"The glory o f children are their Fathers.

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Proverbs XVII. 6.

The Beaumonts in History

A.D. a50

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Edward T. Beaumont, J.P.,
1, Staverton Road,

OXFORD.

Author o f Ancient Memorial Brasses, Academical Kabit illustrated by Memorial Brasses and Three Interesting Hampehire Brasses. Member o f the OxEord Architectural and Historical Society.

"Pur remernbrer des ancessoura Li fez B l i diz B li mours

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Li felonies des felons B li barnages des barons"

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Le Roman de Rou L.I., Wace, 1100-1184.

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To commemorate the deeds, t h e sayings, , m d manners of our ancestor3 and t o t e l l of the evil acts oI" felons and the feats o f arms o f the barom.

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Introductory Chapter I The Norsemen
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I1 The Norman Family

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- The Cole Orton Family - The Grace Dieu - The Stoughton Qrange - The Barrow on Trent

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Conolusion

THE BIGAUMDNTS IN HISTORY

INTRODUCTORY.
"Speak boldly and speak truly."

WIT WITHOUT MONEY, IV. 4. ISABELLA, Beaumont and Fletaher.

'This booke containes the names of mortal1 men Bat thear's a booke with characters of golde Not writ with incke, with pensill or with pen Wheare Godes elect for euar are inrolde The booke of life, wheare labor thou to bee Beefore this booke hath once registered thee",

REGISTEEt OF S. PEIT'EJR'S,
Cornhill, London, B.C. 1638. It has b e e n well said that "family history is a subject of surpassing interest, now that men ha7e come to know that genealogy i s a branch of science which, if rationally pursued It is ceasing to will be productive of important knowledge. be degraded by being a mere slave t o those who possess rank and title." THE ATZBNAEIJM September 29t,h, 1888, g. 413. Grosart writes (Poems, Sir John Beaumont, Buller's Worthies Library, XVIIi! "It is much t o be wished that living Beaumont8 would do for their family history what has been done so admirably for theLindsays by Lord Lindsay, and for the Manchesters by the Duke o f Manchester."

In fear and trembling and realizing fully the numerous difficLlties ahead, we have taken up this work, craving the indulgence of friends for the errors which are sure to have arept in, for the path of the genealogist is always strewn with thorns andbeset by pitfalls.
W e undertake these pains however not so much for the present generstion, as forthe future; r n m y t h i n g s whichwere known t o our grandsires are n o w forgotten and our st;ccessors will search in vain for details with uhich we are probably familiar. For the sake then o f coming generations, it seems desirable t o commit to print such facts 8 s can be obtained from the living, combining therewith much interesting and valuable information discovered amongst ancient racords.

Some, no doubt, will not value our efforts, for however is much much we fight against the thought, we fear there

truth in the lines taken from SherB;oodts PEDIGREE REGISTER (September 1909, p, 300 ) which says

"'Tis sad to think, that when our course is run, Inhericed our workmay be by one Who, caring not for pedigrees a jot, Sells to the local butterman the lot. He t o wrap butter, candles, cheese doth take Each priceless sheet, which p'r'aps took years to make Then greasy, stinking, torn, our work at last In fire, or dustbin, ruthlessly is cast."
W e however believe that information respecting our progenitors interests us to some degree, our knowledge may be o f the slightest, depending on 0u.r personal remembrance, or it may be, that we possess the fuller information which can only be acquired by patient and diligent research.

During the last seven hundred years there have been two the Carlton Toffera and the mttin families of Bsaumonts Whitley branches; these two parent stems undoubtedly sprang from the same Norman ancestry,wh1.1st numerous and important off-shoots have come from each.

In every great crisis in English history from the days of the Norman Conquest up to the Great War of' 1914-1918, the family hss always been in the forefront R E leaders o f men; Irish and Teuton,Welsh and Scotch, Frenchand Spaniard, Turk and Inaian, savzge andbarbarim have in turn been compelled to own its prowess; and on many E battle field it6 members have freely mRde the supreme sacrifice .for (308,King and

Country.
Carlyle tells us that (VII. 329) "The Crusades which rise in religion appealed t o these men, (the Norm.a.ns) it vias t h e boundlesa invisible world that W R B laid bare in their imaginations, and in its burning light the visible shrunk as a scroll". In each of the seven Crusade6 the Beaumonta are found doing their part, at l e m t one being

took their

slain anb another died when retnrning therefrom. Three fell on the fatal Towtan Field, the battle whizh stabilises the Yorkist regime; another 2% Edgehill, 1642 amd others were killed at the Sieges f Paris, 1436, Gloucestsr and Leeds 1643; o one was drowned at se8 with Prince William in 1120, Admiral Basil Beaumont was lost on the Goodwin Sandsin 1703 in that terrible storm which swept away the Eddystone Lighthouse, whilst another was blown up in The Downs on H.M.S. Carlisle, 1740, all hands being drowned. Many have been captured in battle, imprisoned and their estates sequestered, as the reault of the various English Ci-Jil Wars.

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prom the days of Henry I, when the first great aharter of English liberties was granted, right down to modern times the Beaumont8 have held seats In Parliament, first ss Barons, and then as statesmen elected by the constituenaies have served their country as Bishops, Judges, Ambassadors, Privy Councillors, Admirals and QeneraLs, and also as head8 of Colleges and Schools. They have producedmen of science, Patrons of art Poets and n Dramstist of' no mean order. They have founded, built and endowed, Abbeys, Priories, Churehe8, Almshouses and Sahools, and built bridges and made roads at their own expense. They havebeengenerous wizh their property and have bequeathed money to f'eed, clothe and warm the poor.
Through marriage they are desoended from and were progenitors various royal families. The sncientgings of Naples and Sicily, Castile and Leon, and Jerusalem were their sires. The fleur de lys in their coat of arm3 bespeaks their descent from the Royal House of France. The lion thereon is derived from John of Brienne, King of Jerusalem. They took wives from and gave their daughters jn marriage the Royal to Houses of England and Elcotland. Henry IV was a great grandson o f Sir Henry de Beaumont, first Baron and Elarl of Buchan see p. 65 Henry V and VI had therefore Beaumont blood in Sir Henry was also through his grand daughter their veins. Blanche, a progenitor o f the present Royal House of Spain and of the ex-King of Portugal; whilst William the Lyon of Suotland married Ermingarda, daughter o f Viscount Riahard d e Beaumont (see p. 60) the latter thereby became the mother of a line o f Scottish kinga, which died out in the fourth generation in the person of "The Maid o f Norway."

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CBAPTER I.
THE NORSEMEN.

"Let us now praise famous men, and our fvthers that begat us .l' Ecclesiasticus, xliv. 1.

5ENEALOGICAL CHART.
Bernard, a descendant o f one nf the Kings o f Denmark, joined I under Rollo in the raid into France A.D. 876, (klanchb, I. 204). Turfus

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Turof

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Turche t il

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I

Anchitil Walter Lessiline ancestor de Turveof the ville. Harcourt Family.

I I I

William de Tourville

Humfreg adopted Herbrand. I the surname l of de Bellomonte .

Gilbert. Richard. Ralph. Joseline.

Robert d.6.p.

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I
Bo$er
Robert Ist

Maud .

Henry de Newburg, William Albreda. 1st Earl of 1 Warwick. William Earl of Leicester. see p. 36. I see p. 9.
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Robert Waleran.

John Waleran.

Robert Waleran.

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In the last half of the ninth century, tl tribe of Scandinavians came forth from their native wilds on a marauding: expedition and with T,he view o f finding a more congenial climate, thus following in the footsteps of' the aothic and Vandalic tribes who had preceded them. These menwere known as Norsemen. They gradually wended their way along the Danish and Flemish coast until they rettchad in about the year 876 the mouth of Lhe Seine, they built R fortress at Rouen and settled down for a time but the old Norse spiritof adventure was E O strong within them that they could not live at peaoe with their neighbours, and during the following forty years they carried out tj. number of raids in the surrounding country (CHRCWICLES HENRY OF HUNTING)D3N, 135, Pld. Thomas Forester.) In 912 Charles 11, surnamed the Simple, King Frsnce, made a of treaty with Rollo, their leader S. Clbir on Epte whereby at he ceded the whole o f the rich and fertile province Neustria, of kept subsequently known as Normandy, on conaition that Rollo wiGhin hisown borders, and ceased from ravaging the adjoining territory, and in order to further curryfavour with him, he createa him the first Duke of Normandy ana at the same time on his submitting to the rite oi' baptism, he gave his daughter Gisela in marriage t o t h e D u k e (Sir J. Mackintosh, HIGT. EN@. I, 93). Rollo died in 932 and was buried at Rouen. He was the 3011 or Rognevald, the Ja.re of' Moere, who was one of the most powerfui Ncrwegian nobled, being directly descended from the ancient Kings o f Norway through his grandmother. He is said to have been a very tall and heavy man, so much so that he had to walk wherever he went as no horsewas strong enough to carry him. The history of the Beaumonts begins Bernard surnamed with the Dane, born about themiddle of the ninth and died in the second Quarter o f t h e following century. He was adeecendant of' one of the Kinas of Denmark and a near kingman, poseibly a, brother or son of Rollo, or possibly he may h7e been an outlaw a: from the West coast or Norway. He was second in command o f the expedition into-France, and when Rollo divided up the new Duchy amongst his chieftains, Bernard received as hi6 share the Lordship o f Harcourt, together with a large tract of country lying between the rivers Sarthe and Rille in the province or' Maine, now known 8s the Departments of Mayenne, Orne and Sarthe.
councillor of Rollo's son William "Longsword" and guardit?n of his grandson during his minority.

After the death of Rollo, he became Regent and chief subsequently

He married c. 912 Sphreta d e Burgundie, a lady of the royal house of Burgundy and sister o f Rollo's wife and had issue a son, Turfus.

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Torf known as the Rich, gave his name to the Tourville and added Toray, Torny and Pontatou to his paternal inheritsnoe. He married in 955 Ermengarda de Brigenberg daughter and heiress of Lamcelot de Briquebec of Pont Audemar, and had issue three sonar

TmS,or of town

I,

Turof, heir.

11. Turchetil, Lord of Turqueville, he is said to have been murdered owing to his att:ichment t o Duke William. He married Adeline daughter of Lord de Montfort sur Rille and had issue. he is (1) Anchitil, adopted the surname Harcourt; reputed to have been the anceator of that family (Will. deJ u m i B q e s , p. 324). This view is also taken by tne writer of the Histoire Genalogique De La Maison De Harcourt 1662 but Mr. G.H. White in N and &'(l26 IX. 614) says it is an invention of the pedigree maker. His name appears in the Pipe Rolls of 1130. He married Eva de Boessey, Lady o f Boessey le Chastel, and had issue seven sons and one daughter. (2) Walter de Turqueville.
(3) Lesseline, married William Uoatrevil.

Earl o f Eu, Exme8 and

111. William de Tourville.

inherited from his mother the Pont Audemar estat which was on the banks of the Risle, ten miles from its junction with the Seine. He married Wevia daughter of Harfust, a Danish nobleman. William de Jumihges says (JEAN MARX ed. 1914, p. 324), that Turof married DucelineCrepon the sister De of Wevia and that the latter married Osberno de Bole Bec. They had a sister Gunnora who was the second wife of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy and thereby became the great grandmother of William the Conqueror (William d e J m i b g e s GBSTA p. 324). Turof had five sons and one daughter, the eldest being:

TmOB

I. Humfrey de Vetulis.
11. Herbrand of Pontaudemar.

XII. Gilbert.
IV. Richard.
V. Ralph Steward of the Abbey o f Bernai, and in l048 Abbot of Mont S. Michel. In 1088 he (Genealogist XXXVII. 59. witnessed Charter, made by Robert, Duke of Normandy in

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favour of the church at Mont S. Michel granting a market and yearly fair at Ardevon,Le Yanehe.

VI. ~ o s e l i n e ,married Xugh de Montgomery, E w 1 of Shre'WbUrY issue I, Roger.

Vielles, Lord of Pont Audstnar, Veulles, Preaux, and de Bellomonte died at Preaux, 1074. There were two manors known as Beaumont on his vast The one situated estate, and they are both so named today. on the river Sarthe called Beaumont sur Sarthe, is about is it fifteen miles south of Alencon and seventy south-westof Rouen; the other on the banks of the Rille the department De 1'Eure in some thirty miles south-west of Rouen, is known a8 Beaumont le Roger, so called from Humfrey's second son. In after years during the wars with France, these estatea were frequently lost and regained by the family; on one occasion Roger de Toeni ravaged them but Humfrey's son Roger defeated him in a sanguinary combat. Toeni and his two sons were both killed in the fray (Freemtln, NORU. CONQUErST, 11, 199). Surnames were at this time adopted in Normandy although the custom was not in vogue in England until some two hundred years later; they were frequently suggested by the name of the family estate, orfrom a supposed fitness, or from some accidental circumstance, perhaps from mere caprice. Humfrey or took that o f De Bellomonte or Beaumont.

H J I R Y or I M ?DE VETULIS E

He founded in 1036 two Abbeys S. Ledger for n u x and S. Pierre de Preaux for monks, both in his owndomains on the left bank of the Rille, near Beaumont le Roger (Ord. VIT. I. 383). He married in 1027 Albreda de la Heye and had issue two mnsr

I. Robert, slain by Roger de Claire during a dispute and

Ekirmish connected

witn the possession @ f some

lands Brienne; at

(Ord. Vi% 111. 34) this dispute W ~ maintained by his brother B Roger. He wa8 buried in the Abbeyat Preaux, leavingno issue.
11. Roger, heir to Humfrey.
111. Kaud, married 3sborn De Cecily.

La Rocrue. Histoire -~He was nicknamed Barbntus or La Barbe from the fact 01' his wearing a moustache and beard whilst the Normans usually were clean shaven. This peculiarity is recognized in the forty first panel of the Bayeux Tapestry where he is depicted sitting at a feast with Duke William on his left hand, Odo brother of William and Bishop of Bayeux ir-the centre, and 'two warriors
born 1096
d e Hwcourt.

RGeneacogiqueae1C15.Maison c. ~ ~ E R la died c.

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on the extreme left; the four laymen are evidently hungry so that they are depicted enjogingthe repast, whilst the Bishop is pronouncing the blessing on the food. The tapestry was probably made to the order of the Bishop ((3.V. Cox, CRUSADES), and is now preserved in t h e museum attached t o the P u b l i c Library at Bayeux.
Planch6 (1796/1880), (THE CONQUEROR AND HIS COMPANIONS, I. 204,) tells us that "Roger wa9 reputed to have been the noblest, wealthiest and most valiant seigneur in Normandy." Wace the twelfth century historian, says that "at the time of the invasion of England, Roger was summoned to the great cour-cil V - t Lillebonne, on account of his wisdom; but that he did not join in the expedition as he was too far In his ROMAN DE RGU line 11136 Wacs advanced in years." further says:

ROGtIEii DE VILERB SIST MANDER, K1 MULT ESTEIT A ENORER; MULT ESTEIT TENU POR SAGE, ET JA ESTEIT D I @RANT M O B , E SES FILZ AVBIT JA CHEVALIIWS BIEN NOBLES HOMES BIEN SIERS; SIRE EEiT DE BFUAONT LE ROGIER GRANT TERFCE AVEIT A JUSTIBIEIR.
Sir A. Malet translatesthe lines (286, p 56) as followat.

Rogier de Vilersa counsellor sage, Much honour'd and far advanu'd in age, Waa also call'd Six Boris had he, All knights, and worthy their chivalry, Of Belmont le Roqier he was chief Administering a mighty fief.

Although Roger could not fight, he did not hesitate in contributing his share of the cost, for he provided at his own expense sixty vessels for the conveyance of the troops auross the channel (Planch6 I. 205). Ordericus Vitalia a Norman monk amd Chronicler who lived in the middle of the twelfth century, says that "William the Conqueror entrusted the government o f his Duchy t o his wife Matilda, with the helpf a council o f wise men, at whose head o Stood the famous Roger de Bellomonte." In 1090 he endeavoured to regain the old family castle of Brienne and he offered Duke Robert of Normandy a large sum for it, whereupon the Duke who was in need o f money, ordered Robert FikzBaldwin, who had the custody of it, t o give it up1 :h latter replied, "If :e it be your desire t o

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have Brienne in your hands, ?.S your father held it, I will make no difficulty in delivering it to you; but otherwise I will keep what is my own inheritance and yield to no man vihile I live .... for I am now in possession o f Brienne, and the castle o f Ivri the principal seat o f my grandfather, and God, supvortinq my right, I will keep it to the end.a When Roger heard this, he collected a body troops and laid siege of to the fortress, which waEt in the heart of hie own domain, he closely invested. it and on the ninth daymade a vigorous assault. The weather wae very warm at the time and there was R. great drousht, so the besiegers heated the steel points of their w r o w s red hot and shot them on to the wood roof of the great hall, which was covered wlth lichen moss, this and was soon on fire and it quickly spread t o other parts of the castle,oompellingthedefenderstosurrender.(Planoh6, I, 207. and Ord. Vit. 11. 491.) Roger's liberality is evinced by the founde.tion in 1088 of the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Beaumont leRoger. Williamthe at the dedication festival, Conqueror had promised to assist but his death in 1087 intemened. It is interesting to note that the abbey was served by the Canons of S. Brideswide, Oxford. A copy of the chwter granted byRogeris preeerved in the Mazarine Library, Paris (No. 3417), the original having been destroyed Rt the Revolution, a printed copy is fortunately preserved in the British Museum. Some remains of the old building are still in existenoe.

In 1080 he endowed the Abbey o f S. Peter's, Preawr with five hides of land at Arlescot, Co. Warwick. A few years before his detttil he entered this abbeyas a monk (Ord. Vit . 111. 39.) His piety was further shewn by the giftof' the manor of Stowre Pratellis, Doreet, to the nunnery of S. Leger de Preauxi after the suppzeasionof alien priories by Henry VI, this manor was granted to King's College, Cambridge (Thomas Turner, NOTITIA MONASTICA).
Roger evidently spent a great deal of tfme at Oourt for his name frequently occurs as a witness on Royp.1 and State Documents, amongst others, we find it on a grant made by Robert the eldest 6on William I t o the Abbey oftdamontier of at Tours in 1066, it also occurs on a Confirmation o f a g r s n t made by Herbert de 1lEpinay o f lands at Caumont sur Dive to S. Martin of Troarn; again on the confirmation a gift made of by Waleran son o f Ranulf t o the Abbey of S. Stephens, Caen, 1069, further he, together withhis sons Robert and Henry witnessed R grant made by the King to the same abbey in 1071 and another in 1079, also a grant in favour of N6el of six churches in Quernsey to the Abbeyof Marmontier, 1073, and a confirmation of the foundation gift of Odo Stigand of the Priory of S. Barbe en Angs, in the same year; fumther examples

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are on a oharter granted by William I to the Abbey of S. Wandrille, 1074 and one by Odo Bishop ol' Bayeux giving land t o B. Mary's of Bayeux 30th November, 1074 also a grant by the King to the same church, and a confirmation by the King of a grant to the Abbey o f the Holy Trinity at Montivaliers, 1076, together with a gift to the church O P S Pancras, Lewes, . by William of Warenne and his wife Gunreda 1079. He witnessed in addition the signature o f Roger de Montgomery of a grant to the Abbey at Troarn for the soul of his wife Mabdl, 1079, and a oharter in favour of the Abbey of Mont S. llichel (AEEHAEOLOBIA, xxvi,i. 25).

On one occasion, he and other barons suppor+,ecl tha King when presiding over a trial at Bonneville sur Touque, a lady named Ulberga de Martrang, had brought an ttction for the restoration o' her child, the sentenbe of' the court waa that t it should be restored to her, il' she gassed safely through the ordeal o f tne hot iron; this was carried out in the Churoh of S. Vigor, Bayeux and as she came through 3t unhurt her petition was granted.
At the time of the Domesday inquest Roger held lands in the counties of Gloucester, Dorset and D c o n (R.W. Eyton, KEY TO DORSDT SURVEY, Domesday).
He marrisd Adelina daughter of Waleran Count of Mellent and Meulan (Quillaume de Jumiege p. 170.) She was heiress to her brother Hugh,.who took the habit of a monk in the Abbey of Bec. Ordericus Vitalis says tktt "'She accompanied MatiIda, wife 01' William I t o the Abbey of S. firoul, Normandy, when the latter placed a gift on the altar and presented an albe richly ornamentad with orfrais" (orphregs). The priest wore the vestment for the i'irst time when celebrating mass in honour o f the gifts, and that "She consecrated herself to Qod and lived In holiness with her husbandm. She died in
1381 leaving issue three sons and one daughter.

I. Robert,

f i r s t Norman Earl o f Leicester

(see p.

11)

11. Henry d s Newburg, first Norman Earl o' Warwick (see p 33 ) f .

111. William, possibly the : m c e ~ t o ror the Whitley family (see p.257 ) . He married and had iszue:

(1) William, who had two sons:

la, Robert Walera.n, High Sheriff of' Glouoester 1246-1248 and 1250. Governor of S. Braivel's Castle &nd o f Varden, Forest o f Dean 1248. In 1246 he owned the m n o r s of Cubbelly, Siston (Tz-nns. Brist. Arah. Soc.

xxiii, 64) and Framgton-Cotterell,

He was Warden

of

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the Forest of Dean 1260-63. In 1265 Henry 111 gave him several estates as a rev:ard for his great services the at Battle of Evesham. He was a Knj.ght Templar and took pclrt in the Seventh Crusade under Prince Henry in 1269.

He married Maud daughter of Ralph Rune1 of Dyrham, she received this manor as her wedding dowry (Trans. Bristol Arch. Soc. xxiii, 64, 72). She dled in 1 8 7 2' leaving no issue and on her husband's death the estates passed to their nephew Ro'bert Waleran.
(2) John Walerhn. He married and Robert Waleran: had issue a eon,

la. Robert Waleran, heir to his father and his uncle; he was alive i n 1309 and he marriea Isabel

TV.

Albreda,

She took the

veil

de Preaux and eventually became

in the Abbey of S. Leger the Abbess o f S. Etonne.

Roger died in 1096.

The late Read. Dr. Knight, Rector of Bluntisham, Hunts, possessed in 1745 tLrl old tablet on which was painted the arms of the forty Knightc, whom William the Conqueror placed in the Monastery i t Ely, after its capture in 1083. t These knights lived there for seven years. Amongst the shields was that of Roger de Beaumont. It is supposed to have been contemporary work and t o have been executed by one o f the monks (Surtees Soc. Publ. lxxx).

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CHAPTER 11.

THE NORMAN FAMILY

- THE EARLS OF LEICESTER.

The Knights are dust And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, t,rust. we by An unpublished poem Coleridge. (5ir W. Scott, IVANHOE, p. 109, publ. by Nimmo).

GENEALOGICAL CHART.
Roger de Bellomonte see p 1. .
Robert d e Bellomonte,

first Norman Earl of Leicester.

I I
RobertWalHugh Eliza2nd. 1 eran 1st breda beth line ilica Earl I 1st Norman I Norman Earl o f I Earl Bedford. 1 o f WorI cester.

Ade-Bas-

Amici:.. Al-

Auberic

I
I
I

Hugh
Abe 1

Robert GodPrey Is?bel Margaret Henry John Avice 3rd. I l I Ear 1 I I I

II
l

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Robert RogPr
4th

I
d.s.p.

William

Earl

Amicia Margaret d.s.p. married I de Montf Robert ort Oribella created 5th Earl Simon the noted 6th Earl o f Leicester,

p -

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3liver Wendell Holmes (LIFE 3F EMERSON, ed. 1885, p. 215) somewhat satirically called th9 Normans "'The pilgrim father6 of the British aristocracy." Ralph Waldo Emereon when he wrote his ENQLiSH TRAITS, V. 60 used more scathing language saying 'Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastinge; these founaers o f the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates. They were all like, they took everything they could carry, they burned, harried, violated, tortured and killed, until everything Ehgliski was brought to the verge o f ruin. Such however , is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their o w n merits by assuming for their types the swine, goat, j80kR1, leopard, wolf and snrke, which they severally resembled."

a We feel that it is only just to these men to raise protest against this exaggeration t o say the least for taken as a whole the Norman influence was beneficient; it was a decided advance on that which had gonebefore, amongst other advantages it gave a more aT.able government, it also introduced a higher standard of calture and learning and it inaugurated a great building era, wher? churches, monastio houses and castles were multiplied throughout the country, whilst the Anglo-Saxons built their houses round the castles and so obtained better protection, living for a long time in comparative peace, gaining their livelihood by cultivating the soil. Stubbs in his CONSTITUTI3NAL HISTORY (I. 283,) tells us "that the effects of the Norman Conquest on the threefold. character and constitution of the English was The Norman rule j.nvigorated the whole national system; it stimulated the growth o f freedom and the s m s e o f unity, and it aupplied partly from its own stock o f jurisprudence, and partly under the pressureof the circumstances in which th9 conquerors found themselves, formative power, which helped tt t o develop and concentrate the wasted energies of the native race. In the first place it brought the na%ion at once, and permanently within the circle European interests, and the of Crusades which followed within a few years, and which were and recruited largely from the Normans the English,prevented a relapse into isolation, The adventurous and highly strung energy o f the ruling race communicated itself to the people whom it ruled; its restless activity snd strong politiaal instinct roused the dormant spirit, and disciplined even while it oppressed it. For, in the second place, the powers which it called forth mere largely exercised in counteracting its own influence. The Normans so r'ar as they b e m m e English added nerve and force the system to with which they identified Norman, they provoked and themselves; so far as they continued stimulated by opposition and oppression the latent energies of the English. The Norman Kings fostered, and the Norman

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nobility forced out the new growth of life. In the third place however, the importation o f new syatems of administration, and the development of new expedients, in every department o f government, by men who.had a geniuv not only for jurisprudence, but forevery brmch organization, furnished adisciglina;tr3r of and formative machinery in which the new and revived powers might be trained a system whichthrough oppression prepared the way for order, and by routine educated men for the dominion of law and order which when completed should&test by the pertinaclous retention and development of primative institutions, that the discipline whichhad called them forth and trained men for them, w3s a discipline only, not tho imposition of' a new xnd adventitious polity. Bor the Norman' polity had very little substantial organization of its own; 80 what i t brought with i t to England was soon worn out or merged in that of the nation with which it united. Only the vigour and vitality which it had called Porthwas permanent."

The first mention of the Beaumont family in English History is in the Battle Abbey Roll of 1066, in whichwe find that Robert de Bellomonte was one of the Knight8 who came over with the Conquex-or and who helped in no small measure to win the epoch making battle on Senlac Hill, whichresulted in the death of Harold "Him the noblest and the last of Saxon Kings; and. sRve one, the noblest he, the last of all" (Sir Harry Taylor, THEl EVE OF THE CONQUEST, 1847, p. 31) and in William seating himself on the English throne. The list of names of those knights who took part in the battle was formerly suspendea in Battle Abbey, with the undermentioned inearigtion over it;

"DICITUR A BELLO, BBIUUM LOCUS HIC, QUIA B K U O DGLIGENAE VICTI, SUNT HIC IN MORTEI RELICTII W T Y R I S IN CHRfSTI FE8TO CECIDEElE CALIXTI: SEXAGEWUS ERAT SEXTUS MILLESIMUS ANNUS CIM PERHUNT ANaLI , STELLA MONSTRANTE COMETi.
'.This place is called Battle, after a battle (fought here). Beaeuae the English people were conquered and left here 8ead. They fell in the Joyfulfellowship (aup) of Christ the It was the year 1066, when the English perished, Martyr. a oomet agpearing at the time." (BATTLE ABBEY ROLL, J.A. Burke, 48. 686; Jersey Society OCCASIONALPAPXElS 11, December 19091 W.B. Broderick). An Englishtranslation of these lines was painted on a tablet and remained for more than two hundred years in the parish Church o f Battle after the dissoluti.on o f the monastery (Duchess of Cleveland's BATTWj: ABBIily ROLL, p. v. 1). This comet, now k n o w n as Halley'a, takes about seventy-six years in its journey round the sun a d laet. appeared in 1909-101 it had a grerrt influence on the Conquerorvs campaign, as it was regarded as an omen of

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victory and it helped him very materially in recruiting his hrmy. Wace says "nowwhile these things were doing, great a s t w appeared shining fourteen nights with three long rays streaming towards the south, sucha stRr is wont to be seen when a kingdom is ab0u.t t o change its King" (Wace, ROMAN DU ROU, 11460). The Bayeilx Tapestry shows six menan attitude in cf amazement; looking at and pointing a to wondrous star with eight short rays, with the legend overISTI N I W T STELLA these men wonder at the star.

Only the surnames of the 'six hundred and twenty-nine (Holinshed) Knights who came over with the Conqueror were given in the Battle Abbey Roll. In 1862, overthe west door of the Church Dives-sur-Mer in Normandy their Christian at and surr,am:?s are cut in the face of the wall, and amongst them we find that o f Robert d e Beaumont, the Christian name is ziven as, Roger, they were no doubt copied from Wace. The list occupies boutth thirty square metres (thirty-two and three Dives is the port from which the quarter Bquilre yards. ) Conqueror started on his expedition. It was at that time the most important port the duchy. in

ROBERT DE BELLDMONTE, nicknamed Prudhomme, Earl o f Mellent, Lord of Norton, was knighted on the battlefield 14th October 1066, and. became later the first Norman Earl of Leicester, he wds the first member the Norman Beaumonts of tdo be sezted in England. He wtts born c. 1049 and died 5th June 1118. On his mother's death in 1103,ne inherited from her the Mellent and Meulan estates in Normandy, also the title o f Viscount Ivry and Lord o f Norton. He did homage to Philip I of France for these estates and sat a French Peer in the as Parliament held at Poissy (PlanchB). He then adopted the Mellent coat of arms viz. GULES A CINQUE FOIL, ERMINE, this
shield is still used 'by t h e borough o f Leicester.

At the Battle of Hastings Robert was appointed leader of the infantryon the right wing f the a m y (Jas. Thompson, o Hist. Leic. p. 22 and Wace's CHRONICLES, Edgar Taylor). He is said to have given proof of his intelligence beyond his years and by his great bravery to have contributed very much to the success attained on that day. Wace says "He made the first onset in the contest" and later in the day he further distinguished himselfby being the first man break through to of Poitou in describing the the Saxon stockade. William battle says that "a certain young soldier, son o f Roger de Bellomonte nephew and to Hugh, Earl of Mellent, by Adelina heir his sister, making the first onsl:?ught in the fight, did what deserveth lasting fame, bolding charging and breaking in on the enemy, with the regiment which he commanded, on the right wing of the army (Will. PICTAVIENSIG DE GESTIS Will. DUCIS NORbdANDIE GESTA Will. DUCIS NORM.) Freeman tells

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(1.180, 11, 156-402) nsgeaiallg distinguished amongst them was a party under the command o f a youthful Norman warrior, Robert the son of Roger de Bellomonte.n....aBe was R brave and skilful soldier, his establiahment in England waa the reward of good serviue done at one o f the most terrible of' battles." In the Chronicles of the Castle and of the Earls of Leicester (W. Napier Reeve), we read that "He was a wise and trusty counsellor and one who had in his youth been 3. valljant knight, for it m he who with inestimable might had 8 broken through the,Saxon army at Has t lnqs , which fought around King Barold; and he oame of a mighty race, and they were men, who in their o w n land had reared great and lofty towers so that it was said by the chroniclers of their time, you may know the mfght o f t h e men by the mightinessof their palaces.' Wace, when he wrote his Metrical Chronicles confused father and son, for he speaks of Roger the elder as taking part in the battle, as follow8:Line 13462 WRogier Xi viel, cil de Belmont, Assalt Engleis el primier front, A merveillea pris en F ant CO pert as eirs kl riches aont Bien poet Iten saveir as plusOr3, Ke il orent boens ancessors, E furent bien de lor seignors, Ki lor donerent tsls h o r s , De cel Rogier en descendant Vint li lignage de Yellant, translation rends:-

Sir A. &%let's

In the battles first rank and assaulting in front, Rode Roger the old, who was Lord of Belmont, The wealth of his heirs, affords proof to this day, What value was set on his work in the fray. For well may we know, that they came of good blood, Who so high in grace, with their suzer%in stood. From him spring the Mellents so richly endow'd And, with justice, o f Roger their anoestor proud.

Henry of Huntingdon (Thos. Forezter,) says that "He was the Ahithophel of his time, a cold and crafty statesman, a great politician and in worldly affairs the visest mdn aetween here and Jerusalem. He was eminent for knowledge, plausible in speech, skilful in craft, discreetly provident, a subtle genius, excdlling for prudence, Pr2found in counsel and O f great wisdom; his mind was enlightened, his eloquence persuasive, his shrewdness acute. He had extensive and =oble Possessions which a1'8 commonly called honours, together with towers and castles, villagss and farms, woods and waters, which he acquired by the sxercise of' the talents I have mentioned.

His domains were not onlyths largest in EnglanB, but also in Normandy and Prance, so that he was able at will to promote ooncord between the Kings of France and England, also t o set
them at variance and provoke wars betweenthem."
William of Malmesbury writes 'e was the supporter of H justice, the persuader of peace, though i n w a r the insurer of victory, his advice was regarded as though an oracle of God had been consulted, and he could speedily bring about whatever he desired by the powers of his eloquence. He inspired his confreres by his example and the whole nobility of England was emulous to follow him."

I.H. Ramsay in his VOUNDATIONS OF BXGLAND" 11. 282, says that *His political sagacity, persuasive speech and unshaken fidelity had kept him in the worlderful position of prime favourite during two succeosive reigna."
Like Andronicus, grandson of the Greek Emperor Alexius 11, he, on the score of health, only broke his faet once In twenty-four hours (Gibbons, DECLINE A N D FALL, V. 232). He appears t o have had a taste for music, for in a franchise granted to the monks of Bec, remitting certain import duee, he made it a condition that the masters o f all boats passing his castles at Mellent and Mantes, should play on 'the flag eolet, as they shot.the bridges CPlanch6 I. 208).

It is evident that he did not serve his King for nought for we find that he received for his services sixty-four manor8 in Warwickshire, sixteen in Leicestershire, seven inwiltlahire and three in Northamptonshire, and the Domesday Book (W. OF bULM.ES. fol. 80b) says he was one of the chief owners of land in Qloucesterahire Rnd Dorsetshire and the manor of Witestsn, Devon.
In common with his father, he must have spent a good for we find he frequently witnessea the official documents, amongst others in 1071, he signed confirmation o f a gift to S. Vincent o f l e Mans by Count Robert the eldest son o f the King; also a charter granted by Odo, Bishop of Bayeux t o S. Stephen of Caen in 1079, and the following year a grant of the manor of Eversley and lands at Uppingham to the monks of Westminster. In 1081he witnessed the chartero f the Abbey ofFecamp and in 1085 otherdowments on behalf of the same abbey; also a charter granted by King William t o the Abbey of the Holy Trinity at Caen in 1082 and another granted by Robert Duke o f Normandy t o S. Mary of Rouen in 1090. He with his brother Henry witnessed the charter granted by William I to the Cluniac Abbey of S. Pancras at Lewes, the largest of that order in England and the second largest in Europe. In 1073 they both likewise
deal o f time at Court,

witnessed a grant to the Abbey of Marmontier, and father ancl &on witnessed a charter confirming foundation of the Abbey t.he of hS8B;P, at Caen 14 July, 1080.

He supported the King in a dispute between William Archbishop of Rouen and Abbot Gilbert of S. Wandrille, and on the 12th April 1080 he with his father and brother were present at a suit heard by William I between the Abbey of the Holy Trinity Rouen, and the Bishop oflhreux; relative to the Isle o f Bedane. In 1094 he acted as one o f the judges at Fourarmont i n a suit brought by the monks of Saumur against Philip he Braose.
He was very liberal, he gave to the Abbey at Preaux 29th Mayl099, certain lands and tithes in Norfolk andDorset in order that Masses might be said for the souls of William the Conqueror, Queen Maud, William Rufus, Henry I, his own father and mother, nis wife's, children's and own soul and for the souls of all his relatives, as well as for all the faithful deceased,he seems in this instance t o have obtained a v e r y adequate return for gift (calendar of documents in his France, T.H. Round I p. 111 VICTORIA HIST, NORPOLK, 11. 464). . Be founded Monks Toft Priory, Norfolk c. 1099, also that of S, Psttesbury, Wareham, Dorset and he gave soms portion of the manor o f Wareham t o the Benedictine Abbey of Lyra, in Normandy c. 1100,
In 1080 he and his brother Henry with Roger Earl o f Shrewsbury and Henry of Grentsmesnil endeavouredto reconcile the King with hiseldest son Robert (Freeman,,NORMAN CONQUEST, IV. 646). On the death of William I in 1089 he and his brothers espoused the cause of Rufus and in the latter's struggle against his elder brother the Duke of Normandy the Bar1 by admitting Rufus t o his castle at Meulan in 1096 opened up the road to Paris.

In the quarrelbetween William Rufus andAnselm respecting the claims o f t h e rival Popes he was the means at the Council of Rockingham, March 11/14, 1095, of saving the life of the Archbishop, for he opposed A m e l m ' a deposition, but at the same time he Stertdily supported the right of the Crown on the question of Investitures. In like manner his son the second Earl in after years took a similar line of action in the quarrel between Henry I1 and Thomas 8, Becket.
On the death of hia father, towards the end of the 11th century, he succeeded t o the family estates in Maine and at Pont Audemar ana thereby became as powerful a vassal in Normandy as he had been up t o that t i m e in England.
He was Chancellor to William I1 and Henry

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Councillor 1102, a Baron of' the Exchequer in Norm3ndy. He bore his share of the obliquy which some of William 11's measures received, especially in the latter's quarrels with the clergy when Anselm prevailed upon Pope Paschal I1 to excommunicate him.

He and his brother Henry were members of the Royal hunting party in the Mer; SoreBt, when Rufus received his mysterious death wound, 2nd August 1100, and they accompanied Henry I on his hurried ride t o Winchester and London (Planch6, I. 203). In the general rising thst followed he adhered to Henry and speedily beceme his most favorrite minister, chief counsellor znd most trusted friend. The King rawar9ed him with aignities and honours and in 1132-3 created him Earl o f Leicester and granted him at the same time the manor of Groby, Leicestershire.
On the death o f William Rufus, William E r l of Evreux tr and Ralph de Conches made an incursion into Robert's Norman estates, onthe pretence that they had suffered injury through some advice that Robert h A d given 'CO the King; their raid was aery successful for they collected a vxst booty.

In 1102 Ivo de Grantmesnil reDelled against DKke Robert o f Normandy, surnamed Courte-Heuse, or short thighs (Sir J. Macintosh, HIST.+ENG. 11. 112), he was soon captured- Earl Robsrt however interceded for him. Ivo was pardoned on the Earl agreeing to pledge his Leicestershire estates together with the borough of Leicester to the Duke.
In 1103 Ivo went on R mission t o Normandy End intrigued agbinst the Duke; then followed some years o f unresk, at last King Henry crossed over the Channel with an army, Esrl Robert was in command o f the second line and on the 28th September 1106, the Battle of' Tinchebrai was fought, the Duke was captured and brought a prisoner to England and Normandy annexed t o the English Crown (3dericus I. 11. 8, 201.

He managed his estates and ruled the borough of Leicester He gained much popularity in a very enlightened manner. by restoring the ancient Portmawote (borough council), i t consisted o f twenty-f'our members and he alloEed his position 8 s lord t o be assumed by two aldermen. The council existed as t~ permanent Etnd important institution for several centuries. He further pleased tae citiz5ns by abolishing trialby combht, reviying in its place %ne ancitnt right of' trial by jury, these various privileges had been taken !%cay from the citizens by Hugh de Granimesnil. In return f o r t h e s 9 concessions the borough agreed t o pay the Earl ayearly tttx o f threepence for every gabled house in the High Street; this tax W&E remitted by his son, the second Earl (Thompson's MUNICiPAL HISTORY, p 4 ) . 0.

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He also revived the Merchants Guild, it a charter. granting It was addressed to "Ralph his Steward" (original ,Dint Pincernario) "and all his barons, French born as well as English, on all his lands in England Greeting. Know that I have granted to. my Merchants of Leicester, the Guild of their Merchants, with all their customs which they held in the time of King William and King William his son and of now hola in the time of Henry the Eing." Witness R. the son of Alcitill. A second charter gave them permission to gather wood in the forest on payment of certain tolls when crossing the North and West bridges (Thompson, MUNICIPAL HISTORY). He rebuilt the castle at Leicester making it a stately and magnifiaent pile, living there in great splendour when in England, he entertained i n a very free and hospitable manner. One of the Norman chronizlers says "He rebuilt the castle a strong tower and made it stronger than before, for he made for and a moat for its defence, andmore beautiful than ever, he made therein stately hall, and the hall remainsthis a to day." This hall is now incorporated into the Assize Court.

f S. In 1107 "he rebuilt the Church hard by, the oChurch Mary de Castro placing therein secular canons and he made it renowned amongst the churches ofthe land for splendour and beauty, and he enrichedit with many and fair desmesnes and all the restf the days he dwelt in the castle o of Leicester, and he ruled therein like a mighty prince."

I The Churcho f S. Mary's was destroyed by William when he laid siege to the town; a great deal of Robert's work remains tothis day including the Choir, the fine sedilia and S. Anne's Chapel. He founded in connectionwith the Church, canons and a college consistingof a deanand twelve secular endowed it with five hundred t o six hundred acres of land near to the north bridge, eight dwelling houses and 26 in annual rents. He also built the castles of Mountsorel and Whitwick Co. Leicester. Just. before his death he gave lands at Widford (Herts or Essex) to the monastery at Bermondseg.
He does not appear to have been very happy in his matrimonial relationships, his first wife Emma, daughter of Rogerde Breteuil, died childless, he thenmarried Godechilde of de Couches, daughter R0gJ-r de Toeni, Seigneurd e Couches, he was divorced from her (Dugdalels BARONAGE, I. 84). In 1096 she married Baldmin, son o f Eustace d e Bologne. Robert's third wife was Isabel; ( o r Elizabeth) daughter o f Hugh the Great, Count of Vermandois, Creppy, Valois, Chaumonty and Amiens (a younger son o f Henry I, King o f France) fliece of Philip I of France. Towards the end of his life, she deserted him and attached herselfo William o f Yarrenne, secondEarl t of Surrey,by him s h e had one son and dauehters, (Genealogist two XXXVII. 64. Guillaume d e Jumiege, p. 307) Lhe eldest daughter

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Gunreda mamied Roger d e B2llomonte, second Earlo f Warwick. see p.41 ; (Planche, I. 211). Isabel died in 1131. It is possikle that Elizabeth was 3 sister to Isabel and that after Isabel's abduction by William o f Warrenne, Robert married Elizzbeth (Notes and queries 13 S. I. Nov. 24 1923).

At the end f his life entered the Abbey o f S Peter's at o he . Preaux, which had been fov.nded by his father, he died there and was buried in the Chapter Bouse 5th June1118. His heart was enclosea in a leaden casket and sent to S. John's Hospital, founded by himself, at, Brackley, Northants. It was kept there up t o the fourteenth century and thenlost. Hs was almost if not quite the last of the Barons, then living, who ceme t o England with the Conqueror. He had issue three sons m d six daughters.
I. Robert, heir to the Ehglish estates, second Earl.
11. Waleran, twin son with Rob5rt. He succeeded t o the Normsn and French estates and to the Earldom of hlellent, see p. 50 .

111. Hugh, surnan:ed the Poor, Earl of Bedford; he is to be the ancestor o f the considered by some nuthorities In 1138 King Scotch family of' the Hamiltons (sec p. 31). Stephen deprived Milo de Beauchamp of the Ea-rldom of Bedford who held it by Royal licence, the King promising him, if he gave j t up willingly he would honour and reward him, but if he withstood it in any manner, he was t o be assured that it would .be his ruin; on receipt .of the royal message, Milo replied "that he was willing t o serve the King as his true knight and to obey his commands, unless he attempted t o deprive him ofthe possessions which bzlonged to him and his heirs by hereditary right. But if that was the King's intention and h e endeavoured t o execute it by force o f srms, he would never yield St, unless he was driven t o the last extremity." The Awsre of' his approach Milo King then lay siege tc Bedford. swept up all the provisions he couid lay his hands on, storing them in the castle, which stood on a high mound, surrounded by a solid and lofty wall, with strong 2nd imprsgnable keep a which was well garrisoned. The King withdrew, but left I. ) sufficient army to 'blockade it until hungershould compel Milo to surrender. Induecourse this came about. The King then gave the dignity to Milo's son-in-law Hugh, who had married Alice d'Estouteville, daughter and heiress of Milo. In 1141, on Hugh taking the part of Matilda in her conflict with the King, he was deprived of his honours, Gtephen then reinstated Milo in the Earldom. Henry .of Huntingdon says (Thomas Forester, 228,) that "Hugh alcpears to have conducted his affairs wi.th so much negligence, like the careless and effeminate man that he was, that willing or unwilling he

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resigned his Earldom t o Milo, becoming again'a simple man at arms, even if he did not lapse into a state of penury" (GESTA STEPHANI REGIS 953, c. Ord. Vit. 806 A and 953 c). He had ason Hughwho married Amiciad e l'Isle, and had issue one son Abel.

IV. Elizabeth died li48, she became a mistress t o Henry I and had by him at least three children.
(1) Ralph, Bishop of Angers 1178-1200.

(2) Reqinald d e Beatunont, Earl o f Cornwall, he had issue, a daughter Maud, who married Robert second Earl o f Worcester (see p. 53 .)
(3) Constance de Beaumont (see p.

59.)

The king settled the manor of Barrow, Suffolk on Elizabeth, she subsequently married Gilbert Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke and had a daughter him Matilda - after the by Earl's death she married secondly H e m 6 de Montmorency, Constable of Ireland.

V. Adeline, married Hugh de Gaunt, assumed the mother's he name Montfort, issue one, Robert.
VI. Basilia, married 1175 Reymond l e Grosse.

VII. Amicia, married Hugh de Chateau Neuf.

VIII. Albreda, married William Lupellus, Lord o f Turi.

IX. Auberic, married William Louvel de Perceval, Lord of Breval. X. Harvoise, married William, Count of Gloucester.
XI. Agnes, married William, Lord Saye, Baron d'Aunay.

ROBERT, nicknamed Le Bossu, or The Hunchback. second Earl of Leicester, Lord o f Breteuil and Paci,- heir o t the English estates, born 1104, (ORD, VIT. 111. 348) died 5th April 1168, (GenealogistXXXVI. 177) buried on the south
side of the choir in the Abbey Church o f S. Mary de Pratis (of the meadows) Leicester, which he founded (ORD. VIT. XI. 6). He, with his brother Waleran, was brought up in the Royal household by Henry I, in gratitude for their father's great services; they were educated at Abingdon Abbey (CHRON. ABINGDON, 11. 229). In 1119 they accompanied the King t o Normandy, on a visit t o Pope Callixtus I1 at Gisors. The twins are aaid to have astonished the cardinals by their learning, so much so that one o f them remarked that "the

Western parts of Europe flourished in literature a great deal more than they had ever heard, cr could have believed without this convincing proof itn WILL OF MALMESBURY (GESTA RE(3UM, of Book X, par. 406).

One of Robert 's first act S on zomirlg into the Earldom

charter,which his father granted to the borough of Leicester, this document is still preserved with the arch!.ves in the muniment room. It reads
in 1118, was the confirmation of the

R COL! LEYC RAD0 VIC ' OIBZ EARONIBIZ 7 HOMINIBZ SUIS 7 FRANC ' ANGL SAL. 7 SCIATIS QUOD EGO 7 UOLO 7 CONClEDO QD BURGENSES ME1 DE LEYC TENEANT O W E S CONSUETUDINES SUAS BIV 7 IN PACE 7 HONORIFICE 7 QUIE TE IN QHILDA 7 IN OIBZ, LLIIS CONSUETUDINIBZ SIC EA6 UM QUA =IUS 7 QUIETUS 7 HONORIFICERI'IUS DE PATRIE W O TENUERT. T. ERN DE M S C 0 GAUFR ABBTE, R4D MINOR, JOHE DEIUI MATH0 DE UILERS, BALDEUU DE CHARN, RAD0 MULT, ANIFR SIT ALFI, R N 0 DE CRAF'ORT, ROBTO CAPELL.
The translation reads "Robert, Earl o f Leicester to Ralph the Sheriff and all his barons and men, French and English, O Cfreeting, Know ye that I both will and grant that my burgessea of Leicester, may nold all their customs * well and in peace honourably and quietly in their Guild and all other customs, a8 well quietly and honourably a3 they ever held Witnesses: Ernald Dubois, Godfrey the them of my father. Abbot, Ralph junior, John de Ivi, Matthew d e Vilers.. Baldwin de Charn (wood), Ralph the Elder, Anifred the son o f Alsi, Roger de Crafort, Robert the Chaplain. He also relinquished his right to the Gable pennies tax, which his father had imposed on the borough (see p. 161, and he granted them pasturage rights in the surrounding meadows.

Be and his brother joined the Baronswho plottea t o set the ducal crown of Normanay on William, son of Duke Robert, and nephew of Henry I. As soon as the King heard of this he crossed to Normandy, seized several o f the barons castles including that o f Robert at Pont-Audernw; both brothers flea, but were captured between Beaumont and Vatterville, by William o f Tankerville the King's Chamberlain; ther were imprisoned, but were eventually pardoned for their father'e They were both present at Henry I 'S deathbed in 1135, sake,

O H e was sheriff 1159-1162. * Customary tolls.

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which took place st the Castle of Lyons-le-Fo;*et, the King's hunting seat, about forty miles from Rouen; they accompanied the body to.Reading and were present at the funeral in that Abbey, which had been found.ed by the King (Duchess of Claasland, B.A. ROLL, I. 147). 3n the succession of Stephen to the throne, Robert just before Whitsuntide 1136, ravaged Normandy and seized the royal fortress of Vaudreil, Waleran, his brother, first Earl of Worcester, took Steyhenls side at?d entered Rouen holding it for the King; shortly at'terwards he attacked Acquigni with 3 strong force and reduced it t o ashes. The two brothers seem thscto have become reconciled, for we find them seeking aid from Theoba.ld, Count of' 3lois, giving him H hundred marks to induce him t o assist them in an incursion into Sheterritory of Roger de Toeni; on the 11th June 1136 they burnt three villages and many co.ttages,they then attacked Bougi-sur-Rille, this thay burnt including the fine Church S. Mary Magdalene. of In 1138 furthsr fightivlg took place, Waleran and William dIYpres crossed the Channel in order to stop the incurslons o f the Angevins. They obtained theassistance of Ralph Peronne and then marched against the Count o f Anjou who Immediatelg rstreated, In the autumn Robert and William made peace with Roger d e Toeni, they took him to England! the King granted him pardon on honourable terms (3DER. VIT. IV. 157, T. Forester).

In 1137 Robert and Wzleran accompanied King Stephen to England, the latter had been staying at the castle at Lyons. Stephen now thought himself strong (:nough to curb the power of the barons, 'Dui; he made the mistake o f beginning with the clergy. He first quarrelled with Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, with whom Robert had been in personal combat in 1138, The Bishop, relying on his wealth, his powerful connections, and strong castles, haul been at the head o f affairs during the reign ot' Henry 11, ancl had gained the reputation O P being disloyal to Stephen, and favouring the party o f Anjou; his two nephews the Bishops or' Lincoln and Ely joined with their uncle and harassed the supporters o f the King in their own districts. Roused by these attacks the barons joined forces under the leadership o f Robert and Walerrn; Alain de Dinan together with the Bishops of' Salisbury and Lincolnwere seized at Oxford and imprisoned, and several of their retainers killed, whilst the Bishop of Ely escaped and fled to his castle at Devizes (ODER, VIT. IV. p. 210).
On the outbreak of the Civil War, both Robert and Waleran took the part o f the King, Robert conducting the Queen in October 1138 t o Bristol for greater safety. The Empress Maud only daughter of the late King accompanled by her brother the Earl of Gloucester landed in England soon after

-22 . the outbreak. She had on157 a small retinue of one hundred and forty knights; they took refuge in Arundel Castle, the residence of the Queen Dowager, Masd's stepmother. Stephen invested the castle, whereupon the Queen Dowsger sent an apology to him, saying that "she could deny the admission not of the Ernprsss the only daughter o f ner late husband (Wenry I) and she intreated the King to respect the ties of blood and the sacred lams hospitality, and allow the Empress of to retire to her brother's castle at Bristol." This request was supported by the King's brother - the Bishop o f Winchester and to the surprise o f everyone, Maud was allowed to depart.; the Bishop arid Waleran de Bellomonte the latterthe great enemy ofthe Empress and Stephen's chief confidant escorted her to Bristol where she was handed over to the Earl of ffloucester for safe keeping.

In 1139 King Stephen created Eiobert Earl of Hereford, and at the same time granted h r ! the castle, town and the, ir whole of that county, he thereby became a man of immense wealth. He was subsequently deprived of this honour at the instigation of Queen Matilda, who desired, it for Miles the Constable o f Gloucester, one of her favourites. About this tine he acquired the Town, manor and local jurisdiction o f Hinckley, Co. Leicester.

In 1146 he was appointed byKing Stephen, arbitrator-in a dispute between the inhabitsnts of Wallingf'ord and Abingdon, respecting certain market rights. The Earl said that he remembered when atSchool at Abingdon that the people there exercised the rights now claimed by the borough Wallingford. of This settled the point in favour of the former town and a writ was issued in 1158 confirming it. (J. Townsend. Hist.
Abingdon p. 20.)

When Henry I1 landed in England in 1153, Robert freely supplied him with money for his struggle against Stephen, he was present at Henry's Coronation in 1154 and was shortly afterwards, as a reward for his many services, made Chief Justiciar of the Kingdom, anoffice which he held for about thirteen years, during this period spent a great deal of he time at the Royal Court. He was a witness o the compromise t arrived at between Stephen and Henry, Duke of NorrnandJ- in 1153. In 1155 he witnessea a grant o f a charter to Montacute Priory, Somerset, and another in favour of Alcester Abbey, Warwick and two years afterwards another Godstow Nunnery, for Oxford. In 1158 he attested at Nottingham, charters in favour o f Furness and Malmesbury Abbeys and Lewes Priory. In this year on the departure of the King to Normandy, he was left in charge of the realm and created Vice-Regnant,a post which he held until the King's return in 1163 (J.F. Bright, Hist. Eng. I). In May 1160 he witnessed the articles ,Peace of

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b2tTween England and King Louis o f France, and he was one Of tine assessors at the trial held at Westminster before King, the or Robert, Bishop o f Lincoln and Rober$, Abbot of S. Al'bans :ie was also present at the Council of' Clarendon held near Salisbury in 1164 and his name heads the list o f the lay signatures to the sixteen articles, knovJn as the Constitution o f Clarendon. In 1165 he was again left in charge of the Kingdom; inthi: following year ile joined the Xing in Normandy returning in the Autumn In 1167 he was present a.% the Consecr%tion o f Simon, Abbot o f S. Albms by Gilbert, Bishop o f London.

The CHR3NTCLES OF LEICESTER tell us that he w2-s "a wise and valiant man" and P;xlggl.ave (1788/1861) says "He was a faithful and trusted servant of the Eing". He held high of'.fice under HenryI, Stephen and Henry 11, and acquired the rzputation o f 'cejng the forsaost statesman in Europe. His prudence and influent? wel-S: so great that even Becket not did dare to include him in the sentence of excommunicationwhich he pronounced against the Kingls counsellors and he was one o f the principal actors nho prevailed on i3ecket to signthe Constitution of Clarendon.

intimate friendship Betnsen Robert m d Thomas a Becket an both of th-.m filling the highest o fficea of State. They were celebrated Tor their knowledgeof jurisprudence and ths gry.vc3st affairs of' the kingdom were 19ft in their hands to deal Tith. It was due to the good offices o f the Elarl that Becket obtained his promotion to the Chancellorshipj but Robert steadfastly supported the King in maintaining the rights o f the State against the encroachments hierarchy, of the and in the steps which the King took to curb the arrogance pride and turbulence of the Archbishop; hs also advised the King t o summon Becket to attend the Council held Northampton at on the 12th of October 1164. The Prelate came in great state, carrying a crucifix in his hand and attended by a large number of his retainers. The King on hearing o f the manner of hi8 approach, withdrew from the Council Chamber to an adjoining apartment, whilst Becket seatedhimself therein with agpwent unconcern, The King appealed to the Barons for groteotion, and asked that speedy justice shouldbe done. They sentenced him t o imprisonment; the King then deputed a few o f the Barons headed by t h e Earl o f Leicester, to tell the Archbishop that unless he changed his arrogant and diBreSgectfU1 behaviour, and yielded t o the King's pleasure, parliament would take prooeedings against him for treason and perjury. When Robert commenced to read the sentence he began with the usual Norman formula "Oyez ci le jugement rendu contre vous" (Listen t o the sentence given against you). The Archbishop interrupted him "Earl" Said he "1 forbid you in the name or Almighty God, t o give Judgement here against me your spiritual
existed,

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father I decline the jurisdiction ofthe King andBarons, and I appeal to Gcd and lord the my Pope, 'under whose protection I depart hence. I zite you before him." (ROGER DE HOVENDEIJ, 495, Ed. Saville). He then arose and walked out slowly in great state and passed through crowd, leaving the Barons the
so much disconcerted by his boldness, that none had the on courage t o stop him. A murmur then arose all sides "Thou false Traitor! The perjurer! Whither is he going? Why is he suffered to go jn peace ? Eemnin thou traitor and hear thy judgement." As he left the hall he turned round and said "The sacredness of my order forbids me, orI coulc! reply with arms t.0 such as call me traitor and perjurer (GERVASSE CANTUAR. Chron. 11. col. 1393, Edit. Seldon). Aware of the consequences he however of his danger and afraid concealed himself. In November 1164 he made his way in disguise to Sandwich where he embarked in a small boat for Qravelines and from thence prooeeaed to the monastery of S. Bertin at S. Omer. The King seized his property and his relatives were either killed or despoiled; Henry appealed to the Kingof France to give Becket up, but the Klng replied that "The protection exiles against their persecutors was of one of the gems adorning the French Crown"(VITA B. THOMPX, Lib. 11. Ch. 7, p. 71 Gamier, Lavie de S. Thomas p. 6 6 ) .

Robert's love for the church wzs evinced by his great gifts to religious houses. In 1133 he founded and richly In enaowed, at Nuneaton a house for the Benedictine nuns. the same year he founded the Cistercian Abbey of Garendon, near Leicester; also for the Benedictines the Criory of Luf'field, Northants, and S. John's Hospital, Brackley, he gave grants to the nuns Wareham, Dorset, and per annum at &3 t o the nuns at Godstow,Oxon (Thorsby's LEICESTER, p. 3231, also land at Wareham to the monks of Bec, Normandy, together with the lordship o f Chinchebirick; to the Canons o f Sulby, Northants, free fuel and freedom t o l l in Leicester market. from To the Knights Templar a mark yearly out of the mill o f Scheravene. He also freed the monks of Ebrulf from payment of tithes on their land Leicester (Thorsby's LEICESTER). ir. Co. He was patron ofthe Abbey of Lira, Normandy. He or his son Blanchemains, founded Ulverscroft Priory, the ruinswhich of still remain Charnwood Forest. Last and by no means least in he rebuilt for the Austinian Cencns noble Abbey of S. Mary the de Pratis, at Leicester, in honour of the Assumption o f the Blessed Virgin Mary. It took six years to erect; it was consecrate6 by the Bishop o f Lincoln in 1143. He enaowed it with eight lodging houses, one hundred and twenty five acres of land just beyond the north briage, and about nne thousand acres in the district round, including the Manor of Stoughton.

This abbey was the last rest.ing c e of Cardinal Wolseg, pb when on his journey as a prisoner from York to London, he

arri-red there one dark Saturday eveningin November 1530, he wae received at the grand entrance by the abbot and monks carrying torches. Wolsey's pathetic words on that occasion will never be forgoiten "Father Abbot, I am come nither to lay my bones among you." He was carried to his room very ill., on the following Tuesday the 29th, when at the point O f death, he uttered to Sir William Kingston, the Constable ol the Tower of London, the still more memorable sentence "Had I but served my God as diligently as I haye served the King, he would not have given m e over in my grey hairs,* Thus gassed away a great Englishman, the last Cardinal Archbishop o f the English Church, one who stood on tho ridge although h e knew it not whioh divided in twain the &glish Churchi behind him was a past, which we Cerhsps cannot to-day fully understand or realise, before him W A S an England which he could not possibly have dreamt of. He W R S buried in the Lady Chapel of the Abbey at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and seven yeara later the Abbey was dissolved, the buildings rased to the ground, and to-day the name of a thoroughfare Abbey Lane alone preserves its memory,

During the last fifteen years of his life Robert wore the habit o f a Canon regular of the Abbey to which he retired. Nevertheless he continued his secular work, eo that the strict observance ofthe rules ofthe cloister must inhis case have been dispensed with.

His aeal is included in the British Museum Collection.

