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In Memory of
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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The Reverend John Watson MAESA
( and Rector of Stockport in Cheshire.
Published as the Act directs, August on th
1785
MEMOIRS
OF THE
ANCIENT EARLS
O F
WARREN AND SURREY,
AND THEIR
DESCENDANTS
TO THE PRESENT TIME.
By the REV. JOHN WATSON, M. A. F. A. S.
Late FELLOW of BRASEN-NOSE COLLEGE in OXFORD, and
RECTOR of STOCKPORT in CHESHIRE.
GENUS IMMORTALE MANET, MULTOSQUE PER ANNOS
STAT FORTUNA DOMUS, ET AVI NUMERANTUR AVORUM.
VIRG, GEORG. LIB. IV.
VOLUME THE FIRST.
WARRINGTON,
PRINTED BY WILLIAM EYRE S.
MDCCLXXXII.
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TENEBO
то
SIR GEORGE WARREN,
KNIGHT OF THE HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH.
SIR,
I
HAVE the honor to prefent you with the
Memoirs of the ancient Earls of Warren and
many
The com-
Surrey; a family, diſtinguiſhed both by their
great actions, and the royal blood, to which fo
ways they ſtood allied. From theſe Earls it is clearly
proved, that you are well defcended.
pliment therefore of atavis edite regibus, is due to
you in an higher degree than it was to Macenas,
though
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DEDICATIO N.
though you have not an Horace to beſtow it upon
you. It was an unfortunate circumſtance, that fo
many writers ſhould err, in pointing out the chief
anceſtors of your houſe, but many of them have
copied implicitly from others; and no wonder that
any of them were deceived, for perhaps there never
was a cafe attended with ftranger circumftances, nor
one wherein there occurs fuch a confufion of names.
This Gordian knot however is at laft untied, and
the ſuppoſed ſtain upon your family removed.
Your right to a peerage is now laid open, and
appears to be ſo juſtly founded, that you need not
deſpair of fuccefs, in a country where claims lefs
clear than yours have been admitted.
To fhew the nature of this claim was the chief
motive for drawing up the following work; if I
have faid more than was neceffary to effect that end,
it was to ſet an example to all the nobility, and
great men in England, to have as particular an
account as poffible taken of their reſpective families.
A proper attention to this, would greatly contri-
bute to improve the hiftory of our country, as it
would cauſe many records to be fearched, which
hitherto
DEDICATIO N.
V
were
hitherto have lain neglected, or been buried in
obfcurity. Biography is a pleaſing, and an uſeful
ſtudy; and it is much to be wifhed, that the
ftriking parts of the lives of great men,
oftener brought to light. It is but doing juſtice to
their memories, to preſerve their virtues from obli-
vion; for the fame envious hand of time, which
puſhes the hero to his grave, would by degrees, if
not prevented, caft a veil over his brighteſt actions.
This would deprive us of many laudable examples,
fit for the imitation of fuch as would arrive at the
temple of virtue, and fame. Characters may be
confidered as ſo many mirrors held up to the public
view; few of which indeed will be found to be
without a ſtain; but this may teach us to take care
that nothing deform our own.
It has been no eaſy taſk, to throw together the
particulars of your family, for ſeven hundred years
paſt, as they lie ſcattered in fuch a variety of re-
pofitories; to add from manuſcripts, what printed
authors have omitted; and to correct the miſtakes
which have been made in both. He who knows
the infinite labor, which belongs to fuch an under-
taking,
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DEDICATIO N.
↓
taking, will be candid as
be candid as a critic,
a critic, and gently
overlook what he cannot commend.
I SHALL Conclude this dedication, with my fince-
reſt wiſhes, that ſhould you fucceed to the honor of
your anceſtors, you may for ever bear in mind, that
Perit omnis in illo
Nobilitas, cujus laus eft in origine ſola.
I am,
With great deference and esteem,
Your obliged humble Servant,
JOHN WATSON.
By
دن شهر
Pl
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A Genealogical Table of the Family of WARREN from Will. the Conqueror to the present S. GEORGE WARREN
Gunnora Richard, Duke of Normandy,
T
Richard, Duke of Normandy.
Robert Duke of Normandy.
Herfastus. T
Knight of the most Honble Order of the BATH.
Weria.
A Danish Knight,
Turolf, Lord of Pont-Audomare,
Osborn de Crepon. Albreda, dau. of
a Daughter.
Walter de
Humphrey
Ralph Earl of Ivery.
St Martin.
de Vetulis.
Werina.
Joceline, married
Hugh de Montgomery.
Osmond de Comitis Villa,
Hugh Capet, King
of France.
Aliza.
1
Duvelina.
T
Osbern de Balebec.
Walter de Giffard.
Sainfria.
Forester
m
Will the Cong. King of England.
Maud, dau of Baldwin,
Earl of Flanders.
William Fitz Osborn.
Robert,
Duke of
Normandy.
Richard,
William,
the second
King of
England.
Henry, the
first King
of England.
Cecili
Abbess
of Cane
Alice, mar
Stephen
1st day.
de Blois,
1.dau.
Constance,
Countess
of Britain,
d
2. dau.
William de Warreu,
Earl of Warren in Norm
dau. of
Ralph de Torta.
Roger de Beaumont.
Adelina, dau of Walleran Earl of Mellent.
Agathe,
& Adilere,
06.S.P.
· Gundred,
5.dau.
William,
the first
Ralph de
Mortimer.
Eudo.
Robert, Earl of E
Mellent & Leycester.
Isabel, dau of
Hugh, the Great,
Earl Warren
and Surry.
T
Gerard de Gurney,
first Husband.
married
Ernisius Colunchis.
Gundred E
יד
Nigel de Albini.
Roger de Mowbray. Alice de Gant.
Williamı
second Earl
of Warren
& Surry
Isabel, daughter
of Hugh, the
Great, Earl of
Vermandois,
and Widow of
of Rob Earl
of Mellent&c.
Reginald de Warren,
second Son.
First Wife.
Beatrix, daughter of
Hugh de Paepont.
T
Alice, dau.and heir
Gund jed
of Will. de Warmgay.
Drew de Monceux, second Husband. — Edith.
T
William de Warren.
Second Wife.
Milicent, Widow of
d
Rich & Muntfichet.
Alice, married Reginald
de Dunstanvil.
First Ilusband
Second Husband.
Third Ihusband
Reginald Ob. S.P.
Ralph..
Beatrix Doun Bardolf
Hubert de Burgh.
Earl of Kent.
Second Itusband :
First Husband.
William third Earl
of Warren. & Surry.
Adela, daughter of William |——— Patrick de Eureux,
Talvace, Earl of Ponthieu.
First Husband
William de Blois Son, of Stephen,
King of England, fourth Eart of
Warren & Surrey Jure Uxoris.
Earl of Salisbury.
and heiress, Countess of
Isabel, sole daughter
T
A
Warren and Surrey.
Second Husband.
Hameline Plantagenet,
fifth Earl Warren and
Surrey, Jure Vxoris,
William Warren, only Jon & heir, of Reginald
Reginald Warren, second Son
Ancestor of the Warrens, of Poynton.
Aldelia, daughter of
Roger de Mowbray.
Henry de
Newburgh.
Robert King of France
Margaret, sister
of Retroc,Earl
of Perche.
T
Constantia, daughter of
William, Count of Arelet.
Henry, King
of France.
Ann, daughter of Jaroslaw,
Duke of Russia.
E. of Vermandois,
afterwards mar.
to Will. Earl of
Warren & Surrey.
Gundred, dau.of
William second
Roger Earl
of Warwick.
E. of Warren &c.
Waltheof, Earl of Huntington. Judith, niece to King
William, the Cong.
to Philip, King of France,
was in right of his Wife,'
Earl of Vermandois.
Hugh, the Great, Brother
Adela, daughter
and heiress of
Herbert, the 4th.
E.of Vermandois.
Isabel, married
Geoffery de Merlay.
Ralph Warren,
third Son. 06. SP
Nigel
Robert. Reginald =
Alice.
de Warren.
First Husband.
Roger de Newburgh,
Earl of Warwick.
Maud, daughter and heir,
David, King of Scots.
↑
Isabel, mar first Robert Earl of
Mellent, secondly William second
Earl of Warren and Surrey
!
Second Husband.
Third Husband.
Gundred.William. Baron
of Kendal.
Roger de Glan.......
ada.
Henry, Earl of Huntington, eldest son',
of David, King of Scots.
Sir John Warren, only Son
Isabel dau. of SWill. de Haydon K
Alice dau. of Roger de Townsend Efq.
B
Malcolm, King
of Scots.
William King
of Scots.
David Earl of
Huntington.
Ada mår. Floris
Earl of Holland.
Margaret, mar.
Conan le Pelit,
Earl of Britain
Maud,
died
Young
Pl. 2.
Adela,married Sir Maud..
William Filz William
mar Gilbert
de Aquila.
Isabel, married Roger
Bigod Earl of Norfolk.
Margaret, married Baldwin
Rivers, Earl of Devonshire :
John Warren Son and hei=
of Sir John Warren,
Joan, daughter of S"Hugh
de Port K
Richard de Skegton
Isabel mar Hugh,
Earl of Arundel.
: Sir Edward Warren
Maud daughter of Richard de Skegton,
called Maud de Nerford.
Sir Ralph
de Skegton.
Alice, de Hauteyn.
:
First Wife.
Maud, dau of William de
Albeney, Earl of Arundel.
Ob. S.P.
Griffin
Warren,
nut fon.
Second Wife.
Maud, daughter and heir, of William Marishall,
Earl of Pembroke, & widow of Hugh Bigod,
Earl of Norfolk.
William, Sixth Earl
of Warren & Surrey
Alice, daughter of
Hugh le Brun.
John, Seventh Earl of E
Warren and Surrey
Joan, daughter, of
William Lord Mowbray.
nat daw of...
Concubine to KJohn by rohom she
had a fon who took the name of Warren.
William Warren only
Son Ob. Vita Patris,
Joan, daughter of Robert Vere
Earl of Oxford.
Eleanor, married first Henry, Lord
Percy by whom she had issue,
she married secondly the Son of
of a Scotch Peer
Isabel, mar. Baliol,
King of Scots.
Firſt Wife.
Joan, daughter of Henry —
Earl of Barr, Ob.S.P.
William de
Warren.
:
Sir John Warren, only Son,
Ralph, Ob. S.P.
S. William Ob. S.P.
Sir Edward Warren.
Cecily, daughter of Nicholas de Eton K
John Ob.S.P
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Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir John Stafford of Wickham,mar. secondly John Mainwaring.
John, only son. the eight and last
Earl of Warren and Surreydyed
30.June 1347, without Lawfull
IJsue But by Maud de Nerford,
& others his Concubines he had.
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Second Wife.
Isabel, de Houland,
Alice, married
06.S.P.
Edmund, Earl
of Arundel.
Nicholas Warren, only Son,
Agnes, daughter of Sir Richard de Wynnington, K
Sir Laurence Warren, K only Son and heir,
Margery, daughter of Hugh Bulkeley Isq.
John Warren first Son.
Isabel, dau of Sir
John Stanley, Kt
Randle or Ralph
Warren,second Son.
Thomas de
Warren.
Joan de
Basing.
Catherine, married
Rob. Hennyngham.
of Suff.
Isabel.
Sir Laurence Warren,
first Son
Isabel,dau.of Sir Rob: Legh
of Adlington K
Elizabeth mar.
Rob! Rockley
Jane, married
John Atherton.
Margery, married
John de Honford.
Margaret, mar
John Arderne.
John de
Warren,
Second Wife.
Jane dau. of Ralph Arderne Esq. and
widow of Thurston Holland.
Geo. Warren, only fon
by the second Wife.
Cicely, married
Coleshull
Mabil, married
Roger Beke.
T
Sir John Warren,
firft Son and heir.
First Wife.
Margaret daughter of Sir Piers
Legh, of Lyme, Kṭ
Sir Edward
Warren, first
Son.
Dorothy, dau.
of S. William
Booth K
First Wife
Eleanor day. of Sir Thomas
Gerrard, K
Helen, mar
Roger
Downes.
Francis Warren, Margaret Fitton
06. S.P.
Dorothy,married
William Davenport:
Mary, married
Hamnet Hyde.:
William Warren, second Son of Sir Laurence Warren, Seated at Caunton in the County of
Nottingham, Ancestor to the present Sir John Borlase Warren, Baronet.
See his Genealogical Table. Vol 2.
Margaret
Emma, married Hugh Venables of Goldbarn.
Joàn,mar. Nicholin
de Longford,
Cicely, mar. John
Davenport.
Margaret, married
John Stafford.
Elizabeth.
John Warren,
second Son.
Ann, dau. of
1º. Stafford.
John Warren.,
third Son.
Margaret Richard
Booth. Warren.
Henry Jean mar
Warren, Sir John
Parson of Mainwaring.
Stockport.
Several other
Children.
Isabel, dau.
and heir.
John Warren.
Laurence Warren, first Son.‡
Second Wife
Sibil, widow of William de
Honford, Esq.06.S.Z?
Richard Warren, second Son.
Catherine Moor.
Nicholas Warren, third Son. =
Catherine
Mainwaring,
Jerom
Warren,
Ralph Two Dau
Warren.ob. S.1!
Margaret, mar. Robt,
Hyde of Norbury.
Dorothy, mar Newton:
secondly Hugh Davenport.:
Warren,
Ranulph — Elizabeth, dau. of
Henry Catheral.
Ann, married
Geo. Kighley.
Catherine married
Nicholas Bradbury.
Jane married
Geo. Chaderton.
Isabel.
Laurence.
George &
Edward.
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PL.3
John Warren, t
sec. Son & heir
Margaret, daughter of
Sir Rich Molineux Kt
Laurence
Warren.
Frances, daughter
of Rich Broughton.
:: Edward,
dyed young.
Edward,
Peter Warren. Elizabeth Norris.
dyed young.
Helen, dyed
young.
Joan, dyed
young.
Margaret, dyed
young.
Etheldred, dyed
young.
Ann, 06.S.P
John Warren Eleanor Blackshall.
Peter Warren,
Dorothy, married Robert Osborne, of Leicestershire,
Hellen, married John Stanley.
First Wife.
Eleanor, married
Robert Tallon.
Frances, married
William Dedall.
Ann, married
Roger Downes,
Lucia, married
Obaldiston.
dau of S
Edward Fitton K.
06. S.P.
Sir Edward Warren,
first Son and heir.
Second Wife.
Ann, dau of William
Davenport,
Third Wife:
Susan, dau of
Sir Will Booth.
Laurence
Warren.
Jane Davenport.
Richard
Warren..
...dau of.
Rudyard
John Dorothy
Warren. Downes.
Ralph, William
and George,
: all Ob.S.P
John
Warren
John Warren,
second Son
Ann, dau
and heir.
dred
young.
First Wife
Margaret, daughter of Henry Arderne of Harden, Esq.
of George
Ognal Esq.
Ralph
dyed
young,
Humphry
Warren,
William
Warren.
I
Margaret,
dred
young,
Margaret,
dyed
young.
Ann,
dyed
young.
Frances,
Margaret,
Catherine.
Dorothy.
Ann.
George
mar. Tho
Singleton.
Warren..
Edward
Warren.
Susan
Lane.
Laurence
Warren,
Richard
Warren.
Halsall Edmund
Warren. Warren. Warren.
Thos El
th
Ratcliff Ralph. Posthumus.
Second Wife.
Edward Warren, first Son and heir
Ann, daughter of Hough, 0b. S.P.
John Warren, dyed Unmarried.
Laurence Warren, dyed ttmarried.
:
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Ann, married
Edw Holland.:
John Warren, first
Son, and hair.
Ann, daughter & heir
of Hugh Cooper Esq.
Humphry Warren,
third Son, 0b. §.7.
Charles Warren,
dyed young.
Edward Warren, obüt. S.P
Ratcliffe.
Posthumus.
Henry Warren,
fourth Son.
Catherine, daughter and heir of Leonard Clayton Clerk.
Twins.
John Warren,
dyed young.
First Wife
Dorothy daughter and
heir of John Talbot.
John Warren
Ob. S.P.
Edward Warren,
second Son.
Edward Warren
second Son & hair.
T
Filizabeth, dau.of George,
Earl of Cholmondeley.
Second Wife.
Margaret Spencer,
Margaret, married
William Davenport.
Hugh Warren, third Son.
:
I
Thomas Hesketh.
Ann, daughter of
John Warren,
dyed young.
Humphry Warren Susanna, daughter of
William Davenport. Esq
Henry Warren,
dyed young.
Anna Dorothea, mar
Daniel Byrne.
Margaret, dyed
iinmarried.
Catherine, mar first Humphry. :
Davenport, secondly W Tatton.
Talbot Warren
Frances, daughter of
W™ Davenport Esq.
Second Wife.
First Wife:
Jane, daughter and heir
of Thomas Revel, Esq.
T
Sir George Warren, only Son and heir. Kof the 'rances, daughter of Sir Cecil
most Honorable Order of the Bath.
Elizabeth Harriot only dau married
26, April.1777, to Thomas James
Bulkeley Viscount Bulkeley,
=
Bisshopp; Bart.
Harriot, dyed
Unmarried.
Elizabeth, married
Robert Carpenter Esq.
Published as the Act directs, August 20th 1785.
Mary, mar first Radcliff Spencer
secondly...
Dakin
:
William.
Henry.
Alice.
Eleanor.
Mary
Hugh Warren:
dyed young
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MEMOIR S
OF THE
EARLS
O F
WARREN AND SURREY, &c.
N order to fhew the true original of
this ancient noble family, it muſt be
obferved that a certain Daniſh knight
(a defcendant of one of thoſe who
invaded that part of France now
called Normandy) had Gunnora,
Herfaftus, Wevia, Werina, Duvelina, and Sainfria.
VOL. I.
B
OF
2
MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
Of these, Gunnora married Richard duke of Normandy,
who had Richard, the father alfo of Richard, who dying
without iffue, was fucceeded in the dukedom by his brother
Robert the father of King William the Conqueror, who by
Maud daughter of Baldwin earl of Flanders, had Robert
duke of Normandy, Richard duke of Bernay in Normandy,
William king of England, Henry king of England, and ſeveral
daughters, one of whom named Gundred was married to
William the firſt earl of Warren and Surrey.
HERFASTUS had Oſborn de Crefpon, who by Albreda
his wife, daughter of Ralph earl of Ivery, had William
Fitz Ofborn, earl of Hereford. * Herfaftus had like-
wife a daughter married to Walter de Sancto Martino,
by whom William de Warren, earl of Warren in Nor-
mandy, who married a daughter of Rafe de Torta a
noble Dane, protector of Normandy during the nonage of
Richard the Firſt. His arms were Lozengy or and azure.
Warren-Torta
Warren:
Gundreda.
* Dugd. Bar. vol. I. p. 66.
By
WARREN AND SURREY.
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By her he had William earl of Warren and firft earl of
Surrey, who married Gundred, the fifth daughter of King
William the Conqueror, whofe arms were Gules two lions
paſſant guardant or. Ordericus Vitalis tells us that this earl
William married Gundred fifter of Gherbode a Fleming, to
whom King William had given the city and earldom of
Chefter; but certainly this writer was miſtaken, otherwiſe
how muſt we underſtand thoſe words of earl Warren in the
foundation charter of Lewes Abbey, pro falute domine mee
Matildis Regine, matris uxoris mee?
WEVIA,* through the affiſtance of Gunnora, married Turolf
lord of Pont Audomare in Normandy, who was the ſon of
Torf a great Norman lord. By him ſhe had Humfry lord of
Pont Audomare, furnamed de Vetulis, who had amongſt others
Roger de Bellomonte, (or Beaumont) who married Adelina
daughter of Waleran earl of Mellent, by whom Robert earl
of Mellent in Normandy and Leycefter in England, who mar-
ried Ifabel daughter of Hugh the Great, earl of Vermandois,
afterwards countefs of Warren and Surrey. The faid Roger
had alſo Henry de Newburgh, firft earl of Warwick after
the conqueft, whofe arms were Lozengy or and azure within
a bordure gules platee, as Rous of Warwick, and almoſt all
the old armorifts affert, except St. Marthe, who fais the bor-
dure muſt be befantee. This Henry married Margaret ſiſter
* Gemmiticenfis, Ed. Duchefne, Paris 1619, p. 312.
B 2
of
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
of Rotroc earl of Perche in Normandy, who bore gules three
chevronels argent. By the faid Margaret he had Roger earl
of Warwick, who died 18 Steph. and who married Gundred
daughter of William the fecond carl of Warren and Surrey.
Newburg-Warren
Rotroc Earl of
Perche
The above Wevia had alſo a daughter named Jofcelin married
to Hugh de Montgomery.
WERINA, according to a large pedigree in the poffeffion of
Sir George Warren, drawn up, and figned by W. Flower
Norroy, and R. Glover Somerſet Herald in 1580, married
Ofmund de comitis villa. This Werina is faid to have had
by the ſaid Ofmund,* Hugh Capet King of France, who had
Robert King of France, who had Henry King of France,
who had Hugh the Great, brother to Philip King of France.
* THIS differs from the best writers of French hiſtory, who ſay that the father
of Hugh Capet, king of France, was Hugh the Great, count of Paris, who died
in 956, which Hugh the Great was fon of Robert duke of France, and he of
Robert Fortis count of Orleans; it takes however no honor from the houſe of
Warren, as the earl of Vermandois was certainly related to the kings of France,
and was defcended from Pepin, and Charlemagne. See Table Genealogique des
Ancestres de Pepin le Bref, & de Charlemagne, roys de France, in the Origin
Geneal. de Sohier. See alfo the Abrege Chronologique de Henault.
This
WARREN AND SURREY.
5
This Hugh was earl of Vermandois, in right of Adela his
wife, daughter and heirefs of Herbert (or Hubert) fourth
earl of Vermandois. Hugh had Iſabel, married to William
earl Warren as above. A match, in a very high degree
honorable to the family of Warren, as it connected them with
the blood royal of France, as before they had been with the blood
royal of England.
DUVELINA is faid by fome to have married the above Tu-
rolf, but Gemmiticenfis* tells us that the married Ofborn
de Bolebec, by whom Walter de Giffard, ancestor of the
earls of Buckingham.
SAINFRIA, not noticed in Flower and Glover's pedigree,
married a certain forefter at Schecheville.+
WITH regard to the family of Warren having the name of
St. Martin, Camden in his Remains fais, Mortimer and
Warren are accounted names of great antiquity, yet the father
of them (for they were brethren) who first bore those names,
was Walterus de Sancto Martino. A Manuſcript alſo in the
Herald's office written by Vincent, and intitled Mifcellanea
B. 2.|| fais, "Walterus de Sancto Martino duxit neptem
Gunnoridis Duciffe Normanniæ, &c."
&c." It seems therefore
that the more ancient appellation was that of St. Martin, but
P. 312.
+ Gemmit. p. 311, 312.
P. 110, Edit. 1636.
Il Fol. 77.
the
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
the ſon of the above Walter being made earl of Warren, his de-
fcendants were afterwards diftinguished only by that name.
BRADY in his complete history of England, informs us
that they had their name from Guarenna, or Varenna, in
the county of Calais, or Caux: And a M. S. in the Herald's
office fais, Warren is in that part of France which was Neu-
Aria, now Normandy; it belonged to that noble family in
France named de Sancto Martino.
THAT they were earls of Warren before their arrival in
England, the following authorities will prove. Dugdale+
fais, it is manifeſt that William de Warren was earl of Warren
in Normandy in the Conqueror's days. I have feen alfo in an
old M.S. in the Herald's office, without title, but contain-
ing the arms and pedigrees of families of note in the time
of our firſt Norman kings, that Gualter de Sancto Martino
had William earl Warren, and that this William had William
the firſt earl of Warren and Surrey. Ordericus ‡ calls Wil-
liam de Warren who came over with King William the Firſt,
one of the legitimi, maturique barones, and that in the very
beginning of the reign of William Rufus, before he was
* P. 198, referring to Valefii Notit. Gal. p. 237, but he ſhould rather have faid,
the county of the Caletes, now the Pais du Caux in Normandy. See alfo Le Febure
Hift. de la Ville de Calais I. 20.
+ Bar. vol. I. p. 73.
1 Duchefne, Paris 1619, p. 667.
made
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7
made earl of Surrey. His wife Gundred is alſo in the char-
tulary of Lewes Abbey ftiled Comitiſſa, though ſhe died be-
fore her huſband had any English title. She must then have
been countess of Warren in Normandy. On a writ of quo
warranto about 7 E. I. John earl of Warren and Surrey
pleaded, that his anceſtors were earls of Warren in Normandy,
and that they loft their lands there, for adhering to the
Kings of England againſt the Kings of France.
It may not be amiſs to obſerve here in general, that all
they who immediately after the conqueft bore the title of
earls in England, took the fame from places on the continent;
but that the titles by which they were diſtinguiſhed, were
fometimes local, fometimes nominal, fuch as earl of Warren,
or earl Warren; for which reafon they are uſed indifferently
in theſe memoirs.
As to the arms born by this family, it is faid in the unin-
titled manufcript above quoted, that
Gualter de Sancto Martino bare or and
azure checky, the proper coat armor of the
princely boufe of Vermandois, and charged
it with an efcutcheon of argent, with a
bend therein güles. In the lift intitled
Nomina & infignia militum fingulatim cum fingulis monachis in
ecclefia Elienfi collocatorum regnante Gulielmo Cong. 1087, is
Walt de S'Martin
the
8
MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
the following: Ivo Willielmi comitis frater cum Leofrico mo-
naco, or and azure, a bend gules. This may be met with in
the roll of Ely Abbey fet forth by Thomas a monk there.
In Bentham's hiftory and antiquities of Ely, the bend is feen,
but the color of it left doubtful, as in the annexed engrav-
ing. *The above coat is not found in any printed author.
What is given to the family by Milles the publiſher of Glo-
ver's catalogue of honor; by Yorke in his union of honor;
by Brooke in his catalogue of the nobility of England, and
other heraldical, and genealogical writers,
This,
is checky or and azure, or as the arms of
noblemen have fometimes been emblaz-
oned, checky topaz and faphire.
Vincent (writing againſt Brooke,) fais
from Tillet, was the coat armor of the
houfe of Vermandois, and that it was not uſed by the earls
of Warren, till the fecond earl of Warren and Surrey married
Warren
* THE reafon of this Ivo being mentioned with Leofric the Monk, is becauſe
William the Conqueror thought fit to fend down forty of his foldiers, belonging to
great families, to be quartered on the monks of Ely, till he could otherwiſe provide
for them, or had occafion for their immediate fervice; amongſt which was this Ivo, to
whom Leofric was obliged to give refections conftantly in the common hall. This
tranfaction being entered amongst the records of the monaftery, fome curious perfon in
after times, had each foldier, with the arms of the family he belonged to, and the
monk who fupported him, painted, and hung up in the hall as a memorial. This,
Mr. Bentham has got engraved at p. 106 of his book, where, and in his Appendix,
the reader may fee this curiofity explained. In other places this Ivo is called Ido
and Eudo.
into
d
3vodillm Comitis arren
Frater.cum eofricolonacho
Published the Act directs, August 201785.
Wittus Com Warren, primus,er Cod,M:S: Philp: Ebor: in Coll: Armor.
Published as the Act directs, August 20th 1785.
WARREN AND SURREY.
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into the family of Vermandois, as St. Marthe in his Hiftoire
genealogique de France thus obferves, Ce Comte de Surrey
portoit efchiquette d'or, & d'azur, armes que la Comteffe
Elizabeth de Vermandois fa Femme portoit auffi a caufe de fon
Pere. Now if this be true, it feems as if the family of
Warren, after this match, dropt a part of their arms, on
account of the houfe of Vermandois being more honorable
than their own. If they had not originally the bend gules,
it might either be as above afferted, or poffibly earl Warren
might marry into a family which bore the fame coat as him-
felf, as they were of different countries.
+
In two M.S.S. in the Herald's office, intitled Philipott's
Yorkshire, and Vincent's Baronage, ‡ are reprefentations of
William the Firſt giving a charter to Alan earl of Britain, in
both which, earl Warren appears with checky or and azure,
like the two figures which I have cauſed to be engraven, one
in a plate by itself, and the other in a mifcellaneous plate con-
taining the ancient creft, &c. of the family, No. 3; but I
would not pronounce any thing pofitively from thence, be-
caufe the defigns differ from each other, as well as from that
published by Gale in his Honor of Richmond; the authenticity
of the charter has alfo by fome been doubted, and an objection
* This is a mifnomer for Ifabel; Gemmiticenfis made the fame mistake.
† No. 3. 31. Fol. 10.
+
$ 287.
For this Regiftrum Honoris de Richmond, fee Harleian M. S. S. No. 3674.
VOL. I.
C
made
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
made to the men's tabards, or ſhort coats, as being a mode of
later times; yet notwithſtanding all this, from the many au-
thorities which I have feen, both at the college of Arms,
and elſewhere, I cannot but think it probable, that either
there was an older connection between the families of War-
ren, and Vermandois, than that mentioned by St. Marthe,
or elſe that their fhields were accidentally painted in the fame
imanner.
I WILL juſt add, that in a ſouth window of the chancel
of Dewsbury church in Yorkshire (which manor formerly
belonged to the Warrens) is the ufual coat of checky or and
azure, and alſo argent a bend gules, and a bordure gobonè or
and azure.
In the windows of Kirk-Burton church were
formerly theſe ſhields, 1. checky or and azure. 2. The fame
with a bordure argent. 3. Argent a bendlet gules and bor-
dure compone or and azure, which Mr. Brooke takes for the
coat of St. Martin, and which, he fais, remains in the churches,
on various other eftates of the Warrens in Yorkshire. *
In the time of King Hen. V. a particular piece of honor
was fhewn to the owners of this coat; for in a liſt (in my
poffeffion) of the enfigns, and colors of the English foot of
the feveral counties of this realm, who marched with that
victorious monarch, the men of Surrey bore checky or and
* Ex. Autog. penes John-Charles Brooke de Coll. Armor. Arm.
azure
WARREN AND SURREY.
I I
azure, in commemoration (as it is there expreffed) of the brave
carl of Warren, first earl of that county. The towns of Stan-
ford and Grantham in Lincolnſhire paid alfo the fame com-
pliment to the family; the firft of which appears from*
Guillim's Heraldry, † and the latter from a curious vifitation
book of Lincolnſhire, in my poffeffion, covered with purple
velvet, and painted on vellum, by Robert Cook then Chefter
herald, who prefented the fame to Queen Eliz. The coat is
checky or and azure, a bordure fable, charged with verdoy of
trefoils flipt arg. and under it is written, "The armes of the
66
Quene's Brough of Grantham confermed and regeftred
"with the names of the Aldermen and his twelve brethren
"which was geven in the yeare of our Lord God 1562."
Ar Godfrey Boíville's, Efq. at Gunthwaite in Yorkſhire, I
faw a M. S. account of his family, which contains this anecdote,
(but from what authority I know not) that a monopoly was
once granted to the earls of Warren, of ale, and beer; and
whoever kept a public houfe, was obliged to take a licence
from him, and fet up his arms over the door. Hence a
checker came to mark an ale-houſe, as a bunch of grapes does
P. 23 of Honor Civil, Lond. 1724.
* P.
Ir feems from Butcher's Survey and Antiquity of the towne of Stamford, that
before the year 1469, the arms of Warren only, were uſed by that borough; and that
King Edw. IV. gave the addition of his own coat, for the gallant behavior of the
townfmen, at what was called looje-coat fight.
C 2
a tavern.
12
MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
a tavern. A writer in the Antiquarian Repertory* thinks
that this fign fhewed that the game now called Draughts
might be played at within; he might have added alfo the
game of Chefs. The fign of the checker was found in one
of the ſtreets of the lately difcovered fubterraneous town of
Pompeii, where fhops are fuppoſed to have been.†
THIS would be decifive against any reference to the
Warren arms; but it does not follow that this houfe in
Pompeii was either for the purpoſe of drinking or gaming.
In Flanders, the checker is the fign of a goldfmith's fhop
only. The modern chequè of taverns in England, is red,
and white, which may as well denote the color of the wines
there fold, as any thing elfe. It is doubtful, upon the whole,
whether monopolies were of fo early date as the firſt earls of
Warren, eſpecially of the ſtaple liquor of England.
THIS family has uſed various crefts; one of which was a
plume of fwan feathers proper, illuing out of a ducal crown
Irg
Gu
Creft of Warren
Creft of Warren
• Vol. I. p. 50,
+ Archæologia, vol. IV. p. 170.
gules;
N° 2
| Na. Er God MS Vine!Nº152P75 in (ol Armor :
Nº 2. Ex fod Cod P97.
Nº3. Ex Cod MSTïne Nº 20. l. 288 in Col Armor:
Published as the Act directs listed i
1785.
Nº1
Nº 3
Basire fi
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13
gules; the ſecond, on a chappeau gules, turned up ermine, in-
grailed, a wivern argent, the wings displayed, checky or and
azure. Theſe are found at the foot of a pedigree of the family
of Warren, in a M.S. in the Herald's office, which bears the
mark Vincent 152, and is faid to have been compiled in the
reign of King Hen. VII. by the principal king of arms, in or-
der to inftruct Prince Arthur and his brother, afterwards King
Hen. VIII in heraldry, which was then thought a proper
part of every accompliſhed gentleman's education; the third
was an eſcarbuncle, in honor of earl Hameline, as fhewn here-
after by the engraving of the laft earl's feal. In one of Lord.
Oxford's M.S.S. in the Brit. Muf. No. 2074, it is faid, William
earl Warren and Surrey bore in his ſhield checky or and azure;
on the crest of his helmet, a chappeau gules turned up ermine, on
which is a weever paſſant argent, the wings checky or and azure
volant, the fight of the helmet opened, manteled or and azure.
windows of the duke of
In this order it was fet out in the glass
Norfolk's house near London, called the Charter houfe, where I
L. de B. (Laurence de Boftoke) took this trick or note
July 17. 1575. in the M. S. intitled Vincent, as above, is
the creft of Warren, viz. a wivern ſupporting a banner, as
in the annexed plate, No. 2, wherein alfo the above is en-
graved, No. 1. And upon the tomb of one of the wives of the
feventh earl of Warren and Surrey, it is
C.
Crest of Warren
faid that a dragon was cut,
with a branch
iffuing out of his mouth. The like va
riations may be found in the hiftory of
almost every ancient family.
WE
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
We are told by feveral writers, that earl Warren who came
over with the Conqueror, was attended in that expedition
by a brother called Ralph de Mortimer (Mortuo mari);
who was appointed firft Conftable of England. This
Ralph was remarkable for his great ftrength; for in one of
the Harleian M. S. S. in the Britiſh Muſeum, No. 293,‡
+ it is
faid that amongſt the furnames of thoſe perſons of reputation
who entered England with the Conqueror, was Radulfus de
Mortuo mari omnium ftrenuiffimus, velut alter Samfon, cum
leonina ferocitate. He was one of the chief commanders at
the battle of Haftings, and did the Conqueror much fervice
afterwards.§ He was rewarded, as appears from Domeſday
book, with lands in Effex, Hampſhire, Berkshire, Wiltshire,
Somerſetſhire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire,
Leiceſterſhire, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Yorkshire, and
Lincolnshire.
* In an anonymous M. S. written in the reign of King Hen. I. and publiſhed at the
end of Silas Taylor's Hiftory of Gavelkind, p. 209, is a lift of the great men of Nor-
mandy, who at their own charges furnished William the Conqueror with fhipping to
tranfport his forces into England, amongst whom is the following, A R. de Morotemer
centum & viginti naves, which probably is a miſtake for Radulpho de Mortuomari
If this be fo, it fhews the great power
ariling from the initial letter R. in the M. S.
of the family, as the number of fhips for exceeds that of any other on the lift.
+ The pedigree in Duchefne calls him Roger.
Monaft, Ang. vol. II. p. 220.
I Fol. 35.
§ Monaft. ut fupra, & Dugd. Bar. p. 139.
HIS
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15
His arms, as put down in the above pedigree of 1580,
were bar-ways ferven pieces azure and
NIZ
Mortimer
or,
on a chief of the first, two pallets,
between as many bafe efquires, dexter
and finiſter of the fecond, over all an in-
efcutcheon argent; which is fo difficult
and uncommon, that Legh in his Acce-
dens of Armory,* fais, This cote is the triall of an here-
haught. For it hath been thought, that he that coulde well
blaze it without offence, were conning in that poynt of thys arte.
He has indeed given it fomething different, viz. Bar-
wayes, fixe pieces or and azure, on a chife of the firſt, thre
pallets betwene two equires, baft dexter and finifter of the fecond,
an efchocheon of pretence argent; adding this remarkable note;
but I will teache you a fhorter way then hath been yet spoken of;
you shall faye, that it is earle Mortymer's of Marche hys cote,
whiche for the rarenes thereof fullye defcryeth the fame, with-
out anye further emblazonne. This Accedens of Armory,
is faid by Thorefby in his Ducatus, after Wood's
Athenæ, to be the first book of Heraldry ever printed in
the English tongue. Both thefe writers however were mif-
taken, for I have a folio, written (as it is faid) by Dame
Julyan Berners, priorefs of Sopwell nunnery in Hertfordshire,
which, amongſt other things, Shewyth the manere of
+
Lond. 1562, fol. 154.
+ P. [V] and 105.
‡ Vol. I. p. 186.
divyfynge
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
divylynge of cote armours, and ferdezmore of the bla-
fynge of amys.
of armys. Enprynted at Weameftre by Wyn-
kyn the Worde the yere of thyncarnacon of our Lorde
MCCCCLXXX FUJ. The leaves of this book are not num-
bered, but the author has given this reprefentation of the
coat of Roger Mortimer earl of March. Certayn men faye
that he beryth paly barry contraży coonyd of afure and golde
with a fymple helde of sylvez. And this opynyon in the
blafynge pleyfyd many a man the whyche in no manere of wile
may be true for yf thyse armys were contzary conyd thenne the
lowest corner of the coone of the armis that is to faye the
lowyû poynt of the ſhelde may never be of one colour as cer-
tenly it is of aluze-Wherefoze as it appeth to my reason
trulyer they shall be blafyd on this wyle He beezeth bazy and
a cheyff pale angulatyd of afuze and golde wyth a ſymple thelde
ofe fylver. Glover in the margin of a Latin edition of
Camden's Britannia* in my poffeffion, wherein he has drawn
and colored the arms of two hundred and feventeen of the great
families there named, (and which has fince been authenti-
cated under the hand and feal of Charles Townley, Efq.
when York herald) has made the inefcutcheon in this coat
to be ermine, as born by Roger de Mortimer earl of March,
one of the first Knights of the Garter in the reign of King
Edw. III. which is contrary to what we meet with in Afh-
* Lond. 1587.
mole's
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17
mole's Hiſtory of that inſtitution.*
I have obferved other
variations from the above in different writers, as in Dart's
Weſtminſter, where on the chief there is only one pallet;
and in Vincent, who fais that after arms became hereditary,
this family bore barry of fix or and azure, on a chief of the
first, two pallets, between as many efquierres, over all an
efcutcheon argent; but in moſt inftances, except the above
pedigree by Flower and Glover, the bars are of equal pieces,
agreeable to the practice of Engliſh heralds, for the French
and other nations have often barry of feven, and other
unequal pieces.
THERE is an imperfect blafoning of this coat in Brooke's
Catalogue, viz. Barre d'or & d'azure, au chef palee les cor-
ners geronne a un efeuchon d' argent; for neither the num-
ber of bars, nor pallets are determined: however he has
afterwards made fome amends for this, when he fais, burelle
de fix pieces d'or & d'azur, au chef de la premier, deux
paletts entre deux bafe equires de la fecond, fur le tout a un efeu-
• SEE the feals appendant to the baron's letter in 1300 to Pope Boniface, publiſhed
by the Society of Antiquaries, where it is ermine for Roger de Mortimer lord of Pen-
ketlyn, and argent for Edmund de Mortimer, lord of Wigmore. See alfo Antiquarian
Repertory, vol. 2. p. 169, where Roger de Mortimer's arms, at the fiege of Caerlave-
rock caſtle, are faid to have been Barree au chief pale e les cornieres gyrounees de or et de
afur enluminees o le efcuchoun vuidie de ermine.
+ Vol. I. p. 60.
↑ P. 693.
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D
chon
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
chon d'argent, which, with the addition of another pallet,
would be the true coat.
Azure
Crest of Mortimer
Or
THE creft of Mortimer is faid in a M.S. in the Herald's
office, to have been a plume of Swan fea-
thers blew, iluing out of a ducal coronet
or, differing only from that of Warren in
color; a cuſtom which feems to have been
common.* Perfons of the fame family
kept up a fimilarity in their arms and
crefts, yet contrived a difference, according to their own
taſte and fancy. Thus, in the inftances before us, St. Martin,
the head of the Warren family, had checky or and azure, on
an inefcutcheon argent a bend gules; the direct oldeſt deſcen-
dants from whom bore only the checks. Ido, or Eudo,
a younger branch, ufed over the coat of Warren, the above
bend without an efcutcheon; and Mortimer, another younger
branch, the fame efcutcheon without any charge, or
ordinary. Their fhields had alfo the fame colors in the
field, and the chief difference in the whole was, that Mor-
timer had his colors bar-ways, which the reft of the family
bore in checks.
A COLLATERAL branch of the family of Mortimer bore
the fame coat already defcribed, only changing the colors of
* THIS creft appears in drawings of various ancient feals of the Mortimers earls of
March, in the afpilogia of John-Charles Brooke, Efq. Somerfet Herald.
the
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19
the fhield from or and azure, to or and gules. This way
of making the diſtinction in coats of arms, between differ-
ent branches of the fame family, as anciently practifed,
feems much preferable to the prefent mode by labels, cref-
cents, mullets, annulets, &c. which marks of difference
are uſually ſo ſmall in the field, that they are fcarce per-
ceiveable, and ſometimes liable to confufion; whereas the
ancient method of differencing by varying colors, or adding
bends, borders, chiefs, &c. was much more confpicuous,
and remarkable; capable alfo of almost infinite variety, as
appears from Dugdale's ancient ufage of bearing arms.
FROM this Ralph de Mortimer are defcended the earls of
March.*
I SHALL now give an account of the earls of Warren and
Surrey in the order of their fucceffion.
* Dudg. Bar. vol. I. p. 133.
D 2
WILLIAM
20
MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
WIL
LIA
I AM
FIRST EAR L,
ON of William earl of Warren in
Normandy, is faid to have been one
of the greateſt of thoſe nobles, who
accompanied duke William in his
victorious expedition into this king-
dom;* which is probable enough,
for befides his being earl of Warren, he was the duke's re-
lation both by marriage and defcent.
command at the battle of Haftings,
He had a confiderable
where he fought fo
well,
* See Daniel's Hift. of France, vol. III. p. 94.
IN Fox's Book of Martyrs, vol. I. p. 204, Edit. 1684, it is faid out of the
Annals of Normandy, (a very ancient written copy of which on parchment, remained
in
WARREN AND SURREY.
21
well, that according to an old M. S. formerly belonging to
Sir Henry Spelman, he had divers lordships and lands in
Norfolk, and other parts of this realm conferred upon him.
This M.S. Sir Henry printed afterwards under the title of
Hiftoria familia de Sharnburn, and gave this extraordinary
character of it,
Non vulgare vides monumentum; forte videbis
Haud duo præterea talia, fiqua vides.
Therein we are told, that our earl, as well as others who
came over with the Conqueror, ejected perfons out of their
poffeffions, (by which I ſuppoſe is meant that they were often
obliged to uſe force, before they could enter upon the eſtates
given them by the crown) and that in particular he, to-
gether with William de Albini, turned out one Edwine a
Dane (who came to England with Knute) from the lordships
of Snetſham, Sharneburn, and Stanho in Norfolk; on which,
Edwine complained to the king, alledging that he had never
acted, or confpired againſt him, either before, or fince his
conqueft, but lived inoffenfively, as he was ready to prove.
in that writer's cuftody) that the day after the battle of Hastings, duke William
being defirous to know the ſtate of his battle, and what people he had loft, caufed a
clerk to come to him, who had written their names when they were embarked at
St. Valeries, and commanded him to call over their names, amongst which we find
Guill, de Garennes.
22
MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
On this an inquiry was ordered to be made, and the
lands commanded to be reftored; yet nevertheless he reco-
vered but part, to hold of the above lords, under certain
fervices, the reft being referved to their own ufe, and as
fettlements for their Norman followers. And what was the
cafe of this Edwine, was that of many others alfo, if we
may credit this account, but it must be owned that fome
writers have difbelieved it.* Sir Henry afferts in his Icenia,
defcribing Caſtle Acre, Prifca hic fedes altera comitum Waren-
niæ; quorum anteceffor Willielmus de Warenna Foreftarius
regis Gulielmi conqueftoris, & Gulielmus de Albeneiaco Pincerna
ejus, fortes adeo luculentas in occidua tulerunt Norfolciæ parte,
cum Normannis divideretur, ut nulla
pene villa
ab epifcopo
aliquo vel monafterio non poffideretur, quin in alterius corum
ditionem ceffit. Dr. Brady‡ fais in contradiction to this,
que
*SEE the hiftory of the tenants in capite mentioned in Domefday-book M. S. com-
piled by John-Charles Brooke, Efq. Somerfet Herald, where various authentic in-
ftances are given of Anglo-Saxons, &c. who were not deprived of their property at the
conqueft; and a remarkable one quoted from that work in Dr. Nash's Hiftory of
Worcestershire, under the manor of Clifton upon Teme, vol. I. p. 239.
Ir feems by this, that king William I. had only one chief forefter, though
Spelman in his Gloff. p. 240, mentions two, the river Trent dividing their refpective
juriſdictions; which might be a regulation of future times. Under fome form or
other however, this title appears to have been hereditary in this family, for it belonged
to the laſt earl John.
† INTRODUCT, to the old Engliſh Hiſt. p. 12, and 270. See alfo Parkyns' Con-
tinuation of Blomefield's Hift. of Norfolk.
that
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23
that the name of Edwine is not found as a proprietor in
Sharnborn, or even in Norfolk, at the time of making the
general furvey, fo that the ftory muſt be groundless. It is
certain however that earl Warren is named in Domefday-
book, as poffeffing lands at Sharnburn, along with Odo
biſhop of Bajeux and others, and that he had large eftates
in other parts, fuch as Weftune in Shropſhire; in Effex
twenty-one lordships; in Suffolk eighteen; in Oxfordshire
Maplederham, and Gadintone; in Hantfhire Frodinton; in
Cambridgeshire feven lordships; in Buckinghamshire Bro-
tone, and Caurefelle; in Huntingtonshire Chenebaltone
with three other lordships; in Bedfordshire four; in Nor-
folk one hundred and thirty-nine lordships; in Lincolnshire
Carletune and Benington; in Yorkshire the lordship of
Coningſburgh, within the foke whereof were twenty-eight
towns and hamlets.* Theſe are all reckoned up by Dug-
dale, † but on fome account or other he has forgot the earl's
poffeffions in Suffex.
THE Terra Will. de Warene in Euricfcire, is thus put
down in Domeſday-book.
To make this agreeable to the account given in my Hift. of Halifax, the reader
is defired to take notice, that the words, except Coning Burgh, and its dependencies,
fhould be inferted in that work, at p. 331, in line 24, after the word Yorkshire.
† Bar. vol. I. p. 74.
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IN Coningefburg habuit Haroldus comes V carucatas terre ad
Geldam. Terra eft ad V carucatas. Ibi habet nunc Willus
de Warenna V carucatas in dominio, & XXI villanos, & XI
bordarios, habentes XI carucatas. Ibi eft ecclefia & presbiter,
& II molendini, XXXII folidos valuerunt. Silva paftura I
leuga longitudine, & I latitudine. Ad ipfum manerium pertinet
foca harum. Ravenesfeld I car. & dimid. Cliftone III car. Bra-
deuuelle XI car. Barneburg VI car. Holand I car. Bilam I car.
Daltone III car. Wilfeuuice XV acre. Hertil & Ciuetone XIII
car. & dimid. Eftone VI bovata. Sandale II car. Greßburg III
car. Cuzeuuorde III car. Bramelei III car. Actone II bovat.
Witeftan III car. Wemesforde I car. & VI bovat. Doninitone
II car. Aneftan II car. Stenforde VI bovat. Bramuuite VI
bovat. Fixcale V car. Torne IIII car. Tudeuuorde I car. Hed-
feld VIII car. Stireftorp II car. Sandela I car. & III bovat.
SIMUL ad geldam qter XX & VI carucate & XV acre terre
ad LIIII carucatas. Tempore regis Edvardi valuit XVIII
libras modo XXX libras & de tailla X libras.
THE modern names of the above places feem to be theſe.
Ranfield, Clifton, Braithwell, Barnbrough, Hoyland,
Bilham, Dalton, Wilfick, Harthill, Kiveton, Afton, Kirk-
Sandal, Grefbrough, Cufworth, Bramley, Aughton, Whiſ
tan, Warmſworth (Q), Dinnington, Anſton, Stainforth,
Bramwith,
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Bramwith, Fiſhlake, Thorne, Tudworth (Q), Hatfield,
Stirefthorpe (Q), Sandal.
AFTER king William was ſettled a little on the throne,
and going in 1067 into Normandy, he had fuch confidence
in our earl, that he was fent with Hugh de Grentmeſnil,
and ſome other active foldiers, to give affiftance to Odo
biſhop of Bajeux, and William Fitz Ofborne, who during
the king's abfence were the cuftodes Anglia. He was alfo
conſtituted along with Richard de * Benefacta, alias Tone-
bridge, a chief jufticier of England, as we learn from
Ordericus+ who calls them vicarii regis. Theſe two affoci-
ates, when the earls of Norfolk, Hereford and others con-
trived to make an infurrection in England, in the year 1073,
(when the king was fettling ſome diſturbances in Normandy,)
fummoned the ringleaders into the king's court, and when
they ſtood out in contempt, gave them battle at a place
PROGENITOR to the famous family of de Clare, earls of Clare, Glouceſter, and
+ P. 535.
Hertford.
THE Hiftoire du Roy Willaume le Baftard par Tr. D'Eudemare Rouen 1626,
p. 857, mentions that William Warenne and Richard des Bienfaits fon of Gilbert,
"avoient efté mis et eftablis par le Roy Magiftrats et Juges principaux fur ce qui concernoit
la juftice d'Angleterre." Something fimilar to this was the title of totius Angliæ
Aldermannus, in the Anglo-Saxon times.
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1
called Fagadune,* utterly routing their army, the remains
of which fleeing to Norwich, kept that city as long as they
could, but were at laſt conſtrained to give it up. Ordericus+
informs us farther, that after the above engagement, they cut
off the right foot of all they took alive, as a terror to others.
This act of cruelty was agreeable to the cuſtom of thoſe
times. In particular, in Stow's Annals we read, that
William the Conqueror himſelf uſed the ſame ſeverity to
feveral priſoners whom he took in the ifle of Ely. Bentham
in his Hiſtory and Antiquities of Ely, || fais he did this, that
they might remain living monuments of his diſpleaſure,
and be a terror to ſuch as preſumed to diſpute his authority.
THE Rouen Hiſtory juft quoted, § fais, Genereuſement
Willaume, & Richard, vont defployans la banniere en l'air, &
chargent vaillamment ces feditieux à Fagadun, & y demeurerent
victorieux; prindrent grand nombre de prifonniers, aufquels fans
y confiderer la difference des conditions, ils trancherent le pied
dextre à chacun d'eux, pour rendre reconnuz par céte marque
ceux-là qui chancellerent de leur deuoir, & auoient esté veus
manqueur de la fidelité deuë au Roy.
* In the Appendix to the fourth volume of Leland's Itinerary, p. 141, edit. 1742,
this battle is faid to have been fought near Cambridge; probably therefore at Faken-
ham in Suffolk, or the town of that name in Norfolk.
+ P. 535.
↑ P. 104.
|| P. 103.
§ P. 358.
PETER
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PETER LANGTOFT, * tells us, that the king was re-
quefted to come to England on this occafion.
“The ezle of Suzy fent Hacon Henzy fonne,
"He to William went, and praied him git eftlonne
"To com tille Inglond, or els alle he lefis,
Ageyn him wille men Gond, and partie till him chelis.”
THIS writer has erred in calling earl Warren, earl of
Surrey, but as he died about the beginning of the reign of
E. II. he might not know when this title was conferred.
AFTER this, fais Dugdale, when king William dif-
cerned, that Roger de Mortimer his general, upon a victory
obtained againſt the French, had privily fheltered in his
caſtle Raphe de Monte Defiderio, earl of Clarimont, to
whom the ſaid Roger was homager, and had fuffered him
afterwards to eſcape, though he was one of the king's ene-
mies, his caſtle of Mortimer was taken from him, and given
to earl Warren. Ordericus in the fpeech which he has
given us of king William I. to his fons William and Henry,
when he lay fick, has theſe words, Rodulfus comes caperetur,
nifi Rogerius princeps militiæ meæ illi fuffragaretur; hominium
enim jamdudum illi fecerat. In tali ergo neceffitate pulchrum
• Hearne's Edit. vol. I. p. 81.
+ Bar. vol. I. p. 73. ‡ P. 658.
E 2
illi
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illi & competens fervitium impendit, dum in caftro fuo illum
triduo protexit, & poftea falvum ad fua perduxit. Pro hac
offenfa, Rogerium de Normannia ejeci, fed paulo poft reconcili-
atus illi ceterum honorem reddidi. Caftrum tamen Mortui-maris,
in quo
inimicum meum falvavit, illi jure, ut reor, abftuli : fed
Guillelmo de Guarenna confanguineo ejus, tyroni legitimo dedi.
In king William's fpeech, as it is recorded in the hiſtory of
him printed at Rouen in 1626,* our earl is called "Un fidele
& vaillant homme Willaume de Varenne."
As it was common at this time for the great barons to
have their refidence in fortified places, this earl is ſaid to
have built the caftles of Holmefdale, or Reigate in Surrey,
Lewes in Suffex, and Caftle Acre in Norfolk; at the first of
thefe, as I find in an old M. S. he built a chapel for his
houſe which afterwards became the market ftede; but other
authorities fay that this chapel was within the caſtle. Cam-
den alfo obferves that there was here a wonderful vault
made of free ftone, the fame with that of the hill itſelf,
arched, and hollowed with great labor.
Richard Barnes,
Efq. of Reigate, has caufed the following infcription to be
cut on a gateway belonging to the caſtle there.
• P. 546.
NE
The Graffe.
H
B
The Graffe
G
F
A
The Castle-Court
The Graffe.
The Section of the Pass from A to C
The Section of the treat Room
at
Reigate in Surrey
I
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th
1785
A Scale of Chains
2

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SOUTH VIEW OF REIGATE CASTLE OTHERWISE CALLED HOLMESDALE CASTLE.
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Possession of Mr Barnes of Reigate
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NE
Willi Comitis WARREN'
Veteris hujufce loci Incolæ
Fidique Libertatum noftrarum Vindicis
MEMORIA
Temporum injuria
Cum ipfo Caftello
INTERCIDERET
Propriis R. B. Impenfis
H. P. E.
Anno MDCCLXXVII.
THE preſent ſtate of Reigate caſtle is repreſented in the an-
nexed plate. Some think there was a caftle here in the time
of the Saxons, but of this there is no proof, though it muſt
be confeffed that the filence of Domeſday-book is no argu-
ment in cafes of this fort. It has been long demolished,
for Lambarde fais that in his time were to be ſeen "the
ruyns and rubbiſhe of an olde caftle, which fome call
"Holmefdale." Under the caftle court here, is a remark-
able cave, cut in the fand, (not free ftone) and reprefented
in the engraved ground plan of this caftle. A, fhews the de-
ſcent into it by fteps from the caftle court to the depth of
eighteen feet, after which it goes down regularly without
ſteps to C, for twenty-fix feet more, and the whole length
from A to C, is two hundred and thirty-five feet. At C, the
arch
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arch is broken, and the cavity ftopt, which is fuppofed to
have made a private communication with the town.
At B,
is the entrance into the great room, by a paſs to E, of
twenty-four feet long, and five feet wide. The room itſelf is
one hundred and twenty-three feet long, thirteen feet wide,
and eleven feet high to the crown of the arch. Some benches
cut in the fand, remain round the end at F, which extended
the whole length of the room on both fides. G, ſhews the
manfion houſe, H, the round tower, and I, the tower at the
entrance.
TRADITION tells us, that in this large room the barons
met in council, before their conference with king John in
Runingmede, if fo, it was probably here that the particu-
lars contained in Magna Charta were agreed upon to be de-
manded. It goes by the name of the Barons' Cave.
I HAVE added likewiſe a ſouth view, improved from Buck,
of Caſtle Acre Caſtle, which had its name, either from its
ſtanding in a field, or from its containing juft an acre of
land within its walls. Spelman in his Icenia calls it "Caf-
"tellum in agro, quod è refurgente monte late profpicit
adjacentia-fed rudera tantum nunc oftendit. It ſeems
to have been ſtrong both by art and nature. The keep,
or citadel, which was circular, was defended on three fides,
by a deep ditch, and on the fouth fide by a ftrong wall,
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near which runs a fmall river. In the fecond volume of
Grofe's Antiquities are two views of it. Eaft and weſt pro-
ſpects alſo of it are publiſhed by W. Millicent, and en-
graved by E. Kirkall.
AT each of thefe caftles the earl refided occafionally, as
likewife at Coningſburgh in Yorkshire, as may be collected
from a paſſage in the foundation charter of Lewes Abbey.
This laſt very ancient caſtle, is faid to be the place, where
Aurelius Ambrofius flew Hengift the Saxon, who had here
very ſtrongly fortified himſelf. The name has been variouſly
written, but the plain meaning of it is the king's (or royal)
borough, which appellation it ſeems to have acquired either
in the Britiſh times, Geoffry of Monmouth calling it
Caerconan; or in the Saxon, as we find it deſcribed by the
name of Conanburghe; if the latter, it was probably ſo named
on account of its belonging to Harold, who was firft, earl of
the Weft-Saxons, and afterwards king of England. At
Harold's death it came into the hands of the Conqueror,
who gave it to earl Warren.
