed  that 
"  he  had  done  fo,  and  that  again  he  did  forbid  him  the  lame  .it  his  peril."  Savage  anfwered,  that  "  what 
peril  I'oever  there  were  in  it,  he  mult,  according  to  culiom  and  orderly,  make  home  the  Oueen's  game, 
otherwife  that  he  was  lure  lu  have  but  I'mall  thanks  at  his  Marter's  hands,  and  wiihed  that  he  might  do 
it  with  tjuietnefs  rather  tlian  othcrwile  "  And,  lo,  without  any  other  worle  Ipeech  ot  either  fide,  Savage 
took  his  leave  of  him. 

The  next  day,  being  the  12th  of  .Augull:,  in  the  morning,  comes  the  boy  that  was  wont  to  hunt  that 
purliue,  to  Savage,  (who  was  ready  to  ride  about  certain  bufinels  from  home  for  that  day,)  and  told  him 
that  "  there  were  deer  gone  into  Salden,  but  that  he  durli:  not  alone  go  to  hunt  them  home  :"  whereupon. 
Savage  willed  an  under  Keeper  of  his  to  go  with  him.  This  Keeper,  with  the  boy,  about  2  or  3  of  the 
clock  in  the  afternoon,  did  go  and  hunt  that  purliue  ;  and  having  done,  and  being  a  quarter  of  a  mile  on 
their  way  homeward,  2  of  Mr.  Fortefcue's  men,  with  (laves,  came  running  after  them,  and  called  unto 
them  to  iby  ;  and  having  overtaken  them,  told  them,  that  they  "  mull  come  10  their  Mailer  ;"  which  the 
Keeper  refufing,  after  multiplying  of  Come  words,  and  a  fliow  to  have  olfered  force,  .Mr.  Fortcl^;ue's  men 
returned  back  in  great  halle  ;  the  Keepers,  on  the  other  fide,  made  homeward  :  but  they  had  not  gone 
2  furlongs,  when  the  fame  fellows,  the  one  of  them  having  changed  his  pitchfork  into  a  bill,  had  croTed 
them,  and  overtaken  them  again,  and  then  did  flatly  fay  unto  them,  that,  "  whether  they  would  or  no, 
they  fliould  go  with  them  to  their  Mailer."  "  Why  ?■■  quoth  the  Keeper :  "  where  is  your  Mafle?", 
"  On  the  other  fide  of  the  hedge,"  anfwered  Mr.  Fortefcue's  men.  "  Why,  then,"  (aid  the  Keeper,  "  we 
will  go,  but  to  his  houfe  I  would  not  have  gone."  Which  no  fooner  fpukcn,  but  comes  6  or  8  more  of 
Mr.  Fortefcue's  men,  with  bows  and  (laves,  towards  them,  and  by  force  t.iok  their  ftaves  from  them, 
with  the  loan  of  fome  blows:   and  then  Mr.  Fortelcue  himl'elf,  in   great  halle  and   r.ige,  cumcb  over  the 


Hot. 


''■  I.icutin.int. 


2  31-  Family  of  Saldcn. 

hedge,  and  tirft  flies  upon  the  KeeptT,  and  belK.ws  on  him  divers  blows  ;  then,  elpyinj;  the  boy,  forl'aking 
the  other,  did  tall  to  him,  and  having  beaten  him  well,  did  command  his  mei,  to  take  and  hold  him, 
whilft  he  might  cut  his  points  to  whip  him.  Then  the  Keeper  fleppcd  forth,  and  prayed  Mr.  Fortel'cuc 
"  not  to  deal  (b  extremely  :"  wherewith  Mr.  Fortefcue,  more  enraged,  left  the  boy,  fiiatching  a  great 
bals  horn  from  him,  and  therewithall  did  beat  the  Keeper  again  ;  the  boy  this  while,  being  let  go,  ran 
away  as  tall  as  he  could  go.  Mr.  Fortefcue,  feeing  that,  leaves  (lie  Keeper,  and  courfes  himfelf  after  the 
boy,  even  to  the  Chale  hedge,  where,  lindmg  the  boy's  f.ither,  after  ni.my  knaves  c.dled,  and  i;ieat  threats, 
that  "  he,  or  whofoever  elle  oi  my  Keepers  or  ferv.mts  came  upon  his  ground,  Ihould  be  killed  ;"  and 
vvithall  turned  him  to  his  men,  and  "gave  them  open  conimandineiit  to  kill  whonifoever  came  to  hunt 
his  grounds,  and  that  he  woidd  bear  them  out:"  tliis  fjioken,  the  Keeper  was  let  go,  and  lo  this  day's 
pagen '  ended. 

The  next  day,  being  Thurfday,  and  the  13th  of  Augulf,  Savage  came  home  aho.it  7  or  8  of  the 
clock  at  night,  to  whom  report  being  made  of  the  former  d.iy's  hunting,  feeing  the  exyemity  that  was 
Ihowed,  and  fearing  that  an  hour's  delay  now  of  hunting  that  purliue  might  prejudice  the  title  of  con- 
tinuance thereof  more  than  a  week's  torbearins;  another  time,  prefently  took,  belides  two  Keepers,  5  or 
6  of  my  own  men,  being  weaponed  all  with  Itaves,  faving  one  bow  ami  one  bill  ;  and  going  to  the  pur- 
liue, did  lend  into  the  grounds  with  the  hounds  but  the  wonted  boy  with  2  Keepers,  he  ll.ij  ing  with  i  he 
relt  under  the  hedge  for  refcue  only  of  the  hunters,  who  were  not  gone  2  bow  fliot  from  their  comp;  ny 
but  were  fet  on  by  5  or  6  ;  and  the  Keepers,  feeking,  as  they  were  commanded,  to  retire  themfeK'es  to 
the  place  where  Savage  lay,  one  of  them  being  not  able  to  hold  foot  with  the  other,  was  driven  to  tu  n, 
and  'call  to  his  fellows  to  ftay  with  him  ;  which  he  no  fooner  had  done,  but  2  or  3  lighting  upon  hi  n, 
was  ftricken  down.  Now  .Savage,  hearing  that  the  fight  was  already  tried  there,  came  forth  with  his 
6  or  7,  where  he  found  at  the  leafl:  a  20  to  encounter  him,  whereof  8  or  10  had  bows.  So  4  of 
mine  were  very  evil  hurt,  and  one  to  the  death,  as  fince  is  tallcn  out;  and  thus  have  )our  L.L.  1  he 
caufe,  the  beginning  and  ending  ol  this  riot,  whereby  a  lubjciil  hath  lofl  his  lik-.  ' 

Now,  it  m.iy  pleafc  your  1^.  L.,  I,  being  advertifcd  hereof  in  Wales,  did  ilreight  make  my  repair 
home,  and  havinge  by  examination  found  out  the  circiimltance  of  the  matter  belorc  difcourled,  and 
feeing  divers  of  my  men  in  danger  of  death,  and  knowing  the  right  of  the  caule  to  appertcyne  to'  Her 
Ma"'',  and  confequently  the  offence  and  injury  to  return  unto  her,  I  thought  my  duty  with  mod  d^fcre- 
tion  difcharged  in  feeking  redrefs  by  due  courfe  and  order  of  law.  And  fo,  upon  information  to  the  Justices 
gate  of  Privy  Seflions  (though  for  the  affcmbly  of  Jufticcs,  whatfoevcr  the  adverfary  untruly  defameth, 
might  have  been  at  Qiiarter  Seflions),  to  be  called  :  At  the  which  by  honeft,  fubrtnntial,  and  indifl'tent 
Jury,  what  untrue  report  foevcr  is  given  lo  the  contrary,  Mi'.  Fortefcue,  ami  certain  of  h's  men,  his 
father-in-law  being  piefent  from  the  beginning  to  theeiid,  wiih  liberty  and  have  to  fpeak  and  alledge  what 
he  could  in  his  or  any  of  their  behalfs,  as  very  often  he  did  (a  favor  yet  feldom  permitted  i,i  cafes  againft 
the  Queen,)  were  of  ij  riots  indicted.  In  the  full  of  which,  .Mr.  Fortelcue  hiinlelf  is  a  riot>  r  :  In  the  lalf 
whereat  fo  many  were  hurt  with  peril  of  death,  it  is  f)und  to  be  committed  by  Mr.  Fortcl'ci  e's  command- 
ment. Since  time  of  which  Indictments,  one  of  my  hurt  men,  being,  indeed,  dead,  I  minded,  according 
to  ecjuity  and  juftice  at  this  Quarter  SefTions,  to  have  fought  redrefs  of  fo  heynous  a  hi\  as  the  killing, 
or  rather  murdering,  of  one  of  her  Ma"'',  fubjecls  cometh  to.  But  being  countermanded  by  your 
L.  L.  letters  in  her  Ma'"^'.  name,  would  not  fecm  to  h.ive  them  in  fo  fmali  regard,  although  (under 
your  L.    L.'s  correaion,   and  dutifully  do  I   fpcak  it,)   that    both    I    had  wrong    to    be    (b    retrained 

'   Quary,  I'agcart. 


Right  Ho7i.  Sir  ydvi  Fortcjcue.  235 

from  Juftice,  ami  alio  that  lawfully  lur  all  thole  letlers  I  iiiiL'lu  li.ivc  |i|-c)ccc-ilc(.l  to  the  calling  for  Juftice, 
and  the  lame  not  to  have  been  denied  nie,  as  doth  well  appear,  as  1  take  it  by  a  Statute  ot  A".  2  Ld.  HI. 
Cap.  9,  if  I  do  not  niillakc  it.  And  furely,  my  L.  L.  to  lee  mine  Adverfary,  whom  not  only  for  calling, 
but  alio  for  well-deferving  of  prince  and  cotmtry,  I  may,  without  arrogance,  (I  trull),  not  only  match, 
but  lbmev\hat  better:  to  fee  him,  I  fay,  l"o  nuich  favoured  in  an  evil  caufe,  and  mylelf,  in  leeking  of 
Jullice,  fo  lightly  accounted  of;  belldes,  the  wron;'  doth  bring  Jio  Imall  grid' unto  me  ;  1  am,  therefore, 
humbly  to  bcfeech  your  I^.  L.  that  as  your  letters  to  jirohihit  the  proceeding  m  Juflice  have  brtjught  me 
the  wrong  and  difgrace  I  jufti)'  comiilain  me  of,  your  L.  L.  will  now,  by  )i>ur  letters  ag.iin  to  the  Judices 
of  the  Ihire  for  the  fpeedy  proceeding  in  Jullice,  ajid  calling  of  a  Scflions,  redrefs  unto  me  the  l.ud 
endured  Injury,  I  humbly  end.'  [^^^    (Jury. 

Lord    Grey,    failing    to    receive    fatisfacftion    from    Her    Majefty's  Council,    now   look 
meafurcb  to  rcJrefs  himielf.  i 

Complaint  ofjohn  Fortcfcue  to  the  Council? 

May  it  pleafe  your  Honors.  On  Tuefday,  the  laft  of  November,  the  L.  Grey,  together  with  one 
John  Zowche,  came  by  ix  of  the  clock,  accompanied  with  xii  ferving  men  ol  purpole,  and  tarried  in  the 
ftiop  of  one  Lewes,  a  crofs-bow  maker,  above  one  hour,  fending  diverfe  times  out  a  lackey  to  bring  word 
of  my  coming;  his  men  were  l.ud  divided  on  every  fide  of  the  iireet  a  little  beneath  Tejiiple  IS.ir, 
towards  the  Court;  and  at  x  of  the  clock,  or  rather  after,  I  came  out  of  Chancery  Lane  on  horlehack, 
with  V  men,  unprovided  both  myfelf,  and  my  men  wholly  by  means  of  the  commandment  by  my  Lords 
of  the  Council  delivered  unto  u.s  both  at  Greenwich  :  And  palling  on,  the  L.  Grey's  lackey  brought 
word  I  was  coming;  whereupon  they,  all  ready,  my  L.  fuffering  me  to  pal's,  itrakc  me  on  the  head  fo 
fore,  that  I  was  aftouned,aiid  fell  from  my  horfe,  fiying,  as  the  llanders  by  do  report,"  You  have  fpoiled 
me  ;"  Whereunto  he  anfwered,  "  N.iy,  vill.iin,  1  wdl  have  my  pennyworth  of  thee  ;  thou  flialt  not  ^'cape 
fo  :"  with  many  other  like  fpeeches  ;  ilriking,  when  I  was  down,  divers  blows,  which  partly  were  by  me 
with  mine  arm  and  cloak  borne,  and  diverfe  broken  by  a  fervii:g  man  called  Harry  Clerke,  who  to(jk 
the  crab-tt-ce  truncheon  out  of  the  L.  Grey's  hand,  and  brake  a  tlirufl  that  one  of  the  L.  (jrey's  lervants, 
called  Tymothie,  call  to  have  flain  me  withal  :  Some  of  the  lervants  of  one  Hearne  plucked  me  up,  and 
pulled  ine  into  an  entry,  where,  Zowche  thrufling  at  me,  I  had  been  flain,  had  not  the  faid  Hearne's 
man  broken  the  bow  with  a  yard,  where  I  daggered,  and,  not  able  to  come  to  mylelf,  was  pulled  into 
the  houfe,  nor  could  fee,  or  difcern  any  man,  a  pretty  fpace  :  His  men,  all  provided,  let  upon  my  lervants, 
and  ij  of  them  are  very  dangeroully  hurt,  and  had  been  prefently  flain,  if  the  refcue  of  the  ftreet  had  not; 
been  :  All  this,  with  many  other  circumflanccs  of  the  matter,  may  be  perfedly  known  to  your  Honors 
by  the  tellimony  of  diverfe  gentlemen  and  iidiabitants  of  the  faid  llreet  :  Wjierefore  I  moll  humbly  |>iay 
you  that  you  will  take  order  for  my  fifety,  for  that  I  am  farther  informed,  that  the  laid  L.  Grey  h  ah 
appointed  another  compaft  for  the  murdering  of  me  and  my  lervants,  which  hereafter  will  appear:  iMoft 
humbly  pr.iying  your  Hojiors  that  Lawrence  Hollingflieddc,  Thoma  sWake,  and  John  Savage,  may  b-: 
fent  for,  upon  whofe  examination  the  truth  of  much  more  foul  matter  will  appear." 

The  State  Papers  here  end  abruptly,  without  informing  tis  whether  Sir  John  went  to  law 
to  punil'h  the  alTailants,  or  whether  he,  like  Lord  Grey,  took  his  rctlrefs  into  liis  own  hands. 


'   Domeftic,  Elizabeth,  vol.  92,  No.  36.      State  I'lpir  OfHee,  a.  d.  1573. 
^  Ibid.,  vol.  93,  No.  1  ;  dale  in  Caliidar,  A.  u    1573- 


236  Family  of  SaLlcH. 

We  find,  however,  th;it  his  afHiilint  was  foon  after  a  prifoiier  in  the  l>'leet,  as  appears  by  the 
following  letter  :—  • 

My  very  good  I/.  It  is  not  too  be  dowghtcd  but  y'  Fortefcuc  wyll  infoorme  any  thyng  for  y' 
bettering  of  hys  ryght  &  obtaynyng  of  hys  wyll,  yf  woordes,  how  ever  llrayncd  maye  ferve  the  turne. 
But  my  L.  I  humbly  befeetche  you  too  confidre  y'  the  matter  doothe  no  lefs  tootche  myne  enheritancc 
then  hys,  and  as  hee  doothe  clayme  &  enfourme  mootchc  for  y"=  goodnes  of  hys  charter,  fo  yf  my 
fpeeatchies  maye  as  well  bee  accepted  as  hys  (as  I  trull  there  is  no  caufe  but  they  Ihulkl)  wyll  1  faye  no 
lefTe  for  y'  liberties  of  myne  office  &  bee  allfo  able,  I  Jowglit  not,  too  make  as  good  proull'cs  of  the  fame. 
If  hys  clayme  ot  Charter  bee  allreadie  good  in  lawe  (as  hee  avovvcs  the  Judgies  too  affirme)  what  iieedes 
hee  to  feelce  renovation  of  that  w''  is  perfe.St  allreadie  ?  I  dezyre  but  lawfuU  tryall  of  ovvr  tytles  iS:  as 
theyr  goodnes  Ihall  fallowte&  bee  adjudged  content  myfelf,  make  it  w'  mee  or  agaynft  ni -e  ;  why  fhulld 
not  hee  allfo  bee  fo.  Ootherwyfe  I  can  not  afTent  too  parte  w'  any  parte  of  myne  enh  .ritance.  Hyr 
ma"*.  I  knowe,  at  hyr  pleazure  maye  take  not  onely  liberties,  but  office  fellf  &  all  from  mee  &  dyfpoze 
of  eyther  at  hyr  lykinge  and  in  trowthe  my  L.  (dutyfully  1  boathe  fpeake  &  meane  it)  as  well  maye  the 
one  as  the  oother  be  doonne,  for  yf  the  office  bee  myne,  no  lels  is  my  ryght  in  y'  privilegies  therof  / 
And  furely  yf  that  libertie  had  not  ever  beelonged  therunto  Sc  been  fo  mayntayned,  in  vayne  had  tl  e 
grownde  been  appoynted  for  deere,  &  as  vayne  wyll  it  bee  too  keepe  it  ftyll  too  y'  fame  ule  yf  the  fan  e 
libertie  bee  taken  from  it./  I  humbly  praye  your  L.  too  waye  this  my  caufe  by  that  of  your  owane  ■i 
oothers  whow  have  cnheritancies  of  lyke  ofEcies,  &  afTift  mee  heerein  leafte  perhaps  my  prefidcnt  i)a\  e 
one  daye  prejudice  (though  not  yowr  L.  fellf,  &  oothers  now  in  authoritie)  yet  thofe  y'  fliall  coome  aft(  r 
yow  &  them,  they  happely  bearyng  as  lyttle  authoritie  as  doothe  now  myfellf./  Thus  as  yowr  L.  wylled, 
I  have  fignified  the  full  of  my  mynde  herein./  I  am  now  too  fheow  your  L.  that  the  fyrfl  newys  of  n  y 
L.  of  Hunfdoon  hys  havyng  of  my  nephew  dyd  no  lefs  damp  &  grieve  mee,  then  the  former  niefTage  ■  t 
pleazed  yow  too  fend  mee,  of  the  care  y'  yowr  fellf  woolld  have  of  hym  dyd  rejoyce  &  dyiliurden  m.-e  nf 
the  care  &  feare,  naye  rather  dyfpayre,  y'  now  I  have  of  hys  well  dooyng.  Yet  good  my  I..,  tho.vgfe 
the  chyelldes  hard  hap  bee  footche  as  too  fall  intoo  foutche  cuffoodie,  as  hys  fpoyle,  for  want  of  brynging 
up,  is  greatly  too  bee  feared,  order  it  fo  y'  hys  land  yet  fall  not  intt)o  the  {.wnt:^  h.mdes  to  abyde  a  nlore 
certayne  daneger  of  fpoyle.  So  bcetaking  boathe  care  of  this  as  allfo  myne  owne  enlarging  too  youi  L. 
favourable  rememberauce,  I  humbly  take  my  leave./     From  y'  Fleete  this  xxix"'  of  martche  a"  1574'./ 

Your  L.  afllircdiy  whylUl  I  lyve 

A.  R.  Grey.  ' 

AJdrcJpd : — "Too  y'  ryghte  honorable  my  efpecyal 
good  L.  the  L.  Rurley  Hyghe  Thre.i/ur- 
rar  of  England  geeve  this/"  ' 

Endorfed : — "j.  mar.   y'^^  L.   Grey   to   my   L.    fio  y' 

flete.     Concerning  a  title  between  him  : 

&  Fortefcue :  about  an  Inheritance  in 
an  office  w^''  hee  licld  of  y"  Ouceii. 
xiv."  ' 


'   Brit.  Mus.  Lands.  MS.  iS. 


■'i;  .}■* 


Right  Hon.  Sir  yohn  Fortcfcue.  2  37 

A  few  years  after  the  death  of  his  firll  wife,'  Sir  John  married  again,  to  Alice,  daughter 
of  Chriflopher  Smyth,  Efquire,  of  Annabells,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter,  Margery, 
married  to  Sir  John  Pulteney,  of  Mifl:erton,  in  Leicefterfliire.  \\\  Chamberlain's  Letters 
to  Dudley  Carlton,  he  writes,  June  27th,  1602  ;- — "One  I'oulteny,  a  younge  gentleman  ot 
Northamptonfliire,  marries  Miftrefs  Padge  I'"ortefcue." 

He  had  before  acquired  the  entire  Salden  eitate,  and  had  begun  to  build  a  manfion  there 
on  the  fite  of  the  old  Hall,  which  was  included  in  the  new  buildings.  It  was  llyled  by  the 
topographers,  "  the  fineft  houfe  in  the  county,"  and  "  a  moll  magnificent  feat."^  "  It  was  built 
round  a  court  or  fquare.  The  width  of  the  piincipal  front  was  one  hundred  and  ieventy- 
five  feet,  with  a  balluftrade  at  the  top  ;  and  nine  large  windows  on  a  range  gave  it  the 
appearance  of  a  palace.  The  fecond  front,  with  an  equal  row  of  windows  (in  the  middle  floriy 
of  which  was  the  gallery  of  148  feet,  which  probably  faced  the  garden)  was  little  inlerior  to 
the  former.  In  this  gallery-chamber,  or  diiiing-room,  was  an  alabalter  or  marble  chimney- 
piece,  which  was  juftly  admired  for  its  curious  workman fliip.  The  height  of  the  manfion 
to  the  top  of  the  chimneys  was  70  feet  The  building  was  of  excellent  mafonry  in  the  brick 
and  ftone  work.  About  33,000/.  were  expended  upon  it,  in  itlelt  a  large  ium,  but 
remarkably  fo  for  the  time  ;  although  fome  of  the  rooms  are  not  finifhed,  and  notwith- 
ftanding  that  the  carriage  of  the  materials,  and  the  timber,  were  found  by  Sir  John." 

He  adorned  the  windows  with  coats  of  arms  in  ftained  glafs,  reprefenting  the  various 
marriages  of  himfelf  and  his  anceftors  with  other  families.     Thefe  are  detailed  by  Ikown  Willis. 

The  grounds  adjoining  were  laid  out  in  terraces  with  hfli  pounds,  fountains,  and  a 
bowling  green.  The  fituation  is  on  a  rifing  ground,  commanding  a  rich  and  extenhve  view 
of  the  lower  diflri(5ls  of  Buckinghamlliire,  and  the  adjoining  counties,  for  many  miles;  the 
immediate  neighbourhood  is  undulating  and  paftoral. 

Here  the  ftatefman  lived  for  many  years  in  much  ftate  and  with  large  hofpitahty  ;  his 
fervants  were  faid  to  be  fixty  in  number,  and  the  windows  of  his  houfe  fo  numerous  that  one 
of  them  had  little  to  do  befides  opening  and  flmtting  them  :  one  bullock  daily  was  killed 
for  the  fupply  of  the  houfe  when  filled  ;  and  it  employed  within  its  walls  a  butcher  and  a 
baker.  In  a  field,  ftill  called  "  Beggar's  Mead,"  near  the  houfe,  the  broken  viduals  that 
were  left  were  every  day  ferved  out  to  the  poor.' 

Sir  John's  firft  entrance  into  Parliament' was  into  that  of  the  14th  of  Elizabeth,  which  met 
on  May  8th,  1572;  he  having  been  elccfted  a  burgefs  for  the  borough  of  Wallingford,  i 
town  near  his  own  part  of  Oxfordfliire. 

The  chief  bufinefs  of  this  his  firft  fefTion  was  connec'ted  with  the  defigns  of  Mary  Queei 


'  See  Funeral  Certificate  in  College  of  Arms.  '   l'''nleJ  by  Camden  Sociely.^ 

^  Bucks  Records,  vol.  i. ;   Brown-Willis's  MS.  and  Cole's  MS. 

«  Home  in  Bucks  Records,  vol.  i.  (Coll.  iv.  137)-  '  ^^''"'^''^  ^''^'^  ''"''•  '"'•  ''  '''  ^^- 


238  Fiunily  of  Sahkfi. 

of  Scots  on  the  crown  of  England  ;   but  liis  name  does  not  occur  in  the  very  meagre  reports 
of  Parliamentary  proceedings  which  are  preferved. 

We  meet  with  it  for  the  firft  time  in  the  Seiiion  of  the  23rd  of  Elizabeth,  15H0;'  when 
he,  as  "  Mr.  Eortefcue,  Mafter  of  the  Wardrobe,"  is  on  a  Committee  to  conllder  what 
meafures  ought  to  be  taken  to  enable  the  Queen  to  defend  the  realm  againft  the  treafons  of  the 
Pope's  adherents,  and  eipecially  to  fupprefs  the  rebellion  in  Ireland.  It  muft  be  remembered, 
fo  flight  and  fragmentary  are  the  records  of  what  took  place  in  Parliament  at  that  time, 
that  a  member  may  have  often  taken  a  part  in  tlie  debates  without  any  mention  of  the  fa6t 
appearing  in  print. 

In  the  next  Parliament,  which  met  for  the  firll  time  on  the  29th  of  Odober,  1586,  (28 
of  Elizabeth),  he  fit  for  the  town  of  Buckingham,"  the  Salden  purchafe  having  now  given 
him  influence  in  that  quarter. 

"  The  Parliament  was  called,"  fays  D'Ewes,  "  for  no  other  caufe  or  ground  than  the  , 
timely  and  ftrange  difcovery  ot  that  bloody  treafon  plotted  by  Babington  and  others  for  tlie 
cutting  off  of  the  Oucen's  lite,  of   which  Mary  OLieen  of  Scots  had  been  l)y  a  mod  jull;  and 
honourable  trial  fully  convicted." 

Accordingly,  on  Eriday  the  4tli  of  November,  after  mucli  debate  on  "the  great  caufe," 
a  committee  of  the  Commons  was  named  to  confer  with  tlie  lloufe  of  Lords  "  on  fome  coii- 
venient  and  fit  courfe  to  be  taken  in  that  behalf."    b'ortelcue  was  one  of  this  committee.'' 

He  foon  after  is  on  a  committee  to  mijuire  into  the  oaths  reijuired  tcj  l)e  taken  by 
Minifters  of  Religion,  and  "  to  confer  upon  iome  gooel  couife  to  be  taken  to  have  a  learn  -d 
Miniftry."' 

And  on  tlie  I  8th  of  March  he  is  appointed  with  the  Privy  Counfellors  members  of  the 
Houfe,  and  a  few  other  members,  to  have  audience  of  Her*-Majeily,  at  her  tielire,  upon  ;i 
benevolence  to  be  granted  to  the  Queen  "  in  regard  to  her  charges  fuftained  in  the  Lovj 
Countries."'' 

In  this  inflance  he  is  llyled  "  M'.  bortelcue.  Mailer  of  the  liequefts."  '  I 

The  execution  of  Mary  Oueen  of  Scots  took  place  at  this  time,  namely,  on  the  Xth  of 
""February,  1587,  at  Eotheringay  Caftle  in  Northamptonfhire.  Her  body  was  embalmed,  and 
kept  for  fix  months  in  the  room  where  fhe  was  beheaded,  and  then  remove  1  to  the 
Cathedral  at  Peterborough,  where  Elizabeth  delired  that  the  remains  fliould  be  bu  ied  with 
Royal  pomp,  oppofite  to  the  tomb  of  Catherine,  Oueen  of  I  lenry  VIII.  Among  ;he  great 
ofScers  of  State  who  attended  the  ceremony  was  Sir  John  bortelcue,  attended  by  his  two 
fons.  Sir  Francis  and  Sir  William." 

In  the  next  new  Parliament,  which  met  on  the  4th  of  February,  1589,  (3  11I;  of  Elizabeth), 


'  D-Ewe's  Farliamcntb  ol  E lizabtth,  p.  2S8.        '^  Willis's  Not.  I'arl.         ''   D'Ewes,  p.  394.         ^   Ibid.,  p.  413. 
^  Ibid.,  p.  41O.  *■   I'loin  a  MS.  in  Sir  Thomas  I'liiilijips's  colieiftion  at  Middlcliill. 


Right  Ho?i.  Si?'  yo/in  Fortefcice.  239 

he  fat  for  the  county  of  Buckingh.im  ;  while  his  eklelT:  fon,  Francis,  came  in  for  the 
town  in  his  father's  place.  The  invalion  of  Enghind  by  the  Spaniards,  in  their  Armada,  had 
happened  in  the  previous  autumn  ;  and  although  the  immediate  danger  was  over  by  its  dif- 
perfion  on  the  coalT:s,  the  country  was  (till  alarmed,  and  fubfidies  were  granted  to  enable  the 
Oueen  to  raile  a  fleet  and  army;  while  Ihe  was  prayed  by  both  Houfes  to  declare  war 
againfi:  Spain.  On  this  occafion  b'ortefcue  made  the  'ixx^  fpeech  which  we  hear  of.  What  he 
laid  has  not  been  preferved,  "being  wholly  ommitted  by  great  negligence  of  Mr.  Fulic 
Onflow,  Clerk  of  the  Houfe  of  Commons.'"  On  this  f.ime  day,  being  Saturday  the  29th  of 
March,  1589,  after  b'ortefcue  had  taken  to  the  Lords  a  "  Bill  of  the  Queen's  free  and 
general  pardon,"  flie  came  down  to  the  Floufe  of  Lords  and  difl'olved  the  I'arli;  ment,  after 
a  fmgle  fefllon  of  lefs  than  eight  weeks' duration ;  and  did  not  call  another  Par'iament  for 
nearly  tour  years. 

We  have  evidence  to  fliow  that  before  this  period  Fortefcue  was  employed  by  Klizabcth 
in  duties  more  confidential  than  thofe  of  the  Mailer  of  the  Wardrobe.  In  March,  1587,  lie 
addreffes,  by  her  command,  the  two  following  letters  to  Ca'far,  Judge  of  the  Court  of 
Admiralty.  They  are  the  firfl:  of  his  autograph  papers  which  I  have  met  with,  althou  rh 
he  probably  had  from  the  beginning  of  the  reign,  while  aifling  as  her  diredlor  in  Greek  and 
Latin,  been  often  employed  as  her  occafional  lecretary.        \^ 

t 
'■To  the  Judge  of  the  Admiraltye. 

S'  w"'  my  molt  harty  comendacoris  her  ma''-',  being  enformcd  of  a  caule  in  controvfie 
depending  before  youe  betwene  one  Beckett  playntif  and  Martyn  Whight  defendaunte 
wherein  you"  have  proceaded  to  Judgment  agaynfl:  Whight  hath  comaunded  me  to  fignyfye 
vnto  youe  that  hir  pleaP.  is  youe  rtay  awarding  and  making  forth  execution  vppon  the  faij.i 
judgem'  vntill  foch  tyme  as  one  b'loyer  who  is  the  priiicipall  pailye,  and  had  the  goods  Beckett 
feweth  for,  be  browght  vp  to  anfware  the  matter  w'h  laid  fluyer  is  already^  fent  for,  an'.! 
hereof  hir  maty,  requyreth  you  to  have  a  fpeciall  regarde.  And  thus  I  comytt  youe  to  the 
Lords  tuicon.      At  the  Court  at  GrenW''.  the  xj  of  Marche  TfHy. 

Your  afliired  loving  Frende 


AddreJJed :—''  To  the  right  worfhipfull  M""  D.  Cefar 
Judge  of  hir  Ma".  Court  of 
thadmyraltye." 

Endorfed : — "11"  Martii  1587.  M'.  John  h'ortefcue 
in  her  Ma'"",  name  to  ilop  any 
execution  that  may  pafl"e  againlT; 
White  at  Beckets  fute."" 


JoHN    1<"0RTESCUE. 


D'Ewes.  I)]).  454,  455.  '  Liiiidi  MS.  15iit   Mus.,  158,  tor  this  and  the  ntxt  letter. 


240  Fa7inlyofSaldc?i. 

To  the  Judge  of  the  Aihmraltye. 

It  may  pleafe  youe  that  hir  Ma"",  hath  comauiulcd  inc  to  fignyfye  vnto  youe  that  where 

the  cxamynacoii  and  deteimynaciij  of  a  cauic  in  controv'fyc  bctwcne  Nicolas  J  hones  and  one 

Marchm"  ats  Sutton  is  coniyttcd  vnto  youe,  for  that  Johncs   is  now  employed  abowght  the 

repayring  and  tortetying  of  port  huide  CalHe  and  other  hir  ma'*.  nL-cedarye  Pvics  their,  hir 

pleafure  and  comauiidem'  isthatw'h  all  care  aiul  circunifpcition  you  luoke  to  the  Jiirtice  and 

equytye  and  expedicon  of  the  faid  caufe  w'h  youe  forefea  throwghtly  to  he  done  and  that 

Johnes  be  not  any  way  wronged  by  frendfliippe  or  countenrice  of  any  ires  or  other  meanes 

by  Marchm"  ro  be  [irocured  nor  any  ways  ov'boren,  whereof  althowgh  hir  Ma'",  in  refptcft  of 

your  wifdomes  and  integrytyes  nothing  doubteth,  yet  wold  fhe  have  knowe'i  vnto  youe  the 

efpeciall  care  fhe  hath  of  Juftice  to  be  duely  mynillred,  efpecially  to  them  wliofe  f'vices  hir 

highnes  employeth.      jVnd  this  w"'  my  moll  harty  cofiiendacons  1  comjtt  youe  to  the  Lords 

tuicon.      x\t  the  Court  at  Cirenw"''  the  xj  of  Marche  ifHy. 

Your  affured  loving  frende  ' 

John  Fortesci  e. 

Addrejjed : — "  To  the  right  worflupfull  the  Judge  of 

thadmyraltye   M^   I).    Ca-fir  forth' 

M'.    D.    Hamonde    and    othir    hir 

Ma'^'.  Comvllion's  to  whome  it  doth 

appirteyne."  j  ' 

Endorjed :  — "  11'  Marti:,  1587    M'.  John  Fortefcue 

in    her    Ma"",     name    to   heare  the  ': 

cotroverfy  betwene  Jones  and  Sutton 

w'h  all  indifi-'erency  &  Juflice."  | 

The  Queen  had  now  known  him  long  and  intimately.  His  devotion  to  her  ititerefts  and 
his  aptitude  for  bufmefs  were  undoubted,  and  his  relatioiilliip  to  her  mother's  funily  was  with 
i^lizabeth  an  additional  reafon  for  fhowing  favour;  he  was,  moreover,  an  experienced'  and 
influential  member  of  Parliament.  It  is  not,  therefore,  furprifmg  that  he  fliould  nov  at  jfngth 
rile  to  high  office.  Accordingly  wlieii  Sir  Walter  Mildniay,  who  had  been  Chancellor  and 
Under-Treafurerof  the  Exchequer  fmce  1566,  died  on  the  3  ill  of  May,  15B9,  l-ortcfcue  was 
appointed  as  his  fuccefior.  Camden  thus  refers  to  the  new  miniller:— "Sir  Wa.ter  Mildmay 
was  fucceeded  by  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  a  very  worthy  gentleman,  and  a  great  i  laller  of  the 
Cjreek  and  Latin." 

He  was  forthwith  made  a  Privy  Counfcilor,  and  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  office, 
which  he  held  until  the  accelTion  of  James  L  The  State  Papers  of  the  period  in  Kymer 
andellcwhere  have  frequent  mention  of  his  name,  affociated  with  tliofe  of  Lord  Burleigh,  the 
Lord  Treafurer,  Sir  Chriltopher  Llatton,  Buckhurlf,  and  others. 


Rig/it  Hou.  Sir  "John  Faj'tefciie.  241 

The  Qiieen  employed  Sir  John  on  a  conf'Kiciiti.il  tlrvice  o\\  the  death  of  Lord 
Clr.mcellor  Sir  Thomas  HroiiiL-y,  liis  hr.jthcr  in-I.iw  ;  wlio  died  on  the  1  ,'.th  of  April, 
1587,  loon  after  the  execution  of  Oueen  Marv,  at  u  h<.)ie  dial  he  had  prefuled,  having  fuit 
drawn  up  the  charges  ugainlt  her.  I  lis  illncfs  and  death  are  aitributed  by  L.ord  C'ampl)ell' 
to  his  anxiety  during  the  profeeution  of  "  the  great  caufe,"  as  it  was  ftyled  ;  to  foiiiething 
like  remorfe  at  the  tragedy  to  which  it  led;  and  to  vexatiiMi  upon  finding  that  I'.li/aheth 
(howed  difpleafure  towards  thole  who  had,  againlf  their  conviiHions,  lent  tlienifelves  to  be 
the  inllruments  of  her  jealous  fears. 

The  Chancellor  died  at  three  o'clock  in  the  morning  ;  and  the  Oueen,  being  informed  of 
the  event,  fent  Sir  John  between  fevcn  and  eight  o'clock  to  demand  tlie  great  leal.  The 
Clofe  lioll  goes  into  grave  iletails  on  the  iubjed  of  the  transfer  of  the  myllerioi  s  and 
venerated  inilrument  of  power.  On  the  death  of  Hromley's  predeceflbr  Sir  Nicholas  JJacon 
eight  years  before,  Loid  Burleigh,  and  the  Earl  of  Leicefler,  were  fent  on  a  like  errand." 

In  the  next  year  (15^1),  when  there  \vere  tVeqiient  prolecutions  of  Puritans,  Dilciphn- 
arians,  and  other  Nonconformills,  to  whom  the  dueen  was  at  times  more  hollile  than  to  the 
Roman  Catholics,  horteilue  fit  both  as  an  Kcclcilallical  Comnfurioner,  and  as  a  Member  of 
the  Court  of  the  Star  Chamber.  In  the  latter  Court  he  fat  in  May  with  the  Lord  Chancellor 
1  latton,'  Arehbifnoji  Whitgitt,  Lord  Buckhurfl:,  and  others,  in  the  cafe  of  Cartwright  a 
leader  of  Nonconform iits,  who  had  renounced  his  orders,  and  had  fet  himlelf  up  as  a  bifliop 
or  paflor,  feparating  himfelf  from  the  Chin-ch.  Af'ter  undergoing  imprifonment  in  the 
Pdeet  for  feveral  months,  he  was  releafed  with  the  ready  content  of  the  mild  Archhifliop, 
under  promile  to  be  quiet,  a  condition  to  which  Cartwright  ever  after  adhered.  ; 

In  the  lame  month  hortefcue,  as  an  Kcclefiallical  Commiilioner,  with  Archbilhop  Whit- 
gift,  Secretary  Woolley,  and  (jthers,  hears  the  cafe  againll  Robert  Cawdry,  parfon  of  South 
Luffcnham  in  Rutlandlliire,  a  confpicuous  Puritan  minillcr,  who  was  charged  with 
"  depraving  the  Prayer-book,  faying  that  the  fame  was  a  vile  book,  and  fy  upon  it,"  for 
which  and  fuch-like  teaching,  he  was,  af'ter  "  long  indulgence  and  oi^portunities  of  lubmillion, 
deprived,  on  the  14th  of  May,  hortefcue  being  one  of  the  Commilhoners  prelent."  ' 

In  the  end  of  this  year,  upon  the  death  of  Elizabeth's  favourite,  Chancellor  Sir 
Chriltopher  1  Litton,  h'ortefcue  u  rites  to  Sir  Henry  Unton,  ambaflador  at  Paris,  informing 
him  of  the  event;  but  as  a  fragment  only  of  the  letter  efcaped  the  lire  at  Cotton  1  loule, 
it  is  not  printed  here. 

The  next  Keeper  of  the  Seal  was  Sir  John  Puckering,'  who  is  laid  to  have  entirely  relied 
upon  the  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  as  an  experienced  courtier  and  man  of  the  wo  dd, 
who  could  ufefully  advife  one  who  was  looked  upon  as  "a  mere  lawyer."" 

'  Campbell's  Chancellors,  ii.  1 34.        "  Ibid.,  I  14-  '  S.rypo's  Wbitgifl,  ii.  22,  90,  459- 

♦  Strype's  Aylmer,  p.  91.  ''   IlorjiL,  in  ISucks  Records,  vol.  i.     '  C.impbell,  ii.  17O. 

II.  1   ' 


242  Faniily  of  Siildcn. 

In  the  beginning  of  the  ye:ir  1592,'  Foitefcue  received  the  honour  of  knighthood. 
"  Or.c,"  fiys  L.ord  Campbell,  "  in  th;it  age  highly  elleeined,  and  conferred  only  as  the 
reward  of  long  fervice.  J  have  obferved  various  inlbuices  of  nien  being  knighted  at^ter  having 
been  long  in  the  oifice  of  Chancellor  ot  the  b.xchequer,  or  Speaker  of  the  1  loui'e  of 
Commons.'"- 

In  April  of  that  year  he  was,  with  Lord  1  lunfdon.  Lord  Buckliurlf,  Sir  I^ohert  Cecil, 
and  fome  juttices,  put  into  a  Commillion  to  try  Sir  John  Perrot  for  his  conduft  while  Lord 
Deputy  of  Ireland.  Ilatton  was  Perrot's  enemy,  ami  inftigatCLl  the  charges  againft  him, 
and  they  were  not  abandoned  at  the  Chancellor's  death.  I  le  was  impeached  in  the  firll; 
place  tor  having  uled  contimiacious  cxpreffions  towards  the  (^ucen  at  the  Council  table, 
laying  that  flie  was  illegitimate,  inquifitive,  and  taint-hearted  ;  that  fhe  was  10  lover  of 
foldiers,  and  had  hindered  him  from  reducing  Ulller  ;  and  that  "  this  fiddmig  woman 
troubles  me  out  of  meafure,"  w  ith  other  difrefpedful  expreilions. 

He  was  further  acculed  of  "  foftering  Popilh  priel^s  and  notorious  traitors,"  and  of 
holding  private  correfpondence  with  the  Prince  of  Parma  and  the  Queen's  enemies. 

Perrot  did  not  deny  fome  of  the  unbecoming  language  about  the  Queen,  for  which  he 
declared  himfelf  fincerely  repentant  ;  bur  excufed  himfelt  by  affirming  that  the  occafion  o."  it 
was  his  being  hindered  from  carrying  on  the  good  defigns  he  had  begun  in  Ircl.uid. 

The  witnefTes  againft  him  were  his  former  fecretar)',  Philip  Williams,  aiul  two  others, 
men  of  ftained  reputation.  ' 

Perrot  boldly  and  ftoutiv  maintained  his  own  caufe  againft  Attorney-General  I'ophanv 
and  the  other  counfel  until  eleven  o'clock  at  night;  and  when  the  jury  were  abjut  to  re'ire 
to  confider  their  verdift,  he  burft  out  in  a  palfion,  defiring  them  to  have  a  confcience  in  the 
matter,  and  to  "  remember  that  his  blood  would  be  required  at  their  hands."  They,  how- 
ever, in  three  quarters  of  an  hour  brought  in  a  verdid  of  guilty. 

The  Commillioners  deferretl  their  ientence  for  twenty  days,  and  then  condemned  him 
to  death,  moft  relu(5tantly,  and  not  without  emotion,  even  to  tears  ;  Buileigh  laying  with  a 
figh,  "  that  the  more  unjuft  any  man's  malice  is,  fo  much  the  moi-e  keen  and  barbarous  '(is 
of  courle."^  Perrot  did  not  fuffer  the  penalty  of  his  fentence  ;  and  if  he  had  liveil,  would 
no  doubt  have  been  pardonetl  ;   but  in  September  he  fell  fick  and  died  in  the  Tower. 

Sir  John  had  purchafed  or  hired  a  houfe  near  llampftead,  where  he  could  efcrqie  from 
London  without  going  far  away  from  his  affairs.  This  vv-as  1  Tendon  Mane  r  Houfe, 
the  eftate  of  Sir  Edward  Herbert,  where,  fays  Norden,  "Now  is  often  ri.  fident  Sir 
John  Fortefcue,  one  of  the  moft  honourable  Privy  Council,'"  when  he  taketh  the  a  r  in  "  the 

'  Camden,  in  Kennttt,  li.  .5O7.  In  a  I'atent  of  2 1  ft  Jaiuiiiiy,  iie  is  flyli-ii  John  Fortefcue,  Kl'quire.  Napier, 
ij.  400.  '   Canilibell'b  Lives,  ii.   18O. 

^  The  account  is  from  Camden,  in  Kennetl,  ii.  567,  .5b8  ;   and  CampliLlI,  ii.  \>.  172. 
'  Norden,  in  L^fons'  Environs  of  London,  vol.  iii.  p.  4. 


Ri^bt  Ho7i.  Sir  yohn  Fortcfciie.  243 

country."  lie  writes  from  thence  at  this  time,  a  long  letter  to  Burleigh,'  the  Lord 
Treafurer,  which,  as  a  fpecimen  ot'  his  official  corrcipoiuience,  will  he  found  in  full  in  the 
Appendix,  but  ot  whicli  tlie  lalt  part  oidy  is  t'ufficicntly  interefting  to  give  here,  with  a  tew 
words  ot"  explanation. 

A  hook  had  been  puhliflied  fome  years  before  by  DoeT^or  Nicholas  Sandars,  called  "  De 
origine  et  progrefTu  Schilniatis  Anglicani,"  ■'  hollde  to  the  Ketormation  and  to  the  Proteflant 
(jueen,  in  which  he  relates  fome  very  grofs  fcaudals  about  her  mother,  Anne  Boleyn, 
affirming,  among  the  refl:,  that  fhe  was  not  tlie  daughter  of  her  reputed  father,  Sir  Thomas 
Boleyn,  but  was  aftually  the  child  of  King  Henry  \'II1.,  who,  in  order  to  intrigue  with  Sir 
Thomas's  wite  with  lets  interruption,  fent  him  on  an  cnibalTy  to  b'rance,  and  in  his  abfence 
there  became  the  father  of  her  child  Anne.  Sir  John  refutes  him  by  an  appeal  to 
dates  : —  i 

"  Your  Lordfhips  other  letters  touch  a  hbellour  1  never  faw,  and  can  ncj  other  wile 
conceyve  than  your  declaracion  maketh  mencion.  I  fent  to  the  Audytours  of  tlie  prell 
(Impreft)  and  ferched  in  the  recyte,  but  I  neither  could  lerne  nor  find  anything  :  The  officer 
of  the  pipe  who  keapeth  the  record  of  the  Courts  of  Survey  and  Augmentations  is  ablent : 
Hereupon  I  reforted  to  feke  the  cronyclcs,  and  find  that  in  the  end  ot  the  nynth  yere  of 
King  Henry  the  eighth  the  Erie  of  Worcefter  being  Lord  Chamberlyn,  the  Bifliopp  of  Elye, 
the  Lord  of  St.  John's,  Sir  Nicholas  \'aux,  Sir  John  Pechy,  and  Sir  Thomas  Bulleyne  were 
fent  into  Fraunce  Amballadoures  to  treat  the  marriage  ot  hVauncis  the  dolphyn,  eldefi;  fonne 
of  King  I-'rauncis  the  firft,  and  Ouene  Mary  his  Majelties  filler;  which  they  did,  and  upnon 
rumoure  that  the  dolphyn  was  dedde  the  Bilhop  of  Ely,  Sir  Thomas  Bolleyn,  and  Sir 
Richard  Wefton  went  to  Conyack  to  fee  the  dolphyn,  which  they  did  ;  and  the  Erie  of 
Worcefter  retourned  to  Tourney  to  make  re-dclivcrv  thereof  to  the  l-'renchmen  ;  ami  was 
anno  domini  1520.  And  the  King  was  married  to  her  Majefties  mother  the  toin-teenth  ot 
November  1532.  So  that  the  fhamles  lying  of  this  libellour  is  moft  apparent;  for  her 
Majefties  birth  was  in  anno  domini  1533,  and  then  her  mother  (huld  have  ben  but  thirteen 
yere  old  at  hir  byrthe.  What  may  be  farther  found  out  in  this  matter  your  Lordffiip  ffiall 
have  knowledge  with  all  fpede.  My  Lord  of  Buckhurft  1  have  herewith  acquaynted,  he  will 
feke  all  he  may  anyways  finde  therein.  And  thus  cravying  pardon  ot  your  Lordlhip  for  my 
tedeoufe  letters,  I  comende  you  to  the  Lord's  tuicion,  who  continew  your  health  with  increa  e 
of  moch  honour.      At  Hendon  the  twenty-fourth  ilay  of  September,  1592. 

Your  L.  moft  humble  and  bounden,  ■ 

J.    FoRTESCUE. 


'  Lanfdown  MS.,  Brit.  Mus.,  72,  folio  193.  '  Publillicd  at  Cologne  in  1585. 


2  44  Fcviiiiy  oj  SaliLn. 

Another  fiibjei5l  of  Sir  John's  correfpondence  '  at  this  time  w.is  the  difpofal  of  the  cargo 
of  "The  Great  Carrack,"  "  1  .a  Madre  de  Dlos,"  which  had  l)een  capturctl  in  the  paft 
fummer.  Slie  was  very  richly  laden  with  fpices,  jewellery,  plate,  and  China  (lufts,  from  the 
coall  of  Malabar,  and  was  the  property  of  the  Portug.ueie  crown.  Mer  crew  confifted  of 
600  men.  This  tall  fliip,  which  had  feven  decks  to  her  length  of  165  teet,  was  raken,  after 
a  gallant  defence,  by  the  Tnglifli  fquadron,  under  Sir  joim  burroughs,  deipatched  from  the 
fleet  by  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  to  look  out  for  fuch  prizes.  Oueen  I'dizabeth  herfelf,  with  Sir 
John  Hawkins  and  fome  of  the  principal  merchants  ot  London,  were  fiid  to  be  (harers  in 
"  the  adventme."  i'he  Ivngllfli  crews  heljied  tlieinfelves  to  much  of  the  booty  ;  but  the 
Oueen  made  many  of  them  difgorge  their  plunder,  and  infilkd  upon  dividing  tlie  (hares  as 
flie  thought  fit.      Hence  this  letter  :  — 

•The  Rig'it  Ilydcio-dhle  Sir  J'jIui  ForlefiKe  to  Lord  Treajiirer  Burghleyi-    '■ 

With  my  bounden  dutey  may  it  p'.eafe  your  L. 

According  to  your  direiflion  1  have  acquainted  Mer  Majeftie  with  the  opinion  of  the 
Do6tours  and  others  touching  the  interell;  of  the  taking  of  the  Carrick,  and  of  your  L.  great 
care  and  pains  in  that  caufe,  together  with  your  particular  directions  whereby  the  hole 
matter  came  to  Her  Majellies  determinacion,  and  that  her  rcfolucion  is  and  mufl-  be  the 
Lavve  in  the  caule  ;  wherin  according  to  my  duety  1  have  made  knowen  imto  her  )'oin-  L. 
efpecyal  trawll  and  all  my  Lis.  carefulnes  that  both  in  honour  and  protytt  everything- 
is  devolved  to  Her  Highnes  difpoHytyon. 

Never  the  lefTe  1  was  bold  of  rnyfelfe  to  add  that  !  L-r  Ma)ell:ie  ftoodc  not  unlike 
an  executour  in  jullice  who  mull  difchardge  del)ts,  legacyes,  and  childrens  porcions,  adding 
-your  L.  opinyon  that  hir  good  and  honourable  confideracion  was  to  adminiller,  or  utterly 
overthrow  all  fliaire  if  due  regard  were  not  had  of  my  L.  of  Cumberland,  and  Sir  Walt'cr 
Kawlegh,  with  the  rell:  of  the  adventurers,  who  would  never  be  induced  to  further  adventu^re 
if  they  were  not  princely  confidered  of. 

And  herein  1  found  Mer  Majeffie  very  princely  difpofed,  as  well  in  good  allowance  of 
your  L.  and  my  Lis.  great  paynes  and  fervices,  as  alfo  meaning  to  confider  of  the  particular 
of  my  L.  of  Cumberland  and  the  reit  of  the  adventurers,  which  thing  I  think  will  not  ie 
refolved  untill  your  L.  comying  to  Court.  I 

My  Lord  of  Cumlierland  delivered  me  an  ufTer  here  at  the  Court  which  I  herewith  fend 
your  L. 

I  perfuaded  his  L.  to  forbear  any  ufTer  until  I  might  have  Sir  Walter  R;.wleighe's, 
growing  doubtful   that  this  being  Idle  than  formerly  had   ben  maid,  her  Majeftie  would  --eft 


'   Camden,  in  Kcnnutt,  ii.  ^bcj. 

''■   Printed  in  Archa^oiogiu,  \ol.  xxxiii.  237.     The  fcal  hcic  given  is  that  of' Sir  John  FoitclLuc. 


Right  Hon.  Sir  Jofni  Forte/cue. 


^45 


difcontented  ;   which  opynyon  of  myn  my  L.  yelded  wilhiii^ly,  and  this  in  cffcrt  is  all  that 
haytherto  is  done. 

Sir  Robert  Cecil!  can  enfornie  your  L.  if  any  further  partycularytye  be  oniyttetl. 

I  accjuaynted  her  Majellie  of  the  taking  of  St.  Valdes,  from  your  L,.  and  of  Sir  K^oger 
Williams  being  there,  and  her  Highnes  both  joyfully  heard  the  newes,  and  lyked  your 
opynyon  that  he  fliould  hold  the  place,  both  for  the  abatyement  of  chardge,  which  maybe 
hoped,  but  eipeciallv  tor  the  prefervacion  of  her  people. 

And  thus,  with  my  duety  remembered,  I  commend  your  L.  to  God  who  fend  yo  helth 
with  encreafe  of  much  honour. 

At  Ilampton  Court  this  23  of  December,   1592. 

Yoin-  L.  moil  bounden  and  always  to  comaund, 

J.    b'oKTESCl'h. 

To  the  Right  Hourable.  and  my  verie  good  L. 

the  L.  highe  Treafurer  of  England.  ///^''^t' 


Early  in  the  next  year  (February,  159J,)  the  Oueen,  after  a  four  years'  interval,  called  a 
new  Parliament  to  confitler  the  threatening  alpecl:  ot  Spain,  to  which  l^'ortelcue  was  again 
returned  for  Buckinghanirtiire.  On  Thurfday,  the  19th,  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
fhe  came  down  to  the  1  loui'c  of  Lords,  and  when  as  "  many  of  the  Commons  as  conveniently 
could  were  at  length  let  in,"  '  Ihe  commanded  Lord  Keeper  Puckering  to  inform  the  two 
Houfes  that  fhe  had  called  them  together  "  only  for  confutation  and  preparation  of  aid 
againlt  the  mighty  forces  of  the  King  of  Spain,  bent  and  intended  againll  the  realm,"  and 
that,  therefore,  they  were  not  at  this  time  to  go  about  making  new  laws,  becaufe  there  were 
many  good  laws  already  (more,  indeed,  than  were  well  executed),  and  becaufe,  if  any  new 
laws  were  wanted,  they  could  be  dealt  witli  at  fome  other  time. 

Accordingly,  on  Saturday,  the  Commons  met  to  dilcufs  the  queftion  of  iupplies, 
alTembling  in  great  numbers;  but  after  waiting  fometime  for  the  Speaker,  who  did  iiot 
appear,  the  Sergcant-at-Arms  at  length  brought  word  that  he  was  fick,  and  could  not  come. 
Whereupon  the  Houfe  adjourned  to  the  Monday,  the  26th,  when,  the  Speaker  be  ng 
recovered,  they  met  for  bufmefs.  Sir  Ivobert  Cecil  and  Sir  John  Woolley  having  ipoken. 
Sir  John  Fortefcue  followed  in  a  fpeech  much  praifed  at  the  time,  but  of  which  we  have 
only  an  outline,  as  follows : — 


'  D'Ewes,  Journals  of  I'arlt.,  35  Eliz. 


246  Family  of  Sahlcii. 

Then  Sir  John  I'ortefcue  fpake,  and  faid  : — • 

"  They  that  fpake  before  me,  fpake  fufficicntly  of  the  Authors  of  our  trouble,  of  the 
great  danger  which  is  now  imminent,  infomuch  that  as  it  is  come  to  that  point  now,  Nun 
ulrtim  imperare  Jed  utrhn  vivere.  1  will  fpeak  of  nothing  but  that  whicli  concerns  my 
Calling.  Her  Majefly  not  being  only  careful  for  the  prefervation  of  Her  own  Realm,  but 
ot  her  neighbours  alfo  ;  flie  hath  not  only  defended  her  own  Subje^s  from  being  invaded, 
but  alfo  hath  aided  llrangers  which  wanted  Money,  with  whom  otherwife  it  would  have  gone 
ill  by  this  time  both  with  them  and  ourfelves.  Infomuch  that  the  burthen  of  four  King- 
doms hath  refted  upon  her  Majefly,  which  fhe  hath  maintained  with  her  Purfe,  lin<,dand, 
h ranee,  Ireland,  and  Scotland.  For  how  could  the  French  King  at  his  firfl:  coming  to  the 
Crown  have  held  out  againll  thofe  Leaguers,  had  not  her  Majefly  allilfed  him  v  ith  her  Men 
and  Money,  which  hath  coft  her  Majelty  about  a  hundred  thoufand  pound  ?  i'"or  "tis  well 
known  that  the  French  King  had  not  been  able  to  withftand  the  Duke  of  Parma's  coming 
into  France  had  it  not  been  for  our  Englifl-imcn  and  Money.  As  for  the  Low  Countries, 
they  have  llood  her  Majefty  in  yearly,  fince  Hie  undertook  the  defence  of  them,  one  hundrec 
and  fifty  thouiand  [lound.  All  which  her  Majefty  bellowed  for  the  good  of  the  Realm,  ti 
tree  us  from  War  at  home.  Befidcs,  when  her  Majeft)'  came  to  the  Crown,  flie  found  it 
tour  millions  indebted  ;  her  Navy  when  fhe  came  to  view  it,  fhe  found  greatly  decay  .-d  : 
yet  all  this  flie  hath  difcharged,  and  (thanks  to  be  to  C/od)  is  nothing  indebted  ;  and 
now  ilie  is  able  to  match  any  Prince  in  Furope,  which  the  Spaniards  found  when' 
they  came  to  invade  us.  Yea,  fhe  hath  with  her  fliips  com[)affed  the  whole  world.' 
whereby  this  Land  is  made  famous  throughout  all  places.  She  did  find  in  her  N.iv) 
all  Iron  Pieces,  but  ihe  hath  furnilhed  it  with  Artillery  of  Brafs,  fo  that  one  of  hei 
Ships  is  not  a  Subject's,  but  a  petty  King's  wealth.  As  for  her  own  jMivate  Lxjiences,  they 
have  been  little  in  building  ;  flic  hath  confumed  little  or  nothing  in  her  pleafures.  As  fbr 
her  Apparel,  it  is  Royal  and  Princely,  befeeming  her  Calling,  but  not  fumptuous  nor  excef- 
five.  The  Charges  of  her  Houfe  fmall,  yea  never  lefs  in  any  King's  time.  And  fliortly 
(by  God"s  grace)  fhe  will  free  her  Subjeds  from  that  trouble  which  hath  come  by  the  means 
of  Purveyors.  Wherefore  fhe  trufteth,  that  every  good  Subjeft  will  airdt  her  Majefty  with 
his  Purfe,  feeing  it  concerns  his  own  good  and  the  prefervation  of  his  eftate.  For  before 
that  any  of  us  would  lofe  the  leaft  member  of  his  bod)',  we  would  beftow  a  great  deal,  and 
ftick  for  no  Coft  nor  Charges:  I  low  much  more  ouglit  we  in  this  political  Bod  ■,  whereof 
not  only  a  member  but  the  whole  is  in  jeopardy,  if  we  do  not  once  haft  to  the  preferva- 
tion thereof?  And  for  thefe  Subfidies  which  are  granted  now  adays  to  her  Majelty,  they 
are  lefs  by  half  than  they  v.ere  in  King  Henry  the  Bth's  time.  Now  although  her  Majefty 
had  borrowed  fome  Money  of  her  Subjecfis,  befides  her  Subfidies,  yet  ihe  had  truly  repaid 
and  anfwered  every  one  fully.      He  defired  the  matter  might  be  put  to  a  Conmiittee."  ' 


'  D'Ewes,  Parliaments  of  Elizabeth. 


Right  Hvn.  Sir  yob/i  Fortcfcue.  24.J 

Francis  Racon  fpokc  lail:,  commeiuiing  the  Oueen's  order  to  abrtain  from  law-making, 
and  hoping  that  the  volume  of  laws  would  be  leflened,  as  there  were  too  many  for  the 
people  to  pradice,  or  for  the  lawyers  to  underftand. 

I'^orteicue  was  then  placed  on  the  "  Select  and  Grave  Committee"  appointed  to  conlider 
the  dangers  oi  the  realm,  and  the  provifion  of  treafure  ;  and  he  announced  to  the  Houfe, 
on  the  next  day  but  one,'  tliat  he  and  his  colleagues  reconuiiended  two  entire  fubfidies  and 
four-fitteenths  and  tenths  to  be  granted  to  tlie  Oueen,  to  which  the  Houfe  agreed. 

The  Lords,  however,  upon  the  15111  going  up  to  them,  wiOied  for  three  fubfidies,  and 
requefled  a  conference  with  the  Commons,  to  which  the  latter  demui-red,  as  contrary  to  their 
privileges  on  a  money  bill.  1^'ortefeue  was  deputed  to  take  this  decifion  of  the  Peers;  and 
returned  with  their  reply  preiling  for  a  cunference.  The  Ct)mmons  upon  this  devifed  ;  n 
expedient  for  complying  with  the  Lord's  requell;,  without  compromifing  their  rights,  by 
agreeing  to  a  general  conference  upon  the  danger  of  the  State.  After  holding  which,  in  the 
debate  that  followed.  Sir  John  approved  of  the  additional  fubfidy,  affirming  that  though  "  he 
thought  it  liberal  to  grant  three  fubfidies,  he  did  affure  of  his  proper  knowledge,  that  three 
fubfidies  would  not  defray  her  Majelly's  charges,  though  all  other  Cuiloms  and  Revenues  were 
added  to  tliem." 

The  Houfe  finally  agreed  to  the  treble  fubfidy,  and  fix-fif"teenths  and  tenths,  to  be  paid 
in  four  years;  and  on  the  loth  of  March  Lortefcue  laid  before  the  I  loufe  certain  Articles 
arranging  the  manner  of  levying  and  paying  the  fime,  reporting  "  the  travel  of  himtelf  and 
the  other  Committees"  in  fettling  the  particulars;  and  on  the  13th,  the  Chancellor  of  the 
Exchequer  brought  in  the  preamble  of  the  bill,  which  was  pafled  after  a  debate  in  which  he 
made  a  fpeech  not  reported,  "l-'inally,"  fays  the  journal,  "on  the  27th  of  March,  did  this 
Bill,  touching  the  fubfidy,  after  many  days'  agitation,  at  length  very  ditficultly  pafs  the 
Houfe  by  reafon  of  the  greatnefs  thereof"^ 

Sir  John  appears  to  have  had  a  principal  fliare  in  the  conduift  of  the  Hill — looked  upon 
at  the  time  as  of  very  great  moment. 

On  the  loth  of  April,  1593,  Llizabeth  diffolved  the  Parliament,  her  injundion  againfl: 
making  new  laws,  about  which,  indeed,  llie  gave  them  hut  little  choice,  having  been 
fairly  obeyed. 

On  the  28th  of  February,  foon  after  the  beginning  of  the  Parliament,  a  "  Hill  for  Ke- 
cufants"''  was  read,  and  the  fame  morning,  Mr.  Morris  was  fent  for  to  Court,  and  from 
thence  he  was  committed  to  Sir  John  bortefcue's  keeping.  This  cull;om  of  making  th.: 
great  officers  of  State  refponfible  for  the  cuftody  of  State  prifoners  was  then  common,  and 
mud  have  been  exceedingly  irkfome  to  thofe  upon  whom  they  were  inflifted. 

The  increaie  in  numbers  and  boldnefs  of  the   "  Popilh  Recufants  "  now  began  to  attrac'l 


'  D'Ewes,  p.  477.  ■  llji<l.,  492,  496.  499- 

Hcywood  TortnlL-nd's  P;irliaments  of  Queen  Elizabitli,  p.  6l. 


2-1.8  Fa  Dili  V  (f  SahicJi. 

the  notice  of  the  Ouecn,  (who  nlways  feenied  to  think  hericif  refponfihle  for  the  religion  of 
her  (uiijec'^ts),  juli  ns  divl  the  Nonconformifl  fchifni  in  the  previ(nis  years. 

A  Special  Cumniiilion  was  iffued,  March  26th,  i  ^-yj,  again ll  "  jel'iiits  and  other  dif- 
gtiiled  [lerions  fecretiy  adhering  to  ovn-  moil  capitall  enemy  the  Pope,'"  in  whieli  i'ortefciie, 
with  Aylnier,  Bifliop  of  London,  Lord  Biickhiirll,  Sir  Ivohert  Cecil,  Lord  Cohham,  and  a 
few  more,  was  one  of  thofe  of  whom  one  was  reciuired  to  lie  prelent  at  their  meetings,  and 
to  fign  their  warrar.ts.  Thcfe  commillloners  had  very  fimmiary  powers  to  fearch  for  and 
arreft  all  fufpefted  perl'ons. 

In  the  aiitLniin  of  this  year  he,  with  other  Lords  of  the  I'rivy  Council,'  addredes 
a  letter  to  Archhifhop  Whitgift,  calling  upon  him  very  carneiUy,  with  all  convenient 
expedition,  to  caufe  diligent  inquiry  to  be  made  of  all  reeufants,  their  wivi  s  and  fervants, 
retufmg  to  come  to  chui'ch,  and  llriL-lIy  to  admonilli  them. 

We  are  not  iurpriled  to  fnid  Lli^aheth  at  this  time  alarmed  lelt  lier  Scottifli  neighbours 
(liould  be  allowed  imdue  "  liberty  of  confcience  "  to  choofe  their  religious  profelilon.  A 
letter  to  Sir  John  from  Archibald  Douglas,  the  Scotch  ambafiador  in  London,  is  ext  mt, 
which  (liows  that  the  I'.nglifli  Cotnt  fymjxithized  with  his  fears.  At  the  lame  tii  le  he, 
afting  as  a  Secretary  of  State  rather  than  as  a  Chancellor  of  (he  h^xchcquer  accori  inj  to 
modern  praftice,  announces  to  Douglas  the  Oueen's  refulal  to  intercede  with  James  lOr  the 
three  Catholic  Earls,  Angus,  Himtlev,  and  Lrroll,  who  had  been  found  in  treaty  with  the 
King  of  Spain  for  an  invafion  of  Scotland  with  _^jo,coo  men,  to  reltore  theii"  country  to  the 
old  Church.  She,  on  the  contrary,  dire^T-ed  her  ambafiador.  Lord  Zouch,  to  urge  Jame-.  to 
meafures  of  feverity  againft  them.  The  latter,  however,  contented  himfelf  witl  t  leir 
I'ubmiliion,  giving  them  time  initil  the  ill  of  January,  i  sy-v,  to  decide  whether  they  would 
yo  into  banifhment,  or  abjure  the  errors  of  I'opery. 

.Archibald  Douglas  was  an  intriguing  and  unfcrupulous  politician.  Me  was  more  than 
fufpeCtcd  of  being  a  party  to  the  murder  of  lOarnley,  the  King  of  Scotland's  fathe|-,  for 
which  he  was  tried  by  a  packed  jury,  and  acquitted.  lie  was  afterwards  fent  as  James's 
ambafiador  to  England.  Sir  John  boitefcue's  opinion  of  him  will  be  leen  turther  on.  I  here 
give  the  correfi)ondence.'' 

Archibald  Douglas  to  Sir  Juhn  Forlcjctic.      26  Ot7.  [i  593.]  "      I 

It  doeth  appeir  that  fuche  as  intendis  that  this  libertye  off  confeience  fhuld  be  treated  of 
in  Parliament,  wolde  feame  to  perfuade  the  King  that  it  is  the  onelye  way  a  mak  him 
agreable  and  gratious  to  all  uthir  princis  and  potentatis. 

This  projed  was  fend  in  Scotland  be  the  bilchoppe  ofF  Rofie,  fownded,  as  I  heir  fay, 
upon  fome  his  formar  dealing  wythe  foreyn  potentatis  during  the  tyme  that  he  dealt  for  the 

'   Rymer  \ii.,  part  i.,  p.  I  17.         "  Strypc's  Whitgift,  ii.  151.        •*  From  the  State  Papers  in  the  liecord  Office, 


Right  Hon.  Sir  John  Fortefcne.  249 

Kingis  layte  mother ;   and  the  nimmiii  is  now  inhraced  be  fome  aboute  the   King,  to  what 
end  I  leawe  it  to  be  confidered. 

Albeit  that  fome  noble  men  hathe  mayde  promefic  to  hir  Ma"',  that  thay  fliall  be  no 
futarris  that  ony  fuch  mater  fliuld  be  ellablifehed  be  Parliament,  yet  can  it  not  be  affirmed, 
nather  doethe  it  appeir,  that  thay  will  oppone  thayme  felffis  againlt  the  iammm,  in  cafe  it 
/hall  be  fett  fordward,  or  be  moved  be  wtheris. 

The  prefent  llate  of  that  contreye  fo  doethe  remayne  that  all  the  noble  men  (werray  few 
excepted)  ar  ather  become  Papiltis,  or  than  Proteilantis,  aft  plaifire,  or  than  young  children 
that  can  be  contented  wythe  any  religione  ;  fo  that  it  wilbe  werray  harde  to  fynd  any  con- 
tradicTiOuris  to  this  intended  libertye,  if  it  (hall  come  in  queftione,  the  minifterris,  fome 
townifmen  of  Edinbru''.  and  wther  townis  onelye  excepted  ;  and  all  thefe  wilbe  (fo  tar  as  may 
be  imagined)  fownd  weak  off  thaym  felffis,  in  cafe  thay  fhall  not  be  contenanced  be  fome  of 
the  nobilitie. 

The  Erll  Bothewell  appearis  to  be  fittaff  to  be  inployed  ffbr  thayme,  it  his  luimoures  and 
thayrris  culd  be  mayde  to  remayn  in  conformite  any  long  tyme  togethir  ;  hot  it  is  to  be 
feared  that,  if  necefflte  flialbe  remowed  ftVom  him,  that  tiie  fimpathie  fliall  not  long  remayn 
amongis  thayme,  befidis  that  he  may  be  wythe  drawin  from  thayme,  if  he  fliall  not  be 
furnifshed  wythe  gud  confale  befidis  him. 

It  appearis  theyrfor  to  be  expedient  that  whethir  the  fayde  Erlle  fhall  remayn  at  home, 
or  be  forced  to  leawe  the  cuntrcye  tor  fome  tyme,  that  the  ambafladour  thayr  refident  may 
be  informed  to  tak  fome  gud  ordour  that  ather  the  fayde  Erll  may  be  weill  confaled  how  to 
behawe  him  felf  inthis  matter,  or  than  that  lo me  off'acconipt  may  be  dealt  wyth  all  not.  to 
leawe  the  minifterrye  deflitute  of  helpe  in  this,  or  when  the  ylik  occafione  falbe  offeridde, 
tending  to  mutatione  of  matteris  in  that  State.  Whatioevir  hir  Ma'',  will  hawe  me  to  do  in 
this  or  ony  wthir  matter  that  maye  concerne  hir  ferwice  in  that  realm  I  flialbe  readye  to  fea 
it  performed  aftir  powar,  as  one  that  wold  be  glayde  to  fea  all  that  is  gude  adwanced,  and 
ill  dealingis  prewented.  I  pray  yowr  Ilonour  niak  hir  Ma'",  acquaynted  heirvythe,  and  that 
I  may  retTawe  adwertifment  whatfoevir  flialbe  hir  Ma"",  gud  pleafer  to  hawe  me  to  do  heirin. 
And  to  leaving  to  trouble  your  Honour  any  fordar  at  this  tym,  I  tak  my  leawe,  this  xxvj  of 
Odobir. 

Your  Honouris  at  all  powar  to  be  commanded, 

A.   Douglas. 

AddreJJcd :—''  To  the  Ry'.  Hono'"^  S^  Jhone  Fortefcu,  , 

Kny'.,  Chancellare  off  the  Efchekcar, 
and  one  of  hir  Ma"".  niofl;e  Hono'''"'. 
Prevye  Confale." 


250  Fajnily  of  Saldtn. 

Archibald  'Douglas  to  Sir  Jo/in  FortefcKe,  29  0(7.  [1593. J 
Pleis  your  Honour  upon  the  xxix  of  this  inftant  1  rcfTawcd  thefe  Ictteris  eftir  following 
from  M'.  liicharde  Dowglaflc,  my  nephew,  a  lettir  to  hir  Ma"  ftrom  the  Erllis  Angufe, 
H'llntlye  and  Arrcllc,  ti'io  fewerall  Ictteris  from  thayme  to  my  fclf,  wythe  a  lettir  Hrom  tiie 
fxyde  Mr.  Richarde,  all  vvhiche  I  fend  onto  your  1  lonour  heirincluled,  wythe  the  copye  off 
the  fayde  Mr.  Richardis  lettir.  The  principalle  I  hawe  referwed  belidis  my  lelf,  be  reffone 
of  fome  particular  matter  thayrin  conteaned. 

Be  the  contentis  oft'  all  thefe  letteris  may  be  perfawcd  in  what  trowble  and  confufione  the 
prefent  ftate  of  that  cuntrey  doeth  remayn.  I  can  not  forbear  to  leawe  it  to  be  confidered 
of,  if  any  bettir  tyme  or  fittar  occafione  can  be  rencontred,  ftbr  hir  Ma"',  wytheowt  chargis  to 
draw  the  affurance  of  that  hoile  State  to  hir  felf,  than  this  is,  when  by  gud  mean  s  matteris 
wythe  difcretione  may  be  brocht  to  qilietnes  and  breyd  hir  Ilyenes  feurtye.  llai'de  dealing 
may  fforce  men  to  feik  alTurance  in  ony  part  whear  it  may  be  fownd,  and  may  be  the  occa- 
fione to  produce  fordar  trowble.  But  I  will  forbear  to  be  fo  folifche  as  to  gewe  confde  in 
thefe  fo  weyghty  matteris  to  thofe  that  is  able  to  teache  me  ;  and  thayrfor  will  pray  your 
Honour  to  prefent  this  thayr  lettir  onto  hir  Ma",  and  to  mak  hir  Ilyenes  acquaynted  wythe 
the  hoile  that!  hawe  relTawed. 