He married first Amicitz, daughter an& heiress of Ralph de Waer, Earl of Norfolk, she died at the nunnery o f Nuneaton, and was buriad there on S. Qiles day. He married serrondly Amicia daughter of Ralph de Montfort. She wa8 buried in Leicester Abbey. He had issue by her one son and three daughters.
I. Robart, heir.
11. Henry. He spent a great deal of time at Court; in 3ctaber, 1167 w e find him at Valognes with King Henry, he assisted in settling a dispute between Gilbert Abbot of S, Martin and John Lord of Montgomery. On 11 January, 1169 he witnessed two charters in favour of' Nicholas, Prior of Plessis Grlmould. In June 1170, he returned to England. In February 1171, he witnessed a confirmation to the Abbey of S Audr6 en Gouffern of a gift made by William o f Ponthieu, . and in the summer o f that year he wltnessed a royal cha.rtsr in favour of the Abbey of Bec Hellouin, also another for Blanchelaunde Abbey, Christmas 1173 he spent at Oaen with King Henry, and he Witnt~f3Sedthere a grant of' lands in England and Normandy t o Richard d e Hornet. The following Christmas

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he attested a charter t o the Abbey of Jumihres. In April 1175 he was at Bures, and was present at the reconciliation of the King with his son Prince Henry. In October o f that year he was with theKing at Marlborough, when he atte&ted a charter for the monks at Christ Church, Hants, and later in the month he was with the King at Ludgershall, Wilts, where he witnessed a charter in favour of the Norman abbey at Mont S. Michel. In August 1176 he escorted Princess Joan on her at wedding journey to Sicily, and he stayed with her Panormus until her wedding day 13th February 1177. In the summer of that gear he went as an ambassador t o Eing Louis of France and in September he witnessed a royal chartert o S. George's Abbey, Boscherville, and another granted by Prince Henry in favour of Waltham Abbey, In October he was with the King at Verneuil. On 1st January 1178 he attested a Royal Charter in favour ofthe Abbey o f Longues. On the 19th Marchin the same year he was present with the King and Prince Henry at the dedication of the Abbey at Bec, and he attested the deed conveying &l00 per annum chargeable on the revenues of the Vicomtie of Rouen. He was a trustee of the King's will, On 26th May, 1183, which was drawn up in February, 1181. h e was a member o f a council which excommunicated all who fostered dissensions between the King and his sons. On the 14th September 1186 he attendea a councilat Marlborough, when the vacant Sees at York, Salisbury and Exeter were filled. In November of the following year he attested a charter in favour of the Abbey of S. Mary d e Longues, and another for the AbbeyL'Essay in January 1188.

He was appointed Bishop of Bayeux 1165 and on Smdag 16th June 1170, he assisted at the Coronation of Prince Henry at Westminster, the King being also present; this met with the Bishop with disapproval of the Pope, whowrote threatening the punishment for his action in the matter.
111. Geoffrey.

IV. John. A John witnessed a deed, granting land to the church t o the monks of Gloucester c. 1180 (Bristol Arch. Jour. lwNIII. 43.)

V. Isabel, married firet Bervase Paganell, Earl of Dudley and secondly Gimon St. Liz, Earl of Borthampton and Huntingdon, the latter died 1153; issue a daughter Hawyse.
VI. Avice or Hawyse, married William second Earl of Gloucester, he died 1173; issue one, Avice who marriea her cousin Amaury, son o f Simon de Montfort the elder.

VPI. Margaret, married Ralph d e Toeni, he died c. 1200 and she subsequently married the Earl of Suier.

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from his very white hanas, third Earl o ' Leioester, Lord o f Hinakley, f He Breteuil and Paci, born U. 1138 died 31st August 1190. was taken Ill when in the Mediterranean on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he died at aea and war3 buried on the let of September at M a s , in Greecs (Thoreby'ar I;ISICESTBR, p. 3x6). The Chroniules record under the year l190 "and now the Earl purposed to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he died while but yet on the way, and his son Robert succeeded and he was the fourth Norman Bar1 of Leicester" Weever (1676-1632,) g. 319 says that "The King lamented his death in the following words"!

ROBERT, nioknamed Blanchemains,

*Alae he seyd yat I was bore (born) My Gud barons with nigh forlore (forlorn) A slaw (slain) in Robert of Lecestre That was my ourteys m e t r e &er7 (Every) her (hafr) on him was morth a m i g h t

."

Before starting on his pilgrimage, he gave the lordship of Hldmerone to the Canons of S. Brideswide, Oxford and the town and ahurch of Brokesbourne to the Knights Hospitalers.

He was a man o f hot temper, he rose to the position of Dapifer, or High Steward of England, and was oommissioned by Henry I1 to hold an enquiry at Oxrot-6, with regard to a free and full market which w a g at that time held at Abingdon, the oitiaens of Oxford complained that "it was contrary to a law made in the days of William the Conqueror, where it was grovided that no market was to bs held within six an6a half miles and one-third o f another mile of Oxford, and that King Stephen had only permitted them to sell bread and ale and m a l l vendibles.w The citizens saidthat "This encroachment deprived them o f much commerce from people that inhabited thereabout." This appeal however resulted in the inhabitants of Abingdon gaining their market.
To him, and to Queen Eleanor, is verylargelyattributed
the feudal rising in April 1173, when the b w o n s championed the cause o f the Queen and Prince Henry, hoping thereby to depose the King and glace his eon on the throne. In order

to raise fundsfor the rebellion, Robert mortgaged his estates and accompanied by William d e Tankervllle went, to Paris, hoping to gain the sympathies of King Louis o f France, Philip Earl of $landers and the Earl of' Blois; Prince Henry was at this time 8 t the French Court. . Henry I1 hastily gathered anarmy in Normandy o f twenty thousand men and captured Paris after a siege o f twenty-five days; Robert with the Bar1 of Flanders escaped to England, taking refuge in Leicester; they hastily strengthened the fortifications. The King wi%h Richard d e Laci tho high Justiciar and Reginald, Bar1 of Cornwall followed them and laid seige to the town, capturingand burning

it in July 1173.
After the pillage of the borough Robert fled to hls castle at Breteuil in Normandy, the King speedily followed him, seized his Normsn Castles and burnt his stronghold at Breteuil 25th September 1173; Robert again eecaped from the King's clutches and soon after landed at Walton, Guffolk, bringing with him a strong band of Flemish mercenaries. Hugh Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, received him at his oaatle at Framlingham, famous for its thirteen towers and the vast extent of its walls. Just at this time William King of Scotland invaded England; Humfrey de Bohun, the Constable, and William de Laci marched north to meet the Scots, they reached Berwick and burnt it and overran Lothian, but they were compelled to stop their advance by the news that Earl Robert had landed in Bngland, they then hastily concluded peaoe with Scotland and hurried Bouth. The Earl f iret attacked Walton Castle, but making no progress he raised the seige and marahed on Norwich, whichhe captured and plundered. He then besieged Ralph de Broc in his oastle of Haughley, Suffolk End captured and burnt it on the 13th October 1175. Robert proceeded t o Leicester, being accompanied by his wife and some four thousxnd or five thousand men, four days later however he was intercepted at Barnham near Bury 6t. lPdmunds, by Humfrey de Bohun and William de Laci. The Earl was utterly routed. and his wife and himself captured. The Countess in her haste to escape fellinto a muddy pond, she wa8 rescued by Simon d e Vahull, at the time she m s wearing a very valuable ring, this she threw into the ponff, so that it should not be stolen by her captors. The Earl and Countess were sent a8 prisoners to the King who was then in Normandy and he confined them in the oastle of Balaise together with Bugh Earl of Chester (Duohess sf Cleveland, B.A. ROLL I. 148). The King
on his return t o England 7th July 1174 seemed a.fraid to leave

them behind,

BO

he brought them with him.

The following month the French King made a incursion n into Normandy, Henry hurried acroae the Channel again, taking the Bar1 and Oountess with him. In September peace waa concluded with the French, Robert and his and Countess granted their liberty on payment o f a heavy fine and the oonfiscation of some sixty thoueand %are6 of land. In 1175 his Oaetle of W o b y and the chief Befenaes of the Castle at Leicester were demolished *that its lord might no longer be able to resist In January 1177 he, was fully pardoned the King's power." and at the Oounuil held at Northsmpton, his estates were returned to him, with the exoeptlon of the a a s t l ~ eat Paai, Normandy and Yontsorrel, in 00. Leioesterl the latter wae ram& to the ground a6 the King said *It was a nest of the devil and B den of thieves and robbers." These two estates were re8tored to him by Riahard I .

The CHRONICLES OFLEICESTER (W. Nagier Reeve)record this disaster to the borough as follow's. "In his day the town o f Leicester was sorely tried for the soldiers of King Henry the Second sacked and burnt it, t o take vengeanoe on the Earl, who had conspired with Queen Eleznor and her children But the Castle o f Leicester was so against King Henry. strong that it resisted all attacks thereon and the knights and soldiers o f the Earl defied the soldiers o f the King. Then the Earl who was beyond the seas, returned in wroth to his own land and with a great following made war on King Henry, but he was overcome in battle and became prisoner to the King, and King Henry was greatly rejoiced thereat and commanded that the Earl and thP Earl's wife, for she was a prisoner also, should be conveyed beyond the seas and shut up in a fortress in Normandy. But for all that the Castle of Leicester v~asnot surrendered, for the Earl had left therein, a constable thereof one Anquetil Mallarg, and he and hi3 knights and squires and men at arms daf'ied the King and maintained the quarrel of the Earl; 'cut the Bar1 an8 the Countess rsmained prisoners to the King. And in this year 1174 King Henry returned to England and he brought with him the Earl of Leices%er and kept him strictly in ward, Then the Constables of the Earl o f Leicester Anketil Mallory and William de Dive who had many strong and fair castles came to the Xing t o make intercession for their lord, but the Klng called for the Holy relics, and in the presence of the Constables, swore thereon, that the Earl of Leicester should neither eat nor drink till the castles were surrendered t o him. Then the Constables seeing the strait in which their lord was, yielded up the castle o f Leicester and the castles o f Grobg and Mount Sorrol which were the castles o f the Earl." This took place on 31st July 1174, the inhabitants of the t o w n being rined at the same time m 0 3 .

Under the year 1189, in THE CHRONICLES OF LEICESTER, we read that "In this year King Henry I1 died and his son Richard Coeur de Lion reigned in his stead and because the Earl of Leicester had suffzred so much for his sake, King Richard restored t o the Earl all that King Henry had taken away; and when King Richard was crowned (1189) the Earl o f Leicester stood 'by his side as Seneschal (High Steward) o f England, and carried before the King a golden sword of state" (BEN. ABB. 11. 81). He was all through his life a great friend o f Richard's,

On the 14th March 1176 Robert attested a Royal Charter in favour o f Rievaulx Abbey; on the 13th March 1177, he attended a council in London whenthe King acted as arbitrstor between the Kings o f Navarre and Castile, Robert signed the award as witness. (BenediatineAbbeys. I. 154.) In the summer o f t h e same year he accompanied the King t o Normandy

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and mas in attendance on him at Verneuil in the autumn. In ' h spring of 1183 he seems to have been rearrested and ce imprisoned, but at Christmas 1186, he was in attendance on the King at Guildford. On the 1st December 1189, n e attested a charter granted to the nuns at Canterbury, and about this time he founded a small Priory dedicated to the Holy Mother, at Charley, Co. Leicester. He granted various charters to the burgesses of Leicester, copies of tnese will be found in He was patron o f Thompson's ESSAYS ON MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
Leicester and Garendon Abbeys, and Nuneaton, Luffield and Lira Priories. Jordan Fantosme, spiritual Chancellor Robert r
of the Diocese
o f Winchester, 1160, inhis NORMAN FRENCH METRICAL CHRONICLES o f the war between the English and Scotch 1173-4 refers to

"Li cuens de Leircestre les voleit asiegier, E jura sun serrement aunt il fud custumier, S'a lui nese rendissent li burgeis e li per,
N'eschapereit un hume senz mort desturbier; U E cil li remanderent ki erent ainz premier: Deh6 ait ki vus dute l'amuntant d'un deniier! Encore est vifs li bon reis dreiturier. Ki fera vostre guerre mult tost anienter. Tant cum nus poum i n e e sur les piez ester, v Ne rendrum la vile pur nul assaut duter. Li cuens de Leircestre prist B curucier, se E fait drescier les furches pur els eupoenter. Puis fait armer en haste serjant escuier: e Pur assaillir la vile forment se volt pener."
This may

be translated somewhat follows: as

"The Earl of Leicester wished to besiege them (i.e. the people of Dunwich) and swore his accustomed oath, If the burghers the notables would not surrender and t o him Not a man should escape without death injury; or The chief people answered him Confounded be h e who dreads you even t o the amount o f a denier, The good and lawful King is Still living, and full soon will bring the war to an end, As long as we live and stand on our feet We will E o t surrencier the town through fear an assauit, of
The Earl o f Leicester began t o get angry,

and erected a gsllows t o frighten them. Then bid the serjants and esquires arm i n haste and commenced to vigorously assault the town." (Surtees Soc., XI. 411).

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He married in 1168 Yetronilla daughter and heiress of Hugh de Grantemaisnel, second Lord f Hinckley and Lord High o Steward of England; she died in 1189, Petronilla, as a tangible proof of' her piety, is said to have woven a rope of her own long hair to s u q e n d the sanctuary lamp in Leicester Abbey, This was for a long time after her death preserved as a relic (Thorsby's LEICESTEIR, p, 2821, In 1204 on the death of her eldest son, she paid three thousand marks as a fine for the ransom of her son's lands, these exactions were forbidden under the seventh chapter o f the "Great Charter". Robert and Petronilla had issue three sons and two daughters.

I. Robert o f Breteuil, so called from his father's castle in Normandy where ha was born. Hei r

11. Roger, died at Camduskenneth 9th July 1202, buried in the Chapel o f 8. Rule at S. Andrews.

He was consecrated Bishop o f S. Andrews 15th February 1189, this honour was conferred on h i m b y William of Scotland at tl Council held at Perth (Arch. Ael. 3. S. XX. 94)He was Chancellor o f Scotland 1200, and one of the witnesses to the chartersof the Cistercian Abbey of Inchaffray, Strathearn, which was founded by Gilbert, Earl of Strathearn, and that of' La Trapge in the diocese of Seez.
111. William of Breteuil, died ofleprosy, before his father, he adopted the surname "de Hamilton" from Hambleton in the parish of Barkhg, Leicester, where he was born. In 1213 he went t o Scotland to visit his sistzr Wargaret and there married

Mary daughter andheiress of Gilbert, Earl of Strathearn and had issue one, Gilbert, who was the first of' the family t o settle in Scotland. The Scotch family of Hamiltons is said to have been descended from him, but this is somewhat doubtful, as the Hamiltons may be descendea from Hugh, Ear1 of Bedford ( s e e p,. 18). (Sir William Douglas, PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND, 326 1. William founded S. Leonard's Hospital at Leicester and witnessed a charter granted by nis cousin Robert, Count of Meulan to the Abbeyo f Savigny.

IV. Amicia, heiress to her brother Robert, see p. 36. V. Margaret, died 1234. She married Sayer de Quincy, created Earl of Winchester 1207, he died in 1220 and had issue one s o n and a daughter.
(1) Robert, heir; he was a benefactor t o Ulverscroft Priory, Leicestershire, founded by nis great-grandfather, the second Earl.

(2) Drabella, married toSir Richvrd Harcourtof Stanton

Haroourt, Oxon.

R O B E R T DE BELLOMONTE, nicknamed Fitzparnell, (vide notes and queries ULI. p. 113, August 14th, 1926) Lord of Hinckley, Breteuil, Paci and Grantmesnil, fourth I%rl of
Leicester, born c. 1168, d.8.p. 6th January 1204, buried between his mother and his grandfather, near the High Altar in Leicester Abbey. Thompson in his HISTORY OF LEICESTEE tells us that "he was at Bdessina in Bicily on his way to the Holy Land, when he heard of his father's death and shortly Sfterwards on the eve of the Purification of our Lady, February 1190, in the assembly of the noble8 and leaders of the army, King Richard Coeur de Lion invested him in the Earldom of Leiosster, for Richard with Philip of France and tho chivalry o f both armies had taken up their winter qumters in Sicily, before setting out for the Holy Land." Robert was the constant companion of the King in this crusade, and he fought all through the campaign by the side of his royal master, In the many desperste encounters with the Turks. (Bohn's Chronicles ofthe Crusadela He was a brave man, and a great fighter; we are p. 299). told that he and his men on their arrival on the plains of Vezelai, in Champagne on their way t o thie, the Seventh Crusade, were conspicuous for their gallant and martial appearance; and Thompson further tells us that "It was the general report of that time, that the age had not seen so many brave exploits performed by so little a man as he was, for Fitzparnellwas but of small stature, when compared with most ofthe Warriors ofthe Cross." Jehande Joinville (P. Bohn's eclition, p. 299) also spoke of his bravery.

He was no doubt by the side o f Richard when they landed at Jttffa, with his spear and pennon glittering in the Syrian Bun and as he climbedthe pass of Beth-Horon, where ths King, catching his first view of the Holy City, hid his faoe in his shield and said "Oh! .Lord God, if I am not thought worthy to win back the Holy Sepulchre, I am not worthy to Bee i t e (LIFB) OF DEAN STANLBIY, 11. 80 R.E. PROTHBIR3I Nelson's LIFB Op EDWARD VII, p. 50. C.H. Mills Crusades 11. 125).

Joinville in his HISTOIRE DE 8. LOUIS, p. 116, gives a somewhat different version of this, he says that it was on the retreat of the English from Jerusalem, rendered necessary by the defection of the French army under theDuc de Bourgoingns that this inoident took place.

In one of his exploits near Ramla, Robert led .a small party against a large force of Saracens, on his advance the enemy fled. He gathered his best horsemen together and went

in pursuit, but when the Saracenssaw h o w small the Chrietian force was and the long distance it was from its supports, they turned their horses and surrounded the English and so imminent was the danger of death or capture, that the Earl and his companions charged through the mas8of the enemy and had nearly extriaated themselves, when another small fcrce of Saracens came up and attacked their flank, cutting off their communications with their rear. J.C. Dansey, in his ENGLISH CRUSADES quoting Vinisauf tells us that "The m816e then became desperate, lances were shivered, helmets struck fire and the din o f arm8 and the shouts of the combatants
rang among the hills. The Crusaders were sore beset, each Knight had some dozen of the enemy to combat, the Earl was dismounted and surrounded by a host of infidels, he was driven into a river and nearly overwhelmed, at this junoture Henry Fitz Nicholas, and Robert d e Newburg, descended from a younger aon o f the first Earl of Warwick, (see p. 36) came to his assistance, the latter seeing h a t the Earl was nearly t overaome by the heat, fatigue and wounds, sprang from his charger and placed the Earl on it, he thereby escaped from the enemy and quickly joined those ln the r e m who were following on foot, these he led forward, they charged the Saraaena, broke their line, killing a great number and "Ralph de Newburg was also present uagturing many more." at this memorable encountera (Joinville, p. 255 Ch. Mills, Crusades 11. 103-117-124).

W e next find Robert at the siege and fall o f Acre.

He

and the Bishop o f Salisbury led the English through the breach in the walls ON the 8th June 1192. They were not able t o make good their advanceand the city was not, surrendereduntil 12th July (Ch. Mills CRUSADES 11. 45). On the 25th October 1192, he left Palestine in company with the King, on their way home were both captured and imprisoned by Duke Leopold

of Austria. The French King took advantage of Richard's imprisonment and attackedNormandy. Robert gained his freedom and hastened to Rouen, where he was besieged by Philip and John Earl of Montaign. Robert's prestige, his exhortations and his example nerved the men Rouen to such an unexpected of resistance, that after a short demonstration of force the French King burnt his engines of war and wrathfully withdrew.
On the 16th o f June, 1194, he was again i n command at Rouen, and when pursuing the French after the capture o f Fontaines, he was taken prisoner; two years later a truce was concluded and Robert obtained his liberty cn payment of two thousand marks and the surrender o f his castle at P u c i ; this he however recovered by stratagem two years later.

The CHRONICLES OF THE CASTLE AND EARLS OF LEICESTWalvo tell us "that he was inferior to none that went before him,

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either for wisdom or valour. He was called Fitz Parnell for that he wa,s the son o f Petronilla and she was the companion and friend of Richard Coevr d e Lion ana he went to the Holy Land with King Richard and fought by his side agajnst the resisted Saracens, he was faithful and true to King Richard and his enemy Philipo f France, alsohe suffered imprisonment, and bore heavy losses in the cause of King Richard. But when King Richardwas dead and John his brother ruled over England, the Earlof Leicester served King John faithfully and for the Earl'R sake the King granted many privileges t o the burgesses of Leicester, and the Earl did grazt many rights to the burgesses, and they enrolled themselves in companies and guilds for the safety of their personsand protection of their goods, also when the trouble began, for King John's was a troubled reign, the Barons o f England assembled. at the Castle of Leicester to take counsel for the Commonwealth, and this was the first meeting of the Barons." The meeting referred to was held in 1201, it was a23ended by a large number of the barons, grievances were discussed; many other meetings were subsequently called and they culminated in the signing of Magna Charta 15th June 1215. One of the Charters granted by Robert t o the burgesses was as follows: "Robert Earl of Leicester, son of Petronilla Countess of Leicester, to all who may inspect the present writing health; Be it known to you all that I, for the good of my soul, and all of my ancestors and for allay successors have givenup and entirely cut off from me, and my heirs for ever, those pence which used t o be taken yearly of my burgesses of Leicester, to mow down my corn at Leicester, and those occasional pence which used to be taken of the owner of each cow in my right for transgression, and those occasional pence which used t o be taken for rush baskets carrying corn from Leicester to be ground from that place, and that the present writing may be held ratified for ever, I have confirmed it by affixing my seal Witness Paul, Abbot of' Leicester, Peter Clsrk of De Lira and others" (J.T. Thorsby's LEICESTER, p. 38).

Notwithstanding that he was one of the leaders of the Barons, he seems to have stood well at Court for King John made him a grant of the whole of Richmondshire with the exception of the Castles of Richmond and Bowes, and his wife was allowed twenty-five knights fees on property at Brendon, Devon (J.T. Thorsby's LEICESTER).

His seal is preserved in the British Museum.

Re married Lauretta, daughter o f William Lord Braose of Brember, 8ussex. She had as her dowry the Lordship Tanstoke, of Devon, she also owned the manorof Eltham. After the deathof her husband she entered the Nunneryof S Stephen's Hackington, . near Canterbury and became a Vowsss. She died 1219. Weever says "She was a most honourable lady, who haying abandoned all worldly pleasure, sequestered herself wholly from the world to serve God devotedly in this place" (i.e. St. Stephen's).
The Blarl left no issue and at his death his estates gaesed to his sister Amioia.

A M I C I A COUNTESS OF LEICESTER. She married firstly Simon third Lord de Montfort and secondly Henry de Barres,
After the death of the fourth Earl, King John created Simon fifth Earl o f Leicester. He was slain - t Toulouse, 25th June a 1218. iie was much interested in education, and when about the year 1209 he first met S. Dominic, d e Montfort's hfluence and advice had a great deal to do with that monks' choice o f Oxford for the first settlement of' hfs Friars in England (15th August 1221). His character is stained however by the part; he took in the Crusade at the instigation ofthe Pope against the wheretical* Albigsnsis in 1208, Th3g had issae three sons and three daughters.

I. L'Amaury, Count of Bvreux, inherited the Frenohestates.

11. Simon, inherited the English estates.

111. Guy, Lord of Ferte.

S I M O N , the noted 6th Earl o f Leicester, born c. 1208, probably at Bvreux. Freeman quotes Garnier in his NORMAN CONQUEST third Ed. 11. 201. saying "one of the descendant8 of Roger de Bellomonts played an honourable part in the great
struggle between King and Primste in the latter halr f the 12th o century" (the second Ea.rl) Garnier, VIE DE S THOMAS, line 1830, . p 66 "2nd his honours passed by female succession o that great . t deliverer, who made the title o f the Earl of Leicester the H e was the most glorious in ths whole peerag= of England." great leader in the bttrons' war, at the battle o f Evesham August 1268, he was overwhelmed and refusing t o flee he lost his life.
Two of his sons, Gcuy and Simon, murdered Prince Henry, son o f the Duke of Cornwall, on account of his indignant treatment o f the body o f their father arter death at the bsttle. The E&rl his was l o ~ g remembered by the English po!:ple as one who had died a (Sir J h m e s Mackintosh, HIST. ENG. I. 234). martyr to their liberties

He married Bleanor daughter of King John and had issue five sons and one daughter.

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CHAPTER 111.
T I NORMAN FAMILY iE

THE EARLS OF WARWICK.

"Great thines through g r e a t e s ~hazards are achieved and then they shine ...............................

Beaumont and Fletcher.

THB LOYAL SUBJECT, 111. 2. ARCHAS.

GENEALOGICAL CHART.
Henry de

--------------_--_____----Roger 2nd Earl

Newburg 1st Earl o f Warwick

l I

I 1Henry 1 I I
l

Roger. Robert

Godfrey

l I

Rothrode

William Waleran Henry 3rd Earl 4th Earl Henry 5th Earl

Agnes

Waleran Gunreda Alicia

William Thomas 6 t h Earl

I I I

Isabel

Margaret, A1 i c e married John d e Plessets created 7th Ear 1

William Anne 8th Earl

The Newburg arms were "Checky

Or

and Azure,

and

Chevron

Ermine. H E N R Y DE NEWBURG, so called from ths castle of Newburg near Looviers, in Normandy where he was born, was the second son of Roger de Bellomonte, p e e p. 7. He died 20th June 1123 and was buried in the Abbey at Preaux.

His name is included in the roll ofthe knights who came over with the Conqueror, but he does not appear to have been present at the Battle o f Hastings. He spent the greater part o f his l i f e in Normandy, his name is not found in the Domesday Book. He took it leading part in reconciling the Conqueror with his eldest son Robert in 1081 and he stood high in the Conqueror's favour. He wag the companion and friend of Henry the youngest son of William I, and when in 1100 a division took glace amongst thebarons who had gathered together to choose a successor t o William 11, it was mainly owing to hisladvice that Henry was selected and when in the following y?ar, most of the barons were openly or secretly disloyal andb. favoured the attempt c f Duke Robert to gain the Crown, he and his brother were amongst the few that remained faithful to the King. His frequent presence at Ccurt may be inferrea from his having witnessed a confirmation f a charter to the o Abbey o f S. Sauveur, 1080, also a grant made in the same year the Kicg, Queen Matilda and their sons t o S. FlorRnt at Saumur. In 1088 he witnessed another in favour of S, Andrew's Church, Rochester, made by William Rufus, and the next year a grant by the King o f the customs ana tolls to S. Peter's, Bath, and in the same year a confirmation of a grant made by William the Second and the Count of Warenne t o Lewes Priory, and also one by Roger Earl o f Shrewsbury t0.S. Peter's o f Clung, and another i n 1 0 9 1 made by the King t o S Mary's, Bec. . He also s i g n e d t h e Charter o f Liberties, which Henry I granted on his corontxtion, together with the King's letter recalling Archbishop Anselm.

He had many honours conferred upon him, in 1068 he was made Constable of Warwick Castle and shortly afterwards King William gave it to him together with the borough and manor. The Castle was enlarged and strengthened during the long suaceasion of powerful lords, and i t eventually became one of the most renowned o f English fortresses and it remains even The Bear and Ragged to-day the glory o f t h e midland shires. Staff was the badge of Quy the great opponent o f the Danes, and Henry on his elevationt o the Earldom in 1076 by William I, assumed it, and it has ever since been used by successive Earls. Odericus tells us that "he earned this honour by his valour and loyalty" and Wac8 speaks of him as #a brave man".

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He w%s made a Councillor by the King in 1079 ar.d a Baron of the Exchequer in Normandy 12th April 1080 (WARWICK CASTLE AND ITS EARLS, by the Countess o f Warwick, 11.
We are told that "he won all hehrtsby his charm o f mind and person and o f having grektly distinguished himself in the toiirnaments given at the time of the coronation of Queen Mdtilda at Westminster by the hancis of Eldred Archbishop of York, Whitsunday 11th May, 1069" (from Coronet to Crown p. 212. S.H. Benton).

His benefactions were numerous. He founded the Priory of the Holy Sepulchre for the Amtinian Canons at Warwick, It wvas rebuilt in the sixteenth century. In 1925 it wa6 removed stone by stone and sent to America where it was He also rebuilt re-erected (D. Chron. 26 September 1925.) and endowed the Church of S. Mary's, Warwick, making it a collegiate foundation by incorpsrating with it All Saints Church which was v!ithin the precincts of Warwick Castle ( B m S . AND BUCKS. ARCH. JOUR. XIX. 92, October, 1913). In 1080 b e gave the tithes of Sturmi~ster, Gorset, Hill Morton, Norton, Great Hsrborough and the Mynor of Warmington in Karwickshire to the Abbey o f Przaux of which h e was patron, the Abbey having been founded by his grandfather. HE also confirmed to the Abbey ?he Manor of' Arlescote, and founded the Priory of Warmington.
In 1099 he fought against the Welsh and built a castle at Abertawy, near Swanspa, which was unsuccessfully attacked by the Welsh in 1113; he also captured the Gower peninsulain the south of Glamorganshjre. He built other castles at Penrhys, Llandhidiaz 2nd Swansea inll20, together with others at Oystermouth and Aberllyahor, the only remains o f t h e latter &re a mound and a keep. A m o e e d mound at Swansea, which was removed in 1804 m s probablyjthrown up at this period.

He surrounded his seat at Wedgnock, Co. Warwick, with a park, following ths example o f the King at Woodstock. These were the first lands t o be emparked in England (Dugdale's A N T . W A R W . I. 579).
3dericus tells us that "He was less prominent and less ambitious than his brother, but he was held in high repute for he was prudent, active, upright, and law-abiding, o f pleasant disposition and holy life."

He married before 1100, MargEtret dkughter o f Geoffrey Count of P e r c h e , (Jumiers 333. ORD. VIT. 111. 459) she was a benefactress t o the Knight6 Templzr, giving them the manor of Llsnmadoc, Glamorgan. To tht: Canons of Senilworth, she gave the lordship o f Salford, Co. Warwick. Odericus says

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"she was distinguished her for They had issue five sons.

piety

and

excellence

and

beauty."

X. Roger, heirto the Warwickestates.

11. Henry.

He seems to have inherited the Dorset. and

Devon estates,

according the, inscriptian inBerkley Church, to Somerset, which reads:Arms aNewboroughw

Sacred t o the memory o f the family of the Newboroughs Descended from Roger de Bellomont, Lordof Pontaudomer in Normandy and Adelina his wife, daughterby Walleran, Earl o f Mellent in France Cousin and Counsellor William the Conqueror with to whom he came into England which Rogerhad two sons Robert the Elder was Earl of Mellertand Leicester, and married Elizabeth daughter to Hugh the Great, son to Henry the First o f France. The second son mas Henry de Novo Burgo so called from a castle in Normandy where he was born, who was made Earlo f Warwick by the Conqueror, and EArldom that continued in his posteritythro' several noble and royal branches till it was extinct by the death hbrose Dudley, son to of the Dukeof Northumberland in 1589. Henry de Novoburgo, secondto the said son Henry Earl of Warwick settled in Dorset, where son founCed the Roger his Abby of Byndorl in 1172. From him in lineal descent came John Newburgh o f Lulworth Castle in Dorset who married Alice daughter o f William Carwent of Fayroke, and widow f o John Westburie of Berkley and was possessed this of manor in 1459. Several of the family represented the County of Dorset in Parliament In the reignof Henry VIII, Christian daughter and heiress to Sr Roger Nevrburg of Lulworth a lineal descendant to the &.foresaidJohn, carried off a great estate to the Lord Marney whose daughter co-heiress and married Thomas Howard, second son t o the Duke Norfolk, of who was created Viscount Byndon
Thomas Newbcrough cousin t o Sr. Roger a c heir male to ni this family, was the first who settled at Berkeley and

40. was buried in this Church in 1513. From him in a direct line descended Roger. Newborough the last ofthis name, who was buried here in1680, whose eldest daughter ar.d coheiress Anne married John Prowse Compton of Bishop, Esqr. She died in 1740 and is buried in that churoh
In honour to this family now extinct this inscription was placed here by Abigail, widow o f John Prowse son and heirt o the above named John Prowse and A m Newbcrough in the year 1'751 when this Church was rebuilt.

(See p. 62. ) (J.J. iiowerd , MISCELLAIJEA, GENEALOlfICA ET HXRALZICA.) He married Matilda daughter of and had issue one Roger or Robert (perhaps both) who founded Bindon Abbey for the Cistercians i n 1172. This was valued at the Refcrmation at E147 per a m u m and granted by Henry VI11 to Sir Thomas Pognings (Hutchen's Dorset. 129). I.
111. Robert de Newburg, heir to the Norman estates. In 1118 he joined in the rebellion against Henry I in the endeavour to restore William son of Duks Robert t o the Dukedom of Normandy. The King burnt his castle atNewburg, in September o f that year but course of time he vms restored t o the royal in favour. He enjoyed the confidenceof Henry 11, who conferred on him the office o f Chief' Justiciarf Normandy. He was a o benefactor t.0 the Abbeys of Bec and Preaux. In July 1159 he took the Cowl iy. the Abbey of'Bec, died there the he following 30th August, and was buried in the Chapter House. (Notes and Queries S XII. 43. Robert De Torigng p. 203. Chronicles 12. . IV. 205. 206). He was m elcquent man, but slow in action and more successful with his tongue than with hi3 sword. 3dericus says that "He was better fitted for the post of Justicim than soldiering being more ready with his speech than with his lancs." He probably went to the Second Crusade with his brother Rotrode (Dansey). He mwried Isabella (laughter of Paganellus, Sarl of .......... and had issue a son, Robert.

IV. Geoffrey.
V. Rotrode, a prjest in holy orders, consecrated Bishop
o f Evreux, 1139, ana Archbishop o f Rouen c. 1165; 27th Novem'ber 1183.

he died

R O G E R DE NEWBLJRGC, second Earl o f Warwick and Lord of. Gower , born c . 1102, d i e d 12th June 1153. He ii generally consideredto have been a devout and pious man; a chronicler of' the period "Gesta Regis Stephdni" speaks o f him as a "man of gentle disposition". The borough of Warwick remembers him 3s the founder of the Hospital O Y S. Michael for lepers which he endowed with the tithes of Wedgnock, and

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other property; he also endowed the House of the Temglars beyond the bridge. In the reign of Stephen he founded EX priory dedicated to S. Kenned at Llangennilth, Co. Glamorgan and he attached it as a cell t o the Abbey of S. Taurinus at Elvreux in Normandy. Henry VI granted this property in 1441 to All Souls College, Oxford (Thomas Turner, NOTITIA MONASTXCA.) He also founded the Collegiate Church Our Ladyat Warwick; of he gave t o the Abbey at Neath, lands and fishing rights in Gowerland and he made grants to other religious houses, details of which will be found in Dugdale's BARONAGE, I. 69; he was the patron o f the Abbey of Preaux.

He built the castle at Wareham, Dorset, the last traces of which were pulled down about 1910 in order to erect a private house on the site. He visitea the Holy Land several times took part in and the Second Crusade, and he apparently joined the expedition under Conrad de Hohenstfiufen when Lisbon was wrested from the Moors.
He was one o f the witnezses o f t h e charters of liberties granted by King Stepher- in London and Oxford respectively. When the King broke his pledges and misgoverned the country he joined the party o f the Empress Maud, he was present at, the siege o f Winchester in 1141 an2was taken prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln, he gained his liberty by being exchanged for the Earl of Gloucester who took the part o f the King. The Countess Gunreda turned Stephen's soldiers out, of the castle and handed it over to Henry I1 (WARWICK CASTLE, by the Countess, I. 61).
. He msrried Gunreda, daughter of William, Earl of Warenne . (J.H. Ramsay, and Surrey and Isabel de Eellomonte s e e p 18. Foundations o f England 11. 449, Guillaune De Jumiege p . 307). She married secondly William E i z Radulch, and died c. 1167. 't Roger had Issue:

I. William, heir.
Ti. Waleran, heir to his elder brother.
111. Henry.

A Henry mas Dean of Salisbury in 1205.

IT. Agxes. She married Geoffrey d e Clinton, Chamberlain t o the King and son o f Geoffrey, the founder of Kenilworth Castle and Priory.

~~IL'LIIAM NEWBUElG, third Earl cf Warwick, Lord of DX

Gower, born before 1140. He joined i n t n e Crusades s.nd 3ied in the Holy Land., L 5 t h Rovember 1184. He, like

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his sires, was a great benefactor to religious houses. He founded at Warwick the hospital o f S. John and S. Thomas, he also built a new c h x c h for the Templars and granted them the manor o f Sherborne and other lands in the county of Warwick. He gave the monks of Combe a hide of land in Bilneg, in confirmation o f a grant nade by Thurbert de Bilney, an8 he ratified t o the Priory of Kenilworth the Churches of Loxley, Kenilworth and Brailes.
Re was Fatron of the Abbeys of Whitby and Preaux and honorary brother of Pipewell Abbey.

In 1173 he took the part of the King, when the royal princes rebelled against their father. He lived in regal splendour at his castle in Warwick and was Lord o f one hundred and two Knights Fees (LIBER NIGER SCAZCARII, T. Hearne, 1774). A copy o f his will is found in J E Doyle's official EARONAQE, 111. 572. ..
He married firstly Margaret daughter o f Sir John D'Eivile and secondly Maud, daughter and co-heiress o f William, Lord Percy; he had n o children and was succeeded in the earldom by his brother Waleran. W.A.L E R A N DE NEWBUFG, fourth Earl of Warwick. Lord of Gower, born 1153, died 12th December 1204. After his brother's death an impostor arose, claiming to be the deceased Earl, he gave Waleran a great deal o f trouble in maintaining his claim (Dugdale's BARONAGE, I. 71). He does not appear to have been a great soldier, for he paid scrutage money 6251. 3s. 4d. t o escape military service in Wales (HIBT. WARWICK CASTLE, by the Countess, I. 611). His position in the Court i s attested by hi6 bearing at the Coronation of King John, 27th May 1199, the right hand Sword of State.

He liberally supported the hospital of S Michael, Warwick . and gave to the nuns of Pinley land at Claverdon, and land at Brailes to the nuns at Wroxall.

He married, before 1190, Margaret daughter of Humfrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and had issue by her two sons an& one daughter. His second wife WRS Maud daughter of John Be Harcourt; his third. wife was Alicia daughter o f John de Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt,Oxon, and widow of John d e Limesi and by her h e had two sons and two daughters. I. Henry, heir.
11. Walerzn, o f Greetham, Co. Rutland, d.s.p. before 1263.

111. Gunreda; she and her cousin Mabel became nuns at the Abbey of Pinley, the abbess recei7ed two silver marks yearly

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for
TV,

their pains.

Son.

V. Son. VI. Alicia; died before 1263. Sha married William de Mauduit, Baron Hanslape, Chamberlain to the King. He dleu 1237 ( 3 ) She had as a wedding dowry the Manor of Walton Mauduit, Co. Warwick and had issue:
L

(1) William, married Alice, daughter Segrave, he died without issue, (see p.46.)

of Oilbert d e

(2) Isabel, married William d e Beauchamp, Baron Emley (eee p.46.)

(3) Anne, married Richard Richard, Earl o f Salisbury.

Neville, yon and heir o f

Earl of Warwick, Baron Hokenorto 10th October 1229. He wes only twelve years old at, the death his father n e was committed of so to the care of Thomas Basset of Headington, Oxon. When h6 grew up he adhered to King John's side and comrnandau the Royal Army, notwithstanding that the King had duringhi3 minority seized his estates Gower in South Wales and given t h r t o at ,en William de Braose. This led to constant disputes between succeeding Earls and the Braoae family (WARWICK CASTLE, by the Countess, I. 62). He fought for Henry at the sieges 111 of Montsorel and Biham and at the storming o f Lincoln; in 1213 he paid two hundred and four marks eight shillings scrutage towards the cost of the war in Wales, ana the following year contributed forty two marks to that in Poictou.
He was patron o f Osney Abbey, Bicester Priory, Oxford, and Missenden Abbey, Bucks.

HmYHedenton, died DE NEWBURG, fifth and

He married first Margaret daughter and co-heiress of Henry D'Oili, Baron Hokenorton and Lord o f the Manclr of Liane7 ; the latter was a great-nsphew o f Robert D'Oili the builder c f Oxford Castle.Henrymarried a se2ondtime of Thomas Basset, Lord Philipga, daughter and co-heiress Hadenton. She married secondly Richard Siward, but divorced him in 1242. She granted the rent of lands at Studley, C o . Warwick t o the Friory at Bicester in order theit a lamp might be kept constantly burning in the church before tne altar of S. John t h e Baptist, for the health o f her soul and all her ancestors' couls and ner children's. She was buried in the Priory, which had been foundedbyher father. Henry had issue one son and two aaughters:

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I. Thomas, heir.
11. Margaret, heiress t o her brother (see p. 46).

111. Alics, married Hugo de Bastenbrege, Lord of Montfort.

T H O M A S DE NEWBURG, sixth Earl o f Warwick Baron Hokenorton and Hedenton, born 1208 a.s.p. 26th June 1242, buried in thetransept o f S. Mary's, Warwick. A memorial was placed in the Church, but when Thomas de Beauchamg rebuilt it in the daysof Edward 111, this one,in commonwith those to the memories of the previous Earls, was destroyed. Although he had attained his majority at the death o f his father, he did not get full possession of the earldom until four years later, when he was girt with the Sword of Knighthood; this took place at Gloucester where the King was spending Whitsuntide. He inherited his uncle's (Henry D'9ili) 3xrordshire of Bewdley, Co. Worcester an8 estate and owned the Manor rendered service for it, OT a fv.lly equipped archer for twenty days, as often as there was war against the Welsh. In 1241 he paid one hundred and eighty marks scrutage in order that he might be excusea attendance on the King in the expedition to Gascony, this was in excess of the sum due from him, the following yesr he paid a further one hundrea twenty marke and (Dugdale's BARONAQE I. 72; HIST. WAR. CASTLE, by the Countess,

I. 64).
At the coronation o f Eleanor o f Provence, the Queen he Consort of Henry I11 on the 26th June 1236,bore the third Sword of State, claiming that it was his hereditary right to do so (WARWICK CASTLE, by the Countess). He bequeathed money in his will or the restoration of the Collegiate Church Our Lady in Warwick; he left no issue of his sister the title therefore lapsed and his estatest o passed Margaret; t h e ti-tle waE afterwards revived in favour of her husband.

He married Ella, daughter of William Longespie, first Earl of Salisbury, natural son t o Henry I1 by Rosamond Clifford. Ella helped good works in many ways, amongst her benefactions are found grants to the nonks at Reading, the Canons of Osney, Oxford, S. Sepulchre's, Warwick, the grey friars in London, 2nd the Nuns o f Godstow, Oxford, where her grandmother Rosamund was buried. In 1295 she gave land to the University of *ford, from which a. certain amount of' the income was to be paid t o the fellows'of Merton College, that they might perform masses for her soul(A. Wood, 111. 4, and $.F. Percival, FOUNDATION STATUTES, MERT3N). Her coat o f

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arms is atill emblazoned in MertonDining Hall. Her commemoration wa8 duly observed in the oollega up to 1559 ( C O U . HIBT.). In 1293 8he caused a common chest to be made and put therein one hundred and twenty marks, out o f which &ah a8 were poor soholare,attached. to the University, might ugbn aeourity being given, borrow for the supply of their needs. In oonaideration whereof, the University agreed to celebrate certain eolemnmasses every year in Mary's Church. S. (Libri Cancellarli et Procumtorum, I. 64). The proctorsbeing of responsible for the due celebration the masses (Chronicles Great Britain, Rous Rolls) borrowers were bound to repeat the Paternoster thricein honour of the Trinity and the Ave Maria five times in honour of the Virgin (Mallet Hist. Univ.I 322). . The cheat wa8 known a8 "the Warwick Chest" and was in use up to the days of Edward V (Dugdale's BARONAGE, I. 72). She bequeathed to the poor o f the borough o f Warwick "The comin ground that unto thys daye is callyd the cleypittisw,,.. "She was special goodelsdye to the hospital of Segnt Nichells of Warwick, among orde gevyng hem fredrme these courtis to She holde after the P o m e of the comun lew" (ROUS ROLLS). wide uharity died at Headington, Oxford "beloved by all for her and her many virtues" on the 6th February 1299/1300, and was buried before the High Altar in Osney Abbey at the head of the tomb of Henry D'Oili, amarble t o m b with a memorial brass, , shewing her dressed a8 a vOW888, was erected t o her memory (HBIARNHI I. 47). Leland, in his ITINICRARY written in 1542 (11. 19) sags "Ela Countes o f Warwick, a woman of very g m a t riches and nobilite lyith buried at the hadde of the tumbe of Henry Oilley, undre a very fair flat marble, in the habite of a woues (vowess) graven yn x coper plate. She gFtva many rich jewellevto Osenep nnd sum landeu to Royle (Rewley) Abbey by Oseney also riche giftes to Thabbayo f Reading." In 1705 Hearne the antiquarian found a portion o f the foundation stone among the ruinsof Rewley commemorhting Ella's oonnectionwith the Abbey, this he purchrsed and gave to the University, it is The lettering is still preserved in the Ashmolean Museum. as follows I

: Bla

Comit; Hnc t Fecit1 XPC :

. *

Longesgr Warew: Capellam: C.J : Pmiv : sit: In: Gla: A : m

Written in full it would read

' m ' LONGESPIE COMITISSA WAREWICI HANC CAPELLAM I'E,LIT CUJUS PEWWIUM SIT CHRISTUS IN QLORIA, AMEN." (R "A O OXONIENSIA, p. x . x)

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Ella Longespie Clountess o f Warwick built this Chapel. May Ohrlst in His glory be her reward, Amen.
Hearne say8 in regard to it "ELA 8AXUM QUOD IN HORTIS COENOBIl DE LOCO REGAL1 W O REWLEY PROPE OXONIUM ANN0 1705 W T M FLEDEMIT ET ACADRNIAE DONAVIT. UU, CL. HEARPJE QUI ID IN HUNC MODUM INTERPRIUATUR." Thie may be translated as follows VieRrne bought Ella'e stone and gave it to the University in 1706, whioh he found in the gardens of the Monastery in the Royal place usually known as Rewley, near Oxford." Her heart was buried at Rewley Abbey, Dr. W. Stukeley in hie, Itinnarium curiosum, (I. 43) says that in 1724 he saw a memorial stone ir, n wall amongst the ruina which read "Elea De Warwik Comitisstie Viscera Sunt HIc." When pulling down a uottage near Osney Mill at the end of the last century the stone was rediscovered and placeh in the Cathedral. It has evidently been broken since Stu-keley's days as it now m a d s ... ."De Warwik. . ....isse Viscera Bunt Hic" (Donce S. 847. p. 43).

After the death of her husband, she married Sir Philip. Basset of Wgcombe, Bucka, son o f the chief justiae ofEngland (Nichols Laycock Abbey p. 161.) He died 6th February 1297. Her seal is illustrated in "Laycock Abbey" p. 162. c. died 1883 (12631) sister and heiress the sixth BltLrl, . S e h. married first John Mareschall, Earl of Pembroke and secondly John de Plessetis, the latter wa8 a great favourite with Henry I11 and in 1247, he created him the seventh Earl O F Warwick and subsequently Count of Warwick; he died 20th February 1263. There was noissue by either of these marriages and at Margaret's death the estates p w s e d to her cousin Williamde Mlauduit. W I L L I A M DE MAUDUIT; son of Alicia andgranason of the fourth Earl; married Alioe daughter of Gilbert de Segrave. He diedwitnout issue 8thJ~tnuarp1267, the estates then gassed t o his sister Isabel.

MARGARET of Thomas1215, DE NEWBURG, born

He adhered t o Henry I11 in the wars with the barons and he was sur1;rised i n his castl:! at Warwick by John Qiffaru, the

governor of Kenilworth Castle. The w:tlls o f the Castle were destroyed !<rid the Countess t:iken prisoner t o Kenilworth, and only released on payment of a ransom nineteen hundred marks. of

ISABEL DE MUDUIT is supposed t o have been buried at the Nunnery o f Cokehill, where there was an inscriptionto her memory. She married William de Beauchamp, Baron Elmley, he

died c. 1269.

She had issue a son, William, who was created eighth Bar1 of Warwiok. The title and estates remained In the Beauohamp family for Seven generations and then gassed by marriage to Riohard Neville, who wa8 created B12trl of Warwiok, H e la better known as "the King maker". He was slain at the Battle of Barnet 14th April 14'71 fighting on behalf of Henry VI The line finally died out in 1889, on the death of Ambrose Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.
Leland the sixteenth aentury writersays i n h i s ITINEEURY "There wt%s three of the Bellemontes, Brlej of Warwicke in order, The thirdo lakking Issue male had a doughter. This doughter was maried onto nobleman caulled.,..and he had by a her a doughter the which married onto the Lorcie Bechamp's sunne and heyre of Eelmeley Caste1 by the Roote o f Bredon Hille In Wlcesterahire and thus was the Bellemontes and the Bechamps kindred joined. The meanee that Beohamp o m t o the Praaferrements of the heire of Bellemontes was this. The olde Lorde Beahamge Helmffleg sent 3 or 4 o f his sonneE of to the Bate1 ofBvvesham. to helpe King Henerye the 3rd. and and the Baronsm d the Prince Bldwarde again8 Simon Monteforte brethren with their.band didLL greate feate in vanquishing the hoate o f Monteforte. Where upon the eldest had Bellemontes heire an8 the residew where highly praeferrsd, The Bechamps afterwards kegte the name o f the Blrle of Warwik to King Bdward the 4th tyme."

There were Beaumonts in the county of Warwick in the fourteenth aentury for we find reoords of Walter Beaumont, a who had a 8on Thomas c. 1325, the latter had son John, who had a son Riaimrd, who had a eon William c. 1430, who had a son =ward of Treelnghtam c. 1496.
The famous late thirteenth century cope in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, known as the Byon Cope bears amongst others the arms of Thomas de Newburg. It presents in embroidery, the crucifixion, the archangel Michael transfixing the dragon, the death, burial and the coronation of the Holy Mother, our Lord in glory and the Apostles and Angels.

It derives its name from the Convent of Syon at Isleworth, which was founded in 1414 by Henry V for the Bridgettine Nuns, in,to whose hands it came probably soon after its foundation. When the nuns were driven from England in t h e days of Queen Elizabeth, they carried the cope with them in their wanderings through Flanders, France and Portugal to Lisbon, 8nd they brought it with them when they returned to England in 1830, after passing through the hands of the

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sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury, and Doctor Rock, it was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum at; the cost of 2110, from the Right Reverend Richard Brown, in 1864 (CAT. VICT. AND ALBERT MUSEUM, Kensington). The Newburg arms are the sixth from the left hand top corner, they are also twice shewn on
the rounded border.

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CHAPTER IV.

THE NORMAN FAMILY

- THE EARLS OF WORCESTER.

"Here brave warriors, ye uay fight without danger; for here t o d i e is gain, and t o conquer is glory."

L I m OF S. B W N A R D OF CLAIRVAUX
(Appeal t o Germany Second Crusade, Margaret Allen, 1906, p. 104.)

GENEALOGICAL CHART.
Waleran de Bellomonte 1st Norman Earl of Worcester

I l

I
I

-_I
I

--_-I I I
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l

Robert Isa- Amaury Roger Wal2nd Earl eran bella

_----___---_. --_-I_

Eti- Hugh Marie A m i c e Duda enne

Robert Earl 3rd

Peter. Joan

I
I

l l

--

Wal- Henry Amaury Wil- ,Cnfrey liam eran

--------I l I
l

,I

-_--_--Raoul

I
Jean

Waleran William d.s.p, 4th Earl

Robert Roger Edabira Rr;oul Gallien Jean

Mary m. R.Courter~ay

William

I
William

John

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W A L E R A N DE EELLOMONTE; first Esrl of Worcester, Count of Meulan and Mellent, Lord of Pont Audemar, Brienne and Beaumont. He was also k n o w n . as William of Wigonia
(Worcester).

He waz born in 1104 and died at the monastery ut Preaux 9th April 1166; he v:as the twin son of Robert first Norman Earl of Leicester (sze p. 18 9RD. VIT. 111. 348. IV. 59). At his father's death he received as his share o f the inheritance, the Norman estates at Meulan. and Beaumont. He also o n e 3 the manor of Vatteville on thr lsft bank of the Seine (ibid 111. 474). Like his brother, he was a great feudal statesmRn and warrior.

In 1119 during Henry l's struggle in Normandy against his nephew son o f Robert Duke o f Normandy, Waleran sided with the King; but in 1123 ne joined in a conspiracy at Croix S. Leufroi, but he wa8 defeated by William d e Harcourt at the Battle of Bourgteronde, he flea t o Bsienne; on Henry's approach he withdrew to his castle at Beaumont.. The King captured his castles :it Brienne and Pont Audemar, the latter after a seven weeks siege, 2nd burnt his towns of Montfort, Erienne and Pcnt Audgmar, (ibia I. 155). He also deprived him of his title of Count of Yeulan. In the following year, 24th March 1124, he proceeded t o the relief' of his tower of Vatteville, he had with him his three brothers-in-law, Hugh cite Chateau Neuf,Hugh d e Montfort and William Lord of Breval. Very early in the morning they assaulted the entrenchments Khich the Kjng had thrown up round the castle and they endeavoured t o force a convoy of provisions through to the besieged. But Waleran and the two Hugh8 snd about eighty men at arms were captured and closely confined for five years, first at Rouen and then &gland. in The King had now reduaed all W8leran's castles except that ctt Beaumont; which he ordered him to deliver up and Waleran being a prisoner he realised that discretion wa6 the better part of valour, and fearing t o expose himself to greater peril if he refused, he sent a messenger t o Morim who had charge O F his affairs to give it up without delay (ibid IV, 77, T, Forester). He was afterwards pardonecl, but again rebelled declaring t'or William of Normandy, nephew of King Henry. The Royalist forces Captured his castles at Brienne and Pont Audemar (ibid I. 165). By 1135 he had regained theKing's confidence, for he and his twinbrother were both present at Henry's deathbed. He then took up Gtephen's cause and in the spring of 1136 he went to Normandy and in the autumn o f that yeas captured Roger de Toeni. He remained there till the following spring and then returned to Bngland, the next year he was msde Joint Lieutenant of Normandy, soon after he crossedthe Channel again, in order to suppress a rising against the English government. Towaras the end of1158 he returnecl t o England and was then sent north

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t o attack the Scots, driving them out of the castle of Wark, he was probably present at the Battle o f the "Standard" at Northallerton when the Sco'cs wera completely defeated.

By this time he had become chief adviser to the King and he defended him in his controverag with the Bishops of Salisbury and Ely at the Council O P Oxford (Stubbs C3NSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, I. 321; Freeman, NORMAN HIST. V. 287)" Matters c8me to :L crisis, a riot followed, the Bishop was seized and imprisoned, this .was followed by civil war. Robert, Earl o f 6loucester, cousin of the King attacked Worcester in October 1139 on behalf 0' tha Empress Maud; he 1 destroyed a considerable portion o f the city and carried off a large amount of plunder; on the 13th of November Waleran attacked and defeated John FitzHarold, who was serving under then re-entered the city and the Earl of C+loucester, he He was in chief command at the captured many prisoners. Battle o f Lincoln in 1141, when he saw that the battle was lost he escaped, but the King, surrounded by a few of his Knights, fought with great courqe, but at last w o m out by fatigue and deserted by all, he surrendered to his Cousin Robert and was by him taken to the Empress Maud, who causza him to be imprisoned at Bristol (HENRY OF HUNTINGDON, 224, 30.) Later in the gear he with his brother Robert negotiated pesoe with Geoffrey of Anjou (3RD. VIT. IV. 221).

He served under Gaoffrey, Count Anjou in the siege of of Rouen in 1143/4; he afterwards captured and burnt Emandreville and the Church of S. Sever, where many of both sexes geri8hed in the flames. The Empress Matilda captured his castle at Worcester and qrarzted it to William de Beauchamp (GEOFFREY
DE MANDEVILLE, Round, p. 313).

In 1144 Stephen rewarded him for his many services by creating him Earl ot' Worcester, he also made him a grant of
the town.

He went on a pilgrimage t o Jerusalem and subsequently to the disastrous Second Crusade in 1147 and took part in tha attack on Lisbon, when the Moors were driven out of the City (Dansey, CRUSADES, RAMSAY, Foundations o f England, 11 433). On his return in 1149 he quarrelled with the King, ana went so far as to ofl'er the crown t,o Theobald, Stephen's brother, but this was declined (Dr. Brtght, Hist. Eng. I, 84). Re then joined the party of the EmFre..ss Matilda and held Worcester on her behalf. The King captured and burnt the town, but failed in his attempt o n the castle. Two years later the KFng attacked again, Waleran was driven out and escaped to Normandy, whera he was taken prisoner by his pephew Robert d e MontfGrt , who confined him in the castle or Obec, he gained his release by a gract of some portion o f his estate

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to his nephew. In 1154 he sctempted to take the castle of idontfort, but without success. The King then captured and burnt the city o f Winchester which belonged Waleran (Dansey). to
In 1157 ws find him at Henry 11's Court and in May 1160 h- w s one of the witnesses t o the Treaty of' Peace betxeen Henry I1 and Louis o f France; ht. also at this t i m e witnessed tk?e charter o f the Abbey of Coggeshall.

He RES generous in his gifts t o churches, amongst others to the Abbey of Notre D.,Lrne du Voeu, in the diocese o f Rouen. This he founaed, in conjunction withthe Empress Matilda, the latter in fulfilment o' a vow which she made when besiegedat r Oxford and in like manner the Plarl for a vow taken when shipwrecked on returning from the Holy Land. He also gave veryliberally towards the foundation o f Bordesley Abbey, Co. Warwick c. 1141. A facsimile ot' a deed conveying one of his gifts wi.l1 be found in K S Ell i s ' ROYAL AND OTHER CRARTERS . .. s HE made rich qrants t o the Church cf S. Nicaise, Mellent and ) built a bridge thsre. He also ge-Je an orchard and ninety acre8 o f lsnd, near t o his castle, t o the A'bbey of B. E, in 1144, this was sanction26 by the Pope, but the monk8 at S. Frideswide ' , S Oxord cl%imed the land, the dispute was settled by Waleran giving an estate at Edenetown to S. Frideswids's. In after years he took the 3enedictine hcrbit of the Abbey of P r e a u of' which he was Fatron. The Abbot o f Mont S. Michel said "he was the qrextest richest and best man in Normandy."
His seal, depicting him on horseback,may be seen at the British Museum (Equestrian Seals p. 245. Catalogue I1 235.) It is one o f the earliest examples of heraldrp which we have. It WRS in use in 1150. (Rouna, Archaeological Journal LI. 43).

In 1136 King Stephen betrothed his daughter Mary .of Blois, when only two years old to him, but he eventually married Elizabeth (? Agnes), widow o f Gournay de Rochfort and daughter of' Simon d e Montfort, Earl Evreux. They had issuer of

I. Robart, heir.
11,. Isabella. In June l180 she made a grant to the Abbey of Savigny in the diocese o f Coutances. She married first Qeoffrey, Baron d e Maggenne ar.d secondly Maurice, Lord o f Craon.
111. Amaury.

IV, Roger.

V. Waleran, Lord of Montfort. In 1178 he was present at the dedication of the Church o f Notse Dame du Bec,

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VI. Bltienne.
Of

VII, Hugh, Lord of Blinchefeld, a benefactor to the Abbey Reason.

VIXI. Marie, married Huqh T:tlbot, Baron of Cleuville, Lord

of Hotot-sur-Mer.

IX. Amiae, married Henry, Baron de Ferrieres.

X. Duda, married William de kiolinss, issue (1) SimOn (2) Hugh, both died young.
Audemer, Lord of Pr.ea;x and seoond Earl- of Worcester; died 20th September 1181. He attested many charters to Abbeys and churches amongstothe-rs one t o the Monastery of S. Yary de Prb at Rouen in 1167 and he made many handsome gifts t o religious houses. In August' 1173 he joined Prince Henry in his rebellion against his father Henry 11. He was present at the meeting of King Henry and Louis o f France 21st September 1177, when the former took the oath which he failed 30 keep t o join in a new C r u s ~ d e(Michelet, HIST. FRANCE, I. 492). The following year he witnessed a grant of 100 per annum in favour o f the Abbey of Bec, whiah was chargeable on the revenues of the Visoomteof Rouen. His seal will be found in the British Museum. He married Maud daughter and 00-heiress of Reginctld,

Earl of Cornwall, a,natural son o f Henry 1 by Blizabeth daughter of Rolert de Bellomonte first Earl of Leicester.

I. Robart, heir.
11. Peter, succeeded hia brother Robert ir, the Earldom of Mellent and became head of the Courseuiles family. He abandoned the Royal party in 1207, handing his castle over to the King o f Frame. He died Boon afterwards. Be married Eustache daughter of William Brcon, Lord de Bdolley and had

ia8u0, two sons:

(1) Raoul, heir. (2) Jean, Lord o f Plaigne, Canon o f Rouen. He founded an Obit for his mother in connection with this churah.

&OUL DI M E L I N T , Lord d e Beaumont, Baron de Brienne and E de Coursevllle, Lord Bennieres, de Lion; de Chsstillon and de Molley-Bacon. He gave up hie estates at Beaumont and Brienne to King Louis of France in August 1265 in exchange

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for the Lordship o f Courseules, on paying 8600 and rendering two knights service for forty days. He then ceased t o use the surname of Beaumont.. In 1298 he was summoned to parliament. He marriedBlanahedaughter of Jean,Baron Ferrieres, secondly married Jeanne, Baron de Hambie and had issue: la. daughter Fouzues-Painel, of

Raoul, Lord of Uourseules, heir. Gallien de Mellent, Lord o f Teil, alive 1358. Jean de Mellent, Canon of S Sepulohre's at .Cuen .

2a.
3a.

111. Joan, (third child of Robert) married Beaumesnil de St. Celerin and secondly married in 1179 Robert be Haruourt from uihom the FrenchHarcourt~are bescended.

VI. Waleran, Lord de Beaumont, alive in 1223, married 1179 Marguerite, daughter of Raoul, Baron de Fougeree and widow o f William Count d e Bertrand, issuer
(1) Roger, d.8.p.
(2) Robert, one o f the founders of the Abbey of Barbery in the dioaese o f Bayeux, alive in 1222, married Agnss de Preaux in 1204, issue one, Mabire, married In 1223 Willlamcja TM6 Vernon, Count o f Devon, Lord of Isle of Wight, d.q.9. estates then p&osed to her great uncle Peter (see SUPRA).

. .

V. Henry, Lord of Sahus. In 1192 he witneseed a charter granted by his rather to the Abbey of Bonport.
VI. Amaury, Lord of Roissy, he witnessed a charter in 1180.

VII. Willfam, Lord of Vey.

VI11 . Onfrey .

ROBh;RT DE BHILLOMONTE, de Wigonia and of Breston, Belstone, Devon, Count of Meulen, third Earl: of 'Woraester. In 1191 he sided with John in his endeavour to seize the kingdom, whilst Riahard Coeur de Lion was at the Crusades,
as a punishment he was excommunicated and his Dngllsh estates of the Barons. In were forfeited by theGreatCounail 1204 on the capture of Normandy by Philipaof Brance he lost his Norman estates, they were added to the Frenoh royal domain.