IN the record called Nomina Villarum, made 9 Edw. II.
1316, Comes Warrennæ was returned as holding the manor
of Conyngeſburgh and its various members, in the wapontake
of Strafford in Yorkshire, viz. Wermefworth, Herthill, Dal-
ton, Haytefeld, Sandale, Staynford, Clyfton, Bramley, and
Brayth-
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Braythwell. * It is at preſent the property of his grace
Thomas Oſborne duke of Leeds, who bought it in the year
1737, of the executors of Cooke, Efq.
LELAND in his Itinerary, fais that the caftel was ftonding on
a rokket of ſtone, and dichid. The waulles of it hath be ftrong,
and full of toures.
THE tower of this caſtle, is a cylindrical one, fupported by
fix buttreffes. The entrance, facing the fouth eaſt, is by a
flight of ſteps faid to have been placed there within memory.
The wall at the entrance (though not through one of the but-
treffes) is about fifteen feet thick. In the center of the floor,
which is an arch of ſtone, is a circular hole, more than a
yard in diameter, through which you may defcend by means
of a ladder, into what is called the dungeon, which is a
curious piece of maſonry, and the bottom of it level with
the ground. The arch over it, which is hemifpherical, is
of large aſhler ſtone, and the upper ſurface of the arch forms
a floor level with the entrance. From hence there is a way,
by an handſome ſtaircaſe in the wall, about five feet wide,
up to the fecond ftory (the third from the ground) where
that ſtaircaſe ends. And as there are no floors remaining in
the tower, except that formed by the arch over the dungeon,
the entrance of the ſecond ſtaircaſe (which is alfo in the
* From an autograph belonging to John-Charles Brooke of the college of arms, Efq.
wall)

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wall) muſt be come at by means of a ladder. This ſtaircaſe
alſo ends at the next ſtory, which is the fourth from the
ground. About two yards from the doorſtead at the head of
this ſtaircaſe, is another opening, nearly facing the eaſt,
which may be come at by treading on the ledge of the wall,
which diminiſhes about eight inches in thickneſs at every
ſtory, and thereby makes the rooms above, more capacious
than thoſe below. The diſtance between theſe two doorſteads
is fuch, that a man may juft fathom it with his arms; and
the paffage being compleated, it admits him into an handſome
room or chapel, about ten feet by twelve, and fifteen or fix-
teen feet high, arched over with free ftone, and the arches.
ſupported by ſmall circular columns of free ſtone, the capitals
of which, and the arches over them, are formed and orna-
mented in the Saxon tafte. It is enlightened by one window
facing the eaſt; and on each fide in the wall, about four feet
from the ground, is a ſtone bafon; each of theſe is perforated
with a hole at the bottom, in which is inferted an iron pipe
of about half an inch in diameter, to convey the water into
or through the wall. The chapel is in one of the buttreſſes,
but there is not the leaſt appearance of fuch a place from
without; for even the window, though it is large, and fpa-
cious enough within the chapel, is only one of thoſe long
narrow loop holes, which can ſcarcely be difcerned at that
height, by a perſon ſtanding at the outfide of the tower.
On the left-hand fide of this chapel, is a ſmall oratory, with
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a nich in the wall facing the entrance from the chapel. This
latter place is alſo enlightened by a long narrow window; and
the room, which may be about eight feet by fix, is in the
thickneſs of the wall, in that part which is not ſupported by
the buttreffes.
THE next ſtaircaſe, (the fourth from the ground) which is
about ten feet weftward from the door of the chapel, may be
come at by laying a plank acroſs a part of the ledges of the
wall; this leads to the top of the tower, and is ſtill carried
through the thickneſs of the wall. Each of theſe ftories is
about fifteen feet in height; if fo, the tower rifes about
ſeventy-five feet from the ground. The infide of this build-
ing forms a circle, whofe diameter may be about twelve
yards. The weight of the building is with great judgment
gradually leffened as it rifes, the walls at the top being little
more than three yards thick, though at the bottom they are
ſeven. There are feveral receffes arched over, which feem
to have been ftations for archers or other foldiers, and fmall
holes as if to ſhoot through. The roof of the tower is en-
tirely deſtroyed. The country people talk of a fine ſpring
of water at the bottom of the dungeon, but many tons of
ſtones are tumbled into it from the walls, fo that there is
no coming at the bottom.
THIS caftle at prefent belongs to his Grace Thomas Ofborne
duke of Leeds.
To

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Published at the Act direer August 2091785.
Was bestow'd by William the Conqueror
From
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WILLIAM EARL of WARREN.
a Drawing by W Williams in the Collection of the Rev. MWatson
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To affift the reader's ideas concerning this memorable place,
a plate is given of its ruins, and a view of the very beautiful
country in which it is fituated.
On the oppofite fide of the river to Coningsburgh, are the
remains of an old chapel, which goes by the name of the
Hermitage chapel; part of the walls of this, and one gable
end are ſtanding; but whether the earls of Warren had any
thing to do with it, does not appear.
AT what time earl Warren obtained the additional title of
earl of Surrey, has been matter of difpute. Camden in one
of the first editions of his Britannia, having faid, Gulielmum
comitem Warreniæ, Gulielmus Rufus Rex Angliæ, cum comitis
honore Surriæ primum præfecit; Ralph Brooke, York Herald,
replied, that it was William the Conqueror, and not William
Rufus, who conferred this honor upon him. In juftifica-
tion of this affertion, Camden produced the following ex-
tract from the foundation charter of Lewes, Donavi, &c.
pro falute Domini mei Willielmi regis qui me in Anglicam terram
adduxit, & pro falute Domine mee Matildis regine, matris
uxoris mee, & pro falute Domini mei Willielmi regis filii fui, poſt
cujus adventum in Anglicam terram hanc cartam feci, & qui
me comitem Surregie fecit. From hence it feems that Ley-
land* had been tempted to fay, Pene liquet Gul. de Warenna
• Collect. vol. I. p. 34.
F 2
factum
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factum fuiffe comitem Surregiæ non a Gul. patre, fed filio.
Brooke however, in fupport of the contrary opinion, obſerved,
ift. That as the earl gave for the health of the king, queen,
and the king's fon, all thoſe perfons must be living at the
making of that deed; for the ufe of donations, both in that
age and afterwards, as he fhewed by feveral charters, was for
the health of the living, and for the fouls of ſuch as were
dead. 2dly. That he gave for the health of William the
king's fon; but if William Rufus was the king's fon, then
not the king himfelf. 3dly. He referred to Stowe, who
avoucheth on the authority of William of Malmeſbury, and
Roger de Wendover, that William de Warren founded the
monaſtery of Lewes in 1072, 7 W. I. 4thly. He produced
the following quotation out of the ledger book of Lewes,
Willielmus de Warren primus comes Surr' & fundator ecclefie
Lewenn' diem fuum claufit extremum 8°. kl. Julii anno gracie
1088, & fundationis ecclefie predicte 11. & a conqueftu 23. Ifte
primo non vocabatur nifi folumodo Willielmus de Warren, poftea
vero, proceſſu temporis, a Willielmo Rege, & conqueftore Anglie
cujus filiam difponfavit, plurimum honoratus eft, atque comes
Surrie factus, & appellatus eft, &c. To this I remember
not that any anſwer was made by Camden, but Vincent in
his diſcovery of Brooke's Errors, fais that the words of the
foundation charter in the ledger book of Lewes were thefe.
Ego Willielmus de Warenna-pro falute anime mee, & anime
Gundrede uxoris mee, & pro anima Domini mei Willielmi regis
qui
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qui me in Anglicam terram adduxit, & pro falute Domine mee
Matildis regine matris uxoris mee, & pro falute Domini mei
Willielmi regis filii fui, poft cujus adventum in Anglicam terram
hanc cartam feci, & qui me comitem Surregie fecit, &c. The
book from whence this was taken, is called in a marginal
note "Lib. Priorat. de Lewes M.S." and is faid to have been
in the cuſtody of the earl of Dorſet in 1621.* This M.S.
Vincent fais he found was not made till about the time of
Henry V. and that the genealogy, or fucceflion of the founders
(out of which Brooke took his note) was a character of that
age, wherein the monks might very eafily be deceived, in
pointing at a creation fo long before, or the tranſcriber, who
wrote it into the book, omit a word, or a line (as he affirms
he did) and alter the reft. He alfo difcovered in the Exche-
quer, an old roll of the founders of Lewes, in which were
the following words, from whence appears the tranfcriber's
* THIS chartulary of Lewes Abbey is now in the Cotton Library in the British
Muſeum, under Vefpafian F. XV. It probably fell into the hands of the earl of
Dorfet, at the diffolution, as he had a grant from the crown of the priory fcite, and
there built an houfe with the old materials, which was foon afterwards burnt down,
and never rebuilt. Tanner in his Notitia Monaft. p. 553, calls it Nigrum Regiftrum
prioratus de Lerves quod fieri fecit Robertus Auncell prior, A. D. 1444, and fais that it
had formerly belonged to the earl of Dorfet, afterwards to Edward Byfhe, but that it
was given to the Cotton Library by Dr. Matthew Hutton. Tanner knew not its
place there, or he would not have omitted its reference, which was firft difcovered in
the emendations, and additions to Dr. Smith's Catalogue of the Cotton Library by
Cafley, p. 324. According to the above, Vincent has fixed the date of this M.S.
too high, as 1444 answers to 13 H. VI.
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fault, not only in omitting a line, but alfo in altering the
fenfe. Willielmus de Warenna primus comes Surregie & funda-
tor ecclefie Lewenfis, &c. Ifte primo non vocabatur comes,
fed folumodo Willielmus de Warenna, poftea vero, proceffu tem-
poris, a Willielmo Rufo filio regis & conqueftoris Anglie cujus
filiam defponfaverat, plurimum honoratus eft atque comes Sur-
regie factus, & appellatus eft. This author likewife has two
quotations from Ordericus, (who was an Engliſhman born,
and who wrote near thofe times) the firft of which fhews
that the Conqueror gave Surrey, not the earldom thereof to
this William---Guillelmo de Guarenna--- dedit Sutregiam,*
not comitatum Surregie. The other afferts that earl William
received this honor from king William Rufus, after he had
held his council at Wincheſter. The words are, Tunc
Guillelmus rex Guillelmum de Guarenna comitem Suthregie con-
ftituit quem paulo poft mors nulli parcens è medio rapuit. And
whereas Brooke had aſked how Gundred could have the
title, and name of countefs, unleſs her husband had been
an earl before fhe died, in the time of William the Conque-
ror, Vincent replied, that he might be countefs of Warren
in Normandy, though not of Surrey in England, and pro-
duced a copy of a monitory letter from the archbishop of
Canterbury, to Alice widow of the third earl of Surrey, to
ſupport his affertion, which letter will be taken notice of
hereafter.
» P. 522.
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THESE are the arguments which have been uſed in clear-
ing up this fubject; on which it may be remarked, that
Vincent, who was a diligent, and very accurate enquirer
into theſe things, feems to have had the advantage in the
difpute. What he has ſaid from the Exchequer roll, and
Ordericus, is full to the purpoſe, and ought to be admitted
till properly confuted. What is afferted in the former of
theſe, that primo non vocabatur comes, fed folumodo Willielmus
de Warenna is indeed not ſtrictly true, for the charter of the
firſt earl William in Lewes regiſter * calls him Will. comes
Warenn; and the fame title is given him in Domeſday-book,
both which were prior to his being made earl of Surrey.
In what manner king William I. enfeoffed this Norman
earl, cannot now be aſcertained, as no written evidence is
found relating to it. He was not however in fact an Eng-
liſh baron, till he was created earl of Surrey by king William
Rufus, notwithſtanding his name appears in the liſt of Mag-
nates 20 Will. I. printed at the end of Du Chefne's Collec-
tion of Normannic Hiftorians; for it was fufficient to put
a perſon on that lift if he held lands immediately of the
king, or in capite, though he had no actual pretenfions to a
barony. In Domefday-book for Suffex, under the title of
Terra Willi. de Warene, we find the burgh and whole rape
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of Lewes (which contains about a fixth part of the county)
belonging to him.
THIS burgh, ftrong by natural fituation, had been ren-
dered much more fo in the Anti-Normannic times, by a
caſtle, and two large artificial mounts, at the most acceffible
places, with broad and deep foffes cut round the fides of the
fteep aſcents, which partly furround the town. It was the
ftrong hold for the whole rape, in the Saxon times, when
the Daniſh deſcents upon our coafts made fuch places abfo-
lutely neceffary. Camden tells us, that William de Warren
firſt earl of Surrey, built a caſtle here, but perhaps he only
repaired or altered the old Saxon fortifications.
THE policy of parcelling out Suffex, and other maritime
counties facing Normandy, amongst the Conqueror's rela-
tions, and most trufty followers, arofe from the unfettled ftate
of the kingdom, and frequent infurrections of the Engliſh,
during his reign. Each of the fix rapes in Suffex had a
caſtle, river, and fea port, then acceffible by ſhipping,
though the fea hath fince confiderably withdrawn itſelf;
theſe, in cafes of neceflity, were fo many inlets for his
Norman, and other foreign auxiliaries. On this account, as
he had ready communication. with Normandy, by means of
the neighboring ſea port of Newhaven, and induced perhaps
by the fertility of the fouth Downs, where his great eſtate lay,
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refidence, and to have there founded his priory for Cluniac
monks; the former to force the fubjection, and the latter
to perfuade the obedience, and reform the rough manners
of the country; which accounts for his with in the founda-
tion charter hereafter mentioned, that his heirs would have
St. Pancrace for the head of their honor. The prefent remains
of this ſtrong caſtle, are here engraved from a view taken
at the Wall-lands, about a quarter of a mile's diſtance to
the north; and in another plate, is given a nearer fouth view
of the Keep of this caſtle, from St. Michael's church-yard.
The fine gateway to this building, being of more modern
date, and generally esteemed the work of the laſt John earl
Warren, an engraving of it is exhibited in the life of that
earl.*
THERE is fome little difficulty in underſtanding the
affertion of Ordericus, that William I. gave earl Warren the
county of Surrey; for we are told by feveral hiftorians that
this donation took place about the year 1070, or 1071, yet
the earl does not ſeem to have had any land there at the
time of the general ſurvey, which was compleated in 1086.
The best way perhaps of reconciling this, is to fuppofe, that
when the king bestowed the county of Surrey on this earl,
he made him governor thereof, in order that he might have
• For a farther account of this cattle, fee Grofe's Antiq. vol. III. and Buck's Views.
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an eye upon the inhabitants, of whom, (together with the
whole body of the Engliſh) the king was very jealous. What
contributed after this to raiſe the earl to fuch high ſteps of
honor, was his taking part with Rufus against his brother
Robert; for no fooner was this king fettled in his dominion,
by the great council of the peers which he caufed to meet
at Wincheſter, but he conferred many favors on the barons
his followers, to attach them the more clofely to his in-
tereft; and there it was that he gave to this William de
Warren the earldom of Surrey.
THE reafon, why this earl ftood fo firm to William againſt
his elder brother, feems in fome meaſure to be owing to the
perfuafions of archbiſhop Lanfrank, who had great intereft
with him, and was the king's moſt active friend. Let this
however be as it will, the new created earl of Surrey took
up arms in ſupport of Rufus's pretenfions; was with him at
the fiege of Rocheſter caſtle, (wherein were many gallant
men, and almoſt the whole nobility of Normandy;) and
when the king feemed determined to hang, and otherwiſe
put to death the garrison of that place, he, with others,
had the good fortune to perſuade him to pardon them, ac-
cording to the expreffion of thofe times, in life and limb.
THIS earl was a great man in religious matters, as they
were then underſtood, and his piety was made confpicuous,
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by the large fums of money which he laid out in erecting,"
and endowing religious houſes. The most memorable act
of this kind which he performed, was his founding (toge-
ther with his wife Gundred) in the old church of St. Pan-
crace, under the caftle at Lewes in Suffex, a priory, the
gateway of which is here engraved, with the eaſt and weſt
views of the ruins. Tanner in his Notitia Monaftica, fais this
was the first, and chiefeſt houſe of the Cluniac order in
England. The prefent remains of this priory, conſiſt only of
the out offices in the lower area. The magnificence of the
priory church and chapter houfe, and the various grand
apartments uſual in fuch foundations, can only be gueffed
at, by what Portmarus has told us of the dimenfion of this
church, in his letter to lord Cromwell, publiſhed in Willis's.
Hiſtory of Mitred Abbies, vol. II.* not one ftone being left
upon another, to point out the place where they ſtood; the
whole upper area, being now become a plain ſmooth paſture,
and nothing left but thefe offices, and the outer walls which
furround the fcite, and form an oblong fquare containing
about forty acres. + The above letter fhews that the length
of the church was one hundred and fifty feet, the height
fixty-three feet, the circumference of it one thouſand five
hundred and fifty eight feet; and that there were in the
Fol. 26, ad finem.
+ A farther account of this place may be ſeen in Grofe's Antiq. vol. III. There
is alfo in Buck's Views a fouth profpect of this priory.
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church thirty-two pillars, ftanding equally from the walls
of theſe, eight fupported the bells which hung in the mid-
dle of the church, and were forty-two feet high, alſo thir-
teen feet thick, and forty-five feet in circumference; the
other twenty-four were moftly ten feet thick, twenty-five
about, and eighteen feet high. The height of the roof be-
fore the high altar, was ninety-three feet; the middle of the
church one hundred and five feet, and the height of the
ſteeple at the front, ninety feet. The prior of this houſe
was accounted high chamberlain to the Abbat of Cluni,*
and was often his vicar general in England, Ireland, and
Scotland. From the foundation charter, we learn that
this earl William, and Gundred his wife, in their way to
Rome, called at many monaſteries in France and Burgundy,
for the fake of exercising their devotions therein, but hear-
ing in Burgundy that they could not fafely proceed that
way, on account of the war between the Pope, and the Em-
peror, they turned off to the great Cluniac monaſtery of
St. Peter, where, in the abfence of the Abbat, they were
fo taken with the religious behavior, and the hofpitality of
the prior and convent, who received them into their fociety
and fraternity, that they began to have a greater regard for
that order and houſe, than any other which they had feen;
and having long had an intention, through the advice of
Lanfrank the archbishop, to erect a religious houfe for the
+ Monaft. vol. I. p. 615.
Rymer, vol. II. p. 464.
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pardon of their fins, and the ſaving of their fouls, they re-
queſted of Sir Hugh the Abbat, and the reſt of the religious
there, to fend over two, or three, or four monks of their
body, on whom they might beftow the church of St. Pan-
crace, under the caſtle of Lewes, (which from a wooden
one, they had rebuilt of ftone) together with lands, &c.
fufficient for the fuftentation of twelve monks; but the
Abbat was at firft averse to the granting this petition, on
account of its being at ſo great a diſtance in a foreign land,
and chiefly becauſe of the fea; but after liberty was obtained
of the king for introducing the Cluniac monks into England,
he thought proper to fend over Sir Lanzo with three others
of his convent, to whom all was given which was promiſed;
the deed or writing relating to the fame, after receiving the
royal confirmation, having before been tranfmitted to Cluni
as the monks there required. After the death however of
king William I. and the coming of his fon king William II.
into this realm, in order to obtain the crown, fuch dif-
tractions of ſtate aroſe thereupon, that the earl's life was
daily in danger, on which Sir Lanzo the prior, and his
monks, repreſented to him that the charter of their privi-
leges was at Cluni, and that they had no muniment of the
fame in their own poffeffion; that he ought therefore, as
well becauſe the times were doubtful, as to guard against
future contingencies, to give them all the fecurity in his
power; which by the advice of his faithful counſellors he
did,
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did, to this purpofe; namely, that he William de Warren
earl of Surrey gave, and confirmed to * God and St. Peter,
and the Abbat and convent of Cluni, the church of St.
Pancrace, fituated under his caftle of Lewes, and to the
fame St. Pancrace, and the Cluniac monks, ferving God in
the ſaid church for ever; for the health (or fafety) of his
foul, and the foul of Gundred his wife, and for the foul of
king William, who brought him into England, and through
whoſe licence he procured the faid monks to come over, and
who had alſo confirmed his former donation; for the health
likewiſe of queen Maud, mother of his wife, and for the
health of king William her fon, after whoſe coming into
England he (the earl) made this charter, (of confirmation)
and who (meaning king William Rufus) created him earl of
Surrey; and for the health (or fafety) of all his heirs, and
all faithful chriftians living and dead; for the ſuſtentation
of the faid monks of Pancrace, a manfion called Falemele,
with all which he had in demefne there, and an hide of
• SIR HENRY SPELMAN, in his Treatife of ancient deeds, and charters, obferves that
it was ordinary in ancient times, to make grants to perfons intellectual, and invifible,
as God himſelf, the bleffed Trinity, the church, the apostles, faints, &c. who had
been long dead; but after the times of Henry III. (as he obſerves with little delicacy
of expreffion) God's omnipotency was in point of law diſabled to purchaſe, or to take
by grant, &c. and ſo alſo was the ſpouſe the church; for the law thinks it no reaſon
that the wife ſhould be in a better condition than her huſband. The whole army of
faints were likewife difabled.
land
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land which one Euftace held in * Burgamele, (now called
Bormer) belonging to the faid manfion; the manſion alſo
called Carlenton, which queen Maud gave to him, and his
wife Gundred, and which king William granted, and con-
firmed as an aid, or affiftance, in eftabliſhing the earl's new
monks; five hides alfo, and an half in Swambergh, and the
land called the island near the monaftery, with meadows and
paftures, and all the land which he had in demefne within
the iſland in which the monaftery was fituated, with a mill
upon the adjoining pool, with an houfe called Lewins,
ſtanding without the walls of the town; the land alſo which
was one Norman's, a virge of land called Redrewell, and
another called Stanforde. In Waſteden two hides, four
villains, and one meadow; the tithes alfo of his lands, and
particularly thofe which Richard the prefbyter held for his
life, to be enjoyed by the faid monks at his death. He
granted alfo all the tithes which his men had given, or
should give there. Afterwards he gave them Walton + with
all the free men which Gundred held of him there, with a
manfion, and whatever he had between the two waters of
Lime, and Welleſtream, in lands, marshes, paſtures, and
• THIS and the above Falemele fhould have been Falemere, and Burgamere, but
the Lewes register has the fame mifnomers.
+ Ir is thus expreſſed in the Monaſt. vol. II. p. 909. Will. comes primus concedente
filio fuo fecundo comite dedit nobis pro anima Gundredæ uxoris fuæ Waltunam.
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waters, with men, and all their fervices, and all other things;
reſerving however two entertainments to himſelf, and heirs,
yearly, one in going into Yorkshire, and the other in re-
turning; and if they were entertained there more than twice
in one year, they engaged at the peril of their fouls to pay
for the fame, at the end of the year, charging the heirs who
fhould follow, not to infringe that charity, as they would
be faved in the day of judgment.
He alſo gave them the church of Acre, with two caru-
cates of land, where he and Gundred had purpoſed to build
a monaftery, and houfes; and place monks from thoſe at
Pancrace, to which Sir Lanzo had confented, yet fo that
the prior and monks of Acre fhould always be ſubject to,
and at the appointment of thofe of St. Pancrace. This the
earl meant to do, if God fpared him life and health; and
if he was not able to perform it himſelf, his will was that
his heir ſhould compleat it; likewife that whatever chari-
ties his heirs fhould eſtabliſh, they would make them fub-
ordinate to St. Pancrace, and always have St. Pancrace the
head of their honor, and there be buried with him, where
his wife Gundred then lay. All theſe donations the earl
gave to God, St. Pancrace, and the monks there ferving
God, his wife Gundred being alive, and conſenting, toge-
ther with William and Reginald his fons, and heirs; but
the ſecond deed (or deed of confirmation) was made after
the faid Gundred's death; and after her deceafe, he alſo
gave
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gave to the faid monks, for her foul, his own foul, and
thoſe of his heirs, a manfion in Norfolk called Hecham,
the whole which he had there with the land of Pagan the
Reeve, and all the free men whofe tax the faid Pagan there
received. This gift he would have his heirs to hold firm
and good, becaufe both king William (the II.) and his
father had confirmed it.
AFTER this follows a declaration, that all the above
donations were made to the faid monks for ever, as free and
clear from all caufes, cuftoms, and fervices, as the earl
himſelf had held them, or any other free man could hold
his eftate, or beftow the fame in charity; and that if the
king ſhould require either hidage, danegeld, or any other
geld, fervice, or thing from them, the earl and his heirs
fhould acquit them of the fame; as alfo they thould againſt
the claims of all others. And if any difpute, quarrel, or
injury fhould arife between the men of St. Pancrace, and the
earl, or his men, fatisfaction fhould be made by the earl to
the prior, that the religious might come to no harm; and
his heirs were required to do the fame; and if either he, or
his heirs ſhould add any thing to the above gifts, they were
to do it in as free a manner as the above. He next fubjoins
fome good wiſhes for the profperity of the monks, feverely
curfing thoſe who ſhould do any damage to his gifts, or
thoſe which his heirs fhould make, and praying for fuch
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as protected, or made additions to the fame. He willed alfo
his monks, and heirs to know, that when he and Gundred
requeſted of Sir Hugh the Abbat, who came to ſpeak with
the king in Normandy, that he would fend them Sir Lanzo
the Prior, whom he had kept for a whole year at Cluni,
infomuch that they had almoft refolved to drop the under-
taking, or take the church from them, and give it to a
greater monaftery, the faid Abbat had granted, after much
intreaty, a writing under his feal, that if God ſhould give
any increaſe to the houſe (at Lewes) he would make it as one.
of the great ones, after the death or promotion of Sir Lanzo.
When the monks of St. Pancrace fhould apply to Cluni for
a Prior, he would fend them one of his beft monks, fuch as
was known to be fitteft for the office, who fhould never be
removed without a juft, and manifeſt cauſe. And theſe things
they required, becauſe they were afraid that Sir Lanzo would
foon be taken from them; for the king preferred the beſt of
the clergy to church dignities, and in the earl's hearing had
requeſted of the Abbat to fend him twelve of his monks,
whom he would make bishops, and abbats; and they were
of opinion, that if the houſe thus newly erected, and weak,
ſhould often change its Prior, it would not riſe to any ad-
vantage. And becauſe they were unwilling that their tha-
ritable donation ſhould ever be changed into a fecular fervice,
it was then agreed between them and the Abbat, that fifty
fhillings of Engliſh money ſhould yearly be paid thence to
Cluni,
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Cluni, and ſo it ſhould be free from all fervice, exaction,
and geld. The Abbat was alfo not to come in above the
Prior concerning the government of the houſe, unleſs in
watching over, or reforming the order, when the Prior
could not reform it. And the fame concerning the houſes
which ſhould be fubordinate to that of St. Pancrace, which
the Prior and Convent there ſhould hold as free as they
were given to them. This was fo ordered, becauſe there
was an intention of building an houfe at Caftle Acre, and
placing monks therein, who ſhould be ſubject to no other
but St. Pancrace.
THE above deed of confirmation was made, in order to be
witneſſed by the king in council at Wincheſter, by making
the fign of the croſs with his own hand, and by the figns,
and teftimonies of the bishops, earls, and barons there
prefent.
THE original foundation deed which was lodged at Cluni,
was made about 1077, for in that year Sir Lanzo is faid to
have come over. * The fecond or confirmation charter about
1087; what therefore is faid by William of Malmſbury,
and Roger de Wendover, that this monaftery was founded
in 1072, ought perhaps to be underſtood of the time when
• Monaft. vol. I. p. 639.
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it began to be built, * The latter of theſe charters (which
includes the fubftance of the former) may be feen either in
the Monafticon, or in a M.S. in the Herald's office, written
by Vincent, and marked Quid non No. 6.†
Ar the back of p. 3, and at p. 4 of the Lewes regiſter, is
the following charter of this earl.
&
ÕIBUS pres. & fut. Notum fit quod ego Willus Com. Warenn:
dono concedo & hac carta mea confirmo Deo & Sco Panccio &
Mochis apud Lewes comorantibus & ibm Deo & Sco Panccio
fervientibus in lib. pur. & perpet. elemofinam oes tras & oia ten.
que bent de feudo meo cujufcunque donacois fint libera foluta &
quieta imperpet. ab oibus donis & auxiliis & confuet. & querel.
& oibus fervic. Quod fi rex ab hiis fupdcis ter. ten. five in
bidagio five in ſcutagio five in Danegeld aut aliis geldis five ali-
qua alia exaccoe aliquod debitum vel reddicoem here voluerit ego
& her. mei de nro proprio quieta & libata ea faciemus imp.
Eorum eciam paci & quieti inpofterum pvidere cupiens volo ut oia
ad ipfos mochos & eor. boies ptinencia ita liba fint & quieta &
omis exacconis immunia imperp. per tot. ter. meam ficut mea
propria & ut in oibus rebus & hoibus fuis poïa idem heant quod
• In Leland's Collectanea, vol. I. p. 238, William Counte Guarine, is ſaid to
have foundid the prioric of Lewis, the XII yere after the conqueft, in the yere of our
Lord 1072, but furely this ought to have been 1078.
† P. 209.
ego
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care.
ego ibi herem fi michi ea retinuiſſem & fi boies Sci Pancii contra
me & hedes meos vel boies nros comiferint unde emendacoem &
forisfacturam bere debeamus Prior Sci Pancii eam pro nobis acci-
piet & habebit imp. Dono & concedo & confirmo deis mochis oes
ecclias cum pert. fuis & oes decias quas habent vel habituri funt
de feudo meo cujufcunque donacois fint liberas & quiet. imp. ut
quomodocunque terre mutentur ecclie femp. & decie lib. quiete &
integre mochis remaneant ita ut nec in ipis eccliis aliquod jus pa-
tronatus aut in ipis decis aliquod juris poffit aliquis alius vendi-
Dono quoque imp. eifdem mochis deciam oium denarior.
meor. de oibus reddit. meis & aliis undecumque pert. et volo ut
ficut crefcunt redditus & proventus mei fic femper decime mona-
chor. & fine dilone eis reddantur et plenar. deciam de oibus
domcis meis viz. de blado de feno de porcell. de agnis de vellerib.
de cafeis de molend. de pifcar. & de oibus aliis rebus meis de qui-
bus decie dari folent & debent & apud Decheninges lib. paftur.
oibus averiis & animal. fuis cum averiis & animal. meis ubicunque
pafcant hoies autem ipfor. mochor. qui refident apud Dichening
heant paftur. de aver. & animal. fuis in oibus past. quibus
coicant hoies mei Volo eciam & firmiter precipio ubi oes boies mei
qui decias fuas mochis predict. dederunt vel qui daturi ſunt per-
mittant eis ferre quocumque voluerint fine omni contradicoe &
impedimento Si quis vero huic juffioni inde non obedierit fed con-
tradixerit fciat pro certo quod eandem vindi&tam & jufticiam &
forisfa&turam de eo ego & her. mei accipiemus ac fi de barreis
noftris propriis eas abftuliffet Preterea dono concedo & confirmo
imp.
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imp. fupradi&t. mochis in villa de Lewes totum mercatum ligno-
rum ad lignarium fuum faciend. tribus diebus in feptimana fcil.
in die Martis & in die Jovis & fabbato a die fanct. Pentecoſt.
ufq. ad feft. S. Petri ad vincula & poft idem feftum comune mer-
catum cum hoibus de Lewes fi neceffe habuerint de carnib. vero &
pifcib. & oibus aliis reb. quas ad emend. evenerint & emere volu-
erint ad opus fuum & hofpitum fuor. non tantummodo in villa de
Lewes fcil. & apud Saford & per totam ter. meam in oibus locis
ubi forus habetur Dono eifdem mochis ut omni die imp. primum
Semper habeant mercatum fine omni contradicoe & impedimento
poftquam ad opus meum & her. meor. fufficienter fuerit emptum
Dono nec non imp. memoratis mochis poteftatem piſcandi in oibus
aquis meis provincie de Lewes ad magna anniverſaria viz. comi-
tum & comitiffar. Warenn. & ad anniverf. priorum fuor. & ad
magna feſta & ad magnos hofpites & ad fratres fuos mochos in-
firmos miniftro qui cuftodit aquam femper prefente Oes autem has
donacoes conceffiones & confirmacoes meas Deo & Sco Panccio &
mochis fupradict. factas firmiter precipio her. meis fub periculo
animar. fuar. inviolabiliter fervare imp. Teftes funt Willus
comes Cyceftrie, &c.
1
Rowe in his M.S. hiftory of the barony and borough of
Lewes, in the reigns of Eliz. James, and Charles, fais he
had ſeen the priory ſeal of Lewes, annexed to a deed granted
by the prior and convent in chapter affembled, to one Stephen
a Ridge, 6. June, 27 H. VIII. and that it had the Warren's
arms
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arms on one fide, and thoſe of the borough of Lewes on the
other; with the legend, Sigillum comune priozis et con-
ventus monafterii Scti Pancalii de Lewes. The arms of
Lewes borough were checky or and azure, on a finifter canton
gules, a lion rampant argent, femè of cross crosslets of the fecond.
Theſe with the legend Sigillum comune buzgi de Lewes
may be ſeen in the fourth plate of feals, No. 5.
SEP". 21, 1397 Richard earl of Arundel was executed in
London, on which Lewes was granted by the crown to his
fon in law Thomas Mowbray duke of Norfolk, &c. who in
1398 confirmed the old charter of Lewes, as may be ſeen on
the back of p. 34 of the priory regifter there; and it is
probable that in compliment to their new lord, the prior and
burgeffes added his coat in a canton to their former arms.
IN Philipot and Owen's Vifitation of Suffex in 1634, is
a ſketch of what they call The common feal of the auncient
borough of Lewes, with a note that the lord Delaware had
fome participation of liberties, whereupon, as is conceived, this
feal was invented to exprefs as much; but to this miſtake they
ſeem to have been led, by the fimilarity of the arms of
Delaware and Mowbray, differing only in this that the croſs
crofslets in the former are fitched; alfo by certain eftates in
the neighboring rape of Bramber, being granted 1 Hen. VII.
to the lord Delaware, on the forfeiture of John duke of
Norfolk,
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
Norfolk, flain at Bofworth field. The regrant of theſe
10 Hen. VII. at that king's request, for a fum of money,
to the earl of Surrey, then reftored in blood, may be feen
in Madox's Formulare Anglicanum, CCCLII.
THIS earl laid alfo the foundation of a priory for Cluniac
monks, near Caftle Acre in Norfolk, to be fubordinate to the
houfe of Lewes, (as mentioned above) which was begun on
or before the year 1085. From the grant relating to this,*
it appears that the earl, for the good of his foul, and the
fouls of his father and mother, and heirs, gave and confirmed
to God, and St. Mary de Acre, and the monks there ferving
God, the church of Acre, with all things, and liberties
thereto belonging, and the churches of Methewolde, and
Roinges, or Ledenechirch, with the advowfons thereof; and
the churches of Wikemer, and Trunchet, and two parts of
his tithes in the vill of Grimeftune, in free, and perpetual
charity; the witneffes to which were William his fon, Wimer
the dapifer, Geoffry the chaplain, William Branche, Waukelin
de Rofeto, Hugh de Wanci, and Robert de Mortimer.
THE arms of this priory were argent a cross checky, or and
azure, (in allufion to thofe of the earl) between twelve cross
crosslets fitchè fable.
• Monaft. vol. I.
p. 624-
DUGDALE
WARREN AND SURREY.
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DUGDALE fais
that he gave to the monks of St. Mary
in York the ifle of Henes; this note he took from the
+
Monafticon,+ where alfo are the words, & pifcarias ejus. But
what he fais farther of his gifts to the monks of Boxgrave, he
has miſtaken for thoſe of the earl of Suffex, as will appear from
charters in the Monafticon. In that book § we are told
that this earl was prefent at laying the foundation of the
abbey of St. Mary; on which occafion he probably made this
grant, as he died in the ſame year 1088.
LASTLY, Dugdale fais that to the lands in Suffex where-
with he at firſt endowed the priory of Lewes, he added the
churches of Cuningſburgh, and feveral others in Yorkshire,
there mentioned, but this was the act of his fon, as will ap-
pear in the profecution of theſe memoirs.
THIS earl married Gundred the fifth daughter of king
William I. with whom, according to fome accounts, he
had the manor of Wakefield in Yorkshire, to which Halifax
was an appendage; but this cannot be true, becauſe in
Domeſday-book, which was only finished in 1086 (about
two years before the earl's death, and after the deceafe of
* Bar. vol. I. p. 74.
+ Vol. I. p. 389,
The whole grant of this is in the Monaft. vol. I. p. 406. || Vol. I. p. 592, &c.
+ Bar. vol. I. P. 74.
§ P. 385.
VOL. I.
I
Gundred)
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Gundred) this manor, with the nine berewics thereto be-
longing, are ſaid to be in the king's hands.* Brooke in his
Catalogue of Nobility, has given us a different, but not more
correct account of her marriage portion, when he tells us
that the earl had with her all Chirkland, Bromfeld and Yale;
for theſe lordſhips were given to the family by king Edw. I.
as will be fhewn hereafter.
* THE nine berewics here alluded to, were, according to a fac fimile extract from
the original record, in my own poffeffion, Sandala, Sorebi, Werla, Fefley, Micheie,
Wadefuurde, Crubetoneftun, Langefelt, Stanesfelt. Sunt ad geld. LX car. ter. & III
bov. & tercia pars unius bov. Hanc terram pofs. arare XXX caruce. Hoc manerium
fuit regis Edw. in dominio, modo in manu regis, funt ibi IIII villani & III pbri & II
ecclefie & VII fochem. & XVI bordar. fimul habent VII car. Silva pafc. VI leug.
long. & IIII leug. lat. T. R. E. LX lib. val. modo XV lib.
AD hoc manerium pertinet foca harum ter. Crigeſtone X bov. Bretone I car. Orberie
II car. & VII bov. Olefet III car. & dim. Ettone I car. Stanleie III car. Scellintone
VI bov. Ameleie III car. Cheteruurde VI car. Bertone III car. Seppeleie II car. Scell-
neleie I car. Cumbreuurde I car. Croſland I car. Inter omnes funt ad geld. XXX car.
quas poffunt arare XX car. Nunc wafte funt preter Crigeftone Orberie ubi funt IIII
fochem. & I villanus & III bordarii cum IIII car. & in Oflefet IIII vill. & III bordar.
cum II car. In Bretone filva paſc. I leug. long. & dim. lat. In Orberie filva paſc. III
quarent, long. & III lat. In Oflefet filva pafc. dim. leug. long. & tantund. lat. Preter
hec funt ad geld. II car. II holne & altera holne & Alftaneſleie & Thoac. Hanc terram
poteft I car. arrare. Waft eft Silva per loca. Hanc alii dicunt effe Tainland alii focam
in Wachefeld.
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Within this Pew ftands the Tomb-Stone
of GUNDRAD, Daughter of William the
Conqueror, & Wife of William, the firſt
Earl of Warren, which having been depofited
over her Remains in the Chapter-Houfe
of Lewes Priory,& lately difcovered
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THIS Gundred died in child-bed (vi partûs cruciata, fais
the regiſter of Lewes) at Caſtle Acre, May 27, 1085, and
was buried in the chapter houſe of the priory of Lewes.
THE grave-ftone which once covered her remains, was
diſcovered a few years ago by William Burrel, Efq. LL.D.
and F.S. A. in an arch of the Shirley chancel belonging to
the parish church of Isfield in Suffex, about feven miles from
Lewes, by whoſe favor an accurate engraving of it is infert-
ed in this work. It is of black marble, and was placed over
the tomb of Edward Shirley, Efq. who died March 16, 1558,
and was fon of John Shirley of the manor of Isfield, clerk of
the kitchen to king Henry VII. and cofferer to king Henry
VIII. How it came there, is not eafy to fay; perhaps the
family of Shirley, who were lords of the manor of Isfield,
cauſed it to be removed to Isfield, from the conventual
church of Lewes, when that church was pulled down at the
diffolution of the priory there, in order to preſerve it as a
curiofity. However that was, it here found protection from
the undiſtinguiſhing zeal of reformation, which exerted its
utmoſt force on that noble, but devoted foundation of Lewes
priory; as may particularly be feen in the letter of John
Portmarus already mentioned.* It is much to be lamented
that the inhabitants of Lewes did not fave the venerable
edifice of St. Pancrace church, like thoſe of St. Albans,
* Willis on Mitred Abbies, vol. II. fol. 26.
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who,
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who, on the monks being turned out, purchaſed their grand
abbey church of the government, for four hundred pounds,
and made it parochial.*
By the conſent of Sir Robert Smyth, Bart. and John
Ratcliffe, Efq. (the reprefentatives of the Shirleys of Isfield,
and owners of the chancel belonging to that family) this
monumental ftone was removed October 2, 1775 to the veftry
pew of the church of St. John Baptiſt Southover, near Lewes,
as nearest to its original fituation, where a proper cafe or
ſhrine is provided for its preſervation at Dr. Burrel's expence;
an engraving of which is here given, together with the
tablet which directs the ftranger's eye to the place where this
curiofity is to be feen. It was intended to have replaced it
over the ſpot where the body was depofited, but that could
not be diſcovered, the foundations of the old chapter houſe
being fo effectually removed, that the fite of it is not now
certainly known.
THE work of this monument, which is fculptured in very
high relief, fhews the hand of a very able artiſt for that time.
The fize of it is five feet five inches long, to the break in the
bottom of it, two feet broad at the head, and twenty inches
broad at the feet.
• Camden's Britannia, Edit. 1753, vol. I. p. 355.
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WARREN AND SURREY.
61
THE Infcription (as much as remains of it) runs thus :
<<
Stirps Gundrada ducum decus evi nobile germen
"Intulit ecclefiis Anglorum balſama morum
" Martir
uit miſeris fuit ex pietate Maria
"Pars obiit Marthe fupereft pars magna Marie
"O pie Pancrati tes
et equi
"Te facit heredem tu clemens fufcipe matrem
"Sexta kalendarum Junii lux obvia carnis
"FFregit alabaftrum*
THE earl died June 24, 1088, and was buried in the fame.
place with his wife, agreeable to his declaration in the charter
of Lewes. Ordericus therefore is miſtaken, when + he fais,
Præfati confulis filii Guillelmus, & Rainaldus cum Gundreda
matre fua fuccefferunt, & fub Guillelmo, atque Henrico Angliæ
regibus, probitate & potentia diu claruerunt.
A TOMB of white marble is faid to have been erected over
him, on which was the following infcription. +
* THERE is no doubt but the fourth line in this epitaph began with Martha fuit
miferis, and perhaps the words wanting in the fixth line were teftis pietatis, but the
third and laft line can only be gueffed at. There are evident miſtakes in the pointing
of the original, for which reafon I have omitted the fame.
+ P. 680.
↑ Lewes regiſter, p. 132.
"Hic
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"Hic Guillelme comes, locus eft laudis tibi fomes,
""
Hujus fundator, & largus fedis amator.
"Ifte tuum funus decorat, placuit quia munus
(C
Pauperibus Chrifti, quod prompta mente dedifti.
"Ille tuos cineres fervat Pancratius hæres,
"Sanctorum caftris, qui te fociabit in aftris,
66
Optime Pancrati, fer opem te glorificanti ;
Daque poli fedem, talem tibi qui dedit ædem."
THIS encomium, the monks of St. Pancrace, who were
fed by his bounty, thought fit to pay him, whilſt thoſe of
Ely, with whom he was at variance about fome lands, were
blackening his reputation as much as they could. It is re-
ported (fais Dugdale,* referring to the regiſter of the church
of Ely in the Bodleian library) that this earl William did
violently detain certain lands from the monks of Ely, for
which being often admonished by the Abbat, and not making
reftitution, he died miferably; agreeable to what we read in
the life of Simeon, ninth Abbat of Ely, as abftracted by
Leland in his Collectanea, † Gul. comes Warenne miferabili
morte periit hoc tempore propter terras ablatas a monafter.
Elienfi. This difpute was carried on for near a century.
Richard the prior of Ely, in his hiftory of that houfe, ||
fais, Papa (Hadrianus) mandavit (Nigello Epifcopo Eliens.)
* Bar. vol. I. p. 74.
+ Tom I. part II. p. 596.
+ Wharton's Ang. Sacra, vol. I. p. 611.
|| Wharton, p. 627.
quod
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63
quod fi comes Willelmus Warenne, comes de Clare, comes Albe-
marla, Gaufredus Martelli, Hen. filius Geroldi, Rob. filius
Unfridi, & Johannes de Port, bonorum prefatæ ecclefie deten-
tores fuerint, eos ftuderet diligentiffime convenire, ut omnes
poffeffiones Elyenfis ecclefiæ, quas per violentiam, & contra
juftitiam, ficut dicitur, detinere præfumunt, in integrum, fi ita
eft, poftpofita omni occafione, & excufatione reftituant. Quod
fi facere contempferint, eos ex tunc, omni appellatione ceffante
auctoritate fua (Papa) excommunicationis vinculis aftringeret,
& ipfos tanquam membra Diaboli ab omnibus parochanis fuis
ufque ad condignam fatisfactionem faceret evitari. Dat. Late-
rani 17 cal. Feb. This was in the reign of king Hen. II.
WHETHER this popish thunderbolt did any execution in
its fall, does not appear, unleſs a conclufion of this fort may
be drawn from what is faid in the Anglia Sacra,* that the
monks of Ely were to have yearly one mark for a pittance,
on the anniverſary of Euftace the bishop, and that twenty
fhillings fhould on the fame day be laid out for the uſe of
the poor, out of the hundred fhillings rent of land (100
folidatis terræ) in Berkyngham, and the parts thereof, which
the faid Euftace obtained of Hameline earl Warren.
The monks of Ely feem to have given the firſt occafion to
this difpute, for Thurftan the feventh Abbat there, and his
P. 634.
convent,
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convent, confederating with ſeveral great men, fortified the
ifle of Ely (which belonged to them) againſt king William I.
who was therefore adviſed to ſeize all the lands, and goods
belonging to that monaftery, which lay without the ifle, and
to divide them amongst his foldiers, which he did, and of
theſe earl Warren had a fhare.* This acquifition, the earl
did not think himſelf bound to restore without fome re-
compence, though the monks had given the king a thou-
fand marks for reftitution of what he had taken ; and in
this he was not fingular, for the families of Clare, Albe-
marle, and the reſt above-mentioned, kept other eſtates from
them, beſtowed on the fame occafion. But as if earl
Warren had the greateſt ſhare, or was on fome other account
the moſt obnoxious to them, we find in their regiſters, fuch
entries made, to render him odious to pofterity, as nothing
but the rankeſt malice, joined with an utter difregard to
truth, could fuggeft. They have recorded, though his
death happened very far from the iſle of Ely, that the fame
night he died, the Abbat lying quietly in his bed, and me-
• Morant's Effex, vol. I. p. 465, and 467.
In the Appendix to Bentham's Hiftory of Ely, is a writing of king William the
Conqueror, directed to Gosfride the Biſhop, and Robert earl of Moriton, to fummon
William de Warren, and others, to answer the Abbat of Ely on this fubject, pro-
mifing that if any one kept lands from the abbey, of the King's gift, he would give
fomething in exchange for them; but I do not find that much was done in confequence
thereof.
!
ditating
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65
ditating on heavenly things, heard the earl's foul, as the
devil carried it away, cry out loudly, and with a known, and
diſtinct voice, repeatedly, Lord have mercy on me! And that
the next day, the Abbat acquainted all the monks in chap-
ter therewith; and likewife, that about four days after,
there came a meffenger to them from the wife of this earl,
with an hundred fhillings for the good of his foul, who
told them, that he died the very hour in which the Abbat
heard that outcry; but that neither the Abbat, nor any of
the monks would receive it, not thinking it fafe for them to
take the money of a damned perfon. How ridiculous!
And how ill contrived is this ftory, when the earl's lady died
three years before him! The characters of the monks them-
felves ſtand not in the faireft light, for Stow* has informed
us, that feeing the miferies of themſelves, and the whole
ifland, they told the king, that if he would reftore to the
abbey their poffeffions, he might have fure entrance into the
iſle, which he granted, and commanded William de Warren,
and Gilbert de Clare, that they fhould become pledges for
the fame; on this, the Abbat inftructed Gilbert de Clare,
and earl Warren, of the manner of the rebellion, willing
them not to fear for the often repulfe of the enemies, for
they thould have his counfel and help; immediately after
which, we hear of the king's fuccefs. But at the ſame time
that they were deceiving their friends, they were deceived
VOL. I.
* P. 104.
K
them-
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themſelves, for the king contrived to begin a freſh quarrel
with them, and though they paid large fums of money, they
could not get poffeffion of what had been taken from them.
THIS earl had by Gundred his wife two fons, and three
daughters, whofe names were William, Reginald, Gundred,
Edith, and
THE names of theſe two fons occur in the foundation
charter of Lewes,* Reginald is faid by Philipott, in a M.S.
in the Herald's office marked Stemmata No. 75, and dif-
tinguiſhed by a mullet on the back, to have born for his coat
armor, checky or and azure within a plain bordure gules;
though in Vincent's Cheshire in the above office, No. 120,
as alſo in the pedigree belonging to Sir George Warren,
the bordure is ingrailed. Another M. S. in the ſaid office,
(which, as I remember, had no title) fais he bare his father's
arms with a bar gules in medio, but not charged with the
efcutcheon argent, and the bend gules, as in the ſouth-west
window of the priory of Southwark. Segar in his Baronagium
Genealogicum M.S. now in the hands of Jofeph Edmondſon,
Efq. Mowbray Herald extraordinary, fais, Warren of
Wirmgay bore checky or and azure a labal of five points gules;
I have alſo ſeen attributed to him the checks with a bordure
• Monaft. vol. I. p. 616.
ermine;
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67
ermine; this latter may be right, but the former I take to be
miſtaken for the arms of Reginald the third earl's brother.
鹽​烤
​Warren
Warren
Warren
THIS Reginald* adhered to Robert Curthofe, and is faid
to have had the command of three hundred men under
Gilbert de Aquila, at the faving of Rohan in Normandy,
in 1090, when the inhabitants thereof endeavored to revolt
from the faid Robert to king William II. He was one of
the principal perſons who broke the league of peace between
Robert and king Henry I. and was taken prifoner at Dive,
when the fort there was furrendered in 1106; the earl his
brother being at that time in the king's army. He married
Alice daughter and heiress of William de Wormgay, lord
of Wormgay (commonly called Wrongay) in Norfolk, as
afferted by Camden, whofe words are, which (Wormegay)
Reginald de Warren, brother of William de Warren ſecond earl
of Surrey, had with his wife; who (as I have read) was of the
donation, or maritage of the ſaid earl. Dugdale however||
fais, it was Reginald, a younger fon to the fecond earl William,
• Orderic. p. 690.
+ Orderic. p. 819, Szo.
||
↑ Britan. vol. I. p. 474, edit. 1753.
K 2
Bar. vol. 1. p. 82.
who
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who married this Alice, referring to the Monafticon,* where
are three deeds belonging to a Reginald de Warren and his
family, but whether that Reginald who was younger ſon to
the ſecond earl William, is the queftion. The deeds are
thefe.
&
Eco Reginaldus de Warenna dedi canonicis de Suthwerke
ecclefiam de Plumbton cum affenfu Alicia uxoris meæ, & Willi-
elmi filii mei pro falute mea & Alicia uxoris meæ & liberorum
meorum & pro falute Ifabellæ comitiffe Domina mea 3 pro
animabus patris & matris meæ & pro anima Willielmi comitis
Warenna fratris mei & pro anima Willielmi de Wormengay
patris Alicia uxoris meæ.
Eco Willielmus de Warenna dedi canonicis de Suthwerke una
cum corpore meo 60 acras terræ in Fortifcrea dictas Wadeland
pro animabus patris mei Reginaldi & matris meæ Alicia &
Beatricis uxoris meæ & Reginaldi filii noftri & Beatricis &
Ifabellæ filiarum noftrarum.
EGO Beatrix filia Willielmi de Warenna poft mortem viri
Domini mei Radulphi dum effem in viduitate mea conceffi &
confirmavi donationem quam pater meus Willielmus de Warenna
fecit canonicis de Suthwerke pro falute avi mei Reginaldi de
Warenna & Alicia aviæ meæ & patris mei Willielmi & matris
Vol. II. p. 85.
mee
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mea Beatricis & fratis mei Reginaldi cujus corpus ibi requieſcit
& Ifabellæ fororis meæ & mea de 60 acris terræ in Fortifcrea,
viz. in Wadeland cum pert. fuis.
FROM the firſt of theſe deeds, it feems that Reginald de
Warren, who gave the church at Plumbton to the canons of
Southwark, married Alice de Wormgay, and yet was not
the ſon of Ifabel, who was the wife of the fecond earl of
Warren and Surrey; for if he had, it would not have been
worded thus, pro falute Ifabellæ comitiffe Domina meæ, &
pro animabus patris & matris meæ. He plainly diſtinguiſhes
between the countess Ifabel, and his mother. And
And yet in
a M. S. in the Herald's office marked D. 46.* amongſt ſome
notes taken out of the book of the monaftery of St. Mary de
Overy in Southwark, it is faid that William earl Warren,
and Gundred his wife, had William earl Warren the fecond,
who by Ifabel his wife had William third earl, and Reignold.
This Reignold married Alice daughter and heiress of William de
Wormyngay, by whom he had William de Warren, who gave
lands to the priory of Southwerke with his body. We are told
by Dugdale,+ that Reginald de Warren anſwered nine
pounds and ten fhillings 14 H. II. as an arrear for the
knight's fees pertaining to the honor of Wirmgay, and due
upon the aid for marrying of Maud the king's daughter. He
• P. 113.
+ Bar. p. 83.
had
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had not however been long in poffeffion of this, for 6 H. II.
William de Wormgay himſelf was living, and had livery of
his lands, certifying his fees to be fourteen and an half, on
the aid for marrying the above Maud, as in the Liber Niger
Scaccarii. * This Reginald accounted fourteen pounds five
fhillings for the fcutage of this honor of Wormgay 18 H. II.
which is the last time we meet with him as lord thereof.
William his fon and heir, paid fcutage for the fame 31 H. II.
Theſe particulars, Dugdale has extracted from the Pipe Rolls.
To theſe may be added what is faid in the charter of William
Turbus Biſhop of Norwich to king Hen. II. in the Liber
Niger Scaccarii,+ that Willielmus de Wermegai habet in Nortfolc
X milites, but he adds, dimidium militem michi difforciat. The
Liber rubeus Scaccarii fais, that William de Warren paid
fcutage for the honor of Wormgay begun 2. and compleated
13. John. This William, lord of Wormgay, had a fifter
called Alice, who married into the fa-
mily of Dunftanvill baron of Caſtlecombe
in Wiltſhire, whofe arms in Philipott's
M. S. above quoted, are faid to have
been, argent a fret gules in a canton
William
Dunſtanville =Warren of the fecond a lion paſſant or.
himſelf married 1ft, Beatrix, daughter of Hugh de Perepont,
who bore azure a chief checky or and gules; by her he had
Reginald, Beatrix, and Ifabel. 2dly, Milicent widow of
• Vol. I. p. 288.
+ P. 280.
Richard
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Richard Muntfichet, by whom no iffue; this family bore
gules three chevronels or. Reginald died without iſſue, in
the life time of his father, and was buried in the monaftery
of St. Mary, in Southwark, agreeable to the deed already
mentioned.
HOT SAREE WILL RES
Warren Perepont
Warren Muntichet
BEATRIX, as appears from the laſt of the above deeds,
had an huſband called Ralph, but of what family I have not
feen. She married, 2dly, Dodo, or Doun Bardolf, who in
right of his wife was lord of Worm-
gay, Reginald her brother being dead
before this fecond match took place.
This Doun bore for his arms, azure
three cinquefoils or.* We find him a
witneſs to a deed of Hameline earl
Warren, to the monks of St. Mary at York. He died
Bardolf. Warren.
• NEAR a century after this, Hugh Bardolf who is called a rich, valiant, and
courteous gentleman, and one of the leaders of the firft fquadron at the taking of
Caerlaverock caftle, is faid to have born En afure quint fueilles trois de fin or emere.
Antiquarian Repertory, vol. II. p. 135.
+ Monaſt. vol. I. P. 406.
11 John
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11 John, having had male iffue by his wife; immediately
after which, fhe gave an account of three thoufand five
(or as fome fay one) hundred marks, for having the lands
and tenements which were her father's, and which ought
to defcend to her by inheritance, and for having her reafon-
able dower out of the tenements which were Doun Bardolf's
her late husband; and that the fhould not be diftrained to
marry herſelf; and that the debts, which her father owed
the king, might be raiſed out of the chattles which were
common to her ſaid father, and Miliſent his wife, on the day
in which he died. * She married 3dly, Hubert de Burgh,
afterwards earl of Kent, whofe arms were
gules feven mafcles vaire 3. 3. 1. He
furvived her, as appears from the follow-
ing evidence preferved in Vincent, p. 279.
11 H. III. p. 2. m. 6. Rex dedit Huberto
de Burgo Comiti Kanc. Juftic. Ang.
pro 684.|| libris, & dimid. marcar. de fine quam Beatricia de
De Burgh Warren.
* Madox's Hift. of the Excheq. p. 339, and Thoroton's Nottingh. p. 279.
+ THE family of de Burgh bore originally or a cross gules, but changed it for the
above. A younger branch of the fame took the name of Borough, and was ennobled
in 1487, and bore az. three fleurs de lis argent.
‡ DUGDALE in his Bar. vol. I. p. 693, fais that king John, for the great eſtimation
he had of this Hubert's merits, advanced him to the eminent office of juftice of Eng-
land, in the preſence of the earls of Warren, Ferrers, and others of the nobility.
|| Dugdale in his Bar. vol. I. p. 694, fais 645.