Molt  humblye  praying  that  I  may  onderftand  hir  Ma"",  gud  pleafer  what  I  fhall  ford;.r 
do  in  this  or  ony  uthir  matter  that  may  concerne  hir  Ilyenes  fervicc  in  that  realme,  wythe 
fuche  expedition  as  hir  Ma".  Hiall  think  meit,  whearin  I  flialbe  villing  to  do  all  that  I  can  to 
fea  hirHyenes  gud  pleafer  accomplifshed  aftir  my  powar,  whiche  is  not  greit  at  this  tym  ; 
and  fo  expec'ling  your  Honouris  anfer,  I  tak  my  leawe,  the  xxix  of  Ocftober.         : 

Your  Honouris  at  all  powar, 

A.  Douglas. 
Addrejed  in  another  hand : — "To   the   Right  Honorable  I 

S'  Johne  Fortefcue,  Knight,  , 

Chancelar  of  the  Exchequer, 
and  one  of  her  Ma"",  mofle  ' 

honorable  Privie  Counfayle." 

Sir  John  Fortcjciu  to  A.  Douglas.     Nov.  1593-  1 

A  Copie  of  a  lettre  written  by  S'.  John  I'~ortefcue,  in  anfweare  of  the  lettres  w"''  came 

from   y*^^  three    Eries,  of  Huntley,  Angus   and   Erroll,   fent   by  Arch.  Dowglefs,  and    this 

aunfwere  made  to  liym  for  them  to  fee. 

Sir,  He^Ma"^  hathe  perufed  the  lettres,  written  to  her  felfe  from  y'  three  Eries,  and  the 

other   two  from   y""  to  yo",  w"'  a   lettre   from   yo'   nephewe  to  yo",  and  yo'"  to  S'.  John 

F'ortefcue  ;  to  w'''  (w"'  thankes  for  your  owne  particuler  care  oi' any  thing  that  may  concerne 

her),  (hee  is  pleafed  to  returne  this  aunfweare. 

Firft  in  y'  lettre  from  the  Eries,  lier  Ma"^  dothe  finde  many  labored   thankes  for   lier 

intercellion  for  them  already  to  the  Kinge. 


Right  Hon.  Sir  yohn  Fortefct^e.  251 

Secondlie,  a  fate  for  further  mediacion  w'''  y"  King  and  niiiiiftric,  for  cffi.;e'>iiig  their 
defires,  w"^''  fhe  findeth  in  coverte  termes,  to  be  meant  the  procurement  to  y'"',  of  inoyenge 
their  confciences  free  \v"'out  trouble,  or  moleftacion  (for  fo  they  would  have  it,  by  an  Afle 
to  be  ratified). 

ThirdHe  ;  it  containes  their  juflificacion  of  themfelves,  by  affirmiiige  that  they  havehen 
already  (\v'''oiit  jutl  groimde)  heavehe  troubled  and  profecuted  ; 

Lafllie  ;  their  general!  ort'e'"  (theis  former  thiiiges  graunted)  of  all  condicions,  and  afliir- 
ances  before  promifed  to  her  Ma'"'. 

In  all  w'''  thinges  her  Ma'"',  findethe  litle  caufe  to  acknowledge  fatisfaccion  therin,  feing 
whatloever  they  wryte  or  (ay  is  grounded  uppon  a  falfe  or  milcoiiceaved  foundation  ;  f  )r 
concerning  the  firft  infinuation  of  thankefgivinge,  for  that  w'^''  is  already  done,  althoughe  l.cr 
Ma"",  difpoficion  hath  ever  abhorred  injuft  prollxution,  and  that  in  particuler  had  no  difple'.i- 
fure  againlt  them;  wherby  for  any  feconde  refpeCle  fliee  fhoulde  defire  their  ruyne  ;  yet  is 
fhee  farre  from  afTuming  to  her  felte,  any  thankes,  who  never  had  one  thoughte  to  deale  foi 
them  in  the  termes  they  (tande  in  ;  nether  can  fhee  be  wonne  w"'  a  phrafe  in  a  lettre,  to 
make  her  felfe  y'  auftho''  ether  of  y'^  untymelie  favo™  vv'''  hath  ben  already  extended  by  the 
Kinge,  or  is  hereafter  purpofed  to  be  (hewed  them,  ether  by  parciall  tryall,  or  by  palpable 
connivence  at  their  prefiunption  in  daring  thus  untried  to  prefent  themfelves  to  their  Soveraignes 
eyes,  of  whofe  kingdomes  prodicion,  they  fland  (by  more  then  probabilities)  deeplie  condemned. 

And  therefore  as  their  treafons  preceded  their  punifhm'.  (o  her  Ma'"',  (throughe  experience 
of  goverment)  hath  ben  ever  farre  from  dealinge  for  them,  nether  would  fliee  beginne  it, 
untill  by  due  forme  of  lawe,  by  indifferent  alfife,  and  not  by  conibyned  favourc"",  they  (lialbe 
acquitted,  or  delivered  to  y''  Kinges  mercy  and  power:  and  therfore  they  are  much  nulfaken, 
if  w"'  all  their  (inefie,  they  can  fo  overfadome  her  Ma'",  as  by  infmuating  thankes  for  that 
favour  w"''  was  never  afTbrded,  to  ferve  their  particuler  turnes,  by  pofTelTuig  the  worlde  w"'  a 
conceipte,  that  a  prince  of  her  wiefllome  would  fuffer  her  felfe  to  be  made  an  inftrum'.  tor 
their  grace,  and  credytt  of  whom  fhee  is  not  afTured,  to  what  ufe,  their  power  or  meanes 
fhould  be  imployed.  And  therfore  her  Ma'",  requires  yo"  to  deale  plainely  w"'  them,  as 
one  that  are  not  unacquainted  w"'  her  knowledge  of  the  palTages  in  Scotlande  during  y'' 
Kinges  younger  yee'"  hetherto,  that  as  fhee  hathe  ever  accounted  of  thofe  as  dere  unto  her 
who  have  runne  all  courfes  tending  to  the  (trengthning  of  the  Kinges  cihite,  and  mayntain- 
ing  the  peace  of  y'  Churche  ;  fo  her  Ma'>'.  is  not  ignorant  howe  longe,  and  fondry  tymes,  theis 
perfonnages  have  apparantlie  ben  detected  to  levell,  at  their  owne  greatne/Te,  to  have  adhered 
to  forraigne  fiiflions,  and  to  have  publickely,  and  peremptorelie  profe(red  contrarietie  of 
Religion  ;  yea  I  may  well  fay  have  projected  the  modele  of  their  contries  ruyne,  (or  fo  had 
it  followed  inevitablie  if  their  complottes  had  not  ben  (throughe  Codes  providence)  by  her 
Ma"'',  care  difcovered. 

It  (hall  not  therefore  be  needful!  to  ufe  many  argum'".  to  afTure  yo''  that  w  'out  f'urther 


252  Family  of  Sahic7i. 

nfTurance  by  fiihniittiiig  thenifclvcs  to  ordynaric,  and  jult:  tryall,  and  hy  hunihlino;  tlicmfclves 
\v"'  realonable  contornutie  in  matte"'  of  Religion,  iier  Ma'"',  will  not  open  her  lyppes  to  y' 
Kinge,  nether  will  hope,  or  truft,  in  theis  generall  proteftacions,  forafniiiche  as  their  former 
accions  being  confidcred,  it  cannot  be  fafe  for  the  King,  thus  to  favour  them  untried, 
nor  remayninge  hereafter  unconformed,  to  leave  them  any  meancs  to  prevaile  againft 
him,  having  ben  knowen  already  fo  tarre  to  have  receaved  the  baytes  of  forraigne 
corruptions. 

And  for  y"  point  mcncioned  in  their  lettre  to  yo",  that  y'  Miniftric  deales  more  flranje- 
ablie  w'"  them  then  agrees  w"'  tendernes  of  confcience  in  feeking  to  wrell:  y"",  to  all  their 
owne  opinions,  or  fanfies  (as  terme  them)  her  Ma'",  cannot  thincke  fo  unreverentlie  of  y" 
membe'"  of  that  Churche,  as  that  they  woulde  indifcreetly  do  any  thinge,  by  i  onflraint,  or 
compulfion  in  needlelTe  matter  ot  circumitance,  w'''  were  not  an  ellenciuU 'ot  the  fub- 
ftance  and  vvheron  did  not  depende,  the  fccuritie  of  the  Religion,  w"''  they  arc  bounds  to 
mayntaine. 

And  therefore  for  conclufion,  her  Ma'",  is  pleafed  to  lert  yo"  underftande,  that  as  iKei- 
mighte  happelie,  have  ben  induced  to  have  dealt  w"'  the  Kinge  for  them,  if  they  had  len 
togeith"'  \v"'  their  lettres  (nowc  fraught  w"'  generall  profeilions)  their  particular  pac  ces 
covenantes  and  formerlie  promifed  condiclons  w"'"  might  have  alTured  their  fincere  mean.ng. 
of  yelding  all  fecuritie  bothe  to  the  Kinges  eftate,  and  Religion,  \v'''  abfolutc  affurance  never 
of  harkning,  or  entring  into  forraigne  confederacies,  {o  nowe  her  Ma'",  ellemethe,  thei". 
generalities  of  good  proteftacion  litle  worthie  the  ballancinge  w'"  the  particuler  infmuacion  of 
their  defires,  who  fecke  to  be  tried,  by  parciall  combynacion,  or  at  lealle  by  fueae  in  eftldte, 
thoughe  cullored  by  othe"'  au^thoritie  and  eleftion,  and  fo  by  their  acquittall,  lli.dl  remainc 
no  way  obliged  to  any  recognition  of  pardone,  or  grace,  at  their  Soveraignes  handes,  but  to 
have  fuche  a  furthe'  libertie  graunted  them,  as  is  not  to  be  permitted  to  men  fo  farre  ingag.'-d, 
thoughe  to  othe"'  not  fpotted  w"'  thofe  former  ftaines  :  It  is  farre  from  her  Ma""  prirrcfly 
nature,  or  proceadinge  to  force,  any  tender  confcience  wher  it  hath  wo  fimpat hie  w"'  forraigne 
practize.      At  II 'yndj'or,  i\\c  of  November  1593.  '  I 

In  1594,  almoft  the  only  mention  of  his  name  is  when  attending  the  funeral  of  the  gc  od 
Bifliop  of  London,  Aylmer,  at  St.  Paul's,  on  the  :6th  of  November. 

"  The  Bifliop  of  Winchefler  was  chief  mourner.  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  one  of  the  Hon- 
ourable Privy  Council  to  her  Majefl;y,  with  the  whole  company  of  mourners,  to  ilie  number 
of  450,  at  the  Bifhop's  Palace,  had  a  folemne  dinner.'" 

Anthony  Bacon  writes  to  E.  Reynoldes,  January  25,  1596:' — 


'   Funeral  Certificate  in  Coll.  Topog.  ft  Genealog.,  Nichols,  vol.  iii.  p.  2S7.     Suvpe's  Ajirner,  I  i  2. 
'   Bacon  Papers  in  Lambeth  Library,  vol.  654,  No.  68. 


Right  Ho7i.  Sir  yohn  FortefcNe.  253 

"  I  iinderfliind  hy  Bouthe  that  Sir  John  FortL-fcue  proceeds  fo  honourahly  and  affec- 
tionately with  Iiini,  Sir  Jolin  being  put  in  mind  by  Lady  Edmonds  to  fend  her  tiie  pardon 
for  Bouthe,  and  to  command  Bouthe  to  pay  her  loo/.  in  hand,  and  100/.  more  in  fix  months. 
Sir  John  made  anfwer,  '  that  he  could  not  in  confcience  nor  honor,  nor  would  for  any  good 
put  poore  Bouthe  to  any  hurt  or  charge,  fince  it  had  pleafed  her  Majcfty  to  grant  him  his 
abfolute  pardon,  for  the  figning  whereof  he  meant  to  trouble  nobody  but  himfelf,'  and  he 
hath  fhewed  much  affection  in  facilitating  the  releafe." 

Sir  John  had  now  reached  a  pofition  of  much  influence  and  power  in  the  Court  and  the 
country.  In  the  Sydney  Papers'  we  find  repeated  mention  of  his  name  in  cafes  where  his 
recommendation  is  fought  for  the  furthering  of  fuits  of  various  kinds  with  the  Uueen.  The 
following  letter  from  Lord  Efiex,  afking  his  patronage  for  the  great  Francis  Baconj  is 
interefting,  both  in  confirmation  of  what  has  been  faid  above,  and  becaufe  ot  its  fubject :— '- 


The  Earl  of  Ejjex  to  Sir  Jolin  Forte/cue. 

COSEN, 

I  do  now  commend  unto  you  both  prefent  adions,  and  abfent  Friends  ;  I  mean  thofe 
that  are  abfent  from  me,  fo  as  I  neither  can  defend  them  from  wrong,  nor  help  to  that  right 
their  virtue  deferves ;  and  becaufe  one  occafTion  offers  itfelf  before  the  reft,  I  will  commend 
unto  you  one  above  the  reft. 

I'he  place  is  the  Mafterlliip  of  the  Rolls  ;   the  man   Mr.  Francis   Bacon,  a  kind  and 
worthy  friend  to  us  both. 

If  your  Labour  in  it  prevail  I  will  owe  it  you  as  a  particular   Debt,  tho'  you  may  chal- 
lenge it  as  a  debt  of  the  State. 

And  fo  wifliing  you  all  happinefs, 

I  reft  your  Cofen,  and  Friend  afFecftionate  and  aflured, 

E 

Cofen,  I  pray  you  remember  my  very  good   Dr.  Browne,  I  fliould  challenge  you   for  a 
great  unkindnefs  if  his  fuit  fhould  fucceed  ill. 

To  my  honourable  Cofen,  Sir  John  Fortefcue, 
Chancellor  of  the  Flxchequer.'' 

The  coufinfhip  between   Sir  John  and   EfTex  was  remote  enough,  being  no  nearer  tha  i  • 
fecond  coufins  thrice  removed;    Oueen  Anne   Boleyn,  and  her   filler,   Lady   Mary,  being 


Sydney  Letters  and  Memorials  of  State,  2  vols,  folio,  1746. 

Copied  from  Brit.  Mus.  Add.  MS.  4119.     'llie  original  is  in  Lambeth  Library. 


2  54 


FiDiiily  of  Said  en. 


fecond  couflns  to  Sir  John  ;  nnd  Lady  Mary,  firfl;  tlirough  the  Carys,  and  then  through  the 
Knollys,  being  great-grandmother  to  h'.flex  ;  but  the  cullom  of  the  time  ac:cnovvledged  dillant 
relationfhips,  and  in  the  prefent  cafe  the  central  attra6tion  of  a  common  coufin  on  the  throne 
ot  England  liad  it^  influence  in  drawing  them  togetlier.  This  pctligrce  will  explain  the 
relationfliip  : — 

Sir  Gi-OFFnEY  Boleyn~Anne,  (J;m.  of  Lord  lloo  and  IlaRings. 


Sir  William  Bollvn. 


Thomas  BoLrvN, 
Karl  ol'Wiltlhire. 


Alice  BoLEVN-^Sir  John  Fortescue 
I         of  I'linlbonu'. 

Sir  Adrian  Fort  scue. 


Mary  BoLEYN^pW.  Gary.  Qiitcn  Ann  Bolkyn^Hi  nry  VIII. 

Catherine  CARY^Sir  Francis  Knollys.  Quitn  Elizabeth. 


Sii  JuiiN  Fortescue. 


Lettice  Knollys^pWalter  Devereux, 
Farl  ofElIl-x. 


RouERT,  Earl  of  EiFl-x. 


Here  are  other  lefs  interefting  letters  from  the  fame  perfonage.  Of  thefe  the  firil:  was 
written  before  Effex  failed  on  his  expedition  to  Cadiz;  the  laii  two  foon  after  his  return, 
viftoriouSj  but  difcontented  :  — 


Earl  of  Effex  to  Sir  John  Forlefcue. '  ■  | 

Sir, 

Thefe  few  lines  are  only  to  entreat  your  honourable  favour  towards  Jeronymo  Lopes, 
an  honeft  merchant,  who  without  the  fame  is  like  to  fulhiin  great  lofs  in  his  LlTiate  by  realbn 

of  certain feized  by  the  CommilTioners. 

The  fl:ate  of  the  Caufe  and  his  juft  defence  for  the  faving  of  his  Goods  is  cortained  in 
this  fcedule  inclofed,  whereunto  I  do  refer  you,  forbearing  otiierwife  to  trouble  you  with 
the  Repetition  thereof,  commending  the  Equity  of  his  Caufe  to  your  good  con(  deration, 
according  to  the  truth  whereof  upon  Examination  I  do  very  earneftly  pray  you,  tha.  you  will 
be  pleafed  to  give  order  to  the  Commillioners  for  the  Releafe  of  his  Goods  and  that  he  may 
be  permitted  to  tranfport  them. 


Add.  MS.  41 18,  p.  99.     Tlie  original  is  in  Lambeth  Library. 


Right  Ho7i.  Sir  Joh?i  Forte/cue.  255 

For  which  your  Hon'''^  favour  I  will  rel^  very  thankful  in  his  behalf 
Thus  I  commend  you  to  God's  heft  protedion. 
From  the  Court  the  firft  day  of  March  1595. 

Your  very  loving  Cofen, 

Essex. 

The  Earl  of  EJfcx  to  Sir  John  Forte/cue} 
Sir, 

My  hand  is  lame,  and  therefore  I  am  bould  in  this  pollfcript  to   ufe  another  man's, 

thereby  to  entreat  you  that  you  will  be  pleafed  to  continue  your  honourable  favour  towards 

Dodor  FletcJier,  and  to  refpite  him  until  the  next  term.     You  fliall  make  me  exceedingly 

beholden  to  you  for  it. 

•  i 

Endorjed: — "  November  14,  [4,  or  24]  1596."  '     ' 

The  Earl  of  F.Jfex  to  Sir  John  Fort  f cue. 
Sir, 

It  pleafed  you  lately  at  my  requeft  to  promife  refpite  of  Mr.  Dr.  I'^letcher's  payments, 

for  the  which  I  thought  myielf  very  much  beholden.  Now  therefore  forafmuch  as  unawares  unto 

you  procefs  is  awarded  againft  him  and  his  furetics,  I  am  bold  to  entreat  your  favour  for  the 

remedying  therof  by  the  befl:  and  fpcedielt  courfe  you  can,  for  that  their  credits  are  very 

deeply  interefted,  and  may  be  not  a  little  prejudiced,  unlefs  fome  prefent  order  be  taken  tor 

the  granting  of  a  fuperfedeas.      I  pray  you  to  tender  their  reputation  fo  much,   and  tor  my 

fake  to  difpatch  them,  which  I  will  acknowledge  with  all  thankfulnefs. 

I  do  commit  you  to  God's  bed  proteftion. 

I^Vom  the  Court  6th  of  December,  1596. 

Your  very  afl^eftionate  Coufin  and  aflured  l<"riend, 

Essex. 

We  have  feen  Francis  Bacon  recommended  to  Fortefcue  by  F'tfex,  for  the  Mallcrfhip  of 
the  Rolls  ;  Sir  John,  however,  had  been  long  Bacon's  friend  and  well-witlier.  In  the  end 
of  1593  he  joined  Chancellor  Egerton  in  urging  the  Oueen,  though  unluccefsfully,  to  make 
him  Solicitor-General;-  and  in  1595,  we  read  that  file  appoints  Bacon  one  of  her  Counfel 
learned  in  the  law,  and  gives  him  the  eftate  called  "  'I'he  Pitts,"  in  Somerfet,  at  the  exprefi 
(uggertion  of  Burghley  and  Fortefcue.' 

Both  iM-ancis  and  his  brother  Anthony  were  employed  at  this  time  by  tliofe  ftatefmen  to 

'  Sloane  MS.  4122,  f.  93  6.  '■'  Dixon's  Bacon,  Nov.  1593,  p.  53.  '  Ibid.,  July  14,  1595,  p.  62. 


256  Family  of  Salden. 

colleffl  news  for  the  Government  of  tranfaftions  abroad,  from  the  foreign  gazettes  and 
private  information;  and  Fortefciic  correfponds  with  them  on  liich  aflVirs.  'l"he  letter  now 
given  is  to  Anthony  Bacon. 

Sir  John  Fortejcue  to  Mr.  A.  Bacon.^ 
Sir, 

I   moft  heartily  thank   you  for  that  you  fo   kindly  take  fo  fmall  a  courtefy  as  you 

have  received  from  me  in  acceptance  of  your  offer;   alTuring  you  I  would  be  glad  to  do  you 

better  offices,  and  deferve  your  good  opinion,  if  it  may  lie  in  my  power. 

Touching  that  you  write  of  the  Scottifli  caufe,  I  have  always  carried  a  fufpicious  mind 
of  the  whole  nation.  NdiJi  quid  con  cogit  egcftas?  The  Miniik-rs  have  all  been  double 
dealers,  and  therefore,  mpre  than  by  Her  Majefty's  exprefs  commandment  I  have  been 
intorced,  I  never  communicated  with  any  of  them  ;  and  whatfoever  I  advi^rtifed  I  ever 
procured  under  the  Intbrnier's  own  hand,  for  his  double  dealing  I  always  fufpedfetl,  and  fo 
plainly  have  protelled  unto  Her  IMajefty,  and  have  charged  Archibald  Douglas  to  have  been 
author  of  the  complots  he  would  feem  to  remedy.  But  the  man  known  needeth  v.o 
defcription,  and  is  to  you  thoroughly  decyphered. 

The  dealing  with  that  Prince  ftanding  to  Her  Majefty  in  fo  dainty  terms,  ano  tl  e 
fufpicious  concert  Her  Highnefs  hath  of  his  titulary  hopes,  maketh,  yea  rather,  torbiddelh 
a!id  forewarneth  me  to  have  no  commerce  where  my  Loyalty  may  receive  Biemiili,  and 
therefore  I  made  bold  to  deliver  myn  opinions  unto  your  Brother  advifing  you  to  mal-  e 
known  to  Her  iVIajefty  that  you  would  not  entertain  anything  that  fliould  not  bear  Hit 
Highnefs's  good  Allowance. 

What  1  may  in  this  or  any  other  thing,  my  good  will  and  travel  fliall  be  to  you 
all  good.  . 

And  fo  thanking  you  for  your  Venice  advertifements,  I  herewith  advertize  you  of  our 
unpleafant  news  of  the  rendering  of  the  Citadel  of  Calice,  which  was  yellerday  before  n;)on 
delivered  into  the  enemies  hands,  and  the  King  departed  trom  Boulogne  towards  La  here. 

And  fo  I  commend  you  to  the  Lord's  tuition,  this  16"'  of  April  1596.  1 

Your  allured  loving  lu-iend,        ■■         '' 

J.    FORTESCUE. 

The  fiege  of  Calais  by  the  Spaniards,  under  the  Archduke  Albert,  Gove  nor  of  the 
Netherlands,  when  known  in  England,  excited  much  alarm.  Elizabeth  at  once  riifed  troops 
to  fend  to  the  affiftance  of  the  French  king  ;  and  fo  important  was  the  objed:  telt  to  be,  that 
inftantly  upon  the   arrival   of  the   ititelligence,  although   it  was  on  Sunday,  during  Divine 


'   From  Bacon  Papers,  vol.  656,  No.  217,  in  Larnbelh  Library. 


Right  Ho7i.  Sir  yoJni  Fo7'tefcue.  257 

fcrvice,  that  the  mellcnger  c;ime,  the  enrohncnt  of"  men  was  begun,  and  J^lTex  was  appointed 
to  the  command  ;  but  before  tlie  expedition  was  ready  to  fet  out,  the  news  nuntioned  by 
Sir  John  arrived,  and  the  forces  were  difbanded.' 

Spain  being  at  tliis  time  the  foreign  power  mod:  clofely  to  be  watched,  the  advertifements 
ret'erred  to  by  the  Bacons  in  thele  letters,  as  fent  to  Sir  John  ['"ortefcue  doubtlefs  related  to 
the  deiigns  of  that  country. 

Francis  Bacon  to  AntJiony  Bacon^^ 

Mtty  15'",  151)6. 

My  verv  good  Brother, 

I  liave  remembered  your  fahitation  to  Sir  John  h'ortefcue,  and  deHvered  to  him  the 
Gazette  defiring  him  to  referve  it  to  read  in  his  barge. 

He  acknowledgeth  it  to  be  of  another  fort  than  the  common.  I  delivered  him  account  of 
fo  much  of  E.  Hawkins'  letter  as  contained  advertifements,  copied  out ;  v\  hich  is  the  reafon 
I  return  to  you  the  letter  now  ;   the  Gazette  being  gone  with  him  to  the  Ctiuit. 

The  next  words  confecutive  I  have  not  acquainted  him  with,  nor  an)'  of  them.  The 
body  is  for  more  apt  time. 

So,  in  hafte,  I  wifli  you  comfort  as  1  write. 

Your  entire  loving  Brother, 

Fr.  Baco.v. 

Francis  Bacon  to  Anthony  Bacon} 
Gooi:)  Brother, 

Yeflernight  Sir  John  h'ortefcue  told  me  he  had  not  manv  hoin'S  before  imparted  to 
the  Oueen  your  advertifements  and  the  gazette  likewife ;  which  the  Oueen  cauled  Mr. 
John  Stanhope  to  read  all  over  unto  her  ;   and  her  Majefty  conceiveth^  they  be  not  vulgar. 

The  advertifements  her  Majefty  made  ellimatlon  of  as  concurring  with  other  advertife- 
ments, and  alike  concurring  alfo  with  her  opinion  of  the  affairs.  So  he  wiileil  me  to  return 
you  the  Qiieen's  thanks.  Other  particulars  of  any  fpeech  from  her  Majelly  of  yourfelf  he 
did  not  relate  to  me 

l-'or  my  Lord  of  Eflex'  and  your  letters,  he  faid,  he  was  defirous  to  do  his  belf.  But  1 
feemed  to  make  it  but  a  love-wifh  and  pafTed  prefently  from  it,  the  rather  becaufe  it  was  late 
in  the  night,  and  I  mean  to  deal  with  him  at  fome  better  leifure,  after  another  manner  as 
you  {hall  hereafter  underftand  from  me. 

I  do  find  in  the  fpeech  of  fome  Ladies,  and  the  very  face  of  the  Court,  fome  additio  i 
of  reputation,  as  methinks,  to  us  both;  and  I  doubt  not  but  God  hath  an  operation  in  it 
that  will  not  futfer  good  endeavours  to  perilh. 


'   Camden,  in  Kennctt,  ii.  591.  ^  Di.\on"s  Bacon,  a.  D.   1596,  from  I.;M.,biflh  MS. 

'  Bacon's  Works,  cd.   1778,  \ol.  iii.  456.  *  Query,  "  commandelli." 

II.  L  L 


258  Fa  m  Hy  oj  Sa  h  U?i . 

The  Oiieen  fainted  me  to-day  as  fhe  went  to  chapel.  I  had  long  fpeech  with  Sir  Robert 
Cecil  this  morning,  who  feemed  apt  to  difcourfe  with  me  ;  yet  of  yourfelf  ne  verbiim 
quidem,  not  fo  much  as  a  quomodo  valet  ? 

This  I  write  to  you  in  hade  aliud  ex  alio,  I  pray  you  fet  in  a  courfe  of  acquainting 
my  Lord  Keeper  what  pafieth,  at  hrll  b)'  me,  and  after  from  yourfelf.  I  am  more  and  more 
iDOund  to  him. 

I'hus  wifhing  you  good  health,  1  recommend  you  to  God's  happy  prefervation. 

Your  entire  loving  Brother, 

pR.  Bacon. 
From  the  Court  thi;  30'''  May,  1  596. 

I  find  about  this  time  a  fonnet  in  his  honour  by  one  Henry  Lok,  Gentlenir.n,  who  thus 
addrefTes  him  :  — 

I 
To  the  RigJit  Uo>wia-ahle  K>iight  Sir  John  Fortejcue  Chauncellor  of  the  Exchequer. 

He  who  in  dutie  much  to  you  doth  owe, 

In  power  is  little  able  to  prelent, 
For  pledge  of  grateful  mind  is  tor'lt  bellow 

Thefe  ill  limned  lines,  bell  lignes  of  heart's  intent ;  I 

The  fcope  wherof  for  Salomon  was  bent,  I 

To  teach  the  way  to  perfeifl  happinelle,  ,  ,  • 

By  one  transformed  thus  and  to  you  fent  ' 

To  fhew  that  I  do  wifh  to  you  no  leffe ; 
To  willi  well  is  fmall  coll  I  do  confelfe,  '  ( 

But  fuch  a  heart  as  truly  it  intends, 
Is  belter  worth  elleem  than  many  gueffe  ;  I 

And  for  all  other  wants  makes  halfe  amends.  i 

Such  is  my  heart,  fuch  be  therefore  thy  mind. 
Then  fliall  my  mite  a  millions  welcome  find.'  • 

Alfo  thefe  I-atin  lines  from  a  work  called  "  lllulhium  aliquot  Anglorum  eniomia,"  hy 
Thomas  Newton,  1589:'' — 


'  The  above  is  contiiincd  in  a  \oiume  .-ntitUd  -  Suiulry  Cliriliian  I'aliloiis  contained  in  luo  hundied  Sonnetts, 
divided  into  two  equal  paits.  The  full  conlifliiig  cliietiy  of  iMe.lit.iiionb,  Humiliations,  and  Prayers:  Tlie  Second 
of  Comfort,  Joy,  and  Thankfgivinj;,  by  H.  L."  [Henry  Lok,  Gentleman.]  410.  London,  printeil  hy  Richard  I'ield,  1  597. 

At  the  end  of  this  work  arnon^'  •■  Sonnett.s  of  the  Author  to  divers,  collected  by  the  I'linter,"  and  firll  •'  to  the 
Lords  of  Her  Majefty's  Privie  Councell,"  occurs  the  foregoing  fonnet. 

•■^  Leiand's  Collectanea,  vol.  v.  p.  174,  being  Appendi.x  to  vol.  i. 


Rig/it  Ho7i.  Sir  yobn  Foriefciie.  259 

^Id  ornatijfinium  virion  D.  loanvem  Fcrtefcutum  confiliarium  Regineum. 

Scutum  forte  tuis  cum  fis  fulcrumquc  Brittaniiis, 
Conveniens  certe  nomen  et  omen  habes. 

From  frequent  mention  of  Sir  John  at  this  period  in  the  Sydney  Papers,  we  learn  fome- 
thing  of  him  almofl  from  month  to  month. 

Whyte  writes  to  Sir  Robert  Sydney  on  the  i6th  of  March,  1596  :' — "My  Lord  of 
EfTex  had  granted  unto  him  the  office  of  Mafler  of  the  Ordonance,  but  as  yet  he  cannot  get 
his  Patent  figned.  Sir  John  Fortefcue  offered  it  twice  to  Her  Majefty,  but  flie  found  fome 
exceptions,  and  this  after  noon  he  took  his  bill  from  him,  and  prefented  it  himfelf,  but  )br 
all  that  it  is  not  done,  which  moves  the  Earl  greately."  > 

It  Effex  was  then  under  a  cloud  it  was  but  a  paffing  one,  for  not  many  weeks  later 
Elizabeth  fends  him  to  Cadiz  at  the  head  of  the  land  forces. 

On  St.  George's  day  (April  23,  1599),  Sir  John  is  laid  up  with  a  relapfe  of  cold,  and 
muft  ftay  at  home  fix  days  longer ;  but  he  lends  his  chamber  at  the  Court  to  Sir  Robert 
Sydney's  children,  to  fee  the  Queen  in  her  proceffion." 

He  is  frequently  folicited  for  Sir  Robert  Sydney,  then  with  the  troops  at  Mufliing  as 
Governor,^  to  obtain  grants  for  him  of  the  houfe  and  park  of  Oteford,  near  Penfliurll,  in 
Kent.      In  the  correfpondence  he  is  often  referred  to  as  "  number  100." 

By  a  letter  from  Whyte  to  Sydney  in  Oc^lober,  1597,  we  find  that  he  had  been  for 
fome  time  part  Keeper  of  the  Seal  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancafler  : — "  It  is  expefted  that  this 
day  the  Seal  of  the  Duchy  fhould  be  given  to  the  Secretary  ;  for  Sir  John  I'ortefcue,  that 
kept  it  all  this  while,  was  fent  for  about  it."  ' 

He  did  not  become  adual  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancafter  in  this  reign  until  four 
years  later,  namely,  in  the  end  of  1601. 

Oueen  Elizabeth  having  governed  without  a  Parliament  for  four  years  and  a  half, 
affembled  the  two  Houfes  on  the  24th  of  Oftober,  1597- 

In  this  Parliament  Sir  John  again  fat  for  Buckinghamfhire.°  His  eldeft  fon,  Francis," 
was  returned  for  the  town  of  Buckingham ;  his  third  fon,  William,  was  member  for 
Chipping  Wycombe  ;  while  his  brother  Thomas  continued  to  fit  for  Wallingford.  Sir 
John's  fecond  fon,  Thomas  (ftyled,  to  diftinguifh  him  from  his  uncle,  "  of  the  Middir 
Temple"),  who  was  in  the  laft  Parliament  for  Wycombe,  does  not  appear  to  have  been 
a  member  of  the  new  Parliament;  the  family  intereil;  was,  however,  ftrongly  repre 
fented. 


'  Sydney  Papers,  ii.  p.  30.  =  Ibid.  ii.  p.  44.  '  Ibid.  ii.  p.  183. 

♦  Ibid.  ii.  p.  64.  *  Willis's  Not.  Pari.  "  D'Ewes,  p.  553, 


2  6o  Family  oj  Sal  den. 

Sir  Thomas  Egeiton,  who  had  lately  fucceedcd  Puckering  as  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal, 
read  the  Ivoyal  Ipeech  in  tiie  Oueen's  prefence  to  the  Lords  and  Cotninuns. 

The  Commons  cliofe  Serjeant  Yclverton  as  their  Speaker.  He  was  propofed  by  Sir 
William  Knolls,  a  Privy  Counfellor  and  Comptroller  of  the  lloiifchukl,  and  then,  according 
to  ufage,  excufcd  himfelf  as  unequal  to  the  great  poll. 

He  lays  :' — "  Not  from  my  ability  doth  this  your  choice  proceed,  for  well  known  it  is 
to  a  great  number  in  this  place  now  ailembled  that  my  eftate  is  nothing  correfpondeni  for  the 
maintenance  ot  this  dignity  :  l^'or  my  tatlier  dying  left  me  a  younger  brother,  and  nothing 
to  me  but  my  bare  annuity.  Then  growing  to  man's  eflate,  and  fome  fmall  prae^tice  of  the 
law,  I  took  a  wife  by  whom  I  have  had  many  children,  the  keeping  of  us  all  being  a  great 
mipoverilliiiig  to  my  eftate,  and  the  daily  living  of  us  all  nothing  but  my  daily  indulliy. 

"  Neither  from  my  perfon  or  nature  doth  this  choice  arile  ;  for  he  that  *"upplieth  this 
place  ought  to  be  a  man  big  and  comely,  flately  and  well-fpoken  ;  his  voice  great,  his 
carriage  majeflical,  his  natiu'e  haughty,  and  his  purfe  plentiful  and  heavy:  but  conli-arily  thj 
feature  of  my  body  is  fmall,  mylelf  not  fo  well-fpoken,  my  voice  low,  my  cari'iage  lawyei - 
like,  and  of  the  common   fafliion,   my   nature  lott    and   Ijulliful,  my   purfe    thin,  light,  and 

never  yet  plentiful Ilowfliall  1  then  fpeak   before  the  unfpeakable   Maefl/ 

and  facred  perfonage  of  our  mod  dread  and  dear  Sovereign,  tlie  terror  of  whofe  counteninci 
will  appall  and  abafe  even  the  iloutelT:  heart;  yea,  whofe  very  name  will  pull  tlown  the 
greatefl:  courage."     And  much  more  of  the  fame  kind. 

"  After  which  fpeech  of  Sergeant  Yelverton's,  the  Right  Honourable  Sir  John  I'orteicue, 
Knight,  one  other  of  Her  Highnefs'  faid  Moll:  Honourable  Privy  Council,  aiul  Chancellour 
of  Her  Majefties  Exchequer,  flood  up  and  affirmed  all  the  faid  former  fpeech  of  Mi. 
Comptroller  in  the  commendation  and  good  parts  of  the  iaid  Mr.  Sergeant  Yelverton,  and 
inferred  further  that  he  had  well  perceived  by  Mr.  Sergeant's  own  fpeech  tending  to  Ihe 
difabling  of  himfelf  to  the  faid  place,  that  he  was  thereby  lo  much  the  more  fufficient  aind 
meet  for  the  fame. 

"  And  fo  for  his  part,  likewife  nominating  the  fiid  Mr.  Sergeant  Yelverton  to  be  tlieir 
Speaker,  moved  the  Houfc  further  for  their  liking  and  relolution  therein  ;  \sho  all,  with  one 
accord  and  confent,  yielded  to  the  faid  election. 

"  Whereupon  Mr.  Comptroller  and  Mr.  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  did  -ile  up  and 
place  Mr.  Sergeant  Yelverton  in  the  chair." 

On  the  27th  of  Odober,  Sir  John  Fortefcue  "  moved  and  admoniflied  th;  t  hereafter 
no  member  of  the  Houfe  fhould  come  into  the  Houfe  with  their  fpurs  on,  for  o  Fending  of 
others;"  and  alfo  that  before  any  member  enter  the  Houfe  he  "  fliouKl  pay  the  ufual  fees  to 
the  Sergeant-at-Arms."-' 

1  D'Ewes,  p.  549.  ■'  Ibiil.  p.  550.  1 


Right  Ho?i.  Sir  Job?!  Fortefcne.  261 

And  on  the  fame  day,  he,  with  Sir  William  Knolls,  prefcnted  the  new  Speaker  to  the 
Queen  in  the  Houfe  of  Lords.' 

A  few  days  later  F'ortefcue  fupports  by  a  fpeech  a  motion  of  Mr.  In-aneis  Bacon,  who 
propofes  Bills  againft  the  undue  Inclofures  of  Land;"  and  on  the  14th  the  following  entry 
appears  on  the  journals  :' — 

"  Sir  John  Kortefcue,  Chancellor  of  the  l''.xchequer,  fhowcd  that  Her  Majefly  did 
yefterday  laft  call  Mr.  Secretary  and  himfelf  unto  her,  and  telling  them  that  Mer  Jlighnefs 
had  been  informed  of  the  horrible,  great,  and  inceftuous  marriage  mentioned  in  this  1  loufe 
the  day  before,  and  minding  due  punifliment  and  rcdrefs  of  tlie  lame,  commantlcd  them  to 
take  information  of  the  grievances  in  particular  of  the  members  of  this  House  ;  that  Her 
Highnefs  having  certain  notice  thereof,  may  thereupon  give  order  for  the  due  punilhme  i*- 
and  redrefs  accordingly." 

The  queflion  was  then  referred  to  a  Committee  for  inquiring  into  ecclefiaftical  abufes ; 
the  objectionable  marriage  arifmg,  it  was  alleged,  from  laxity  in  the  ecclefialticai 
government.'' 

Sir  John's  next  tafk  in  the  Houfe  was  to  propofe  a  grant  of  fupplies  to  the  Qiieen, 
affirming  that  "the  defence  of  the  realm  againft  the  old  Spanlfh  enemy  was  ftill  imperative, 
and  of  iieceiTity  coftly  ;  requiring  urgently  fome  mafs  of  treafure  to  be  artigned  to  her 
ufe."  In  his  fpeech  he  dwells  upon  the  defigns  and  attetnpts  of  the  King  of  Spain  fmce 
the  laft  Parliament.^  The  Houfe  accordingly  granted  three  fubfidies,  fix  fifteenths  and 
tenths. 

In  January  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  complains  to  the  Houfe  of  Commons  of  the  difcourteous 
condud:  of  the  Lords  when  he,  with  other  members,  went  to  their  Houfe  to  propofe 
a  conference."  He  fays  that  '■  their  Lordfliips  did  deliver  their  anfwers  to  the  fiid  Members 
at  the  Bar,  not  ufmg  any  of  their  former  wonted  and  courteous  inanner  of  coming  down 
towards  the  Members  of  this  Houfe  towards  the  Bar  ;  but  all  ot  them  fitting  ftill  in  their 
great  Eftates  very  folemnly  and  all  covered.  The  Lord  Keeper  fitting  alfo  ftill  in  like 
manner  covered,  delivered  the  anfwer  to  the  Members  to  the  great  imlignity  of  this  Houle, 
and  contrary  to  all  former  ufage,"  which  the  Commons  mifliking,  appointed  Sir  John 
Fortefcue  and  others  to  confider  how  they  ought  to  proceed  at  the  next  conference.  The 
Lords,  however,  maintained  their  point,  and  proved,  as  we  are  told,  "  that  the  Commons 
were  not  entitled  by  the  ufage  of  Parliament  to  any  more  refpcL'^t."' 

Lnmediately  before  the  end  of  the  feflion,"*  while  the  Houi'e  was  confidering  a   Bill   for 


'  D'Ewes,  p.  526.  -  Ibid.,  p.  5.52. 

^  Ibid.,  p.  556  ;   >.nd  Parliamentary  llillory,  vol.  iv.  41 0.  *  D'Ewes,  p.  558. 

'  Ibid.,  557,  559,  560.  °  Ibid.,  p.  580. 

'  Hume,  Hift.  of  England,  vi.  p.  3 1 8.  "  D'Ewts,  594. 


262  Family  of  Sahle?2. 

Drainage  of  Lands  in  Norfolk,  to  which  the  I.onls  Jiail  agreed,  I'ortefcue  came  fuddenly  into 
the  Hoiife,  "  and  prefently  told  Mr.  Speaker  that  Her  Majefly  the  Qiieen  had  commanded 
him  to  fignify  to  the  Iloufe  that  h.cr  exprefs  pleafurc  was  that  the  Bill  fhould  not  he 
proceeded  with."  The  next  day  Mr.  Wingfield  complained  mildly  of  this  very  fummary 
proceeding,  but  without  refult,  and  on  the  following  day,  February  9th,  the  Oueen  came 
down  and  diflblved  the  Parliament. 

Sir  John's  name  occurs  repeatedly  in  the  journals  of  this  Parliament  as  ferving  on  Com- 
mittees and  taking  part  in  the  conduift  of  Bills,  but  the  occafions,  with  the  exception  of  thofe 
above  referred  to,  were  not  important. 

In  the  courfe  of  this  year  (1598)'  the  States  General  of  the  Low  Countries  fent 
commiflioners  to  England  to  arrange  the  fhare  to  be  paid  by  each  power  towards  the 
expenfes  of  the  war  with  Spain.  To  treat  with  them  the  Oueen  appointed  Lord  Keeper 
Egerton,  Eflex,  Burleigh,  and  a  few  more,  including  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  and  fucceedei* 
in  relieving  England  from  the  burden  of  paying  the  expenfes  of  the  Engli/K  garrifons 
in  Flufhing  and  other  Memifh  ports,  to  the  great  fatisfadiion  of  the  Chancellor  of  tht 
Exchequer.  Burleigh  was  too  ill  to  take  part  in  the  proceedings,  but  Sir  John  vva: 
underftood  "  to  fpeak  the  fenfe  and  to  have  the  fecret  of  the  Lord  Treafurer,"'  who  i  iet 
in  the  following  Auguft.' 

It  was  expeifted  that  he  would  be  Burleigh's  fucceffor.  Chamberlain,  writing  to  Dudley 
Carleton,  fays,  on  the  20th  of  Odober,  159S,  "The  voice  ran  all  this  weeke  with  Sii 
John  Fortefcue  to  be  Lord  Treafurer,  but  now  it  is  come  about  again  to  the  Lore* 
Buckhurfl,  and  every  three  or  four  days  it  is  turned  from  one  fide  of  the  Court  to  thi 
other." 

The  rumour  of  Buckhurft's  appointment  proved  true;  Elizabeth  made  him  bjr 
Treafurer. 

The  rebellious  condudl  of  Tyrone  in  Ireland  at  this  time'  determined  the  Queen  to  femd 
an  army,  with  a  great  officer  at  its  head,  to  crufh  him.  She  unfortunately  chofe  Eflex, 
advifed,  on  the  one  hand,  by  Cecil,  who  defired  his  abfence,  and,  on  the  other,  by  Sir  John 
Fortefcue,  always  his  well-wifher.  On  the  8th  of  March,  1599,  the  commiflion  for  Efler's 
Lord  Lieutenancy  was  drawn  at  a  private  meeting  of  the  Privy  Council,  where  only  Cecil, 
Buckhurft,  and  Fortefcue,  were  prefent. 

A  few  months  later,  in  September,  Eflex,  having  fucceeded  but  badly,  cam^  back  to 
England,  without  leave,  to   excufe   his   failure,  arriving   in   London  on  Michae.mas  Eve, 


Camden,  in  KenneU,  ii.  610  ;   Rymcr,  vii.  part.  i.  p.  201.  '  Biograiihia  Britannica,  vol.  iii.  p.  2004. 

Strype's  Elizabulh,  iv.  J,bb.  *  X)x>ion\  Bacon,  chap.  v.  Ice.  6. 


Right  Hon.  Sir  John  Fo?'tefcue.  263 

1599.'  The  Queen,  altiiough  at  firft  moved  by  his  earneftnefs  in  imploring  her  pardon, 
committed  him  next  day  to  the  cullody  of  Lord  Keeper  Kgerton,  who  kept  him  jirifoner 
in  his  houfe. 

Here  he  foon  fell  ill,  overcome  by  grief  and  vexation  at  his  difgrace,  or,  as  the  Sydney 
Papers  with  lefs  fentiment  relate,  "  infinitely  troubled  with  the  Irifli  ioofnefs." 

Elizabeth,  when  the  L'.arl's  life  appeared  to  be  in  danger,  became  mollified  towards  her 
favourite,  and  allowed  a  few  of  his  friends  to  vifit  him  ;  among  others  Sir  John  b'ortefcue,' 
who  foon  after  (on  the  29th  of  November)  was  one  of  the  Lords  of  the  Council,^  who,  in 
Star-Chamber,  drew  up  a  Declaration  on  the  caufe  of  I'^fiex's  imprifonment  "  for  the 
fatisfaclion  of  the  world,"  each  lord  delivering  his  opinion  of  his  condut't  in  Ireland. 
Lrancis  Woodward,  who  gives  a  report  of  the  proceedings,  was  only  able  to  hear  ihe 
fpeeches  of  the  Lord  Keeper  Egerton  and  Lord  Treafurer  BuckhurlL  "  the  reft  did  fpeak'fo 
foftly,  the  throng  and  prefs  being  fo  mightie,"  that  he  "  was  driven  fo  far  back  that  he  could 
not  hear  what  was  fiiid."  Another  authority,  howevei,  better  placed  fur  hearing,  thus 
relates  the  part  which  Sir  John  took  in  the  proceedings  : ' — 

"  In  the  troubles  of  the  Earl  of  Efiex  Eortefcue  conducted  himfelf  with  fiich  prudence 
as  to  give  no  offence  either  to  the  Oucen  or  to  thofe  who  were  the  Karl's  eriemies  ;  and  was 
notwithftanding  underftood  throughout  the  v.-hole  to  be  his  friend. 

"  In  the  proceedings  in  the  Star-Chamber  at  the  clofe  of  Michaelmas  Term  1599,  when 
ail  the  great  officers  of  ftate  were  called  upon  in  publick  to  fpeak  their  fentiments  on  that 
nice  fubject,  with  a  view  probably  of  obliging  them  to  take  either  one  part  or  the  other ; 
Sir  John  b'ortcfcue  had  the  addrefs  to  fpeak  to  the  iiuisfae'tion  of  the  audience,  without 
falling  into  any  of  the  heats  with  which  others  were  tranfported. 

"  Me  firft  gave  a  clear  account  of  the  Qiieen's  care  and  concern  for  the  reduftion 
of  Ireland,  and  the  meafures  purfued  for  that  purpole,  fo  far  as  they  fell  within  the 
cognizance  of  his  own  office.  He  obferved  that  he  was  not  called  to  Council  when  rhefe 
matters  were  firft  in  debate;  he  iaid,  that  fince,  he  came  rarely  thither,  moft  of  his  time 
being  taken  up  in  the  management  of  the  revenue ;  that  notwithfhuiding  this  he  had 
a  general  knowledge  of  what  pafted  in  Council  ;  from  which  general  knowledge,  how- 
ever, he  could  collect:  nothing  more  than  that  notwithftanding  all  the  Oueen's  pains  and 
providence  things  were  then  in  a  worle  ftate  in  Ireland  than  when  the  army  firlf 
landed. 

"  After  this,   raifing  his  voice,  he  complained  with    tears   in  his  eyes,  of  libels  fcatteret 


'   Sydney  Letters,  ii.  1  2",  giving  a  graphic  account  of  Kftex's  vifit  to  Eliziibetli  in   lier  bedroom  ;   and   Ilunu-, 

V-   349- 

'^   Sydney  Papers,  ii.   139.  •"  Ibid.,  140.  '   Bicjj^raphia  ISiit.,  \ol.  iii.  p.   ;o04. 


264  FcDnily  of  Said  en. 

abroad  to  inflame  the  minds  of  the  people;  of  the  fital  confe(]uences  of  thefe  faL^ious 
intrigues  among  great  men  ;  and  clofed  his  ipeech  with  a  pathetic  recommenthuion  of 
aftedion  to  the  (Jueen's  Majefty,  and  a  fincere  regard  to  tlic  peace  and  welfare  of  the 
nation." 

EHex  continuing  very  feeble  in  body,  Lady  EiTex   repaired  often  to  Sir  John   to    hear 
news  of  her  hulband's  health.    Rowland  Whyte  writes:  "  My  Eady  Kni-x  rifes  almoft  every 
day  by  daylight,  to  go  to  my  Lord  Treafurer's  and  Sir  John  b'ortcfcue's  for  to  this  Court  /he  ' 
may  not  come."  ' 

A  few  days  later,  however,  we  read,  "  My  Lady  Effex  had  leave  yefterday  to  go  to  the 
Ear]  and  fo  fhe  did  ;  little  hope  there  is  of  his  recovery.  The  Lord  Nottingham  is  fick  at 
Chelfea  :  the  Lord  Keeper  fick  at  London  ;  Sir  John  Fortefcue  takes  phyfic,  ai  d  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh  hath  an  ague."  ' 

About  this  time  V'erciken,  the  amhaffador  from  the  States  General,  arrives  in  London  to 
treat  for  peace,  and  Sir  John  receives  him  on  the  occafion  of  his  prefentation  to  the  Oiieen. 
Rowland  Whyte  writes  that  the  ambafiador,  in  his  fpeech,  faid,  with  other  compliments,  "  It 
is  true  that  I  longed  to  undertake  this  journey  to  fee  your  Majeftie  who  for  Beauty  an.  I 
Wifdome  doe  excell  all  other  I'rinces  of  the  World,  and  I  acknowledge  myfelf  exceediiigl  ' 
bownd  to  them  that  fent  me  to  have  this  happinefs  I' now  enjoy."'  Afterwards  he  vifits  thj 
Oueen's  Minirters,  Lords  of  the  Council,  at  the  Lord  Treafurer's,  namely,  the  Lord 
Treaiurer,  Lord  Nottingham,  the  Chamberlain,  Mr.  Secretary,  and  Sir  John  l'"ortefcuc. 
"  About  half  an  hour  at'ter  two  the  Ambaffador  came  in  Mr.  Secretary's  coach.  Mr. 
Secretary  and  Mr.  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  met  him  at  the  h'ootepace  in  the  Hall,  w  lerj 
was  a  great  number  of  the  Lord  Treafurer's  men  with  chaines  ;  foe  he  was  brought  to  the 
Great  Chamber  towards  the  Garden,  and  foe  to  the  Gallery,  where  he  ibiid  with  the  Lords 
till  half  an  hour  paft  five.  At  their  rifing  he  was  accompanietl  to  his  very  Coach  by  Mr. 
Secretary  and  Mr.  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer.  The  Lords  of  the  Council  doe  fjay 
m  London  till  I'Viday  about  thefe  affaires,  and  with  what  IjK-eil  polhbly  may  be,  it  Ihall  goe 
forward.      The  time  for  the  Treaty  is  putt  of  till  the  end  of  March."  '  . 

At  the  departure  of  Vereiken,  h'ortefcue,  with  the  other  Lords,  "  one  by  one,  came  to 
him  to  bid  him  farewell  and  to  have  fome  private  fpeech  with  him  ;  and  foe  he  departed,  Sir 
Walter  Rawleigh  taking  him  in  his  Coach." 

In  1600  there  is  flight  mention  of  Sir  John.  In  the  Sydney  Letters  his  n  une  occurs 
chiefly  with  reference  to  Sir  iiobert  Sytiney's  fuit  tor  Oteford  Park,  in  w'loi'e  behalf 
Sydney's  faithful  agent  folicits  his  favour  with  importunity. 

In  April  Whyte  writes  thus  to  Sir  Robert  Sydney  :  — "  Sir  John  hortefcue,  un.ler- 
ftanding   that   there   are   two    fliips   laden    with    fjiice   come    from  China  to  Middlebin-gh,  is 


'  Sydney  P.ipcrs,  ii.  149,  1.50.  '•'  Ibid.,  ii.  171,  17: 


Right  Hon.  Sir  John  Forte  [cue.  265 

very  defirous  to  have  ten  pounds  of  that  Ginger  they  bring:  It"  your  Lordfliip  pleafe  to 
provide  it,  I  fee  it  will  be  very  well  taken." ' 

Lord  Effex  had  been  in  eonfiiienient  for  many  months,  when  in  June  of  this  year  (1600) 
Elizabeth  determined  that  he  fliould  be  tried,  not  in  the  ufual  way,  but  by  the  Lords  uf  the 
Privy  Council,  afllfted  by  fome  Special  Commiflioners.  He  appears  accordingly  in  the 
Council  Chamber,  where  among  his  Judges  fat  Sir  John  Fortefcue.-  "The  Attorney-General 
her  Majefly's  Solicitor,  and  Mr.  Francis  Bacon  laid  open  his  offences  and  contempts.  The 
Earl  himfelf  kneeled  at  the  Board's  end,  with  a  bundle  of  papers  in  his  hand,  which  iome- 
times  he  laid  in  his  hat,  that  was  upon  the  ground  by  him."  He  was  found  guilty,  but  no 
fentence  was  paffed  until  the  Queen's  pleafure  fliould  be  known.  "  Many  that  were  prefent 
buri^  out  in  tears  at  his  fall  to  fuch  mifery." 

The  Oueen,  as  we  know,  loon  after  this  releafed  him,  but  his  turbulent  fpirit,  and  violei,t 
temper  drove  him,  a  few  months  later,  to  a  mad  attempt  at  infurredlion,  which  brought  him 
to  the  fcaffold  on  the  25th  of  h'ebruary,   1601. 

Among  thofe  who  joined  in  the  ri/ing  at  Effex  Houfe  were  Lord  Cromwell  and  I\dward 
Bromley,  the  laft  being  fon  of  Lc^rd  Chancellor  Bromley,  by  Sir  John's  firter,  Elizabeth 
Fortefcue. 

The  following  letter,  referring  to  late  events,  is  preferved  in  the  Britifli  Mufeum: — 


Sir  John  Fortefcue  to  Sir  Robert  Cecill.  1 

Sir, 

It  is  myn  unfortunate  mifliapp  now  to  be  touched  with  a  lamenefs  when  I  wold  and 
ought  to  be  mofl:  ready  to  ferve,  yet  I  have  not  but  with  my  belt  habylyty  ben  ready  to 
performe  my  Duety  ;  and  although  my  houfe  be  an  unfit  place  for  keeping  priioners  yet 
have  I  taken  care  for  the  cuftody  of  the  Lord  Cromwell  who  moft  pityfully  moneth  his 
mifery  and  proteileth  ignorance  of  the  attempt,  and  that  he  cafually  fell  into  the  I'.rle  of 
E,frex  Companye  nor  was  any  waye  partaker  of  any  Plot,  which  thinge  he  protefteth  may  be 
proved  by  his  dealing  at  the  Lord  Maier's  and  before  Mr.  Recorder.  I  moll'  heartily  pray 
youe  that  as  foon  as  it  may  be  I  may  be  free  from  him;  yet  will  I  not  refufe  any  dealing  in 
anythinge  which  may  tend  to  her  Majeftie's  fecurity  :  For  yefterday  I  committed  Mr. 
Cateiby  and  Mr.  Littleton  to  the  Sheriff's  cuilody,  and  now  this  morning  finding  a  nephew 
of  mine,  viz.,  Edward  Bromley,  who  was  one  of  the  Company,  I  have  alfo  taken  hini  and 
fafely  keepe  him  until  he  be  examined  and  my  L.  L.  refolve  what  fhall  become  of  the 
matter  :   youe  know  we  have  heretofore  always  fufpefted  fuch  fequells  and  now  it  behoveth 


'  Sydney  Papers,  ii.  li 


'^  Ibid.,  ii.  200. 


Right  Hon.  Sir  Jo/ni  Fortefcuc.  267 

when  he  conquered  Cond.mtinople,  tbuiul  therin  three  hundred  millions  of  gold  ;  If  they,' 
quoth  he,  '  had  beliowcil  tiu'ce  niillions  in  defence  of  their  city  he  coidd  never  have  gotten  it. 
h'rom  this  hlindiiefs  I  pray  God  defend  us,  that  he  may  never  l)e  backward  to  give  four  fuh- 
fidies  to  her  Majerty — for  want  whereof  in  time  we  may  happen  to  lofe  that  which  will  not 
be  recovered  or  defended  with  a  hundred.'  " 

The  necelfity  alligncd  for  this  very  large  demand  was  the  continuance  of  the  war  with 
Spain;  and  efpecially  the  prefence  of  a  body  of  Spanifli  troops  in  Ireland,  who  held  the 
town  of  Kinfale. 

On  the  yth  of  December  he  votes  in  a  divifion  of  which  an  account  remains' — a  cjuef- 
tion  was  put  from  the  Chair,  for  which  feveral  members  cried  "  I,  1,  I,"  but  when  the  doors 
were  opened  no  man  offercil  to  go  fortli  ;  upon  which  a  member  (Mr.  Martin)  obiervi  s 
that  "  ever  in  this  Parliament  the  Noes  upon  divifion  of  the  Moufe  have  carried  it.  The  reafo  i 
wliereof,  as  I  conceive,  is  becaufe  divers  are  loth  to  go  forth  for  lofmg  of  their  places,  and 
many  that  cry  <  I  '  will  fit  itill  with  the  No.  I  therefore  do  but  move  this  unto  the  Iloufe, 
that  all  thofe  that  have  given  their  I,  I,  would  according  to  their  conlciences  go  forth  ;  and  tor 
my  part,  faid  he,  I'll  begin.  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  rofe  up  to  anfwer  him,  but  Mr.  Comp- 
troller and  Sir  John  h'ortefcue  rofe  in  a  hurry  to  go  forth,"  and  all  the  Iloufe  upon  feeing 
them  did  likewife,  and  lb  did  not  hear  Sir  Walter. 

The  fame  day,  upon  a  motion  againlf  the  continuance  of  a  tax  of  threepence  per  ton  on 
lliipping  in  Dover  harbour,'  Sir  John  faid,  quoting  Latin  according  to  his  cuflom,  "  The 
Proverb  is  tracUnt  fabriiia  jahyi.  The  gentleman  that  firft  fpake  had  not  fo  good  inftruc- 
tions  as  he  might  have  had  :  There  be  Brew-houfes  and  liakedioufes  for  the  provifion  of 
Vicftuals  for  Shipping  ;  The  Haven  will  receive  fhips  of  three  hundred  tons,  and  is  miiit 
iieceffary  for  the  palhng  of  all  merchants:  The  Tax  is  f'mall,  and  times  may  be  when  the 
Haven  fhall  need  a  great  tax  at  one  time  :  And  if  this  fhould  be  taken  away,  what  then  ? 
And  therefore  I  think  it  mod  fit  to  be  continued." 

On  the  19th  of  December,  1601,  the  (^lecn  in  perfon  diflblved  the  Parliament. 

In  January,  1602,  hortefcue  was  on  a  Special  Commillion  with  the  Earl  of  Nottingham, 
Sir  Robert  Cecil,  and  a  tew  more,  to  treat  with  French  Commillioners,  for  the  fupprellion  ot 
piracy  on  the  high  feas.' 

On  the  13th  of  I'^ebruary  he  was  prefent  at  a  Court  in  the  Star-Chamber,  where  Lord 
Keeper  Egerton,  by  the  Oueen's  command,  made  to  the  lords  prefent  a  fpeech  notifying  her 
Majefty's  wifhes  upon  various  matters  civil  and  religious.' 

If  Elizabeth  ever  vifited  Sir  John  at  Saldeii,  it  was  in  the  year  at  which  we  have  now 
arrived,  i6o2.      Under  the  date  of  July  8th,  it  is  recorded  :  "  We  have  fpeech  of  a  progrefs 


1   D'Ewes,  |).  075.  ''   Ikywood  Townrend,  p.  308. 

'  Rymer,  vol.  \ii.  pt.  ii.  page  23.  *  Ileywood  'lownriiiid,  p.  355. 


268  Family  of  Salde?!. 

to  begin  towards  the  end  of  this  month,  firil:  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue's  in  Buckinghamfliire.'"    I 
have  not  been  able,  however,  to  find  any  account  of  her  prefence  theie. 

The  Queen  had  by  this  time  rewarded  lier  Minifter's  fervices  with  many  lucrative  places. 
A  tew  months  before,  on  the  i6th  of  September,  1601,  he  was  appointed  Chan- 
cellor of  the  Duchy  of  Lancalter  for  ten  days  only;  the  office  was  then  put  into  Com-. 
million  until  the  4th  of  November,  when  he  had  a  renewal  of  the  patent  during  the 
Oueen's  pleafure ;  thus  now,  and  until  the  death  of  Elizabeth,  he  was  Mafler  of  the 
Great  Wardrobe,  Under  Treafurer  of  the  Exchequer,  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  and 
Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancafter.'^  Mr.  Napier  remarks  upon  this  lad  appointment, 
that  tew  minilfers  perhaps  ever  held  fo  many  offices  at  the  fame  time  as  Sir  John  h'ortefcue. 
Befides  the  above,  he  was  made,  in  January,  1601,  Recorder  of  Cambridge,  in  fucceffion  to 
Lord  Keeper  I^gerton.  ' 

Somewhere  about  this  period,  Archbiffiop  Hutton  preached  before,  or  rather  to,  the. 
Queen  at  WhitehalF  a  fermon  on  the  duty  of  naming  her  fucceffior,  in  which  he  went 
fo  far  as  to  fay,  "  that  the  expedlations  of  all  writers  went  northward,  naming,  witl  out 
circumlocution,  Scotland."  Elizabeth,  although,  when  he  finiffied,  (he  opened  the  v  inc.ow 
of  her  clofet,  and  thanked  the  preacher  for  his  very  learned  fermon,  took  much  offi^nc  e,  md 
ient  Sir  John  Fortefcue  and  another  counfellor  to  him,  "with  a  fharp  meffage,  to  which  he 
was  glad  to  give  a  patient  anfwer ;  telling  Harrington,  who  has  left  us  this  account, 
when  afked  by  him  for  a  copy,  that  he  durlT:  not  give  a  copy  to  any  one,  for  that  the 
Chancellor  of  tlie  Exchequer,  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  and  Sir  John  Woolley,  Chancellor  of  the 
Order  of  the  Garter,  had  been  with  him  from  the  (J'-'^^'^j  with  fuch  a  greeting,  t!iat  he 
icant  knew  whether  he  was  a  prifoner  or  a  tree  man  ;  and  that  the  fpeech  being  idready 
ill  taken,  the  writing  might  exafperate  that  which  was  already  exulcerate." 

On  the  igth  of  January,  1603,^  we  find  Fortefcue,  for  the  laft  time  in  this  reign,  named 
on  a  Special  Commiffion,  whofe  duties  muft  have  been  moft  important  and  refponfiblei;  for 
the  Commiffioners  had  powers,  in  the  words  of  the  patent,  to  "  exile  and  banifh  out  ui  the 
realm  all  Jefuits  and  Seminary  Priefts,  as  well  as  Wandering  and  Maffing  Priefts,  as  ie^ucers 
of  our  loving  fubjefts." 

The  death  of  the  Oueen,  whofe  health  had  been  failing  for  fome  months  pall:,  took 
place  on  the  24th  of  March  in  this  ytar  (i6oj),  and  was  much  felt  by  Sir  John,  who 
had  been  fo  long  and  intimately  connected  with  his  royal  millrefs.  The  Priv)  Council  met 
almoll:  immediately  upon  her  death.  She  breathed  her  Jaft  at  three  o'clock  in  the  morning, 
and    the   counfellors   aflembled  three    hours    later.      Sir  John   was  one  of  t  lofe   prefent ; 


'   Nichols's  Elizabeth's  Progrtflls,  vol.ii.  \k  21. 

■•'  Napier,  p.  400,  note  at  toot ;  and  Note  A  in  Ajipi-nilix. 

'  Strickland's  Queens  of  England,  vii.  221,  from  llairington's  Memoirs. 

'  Rymer,  vol.  vii.  |)art  ii.  p.  61. 


Rig/it  Hon.  Sir  yoh/i  Forte/cue. 


269 


and  his  fignatiire  is  attached  to  the  proclamation  which  was  then  drawn  up  and 
pubHllied,'  declaring,  "  with  one  heart,  and  confent  of  tongue  and  voice,  that  the  high  and 
mighty  prince  James  the  Sixth  of  Scotland  is  now,  by  the  death  of  our  late  fovereign 
queen  of  England  of  famous  memory,  become  alfo  our  only  lawful,  lineal,  and  rightful  Liege 
Lord  James  the  Firft." 

He  was   again    prefent,'  four  days   after,  at   a  council,  when    letters    were  addrelled    to 
the  Commidioners  at  l^remen,  announcing  the  accellion  oi  James. 


nf^tiordckiJJ^  }<f(,\e  of 
'~T7it  CM.nnc(for   lyf  r  L;cc/>QOiter. 


n^ii' principalis 


The  Queen's  funeral  took  place  on  the  28th  of  April,  at  Weitminfter,  the  ceremony 
being  very  much  arranged  by  Sir  John,  as  appears  by  his  ftatement  of  charges  for  tin 
fame,-*  which  is  given  in  the  Appendix;  as  well  as  by  an  order  of  the  i6th  June,  i6oj, 
directing  payment  to  him  of  3000/.  towards  the  expenfes. 


'  Strypt's  Annals  of  Rtt'ormation,  vol.  iv.  p.  516. 

'  Rymtr,  vol.  vii.  part  ii.  p.  63.  ^  Brit.  Mus.  Adi  MS.  5751,  t'^l-  45- 

'  Napier,  Svvyncombe,  p.  400,  quoting  Devon's  Iflijcs  ot"  K.\.chequer,  James  1.,  p.  3. 


270  Fafnily  of  Sahlen. 

The  wooilciit  rcprcfents  part  of  the  fiuicral  procellion,'  taken  frotii  a  roll  twenty-eight 
tcet  long,  with  nunicroiis  figures,  the  prineipal  perlonages  having  their  names  written  over 
them  ;   the  whole  being  the  work  of  William  Camden,  Clarencieux  Herald. 

With  the  life  and  reign  of  Elizabeth,  the  career  of  her  faithful  Minifter  almoft  cloies. 
His  health  had  become  weak,  and  his  years  were  not  few.  He  fliared  in  the  apjirehenfioii 
that  the  Scotch  King  would  be  iwayed  rather  by  niinillers  chofen  from  among  his  own  coun- 
trymen, than  bv  thofe  of  his  jiredecefTors  on  the  Knglifli  throne,  and  was  one  of  thofe  who 
thought  that  James  ought  to  be  afked,  upon  his  acceilioii,  to  agree  to  certain  conditions, 
and  to  (ign  certain  articles  calculated  to  fet  bounds  to  his  expefted  importation  of  needy 
Scots.      Ofborne  in  his  Memoirs  thus  writes : — 

"  The  hopes  of  fome  and  fears  of  the  major  part,  aHilbed  by  the  prudent  ca  riage  of  the 
Treafurer,  and  ranting  protcllations  of  the  Earl  ot  Northumberland  (that  !n  all  places 
vapoured  he  would  bring  him  in  by  tlie  fword)  had  ftopped  their  mouths  that  defired  (in 
regard  of  the  known  feud  between  the  Nations  Englilh  and  Scotch)  he  might  be  obiigeci  tq 
articles  ;  and  amongft  thefe  noble  and  public  fpirits  were  Sir  John  Eortefcue,  Sir  Waltei 
Rawly,  and  the  Lord  Cobham."" 

Lloyd  alio,  in  his  "State  Worthies,"'  mentions  Eortefcue's  and  Raleigh's  "  defign  oi' 
articling  with  King  James  at  his  firll:  coming." 

And  Bifhop  Goodman,-'  in  his  Memoirs,  fays,  "  At  the  time  it  (the  queftion  of  making 
terms  with  James)  was  debated  in  Council,  I  have  heard  it  by  credible  perfons  that  Sii' 
John  I'^ortefcuc,  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  did  then  very  moderately  and  mildly  afl< 
whether  any  conditions  fhould  be  propofed  to  the  King.  Which  tlie  Earl  of  Northumberl  uic 
then  hearing,  protefted  that  if  any  man  fhould  offer  to  make  any  propofition  to  the  King, 
he  would  inllantly  raife  an  army  againft  him."' 

The  liev.  Mr.  Home,  in  his  fl-;etch  of  Sir  John's  life,'  has  inferted  a  paffige  from 
"Lord  Northampton's  Letters  to  the  Earl  of  Marr,"  written,  it  it-ems,  before  the  Oueen's 
death,  which  fhows  that  the  profpeifl  of  King  James's  fucceffion  was  not  one  to  which 
b'ortefcue   looked  with  fatisfaclion.      It  is  as  follows  : —  I 

"  Sir  John  b'ortefcue,  fpeaking  awhile  agone  with  a  dear  friend  of  his  own,  of  the  weaic- 
nefs  of  the  time,  faid  that  his  comfort  was,  that  he  was  old  and  weak  as  the  time  itfelf,  being 
born  in  the  fame  year  with  the  Oueen  ;  but  yet  he  would  advife  his  Ion  to  tal:e  a  right 
courfe  when  the  hour  came,  withc/ut  taking  knowledge  in  the  meantime  of  any  perfon  or 
pretention;  for  he  had  foimd  by  experience  that  they  that  met  Oueen  Mary  at  London 
were  as  well  accepted  (Itandiiig  free  from  further  comliination)  as  they  that  went  to  Eram- 

'  The  original  is  in  the  Hiitilli  Mufeum. 

^  Olborne's  Mt-moirs  ot'King  Jarncs  I.,  Lonilon,  1658;  and  Oklmixon,  vol.  ii.  p.  15. 

'  Lloyd,  Slate  WorthieB,  2  vols,  bvo.,  1716,  vol.  i.  \t.  442.  1 

'  Billiop  Goodman's  Memoirs,  quoted  by  Home  in  Huck's  Records,  vol.  i.  ' 


Right  Ho7i.  Sir  "John  Fo7'tefcitc  271 


lingham  ;  and  that  they  that  came  into  the  vineyard  hord  undecima  (at  the  eleventh  hour) 
liad  denarium  (a  penny)  as  well  as  they  that  liaii  fweat  before  all  their  fellows." 

"The  praiftice  of  opponents,  as  he  thought,  would  cauf'e  the  laliour  of"  all  men  to  be 
holden  and  accoimted  meritorious  that  had  lo  much  Llifcretion  as  in  the  meantime  to  be 
filent  and  indifferent." 

His  conduc'l  was  very  different  from  theirs,  of  whom  Camden  tells  us  that,  "  As  foon 
as  the  Rumour  was  confirmed  that  the  Oueen's  illnefs  increat'ed  upon  her,  'tis  hardly 
credible  with  how  forward  a  zeal  all  Ranks  and  Conditions  of  men,  Puritans,  PapifT:s,  and 
others,  hafted  away  at  all  times  and  hours,  by  fea  and  land,  into  Scotland,  to  pay  their 
adorations  to  the  Riflng  Sun,  the  young  King  ;"  and  yet  he  avoided  the  tiilpleafure  under 
which  both  Raleigh  and  Cobham  fell ; '   they  being  forthwith  forbidden  the  Court. 

James  arrived  in  the  neighbourhood  of  London  immediately  after  the  funeral  of  the  ^ate 
Queen,  in  May,  1603  ;  and  halting  at  Broxbourne  in  Hertford Ihire,  at  the  houfe  of  Sir 
Henry  Cock,"  cofferer  to  Oueen  Elizabeth,  he  there,  on  the  third  of  May,  was  met  by  the 
great  officers  of  flate  ;  among  whom  was  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  who  is  ftyled  in  the  record, 
"  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  to  our  Lord  the  King  ;"  James  having  at  once,  by  a  warrant, 
continued  in  their  employments  all  the  minifl:ers  of  his  predeccffor. 

For  iome  reafon,  however,  unexplained  except  by  James's  defire  to  provide  for  his 
favourites,  Fortefcue  was  not  continued  as  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  and  Under 
Treafurer  beyond  the  24th  of  May  in  this  year;  on  which  day  Sir  George  Home  the  new 
Earl  of  Dunbar  one  of  the  newly  arrived  Scotchmen'  and  James's  reigning  favourite,  was 
appointed  to  both  thofe  offices.'  Sir  John  was,  at  the  lame  time,  confirmed  in  ,  the 
Chancellorfliip  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancafler,  and  of  the  County  l-'alatine  of  Lancaller,''  to  be 
held  during  his  life;  the  patent,  dated  May  20th,  reciting  that  thefe  appointments  were  on 
account  of  tarn  veri  fidelis  ct  acceplabilis  Jervitii  nobis  per  dilcttiini  ct  fiddem  cvnfiliariitm 
nojlrum  Jobannem  I'ortejcue  Alililoii,  mite  hoc  ■imdtiplicitcr  impciiji,  qiiani  pro  aliis  cuiifis 
et  confukrationibus,  &cc.  &;c.  A  Patent,'  dated  May  24th,  reajipoints  liim  Mailer  of  the 
Great  Wardrobe. 

A  vifit  from  the  new  King,  which  Sir  John  received  at  Hendon,  was  very  likely  made 
on  the  Royal  progrefs  to  London  after  his  iEiy  at  Broxbourne  and    I'heobald's. 