He married Jane, daughter and uo-heiress O f Baldwin of Belrtone, Isrusr

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I. Waleran, killed whilst on a pilgrimage, apparantly left no issue.

11. William, heir.
111. Robert d e Wigonia of Zelston.
W . Roger, a priest in holy orders, held R Prebendal stall at S. Paul's Catheurai in 1192.

V. Mabira, married -.t Beaux near Zouen, William (Richard?) d e liivier.s, Earl of' the Isle of Wight, somf; authorities say she mdrried 'ii'illiamdeVernon, Earl of Devon, .,the latter died 1217. She had a.son, Baldwin..

VTILLIAM OF WIGONZA, fourth Earl o f Worcester, owned South Tawton and other estatea i ? Devonshire. r William
had issue,
E

daughter.

I. Mary, m a r r i e d R o b e r t C o u r t e m y , iscue William who obtained + grant, of t . k m:inors of Chivelstone, Devon, Wrny, : East Ayshe from Henry 11, 11:~ then assumed %he surname of ChlveLstone. He married and. had issue two sons:
la. VJilliarn d e W r h y , hela the manor or" Northwyke, Worcester, in 1243.
2b.

John de Chivelstone.

For the descendants of the ChiTelstone fsmily see Charles Worthey's CEVCNSHIRK WILLS p. 387. These estates passed eventually by marriage into the Halw?ll family.

Robert Ee3umont o w e d lands at Throkrnort.cn,Worcestershire in 1325 on which he raiu2d $60 from Robert d e Throkmorton.

A Robert d e Meulen held the Bishopric o f Hereford In 1167.

THE DEVONSHIRE FAMILY.

*.....all your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this i n marble."

Beaumont and Fletcher, PHILASTER. V. 3,

Arms: Barry of Six Vaire and Gules,a lion rampant between ten fleur de lys or, in chief a crescent for difference.

GENEALOGICAL CHART 1096-1613.

Philip deBellornonte, Lord of Highampton.

I
Richard Visoomte
John d.8.p.

I - William
~ ~~~ ~ ~~

Richard William Ralph 2nd Viacomte

Richard William Constance Erminnarda married 3rd Viscomta Will'iam the Lion King o f Scotland Sir Philip Agnes Ancestress of the Carlton I Sir Richard Towers family Bee p. 8 . 1 I

Alexander 11.

I I I
l

Alexander 111,

I -I

I I '

I ---

Sir Philip Sir William Sir John

Uargaret married Eric King of Norway.

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W -

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Sir Rich- Wil- Lucfa Alice Mar- Mat- gate John ard liam garet ilds

l
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i I 1

II

I I I
Margare t The Maid of Norway died on the sea when coming to Sootland to alaim the Crown

Sir Joane Blizabeth Wil- d.s.p. d.s,p. liam

d.8.g.

Sir
Riahard

Aliae

I 1 I I 1 I I

September 1290,
aged 8 years.

Sir John

Sir

I' I I

Steghen

Thomaa Maud

William Sir Thomas

Isabel

Thomas

I I I I

1
I

William Thomas Jane

Richard Sir William Philip d.8.p. d.s,p. d.3.p. his wife had an illegitimate son John, who took the h m i l g name see p. 67.
John

l
J0P.n

Thomas

l I I

Hugh

I I I

John.Alicin
d.8.g.

John Margaret d.s .p.

Henry I I

William

I I

Philip

I
Johanne

Humphrey William Eliaubeth Philigpa Henry

d.s.p.

I
I

I
1

John d.s.p.

William d.s.p.?

Thomas d.s,g.

-l

Elizabeth

the estates then passed t c the Oole Orton family, see p. 136.

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Amongst the estates granted by the Conqueror to Robert de Bellomonte, first Norman k r l o f Leicester, was that of Aiacirewell, ?IOW known as Ghirwell in the parish of Yolston, Devon, the Domesdsy book shows that the estate WHE at that date in hi8 possession. At his death it possibly passed to his youngest son Hugh. The desoendants flourished in the county up to the days of Henry VII, when Hugh son of Sir Thomas, died without male issue. The estates werethen Duringthis period the family enriched divided (see p. 67). itself by marrying wealthy heiresses. In the days of Henry 11, 80me of these estateB belonged to Thomas de Bellomonte, Lord of Shirwell and Yolston, he owned also other demesne8 at Cockington and Ashford, Devon. He had at least one son John About this time a John held the manor of Beamonds, West Bergholt, Essex, 8. John also acoompanied S.\Louis of France on the Crusade to the Holy Land 1249. 3n This John had a son Philip. At tt somewhat earlier period than this a yhilip wap, Lord of' Highampton.

P H I L I P DE BEIXOMONTE, Lord of Highampton Devon, held a large share o f the various estates in the oounty, he had issue two sons!

I. Riohard, heir.
11. William.

century .MS.formerly preserved in the Cathedral Library at Bayeux, but which wss destroyed at the Revolution in 17.91, there is a list of Knights who accompanied. Robert, Duke of Normandy to the first Crusade in 1096-1100. Amongst the names we find that of Sire Richard be Bellomonte (DU MOULIN SEIGNEURS DE NORMANDIE, arid J.C. Dansey, Crusades g. IV. ) , fortunately a sixteenth century copy escaped destruction and i e still preserved in the Library.
The Crusades made a strong appeal to the Norse spirit old o f wandering and hdventure so strongly embeddedin the various generations of the family, at l e m t eleven members went t o the seven expeditions which were undertaken during the succeeding two hundred years. Their pilgrimages t o the Holy Land and their love o f adventure had made them familiar with the difficulties before them,but they flinched not, and as they buckled on their armour and kissed the Crucifixand took up the sactred badge, they pledged their never dying honour

RIG-,first Vi comte -deQEBTA, p. 308).Lord oa Montrevaut Beaurnont and f In fourteenth (William deJumieges

'o ahase these pagans, in those holy fields T Over whose acres walk'a those blessed feet
Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd Bor our advantage on the bitter arosa."
Shakespeare, Henry IV, pt. I, Act. I, Sc. 1.
A8

we trace their fortunes and note their heroic &rdour

on those Syrian fields,we cannot but admire their devotedness t o t h e cauae they held so dear. It was however all in vain, for the first expedition which ended with the capture of Jeruaslem waa practically the Only successful one. Qeoffrey of Clairvaux consolFts ua with the thought that athough Lt did not at all relieve the Holy Land, it could not be oalled unfortunate, as it served t o people heaven withmartyrs. The Churoh on high therefore attainsd a joy proportioned t o the
number of those who by their deathrendered up thyir souls to Christ" (Mabillon, I, 73, LIFE OFST. BERNARD, alsoD. John's life o f S. Bernard).
Richard was probably created a Vicomte at the time that he married Constance the natural daughter c f Henry I by Elizabethdaughter o f Robertde Bellomonte (see p. 19). The King gave her the Manor of South Tawton, Devon aa a dowry, she received the income o f the same up to 1157, she also had a few government grants in the reign o f her nephew Henry 11.
They had issue four sons:

I. John, tl.s.p.
11. Richard, heir.
111. William, married a daughter of Roland, Lord Rieux of Bretaigne.

IV, Ralph, Bishcp o f Anjou 1179. A Raiph witneeaed a grant made by Berenger d e Cessi to Ctlvleacre Priory, about this time.
seven miles from Newton Abbot, some of the bench-ecds of in the Church werecarvgd with the arms t h e second Viscount and at Wolborough in the second window from the vest end of the north aisleof.tne Church they were quartered with those (C. Worthy Devon Farishes 11. 10.) of the Courtenay famtly. He had issue two sons and two daughters.

I. Richard, heir.
11. William, Bishop of Angers.

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111. Constance, marriea c. 1162, Roger, Baron de Toeni of Flamsted, Herts. a descendant of Roger de Toeni, who was standard bearer at the Battle o f Hastings; her father gave her, as a wedding d o w r y , the Manor of South Tawton, Devon. (Trans. Devon Soc. XXXIV. 590). This Manor passed in after years to Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick who djed in 1315, he was descended on his mother's side from Henry d e Newburg see p. 46; (Holinshed p. 463, Sir John Maclean,T R I W MINOR).

IV. Ermingarda, married Friday 5th September 1186 to William the Lyon, King of' Scotland, a cousin of King Henry 11. The wedaing took place at the Royal Palace of Woodstock, the festiPities were kept up with the utmost magnificence for four successive days (Davenport's OXFORDSHIEiE ANNALS, p. 9). The Ermingarda thus King being present e m 3 paying the costs. became the ancestress of two Scottish Kings an9 her great grand-daughter was Queer. o f Norway. The Scottish line bec#me extinct in the person o f Marqaret %he Maid of' Norway, whose untimely death at the early age of' eight years in September 1290, was the occasion of so many calamities t o that kingdom, this took place wken she was on the journey t o Scotland in order to claim the Crown.
&CHARD
died before 1249. .

DE aEAUMONT, third Vicomte, borr, at Yolston, Lssue one 'son and one daughter:

I. Philip.
11. Agnes. There is a difficulty here, Philip inherited . some i f not all the estates, but not the title. He was however later created H 'baron, Some writers do not.-mention him at all, in like m+.nnerothers omit any ?eference to Agnes. A possible explanation is t h n t Philip' w'9s illegitimate and that Agnes inherited the title,or was raised to the dignity (see p. 81).

S I R PHILIP BEAUMONT, Lord o Highhmpton, hsd issue: r '

I. Richard.
S I R RICHARD BEAUMC)NT held zhe m2n3rs o f Lokeshore %ad Chilton (? Cheld'on).Somerset;. a Rich'ard held the manor of Witestan in 1285, se6 p: 14. Sir Richard had issue:

I. Philip, -heir.
11. Willialn of Sabrecot (? Sandecote, Dorset). AWilliam gave c. 1243 lahds s n buildings in Balvine Strete, Bristol td for the support or' a Chaplain, to celebrate mass in %he 'chapel of the Blessed Mary, hara 'by the Church o f S. Nicholas, Bristoi for t h e sake of his soul and those of all his relatives

(Bristol Arch.. Soc. Liv.). He probably accompanied S. Louia o f . France t o the sixth Crusade in 1249, a Henry de Beaumont also took part in it (Dansey ENGLISH CRUSADES). William married Margaret and had issue,

(1) Richard., died 1294. He bought the manor - o f Rockbeare Baldwyn, Devon, he inherited the family estates from his cousin Joane, daushter of' Sir John (see p. 62). A Richard witnessed 2 deed of 9 gift of land made by Oliver de Dynhamto the burgesses o f Harton c. 1290, (Trans. DevonSoc. XXXIV. 426). He had a son John (see p. 621.
(2) Alice, married William Carge of Castle Cary, Devon. He died 1302/3.. She held the manor of Paaeston, Devon and had issue a son Richard (Dugdale's PEERAGE 3E'SOTLAND, I 666). .

S I R PHILIP BBAUMONT died c. 1272 (?.) He held the manor of Little Ernscomb i n 1243; he witnessed in 1293 d grant made by Richard Strecha o f WasYord, t o the Prior and Monks o f S Mary Magdalene, Barnstable. He married Blrrnengarda . daughter and heiress of Sir John Punchardon, issue a son, John.
S I R J9HN BEAUMONT o f Yolston, died 1330, M.P. for Devon 1326 (Trans. Devon Soc. XLIV. 380). He held lands at Shirwell, which previously belonged to Hugh de Courteney. His wife Lady Alice .was owed bp John da Chudleigh (e300, this he failed t o pay at Easter 1338, she therefore obtained a sheriff's order o f imprisonment against him (CL3SE ROLLS, 1337, g. 268).
He married Alice Scudamore and had isaue!

I. John, heir.
11. Richard.
The town records of Abbeville probably refer
t o this individual where they state that "The Blaok Prinse being hard presaed by the French at the Battle of Croog and being surrounded and thrown to the ground, would infallibly have fallen into the power of' the e n e m y but for Richard de Beaumont, who carried the great banner of Wales whichhe threw over the Prince and having placed hla feet on it, with hi6 sword in both hands, he repelled the assailants, the Bar1 of Arundel came up at this critiaai momant at the head OP tho second division and forced the French to retire" (Hietoire d e 8 Yayeurs d'Abbeville p. 328, also Histoire d'bbbeville g. 440. P.C. Louandre).

111. William.

IV, Luoia.

V. Alice. About 1310 an Alioe Beaumont gave lands at 'rryen ( P Trewen), Cornw%llto Michael and Matilda Belet. Was this
Matilda %he sister of Alice? (see below). An Alice Beaumont married John de DaKworth of Dagworth, Suffolk, before 1340.

VI. MargEret, married Thomas Keynee of Dorrlish, Somerset 1363, and had issue a son John (Collinson's SI)MEFiSET).

VII. Matilda.

VIII. a t e .
A John Beaumont hs.d at this time provide sixty archers to be at Portsmouth within three weeks of August 28th, 1346; this was at the time of the French Wars, two days after the Battle o f Orecy. (Hist. Call. Eltaff XVIII. 58-72). They were delayed jn sailing by a storm. He married Alice Issue:
CO

S T R JOHN BEAUMONT. __

I. William, d.8.p
11. Joane, mRrried 8ir James Chudleigh; she died. without issue leaving her property to her second oousin Richard son o f William of Sabrecot, (see p. 61). f Devon, notes and querite v. 3).
111. Bllizabeth, d.e.p.

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S I R JOHN BEAUMDNT, aon of Richard (see p. 611, died on Monday on the feast of's,Qregory the Pope (lZthMarch1 He bought the Mahor of Parkham, Devon and had 1379/0Q. estatea in Cornwall. He was Knight of ths Shlre 1376-80.
(Trans. Devon Soo. XLV. 263). He married first daughter Keg, and secondlx Joane Crawthorne grand-daughter and heiresa o f Sir Robert 'Stockey M.P. 1318, of Crawthorne and Cranstone, (ibid XLV. 262). She mttrrled afterwards Slr William Esturnay. Sir John had issLet-'
of

I. William, heir.
11. Stephen, married Alice Sevington, of Kent, issue.
( 1 ) A son Thomas, who had issue a son

la,

William. 1 b.
2b.

He married Jane daughter Courtenag,

issue
Thomas

Jane, who married William P r o m e (see p. 4 ) 0.

Thomas had issue William.

By his second wife Joane Sir John had issue, a 8on and three daughcers, 111. Thomas presented Thomas Henderson S.T.P. t o the living o f S. Mabyn 13th April, 1415. A Thomas Boaumont married Johanna relict of Thomvs Courtenay, she died 26th Dzoember, 1421. At the Battle of Agincourt 1415, a Thomaz served under Sir Richard Hastings.

IV. Maud or Matilda married 16th Ootober, 1417 Sir Hugh Courtenay of Raccombe. Xnightbannerette (Trans. Devon 500. XLV. 266). She died 3rd July, 1467 and was buried in the Lady Chapel of S. Nicholas Priory4 this bullding was destroyed in 1638 at the time o f the Reformation.In making an exaavation for a aellar on the site of this chapel 8th J w e , 1842, a lead ooffn was discovered containing human bones, g e r 4 p s the remains of Maud. Her will is recorded in ffeorge Olivers MONASTIC3B DI3CESIS EXONIENSIS, p. 124.

%-V. Catherins (3 Jme). She probably married SIr John Lutterell of Dunster Castle, Somerset, he W R a Privy Councillor ~ and died 1427/8. She died 1431. The ktterells still live at this castle andown the estate.

VI. Elizabeth probably married Richard, Lord Hungerfordand

had issue, a daughter Margaret,.

S I R WILLIAM BEAUMONT, of Highampton, born 1366/7, died 1408. He was sheriff of the county in 1399 and held lands at Ashvater, Devon and Aylescot, Warwick, and the castle and borough of Barnstable. His P.M. Inquisition s h o w that he was very wealthy (No. 67. 1422). A Sir William Beaumont scoompanied Sir Henry.Beaumont to the wars jn Flanders, 1385
and was at the Siege o f YgresJ.

He married Isabel, sister o f Sir JohnWglmington of Umberleigh. She inherited estates in Gloucesterehire, Dorsetshire and manors in Wiltshire and Berkshire. (Tram. Devon Soc. LV. 245). In 1413 she held the manor of Ablington and in l422 she sued Sir William Patton for the manors o f Lanteges, Trevylias and Favyt on. She died 22nd April 1424. The P,Y, Inquisition also bespeaks her wealth (No. 28. 1423. Trans. Devon Soo. LV. 245). Irasue:
andheiresa

I. Thomas, heir.
11. Isabel died unmarried 1424. She inherited the Frampton Cotterell estate and Ablington Manor from her mother. At her death her eetates passed to her brother.

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S I R THOMAS BEAUMONT, o f Yolston, Giddesham, Lancarpe, (3 Lancras, Devon) and Elworthy, Somerset, born at Yate, Gloucestershire 21st Seotember, 1401, and died on Tuesday He next after S. Martin the Bishop (17th November), 1460. He had also a house in London, hela lands at Barnstaple.
for at Christmas, 1449 he paid Thomas Pomeroy, the prior of the monastery of the Holy Trinity forty shillings arrears of Quit rent for a tenement and garden in the parish of S. George, Hastchettp and S. Andrews Hubard. By order o f Privy Council 14th February 1436 he had to grant a loan of g40 towards the equipment of the army about to be sent t o France. He married before 1428 first, Phillipa daughter Sir John of Dynhvm, (Trans. Devon Soc. XXXIV. 723, and L. 435) and secondly Alice, daughter of' Hugh Stewkeley of Aston, and had issue:

I. Richttrd, died before. his father, leaving no issue.

11. ollilliam, heir.
6

111. Philip of Shirwell, and Qittisham heir to his brother Willixm, born 1432, died 12th June 1473. He held estates in Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Gloucestershire whichhe bequeathed t o his half brother, Thomas. By his will dated 1st January 1472/3, n e appointed "That R marbell atone should be layde on his body, with his arms graven on it and his portraiture in copper, with an inscriptjon on it of two verses nesrly indenticalwiththose on the Lincoln brass." Thomas Beaumont his h.tlf brother and heir, by hjs will dated 13th November 1487, tlnd proved at Lambeth 1st December 1489, repetited this injunction, but no brass exists r?t the present day. He was t3. M.P. 1467 and sheriff of the county in 1469 ( T r a m . Devon Soc. L. 445). Skottowe, i n h i s short history of Parliament, gives an instance of the bribery of a member at tnis time,
which evldently refers t o Philip Nicholss Statham of Mar-ley,

Co. Derby, in his will dated15th July 1472 records "1 received ten shillings of. ...Bemont, R worshippful Squier of the West Country by the hands o f Page in the last pnrleamxnt. I did nothing there.. ...and if I did, it is against my conscience for 80 Moche, as I was one o f the Parleament, and should be I will t h v t indifferent In e v e r y m%tter of the Pnrleament. he have it Again.' He married Blanche dg-ughter of Wil1iH.m the death of her husband she Bouchier, Lord Fitzwarren, ~ f t e r marriea Bartholomew St. Leger.

IV: Joane, issue:

married Sir John Basset of UmDerleigh ana Heanton,

( 1 ) John, heir t,o his uncle Hugh. He was present at of the Field Cloth of Bold in 1520 a Vice-Admiral of the: Fleet, and deputy Governor of C*d.lais. He married Honor Grenvile. After his death she married Sir Arthur Plmnagenet, K.G., EL

natural son o f Edward IV by

Elizabeth

Lucie.

V. Thomas, the eldest son by the second wife, d.s.p. 18th February 1487/8, leaving hi3 estates t o his brother Hugh. His wfll was proved 1st December 1489, Thomatl and John Beaumont gave a stained glass winaow to Atherington Church near Barnstaple in 1480. Some o f the glass is still in the He married Mathy, daughter and of had issue: window.
(1) John, died before hia followa L

father.

His will was as

"In Dei nomine, Amen. The XI11 day of Novembyr in the yere of our Lord MCCCCLXXXVII. I Thomas Beaumont esquiere in my goode stedefast and perfete myrld make my testament in this maner. Fyrst, I bequeath my souie t o Allmighty God and to our blessed Lady Seint ~ r y M and t o all the blessed company of Hevyn and my body to be buried in the Chapel1 f our Ladyof Pilton in the North o Wall. Also I bequeath to John my s o m e all the rents ofthe Manorof Luscot Comyng above the rents the Lord to of the said manor. Also the rent of the i i Weris called Shadgllyshoke Were and Crowere with the Borowys that I have of the Graunt of Thomas Graynefeld esquire and of the said John Dye during the terms that I have in the said manor and Werys. That then I will that the said rents remayne to m y n executours for the payment of my Also that I will that my (deceased) brother detts. Philip Beaumonthave a marbill stone leyd uponhys grave with these verses graved the same, in
"TESTIS TU CHRISTE QUOD NON JACET HIC LAPIS ISTE CORPUS UT ORNETUR SED UT SPIRITUS KEMORETUR."
"Thou art a witnesa 0 Christe that thi: stone is not an adornment for his body, but a memorial for his soul."
Also I bequeath for new bellis to be bought to the Church of Heanton PunchardonXL. o f lawful1 moneyo f England. LI Also I woll and charge m y feoffees and executours to pay o r do tobe payd, all the dettsby me my fader Sir Thomas Besumont Knyght, William Beaumont ar?d Philipp Beaumont deu esquire3 my brothers t o every person after consciens if any asker will swere it upon a boke. And alsn all such as I havehurt in lesing o f ther goods and catall or other wyse. I will that they be pleased and rewarded afterconsciens if anythereofcomplayne to myn executours and feoffees if they w i l l swere as iz rehersed as they will answerbeforeGod.Ana I willandcharge my feoffees and executours as t.hey will answere that there be a well disposed priest ordeignedto sing immediately

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after my decease, in the Chapell f PJlton afore rehersyed o at the aulter of our Lady anon afterhgs mass8 fynisshed by the space of I11 yere to pay t o hym by the yere for hys salary VI11 marks and for the full contentacion and satisfaction of all the premissis I woll and charge my said t'eoffees &S above rehersed that ther be C.LL leviyd yerely o f t h e manors of Frampton Cotell (Gloucestershire) and Wother as be specifoed and named in the indenture made betwene my said i'eofees more playnly apperith. Also I will that the ii chales (chalices) after deceese be my delyverd to the chauntry o f Heavnton aforesaidfor ever, and also I bequaith a n d will my processional1 booke with the rede streyte stoell be belonging t o my chagel1,of S. Thomas in Heaunton and that all the stuffe, that is in my new chappell there be abyding in the same. Also I will that all such Fencebill Harnes for Mannis body that is myn be delievred to my brother HughBeaumont after r g a deceese. Also I will that my servant Henry Bremelcombe be content and psyed yerely during his life of his Fee VI1 rnwke graunted t o hym from my lordshipp of Hunshaw (near Torrington), accor9ing to his writing thereof as myn hegres and feof'fees wollas is above rehersed answere And all the residew of all my goods I will that myn executours d-ispose them for my soule and they think best for the welth thereof and for the performyng and fulfillgng of all the premisses I constitute make and ordeigne Mathye my wyfe, Thomas Graynefeld and John Yeo myn executours and Richard Chicnestyr my supervisor, and I will that every of my executours and supervisor aforesa.idhRve for his labour 1111 marks o f lawful1 money. Also I will that the Priest o f Mary Magdalene be content o f XX S. yerely of m y manor o f Hakyngton the masse to be kept afore Seint Saluyling in the castell chapell o f Barnestabill. Also I will that I have XXIIII poore men goyng before m e with gownys o f clene blacke with Kernecombe and his gonn t o be lynict anon t o the foote, also I will that my said feoffees make estate t o my wyfe for terme of hyr lyfe o f the manor of Womblegh and Bukington as for hyr joyntour."
Proved at Lambeth 1 December 1489 by Mathy, the relict and executrix of the testator, power being reservea t o the other executors.

A Thomas Beaumont was fellow o f Merton 1484.

VI. Hugh, born c. 1457, died 25th March 1507, heir to his brother Philip. He sold Ablington Manor to Richard o f Durham in1501 and the Frampton Cotterell estate t o Henry VII, 1505. He held lands :It Shirwell and Lokkyshore in 1499 which he rented to Richard Chichester for t e n shillings per annum.

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He also let thirty-four acres o f land at Bremerigge worth

of wax. (Calendar of Inquisitions. H VI1 Vol. 2). He probably married firstly Elizabeth..,.. who had a French book bequeathed to her by Sir John Dynham in 1496/?, entitled "The Passion of cur
t e n shillings per annum, at a rent81 of one pound

Lord.. (TEWS. DEVON. $QC.. L. 488.) He Rfterwards married c. 1504 Thomassino, daughter and heiress of Oliver Wise of Ford Aouse and Wombwell Court, Devon, Issue:
(1) Margarat, or M m d , married Sir John Chiohester o f Rawleigh, Devon; she married secondly John Powlet ( ? l .

VII. John, died 1513. Clerk in Holy OrBers, S.T.B., Prior o f Pilton, Barnstable 18th October, 1602.

admitted

VIII. Alicia, married Nicholas Cornu.

W I L L I A M BWUMONT of Highampton, Bradley, Somerset,

Philleigh, Oornwall, Willet, and Plush, Dorset, born He married Joan daughter o f Sir William Courtenag of Powderham, and had no issue. He left his estates t o his brother Philip. For the last two years of his lit*e, he separated from his wife and he never saw her again, a8 he lived i n London and she continued to During this period she gave birth to a reside in Devon. son, who was named John, Sir Henry d e Bodrigan being the reputed father (Sir John Maclean, TRI(3G)MINOR, I 662). After . her husband's death Joan married Sir Henry and claimed her first husband's estates on behalf of her son John. Philip however succeeded in retaining them, gstting letters patent oonfirming his brother's will, in whichhe bequeathed them to him. On the death of Philip his brother Hugh succeeded to the estates, and on Hugh'e death, his daughter Lady Margaret Lady Joane Basset, sister of Bugh, Chichester claimed them. also put in a claim. John the reputad bastard opposed these claims and the House of Lords refused to entirely disinherit R man born in wedlock, so it divided the estate, John receiving the Gittisham property, Joane the Honiton, and Margaret the Yolston, Shirwell and gome others.
1427, died 6th December 1454.

JOHN, the reputed son of Sir Henry de Bodrigan born 1463. He sided with the Yorkists between 1451 and ana joined in the Lambert Bimnal rebellion on 8th February 1487; a writ was issued for his arrest, but he escaped with his reputed father t o the Continentj on 4th June 1487 they both came with a "grete navye" t o Furness in Lancashire and landed a force of two thousand Blemish meroenaries. They marahed to Stoke on Trent, where they were, on the 16th June, forces. The Earl of utterly defeated by the Royalist Lincoln, the oommander of the rebelE, fell in the battle and

John and his father had their estates confiscated on a bill

of attainder passed 9th November, 1489 (Trans. Bristol Areh, Soc., X., 200). His manor of Tregony, Cornwall, wao granted who issue, the estate to 6irRiohard NanTan, died without male then reverted to John's son Henry in 1606. He married Isabella, daughter of Thomas Calwodlegh. Issue:

I. Henry, heir.
11. William, married Jane
Phillips (MS. Rawl, 1530, B. 287, 58b).

111. Philip died 1474.

IV. Johanna .

HNY BEAUMONT of C+lttieham, born daughter of Robert, ER 1647/8, married Elizabeth c. 1480, died 16th Uarch
Lord Stowell of Cothelstone, Somerset, he seoondlg married Josne and had no issue by her. A Joane Beaumont died 1677 aet. forty-eight. Issue by first wife:

I, Bumfrey, heir.
11. Willlam of Shute. He died in 1647 and mnrried Thornasin daughter or John Tudboll of Lyme Regis and widow o f John Stowbridge. A William WRS buried at Colyton, Devon 1st August 1647. 111. BIizabeth, married Thomas Coker of Mappowaer, Dorset.

Issue.
(1) Henry.

(E) Mary (MS. Raw1 . 1630).

IV. Philipptt, married Lewis Davils of Marland, Devon.

born 1604 died 12th August 1572, buried at QittisLm 14th August, (Register GittiEharn) he held the m m o r of Blworthy, Somerset; marriedfirst Joan, daughter of the Honowable John West, brother of Lord de la Warre and had issue by her, four chilareen; secondly married Jane, daughter of John Sydenham of Le,igh, Somerset, in her will dated 4th December, 1693 and proved 30th August 1594, by her nephew John Hensleigh, she left ten shillings for her funeral sermon and various gifts o f rings and money t o her- sisters and nephews; t o her household servants twelve pence each and her god-children a like amount; six shillings and eight pence to the Churoh at Leigh, and land and ten shillings to the poor o f Clare,. The residue o f her estate she bequeathed to her nephew John Henslsigh. Her mother on her death left her

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forty shillings. Issue by his first wife:

I. Henry, heir.
11. John, d.s.p.,

1587.

III. Elizabeth, alive in 2591, rn:i-rried Robert Muttleabury o f Musburg, ( ) Devon. 3

IV. William.
Presumably d.s.p.

V. Thomas, by second wife, d.s.p.

born 1532, in 1586 at S. Kirian, Exeter. By his will dated 26th February, 1588, he left most of his estates at Combe and manor and lands a . t Qittisham to Sir ThomasBeaumont o f Cole Orton Leicestershire The latter left them to his third son Henry (see p. 135). who iz? l616 sold. them to NicholRs Putt whose posterity held them for twohundredyears, The Gittisham estate went to Thomas son of (3eorge Beaumont of Godeby (see p. 70). Henry left twenty-nine acres of land to the poor o f Honiton and land to the vttluf! of S20 per annum for the parish of Buckerel, and to the value of 25 per annum to the poor of Otterg S. Mttry and e4 per annum to the poor of Gittisham. His widow gave lands worth %40 per annum to the poor of Otterg S. Mary, and t o the value o f 83 per annum to the poor of Honiton and $E2 per annum to the p o o r o f Sid'bury, Devon.

HENRY April, Combe House, held lands BEAUMO~T of Gittishtm, 1591. He d.8.p. 1st

Henry married in 1662 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Roger (? Robert) Blewet o f Holcombe, Devon and left no issue, he and his wife were buried in the south aisle o f Gittisham Church. A white marble monument in the Church depicts him in armour, kneeling before an altar bearing a cushion and an open book, his wife is by his side with an infant in swaddling clothes in her arms. Their hands w e upraised
,

in prayer.

The inscription is as follows

"Interred here,

within this tomb, doth

Henry Beaumont

rest
A man of just and uprieht life, with many graces blest, Who learnd t o know God's holy will! and wicked works defyd And as he lesrnd, so did he live; and as he livd he dyd. What good he might, ne gladly did, and neverharmed any; Courteous he was in all his life,and friendly unto many. But most of all his liberrl gifts, aboundeato the poor; A worthy practice o f that Wora, which he had learnd before. Born o f what honourable race, isneedless, for this verse.

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Since Frenoh and Benglish Chronicles so oft his name re-

hearse a
Whioh antient blood within himself, by want of issue

spent.
The sinking line thereof corkd by one of that descent. he He lived thrioe ten gearsand nine, with his most godly

wife,
Who yielded himhis honour due, void of unkindlystrife. And fortrue witness of her love, whjoh neverWAS defacd In duty, last this monument, she caused hereto be placd.

Obit April 1, A.D. 1691.

His wife, died 4th March 1613/14 her will was dated 23rd December 1613 and proved 14thJuly 1614 by Thomas Warre, a cousin to whom she bequeathed a chain of gold, her nephews and nieaes had legacies, including a nephew Thomas Beaumont and a cousin Glyda Beaumont. A nephew, William Dawes, endeavoured to get his aunt to pay hie expenses at Oxford University, it is unoertain if she did so.
Sussex (see, p. 124), eldest son inherited the Bittiaham estate. He was alive in 1620. He married first Elizabeth, daughter of Thomzs Glydd of Ewhurst, Sussex, and secondly in 1606 (7) Dorothydaughter of Nicholas (7 Richard) Blewet Broad Cllst of and grand-daughter o f Sir George Blewet o f Holcomb. She wa6 buried at Gittisham 18th January 1611/12. (Misoellanea, Qenealogica Et Heraldica). Issue:
@odeby

THOMAS of BEAUMONT o f Qeorge of

I. Glycld, heir.
11. ThomaB (?) 111. Msry, married Ralphe Drage of Battle. IV. Ann, married John Yslding of Bellington.

V. John, baptised at Gittisham 12th February, 1603.

VI. Elizabeth, married Right Reverend Mathew Wren, Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Ely (see p. 229). She died 24th April 1667.

VII. Henry (?) by seoond wife.

VI II. Fr*anci B.
IX. Thomas, baptised at Gittisham 6th April, 1609.

X. Grace, baptised at Gittiaham 19th June,1597.

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XI. Dorothy (?)

GLYDD,16thOxford, 1589, elected a Bellow at the April 1633. Matriculated All Souls College, of
died

College 1602.

??referred t o the Rectory at Gittisham, 1610.

He married first Jane, daughter of Edmund (3reene of Exeter, gentleman. She was buried at Sittisham 14th May 1627, on
the north wall o f the chancel is a small classical monument t o her memory which reads: aDelectissms sorori scae epita

E.H. ? Phium hoc am oris et ho B.P. ? Noris ergo." (This egitaph of love and honour to his dearest sister) (B.H. and E.P. 7)
"This urn holds sacred dust; each pious eye Here drops a tear and weeps that she should die. No one perfection of the female kind But lies with her, within the tomb enshrind,

She wants no epitaph; Ilth'hearts of men Writ are her praises, tears are now thQ pen. Only fhis proud stone needs would have it told What precious dust it cioth here under hold: Hold it a while in place, till it shall be Rals'd t o a better life andglory see. Here lieth the body of J a m , the wile of &lid Bezutnont rector of this parlsh and daughter o f Edmund Green of Exm, Gent. who decd. MAY, 14, MDClcgvII.
With arms impaled :
1. n lion rampant sem6d de lys or. 2. Arg. a fess gules between 3 bulls'

heads couped sab.

He married secozdly 23rd August 1627, at S. Thomas's Church, On the Exeter, Dorothy relict o f David Hore of Xxeter.
death of Glydd she married, 19th October, 1634 Bittisham, at John Jerman of Gittisham, gentleman. (Register Wttisham). (3lpdd had issue by his first wife:

I. Mary.
By the second wife:

11. Qlsdd.

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111. Xsria, baptised at Gittisham, 17th June, 1630.

G L Y D D BEAUMONT, born 12th December 1628, baptised at Git.tisha.m 18th Cecember, 1628 ? died young. A Glydd Beaumont matriculated at Oxford in 1605.
In the early part o f t.he thirteenth century, Henry I11 gzve the manor o f Aynkesdon, Devon t o Msthew de Beaumont. W e cannot howe-Jer trace nnyr;hing further respecting Mathew. In the f i f t e w t h century the estat,e passed by marriage into thz Pomeroy family.

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CHAPTER VI.

THE LINCOLNSHIRX CEAUMONTS

- TJTJ CP-RLTON TOWERS FA'diLY.

"Our acts, our angsls are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadovs (disguisesj that walk by us still."
Beaumont and Fletcher, UPON AN HONEST MAN' S FORTUNE, 11. 499, Darleg

Ed.

Arms, Quarterly first and fourth, arg. a lion, rampant, sa. for Stapleton second and third, argr two bars, and in chief, three escallo9s az for Errington, Motto: "Mieux sera". (Better times are coming).

Genealogical chart shewing Lhe connection o f %he family on the female side with the Royal houses of England and Portugal. Raymond Berenger, Count o f Provence, married Seatrix daughter I o f Thomas, Count o f Savoy.
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Margare t Eleanor marmarried ried Henry S. Louis IX I11 King of King of England Franc e I

I
SouchLer married Richa1.d Earl of Cornwall King of the
Romans

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Beatrice marr i ed Charles I Earl of Anjou King o f Jerusalem, Naples and

son o f Louis VI11 o f France
Sicily;

Edward I

Edwara I1 Edward I1 I

I I
I

3:dmund Crouchback, 1st. Earl of Lancaster

--_-.-_ ------

I I

I --Charles I1 Louis of Bri enne King of' Jerusalem married Agnes Vicomtesse de Beaumont

I I I

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Thomas 2nd Henry PlanEarl of tagenet Srd Earl o f Lancaster Lancaster

I I

(Edward 111) I Earl

(Henry Plantagenet
3rd aaater)

(Vicomtesse de Beaumont)

o f Lan-

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I

-Richard I1

John of I Theobald LGuis Henry 1st Vicomte d e Bishop Baron Gaunt I married Bellomonte of I I Blanche Archbishop Durham I 1 grandI of Paris I Henry lat I daughter of Sir Duke of I I Isabei marHenry de Lancaster, John ried Henry Beaumontmarried 2nd Baron 1st Duke of Isabel married I Lancaster daughter Eleanor I greatI I of Sir Henry de granclI Beaumont daughter 1 Blanche I 1st Baron of Henry 111 (see married John I I o f Gaunt I I C.T. p. 79

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for continuation)
Blanche married

I
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I
Uaud

Phi1i gga married Jchn King of

Portugal

John of
Gaunt

Henry IV

Edward

I I Henry I
I

Fnilippa marri ea

John King of Portugal

Henry VI

Philippa married Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy

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Descent of the Family according to Barnes, Burton and Debrett from the Kings of' France.

Louis VI11 King of France.

S. Louis Robert Alphonso John CharlesI Count of Anjou and IX . Proyence King of Jerusalem,
Naples and Sicily.

I I

Charles 11 King of Jerusalem Naples and Sioily.

I I I

Louis o f Brienne
married Agnes Vicomtesse de

Beaumont (see p. 60).

Sir Bernard Burke

says that Louis o f Brienne is descended from Gauthier, Count of Brienne; 'cut the Pleur d e lys in the family coat o ' xrms seems tc bespeak his descent from t the Kings of.' France, whilst the lion is that o f Brienne. A gossibla solution o f the difficulty is that Agnes married twice and each husband had the same Christian name.

L O U I S VI11 o f France, Le Lion, born 1187 married Blanche daughter O f Alphonso VIJI, King of Castile and grand-daughter of Henry I11 o f England and niece of King

John.

Issue

I. S. Louis IX.
11. Charles and others.

C H A R L E S I t i t son o f Louis VIII, Count of AnJou, King 'fh of Jerusalem, Naplesand Sicily, born 1226, died 1285, married Beatrix daughter and heiress o f Rayrnond Berenger, Count o f Pr0venc.e. Issue.

I. Charles 11, King of Jt?r;xsalem, inherited the French estates, born 1250 and died 1309, he accompanied his brother S. Louis to the Crusades, and was taken prisoner in Egypt; he returned to Provenc? in 1250 and was cro':ine;i King or Naples and Sicily in 1289 (ENCY. BRIT.)
11. Louis o f Brienne, rnarrisd Agr-es daughter and heiress of' Richard Vicomte de Bellomonte. . The children of the txarrizgz wssumed theirmother's name, the eldest son inherited

the Vicomty and the French estates. Descent of Louis of Brienne according t o Burke.

Gauthier, Count of Brienne.

-

Andre Eraud John d.8.p. I

Marie

Gauthier John

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William

King of Jerusalem

I
Yolanae Alphonse Marie

John lolante
married

Louis married

A8 m8 Vicorntesse de Emperor Henry Beaumont. VI, he thereby became King o f

Prederick 8on of the
Naples Sicily and Jerusalem. (Cox CRUSADES p. 184).

I "

GAUTHIER, Count o f Brienne and King of Naples, died in

Apulia, Italy, he had the reputation of being a great hero. (Michaud, HIST. CRUSADES, 11. 289). He married Alix daughter of ana had issue three son3 and one daughter, the second son was Eraud, ancestor of Louis of Brienne.

EMUD, became heir t o his father He the daathAqnefshis on of elder brother without issue, married de
Montbelliard, and had issue three son8 the second son being John.

born 1148 died 1237/8. He went t o the fifth Crusade in 1228 a Walter o f Brienne also took part John attacked the Moslems in Egypt, and besiegt.d tind took by storm Damietta situatedat the mouth the Nile (ENCY. BRIT. j of He captured Constantinople in 1204 and ruled there for nine
,

JOHN,

years. J o ~ e p h Uichaud the eighteenth centv.ry French historian in his HISTOIRE DES CROISADES, (11. 288) says "John of Brienne, whom fortune had mad? f o r 8 short period Eing o f Jerusalem, was called to the tottering throne of Constantinople, at the moment that the Greeks and Bulgarians, animated by the ardours of pillage, were afthe gates or" the Capital. Their r'leets penetrated to the p r t , their ncImerous bsttalions were preparing to scala the ramparts, but the new Emperor fought severs1 battles wixh them, and obtzlned possession of their ships :nl dispersedtheirsrmies. ic These victories added greatlyto his renown. Philip Mouskr?s, apoet who died 1274 compared him in the following lines t o Hector, Roland or Judas Maccabeus :

"N'aie, Ector, Roll' ne Ogiers, ne Judas Maahebeus li fiers tsnt fit ne D'arres en estors corn fist li Rois Jehans cel 3ors et i 1 defors et il dedans La paru sa force et ses sens Et li hardement qu'il avoit."
This may be xransl:<%ed somewhat as follows wNeither HectJr, Roland nor Roger, nor Judas Ataccabeus the brave, did such feats of arms in hietory as did King John of Jerusalem and he without rnd he within there (the City) shewed his strength and w i c d o m nnd the courage which had." he
"Late in life he laid aside the imperial purple, breathing his last sigh in the habit o f a Francisean friar. Thus passed the sop-in-law c f two kings and the father-in-law of NO emperors. He leYt, when rlieing, the remembrance of Xis extraordinary exploits .z,ndthe example of a wonderful destiny'

(Michaud Kistoire des Crojsades.)

heiress

14th September 1209, Marie, daughter and and Isabella. d e Monstiffard and granddaughter o f Almeric, King of Jerusalem (Sibbons DECLINE A N D FALL, VI, 432). On the aea.th of Almeric, his grand-daughter succeeded to the throne;theeccle3iasticalandcivil dignitaries forrrard5;d a request., through ths Bishop of Acre and the Lord o f Cesarea, to King Philip of' France to select a husband for the Queen. John of Brienne was chosen, as he was considered by the European Knights to ba a braye man, wise in council and experienced in wzr. He landed at Acre and was crocvned Eing with great pompon his wedding day (Ch. Mills, CRUSADES 11. 216). He resigned the kingship c. 1226 in favour or' his son-in-law Freaerick I1 the Emperor of Germany (Fuller's HOLY WAR, p. 288) who had married Iolanto in 1222. Bdarie d i e d in 1219, and in 1223 John married Berengaria daughter of Alphonse IX King of Castile ana Leon, second cousin t o Edward 11, this explains Henry de Beaumont He married,
o f Ccnradi

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being style2 "Consanguineus Regis". Berengaria died 12th They had issue three sons and three daughters

April 1237. (Bee SUPRA).

LOUIS OF BRIENNE A N D D'ACRE, third son of John, died 1283. He spent a good deal o f his t i m e at the Court of Alpncnse Eing of Castile. In 1265 he gave $1,200 t o the Chatreuse Ccnvlvnt at DioquP. He married February L253 Agnes daughter and heiress o f Richard Vicomte de Bellomonte and de Mayne (see pp. 60, 81).

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THE LINCOLNSHIRE AND CARLTON TOWERS FAMILY.

Agnes Vicomtesse de Bellomonte married Louis of Brienne

Theobald inherited the

Brench estates d.8.g.