Warenn,
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Warenn, quondam uxor ipfius Huberti, de qua pueros procreavit,
fecit cum Domino Johanne rege, patre noftro, pro habendis terris
quæ fuerunt Willielmi de Warenn patris ipfius Beatricis, & quæ
ipfam jure contingebant hæreditario, & pro fe maritanda, & pro
habenda rationabili dote fua, de tenementis quæ fuerunt Dodonis
Bardolfe quondam viri fui, ab eodem Huberto tota vita fua non
exigebatur, nec ad folutionem earum nobis faciendam non diftrin-
gatur.
As Doun Bardolf had iffue male by the above Beatrix, her
real eſtates would defcend to them, and accordingly we find
Dominus Johannes Bardolf, Dominus de Wirmegeye, a wit-
neſs to a deed in the Monafticon,* dated 24 E. III. But
Hubert de Burgh feems to have held them for life, for 13
John he anſwered for the honor of Wormegay, on a collection
for fcutage, for fourteen knights' fees, and a fourth part de
veteri feoffamento, and a fourth part de novo; and 18 H. III.
had reftitution of the fame from the crown. •+
As to Ifabel, the fifter of Beatrix, fhe is faid, in the
margin of a M. S. in the Herald's office,
intitled Teft. de Nevil, to have married
‡
Geoffry de Merlay, (who bore azure an
inefcutcheon barry of ten argent and gules
within an orle of eight martlets or.) The
words are, Reginaldus de Warenna hab.
Merlay-Warren.
• Vol. II. p. 879.
VOL. I.
† Dugd. Bar. vol. I. p. 693, 698.
L
+ Fol. 30.
Will.
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་
Will. de Warenna cujus fil. & her. nupfit Galfrid. de Merlay.
In the body of the M. S. is the following entry: Com Nor-
folk & Suffolk. Galfridus de Merlay tenet quoddam feodum in
Illington, de Huberto de Burgo, per hered. Will. de Warenn,
uxorem fuam, quod Bernerus ferviens tenuit quondam de pro-
genitoribus Dom. Regis per ferjanteriam, nefcimus per quam,
& poftea data fuit Reginaldo de Warenn. per Hen. regem pa-
trem Dom. regis, nefcimus per quod fervicium. In theſe two
quotations, though Iſabel de Warren is not expreffly named,
yet
from the time, and other circumftances, it follows, that
no other can be meant. As the record called Teft. de Nevil
was finiſhed about 1240, this Ifabel was properly called the
daughter and heiress of William de Warren, for Reginald
her brother, and Beatrix her fifter, were both of them at
that time dead.
THE following entry is in a M. S. in the Herald's office,
intitled Records of the Tower,* Lewes Prior verfus Hawifs
de Grelle pro annuo redditu 33s. 4d. exeunt. de manerio de
Porteflade conce. olim per Willielmum filium Reginaldi de Wa-
renn Rot. de Jur. de affiff. coram jufticiariis itinerantibus 16
E. I. Rot. 39.† This Porteflade is in the rape of Lewes in
Suffex, and was the eftate of the above Reginald, and William
de Warren. Beatrix, daughter of the latter, carried it in
.
• P. 840.
† At p. 913 it is Rot. 29.
marriage
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75
marriage to Hubert de Burgh, whofe fon John poffeffed ten
fees there in the reign of king Hen. III. as appears from
Teft. de Nevil. Hawifs the wife of Robert de Grelly, againſt
whom the Prior of Lewes brought his action, was daughter
of Hubert de Burgh.
WILLIAM DE WARREN, who married Beatrix de Pere-
pont, gave four hundred marks to the king, 5 John, for
licenfe to marry Milifent widow of Richard Muntfichet with
her dowry, and died in 1208, or the year following. This
Milifent was living 3 H. III. Either Reginald or his fon
William founded Wormgay priory.* This was the William
de Warren, whom we meet with as one of the juſtices in the
king's court at Weſtminſter, in Dugdale's Chronica Series,
Ric. I. and I John.
7
THERE are many other particulars, mentioned by hiſto-
rians, relating to Reginald de Warren, † and his fon William,
which I ſhall defer to the proper place, having only related
hitherto what clearly belongs to that Reginald who married
Alice de Wormgay, out of deference to the affertion of Cam-
• Tanner's Notit. p. 354.
† WEEVER in his Funeral Monuments, p. 823, has attributed the founding of
Penteney Abbey to this Reginald, but this is evidently a miſtake.
L2
den,
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den, the pedigree in the hands of Sir George Warren, and
the argument formed from the firft of the three deeds above
recited; and ſhall proceed to give fome little account of the
earl's daughters.
GUNDRED, who (according to Sandford's genealogical
hiſtory,)* was the eldeſt, is omitted in Dugdale's Baronage,
nor have I ſeen to whom he was married.
EDITH married ift, Gerard de Gour-
nay, whofe arms were paly of fix pieces
or and azure.† This Gerard (ſon of
Hugh de Gournay) took part with Rufus
againſt his brother Robert; when the ſaid
Gurney Warren Robert, however, after this, went to the
Holy-land, this Gerard (with Edith his wife) attended him,
but dying on the journey, fhe married
Monceux-Warren
2dly Drew de Monceux, ‡ whofe arms
were or a bend fable. By Gerard de Gour-
nay, the faid Edith had, amongſt others,
a daughter named Gundred, who married
a nobleman called Nigel de Albini, to
→ P. 12.
† THE Gournays fettled at Stoke under Hamden in Somerſetſhire, where they had
a caftle, and built a college. They became extinct in the last century but one.
Gemmit. p. 296.
whom
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whom Hen. I. gave the forfeited eftate of Robert Molbray
earl of Northumberland, though in the Monafticon* it is
faid, Cepit Nigellus in uxorem filiam Hugonis de Gurnay
in Normannia nomine Gundredam. + Dugdale fais that
+
ſhe was Nigel's fecond wife, and that they were married
in June 1118, by the fpecial advice of king Henry I.
By the faid Gundred, this Nigel had Roger his fon
and heir, on whom king Henry I. beftowed the name,
च
and arms of the above Robert Molbray
(or Mowbray) who had confpired againſt
him. The faid earl bore for his coat,
Gules a lion rampant argent. This is
the coat which Thomas earl of Surrey
(who derived his deſcent from a female
heir of Mowbray) fet fuch value upon in the battle of Bof-
worth Field, as deſcribed by Sir John Beaumont ;
Warren
Mowbray
Some give themselves as captives, others flie;
But this yong lion cafts his gen'rous eye
* Vol. I. p. 775.
+ SOME accounts make a nameless daughter of William earl of Warren in Normandy,
the father of the firft earl of Warren and Surrey, to marry Hugh fon of Gerard de
Gournay, by whom he had Gundred, who married Nigel de Albini, by whom, Roger
de Albini, furnamed Mowbray, who married Alice de Gant, by whom the faid Roger
had Alice, fifter of Nigel baron Mowbray of Axholme, who married Reginald de
Warren, as hereafter mentioned.
1 Bar. vol. I. p. 122.
Oft
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On Mowbray's lion painted in his ſhield,
And with that king of beaſts, repines to yeeld.
The field (faith he) in which the lion ftands,
Is blood, and blood I offer to the hands
Of daring foes; but never ſhall my flight
Dye blacke my lyon, which as yet is white.
Gant
-This Roger de Albini (furnamed Mow-
bray) married Alice de Gant, whoſe
father bore barways eight pieces or and
azure, over all a bendlet gules. By her*
he had Nigel and Robert. He had alfo
a daughter called Alice, though Dug-
dale is filent about her; but it ought to be obferved, that
females are often omitted in pedigrees of this date, and even
in charters, and other evidences of the highest confequence;
thus William the firft earl of Warren and Surrey, named in
the foundation charter of Lewes Abbey, his two fons
William and Reginald, but none of his daughters. The
pedigree then belonging to Sir George Warren, figned by
Flower and Glover, may ftill be true, notwithſtanding this
filence of Dugdale, when it informs us, that the above
Roger de Mowbray had alfo a daughter Aldelia, (or Alice)
who married Reginald de Warren, brother of William, third
* Dugdale's Bar. p. 123.
earl
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earl of Warren and Surrey; from which match, according to
the faid pedigree, and other authentic documents, the Warrens
of Poynton, in Cheshire, are defcended.
THE youngest daughter of the above earl Warren, whofe
name feems to be loft, married Ernifius de Colunchis.*
• Orderic. p. 600.
WILLIAM
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W
ILLIA
SECOND EARL
M
AD the fame titles as his father, after
whofe deceaſe, (being then in his
minority) when he first came into
England, he lodged with his retinue,
in the chapter houfe at Lewes,* which
no doubt the firft earl had built for
the religious there; and for this there was fufficient time,
as the monks arrived in 1077, and the earl did not die till
• THE expreffion in the deed entered in the Lewes regiſter, p. 9, is this, Notum
fit, &c. quod ego Wills de Warenna Com. Surregie cum prum poft mortem patris mei Willi in
Angliam veni apud monaftrium Sci Pancii in caplo frm do ibi ferviencium cum hominibs meis
refidens, &c.
1088.
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1088. He made the ſign of the cross, with many other
great men, to the foundation deed of Saliſbury church, by
Ofmund the bishop, in the year 1091, at Haftings, and the
words after it are Signum comitis Will. de Warenna.* Dug-
dale fais, the first mention he finds of him is, that in thofe
military encounters which were between Hugh de Grent-
mefnill, and Robert de Belefme, he was one of them who
came to make proof of his valor. Thefe meetings feem to
have been contrived, in order to ftrengthen the confpiracy,
then forming in favor of Robert duke of Normandy; accord-
ingly when Robert landed in autumn 1101, at Portſmouth,
he was joined by many of the nobility, and amongſt the reſt
by this our earl, as alfo the two great men above named,
who continued in the duke's army, till the agreement was
made between him, and his brother king Henry. In this
agreement it was ftipulated, as fome hiftorians ſay, that ſuch
as had their eftates taken from them, both in England, and
Normandy, for the part they had born in that difpute,
fhould have them reftored without compofition; but others
with more probability, that the fomenters of diſcord ſhould
be puniſhed, for earl Warren having forfeited his eftate,
could not regain the poffeffion of it, but was obliged to go
with duke Robert into Normandy; not liking however his
fituation there, he foon after complained to the duke, that
on his account he had loft his earldom of Surrey, worth
+ Bar. vol. I. p. 74.
* Monaft. Ang. vol. III. p. 376.
VOL. I.
M
yearly
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yearly a thousand pounds of filver, which lord Lyttelton *
computes to have been equal to fifteen thousand pounds a
year at prefent. But at Robert's interceffion, all this was
reſtored to him, and he was ever after one of the king's best
friends.
IN 1106, he commanded the rear of king Henry's army,
at the battle of Tenerchebray, in lower Normandy, where
duke Robert was entirely defeated. At this battle, Tho-
refy in his Ducatus, ‡ fais earl Warren took the faid duke
priſoner, though no notice is taken of this by our hiftorians;
adding, that king Henry gave him for that fervice the lord-
fhips of Coningsbrough, Thornes, Wakefield, Normanton,
&c. This he afferts, from what he calls a M. S. of the earls
of Warren, but by whom written, or where lodged, is un-
certain. There are authorities however, which affirm that
he was taken by a different perfon; thus Camden in his
Remains, under the article of furnames, tells us that king
Henry I. gave the lands of the attainted Robert Moubray,
earl of Northumberland, being 120 knight's fees in Nor-
• Hift. of Hen. II. vol. II. p. 214.
+ DANIEL in his Hiftory of England, edit. 1621, p. 53, remarks, that at this
battle, England won Normandy, on the fame day by computation, wherein forty
years before, Normandy overcame England; and Drayton had obferved the fame
before, in his twenty-fecond fong.
1 P. 149
mandy,
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83
mandy, and 140 in England, to Nigel de Albini his bow-
bearer, who in the battle at Tenerchebray, took Robert,
duke of Normandy prifoner. In the Monafticon it is faid,
that Nigellus de Albaneio occidit dextrarium ipfius Roberti
Curthofe, & ita captum reddit regi Henrico.
THE above account of the earl's receiving Coningsbrough
for this fuppofed fervice, is mistaken, for the extract from
Domeſday-book of the firft earl's eftates in Yorkshire, al-
ready given, proves the family to have poffeffed it before this
event. As for the reft, it is faid in a M.S. collection (in
my poffeffion) by Robert Nalfon of Halifax, written about
1665, and intitled Mifcellanea, five Obfervationes collectanea,+
that the manor of Wakefield was parcel of the poſſeſſions of the
crowne of England until the grant of Henry I. to earl Warren,
A°. Dom. 1116. From whence this writer got his in-
formation I cannot fay, but I have met with nothing to
invalidate it. Let this be as it will, it feems not to have been
beſtowed in vain, for when others diffuaded the English
monarch from venturing a battle with Lewis the French
king, in the plain of Brenneville, near the mountain
Guarclive in Normandy, in 1119, earl Warren principally
encouraged him thereto, and behaved himfelf with great
ſkill and valor in that engagement, wherein king Henry
• Vol. I. p. 775.
+ Fol. 128.
M 2
obtained
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obtained a glorious victory, and the French ſtandard was
taken.
IN the printed copy of the Liber Niger Scaccarii* is a
charter of agreement between king Henry I. and Robert earl
of Flanders, at the making of which this earl William was
preſent on the part of the king, and was a pledge with others
for the due performance thereof.
IN the year 1108, when Robert Beauchamp Viſcount
d'Arches, was ordered to feize William the fon of duke
Robert, who was kept in the caftle of Elias de Sancto
Sidonio, and when it was found that the young prince had
made his eſcape from thence, the faid caftle was feized to
the king's ufe, who gave it to earl Warren. Thus he be-
came one of the king's Caftellans in Normandy, but this
ſeems not to have required his conftant refidence there, for
in that very year, we find him amongst the witneffes to a
confirmation charter of that king in the Monaſticon which
muſt have been done in England, becauſe it was witneffed
by the queen, the archbiſhop of Canterbury, ſeveral Engliſh
biſhops, and David the queen's brother.
IN 1109 he was witneſs to a charter printed in the Mo-
nafticon by the name of Will. de Warenna, where, though
• P. 16.
+ Vol. I. p. 681.
1 Vol. II. p. 845-
the
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85
the writer has neglected to put down his title, no other
than he could have been meant, becauſe his father was dead,
and his nephew of the fame name either not born, or not
of competent age for an act of this fort. This inftance is not
fingular, for in the fame book he is witneſs to a charter of
king Henry, by the bare name of Willielmus de Warrena.
In 1125 he was at the paffing of the charter of king Henry
to the abbey of Reading, for amongſt the witneſſes to this,
we meet with Signum Willielmi comitis Surr.† In 1131,
he witneſſed a charter of this king made at Northampton,
but confirmed at Weſtminſter, as it is there expreffed,
communi celebrato confilio. ‡ + The name of W. comite de
Warenna occurs in the Monafticon || at the foot of a charter
of the fame king, to the church of St. Peter at York,
executed at Wincheſter; and to another of his§ to Lincoln
cathedral, executed at Rohan. He was alſo amongst the
witneffes to a charter of king Stephen at Oxford in 1136,
relating to feveral privileges granted by the crown.
THE Confidence which the king placed in this earl, ap-
pears to have been well founded, for amidst the many at-
tempts abroad, to fet up William fon of duke Robert, he
faithfully adhered to king Henry; and when the faid king
↑ Monaft. vol. II. p. 3.
§ Monaft. vol. III. p. 266.
* Vol. III. p. 134.
+ Monaft. vol. I. p. 418.
Vol. III. p. 136.
Hearne's Notes to William of Newbury, p. 711.
lay
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lay on his death-bed, at his caftle of Lions in France, he
was one of the five earls, who with other great men at-
tended there, and fettled with him the fucceffion of the
crown of England; having at that time Rohan, and the
country about Calais, committed to his care. He afterwards
attended the corps of that king to the abbey of Reading,
where it was buried. This happened in 1135, and the year
following, he was a witness to the charter which king
Stephen granted at Oxford; from whence we learn, that like
the rest of the English nobility, he fubmitted himſelf to
king Stephen, though he had heard the late king name
Maud his daughter (commonly called the Emprefs) for his
fucceffor. He had no opportunity however to draw his
fword either for, or againſt that monarch, for he died before
the grand attempt was made to dethrone him.
THIS earl, as well as his father, gave feveral benefactions
to pious uſes, particularly in 1090, he compleated the
church of our Lady at Caſtle-acre, making it ſubject to the
priory of Lewes agreeable to his father's charter. A view of
the ruins of this priory is prefented to the reader, and two
others are to be ſeen in Grofe's Antiquities.* In the Mo-
nafticon+ are fome charters of this earl, concerning his gifts
in Acre, and near Linn, and in Melewode, Rudham, &c.
He confirmed, it feems, all his father's donations to this
* Vol. II.
+ Vol. I. p. 624, and 626.
houſe.

Foundal by William Carl of
Barie Se.
Mary & made Subordinate to Lewes Priory in Sussex.
CASTLE ACRE PRIORY.
WARREN, on or before the Year
Published as the Act directs, August 201785.
1085.dedicated to St
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87
houfe, and added many more. The M.S. in the Herald's
office, marked Quid non, No. 6. calls him Filius fundatoris
ecclefiæ Lewen. & predicta fundacionis executor, atque operis
confummator,* & ecclefia beatæ Mariæ de Caftleacre fundator.
THIS earl gave alſo the tithe of eels throughout the feveral
fiſheries of Hatfield, Thorne, and Fishlake, to the abbey
of Roche in Yorkshire. †
THIS earl's grants to the monks of Lewes were thus
entered in their chartulary.
P. 4. A CHARTER, in which are contained confirmations
of whatever this William had given to the faid monks, as
alfo the donations of his father. He farther gives and con-
firms in fpecial, all the manors, churches, and tithes, both
great and ſmall, throughout England, which he, his father,
or others had given them. In this deed is contained, that
this earl gave in fpecial, to God and St. Pancras, and the
monks there ferving God, totam decimam denariorum fuorum
* In the above priory church ſteeple were three ftones (now in that of Southover)
on one of which is a biſhop's mitre and pall, and TADE in old characters, perhaps
for Theobaldus Archiepifcopus Dedicavit Ecclefiam ; on another, the arms of
Warren; and on the third, a rofe and ducal crown. An account of this dedication is
under the third earl.
+ Monaft. vol. I. p. 837.
de
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de Anglia de redditibus & omnibus omnino rebus; adding, &
banc denariorum fuorum optulit deo fuper altare imperpetuam
dotem ecclefie. He alfo gave them forfeitures, and amer-
ciaments of his tenants, the fale of wood three days in a
week, and leave to fifh in all his waters, and hunt in all his
woods, as well within his park as without, for their own
ufe. By this charter he makes Acre ſubject to Lewes.
P. 7. His carta generalis, by which he gave and con-
firmed to the faid monks in pure and perpetual charity, all
the lands, churches, tithes, and tenements, which they
had of his fee, free from all gifts, aids, cuftoms, complaints,
and ſervices; and that he would acquit them from Danegeld,
and all ſervices belonging to the king.
P. 8. A grant of veneyfon infra parcas & extra, ad opus
infirmorum monachorum, quoties contigeret ipfos monachos in-
firmari.
ANOTHER, granting leave to fish in all the waters of
Lewes for the fame purpoſe. At the fame page is a deed of
an earl William giving tithes of all his demefnes and rents in
England, and conveying feifin thereof to the monks of St.
Pancrace, by cutting off fome of the hairs of his head, but
this from the witneffes, &c. appears to have belonged to
the third earl, and confequently to have been mifplaced by
the monk who had the care of this compilation.
P. 9. Is
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89
P. 9. Is the following confirmation grant.
renna
NOTUM fit prefentibus & futuris quod ego Willielmus de Wa-
comes Surregie cum primum poft mortem patris mei
Willielmi in Angliam veni apud monafterium Sancti Pancratii
in capitulo fratrum deo ibi ferviencium cum hominibus meis
refidens omnes donaciones quas idem pater meus & mater mea
Gundrada eidem monafterio de rebus fuis five viventes five mo-
rientes concefferunt pro falute animarum ipfarum & mei ipfius
libens laudavi & concefi infuper & ex hac parte mea alia fuper-
addidi quas eciam donaciones five conceffiones non multo poft
Wintonie veniens ubi tunc temporis Dominus meus Willielmus Rex
concilium optimatum fuorum convocaverat ab eo laudari cartaque
& figillo fuo firmari figno quoque fuo & magnatum fuorum tefti-
ficari popofci & optinui. Aliquantis poft hec in ecclefie conftruc-
tione annis evolutis tandem peracto opere a priore loci & fratribus
ut eam dedicari facerem invitatus diocefeos ipfius epifcopum domi-
num quoque Walchelinum Wintonienfem dominum eciam Gunulfum
Roffenfem ut eam dedicarent rogans conduxi peractaque ab eis
Solemniter &
dedicatione cum ad miſſas decantandas
ventum fuiſſet ad principale ipfius ecclefie altare ab ipfis evocatus
& eis fiquidem confuetum & juftum eft dotem providerem admo-
nitus hiis que fubfcripta funt eam dotavi cartam ipfam & per
eam que
in ea fcripta funt deo fuper fanctum altare manu propria
offerens Raynaldo fratre meo concedente mecum quoque offerente
manfionem, viz. Falmelam nomine quicquid pater meus in do-
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minio ibi tenuit cum hida terre quam Euftachius tunc temporis
in Burgemela tenebat (Here reciting what had been given by
former charters) Hec omnia deo offerens do & concedo ut mo-
nachi in ipfo monafterio Sancti Pancratii
libere &
indiffolubiliter poffideant & ut mea conceffio five donacio firma &
inconcufla perpetuo permaneat figno fancte crucis manu propria
confirmo & manibus fidelium teftificandum trado+
THIS deed was made fometime between 1088, when the
firſt earl died, and 1097 when biſhop Walkelin deceaſed.
P. 10. A CHARTER, by which William de Warren grants
the land of St. Pancrace, to be free from all caufes and
cuſtoms, quitting it from all demands of the crown.
P. 10. ANOTHER, by which William earl Warren gave
to God and St. Pancrace, and the monks of Lewes, totum
mercatum lignorum in villa de Lewes, & primum mercatum in
eadem, & in aliis locis ubi forum habetur de carnibus, pifcibus
& omnibus aliis rebus.
P. 10. ANOTHER, by which William de Warren gave to
the fame, the fame liberty which his father and mother had
granted them, and alſo forfeiture and amendment of his
men, &c.
P. 10. A
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P. 10. A CHARTER, by which the earl gave his churches
and chapels in Yorkſhire in theſe words.
Sciant prefentes & futuri quod ego Willielmus comes de War-
rena dono concedo & hac prefenti carta mea confirmo Deo & S.
Pancratio de Lewes & monachis ibidem Deo fervientibus pro fa-
lute anime mee & Willielmi patris mei & omnium fuccefforum no-
ftrorum ecclefiam de Conningburgh cum ecclefiis capellis terris & de-
cimis & omnibus ad eas pertinentibus fcilicet ecclefiam de Braythe-
well cum pertinentiis ecclefiam de Donigthon cum pert. ecclefiam
de Herthill cum pert. ecclefiam de Fishlak cum pert. ecclefiam de
Hetfeld cum capella de Thorne & omnibus pert. ecclefiam de Parva
Sandale cum capella de Hernoldefthorp cum omnibus pert. ecclefiam
etiam de Wakefeld cum capella de Horbyry & omnibus pert. fuis
ecclefiam de Haly fax cum omnibus pert. fuis ecclefiam de Dewef
byry cum capella de Hertefbeved & omnibus pert. fuis ecclefiam
de Birton cum pert. fuis ecclefiam de Majori Sandale cum om-
nibus pert. fuis Et fi forte terre in quibus fite funt predicte ecclefie
in alterius alicujus dominium quam in meum five per homagium &
Servicium five per maritagium five aliquocunque modo devenerint
volo nihilominus & percipio ut predicte ecclefie & omnes alie quas
habent de feodo meo predicti monachi ad fuftentacionem eorum libere
& quiete femper remaneant ita ut nullus omnino hominum in eifdem
ecclefiis aliquod jus advocacionis five preſentacionis fibi poffit vendi-
care preter ipfos monachos meos quibus totum jus quod unquam
habui vel habere potui in eifdem ecclefiis dedi & conceffi nullo mibi
vel
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vel heredibus meis in eifdem ecclefiis jure retento hiis teftibus Radul-
pho de Waren Hugone de Petroponte Radulpho de Playz Rob. de
Frivele Reginaldo de Waren Adam de Poning. Gwyd de Mence-
court Willielmo de Drofaio & multis aliis.
P. 10. A CHARTER, by which William earl of Warren
confirmed the gift which John de Cayfneto gave to the faid
monks, viz. half his land of Briftelmefton, and a place
called Wildebrok near Hammes.
P. 10. ANOTHER, by which William de Warren gave to
them all the land which William de Kayly held of him, and
whatever the ſaid earl had in his demefne, from the bridge
of Bevehorn to Chaglegh.
P. 10. ANOTHER, by which William earl Warren gave
to them three hides of land in Kyngefton, and the counteſs
Ifabel gave them the church of Dorkyng, &c.
AT the back of p. 34 is a charter of Thomas duke of
Norfolk, made at the requeſt of John Ok prior of Lewes and
the convent there, in the caſtle of Lewes, 2 Nov. 21. R. 2.
confirming amongst others the following,
Sciant oes qui funt & qui futuri funt quod ego Will. de
Warrenna comes Surr. cum primum poft mortem patris mei
comitis
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comitis Will. veniffem in Angliam & intraffem in capitulum mon.
S. Panccii quod fundaverunt pater meus & mater mea Gundrada
fub caftro Lewiar. requifitus a Dom. Lanzone priore & oibus
frat. volens per graciam Dei fupplere & manutenere devocõem
quam habuerunt predicti pat. meus & mat. mea erga predict.
monafter. & fanct. ord. Clun. quem ibi pofuerunt pro Dei amore &
pro falute animar. illor. & mea & oium parentum & her. meor.
& oium Xpi fidelium defunctor. libens laudavi conceſſi donavi &
confirmavi pred. monafterio S. Pancracii & mochis ibid. imp. Deo
fervient. oes donacoes conceffiones & confirmacoes quas eis fecerat &
oia que eis donaverat pater meus vivente & volente matre mea &
confencientibus me & Reginaldo fratre meo in terris & in eccliis
& decimis in aquis & in bofcis in viis & in femitis in pratis & in
pafcuis in hoibus & in oibus locis & in oibus rebus cum cibus libert.
& lib. confuetud. & dignitat. quas pater meus eis dedit & quas
ipfe in ipfis rebus habuit vel habuiffet fi eas in manu fua tenuiffet
& quas ego habeo in quocunque tenemento vel dominio fuo ficut pat.
meus in vita fua ordinavit per oia & ficut carta ſua teſtatur, viz.
manfionem Falemeram noie totum quicquid ibi habuit pater meus in
dominio cum bida terre quam tenuit Euftachius in Burgemera &
cum duabus bidis que pertinebant ad Plumptona manfionem quoque
Karletonam noie quam Matildis
Matildis regina dedit Gundrade matri mee
& in Swambgh quinque hidas & dimid. & infulam juxta monofie-
rium cum mulendino fuper ftagnum & cum Lewino fuburbano ibid.
pofito In tuniaco terram que fuit Normanni virgam eciam ter.
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retentis
que vocatur Redrewelle & aliam virgam terre que dicitur Stanford
in Witteden duas hidas ter. cum quatuor villanis & uno prato Oes
eciam decimas ter. mear. quas Ric. prefbiter adhuc tenet tam in
Surregia quam in Norff. & tenebit in vita fua ficut ordinavit pat.
meus & oes decias quas ibi dederunt hoies mei tempore patris mei
& quas daturi funt tempe meo vel poft me Preterea conceffit eis &
confirmavit Waltonam infra marifcos de Lew. cum dimid. foca de
Walpol de Kenewic & Brunfwey & tercia parte de Avemera cum
pifcariis de Well & cum oibus appendiciis fuis quicquid ibi mater
mea tenebat de patre meo inter duas aquas de
michi & her meis tantumodo duobus hofpiciis per ann. pro oibus
fervic. boium de marifco pro oibus ficut ordinavit & carta fua con-
firmavit pater meus Manfionem vero Hecham quamvis dederit eis
pater meus poft mortem matris mee &me & Reginaldo fratre mes
abfentibus tamen quia hoc mandavit michi pater meus in moriendo
fuo quod aliquod ex melioribus maneriis meis eis darem poft mortem
ipfus pro anima illius & matris mee & mea conceffi eis & confirmavi
predict. manerium cum terra Pagani prepofiti & quicquid ibi tene-
bat de me Will. de Kayly cum oibus lib. hoibus quorum cenfum pred.
Paganus ibi recipere confuevit & maxime hoc feci confilio baronum
& alior. fidel. boium meor. quia pater meus ad mortem fuam dimi-
ferat monachis totum mobile tocius terre fue & propter hanc con-
ceffionem & confirmacoem remiferunt michi monachi totum illud
divifum ne deft - ---- aretur tota terra mea Preterea conceffi & con-
firmavi eis eccliam de Clainton cum decima & una bida terre ad
illam
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que-
illam pertinente & deciam oium rerum ad Middilton & ad Alyng-
ton & deciam de Katham & de Fekebam & deciam de Nordhefia
& de Rademelda & de Mechinges de cibus rebus & deciam fuam de
Pycomba & de Snetebolfa & de Sanda & de Kukefelda & eccliam de
Rottyngden & eccliam Sci Olaf apud Sudwercam & eccliam de
Roinges cum una virgata ter. & deciam oium rer. de dnio Aule &
deciam de Senretot & de Crec que cia pat, meus ante mortem fuam
eis dederat Conceffi eciam eis & confirmavi oia alia que pat. meus
concefferat de dono baronum & alior. liberor. hoium fuor &
cunque eis dati funt tempe meo de feodo meo me fciente confen-
ciente fcil. ecclam de Yford quam dedit eis Hugo fil. Golde & in
Swambgh duas hidas quas dedit Tufardus & unam bidam quam
dedit Briſtelinus & un. hidam quam dedit Ormarus quando fci funt
monachi & duos agros juxta Scm Pancracium & un. ortum in vi-
qu.
dedit Warinus Vicecomes & totam deciam fuam de
Kyngiflon & viginti denaratas ter. apud Bynham quas dedit Rad.
fil. War. & deciam Hugonis fil. Golde in Iforde & in Kingefton
deciam duar. bidar. & deciam ter. quam bebat in Rottingden &
duos hofpites juxta mulinum de Lewes & juxta illos unum pratum
& unum mulinum & quat. acr. quas dedit Petrus vicecomes apud
Mechinges & deciam qm. dedit Will. de Herpetynges oia que hebat
apud Herpetinges & apud Herftam & un. virgam terre & paftu-
ram centum ovium que dederunt Will. fil. Will. & mater ejus pro
anima patris fui & deciam de Horecombe quam dedit Normannus
venator & unam manfionem in burgo de Lewes & apud Horecom-
nario
bain
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bam deciam duar. hidar. quam dedit Joflinus conftabulus & deciam
oium quam dedit Nigellus apud Horlanefwicam conceffione patris
mei & terram quandam cum paſturà centum ovium quas Radulf
fil. Nigelli & ux. ejus poft mort. illius conceffione mea & deciam
fuam in Hangleton & un. bid. ter. quam dedit predict. Nigellus
in Wodeton & deciam un. hide & dim. quam dedit apud Hor-
lanefwic Godardus & un. ter. & paft. viginti ovium & deciam
de Baldefden quam dedit Hugo fil. Hugonis & un. bid. ter.
quam dedit Will. de Petroponte in Rottingden & dim. hid.
in Briſtelmeftun quam dedit Wiardus & deciam de dnio fuo
ibid. & deciam de dnio de Ratteden un. hid. ter. apud Al-
dryngtonam quam dedit Rad. de Kayneto & deciam oium fuor.
in Hangleton quam dederat idem Rad. fcil. poftquam terra
illa rediit ad manum meum ego confirmavi de dono Ric. Archi-
diaconi un. hid. ter. apud. Blachingtonam & ad Kyngisford
un. bid. & ad Mulefcumbam un. bid. & in Witteden quatuor
hid. & in Pyncheam un. virg. ter. quam tenuit Wolnodus & in
Sernewica viginti denatas terre que oia conceffi & confirm.
& duas hid. apud Pacchelefwiam quas Hug. fil. Hug. fil. Golde
& deciam de dono de domio Rainaldi fil. Renneri apud Pynkeden
& deciam de Sadlefcumba de dono Hug. fil. Rad. & deciam bladi
de Wyldecomba de dono Walteri & ad Perching deciam Will. fil.
Techelini & Will. fil. Alfinene & ad Folkynges deciam Gode-
fridi de Bellomonte & ad Pavethornam deciam Levenodi & ad
Twienam un. virg. ter. quam dedit Gilbtus fil. Gozonis
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& deciam Aule quam dedit Scotlandus & deciam Alberici
& deciam Alveredi nutricii comitis & deciam de Slachm de dono
Hug. fil. Golde apud Herft deciam quam dedit Occulus Ferreus
& duas partes decime de Plumpton & totam deciam de Standen
& un. hid. ter. ad Falmeram que oia dedit eis Fredefeudis filia
Hugonis fil. Rennri pro anima patris fui Ad aliam Standenam
dedit eis deciam oium pat. meus & ad Alintonam deciam un. hid.
quam dedit Bafilia mater Rad. fil. Hug. & un. hid. ter. in
Alyngtona de dono Radi de Kayneto Conceffi etiam et confirm.
eccliam de Kanefeld cum un. virgat. ter. & totam deciam de
domio Aule & feni & deciam de Eftana & apud Gelham deciam
ter. Godwini & deciam de Middilton ex dono Will. fil. Ran. &
un. virg. ter. quam tenuit gladio joculator (vel jaculator Q
de dono Ran. de Waren. Conceffi eciam tertiam partem de
Hichebourne (vel Lichebourne Q?) in oibus reb. & dimid.
mulin. & tot. eccliam que oia fuerint bedditas Ragenildis ux.
Rog. Talini que oia ipfa Reginaldis dedit monachis & pred. Ro-
Et apud Kaxftonam decem folid. & octo denar. focho-
mannor. quos dedit Hugo de Grennifevilla & eccliam de Sireford
& eccliam de Toftes & ter. & decias ad illas pert. de dono Hug.
fil. Hug.* Hec omnia & fi qua alia eis donata funt de feodo meo
gerus.
* HERE ends the recital, and confirmation of the grants by the firſt William de
Warren, and his freeholders, to Lewes priory. The refidue is a recital of all which
was given to it by the fecond William de Warren, and his freeholders; making
together a noble foundation, which was not a little enlarged by the fubfequent
earls.
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de cujufcunque donacoe funt vel poftea donabuntur libera conceſſi
& confirm. Et quod ego volui & debui ficut michi videbatur de
mea parte accrefcere elemofinam patris mei & meam pro falute
anime illius & matris mee& mea & oium parentum & her.
meor. appofui ego & dedi Deo & S. Panccio & mochis ejus imp.
ter. de Sudeñova cum duob. Stag. & mulinis & Marleram extra
villam cum ter. & prat. que ad illam pertinent & duas acr.
prati in Nivia & garas juxta viam & juxta Padepolam un.
prat. & in Crandona ter. quam tenuit Hugelinus & ter. quam
tenuit Wulwinus fil. Golle & un. fruftrum prati & domos illius
in burgo de Lewes & ter. quam tenuerunt burgenfes de Lewes
in Crandona & un. bid. ter. & dimid. quam tenuit Ailwinus de
Winceftra in Kyngefton & in Witteden dimid. hid. in eſcambium
pro domo David de London quam eis ante dederam & ibid. un.
virgat. ter. pro anima matris mee & duas bid. ter. pro parte
pecunie patris mei Dedi eciam eis bofcum de Canegg inter pon-
tem de Beveborn & pontem de Godfwifell & fexdecim denatas ter.
quas ten. Wifi in Chaggele & apud Borghemram duas bid. ter.
quas tenuit Gozo nutricius meus & domos illius in Lewes Infuper
dedi eis deciam reddituum oium meor. de quacunque re fint de
burgo de Lewes & ter. in London quam tenuit Herebrandus
Dedi eciam eis oes ecclias in burgo de Lewes quas adhuc tenet
Ricus prefbiter ut ficut pater meus dedit eis oes decias quas te-
nent poft mortem ipfius Ita ego volo quod habeant oes ecclias fuas
poft mortem ejus fcil. eccliam S. Jobis S. Petri & S. Andree
& S. Marie & S. Martini & ecclias S. Nichi & S. Trin. quas
tenet
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tenet Bricelinus prefbiter & ecclias S. Petri & S. Marie de
Westoute & eccliam de Kyngefton cum un. acr. ter. ubi fedet
ecclia & eccliam de Rademeld & de Meching & eccliam de
Pycheham cum decima & ter. ad illam pert. & eccliam de Kuke-
feld & de Herdinglega & eccliam de Dycheninge cum un. bid.
ter. & gardin. cum domibus & ter. que eft inter duas vias cum
bofco ad eam adjacent. & ibid. duas hid. pro Rainaldo fratre
meo ad peticoem ipfius & ecclia S. Petri de Tetford Dedi eis &
quatuor folidat. ter. in agris de Tetford que adjacent ad S.
Helenam & eccliam S. Helene cum ter. ad illam pert. Dedi
eciam illis Santonam cum pert. fuis & fex folid. ter. ad Wilto-
nam & eccliam de Wilton. cum ter. & decia ad illam pert. &
eccliam de Feltewelle & deciam oium & tres folid. ter. quas
tenuit Gilbtus & duas folid. ter. quas tenuit Sculla & in
Dudelinton decem ſolid. ter. quas tenuit Ricus & in Kateftona
ter. Ulf fratris Offordi & eccliam de Gymyngham & deciam
ejufd. ville & ibid. de focomannis quadraginta folid. & ad Gat-
tonam octo ſolid. ter. & deciam Rog. de Pavely & apud Acram
mulinum quod redd. triginta folid. Donavi quoque eis ter. de
Bellovidere cum hoibus & bofco & mulino ad illam pert. In
Eborafira vero dedi eis eccliam de Conyngeburgh cum aliis
eccliis decimis & ter. & oibus fuis appendiciis & eccliam de
Wakefeld cum pert. fuis Oes autem fupdict. ecclias cum pert.
fuis ficut fuerunt de lib. donacoe patris mei vel mea ita eas liberas
dedi ad bendum monachis imp. ita quod quicquid eveniant in qui-
bus funt fundate ipfe ecclie vel ad cujufcumque dominium quo-
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cunque modo deveniant femper ecclie lib. monachis remaneant nec
aliquid juris poffit in eis aliquis alius calumpniari fic tamen iidem
preſbiteri qui fervient in eis beant inde oia neceſſaria fua rationa-
bilit. ad ferviend. Deo & eccliis ipfis & parochianis fuis & de
remanente beant monachi quicquid boni bere poterunt fidelit. ad
fuftentacõem fuam & ad bnfaciend. indigentib. Poftea vero non poſt
multum tempus cum perfecta fuiſſet ecclia S. Panccii invitatus jum
a Priore Lanzone & a cunctis frat. ejufd. ecclie & rogatus ab eis
ut eam facerem dedicari quod libent & letus conceffi & convocavi
ipfius dioces. epifcop. Dom. Radm & Walkelinum Winton. &
Gundulf. Rovoceft. epos ad eam dedicand. & facta dedicaoe cum ad
miſſam vent. fuiffet vocatus fum ab epis ad magnum altare & ad-
monitus ab eis ut fecund. confuetud. S. ecclie providerem dotem
ecclefie de qua eciam re ante premunitus fui & provifus Monftra-
verunt quoque michi id ipm quod michi vifum fuit non eſſe magnum
dare quod ipe in manu mea vel expenfas meas here non potui ficut
ecclias & decias Recogitavi eciam quod non fuit mea nec pura
elemofina quam feceram eis de Hercham quam pat. meus eis prius
donaverat & quantum ad me magis videbatur comutacio quedam
quam mea donacio Et quia de meo proprio quod michi potuillem
femper libe retinere volui S. Panccio ficut patrno meo & ejus mo-
nafterio ficut capiti honoris mei aliquod incrementum facere (in illa
die dedicaonis ecclee & hora & loco dedi Deo & S. Panccio &
mochis fuis imp. deciam meam non folum oium dnior meor. tocius
ter. mee de oibus rebus undecumque decima dari debet) fcil. eciam
totam deciam oium denar. meor. de Anglia de redditib. de eventib.
de
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de oibus omino rebus undecumque & quibufcumque modis michi pro-
veniant de rebus meis Anglie & hanc deciam denar. meor. optuli
Deo fuper altare in perpetuam dotem ecclie ita quod ficut crefcunt
res mee & eventus mei fic femper crefcat decia monachor. Et volo
quod oes fenefcalli & prepofiti & miniftri mei ita reddant totam
deciam oium denar. meor. & tocius rei mei ficut volunt ſalvari in
die judicii ut nunquam inde clamorem audiam Et fi aliquid inde ex-
penfum fuerit in me vel in meos volo quod ftatim & fine delacione
de meo reddant quod fi non fecerint ipfi michi emendabunt & ego
reddam de fuo & infuper ipfi iram dei & meam malivolentiam in-
current & hanc meam donacõem volo quod firmiter fervient oes her.
mei & quod ipfi fimiliter faciant fuper periculum anime fue ut deus
det eis gratiam fuam & crefcant bona eor. Et fi eveniat quod ego
capiam aliqu. in manu mea res ipas unde decime
ipas unde decime pvenint q.
fuerint vel ad cenfum vel per aliquam aliam paccionem in manu
alior. volo quod nichilominus heant plene de ipis reb. tot. denar.
ad valenciam & quantitat. decie q. huerunt & berent fi ipfi res
in manu alior. fuiffent & quecumque mutaco facta fit vel quocunque
modo ipe res unde decia denar. furgit in alienum dominium tran-
feant femper decia denar. S. Panccio remaneat & fic promifi facere
& faciam fuper periculum anime mee & fic volo quod faciant oes
ber. mei quia hec eft fpialis dos qua dotavi eccliam in illa die &
tunc ante altare totam benedicoem quam pater poteft dare filiis fuis
&
quam pater meus dedit her. fuis qui fervarent donacõem fuam
dedi oibus her. meis qui fervabunt hanc donacõem meam & dixerunt
oes epi & ois populus Amen Et feci ipos epos fimilit. benedicere &
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totam maledicoem quam pater poteft dare filiis fuis & quam pat.
meus dedit oibus qui venirent contra donacõem fuam dedi ego oibus
qui poft me venient contra donacoem & conceffoem & confirmacoem
iſtam & dixerunt epi & ois pop. Amen Et epi fimilit. maledixerunt
& excomunicavunt & oes dixerunt fiat fiat Amen & fic fiat imp.
Amen. In illa autem die dedit Rad. de Kaineto & optulit fuper
altare S. Pancii eccliam de Brittelmefton & deciam oium que bebat
in eadem villa & eccliam de Balecombe & eccliam de Hodlega &
eccliam de Kymera cum un. virg. ter. & cum decima & eccliam
deciam bladi & feni &
de Berecamp cum ter. ad illam pert. &
ovium & mulin. de Gardefeia & un. prat. apud Hames & domos
Wolnodi pmentarii in burgo de Lewes & un. hid. ter. apud Alyng-
tonam & Rad. junior fil. Radi dedit & optulit un. bid. ter. ad
Woghm conceffione patris fui & ego letus oia conceffi Et in eadem
die Rad. de Grancourt optulit S. Panccio fuper altare eccliam de
Welyngham cum un. virg. ter. ad illam pert. & in eadem villa
duas hid. ter. & feptem acr. & dimid. & ecclias S. Marie & S.
Petri de Burnham 3 ter. & decias ad eas pert. & eccliam de Har-
pelea cum terra & decima ad eam pert. & ego oia ad ejus peticoem
gte conceffi Ões autem has fupradict. res tam de donacoe patris mei
quam mea vel conceffione volo ficut voluit & ordinavit pater meus
quod S. Panccius & mochi fui beant imp. ita liberas & quiet. ab
oibus omio ferviciis & oibus caufis erga meipm & oes her. meos &
erga oes homes ficut pater meus eas unquam melius libas buit &
quicquid juris & libtatis & dignitat. & honor. pat. meus buit in
biis
que eis dedit vel buiffet fi ea retinuiffet & quod ego huiffem fi
ego
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ego ea herem & tenerem volo ut ipfi heant imp. Ita quod fi un-
quam eveniat quod rex terre ab eis requirat bidag. vel dane-
geld vel qualecumque geld. vel fervic. ego & her. mei femper eos
libatos & quietos faciemus de oibus omnino reb. erga regem &
oes homies ut femper in pace fint mochi & fui oes & oia fua per
oia ficut ordinavit pat. meus Quare volo ficut ipfe voluit quod de
oibus contencoibus que unquam eveniant inter hoies S. Pancii &
me vel meos unde forisfactura eveniat prior S. Pancii femp.
capeat & heat forisfactur. & emendas de boibus fuis ne poſſint
qui venturi funt per hoc caufam here ledendi & confundendi
hoies S. Pancii & fic volo quod faciant & teneant her. mei Volo
eciam & concedo & precipio propter pacem eor. quod prior &
mochi beant imp. totum mercat. lignor. ad lignarium fuum tri-
bus diebus in feptimana fine omni contradicoe vel impedimento
burgenfium vel quorumcumque alior. quamdiu cariatus duraverit
ne propter hanc caufam poffint incurrere lites vel difcordias Do-
navi eciam Priori Lanzoni & oibus fucceffor. fuis licenciam &
poteftat. in oibus aquis & in oibus bofcis meis ubicumque venerit
vel miferit ad pifcand. & ad venand. intra parcum & extra ad
opus fuum & fuor. & monacha quicumque cuftodit infirmos
mochos dedi licentiam capiendi venacom ad opus infirmor. qui-
cunque voluerint infra parcum & extra & illi mocho qui pro-
curat conventum dedi poteft. pifcandi in oibus aquis meis pro-
vincie de Lewes ad magna fefta & ad magnos hofpites & nomi-
natim ad fervicium patris mei & mat. mee & meum poft finem meum
& fimilit. her. meor. & fic volo quod ipi concedant Hanc dona-
coen
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coem oium rer. & conceff. & confirmacoem feci & optuli fuper
altare prefente & confentiente & mecum manum fuam ponente
& offerente Rainaldo fratre meo & tunc receperunt epi & prior
& totus conventus in fraternitatem & in oia beneficia ecclie in
vita & in morte imp. oes qui iftas elemofinas manutenerunt & qui
apponent ufque in finem five plus five minus ut talem mercedem
beant a deo qualem nos here fperavimus & confirmaverunt hoc
epi & dederunt dei & fuam benedicoem oibus bnfcoribus hujus
domus ufque
& excoicavrunt & maledicoem dei & fuam
dedrunt oibus malefa&tor. hujus ecclie ufque in fempiternum &
fic faciat deus fine fine bnfcoribus bene fcdm magnam bonitatem
fuam & malefa&toribus reddat judicium fecund. jufticiam fuam
Amen Preterea bonum propos. & defider. q. buerunt pater meus
& mater mea de faciendo monafterio apud Acram ego pro amore
dei & falute illor. & mea & oium her. meor. fufcepi in me per
gram dei & pmifi deo faciend. & pficiendum per concilium Dom.
Lanzonis prioris & maxime ad multam inftanciam Ifabelle Comi-
tiſſe ux. mee quia multum het cor fuum ad locum illum Et volo
ficut voluit pat. meus domus de Acra cum perfecta fuerit femper
fit fubjecta S. Panccio & ejus priori & conventui ficut proprium
clauftrum fuum ficut carta patris mei teftificatur Et quia pater
meus & abbas Clun. ordinavrunt quod domus Clun. oibus annis
heat de domo S. Pancii quinquaginta folid. monete Anglie pro
oibus ferviciis fic & ego volo quod de meo cremento quo accrevi
S. Panccium fe fenciat fca ecclia Cluniacen. & heat omni anno
alios quinquaginta folid. imp. & hoc feci per concilium Dom.
Lanzonis
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105
Lanzonis prioris Et fic quod per iftos centum folid. quinquaginta
ex parte patris mei & quinquaginta ex mea libera fit femper
domus S. Pancii erga eccliam Clun. de omni alio feculari fervic.
& geld. & prior S. Pancii libam beat femp. ordinacoem fuam de
domo fua & de oibus fibi fubjećtis nifi de ordine fuo emendando per
Abbem ubi prior per fe emendare non poterit & quod prior fic
femper donetur S. Panccio qu. tempus erit & fic femper fit ad
remanend. nifi pro raconabil. & aptis caufis ficut inter Abbem
Clun. Hugonem & pat. meum convenit & ipi conftituerunt &
carta patris mei teftificatur & fcriptum ipius Abbis cum figillo
fuo quod pat. meus michi reliquit Hujus autem carte mee teſtes
funt qui prefentes viderunt & audierunt oia epi & barones mei
qui teftimonia fua per fignum fce crucis fubfcripferunt Signum
Willi+Comitis Signum Radulfi+ Epi Signum Walkelini+
Epi Signum Gundulfi + Epi Signum Rainaldi + Fratris
Comitis Signum Rad. + de Kaineto Signum Walteri + de
Grancourt Signum Radi+fil. Radi Signum Rogeri+ de Clara
Signum Warini+Vicecomitis Signum Gofleni + Conftabular.
Signum Hugonis +fil. Hug. Signum Nigelli + Signum Jof-
fridi Capellani+Signum Rici prefbiteri+ The duke alfo con-
firmed the charter of this fecond earl, relating to the churches
in Yorkshire.
AT p. 35, at the foot of the charters granted by William
the third earl, but manifeftly miſplaced, is a grant by this
earl William, to Lewes priory, of the churches of Briftel-
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mefton, Hangleton, Claiton, Chiemell, Bercamps, and
Hardingell, pro anima (as the deed expreffes it) patris mei
Willi & Gundrade matris mee & pro remiffione peccator. &
pro anima Raynaldi fratris mei & alior. meor. parent. defunct.
In a M. S. in the Herald's Office marked D. 46. is the
following entry, which fhews not only that this earl gave
a church to St. Mary's in Southwark, but that the grant
was made by the remarkable circumftance of placing a knife
upon the altar there; Ego Willielmus comes filius Willielmi de
Warennia, conceffi ecclefiam de Kircesfeld, cum omnibus rebus
quæ ad eam pertinent, Deo, & ecclefiæ S. Maria de Southwark,
unde donavi de manu mea per quendam cultellum fuper altare
ejufdem ecclefiæ pofitum, primo anno quo in eadem ecclefia cano-
nici regulares effecti funt, viz. pro remedio animæ meæ, &
patris, & matris, & regis, &c. The canons regular were
admitted there in 1106.
THIS act of earl Warren's, in thus authenticating his
charter, was not quite fingular, for Lambard, in his Per-
ambulation of Kent,* fpeaks of a grant of Alberic de Veer,
Conteining the donation of Hatfielde, to the which he affixed a
fhorte blacke hafted knife, like unto an olde halfpenny whitle,
inftead of a feale: adding, and fuch others, of which happily
I have feene fome, and heard of moe. In the Monafticon like-
P. 406, edit. 1596.
wife
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107
wife at the foot of a deed by Will. Rufus, we read, Hoc
denique fciant omnes quod rex, per cultellum eburneum quod in
manu tenuit, & abbati porrexit, hoc donum peregit apud curi-
am, teftimonio virorum illorum, nomina quorum infra fcripta
dinofcuntur. Hugh Lupus earl of Chefter gave alfo his
eftate in Scipena to the abbey of Abingdon, manu cultel-
lum altari fuperponendo as may be feen in the chartulary
of Abingdon, in the Cottonian library, Claudius, C. 9,
fol. 1. The uſe of theſe tokens, we are told by Dr. Gale, in
his Differtation on Ulphus's Horn at York, was for thoſe who
had received them with any endowment, in caſe of a difpute,
or enquiry, after thirty years poffeffion, to produce the
fame, or plead prefcription. + In early times, conveyances
were made, as Ingulphus tells us, nudo verbo abfque fcripto,
vel charta, the grantor delivering to the grantee, fome move-
able which was known to belong to him. And it ſeems
from the inſtance before us, that even after the ecclefiaftics
had introduced the practice of conveying lands, &c. by
written inftruments, the above cuftom was continued for
fome time. The knife which the earl placed upon the altar,
was doubtlefs the fame which he had in common ufe.
Every one then carried fuch an inftrument along with him,
agreeable to what Chaucer has told us in his Reve's tale,
A Shefild thwitil bare be in his hofe.
* Vol. I. p. 997•
† Archæologia, vol. I. p. 178.
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IN the laſt mentioned M. S. D. 46,* is the following
extract of a charter faid to have been taken out of the book
of the monaftery of S. Mary de Overy. Ego Willielmus de
Warrenna, & Ifabel comitiffa uxor mea, cum filiis noftris, pro
amore, & honore Dei, & beate Marie, & omnium Sanctorum,
& pro anima regis Willielmi primi, & fecundi, & pro falute
regis Henrici, &c. Et pro anima patris mei Willielmi, &
Gundrede matris, & pro falute noftra, &c. Conceffimus in
perpetuum ecclefie Marie de Suthwark, & canonicis ejufdem,
ecclefiam de Churgesfeld, cum ecclefia de Begefurde, & ecclefiam
de Haleghe.
THIS deed was confirmed by the two fucceeding earls
William and Hameline.
FROM Burton's Monafticon
we learn that William earl of
Warren and others, gave the church in Yorkſhire, called
Wodechurch, to the priory of Noftel, by the hands of
archbishop Thurftin. Now as this Thurftin was elected
archbishop in 1114, and refigned his fee in January 1139,
this earl only dying the May before, it could not be the
firſt earl William who made this grant; and that it was not
the third, follows from the third earl's confirmation char-
ter of the church of Wodekirke, &c. wherein he mentions
his father's gift to the Canons there.
+ P. 309.
* P. 113.
Dugd. Monaft. vol. II. p. 35.
| Monaft. vol. II. p. 41.
IF
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IF Tanner alfo, in his Notitia, be right in afferting, that
the priory of Luffield was founded in the reign of Henry I.
this earl was in fome degree inftrumental therein; for the
founder thereof, Robert de Bellomonte (or Beaumont) firſt
earl of Leyceſter, in his charter printed in the Monaſticon,*
fais, hoc feci per confilium, & laudem comitis de Guarenna, &c.
THESE are all the benefactions which I have met with of
this earl, to religious houfes in England; but his bounty
of this fort was not confined to this country, for he granted
to the abbey of Greftine, in Normandy, the liberties of
leftage, pontage, and paffage in their manor of Sefford. He
gave alfo, together with Ifabel his countefs and their fons,
William and Ralph, to the church of All Saints, at Belen-
cumbre, and the infirm brothers there, ferving God, their
parcels of arable land, at St. Martin, perhaps part of the
ancient paternal eftate of the family. The faid Ifabel gave
alfo to the faid brothers, of her patrimony of Wellebof, an
hundred fhillings yearly, by the conceffion of Walleran earl
Mellent her fon, and the fame fum of one hundred fhillings
from the borough of Lewes, dated in 1135. He made the
fign of the cross, to the inftrument whereby king Hen. I.
converted the abbey of Ely into a bishopric in
109; and
was afterwards witnefs to the charter of the fame king,
* Vol. I. p. 520.
whereby
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whereby he releaſed Hervey biſhop of Ely, and his fucceffors,
from their duty of Caftleward in Norwich caſtle, &c.*
He married (after being difappointed in his application to
Maud, afterwards queen to king Henry I. †) Ifabel third
daughter of Hugh the great, who was
earl of Vermandoife, and bore the fame
arms as Warren, which accounts for a
feal in the Afpilogia of John-Charles
Brooke, Efq. on which is the effigy of a
woman in a garment checky, and holding
in each hand an efcutcheon checky. She was widow of
Robert de Beaumont, earl of Mellent in Normandy, and
Leiceſter in England, before mentioned. ‡ By her he had
William who fucceeded to the title, Reginald de Warren,
Ralph de Warren, Gundred, and Ada, or Adama.
Warren Vermandois
THIS REGINALD appears from Flower and Glover's pedi-
gree to have been the ancestor of the Warrens of Poynton; and
it would be right to give ſome account of him here, but as
* Appendix to Bentham's Hift. of Ely.
+ Orderic. p. 702.
By this Ifabel the ſaid Robert had Walleran the firft earl of Worcester after the con-
queft, a feal of whom is engraved in the fecond plate of feals No. 35 from the Afpilogia
of John-Charles Brooke, Efq. Somerfet Herald, to fhew that he carried a banner,
having arms on it, either in honor of his being defcended from the princely houfe of
Vermandoife, or in compliment to his mother's fecond huſband, William the fecond
earl of Warren.
his
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his uncle Reginald and he both flouriſhed together, and
often occur in writers without any diſtinguiſhing marks to
identify their perfons, it is next to impoffible to defcribe
their ſeveral acts with precifion. I fhall juft mention fome
of the principal of theſe.
REGINALD de Warren then was witnefs with Will. de
Maritell, and John de Port to the charter of agreement
between king Stephen, and Henry duke of Normandy,
18 Steph. wherein are theſe words, Reginalde de Warenne fhall
have the keeping of the caftelles of Bellencumbre, and of Mortimer,
if bee wyll. In the reign of Henry II. he was made keeper
of Norwich caſtle, by William de Blois, to whom it
belonged; this muſt have been before October 1160, becauſe
this William died at that time. It appears from a M. S. in
the Herald's office intitled Vincent, No. 3. and marked with
a croſs patee, † that he was a vicecomes (or ſheriff) under
the earl of Arundel, 9 H. II. and in that very year, there
+
was a writ from Robert de Beaumont earl of Leiceſter,
Jufticier of England, commanding Reginald de Warenne to
do right (in his court) to Robert de Mandevill. The
The year
following, he was one of thoſe temporal lords who came to
an accord with the king touching their ancient rights and
liberties. Their names may be ſeen in Leland's Collectanea. §
Rymer's Fœdera, vol. I. p. 13.