Nichols'  writes: — "  We  next  find  the  King  at  Sir  John  I'ortefcue's,  at  Hendon,  when 
he  knighted  Sir  William  Fleetwood,  of  Buckinghamfliire,  and  Sir  Ihomas  Hefketh,  of 
Lancafliire."" 

In  the  next  month  his  new  fovereign  honoured  him  by  a  vifit   at  Salden.      The   Kirg- 


Oldmixon,  ii.  p.   17.  ^  Kjmcr,  \ii.  ]miI  il.  p.  (>•;  ;   Olilnii.voii,  ii    14. 

Napitr,  from  Aud.  Put.  No.  xi.  ff.  49,  50. '  *  OUimixon,  vol.  ii.  p.   14. 

Napiur,  from  Duchy  of  Lancafler  Ollice.  "  Nichols's  I'l-ogicllis  of  Jaiucs  1.,  vol.  i.  p.  165. 


272 


Family  of  Said e?!. 


arrived  there  on  the  27th  of  June,  1603  ;'  having  joined  his  Queen,  Anne  of  Denmark, 
and  his  eldeft  fon  Prince  Henry,  on  that  day  at  Eafton-nefton  Sir  George  Fermor's  feat, 
from  whence  "  after  dinner  they  rode  together  to  the  houfe  of  Sir  John  h'ortefcue,  at 
Salden;"  where  there  met  them  many  great  ladies  to  kifs  the  (Queen's  hand,  the  principal  of 
whom  were  the  Marchionefs  of  Winchefter,  the  Countefs  of  Northumberland,  and  the 
Countefs  of  Southampton." 

Sir  John  entertained  his  royal  guefts  with  great  ftate  and  fplendour  in  his  magnificent 
houfe  for  feveral  days.  The  King,  while  at  Salden,  created  many  knights,  all  of  whom  were 
hofpitably  received  by  Sir  John. 

The  lift  of  the  newly-made  knights,^  which  probably  contains  more  names  than  were 
knighted  during  the  forty-tour  years  of  Elizabeth's  reign,  and  yet  does  not  p 'ofefs  to  give 
them  all,  is  as  follows  : —  ' 


Sir  William  Dunche,  of  Berkfliirc, 

Sir  John  Dyve,  of  Bcdfordlhire, 

Sir  Gerard  Throckmorton,  of  Glouccfterfliire, 

Sir  John  Croke,  of  OxfordOiire, 

Sir  Richard  Chctwode,  and 

Sir  Robert  Harewcll  or  Hartwcll,  of  Northamp- 

tonfhire, 
Sir  Richard  Price,  or  Pryce,  of  Hunts, 
Sir  James  Heydon,  of  Norfolk, 
Sir  Thomas  Snagge,  of  Somerfctfhire, 
Sir  Francis  Cheney, 
Sir  Henry  Longueville, 
Sir  Henry  Drury, 


Sir  William  Burlacy,  or  Borlace, 

Sir  Thomas  Denton, 

Sir  Anthony  Tyrringham,  and 

Sir  John  Sandes,  all  of  liucks, 

Sir  Richard  Huntley,  and 

Sir  Thomas  Hyde,  or  Hill,  of  Kent, 

Sir  Thomas  Cave,  of  Northamptonfiiire, 

Sir  Thomas  or  John  Carrell,  of  Sufll-x, 

Sir  John  Townfend, 

Sir  Henry  Billingley,  of  London,        • 

Sir  Adrian  Scroop,  of  Lincoln,  : 

Sir  Thomas  Temple,  of  Bucks.'' 


With  fome  others  whofe  names  have  not  been  afcertained. 


The  next  lift  differs  from   the  foregoing,  including  alfo,   as  will  be  perceived,   knigats 


made  at  Sir  brands  l<"ortefcue's,  and  at  Mr.  George  ['ortefcue's. 


Sir  Frauncis  P'ortefcue's 
Sir  John  Fortelcue's    . 


Ktiights'  made  at 

Alexander  Brett 

WiUiain  Burlace 

(  William  Chadwell 


1    Frauncis  Cheney 
^  Thomas  Cave 


1603 

n 

1603 


'   Napier,  p.  402;  Strickland,  \ii.  405;   Oldmi.xon,  ii.   15. 

^  Lipl'comb's  Bucks,  iii.  427.  '  Hrown-W'il 

'  Harl.  MS.  3320,  f.  244. 


■'   Stowc,  p.  82J 
MS.;  Parochial  llili.  of  HucLs. 


Rig/n  Ho?i.  S/r  yo/i/2  Fo7~tefcue. 


Sir  John  Foitercue's 
Sir  John  Fortefcue's 


George  Fortefcue's 


George  Fortefcue's 
Sir  John  Fortefcue's 
Sir  John  Fortefcue's 

Sir  John  Fortefcue's 


William  Dunche 
j  Jolm  Dyucs     . 
J   Henry  Drcwry 
I   Thomas  Denton 
c  Henry  Longfeild 
(  Edward  Lee    . 
Frauncis  Moore 
Robert  Mackland 
Henry  Alountague 
Thomas  Mild  may 
Wilham  Meredith 
Lewes  Mansfelld 
John  Meares  . 
Thomas  May  . 
Robert  Mounfon 
Edward  Moumford 
Charles  Morgan 
Rowland  Morgan 
Thomas  Mildmay 
William  Mynne 
Edward  IVIarbury 
Arthur  Manwayring 
f  Raphe  IVLiddifon 
-|    Robert  Myller 

V  Henry  RLixie 
Richard  Pryce 

/   'I  homas  Snagge 
■\   John  Sandcs 

V  Adryan  Scroope 

C  Anthony  Tcriiigham 
'    John   Fownfeiid 


1603 

» 

1603 

j> 

1603 


1603 


1603 
1603 


1603 


Nichols,  in  his  ProgrefTes  of  James  L,  fays,  "  that  at  Sir  John  Fortcfcuc'a  the  King  held 
a  regular  Court  for  the  defpateh  of"  Public  Bufinefs,  and  that  among  other  matters  there 
tranfafled,  was  on  the  6th  of  July  a  releafe  of  the  Earl  oi  iVlar  from  the  guardianfhip  ol 
Prince  Henry." 

Dudley  Carlton  writes  to  Sir  Thomas  Parry,  from  London,  on  the  28th  of  June : — 
"The  Oueen  lieth  this  night  at  Sir  John  I'ortefcue's,  where  the  King  meets  her;  it  is 
expedled  the  two  Courts  being  joined  will  produce  fomewhat  extraordinary." 

Although  the  King  and  Oueen  adhually  met  for  the  firil:  time  at  Sir  George  Fermour's, 
when  the  former  arrived  on  his  journey  from  the  South,  and  the  Queen  on  her  way  from 

II.  N     N 


274  Family  oj  Saldoi. 

Grafton  Regis,  yet,  as  they  only  dined  there,  it   may  be  corredly  faid  tliat  the  two  Coin-t.; 
were  iirft  together  at  Salden. 

iM'om  Salden,  James  proceeded  to  Windfor,  where  he  held  a  chapter  of  the  Order  of  the 
Garter,  and  difpenfed  further  honours  with  a  lavilh  hand,  creating  a  number  ol-  Knights  of 
the  Bath,  one  of  whom  was  Sir  Francis  Fortefcue,  eldeft  fon  of  Sir  John.' 

In    Augull   he   received    from   the    King   a   grant   of  the   reverfion   of  three   manors    in 
OxfordOiire  and  Wilts.      The  terms  of  the  deed  are   fo   laudatory,  that  it  wouid  feem  as 
if  the  favour  was  bond  fide,  and   not  merely  a  grant  in  return  for  purchafe-money.      It  con-  , 
tains  the  tollowing:  — 

"  Sciatis  quod  Nos  pro  et  in  confideratione  boni  veri  fidelis  et  acceprabilis  fervitii  per 
Johannem  Fortefcue  Militem  unum  Privati  Concilii  nollri,  et  Cancellarium  Ducatus  Noiln  ■ 
Lancailri.L-  pnvdi6ti,  tam  pnvtata  pnvclariflima;  Sorori  nollra;  Elizabethan  Ilegina,'  detundtie 
quam  Nobis  nuiltipliciter  antehac  faii^i  et  impenfi,  de  gratia  noftra  fpeciali  ac  ex  certa 
fcientia  et  mero  motu  nollris,  Dedimus  et  Concelfmius  ac  per  pnuientes  pro  nobis  harec  ibus 
et  fucceflbribus  noftris  Damns  et  Concedimus  pranfato  Johanni  Fortefcue  Militi,  pnr  lifta 
maneria  noftra  de  Afcote,  Berwicke,  et  Efterton  in  didis  Comitatibus  Oxoniir  et  Wiites  "' 

On  the  ic^l\\  of  July,  1693,  when  James  and  his  Qiieen  were  crowned,  the  ferdcis  of 
Fortefcue,  as  Mafter  of  the  Great  Wardrobe,  were  again  in  requifition. 

1  le  received  in  December  the  fum  of  2000/.  in  full  payment  of  5000/.,  limited  to  be 
defrayed  by  him  towards  the  charges  on  this  account.^ 

A  Parliament  was  called  on  the  19th  of  March,  in  1604,  to  which  Sir  John  was  elet^led, 
but  not,  in  the  firft  inftance,  for  Middlefex.  lie  was  returned  under  remarkable  .in  um- 
ftances  for  Buckinghamfhire,  for  which  he  had  before  fat.  l"he  confecjuences  of  his  election 
were  fo  important  in  a  conftitutional  fenfe,  that  the  details  which  are  fubjoined  will  be  read 
with  intereft. 

Sir  John  Fortefcue,  Sir  Francis  Goodwin,  and  Sir  William  i'deetwood  were  the  jcandi- 
dates  for  the  reprefentation  of  iheir  county  at  the  elec'tion  held  on  the  25th  of  January  at 
Brickhill,  by  Sir  Francis  Cheney,  High  SherifTof  Bucks.  Of  thefe  three,  the  two  lai|t  were 
chofen ;  but  Sir  George  Coppin,  the  Clerk  of  the  Crown,  by  diredion  of  Chancellor 
Egerton,  now  become  Lord  Eliefmere,  retufed  to  receive  the  return,  pronouncing  Goodwin 
ineligible,  becaufe  there  had  been  a  judgment  of  outlawry  againft  him.  The  Chancellor  then 
declared  the  feat  vacant,  and  iffued  a  writ  for  a  new  eledion.  Sir  John  h'ort  :fcue  was  then 
elec^ted  in  Goodwin's  place,  and  v.hen  Parliament  met,  claimed  the  feat.  Put  the  Moufe 
of  Commons  fet  afide  his  return,  and  declared  Sir  Francis  duly  eleded.      Afier  a  long  con- 


'   Stowe's  Annals,  p.  827. 

•■'  Grants,  &.C.,  36  lilizubeth  to  2  James  I.,  f.  292,  p.  7,  in  Duchy  of  I.ancafter  Olfice. 

*  Napier,  p.  402,  from  Devon'.^  lllues  of  llic  L.xchi-quei,  James  I.,  p.  7. 


Ri'j^ht  Hon.  Sir  'JoJi7i  Fortcfcue.  275 

trovcrly,  in  which  the  Kmg  intcrpofec],  hut  in  which  the  ("oninions  remained  firm,  a  coni- 
promiie  was  agreed  to,  whereby  Goodwin  and  Fortefcue  were  both  fet  afide,  and  a  new  writ 
iilued  under  the  Speaker's  warrant;  and  the  IToufe  having  thus  eftabliHied  its  right  to  judge 
ot  the  eleftions  of  its  members,  has  ever  (ince  enii))'ed  it  —  neither  the  Crown,  the  Houle 
of  Lords,  nor  the  Privy  Council  venturing  to  interfere  with  its  decifions.  The  whole  cafe 
will  be  found  in  print  in  the  journals  of  the  Eloufe  of  Commons,  from  which  I  take  a  few 
extrads. 

March  i()tJi,  1604. 

The  King  informed  the  Commons  that  "  h'or  his  part  he  was  indifferent  which  of  them 
was  chofen,  Sir  John  or  Sir  Francis.  That  they  could  exped  no  fpecial  afiedion  in  h  m, 
becaufe  this  (Sir  John)  was  a  Counfcllor  not  brought  in  by  himfelf." 

April  'in J,  1604. 

The  Sheriff  of  Buckinghamfhire,  Sir  Francis  Cheyne,  was  examined,  and  allied — 

Firft.   "  Why  he  removed  the  County  from  Aylcfbury  to  Krickhill  ?" 

He  faith,  "  It  was  by  reaibn  of  the  J-'lague  being  at  Ayleibury,  the  County  being  the 
25th  of  January,  at  which  time  three  were  dead  of  the  Plague  there.  This  was  the  only 
motive  of  removing  his  County." 

Second.   "  Whether  he  were  prefent  at  the  firll;  Election  ?" 

Me  faith,  "  He  was  prefent,  and  was  as  taithful  to  writ  this  fecond  place  to  Sir  Francis 
Goodwin,  as  the  firft  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue.  I  le  fent  Sir  hrancis  Goodwin  word  before  the 
Election,  he  fliould  not  need  to  bring  any  Freeholders,  for  the  EleClion  he  thougiu  would 
be  without  fcruple  for  them  both;  firft  to  Sir  John,  fecond  to  Sir  [•'raiicis.  About  eight  of 
the  clock  he  came  to  Hrickhill ;  was  then  told  by  Sir  George  Throckmorton,  and  others, 
that  the  firft  voice  would  be  given  for  Sir  Francis ;  he  anfwered,  1  le  hoped  it  would  not  be 
fo ;  and  defired  every  Gentleman  to  deal  with  his  Freeholders. 

"  After  eight  of  the  clock  there  went  to  the  Elecftion  a  great  number,  then  being  at  the 
County.  After  the  writ  read,  lie  intimated  the  points  of  the  Proclamation  ;  then  jointly 
propounded  Sir  John  Fortefcue  and  Sir  Francis  Goodwin. 

"  The  Freeholders  cried  firft  '  x\  Goodwin,  a  Goodwin  : '  Every  Juftice  of  the  Peace  0,1 
the  Bench  faid  '  A  Foitefcue,  a  Fortelcue  ;'  and  came  down  from  the  Bench  before  thev  •■ 
named  any  for  a  fecond  place,  and  defired  the  Freeholders  to  name  Sir  John  h'ortefcue  for 
the  firft.  Sir  Francis  Goodwin  being  in  a  chamber  near,  was  fent  for  by  the  Sheriff  and 
Juftices;  and  he  came  down  and  earneftly  perfuaded  with  the  Freeholders,  faying  Sir  John 
was  his  good  friend,  and  had  been  his  bather's,  and  that  they  would  not  do  Su-  John  that 
injury. 


276  Family  of  Saldc7i. 

"  Notwitliftanding  the  Freeholders  would  not  defift,  but  all  cried  '  A  Goodwin,  a  Good- 
win,' fome  crying  '  A  I'ortefcue,'  to  the  number  of  lixty  or  thereabouts,  the  other  tor  Sir 
Francis  Goodwin,  being  about  two  or  three  hundred  :  and  Sir  h'rancis  Goodwin  to  his 
thinking,  dealt  very  plainly  and  earneftly  in  this  matter  for  Sir  John  h'orteicue  ;  for  that  Sir 
Francis  Goodwin  did  fo  earneflly  proteft  it  unto  him." 

Third.  "  Who  laboured  him  to  make  the  Return  fo  long  before  the  day  of  the  Parlia- 
ment .'"' 

"He,  the  Sheriff,  being  here  in  London,  Mr.  Attorney-General,  the  fecond  of  March,  at 
his  chamber  in  the  Inner  Temple,  delivered  him  two  Cap.  Utlagat.  againll  Sir  Francis  Good- 
win ;  and  betore  he  made  his  Return,  he  went  and  advifed  with  Mr.  Attorney  about  his 
Return,  who  penned  it,  and  fo  it  was  done  by  his  dircftion.  And  the  Return  being 
written,  upon  ]<'riday  after  the  King's  coming  through  London,  near  about  m;-  Lord  Chan- 
cellor's Gate,  in  the  prefence  of  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  he  delivered  the  writ  to  Sir  George 
Coppin.  And  at  this  time,  it  being  about  four  of  the  clock  in  the  afternoon,  and  betoie 
they  parted,  Sir  John  l''ortefcue  delivered  him  the  fecond  writ  fealed  ;  Sir  John  Fortefcue, 
Sir  George  Coppin,  and  himfelf,  being  not  alone  an  hour  together  at  that  time,  and  nevir 
had  but  this  new  Writ  of  Parliament  to  him  delivered." 

Sir  John  did  not  ftand  again  for  Buckinghamfhire,  where  the  vacant  leat  was  filled  by  Sir 
Chriflojiher  Pigott ;  but  he  was  not  long  out  of  Parliament,  being  chofen  again  for  MidiUefex 
in  the  beginning  of  the  next  year,  in  the  room  of  Sir  Robert  Wroth. 

Sir  Edmund  Hoby  writes  to  Sir  Thomas  Efmonde  on  the  7th  of  March,  1605  :  "  S  r 
John  Fortefcue  is  chofen  Knight  of  the  Shire  of  Middlefex  in  Robert  Wroth's  room."' 

"  The  24th  of  h'ebruary  Sir  John  Fortefcue  appeared  in  the  Parliament  Houfe." 

We  have  the  following  letter  written  about  this  time  : —  ' 

'The  Right  llonourahle  Sir  John  Fortefcue  to  the  Lord  Spencer  of  U^ormleighton!' 

May  it  pleafe  your  Lordfliip.  At  your  lall  being  at  Wcllniinfter  it  pleafed  youe  to  h.lve 
fome  communication  touching  a  match  between  this  hearer  Mr.  Danvers,  and  yo'ir  cofyn 
Mrs.  Dorothee  Pulteney  ;  which  matter  fiiice  lias  as  1  am  informetl  father  proceeded  and 
growen  towards  fome  conclufion  ;  1  humbly  pray  youe  that  youe  wilbe  pleafed  to  take  fome 
payne  and  care  in  the  finyfliing  of  a  well  begonne  work  I  truft  and  that  your  1  orfliip  will 
joyn  with  Mr.  Shurley  therein  ;  whatloever  conditions  youe  fliall  think  mete  1  will  thereunto 
affent,  if  my  habylyty  of  body  wold  beare  it  I  wold  travell  myfelf  for  their  good,  but  now 
I  am  dryven  to  implore  your  Lordfhip  and  in   taking  care  with  Mr.  Shurley  to  finyfh   the 

'   Sec  Court  and  Times  ofjiiinis  I.,  vol.  i.  p.  6|,  2  vols.  8vo.   1848. 
'^  The  oiiginul  is  in  Lonl  Cleniiont's  ijulleilioii. 


yfU^  .^^^-^-  ^-v^   J^^s^f  r^l^  J^  M^  ^*"}'  '^  Vi/^/^,^  ^/^^ 
^        ^    r'../)'%    ;^v-y    -y^-^    '^^^■^  7*'^  '^^^'^  ;^^^^  ;?c  /^ 

^.,  yt//f-^  -^/frS^,  ^./„,/.'--.-"^  c^~"l^i-'f^\ 


'^e,^y    a^  /^    ^^   ^^"^ 


Right  Hon.  Sir  Jo/m  Fortefcue,  277 

matter:  The  joyntour  is  offred  to  be  (jfj/.  ycrcly  which  althougli  it  be  io  Htle  yet  I  do  allow 
thereof  if  your  Lordfliip  fo  like,  the  lyving  although  not  great  yet  if  the  yonge  man  prove 
thrifty  (as  I  hope  he  will)  is  tollerable.  The  perticularytyes  Mr.  Shurley  will  acquaynt  your 
L.ordAiip  withall  and  therfore  I  leave  the  fame  to  your  wifdomes. 

This  day  the  League  betwen  the  Kings  Majeftie  and  the  Kinge  of  Spayne  was  finifhed 
and  folemply  Iworen,  Io  that  now  the  amytye  is  perfected  his  Majeflic  gocth  on  his  progres 
to  Rockingham,  and  cometh  to  Grafton  or  Eafton. 

My  fonnes  children  havyng  ben  vifited  with  the  fniall  pocks  at  Salden  hath  diverted  all 
comyng  to  my  houfe  at  this  tyme  ;  and  yet  1  am  found  out  for  the  lone  of  200/.  which  1 
have  paid  ;   I  think  your  Lordfliip  fliall  tail:  of  the  like  meafur. 

I  wold  gladly  have  fent  youe  better  news,  but  now  recomending   youe  to  the   Lord's 

tuicion  I  wifh  youe  health  with  increafe  of  honour. 

......  ' 

At  my  poore  lodging  at  Weftminiler  this  xviii  of  vVuguft  1604.  '     > 

Your  Lordiliip's  moft  bounden  poore  frende  ready  to  do  youe  fervice, 

J.    KoRlESCUE. 

Endorjed  : — "  To  the  right  Honorable  my 
very  good  Lord  the  Lord 
Spenfar  geve  thefe." 

Lord  Spencer  was  Sir  Robert  Spencer,  created  Baron  Spencer  of  Wormleighton  about  a 
year  before  the  date  of  this  letter,  on  the  lift  of  July,  i6oj  ;  he  was  ancellor  of  the  prefent 
Duke  of  Marlborough,  who  has  the  barony.' 

Mrs.  Dorothy  Pulteney  here  mentioned,  appears  to  have  been  Dorothy  Spencer,  widow  of 
Gabrial  Pulteney  of  Leicellerfhire  ;  if  fo,  flie  was  a  dillant  coufm  of  Lord  Spencer's,  and  her 
firll  huAiand  was  probably  connecfted  with  Sir  John  I'ortefcue  through  the  marriage  oi  his 
daughter  Margery  to  Sir  John  Pulteney  of  Mifterton,  in  Leicefterfliire. 

The  Pulteneys  and  Shirleys  were  alfo  connected  by  a  marriage,  in  Elizabeth's  reign, 
between  Sir  Thomas  Pulteney  of  Miflerton,  and  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Ralph  Shirley." 

Sir  John  would  have  been  honoured,  and  taxed,  by  another  R.oyal  vifit  at  this  time,  it 
it  had  not  been  for  his  grandchildrens'  infeftious  illnefs.  James  was  not  afliamed  to  borrow 
money  from  his  courtiers,  who  feldom  e.xpeded,  and  more  rarely  received  payment  of  their 
loans.     Lord  Spencer  was  faid  to  have  had  more  ready-money  than  any  other  man  in  England. 

The   Rev.  Mr.  Morne,  in   his   paper  on   Muriley  with  Salden,  printed   in  volume   i.  of 
"  Records  of  Buckinghamfliire,"  fays  that  at  Swanbourne,   near  Salden,  "  The  t)ld  manor  , 
houfe  was  probably  built  by  the  l-'ortefcues  ;  and  tradition  reports  that  the   houle  was  uL-d 
as  a  nurfery  for  children  of  the  family  when  ill  or  infeCted  w  ith   fever  ;   perhaps  on  account 


'  Collins's  Peerage  of  England,  vol.  i.  p.  389.  ''■  Ibid.,  vol.  iv.  p.  95. 


278  Fciniilv  of  Saldefi. 

of  the  greater  miklnefs  of  the  air  there,  than  at  SaKien."      The  latter  being  placed  on  high 
ground  in  an  expoied  fituation. 

Although  Sir  John  became  u  member  of  tlic  Parliament  for  whofe  tlellrucHion  the  Gun- 
powder Plot  was  formed  in  1605,  iiis  name  does  not  once  occur  in  the  recorded  proceedmgs 
during  any  of  its  Selfions,  and  he  died  during  its  continuance. 

King  James  appears  now  to  have  been  a  third  time  his  guelt  ;  on  this  occafion  at 
Langley  in  Wychwood  b'oreit,  in  Oxfordihire,  where  Sir  John  probably  had  a  houfe  as 
Keeper  of  that  foreiT;  and  of  the  adjoining  park  of  Cornbury.' 

This  entry  is  found  in  an  Itinerary  prepared  for  the  King  on  his  progrefs  to  Oxford  in 
1605  :  — 

"  Auij   It  20,  1605. 

"From  Woodftock  to  Langley  Sir  John  Fortelcues' — h"or  the  King  3'  nights.  10 
miles."' 

Upon  this  vifit,  and  Kortefcue's  favour  with  the  King,  OflMrne  makes  the  followin  ; 
quaint  remarks  : — 

"  Though  this  remains  upon  record  ;  that  brave  Portelcue,  that  did  firft  oppofe  th  s 
Scotch  fuccelfion  but  upon  caution,  injoyed  \\\h  liberty,  withoutt  any  more  confiderable  lo  s 
than  furtained  by  the  exchange  of  the  Chancellor's  place  in  the  l\xchei]uer  ;  tor  that  ii'  the 
Dutchy  of  Lancaller,  remaining  to  the  lalt  a  Counfellor  ;  Whereas  Northumberland  that  had 
drawn  his  fword  in  his  fiivur  was  made  captive,  difgraced,  and  inf'ulted  'over  by  h.s 
enemies." 

"  Nor  had  Fortefcue  better  fuccefs  when  by  a  huge  entertainment  at  Cornebury  he  \/ent 
about  to  oblige  the  King,  for,  as  Tomlins  once  his  fecretary,  told  me,  He  at  his  parting 
laught,  and  made  an  unlecmly  gefture  in  the  Porch."  ! 

"  Wherefore  we  may  note  it  as  equally  jK-rnicious  to  oblige  a  Prince  above  a  reafonajle 
requital,  as  to  oppofe  him  beyond  the  extent  of  a  moderate  patience."^ 

Two  letters  to  Sir  Julius  C;efar  here  follow.  The  firll,  written  on  the  very  day  of  the 
difcovery  of  the  Great  Plot.  It  does  not  appear  who  was  the  Mr.  Knaplock  connedled  by 
marriage  with  the  writer. 

The  Right  Hon.  Sir  John  Forte/cue  lo  Sir  Julius  C.cjar.  1 

S'.  Julius  Cefar,  I  am  earneftlie  to  intreat  yo"  on  the  behaulfe  of  this  bearer  M'.  Knapp- 
locke  (who  hath  maried  my  neere  Kinfwoman  bothe  of  name  &  blood)  The  E/late  of 
whofe  bufmes  is  allreadie  lufficientlie  knowne  vnto  yo'",  in  that   (as  hee  informeth  mee)  yo' 


'   It  will  be  fecn  by  a  documtnt  printid  further  on  indorllJ,  ••  Sir  J.  I'ortefcue's  moans  of  gain,"  tliut  he  had 
the  '•  rofterfhip  "  of  Whichwood  Konll  ami  Coirihiiry  I'.irKs. 

-  Nicholb";.  Progrelfes  of  James  I.,  \ol.  i.  p.  51S.  '  Olborne's  Memoirs,  p.  67. 


Right  Ho?i.  Sir  yoh?i  Fortcfcue.  ■  279 

felfe  was  pTent  bcinge  Judge  of  Adniirallrye  at  the  tryall  of  Captein  William  Fenncr  and 
dyvers  of  his  companye  ncere  xxiiij  yeares  pad  for  the  takinge  at  fea  of  one  Burdon  a 
Frenchman,  For  w'^''  fuppofed  offence  bothe  Capten  Fenner  and  his  Companye  vppon  their 
araignement  were  fouiule  not  guiltye  nottw'hftandinge  w'h  hce  hath  latelie  Inn  qiieflioned 
about  this  matter  b)'  one  Younge,  Hurnell,  and  one  Borradge,  and  convented  before  my  Lorde 
Admirall,  who  hearinge  the  matter  in  the  p'fence  of  Younge  hathe  (as  I  am  by  M'.  Ivnapp- 
locke  informed)  fignifyed  his  Lo'".  pleafure  by  Ire  vnto  yo"  touchinge  the  fame.  My 
requeft  therefore  nowe  vnto  yo*'  is  that  (the  rather  for  my  fike)  yo*  will  heerin  favour  him 
what  yo"'  maie  to  free  hmi  from  the  vnjull  vexacons  and  jifecucoiis  of  theis  informers,  "llie 
w'^h  yo"  fliall  fynde  mee  readie  to  requite  in  wliat  I  maie,  as  knowethe  the  Allmightie,  to 
whofe  proteccoii  I  coiliitt  yo"  this  v"'  of  November, 

Yu'  verie  lovinge  Freinde,  | 

j.    b'oRTESCU. 

Addrejfed: — "  To  my  verie  loving  Frend  S\ 
Julius  Ca'far  knight  Judge  of  the 
Admiralltye  give  theis." 

Endorjed: — "  5  Novcb  1605.  S'.  Jo.  Fortefcue 
Ch.  of  y"'  duch.  on  the  behalfe  of 
M'.  Knaplock.'" 

The  Right  IIoii.  S!>'  Jo/m  Fortefcue  to  Sir  Julius  Cjiar.  ' 

S'.  Julius  Cefar  I  haue  heretofore  wrytten  vnto  yo"  touching  this  Bearer  M'.  W.  Knap 
locke,  to  whome  it  hath  pleafed  my  Lo  :  iVdmirall  to  afFoord  Ills  vttermolT:  tauo',  for  the 
clearing  of  him  of  fuch  Indiftem".  as  depend  againfl:  iiim,  and  for  w"''  he  hath  latelie  bin 
quellioned  by  John  Young,  Burnell  and  one  Borrage.  Lett  me  intreat  you  (the  rather  for 
my  fake)  to  affoord  him  yo'  kinde  and  lawfull  favo',  that  his  excepcons  to  the  infufficiencie 
of  the  Indicftem".  under  M'.  S'jeant  lluttons  and  other  his  Councello''  hande,  may  be 
accepted,  and  that  according  to  Juftice  the  Indiiflm''.  being  infufficient  by  reafon  of  thofe 
manie,  and  manyfeft  errors  in  them  conteyned,  there  maie  be  (for  him  onlie)  a  vnait  entred 
vpon  them,  for  to  Subjeft  himfclf  to  a  pardon  may  prove  prejudicial!  to  him,  and  fcandalou. 
to  his  polk'ritie,  in  that  his  Innocency  touching  thofe  offences,  cannot  in  future  tyme  be 
knowen,  althoughe  now  to  vs  theie  are,  and  that  it  alfoe  appeareth,  that  both  Cap"",  b'eimo 
and  14""  of  his  Companie  being  arraigned  vpon  thofe  Indidem".  24""  yeares  fithence,  (when 
the  matter  was  frefhe  and  ernefl;lie  followed  by  the  bVenche  men)  were  all  acquited  and  found 


Brit.  Mus.  Add.  MS.  1 2,506,  f.  348. 


2  8  o  Fa7n ily  of  Sahlcn . 

not  guiltie.  Wh;it  fuuo'  yo"  llicw  him  liLTcin,  flialbc  rci|uited  by  me  in  what  I  maic,  for  I 
would  not  vvilHnglic  have  him  blemiihed,  in  that  he  hath  married  my  ncerc  kinfwoman  both 
of  name  and  Blood.  And  foe  I  committ  yo"  to  the  proteccoii  of  the  Ahnightie.  l-'rom  my 
Howfe  at  Weftminrter  this  lall:  of  November,  1605. 

Your  allured  loving  frende, 

J.  Ffortescu. 
yltldrejjed  : — "  To   my    verie    Lovinge    I-'rend  S'.  ' 

Julius  Cefar  Knight,  Judge  of  the 
Admyraltie,  theis." ' 

About  this  time"  there  was  a  general  expeftation  that  Sir  John  Fortefcue  vould  have 
been  made  a  peer.  A  barony  was  indeed  offered  to  him,  but  declined,  "  he  b'.ing  a  very 
modeft  and  difinterefted  perfon." 

Sir  Henry  Neville  thus  writes  to  Winwood,  the  amballador,  March  ift,  1606  :  — 

"  We  are  in  fume  expedation  of  a  creation  of  four  barons,  namely  the  Lord  Chief 
Juftice  (Gawdy)  Mr.  Attorney  (Coke),  Sir  John  bortefcue,  and  Sir  I'homas  Kniviet,  who 
was  a  fortunate  inftrument  to  difcover  the  Powder.'" 

On  the  lyth  of  March  he,  with  the  other  great  officers,  is  made  a  party  to  a  deed  by 
which  the  King  annexes  to  the  Crown  for  ever  certain  jewels,'  according  to  a  fcheduie, 
including  "  many  Royal  and  Princely  Diadems,  Crowns,  Coronets,  Circlets,  Collars,  P)orders, 
and  other  Jewels  of  great  Eftimation  and  Value." 

On  the  23rd  of  Oiftober  (1607)^  the  King  granted  to  him  a  lalt  favour  by  giving  to  his 
half  brother.  Sir  Thomas  Parry,  the  reverlion  of  the  Chancellorlliip  of  the  Duchy  of 
Lancafter.  To  effefl:  this,  Fortefcue  refigned  his  patent,  and  took  out  a  new  one,  granting 
the  Cliancellorfliip  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue  for  his  life,  and  immediately  after  his  death  to  Sir 
I'homas  Parry  tor  the  term  of  his  life.  j 

The  event  contemplated  in  this  arrangement  was  not  long  deferred."  Sir  John  died  on 
Wednefday,  the  ijrd  of  the  following  December  (1607).  Flis  death  took  place  at  his 
houfe  in  Wellminller,  and  appears  to  have  been  at  the  laft  rather  unlooked  tor,  although 
we  know  that  his  health  had  been  fur  fome  time  filling. 

John  Cliamberlain  writes  thus  to  Sir  Dudley  Carlton  a  week  afterwards: —  I 

"  The  day  you  went  Sir  John  Fortefcue  died  (as  it  feemed)  ere  he  was  aware,  f  jr  he  left 
no  will,  which  is  thought  ftrange  for  a  man  of  his  years  and  ftate  ;  fo  that  his  W  fc  carries 


'  Brit.  Mus.  Ada.  MS.  12,506,  f.  352.  ''  V,lo'r.  Hiii.,  iii.  p.  2008. 

^  Nichols's  I'rogrL-rses  of  Kin;,'  Jumcs  I.,  vol.  ii.  p.  37.  *   Kyunr,  \ol.  \ii    picrl  ii.  p.  146. 

'  Napier,  p.  403,  from  Bills  for  Olliccs,  ttmp.  Jumcs  1.,  No.  94.      Ducliy  of  Lam  a(iL-r  Ollicc. 

^  Funeral  Certificate  froin  College  of  Arms,  and  Camden's  Annals  of  James  1. 


Right  Ho7i.  Sir  yo/iH  Forte/cue.  281 

away  all  the  goods,  and  his  Daughter  Poultency  the  houfe,  lands,  and  furniture  here 
at  Mendoii  in  Middlelex. 

"  Sir  Thomas  Parry  was  put  in  prefent  polTeflion  of  his  office  at  the  Duchie."  ' 

Sir  John  liad  reached  a  good  old  age,  being  at  the  time  of  his  death  well  on  in 
his  feventy-fifth  year. 

The  Earl  of  Pembroke  writes  to  the  Karl  of  Shrewllnny  from  Whitehall  on  Chriffmas 
Day,  1607  : — 

"  There  is  little  news  here  ffirring,  hut  that  Sir  John  Fortefcue  dyed  on  Wenfday  laff. 
Sir  Thomas  Parry  fhall  have  both  his  place  and  Councilloriliip."" 

Of  Sir  John  Fortefcue  in  his  private  or  focial  life  we  know  almoft  nothing,  no  contem- 
porary having  written  his  biography,  and  his  correfpondence  not  having  furvived.  Vs 
a  fervant  of  the  Crown,  whether  in  the  fubordinate  but  confidential  offices  which  he  at  firll: 
filled,  or  in  the  very  high  pofition  to  which  he  afterwards  attained  as  a  leading  Minifter  of 
State,  and  engaged  in  matters  of  the  higheft  importance,  there  is  but  one  opinion  among 
the  writers  of  his  day.  Lloyd  calls  him  an  upright  and  clever  man,  prudent  and  pious. ■* 
Camden  ffyles  iiim  "  vir  integer,"  an  honell  man."  "  Two  men,"  Oueen  Elizabeth  would 
fay,  "  outdid  her  expedations, — Fortefcue  for  integrity,  and  Walfmgham  for  fubtclty  and 
officious  fervices."''  "  Brave  P'ortefcue — one  of  the  noble  and  public  fpirits,"  is  OlLorne's 
language.'' 

Mifs  Aiken  fays,  "  that  in  the  difcharge  of  his  funftions  (as  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer) 
he  was  diffinguifhed  by  moderation  and  integrity,  fo  that  in  this  important  dcpartmcnr  of 
adminifliration  no  oppreffion  was  exercifed  upon  the  fubjcH."  ' 

He  fhowed  patriotifm  and  felf-refpei-T:  on  the  acceffion  of  James  by  quietly  awaiting  Ins 
arrival  in  England,  inffead  of  joining  in  the  undignified  rufli  of  many  of  his  colleagues 
to  Scotland  ;  and  by  propofing  in  Council  that  the  King  fliould  ffipulate  to  entrult 
the  conduel  of  Englifh  affairs  to  Englifhmen  ;  while  his  continued  favour  with  James, 
although,  as  the  King  himfelf  reminded  the  Parliament,  "Sir  John  was  not  a  Councillor  of 
his  bringing  in," "  befpeaks  prudence  and  moderation.  ■  ! 

In  Parliament  he  appears  to  have  feldom  fpoken  except  upon  fubjeds  more  or  lefs 
conneiffed  with  the  finances  of  the  country.  "  I  will  fpeak  of  nothing  but  that  which 
concerns  my  calling  "  was  generally  his  maxim,  lie  neverthelefs  was  one  of  the  leading 
fpeakers  when  fuch  men  as  Bacon,  Cecil,  and  Ualeigh  were  his  colleagues  there. 

He  was  an  excellent  Greek  and  Latin  fcholar,  and  fo  fond  of  the  claffics  that  he  oken, 


'  Sir  John's  half-brother.  '  Lodjje's  Illuarations,  Rrit.  Hid.,  iii.  ai. 

^  Lloyd's  State  Worthies,  vol.  i.  442.  *   llLMnK''s  C.imden,  vol.  iii.  Gi,;. 

^  Lloyd's  State  Worthies,  i.  \>.  442,  quoting  Camden's  words. 

°  Olborne's  Memoirs  of  Elizabeth  and  James  I.  '  AiUen's  Lli/alnth,  ii.  250. 

'  See  the  Goodsvin  and  Fortefcue  Cafe  in  Houle  of  Commons. 


282  Family  oj  Saldc^i. 

even  heyond  the  fafliion  of  the  time,  indulged  in  chillical  quotations  in  his  fpeeches  and 
letters.  He  aililled  Sir  I'homas  Bodley  with  books  tor  the  great  library  wliich  he  had 
lately  founded  at  Oxford,  "  for  which  Sir  Thomas  held  hinilelt  (o  much  oliliged  that  he 
gave  particular  diredions  for  Sir  John's  being  received  with  all  imaginable  refpeiif  when  he 
went  to  vifit  the  Library."  ' 

The  following  extracts  from  Bodley 's  Letters"  will  be  interelling  :  — 

"  I  am  ferry  the  Univerfity's  Letter,  to  Sir  John  P'ortefcue,  is  undelivered  ;  It  is  not 
endited,  as  I  could  have  wilhcd,  if  I  had  bin  prelent ;  but  yet  it  will  ierve,  though  it  ferve 
the  worfc,  for  coming  fo  {lowly. 

"  I  would  requeft  to  know  by  your  next,  to  which  of  thofe  that  I  have  formerly  named, 
Mr.  Vice- Chancellor  hath  addrelTed  his  Letters.  I''or  as  a  grateful  acknowL-dgment  is 
requifite,  fo  fpeed  in  the  doing  will  grace  it  much.  Of  Sir  John's  coming  to  you,  I  can 
iignify  nothing  yet. 

"  I'uinlKim,  yjtiguji  14"'."  , 

"  I  thank  you  for  putting  me  in  mind  of  Sir  John  Fortefcue's  Catalogue,  for  which,  G  jd 
willing,  J  will  take  a  time. 
■'  London,  June  10." 

"  I  do  not  find  upon  my  Catalogue,  a  manufcript  Scholia  in  Greek  upon  Sophocles  of  Sir 
John  I'ortefcue's  Gift;  which  yet  I  do  not  doubt,  but  you  fliall  find  in  your  Clofets. 
'•  From  l.oi«lun,  Jan.  5."  • 

"  I  am  forry,  that  I  took  not  myfelf,  at  my  being  in  Oxon,  the  names  of  thofe  Rabbins, 
that  have  commented,  up(Mi  each  Book  of  the  Bible,  in  both  ot  them  that  you  have  ther;, 
which  is  eafily  feen,  by  the  meaneft  Hebrician  in  the  firfi  Page  of  the  firll  Volumes.  Aijd 
if  it  be  fo,  that  your  felf  cannot  prevail  fo  much  with  any  of  thofe  that  are  fkilled,  I  pray 
you  caufe  them  to  be  intreated  unto  it,  by  fome  Dodor  or  other  that  can  prevail  fo  taf. 
For  I  make  a  ftay  of  another  Bible  here,  until  fuch  time,  as  ]  may  hear,  whether  it 
be  the  fame,  as  any  of  thofe  two,  which  I  and  Sir  John  hortelcue  gave. 

'•  London,  May  11."  ' 

"  I  am  very  glad  to  hear  of  Sir  John  Fortefcue's  coming  thither;  whom  I  knovyou  will 
welcome,  according  to  his  Dignity,  and  Defert  to  that  place.  You  fhall  ilo  b.  ft,  in  my 
J  udgment,  to  be  fo  fViort,  as  he   may  not  conceive  it,  to  be  much  premeditate ;   which  will 


Riog.  Brit.,  iii.  2008. 

Abftrail  of  leUtrs  from  Sir  'Ihomiii  fiodlcy,  m  Kiliquia'  Bodlcianie,  London,  1703. 


Rig/it  Hon.  Sir  yolui  Forte /'cue.  283 

make  fo  much  more  for  your  own  Commendation.     Howheit  I  couKl  willi,  tiiat  the  joyners 
did  return,  out  of  hand,  for  the  fooncr  finilliing  of  thofe  Ihelves.      h'or  their  work  in  tliut 
Place,  is  no  ill  figlit  to  Sir  John  or  to  any. 
■■  London,  Aug.  27." 

"At  my  departure  from  Oxford  laft,  M'.  Vice-Chancellor  did  proniife,  tliat  I  Hiould  have 
the  Copies  of  fuch  Letters  as  /liould  be  written  to  Sir  John  I'ortelcue,  aiul  the  Jjilliop  of 
Hereford,  wiiich  I  pray  you  procure  and  fend  unto  me,  and  fignily  widial,  by  whom,  and 
when  they  ftiall  be  fent. 

'■  London,  .Jtd\  21." 

"  I  will  not  forget  to  move  Sir  Jo.  Fortefcuc,  about  the  Catalogue  of  the  Vatican  BooJ^s  ; 
but  J  know  not  as  yet  whether  he  be  here  or  no. 
•■  London.  July  2  2." 

"  I  had  forgotten  in  my  lad  to  fignity  unto  you,  that  I  agreed  \\'ith  the  bargeman,  that 
carried  my  Books,  for  4J.  1  hope  they  arrived  in  iatety,  notwitlillanding  your  I'loods, 
which  ieem  to  me  as  ilrange  as  may  be,  confidering  you  had  fo  little  rain,  if  M'.  Allen  be 
plealed  (for  the  Gift  was  his)  I  fhall  like  very  well,  that  another  Book  might  be  given  in 
Exchange ;  albeit,  1  do  not  tlfmk  (as  you  write)  that  we  had  the  fame  before ;  unlefs  it  be 
a  great  part  of  the  manufcript  of  Sir  Jo.  Fortefcue,  whereof  1  ftand  in  doubt. 

'■  London,  Jii/y  6  " 

Sir  John  was  at  one  time  the  owner  of  a  very  precious  maiuilcn|it,'  given  to  him  by 
Queen  Elizabeth.  This  was  the  oldeft  known  copy  of  the  Septuagint  tranflation  of  the 
Old  Teftament,  diflinguifhed  now  as  the  "  Codex  Cottonianus."  He  prefented  it  to  Sir 
Robert  Cotton  for  his  collecflion,  with  which  unfortunately  it  was  almolt  delfroyed  in  the 
great  fire  at  Cotton  Houfe  in  1731. 

He  was  a  particular  patron  of  the  learned  antiquary,  Camden,"  who,  ui  his  "  Annals 
of  Elizabeth,"'  thus  acknowledges  his  afiill:ance,  "Joannes  I-'ortefcuus  qui  mihi  h.ec  fcribenti 
in  nonnullis  lumen  porrexit."  ' 

Sir  John's  remains  were  laid  in  a  temporary  refting-place  at  Murfley  '  for  fome  months  ati.T 
his  death,  the  funeral  ceremony  there  being  deferred  until  the  6th  of  July,  1 608.  It  was  arrang  :d 
and  directed  by  the  above-named  William  Camden,  as  Clarencieux  King-at-Arms.  l"he  an  i- 
quary  had,  fhortly  before  b'ortefcue's  death,  "  fallen  from  his  horfe,  and  dangeroidly  hurt  his  leg  ; 
fo  that  being  perfeiilly  lame,  he  kept  up  until  the  4th  of  July  following,   at  which  time  he 


'   Home's  Introduction  to  the  Scriptures,  v6l.  ii.   125.  ^   l^iot;.  Brit,,  iii.  20o8. 

3  HL-anie's  Camden,  iii.  613.  '  Scl-  Murdey  Kifiifttr,  in  Colts'  MS. 


284  Family  of  Said  en. 

went   to  order,   fet  forth,  and   attend   the  funeral   of  Sir  John    I-'ortefcue,  knight.'"      The 
ilclay  which  took  [ihice  may  perhaps  be  accounted  for  by  tlie  foregoing  fad. 

I  fubjoin  the  funeral  certificate,  which  has  been  copied  for  me  by  Mr.  Phmche,  l^ouge 
Croix,  from  the  original  in  the  College  of  Arms : — 

The  right  honorable  S'.  John  Fortefcue  Knight,  one  of  the  priuie  Counccll  to  the  late 
(^ueene  Elizabeth  and  allfo  to  our  Soiiaigne  Lord  King  James,  Channcellor  of  the  Dutchie 
ot  Lancafter,  departed  this  tranfitoric  lyfe  at  his  houfe  in  Wcftmiiifl''.  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord 
God  1607  the  23  of  Deccmb'. 

The  faid  S'.  John  Fortefcue  maried  to  his  firll  wife  Cecily,  third  daughter  and  coheire  of 
S'.  Edmund  Afliteild  of  Totenho  Knight:  by  whom  he  had  ylTue  two  Sonnjs  and  one 
daughter,  v'.  Sir  I'rancis  Fortefcue  Knight  of  the  Bath,  who  maried  Grace,  daughter  of  S'. 
John  Manners  ot  Maddon  Knight,  by  whome  he  hath  yffue  fine  fonnes  and  three  daughters, 
VIZ.  John  Fortefcue  eldeft  fonne  17  yeares  of  age,  Roger  fecond  fonne  13  yeares  of  age,  , 
Gilbert  third  fonne  9  yeares  of  age,  William  fourth  fonne  7  yeares  of  age,  Adrian  fifte  fonne 
6  yeares  ot  age.  Dorothea  eldeft  daughter  14  yeares  of  age,  In-ancifca  10  yeares  of  age,  aad 
Maria  8  yeares  ot  age.  S'.  William  Fortefcue  Knight  fecond  fonne  to  S'.  John  as  y^at 
vnmaried.  Eleanor  trrlf  maried  to  Valentine  Pigott,  after  to  Edward  Flubert,  died  w'luiut 
ylRie.  After  the  faid  S'.  John  Fortefcue  maried  to  his  fecond  wife  Alice  daughter  of 
Chriftopher  Smyth  of  Annabells  by  whom  he  had  ytTue  one  only  daughter  vz  :  Margery 
maried  to  S'.  John  Poulteney  of  Milterton  Knight,  by  whome  he  hath  ylTue  two  daughters,' 
Alice,  three  yeares  of  age  and  Magdalen  two  yeares  of  age.  ; 

The  funeralls  of  the  abouefaid  S'.  John  Fortefcue  were  folemnized  according  to  nis 
degree  at  Murfeley  in  the  Countie  of  Buckingham  the  fixte  of  Julye  1608,  the  princijxill 
Mourner  being  S'.  Francis  Fortefcue  eldeft  Sonne  and  heire  to  the  detuiu'l,  AHifted  by  S'. 
The:  Parry  Chauncellor  of  the  Dutchie  of  Lancafter,  S".  Flenry  Bromley,  Sir  Willif"! 
Fortefcue  fecond  fonne  to  the  Defund:,  S'.  John  Poulteney,  S',  Edm  :  Fetiplace  Knight,  and 
M'.  Tho:  Fortefcue  brother  to  the  defund.  The  Standard  borne  by  M'.  Henry  Fortefcui,-, 
the  Pennon  by  M'.  John  Fortefcue  eldeft  fonne  to  S'.  h'rancis,  lielme  and  Creaft  by  Williii 
Smyth,  Rougedragon,  Sword  and  Targe,  by  Samuell  Tomfon  Windefore  1  lerauld,  Coaie 
Armour  by  William  Camden  Clarenceux  Kingof  Arnies.  1 

Fra  :     FoRTKSCUt.         i 

A  monument  was  placed  in  the  church  to  Sir  John  and  his  firft  wit'e  by  their  .wo  eldeft 
fons.  Sir  Francis  and  Sir  William  ;  it  ftands  againft  the  north  wall  of  the  chancel,  above  the 
tomb  of  their  mother,  fo  placed  as  to  form  one  objed  with  it.     The  annexed  defcription  is 


'   Wood's  Atliuna'  Oxonicnris,  vol.  ii.  p.  482,  article  "  Camden."' 


Right  Hon.  Sir  yofm  Fortcfciie. 


285 


chiefly  tVoni  Lipfcomh's  Hiftory  of  Buckiiighamrtiire,  compared  liy  myfelf  with  the 
monument  on  the  ("pot,  on  the  r2th  of  Augull,  1863  \  and  again,  after  the  reiloration  of  the 
tomb,  on  the  7th  of  Augull,   1867,  and  in  a  fcvj  particuhirs  corree^ed  : — 

"  On  the  north  fide  of  the  chancel,  projefting  from  the  wall,  ii  an  oki  altar-tomb 
of  Betherfden  marble,  with  a  brafs  fillet  round  the  verge,  with  the  words  "  Citcilia  I'.dmundi 
Afhfield  Militis  filia,  Johannis  Fortefcue  de  Salden  uxor.     Obiit  7  Feb.  A".  1570.'" 


^flI^  O-'M  HABEl\^  ^[AXIMA.  CEaUA  iJANCTlSS" 
ANIMA-M  CONST^MTISS'FCDETvI  ET  CASTtSS;COR£VS 
ALTERAM  AD  DEVM  OPT- MAX;  ALTETRyM  IM  CHAPJ 
C0S/1VGI.'>  PECTVSMIGR^VITCCYOD  TERJIVM  ER^T 
HOCTVMVLO  QyrESCIT  VIXIT  ANNri^MCNlS  J_ 
KELtoyrT  EX  NOVEM  LIBEI^  SVPEB^SnTESRpaERJV 
FK^NCISCVM  GvUELMV^M  Th OMAM  "CuXABETB  • 

ZT  Eliajnjoiwm;  obiit  7  FEBR;yAHir;i:3ij-70  a- a^ 


Upon  the  tomb  is  an  effigy  in   brais  ot  a  lady  in  rich   brocade,  with  the  foll(jwing  lines 
on  a  brafs  at  her  feet,  rtiown  in  the  woodcut :' — 

"  Tria   cum   haberet  maxima  Cecilia,  San^lifs  :    Animani,  conrtaniifs  :  fidem,  et   caftifs  : 


'   Liplcomb'b  Bucks,  ill.  p.  429. 

''■  l.iplcomb  h.ib  Ict't  out  this  inlcription,  which  I  copied  myfcli  iVom  the  tomb. 


2.-^6  Family  of  Salilcn. 

corpus,  alteruni  ael  Dcum  opt.  max.  aheruni  in  cliari  conjiigis  pectus  migravit  quod   tertiurn 
crat  hoc  tumulo  quielcit,  vixit  aim.  29  iiiens  :    ;. 

"  Reliquit  ex  novem  liberis  fuperftitcs  l^ubcrtum  I'raiicclcuni  Giiliclnuini  Thonuun 
Elizabeth,  et  Elcauoram. 

Obiit  7  Fcbrarii  1  570." 

Above  the  tomb  is  an  arch  of  rtonc,  forming  a  mural  monument,  with  black  marble 
tablets;   on  the  wed:  or  dexter  fide,  under  anarch,  is  this  infcription  : — 

"Hie  jacet  Johanes  l''ortefcue  Miles,  Magilter  MagiKU  (iuardarolxf,  Cancellarius  et 
Siib-thefiurius  Saccarii,  et  de  privatis  concilliis  l-vcginai  Eli/,abeth.'' 

On  the  fmiller  fide,  under  an  arch  :  — 

"  Portea  annt)  primo  Kegis  Jacobi  fiiflus  Cancellarius  Ducatus  Eancalli  i:v  -V'ixit  annos 
76,  et  mortiuis  eil:  2j""  die  Decemliris  anno  D'".   1607.' 

"  Reliquit  filios  fuperftites  Francifcum  Prajnobilis  Balnci  Ordinis  Militem,  et  (iuliehnu'n 
Militem,  qui  in  Memoriam  Patris  defuncfti  hoc  pofuere." 

Under  the  arches  are  two  figures  kneeling,  habited  as  a  knight  and  his  lady,  cut  1.1 
alabafter,  painted  and  gilt.  On  a  ihield  at  the  top  of  the  monument  are  the  arn  s  if 
I'ortefcue,  impaling  for  Aflifield,  Argent,  3  efloils  in  fefs  point  a  tretoil,  Gu. 

On  oppoiite  fide  of  the  chancel,  that  is  to  fay,  againll  the  fouth  wall,  and  directly  f>cir  g 
the  t'oregoing  monument,  is  a  larger  one  to  the  above-named  Sir  l^'rancis,  which  may  i)e 
conveniently  defcribed  here  while  treating  of  the  Murfiey  tombs. 

It  is  a  mural  monument  on  the  f)uth  fide  uf  the  chancel,  confiding  of  an  altar-tonb 
with  pilallers  upon  it,  bounding  a  recefs  in  which,  kneeling  at  a  defl<,  with  books  ope  n 
before  them,  are  reprefented,  oppofite  to  each  other,  a  man  in  armour  bare-headed,  and  a 
lady  in  a  long  black  robe  with  a  large  quilted  ruff,  and  a  veil  defcending  behind  ,her 
ilioulders.  The  cudiions  on  which  they  kneel  are  finely  bordered,  fringed  and  talfelled,  and 
the  whole  painted  and  gilt.  | 

In  front  of  the  altar-tomb  below,  in  a  compartment,  are  the  effigies  of  fix  fons  and  four 
daughters  kneeling  ;  two  of  the  fons  bearing  dculL  in  their  hands,  to  fignify  that  they  |had 
died  before  their  parents.  At  the  top  of  the  monument  are  the  arms  of  I'^ortefcue  im|xding 
Manners. 

On  each  fide  are  two  fmaller  efcutchcons  of  arms  aflixed  to  the  pilafters.  O  1  the  tlexter 
fide  ['"ortefcue  impaling  Manners,  and  below,  on  a  very  fmail  lozenge,  Manners  fingly  : 
I'hrockmorton  impaling  I'ortclcue,  ( ju.,  a  cliev.  charged  with  two  bars,  gemelle  >. 

On  a  black  tablet  above  the  principal  figures,  and  below  the  large  diield  of  arms,  is  the 
following  : — 


'   From  Sir  John's  own  account  tliat  he  was  born  in  tiiu  I'.uni-  year  as  \\ab  tiuc-m   Klizabclh,  it   I'olluu.s  that  at. 
tile  time  of  his  death  he  had  not  completed  his  feventy -lilih  year. 


R/'g/jt  Hon.  Si?'  yo/in  Fortefctte.  287 

"  Reader 
"  I'^or  example  know  that  this  monument  was  erefted  in  pious  memory  of  Pir  Francis 
Forrelciic  of  Salden,  in  the  Countee  of  Bucks,  Knt.  of  the  ]?atli,  eklell  fonne  of  the  Right 
H'''"'.  S'.  John  I'ortefcue  Knt.  pry  vie  Councillor  to  Oueen  l''.lizaheth,  and  to  King  J;imcs, 
Chancellour  to  the  Xchequer  and  ])utch)'e,  and  Maftcr  of  the  Wardrobe  ;  and  of  Sicilie 
Daughter  and  Co-!ieir  of  S'.  L'dmund  Ariiheid  Knt;  whole  pietie,  virtue,  and  religion  made 
him  reverenced;  whofe  liberalitie  in  hofpitalitie  made  him  beloved;  whofe  prudent  care  and 
zeal  of  his  countries  good  made  him  honoured;  and  of  Grace  Daughter  of  Sir  John 
Manners  of  Haddun  in  the  Countie  of  Darbie  Knight,  fecond  fon  of  Thomas  Karle  of 
I\utland,  and  of  Dorothie  his  Wife,  Daughter  and  Co-iieir  ot  Sir  George  Vernonne  Kn'.  ; 
who  in  conjugall  love,  maternall  care,  donrefticke  difcipline,  charitable  workes,  and  relig"on 
equalling  Th'ancient  and  beft  Chrlllian  Matrons,  was  34  years  his  joyful  Wife,  bare  hini  8 
Sonnes  and  5  Daughters,  and  in  tellimony  of  her  everlailing  loyaltie,  not  only  remained  till 
death  his  forrowfiill  widowe,  Init  alfo  in  memorie  ol  their  mutual  love,  creeled  this 
Monument  at  her  own  proper  coll  anil  cliarges." 

On  a  graveftone  of  white  marble  in  the  chancel  is  this  infcription  under  the  north 
monument,  about  two  feet  from  the  altar-Rep  : — 

"  Hie  jacet  per  illuilris  Dominiis  b'rancifcus  l-'ortcfcue  de  Salden,  F.ques  Auratus  in 
Comitatu  Buckinghamix.      Obiit    Die   9  Noveinbris  Anno   Domini    lyitj,  anno   :rtatis   67. 

"  liequicfcat  in  Pace.'" 

"  Eques  Auratus  "  ought  to  be  "  Baroni.ettus  ;"  this  Sir  Francis  being  the  lall:  Baronet 
of  the  family. 

The  chancel  of  Murfley  church  having  been  lately  taken  down  and  rebuilt  by  the  redor, 
the  Rev.  John  Crofs,  I  took  that  opportunity  to  caufe  the  monuments  to  be  completely 
repaired  and  reftored.  They  were  replaced  in  their  old  pofitions  in  the  year  1866,  with  the 
following  infcription  on  a  brals  plate  : — 

"  The  three  monuments  of  the  family  of  Fortefcue  of  Salden  in  this  church  were  reftored 
i)y  Thomas  (h'ortelcue)  Lord  Clermont,  a.  d.   1866. 

There  are  no  other  Fortefcue  tombs  in  this  church  befides  thofe  defcribed,  althoug  1 
feveral  other  members  of  the  family  were  buried  here,  as  the  parifh  regifter  teflihes.  , 

After  Sir  [ohn's  death  the  following  memorandum  was  drawn  up,  for  what  purpofe  dots 
not  appear.      It  is  preferved  in  the  BritiHi  Mufeum  : — 


Mr.  LorJ"o  account  of  MuiiUv  and  Salden,  in  Rev.  \V.  Coles'  MS. 


288  Family  of  Sahlcn. 

Sir  "John  Fortefctie  kn' .  Chancellor  and  Under  -rreajurer  of  the  Fvchequer.' 

j.b  A'c/iTDiAir,  lbo8. 

I.  Had  by  Her  Majcfties  favour  the  figiiing  of  molt  bookes  that  jiart  uf  landcs  or  any 
graunts  out  of  the  Exchequer. 

'2.   Moveing  of  futes  to  her   Majelty  feconded   by  the   Lord  Trcafurer,  and  the  guitt  to 

the  Earle  of  Edex  of  the for  which  the  Earle  gave  him  at  one  time  tor  liis 

neweyeresgift  by  deede  inrolled,  fent  unto  him  by  Sir  Gelly  Merick,  the  I'arke  of  Tickford 
in  Buckinghamfhire  worth  350/.  a  yere,  befides  the  woodes  of  greate  valewe. 

J.  'i'he  Oueene  gave  him  at  feverall  times  divers  leafes  in  reverfion  of  greate  valewe  for 
60  yeres. 

4.  Likewife  the  Eofterfliip  in  fee  to  the  heires  males  of  his  body,  of  th'j  Forell  of 
Whichwood,  and  Corneberey  Parkes  in  the  County  of  Oxon,  with  the  allowance  of  40/.  ror 
the  fame.  And  divers  other  thinges,  as  the  keping  of  HatfieKl  Houfe,  Chace,  Parkes,  etc. 
duringe  the  life  of  himfelf  and  fon. 

Likewife  the  Stewardfhip,  Bailiwick,  anil  Keeping  of  Hanflop  Parke. 

5.  My  Lord  Treafurer  Burghley  from  time  to  time  caft:  upon  him  many  advantageuus 
imployments  in  the  CulT:omhowfe,  as  difchargenge  of  foi-feitures,  benefite  of  pra, le- 
nient. 

I 

Endorjed : — "  Sir     John     Eortefcue's     meanes    of  i  '      ^ 

gaine,  by  Sir  Richard  Thekltin   Kn'.  ,  ,  ' 

told  me  26  Nov_.  1608."  '       ' 

Tickford  Park    was   attached    to   Tickford    Priory   at  Newport-Pagnell,  fupprelfed    ihy 

Henry    Vlll.       Lipfcomb's    account,    here    fubjoined,   does    not    entirely    agree    with    tjie 

t 
foregomg  :  — 

"  Tickford  Priory  and  Manor  were  granted  in  fee  by  Patent  11  November  1592,  to 
Thomas  Compton,  Robert  Wright,  and  Geiley  Merrick,  Efq.,  at  the  inlLmce  of  that 
unhappy  favourite  Robert  Earl  of  ElTex  ;  and  by  his  attainder  reverting  to  the  Crown,  it 
was  fold  to  Sir  John  hortefcue.  Knight,  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer."" 

In  1621  Lady  Alice,  widow  of  Sir  John  I-'ortefcue,  fold  Tickford  l-*ark  for  ^.300/.  to 
Henry  Adkins,  a  favourite  phyfician  to  Elizabeth  and  King  James. 

Sir  John  had  ilTue  by  both  his  wives  ;   by  the  firll,  five  Cons  and  two  daughters.     Of  the 


I    Brit.  Mus.  Add.  MS.  f.   143,   12,497.  '   Lipfcomb's  Rucks,  vol.  iv.  p.  293. 


Right  HoH.  Sir  "John  Forte/cue.  289 

fons,  two,  John  and  Robert,  died  young;  Sir  I'Vancis  was  lieir  to  his  fatlier,  and  will 
be  mentioned  further  on.  Sir  W'ilHain,  the  fecond  fon  who  attained  to  full  age,  was 
admitted  to  the  Inner  Temple  on  the  12th  of  June,  1581.'  1  le  (at  in  the  Parliament  of 
the  39th  ot  Elizabeth,  1597,  as  member  for  tlie  borough  of  Chipping  Wycombe.  From 
1600  to  1603,  he  ferved  in  the  army  in  Ireland  imder  the  Lord  Deputy  Sir  John  Norris, 
during  Tyrone's  rebellion,"  and  efpecially  againft  the  Spaniards  in  the  fiege  of  Kinfale.  He 
received  the  honour  of  knighthood  at  Droghcda,  November  17th,  1600.^  His  father  had 
obtained  from  the  Crown  the  ftewardiliip  and  keeping  of  Hanflope  Park,  with  reverfion  to 
his  fon;  and  there  is  an  order  in  Council  of  April  26th,  1609,  authorizing  Sir  William 
Fortefcue  to  cut  timber  there  for  repairs.^  . 

He  died  in  the  year  1629,''  and  was  buried  at  Murfley  on  the  4th  of  June. 

Thomas,  the  third  fon  of  Sir  John  who  attained  to  age,  was,  like  his  brother,  entered 
at  the  Inner  Temple  (ifth  of  Oe'tober,  1586)."  He  ferved  in  the  Parliament  of  the  35th 
Elizabeth,  1593,  for  Wycombe;  and  died  before  his  fiither.' 

Sir  John's  daughters  by  his  firft  marriage  were  Elizabeth,  who  died  young,  and  Eleanor, 
married,  firft,  at  Murfley,  in  the  year  1585,  to  Valentine  Pigott,  Efquire,  probably  a  meinber 
of  the  family  of  Shenley,  in  Bucks;  fecondly,  to  Edward  Hubbard,  or  Hobart,  Efquire, 
whom  flie  furvived.  This  lady  was  burled  in  the  chancel  ot  St.  Sepulchre's  Church,  in 
London,  in  1605,  with  this  infcription  on  her  tomb  :  — 

"  Eleatiora  pra-honorabilis  Viri  Johannis  h'ortefcue,  Ecjuitis  aurati,  Ducatus  Lancaftrias 
Cancellarii,  a  fani5tioribus  regii-  Majell:atis  coniiliis  filia  ;  Edwardi  I  lubb.ird  Armig.  defuncfti 
aliquando  conjux  perquam  dilefta  ;  fub  hoc  marmore  jacet  fepulta.  Vixit  annos  36,  pie, 
julte,  fobrie,  quoad  Deum,  mundum,  feipfam,  geftos,  in  fide,  pace,  fpe,  Chrifti,  confcientia;, 
gloria.',  obiit  10  die  Menfis  Julii  1605." 

By  his  fecond  wife  he  had  only  one  daughter,  Margery,"  who  Jived  to  womanhood. 
She  was  born  in  1580;  married,  as  has  been  already  mentioned,  in  1602  to  Sir  John  Poul- 
teney,  or  Pulteney,  of  Mifterton,  in  Leicefterfliire,  by  whom  flie  had  one  fon  and  four 
daughters. 

This  lady  died  in  16 13,  and  was  buried  in  the  North  Crofs  of  Welbninfter  Abbey, 
with  the  following  epitaph  :  — 

"  Reconditur   hie    Margeria  Johannis    Fortefcu   Equitis  aurati,   reginit   Elizabeths.',    ct 


'  Records  of  Inner  Trinjili-.  ^   Fynes  Morifon's  Ilidoiy  of  Irelaml,  8\o.  L(iilion,  pp.  20,  246,  348. 

^  Chamberlain's  Letters,  temp.  Eliz.  ■*  Cal.  State  Papers,  Domeftic,  1003-10. 

'  Murfley  Regifter  (June  4,  1629;.  '  Records  of  Inner  Temple. 

'   Epitaph  on  Sir  John's  tomb.  *  Funeral  certificate. 
II.  P   P 


290  Family  of  Saldcn. 

jacopi  regis  Confili;irii  Ciincellarii,  filia  ;  uxor  chariirima  Jolianiiis  Pulteney  I"".c]uitis  aurati 
cui  xxxiii  ;ftatis  {wx  anno  nioriciis  filium  ununi  lilias  qiiatuor  jiic  comniciuiavit  et  animam 
Deo  obiit  ix"  die  Martii  anno  Salutis  16  13."  ' 


HERE     ENDS    THE     MEMOIR     OF    SIR    JOHN     I'OR'IESCUE    OF    SAl.UEN. 


Sir  John  Fortefcue's  eldeft  Ton,  Sir  Francis,  was  member  of  Parliament  for  the  town  of 
Buckingiiam  in  the  Parliaments  of  the  jift  and  Jfth  of  P'.lizabeth,  a.d.  1592  and  1597, 
and  in  1600  he  fucceeded  his  father  as  a  knight  of  the  fhire  for  tie  county  of 
Buckingham.  ' 

At  the  coronation  of  James  I.  Sir  Francis  was  among  the  fixty-two  gentlemen  upon 
whom  he,  in  one  day,  conferred  the  Order  of  the  Bath.  Stowe  fays,  "Sunday  (the  24J1  ot 
July,  i6oj)  was  performed  the  folemenitie  of  Knights  of  the  Bath,  riding  honourable  fro  n 
St.  Jaines'  to  the  Court,  and  made  fhew  with  their  Squires  ami  Pages  about  the  Tilt-'  ard, 
and  after  went  into  the  Parke  of  St.  James,  and  then  lighted  all  from  their  liorfes,  and  vve  it 
up  to  the  King's  Majcrties  prefence  in  the  Gallery,  where  they  received  the  order  of  Kn  ght- 
hood  ot  the  Bath."  * 

Pie  inherited  from  his  father  the  "  Fofterfliip"  of  Cornehmy  Park  am.1  Whichwood 
Foreft,  as  appears  by  entries  in  the  State  Paper  Calendars.^ 

Sir  Francis  married,  in  1600,  Grace,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Manners  of  Haddon,  n 
Derbyfhire,  fccond  fon  of  Thomas,  F.arl  of  Rutland,  by  whom  he  had  ilRie  eight  iuni.  ai  d 
five  daughters.''  Me  died  in  January,  1623,  and  his  widow,  in  1634,  and  both  were  buried 
in  Murfley  Church,  as  we  have  already  feen.  ' 

Of  the  fons,  whofe  names  will  be  found  in  the  Pedigree,  John,  the  eldeft,  fucceeded  j  his 
father;  Gilbert,  the  third  fon,  born  in  1598,  married  Mary  Woolridge ;  he  died  without 
idue,  ami  was  buried  in  St.  Gregorie's  Church,  London,  April  29,  1623.^  llis  will,  dated 
April  23,  1623,  was  proved  at  Doiftors'  Commons,  May  24,  1623,  his  relidl,  Miry, 
adminiftering.'' 

Adrian,  the  fourth  fon,  born  in  1601,  is  known  to  us  only  through  the  long  Latin 
infcription  on  his  tomb  in  Modlington  Church,  Worcefterfnire,  from  which,  a  ter  making 
due  allowance  for  the  ufual  exaggeration  of  fuch  compofitions,  we  may  gather  that  he  was 
remarkable  for  piety  and  learning  :-- 


'  Le  Neve,  Mon.  Anglic,  vol.  i.  p.  42.  -'  Siowt's  Chronicle,  p.  827. 

^   State  Paper  Calendars,  Dom.  June  9,   I  606,  and  Dee.   23,   161  1.  '   Muilley  I'arilh  Regifter. 

'  See  Regiiiry  of  St.  Andrew's  Wardrobe.  "  Dodors'  Commons'  Wills. 


Faf/iily  of  Salcicn.  291 

Sta, 

Viatoi-,  et  ill 

Demoitiii  vefligiis 

V^iam  immortalitatis 

Lege. 

Hie  jacet   D.  Adriaiuis  I'^ortefcutLis,  ex  illultri   I<'ortercutorum  tie  Salden  taniilia  oriundus, 

ciii   fatis  non  erat   nohilitate  fanguinis  iiifigniri,  nifi   partuni  a  niajonbus  iplendorein  iiiajori 

virtutis  fuic  luce  decoraret.      iVdolefcens  igitur,  parentibus,  amicis,  jiatria-,  valedixit :   et  in 

maximam  Europas  partem,  lludio  difcendi  peragrans  Belgice,  Gallice,  Italice,  Latiiie,  Gnfce, 

Mebraice,  fic  loqui  didicit,  ut  et  doceret.     Neque  modo  linguam  excoluit,  fed  mentem  etiam 

libcralihus  artibus,  ac  fubliini  philofophia;  et  theologize  fcieiitia,  nee  non  facrarum  litterarui  i 

myfteriis  expolivit.      Ko   demum   perfedionis  evafit   ut  reruni  caducaruni   illecebras  procul 

abjiciens   mundo,  carni,  fibique  ipfe  bellum  indixerit,  quo,  (Chrillo  duce  ac  aufpiccj  feliciter 

detundtus,  meruit  eiTe   in   pra.'lio  vitlor,    in   pace    martyr,    utrohique   ccclis  arilque    dignus. 

Tandem  annos  emenfus  quinquaginta   duos,   virtute  magis   quam    atatc    plenus,  poltquani 

vitam   labore,    mortem   patientia  vicerat,   ol'jiit   xiii    Deecnibris,  anno  lalutis  mdcliii,  terris 

corpus,  fuperis  anima,  pofteris  omnibus  avitai  fidei  et  ardentillimi   Deuni  erga  proximumque 

amoris,  Chrilliana."  denique  militiie  relinquens  monumentuni. 

Nunc  alii,  ledor, 
et  quo  poteris  greflu  ad  a'ternitatem  breve 

pri'euntem  fequere.'  ' 

William  Fortefcue,  fifth  Ton  of  Sir  JMancis,  was  born  in  1602.  lie  married  Anne  Webb, 
having  inherited  through  his  mother,  Grace  Manners,  the  ellate  ot  Bolworth  Hall,  in 
Leicefterfliire,  fettled  upon  him  as  her  fecond  Ton.'  He  died  in  1639,  and  was  buried 
at  Murfley.  By  his  wife  lie  left,  with  other  iHue,  Charles,  of  Hufband's  Bofworth,  or 
Bofworth  Hall,  married  to  Frances,^  daughter  of  Sir  Francis  Bodenham,  of  Rye  Hall, 
Rutland,  by  whom  he  had  one  fon  Charles,  married  to  F.lizabeth  Loggin,  and  who  died  at 
Bruflels  in  1664,  and  one  daughter,  Frances,  married  to  William  Turville,  Kfquirc,  of 
Afton-Flamville,  Leicellerfliire.  Charles  Fortefcue  had  ifTue  by  the  above-named  Elizabeth 
Loggin  a  fon,  Francis,  and  a  daughter,  Maria-Alatha;a,  who  both  died  without  ilTue,  Francis 
in  1748,  and  his  fifter  in  1763.      Upon   the   latter  event   the  Hufband's  Bofworth  elLites 


'  Nafh,  in  his  Hiftory  of  WorcclUiniirc,  vol.  i  p.  292,  lays  tliat,  "  the  foregoing  infcription  upon  a  brafs  plate 
taken  otfa  toinbftone  in  llodlinglon  Church,  is  now  loiigea  at  the  Talbot,  a  [lubiic-lioufe  in  the  village." 

■'  See  Mr.  Fortefcue-Tur\ille"s  account,  in  1857,  to  Mr.  K.  Brickdale,  from  his  title-deeds. 