I I

~~~~

Henry 1 1st Baron Jeanne

inherited

Isa- Marie Louis Mar- John

be1 d.s.p. garet founded

the English

the
Brench estates family

I I
I
I

John d.s.p.

Rich- John Thomas Alice Eliz- Joan Isabel Bea- Cath2nd I d.8.p. abeth ard married trix arine d.s.g. Baron I Henry

Earl of
Lancaster

I I
I

Thomas Brancis Andrew Thomas

Henry
3rd Baron

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p-

Blanche married

)laud
d.6.p.

John of Gaunt

John Henry 4th Baron

Henry 6th

Richard

Thomas
I

Thomas
founder

Richard

Eliz.

Eleanor

MargaretCecilia

Baron

I I

of the Cole Orton family

John 6th Henry Alainor Katharine Baron 1st founder of Viscount the Wednesbury I family John d.s.p.

Anne Margaret Elizabeth

Henry
d.8.p.

William 7th Mary Joane Baron 2nd Lord married Love11 Visaount d.8.p.

I
I

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(Joane married Lord Lovell)

l
Francis Joane married Frideswide Sir Bryan Stapleton, Bart.

I
Sir Bryan Stapleton

-I

Sir Richard
Sir Bryan
8 2 Richard 1-

Sir Gi lbe rt
Sir Miles d.s.p. his sister A m e married Mark Errington his son Nicholas assumed the name of Stapleton and had issue i n succession Thomas Miles d.s.p. Bis sister Catharine d.s.p. she was succeeded by her uncle Miles, his'son Thomas was father to.Miles Thomas who became the 8th Baron Beaumont. The Barony

I l

being revived in his,favour.

Miles Thomas 8th Baron

Henry 9th Miles Baron d.s.p. 10th Baron
Agnes

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Mona Josephine Tempest, Baroness

Beaumont

I I I

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Miles Frai?cis Fitzalan. Michael Fitzalen. . Mariegold Magdalene

Carlton Towers, near Selby, Yorks, ia a noble mansion, with a high tower, dating back t o the fourteenth century. It stands in a park of two hundred and seventy acres with a

lake.
S

Henry I was born there.

In October 1920, the Baroness Beaumont sold by auction collection of about one hundred E n S8Tenty seven old Norman ta Charters and deeds concerning the Abbey of S. Stephen, Caen, and many other plaoes, these were collected by her ancestor Thomas Stagleton, the antiquary. Amongst them was a grant made by Waleran (de Yeulan) *Par the salvation of the soul of his Lord Willlam King of the English and others" to the Church o f S. Stephen's Caen. The charter is not dated but it is supposed to have been granted between 1067 and 1079. It was sold for 8508it bore the atteqting crosse8 of William I -4iswife bfatilda, Roger and Robert de Bellomonte and others. , There was also a charter gr.anted by Henry I which confirmed grants and tithes of lands t o t h e saae Abbey, this is endorsed with the King's marks w l d was sold for 8?103. There were also two charters connectedwith Henry 11, one concerns twenty acres o f land delivored up for "soul alms* and the other confirms grants made by the Bishop of Byeux (Sotherby 8 Catalogue.) William Burton, the antiquary, refers to one, which does not appear to have been sold, in his history or the County o f Leicester, 1622. He says uHe has seen an old roll in vellum in.colours giving this descent ithat of Louis o f Brienne from Louis VI11 o f France, see p - 75 j. It was r'ound in the Mona3terg of Rufford in Co. Nottingham, lately in the custody of Richard Stapleton Esquire descended rrom one of the heiress' general1 of Henry de Beaumont .a He further says, "Others make this Henry de Beaumont to be son o f Louis of Acre and.Agnes his wife, daughter and heiressof Richard Lord Beaumont ( m e p. bO, 81).............,0. for authority of which, I never 8aw any proof or record" (W. Burton, Description of Leicester). f , Vicomteqse de Beaumont and ae b.yne (see p. 601 died 1300. ' She was related to Isabella, daughter o f Philig o f Guienne and wife of' Eciward IT. She married February 1253, Louis o f Brianne. \They probably came to England with Queen Isabell:t, and they took up their residence at Charnwood, Co. Leicester-. Most of their children were born in Prance, they assumed their mother's name. Issue:

AWES

'

I. Theobald, AFchbishop or' Paris inherited the French Xstates and Title.
11. Henry, heir to the English estates. 111. Jeanne, married in 1286 Sug Lord L w a l Comte de Caserre,

02.

IV. Isabel, born 1285 eied 1334. She was buried in the Church of the Blackfriars, Scarborough,(Tate, Hist. Alnwick I. 404j. She received many grants of manors from the three Edwards (Dugdale's BAROI?AGE, 11. 50), including the temporary governorship of Bamburg Castle, Northumberland and the temporary barony of Carac, Fifeshire (Arch. Ael 3. S. XIII, 237. Close Rolls 1302/7). The living of Catton, Norfolk seems t o have beeninher gift, as she presentedit t o William Bush, 1327. She also possessed a licence to import wool into Newcastle and s311 it to whom she pleased despite tho royal proclamation confining all sales of wool t o the King (Tate Hist. Alnwick). She became third wife of John de Vesci o f Alnwick, (Tate Hist. Alnwick I: 404) hence the name of Vesci Hall, near Lincoln. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Evesham 1265 and went t o the Crusades with Prince Edward in 1270, He died in Gascony and-wasburied in Alnwick Abbey. There was no issue an6 isabel's estates passed to her brotherHenry.
V. Marie,
married Henry d'Avaugour and10th March, 1328. died

VI. Louis (see INFRA). VII. John, he settled in France, probably succeeding to'his brother Theobald's estates an6 became the ancestor of the French family. There was living at this time a Caroli de Bellomonte (probably a member ofthe F r e w h family), he was also related to Queen Isabella, and was, through her influence, in September 1290, preferred to a Canorlry of Beverley. He probably died before 13th April 1301, when his successor WRS appointed.
L O U I S DE BIELLOMGNTE, born in France, died suddenly at Brantingharn, Yorks, 22nd or 28th September, 1333, an& buried in front o f the steps of the high altar i Durham n Cathedral. He is said to have been lame i both legs. n He

was eleetedtreasurer of Sarum (Salisbury) 18thOctober, 1293 and Prebendary of Calne, 1.703. On 17th October, 1317, the King nominated him to the Bishopric of Durham, but in spite of the King's nomination andof a letter from Queen Phillipa, which she wrote his beh8lf to on each of the electing monks of the Cathedral Monastery, Chapter selected the Henry of Stamford Prior of Finchale, for the office. Stamford proceeded to Rome, but before he arrived there, John XXII had confirmed Pope the King's choice. The See of York being vacant at the time, Louis w w therefore, on the 26th March 1315 consecrated at Westminster by Cardinals Ganselinum andLucern de Frisco. On proceeding t o Durham f o r his enthronament accompanied by the two Cardinals, his Brother Henry, and a large retinue, they were waylaid at Rushyford, near Darlington, by a band of

retainers led by Sir 9ilbert de Middleton of Mitford Castle and Walter de Selby, (Arch, Aelirsna VI. 66). The Bishop and his brother were robbed and captured, the former being imprisoned at Morpeth Castle and the latter at Mitford; they only regained their liberty on payment of a hea7y ransom; the Bishop borrowing for that purpo8e $2,000 from the Prior O P Dzrham, (Capgrave, Chron. o f England I. 182).

This outrage crested an immense senaation throughout tha land and a proclamation for the arrest of the offenders was issued, Sir Gilbert was captured at Mitford and sent to London, and executed a8 a traitor in the presence o f the Cardinals. Shortly after this Sir Goseline Deinwilland his brother Robertwent with several attendants dressed friars as t o several o f the Bishop's castles ancl stole his valuables, they were captured and hanged at York. The Bishop about. Lhis time built a wall round Durham, he also built EL hall and chapel at Middleham.

In 1317 he obtained possession of Holy Islsnd and the manor o f Norham by a mandate from the King (Soc. Antiq. 3. S*. 111. 291).
In 1323 he went t o France, with the Queen and Edmund o f Woodstock, brother 01' the King, in order t o get the latter excused from paying homage to the new (Charles IV; King of France; shortly after he was imprisoned, for taking the gRrt o f the barons, but he seems to have Soon gained his release,' :o In 1326 he met Queen Isabella at Rarwich, o n h e r invasion 'r o P England. The following year Edward I11 was proclaimed King, Louis and his brother Henry were amcng those who attested the recora of the young King's oath.

In 1329 he petitioned parliament to order the returnof the village o f Upsetlington to the see o f Durham; it had (Soc. Antiq. Newcastle been seized by the Earl of March. 3. S. IX. 9.)
On the 22nd January 1330/1, Archbishop Jdelton issued a commission,?^ enquire into a petition ,madeby the Bishop of

Durhaqasking leave a.ppropriate Leake Church the expenses to to o f his table, wnich had been much impaired and wasted by the inroads o f t h e Scots, this seems in part t o have been grantzd. The Bishops of' Durham h2.d 3 mint within their palace, . and the siive? pennies coined by Louis-are still in existence. The Beaumont coat 0:' arms is sh9wn o v e r the head of the King (Edward 11). The inscription reads on the obverse "EDWAR-BANGL-DNS-HYB" and on the reverse "CIVITAS GUNELM." "Edward King or' England, Lord o f Ireland The City of Durham." In 1831 several of'.t h e s e coins were dredged up from the bed o f

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the rivero : near Tutbury,Co. Stafford (ARCHAEOLOGIA, XXIV. DTe 148). Another one was found at Balcombe, Surrey 23rd May 1897, this is now in the British Museum.
During his lifetime he laid down a memorial brass in the Cathedral, unfortunately only the matrix remainsof what was one o f the largest and finest brasses in @-gland. It measured It is fifteen feet ten inches by nine feet seven inches. aescribed as follows in the RITES OF DURHAM, 9 book probably written by a monk in the sixteenth century; "Ludovick de Bellomonte, Bp. of Durham, lyeth buryied before the High Altar in the Quire, beneath the stepF thst goe upp to sd High Altar, the under a most curious and sumptuus marble stonn, wch hee prepared for himselfe before he dyed,beinge adorned with most excellent workmanshipp o f brssse, whsrein he was most excellently and lively pictured, as hee was accustomed to singe or say masse, with his mitre on his head and hi8 crosier's staffe in his hand, with two angells very finely pictured, one on the one side of his head and theother on the other side, with censors in theire hands sensinge him, conteining most exquisite pictures and images o f the twelve apostles devided and bordered of either side of him, and next them is bordered on either side ofthe twelve apostles in another border the pictures of his ancestors in theire coat armour, beinge of the bloud royal1 of France Rnd his owne arm88 02' France, beinge a white lyon placed uppon the breast of his vestment, beneath his verses o n h i s breast, with flower de luces about the lyon, tws lyons pictured one unaer the one foote of him and other under the other of him, supportinge and holdinge his crosiers staffe, upp his feete adjoyninge and standinge uppon the said lyons, and other two lyons beneath them in the nethermost border all, of beinge most artificially wrought and sett forth all in brasse. Yarveilously beautifyinge the said through* of marble; wherin was engraven in brasse such divineand celestial1 sayinge o f the scripture wch he had peculiarly selected for his spirituell oonsolation, at such time it should please Qod t o call him IS out of his mortalitie.w

BF'ITAPHIUM.

"IN OALLIA HAW8 DE BEL3-MONTE JACET HIC LUDOVICUSHUMATUG NOBILI8 EX FONTE REGUM C O M I T U U Q ~CHEATUS PRAESUL IN HAC SEDE COELI LAETETUR IN =E PRAETERIENS SISTE, MEMORAMS QUANTUS m I T ISTE COELI3 QUA DIQNUS, JUSTUS, PIUS, ATQUE BENl@NUS. DAPSILIS AC H I M 1 8 INIMICUS SEMPER A W I S . "
An old northern wora for a flat tombstone.

Translation:

"Born in Franoe Louis de Besmont lies buried here, Nobly born of Kingly and hiightly origin, Bishop in this Bee, may herejoice in the heavenly house Stop 8s thou goest past; Remembering how great he was, How worthy of heaven, Righteous, Pious and Kindly, Bountiful and cheerful; always hostile t o the ill-natured."

Over the head was a scroll insuribed "CRXDO Q,UOD RBlDEMPTOR W VIVIT, QUI IN NOVISSIMO DIB "til RESUSCITABIT AD VITAM I S ETERNM; ET IN CARNE MEA VIDE33 DEUM SALVATOREM MBUM." Job. XIX. 25. Vulgate.
On the breast
(This

- "REPOSITA EST HAEC SPES DOMINlll YISBRERI4."

MEA IN 8INU ME3

hope placed i n m y breast, 0 Lordhave mercy upon me). is

3n the right side

- "CONSORS SIT SANCTIS LUD3VICUS IN ARCH: TONANTIS."

"SPIRITUS AD OHRISTUM QUI S A N W I N E LIBIBRAT Il?SUM.

On the left side

(May his spirit go to Christ, who freed him with His blood). The memorial had a triple canopy, with straight-sided Fediment, with four niches on each shaft, in tne centre was a life size figure of the Bishop surmounted by a super canopy, with five niches and clustered pinnaoles containing figures of his ancestors in armour. This was bordered with additional shafts, each with six niches filled with figures of the Agoatles, and joined to the principal by two flying buttresses. This beautiful and costly memorial was probably destroyed by Dean Withingham (1563-78) for Anthony Wood says "he also dafaced all such stones as had any pictures o f brass or other imagery work, or statutes (sic) wrought upon them, and the residue he took away or employed them to his own use and did make a washing house of them."
By a strange irony Dean Withingham's tomb in the Cathedral was destroyed by the Scots on their invasion of England in 1640 (TRE RITES OF DURHAM, Surtees Soc., 1902, CV11 pp. 14-16. )

o f Buchan, Baron Beaumont , Lord o f Man, Knight Banneret.. The Barony ran from father t o son for six generations o f alternating Henrys and

S I R HENRY BEAUMONT; Earl

Johns. He was born c. 1283, and died 10th March 1339/40. He was buried in the Cistercian Abbey De Valle Dei (Vaudey) of at Edenham Lincolnshire. His will was proved Lincoln 1342. at In official documents he is called Consanguineus Regis, as his father was cousin Edward I, and Tsabella of wife of Edward I1 was great great grand-daughter oY Louie VI11 o f France. It is probable that he came to England tt the instnce of t Queen Eleanor the Consort o f Edward I. In 1311 he seems to have been in some trouble with the "ordainers* a commission consisting o f seven bishops, eight earls, and six barons, who were appointed i n 1310 t o draw up ordinances for the reform o f the realm. This committee demanded his banishment, but it was not carried out (Low's DICT. ENG.. HIST.).

He became one O P the greatest soldiers of his age. In his twentieth year (1303) he accompanied Edward I t o Gcotland and was present at the Battle of Dunfermline, he led the English acroEs the river Earne during the night and falling on the Scots unawares, he utterly routed them. Eleven years lster he ngain distinguished himself in Scotland, when he was present at the siege of' Stirling and at the Battle of Bannockburn 23rd and 24th June 1314, where the English suffered one of' their greatest defeats, during the long course of the Scottish wars. The ERrl attempted to outflank the enemy 'by making a circuit round the lor!er ground and open fields to the of the Scots were in hiding west of the Scottisharmy. Some in e wood and they cut off his contingent f'rom the main army; they however fought their wag back in Em811 tietachments (Glover's HIST. DERBY). Shortly afterwards a meeting of the Privy Council was Called in order t o discuss the terms for a truce. The recommendations given by the chief' advisors of the King did not neat with the approval of the Earl and when the King anxious to have his consent to a course that he felt would not be popular, callea upon Sir Henry t o speak, he replied "my advice will not be followed, therefore I will not give jt." The King irritated by this response commanded him toquit the council chamber. He rose and left, exclaiming "He would rather be gone than stay, seeing such disgraceful counsels were prevalentthere." The guard was called and he wa6 arrested, committed to Kenilworth Castle and his estates sequestered; he was soon after released the bsil o f Henry on de de Perci and Ralph Nevile.

In 1316 he went north again t o repel a Scottish invasion, he met the enemy at Hartlepool and soon drove them over the border. Three years later, he in conjunction with Andrew de Harcia, Earl of Carlisle repelled another incursion made by
the Scots.
find him fighting at Boroughbridge (16th

In1321/2 he was evidently in favour at the Court, for we Mzrch) the King's on

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side, when the barons under the EarlLanaas ter wereBated, of def they had rebelled owing to the bad government o f the Despensers and other favourites of the King.

He wa8 sent on an Ihbasay to France in 1326 and while there he glotted with Queen lsabella, who was at the French Oourt at the time, having gone there do homage C O the new to King (Oharles IV). She remained away a considerable period so King Edward ordered her to return home. She then, with the aid of the Count of Holland and Hainault raised an army of mercenaries and invaded England. Michael Drayton in his "Barons' Warres" refers to this expedition, canto IV stanza 19 reuites
W h e n she for England fairely setting forth, Spreading her proud Sayles the Watrie Playne on Steereth her Course directly to the Northe, With her young Edward, Duke of Aquitane . * With other three,of speaiall name and worth, (The destin'd Scourges o f King IFldward's raigne) Her Souldier Beaumont and theErle of Kent, with Mortimsr, that mightie Malcontent.#

Sir Henry met her at Harwich, bringing with him a large 'band
of followers. They marched in triumph across the country; the Xing fled from London t o Wallingford, and then on to Glouoester and Bristol. On the arrival of the Queen and the young prince at Bristol, the citizens received themwith joy. The King with Hugh Deepenser and a few other followers, escaped in the early morning in a small boat, hoping to reaoh Lundy Isle and thence to Ireland. They were tossed about in the Bristol Channel for eleven or twelve days, sometimes nearly driven back to their starting point, they thendecided to make for the Welsh coast where they landed. Drdyton describes the inuident (ibid IV. 37).
In that blaake Tempest, long turmogt'd and lost, Quite fromhis Course, and well he knew not where? Mongst Rosks and Sands, in danger t o be lost. Not in more Perrill, thanhe was in Feare;

At length Perceiving he was neere same coast, And that the Weather somewhat 'gan to cleare, He found Itwas Wales: and by the mountains tall, That part thereof, which we Glamorgan call. The Duke of Lancaster and Sir Henry with a troop of soldl.ers were sent in pursuit; after some considerable time they found the King in the abbey at Netrth. He was taken prisoner

one of the titles of the prince.

and ca.rried to Llantrisant Castle, Uo. Qlamorgan; from thence he was sent to the Queen Hereford, to whom he gave up the at Great Real o f Office. Parliament met in following January, 1327 and formally deposed him; he W R S committed to Berkeley Castle, were he was murdered on the 21st September.

Peace was now made with Scotland, at Northampton, which lasted for about five years, one of the conditions of this peace was that t h o ~ e estates in Scotland belonging to English Barons, whichhad been seized by Robert Bruce, and distributed by him amongst his partisans, should be restored to their owners, this had not been done, and notwithstanding the remonstrances of Edward 131, no settlement could be obtained. The English Barons, who were suffering thereby, resolved to take the law into there own hands, and reoover theirproperty by force. Sir Henry, who had inherited through his wife the large estates of' the Earl of Buahan, and who from his youth upwards had regarded the subjugation o f Gcotland as the most important object of English policy, looked with dismay, aa h e saw the supremacy, which Edward I had established over the Gcottish realm, gadually slipping away, and that wa8 in large mFfasure the reason which to his previous opposition led to the peace. He incurred about this .time the ill will of Mortimer, Bar1 of March, the Queen Mother's paramour, this led t o his going to France where he resided for some time. When there he met Edward Baliol, son o f John, who had been placed on the Scottishthrone by Edward I, onlyto be depoeed FL few years later. The Earl and Baliol plotted together in order t o reinstate Eldward I11 on the Soottish throne, and thereby safeguarding the Scotch estates of the English Barons, The King would not countenance the plot and refused permission for the troops t o pass through England, Sir Henry then went t o nis manor at Barton on Humber with the view of completing hi8 plans for the invasion of Sootland by 1 0 . 38 He set sail from Barton on the 31st July 1332, David, Earl of Athol, and Richard, Baron Talbot being associated with him in the consisted of eighty-eight vessels command of the flotilla which of various sizes. On the morrow of the day of 6. Oswald, King and Martyr, seven days after they set sail,they landed at Kinghorn, Co. Bif'e, with about two thousand five hundred men.

In order to show the troops that they had nothing to trust to but their own valour, the fleet was sent baok t o Blngland; in a very short time this handful o f men gained four important viatories over armies four or i v e times theirnumber, on one f oosasion they are said to have been opposed by forty thousand men. Their suucesses were rapid and unexpected for on the 32th August,five days afterlanding, they gained their first victory at Duplin Moor. The Scots had an excellent position onhigh ground, butthe English forded the Earne in the Middle of the night and made havoc amongst the sleeping enemy. I When

daylight dawned they found that the camp which they had stormed was that of t h e grooms and camF i'ollowers, nnd that the main army WELS coming down on them in force. The men-atarms fell in hastily,and formed line with frontage of about a two hundred yards, with the archers on their flanks. The Scots advanced in divisions, .thevan commanded by Randolph, two Earl of Murray and Murdoch, Earl of Menteith, while the main body was under the Karl of Mars (the Regent). The Scottish van, consisting OP the flower of their force, was about equal in strength to the Ehglish; they charged down nil1 and with the advantage a slope o f about one in eight in their favour, of compelled the Znglishto give way. The English turned their shoulders to the enemy, so as t o offer a better resistance to the pressure from B bove. In a short space of time, the Scottish dead were piled up in front of the English to the height of a spear, their losses being about three thousand and that of the English being comaratively small. Soon after they entered Perth and in September Baliol was crowned at Soone. * The Scottish ambassador at theEnglish Court persuaded Edward I11 to seize the English estates o f the barons who hdd taken part in thisexpedition, and ~ m o n g s t them, those o f Sir Henry situated in the counties of Derby, Leicester, Nottingham :ind Warwick, but on these barons acknowledging that they had engaged in this enterprise without the consent o f the King, they soon regained possession them. of The following year Baliol consented t o do homsge t o the t o the English King as superlor LordScotland, and agreed of to cede the southern parts of the Kinqaom to England, Edward in return sent army to an support Baliol. The Earl (Sir Henry) led the left wing at the Battle of Haliaon Hill, near Berwiok 19th July, 1333. The Scots had again the adnantage of high ground, d o m which they chargea; they were however brought to a standstill in a swamp at the foot, and were overxhelmed by showers of arrows and ~ompell.eci to retre&t. The Earl led the troops in pursuit, the Scottish losses were very heavy. The Regent Douglas and many of the leadingnobles were s h i n , the English loss being very small. Bervick was then stormed the troops :is they fought their and captured, Sir Henry leading way ?.cross the r.iver, {Capgmve), Baliol was then acknowledged King ~y a parliament held at Perth.
.

On the 21st February 1334, the King called a parliament and summoned Bxliol to do homage for his kingdom. The latter sent Sir Henry as his deprjty. Later in the y e w Sir Henry WYS besieg?d in the Castle o f Galloway, 'but Edward
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111 went to his assistance and raisec; the siege. In August he was again besieged at Dundarge, there he had to surrsnder.

In 1338 he accompanied the King on his expedition to Flanders, with the intention of invading France, in order to establish his claim the FrenchCrown; this effort met to with varying success, peace being concluded 1340. in Not only was he a llwarrior bold" he was also a great statesman, in early life he proved. himself to be a man o f power and influence. Capgrave (ILLUSTRIGUS HENRYS} speak8 of him as man of fervent character, easily excited, butin the keeping o f his promises there was none more faithful; in counsel there was none more secret and whenever danger threatened there was none more firm. In warfare he was never seen toact otherwise than as a valiant soldier should act, neither when excited to wrath did he d o any wrong, nor when allured by love w m l d he proceed beyond the truth." He gained the confidences o f the three Edwards in whose reigns he lived, but he did not serve his mttsters for nought. We find that all the leading positions in the state fell to him from time to time, both riches and estates being heaped upon him in recognition of his valued services to his Xing and country.

In 1296 when only thirteen years old, for what reason does not appear, Eciward I on the death o f Lora widow of Gilbert de Gant, last baron of that name, made Henry a granto f the Uanor of Rarton on Humber. This was confirmed t o him in the first year of Zing Edward 11's reign, together with the manors of Folkingham and Edenham, Ljncolnshire. (H. C. Ball, Social W. Hist, and Antiq. of Barton p. 16). This Charter is in the British Museum (BARDNEP CARTULARY COTTOE MSS. VESPASIAN, E . =l. The translation is somewhat as follows; "Edward .... to the Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Justiciars, Sheriffs, Governors, Officials and ail Beiliffs, and their faithful men, greeting. Know ye that we, in consideration o f the good services which our beloved and faithful kinsman Henry de Bellomonte has rendered to the Lord Edward, our father of illustrious memory, late King England, and will render to of us in future, have given, granted, and by this our charter have confirmed to the said Henry our Manors cf Fclkingham, Edenhan and Barton, in tne Co. of Lincoln, late belonging to Gilbert d e Garnet (Gant). To be had and held by the same Henry and his hiers in Knights service, and with the advowsons of the churciles, escheats, and all ot,her appurtenances of us and our heirs, Kings of.England, by the services in the time ofthe said Gilbert thence due and accustomed, for ever, wherefore we will and firmly establish for us and our heir3 that the :iforesaid Eenry may have and may hold for himself and his heirs the aforesaid manors, with the Knight's fees,

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advowson of the churches, escheats azd all other their appurtenances of us and of our heirs, Kings o f England, by the aforesaid services for ever, as in aforesaid. Witnesses: The Venerable Father Anthony, Bishop of Durham, Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Robert de Clifford. Thomas de Berkeleg. Edmund d e Deyncurt. Maurj ce de Berkeleg. Milo de Stapilton, Seneschal f our Hunting o Box. Henry de Appleby and others. Given under our hand at Clipstone the 21st day of September in the first gear of the reign of King Edward son of King Edward ."

Sir Henry built a castle at Folkingham. This manor continued in the family until the death of William second Viscount Beaumont (1507) when it gassed into the hands of the Earl of Norfolk.
In 1309 he had a grant o f the manor of Tackley, Oxon, the Beaumont coat of arms is still found in the Church. He also had a seat at Borthby Hall near Qrantham. John I King of France was confined here after the Battle of Poictiers, 19th September 1356. On the attainder o f Hugh Despenser the Younger in 1337, he receiTed a grant of the castle and manor of Loughborough in consideration of his services t o Queen Isabella and her son.

On the 15th February 1326/7 he obtained from Edward I11 a grant ofBeau.manor Parkin Chsmwood forest, Leicestershire. He built 3 castle there in 1338 and a chapel at loodhouse, his coat of arms i s shewn in one of the windows and some o f the bench ends bear the family badge "the Elephant and Castle.
This chapel is now a pariah church and 3s divided from the park by a road. In addition to these grants had many more he

manors, which he reoeived from time to time from the three Edwards; for a list o f these see Dugdale's BARONAGE 11. 50.

He was created a baron on the 4th March 1308/9 and was aummoned to parliament as such up t o 1332, when on the death of his uncle in law the Earl of Buchan and that o f his sister in law, Margaret de Comyn, he through his wife became heir t o their Scotch estates, he was then cited as Henrico de Bellomonte, Cornit6 de Boghan.

On the 161;h March, 1310, he was created for life, Lord o f the Isle o f Man, .the revenues being also granted to him, he howevsr only appears to have held that office until 20th October 1312. It was then that he assumed the motto "Erectu8

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non elatus", signifyingthat pride had not increased with his fortune. This motto is still adopted by most branches of the family .
In 1318 as some recompense for his capture by Sir Gilbert de Middleton, s e e p. 82, he was granted 'the barony o f Ditchburn, this continued in the family until the death o f Wflliam Viscount Beaumont see 111. p .
Among the many offices of state which he held are the following:

On thr- 16th August 1308, he was madeWarden of Scotland south of the Forth; 29th 3ctober 1309, he was joined in 2 Commission for guarding the Marches of Scotland between the Rivers Tweedand Forth, an office towhichhe was re-appointed on the 2nd July, 1322. He was made Keeper o f Jedworth Castle 18th December, 1339, and Governor o f Roxborough Castle 12th February, 1309/10. He released Marg de Brus, sister of King Robert of Scotland, in exchange for Walter Comyn 30th March 1310 (CLOSE ROLLS, 3 Ed. 111). In 1311 he and his sister Lady de Vesci were banished from Court, but they were apparently reinstated in the Eoyal favour the following year for on the 22nd March i511/12 on the death of Alexander Bishop o f the diocese, he m s made Constable of Somerton Castle CO. Lincs. (SOM. SUFF. NORF.). He was also in attendance on the King at Newcastle in this year, and later became Constable o f Dumfries and Dover Castles.

On the 30th January 1312, he was joint guardian of the peace in Northumberland and Farden Newcastle on Tyne, and of on the 6th August he was joint Ambassador to Pope Clement V (ROLLS CJFR3ME M. 19). He held the same officeto the French Court from 1313 t o 1331.
On the 7th September 1314, he was with the Earl of Pembroke, appointed joint commissioner for the holding of n parliament at York. On the 4th Novembsr 1315, he W ~ appointed S Chief Captain of the Marches of Northumberland. On the 22nd March 1316 he was made Lieutezant and Captain General between the Tyne and Tees, and Consthble of Durham Castle1316 to 1318. In Janu-arg 1318 he was appointed governor of Montandre Castle, Gascony. On the 16th September 1322 Constable o f England. In 1325 he was sent as one of the royal plenipotentiaries t o treat f o r peace witn Charles King o f France. In 1326 (30th September) he W ~ Sjoint Warden o f the Ports and coasts of Lincoln. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1327 and was sent (23rd April) as or?e of the Commissioners to treat for Peace with Scotland, and whilst there wasnominated as guardian o f David son of Da.vid de Strabolgi Earl of Athol deceased, in consideration of $1,000 and in 1338 (4th August) he was

appointed Justiciar (Chief Justioe)of Scotland.

He and his brother Louis were present the Coronation at of' lBdward I11 in Westminster Abbey, and they attested the King'a oath on that occasion.
The tailors in Oxford were in the habitof celebrating In 1306, when so doing, Gilbertd e Foxley trizd t o break up the dance, Henry d e Beaumont and some other companionsfelled him to the ground, this resulted his death (S.F. Hulton-Rixae Oxoniensis in p. 66). In 1307 idth November) he witnessed at Oxford the will of Ieolda Overhee (OXF3RD HIST3RICAL SOCIETY, 1913, g. 66).

S. John the Baptist day by dancing in the streets,

In 1330 Sir Henry had a dispute with Robert Tibbe over Borne oak trees, which the former had sold for charcoal. Tibbe appealed to the King and at the latter's command the Sheriff seized them, but they were subsequently released and handed t o Tibbe. In 1332 Sir Henry witnessed a grant o f the manor of Burton made by Toutus d e Stourville t o Richard de Grey. Hie piety is evinced by his. completely restoring the choir and inserting new windowso the Church o f S. Peter at t Barton on Rumbzr in 1307 (PAGEANT OF 1,000 YEARS, W.E. Varah). In the East window is a figure about two feet two inches high drzting bvck to this period which is supposed t o represent Sir Henry in the habit of a mediaeval pilgrim. He is garbed in a long fawn coloured cost fastened with four gold buttone, a blue tunic is shewn bensa%h. He bears a staff in his right hand and a book in the left. Xis feet are bare. He has long flowing hair andmougtache. He wears a wallet ornamentedwith an escalloF shell suspended by a green band over the right shoulder and a large hat witha turndownbrimand an escallop shell in front. The shell was used by the pilgrims ad a drinking horn. It therefore shews that the wearer had made a pilgrimage to the shrine O F S. James of Compostella.

"He quits his cell, the pilgrim staff bore he And fixt the scallop in his hat before Then with the sun arising, journey went."
Some uonsider however that this figure representsS. Jdmes o f Compoetella, (the Hermit, Thomas Parnell, D.D., 1679/1718). There is another figure the window depictingS. George, in in the armour of the Cyclas period (1300 t o 1350) bearing a shield with S. George's Cross emblazoned thereon and a spear in his right hand, this is supposed to represent Sir Henry's son John. (H.W. Ball, Antiquities of Barton on Humber, notes and queries 7. S. XII. 123.)

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He left, lands at Qittisham for the poor of the parish, Some dozen recipients benefit by this bequest at the present
time .
8ir Henry's seal shows the Lion rampant, but without the fleur de lgs.
The family name is still preserved in the parish of Barton by a private house known as Beaumontcoteand by R farm %etawont Court."

The Earl married 14th July 1310 Aliue daughter and heiress of Sir Alexander Comyn, Sheriff of Aberdeen andnieoe andheiress of JohnCornyn, Earl of Buchan of Whitwicke Manor, Co. Leiuester. In 1347 she furnished six men at arms and twelve Archers for service in France, Calais was ortptured at this time (Hist. 0011. Staff XVIII. 103). She died lQth August 1349. They had Issuer

I. John, died young.

11. RicharB, diecl young.

111. John, heir.

IV. Thomas, died 1349. Lord of Boulton Percy, Yorke, and heir t o his mother. He W&B present at the siege of Calais 1345-7 and at the Battle of Crecy 1346, he served in the King's division and provided one knight, seven esquires, five archers onhorse and two on foot. (ibid. p. 200). He seemg t o have teenknighted about this time. He married and had issue!
(1) Thomas,
elected

Canon of Llandaff before 1343;

Canon cf Sarum 1348.

He was buried in the GreyfriarsChurch,

London
(2) Branuis.
(3) Andrew, who had a 8on ThomRs.

V. Alice, died young.

VI. Elizabeth, died on the eve of S. Simon and 6. Jude 27th October, 1400. She married c . 1342 Nicholas, thlrd Baron de Audleg of Hadleigh, Stafford, he died 1392. In her wjll, she desired t o be buried with her husband in the choir of Hilton Abbey, she bequeathed four hundred marks for the purchase o f land for the Abbey and forty shillings t o every monk therein, for hersoul and her husband's soul and all Christian souls and t o her niece Joan Beaumont five hundred

marks on her marriage (Niaolas, Testimento Vetusta).

VII. Joan, married Lord Fitzwarine. VIII. Iaabel died

1361, married Henry Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster, great grandson of Renrg TII. He died. of plague 24th March 1361/2. He is representeh on the brass memorial of Sir Hugh Hastings, Elsing, Norfolk (ARCHABIOLOGIA, IX. 25). He was Steward of England and a follower of Wyclif. They had issue !

(1) Maud, born 1340, married first Ralph son o f the Earl of Stafford and secondly William fifth Duke of Bavaria younger son o f the Emperor Louis XV. On the death of her father soon after her marriage,she came to England t o olairn her share of her father's estate. She caught the plague and died and the whole of her fxtherls vast inheritance then passed t o her siater. (2) Blanche, born 1341,. Married on Sunday 19th May, 1359, at the Royal Abbey at Reading, founded by Henry I, t b John of Gaunt, born1340, fourth son o f Edward 111, (Capgrave Ohronicles, p. 219 AD 1393-1864) as they were cousins it was necessary t o get a dispensation from the Pope; this was granted at Avignon by Innocent VI (PAPAL PETITIONS, I. 337). The wedding ceremony was condycted Robert Wyvil, Bishop of by Barum. The King and the Royal Princes were among the guests. The wedding festivities included a three days tournament, this was followed by another issting thesame time in the City of London. King John o f France and King David I1 of Scotland, both prisoners of war, were present. The King, the princes, and some o f the great barons took the places o f the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen and upheld the city's challenge, mucb to the astonishment and delight of' the spectators. Through his marriage, and on the death of his father in law, John inherited the title of the Earl of Lancaster and he became immensely rich, for a list of the estates that gassed to him at this time see Collins' HISTORY OF JOHNOF GAUNT, pp. 7-10. The King shortly raised him t,o dignity of Duke; this was the second Dukedom created in England, the first being that 0.f M w a r d the Black Prince who was made Duke of Cornwall. Blanche was one of Chaucer's earliest patronesses, be describes her "as uniting unusutrl graces of disposition with a full measure of womanly beauty, a blonde withgolden hair, tall and graceful and with something o f that ample richness of fora so prized by the taste o f the fourteenth century." It is not an unknown custom for modern Court poets t o use both a poet's and a courtier's licence we h: speaking of royalty, Chaucer no doubt wrote with the prepossessions of friendship; but he wrote also forthose who knew her well. In "the Boke o f the Duchesse or the dethe of Blanche" (line 810) h e tells ua

"That 8s the somerys sonne bryghte Ys fairer, clerer, and hath more lyghte Than any other planete in hevene,
The moone, or the sterres sevene; For a1 the worlde, so hadde she Surmountede hem a1 of bettutk, Of' maner, and of comelynesse, Of statur6, and o f so we1 sette gladneBSe; Of eodelyhede (1) and so well beseye; (2) Shortly what, shal Y (3) seye?" Bernard Holland In the LANCASHIRE H3LLANDS says "she was one of the .most delightful women of her time," and Froissard (1337-1410) an excellent judge o f these things, said at the time of her dee.th and that of Queen Philippa, which took plaae simultaneously "1 never saw t w o such noble dames, SO good, so liberal and courteous as this 1ad.y and the late Queen of Bnglsnd, nor ever shall, were I t o live a thousand years, which is impossible."
Blanche died nt the time o f plague 12th September, 1369. husband and for a t i m e he seemed life Ghaucer in the B9KE OF these words into his mouth:

the third visitation of the It was a great blow to her to have lost all interest in THE DUCHESSE line 476, put8

"1 have o f sorwe so grete woon, I) 4 That joye qete I never noon, Now that I see my lady bryghte, Which I have loved with a1 my mgghte,
Is fro me dede, and ys agoon. ts) Allas! Dethe! what ayleth thee. That thou noldest (6) have taken me Whan that thou toke my lady swete? That was so fayre, so fresh, 80 fre. So goode, that men mtry we1 se, O f all goodenesse sche hsdde no mete.

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A Norman contemporary (Le Joli Buisson de Jonbce) wrote!

(1) (2)

Goodness or gaodlinesa. Provided. ( ) I sag more, 8 ( ) Quantity . 4 ce) Is passed away. ( ) WOUld'6t e not. 0 '1pgualb

97. "Rlle morut jeune et jolie, Environ de vingt et deux ans . Gaie, lie friche, esbatans, Douce, simple, d'umble semblance, La Bonne dame ot B nom Blanche." Translation: "She died young and pretty, About 22 (1) years old, Gay and of good lineaga, Fresh, lively, sweet, Simple, of humble appearance, The good lady bore the name f Blanche." o She was buried with great pomp on the north side of the High altar in S. Paul's Cathedral and eventually her husband was laid by her side. Their son, King Henry IV erected a t o their memories. very handsome alabaster altar monument The Duke was depicted full length in armour; his nelm shield and spear were also hung over the memorial. The Duchess w&s robe& in the habit of the period. It was unfortunately destroyed when the Cathedral was burnt in the grea.t fire of London 1666. The inscription which was in Latin may be translated somewhat as follows: sleegeth in theLord the body of John of Gaunt 80 named From that city o f Flanders where he was born, He was by his royal extraction R Plantagenet, And, one of the sons to King Edward the third; Be was created by his royal father Earl of Richmond He had three wives. The first whereof was Lady Blanche Daughter and heiress of Henry DL&~ o f Lancaster; By whom she had a vast inheritance; And not only the Dukedom o f Lancaster, But also the Earldoms of Leicester, Lincoln and Derby; From whose loins, Emperors, Kings, Princes, and Peers Were propagated t o a great number. His other wife here buried him, by Was the Lady Constance, Daughter and heirees o f Pe.ter, King o f Castils and Leon, In whose right He had a just claim and t i t l e 'Here
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To the Kingdom of Castile and Leon His third Lady was the Lady Catherine A lady of a. Knightly family and of beautiful ernbelli%hment From whom descended. a Royal, noble and numerous off spring For from her by the maternal line is Descended that most prudent and puissantPrince King Henry the Seventh Who by his hsppy match with Elizabeth the daughter of King Edward the Fourth, - R lineal descendant from the House of York These two royal lines o f Lancaster and York Were happily united and incorporated into one. This most illustriousPrinceJohn ofGaunt, surnamedPlantagenet King o f Castile and Leon, Duke o f Lancaster, Eiirl of Richmond, Leicester, Lincoln and Derby; Lord Lieutenant o f Aquitain and Great Lord High Steward of' the Realm England, died the year of in Of our Lord 1399 in the two and twentieth year o f the reign of King Richard the Secozd."

(TOMBS AND MONUMENTS IN S. PAULS, by P.F. Loudon, 1684.)

John o f Gaunt married secondlyat, Bordewx the Princess Constantia, eldest daughter and heiress' of King Pedro of Castile and Leon and thirdly Catherine Swynford his mistress s i s t e ~i n law of' Chaucer (LIFE OF CHAUCER, p. 621, William Godwin), her great great grandson became Henry VIT, an act of parliament having been passed on the 22nd January 1397 legitimising her children.

Blanche had issue:

(1) Henry Bolingbroke born 1366, he deposed his couein Richard I1 ana was crowned King, as Henry IV in 1399.

(2) Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York, died young.

(3j Philippa, born 1360 died c. 1415, married in 1387 John I, King of Portugal:

Issue l
la.

Alphonse, died young.

Edward, heir, named after his great grandfather

2a.

Edward I11 of England.

3a. Peter, Duke o f Coinbra, a scientific man and traveller.

4a.
Henry, Duke of Visco,

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5a.

John.

6a. Ferdlnand.

7a.
8a.

Blanche.

Isabella, married Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, from whom the Spanish Hapsburg family is descended.There is a brass to hermemory in the cathedral at Basle, dated 1450. ( 4 ) Elizabeth, born 1362, died 1426, buried at Burford, Salop, betrothed in childhood t o a young bog, John Hastings, Earl o f Pembroke; married 1386 t o John Holland, first Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter, secondly married John Cornwall, Baron Fanhope, (THE LANCASHIRE H O U N D S , Bernard Holland, p. 54)

The ninth child o f Sir Henry Beaumont was:

IX. Beatrix. She married the Count d e Dunmartin of France.

X. Catherine, married he was born in 1319.
David Strabolgi, third o f Atholl, Earl

JOHN 2ND BARON BEAUMONT and Lord Folkingham, born 25th

December 1518. Accidentally killed a t a tournament in Brittany 10th May; 1342, Through his mother hewas descended from the Baliols and the royal house o f Scotland. He was Commander in Chief of tha army in the Scottish, French and Flemish Wars and he furnished for the King's service three hundred men o f arms and forty archers. He was said to have been one of t h e most gallant men in the world (F. Drake, EBORACUM.) The Scotch had at this time z very mean opinion o f the English and they posted the following distich on the door of the Cathedral at York: "Long beards hartless Painted hoods witless Gay coats graceless Makes England thriftlessu(1)
but it was not long before called them t o account.
the English Commander in Chief

John was Constable o f England, Lord Attendant on Queen philippa in1340; and was summoned t o Parliament on the death of his father asJohannes d e Bellomonte. He signed at
(I)

Drake, EBORACUM, p. 102.

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Brussels in 1339 the wedding contract of Edward the Black Prince and Margaret the daughte: ofthe Duk2 of Brabant; the Prince was then only nine years old ( 9 H e married in June 1337, Lady Eleanor great grand-daughter of Henry I11 and fifth daughter of Henry Plantagenet, third Earl of Lancaster. She ?bfterwards mrried c. 1349 Richard Fit2 Alan ninth Eari of Arundel, the latter. died 1376. She died 11th January,1372/3 (? 1374-1376) and was buried in the Priory o f Lewes; at her death the Tackley estates should have descended to her son Henry, but the latter conveyedhis interest in them, before his mothert% death, o trustees and t it is uncertain who came into possession o f the property at her death. John had issue by his marriage, one so?,, Henry.

of Loughborough born 1343 in Brabant, whilsthis mother was there in sttendmce on Queen Philippa the Consort o f Edward 11. In order that the succession of the cnild should not be questioned it was necessary for it to beDorn in England, and the father. and mother prepared to return home for that purpose, b t the CLOSE ROLLS u tell u.s (1340-43,p. 72), under 1st December 1340 "Wh,re:;s the King's kinsfolk, J o h n de Bellomonte and Eleanor df: Lancastre, his wife, bytne King's command crossed with him into Brabant, m d she having conceived her husband, by they proposed t o return to England, before the birth, that the origin ofthe ehila should be known i n the place where was it hoped i t would succeed, End whereas, the King, bemuse their stay was very grateful a.nd desirable as well on accoant of their service to him, as f'or the comfort of Queen Philippa, caused them to stag his company, promising to provide for in the security of the offspring in its succession t o its parents in EnglaRd, and Eleanor while staying there as commanded by her husband, brought forth her firstbornson, now named Henry de Bellomonte; the King taking into consideration that the said John and Elesnor at the time of the conception and birth o f the said Henry were cohabiting continually in Brabant in his company in marital intercourse, reputes Henry to be their true and legi3imate son and grants that, i f he survive his father, he shall succeed him as his legitimate heir within the realm of England, notwithstanding that his birth was not in the realm.
On the 1st May 1341 "Eleanor aas granted, consideration in of her long stay in the company o f Queen Philippa and her charges and labours in that t i m e , P100 yearly at the exchequer for life, or until she be provided with an equivalent in 8ome other manner". (CL3SE RDLLS, 1340-43, p. 175).
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HENRY, 3Ro BARON, Lord of Folkinahsm and Lord

A. Collins, LIFE OF EDWARD TEIE BLACK PRINCE.

Henry died on Wednesday next after the feast of S. Margaret the Virgin, 17th June 1369 or 1370 and was buried in the Priory Church of Sempringham, Lincolnshire.
He was summoned t o Parliament from 1362 to 1368, and he was appointed Commissioner of Array in the parts of Kebteven, Co. Lincoln on the 10th Fe'bruary 1367; he took part in that year in the war with Qascong.
In Febrwstry 1368/9 he presented to Edward 111 houses and garden8 at Charing Cross; the deed of gift was witnessed by William of Wykehatn, Bishop of Winchester and others (Oloee Rolls). A copy of his seal ia illustrated in J a m s E Doyle's . OFFICIAL BARONAGE, I. 144In order to perpetuate his descent from the Sing o f Jerusalem and hjs connection with the Royal House.of Blngland and Scotland and his alliance with the De Vere's, he plaoed in the East wlndow o f S. Mary's Church Barton on Humber, shields with rhyming hexameter lines beneath. This window was in existence up to about A.D. 1642 (Holles, LINC CHUBUHES), although one shield was then damaged. The window was probably destroyed by the puritans as it no longer exists.

The first shield: Quarterly, Arg. a Cross Pat& between Your orosseg humet or (The King ot' Jerusalem) Az Sem& of fleur de lys a lion rampant or (Beaumont).

Motto:

RBX HIWOSOCYMIAE CUM BELL3MONTE LOCATUR.

The second shield: Beaumont quarterly as above Az' Three garbea or (Buchan).
Motto:

BELLUS MONS ETIAM CUM B3GHAN CONSOCIATUFl.

EnglZmd, on a

The third shield : Beaumont quarterly. label nine fleur de lgs or (Lancaster).

Motto:

BELLUS MONS ITERUM L3NGC3 CASTRO EIELIGATUR,

The inscription imperfect.

The fourth shield: Defaced. It probably read as follows:

Motto!

BELLUS M9NS (ITIDXM NUNC) 0Xr)NIAE TITULAR.

Robert Brown in his HISTORY OF BARTON puts the mottoes into rhyme as follows:

"Jerusalem with Beaumont links her King, Beaumont and Boghan in alliance cling,

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Beaumont again t o Lanaaster is bound, And Oxfords name is now with Beaumont found.

The Beaumont coat of arm6 is carved on the woodwork of this church, as it i B in many other churches in the County o f Lincoln. Holles tells us that in his day (se,venteenth century) the Beaumont arms were shewn in many churches in the district (LINCOLNSHLRECHURCHNOTES, Lincoln Reaord Soc., 1). He married Lady Margaret daughter o f John d e Vere seventh Earl of Oxford, and widow of Sir Nicholas de Louvain. She zfterwards married Sir JohnDevereux; she was mtrrried In the Greyfriars Church, Newgate Street, London 1393, and had issue by 6ir Henry:

I. John, heir.
11. Henry, alive in 1375 End held an estate at Stanton S. John, Oxon.

111. Richard.

IV. Tnomas, married Joan, daughter of Sir Thomas Fitz Robert, they were both alive in 1398, when they sold part 01 their manor at Daventry. He was one o f the Council of Advisers ot Richard 11, during his minority. He hEtd issue:
(1) John.

(2) Thomas.

John had issue:

La.
2a.

George. John.

t3eorge had issue:

lb.

William.

2b.

Bdmund.

Williarn had issue:

lc.

William who had issue;

Id.
George of Gtawtbye.

108. JOHN 4TH BARON BBIAUMONT, Lord o f Folkingham, K.G. Born at Breah, Sussex 1361/2. He wa6 slain at the 6iege of Stirling, on Saturday .the morrow after the Beast of the In his will he Nativity of our Lady 9th September, 1396. direots that "hisbody be buried in Sempryngham Church, near the body of my most honoured Lord my father who Qod asoile." He bequeathed to the Priory the little cross made of our Lord's oross.
On the 20th July 1371 Richard Earl of Arundehl and Bleanor his w i f e obtained an injunction against Thomas Crispyn who had established a ferry over the Humber at Barrow, this being an infringement of Johnla (fourth Baron) rlghts who was a minor at the time. The Earl was thereby losing the greater part of his income derived from his own ferry, amounting to ten marks per annum, The defendant did not obey the injunction, 00 the Court ordered the ferry to be removed (CLOSE ROLLS, 1369, p. 241). In 1796 the right t o this ferry was sold to t the Corporation of Hull for g2920 and in 1833 it was let a ; an annual rental of $800.

He was summoned to parliament from 1383 t o 1393. He was patron of the living o f Greenford bhgna and Parva. He beganhis military career in the Expeditionto Flanders under the leadership of Henry de Despencer, Bishop of Norwich, against the partisans o f pope Clement VI1 in 1383 (W.H. St. John Hope, THE STALL PLATES OF THEl KNIGHTS OF THE GARTEIR). He was also at Bourbourg when it was besieged by Clharles VI
o f France. Owing to its gallant defence the French were English a free paas unable to cspture it, so they offered the if they would evacuate it, this they accepted: (Froiasart, X. 124, 213) . He wasInspector of ArchersforCounty Leicester 28th September, 1386, and in the same year one of the Commanders in the Peninsular campaign (St. John Hope); w h e n h e had to provide for the King's service one hundred men at arms and three hundred archers.

In 1387 the lords assembled at Haringag Park, expelled him from Court as being one of the King's evil advisers, he soon regained his position and accompanied John o f Gaunt in 1389 in his fruitless expedition to Spain. They set sail with twenty thousand men. The baron was a guest at the banquet which the King o f Portugal gave at Oporto in honour of John of Gaunt when the latter arranged that the King'a daughter, Philippa, should marry the King of England (Collins

HIST, JOHN OF QAUNT).

He entertained Richard I1 and the Queen at Beaumanor in 1389, when they were on their journey to York and agair, when
travelling from Leicester to Nottingham in 1390.

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He was made Lord High Admiral ot' the Fleet, 20th May, 1389 also R Privy Councillor in December o f the same year; Joint Warden of the West Marches towards Scotland the following July, and again in March, 1396.
He went to Calais March 1390 in order t o take part in a grand tournament, and whilst there, he was made Governor of Cherbourg Castle. On the 1st March, 1392, he was Chief Commissioner of Array for Co. Lincoln, and on 11th December in that year Warden of the CinquePorts and Constableof Dover Caetle. In 1393/4 on the death o f John Lord Devereux, he was created t h e eighty-fifth Knight of the Garter; his plate in the fifteenth stall o f S. George's Chapel, Windsor is charged with the Beaumont and Comyn arms, at, the same t i m e he received a pension of' & 0 per annum for his great services to his l0 country . On the death of John, the Garter passed to John Beaufort, natural son John o f Gaunt and Catherine Swynford of (see p. 98).
In 1396 : was sent as Ambassador to Frznce to seek the h hand. o f the Pyincess Isabella in marriage to the King. In addition to the family estates he also owned the manor8 of.Burton Overy, Frisby znd Bosworth, Co. Leicester, and Mershton Co. Warwick, and Pebworth and Quinton, Co. Gloucester.

He had two wives and marriedfirstly, Catherine daughter and heiress f Sir Thomas Bieringham, of Lsxton Co. Nottingham; o E n secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, Earl td Marshall, and widow of Nicholas Lord Audleg. She died 1426. He had issuer
I. Henry, heir.
11. Thomas, Lord of Bnsqueville, Normandy, K.G. The snoestor of the Cole Orton, GrRce Dieu and Stoughton Grange families (see p. 121).

111. Richard. A Richard Beaumont served under as E lanoer the Duke of Gloucsster at the 'battle Agincourt, 24th October, of 1416 (N.H. NicholaB, Agincourt p. 6 ) .
IV. Elizabeth, died 1463; married Willlam, third Lord Bottreaux, he was born 20th Februzry 1389/90, and died 1462. She had issue I

(1) Margaret mvried Lord Hungerford, died 1459. Her he seal snows a seated vidow with a book on her lap, overshadowing her are two banners of impaled arms one of Hungerford and Bottreaux, supported b y , a lion, and the other of Bottreaux snd Beaumont upheld by a Griffen (HERALDRY FOR CRAFTSMEN,

W.H. St. John Hope, p. 216).

Ohantry in Balisbury Cathedral
C.

She f O m d 3 d the Hungerford

1465.

V. Eleanor;

a nun at Ambresbury Nunnery.

VI. Yargaret.
VII. Ceeilia?
VIII. John.
HBNlRY 5th BARON BEAUMONT, K. B. , born at Folkingham
13580/1, died the 16th June, 1413, and buried at Sempringham. He made his will at his inn in London 14th June 1413 and greaumably died there.

In 1393 he held the manor of Brimscombe, Kent, and his aoat of arms, quartered lmith those of Jerusalem and Oastile and Leon are carved in the cloisters ofCanterbury Cathedral (ARCH, LXVI. 677). Henry IV on his ooronation 13th October 1399 created h f m a Knight ofthe Bathana on the 6th November 1403 a J.P. for Co. Leioester, and Privy Counafllor in 1405. He was summoned to Parliament from 1404 to 1413.
He served under the war-like Bishop Spencer o f Norwich and accompanied him to Calaisi from there they proceedea t o Dunkirk and Graveline, capturingthe same and the district round. In 1410 he was appointed one o f the Commissioners to treat for peace with France.
He married c. 2405 Elizabeth daughter o f William, fifth Lord Willoughby d'Eresbg, she received under the marriage settlement, the estates W o o d h o m e andBarrow-on-Soar, (see at p. 204). She died 12th November 1428. Issue:

I. John', heir.
11. Henry, the ancestor of the Wednesbury family (see p 201). .

111. Alainore.

IV. Katherine; a Katherine Beaumont married Sir John Stourton o f Somerset about this time.

V. Anne, took the veil at the Benedictine Convent at Barking, Essex; this was a wealthy and famous convent, greatly frequented by rich young novices. Some remains o f the chapel gateway and wall are still in existence.

VI. Margaret, enteredthe Dominican sisterhood at Dartford; this priory was generally chosen by the highest ladies of

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the land, either for education or as professed nuns. She was elected prioress about 1442 and was buried in the Priory Chapel (ARCK. JODR. XXXVI, 241 Weever, Funeral Monuments336).

VII. Elizabeth, married LordDeincourt, and secondly married Sir Thomas Nevil. She died 1447.
JOHN, 6th BAR3N BEAUMONT, Earl o f Boloine and premier Viscount of England, K.B., K.G., Lord of: the manors of Dgmington, Ilkelshall, Brandishand Clopton (Proc.Suff. Inst. VI11 133). He was born 1409/10 and succeeded his father when three years old; slain when fighting on the Lancastrian side at the Btrttle of' Northampton 10th July 1460, whioh only lasted half an hour, we are told that "he fell 'be8ihe the King's tent in Hardingstone meadow on the east side of the London road, between De la Pre Abbey and the river Nene" (Stubbs, C3MS. HIBT., 111. 186.)
Burton says that "John Viscount Beaumont sticking close to King Henry the Sixt was slain at the battell of Northamptsn the 38th of iIenry Sixt hiR sonne William Viscount Beamont, Lord Bardolf'e was after attainted, the 3rd of hldward the fourth and almost all his lands in the countie given by King Edward the IVth o Wiiliam, Lord Ilestings, which William, t Viscount Beaumont was rzstored in bloud by Act of Parliament Seventh" (W. Burton, LEICESTERSHIFUI, the first yeere of Henry the
p. 34).

He was buried at Newark, his widow erectedmarket aro8s a there to his memory which is still in existence and ia known as the Beaumond Cross, the style of the work seemsto betoken that it was erected at least ahundred years earlier. 1% is possible that his widow restored the c r o s s in memory o f her husband. The heavy top and the vane are modern additions. (1)
There is a contemporary M.S. poem at Trinity College Dublin on "the Battle of Northampton" which must have been written before September 1460, as it speaks o f the Duke of York as being absent in Ireland, he landed in angland about the 8th September, reference is also made to John.

(1) SEE ANCIENT STONE CROSSES, Alfred Rimmer; and G. Brown, ANNALR 3F NEWARES ON TFtENT. The inszriptions on the brass plates record "Repairea and ornamented 1778 at the expense of Charles Mellish Esq., Recorder," and "This cross erected in the reign o f Edward the Fourth, was repaired and beautified from the town estates AD. MDCCCI." I t is sometimes erroneously called a Queen Eleanor Cross.

"Talbot (1) ontrewe, was ye oon dogges name, Bauling Bewmond ( )anodre I understonde, 2 Ye thrid also was made rul tame, He was called Bolde Egremonde (. 8 ) '

Archaeologia XXIX. 336.

Another MS. also at Trinity College (E. 5. 10) entitled Lancastrian, 1458", compiled in the "Verses on the State by reigns o f Henry V and Edward IV. "Thys good shype hathe ankers thre,

Of' bether mettel ther may be, non In strenthe ye shyp be londe and se, %hen he wolle stop hys tyde.
The fu(r)st anker, hole and sounde, He is named ye Lord Beamond, Wellgs (I), and Rgveres (51, Trouthe yn them found, In worshypp they hem gyde." Archaelogia. XXIX. 329. In a satirical poem dated 1449, referring t o political 6. events in the reign of Henry VI we find a further referenoe () "Wherefore Beaumownt that gentille rache (7) Hath brought Jack Napis UD in an eville cache". (91 Political Poems and Songs, 11. 225,

John furnished for the King's service twenty men at arms and eighty-eight archers, he and his men served in France under the protector o f the realm John Earl of Bedford in 1429 and again in 1435. In 1430 he accompanied aenry VI

then only eight years old t o Prance, they landed at Calais on S. Georga's Day and proceeded t o Rouen; the King made
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John Talbot, Earl o f Shrewsbury. First Viscount Beaumont. Thomas Percy, Earl of Egremond (ARCHAEOLOGIAE XXIX 335). Leo, Lord Welles slain at Towton1461. Richard Widville, Earl Riyers, father-in-law t o Edward IV, he W R S beheaded in 1469. C3TTON MS. CHARTERS 11, 23, British Museum. A scenting hound. The Duke o f Suffolk, he was arrested by Lord John Beaumont, who was at that time chief constable of England, and convicted o f high treason and his estates confiscated 4th November, 1460. Cat ch.

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this city his headqwrters until after the trial and deathof the Maid of Orleans, hethen went to Paris for his Coronation. On the 27th July 1436, Johnwas sent t o the relief of Calais.

He took his share in the Wars of the Roses and was present at the Battle o f Blore Heath, on the borders of Cheshire and Lancashire (Sundry231-d September1459) fighting on the Lancastrian side. He with the Duke of Exeter was in command with some fifteen or sixteen thousand men. They were opFose6 by the Earl of Salisbury, the latter gained the day.
He was created a Knight of the Bath in 1426; in 1432 he was summoned t o Farliament and appointed a "Trier o f Petitions," and made a Justice of the Peace for Co. Leicester 7th September 1433. R e was created Earl of Boloine by charter granted at
Canterbury on the 27th July, 1434, and a Privy Councillor in the same year. On his first marriage, 12th November he was for his services and bravery at Cslais, created Lord Bardolfe in 1436 (see p. 106). In consideration o f his many services and the special services of his ancestors he was crested a Viscount by letters patent given at Reading 12th February 1439/40, with a yearly fee of twenty marks from the county o f Lincoln, (Stub.bs Const. Hist 111. 128). This is t h e first instance of R Viscounty being granted in England, it is probable that the title was suggested by his He descent from Agnes Vicomtesse d e Beaumont (see p. 81). was given precedence before all Viscounts, who should be hereafter created in England and before the eldest sons of Peers. In 1441 he was still further honoured by being made the one hundred and fifty-fifth Knight o f the Garter. In 1445 he was Constable of England and by virtue of this offioe he arFested on the 18th February, 1447 near Bury S. 'Edmunds, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of Henry V and founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Stubbs, CONS. HIST., 111. 136). Three days later Humphrey wtis found dead in his bed and we are told that he DEIDE FOR SOROU. Popular tradition however attributed his death to Queen Margaret of Anjou, Cardinal Beaufort andthe Duke of Suffolk. John also arrested Owen Tudor who had married without the King's uoneent, Catherine, the QueenDowager, widow of Henry V. Twenty marks for his expenses on this occasion. In was granted John 1445 he was ambassador to France, and. Warden of the Channel Isl;l.ndsin 1446, and Chamberlz?.inof Englmd 6th May 1450, also a Commissioner to treat for peace with Scotlandin 1451 and again in 1459. High Steuard and Supervisor of the Eetates of Edward Prince of Wales 1457. He was summoned to parliament from 1432 to 1460. On the 26th E'ebruary 1451/2, he lent Henry VIth S40 t o enable him t o undertake the Gascony Expedition.

HE:had a grant of a messuage known as ' h Te

New Inn" in

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the parisho f S Benet's, Paul's Wharf, London,1449. He leased . the bridge o f Downham, Norfolk, to Peter Baker at a rental of thirteen shillings and foixrpence per annum, the latter undertook t o keep the bridge in repair and allow the tenants, residents and farmers o f the said Lord John ijettumont and belonging to the manor o f Stow t o pass over free of toll. iis was a legatee under the will of Walter Lorc? Henry Enfield (dated 1st July, 1449), "of a cup o f silver with cover bordered with a gold and on it a knob of g o l d , with which cup the most noble PrinEe John(of' Gaunt) Duke of Lancaster was oftsn served and in which he did use to drink so lgng as he l i 7 e d " (Dugdale's BARONAGE, 11, 54) John and hi3 heir repaired the chapel and inserted the at Woodhouse in BeaumanorPark, In S. armorialwindows Mary's Hall, Coventry, below the north window, is a pieue or Flemish tapestry thirty feet by ten feet divided into six compartments in two tiers. It commemorates a visit paid by Hsnry VI and Queen Mdargaret t o the borough at Whitsuntide 1457. He was accompanied by Cardinal Beaufort and Viscount Beaumont. The first left hand compartment shows the King, with the Cardinal behind nim, both kneeling, whilst the Viscount is standing in the foreground to the left, sixteen Barons and ladies fill up the background. The Viscount is robed in a cloak o f gold cloth, with a light blue tunic beneath it and an embossed qypciere hangs from his girdle; a small dog is shewn just behind. (1) John bore the King's trEtin in the procession to the Pentecostal Feast which was observed by the King on this visit. The following is a copy or the Grant o f Liberties made t o John. "King Henry the sixt was so affectionate unto him, that he granted unto him and to Willfam, Lord Bardolghe, his s o m e and heire apparer?t 27th Henry 6th, that within their o w n territories, lordship, tLnd jurisdictions, they should make returns o f all writtes and shouldhave and receive all fines, forfeitures and amercements and their tenznts to bee free t r m all suites of court. 'o He also grantPd unto them, wrecke o f t h e seas, free warrenand courte leetes, and also power and authority to cause coronersand clerkes or the markets, within their own dominions and liberties, and further granted them license to have a peculiar prison and gRole for malefaotors at Folkingham and Whitwik in the oountie of Leicester and Wormegley in the countie of Norfolke."

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Mary Dormer Harris, LIFE IN AN OLD ENGLISH TOWN.

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heiress of Sir William Phillip, m d widow o f Lord Bardolf; Kt., she W R S the grand daughter c f Shakespeare's Lord Bardolf in "Henry IV." She held in her own right the estate o f Winterbourne, Dorset, and theManor of North Roughton 1 Norfolk ( or Lincoln). She died c. 30th October 1441. He married secondly c. 1442, Katherine, daughterof Ralph Neville, Earl o f Westmorl.and,and widow of Sir Thomas Strangway relict of John and Mo!:'bray, 2nd Duke o f Norfolk, the latter died 1432. After the death of Baron Beaumcnt she married for the fourth time, in January 1464/5 John Wydville, brother t o t h e Queen Consort of Edward IV, he was only twenty yearsold atthe time and was she nearly eighty; the match so unequal, that it was accounted was usua.lly formed scandalous, evenin an age when alliances were rather with regard to property than t o persone, William of Worcester, in his annals, calls down imprecations on him for his ill a8sorted match, these seem t o h a v e come home t o roost for Wydville and father Richard, Earl Rivers beheaded his were by the Lancastrians at Northampton on the 12th August, 1469. John had isaue three sons and two daughtere.

I. John, d.s.p.

in his father's life time.

11. Henry, d.s.p. 6thNovember,1442, buried at Denninqton, Suffolk, a brass plate was in the church in 1807, but it no longer exists. It read:

"HIC JACEX HENFICUS DE BEL3MONTX FILIUS ET R W E S JOHS; VICECOMITIS BEAUMONT, ET ELIZABETHE UXORIS EJUS, FILII ET

HEFSDIS W I U I E L M I PHELIP, DOMINI DE BARDOLPH, ET HEREDIS TERRARUM DE ERPINGHAM QUI OBIIT VI? DIE VOVEMBRIS, ANN0 DOMINI
MCCCCXLII, CUJUS ANIME PROPICITUR DEUS" (Blornfield's NORFOLK, VI. 419). He inherited his maternal grmdfather's estates when only eight years old. Weever. F u n . Mon. 782.

111. William, heir.

IV. Mary, died unmarried. V. Joane, died before her brother William, leavingissue one son and two daughters, the two latter were co-heiresses of their Uncle William.
W I L L I A M , 7th BARON, 2nd VISCOUNT BEAUMONT K.G., and Lord Bard.olf, Comgn, Phelip and Erpingham, born c. 1347, o r later, at Grimsthorpe Park, Edennam, Lincolnshire, baptised in the church there by the Abbot of Crouland (John Litlington) one o f his godfathers on the Feast of 8 . George the Martyr 23rd April 1439. Hiu other godfather was Bartholomew Brokesbg, Armiger. His godmother was Anne, wife o f Sir William Porter o f Colywastcn, the lritter was 03e of

WILLIAM VISCOUNT BEAUMONT,

showing the mail skirt, tuilles, and round-toed sabbatons, and standing on an elephant with howdah, his badge. He was taken prisoner a'tTowton Field fighting on the Lancastrian side.

Wyvenhoe, Essex, 1507.

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the executors of Henry V. The Church was decorated for the occasion with silk 2nd gold drsperies, and the font with S cloth of gold and red. His godmother lifted him from the font shewing that he was immersed Symon Messyngham o f Sempringham, carried a pair of gold basins and ewers from the Mayor's residence t o the church, for the godmother and godfathers to m s h their hands in after the ceremony. John Trusse zarried two carpets t o spread round the font and Henry Lavgngton carried a lighted torch before the child from the church to Grimsthorpe Park.

He died 20th December, 1537, and was buried at Wyvenhoe. His memorial brass in the church is probxbly $he finest military brass o f the "mail skirt" period o f 8rmour, now in existence. It had a triple canoTy, his heact rests on his helm, supported by mantling, crest and wreath. His badge is displayed between his legs viz. an elephant and castle indicative of his descent from John o f Brienne King of Jerusalem and his second wife Bermgarin sister o f Ferdinand 3rd King o f Ctrstile and Leon. A broom cod is beneath his feet; in allusion t o his descent Vrom the Plantagenets through Eleanor, daughtar o f Henry Plantagonet and wife of John second 3aron (see p. 100). A skrield bears the Beaumont arms on the upper dexter sidr7, the Phelip on the lower dexter, the Comyn on the upper sinister, and the Bardolf on the loser sinister. He is depicted in armour; his shoulders sre protected by poldrons with the hausse-col round the neck; rerebraces cover the upper and vambrace the lower arms with coutes over the elbows. A skirt o f four taces with mail skirt and two tuilles over protect the thighs and upper legs, with jambs below and genouillieres o7er the knees and sollerets over the feet. He wears sFurs, a lance rest is screwed to the dexter side o f his breastplate and the sword is attached by a transversebelt.Theinscriptionwas on a fillet surrounding the figure, but it is now nearly aL1 lost, it was as follows: "Here in the erthe m d y r thys marbell rests the bonys o f t h e noble Lorde Wylliam Beaumount, Knyght, Vycunt Beeumont and Lorde Bardolphe, whyche Wglliam after the naturale course o C all erthely creaturis decessyd the XIXth day o f Decemb in the yere o f Christ's Incarnation MCCCCCVII. Whose soule J'hu o f his infinike mercy receive into jog" (see illustration p. 111). When he inherited the Viscounty he had an annuity of twenty marks granted to him and his heiz-e for ever.

He inherited from his mocher aftsr the death of his brotiler Henry, the vast estztes of the Bardolph's, he also ownccl an estacea Winderton, nine miles from Barton on Humber t also the Manor of Skulton Norfolk and Cokerynton, Co. Lincoln (Calendar of Inquisitions H. VIT, 11). On the 18th December 1460 he was appointed J.P. for County Leicester. He fought

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on the Lancastrim side at the battle o f Towton Field, Palm Sunday 29th March, 1461/2, the two armies met face to face and on perceiving one another they each set up a great shout, a shout perhaps of joy like
"The stern joy which warriors feel In foeman worthy of their steel".
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The battle began at 9 a.m. in the midst of a snowstorm, which beat into the eyes of the Lancastrians and prevented them taking gooa aim with theirarrows. William was taken prisoner at this battle. He and the lettding L>.ricastrians were declared by the Yorkists t o be "open and notorious traitors, rebels and enemies" and their estates were confiscated4 Sir William of Hastings received as his reward most the Manorsof Viscount Beaumont, and the lands Thorpe L m g t o n were givent o Robert at Palmer (Stxbbs CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, 111. 196). On the Rcoession o i Henry VII, 11th Nsvember, 1485, the attsjnder was removed and his estates returned. He was also present ten years later (Easter Day, 1471) at for the Lancastrians the disastrous battleof Barnet.

On the 24th September 1473, he and the Earl o f Oxford were besieged at S. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, on the following 15th Februarythe castle was captured, free pardon was given a to the entire garrison, with the exceptionh e two leaders, oft William was imprisoned in the Castle o f Hammes in Picardy. Henry Bodrigan W 8 8 one of the captains on the Yorkist side (was he Sir Henry Bodrigan p. 67). (Scofield, Life and reign of Ed. IV. p 89).

The viscountKas summoned i n 1486 to the first Parli-ament of Henry VII. About 1496 he lost his reason, John de Vere,
Earl o f Oxford was appointed his guardian and he resided for the rest of his life on the Earl's estate at Wyvenhoe and

this accounts for his having been buried tha.t church. in

He married about March, 1461, Lady Joansecond daughter of Hmpbrey, first Duke of Buckinfbam; Erpingham Manor was settlsd on her, and on Willi?.m''s attainder it was granted to Richbrd Qukirtermain. The marriage was subsequently annulled (14773)ana on the 24th April, 1486, he marriaed at Westminster, Elizabeth daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Scrope, o f Bolton, she afterwards married John Vere Earl of Oxford, who de had b--en her husband's guardian. She died 26th June, 1537.
On her memorial brass, see illllstration p. 112.
She is
shewn wearing a veil head-dress surmounted with her coronet,

EILIZABETH ,
widow of Wi1lia.m Viscount Beaumont and afterwards Countess o f OxPord.
Sne i s wearing an ermine c o t e hardi, heraldic mantle, pedimental hesd-dress, and coronet.
Wyvenhoe .

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this style was introduced intc England by Anne of Brittany wife o f Charles VI11 of France. She is robed in a kirtle with tight sleeves and embroidered finished with frilling cuffs at the edge, over it an ermine sideless cote kardie and an heraldic mantle smbroidered with the Scrope and Tigtoft coat of arms. A triple chFiu!is placed round the neck from which depends a cross containing a portion or' the Holy Wood; this is probably the one referred t o in her will. The inscriptlon is like that of her husband's, nearly all lozt, it was as follows: "Of youre charitie pray for the soule of the high a n d noble lady Elizabeth Scroope, first married t o the noble Lord William late Vycouni Bexmont, Lord Comyn, Bardolphe, ??helip and Erpingham snd after wife unto the high m d noble Lord John somtyme Earl of Oxford, High Chamberlin o f England and Admj ral o f the same, Vycount Bulbeck, Lord Scales, Chancellor to our Sovayne Lord the King and Knyght of the most noble order of the Gartyr, The whyche Lady Elizabeth departed t o God the 26th day of Jcne 1537; on whoss soule and Christen soules, J'hu haye mercy."

"a pursle Under the will o f her mother she received of sable, her best feather bed and other furniture." Her own will bearitlg date 30th May, 1537, was a s follows: "She bequeathed her boag t o be burled in the Parish Church o f Wgveho, by the corps of Willinm Vycount Beaumont, her first husband, an5 3ppointsd that her axecutors should cause to be said or sung for her 8 0 ~ 1 , as also for the souls of her Father, Mother and for herhusband's soul two hundred masses, viz. fifty o f the Trinity Yift-J of the Holy GhoFt fifty or' the Five Woucds and fif'ty of Requiem tznd to rewsrd the sayers twelv? penze in money. By this her testament she also bequeathed to John de Vert?, then Earl o f Oxford, s e v e n TaFpets o f Counterfeit Arras, c' the Story of Solomon, and : to the Lord Bulbeck, her godson, her ring o f gold with a rose of diamonds and t o the Lady Dorothy his wife, a tablet of gold. Moreover to his brother Alberic (a g o d s o n ) her ring ol' goid wita a saphire o f divers squares; and t o the Lady Surrey his sister, a book of gold. Likewise to her god-dsughter Elizabeth Darcg his sister, her largest ring with a sharp diamond and to the Lady Anne Vere his sister, a book of gold. To her sister the Lady Marg wife of Sir William Kingston, Knight, her Jesus of Diamonds, set in gold. To h e r sister Jane 3rens 3 bason and ewer, chafsd and gilt; and t o her brother S i r John St. Clare, Knt., a bason and ewer of silyer chased and gilt ."

William had no issue and the Viscomtyc x m e extinct, the be astates going t o his nieces the daughters of' his sister Joane.

J 3 U E died 5th August 1466, befol-e her brother Williem; she married John Lord Love11 or' Ti.chmarsh, he died

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9th January 1465. This marriage explains the reason why the Beaumont arms are found on tbe Love11 tomb in Minster Love1 Church, Oxon. Records say that the Lovells were greatly enriched by their marriages with the wealthy heiresses of the Lords Holland and D'Eyncourt and Viscount Beaumont. Joane married secondly Sir William Stanley, o f K n o l l Castle, Co. Denblgh; she had issue by her first husband! but the estates passed t o the Crown (Thoroton Soc. Recorcts 111. 1905 p 101 . 107).

(1) Frttncis, Viscount Lovell, attainted 1485 and slhin at the Battle of Stoke, near Newark, 16th June, 1487, this battle ended the Lambeth Simnel rebellion. He left no issue. (2) Joane, co-heiress o f her brother.

Sir Edward Norreis

la.

(3) Frideswide, co-heiress with her aister; married of Yattenden, Berk8, Knight, from whom the Earls of Abingdon are descended. fseue:

John, d.s.F.

2a. Henry, had issue a son, Henry, who was summoned t o parliament in 1572 as Baron Norris of Rycote, this barony is now merged in the Ehrldom of Abingdon (CASE MILES THOMAS STAPLETON, p. 22).

JOANE L o m L , married 1482 Sir Bryan Stapleton, Knight, of Carlton Towers, Yorks; he died 1496, set. 42. Issue:
(1) Bryan, heir and others.

BRYAN died l650/1, married STAPLET3N. of Henry Issue:

Lord Scroge.

Elizabeth

daughter

(1) Richard, heir and others.

RICHARD STAPLETON, died 1584/5; married Thornasin daughter and heiress of Robert Amadas. Issue:
(1) Bryan, heir, and others,

B R Y A N STAPLETON, died 1607 married Elizabeth daughter of George, Lord D'Arcy. Issue:
(1) Richard, heir, and others.

R l C H A R n STAPLETON died April, 1636 married Elizabeth, ,daughter of Henry Earl of Kingston. Issue:
(1) Gilbert, heir, an8 others.

STAPLETON die?, June, 1636, married Katherine, daughter of Willlam Hungate, and secondly married Eleanor daughter o f Sir John Gfsscoine. Issue by second wife:

&ET 3R

(2) h n e .

S I R MILES STAPLETON, Ban., d. S .p. 1707, created a baronet 1662 He left no heir and his estates. passed
to his sister.

AH STAPLETON married Mark NNorthumberland. Issue: E

(1) Nicholas and others.

Errinqton of Ponteland,

NICHoLAs ERRINGTON, died 1715. He assumed the name of Stapleton; married Mary daughter of Simon Sorope of Danby. Issue:
(1) Gtilbert, d.s.g.
(2) Nicholas, heir.

in his father's lifetime,

NICHOLAS ERRINGTON-STAPLIEl'ON, died 1753, married three times but had issue only by-his third wife Winifred, daughter o f John White. issue:
(1) Thomas. (2) Miles, ofDrax, Yorks, heir to his niece Catherine.

He died 1808.

He claimed the Baaumont barony in 1798, but failed to aubstantiate his claim{ he married Catherine, daughter of Henry Witham o f Cliffe and secondly married Anne, daughter of Thomas Tuite. Issue:
T H O M A S STAPLETON, died 1821.
(1) MILES STAPLETON, d.s.p. his heiress.

1836, his

sister being

(2) CATHERINE STAPLETDN, d.s.p. 1839, merried 1792 Sir Oaorge C. Throckaorton, Bart., and left no issue, her uncle Miles of Drax inherited the estates.

M I L E S STAPLETQN, married first Catherine Dunn.

(1) John, d.s.9.

Issue:

h r r i e d secondly Lady Marg Bertie daugnter f Willoughby 3rd o

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Earl of Abingdon.

She died 1826.

Issue:

(2) Thomas, and others.

born 1778, married, 1802, A6aria Juliana daughter o f Sir Robert Causfield Qerard. She died 182'7. Issue:
(1) Miles Thomas, and others.

THOUS STAPLETON,

M I L E S THOUS STAPLETON, 8th Baron Beaumont, born 6th June 1805 at Richmond, Yorka, died16thAugust, 1854, at 17 Bruton Street, London, W., buried at Carleton. He made good his claim to the Barony in 1840 and was summoned to Parliament in the autumn of that year. (1)

He fought a duel on Wimbledon Common 13th February 1832, with Lorenzo Moore, when he received a bullet in his breast, which was never extracted. He wrote a book on "Austria and Central Italy", 1849, and *'The Late Edict o f the Court Rome"; of he also published his letters to Lord Zetland, 1850. On the 18th May, 1853, he was promoted to Colonel Commandant of the fourth West Yorkshire Militia. He mrrried, 9th September, 1844, at S. George's, Hanover Square, fsabella Anne, daughter of John Cavendish, third Lord Kelmaine, died March, 1916. she In 1862 she rebuilt at a cost of &4,300 the church at Carlton, her. son Henry laying the foundation stone. They had issue:

I. Henry, heir.
11. Miles, heir t o his brother.
111. Agnes, died. 1863.
9th born 18 the 1848, died at 10 Wyndham Place, Marylebone, 23rd January 1892, and buried at Carlton, t; window t o hi6 memory was placed in the Cnurch. He was educclted at Eton, and held a cornmissioz as a cornet i n the 1st Life Guards, 30th September, 1868, sold out 29th December, 1869; Lieutenant Colonel West Yorkshire The King Yeomanry 1st June 1873, retired 5th April, 1882. of Bavaria made him a Knight of the Order of S. John of Jerusalem, and the Grand Duke of &den create2 him a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Holy Sepulchre. He servsd with the 17th L m c e r s in Zulaland m u was at the Battle f Ulundi 1879. o
(1)

HNY STAPLETON, Baron Beaumont ,19th August ER Curzon Street, London, on J.P. , D.L., at

For the copy of his petition see The Ca'se of Miles Thomns Stapleton.

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He owned i n thousand seven hcndred acres f of land In Yorkshire, his rent roll being i212,400 per annum1 in London he held twenty four acres producing an annual income of B11,000, and thirty acres at Dover, the annual value being &2,000, He married 28th July, 1888, Violet Marie Louis daughter of Frederick Wootton Isaacson, R.P., 18 Qrosvenor Street, W. She gave an officers auxiliary hospital in the Great War and waB created O.B.E. in 1918. She was also Vioe President of the British Red Cross; Commandant V.A.D. 86 Sussex; Commandant and part donors of officers Red Cross Hospital, Slindon Houae, Arundel (Burke's W B O 3 K ) . Henry left no issue and

was suoceeaed by hi8 brother

M I L E S STAPLETON, 10th BARON BEAUMgNT, born at 28 Curzon Street, W. 17th July, 1850, killed by the accidental
discharge of a gun, when getting over a stile in Carlton Towers Park 16th (119th) September, 1895; J.P. for the West Riding o f Yorkshire. Elducated at Eton; took a Commission a3 Ensign in the Coldstream Guards 5th May 1869, Lieutenant 3rd August 1872 t o August 1879; Lieutenant-Colonel 20th Hussars1891/3. Served in Canada 1874/5, Bechuana Land 1884/6, Egypt 1886/6, A.D.C. t o tha Governor of Malta 1st January t o 30th May 1879. Retired on half gay 9th September 1836.

He married, 7th November 1893 at S. Mary's Catholic Church,

Chelsea, Ethel Mars daughter of Sir Charles Henry Tempest o f Heaton, Lancashire, she was born at Husbands Bosworth 9th Issue: 3ctober 1864 and baptized the following day.

( l ) Mona Josephine Tempest, heiress th3 present Baroness Beaumont (1928). .

(2) Ivy Mary.

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CHAPTER VI1

THE LEICESTERSHIRE BEAUAJONTS

THE COLE ORTON FAMILY.

"It is not the times are bad, but men." Dr. Joseph Beaumont, 1616-99.
Cole Orton is situated about tr;vo miles from Ashby-de-