+ P. 41.
† Madox's Hift. of the Excheq. p. 23. || Dugd. Bar. vol. I. p. 83. § Vol. III. p. 410.
14 H. II.
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14 H. II. he was one of the Juftices errant in Effex, Hert-
fordshire, and Lincolnshire.* 15
H. II. he was in the fame
capacity for Lincolnshire, Warwickshire, Leiceſterſhire,
Suffex, Cambridgeshire, Huntingtonfhire, Surrey, London,
Middlefex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Dorfetfhire, Somerfetfhire,
Wiltſhire, and Devonshire. 16 H. II. he was the fame for
Norfolk, Suffolk, Middlefex, Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire,
Huntingtonſhire, Devonshire, Effex, Hertfordſhire, Dorſet-
ſhire, Somerſetſhire, Hampshire, Suffex, Lincolnshire, Kent,
and Surry. 17 H. II. he was the fame for Norfolk,
Suffolk, Hampſhire, city of Wincheſter, Northamptonſhire,
Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingtonſhire, Effex,
Hertfordshire, Suffex, Kent, Surrey, London, and Middle-
fex. About the 16 H. II. he was one of the barons of the
Exchequer. Dugdale § fais, that in this year he was
ſheriff of Kent with Reginald de Cornhulle. He alſo tells
us that for one half of that 16th year, and for the 17th,
18th, and 19th years of that king, he was ſheriff for Suffex,
and for half the faid 19th year, for Devonshire; and for
Suffex the 21 and 22 H. II. He was one of the Juftices.
errant for pleas of the crown, and common pleas, and for
impofing the affizes, or tallages upon the king's demeans,
20 H. II. in Surrey, Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, Hunting-
tonſhire, and Lincolnſhire, being at that time sheriff of
+
+
* Madox's Hift. of the Excheq. p. 102.
↑ Madox, p. 99, 100.
+ Madox's Hift. of the Excheq. p. 98, 99.
|| Madox, p. 744.
§ Bar. p. 83.
Suffex.
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113
Suffex.* Laſtly, he was in the fame capacity for Surrey,
23 H. II. +
ONE of this name alfo conducted (with William de Albini)
Maud, daughter of king Henry the II. into Saxony, in 1167,
to be married to duke Henry, furnamed the Lion. Brooke‡
is miſtaken when he fais this was Maud, daughter of Henry I.
and that it was done in II14.
Now if Reginald, fon of the first earl of Warren and
Surrey, is meant in all this, he muſt have furvived his father
about 88 years, and his mother about 91 years, which is a
very uncommon inſtance. On the other hand, if the ſon of
the ſecond earl is intended, the principal parts of his life.
take in a compaſs of ſomething lefs than thirty years. And
the firſt mention we find of him is about eight years after
his father's death. There are alfo certain marks in the above
relation, which tend to fix it on the younger Reginald, ſuch
as his being made keeper of the caftles of Bellencumbre,
Mortimer, and Norwich, on account of his being uncle to
Ifabel, who had married William de Blois, king Stephen's
youngeſt fon. Suppoſing alſo the elder Reginald to have
been living fo late in the reign of Henry II. he could hardly
be fuppofed at ninety years of age to have executed the office
• Madox, p. 84, 85.
VOL. I.
+ Madox, p. 90.
‡ Cat. p. 2.
S
of
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of a judge itinerant, in fo many different counties. There-
fore with ſeeming propriety is written in the pedigree already
mentioned, drawn up by Flower and Glover, oppoſite to
Reginald, brother of the third earl of Warren and Surrey,
the words, Reginaldus ifte de Warenna, frater junior Willmi
tertii comitis Warenne & Surregiæ, fuit Dominus de Belen-
cumbre in Normannia, & cuftos caftri Norwicens. Is inter
multos alios regni nobiles, adhibetur teftis pactionibus inter Ste-
phanum regem Anglia, & Henricum Ducem Normanniæ pro
regno fancitis.
It ſeems as if this Reginald attended king Stephen in his
wars, for in the Monafticon,* is a charter of that king, the
witneffes to which are thus put down, "Willielmo Martell.
" & Rain. de Warenna apud Mapertes Halam in obfidione.”
He was no friend to Thomas Becket. He and his bro-
ther Ralph, were witneffes to a confirmation deed of Rafe de
Pleiz, to the monks of St. Pancrace, of the church, and
lands in Iford, &c. This deed the late Dr. Rawlinson,
F. R. and A. S. caufed to be engraven in 1754, and be-
queathed the plate by his will to the University of Oxford.
WRITERS have been a good deal puzzled with the above
part of the pedigree; and no wonder, as the two firft earls
of Warren had each of them two fons called William and
† Dugd. Bar. vol. I. p. 83.
* Vol. I. p. 480.
Reginald,
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115
Reginald, and each of thoſe Reginalds a ſon of the name of
William. Ralph brother to Reginald gave a virge of land
to Lewes abbey, and died without iffue.
GUNDRED, fifter to Reginald, married ift, Roger de
Newburgh, earl of Warwick, by whom ſhe had three fons,
William, Waleran, and Henry, and one daughter, Agnes.
She was a witnefs, by the name of Gundreda Comitiffa, to
a charter of her faid huſband Roger, printed in the Mo-
nafticon.* This Roger died 18 Steph. immediately after
whofe deceaſe, Henry duke of Normandy (afterwards king
Henry II.) coming into England with a great army, this
Gundred, then countefs of Warwick, being a virago of a
manly courage, + caft out the garrifon of king Stephen from
the caſtle of Warwick, and delivered it to duke Henry, who
was fon to Maud the emprefs. Gundred married 2dly,
William furnamed de Lancafter, baron of Kendal, by whom
ſhe had William, and a daughter married to Richard de
Morevill. She was remarried to Roger
de Glan -- The family of Lan-
cafter bore argent two bars on a canton
gules a lion paffant guardant or, as may
be ſeen amongst the feals appendant to
the Baron's letter to Pope Boniface in
Lancaster-Warren
• Vol. III. p. 28, under the title Ecclefiæ Collegiatæ.
+ Milles's Catalogue of Honor. p. 785.
I MISCELLANEA B. II. in the Herald's office, written by Vincent and Son, fol. 77.
See alfo Placita de Banc. Term. Mich. 1 John Rot. 17.
S2
1300,
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1300, publiſhed by the Society of Antiquaries; though it is
called a Leopard (e jaune luppart) in the coat attributed to
John de Lancaſter, a commander at the fiege of Caerlaverock
caſtle. * The lions in the arms of England were originally
leopards; but fome fay that this is founded in miſtake,
owing to the French heralds calling lions paffant guardant,
leopards. Witneſs the above arms of England, which being
gules three lions paffant guardant or, are always thus de-
ſcribed by them, de guilles trois leopards d'or.
ADA the younger fifter married in 1139, Henry earl
of Huntington, eldeſt fon of David king of Scots, by Maud,
daughter and coheirefs of Waltheof earl
of Huntington, &c. which Waltheof
had married Judith, niece to king Wil-
liam the Conqueror. Scot earl of Hun-
tington bore or, three piles gules. Lord
Lyttelton || fais, that at king Stephen's
return from the fiege of Ludlow, a lady of his court, who was
fifter to William earl of Warren and Surrey, added another
attachment to bind the affection of Henry (fon to the Scotch
king) to England, and to the party of Stephen in which her
family was engaged. That young prince fell in love with her,
Scott Warren.
Antiq Repertory, vol. II. p. 136. † Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, vol. I. p. 13.
1 Chron de Mailros. || Hift. of Hen. II. vol. I.
P. 208.
and
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117
and married her with the confent of the king his father. Her
blood indeed was fo noble, that the match was hardly unequal,
for her father was related to the Norman kings of England,
and her mother was a daughter of Hugh the great, earl of Ver-
mandois, and ſecond brother to Philip I. king of France.
By the
faid Henry, this Ada had three fons, and as many daughters,
viz. Malcolme, and William, * both kings of Scotland, and
David earl of Huntington, &c. Ada, who was married to
Floris earl of Holland; Margaret to Conan le Petit earl of
Britany; and Maud, who died young. Ada the mother
died in 1178.
ISABEL, Countess of Warren, died Feb. 13, 1131. The
earl died May 11, 1138, having enjoyed the title near fifty
years, and was buried at his father's feet in the chapter houſe
of Lewes.
THIS William, when earl of Northumberland, had fo high an opinion of his
mother's family, that he called himſelf William de Warren, as may be feen in a charter
of his to Brinkeburne priory in Dugdale's Monaft. vol. II. p. 203.
WILLIAM
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WILLIA
THIR DE AR L.
M
HIS earl was in the year 1137 (a lit-
tle before his father's death) with
king Stephen in Normandy, when
that monarch was at the head of a
confiderable army, defirous of giving
battle to Geoffry of Anjou, huſband
of Maud the emprefs; but a great mutiny happening amongſt
them, many fled from their colors, and amongst the
reſt this William de Warren, at which time the king
being incenfed, purſued, and overtook them at Pont Au-
domare, and endeavored partly by threats, and partly by
perfua-
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119
perfuafions, to bring them back, but not prevailing, he was
obliged to make truce with his adverfaries for two years.
Matthew Paris in his account of the abbats of St. Albans,
repreſents this earl, with William de Ipres, and others, as
intending to fet fire to the town of St. Albans, had it not
been redeemed by a valuable preſent from Geoffry the Abbat,
but the particulars of that affair are not known. He was
next, with his half brother * Waleran de Bellomonte earl of
Mellent and Leiceſter, in the army of king Stephen, when
the king was defeated, and taken prifoner by the troops of
Maud the empreſs, near Lincoln, on Candlemas day, 1141.
His poft was amongſt the horſe, which gave way at the be-
ginning of the engagement. Dr. Brady fais the earl of
Chefter charged the earl of Mellent, who fled prefently.
From William of Malmesbury we learn that all the earls on
the king's fide fled; tentavere primo regii proludium pugnæ
facere, quod juftam vocant, quia tali arte erant periti: At ubi
viderunt quod confulares, ut ita dictum fit, non lanceis eminus,
fed gladiis cominus rem gererent, & infeftis viribus, & vexillis
aciem regalem perrumperent, fuga fibi omnes ad unum comites
confuluere. Henry of Huntington fais, Acies exhærededatorum,
quæ præibat, percuffit aciem regalem, in qua conful Alanus, &
ille de Mellent, & Hugo conful de Eftangle, & Symon comes, &
* He was the eldeſt ſon of his mother Ifabel de Vermandoife, by her first huſband
Robert earl of Leiceſter and Mellent.
ille
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ille de Warrenna inerant, tanto impetu, quod ftatim quafi in ictu
oculi diffipata eft, & divifio eorum in tria devenit; alii namque
eorum occifi, alii capti, alii aufugerunt. Sir Peter Leyceſter *
alfo obferves, that Waleran earl of Mellent, and William
de Warren his brother, Gilbert de Clare, and other famous
knights, both of England and Normandy, ran away as foon
as they faw their own fide fhrink.
Now the queſtion is to what cauſe this accident is chiefly
to be attributed. Holinfhed, in his account of this battle,
fais that the king difpofed his horſemen into two ſeveral
wings, In one of the which wer theſe men of honor, Alaine duke
of Britaine, Hugh Bigot earle of Norfolke, † Simon earle of
Hampton, and two other earles, Mellent and Warenne; but
they were not furnished with fuch number of men as had bin
requifite; for as it fel out, they brought no great retinues with
them: agreeable to what Sir Peter Leycefter has farther ob-
ſerved, that in the head of the king's army were very flout
foldiers, but his enemies outvying him in number, prevailed;
but if this was fo, earl Baldwin, in his fpeech to the king's
forces, did not keep to the truth, when he faid, Our number
is not much less in horsemen, and in footmen we exceed them.
Suppofing, however, that the king's horfemen were fome-
thing fewer, fuch were the characters of fome of thoſe who
• Antiq. p. 123.
+ This was Simon de St. Lys, earl of Northampton.
led
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led them on, that better things might reaſonably have been
expected from them. The words of Holinfhed feem to
point at the true cauſe of this defeat, when he fais, that
few battailes had bin better fought, nor with greater flaughter
of people on both fides, if the king's foreward (which in maner
at the firſt ſhranke backe, and was difordered, not without fome
fufpicion of treafon) had ſtaied the brunt of the enemies a while,
as it had bene requifite. Sir Peter Leycefter fpeaks more fully
to the purpoſe in theſe words: The king was ill betrayed;
for fome of his nobles accompanied him in perfon, whiles they
Sent whole troops to the other fide; with which agree Dugdale*
and the Chronicon Saxonicum† which fais, prehendebant eum
(Stephanum) quippe fui homines illum prodiderunt ac fugerunt.
A proof of the infincerity of fome of thefe leaders, arifes
from what we read in Lord Lyttelton, ‡ that Waleran earl of
Meulant afifted Geoffry of Anjou, the husband of Maud, to
befiege king Stephen's castle of Rouen in Normandy. He adds,
indeed, that this is very furprifing, because he and his half-
brother, the earl of Warren and Surrey, had been among the
moft forward in bringing aid to the queen, after her husband's
captivity; and the latter was fill firm in endeavoring to fup-
port the cause of that prince, both in England and Normandy :
for the caftle of Rouen was defended by his foldiers against the
earl of Anjou till they were compelled by famine to give it up;
and even when that was furrendered, another fortress in Nor-
* Bar. vol. I. p. 75.
VOL. I.
+ P. 241.
T
↑ Hift. of Hen. II. vol. I. p. 284.
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mandy was held for the king by mercenary troops in the pay of
that lord, till it was forced alfo to capitulate. This is extracted
from the Chronica Normanniæ, * but his lordship takes no
notice, that fome time after the battle of Lincoln, earl War-
ren actually appeared in arms againſt the king; and was the
fame year on the fourteenth day of September, taken priſoner
at a place called Stoubregge, (or Stotbridge) along with
Robert furnamed Fitzroy, earl of Glouceſter, natural fon of
king Henry I. and Stephen's greateſt oppofer. This hap-
pened after the defeat of Maud's army near Wincheſter.
IN the Monafticon + this earl is a witneſs to a charter of
Maud, wife of king Stephen, to the monks of Cogefhale,
which by fome authorities is fixed to the year 1142, but the
above relation ſhews the great improbability of his being ad-
mitted fo near the prefence of the queen; therefore it is
neceffary to carry the date a little farther back, as Tanner in
his Notitia informs us fome have done.
AFTER the taking of earl Warren, we hear no more of
his exploits againſt king Stephen; perhaps, to regain his
liberty, he had engaged not to moleft him more, or was fo
ftript of his poffeffions that he could not. The troubles in
which he had involved himſelf, feem to have put him upon
trying his fortune another way. He engaged in one of the
* P. 981.
+ Vol. I. p. 822.
I P. 128.
crufades,
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crufades, but writers have varied in relating the ftory. In
the Herald's office is an unintitled M. S. which afferts, that
William earl Warren, who married Ifabel de Vermandoife,
went with Hugh le Grand, earl of Vermandoife, and God-
frey de Bouillon, into Paleſtine in 1096, and died in that fer-
vice, his heart only, being brought into England, and buried
at Lewes. That a crufade was undertaken in 1096, is certain,
but it is alſo as certain, that the fecond earl who married
the above Ifabel, was alive about forty years after that event.
A miſtake therefore has been made in point of time, and a
fact related of the fecond earl, which we fhall find belonged
to the third. That he died abroad is by all agreed, but the
time, and circumſtances of his death are differently related.
A M. S. written by Dr. Kuerden of Lancaſhire,* under the
deſcription of the earls of Lancaſter, affirms that he died in
his return from the holy wars. Chronicon de Mailros, under
the year 1147 fais, captus a Turcis Willielmo nobili comite de
Warenna. The continuation of the hiftory of Simeon of
Dunelm, tells us under the year 1148, Periit in hac profec-
tione Willielmus de Waren comes, a Paganis interceptus, qui
cuftodiam pofteram chriſtiani exercitus obfervabat. Lord Lyt-
telton || obferves, that he went with the king of France in
1147, to the Holy Land, and that he was flain with many
+
* Belonging to George Kenion of Peel Com. Lanc. Efq.
+ See Rerum Ang. Scrip. vet. vol. I.
p. 167.
↑ See Twifden's Script. Ang. Antiq. vol. I. p. 275. || Hift. of Hen. II. vol. I. p. 317.
others
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others in a fudden attack made on the French army by the Turks,
Soon after their leaving Laodicea. This was the year when
he fet out on this expedition, but he was flain on the ides of
January, (or the 13th) as entered in the regiſter book of the
priory of Lewes, and in the M. S. Quid non, No. 6. in the
Herald's office. *
He was a man, who may be faid not to have been a fa-
vorite of fortune, for he had the ill luck to be always on the
lofing fide, though, when he joined it, there was an ap-
pearance of its being the ftronger. Thus, with the reft of
the nobility, he did homage to Stephen, when there was no
oppofition made to his acceffion; this brought on the dif-
grace of being defeated in the field; and when Stephen was
made priſoner, and every thing bid fair towards raiſing the
Empress to the throne, either through intereft, or inclina-
tion, or both, he joined that ſeemingly prevailing party;
this produced the ftill greater difgrace, of being made a pri-
foner by thofe for whom he had once appeared in arms.
And being thus unfortunate at home, he joined in a fruitleſs
expedition abroad, which put a fatal end to all his under-
takings.
THE following immediately precedes the dedication char-
ter of the ſecond earl, at p. 9 of the Lewes regiſter, and is
* P. 217.
entered
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entered there on the back of p. 8, but is evidently miſplaced,
and belongs to the third earl, as he mentions his brother
Ralph, and the fecond earl had no brother of that name.
Sciant pres. & fut. quod ego Will. comes de Warenna dono
& concedo Deo & S. Panccio & mochis ibid. Deo fervient. in
liba elemofina ões ter. & oia ten. fua que bent de feodo meo cujuf-
cunque donacois fint abfoluta & quieta ab oibus donis & ab oibus
auxiliis & confuetud. & fervic. Dono quidem eis quicquid in eis
herem fi michi retinuiſſem ea Ego autem de meo proprio acquie-
tabo illa erga regem de Danegeld & de oibus aliis fervic. que ad
regem pertinent Dono eciam illis de oibus dominiis meis plenar.
deciam viz. de blado de feno de agnis de vellibus de cafeis & ple-
nar. deciam denar. do oibus reddit. meis de Anglia quamvis au-
tem ex illis denar. in procuracoe mea five alior. quorumlibet ex-
pendatur ex illis tamen plenar. jupdict. mochis reddatur decima
Et fi dominium meum aut redditus mei creverint eotinus crefcat &
decima mochorum Hec fupradca ego pro falute anime mee & pro
aiabus anteceffor. meor. predict. mochis conceffi & de cent. fol.
in burgo de Lewes quand. feci dedicari eccliam S. Pancii & de
decia denar. de oibus reddit. meis de Anglia dotavi ipam eccliam
& inde feifivi eam per capillos capitis mei & fratris mei Rad. de
Warenn. quos abfcidit de capitibus nris cum cultello ante altare
Hen. epus Winton-Teft. Theobaldo Archiepo Cant. Hen. epo
Winton. Rodberto epo Bad. Afcelino epo Rovest. qui eandem
eccliam dedicant qui eciam decrunt & ftatuerunt meipo cum
oibus
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oibus baron. meis concedente ut quicumque has fuprafcriptas
donacoes illi ecclie auferre vel ablatas retinere minuere aliquo
modo volurint excomunicentur & a corpore & fang. nri Jhu
Xpi feparetur Oibus vero eidem loco pacem fervantibus fra-
ternitatem & beneficium loci concefferunt Ego autem Deo
& ipis epis promifi fecularem jufticiam faciend. de hiis qui
has donacoes minuere vel mochos inde vexare tentarunt Et
teft. Edw. Abbate Rading. Walt. Abb. de Bello. Walt. Priore
Cant. Walt. Archidiacono Cant. Ric. Decano Ciceft. Rodberto
Archidiacono. Jobe de Pagham. Will. com. Ciceft. Rad de Wa-
renna. Reginaldo de Warr. Hugone de Petroponte. Rad. de Pleiz.
Rob. de Wefnevall. Rodberto de Frievill. Rodberto de Petroponte
Will. de Petroponte. Adam de Puninges. Guidone de Mercecurt.
Will. filio fuo. Will. de Drofeio, & aliis.
1147, the confecra-
THE above is printed in Selden's Hiftory of Tithes, but
he has omitted thofe parts which are expreffed in Roman
characters. As the above Afceline came to the See of
Rocheſter in 1142, and died Jan. 23d,
tion above named must have happened between theſe two
periods; but another circumſtance will bring us ftill nearer
to the time, which is, that the bishop of the dioceſe was not
there, owing to the See of Chicheſter being vacant by the
deprivation of Seffride in 1145, fo that the dedication was
probably on the 12th of May (which is the feftival of St.
Pancrace) 1146. This ceremony became neceffary, in con-
fequence
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fequence of the great additions made to the building fince the
former confecration of it.
MADOX in his Differtation concerning ancient charters,
before his Formulare Anglicanum, has, through miſtake,
attributed the above fingular grant to William earl of War-
wick, and Ralph de Warwick his brother; this he had from
Mag. Rot. 24 Hen. III. tit. Sudfex; but in his prefatory
epiftle to the History and Antiquities of the Exchequer, he
has made an apology for the error.
AT p. 10 of the above regifter, is a carta generalis of this
earl, by which he gave and confirmed to the monks of
Lewes, all the lands and churches which they had of his
fee, and full tithe of all the lands of all his demefnes, and
alfo plenariam decimam denarior. de oibus reddit. fuis in Anglia.
ALSO another deed, confirming the gifts of Adam de
Ponynges and Beatrix his wife, of the churches of Ponynges
and Pengedene, and the land of Cumcieftre.
ANOTHER, giving three hides of land in Molefcumbe.
ANOTHER, giving all the land in Hecheham, and two
hides of land in Iford, in free charity.
ANOTHER,
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ANOTHER, giving two hides of land in Yford, which
William fon of Godwin held.
Ат
p. 11. (and 25) is a charter, whereby this earl gave to
Lewes, the churches of Gymmyngham, Feltwell, Wilton,
St. Helen, and one church in Thetford, which belonged to
Melewode.
ANOTHER, giving the garden of Dychening with a wood
and lands, and free pafture in the paftures of Dychening and
Chiemere.
ANOTHER, Confirming the mill of Attelebrigge given by
Reginald his brother.
ANOTHER, granting eighteen acres of land and paſture for
an hundred ſheep in Herbetinges, in perpetual charity.
ANOTHER, giving the church of Kyngefton and an acre of
land to the fame; alſo an hide of land in Rottingden.
ANOTHER, giving the church of Cuningeburgh with its
appurtenances.
P. 12. A CHARTER, confirming XX folidat. ter. at Maf-
fingham, which Robert de Fryevyll gave to the monks of
St. Pancrace.
P. 13.
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P. 13. ANOTHER, ordering that two hides of land of
Godefrid Petrepont be free to the church of St. Pancrace.
P. 14. ANOTHER, confirming the agreement concerning
the land of Bright, made between the monks of St. Pancrace
and John de Kayfneto. (or Cheney.)
P. 15. ANOTHER, concerning an acre of land given to the
church of Kyngefton. N. B. This is a precept to Hugh
ſheriff of Lewes, to give feifin of the faid acre, which Peter
the fheriff had given to the monks of St. Pancrace, to the
ufe of their church.
P. 16. ANOTHER, whereby the earl gave to Lewes, the
church of Dicheling and pafture for the monk's cattle, de
gardino in le Fryth and in Frekebergh.
P. 17. ANOTHER, whereby he gave to the faid monks,
the land which Will. de Grumofa villa held of him in Her-
cheam, and other lands which Hugh de Grumofa villa gave
them in Catefton.
P. 18. ANOTHER, whereby he gave to the faid monks
half an hide of land at Kyngefton for his foul, and thofe of
his parents, in pure and perpetual charity.
P. 19.
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P. 19. ANOTHER, whereby he gave to them the land
which Briſteline had in Swambergh, & in fuburbio caftelli fui.
P. 20. ANOTHER, whereby he gave to them the churches
of Wakefeld, with all things belonging to them.
P. 21. ANOTHER, whereby he gave to them the tythe of
his hay, and half an hide of land at Brigh. and the mill of
Meching with four acres of land.
N. B. THERE is at p. 35 a grant of this mill of Meching,
free from all fecular fervice and demand, by Reginald de
Warren, who from circumftances appears to have been the
third earl's brother.
P. 22. ANOTHER, by which Will. earl of Warren and
Ifabel his countefs, gave to the faid monks the mill of
Walton, cum orto fubfosfato.
THIS certainly was a gift of Will. de Blois the fourth earl,
and gives reafon to conclude that more entries under this
article belonged to him, but it would be difficult, if not
impoffible, to feparate them with certainty.
P. 23. ANOTHER, by which Will. earl of Warren gave
the church of Stokes near Gildeford, with lands and all ap-
purtenances, in free and perpetual charity.
P. 24.
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P. 24. ANOTHER, by which the fame earl gave as above,
half his land of Rottingden, with men and paſture, &c.
P. 25. ANOTHER, by which he gave two hides of land in
Falmere, free from all cuſtoms and ſervices, in pure and per-
petual charity.
P. 26. ANOTHER, by which he confirmed the exchange
which the monks of Lewes made, of four acres of land near
the mill of Meching, for four acres of land near the granges
of the faid vill.
P. 27. ANOTHER, by which he gave all the land of Bur-
card cum oibus pert. fuis ad unum hofpicm ad opus prioris &
mochor. &c.
P. 28. ANOTHER, by which he gave an hide of land at
Allinton, in pure and perpetual charity.
P. 29. ANOTHER, by which he confirmed the gift of
Jordan de Bloffeville, of the land of Ovingden.
P. 30. ANOTHER, by which Will. earl of Warren forbad,
ne aliquis caperet quicquid de pecunia fua feil. fi clamavit quicquid
erga hoies S. Pancii oftendat prius priori & fi non fecerit ei rec-
titudinem clamet fe inde fibi vel fuo vicecomiti.
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P. 31. ANOTHER, by which the faid earl confirmed the
gift of Reinald de Warren.
P. 32. ANOTHER, by which he confirmed the church of
Wefton to the church of St. Pancrace, and prayed the bishop
of Ely to confirm it by his letters.
P. 33. ANOTHER, granting to the monks there the
churches, tithes and lands to them belonging, which his
anceſtors and their men gave them.
P. 34. ANOTHER, by which he gave to them one hide of
land in Ovingden, and another in Aldrington, alſo the church
of Balecumbe, and two hides of land called Pecchelefweye.
THE following deeds are alfo in the above regiſter, which
I cannot better clafs than under this third earl.
Ar the back of p. 21, a grant of William de Garenna, in
perpetual charity, of two virges of land, and a third part of
a fourth part of a virge of land, in Brithelmeſton.
THIS is followed by deeds of Reginald de Warren, and
Ifabel the countefs, which must be his brother and daughter.
P. 24. A CHARTER, confirming the gift of the land of
Hercham,
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Hercham, which Robert fon of William, and William fon
of the ſaid Robert, granted to the monks of Lewes.
ANOTHER, by which William earl of Warren confirmed
the gift of ten ſhillings iffuing out of the mill of Ponings.
ANOTHER, by which the faid earl commanded refaifire
mochos de Lewes de decem folidatis ter. quas Hugo de Grumofa
villa donavit eis.
ANOTHER, confirming the gift which Ralph de Plaiz be-
ſtowed upon the faid monks, viz. the churches of Yford,
Toftes, and Syreford.
ANOTHER, by which the faid earl gave to them the
churches of Bruneam, and Herpeley, with lands and tithes.
ANOTHER, by which he gave them all the mill of
Nereford.
He founded, fais Tanner, a priory of canons regular of the
order of the Holy Sepulchre, or the Holy Crofs, in the church
of St. Sepulchre at Thetford in Norfolk, in the time of king
Stephen, which appears to be true from a charter in the
Monafticon of John earl Warren, reciting that he had feen
• Vol. II. P. 574
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deeds of William, Hameline, and William, formerly earls
of Warren, to the Prior and Canons of Thetford, importing
that William earl Warren gave to God, and the moſt Holy
Sepulchre, the place and fituation of the church of St. Sepul-
chre of Thetford, with land there, for the forgiveness of his
fins, and for the fafety of the foul of earl William his fa-
ther; for the forgiveneſs of the fins of Iſabel his mother,
and his brothers Rafe, and Reginald, which two laft were
amongſt the witneffes. The faid Canons were alſo to have
fac and foc, tol, and team, and infangthef; and hold the
churches, and tithes of Thetford, and men, and lands, and
fheepfolds, and paftures, &c. as freely as king Stephen held
them, and conveyed them to the faid earl. This confirms
what lord Lyttleton has faid, that the young earl of Warren
and Surrey was in great favor with Stephen; which makes
it a little more ftrange that he ſhould defert him.
THE faid earl William granted them alfo a fair for two
days, viz. in the invention of the holy crofs, and another in
the exaltation. At the next page is likewife a deed of this
earl, directed to Reginald Warren his brother, &c. com-
manding that his canons of the holy fepulchre at Thetford,
ſhould hold free from all fervice the land of Fanerconefeld,
which Turftin fon of Algar gave to the church there. The
church of St. Sepulchre at Thetford was ninety paces in
Hift. of Hen. II. vol. I. p. 208.
length.
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length. The arms of this priory were the fame as thofe
of the founder.
FROM the Monafticon † we learn, that he was likewiſe a
benefactor to the monks of Caftle Acre, or confirmed what
had been given before; the words are, quicquid Willielmus
comes Warennia primus, & Willielmus fecundus comes, &
Willielmus tertius comes Warrennia-eis dederunt.‡
IN the Harleian Mfs. No. 1967, || are extracts from
the regiſter book of Caſtle Acre, wherein are mentioned
charters of William earl Warren, to Reginald his brother,
and Ela the countefs, teft. William bishop of Norwich.
Alfo confirmation of the third earl, teft. Ela the counteſs,
Rad. de Warren, &c.
THE Monafticon § has a charter, whereby Will. earl War-
ren gave to God, and the church of Saint Mary of Wode-
churche in Yorkſhire, and the canons there, for the health
of his foul, and the fouls of his wife, his father, mother,
ancestors, and fucceffors,
and fucceffors,* all the land wherein the faid
church was fituated, and all the wood between two rivulets
* Willis's Hift. of Mitred Abbeys, vol. II. p. 330, in the Addenda.
+ Vol. I. p. 630.
|| Fol. 27.
See alfo Weever's Funeral Mon. firſt edit. p. 816.
§ Vol. II. p. 41.
In the above charter is this curious expreffion, pro animabus patris, & matris
meæ, & antecefforum, & fuccefforum meorum, ficut ipfi ante me concefferunt, &c."
which
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which run through Selda bridge and Lygulf bridge, and
twenty fhillings yearly out of the rent of Erdeflaw; adding,
Volo & præcipio quod ipfi canonici teneant in mea firma pace—
omnia quæ tenuerunt in tempore patris mei de feodo fuo, & meo,
quæcunque eis dedit, which fixes it upon this earl, as the firſt
gave them nothing.
Warren Talvaic
Concern-
THIS earl married Adela, or Ela,
daughter of William Talvace earl of
Ponthieu and Sais, who bore azure a lion
rampant within a bordure or.
ing their iffue I find much difagreement.
Milles in his Catalogue of Honor, *
gives them but one daughter Ifabel, who married to her
first huſband William de Blois, and to her fecond Hameline
Plantagenet; with whom agrees Dugdale, quoting the
Norman Chronicle, and the regiſter of Lewes, the words
of which are In ifto comite defecit foboles mafculini fexus; non
habuit nifi unicam filiam nomine Ifabellam quam poft fe reliquit
heredem. All this is confirmed by Nicholas Trivet in his
Annals, where it is faid, Hanc comitiffam (Ifabellam) genu-
erat Willielmus tertius comes de Warenna, qui cum rege Ludo-
vico perexerat Jerufalem, & ibidem obiit, relicta ifta Comitiffa
unica filia & berede. And yet, Brooke || fais, that befides
this Iſabel, he had three fons, William, Patrick, and Philip;
* P. 621.
+ P. 999.
1 P. 45.
|| P. 232.
and
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and as Vincent has no correction on the paffage, he feems
to admit it as a fact. Yorke, in his Union of Honor adds,
that all the fons died without iffue. And in the Harleian
Collection, No. 1074, * a M. S. written in the time of
Henry VIII. mentions only three daughters, Adela, Maud,
and Ifabel.
THE fact feems evidently to be this, that earl Warren had
no child by his counteſs Adela, but Ifabel; for the defcent
of his whole eftate with her, and her two hufbands enjoying
the earldom of Warren, &c. in her right, fufficiently prove
it.
THE three fons above-named, are by Milles affigned to a
different father; for after the death of earl Warren, his
countefs was remarried to Patrick de Eureux, firft earl of
Saliſbury, by whom he had William the fecond earl of
Saliſbury, alfo Patrick and Philip, both monks in the priory
of Bradenſtoke, which was founded by their grandfather
Walter de Eureux. This is confirmed by the Baronage, ‡
where it is faid, that earl Patrick had another wife, Ela;
and that William his fon, who fucceeded him in the earldom
* Fol. 74.
VOL. I.
†Theſe monks are faid to have been flain at this priory.
₫ Vol. I. p. 175.
X
of
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of Saliſbury, was begotten on the daughter of the earl of
Ponthieu. They are all three named as brothers to Ifabel,
in a deed after her marriage with Hameline Plantagenet,
becauſe they were all by one mother; but in this deed
(which fee under the life of Hameline) there is no mention
of
any fiſter, which as it was a gift to pray for the fouls of
the family, and names are particularly recited, proves, I
think, that she had not any.
THE Counteſs Adela died Dec. 10, 1174, twenty-fix years
after her firſt huſband, as afferted in the regiſter of Lewes,
ſo that there was room enough for the fecond marriage, and
the iffue confequent thereupon, though the monks have not
recorded it. And for that reaſon we may venture to fay
that this firft earl of Saliſbury beftowed nothing upon them.
They feldom omitted to note down their benefactors.
was forgot however where this countefs Adela was interred;
for the words in the regiſter are, ubi fepulta eft nefcitur.
I doubt we ſhall find before we have done with her, that
fhe had fome way or other offended theſe gentry, or fhe
would not have been fo out of their books.
It
HER fecond huſband died about fix years before her; for
being captain general of king Henry's forces in Acquitain,
he was flain by Guy de Lufignian, and other inhabitants of
Poytiers,
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139
Eureux
Poytiers, in the year 1168, as he re-
turned from a pilgrimage which he
made to St. James of Compostella, and
was buried at St. Hillary.* His arms
were gules three pallets vary on a chief or,
a lion paſſant fable.
In a book of Sir Robert Cotton's, was found paſted an
original letter, as it is faid, of the famous Thomas Becket
archbishop of Canterbury, to the above Adela, containing
a very strong complaint against her, for withdrawing from
the monks of Lewes, the tithes of that part of her huſband
earl Warren's eftate, which was appropriated to her dower,
and threatning to do juftice to the monks, if ſhe witheld
them any longer. The letter as entered into the M.S. Quid
non, No. 6. is this. T. Dei gracia Cantuar: Archiepif
copus, Anglorum Primas, & Apoftolicæ fedis legatus, dilectæ
filia Ala comitiffe Warenne falutem. Pervenit ad aures noftras
religioforum fratrum Lewenfis ecclefiæ monachorum ftupenda
quærimonia, quod cum ipfi ex antiqua donacione comitum Wa-
rennæ, viz. Avi, & Patris, Willielmi viri tui, & fui ipfius
etiam antequam dotem tuam confecuta fuiffes, de omnibus dominiis
comitis decimationem denariorum femper inconcuffe tanquam
ecclefiæ fuæ dotem poffederint, tu poſt perceptam dotis tuæ inveſ-
• Chron. Norman. p. 1002.
X 2
+ P. 226.
tituram,
140
E EARLS OF
MEMOIRS
mationem quæ
ad dotem tuam
tituram, eifdem fratribus
Spectabat fubtraxeris. Quod fi ita eft, vehementer admiramur,
cum eorum quæ deo & ecclefiæ fuæ in elemofinam collata effe nof
cuntur, nihil doti tuæ vendicare debeas, nec poffis. Crudele
enim eft, & facrilegio proximum, quod fuper divinum altare femel
devote oblatum eft, iterum repetere, & ad fecularia transferre.
Proinde tibi falubriter confulimus, & in Domino admonemus,
quatinus ficut vis jus tuum tibi a Deo libere confervari, ita jus
fuum cum integritate monachis relinquas, & nullatenus datam
eis denariorum decimationem dotis tuæ, retineas, alioquin eis in
jufticia deeffe non poterimus, cujus debitores omnibus exiftimus. Vale.
THIS, if Thomas Becket's, muſt have been written be-
tween 1162, and 1170, becaufe during this period only,
he was archbiſhop of Canterbury; but as he was elected into
that See, about thirteen years after the death of earl Warren,
it is not confiftent with theſe words of the letter, tu poft per-
ceptam dotis tuæ inveftituram decimationem quæ ad dotem tuam
Spectabat fubtraxeris, to fuppofe that the monks would have
deferred their complaint ſo long. Befides, the admonition is
directed to the countess of Warren, it must therefore have
been penned before her marriage with the earl of Saliſbury;
and therefore could not have belonged to Becket; but if we
attribute it to his immediate predeceffor Theobald, every
thing will agree; for he was elected into that See in 1138,
and
WARREN A
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er the counteſs Adela
and died in 1160, about two
entered into the poffeffion of
г.*
WE are now come to the end of the account of the eldeſt
male branch of the family of Warren; in what manner it
was continued in the collaterals, may be feen under the
deſcription I ſhall hereafter give of the Warrens of Poynton.
* THIS letter may likewife be feen in Vincent's reply to Brooke, p. 517, and in
Selden's Hift. of Tithes.
WILLIAM
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WILLIAM DE BLOIS
FOURTH EARL.
E was third, and youngeſt ſon of king
Stephen, and having married Iſabel,
daughter and heirefs of the above
earl, became earl of Warren and
Surrey in right of his wife. This
is evident from the charter of agree-
ment, between king Stephen, and Henry duke of Nor-
mandy, printed in Holinfhed's Chronicle, out of which I have
taken the following extract*-William my fon hath done his
* See Rymer's Fædera, vol. I.
lawfull
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143
lawfull homage, and aſſured his fidelitie unto the duke of Nor-
mandie, and the duke hath graunted to him to holde of him all
thoſe tenements, and holdings which I helde before I atteyned to
the poſeſſion of the realme of Englande, wherefoever the fame be
in England, Normandie, or elſewhere, and whatſoever he re-
ceyved with the daughter of earle Warrenne, eyther in Englande,
or Normandie, and likewyse whatſoever apperteyneth to thoſe
honours: and the duke fhall putte my fonne William, and hys
menne that are of that honour, in full poſſeſſion, and feafine of
all the landes, boroughes, and rentes, whiche the duke thereof
nowe hath in his demaine, and namely of those that belong to the
honour of the earle Warrenne, and namely of the caftelles of
Bellencumber, and Mortimer, fo that Reginalde de Warrenne
fhall have the keeping of the fame caftelles of Bellencumbre, and
Mortimer, if he wyll: and thereuppon fhall gyve pledges to the
duke, and if he wyll not have the keeping of thoſe caftelles, then
other liege men of the fayde earle Warrenne, whome it ſhall pleaſe
the duke to appoynte, ſhall by fure pledges, and good furetye keep
the fayde caftelles.
AND moreover the duke fhall delyver unto him, according to my
will and pleasure, the other caftelles whiche are belonging unto
the earledom of Mortaigne, by fafe cuftodie, and pledges, fo focne
as he conveniently may, fo as all the pledges are to bee reftored
unto my fonne free, fo foone as the duke fhall have the realm of
Englande in poffeffion. The augmentation also whiche I have
gyven
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gyven unto my fonne William, he hath likewife graunted the
fame to hym, to witte, the caftell and towne of Norwiche, with
Seven hundred pounde in landes, ſo as the rentes of Norwiche
bee accounted as parcel of the fame feven hundred pounde in
landes, and all the countie of Norffolke, the profites, and rentes
excepted, whiche belong to churches, biſhoppes, abbottes, earles,
and namely, alfo the thirde pennie, whereof Hugh Bygot is earle,
faving alfo, and referving the king's royall juriſdiction for admi-
niſtration of justice. Alfo the more to strengthen my favour and
love to hymwardes, the duke hath gyven and graunted unto my
fayde fonne, whatſoever Richer de Aquila hath of the honour of
Pevensey. And moreover the caftell, and towne of Pevensey,
and the fervice of Faremouth byfyde the caftell and towne of
Dover, and whatſoever apperteyneth to the honour of Dover.
AND a little farther in the fame charter, My fonne is to
conftrayne bym thereto, according to the advice of holye churche,
if the duke fhall chaunce to goe from the covenauntes afore men-
tioned.
AT the making of this agreement, earl William muſt be
very young, for his elder brother Euftace, who had only
been dead a few months, was at the time of his deceaſe no
more than eighteen years old; and yet it is plain that
William was, at the date of this treaty, married to Iſabel
de Warren. In Dr. Kuerden's M.S. Collections for Lanca-
fire
WARREN AND SURREY.
145
fhire already mentioned, he is faid to have had the earldom
of Surrey after the death of his father in-law, which ſeems
to imply that his wife's father was living at the time of their
marriage; this, if true, would make him to have been mar-
ried very young indeed ; if I calculate right, not much
above twelve years of age; and yet this feems not to have
been very diſtant from the truth, even fuppofing that imme-
diately after her father's death, the king, whoſe ward the
was, had married her to his fon, on account of the vaſt pof-
feffions which belonged to her. It was well however for
earl William, that he happened to have fuch an addition to
the fortune which his father gave him; for when he became
the only ſurviving ſon of the king, and muſt for that reaſon
have had hopes of fucceeding him, he was obliged to re-
nounce every claim of that fort in favor of another, and to
be content with fuch a provifion as could be fecured for him
in the act of fettlement between his father, and the duke of
Normandy. And even fome part of this feems to have been
envied him by his father's fucceffor, for Sandford in his Ge-
nealogical Hiſtory* fais, that this William, after the death of
his father, restored to king Henry II. the honor of Pevensey,
and Norwich, and all his eftate in England, and Normandy,
whereof he was poſſeſſed by gift from his father king Stephen ;
in exchange for which, king Henry gave unto him, whatſoever
king Stephen enjoyed before he was made king of England, and
VOL. I.
• P. 43.
Y
aljo
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alſo knighted him at the city of Carlisle. It is a miſtake in
Dugdale's Baronage, when he fais that this William was
knighted by his father king Stephen, in 1157, for that
monarch died in 1154.
BROOKE in his Discovery of Errors, † fais, that king
Henry conſtrained earl William to make the above exchange;
but if he did, he broke the agreement above-mentioned, and
took what in fact he had no right to; for William the Con-
queror gave to Stephen earl of Blois, with Ella his daughter,
the earldom of the Eagle in Normandy, and the caſtle, and
honor of Pevenfey in Suffex, which honors the faid Stephen
gave to Henry de Blois his fon, whofe fon Richard was the
next owner, who bestowed the fame on this earl William,
his coufin germain.
ROBERT of Gloucester in his Chronicle, has told us,
that this earl upon duke Henry's landing in England, in
1153, was one who joined him, though it must be known
that he came with hoſtile intentions againſt his father. His
words are,
and with joye inou
Azen him the erl of Wareine with gret power drou,
And in the caftel of Wareine with gret joye him nom.
·
• P. 76.
+ P. 32.
P. 466.
THIS
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147
THIS muſt certainly have been after Stephen's treaty with
the duke, otherwife the account is improbable. Rapin*
has quoted an authority, to fhew that duke Henry, amidſt the
rejoicings made on account of the public peace, diſcovered
a confpiracy against him by William the king's fon, which
would have been executed, had not William accidentally
fallen from his horfe, and broke his thigh on Barham Down.
To this was attributed the fudden departure of the duke from
England. Fox alfo in his Acts and Monuments, † fais that
duke Henry taking his journey into Normandy (king Stephen
and his fon William bringing him on his way) William had
a fall and broke his leg, and fo was had to Canterbury.
THE titles which this great man enjoyed, were earl of
Warren, Surrey, Moreton, Bologne, ‡ and Lancaſter, lord
alfo of the honors of Eagle, and of Pevenfey, &c. He is
likewiſe in ſome Mfs. called Dapifer Regis Anglia, by
which I ſuppoſe is meant fteward of the king's houſehold.
But he was within a little of a title fuperior to all theſe ;
* P. 210.
+ Vol. I. p. 227, edit. 1684.
THIS earl William had a fifter, Maud, who, after her brother's death, was coun-
tefs of Bologne, &c. fhe married Matthew of Flanders, by whom Ida, who married
Reginald de Dampmartin earl of Bologne, &c. in right of his wife; alfo Maud who
married Henry earl of Lovain from whom defcended the dukes of Brabant. This is
mentioned here, to correct a miſtake in feveral Mfs. which affert that Ida was fiſter to
Ifabel countefs of Warren.
Y 2
for
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for had his father been able to have repelled the attempts of
duke Henry, he certainly had fwayed the British fceptre;
and in that cafe the heiress of the Warren family would have
had the high honor of afcending the throne with him.
It is fomething ftrange, that Baker in his Chronicle having
mentioned Euftace, fhould fay, Other legitimate iffue king
Stephen had none, but by a concubine he had a fon named William,
whom he made earl of Norfolk, which honor was confirmed upon
him by a special article in the agreement made between king Stephen,
and duke Henry; only a French Chronicle Speaks of another fon of
bis, named Gervafe; for he had a fon named Baldwin born
before Euftace, and who died in his infancy; he had alfo
two daughters, one called Maud, and the other Mary,
born, as well as the above William, of Maud de Bologne his
queen. It is plain that Stephen had two fons both of the
name of William, grown up to man's eftate, one of which
we may conclude was for this reafon legitimate, the other
not, eſpecially when we confider that Sandford* has told
us, that the lawful fon William earl of Bologne (who was
earl of Warren and Surrey) did name the other William for
a witneſs in one of his charters, and according to the cuſtom
of thofe times, called him brother. Rapin has judiciouſly
obferved, that a natural fon of Stephen's being called William,
* P. 44.
has
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149
has given occafion to fome, deceived by the likeness of names, to
affirm that this prince left behind him only a baſtard fon.
THIS earl with his brother Euftace and others, was both
a witneſs to, and a fecurity for the performance of the con-
vention made between king Henry II. and Robert earl of
Flanders, printed in the Liber niger Scaccarii.*
THE religious donations of this earl, which I have met
with, are theſe :
A GRANT to the priory of Eye in Suffolk, or rather a
confirmation of what his anceſtors had given before. Witneſs
Reginald de Warren, and others. His gift of lands to the
priory of Croxton in Leiceſterſhire, lying near the faid
priory, and forty acres of land at Sauteby, and the church
there, &c. He confirmed alfo the gifts which his men
had made them.
+
He was likewife a benefactor to the monks of Furnefs,
as we learn from the following charter preferved in Weft's
Antiquities of Furness,|| Willielmus comes Warrenniæ & Bolon.
& Moritonia, omnibus jufticiariis, &c. de honore de Lancaſter,
falutem. Sciatis me dediffe, & figilli mei munimine confirmaſſe
* By Hearne, vol. I. p. 16.
† Monaft. vol. II. p. 604.
+ Monaft. vol. I. p. 358.
Appendix, No. XI. 31.
Deo
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Deo & monachis fcaæ Mariæ de Furn. in perpetuam elimofinam,
ut in foresta mea de Lancaft. accipiant materiam, et cetera que
ad ufus fuos funt neceffaria, et nominatim ad pifcariam fuam de
Lanc. faciendum quicquid eis in hoc opus fuerit, inde accipere
permitto. Tefte Rege. W. de Warreno, &c. Arms to this
grant, gules, three lions paſant guardant or; in chief a
label of five points azure, on each point three fleurs de lis of the
fecond. On this grant Mr. Weft remarks, that there is no
fuch foreft at prefent as that of Lancafter. He tells us
from Dodſworth's M. S. in the Bodleian library, that this
earl granted to the abbot of Furnefs, three fhillings, every
day on which he appeared at his court.
us*
He was moreover a benefactor to the church, in perfuad-
ing king Henry II. to grant to the monks of Feverfham, the
manor of Feverfham, &c. Amongst the witneffes to this
+
charter, are the earl himſelf, and Reginald de Warenn.
There is a grant of his to the faid monks, mentioned in a
confirmation charter of king John, of the fervice of Stokes
belonging to the manor of Triangre, viz. the fourth part of
a knight's fee. The earl gave alfo his manors of Treung
and Benedis, for the foul of his father king Stephen, queen
Maud his mother, and Euftace his brother, &c. Teft.
amongſt others, Reginald de Warren, and William the earl's
brother.
*At p. 46.
+ Monaft. vol. I. p. 687.
↑ Monaft. vol. I.
p. 688.
WITH
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151
WITH regard to the first of the above grants, I find in
Teft. de Nevil, under the article of Suffex, that this earl
held, for three years before he died, the honor of Eye,
which William the baſtard, king of England, gave to Robert
Malet, who held the fame during that, and the following
reign, when king Henry took it, and after him king Ste-
phen; fo that it was part of what the earl received in the
exchange above-mentioned, and proves that the faid ex-
change was made about the 2 or 3 of Hen. II.
As for his grants of a civil nature; it is faid in the above-
named Dr. Kuerden's M.S. Collections, that by the ftile and
title of William earl of Moreton, he gave fourteen bovats of
land to Walter, the grandfather of H. de Walton, viz.
fix bovats in Walton, four in Watreic, and four in Newfam,
by the ſervice of a vavafor, viz. to be the capitalis ferviens
in keeping the wapentake of Derbyshire. He gave alfo
to Utred, fon of Uck, one carucate of land in Broughton,
and to Alan, fon of the faid Utred, called thereupon Alan
de Singleton, half a carucate of land, by the ferjeanty of
keeping the wapentake of Amundernefs, and half a caru-
cate of land there, by the fervice of keeping the wapen-
take of Blacburnfhire. Thefe are all within the county of
Lancaſter.
IN
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In one of the Harleian Mfs. No. 782,* are two entries,
which ſeem to belong to this earl Warren, as a grant of
Hameline the next earl immediately follows. The firſt is in
theſe words, William earl Warren, to all his men, as well
French as English; Know ye, that I have given to Norman,
fon of Samoin, and his heirs,
other is, that William earl Warren gave lands in Won-
ham to Roger de London, for fixty-three fhillings yearly
rent.
THE arms of this
three pallets vary,
lands in Bechinde, &c. The
earl are generally faid to have been gules
on a
on a chief or,
an eagle displayed of the
firft, membered azure; but as painted by
Glover, in the margin of my Camden's
Britannia, they are gules, three pallets
vary on a chief or, three eaglets difplayed
fable. There feems to be an allufion
herein to his being lord of the honor of
Eagle in Normandy. He fometimes however ufed the arms
of England with a difference, as already noticed in his gift
to the monks of Furneſs. Perhaps this laſt was uſed by
him before he was lord of the honor of Eagle.
Blois Warren.
He attended king Henry II. in his expedition againſt
Tholouſe, and died there without iffue, in October 1160,
* Fol. 101.
as
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153
VOL. I.
as fome fay; but the regiſter of Lewes informs us, that
he died in 1159, in the eleventh year of his earldom, and
lies buried at Tholoufe. From whence it appears, that
Iſabel married him immediately after her father's death.
BEING a fat man, fome writers have diftinguiſhed him by
the name of William le Grofs.
N
HAMELINE
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
HAMELINE PLANTAGENET
FIFTH EARL,
ATURAL fon of Geoffry Planta-
genet earl of Anjou, married the
above Ifabel, with the confent of
king Henry II. who is generally
called the ſaid Hameline's brother,
having had the fame father, for it
was not then thought dishonorable to be a baftard. In the
Chronicle of Normandy, it is faid Anno 1163, Hamelinus natu-
ralis frater regis Henrici, duxit comitiffam de Warenna, relictam
Willielmi comitis Moritonii. Lord Lyttelton* fais, In confe-
• Vol. II. p. 107.
quence
WARREN AND SURREY.
155
quence of the deceafe of Will. of Blois, king Henry had the
means of making an ample provifion for Hameline, his natural
brother, by marrying him to the widow of that prince, who was
daughter to William of Warren. She brought to her fecond
huſband the earldom of Surrey, with all the other honors and
poffeffions of her father, in England and Normandy; poffeffions
fo great, that without alarming the jealoufy of the crown, they
could not have been added to the wealth of any other noble
family; especially, as the lady to whom they had defcended, was
very nearly allied in blood to the kings of France and Scotland.
It was, therefore, not only from affection to his brother, but
from the maxims of good policy, and reaſon of ſtate, that Henry
interested himself in this match. It was, in the opinion of
Hameline himſelf, fo honorable to him, that as Vincent*
has obferved, both from an old roll in the Exchequer, and
the book of Lewes, he dropt his father's arms, and took up
thofe of his wife, in honor of her blood, which his heirs
after him continued. His own coat, as we are told by
Brooke,
* P. 521.
IT is remarkable, that even after the name of Warren, in the line of the earls,
had been loft, by their eftates going into other families, the greatest honor continued
to be fhewn to this coat, as is evident from the feal of John Mowbray duke of Norfolk,
in the fourth plate of feals, No. 1. on which is feen, on a fhield in the center, the
arms of Brotherton, on the right fide Warren, and on the left Mowbray, whereby,
on account of the greatness of the family, he prefers the former to his own paternal
coat. And for this reafon, I prefume, the Howards bear Warren in the third
quarter,
Z z
and
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Brooke, was Semè de France, a la bor-
dure d'Angleterre; but in the pedigree
belonging to Sir George Warren, it is
gules, a chief argent, over all an efcar-
buncle of eight rays pometty and flowry
01, with the baton as a mark of
baftardy; which mark I take to have been a mere fancy of
Plantagenet Warren
*
and before Mowbray, though the latter brought in the former; and both families
omit Fitz Alan, who firft married the heirefs of Warren, and through whom they both.
claim; unleſs (which poffibly may be the cafe) the lion (the fourth quartering) which
for centuries paft has been in the Howard arms, and faid to be for Mowbray, was
defigned for Albini (i. e. Fitz Alan) earl of Arundel, the field being the fame, and
differing only in the color of the lion, one having it filver, and the other gold.
THE oftrich feather, in the above feal, is explained by the following entry in Vin-
cent, No. 218, p. 100, in Coll. Armor. Dedit (Ric. 2.) Thoma (Mowbray duke of
Norfolk and earl Marſhal) ad portandum in figillo & vexillo fuo arma S. Edwardi.
Idcirco arma bipartita portavit, feil. S. Edwardi & Dni Marcialis Anglia, cum duabus
pennis ftruthionis erectis, & fuper creftam, leonem, & duo parva fcuta cum leonibus, ex
utraque parte prædictorum armorum.
IN after times, his defcendants omitted the coat of Edw. the Confeffor, and bore
Brotherton only, and in confideration of the marriage of the above Thomas, with
Eliz. Fitz Alan, heir to the Warrens, placed the arms of Warren in the dexter fmall
fhield, as above.
* THE above were the arms of his father Geoffry, and were fet up for that earl,
on the cornice of the tomb of queen Eliz. in king Henry the VII. chapel. See Sand-
ford's Genealog. Hift. Lond. 1707, P. 34.
the
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157
the heralds who drew it up, for I do not fuppofe that any
inftance can be produced, of the baton having been uſed fo
early. Vincent farther obferves, that it was not uncommon
for this earl to ufe feals, without any heraldical device, for
he had ſeen both of his, and his wife's feals, but no arms
upon them.
I HAVE followed the authority of Dugdale, and the Nor-
man Chronicle, in fixing the latter marriage of this Ifabel,
but other accounts make it to have taken place in 1165.
12 HEN. II. on the aid for marrying the king's daughter,
it was certified, as appears by the Black Book of the
Exchequer, that earl Hameline held fixty knights' fees.
THE charters to which I have found this earl was a wit-
neſs are, firſt, one dated June 27, 1 Ric. I. whereby the
king confirmed to William earl of Arundel, the castle, and
honor of Arundel, which king Henry II. had witheld from
the family. 2dly, Another of that king, made to Hugh
Pufac, bishop of Durham, bearing date Sept. 18th following;
wherein, fais Dugdale, he ftyles himfelf Comes de Warren.
3dly, That of king John in 1199, relating to the fees of
the great feal, printed in Wilkins's Leges Anglo-Saxoni-
cum. Laftly, whereas in Peck's Annals of Stanford, it is
*
* P. 354-
+ Lib. VI. p. 10.
faid,
}
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
faid, that William earl of Surrey was witneſs to a charter of
king Richard I. dated June 25th 1190, it muſt (fuppofing
the date to be right) be a mifnomer for this Hameline.
He took part with king Henry II. in the public diſpute
he had with his fons; for in the hiftory of that king, by
Benedict. Abbas,* his name is in the lift of thofe earls and
barons, qui tenuerunt cum Henrico rege Angliæ contra filios fuos.
He was, however, with king Richard I. in Normandy, in
the first year of his reign, and carried a fword of ſtate before
him at his coronation. When king Richard was detained
prifoner abroad, the money to be paid for his ranfom,
amounting to ſeventy thoufand marks of filver, was depofited,
as it was raiſed, in the hands of this Hameline, along with
Hubert Walter archbishop of Canterbury, Richard bishop
of London, William earl of Arundel, and the mayor of
London.