'  She  died  April  15th,  1697.  See  her  tomb  in  A(ion  Flamville  Church,  where  1  copied  this  epitaph  in 
Auguft,  1859:— '•  Ilic  jacet  Francefca  Fortefcue  uxor  Caroli  Fortelcue  de  Iluiband's  Bolworth,  Arniigeri.  Obiit 
15'  Aprilis,  Anno  Domini  1697." 


292  Fa})iily  of  Salihui. 

went  under  that  lady's  will  to  Francis  Fortefcue-'rurville,  palTuig  over  his  father,  William 
Tin-ville,'  of  Allon-I'laniville,  who  was  the  fon  of  Charles  Turvilli',  and  grandfon  of 
I'rancis  Fortefcue  and  William  Turville  betore-named.  I'Vancis  Kortefcue-'rurville,  who 
thus  inlientcd  HulLand's  IJufworth,  married  Barbara  Talbot,  daughter  of  the  1  Ion.  John 
Jofeph  Talbot,  and  fifter  of  Charles,  fifteenth  Far!  of  Shrewflnn-y.  lie  died  in  1839,  ^"'^ 
was  fucceeded  by  his  fon,  George  Fortefcue-Turville,  born  1782;  married,  in  1826, 
1  lenrietta,  daughter  ot  Adolph  von  der  Lanckin,  of  Mecklenburgh-Schwerin,  and  t!ied  in 
1859,  having  had  ilTne,  with  other  children,  the  prcfent  hraneis  Charles  h'ortefeue-'rurville, 
now  of  Hufband's  Bofworth,  or  Bofworth  FLill." 

I  am  indebted  for  part  of  the  above  information  to  Mrs.  Fortefcue-Turville,  wlio  kindly 
replied  to  my  c]ueries  relating  to  the  I'ortefcues  and  Turvilles,  and  who  has  this  ye;  r,  i  867,  ftill 
further  obliged  me  by  her  pains  in  feconding  the  very  liberal  permilTion  which  I  had  obtained 
from  her  fon,  then  conneded  with  the  Government  in  Autiralia,  to  take  to  London  from 
Bofworth,  for  the  purpofe  of  its  being  copied,  an  ancient  portrait  of  Chancellor  Fortefcue, 
interefTiing  as  dithering  in  the  attitude  and  apparent  age  of  the  figure  from  all  other  portraits 
of  the  Chancellor  ;  and  alto  as  having  belonged  to  Su-  John  bortel'cue,  the  bulkier  of  Salden. 
The  print,  taken  from  the  piiflure,  is  a  faithful  copy  ot  the  original. 

We  return  now  to  the  daughters  of  Sir  Francis  Fortefcue  of  Salden.  Thefe  were,  firft, 
l-'rancis,  born  1590,  died  unmarried;  Dorothy,  born  in  1593,  and  married  to  Sir  Robert 
Throgmorton,^  of  Wefton-Underwood,  Bucks,  and  of  Coughton,  in  Warwickfhire — file  died' 
in  1650,  and  was  buried  at  Coughton;  Frances,  a  chanoinefs  of  the  order  of  St.  Augufline,. 
of  the  Englifli  monail:ery  at  Louvain  ;  and  Mary,  married  to  John  Talbot,  tenth  Earl  of 
Shrewfl:)ury. 

John,  the  eldeft  fon  of  Sir  Francis,  was  baptized  at  Murlley  in  1592.'  He  married 
Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Stanley,  Knight  of  the  Bath,  of  Enfham,  in  Oxfordrhire, 
and  was,  by  Charles  1.  in  1636,  created  a  Baronet  of  Nova  Scotia.  lie  was  in  arms  on  the 
King's  fide  in  1644,  and  was  taken  prilbner  •*  i:eai-  Iflip,  in  Oxf'ordrtiire,  in  May  of  that  year, 
having  been  furprif'ed  by  Sir  Samuel  Luke,  the  Parliamentarian  Governor  of  Newport- 
Pagnell.      Sir  John  h'ortefcue  died  in  September,  1656,  and  was  buried  at  Murfley." 

In  this  generation  Ibme,  if  not  all,  of  the  Fortefcuesof  Salden  returned  to  the  faith  of  the  ir 
aticefliors,  which  Sir  John,  the  ilatefman,  had  been  the  firfl  to  exchange  for  the  reformed 
religion.  The  children  of  this  the  firfl  baronet  were  certainly  Roman  Catholic;.  Thefe 
were,  firil:,  Sir  John,  the  fecond  baronet;  Sir  Edward,  who  was  knighted  in  1641  ;  married 
twice,  firlt  to  the  daughter  of  Rol)ert  Brookelyn,  by  whom  he  had  no  children  ;   ilcondly,  to 


'  This  William  Turville  died  in   1777.  =   RuiUc's  Landed  Gentry,  art.  "  I'orlereue-Turviile." 

^  See  Horn,  in  HucUs  Records,  and  Cole  and  Rrown-Willis,  MS. 

'  Muriley  Regider,  N.ipier's  Swyncomlie,  Turville  I'edigrce.  '  LiiiCcomb,  iv.  282.  *   Murfley  l{cgifter. 


Faviily  of  SahUn.  293 

Mary,  daughter  of  Gilbert  Rerefby.  He  was  buried  at  Murfley,  February  14th,  1662, 
having  had  ilTue  with  another  ion,  who  died  childlefs,  and  four  daughters,  a  llcond  fon, 
Francis,  whole  {o\\  b'raneis  fucceeded  to  the  Saiden  property,  and  to  the  baronetcy,  as  fourth 
baronet,  upon  the  death  of  Sir  John,  the  tliird  baronet,  in  1717. 

We  return  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  the  fecond  baronet.  lie  was  baptized  July  13, 
1614,  at  Murfley,  and  was  buried  at  that  place,  June  14,  16S3,  having  married  three  times. 
His  firll  wife  was  Margaret,  daughter  of  Lord  Arundel  of  Wardour,  who  died  in  i6j8, 
leaving  two  daughters,  Frances  and  Elizabeth;  Frances  married,  at  Murfley,  May  18, 
1657,  to  Flenry  Benedift  Hall,  Efquire,  of  High  Meadow,  in  Gloucefterfliire,  whofe  only 
child,  Bcnediifta  Therefa  Maria,  married  Thomas,  firll  Viicount  Gage.  This  lady,  of  whom 
Burke  fiys  that,  "if  the  attainders  affeding  the  great  houfe  of  Northundierland  wjre 
reverfed,  fhe  was  co-heir  through  Fortefcue  and  Stanley  to  the  ancient  baronies  of  Percy, 
Poynings,  and  Fitzpayne,"  '  became,  with  her  coulin,  1  homas  Whorwood,  co-heir  to  the 
Saiden  eftates  on  the  death  of  Sir  Francis  fortefcue  in  17 29.  Elizabeth,  the  fecond 
daugliter  of  Sir  John  of  Saiden  by  his  wife  Margaret,  married  Brome  Whorwood,  Efquire, 
of  Sandwell  FFdl,  county  of  Stafford,  leaving  ifTue  a  foil  Thomas,  jull  mentioned. 

Sir  John's  fecond  wife  was  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Stonor  of  Stonor,  Oxon. 
Their  children  were  Sir  John,  the  third  baronet  ;  William,  born  in  1645,  ^''^'^^  childlefs  ;  and 
Lucy,  who  died  young. 

The  third  wife  was  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Wintour  of  Lydney,  in  Gloucefter- 
fliire,  who  died  in  1674,  having  had  three  daughters,  Dorothy,  Elizabeth,  ami  Lucy,  who 
all  died  young. '^ 

Sir  John  l''ortefcue,  born  1644,  fucceeded  his  father  as  third  baronet,  in  1683,  and  died, 
at  the  age  of  feventy-three,  in  1717,  without  iffue. 

The  title  and  ellates  upon  this  event  paffed,  as  has  been  {'Ztw,  to  b'rancis  Fortefcue,  the 
fon  of  his  firft  coufm,  and  grandfon  of  Sir  Edward  Fortefcue  by  Mary  Rerefliy.  This  lafl: 
baronet  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  Huddlellone,  Efquire,  of  Sawfton  Hall,  Cam- 
bridge, but  had  no  iffue;  he  died  at  Bath  on  the  9th  of  November,  1729,  and  was  buried 
with  his  anceftors  in  Murfley  Church  on  the  23rd  of  that  month.'  He  was  the  lafl:  male 
defcendant  of  (^een  Elizabeth's  minifler,  and,  fo  far  as  we  know,  of  Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue 
alfo. 

The  extindtion  of  the  male  heirs  of  the  founder  of  the  Saiden  b'amily  was  foon  followed 
by  the  deftrudtion  of  the  family  manfion. 

It  feems  ftrange,  although  it  is  not  uncommon,  to  find  fo  little  value  either  fentimental  or 
pecuniary  attached  to  a  fine  old  houfe,  as  that  it  fliould  be  fold  for  its  materials  for  a  paltry 
fum.      This,  however,  was  the  fate  of  Saiden  Houfe. 


'  Burke's  Peerage  art.  "  Vifcount  Gage.''  "  Murfley  Regifter.  ^  Murfley  Epitaph  and  Regifter. 


2  94  Fcif/iily  of  Si!  Id  en. 

The  property  fell  to  T,;idy  Gaij;e  and  Mr.  Wliorwood,  in  equal  (liares,  under  the  will  of 
Sir  John  Kortefcue,  who  had  died  in  i68j  —  the  houfe  itfelf  being  allotted  half  to  one  fliare 
and  half  to  the  other!'  Rrown-Willis,  who  faw  the  demolition  with  forrow,  fays  that  in 
May,  lyjS,  "that  part  ot  the  manfion  which  belonged  to  Lord  Ciage  inckkiing  the  dining- 
room,  or  gallery-chamber,  and  half  the  noble  front  fule  was  begun  to  be  pulled  down,  having 
been  fold  to  a  joiner,  Thomas  Harris  of  Cublington,  tor  400/.  or  500/.,"  and  this  part  thereby 
became  totally  demoliflied.     "  Marris  was  allowed  four  years  for  removing  the  materials." 

A  famous  old  alabafter  chimney-piece,  much  admireil,  was  fold  to  Lord  l-'ermanagh 
(Verney)  for  about  5/.,  and  put  up  at  his  feat  at  Middle  Claydon. 

"In  September,  1743,  the  remaining  part  of  Salden  Houfe  was  fold  by  Mr.  Horwood 
or  Whorwood,  and  w-as  begun  to  be  pulled  down,  and  the  once  noble  feat,  th.-  finell  in  the 
county,  entirely  demolifhed — except  a  fmall  part  which  ferved  as  palTage  Irom  the  lofty 
kitchen  to  the  hall  and  great  parlouis." 

There  was  an  immenfe  quantity  of  flained  glafs  in  the  windows  with  the  quarterings  ot 
the  family  arms,  and  of  the  houfes  allied  to  the  h'ortefcues.  Willis  and  Cole  have  carefully 
recorded  all  the  coats  with  their  emblazonments.  I'he  former  fiys  that  he  himlclf  boug  it 
for  a  trirte  eight  of  the  coats  ot  arms,  two  of  which  he  put  up  in  the  call  window  ot  a  c  laj  el 
at  Fenny-Stratford  (built  by  himfelf),  and 'two  were,  in  1760,  in  the  parlour  of  old  Whaddun 
Hall.''  Some  of  the  coats  were  prefented  to  Judge  Fortefcue  (Lord  b'ortefcue  of  Credan). 

Mr.  Home,  in  his  paper  read  before  the  Buckinghamfhire  Architectural  and  Archa- )- 
logical  Society,  and  printed  in  1854  in  the  firil;  volume  of  their  journal,  thus  defcribes  the 
prefent  appearance  of  the  fite  : — 

"  The  fituation  is  fplendid,  and  bears  fome  marks  of  former  grandeur.  There  are  remain- 
ing a  large  piece  of  water  which  doubtlefs  helped  to  fupply  the  family  with  iilli  ;  a  circular 
mound,  furrounded  here  and  tiiere  by  a  ftraggling  hawthorn  bufli,  the  remains,  it  ma\  be 
prefumed,  of  a  well-clipped  hedge  which  ferved  as  a  fence  to  the  bowling-green,  where  \t  is 
faid  that  one  of  the  Fortefcues  was  killed  by  the  ftroke  of  a  ball.  This  bowling-green  was 
in  a  field  I'till  called  '  'I  he  Beggars'  Mead,"  becaufe  there  the  broken  meat  from  the  hiiiufe 
was  daily  ferved  out  to  the  poor.  One  or  more  of  the  owners  of  the  great  houie  is  reported 
to  have  been  in  the  habit  of  giving  half-a-crown  to  each  poor  perfon  of  the  parifh  he  met 
with  in  his  walks.  On  digging  around  the  fite  of  the  houfe  traces  of  cellars  have  been  foilnd. 
The  double-terraced  walks  of  the  gardens  are  flill  to  be  feen,  with  the  fine  old  yew-trees 
which  ftood  near  the  lodge  at  the  entrance  towards  the  louth  ;  while  in  various  parts  traces 
of  the  wall  that  furrounded  the  building  are  vifible— the  wall  in  fome  places  kill  flanding 
entire,  with  portions  of  the  original  ftone  coping  upon  it." 


'  See  Mr.  lord's  Paper  on  Salden,  in  Cole's  MS. 

■■'  The  foregoing  account  of  the  fate  of  Salden  lloufe   is   from  Brown-Willis,  Cole,  and   Rev.  Mr.  llorne,  in 
Bucks  Records,  vol.  i.,  kindly  pointed  out  to  nie  by  the  Rev.  Charles  Lowndes  of  Hartwell  Ree'lory. 


Family  of  Salden.  295 

The  foregoing  account  agrees  entirely  with  my  own  ohfervations  during  an  hour  fpent 
at  Salden  on  the  lith  of  Augull,  iH6j. 

The  fituation  is  a  very  fine  one,  commanding  rich  andwide  views — never  richer  than  at 
the  tmie  ot  my  vifit,  in  the  midll  of  a  harveil  of  corn  crops  unulually  luxuriant,  and  m 
brilliant  weather. 

Salden  is  about  twelve  miles  from  AyleAjury,  and  four  from  Winflow.  It  is  eaiily  reached 
from  Hletchley  Station,  diilant  eight  miles. 

Among  the  items  ot  the  contents  of  Salden  Moufe,  that  of  which  we  moft  regret  the  lofs 
is  the  portrait  of  its  founder.  1  have,  during  the  lall  four  years,  made  ciiligent  inquiry  as 
to  its  fate,  by  every  means  and  through  every  channel  that  could  be  fuggelled,  but  without 
any  fucccfs.  15iown-Willis  evidently  fiw  it  at  the  time  of  the  demolition  ot  the  houfe,  but 
its  fubfequent  fate  is  unknown.  ; 

That  antiquarian  has  preferved  the  infcription  under  the  portrait  which  hung  in  the  great 
gallery.      It  is  as  follows  : — 

"  S'.  John  Fortefcue  K'.  Chancellour  of  the  Exchequer  and  Dutchy  of  Lancaller,  Mafter 
of  the  Warderobe  and  of  the  Privy  Councill  to  Q.  Elizabeth  and  King  James.  He  built 
Salden  Houfe  and  was  fonne  of  S'.  Adrian  I-'ortefcu  K'.  Gentleman  of  the  Privy  Chamber  to 
K.  Henry  the  8"',  fon  of  S'.  John  b'ortefcu  K'.  Banneret  by  King  Henry  the  7"',  Great 
Grandfon  of  S'.  John  I>"ortefcu  K'.  Governor  of  Brie  in  b'rance  under  King  Henry  5"', 
lineally  defcended  in  the  y"'  generation  from  l^ichard  Fortefcu  K'.  Cupp  Bearer  to 
K.  William  the  Conqueror." 

Mr.  Lord,  the  reftor  of  Drayton  Parfelowe,  adjoining  Salden,  writing  in  1758,  thus 
refleds  upon  the  tranfient  fplendour  of  that  houfe  : — "  What  man  propoles  God  difpoles  ; 
for  though  that  great  man,  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  had  amaffed  fuch  vaft-  eftates  in  this  county, 
yet  they  are  all  now  divided  amongft  feveral  poflefTbrs.  The  ruins  of  his  magnificent 
houfe  are  almoft  deflroyed,  and  his  name  is  qLiite  blotted  out.  I  cannot  help  obferving  here 
that  Horace  was  wrong  in  f.iymg  tliat — 

'  7Ftas  parentimi  pejor  avis  tulit  i 

Nos  nequiores,  mox  daturos 
Progeniem  vitiofiorem." 

"  I'"or  if  you  look  into  the  '  Notitia  Parliamentaria,'  you  will  find  that  great  minilter  o'" 
(tate  as  careful  to  get  his  own  family  into  the  I  loufe  as  any  of  our  prelent  minillers  are  ; 
and  no  doubt  the  reft  of  them  did  the  fame  thing.  Pray,  then,  where  was  the  difference 
between  their  times  and  ours  in  that  refpedl  ? 

"  This  vail  elliate  was  foon  reduced  to  the  narrow  bounds  of  Salden  and  half 
Drayton." 


'   Florace,  Book  iii.  ode  vi. 


296  Family  of  Saldcji, 

We  may,  from  the  foregoing,  affume  that  Salden  and  half  of  Drayton-Panelowc,  formed 
the  cftate  which,  on  Sir  I'rancis  Kortefcue's  death  in  1729,  palled,  under  tlie  will  of  Sir  John 
Fortefcue,'  who  died  in  1683,  to  Vifcount  Gage  and  Mr.  Whorwood  in  equal  fliares. 

The  whole  eftate  was  fold  before  the  end  of  the  laft  century.  It  is  now  the  property  of 
Mr.  Selby  Lowndes,  by  whom  a  fee  farm  rent  is  ftill  paid  to  Mr.  Fortefcue-Turville  for 
Murfeley,  and  another  for  Salden,  which  conftitute  the  only  remaining  trace  of  the  former 
connexion  of  the  Fortcfcues  with  their  Buckinghamfliire  eftates.- 

Appendix  to  Chap.   XIF 
A. 

Right  Honourable  Sir  John  Fortefcue  to  the  Earl  of  Shreivjlury}  ' 
My  verie  good  L.  w"'  my  boiiden  dutie,  Wher  I  undurlhind  my  Kinfinan  M^  Edrd.  Stafford  who 
married  the  wife  of  Anthony  Rabington  hue  of  Dedick  in  tlie  Com  :  of  Derti  of  highe  treafon  attamccj 
is  by  y'  L.  (in  rcfpect  of  fuch  Laiidcs  as  he  there  holdeth  in  the  riglit  of  his  wife)  charged  with  ths 
hndinge  of  horle  and  arinor  to  be  in  rcadinefs  when  the  fame  Ihold  be  called  for,  whereof  althoughj  he 
hath  labored  to  be  dyfcharged  yet  he  cannot  w'hoiit  certificate  that  he  is  cllfwhcre  for  her  i.Ia'  . 
fervice  charged,  I  am  therefore  to  entreat  y'  Ld.  god  favor  in  his  behalte  and  further  to  iignifie  untj 
y"  that  he  hath  beene  a  Captaine  of  conducf:  both  by  fea  and  landc  and  Ihll  remayneth  prelled  under  h  s 
A'P.  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  in  the  Wardenfhipp  of  the  Stannaries  in  the  Com  :  of  Devon  ;  in  regard  whereof 
I  defire  y'  honorable  favo'  in  his-dilcharge,  and  I  fhall  be  readier  to  do  f  L.  all  fervice  male  lie  in  m/ 
power  and  fo  I  ceafe  further  troubling  yo",  praying  god  to  fend  y'  L.  health  w"'  increafe  of  honor.  At 
the  Co'^t  at  Richmond  the  firft  of  November  1589. 

Your  L.  moll  bounden, 

J.    FoRTESCUE. 

"To  the  right  Honorable  my  verie  good  Lord  the  ,  . 

erie  of   ShrewAiiirie  one  of  hir  Highnefs  molt 
honorable  pryvie  Counfell."  •  ,  I 

B. 

From  Right  Honourable  Sir  John  Fortefcue  to  Sir  Henry  Unton.^  ' 

.  •  .  .  The  death  ot  our  good  [Lorde]  Chancellourc  I  know  cannot  but  be  mofl  greevjus 
[unto  you].      His  broken  eftate  and  great  debts  accumulats  our     .... 

'  Mr.  Lord's,  of  Drayton  Fari'clowe,  Pa[)cr  in  Cole  MS.,  p.  6,  written  in  1758. 

'  This  infonnation  is  contained  in  a  letter  from  the  late  Mr.  Fortefcue-Turvillu  to  the  late  A  r.  Fortefcue- 
lirickdale,  dated  February  22nd,  1857. 

'   From  the  original  in  the  Talljot  Papers,  in  the  College  of  .\rins. 

'  Hrit.  Mus.  Cotton  MS.  Caligula,  V..  viii.  ('.  179.  This  letter  is  inucli  injured  by  fire.  The  death,  Nov.  21, 
1591,  of  Chancellor  Sir  C.  Hatton,  who  had  fillcn  into  difgraee  with  lili/.abelh,  and  was  overuhi.lmed  by  debt,  is 
the  event  referred  to  in  the  beginning.  Sir  John  and  Unton  were  both  coulins  to  tlie  O.vfordlliire  tamily  of  Fttty- 
place,  and  fo  conneded,  but  their  couiinfhip  to  eacii  other  has  not  been  explained.  The  Unions  were  an  influtntial 
family  in  O.'tfordlhire. 


Family  of  Salcien.  297 

Since  [my  Lift  letters]  (onic  fpciiches  have  beii  ol'  youe  and  your  fcrvice,  it  was  [well  if  you]  did 
remembre  to  write  to  hir  Majeftie  as  oft  as  matter  fit  for  hir  knowledge  occurcth,  for  hir  Majeftie 
expecleth  fo  moche,  [feeing  your]  great  chardge  in  fervice  it  were  not  amifle  your  me[frenger  fliould 
come]  ail'one  as  youe  may  leaft  your  chardges  be  not  regarded  [fo  well]  as  your  friends  could  wi(h. 
This  by  way  of  councell  I  make  bold  to  admoiiifli  you  of;  for  in  this  time  of  fkarlencfle  [and  of] 
untollerable  expenfes  rewardes  will  grow  colde.  If  [it  feemeth  to  you]  I  may  Hand  youe  in  ileadc,  I 
wilbe  ready  to  performe  [to  my  power  with]  good  will.  And  (o  with  my  commendacions  I  comytt  you 
[to  God's  holy  keepinge]. 

At  the  Court  at  White  hall  this  hrll  of  Decembre. 

Your  allured  lovinge  Freind  and  Cofen, 

J.     FoRTESCUE, 

JcldrcJJcd : — "  To   my  honorable  good    frende  and  i 

Cofen  Sir  Henry  Unton  Knight  Lord 

Ambafladour  for  hir  Majeflic  refdant 

in  Fraunce." 
Endorjed : — "December    1591.      From   Air.    For- 
tefcue." 

C. 

The  Right  Honourable  Sir  "John  Fortefcue  to  Lord  Trccifurer  Burleigh. 

Right  honorable  w"'  my  bounden  ducty,  vppon  the  rcccpt  of  your  Lres  of  the  18  of  this  moneth  I 
pntly  fent  to  S'.  Thomas  Shurley  and  acquaynted  him  w"'  the  defeifts  in  the  bands,  and  no  allowance  to 
hir  Ala'"",  made,  where  vnto  he  anfweareth  that  in  the  cautionary  and  garryfons  their  ar  no  checks,  the 
numbre  being  full,  in  the  army  auxilyary  abroad  in  f'vice  the  checks  cannot  be  certified  olherwi/e  then 
half  yerely,  and  owt  of  the  checks  their  ar  div'fe  paym"  and  entcrteynements  allowed  befids  warrants 
of  your  L.  and  the  lis.  of  the  coiicell,  as  vppon  the  accounts  it  fhall  appire  vnto  your  1^.  what  is  in  his 
hands,  w'^h  he  will  pntly  pay  if  any  arrearage  be  toumle  in  his  hande  ;  he  farther  defiled  me  lo  fignyfye 
vnto  your  \j.  that  onles  correfpondence  in  the  contra^ft  be  held  vv"'  the  marchaunts  it  will  touiiie  to 
their  difcreditt  and  vndoing  aiid  he  then  fhall  have  no  means  to  tourne  ov'  the  money  by  cxchang'  but 
mufl  be  dryven  to  tranfport  money  :  Herevppoii  I  pr.iyed  him  to  make  a  reconyng,  for  I  was  aflurcd  that 
he  mud:  not  be  payd  in  bryttany  and  the  low  contreys,  both  w*^''  he  pntly  did  and  the  (ome  now  to  be 
payd  amounteth  to  vij"".  viij'^  li  or  thereabowts,  the  ordre  is  by  M'.  I'etre  drawen  to  be  afTigned  at  yo'L. 
pleaf'. 

Towchinge  S\  Ja.  Alervyn  I  recevved  enformacon  from  the  S''vayours,  his  receyt  at  midfomer  to 
amounte  to  a  m'  V\  your  L.  and  my  felf  wrote  vnto  hnii  to  make  paym'.  at  Bartholornevvtld  but  neither 
money  nor  aniwer  is  retourned. 

As  to  the  fpailes  in  the  weft  I  am  very  forry  to  vnderftand  of  them  and  am  moll  glad  it  ha:h  jileafed 
hir  ma''",  to  fend  S''.  Robert  Cecill  whofe  piite  will  gyve  countennce  to  the  matter,  and  I  do  not  doubt 
but  w"'  S'.  Walter  Rawleigh  and  the  reft:  appoynted  by  the  adventurers,  all  things  flialbe  well  jiformed, 
for  of  my  felf  I  nevor  named  any,  but  left  the  choyfe  to  them  felves  who  were  interelled  nor  did  I  ever 
think  Inglebert  mete  to  be  a  comiffioner  but  vnderltanding  he  was  moch  by  M'.  Secretary  WalfynghtTi 
II.  CLQ. 


298  Fa/nily  of  Snldcn. 

vfcJ  in   tlie  Lilt   prize,  named   him    as  our   to  be  by  the   comillion's  vied   if  your   \,.  allowed   il  and   no 
othirwile. 

Ai,  towelling  the  pfit  I'vice  I  have  lent  Bland  the  I'urveyour  w'h  Ires  to  the  officers  of  the  ports  ot 
Kent,  SufFolke  and  norf  to  joyne  w'h  him  for  the  ferching'  of  all  vellells  and  feazing'  all  goods  can  be 
any  way  found  to  be  of  this  prize  and  eljjecyally  the  daynty  whole  malfer  and  maryners  have  behaved 
them  lelves  very  lewdly  in  making  porte  fale  in  ev'y  place  where  thev  touched,  efpecially  at  harvv"''  what 
is  done  I  have  yet  no  knowledge  but  that  this  mornyng  I  here  from  S'.  Jo  :  Hawkings  ilie  is  in  t.ic  ryvcr 
betwen  Ciiaveleiid  and  London,  S'.  Jo.  Hawkyns  doth  follow  your  L.  advife  and  the  lerch  is  appoynted 
to  S"^.  George  Barnes. 

W/.  ]3illingfley  and  M'.  Yonge  and  the  refl  of  the  comyffion's  :  by  whome  by  the  opynyon  of 
S'.  John  Hawkyns  it  is  thowght  meat  to  comytt  the  m'.  and  captayne  it  thay  cannot  yeld  good  accounte 
of  their  doings. 

Towchinge  Captcyne  CrofTe  IVP.  Wade  and  the  other  comyflion's  haue  taken  his  Examynacon  w'^h 
flialbe  lent  your  L.  he  prom\  leth  to  deliv^  all  truely,  and  feameth  to  lay  great  fait  on  othirs,  and  that  he  will 
not  medle  to  llirre  any  thinge  in  the  bark  his  brother  is  in,  but  that  all  by  jull  accounte  Ihalbe  dehv'ej 
and  he  will  fland  to  hir  ma",  confideracijn.  I  haue  comaunded  him  to  be  fourth  comyng  vppon  foure  day(  s 
warninge  at  his  lodging  gyven,  to  anfwer  any  thing  that  fhalbe  objeiSted  and  althowgh  the  advent  ireis 
were  erneit  for  his  comyttement  I  haue  ftayd  vntill  yo'  L.  pleafure  therein  knowen  :  We  have  fpar  .d  10 
lend  youe  the  particler  of  things  foundc  in  his  houfe  that  we  myght  fend  your  L.  all  together  w'h  boih 
in  the  bark  and  land  carriage  is  expe(fted  howerly. 

I  have  gyven  knowledge  to  Sothirton  that  onles  he  cleare  his  arrearage  and  ])ut  in  fuertyes  to  the 
fome  of  m'  m'  v*^  li.  before  mychelmas  day  ordre  flialbc  gyven  he  Ihalbe  lequefhed  Irom  his  office  ai  d 
haue  cauled  warning  to  be  gyven  to  the  Baylif  and  firino''  that  they  pay  no  money  hut  at  the  audytt  'ii 
the  piice  of  the  audytoure  and  loch  as  yo'  L.  (liall  thirevnto  appoynt. 

Towching  the  rate  of  the  Bays  I  lent  your  L.  the  opynyon  of  the  officers  of  the  cuftume  houfe  that 
all  bays  of  Ix  thredds  for  lo  the  terme  them,  and  vndre,  ar  to  be  accounted  fingle  bays,  and  fo  to  pay 
cuftume,  all  above  doble  ;  the  marchaunts  and  Bay  makers  do  greatly  greve  hercat  but  defire  thai!  all 
vndre  Ixviij  thredds  may  be  reputed  fingle,  and  after  moch  debate  of  the  matter  it  is  referred  to  you.-  L. 
ordre  to  abate  of  the  marchaunts  requeft  or  allow  at  your  pleafure.  I  lent  your  Lordfllipp  the  patrol;  >  or 
ech  kind  that  the  fmall  difTerence  appearing  youe  might  do  yo'  pleafure  in  af .  .  afing  for  fingle  Ix  thredds  or 
above  vnder  Ixviij  what  foev"^  youe  thowght  bell — all  above  that  rate  to  be  accounted  doble  and  fo  to  pay  : 
the  cocklall  bays  being  of  a  nother  kinde  and  fynnes  to  pay  foure  ihillings  the  pece  one  w'  an  nihir. 

I'owchinge  the  adjornem'.  ot  the  receyt  to  Syon  to  be  kej)t  their  the  chardge  to  nuke  places  glafyeng  and 
othir  reparacorls  will  coft  hir  Ma"',  ccc''.  at  the  leaft  and  Weflm'.  being'  cleare  and  the  plac3  ready  vyilbe 
more  coniodyous  and  no  daunger,  the  greateft  paym".  expeded  before  menfe  michis'  ar  o\'t  of  London 
both  for  curtome  and  fubfydy  and  xv"".  I  have  ben  both  at  Syon  and  Weftm^  but  hir  mats,  pleafure  muft 
be  donnc.    I  If  ay  the  chardge  of  repayre  at  Sion  vntill  I  here  from  yo'  L.  agayn. 

Yefferday  as  I  was  finifhing  this  li'es  I  recyved  twee  Irs  from  yo'  L.  of  the  xx  of  the  pi'it  moneth, 
the  firll  towching  the  gref  yo"  concey  ve  of  the  fmalle  remayne  in  the  receyte  wherevppon  I  pntly  repayred 
to  Weftm'.  and  calling  tor  W.  Billinfley  and  Ai'.  ^'ongc  have  coniaundcd  piit  paym'.of  that  remayne  is 

'   Sic  in  MS. 


Fa})iUy  of  Salclcfi.  299 

in  their  hands,  w'^h  I  will  w'h  ail  dili'^cncc  and  care  call  vppon  vntill  it  be  [jformcd  and  have  feat  to 
Smyth  to  vnderftand  thiret)t,  he  was  not  in  the  towne  but  wilbe  this  night.  I  trull  hir  next  wtke  yo'  L. 
(hall  fynd  foniwhat  |)fornied. 

I  haue  lent  a  pMuyunt  to  my  L.  of  London  and  (ignyfyed  vnto  him  the  great  diflykc  hir  ma'"',  coii- 
ceyvcth  of  this  flack  aiiferringe  the  tcnthes  and  that  the  leafing  of  temporalytyes  awarded  agaynft  him 
is  not  fo  cvill  as  hir  ma'"*.  dil'|)leafure  and  the  llainider  w'-'h  redundeth  of  their  not  pajing  in  tyme  ot 
necellytye  ot  the  pcefle  no  retourne  can  be  vntill  oiitis  michis. 

Your  L.  other  Ires  towch  a  libellour  I  never  law  and  can  no  other  wile  conceyve  then  your 
declaracon  maketh  mencion.  I  Cent  to  the  audytoiirs  of  the  prefts  and  ferched  in  the  receyte,  but  1 
neither  could  lerne,  no  find  any  thing  :  the  officer  of  the  pipe  who  keapeth  the  records  of  the  courts  ot 
S'vey  and  Augmentacons  is  abfent :  Herevppon  I  retorted  to  feke  the  cronycles  and  find  that  in  the 
end  of  the  nynth  yere  of  King  Henry  the  viij.  The  Erie  of  Worceftre  being  L.  Chamblyn  The  bilhop  > 
of  Elye  the  1.  of  S'.  Johns  S'.  Nicolas  Vaux  S'.  John  Pechy  and  S'.  'fhomas  Bulleyne  were  fent  int-|> 
fraunce  Ambailadoures  to  treat  the  marriage  of  trauiics  the  dolphyn,  eldeft  foiine  ol  King  trauncs  the 
firft  and  Qiiene  Mary  hir  Ma".  filK-r  w"''  they  did  and  vppon  reiiioure  that  the  dolphyn  was  dedde  The 
B.  of  Ely  S'.  Thomas  Bollcyn  and  S'.  Richard  Welton  went  to  Conyack  to  fee  the  dolphyn  w'h  they 
did  and  the  Erie  of  Worcelter  retourncd  to  I'ourney  to  make  redeliv'"y  thereof  to  the  trench  men  and 
this  was  Anno  Dni  1520.  And  the  King  was  rnarryed  to  hir  ma",  mother  the  14  of  November  1532, 
fo  that  the  fhameles  lying  of  this  libellour  is  moft  apparant  for  hir  ma",  birth  was  in  Anno  Dni  1533  ^"'^ 
then  hir  mother  fhuld  have  ben  but  xiij  yere  old  at  her  byrthe  what  may  be  farther  found  owt  in  this 
matter  yo''  L.  fliall  have  knowledge  w'h  all  fpede,  my  L.  of  Buckhurft  1  have  hirew"'  acquaynted  who 
will  feke  all  he  may  any  ways  finde  therein.  And  thus  craving  pardon  of  yo'"  L.  for  my  tedioulc  Ifes  I 
comende  yo"  to  the  lorde'  tuicoil  who  contynew  yo'  hclth  w"'  encreafe  ot  moch  honour  at  Heiulon  the 
xxiiij  of  Septembre,  1592. 

Your  L.  moft  humble  and  bounden,  i 

J.  Eori'£sci;e. 
Endorfed: — "  24  Sept.  I  592  M' .  Chauncelor  of  y*"  Excheq"^ 

to  my  L.  A.  Libeller  (Sanders  if  1  miftake 

not)  ag.  K.  Henry,  retleiSling  upon  y*"  Queen 

i5i  her  mother,  confuted."' 


D. 

Tivi  IVar.ranti  relating  to  Sir  Jralter  RaLigh.- 

Whereas  S^  Wa.  Raleit^he  Knight  hath  received  out  of  her  ma".  Exchequer  the  fome  of  eighteene 
thoufandenyne  hundred  powndes  for  y""  viftuallingof  fyve  thoufand  fouldye'"'  by  bargaine  at  nyne  pence  y' 
day  cache  man  for  three  monethes,  as  alio  undertooke  to  tranfporte  the  fayde  Armye  for  y"  remaynder  of 
the  fayd  monyes,  w'^h  ftiould  remayne  above  y'  vif^ualling  of  y'  fyve  thoufande  fouldye"  at  nyne  pence 
per  diem  as  aforelayd.      Theile  are   to  will   and   req".  yo''  to   take   the  Accompt  ot   the  fayd   monyes  of 


'  The  orig-inal  is  in  the  Britifli  Mufeum,  LanlUown  MS.  72,  fo.  193. 
*  The  oriKinuls  are  in  the  Brit.  Mui.  .\dd.  MS.  5752- 


300  Fa/uily  of  Saliicn. 

S'.  Wa.  Raleighc,  or  (uche  as  he  fliall  afliijiit:  for  yo'  deliveryt;  theiL-ot  w'li  as  mucli  cxpctlyc.m  as  poffibly 
yo"  can,  becaul'c  he  may  Ihortly  lie  imployed  in  her  Mat>".  lervyce.  From  the  Corte  the  fuft  of 
I'cbruarye,  1597. 

^'oiir  loviiig  fienil, 

J.   FoRTHSCUE. 

Wheras  yo"  make  doiibte  in  what  manner  yow  ar  to  rccevc  S'".  Walter  Raleghs  accompte  by  o.ithe, 
becaufe  the  vitlinge  and  tranfportinge  was  by  bargayne,  thes  ar  to  lett  yow  knowe  that  ether  S'.  Walter 
Raleghe  or  his  deputes  ar  to  depole  that  fo  muche  vitteli  was  delivered  &  fo  many  men  weare  tranfportcd 
to  weet  five  thowl'ande  i?c  tortye  i'oldiers  vitells  for  three  moneathes,  &  thole  5040  foldiers  imbarked  & 
tranlported  5c  the  fraught,  tonnage,  vitteli  for  the  tranfporters,  the  marrincrs  wages  prels  and  conduiite 
w'h  all  other  charges  towchinge  the  tranfportacion  by  S'.  Waller  Raleghe  defrayed.  1'  om  the  Court 
att  \Vhytehall,  this  laft  of  marche.  ' 

'I'our  lovinge  trynde, 

J.  FoRTESCUE. 

I 

E. 

Right  Honourable  Sir  'John  Fcrtefciie  to  Sir  George  Carew} 

S'.  w""  my  mod  heartie  comendacions  This  bearer  my  cofen  Henrie  Fortefcue  being  appoynt.  d  ^o 
have  the  charge  of  c.  men  to  ierve  her  Ma""',  in  this  fervice  in  Mounfler  I  doe  hartelie  jiraie  yc"  fur 
my  lake  to  extend  yo'  good  f.ivour  towardes  him  as  ther  fhalbe  caule  and  yf  any  of  the  baiides  be 
increaled  unto  150  that  yo"  wilbe  pleal'ed  to  augment  his  company  unto  that  noniber  for  the  iv"''  1 
will  holde  thanktull  remembrance  And  be  readie  to  deferve  the  fame  towardes  any  frend  of  )ours  is 
it  may  be  in  my  power.  Thus  defyring  God  to  profper  hir  Ma"'\  forces  and  the  fervice  iiowe  in  h  ;iid  I 
leave  yo"  unto  his  tuicon.     At  the  wardrobe  this  xiiij"  of  Oftober  1601. 

Vo'  allured  loving  frend, 

J.    FoRTESCUE.  ' 
Addre£'ed : — "To  my    verie  loving   frend  S'.  Cjcorge  ,  | 

drew      Knight,     Lord      Prel'edent     of 

Mounlk-r."  •■  : 

I 
Endorfed :—'■'■  14"'  October  1 60 1. 

S'.   John  Fortel'cu  from  the  Court." 

I 

Fnm  the  fume  to  the  fain/} 

After  heartie  comendacons  wheras  this  bearer  M'.  Dillon  hathe  been  an  humble  fi  ter  unto  the 
LL.  of  her  Ma'",  moft  honorable  councell  for  the  placinge  a  meete  and  fufHciente  capta)  ne  in  a  forte 
lately  ereffcd  neere  unto  Kyniall  w'hui  the  (irovince  of  Munlter  uppon  a  groundc  whereof  this  bearer 
as  he  informeth  ys  owner  and  verie  defirous  that  one  Rofite  Pollard  a  gentleman  who  as  I  am  enl'ormed 
hathe  ferved   in   Ireland  and  well  commended  to   be   preferred  to  the  fame  f'eivice,  I  therefore  j)raye  yo" 


Lambetli  Library  MS.  615,  fol.  402,  "  Ibid.,  fol.  478 


Fa})iUy  of  Sal(lt?i.  301 

to  have  conridLTacon  of  liiin  who  ii  jiartly  alliaiuiccJ  unto  nie  his  iiuitliur  being  a  l-'ortdcue,  And 
what  yo  fliall  do  tor  him  I  will  take  to  be  donnc  for  my  fake,  and  lb  commcndi]i|;c  them  and  theire 
luitc  to  yo'  good  favour,  I  leavinge  yo"  to  the  tuition  of  tlie  Almightie.  Wardrobb  this  x"'  of  Male 
1602. 

Your  allured  loving  frcnde, 

J.     FoRlESCUE. 

Addrejfcil : — "To  my  honorable  good  frend  S''.  George 
Carewe  Knight,  Lo.  Prcfident  of  the 
province  of  Alunflcr  in  the  realme  of 
Ireland.      DD." 

Endorfcd : — "From  S'.  Jhon  Fortefcue  Chancellor  of 
the  Exchequer  the  lo'"  of  May,  1602. 
Received  the  10"'  of  Sept.  1602." 

F. 

Books  given  by  Sir  Jo/in  Fortefcue  to  the  Bodleian  Library} 

Dcnum  Johciruiii  Fortcjcue  Alilitis,  Reg.  Ma",  a  Confiliis.,  A.D.   1601. 

Choniatae  Thefaurns  orthodoxx-  lidei.      Gr;e.  fo.     MS. 

Chryfoftonii  Homilis;  in  introitum  Ouadrageiimie.     Gra;.  fo.      MS. 

Bafilius  in  Ifaiam.     Gr.-e.  fol.     MS. 

Manuelis  Pliili  liber  de  Proprietatib.  animalium.     Grx.  4.     MS. 

Jo,  Comatirus  de  Altrorum  conflitutione.      Gr.-e.  4.     MS.  <"  1 

Euripidis 'Frago-'dix  aliquot  cum  Comment.      Cir;e.  4.     MS. 

Clemens  Alexandrinus.      Cjr.e.  to.      Hor.  1550. 

Nazianzenus.     GrE.  fo.    Bas.  1550. 

Dionyfius  Flalicarnafs.     Gr;e.  fo.      Par.  1546. 

Dion  CalBus.     Grce.  fo.     Par.  154^- 

Novum  Teftamentum.      Gr;e.  fo.  1550.     Steph.  , 

Epiflolae  Bafilii  Magni,  Libanii,  Chionis,  et  alioium.     Grs.  4.     Aldus.  1599. 

Rhetores  Gntci.     4.  Aid. 

Ariftotelis  Opera  Gr.t.  cum.  Theophrallo  Grae.     6  vol.  fo.      Aid. 

Platonis  Opera.     Grae.  fo.     Aid. 

Ariftophanes  cum  conunent.     Gr;e.  fo.      Aid. 

Biblia  Hebr.  cum  Tharghum  et  Rabin.  Com.      4  vol.  3  edit.  fo.      Ven. 

Pentateuch.      Heb.  MS.  cum  interlmeari  tranfl.     Lat.  fo. 

Plalmi  Hebr.  MS.  in  16. 

Ezechiel  Heb.  MS.  cum  interpret,  interlinear!  et  marginali  Latina.      4. 

Biblia  Heb.     4.  Steph.  6  vol. 


'   From  Lift  of  Bentfaftors  to  Rodleian  Lib.,  vol  i.  fol.  23. 


30  2  Family  of  Salden. 


Biblia  excus.  in  pergameno  vulg.  FJit,  fo.      Stepli. 

Cliryfoftomus  in  Matthrt-iim  Je  Opcre  impcrtccto.     Lat.  fo.  MS. 

Ffaltcriiim  Nchicnfis.      Hcbr.  fo. 

Dionylii  Caithuliaiii   EpilL  ct  Evangclioruni  Duininicalium   Enarrationcs  cum  Homiiiis  (]uiburdaiii. 

Eo,     Par,  1544. 
Thaulcri  Conciones  L-t  Opera  omnia.     Fo.    Col.  1548. 
Blondi  H]ftnri;t'.      Fo.      Bas.  1531. 
Ouintus  Curtius.     4.  MS. 

Arias  Alontanus  in  12.  Prophet.     Eo.      Ant.  1571. 
Thelaiirus  lingu:e  Lat.      Stcph,  3  vol.  fo.   I  543. 

/Ene;e  Sylvii  Opera  omnia.      Eo.      Ikis.  .  : 

Tho.  a  Canipis  vel  Malleoli  Opera.      8.      Ant.  1574. 
Suetonius  cum  La-viiii  Torrentii  Comment.      4.     Ant.  1591.  ' 

G. 

Sir  John  Fortejcue  of  S  allien  pojfcjfed  the  following  Manors  and  E/Inta  .■'  — 

The  Manor  of  Grandborougb,  in  Afliendon  Hundred,  granted  to  him  by  Oueen  Elizabeth  for  a 
confideration  in  1598.  Sold  by  his  fon,  Sir  Francis  Fortefcue,  in  1619,  to  George  Villiers,  Dulce  jf 
Buckingham. 

Drayton  Parflow  or  Paflelewe,  in  Cotteflow  Hundred,  bought  by  Sir  John  Fortefcue  in  1562. 

Little  Horlow,  in  Cotteflow  Ilundred,  bought  by  Sir  John  Eortelcue  in  1599;  lold  by  his  fon  'in 
1619  to  the  Duke  of  Buckingham. 

Window,  with  Sliipton,  in  Cotteflow  Hundred,  bought  by  Sir  John  Fortefci'e  in  159-9  '  "■ 
2329/.  "]$.  and  \tl.     Sold  by  his  fon  in  1619  to  the  Duke  of  Buckingham. 

Salden,  in  Cotteflow  Hundred,  bought  by  Sir  John  Fortefcue  before  1580. 

Stewkley  or  Woburn-Abbey  Manor,  in  Cotteflow  Hundred,  bought  by  Sir  John  Fortefcue.  1 

Tickford  Abbey  Manor,  Newport  Hundred.  Sold  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue  by  the  Crown  upon  the 
attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Efllx,  who  had  it  before.  \ 

Shenley,  in  Newport  Hundred.  Sir  John  Fortefcue  obtained  Shenley  through  his  firfl  wife.  Cicely, 
daughter  of  Sir  Edmund  Alhheld.  It  remained  with  his  poderity  until  fold,  in  the  lall  century,  by  the 
Whorwood  family. 

The  Redories  of  Swanbouriie,  Whitchurch,  and  Winflow,  were  granted  to  Sir  John  P'ortefcue  in 
the  24th  of  Elizabeth. 

H. 

Renubrancci  for  S'.  fo.  Fortejcu.'' 

1.  None   but  in    the  j  i.   What  fees  are  due  for  his  hand  at  any  time,  faving  y'  20  lib  following, 

fruits  oHice.     NJs.  2.   What  for  the  feale. 

2.  As  in  my  lormer  note. 


'  Taken  from  Lipfcomb's  Bucks.  ■'■   Biit.  Mus.  Lanld.  MS.  168,  fol.   177. 


Family  of  S aide? i. 


303 


3.  ConfVlU'd  liy  Sum- 
ton. 

4.  20  lib.  oiiLly. 

5.  No  warrfit  Cor  200 
lib.  &  thf rcfor  reanrwercd 
by  S'".  Walter  Mildin.iy. 

6.  All  y''  (lar  diab'.  the 
Trcforj'  chabtr.  iv:  a 
cb.iber  in  the  Kxchcii'.  A: 
Vinytr.  howle. 

7.  None  but  as  a  Co- 
miirioiier. 

8.  All  and  ablblute. 

9.  By  war.  to  trCr  Si. 
chamberlain  &  the  \iider 
trefbrer  vnderftood  under 
the  word  'Irer. 

10.  Vea,  by  cudome 
&  conioii  lawe,  under 
black  booke  tor  cleric' 
tlielaurarii. 

1  1.   Ablblute. 

12.  No. 

1 3.  them  and  befides 
the  butler  and  cook  ol' 
llar-ehambcr. 


14.  Equall  w''  the  1. 
Trer  tor  iiunilVhin^  things 
amille  ^:  lor  ex.iiniuing. 

1  5.   None. 

lb.  Weekely. 

17.   Eciuall  to  y"  1.  Trer. 

30  or  40  lib. 

Nothing. 

2200'.  1400'  60'  40' 
each. 

Once  a  yere,  .lie  that  in 
March. 

To  overfee  tiieire 
doinges  i:  commaund 
copies.  The  l.I  ha\e,the 
2  liee  hath  not. 


3.  Whether  20  lib  for  parting  the  cuihjmcrs  declaration  at  Chrillmas  out 
ot  I\I'.  Faiilhawes  ofHce. 

4.  Whether  not  30  litj  or  what  part  thereof  (20  \\l>)  for  the  halfe  yeres 
declaration  of  revenewe  in  M'.  Skinners  Office. 

5.  Whether  not  200  lib  for  atteiidfice  i5c  40  lil)  lor  diet  extraordinary, 
t).  What  howfes,  romes  or  chambers  for  his  eale, 

7.  What  Intereft  in  the  .jiulall,  viewe,  difpofing  or  keapinge  of  the 
lublidy  bookes. 

8.  \Vhat  authority  in  the  iiruenge  of  the  Kings  moneye  ;  or  over  the  4 
tellers  in  affigning  p. laments  to  t*^  fro  any  of  them. 

9.  By  what  warrant  the  undertrer  iirueth  that  money,  i.V  to  who  diredted. 

10.  Whether  a  warrant  direifled  to  the  L.  Tril'r  &  the  2  Chamberlains  bee 
a  fufficient  warrant  to  the  viidertrer  to  joyne  in  warrant  w"'  the  L.  Tn'r  for 
ifl'uing  the  K*.  money. 

11.  What  authority  the  Chancelor  or  Undertrer  hath  to  enforce  any  by 
imprifonment  to  pay  a  liquide  debt  to  the  Kingc,  iS;  whether  by  his  nieirenger 
to  arreft  thr. 

12.  Whether  the  Barons  may  copound  for  or  inftall  any  debt  w'hout  the  1. 
Trer  or  the  Chancelor  or  undertrer. 

13.  What  offices  the  Chancelor  or  undertrer  may  beftowe  befides  the 
clerk  controller  of  the  Pipe  the  clerk  of  the  plees,  the  clerk  of  the  iiichels,  the 
feller,  the  underfteward  of  y°  Star  chamb'^  &  the  2  prailers  of  the  culfom  howfe 
&  2  purfuivants. 

14.  What  peculiar  or  joyiit  authority  w"'  the  L.  Trer  hath  the  chancelor  or 
undertrer  in  the  cuilome  howfe  over  the  t_)ffices  there,  or  in  thole  caules.         ; 

15.  What  place  or  diet  allowed  in  Court  for  the  Chanceler  or  undertrer,  Si 
where. 

16.  What  attendance  required  there  of  hin),  whether  weekely  w"'  the 
weekely  certificate. 

1 7.  What  authority  hath  hee  to  meddle  in  mint  bufines,  or  w"'  mint 
officers. 

18.  What  confideration  coiTionly  taken  for  a  Stewardfhip,  a  b.iiliwick,  a 
furveyorlhip,  a  woodwardfhip  graunted  by  himlelfe  to  a  fhanger  or  frend. 

19.  What  for  putting  his  hand  to  that  graunted  by  an  other. 

20.  What  the  Clerk  of  the  plea  office  is  wourtli  what  the  cotroller  of  the 
pipe,  &i  what  the  iiiihcts,  ^  what  ihe  prtiijers  of  the  cujiome  howfe. 

21.  What  authority  over  the  Auditors,  to  take  theirc  declarations. 

22.  What  over  the  Pipe  Office  &  officers  &  what  defire  the  lone  of  the 
copy  of  the  black  boke,  and  ot  the  red  if  his  Ho.  have  it. 


Endorfed : — "  Remembrances   for    S'.   Jo.    Fortefcue, 
24  Julii  1606." 


304  Family  of  SahUn. 

\. 

Sir  Jihi  Forttj'cut-'i  Patent  as  RccoriLr  of  Cambridge. 

This  Patent  appoints  him  to  the  office  of  Recorder  for  the  teim  of  his  natural  life  in  the  room  of 
Sir  Thomas  Egerton,  Lord  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal,  and  gives  him  a  falary  of  4/.  I2i.  per  annum. 

Sir  Thomas  Egerton  was  eleded  High  Steward  of  the  town  of  Cambridge,  wV,'  Roger,  Lord  North, 
deceafed  I3ec.  29,  1 600,  and  on  the  fame  day  Sir  John  Fortefcue  was  eleiited  Recorder,  vice 
Egerton. 

Francis  Bracl<yn,  Efq.,  was  Deputy  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue,  as  he  had  been  to  his  predeceflors.  Lord 
Hunfdon  and  Sir  Thomas  Egerton. 

From  Cooper's  Annals  of  Cambridge,  ii.  599-600,  and  the  Records  of  the  Corporation  of 
Cambridy-e.  i 


Chap.  XIIL 

The  Forte/cues  of  Saldcn  {continue if). 

i^ST  will  be  remembered  that  Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue  left,  befides  his  eldeft  fon  Johr , 
'^  two  fons,  Thomas  and  Sir  Anthony.  As  both  of  thefe,  as  well  as  two  of  the 
cfcendants  of  the  latter,  are  mentioned  by  contemporary  writers,  I  devote  .1 
fhort  chapter  to  their  memories.  It  is  not  known  that  any  male  reprefcntative  ot  this  branc'i 
is  in  exillence. 

Thomas  b'ortefcue,  Sir  Adrian's  lecond  fon,  was  born,  as  we  have  {ti^iw  from  his  futiier  s 
memorandum,  at  Shirborne,  in  Oxfordlhire,  on  the  13th  ot  May,  1534. 

He  was  a  perfon  of  literary  taftes,  and,  what  was  rare  in  thoie  days,  travelled  on  the 
Continent  of  Europe  for  pleafure  and  information.  Me  publifhed  a  collec'tion  of  efiaysl  on 
various  fuhjefts  tranflated  from  the  French,  in  a  fmall  ^to.  volume  of  black  letter,  itjo  folios. 
The  title  is:  "  The  Forefte  ;  or  Colleclion  of  llirtories,  no  lefs  profitable,  then  pleafant  juid 
neceffarie,  dooen  out  of  brenche  into  F.nglifhe,  by  Thomas  Fortefcue.  Aut  utile,  aut 
jucioidum,  nut  ittritinque.  Imprinted  at  London  by  Jhon  Kyngfton  for  William  lones. 
1571.      And  are  to  be  foulde  at  his  newe  long  flioppe  at  the  Werte  ende  of  Poules." 

A  fecond  edition  was  printed  in   1576  by  "John    Day  dwelling  over  Alder  gate;"  and 
Drake,  in  "  Shakefpeare  and  his  Times,"  '  mentions  a  third  edition,  publifhed  in  1  5y6. 

It  was  licenfed  in  1570.^     The  tranflator  tells  us  in  his  preface  that  the   oook  "was 
written  in  three    fundry   tongues,    in    the   Spanifli   firll   by  Petrus  MefTia,  a  Gentleman  of 


'   Sliakefpeare  and  his  Times,  vol.  i.  p.  543. 

*  Colle(ftanea  Hunltriana,  lirit.  Mas.  Add.  MS.  ;   Collins's  Stationers'  Regifter,  li.  l6. 


Family  of  Sal  den. 


305 


Seville,  and  thence  doon  into  the  Italian,  and  lall:  into  the  French  by  Claudius  Gruget,  late 
Citizen  of  Paris."  Kortefcue  dedicates  his  tranllation  to  Sir  John  i-'ortefcue,  then  John 
P'ortefcue,  Efquire,  "  Maifter  of  the  (^eenes  Majellies  Great  Garderobe."  On  the  back  of 
the  title-page  is  his  own  coat  of  arms,  of  which  a  fac-fimile  is  given  in  the  following  woodcut, 

at  tirtute  orta  orciDiitit  rariusj. 


il)acc  titii  pfima,  Ijacc  atuiiiiia  fiinr,  non  alia  pono. 


the  crefcent  for  difference  marking  the  fecond  fon.  The  fubjeds  of  the  treatifes  are  moft 
various,  and  fome  of  them  very  curious.  The  book  is  fomewhat  rare,  and,  when  found 
with  uncropped  margins,  has  fold   for  from  4/.  to  5/.  151. 

He  fat  in  Parliament  for  feveral  years  in  the  latter  part  of  his  life,'  being  chofen  member 
for  Wallingford  in  the  Parliaments  of  the  35th,  39th,  and  43rd  years  of  Elizabeth.'      He 


Willis's  Not.  Pari. 


His  name  a|)|Hars  in  D'Ewos'  Parliaments  ot' Kli/abetli,  page  639. 
R    R 


3o6  Fa //lily  of  Sahlc/i. 

was  prefcnt  at  the  funeral  of  his  brother,  Sir  John,  in  [607.  He  held  the  office  of  Deputy 
in  the  Office  of  Alienations  for  twenty  years,  under  Cecil,  Marquis  of  Salilbury,  and  others; 
and  in  February,  1611,  a  tew  months  before  his  death,  he  petitions  James  I.  for  leave  to 
"  nominate  a  perfon  in  his  place."'  lie  lived  at  Donnington,  near  Newbury,  in  Bcrklliire, 
and  is  found  by  an  Inquifition  Poft  Mortem,  taken  at  Guildhall,  to  have  had  a  nielTuage  in 
St.  Dunftan's,  F'leet  Street,  and  lands  in  Donnington  and  Newbury. 

He  died  on  lialler-eve,  161  i,  unmarried,  aged  feventy-feven  years.  By  his  will,  dated 
lOth  of  May,  1608,  he  leaves  his  "  fundry  lands  in  Berks"  to  his  nephew,  Sir  William 
Kortefcue,  fecond  fon  of  his  brother,  Sir  John.  The  executors  are  his  nephews,  Sir  Francis 
and  Sir  W'llliam  h'ortefcue.  He  defires  to  be  buried  in  the  chancel  ot  the  church 
of  W'elford,  near  Donnington,  where  he  had  erefted  a  very  handlbme  monunent  to  his 
mother,  already  figured  in  this  volume.^' 

By  entries  in  the  Originalia  Rolls,  Thomas  Fortefcue  was  found  polTen'ed,  in  the  i.'ith 
of  Elizabeth,  ot  the  advowfon  of  the  Church  of  Hodnett,  in  Salop,  and,  with  his  brotl.er- 
in-law.  Sir  Thomas  Bromley,  of  the  Manor  of  Betton,  in  that  county.  He  alfo  had  thi 
Manor  ot  Charlton,  in  Kent,  two  miles  from  Greenwich.  "  Qiieen  Elizabeth,  in  1573 
granted  a  Icafe  of  this  manor  to  Anne,  Lady  Parry,  who  left  it  to  Thomas  h'ortefcue." '' 

On  the  2Sth  of  June,  1561,  the  Oueen  grants  to  Thomas  h'ortefcue  the  cuftjd\ 
(i.e.  wardlliip)  of  Anne  Thuringe  and  Urfule  Thuringe.'' 

I 

Sir  Anthony  Fortescue.  ,  ,  ■      ' 

Anthony,  third  and  yomigeft  fon  of  Sir  Adrian  Fortelcue,  was  born  between  the  years 
1535  and  1539;  he  was  educated  at  Winchefter  School,  where  he  is  named  among 
the  fcholars  who  wrote  verles  in  honour  of  Edward  VI.  upon  the  yoimg  King's  v'i(it 
there.  They  have  been  preferved  with  the  rert  of  the  poetry  of  the  occafion,  and  arei  as 
follows  : — 

Carmen  in  hunoreni  Rdw'''.  VI.^ 

Gratulor  adventum  tibi  Rex  poflum  nihil  ultra 

Materia  vires  exfuperante  meas.  I 

Non  igitur  longis  verborum  ambagibus  utar,  , 

Hoc  tantuni  poflum  dicere  gratus  ades.  :  . 

Antonius  Fortescuu;,. 


'   Calendar  of  State  Papers,  Green,  161  1-1  618.  '^  See  tlie  Will  ot' Thomas  Fortefcue  in  the  Apjiendix. 

^  Ljibiis'  En\irons  of  London,  iv.  p.  32O.  '  I'.jt.  Uolls,  lilizaljelh. 

'■  Catalogues  Cod.  MS.  Oxford,  by  Coxe,  1852,  New  College. 


Faiiiih  of  Said  en. 


3°7 


His  tutor  at  VViiichefter  was  one  Mr.  Ford,  who  afterwards,  in  Mary's  reign,  was  by  his 
means  appointed  to  the  living  of  Newbury,  in  Berks,  although  much  inclined  to  f;;.vour  the 
doftrines  of  the  Reformation,  "  whereas  Fortefcue  was  rather  his  fcholar  in  humanity  than 
his  follower  in  religion."  ' 

lie  married,  about  the  year  1558,  Katherine,  daughter  of  Sir  Geoffrey  Pole  of 
Lordington,  fecond  fon,  by  Sir  Richard  Pole,  of  Margaret  Plantagcnet,  Countefs  of 
Salifbury,  daugliter  of  George,  Duke  of  Clarence,  and  finally  hcirefs  of  the  Plantagenets. 
He  was  made  comptroller  of  the  houfehold  to  his  wife's  uncle,  Cardinal  Reginald 
Pole,^  and  was  in  much  favour  during  the  reign  of  Qiieen  Mary,  by  whom  he  was 
knighted.^ 

Upon  the  accefTion  of  Elizabeth,  however,  and  the  confequent  ruin  of  the  hopes  of  tl  e 
Pope's  adherents,  he  was  much  difpleafed,  and  was  fo  foolifli  as  to  prae'tife  with  conjurers  fo 
find  out  how  long  the  Queen  fhould  live ;  for  which  he  was  committed  to  prifon  ;  and  tor 
this  and  other  indifcretions  orders  were  given  to  Bonner,  Bifhop  of  London,  to  profecute 
Fortefcue,  and  thofe  concerned  with  him,  in  the  Ecclefiallical  Court,  Not  warned  by  this 
danger,  however,  he  foon  after  joined  with  the  Poles  in  the  confpiracy  againft  Elizabeth. 
"  In  I  56 1,"  fays  Rapin,  "  the  Queen  difcovered  that  Arthur  Pole  and  his  brother  Edward, 
with  Sir  Anthony  Fortefcue,  who  had  married  their  filler,  began  to  form  a  party  in  the 
kingdom.  Upon  this  intelligence  they  were  fent  to  prifon  on  a  charge  of  a  great  and 
dangerous  confpiracy  which  had  been  difcovered  in  Odober,  but  was  refolved  not  to  he 
meddled  with  until  Parliament  fat."  ' 

The  details  of  the  plot  are  given  in  the  Bill  of  IndiLHment,^  in  which  were  included, 
befides  the  two  Poles  and  Anthony  Fortefcue,  three  fubordinates,  namely,  John  l-'reftall, 
Humfrey  Barwycke,  and  E,dwarde  Cofyn,  with  one  more,  whofe  name  is  not  given.  They 
are  charged  as  falfe  traitors  and  rebels,  with  compafiing  not  only  to  depofe  the  Queen,  but 
alfo  her  death  and  defirudion,  and  to  fet  up  the  Scottiili  (^ueen  Mary  as  Oueen  of 
the  realm. 

Their  plans  were  to  go  into  Flanders,  and  there  to  prt)claim  Arthur  Pole  to  be  l^uke 
of  Clarence  ;  thence  to  pafs  into  F>ance,  and  to  treat  with  the  Duke  of  Guife  for  marriage 
between  the  Oueen  of  Scots  and  Edmund  Pole  (Arthur  being  already  married) ;  and  for  a 
force  of  5000  men  to  land  in  Wales,  and  proclaim  Mary  as  Queen. 

They  were  to  folicit  through  Goldewell,  Bifiiop  of  St.  Afaph,  then  at  Rome,  the  help  of 
the  Pope,  promifing  in  return  to  refiore  his  religion  in  England. 

It  is  found   in   the  indidment,  "  that  l^rellall  and  Cofyn   did  invocate  a  wicked  fpryti , 


'  Strype's  Memorials,  Mary,  vol.  iii.  part  i.  p.  277. 

■■  Biogrupliiu  Brit.,  iii.  p.  2003. 

•  Strjpt,  Annals  of  Elizabeth,  vol.  i.  part  i.  p.  555. 


Strvpc'b  Annals,  vol.  i.  part  i.  p.  10. 

K.ipin,  vol.  ii.  book  I  7. 


3o8  Family  of  S aide?!. 

;ind  demanded  of  him  the  hert  way  to  bring  all  their  treafons  to  pafs ;  that  Anthony  Fortefcue 
did  open  unto  the  I'Vench  and  Spanifh  ambafladors  the  faid  traitorous  devices  by  the  confent 
of  Arthur  Pole,  requeuing  them  to  hand  letters  to  the  French  king  and  the  Duke  of  Guife," 
praying  tor  their  aid. 

"  That  the  faid  Anthony  Fortefcue  did  hire  a  boat  to  be  brought  unto  St.  Olave's  Stairs 
nigh  unto  London  Bridge,  to  convey  the  fame  Anthony  Fortefcue,  Arthur  Pole,  and  the 
other  confpirators  to  a  I'lcmifli  hoye  being  upon  the  river  I'hames  fix  miles  beyond 
Gravefend,  to  the  intent  to  tranfport  them  into  Flanders,  and  that  they  laid  into  the  faid 
boat  divers  armures,  and  certain  munition  for  war,  and  fums  of  money,  and  other  things 
necefTarv  for  their  laid  journey  ;  and  alfo  remained  in  a  certain  inn  called  the  Dolphyn  tor 
opportiuiity  to  be  conveyed  to  the  faid  hoy." 

Strype  fays  that  the  plot  was  fomented  and  managed  by  the  French  and  Spaiiifh 
ambaffadors  ;  and  Cecil  afferted  at  the  time  that  De  Quadra,  the  reprefentative  of  Spain, 
had  encouraged  Pole  and  Fortefcue  ;  to  which  the  ambaffador  replied,  "  that  he  had  nothing 
to  do  with  them  or  their  follies."' 

A  good  contemporary  account  of  the  tranfacftion  is  contained  in  fome  correfpondenc; 
puhlifhed  in  Wright's  "  Qiieen  Elizabeth  and  her  Times."  Sir  William  Cecil  writes  tc  Sir 
Thomas  Smith,  January  14,  1562: — 

"  The  Pooles  and  Fortefcugh  fhall  be  arayned  this  terme ;"  and  again,  on  the  27th  of 
the  next  month  (February)  :  "  Yefterday  wer  condemned  two  Pooles,  Fortefcugh  ;  om- 
Spencer,  and  Ryngham,  fervants  to  the  Lord  Haftings  of  Loughborovv,  and  one  Barwyk. 
Fortefcugh  confefled  all,  and  fo  was  attainted."'^ 

On  the  fame  day,  Sir  John  Mafon  writes  to  Sir  Thomas  Challoner  (at  that  time  am- 
baffador  in  Spain),  "  Yeflerdaye  the  elder  of  the  Poolls  and  the  fecond  fon,  with  Anthony 
I'ortefkewe,  and  four  others  were  arrained  at  [  Weftminfter]  Hall,  and  were  there  char[.ed 
that  they  meant  to  go  into  hVance,  and  to  ufe  the  aid  of  the  Duke  of  Guife  for  the  makiing 
levy  of  fix  thoufand  men,  to  carry  the  fame  in  May  next  coming  into  Wales ;  and  then 
proclaiming  the  Scottifh  Queene,  Qiieen  of  England,  anil  Arthur  Pole,  Duke  of  Clarenle, 
to  do  their  beft  to  bring  the  Scottifh  Queen  to  the  Crown  ;  of  which  matter  they  were 
openly  convi(^ted." 

Their  only  defence  was  that  they  meant  to  attempt  nothing  in  the  Qiieen's  litetime, 
who  by  conjuration  they  had  found  fhould  not  live  palling  "  the  next  fpring."  The  rell  of 
the  matter  was  not  denied  ;   and  h'ortefkewe  confefled  the  whole  without  trial. 

Elizabeth,  with  much  clemency,  fpared  their  lives,  moved  in  l<"ortefcue's  cafe  to  this  lenient 
courfe  by  her  efteem  for  his  brother.  Sir  John,^  who  interceded  in  his  behalf;  but  kept  them 


'   Froude's  England,  \ol.  vii.  p.  427.  ''  Wright's  Eli/iilicth,  vol.  i.  |)p.   127,  129. 

'  Biog.  Brit.,  iii.  2002. 


Family  of  Salden.  309 

prifoners  in  the  Tower,  where  the  two  Poles  remained  until   their  deaths.      Fortefcue,  after 
fome  confiderable  time,  we  do  not  know  how  long,  was  releafed. 

In  the  year  1796,'  when  fome  alterations  were  being  made  in  Beaucham]i's  Tower,  the 
following  traces  of  thefe  unhappy  prifoners  were  found  fcratched  on  the  walls  of  the  room, 
apparently  with  a  fharp  piece  of  iron  : — 


I.   H.  S. 

A  paflkge  perillus  makethe  a  Port  pleafaunt. 

A"  1568.      Arthur  Poole  IE.  fua;   ]-j. 


In  another  place  : —  i 

Deo  fervire 
Penetentiam  inire 
Fatoque  obedire 
Regnare  eft. 

A  Poole.     I  564. 

I.  H.  S. 

Alfo  by  Edmund  Poole,  thus  : —  ; 

/F.  11.     E.  Poole  1562.  ,  I 

EL.  ■!-].     E.  P.     A".  1568.  \ 

In  the  regifter  the  Tower  Chapel,  from  1565  to  1578,  is  found:  — 
M^  Arthur  Poole  buried  in  the  Chappel. 
M'.  Arthur  Poole's  brother  buried  in  the  Chappel. 

Thefe  are  melancholy  records  of  years  of  mifery. 

I  find  little  more  to  narrate  of  Sir  Anthony;  he  was  alive  in  the  year  161 1,  when  his 
brother  Thomas  died,  being  mentioned  in  the  will  of  the  latter,  dated  May  10,  1608,  in 
thefe  words: — "  Item  my  wille  and  myndc  is  all  fuch  plate,  houfehold  ftufFc,  and  bookes  as 
are  belonginge  unto  Anthony  Fortefcue  my  brother,  be  fafely  kept  and  delivered  to  the  ufe 
of  my  faid  brother."'^ 


'   Archapolo^a,  vol.  xiii.  p.  74. 

^  Will  in  Dofloib'  Commons,  proved  June  2,  ibl  1 .      Sec  the  Ap|)endi.x. 


3 1  o  Fauiily  oj  Said  en. 

Although  this  language  would  apply  to  Sir  Anthony,  if  he  were  from  any  caiife  in  a 
foreign  country,  it  rather  favours  tlie  luppofition  that  he  was  exiled  from  I'.ngland  for 
his  life. 

Mis  children'  were  YVnthony,  married  to  a  daughter  of  —  C)vertt)n,  brother  to  the  then 
Bifliop  of  Coventry  ;  John,  marrietl  to  Ellen,  daughter  of  Ralph  Menflow,  of  liarrald,  in 
Hampfhire ;   and  George,  of  whofe  marriage  no  mention  is  made. 


Anthony   Fortescue,   Resident  for   the   Duke  of  Lorraine. 

The  only  ilTue  of  the  aforefaid  Anthony  known  to  us,  is  a  fon,  aifo  Antlony,  who,  in 
the  reign  of  Charles  I.,  was  appointed  by  Charles,  Duke  of  Lorraine,  his  Refident  at  the 
Lnglifh  Court,  lie  arted  in  that  capacity  for  feveral  years,  until  1^44,  when  we  finil  him 
receiving  an  order  from  the  Houle  of  Commons,  requiring  him  to  cjuit  the  kingdom  withi  1 
ten  days;  and  one  from  the  Moufe  of  Peers,  defiring  him  "to  depart  out  of  tlie  Parlia- 
ment's quarters"  within  the  fame  period.  He  protelled  againft  thefe  orders  as  too  iui  de  1 
and  fevere  "  to  be  lent  unto  me  the  public  minifter  of  a  foreign  Prince,"  but  without  11  uc  1 
effect;  for  his  goods  and  papers  were  feized  by  the  order  of  the  Houfe  of  Commons,  an  i 
his  fecretary  (and  coufin),  George  Fortefcue,  was  imprifoned  for  fi.xteen  weeks. 

On  the  1 6th  of  October,  1644,  ^''^s  Commons  ordered  his  goods  and  papers  to  be 
reltored,  and  George  Fortefcue  to  be  releafed  ;  the  Refident  to  quit  the  kingdom  in  tw;nt/ 
days. 

The  caufe  alleged  in  the  orders  for  this  feverity  was  the  inconvenience  of  an  Engliflima  1 
adting  tor  a  foreign  prince  ;  but  as  he  had  been  allowed  to  remain  tor  many  years,  we  nnift 
ailign  as  the  real  reaion  the  diipofition  of  the  Duke  of  Lorraine  to  favour  the  King's  cajufe 
againft  that  ot  the  Parliament ;  knowing  that  a  few  years  later  he  was  found  to  be  in  treaty 
with  Qiieen  Henrietta  to  fave  Charles,  her  hufliand's,  life.  ' 

Anthony  I'^ortefcue  was  alive  in  1659,  ^^'i^'i^  his  coulin  George,  before  named,  made  his 
will,  in  which  his  name  is  mentioned. 

As  the  papers  and  letters  relating  to  the  difmiflal  of  tlie  Lorraine  Refident  have  ne/er, 
fo  far  as  I  am  aware,  been  printcti,  they  are  given  here. 


HcUigree  in  Ibrl.  MSS.  5871  ;   and  a  Pedigree  belonging  to  Eail  I''ortercue. 


Family  of  Sahlen.  311 


Pnpers  relating  to  AntJwny  Fortefcue  Kefuknt  for  the  Duke  of  Lorraine} 
Die  Ah  y  cur  1 1   16"  Oda:    1 64+. 

It  is  this  day  ordered  by  the  Coniinons  Moide  of  P.irli.unent,  that  M'.  Aiuhony  l*\>rtclbue  lliall  have 
the  Goods  and  papers  rcftored  unto  him,  that  hath  beeiie  taken  from  him,  by  any  Comittee,  or  any 
Authorized  by  any  Comittee,  and  that  George  Fortcl'cue  his  fcrvant  bee  dilcharged  from  reffrainte  & 
rc'itorcd  unto  him  ;  And  hee  is  hereby  enjoyneii  to  tjuitt,  the  Ivingdomc,  within  thefe  20  dayes  att 
furtbeil. 