la-Zouch.

The Cole Orton, Grace D i m , Stoughton, Barrow on Trent and Buckland families ell bear the following Coat of Arms: A z . , semee d.? Xeurs d e lys, R lion, rampant, or. Crest: on a chapeau az. semtie of fleur de lgs, turned up Erm, a lion, pmeant, with tail extended or. Motto: "Erectus non elatus". (Burke's Benera1 Armoury.)
GEKENLO(3ICAL CHART.
John, 4th Baron Beaumont
p

I
Henry 5th Baron.

I
Thomas, o f Cole Orton John, Henry, Thomas, I founder o f the Grace Dieu family.

I I

John GeorgeHenry Wiiliam d.s.p. I d.s.p. d.s.p.

William Edward

RichardRobert d.s.p. d.s.p.

I 1 I I II I

George Ann o f Godeby

I I
U

I
Margaret

Thomas of Gittisham Henry l (see p. 70).

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_ _ _ I I _ -

} Glydd Tho- Mary Ann Hen- F r m - Tho- John Eliz- Grace Dorop -

--l

II I I

Mary

I I

mas

ry ------ 2

cis

mas

sbeth

thy.

Glydd d.s.p.

Maria

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Rilh- Celil- Kath- 5eorge James Ed- Simon John An- Wilward d 8 p d s p thony liam ... ... ard ia erine

1 I I

d.8.g.

Of

Glen-

d.8.p.

field

Nicho- Tho- Mary Avery Anne Doromas d.s.g. d.s.g. 1as thy

Tho- Hunting- Doro- CathSir Franmas don Henry cis thy erine I d.s.p. o f Stoughton Orange his Sir Mary Ann Tho- Mau- Bar- DorI descendant8 Bran- C a m m88 rice bara othy 1 I inherited the Cole cis tess of d 8 p ... I Orton Estates. 1 I Buckingham

I I

l I I I I I I I

Sir Thomas 1st Vct. of Swords

William

1 I I
.

I I I
1 ---

Sir Beorge John Christopher Villiers

I 1
-1

Qeorge Duke Mary ElizFLbeth of auckingham.

l
I

i
l

1-

Sap- Farn-Hen-ITho-Rob-Eliz- Anne Jane Ma-Kath-Bran- Bleanc o t e ham. ry. Imas. bert.abeth. d8p rg. erine. ce8. or. ... 2nd Vat. 1d.8.p.

-susanl I
I

Thomaa JohnlElizabetn Mary William Henry 1

r i

Blizabeth
d.s.p. The estates paeaed

Sir

to Sir Qeorge, of Stoughton Grange, great-great-grandson of Thomas Beaumont.

Bart.

Sir Thomas 1st Bart.

I HenryKt. I

Sir Henry 2nd Bart.

Sir Thomas 3rd Bart.

Georqe, 4th Bart.

Sir Thomas o f Stoughton Grange 1st Bart. ( see p. 175.)

1
Sir Henry

Thomas

William founder of the Dunmow Family

Lewis 5th Bart. on the death of Sir Lewis the c.0. estates passed to George, great-grandson of Sir Thomas, 1st Bart. of Stoughton Grange.

William Henry Henrietta

I I 1 Jane M

i
George 6th Bart.

William of Buckland

Thomas Elizabeth Margaret of Buckland

I --l

--l

I
I
William d.8.p.

Charles William Gsorge d,s. p. d .a .p. Howland

Thomas

7th Bart. 8.S.P.

I 1

Sir George Thomas William Francis Howland Davie, Bertie. Willoughbs 8th Bart.

-I I

George Howland 9th Bart.

I I

~~

Willoughby Ras tings .

Susan Mary.

Constance Mary.

George Francis HowlEnd Howley Willoughby 10th Bart.

Frederick Lewi s Maureward

Henry Cecil

Lina Mary Howley

1 l

Chsrles

ffeorge Arthur Hamilton

Elsanor Grace Caroline.

I I

11th Bart.

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The second son of John 4th Baron Beaumont (see p. 104) was Thomas, the founder of the Cole Orton fzmilg he was knjghted and afterwards created Lord o f Basquevilla in N o m n d g ; he was probably slain there or near Calais circ. 1468.

He was Regent of Frence during the minority of Henry VI; Warden of the Cinque Ports, Captrd.ir1 o f the Galliarde,Governor of Dover Castle 1457, and Governor of the Bastille, Paris.
The Pipe Rolls o f Henry V @hen recording the battle of Agincourt, 25th October, 1415, probably refers to him in the following passage, "BXERCITUM 'EENRICUS IBI INSTRUIT: SAQITTARIIS PREFICITU3I EDWARUUS DUX EBORACENSIS; HUNC SECUL? SUNT H3NORATISSIMI VIR1 DE DOMINI BEAUMOZJTUS, IILLOUGHBEIUS, $ FANHOPUS" () T 1. "Henry drew up his army there, Edward Duke of York was at the head of the vanguard of archers and under his command were the Lorda Batturnant, Willoughbg and Fairhope". Drayton, the poet laureate (1563-1631) in his ode on the battle (The Cambro Sritans an?. their Harpe, p. 308) says:

mWaurwick in Bloode did wade, Oxford the roe inuade, And cruel slaughter made. Still a8 they ran vg: SuPfolke his axe did ply, Beamont a n d Willoughby Bore them right doughtylg Berrers and Banhope. On happy Crgsgin day Oought was this Noble Bray, Which fame did not delay To &gland to oarry." (2)
(Their are other references to him ibid pp. 63, 68 and 69).

When serving under Richard, Earl

o f Warwick, at the

Siege o f Paris, in 1433 he made a. sortie, out of the city with some six hundred of the garrison, with the object o f finding out the strength of the Brenuh; he was surrounded

and captured with eighty of his men, about two hundred were killed and the rest regained the shelter o f t h e rsmparts. A week later Paris capitulated.

He evidently poaoessed lands in Devonshire, for Robert and Elizabeth Burton sued him for land at Parkham, but the
(1)

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CHRONICIBS A N D MEMORIALS OF GREIAT BRITAIN, HENRY V. Charles A. Cole, p 43; also Holingshed, CIBONICLES 111. 78. . R. Oarnett's edition, p. 338.

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plaintiffs lost their oase.

He married, 1427 Phillipa, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomhs Maureward, of Cole Orton and Quartermersh and she inherited the whole o f these estates which had been held by her family from A.D. 1218; they have remained! in theBexumont family up to the present time (1922). Godeby Mnnor in the C3unty of Leicester, was also held by the family until Nicnolas Beaumont conveyed it, to thc Villiers in the sixteenthCentury.
He had issue:

I. John, heir.
1461/2.

11. Henry, o f Godeby, slain Issue:

(1) John.

at. Towton Field 29th March

111. Thomas, held estates at Thringston, near Cole Orton, he became the founder of the @race Dieu (see p.153 and the Barrow on Trent families (see p.193,).

JOHN BEAUMONT, of ~ o l e Orton and Overton, slain at the Battle o f Towton Field, Palm Sunday 29th March 1461/2 fighting under the bsnner f t h e "Red Rose", when theYorkists o were victorious. His brother WHB likewise killed, and hi8 8eCOnd cousin, William taken prisoner. In the act of a-ttainder passed immediately after the accession of Edward IV, their namesare mentioned andtheir estates confiscated. The following is an extract from the act:
of Marche,

W h o cn Bonday called comynly Palme Sondey, the XXIX the first yere of hls Reigne in a Feld Bitwene the tcwneso f Shirbourne in Elmett and Tadcastr' in the Shire of York, called Saxton Feld and Towton Feeld in the Shire of York accompanyed with the Brenshmm and Scotts, the Kynges ennemyes fsisely and traiterously agenst their feith and
liegeance, there rered werre agenst the same Kyng EdKard, their rightwise true and natural1 liege lord purposyng there to have distroyed hym, and deposed hym o f his roiall estate, coroune and dignite: and then and there to that entent, falsely and traiterously moved bataille ageinst his seid estate, shedying therein thebloode of a great nombre 'of his subgetts: in which bataille it pleased Almyghty God to geve unto hym of the mysterie of his myght sna grace, the victorie of his ennernyes and rebelles and to subdue a d avoyde th' effect of tneir f a h and trniterous Furpose,"

The King on the passing, of the act of attainder 16th May 1462, gave the Cole Orto2 estates to Richard Hastinga

and his heirs, and they remained in his ~ o s s e s s i o n until 1485, when John, the eldest son of Henry of Godeby, petitioned Henry VI1 for a reversal O f the attainder; this was granted to him and to the other members o f the family.

"To the King oiire liege The petition was as f'ollows: lord humbly besechethyour noble grace, your true subjettand liegeman, John Beaumont, eldest son o f Henry Beaumont late of Godeby, in the Shire of Leycestre, gentleman, while in the aervice o f t h e moste blessed and Chisten prgnce Henry VI, late King of England, upon Palme Sunday,in the relde called Saxton felde in battail w r s l a p ; and after for that cause, as was by an acte of atteyndre, made in the Parliament of Edward the IVth late King of Englsnd holden at Westmr the 1111th duy o f Novemb. in the first yere o f his raigne, attegnt of high treason: and by the same acte, forfeited to the same late King all his inheritance; as in the same acte is expreesed more at large" ........
Consequent on the loss of the Brench poasesaions the by English Crown, John in common with all other Elnglish barona forfeited his French estates.

He married Jonn, daughtoro f Lord John Darcy, o f Torksey and Menell: (Leic. Pedigrees, G.F. Farnham) she married secondly, Giles Daubeney. John had issue:

I. John, heir.
11. Qeorge, heir to his brother John.
111. Henry d.8.p.

IV. William, d.8.p.

V. Richard, d.8.p.
VI.
Robert, d.8.g.

BEAUMONT, K.B., born 1446, ci.8.p. 11th August, 1531, he inherited his father's estates on the reversal of the attainder in 1485, and he held MAncrs at Eggynton, Tgpton, Langelegh, and Sapurton in Lincolnshire, Greatsnoring ;rnd Haloughton in and Thirford in Norf'olk, Long Whatton Leicestershire and North Horrigge, Devon (Calendar o f Inquislt,ions, H. VII. Vol 2.) At his death they pkssed to his great nephew Richard the Brandson o f his brother George.
He was created a Knight o f the PFth, at the installxtion of Prince Arthur, as Prince of Wales, in 1490. He married 19th March, 1514, A L i c e daughter o f Sir William Fielding of

JOHN

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Newnham Paddox, K.T., and had no issue.

GEORGE OF 3VERTON Quartermersh, brother o f John died 1530, married first Thomasin daughter o f William Motton, and had no issue by her; he married secondly J o m e d.;ughter and heiress o f Sir Thomas Paucefoote of Northall, Gloucestershire. Issue:

I. William, heir.
11. Edmard, married Kazherine daughter of William Lexham of Lexham Manor, Norfolk, and had issue:
( 1 ) a son who died without issue and (2)
8

daughter Mary, who married Sir William Charnock.

111. George, o f Godeby, eitherne or his nephew Oeorgehad an estate in Kent. Married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Leigh, o f Abbington, Surrey, and relict of Robert Lusher, of Surrey. Issue:
(1) Thomas of Gittisham, Devon (see p. 70).

(2) Henry, S.T.P., died 30th June, 1627. He was buried in S. George's Chapel, Windsor, near to the door of the Chapter House. B.A. Cambridge, 1569/70; M.A. 21st May 1574 Fellow of AI1 Souls College, Oxford, 1571, a founder's kinsman on hi6 mother's side; Pro-Proctor 1581, B.D. 4th July 1586, D.D. 1616; Professor of Sacred Theology; Rector of Long Ditton, Surrey; Canon of Windsor 1600; Dean of Peterborough 1617; Dean of Windsor, ard Registrar o f the Order o f the Garter, 24th August, 1622. A man named Chamberlaine when writing to Carleton, 4thJanuary 1617, says "One Beaumont, obscure an Prebend of Windsor, kinsman of my Lord Villiers, was in a fair way t o be Bishop of Worcester, but the conferring o f Carlisle and Bangor upon the unworthy Snowdon and Baylie, was so generally distasted, that arpointment fell through" his (Camden Society, 1859 p. 88). He married Ann Backford (or Buckford) o f Exeter. Issue: 3 son, alive in 1620.
(3) Margaret married James Gryent and hr,d

issue:

la.
2b.

Elizabeth .
Marg.

IV. Ann, msrried firstly a son of Francis Tickenhall, Derby, and secondly William Turner.

W I L L I A M died before his father 1528/9, married Mary,

daughter of Sir Thcmas Basset, Kt., of Blore, Stafford and Fredborough, Co. Nottingham; she died 2nd July1537 (? 1529). (Fernham, Leic. Pedigrees). Issue:
I. Cecilla, married Henry Fenton, William Fenton,
grandfather of

Sir

PI. Katherine, married Leonard BcJrdsey

111. Richard, heir.
See p. 128.

IV. Qeorge .
V. James married a widow named Leigh.

VI. Edward, died young.

VII. Simon, died young.
VIII, John, d.s .p. Rector o f Cole Orton 1334. The Greyfriars at Bridgnorth, founded in the reign of Renry vf was granted in 1545, by Henry VI11 t o John Beaumont together with the manor of Whatelg, Wsrwick (? Somerset). He (John) sold the latter in the same year t o Nicholas Wilson. A J o h n Beaumont waa Rector of Oxwick, Norfolk, 15.42 and g t Colkirk, Norfolk 1568.

IX. Anthong, of Glenfield, Leicestershire, married Anne, daughter o f Thomas Armstrong o f Corby, Co. Lincoln. Issue:
(1) Francis, knighted at Whitehall 1618; and buried at Washingborough, Co. Lincoln 11th August 1625; he married Cassandra, daughter o f Thomas Ogle, of Pinchbeck, and widow o f Robert Lacy. She was baptised at Pinchbeck, 7th January, 1514/15 and died at Washingborough 23rd December, 1632, and buried with her husband. Issue:

la. Marg, married 23th October 1621 to Spencer Compton, Earl o f Northampton, King J a m s being present, He was killed at the Battle of Hopton Heath, 19th March 1643.
2a. Eliznbeth, married Robert first Earl Nithsdale, and Baron Maxwrell.

of

(2) Mary, born 1569 died 19th April, 1632, buried in S. Nioholas Chapel, Westminster Abbey, withher first husband Sir George Villiers of Brokesbg. A gear before her death she erected over her husband's grave a black and white marble tomb with alabaster figures of herself and husband on the tog. It was sculptured by Nlcholas Stone and coat 8660. The inscription on the north side reads:

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BONAE MEMORIAE GEORGIO VILLERIO EQUITI A m A T O MARITD. B.M. (I) JUXTA S.ET.P. (2) CARISSIMA CONIVX MARIA COMETISSA BUCKINGAMIAE
S.P.F.F.
This map be translated
(3)

"To George Villiers of

Good memory, knight Well deserving of his relatives and countrymen His moat beloved wife Mary Countess of Buckingham had made at her expense."

That on the south side:

D.O.Y. OSSA. MARIAE DE BELLO MONTE COWISSAE BVCKINGHAMIAX E QUINQUE POTENTISSIM O R W TOTIVS EVROPAE RW;NORVM FIBGIBVS !ID&. P W TOTIDEU IMMEDIATOS DESCENSVS) ORIVNDAE VIX ANN. LXII. M. XI. D. XIX. HOC, MON. V.F.C. (4)

To Qod Almighty
The bones of

M a n de Beaumont
Countess of Buckingham descended from Five King6 of the most powerful kingdoms

of All Europe (and that through as many direct descents) aged 62 Years 11 months 19 days Thi S monument the survivors have had erected.

(1)

Bene Merenti. (a) Surs et populum. (31 Sua pecunia faciendum fecit. ( 0 Vivi Faciendum Coraverunt.

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At the east and west ends of the tomb the Villiers and Beaumont arms are shewn quartered.

On the 1st of July 1618 James I created her Countess of Buckingham and Baroness Compton. She was a charming woman and possessed grezt strength of character. She was lad, in waiting t o Queen Henrietta Maria, Consort of Charles I (ROMANCE O F OE3RGE VILLIERS, PHILLIP GIBBS). When James I was on his death bed, she and her son George in the absence of the doctors applied a plaster t o the King's heart and breast, whereupon he fainted and arpeared to be in great pain. When the physicians entered the room they said the patient had been poisoned, but they afterwards agreed that he died from natural causes. She married secondlysir William Rayner and thirdly Sir Thomas Compton. She had issue;
la. Qeorge, born at Brooksby, Leic. 28th August 1592.Succeeded to his mother's dukedom, he was a great favourite of James I and Charles I, he was made Lord Admiral o f England and Constable of Windsor Castle, He had a daughter Susan, who married William, Earl of Denbi gh .

2a. Jonn, created Viscount Purbeck.

3a. Christopher, created Earl of Anglesea. Susan ,

4a.

(3) Anna, born 1567 married firstly James Brett of Hoby, Co. Leicester, sacondlgmarried in 1617 Sir Chrfstogher Perkins, Kt., of Rotherby, Co. Leicester. He died in 1622. By her first husbandshe had issue:

la.
2a.

Henry.
Alexander. Arthur .
Anthony .

3a.

4a.

5a. Anne, married Lionel Cranfield, Earl Middlesax, Lord Treasurer of England (Notes and 6 S. XI. 435).
(4) Thomas, d.s.p.

of Queries,

(5) Maurice, d.s.g.

(6) Barbara, married George Ashby o f Thringston, he

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died 1615. Leicester.
She married secondly Thomas Sheldon of Hoby, Co. Issue:

la.
2a.
Warwick.

Elizabeth.

A daughter.
she married John Hill o f Honilley Co.

(7) Dorothg

Issuer

la A daughter who married Beaumaris family.

into the Bulkeley of

Ea.

Doraas.

3a. Susannah. She had two husbands the second being Sir Thomas Compton Reid, brother of William first Earl o f Northampton.

X. William, youngest son of W i l l i m , (see p. 124) d i e d at Stordon, near Thringston.

R I C R A R D OB GODEBY and Cole Orton. Died 18th October, 1537 his will was proved 19th February 1538/9. He inherited from his great uncle the Cole Orton estates. A Richard Beaumont from Co. Leicester, born 1465 was zdmitted a demi of Magdalen College, Gxford, 12th October, 1484.

He married Colleta (Mary ?) daughter and heiress o f Richard Clerke, o f Suckingnarn, she married secondly William Villiers o f Brokesb:? and thereby becamethe ancestress of' the Earls of Jersey. Issue:
I. Nichclcrs, heir,

11. Thomas.
111. Mary, she married 8he had no issue.
firstly Sharpe, secondly -

- Hhtcliffe.

IV. Averia, d.s.p. 1601, married John (? Thomas) Finderne of Findern, Co. Derby.
V. Anne, married William Keldon.

VI. Dorothy, d.s.p. VII. Etheldred (?>

NICHOLAS,November 1598 and buried in Leic. born 25th November 1526, (Farnham,
Pddigrees) died 4th

Christ

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Church, Newgate Street. This building was destroyed i? the great fire of London, 1666. He was M.P. for Co. Leicester and Knight of the Shire 1572, Sheriff 1571;; and M.P. for Bramborough 1585.

He married Anne, daughter of William Saunders, o f Welford, Co. Northampton. She died 10th February 1591 and was buried withher husband. The following is : copy ofthe inscription % 's on a memorial slab which & a in the chnrch 'at the time of its
destruction. *Neere unto this place lyeth buried the body of Nicholas Beaumont of Cole Orton In the County of Leicester, Esquire and Anne his wife the daughter of William Saunders of Welford in the County o f Northampton, Esq. by whom he had issue 4 sons and 2 daughters, viz. Henry, Francis, Thomas, and Huntingdon Dorothy and Catherine. The said Nicholas died 4th day of November 1598 His wife the 10th day of February 1591. In affectionate remembrance of whom, this memorial Was erected at the care and cost of Elizabeth, Lady Ashburnham widow, late wife of Sir John Ashburnham, Kt. daughter of Sir ThomasBeaumont of Stoughton in the county aforesaid: Their 3rd s o m e at the appointment of her uncle Francis Beaumont Esqr, their 2nd sonne to whom the erector thereof was executrix." Another memorial slab near the altar recorded: "Within this grave enclosed here, Anne Beaumontnowdoth rest A loving and a faithful wife, with many children blest. She served God with zeal and truth and learnd to flee from simei And as she learned his hcly will, she livd and dgd therein, A friend t;o such as virtue sought, a f o e unto no wight; A help to those that feared God, with all r pcwer and might; b The p o o r e shall oft bewaile her want, by whom they found reliefe, Whos;:. mind with earnest care was bent, t o e:.se them of their griefe, rewarde t o f inde Thus h:d.ppy she, that nom is gone from hence, Unhapgyyet for. such her friends, as sne hathleft behinds: But thrica unhappy for his losse, that dcth her praise rehearse A woful praise unto her sonne, who wrot? this doleful verse."

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"Anne, wife urto Nicholas Beaumont of Cole Overton in

Leicestershire Esq. and daughter unto William Saunders, of' Welfordi. i n Northamptonshire Esq. and half sister unto Walter Haddon Master of the Requests departed this l i f e t h e 7th day o f September A.D. 1581 leaving behind her six children." (The o dates f Anne's death on the two memorials do not agree).

They had issue:

I. Henry, heir.
11. Francis born 1551, d.s.p. 18th June 1624; (view o f London 1931) B.A. 1569/70; M.A. Cambridge, 1573, admitted to Glray's Inn 3rd Mdrzh, 1617/8, reslded at Leicester from which boroughhe, in 1597, addressed "a judicious apologyf o r the supposed levities o f Chaucer", which was prefixed t o the 1598 edition of that great poet's works. This is frequently attributed to his cousin Francis the Dramatist. In March 1617,/8 he was elected master o f Sutton Eospital. Thomas Paulgn wrote t o Sir Richard Bexmont o f Whitley "Mr. Francis Beaumont is m?-ister o f Suttons Hospitall, it is worth 8200 per annum; 3 place Y O fitt for him, that all this Kingdom Club). csnnoct yeeld a more fitter" (BEAUUONT PAPERS, Roxburgh He was in 1624 Etppointed by the King Mrster of the Charterhouse the foirrth in order of election.

In 1622 he obtained from King James a grant of lands in the counties of Leicester, Warwick and Cambridge. He WRS much intereated in cock fighting. He was buried in the chapel of the Charterhouse; at the east end o f the north aisle is 9 monument consisting or'a figure habited in a gown and rurf, kneeling at a prie dieu, the inscription is as follows:
"In the vault under the fownders tombe lyeth Burysd the bodye o f Francis Beaumont,, Master o f Artee $squire, late Master o f this ye Kinge's hospitall; He was seconde sonneof' Nicholas Beaumont o f Coloyerton in y e County o f Lecesr Esq., He dyed y e 18th of June Ad. 1624. This monument was erected by Elizabeth Lady Richardson, Baroness o f Cramond in Scotland, hi9 nece and Executris Daughtr to Sir Thomas Beaumont o f Stanton in ye Co. Af f orsaid and brother t o ye said Francis."
111. Thomas of Stoughton Grange (see p. 176).

IV. Huntingdon, of Bedworth, Co. Warwick, borz l556

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(3 1559-1561)' d.s.p. 1616, admitted to the Inner Temple 1580, married into the Holland family.

V. Dorothy married WilLiam

Reade of Barton on Humber.

VI. Catherine, married firstly Anthony, son and heir of Sir John Byron, of Newstead, Notts. She married secondly Sir Henry Berkeley, of Wymondham, Co. Leicester, the latter was born 1566 and was alive in 1622. Catherine left no issue.

S I R HENRY BEAUMONT, Kt., bcrn at Cole Orton died there

and buriedin the south aisleo f the Church 31stMarch, 1607, M.P. for Derby 1585 and for Leicestershire 1589. High Sheriff of the County 1594. He formed one of the company of Leicestershire gentlemen who met James the VI o f Scotland at Worksop when on his journey t o London to receivethe English Crown. He was knighted by the King, 20th April, 1603, and he received at the same a grant of lands in Leicestershire time He Fetitioned theKing to revive the andDerbyshire. Viscounty forfeited by the attainder of John and William, Viscounts Beaumont (see p. 112). This resulted in his son being raised to the Irish Peerage, as Viscount Beaumont of Swords. The Petition, taken from a M S . in possession of the family, (BETHAMS BARONAGE 11) was as follows: "The Petition and Case of Sir Henry Beaumont, to be restored to be Lord Visaount Beaumont being the male issue of that family.

To the King's Most Ekcellent

"May it please your Majesty, to understand the humble petition of pour loyal subjeczt, Sir Henry Beaumont, Kt., who being descended from the ancient family of the Viscount Beaumont, and heir mzle ofthe said lyne, as aggeared in this paper, within written more plainly, yet notwithstanding anie claime which he could justly make u n t o the present title

andhonour, humbly referreth himself whollyunto your gratious

favor, desiring that your Majesty will vouchsafe to aommit this his suite unto the right honoura'ble the Lords of the counsaile, commissioners in that behalf; that your Majesty may receive by them, true information of your said subject's humble petition.

To the King's Most Excellent Majestie,

May

petition Beaumont, as Peeres have been

it please your Majesty to understand the humble of your loyal and obedient subject, Sir Henry Kt., that whereas his ancestors, time out of mind, and baronsf this realme,in sundrie Kjngs raignes, o summoned to divers parliaments and as Viscounts of

this Kingdome in like manner have taken their places, which dignitie andhonordid belong t o their heires males, and hath continued in their blood, by succession, till of late yearesj the last Viscounthavingonlyissue, two daughters, the prttrimonie being divided, and the dignity discontinued, by the nonage of some o f your petitioners ancestors and as forasmuch as your said suppliant is now next heir male of th3t family, andnothing doubting of your Majestie's princely disposition and inclinvtion to re-edifje the ruines of your declyned nobility, cloth most humbly beseech your Majestie's most gratious favour, for restaurationof your said suppliant to his ancient right and dignitie, whose prayers shall bu continued for your Majestie's happy preservation, and long reigne over us.

The original of the house being first highly derived, as apgeareth by suthentique pedigrees. The antiquity and long continuance of them in the state of peers of the realme, as by the records is manifest. Their honourable matches, both with the bloud royal and wlth the ancientest houses of the nobility; as with the heir of Alexander Comyn, Earl o f Bogham, and High Constable of Scotland, whose mother was One of the co-heires of Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester. With the daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, With a daughter of the Earl of Oxford, With a daughter o f the Lora Mowbray, that wa3 Earl Marshal1 With a daughterof the Lord Wells With the only daughter and heir of Lord Bardolph With a daughterof the Duke of Buckingham, and with many other housesof great honour. Besides the Bestowing of their own female offspring upon the greatest houses of the nobility of this realme. As Elizabeth (Isabel) daughter t o Henry Lord Beaumont, who married to Henry, D u k e of Lancaster, Whose daughter, Blanch was wife to John o f Gaunt and mother to Henry IV. Another daughter o f the Lord Beaumont was married to the Earl of Arthell, whose son married The daughter of the LOT& Ferrers. Another was married t o t h e Lord Lacey Another to the Lord Audleigh All which ancient and noble families, are by reason thereof, mixt in bloud with the said Henry Beaumont The truth of all which is evident, out

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o f inquisitions, and other good matters of record. This great honour, favours, and pre-heminences they have been heretofore endowed withall, by the King's progenitors, for the great estimation they had them in, for their faith and service, having been always respected by them, nearin bloud and lynnage.

John, Lord Beaumont, was created Viscount Beaumont, whereas his ancesters long line before, had been barons. And great revenues and titles honour, grantedt o the of said Viscount Beaumont, in France, the King o f England then having a great part of Fraunce.
And giving him precedency on places of honour, next t o

Earles. Great priviledgesand franchises erantedto them in all their landsand manors by Henry VI. The grantofthe Cast12 of Fclkingham and orher lands by Edward I and many. grants of that nature in all Kings times to them andto their heires males. They have been imployed very honourably in services o f warre and yeace as appezreth plainly by our Chronicles. John Viscount Beaumont was High Constable Great and Chamberlain. The Lord Beaumont was Constable of Carlisle 12 Richard 111. They have suffered great diminutions o f estate, hazards, and damage fortheir faith and service to their Prince. John Lord Beaumorlt was slaine in the service of his country at Striveling in the time of Edward 111.
John Viscount Beaumont, was slaine at Northampton 38 Henry VI in the defence the most Christian Prince Henry of VI.
your Majestie's now suppliant, was taken

bot

to Sir HEtnry Beaumont, prisoner the King's in service in the time of Henry VI11 and was enforced to redeeme his liberty by sale of part of his inheritance.

Richard Beaumont, grandfather

That Sir Henry Beaumont next heire male in bloud t o is the family Th2.t is to say sonne and heire of Nicholas, sonne and heire o f Richard, sonne and heire 03 William, aone and. heire o f George, sonne and heire o f John, son and heire of Thomas, Lord Bakville, youngez sonne t o the Lord John Beaumont.

The last of the males o f which family was the Lord William, who being Viscount Beaumont and Lord Bardof, dyed without issue, in the time of' Henry VII, whichderivation o f bloud, as also thzt the said Sir Henry Be:-,umont is the next in bloud, is s p p w e n t , both by reccrrds, and by approved pedigrees, and the servise o f Queen Elizabeth.

For the competency o f his means and ability, for doinge this honourable service, and for the upholding of the estate of a Peera, he humbly referreth himself' t o that which your highness shall be informed, upon enquiry thereof.
Notwithstandinge, your Majesty's said siippliant referreth himself, and all his titles unto your majestie's graca and shall think himself highly honoured t o be a creature of your handy worke, to b4 disposed o f as by your princely faJOur shall be thought fit."

In 1599 the borough of Leicester made an appeal to the Earl o f Huntingdon to free the city from tolls, owing to its porertg, there being n o cloth making and no trade, caused by the raising of soldiers and the payments o f subsidies and the relief o f the poor. This was at the time of the Irish rebellion under O'Neale. Amongst others it was signed by R Henry Beaumcnt (RECORDS BOROUGH LEICESTER 111. 355, h r y Bateson).

He married Elizabeth, daughter and heiressJohn Lovis of of Ogbeare, Cornwall and of LonBon. She was also heiress of her brother Humphrey; she died 26th March 1638 and was buried at Cole Orton. In the church is a fine alabaster altar t o m b with full length figures under a 5 r e c i ~ n arch wjth cornice and arms and crest over. The Knight is depioted in the tasset period of armour with ruff at neck. The lady wears a handsome Marie Stuart headdress, full skirted robe a with a mantle oJer, ruff' and quadruple chain round her neck. The eldest. son is also depicted in armour kneeling at a prie dieu. Niuhols in his VISITATION OF LEICESTER says "Where his fair and beautiful tomb has the effigies of him and his lady at full length, cnulered, painted and g i l t , and inscribed
"Here lieth ye bodies of Sr Henry Beav Mont, Knig: and Ladie Elizabeth, his wife Wch Sr Henry was son to Nichol Beaumot Esq. and Elizabth was daught. and heire o f John Lovis Esq. by who (sic) he had one only son vz. Sr Thomas Beaumot (sic) Knit. who msrried Ye daught. and heire of Henry Sapcotts Esq. Wch Sr Henry died y e 31 th (sic) of March. Anno Do'ni, 1607 and y e said Ladie Elizabth An. 1608." died the 26th of March.

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They left issue:

I. Thomas, heir.
11. Wtlliam.

S I R THOMAS BEWMONT, Viscount and Baronet, died 1624/5; buriedst Cole Orton, hi3 will was dated 22nd February 1603, it was proved 31st May, 1625. He inherited the
Devonshire estates in 1591 (see p. 69). He was one of the Royal Progress Knights, that honour having bean conferred on him by James I at Belvoir Castle at the same time that his father was raised to the nobility. the 13th (? 16, or 17) On September 1619 he wa8 created a baronet and he was further raised to the dignity of a Viscount o f Swords, Co. DuDlin, 22nd May, 1622. The Viscounty lapsed on the dsath, in 1702, of his grandson Thomas without male jssue.

He WAS r.daitted t n the Inner TemDle 1609, High Sheriff in of CO, Leicester, 1610, M.P. for the county 1604 to 1611 and ag?.in in 1620. On the 13th June 1610 he moved a resolution in Parliament "That it were more for the King's safety and honor, for our own credits and reputacions and for the satisfaction o f our contry to defsrre a supplie till wee had an answer of our grevances and ha9 concluded the contracts forthe tenures" (CAMDEN SOC. Vol. LXXXI p. 55). 3n the 6th November, he objectea t o t h e raising of %200,000 on land, and said "if we goe forward we are undone, chsrging the land, so deeply as is desyred; and on the other side, if we goe not forward, it is dangerousw (IBID, p, 129). On the 23rd o f t h e same month he moved a committee t o be appointed to for The consider supply (CAMDEN, 1862, Vol. LXXXI. p. 142). King replied by adjourning the house from time to time, and finally dissolved it 9th February 1611; so the committee was not appointed, and four years. passid before the financial straits ofthe Government forced James to face the two Houses aqain (Green, HIST =G. p. 411).
'

He married his licence being dated 2nd October 1600 Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Henry Sapcote, of Elton, Co. Huntingdon, and of Bracebridge, Co. Lincoln, the latter was a recusant and died a prisoner in the Fleet July 1620. Ellizabeth was born in 1580 and was alive at the time o f her husbgRd'8 death. They had issue:
I. Bapaote, heir.
IT. Farnham, born 1613 died 1670, married France3 ........ she afterwarda married George Long, of Preston Candoner.
111, Henry, was born
1616, he

died without issue, and

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inheritad the Devonshire estates from his subsequently sold them t o Nicholas Putt.

father, he

IV, Thomas, born 1617, slain at Edgehill, fighting on the Royalist side 1642. Admitted t o Gray's Inn 4th February, 1638/9. He left no issue.

V. Robert, born 1618 d.s.p. whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge. A Robert Beaumont matriculated at Clare College in 1637 and another at Trinity College Cambridge 1632 and B.A. 1634/5.
VI. Elizabeth, married firstly Sir Thomas Waldron of Charley, CO. Leicester; secondlymarried Henry, LordHastings third son of the Earl of Huntingdon. Issue:
(1) Henry, born 1653;

(2) Elizabeth.

VII. Anne.
VIIi. Jane, d.s.p.

IX. M~ary, born 13th Fe'brusry,1637/8, married of Ri by, he died 1671.

Francis Manbg

X. Btherine.
XI. Frances.

XII. Elesnor married 2nd May, 1639 at Norton Disney, Daniel Disney, of Norton Disney and Hyde, Essex barrister-at-law,
pas born in 1616.
She was buried at Norton 23rd March, 1643/4.

he

S I R SAPCOTE BEAUMONT 2nd Viscount o f Swords, born 10th May, 1614, died 1658. He in common with his brother and son suffered m u c n for his fidelity t o the Royalistcause, He fortified his mansion at Cole Orton and made it hi8 headquarters when attacking Ashby-de-la-Zouch. wds however It captured by the Puritan:s, vh made it their headquarters, !o only to be recaptured and burnt by the King's forces in 1646. After its destruction Sapcote lived z Whitwick. t Symonds in his diary says "A rebel gerrison occupied Cole Overton, a. house o f Lord Beaumont's, one mile from Ashby, under the command of T?mple and f f : . men". itv On the 28th May, 1645 he writes "His Majestie marched with his army near Cole Orton, garrison of the enernyes, then by the Abbey o f 3race Dieu where Sir Thomas B z a u m n t lives." On t h e establishment of the CommonFealth, he compounded for his estates.

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He married firstly, 28th May 1632 Bridget daughter of Sir Thomas Monson, of Burton and Carleton, Co. Linooln, Knight Bannere t . She was buried at Burton 1st June 1640, and the 8ermon preached at her funeral serviceby the Rev. T. Hodgson will be found amongst the Sloane YSS. at the British Museum (1470. f. 249) also a letter from the rector t o her three eldest children, dated 19th January 1640/1 (Harleian 7041). He then married c. 1643 Anne daughter of Sir William Villiers o f Brokesby, she was buried in Brokesby Church. He subsequently
married Rebecoa 88cond daughter of Robert Roper of Heanor, Co. Derby, the latter died 1678. He had issue:

I. Thomas, heir.
11. John, born1638, d.9.p. 3rdJuly 1701 (? 1704). M.P. for Nottingham 1685-68 and for Hastings 1688-90, Lord Warden of the cinque Ports 1689. He was a Royalist, and on his estates being sequestered by the Cromwellians he attended Charles I1 in his exile. After the restoration, he held several offices at Court, and served in Ireland with theRoyal regiment of Gaards in June 1678. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in the 8th Regiment of the line, by James I1 and resigned his commission December 1695. In the previous May he fought a dual with Sir William Forrester, occasioned a by quarrel, the latter was disarmed.

On the accession of James 11, he received from that monarch 850 seoret service money. In 1686 he was awarded by the government &244. 3s. 2d. toward8 the cost of the repairs o f his house. Probably it was damyged, in the previous year by the re bela led by the Duke of Monmouth.
In 1688 J a m s I1 resclved, with the view of retaining his hold on the army, of filling it as far.%s possible with Roman Catholics; forthis purpose he introduced Irish papists into England, but, at that time, so strong and general. was the aversion ofthe English t o the Irish, that Roman Catholic leaders in England were included, it even permeated the Privy in Council and Powis and Bellasyse exFressed their antipathy This was more strongly felt amongst the to the alieyrs. English Protestants, esveciallg in the army, neither officers nor privates were disr.:osed t o bear patiently the preference shown by the King to as they considered a foreign and subject race. Forty o f these m e n were sent to Portsmouth t o be incorpor:.ttedwith the garrison, serving under. the commar?d o f the Duke of Berwick. The English soldiers declared that they would not serve with these intruders and Lieutenant Colon-l Jonn Eeaumont ann: Captains Thomas Paston, brcther of the Earl of Yarmouth, Simon Pack, Thomas Orme, William Cooke, and Jorm Port protested t o the Duke against this insult t o the English army and nation. Lieutenant Colonel Bettumont

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stated that "they had raised the regiment at our own oharges t o defend His Majesty's Crown in EL time o f danger. le had then no diffiuulty in procuring hundreds of English recruits. We c m easily keep every company 1. to its fiill complement without 7p admitting Irishmen. Fe therefore do not think it consistent with our honour t o have these stmngers forced on us; m d we beg that we may either be permitted to command men of our own nation or to lay d o w n our commissions.w

The Duke confined the officers to their chambers. They zhen wrote to Mt-;jor Slingsby, thEt Lieutenant Governor of Porzsmouth, stating the grounds o f their refusal to admit t,hese men, saying they had no intention o f being mutinous or disrespectful. The Duke in the meantime informed the King, who was at Windsor, of the matter, an8 he fearing that their example would spread, immediatelyordered a party of Horae t o go t o Portsmouth, t o bring the delinquents t o him. A court martial was summoned, 10th September, they were offered free pardon and reinstatement, if they would accept the Iriahmen, they all refused and were therefore dismissed from the army, the protestant party and feeling were t o o strong at the time, or sotnr? would doubtless have been condemned to death. The resistsnce o f these officers %as supported by the general sentiment o f the army and nation, and no further attempts were made t o il?troduce Irishmen into Bnglish regiments (Macaulay 11 128).

This incident led to the final undoing o f the King for on the 5th of the following November William of Orange landed at Torbay. John with his brother Thomas and cousin Thomas of' Stoughton Grange, znd many others met William on this epoch-making day; by Christmas James was a fugitive Et the i John Beaumont was then Court of Louis XIV at 6. Germains. made a Colonel and he and his regiment, were present at the battle of the Boyne 1st July, 1690. (!&caulay 111, 182). He also served in Scotland and Flanders.

He m?.z.rried firstly, 13th September, 1663 Feliein, daughter o f Sir Hatton Fermor, of Easton Neston, Northants, ancestor of the Earl o f Pomfret. Shs was widow of 6ir Chsyles Compton, Kt., second son o f Spencer, Earl of Northampton. He secondly married, at S. finne's Westminster on the 28thSeptember, 1693, Phillipa daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew (Csrey) of Beddington, Surrey, she was born in 1668. He had no issue by ejther wife.
111, Elizabeth, married at Burton Co. Lincoln 8th August 1650, Sir John Hotham of Scarborough, Baronet, issue two sons. She was buried at Dalton 10th December, 1697 and had two sons. (Harl. U E 7341). S3

V. William, baptised at WhJ.-th%ck, 10th December, 1643, dd3.p.

VI. Henry, baptised

at Whi.twick,

24th December,

1643.

S I R THOMAS BFAUMONT BBAROm, 3rd Viscount, bornat Cole Orton 1633, baptissd'at Burton, Co. Linooln 10th April,
1634, died 11th June, 1702, when the Viscounty lapsed! he was buried in the church at Cole Orton andhis estates passed t o hi3 cousin, Sir George Beaumont,. of Stoughtonerange, (see p.187). He raiseda troop in support ofthe Duke of Orange and met him at Tor Bay. He was a Justice o f the Peace and in 1662 was active in persecuting Quakers and other nonconformists. On 2nd September, 1659 he raided a meeting house at Submington and arrested and cast into gaol, Georqe Fox, William Smith, Margaret Bayley, and Susannah Faith, Joane Brockeuby, Henry Walker, Edward Middleton, Thomas Fowkes, and Joane Rose,

He founded and endowed Free Schools at Cole Orton in 1701 and residences for masters mistresses, also a hospital m d for six widows; a slate slab over the door reads *This hospital and school was founded and endowed by the right honourable and truly charitable Thomas, Lord Viscount Beaumont of this place",

He married Ua.q daughter o f Sir Erasmus de la FontRine of Kirby Bellars, Co. Leicester, Knight, he was alive in 1671. Issue :

I. Elizabeth, married Henry son of Sir Henry Hastings of Kirby, and apparently died without issue.
S I R GEORQE BEAW3NT 4th Baronet of Stoughton Grange inherited the Cole Orton estate (see p.187) and onhis deathwithout a direct heir it passed to hiseldest surviving brother Lewis, who thereby became the 5th baronet.

TQranqe (seeSIR LEWIS BEAUMONT 5th d.s.p. of Stoughton m REVEREND p. 184) born 1674, baronet, Decem'ber
23rd

1738. In the Chancel of the Church at Pyecombe, a black marble slab records that: "Under this mar ble is the body of the Revd Sr Lewis Beaumont ,'.bart . A. M. He was thirty six years rector here, and dyed December the 23rd 1738 aged 64

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VIXI E PECCAVI POENITUI NATURAE CESS1 RESURGAM. "

( I have l i v e d , I have sinned, I have yielded to the penalty of nature, I shall rise again).
He was succeeded in the barony by his cousin, George son of 'dilliarn Beamont, of Great Dunmow (see p. 198 ) .

He matriculated at N e w College, 3xford 24thAugust 1694; B.A. 22nd June 1698, M.A. 16th January1731/2, ordainea deacon 22nd September 1700 Rector Pyecombe, Sussex, 1702, Prebendary
Chichester 1719. There is a curious entry in the register at Pyecombe under April 33th, 1719: "Memorandun, that whereas Mr. Barret (a rormer rector) granted to Nath. Hobbes leave in the year 1690 t o erect S. sezt i n the Chancel, which seat upon N. Hobbes, his leaving tne prish, tookaway: uponMr. Tho. Norton's earnest request, I g8ve him leave to sett up another seat in the same place for himself and his wife.

B m
PLACIT0 ET QUAMDIU

BENE
9EGBSSE;NT (It being well pleasing, so long as he should conduct himself well),

and no otherwise, Witness my hand

Lewis Beaumont, Rector de Pyecombe. It

He married Elizabeth Temple, nee Courtney of the Isle o f Wight, she died 15th July, 1750, and was buried with her husbanU, a sm%ll black marble slab on the dexter side of her husband's records:
Elizabeth relict of Sr Lewis Beamont Bt. died July y e 13, 1750 aged 84.
(1)

Nichol's

LEICESTERSHIRE 111. Pt. 1 l p. 548.

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S I R GEORGE BEAUMONT, 6th Baronet, cousin o f the above
tind eldest son o f William o f D~UMOW,baptised at Great Dunmow 16th March, 1726, died and buried there 4th February 1762. (Lond.Mag. 108) Educated ,atWinchester, matriculated at New College Oxford, 27th November, 1745. High Sheriff, Co. Leioester, 1761.

A memorial in the church at Qreat Dunmow recites "In this chanaelare deposited the remains of Sir Beorge Beaumont, Bart of this place, who died Feby IV MDCCLXII aged XXXVI years, and of Dame Rachel, his wife, who died May V MDCCLXIV aged XCvI ge-8:
"The dreaded hour is come. 'Tis come, 'tis past! That gentle sigh, dearmother, was thy last; And now? diffused among the blest above, G1ow.s the pure spirit of maternal love: Ting'd by whose beams my very failings shone, Bract,din thy eyes with something not their own. No more. affection shall thy fanoy cheat, Or warp thy judgment when again meet; we But every action in its nature hue Rise undisguis'd, and open to thy view. May every action then duly weigh'd, be Each virtue cherish'd and each duty paid: That when my trembling soul shall wing her flight, Thro' death's dark valley to the realms of light; I may expect where no false view beguile, The approving look and that accustom'd smile, Blest smile! becoming her sublime abode. And harbinger of pardon from my God.n

Erected t o the memory of his parents by Sir Georqe Howland Beaumont, Bart., o f Cole Orton Hallin the County of Leicester. Arms Beaunont impaling argent 2 bars SA. in chief 3 lions rampant (Howland). A hatchment also hangs in the Churoh. He married at S. John's Church, Clerkenwell 26th March, 1761, Racb.el, daughter of Michael Howland, o f Stonehall, Dunmow, Essex, #a lady of talent and taste"; she died 5th May, 1814. Issue;-

I. Charles, born at Dunmow died 1757.

11. William, born at Dunmow died 1758. 111. (3eorge Howland, heir.

S I R GEORGE HOWLPJJD BEAUMONT, 7th Baronet bcrn Dunmow at

6th November and baptised 17th December, 1753, d.s.p. at Cole Orton Hall 7th February 1827, and buried in the

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Church thsre.

He is commemorated by

t*

white marble tablet:

"Saurad to the memory of Sir Beorge Howland Beaumont bart., of Cole Orton Hall in the County o f Leicester who departed this life on the 7th of February 1827, in the 73rd yr of his age.
AISO or Dame Margaret his wife who died the 14th of July 1829

in the 73rd year of her age."

He wa8 Educated at Eton, and matrioulated at; New College, Oxford 4th May 1772, Fellow 1829, when he presented a silver
bread-tray with 9 lattice work edge and vine and wheat ears . in high relief, t o ths college. D C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., a Trustee of the Brisish Museum; M.P. for Beeralstoa 1793-6.

He was a great traveller visiting France, SWits9rlRnd, and Italy. He rebuilt Cole Orton Hall in 1800 but it w8S not 2omgleted until about 1807, Beorge Dance being the architect. Here he kept open house, where he welcomed the great poets and painters of his day. He numbered amongst
his friends Sir Joahua Reynolds, Worclsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Rogers, Byron, Wilkie, Haydon, Dr. Johneon, Sir Walter Scott and Sir Bumphrey Davy. Another of hia friends WAS Dr. Burney the musician, Sir Gaorge acted as pall bearer a% hi8 funeral.

His taotea were early devoted t o art and he gained distinction as an amateur landscape painter. One of his water colours, size ?-bout eleven inches by eight inches is in the Nations.1 Gallery at Edinburgh. It depicts a tower near Ponte Molle, Rome, with three corinthian columns connected by a broken entabulature, and surrounded by a lofty building (CAT. NAT. 3ALL. Edinburgh; 1736, E. 233). Two of his works are found at the Tait Gallery, No.. 119, is a landscape eight feet by two Feet, representing a scene from Shakespeare's "As you like i t w Act 11. this was painted in 1819. The other, No. 105, is a amall landscape sevenand a half inches by nine and a half inches. He waa a frequent honorary exhibitor at the Royal Academy. In l818 he commenced an agitation for a Nationkl @)aller-y of' paintings, and it was mainly due to his appals, tact and gifts that it waa founded in 1826 and hag now beaome one of the famous art treasures of the world. His own collection or paintings included examples by Rsmbrmdt, Claude, Rubens, Wilson, Wilkie and Reynolds sixteen of these he left by will or presented, in his lifetime t o t h e Qallery, (The Times, lstApril1924, Col. 15). also Angelo's unfinished bas relief of the H ~ l g Uother and Child and S. John. Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a portrait o f 8ir George and Lady

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Beaumont in 1778,. the latter.i6 represented looking to the right, garbed in a dark costume, with her hair dressed high, the canvas measures t w o feet six inches by two feet one inch. This is or was in the possession of the Earl of Arran. Sir Georges London housa in Grosvenor Square wa3 a rich museum of books and paintings. . . . He presented Wordsworth, who was one o f his greet friends with a small estate at Applethwaitt, near Keswick, on the reoeipt o f the gift in 1804 the poet composed the following sonnet:
Beaumont! it was thy wish that I should rear A seemly Cottage in this sunny Dell, 3n favoured groun8, thy gift, where I might awe11 In neighbourhood with One to me most dear, That undivided, we from year t o gear Might work in our high Calling a bright hope T o which our fancies, mingling, gave free scope Till checked by some necessities severe. And should these slacken, honoured BEAlTMONT! Still Even then we might perhaps in vain implore Leave of our fate thy wishes to fulfil, Whether this boon be granted us or not, 31d Skiddaw will look down upon the Spot With pride, the Muses love it evermore.

Sir George gave this land t o Wordsworth in order that hu might build R house upon it, for the sake of being near Coleridge then living at Breta Hall near Keswiok. The severe necessities that prevented the scheme from being carried out, arose from his domestic situation. The property was beautifully situated on the southernflank or Skiddaw and on the banks o f a rill that gurgled down the mountain side and the orchard and other parts of the grounds commanded a magnificent prospect of Derwent Water and the mountains of Borrowdale and Newlandc.
writing t o Sir George that several Wordsworth said when o f my best pieces were composed under the shade o f your o w n groves upon the classic ground o f Cole arton, where I was animated by the recollection o f those illustrious poets o f your name and f amilg , who were born in that neighbourhood, and ue may be assured did not wander with indifference by the dashing stream Grace Dieu and among the rocks that diversify of the forest of Charnwood.

In 1808 the following lines by Worasworth, describing the grounds at C o l e Orton, were cut in stcna and placed closs
to the cedar r e f e m e d to:

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......

o....e....... l...*.....*.

"If but the Cedar thrive thatnear them stands, Planted by Beaunont's and 'by Wordsworth's hands, One wooed the silent Art with studious pains; These groves have heard the Other's pensive strains;

When Inspiration hovered o'er this ground, The haunts of him who sang how spear and shield In uivil aonflict m e t on Bosworth Bielal (1)
And of that famous Youth, full soon removed From Earth, perhaps by Shakespear's self approved,

Fletcher's associate Jonson's Friend beloved"

The winter gardens were fashioned out of an old quarry under the superintendence OY M m . lordsworth an8 her sister Dorothy in 1807, Wordsworth oommemorates this by a Sonnet o f fourteen lines addressed to Lady Beaumont (Poems I. 469; N.C. Smith edition),
His social standing, wealth a 8 culture secured him as n distinguished position in society. He made him8elf familiar with Greek and Roman lore and with English dramatic3 poetry and he committed some of the plays of Shakespeare t o memory and occasionally took A part on the boards of a private theatre, One evening when acting at North Aston, he observe& a young lady of great beauty amongst the audience, who seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the play. On enquiring her name, he was told that it was Margaret daughter and heiress of John Willes o f Astrop, Oxon M.P., and grand-daughter of Lord Chief Justice Willes. 3n being introduced to her, he found that her tastes nearly resembled his own, and that she was a lover o f poetry and painting. This resulted in an engagement and they were married at St. George's, Hanover Square 6th May 1778; she died 14th July, 1829, in her 71rd year, leaving no issue; Henry Crabb Robinson writes in his diary (11. 246) that "she wa6 a gentlewoman of great sweetness and dignity, I should think among the most interesting by far of persons of quality in the country."
Wordsworth in his "Elegiac Musingn in %he grounds of Cole 3rton Hall", wrote in November, 1830, on Sir George's deaths

"With copious eulogy in prose o r rhyme Oraven on the tomb, we struggle against; Time, Alas, how feebly! but our feelings rise
(1)
(2)

Bee p. 164. See p. 162;

(N.C. Smith's edition, Poems, 11. 441).

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And still we struggle when a good man dies. Such offering Baaumont dreaded and forbade, A Spirit meek in self abasement clad."
. C

Sir Walter Scott wrote in his Journal (I 368), 14th February, 1827, "'Sir George Beaumont is dead, by far the most senaible and pleasing man ever knew, kind too, in his nature I and generous; gentle in society. .... an amateur he was a as painter of the very highest rank." Sir Humphrey Davy said to a friend, "Sir George Beaumont is a remarkably sensible man, which I mention because it is somewhat remarkable in a painter o f genius, who is at the same time aman of rank and an exceedingly amazing companion." Sir George was succeeded by his cousin George, eldest son of Thomas Beaumont o f Buckland (see p.198 ) . 8th Baronet, born 16th December, 1799, died 7th June,1845. Matriaulated at Christ Church, Oxford, 14th October, 1819. He too was a patron of art anda friend o f Wilkie, the artist. He presented the west window to the church at Cole Orton.

S I R GEORQE HOWLAND WILLOUGHBY BEAUMONT,

He married at St. George's Hanover Square, 16th June, 1825, Mary Anne, daughter and co-heir o f the Most Reverend William Howley, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury; she died 15th February 1834/5 aged twenty-eight years.
t Underneath the monument o the 7th Baronet in Cole Orton Church is a white marble tablet under a freestone canopy, carried by side shafts and a base, inscribed:

Sir

"In the vault beneath are interred the remains of George Howland Willoughby Beaumont

Bart.
who died June 7th 1845 aged 45 also of Dame Mary Anne Beaumont his wife who died Feby. 15th 1835 aged 28 also of their children Susan Mary who died Sept. 25, 1827 aged 1 month Raymond Curaon second son who died April 1830 aged 1 month and Willoughby Hastings fourth and youngest son who died February 20th 1835 aged two years and half." a

They had issue:

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I. George Howland, heir.

11. Raymond Curzon, born and died in April, 1839.

111. William Beresford, born at Addington 31st March 1831, died at Cole Orton 18th February, 1901; tnere is 2 memorial window in the north aisle of the church with an inscription

in the glass: "To the glory of God and in memory of Will. Beresford Beaumont M.A. Tor 36 yrs. rector of thia parish. This window is dedicated by his parishioners and friends 1932."
Beneath the memorial o f his grandfather, Sir Qeorge, marble tablet inscribed:

is a

"To the glory of God and in loving memory o ' f William Beresford Beaumont, for 36 yrs. Rector of Cole Orton, Born at Cole Orton Mch 3lst, 1831 died at Cole Orton Feby . 18th, 1931, alsoof Eliz Mary Beaumont, his second wife born at
Sicklesrnere, Suffolk Sept. 25th 1831 died at Cole Orton Apl 5th 1900.w

He was educated at Winchester, entering the school at thirteen years of age, he matriculated at Christ Church Oxford in 1849, B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856. Carate at ChurchStretton, 1858/60 and at Scawton S. Mary, 186313. Rector of Cole Orton 1864-1901, Rural Dean o f West Akeley, 1875; Hon.
Caaon of Peterborough 1889, J.P. and County Councillor for Leicestershire.

He married, 13th December, 1861 , Julia daughter of Charles Soames, of Coles, Linc. She died without issue 1866. He married secondly Elizabeth Mary born at Sicklesmere, Suffolk, 25th Septem'ber, 1831, daughter of the Reverend Samuel Hurrey Alderson, of Risby, Suffolk, she died at Cole Orton without issue 5th April, 1930. The lych gate at the Church was erected to her memory.
IV. Willoughbg Hastings, born 15th April, 1832, died 20th February , 1835.

V. Susan Mary, born at Fulham Palace 31st August, and

died 26th September, 1827.

VI. Constance Mary, born at Addington Park25th July1834, died 1902. Married 6th July, 1852, William Unwjn Heygate

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o f Roecliffe Manor, Leicestershire, andMapledene, born1825, second son of Sir William Hsyqste o f Swithland Co. Leicester, Baronet. He was a Barrister-at-lam, and M P for Co. Leicester .. 1861/5; Stamford 1856, and South Leicestershire 1870/80. He died in 1902 and had issue three sons and one daughter.

Their eldest son was William Howley Beaumont Heggate, born 1854, died 1902, Captain R.A. 1883-90, Hon. Major 1916. Married, 1881, Helendaughter of the late J a m s Dalglish, J.P. Mericneth. Issue: Mary Florence, born 16th January, 1861; she married 20th May, 1890, Reverend Canon John Nigltl Philpott, M.A. Rector of Cole Orton 1922 (Kelly's HANDBOOK).

VII. Mary Ann Bridget, died 21st March 1883.

VIII. Margaret Sophia, married her cousin the Reverend James Beechamp, Rector Crowzll, Oxon, andhad issue three daughters.

IX. Alice Eleanor, d.6.p. April, 1833.

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THE LEICEBTERSHIRE BEAW3NTS

- THE URACE DIEU FAMILY.

"No earthly gift lives after death, but Fame."

OP "the miserable stateof mann Sir John Beaumont, 1582-1627.

Grace Dieu was situated in the parish of Belton about fourteen miles from Leicester. In the thirteenth century the forest of Charnwood sna the manor belonged to John Comyn, Ewl of Buohan, Alice his niece and heiress and wire of Sir Henry Beaumont inherited it (see p. 94). Alice made a grant of some of the lands of Shepshed and Barendon in the forest of Charnwood to the monks of Garendon, "for the health o f her 80U1, and %hat of her husband's an8 that of her ~ ~ n c l e ' s . ~

The nunnery of Brace Dieu was founded by Lady Rohesia de Verdun circ. 1240 in honour of the Holy Trinity and S. Mary . She was the daughter and heiress of Nicholaa, Lord Verdun. Her effigy which formed part of her tomb still remains in Belton Church, it was restored in 1911 by the late Sir Joseph Verdirl and his brother, Mr. W.H. Verdin, her linealdescendants. The charterwhich was con:firmed by Bishop Qrosseteste of Lincoln in 1242, describes the Priory ELS "being the Church of the Eioly Trinity of the G r w e of God at Belton, dedicated t o God and S. Marg", henoe the name De

Qrstih Dei or Qrace Dieu.

Ir! 1306 John Comyn gave the nuns one hundred a w e s of In 1415 Sir Henry de Beaumont sent his daughter to .the convent to be educated, for which a charge of @2. 13s. 4d. per annum was made. On one occasion he only paid g2 ana the nuns seem
waste land appertaining t o Whitwick and Shepshed.

to have thaught him too great a personage to be reminded of the balance. They were also desirous of standing well with him, for on one of his visits they made a feast an8 amongst the items of the expenses we find that three half-pence was spent for "one shoulder l3 molton and eight-penoe for two lambs" (EN@. MONASTIC LIFE, Gasquet, p. 162).
On the supprsssion of the nunnery, 27th October 1539, the Prioress, A p e s Litherland, was granted sixty shillings compensation and the fourteen nuns thirty shillings each, tbe revenue at this time being 92. 38. 9d. 8nd the l'urniture and stock were valued at 8126. 7s. 46. The property with that of Yerill Grange WRS then grant84 to Bir Humphrey Foster on the payment of fifty shillings per annum, Sir Humphrey

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sold Grace Dieu shortly afterwards to Sir John Bsaumont, Master o f the Rolls. After the death of the last male heir it was sold and dismantled, and to-day only a few fragmente of the nunnery and mansion remain.

In those days it must have beenwall sltuated, surrounded as it was on three sides by Charnwood Forest, whilstthe open aide looked over fertile and well watered meadows stretching to Belton. The garden and gronnds were laid out on an extensive scale, judging by the area enclosed and by the still standing boundary walls. Butler, the seventeenth century poet, says that *The Gardens resembledGethsemane." And Uichael Drayton (1622)in his POLYOLBIO? "The Six r,nd Twentieth Song" line one hundred and seven, describes the district:
*O Charnwood, be thou cald the choycest of thy kind, The like in any place, whatflood. hath H s t to find? rp No tract in all this Isle, the proudest let her be, Can shew a sylvan Nymph for beautie like t o thee." Sir John Beaumont in his poem "The Shepherdeese" speaks of "Stony Charnwoods dry and barren rocks" (Nichols m C 1. 111. 798). Thomas Bancroft (1639) in his first book of Bpigrams and Epitaphs, no. 81, says:

"Qrace Dieu, that under Charnwood stand'st alone, As a grsnd Relicke of Religion, I reverence thine old (but fruitfull) worth,
That lately brought such noble Beaumonts forth: Whose brave Heroick Mu#es must aspire To match the Anthems of the Heavenly Quire." Wordsworth wrcte in l811 (POETICAL WORKS, 1857, V. 4):*Beneath gon Eastern ridge, the craggy bound, Rugged and high of Chamwood's forest ground Stand yet, but, Stranger! hidden from thy view, The Ivied Ruins o f forlorn (3rBce Dieu; Erst a religious House, which day and night With hymns resounded, and the chaunted rite: And when those rites had ceased, the Spot gave birth T o honourable Men of various worth; There on the margin of a streamlet wild, Did Brancis Beaumont agort, an eager child; There, under shadow of the neighbouring rocks, Sang youthful tales of Shepherds and their f10cks.~ The family held lands at Cole Orton, Swannington, Whitwiok, Thringstone, Shepshed and BTlmfield they are all situated in the same district and near to Leicester,

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GENEALOGICAL CHART OF TH.$ FAMILY.

John, 4th Baron Beaumont (see Carlton Towers p.103 ) .

1-

Thomas of Henry 5th Baron Cole Orton

John Henry Thomas founder of Grace Dieu family

John

I I
I

Edward Mary founder of Barrow on Trent family

I I I Dorothy
Thomas

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l l I I Sir Henry Dorothy Ann Francis d.3.p. I

Elizabeth

Jane

I I I

William (3eorge

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BeAry Eleanor Anne

Sir Francis Henry John I

Sir

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his

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Barbara ]

Sir Fran- Hen- Ger- George Sir Char- Eliz- Helen Anne Cath- Mary
John cis ry vasse d s p Tho- les abeth d.s.p. ... dap d 6 p d 8 p d s p ... . . . . . . . . . mas heir of John
d e p erine ... d.e.p.

l
Cec i ly eatates passed to Barrow on family by

Mary Eliza- Marina Vere Mars Cath- Jane h d.s-.p. beth d.ra.p. two 80116 erine J the and two de8-p. Trent daught er8 her marriage. John

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THOMAS BXAUMONT of Thringston, near Cole Orton, grandson of John, 4th Baron Beaumont, born circ. 1487 and died
cira. 1530, probably lived a t , an old moated house still standing (1911) known as Stordon Grange (MEMORIALS OF 3LD LEICESTER, Alice Drgden), The manor was forfeited by John Beaumont of Cole Orton on his attainder, Bee p, 122 but it waa restored t o t h e family on its reversal about 1530. Thomas granted to John Beaumont and t o William Curburglanda at Cotes, Hodington Broughton, Prestwould,Wineswould and Loughborough on gagmen of an annual rent.

.E

He married Anne (? Mary, ) daughter of SFr Rabert (? William) Moton, of Peckleton, Co. Leicester. Issue:

I. Thomas, heir.
THOMAS BEAUMOBT, married Anne daughter of Christopher Harcourt, of Stmton Haraourt, Oxon. Issue:

I. John, heir.
11. Edward, head; of the Barrow on families (see p.191).
Trent and Haulston

111. Mnrg,marriedRichard Storey, of Braunston,Co.Leiceetgr.

V. Dorothy, married John Rigmaiden.

JoHN BUUlldONT, died probably soon after 1552. 3n the 28th actober, 1539, he purchased from Sir Humphrey Foster, Merill Grange andthe priory o f Grace Dieu; the full inventory o f the sale is found in Nichol'8 LEICESTERSHIRE, (Vol. 111, part 2, p. 653). With the sale was included the
rurniture of the Church, which was valued at ie15; it consisted of @on2 table of' wode, over the Hygh Alter csrtain images, two Laten (brass) candlestyks, one lamp of laten, certain oulde formes in our Lady Chapell, certain oulde images, one Particion o f tymber, one lamge andoulde formes in the nunnes quere, one rode, certain images, one particion of wode and the nunnes stalls; in the belhouse one cloke, certain oulde images, oulde stolles o f woode, one oulde che8t, one oulde holy water stole of brass, and the rosse, glasse, ieron, and and the glasse and iron in the steple". pavement in the churche 'I'his gives us a good idea O P the terrible havoc wrought in our churches at the Reformation.

There seems to have been ~ o m e difficulty with regard t o the sale of Grace Dieu, for John wrote to Sir Thomas Cromwell, Secretary of State, enclosing &20, asking him to us3 his

influence with the King in confirming him in its possession, as the Earl o f Huntingdonwas endeavouring to obtain it. The letter was as follows:
"My dutye unto your ryght honorable Lordshype in moste hnmble fforme remembred, pleyseth hyt the same be by thes to advertysed, that I have caused XXLI to be delyvered unto my

ffelowe Thomas Avery t o the use of your good Lordeshype, humbly besechyng gcurlordshypFes ffavour and goodnes that we shall stand wyth the Kynges plesure I may other purchase or have in Pferm the demenez of Grace DeweAbbey whych I am in possessyon of, and my ffelowe Whalley (1) t o eethere by your honorable lettres, whych seyd Abbey the Erle Huntyngdon (8) of (Gtcorge Hastings the first Earl) doth labour to take ffrom me, wnyche, have no truste but of your lordshyppes goodnes wythoute whych I am undoyn; ffor I do ffeyre the seyd Erle and his sonnes do seke my lyffeand all ffor the truthe sake, ffor I have secred warnyng by one off hys counsel1 30 weyre a prevy cote, whgchys not suffgoent fforme, hys powre Ceyng n v r o n e mypoore howse, besechyng God that your lordeshyg wyll take in goode parte my inornate colleccyon of the Kynges supremyty, wherin ye no thyng apte be presented unto your lordshyp, but to the apparaunce o f a trewe herte, with whych shall contenually I pray or labour t o send your lordshyp your moGte noble hertes desyre. From Wellesborough, the XXVIIth daye 02' Decembre. Your humble servaunt,JOHN BEAUMONT."

John was admitted, early in the reign of Henry VIII, a member of the Inner Temple. On the 11th August 1529 he wa6 eleuted legal adviser to the uorporation o f Leicester. In the BoroughMinutes we find that "it was agreed t o give John Beaumont, gent. 6s. 8d. a fee t o answer in such causes as the town shallneed and require'. (3) On the 30th January, 1534/5, he was placed by the King's Writ, on a commission to take an ecclesiastical survey of the c o m t y of Leicester, this was preliminary to the spoliation of the monasteries. In 1646 he receivedfromthe Crowna grant of lands in the parishes of Belton, Sheepy Magna, burton Overy and Ragdale, Leioestershire. He also bought from the King for 81,040. 4s. 2d. lands at Wythcote, part of the property of the dissolved monastery at Launde, Co. Leicester, he also purchased the manor of Newark on Trent (4). Some portion of the land at Burton Overy he devised to John Weston of that parish for two hundred years
(I)
(2)

(3) () 4

Whalley was the Reueiver of Yorkshire. Cotton MS. Cleop. E. IV. fol. 216. Camden Soc. 1843, p 261. . RECORDS OFTHE BOROUGH 3F LEICESTER, MaryBateson, p. 26. Hfet. Newark I. 73. a. Brown.

at a rental of one shilling

and

two a half pence per annum. and

In 1047 he was appointed Treasurer of the Inner Temple. In l663 he was made Recorder of Leicester, and in December of the same year k s t e r o f the Rolls, and in 1062 Steward
of Ulverscroft. In the same year he was deprived of his Mastershjg, the acousation being "That in his offiae of Wards he had purchased lands with the King's money a n d also that he haa lent 29,000 of the King's money and forborn S1,130 o f the King's debts for his own profit, and that being Msster of the Rolls he dealt corrugtly in a case between the Duke o f Suffolk and the Lads Pomes, for he bought the lady's tithe, and caused an indenture to be forged from tha Duke, a little before deceased, proposing a grant o f the lands in question from the Duke to Lady Powes. Also that he had concealed the felonyof' his servant who having stolen from him i 2 0 he took the money t o himself aga.in. He was E0, orderd t o surrender to the King all his offices, lands and goods in satisfaction, as well for the money due by him to the Eing, as for the fines which his offences had merited." He agreed "forthe satisfsction of the King's Majestfe's debt charged on him in his Grace's court of Wards and Liveries for ready money and specialities, amounting to the dum of 520,871. 18. 8." He had likewise to swear that "he was pleased and contented by this present bill to acknowledge myself t o be fully contented and agreed that the King's Majestie shall have all my manors, lands and tenements whatsoever they be, assured to him and his heirs: and also all my goods and cattals moveable or immoveable, whatsoever they be and in whose custody soever they remain; as shall be desired by the King's learned council, with the issues and profits of the same. Provided always, that in case, there b2 any just cause of allowance of any part of the foresaid debt, thatthen he shall be thereof sllowed. In witness whereof he subscribed this bill with his hand and thereunto set his seal the XXVIII day of' May, Anno VI Regis Edward VI".
His submission and surrender of his glace t o the King was as followsr

.XXTIIII May Anno 1552

I John Berzumont d o most humbly surrendre and gyff into the handeo o f our SovraigneLord the Kgnges Majestiemy offyce or' Master o f the Rolls; most humbly besechying hys Highness to be mercyful unto me, and all my mysdemeynours and contempts and in espesyall Torthe debt, whicll I d o owe unto his Grace, to have some dayes upon good securityes; and I am agreed to delyver my Patsnt t o bt? cancellyd unto the Lord Councillor of England, set any other, who shall plyse Hys Hyghness to

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appoint to receve the same."

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King Edward theVI in his diary under date 9th February 1552, p. 53, writes Jhon Beaumount o f t h e Rolls was put in Mr prison for fcrging a false deed from Charles Brandon Duke o f Southfolke, to the Lady Ann Powes o f ceirtein landes and l e m s e s " (British Museum, Cotton Library,Nero, C. 10); and ags.in on p. 65 under date 4th June 1552 "Beamont Mr. of the Rcllis did confesse his offences whoe i n h i s office o f Wardes he had bought land wt my money had lent it and kept it frome m e t o the (value of) E9000 and above, more than this twel months and i211000 in obligacions; who he being Juge in the Chauncerg between the Duke of Souhfolk and the Lady Powes, took her tittle, and went about to get r t into his handis i paying a some of mony and letting herhave a f e m e o f a manour of his and caused an indenture to be made falsly, wt the old Duke's counterfet hand to it; by wich he gave theis landes t o the LadyPowes and went aboutto make twelve men perjured. Also how he had concealed the felony of his man t o t b sum of , 2 0 which he stole from him taking the mony into his hand 420 own For these causes and other like recited before he again. surrendred and submitted himself t o those fines thatI or my counsel wold appointe t o be levied of his goodes and landes", Under another referenae is found in the King's diary June 16th 1552 (p. 66) "Beaumont, who had before made his cGnfession in writing, begn t o deny it again; but after being called before my counsell, he did confesse it aqaine, and there aknowledged a fine of his land andsigned an obligacion in surreder of a1 his goodes". June 20 (in the same year, p. 67) "Beamont in the Star stiking upon the matter, Chabar confessed, after a little his fautes t o ahich he kctd put t o his hancle" (King Ed. VI diary).

He was committed t c the Fleet prison and his estates sequestered and given t o Francis Earl o f Huntingdon, his wife's uncle, Francis re-conveyed them to his niece on her husband's death.
John married firstly Isabella daughter o f Lawrence Duddon o f Duddon, Cheshire and had issue two daughters, he married secondly Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir William Hastings, younger brother of Qeorgi, Earl o f Huntingdon. Issue two Bona and two daughters,

I. Dorothy, married John Hall, of Warwickshire.

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John Hayward's LIFE OF KIN0 lEDWARD VI, p. 319.

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11. A n n , died 1604, married 7th June, 1546, Thomaa Ashby of Lonesby, Co. Leicester, she had issue

(1) William. (2) George.

111. Francis, heir.

IV. Henry, born 1543, died unmarried, August 9th. 1586, buried in the Temple Church, London, admitted to the Inner Temple November 1561, Galled to the Bar 1570. I& bought the mallor o f Normanton, two miles from Derby, in 1682. A memorial slab in the Temple Church (probably das';royed in 1842, when the church was restored) recorded HIC JACET HENRICUS BEAUMONT, ARUIGER; INTmIORIS TEMPLI SCCIUS, FILIUS JCIANARIS BEAUMONT, ARMIGERI, QUONDAMMAHISTRI ROTULORUM ET ELIZABETHA38I

UXORIS BJXS PTLIAE ET HkEEtEDIS WILLIELLMI HASTINQS, ARMI3EEiI QUI QUIDEM HENRICWS OBIIT ANN0 AETATIS S U M 420. Translation: "Here lies Henry Beaumont, gentleman, Fellow of the Inner
Temple, son of John Beaumorlt gentleman, sometime Master of the Roll8 and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress of William Hastings gentleman. The which Henry died in the 42nd year of his age."

V. Elizabeth, married William 3rd Lord Vaux of Harrowden, he died 1695. Issue: one son and two daughters.
(1) Henry.
(2) $leanor, married Edward Brokesby of Arundel House, Leioester. She was known 88 Mrs. Jennings,
(3) Anne, knownas Mrs. Parkine. The two sisters were Catholics and were mixed up in the Gunpowder Plot; they conoealed In their houses Bathers & % m e t , Gerrard, and Campion (Ch. M. Gayleg, lire of Francis Beaumont,)

VI. Jane, married Robert Brokesby of Shouldby.

1616.

He died

S I R FRANCIS BEAWONT, he died at Grace Dieu April 1698, and buried in Belton Churohi and his will g r w e d 8th May in the same year. He wag a Commoner of Peterhouse, Cambridge at the time the visit o f Queen Elizabeth in 1564. of He took his B.A. 1669/73 and M.A. 1573, M.P. for Aldborough 8th May 1572 and Austin reader at the Inner Temple1681. Admitted to the Inner Temple November 1569 and calledto the Bar in 1660, raised to the Bench In 1578; Recorder Inner Temple 1581 and Serjeant at Law 1589; Judge of the Common Pleas 25th January 1092/3, and knighted at the time of this

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appointment. He practised at the Bar with much success and had a great reputation, he was known to be a man of integrity, wisdom an6 learning inferior to none on the bench; Barton "grave, learned and revered Judge. the historian said he a was On one occasion two men came to him for justice, one of them said, if what he had attested wa8 not true, he hoped thRt the ground would open a.nd that he should fall in. This with event is said t o have happened. The judge pointing his finger, ordered them both off, and the groundthen closed up (Nichols, LEICESTIER, 111, 653).

He condemned several Roman Catholics death on account to of their religion, one being Father Walpole, S.J. who was tried at York, 3rd April, 1593, he was accused o f being a Jesuit and o f hctvinq returned to England withoutpermission. Judge Beaumont in pronouncing sentence said, "merely belng a Jesuit is no treason, but what makes you a traitor is returning t o the Kingdom against the laws". He was further accused of holding communication withthe King o f Spain, and with two other traitors, whilst on the Continent. Walpole was executed four days after his trial.
Another noted Catholic martyr, condemned by him August 1594, was the Venerable John Boste (and othersin pronouncing ) , . judgment he said (CATHOLIC REC=IRDS I 85) "1 have not to speak to you all in general, because ye be committed for diverse

in matters, some for treasons, and some for felonies. But particular, and first for you that be convicted for treason. You have behaved yourselves as undutiful1 and naughtie subjects, who have gon about all means possible to withdraw by from her Majesty's subjects thejr good affection, obedience and loyalty, vhich faithfull and loyal subjects ought in conscience t o give t o their soverayne, and how do they steal into their bosoms, and withdraw their minds? They come into this realm with the Pope's Bulls forsooth and tell the people they are not bound any more to be subject t o her And why? Because Pius or Sixtus Quintus hath Highness. excommunicated our Queen long ego and deprived her, &S you say, of all power of requisent whatsoever; nay and hath commanded, sayyou, all her subjects give no to more obedience unto her under pain of excommunication. This is that yee preach in corners. This is your doctrine when yea come t o men's houses, and this yee teach the people not onely in all ylaces, where yee come in England, m t in Ireland, in Spain, in Italy, and to be short through all Christendom. For in Ireland, Dr. sanders stirred up her people, by the means o f the saidexcommunicationunto a rebellion. In Spain there is one, Parsons, who stirred up the King to mdke ri;ar against her HighneBs anb carried away that good mind, which otherwise he would bearunto her, and in Italy Cardinal Allen incenseth the Pope daily to addre,ss his forces, and to

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exhaust the Church's treasures for the subversion o f our country, pulling her out o f her throne t o the utter ruin o f us all. All these are Englishmen and therefore more to be hated, and iheirtreasons more to be punished, behaveing themselves like filthy birds, who defile their own nests. What said I ? Defile there own nests ? Nay, who are cruel1 towards their own mother, seeking the destruction of their native courltrie and therefore (turning himself towards the people) I would not have y o u think, that these men are to suffer for religion, but for treason, not for counterfeit piety, but for professed iniquitie against God, against their Prince, against their friends and kinsfolk; Yea, against their own soyland native oountry. But said he (turning himself t o the Blessed Martyrs) gee will perchance alledge for these your proceedings the Bishop of Rome's authoritie. I will not dispute with you in divinity, for I know gee are learned. I leave unto those that are divines t o dispute with you as touching his authoritie. It is for me to urge the laws and statutes of this realm against you, nevertheless I have read that Lucius, King of England being deoirous to keep his subjects in some good order, sent unto the Bishop of Rome to desire him i f he would be pleased to send into this realm some good and godly Laws tLa he might thereby govern his people in some better order than he kud done in former times. The Bishop of Rome, who would not take unto him, being a very good man, nor usurge the name of Pope, writ back unto Lucius, who was then King of this realme (.his Epistle is gtrt extant) thathe had within hisown realme, bishops, men of sufficient learning to deal herein, and that he might know of them what was to be done in this matter, And besides, said he, in his EgIstle to the King, HABES UTRAMQUE PAGINAM $X HIS 8UUIT3 TIBI LEQENI (Thou has both the old and new testament, choose out of them to thyself a law). By which Epistle it is msnifast that the Bishop of Rome gave them that authoritie to the Biehops of England, which non yee give to the Pope, and that he would not challenge unto him8t9lfe any authorltie, within the dioaess o f otber bishops. Yet notwithatamling all this, I will not, as I sayd, dispute But I with you upon this argument, for yee be learned. have to lay before you, your treasons in stirring up her subjects against our soveraigne, whom I beseech, @od long to reserve ." Ths people 6ayd "Amenw, The prisoner was then sentenced t o be hanged and burnt; the martyr sang the *Te Deum" as he was removed from the Court.

He was Mayor of Leicester i n 1 5 9 2 when the Privy Council sent a letter to him drawing his attention to the fact that naome land that the Queen had given t o the town in order to support a preacher, some evil disposed persona had employed the greater part for their own private use8 and to compel them t o make restitution thereof" (ACTS PRIVYC3UNCIL, 1592, F. 131).

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He was one of four judges who decided an action between the Reverend Dr. Overton, Bishopof Coventry and Dr. Beacon concerning the Chancellorship of the diocese; the Bishop had granted the prefermsnt to Dr. Beacon, but subsequently appointed Dr. Babington (Strype,ANNALS 111. 92).
He must havr been a wealthy man, as he held lands and estates in ten parishes in Leicestershire and two or three one mile from manors in Derbyshire, includin<y Litchurch, Derby, Belton, Grace Dieu, Merill, Shepshed, Osgathorpe, Co. Leicester, Thringston and Swannington. He also held the tithes o f Shepshed, Belton and Chaddesden. On the 24th April 1588 at the time of the Spanish Armada, he contributed S25 to the defence of the realm fund, his name heads the list for his county.

He married Anne, daughterof Sir George Pierrepoint of Holm Pierrepoint, Nottingham :xnd widow of Thomas Thorold of Marston, Co. Lincoln.She predeceasedherhusband. Issue:

11. John, heir to his elder brother.

111. Francis, the dramatist, born at Grace Dieu 1585/6, died 6th March 16151'16 and buried on the 9th, close to Chaucer at the entrance of S. Benedict's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, a stone slk~bon the floor with the Beaumont coat f arms cut o In 1897 Henry Francis erected a thereon, marks the spot. memorial window to commemorate his o l n father in the south rC aisle of S. Saviour's, Southwark, he incorporated therein a bust of Francis Beaumont, with the family arms.

The following extrzctof an enitaph was writtenby Sir John Beaumont on tne death of his brother Francis:
"An Epitaph

on

my

deare

brother

Francis

Beaumont."

.... . ..
"Thou should'st have followed me, but t oDeathe, blame, Miscounted yeeres and measur'd age fame. by So dearely hast thou brought thy precious lines Their praise grew swiftly: so thy life declines: Thy muse, the hearer's queens, the reader's loue, All eares, all hearts cut Death's cauld please and moue ." (1)

(L)

SIR J. BEAUMONT'S POEMS, Grosart, p. 182.

John Earle, poet and Bishop of Salisbury wrote:

"An Elegy on Mr. Francis Beaurnont.n

"Baaumont lies here,and where now shall we have A muse, like his tosigh ugon his grave? Ah! none to wecg this with a worthyteare, But he that c a m o t , Beaumont, that lies here; W h o now shall pay thy tombe with such a verse, A s thou that ladie's dicl'st, faire Rutland's hearse? A monument that will then lasting be, When all her marble is more dust than she: In thee all's lost; a sadder dearth and want Hath seiz'd on wit, good epitaphs are scant. W e dare not write thy elegy, for each feares He ne'er shall match a copy of thy tearest Scarce yet in age EL poet, and yet he Scarce lives the third part o f his age to see: But quickly taken off, and only known, Is in a minute skit aa soone as blown."
o r

e .. . . .

Qeorqe Colman, in the PROLCQUETC PHILASTWi refers t o Beaumont and Fletcher as:

. .. ....."Those .
Their glorious

twin starst b t run oourseround Shakespeare's golden sun."

(1)

Drayton refers to Sir John and Francis in his EPISTLE T3 REYNOLDS OF POETS A N D POESIE, 1627, as follows:

'Then

the two Beaumonts and my Browne (1) arose My deare companions, whom I freely chose My bosome friends; and in their seueral wayes, Right borne poets, and i.n theee last dayes Men of much note, and no lesse nobler parts, Such as haue freely tould to me their hearts, As I h u e mine to them."

Bishop Corbet of Norwich, a contemporary writer of verse says in his "Mr. Francis Beaumont, then newly dead":-

"He that hath such aouteness and As would aake the good heads <$.g He that can writeso well, that Refuse it for the best, let him
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such w i t husband it;

no man dare beware:

TRAGEDIES, Vol. XILI. M. adds. 108, 1. 134. Author of BRITANNIA'S PAST3RALS.

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Beaumont is dead by whose sole death appears Wit's a disease consumes men in few yearea."

In Sir William Bassets ELEGY ON SI-UKESPm, 1653, we find:

"Renowned Spenser, lyea thought more nye To learned Chaucer and rare Beaumond lye A little neerer Spenser,to make roome For Shakesperein your threefold, Iowerfold tombe".

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To whioh Ben Jonson replies:

b . . .

"My Shakespere rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further off, t o make thee room! : Thou art a monument withouta tomb, And art alive while still,thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise t o give."

(a

He with his brothers entered Broadgates Hall, (now Oxford Pembroke College) as gentlemen commoners. The matriculation 1596/7: register reads under date 4th February,
Henric Beauwmont, Lecest, Baron Fil. aet 16. John U 8l n 14. Frsneiee W n 12 (? 10).

At this time Broadgates Hall was the principal hall in Oxford for students of Civil and Common Law. He and his brother left 3xford on the death of their father and neither of them returned t o take their degree.
Francis proceeded to the Inner Temple, 3rd November, 1600, his father having beena Bencher, he was exoused from the ordinary duties and charges and was permitted t o board and lodge outside the Inns oP Court. When only sixteen years old he translated from OVID, the fable of SALMACIS A N D HERMAPHRODITUS into English rhyme (Beaumont Fletcher 11. 694). Before his marriage he lived and collaborated with J o h n Fletcher at the Banke Side, Southwark, not far fromthe Globe Playhouse, where they were engaged for some years (1606-16) in the production of about fifty plays and thirty poems, with