AFTER this, he was with the faid king in that great coun-
cil at Nottingham, in the fixth year of his reign, when
John, the king's brother, was fummoned to appear within
forty days, to anſwer the accufations laid againſt him; and
when king Richard was a fecond time crowned, he carried
one of the three fwords ufed on that occafion. In this
year he was again in the king's army in Normandy, and had,
Published by Hearne, vol. I. p. 58.
+ Ridpath's Border Hift. p. 108.
by
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159
by royal grant, the town of Thetford in Norfolk, in ex-
change for Columbers, Balan, and Chambers in France.
Laſtly, he was prefent at the coronation of king John, in
St. Peter's church at Westminster, May 27th 1199.
THE deed of exchange above-mentioned, is thus printed
in the Liber Niger Scaccarii.*
SCIANT præfentes & futuri quod ego Hamelinus comes Warrenn
affenfu & voluntate Willielmi filii & heredis mei recepi a Domino
meo rege Anglorum Ricardo efcambium totius terræ meæ quam
habui in Toronia fcilicet de Columbar & de Balan & de Chamberi
cum omnibus pertinentiis fuis pro villa fua de Theoford cum per-
tinentiis fuis. Ita tamen quod fi predicta villa de Theoford sum
pertinentiis fuis valeat per annum plus quam triginta quinque
libras flerlingorum ego & heredes mei refiduum inde reddemus fin-
gulis annis præfato Domino meo Regi Ricardo & heredibus fuis
ad fcaccarium fuum Angliæ. Si vero præfata villa de Theoford
cum pertinentiis fuis minus valeat per annum quam XXXV
libras efterlingorum illud quod de XXXV libris deerit alibi ca-
piam de dominico regis Ricardi præfati loco competenti in Anglia
ubi ipfe mihi affignaverit. Teſt. Willielmo de Longo Campo
Elienfi Epifcopo (Apoftolicæ fedis legato & Domini regis cancel-
lario) Godefrido de Luci Wintonienfi & Reginaldo Battonienfi
Epifcopis Galfrido de Lacell Hugone Bardulf Willielmo
Briwer Willielmo de Warenn Adam de Poning.
* Vol. I. p. 371.
AT
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
AT the back of p. 13 of the Ledger-book of Lewes Abbey,
is a general charter of Hameline earl of Warren, confirming
all the gifts, grants, and confirmations, &c. which his pre-
deceffors, earls of Warren, had given to the monks of Lewes,
in lands, tenements, churches, tithes, waters, woods, mea-
dows, paftures, &c.
ALSO another, by which he granted and confirmed all the
lands and tenements which they had of his fee, of whoſe
gift foever they were, free and quit, fo that if the king de-
manded any thing of the land belonging to St. Pancrace, for
hidage, or any other geld, he would diſcharge it out of his
own property.
4
P. 15. ANOTHER, by which he granted and confirmed
to them all the churches, lands and tenements which the
faid monks had of his fee, of whofe gift foever they were,
free and quit; and alſo granted to them emendacoes & foris-
facturas tenent. fuor.
ANOTHER, by which he gave them totam deciam de par-
redo fuo de Rikeburgh, quod pert. ad Meching in denar. & in
oibus rebus que ad illu ibid. pert.
ANOTHER, by which he gave in perpetual charity, two
hides of land and an half in Ovyngden, free from all cuſtoms
and fervices.
ANOTHER,
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161
ANOTHER, by which he gave centum folidatas terre in Ba-
lefdena, viz. two hides and half, and one virge of land, free
and quit for ever.
P. 16. ANOTHER, by which he confirmed all the land
of Athelingworde, which Roger de Clere gave them.
ANOTHER, by which he gave them totam culturam fuam in
campis de Cuningefburgh & aliis campis in pur.
pur. & perpet. eleam.
ANOTHER, by which he gave them the two churches of
Fugeldone, in pure and perpetual charity.
ANOTHER, by which he gave them totam deciam denar.
de oibus redd. fuis quos ipfe in tempore fuo accrevit in tota Anglia.
ANOTHER, by which he gave them the church of Cu-
ningeburgh, with tithes, and homages, lands, and paſtures,
and with chapels and churches belonging to it.
ANOTHER, confirming the agreement made between Adam
de Cukufeld and the monks of St. Pancrace, de X libratis
terre in Hangletona.
ANOTHER, giving as above, the churches and tithes in
Yorkſhire, and praying the archbiſhop of York to confirm
the fame, and keep it inviolate.
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A a
P. 17.
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
P. 17. A LETTER of this earl Hameline to the archbiſhop
of York, certifying that he had given to God and the monks
of St. Pancrace, the above churches and chapels in York-
ſhire, and that they fhould prefent clerks to the fame.
ANOTHER, giving the full tithe of his eels in Yorkſhire.
THE following charters are in the hands of Thomas Aftle,
Efq. F. S. A.
SCIANT pres. & fut. quod ego Hamelinus comes Warren. affenfu
& voluntate Iſabelle comitiffe Warren. ux. mee & Will. de War-
renn. filii & her. mei intuitu caritatis & pro falute anime mee &
pro anima Dni Hen. regis Ang. & pro anima com. G. Andegau.
patris mei & pro aiabus comitum & comitiffarum Andegau. & co-
mitum & comitiſſarum Cenoman. & pro aibus comitum & comitif-
farum Waren. qui decefferunt conceffi Deo & canonicis & fratri-
bus & pauperibus S. Katherine Lincoln quod habeant ingreſſum
& regreffum per calcetam meam que vocatur Cubridge, &c.
SCIANT, &c. quod ego Ifabella comitiffa Warren pro falute
anime mee & pro anima Dni mei Hamelini comitis & pro anima-
bus oium anteceſſor. parent. & her. nrorum dedi, &c. (ut ſupra)
quod habeant liberum ingreffum, &c. ut ſupra.
WHAT
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163
WHAT remains of the feals appendant to theſe charters,
are engraven in plate 1. It is obfervable, that the first hath
the eſcarbuncle on the fhield, but no mark of baſtardy,
which had probably not then been invented. This feal
might be what Hameline uſed before his marriage with the
faid Iſabel, and we learn from it, that he did not entirely
drop the arms of his family, after he affumed thoſe of
Warren.
THERE is a religious grant of this earl, in the Monafticon*
of the churches of +Crechesfeld, (or rather Cherchefelle)
Bechefword, and Leghe, to St. Mary's in Southwark, which
appears to have been a confirmation deed, of what William
the ſecond earl of Warren gave to the fame.
In a M. S. in the Herald's office, marked D. 46, is the
following entry: Ego Ifabella Comitiffa Warenna, affenfu Do-
mini mei Hamelini Comitis Warenna, & filii heredis noftri Willi-
elmi, dedi, & conceffi Deo, & ecclefiæ de Southwerke, & canonicis
ibidem Deo fervientibus, 107 acras terræ, viz. totum Word-
* Vol. II. p. 85.
+ THIS, Salmon in his Antiquities of Surrey, p. 68, tells us, was the name by
which the town of Reigate was known at the time of the general furvey, though after-
wards he expreffes a doubt about it. He alfo obferves that Domeſday-book does not
mention any church here, and feems to think that earl Warren (without naming any
particular earl) built that which was afterwards erected.
A a 2
ham,
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
ham & refiduum in Wodechert, in puram eleemofinam, pro anima-
bus Henrici regis fratris Domini mei, & Galfridi Comitis An-
degavenfis patris Domini mei, & matris Domini mei, & fratrum
fuorum, & pro animabus Willielmi Comitis patris mei, & omnium
aliorum Comitum Warennorum, &
pro animabus Willielmi, Pa-
tricii, & Philippi fratrum meorum, & pro anima Ale matris
meæ, & aliarum Comitiffarum Warennarum. And in Madox's
Formulare Anglicanum is the following confirmation of
this earl, by way of mandate. H. Comes Warenne, R. Archi-
diacono Surreia, & P. Decano, Salutem. Mando vobis, atque
precor, quatenus dimittatis Priorem, & Canonicos fanétæ Mariæ
de Suwrch (Southwerk) in pace tenere elemofinam meam, & an-
tecefforum meorum, fcilicet capellam de Niudegat; & priori
interdico ne inde placitum intret fine me; quia prædictam elemo-
finam eis garentizare debeo.
In the Monafticon is one of his charters, by which he
grants to the church of St. Mary's at York, thirty weather
ſheep (breifnas) yearly, for his foul, and for the fouls of his
father, and the earls of Warren his predeceffors. Amongst
the witnelles, is Oto de Tylly fenefchal of the earl, who is
put down thus, Otone de Tylly fenefchallo comitis de Conigbroc.
This led the author of the remarks on Doncafter crofs, pub-
lifhed by the Society of Antiquaries, to think that there
was ſuch a title as earl of Coningſburgh, which was not the
* P. 49.
+ Vol. I. p. 406.
cafe ;
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165
cafe; the words ſhould have run, Otone de Tylly de Conigbroc,
fenefchallo comitis.
*
In the Monafticon is a charter of this earl, whereby,
with the affent of Ifabel his countefs, and William his fon
and heir, he gave to the prior and canons of Thetford, the
church there, with a team land, for the forgiveneſs of his
fins, and thofe of Ifabel his countefs, and William his fon;
for the health of the fouls of king Henry his brother, earl
Geoffry his father, all his anceſtors, and fucceffors, parents
living and dead, and all the faithful. Giving alfo to his
canons there, fac, and foc, tol, and them, infangthef, and
the churches and tithes of his lands there, XXs. rent, and
the tenths of his mills called Picmilne, and Hindolfs milne
in Thetford; which running in the fame words as a charter
of William the third earl, fhews this to be only a con-
firmation of the former. In Leland's Collectanea + this
Hameline is reckoned amongst the principal benefactors to
Caftle Acre, but of this I have feen no particular account.
He was likewife a benefactor to the hofpital of Burton Lazar
in Leiceſterſhire, for in a M.S. pedigree in the British
Muſeum, No. 2012, oppofite to the name of William fon
of Reginald de Warren is the following remark.
Is fimul
* Vol. II. p. 574
† Vol. I. p. 59. See vol. I. part II. p. 602, for a benefaction of his to Ely. See
alfo p. 639.
‡ Fol. 33.
cum
166
MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
cum Willielmo Roberto & Rogero de Moubray adhibentur teftes
carte Hamelini comitis Warrennæ & Surr. per quam idem
Hamelinus comes & Ifabella comitia uxor ejus dant terras domo
religiofo vocato Burton Lazar.
His grants of a temporal nature, which I have met with,
are firſt, a conveyance to the free burgeffes of Wakefield,
and their heirs, in which he gives to each of them a toft of
an acre in free burgage, for fixpence rent per annum, with
liberty of free trade in all his lands in Yorkſhire, and leave
to take from his wood of Wakefield, dead wood for fuel;
for which they gave to himſelf, his countefs, and ſon, ſeven
pounds. He alſo confirmed to Jordan de Thornhill, about
1169, his inheritance in Sowerbyſhire, a diſtrict within the
preſent parish of Halifax, and an appendage of the manor
of Wakefield, as we read in Collins's Baronetage.*
of the Harleian M. S. No. 782, it was likewiſe ſaid, that
he gave to William fon of Gilbert de Wonham, and his
heirs, to hold his lands by fervice of fixty-three fhillings
annuity, as they held the fame of his anceſtors.
In one
THE following extract was fent me, from the original be-
longing to James Scawen of Carshalton in Surrey, Efq.
SCIANT, &c. quod ego Hamelinus comes Warennie dedi, &c.
Robto de Cumba unam virgatam terre que fuit Ailnod de Cumba—
* Vol. I. p. 157.
& quod-
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167
& quoddam molendinum quod vocatur Sidelune Melne, &c. His
teft. Will. de Warenn. Adam de Pumges Rad. de Pleiz Rad. de
Hangeltun Hugone de Livet capellano comitis Mauricio de Occeleia
Rogero de Lundz Will. de Wara Hugone de Horfheia Will. de
Piret Rad. de Trueleia.
THE annexed engraved charter of the countefs Ifabel,
widow of earl Hameline, was taken from the original, be-
longing to James Scawen, Efq. owner of the premiſes there-
in mentioned, now called Combes and Sidlow mill, both in
Reigate; and the following is a tranſlation of it.
KNOW prefent and to come that I Ifabel countess of Warren
after the death of my lord and huſband Hameline earl Warren
have given and granted and by this my prefent deed confirmed
to Richard de Cumbes and his heirs one verge of land which be-
longed to Ailnod de Cumbes and Robert father of the faid Richard
de Cumbes with its appurtenances and a certain mill which is
called Sidelune melne with all its appurtenances To hold of me
and my heirs freely and quietly in fee farm from all fervices in
villenage the aforesaid Richard and his heirs paying yearly to
my heirs twenty two shillings at three terms viz. in the
feaft of St. Michael feven fillings and four pence and in the
feast of the purification of the bleſſed Mary feven fillings and
four pence and in Pentecoft feven fillings and four pence. And
if it ſhall happen that I take aid of my free men the faid Richard
me and
de
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
de Cumbes fon of Robert de Cumbes ſhall give me aid with others
my free men according to his holding But for this gift and grant
and confirmation of my deed the aforefaid Richard hath given to
me one mark of filver. Thefe being witneſſes Ralph de Plaiz
Robert de Petroponte Walter de Wanci Richard de Cumbe Ran-
dulf de Petroponte Frar de Burneham Richard Ruffi Richara
de Mamres Obert de Mair Ralph Nepot Henry the Chaplain
Geoffry the Chaplain William de Wonham Elie de Holie Robert
of the Mill Walter de Linkefeld Walter de Colelie Geoffry the
Clerk of Reigate and
many others.
THE hawk on one of the hands of the countefs Ifabel, is
the uſual ſymbol of nobility and greatnefs.* The ſprig in
her right hand, may be the planta geniſta, or broom, alluding
to her huſband's name of Plantagenet. This is the more
probable, as a feal of Hameline's, is in the Afpilogia of
John-Charles Brooke, Efq. containing, as I conjecture, an
ill drawn fprig of this broom, which fee in the plate of ſeals
No. 2.
THIS earl was a witnefs to a charter of Nigel de Moubray,
printed in the Monafticon, and to another of Rich. I.‡
alſo with his fon William, to a charter of Walter Croc, in
the Black Book of the Exchequer. ||
* See Du Cange at the word Accipiter.
‡ P. 264.
+ Vol. II. p. 85.
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THE Counteſs Iſabel gave, as by deed in Lewes regiſter, **
to God and St. Pancrace, and the monks of Lewes, all her
churches, lands, and tenements, free and quit, as the charters
of the earls of Warren witneffed, cum omni libtate, & dignitate.
IN the fame book the grants the whole land of Burchard
to the faid monks, ad unum hofpitium, thereby confirming
her father's gift of the fame.
ALSO‡ the confirms to the faid monks, the grant of the
tithe of eels in Yorkſhire, to be taken of her bailiffs.
ALSO gives them leave to gather bullrushes in Egardefey,
near the mill of Mellinke.
AND with the affent of Hameline her huſband, gave them
two hides and an half of land in Ovyngden.
In the Lewes regifter, is likewife a deed, by which Ro-
bert de Portmort fold to earl Hameline all his fee, which
he held of him at Loueancurt, for fixty-five marks of filver.
THE iffue which earl Hameline had by the above Ifabel,
were ift, William, who fucceeded to the titles, and eftate;
2d, Adela (or Ela) who Milles fais died young; but in the
* P. 22.
+ P. 24.
I P. 25.
li P. 22.
VOL. I.
B b
Supplement
170
MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
*
Supplement to Collins's Peerage, it appears that he was
married to Sir William Fitz William, lord of Sprotburgh
and Elmley, by whom he had Sir William Fitz William,
and Roger Fitz William, to the latter of whom William
earl Warren gave the lordship of Gretewell, and to his heirs
and affigns, paying yearly at Whitfontide two pair of gilt
fpurs; to which grant was appendant on a feal, a man com-
pleatly armed on a courfer, and on the reverfe, a fhield
checky. The fame is alfo faid in the M.S. Mifcellanea 56,
No. 13, in the Herald's office. In the Muſeum of Guftavus
Brander, Efq. F. R. and A. S. is a brazen effigy taken from
fome tomb of one of the Fitz William family, with a va-
riety of quarterings in his arms, of which, Warren is the
firſt. The right to this quartering perhaps may be diſputed,
but antiquity affords inftances, where arms have been thus
ufed by way of affection-to fhew an alliance with a great
family, or as a badge, to indicate that eſtates were held
under them, of their gift, &c. A manuſcript pedigree be-
longing to Godfrey Bofville of Gunthwaite in Yorkshire,
Efq. fais, that William, who came
into England with the Conqueror, and
was marſhal of his army, bearing for
his coat armor fufilee argent and gules,
had William lord of Emmeley, living
Fitz William Warren in 1117. He alſo had William, who
* Vol. I. p. 236.
had
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171
had William, the ſecond huſband of Albreda de Lizores.
This laſt William, had William, and Donatia. William
married the above Adela, by whom Thomas and Roger;
Thomas was living 37 Hen. III. and married Agnes fifter
and one of the heirs of Roger Bertram lord of Mitford. †
3d, Maud, who is faid to have died young. 4th, Iſabel,
who married Roger Bigod earl of Norfolk, whofe arms were
or a cross gules. To thefe Brooke and Yorke add another
daughter named Margaret, married to Baldwin Rivers earl
of Devonshire, who bore gules a griffin fegreiant or; but
Milles is filent about her, as is Dugdale in his Baronage,
about any children of earl Hameline, except his fon William.
We ſhall ſee however under the account of the next earl,
that he had a daughter married to Gilbert de Aquila.
+
Bigod - Warren.
Rivers Warreu.
THE
* More ufually written de Lizures.
+ THE prefent earl Fitz William, who is lineally defcended from this family, quar-
ters both Lizures and Bertram.
THE ancestors of this Roger bore gules a lion paſſant or, but I have given him
the above coat on the authority of Segar's Baronage already quoted, Sir John Borlace
B b 2
Warren's
172
MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
THE Counteſs Ifabel died, July 13th, 1199, as we learn
from the regiſter of Lewes, and was buried in the chap-
ter houſe there.* The earl himſelf, according to the
faid regiſter, died May 7th, 1202, and was buried with
his wife. But Vincent (though he has in the M. S. in
the Herald's office marked Quid non,
No. 6.
No. 6. put down
his death in that year) writing againſt Brooke fais he
was affured by a patent roll, that he was dead in May 1201;
for his fon William did homage then to the king for his
father's lands; the record is this. Rex omnibus hominibus
tenentibus de terra que fuit Comitis H. de Warenna, &c.
Warren's Pedigree, and an engraved feal in Bybe on Upton de ftudio militari. The
family feem likewife to have uſed the lion, in the year 1300, when Roger Bigod earl
of Norfolk and marſhall of England, put his feal, with the reft of the barons, to the
letter fent to Pope Boniface. This earl Roger, huſband of Ifabel, fometimes bore on
his fhield an efcarbuncle, in honor of Hameline earl Warren. This appears from
the Afpilogia of John-Charles Brooke, Efq. of the Herald's college, from whence
I was allowed to take the feal at plate of ſeals 3, No. 46.
THE entry of this Ifabel's death, in the above regifter, is in thefe words, "Do-
"mina Ifabella comitifla Surregie, filia Willi tertii, & uxor Hamelini, obiit III
"idus Julii, anno gre MCLXXXXIX, & anno IIII°. an viru fuu Hamelinum." But
furely there must be a miſtake in it, becauſe of the expreffion of poft obitum dom. &
viri mei Hamelini comis Warennie, in the foregoing deed.
+ P. 520.
Sciatis
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173
Sciatis quod audita morte predicti Comitis, cepimus homagium
Willielmi filii ejufdem Comitis, de terra que idem Comes de
nobis tenuit. Et ideo vos mandamus, præcipientes quatinus
eidem Willielmo faciatis fidelitates, & alia quæ ei facere debetis,
de terris quas tenuiftis de predicto Comite, falva fide matris fuæ.
Tefte rege apud Pontem Arch 12 die Maii anno regni noftri
tertio. Pat. 3. John, Rot. 2.
WILLIAM
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
WILLIA
SIXTH EAR L
M
EFORE he arrived at his dignity,
was made, 6 Rich. by Hubert arch-
biſhop of Canterbury, (who was the
king's chief jufticier,) a commif-
fioner with earl Roger Bigod, Wil-
liam de Stutevill, and others, for
hearing, and determining the controverfy then ſubſiſting
between Geoffry Plantagenet (the king's natural brother)
archbiſhop of York, and the canons there; when the arch-
biſhop's
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were com-
bishop's men, who were accuſed of robbery, were
manded to be taken and impriſoned; and on his own refuſal
to appear and ſtand to their judgment, they diffeifed him of
all his manors, except Rippon, caufing the canons to be re-
placed in their ſtalls, out of which he had ejected them;
appointing William de Stutevill, and Geoffry Haget to be
cuftodes of Yorkshire, over the faid archbishop, who was
then ſheriff or cuftos of that county. He was likewife, as
may be ſeen in Madox's Hiftory of the Exchequer* one of the
jufticiers in the king's court, a final concord, having been
made before him in that capacity 9 Rich. I. Under this
character he is mentioned both in 1196, and 1199; the
laft of which was about afcenfion day, when king John had
fucceeded to the crown. In both theſe inftances, he is put
down by the name of Willielmus de Warenna, fo that he
had affumed the name of Warren before his father's death;
and the furname and arms of his mother continued afterwards
to be uſed in the family, the honorable appellation of Plan-
tagenet being dropt to make room for them.
6 JOHN, the king committed to his charge the caſtle, and
honor of Eye in Suffolk; and in that year, and afterwards,
he was baron of the exchequer. †
• P. 78.
+ Madox's Hift of the Excheq. p. 745.
HE
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He had likewife, as we learn from Brady's Hiftory of
Boroughs, the following grant; copied alfo in Peck's Stanford.*
THE king to the sheriff of Lincoln, greeting. Know ye that
we have committed to our beloved William carl of Warenn,
Grantham, and Stanford, with the appurtenances, to hold until
he fhall recover his lands in Normandy, or until we fall
elsewhere make him a competent exchange. So nevertheless that
he may not talliate the men of Stanford, fave by our precept.
And therefore to you we command that ye caufe him to have
feifin thereof without delay. Witness the king at Weſtminſter,
the 19th of April.
IT has been faid, that great men in former times could not
tax their burroughs and demefnes, unlefs by the king's pre-
cept, but the exception in this charter, that the earl ſhould
not talliate the men of Stanford, fave by the king's precept,
may be thought prefumptive evidence that he might have
talliated them without it. The fact feems to have been this.
The lands which were talliable to private lords, were fuch
as had paffed from the crown, and had been talliated by it;
and after fuch were granted, they became liable to pay this
tax to their immediate lord, whenever the king talliated
his demefnes, and manors; and the ufual method of pro-
ceeding in that cafe, was to obtain the king's writ or precept
* Lib. VII. p. 6.
de
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de habendo rationabili tallagio, directed to the fheriff of the
county. In the cafe before us, the king thought proper to
reſerve the tallage of Stanford to himſelf, and in conſequence
of this, the men thereof acknowledged 27 Hen. III. before
the barons of the exchequer, that the king ought to have
the tallage of Stanford, as he had from his demefnes, and
that he and no other lord was intitled to it.*
THE above was the eftate of William Humet, who as
Dugdale + obferves, from the collections of Glover, Somerfet
Herald, was by king John made juftice of England. He
adviſed the king to go into Normandy; but when he came
thither the inhabitants roſe againſt him, and he was taken
prifoner, on which, at the king's return to England, the
juſtice fled, retiring to his eſtate in Normandy, of which
country he was conftable; thus forfeiting his poffeffions in
England, as fome others at this time did, when the above
Dutchy was wrefted out of the hands of the Engliſh.
nothing but right it was, that earl Warren fhould receive
the above, or fome other like gratuity from the crown, for
after king John had loft Normandy, he iffued a general pre-
cept, to diffeife all the Normans of their lands, and rents in
England; and the king of France in return, defpoiled the
Engliſh of their lands in Normandy. It was therefore ne-
ceffary, and what common juftice and equity required,
* Madox's Hift. of Excheq. p. 520.
VOL. I.
Сс
And
+ Bar. p. 631.
that
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that the king ſhould recompence thoſe who had fuffered in
his quarrel; amongst whom was our earl, whofe foreign
poffeffions were confiderable, and therefore he had theſe, and
other eftates, (as will be fhewn hereafter) given to him on
conditions, which never being fulfilled, the grant became
perpetual. For a clearer title however to the fame, a con-
firmation was obtained of thefe manors of Grantham and
Stanford, by earl Warren, in lieu of his Norman lands, from
king Henry III. in 1220.*
THUS the earldom of Warren became robbed of its
caput
baroniæ; for what the family had of this fort in England,
belonged to the earldom of Surrey. They were indulged
however, with being looked upon as having loft no honor
on this account, the title of earl of Warren being on all occa-
fions allowed them as before; but this, as I conceive, aroſe
from the fame principle which Madox has mentioned in his
Baronia Anglica, where he fais that the king of England
made feveral grants under his great feal, to his own fubjects, or
others; and his fubjects made many contracts with one another
about lands and rents, just as if they expected Normandy would
foon be recovered, and reunited to the crown of England.
7 JOHN, this earl was fined in one palfry, and one fore
hawk, that he might not be juftice of the Cinque ports. ‡
+ P. 4. 1 Madox's Hift. of Excheq. p. 318.
AUBREY
* See the Pipe Rolls for that year,
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179
AUBREY in the Introduction to his Antiquities of Surrey,
has a liſt of the ſheriffs for Surrey and Suffex, in which ap-
pears our earl with one William de Mara, under the years
1206, 1207, and five years afterwards. He is the only earl
upon the lift.
9 JOHN, he gave three hundred marks, as Dugdale in his
Baronage, p. 476, tells us, or as at p. 76 three thouſand, for
the cuftody of the lands of Gilbert de Aquila, to the uſe of
his fifter, widow of the faid Gilbert; but who this fifter was,
unless it was Maud, who is generally thought to have died
young, I cannot ſay.
ABOUT this time, he with feveral other great men, were
fureties with four of the fons of William de Braofe, for their
fidelity to the king.*
IN Morant's Effex, is a quotation from Domefday-book,
fhewing that William de Wateville held a place called
Rodinges (High Roding) of William de Warenna, which
the Abbat of Ely held in king Edward's time; this, no
doubt, was part of what the monks of Ely loft, when they
fortified their island againſt king William I. And as earl
Warren held the above by the ſervice of thirteen knights'
fees, 12 and 13 John, ‡ it is plain that theſe monks never
* Liber Niger Scaccar. vol. I. 377, 386.
† P. 465.
Cc 2
† Liber Rubr. fol. 16.
recovered
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recovered the whole of what they loft, notwithſtanding the
papal interpofition in their favor. At the fame time it muſt
be confeffed, that a miſtake is fomewhere made about the earl
having thirteen knights' fees here, when only High, Leaden,
Margaret, and part of Aythorp-Rodings are faid to belong to
him.
In the time of this king John, Butcher in his Antiquities
of the town of Stanford,* fais, that earl Warren ſtanding
upon his caſtle walls in Stanford, viewing the fair profpect
of the river, and meadows under the fame, faw two bulls
fighting for a cow. A butcher of the town, owner of one
of the bulls, coming accidentally by, with a maſtiff dog,
forced his own bull into the town by means of the ſame,
who was no fooner entered, but all the dogs in the town
joined in the purfuit; and the bull being thus made mad
with the noiſe of the people, and the fierceness of the dogs,
overturned every thing in his way; which caufing the inha-
bitants to riſe in a tumultuous manner, the earl, on hearing
the noiſe, mounted his horfe, and riding into the town,
was ſo pleaſed with what he faw, that he gave all thoſe
meadows, in which the two bulls were firft found fighting,
(fince called the caſtle meadows) perpetually, as a common,
to the butchers of the town, (after the first grafs is eaten)
to keep their cattle in till the time of flaughter, on condition
* Peck's edit. p. 25.
that
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that they found yearly for ever, the day fix weeks before
Chriſtmas, (being the day on which the ſport firſt began)
a mad bull, for the continuance of that diverfion. A cuſtom
which I am informed is kept up to the preſent time.
IN 1213, the earl was one of thoſe four great barons, who
obliged themſelves by oath,* to fee that king John performed
what the pope determined, for fatisfaction, in thoſe parti-
culars for which the king was excommunicated, and was
alfo a witneſs, with others, May 15th, the fame year, to
that king's refignation of his crown, and realm at Dover, to
Pandulph the pope's reprefentative, and to his doing homage
for the fame.
AT this time a confpiracy was formed amongst the barons,
in order to obtain the revival of the laws of Edward the con-
feffor, and the king being jealous of almost every one about
him, fufpected earl Warren to have been an accomplice with
Euftace de Vefci, and Robert Fitz Walter, the chief pro-
moters of it, but receiving fatisfaction to the contrary,+ he
had, amongſt others, the cuftody of the caftles of Bamburg,
and Newcaſtle upon Tine, with the whole bailiwic of Nor-
thumberland, committed to his truft.
Matthew Paris edit. Wats, p. 197-199.
+ See Patent 14 John, Rot. 13.
IN
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IN 1214 he was a witnefs to king John's charter, con-
cerning the deafforreſting of Naffaburgh, printed in Gunton's
Hiftory of the Church of Peterburgh.
IN 1215 he was joined in commiffion with William de
Albini, Stephen Langton archbishop of Canterbury, and
others, for the fafe conducting of all ſuch as ſhould repair
to London, in the term of the epiphany, next after the
relaxation of the interdict, to implore the king's favor for
their offences ; and from thence to the king's court at
Northampton, and back to their own homes.
IN Eafter week this year, a great number of barons, and
others, met at Stanford in Lincolnshire, and marched from
thence to London, on which the king was obliged to pub-
lifh a declaration, that he would not take the barons, or their
tenants, or diffeife them, or pafs upon them by force of arms,
but by law of the land, and judgment of their peers in his
court, till things fhould be determined by four perfons to be
chofen on his part, and four by the barons, the pope to be
the umpire between them. And for performance of this,
he offered as fecurity, four bishops with our earl.
He was foon after joined in commiffion with Peter de
Rupibus biſhop of Winchefter, William earl of Arundel,
* P. 154.
and
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and Hubert de Burgh juſtice of England, to treat with
Robert earl of Clare, and other diſcontented barons, in the
church of Erith, but the bufinefs came to nothing.
HISTORIANS fay, that the barons having feifed upon
London, fent circular letters to fuch as had not joined them;
threatening, that in cafe they did not concur with them in
ſupport of the common cause of the kingdom, their eſtates
ſhould be plundered, and their houſes demoliſhed; amongſt
whom was earl Warren; but it does not feem as if he paid
much obedience to this fummons, for on the 15th of June,
when the contending parties met by confent on Runingmede,
near Windfor, he was one who appeared on the king's fide,
and what certainly redounds much to his honor, was one of
the few counsellors, by whofe advice and perfuafion, the king put
his feal to Magna Charta. He was likewife one of the thirty-
eight, who were fworn to be obedient, and aſſiſting to the
twenty-five barons, chofen to ſee that the king did not break
the charter which he had juſt granted and was a witneſs to
the charter which king John paffed in the New Temple at
London, to the archbishop of Canterbury, and others, for
confirmation of the rights of the church, and clergy of
England. *
Of the above Magna Charta, there is an exact engraving
by Pine, from two originals, in the Cottonian Library,
See Matthew Paris, edit. Wats, p. 221.
written
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written both by the fame hand; in the margin of which
engraving, are curiously drawn, and colored, the arms of
the above twenty-five barons, as preferved in the College of
Arms. Judge Blackftone's edition of it in quarto, Oxford
1759, with other inftruments of this fort, and a copious
hiftory of the charters, is one of the fineſt books ever printed
in England, and has done great honor to the Clarendon
prefs, but the editor has done infinitely greater honor to
himſelf.
From the proceedings of the above very important tranf-
actions, it ſeems as if the barons did not look upon earl
Warren as an enemy to their caufe; and if he really was a
friend to it, as there is reafon to believe, he did more for
the liberties of his country, by continuing with the king,
than if he had appeared in arms against him. On the king's
return to London, he adhered to him, as we are told in a
M. S. in the Herald's office, called Vincent, No. 3, and
marked with a crofs patee, in which he is called Cognatus
Regis; and at the fame page we are informed, that in 1216,
the earl, with many others of the king's friends, deferted
him. This account is faid to have been taken from the
regiſter of the monaftery of Bernwell, in the life of king
John, and ferves to confirm the affertion of Matthew
‡
P. 71.
+ See Daniel's Hiftory of England, edit. 1621, p. 124.
Fol. 65.
Paris
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185
Paris* that earl Warren joined Lewis the French king's fon
at London, when he arrived there to affift the barons againſt
king John, and had fent circular letters to feveral barons to
come, and do him homage, or depart the realm. This de-
fection of the earl was fo difpleafing to the king, that he
ſent him a precept to deliver up his caftle of Pevenſey to
Matthew Fitz Herbert, who was commanded to demoliſh
it. It ſeems plain, that the king had no fufpicion that earl
Warren would leave him, for he had just before given him
the manor of Offington in Lincolnshire, (part of the eſtate
of William de Albini, his priſoner,) for the better defence of
his caftle of Stanford.
WHAT the earl's reafon for this conduct was, does not
appear; it ſeems, however, that what he did, was rather
becauſe the king was become odious to the people, than
through any fear that Lewis would wreft the crown from
* Edit. Wats, p. 237.
+ THE order for the demolition of this caſtle, (for the remains of which fee the
plate) is mentioned on the authority of Dugdale, but as it was a royal fortification,
the reafon for it does not appear; nor is it probable that any fuch order was put in
execution, for in the next reign we find John fon of this earl William having cuftody
of the fame. If any thing prevented its being deftroyed, it might be owing to the
king's death, which happened foon after.
In the notes on Peck's edition of Butcher's Survey of Stanford, p. 19, it is faid
that earl Warren might poffibly repair the walls of Stanford, (probably ruined in the
barons' wars) when the above manor was given him.
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him,
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him, and place it on his own head; for no fooner was king
John dead, but he deferted Lewis, and the barons in his
intereſt, and ſwore allegiance to king Henry III. then an
infant;
on which occafion Peter Langtoft calls him the
gode earle of Warenne.*
THE manner in which Dugdale + has expreffed this con-
duct of the earl, deferves a remark.
His words are, The
death of king John altered the ſcene; for divers of the great
men, Standing Stoutly to young Henry his fon, crowned him
king; fo that Lewis, at length, feeing how things framed,
was content to quit the realm, whereupon this our earl came in,
and fwore fealty to king Henry. This, however, ought not
to be underſtood as if he refuſed to ſubmit to the king, till
Lewis had finally left the kingdom; for there is proof, that
he joined the royal party when Lewis made his trip to Paris,
during a truce; not after his departure, in confequence of
the treaty of
peace which was figned at London. His fub-
miffion, therefore, appears to have been free, not forced;
and that he was in favor at court, may be prefumed from
his being ſheriff of Surrey from 1219 to 1226, as fome ac-
counts fay; or as Dugdale, from the 5th to the 10th Hen. III.
though it muſt be owned that nothing of this fort appears in
Aubrey's lift.
* Vol. I. p. 213.
+ Bar. p. 77.
2 HEN. III.
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187
2 HEN. III. fais Madox in his Baronia Anglica,* the honor
of Gilbert de Aquila (of which Pevenfey castle was the
head) was veſted in this earl. The record he quotes fais,
Comes de Warenna debet xliiil. & xvs. de† xxxv. feodis de
feodis Gilleberti de Aquila, de feodis Moritoniæ, & c & xxl.
de Ix. feodis de Baronia fua.‡ He paid for upwards of fixty
knights' fees within the rape of Lewes; and he anſwered the
like fum with the above, in 1254, when aid was given to
the king in making his eldeſt fon knight.
WITH regard to the honor of the above Gilbert, I find,
in Tefta de Nevil, under the article of Hundred de Wodeton
Com. Surrey, Villa de weftcote que fuit Gilberti de Aquila,
capta fuit in manus Domini Regis, quia idem Gilbertus abiit in
Normanniam contra voluntatem Domini Regis, ut dicitur. Et
comes Warenna finivit pro forore fua, que fuit uxor ipfius Gil-
berti, pro dicta villa quam habuit in dote, i. e. in manu Comitis,
& eft in baronia Gilberti de Aquila. This fine from earl
Warren, was only on account of his fifter's dower from thoſe
lands, to which the became intitled 6 John, in which year
her huſband died in Normandy. 9 John, he paid three hun-
dred marks for the cuftody of the faid lands, as already
* P. 33.
+ The Liber Niger Scaccarii, vol. I. p. 67, calls them thirty-five fees and half.
↑ Mag. Rot. 2 H. III.
Rot. 3. m. 2. Sudfexia tit.
Dd2
mentioned,
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mentioned, and it is not to be doubted but ſhe enjoyed her
dower for life, in confequence thereof. Her fon Gilbert
gave, 11 Hen. III. five hundred marks fine, for livery of his
lands, being probably at this time come to his age, but be-
fore the 19th of the ſaid king he had forfeited the fame; for
at that time they were granted to Gilbert Marſhal, earl of
Pembroke; and 25 Hen. III. to Peter de Savoy, who, 29
Hen. III. had cuſtody of the above Gilbert's heir.
WHEN king Henry was prevailed upon to confirm the
two great charters of the realm at Weſtminſter, February
11th, in the ninth year of his reign, earl Warren was one of
the witneſſes; thus joining in the farther eſtabliſhment of thoſe
great national bleffings, in the first procuring of which he had fo
confiderable a ſhare.
In this year, Falcafius de Breant, a foreigner, being, at
the requeſt of the nobility, condemned to perpetual baniſh-
ment, he received command to conduct him ſafe to the ſea-
coaft, and then leave him to the winds, which he did in the
month of March.* This Falcafius (or Faukes) had married
the lady Margaret Rivers, who was taken in the caſtle of
Bedford, when it furrendered to king Hen. III. but not
having confented to her huſband's crime, he was committed
to the cuftody of earl Warren.
* Matthew Paris, edit. Wats, p. 273.
ON
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On the death of Roger de Montbegon, 10 Hen. III. the
caſtle of Horneby in Lancaſhire, was put into this earl's
hands, but foon after, Henry de Montbegon being found
heir to the faid Roger, he obtained, the year following, the
king's precept to earl Warren to give him poffeffion of it.
I FIND, from Madox's Hiftory of the Exchequer,* that a
duty was formerly paid to the king, for every carucate of land
holden by baſe, or inferior tenure; and that one William de
Mara ſtood charged, in the great roll of the Exchequer, with
fix fhillings, for the carucage of the earl of Warren's men in
Surrey.
IN 1227 he joined the difcontented barons at Stanford, and
was one who ſent that bold meffage to the king, to make
amends to Richard earl of Cornwall his brother, concerning
the caſtle of Barkhamsted, belonging to that earldom, which,
whilſt Richard was beyond fea, he had given to Waleran a
Fleming, and alfo to reftore to them the great charter of the
foreft, which he had cancelled at Oxford, or they would
oblige him fo to do, by dint of ſword.
IN 1229 he ſeems to have fettled a diſpute with the monks
of Lewes and Caſtle Acre, concerning the chuſing a prior
* P. 502.
over
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over the cell of Bromholme, for the agreement was made at
Stanford, under his eye, as patron of Lewes.
IN 1231, he was witneſs to a charter of king Henry III.
printed in the Monafticon.*
IN 1232, when Hubert de Burgh, fometime juftice of Eng-
land, was charged with accumulating much treaſure, and leav-
ing it in the cuſtody of the templers to keep, and being found
guilty, was in danger of being put to death, this earl, with
Richard the king's brother, Richard earl Marſhal, and John
earl of Lincoln, or as fome fay, William earl of Ferrars,
became furety for him, and he remained in the caſtle of the
Deviſes, under cuftody of four of their knights. Robert
of Glouceſter, thus reckons up theſe fureties.
The earl of Wareine, and Richard earl of Cornwaile,
And Richard the Marschal, and the earl of Chettre Jon.
He was likewife bound with Hugh de Albini in five
HE
hundred marks, when he made fine with the king, for the
lands belonging to his brother William de Albini; for Hugh
was at that time, 18 Hen. III. in his minority, as alfo he
was about two years after, in 1236, for earl Warren at that
time ferved the king of his royal cup, on occafion of his
* Vol. II. p. 660.
+ P. 523.
nuptials
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191
nuptials with Eleanor fecond daughter of Raymond earl of
Provence, inſtead of this earl who had not yet been knighted.
The words of Matthew Paris* are, Comite Warenniæ officium
cuppa regalis, loco comitis Harundellia fupplente; eo quod
adolefcens adhuc fuerit idem comes Harundelliæ, nec adhuc
gladio cinctus militari. This reafon feems quite fufficient,
but in Vincent's M. S. in the Herald's office, No. 3. marked
with a cross patee, † in a quotation from the Red Book,‡
it is faid to have been, becauſe the earl of Arundel was then
under fentence of excommunication; but I find no other
mention of this.
MADOX in his Baronia Anglica|| tells us of what num-
ber of knights' fees feveral baronies were compoſed; and
amongſt others he fais, that in the reign of king Hen. III.
and afterwards, the barony of the earl of Warenne compriſed
fixty fees; but this ſhould not be underſtood, as if it was
the whole of his eftate, for the record he quotes relates
only to Suffex; and it is certain that he had more than theſe
in the rape of Lewes, as appears from the following extract
from Tefta de Nevil.
26 HEN. III. Ifti tenent de Honore Warenn. qui eft in
manu Dom. de Sabaudia.
Edit. Wats, p. 355.
+ P. 84.
‡ Fol. 232.
| P. 91, &c.
Will.
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Will. de Say tenet XIIII feod. mil. in Hammes.
Johes de Burgo X feod. mil. in Porteflade.
Tho. de Poning X feod. mil. in Poninges.
Simon de Petroponte X feod. mil. in Herfte.
Hugo de Playz VII feod. mil. in Iford & Werpefburn.
Johes de Gatefden III feod. mil. in Bercampe.
Petrus de Kenet II feod. mil. in Twynem.
Cardo de Hangleton & Radus de Meyners III feod.mil.in Hangleton.
Will. Aguillun I feod. mil. in Percinges.
Will. de Bufcy I feod. mil. in
Hugo de Fokinton I feod. mil. in Bevenden.
Abbas de Sybenton I feod. mil. in Rotingedene.
Robtus de Cukefelde I feod. mil. in Hangleton.
Paganus de Mara dimid. feod. mil. in Sandys.
Warinus de Kyngeſton dim. feod. mil. in Kyngefton.
Johes de Gateſden dim. feod. mil. in Dychelinges.
Will. de Munceus dim. feod. mil. in Herfte.
Nichus de Nugun dim. feod. mil. in
Ricus de Wayvill tertiam partem un. feod. mil. in Blechington.
In all fixty-feven knights' fees and a quarter.
He had alſo thirty-five and an half in the rape of Pevenfel,
of the fee of Gilbert de Aquila, and many others in differ-
ent places, which it would be difficult to reckon up. Peck*
* Hift. of Stanford, Lib. VIII. p. 20.
tells
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tells us from the pipe rolls, that he had, 19 Hen. III. fifty
pounds blanc firm in Stanford.
In the Harleian library is a M.S. No. 313, XIV, intitled
Feoda Militum et ea tenentium nomina uti et eorum qui per
alias tenuras terras fuas in comitatu Suffex tenuerunt, 26 Hen. III.
and the verdict therein for earl Warren's eftates is this.
In rapo de Lewes Willus comes Warrenn. tenet de Dno Rege
LXII feoda milit. & hec feoda tenet per totam terram fuam in
Anglia ut milites dicunt; which words, though obfcurely
expreffed, mean to point out the manner of the earl's hold-
ing his lands throughout England. But why did the knights
extend their inquifition beyond the county of Suffex? This
muft be, becaufe Lewes being the head of the earl's barony,
he paid for all his knights' fees there. It was common for
eftates to be held of a caput honoris, though they lay in
different counties; thus, as by Domefday-book, divers
lands in Norfolk, in the hundreds of Gildecroffe, Forehou,
Mitteford, and North Erpingham were holden of earl
Warren ut de caftello fuo de Laquis, (Lewes) and it feems
to have been eafier both for the crown and fubject, to
account for the fervice in one place than many.
THE above conjecture is confirmed by a M.S. written by
a ſteward of the family of the Lords Abergavenny, between
1597 and 1622, and afterwards continued by himſelf to the
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reign of Charles I. wherein at p. 143, in dorfo, he con-
cludes the names of the tenants and manors in Suffex,
formerly held of the barony of Lewes, by knights' ſervice,
thus, funt eciam nonnulla alia maneria in Com. Suffex, Norfolk,
Surr. & alibi, quondam tenta de baronia predicta, nunc autem
obfoleta, & incognita.
IN the above Tefta de Nevil (which is an account drawn
up by Jollan de Nevil, a juftice itinerant, in the reign of
king Henry III. of lands held in grand or petty fergeanty,
with fees, and efcheats to the king, and now in the cuſtody
of the king's remembrancer in the exchequer) it is faid,
Comes Warrenn. tenet Reygate in capite de rege in baronia
fua de conqueftu Anglie. which Salmon in his Antiquities of
Surrey,* thus remarks upon; Mr. Aubrey makes the earls
Warren to have held Reygate in chief of the king from the
Norman invafion. This I do not find. He hath it probably
from Camden, who faith, Warreniæ comites, ut eft in libro
inquifitionum, tenuerunt in capite de rege in baronia fua de
conqueftu Anglie. If it means from the conqueft, there ſhould
have been pæne added. It is not unufual to fay all, when we mean
but almoſt all. Did Mr. Camden truft fomebody elſe to fearch
for him? Or how came the infpeximus to contradict the record?
What led that curious gentleman into fuch an opinion, may be
fomething which the family of Warren had given out themſelves,
P. 70.
or
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or what the monks to whom they were munificent, thought fit to
publish for the grandeur of their patron. Adding, I do not fee
in the furvey (meaning Domefday-book) that Warren had then
one inch of land in the county. This expreffion is loofe and
inaccurate, (as many others at that time were) but can mean
nothing elſe, than that earl Warren was the firft poffeffor of
it after the conqueft, except the crown, from whom it was
given to him after Domeſday-book was made.
KING HENRY, on account of his confirming the Magna
Charta, and Charta de Foreſta, having a grant of a thirtieth*
part of his ſubjects' moveable goods, earl Warren was one of
the four, in whofe hands the money was lodged, in order
that it might be employed for the fole ufe and benefit of the
king and kingdom. But this precaution feems to have
proved ineffectual; for from the oldeſt proteſt of the lords
upon record, in the year 1242, we learn, that when the
king folicited his parliament at that time for a fum of
money, to carry on the war in France, the barons refufed his
requeſt, alledging, amongst other reafons, that the king had
granted, that all the money arifing from this thirtieth part,
fhould be laid up fafely in the king's caftles, under the
guardianship of earl Warren, and other English noblemen,
by whofe direction, and advice, the faid money ſhould be
diſburſed for the fervice of the king, and kingdom, when-
* Not a thirteenth as in Peck's Annals of Stanford,
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ever it was neceffary; and becauſe the barons never knew, or
heard, that the faid money was expended by the advice, and
confent of the faid lords, they believed him to be ftill
poffeffed thereof, and therefore that he could not have
occafion for any more.
ABOUT the faid year 1237, the king putting from him
fuch counſellors as were difliked, admitted in their room,
this earl Warren as chief, William earl of Ferrars and Derby,
and John Fitz Geffry, who took an oath that by no gifts,
or rewards, or by any other way, they would be drawn from
the truth, but that they would at all times give him fuch
wholeſome counfel, as was only conducive to the good of
himſelf, and the kingdom.
It was perhaps on account of this earl's being chief coun-
fellor, that when king Henry, at this time, entered into
an agreement with Alexander king of Scotland, concerning
the latter's giving up three northern counties, he and Walter
Cumyn earl of Monteith, according to the fashion of thoſe
times, fwore to the obfervation of the treaty, each of them
upon the foul of his maſter, and by his command.*
IN 1238, a riot happening at Ofeney Abbey near Oxford,
wherein the brother of Otto the pope's legate was killed,
* Ridpath's Border Hift. p. 134.
the
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the king diſpatched this earl from Abingdon, with a num-
ber of foldiers to apprehend the ringleaders, which he per-
formed, bringing thirty ſcholars, and one Odo a lawyer,
to the caſtle at Wallingford, and there committing them
to priſon.
23 HEN. III. A law-fuit happened between Simon de
Pierpont, and earl Warren, concerning free warren, in the
lordſhips of the faid Simon at Herft, (fince called Herſt
Pierpont) and Godebridge in Suffex, it was agreed that the
earl, in confideration of a gofhawk given to the faid Simon,
ſhould have leave for himſelf, and heirs, to hunt the buck,
doe, hart, hynd, hare, fox, goat, cat, or any other wild
beaſt, in any of thoſe lands.
COLLINS in his Peerage (under Pierpont duke of Kingſton)
fais, that in Domefday book, Robert de Pierpont was pof-
feffed of the lordships of Heneftede and Wretham in Suffolk,
Hurst in Suffex, and other lands of great extent in that
county, amounting to ten knights' fees, held of the famous
William earl Warren, but knows not whether he was of
the retinue of the faid earl, or was obliged to make agree-
ment with him for his lands; the former however feems
highly probable, as Dugdale fais exprefsly, that this Robert
came into England at the time of the Norman conqueft;
and the name of Pierpont, we know, is found in the roll
of Battle Abbey.
THIS
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THIS earl occurs as a witnefs to a deed of king Henry III.
to Lewisham Abbey in Kent. * His religious donations
were, firſt a place of burial, containing five acres without
the eaſtgate of Stanford, to bury therein the dead bodies
of excommunicated perfons, and to build there a chapel,
and houſe for poor brethren. That hofpital, Mr. Peck
fais, in his Annals of the town,+ was probably S. Logar's,
the fituation of which is now unknown. The reaſon of the
gift feems to have been, becauſe the whole kingdom was at
that time (9 John) under an interdict.
BUTCHER in his Antiquities of Stanford, ‡ fais, that this
earl alfo built, and largely endowed the Auguftine Fryers
there, and (as is conceived) moft of the other monafterics
in and about the fame place, but Peck, Stevens, and others
fay that it was founded by one Fleming; nor does it appear
that he built or endowed any thing of this fort at Stanford,
except the hofpital, and chapel above-mentioned.
IN the Ledger-book of Lewes Abbey, is a charter of this
earl, by the ftyle of William de Warenn fon of Hameline,
confirming the grant which his father made to the monks of
St. Pancrace, of the tithes of eels in Yorkshire.
+ Lib. VII. p 7•
* Monaft. vol. I. p. 550.
‡ Peck's Edit. p. 19.
|| P. 17.
ANOTHER,
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ANOTHER, Confirming to the faid monks all the lands and
tenements, churches, and tithes, which his anceſtors had
given them.
ANOTHER, by which this Will. earl of Warren gave to
the church of the Holy Trinity of Cukufeld, half an acre of
land in Tokerefywende, in the fame pariſh.
ANOTHER, by which he gave to God and the monks of
St. Pancrace, an ifle called Suthye (written in the title Suth-
rye) lying near the iſle of the ſaid monks, in pure and perpe-
tual charity.
ANOTHER, by which he gave an hundred fhillings of annual
rent, out of his manors of Meching, and Pidingeho.
ANOTHER, commanding his fenefchal of Gymmyngham,
to pay to the prior of Lewes, the tithe denar. fuor. de reddit.
fuis in ptibus Norf.
IN the Monafticon is a confirmation charter of this earl,
to the nunnery at Kirklees, but Reynerus Flandrenfis is
therein printed for Henricus, as appears from the original,
which I faw in the poffeffion of Sir George Armitage at
Kirklees. To this charter is a ſmall feal of white wax,
* Vol. I. p. 487.
appendant
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appendant on a filken ftring; it is almoft demoliſhed, but
on one fide may be feen the remains of the figure of the earl
on horſeback, in a charging pofture. This Henry Flandrenfis
was brother to Reyner, who founded the nunnery at Kirklees,
in the reign of Henry II. and it appears from other deeds,
that they both were fons of William Flandrenfis. Henry
was probably a tenant of the earl's, in fome of his manors
about Wakefield, or Halifax, and with his confent gave
fomething to his brother's nunnery, which it would be ne-
ceffary for the earl to confirm. I refer the above-mentioned
charter to this earl William, becauſe I find two of the wit-
neffes, William de Livet, and Jordan de Heton, to a deed,
in the reign of king John, long after William de Blois was
dead.
HE feems to have been, with many others of the nobility
of his time, a benefactor to Lincoln Minster, for his arms
are in one of the windows there, along with thoſe of his
counteſs Maud, daughter of William Marſhal earl of Pem-
broke.
ABOUT 1222 this earl founded at Slevefholm (afterwards
called Slewfham) in Norfolk, on a place then an ifland,
in the fens belonging to the parish of Methwold, a priory
of Cluniac monks, which was dedicated to the bleffed Virgin
Mary, and made fubordinate to Caftle Acre. The founda-
tion
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tion deed is in the Monafticon.* It was this earl who+
wrote to Pandulph bishop of Norwich, defiring him to
grant to the monks of Acre, the church of Melewde, (Meth-
wold) confirmed to them by the predeceffors of the faid
biſhop, to furniſh fire for ſtrangers, and poor people reſort-
ing to their monaftery, fuel being very ſcarce in thoſe parts.
In another letter, he intreated the fame biſhop, to protect
the faid monks of Acre, in the poffeffion of the church of
Slevefholm near Melewde, which he had beſtowed upon
them in free, and perpetual charity. Pandulph was elected
in 1218, but not confecrated till 1222, and died in 1226.
The date of theſe letters is therefore very nearly fixed, as
the first is directed to him as bishop of Norwich elect, and
the other as biſhop.
STEVENS
tells us that William Waren earl of Surrey,
not the first, as Speed has it, who was dead, an hundred years
before, but the fixth, fon to Hameline and Ifabel, great grand-
daughter to the faid first earl, about the year 1245, appointed
an houfe for the crouched friers, in the town of Rygate, in the
county of Surrey. Tanner fais it was probably founded
earlier; and fo it must have been, if this earl had any hand
in it, for at that time he had been dead about five years.
In Leland's Collectanea || it is however afferted, that a
• Vol. I. p. 639.
+ Monaft. vol. I. p. 638.
Supplement to Monat. vol. II. p. 268.
F f
VOL. I.
|| Vol. I. p. 90.
William
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William Waren earl of Surrey, was the firſt founder of a
priory at Reygate, of the order of St. Auguftine. It is not
eaſy to ſettle thefe contradictory accounts. As I can meet
with no record, which mentions a religious houfe here,
before the time of the fixth earl Warren, he might (as
Stevens obferves) have been the founder, but the date muſt
then be miſtaken; if it is not, he should have faid John
Warren earl of Surrey, not William, but even this would
have been very improbable, for John earl Warren was in
1245, not much more than ten years of age.
THE following extracts, from a charge given at a court
baron of the Right Honble. Eliz. counteſs of Peterburgh,
held at Reigate, on Friday 30th Aug. 20 Charles I. 1644,
by Edward Thurland, Efq. (afterwards Sir Edward Thur-
land, Knight, one of the barons of the exchequer) are
pertinent to the fubject before us.
THIS mannour was vefted in the priory of Reigate, and there-
fore called Manerium Prioratus de Reigate, as appears by
records, and the order of those Friars had this rife here in
England.
In the time of king Hen. III. there comes here into England
certain Friers, with a bull or charter from Pope Innocent the
III. purporting the creating of a new order of Friers, called
Friers
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Friers of the Holy Croſſe, for that there recognizance or badge
was gerere cruces in baculis-to carry croffes upon there
Staves-at there first coming hither, all the monaftick orders, as
well the univerfal spreading orders of the Benedictins, Auguf
tines, Ceftercians, and the rest of the monks in England, did
unanimously oppofe there fetling here in England, pretending
that the Pope had formerly decreed against the creating of new
orders of Friars, as very prejudiciall to thoſe more auntient
orders, and by that means the auntient monafteries did decay,
for that the people being commonly in love with novelties or new
things, were more addicted to theſſe new orders then to Support
the auntient-Thus the buſineſs here in England ſtood long in
debate, but at length by the power of earle Warren, then Lord
of this mannour, they were first planted here at Reigate, and
at Guilford, and foe he first endowed them, and gave them par-
cel of the demefnes of this mannour, first for the place of there
habitation, and after for there support. And therefore by a
record in the bundle of efcheat 18 Hen. VI. remaining of record
in the tower of London, it is that the lords of the mannor of
Reigate had the right of patronage, or the advowson of the
house or priory of Reigate, and which was nothing els but the
election of the prior. And William earl Warren did grant by
deed, eftoverium fuum fufficien. ad ardendum in bofco fuo
(now called Earl's Wood) de Reigate, fcil. de mortuo
bofco & caduco, & maremium ad reparationem, & fuften-
tationem domorum predicti Hofpitalis. And in fucceffe of
time,
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time, this priory grew to bee very confiderable in revenews,
having in poffeffion two mannors, Southwike and Wefthumble,
and two impropriations, Dorking and Capell, and the advowson
of Mickelham. In fervices good fore-in demefnes very wealthy.
Now it was ripe for the ficle, and then comes the ftatute of
27 Hen. VIII. and diffolves this monaftery, and fettles it in
the crowne, and from thence it is derived by conveyance and
fucceffion unto this honourable lady.
In another part of this charge it is faid, forty years agoe
courts were kept here, and three mannours held of this, viz.