That  the  Duke  of  Lorraine  having  ihevvcd  all  frendfltip  Noblenes  &  Curtefic  to  the  Englifh  nation 
hath  written  twice  feverally  to  either  Houl'e  touching  Antliony  Fortefcue  Kfc]uirj  liis  refident  here  and 
that  theire  Lo'''".  thuike  it  moit  Juil  ..S;  realonable  to  returne  liis  llii;hne!,  an  aniwere  to  which  end 
they  have  p'p.ired  the  lame  according  to  that  which  tliey  conceive  to  have  beene  the  lence  ot  both  houles 
formerly.  ' 

That  befidcs  thofe  civihties  ever  exprelled  by  the  Parliament  of  England  and  the  Nation  alloc  to 
forraigne  Princes,  which  requires  them  to  fend  an  aniwere  to  the  laid  two  Severall  ivctters  lent  to 
them  from  this  Prince,  there  is  likewife  now  falen  out  an  neceflity  of  writing  to  him  in  refpedt  that 
the  faid  M''.  Fortefcue  dares  not  returne  over  to  the  laid  duke  till  he  recall  him,  and  though  he  hath 
written  to  his  faid  Mafter  for  his  leave  to  returne  unto  him,  yet  he  hath  comanded  him  to  continue 
here  till  he  may  receive  an  aniwere  of  his  former  Letters  lent  to  the  Two  houfes  ot  Parliament,  and 
thereby  underftand  that  it  is  theire  delire  that  he  Ihould  recall  backe  the  laid  AI'.  Fortelcue. 

That  the  faid  Duke  of  Lorraine  lent  over  hither  with  his  hrit  Letters,  one  Mounfieur  Talart  a 
gentleman  of  Lorraine  who  hath  ftaied  here  necre  upon  fix  moenths  expefting  an  aniwere,  tor  which 
he  doth  now  earneftly  preffe  being  to  rctarne  to  the  faid  Prince  his  Soveraigne  Lord  &  Maiter. 

Their  Lo'".  defire  therefore  i.,,  that  the  houfe  of  Comm-ns  would  concurre  with  them  in  fendiir^ 
this  Letter  in  aniwere  to  both  the  duke  of  Lorraines  and  that  the  lame  may  be  fubfcribed  or  ligned 
by  the  Speaker  pro  temp'.rc  of  the  lloule  of  Peeres,  anil  the  Speaker  of  the  Houfe  of  Commons,  And 
that  the  goods  that  have  been  taken  fiom  the  faiJ  M'.  Fortefcue  may  at  L.lf  be  rellorcd  to  him 
according  to  the  orders  of  both  houfes  of  Parliament  long  fince  made. 

My  Lord, 

I  receaved  two  Icverall  Orders,  from  the  Hono"'^  Houfes  of  Parlament,  full  from  the 
houfe  of  Coiaons  an  Order  was  brought  mce  by  a  Sarjant  at  amies  to  depart  the  Realme  within  ten 
dayes,  the  next  day  I  receaved  from  the  Houfe  of  Pecrcs  an  other  to  departe  out  of  the  Parlam'". 
quarters,  within  ten  dayes,  both  Orders,  as  I  conceave,  too  feverc  to  bee  lent  vnto  mee,  a  publiquc 
Miiuller  of  a  forrayne  Prince,  whofc  fcrvant  can  no  way  difpufe  i>f  him  felfe,  or  leave  the  ihiiion  where 
his  Mafter  comanded  him  to  fland  ;  ^'et  fmce  thcfe  Orders  proceeded  from  a  Power  unrefiffable  by 
mee  (otherwife  then  by  my  will)  I  chole  rather  of  the  two  to  embrace  the  Banifliment  where  1  fliould 
tind  protection  of  a  gracious  Alafter,  then  to  cafl  myfelfe  into  Inch  partes  of  the  Realme  where  \ 
can  have  no  fubfiftance;  And  fince  1  can  not  polhbly  goe  into  thofe  partes  without  pcrifhing,  nor 
out  of  the  Realme  (with  any  concurrance  of  myne)  ^'et  if  the  bono'"".  houlL^   iniift  upon  by  Banifli- 


From  Harl.  MS.  160,  Brit.  Mus. 


3  1  2  Fa/fiiiy  of  Said  en. 

ment,  '(which  is  a  thing  unhard  of)  my  humble  rci[ucft  is  that  I  may  have  my  goods  reftored  mec, 
and  that  I  may  bee  foe  lent  out  as  I  may  not  falle  into  tlie  handc-s  of  my  Mailers  Eiiemycs  w'''  now 
ly  upon  the  Scaes,  and  as  I  heare,  expcft  mee. 

But  if  the  relolution  of  the  F^o[)o''''^^.  houfcs  bee  altered  (as  I  hope  it  is)  and  that  I  fliall  bee  per- 
mitted to  ffay,  my  retjueft  is  (and  this  I  aike  in  my  Alalters  name)  that  lome  pubhque  adte  may  paire 
from  both  houfes  whereby  the  fcandail  of  my  Banifliment  (I'oe  much  divulged)  may  be  taken  away, 
and  I  remayne  heere  in  fecurity  from  fuch  affronts  as  have  bin  formerly  offered  mee.  And  thus 
expeiSfing  the  refblve  of  the  Hono'"''-'.  houfes  to  this  jufl  demand  of  myne,  I  reft 

Your  Lordfhipps 

Moft  humble  Servant, 

Ant:   Fortescue, 
Refident  for  his  Highenelle  of  J  orraine. 
i 
Anthony  Fortcjcue  to  Sir  Simons  D' Eiucs.^ 
and    if  with  in  the  fpace  allowed  by  the  fayd  tearme  given  mee,  I  fliall  not  heere  from   the   ....    then   1 
will  depart  into  the  King's  quarters  that  my  Hay  heere  may  not  give  the   Farlament  any  farther  diftaft. 
The  capitall  exception  againft  mee,  as    I    underffand,  is  that    I    am    an    Englifli    man,  if  a  forray  le 
Prince  fhall  grace  our  Nation   in  preferring   it    before    his    owne  fliall   it  bee  maligned  by    my   ow  le 
Country  .^      A  hard  cal'e  and  much  to  the  difhonour  of  the  Englifti   Nation,  and   I   hope  in  that  hi  ;h 
Councell  of  Farlament  that  argument  fliall  clayme  noe  force. 

W'ithall  1  humbly  rec]uell:  them  that  the  loflcs  and  charges  I  have  bin  at,  both  by  my  two  fervants 
imprilonment,  the  one  remayning  in  prifon  l6  weekes  the  other  brought  moll  wrongfully  to  the 
publicjue  dilgrace  to  hold  up  his  hand  at  the  barr,  may  be  repayed  unto  mee,  of  which  Juftice  1  very 
much  confide.  And  I  fhall  in  the  pfecution  of  your  noble  refpeftes  towards  his  Highnefl'e  my  mafter 
bee  ever  moft  ambitious  in  the  expreflion  of 

Yo'  moft  humble  &  obliged  fervant, 

Anthony  Fortescue.     , 
To  my  much  Hon'"",  frend  Sir  Symons  Dewes  K.'.  I 

of  the  Hono'''".  howfe  of  Cojnons.  ^  , 

Received  Oiil.  24,  Thurfd'  1644. 

A  frac;ment  of  a  feal  of  red  wax  remains  attacheci,  hearing,  on  a  fhielcl,  a  bend  engraileil, 
between  two  bendlets.  : 

Anthony  Fortej'cue  to  Sir  Simons  D' Eiues.  ' 

Sir,  I 

1  am  in  hope  that  to  morrow  the  Lords  will  fend  the  3"'  time  unto  your  Honorable  I  owfe  for  a 
difpatch  in  my  bufinefTe  bv  their  concurring  w'  the  Order  which  theyr  Lordfhips  have  mad  ■  ;  Thefe 
arc  therfore  earneilly  to  befeech  you  that  you  will  move  in  my  buhnefte  when  it  fhall  come  into  your 
howfe  and  that  you  will  make  the  Hono'''''.  Howfe  as  fenfible  of  the  delay  in  this  point  as  I  perceive  y' 
lelfe  are,  who  I  muft  needes  fay  have  (hewed  mee  more  noble  favours  then  I  can  meritt ;  only  I  muft 
hope  the  Duke  my  Mafter  will  take  fuch  notice  of  your  noble  refped  to  him  in  my  poore  perlbn,  that  for 

'   The  bcpinning  of  this  IcIliT  is  damaged. 


Fa>nily  of  Salde7i.  3 1 3 

your  fake  alone,  hee  will  i'orbcare  to  take  offence  of  the  remiflenelle  of  y'  Hon''''',  howfe  to  doe  his 
Highneile  right  by  reparations  made  unto  my  felfe  jiis  publicke  minifter.  And  I  prefume  m"  patience 
in  not  writing  to  his  Highneile  the  leafl  complaynt  as  yet  will  bee  one  motive  to  the  Huno'''°.  howfe  to 
difpafch  ni)'  biifinefTe  the  fooner,  Elfe  I  mull  of  neceflity  informe  his  Highnefre  what  hath  part,  which 
yet  I  muft  needes  blufh  to  write  beeing  an  Knglifh  man  as  I  am  Sure  your  noble  felfe  hath  done  to  fee  foe 
high  affronts  vnto  Ibe  greate  a  Prince  palle  foe  loiige  unpuniflicd,  aiul  nice  loe  long  negletted  after  y' 
Lords  notice  given  unto  y'  Hono'"''.  howfe  of  thefe  abules,  to  have  my  goods  I'eazed,  my  man  imprifoned, 
and  my  howfe  Itill  guarded.  Whome  j'ct  theyr  honors  have  avowed  to  bee  a  publicke  minirter  to  a 
Soverayne  Prince.  Sir  in  briefe  as  you  are  the  only  that  have  exprelTed  your  deepe  fenfe  heerof  foe  1  muit 
rely  only  upon  you  to  procure  a  difpatch  in  the  bufmefle  as  well  for  the  honor  of  your  howfe,  and  our 
nation  indeed  as  for  refpciEt  vnto  Sir, 

Your  thrife  humble  Servant, 

Anthony  Fortescue, 
Refident  for  his  HighnefTe  the  Duke  of  Lorraine. 
Addrejfed : — "To     his    noble    friend    S^    Simons 
D'ueys    Knight,    a    member    of    the 
Hone''''',  howfe  of  Commons, 
thes  prefent."  i 

y/  Trei  hault  ct  Tres  puijfant  Prince  Charles  par  hi  grace  de  Dictt  Due  de  Lorraine  klSc.      A  Bruxellei. 
Tres  h.\ul  et  tres  puissant  Prince. 

Les  Paires  et  coinuns  du  Parlement  d'Angleterrc  alPambles  a  VVertniinrter  ayans  recu  diverfcs 
lettres  de  vollre  Altefl'e  par  lefquelles  elle  declare  davoir  commis  le  fieur  Anthoine  Fortefcue  fon  Refident 
aupres  fa  ma''',  de  la  grande  Bretaigne  et  quelle  defire  le  dit  fieur  de  Fortefcue  eftre  continue  dans  le  mefrrtc 
Employ  :  les  Paires  et  Communs  nous  ont  commande  de  remercier  in  premier  chef  tres  afteftionement 
voffre  Altefl'e  de  I'honneur  quelle  leur  a  faid  puis  vous  aflurer  quils  feront  tous  prompts  de  conceder  a 
tel  minirtre  publique  quy  fera  Envoie  de  la  part  de  vortre  Altefle  les  mefmes  Libertes  et  privileges  dont 
jouifl'ent  ceux  des  autres  Princes,  pourveu  qui!  iie  (oit  fubjed  de  ce  Royaume  comme  cff  le  fieur  de 
Fortefcue,  lequei  lis  defirent  eftre  Employe  de  voffre  AlteH'e  en  quelque  autre  eiulroicl  Eltant  come 
fubjed  de  fa  Ma'^  incapable  deftre  receu  et  traide  de  Refident  et  ininiftre  publique  d'un  Prince  Effranger, 
Nous  fomes 

De  Voffre  Altefle  Tres  humbles  ferviteurs. 
De  Weftminftre,  ce  I2°.  April  1645. 

Messieurs, 

Ayant  appris  que  vous  defirez  avoir  pour  mon  Refident  en  Angletterre  quelque  qui  ne  foit  du 
d'pays  et  q'un  autre  de  mes  fujets  ou  autre  Nation  que  je  pourrois  cy  apres  y  envoier  vous  feroit  plus 
agreable.  J'ay  bien  voulu  vousdonner  parole  que  Lors  qu'y  envoiray  un  autie  Refulent,  ce  Sera  de  mes 
Sujets  ou  d'autre  Pays  que  d'Angletterre. 

Cependant  Je  vous  prie  de  bien  traiter  Le  S'.  de  P'ortefcu  mon  Refident  en  Angletterre  eftabli  dans 
cett  charge  de  puis  plafjeurs   annees,  le   laiflant  jouir  et   ufer  des  privileges  doubs   a  fa  qualite,  ama 
II.  s    s 


314  .  Fiiniilv  of  Salilc? 


confidcration  etordonnaiu  que  la  Sejiteiicc  donnce  pour  l:i  rclHtution  ilu  ce  iiui  liiy  a  etc  pris,  fuit  iiiifc  en 
execution,  Ceil  ce  que  j'cfpcre  de  vortre  julHcc,  llir  ralluiauce  que  jc  vous  bailie  que  ninii  dit  Refidciit 
nc  f'era  rien  qui  puiflc  vous  prejudicier,  Kt  que  Je  deincure. 

iMellieurs  Voftre  afleirtieinc  a  vous  fervir, 

Ch.  Lorraine. 
Dc  ]5ruxcllcs  le  4'  A-Iay  1645. 

John  Fortcfcue,  Sir  y\iithony's  fecoiid  fun,  had  ilTuc  a  daugliteTj  l^lizaberh,  married, 
about  1600,  to  Sir  John  Beaumont,  ot"  Grace  ])icu,  in  Leicefterfhire,  crcatei.1  a  l)aronet  in 
1626,  and  died,  1628,  leaving  Sir  John,  his  fon  and  heir,  boin  in  1607,  and  anotlier  Ion, 
Sir  Thomas  Beaumont,'  and  three  daughters.  John  h'ortcfcue  lett  alio  one  Ton,  George 
l^'ortefcue,  aii  author  of  fume  refute  in  his  day,  who  wrote  in  Latin  with  nui:h  elegance. 
He  was  educated  at  Rome.  1  lis  principal  work  was  a  fmall  volume  of  I'JTays  on  various 
iubjecHs,  written  in  Latin,  dated  "  Lonilini  Calend.  h'cbr.  m.dc.xxx,"  but  piinted  at  Douay 
in  that  year,  entitled  "  Fcria;  Academic;c." 

His  other  writings  which  have  been  printed  appear  to  be  poetical  ;  one,  which  I  h  ive 
not  leen,  is  entitled,  "  Lhe  Soul's  Pilgrimage  to  Heavenly  Llierulalem,"'"  publilhed  in 
1650,  4to. 

He  wrote,  according  to  the  fafliion  ol  the  time,  Commendatory  vcrfl-s  upon  the  wcrk; 
of  his  friends,  which  are  printed  with  the  \\'orks,  namely,  on  the  l-'oems  of  Sir  John 
Beaumont,  who  was  his  brother-in-law;  on  Sir  'Lhomas  ILiwkins's  "  I'ranllation  of  the  Ode; 
of  Horace,"  1625  ;   on  River's  "  Devout  Rhapfodies,  1648.""' 

He  has  alfo  verfes  in  "The  Tongues  Virtuis,"  a  work  of  which  I  know  nothing. 

The  full  title  of  "  I'eria-  Academics  "  is :  "  Vtv'vx.  Academics.  Auftore  Georgio  de 
b'orti    Scuto    Nobili    Anglo.        DlkicI,    Ex    Oilicina    Marci    Wyon,    fub    figno    J-'hccniciis. 

M. DC. XXX.       -/]   Tiiu   Ji   £71-1   j^;." 

It  is  dedicated  llurciitijjimus  Academhh  Romanis  in  general,  and  efpecially  'to 
Cardinal  Barberini  ;  and  lias  an  eulogy  prefixed  by  Matthew  Kellifon,  laid  to  be  Principal 
of  the  College  at  Douay.  Jt  is  in  one  volume,  1 2mo.  Lhe  work  is  delcribcd  in  lihe 
"Delights  and  iVlonuments  ot  Nathaniel  Bacon."'  'Phis  was  Sir  Nathaniel  Bacon,  Knight 
of  the  Bath,  an  eminent  painter,  whom  Fortcfcue,  in  his  efiay  entitled  "  Delicia;  Baconi 
Brumenfes,"  celebrating  the  gardens  and  paintings  at  Bi-oome,  in  Suffolk,  where  iuicon  lived 
and  painted,  addrelles  as  I\obiliJfiine,  Ingeiiiofijjimc ,  Amicljjime  ISlatluDiiel ;''  and  !))■  whom 
he  is  ftyled  in  return,  Oruatiffnie  Fort^Jcue.  In  "Colleftanea  Hunteriana,"  it  i:  fuggefted 
that  "  it   was   probably  his   Catholic  learning   which  recommended   him   to   Boiton    to   be 


'   Will  of  George  Fortcfcue,  1659.  ^  Fly-leaf  note  to  iny  copy  of  Feria}  Acaduinicaa. 

'  Nichols's   Leiceflcrfliire,  vol.  iii.  part.  ii.  p.  6,56;   Colleflanea  Hunteriana,  Add.  MS.,  24,489,  liji.  13.  in  Hrit. 
Mus.;   Gent.  Magazine,  .xxviii.  p.  382,  1847.  '   Collciilanea  Hunteriana.  ■'  I'triac  Academica-,  |jp.  19,  .;6. 


Fdinily  of  SakU?i.  315 

placed  in  his  original  lilt  of  the  iiienihers  of  the  Academe  Royal."  lie  was  alfo  eminently 
Catholic  by  delcent,  through  his  relationfliip  to  the  Poles,  which  is  alhuicd  to  by  Kelliicjn  in 
his  eulogy  prefixed  to  the  I"'eri;e,  as  follows: — 

Eulugium  defiimptiini  ex  quadiDn  ejus  epiftola. 

Quod  vero  attinet  ad  l''erias  Academicas  Perillultris  Domini  D.  Georgii  Fortcfcu ; 
quarum  manufcriptum  exemplar  niihi  nuper  oftendifti,  ejufmodi  fane  funt,  ut  miram  ingenii 
fuavitatem,  egregiam  orationis  vim,  multiplicem  denique  cognitionem  in  Authore  teftetur. 
Scripfit  quidam  de  ReginalJo  Polo  in  hive  verba : 

"  Cum  eloquenti.c  et  pinlcfophi.c  pari  Jludio  fagraverit,  in  ntra  tamen  magis  enitiierit,  non 
facile  eft  exijlimare :  illud  certi  conftat  qui  vel  meliora  -vel  ornatiora  Jcriberet^  hac  homvi  on 
memoria  extitijje  neminem." 

Quid  eft  cur  idem  non  poHit  de  hujus  operis  authore  dici  ?  Mihi  certe  videtur  Polum 
ut  fanguinis,  ita  ftyli  propinquitate  contingere. 

The  book  is  defcrihed  in  the  "  Gentleman's  Magazine"  for  1847,  in  an  article  figned  J. 
M.  (J.  Mitford).  Mitford  had  only  i^nw  one  copy,  belonging  to  Mr.  Roger  Wilbraham, 
and  confiders  it  very  rare.  I  have,  however,  within  three  years,  met  with  it  in  book- 
fellers'  catalogues  at  leaft  three  or  four  times,  and  have  two  copies,  one  of  which  coft 
\l.  8j.  in  1863,  from  Mr.  Camden  llotten;  the  other,  in  1865,  coft  7J.  bd.  ;  and  a  third 
copy  was  offered  in  1863  by  Willis  and  Sotheran  for  \s.  Gd. 

Thofe  who  dcfire  more  information  about  the  "  l-'eriie  Academicie,"  are  referred  to  the 
article  in  the  "  Gentleman's  Magazine." 

Thefe  lines  will  fhow  the  ftyle  of  b'ortefcue's  laudatory  verfes  (prefixed  to  Sir  John 
Beaumont's  Poems)  : — • 

When  lines  are  drawn  greater  than  Nature,  art 

Commands  the  objed;  and  the  eye  to  part. 

Bids  them  to  keep  at  diftance,  know  their  place,  i 

When  to  receive,  and  when  to  give  their  grace  ; 

I  am  too  near  thee,  Beaumont,  to  define 

Which  of  thofe  lineaments  is  moft  divine. 

And  to  ftand  farther  off'  from  thee,  I  choofe 

In  filence  rather  to  applaud  thy  mufe 

And  lofe  my  cenfure  ;   'tis  enough  for  me 

To  joy  my  pen  was  taught  to  move  by  thee." 

'  Nichols's  Li^ictflcrfliirc,  \ol.  iii.  pail  ii.  p.  656. 


3 1 6  Family  of  Salleii. 

Prefixed  to  Sir  Thomas  Hawkins's  "  Traiiflation  of  the  Odes  of  Ilorace :" — 

To  his  ■ivorthie  Friend  S\  T.  II.  Knight,  upon  his  TruiiJIdtion} 

While  to  thy  time  the  Lyrick  Poet  fmgs, 

And  takes  new  graces  from  thy  tuned  itrings ; 

Behold  whole  Qiiires  of  Miifes  ready  ftand, 

To  beg  like  favour  at  thy  curious  hand. 

Who  would  not  joine  with  them,  and  move  the  fame, 

That  fees  this  One  fo  happie  in  thy  Name  ? 

We  whom  the  Romans  held  for  dull  and  weake, 

Now  teach  their  bell  of  Poets  how  to  fpeake. 

i 
They  need  not  lay  to  thee  the  want  of  (kill,  ■      : 

Of  Mufick,  or  of  Mufes,  hee  that  will, 

May  hear  them  both  expreft  by  thee  in  vaines  i 

Equall,  if  not  beyond  the  Roman  llraines. 

George  Fortescue. 

To  his  honoured  friend  Ar.  Rivers  upon  his  holy  Rhap/odies.^ 

Who's  this  who  like  the  rofy-fingered  morne,  I 

Is  thus  from  mountaine  unto  mountaine  borne ;  :  ' 

Whofe  myftic  locks  charged  with  the  drops  of  nights,  , 

On  us  below  hurl  beames  enriched  with  lights  ? 

Is  it  that  loul  which  having  Jordan  paft. 

Pure  Jordan,  made  luch  an  ambitious  hafl  '  I 

To  pafs  like  Ifrael  through  the  bloody  maine, 

In  hope  another  Baptifme  to  obtaine  ?  I 

It  is  the  fame  whofe  J^hapfodics  unfold  , 

Sweet  Raptures,  Raptures  which  in  cups  ot  gold  ' 

To  us  Celelliall  Conllellations  hold.  • 

Would  all  thus  poetize  who  would  refufe 

To  celebrate  the  (trains  of  fuch  a  Mufe  ? 

George  Fortescue. 

My  readers  will  not  defire  further  fpecimens  of  this  high-flown  flattery. 

'   From  Hawkins's  Odes  of  Ilorace,  London,  by  A.  M.  for  William  Ler,  1(125. 

'  See  Devout  Khaplbdies,  by  J.  \.  Rivers,  London,  164".     Thi^  worU  is  in  the   Hritilh   Mufeum,  m  a  volume 
lettered  "  Colleiftion  of  l'ami)lilets,"   11)47. 


Family  of  Sahic7i.  317 

He  was  fecrctary  to  his  coullii,  the  Rcfident  for  the  Duke  of  Lorraine,  at  the  time  of 
his  difmifial  by  the  Hoiifes  of  Parliament,  aiul  was  arrefted,  and  ordered  to  quit  the  kingdom 
witli  his  jirincipal. 

He  made  his  will,  which  is  extant,  on  the  17th  of  July,  165^,  defiring  to  he  Iniried,  if 
he  fhould  die  in  London,  "  at  the  entrance  of  St.  Andrew's  Church-yard  in  Holborn,  in  as 
pofitive  and  plain  a  manner  as  may  be."  He  mentions  his  nephews,  Sir  Alexander 
Hamilton,  Sir  Thomas  Beaumont,  Francis  Bodingfield,  and  John  Tafliournc,  and  his  coiifm, 
Anthony  Fortefcue,  to  each  of  whom  he  leaves  ten  fliillings,  "  to  buy  a  pair  of  mourning 
gloves."      He  ftyles  himfelf  "  George  Fortefcue  of  London,  Gentleman." 

The  following  pious  fentence,  although  it  proves  the  Chriftian  feelings  of  the  writ  :r, 
(happily)  gives  no  clue  to  the  queftion  whether  or  not  he  died  in  the  Reformed  or  Ronun 
Catholic  faith  —  he  certainly  lived  in  the  latter  for  many  years  of  his  lite: — "  I  bequeath  my 
foule  to  my  dear  Lorde  and  Redeemer  Jefus  Chriit,  hoping  to  attaine  unto  life  everlafting 
in  his  glorious  prefence,  by  the  meritts  of  his  bitter  paiTion." 

A  codicil  leaves  "  the  rent  of  the  hundred  pounds  now  in  Sir  John  l<'ortefcue's  hands" 
to  his  coufm  Anthony  Fortefcue.  The  will  was  proved  at  London,  13th  of  September, 
1659.' 

GeNLRAL    RlCH.^RD    FORTESCUE. 

There  is  frequent  mention  in  books  and  papers,  during  the  Wars  of  the  Parliament,  of 
Richard  F^ortefcue,  a  Cromwellian  officer  of  dillinc^ion,  to  whofe  place  in  the  Fortefcue 
family  I  have  not  found  any  clue ;  but  as  his  landed  eltates  conned  him  with  Berkfhire,  I 
place  him  at  the  end  of  the  Saldcn  Houfe,  who  were  alfo  conneded  with  that  county. 

From  the  outlines  of  fuch  notices  of  him  as  remain,  others  may,  perhaps,  afcertain  his 
defcent.  The  Thurloe  State  Papers,  Whitelock's  Memorials  of  the  Civil  War,  and  the 
Rawlinfon  MS.  in  the  Bodleian,  are  the  chief  fources  of  information. 

He  was  a  colonel  in  1644.'  In  Auguft,  1646,  he  took  Pendennis  Caftle  from  the 
Royalifl:s,  and  was  made  its  governor;  and  his  name  occurs  in  various  expeditions  and 
fervices  in  England  until  December,  1654,  when  he  is  tirlf  mentioned  in  the  "l~hurloe  State 
Papers  as  going  with  his  regiment  to  Barbadoes.^ 

In  July,  165^,  he  writes  from  Jamaica  to  "  Mr.  Taylor  minifter  ot  the  Gofpel,  at  his 
houfe  in  Bell  Alley,"'  giving  details  of  his  voyage  to  that  ifland,  via  Barbadoes  and 
Hifpaniola.  He  hopes  that  the  army  "  has  come  to  make  way  for  the  Gofpel."  This 
letter  is  charaderiftic  of  the  puritan  times.  He  alfo  writes  about  the  fimie  time  to  Secretary 
Thurloe,  rcquerting  him  "to  fee  juftice  done  to  him"  about  fome  fums  of  money  for  the 


'  See  the  Will,  in  the  Appendix.  *  Whitelock's  Memorials,  p.   125. 

^  Thurloe  State  Papers,  vol    iii.  part  4,  ]ip.   649,  650  ■*  Ibid.,  vol.  iii.  p.  6jO. 


3 1 8  Fa?}  lily  of  Said  en. 

purchafe  of  lands  and  woods;  liere  he  mentions  his  wife.  And  on  the  20th  July  he  prays 
the  fame  peiTon  "  to  put  an  end  to  the  fuite  between  Lord  St.  John  and  hiinfeU,  and  to  pay 
to  his  wife  the  arrears  long  due,"  '  amounting  to  2674/  C)S.  By  commiflion  dated  June  24th, 
1655,  he  was  appointed  Commander-in-Chief  in  Jamaica." 

]''ortcfcue,  now  become  Major-General,  had  been  appointed  to  fuccced  General  Venables 
as  Governor  of  Jamaica,  in  the  event  of  the  death  of  that  officer,  which  came  to  pafs  foon 
after  l-'ortelcue's  arrival  in  the  ifland.  There  are  feveral  letters  between  Cromwell  the 
Proteftor  and  the  \\t.\v  governor;'^  but  the  latter  foon  died. 

Major  Sedgwick,  writing  from  Jamaica  to  the  Protector,  November  5th,  1655,  fays, 
"  God  vifited  the  Major-General  with  fickneis,  and  in  four  or  five  days  fnatched  him  away."'' 

There  is  a  petition,''  "  read  July  26,  1655,  from  Mary,  wife  of  '  Sir  l^ichai.d  I'ortefcue,' 
addrelTed  to  Cromwell,  touching  the  cutting  of  timber  on  the  eftate  of  I  lolfhott,  parcel  of 
the  property  of  the  Marquis  of  Winchefter,  purchafed  of  the  truftees.  Her  hufband  u 
abfent  in  the  J^irliament's  fervice.  She  prays  for  the  arrears  due  to  him,  as  their  creditors 
are  importunate." 

His  wil],*^  dated  July  5th,  1648,  proved  July  29,  1657,  appoints  his  wife  Mary  th  ; 
executor,  and  mentions  two  daughters,  Mary  and  Frances.  It  mentions  houfe  and  lan.i  at 
Bray;  houfes  in  Broad  Street,  Reading,  Berks;  rent-charge  in  tiie  pariHi  of  St.  Giles', 
Reading;  and  debentures  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Goodwin,  M.P.,  to  the  value  of  2800/., 
reciting  that  "  Major  General  Cromwell  has  direifled  an  ordinance  for  the  arrears  out  of  tlu 
ertate  of  delinquents."  Teftator's  friends.  Colonel  Thomas  Bulltrode  and  Mr.  Johii 
Clendon,  are  made  Overfeers  of  the  Will.  "May  i,  1657,  adminiftration  was  grarteil 
to  Mary,  relli.'l  of  Colonel  Richard  Fortefcue,  of  Hickfield,  in  county  Southampton,  but 
who  died  in  Jamaica."'  1  fufpe^t  that  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue  has  in  fome  cafes  got  credit, 
and  fometimes  difcredit,  for  adions  done  by  this  Parliamentarian,  his  contemporary  on  the 
oppofite  fide.  ' 

AlM'ENDIX     TO    ChaI'.     XIII. 

A. 

Copy  of  TFill  of  Thomas  Fortrfcue. 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen  :  I  Thomas  Fortefcue  of  Donington  in  the  Countie  of  Berks,  Efquire 
make  this  my  lad  will  and  teftament  tlie  tenth  daye  of  Maye  in  the  fixt  yearc  of  the  r:  ig:iL  of  our 

'  Thurlot,  vol.  iii.  654. 

■'  Ruwlinlon  MS.  in  BodU:i;in  (printed),  27,  ('.  647.  Sue  notices  of  liim  in  tliofe  MSS.  in  leveral  otlur  numbers, 
mod  of  uliK  li,  1  believe,  liave  lieen  printed. 

J  Tburloe.  '    Ibid.,  \ol.  ii.  p.   151.  *   Biil.  Mufeurn,  Dom.  Inl.  "  See  llie  Will,  in  Ajipendii. 

'  Doctotb'  Commons. 


Fcu/iily  of  Scili!e?i.  319 


foveraignc  Lord  James  by  the  grace  of  God  King  of  England,  Fraunce  h  Ireland,  defender  of  the 
faith  5cc.  And  in  the  ycarc  of  ouv  Lord  God  1 60S.  Remcmhriiige  llie  iincertaintie  of  the  he.dth  of 
man  in  this  tranlltorie  worlde  and  hovve  wee  know  not  neither  ought  otherwyfe  to  hope  ortrult  of  any 
longer  contynewance  in  this  life  then  only  at  the  oinnipotcnt  will  and  pleafure  of  the  Allmightie. 
Therefore  whileft  men  be  in  I'ome  health  and  of  perfect  remembrance  it  is  mofl  mccte  to  confider 
and  remember  that  all  muft  die,  whofe  end  God  graunte  ma)-  be  to  our  eternall  joye.  And  to  the 
end  that  iuch  worldlie  goodes  as  the  Almightie  hath  lent  me  mayc  (if  it  fliould  pleafe  (jod  to  call 
me  out  ot  this  lite  upon  ihurt  warninge)  bee  (et  in  good  order  and  Itaye.  I  have  therefore  thought 
it  meet,  iieeell'ary  guod  and  requilitc  to  have  my  la(t  Will  and  Teftamcnt  in  aredniefs.  Firft 
and  before  all  tliinges  1  conieiid  my  foul  to  the  nioft  blelied  handes  of  the  holy  7'rinitie  Ciod  the 
father,  God  the  I'onne  and  God  the  Holy  Ghoft,  three  perlons  and  yet  but  one  God  evcrlaftinge  and 
Almightie,  truftinge  and  allliredlie  beleeveinge  (ue  firmely  in  Gods  great  mercy  to  be  one  of  the  chofen 
that  are  and  ftialbe  faved  by  the  mofi:  precious  death,  bitter  paflion,  merits  and  refurreiTtion  of  our  Saviour 
Jefus  Chrifl,  where  I  am  feifed  of  an  eftate  of  inheritaunce  of  fundry  landes  in  the  counties  of  Lerks. 
1  doe  give  the  fame  lanJes  imto  my  lovinge  nephewe  S^  William  P^ortefcue  Knight,  To  have  t.o  him 
and  his  heires  males  of  his  body  lawfully  to  be  begotten  and  for  defaulte  of  fuel)  illue  I  give  the  fame 
landes  imto  S'  Francis  Fortel'cue  and  his  heires  for  ever.  Item  I  bec|ueath  unto  my  filler  in  lawe  the 
Lady  Alice  Fortefcue  vvidowe  a  ringe  of  goulde  w'h  a  'Furkye  llone  in  it  and  alio  a  peece  of  golde 
conteyninge  twenty  duckettes.  Item  I  bequeath  unto  my  neece  the  lady  Margery  Poulteney  ioe  much 
ot  my  plate  as  iliall  amount  unto  the  value  of  twenty  markes,  or  foe  much  money  to  buy  plate.  Item 
I  bequeath  tinto  my  loving  nephewe  S'.  Francis  Fortefcue  Knight  and  to  Lady  Grace  his  wife  to  every 
of  them  ringes  of  golde  with  deathes  heades  to  the  \'allewe  of  fcjrty  (hillinges.  Item  I  becpieath  unto 
my  goddaughter  Dorothie  P'ortefcuc,  daughter  unto  S'.  Francis  Fortefcue  and  Grace  his  wife  a  peece 
of  plate  of  the  valewe  of  tvirentie  nobles  to  be  delivered  to  her  father  for  her  ufe.  Item  I  bequeath 
to  every  other  the  children  that  the  f''.  S'.  Francis  and  (Jrace  fliall  have  borne  and  livinge  at  my  dcceafe 
to  every  of  them  ringes  of  Gold  to  the  vallewe  of  fortie  (hillinges.  Item  I  bequeath  unto  Michaell 
Payne  tonne  unto  John  Fayne  of  Wallingford,  the  Come  of  twentie  poundes  which  his  tiiid  fither  dooth 
owe  unto  me.  Item  I  doe  forgive  unto  Francis  Huntley,  Thomas  Payne  ^\-  (jrifHth  Payiie,  All  dcbtes 
due  by  them  unto  me.  Item  I  bequeath  to  every  my  fervauntes  that  attend  one  me  at  the  tyme  of 
my  deceafe  to  every  of  them  five  markes.  Item  I  bequeath  and  give  to  the  ufe  of  the  poor,  people 
inhabitinge  within  the  parillies  of  \Velford,  Boxore,  Newbery  and  Shawc  within  the  countie  of  Berkes 
the  fome  of  twentie  poundes  to  be  ymployed  in  a  ilocke  for  the  keeping  of  the  laid  poore  people  in 
worke.  Item  where  there  is  owinge  unto  me  Soiidry  great  tomes  of  money  by  my  late  mother  dame 
Anne  Parrv,  widowe  deceat'ed,  a^  by  bookes  of  accomptes  ajipearith,  And  where  I  was  ir.ade  fole 
executor  unto  my  laid  mother.  And  upon  niediacioii  of  good  frendes,  viz.  S'.  Thomas  Bromley,  Knight, 
the  Lord  Chancellor  of  England  and  S'.  Ji.hn  I'"ortc-fcue  I  did  deliver  all  the  goodes,  chattells,  plate,  hoi  fe- 
hold  ftuffe,  flockes  of  cattell  and  curne  that  was  the  fame  D.ime  Anne  Parry  reinayinng  at  W  eU'ord  in 
the  Countie  of  Berks,  as  by  an  inventory  thereof  made  appercth  unto  the  handes  and  pofleffion  of 
Thomas  Parry  nowe  Knight,  upon  his  faytht'ull  promifc  then  made  before  the  faid  Sir  Thomas  Bromfey 
and  S^  John  Fortefcue,  To  have  paid  all  debtes  due  by  the  faid  dame  Anne,  And  alfo  to  have  paid  all 
legacies  which  were  given  by  the  faid  Dame  Aime  whereof  the  faid  Sir  Ihunias  Parry  hath  performed  no 
part   thereof  but    forced    me  the  faid    Thomas    Fortefcue  to  diicharge  and  paye  the   lame   the  l.iid  Sir 


3  2  0  Fa  fH  ily  of  Salde?i . 

Thomas  Parry  having  received  goodes,  chattells,  plate,  howfchold  flufte,  ftockcs  of  cattcll  and  corne 
at  Weltord  to  the  value  of  one  thov/l'and  marks  and  better.  Nowe  my  will  and  mynde  is  that  if  the 
faid  Sir  Thomas  Parry  doe  not  only  difcharge  all  the  legacies  which  yett  are  inipaid  and  debtes  owinge 
by  the  faid  Dame  Anne  but  alfo  paye  unto  my  executors  two  hundred  poundes  of  lawful!  money  of 
Kngland  within  oneyeare  after  my  deceafe  or  elfe  put  in  fecuritie  therefore  my  will  is  that  my  executors 
doe  call  for  all  fuch  goodes,  catalls  ajid  hoiilchold  (lutF,  ilockes  of  caiell  and  corjie  or  the  valewe 
therof  as  the  faid  S'.  Thomas  Parry  had  and  received  of  nie  the  fiidc  Thomas  Fortcfcue.  And  then 
I  will  that  my  f''.  Executors  doc  perfurme  the  will  of  the  faiil  Dame  Anne  my  mother  in  all  poy.ites 
and  accordinge  to  the  intent  and  meaninge  of  the  laid  Dame  Anne  Parrye.  Item  my  wille  and  mynde 
is  that  all  fuche  plate,  houfehold  ftufpe  and  bookes  as  are  beloiiginge  unto  Anthony  Fortefcue  my 
brother  be  fafely  kept  and  delyvered  to  the  ufe  of  my  faid  brother.  Item  I  doe  wilhe  that  my  body 
were  buried  in  the  chauncell  of  the  churche  of  Welford  in  the  countie  of  Berks,  neere  unto  my  mother 
the  lady  Anne  Parry,  And  that  there  were  feme  flone  fett  in  the  wall  for  a  memoriall  of  me.  And 
I  give  towards  the  repaire  of  the  church  of  Welford  fortie  fhillinges.  Item  I  doe  ordaine  anu  make  my 
executors  of  this  my  lalt  will  5i'  tclhunent  my  lovinge  nephewes  Sir  Francis  Fortefcue  Knight  and  Sii 
William  Fortefcue  Knight,  unto  whome  I  give  all  my  goodes  and  chattells,  requiring  them  to  lee  all  m\ 
debtes  paid  and  then  my  Lift  will  performed  as  they  will  anfwcre  at  the  generall  judgment.  In  witnes 
whereof  I  have  hereunto  fett  my  hand  &  feale  the  day  and  yeare  firlt  above  written. 

Thomas  Fortiscue. 
Proved  at  London  on  the  1 1  day  of  June  a.  d.  i6ii  by  the  oathe  of  Francis  Fortefcue  and  ^Villian 
Fortefcue,  Knights  executors  in  the  above  Will  nominated. 

B. 

Copy  of  Jl  111  of  George  Fortejcue.  ,  •  ' 

In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.  I  (jeorge  Fortefcue  of  London,  gentleman,  doe  make  and  conflitut; 
this  my  laft  [will]  and  'Feftament  being  in  perfcift  memorie  and  lence,  (rod  be  thancked  therefore.  In 
primis  I  bequeath  my  foule  to  my  dcare  Lord  and  Redeemer  Jefus  Chriil  hoping  to  attaine  unto  life  I 
everlafting  in  his  glorious  prefence  by  the  merritts  of  his  bitter  pafTion  and  for  my  bodie  (if  I  die  in 
London)  I  defire  to  have  it  layd  att  the  entrance  of  S'.  Andrewes  Church  yard  in  Holborne  in  as  pofitivel 
and  playne  a  manner  as  may  be  and  this  I  defire  my  kindred  noe  way  to  oppofe.  for  my  temporall  eflate 
(which  is  little)  I  difpofe  thus,  1  give  to  my  honored  nephew  S'.  Alexander  Hamilton,  to  my  nephew i 
S'.  Thomas  Beaumont,  to  my  nephew  Francis  Bodingfeild,  to  my  nephew  John  'T  aflsourne  and  to  my 
cofin  Anthonie  Fortefcue  tcnn  Ihillinges  to  each  of  them  to  buy  them  a  payre  ot  mourning  gloves  and 
of  this  my  laft:  will  and  teftament  I  conftitue  my  executor  my  true  heind  Mailer  George  R^'che  of 
Fulwoods  Rentes  Holborne  and  all  wills  formerly  made  by  mee  I  doe  by  this^Vill  [revoke  }'\  th  s  feaven- 
teen  of  July  one  thoufand  fix  hundred  fiftie  nyne.    By  mee  ' 

GhORGE    FoRTtiCUE. 
\V'itnelTes  John  Henflowe,  Henrie  Smallee. 

/I  codiclll  to  this  my  laji  zv'ill  tiiiii  tefament  unto  tvhlch  I  ivoull  hiivc  as  much   creditt  given  as  to  niy  luill 
Itjclfc  being  hath  written  with  my  oivne  hand. 
I  give  unto  my  Couzen  Anthonie  Fortefcue  the  rent  of  the  hundred  poundes  in  Sir  John  Fortelcues 


Fatnily  of  Saldc7i.  321 

handes  during  his  life  but  not  the  principall.  1  give  unto  my  true  friend  Maflcr  William  Worchefler  of 
liinico  my  three  quilts  I  lye  upon,  with  fower  white  blanckctts  and  my  two  litile  redd  coverings,  I  lay 
upon  mee  in  the  winter  And  my  little  downe  pillowe,  my  apparrell  I  give  to  my  old  freind  Mafter 
Francis  Mathcw  aiid  temi  Ihillings  this  17  of  July  1659. 

By  mee  (i.  Fortescui;. 

For  my  apparrell  to  Mafter  Alathew  thus  I  gi\e  him  what  fuites  of  apparrell  I  (liall  have  by  mee  all 
my  coates  and  clokes  oirly  my  cloth  coate  1  give  to  my  fcrvant  Jane  Tamken  to  weare  tor  my  lake  and 
to  W .  Mathew  my  two  bell  fhirts,  all  my  bands  and  ftockings  and  hatt. 

By  mee  G.  Fori  escue. 

Proved  at  London,  13  Sept.  1659  by  Geo.  Rich  I'ole  executor  &c. 

c. 

Jl'ill  of  General  Richard  Fortcfcue. 

In  the  name  of  God,  amen,  25  July  1648.  I  make  and  ordaine  my  laft  will  as  follovveth.  Whereas 
there  is  due  and  owing  to  me  from  the  Pari',  by  twoe  feverall  debentures  one  in  the  haiides  of  I\l^ 
(joodwin  late  one  of  the  members  of  the  Houle  of  Coinons  another  in  my  owne  culfodie  under  the 
handes  of  the  Com"*,  of  Cornwall  about  twoe  thoufand  eight  hundred  poiindes,  I  give  and  bequeath  to 
my  twoe  daughters  Alary  and  Prances  one  thouland  |X)undes  part  or  jjarcell  ot  the  laid  deb  :  the  relidiie 
to  my  be  :  wife  A'l".  Mary  Fortefcue  and  whereas  the  Pari',  was  pleafed  to  order  all  my  arreares  fhould 
be  paid  to  me  out  of  fuch  delinquentes  ertates  as  I  lliould  nominate  and  Lord  Cjenerall  Cromwell  ordered 
to  bringe  in  an  ordinance  to  that  purpofe  to  fettle  foe  much  land  on  me  and  my  heires  at  12  yeares 
purchafe  as  would  fatisfie  my  arreares  that  beinge  not  done  I  defire  that  if  that  take  efteifl  that  each  of 
my  laid  children  may  have  their  proportion  of  the  faid  deb  :  given  to  them  as  aforefaid  fecured  to  ,them 
refpedively  foe  as  they  may  have  either  1000  per  fe  in  money  or  lande  accordinge  to  the  aforefaid  order. 
Item,  whereas  there  is  above  200''  due  unto  me  from  the  Com'"  after  the  60000''  alTefs'  in  Cornwall  on 
difbandlnge  and  for  which  I  dd  to  M'.  John  Covvle  the  order  of  the  Comittee  for  the  armye  together 
with  an  acquittance  figned  by  me  and  lefte  with  him  in  trult  to  be  delivered  to  the  Frealurer  or  pa)'m'.  ot 
ihe  navy  the  whole  money  mencioiied  in  the  laid  acquittance  is  due  to  me  except  two  moneths  pay  which 
my  man  'I'homas  Heminges  is  to  rcceave,  And  whereas  I  have  an  .idveiiiLue  in  the  handes  of  M'. 
Rich''.  Goodyare  and  Col.  Barnes  of  about  130"  of  whiche  I  expeiff  a  dailye  leturiie  from  France  and 
wheras  there  is  due  to  me  one  hundred  twenty  and  odd  poundes  from  AP.  North  and  about  fixtye 
poundes  from  Cha.  Cordue  and  .  .  .  Tovy  of  Penrin.  And  whereas  there  is  alloc  in  the  handes  of: 
AP.  Henrie  Trevillian  luurlcore  poundes  due  to  me  the  rem.under  of  200"  ordered  to  me  by  the 
Committee  of  Cornwall,  And  n)-neteen  poundes  twoe  lliillinges  one  pemiie  I  give  out  of  the  feveiall 
fumes  due  to  me  as  aforefaid,  To  my  (iiid  daughter  Mary  two  hundred  poundes,  and  to  my  faid  daugh.er 
Frances  two  hundred  poundes  to  be  paid  to  them  at  their  reljjeclive  ages  ot  eighteene  yeares.  In  the  , 
meane  time  I  del'ire  my  faid  wife  their  faid  mother  whome  I  make  my  fole  executrix  of  this  my  lalt  \  ill 
with  the  advife  of  my  loving  freinds  Col.  7"ho.  In.lllrode  and  M'.  John  Clenden  whome  I  make 
overfeers  by  all  lawfuU  meanes  to  improve  it  and  Ui  render  the  produce  and  relult  thereof  to  them  at 
their  faid  refpcdlive  ages.  And  if  either  of  them  fliali  happen  to  dye  before  the  faid  legacies  become 
payable  as  aforefaid  my  will  is  that  the  furvivor  lliould  have  the  legacie  of  her  filter  foe  dyinge.      My 

II.  T  T 


322  Fcunilks  oj  Normcnidy. 

hoiile  ami  lands  at  Bray  I  give  to  my  wife,  Alloc  my  twoe  houfcs  in  Broad  Street  Readinge  together  with 
the  yearlie  rent  charge  of  50/.  payable  to  me  by  Stephen  Harris  w'''  1  had  in  S'.  (jiles  parifh  in  Readinge. 
To  liold  to  her  diiringe  her  life  after  her  deceafe  to  remaine  to  my  twoe  daughters  all  the  refidiie  of  my 
ertate  1  give  to  my  laid  wife  Mary  Forteltue  whom  I  make  lide  executiix  of  this  niy  will.  In  wittnes 
whereof  1  have  hereunto  fett  my  hande  and  feale  the  live  and  twentieth  day  of  July  1648.  Rich. 
FoRTESCUE.      M''.  John  Clenden  hath  feme  money  in  his  h.mdcs  of  mine  about  60  or  70''.      I  knowe  not 

certenly  the  fume  but  J  believe  him  to  be  (b  honeit  as  to  confels  and  pay  it '  it  is 

concerninge  ibme  moneys  left  in  my  handes  in  truft  by  one  I'Va:  Twille. 

Proved  at  London  29"'  July  1657  by  the  oath  of  Mary  Fortcfcue  the  rcliifl  and  executrix  in  the 
above  will  named  Ihe  being  fworn  &c.  &c.  the  letters  of  adminiflrration  formerly  granted  unto  her  out  of 
this  court  beinij;  delivered  to  be  cancelled. 


Chap.  XIV. 

The  Forlefciies  of  Normandy.  _     ' 

'HERE  ftill  remains  to  be  confidered  one  branch  of  the  Fortefcues,  very  far 
x^  removed  by  the  lapfe  of  centuries,  and  diftincS:nefs  of  country,  from  all  tl  ok 
with  vshich  we  have  been  occupied  ;  in  exploring  whofe  oi-igin  we  are  forcec 
once  more,  as  in  the  caie  of  the  Englifli  families,  to  mount  to  the  cloudy  regions  of 
tradition. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  Sir  Richard  Le  Fort,  who  came  from  Normandy  witl' 
William  the  Conqueror,  and  fought  at  1  Liftings  in  1066,  is  faid  to  have  returnee  u> 
Normandy,  leaving  in  England  his  cldeft  fon,  Adam,  who  took  his  father's  acquu'ed 
furname  of  Fort-efcu,  and  to  have  founded  in  his  native  country,  through  another  fon.  a 
line  of  defcendants,  who  there  formed  a  flouriftiing  fimily. 

Of  any  part  of  this  French  family  there  is  fcarcely  even  mention  in  any  Englifli  work  tjiat 
has  come  under  my  notice,  much  lefs  is  there  any  peiligree  or  detailed  account  of  the  whole. 
Several  French  genealogifts  and  writers  of  local  hiftories,  however,  give  it  a  place  in  their 
volumes. 

Monfieur  de  Magny,  "  Direfteur  de  la  Hibliotheque  Heraldique  "  of  Paris,  and  editor 
of  a  "  Nohiliaire  de  Normandie,"  published  by  a  fociety  of  Genealogifts,  has  f  ipplied  me 
with  fome  valuable  information  on  this  fubjecl,  from  which  I  fliall  extracfl  freely.  Lie  ftievvs 
that  the  tradition  handed  down  in  France  is  mainly  in  accord  with  that  curreni  from  very 
early  times  in  the  Englilh  family,  and  that  it  is  to  the  effecft  that  the  founder  o."  the  name 
pafTed  over  to  England  from  Normandy  with  William,  Duke  of  Normandy,  "the  Con- 
queror," and  fought  in   the  battle  ot    tiaftings;   ever   fmce    which   time  his   defcendants   in 

'  Blank  in  ori'.'inal  1 


Families  of  No7'mandy.  323 

France  have  borne  the  name  of  I'^ortefcu.  Monfieiir  de  Bcllcval  alfo,  in  his  "  Azincourt," ' 
writes  in  the  fame  {^in'ii  under  the  head  of  "  Guillaumc  Fortefcu,"  killed  at  Azineourt  in 
1415,  thus: — "Foitcfcu  faniille  Nonnande  connue  depuis  Robert  le  I'^ort,  furnomme 
I'ortelcu,  compagnon  de  Guillaume  de  Normandie,  1066." 

iVIonfieur  de  Magny  thus  proceeds  : — 

"  Le  nom  des  fires  Fortefcu,  alias  lu)rtefcue,  Fortecu,  olhn  Fortefcot,  Fortefcut,  eft 
inconteftablement  I'uii  des  plus  vieux,  des  plus  nobles,  et  des  plus  renoninies  de  I'ancieiuie, 
Normandie  ;  une  longue  tradition  chevalerelque  s'attache  a  ce  nom  antique. 

"  La  race  des  J^'ortelcu  a  d'autant  plus  de  merite  aux  )'eux  d'un  herakiiftej  qu'elle 
negligea  de  porter  un  nom  de  terre,  furnom  pompeux  qui  n'etait  pour  les  nouveaux  venus 
du  XV"  ficcle  qu'un  moyen  fpecieux  pour  deguifer  la  pauvrete  de  leur  extr;  ftion 
plebeienne.  Les  Fortefcu,  coninie  les  Bauvet,  les  Marefcot,  les  l_^audran,  les  Chabi.it,  le^ 
Tournemine,  etc.  conferverent  tout  fimplcment  leur  nom  du  X''.  au  XV''.  Siecle,  et  dans  Jes 
fuivants  on  les  voit  toujours  figurer  fous  le  fimple  nom  de  l-ortefcii,  a  la  bataille  de  Flaftings 
(1066),  a  la  croifade  de  Robert  Courte-heuze,  et  deGodefroy  de  Bouillon"  a  la  cour  fouveraine 
de  I'Echiquier  de  Normandie  (1388-92),  fous  la  domination  Anglaifc  (Regne  de  1  lenri  VL 
d'Angleterre,  et  de  Charles  VIF  de  Valois),  fous  le  nom  de  Fitz-Fortefeu  (avec  I'adjondlion 
Saxonne)  ou  fimplement  Fortefcu,  aux  champs  celebres  d'Azincourt  en  1415,  puis  en  1666 
a  la  recherche  des  Nobles  des  bailliages  et  Eledlions  de  Vire  et  de  Carcntan. 

"  Monfieur  de  Chamillard,  IntenJant  de  Juftice  a  Caen,  les  declare  Nobles  de  vielle  race, 
et  ordonne  I'infcription  de  leur  nom  au  role  legal  de  (Jentilfliommes  tie  la  Generalitii  de 
Caen." 

The  lands,  fiefs,  and  refidences  of  the  I^'ortefcues  were  all  in  the  fime  part  of  the  Duchy, 
that  diilrid:  of  Lower  Normandy  which  lies  between  Vire  to  the  ioulh  and  Valognes  to  the 
north  including  all  the  denominations  of  their  eiT:atcs  ;  while  by  tar  the  greater  part  are  to 
be  found  near  the  town  of  St.  Lo  and  Carentan,  and  on  the  fliorcs  of  the  eftuary  through 
which  the  Vire  and  the  Douve  pafs  into  St.  George's  Channel.  It  was  in  the  parifhes  of 
St.  Marie  du  Mont  north  of  Carentan,  and  of  Mefnil-Angot,  and  l^e  Deiert,  to  the  louth  of 
that  town,  that  the  families  of  which  we  have  moft  knowledge  were  eftabliflicd. 

M.  de  Magny  has  fupplied  me  with  a  copy  of  a  liocument  of  the  date  of  1552,  giving  a 
genealogy  of  the  anceftors  of  "  Meifire  Ricliard  b'ortefcue,  Chevalier,"  the  holder  of  a  fief  in 
the  parifii  of  Mefnil-Angot,  which  enables  us  to  trace  the  defcent  ot  the  b'ortelcus  troni  the 
period  of  the  Englifli  Conqueft. 

The  document  was  in  the  cuftody  of  the  "  Juge  de  la  Nobleffe,  et  point  d'honneji," 
and  the  copy  of  which  M.  de  Magny's  is  a  tranfcript,  is  figned  by  "  Du  Londel  Confeiller 
rapporteur."      It  follows  here  in  full  :  — 


Azineourt,  de  Uellcval,  bvo.,  1865,  Paris.  '■'  La  Cliunayc  dtb  Hois,  Diift.  dc  la  Nubltlfu,  vol.  vi. 


324  Fci/uilies  of  Nornuuidy, 

Information  d'ancienne  Noblejfe  d'extraiJion  de  now  ct  d'armes^  faites  en   1552  pour  MeJJire 

Richdrd  i'ortefcii  Clievalicr,  homme  noble,  tenant  fief  de  la  Paroijfe  dit  Alefnil, 

Eletlwn  de  Carentan  an  Pays  de  Cufientin  devants  les  Conjeil/ers 

dii  Roy  Notre  Sire,  et  Jes  Elus  en  cette  Elettion. 

Porte  ;   d'argent,  a  trois  bandes  d'azur  ;  et  crie  :    Kortefcu. 
Villiame  I'orteicu  Chevalier  feut  a  la  Conqiiefte  avec  Je  Due  de  Normandie. 
Robert  Fortefcu  Chevalier  fit  le  Pelerinage  des  faint  lieux  avec  le  Due  Robert  Court- 
heuze,  et  GodetVov  de  Bouillon.' 

Filiation  Noble. 
I.   Richard  l''ortefcu,  vivant  1160.  1 

il.   Guillaunie  I'"ortei"cu,  alias  I'ortefcut,  bachelier,  vivant  en  j'an  1203. 

III.  Robert  I'ortelcu  Chevalier- Banneret,  vivant  12^9;  il  cpoufa  Noble  fille  Jeluuuie  de 
Ruliy  Picot.  , 

IV.  Henri  I-ortefcu,  Kcuyer=Ydctte  Merlct. 

V.  Charles  Fortelcu  Chevalier  13  i4zzMarguerite  Guillots. 

VI.  Anthoine  Fortefcu,  Noble." 

VII.  Jean  Fortefcu  Chevalier,  vivant  1388  ;   il  epoufa  Adrienne  du  Folfc,  fille  Noble. 

VIII.  Mcdire  Williame  de  Fortefcu  Chevalier  tue  a  la  bataille  d'Azincourt  le  Vendredi 
25  Odobrc  1415;  et  MelTire  Johan  I'^ortefcu  Chevalier,  dit  Fitz-Fortefcu,  vivant  en  I'.in 
1420,  marie  a  Noble  fille  Marie  de  Perfy,  dont — 

IX.  Guillaume  Fortefcu  dit  Trilhui,  Fcuyer,  marie  en  1450,  a  Noble  fille  Jacqueli  le  de 
Bau/Ty. 

X.  Jacques  I''ortelcu  Ecuyer,  i483:z:I'"ran(;oife  Euldes,  dont^  '  I 

XI.  Triftan  Fortefcu  Chevalier=i:Anne  d'Ouray.  1 

XII.  Richard  Fortefcu  Chevalier,  1  545=Catherine  le  Gay,  dont  advinrent  — 

XIII.  Jacques  Fortefcu  {\'")  et  GuilLuinie  h'ortefcu  Fnfants  foubs  age  du  dit  Ricliard 
mpetrant. 

Collatione  ts.c. 
Signe,  Du  LoNDEL. 

M.  de  Magny  continues  this  pedigree  from  other  fources,  thus,  beginni  ig  with  the 
above-named  "Jacques  1'"  et  Guillaume  b'ortefcu,"  fons  of  Richard  I'ortcfcu  :— • 


'  M.  do  Miiirny,  in  his  complete  pedigroe,  interpolates  bi  Iwiuji  lliii  I'ulierl  luilelcu  and  Richard  Fortefcu, 
living  wi  1  1  bo,  ••  Guillaume  I'ortulc'u  Chevalier  dont  Hobeit  I'oiielcu  (.lie\aller,  i|ui  tut  hciitier  de  Guillaume 
Fortefcu,  Chevalier  Banneret,"  but  gives  no  aulliorities.  ,       . 

-  Seigneur   de  Mefnil-Angot  (Magny).  1 


Fa}n'dics  of  No7~}nmidy.  325 

I.  Jacques  (I.)  Fortefcu,  auteur  de  la  hranche  de  Vire. 
1.   Guillaume  I'ortcfcu,  auteur  dc  la  hranche  de  St.  I.o. 

Brauche  de  Vire. 

Jacques  (II.)  Fortefcu  Chevalier,  epoufa  N dont  il  eut — 

Guillaume  F'ortefcu  licuyer,  qui  epoudi  N dont  il  eut  deux  fils. 

1"  Jacques  (HI.)  Fortefcu  de  la  ParoilTc  du  Pled'is-Giinioult,  IvlLcftion  de  Vire,  maintenu 
Noble  en  1666  par  M.  de  Chamillard. 

•2".  Marc-Antoine  l^'ortefcu  F.cuyer,  vivant  en  1666,  de  la  Paroifle  de  Maifroy-lur-Ifignay. 

Braiiclie  de  St.  Lo. 

(juillaume  Fortefcu  laiffii,  d'une  alliance  inconnue,  deux  fils: — ■  ' 

I"  Nicholas  qui  fuit. 

■2°  Jean  F'ortefcue  Pere  de  (A.)  Michel  I'^ortefcu  F.cuyer,'  du  Defert,  de  la  fergeanteries 
et  de  la  Paroifle  du  Flommet  (ur  Carentan,  Noble  en  1666,  infcrit  au  Catalogue  des  Nobles 
de  la  GenC-ralite  de  Caen. 

Nicholas  Fortefcue  F^.cuyer,  marie  a  Noble  Demoifelle  Catherine  Cadet  des  Seignieurs 
de  Gerville,  de  la  ParoiiFe  de  Melnil-Angot  fur  Carentan;  maintenu  Noble  en  1666;  ct 
infcrit  au  Catalogue  officiel  des  Nobles  de  la  Generalite  de  Caen  ;  il  laifla  deux  fils  favoir. 

1"  Jean  Nicholas  qui  fuit. 

2°  Leonor  ou  Leonard  Fortefcu  Ecuyer,  Seigneur  du  Chefne,  puine,  (Paroifle  du 
Mefnil-Angot)  maintenu  noble  de  vielle  race,  1666,  et  infcrit  au  role  des  Nobles  de  Caen; 
fit  enregiftrer  fes  armoiries  a  rarniorial  general  officiel  de  1696  au  Regiftre  de  Caen,  fo.  i  12, 
d'argent,  li  trois  bandcs  d'azur." 

Jean  Nicholas  de  F'ortcfcu,  de  la  Paroifle  du  Mefnil-Angot  Ecuyer,  Seigneur  du  Taillis, 
epoufa  Noble  Demoifelle  Anne  de  Minfant  ou  Mift^'ant,  des  Comtes  de  la  Bigne,  famille 
Noble  d'ancienne  race.      II  eut  pour  fils  :— • 

A.  Jacques  Jofe[ih  de  I'ortelcu  Flcuyer,  Seigneur  du  I'ailly  qui  fit  enregiflrer  fes  ariries 
a  Caen,  (o.  256,  d'argent,  a  trois  bandes  d'azur. 

x\A.  Son  petit  fils  Paul  de  FortefcLi  comparut  a  raflcmblce  de  la  NoblelFe  pour 
les  Etats  Generaux  au  bailliage  de  St.  J^o  en  1789  (voir  les  lilies  F'.ledorales  de  1789).  Sa 
fille  Barbe  Nicole  Albertine  de  P'ortefcu,  epoufa,  le  12  Juin,  1787,  le  Baron  Jacques 
Rodolphe  'I'iton  du    Fillet  Capitaine,  jHiis  Conful  de  Suede  .1  Padoue. 

Here   M.   de   Magny's  account  ends,    and  the    I'ortelcus,  who  were   looked   upon  as 

'   Bibl.  Imp.  Armorial  General,  Normnndie,  fol.  241,  No.  58,  Bureau  de  Vallognts. 
-   ILid.,  Caen,  CabiiKl  de  'I'ilieb,  vol.  jbS,  (ol.  93. 


326  Families  of  No7'})iand\'. 

arillocrats,  fcem  to  liave  almoll  (lilappcared  h'oni  the  province,  l)y  emigrarion  and  the 
guillotine,  foon  after  the  lalT:  of  the  above  dates  (1789),  in  the  frightful  times  of  the 
all-effacing  Revolution.  I  have  a  letter  from  M.  le  Comte  de  Bonvouloir,  obtained 
from  him,  at  my  requeft,  by  M.  Gabriel  Ogilvy,  author  of  a  "  Nobiliaire  de  la 
Normandie,"  in  March,  1866,  which,  with  communications  from  M.  du  Bofc,  and  M. 
Ogilvy's  report  of  his  vifit  to  the  diftric't,  will  rtiow  what  is  the  prefent  condition  of  the  few 
iurvivors  of  the  old  name  there. 

Chritrau  <le  Voulcvilk-,  pr,\s  B,iy._-iix,  C,iIv;hIos. 

Je  rcroit  a  I'inftant,  MonfieLU",  la  reponfe  de  M.  1  lerve  de  Fortefcu,  et  malheureufement  il 
ne  lui  refte  plus  de  papiei's  de  tamille.  11  me  dit  que  fon  pere  avait  encore  beaucoup  de 
vieux  litres  qu'il  fe  rappelle  d'avoir  vus  dans  ion  enfance,  et  dont  il  a  fouvent  cntendu 
parler ;  mais  comme  ils  font  tombes  dans  un  etat  voifine  a  Ja  paiivrete,  fon  frere  line 
entre  les  mains  diiquci  ctaient  tombes  ces  papiers,  n'en  a  pas  apprecle  I'importance  et  les  a 
laiiles  perdre  completement.  11  fe  rappelle  que  fon  pere  lui  a  dit  qu'un  Leonore  de  Fortefc  i 
etait  alle  en  Angleterre,  il  y  a  plufieurs  fieclcs.  Maintenant  il  el1:  a  ma  connaiffance  quj  h  s 
anciennes  recherches  font  mention  de  leur  famillc  comme  habitant  les  Communes  tiu  Mifni  - 
Angot,  et  du  Delcrt,  ou  il  lein-  reile  encore  aujourd'hui  i|Lielques  hec-tares  de  terre.  jVlcii 
pere  fe  rappelle  d'avoir  vu  au  commencement  du  ficcle  mi  vieux  Chevalier  de  Fortefcu  qui  eil: 
le  dernier  de  la  famille  qui  ait  vet  u  noblement,  les  derniers  ayant  etc  forcees  d'apprendre  des 
metiers  pour  vivre. 

Dans  tous  les  cas  leur  petiteffe  n'empeche  pas  qu'on  ne  fache  tres  bien  dans  le  pays  ou'i's 
font  de  tres  ancienne  et  bonne  Nobleffe,  et  j'ai  fouvent  entendu  parler  dans  ce  fens  a  mt  n 
grand-pere  qui  etait  tres  au  coiirant  des  families  du  pays. 

Je  regrette  done,  Monfieur,  de  ne  pouvoir  vous  tranfmettre  rien  de  plus  precis.  Si!  on 
tenait  beaucoup  a  avoir  connaiflance  des  titres  qui  peuvent  reller  en  Normandie  lur  la 
funille  de  bortcfcu,  on  jiourrait  ecrire  a  Mons'.  du  liofc,  Archiville  du  Departement  di'  la 
Manche  a  St.  Lo,  c'eft  la  perlonne  qui  me  parait  le  plus  en  etat  de  donner  des  renfeigne- 
ments. 

Adieu,  Monfieur,  '      '    '     . 

Recevez  TalTurance  de  ma  confideration, 

C".  Au(/'\  ui;  Bonvouloir. 

We  may  affume  that  the  old  "Chevalier  de  Fortefcu"  here  mentioned  is  the  Paul  de 
Fortefcu  of  M.  de  Magny,  recorded  as   prefent  at  a  meeting  of  the  nobility   at  St.    Lo,  in 

1789- 

Monfieur  du  Bofc,  the  keeper  of  the  archives,  in  anfwer  to  incjuiries  made  in  accordance 

with  the  foregoing  fuggeftion,  very  courteouHy  replies   that  the  "  doffier"  of  F'ortefcu  in  his 


Families  of  Nortnajidy.  327 

office  at  St.  Lo  contains  only  a  few  papers  of  intereit,  of  which  he  furniflKS  abftrads,  which 
will  be  given  hereafter. 

I  fiihjoin  parts  of  two  letters  of  his   to  M.  Ogilvy,  written,  the  firil  from  Montehourg, 
on  the  9th  of  April,  iS66  ;   the  other  from  bt.  Lo,  un  the  17th  of  the  fmie  month. 

"  Les  Fortefcu  d'Anglcterre,  et  les  Fortefcu  de  France  ont  tres  certainement  une  origine 
commune,  ce  n'ell  pas  une  quellion  a  debattre." 

"  Depuis  mon  retour  a  St.  Lo,  j'ai  fait  un  voyage  dans  la  commune  du  Defert,   lieu  ou 
demeure  un   membre  de   la  vielle  tamille  de  Fortefcu,  le  plus  cajiable   m'avait  on  dit,  de 
tionner  des  renfeignements.      II   m'a  declare  que  dans  fa  branche  il  n'a  ete  conferve  aucuns 
titres  qui  puilTent  etre  de  la  moindre  utilitc. 
"  Cette  branche  ell:  ainfi  compofee:  — 

"  r.   Jean  de  Fortefcu,  demeurant  a  I'Anglet,  terre  patrimoniale,  56  ans  ;  marie. 
"  2".    Merve  Alexandre  de  Fortefcu,  demeurant  a  Bonvouloir  54  ans  ;    marie  (c'efi:  lui  tiui 
m'a  renleigne). 

"  J'.  Jacques  de  I<ortefcu,  demeurant  au  Mefnil-Veneron,  51  ans;    marie. 
"  4'.   1  heodore  de  Fortefcu,  demeurant  a  Graignes ;   marie. 

"  lis  font  fils  de  Plerve  Alexandre  de  Fortefcu  decede  a  I'Anglet  il  y  a  une  douzaine 
d'annees.  lis  ont  trois  coufms  nes  au  Meinil-V'eneron  tout  pres  de  I'Anglet,  I'un  ell  proprie- 
taire  et  journalier,  deux  font  domelliques  aux  environs  de  Bayeux.  lis  n'ont  pas  plus  de 
titres  que  les  quatre  preiniers.  Tous  fes'gens  la  ne  pourraient  etablir  leur  genealogie  qu'au 
moyen  des  regillres  de  I'etat  civil,  qui  ne  remontent  pas  generalenient  au-dela  tie  1690." 

In  iVuguft,  1866,  M.  Gabriel  Ogiivy,  having  occafion  to  go  to  Normandy,  was  fo  good 
as  to  vifit  the  dillrid  between  St.  Lo  and  Carentan,  where  the  Fortefcus  mentioned  in  M.du 
Bofc's  letter  refide.  Me  travelled  by  railway  from  Bayeux  to  the  rtation  of  Airel,  on  the 
Cherbourg  line  ;  thence  on  foot  fome  few  miles  further  to  Le  Defert,  Bonvouloir,  and  I'Anglet, 
vifiting  two  of  the  tour  brothers  above  named,  viz.,  Jean  (or  Jean  I'ranCj'ois),  the  eldelf,  and 
Llerve  de  Fortefcu,  the  fecond  brother.  The  former  is  a  imall  pealant-proprietor,  tilling 
his  own  thirty-nine  vergees  of  land.  He  is  a  municipal  councillor  of  his  commune  of  Le 
Defert,  and  fliowed  M.  Ogiivy  the  fummons  which  he  had  received  to  an  approaching 
meeting  of  the  Council,  thus  addreiTed  : — 

"  Monfieur, 

Monfieur, 
Jean-Frangois  Det'ortefcu,  Cultivateur  et  Confeiller, 
a  L'Anglet, 

Commune  du  Delert." 


3^8  Fafiiilics  of  Normandy. 

1  lerve  appeared  to  he  in  rather  better  circuniftances ;  he  was  formerly  Garde  de  CliaHe 
and  (iardc  de  I'crme  to  the  Count  dc  Bonvouloir,  and  bought  from  his  employer  the  land 
on  which  (tood  the  old  Chateau  de  Bonvouloir,  on  condition  that  it  fhould  be  pulled  down. 
1  Ic  lives  in  a  cottage  clofe  at  liand.  M.  Ogilvy  alio  vilitcd  the  houfe  of  a  I'ortefcu  in 
the  village  of  La  Gauterie,  between  St.  Kremont  and  I.e  Defcrt,  calleil  "  I'ortefcu  des 
Marais,"  or,  more  commonly,  "  De  Marais"  only,  defcended  from  Francois  de  l*'ortefcu. 
Seigneur  de  Marfleur,  in  1736.     It  would  feem  that  he  is  a  farm  labourer. 

M.  Ogilvy  finally  examined  the  Mairie  of  Le  Defert,  where  he  found  papers  enabling 
him  to  draw  up  the  following  defcent  of  thefe  Fortefcus,  by  which  it  will  be  feen  that  they 
are  fprung  from  Cjuillaume  Fortefcu,  founder  of  the  branch  of  St.  Lo,  in  M.  de  Magny's 
pedigree,  where  will  be  found  Jean  I'ortefcu,  fecond  fon  of  the  above-named  Cuillaume,  and 
father  of  Michel,  infcribed  as  Noble  at  Caen  in  1666.  This  Michel  de  h'orte.cu  Hands  firft 
in  M.  Ogilvy's  pedigree,  thus:  — 

I.  Michel  de  I'ortefcu,  Ecuyer,  fieur  du  lieu  et  de  L'Anglet  en  1670,  fut  pere  de — 

1.  Charles'  de  I'ortefcu,  Ecuyer,  Sieur  de  L'Anglet,  1684-1701;  doit 
Charlotte  de  I'ortefcu  en  1700,  i  701,  hlleule  d' Andre  de  h'ortcfcu  petie, 
Ecuyer,  en   i  701  . 

1.    Francois,  dont  I'article  fuit. 

J.   Damoifelle  Marie  de  I'ortefcu  en  1684-1711.  , 

II.  I'Vanc^ois  de  I'ortefcu,  Ecuyer,  Sieur  de  L'Anglet  et  de  Mefnilbu  en  1707  et    1711, 

fut  pere  de — 

I.  Jean- Francois,  dont  I'article  fuit. 

■2.  Francois  de  Fortefcu,  Sieur  de  Marfleur  en  1736.  V)t\\\\  eft  ilTue  une 
branche  de  laboureurs  demeurant  a  la  Gauterie  pres  S:iint  I''remont.  j 

3.  Jofeph-Antoine  de  I'ortefcu  en  1774. 

4.  Paul  de  I'ortefcu  en  1774,  pere  de  Luc  de  I''ortefcu  du  Mefnil-Vene'on, 

pere    de    trois    gar^ons    maintenant    [\artis   en    conditiori,  c'ell   a    dire, 
domefliques.  ' 

5.  Madeleine   Frant^oife  de   I'ortefcu  nee  en    1736,  fut  mariee  avec  M    du 

Mefnil  Angot,  qui  perit  fur  I'Echafaud  au  temps  de  Robefpierre. 