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LANSDUWN MS., temp. James I. A.P. Stanles. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

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There Is no record of thg oircumstances under which Fletcherfirst met, they may have been introduoed to one another by Ben. Jonson, on the occasion of the marriage of b d y Elizabeth, the daughter of Jamas I to the Prince Palatine, 20th February, 3 6 2 .1.

Beaumont and

Beaumont, J o m o n , Fletcher and possibly Shakespeare attendedSpenser's (author F-IEQUEENE) funeral at Westminster Abbey, they all brought mournful elegies on him, which they cast into the tomb together with the pens which they used writing them (Stanley, WEXTMINSTER ABBEY, g . 269).

The Masque of the Inner Temple 3rey's Inn was presented and before King James and the Royal Court in the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, on Saturday 20th February, 2612; those taking part in it aasembleh at Winchester House, and proceeded by the river in the Royal Barge, which was illuminated for the occasion; they were attended by other barges and gallies, led by two Admirals (i3eaumont and Fletcher, 11. 686). Th2y were received by the Lord Chambarlsin at the King's private landing stage. The play depicted the marriage of the two famous rivers, the Thamesis and the Rhine, which took place in the presence OP Jupiter, Juno and other gods. The expenses of the entertainment were met by the Benchers of Bray'e Inn and the Junior Temple; students paid P2 and Benahers 25 (Nichols, PROGRESS JAMES I; 11. 591).

One of the separate poems of Francis and perhaps his best, is that "On the tombs in Wes.tminster Abbey," it consists o f eighteen lines, beginning:
"Mortality, behold and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bonea Sleep within this heap of stones; Here they lie, had realms and lands; Who now want strength t o stir their hands; Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust, They greach, "In greatness is no trust!" (l)
Gerald Langbaine the quaint seventeenth century historian or' the stage says "Yrancis was a master of good wit, and R better judgement; he so admirably well understood the art of

the stage thateven Jonson himEelt'thouqht it no disparagement The latter's to submit his writings to his correction." is veneration for the Dramatist evinced by the following lines:
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Beaumont and Fletcher, DAFtLEY, 11. 709.

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"Ben Jonson to Mr. Francis Beaumont."

"Row I d o love thee, Beaumont, and thy muse That unto me dost such religion use! How I do fear myself, that am not worth The least indulgent thought thy pen drops forth! At once, thou mak'at me happy, and wunak'st] And giving largely t o me, more thou tak'st! What fate is mine, that so itself bereaves? What art is thine, thatso thy friend deceives? When even there, where most thou prais'st me, For writing better, I must envy thee!"

About this time there were five Francis Beaumonts living, three of them being poets viz. the Dramatist; the "aster of Charterhouse (see p. 130); and the Jesuit Priest p.171) (see also Sir Francis of Glenfield (see p . 1 2 5 ) and Sir Francis of G r a m Dieu (see p. 155).

The Dramatist married in 1613 Uraula, daughter and aoheir of Henry Ilsley, o f Sundridge, Kent, and had issue two daughters:
(l) F r a m e s , Rho lived t o a great age, being alive in 1700.
(2) Elizabeth borncirc. 161.4,married a Scotch Colonel, she was alive in 1682.

The fourth child of Sir Fra.ncis was:

IV. Elizabeth born 1589, she inherited S700 under her father's will and her mother's jewels. 6he marrjed firstly in 1620 Sir Thomas Seyliard, of De La Ware Brasted, Kent, secondly Robert, eighth Lord Mdaxwell, first Earl of Nithsdale, he died 1644.

S I R HENRY BEAUMOW, born 1581, died 10th July, 1605;

"Sir Henrye Belton parish register records that Beaumont, Kt. buried 13th day Julie Anno Domini 1605 aet. 24. " His will was proved 3rd February, 1606/7. He left half his estate t o h i s sister, forher advancement in marriage and the other half equally between his t w o brothers.

He was admitted t o the Inner Temple 27th November, 1597 and afterwards became a Judge of the Common Pleas. He was created a Knight bachelor at Worksop April ,1603, by James I
when on his way from Edinburgh to London t o assume the English Crown. The King took nearlya month en route. Every nobleman and gentleman kept open house for him and his

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court and retainers; be dispensed the honours of knighthood with a profuaion, which astonished those who remembered the more sober days of Queen Elizabeth.

He mnrried Barbara, daughter Anthony Faunt of Foston, of Leicestershire.; she married secondly Sir Henry Harger O f Calke, Co. Derby. She died 2nd July, 1649, aet. 68, and WAS buried in All Saints Church, Derby, where a moniiment was erected to her memory. Sir H e n q had issue one daughter, Barbara, and his estates passed to his brother John.

I. Barbara, born September, 1605, father's death. She married firstly Harpur of Swarkstone, Derby, he died married Sir Wolstan Dixie o f 'Joaworth, he

two months after her Sir John (3 Richard) in 1627 and she then died 1682 (see p.178).

S I R J3HN BEAUMONT born probably at 3raoe Dieu 1582/3 died there 19th April, 1627/8, and buried on the south side
of' the Broad aisle of Weatminater Abbey, near to Dryden and also near to his brother Francis. The exact apot is not known. The register reads: "1627. Sr John B e m n o n t bd in ye broad Ile on ye south s(ide) April29." (Grosart Edition XLVIII). The day of the month is incorrect, (harl. M.S. X). His will was proved 3rd January 1628/9. The cause of his death is obscurely hinted at in the following lines, by his friend Michael Dragton, the Poet Laure~te.
"Thy care for that which was not worth thy breath, Brought on too soon thy much lamented death, But heaun waa kinde and would not let thee see The Plagues that must vpon this nation be, By whom the musea have neglected bin Which shall adde weight to measure to their sinne."

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Walter Colman in his appendix to his "LA DANCE UACKABEB, ORDEATH'S DUELL" has some striking lines to Sir John's memory!
"An Blegie vgon the Honourable
&ight,

Sir John Beavmnt hronet."

A Beavrnont dead!

he forfeiteth his pen That writheth not an Elegia, For when The Uuses darlings whose admir'd numbers Recorded are amongst oLr ages wonders,

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Grosart , POEMS SIR JO'm BEAWONT, p. 17; LBlIC. 24. Bosworth Field pubt. 1710.

also Gough,

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-change this dull earth for a crowne of glorie, All are ingag'd tlimmortalizs their storie. But thou has left v8 sacred possie Reduc'd vnto her former infamie. else by long gradation Hauing as all things
Lost her first lustre, till thy reformation, Forcing her backe into the ancient stream0 Taught's thy chast muse Divinitie, a theme So farre neglected, we did hardly know If there were any but a name or no. Mirror of men who leftst not a line vs Wherein thy living honour doth not shine Equal1 with that of the celestial1 globe. Clad in the splendvr of her midnight robe, Onely that Venus neuer did appeare Within the circle thy hemispheare, oP Which so much addes t o thy religious Verse, Succeeding ages shall not dare reherse Without some sacred ceremonie, sent Beforehard, as a Divine complement."

As we have already seen he entered Broadgates Hall in 1596, he was admitted a student at the Inner Temple in.1597/8. In his Twentieth year he published his METAMORPHOSIS 3F TABACCO, a mock heroic poem of one thousand and twenty four 1024 lines, dedicated "To my loving friend Master Michael Drayton". The first stanza reads:
"1 sing the loues of the Superiour powers, With the faire mother of all fragrant flowers:
Belou'd

From whioh first loue a glorious Simple Springs, o f Heau'nly C+ods, and Earthly Kings." (1)

Later his "Bosworth Field" was published,this gives an account of the circumstances which immediately preceded, and a description of the celebrated battle fought by Richard I11 against the Earl of Richmond; this battle brought the Wars of the Roses t o a conclusion. The poem contains eighthundred and eighteen lines, the title page reads:

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Printed 1602, Grosart, p. 275.

*Bosworth Field W1 th a taste o f f the variety of other poems left by Sir John Beaumont baronet, deceased; set forth by his sonne Sir John Beavmont, Baronet; and dedicated to the King's most excellent majestie.

London.
Printed by Felix Kynqston for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at the Tygers Head in Saint Pauls Churchyard, 1629. (1)

It opens with the followingstanza:

"'The Winter's storme of ciuill warre I sing, Whose end is crown'd with eternal spring, Where roses joyn'd, their colours mlxe In one, And armies fight no more for England's throne.

... ...

Dare any tongue, since Yorke (2) spread forth his light; Northumberland(s), or BuckinghamM) defame, Two valllant Cliffords 11 Boos h), or Beaumonts (7) name 8, Because they in the wesker quarrel1 dle? They had the King with them, and so have 1." a)

His lines on Catesby, who advised Richard to join him

flight, are
very

fine, the King indignantly answering:

Sir John Beaumont's Poems. Edward, Duke of York, afterwards Edward TV. Henry Percy, Earl o f Northumberland, slain at Towton 29th March 1461/2. Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Bucklnqham, slain at Northampton 10th July 1460. Lord Clifford, slain at S . Albans 23rd May 1455, and his son who fell at Towton. Thomas Manners, Lord ROOS, slain at Towton. John Beaumont of Cole Orton and his cousin John Viscourrt; Beaumant, both slain at Northampton. Qrosart, p. 32.

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%et cowards trust theirhorses nimble feete. And in their course with new destruction e t e ; m Gaine thou some houres t o Uraw thy fearefull breath; To me ignoble flight is worse than death." Nathan Drake (SRAKESPBiU3E AND HIS TIMBS, I. 601) says:

"The versification o f Bosworth Field merits peauliar praise, there is an 0as0 and vigour and a harmony in it, not squalled perhaps by any other post of his time, many o f the couplets, indeed, are such as would be distinguished for the beauty of their construotion, even in the writings of Pope".
"The Crown o f Thorns", a poem in eight books, on whioh he 'bestowed all his talenta and resources has unhappily been lost, although it was published, for we find that he refers t o it, in his Elegy on Shakespeare's "Earl of Southamgtonu,

as follows!
"His only mem'ry my poore worke adornes, He is a father to my nCrown of Thornas";
Now since his death how can I euer looke, Without some teares, upon that orphan booke?A (Orosart, p. 201).

The British Museum possessea a copy of R poem entitled "The Crowne of Thornes", but .them is strong internal evidence that this is not Sir John's mlssing work.
Sir Thomas Hawkins one of the earliest translators of Horaae in his Elesy "dedicated t o the memory of his most honoured friend Sir John Beaumont, Knight and Baronet", also refers to it, when he says:

"Like to the bee, thou did'st those flow'rs select That most the tasteful palate might affect, With pious relishes of things Diuine, And discomposad since with peace combine, Which in thy Crowne Thornes we may discerne, of Fram'd a8 a model1 for the best t o learne." (Hutton, BOSWORTH FIELD, 1714).

These works all brought him into renown, and in his "True Gre8.tnesse" he addresses his patron the Lord Marquise of Buckingham, saying that it was he that first drewhim into publicity, by introducing his poems t o the King. He addresses the Duke:

"on hi6 return from Spaine".

"Sir, you are truely great and euery eye

Not d i m e with enug, joyes to see you hye BLt chiefely mine, which buried in the night, Are by your bsames rais'd and restor'd to light. You, onely you haue pow'r t o make me dwell In sight of men, drawne from my silent cell." (Grossrt, p. 143, 1629 edition).

His THEATRE OF APOLLO was written in 1625.

Throughout his

life he yearned after

poet's

renown;

he evinced a truly religioua feeling in many of his poem3, .such as in "The Desolation of the Miserable State of the Man of Sinne* and in "The Assumption o f our Blessed Lady".

Hetranslated fromthe Latin a funerealhymn of one hundred ar,d s e v e n t g t w o lines by Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, a fifth century Spanish Christian poet. The opening lines being:
"3 3od the Soules bure fitry spring, Who diff'rent natures would'st combine: That man who thou 30 life did'st bring, By weakenesse may t o death decline By thee they both are fram'd aright, They by thy hand united be; And while they jogne with growing might Both flesh and spirit liue to thee."

(Weevers E'uneral Monuments p. 25).

He also translated works by Horace, Virgil, Lucan Persius, Ausonius and others. Not only were his poems admired by his contemporaries, like Dragton (1563/1631) and Ben Jonson (1574/1637), but they received high praise from Wordsworth, whilst Thomas Campbell said that "he deserved notice as one of the earliest polishers of what is called 'the herolc couplettu (T. Campbell, SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH POEMS, 1841, p. 105) and again he says "In the evenness sweetness and flow of' his numbers, Sir John Beaumont is v e r y excellentm (IBID. p. 701).
We learn too something o f his studies in an introduction prefixed t o Edmund Bolton's "Elements or" Armories", being a letter to the author from the laarned young gentleman J.B. of Grace Dieu, November 29th, 1609.
Burton the historian descrlbes him "as being 5 gentleman of great learning, gravity and worthinesse, the remembrance of whome, I may not here omit for many worthy respects."

Anthony Wood says (ATHENAE OXON, I1 434) "The former part o f his life, he successfully employed in poetry and the latter, he as happily bestowed o n more serious andbeneficial

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studies; and had not death untimelycut him off in his middle age, he might have provd a Fatriot, beingaccounted at the time o f his death a personof great knowledge."
William Winstanley writes "Be was one who drank as deep draughts of Helicon as any of that age" (LIVES OF ENGLISH POETS, 1686, p. 145).

Alexander Chalmers says wThe lines describing death the of the tyrant (Richard111) may be submitted with confidence t o the admirers of Those were the days when
"The Rat (11, the Cat (2) and Love11 the Dog Ruled all England under the Hog (S)".

In all known copies of the 1629 issue of his works pp. 181 and 182 have been cut out. There is nothing in them to
suggesta reason fcr this mutilation. In the Qrenville copy at theBritish Museum, verses "On the death of the moet noble the Lard Marquesse Hamilton" otherson "A l?unerallea 2nd have been Inserted, but it is evident they are not theoriginal poems, for in the Bodleian copy the first letters of some o f the lines are visible and these Rre altogether different to those o f the insertec poems. These letters are: "Ob (Title letter) "M" (this is a large letter about double the size of the others B-R-D-To-Ba-SE-W-Fo-A-IN-TH-TH-So-A-W-W-AIt is 'by means of these thai the lost poems, by a fortunate accident, were discovered and identified in 1889; amongst the Stowe collection o f MSS. No. 900 which came to the British Museum from the Ashburnham Library, was a paper volume of fourteen leaves containing MS. Foems by Sir John Beaumont. It is not a complete collection of his works, but it contains two poems that had not hitherto been printed. The one entitled "On the death of many good People Slaine by the fall of a floore att a Cathclike Sermonin Black Friers" is undoubtedly one of the missing poems, as the initial letters agree with thosepreserved in theprinted copy. Thelinesare a6 follows t

"Manne hath no fast defence, noe place of rest Bewteene the earthe and mansyon of the blest, Rayse him on high, yet still he downward falls; Depressing death our heavy Bodyes calls To his low saves; no soule can piercethe skyes, But first the fflashe must sincke wth hope tc ryse. See here the tropheea of that rig'rous hand
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Sir Rlchard Ratcliffe.

Bir William Catesby. In allusion to theKing's Crest "a boar@.

Whose force no wordlie (sic) mixtur cann withstand: For yt united Blements devfds And parts their friendly league to diff'rent sides. In this most dolefull picture wee disp,lay The gen'rall m i n e on the judgement Day. Thrice happy they whom thRt last hower shall fynd Soe cleerely watching in such ready rnynde, As WRS this blessed flocke whoe fyld their eares With pious Counsells and their eyes with Teares; Whose hearts were ravisht with 3 sacred Bell And heav'nlg Trumpett when the Chamber fell, A n d that the preacher's wordes might mora prevaile When he describes this Life unsure and f r w l e God by his death mould confirmacon give To make impreasgon on our brests that live. Rest safe deare sagnts, and may this ffun'rall Bonge Become a charrne to ev'ry serpent's tongs."
The other poem "On the Assumption of our Blessed Lady" we may fairly olaim was the one printed on the other side of the destroyed leaf. It reads:-

*Who i3 shee that assends on highe, Next the heavenlyeKinge, Rounde about whome angells flie And her prayses sings?
Whoe is shee that; adorned wth light, Makes the sunne her robe, At whose feete the Queen of nighte Layes her changing globe?

To that cromne direct thine eye Which her heade attgres; There thou mayst her name discrie
Wrytt in starry fires.

This is shee in whose pure wombe

Heav'ns Prince remain'd; Therefore in no earthly tombe Can shee be contayned.

Heaven shee was wch held the Pire Whence the worlde took light, And to heav'n doth now aspire, Fflames wth fflames to unite.
Shee that did soe clearly shyne When our day begunne, S e e how bright her beames decline Now shee sytts wth the sunne .l1

The gosHible reason o r t h e destruction ofthis leaf was f the leaning shown in both these poems t o the Roman Catholic religion, it was therefore cut out after the books had bsen bound (ATHENAElJb!, 19thOctober, 1889). The Library 8180 possesses a 1629 Edition, which belongedt o George 111. In October 1605 his estates were sequestered, for his recusancy, by James I, the latter gave them on the 14th November 1607 t o his Scottish favouriteSir James Semphill "For him to make profit of" (RECORDS CATHOLIC SOCIETY, I1 305 1. "He was not permitted to leave his home without a licence, and he suffered much for the f t h e old Catholic o sake faith; this may explain the grave and religious tone which pervaded all his writings; we cannot help wondering whether the license (infra) to leave home may not have been connected with an endeavour to procure the protection friend, and o f some one who could use his influence with Sir John's persecutors, it ran aa follows:-

Assent to a license to leave home granted to John Beaumont by the Earl o f Huntingdon."

o in "Whereas John Beaumont f Grace Diewe the countie o f Leicestre Esquyer beyinge a Recusant convicted, and remayninge consyned to nys house accordinge to the statute in that behalfe provided, hathe acquaynted me in a with the occasgons of his busynesse sxpressed license dated this presente dRye and contgnaynge for three monthes. I findinge hys busynesse be importante, to haue thoughte fytt by these Fresents to signifye myne assente to the grauntinge o f the said license. Given under myhande and seale, accordingeas the said statute hathe provided the ffiftenthe dage o f Januarye, 1609/10.

This date being old style, would now be January 25th, 1610.
By 1626,/7 he had fallen on happier days for on the 29th (31) January of this year, Charles I created him a baronet and restored his estates, we may gather from his poems that by the thjs change in his circumstances was brought about Duke of Buckingkam, whose mother was Mary, daughter of Anthony Beaumont, (see p. 127).

From 1616 t o 1623 he with others endeavoured t o found a Royal Academy in London. He also distinguished himself as a soldier and he showed his benevolence by leaving in his
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CATKOLIC RECORDS SDCIETY, 11, 505.

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will annuities t o fourteen of his servants.

He married at Belton Church, Elizabeth, daughter of John Fortescue of London, she was a descendant in the sixth generation, of George, Duke o f Clarence, brother of Edward IV. 1ssue :
I John, heir. .
11. Srancis, born 1608, a poet and a Jesuit Friest. The following is an extract from one of his poems, On the dez.th of' his father :

"But onely here in these feu lines, behold The debt which f vnto a Farent; owe;
Who, though I cannot his true worth unfold May yet at least a due affection show.

Bor should I striue t o decke the virtues highe,

Which in these poems like faire gemmes agpeare; I might as well adde brightnesse to the skie

Or with new splendour make the sunne more cleare."

111. Renry, born 1610, d.s.p.

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IV. Gervasse, born 1614, died 1621. following on his son's death:
"To my deare s o m e Geruase Beaumont.

His father wrote the

V a n I, who haue for others oft compil'd The songs o f death, forget my sweetest child, Which like a flower crush't with ?L blast is dead, And ere full time hangs d o m e his smiling head, Expecting with cleare hope to liue anew, Among the angels fed with heau'nly dew? W e have the signe of joy, that many dayes,
W h i l a on the earth his struggling spizi:
stayes.

The name of Jesus in his mouth containes His onely food, his sleepe,his ease from paines. 0 may that sound Se rooted ir, my mind, Of which in him such strong eYfects I find, Deare Lord, receiuemy sonne whose winning loue To me was like % friendship, farre aboue . The course of nature, or his tender age; Wh0r.s lookes could 311 my bittergriefes assuage; Let his pure soule ordaind s e w yeeres to be In that fraile body, which was part o f me,

Remain my pledge in Heaun, as sent to shew, How t o this port at eu'ry step I 808." (1)

V. George, born 1618, d.8.p.

VI. Thomas, heir to his brother John.

IX. Helen, d.s.g.

X. h a , died young.

XI. Catherine, born 31st July 1616.

XII. Mary, born 1616, married firstly Sir Edmund Wilkinson (? Williams), secondly married John Tasburgh of Flinton 831a
Bodney, Norfolk, and had issue one

son and two aaughters.

S I R JOHN 'BEAUIIIONT, born 1607. He was a Colonel in the Royalist army and was slain at the siege Gloucester of 1644. He wasagreatathlete and a man of prodigious strength. He took an interest in foreign travelan8 received a licence on the 10th January, 1633/4 permitting him t o leave England. He edited his father's poems and was himself I minor poet,; in one he addresses an Elegy to Ben Jonson: "To the memory of him who can neverbe forgotten; Master Benjamin Johnson",
it begins r
"Had this bin for some meaner poet's hearse, I might have then observ'd the lawes of verse: But here they faile,nor c a n I hope t'expresse In Numbers, what theworld grants numberlesse; Such are the truths, we ought to speak of thee, Thou great refiner of our Poesie." (Grosart, 1869, p. 926).

He did not marry and on his death his estates went t o his brother Thomas.

S I R THOMAS BEAUMONT, born 29th April 1620, died 7th July 1686, buried in Belton Church on the following day, where an jnscription on a flat stone, which no longer
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POEMS OF SIR JOHN BEAUMONT, Grosart.

exists, recorded as follows:

"Here lies the body o f Sir Thomas Beaumont Son of Sir John Beaumont of Brace Dieu baronet, Who married Vere daughterof Sir William Tufton of Vintners in Kent, baronet Who left issue five daKghters Cicilg married Robert Beaumont Esq., Vere married Sir John Rayner; Knt. Esq. Mary married George Morton Jane married Chas. Byerley Esq. Anne married Robert Pawleg Esq. He d i e d the 7th July, Anno Domini 1686.

Aotatis Suae 66 (Nichol's LEICESTERSHIRE 111. 647).

He joined the Parliamentary army and at the Restoration compounded for his estates paying ElL90. He married Vere daughter of Sir Willism TKfton of Vintners, near Maidstone; she afterwards mvrried in 1693, George Lane anddied in 1697. They 'id no male issue and the barony became extinct on Sir Thomas's death.

I. Cicily, marl*ied Robert Beaumont of Barrow on Trent (see p. 193). She inherited t h e Grace Dieu estates and sold them in 1690 to Sir Ambrose Phillipps Knight, Garendon and of Barrow or, Trent, the latter pulled down the greater part of the Church.
11. Mdarg, died young.
111. Elizabeth, died young.

IV. Marina, died young.

V. Vere, died 7th December 1697, married Sir John Rap-er, baronet, he died 17C5 and had issue two 9011s and two daughters. VI. Mary, married Seorge Morton of Sileby.
VII. Catherinv", died young. VIII. J a m , borr. 1654, died 21st (? 22nd) February 1738, married Charles Byerleg oL' Eelgrave, Leicestershire. She had a son John Beaumont Byerley, who was a non juror ( i .e, refused t o take t h e oath ol' allegiance to (ieorge I). His estate at Belgrsve was valued a t 8512. 3s. 4d.

IX. Anne, married Robert Pawley.

CHAPTER IX.
THE LEICESTERSHIRE EEAUIJIONTS
'e' Lts

- THE

STOUGHTON GRANGE FAMILY

meet, and either do, or die"'.

TEIE ISLAND PRINCESS Besumont and Fletcher. 11. 2 .

Stoughton Grange is four miles from Leicester. It is a fine mansionsituated in extensive park-like grounds about of five hundred acres, with a noble avenue o f trees half a mile The estate in all being about long leading t o the churoh. seven thousand two hundred acres.

In the tenth uenturyit was held by Earl Ralph and was then worthJ28per annum. At the Conquest William gave it to Hug0 de Grantemaisnel; at the Domeaday Surveyits v d u s had increased t o &g. In the twelfth century Robert de Bellomonte, third Earl of Leiaester (see 31) married the heiress o the p. t estate. This in common with all his other property wae confisc:T.ted at the barons rising in 1175, when the Lordship seems to have been granted by the King to the Abbey o f Leicester and it does not Frppear t o have been reconveyed to Possibly he did not him at the time of his pardon in 1177. claim it as it was held by the abbey in whlch he was so deeply interested. In 1552 it was granted by Edward VI t o Sir Thomas Farnham,whose heiress -Katherine marrieci Sir Thcmas Beawnont, ana eighty thus the estate reverted after three hundred Its former owners and. i t continued in the family until years to the death of Sir George Beaurnont in 1737 (see p . 1 8 7 ) Khen , it passed to his three sisters and nephew, a sister of the latter became the eventual heiress and she married into the Keck family; this family held it, until 1913, when it I;r'as Bold by Mrs. Powys Keck to Captxin Faber, M.P., (for S250,OOO) who re-sold i t to the Manchester Co-operative Society.

GENEALOGICAL CHART.
Nicholas Beaumont of Cole 3rton.
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Sir Fran- ThoHenry cis mas

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Sir Hen- Farn- Tho- Eliza- Fran- Anne Elea- Is& J a m Mary ry Kt. ham mas beth ces nor be1 I d8p ... d.8.p.

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Sir Thomas Henry William Farn- Anne Eliza- Frances another 1st d.s.p. d.8.p. ham d.s.p. beth daughter Baronet d.6.p.

1.

I
Sir Henry Thc- William Nich- Fran- Henri- Jane Mars Margaret 2nd maa founder olas c i a etta Baronet 1 of the I Dunmow family, his grandson inherited the I I Cole Orton estates I

Sir Tho- George Hen- Hen-Basil Lew- Wil- Wil- John Chas. m88 3rd 4thry ry d. 3.p. ia liamliam d s g d.s.p ... Baronet Bart.(l) d.s.p. d.s.p. 5th Vil- dsp ... d.8.p d.s.p. Bart. liers d 8 P d.s.p. ..

----I I I l Thomas son son ! I i I I I I Thomas son son I l I I I

_ I _ -

son

Elizabeth

Annabella

I
I

I I
1

son daughter

James Eliza- Anne Diana Henri- Kather- Ara- Christina d.s.p. beth et ta ine bella

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Inherited the Cole Orton estates, on his death it passed t o his 'brother Lewis and the Stoughton Grange to his three surviving sisters.
His will was proved by hie son Farnham and Richard Coxall, 19th April 1615. He left B10 to the poor oolliers o f Bedworth, S500 each t o his daughters Ellen and Mary, , 2 0 per annum to his son Francis, 240 per annum t o 410 his brother Huntingdon.

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The third son of Nicholas Beaumont o f Cole Orton was Sir Thomss (see p. 130). His father granted him the Bedworth estate in Co. Warwick; he also owned the manor o f Thumby, Co. Leicester.

S I R THOMAS BEAUMONT, IZnight was born circ. 1565,died 27th November, 1614 and buried in Stoughton Church. He held lands in Devon and Somerset. Hist. Call. Staf. 1920.
He was a Teller of the Exchequer in the reign o f Queen Elizabeth; U.P. for Co. Leicester1603; knightedat Belvoir Castle by James I, 23rd April 1603. He married c 1588 K2-2herine daughter of Sir ThomasFarnham of' Stoughton @range, being sole heiress, she inherited the manor on her Pather's death. She dled on Ascenaion Day 1 t . May, 1621 and was 0i1 buried with her husband. Issue:

11. Farnham, born 1584 died 1647. AFarnham was christened at S. James Clerkenwell 18th October 1585. There was in the old church of S. Botolph, Alderogste Btreet, E.G. a monument to his memory. He was a merchant and lived in London. In 1865, Heary Moses of Reading had in his possession a portrait

of Farnham. It was three quarters life size, with long flowing hair, small moustache, short anu rather pointed beard, a large turn-down white collar. A cloak trimmed brown fur, turn back white cuffs, and a string of pearls hanging -down in front. Dated "0 1647 aet. 63". Arms : quarterly one and four Azure, sernee de lys, a lion rampant Or. and two and three, quarterly Or and Azure, in the first and second on crescent countercharged, on an escocheon of pretenue azure, a chevron ermine between irhre9 arrows of feathered gules, barbed argent, on a chief of the last three blackbird8 proper, beaked and legged of the third, on M canton Or a fleur de lys gules. The second and third quartering8 are the armso f t h e Farnhams (Genealogist 11. 216, 1865). (The author has made several attempts t o fin& this picture, if anyone can trace it, he would be glad o f information of the same. Farnham married Lucg Dawes, of Dawson and Wavren, Co. Leicester and had issue a daughter:
la, Franues, who married Sir Francis Wingfield Bodenham o f Ryhall, Co. Rutland, he was born in 1615 They had issue a son:

lb. 2b.

Beawnont BoBenhsm,
William (Sloana US.)

111. Thomas a.s.p. matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, 23rd April, 1613, (Qiardiner,Register o f Wadham. He was a

177. student ofthe Inner Temple1615, and married Judith daughter of Thomas Plumbeof Potters Marston, Co. Leicester.

Iv. Elizabeth, born 1576, died 1651; she married Sir John Ashburnhamof Ashburnh:un, Sussex, he died 20th June 1620 aet. 29, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. They had issue two sons 8.nd four daughters. She married secondly 1626, at S. Qiles in the Fields, Sir Thomas the 24thDecernber, Richardson, o f Hassingh:im, Norfolk, Knight, he was Speaker o f the House of Commons, and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1631/35. He died 27th Novernbez, 1641. On the 28th I, February 1628, she was created by Char:LesEaroness Cramond of Scotland, this was the first time a Baroness had been created, the title became extinct on the death of William died without issue 28th Lord Richardson, Baron Craracnd, who July 1735. She died in Covent Garden i n 1651 and was buried 3rd April in S. Andrew's, Holborn. A monument was erected to her memory and that Sir John Ashburnham, Ashburnham; of at the inscription tells us "thatshe was eminent for hergood temper and prudence"; it is as fol1cws:"Here lies in the vault undern3ath John Ashburnham Esq. scnn to the unfortunate person fifth John Ashburnham whose good nature and frank disposition towards his in.being friends deeyly engaged for them naces3itated him to sell this place (in his family long before the Conquest) and all the estate he had elsewhere, not leaving t o his wife and six children the least subsistence, which is not inserted to the least disadvantage of his mem'ory (God forbid it should be understood to be a charge of disrespect upon him) but to give God the praise, who s o e suddenly provided for his wife and children, as that within less than two years after the death o f the said 5th Jo'nn, there not any of them but in condition was was rather to be helpful to others than to want support themselves. May God be pleased t o add this blessing to His posterity that they may never be unmindful of the great He hath things done for them. The wife of .the said Sr John Ashburnham was daughter to Sr Thomas Beaumont o f Stoughton in the county o f Leicester shee was very eminent for her good temper and prudence. Sne dyed in the seventy-fifth year of her ase aud both the said Sr John and his wife lye buryed in the Church o f S. Andrew in Holeburne, London."

In the fly leaf o f the oldest register the church at in Ashburnham is The following entry:-

"A true copy of the memorable deed of charity o f Dame Elizabeth Richardson, Earoness o f Crarncsnd, wherein she hath given foure pounds p e r an. for 15 years to be payd quarterly t o five poor people o f the Parish of Ashburnham.

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I Dame Elizabeth Richardson, widow, Baroness of Cramond, who was formerly wife to John Ashburnham, Knight, deceased Sr d o give this writing unto the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish o f Ashburnham in the County o f Sussex. Z did live formerly in my youth at; Ashburnham where I had many children borne and I d o e still bear a loue unto that place. Now i t is welknome that the manor o f Ashburnham did continue a long tims belonging to the name of Ashburnham, and h o m o e v e r in my husband's fime it was cast for 8 time upon strangers yet by God His Mercie and gracious Providence it is now brought backe again in my life into the hands and possession of mine owne son John Ashburnham Esq. which I gr2.y God to continue withHis blessing unto him and tohis good pleasure .... (here follow certain bequests)
C

(3iven under my hand on S. Andrew's

Day

in the year of

our Lord 1649."

She had issue by her second husband, a daughter Mary, who was buried in S. Botolph's 25th November, 1615.
V . Frances, rnwried Sir o l s t m Dixie of Market Bosworth, W Co. Leicester, Baronet, he married firstly, Barbara, widow o f Sir John ( 3 Richara) Harpur Knight, daughter and heiress and of Sir Henry Beaumont of Grace Dieu (see p.163 1.

VI. Anne, married, Sir John Dillon of Barthinghoe, Northants.

VII. Eleanor, died unmarried.

VIII. Isatel, marrjed, Hugh Snawswell of Belton, Co. Leicester, he diad 1661, issus one son, Thomas, alive in 1662.
IX. Jane, married, William son o f Sir Thomas London, merchant.
Temple of

X. Mary, born 1594, married, 2nd January, 1616/17 at S. Anne's and S. A g e s ' Church, Aldersqate Street, E.C.2. Richard (? William) Paramourt:of Loseby, Leicester and London.
In Stoughton Church, there is a black marble tablet, mounted on white marble, with kneeling figures o f Sir Thomas and his w i f E and ten children, the incised lines being ornamented in gold, the inscription reads:"Neere t o this place lyeth interred ye body o f Sir Thomas Beaumont, of Staeton in the Co. of Leces. Knygb-t who djred 27 of Novemb 1614,

Dame Kath%rine, his wife, daughter and heire 01 Thomas Farnham o f Stawton, aforesaid, Esqr (she dyedthe 10 May 1621) leaving issue 3 sones and of

7 daughters, viz. Sr Henry Beaumont sorUl9 and heire maried Elizabeth daughterof Sr Williarn Turpyn of maptoat: ELrrnham Beamount, erecond sonne. Thomas Beawmont third sonne. Blizabeth wife to Sr John Ashburnham, afterw. wife t o Sr Thomas Riohardeone, Lord Cheife Justice of ye Kings Benoh. Francis wife to Sir Wolaton Dixie, Anne Wife to John Dillon, Hellen lived unmarried, Isabell Wife to Eugh Snaaell; Jane wife to William Temple, by wife to Riahard Paramoure. r This monument was erected at the care and cost of the Lsdy BBlizabeth Riahardson, Baronis Cramond There eldeat daughter An0 163l.*
In Cole Orton Church there wa8 a handsome monument t o their memories; they were shewn in the attitude o f prayer. A memorial tablet was also glaoed in the nave of S. Botalph's Church, Aldersgate Street, W., the memory of Lady Katherine, to but like that of her son's (Farnharn) it was destroyed in the great fire of 1666. The inscription read:

*In memory of
The religious and v-irtuous Lady Katherine Beaumont, late widow o f Sir Thomas Beaumont of Stoughton In the county o f Leicester, Knight. Daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Farnham of Stoughton aforesaid; $sq. who deceased on Ascension day 1621 leavtng issue, then alive as above written Three s o m e 8 and seven daughters. This tablet was set up out of love and pure affection o f Blizabeth, Lady Ashburnham, widow her eldest daughter, anno 1622. And Mary one o f the daughters of the aforesaid Lady Ashburnham was likewise buriedin this Church November 25, 1615.' ( P1619)

S I R HENEIY BEAUMONT, Knight, born 1584, died April 1646,

buried in Stoughton Church. There is a beautiful altar tomb t o his memory in the south aisle of the Church at Cole Orton. He was admitted to the Inner Temple 1603. Be owned the entire parish. He endured the fate that most of' the loyal friends o f Charles I had t o submit to, in compounding for his estate under the Commonwealth.
He mtxrried Elizabeth daughter of Sir William Turpin of Knaptoft, CO, Leicester, Knight; on a slab in the aisle o f Stoughton Church there was the following inscription:

"Ellizabeth, w i f e of Sir Henry Beaumont died 164-3'

They had issue:

I. Thomas, hair.
11. William, died l610 in infancy.
111. Henry, born 1612, died May llth, 1673. He became a Jesuit priest, in 1633 when entering the Sooiety he took In 1649 he was living in Lttnoashire, the name of Harcourt. in 1655 in Hampshire and in 1672 in Suffolk, where he died. He was the author of %ngland'E old religion faithfully gathered out of the Church of England as it is written by the Venerable 'Bede almost a thousand years ago! i.e. in the gear after the passion of our Saviour" by H.B. Antwerpt 1660. Another edition was published in 1658.

IV.

Frhm ans.

V, Anne, died unmarried 1653,

VI. Elizabeth, born 1613, married Zouch Percival of London.

VII. Frances, born 1615, married 27th April 1635 at S. Bride's, London, James Sinzlairof Ginclair Holmes, born 1603, ninth Major in the armyand Commander or the Castle of Wardoe Huys, North Cape, Norway which he held for the King of Denmark.
VIII. Another daughter who married
the ancestress o f Commander Meeze (see p.184

Meeze,

and t h m became

) .

S I R THOMAS BEAUMONT, Baronet, born 1608 died llth August,

1676. A slab in Stoughton Church recorded, but is now lost, "Hic jacet D'N'S. Thomas Beaumont, Baronettus, Pater Familiae, Dec. Aug. 11, Anno Domini 1676". A Knight of the Shire for the county of Leioester 1654; M P for Leicestershire .. 1654/9. He fought on the Parliamsntarg side, and was a rnembp,r of the Committee of the "New Model" 15th Fobruary 1644/5. Created a baronet by Oliver Cromwell 5th March 1657/8; this honour wits disallowed R t the Restoration but it was subsequently confirmed Chvrles I1 21st February, by 1660/1.

of He married firstly Elizzbeth daughter and co-heirSir Nicholas Trott of Quickswood, Herts, Knight, andsecondly by licence, 17th April,1666, at Evington Church, Co. Leicester, Jane, relict of Hugh Wstts, o f Newark, and daughter of Sir Thomas Burton o f Stockerston, Co. Leicester, she was buried with her first husband in S. Mary's Leicester 4th October 1670. Issue by the f'irst w i f e three sons an& three daughters, and by the second, two sons and one du.ughter.

I. Henry, heir.

11, Thomas, born 1639, died of sma1ll;ox at Dunmow 15th January 1710. A memori&l stone In the chancel floor there

reoordst
"Hare lieth the body of Thomara Beaumont Vicrar of ye parish seoond son of Sr Thomas Beaumont of &touton Grange,
in the county of Leioester Bart He married 8U8arma, daughter of W ~ l l i a mOldgs, Dr of Divinity Vicar of Alderburgh in the county of Oxon By whom he had 4 Bone and 2 daughters He dyed January 15th 1710, aged 7 , 1.
Admitted as founders kin t o Winchester College and a Fellow in 1655/60, and matriculated at New College, 3xon, 1657, B.A. 1660, M.A. 1664, incorporated at Cambridge 1669. Vicar of Sawbridgeworth 1673, of Great Dunmow 1678, Rector of Thorleg, Herts 1690, Prebendary of Hoxton 1680, Canon of S Paul's 1681. He married Susannah, daughter of the Reverend . William Oldys, D.D., and had issue:

(1) Thomas, of S Andrew's Parish, Holborn, born 1674. . Matrioulated at New College, Oxon, 1693; B.A. 1697; M.A. 1701. Fellow of Winchester College 1693/1710. Vicar of Easter-Alta, Essex, 1702/'23. He had four son8 and two daughters.
(2) Son.
(3) Son.
(4) Son, Henry William bagtiaed Dunmow at Dunmow 6th November 1678.
(5) Elizabeth, married William Hagley, M D ..
(6) Annabella born March 1683 and baptised the 23rd of that month at Great Dunmow died Maruh 1776 at Upminster. She married Francis Prior of London,gentleman, and had issue

a daughter Susannah who married Samuel Hopkins of London, gentleman.

111. William, o f Great Dunmow and Hackney (see p. 197).

TV. Nicholas.

V. Prancis.

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VI. Henrietta.

VIII. Marg.

IX. Masgaret, died 1785, married John Kendal o f Kempston, Beds., and had issue three daughters,

S I R HENFiY BEAUMONT, 2nd Baronet, born 1637, baptised

12th April 1638 died 27th January 1688/9 at Stoughton A slab on the churohfloor recited: wHere and buried there. lies the body o f 6ir Henry Beaumont Bart who departe& this life 27th January 1688/9 in the Slst year of his age.* He matriculated at S. John's College, Oxon, 5th April, 1655; M.P. for Leicestershire 1679-87. He was an aative loyalist and was compelled to compound for his estates,

He married 12th April, 1662, at S. Andrew's Holborn, 'Elizabeth daughter of George (John ?) Farmer, of Holbeach, Co. Lincoln, a Prothonotary of t h e Common Pleas; She died 30th September 1727 aet. 80. A tablet in Stoughton Church recorded "Here lies the body of Dame Elizabeth Beaumontwidow of Sir Henry Beaumont, oi Stoughton Grange, bsronet m d daughter of George Farmer Esq. who departed this life the 30th &ay of September, Anno Dom. 1727, in the 80th year of her &ge. They had in all fourteen son6 Bnd seven daughters, six of the Sonlj dieing in infancy."

I. Thomas, heir thirdbaronet.

11. Qeorge,

(see p. 187);

fourth baronet, heir t o his brother Thomas also heir o f the Cole Urton estates (see p 139). .

111. Henry died 1656. There was atablet in the Stoughton church with the following inacription wflic Jacef Henricus filius natu tertius Henricl et Rlizabethae Beaumont de Staughton infans a parentibus immsturi correptus, Anno Dom, 1665 Maie 28". Transhtion: wHere lies H,enry the 3rd son by birth of Henry and Elizabeth Beaumont o f Stougnton, a prematurely born child, A.D. 1665, May 28."

IV. Henry, died 1669. Anothermemorialrecorded "Hic jacet Herlricus Beaumcnt infans natus et immzture correptus 1669" "Here lies Henry Bettumont a prematurely born ohild
1669. "

V. Basil, born 1669. He was drowned on the Boodwin Sands when in command 0fH.M.S. Marg in the great storm whioh *o'er Britannia passed" (Addison. The Campaign I. ' 1 at the time 7)

that the Eddystone lighthouse swept awayon the 26th/27th WCLS November, 1705, when thirteen of H.M. ships were wrecked and one thousand five hundred officers and lost (John Campbell, men LIVE3 OF ADMIRALS, 111. 345); eight hundred houses were b l o m d o w n in London andLondonBridqewas submerged together with a large portion of Brietol.

He joined the Navy at the age of thirteen and served under his relative Admiral Qieorge, Lord Dartmouth.
Whilst a lad onboard the wPhoenixw he servedtemporarily a8 Lieutenant, he did not receive any additlonal pay for this, so he petitioned the King through Pepys, the Diarist for it. His letter was as follows: "Basil1 Beaumont, a voluntier on board ye Phoenix, who acted as Lieutent after the death of Capt. Nodder, but has received noe pay being ogposed thereln by the Captaine whereinhe prays his Maj: reliefe.

To the Kings most excellent Majtie &C."

This letter is amongst the Pepys collection at the Bodleian and it is endorsed DLetters and other papers relating to ye Past current affai'res of my office put up at my quitting the same

Bebruary 168

8 9

and in gsrticular relating t o the Lord Dartmouth's condutrt with the fleet under his command 1688".

He was a Lieutenant on board H.M.S. Portsmouth 28th October 1688, took part in the naval engagement off Barfleur 21st
April, 1689; Captain H.M.S. Rupert. This ship was lost in

a storm off Plymouth Sound 25th December 1689, n e was then appointed to H.M.S. Dreadnought. Commander H.M.S. Canterbury

1694, afterwards saw service in the Mediterranean, and appointe t o H.M.Y. "Montaguew in 1696. Commodore of the Fleet May 1696, when he attained Plag Rank at the age of thirty, only Admiral seventeen years after entering the Service. Rear 1st March 1702/3. He blockaded Dunkirk and rerjdered signal eervice against the French Navy during the reignso f William I11 and Queen h e .

His portrait by Dahl, presented by George IV hangs in the Painted Hall, Qreenwich. On the north wallo f the north
aisle of Stoughton Church a marble memorial records:

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"This monument is erected t o ye memory o f Admiral Basil Beaumont who was last in the grest storm and to ye inexpressible grief of his relations to whom he gave the highest proofs o f friendship. He was a public loss and universally lamented; never was found in any one person, more virtues and perfections than he was blessed with. He was the 5th son of Sir Henry Beaumont, bart, born in ye year 1669, lost November 27, 1703. This monument was put up .by his sister Anne Beaumont 1738."

VI. Lewis, fifth Baronet, heir to his brother George (see p. 139).

VII. William. A slate slab in the north aisle Stoughton of Church records "Hic jacet Gulielmus Beaumont immaturus. Ob. die Yaie 14, 1675."

VIII. William Villiers, died of fever in the West Indies when

serving as lieutenant under Commodore Meeze, 17thJuly, 1672.

IX. John, died in i n f m c y ; another slab records "Hic jacet Johannes Beaumont immaturus. Ob. Feb. 18, 1683."

X. Charles, born 1683/4. Lost by the blowing up of H.M.S. Carlisle in the Downs 19th September, 1700. Not one of the ship's company was saved and it is not known how the
accident happened.
XI. James, born 1685/6 died unmarried 4th January, 1722. Matriculated et New Colleze, Oxon 1701; U.B. 1708; Fellow of Winchester 17011'12. A large stone slab wa8 put down to his memory in the north cloister of NeE College, near t o one t o the memory of Henry Fowler and t o one t o John Thickness and almost beneath one on the wall to John Cowderoy it no but longer exists. It stated that he was the eldest son and that h e was twenty five years old, but these are evidently errors. It read:

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H.8.B. JACUBUS BEAUMON'J! , L L . B. mrus COLLEG11 SOCIUS flILIUS NATER MAXIMUS KRNRICI BEAUMONT BARONECTI DI STANTON B IN COMITATU LEICBSTRENSI: OBIIT QUARTO DIE JANUARII

(AETATIS SUAE XXV AN@3

(DOMINI MDCCXXTI .

(1)

with his coat o f a m 6 beneath, viz., AZ. sem6e of fleurs de lys OR, a Lion rampant o f the second. Crest: a lion Passant, OR. Translated it reads:

"This is sacred to James Beaumont, L.L.B., Fellow of this College, eldest son of Henry Beaumont, baronet of Stoughton in the County of Leicester. He died the 4th day of January, in the 25th year o f his age. A.D. 1722."

XII. Elizabeth, born 1671, died 5th B8bru.arg 1726/7.

XIII. Anne, died 29th September 1753.

Stoughton is the following inscription

In the Church at

"Here lieth interred the body of

Anne Beaumont, second daughter of

Sir Henry Beaumont , bart , by Dame Elizabeth his wife. She departed this life the 29th day of September MDCCLIII".

XIV. Diana, died 4th November 1694. The inscription t o her memory reads: "Hit jacet Diana Beau.mont Tertia. filia Henrici Beaumont equitis et B:rlrocetti, et Elizabethae Uxoris. Quae obiit quarto d i e Novembri, DCXCIV." Translation: "Here lies Diana Beaumont 3rd daughter o f Henry Beaumont,
(1)

HISTORY COLLEGES OF OXFORD, A. Wood, edited by John Gutch, (1786).

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Knight and Baronet and Elizabeth his wife. The which died 4th day of November 1694."

XV. Henrietta, died 10th March, 1724/5, married John Styleman; she had no issue.
XVI. Katherine, died 1st April, 1726, rnarried William Busby of Loughborough, he died 23rd March, 1726/7, aet. 460 Issue:
(1) Katherine, born 1707, died 10thMay, 1725. A memorial in Stoughton church records: "Here lieth interred the body of Katherine Busby daughter o f William Busby Esquire by Katherine his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Beaumont bartby Dame Elizabeth his wife. She departed this life May 10 A.D. 1725 in the 18thyear o f her age."

(2) William, born 1707 died 2nd June the Stoughton Grange estates, see p. 187.

1742, inherited

(3) Anne, aied at Stoughton Grange 17th February 1765, married 1739 Anthony Keck of Lincoln's Inn, Senior Serjeantat-Law, he died 30th April, 1786. She inherited the estate and the family held it until 1913 when it was sold, see p. 174.
(4) Elizabeth, born 1709 died 22nd April, 1726. An inscription in the church reads: "Here lies Elizabeth Busby who daughter o f Willm Busby Esq. by Katherine his wife departed this life April 22nd Ano. Dom. 1726 in ye 17th.year of her age."

XVII. Arabella, d.ied '7th February, 1745, buried in the church. An inscription reads : "Here lieth interred the body of Arabella Beaumont si.xth daughter o f Sir Herlry Beaumont, bart.,
by Dame Elizabeth his wife, she departed this life, the 7th of February MDCCLIV."

XVIII. Christina died 28th February 1745.

reads,

Her memorial slab

"Here lieth interred the body of Christina Beaumont youngest daughter of Sir Henry Beawnontbart. by Dame Elizabeth his wife she departed this life Feby. 28 h!DCCXLV.n
Near to the south door of Stoughton Church is the following inscription: IIHere lieth the body of Anna Kirke daughter of Mr. John Cutler, who departed this life the 3rd August 1744, in the 85th year o f her age, having lived

56 years in the

Lady Beaumont's family, greatly esteemed."

S I R THOUS B ~ U M O N T , Srd Baronet, born 1663; Major in the Horse Guards under J.;t.mes IT; Lieuten&nt-Colonel Dragoons, resigned on the outbreak o t h e revolution; raised at his own charge a .troop and met Willlam of Orange at Torbay Standard bearer to William I11 at his 5th November, 1688.
coronation, Major General 1st troop of Guards, accompanied the King on his Irish Campaign, served with great valour and He was uied there from fever, 9th (5th?) December 1690. ' buried a t Stoughton; he left no issue and was sacceeded by his brother George.

S I R GEORGE BEAUMONT, 4th Baronet borr! 1664, died of inflammation of the lungs, at Stoughton Grange 9th April, 1737, and buried there. He matriculated at New College, Oxon, 9th February, 1682/3, B.C.L. 1690, and on the 7th December1714 the university gave h i m t n s honorary degree o f D.C.L. He was one o f the executors to Dr. Radcliffe, who was a great :oenefactor to the University, and on the west side of the High Street entrance of the Radcllffe Quad University College, Sir George's arms are cut on the stone wall. He was a fellow o' Winchester from 1683 t o 1701. r In 1702 he was elected a member o f Parliament forthe borough of Leicester in Queen Anne's first Parliament and he held the gssition until his death. He was made Lord Privy Seal 1711; Lord High Admiral 9th April, 1714. He foundsd the Free Grammar School : ~ t Darton. On the death in 1702 o f his father's third cousin Thomas third Ynd last Viscount Beaum0r.t He died see p. 139 he inherited tne Cole Orton estates. unmarried, these estates then passed to his brother Lewis, who became the fifth Baronet, see p. 139. Re bequeathed Stoughton Grange to his three surviving sisters, Anne, Arabella, Christina and to his nephew William Bus'by, son o f his sister Katherine, (see p 186). The latter eventually . became the sole heiress; the estate subsequently passed by her marriage to the Powys-Keck family (see p. 174).

Sir George was buried in the north ;-,isle of Stcughton Church and FL memorial there records "Hers lie the remains o f Sir George Beaumont Bart., who died April 9th 1737 aged 73. Here also was interrsd Sir Henry Beaumont, great grandfather to the above named Sir George, who died in April 1646 aged 62." Nichol's LEICESTER, 11. pt. 2 p. 855). There is also a handsome marble tablet, surmounted with a pyramid on which are carved the Beaumont coat of arms and the motto "Erectus non elatus". The irlscription reaiis: "Sacred to the memory of Sir Georgs Beaumont, Bart., descended from anancient and illustrious fdmily,

to

which was a new ornament, by he hie own distinguished merit. He represented the town of Leicester in nine sucoessive parliamunts

and bore public office in the English reign of that exaellent Princess, Queen Anne but not changing with the times, he lost all, but his seat In parliament, the reward of an unbiassed attachment to the interest of Britain. Disinterested, just, steady, intrepid. He possessed every virtue that adorns a public station;
Easy of acces&, affable, humane, beneficent.

He exeruised all the qualities; amiable in private life.

Of an understanding quiok and lively, of a judgem8nt clear and penetrating. In conversation obliging, polite, enterteining, a patron of the poor A friend of humane kind. He lived beloved, and dyed lamented 3 April 9th 1737 aged 7 . His sisters Arabella and Christiana Beaumont andhis Nephew William Busby, that R O noble an exemple may be remembered and imitated, have caused this memorial to be erected." (Nichol's LEIC. 11. pt. 2. p 764). .
The above inscription is supposed to have been written Swift, for he speaks ironically of "the English reign bY The Dean was an of that excellent Princess Queen Anne." intimate friend o f Sir George Beaummt and frequently stayed at Stoughton Grangeand w.3.sfond o f jeering at the un-English
proclivities of her Majesty.

Another eulogist says that "He was held in high esteem, a t r u e churchman, an impartial magistrate, a most affectionate brother, a kind m%ster, a compassionate landlord, charitable t o the poor, indefatigable in servine his friends and courteous t o all." The following Elegy was mritter, by a contemporary
(1)

"Dezth is tine common lot imposed on all, The grext and vj.rtuouE with the vulgar fall: Beaumont is dpad! 0, much lamented name! Immortal as thy virtues, be thy fame: Mourn, Mourn, ye Britons; your sad loss deplore! The just and generous Beaumont is no more!

(1)

Nichol's LEICESTERSHIRE, 111, pt. 2 , p. 1129.

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The truest patriot and the best of friends,

Ne'er wrongecl his Country for his private ends; But did with vigour always them oppose, Tho' n e t e r so great, who were his Country's foes. Then mourn, ye Britons; your sad loss deplore1 The just and generous Beaumont is no more!
: Could we but have such men in time to come,

Bor Patriots, Britain might out rival Rome; For, Cat0 like, he lov'd his Country's cause, Defended all ita liberties and laws, Then mourn, ye Britons; your sad loss deplore; The just and generous Beaumont is no more!
But it were endless his great worth t o na.me, Since every tongue now lodly sounds his fame; Nor am I worthy t o attempt his praise, His virtues will more lasting trophies raise, Then mourn, ye Britons, your sad loss deplore: The just andgenerous Beaumont is no more!"

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C W T E R X.

THE LEICESTERSHIRE BEAUMONTS

- THE BARROW

O M TRFNT FAMILY.

"Of every noble action the intent Is to give Worth reKard, Vice punishment".

Beaumont and Fletcher: T H E CAPTAIN, V. 6. GENEALOGICAL CHART.

Edward second son of Thomas of Thringstone and great great I grandson of John 4th Baron. William Christopher

l I

Edward Fran- Wil- Chris- Tho- Eliza- Doro- He1-M w y Am- Jean Edice d.s.p. cis w a d liam topher mas beth thy en :r

I
Edaard John Amice d.s.p. I

John Rob- An- Hen- Tho-o h n Ed- Fran- An- Doro- Ma- Bar- An- CharJ
d8p ert ne ry ...

I I

mas d.s.p. ward cis ne thy ry bara ne les d.s.p. d s p d s p d s p d s p ... . . . . . . . . .

John John Barbara d.s.p. I

Francis

--I
l

--I
I I

John Robert Edward Francis BarbaraJoyce Catherine d.s.p. d.6.p. d.s.p. d.s.p.

John
I

I I I

Joyce
Anne

Mary

John Robert-Curzon. Fdward Henry

d.a.p.

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The seoond a m of Thomas Besumont the younger, of Thringston and Anne his wife was Edward ( a g e g. 161)

EDWAFD dawhter and heiress o f William Milnegate, BEAullONT settled at Barrow on Trent In 1560. Harried Anns
of Lockington, CO, Leieseter.

Iasue:

I. Wllllm., heir.
11. Christopher.

W I L L I A U , died 30th July, 1592. His house was situated in Bablngton Lane, he entertained Mary Queen of Scots when on her way in 1568/9 to Tutburg Castle, Co. Stafford
where she was imgrlsfoned, under the uare of %he Bar1 of Shrewsbury.

He married Pirstly Elizabeth Sutton, of Derby, and secondly a daughter of Yore, of Derby. Issue:

(1) =ward,

died young.

(5) Bdward.

( 5 ) Christopher. AChristopher matriculated at Oxford in 1569. Admi2ted to Qreys inn 1570, called to the bar 1681. These details may refer to his w c l e see supra.

( 6) Thomas
(7) Elizabeth, married Isaac Bennett of Derby.
(8) Dorothg, married W. Neala of Derby. (9) Helen.

(10) Mary.
(11) Amice.

(12) Jane .

FRANCIS, born 1569, died 2nd January 1661. Major in tni* lioy~listarmy. He marrieci 1637 Elizabeth daughter and ineiregs of Simon Bracebridge of Twyfora, Co. Derby and Atherstone Hall, Warwick. Issue:

182. (1) Edward, who was disinherited and died anmarried in

France in 1660.
(2) John, heir.
(3) Anne.

JOHN, torn August 1612, died August 1662; married fi.rstly Dorothy daughter of Johl Powtrell of West Rallam, Co. Derby 3nd secondly married Barbara -daughter of Edward Willoughby of Cotham, Co. Nottingham. Issue:

(1) John, died young.

(2) Anne, died young.
(3) Robert, heir by second wife.
( 4 ) Henry, born 1659 died 1663.
(6) Thomas, alive in 1663.

(6) John, died before 1662.

(7) Edward, died before 1662.

(8) Francis, died before 1662.
(9) h e , died before
1662.

(10) Dorothy, died before 1562.

(11) Mary, died before 1662.

(12; Barbara, born 1657.

(14) Charles, married 1665 (?) Eleanor Boss.

the

R O B E H T , born August, 1655, died 1st January, 1726/7. An i.nscription on a black marble Elab on the floor of Church at Barrow records:

"Here lieth ye body of Robt Beaurnont of Barrow, gent, who ha8 three wives; left issue by ye first one son and one daughter and by ye last one

193 son. He departed ys life ye lstt of Jany 1726 aged 70.

He waa a Nonjuror and refusing t o take the oath of allegiance t o WilliRm and Mary his freehold estate in Derby was valued at this time at &86. 14s. Od. per annum and that at Belton at ~180. Is. 8d. In 1690 he sold the Grace Dieu the latter pulled estate t o Sir Ambrose Phillips, Knight, His first wife down the greaterpart of the church in 1696. waa Cicely daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Beaumont, Baronet, of Grace Dieu (see p. 173). The inscription on a black marble slab on the floor o f the chancel o f the church
rsado1
"Here lieth the body of Cicelg Beaumont, wife of Robt Beaumont of Barrowin the County of Derby gent, was eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Beaumont, of Grace Dieu, Bart, in the County of Leicester left issue one son and one daughter she departed ys life ye 5th day of JulyAnn. Dom. 1696 aged 4 . 7' He married secondly m e , relict of Francis Lowe of Old Greaves J and daughter and heiress of John Middleton of Wandesley. An eighteenth century MS. in the College of Arms, London, states there was a memorial in the church to her memory, it "In ye body o f ye church adjoining o ye chancel lyeth t react: ye body of Jane ye second wife of Robert Beaumont of this T o m e Esqre daughter and sole heire o f John Middleton of Wmdesley in ye county of Nottingham Esqr who departed this life ye last day o f June in ye yeare of Redemption 17001 aged 25 years, a fair marble stone is prepared t o lye over her body." His third wife was Winifred daughter of Francis Lowe. Iseue:

I. John, died young.

11. John, heir. 111. Barbara, died young.

IV. Barbara, became an Abbess in Flanders.

V. Francis by third wipe, he died unmarried.

194. born 1694, died 11thOctober 1763. J. Henry mriting to 'NOTES AND QUERIES September 7th, 1896 says ' 1 h?.ve an oval miniature on vellum about3* inches by 3 inchBB, ' enclosed within a silver gilt case with glass; and loop, formed in the shape o f a true lover's knot, for suspension. The miniature is probably by Richsrdson, a portrait painter of some repute early in the 18th century" (1665-1745) "and ths portrait is %hat o f a middle aged man with flowing wig, dressed in grey open coat, coloured waistcoat and frill, or lace nackcloth. Who w5.s the John BetLumont above referred to?# It probably refers to the above or it might be a portrait of John Beaumont of Monk3 Eleigh (see p. 245 ). He married Joyce Johnson, niece of Thomas Allestree of Elvaston; she died 11th June l780 aet. 79, and was buried atBarrow. They had issue:

JOHN,

I. John, heir.
11. Robert, born 1731, died 14th September 1796, marri'ed Ann Vilci, she died 5th September, 1784, aet. 34. Issue : (1) John, heir to his uncle John. (2) Anne, married Reverend
(3) Mary Joyce.

C.

Allsop of Sheepstead.

IIi. Edaard, born 1732, died at Norwich 1st August 1620, he WAS 3 Roman Catholic priest and was stationed at 3xburgh in 1805,
IV. Francis , born 1737, died 28th June, 1836, married Elizabekh Hibbsrt. Issucj: a daughter Joyce, who married the Reverend Christopher Dodsley, o f Swynnerton, Co. Stafford,

V. Barbara, died young.

VI. Joyce , died young.

VII. Catherine, died young.

JOHN, born 1731 died 21st July 1806. He died unmarried at his house in Barrcm, and his estate passed t o his nephew John son o f his brother Robert. The GENTLBMAN I S MAGAZINE, July 1806, p - 687 ssys: "He was alinealdescendant o f the very ancient and noble Li:icestershire.~amily that of name; v:hose many amiable quUities endeared him to all who knew hiE. In him were united the polite .gentleman, the
sincere friend and the pious Christian."

John, Justice of the Peace, heir t o his uncle John born

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23rd January 1779, died 11th March 1834, buried at Barrou. On a smsll brass plate now fixed on the east wall o f the chanoel arch is the following inscription:

"Underneath this stone are deposited the remains of John Beaumont Esq Barrow on Trent who departed this life on the eleventh of March 1834 aged fifty five years.*

And on a white marble tablet on the south wall of the Chancel is the following:
"John Beaumont Esq. died March 11th 1834aged 55 gears To the memory of' the best of husbands his faithful and affectionatewife raises this tablet of his worth, or o f her own grief for his loss she sags nothing no words could express her sense of e.ither. May he rest in peaoe." He was Deputy Lieutenant forthe County of Derby and he owned two hundred and twenty acres of land in Barrow and was patron o f tha living. He marriea, 25th August, 1826, at Kedleston, the Honourable Mary Elizabeth Curzon, daughter of Nathaniel, second Lora Scarsdale; she was born 28th March and baptised 13th April 1806 at Kedleston and died 11th Outober, 1868, buried at Hathersage, Co. Derby. Iasue:

I John, heir. .
11- Robert, Curzon, born 10th December 1827.
111. =ward, born 25th July, 1829 at Barrow on Trent,

IV. Henry, ( a son was born to aHenry Bezumont at Grantham, 25th September 1868).
JOHN, born 22nd July, 1826, died unmarried.
There are seven tombs in the churchrard at Barrow on Trent i n a m o r e or less dilapidated condition (1922). Could any member of the family undertake their restoration?

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CHAPTER XI.

THE

aucam

COURT, DUNMOW, AND HACKNEY FAMILY.

"Beggars must be no choosers.n

THE SCORNFUL LADY,

Beaumont and Fletcher, V. 5. Arms: a lion rampant,between eight fleur d e lys ? Crest: on z chapeau, a lion passant, tail extended ? Buckland Court is about two miles from ReigYte, Surrey. Dunmow is in Essex.

GENEALOGICAL CHART.
William of Gyeat D n o : was son o f 1st Baron Beaumont of umb. Stoughton Qrange. I
William Henry Henrietta Jane Mary

I I

George 6th William Thora.-s Elizabeth Margaret Baronet d.s.p. I had three daughters

I
W i 11iam
d.s.p.

Thomas

I I

George Howland Thomas Willi;?m Mr.ry Marg8,ret A l i c e Klizabeth ? Willoughby Francis Dsvie d.s.p. 8th Baronet d.s.p. Bertie heir

Franc i s

I
Henry

Francis fdor,t:;.gue Spencer Evelyn Constarlce bI!Irry Hilda.

Charles

Terence

Dunmow and Hackney and third son of Sir Thomas, first Baron Beaumont, ofstoughton Grange (see p . lal), was born1642, died 31st March, 1718/19, and buried with his second wife at Dunmow. He was a Knight of the Shire for Leicestershire. A tablet on the north wall of the Chancel of Great Dunmow Church records: WSacred t o the memory of William Beaumont Esq., son of Sr Thomas Beaumont bart., of Stoughton, in Leicestershire, who departed this life 31 March 1718; aged. 76; leaving isoue by his wife Jane daughter of HLJgh (John ?) Watts o f the same county Esq., who dyed 22nd June, 1719, aged 66. William, Henry, Henrietta, Jane and Mary.

W I L t I A M BEAUBdONT of Great

Also of William Beaumont Esq., junior, son of the above William, who died 17th January 1729 aged 47.
The names of both o f them, for their singular sweetness of behaviour, proberty of life, constancy in religious duties, remain with all who knew them, honoured and dear, a pattern of piety to gosterity and an honoured ornament tneir ancient to lineage, derived from noble ancestors.

This monument was erectedby th6 Pious Care Elizabeth of daughter of William Jordan Esq. of Gatwick in the county of SUrreY, nowthe sorrowfull widow the above William Beaumont of jUnr; supported from this comfort alone, that she has born, and now educated 5 of his children, viz. Qeorge, William, Thomas, Elizabeth and Margaret

All of promising hopes, seeming already the imitation of their parent's virtues.

to aspire to

of Beaumont dyed 19 July Elizabeth the daughter Willi:.A-m 1755 aged 11 years." (Wright's HISTORY OF ESSEX, 11. 218).

He married firstly 17th April, 1666, Jane, daughter of and of Sir Thomas Burton, Earonet, relict o f John Watts Newark, she died 1670 and was buried in S. Mary's Church Leicester with her first husband; and he married secondiy, 23rd July 1678 :-rt Ch. Ch. Nevrqate Street, London Jane, da.ughter of Hugh Watts, o f Leicestershire, she was born in 1653 and died 22nd June 1719. He had issue:

I. William, heir.
11. Henry, married and had issue: (1) Henry, matriculated at, New College, Oxon 1710/11,
died there 19th September 1712.

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(2) Thomas.
(5) Henrietta.
( 4 ) Jane.

(5) llary.

111. Henrietta.

IV. Jane. V. Marg.

WILLIAl.4 BEAUMaNT, born 1682/3, died 17th January 1729. Student of the Middle Temple 1701, matriculated New College, Oxon, 1700, B.A. 1737, M.A. 1710/11. Fellow of New College and Proctor of the University 1717. Follow of Winchester Coilege 1703 to 1721. He lived at Sherwood Manor and married Elizabeth daughter and heiress o f Williaa Jordan of Gatwjck, Sussex, Chsldon and Buckland, Surrey. Issue:

I. George heir 2nd sixth Baronet, (see p. 141).

11. William of Buckland, baptised 6th May, 1727, died of smallpox 1745/6, educxted at Winchester, and New College Oxon. Fellow or Winchester College as founders kin. LieutenantColonel Surrey Militia, died unmarried; his estate passedto his nephew Thomas Davie Beaumont.

111. Elizabeth, born 1724, died 19th July, 1735.

IV. Uargaret, married 1st fday, 1750 at S. Georges Hanover Square, John Kendall Cater of Kempston, Bedford; she died 1785, leaving issue three daughters. V. Thomas of Buckland, born 1729, died 15th August, 1796. Educated Winchester Collsgi-, matriculated N e w College, 3xon, 1747; 3,C.L. 1754. Mzrried Mary ( 3 Elizabeth) daughter of Silver. issue:

(1) William died at the age of 14.

( 2 ) Thomas, heir to his uncle Vdilliam, born 1769, died 28tn January 1818, m-::.triculaled New College, Oxon. at Married 29th January, 1799, Bri.Qget daughter &nu co-heiress o f the Reverend Willihm D;Lvie, of Creed Cornwall Prebendary O Y Exeter and Vicar of Axminster, brother 01 Sir John Davie, of Creed. She died bt Easton Lodge 16th April, 1842, Issue:

la.

George Howlznd Willoughby,

became eighth

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Baronet (see p. 146).

2a.

Thomas Davie, born 9thldarch, 1801, died 1824.

3a.
4a.

William Francis Bertie, heir.

Bdary Ann Bridget.

couain, 5a. Margaret Sophia, married, 1830, her the Reverend James Beauchamp, Reczor o f Crowell, Oxon, from 1830 t o 1874. She died 2nd October, 1833. Issue:
lb. Thomas.
2b.
3b.

Ilary.
Margaret.
at Dunrnow 1833.

6a.

Alice Eleanor died unmarried Elizabeth (?)

7a.

W I L L I A M FRANCIS BERTIE BEAUMUIJT, baptisea 28th 3ctober. 1808, died at Walton on the Naze- 10th March, 1 3 7 8'i married, 1833, F r m c e s Mary CRroline daughter of John Smith
of Bury S. Edmunas, she July, 1834. Issue :died a.t Bigods Hall, Dunmoa, 30th

I Franois Henry. . F R A N C I S HENRY BEAUM3NT. born 1st April 1834, died 1923 - matriculated at Oriel College, Oxon, 1852, B.A. 1866, M.A. 1876, D.L. J.P., Alderman Surrey County Council, County Treasurer 1879-1303; Member of the Surrey Archaeological Society, Lord ofthe ManGr, married Is% July, 1856 Mary Emily
daughter of Evan Brillie of Dochfour, N.B., andLady Georgina MontagLe his wife, daughter o f William fifth Duke o f Manchester. Iaaua:

I. Prancis Montague, heir.

11. Spencer William Montague, born 3rd July, 1864, died 26th April, 1914. Late Commander in the Royal Navy; s e r e d in the Egyptian Campaign 1882 and Burma 1888. in
111. Evelyn Mary Jane, died 22nd October, 1862.

IV. Beatrice Caroline, married 18th May 1899 Colonel Sir Perci-ml Scrope Marling, Baronet, V.C., C.B: , of Sedbury Park, GheOSt ow

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V. Mary Georgina, mzrr.fed 19th June 1884, Henry Claude Fuller of Dorking.

Vi. Hilda Augusta Katherine, m?Grried 1st February, 1899, Robert M;ssy Dttxson Sandars of' S:inders Park and Charleville, Co. Cork. Issue:
( 1 ) Charles Craven, born 1899. (2) Terence Robert Beaumont, born 1901,

F R A N C I S MONTAGUE BEAUMONT born 27th Septemoer, 18671 educated :?.t %:ton, matriculated at New College, 3xon, 1876; coxed the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1877-8-9. Member of the Inner Temple 1879; Iormerly Major late King's Royal Rifles. Served in the A f g m War 1881; the Egyptian CamFaign 1882; the Suakim Expedition 1884 and in South Africa 1889 t o 19C1. Married 21st July, 1904, Sybil Anne, daughter of Higford Higford Esq., o f Hartsfield, Bletchworth, Gurrey. Is8Ue ;

I. Crystal Katherine, born 1908.

"Our lives are but our marches to the grave."

THE HUltOROPFS L E T I A N l , IUET.!'

Beaumont and Pletcher, 111. 6. 76.

GENEALO(3ICAL CHART.
Henry, 5th Baron Beaumont.

John 6th Baron and 1st Viscount

I I

Henry of lednesbury

I I

Sir John

Joan

I I I I I

James founder of the Suffolk

Family.

' .

Constance

Dorothg

Bleanor

Thomas

I I

HNY BEAUBIIONT, second son of Henry at Baron Beaumont E(see 105) born c. 1410. He settled Thorpe, Yorks. R
5th
p.

He married Joan, daughter and heiress (?relict) o f William Laventhorpe, of Wednesbury. (Hist. Coll. Stafford. Notes and Queries). She subsequently married in or before 1452, Charles Nowel. In that year her son Henry presented a petition t o Parliament, stating rhat "his mo%her on 27th October 1452 being in the Chapel at Thorpe in Btlme hearing

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high mass, ther2 came Edward Lancaster. of Skipton in Craven, Willism Lancnster or' Burgfiam in Westmorland and forty others, and thar. Edward Lancaster, assisted by the others ravished the said Joan and having set hsr on horse'oack behind a man t o ahom she was bound, conveyecl her away to some unknown place and then in order that she might not hare any suit against him compellvd B priest !liho !ms his confidanr, t o marry them. She resisted saying sh':! vas t h e wif? of m o t h e r man." Her daughtar Annis was also at this time forceably carriea 3,way and she became in consequence benomen (1); and lame, and goods t o the m l u e of one hundred shillings beionging t o the late Henry Beautcont xer? s t o l e n ; two mer? seryants who were with them at the time viere injured in t h e fray. A writ was issued and the criminals wer? duly bunished (2). Henry and J o m had issue :

I. Henry, heir.
11. Annis,
Henry Beaumont married Joan d3,uqhter and heiress o f Henry and Joan Heronville. Issue:

I. Henry. S I R HENRY 3EAU&dONT, h i r itiil mas proved 30th November 1471, he was buried i n t h e Church at Weanasbury. He left lanas at Eginton, Derby t o his wife. He was appointed High Sheriff fr>r the county of Stafford, 11th April 1471 (His?. Coll. Szaf. 1912 p. 282) and w.3 knighted on the field of Tewkesbwg 3rd May 1471. He married Elynor daughter and heiress or' John Sutton fourth Baron Cudley. She married secondly George Stanley of Handsworth, (Gtaf. Coll. IV). Issue
by her first husband.

I. John, heir.
Ii. Jatnes, the founder o f the Suffolk family (see p. 207 ).
111. ;'onstance, married in1508, Jchn Mdytton or" W e s t o n under Lgziard, Co. Stafford; the lattar died 13th October, 1532, ibid. I. 363, $here was formerly ?L brass in the church t o his memory. They hda issue.

( 2 ) Zoyce (ibid N.S. 11. 126)

(1) (2)

Anglo-Saxon "ravished" H w t e r s SOUTH YOMSHIRE, I. 219.

a

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They possibly had a son John who died 1552 and who married Euatance daughter of Sir Richard (?)Beaumont o f Wednesburr (ibid. N.S. 11. 316).

S I R JOHN BEAUMONT, died 21st September, 1503 (Calendar of Inquisitions, Henry VIIi. Vol. 2 ) . ( A John Beaumont
acted as page at the coronation O P Richard 111, 1483); Sir John held the Manors o f Tgrmore, Co. Stafford, and Eqgynton, Co. Derby, and Wednesbury. In 1498 he and others to the number of two hundred were charged with riotous conduct at for being arrayed in bows, krrows, bills Wednesbury, and gleves (Lances) and other unlawful weapons with the intent of proceeding t o Wslsall, in order t o obtain t h e release o f & citizen o f the Wednesbury and another of Dudley. The Mayor o f Walsall petitioned the Star Chamber t o cite the leaders before the council, but the matter was dropped. The leaders being bound over t o keep the peace and the affair ended, (ibid. N.8, X. 80). He married Elizabeth, daughter o f John Mytton, of Weston and had issue:

I. Joan, born circ. A. 1497, died 1545, married William Babington or' Tyrmore and Dethick, Derby and o f Wadnesbury, son O Y Thomas Bzbington. The Babington Coat o f Arms impaling Beaumont are found the Church windows Babington. Issue : in at
(1) Anthony, died 18th March 1579.
11. Dorothy, born circ. 1499. Married Humphrey Comberforcl o f Comberford, Co. Stafford, issue W sons nnd three daughters. ~ O (Ibid. IV. 92.)
111. Eleanor, born circ. 1500 married Humphrey Babington of

Rotherby Co. Leicester, a brother o f William (see supra); issue :

(I) Thomas and one other son and three daughters.

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THE BARROW ON SOAR FAMILY.

"Not!xng

is thought rare which is not new."

Prologue, THE NOBLE GENTLEMAN, 4.

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Barrow on Soar is close t o Charnwood Forest and about ten miles from Leicester.
105) received the mznor her marriage dowry. She died in 1428.

ELIZABETH, of5th baron Beaumont wife of Henry, Barrow on Soar as

"This tomb was erected t o the
memory of Mr. John Beaumont and Elizabeth his w i f e ; she died July 29, 17'44, He died October 21, 1779 ageU 81."

(see p. a part of

in the churchyard at Barrow is a tomb surrounded Iron by railings t3 the memory of John Beaumont. The inscription reads

An upright stone there reads:

"Thomas Beaumont died Apl. 15 1759 in the 41st year of his age.
Rose Beaumont 12 June 1793 aged 61."

There are vsrious other memorials to the Beawnonts most of them cennot now be read.
At a Vestry Meeting held at Barrow, 29th September, 1796, it was agreed "Thzt the thanks ofthis parish be given t o the Leicester Cavalry and t o the Revd Philip Etory and the Revd Thomas Burnaby; his Majestic's Justices of the Peace, for their successful exertions in quelling the late riot and dispersing the lawless mob, in a manner they deserved, on account of their very insulting and vkolent behaviour."

Signed by fourteen persons among them being, 6. Beaumont, Thomas Beaumont, William Beaumont and Henry Beaumont.
This was the time when the forest was enolosed, up to that period it had been free common land for the inhabitants

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of the twenty-six neighbouring towns, villages and hamlets, the act aroused the ire ofthe commoners and. they pulled d o w n the fences and assisted by the colliers from Cole Orton, raised such a riot, that it took two troops of Dragoons to quell It. One o f the rioters c~askilled in the rray.

We have not been able to trace the Beaumonts who passed and signed the vote of thanks at the Vestry Meeting, as all the neighbouring landowners got; R portion of the enclosed forest, no doubt they also received their share.

HNY BEAUMONT, a baker of Barrow, mentioned above. ER 22nd April 1802 aet. This Henry
died
68.

is poseibly the

T H O U S BBhWONT; probably also the one mentioned above, had a daughter who married 30th Xovember 1798, Thomas Bradshaw. He also had a second daughterwho married Skill of Bolt, 8th November, 1797. Thomas Beawnont of Barrow, a farmer married 18th August, 1800,a Miss Palmer, o f Loughborough. A Thomas Beaumont died 13th June, 1824.

probably the one mentioned above, a grocer died 28th April, 1805, aet. 70; his wife died 1st gctober, 1808

W.BBAUMONT,

S BEAUMOW!L',27th April, the one .Barrow, probably 1810.

a'bove mentioned diea at

JOHN BEAUMOI?!C, died 17th Segtember, 1797.

THB SUFFOLK BEAUMONTS

THE HADLEIGH, BILDESTON AND HARKSTEAD FAMILY.

*There is an hour in each man'R life appointed To make his happiness, if then he sieze it."
CUSTOMS OF THE COUNTRY, Beaumont and Fletcher, 11. 3, 85.
Coat o f arms: Azure a lion rampant within an Orle of eight f l e w de lye,

Crest:

bore.

second, on the lion's shoulder a crescent charged with a mullet for difference. Others were differenoed wpith a Martlet or with 2 Mullet without the crescent.

a lion passant or. Some branches of the family az. semire wjth fleur d e lys, R lion rampant of the

3ames second son of Sir Henry Beaumont.

Job

I I I l Robert John I I
Robert

Richard Thomas Agnes

l I

I I

John

I I I
Robert

Thomas Henry Julian 1dicha.el Margaret. daughter founder of see p. see p. the COggeBhall 210. 232. family.

Thomas

Robert

Samuel

Edward

Marg

ElizabethTheodosia

This branch is very closely connected with the Dunwiah famjly, but there Is some difficulty in reconciling the two charts, as authorities differ. The Chart on p 206 shows the . direot descent of Edward in the sixth generation from James the second SOF. of Sir Henry Beaumont of Wednesbury,(eee g. 202) and that bldward had three ancestors succession named in Robert: whereas in the Dunwich chart, thsre are only two so named ( g e e p.253 ) and it shows John as being the son of Thomas and not the son of James as in tha former case. There are also some minor differences noticedin the text.
JAW38 BEAUMONT second son of Sir Henry Beaumont of Wednesbury, (see p 201) married Elizabeth (3 Margaret,) . daughter of William Tendring, o f Essex. Issue:
'

I. John, heir.
JOHN BRUWMONT, born circ. 1470, died 1644. Under his will made in 1643, he left property at Hitcham Manor to his eldest son. His will reads as follows:

*In Dei Noie, Amen. The XVIIth dsye o f Julye l543 and in ye XXXV yere o r the ragne of our soyeraigne Lord, King Henry the VIII. Bye ye grace of God Kynge o f Inglande, prance and Irelande, defender of ye fagthe and sr.qwem heade of ye Catholicall Church of Inglanae ana Irelande. I, John Beymonte of Bydelston wth in the comptie of Suff. doe ordayne and make my paent testament and last will. FyrsL I bequeth my soule unto Almightye God, to our Lagde Saynt Marye and t o all the holy Company of Heaven, and my bodyu to have sepulcherln of our blessed ladye at Bildeaton. To the church garde Yargaret Beymont daughter o f my sonne Robert IIIli VIS VIIId To Robert toe be payde at here age of eyghteenth yeares. Beymonte s o m e o f ye foresayde Robert Io[xIIIs IIId at his eage of XXI yerew. To John Beymont sonne to Thomas Beymont, my sonne XXIIIs IIId at his eage of on2 and twentye yearee. To A w e s my daLghter XLs and my w y f e o bent Googrdie. I will yt Robert my aonne have my lande yt lyeth in Efrtchni, holden of ye ryght honorable lorde Byshoppe o f Helye, yeldinge to my sonne Richard Beymonte V1 XIIIs IIIId and if my s o m e Roberte refuse this t o doe and g'forme, then I will yt my sonne Rychard enter and have the sayd lande oalled Have118 aocording to the custom of ye Manor of Hechni, an8 to use it to his most advantage. Furthermore, y f my sonne Rychard be departed this world, I will that my ~ o n n e Robert paye unto ye eldest chyld of my sonne Richard 1111 mks. The restaue of the sayd mony over and above y e sayd I111 mks t o be remyne to Robt my sonne. If ye sayd Rychard fortune to have no chgld lyffing o f his bodye ye sayd 1111 rnks t o be pted betNeen nry sonnes Robt and Thomas Beymonte. The restdue of my goods and implement of' householde I put; them to the order of my

Executors t o bring my bodys honestly t o ye myne Execvtor o f this will, Robert Bepont in God that he will chantable p'forme being witnes, Willm Thrower, John Haywarde aad others.

erth. I ordayne my sonne trusting the same. These and Thomas Taylor"

Prove3 in the Archidiaconal Court o f Sudburg November 15th, 1544, (WSKETTS MAN. FAM. 11. 521).

He lived at Beaumont Hall, Harkstead, also at Bildeston and married Anne, daughter of John Browne of Abbots Rodney, Essex, and of Audrey. She settled her estate of Hawkstead on Richard Coningsby, who died 1691 lesving a son Beaumont Coningsby. John and Anne had issue:
I. Robert, heir.
11. John, of Besumont Hall, Harkatead, he died wjthout issue and his estate went t o his widow. During his life-time he presented the living of the church to John Godingham.

111. Richard, alive in 1543.

TV. Thomas of Bildeston, alive in 1586.

He had issue:

(l) John, who inherited money from his grandfather and his uncle Robert.

V. A w e s , alive in 1543.

R ~ B E R TBEAUMONT, died 1554. The register at Hadleigh says that "ne came out o f Leicester". His will was
&E fOllOWB!-

AThe XXI daye o f July 1551 and in the fyfte yere of Kinge EdwardP the sixte. I, Roberte Beaumonte o f Bildeston in the countie of Suffolk, Clothyw, calling t o remembraunce the transitorye lif of man, make and ordeyne this my last will. I will that Alice my wief h a m my tenement that I dwell in, with all my free landes in Byldeston, for her natural lief. And after her dece:-.seI will (?that they) remayne t c , Robert Beaumont, my scnne; and f o r defaulte o f issue of his bodye t o Thomas Beaumoqt my sonne and for. defaulte of issue of his Podye to Henry Besumont my sonrle and. for default of yssue of his b o d i e to Julyan Beawnont my sonne and yf it happen all my saide sonnes t o dye wt o ! e issue, then I will said tenement !t and landes remayne t o m y nexte heire for ever. I will that Alice my wief shall have a cotaee at the townes ende with a close called Havelles and other landes and medowes in Hecham and Keteilberston. And after her decease, saide cotzge and Havelles remaynet o Robert my sonn, and the resydue

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o f said landes t o Thomas my sonn, and the medowes in Hecham and Keteilberston to Henry my sonn. To Thomas my sonn with the bequest of Robert Lol'ekyn VIli VI113 when he shall come t o th'age of XXI yers. To my sonn Myrnell ten poundes when he come to said age. To Margaret my daughter when XXI ten poundes, with thebequests o f my father and of Robert Lofekyn. To the childe my wief is withall ten poundes, my wieff'8

children Alice Bogas, Willyam Bogas snd JohnBogas. To John Beaumont the sonne of Thorn% Beawnont, my brother, XXXTIls, which was my fathers bequest. 3: make the said Alice m y w y e f my sole executrix. The supervisors I ordeyn John Facon of Xdwsrdeston and Thomas Lofekyn of Boxford. Probaturn XVII die Augusti 1554."

He rl119.s cloth manufacturer and had property trt Bildeston, a Hocham, Kettlebaston and Bitcham. He married Alice relict of William Bogas of Ellwardston, Suffolk, by whomhe had three ahildren.

I. Robert, heir.
11. Thomas, of Bildeston and Groton, died circ. Bouwier o f the Coggeshall family (see p.249).
111. Henry. 1620.

V. Michael (see p. 234 1.

VI. Margaret, under age in 1534.

VII. Another daughter.

ROBERT, =T, 254). Iseue:

3~

married Emma Bishop o f Norfolk (see B-

I. Robert, heir.
R 3 m T . OF ELMSETT, married Elizabeth dsughter Wllliam Massingbred. Issue:
I. Thomaa, heir.
11, Robert.
111. Samuel.
of

TIIOldAS OF R3CHBSTER, married first Margaret, daughter

o f John Swayton o f Faversham, secondly married Anne

daughter of Robert Playford, o f Norwich.

Issue:

I. Edward, heir born 1610. An Edward was churchwarden of Hadleigh in 1640. He had a son Edwsrd who died at Hsdleigh 4th November 1640 (Proc. Suff. Inetit. 1913, 34. 35).
XI.

Marg.

111. Blizabeth.

IV. Theodosia, by his second wife. THE HADLEIGH FAMILY (continued).

"Things have their roots in the past."

Chinese Proverb. (RED TRIANGLE MAGBZZNE, Bebruary 1922.)

Genealogical Chart;

Branch B.

Julian: fourth son of Robert, (see p. 209) and great grandson

I
~~~