Linkfield, Wefthumble, (where the ruins of a chapel are now
to be feen) and Southwick; and to theſe might have been
added the manor of Cumbe. The bishop of Wincheſter
annexed the rectory of Dorking to this priory in 1337.
THIS priory has fometimes in records been called Hofpitale
Sancte Crucis. A fouth view of it, is here preſented to
the reader, from a drawing in the poffeffion of Richard
Barnes of Reigate, Efq. The arms on the front of it, are
thoſe of queen Elizabeth, put there, as fuppofed, in honor
of her Majeſty, by Charles Lord Howard of Effingham,
High Admiral of England, then lord of the manor of the
priory.
It was purchaſed by Humphry Parfons, Efq. Lord
Mayor of London, who made ſome additions to it. It was
after-

From a Drawing in the Possession of MBarnes of Reigate.
SOUTH VIEW OF REIGATE PRIORY.
Published as the Act directs, August 201786.
Engravd by J-Basire
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afterwards fold to Mr. Ireland, who pulled down the greateſt
part of it.
THIS manor of the priory, muſt have ariſen out of the
lands beſtowed on the friers, by the earls of Warren and
others; but before this, there was the manor of Reigate,
conſiſting of the eſtate of the ſaid earls; and that there may
be a manor within a manor, there are plenty of inſtances.
THE common feal of this priory in after times may be
ſeen in the fourth plate of feals, No. 6. it is appendant to
the following charter.
OMNIBUS Chrifti fidelibus quibus preſens fcriptum pervenerit
Jobes Lymden prior domus & ecclefie fancte crucis de Reygate
in Com. Surr. & ejufdem loci conventus fal. Cum nos prefati
prior & conventus modo habemus & tenemus quoddam pratum
vocatum Cakylfmede continens per eftimacoem quatuor acras
terre jacentes apud Litilton in dicto comitatu pro termino fep-
tuaginta & quinque annorum a fefto fanéti Michaelis archangeli
ultimo preterito adhuc futurorum ratione dimiffionis & conceffionis
cuidam Johi Robſon defuncto quondam priori domus & ecclefie
predicte per quendam Jobem Poope defunctum nuper dum vixit
de Wodbacche in dicto com. inde fact. & concell. revercione pre-
dicti prati immediate poft finem termini predicti Jobi Skynner
Juniori her. & affig. fuis imperpetuum totaliter fpectante Nove-
ritis
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ritis jam nos prefatum priorem & conventum unanimi affenfu
& confenfu tocius capituli noftri pro certa pecunie fumma nobis per
prefatum Johem Skynner propriis manibus bene & fideliter foluta
dediffe conceffiffe ac pro nobis & fuccefforibus noftris confirmaffe
ac furfum reddidiſſe prefato Jobi Skynner totum terminum ac ſta-
tum noftrum predictum de & in premiffis Ac eciam remififfe re-
laxaffe & omnino pro nobis & fuccefforibus noftris imperpetuum
totum jus noftrum flatum titulum clameum intereffe & demand.
de & in predicto prato feu aliqua inde parcella cum fuis pert.
In cujus rei teftimonium huic prefenti fcripto noftro figillum nof-
trum commune appofuimus Dat. in domo noftro capitulari unde-
cimo die Octobris anno regni regis Henrici octavi vicefimo
fecundo.
In the Harleian Mfs. No. 1967, 3, * is an extract from
the Chartulary of Caftle Acre, wherein this earl confirms
lands in Suthcroft, for the foul of the countefs Maud his
wife.
In the Monafticon† is a charter, whereby this earl, for
the health of his foul, and for the fouls of his father and
mother, and all his ancestors, and fucceffors, and for the
health of the foul of Helias de Marnile, gave in pure and
perpetual alms to God, and the church of St. Michael of
Stanford, and to the nuns there ferving God, forty fhillings
* Fol. 27.
+ Vol. II. p. 882.
of
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of filver yearly, to be paid out of the rent of his mill of
Wakefield, at the feaſt of St. Michael, which he affigned
to the kitchen of the faid nuns, on condition that they
obſerved the anniverſary of the faid Elias yearly, on the eve
of St. George.
LASTLY, in the Monafticon is a grant of this earl to
the church of the Holy Sepulchre of Thetford.
IN 1767, the following original charter was in the hands
of Mr. Uriah Tinker, of the Crofs, near Holmfirth in
Yorkshire. Sciant prefentes & futuri quod ego Wills comes
Warenn. dedi & conceffi, & hac prefenti carta mea confirmavi
Ric. de Karteword pro homagio & fervicio fuo duodecim acras
terre in Wolvedal. cum communi et paftura ad tantam terram
pertinent. tenendas & habendas fibi & heredibus fuis de me &
heredibus meis in feodo & hereditate libere & quiete integre &
pacifice reddendo inde mihi & heredibus meis annuatim duos foli-
dos ad tres anni terminos p. omnibus ferviciis & confuetudinibus
fcilicet ad purificationem fancte Marie octo denarios, & ad pen-
tecoften octo denarios & ad feftum fancti Michaelis octo denarios
Hiis teftibus Thoma de Horebir. tunc Senefchallo. Jordano
de Heton Will de Livet Hen. de Turftaineland Thoma de Hol-
neherfte Thoma filio Ifabell Robto de Birton Matheo de Turftaine-
* Vol. II. p. 574.
land
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land Ric. fratre fuo Will de Livet juniore & multis aliis. Ap-
pendant to this, was a feal repreſenting the earl on horfeback,
with his fhield of arms on his left arm, his fword drawn
in his right hand, the horſe in a charging poſture in full
gallop. On the reverſe, a fhield of arms checky. The
date of this deed is fixed, by Hen. de Thurftanland, and
Jordan de Heaton, being witneffes to other charters, in the
time of Robert Wallenfis, who was fheriff of Yorkſhire
from 1206 to 1210.
BUTCHER in his Survey of Stamford,* fais that William
earle Warrenn gave and granted in the lordship of Stamford,
to Tipler, one meffuage with the appurtenances in the pof-
ſeffion of Hugh at Water, which yielded yearly two-pence
halfpenny.†
THIS earl was married firſt to Maud, daughter of William
de Albini earl of Arundel, who died, without iffue,
February 6th 1215, and was buried in the Chapter Houſe
of Lewes. This family bore gules a lion rampant or. His
ſecond wife was Maud, eldest daughter, and at laſt, after
the death of her five brothers, one of the heirs of William
Marefchal earl of Pembroke, widow alfo of Hugh Bigod
*Peck's Edit. p. 5.
For two charters of this earl, fee under John the eighth earl.
earl
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209
earl of Norfolk. Earl William
or and vert a lion rampant gules.
bore for arms, per pale
This Maud is incorrectly
Warren Albini.
Warren - Marefchal
entered in the regifter of Lewes in thefe words: Domina
Matildis Comitiffa Surregie fecunda uxor Willi filii Hamelini
& filia Willi Comit. Bygod Comit. Norfolk & Marifcall.
Anglie. Dugdale* fais, this Maud married John de War-
ren earl of Surrey, which is nothing but a misnomer, as
he had put down the marriage properly before.† The
fame miſtake may be found in the Monafticon.‡
By his fecond wife he had John, and Ifabel, with the
latter of whom he gave, 17 Hen. III. three hundred marks.
fine, to marry Hugh de Albini earl of Arundel, who died
in the prime of his youth, without iffue, in 1243. Con-
cerning this Ifabel, Yorke in his Union of Honor, has con-
tradicted himſelf, for whereas at p. 289, he makes her the
daughter of this earl Warren, at p. 205 he fais, he was the
daughter of Hugh Bigod. Brooke fais there was a daughter
Margaret, elder than Ifabel, married to the Lord Percy.
• Bar. vol. II. p. 602.
VOL. I.
† At p. 77.
G g
1 Vol. I. p. 725.
And
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And in a pedigree in the hands of Sir John Borlace Warren,
this Margaret is faid to marry Alan Lord Percy, but in a
pedigree of the Percys in the poffeffion of the duke of Nor-
thumberland, no mention is made of fuch a marriage.
THIS Ifabel founded out of her dowry, in 1251, or the
year following, a nunnery of the Ciftercian Order, to the
honor of the bleffed Virgin Mary, near Linn, called Mar-
ham, the foundation charter of which is printed in the
Monafticon,* from whence we learn that ſhe gave, in her
widowhood, for the health of her foul, and for the foul of
William earl Warren her father, and for the foul of Maud
the counteſs, her mother, and for the foul of Hugh earl of
Arundel, formerly her huſband, and for the fouls of her
ancestors, and fucceffors, all her land in the manor of Mar-
ham, which her father gave her in free maritage. Amongſt
the witneſſes were Roger Bigod earl of Norfolk, and marſhal
of England, Hugh le Bigod, and John de Warren, brothers
of the faid Ifabel. This grant was confirmed by royal in-
fpeximus, 36 Hen. III.
THIS Curious quotation, relating to the above religious
foundation, is taken out of the Annals of Waverley in
Surrey. Ifabella Comitiffa de Arundel, morum quidem gravi-
tate non mediocriter adornata, circa falutem anime fue diligens,
Vol. II. p. 929.
+ Ed. Gale, p. 210.
& fol-
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&follicita, divina, ut creditur, infpiratione præventa; abba-
tiam monalium ordinis Ciftercenfis Marham vocatam, cum
fumma devotione hoc anno 1252 conftruxit. Cujus rei caufa
Abbatem noftrum duxit confulendum, ac permiffione Domini
Papæ domum noftrum intravit, focietatem ordinis in capitulo.
noftro devote petiit, & obtinuit, quatuor marcas, & unum
dolium vini conventui, ad pitancias, donavit.
THE following moft extraordinary account of her, is in
Dugdale's Baronage.* In 1252 (36 Hen. III.) moving the
king, concerning the wardſhip of a certain perſon, which ſhe
challenged as her right, and not fucceeding, fhe boldly told
him, that he was by God appointed to govern, but that he
neither governed himſelf, nor his ſubjects as he ought to do;
adding that he wronged the church, and vexed the nobles;
to which the king replied, "What is this you fay? Have the
peers framed a charter, and made you their advocate to ſpeak
for them, by reafon of your eloquence ?” "No (fais fhe) they
have made none at all; but you have violated that charter of
liberties which your father did grant; and which you by oath
obliged yourself to obferve; and notwithstanding you have often
extorted money from your liege people, for the ratifying thereof,
yet you have broke it, fo that you are a manifeft infringer of your
faith and oath. What are become of thofe liberties of England,
So often folemnly recorded, fo often confirmed, nay, so often
* Vol. I. p. 121.
Gg 2
purchased?
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
>>
purchaſed? I, though a woman, and all the freeborn people,
do appeal to the tribunal of God against you; and heaven and
earth fhall bear witness how injuriously you have dealt with us,
and the God of vengeance will vindicate us.' At which ſpeech
the king much aſtoniſhed, knowing his own guilt, faid "Da
not you defire my grace and favor as you are my kinfwoman ?”
To which the replied, Forafmuch as you have denied me that
which is right, what hope have I of favor? But I do, in the
prefence of Christ, appeal against those who have by evil counſel
fo mifled you from juftice and truth, for their own private ends."
40
EARL WILLIAM died (as the Regifter-book of Lewes in-
forms us) on the 5th of the kalends of June 1239, but
Vincent endeavors to prove from Matthew Paris, Matthew
Westminster, and the M. S. book of Tewksbury, that it was
in 1240; and with theſe agrees Leland in his Collectanea.*
He fell fick at London, and died there, and was buried in
the choir of the abbey of Lewes, (to uſe the words of the
above regiſter) In medio pavimenti, coram fummo altari.
His fecond countefs died March 31, 1236, fais the above
regifter, calling her, through mistake, the daughter of
William Bigod earl of Norfolk. Milles at p. 627, fixes her
death in 1237, though at p. 505 he had told us fhe died in
* Vol. I. p. 282.
1248,
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213
1248, having married a third huſband, viz. Walter Dun-
ftanville baron of Caſtle Combe.
26 HEN. III. this Maud had the cuftody of the caſtle of
Coningſburgh committed to her; and 30 Hen. III. fhe received
livery by the king himſelf, of the marshal's rod, the being
the eldest, after the death of her brothers, who by inhe-
ritance ought to enjoy that great office by defcent from Walter
Marefchal, fometime earl of Pembroke. On this occafion,
the lord treaſurer, and barons of the exchequer, had com-
mand, to cauſe her to have all rights thereto belonging, and
to admit of fuch a deputy to fit in the exchequer for her, as
fhe should affign. She had then the titles of marſhalefs of
England, and countefs of Norfolk and Warren. Roger her
eldeſt fon feems to have executed for her the office of marshal,
as he had that title annexed to his name in the deed of 1251
already mentioned. She had alfo the cuftody of Strigoil caſtle
till her death. She was carried to her grave, in the abbey of
Tintern (or Tinterden) in Wales, by her four fons, Roger
earl of Norfolk, Hugh, and Ralph, the iffue by the firft
huſband, and John earl Warren, her only fon by the fecond.
The regiſter of Lewes profeffes not to know where her body
was laid, but tells us that her heart was depofited before the
high altar at Lewes.
* THERE is a fhort defcription, and two views of this abbey in the Antiquarian
Repertory, vol. I. p. 129, 177; alfo two by Mr. Grofe,
SALMON
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
SALMON in his Account of Hertfordshire,* has made a
double miſtake, when he fais that the above Maud married
John de Warren earl of Surrey, and had two fons by him
called Ralph, and John.
THIS Maud (or the earl's first lady) is mentioned in the
old Kalendar of Beauchief Monaftery, to which monaſtery
ſhe muſt have been a benefactreſs, as her commemoration
day was kept there the 8th of the ides of February.
THE fecond Maud gave three marks yearly, for clothing
the nuns at Thetford, by the following charter printed in
Madox's Hiftory of the Exchequer.‡ Omnibus S. matris
Ecclefiæ filiis ad quos prefens fcriptum pervenerit, Matill. Maref
calla Angliæ Comitiffa Norfolciæ & Warenne falutem in Domino.
Noverit univerfitas veftra me in viduitate mea & plena poteftate
divinæ caritatis intuitu pro falute animæ meæ antecefforum & fuc-
cefforum meorum dediffe conceffiffe & hac prefenti carta mea con-
firmaffe Deo & B. Mariæ & ecclefiæ S. Gerogii de Theford &
fanctimonialibus ibidem Deo fervientibus tres marcatas redditus
argenti annuatim in molendino meo juxta curiam meam in villa de
Ceftreford in puram & perpetuam elemofinam ad indumenta
prædictarum monialium fuftinenda fcilicet medietatem ad in-
* P. 183.
+ Publiſhed by Hearne, in the Appendix to John of Glaſtonbury's Chronicle. p. 558.
I P. 33.
dumenta
4 Table of the Defcent of Griffin Warren
Natural Son of WmSixth Earl Warren.
The Arms
of Griffen
de Warren
nut! Son.
e
Griffin Warren, nat.
fon of
sixth Earl.
John de Warren,
Griffin de Warren.
John de Warren
Griffin de Warren.
Griffin de Warren
Griffin de Warren,
second Son,
T
Isabell, dau of
Aucher de
Warmincham.
Halbon.
Jolm Warren,
Esq.
...dau, of
John Warren.
Richard Warren.
Roger Warren,
Alice, mar.
John Brooke,
Isabell, sister of
Rob de Pulford,
...... dau. & heir, of Griffin
de Albo Monasterio.
Winifred dau.and loheir
of W Broxton. of Cheshire.
Helen, dau of John Chorleton,
Maud, dau.of... Lord
Strange, of Blackmere.
Margaret, dau. of SPeter
Corbet Kt
John de
Warren,
ft
1 Son.
Griffin de Warren,
Ob. S.P.3 Hen.V.
Isabell dau, and heir of John,younger
Brother to S. Law. Warren, of Poynton.
Hawise, dau.of.
Hawise, dau of
Emma, dau of
ST.J. Cheney.
Kt
Margaretama.
Wm Mainwaring
Another daumar,
to John Dodd,
Grey, of Salop;
Alice, dau. and heir, of Robert Ap Thomas,
Margaret. mar.
of Gloucestersh.
Helen, mar.
J.Bostock.
Charles Margaret, daw. John Margaret, dau. Ralph
Warren,
Г
of Ralph
Wibanbury.
I
Richard Warren E
Warren,
of Humphry
Mainwaring
Rose dau of W™ Allen.
Had Ifsue.
Warren.
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dumenta lanea & aliam medietatem ad indumenta linea earun-
dem &c. Teft. Dom. Rogero Bygod comite Norfolcia, Dominis
Radulfo le Bygod, Willelmo de Hengham, Oberto de Cayly &
multis aliis.
EARL WILLIAM had alfo a natural fon, called Griffin de
Warren, whofe coat armor was checky argent and fable,
differing in nothing from his father's, but in color; and yet
this implied no reflection on the father, for illegitimate chil-
dren were at this time publicly owned, and frequently well
provided for. From what mother this Griffin came, is un-
certain; but that he was the fon of this earl, appears from
Vincent's Cheshire in the Herald's office, where is a pedi-
gree of him, and his defcendants, with the arms of the
families they matched with. He married
Ifabel fifter of Robert de Pulford, who
bore fable a cross patonce argent. Her
name appears in Flower and Glover's
Vifitation of Cheshire in 1580,† in thefe
words, Griffinus de Warenna venit in pleno
com. pro fe, & Iſabella uxore fua, & rec. fè tenere Stretton, &
Chiddelow, & fecit homagium Alionora quæ fuit uxor Roberti
Extranei filii & beredis Willielmi de Albo Monafterio cui primo
bomagium fecit. Et Roberto de Pulford de quo predict. ten.
tenebatur per feoffamentum quod inde fecit predicte Iſabella.
Warren Pulford
• No. 120, P. 93.
+ P. 213.
This
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
This record is alfo found in a M. S intitled Baronagium
Ceftria tempore Hugonis primi, as alfo the following, Ego
Rob. de Pulford Rector Ecclefiae de Coddinton dedi Ifabella forori
meæ totam terram meam de Ciffeleya Habend. eidem Iſabellæ &
ber. fuis inter Griffinum de Warrennia & ipfam legit. procreatis,
&c. By the faid Ifabel, the faid Griffin had John de Warren,
who married Audela the daughter and heirefs of Griffin de
Albo Monafterio, (or Blanchminſter)
who bore argent fretty gules. This John
was lord of Ichtefeld, in right of his
wife, whofe father obtained it, by
marrying Audela the daughter and
heiress of Roger fon of Roger, ſon of
John lord of Ichtefeld. A reprefentation of the monument,
now remaining on the fouth fide of the choir in Worceſter
cathedral, over the firſt-mentioned Audela, is here engraven
from a fac fimile given by Bybe in his Notes on John de Bado
aureo, * in his edition of Upton de ftudio militari. It was
Byſhe's opinion that the figure was of the family of Verdon
—that ſhe married Warren earl of Surry, and died about the
time of Hen. III. this conjecture about her name, feems to
have arifen from the mere circumſtance of the fret in the
arms. It muſt be a miſtake however in that author, for no
Warren earl of Surrey married a Verdon at any time; and the
Blanchminster
#
• P. 94.
correction
Monumentum hoc ad auftrum in choro Ecclefiæ cathedralis
Worceftriæ pofitum, in marmore fumma arte excifum, ob an-
tiquitatem (cum ab Edwardi tertij temporibus duraverat
quod ex habitu iftius Domina, aliaque fculptura facile
colligimus) hunc locum meruit. Paterno geuere ex
familia Albi Monaftern fuit, & conius Johannis filii?
Griffini de Warrenna; veftis enim interior. Albonafie-
=riorum habet infignia, exterior Warreñorú. Per
Peř
quem morem, ortum, & conjugia Heroine
olim exprimebant. Nec vetuftius
ufquam temere reperias, Ita-
que hujus loci me-
rito eft.
Published as the Act directs. Aianist 2071785
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217
correction here made, ftands juftifiable from the following
authentic pedigree, and Blanchminfter's bearing fretty, as
well as Verdon. The fculpture of the tomb is alfo deemed
too fine, and too richly ornamented with arms, for the time
of Hen. III. The opinion, that this was the tomb of the
famous countefs of Saliſbury, who in dancing before
Edw. III. dropt her garter, and that there are feveral angels
cut about it, ftrewing garters over it, is entirely groundlefs.
They refer to the tomb of Arthur prince of Wales, which
is oppofite to it, and are only angels holding fcrolls, as is
very common.
IN one of the Harleian Mis. No. 2131, it is faid, that in
the county of Salop, two miles from Ichtefeld, was an an-
cient caſtle, fituated on a terrible morafs, by a river ſide, which
in times paſt was inhabited by the earls of Warren and
Surrey, and was called earl Warren's castle. Near the fame,
fituated on a little hill, was an ancient houfe called Warren's
hall, in which dwelled in 1574, one Jo. Deacon, whofe
mother knew the faid caftle in 1484, when part thereof was
ſtanding, and inhabited, fhe being then a child, and having,
according to the cuſtom of that country, gathered foul-cakes
there on All Soul's day. From hence one would be tempted
to conclude, that Griffin de Warren had an eſtate given him
here by the earl his father; and yet, this opinion is invali-
dated, by what we read in the laft-named M.S. that Gilbert
fon
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
fon of Roger, formerly lord of Ichtefeld, gave to Ifabel wife
of Griffin de Warenne, his right in the faid vill. That it be-
longed at this time to a family of the name of Ichtefeld, ap-
pears from thefe farther grants, in the faid M.S. Roger fon
and heir of Richard, fon of James de Ichtefeld, releafed to John
de Warren lord of Ichtefeld, his right in Ichtefeld, S Edw. fon
of king Edward. Griffin fon of Richard, Jon of William de
Ichtefeld, releafed to John Jon of Griffin de Warren, all his
right and claim in the manor of Ichtsfeld 9 Edw. III.* There
is a deed of this John lord of Ichtefeld 8 Edw. III. fealed
with a winged dragon, in yellow wax, which I take to have
been his creft, differing perhaps in fome fmall particular,
from that of the earls of Warren.
ISABEL wife of Griffin, was in her widowhood 26 Edw. I.
as by deed. Her fon John had Griffin de Warren, who
married Winifred daughter and one of the heirs of William
Broxton of Chefhire, Efq. who bore or a cross formy fitchy
fable; by her he had John, who married Helen daughter
of John Chorleton, by whom Griffin, who married Maud
daughter of lord Strange of Blackmere, who bore argent
two lions paſſant gules; by her he had Griffin, who married
Margaret daughter of Sir Peter Corbet, knight, who bore
Одо
• Monaft. vol. II. p. 913, 914.
A PETER CORBET (probably anceſtor of this Sir Peter) fealed with two ravens,
in the year 1300, as may be ſeen in the barons' letter to Pope Boniface, publiſhed
by
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or a raven proper; by her he had John, who married Emma
daughter of Sir John Cheney of Wollafton, knight, and
Griffin, who married Ifabel daughter of Aucher de War-
mincham. John had by his wife Emma, Griffin, lord of
Ichtefeld, who died s. p. about 3 Hen. V. a daughter mar-
ried to John Dodd of Knoles, and Piers-Spares Com. Salop,
and another daughter Margaret, who married William
fecond fon of Ralph Mainwaring of Peever, who bore argent
two bars gules. By this match, the lordships of Ichtefeld in
Shropſhire, and Stretton in the parish of Tilfton in Cheſhire,
came to this branch of the Mainwaring's family, with lands
in the hundred of Broxton, 14 Hen. VII. Griffin Warren
who married Iſabel Warmincham, (which Warmincham
bore fable a wivern, wings displayed) had John Warren, Eſq.
who married
daughter of Malbon, whofe coat
was quarterly or and gules, over all a bendlet fable; by her he
had John, who married Iſabel daughter and heireſs of John,
younger brother of Sir Laurence Warren of Poynton, knight,
by whom Richard, who married Hawife daughter of ---
by the Society of Antiquaries, but I have followed the authority which I met with in
the Herald's office. The above feal of Corbet has two dragons in the place of ſup-
porters, as many others then had, and helps to fhew, that the uſe of theſe arofe merely
from the ornaments, with which great men thought fit, according to their different
fancies, to adorn their feals of arms.
Hh 2
Grey
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Grey* of Shropſhire, who bore gules a lion rampant argent
within a bordure ingrailed of the fecond; by her he had Roger,
who married Alice daughter and heirefs of Robert ap Thomas,
by whom Charles, John, Ralph, Alice, Margaret, and
Helen; of whom, Charles married Margaret daughter of
Ralph Wibanbury, by whom Richard, who married Rofe
daughter of William Allen, by whom he had iffue. John
married Margery daughter of Humphry Mainwaring.
Alice married John Brooke, Margaret married
Glouceſterſhire, and Helen married John Boſtock.
of
THIS earl had likewiſe a daughter, who was concubine to
king John, by whom the king had Richard Fitz-Roy, who
called himſelf Warren, a man of an immenſe ſubſtance; for
it is faid of him, that, exclufive of the revenues of his lands,
he could difpend an hundred marks a day, by the intereſt of
his money. This Richard flew Euftace, the monk of
Flanders, (who was fent by king Philip of France with a
*IF this pedigree, which I met with in the Herald's office, be authentic, this
Grey was probably a cadet of the family of that name, at Wark in Northumberland,
as they alone bore the arms here deſcribed. Moft others of that very ſpreading family,
bore barry, argent and azure, with due differences.
+ One copy fais John.
† AN hundred marks a day amount to £24333: 6: 8 per ann. which at ten per
cent, the common intereft of thofe times would make a ſtock of £243333:6:8; a
moſt amazing fum for that time when money was ſo ſcarce,
navy
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221
navy of ſhips to affift his fon Lewis) and fent his head for a
token to king Henry III. his half brother.*
ROBERT of Gloucefter in his Chronicle,+ fais, that the
French fuccors were about an hundred ſhips full, and that
Sir Richard Fitz le Rei (the kinge's fone Jon) with feveral
other knights,
"Geve hom bataile in the ſc, that was fone ifene.
“ Uor Sir Euftas the Moine was there to dethe ido,
"And mani other of France, and the weze inome al fo
Ten grete loudinges, and otheze mani on.'
And a few lines after,
"Sir Richard Fitz le Rei, of wan we speke bivoze,
"Gentil man was inou, thei he were a baût iboje.
“Uor the eiles daughter of Wareine is gode modez was,
“And is fader the king Jon, and bizete him a porchas.
Sire Mozille of Berkeleye wedded fuththe bicas
Is dozter, and bizet on hize the knizt Siz Tomas.”
SANDFORD, in his Genealogical History, has taken
notice of this Richard, faying, that he married Roheſia,
daughter and heirefs of Fulbert de Dover, from which
match fprung feveral refpectable families there mentioned.
He hath alfo engraved a feal of this Richard's, whereon
* Matthew Paris under the year 1217.
1 Book II. Cap. 3.
+ P. 515.
li Book II. p. 57.
were
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
were two lions paſſant guardant, (part of the royal arms of
England) and circumfcribed SIGILLUM RICARDI DE VA-
RENNA, and ſtiled in the body of the deed, Ricardus filius
Regis Johannis. This feal I have cauſed to be re-engraven
in plate of ſeals (3.) No. 48. This Richard Fitz-Roy,
though he fhewed his defcent from the king by his arms,
would not part with his mother's name de Varenna, which
proves the great dignity of the family.
IN an old M. S. pedigree, in my poffeffion, the above
Richard is faid to have married Rofe, daughter and co-
heireſs of Sir Richard Lucy,* lord chief justice of England,
by whom he had Warren of Grafton, who had Fife-
hide in Wiltſhire. He married Margery, daughter and hei-
refs of Roger Benger, by whom he had Warren of
Fifehide, who married and had William Warren of Fife-
hide, John, and Thomas of Penftey, who married Cecily
by whom he had Thomas Warren of Penftey, who
married Alice by whom he had John, Parſon of Elfor-
* WEEVER in his Funeral Monuments, p. 337, ſpeaking of this Sir Richard Lucy,
fais that Rofe his third daughter was married to Richard de Warren, the natural fon
of king John, as appeareth by a deed beginning thus, Rofa de Dover quondam uxor
venerabilis viri Ricardi filii regis de Chillam. The original name of Fulbert de Dover,
who built Chillam caſtle in Kent, was Lucy. See Harris's Hiftory of Kent, p. 369.
The late Dr. Stukeley (See Archæologia, vol. I. p. 48.) confirms what Weever has
afferted, adding that this Roifia (as he calls her) became a ward of king John's,
which no doubt was the caufe of the match.
ton,
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223
ton, in the time of Richard II. William, above-named, lived
in the reign of Edward II. and had much land given him at
Maidencote in Berkshire, by his grandmother. He married
Chriftian
by whom he had William Warren of
Fifehide, John, and Maud. John married Felicia daughter
of John Keepenhall; and Maud married John Michell of
Milton Lilbon. William married Ifabel, daughter of Sir
John Rivers of Wootton, under the foreft of Savernake, by
his wife Rofe, and had William Warren of Fifehide, in the
time of Edward III. who fued John de Cornwallis, for three
parts of the manor of Wootton and Rivers, and Rofe, John's
wife, for the fourth part of that manor. He married Hel-
vifia, daughter of Ralph Ruffel, fteward of the lands to Hugh
Audley earl of Gloucefter; by her he had John Warren of
Fifehide, who, taking part with Richard II. and being put to
flight by Henry IV. was conftrained to take fanctuary with
the Staffords, at the abbey of Colne in Effex. He married
Joan, daughter of Philip Sturney, by whom he had Ed-
mond Warren of Fifehide, and John. Edmond married
Ann, daughter of John Skilling of Draycote, by whom he
had Richard Warren of Fifehide, in the reign of Henry VI.
who married Margaret, daughter of Henry Seymour, by
whom he had Thomas Warren of Fifehide, fteward of the
houfe of Edmond Beaufort, duke of Somerfet. This Thomas
married Joan, daughter of Sir George Darrell of Litcote, by
whom he had 1ft, John Warren, bailiff of Salisbury for
king
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
king Henry VII. and there flain. 2d, William, who lived
in Ireland, and had George. 3d, Ann, married to John
Berwick. 4th, Edmond. 5th, Richard, who had An-
thony s. p. John the eldest married Alice, daughter and
heireſs of Peter Pipe of Weck, by whom he had John,
George, Richard, and others. John was flain at the battle
of Muffelburgh, having three links of his chain ftruck into
his breaft with a bullet. He married ift, Catharine,
daughter of ---- Bordnut. 2d,
3d,
Bennet. He had by his first wife, Arthur Warren of Fife-
hide, and three daughters. Arthur married Alice, daughter
and heirefs of William Lawrence of Worcester, by whom he
had William Warren of Fifehide, who married Elizabeth,
daughter of Richard Brook.
---- Dallifon.
JOHN
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225
JO
H
N
SEVENTH EARL,
ON and heir of William, was but
five years old at his father's death,
as we learn from the following en-
try in the regiſter of Lewes; Pater
ejus, in ultimis vite fue, de fecunda
Matilda uxore fua eum genuerat, &
etatis quinque annorum poft fe reliquerat.
IN 1247, when he was about twelve years of age, he was
married at Woodstock, probably by the king's procurement,
VOL. I.
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
Warren- Le Brun
to Alice, daughter of Hugh le Brun earl of the Marches of
Acquitaine, and fifter, by the mother's fide, to king Hen. III.
The arms of this family were barry of
fourteen pieces, argent and azure. In
conſequence of this match, fome writers
have told us, that he was made earl of
Suffex, void by the death of Hugh de
Albini earl of Arundel and Suffex; but
this by Vincent is abfolutely denied. Brooke, York herald,
had given him this title, on the authority of Walfingham,
and of a deed written in 1307, wherein, as he tells us, his
grandſon ſtiled himſelf, John de Garrone, Comte de Surrey &
de Suffex. In anſwer to which, Vincent remarks, that Wal-
fingham omits this title in another inftance. He fais alfo,
that in all grants made to him by the king, or by himſelf to
any other perfon, after he had the regency of Scotland, he
ufed no other title than Johannes de Warenna Comes Surr.
cuftos regni, & terræ Scotia, adding, that there are proofs
of this kind out of Paris, Weſtminſter, Wendover, Knighton,
Brampton, Holinfhed, Stowe, Speed, &c. ad infinitum,
where the title is omitted. And the fame he has ſhewn,
with regard to earl John his grandſon, not ſcrupling to ſay,
that the adding of that attribute, was not his direction, but
fome temporizing fcribe's addition, who wrote the inftru-
ment. He then calls on his antagoniſt to confider, that
though theſe two earls had tertium denarium provenientem de
exitibus
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exitibus comitatus Surr. which was the moſt uſual way of
making earls in thoſe times, yet they had not the like in
Suffex. Alfo, that in all fummonfes of Parliament, in the
times of the three kings Edward I. II. III. wherein the
clerks were moſt religious to give every one his due, or their
full attributes, they are never mentioned with the title of
Suſſex, but either John de Warenna earl of Surrey, or John
earl of Warren and Surrey. Laftly, he endeavors to account
for the miſtake. Surrey and Suffex, he obſerves, were both
under one fhireve, who was to pay to the earl tertiam par-
tem, & portionem eorum quæ de placitis comitatus proveniunt,
the third part of the profits which aroſe, non ex fundorum
redditibus, fed ex placitis placitatis; not of the rents but the
pleas; and the common people, perhaps, becauſe that one
fhireve dealt for both places, conjectured that this earl had
the benefit of both counties, becauſe his larger revenue lay
in both theſe fhires, wherein, befides the above, he had
adminiftrationem comitatuum, (a ruling power) and might,
therefore, ftile him with the titles of both earldoms.
THIS earl was witneſs to a deed printed in Lewis's Hiftory
and Antiquities of Feversham Abbey,* by the name and ſtile of
John de Pleffetis earl of Warren; and in a M. S. belonging
to his grace the duke of Leeds, relating to the affairs of the
manor of Wakefield, the fecond earl of Warren and Surrey
P. 69.
Ii2
is
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is called William de Placitis, which poffibly may point out the
manner, by which this family came by their Engliſh title,
namely, by being ennobled, through the grant of the third
part of the money arifing from mulcts, fines, and amercia-
ments impoſed in the affizes, and county courts. Dugdale,
in his preface to the Baronage, fais, fome earls were made fo
by charter; the reſt per cincturam cingulo comitatus; where-
upon the ſheriff had command, to make livery unto them
of the tertium denarium de placitis comitatus, ut fit inde comes,
meaning the fines, and foreign emoluments which anciently
belonged to the earl, the king having the other two parts,
according to the laws of king Edward the Confeffor.*
DURING the minority of this earl, part of his eftate was
in the hands of Peter de Savoy, uncle to queen Eleanor, for
it appears from a patent dated in Sep. 25 Hen. III. that the
king granted all the lands of John de Warren in Suffex, and
Surrey, to this Peter, and that he was alfo made governor
of the caftle of Lewes.
IN 1248, 32 Hen. III. earl Warren was one of thoſe who
met in the general parliament, held at London, when the
king was ſharply reproved for his many high exactions, both
from the clergy and laity. At this time he was only about
thirteen years old.
Chap. XXXI.
36 HEN. III.
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36 HEN. III. he was allowed (as I take it) to cohabit with
his wife; and on that occafion, the following order was
iſſued out, relating to her jewels. De jocalibus faciendis ad
opus Alefiæ fororis regis Rex mittit W. de Hanbull P. Chacep.
& E. de Weftm. quandam cedulam præfentibus intercluſam man-
dans quod ad opus Alefiæ uxoris Johannis de Warenna ea quæ in
dicta cedula continentur quærant biis exceptis quæ per P. Chacep.
in warder. regis inveniri poffunt provifuri quod omnia inventa
de prædictis tam in garderoba quam alibi funt parata ad manda-
tum Regis. Tefte Rege apud Clarendon 9 die Julii.
37 HEN. III. he obtained from the crown, a charter for
free warren (which implies a manor) in the towns, or town-
ſhips of Haldſworth, Halifax, Heptonftall, Hipperholm,
Langfield, Midgley, Northouram, Ovenden, Raftrick, Rifh-
worth cum Norland, Rowtonftall, Saltonftall, Skircoat,
Soland, Stansfeld, Wadsworth, &c. all within the prefent
vicarage of Halifax in Yorkshire.
In the fame year, as we may collect from Holinſhed, he
was excommunicated with William de Valence, and others,
for being concerned in a trifling difpute between the arch-
bishop of Canterbury, and the bishop of Winchefter, but
the fentence was foon taken off.
IN 1254, he failed from Dover to Bourdeaux, in order,
no doubt, to join the king who was then in Guienne.
His
P. 730.
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adhering at that time to the king, when his conduct was
not agreeable to his fubjects, has caufed the earl to be
cenfured by Matthew Paris, and other hiftorians, but the
charges against him are only general; and 40 Hen. III.
he attended, with other chief peers, in Weſtminſter-hall,
when the archbishop of Canterbury, and other bifhops,
pronounced, with lighted candles, all thofe excommunicated,
who ſhould violate the two great charters of the kingdom.*
In this year he feems to have come of age, and for that
reaſon, he had the third penny of the county of Surrey
confirmed to him by the following inftrument: Mandatum
eft Baronibus de Scaccario quod facient habere Johanni de
Warenna tertium denarium provenientem de exitibus comitatus
Surr. ficut Willielmus de Warenna quondam comes Surr. pater
ipfius Johannis, cujus hæres ipfe eft, & alii anteceffores fui
illum denarium percipere confueverunt tanquam pertinentem ad
comitatum fuum Surr. Tefte meipfo apud Windefor 6 die Maii
regni noftri quadragefimo.
IN 1258, when the barons came with a great power to
Oxford, to compel the king to ſubmit to the provifions
which they made there, he was one of the twelve lords elect-
ed on the king's part, to fettle matters with the like number
deputed by the barons; and for fome reafon or other he
refuſed to confent to the provifions then propofed, as did the
• Leland's Collect. vol. II. p. 456.
king's


Basire So.
Lambert del.
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king's four half brothers, Ademar bishop elect of Wincheſter
Guy de Lezignan, Geoffry de Lezignan, William de Va-
lentia, and others. This gave fo great an offence to the
barons, that they forced the king's brothers to quit the
kingdom, and having for their fecurity obtained the king's
ſafe conduct, bearing date July 5, 1258, earl Warren, with
other noblemen, had orders to guard them to the ſea fide.
The fame year he had fummons to attend the king at Cheſter,
to march againſt Llewelyn prince of Wales, who had made
hoſtile incurfions into the English territories.
IN 1260, as we find in Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, he
is put down as one of the itinerant Juftices in Somerfet,
Dorſet, and Devon, along with John de Gray, and John de
Wivyll; and it is there added, Hi omnes (meaning the whole
lift of Juſtices) per provifionem magnatum Angliæ qui funt de
confilio regis ad meliorationem ftatus totius regni affignati erant.
46 HEN. III. an agreement being made between the king
and barons, earl Warren was one, who on the king's part,
fet his feal, for confirmation of the accord.
THE next year he had the caſtle of Pevensey (or Pemfey)
in Suffex, one of the royal fortifications, committed to
his charge; which fhews either that the king had confidence
in him, or that he meant to attach him the more ftrongly
to
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to his intereft, by fuch an act of favor. The earl however
thought fit to join the barons, then affociating againſt the
crown, and was even elected one of their chief captains,
along with Simon de Montfort earl of Leycefter, Gilbert de
Clare earl of Gloucefter, and Robert de Ferrars earl of
Ferrars and Derby; but he ſtayed not long on that fide, being
as it is faid in the Annals of Dunstable,*) won over with
many others by prince Edward, per maneria fua quæ dedit eis.
This affertion is not very favorable to the earl's character,
but I find it not confirmed by any particular proofs. Let the
reafon however be what it would, he certainly joined the
king at Oxford, who beginning to find himſelf much
ftronger, marched to the caftle at Windfor, which prince
Edward had furprized, and was immediately followed by our
earl, and fuch of the barons as had fecretly deferted the earl
of Leycefter; but before things were brought to extremities,
it was agreed by both parties, to refer the difpute (which
was concerning the validity of the Oxford proviſions) to the
French king, who thinking perhaps the more to diſunite the
kingdom, gave fentence, that the ftatutes, and provifions
made at Oxford, as well as every promiſe of the king, or of
others for him, fhould become void, and of none effect.
This decifion appearing too partial in the opinion of the
barons, they refufed to fubmit to it, and both fides prepared
afreſh for war. The first military act, wherein I find earl
* Publiſhed by Hearne, p. 361.
Warren
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Warren particularly concerned, was his defence of Rocheſter
caſtle, againſt the earl of Leiceſter, who laid fiege to it with
a body of forces from London. The king, who was then
keeping his Eaſter at Nottingham, having intelligence of
this, marched with great expedition to relieve him; and
though the affailants had won the bridge, and the firſt gate
or ward of the caftle, by affault, and nothing remained to
the garrifon but one tower, yet the place was fo manfully
defended, that the king came up in time; for the befiegers
having notice of his approach, and not daring to give him
battle, retired to London, leaving only a few foldiers
behind, which were foon after diſcomfited.* Robert de
Crevequer having adhered to the barons, with a numerous
party of Walloons, was admitted to the king's favor,
through the inſtance of earl Warren, and Roger de Leyburne,
and thereupon had command to attend the king, on tueſday
next after the feaft of John Port Latin 48 Hen. III. but he
betrayed the confidence his friends placed in him, and
immediately revolted again.
THE earl's fortune foon afterwards took a different turn,
for May 14, 1264, he was with the king, when the barons
defeated him near Lewes. He was pofted in the van of the
king's army, commanded by prince Edward, who having
attacked a body of the enemy, and broken it, the purfuit
Leland's Collect. tom. I. part II. p. 455, and Lambard's Kent, edit. 1596, p. 375, 376.
VOL. I.
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was carried to ſuch a length, that the reſt of the royal army
was entirely defeated. Dugdale* fais that earl Warren did
unworthily defert the king at the very beginning of the fight;
but it is a little unfortunate that he ſhould ſay this, and yet
tell us, that after great flaughter he (with many others)
was taken prifoner. In Wyke's Annals, we are more
truly informed that Comes de Waren, Gul. de Valentia, Hugo
de Bigot, capto rege, fugerunt ad caftrum de Pevensey, & inde
in Franciam. Peter Langtoft || fais,
Co
The erle of Warenne, I wote, he ſcaped over the ſe.
Matthew Paris, § (whom Dugdale has followed) after
allowing him to be in the body commanded by prince
Edward, makes him run away before Edward's return from
his purſuit, which is a fort of contradiction; but Walter
Hemingford* reprefents him, with prince Edward, en-
gaging with the barons' army, after the king was taken
prifoner, and that it was not till after the lofs of this ſecond
conflict, that he fled the fame day to Pevensey, where he
took ſhipping. Something like this is faid by Stow,†
Edward returning is received with ſharpe battell, and the earle
Waren, &c. with men of armes to the number of 400 haber-
geons, got then the caftle of Pemfey.
Bar. vol. I. p. 78.
§ P. 853, edit. 1684.
+ P. 756. + P. 378. || Chron. vol. I. p. 218.
* In Gale's Hift. Ang. Script. p. 584.
† P. 194.
To
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To this eſcape of our earl, alludes one of the adherents to
the earl of Leiceſter, in an antique ballad, printed in Percy's
Reliques of ancient English Poetry.*
66
By God that is aboven ous, he dude muche fynne,
“That lette pallen over ſee the erl of Warynne :
He hath robbed Engelond, the mores, ant th fenne,
“The gold, ant the felver, and y-boren henne,
For love of Wyndeloze.
(6
“Size Simond de Mountfort hath fuore bi ys chyn,
Hevede he nou here the erl of Wayyn,
"Shuld he never może come to is yn,
"Me with theld, ne with speze, ne with other gyn,
"To help of Wyndeloze.”
AFTER this victory, the barons (having every thing in
their own power) made a grant to Gilbert de Clare, earl of
Glouceſter, under the great feal, of all earl Warren's lands,
and poffeffions in England, excepting the caſtles of Reigate,
and Lewes, to hold during the king's pleaſure, or in other
words, fo long as he ſhould remain in their power. On this,
finding no fecurity in his own country, and being baniſhed
the realm by a public edict of the earl of Leiceſter, he fled
(as above) into France, where he ſtayed about twelve months,
and returning about Whitfontide 1265, with William de
* Vol. II. p. 4, edit. 1765.
Kk 2
Valence,
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Valence, earl of Pembroke, and others, landed in Pembroke-
fhire with a power of croffebowes (fais Holinfhed) and other
men of warre. On his landing, the earl fent the Prior of
Monmouth to Hereford, to the earl of Leiceſter, to move
for the reſtitution of his lands, alledging that he had done
nothing to deferve the forfeiture of them; and was answered,
that if he would go thither in perfon, and ſubmit to a trial
in the king's court, he should have fafe conduct fo to do,
which deeming not fafe, he confederated with the above earl
of Glouceſter, (who had deferted the barons) and fuch other
nobles as ſtood for the royal intereft, and on the eſcape of
prince Edward from his captivity, joined him, and his
forces, at Ludlow.
To fhew that earl Warren was confidered as the head of
this aſſociation, the earl of Leiceſter obliged the king to
write letters to all his tenants, that his fon Edward was gone
off to John de Warren, and the barons marchers his rebels,
and diſturbers of the peace, commanding them to come with
horfe and arms, to go with him against them, dated May
30th. Afterwards, he caufed other letters to be written in
the king's name, to his own fon Simon, that the king's fon
Edward, with John de Warren, (in neither inftance allowing
him the title of earl) and other rebels adhering to them, had
* THEY are faid in Dugdale's Bar. vol. I. p. 775, to have been about an hundred
and twenty men, horfe and foot.
feized
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feized ſeveral towns, and caftles, and raiſed new war in the
kingdom, and therefore enjoining him to give his utmoſt
affiftance to ſuppreſs them.
THIS ftorm, which had been gathering for fome time,
burſt on the fourth of Auguft following, at Eveſham, where
the two armies engaging, that of the barons was entirely
defeated, their leader the earl of Leicefter, with many other
men of note, being left dead upon the field. This event
reſtored the earl to all his former poffeffions; and we are
farther told in the Chronicle of Walter Whytlefeye,* that
after this battle, Robert Abbat of Burgh paid earl Warren an
hundred pounds, to get his manors of Caftre, Tinewelle,
and Thurleby delivered back out of his hands. Thefe ma-
nors, as I take it, had been ſeized by the earl, as lord of
Stanford, becauſe the Abbat had been reprefented as inclining
to the fide of the barons; and for that reafon, the earl's bailiffs
levied forty marks of the faid Abbat's lands in Stanford, to
redeem the Neffe of Burgh. They alfo carried away all his
corn from his manors of Tinewelle, and Thurleby, to the
value of ten marks, as likewife his horfes, &c. A common
cafe during the continuance of a civil war.
49
HEN. III. the earl was fummoned to the parliament at
London, on the first day of June, by the name of Johannes
de Warenna apud Lewes. †
*Ed. Sparke, vol. II. p. 134-136.
† Dugd. Sum. to Padiam. p. 3.
IN
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+
IN 1266, Robert de Ferrars earl of Ferrars and Derby,*
having affembled fome forces at Cheſterfield in Derbyſhire,
and raiſed freſh commotions in the ftate, earl Warren and
others were fent againſt him, and were lucky enough to fur-
priſe him in his quarters, on the 15th day of May. It
ſeems that ſeveral chiefs of this confederacy, not fufpecting
any danger, had gone that day into a neighboring wood to
hunt, to the number of twenty-two knights, all under one
fpear; (or having no military weapons with them, but each
man a ſingle ſpear)+ thefe, as we are told in Stow, "they
chafed and put to flight;" but this fact Mr. Pegge|| very
justly doubts of, for there is no account of any of them
being made prifoners, which yet would neceffarily have
been the caſe, had they, thus unprepared, been attacked by
a fuperior armed force. Befides, fuch an event would pro-
bably have given an alarm to the town, and have prevented.
the foldiers therein from being furpriſed in the manner
related; quafi dormientes, fais Walter Hemingford. § Let
this be as it will, they certainly did force their way into
* THIS family retained the title of Ferrars which was foreign, after their advance-
ment to the earldom of Derby in England, as the earls of Surrey did their more
ancient earldom of Warren.
+ ROBERT of Glouceſter, p. 564, fais, “To and tuenti kniztes
undez a speze.”
↑ Hilt. p. 196, edit. 1615.
Archæologia, vol. II. p. 281.
§ P. 587.
the
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the town, putting many of the people there to death, and
taking prifoner earl Ferrars himſelf, who was fick of the
gout (a diforder which had long been troubleſome to that
family) and had that day been letten blood. Being thus
made prifoner, the earl was fent firft to the tower in London,
and afterwards to Windfor. Brooke in his fecond Diſcovery
of Errors,* fais, that he was imprifoned in the caftle of
Chippenham, where for the obtaining of his liberty, he made
affurance before John Chifhull lord chancellor of England,
of all his lands except Chartley in Staffordſhire, and Holbroke
in Derbyſhire, to Henry fon of Richard king of the Romans,
William Valence earl of Pembroke, John earl of Warren and
Surrey, and other barons his fureties, for the payment of
fifty thousand pounds to Edmund the king's fon, which not
being paid according to the agreement, the prince took pof-
feffion of his eftate by furrender of his fureties. Morant in
his History and Antiquities of Effex,† fais, the original char-
ter of this furrender was in the cuftody of the late Peter le
Neve, and that all the feals were loft from their labels,
except that of prince Henry, which was a lion rampant
within a bordure charged with bezants, and circumfcribed +
SIG. HENRICI FIL. R. REGIS ROMANORUM; and
that of William de Valence, viz. barry an orle of martlets,
circumfcribed + SIG. WILL. DE VALENCE.
* P. 20.
† Vol. I. p. 41+
SOON
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Soon after this, the king having caufed the great men to
attend him with horfes and arms, for the reduction of thofe
who held the ifle of Ely against him, the earl of Gloucefter,
inſtead of obeying the fummons, employed himſelf in col-
lecting a number of forces on the borders of Wales; on
which the earls of Warren and Pembroke were fent to ad-
moniſh him, but they prevailed no farther, than to obtain
letters patent under his own feal, that he would never bear
arms againſt the king, or prince Edward, except in his own.
defence.
IN 1268, a parliament was held at Northampton, where
Ottobon the Pope's legate informed the affembly, that the
Pope was refolved to publiſh a crufade in all the chriftian
ſtates, and expatiating, as pathetically as he could, on that
fubject, earl Warren, with many others, received the croſs
at the hands of the legate, but as he went not in perfon to
the Holy Land, it is probable that he redeemed his vow by
a fum of money, as others did.
THE fame year, a diſpute arifing between that earl, and
Henry de Lacy, afterwards earl of Lincoln, about a certain
paſture, they raiſed what forces they could, intending to
fight for it; of which the king having notice, commanded
his judges, either judicially, or by an amicable agreement,
to compoſe the fame; and accordingly upon enquiry by oath,
the
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the right was adjudged to Lacy. Kennet in his Parochial
Antiquities, fais, this pafture muſt have been nigh to Cṛen-
don, the manor of earl Warren, by defcent from Walter
Marefchal earl of Pembroke.
IN 1269, the earl fent the following letter of protection,
in behalf of the nuns of St. Michael near Stanford, to his
bailiffs there. Johan Comtte de Warenne, a nos baillifs de
Eftaunford, faluz. Pur co ke nos voloms le vauncement & le
profit nos cheres nonains de Sein Michell de hors Eftaunford (de)
vous maundoms ke kaunt ils anerointt mefter de vous, ke vous
lur feiez eidaunt & confeillant. Et fin ul lur face mal, ne da-
mage, ne greuaunce, ke vous le facez amender a voſtre poer ſolom
draiture, & eus & lur bens mainteignez enfemente en draiture
a voſtre poer, & co ne leffez mie. En tefmoign de
En tefmoign de que chofe lur
avoms fet fare noftre lettres patentes. Donees a Grettewell de
hors Nichole; l'an del incarnacion noft. Seign. mil. deus cenz
feiffaunte & nouime. Saluz. The feal reprefented his fcut-
cheon, checky or and azure, on the one fide, and on the
other, the earl himſelf mounted on horſeback; his ſhield,
contrary to cuſtom, on his right arm, with his bearings re-
peated upon it; his body without armor, in a veft or long
robe, reaching down to his feet, tied at the waiſt with a
girdle; his horſe, inftead of mail, covered all over with
checks. The circumfcription broken off. †
* P. 270.
VOL. I.
+ Peck's Annals of Stanford, lib. VIII. p. 47.
L1
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ABOUT this time, earl Warren had the misfortune to
commit an action which could not be juftified. There had
been a long fuit between the earl, and Alan lord Zouche of
Ashby, concerning a certain manor, which coming to a trial
before the king's juſtices in Weſtminſter-hall, fome reproach-
ful words happened between the parties, which ſo exaſperated
the earl, that he and his followers, drawing their fwords,
fet
upon lord Zouche, and his eldeft fon Sir Roger, in open
court, and wounded them both. Some writers fay that lord
Zouche was flain; amongst the reft, Robert of Gloucefter. *
"So that the erl of Wareine flou, atte verüe touche,
"Biuore the juftifes atte benche, Sir Alein de la Souche."
Alfo Nicholas Trivet in his Annals, Joannes de Warenna
comes Surreia & Sufexie Alanum de Souche Regis Justiciarium
in aula Westmonafterii, fubortis inter eos verbis, manu propria
interfecit.+
WIKES makes him to live fome time after he received
his wounds, but to die in confequence thereof, Ingravefcente
dolore vulnerum, febrilem incurrens diftemperantiam, quia dies
caniculares protinus ingruebant, poft paucorum dierum curriculum
expiravit. But Dugdale§ fais, in oppofition to all this, that
this Alan and his fon, were only wounded on that occafion,
↑ See Matthew Paris, edit. Wats, p. 857.
* P. 579.
† P. 230.
P. 92, edit. 1687.
§
Bar. vol. I. p. 689.
and
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and that the father died about two years after, as appears
by the inquifition taken after his death, 54 Hen. III. This
writer however, feems to have fixed the tranfaction, which
he fais was in 1268, about two years before it actually hap-
pened, for it appears both from Wikes's Chronicle, and the
Annals of Waverley, that it fell out in 1270; and Dugdale
himſelf fais, that it was in this latter year, that earl Warren
bound himſelf to prince Edward, for his appearance in court,
to abide the fentence of the law for his offence; fo that
probably lord Zouche did not long furvive the fray.*
AFTER this miſdemeanor, the earl and his attendants,
being too ſtrong to be apprehended, took boats, and paffing
over the water, fled to the caftle of Reigate, and there for a
while made preparations to defend themſelves. The king,
however, being justly provoked at this violent interruption
of public juſtice, and refolving not to let it paſs unpuniſhed,
fent to the earl, commanding him to appear at court, and
abide the law of the kingdom; but this fummons, through
fear of impriſonment, he refuſed to comply with; on which,
prince Edward with fome forces, was fent down to bring
him to obedience; and he was no fooner arrived in the
neighborhood of the castle, but the earl (perfuaded by the
earl of Glouceſter, and the lord Henry, fon to the king of
the Romans) met him on foot, and with great humility
* See Peck's Annals, lib. VIII. p. 49.
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imploring mercy, gave up himſelf a prifoner. After this,
he obliged himſelf by a ſpecial inftrument, dated at Creyn-
done in Bucks, 54 Hen. III. to come to prince Edward
in the king's court, and ftand to the judgment of the
faid court, and to perform to the king, and all others,
whatever his peers fhould think fit, as alfo the king's
juſtices; and not to depart the court, till he ſhould both
do, and receive what was rightful and juft, according to
the laws and cuftoms of the realm, under the penalty of
forfeiting all his poffeflions in England, to the king and
his heirs, and of incurring the fentence of excommunication,
from all or any of the archbishops, or bishops of the land,
which the king ſhould make choice of to pronounce the ſame
againſt him.
On the laſt day of June, he was by the prince
brought into court, where he underwent the judgment of
the law, and was fined in the fum of ten thouſand marks;
it was likewiſe ordered, that he, with fifty of his followers
who had all been concerned in the fray, fhould walk from
the New Temple to Weftminster-hall, on foot, and fhould
there take an oath before the king's juftices, that what they
had done, was not out of any prepenſe malice, but only out
of ſudden heat and paffion. In confequence of this fubmif-
fion, and fine, the king granted the earl and his followers a
pardon, as appears from the Patent Rolls 54 Hen. III. m. 7.
*THIS is copied in Petyt's Mis. vol. VII. p. 304, in the Inner Temple Library,
preſs 4, being part of that author's works, in his noted conteft with Dr. Brady,
touching the rights of the Commons.
Rex
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Rex omnibus &c. Salutem. Cum dilectus & fidelis nofter Johannes
de Warrena comes Surr. pro fe & hominibus fuis fe pofuerit in mife-
ricordiam Regis ad voluntatem fuam taxandum pro quadam tranf-
grefione & plagis Alano la Such & Rogero filio ejus in aula Regis
Weftm. per ipfum comitem & homines fuos nuper factis ut dicitur.
Unde idem Alanus ipfum comitem in curia Regis coram ipfo Domino
Rege appellavit-Remifimus eidem comiti & omnibus hominibus fuis
& etiam omnibus illis qui de tranfgreffione illa feu plagis illis rectari
poffint omnem indignationem & animi rancorem quas erga ipfos con-
ceperamus occafione tranfgreffionis prædicta-Et pardonavimus
eifdem fectam pacis noftræ quæ ad nos pertinet vel aliquo modo per-
tinere poterit pro tranfgreffione illa quocumque cafu contingente de
morte vel alio incommodo prædictorum Alani & Rogeri vel eorum
alterius per tranfgreffiones vel plagas predictas-In cujus &c. Tefte
Rege apud Wynton iiij°: die Augufti.