6.  Catherine  Francoife  de  Fortefcu  en  1774. 

7.  I'Vanroife  de  Fortefcu  en  1774.  ' 

III.  Jean    Francois   de   Fortefcu   Ecuyer,  Sieur  de    L'Anglet,  epoufa   en    1736,    Marie 

Magdeleine  Frant^oife  de  Lempriere,  dont — 


'   III  the  Armorial  General,  Normaridic,  Caen,  Cabinet  de  Titles,  vol.  388,  ful.  93,  Imp.  I.ilj.,  Charles  KorUllu, 
Ecuyer,  fieur  de  Langlet,  is  found  to  have  regiltered  his  arms  in  1696-97. 


F(i //lilies  of  NofV/iandv.  329 

I.    Hervc  KrniK'ois  Alexandre,  dont  Particle  fuit,  et 
■2.  Jean  iM-ancois  naufragc  fur  les  cotes  de  (juiiiee. 

IV.  Merve   Francois   Alexandre  de   Fortefcii,  fervit  fur  mer  de  ii  a   15   ans.      Mort  le 

10  Juin,    1 H54,  ayant  ej-ioufe   Catherine   Suzanne   15nve,  dont   les  quatre  treies 
deja  nonimes,  vnvants  i  866. 

V.  Jean    l''rancois   de    T'ortelcu,   fils   aine   ne    le    21     Juin,    1809;    marie    avec   Marie 

Virginie  Herouard,  dont 

I.  Jules  Aimable  de  Fortefcu,  age  de  18  ans. 
1.   Jean  Yves  de  Fortefcu,  age  de  17  ans. 

3.  Alfonfe  Alexandre  Ifidore  de  l-'ortercii,  age  de  13  ans.  .     ■ 

4.  Marie  Jolephine  de   l''orteicu,  age  de  7  ans. 

The  papers  at  Le  Defert  alfo  mention  Leonor  de  Fortefcu,  a  brother  or  coufm  german 
of  his  contemporary  Michel  l<'ortefcii ;  he  is  given  in  M.  de  Magny's  pedigree  as  Seigneur 
du  Chefne,  paroifle  du  Mefnil-Angot,  1666;'  and  by  Ogilvy,  quoting  the  papers  in  the 
mairie,  as  "  Sieur  de  la  Chefnaye  dcmeurant  au  Mefnil-Angot.  F.n  I'annee  1691  Andre  de 
Fortefcu,  fils  du  dit  Leonor  de  Fortefcu  Fxuyer,  fieur  de  la  Chefnaye  s'oppofi  a  la  publication 
des  bans  de  mariage  de  Mademoifelle  Marie  de  Fortefcu  fa  coufine  germaine,  fille  de  Michel 
de  Fortefcu  Ecuyer,  fieur  de  L'Anglet,  avec  Monfieur  Rene  Allix,  fieur  de  la  vallee  de 
Daye." 

There  are  alfb  lome  of  the  l-'ortefcu  family  ftiH  exilling  at  Graignes,  Canton  of  St.  Jean 
de  Daye,  ArrondifFemcnt  of  St.  Lo,  where  George  de  I'ortefcu,  l''cu\er,  left  a  fbn  George, 
born  in  1790,  who,  in  the  year  1810,  left  his  native  place  to  ferve  in  the  army,  and  has  not 
been  fince  heard  of  (November,  1867).  This  information  is  from  Mr.  Courois,  Notary  of 
St.  Jean  de  Dave,  who  fays  that  he  is  "  Notaire  de  la  tamille  de  Fortefcu,"''  and  willies  for 
information  concerning  the  milling  perfon,  who  is  fuppofed  to  have  gone  to  England. 

Another  notice  of  a  l-'ortelcu  in  modern  times  is  the  following  from  the  "  Aftes  de 
I'Etat  Civil  a  Bayeux": — 

"  182J.  Afle  de  Mariage  en  date  du  28  Juin,  182J,  de  Francoite  Veronique  de 
Fortefcu,  fille  de  Jean  Paul  de  Fortefcu  Ecuyer,  fieur  du  Bois,  et  de  Marie  Regnault  dc  la 
Commune  du  Mefnil  Veneron  (Manche)  avec  Gilles  Francois  Denis." ' 

The  lift  of  "  Emigres  de  la  Republique  Franraife  "  contains  the  following:—"  Fortefcu 
(Rene)Diftria:  du  Rouher  de  la  Liberte,  Municipalite  du  Deleri,  Departemcnt  de  la  Manche; 

'   See  De  Magny's  Pedif^ree,  anti.  ''  See  M.  Courois'  Letter  to  tlie  Aiitlior,  in  the  Appendix. 

^  Comniuniealiunb  Munuleriteb  de  M.  Olive,  Rue  Eeliu  a  liiyeux,  1SG4,  in  OgiKy's  MS.  Aceount  of  Norman 
I'ortelcus. 

II.  U   U 


330  Few: 'dies  of  Nor'nuvidy. 

les  hiens  (itucs  dans  Ics  dits  Diftrift,  Municipalirc,  ct  DcparteinciU  ,  conllatc  emigre  et 
jiortc  fur  la  lilte  par  arret  du  Departcment  du  6'  Novembre,  179-2."' 

In  1769  Melllre  Jacques  de  Fortefcu'^  was  Bailli  of  rhe  "  Haute  Jullice  "  ,it  La  1  laye  du 
I'uits.''  His  wife  was  "Noble  13anie  Charlotte  Ntel,"  who  was  godmother  in  1770  to 
Charles  Alexis  Adrien  du  Herillien,  de  Gerville,  a  learneLl  antiijuarian  of  Normandv,  who 
died  at  V'alognes,  July  26,  185  •5. 

In  the  Iinperial  Library  at  Paris  there  are  many  papers  relating  to  the  Norman 
Fortefcues,  throwing  light  upon  fome  of  the  names  in  the  foregoing  Pedigree  ;  feverai  of 
them  are  muller  rolls  and  receipts  tor  the  pay  of  efquires,  men-at-arms,  and  foldiers  in 
the  lall;  halt  ot  the  14th  century  ;  moil:  of  thefe  relate  to  a  Jean  Kortefcu  P'.cuyer,  who 
appears  in  Du  Londel's  genealogy  (No.  VII.)  as  "  Jean  Kortefcu  Chevalier."  We  firll:  find 
him  in  1366  with  his  company,  as  below.  1 

There  are  leveral  other  multers  and  receipts  for  pay  at  various  times,  from  the  year  1379 
to  September  20th,  1388.  The  receipts  are  for  pay  for  liimfelf  and  his  company,  "krvi  ig 
and  to  ferve  in  the  prcfent  wars  in  the  Coftenten  and  Normandy  in  general,"  and  are  dated 
at  Carentan,  St.  Lo,  and  Bayeux.  The  murtersare  five  in  number,  and  the  receipts  up  :o  lis 
appointment  as  captain  of  I'ont  Douve  are  nine  in  all.  To  fome  of  thefe  his  I  al  is 
attached,  and  a  few  imprellions  ot  that  and  of  other  feals,  have  been  found  kifficientl;  w.-U 
preferved  to  enable  me  to  have  drawings  made  from  them,  which,  being  of  much  intercll, 
are  engraved  for  this  work.  -  I 

Mujier  of  Jeha)i  Fortefcit,  JiDie  2,  a.d.  1366.'  ■ 

La  mouftre  de  Jehan  Fortefcu  Ecuyer,  et  deuK  autres  efcuiers  en  fa  compaignie  reyeue 
au  feige  du  Honiie  le  fecond  jour  de  Juinz  Mccclxvj. 

Le  dit  efcuier — cheval  hart.  ,  I 

Guillem  de  Baron  efcuier^cheval  noir. 

Due  de  la  Maire  efcuier — cheval  brun  —  bon.  "  ■  S 

Receipt  for  pay  from  Jehaii  Fortejciie^  Ju>:e  cjth,  a.  d.   1366.'' 
"  Sachent  tous  que  je  Jehan  b'ortefcu  efcuier  ay  eu  et  recu  de    Remier  le  Bo  itelier  clerc 


'   Ribliotlicquc  lli(loii(iUf  iIl-  I;i  Ki'volution,  panic  ii.  p.  53. 

-   Keiiault,  Kiviic-  .MoiuiimntaK:  it  Ililioriinu-  de  IWiiciKliin  nunt  dc  Coutanci-s.      8vo.      St.  I,o,  I  8  54. 
'  Ibiil  ,  p.  57b.  '  CabliiLl  ik-  TitiLS  (Imp.  Lib.),  Dollicr  '■  Fortefcu." 

'   Ibiil.      Kiri^-  Jobn  II.  ol'  France  was  taiveii  prilbiK-r    by    ibr   Fiiylilli    iiinlir   ibe    ISI.ick    I'riiue    .il    I'uitierb   in 
1  35b.  and  died  in    13I14. 


FluiiiUcs  of  Normandy.  3.3 1 

du  Roy  notre  Seigneur  et  fon  Vicomte  de  Beveux  receveur  general  es  hailliages  de  Caen  et 
c!e  Coik-ntiii  des  aides  ordones  pour  la  delivrance  du  Roi  JeLan  derreiiier  trepalTe,  dune 
Dieu  ait  laniCj  et  pour  le  taif  de  la  guerre  la  Ibnime  de  douze  tVans  d'or  einprell  fur  les 
gaiges  de  inoy  et  des  gens  darmes  de  ma  compaignie  defervans  et  a  defervir  fous  le  gouverne- 
inent  de  Monfeigneur  Guilleni  du  Merle  fire  de  MefTy,  cappitaine  general  es  ellz  hailliages. 
De  hi  quelle  ioninie  de  douze  francs  je  nie  tieii  pour  bieii  jiaie. 
Donne  fouz  nion  Icel  le  ix  Jour  ile  Juinz  Ian  mil  ccclx  (ix." 


A  like  Rcicipt  from  thejanie,  January  ii)th,  a.u.  1379.' 

Saichent  tuit  que  je  Jehan  Fortefcu  efcuier  confefie  avoir  eu  et  recue  de  Jehan^le 
Flamene,  treforier  des  guerres  du  Roy  noftre  Seigneur  la  fomme  de  fix  vins  qiiinze  livres 
Tournois  en  prell:  fur  les  gaiges  de  moy  et  de  huit  autres  efcuiers  de  ma  compagnie  defervans 
et  a  defervir  en  ces  prefentes  guerres  du  roy  nollre  dit  leigneur  es  partees  de  Coftentin  (oubz 
le  gouvernment  de  Mefilre  i'amiral  de  la  nier.  l^e  la  quelle  fomme  de  vj"  xv  1.  V.  defius 
dite  je  me  tieng  pour  content  et  bien  paie.  1 

Donne  a  Carentan  foubz  mon  icel  le  xxix  jour  de  Janvier  I'an  mil  ccclxxix. 


The  feal,  of  which  a  drawing  is  here  given,  is  attached. 


Miijler  of  JehiDi  Forte/cue,  February  i,  a.o.  1380.'^ 

La  revue  de  Jehan   Fortefcu  efcuier  et  quatre  autres  efcuiers  de  fa  compaignie  revue  a 
Carentan  le  premier  jour  de  Fevrier  I'an  mil  ccciiij." 

Premier.  Michel  Brilehance 

Le  dit  I'ortefcu  efcuier  jehan  le  Breton 

Jehan  de  Vandelle  Robert  Bloville.  ■ 


'  C.'.IjIikI  (K-  Tilrib,  Uollin  "  FortLlcu."     'I'lic-  i\..\  is  liom  llic  Clairt-inljiuill  Coll.  t'tioii. 
''  Cl;iii(iiil/ailt,  ^8.      \)o.  3622.      I-'uljiiuiry  1,  1380. 


332  FciDiilics  of  Noriiuuidy. 

The  fame.  May  I'itli,  a.  u.  1380.' 

La  revue  de  Jehan  Fortefcu  efcuier  ct  huit  autres  efcuiers  de  fa  compaignie  revue  a 
Careiitan  Ic  xviij  jour  de  Maie  I'aii  mil  ccclxxx. 

Premier.  Jehan  de  Meantys. 

Le  dit  Jehan  l-'ortefcu.  Jehan  de  Saint  Germain. 

Aymery  le  Nerroys.  Gorget  Blondel.  ■ 

Michiel  l-irifehanche.  Robert  TelTon. 

Mahier  de  Corbie.  Jehan  de  Saint  HiUaire. 

'I'lie  fame,  'July  i,  a.  d.  1380." 

La  revue  de  Jehan  I'Vatefcu   ekuier,  et   fix  autres  efcuiers  de  fa  compaigi.ie  aLiquelx  Ic 

derrain    efloit    louljz    Roger  Suhart,    reveue    a    Carentan    L-    premier    jour    tie    JmlleL    I'a-i 

mil  cccinj".  , 

I'remier.  Jehan  de  Mentis. 

Le  dit  Jehan  Fortefcu.  Georget  Blondel. 

Michiel  Brilchante.  Jehan  Le  Breton. 

Aymery  le  Nourriez.  (juillem  J")anienl. 

Receipt  from  felian  Foitefciiforpay,  July  18,  a.d.   ijSo.'' 

Saichent  tuit  ijue  je  Jehan  i'ortefeu,  elcuierj  contelTe  avoir  eu  ct  recu  de  Jehan  L- 
I'lamene  treibrier  des  guerres  du  roye  noftre  ieigneur,  la  fomme  de  quatre  v:ns  dix  livrt.-; 
Tournois  en  prefl:  fur  les  gaiges  de  moy  et  de  cinq  autres  efcuiers  de  ma  compaignie 
tiefiervis  et  a  dcftervir  en  ces  prefentes  guerres  du  roy  nollre  dit  Ieigneur  en  pays  de  Cfpu- 
Itantin  foubz  le  gouvernement  lie  Monfeigneur  I'Amiral  de  l>  ranee.  De  la  qiiclle  fonune  de 
iiij"x.  1.  'r.  defiiis  diz  je  me  tien  pour  comptent  et  bien  paie.  I 

Donne  a  Carentan  ioub/  mon  Icel  le  xviij  jour  de  Juillet  I'an  nul  ccc  et  ([uatre  vnis. 

I 

There  is  another  receipt  from  the  fame  Jehan  Fortefcu,'  to  the  fmie,  dated  and  'ealed  at 
Carentan,  .Vugiut  23,  1380,  lor  105  livres  'I'ournois  ior  himlelt  and  fix  other  elijinres,  word 
for  word  like  the  former,  excej-)ting  that  the  words  "  en  parties  de  la  Bafie  Normandie'  et 
Coftentin"  are  fubfiituted  for  "en  pays  de  Conftantin." 

And  another  from  the  fame   to  the  fame,^  dated  and  fealed   at  the  lame  plac  e,  Odober 


'  Cabinet  de  Titres,  Donicr  "  Forlcfcii."     M.iy  18,  1380. 

-  C'l^irL-inb.  48.  TiliLs  Scillci!,  vol.  .tlviii.  3OJI.     July   1,  1380. 

'  11)1.1.,  Do.      On;;:n^,l,  wllh  leal,  July   1  8,   I  380. 

'  Ibiil.,  Uu.  36^5.  '   Iliid.,  Do.  3bJ3. 


Fa/nilies  of  No?'fnaH(ly.  333 

25,  1380,  tor  135  livres  Tournois  for  himfclf  and   eight  other  efquires  of  his  company,  m 
the  fame  words. 

Another  from  the  lame  to  the  fame,'  dated  ami  fealed  at  Carentan,  December  28,  1380, 
tor  120  hvres  Tournois  tor  hinifelf  and  feven  other  efquires  of  his  company,  in  the  fame 
words. 

Mujhr  of  Jell  an  Fortejcii,  Nov.   1,  a.o.   1385." 

La   revue  de  Jelian   Fortefcu,  efcuier,  et  vij  autres  efcuiers  de   fa  compaignie  reveiie  a      ' 

Carentan  le  premier  jour  de  Novcmbre  I'an  mil  ccciiij".  ct  cinq. 

Et  premier, 

Le  dit  Jehan  I'ortefcu. 

Cniillem  de  Nerville. 

t 

Receipt  fur  pay  from  Jehan  Fortefcu,  June  20,  a.d.  1388.^ 

Saichent  tuit  que  je  Jehan  I'ortefcu  efcuier  confefi'e  avoir  eu  et  recii  de  Jehan  le  Flamenc, 
treforier  des  guerres  du  roy  notre  feigneur  la  fomme  de  trante  livres  Tournois  en  prell  fur 
ies  gaiges  de  moy  et  vij  autres  eciiiers  de  ma  compaignie  dcflcrvis  et  a  delTervir  en  ccs  pre- 
fcntes  guerres  en  pays  de  Normandie.  De  la  quelle  comme  de  xxx  1.  T.  dell'us  dic^e  je  me 
tiens  pour  content  et  bien  paie.  Donne  a  Saint  Lo,  foubz  mon  feel  le  xx  jour  de  Juinz  I'an 
mil  ccciiij''".  et  huit. 


The  feal,  of  which  a  drawing  is  here  given,  is  attached. 


Two  receipts  from   the   fame  Jehan   Fortefcu   to  the  fame  Treafurer  Jehan  de   Flamene, 
come  next  in  order;   they  are  dated,  one,  September  5,  1388,  at  Carentan;'  the  other,  Sep- 
tember   20,   1388,   at    Bayeux,''  each   for   thirty  livres  Tournois    tor    himlelt   and   one   other    ■ 
efquire,  and  each  with  a  feal  attached. 

He  receives  in  the  following  month  an  appointnient  as  Captain  of  the  h'ort  of  l\)nt 
Douve,  near  Carentan,  as  fhown  by  the  order  trom  the  Royal  rreafiners  upon  the  Vicomic 
de  Coullance  to  pay  him  the  falary  attached  to  the  pol^,  j)rovided  that  he  fhall  perform  tl  e 
duties  well  and  duly,  and  iri  his  own  perion. 


Cl.iiixinb.  48.      Do.  3623.  -  Ibid.     Do.  3t>22.     Only  tlu-  abovi-  two  n.imc^  givi-n.    Nov.  i,  1385. 

Ibid.     Du.  3623.  *  Ibid.     Do.  3625.  '■'  Thu  lunx. 


334  Fcvnilies  oj  Norz/ia/idy. 

Order  f 07-  payment  to  Jeluut  Furtejcu,  as  Captain  of  the  Fort  of  Pont  Douve, 
O!:lober  7,  a.d.    ijy8.' 

De  par  les  trcforiers  dii  roy  notre  feigiiciir  ;i  Paris.  Viconte  de  Coiiflanccs,  ou  (on  lieu- 
tenant, accomplirTcz  Ics  Icttres  dii  dit  iuigncur  an  vidimus  dcs  qvicllcs  ces  prcicnti.'S  font 
attachcz  fouhz  1  un  dc  nos  fignL-s.  En  payaiit  dori.Tiiavaiit  a  Jchan  I'ortcfcu,  CapitaiiiL-  011 
garde  de  la  turtL-rille  ou  baltide  du  Pout  Dove  les  gaiges  ay  celkii  office  appartuuuit  aux 
termcs  et  en  la  nianiere  accouftumez  ainfi  et  par  la  nianiere  que  le  dit  feigneur  le  mande. 
Efcript  a  Paris  Ic  vij'  jour  d'Ortolire  I'an  mil  ccciiij"  xviij.  pouvu  que  le  dit  office  il  exerce 
bien  et  duement,  et  en  pei-duuie,  efcript  conune  dellus. 

I'^ERRIER. 

It  will  be  obferved  that  John  Fortefcu  rtyles  hinifelf  in  the  following  receipts  "  Seigneur 
de  Saint  b'.vreniont,"  ellLwbiere  called  St.  P'.vrcniont  fiir  L'Ozan,  a  jiarilh  on  the  i'uial,  ri  xt 
Ozan,  near  Mcfnil-Angot,  and  places  before  his  name  the  "  de"  which  in  thofc  days  ge  le- 
rally  implied  a  fief  of  the  name;  of  the  exiftence  of  which  there  are  indications  alf)  c  fe- 
where ;  for  example,  in  an  attellation,"  by  a  Jehan  Fortefcu,  ilyled  "  de  Fort  :1c  1," 
he  is  called  "  Seigneur  du  dit  lieu;"  he  hears  the  fame  arms  with  the  Captain  of  Pint 
Douve,  viz.,  "  argent,  three  bends  azure,"  and  may  be  the  fame  perfon. 

I 
> 

Receipt  from   Jdian   FortejLti,   Lord  of  St.  Evremont,  for  his  pay,  ■  ' 

June  23,  A.u.  1399.' 

Sachent  tous  que  je  Jehan  de  b'ortefcu,  eicLfier,  ieigneur  de  Saint  Evremont,  et  Capiraine 
ordene  depar  le  Roy  notre  feigneur,  de  la  fortreile  et  baftide  du  Pont  Douve,  congno)js  et 
confelfe  avoir  eu  et  recu  de  honnourable  homme  Jehan  le  Chien  Viconte  de  Coullances  la 
fomme  lie  quarante  et  inie  livre,  iept  loulz,  c|uatre  deniers  Tournois,  a  mo\'  deubz  a  I'aufe 
de  mes  gaiges  du  dit  office  de  Capitaine  depuis  le  penultieme  jour  d'Octobre  mil  ccciiij''\  dix 
huit  derraine  pafle,  jufque  au  jour  de  pafques  enfuivant,  de  la  quelle  fomme  dc  xlj/.  vijj.  ^\'.]d. 
Poitevois  je  me  tien  jiour  bien  paie,  et  en  quitte  le  Roy  notre  feigneur,  le  die  Vic  mte 
et  tous  autres.  Temoins  mon  Icel  mis  en  celle  prclcnte  tpnttance  le  xxiij  jour  de  Juin,  I'aii 
mil  ccciiij".  dix  neut. 

J.    Foi  TESCU. 


'   Cabinet  do  Titres,  Dollicr  '■  Forltfcii"  (Oaclx-,  7,  131,8). 

-  Abllr.icls  i)f  Deeds  on  Veiliiin,  in  Imi)  l.il).,  I'.ii  i.s  ;  ami  Ch.unillanl  in  '•  I.,  l>l.i/on  [•'lani-ai-s,"'  In  .Mr.  I.cnl.iifjnc's 
ttter. 

■*   Cabinet  de  Titreb,  DoHier  •■  Foitcfeu."  June  23,  131JIJ. 


FiL'nilics  of  Nor/ncuiily. 


335 


A  like  receipt  for  50  livres  Tournois,  from  the  fuiie  to  the  fame,'  dated  November  28, 
A.D.  1400,  for  the  term  of  St.  Michael  lali;  pall,  is  thus  certilied  :  — 

"  lui  temoing  de  ce  Jay  fcelle  cefte  tjuirtance  de  moii  jtropre  feel  Ic  xxviij  jour  de 
Novembre  I'an  mil  quatre  cens. 

*'  1<"()RTKSCU." 

The  death  ot  this  John  hVirtelcu  took  place  about  the  end  of  the  year  1402,  a  receipt 
for  his  pay  being  figned  by  his  fon  on  the  fecond  of  l''ebruary,   1403,  thus:  — 

Receipt  from  Giiilkm  Fortejcu  fur  pay  due  in  l:i.\  late  father  as  Captain  vf  Pont  Douve, 

February   1  i,  I4O]. " 

Je  Guillem  Fortelcu  elcuier  fils  et  heritier  de  feu  Jehan  l-'ortefcn  nagaircs  Cappit;jne 
du  Pont  Douve,  conteile  avoir  eu  et  recu  tie  honnoiirable  homme  Robert  de  Lettre  Viconte 
de  Coullantin  la  lomme  de  cniquante  livres  Tournois  qui  deuz,  elloient  a  mon  dit  feu  pere  a 
cauie  de  fes  gaiges  de  Cappitaine  du  terme  Saint  Michel  dernier  palfe.  Do  la  quelle  fomnie 
de  1.  1.  'i\  je  me  tien  puur  bien  paye  et  comptent  et  en  quitte  le  roy  notre  feigneiu-  le  dit 
V'iconte  et  toiix  autres  a  qtii  tpiittance  en  appartient.  V  \\  telmoing  de  ce  jay  i'celle  celle 
quittance  de  mon  feel  ie  ij  jour  de  l''evi-ier,  Ian  mil  ipiatrc  cens  et  trois. 


The  feal  here  civen  is  attached  to  this  document. 


This  Guillaume  I'ortefcu  is  the  fame  who,  in  1415,  \\as  killed  at  the  great  battle  of 
Agincouit.  The  next  receipt  fhows  that  he  fucceeded  to  his  father's  office  at  Pont  Douve, 
which  indeed  appears  to  have  become  hereditary  in  the  family,  for,  as  other  papers  will 
lliow,  William  I'ortefcu's  next  brother.  Sir  John,  Lord  ot  St.  I'.vremont,  was  afterwards 
captain  of  the  dime  fortrels. 

Receipt  from  Guillem  Fortcfcu  for  pay  due  to  his  late  father,  June  i  i,  a.  o.  1404.^ 

Sachent  tons  que  je  Guillem  Kortefcu  efcuier  filz  de  feu  Jehan  Fortefcu  confefl'e  av<,  r' 
eu  et  recu  de  honnorable  homme  et  fage  Robert  de  Lettre  Vicente  de  Coutances  la  fomme 


'   Cabinet  de  Titres,  Dodier  "  Fortefcu,"  Nov.  28,  1400. 
3  Cabinet  de  Titres  DolTier,  "  Fortefcu,"  June  1  1,  1404. 


Ibid.,  February  2,   1403. 


33^  FiDnil'ies  of  Noriiuuul\. 

de  vint  ct  chincq  livres,  ncuf  loulz,  fix  denicrs  oh  Poitevine  qui  ik-iih/,  ertoient  a  mon  dit 
pert  et  a  nioy  pour  noz  gaiges  dc  ll-rvice  par  mon  dit  pere  et  par  moy  dcpuis  le  jour  Saint 
Michel  Ian  mil  cccc  et  troiz  cellui  jour  inclus,  jufques  an  darrain  jour  de  Janvier  enfuivant 
exclu. 

De  la  quelle  ibmme  de  xxv/.  ixj-.  v\d.  oh  Poitevine  je  me  tien  pour  content  et  en  quitte 
le  Roy  notre  Icigneur,  le  Viconte,  et  tous  autres  a  i|ui  (|uittance  en  pent  et  dtjit  apjiartenir. 
En  temoing  de  ce  jay  icelle  celTie  quittance  ;.le  mon  propre  ilel  le  xj  ji^ur  de  Juing  Ian  mil 
iiij  c  et  quatre. 

The  leal  attached  to  the  two  foregoing  receipts  is  thus  defcrihed  l)y  De  Belleval : — 

Seal  :    A  fhield  with  three  hends  ;   iupjiorters  two  Lions. 
Crcil  :    A  Lion's  head  within  a  pair  ot  wings.'  i 

We  next  find  liim,  three  months  before  the  great  battle  where  he  met  his  death,  paH'ng 
muller  at  Valognes  with  his  twelve  fquires.  , 

Miijler  of  GiiUlem  Fortefcii,  July  25,  a.  d.   1415." 

La  Mouftre  de  (iuillem    I'orteicu,  efcuier,  et  de  douze  autres  elcuiers  de  fa  comp  lig  lie, 

reveue  a  \'alognes  le  xxv  jour  de  juillet  I'an  mil  cccc  et  quinze. 

C'eft  afliivoir 

Le  dit  efcuier. 

Jehan  Fortefcu.  Pre  le  Feure. 

Ricart  Fortefcu.  Robin  le  Feure.    ■ 

Pierre  Fortefcu.  Jehan  Peinel. 

Guillem  Auber.  Jehan  do  Chilians. 

.  .  I 

Pierre  Lore,  Frolin  de  Tilly. 

Michelet  Lenfant.  Raoul  dcs  Mons.  | 

I  lis  name  is  in  Monftrelet's  Chronicle  in  the  lift  of  "  the  names  of  the  Princes  and  other 
Lords  from  divers  countries  who  perifhed  at  this  unfortunate  battle,  on  the  fide  of  the 
French." 

Under  the  head  of"  les  grands  feigneurs  des  Marches  de  Picardie,  comme  d'autres  pays" 
among  a  very  large  number  we  read  "  Ciuillaumc  I'^ortcfcu." 

Di:  Belleval  fays  : — "  Les  Chroniquers  ne  pouvaieiit  eiiregiftrer  huit  mi  lies  noms  (de 
gentilfhommes  qui  perirent  a  Azincourt)  ils  ont  du  faire,  ils  ont  fait  im  choi>  et  parmi  les 
combattants  et  les  vidimes  ils  n'ont  nomme  que  les  perfonages  les  plus  en  evidence  par  leur 
grandes  fondions,  ou  leur  haute  naiflance."^ 

'   Di-  Belleval,  Azincourt,  ]).   UJ3.  •'   Clain  inb:jiill,  4S.  Do.  JGj^.  ■ 

^  De  Belleval,  Azincourt,  Frdace,  p.  8. 


Fdtnilies  of  Nornuuidy.  337 

Pierre  l''ortefcu,  one  of  the  three  of  the  name  ferving  with  Guillaume  at  Azincoiirt,  con- 
tinued to  act  againll  the  Enghlh.  He  is  found  in  1418  at  the  liead  of  eighteen  other 
lifquires,'  in  the  army  raifed  by  the  Dauphin  for  the  defence  of  Touraine,  and  is  reviewed 
at  the  flege  ot  I'ours,  on  the  12th  of  December  in  that  year;  and  the  following  receipt 
fhows  liim  to  have  been  employed  againft  them  in  other  provinces  of  the  Well  ot  brance,  in 
the  following  fpring  ; — 

Receipt  for  fay  from  Pierre  Fortefcit,  May  31,  a.  d.  1419-^ 

Sachent  tuit  que  je  Pierre  Fortefcu  efcuier  confefle  avoir  eu  et  recu  de  Hemon  Ragnier 
treforier  des  guerres  ciu  Roy  notre  feigneur  la  fomme  lie  cuatre  vins  dix  livres  Tou'Miois 
en  preft  et  paiement  fur  Ics  gaiges  de  moy  efcuier,  et  ile  inrze  autres  efcuiers  de  ma  com- 
paignie  deflervis  et  a  ciefTervir  au  fervice  du  Roy  notre  dit  Seigneur  et  de  Monfeigneur  !e 
regent  le  roy,  alencontre  les  Anglois  qui  de  prefent  font  es  Duchie  de  Normandie,  Contrez 
du  Maine  et  du  Perche  et  en  plufieurs  autres  parties  voifmes,  et  partout  aillieurs  ou  il  plaira 
a  mon  dit  feigneur  le  regent  ordonner,  en  la  compaignie  de  Monfeigneur  de  Narbonne,  et 
foubz  le  gouvernement  de  mon  dit  Seigneur  le  liegent.  De  la  quelle  fomme  de  iiij'"'x  1.  P. 
je  me  tieng  pour  content  et  bien  paie,  et  en  quitte  le  dit  treforier  et  tous  autres. 

Donne  en  tefmoing  de  ce  foubz  mon  feel  le  dernier  jour  de  May  I'au  mil  cccc  et  dix 
neuf. 


The  feal  here  given  is  attached  to  this  receipt. 


At  the  date  of  the  foregoing,  Henry  V.  had  again  entered  France,  having  landed  in  Nor- 
mandy in  Augufl:,  1417,  with  a  very  llrong  army  of  jo,ooo  men,  and  reducing  Cherbourg,' 
with  all  the  other  ilrong  places  of  Lower  Normandy,  finally  obtained  poffedion  of  the 
entire  Duchy  by  the  fall  of  l^ouen  in  January,  141  9.'*  We  do  not  hear  more  of  this  Pierre 
l^'ortefcu,  but  can  difcover  the  eft'eeH  ot  tlie  I'jiglilli  concpieft  upon  his  coufin  Jean  b'ortef 'u, 
fecond  fon  of  the  former  Captain  of  Pont  Douve,  and  next  brother  to  Guillaume,  killed  at 
Azincourt,  whom  he  fucceeded  at  Pont  Douve,  as  well  as  iti  the  Lordfhip  of  St.  b.vremont. 


'   Dom.   Miuirico,   llifloire   de   Brelagne,   Paris,  1744,  5  vols,  folio,  vol.  ii.  col.  986.       (Cummuniciilcil   by  M. 
Ogiivy). 

-'  Clairtmb.  48,  Id.  3625  (.May  31,  1419).  '  Lingard's  llifl.  ling.,  vol.  v.  37. 

11.  X   X 


33^  Fcvnilics  of  Nonjimicly. 

This  fortrefs,  like  all  others  in  the  province,  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  Englifh.'      On     _ 
the  27th  of  March,  141  8,  Jean  hortefcu,  the  governor,  furrendercd  ii    to  two  knights,  Sir 
John  RobelTiirt  and  Sir  William  Beauclianip,  fent  for  the  piirpofe  by  the  Duke  ot  Gloucefter, 
who  took  Carentan  at  the  fame  time. 

The  conditions  are  prcferved  in  a  work  by  Brequigny,  and  were  as  follows': — 

II  elt  ftipule  que  les  Chevaliers,  et  Efcuyers  emporteront  leurs  armurcs,  veuires,  et 
emmeneront  Icur  chevaux,  mais  lailfcront  les  canons,  poudres,  arcs,  arbaletes,  fleches,  viretores, 
baudreux,  et  generalement  les  armes  qui  fcrvaient  de  fauvegardc  a  la  forterede  ; 

Que  tous  les  GentilHiomnies  et  autres  de  la  dite  forterelTe  qui  voudront  demeurer  ' 
attendre  et  devenir  hommes  lieges  et  vrais,  obeillans  et  fubgiez  de  notre  lit  Souverain 
Seigncm-  Ic  Roy  de  I-'rance  et  d'Angleterre.  S'y  accordera  et  accorde  a  toi's  ceux  de  la 
condition  delfudite,  tous  leurs  biens,  meubles,  heritages,  terres,  et  pofTelfions,  tant  dedans  le 
dit  chaflel  comme  dehors,  hormis  les  terres  qui  auront  ete  donnes  devant  cefle  prefen  :e 
compofition  :  Que  les  dames  et  damoifelles  qui  prefentenient  font  au  Chalk'l  du  Fo  it 
Douve,  mon  dit  Seigneur  de  Glouceller  de  fa  haute  Seigneurie  et  gentilelTe  leur  a  acton  e 
que  au  jour  de  la  dite  rendue  elles  auront  et  emporteront  avefques  eulx  tous  leurs  lie.is 
propres." 

Jean  de  Fortefcu  figna  cette  capitulation  en  la  ville  de  Saint  Lo  le  17""  Ivlars 
1417-18.'  ' 

In  accordance  with  the  above  conditions,  Jean  I'ortefcu  w.as  maintained  by  Henry  ^'. 
ill  the  polTeirion  of  his  property  within  the  Hailliage  of  Caen  and  Coutaiices  by  a  decree  of 
the  19th  of  September,  1419,'  having  alre.idy,  on  the  24th  of  June  in  that  year,  been  named 
by  the  fame  King,  "  pour  commander  avec  d'autres  gentillhommes  la  Noblefle  du  Bailliage 
de  Coftentin."  '  I 

In  1420  there  is  the  following  atteflation  : — 

I 

"  Attertation  de  Mailieu  le  Fevre  chevalier  garde  du  feel  des  obligations  de  la  VIconte 
de  Carentan,  que  fehan  b'ortefcue  efcuier  a  fait  I'hommage  que  tenue  lui  efloit  fliire  a  caiife 
et  par  raifon  de  fes  heritages,  rentes,  et  podelhons.      Dat.  28  de  Male  1420."^  I 


'   Carte,  Catalogue  of  Gafcon,  Norman,  and  I'Vench  Rolls  in  the  Tower  of  London.      I.c   Chantc  ir;  Iliftorie  de 
Carentan. 

^   Le  Ch.inteur,  "  Iliftoire  de  Carentan,''  tiuoting  I')re(iuigiiy  (fee  O^iKy,  |i.  40). 
■■'  See  M.  Olive  de  Bayeux,  MS.  communication. 

*  M.  Olive  to  M.  Ogiivy,   I  8(14. 

*  Abflrac^s  of  Deeds  on  Vellum,  Imp.  Lib^  I'aris. 


FaniilicS  of  No7-)na7idy.  339 

Jean  Fortefciie's  adhefion  to  the  caufe  of  Meiiry  V.  was  complete.  A  Norman 
feigneur  at  tliat  time  fcarcely  counted  liimlllf  as  a  I'lenehman  ;  and  when  a  defcendant  of  his 
old  fovereigns  the  Dukes  of  Normandy  appeared  on  the  foil,  lie  prohalily  did  little  violence 
to  any  feeling  ot  patriotifm  or  of  loyalty  when  he  transferred  his  allegiance  from  the  French 
King  to  the  new  conc^ueror.  In  1424  he  holds  an  honourable  port  as  "  Garde  du  feel  des 
Obligations  de  la  Viconte  de  Chierburgh."'  In  1429  he  became  a  knight  and  a  banneret,  with 
a  command  of  importance  in  the  Norman  army  raifed  by  the  I-",arl  of  Suffolk  to  alfift  the 
Englifli  forces  then  engaged  in  the  fiege  of  Orleans.  Ik-  is  mentioned  in  the  "  Adminilba- 
tion  de  la  Normandie  fous  la  domination  Anglaife,"-  under  the  following  heading: — 

"  Troupes  Anglaifes  an  liege  d'Orleans,  independamment  de  I'armee  proprement  dite,  la 
plupart  des  Capitaineset  des  baillis  founfirent  iur  leur  retenues  ordinaires  un  certain  i  ombre 
de  gens  d'armes  et  d'archiers,  on  fit  audi  appel  aux  gens  nobles  et  tenans  nohlem'^nt  du 
Duche  de  Normandie.  Tons  furent  fommes  de  comparaitre  en  amies  a  Vernon  Ic  Mardi 
29  Mars  1429.  lis  formereiit  un  corps  de  200  lances,  et  de  600  archers  c|ue  Ton  employa 
au  niois  d'Avril  a  conduire  des  vivres  a  I'armee  afllgeante,  le  29  Avril  ils  partirent  de  Paris. 
Ces  troupes  feodales  etaient  fous  les  ordres  de  chefs  de  montres.  Les  Seigneurs  que  nous 
voyons  decores  de  ce  titre  etaient  MefTire  Jean  d'Oiffy,  Meffire  Jean  Fortefcu,  Chevaliers, 
et  Jean  Sauvage  F.fcuyer,  pour  les  Vicontes  de  Carentan,  Valognes,  et  Coutances.  Feur 
compagnie  fe  compofait  eut  compris  de  deu.x  Chevaliers-bannerets,  un  Chevalier-bachelier, 
dix  hommes  d'armes  a  la  denii-foldc,  et  vingt  et  un  qui  prennaient  les  gages  d'archers 
nobles,  ceil  a  dire  6''  eiUrlins."     Le  4  Avril  ils  etaient  a  Vernon,  et  le  19  li  Paris. 

The  next  two  papers,  flom  the  MSS.  in  the  Imperial  Library,  dated  the  day  before  the 
arrival  at  Vernon,  bear  upon  this  expedition  to  Orleans  :  — 

Mitjier  of  t lie  Men-at-Arms  and  .-Irchers  under  the  Chevalier  Jehan  Fortejcu, 
April  3,  A.  1).  1429.'' 

Mouftre  de  iiij  lances  et  xii  Archiers  a  Cheval  de  la  retenue  de  Meliire  Jehan 
F<"ortefcu  Chevalier,  du  nombre  de  cent  lances,  et  trois  cent  Archiers  ordoiuies  foubz  le 
gouvernement  de  Monlleur  le  Comte  de  Suflblk,  lieutenant  du  roy  fin-  le  fait  de  la  guerre 
en  Has  pays  de  Normandie,  pcnir  faire  guerre  aux  ennemis  du  roy  notre  feigneur,  etians  a 
Montmeril,  Montandain,  Mont  Saint  Michel  et  ailleurs  en  pays  d'Arranchin,  prife  a  S  .  Lo 

'  As  appears  by  the  following  in  the  Ahffracns  o)'  Deed>.  on  Vellum  in  the  Imperial  I.ihrary,  '•  Ac(|uillaiice  de 
Jehan  Fortefcu  efeuier,  garde  du  feel  des  obligations  de  l,i  Viconte  de  Chierhourg  a  certaines  perlbnncs,  des 
arrcrages  deubz  a  caufe  de  ceulx  heritages.     Dat.  2  Juillet  1424." 

*  Vol.  xxiv.  of  the  above  work  (as  communicated  by  M.  U.  Ogiivy),  p.  226,  227. 

'  Collec'tion  Clairenibault,  torn.  162. 


34°  Families  of  N^o?-/;ia?uiy. 

le  iij  jour  d'Avril  cccc  vingt  ncuf,  avant  Pafqucs  par  nous  Jchan  1  larpelay,  Chevalier  bailli 
de  Colkntin,  ct  Nicolaiz  Francoys,  Controlk-ur  Ac  la  garrilon  du  ilit  lieu  de  Samt  Lo,  a  ce 
comniis  par  MeHieurs  les  Treforier  et  Recevieur  general  dc  Norniandie. 

Prf»Here)iie>it. 
Honimes  d'Arnies. 
Melfire  Jehan  I-'ortcfeu,  Clievalicr. 
Thomas  du  Boic  ^ 

Jehan  Martyn  V    Sans  iiarnois  de  jambs. 


Guillcm  Vanquelin 


Archiers. 


Jehan  Neel.  Jehan  Reynault.  •     ' 

Colin  Jolfet  Taifnc.  Thomas  Parker. 

Guillem  Poillbn.  Perrin  BlelTet.  i 

Colin  JolTet  lejcune.  Jehan  Moureton. 

Simon  Pontet.  Jehan  Pibet. 

Jehan  de  Beufeville.  Noel  Pemperir. 

Jehan  le  Noir. 

V^iens  rabater  pour  la  faute  du  harnois  de  jaml)e,  par  I'ordoiuice  de  Monfieur  le 
Comte,  pour  les  caufes  contenues  en  la  fin  des  mouftres  du  dit  Monfieur  le  Comte.  E.i 
temoing  de  ce  nous  avons  figne  ces  prefentes  du  noz  faigiis  manuelz  I'an  e':  jour  defli.s 
dits. 

J.  Hari'elev.  y.  Franceys. 

'I 
Receipt  for  pay  from  the  Clievalier  'fehan  Fort  feu,  .-Ipril  2,  a.  u.   1429.'  1 

Saichent  tuit  que  nous  Jehan  Fortefi:u  Chevalier,  Capitaine  de  iiij  lances,  et  xii 
Homnies  de  trait  du  nombre  des  cent  lances,  et  trois  cent  Archiers  a  cheval  ordonnez  a  m'on 
Seigneur  le  Comte  de  Suffolk  lieutenant  du  Roy  notre  Seigneur  fi.u-  le  fait  de  la  guerre  es 
bailliages  de  Caen  et  de  Coitantin  pour  taire  guerre  aux  aiinenfis  du  roy  notre  Seigneur, 
conteffons  avoir  eu  ct  recu  de  Pierre  Surreau  receveur  general  de  Normandie  1:  fomme  de 
fix  vings  neut  livres  iijj.  iiij./.  'Pournois  pour  le  paienient  des  gaiges  et  regars^  le  nous  et 
iij  autres  hommes  d'armes,  et  xii  Archiers  a  cheval  de  notre  dite  retenue,  pour  le  Ijrvice  d'un 
mois  commencant  au  jour  dui  que  nous  avons  fait  nos  prefents,  mouftres  en  celle  ville  de 
Saint  Lo,  par  dit  monfeigneur  le  bailli  de  Coftantin  et  Nicholas  I<"raunceys  a  ce  commis  par 

'   Cabinet  de  Titres  a  Paris,  Doflitr  '•  Kortuicu."  "  Sic  in  MS. 


Fa/nilies  of  Nor;na?i(iy.  341 

Monfeigneur  le  Goiiverrieur  de  Normaiidie.  Dc  l;u|ucllc  fonimc  tie  vj"'  ix/.  u]s.  i\\]d.  dclTus 
didcs  nous  nous  tenons  pour  contens  et  hien  paie.  I't  cii  quitroiis  \c  roy  notrc  dit 
Seigneur,  le  dit  receveur-general,  et  tous  autres.  Donne  a  Saint  Lo,  ibubz  notre  llel  le  iij 
jour  d'Avrll  I'an  mil  iiij  cens  et  xxix  avant  J'afques. 

The  receipt  is  endorfed— 

"  Blanc  de   Monleigneur  Jehan  Kortefcu  Chevalier  pour  fes  gaiges  de  vj."'  ix/.  iijj.  \ny{.  i 
Tournois  pour  le  fervice  d'un  niois  de  iiii,  iij  autres  lances,  et  xii  archiers  a  cheval." 

The  Jehan  Harpelay  above  mentioned  occurs  in  Holinflied  as  "Sir  John  I  larpleie 
Bailliff  of  Conftantin."  ' 

The  month  for  which  Sir  John  h'ortefcu  engaged  himfelf  and  his  men  had  but  jull  exnired 
when  the  EngliHi  were  obliged  to  raife  the  fiege  of  Orleans  by  a  Ibrtie,  headed  by  Joan 
d'Arc,  on  the  8  th  of  May,  1429. 

The  following  notice  is  the  next  in  (jrder  : — • 

"  Sir  John  Fortefcu  and  Sir  William  de  Moleyns  the  Captains  refpeiftively  of  the 
Caftles  De  la  Riviere  de  Thibonville,  and  1  larcourt,  allilled  at  the  furrender  of  L'.deux  [to 
the  Englifh]  on  the  4th  of  Auguft,  1429."" 

We  find  him  a  few  months  later  filling  the  poll:  ot  "  Garde  du  feel  des  obligations  de  la 
Vicomle  de  Valogncs." 

The  Vifcounty  was  formerly  one  of  the  municipal  divifions  of  Normandy,  the  Duchy 
being  divided  into  {qwcw  "  Grands  Bailliages,"  which  were  (ubdivided  into  Vifcounties,  and 
then  again  into  "  Sergeantries,"  which  lad  were  made  up  of  a  varying  number  of  pariOies. 
The  Sergeantries  were  noble  fiefs  held  from  the  King,  and  conferred  on  their  polTellbrs  the 
right  of  naming  the  fergeants  tor  the  different  parifhes  within  their  limits.' 

The  Keeper  of  the  Seal  for  a  Vifcounty  was  an  othcer  ot  importance  in  his  province,  and 
the  office  was,  according  to  La  Chefnaye,  only  held  by  the  leading  families,'  and  was  entirely 
honorary.  He  fays  :  "  Mare  le  Febre  etait  en  1420  Garde  du  feel  des  obligations  de  Carentan, 
charge  exercee  avant  ou  apres  lui  par  les  Oflier,  Renaidt,  l''ortefcu,  Le  Ccfiie,  Poirier, 
I'Vanquetot,  et  autres  de  la  generalite  de  Caen,  tous  diftingues  foit  par  une  ancienne  Noblelfe, 
foit  par  les  charges  de  Gentilfhommes  de  la  Chambre,  ou  de  prefidents  a  Martier."'' 

A  number  of  documents  remain  in  the  "  Dolfier  Fortefcu '"  of  the  Imperial  Libraiy, 
iffiied  while  Fortefcu  kept  the  feal   at  Valognes.      They  are  not,  however,  ot   any  interell  tu 


'    IloliiiftiL'd,  vol.  lii.    156.  i-.l.   1808.  '"   .•\ilinlnifti;Uiiiii  .le  la  Ncrin.indif,  vul.  .\.xiv.  j), 

'  0"ilvy's  Nobiliaire  du  Noiniiindie,  Introducflion,  p.  xiv.      '  Oi;d\),  c|uotlnf^  La  (JlidiiayL. 
*   La  Chcfiiayt,  Uiift.  dc  la  Noblelle,  vol.  ix.  p.  O84. 


3^2  Faviilies  of  Nor?na?!(iy. 

our  family  refcarch,  merely  bearing  the  name  of  "  jehaii  Fortcfcu  Chevalier"  at  top,  and 
relating  to  affairs  with  wliieh  he  was  not  otherwife  connee'ted.  One  is  given  as  a  fpecimen 
ot  the  whole.  It  is  tlie  firit  ot  a  ieries  of  eleven,  extending  from  the  ill  of  September,  1429, 
to  tlie  3rd  of  1^'ebruary,  1448. 

ji  tons  ceulx  qui  ccft  leltrcs  verront. 
JehcDi  Fortcjcu  Chevalier,  garde  du J'cel  des  obligacions  de  la  l'\LO)ite  de  Vallongjes  Jalut} 

Savoir  faifons  que  pardevant  Jehan  Tallot  clere,  tahellion  jure  commis  ct  eftabli  au  fiege 
du  dit  lieu,  tut  prefent  Goret  Pain  de  le  ParoilTe  de  Saint  Chriftophe  du  h'on,  le  quel  de  fon 
bon  gre  congnoilTe  et  confelfe  avoir  eu  et  recu  de  homme  pourveu  et  faige  Thomas  Pellere, 
Vicente  de  Vallongnes  la  fomnie  de  vingt  cinq  livres  Touniois  que  deubz  lui  eflnient  pour  fa 
poine  et  falaire  davoir  maconne  tout  de  neut  on  dedans  des  foffes  de  la  ville  deChierbourg 
aupres  de  la  tour  du  nort  ung  contre  nnir  en  maniere  de  diquerie  de  blefce  et  de  galon  de 
xlviij  pies  de  long  quinze  pies  de  haut,  et  de  cinq  pies  de  ley,  icelle  maconnerie  contenu  il 
defclara  plus  a  plain  en  la  cinquiemc  partie  du  roulle  des  ceuvriers  de  la  difte  Viconte  fur  ce  faite. 
De  la  quelle  fomme  de  xxv/.  le  dit  Cjoret  Pain  fe  tint  a  l)ien  content,  et  en  (]uitta  le  loy 
notre  feigneur,  le  dit  Viconte  et  tous  autres.  Kn  temoing  de  ce  ces  lettres  font  fcelles  les 
dits  fceaux  fauf  a  tout  droit.  Ce  fut  fait  a  Valongties  le  premier  jour  de  Septembre  Ian 
mil  ceccxxix. 

Tallot.     I 

This  chevalier  married,  as  the  Londel  Pedigree  informs  us,  under  the  head  of  No.  VMI. 
in  the  defcent,  "  Noble  Kille  Marie  de  Perfy,"  by  whom  he  had  his  fon  and  fucce  Joi 
Triftan. 

We  find  him  with  another  wife,  by  whom  he  alfo  had  iffue.  This  was  Jeanne 
d'Anneville,  daughter  and  heirefs  of  Guillaume  d'Anneville,  Chevalier,  Lord  of  Tourneliu, 
by  his  wife  Jeanne,  daughter  of  Michel  d'/\nneville,  Chevalier,  Lord  of  Montaigu.  Tiiis 
lady  married  before  Jean  hortelcu,  Jean  de  (irimouville  Lord  of  (iauville  and  of 
Carentilly.      She  is  thus  ilylcd  in  La  Cheinaye  des  Hois  :  — 

"Jeanne  d'Anneville  dame  de  Saint  Germain  de  Tournebu,  et  de  Saint  Martin  de  viel, 
mariee  fecondement  a  Jean  l''ortecu  Chevalier,  Seigneur  de  Saint  Evremont  fur  I'ozan,  et  de 
la  Mauffix",  les  ent'ants  des  deux  lits  partagerent  la  fuccelfion  en  1449."" 

CoUiaux  Fortefcu,  the  daughter  of  Jean  Kortefcu,  Lord  of  St.  Evremort,  married 
"  Guillaum  Oliver,  Seigneur  de  Coutourp  TefTon,'  et  Clitourp,  Viconte  de  Valognes." 


'   Cnblntt  de  Titrcs,  ".  DofTier  Fortcfcue." 

'  La  CliL-fnaye  des  Bois,  OiJl  di-  la  Noblcftc,  15  vols.  P.iris,  1778,  ('uii|jlL'rneiU  tome-  i.  (1.  95. 

^   La  l{o{iui:,  Hiiioire  dc  la  Mailbn  d"IIarcourt.  p.  -061J,  l'rcu\us. 


Fainilies  of  Norina7i(iy.  343 

His  eldcll  Ion,  Tiiftan,  is  llyled  in  the  "  Dic'-Vioniiirc  di.'s  l<icfs,"  by  Gounloii  tic  (lenoilhic,' 
"Seigneur  de  Mefnil-Angot,  Seigneurie  pofledc  par  la  famillc  dc  l-'ortefcu  en  146J."  The 
following  entry  in  the  Regilter  of  1 558-99,  by  De  RoinV,  relates  to  his  dcfcendant  in  the  elder 
line:  "Jacques  de  l^ortefcu  Seigneur  de  L'Anglet  fils  Richard  deineurant  au  Defert,  Ser"" 
du  Homniet,  Election  de  Carentan  et  Pierre  Ton  Coufm-Germain,  rtls  Pierre  denieurant  a 
Saint  Andre  des  bouchon  fergeanterie  de  St.  l',ny — Jouiront."'"  Alfothisjin  the  "  Recherches 
des  Norniandie,"  by  D'Allegre,  in  the  "  Regill:rc  des  jugenients  rendus  par  nous  Eftienne 
d'Aligre  Seigneur  de  la  ivivierc,  Confeiller  du  I^oy,"  d;'.ted  at  Carentan  le  27  Septembre, 
1634,  p.  51,  is  the  fallowing:  — "  EleCHon  de  Carentan.  h'ortefcu  Art.  i  i8.  Veu  les  titres 
prefentez  by  Guillaume  de  1^'ortefcu  efcuyer,  Sieur  de  Villecour,  et  du  Langlet  paroill'e  du 
Defert,  Eiecflion  de  Carentan,  fils  Jacques,  fils  Richard,  tils  Jacques,  fils  Triltan  ile  Eortef  u 
— Jouirront." "  That  is  to  fiy,  we  are  futished  that  they  luive  a  right  to  the  privileg';s 
of  Nobility. 

We  read  that  "  Trillan  h'ortefcu,  Ecuyer,  Seigneur  du  Mefnil-Angot,  fut  alTigne  en 
1470,  avec  d'autres  VavalTeuis  pour  ellimer  les  tiefs  de  la  riviere,  et  de  Soulle  paroille  de  St. 
Froment  niis  en  cries  le  4"'  Janvier,  a.i;.  1470."  ' 

Tliis  Triftan  was  the  ancel1:or  of  two  other  families  befides  the  elder  line,  who  are  alfo 
in  D'Allegre's  "Recherches  de  Normandie."  One  of  thein,  Franc^-ois  b'ortefcu,'  is  iound 
noble,  in  1598,  by  comniiirioners  deputed  to  inquire  into  the  ufurpation  of  titles  of  nobility 
in  the  Gencralite  of  Caen,  thus:  — 

"22  Oiflobre,  1598,  a  Vallongnes,  Fran<^ois  de  Fortefcu,  demeurant  a  Mefnil-Angot, 
Sergeanterie  du  Honiniet,  Eleiftion  de  Carentan,  veu  fes  titres — Jouira,  il  a  deux  fils  mineurs, 
Nicholas,  et  Michel." 

Thefe  fons  (the  minors)  come  forward,  in  1634,  and  obtain  a  confirmation  of  their 
nobility  before  d'Allcgre,  thus  : — - 

"  Veu  les  titres  prefentez  par  Nicholas  de  I-'ortefcu,  feigneur  de  Villecourt,  paroifTe  du 
Mefnil-Angot  Eledion  de  Carentan  et  pour  Michel,  Jacques,  et  Charles  fes  freres,  enfans  de 
Fran(^-ois,  his  Nicholas,  fils  Jacques,  fils  Nicholas,  fils  du  dit  'I'riftan  de  bortefcu  ci  delllis — 
Jouiront."" 

An  appointment  made  in  1512,  by  Nicholas  Fortefcu,  named  in  this  defcent  as  great- 
grandfon  of  Triflan,  to  the  office  of  fergeanterie  of  le  1  lommet,  Hiows  that  he  held  that 
fergeanterie  as  a  noble  fief 

'  See  pp.  164,  191,  327,  etc. 

2  RegilUr  par  de  Roiffy,  et  p.  95  (MS.). 

'  Recherches  de  Normandie,  MS.,  Co.  Secl.  xvii.  Brit.  Mus.  Rilil.  \\m\.  45O8. 

'  Arch,  de  Munligneur  le  I'lince  de  Condc,  in  Abllriic'ts  of  Deeds  on  Vellum,  lin]i.  lib. 

'  See  in  the  Brit.  Mus.  the  Ibllouing  MS.: — "  La  coppie  du  Regiihe  de  Mellicuis  <le  Koilljy,  Hipichou,  et 
Croifmare,  Commill.'iireb  commisi)ar  la  Majeftc  pour  la  recherches  des  Nobles  de  laGeneralitc  de  Caen  aux  annees 
'598-1599-      Collatione  i'ur  I'origiual  deineurc  au  dit  fieur  de  Repichou  un  des  dits  Commilfaires." 

"   Recherches  de  Normandie  d'Allegre.      lortel'cu,  Art.  II9,  liail.  MS.,  Brit.  Mus. 


34-4  FaiJiiltcs  oj  NornuDidy. 

L'aii  mil  cinq  cens  ct  tioiize  Ic  iiij  jour  dc  Novenihrc  a  Saint  Lo,  Ic  nolile  honinie  , 
Nicholas  I'ortufcu,  fcigncur  de  la  Vieullc  Court,  plegc  Mailbe  Robert  I'oftaiii,  avoit  Ic  droit 
a  titre  de  ferviage  de  la  fcrgeanterie  du  Ilommct  pour  Ic  temps  et  terme  de  trois  aiis  comples 
commenchants  a  la  Saint  Michel  derraine  pade  recours,  dc  hien  et  dcuement  excrcier  la  dite 
lergeanterie  durant  le  dit  temps  de  trois  ans,  et  de  taire  bons  et  loyaux  records  et  ex])loitz  . 
touchant  le  dit  office,  moiennant  et  par  my  ce  que  le  dit  Maiftre  Robert  a  ce  prefcnt  eii  pro- 
mill:  acqueitier  et  deliverer  le  dit  hortefcu  de  tout  ce  que  luy  en  poin-ront  eftre  deuiande,  et 
garder  et  obligier  hicns  et  heritages,      'refmoings  Lo  Davy  ;   ct  Ilermen  i-'uret. 

J.   Cannklande. 

J.  i)E  Lencsomnu. 

A  third  line  of  defcendants  of  the  fame  Triftan  was  reprefented  in  ithe  period  of 
d'AUegrc's  inquifition,  by  Anthoine  de  Kortefcu  and  his  brother  Jacques.  'They  had  become 
greffiers  or  rcgiftrars  of  the  bailliage  of  Carentan,  which  office  being  lield  to  be  incompitille 
\\  ith  the  rank  of  a  "  Noble  Homme,"  the  two  brothers  were  confidered,  according  to  the 
phrafeology  of  the  fyftem,  to  have  deroges,  that  is  to  fay,  to  have  loft  their  rank  as  nobl  :s, 
and  the  conimiffioners  condemned  them  to  a  fine  of  fix  livres  each. 

Their  privileges  were  rellorcd  to  them  in  the  year  1645.'  This  is  the  form  cf  the 
judgment : — 

"  Vu  les  titres  prcfentez  par  iYntoin.e  de  Fortefcu,  efcuier,  feigneur  de demcur;  nt 

a  Saint  Andre  du  Bouchain  tant  pour  lui  que  pour  Jacques  de  b'ortefcu,  fon  frere,  cntans  de 
Pierre,  fils  Pierre,  fils  Jacques,  fils  Triftan  de  Kortefcu,  Efcuyer,  Seigneur  de  Mefnil-;\  ng  )t, 
veu  par  nous  les  aftes  prefentez  par  le  dit  Anthoine  de  Fortefcu  comme  commis  et  fermierdu 
greffe  du  Bailliage  de  Carentan,  avons  ordonnc  que  Ic  dit  Jacques  et  Anthoine  feront  impofez 
a  la  taillc  en  la  dite  paroilfedc  S.iint  Andre  du  Bouchain,  a  la  fomme  de  dix  livres  chacun  du 
principal  ;  et  pour  avoir  deroges,  les  avons  condamnez  a  la  fonmie  de  6  livres  chacun  danu'nde. 

"  lis  ont  erte  fcrmiers  et  greffiers  du  grcffie  a  Carentan."'' 

By  the  following  order  ot  reftoration  we  gather  that  another  of  the  family  ha  1  loi}  his 
rights  by  holding  the  fame  office  :  — 

"  1625,  arret  du  Confeil  l^ivc  du  Roi  declarant  ijue  Jean  de  Fortefcu  anci  .'n  Noble,  a 
deroge  en  exercant  le  gretfe  Royal  de  Carentan,  confu-mant  le  jugemeiit  des  Lomnnffaries 
Tan   1623,  et  rc-habilitant  le  deroge."' 

in  the  "  Recherches  de  Nobles  de  la  Gcncralite  de  Caen,  by  Chamillard,  about  1655,  the 


'   Opilvy,  Nobiliaire  de  Normandic,  Introiliic'tion,  \>.  xx.  ''  D'Allcgre,  p.  70,  Art.   164. 

'  Ogilvy  MS.  Colltctioiis,  I'ortLlLU. 


Families  of  Nor/na7uh>.  345 

Fortekus  arc  thus  mentioned.'    1  cannot  identify  all  of  theni  with  thofe  which  have  been  met 
ehewhere : — 

Eleftion  de  Vire.      Anclenne  Nohlene. 

Sergeanterie  de  Jean  le  Blanc. 

Jacques  de  l^'ortefcii.      Paroifre,  Ic  Pleiris-Grimault. 

Elei^tion  et  Sergeanterie  de  Carentan. 

Ancienne  Nohlefle. 

Leonor  de  Fortefcu.     Paroifle,  Mefnil-Angot. 

Jean  de  Fortefcu.  Idem.  : 

Jacques  de  Fortefcu.  Idem. 

i 

Election  de  Carentan,  Sergeanterie  du  Hommet. 

Michel  de  Fortefcu.      ParoifTe,  Le  Defert. 

Election  de  Valongnes,  Sergeanterie  de  V^alongnes. 
Tanneguy  de  Fortefcu.      raroifie,  Alleaume. 

Eleiftion  de  Bayeux,  Sergeanterie  d'Ifigny. 

Ancienne  NohleiTc. 

Marc-Antoine  de  Fortefcu,  de  Maiftry. 

The  Fortefcus  of  Saint  Marie  du  Mont  formed  another  branch,  nearly  allied  to  the 
feigneurs  of  St.  Evremont.  St.  Marie  du  Mont  is  a  parifli  fituated  on  the  fhores  of  the 
elluary  through  which  the  waters  of  the  Douve  and  Vire  flow  into  the  fea  n(jrth  of 
Carentan. 

Our  principal  knowledge  ot  them  is  drawn  from  a  document  which  was  lately  bought  for 
the  Britifh  Mufeum,  being  a  "  chartrier  "or  rental  of  the  eftates  of"  Kichart  Fortefcu,  efcuyer. 
Seigneur  du  Bui/Ton,  feant  en  la  paroifTe  de  Sainte  Marie  du  Mont."  It  was  drawn  up  not 
later  than  the  year  1463,  probably  feveral  years  earlier,  and  contains  copies  ot  conveyances  ; 
of  land  by  his  anceftors,  both  by  purchafe  and  by  leafe,  as  early  as  the  year  1365.  1^'rom 
this,  and  from  other  notices  in  corroboration,  I  have  deduced  iome  particulars  of  what  would 
appear  to  have  been  one  of  the  moft  prominent  of  the  numerous  families  of  the  narie 
cluftered  together  on  a  few  tquare  leagues  of  the  Cotentin,  in  the  furtheft  part  of  Lower  . 
Normandy,  more  clofely,  and  in  greater  numbers  than  were  their  F.nglifh  coiifms  in  the  nud 
fouthern  promontory  of  South  Devon. 


'   Hegiftre  dc  Chamillard  pour  les  Rcchtrches  des  Nobles  de  la  Gcneralitc  de  Caun,  (Prcls-Marli.   Biit.   Mus. 
4581.     I'lut.  L.  1.  D.),  folios  40,  59,  61,  74. 

II.  Y    Y 


34^  FcDJiil'ies  of  NornKuiily. 

Pierre  Fortefcu'  married,  not   later  than  i;?50,  Giiilleniette  aux  Ffpaulles,  daughter  of 
Guillaume  aux  Ffpaulles,  Chevalier,  of  the  parifli  of  Sainte  Marie  du  Mont. 
His  fon  Jean  gives  the  following  receipt  in  1370  :  — 

"  Jehan  Fortefcu  efcuier  du  fort  de  Neanhon  fi  conune  ii  difoit  confeffe  devoir  a  Richart 
Segoniz  demourant  a  Roan  la  foninie  de  quarante  franz  d'or  a  luy  preftez,  tous  fes  pour  et 
en  noni  de  Mons  Guillaume  aux  Ffpaulles,  Chevalier,  Capitaine  du  dit  fort,  et  fon  oncle."'' 

The  name  of  Neanhon  occurs  in  the  Chartier  as  fituated  in  or  near  Sainte  Marie  du 
Mont.' 

1  his  John  was  feized  of  the  following  fiefs,'  namely  :-  —  Franquetot  in  he  parifhes  of 
Ouetreville  and  Coignies,  Mons  in  the  paridies  of  St.  Marie  du  Mont  and  I'/ucheville,  held 
direct  trom  the  King  by  the  llxth  part  of  a  "  fieu  de  llaubert."  Thefe  two  fiefs  he  inhe- 
rited from  his  forefathers,  while  he  alfo  held  the  fief  of  Ilubertville  in  the  pariflies  of 
Hubertville  and  St.  Germain  en  Tournebu,  in  right  of  his  wife,  (juillemette  du  Floiiin  et, 
fifter  of  Jean  du  Ilomniet  Chevalier,  Seigneur  de  la  Varanquerie  ;  and  he  purchafed,  \\\  he 
year  1365,  the  fief  and  N'avafibrie  of  Buifiun  in  Saint  Marie  du  Mont,  with  a  waterniill  in 
the  next  parirti  of  Brucheville. 

Jean  b'ortelcu  dii  Buiflbn  was  living  in  1403,  as  by  this  certificate  appears  : — 

"  Je  Jehan  Fortefcu  efcuier  Seigneur  du  fieu  de  Piftot  affiz  a  l''ranquetot  es  paroiiTes  de 
Quetreville  et  de  Coignies,  tefmoigne  et  certiffie  que  Jehan  Anquetil  fut  mon  prevoft  jn  .lit 
fieu  en  Fan  mil  ccciij""  et  fix  (1366).  Tefmoingmon  feel  cy  mis  le  x  jour  de  Septembre  Ian 
mil  cccc  et  trois."^  , 

The  name  of  Anquetil  occurs  frequently  in  the  Chartrier  of  l^ichard  h'ortefcu  ;  th<;  full 
title  of  which  document  is  thus  : — 

^1 
"Cell:  le  Chartrier  ou  font  les  rentes  de  Richart  I'"ortefcu  efcuier  Seigneur  du  Buiflon,  et 

les  tenans  du  dit  fieu  en  la  maniere  qui  enfuit  fait  et  ordonne." 

"  Cy  enfuit  les  teneurs  du  fieu  du  Buiffon  feant  en  la  paroiffe  de  Sainte   M:  rie  du  Mont 

et  illenoque  environ,  appartenant  a  noble  homme   I^ichart   I'ortefcu  efcuier  Se  gneur  du  dit 

fieu.  Ft    les    noms   des   perlonnes   qui    les    tieiinent,    F'.t    le    rentes    et    lervices   que    eulx   en 

doivent." 


'   Chartrier  dt  Richart  t'orttfcu,  p.  38,  folio  ifa. 

-  Archives  de  la  voutu  du  Palais  de  Jufiice  a  Koiun  Ki-f;.  3,  folio  76. 

^  Chartrier,  folio  22.  *  Ibid.,  (olio  55,  et  feij.         •"  Cabinet  de  Titres,  Imp.  Lib.  I'aris,  Doilier  "  I'"ortefcu." 


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FamHics  of  NoDiunidv.  347 

Tlie  holdings  are  divided  into  two  chilTcs,  vii.,  tliofc  "en  franc  rieu/'  and  thole  "  rentes 
qui  ne  font  pas  en  tranc  fieu." 

The  tenants  are  numerous,  and  the  holdings  wliich  are  given  in  aeres,  vergies,  and 
percques,  are  generally  fniall. 

This  Richard  fucceeded  his  father,  and  nuill  have  lived  to  a  good  old  age,  as  he  was  alive 
ni  1464. 

The  annexed  tac-finiiles  of  part  of  the  contents  of  the  C'hartrier,  and  fome  longer  extracls 
in  the  Appendix  to  this  chapter,  will  give  the  reader  an  idea  of  its  contents.  I  have  had 
the  whole  volume  accurately  copied  by  Mr.  Sims  of  the  Britilh  Mufeum,  (o  that  the  chances 
ot  the  prefervation  of  the  record  are  increafed. 

The  defcendants  of  Richard  I-ortefcu  flill  held  the  fief  of  Buiflbn  in  1540.  In  t  lat  year 
Guillaume  I''ortefcu  Sieur  du  BuilTon,  is  on  record  as  a  bcnehicHor  to  the  pariili  cl-urch  of 
Sainte  Marie  du  Mont.  I  have  taken  the  foregoing  from  the  "  Memoires  de  la  Society'  des 
Antiquaires  de  Normandie,'"  which  alfo  has  a  notice  on  that  parifli  as  follows: — 

"About  the  year  ij8o,  next  to  the  Aux  Efpaules,  the  three  principal  families  of  the 
parifli  of  St.  Marie  du  Mont  were  the  Beaugendres,  the  I'ortefcus,  and  the  Olberts.  Thefe 
three  noble  lioufes,  together  with  the  lords  of  the  place  (i.  e.  the  Aux  Efpaules),  joined  in 
building  the  tower  of  the  parifli  church. 

"  The  old  people  of  the  parifli  relate  that  the  b'ortefcus  (who  lived  in  the  quarter  called 
Poupeville)  contributed  alfo  towards  the  ere^'tion  of  the  lleeple.  Their  family  \ault  is  in 
the  South  tranfept,  next  to  that  of  the  Beaugendres.  On  the  ftone  flab  which  covers  it  are 
thefe  words,  '  Cy  gifl  Noble  13emoifelle  Catherine  hortefcu,' &rc.  1  ler  wooden  coflin  efcaped 
deiecration  in  the  Revolution,  and  may  llill  be  {^^w  in  its  original  place  in  tlie  vault." 

TheKortefcu  arms,  cut  in  flone,  were  on  one  of  the  angles  of  the  church  tower  until  that 
time  of  deflrudion.'- 

Iti  the  firft  half  of  the  fifteenth  century  Mariette  de  h'ortefcu  of  Sainte  Marie  du  Mont 
married  Charles  de  Beaugendre  of  the  fame  parifli.-' 

Idle  arms  of  Richart  Fortefcu  of  St.  Marie  du  Mont  are  given  differently  by  two 
authorities,  one  in  the  Imperial  Library,  of  1464,  with  a  drawing,  afligns  to  him  ami  to 
Triftain  Fortefcu  of  Mefnil-Angot,  a  fingle  bend  azur  on  a  field  argent,  thus  approa.  hing 
the  Knglifli  coat.  The  other  in  the  Cotton  MSS.,  without  date,  gives  him  the  more  ufu  il 
three  bends  azure,  on  a  field  argent.'' 


'    I'ublinufd   jeaily  at  Caen  (ince   1824.      The  famt-   [japer   gUL-s  alio  tilt-  uliial  Uaditioii   of  llic  rortdl-us  and 
William  the  Conqueror. 

••^   .St.  Allais,  Nobiliaire  L'niverlel.  ■'   Ogiivy,  Nobiliaire  de  Normandie,   1  20. 

'  ALftrac'ts  trom  Deeds  on  Vellum,  Imp.  Lib.,  and  CoUon  MS.  Tiberius,  Armorial  de  Normandie. 


34^  Fa/nilles  of  Nornuuidx. 

\n  the  Imperial  Library  there  is  an  "  atteftation  by  Kftienne  Lefne,  clcrc,  garde  dii  feel  des 
obligations  de  la  Vicomte  de  Saint  Sauveur,  that  Sagier  Aiiveroy,  of  die  pariih  of  Marche, 
had  fold,  quitted,  and  paid  an  annual  rent  of  a  capon  as  "  fin  de  heritage  de  Jehan  Fortefcu 
elcuier.'" 

This  deed  is  headed,  "  De  Fortefcu,  i  j6j,"  and  infide  the  cover  is  palk-d  a  coat  of  arms, 
argent,  three  bends  azure,  and  under  the  fliield  thus:— 

"  Fortefcu  ecuyer  S'.  du  dit  lieu ;  Chefne,  du  Tallies,  Beauregard,  Launay,  Comtii  de 
Caen,  Eleeflion  dc  Bayeux." 

It  may  be  obfcrved  that  St.  Allais  revcrfes  the  colours,  and  gives  for  thcfe  l''ortefcus  du 
Chefne,  &c.,  &c.,  "  d'azur  a  trois  bandes  d'argent."  ' 

In  1469  we  find  in  the  Archives  du  Chapitre  dAngers,  "  Fortefcu  (Jean^  Seigneur  de 
la  Guichardiere  avou  a  tenir  en  foy  et  hommage  fimple  de  noble  homme  Jacques  le  V'eneur 
ecuyer  Seigneur  dc  la  BoilToniere  et  de  Mirmonde,  a  caufe  de  fa  feigneuriede  Mirmonde,  un 
fiet  allis  au  dit  Mermonde  avec  tout  ce  qui  en  dependoit  par  acte  palTc  le  ij"'  Septembi ;, 
1469,  delivrcc  vers  la  fin  par  vetuiT:e.  Arch,  du  Chap.  dAngers,  teneft.  i  1.  IVunsaveux  ;oiiie 
i.  fol.  9."' 