o f Sir Henry Beaumont, of Wednesbury.

~ ~

__

Edward John Barah Anna

Joseph John Phillip

I I

I
I

Bar0

Joseph Ed- Sarah Mary Ed- John d. S .p. ward d s p d s p ward . . . ... d.8.p. 1

Mary Mar- Alice I tha I

Edward
d.s.p?
. I -

Joseph Martha Htrnnah Judith

- I I I I Jo- m r - I - 1 seph. tha. 1l I I

Thomas. Bsamont. Joseph. Alice.

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J K L I ~ BEAUBllONT fourth son o f Robert,, (se8 p. 209) died 1586, lived at Hadleigh. His will was as follows: "Tile XXth dage o f December 1586. I Julian Beaumonde Ehdley of in the 'Jountg of Suffolk, Cloth'ier, doe ordaine this my last will. I commende m y soula unto the hnndes of Almighty God, and my bodye to the earth, whence I was taken owte, in hope of the glorious appearing of our Savyour Jesus Christ. To Sara my wife and her heires all. my houEes in Hadley, which I late bought o f Mr. Edmsrd Clarke. I give her then hundrth pounds. To Edward Beaumond, my eldest sonne twoe hundreth pounds at the ags o f on9 and tmentg yeares. To John Beaumond my younger sonne twoe hundreth pounds his age o f one and at twenty yearez, To Sarah Beaumond my daughter, one hundreth pounda at her age o f twenty yeares. To Thomas Beaumonde, my uncle, of Bjldeston fower pounds, To William Boggas my brother in lawe tenne pounds. To MrDoctr Crick, my brother in lawe twentye pounds. To Mr. Doctr Chapman, preacher of the Churche ot' Deadham ff'ive pounds. To Mr. John Holden preacher or' the Church of Billesden ffive pounds. To vse of the poore peopleo f Hadlye tenne poundst o buye woode in the soamer so th:xt the poore may have it in the winterfortheire money as good and cheape 3s it was bought in the somer and so to continue for ever. To the Church o f Hadlye, the booke of Actes and monumentes o f the Churche or' God collected by Mr. Foxe there t o remaine for ever. The rest of my goodes I bequeath t o Sars my wirfe to the bringing upp o f my children in thefeare o f God I and to sett them t o schoole and wrighte to and to reade. I make (? her) my executr and my brother in l a w , William Wade of Bildeston t o be my supervisorIf it shall please God that Sara my wifre, contracte herself in marriage with any man, my mind is that my brother in lawe shall demande a good assurance in several1 bonds to ecbe of these to the performance ofthis will. There being witnesses to this will; By me Michaell Beaumond, Arthure Gale, By me, Julyon Beaumond.
Probatium decimo septimo die January 1586/7. procuris Sare Beamona relicti defuncti." Juramenti

He was a clothier and manufacturer of cloth, he married Sarah daughter or* Edward Gaele, of Hadleigh, and had issue:

I. =ward,

heir.

11. John (see p. 215).

111. Sarah, baptized at Hadleigh 2nd April, 1583.

IV. Anna, baptized at Hadleigh 23rd August, 1587,

&WARD
BEAUMONT baptized 14th March, 1580, died 1645.

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His will runs as follows:- "Edward Beaumont of Hadleg CO. Suffolk, Clothier, the 23rd April 1645. I will the summe o f Ten pounds to be distributed amongst the poore o i Hadley, where I doe now dwell. I d o give unto M i c e my loving wife 8100 and unto my sonne John Beaumont 8100 and unto Sara Beamoni; my grandchilde, daughter of my late deceased S o m e Phillip Beaumont 2100 at her age of Twenty years and unto my sister Sara Beaumont and my brother John Beaumont to eache ffortie shillinges to make them ringes. All the reste o f my estate I doe leave vnto my s o m e Joseph Beaumont for his own vse and bewoofe, except the hslf parts of all my plate, lynnen and household staff, the wch I doe give onto Alice my wife, I doe hereby expresse and aeclarethatmywooll, g a m e , cloth, and other things belonging to the trade of clotheing shall come wholy vnto my sonne JosephBeaumont, whom I ordaine full and sole executor and I make my brother John Beaumont, overseer, to be ayding my executor withhis councell. As touching my landes, I devise unto the eaid Sara Beaumont my grandchilde, my messuage in Hadleg which I late bought from my sonne Philip Beawnont. To my s o m e John Beswnont one annuity of El0 out of my messuages in Elmsett, Rattlesden and Hadley. And i devise said messuage vnto Joseph Beaumont my sonne and the heires of his body. And for default of such, t o my said sonne John Beaumont, and the heirea of his body and for want of these unto the right haires of m e the said Edward Beaumont for ever. I have lately lent unto William Walgrave Esq. d 4 0 vpon EL mortgage of certain i0 lands and tenements known by the name of Fishouse in Bruers, Suffolk I have also lent e700 vnto Dame Susan Bruce and William Bruce and John Bruce her sonnes of Wenherm vpon messuage8 called Fauxhall now I do declare yt t o be that saide 2 severall s u e s with the severall interest moneys shall come vnto my executor Joseph Beaumont for his o m e propsr vse.

Probatum decimo die Junii 1645 Juramento Josephl Beaumont filii dictl defunoti,w

He m s one of the first sixteen burgesses of H a l e i g h at the incorporation of the borough in 1618 and wss elected an alderman. He married Alice, daughter of Robert Lufkin, of Plsyford, Suffolk, they had issue:
I. Soseph, heir.
11. John alive in 1645. 111. Philip baptized 1615 died before his father. He married Sarah and had issue a daughter Sarah, born 1645.

IV,

Brrsh.

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J3SEPB BEAUMONT born 1612 died 26th May 1681.

His will

was as follows. "Joseph Beaumont of Hadleigh Co. Suffolk, Clothier, the 4th day of April1 1681. I giTe e85 to fifftg poora people o f the t o m e , such as my wife and axecutors shall cho98, unto Martha my beloved wife a , 1 o give her during her life, messuage and lands knowne by the name of Cockfeild Hall and Cockfeild Wood and that Wood in Wittnesham and Henley now in the occupation of WilliamBammon. Unto Edward Beaumont my Eon my farme and freehold lands in Elmsett and after my wive's decease, Cookfeild Hall with all the lands before bequeathed to her. After his decease, I give said messuages and lands vnto Edward Beaumont his aonne and to the heires o f the body o f said grandson (failing these) I give them t o Samuel Ooltie, Rector of Dinnington and his heires in trust for the behoofe ofthe second aonnwhich shall be begotten of my sayd son Edward (and failing these) to the use of my right heirs for ever. Unto Martha my wife, my lands in George St in Hadleigh and after her decease unto my sorm John Beaumont . I give her this in lieu of dower and this do. Unto John Beaumont my sonne and his heirs lands and tenements in Assington, Suffolk and in Wormingfield, Mount Bueres and Colne Essex and in Layham Suffolk and by Cosford Bridge in Hadleigh. I give him also &50, my mare and my watch, and to mv sonn in law Thomas Whiting of Hadleigh &lO, and to my daughter Mary Whiting 6 2 and t o their daughter 20 Judith Whiting 50. To Martha Whiting another daughter 810, and u n t o Joseph Whiting their son 820. Unto my sonn in law Thomas Sorell 210, my daughter Alice Sorell 820, and their 8ons Thomas Sorell and Beaumont Sorell each 810, and to Joeegh Sorell another of their sons %50. To William Plampin my sonne in law, my daughter Martha his wife and to their children Jocjeph Plampin and Martha Plampin, unto John Beaumont and Mary Bennetr, his sister wife of JohnBannott, to my grandchild Edward Beaumont sonne of my sonne Edward 820. Unto my brother Reste o f Mott ana my cousin John Beaumont o f Bildeston. my goods t o Edward my sonne. I do appoynt my cousin John Beaumont of Bildeston and my son in law Thomas Whiting and William Plampin executors, and I nominate Peyton Ventris Esq and Mr Samuel1 Goltie supervisors.
Probatum Non die Junii 1681 juramentis testimento nominatorim." (Stowe MSS.) executorum in roads:

A tablet at the west, end o f the church at Hadleigh

"HIC JACET E PROPINQUO JO8EPIFUS BEAUMONT VIR VEFLE GNNEROSUS HUJUS OPPIDI TER PRAETOR HONESTA CURA ER3A PAUPEXW LIBERALIS MIRA COMITATE AMICOS FOUIT OMNES COLUIT

VITAM SANCTE EGITET PIE DEPOSUIT ANN0 AE!J!ATIS SUAE 69O 2 6 O DIE MA11 1681". Translation:

"Nearby lies Joseph Beaumont, a man truly noble three times mayor o f this town, Regarded with honourliberal towards the poor, he was a remarkably good friend, and he cherished all. He led a holy life and piously departed in the 69th year o f his age, the 26th &ay of May 1681."

He. miopted the same c0a.t of arms as James, except that he charged amartlet on the lion. He w a s evidently aweelthy manufzcturer, he was an aldermwn of the borough and Mayor three times. He married Martha, daughter of John Brond of Edwardston, Suffolk, and had issue:

I. Joseph, born 1645, died 1664

11. Edward, died young.
111. Sarah, died young.

- Vitb pro

patria.

IV. Mary, died young.

V. Edwara, heir.

VI. John. and Colne

He held lands at Hadleigh, Assington,

Bures,

VTI. Mary, born 1640, died. 9th May 1703, married Thornss Whiting
of Hadleigh, he made his will 16th November 1682 leaving Mr. JohnBesumont of Bildeston, and JudithBeaumonthis executors. They had issue:
( 1 ) Joseph. (2) Martha.

( ) Hannah . 3
(4) Judith. father's will.

They all benefited undertheir

grand-'

VIII. Martha, married William Plampin, issue:

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(1) Joseph.
(2) Martha.

IX. Alice, born 1651 married xt Layham Essex, Thomas Sorell, of Great Henny, Essex, gentleman, 5th June 1672; he was born in 1648. Issue:
(1) Thomas.

(2) Beaumont.
(3) Joseph.
(4) Aliue.

&WARD BEATJMONT, of Cockfeild Hall and Elsett, Suffolk born1606, Cied 1639. MarriedJoan,daughter of William Richardson, her will was proved by her father, .8th April, 1641. (Proc. Suff. Inst. 1913,38). Issue:
(1) Edward.

&MUl

BFAUMONT;

alive in 1681.

THE HADLEIGH FAMILY (continued).

.............. doth defend He That cause that should all wars begin and end.
Ben Jonson PRINCE IENRYS BARRIERS. VII. 168; V. Gifford, (1816 edition).
Genealogical Chart: Branch C.

John second son o f Julian o f Hadleigh and great great great I grandson of Sir Henry Beaumont or Wednesbury.

John. Joseph, Marg. Edward. William. Sarah Anne

-I

D.D.

John William. Charles

I

I l

William. Blewett. John. Mars and ten other children.

two others died YOUng

816.
o f Hadleigh second son of Julian (see p. 211), baptized 24th January, 1584, diea 12th May 1653. Probate of nis will was granted 17th June in that year. He was buried in Hadleigh Church, a slate slab just outside the vestry enclosure, with the Beaumont arms in low relief reads:

,JamBEAUMONT

"1665 Here rests John Beaumont, gent aged 69 A loyal sufferer for K.C. I, He left 3 sons, Joseph, D.D. dyed 1699 Regius Professor in Cambridge aged 04 Bdward dyed 1674 aged 49 ) both captains of Wllliam born 1630 ) this hundred William had 3 wives Mary only daughter to Yr John Bluit 1 by whom he had 14 children ) both of this town. Mary only daughter to Mr John Alabaster) Anne daughter t o William Brunskill of Lond. Merchant Who died 1708 aged 75 A good benefactress to this t o m Captain William Beaumont d i e d 3rd Sept. 1712 aged 83* Re was chosen as
ope

o f the first sixteen burgesses on

the incorpcration of the borough and afterwards an alderman

and several times Mayor. He inherited money from hi8 grandfather Robert, and from his uncle Robert. He was a Woollen Manufa.cturer Xnd Clothiell. He married Sarah, daughter of Edward Clarke, at' Esst Bergholt, and sister o f Edward Clarke, High Sheriff of the county. He nrarrie.a secondly 8th Augus? 1615 Si;san Alabaster, she was born in 1594, he had issue:

I. John baptized 16th May 1614 died 1617.

11. Joseph, D.D., heir.

111. Mary, baptised 1622.

IV. Edward, born 1625, d i e d 1674, arid buried in Haaleigh Church.

V. William, born 1630, died 3rd September, 1712. A memorial t o him was plsced in S Marp-Le-Tower Church, ipswlch. . I t was probablv destroyed at the c i m e the Church w&a rebuilt in 1860. He was one 0;' the aldermen of Hadleigh and Mayor several times, and churchwarden in 1683. He married firstly Wary daughter o f John Bluit o f ti::dleigkr-, secondly Mary daughter of John Alabaster ana thirdly Anne, daughter of Willialn Brunskill, of London; she d i e d , 1708, aged 76.
Issue :

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(I) William, heir, born 1655.