PECK,* quotes the Annals of Winchester to fhew that
the earl was cleared of this premeditated malice, or contempt
of the king, at Wincheſter, on the Sunday after the feaſt of
St. Peter ad vincula (now called Lammas-day) by the oaths
of twenty-five knights; and fo fais Robert of Gloucefter. †
the fonendai after Lamaffe biuore the king he com
“ At Wincheftre, as him was iſet, to avonge is dom.
* Annals of Stanford, lib. VIII. p. 49.
+ P. 570.
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Mid him viue & tuenti kniztes thun of fuore ther,
"That he ne dude it voz non vuel, ne malice biſpeke ez.
"Me in no defpit of the king, and vor this telpas,
He zef the king tuelf hundzes mazc, & ipaised was.'
There is an amazing difference between twelve hundred
marks, and ten thoufand, but the latter feems to have been
the true fine ſet upon the earl, as appears by the following
record in a M. S. in the Herald's office by Vincent, marked
with a trefoil 101* Rex thefaur. & baron de fcaccario falutem.
Sciatis quod de gratia noftra speciali perdonavimus dilecto, &
fideli noftro Johanni de Warren comiti Surrie mille mercas de
fine decem milium mercarum quem idem comes fecit cum Domino
Henrico Rege patre noftro pro quadam tranfgreffione quam feciffe
dicebatur in aula noftra Weftm. Et jam vobis mandamus quod
predictus Johannes de ducentis mercis de terminis paſch. &
fan&ti Michaelis proxime preteritis, & de octingentis mercis
refiduis de predicta fumma principali quietem effe, & de refiduo
predicti finis terminos confuetos habere fac. primo termino folu-
cionis incipient. ad pafch. proxime futur. Et fic de termino in
terminum, donec finis predictus ibidem perfolvatur. Tefte rege
apud Weft. 7 die Nov. Clauf. A. 3. Ed. I. pars 2. m. 2.
THIS act of the royal favor, is faid to have arifen, from
the noble reception which the earl gave to king Edward,
* P. 361.
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at the caſtle of Reigate, when that king was returning from
Gafcoign.
ON the death of king Hen. III. we are told by Matthew
Weſtminſter that the earl was one of thoſe who went up to
the high altar in Weſtminſter abbey, and fwore allegiance to
king Edward I. then fighting againſt the Saracens.
JAN. 31, 1273, he covenanted with other great men,
under feal, as by deed dated at Bologne, to defend the
king's perfon, and the rights of his crown, and to redreſs
what was amifs.
WHEN the king had, in the fecond year of his reign,
fettled his affairs abroad, he took ſhip at Bologne in Picardy,
and landed in England on the 25th of July, when Gilbert
de Clare earl of Gloucefter, and John earl of Warren, re-
ceived him more honorably than other nobility, conducting
him to their caftles of Tonebridge in Kent, and Reigate in
Surrey, where they treated him with great jollity many days.
At the coronation alfo of the king, earl Warren was one of
thoſe who turned out five hundred great horfes, for any one
to catch who could, (to ufe the words of Holinthed, †) as
they were alighte beside theyr backs.
Lib. II. fol. 168.
+ P. -86.
Á MANU-
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A MANUSCRIPT in the Herald's office, called Records of
the Tower,* fais, that 4 Edw. I. the archbishop of Canter-
bury, and the parishioners of the church of Chrift there, and
all who held of their fee, were freed from toll in all the
markets, vills, lands, and fairs of John de Warren earl of
Surrey, and his heirs, at the requeſt of the king, and for the
ſum of a thouſand marks paid by the faid king to the faid
earl; which deed is engraved amongst the religious grants of
this earl. Perhaps this fum was a farther abatement of the
earl's fine. In the faid M. S. it is faid, that an inquifition
was taken the fame year, concerning the value of the tithes
of all the tenants, and men, coming to the markets and fairs
of the faid earl, in the counties of Lincoln, Surrey, Suffex,
Effex, and York. Alſo, ‡ Johannes de Warren comes Sur-
ria de inquir. de theolonio fuo feriis, & mercatis fuis in Lewes,
Sesford, & Cokfeld in com. Suffex. Dorking, Gildeford, and
Suthwerk in com. Surr: Weng in com. Buck. Rothing in com.
Effex. Theford, Caftleacre, Brandonfery, and Trunk in com.
Northfolk. Stanford, and Graham (Grantham) in com.
Linc. Wakefeld, and Biriton in com. Ebor. p. 4. E. I. m. 35-
dors.
THIS year, earl Warren gave liberty to the burgeffes of
Stanford to chooſe themfelves an alderman, pur lour common
governeur & jufticier, which alderman ſhould be fworn before
* P. 336.
+ P. 271.
‡ At p. 1658.
the

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the earl or his fteward. This grant was confirmed in fee by
the king, 4 Edw. III.
&
THE next public tranfaction the earl was concerned in,
did him much credit. I fhall relate the ftory in the words
of Holinfhed.* King Edward standing in need of money, -de-
viſed a newe ſhift to ſerve his tourne, as this: Whereas he was
chiefe lorde of many lordeſhippes, manours, poffeffions, and tene-
mentes, he well understoode that partely by length and proces of
time, and partely by cafualties, during the troubles of the civill
warres, many mens evidences, as theyr charters, deedes, copies,
and other writings were loft, wafted, and made awaye, bee
therefore under colour to put the statute of Quo waranto in exé-
cution, whiche was ordeyned this yere in the parliament holden
at Gloucester in August last pafle, as fome write, did nowè
comaunde by publike proclamation, that all fuche as belde aný
landes, or tenementes of hym fhuld come and fhew by what right
and title they helde the fame, that by fuche meanes their poffeffions
might returne unto him by efcheate, as chiefe lord of the fame,
and fo to be folde or redeemed agayne at his handes. This was
thought to be a fore proclamation, that a more grevous had not
lightly been herd of. Men in every part made complaint, and
Shewed themfelves grevously offended, fo that the kyng by meanes
thereof, came into great hatred of his people; but the meane
fort of men, though they stoode in defence of theyr right, yet
VOL. I.
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it avayled them but litle, bycaufe they had no evidence to fhew,
fo that they were constrained to be quiet wyth loffe rather than
to ftrive agaynfte the ftreame. Many were thus called to an-
fwere, till at lengthe the lorde John Warren carle of Surrey, a
man greatly beloved of the people, perceyving the king to have
cafe his net for a praye, and that there was not one whyche fpake
against him, determined to stand against thofe fo bitter, and cruell
proceedings, and therfore being called afore the juftices aboute
this matter, he appeared, and being afked by what right he held
his landes, he fodenly drawing forth an olde rufty fworde;
by this inftrument (fayd he) doe I hold my landes, and by the
fame I entende to defende them. "Our aunceſtours comming
"into this realme with William Conquerour, conquered
theyr lands with the fworde, and wyth the fame will I
"defende me from all thofe that fhall be aboute to take
"them from me; he did not make a conquefte of this
"realme alone, our progenitors were with him as partici-
46
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pators, and helpers with him." The kyng underſtoode into
what hatred of his people by this meanes hee was fallen, and
therefore to avoyde civill diffention, and war that mighte thereby
enfue, he left off his begun practice: fo that the thing which
generally fhuld have touched, and bene hurtfull to all men,
was nowe fodeinly ſtayed by the manhood, and couragioufe ftout-
neffe only of one man the forfaid earle.
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In an old M. S. in my poffeffion, the earl's anſwer is put
down in the following very expreffive manner. Produxit
in medium, gladium antiquum evaginatum, & ait, Ecce Domini
mei, ecce meum warrantum! Anteceffores mei vero cum Willielmo
baftardo venientes, conquefti funt terras fuas gladio, & eafdem
gladio defendam a quocunque eas occupare volente; non enim
Rex terram per fe devicit, & fubjecit, fed progenitores noftri
fuerunt cum eo participes, & coadjutores. This was the origi-
nal of that motto, which was infcribed about fome ancient
feals of arms, belonging to the Warrens of Poynton in
Cheſhire, viz. Gladio vici, gladio teneo, gladio tenebo; the
laft word of which is the preſent motto of the family.
A FINE hiſtorical picture, painted by Pine, repreſenting
this remarkable event, is in the hands of Sir George Warren,
who hath cauſed a print to be taken from it for the uſe of
this work.
IN Stowe's Chronicle,
and in Burton's Leicestershire, † it
is faid that the earl of Warren wounded Alan le Zouch on
the above occafion, referring to Wike's Annals, but that
writer fais no fuch thing, and it is not very eaſy to account
for the miſtake.
THE author of British Remains, or a Collection of Anti-
quities relating to the Britons, fais, that after king Edward
• P. 198.
† P. 16.
M m 2
the
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the Firſt had ſettled Wales, perceiving that great troubles,
and irregularities arofe from the local jurifdiction of the
lords marchers, attempted to question by a quo warranto,
their tenures, and liberties, but this anfwer of earl Warren,
who was a principal lord marcher, put a ſtop thereto. The
proceedings however being general throughout the whole
kingdom, do not ſeem favorable to this opinion; nor does
it appear that earl Warren could then be looked upon as
a lord marcher at all, for the grant of his Welſh eſtates was
fubfequent to that event.
How far the hiftorian's obfervation may be true, that
the earl's ſpirited behavior put a stop to the king's pro-
ceedings, I will not fay; it feems as if they were on ſome
account or other delayed; the attack however was foon
after renewed, for at the pleas of affifes and jurats before
John de Reygate, and his affociates, the juftices itinerants in
the County of Suffex, on the morrow of St. John Baptiſt,
7 Edw. I. (which was the year after the above remarkable an-
ſwer is faid to have been given) earl Warren was fummoned
by name, to fhew by what warrant he claimed to have free
warren, and free chace in the towns of Wurthe,* Diche-
* THE late recor, Mr. Hampton, faid that the church of Worthe in Suffex (which
is half way between Lewes and Reigate) was founded by one of the carls of Warren.
The arms of the family are there painted on glaſs.
nyng,
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nyng, Clayton,* Wytham, (Wycham,) Cokefeld, Kyme,
(Kymere,) Strele, (Strete,) Dalecombe, (Balecombe,) Plemp-
ton, (Plompton,) Chaggel, (Chayley,) Hertinglegh, (Ar-
dingleigh,) Hedlegh, (Hodlegh,) Lyndefend, (Lyndfeld,)
Weſtmefton, Wenham, Newyk, Bercomp, Haunnes, (Ham-
mes,) Benham, Swambergh, (Swanburgh,) Kyngeftemer,
(Kyngefton juxta mare,) Iford, Weftake, (Weftoke,) Hun-
defdon, (Hounfdean,) Smythewyk, Holinftrode, (Holin-
ftrow,) Radmel, Pydingho, Toteleſcombe, (Telefcombe,)
Suthefe, Methyng, (Mechyng,) Middleburgh, Iwenefme,
(Iwonefmere,) Ovyngden, Falmere, Boureme, (Bouremere,)
Pecham, Brigelmefton, (Brighthelmfton,) Slagham, Boleyn,
(Boleney,) Herft, Mediam, (Medlam,) Cranlegh, (Crau-
legh,) Wyndlefham, Hangleton, Adelingworth, (Atling-
worth,) Blackington, (Blachington,) Wyke, Wyteden,
Twyny, (Twynyng,) Ponyng, (Poynings,) Newetembre,
Sadelescombe, Pycombe, Pynkeden, Porteflade, Aldrington,
Farncombe, Melefcombe, (Molefcombe alias Moufecombe,)
Abburton, Folking, Parkyng, (Perching,) Sandes, Hedef-
nell, Lefefend, (Lefefeld,) and la Fend, (Feld,) in that
county, &c. William de Gyfelingham, who fued for the
king, faid that William de Warren, father of the aforefaid
earl, had occupied over the late king Henry, the warren
+ THERE are ſeveral mistakes of letters, and mifnomers in the names made by the
tranfcriber of this record, and fome probably in the record itſelf, to part of which the
modern names are here put, but others are unknown at this day.
and
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and chace in the forefaid towns, and that the earl held them
fo occupied, to a thousand pounds damage of the king.
The earl in his defence alledged, that William de Warren
his father (whofe heir he was) held the barony and honor
of Lewes, with the fee, and with all the liberties, warrens,
chaces, &c. and that all the forefaid liberties had been
annexed to that barony and honor; the which barony and
honor, the faid William held of the king in capite, and
in mediety, (immediately) by virtue of which honor, the
faid king received his homage; and the faid William in
his homage died ſeiſed of the warren and chace, with all the
liberties aforefaid, to the faid barony, and honor annexed;
after whofe deceaſe, the ſaid barony and honor came to the
hand of the faid king Henry, by reafon of the wardship
of him John, for that he was under age, and in all the time
of the wardship aforefaid, for feventeen years* and upwards,
the faid king was in the feifin of the faid warrens and chaces,
as belonging to the barony, and honor aforefaid; and when
he attained unto his age, the faid king Henry restored to
him the faid barony, and honor, with all the liberties afore-
faid, in the fame ftate, wherein the aforefaid William his
father died thereof feifed. Alſo that the faid king Henry,
for the barony, and honor aforefaid, with their appurte-
ACCORDING to this, the above carl was not quite four years old at his father's
death in 1240, though the Lewes regifter (fee the beginning of this earl's life) fais he
was five.
nances,
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nances, received his homage; he therefore demanded judg-
ment, if the aforefaid king Edward in himſelf, againſt him-
felf, for the reafon aforefaid, ought not to be warrant for
him; but in court it was adjudged that thofe pleas might
not be allowed; whereupon he was impleaded to anſwer
afreſh. Afterwards, the earl came in the octaves of St.
Martin, at Cycefter, and faid that in Worth, Cokefeld,
and Dychenyng he had parks, and aſked if the king had
any claim in the faid parks; to which William de Gyfeling-
ham ſaid that for the preſent he claimed nothing therein.
And touching the other places, and towns, where the king
claimed the forefaid warrens and chaces, the earl faid, that
all his anceſtors always faithfully ftuck to the fide of the
kings of England, and that when Normandy was loft, they
were earls of Warren in Normandy, and would for no lofs
of their lands in thoſe parts, adhere to the fide of the
kings of France, for which reafon they were deprived of
their lands there, and on this account, John king of England
gave the aforefaid lands to his (the faid earl's) anceſtors,
in name of a recompence, for what they had loft in Nor-
mandy, and granted, that they and their heirs ſhould have
all their lands, given them by the king himfelf, and all
which they ſhould afterwards acquire to themfelves, in
warrennage (i. e. having free warren therein) becauſe of
their furname de Warrenna; adding, that William his father,
before ever king Henry came to the crown, had all the
aforefaid
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aforefaid warrens and chaces; fo that no entry was made
over the faid king, nor had any been made over king
Edward; for the truth of which he defired that enquiry
might be made, and William de Gyfelingham defiring the
fame, it was commanded the fheriff, that parties being at-
tached, he ſhould caufe an election of jurats to be made
before him, which was by mutual confent done, and they,
confifting of fix knights and fix lords of towns, upon their
oaths, faid that William de Warren earl of Surrey, father
of the then earl, before ever king Henry, father of the
then king, was crowned king of England, had all the
forefaid chaces, warrens, and liberties as appurtenances to
the honor and barony of Lewes, and that the faid earl Wil-
liam occupied, and ufurped nothing over the faid king
Henry, nor earl John over king Edward. They ſaid alfo,
that in the town of Alberton, (ſo much of it as was of
the fee of William de Brews) and at Lyndefend, (fo much
of it as was of the fee of the archbishop of Canterbury) the
forefaid earl had not, nor claimed to have chace, or warren.
They likewiſe found that the forefaid William earl Warren,
made ufe of all the forefaid chaces, and warrens, in the
forefaid towns, before ever the faid king Henry was crown-
ed, excepting the fees of William de Brews, and the arch-
biſhop as above; and that nothing was occupied over the
above-mentioned kings. Whereupon it was adjudged, that
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the king fhould feize nothing by his writ, for the prefent,
and the earl had no charge to appear on any other day.*
THE above, is the fubftance of the earl's difpute with the
crown, about his lands in Suffex. There is alfo in Peck's
Annals, an account of that which happened in Lincolnshire,
taken from the pleas of the crown at Lincoln, 9 Edw. I.
in which the jurats for the wapentake of Neffe faid, that
John de Warren earl of Surrey, did not permit the bailiffs
of the king, to enter into his town of Stanford, to make
feifin, or diftreffes for the debt of the king, but claimed
to have return of writs, and other liberties, viz. affize of
bread and beer, gallows, &c. and they knew not by what
warrant. Therefore the ſheriff was commanded to caufe
him to appear, within fifteen days after the feaſt of St. John
the Baptift, to fhew his warrant. He was again prefented,
for that the bailiff of Neffe was wont to make, as well in
the borough of Stanford, as without, all executions of writs
and amercements, till one Thomas de Boulton, whilſt the
borough was in his hands, would not ſuffer the bailiffs of
the king to enter the faid borough, and that for fixteen years
laft paft. In the octaves of Trinity term the fame year, the
earl having been fummoned to anſwer the king, touching
a plea, by what warrant he claimed to have his coroners,
priſon, market, fair, tronage, pefage, and a certain toll
* Peck's Annals, lib. IX. p. 5.
VOL. I.
+ Lib IX. p. 10.
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called thurtol, in Stanford and Granthain, without licence,
or will of the king; he pleaded, that as to coroners and
priſon in the town of Grantham, he claimed nothing but
within the liberties only. He claimed alfo market, fair,
weyſt, gallows, and thurtol in the faid town; for that the
king (Edward) by a like grant held the town aforefaid, and
king Henry his father, and alfo for that they who had held
the ſaid town, for a great many years paſt, had all the
forefaid particulars. As to the town of Stanford, he claimed
tronage by the grant of king Hen. III. who on that account
granted him his charter, in the fifty-third year of his reign,
as appears from the M. S. in the Herald's office, called
Records of the Tower.* The prifon he owned to be the
king's, but that he had the hereditary keeping thereof.
The coroners, market, fair, weyft, gallows, and thurtol,
he faid the king had entire, whilſt he held the town of
Stanford, and that afterwards he the faid king, feoffed him
the faid earl, in that town, to hold as freely and entirely,
as he the faid king (then commonly called lord Edward)
held it, when the faid charter of feoffment was made; alfo
that king Henry, and earl William, whilft they fucceffively
held the faid town, enjoyed the faid liberties entire.
On this, Gilbert de Thornton, who fued for the king,
demanded judgment as to market, fair, weyft, and gallows,
* P. 632.
which
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which he claimed in Grantham, whether a late feifin could
be a fufficient warrant to the earl, for thofe things which
merely belonged to the crown. As to prifon in the town of
Stanford, concerning which the earl anſwered nothing, fave
that he claimed the keeping thereof, but touching which
keeping, no plea or defence was made, he defired judgment
for the king against the earl, as one unable to make good
his claim. As to coroners, market, fair, weyft, and gallows,
which he claimed of old in the town of Stanford, as theſe
liberties might belong more efpecially to the crown, he
defired judgment thereof, if a late feifin could be to the earl
a fufficient warrant. And as to thurtol in either town, the
faid Gilbert demanded judgment thereof, as the earl did not
fhew from what perfons, merchandizes, or in what places,
or what, or how much toll of this fort he might take, and
becauſe the earl did not produce his charter for tronage.
At
the end, the earl, at his requeft, had a day in the morrow
of the clofe of Eafter given him, to thew his charter, with
liberty to make fuch farther reply, as to him fhould feem
proper. But how judgment was given is not put down.
ABOUT the fame time, it appears from the pleas of affizes
and jurats at the borough of Scarbrough, that this earl was
fummoned to anfwer, by what warrant he claimed gallows,
and affize of bread and beer, and of meaſures, pleas de vetito
namio, and for thedding of blood, and waif at Coningsburgh;
Nn 2
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and alſo by what warrant he claimed to have free warren,
and his lands quit from fuit, in Brampton, and elſewhere;
alſo why he appropriated to himſelf as a foreſt, half the
wood of Soothill, all the wood of Dewsbury, and all the
divifions of Halifax, Skircote, Ovenden, Haldefworth,
Miggeley, Wadefworth, Heptonftall, Saltonftall, Rotten-
ſtall, Stansfeld, Langfeld, and elſewhere in his lands; by
what warrant likewife, he refuſed to permit the king's bailiffs
to enter his lands, to perform their offices, except his own
bailiffs were prefent.
THE earl came, and faid that he claimed gallows at Co-
ningſburgh, and Wakefeld, and the power of doing what
belonged to a gallows, in all his lands and fees; and that
he and all his anceſtors had ufed the fame from time im-
memorial. He claimed to have the affize of bread and beer
in the faid manors, becauſe there had been a market, and
one fair, at Wakefeld, from immemorial time; and he had
alſo another fair there by charter of king Henry III. which
he produced in evidence. He claimed likewiſe the affize of
bread and beer elfewhere, throughout his whole lands and
fees, and the power of punishing tranfgreffions againſt the
fame, at Wakefeld and Coningſburgh, and that he and his
anceſtors had ufed the fame from time immemorial. And as
to the fettling of meaſures, he claimed to have the ſtandard
of all meaſures at Wakefeld, from the king's marshals and
bailiffs,
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bailiffs, at their coming, and by that ſtandard to regulate all
the meaſures, in all his lands and fees; yet ſo that the ſaid
marſhals and bailiffs, at their coming there, fhould have the
emendation of all meaſures, where they ſhall find any tranf-
greffion; and after their return, the faid earl and his bailiffs
ſhould have the emendation of the fame, till their next com-
ing; and this he ſaid, that he and his anceſtors had uſed
time immemorial. Concerning the pleas de vetito namio,
he claimed nothing; but claimed to have the pleas for fhed-
ding of blood, in form of fimple tranfgreffion; yet ſo that
there be no appeal from thence, or nothing found againſt
the king's peace; and this, he and his anceſtors had uſed
time immemorial. He alfo laid claim to waifs on the fame
account. And as to the being quit from fuit, he ſaid that
he and all his anceſtors, from time immemorial, were free
from ſuit, in all their lands and fees in that county, (York)
which were of ancient tenure. With regard to his appro-
priation of a foreft, he claimed no foreft in the aforefaid
lands, but faid that he and all his anceſtors had free chace in
the fame, from time immemorial, as well in fees as demefne
lands, viz. in Wakefeld, Horbury, Sandal, Criglefton,
Offet, Gawthorpe, Heaton, Chickenley, Halifax, Hepton-
ftall, Raftrick, Langfeld, Midgley, Skircote, Saltonftall,
Northland, Rifhworth, Hipperholm, Ovenden, Haldefworth,
Wadsworth, Routonftall, Stansfeld, Northowram, Shipden,
and in half the wood of Soothill, Hanging Heaton, Wood-
kirk.
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kirk, Thorn, Fishlake, Donfthorpe, Haitfeld, Stainford,
Coningſburgh, Butterbufk, Dalton, Braithwell, Clifton,
Crookehill, Freshby, and Mikel bringe, unless fome inter-
ruption had happened in time of war, or when he or ſome
of his anceſtors were in wardſhip to the kings of England.
He alfo claimed to have free warren, as well in his fees, as
in demefne lands, which he had of ancient tenure, viz. in
Wakefeld, Sandal, Criglefton, Chickenley, Offet, Soland,
Halifax, Heptonſtall, Raftrick, Langfeld, Midgley, Skircote,
Horbury, Saltonftall, Ovenden, Haldefworth, Foketonftall,
Wadsworth, Routonftall, Stansfeld, Norland, Hipperholm,
Northouram, Shipden, Riſhworth, Hanging Heaton, Wood-
kirk, Donſthorpe, Haitfeld, Fiſhlake, Stainford, Coning-
fburgh, Dalton, Braithwell, Mikelbringe, Stainley, Alver-
thorpe, Meveringthorpe, Woodhall, Eaffarthorpe, and Be-
thome;* and that he, and all his anceſtors, had ufed free
warren in the faid lands from time immemorial; and that
king Henry III. granted to him by his charter (which he
produced) dated 27 Jan. in the 37th year of his reign, free
warren in all his demefne lands which he then had, or which
he ſhould acquire; and by that charter he claimed to have
free warren at Brampton, which he had purchaſed. And as
• BESIDES all thefe manors, I find from Kirby's Inqueft in this king's reign, that
this earl was poffeffed (as chief lord) of Fixby, Sowerby, Warley, Thurwiftanland,
Holme, Cumbreworth, Flockton, Quick, Normanton, and Altofts, all in the wapen-
take of Agbrig and Morley com. Ebor.
to
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to the king's bailiffs, he ſaid, that the bailiffs of him, the
earl, and of all his anceſtors for time immemorial, had exer-
cifed all the offices which belonged to the king's bailiffs,
except what belonged to the crown.
ON the part of the king it was answered, that the afore-
faid liberties belonged merely to the crown, and that no
long ſeifin, or preſcription of time, ought to prejudice the
king; and that the earl had no fpecial warrant for the
faid liberties, therefore judgment was defired, if the feifin
could be to the earl a fufficient warrant. Upon an in-
quifition taken afterwards, it does not appear that any thing
was found for the king.
IT is not hence to be imagined, that king Edward had
any particular averfion to the earl, by fo many actions
being fet on foot againſt him, for he only bore this in
common with others; nor had the earl any refentment
againſt the crown, for the trouble, and expence he was
put to; on the contrary, he ſeems to have ſtood high in
the king's favor. At the very time when the above diſpute
was carrying on, the earl was attending on the king's per-
fon, for he affifted him in 1277, in laying the foundation
of Vale-royal abbey in Cheſhire.
• Monafticon, vol. II. p. 922.
I SHALL
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I SHALL here take notice of a deed, written in French,
which belonged to the late Thomas Wilfon of Leeds,
F. S. A. dated 7 Edw. I. whereby John earl of Warren and
Surrey, granted to John Howfon, a meffuage in Wakefield,
the ſaid Howfon paying the annual rent of a thoufand
cluſters of nuts, and upholding a gauntlet firm and ſtrong.
ONE of the earls of Warren, is faid to have founded a
chantry in the church at Wakefield, which was called St.
Swithen's chantry.* There is alſo an ancient tradition,
that a younger brother of one of the earls of Warren, was
made parfon of Wakefield, † and had Dewsbury alfo, and
penfions from all the churches within the fee of earl Warren
* THIS note I took from an old M. S. in my poffeffion, intitled The certificat of
the most Rev. Father in God Robert Archbyshopp of Yorke and others, authorized by
the king's majestie, jufices in commiffion, dated the fouertenth day of February, in the
thirtie Seaventh yeare of the raigne of king Henry the eight c. to furvey all and finguler
chantries, hofpitalls, colledges, free chappells, fraternityes, brotherhoods, gildes, and
Salaryes of flipendarye preifts, haveing perpetuitys for ever, being charged or chargable,
and alfo all colledges not chargable, or charged to the paiment of first fruites and tenthes,
and all the mannors, lands, tenths, hereditaments, and poffeffions, with the goods and orna-
ments to the fame appertaining, within the countye of Yorke, citye of Yorke, and Kingſton
upon Hull, with the yearlely deductions goeing out of the fame. This chantry was valued
at £4: 10
10: 4.
+ LELAND in his Itin. vol. I. p. 42. fecond edit. fais that the perfonage (of Wakefield)
was a great lyving; yn ſo much that one of the erles Warines lordes of Wakefeld, and much
of the cuntery thereabout, did give the perfonage to a funne, or nere kinfman of his : and he
made the most parte of the house wher the vicarage now is.
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in Yorkshire, and had a ftately parfonage houfe built, and a
chapel within the fame.
DUGDALE* fais, that king Edward bore fo great a reſpect to
our earl, that by his charter, dated October 7th, in the tenth
year of his reign, for the more tranquility, and advantage
of himſelf, and his heirs, and of the whole realm, (as the
preamble thereof imports) he granted to him and his heirs,
the caſtle of Dynas-Bran, which was in his poffeffion, at
the beginning of his wars in Wales; and all the land of
Bromfeld, with the appurtenances, which Griffin, and
Llewelin, fons of Madoc Vaughan, either by themſelves,
or their guardians then held, excepting to the faid king and
his heirs, the caftle and land of Hope, with the appur-
tenances; but Enderbie in his Cambria triumphans,† fais
that John earl of Warren did homage and fealty to Edward
prince of Wales, in the chapel of the lord John de Kerby,
fometime biſhop of Ely, at London 25 July, 30 Edw. I. for
the lordships of Bromfield and Yale, and that the fame earl
John, fwore fealty to the faid prince Edward, for the lands
in Hopedale.
THE beautiful fituation of Dinas Bran, is reprefented in
the annexed engraving. Some have fancied, but without
proof, that this place takes its name from Brennus the
* Bar. vol. I. P. 79.
† P. 332.
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famous general. It gives name to the township of Dinbren
in Denbighshire, wherein it ftands. Leland in his Itinerary
fais, The caftelle of Dinas Brane was never bygge thing, but fette
al for ftrenght as in a place half inacceffible for enymyes. It is
now al in ruine.
BROOKE fais, that William the Conqueror gave the above
eftates, in marriage with his daughter Gundred to the firſt
earl of Warren and Surrey, but Vincent quotes Powel's
Hiftory of Wales to difprove that opinion. The words are,
Gruffyth ap Madoc tooke part with king Henry III. and Ed-
ward I. against the prince of North-Wales, and therefore for
feare of the prince, he was faine to lye in his caftle of Dinas-
Bran, which ftandeth on the top of a very steep hill, to the
which there is no way but one to come. He died, his children
being within age, whereupon shortly enfued the deftruction of two
of them: For the faid king Edward I. gave the wardſhip of
Madoc (who had for his part the lordship of Bromfield and Yale,
and the faid caftle of Dinas-Bran, with the reverfion of Maelor
Saefneg, after his mother's deceaſe, who had the fame to her
jointer) to John earle Warren, and granted the wardship of
Llewelyn (to whofe part the lordships of Chirke, and Nan-
heudwy came) to Roger Mortimer. Theſe guardians, forgetting
the fervice done by the father of the wards, to the king, fo
guarded their wards with fmall regard, that they never returned
to their poffeffions. And fhortly after, the faid guardians did
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obtain the faid lands to themselves by charters of the king. This
John earle Warren began to build the Holt castle,*
build the Holt castle,* (of which
an engraving is here given,) and William his fon finiſhed the
fame. The lordship of Bromfield and Yale continued in the name
of earle Warren three defcents, John, William, and John that
died without ifue, and then the faid lordſhip defcended to Alice,
daughter of the faid William earle Warren, (and fifter and heir
of the faid laft John) married to Edmond Fitzalan earle of
Arundel.
IN the genealogical account of Owen Glendower, at the
end of the hiſtory of the iſland of Angleſey, it is ſaid, that
Griffith and Llewelin fons of Madoc, eldest fon of Griffith lord
of Dinas-Bran, were in ward to John de Warren earl of Surrey,
through whose practice, as is fuppofed, they were both drowned
under Holt bridge. Their eftate being vested in the king, was
given to the faid earl Warren their guardian, by patent bearing
date at Ruthland,‡ 7th Oct. 10 Edw. I.
* THIS caftle is in Bromfield, not far from Wrexham, on the western bank of the
Dee. The Britons called it Caftell Llew, the Lion's Caftle; this made Camden give it the
name of Caſtrum Leonis. From hence I conclude that an older caſtle than that built
by earl Warren, had been here, which had taken its name from fome owner of it called
Llewelyn, which fignifies in British, like a lion. Some think the Romans had a ſtation
here. Mr. Pennant, in his Tour through Wales has given us a view of it in its original
ſtate, from an ancient furvey amongſt the Harleian Mfs. taken in 1620 by John Norden.
It was demoliſhed by order of Parliament in 1646.
+ Lond. 1775.
Ruddlan caftle in Flintshire.
002
THIS
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THIS Conduct of Warren and Mortimer, if there was fuf-
ficient authority to eſtabliſh the fact, would caft an eternal
ſtain on their memories, as it would likewife on king Edward,
who thus alienated theſe eſtates from the right heirs; and
any writer would be guilty of a very blameable partiality,
who took upon him to defend fuch atrocious crimes; but, on
the other hand, to pronounce them guilty, from uncertain
evidence, would be equally wrong. And it appears to me,
that hiftorians have left us too much in the dark, to de-
termine pofitively about it. Caradoc of Lhancarvan expreffly
charging the whole tranfaction to the king's account; and
the author of the genealogy of Owen Glendower, only
faying that it was fuppofed to be done by the practice of earl
Warren. Dugdale, who is filent about the murder, quotes
a record* to fhew that Griffin Vaughan, fon to Griffin of
Bromfield, granted to earl Warren, all his land of Yale in
North-Wales, which he had as his purparty of the inherit-
ance of Griffin his father.
IN Sir Joseph Ayloffe's Calendars of the Ancient Charters, and
Rolls in the Tower of London, are the following.
ROT. WALLIE Anno 10 Edw. I. membrana 3. Conceffio
caftri de Dynaforan, & totius terræ de Bromfeld, confirmata
Jobanni de Warenna comiti Surreia. Apud Rothel 7 Octobris.
• Claus. 11 Edw. L. in dorfo m. 9.
IDEM
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IDEM-Membrana 1. Quod homines Johannis de Warenn',
comitis Surreiæ & Suffex, de Brumfend, ad mercata Ofewol-
deftre, Whitchirche, & Ceftr. venire ad res fuas vendendas
poffint. Apud Rothel', 7 Novembris.
IDEM-Anno II Edw. I. Membr. 3. Terra de Glynde-
verdo, ad requifitionem Johannis de Warenna comitis Surreia,
conceffa Griffino Vaghan, filio Madoci, apud Rothelan', XI
Martii.
10 EDW. I. on affeffing the fcutage of Rothelan, for the
fervice of king Edward, againſt Llewelin prince of Wales,
and other Welſhmen then in arms, the earl of Warren was
charged for eleven knights' fees, viz. fix of his own inheritance,
and five for Stanford and Grantham in Lincolnshire. Baker,
in his Chronicle fais, that Llewelin furprifed the caftles of
Flint and Ruddlan, and in a great battle overthrew the earls
of Northumberland and Surrey. This is ftrengthened by
the following words of Fabyan;* In thys 10 yere the kyng
heryng more and more of the unftedfastnes of the Walshe-men,
for to let them of theyr purpose to greve hys holdes, be fente
thyder with a crewe of fowdyours, the erles of Northumberland
and of Surrey-the whyche with greate corage entrede into
Walys, and made with the Walfhe-men many fkyrmyfshes, tyll
* Fol. 57.
laftly
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laftly upon Palme Sonday, Davyd with a great power of Walsh-
men, met with the fayde lordes, and knyghtes, at a place nere
to a towne called Havardyne, where betwene them was a fore
fyght, but in the ende the loffe fyll to the Englyfshmen.
THE particulars of this engagement I cannot meet with,
but one thing is evident, that at that time there was no earl
of Northumberland, and the heir of the family of Percy too
young to have any command, for he only came of age be-
tween the 15 and 22 Edw. I. The author of Polychronicon,
ſpeaking of this event, fais only, that the false Walfshe Davyd
aroos agaynft kynge Edwarde on a Palm Sondaye, and dyde Eng-
lyfshe men grete harme and domage. Holinfhed's account is,
that Llewelin took the lorde Roger Clifforde in his caftell of
Hawardine, uppon Palme Sondaye, the faide lorde being in no
doubte of any fuche matter. Adding, divers knyghtes, and
other that were in the fame caftell at that time, and made re-
fiftance were flaine. That the fame fact is alluded to in
theſe different accounts is plain, becauſe Palm Sunday was
the time in which they all agree it happened; but the whole
of it ſeems to confiſt in David's furpriſing Hawarden caſtle;
which he might the more eafily do, as it was the first act of
hoftility which had been committed, and no fufpicion of that
fort entertained on the part of the English; it is not therefore
likely that the earl of Warren fhould be there, where he
had no command. This fudden act of violence, gave occa-
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fion to king Edward to conquer Wales, and to make it ſub-
ject to the crown of England.
IN 1283, the earl witneffed, with others, a charter of
king Edw. I. at Makesfeld in Cheſhire. And in 1285 he
was witnefs to an infpeximus of Edward I. of charters
to Great Yarmouth, dated at Weftminster, June 12th,
13 Edw. I. In 1290, we find him engaged, in fettling the
public affairs between the kingdoms of England and Scot-
land, particularly in obtaining from king Edward, an obli-
gation to pay to the guardians of Scotland three thoufand
merks, if Eric king of Norway did not, within a limited
time, fend his daughter Margaret into England, or Scot-
land. This Margaret was queen of Scotland, and the per-
fon whom Edward I. had wifely pitched upon, as a wife
for his fon prince Edward, as fuch an event might probably
have brought on an union of the two kingdoms. This
match, the leading men in Scotland gave confent to, on
condition of Edward's giving them fecurity for certain
matters relating to the ſtate of their own country, and the earl
of Warren, and five others, were commiflioned by the king,
to fatisfy the Scots in that behalf. He was alfo in the com-
miffion, to fettle every thing with the king of Norway,
* Monaft. vol. III. p. 37. in Eccles. Collegiat.
† See Swinden's Hiftory and Antiq. of Great Yarmouth, p. 761.
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relating to this marriage, and was actually in Scotland on
his way to Orkney, to meet the young queen, when an
account was received of her death. *
IN that great difpute between Robert de Bruce, and John
de Baliol, for the crown of Scotland, about 21 Edw. I. earl
Warren joined with Anthony Beke bishop of Durham, in
fupport of Baliol's title, prompted thereto, no doubt, be-
caufe Baliol had married the earl's daughter.
IN the Harleian Mfs. is the following. Al Parlament
21 Edw. I. apud Lond. John d'Warren earl de Surrey & Suſſex
claime per petition le cuftody d'Evefq. de St. Asaph tempore vaca-
tionis
per grant le Roy fur le conqueft d'Wales & reunion d' ceo al
corone d'Angleterre, &c. una cum diverfis maneriis, &c. Et
dicitur ibidem & eft adjudg. per parlm. quod omnes terre & tene-
menta Wallie cum libertatib. corone Anglie annexe fuerunt ante-
quam in manus principum Wallie devenerunt. Et omnia tene-
menta Angliâ ad quofcunque epifcopatus pertinent d'eadem corona
tenentur & d'jure corone & etiam d'communi confuetud. regni cuf-
todia epifcopatum & omnium terrarum, &c. ejufdem pertinent
tempore vacationis ad ipfum regem & non ad alium in regno perti-
nent. Et licet rex Anglie comiti predicto manerium de Bromfeild
cum omnibus fuis pert. conceffit non tamen intelligendum eft fuper
Ridpath's Border Hift. p. 167-169.
+ No. 980, p. 217.
boc
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hoc quod dedit libertates ei & jure ad coronam & dignitatem fuam
pertinentia & 9. d'corona non poffunt feperari velut cuftodia epif-
cop. five terras fuas. Et fic judicatum fuit nuper in cafu comitis
Gloceft. qui in parlm'. clamabat terras epifcopal. Landaff vacat.
pertinen. infra dominia fua jacent. per chartam tempore vacation.
& non potuit recuperare propter privelegia regni & corone digni-
tatem ad q. fpecialiter pertinent cuftodia epifcopatuum vacantium
& d'fimilibus fimile debet effe judicium. Ideo, &c.
IT is a little remarkable, that the earl fhould fet up this
claim, againſt a recent decifion of parliament, in the cafe of
the earl of Glouceſter, whofe right to the epifcopal lands of
Landaff had in a fimilar cafe been denied him; for fuch
eftates, it ſeems, were inalienable even by the crown itfelf;
for when king John had made a patent, to Stephen Langton
archbishop of Canterbury, of the patronage of the bishopric
of Rocheſter, that the faid biſhop at his confecration, fhould
do fealty to the archbishop of Canterbury, and that the
archbishop thould have the temporalties, during the vacation
of the See, this patent came in queſtion, and was adjudged
to be void, becauſe a baron of the realm muft of neceffity
hold immediately of the king, and thefe were infeparable
royalties to the crown of England. *
23 EDW. I. he was fummoned to attend the parliament held
at Westminster, and is faid, at that time, to have been in-
* M. S. Regiſter of the church of Rochester.
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ftrumental in the establishment of the custom of fending burgeffes
to parliament. If this was fo, it may explain the reaſon, why
the towns belonging to him, fuch as Stanford in Lincoln-
ſhire, Reigate, and Bletchingley in Surrey, and Lewes in
Suffex, began to fend reprefentatives as foon as any; for all
thefe* made returns 23 Edw. I. and if intereft could at that
time be of any avail, in a matter of this fort, no doubt but
it was uſed; for as this was reckoned an honorable privelege,
it is natural to ſuppoſe, that the earl would take this care of
his eftate, where he could. I have extracted this account
from the Notitia Parliamentaria, but from Dugdale's Sum-
monfes to Parliament we learn, that the cuſtom was more
ancient, Item fcribitur civibus Ebor. civibus Lincoln' & cæteris
burgis Angliæ, quod mittant duos de difcretioribus, & legaliori-
bus, & probioribus tam civibus quam burgenfib' fuis. Dated
49 Hen. III. This was the parliament, fummoned by the
barons who had king Henry III. in cuftody, to meet at Lon-
don, when precepts were fent to every fheriff, to fend thither
two knights for each county; and to the cities and boroughs,
the like number of citizens, and burgeffes; and likewife to
the barons of the Cinque-ports, a certain number of their
difcreeteſt men; this being the first time, fais Dugdale, ‡ for
aught that can be feen from any good authority, that the people
were thus reprefented, by two knights for each county, and one
or two burgeffes for each borough; the noblemen, bishops, and
• Willis's Notitia Parliam.
+ P. 3.
t Bar. vol. I. p. 756.
great
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great abbats, before that time, reprefenting all thoſe who
held of them. His meaning is,* that the people of Eng-
land, in their great and public councils, had, from the time
of the Norman conqueft, to the 49 Hen. III. been reprefent-
ed by fuch as held of the king in capite. The reafon of the
change, he takes to have been the danger of permitting the
nobility, and other great men, to meet together with fuch
large retinues as were then common; and the great number
of the king's tenants in capite, left they ſhould attempt to
diveſt them of their new ufurped government, in the fame
manner as they themselves conftrained the king to affent to
the provifions of Oxford.
COTTON, in his Pofthuma, thinks the Commons were
first confulted 6 John. Others mention 1258, 1264, 1266,
and 1297.
But let the reader confult Dr. Henry's Hiftory
of Great Britain, vol. IV. chap. 3.
WHITAKER, in his Hiftory of Manchester, ‡ has fhewn,
that there was no fuch thing, in the time of our Saxon
ancestors, as an Houfe of Commons, though fome bur-
geffes fat as peers, among the peers, becauſe they held
their lands in capite from the crown; and the fame feems to
have been continued after the Norman advent. But this
does not affect the enquiry, when fuch of the commons as
Vol. II. p. 169, &c.
See Orig. Juridic. p. 18.
+ P. 15.
Pp 2
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had not the above claim were allowed to fit in parliament.
This queſtion it ſeems has hitherto been canvaffed on party
principles, but in this the cool evening of political zeal, (Mr.
Whitaker obferves) we can at once difcern the object in difpute,
to be merely a point of curious fpeculation. Let us look then
for a proof of this. Lord C-md-n, in his fpeech on the
declaratory bill of the fovereignty of Great Britain over the
colonies, fais, To endeavour to fix the ara when the Houfe of
Commons began in this kingdom, is a moft pernicious, and de-
Structive attempt; to fix it in an Edward's, or Henry's reign,
is owing to the idle dreams of fome whimsical, ill-judging anti-
quarians. But this is a point too important to be left to fuch
wrong-headed People-The House of Commons began with the
conftitution, and grew up with the conftitution.*
In the fame year, 23 Edw. I. the earl of Warren was ap-
pointed to affift, in fecuring the marches of the kingdom
from the incurfions of the Scots; and for this purpoſe, he
had the caſtle of Bamburgh in Northumberland committed
to his cuftody.
THE Scots having feized upon the caſtle of Dunbar, which
ſome of the garrifon had treacherously given up, the king
(24 Edw. I.) fent the earls of Warren and Warwick to recover
See more on this fubject in the Preliminary Difcourfe to Sullivan's Lectures on
the Conſtitution and Laws of England.
it,
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277
it, who laying fiege to it, a large body of the enemy march-
ed to its relief, and a bloody engagement enfuing, the Scots
were defeated with the lofs of ten thousand men, and the
caſtle was furrendered the next day.* Leland, † amongſt
the notable thinges he tranflatid in to Englifch oute of a booke
caullid Scala Chronica, the which a certein Inglifch man (taken
yn werre priſoner, and brought to Edingeburgh yn Scotland)
did tranſlate owte of Frenche ryme ynto Frenche proſe, has it
thus, Patrik counte of Marche with the blak berde, that alonly
of al the nobles of Scotland remainid yn obedience of king Edwarde
complainid, that the Scottes had taken his caftel of Dunebar by
treyne. Apon this king Edward fent from Berwike, counte
Waren, and the erle of Warwik, with great pour by fe, and
land to Dunbar. Where were taken yn the caftel, the counte of
Menteth, the counte of Athele, the counte of Ros, and fix barons
(whofe names are there mentioned) and befide 29 knightes, and
80 efquier, the which were (fent) to priſon in to diverſe partes
of Englande. A particular account of this affair, may be
feen in Walter Hemingford's Hiftory of Edward I. This
account makes the army of the earl of Warren to confift only of
one thouſand horfe, ten thouſand foot, and an hundred men
from the army of the bishop of Durham; the Scots to be
of
* This victory was obtained on Saturday next after the feaft of St. Mark.
+ Collect. vol. I. part II. p. 540.
↑ Publiſhed by Hearne, vol. I. p. 95. See alfo Ridpath's Border Hist. p. 198.
fifteen
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fifteen hundred horſe, and forty thouſand foot; and that the
English even croffed the valley, to attack this huge body of
their enemies, poſted as they were, on the fide of the hill
oppofite Dunbar. The Scots, it ſeems, were foon beaten,
and were purſued feven or eight miles, almoſt to the foreſt
of Selkirk. In the castle, this writer tells us, were taken
three earls, four barons, thirty-one knights, and an hundred
efquires.
AFTER this, the Engliſhmen purſuing their good fortune,
the king of Scotland was reduced to the neceffity of refigning
his crown to king Edward; and the earl of Warren had the
honor to be made governor of that kingdom. Leland fais,
King Edward being at Newminftre Abbay, gave the gardianeſhip
of Scotland to the counte Waren. Peter Langtoft, * ſpeaking
of this appointment, fais,
“Sir Jon of Warenne he is chef jußife.”
The place of his general refidence, was Bothwell caſtle on the
river Clyde. +
IN Sir Jofeph Ayloffe's Calendars of the Ancient Charters,
Rolls, &c. in the Tower of London, are the following. Rotulus
Scotia de annis 24, 25, & 26 Edw. I.-membran. 7. Pro
* Vol. II.
P. 280.
+ For a view of this caftle, fee Antiq. Repert. vol. I. p. 68.
Johanne
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Johanne de Warenn. comite Surreiæ, cuftode regni & terræ
Scotia, quod poffit fugare & feras capere.
IDEM-Memb. 6.-Quod vicecomites & finguli de comi-
tatu Cumbr. & Weftmerl. intendant Johanni de Warenna
cuftodi terræ Scotiæ, cum equis, & armis, & toto poffe.
IDEM-Memb. 6. dorfo-Pro Johanne de Warenn. comite
Surreiæ cuftode regni & terræ Scotia de feodo.
He was alſo chofen one of the ambaffadors fent to Guy
earl of Flanders, to bring about a marriage between prince
Edward, and Philippa the faid earl's daughter.*
IN 1297, the Scots rifing in arms, under the conduct of
William Wallace, the king fent orders to the earl of Warren,
who was general of all the king's forces on the north fide of
Trent, to raiſe the militia in fome of the northern parts,
and to go and chaftife the infurgents. On this, Henry de
Percy (grandfon to earl Warren) marching with the forces
of Carliſle to Aire, endeavored to difpofe the inhabitants of
Galloway (of which country he was governor) to peace;
but hearing that the Scots were advanced near Irwine, he
marched that way; on which Wallace, and the other leaders,
See Holinfhed, p. 816.
finding
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finding themſelves too weak, offered to fubmit, on condition
of pardon for life, limb, lands, and goods to that time,
which Henry thought fit to grant, on promiſes of hoſtages,
and articles in writing, if it should pleaſe the king; who
afterwards, that he might not be hindered from going to
affift Guy earl of Flanders, confented thereto. But when
earl Warren faw that the Scots delayed to give hoftages,
according to the agreement, he affembled his army and en-
tered Scotland, on which the inhabitants fought for peace,
and even gave pledges for their future good behavior. All
this however proved nothing but a fcheme to prolong the
time, that they might the better collect together their
ftrength, which they did near Striveling (now Sterling)
bridge; whither the earl having alfo marched, the lord
fteward of Scotland, and the earl of Lenox came to him,
and defired he would ftay till they had tried to bring the
Scots to the king's peace; but when they could not do it,
they returned on the tenth day of September, promifing to
bring to the earl's affiftance, on the day following, about
forty horſe men; on which two friers preachers were fent to
the Scots, to perfuade them to peace, but were anſwered,
that they came not for peace, but to try the matter by battle.
On this, the English army, through the prefumptuous
pride, fais Holinfhed, of the lord Hugh Creffingham, pref-
ſed to the bridge, and attempting to pass it, they were at-
tacked by the Scots, before half of them were gotten over,
and
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281
and thrown into great diforder, which the earl of Warren
perceiving, commanded that the bridge fhould be broken
down, to prevent the Scots paffing over, which faved the army
from deſtruction, after the lofs of fome thouſand men.
Langtoft* lais the blame, not on Creffingham, but our earl,
in theſe words:
• Whan Siz Jon of Wazenne the loth underfode
"That the Waleis gan byenne, an ofte he gadred gode,
“And went to Strivelyne agayn Waleis William,
"Bot the eile with mykelle pyne difconfite away nam.
"And that was his folie, fo long in his bed gan ligge,
"Untille the Waleis partie had umbilaid the brigge.
And again.
“Whan the erle herd ſay, the brigge how William toke,
He douted to die that day, that bataile he fozloke.
HEMINGFORD+ tells us, that the earl of Lenox, in re-
turning from the Engliſh camp, wounded one of the earl of
Warren's foragers, on which the foldiers ran to arms, and
preſenting the wounded man to the earl, demanded revenge,
crying out that the truce was broken; but the earl defired
they would wait that night, to fee if the enemy would keep
their word, and ordered that all ſhould be ready the day after,
to paſs the bridge. The next morning, above five thouſand
* Vol. II. p. 297.
VOL. I.
Q q
† Vol. I. p. 125, &c.
footmen,
.
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go that
footmen, and many of the Welsh, paffed over the bridge,
but came back, becauſe the earl, being afleep, had not made
his appearance in the camp. And when he did rife, as the
hiftorian calls it, poft magnam horam, the foot paffed over
again, but ftill returned, becauſe they faw the Senefchal of
Scotland, who the day before had attended the earl of Lenox,
coming with a few men, whom they took to be the meffen-
gers of good news. However, when all hopes of accom-
modation were vaniſhed, Sir Richard Lundy gave his opinion,
that it would be fatal to paſs the bridge, but ſaid that there
was a ford not far off, which they might fafely ufe, and pro-
poſed, that part of the army ſhould
that way
and flank
the enemy, whilft the reft fhould occupy the bridge in front;
others exclaimed that it was not fafe to divide the forces ;
amongſt whom was Creffingham above-named, who uſed fuch
fharp words to the earl, that at last, he gave orders for
paffing the bridge. But this was evidently done with great
reluctance. He feems to have acted like a prudent general,
and to have put off this defperate attempt as long as he
could, complying only, when the oppofition became too
powerful for him to contend with. For want of attending
to this, his conduct has been undefervedly cenfured; in
particular, Langtoft has erred, in ſaying that he lay in his
bed till Wallace had pulled down the bridge, for the Scots
did not pull it down at all; it was certainly broken by the
earl's own orders, and after the Engliſh had three times
paffed
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283
paffed it that day. The Scotch hiftorians indeed have
told a ſtory, with great parade, of Wallace's giving orders
to a Scotch carpenter, to faw the beams of the bridge half
through, which cauſed it to break down; and Guthrie +
makes the Scots, after this, to rife out of an ambush, and
to defeat the Engliſh on the fouth fide of the river; but I
look on theſe relations, to be only attempts to magnify the
actions of their favorite countryman.
AFTER a miscarriage, a general, or chief commander, is
fure to have many accufations thrown out against him ;
amongſt others, Hemingford‡ has diſcovered, that the cauſe
of the miſchief done by Wallace, was in great meaſure
owing, to the earl of Warren's pretending that the air of
Scotland (where he was governor) did not agree with him,
and his removing on that account to the northern parts of
England, adding, quod fuit nobis impofterum fons & origo mali.
That he might leave Scotland for that reafon, is probable
enough, for the fame author allows, fe ibi non poffe manere
cum fanitate; he muſt however have had the royal licence
for this, fo that his conduct requires no farther defence.
• SEB Scot's Hift. of Scotland, p. 177, and Abercromby's Martial Atchievements
of the Scotch Nation, p. 530.
+ Vol. I. p. 930.
† P. 118.
Q92
Drayton
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*
Drayton in his Poly-Olbion, gives us a different character
of him, when he fais,
And he, all him before that cleerely did outshine,
Warren, the puiſſant earle of Surrey, which led forth
Our English armyes oft into our utmost north;
And oft of his approach made Scotland quake to heare,
When Tweed hath funk downe flat within her banks for feare.
AFTER the above misfortune, the earl leaving in the caftle
of Striveling, Sir Marmaduke Thweng, and promifing to
come to his affiftance, within ten weeks, in caſe of need, he
rode with ſuch expedition to Berwick, that his horſe being
put into the ſtable of the friers minors there, could eat no
meat, but died. Staying there no longer, than was necef-
fary for giving orders to put the place in a poſture of defence,
he rode to London, to confult with prince Edward, the king
being then abroad. The news alfo of this difafter being
fent to the king, he commanded the Engliſh nobility to be
ready at York with their forces, in the octaves of St. Hilary
1298, to affiſt the earl of Warren, and likewiſe to proclaim
fuch of the Scottish lords as came not thither, enemies to
the ſtate; but theſe laſt, inſtead of appearing, laid fiege to
the caſtle of Roxbrough, whereupon the earl thought fit to
march that way, and on his approach, the Scots broke up
Song Eighteenth.
the
WARREN AND SURREY.
285
+
the fiege, and departed.
neceffaries, he proceeded to Kelfo, and Berwick, which
the enemy had deferted. Here letters were received from
the king, that he had figned a truce with the French, and
meant foon to return, commanding them to make no farther
enterprize, than defending the frontiers, and recovering
Berwick, till his arrival; on which a great part of the army
was disbanded.
Having relieved this fort with
On the king's arrival, he fummoned the Scottish nobility
to meet him at York, which not being complied with, he
commanded his fubjects to be ready with horſe and harneſs,
at Roxbrough, in the feaſt of St. John Baptift next follow-
ing. Here, amongſt others, de Bohun earl of Hereford,
high conſtable of England, and Bigod earl marſhal,
being prefent, they judged it not fufficient to have the king's
letters patents, touching the confirmation of the two
charters, &c. figned whilſt he was out of the realm, and
therefore required that he would then, within his own
land, again confirm the fame; on which our earl, with
fome others, undertook for the king, that after he had
ſubdued his enemies, and ſhould again be returned into the
realm, he ſhould fatisfy them in that behalf.
On this expedition 28 Edw. I. the caftle of Caerlaverock,
which was looked upon as impregnable, was befieged and
taken,
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嗶
​taken, the king fitting down before it in perfon, with the
moſt puiſſant barons of the realm. In the Britiſh Muſeum
in Bib. Cotton. Caligula A. XVIII. is an ancient heraldic
poem, compofed in very old French, foon after the event
it celebrates, viz. the taking of this caftle in 1300. In this
are the arms of the commanders, and it contains a ſhort
euloge on each, of which as the poet relates, there appeared
Soiffant et vint et fept banieres. The whole may be judged
of by the two annexed engraved extracts, relating to the earl
of Warren, and lord Henry Percy. A copy of it, with an
Engliſh tranſlation, has appeared in the Antiquarian Reper-
tory,* of which the following is a ſpecimen, John the good
earl of Warren held the reins to regulate and govern the other
Squadron, as one who well knew how to lead a noble and honour-
able company. His banner was nobly chequered with gold and
azure. He had in his company Henri de Perci his nephew,
who ſeemed to have made a vow to humble the Scots; his banner
was confpicuous with a blew lion rampant on a yellow field.†
THE fame year he was made governor of the caſtle of
Hope in Derbyshire, as Dugdale has expreffed it, but
it had been more properly called Peak-caftle.
* Vol. II.
+ Quere if de rampant in the original ſhould not be read as one word?
↑ Bar. vol. I. p. 80.
HE
#
GOOD
Zohaus li tons Quens & Warene
De lautre eschele auoit la rene
Wiusticier et gouuemer
Com cil ki bien scauoit mener
Gen seignourie et honnouree
De oz ch dafür eschequeree
et
Fu fa faniere noblement
Il ot en son assemblement
Henri & Paci son atuou
De ki ſembloit ke cuft fait wou
De aler les escos de rampant
Jaune o vn blew Lyon rampant
Fu sa kaniere bien Þuable
Syr william
Warren/
Knyghtes,
Erguiers,
Archers
·4.
.25.
·42.
.15.
welshmen
8.
Published as the Act directs August 20*1785.
WARREN AND SURREY.