There  are  feveral  other  notices  of  Fortefcus  in  Normandy  relating  to  perlons  whom  \  e 
have  no  means  of  aligning  to  their  proper  place  or  branch  in  the  family  ;  for  example, 
in  14I9-20,  there  is  a  Norman  Roll  of  7th  Henry  V.,  dated  from  the  Camp  at  Gifois, 
Oftober  4,  1419 : —  '  ,  ,     ' 

"  De  dote  concefsa  Hugonx,  or  Hugnetx',  Fortefcu  vidua.',  qua;  fuit  uxor  Gullielnu  le 
Taneur  de  funfti,"  &c.  &c.' 

I 

In  1420-21  there  is  another: — "  De  officio  vcnandi  lupos  concefro  Johanni  Fortefcu."^ 

Richard  Fortefcu,  with  Thomas  Duthill,  is  commiflioned  in  1428,  on  the  2nd'  of 
December,  by  the  Lords  Suffolk,  Talbot,  and  Scales,  to  pafs  in  review  the  mounted  archers 
and  men-at-arms  of  William  Glafdal,  bailiff  of  Alcn^on,  ferving  at  the  fiege  of  Orleans. 
This,  however,  may  be  Sir  Richard  of  F'.rmington  and  Ponibourne.'' 

In  1429,  dated  Rouen,  March  y,  is  a  warrant  to  pay  Meffire  Ciuillaume  Fortefcue 
Chevalier,  two  months  pay  for  himfelf,  three  other  men-at-arms,  and  twelve  mounted  archers 
under  the  command  of  the  Karl  of  Suff(jlk.' 


•  Abflracl  from  Deeds  on  Vellum,  Imp.  Lib.,  and  Cotton  MS.  Tiberius.  Armorial  de  Normandic  ;  and  Nobiliaire 
de  Normandie,  a.  d.   i668,  perl'eiflionne  \yM  Dubuidbn. 

'■  St.  .-Vllais  Nobiliaire  Univeri'el,  vol.  vi.  p.  99.  •■  Ablhadls  of  !.)(  eds  on  Vellum,  Ini|).  Lib. 

*  Carte,  Nunnaii,  Gafcon,  and  French  Holls  in  Tower  of  London  ;   Norman  liolls,  vol.  1.  p.  316 

'   Ibid.,  p.  3i7.  '  Catalogue  of  Additional  Charters  in  lirit.  Mus.,  vols.  i.  and  ii.  '  Ibid.,  iii.  3. 


Fa»iilics  of  Nor;nci7i(Iv.  34^ 

The  arms  of  the  Fortefcus  of  Normandy,  while  they  ditfcr  from  thofe  of  England,  do 
not  vary  in  a  greater  degree  than  is  confident  with  their  common  origin. 

Their  fhicld  is  in  general  argent  wiili  three  lends  of  azure ;  of  this  the  earlieli  inftance 
is  the  coat  of  the  Koitefcus  of  Chefne,  Tailles,  Beauregard,  &c.,  &c.,  already  given.  Sir 
William  I'^ortefcn,  killed  at  Agincourt,  bore  the  fame  arms. 

Sometimes  we  find  the  colours  of  the  Ihield  and  bends  interchanged  by  the  fame  branch 
of  the  family  ;  e.  g.  when  Jacques  Jofeph  de  Fortefcu,  Sieur  de  Tailly'  bears  on  a  held  azure 
three  bends  argent — Tailly  being,  no  doubt,  another  form  of  Tailles. 

A  wider  departure  from  their  original  Ihield  appears  in  the  fmie  family  in  1666 — in  the 
Nobiliaire  of  IVl.  de  Saint  Allais,  when  "  h'ortel'cve  Ecuyer,  fieur  du  dit  lieu,  des  Chefnes,  du 
Taillis,  de  Beauregard,  de  Launay,"  &c.,  maintained  Noble  in  that  year,  regillers  his  arms 
as  "  Three  bends  ^«/c'j  on  a  field  argent." 

Another  variation  is  that  noticed  already  in  the  cafe  of  Richard  Fortefcu  of  Sainte  Marie 
du  Mont,  and  Trllfain  Fortclcu  of  Mefnil-Angot,  who,  in  fome  inlhmces,  took  a  fmgle  broad 
bend  ot  azure  on  an  argent  field  in  place  of  the  three  narrow  beiids. 

The  ftep  from  any  of  thefe  coats  to  the  Englifli  coat  is  not  greater  than  from  one  of 
them  to  the  other.  The  central  bend  is  widened  and  indented  or  engrailed,  fo  far  lofmg 
part  of  the  ancient  charafterilHc  ot  fmiplicity  ;  the  lateral  bends  are  contrafted  into  bendlets 
or  cotifes,  and  thefe  lafi:  are  coloured  in  gold. 

It  was  by  differences  of  this  kind  that  brothers,  or  the  defcendants  of  brothers,  were  in 
the  habit  of  diftinguifliing  themfelves  from  their  relatives." 

The  refemblance,  therefore,  between  the  French  and  iMiglilh  arms  of  the  family  i?  more 
remarkable  than  their  differences,  and  is  not  very  eafily  accounted  for  in  accordance  with  the 
unanimous  tradition  which  lives  in  both  divifions,  and  afligns  the  period  of  their  feparation 
to  the  Norman  Conqueil,  long  anterior  to  the  adoption  of  armorial  l)earings  in  cither  country. 

I  believe  that  the  circumftance  arofe  from  a  not  untrequent  communication  between 
perfons  of  the  name  on  both  fides  of  the  channel,  and  a  confequent  keeping  up  of  the  remem- 
brance of  their  relation Hiip  to  each  other  ;  firft,  during  the  time  when  the  Kings  of  England 
were  alfo  Dukes  of  Normandy  extending  to  King  John's  reign  in  1204,  a  period  of  about 


'  Armori.i!  General  de  Normandie,  Caen  ;  Cabinet  de  Titres,  Imp.  Lib.  388,  f.  93;  and  Nobibaiie  Univeil'l  de 
la  France,  Saint  Allais,  Paris,   1815,  \ol.  vi.  ]>.  99. 

-  Boutell's  Heraldry,  1864,  p.  lyj. 

^  A  dole  approach  to  the  ul'iial  Norman  (liield  is  made  by  a  coat  of  ForteCcue  arms  given  in  a  MS.  collusion 
of  KntiliOi  arms  of  the  fcventeenlli  coiitury  in  the  Hritilh  Mufeum,  among  the  additional  MSS.  20,745,  '■  77>  en  iiled 
"Alphabet  of  Arms  xvii"*  Century,"  thus,  '•  Forttfiiie:  b.  beml  bet'  ij  Undleltes  or."  The  relidence  is  not  given, 
nor  is  the  branch  defignated.  A  liniilai  nlimblance  is  found  ui  a  bjaiu  h  of  the  Englilh  lortefcues,  as  given 
in  Burke's  "  General  .\rnioury,"  where  ue  lind  ••  I'orletcue.  azure,  a  beml  colil'ed  .ugent,"  but,  as  he  gives  no 
reference,  I  ilo  not  place  it  in  the  text.  It  will  be  obferved  that  the  above  Ihields,  being  without  engiailing,  are 
almofl  identical  with  that  French  Ihield  which  bears  ■■  three  bends  argent  on  a  field  azure." 


35°  Fcvnilies  of  No?-nia?i(iy. 

one  hundred  and  forty  years  from  the  Conqiiell,  and  afterwards  in  the  I-Vench  wars  of  the 
middle  of  the  thirteenth  century,  and  in  the  coiKjueft  of  Normandy  by  Edward  III.  (1346', 
approaching  to  the  date  of  the  earlieft  Fortefcu  cont  of  arms  that  we  have  met  with  (1363). 
Moreover,  it  is  not  ahugether  imiirohable  that  JMvnch  and  iMigiifh  h'ortefcues  may  have  met 
in  the  Crufades;  for  we  know  that  fome  of  the  name  from  both  countries  joined  in  thofe 
expeditions. 

The  remarkable  feal  which  lias  been  figureti  at  page  97  of  this  family  hillory,  and  which 
can  hardly  mean  anything  but  an  intermarriage  between  a  French  l^ortefcu  and  a  daughter 
ot  the  name  in  h'.ngland,  likewife  points  to  intercourfe  between  the  two  widely-feparated  lines. 

PoHibly  a  daughter  ot  Sir  John  I'ortefcue,  Governor  of  Meaux  in  1422,  or  of  Richard 
Kortefcue  ot  Krmington,  who  paffed  into  Normandy  in  1443,  may  have  married  Richar. 
Fortefcu  of  Sainte  Marie  du  Mont,  or  another  Richart,'  mentioned  in  a  ce'tificate  given  at 
the  Cour  d'aihzes  at  Kvreux  in  1453,  as  having  left  Normandy. 

We  find  one  inflance  where  a  l<"ortefcu  took  an  efcutcheon  quite  different  from  the  reil 
of  the  family  : — 

"  Bureau  de  Saint  Lo.  Charles  de  I'ortefcu  efcuier  Sieur  de  Langle.  D'or,  a  uiie  rpee 
de  fable  en  pal  et  fur  trois  ecufTons  d'argent  brochant  fur  le  tout."  - 

M.  de  Magny  ftates  that,  "  in  certain  mural  paintings  of  the  fifteenth  century — (he  iloes 
not  fay  where  they  are  to  be  feen)— the  Korteicue  fhield  is  fhown  with  a  notch  in  the  dexter 
chief."      This  was  intended  to  allow  the  lance  when  in  its  red  to  pafs  through.'' 

The  crefl;  was  not  always  the  lame.  Monfieur  de  Magny  gives  it  as  "a  knight's 
helmet  crowned  and  wreathed  with  trefoil." 

But  the  Norman  leals  which  I  have  (ccn  have  for  crelf  a  maftifl^'s,  or  it  may  be  a  lion's 
head'  between  two  wings. 

In  fome  fragments  of  feals  in  the  Imjierial  Library,  traces  are  vifible  of  other  crefts, 
differing  from  both  the  former. 

The  woodcuts  on  the  oppofite  page  are  examples  ot  the  more  ufual  crell,  and  of  an 
imperfect  crell  difFering  from  the  former;  both  are  from  the  Claircmbault  Colkrtion 
in  Paris. 


'    bee  the  Ctrtilicate  in  Appendix. 

'   Imp.  Lib.  I'aiib,  Annoiial  Geiicr.il  Normandie,  Cam;    Cabinet  tie  Titres,  vol.  388,  lol.  93. 

^  Boutell's  lleraKiry. 

*  De  Uelleval,  Azincourt,  arms  ol' Guillaumc  lorteieii,  p.  193. 


Families  of  Non/iandv.  351 


Foiixr.scu,  A.I).    1403.  l-'ouTi.scu,  a.  d.    1429. 

In  England  the  crcil:,  from  tlic  (\r\\  which  lias  been  fouiid,  early  in  the  fixteenth  century, 
to  the  prefent  time,  is  uniformly  an  heraldic  tiger  paflant,  the  only  change  in  detail  which 
has  occurred  being  the  addition,  feme  time  in  the  laft  century,  of  a  fmall  fhield  in  the  ti  ^er's 
paw,  introduced  by  l'".arl  P'orteicue  and  the  Earl  of  Clermont  and  others,  and  ftill  ukd  by 
their  delcendants. 

The  motto  belongs  to  the  clafs  technically  ftyled  "canting,"  as  being  a  jilay  ujion  the 
lurname.  We  do  not  know  when  if  by  what  member  of  the  family  it  was  firft  adopted, 
though  probably  it  was  taken  not  later  than  the  beginning  of  the  fixteenth  century.  Weft- 
cote,  in  his  "  View  ot  Devonlhire,"  writing,  at  the  clofe  of  that  century,  upon  the  Wimpftone 
I'ortefcues,  fays  that  "  Forte  fcutum  falus  ducum,"  is  the  "  pofy  "  of  that  name,'  fiiowing 
that  it  was  then  in  eftablifhed  and  general  ufe. 

It  muft  be  remembered  that,  in  former  times,  the  motto,  or,  as  the  I'Vench  call  it,  the 
"  cri  d'armes,"  was  not  conftantly  the  f ime  from  fithcr  to  fon,  but  each  chofe  what  pleafed 
him.  The  heralds  took  little  if  any  notice  of  the  motto,  it  is  not  once  mentioned  in  all 
the  Vifitations  of  the  family  which  I  have  examined,  although  they  contain  very  many  coats 
of  arms. 

Sir  Adrian  occafionally  ufed  the  words  "  Eoyall  Penfe  ; "  and  his  fon  Thomas  places 
"  A  virtute  orta  occidunt  rarius  "  over  his  arms. 

The  l^Vench  families,  according  to  M.  de  Magny,  took  the  words  of  their  name.  Fort 
Ecu,  as  their  motto. 

The  reader  of  this  work  will  have  feen  tliat  the  unanimous  tradition  of  both  the  Englifh 
and  French  Fortefcues  eftablidies  the  Fortefcu,  or  Le  I'cjrt,  who  accompanied  William  the 
Conqueror  to  England,  as  their  laft:  common  anceftor. 

I  am,  however,  bound  to  mention  that,  in  the  opinion  of  M.  Gabriel  Ogilvy,  author  of 
a  Nobiliaire  de  Normandie,  the  Norman  families  are  offsets  from  one  of  the  I'^nglifh  houfes. 
He  aflumes,  from  the  abfence  of  the  name  from  all  documents  earlier  than  the  middle  of  the 
fourteenth  century,  that  fhortly  before  that  period,  and  not  fooncr,  an  Englifh  Fortefcue 
fettled    in     Normandy.       He    may    be    right,    but    it    does    not    follow    that    they    were 


'  Weftcote's  Dtvonlhire,  E.'ceter,  1 845,  p.  394. 


352  Families  of  NoDnandy. 

not  in  the  countrv  becaufe  there  is  no  pofitivc  record  of  the  fad  at  a  period  fo  diftant 
as  eight  centuries ;  the  abfence  of  the  name  may,  perhaps,  be  taken  to  imply  that 
they  did  not  hold  any  large  fief,  and  were  not  prominent  in  their  province,  but  nothing 
farther. 

While  on  the  other  hand,  it  muft  be  remembered  that  there  is  no  mention  of  the  fettle- 
nient  ot  any  Englifh  Fortefcue  in  Normandy,  which,  if  it  took  place  at  all,  muft  have 
happened  before  1204,  when  the  Duchy  palled  from  the  Englilli  crown  to  that  of  l''rance. 


Appendix  to  Chapter  XIII. 

A.  '     ; 

Couro'n  Notaire  a  Saint-'Jcan  de  Daye,  Chcf-lieu  de  Canton  [ALinchc). 

I 
Au  tres  honorable  Lord  de  P'ortcfcu.  ■    ' 

Comme  notaire  de  la  famille  de  Forte(cu  j'ai  I'honneiir  d'cxpofer  au  trcs  honorable  L  )rd  de 
Fortefcu,  ce  qui  luit. 

Georges  de  Fortefcu,  ne  a  Graignes,  canton  de  St.  Jean  de  Daye  le  4  Juillet  1790,  fils  de  G.-or|;es 
Francois  de  Fortefcu  ecuyer,  eft  parti  de  Graigties  a  I'agc  de  20  aiis  pour  le  lervice  niilitairc. 

C'etaic  au  moment  des  guerres  du  premier  empire.  Dcpuis  cettc  epoque  fa  famille  tres  iiiquiete 
n'avait  pas  re^u  de  les  nouvelles,  lorfque  I'annee  derniere  une  perfonne  etrangere  eft  venue  prend;e  ces 
renfeignenients  lur  la  famille  de  Fortefcu,  at  a  revele  le  deces  a  Londres  d'un  de  Fortefcu  que  I'on 
fuppofait  etre  ne  en  Normandie. 

Cette  revelation  a  neceilairement  fait  fuppoler  que  ce  de  Fortefcu  pourrait  bien  etre  Georges. 

Ce  qui  ajoute  au  raifonncment  de  cette  fuppofition,  c'eit  que  connne  je  I'ai  deja  dit,  Georges  de 
Fortefcu  faifaic  fon  fervice  lors  du  paftiige  de  TEmpereur  Napoleon  premier  en  Angletcrre.  Si  Georges 
de  Fortefcu  n'eft  pas  mort,  fa  famille  I'crait  exceflivement  heureufe  de  connaitre  Ion  exiftence  qt  de 
pourvoir  le  rappeller  a  fes  louvenirs. 

Si,  au  contraire,  il  eft  decede,  il  eft  important  |)our  elle  de  (avoir  a  quoi  s'en  tenir  lur  la  fucceftion. 

J'ai  penfe,  tres  honorable  Lord,  que  par  vos  hautes  et  importants  fonctions,  vous  pourriez.  rendic  un 
eminent  fervice  a  la  Famille  de  Fortefcu  en  lui  faifant  decouvrir  a  Londres  Georges  de  Fortclcu,  cu  en 
!ui  faifant  connaitre  fa  fucceftion  dans  le  cas  de  deces. 

Je  m'adrefle  a  vous  avec  d'autant  plus  do  confiance,  que  la  Famille  de  I'ortefcu  eft  I'ujie  des  plus 
nobles  et  des  plus  ancienne  de  la  Normandie ;  je  dirai  meme  que  vos  aiicetres  doivent  etn  iies  en  cette 
province  qu'ils  ont  du  quitter  lors  de  la  coiiquete  de  I'Angleterre  par  Guillaurjie  le  Coi  querant  (vers 
I'an  1000). 

J'ajouterai  que  I'an  dernier  aulTi,  I'lm  de  vos  regilTeurs  eft  venu  dans  notre  i5a)'S  pour  rechercher  li  la 
Famille  de  Fortefcu  etait  bien  Va  votrc,  il  dit  que  li  cette  P'amille  av;ut  befoin-,  de  vos  lervices  vous 
vous  emprefleriez  de  les  leur  rendre. 

.'\uiri,  trcs  honorable  Lord,  je  compie  lur  votie  extreme  bienveillance  et  votre  haute  influence  pour 


Fci/}iilies  of  Nor/Ha?hly.  ^SJ, 

bien  vouloir  faire  en  lorte  que  la  Famille  de  Fortefcu  faclie  a  quoi  s'en  tenir  foir  fur  I'exiftence  fcit  fur 
le  dccus  de  Georges  de  I'ortLrcu. 

J'ai  I'honneur  d'etre,  avec  Ic  plus  piofuiul  rcfpect, 

J  res  honorable  Lord,  votre  ties  hiiinble  ferviteur, 

CoUROIS, 

Notaire  a  St.  Jean  de  Daye,  arrondiflement  de  St.   Lo, 
Departement  de  la  Manche,  Norniaiulje,  France.' 

B. 

Es  AiTifes  d'P_;vreux  tenues  par  nous  Pierrcs   Duval,  lieutenant  general  de  noble  lionmie  Robert  de 
Floques   efcuier  confillier  du  roy  notre  feigneur  et  fon  bailli  du  dit  lieu  d'Evreux  le  Samedi  tiers  jour  de 
Novembre  continues  du  Lundi  xxix  jour  d'Oftobre  precedent  premier  jour  des  dits  afTiles  I'ai    mil  cccc 
et  cinquante  trois,   fe   comparu   Cjirault  de  Monteniral,  fergeant  du  loy,  notre  feigneur  en  la  I  rgeule  de 
la  Bonneville,  difant  que  pieca"'  Jehan  Gendon,  viconte  du    dit   lieu   d'Evreux   lui   avoit  baillit  a  cuedlir 
1.    livres    T.    venir    tuis    au    prouffit    du  roy,   notre   dit    feisjneur    cefl:   ailavoir  trentc   folz   Tournois   en 
quoy  Richart  Fortefcu,  efcuier,  avoit   ede  mis  en  amende  vers  Jehan  du  Bufc  femblablenient  elcuier,  et        ( 
vingt  folz  Tournois  en  quoy  'I'homas   Chaunceller  avoit  pareillement  elle  mis  en  amende  vers  Meffire  ' 
Thomas  Guillotin   preftre,  et   Guillem   du    Mefnil,  icelles  amendes   par   nous  tauxees  pour  les  termcs 
de  Toufiaints  iiij^  li.  et  allcncion  cccclij.      Des  quelles  amendes  le  dit  fergent  navoit  peu  aucun  chofe 
avoir  ne  recouvrer  combien  que  de  ce  il  eufl  fait  tout  devoir  ct  diligence  parce  que  le  dit  F^ortefcu  et 
Chanceller  eftoient  abfens  et  iiors  du  pais  de  Normandie  et  navoicnt  aucuns  biens  meubles  ou  heritaiges 
fur  quoy  le  roy,  notre   dit  feigneur  peuft  eftre  paie.      Et  ne  autmoins  le  dit  vicomte  voullu  contraindre  le        | 
dit  fergeant   icelles  I'ommes  paier  requeroit  fur  ce  provifion  de  judice  et  (pie  de  ce  que  dit  eft  information 
feult  f.iit  a  tcl  fin  que  de  railon  pour  que  non  eulFujus  iait  venir  devaiit  nous  Jehan  de  V'ienne,  Laurence 
Coulle,   Colin   Note,    Nicolas   le   Charier,   Jehan    Langlois,   et   [ilufieiirs   autrcs  congnoifTants  les  dits 
F'ortefcu  et  Chanceller  eftoient  ablens   et   liors  du  pais  et  navoient  aucuns  biens  meubles  ne  heritaiges  au 
dit  pays   de    Normandie   ne  ailleurs  dont  ilz  euftent  coiignoilTance,   et   mefures  que  de   recouvrer   le 
partement  des  dits  amendes  le  dit  de  Monteniral  avoit  fait  toute  diligence.      Veu   lequelle  rap[)ort,  par    I 
ladvis  et  confeil  des  abfiftes  de  la  court,  donne  fu  en  maudement  au  dit  Viconte  que  des  fommes  delllis    i 
dites  il  tiengne  quiet  et  paifable  le  dit  du  Monteniral.      Donne  que  defl'us.'  ' 

i 
C,  •    !■ 

Cc/I  le  chartr'wr  ou Jo>it  la  ycnta  tie  R'uhart  Fortefcu^  efiiiur' jiignoiir  du  BuiJ/on,  et  la  toians  ilut 
(lit  fieu  en  III  man'iere  qui  enjuit  fait  et  ordonne. 
Cy  enfuient  les  teneurs  du  fieu  du  Buillon,  feant  en  la  parroife  de  Salute  Marie  du  Mont  et  illencque 
environ    appartenant   a   noble    homme    Richart   F"ortefcu,   efcuier,   feignour  du  dit   fieu.       Et   ks   noms     f.  2 
des  perfonnes  qui  les  tiennent,  Et  le  rentes  et  furvices  que  eulx  en  doivent. 

'  There  is  no  date  to  this  letter.  It  was  addrcftcd  to  the  niidcnei'  of  llie  Right  Honourable  ChichLficr  I'or- 
tefcut;  in  the  firfl  week  of  November,  1867,  but  was  cvidintiy  intended  for  Lord  Clermont,  for  whom  M.  Ogilvy, 
referred  to  as  "  regif^eur,"  made  his  journey  to  Normandy. 

-   S'xc  in  MS.  ^  The  original  is  in  the  Cabinet  de  Titrcs,  I'aris,  Dollier  "  I'^orlefcu." 

II.  Z  Z 


354  Families  of  Nor  111  midy. 


Preniicreinent. 
Pierres  Ofber  Tient  Ion  ficu  appellc  le  hcu  Oilier  par  iiij  acres  ct  dcmic  vcrgic,  ct  xiiij  perques  et 
dL-niic  dc  terrc  par  toy  et  par  hommaige  et  par  relTeaiuirc.  Et  en  doibt  vij  boillbaux  de  fourmcnt  a  la 
grant  mefure  dc  Sainte  Marie  du  Mont,  trois  pains  trois  guelines  a  Noel,  ct  treiite  ocufs  a  Pafqucs, 
et  trois  foulz  pour  aide  a  la  Sainte  Perrenelie.  Et  li  doibt  unc  journee  de  Came  unc  t'ois  Ian  qui  doibt 
aver  quatre  deniers  pour  livrelon  au  I'eir  quant  il  fen  va  pour  tout.  Et  fi  doit  fl-rvicc  de  ung  hoinme  a 
t'aire  les  fains  es  preis  du  Buillon  toulx  les  jours  que  mefter  en  fera.  Et  ;iuxi  duibi  Icrvice  de  un^  bomme 
a  curer  le  buy  de  moulin  du  Buin'on,  cliefcun  an,  jufque  a  la  planque  cannun.  Et  il  doibt  liirvice  dun 
homme,  chelcun  an  a  aidicr  a  loer  le  rus  qui  croiil  en  buy  du  die  moulin  du  BLiilTon  jufque  a  la  queuiinee 
de  Hollc  dit  en  alant  julque  au  querue  qui  fut  Ricbart  le  Paumicr.  Et  fi  doit  le  dit  Oiber  uidier  a  porter 
et  cliarier  les  nuielles  du  niuulin  du  Huilfon  a  lis  delpenfes  de  partcjut  le  bailliage  de  CJoftentin  quant 
meftier  en  elE  Et  doivent  luy  et  les  autres  tenans  du  fieu  niettre  les  dides  meullcs  hau  en  mouUin  fur 
les  gavelles.  Et  anfi  doit  le  dit  Ofber  laye  tierche  de  Ion  dit  fieu  dc  iij  ans  en  iij  ans  qt'ant  le  nioneage 
cbiet,  cell  afTavoir  de  chefcune  vergie  de  terre  dc  fon  dit  ficu  un  parify.  Et  doit  Ic  reliefs  quant  culx 
cbaent.  Et  en  peult  faire  le  feigneur  fa  juftice  pour  les  rentes  et  fervices  dellus  dis  fur  le  mefuaj^e  du 
dit  Oilier,  et  fur  les  terres  qui  enfuivent  et  fur  chefcun  pie  jiour  le  toult.  PreniierenieiU  le  dit  melua[.e 
avecque  le  dit  gardin  contient  demie  acre  et  demie  vergie  et  x  |iert|ues  et  vj  pies  de  terre,  joufte  K  buy 
du  moulin  du  Buillon  dun  colle  bute  dun  but  fur  le  queniin  qui  va  du  dit  moulin  au  moilier  de  laiuie 
Marie  du  Mont  la  croute  du  dit  Oflier  par  devcrs  le  fieu  du  temple  contient  |)ar  meliiie  vj  vergie^  xiij 
perques  et  v  pies  dc  terre  des  tous  camps  fans  conter  la  caveniere  dcndroit  la  cli.nnbre  devers  les  ca'np  . 
Item  lacroute  de  dellus  Ion  mefuage  qui  va  au  lone  du  chemin  en  alant  a  la  croix  Olber  contient  une 
acre  de  terre  par  mefure.  Item  le  prey  dempres  le  moulin  du  Buiflon  contient  iij  vergics  et  demie  it 
X  perques  de  terre  en  ce  comprins,  ij  hoques  de  terre  qui  font  en  but  du  prey  done  lun  palTe  le  quemni 
qui  vient  de  HoUe  die  en  j  aguillonnet  qui  lanche  jufque  fur  le  buy  du  moulin  du  Buiffon.  Et  1  lit  c 
Seigneur  du  Buillon  memore  que  fe  le  dit  Ofber  ou  fes  heires  lefloient  par  aucune  aventure  le  dit  pr  :y  en 
f.  3.  temps  avenir,  que  les  hommes  et  tenans  du  dit  Seigneur  font  but  fur  la  croute  Henlier  ct  dautre  but  fur 
Ic  t|uemin  qui  va  du  Hamel  cs  Eontcnes  au  nKjllier  de  Sainte  Marie  du  Mont.'  I 


Ce  font  lei  teiites  de  Sainte  Alar'u  du  Alo>il  qui  tie  J'lnt  pas  en  franc  ficu.  ■  '. 

Preinierernent.  • 

f,  13.  Colin   Sebirc  doit  ung  quartier  de  fourmcnt  a  la  grant   mefure,  j   pain,  une  gueline  et  x  oeuls'o 

hommaige  a  laiie  jullice  lur  une  piece  dc  terre  coiUenant  iij  vergies  allile  a  Ellaville  jonlte 'I  homas 
Bernart  et  la  terre  que  i'errin  Lcfpillicr  dit  Ellriqucbonnel  foulloit  lenir  de  Thomalle  aux  I'.fpaulles  des 
codes  et  bute  des  bus  fur  le  quemin  Dellaville  tendant  au  Alollier  ei  fur  le  qucnun  de  la  voc  Honniioilc 
tentante  DeltaviUe  a  Franqueville,  de  la  vente  Jehan  des  Plains  efcuier  fi  commc  il  appert  \  ai  lettre. 

Raoul  Manfel  doit  fept  boilleaux  dc  fourment  mefure  Deftavillc,  ij  guelines  o  hommaige  a  faire  juftice 
fur  deux  pieces  de  terre,  la  premiere  allile  jouile  la  Caiche  es  Manleuux  dun  coite   ct  dautre  coflc  joufte 


'  The  reference  to  the  original  Chartrier  is  Ikit.  Mus.  Add.  MS.  24,915. 


Fcvu'dics  of  Normandy.  355 

la  terre  que  Colin  Sebire  tieiit  dc  Jehaii  Fortefcue  et  bute  dun  but  Cur  le  douyt  de  la  Fontaine  Saint 
Martin  et  de  lautre  but  fur  le  dit  Raoul.  La  fegoiide  piece  es  Mollans  joufte  le  dit  Raoul  dun  code  bute 
dun  but  fur  le  terrour  de  Boutcville  de  la  vente  Jelian  des  Plains. 


Cy  enfuit  la  teneur  dune  autre  lettre  coinme  le  dit  Girot  le  Nelr  dit  le  perehe  vendit  a  Jihaii  Fortefeu 
efcuier  le  dit  inoulut  de  Conveie  ovecque  lei  terres  et  appurtenances  dieellui  rnoulin. 

A  tous  ceulx  qui  ces  lettres  vcrront  ou  orront  Jchau  Mabire,  pieltrc,  garde  du  fceel  dcs  obligacions  f.  3'- 
de  la  Viconte  de  Saint  Sauvour  le  Vicente,  lalut.  Sachens  tous  que  par  devant  Pcrrin  Courtel  tabellion 
jure  et  elKibli  en  la  difte  Viconte,  fut  prelent  a  Saint  Sauvour  le  Viconte,  Girot  le  Neir  dit  le  perehe, 
heraut  de  la  parroifTe  de  Saint  Martin  de  Golleville,  fi  comme  il  difoit,  Icquel  congnut  et  conll-fla  de  fon 
bon  grey  fans  nul  contraignement  pour  lui  et  pour  (es  heirs  aver  vendu  quitte  ceire  et  dclcUl-  a  Hn 
de  heritaige  a  tous  jours  nies  a  Jehan  Fortefcu  efcuier  et  a  les  hoirs  toult  le  droit,  accion,  faif'ne, 
polTefTion,  propriete,  julticc,  jurildiccion,  reclain  et  feignourie,  que  le  dit  vendeur  a  uu  peult  aver, 
demandcr,  et  reclamer,  aux  hcntuigcs  contenus  et  dont  mcncion  clt  faite  es  Icttres  par  Ics  quellcs 
ces  prel'entes  font  annexes  lans  y  riens  retenir  ne  excepter.  Ainfi  que  le  dit  venduur  loblige  \y.n 
mos  expres  a  acquidter  les  dis  hentaiges  contenus  es  dides  lettres  annexees  de  tous  les  arreragcs  qui  en 
porroient  eftre  deulz  avant  le  jour  duy.  Et  I'ut  faiiSe  cefte  vente,  quietance,  et  delelle.  Par  le  prix 
de  vint  et  chine  frans  dor,  trans  et  quictes  a  la  main  du  dit  vendeur  et  x  fouiz  pour  vim  dont  le  dit 
vendeur  fe  tint  du  toult  pour  bien  paie  par  devant  le  dit  tabellion  pour  quoy  el  promifl:  et  fobligea  pour 
lui  et  pour  fes  hoirs  au  dit  achateur  et  a  fcs  heirs  la  diifle  vente  vers  tous  et  contre  tous  garantir  et  livrer 
et  deftendre,  oiler  et  mettre  hors  de  tous  empelchemens,  En  cas  que  par  Ion  tait  y  avoit  aucun  empelche- 
ment  avant  le  jour  duy.  l:,t  laiis  ce  que  lui  ne  ies  hoirs  ne  autre  avaut  caufe  de  lui  y  puillejit  des  orines 
en  temps  advenir  chalenger  ne  dcniander  nc  clamer  aucun  droit  ne  lci^;norie  en  aucune  inaiiiere  par 
quiconque  caule  voie  ou  maniere  que  ce  loit  ou  puille  elhe  ;  Et  quant  ad  ce  et  a  toultes  les  chofes  deflus 
diiftes  et  a  chefcune  dicelle  tenir  et  enterigner  de  point  en  point  fans  james  aler  encontre  le  dit  vendeur 
obliga   Toy  et  fes   hoirs  et  tous   lours   biens   meubles   et  heritaiges   prefens  et  advenir  ou  et  fur  quelle  i 

jurifdiccion  que  ils  foient  trouves  a  eflre  prins  vendus  et  defpendus  toult  de  plain  doffice  de  jullice  fans 
proces  ne  errement  de  plet,  pour  ce  enterigner,  et  pour  rendre  reftores  audit  achateur  et  a  fes  hoirs  tous  | 

les  coux,  miles,  interes  et  delpeiis  (jui  pour  dett'aut  dentrignicr  les  chofes  de  fur  didles  leroient  fais 
et  fouftenus  done  le  porteur  de  ces  lettres  leroit  creu  par  Ion  (ernient  lans  autre  preuve  taue  Et  renonclia  '. 

fur  ce  le  dit  vendeur  jiar  fon  feiment  a  loutes  excepcions  fuites  ct  deftenles  par  i|uoy  len  |)ourroit  venir 
contre  la  teneur  ct  obligacion  de  ces  lettres,  Et  par  elj)ecial  au  droit  dilaiit  general c  renonciacion  non 
valer.  En  telmoing  de  ce  ces  lettres  font  fceelles  du  fcecl  dellus  dit  a  la  relacion  du  dit  tabellion  lauf 
autre  droit.      Ce  fut  fait  Ian  de  grace  mil  ccc.  fexante  et  feze  le  vj  jour  du  moys  de  mars. 


Cy  enfuit  la  maniere  comme  Richart  Fortefcu  efcuier^  Seigneur  de  Buiffon  tient  fa  terre  et  de  qui  et  les  rentes 
quil  en  doit  ;  premiere  enfuit  la  teneur  de  jon  fr.:n^  peu  de  Fraiiquclit. 

Richart  Fortefcu  tient  fon  fieu  de  Franquetot  par  foy  et  par  hommaige  de  noble  homnie  monlieur     f.  t^^_ 
Michel  le  Ballart   JJequefclin  et  de  madame  fa  fame,  a   caufe  delle   par   le  quart    dun    lieu   de    Haubert, 


35^  Faniiiies  of  No?'?iia7idy. 

tcnir  fraiichement  et  vollement  a  court  et  ulagc  a  fimplc  ir.iige  et  plcge  afTis  es  parruifTcs  dc  Ouetreville 
et  Jc  Coigiiies  en  Bauptcz.  Et  en  dou  Ic  dit  Fortdcu  au  da  chevalier  et  dariu-  a  caufe  delk  les  aides 
couftumieres  telles  commc  audit  quart  de  fieu  peult  appartciur  par  railon  et  par  coufhiine,  la  garde  ou  le 
relief"  quant  le  cas  foHVe.  Et  a  le  dit  K.irtelbu  en  dit  lieu  plulleurs  rentes  lervices,  lailances  et  redevances 
et  plufieurs  autres  nobleces  et  dignites,  tranchifes  et  dn.ns,  lugon  ce  (pie  le  dit  Furtelcu  et  (es  predeceilbrs 
en  ont  ule  en  temps  pafle. 

Item  Richart  Fortel'cu  tient  Ion  franc  fieu  de  Mons  par  foy  et  par  hommaige  du  roy  noftre  fire  par 
le  lexte  dun  fieu  de  Haubert  et  le  tient  nohlemeiU  et  franchement  a  court  et  ulaige  a  fimple  gaige  et 
plege  dont  le  chief  du  dit  fieu  ell  affis  en  la  parroilTe  de  Sainte  Marie  du  Mont  et  le  eltent  en  la  parroiiTe 
de  Bruchevdle.  Et  en  doit  le  dit  Forteku  au  roy  noihe  fire  les  aides  coullumes  telles  comiiie  audit 
fiexte  de  fieu  peult  ajjparteiiir  par  railon  et  par  couftuine  la  garde  ou  le  relief  quant  le  cas  foftre.  Et  a 
en  dit  heu  plufieurs  rentes  et  ung  moulin  a  eau,  lervices,  lailances,  et  redevances  et  ilufieurs  autres 
nobleces  fraiicliiks,  droitures  et  dignitjs  fegon  ce  que  liii  et  fcs  predecelfourh  en  ont_  ule  en  temps 
pali'e,  ^'c. 


A  tousceulx  qui  ces  lettres  verront,  Martin  Lours,  Viconte  de  Carenten,  falut,  faver  faifons  qis 
Ian  de  grace  mil  ccc.  l.xv.  le  xxix  jour  de  Janvier  a  Carenten  par  devant  nous  turent  prefens  Jcha  i 
Fortefcu  efcuicr  de  une  part  et  Drouet  du  BilTon  efcuier  dautre,  Et  recongnurent  et  conteirL-rei  t  U  , 
diacs  parties  et  chafcun  de  f  )y  et  comnie  a  i;)y  L-t  a  Ion  fet  touche  que  toultes  les  choles  conteinu  s  a 
done  mencion  ell  faidte  aux  lettres  par  les  quelles  ces  prelentes  font  anncxees  eltoient  bonnes  et  vraes  et 
que  yceJIes  avoient  pafiees  coiigneuez  et  confcfies  chafcun  en  tant  comme  a  ("on  fet  appert  en  la  inaniere 
que  contenu  elt  en  ycelles.  Et  dabundant  perfonnes  par  devant  nous  empres  ce  que  les  dictes  lettrci 
eurent  efte  levez  et  deligemment  entendues  en  leur  prefence  les  dis  efcuiers  chafcun  en  Ion  fet  loerei  t 
approuverent  confermerent,  congnurent,  confcf]"erent  et  ratisfierent  toultes  les  choll-s  coAtenues  et  Joi  t 
mencion  eft  faide  aux  diftes  lettres.  Et  vouldrent  et  accorderent  que  elles  tiengent  dore  en  avant 
inviolablement  et  fans  enfraindre  de  point  en  point  en  la  maniere  que  ellez  font  diilles  et  devifes.  Sans 
ce  que  les  dits  elcuiers  leurs  hoiis  ou  aucun  avant  caufe  de  eux  puilfc  janies  contrcdire  ou  empelcher  que 
ellez  naient  effiet  par  quelque  voie,  maniere  ou  condicion  que  ce  foit  ou  jJuilTe  elhe.  Ft  quant  a  ce|  et 
aux  chofes  deHus  dites  teiiir  et  accomplir  jouxtc  cc  que  dell'us  eft  dit  les  dits  elcuiers  chalcun  de  foyet'eii 
Ion  let  lobligerent  tant  pour  eux  que  pour  leurs  hoirs.  Et  pour  tous  aultres  avans  caufe  de  eux  fur  la 
capcion  et  obligacion  et  prinfe  de  toulx  leurs  biens,  meubles,  et  heritaiges  prefentes  et  advenir,  vendue  et 
explcdtacion  diceux.  Et  tefiiioing  de  ce  res  lettres  font  fcellus  du  grant  feel  des  caufes  de  la  dit 
viroiite,  faict es  et  donneez  en  Ian  et  jour  defl'udits. 


APPENDIX    TO    FAMILY    HISTORY 


See  page  19. 


T^^^y^^^^^^HE  riglit  worfliipfull  Sir  Nicholas  FortdcuL- of  Cookeliill  in  y'^  couiitv  of  Worfclk-r 
Kiiij^ht  Departed  this  mortall  litb  at  his  lodging  in  fetter  Line  London  y'  2'',  of 
November  1633  and  was  thence  conveyed  to  his  houfe  aforefaid  and  interred  m  a 
Chapcll  belonging  to  the  laid  houle  y^'  20"':  of  y*"  fame  moneth    He  mar:  Prudence 

^'-!^}:''^    y'  '-^'^  •  '^^ VVhetley  of  Holcome  in  y''  county  of  North":  Efq :  fonietymc 

2i=S  Frothonotary  ot  y''  Conion  picas  by  whom  he  hath  ylliic  5  (onnes  and  two  daughters, 
Fortefcue  Elq'"  his  lonne  and  hcire  mar:  to  Joaiie  l-)a  :  of  Tho  :  Wilde  of  Glafeley  in  ye'' 
county  of  Salop  Elq".  by  \\  liom  he  hath  yllue  3  tonnes  John  eldeft  (onne  :ibout  11  yeares  of  age,  Francis 
2'"':  lonne  \\  illiam  3''.  lonne  and  iMary  a  dauir  about  13  yeares  of  age  Francis  2''  fonne  to  y'  defunct, 
Edmund  3''.  lijnne,  Nichol..s  4'''  fonne,  and  John  5  fonne,  all  of  them  as  yet  vnmatied  Martha  cldeft 
Da:  to  y*-'  defunct  mar:  to  Nicholas  Lewis,  3"'.  fon  of  Sir  Edward  Lewis  of  the  Vanne  in  the  county  of 
Glamorgan  K'.  by  whom  he  hath  yllue  y'  now  lines  only  ALirtha  a  dau  :  Prudence  )oungelt  Da:  to  ye 
defunifi  as  yet  vnmaried.  The  laid  Sir  Nicholas  Fortefcue  did  by  lad  Will  and  TelLiment  iiominate  Sir 
Hafell  Brooke  of  JMadeley  in  the  county  of  Salop  K':  Frauncis  Plowdcn  of  Shiplake  ni  the  county  of 
Oxon  :  Walter  Brooke  of  Lapley  in  the  county  of  Sl;ift":  ."v  W  illiam  Lake  of  London  Elq".  to  be  his 
Executors  This  Certiticate  was  taken  by  George  Owen  Rougcroix  y'  H)"'  of  November  1633  to  be 
recorded  in  the  OfRce  of  Amies  and  telfified  to  be  true  b)'  the  luhlcripcon  of 

Basu-I.  Brook-k 
W  Brooke. 

Fka  :    FoRTESCUE. 


Copied  from  the  original  Funeral  Certificate  in  the  College  of  Arms  by  J.    Planche,   Efq.,  kouge 
Croi.v,  July,  1S64 


35^  Appe7ulix  to  Family  Hi/lory. 

See  pci^e  40. 
Note  on  the  Fallaimt  Family. 
There  is  a  thin  volume  in  410.  printed  in  London  :n  1654  or  1656,  entitled  "An  Alphabet  of 
FJegiac  Groans  upon  the  truly  lamented  death  of  that  rare  Kxe.iiplar  of  Youthful  Piety  John  Fortefcue 
of  the  Inner  Temple  Efquire,"  by  E.  E.  Thefe  inuials  (land  for  IMniund  El)  s,  u  ho  was  ree%r  of  the 
parifli  of  Fait  Allington,  the  parilh  in  which  Fallapit  ib  fituate,  in  the  year  iU,o.  If  any  me.nb  .-r  of  the 
family  Ihould  wiih  to  refer  to  this  panegyrick  they  will  find  a  copy  of  it  in  the  l!riti(]>  iMufeum,  '^  '"  ' 
I  cannot  identify  with  certainty  this  John  Fortelcue  with  any  one  in  the  pedigree  of  Fallapit.  '^ 

Seepage  165. 

Inquifition  taken  at  Woburn  hi  the  co.  of  Bedford  on  the  4"'  day  of  November  10  Henr.  VIII. 
before  the  jurors  .^-c.  who  fay  that  a  certain  Sir  Richard  Charleton  K'.  was  (eifed  of  the  Manor  ,  f 
Hyworth  in  co.  Bedford,  &c.  and  that  by  a  certain  AA  of  Parli.uii'  dat.  i  Heii.  Vll.  the  faid  Charlto.i 
was  attainted,  &c.  &c. 

"Ac  pollea  didus  nuper  Henricus  VII  per  literas  fuas  Patentes  cujus  datum  ell  apud  Woburn  xi  j 
die  Marcii  anno  regni  fui  primo,  de  gratia  fua  fpeciali  bona  et  laudabilia  obfequia  que  dileflus  et  hdeL.s 
ejufdem  nuper  Regis,  Johannes  Fortefcue  tunc  unus  militum  pro  corpore  fuo  cidcm  nuper  Regi  tun; 
tempora  impendebat  indiefque  ex  tunc  impendere  non  defiltebat  mcrito  contemplatus,  inter  alia  dcdit  et 
conceffit  eideni  Johanni  predidum  manerium  de  By  worth  per  nomen    O^cc,"  , 

After  which  the  faid  S^  John  Fortefcue  was  feiled  of  the  faid  Manor  &c.  and  beijig  fo  feifed  died  :.t 
Ponnyfborne  in  the  Co.  of  Herts  on  the  28'"  day  of  July  15  Hen.  VII.  after  whofe  dewafe  it  delccde  I 
to  John  Fortefcue  efq.  as  fon  and  heir  of  the  laid  S'.  John,  after  which,  in  the  20"'  of  Apr.  A".  24  o'th; 
faid  King,  a  pardon  c/^  intntjione  et  tranfgrejfionc  &c.  by  Patent  was  gr.mted  by  the  name  of  John 
Fortefcue  Efq.  of  Ponnyflwrn,  Co.  Herts,  ali.is  J.  F.  of  Falborne,  Co.  Ellex,  Elq.  alias  J.  F.,  of 
London,  Elq.  &c.  t'^'c.  ' 

John  Fortefcue  Efq.  died  on  the  8"'  of  Augufl,  A".  9  Hen.  VIH.  and  Henry  Fortefcue  is  his  fon 
and  heir  male  and  of  the  age  of  2[  years. 

See  page  166. 

Funeral  Ccrtikicate.  i 

The  Worfliypfull  Henry  Fortefcue  of  ffalkborne  in  the  Countie  of  EfTex  Efquire  e  cparted  thi.= 
Worlde  at  the  laide  howfe  on  Saturdaie  the  vj"'  of  Oi5toher  1576  And  was  buiyed  on  Mond.y  the  xv"'  of 
the  fame  in  the  faide  Churche.     The  faide  Henry  maryed  to  his  ffirft  Wyff  Elizabeth  the  Dowghter  of 

•  Stafforde  in  barkfliere  Efqwycr  h  by  her  had  ylTue  ftrauncys   his  elded  Son  &  h.-yr  John  his 

fecond  fon  George  his  thyrde  fon  ..^-  Katheryn  Anne  &  Dorothye.  And  after  Maryed  to  his  fecoiid  wyff 
Dame  Mary  Lady  Darrcll  h  by  her  hud  yllue  Dudley  a  Son  The  executor  appointed  by  the  laft  will 
and  teftament  of  the  faide  Henry  fFortefcue  was  the  La.ly  Darrcll  his  wyiF  'Fhe  OlFycer  that  ferved 
at  the  faide  burvall  was  Richard  I'urpyn  atb  \\  yndliare  heraulde  of  Arnies. 


Appendix  to  Family  Hiftory. 


359 


See  page  269. 

In  th  accompte  of  S^  John  Fortcfcue  knighc  late  M'.  of  his  Ma"  Greate  Warderobe  for 
the  Funerall  of  the  highe  and  mighty  Princcile  f^hzabeth  hitc  Ouuuiie  of  England  buried 
the  xxviij'''  of  Aprill  1603.  In  the  charge  thereof  for  the  valor  &  price  of  certun  Store  del 
the  faid  great  warderobe  emongeft  other  things  is  conteyned  as  followeth. 

//. 
Clothe  of  gould  at  1'.  the  yarde  xvij'''^  iij'''" 

At  xvj'.  the  ya  :  xxvj>''  iij''"  d] 
At  xviij^  the  ya  :  iiij^^iij"  dl  with  worlce 
At  xviij'.  the  ya  :  xxxiiij*''  with  worke  . 
Blacke  velvets.   At  xx".   the  ya:    xlv    yardes   di    di  q'rt'.   with 
woorke        .... 


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at  WeitnV 

ived  out  of 


Bni.  Mub. 
A.lJii.  MS. 
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Ixx 

XXX 

xlv 


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Purple 

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woorke       ..... 
At  xxiiij'.  the  yardes,  vij*'  di  one  naile  . 

_         ilj  ya:  ilrls.  iij  n;i. 

At  xxvj'.  vnj''.  y.  ya :  with  woorkes 

Blacke  Sattyn  at  xiiij'.  iiij''.  the  yarde  xj^'.  iij''".  di 

Paule  one   of  broched   Tyncell   w'''  a   erode  of  clothe  of 

filver  of  vij  bredthes,  viz.  one  bredth  of  clothe  ot  filver 

and  vij  oth'  clothes  of  Tyncell  con'  in  length  fyve  yardes 

iij'i'".  &  a  halfe  ..... 

Yellow  Cotton  to  nut  betweene  y''  fouldinffe  of  the  fuiie  )  ,- 

'  lb  ^mg  precio. 

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See  page  270. 

i 
An  Extrafl  from  the  Carte  Papers,  vol.  Ixxx.  f.  439. 

"When  Thomas  Lord  Grey,  at  the  acccflTion  of  James  I.,  was  for  demanding  an  engagement  from 
the  King  for  the  Liberties  of  England,  he  was  (econded  only  by  Sir  John  Fortefcue." 

Note. — The  above  Thomas  Lord  Grey  was  the  fon  of  Arthur,  Lord  Grey  de  Wilton,  of  Whadi  on, 
Bucks,  againft  whom  Sir  John  Fortefcue  of  Salden  brought  a  complaint  for  trefpafs,  as  detailed  in  this 
volume. 


INDEX    TO    THE    FAMILY     HISTORY. 


lyj^^^J^LAND,    Sarah,    marr.    to    Edmund    For- 
mMM        teicue,5I. 

p;jL^^hj   Allinglon  (Eaft),  Memorials  to  thu  For- 
iyL!^OT^I--iS.        tel'cut-s  in  church  there,  2b,  27,  "iq. 

Alvefton,  Manor   Iloul'e,  feat  of  Francis 

Fortefcue,  22. 
Arundel,  Lord,  his  daughter  Margaret  married  to  Sir 

John  Fortefcue  of  Salden,  293. 
Adilield,   Cicely,  married   to   the   Rt.   Hon.   Sir  John 

Fortefcue,    225;     ob.     1^70,    buried     at    Muriby, 

obituary  braft  there,  285. 
Afton-Flamville,  Epitaph  on  Frances  F'ortefcue  there, 

291. 
Atkyns,  Maud,  wife   to  Will.   Fortefcue  of  l?uck!and 

Fillelgh,  74. 
Avlmer,  I.ucy,  marr.   to   Hugh   Fortefcue  of  Filleigh, 

Bacon,  Sir  Anthony,  coiTefpondence  with  Sir  John 
Fortefcue  of  Salden,  256 — 258  ;  letter  from  I'rancis 
Bacon,  257. 

Bacon,  FVancis,  letters  to  Anthony  Bacon,  257. 

Ballina,  account  of  its  capture  by  the  French,  144. 

Beauchamp,  Elizabeth,  marr.  to  William  Fortefcue  of 
Winfton,  A.D.  1394,  6. 

Bierton,  Manor  of,  purchafed  by  Edm.  Fortefcue,  67. 

Bodleian  Library,  lifl  of  books  prefented  by  Sir  Jolin 
Fortefcue  of  Salden,  30 1. 

Bodley,  Sir  Thomas,  extraJls  t>om  his  letters  about 
Sir  John  F'ortefcue  of  Salden,  282. 

Boleyn,  family  of,  how  related  to  the  Fortefcues,  254. 

Boleyn,  Alice,  ift  wife  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue  of  Punl- 
bounie,   156. 

Bonsouloir,  Comte  Augufle  de,  letter  regarding  the 
Fortefcues  of  Normandy,  326. 

Bofcawen,  Bridget,  wife  to  Hugh  Fortefcue  of  Fil- 
leigh, 52. 

BolVorth  Hall,  co.  Leic,  portrait  of  Chancellor  For- 
tefcue there,  292. 

Bozun,  John,  wife  to  Sir  Henry  Fortefcue,  L.  C.  J.  of 
Ireland,  45. 

11.  3 


Brickdale.  John  I''aithltil,  adumed  the  name  of  Fortef- 
cue, 1  S61,  94. 

Brightley,  I'eat  of  the  Giffard  family,  75. 

Hrightuell,  Baldwin,  co.  0.\un.,  Lady  Anne  Fc  rtel'cue 
buried  there,   1  73. 

Brixton,  co.  Devon,  grove  of  elms  there,  planted  by 
Edward  Fortefcue,  13. 

15uckl.md  Filleigh,  co.  Devon,  ancient  feat  of  the 
1 'ortefcues,  5  ;  defcent  of  tile  manor,  47  ;  the  For- 
tefcueb  of,  74;  view  of  the  Church,  75;  monu- 
ments there,  77,  78. 

Buillbn,  Fortefcue  du,  346,347. 

Burleigh,  Cecil  Lord,  letters  to  him  from  Sir  John 
Fortefcue  of  Salden,  243,  244,  297. 

Butler,  Lady  Louiia  Grace  Wandesforde,  marr.  to 
Thomas,  Lord  Clermont,  1840,  133. 

Cafar,  Sir  Julius,  letters  from  Sir  John  Fortefcue  of 

Salden,  278,  279. 
Calthoijie,   Elizabeth,    Lady,    2nd   wife    to    Sir   John 

Fortefcue  of  I'untliorne,   161  ;  rcmarr.  to  Sir   Ed- 
ward Howard,  163. 
Cambridge,  Sir  John   Fortefcue  of  Salden's  patent  as 

recorder  of,  304. 
Campbell,  Anne,  wife  to  Matthew,    2nd    Lord    For- 

teicue,  64. 
Carew,  Sir   George,   letter  from  Sir  John   Fortefcue 

of  Salden,  300. 
Carifbrooke   Church,    Ifle    of  Wight,   View  of,    1 22 , 

memorial  to  Sir  Faithful  F'ortefcue  there.  16. 
Cary,  F'.lizabetli,  2nd  wife  to  Sir  Thomas  I'ortefcue,  1  ii>. 
Catllehill,  Fortefcues  of,  46. 
Cecill,  Sir  Robert,  letter  Irom  Sir  John   T'ortelici  e  of 

Salden,  265. 
Champernoun,   Elizabeth,  wife  to  William   Forte  cue, 

of  I'rutellon,  10. 
Champernoun,   NLny,   wife   to    Edward    Fortefcue   of 

Fallapit,  ib. 
Charles  1.  commillion  to  Chichefler  Fortefcue,  12. 
Charles  IL  warrants  to  reftore  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue 

to  oflice,    119 — 121;  petition  to  him  from  Sir  F. 


Cl(^  36^ 


huiex  to  the  Family  Iliflorv. 


Fortefcue,   148,   149;    appointment  of  Sir  Thomas 

Fortclliie  to   be   tunllalilc   of   Knockflrgus   Cartle, 

149,150. 
Clticlu'flLT,  Arlhur,  III   Lord,  IlIIit  to  Sec.  Conway, 

98;   accounl  ol  hiiu  Ly  Sir  lailliliil  Imtelliic,  luo. 
Chichelier,    Elizahelli,    uil'e    to    Ihinli    Forl.li-ue    of 

Filleigh,  50. 
Chichelier,  Sul'annah,  Jnd  wife   to  Jolm  Foitefciie  of 

Buckland  Filkigli,  75. 
Clermont,  Earl    ot",  account  of,    138;    anecdotes    re- 

l'pe(fling  him,  ih. 
Clermont,  Coimtef^  of,  Wraxall's  memoir  of  her,  140; 

anecdotes  of,  142,  14J. 
Clermont,    Vifcount,    then   W.    C.    Fortefcue,    taken 

prifoner  by  the  Frencli,  144;   account  ot,  146. 
Clermont,  Thomas  Lord,  account  ol',  132. 
Clermont-lodge,  Norfolk,  (hoolinj^  iiuarters  of  Fnrl  of 

Clermont,  1  38. 
Clinton,  Earl  of,  llufrh  l"orleli:uc,  inherited  Fiarony  of 

Clinton,  63  ;   created  Earl  of  Clinton,  64. 
Conway,  Secretary,  letter  from  Lord  Chichefter,  98. 
Cookhill,  Fortefcues  of,  14;   their  burial  place,  22. 
Courois,  M.,  notaire,  letter  to  Lord  Clermont,  352. 
Credan,  Fortelc;ues  of,  C7. 
CrelTmgham   (little),  co.  Norfolk,   monument  to  Earl 

of  Clermont  there.  138. 
Crefl  of  the  Fortelcues,  13,  35O,  351. 

Uarrell,  Mary,  2nd  wife  to  Henry  Fortefcue  of  Falk- 
borne,  166;   her  tomb  in  Falkborne  church,  \h. 

Dawfon-Damer,  Georgiana  Aupufl.i,  wile  to  Ilufjh, 
3rd  E.  Fortefcue,  66. 

Uelaporte,  Anne,  wife  10  Adam  Fortefcue  (t.  Edw.  L), 

5- 
Dennis,  Aenes,  wife  to  Henry  Forlefcue,  78. 
Denzille   or   Dejniell,  Eli/iabetli,  wile   to   M.irlin   I'or- 

telcue,  46. 
D'Ewes,  Sir  Simons,  letters   from  Anthony  Fortefcue, 

312. 
Dormer,   Elizabeth,   2nd    wife    to    Lord    Fortefcue    of 

Credan. 
Douglas,  Archibald,    correl'])Ondence    with    Sir    John 

Fortefcue  of  Salden,  248 — 252. 
Downing,   Maria,   wife    to   Francis    Knottcsfonl    l-'or- 

tefcue,  22. 
Dromiflun,  Fortefcues  of,   94  ;       the   redcnce  of  Sir 

Faithful  Fortefcue,  96. 

Ebrington  Church,  monument  to  Chancellor  For- 
tefcue there,  31 . 

Effex,  Devereux,  Earl  of,  correfpondence  with  Sir 
John  Fortefcue  of  Salden,  253 — 25b. 


Elfex,  Earl  of,  letters  to  Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue,  184. 
I'Amoor,  notice  of  the  red  deer  then,  65. 

l''alkliorne,  Fortelcues  of,  I51. 

lalkburne    Chuich,  tomb   uf  Hriuy    Fortefcue   and  of 

his  wife,  1O6. 
Falkborne,  Manor-houle,  accotiiii  uf,  167. 
lall.ipil,  wile  to  Sir  Ihniy  Fuitelcue,  C.  J.  of  Ireland, 

-LS- 
F.ill.ipit,  or  Valejiut,  I'ortefcucs  of,  24,  25. 
I'allapit     Huule,    \iew    of,    25;     lali   polKlUd    by    the 

lortefeuia  in   17O8,  39. 
Falwell,    or    Fouell,    M.ibel,    marr.    to    Wdliam    For- 
tefcue, 7. 
I'erke  Acad. micie,  written  by  fjeor^'j  Fortefcue.  314. 
Figuerda,  I'edro  de,  tellimony  regai  ding  a  jjorlrait  of 

Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue,  187,  189. 
I'illeigh,  CO.  Devon,  tomb  of  Richard  Fortefcue  {1570) 

in  clniTch  there,  49  ;   n.imc  eh.injjed  to    Cal  k  b  II, 

64. 
Florenci',  defcription  of  a  ]iortrai(  of  Sir  Adriati  Fi  r- 

telcue  there,    I90. 
"Fuieli   (Ihe),  or  Collee'hon   of  Hiftories,"  trai  llai  d 

by  'i'homas  I'ortefcue,  304. 
l'"oi  t  Charles,  v'uk  Salcombe  Caftle. 
Forlelcue,  liunily  of,  early  notices  of,  3  ct  fcq. ;   eliates, 

7,  10;   feals   of  arms,  5,   97,   243,  30,5,  331,  333, 

335,  337,  3,50,  351  ;  treds,  13,  350,  351  ;   ;ian  1- 

ards,   171  ;    motto,  3,  3  ;   portraits,    70,  186,    187- 

190. 
Fortefcue  of  iSuckland  Filieigh,  74 — 94. 
Fortefcue  of  Catlle  Hill,  4O-    74. 
I'orlefcue  of  Cookhill  and  Whealley,   14-^24.         1 
I'oiicfeue  of  Dromilkin,  94 — I  31. 
li'ruleue  of  Falkborne,  151—  169.  1 

Fortefcue  of  Fallapit  (id  line)  41—46.  ' 

loilefeue  of  l'alla))it  (2nd  line)  24 — 40. 
1  ortelcue  of  Normandy,  322 — 336.  1 

I'orleleue  of  I'l  elf  on  and  Wood,  10. 
I'ortefcue  of  I'unlborne,  151  —  169. 
lorteliue    of    Ravenfdale     I'ark,    94 — 151;     branch 

founded  by  William  Fortefcue  of  Fillegli,  48.     1 
L'ortefcue  of  .St.  Marie  du  Mont,  345. 
b'ortefcue  of  Salden,  170  —  322.  '     ' 

Fcirtefeue  of  Spridledone,  I  I — 14.  ,    ■ 

Fortelcue  of  Wlieatley,  14 — 24. 
Fortefcue  of  Wimflon  (elder  line),  I  —  9. 
Foilefcue  of  Wood  (feeond  line)   lO;   (firfl  line),  43. 
Fortefcue,    Sir    Ad.un,    of  Wimflon,  eo.    Devon,    ,in- 

celior  of  the  luiglifh  branch,  4:   his  iffue,  ib. 
Fortefcue,  Adam,   Ion   of  ibe  preceding,  charter   and 

leal,  5  ;   illiie,  ib. 


Index  to  the  Fcmiily  HiJlo?j. 


363 


I'orttlcm-,  Sir  Adrian,  17O;  m;irr.  1(1  Anne  Stonor, 
i/i.  ;  cicalLiI  Iviiii^ht  of  lluj  li.itli,  16.;  aL-comiJaiiicil 
Henry  \'II1.  to  Calais,  153,  171  ;  liis  (iandard 
delcriljed,  ih.  ;  (jentleman  uf  ihu  privv  clianiber, 
172;  prel'ent  at  the  "  Field  of  Cloth  of  Gold,"  174; 
letter.-,  to  him  from  Henry  VIII.,  174,  175;  marr. 
2nd,  Anne  Rede  or  Read,  176;  ifliie,  176,  Kj2  ; 
manufcripts  in  his  handwriting',  177;  his  niillal, 
179;  admitted  knight  of  St.  John  of  Jerufalem, 
1  So  ;  details  of  his  life  from  his  "  Book  of  Accounts," 
iSl  ;  his  portrait  at  Valetta  and  Civita  Vecchia, 
18b;  alio  at  Madrid  and  I'lorence,  187  — 190;  ab- 
flraiff  of  his  "Book  of  Accounts,"  192 — 223. 
l'\>rtefcue,   Adrian,  fon   of  Sir   I'rancis    Fortefcue,    in- 

fcri])tion  upon  his  tomb,  291. 
Fortefcue,    Antliony,  Marfhal   in   Ireland,     1547,    12; 
fer\ed  in  Scotland,  ib.;   confounded  with   Sir  An- 
thony, fon  of  Sir  Adrian,  ih. 
Fortefcue,  Sir  Anthony,  third  fon  of  Sir  Adrian,  306  ; 
educated  at  Wincheller  School,  i6.;  marr.  Katherine 
Pole,  307  ;   knighted  by  Queen  Mary,  ib. ;  plotted 
againll  Queen  Flizabeth,   ib.  ;    attainted,   308  ;   his 
illue,  310. 
Fortefcue,  Anthony,  refident  of  Charles  Duke  of  Lor- 
raine at  the   Enulilli  Court,  310;  required  to  unit 
the  kingdom,  ifc.;   living    in    1659,   ib.;    papers  re- 
lating to  his  diiinillid,  31  1 — 313. 
Fortelcue,  Arthur,  of  I'enwaine,  marr.  Barbara  I'^lford, 

J  2  ;    illlie,  ib. 
Fortelcue,  Bai  iholomew,  of  Wear  Ciliard,  marr.  Fllen 

Moor,  48  :  his  illlie,  it. ;  ob.  1557- 
I'orlefcue,  Bartholomew,  of  Buckland  Filleigh,  men- 
tioned in  a  memoir  of  Lord  Chicheficr,  76. 
Fortefcue,   Chichefler,   of  the    Inner  Temple,    1633, 
'  123;   M.F.  for  Charlemont,  1  634,  and  Carlingfoid, 
1642,  ib.  ;  marr.  Elizabeth  Siingfliy,  ib. ;  ob.  1O42,  ii. 
I'ortefcue,  Chichefler,  of  Donoughmore,  colonel  in  llie 
army,  120;   prefcnt  at   llie    iiege  of  Londonderry, 
127  ;   marr.  I'ridefwide  Hall,  1681,  ib.;   ilfuc,  16. 
Fortefcue,   Chichelter,     of  Dromilkin,   high    (herill    of 
Down,   1744,  127  ;   marr.  Hon.  Flizabeth  Wellelley, 
ib.  ;    received    a   gold   itiedid  for    a   patriotic   vole, 
1754,  16.;   mentioned   in  Mary   Granville's  corref- 
pondirnce,  ib.;   ob.  1757.  '-8- 
Lortefcue,   Sir   Chicheller,    rear-admiral   in    the   navy, 
128;  made  Ulfter  King-at-arms,  1788,16.;   letters 
from  Hon.  Arthur  Wcfley,  ib.  130. 
Fortefcue,  Colonel  Chichefter,  of  Dromin<in,  131  ;  M.l'. 
for    Hillfborough,    1798,    13^;     Lieut.-ColoncI    of 
Louth    militia,   ib.;    marr.   Martha   Angel    Hobfon, 
1809,  132;  ob.  1826,16.;  illiie,  16. 
Fortefcue,    Right    Honorable    Chichefter,    fon   of  the 
preceding,  M.P.  for  Louth,  I  847,  132  ;   lord  of  the 


treafury,  1854;  under  fccretary  of  ftate  for  the 
colonies,  18.57  1  chief  lijcretary  for  Ireland,  1866,  16. 
Fortelcue,  Dormer,  lee  I'ortel'cue-Aiand. 
I'orlelcue,  Edmund  (111),  of  I'allapit,  High  Sherilf  of 
l)e\un,  2();  marr.  Mary  Cliampernoun,  16.;  died 
1L124,  16.;  infcription  in  Allinglon  church,  27. 
Fortelcue,  Sir  Edmund  (2nd),  of  l''allapit,  27  ;  marr. 
to  Jane  Soutlicotc,  28  ;  hi-h  Ihcrill'  of  Devon,  16.; 
taken  prifoncr  by  Colonel  Kuthven,  16. ;  removed 
to  Windlbr  Callle,  30 ;  his  name  infcribed  upon 
wall  of  a  chamber  (here,  16.;  releafed  in  1O43,  31; 
letter  to  Colonel  Seymour,  16.  ;  commillion  from 
Prince  Maurice  to  repair  Salcombc  Calile,  32  ;  lill 
of  Stores  and  Garrifon  tiierc,  33 — 35  ;  articles  of 
lui  under,  31) — 38;  retired  to  Holland,  38  ;  ilied  at 
Dilli,  1047,16.;  his  character,  39.  i 

Foiteleue,  Sir  Edmund  (3rd),  fon  of  the  preceding, 
niair.  to  IVLirgiry,  da.  of  Henry,  Lord  Siindys  of 
the  Vine,  39;  kiiiglited  bet'ore  lObO,  16.  ;  baronet 
1OO4  ;  pelitioned  lor  command  of  I'ort  Charles,  i6.  ; 
died  lOOO,  16.  ;  illue,  16. 
Fortelcue,  Edmund,  Ion  of  Peter  Fortefcue,  of  Cruft 
marr.  Maria  Wyle,  39  ;  died  1783,16.;  buried  in 
lOafl  Allington  Chureh,  16.;  the  \J{  ni.ile  I'uitclcue 
pollellor  of  F.dl.ipii,  i6. 
I'oilel'cue,  Edmund,  "of  London,"  marr.  Sarah  Aland, 

51,  O7  ;   illiie,  ;6. ;  ob.  1681,  ib, 
Fortelcue,  lidmund,  ol'  Speccot,  lijii  of  the  preceding, 

took  the  name  of  Aland,  5  1 . 
Foiteleue,  Edw;ird,  of  Spridlclion,  his  remarkable  be- 
nefaiRions  to  the  poor  of  Bri.vlon,  13;   his  illue,  14. 
Fortefcue  (  HubbardJ,   I'^leanor,  da.  to  Sir  John  For- 
telcue of  S.ddcn,  her  epitaph,  289. 
Fortelcue,  Elizabeth,  wife  to  Louis  fortefcue,  24. 
Fortefcue,    Sir    l''.iilliful,    born    1512,    7  i  ;     lerved    in 
Flanders,  16.;  wrote  the  "  .Menioir.s  "  of  his  Family, 
7b;    died,   lOoS;   his  illiie,  16. 
Fortefcue,    Colonel    I'aitlilul,    fon    of  the    fireceding ; 
ferved  in  I'landers,  7b;    Lieut. -Colonel  in  the 
ahli  airn),  16.  ;   rc-inllated  by  Chas.  II.  16. 
I'oileleue,  Lieut.  I''aithful,  Ion  of  the  |)receding; 
commillion  under  Sir  Thomas  Fortefcue,  7(. 
in  Ireland,  1679,  16. 
ForUlcue,   Sir   I'aithful,   of   Buckland    FilleigL, 

circ.  15S1,  95;  Condable  of  Carrickfergis,  16. ; 
marr.  ill,  Hon.  Anne  Moore,  96;  2ndly,  Eleanor 
S^inon(U,  123;  M.P.  ibr  Charlemont,  1613,96; 
knighted  by  Jas.  I.  1617,16.;  iiis  iJolliillions,  97; 
Seal  of  Arms,  16. ;  appointed  to  a  Company  of  F'oot 
in  Ireland,  98  ;  liis  account  of  Lord  Chichefler,  lOO; 
hi^  relation  of  "'  ijalfiiges  of  the  E.  of  StraHbrd," 
104;  M.P.  for  Armagh,  107;  olFers  to  advance 
money  lor  the  troops,  loS  ;  appointed  colonel  by  the 


voy- 


held 
died 


born 


364 


hidex  to  the  Family  Hifiory. 


Parliament,  1641,  109;  petitions  to  the  kiiifr,  148, 
140;  joins  the  Royalifts  at  Edgehill,  1  I  1  ;  in.nic 
priloner  at  Beaumaris,  1  14  ;  prelent  at  tlie  IJattle  of 
Worcefter,  1651,118;  reflored  to  the  GovernoHliip 
of  Carrickfergus,  lly;  (lied  at  Cariftruoke,  1666, 
12  1;   monument  there,  xh. 

Fortefcue,  Francis,  of  Alvefion,  took  the  name  of 
Knottesford,  22  ;  (I'irft  Knottesfiird). 

Fortel'cue,  Sir  Francis,  of  Saklen,  M.  1'.  for  Bucking- 
ham, 290:  Knight  of  the  Bath,  1603,  \h.\  marr. 
(Jrace  Manners,  1  &00,  xh.  ;  illiie,  292  ;  died,  1623  ; 
his  monument  at  Murfley,  286,  287,  290  ;  knights 
made  at  his  houfe,  1603,  272,  273. 

Fortefcue,  George,"  of  Comhe,"marr.  Joan  Norlegh,4Q. 

Fortefcue,  George,  marr.  fiehecca  F'ortefcue  of  Spii- 
dleftone,  1697,  93- 

F'^ortefcue,  George,  knights  made  at  his  houfe,  1603, 
272,  273. 

Fortefcue,  George,  "of  London,"  educated  at  Rome, 
314;  his  pul)li(hed  works,  xh.\  Secretary  to  An- 
thony "  the  Relident,"  317  ;  will,  320. 

Fortefcue,  Rev.  George,  of  Killalla,  killed  at  the  land- 
ing of  the  l-'rench  in  179S,  144. 

Fortefcue,  George,  of  Tavirtock,  marr.  to  l\il)ecca 
Fortefcue,  14. 

Fortefcue,  lion.  Geo.,reflored  Wear-Giffard  Houfe,  47. 

F^ortefcue,  Guillaume,  killed  at  Agincourt,  323. 

Fortefcue,  Menry,  "  of  Falkborne,"  his  eflates,  165; 
F;;fquire  of  the  Body  to  Q.  Elizabeth,  166;  marr. 
irt,  Elizabeth  Stallbrd,  'xh.\  2ndly,  Mary,  widow  of 
Sir  Edward  Darrell,  ih.\  ilTue  ;  ob.  1576  ;  tomb  in 
Falkborne  Church,  xh. 

Fortefcue,  Henry,  of  VVimfton,  died  1587>9;  defires 
to  be  buried  at  Modbury,  xh.  ;   his  ifTue.  ih. 

I'^ortefcue,  Sir  Hinry,  Chief  Juftice  of  Common  Bleas 
in  Ireland,  42  ;  account  of  him,  43—45;  'ii*>  "i''''- 
defcendants  f.iiled,  46. 

Fortefcue,  Henry,  marr.  Agnes  Dennis,  78  ;  ob.  1691; 
his  monument  in  Buckland  I'illeigh  Church,  xh. 

Fortefcue,  Hugh,  of  Filleigh,  marr.  Elizabeth  Chi- 
chefter,  50 ;  his  iifue,  i6.  ;  ob.  1600,  monumental 
infcription,  16. 

Fortefcue,  Hugh,  marr.  Mary  Rolle,  50 ;  ilTue,  51.  52. 

Fortefcue,  Hugh,  of  Filleigh,  marr.  1(1,  Bridget  Bof- 
cawen,  52  ;  2ndly,  Lucy,  da.  of  Lord  Aylmer,  xh. ; 
in  Parliament,  1689-1708,  62;  died.  1719,63. 