287
He was frequently called to parliament, as may be ſeen
in Dugdale's Summonses to Parliament, in which book, there
is the following letter;* 29 Edw. I. Rex dilecto, & fideli fuo
Jobanni de Warenna, comiti Surr. Salutem. Quia contra
Scotos rebelles noftros, & notorie proditores, in præconcepta
malitia, & malignitatis aftutia perdurantes, ad ipforum rebelli-
onem, & proterviam reprimendam, poft feftum pentecoftes proximo
futurum, in quo tempore dictis Scotis, ad requifitionem regis
Francia, per nos nuper conceffe finientur, intendimus procedere,
deo propitio, viriliter & potenter; vos affectuose requirimus, &
rogamus, quatenus fitis ad nos apud Berewicum fuper Twedam,
in fefto S. Johannis Baptiſtæ proximo venturo, cum equis &
armis, &c. Tefte rege apud Lincoln decimo quarto die Februarii.
Here, after Francia, the word inducia (as I conceive) is
omitted, for fomething is required to agree with conceffe; and
befides, it appears that the earl of Warren had, a little before
this, been employed with Guy de Beauchamp, and others,
to treat with agents from the king of France, about grant-
ing to the Scots a truce.
THE king's fucceffes, having put the Scots upon implo-
ring the pope's protection, and Edward having received an
haughty letter from Rome, wherein Boniface, then
pope, laid
claim to the kingdom of Scotland, a parliament was called,
at which the barons fet their feals to an inftrument, afferting
* P. 35.
king
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king Edward's fuperiority over the king of Scotland. The firſt
who fealed was the earl of Warren, and the earl of Lancaſter
the next, which caufed Peck, in his Annals of Stanford, to
ſay that he gave place to none but the royal family, but this
does not afford a conclufive argument. This inftrument,
dated at Lincoln, Feb. 12th 1300, was engraved with all the
feals of arms thereto appendant, in 1729, on fix large copper
plates, at the expence of the Society of Antiquaries at Lon-
don, from two authentic tranſcripts (taken from the original
not now to be found) preferved in the Herald's Office. This
is the greater curiofity, as the feals of feveral of the great
families therein named, are not elſewhere to be found.*
32 EDW. I. when the king pushed his conqueſts to the
fartheſt part of Scotland, earl Warren was employed as a
commander in his army; and this proved the laſt public act
which we find him concerned in, for on the 27 of Sept.
1304, he died at Kennington near London, (fais the regiſter
of Lewes,) and was buried before the high altar at Lewes,
in the midſt of the pavement, under a plain tomb, or grave
ſtone, on which was written the following epitaph.
* SEE Holinfhed, vol. II. p. 836. Fox's Martyrs, vol. I. p. 388, edit. 1684.
Dugd. Sum. to Parliam. p. 31. Walfingham, fol. 85, No. 10, 20, 30, and Brady's
Continuation, p. 72.
Tous
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289
Tous ge pallez, ov bouche clofe
Priez pur cely ke cy repofe :
En vie come vous eftis jabis fu,
Et vous tiel ferretz come je fu;
Size Johan count de Gazeyn gyû ycy ;
Dieu de la alme eit mercy.
Ky pur fa alme priera
Tziz mill jouzs de pardon avera.
LANGTOFT, fpeaking of the earl's death, fais,
"At Brußwik opon Humble ther† he mad fojoure,
“Siz Jon of Warenne that ilk tyme gan deie,
“His body was redy then in grave foż to leie.
“ After the enterment the kyng tok his way,
"To the south he went though Lyndelay."
FROM this account, one would imagine, that the earl
was returning with king Edward from Scotland, and that he
died on the road, which is contrary to other authorities.
SOON after his deceaſe, the king, of his fpecial favor,
granted to the earl's executors, writs dated at Kennington,
and directed to the fheriffs of Surrey, Suffex, Effex, Hert-
ford, Buckingham, Lincoln, Northampton, and Yorkſhire,
* P. 327•
VOL. I.
† King Edward.
Rr
that
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This was
that they might have fcutage of the knights' fees, which
were holden of the earl at the time of his death.
for his attendance in the wars.
IN what esteem this famous nobleman was with the king,
may be ſeen by the precept which he cauſed to be directed
to the then bishop elect of London, whereby, fignifying
(according to the miſtaken notions of thofe times) how
pious, and meritorious a work it was, to pray continually
for the dead, fo that they might be the more eaſily delivered
from the burthen of their fins; and that the earl, who had
been a moſt faithful, and uſeful fubject to him, and the
whole realm, was then departed this life, to his very great
forrow; he required him, that he ſhould cauſe his foul to be
commended to the mercy of God, by all religious, and eccle-
fiaftical perfons, throughout his whole diocefe of London.
The like precept was directed by the king to the archbishop
of Canterbury, for his whole province; as alfo to the
Abbats of St. Auguftines in Canterbury, Weftminſter, Wal-
tham, St. Albans, St. Edmunds-bury, and Eveſham.
for indulgencies to fuch as fhould pray for his foul, the
archbishop of Canterbury, as alfo the bishops of Chicheſter,
Durham, Carliſle, Lincoln, Coventry and Litchfield granted
each forty days, and the bishop of Rocheſter thirty days.
From hence, one would think, that the earl was a favorite
of the clergy, as well as of the king, and yet I find but few
grants
And
WARREN AND SURREY.
291
grants of his to any religious houſe. The deed of exchange
without date, probably belongs to him, mentioned in
Burton's Monafticon, whereby John earl of Warren quit
claimed, and releafed to the Canons of Wodekirk in York-
fhire, the fuit of his court at Wakefield, for the tenements
which thofe Canons held in Erdiflawe, of the gift of
Robert Brito of Deningby, as we learn from the Mo-
nafticon. †
In the faid Monafticon, ‡ is an infpeximus 10 Edw. II.
reciting, that John de Warren earl of Surrey, had quit
claimed to God and St. Mary, and the Prior and Canons of
the Holy Croſs at Reigate, his right in nineteen fhillings
and four pence, yearly rent, and one plough-fhare, and
four horfe-ſhoes with nails, which the faid Prior and Canons
uſed to pay to his anceſtors, for feveral tenements in Reigate,
-that he had granted likewife to the fame, forty fix fhillings
and eleven pence, of a yearly rent in Reigate, viz. of Nicholas
de Lynkefeld twenty fhillings, of William de Cumbe twenty
two fhillings and three pence, and of Gilbert de Parmenter
four fhillings and eight pence, for a mafs daily in his caftle
of Reigate, for the fouls of himself, his ancestors, and
heirs.
IN St. Olave's parifh in Southwark, as we are told by
Strype in his edition of Stow's Survey of London,
was a
* P. 313.
+ Vol. II. p. 41.
1 Vol. II. p. 346.
Rr 2
Vol. II. p. 23.
great
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great houfe belonging to the abbat of St. Auguſtine, without
the walls of Canterbury, called the Abbat's Inn, and was
fometime holden of the earls of Warren and Surrey, as ap-
peareth by the following tranflation of a deed, dated in 1281.
To all to whom this prefent writing shall come, John earl
Warren fendeth greeting. Know ye, that we have altogether
remifed and quit claimed for us, and our heirs for ever, to Nicholas
Abbot of St. Auguftines of Canterbury, and the convent of the
fame, and their fucceſſors, fuit to our court of Southwark, which
they owe unto us, for all that meſſuage, and houſes builded thereon,
and all their appurtenances, which they have of our fee in South-
wark, fituate upon the Thames, between the Bridge-boufe, and
church of St. Olave. And the faid meffuage, with the buildings
thereon builded, and all their appurtenances, to them and their
fucceffors, we have granted in perpetual alms, to hold of us,
and our heirs for the fame : faving the fervice due to any other
perfons, if any fuch be, then to us. And for this remit and
grant, the faid abbot and convent have given unto us five fil-
lings of rent yearly in Southwark, and have received us, and
our heirs, in all benefices, which shall be in their church for
ever.
THIS fuit of court, one William Grafpeis was bound to
do to the faid earl, for the faid meffuage, and the church
of St. Auguſtine to be acquitted in all things againſt the
faid
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faid earl. There was alfo over-againſt the ſaid pariſh church
of St. Olaves, a large ftone houfe with arched gates, which
belonged to the prior of Lewes, and was his lodging place
when he came to London. This was given, no doubt, by
fome of the earls of Warren; and either this, or the laft
earl, in all probability, contributed to the cathedral at Carliſle,
for the roof of the choir there is ornamented with the arms
of Percy, Lucy, Warren and Mowbray.
IN the hands of Thomas Aftle, Efq. F. R. and A. S. is a
grant of this earl, to the prior and convent of Christ Church
at Canterbury, which is here engraved, and of which the
following is a tranſlation.
To all the faithfull in Chriſt, who ſhall fee or hear this preſent
writing. John earl Warren health in the Lord.
Know ye
that we have granted for us and our heirs, that the venerable
father R. by the grace of God, archbishop of Canterbury, pri-
mate of all England, and his fucceffors, and also the prior and
convent of the church of Christ at Canterbury, and their fuc-
ceffors, and their men, and all the tenants belonging to their
fee, be free from tolls in all our markets, vills, lands and fairs,
and thofe of our heirs throughout all England, without any
hindrance of us or our heirs for ever. Wherefore we will and
firmly grant, for us and our heirs, that the aforefaid arch-
biſhop and his fucceffors, and alſo the prior and convent of the
church
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have
church of Christ at Canterbury, and their fucceffors, and their
men, and all the tenants belonging to their fee, be free from
tolls in all our markets, vills, lands and fairs, and thofe of our
heirs, throughout all England, without any hindrance of us or
our heirs for ever, as is aforefaid. In teftimony of which, we
put our feal to this writing, thefe being witneſſes, William
de Valence earl of Penbrok, Roger de Mortimer, Roger de
Clifford, Walter de Helum, John de Lovetot, Hugh fon of
Oto, Henry Tregoz, Stephen de Penecefter, Luke de Ponyngs,
Matthew de Haftings, Luke de Vienna, Robert de Cokefend,
and others. Given at Haytfeld the 10th day of April in the
fourth year of the reign of king Edward.
THE reader will take notice, that the very ingenious en-
graver employed in this work, has expreffed the colors of
the arms taken from feals, which did not exist in the ori-
ginals, for though they knew formerly how to paint colors
in arms, yet they had not diſcovered how to express them
by the different directions of lines.
In the regiſter book of Lewes abbey are the following
charters.
P. 18. A CHARTER, by which the prior and convent of
Lewes quit claimed to John earl of Warren and his heirs,
all the right and claim which they had in ftagno fcitu & fecta
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molendini in villis de Meching & Pedingho; and for this quit-
claim, the faid earl gave them an annual rent of eight fhillings,
for ever, out of his manor of Meching. Dated Dec. 6th, 1272.
ANOTHER, by which John earl of Warren gave to the
monks of Lewes, all the meffuage which formerly belonged
to Henry Gerlaunde, in the vill of Suthwerk. Dated at
Lewes the 4th of the calends of June, 1278.
P. 25. ANOTHER, by which this earl quit claimed to the
prior and convent of Lewes, his right in the advowfon of the
church of Dewefbery. Dat. Lond. 10 Jan. 51 Hen. III.
P. 26. A LETTER, whereby John de Warren revoked a
preſentation, made to one Hamon his clerk, to the church
of Blachington. Dated on the fabbath next before the na-
tivity of the bleſſed Mary, 1252.
In this, as in fome others, the title of earl is entirely
omitted.
In the hands of Richard Barnes of Reigate, Efq. is a
charter of this earl's, of lands in Brocham and Eaft-Beach-
worth, which is here alfo engraved, and the following
tranflation added. Know preſent and to come that I John de
Warenne have granted and by my prefent deed have confirmed to
John
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John Son of Adrian de London for his homage and ſervice the
whole land of Brocham with all its appurtenances and a verge of
land in Eftbecheworth which was formerly Adam le Brabezun's
with all its appurtenances viz. in paftures in meadows in mills in
waters in pools in free tenants and their fervices in villains and
their fervices and cuftoms in men and women in wood and plain
and in all which belong to the aforefaid land of Brocham and to
the aforefaid verge of land as the deeds of William de Warenne my
father concerning both the lands viz. of Brocham and the afore-
faid verge do better and more fully ſhew. To have and to hold
to the faid John and his heirs freely quietly peaceably honorably
in fee and inheritance. Paying to me and my heirs fixty fhil-
lings fterling for the faid land of Brocham and certain gloves
furred with gris or forty pence for the verge of land of Eftbeche-
worth before named at three times of the year viz. at the
purification of the bleffed Mary twenty fhillings and at Pentecoft
twenty fhillings and at the feast of St. Michael twenty shillings
and certain gloves furred with gris or forty pence for all fervices
and cuftoms and all fuits and demands. And for this grant and
for the confirmation of this my prefent deed the aforesaid John
hath given me twenty pounds sterling. And because I will
that this my grant and confirmation of my deed shall be good in
law and durable I have ftrengthened the prefent deed with the
putting to of my feal. Thefe being witnefes Sir Henry de la
Mare Sir John de Wanthon Sir Peter de Anefye Sir John de
Abernun Sir Peter de Marevile William de Stutevil Ralph Clerk
of
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of Ecclefbal at that time Seneschal Thomas Cok Philip Talecurteys
Gilbert de Colleh Roger le Fraunceys John de la Hale Robert
Bonet William de la Hambrach Robert de Wefton Robert de la
Dune and others. Done at London on the morrow of the
Epiphany in the thirty eighth year of the reign of king Henry
Son of king John.
THE feal is of red wax. The expreffion in the original,
of quafdam cyrothecas furratas de gris, I understand to be
meant of a furr, highly eſteemed at that time; and that as
much was to be given, as was equal to forty pence in value.
Some take it to have been what the French call Vair.
Chaucer has named it in the prologues of the Canterbury
Tales, where defcribing a proud monk, he fais,
I lee his fleves puzfilid at the hande
With Gwys,* and that the finißt in the lande.
In one of the Harleian Mfs. No. 2074, † is an extract of
a deed, wherein John earl of Warren, ſon of William earl of
* IN Bonham's edition of Chaucer, publiſhed in 1542, it is called Grice. See alfo in
the Daunce of Machabree in Dugd. Monaft. vol. III. p. 369, where the Cardinal
maketh anfwer,
That he shall nevez hereaftez clothed be
In grife, nor ezmine like unto his degice.
IN Thoroton's Antiq. of Nottinghamshire, p. 258, a furr of gris is exprefsly called
a fkin of gray furr.
VOL. I.
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Warren, gave for thirty two marks, to Dionifia daughter of
Richard de Barnaby, all the land with meffuages, &c. which
he bought of Robert fon and heir of Ralph de Tebalby, in
Bradwell. It was fealed with yellow wax, appendant by a
parchment label, on one fide of which was the form of the
faid earl on horfeback, armed in mail, his horfe all over
covered with checks, and on his left arm, a fhield of the
fame arms; in his right hand a fword ready to derraigne the
battle; on the other fide of the feal, a fhield of arms checky.
ALSO in a paper belonging to Sir George Warren, is the
following. Robert fon of Eudo de Tevelefby, by confent
of Dionifia his wife, grants to Ralph their fon, all the con-
queft that he had gained by the stroke of war, in the court of the
earl Warren at Kuningburk, viz. feven oxgangs with tofts in
Braithwell, one oxgang in Fishlake, and all his lands in
Tadworth, doing fervices due to the earl.
In the hands of lord Pelham, is an original grant of this
earl, to one William le Barber, of a meffuage in Lewes,
which I was permitted to engrave, and of which the follow-
ing is a tranflation.
KNOW all men prefent and to come that I John de Warann
carl of Surreye have given granted and by my prefent deed con-
firmed to William le Barber fon of Ralph Twynling of Tykebyl
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a certain meſſuage with all its appurtenances in the vill of Lewes
in the parish of St. Andrew which formerly was the meſſuage of
Snelling of Lewes which lies between the meffuage of William le
Bever on one fide and the meffuage of Helye Prynne on the other
fide. To have and to bold of me and my heirs to him and his
heirs well in peace wholly and quietly freely in the vill and out
of the vill in water and out of the water in the market and out
of the market through all my land my power and all my legal
right. He and his heirs paying thence yearly to me and my
heirs half a pound of cummin at the feast of St. Michael for all
fecular fervice custom exaction and demand whatfoever. But I
the aforefaid John and my heirs will warrant acquit and defend
the aforesaid mefuage with all its appurtenances to the aforefaid
William le Barber and his heirs against all nations for ever
through the aforefaid fervice. And that this my gift grant and
confirmation of my prefent deed may remain firm and durable
forever I have caused my feal to be put to the prefent deed, Thefe
being witneffes Sir William de Stutevill Sir Bawdewyne de Akeny
Sir John la Ware Sir Robert Tybetot Knights Joce Mangefer
Nicholas de Portchefter Peter his fon Richard Dod John Be-
renger John le Bever William le Enfaunt Richard de Lullebam
and many others.
THE following was alfo by this earl, and is in the hands
of James Scawen, Efq.
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SCIANT prefentes et futuri quod ego Johannes comes Warrenn dedi
conceffi et bac prefenti carta mea confirmavi Bricio coco meo et
Alicie uxori fue totam terram de Fleynesford cum fuis pert. quam
Hugo de Fleynesford aliquando tenuit excepta terra quam Adam de
la Watere tenuit quam quidem terram predictis Bricio et Alicie
competent. efcambire teneor ad valenciam ejufdem. Habend. &
tenend. eifdem Bricio et Alicie et heredibus fuis de corpore eorum
procreatis dictam terram cum omnibus pert. fuis de me & her. meis
plene integre libere quiete et pacifice in pratis pafcuis & pafturis
planis viis et femitis cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis confue-
tudinibus ad dictam terram pertinentibus. Reddendo inde annuatim
predicti Bricius et Alicia et heredes fui michi et her. meis unam
libram cymini in fefto Sancti Michaelis pro omni fervicio confuetudine
feculari et demanda. Salvo forinfeco fervicio quodcunque pertinet
ad tantam terram Ego vero Johannes et heredes mei predictis
Bricio et Alicie et heredibus fuis dictam terram cum omnibus pert.
fuis ficut predictum eft contra omnes warrantizabimus et acquie-
tabimus inperpetuum. Ut bec autem mea donacio conceffio et hujus
prefentis carte mee confirmacio robur obtineat eam figilli mei
impreffione roboravi. Hiis teftibus Willo de Mare Baldin de
Aquiny Willo de Stotavill Thoma de Poinge Petro de Anefi Rad.
de Harebir Milit. Gilberto de Colley Henrico de Holey Rogero
Francis et multis aliis.
THIS earl, by his countefs Alice, daughter of Hugh le
Brun, had William, Eleanor, and Ifabel.
William mar-
ried
WARREN AND SURREY.
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ried Joan daughter of Robert de Vere earl of Ox-
ford, who bore quarterly gules and or, in the first quar-
ter a mullet argent. With her he had the manors of
Midingham in Bucks, Crawmerfh in Oxfordshire, and
Beſton in Norfolk, in frank marriage; as alſo the manors
of Prittlewell, Tiburne, Wulfhamſtone, Nechamfted, and
Ginges, and lands of ten pounds per annum in Ceftre-
ham. By her he had Alice, married in 1305 to Edmund
Fitz Alan earl of Arundel, who bore gules a lion rampant òr.
Warren Vere.
Fitz AlanWarren.
This match was brought about by means of the faid Edmund
being the earl of Warren's ward, as appears from the following
extract in Vincent's M. S. in the Herald's office, No. 3,
marked with a crofs patee. Rex omnibus, &c. Sciatis quod
conceffimus dilecto, & fideli noftro Johanni comiti Warrennæ,
• Milles, p. 632, through miſtake calls her Avys.
† LELAND in his Itin. vol. VI. p. 39, fecond edit. is miſtaken, when he tells us
that this Robert earl of Oxford had a daughter Jane married to William erle Warine, of
whom deſcendid John erle W´arine; for this William did not live to enjoy that title.
1 P. 348.
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MEMOIRS OF THE EARLS OF
maritagium heredum Ricardi comitis Arundell defuncti, qui de
nobis tenuit in capite infra ætatem, & in cuftodia noftra exiſt.
&c. 27 Jan. pat. 30 Edw. I. part 1. m. 32. The faid
William had alſo a fon John, born after his father's death,
who fucceeded to his grandfather's titles and eſtate. Wil-
liam himſelf died in his father's life time, for being at a
tournament at Croydon in Surrey, he unfortunately loft his
life there. Stowe, fais he was by the challenger inter-
cepted, and cruelly flain. His death happened Dec. 15th,
1286, and he was buried before the high altar at Lewes.
Joan his widow died Nov. 21, 1293, and was buried with
her huſband under an high tomb.
* P. 203.
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ELEANOR, daughter of the earl of Warren, was married
firſt to Henry lord Percy, and afterwards to the fon of a
Scotch earl. By the first of thefe hufbands fhe had three
fons, William, John, and Henry, the two former of whom
dying without iffue, the noble family of Percy was con-
tinued by Henry the youngest, who was
the perfon fent by the earl of Warren
into Scotland againſt Wallace, as already
mentioned. Arms of Percy, Quarterly,
in 1st and 4th, or a lion rampant azure,
2d and 3d, azure five fufills in fefs or.†
Percy Warren
ISABEL, fifter of Eleanor, was married about 1280, to John
de Baliol, afterwards king of Scots,
whofe arms were gules an orle argent.
This match was fo pleafing to king
Edward, that he gave the earl of Warren
full three years refpite, for the payment
of the fine exacted for his affault on
lord Zouche. Though there is the authority of Dugdale,
and ſeveral other authors, both printed and manufcript, for
calling the earl's youngest daughter Ifabel; yet in Leland's
Collectanea are thefe words, taken out of the genealogy
of the king of Scots; John de Baillioll toke to wife Johan,
Bahol Warren
Dugd. Bar. vol. I. p. 272.
+ ON one of the great octagon towers at Alnwick caftle, erected about 1350, by
the fecond lord Percy of Alnwick, are the arms of Warren among feveral others.
‡ Vol. 1. p. 206.
doughter
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doughter of Seir de Warrenna, and got of her a funne namid
Edwarde.
ALICE Countess of Warren, according to Matthew Paris,*
died in 1256; the Regiſter of Lewes however fais, that the
died not till 1290, Domina Alefia Comitiffa Surregie foror
uterina Henrici tertii Regis Anglie uxor Johannis primi obiit
V. Idus Februar. anno grat. Millimo CCLXXXX. & anno
XIV. ante virum fuum. And on this authority, Vincent,
in his Reply to Brooke,‡ and Dugdale, in his Barònage,|| have
afferted the fame. But fee this ftated under the Warrens
of Poynton; as alfo an account of a fecond match (as fuppo-
fed) of this earl, with a daughter of lord Mowbray.
* P. 793•
† Ir is added in the fame regifter Facet coram magno altari Lerven. Sub una petra
marmorea fculpta in modum unius draconis producentis ramum ex ore fuo.
I P. 524.
Il Vol. I. p. 80.
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ARREN, earl William, attends duke William to England-is doubly
related to him-has a confiderable command at the battle of Haftings, zo. Has
feveral lordſhips given him, 21. 23. His fuppofed difpute with Edwine the Dane,
21-23. Is hereditary forefter to the king, 22. His lands in Yorkshire from
Domeſday-book, 24. Affifts the cuftodes Angliæ, and is made a chief jufticier of
England, 25. Defeats the earls of Norfolk and Hereford, and cuts off the right
foot of all his prifoners, 26. Sends to Normandy for the king, and has the caftle
of Mortimer given to him, 27. Builds the caftles of Reigate, Lewes, and Caftle
Acre, 28. Has Coningſburgh caftle, 31. When made earl of Surrey, 31-39. 42.
Fixes his chief refidence at Lewes, and why, 40, 41. Is made governor of Surrey,
41. Attends king William II. to the fiege of Rochester castle, 42. Founds Lewes
priory, 43. Goes with his wife to Rome, and is entertained at Cluni, 44. Gives
Lewes to the Cluniac monks, 45. And the church of Acre, making St. Pancrace
at Lewes the head of his honor, 48. His other religious grants, 48-57. Lais
the foundation of Caſtle Acre priory, 56. Marries, 57. Dies, 61. His monu-
ment and epitaph, 61, 62. Falſe accounts of his death, 62. 65. His difpute with
the monks of Ely, 62-64. Is inftructed by the abbat how to fubdue the iſle, 65.
His iffue, 66.
WILLIAM fecond earl comes to England, 8o. Is witness to the foundation
deed of Saliſbury church, 81. Joins the confpiracy in favor of Robert duke of
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Normandy, forfeits his eftate by it, and goes abroad, 81. Is reſtored to it again,
and becomes one of the king's beſt friends, 81, 82. Commands the rear of king
Henry's army at Tenerchebray, 82. Perfuades the king to fight the French at
Brenneville, and behaves with great valor there, S3. Is prefent at the agreement
between king Henry and the earl of Flanders, and obtains the caftle of Elias de
Sancto Sidonio, 84. Is witnefs to feveral charters, 84-86. Affifts in fettling
with king Henry the fucceffion to the crown of England-Has the care of Rohan,
and the country about Calais, and attends the king's corpfe to Reading. Submits
to king Stephen, and compleats the church at Cattle Acre, 86.
His grants
thereto, 86, 87. To the monks of Lewes, 87-106. To St. Mary's Southwark,
106-108. To Noftel priory, 108. To Greftine abbey and Belencumbre church,
109. Witneffes two royal charters, 109.
Marries and has iffue, 110 Dies, 117.
WILLIAM third earl attends king Stephen in Normandy, and is concerned in
a mutiny there, 118. Charged with intending to fet fire to the town of St. Albans,
and is with the king at the battle of Lincoln, 119. Flies from the battle, and
why, 120. Taken priſoner, 122. Witneſs to a deed of queen Maud to the monks
of Cogefhale, 122. Engages in a crufade, and flain by the Turks, 123. His
heart brought to England, and buried at Lewes, 123. Remarks on his conduct,
124. His grants to Lewes, 125-133. Founds a priory at Thetford, and endows
it, 133, 134.
Is a benefactor to Caftle Acre and Wodechurch, 135. His mar-
riage and iffue, 136, 137. End of the eldest male branch of the family of
Warren, 141.
142.
WILLIAM fourth earl becomes earl of Warren and Surrey in right of his wife,
Has his eftates, and honors confirmed to him by Henry duke of Normandy,
143. Becomes the only furviving fon of king Stephen, is obliged to renounce all
claim to the crown, and to exchange the eftates fettled upon him, 145. Is
knighted by king Henry II. 146. Entertains duke Henry, 146. Is fufpected of
a conſpiracy againſt the duke-Has his thigh broken by a fall, 147. His titles,
147. Is bound for performance of the convention between Henry II. and Robert
earl of Flanders, 149. His grants to the priories of Eye, and Croxton, and the
monks of Furnefs and Feverfham, 149, 150. His grants of a civil nature, 151,
152. Attends king Henry to Tholoufe, dies, and is buried there, 152, 153.
HAMELINE fifth earl marries the above earl's widow, 154. The greatnefs of
her family, 155. Holds fixty knights' fees, and is witneſs to ſeveral charters, 157.
Takes part with king Henry II. againſt his fons-Is with king Richard in Nor-
mandy, and carries a ſword of ſtate at his coronation-Is one to whom the king's
ranfom is entrufted-Attends the king in the great council at Nottingham-
Carries a fword of ftate at the king's fecond coronation, and is in the king's army
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in Normandy, 158. Has the town of Thetford in exchange, and is prefent at the
coronation of king John, 159. His gifts to Lewes abbey, 160-162. To St.
Katharine's at Lincoln, 162. To St. Mary's Southwark, 163. To St. Mary's
at York, 164. To Thetford priory, Caftle Acre, and Burton Lazar, 165. To
the burgeffes of Wakefield, Jordan Thornhill, William fon of Gilbert de Won-
ham, and Robert de Cumba, 166. Witneffes fome charters, 168. His iffue
169-171. Death and burial, 172.
WILLIAM fixth earl made a commiffioner in the difpute between the archbishop
of York, and canons there, 174. One of the king's jufticiers-Has the caftle
and honor of Eye, and made baron of the exchequer, 175. Has Grantham and
Stanford, 176. Keeps the title of earl Warren after lofing the caput baroniæ,
and why, 178. Is fined, that he might not be juftice of the cinque ports, 178.
Is fheriff for Surrey-pays fine for the lands of Gilbert de Aquila-Is furety for
the fons of William de Braofe, and has part of the estate of the monks of Ely,
179. Inftitutes the annual bull-bait at Stanford, 18c. Is furety for king John
to the Pope, and a witneſs of that king's refignation of his crown to the Pope's
legate--Is fufpected to join the confederacy to revive the laws of Edward the
Confeffor-Has the caftles of Bamburgh and Newcastle, and the bailiwic of
Northumberland committed to him, 181. Is witneſs to a royal charter-Has the
ſafe conduct of ſuch as came to implore the king's favor-Is a furety for the king
to the barons, and a commiffioner in fettling the difpute between them, 182.
With king John at Runingmede-Perfuades the king to fign Magna Charta, and
is one of thofe appointed to fee that the king obferved it-Is witnefs to the king's
charter concerning the rights of the church, 183. Deferts the king, 184. Has
the manor of Offington, 185. Has the castle of Pevenfey taken from him, 185.
Swears allegiance to king Henry III. 186. Has the honor of Gilbert de Aquila,
187. Is witnefs to king Henry's confirmation of the two great charters-Con-
ducts Falcafius de Breant out of the realm, and has the cuftody of his wife, 188.
Has Horneby caftle-Joins the difcontented barons-Settles a difpute between
the monks of Lewes, and Cattle Acre, 189. Is witnefs to a royal charter-A furety
for Hubert de Burgh, and Hugh de Albini-Cup-bearer for the earl of Arundel
at the king's marriage, 190. The number of his knights' fees, 191, 192. Where
he accounted for them, 193. How Reigate was held by him, 194, 195. Is
entruſted with the public money, 195. Made one of the king's counfellors, and
fwears to the performance of a treaty with Scotland, 195. Quells a riot near
Oxford, and has a law fuit with Simon de Pierpoint, 197. His religious grants
at Stanford, 198. At Lewes and Cukufeld church, 198, 199.
Founds Slevefholm priory, 200. Writes in favor of the monks of Acre, 201.
Founds an houfe for crouched friers at Reigate, 201-206. Confirms lands to
Caſtle Acre, 206. His gifts to St. Michael's at Stanford, and the church of the
Tt2
To Kirklees, 199.
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holy fepulchre at Thetford.
a meffuage in Stanford, 208.
is buried at Lewes, 212. His
Alfo his grant of land in Wolvedal, 206, 207. Of
Marries and has iffue, 208, 209, 220. Dies, and
illegitimate iſſue, 215.
JOHN ſeventh earl marries, 225. Falfely ftiled earl of Suffex, 226. Is called
John de Pleffetis or Placitis, 227, 228. And why, 228. Part of his lands in the
keeping of Peter de Savoy, 228. Sits in parliament when very young, 228. Is
allowed to cohabit with his wife-obtains a charter for free warren in ſeveral
manors-Is excommunicated-Joins king Henry in France, 229. Cenfured for it
by hiſtorians-Attends the ceremony of pronouncing thofe excommunicated who
ſhould violate the two great charters-Comes of age, and has the third penny of
the county of Surrey confirmed to him-Is one of the lords on the king's part to
ſettle matters with the barons, and refufes to confent to the conditions then pro-
pofed, 230.
Conducts the king's half brothers out of the realm-Summoned to
Cheſter againſt the Welsh-Made an itinerant juſtice-Seals an agreement between
the king and barons, and obtains the caftle of Pevensey, 231. Joins the barons
against the king-Returns to the king, 232. Defends Rochefter cattle, and re-
conciles Robert de Crevequer to king Henry, 233. With the king when defeated
near Lewes, 234. His eftate confifcated-He flies into France, 235. Comes
back, and moves for the reftitution of his lands, and confederates with prince
Edward, 236. Is at the battle of Eveſham-Reftored to his poffeffions-Sum-
moned to parliament, 237. Takes prifoner the earl of Derby at Chesterfield, 238.
Is furety for him, 239. Obtains letters of fubmiffion from the earl of Glouceſter
to the king-Receives the cross at the hands of the pope's legate-His difpute
with the earl of Lincoln, 240. His letter in favor of the nuns of St. Michael,
241.
Wounds lord Zouch and fon in open court, 242. Flies to Reigate-Sur-
renders to prince Edward, 243. Is fined and pardoned, 244. Part of his fine
remitted, and why, 246. Swears allegiance to king Edward I.-Covenants to
defend the king's perfon, &c. Entertains him at Reigate, and fhews great genc-
rofity at his coronation, 247. His grant to Chrift church, and the burgeffes of
Stanford, 248. Threatens to defend his lands with the fword, 250. Pleads to
the writs of quo warranto, 252-263. Is with the king at the founding of Vale
Royal, 263. A jocular tenure of his at Wakefield, 264. Has a grant of Dynas
Bran and Bromfield, 265. Begins to build Holt caftle, 267. Accufed on account
of the above grant, but without proof, 267, 268. Affeffed for fervice against the
Welſh, 269. His defeat by Llewelin difproved, 269, 270. With king Edward I.
at Makesfeld-Concerned in fettling the affairs between England and Scotland,
271. Supports Baliol's title to the crown of Scotland-Claims in vain the cuſtody
of the bishopric of St. Afaph during the vacation, 272. Inftrumental in fending
burgeffes to parliament, 274. Has the caftle of Bamburgh, 276. Defeats the
Scots, and takes the caftle of Dunbar, 277. Is made governor of Scotland, and
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refides at Bothwell caftle, 278. Made ambaffador to Guy earl of Flanders, 279.
Is defeated at Stirling bridge, 280-283. His conduct there defended, 283, 284.
Goes to London to confult with prince Edward, 284. Raifes the fiege of
Roxbrough caſtle-Undertakes that the king fhould confirm the two charters-
Is at the taking of Caerlaverock caftle, 285. Made governor of Peak caſtle, 286.
Frequently fummoned to parliament-Treats with French agents about granting
a truce to Scotland, 287. Joins in the barons' letter to the pope-Is with the
king in Scotland-Dies at Kenington, and is buried at Lewes, 288. His epitaph,
289. His executors have fcutage for his attendants in the wars-Maffes for his
foul and indulgences, 290. His exchange with the canons of Wodekirk-Grant
to Reigate priory, 291. To St. Auguftines, Canterbury, 292. To Chrift church,
Canterbury, 293. To Lewes priory, 295. To John fon of Adrian de London,
296. To Dionifia daughter of Richard de Barnaby-To William le Barber, 298.
To Brice his cook, 300. His iffue, 300-303.
GUNDRED Wife of the firft earl, her marriage, 57. Goes with her husband to
Rome, 44. Joins with him in founding Lewes priory, 45-
Dies, 59.
Her
monument, 59, 60. Epitaph, 61.
ISABEL wife of the fecond earl, her marriage, 110. Death, 117.
ADELA wife of the third earl, her marriage, 136. Remarries, 137. Dies, 138.
Complained of by the Monks of Lewes, 139.
ISABEL wife of the fourth earl, her marriage, 142. Remarries, 154. The
greatneſs of her family, 155. Her grant to St. Katharines at Lincoln, 162.
To the church at Southwerke, 163. Of Sidlune mill, 167. Grants to Lewes
abbey, 169. Dies and is buried at Lewes, 172.
MAUD first wife of the fixth earl, her marriage, death and burial, 208.
MAUD fecond wife of the fixth earl, her marriage, 208. Death, 212. Had
the cuftody of the caftle of Coningſburgh-Her titles-Had the cuftody of Strigoil
caftle-Buried at Tintern. Her gift to Thetford nunnery, 214-
ALICE wife of the feventh earl, 300. Dies, 304.
REGINALD fon of the firſt earl, 66–71.
REGINALD fon of the fecond earl, 110-114.
INDEX
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To SE ALS and
ALBINI, 208.
Albo monafterio, 216.
Baliol, 303.
Bardolf, 71.
Blanchminster, 216.
Bigod, 171.
Blois, William de, 150, 152.
Brotherton, 155.
Broxton, 218.
Burgh, 72.
Caſtle Acre priory, 56.
Conqueror, William, 3.
Corbet, 219.
Dunftanvill, 70.
England, arms of, 116.
Eureux, 139.
Flandrenfis, Henry, 199.
Fitz Alan, 301.
Fitz William, 170.
Grantham town, II.
Gant, 78
Grey, 220.
Gurney, 76.
Henry, Prince, 239.
Howard, 156.
Ichtefeld Griffin, 218.
Lancaster, 115.
Lewes priory, 55, 56.
Lewes borough, 55.
Martin, St. 7.
Mainwaring, 219.
Marefchal, 209.
Malbon, 219.
COATS of AR M S.
Merlay, 73.
Mortimer, 15-18.
Monceux, 76.
Mowbray, 77, 155.
Muntfichet, 71.
Newburgh, 3.
Plantagenet, 156.
Perche, earl of, 4.
Percy, 286, 303.
Perepont, 70.
Pulford, 215.
Reigate priory, 205.
Richard Fitz Roy, 222.
Rivers, 171.
Stanford, 11.
Strange, 218.
Scot, 116.
Talvace, 136.
Thetford priory, 135.
Torta, 2.
Valence, 239.
Varenna, Richard de, 222.
Vere, 301.
Vermandois, 7, 9, 110.
Walleran earl of Worceſter, 110.
Warren, 8, 13, 156.
Warren, John, 241, 293, 297, 298.
Warren, Hameline, 156, 163, 170.
Warren, William, 208, 241, 286, 298.
Warren, Ifabel, 168.
Warren, Reginald, 66.
Warren, Griffin, 215.
Warmincham, 219.
INDEX
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TO RELIGIOUS HOUSES, CASTLES, and CHURCHES.
A
CRE church, 48, 56, 86, 135.
priory, 56, 104, 165, 200,
201, 206.
caftle, 28, 30.
Abingdon abbey, 107.
Arundel caftle, 157.
Auguftine friers, 198.
Alnwick castle, 303.
Braythwell church, 91.
Balecombe church, 102, 132.
Barecamp church, 106.
Branden toke priory, 137.
Bamburgh caftle, 181, 276.
Battle abbey, 197.
Barkhamsted cattle, 189.
Blachington church, 295.
Belencumbre church, 109.
caftle, 111, 143.
Bechefword church, 163.
Begefurde church, 108.
Beauchief monaftery, 214.
Birton church, 91.
Briftelmefton church, 102, 105.
Bromholme cell, 190.
Bothwell caftle, 278.
Burnham churches, 102.
Bruneam church, 133.
Burton Lazar hofpital, 165.
Carliſle cathedral, 293.
Caerlaverock caftle, 285.
Claiton church, 106.
Canterbury, St. Auguftines, 292.
Christ church priory, 293.
Crechesfeld church, 163.
Chiemell church, 106.
Chillam caftle, zzz.
Chippenham castle, 239.
Coningſburgh church, 57, 99, 128, 161.
caſtle, 31, 34, 213.
Cogefhale, monks of, 122.
Croxton priory, 149.
Cukufeld church, 199.
Churgesfeld church, 108.
Dewsbury church, 10, 91.
Dycheninge church, 99, 129.
Dynas Bran caftle, 265–268.
Donigthon church, 91.
Dorking church, 92.
Dover castle, 144.
Dunbar caftle, 277.
Ely abbey, 8, 62-66, 109.
Eye priory, 149.
caftle, 175.
Fanerconefeld church, 134.
Feltwell church, 99, 128.
Feversham, monks of, 150.
Fishlake church, 91.
Flint castle, 269.
Furnefs, monks of, 149.
Fugeldone churches, 161.
Greftine abbey, 109.
Gymingham church, 99, 128.
Guilford, friers there, 203.
Halifax church, 91.
Haleghe church, 108.
Harpeley church, 102.
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Hangleton church, 106.
Hardingell church, 106.
Hawarden caftle, 270.
Hermitage chapel, 35.
Herthill church, 91.
Hetfeld church, 91.
Hertefheved chapel, 91.
Hernoldefthorp chapel, 91.
Herdingley church, 99.
Herpeley church, 133.
Helens, St. church of, 99, 128.
Holmeſdale caſtle, 28, 29.
Horbyry chapel, 91.
Hodley church, 102.
Horneby castle, 189.
Hope caftle, 265, 286.
Holt caſtle, 267.
Iford church, 95, 133.
Kanefeld church, 97.
Kyngefton church, 99, 128.
Kymer church, 102.
Kircesfeld church, 97.
Kirklees nunnery, 199.
Kukefeld church, 99.
Lewes caſtle, 28, 40, 41, 193, 228.
43-52, 115, 169, 294, 295.
Lewiſholme abbey, 198.
Ledene church, 56.
Leghe church, 163.
Lincoln, St. Katharine's, 162.
Minter, 85, 200.
Lion's caftle, 86.
Logars, St. 198.
Luffield priory, 109.
Marham nunnery, 210, 211.
Methewolde church, 56.
Meching church, 99.
Mickelham church, 204.
Mortimer caftle, 27, 111, 143.
Newminſtre abbey, 278.
Newcaſtle, 181.
Niudegat chapel, 164.
Noftel priory, 108.
Norwich caftle, 110, 144, 145.
Olaf, St. church, 95.
Pancrace church, 59.
monks of, 198, 199.
Pengeden church, 127.
Pevensey castle, 144-146, 185, 187,
231, 234.
Penteney abbey, 75
Peak caftle, 286.
Pycheham church, 99.
Ponynges church, 127.
Plumbton church, 68.
Rademeld church, 99.
Reading abbey, 86.
Reigate caſtle, 28-30, 243, 247.
priory, 202-206, 291.
Roinges church, 56, 95.
Rocheſter caftle, 42, 233.
Roche abbey, 87.
Rottingden church, 95.
Rouen caftle, 121.
Roxbrough castle, 284.
Ruddlan castle, 269.
Saliſbury church, 81.
Sandal churches, 91.
Sauteby church, 149.
Stanford, St. Michael's church, 206.
nuns of St. Michael, 241.
castle, 185.
Slevefholm priory, 200, 201.
Striveling castle, 284.
Strigoil caftle, 213.
Sireford church, 133.
Southwerke canons, 68, 108, 153.
St. Mary's, 163, 164.
Southover church, 60.
Stokes church, 130.
Thetford church, 99, 133, 134, 207.
priory, 165.
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Thetford nunnery, 214.
Tinterden abbey, 213.
Thorne chapel, 91.
Toftes church, 133.
Tonebridge caftle, 247.
Trunchet church, 56.
Vale Royal abbey, 263.
Wakefield church, 91, 99, 130.
Warwick caftle, 115.
Wallingford caſtle, 197.
Warren's cattle, 217.
Welyngham church, 102.
Wefton churches, 132.
Weftoute churches, 99.
Wikemer church, 56.
Windfor caftle, 232.
Wilton church, 99, 128.
Worthe church, 252.
Wormegay priory, 75.
Wodechurch, 108, 135.
Wodekirk canons, 291.
Worcester cathedral, 216.
York, St. Mary's, 57, 71, 154.
St. Peter's, 85.
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To NAMES of PLACES not mentioned in the former.
Amundernefs, 151.
A
LSTANESLEIE, 58.
Abburton, 253-
Albans, St. 117.
Ameleie, 58.
Avemer, 94.
Acre, 86, 99.
Attelebrigge, 128.
Alberton, 256.
Athelingworde, 161, 253,
Atlingworthe, 253-
Alverthorpe, 262.
Alyngton, 95, 97, 102, 131.
Aire, 279.
Aldryngton, 96, 132, 253.
Ardingley, 253.
Afton, 24.
Anfton, 24.
Altofts, 262.
Aughton, 24.
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Balecombe, 253-
Braithwell, 24, 31, 262, 298.
Barnbrough, 24.
Bramley, 24, 31.
Bramwith, 25.
Barkyngham, 63.
Baldefden, 96, 161.
Bramber, 55.
Blachington, 96, 192, 253.
Blackburnthire, 151.
Brandonfery, 248.
Blackington, 253.
Brampton, 260.
Bradwell, 298.
Benington, 23.
Bretone, 58.
Bertone
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Bertone, 58.
Brenneville, 83.
Bevehorn, 92, 98.
Bellovidere, 99.
Benedis, 150.
Bechinde, 152.
Bercampe, 192, 253.
Bevenden, 192.
Benham, 253.
Befton, 301.
Bethome, 262.
Bletchingley, 274.
Beachworth, 296.
Bilham, 24.
Bynham, 95.
Briſtelmefton, 92, 96, 132.
Brigh, 129, 130.
Biriton, 248.
Brigelmefton, 153.
Brotone, 23.
Brighthelmefton, 253.
Broughton, 151.
Bouremere, 253.
Boureme, 253.
Bormer, 47.
Boleyn, 253.
Boleney, 253.
Bromfield, 58, 265-269.
Brocham, 296.
Burgamere, 47, 90, 93, 98.
Brunfwey, 94.
Burcard, 131.
Butterbuſk, 262.
Cakylfmede, 205.
Caurefelle, 23.
Catefton, 129.
Carletune, 23.
Carlenton, 47.
Chaglegh, 92, 98, 253.
Crandon, 98.
Caftre, 237-
Canegg, 98.
Chartley, 239-
Cattle Acre, 248.
Clayton, 253.
Chayley, 253.
Cranlegh, 253.
Craulegh, 253.
Crawmerth, 301.
Chenebaltone, 23.
Cheteruurde, 58.
Ceftreford, 214.
Crec, 95.
Crendon, 241.
Cheſterfield, 238.
Ceftre, 269.
Ceftreham, 301.
Clifton, 24, 31, 262.
Crigefton, 58.
Chiemere, 128.
Chiddelow, 215.
Ciffeley, 216.
Criglefton, 261.
Chickenley, 261.
Chirkeland, 58.
Chirke, 266.
Coningſburgh, 23, 82, 83, 161, 259, 260,
262.
Crofland, 58.
Croyden, 302.
Cokfeld, 248, 253, 255.
Crookhill, 262.
Cufworth, 24.
Crumbetonefton, 58.
Cumbreworth, 58, 262.
Cumcieſtre, 127.
Cubridge, 162.
Cumbe, 204.
Dalton, 24, 31, 262.
Dalecombe, 253.
Derbyshire, 151.
Dewsbury, 260.
Dinnington,
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Dinnington, 24.
Dichening, 53, 128, 252, 255.
Dive, 67.
Dychelinges, 192.
Dinas Bran, 267.
Dover, 181.
Dorking, 248.
Donfthorpe, 262.
Dudelinton, 99.
Eſtan, 97
Egardefey, 169.
Eafforthorpe, 262.
ErdeЛlaw, 136, 291.
Eveſham, 237 ·
Eye, 151.
Ely ifle, 240.
Erpingham, 193.
Ettone, 58.
Fagadune, 26.
Fakenham, 26.
Falemere, 46, 89, 93, 97, 131, 253.
Fanerconefeld, 134.
Farncombe, 253.
Felley, 58.
Fekeham, 95.
Feverfham, 150.
Fend, 253.
Feld, 253.
Freshby, 262.
Fleynesford, 300.
Frekebergh, 129.
Fishlake, 25, 87, 262, 298.
Fryth, 129.
Fixby, 262.
Frodinton, 23.
Fortifcrea, 68.
Folking, 96, 253.
Forehou, 193.
Foketonitall, 262.
Flockton, 262.
Fugeldone, 161.
Gadintone, 23.
Gatton, 99.
Gardefey, 102.
Grantham, 248, 258, 269.
Galloway, 279.
Gawthorpe, 261.
Gretewell, 170.
Grefbrough, 24.
Gelham, 97•
Gildecroffe, 193.
Gildeford, 248.
Glindeverd, 269.
Ginges, 301.
Grimeftune, 55.
Godfwifell, 98.
Godebridge, 197.
Harthill, 24, 31.
Hatfield, 25, 31, 87, 106, 262.
Hangleton, 96, 161, 192, 253.
Hammes, 102, 192, 253.
Haldſworth, 229, 260–262.
Halifax, 57, 229, 260, 261.
Haunnes, 253.
Hanging Heaton, 261, 262.
Hercham, 100, 129, 133.
Hecham, 49, 94, 127.
Henes, 57.
Herpetinges, 95, 128.
Herftam, 95.
Herit, 95, 192, 197, 253.
Heneftede, 197
Heptonſtall, 229, 260–262.
Hertingley, 253.
Hedlegh, 253.
Hedefnell, 253.
Heaton, 261.
Hindolfsmilne, 165.
Hichbourne, 97.
Hipperholme, 229, 261, 262.
Hoyland, 24.
Hodley, 253.
U u 2
Horecombe,
INDE X.
Horecombe, 95.
Hope, 265.
Horlaneſwick, 96.
Holbroke, 237.
Holinftrode, 253.
Holinftrow, 253.
Horbury, 261, 262.
Holme, 262.
Hounfdean, 253.
Hundefdon, 253.
Ichtefeld, 216-219.
Iwenefme, 253-
Irwine, 279.
Illington, 74.
Iwoneſmere, 253.
Iford, 95, 127, 128, 253.
Karleton, 93.
Katham, 95.
Kaxton, 97.
Katefton, 99.
Kenewic, 94.
Kiveton, 24.
Kirk Sandal, 24.
Kyngefton, 92, 95, 98, 192, 253.
Kyngisford, 96.
Kyme, 253.
Loueancurt, 169.
Ludlow, 236.
Maplederham, 23.
Mapertes Halam, 114.
Marler, 98.
Maffingham, 128.
Maelor Saefneg, 266.
Makesfeld, 271.
Mechinge, 95, 130, 131, 199, 253, 295.
Mellinke, 169.
Methynge, 253.
Methwold, 200, 201.
Mediam, 253.
Medlam, 253.
Melewode 86.
Meleſcombe, 96, 127, 253.
Meveringthorpe, 262.
Midingham, 301.
Micleie, 58.
Middilton, 95, 97.
Mitteford, 193.
Midgley, 58, 229, 260–262.
Middleburgh, 253.
Mikelbringe, 262.
Moufecombe, 253.
Naffaburgh, 182.
Nanheudwy 266.
Kymere 253.
Kyngeftemer, 253.
Kukefeld, 95.
Kuningburk, 298.
Lancaſter, 150.
Langfield, 58, 229, 250-262.
Lewins, 47, 93.
Lewes, 54, 55, 88, 248, 274, 299.
Lefefend, 253.
Lime, 47.
Lichebourn, 97.
Lygulf, 136.
Linkfield, 204.
Litilton, 205.
Lyndefend, 253, 256.
Nereford, 133.
Newfam, 151.
Nechamfted, 301.
Newhaven, 40.
Newyk, 253.
Neffe, 257.
Newctembre, 253.
Niviffa, 98.
Nordhefe, 95.
Norwich, 26.
Northouram, 229, 261, 262.
Northland, 261.
Norland, 262.
Normanton, 82, 262.
Orberie,
INDE X.
Orberie, 58.
Ofewoldeftre, 269.
Onefet, 58.
Offet, 261.
Ovenden, 229, 260-262.
Ovingden, 131, 132, 160, 169, 253.
Offington, 185.
Pacchelefwy, 96, 132.
Pais du Caux, 6.
Pavethorn, 96.
Padepol, 93.
Parking, 253.
Perching, 96, 253.
Percinges, 192.
Pevenfel, 192.
Plempton, 253.
Pecham, 253-
Penketlyn, 17.
Prittlewell, 301.
Picmilne, 165.
Pycombe, 95, 253.
Pyncheam, 96.
Pynkeden, 96, 253.
Pydingho, 199, 253, 295.
Porteilade, 74, 192, 253.
Ponings, 133, 192, 253.
Plumpton, 93, 97, 253.
Quick, 262.
Ranfield, 24.
Rademeld, 95.
Radmel, 253.
Ratteden, 96.
Rudham, 86.
Runingmead, 183.
Stanho, 21.
Sandal, 25, 31, 58, 261.
Swambergh, 47, 93, 95, 130, 253.
Stanford, 31, 47, 94, 177, 182, 248, 258,
269, 274.
Saford, 54.
Stanleie, 58.
Stainley, 262.
Sand, 95.
Sadlefcomb, 96, 253.
Slacham, 97, 253.
Standen, 97.
Santon, 99.
Sandys, 192.
Sandes, 253-
Sauteby, 149.
Saltonstall, 229, 260–262.
Stansfeld, 58, 229, 260–262.
Stainforth, 24, 262.
Sharneburn, 21, 23.
Snetfham, 21.
Scellintone, 58.
Seppeleie, 58.
Sneteholf, 95-
Scellneleie, 58.
Senretot, 95.
Sernewick, 96.
Sefford, 109.
Selda, 135.
Stretton, 215, 219.
Raftrick, 229, 261, 262.
Radrewell, 47, 94.
Reigate, 163, 194, 202, 205, 274.
Rikeburgh, 160.
Rifhworth, 229, 261, 262.
Rottingden, 95, 96, 128, 131, 192.
Rothing, 179, 180, 248.
Rowtonſtall, 229, 260–262.
Sesford, 248.
Strele, 253.
Strete, 253.
Stirefthorpe, 25.
Scipena, 107.
Sidelune, 167.
Skircoat, 229, 260–262.
Smythewyk, 253.
Shipden.
INDE X.
Shipden, 261, 262.
Striveling, 281.
Sowerby, 58, 262.
Sowerbyshire, 166.
Stotbridge, 122.
Stoubregge, 122.
Stoke, 76.
Stokes, 150.
Southwike, 204.
Soland, 229.
Soothill, 260, 261.
Sudenova, 98.
Suthcroft, 206.
Suthwerk, 248.
Suthefe, 253.
Suthrye, 199.
Thetford, 99, 159, 248.
Treung, 150.
Telefcombe, 253.
Twien, 96.
Triangre, 150.
Twynem, 192.
Twyny, 253.
Twyning, 253-
Tinewelle, 237.
Tiburne, 301.
Thorne, 25, 82, 87, 262.
Thoac, 58.
Tokerefywende, 199.
Toteleſcombe, 253.
Tudworth, 25, 298.
Walpol, 94.
Watreic, 151.
Wadsworth, 58, 229, 260–262.
Warley, 58, 262.
Weftune, 23.
Wellestream, 47.
Well, 94.
Werpelburn, 192.
Wretham, 197.
Wellebof, 109.
Wefthumble, 204.
Weng, 248.
Weſtmeſton, 253,
Wenham, 253.
Weſtake, 253.
Weftcote, 187.
Wilfick, 24.
Whitchirche, 269.
Whiſtan, 24
Wildebrok, 92.
Wilton, 99.
Wigmore, 17.
Wyldecomb, 96.
Wytham, 253.
Wycham, 253.
Wyndlesham, 253.
Wyke, 253.
Witteden, 94, 96, 98, 253.
Woodkirk, 261, 262.
Wodeton, 96.
Wonham, 152.
Thurleby, 237.
Wogham, 102.
Trunk, 248.
Wordham, 163.
Thurwiftanland, 262.
Wodechert, 164.
Warren, 2, 6, 7.
Warmfworth, 24, 31.
Wafteden, 47.
Wolvedal, 207.
Woodhall, 262.
Wulfhamſtone, 301.
Walton, 47, 94, 130, 151.
Wadeland, 68.
Wurth, 252, 255.
Yarmouth, 271.
Wakefield, 57, 82, 83, 166, 248, Yale, 58, 265–268.
260-262, 264.
ADDENDA.
A D D E N D A,
A
LDERMANNUS Anglie, 25.
Albini Nigel has Mowbray's
eftate, 77.
Baron's cave, 30.
Brenneville, battle of, 83.
Burgh, family of, 72.
Buckingham, ancestor of the earls of, 5.
Camden's Britannia,
of, 16.
curious copy
Checker, antiquity of, 11, 12.
Cheſterfield, battle of, 238.
Commons, houfe of, its origin,
274-276.
Dapifer regis, what, 147.
Demefnes, how talliable, 176.
Doncafter crofs, 158.
England overcomes Normandy, 8z.
Earls, how formerly made, 227.
Eveſham, battle of, 237.
Edwine the Dane, 21.
Henry III. reproved, 211, 212.
Heraldry, first printed book in Eng-
lish, 15.
Ida not fifter to countess of Warren, 147.
Knights' fees, how accounted for, 193.
Lewes chartulary, where lodged, 37.
Lewes, monks of, complain of the
countess of Warren, 139.
Lewes, battle of, 233.
Lewes barony, and honor of, 254.
Lewes, what ſervices accounted for there,
193.
Lincoln, battle of, 119.
Lincolnshire, Vifitation book of, 11.
March, earls of, their ancestor, 19.
Magna Charta, where drawn up, 27.
Magna Charta figned, 183.
Martin, St. changed to Warren, 5.
Moubray, forfeiture of name and arms, 77.
Normandy, dukes of, 2.
Ely, foldiers quartered on the monks, 8. Normandy overcomes England, 82.
Ely abbey made a bishopric, 109.
Fitz William, family of, 170.
Fitz Alan earl of Arundel, 301.
Friers, crouched, come to England, 20z.
Forefters, royal, their jurifdictions, 22.
Grants, curious, 106, 107, 125, 254.
Grys, what, 297.
Normandy loft, 177.
Northumberland, earl of, takes the name
of Warren, 117.
Nuts, annual rent of, 264.
Plantagenet, whence derived, 168.
Protest of the lords, the oldest on record,
195.
Gundred, countefs, her monument, Quo warranto, proceedings thereon,
59-61.
Gurney, family of, 76.
252-263.
Reigate, how originally called, 163.
Richard
ADD EN
A D D E N D A.
Richard Fitz Roy, his great riches, 220.
Robert duke of Normandy taken pri-
foner, 82.
Stanford bull fighting, 180.
Striveling, battle of, 280-283.
Southover steeple, antiquities thereon,
87.
Soul cakes, 217.
Southwark, abbats' inn there, 292.
Surrey, the earl's income there, 82.
Supporters to arms, their original, 219.
Tallage, how raifed, 176.
Tenerchebray, battle of, 82.
Tokens attending charters, 106, 107.
Vicarii regis, what, 25.
Warren, original of the family, 1.
Warren, earls of in Normandy, 2, 6, 255.
Warren, greatnefs of the family, 4, 5, 117.
Warren, earldom, robbed of its caput
baronix, 178.
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