Fortefcue,  Hugh,  itt  Earl  ;  M.  P.  for  Beaumaris,  1784, 
64;  marr.  Hefter  Grenville,  xh.;  created  Vitcount 
Kbrington  and  E.  Fortefcue,  1789,  xh. ;  died,  1841  ; 
correfpondence  with  Mr.  Lyfons,  65. 
Fortefcue,  Hugh,  2nd  Earl ;  M.  P.  for  Barnnapie,  65  ; 
Lord  Steward  of  the  Queen's   Houfchold,    1846— 


1850,   66;    marr.    ifl.   Lady  Sufan   Ryder,    1817; 

2ndly,  Klizabelh  Geale,  I  841,  xh.  ;   died,  1861,  16. 

his  charadter,  xh. 
Fortefcue,  Hugh,  3rd  Earl,  66  ;  M.  P.  for  Marylebone, 

1854 — 1859;     marr.    Georgin.i    AuguOa   Uawlon- 

Danier,  1847,26.;  ili'ue,  \h. 
Fortefcue,   Rt.   Honble.   J.imes,  of  Ravenfdale  Park, 

younger  Ion  of  Thomas  Fortefcue  of  Clermont,  143  ; 

M.  P.  for  Dundalk,  1757,  and  Louth,  17 Jl  ;  marr. 

Mary   Henrietta    Hunter,    144;     illiie,    144,    146; 

buried  in  Clermont  Park,   I43;    his  charadler,  16. 
Fortefcue,    James,    D.  D.    of  0.\ford,   77;    author  of 

feveral  literary  works,  xh.  ;  died,  1777,  ih. 
Fortefcue,   Jehan,  mullers    and    receipts,   with   feals, 

330—334-  339—342. 
I''ortefcue,  Sir  John,  ot'  Wrmflone,  o'llained  charter  ol 

W'imltone  from  King  John.  4. 
F'ortelcue,  John,  M.  P.  for  Taviflock,  Totnes,,ind  "Ivi  1- 

ton,    teni]).  Hen.    VI.,  7  ;     marr.   Joan    Prulelioii  ; 

living  in  1461,  xh, 
Fortefcue,  John,  eldeft  fon  of  John  Fortel'cue  an(  Jo  m 

dc  Prutedon,  8;   marr.  Ilabella  Gibbs  ;   died,     51   ,; 

ifllie,  xh. 
Fortefcue,  Sir  John,  Lord  Chancellor,  temp.  Hea.  \  I. 

brief  notice  ol  him  only.      .SVe  his  Lite  in  volume  of 

his  works,  4b. 
Fortefcue,  John,  fon  of  Martin  Fortefcue  of  Filleig  1, 

1460;   died,  1502,  48. 
F'ortefcue,  Sir  John  (the  younger),  of  Punfborne,  15,.; 

Sherilfof  Cornwall,  1471  — 1476,16.;  prefent  it  the 

fiege  of  St.  Michael's  Mount,  154;  marr.  ifl,  Alice 

Boleyn,  156;  Sheriff  of  Herlfbrdfhire,  1481,  157; 

Mafler-Porter  of  Calais,  1483,  xh.\  prefent  atithe 

battle    of  ]5ofworlh,   158;    Knight   Banneret,  I.186, 

159;   grant  of  manors  to  him,  i6. ;   marr.  FJizalJ.eth 

Stapleton,    161  ;   feud   with    Sir  William   Say,  !6.  ; 

attended  Hen.  VIL  to  Calais,  1  500,  162;  died  fime 

year;  tomb  at  Bifhop's  Hatfield,  xh.\   illiie,  163' 
p'orlefcue,    ,John,    of    Punlhourne,    called    "John    of 

Herts,"  163;  mentioned  in  the  "  Book  of  Accounts" 

of  Hen.   VIL,    164;   accompanied  Henry   VIII,   to 

Calais,  ih.\    m.irr.    to   Phillppa  Spict  ,    165;  ifTue, 

xh.;  died.  1517,    165;   his  llandard  d  (bribed,  171. 
Fortefcue,  John,  of  Wimfton,  marr.  to  I  iibella  Gibbs, 

8  ;  died,  1519  ;   lands  held  by  him,  i7.  ;   i.Tue,  16. 
Fortefcue,  John,  of  I'"allapit,  accompanied  the  Earl  of 

Devon  to  the  relief  of  Exeter,  1495,  45. 
Fortelcue,  John,  of  Fallapit,  fon  of  Baron  F'ortefcue, 

25;  marr.  Honour  Speccot, 26  ;  died,  1595;  his  por- 
trait at  I'all.ipit,  xh.  ;  tomb  in  Allington  Church,  ib. 
Forte(t:ue,  Sir  John,  of  Salden,  223  ;  A(ft  for  his  "  Rcf- 

titution  in   Blood,"  xh.  ;  preceptor  to  the   Princess 


Index  to  the  Family  Hijlory. 


365 


Elizabeth,  16.;  keeper  of  the  wardrobe,  224;  marr. 
ift,  Cicely  AOifield,  225;  feud  with  Lord  (irey, 
226;  marr.  2ndly,  Alice  Smyth,  237;  M.  P.  for 
Ruckingham,  238  ;  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer 
and  Privy  Counl'ellor,  240 ;  knighted,  1592,242; 
letter  to  Lord  Burleigh,  244;  engraving  of  his  feal, 
245;  fpeeches  in  Parliament,  246,  260,  261,  2G6; 
correfpondence  with  Sir  A.  Douglas,  248 — 252  ; 
the  Earl  of  Etfex,  2,53 — 255;  Sir  A.  Racon,  256 — 
258  ;  lines  addrtflfed  to  him  by  IL  Lok,  2,58  ;  one  of 
the  judges  at  the  trial  of  the  Earl  of  Edex,  265  ; 
Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancafter,  1601,  268, 
27  1  ;  prefentat  the  funeral  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  269  ; 
entertained  James  L  at  Salden,  1603,  271  ;  knights 
made  on  that  occalion,  16.,  273 ;  ^L  P.  for  co. 
Bucks,  1604,  274;  M.  P.  for  Middlclex,  1605, 
276  ;  letter  to  Lord  Spencer,  276  ;  and  Sir  Julius 
Caefar,  278,  279  ;  to  the  Earl  ofShrewltury,  296  ;^to 
Sir  Hen.  Unton,  297  ;  to  Loid  Burleigh,  ih. ;  to  Sir 
Geo.  Carew,  300 ;  gifts  to  the  Bodleian  Library, 
301  ;  lift  of  his  ertates,  302  ;  "Remembrances"  for 
him,  302  ;  patent  as  Recorder  of  Cambridge,  304 ; 
died,  1607,  280  ;  charadler,  281  ;  extraifis  from  Rod- 
ley's  letters  refpefling  him,  282  ;  buried  at  Murlley, 
283  ;  funeral  certilicate,  284  ;  monument  in  Murlley 
Church,  z6.,  286  ;  memoranda  of  his  offices,  &c.  288  ; 
iffue,  289;  his  portrait  of  Chancellor  Fortefcue  at 
Bofworth  Hall,  292  ;  the  jiortrail  formerly  at  Salden 
at  prefent  undifcovered,  295. 

Fortei'cue,  John,  of  Ruckland  I'illeigh,  76  ;  marr.  ift, 
.\nne  Porter;  2ndly,  Sulannah  Chiehefter,  ib.  ;  died, 
lb04  ;    ilfue,  ib.  ;    extraifts  from  his  will,  95. 

Fortefcue,  John,  of  Cookhill,  Koyalill  leader,  21  ;  marr. 
Jane  D'Ewes,  ib.  ;   his  ilfue,  2  2. 

Fortefcue,  John,  a  Koyalift,  compounded  for  his  eftate, 
1649,  13  ;   his  iftlie,  ib. 

Fortefcue,  John,  of  Fallapit,  marr.  Sarah  Pridcaux,  27  ; 
iffue,  ib.  ;  took  up  arms  againft  the  Parliament,  16. ; 
imprifoned  in  the  "  Clinke,"  tb.  ;  extracts  from  his 
will,  1647.  ib. 

Fortefcue,  John,  of  Sjiriddlefton,  1578,  abftraci  of  his 
will,  12,  13. 

Fortefcue,  John,  of  Spriddlefton,  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, temp.  Hen,  VIIL,  died  1547,  46. 

Fortefcue,  John,  of  Spridlefton,  1515;  i"'"''"-  Florence 
Vivian,  12;  his  idiie,  ib. 

Fortefcue,  John,  of  Spridlefton,  II  ;  marr.  Alice  Cock- 
worthy,  or  Keckworthy,  1  2  ;  iffiie,  ib. 

Fortefcue,  John,  furnamed  "of  Meaux,"  fome  ac- 
count of  him,  41. 

Fortefcue,  John,  of  Ruckland  Filleigh  ;  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  1619,  77;   marr.  Thomaline   Prideaux,  ib  \ 


died,  l66,s  ;  nionummt  in  Huekland  Filleigh  Church 
16. 

Fortefcue,  Sir  John,  Bart.,  marr.  Frances  Stanley, 
292  ;  created  baronet  of  Nova  Scotia,  l63(j,  16.  ; 
taken  pril'oner  by  Sir  Samuel  Luke,  16.  ;  died,  1656  ; 
buried  at  Murlley,  ib. 

Fortefcue,  John,  Captain  R.  N.,  22;  ni.ide  a  voyage 
round  the  world  in  Lord  Anion's  lhi|)  the  "  Centu- 
rion," 1740,  ift;   died,   1808,  ift.;    his  illtie,  ift. 

Fortefcue,  Colonel  John  higlett,  marr.  ift,  Ann  San- 
ders, 1788,94;  2ndly,  Sarah  Marwood,  1818,94; 
illue,  ift. ;  fold  Ruckland  Filleigh  and  Spridlelion,  93. 

Fortelcue,  ,John,  of  Filleigh,  fee  Fortefcue-Aland. 

I'"ortefcue,  Sir  John,  2nd  bart.,  marr.  ift,  M.ugaret,  da. 
of  Lord  Arundel  of  Wardour  ;  2ndly,  Mar  Stonor  ; 
3rdly,  Elizabeth  Winton,  293;   died,  17  I;-,,  ift. 

Fortefcue,  John,  fon  of  Lord  Fortelcue  of  Credan,  70; 
died  1  743  ;    buried  at  Stapleford  Abbots,  ift. 

FortelLue,  John,  of  Bampton  ;  the  laft  Fortelcue  [lof- 
felVor  of  F'allapit  and  Ruckland  Filleigh,  82. 

Fortelcue,  Sir  John,  "  of  Herts,"  ftandard  uled  by  him, 
171. 

Fortelcue,  Louis,  or  Lewis,  of  Fallapit  ;  reader  of  the 
Middle  Temple,  24  ;  4th  Raron  of  the  Exchecjuer, 
1542,  ift.;  marr.  F^lizabeth  Fortefcue,  and  acquired 
I'allapit,  ift.  ;  died  1545,  ift.;  extraifis  from  his  will, 
15,  IS;   his  illue,  25. 

F'ortefcue,  Lucy,  marr.  to  Lord   Littleton,   52  ;   buried 
at  Over  Arley,  53  ;    epit.iph,   ib.  ;    "  monody  "  writ-    1 
ten  upon  her,  54. 

Fortelcue  |  PoultneyJ,  Margery,  da.  to  Sir  John  For- 
tefcue of  Salden;   her  epitaph,  289. 

Fortefcue,  Mary,  wife  to  the  Kt.  Hun.  William  For-  1 
tefcue,  78.  ' 

Fortefcue,  Martin,  Ion  of  Chancellor  Fortefcue  ;  lirft  1 
took  the  name  into  the  North  of  Devon,  40  ;  marr.  ' 
lilizabeth  Denzille,  or  Deynlcll,  4!)  ;  in(|uilition  at  ; 
his  dealli,  72.  '| 

Fortefcue,  Matthew,  2nd  Lord  Fortefcue,  1751,  64; 
marr.  Anne  Campbell,  ift. 

ForteliHie,  Nicholas,  Groom  Porter  to  Wan.  VIIL  ;  an- 
ceftor  of  the   tiunily  of  Knottesford-l-'ortefc  le,  12;      | 
and  of  the  I'ortel'eues  of  Cookhill,  15;  man    Kath- 
erine  Skinner,  ift.  ;  had  grant  of  Cookhill  and  Jhurch 
Lench  from  the  king,  1  6  ;  died,  1 549,  1  2, 1 6  ;    vi|l,  23. 

Fortefcue,  Sir  Nicholas,  of  Cookhill,  grandfon  of  the 
preceding  ;  his  (uppofed  conneiftion  with  the  Gun- 
jjowder  Plot,  17  ;  perfonal  defcription,  ift.  ;  knighted 
by  James  L,  1617,  IS  ;  appointed  Chamberlain  of  the 
Exchequer,  16 18,  ift.  ;  employed  on  feveral  commif- 
fions,  1622,  1623,  ift.  ;  marr.  to  Prudence  Wheteley, 
ih.  ;  iffue,  ift.  19  ;   died,  1633,  ift. ;   his  feal,  97. 


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Index  to  the  Family  Hifloi'y. 


Forlcfciie,  Nlcliohis,  fon  of  the  prectdinj^ ;  Kninht  of 
St.  Jolin,  IQ;  cominilVioiud  to  rovil'o  tile  '•  F.nnlilh 
tongue  "  of  th;it  order,  at  Malta,  ih. ;  jjroofs  of  his 
nohility,  20 ;  took  up  arms  for  tlie  King,  xb.  ;  killed 
at  Preflon,  1644,  ih.  ;   drawing  of  his  feal,  2  1. 

Fortefcuc,  Sir  IVter,  of  Wood,  I  fibb  ;  created  a  ba- 
ronet, 1  1  ;  mair.  to  Bridget  Kliot,  xh.  ;  di^d,  1685; 
iffue,  1  1. 

Fortefoue,  I'lerre,  receipt  with  his  feal,  337. 

I'urlel.  lie,  Hi  lierca,  heirefs  of  Spridlefton,  175J,  14; 
man.  to  Caleb  higlett,  Efq.,  xh. 

Fuiteleue,  Rebecca,  marr.  to  George  F'ortefcue,  1697, 
93 

Forlefcue,  Sir  Richard,  at  the  battle  of  Ilafling.-,,  3; 
returned  to  Normandy,  4. 

F'ortelcue.Sir  Richard,  granted  lands  to  Walter  b'aber, 
of  Modbury,  5. 

Fortel'cue,  Sir  Richard,  of  Fainyngton  ami  I'uniborne, 
3rd  Ion  of  Sir  John  "  of  Meaux,"  151  ;  111,11  r.  Alice 
de  Windefor,  xh.  ;  iliue,  ih.  ;  killed  at  the  bailie  of 
St.  Albans,  152. 

Fortefcuc,  Ricluird,  of  Wear  (iiHiird,  marr.  Jo.in 
Moreton,  49;  iffue,  xh.;  died,  1570;  laini;d  at 
Filleigh,  ih. 

Fortel'cue,  Riciiard,  of  Spridleflon,  died,  I  580  ;  12; 
abfliact  of  his  will.  13. 

l'"ortel'cue.  General  Richard ;  took  I'endennis  Cafile 
from  the  Ruyalifts,  1 646.  317;  fiovernor  ol'  Ja- 
in.lica,   1655,  318;   will  proved,   U157,  321. 

Fortelcuc.Mcllire,  Richard,  of  St.  M.iiie  du  Mont :  iiis 
"Chartrier,"  345'353i356;  iirms  borne  byhim,347. 

Fortel'cue,  Colonel  Robert,  marr.  1(1,  Grace  (ireiiville, 
51  ;    2ndly,  Sufannah  Northcote,  ifc. ;  idiic,  iV). 

Fuiteleue,  Sir  Sandys,  of  F'allapit,  marr.  FJizabeth 
Lenthall,  39;    died     1 680. 

Fortefcue,  Thomas,  of  Donnington,  born  1534,  304; 
.1  perfoii  of  literary  talles,  xh.;  ^LI*.  for  Wallinglord, 
305  ;  his  Ihield  of  arms,  xh.;  died,  1611,  306  ; 
will,  318. 

Foi  tell  lie.  Thorn. IS,  of  Wiiiiftone,  marr.  to  Cicely 
Strode,  1  554,  9  ;  fuceeeded  at  Wiindone  by  his 
brotlur  lleniy,  ih. 

Fortefcuc,  Thomas,  "of  Dartmouth,"  bei|uefis  by  him, 
26  ;  died,  1602,  xh. 

Fortefcue,  Sir  Thomas,  cldeft  fon  of  Sir  Faithl'ul  I'or- 
lefcue  ;  ferved  in  the  Low  Countries,  124;  and  in 
the  Royalifl  army,  1642,  16.  ;  Governor  of  Carrick- 
fergus  Caftic,  l6fal,  125,  149;  knighted,  1 6O3, 
126;  died,  1710,  xh.;  marr.  ifl,  Sidney  Kinnimill, 
2ndly,  Elizabeth  Cary,  xh. 

F'ortefcue,  Thom.ns,  of  Clermont  and  Ravenfdale  I'ark, 
136  ;    M.I',  for  Uunleer,   I  7  1  5,  and  Dundalk,  1727, 


13C;   marr.  Flizahelh  Hamilton,  xh.;   improved  the 
Louth  K(iate,  137  ;   died,   1769,16.;   ill'ue,  ih. 

Fortefcue,  Thomas,  eldeft  fon  of  Chichcfler  Fortefcue  ; 
M  I',  li.r  Tilm,  1768,  131  ;  marr.  id,  Hon.  Mary 
I'.ikeiib.ini,  1770,  2iidly,  Mary  Nicliolfon,  1770,  it. ; 
llfue,  xh.  ;    di,d,    1779. 

Forulciie,  Tiillain,  of  Mefnil-.\iigut,  his  armorial 
beariiig.s,  347. 

(■'orlefcue,  William  ;  heMlandsin  I  lolbeton,  rirc.  1342, 
0;  marr.  Alice  Slieekleigh,  ;/;.  ;  granted  kinds  in 
1360  and  I  3G9,  xh. 

Fortel'cue,  William,  of  Wiiiifton,  1 394  ;  marr.  Mabel 
F.dwell  or  F.mell,  7. 

Forteleiie,  William,  fon  o(  the  preci  ding ;  granted 
lauds  in   1375  and   1 394,  6.  , 

Foil.  Idle,  William,  grandfon  of  William  Fcrtefcue  and 
Alice  Slieekleigh;  marr.  F:ii.!abelh  Beauchainp,  6  ;■ 
ii\iiig  ill   140IJ,  7. 

Foilelciie,  William,  anceRor  of  the  elder  line  of  Wim- 
(iuiie  ;   marr.  Mabel  Falwell  or  F'owell,  7. 

Fortefcue,  Willi, im,  of  I'riiteflon  or  Prirton;  m  irr. 
F.li/;. belli  Ch.iiniiernoun,  10;  died,  1520,1/).;  bis 
will,  xh. 

Forleleiie,  William,  2iid  li_iii  of  .Martin  F'orlefeue  ;  in- 
lii'rited  Riiekl.ind  FilKigh,  74;  louilded  the  family 
of'  Huckland  b'llleigh,  and  its  branches  of  Droinilkin 
and  Ravenfdale  I'ark,  48;  marr.  Maiid  Atkins,  74. 

I'oilelcur,  Willi. nn,  eldeft  fon  of  the  preceding  ;  marr. 
in  1555  .-Xnue  Giiliird,  of  Briglitley,  7*5;   died  1550. 

I'ortel'cue,  William,  Ion  of  Sir  Nicholas,  Groom  I'orter  ; 
marr.  Urfula  Newport,  lb;   died,  160.5,  17;   ifllie,  xh. 

F'ortelcue,  Sir  William,  2nd  fon  of  Sir  Joini  l"ortef'ci|e 
of  .Salden  ;  M.R.  for  Chipping  Wycombe,  28'  ; 
ferved  in  Ireland,  1600 — 1  603  ;  knighted,  iboo,  ih\  ; 
died,   1629;   buried  at  Muifley,  ifc. 

I'oit.  Iciie,  William,  Ion  of  Sir  Fraitcis  I'ortefcue ; 
marr.  .Ann  Webb,  .aid  inheriled  Bofworth  Hall,  29  I . 

F'orteleiie,  Willi. iin,  of  Biiekland  I'illeigh  ;  marr,  lirn- 
lyn  Troile,  78  ;   illiie,  'xb.\   died,  1G79. 

I'ortefcue,  William,  of  Newragh,  grandlbn  of  Sir  Faith- 
ful Fortefcue;  lieutenant  of  foot,  IbSo,  133;  (late- 
meiit  of  his  loffes  at  tlie  defence  of  Ba  don,  1694, 
16.  ;  addrefs  to  Parliament  in  his  favour,  13J  ;  marr. 
Margaret  Gernon,  168 1,  136;  died,  i;34:  iffue, 
xh. 

I''orlelcue,  Right  Hon.  William,  foil  of  Henry  P'ortelcue 
of'  I'uckl.iiid  I  illeigh  ;  m.irr.  .Mary  l-'orlelcue  of 
F'allapit,  78;  entered  the  Inner  Temple,  1714,  in- 
tiinale  fnenil  of  I'ope,  79  ;  made  Baron  of  the  Fi- 
clie(|Uir,  1738,80;  and  Mafler  of  the  Rolls,  1741, 
i/i. ;   died  1749,  xl.;   buried  in  the  Rolls  chapel,  81; 


Ifulex  to  tJic  Family  Hiftory 


367 


epitaph,  81;  his  corrcfpondcnre  with  Pope  and  Ciy, 
82-  84,87;  extni(fl  from  liis  di.iry,  84;  IpL-cini.-ii 
of  Scrihlcrus's  re])oits,  85. 

FortcCcuc,  ICdimiiiil,  ol'  -Spiccnt,  took  tlic  name  of 
Aland,  51,  67;    (lied  unmarried,  1704,  ib. 

l''orteleue  of  Credan,  Jolin,  ift  Lord,  M.I".  fur  Mid- 
hurft,  67  ;  Sol.  Gen.  to  George  I.  ib.;  juftiee  of  llie 
King's  Bench,  1718,  i6.;  and  Common  Pleas,  17:!S, 
16.;  created  Baron  Fortefcue  of  Credan,  1746,  i7>. ; 
marr.  ift,  Grace  Pratt,  69;  2ndly,  Elizabeth  Dor- 
mer, 70;  died  1746;  anecdote  related  of  him,  (j8  ; 
his  charaifler,  ib.-.  ,ind  uiitings,  Gy  ;  diploma  ot 
D.C.L.  Oxford,  73. 

Fortefcue,  Dormer,  2nd  lord,  horn  1722,  70 ;  jiof- 
felled  the  Dormer  eflates  ;   died  1781,  71. 

Fortelcue-Knottesford,  Fr.incis,  marr.  Mari.i  Downing, 
2  2.      .S'ti>  Knottestbrd-Fortelciie. 

Fortefeue-Tarville,  family  of,  2i)l,  292. 

Gay,    John,    letter    from    the    Right     Hon.    William 

Fortefcue,  83. 
George  iV.,  anecdotes  of  him  when  Prince  of  Wales, 

139-142. 
Gernon,  Margaret,  A\ife  to  William  Fortefcue  of  New- 

ragh,  1681,  136. 
Gibbs,   Ifabella,   wife    to    John    Forteicue,    of  Wim- 

flone,  8. 
Gitl.-ird,  Anne,  wife  to  William  I'\)rtefcue  of  Hriuhth  y, 

7.5- 
GoodricKe,  Sir  Harry  J.inies,  poH'eired  the    Fortefcue 

eftales,  146. 
Granville,   Mary,  extrac'ts   from  her    correfpondence, 

127,  128. 
Gregor,  Francis,  tranllator  of  "  De  Laudibus   Legum 

Anglia,"  69. 
Grenville,  Hefler,  wife  lo   Hugh,  ift   Earl   Fortefcue, 

64. 
Grey,  Lord,  of  Willon,  feud  with  Sir  Jolin   Forteicue 

of  Salden,  226—236. 

Hall.    Fridefwide,    wife    to    Chichcftcr     Fortefcue    of 

Donoughmore,  127. 
Hamilton,   Elizabeth,  marr.   to  Thomas    Fortefcue   of 

Clermont  I'arU,  136. 
Harley,  Robert,  letter  from  I.  [IL?J  Fortefcue,  63. 
Hawkins,  Sir  Thomas,  verfes  addrelled  to  him,  316. 
Henry  VIL;  command  to  Sir  John  I'ortefcue,  to  a\oid 

breaking  the   peace,  162  ;   memoranda  of  the  For- 

tefcues  in  the  king's  •■  Rook  of  Accounts,"  164. 
Henry  VIIL  ;  letters  appointing  Sir  Adrian   Fortefcue 

to  attend  the  queen  to  France,  174;  alio  to  find 

men  for  the  defence  of  Calais,   175. 


Hill,  Margaret,  wife  to  Richard,  (on  of. Sir  Henry  For- 
teicue, of  I'.ill.ipit,  45. 

Hodlini^lon,  co.  Wuiceller,  monument  to  Adrian  For- 
tefcue of  S.ddeii  llure,  291. 

How.iiil,  Mrs.,  leltir  from  William  I'ortefcue,  82. 

Hulibaid  or  Hobau,  Eleonora,  da.  of  Sir  J.  Fortefcue 
of  S.dden  ;   infciiption  on  her  tomb,  28<). 

Hunter,  Mary  Henrietta,  wife  to  the  Right  Hon. 
.lanies  Fortefcue  of  Ravenldale,  144. 

Hulband's  Bofwortll,  CO.  Leicefter,  ellales  inherited 
by  Francis  Forlel'cue  Tur\ille,  29 1. 

Ingham,  co.  Norfolk,  extrafis  from  court  roll  of  the 
manor,  168. 

Insjleit,  Richard,  fuccccded  to  Buckland  I'iU.igh  and 
Spiidlellone,  1776,  93;  look  the  name  of  For- 
teicue, ib. 

James  I.  \ilits  Sir  J.  l'"ortefcue  at  Hendon,  27  1;  and 
at  Salden,  272;  knights  made  by  him  there,  j6.  ; 
vilils  Sir  J.  Fortefcue  at  Cornbury,  278. 

Jamys,  Iliibilla,  wife  10  Lord  Chancellor  I'ortefcue, 
46. 

Killala.  Mayo  ;   account  of  the  landing  of  I'rench  there, 

17M^.  1.14- 

Kinulmill,  S)dney,  III  wife  to  Sir  Thomas  Fortefcue, 
1  26. 

Knit;hton,  Mr,,  letter  to,  from  Sir  Adiian  I'ortefcue, 
1S4. 

Knotiesford-Fortefcue,  Rev.  Edw.  Bowles,  Dean  of 
Perth,  lineal  defcendant  of  Sir  Nicholas,  groom- 
porter  to  Henry  VIIL,  16,  22;  nprefentative  of 
the  eldeft  ,  xilling  line  of  the  Forteleues. 

Knowles  or  Knulllhill,  co.  Kffex,  defcription  of  the 
manlion  and  fehool,  70,  71. 

Lambart,  Charles,  Idler  to  the  Lord  Lieut,  of  Ireland, 

147. 
Lambourn,  co.   L^ifix,   manor  of,  |)urchafed   by   Lord 

I'orteiiue  of  Credan,  70. 
Lane,  Sir  Geuige,  letter  (rom  Sir  Thomas  Forte  cue, 

Le  Fort,  Sir  Adam,  featcd   at  Wimflon,  co.  Devo  1,  ^4; 
Le  Fort,  Sir   Richard,  anccflor  of  the  family  of    '"or- 

telcu.',  3,  322. 
Lee  Grange,  co.  Bucks.,  Manor  of,  poffeded  by  the 

2nil  Lord  I'ortefcue  of  Cicd.in,  70. 
Lcnthall,   Elizabeth,   wife    to    Sir    Sandys    Fortefcue, 

.39- 
Lok,  Henry,  fonnet  in  honour  of  Sir  John  I'ortefcue 
of  Salden,  25S. 


368 


Index  to  the  Fcunily  HiJIory. 


London,  Tower  of;  Sir  Edmund  Fortefcue  a  prifontr 

Uierc,  30 ;   inicriptions  upon  the  walls,  309. 
orraine,  Charles,  Diikc  of,  letters  regarding  Anthony 

Fortefcue,  313. 
I.jttleton,  George,  Lord;  marr.   Lucy,   da.  of  Hugh 

Fortefcue   of    Filleigh,   52  ;    epitaph   and    monody 

written  by  him,  53,  54 — 62. 
Lyttleton,    Lucy,   monumental    inicriptions,    53,    54; 

"  Monody  "  upon  her,  54. 

Madrid,  defcription  of  a  portrait  of  Sir  A.  Fortefcue 
there,  187. 

Magny,  ^L  de,  his  account  of  the  Fortcl'cues  of  Nor- 
mandy, 322. 

•'Martinus  Scriblerus,"  Right  Hon.  William  Fortef- 
cue's  contribution  to,  81,  85. 

"  Meaux  "  (Sir  John  of),  John  Fortefcue  of  Norreis  (o 
called,  41. 

MilHil  belonging  to  Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue,  179. 

Modbury,  co.  Devon,  account  of  the  taking  of,  28,  29. 

Motto,  the  Fortefcue,  its  derivation,  3,  5,  351. 

Murrtey,  CO.  Bucks  ;  Fortefcue  monuments  there, 
2S4 — 287. 

Nicholfon,  Mary,  2nd  wife  to  Thomas  Fortefcue,  ^LF. 

tor  Trim,  1776,  131 . 
Norlegh,     Joan,     rii.irr.    to    George     Fortefcue     "  of 

Combe,"  49. 
Norreis,   Fortefcues  of,  4I. 
NoiTeis,  Joan  (or  Eleanor),  wife  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue, 

41. 

Ormond,   Earl   of,  letter  to,  from  Thomas  Salvin  and 

others,  108  ;   from  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue,  113,  I  14  ; 

letter  from  him  to  Gen.  Fairfax,  1  1 .5  ;   and  to  the 

Lords  of  the  Committee,  1  17. 
0\crton, ,  wife  to  Anthony  Fortefcue,  the  "  Rell- 

Jent,"  310. 

I'akenham,  Hon.  ^^lry,  ifl  wife  to  Thomas  Fortefcue, 

M.P.  for  Trim,  1770,  131. 
Paris,    evidences   of  the    Fortefcues   in  the    Imperial 

Library  at,  330 — 341. 
Pole,  Arthur,  record  of  him  in   Reaucli.imp's  Tower, 

309- 
Pole,    Edmund,   plot  againft   Queen   Elizabeth,   307  ; 

name  inl'cribed  ujjon  the  walls  of  the  Tower,  309. 
Pole,  Katherine,  wife  to  Sir  Anthony  Fortefcue,  307. 
Pole,  Sir  Wdliam,  his  '•  Great  Volume  of  Charters,"  4. 
Pope,  Alexander,  correfpondence  with  the  liight  Hun. 

William  Fortefcue,  82-84,  87—93. 


Porter,  Anne,  ifl  wile  to  John  Fortefcue  of  Rucklnnd 
Filleigh,  76. 

Poulteney,  or  Pulteney,  Maigery,  da.  of  Sir  John 
Fortefcue  of  Salden,  ini'cription  on  her  tomb,  289. 

Pratt,  Grace,  ift  wife  to  Lord  Fortelcue  of  Credan,  69. 

Prefton,  or  Prutefton,  I'ortefcues  of,  5,  10. 

Prideaux,  Thomazin,  wife  to  John  Fortelcue  of  Ruck- 
land  l'"illiigh,  77. 

Prutellon,  Joan  de,  wife  to  John  Fortefcue,  8  ;  lands 
held  by  her  at  her  death,  ih. 

Pun(l)orne,  I'ortcfcues  of,  151. 

Pyrton,  co.  Dorfet,  Lady  Anne  Fortefcue  buried  there, 
172;  her  body  removed  to  Rrightwell  Church, 
173- 

Rabato,  portrait  of  Sir  A.  Fortefcue  thcr.e,  186. 
I{aleigh,  Sir  Walter,  warrants  relating  to  him,  299. 
Ravenfdale  Park,  Arthur  Young's  defcription  of  137. 
Ravenldale    Park,    Fortefcues   of,   branch  founded    by 

William  Fortefcues,  48,  94. 
Rede,  or  Read,  Anne,  2nA  wife  to  Sir  A.  Fortelcue  of 

Salden,    1530,    176;   in  favour  with   Queen  Ma  y, 

190;   manors  granted  to  her,  191  ;   marr.  2ndly,  to 

Sir  Thomas  Ap-Harrj',  ib.;   died,  1585,  ib. ;   mot  u- 

ment  at  Welford  Church,  ib. 
Rhine,   Maurice,   Count  Pal.itine  of  the,   letter  to  Sir 

Edmund  Fortefcue,  32.  1 

Rivers,  J.  A.,  verfes  addreffed  to  him,  316.  ' 

Rulle,  Mary,  wife  lo  Hugh  Fortefcue  of  Wear  Giffard, 

1612,50. 
Rolls  Chapel,  the,  monumental  infcription  ujjon  Rif  ht 

Hon.  William  Fortefcue,  81. 
Rufliworlh,  Jo.,  later  to  Richard  Lane,  Efq.,  lib.     . 
Ryder,  Lady  Sulan,  l(i  wife  to  Hugh,  2nd   ICarl    Fui- 

tefcue,  66.  , 

Ryme,   Dorfet,   poUefled    by   William     Fortefcue    bi 

marriage  with  Elizabeth  BeauclLimj),  7. 

I 
Sackville,  Richard  and  Margery,  their  (uit  againft  Sir 

Henry  Fortelcue,  juftice  of  Ireland,  43. 
St.  Marie  du  Mont,  Fortefcues  of,  345.  ' 

St.   Michael's  Mount,  co.   Cornwall,  beheged    by  Sir 

John  Fortefcue,  153. 
Salcombe  Cufile,  co.  Devon  ;  order  for  rebi  ilding,  32'; 

account   of  provilions   placed  there,  33     names  of 

the  garrifon,  35;   lurrendered   to    Color  ,1  Weldon, 

Salden,  Fortefcues  of,  170. 

Salden  Houfe,  defcrijition  of,  237,  293—295. 

Sandys,    Margery,    da.   of  Henry    Lonl,   wife    to    Sir 

Edmund  Fortefcue  (3rd),  39. 
Seals  of  the  Fortefcues  ;  Adam  (temp.  Edw.   L),  5  ; 


Index  to  the  Fatnily  Hijlory. 


369 


Sir   Nicholas,   Kiit.   of  St.  John,  21;  Sir   Faiihful, 

97;     Sir    John   (1592),    245;     J.h.iii,   331,   333; 

Guillem,    335  ;     I'iiire,    337  ;    a    n-iiiarkabic    one, 

350,   97;    Teals   from    the    Clairenibauit   collciflion, 

351- 
Seymour,  Colonel,  Gov.  of  Dartmouth,  letter  from  Sir 

Edmund  Foitel'cuc,  31. 
Shrewfbury,  Earl  of,  letter  tVom  Sir  John  Fortefcue  of 

Salden,  296. 
Sliinuer,   Kalherine,  wife    to  Sir   Nicholas    Forteicue, 

Groom  Porter  to  Hen.  VIII.,  15. 
Slinfffby,  Elizabeth,  wife  to  Chithefter  Fortefcue,  fon 

of  Sir  Faithful,  I23. 
Smyth,   Alice,    2nd    wife    to   Sir   John    Fortefcue    of 

Salden,  1572,  237. 
"Soul's,    the,    Pilgrimage    to     Heaven,"    wiitten     by 

George  Fortefcue,  314. 
Southcote,  Jane,  wife  to  Sir   Edmund  Fortefcue  (2nd) 

of  Fallapit,  28. 
Speccot,  Honour,  wife  to  John   Fortefcue   of  l'\illa[)it, 

26. 
Spencer,  Lord,  of  Wormleighton,  letter  from  Sir  John 

Fortefcue  of  Salden,  276. 
Spice,  Philippa,  wife  to  Sir  John  Fortefcue  "  of  Herts," 

165  ;  reniarr.  to  Sir  Francis  Bryan,  ib. 
Spooner,  Frances  Anne,  wile  to  Dean  Fortefcue,  22. 
Spridlefion,  co,  Devon;   Fortefcues  of,  11  — 14;  jiof- 

feflfed  by  Richard  Inglett,  Ef(i.,  93  ;   Ibid  by  his  fon 

John  Inglett  Fortefcue,  I'^fq.,  ih. 
Stapleford  Abbot,  members  of  the    Fortefcue  family 

buried  there,  I  748,  70,  71. 
Stephenftown,  Fortefcues  of,  I  36. 
Stonor,  CO.  O.Kon,  defcription  of  the  Manor,  I  70. 
Stonor,  family   of,  intermarriage   «ith   the    Fortefcues, 

163. 
Stonor,  Anne,  ift  wife  of  Sir  Adrian  Fortefcue,  172  ; 

buried  at  Pyrton  Church,  ib.\   removed  to  Bright- 
well-Baldwin,    173;    account   of  her   tlineral,   ih.; 

memorandum  of  her  deceafe,  1  80. 
Stonor,  Mary,   2nd  wife    to   Sir  John   Fortefcue,   2nd 

bart.,  293. 
Straflbrd,  Earl  of,  Sir  !•'.   Fortefcue's  relation  of  him, 

104. 
Strechleigh,  Alice,    marr.    to    William     Fortefcue     of 

Wimflone,  6. 
Swanbourne,  co.   Bucks,  the  Manor   Houfe   defcnbed, 

277- 
Symonds,  Eleanor,  2nd  wife   to  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue, 

123- 

TicUford  Park,  in  poireffion   of  Sir  John   Fortefcue  of 
Salden,  288. 


Tradefcant,   John,  leal  of   the   Fortefcues  in  his  col- 

leiTtions,  97,  ;n>(e. 
Trofl'e,  Emiyn,  wife   to  William  Forteicue,  fon  to  John 

Fortefcue  of  Buckl.md  Filleigh,  78. 
Turville,  See  Fortel'cue-TurMlle. 

Unton,  .Sir  Henry,  letter  fiom  Sir  John  Fortefcue  of 
S.dden,  29G. 

Valetta    (Malta),    portraits    of    Sir    Adrian    Fortefcue 

there,  186. 
Vivian,  Florence,  wife  to  John   Forteli:ue   of  Sjiridle- 

(ion,  1  2. 

Walpole,  Horace,  reference  made  by  him  I  >  the 
houl'ehold  of  Right  Hon.  W.  Fortefcue,  82  ;.  letter 
from,  to  Lady  Ollbry,  140;  makes  mention  ol  Lord 
and  Lady  Clermont,  ih.;  and  of  the  Right  Hon. 
J.iines  Fortefcue,  144. 

Watts,  Mr.  J.  J.,  poirdlbr  of  the  "  proofs  of  nobility" 
of  Sir  Nicholas  I'ortelcue,  20. 

VVe.a'-Giifinil,  Devon,  defcent  of  the  M.inor  of,  46  ; 
prefent  Rate  defcribed,  47  ;  monuments  in  the 
church,  50. 

Welford  Church,  monument  to  Lady  Anne  Fortefcue 
there,  191. 

Wellelley,  Hon.  Elizabeth,  wife  to  Chichcller  Fortef- 
cue of  DromiflJn,  127. 

W'clls,  l'"(lmund,  inherited  F^orlefcue  property,  39;  af- 
fumed  the  name  of  Forlefcue,  40.  1 

VVells-F'ortclcue,  family  otj  40. 

Welley,  Hon.  Arthur,  Duke  of  Wellington,  letters  to 
Admiral  I-'orlefcue,   12S  —  1  30. 

Wheatley,  Fortilcues  of,  14. 

Wiltfhire,  firft  mention  of  Fortefcue  eftates  there,  51. 

Wimlfone,  or  W\niondrflon,  co.  Devon,  Fortefcues  of, 
3—9;  (lit  tint  fe.it  of  tlie  Fortefcues  in  England, 
45- 

Windefor,  Alice    de,    wife   to   Sir   Richard  Fortefcue, 

'51- 
Windfor  Caflle,  infcrijition  by  Sir  Edmuml   Fortefcue 

upon  the  wall  of  a  chamber  there,  30. 
VVintour,  Elizabeth,  3rd   wili-  to  Sir  John   Fortefc  le, 

2nd  Bart.,  died  1674,  293. 
Wood,  CO.  Devon ;   Fortelcues   of,    ift   line,   45;    .  ii(l 

line,  10,  41. 
Wraxall,  Sir  Nathaniel,  defcription  of  Lord  and  Lady 

Clermont,  in  his  "Memoirs,"  138,  140. 
Wyfe,  Maria,  wili-  to   I'^dmund    Fortefcue,  of  Fallapit, 

died   1722,  39. 

Young,  Arihur,  his  defcription  of  Ravenfdale,  137. 


3  B 


A    SUPPLEMENT    TO    THE    HISTORY    OF    THE 
FAMILY    OF    FORTESCUE. 


The  IVill  of  ll^illiam  Forte/cue,  Efquire,  of  Bucklami-FilUigh,  a.  o.  1580. 

N  the  name  of  CJod  Amen.  The  xv"'  day  oty"^  monethe  of  Ai)rill  in  the  ycre  of  our 
Lorde  (lod  1580  ;  I  Williii  P'fortefcuc  of  Buckland  Ffilleigh  in  the  Countye  of 
Devon  Elquire  being  of  whole  mynde  &  of  jifedt  remembrance  laude  and  prayfe 
unto  Ahuyghtye  (jod  make  and  oidayne  this  my  pfent  Teftament  concerning 
my  laile  Will  in  mail  &  forme  followijige  that  is  to  faye,  Firft  I  coincnde  my  foule 
unto  Almyghtye  God  my  Maker  &c  Redeemer  and  my  bodye  to  be  burycd  in  the 
pshe  Church  of  Buckland  Ffilleighe  abovefaide,  and  I  bequeathe  towards  the  repayringe  of  the  Church 
of  Buckland  xiii'.  iiii''.  Ite  I  bequeathe  to  the  poore  people  of  Shebbeare  xiii'.  iiii''.  Itij  to  the  poore 
of  Lyttel  Torrington  xiii'.  iiii''.  Itc  to  the  poore  of  Blacke  Torriiigton  xiii'.  iiii''.  Itc  to  the  poore  of 
Shipwayilie  xiii'.  iiii''.  Itii  to  the  poore  of  Buckland  Ffylleighe  x'.  Itc  I  geve  c^  bequeathe  unto 
Ffaythfull  Ffortefcue,  Martyne  Ffortelcue,  &  Bartholymew  Ffortefcue  my  three  fonnes  all  my  Manor 
Mefluages,  Lands,  Tenements  feats  revfons  fervices  courts  pijfites  &  hcredytaments  with  theire  appurte- 
nances whatfoev'  fett,  lyinge  and  beinge  wthn  the  pyfhe  of  Peters  Marland  Shipwayflie,  &  Shebbeare 
ats  Shartifbeare  in  y"  Countye  aforefaide.  My  mind  and  will  is  that  my  fonne  John  Ffortefcue  and  hys 
Heires  fliall  have  &  enjoye  all  the  MefTuages  Lands  &  Tenements  w''  theire  appurtenances  fct  lyinge  Si 
beinge  in  Buckland  F'fillcighe  althoughe  they  weare  &  are  j)te  pccU  &  members  of  the  Manor  of 
Peter's  Marlande,  without  denyal  dyfturbance  or  contradiction  of  the  above  Ffaythful,  Martyne,  t^ 
Bartholymewe  Ffortelbue  theire  Heires  or  AiTignes  anythynge  to  the  contrarye  notwithftandinge  :  he  1 
give  and  bequeathe  to  iny  faide  lonnes  Ffaythful,  Martyne,  &  Bartholymewe  Ffortefcue  all  my  Eflate 
right  Tytle  Leafes  Interclts,  Leafcs  of  Yeres  which  I  have  &  be  to  come  tiafter  in  one  pcell  of  Lande 

called  or  knowen  by  the  name  of — elldowne  fett,  lyinge,  &  beinge  wtin  the  pyflie  of Shebbeare 

ats  Shartifbeare  abovefaide.  And  alfo  certayne  MefTuages  Lands  &  Tenements  in  Caflle  Wyke  within 
the  pvfhe  of  Peters'  Marlande  abovefaide.  Itc  I  bequeathe  to  my  fonne  Ffaythfull  Ffortefcue  a  Fetiier 
bede  jiformed  my  fecond  belt  Gelding  and  one  brafen  Crocke.  Alfo  1  geve  &  bcquethe  to  my  foiinc  ! 
Ffaythfull  Ffortefcue  fortye  pounds  of  good  &  lawfull  money  of  England  as  more  at  large  exprefs'd  in  a 
peare  of  Indentures  had  &  made  betweene  the  laide  William  Ffortefcue  of  the  one  [Jtie,  Mr.  Humffrye 
Specott,  John  Wekes  Efquire,  George  Arfcott  Gen,  John  Rawlcy  (."v  ihomas  Bryne  of  the  other 
ptie.  Itr  I  geve  and  bequethe  to  my  fonne  Martyne  Ffortefcue  one  fcther  bede  performed,  one  bralen 
Crocke  my  bcft  Gelding  xl  Pounds  of  good  Si.  lawfull  nione)'e  of  Englande  as  more  at  large  exprefs'd  in 


3/2  The  inil  of  JFilliam  Forte/cue. 

the  faide  Indentures  above  named,  ItG  I  geve  &  bequethe  to  my  foniie  15artholymevve  one  fether  bede 
i)formcd  my  thirde  befte  Gelding  one  brafen  Cioclce,  and  xl  pounds  good  and  lawtull  monye  ot  Englande 
to  be  payde  as  is  exprefled  more  at  large  in  a  peare  of  Indentures  above  named.  lie  I  give  k.  bequcthe 
to  my  daughter  xii/.  good  &  lawful!  moneye  of  Englande.    Ite  I  geve  and  beipiethe  to  Thorne  xli. 

Itci  I  geve  and  beijuethe  to  every  of  my  daughter  Jane's  L'liyldren  nowe  lyviige  vi'.  viii'.  he  1  bequethe  to 
every  of  my  daughter  Philippa's  chyldren  nowe  lyvnge  vi'.  viii''.  \w  I  bequethe  to  every  my  daughter 
Catheren  Chhln  nowe  lyvnge  vi'.  viii''.  Ite  I  bequethe  to  every  my  daughter  Marye's  Children  nowe 
lyvinge  vi'.  viii''.  Iw  I  bequethe  to  every  my  daughter  Yeo's  Children  nowe  ly  vinge  vi'.  viii''.  Itt  I  geve 
(.^  bequethe  to  Awdry  Ffortefcue  xl.  good  &  and  lawfuU  monye  of  I'^nglaiide.  Ite  I  geve  &  bequethe 
to  Thorne   xx'.      ItU    I   geve   ic   bequethe   to   Margaret  Thorne   xx'.      ItiJ    I    bequethe  to    Roger 

Ffortefcue  my  beft  filver  Salt  Seller  or  Tub,  the  ufe  thereof  to  remayiie  with  my  liiiine  Johji  Fforteleue 
duringe  his  lyfe.  Ite  I  geve  &  bequethe  to  my  daughter  Ffrances  Ffortefcue  hundred  pauids  of  good  ii 
lawful!  monye  of  Englande  to  be  the  firft  payde  of  al!  my  legaces  as  in  the  layde  Indjntures  above 
written  more  at  large  it  douthe  appeare  And  if  the  faide  Ffrances  Ffortefcue  doe  not  marrye  yi-tt  my  will 
is  that  fhe  fhal!  be  payde  the  hundred  pounds  whatlljever  claufe  fentence  or  wordes  is  in  the  faide 
Indi'es  or  this  Will  to  the  contrarye  notwhftanitge.  I  geve  my  God  daughter  Margaret  Toder  xii''. 
The  refidewe  of  all  my  goods  not  above  geven  nor  excepted  I  geve  &  bequethe  to  my  lonne  John 
Ffortefcue  my  Heyre  whom  I  do  appoint  ordayne  &  malce  my  lawful!  Execuior. 

CJverfeers  to  fe  my  feVa!  legaces  j'iformed  I  appoint  —  Ffortefcue,  John  Welces  Efquires,  <k  George 
Arfcott  Gen.  and  towards  theire  paynes  I  geve  to  every  of  them  xx'.  l-'iovided  alwayes  that  my  wii!  is 
that  the  Tenants  in  l^uclcland  FfiUeigh  wli  I  liave  geven  to  foime  John  Ffortefcue  and  one  pcell  of  ;he 
Manner  of  Peters  Marland  (hall  doe  their  fute  k.  fervice  to  the  Courts  of  Ffaythfull  Ffortefcue  Martyn 
Ffortefcue  Bartholymewe  Ffortefcue  &  to  their  Heyres  and  Alfignes  as  they  have  accuftomed  heretofore 
to  do  holden  at  I-'eters  Marland. 

Thefe  WitnelTes  Richard  Vv'heler 

J.'KNE  WhITHEARE 

Thomas  Dabb 
Edward  Colle  I 

Endorfed : — TcftiTi  et  Adminiftrtio  bou'"    WilliTi   Ffortefcue  Armiger  I 

Buclcland  Ffilleigh  &  probal'"  corm  Mgr  NichS  Wyatt  ' 

ap.  'Forriton  Major  vi.  die  mcnils  Ajjlis  anno  D  1583. 

Office  copy,  Court  of  I-'robate,  Exeter  Regidry,  taken  November  23rd,  1865. 


The  IVill  of  Jchn  Forte/cue,  E/qidre,  of  Buckland-FilUigh,  a.  u.  1603. 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen  the  x"'  day  of  Februarie  in  the  year  of  the  reign  of  our  fovei.-ign  Lord 
James  by  the  grace  of  God  King  of  England  France  and  Ireland  Defender  of  the  Faith  &  c  f  Scotland 
the  xxxvij'"  &  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  M.D.C.  and  3.  I  John  Fortcfcu  of  Buclcland  Filleigh  in  the 
County  of  Devon  Efquire  being  thanks  be  to  God  of  good  and  perfeil  memory  do  ordain  make  ^^ 
declare  this  my  lafl:  Will  &  Tedament  revoking  hereby  all  other  former  Wills  &  Teftamcnts 
whatfoever  heretofore   by  me   made  &  that   all   gifts   legacies   5c   devifcs  whatfoever   in   them  &  every  ot 


The  JVill  of  yohii  Forte  [cue .  373 

them  contained  or  written  to  be  from  henceforth  utterly  fruftrate  and  void  <?c  of  none  efFeia.      And   firlt 
1  bequeath  my  foul  to  Almighty  God  my  Creator  Redeemer  c^'  Saviour  ^^  my  body  to  be  buried  in  the 
Parifh   Church   of  Buckland    Filleigh  aforefaid.     Item   I  give  to  the  Poor  of  the  Panfli  of  Buckland 
Filleigh  20'.  to  be  delivered  to  the  Overfeers  of  the  Poor  within  3  months  next  after  my  death.     Item  I 
give  to  the  Poor  of  each  of  the  Parities  of  Sheepwafh,  Hygh  Heannton,  Black  Toirington,  and  Shebbere 
v'.  apiece  to  be  likewife  delivered  to  the  Overfeers  of  the  aforefaid  (everal  Parifhes  within  3  months  next 
after  my  death.      Item  I  give  &  bequeath  to  Grace  Fortefcue  my  daughter  3  hundred  [lounds  in  money 
to  be  paid  within  2  years  next  after   my  death.      Item,  I   give   to   Anne   Fortefcu  my  youngeft  dauii,hter 
3  hundred  pounds  fVerling  to  be  paid  her  within  4  years  next  after  my  death,  but  my  will  &  meaning  is 
that  it  either  of  my  forcfaid  d.iugiuers  fliall   happen  to  die  before  the  time  of  jiayment  of  her  portion  as 
aforefaid  that  2  hundred  pounds  of  her  portion  io  dying  fhall  ceafe   &  extinguifh  in  my  Executor  &  the 
other  hundred  pounds  Ihall  be  &  remain  to  her  filter  that  fhall  furvive  h  therewith  to  make  up  her 
portion  that  fo  overliveth  the  other  to  be  4  hundred  pounds,  which  faid  hundred  pounds  fo  remai  ling  over 
Ihall  be  paid  at  fuch  time  as  it  fhould  have  been  if  her  filler  had  lived  ;  and  if  both  of  my  faid  i,laughters 
fhall  happen  to  die  before  their  time  of  payment  before  limited,  then  fo  much  as  fhall  not  be  payable  at 
the  time  of  the  death  of  her  which   liveth   longeft  to  ceafe  determine  be  ..'^i  extinguilh  in  my  Executor, 
except  one   hundred   pounds   thereof  which   Lid  hundred  pounds  fo  excepted  fhall  be  &  come  to  my 
two  Ions  John  &  Faythfull  which  I  bequeath  to  them  ;  h  my  farder  will  &  intent  ^  meaning  herein  is 
that  if  my  faid  Daughters  or  either  of  them  fliall  be  by  me  preferred  in  marriage  in  my  lifetime  then  (o 
much  money  as  fliall  be  paid  or  fitisfied  towards  their  or  either  of  their  marriages  at  the  time  of  their 
death  fhall  be  abated  &  deduiffed  out  of  their  portions  or  her  portion  hereinbefore  given  &  bequeathed 
that   fhall  be  fo  by   me  preferred   in  marriage.      Item    I   give  &  bequeath  to  John  Fortefcu  my   fon 
50  pounds  in  money  to  be  paid  within  five  years  next  after  my  death.      Item,  I  give  and  bequeath  to 
Faythfull   Fortefcu  my  fon    50   [lounds  in   money  to  be   paid  within   6  years   next  alter  my  death,  tV  if' 
either  of  my  faid  fons  Ihall  happen   to  die  before  the  furelaid  time  ot  payment  then  his  portion  before 
(fiven  ti.)  remain  &  be  alio  to  his  forefaid   other  brother  fo  overliving,  and  the  50  pounds  Io  hajipening  hy 
death  to  be  paid  at  fuch  time  as  it  fhould  have  been  if  the  other  brother  had  lived.     Item,  I  give  ^^ 
bequeath  to   Hughe  Fortefcu  fon  of  my  brother  Martyn  Fortefcu  x  pounds  flerling  to  be  paid  within 
7  years  after  my  death  (Si  if  the  faid  Hughe  fhall  happen  to  die  before  the  end  of  the  faid  7  years  then  this 
legacy  to  him  to  be  void  h  extinguifh.    Item,  I  give  and  bequeath  to  Mary  CantiU  of  Great  Torringtoii 
Ibmetimes  my  wife's  fervant  to  bring  up  my  children  twenty  nobels  to  be  i)aid  her  within  8  years  next 
after  my  death  &   if  fhe  happen  to  die  within  the  faid  time  of  8  years  that  then  this  legacy  to  her  to  be    : 
void  h  extinguifli,  all  of  which   aforefaid  legacies  to  be  paid  at  or  in  my  Manl'ion  Houfe  of  Buckland     ' 
l'"illeii^h  aforefaid  at  the  time   before   limited.     Item  I  give  to  John  Fortefcu  my  Ion  a  gcjod  feathei  bed    • 
with  his  bolfter,  &  with  fheets  and  blankets  to  the  fame,  &  alio  my  belt  gelding  which  I  Ihall  have  at 
the  time  of  my  death  &  my  beft  faddle  &  other  furniture  to  the  fame  belonging.     Item  I  give  to  the  laid    | 
Faythfull   Fortefcu  my  fon  a  good  featherbed  with  his  bolfter,  flieets  5c  blankets  &  alfo  my  feci  nd  beft 
ueldino-  with  his  faddle  k  other  furniture  thereunto  belonging.    Item  I  give  h  bequeath  to  the  fail  Cjrace 
F'ortefcu  my  daughter  a  good  featherbed  with  his  bolfter  fheets  &  blankets.    Item  I  give  &  bcqi  e.itn  to 
the   laid   Ane   Fortefcu  my  daughter  a  good  featherbed  with  his  bolfter  flicets  5i  blankets.     Item  my 
farder  will  is  that  my  Executor  (hall  give  unto  my  fuid  two  daughtcis  Chace  .5c  Ane  their  fevcral  diets  fit 
for  them   duriiu'   fuch    time  .?c   until   their   portions   ftiall  be  feverally  p.iid   unto  them  except   my  faid 


37+  The  Will  of  J  oh?!  Forte/cue. 

Executor  for  the  p;iyment  of  my  former  legacies  Ihall  for  a  time  have  bib  hoiifeketpiiii;  upon  my  Barton 
of  Huckland-Filicigh.  Ahb  my  will  intent  &  meaning  is  that  all  other  my  Goo  .Is  c*s:  Chattells  or  l.eafes 
tor  years  plate  bedding  napelle  linen  pots  panes  pewter  vcflels,  brafs  vellels  all  my  iron  vedels  &  inftru- 
nients  wooden  veflcls  &  all  my  wooden  ftufF  &  implements  of  houfehold  5c  all  my  Ploughs  c^  Plough 
lluft  Waynes  &  Wheels  h  all  my  inftruments  of  hufbandry  wiiich  1  now  have  and  alfo  the  fourfcore 
pounds  xiii'.  &  4''.  which  Roger  Fortefcu  my  fon  doth  now  owe  unto  me  fliall  be  &  remain  to  the  ufe 
ot  the  faid  Roger  my  fon  towards  the  payment  of  my  legacies  before  in  thcfe  prcfents  given  &  bequeathed, 
to  whom  I  give  &  bequeath  the  fame  by  this  my  lalt  Will  ,5<:  Telhmient  except  it  fliall  fortune  me  in  my 
lifetime  to  beftow  my  faid  daughters  Grace  &  Ane  or  either  of  them  in  marriage  then  my  meaning  t^' 
intent  is  to  difpofe  of  the  Lxxx'.  xiii'.  4''.  aforfaid  towards  the  payment  of  their  portions  in  marriage  as 
to  me  fhall  feem  beft,  &  the  faid  Roger  my  fon  to  pay  the  fame  if  I  Ihall  require  it.  Item  my  farder  will 
i^  intent  is  that  Roger  my  fon  Si  heir  whom  I  do  ordain  appoint  conftitute  Sc  make  my  whole  fole  Si 
lawful  Executor  to  pay  thefemy  legacies  in  this  my  laft  Will  &  Teftament  given  Si  bi,:queathed  &  in 
confideration  thereof  all  other  my  goods  movable  &  unmovable  not  above  given  or  bequeathed  I  give 
and  bequeath  to  this  my  faid  fon  Roger  Fortefcu,  and  if  it  fhall  happen  at  any  time  hereafter  an  ' 
ambiguite  doubt  or  queftion  to  grow  or  arife  by  realon  of  imperfection  defect  of  or  in  any  words  claufes 
or  fentences  in  this  my  prefent  laft  Will  ^^  Teftament  or  my  true  intent  and  meaning  therein  that  then 
the  farder  &  better  explanation  interpretation  &  conitruiSlion  of  the  faid  doubt  ,5«:  ambiguite  I  will  thai  m; 
Overfeers  fhall  expound  explain  Si  interpret  according  to  their  wifdom  ^  good  difcretions.  \\u 
1  make  Overfeers  of  this  my  laft  Will  praying  to  fee  the  fame  to  be  truly  &  duly  executed  my  trufly  S 
faythfull  friends  John  Fortefcu  of  Fillcigh  Efquire,  Lewis  Pollard  of  Aller  Efquire,  Richard  \Vhcllei 
Clerk,  Faythfull  Fortefcu  of  Northam,  &  Martin  Fortefcu  of  Hatherleigh  Gent'"  to  be  my  Overfeers  of 
this  my  laft  Will  and  Teftament.' 

John  Fortescu.  > 
WitnefTes  prefent  Nicholas  Gilherd 

John  Norlicjhe 

Hugh  Norlighe  ^ 

Tejle  Me  Arthuro  Warrin  ' 

TiJ}e  Me  Edmundo  Edye  ,  l  ■ 

Edmi;nd  Pyper  &  others. 
This  is  a  true  coppie  verbatim  of  my  laft  \V'ill  &  Tcft.unent.  \  ■■ 

Endorfed: — Teft'"    et    Inven.    honor.    John    Fortefcue    de    Buckland 

Filleigh   Efquire.     Probatum  coram  Mro.  Nich'.  Wyatt  , 

apud  Torrington  Magna  quinto  die  menfis  Maij   Anno 

D'".  1604. 

I 

Office  copy.  Court  of  Probate,  Exeter  Regiftry,  taken  November  23rd,  1865. 


'  The  fpelling  of  this  will  has  evidently  bifn  modernized  by  the  tranfcribor,  John  Fortefcue  the  testator 
was  Ion  of  William  Fortefcue  the  teftator  in  the  preceding  will,  and  filh.r  of  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcue,*  who 
was  father  of  Sir  Thomas  Fortefcue  the  teflator  in  the  Lift  will  ;  thefe  four  ducuments  relatiiif,'-  to  as  many  fucceflive 
generations. 


Inventory  of  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcues  Goods. 


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Inventory  of  the  goods  of  Sir  Faithful  Fortefcuc,  Knight. 

Extraaed from  the  Dijlrifl  Rfgi/lry  of  Her  ALijeJlfi  Court  of  Probate  at  IVinchejler. 

A   TRUE   and  perfeft  Inventory  of  the  Goodes  of  S'.  Faithfull  Fofcjues  Knight  that  was  left  after  his 
defeafe  at  the  Manor  of  Bowcomb,  the  firfl:  day  of  June  Anno  Dom.  1666. 


It'  one  blake  belte  imbrodred  with  (jold  . 

It'  one  blake  pinkt  taby  doublett 

It'  one  blake  tafety  dublett 

It'  one  blake  filk  grogerum  dublett 

It'  one  blake  flower  (atten  fuite  and  cioake 

It' one  paire  of  hofe  of  Tamalete 

It'  one  velvett  Coate      .... 

It'  one  blake  pinkt  tabby  cioake 

It'  one  blake  broadcloath  cioake 

It'  one  blake  lining  of  a  cioake  being  bayes 

It'  one  paire  of  fdke  booate  hofe  topps 

It'  one  beau  hatt   . 

It'  one  night  gowne 

It'  one  riding  coate 

It'  one  mounter  capp 

It'  two  capps  wolles 

It'  foure  paire  of  ftokine,  two  of  woftcd  &  two  of  olhame 

It'  two  paire  of  gloves 

It'  two  paire  of  flancU  wafketts  &  one  other  wafcoate 

It' one  paire  of  draweres 

It'  fower  hollen  changes 

It'  three  paire  of  white  boatc  hofe  topps 

It'  foure  paire  of  old  linin  rtockenes 

It'  eleven  bandes 

It'  fix  paire  of  cofFes 

It'  fix  handkerchers 

It'  one  doffen  &  five  of  Napkines 

It'  23  bookes  greate  &  fmall  bcfides  papper  bookes 

It'  one  profpedlive  glafs 

It'  one  fun  diall 

It'  three  knifes 

It'  one  ftandige 

It'  halfe  a  dozen  of  pewter  plates 

It'  on  cafe  of  botles 


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37^  The  IFili  of  Thomas  Forte/cue. 

It'  for  one  fnuffer  pan  &  extinguiftcr  &  two  glafles 
It'  on  fUcke  .  .  .  , 

It'  one  paire  of  fpures     ..... 
It'  one  greate  truncke,  &  two  litle  ones  ^^-  one  box 

It'  one  paiie  of  fhoofcs 

It'  fome  old  other  things  ..... 


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Robert  Reeves 
Richard  Cooice. 
Decimo  quarto  die  menfis  Septembris  Anno  Dni  1668  Per  ventcm  viru  dnum  Aloundefyrd  Bramfton 
m.litem  ac  legis  dcoreni   Rdi  patris  dili  Georgii  Winton  Epi  vicarii  genfis  &c.      Admio  omnif.  bono,,, 
kc.  p'd'  dili  Faithfull  Fortefque  Militis  defundi  comilla  fait  Hcnrici  Ruflbn  de  Carifl^rooke  Creditor  print. 
d<-i  defunfti  de  bene  &c.  et  eque'  folvend  debita  &c.  Jurat'  ploir  juxta  c\-c.  faivo  jure  cujufcumque. 

Oblig.  ij'ic  et  (Oliver'  Stagg' 
de  Northwood  Yeoman. 
Endorfed:  — 1668.   Dui  Faithfull  Fortefcue  de 
Cariiljrooke         F.         Ad". 

Office  copy,  Court  of  Probate,  Winchefter  Regiftry,  taken  a.  n.  1866. 


The  Will  of  Sir  Thomas  Fortefcue^  Knight.  '■ 

IN  THE  NAME  OF  GOD  AMEN.  I  Sir  Thomas  Fortefcue  of  Dromifkin  in  the  County  of 
Lowth  Kn'  being  weak  in  body  but  of  found  mind  and  memory,  praifed  be  God,  doe  make  this  my  lalt 
\\'\\\  and  Teftament  in  manner  following;  vid'.  Firft  I  recommend  my  foul  to  God  Almighty  who  gavp 
it,  and  my  body  to  be  buried  in  fuch  manner  as  my  Executor  hereinafter  mentioned  fliall  think  (itt,  but  \ 
dtfire  it  may  be  done  as  private  as  poffible,  and  as  to  fuch  worldly  fubftance  as  it  has  plcafed  God  to 
blefs  me  with  I  do  make  the  following  difpofition.  Imprimis,  I  do  give  devife  and  bequeath  to  mv 
(jrandfon  Thomas  Ffortefcue  eld.  fon  to  Chittchefter  Ffortefcue  my  fon  deceafed  the  leafe  which  I  have 
o\  the  mannor  town  and  lands  of  Dromifkin  with  all  its  rights  members  and  appurtenances  in  as  full  ' 
large  ample  and  beneficial  a  manner  as  the  fame  was  fett  arid  deviled  to  me  by  his  Grace  the  Lord 
Primate  of  Ireland,  and  I  being  iikewife  poflefl  of  Dracott's  land  fituate  lying  and  being  in  th(  Parilh  of 
Dromifkin  by  virtue  of  a  Mortgag  I  do  give  and  difpofe  thereof  and  all  the  right  title  and  inter  :fl  I  have 
therein  to  my  afors''  Grandlbn  Thomas  Ffortefcue.  Item  I  do  leave  and  bequeath  to  my  fou  vViHiam 
Ffortefcue  the  lum  of  five  (hillings  fterling  :  and  as  to  all  other  my  reall  and  pcrfonall  cftate  ofwh.it 
nature  or  kind  foever  I  do  give  and  difpofe  of  and  betpieath  ilic  fame  to  my  afores''  (irandfon  Thomas 
Ffortefcu  excepting  what  is  herein  mentiojied  and  excepted  ;  to  witt  I  do  leave  and  bequeath  the  fume  of 
thirty   pound    llerlinsi   to    be   given    to    the    poor    and    to   be  put    into    the   haiuis   of  the   trullets   after 


Petition  of  Sir  faithful  Foftifa/,:.  ■■^■jj 

mentionL-d  to  he  by  them  dilpoleii  oC  as  ihey  lli.ill  ihiiik  moll  lunveiiicni.  Ii.ni  I  .1.)  ywv  .in>l  Ih,|ii,  .iili 
unto  Matthew  Smalfoa  the  i'ume  ofthree  |)Ound  llerhiig  :  Item  1  do  ^ive  and  l)ei|uealli  to  my  Maid  Sydney 
Ball  the  lume  of  five  pound  llerling  over  and  above  her  wages  ;  and  I  do  onlcr  and  apjioint  mv  alors'' 
Grandlun  Thomas  Ffortefcue  to  pay  all  the  legacies  aforemeiuioned  and  that  as  loon  as  poUible  he  can 
do  the  fame.  And  I  do  hereby  nominate  and  appoint  my  ators'  (jrandfon  'I'homas  I"  fortelcue  to  be  lole 
executor  of  this  my  laft  Will  and  Teilament  hereby  revoking  and  recalling  all  other  and  former  Will  or 
Wills  whatfoever  heretofore  by  me  made,  and  I  ilo  hereby  likewile  appoint  my  loving  friends  James 
Foxail  of  Baun  in  the  Coimty  of  Lowth  Efq'.,  Brant  Moore  ai  Cihormanltovvn  in  the  s''  County  I'Jii'  , 
and  John  Moore  of  Drombannogher  in  the  County  of  Ardmagh  Elq'.  to  be  truilees  and  (jverleers  of 
this  my  lafl  Will  and  Tedament  and  that  they  be  aiding  and  alTilling  to  my  s''  Kxeciitor  in  the  jull  and 
true  execution  of  this  Will,  and  I  charge  him  on  my  blefling  to  be  guided  and  tliret'ted  by  them  and  the 
furviv'  of  them,  and  I  defire  my  faid  Exo"^  on  any  difficulty  that  may  arife  on  this  my  Will  to  anply  to 
them  and  the  furviv'  of  them  for  advife  and  purfue  it  as  ftriclly  as  he  can.  In  vvitncfs  whereof  1  have 
hereunto  fet  my  hand  and  leal  this  3"'  of  xber  1709.     Signed  fealed  and  puhlifhed 

Tiio:    FoRTEscDi;  (Seal) 
his 
In  prefence  of         Stephf.n  (  +  )  Doyi.k         Fll  Dunhar 
mark 

Probat  et  Approbat  &c.  coram  me  die  22nd  May  1710. 

MoSSOM  JoYE. 

Extrafted   from  her   Maiefty's  Court   ot    Probate,   Diftrif):   Regilhy  of  Armai;h,  the   20th  day  of 
March,  1865. 


To  the  King's  Mofi  ExalUnt  Mujc/ru  ! 

The  humblt-  petition  of  S' .  Faithjiill  Fortefeii. 

Sheweth  That  although  your  Majeftie  gracioufly  and  bountifully  forgave  the  Wine  Vintners  the 
penalty  they  had  drawen  upon  themfelves  by  difobeing  your  fird  Proclamation  (of  moderating  their 
unconlcionable  retayling  wine  at  excefTive  prices)  yet  have  foine  of  Llicm  unthankfuUy  and  nd'oleiitly 
made  the  like  contemiits  of  your  Majedies  fecond  and  third  proclamations  by  felling  wine  ever  lince 
much  beyond  the  rates  ordered  and  llrictly  commanded  by  your  Majedie;  wherefore  I  molt  humbly 
pray  That  your  Majeftie  will  be  graciouily  pleafed  to  graunt  me  your  moiety  of  the  penalty  upon  Inch  of 
them  as  I  flialbe  able  to  prove  have  fo  daringly  and  undutifully  prefumed  to  dilbbey  your  Majeflies  third 
proclamation,  fome  of  them  being  (by  report)  very  rich  men  by  their  long  abule  of  the  lubject,  and 
Forreiners  in  exafting  fuch  unreafouable  prifes  for  wines,  their  mingling  and  fulfiflicating  them,  and  by 
their  very  falfe  meafures. 

And  as  in  duty  I  fliall  pray,  &c. 


J    C 


378  Letter  of  Sir  Faithful  Fortejcue, 

From  Sir  Faithful  Fortejcue  to  M' .  Godolphin. 

Good  Mr.  Godolphin,  he  plealeJ  to  lut  me  know  hy  this  briiiger,  Mr.  Fcltoii  what  is  don  in  tny 
petition  I  left  with  you,  If  grunted  I  pray  you  let  nic  undcrftand  whether  you  cm  ^S;  will  doe  me  the 
favor  you  fpoke  off  in  helping  me  to  a  chapman  for  it,  And  for  your  curtefies  in  thefe  particulcrs 
I  flialbe 

Your  thankful  fervant 

FaYTH  :     FoRTF.SCUE.' 

The  gout  keepes  me  priloner  in  my  chamber. 


'  This  note  is  given  in  facfnnile  in  Chapter  ix.  of  this  volume.  It  and  the  petition  are  calcndai  d  as  belonging 
to  A.  D.  1664  or  1665.  Slu  Domeftic  State  I'apers,  Charles  II.,  vol.  109,  Nus.  122  and  123,  i.  Ky  "chapman" 
is  meant  purchafer. 


HISTORY    OF   THK    FAMII.Y    OF   FORTESCUE. 
ADDENDA    ET    CORRIGl-NDA. 

The  Right  Honourable  Chichefter  Fortefcue  was  appointed  IVefident  of  the  Board  of  Trade 
in  January  187 1,  and  held  that  office  until  the  refignation  of  the  (iladftone  Miniilry  in  February 
1874,  on  which  occalion  he  was  created  a  Peer  with  the  title  of  ikron  Carlingford. 

On  the  27th  of  Augull  187^  he  was  gazetted  to  the  Lord  Lieutenancy  of  the  County  of 
Edex,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caufed  by  the  death  of  Sir  Thomas  Weftern. 

The  Honourable  (jeorge  Matthew  Fortefcue  fccond  fon  of  the  hrft  Farl  Fortefcue,  of 
Bocconoc  in  Cornwall,  and  of  Dropmore  in  liuckinghanifhirt-,  died  at  the  former  place  on  the  24th 
of  January  1877,  ^g^'^  ^5  years. 

This  gentleman,  who  was  much  and  defervedly  refpefted,  inherited  the  eflates  of  his  uncle 
Lord  (jrenviUe  at  Dropmore  and  elfewhere,  upon  the  death,  on  the  i  5th  of  June  1864,  of  Lady 
Grenville  the  widow  of  that  nobleman,  and  by  the  fame  event  Mr.  Fortefcue  fuccecdcd  to  Hocconoc 
and  the  other  eftates  of  that  lady  which  (lie  had  derived  from  her  brother  'Fhomab  Pitt  fecotid  and 
lait  Lord  Camelford. 

Page  20,  line  \'j^  for  "  fperange  "  read  "  fperanze." 

Page  64,  Ime  4  from  bottom, /or  "  to  the  peerage  "  rcml  "  in  the  peerage." 

Page  94,  line  13,/^^  "John  Faithful  Brickdale  "  read  "  John  Fortefcue  Brickdale." 

Page  log,  line  l-,  for  "  was  defined  "  read  "  were  deltined;"  and  at  line  8,yir  "appear  "  read 

"  appears." 

Page  132,  line  ij^for  "  Secretary  of  Legation  "  read  "  Secretary  of  FmbaH'y."  1 

Page  146,  pedigree,  for  "  Lenny  "  read  "  Lewry." 

Page  172,  line    5  from   bottom,  for  "father's"   reail  "grandfather's,"  and /or  "father"  read     I 

"  grandfather."  ' 

\n  the  pedigree  at  page  94  fupply  the  blank  left  for  the  name  of  the  wile  of  Faithful  I'ortefcue,     | 
who    died   June   4th    17H5,    by    uiferting   "Maria   fecond   daughter    of   John  Smith    F.fq.    of  (  rrange 
Lodge  Louth." 

In  the  plate  of  I'rances  Countefs  of  Clermont  at  page  142  the  portrait  is,  in  moli  of  the 
copies,  wrongly  attributed  to  Alan  Ramfay,  it  having  been  painted  by  Sir  Jolhua  Reynolds. 

At  page  46  Landfend  in  Colebrooke  is  given  as  being  in  South  Devon,  whereab  it  is  in  North 
Devon.  ' 


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