(2) Blewett.
(3) John.
(4) M a r y , and ten other children.

VI. Saran, married 1652 Jr?hr!White of Edwardston.

VII. Anne o r Hannqh married 1652 Samuel Smith.

Issue:

(1) John received 25 under his uncles will; (see p 219). .

JOSEPH BEAUMONT, E.D., born at Hadleigh 13th and baptised 21st March, 1615/16. On the 5th o f November 1699 he preached before Cambridge University, but in the evening of that dray he developed a fever and died on the 23rd of the month, he was buried in tne College Chapel at Peterhouse, a tablet o f oak gilded and painted was erected to his memory on the north wall of the ante chapel which reads:

P .M.
JOSEPHI BEAUMONT SSTAB THEDLOGIAE PROFESSORIS REQII, ET HUJUS COLLEGII CUSTODIS DIGNISIMI. QUI DOCTRINAE OMNIS AC PIETATIS GAZOPRYLACIU FUIT AUGWSTISSIMU; POETA, ORATOR, TEEOLOGUS FRAESTANTISSIM; QUOVIS NOildTPJE HAEXETICORU MALLEUS, ET VERITATIS VINDEX PfiAUBIUS. OBIIT AETIS SUAE ANN0 LXXXIVO
ILLUSTRB SPECIMEN QUOD EGREGIIS ALIQUANDO PRCDUCATUR AETAS. AN0 QUE DONI MDCXCIX IN IPSO NEMPE SECULI PEDE, UT POTE LITERATORU QUI IN ILL0 FLORUXRE, NON MODO COROWIA VERUM ETIAM SUMAlA. AT TIBI QVOD BIN1 ORNAWTUR, VIR MAXIME, CIPPI HIC AURI, FT ILLE M W O R I S VENIAM DATO. NON METUS VT VIGEAT SERIS TUA GLORIA SECLIS SED NOSTFLA ID IMPORTUNIOR PIETASFACIT: NEUTRO, SCIMUS, EGRS, CUM SCRIPTA RELIQUWIS AZTRO PRETIOSIORA, PERENNIORA WMRMORE: (1)

Translation:

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Qrosart, Poems, p. xxxiv.

"To the pious memory of Joseph Beaumont, Regius ,professor Holy Theology, of and the most worthy Master of this College, who was a storehouse of all learning and piety, a poet worthy of honour, and an orator and a most pre-eminent theologian in each capacity a hammer on heretics and an excellent defender o f the truth. He died in the 84th year of his age a clear proof that the life of worthy men is sometimes prolonged beyond the ordinary span, in the year of our Lord 1689. Even at the very end of the century since thou wast not only the crowning example but also tho fullest embodiment of the men of letters who flourished in it, grant pardon, in as much that two tombstones are g r a ~ e nfor thee Most illustrious o f men, this of gold and that of marble. There is no fear lest thy glory should not live in far distant ages but our too importunate affection that makes us do this You d o not, we know, need either since you have left writings more Precious than gold, more lasting than marble. l'

A black marble slab sunk in the floor o f the Chapel bears the Beaumont arms and the following inscription: "DEP3S ITUM VIR1 ADMODUM REVEREND1 JOSEPHI BEAUMCINT, WUPER C3LLEGII STI PETRI PRAEFECTI; S.S. THEOLOGIE PROFESS3RIS RM;II, ET ECCLESIAE ELIENSIS CANONICI, QUI 33IIT 23 DIE NOVEMBRIS,

(DOM. 1699 (AETIS SUAE 84 HIC REQUIESCIT IL SPE BEATAE RESURRECTI3NIS." L'
m 9

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Translation:
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Poems p. xxxv. 3rosart.

*The manhood o f the Very Reverend Joseph Beaumont lately Warden of S. Peter's College Regius Professor of Holy Theology and Canon of the Cathedral of Ely, who died the 23rd day of November. Anno Domini 1699, in the 84th year of his age. He rests here in the bleseed hope of the resurrection."

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His will was as followst- "3oaegh Beaumont Doctor inDivinitg and Master o f St. Peters Colledge incambridge,this 21stday o f November 1699. I leave t o my eldest sonne John Beaumont and his heirs the mannor Tattingston in Suffolk, with the of perpetual1 patronage of the Recrtory and the Mvnor call09
The Place in Tattingston, whiah came t o me by my dear wife deceased: alsoe hause and lands purchased of Richard Rose junior and Richard Rose senior, my tenement in Whersted and 8100 in money. Wherein I have lent Madam Jane B a l m of Elm in the Isle of Hly, widow of 92600, part o f the portion I intended for my two younger sonnes William and Charles, by deed dated 21st February 1679. f doe give the intire mortgzge to my sonne Charles Beaumont, my eonne William bein now dead. To my sonne John Beaumont's children, I give as follows To his sonne Joseph Beaumont, Alton Hall in Stutton, Co. Suffolk, the Mill in Stutton and the lands nurchased of the trustees o f Robert Sparrow. To his sonne John Beaumont, my ffarme in Kettlebnrston and Hitcham purchased of Sr George Weyneve. To his daughter Mary Beaumont my ffarme inLayham, bought of Mr. John Bugg. To his daughter Anna Susanna Beaumont my ffarme Ln Layham purchased of Thomas Walker, and my ffarme inRaydon purchased of Mr. Parsons. To his daughter BlizabethBeaumont my other ffarme in Kettlebaston and Hitcham. These sonnes and daughters are not yet of age. My sonne John hath two other daughters named Caroline and Penelope. I doe give to each o f them (e200.at their ages of 17 yearea, or dages o f marryag . All my bookes and papers, I bequeath t o my sonne Charles Beaumont, .he by no8 means to suffer anypapers of my writing to be made publick, unless it be the copy o f Psyche revisea and augmented to 24 cantos. To my brother William Beaumont: 840, my nephewJohn Smith25 and legauies (specified) to my servants. I give to St. Peters Colledge (E300 towards EL stook for the Chappell. The 8300 shall in the meane while be reposited in the colledge treasury, soe that the Master and Pellowes may improve it. To the poor ofLittle St. Mary in Cambridge 820. Rest of my goodes vnto Charlee Beaumont, Fellow of St. Peters Colledge whom I appoint the sole Executor.

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Suffolk Archaeological Society PROCEEDIN(3S, 111. 165-363.

PR~BATUM x m DEC. 1699. x JURAAUWTO CAROL1 BEAUMONT FYILII ET EXECUTORIS.n (Baker MSS. Cambridge, 26. 1.)
As a youth he manifested "such readiness wit and such of love of' learning", that his father, who wds himself a lover of learning, determined to give him an education suitable t o his promising genius, so he was sent t o the Grammar School at Hadleigh, whilst there he took part in a play and gave the Prologue, Philip Beaumont also took B part, the lcrtter m 8 probably the son of Xdward (see p. 212). From school he proceeded to Peterhouse, Cambridge, being admitted at the age of' fifteen years and six months. The admission book records: 'November 26, Josephus Beaunont, Buffolc.
1631

Admissus Pensionarius custodia sub Mri Borne." (POEMS, JOSEPH BEAUMONT, p. xii. A. Grorsart).

He took his B.A. degree 1634/5 and was elected fellow of the college 20th November 1636 and M.A. 1638.

In March 1641/2 he wrote a letter t o his father giving an account of the visit of Cha.rles:iI, when Prince of Wales,
to Cambridge :

I know you have.expected Cambridge newes er now, and should have received It, had a meseenger been at hand. On SaturUay Beaven night, the Prince came hither betweene 9 and 10 of ye clock, attended wth ye Duke o r Lenox and Buckingham, his tutor, ye Earl of Oarlile Ld Seimovr, Ld Branois ye Duke of Buckingham's brother, and divers other gentlemen. The Vice Chancellor reoeived him wth a speech in o w Regent Walk: thence he went and saw Kings Chappell, where at his entrance into ye Quire I saw him say his prayers of w h h e was so little ashamed, that in the midst of that multitude he bid not his devocon in his hat: From thenue he retired to ye Regent house and sitting in hi8 father's plaoe was saluted by ye publique orator. Before he Game in amongst us, a grace passed for his degree, with this addicon extraorainary, AB sempiternu Academie Honoremt t o y e eternall honor of' y e Univrslty. After ye orators speech, he wa5 created Master in Arts; and then, by Commission Yrom ye King, for all those whome his Bone should nominate: The Duke o f Bucking: ye Earl o f Csrliel, ye Ll Seimour, and divers Wntlemen o f ye Unlvrsity. c His Tutor also ye Bish: of Serlsbury, was admitted to ye Degre he had formerly taken in 3xford. From ye Regent

house his Highness went to Trinity College, where after dinner he saw a comedy in English, and gave all sighnes of great aaosptance wh he could, and more than ye Univrsity dared expect. The Comedy ended he took coach in ye -courts and returned to Newmarket. The noble Duke of Lennox, a right worthy friend to ye Univrsity, we
suppose ye Instrument of all this great favour shewn to it. The P r i m e Elector came not wth our Prince, least (as we suppose) ye Prince ofwales should loose something of ye honourable entertainment by ye company of one whoe could not honor him as ye rest did, for ye Duke of Leslnox and all ye rest wsited upon him ye whole day; and all The truth8 is ye Prince ye Comedy while, bareheaded, wanted no circumstanae of honour wh ye Court about him, or ye Univrsity could give.

This highly pleased ye King that ye Monday after, he came hither himself and whereas it was thought yt otherwise he woul9 privately have passed through, he then graciously turned in and staid a while. At his coming out of ye coach wh was before Trinity College ye Univrsity being placed ready, saluted him wth such vehement acclamacons of Vivat Rex, as I never heard ye like noise heer before upon any occasion. The V i m Chanc: met his Majesty, and wth a l o n g speeoh presented him a very fair Bible, after he enteredTrinity College, ye Master saluted him wth another oracon, and gr~sented (I think) a book also. The speech ended he went into ye Chaqell, and seemed very well to approve all their ornaments, as so03 a8 he had seen that Chappell, he walked to St. John's, viewed their Chappel and Library, (and) took a travelling banquet in ye further court,wh was presented to him upon banquet chargers. He was there saluted by a speech from ye orator, tlnd another from Mr. Clevelamd. He spoke very kindely concerning Dr. Beal (who w . absent) saying he would not belieave such as he 2s to be dishonest men, till he saw it so proved. At St. John's gate he took coach and so went t o Huntingdon. What he did there and what he did at Newmarket, printed papyrs I suppose have already told you. At his parting one tells me that he spoke thus to ye Vice Chanc. Mr. Vice Chanc. whatsoever becomes o f me I will charge my sonn, upon my blessing to respect ye Univrsity.
Sr I would fain hear how you indured Your journey t o London; and how my Mother and sistersdoe. MY duty t o yourself and my mother: and my love to ye rest: and take my leave. Your obedient sonn Joaegh Beaumont

St. Peters, ye best day of my life, March 21, 1641.

His sonn ye Prince Electr ye Duke of Lenox and Veryfew other gentlemen camewth ye King T o hi8 very loving father Mr John Beaumont Rt his house in Hadly this grsnt
6uffa

On the 8th of April 1643/4, he with others JpBa ejected from his fellowclhip by the Earl of Manchester on account of his royalist sympathies. He stated a& the time, thst it was one of the happiest circumstances o f his life, that not one o f the young men of the beg% families, who came under his care at College failed to respond to the Royal cause (MINOR P B b , xviii). 3a6 The Register of Peterhouse records the receipt of aletter, the following 11th of June appointing the eJected mens successors. It recited awhereas in pursuite of an ordinance of Parliament for regulsting and reforming of the Universite of Cambridge, I ha7e ejected Mr. Beatrmont, M. r Penniman, Mr. Crashaw, Mr. Holder, Mr. Tyringham, late fellowes of Peterhouse, and whereas Mr. Charles Hotham, Robert Quarles, Howard Becher, WalterEllis, Edward Bammea have been examined and approved by the assembly of Divines now sftting at Westminster, according to the saia ordinance as fitt to be Fellowes: These arz therefore to require you, and every of you, to receive the said Charles Hotham, Robert Quarles, Boward Becher, Walter Ellis, Mastersof Arts and Edward Sammes, Bachr as Fellowes of your Colledge, in room of the aaid Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Penniman Mr. Crashaw, Mr. Holder, Mr. Tyringham formerly ejected, and to give them place according to their seniority in the Universite, in reference to all those that are or shall hereafter be putt in by me@, according t o the ordinance of Parliament aforesaid. Given under my hand and seale the eleayenth bay o f June Anno 1644.

Manchester.

To the Master, Presidentand Fellowes of Peterhouse in Cambridge (Orosart, p. xvi).

Re then retiped to Hadleigh and while there .performed daily services of the liturgy in his fathers house and preached t o his little flock every Surldtry. It was during this period that he wrote PSYCHE.

He

WBS

a n o n resiclent rector of Kelshall, Herts 1643and

of Elm, Co. Cambridge 11th April 1646 this was also a sinecure; he was appointed Canonof Ely 1647, Rector of Little Gransdon,

Cambs. 5th June 1650, Chaplain to Bishop Wren of Ely 1660,

Prebendary of Ely 1661, but not installed until 22nd September 1660 ( 8 DIARY). At the restoration he was appointed . . wa8 conferred on Chaplain to the ging; the degree of D D him by the University of Cambridge 28th July 1660. He waa elected the twenty-first llaater of Jesus College, Cambridge 17th April 1662, he restored the Chapeland that of Peterhouae at his own oost, 88 they had been much damaged during the Civil war; Rector of Conington, Co. Cam'bridge 23rd January l662/3. IDleoted thirty-first Yaetsr of Peterhouse 24th A ril 1663, Rector of Teversham? Co. Cambridge 18th January 1663 4 Rector t of Barley, Kerts 23rd January 3;664/6. Regius Professor of Divinity lf3thMarch1674 (Romilly's GRAWJATI CANTABRSGSBSJBIS). It is said that in the djschrge of the duties of this office "he was able to keepthe Universityuntainted by the tenets of Calvin and the abaurditlee puritanism' and that 'e applied of h himeelf with the utmoet punctuality and diligence t o his duties." He read public leotures twioe 8 week, explaining diffioult p888t%geS O f PSUl'S Epistles, (PrOC. Suff. Inst. 111.) He took needy atudent~ into his own house, allowing them the use of his library and he entertained many of the noted men who visited Cambridge. Pepys in his DIARY says, under date January 1, 1664/5 "1 heard him at Whitehall preach a good sermon and afterwards abrave, brave anthem on the 150 Psalm, whereupon the word lTnunpetv very good musia was made." (1) His attack on Dr. Henry More'B book THEMYSTERY OF GODLINESS, publishedin 1666 gained the thanks o f the University. @e e in his biography says that 'Dr* Beaumont, as a undergraduate, by a close application to every branch of University learning, soon made an extraordinary proficiency, and by his open behaviour and unaffected manners brought himself into the affections of' the members of that (Feterhouse) Society.'

He was an artist in chalk and charcoal and some of his

drawings were placed in the ohapel at Peterhouse, but they no

longer exist.

He was in the enjoyment of a good income

ergoluments as

for those days; amounting apart from his

Prebendary, to &l000 per annum,

Eloise Robinson says (UINOB P O m S ) "Be was not aPapist, but a High Churchman, an9 one who lived in a spiritual world that was in all its details Romist ceremony. Church traditions and ritual meant so much to him, that the travail of his own soul seemed fused in, or subordinate to, the experiences of the Saints and Urtyrs."

He wrote atrestise in1641 descriptive ofthe Calamities of the Roman Empire under the sons of Theodosius and K

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Henry Wheatley's

edition, IV. 326.

dissertation in defence of miracles, also a Commentary on the Book of' Ecclesiastee, and Critical Notes on the Pentateuch.
He was a poet o f no mean order, in his poems he rails against Parliament and "heaps scorn on those intruding drones' i.e. the puritan successors to the ejected royalists at Peterhouse.

His poem PSYCHE, or "Love's Myeterya, displaying the intercourse betwixt Christand the soul, was dedicated t o the Deity, in the following words1

WInt o
The most Baured

TREASURIE

OF THE
Praise and (3lorie

OB
Incarnate QOD THE Worldls most Merciful1

RDFm HIE. m e

Vnworthiest o f His Majesties Creatures, in all possible Prostrate

VENBRATION
Beggs Leave to Cast This

His DEDICATED Mite.a (I)

It took about eleven months t o write, it was published in March 1648 and is the longest poem in the English language, consisting of' twenty four cantos containing six thousana four hundred and eighty seven stanzas of six lines each, numbering in all to thirty eight thousand nine hundred and twenty two lines. (a) The author describes the poem as "representing the Soul led by Divine Grace andby her guardian angel through the Various Temptations En asssults of lust of pride, of td heresy, of psrsecution and of Spiritual Dereliction to a holy and happey deDarture fromtemporal life to heavenly felicity." He also w i d "It is my desire that this bookmag prompt better wits to believe that a Divine Thean is as capable and happy Y subject of poetical ornament, R S any Pagan or Humane device whatsoever, which if I can obtain and (into the bargain) chtirm my ruaders into any true degree of Devotion, I shall be bold t o hope that I have phrtly reached my proposed mark, and not
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London, 1648 edition, 14770. d. 77; Notes and Queries. 2nd S X 177. . Spenser's Fairie Queen h . :thirty four thouzand two hundred %. and ninty nlne lines.

continued nearly idle." The whole design of the poem is to recommend the Fracticeof piety and mortality, by deaoribing the most remarkable passages our Lord's life and by painting in particular virtues and vices in their proper colours (P. 1 . 17 Th. Seld.). PSYCHE was written therefore, not for fame, but in order to do good.

Pope said of it "There are in it a good many flowers well worth gathering and a man who has the art of stealing wisely, will find his account in reading o f it."
Alexander Grosart (POEMS DR. BEAUMONT, 27980. d. 12 Vol. I) sings o f Beaumont and of PSYCXX as follows:"Thou cam'st, my Beaumont, o f a noble race, The great house of(3race Dieu: nor thinn'd nor sure The wreath thou wear'st: Fletcher's m g u s t compeer And his rare brother, had agreed to grace Thee with their prai$es, nor disdained to trace The current of thy song to those heights, where Amid supernal shine and shade, and air Ampler than Earth'e and touch'd o f nought that's base. Poets not made but born hold fellowship Granted that Psyche's pinions sink not rise O! times and men who choose to note each slip May chance to open supercilious eyes 'Tie R great poem, Friend! forbear complaint, And when the Bard comes short, revere the Saint,"

The first and last stanzas of PSYCHE read as follows: .Eternal LOVE of Swaetsst Poetry The Sweeter King, fromthine hiqhMercies Throne Deign t o behold my prostrate vow and ME: No muse, no Gods but greater Thee alone I invocate; for both his heads full low Parnassus t o thy Paradise doth bow.
0 . .
0.0.

To loathed Earth, then havingbid Adieu And firmly fix't her loving longing Eye On her dear heav'n, t o keep her Aim in view; Her Flame's triumphant Tempest swell'd so high, That She, untrble to contain its Tide, With three deep sighs cryd out 0 LOVE and dyd."
Other striking lines are!

CHRISTMAS DAY. "Her softest feathers Winter thither sent To be a pillow for the Infant's head;

For snre no harm, the honest Season ment When in the Cave his fluttering he spread; Snow But at his presence into tears it fell Check'd by a Whiter Chaster Spectacle." Canto VII. Stanza 168.

CHRIST'S T3MB. "No temple is more holy than this gra7e.w

0 m 3 .

"Money is that bewitching thoughtfull Ourse Which keeps the heart close Pris'ner in the Purse."

Canto X;
On the displacing of the Royalists:"For from their Studies reprobated They Though unaccused, must Ejected be; And sadly driv'n to make where e'er they may The Universe their Univerrsity; Whilst in the Muse's hives an upstart Breed Of misbegot intruding Drones succeed.@

Stanza 361.

Canto XX;
Another on his wife's it begins I

Stanza 20.

death, consists o f fifty-five stanzas

"No more did wretched I; who lately thought

Myself pitch'd safe on Happiness' throne; Ah! slippery Throne! how sadly has thou taught My credulous Joys no more to build upon

A mortal bottom, nor my Solace trust

On what so soon falls into mould' ring Dust.

Canto XVfII1

Btanea 1 .

The unique MS. of his M I W R POEMS was in 1914 the property of Professor @.H. Palmer of Harvard University, who purchased it in 1911. It is R thick quarto volume the leaves measure seven and a half by five and three-quarters bound in calf. It was then in good condition (see MINOR POEMS XIV; Eloiss Robinson, 1920).
Eloise Robinson says of the YIN3A POEMS that @There are comparatively few, aside from literary scholars, to whom the verses of this seventeenth century poet will appeal. B0 belonged to the little group of men, endowed with a real love of poetry, who departed from the idealism and romanoe of

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Spenser and from the melodious and idyllic songs of the court lyrists, to give voice to the worship and need f QoB in the o n Some of them are very beautiful, as for ..... human heart instance "The Easter Dialoguen and "Thou shalt call His Name Jesus.", and "Love's Mysterie".

E1ASTEEl DIALOGUE.

S. Johx

xx. 13.

1st Angel. "Those fun'ral tears why dost thou shed On life's and resurrection's bed?" 2nd Angel.
"Why must those low'ring clowds of sadness Defloure this virgin morn o f gladnes?'

of Gladnes, now the Sun Yagdalene. "What Morn Of all my fairest joges is gone; He, whome my Soule did hope t o meet, Heer in this West in which He sett. But 3h! that more thandeadly spight, Which robb'd Him of his Life's sweet Light, Lives heer You see, inDeath's own Cave, And plunders him ev'n of his Grave. Nor know I where our Foes haveset His Body, and my Soule with it.
Loss, a o thine Eyes Jesus. Woman, what to Such full drink-off'rings sacrifice?
Magdalene. Sweet Gard'ner g f thy EIand it were Which did transplant Him; Tell me where Thou sett'dst that praticuo Root on whome Grow all my Hopes; and I will from That Soile remove him to a Bed With Balme and Myrrh and Spices sgred; Where by mine eyes two Fountains He For evermore shall water'd be.

Jesus.
Magdalene. what
Angels 1st With and 2nd.

Mary !
0, Master!

sweet Fury she flies at His deer Feet, To weep and kiss out what She by Her toung could never signify!
0, No! the Powers of s7ie;fest Toungs Of string or pipe-attended Songs, Can raise no pitch of joy so high As Blaster's Riseing Majestie.

Chorus .

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01 glorious Resurrection, which dost Rise Above the reach o f loftiest Ecstasies.w

MINOR P3EMS, p. 372.

THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS.

S. Luke i. 31.

Xs. (Christus.) "Is it an incense cloud yt breaks,

Or is it balme ye angel1 speaks? Chorus. Never did Arabian beds inrich ye skie Wth such rich breath, nor easterne feild So pure and balmy oudours yeild; Nor Paradise' perfumes ascend so high.

xs .
Chorus.

From his fair lips does Balsame flow

3r is it manna that they strew.
Such soveralne balsaruene'rdrop'd on y e earth; The kindest heav'n ne'r shonred downe So noble manna on its owne Deere flock, when wonders were its usuale birth.

X8 .
Chorus.

What is it then, 3h who can tell? Speak thou thgselfe, sweet Oabriell,
'Tis hee.v'n I speake from lrrhence I hither came To show how sll its sweets doe lie Couch'd in one rich epitome 3f wch great treasure Jesus is ye name."

(MJ.NC)R POEMS, p. 80, 27980 d. 13).

H3ME.
(First and last Stanzas only).

''Eome's home, altho it reached be Thro' wet and dirt and night; tho heartily I welcorn'd was, yet something still, Methinks, was wanting t o fulfil Content's odd appetite: n o cheer, Say I, so good as that which meets me here.

......
But home, sweet home, releaseth m e From anxious joys, into the libertv Of unsollicitous delight;
Which howsoever mean and slight By being absolutely free Enthrones me in contentment's monarchy."

LOVBI' MYSTERIE.
"The bright inamour'd yeouth above I ask'd, what kind of thing is Love? I aak'd ye saints; They conld not tell ,

Though in their bosomes it doth dwell.

I ask'd ye lower angels; They Liy'd in its flames, but coula not say. I asked ye Seraphs: These at last confes'd W e cannot tell how (3od should be expres*d.w

......
In 1679 Edmund Boldero, ELaster o f Jesus College, Cambridge, bequeathed to him rfourty shillings for a ring.

In l650 he was married in the chapel at Ely House to Elizabeth, dsughter and heiress of Robert Erownrigq, Igswich an merchant, and step daughter o f Bishop Wren of Ely (see g. 70). For ten years they lived on her estate at Tattingstone was of Buf.folk, this she inherited from her grandmother, who royal descent. She die3 at Ely 31st may 1662 (Neve Mon. 93) and was buried behind the high altar in the Cathedral. The inscription on her monument recorded for it no longer exists.

RQuod mori potuit

Lectissimae deslderatissimae que

Conjugis
Hlizabethas Bellomontanae Sub hoc marmore conditit Moestissirnus m r i t u s Josephi Beaumont Hujza ecalesiae canonicus Mail xxxi An. Dom.

hIDCLXI1."
Translation: "The sox-owTuI husband Joseph Beaumont, Canon of this Chur-ch placed under this marble, all that was mortal of his dearest and most t o be desired wi Fe, Elizabeth Beaumont May 31, A,D. 1662."
They had issue:

I. J o b .
11. William, 3b. viza patris, berore 1699. He left no issue. B.A. 1678/9. The seventh in order on the list, M.A. of Peterhouse 1684.

111, IV. Two childr-en, died young.

V. Charles, D D born 1660, d.s .p. 17th March, 1726/7, buried .. in the chapel at Peterhouse. His will was a6 follows!
Charles Beaumont, of Cambridge Doctor of Divinity, do this 29thday of April 1725, declare this t o be my last will, written by my own hnnd in one sheet of paper. I recornmen4 my unworthy soul unto the hand of my most merciful1 Redeemer, I give my lands and dairy houze in Wivelingham in Cambridgeshire and in Haadersham in the Isle o f Ely, rented at m 0 a year 0 unto my cousin Mr. RobPri; Beaumont rector of Witnesham the in County of Suffolk and after his decease to his son, Charles, my godson. I bequeath my dwelling house in Cambridge, with the brewhouse, garden and 3.ges adjoyning and all my pictures to the Masters and ffellows St. Peters Colledge in Cambriclge, in I give to my ffaithfull servant John Gee my three tenements in Cambridge in Little St Marie's parish, and ~ l l m y a p s in l Bwinescroft, out which he is to pay to the minister Little of St. Maries fforty shillings a yezr for preachinga sermon on Good f friday . J bequeath to the said John h e and to hi6 son John Gee my tenements in St. Ives sums of 8955 and Q3600 lent upon mortgages I bequeath unto St. Peters Chapel to be laid out in purchasing the perpetual advowsons of 2 livings for the benefit of the ffellows said Colledge for ever. o f the Whereas I lent to m y cousin, Mr. Michael Beaumont late of Runtingdon Clerk 2500 upon a mortgage, outo f that sum I give to my nephew Charles Besumont 200, and t o my niece Anna Susannab Taster $100, and to my niece Honeychurch B130. I order 103 to be paid for the charges o f my f f m e r a l l . I give E25 t o Little St. Marie's parish for binding out five poore boys apprentice and g5 t o be laid out in buying bread and coals for the poor. I g i v e 3 2 5 t o the parish of Stapleford for binding poor, out five poor boys and 85 to buy bread and turfe for the an8 &l0 to the poor o f Wivelingham, and 220 for buying deuent a cloth for the pulpit and anotherfor the Communion table, and a black silk hood for the minister. I bequeath to my niece n Mary Capron 850 and to tg nephew Captaine John Beaumont 860. My silver tobacco box, silver standish and silyer cup I give to my dear friend Mr. Burnett ffellowe of St. Peters Colledge. And 1.11 the rest o f my plate, I gl-e to my servant John Gee together with my goici rings, watch and seal and m y chariott and horses, and to his son John Gee all my books. To the library o f St. Peters Colledge all my R m e r e n d Father's Latin manuscripts. I make th? Revd Mr. Robert Beaumont Rector of Witnesham in Suffolk, the sole Executor of this will.
RI

ProbatumfuitvicesimodieMartii Roberti Beawnont Extoris."

1726.

Jurament o

He graduated at Peterhouse, taking his S.A. in 1678/9 and M.A. in 1684, he became subsequently a Fellow ana D.D. The house which he bequeathed t o his College was a large red

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brick one on the east side of Trumpington Street and just opposite the College, this was given for the use O f the Masters as a residence, his portrait hangs on the staircase. Ha was for a time Rector o f Witnesham 2nd a memorial to him was placed in that church. In 1702 he published a newedition o f his father's works.

JOHN BEAUMONT, Lord o f the Manor of Tattingstone and patron oZ the living. He married ...... had issue: and

I. Joaeg'n, heir.
11. Mary. She inherited proparty under her grandfather's will, and married in 1725 Joseph Capron, of Chigwell, Easex, gentleman

111. Anna Susannah, inherited personal estate under her uncle Charles' wlll; she marrfed Taster.

IV. Elizabeth, inherited a farm at Kettlebaston from her

grandfather.

V. Carolineborn 1682. Did she marry referred to in her uncle Charlee' will?

- Honeychurch,

VI. Penelope, alive in 1699 and then under seventeenyears of age.

VII. John, alive in 1699. A Captain John, inherited farms at Kettlebaston and Iiituham.
J38ETH BEAUMONT, inherited Alton Hall, Suffolk.

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THE HADLEIGH FAMILY (continued)

"Strong Towers decay, but a great shall never pass away."

name

Park. Benjamin,1808-64. An American Author. Genealogical Chart

- Branch D.
I

Michael fifth son of Rohert of Hadleigh ami great great l grandson o f Sir Henry Beaumont, of Wednesburg.

John Mich-Tho- Samu.31 Jonathan Mar- Alice. ael. mas. I I garet . John

I !

Jona- Mich- Mar- Sarah.h e . Thothan. ael. mas. garet

d.s.p. d.s.p. d s p ...

I I l I John Samuel. Margaret I I I I l l I l I I I I John Mi cn- Ben ja- Tho- An- Mary Su- Sarah. Mary. Eliza- De& Ababeth. orah. gail I ael. min. mas. ne San. ------__------11 --- I -l I I I I l II Susan. Anne. Susannt3h. Marg-aret. Anna. Michael. Jonathan. I
John Wil- Mich- Benja- Jona- An- Su- Ma- Sa- Aba- Eliza- Debgail. I liarn. ael. min. than. na. san. ry. rah. beth. orah.

I
I I

I
1

I
Benjamin. John.

I
l

I
I

-I John.

John. Susan. Anne.

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I I

I I I

I I
Marg. Sarah.

ael. liam.

l l
l

I I

I
Mary. John. Michael. Sarah. William.

I I I I I I l I I

Robert,, Charlcts. Mary. Priscilla. Elizabeth.

I I
I

I l

I
Elizabeth d.8.p.

I
1

I
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Elizabeth. Amy.

John. Jonathan. Sarsh. Susannah. Deborah. Daughter. Michael. .,

I I

1 ----Ann. John.
d8p ...

l 1 l 1 1

I I

I I

Susan.

Anne .

Eliza- John. Sarah. Eilich- Susan- Benja- Deb- Jona%han. beth. ael. nah. min. orak heir t o his cousin John

I I I I I

I
I

William
dl5p .l..

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M I C H A E L BEAUMOWT fifth son of Robert (see p. 209 O f Bildeston was born in 1550 and died 14th December 1614. On e, large slab in the south aisle of Aildeston Church are the following inscriptions, they areu c worn and difficult r .h n t o decipher.
to "Michaell Beaumont married Margaret

Ye daughter of Skepper of Bilderstone in the Countyof Suffolk Cl5thier, by whom he had issue 4 sonnes, viz. John, Thomes
Samuel and Jonathan, m d 2 daughters Margaret and Alice. At the age of 64 years he depaTted thislife, ye 14th of December Ye yeare o f Grace 1614, whose body lieth under this stone, and his spirit is restored to God who gave it. Christus mihi vite. Mors mihi lucrum. I1Also wt interred Margaret his wife the is 25 day of Au.gust Ano. 1647. Also was interred Anna wife of his grandchild John Beaumont ye 17 of Febr 1681. Also his feet Mary and Abigall were interred at Ano D. 1664 and Elizabeth An0 D. 1670, 3 daushters o f his grandchild John and h a nis wife, by her he had sons and 7 daughters." 6 "On the North side were interred John Reaumont, his eldest son, ye 300 of November 1641 aged 59 years and Susan his wife, daughter of John Ala'baster of Hadleigh, gent, the 10th day of Februar 1664. John had living at his decease 3 sons and 5 daughters." The Beaumont arms impaling ermine and crossbow erect (Alabaster) are cut in the stone beneath. Two other shields bear merchants mark: the Arbalist, e, form of crossbow is sometimes spelt Alabaster. He was a cioth manufacturer and clothier and he rns.rrjed 1582 Margaret daughter in of Skepper of Bildeston, clothier.Shedied 1647. Tney had issue:

I. John, heir.
11. Michael, born 1580 died 1604.

111. Thomas, born 1590, died 1617.

IV. Samuel, born 1592, diod 1642 married Mzrgaret Issue:

(1) John, heir.

235. (2) Samuel.

(3) Margaret.

V. Jonathan married Anne

- issue:

John, born 1637, died 1667.

Jonathan d.s.p.
Michael d.s.p.
left his property t o his sisters.

Thomas, born 1643, d.a.p.

Margaret married Stephen Ainger.

Sarah married Clement Chaplyn,

Anne, married Thomas Clerke and secondly married Robert gmith.

VI. Margaret, alive in 1651, married into the family.

- Waltham

VII. Alice married Robert Scarce. (l) John.

Issue:

JOEIN BBAUM3NT born 1582, died 3,Oth November 1641, buried in the church at Bildeston. His will was as follows:"John Beaumont of Bilderston in the County of Suffolk, Clothier, t h e 25th o f November 1641. First I commend my aoule into the handes o f Qod, trusting through the merrites of Jesus my only Saviour to make f'ree remission o f my sinnes: next my body to Christian burial1 in the parish church of Bildeston soe nerre as may be t o the place where my late father lyeth. I give vnto Susan my welbeloved wife the some of 3031i, she t o sufferr my s o m e John ZJeaumont quietly to hould my mannor of Babbins, wch I lately purchasedof Sr John Barker, so8 soone as (he) shall accomplish his age o f fower and twenty yeares, or his day of marriage, wth the consent of the said Susan, John Alabaster my brother and EdvJnra Beaumont o f Hadleigh, my kinsman, o r t w c o f them (Is this Alderman Edward Btaumont the son of Julian?). J would have the said sonne John brought upp to exercise the art of clothmsking, and leave (him) the cesternes,,wttigh~es,and other vtensills as are belonging to the art. If saia Susan be minded to marry Bagdine, she shall release vnto m y szide sonne John the dower or thirds wch shee hath of the messuages which I have given unto him. I give vnto my said sonne 3901i when he shall have atteyned his full

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age, He is also t o have a legacy given him by his late grandfather, John Albbaster, gent. vnto my sonne Michaell 253 li at his age o f XXI yeares together with 60li given him by his said ltste grandfather. To my sonne Beniamyne 2001i at his age o f XXI yeares. To my daughter Anne 30011 vppon herday o f marriage. To Susan my daughter wyfe of William Baglle f i v e pounaes, vnto William Baylis her sonne, my grandchild five poundes when XXI. To my daughter Mary other 250 1 together byith 501 more of her grandfathers guift, when att her full age. To my daughter 6ara 2601.1 Rnd 5Oli to her as to the rest of her grandfather's guift. Vnto Abagaall my youngest daughter 250 li. My late ffather did give vnto my mother Margaret Benwnount one annuity of tenn poundes, executors shall paye the samevnto my brother Samuel1 Beaumont 3 1 and t o his sonne John 21 and vnto my brother Jonathan Beaumount 5 l i and t o his sonne Jonathan 511 at hi8 full age. To John Soarse sonne of Robert Bcarse my brother in lawe. My good friend Thomas Boston, clothworker, my brother in 1 ~ ~ 1 6John , andThomss AlRbaster, andEdwardBeaumount.Annuity to my sister, Margaret Walfham widUow, my messuage8 and land8 in Bildeston, and Wattisham to my aonne Yiuhaell Beaumount. Farm called Woodhouse in Rattlesden t o Beniamine my eonne, I ordeyne my co8en Mr. Edward Beaumount, my brother John Alabaster and Jonathan Beaumount overseers and John Beaumount my sonne Executor. Tertio Bie Martii, 1641 emanavit Beaumount, relict8 et exci doneo filius et executor, ad vioeeimprlm attigeret.' Suff. Man. Pam. 11.

comlssio Susanne Johan Beaumount aetatis sue annu 323. J, Muekett.

He married Susan daughter of John Alabaster of Hadlaigh, gent, she died 19th February, 1664. John Alabaster died 20th April, 163'7, and he bequeatheu El00 t o his daughter Suean and the same amount t o hie son in law John. They had i88ue:

I. John, heir.
11. Yiahael, born 1627 died 1689. He was a clothier and lived at Bildeaton. He married firstly Catherine the daughter of she died in 1664 and he married seoondly Anne daughter of she died 1693. He had isaue by hi6 first wife:

(1) Sustan, baptised 1663.

(2) Anne, married Elias Stonham Little Waldingfield, of Buffolk.
(3) By h16 seaon& wife, Sueanna, alive in 1693.

(4) Margaret, alive in 1699.

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(6) Annat baptised 1683, alive 1693. (6) Michael, born 1686, alive 1693.

(7) Jonnthan, born 1688 alive 1693.

Also some others, who died young.

III. Benjamin born 1630 d.8.p. 1679. Rattleeaen.

He had a farm at

IV. Thomas, baptised and died in 1636.

V, h e , baptised 1617.

VI. Mary baptised 1619.

VII, Susan bagtised1620, married William Baylie of Stepney, Middlesex. Issue:
(1) Willism.

VIII. Sarah, baptiaed1624, d.8.p. 1698; married TruthNorris of Ipswich. Her will was as follower"I Garah Norris wife of Truth Norris of Ipswich, gentleman, being sick in body, d o make this my last will this 24th day of July 1698. I commit my aoul to the Lord who made it and my body to the earth from whence it was taken, I give my loasehola messuage8 in WantPord St. in Whitechapel by London, unto my brother John Beaumont of Bildeston, in Suffolk, aentleman, and to his son William Beaumont of Ipswicrh, olerk t o take the rents thereof towards the payment of the sums I h a v e bequeathed in this will. I give unto my husband twenty shillings t o buy a ring and weare i t for my sake, Unto my kinswoman Sarah Hale (was this Susan daughter of Michael Beaumont?- see supra) of London widows B13. I bequeath the
sum ofBi60 unto Deborah Beaumont, daughter of my said brother John. I give her two silver.spoons and one silver porringer. Vnto John Beaumont aon o f my said brother five pounds. Vnto my kinsman Jonathan Beaumont (probably the son o f Mluhaal) living with my said brother &la, alsoe I give unto my kinsman Michael Beaumont, brother.of the said Jonathan 820. Vnt o

Suoannah Beaurnonf daughter o f William Beaumont of Ipswioh &5@ ( s e e p. 240). Vnto every one of the reste of the children o f the said William 6 5 apeice. 2 Vnto flsrah Beaumont daughter o f John Beaurnont, my kinama.n o f Monks Eley tan pounds and & E 5 R piece t o the other t'ivt children o f the said John Beaumont. To m y kinswoman Susanna Blomfeiid and Anne Blomfelld, t o either of them &10. Borne of the legatees herein menconed are under age. Vnto all the children and granduhildren of

my husband, Truth Norris, ten shillings a piece for rings. Vnto Thomas Norris dwelling with my husband Twenty shillings.

Unto the poore people of Bildeston four pounds. To the poore of the parishes of St Peter and 6t. Mary at the Elms in Ipswich, the like sum, equally between the said parishes. Unto the poore of Trymley and Wslton twenty shillings. The rest of my estate I give unto my brother John Beaumont and his son William Beaumont, unto my said brother, and his heir my copyhold messuages lands and tenements in Waltonaforesaib. I ordein my said brother and hiR son William full Executors.
ProbatumVndecimo d i e Augusti 1698. Juramentis Johannis Beaumont et Willielmi Beaumont Executoru."

IX. W r y , baptised 1625.

X. Elizabeth.
XI. Deborah baptise6 1638, died 1633.
XII. Abigail baptised 1658, living in 16364.
JOHN BEAUMONT, baptised 13th October, 1683, ciied 1'703. He had lands at Whitechapel London a John Beaumont was Mayor o f Hadleigh 1673 John married A n n e daughter and heiress of William Yann of Hitcham and Monk8 Eleigh, Suffolk, gent. She died 1681; they ha8 lesue:

I. John, heir.
XI. William o f Ipswich, from whom the Ipswich Beaumonts are deacended, baptised at Bildeston 17th January 1649/60, died 18th January 1708, buried at S. Mars Tower, Ipswich. He wa8 a Clerk in Holy Orders and Rector of Hintlesham, and Rector of Witnesham 1706. A whit6 marble monument (1) which was in S. Mary's Ohurch, Ipsriah bore the Beaumont m a t of
arms it reoordedr
G m . BEAUMONT A.M. ECCLESIAE DE HINTLEGHAM RECTORIS VIR1 SIN3 AESTU ORTODOXI, SINE SUCO RHn;I(310881 SINE BLANDITIIS, SINE POMPA LIBZEULIG QUI FATO, NON SIBI, 6ED SUIS, FRABUATURO CONCES6IT ET IN HOC IPSO LOCO QUO VITAM RELIQUIT, SBP[TI;TURAM INVEINT IN E D d d TU"UI,O RZEPOSITUM EST QUOD MORI POTUIT Ofl W I A E UXORIS EJU8, AD

"Y.6.

This memorial was probably destroyed when the churah was rebuilt In 1860.

239. CUJUS MORES DEC0RANDZ)S NATURA ET GRATIA, PUDOR ET FIDlNTIA SBVERITAS ET LENITUDn, PRUDENTJ.0 ET SXMPLICITAS. DULCBICONSPIWUNT ILLE JANY 18, 1708 Aet. (59 I U A JULI 13, 1717 (62" (1)

This may be translated aomewhat as f011ows:

"To the sacred memory of William Beawnant M.A. Reutor of' the Churah of Kintlasham, a man without blandishments, without pomp, Liberal-without orthodox zeal, without religious fervour, who met with an untimely fate, not for himself, but ror hie relative8 and in the very place in which he left his life, he t'ouund his grave. In the same grave is laid that which oan die of hls wife Marg to whose becoming manners nature and grace, modesty and fidelity, aterness and mildness, prudence Rnd simpliolty are all sweetly joined He &my. 18, 1708, aged 69 She July 13, 1717 aged 6. 2'

Hi8 will read:-

1 William Besumont of Ipswich, Clerk, considering how ' short and unuertain mp time in thirj world is, do make this my last wlll. I give to Marg my loving wife, for life, all my lands and tenements in Combs and Little Binborough in Suffolk: also the f freehold ,of my ffarma fn Earlstonham; and after her decease I give the Combs and P'rnborough land8 to my son John Beaumont, and tha ffarm In Brlstonham (except the giece aalled Pear tree aloae) to my 50na William and Robert . Unto my son YIchael Beaumont, the copyhold land aalled Pear tree close and 8100 to be paid him when he is twenty f four. Unto my son Bobert Beawnon+,, all my bookes, sxceptine such as my wife shall make choice of f'or herself and her daughters. To my daughters Mars and Anna to each the aumme of' d150. Unto my daughter "Susannah Beaumont my oopyhold lands called Conjuns Wall InBilBeston. My ohildren to give their mother 8 Uisoharge for the legacies of their Aunt Norris lately cieosased. Lands given me by my ffather Beauaont, ualled High St ffarm in Bildeston, shall be sold to pay his debts and legaoiea by Mary my dear wife, my Exeautrix. This 26th day of November 1707,

PROBATW TRICESIMO DIE AUffUSTI, 1709. JUAAMENTO MAHIAE BEAUMONT RELICTAB ET EXECUTRICIS."
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(I)

Niohols LBTIC. 111. 734.

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He married 29th August 1676 at S, Yary Tower Ipswich, She was born in 1666 and died 13th July 1717, Mary Clarke. buried in S. Msry-le-tower Tower. Issue.;
(1) John, born 1678, died 1747, buried in 8. Msry-leo tower Tower; he married Sarah, sister f Thomas Bantoft (she had E legacy from MEry Beaumont, see p. 245). Issue:
la. Mary, inherited her Aunt Mary4s estate, 1732.

2a.

Sarah, married Thomas Lodge.

(2) M a n , born 1677, d.s.0. 1732, leaving her property to her niece Mary. She was buried in S. Mary-le-tower Tower.
(3) Thomas, baptised 1691; died 1709.

in 6. Mary Tower 23rd February

(4) Susannah died 1746, leaving her property to her Tweedy, Clerk in Holy nephew Robert. She married Thomas

Orders.
(5) Anne inherited some portion her Aunt Anne Meadows of estate (see p. 244); married Bldward Duck.
(6) Michael, baptised at 6 Mary-le-tower Tower, Ipswich . 1687, buried there March 1733, married Elizabeth Burrough. She was born in 1694 and died 1'777, burie8 with her husband. Issuer

la. Yary, born 1709, 8.s.p. 1796, buried in 8 . Mary-le-tower Tower, together with her undermentioned brothers and sister.

2s. John Uied 1717.

3a.
4a.

Michael, died 1719. Garah, died 1 8 2 71.

Sa. William born 1726 died 1732. (7) William inherited in 1733 the eatat6 of his cousin Benjamin, o f Grundieburgh (see p, 243).
(8) Robert, baptised at Rintlesham 29th July, 1683, died 25th March, 1737, and buried on the 30th of the month.

A monument in S. Mary Towsr reoorcleb:

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"M.S.
Roberti Beaumont A.M. Hlcclesiae S. Lament in hoo Vi00 Pastoris Filissimi ....,....... 3bilt Maroh 25, 1737 Aet. 66.

Bt Priscellae Uxs cujus

3 b . J a n u w y 12, 1749 aet. 72.*

This was also probably destroyed in 1860.

Arms: Drury.

a lion rampant between ten fleur de lgs or. imp.

Ha matriculated at Queens' College, Cambridge and took his B.A. 1704 and M.A. 1708 and beca,me Rector o f Witnesham 1738, Vicar o f Henlay, Suffolk 1726-30, and afterwards Vicar o f 8. Lawrence, Ipswlch. He held property xt Bildeston, He married Priscilla Drury aaughter of Prisoills, wife of Miohael Beaumont (see p. 242). She died 12th January, 1749, and was buried with har husband. They had issue:
la. Robert of Framsden, heir; baptised 19thYarch 17239 the sponsors being Mr. John Clarke of Clagdon, Mr. Bulk of' Ipswichand Mrs. Priscilla Beaumont, senior, of I p W i U h . His will was proved t % Ipswich 3rd December % 1791, He was Vioar of Framsden and Reotor of Kelmingham, Guffolk. A Robert took his 0.A. at Cambridge in 1745.

2a. Clhar19s, KA, baptised at Witneeham 1st February .. 17133 sponsors Mr. Charlee Beaumont, o f Cambridge, John Clarke, of Ipswich, and Mrs. PriecillaBeaumont, of Huntingdon; he died at Preston, Suffolk, 9th November 1756.
He was Recrtor o f Wifnesham, a memorial slab on the floor of ths Church reoord8:-

Ir l.

"Y.8. REVEEUNDI CAROL1 BEAUMONT A.Y. ECCLfesIAE HUJUS REC1TORIS VIGINTI CICITER ANN38 3BIIT NON0 DIB NOVEMBRXS

(DNI: 1766
ANNO

JUXTA JACENT RELIQUIAB

(m: 46

UXORIS W U S
ELIZABHITHAE BEAUMONT OB: A.D. Septr 21, 1791

ABTAT:

SUAE 77I . (

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Be married Elizabeth daughterand co-heiress of Thomas Vesey o f Sproughton, Suffolk and sister of Mary Vesey who married John Vere, and subsequently after his decease John Beaumont of Sproughton (see p. 247). She WRS born in 1714 and was buried near her husband on the 27th Geptember 1791. They had issue!
lb. Elizabeth born June or July 11th. 1745, buried 20th January 1745/6.

2b. Elizabeth, CO-heiress, baptised at Witnesham 28th June 1748, died 26th June, 1822, M w r i e d Philip Bowes Broke of Nacton, Suffolk,Esq., he was born in 1749 and died 22nd August, 1001.

Iseuet
lu. Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke o f Ghrubland Park, K.C.B., Oaptafn o f the Shannon, During when she fought the Chasapeake,1813. the War between W e a t Britain and the United 1841. States, he died
3b. Amy or Amanda, born 17R1, buried at Witnesham, 18th July, 1779. 3a. Mary, baptised at Witnesham 12th October 1716. Sponsors: Reverend Gteorge Drury of Claydon, Mrs. Prisailla Beaumont, senr. of Huntingdon, and Mrs. Yory Beaumont, of Ipswiah. Her will was proved at Ipswich 13th October 1796. She married in 1749 M w a r d Venn, M.D. of Ipewioh. Prisailla, baptieed at Witnesham 20th July Mr. Richard Drury, o f Colne, Mre. Mary Beaumont, of Ipswich and Yrs. Deborah Lufken, of Monks Bleigh; buried at Witnesharn 6th February 1744/6. There ia a slab in the Qhurch to her memory.
48.
1712. Sponsors:

Sa. Elizabeth, baptieed at Witnesham, 18th April 1723 , died at Ipswioh, buriedin the Chanoel at Witnesham 87th October 1730; just in front of the altar rails and

between the slabs laid over Meadows and Yr. Hamby. .

the graves of Mr. Da,niel

111. Michael, of Huntingdon; Y.A. , third son of John Beaumont, see p. 238 baptized at BiLdeston, 2let October, 1660, d.e.g. suddenly 11th October 1710, buried at Witnesham 14th o f the in the churoh. He wa8 month, a memorial slab was placed Reotor of Welton, Co. Lincoln, and married Kt Witnesham, Priscilla relict o f Riohsrd Drury, of Cambridge and Colne, Hunts; High Sheriff of the Counties o f Cambridge and

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Huntingdon. 8he was daughter and uo-heiress o f Robert Clapthome of Whittlesea, who was one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to Charles I. She died 22nd January, 1748,

and w a ~ buried with her husband. November 1680.

Her will is dated 19th

IV. Benjamin, of Tpswich baptised 1651, died 1679. He married Elizabeth, daughter of George Southwood, SarJsant at law, issuet
(l) Benjamin, born 1679 died 30th June, 1733, There is a veined white marble tablet to his memory in the South aisle of Qrundieburgh Church, which records:

ffNearto this tomb lges Benjn Beaumont Esqr son of Benjamin Esqr by Elizabeth Southwold, daughter of George Southwold Bsqr by Elizabeth Congers, daughter of William Congers o f Waltw in Blsaex S e r j e m t at Law. He dyed June ye 30th 1733 in ye 54th year o f his age.*

Bi8 rill reads:

"I Benjamin Beaumond of Grundisburge, in the County of Suffolk, gentleman, the 24th March 1719, bequeath my body to tha enrth, surely trusting for a jogfull resurrsotion. I give unto the youngest son o f my aousin John Conyer8 of Walthamstow, near London, my lands and tenements in Grundisburge aforesaid, with the goods and ChRttells as they now stand in my said mansion house. Unto my uncle Sohn Beaumond see p. 245 of Monks Eilly, my lands and tenements in Hitcham, Nedeen and Combes in this County. Unto my cousins John, Jonathan, and Michael Beaumond, the sons o f my aforeaaid uncle John 410 each, Unto my Uncle John Beaumond four daughters &l0 eaoh, Unto Qzrrod Conyers 840, unto my cousins John, Ralert, Miahael, William, Ann, Mary and Susan Beaumond, the children of my Uncle William Beaumond, u n t o Martha R9eve of Ipawioh 6220, unto Nary Yorks 820. I nominate my cousin John Conyers, his youngest son hereinbefore mentioned to be my sole executor."
The will was proved at London 4th July 1733 by Edward Congers the only son o f John Conyers Esq., decettsed, the sole executor in the said will, named.

In Carlford Church there is a white marble monument to his memory, with coat of arms displaying Az, sem6e de lys, a lion rampant, or. V. Jonathan, baptised 1660/1.

VI. h a , baptised 1646, dfed 17O7. some extract8 from her will:

The following are

844.

h e Meadows of Neeaham Market, widow of John Meadows of Bury 6t. Edmunds, Clerk, 25 January 1705/6. Themeasuage in Needham to be 8018. To be divided between Mary Meadows my daughter, Sarah Wright m y daughter and Rebecoa Meadows my daughter acaording to the will o f my husbana, A bond for 831 left m e by my late father Mr. John Beaumont, t o Susan Blomfield and Anna Elliston y e two daughters my late sister, of Susan Alomfield. To John, William, Michaelmy brothers a ring and 21/- and Jonathan Beaumont 4 guineas. To John, Daniel, Philip, Rebecca and Mary Meadow6 and Sarah Wright ye eix To Sarah children of my late Husband 12 old pieces of gold. Sparrowmy sister a hair rinq and her 8on John Hamoncl a gold pin. To John Blomfield son my sister Blomfield andto the of said Anne Elliston rinqto each. a To my brother John Sparrow o f Reed, my large silver tankard with ye Bparrow arms upon it. To Deborah Luffkin, my sister a large silver plate with This silver the Beaumont arms on it, impaling Reynolds . salver was in 1921 in the posseesion o f Mr. C. Partridge, Awka, ViaOnitsha, Nigeria, he was descended fromthe Garriham family of Gosbeak, Susannah daughter of John Qarnham, the latter born 1760,l and died 1820. Susannah, born in 1787/8 and aied without issue 1870, left the ealvsr to a nieae and date from her it presum:tbly paeaed to Mr. Partridge, The o f the salver 1s 1694. To Anna Beaumont daughter of my said brother William Beaumont 4 eilver spoons and other bequests, John Meadows my son to be sole Exeuutor,a Probate E6th Uay 1707 (Muskett, SUFF. W . M . ) F Bhe married the Clerk in Holy Orders. Reverend Isauet John Meadowe o f Bury 8. Edmunas,

(1) John, heir and five other ahildren.

VII. Susan, baptised 1648, die& 1692, married William Blomfield of Bildeston, gentleman. Ieeue:

IX, Sarah, baptieed 1654, died 1684; she was a benefiaary under her Aunt Norris, will (see p. 237). Married firstly

John Hammond of Witnesham Hall, Guffolk, seoondly John Sparrow of Rede, Buffolk. Issuer

married

245.

X. Abagail, died

1864, buried

in Bildesto'n Church.

XI. Elizabeth baptised 1658, died 1670, 'buried in Bildeston Church.

XII. Deborah, a beneficary under her Aunt Sarah's will g. 237, married 1706 Luffkin.

JOHN

BEAUMONT of Monks Eleiqh, born His will m 8s follows: 8

1647, died

1725.

"John Beaumont of Monks Eleigh, in the Countyof Suffolk, I bequeath my two gsntleman, this 7thday of February 1724. Groves called Haukins Grove and Little GroJe adjoining Bush Farm, unto John Beaumont my eldest son and to h18 heirs for ever) he paying there out unto my two said daughters, Swab and Susan 2103. Executors to sell my copyhold messuage in Bildeston t o discharge the mortgage. The remainder of the money I give to my son Jonathan Beaumont; : unto Yichsrel Beaumont my gounges-t son my dwelling house in Konks Eleigh and lands now in his tenure; he to pay Anne, my loving wife My copyhold tenement with the e10 yearly during her life. orchard I give to my two daughters. Househola goods t o wife for life, then to my daughters equally. My wife and my son John Beaumont to be Executors."

I+,was proved 12th May 1725 by his widow.

The ultimate descento f the testator's property was very complicated. It is stated at Pull length in the Bildeston Manor Books, in a minute of a Speoial Court Baron held on 13t September, 1760. John Beaumont, late of Aldam, Suffolk, gantleman, the testator's eldest son, had surrendered in 1737 certain lands called Cook's Croftg, and Ureat Ponders ta his o w n use for life, then to John Beaumont of Sproughton his only son, and Mary Vesey, his son's intended wife, f o r t h e i r lives, and to the right heirs of his said son for ever. This son died without issue in 1743, leaving lands to William Betts, his nephew, son o f his late sister Anne; Mctry his widow William Betta claimed remarried John Vere, Esq., o f Norwich. the oopyholds and this w3s admitted. But Jonathan Beaumont, son and heir o f JonathanBeaumont late o f b v e n h e m , the second son o f John Beaumont, the testator 1725 and theright heir ot' male to his childless cousin John Sproughton, demanded his of legitimate reversions. These were allowed, and all parties united in a common agreement 'to enable tae astateto be sold and the conflicting claimst o be equitably settled.

He marrizd firstly in 1683 Susan, daughter of William Revett ot' Bildeston Ha111 she died in 1692 and he married eeaondly, 5th January, 1712, Ann Denford, widow, of Claydon.

246. They had issue:

I. John, heir.
If. Jonathan of Lavanham, buried 29th November 1751, heir t o his brother John. He married Elimbeth and had issue:

(1) Elizabeth, baptised 1715. (2) Deborah, baptised 1717 atbvenham, married William Daniel, gentleman.

(3) John baptised1718. A John Beaumont who died without issue t n sa8 a Clerk in Iioly Orders married about td 1337, Yary Paul, o f Norwich; she left her cousin Sarah Beaumont wife of John Beawnont &l0 see p. 240).

(4) Benjamin of Stoke Ash, Suffolk, baptised Lavenham, at 1721, died 1756; married Susan and had no issue.

(5) Sarah, baptised 1723.

(6) Miohael, baptised 1725.

(7) 6usannah, baptised 1727 at Lavenham.

(8) Jonathan, heir and co-heir o f his Uncle John.

111. Deborah, born' 1687, married, 1710 Robert Clhaplyn, who was baptised at Monks Bleigh 1677, he died before.1783; she then married William Grimwood, 23rd January 1726/7(Marriage
Lioenoes, Suffolk Archdeaconry).

IV. Barah, born 1693, married 1726,

Jacob.

V. Busannsh, born 1696.

VI. Also another daughter.

VII. Yiohael, of Monk8 Zllefgh. He married firstly Anne, she died 1727. He married secondly 28th October 1728, at Monks Eleigh Yartha Ellison, she was buried 16th November 1738. He had issue by his first wife:
(1) Susan,,d.s.p. She married John Jaoob, and being co-heir t o her father, inherited lands at Bildeston and became heiress to her nephewWilliam Fowler.

(2) Ann, died 1761; married John Fowler; la.

issuer

William, 4.s.p.

JOHN BEAUWNT, of Aldham and Sproughton, baptised 1679, d.s.p. before 11th June 1754, his property gassed t o his nephew Jonathan. He msrried and had issue:

I. Ann, married

- Betta.

Issue:

(I) William, of S. (faorgetsBloomsburg, co-heir o f his uncle John, he inherited some portion o f t h e Bildeston estate in 1743.
11. John, of Sproughton, born 1714, d.s.g, 4th Outober 1743 V i t a pro PcrtriB", buried in Hintlesham Church; he married c. 1737 r y , daughter and co-heiress o f Thomas Yeaay, W gentleman, of Sproughton, and the Priory, Hintlesham, and widow of John Vere o f Norwich (see p. 242). There was formerly a memorial in the Church with the 'BeRUtUOnt and Veseg coat of arms impaled in an eacutcheon, which recorded:

"Rere lyeth the body o f Mr. John Beaumont, late of Gproughton, in this County, who married Mary the eldest daughter o f Thomas Vesey of the ssme town, gent. He died 4th Octr 1743 aged 29 gears."

240.

THE SUPFOLK REAUMONTG,

THE COGGELSHALL AND BOXFORD FAMILY.

......,. civil habit a Oft covers a good man...,,

BIWMEI BUSH IV. 3. Beaumont and Fletcher,
Coat o f arms! Azure sem6e of fleur d e lys, a lionrampant or, on a lion's shoulder for difference a mullet.
Genealogiual Chart.

Robert Bildeston (see p. 208).

Robert. Thomas

I
I

Thomas Julian Michael Anne. daugh- Alice. Jo- Aber- Eliza. John. d.8.p. d.8.p. d.s.p. ter. beth. hane. gail. I Elisha John Jane, Judith Judith.Mary. Thomas Susan. Thomas. a.B .p 8.s.p. d.B.p. d.s.p. I
1

t l

-I

Thomas Jonathan.
d.s.p.

I I
l

Thomas. Jonathan. Hannah. John. Thomas. Jona- Eliza- Johxnna. Mary. Mar- Samuel. Robert. I than. beth. tba
. I

Mary. Mar- Susan- John Tho- Jona- Sam- Robert Eliza- Joseph. Bentha. nah. d s p mas than ne1 d.s .p. beth. ... I jamin
d.8.p. d.8.p. d.6.p.
p -

I
I

I
Dinah,

I
I
I

Joseph. Barah.

Fanny. John.

Sarah. Mary.

Mary Peray Gertrude Mina Qeorge Joseph Frederick. Louisa, Munro. Helen. Florence. William.

1 I

THOMAS BWUYONT, seaond son of Robert of Bildeaton (see p. 209) died circ. 1620. He married, 27th Aprll
1572 at Bildeston, Elizabeth Runton. Issue:

I. Thomas, baptized at Boxford, Suffolk, 12th September, 1074, d.6.g.

111, Michsel, baptized at Boxford, 6th Maruh, 1579, buried at Qroton 21st February, 1637, d.8.p.

IV. h e , buried at Boxford, 15th June, 1574.

V. Another daughter who married Thomas Clampen. VI. Alice, baptized at Boxford, 9th June, 1577. VII. Johane baptized at Boxford, 10th January, 1882. VIII. Abagail baptized at Groton, 16th April, 1685, married 24th July, 1608 to Thomas Turner.

IX, Elizabeth, baptized at Groton 26th November, married there 23th April, 1611 to Peter Coe.
X John, heir. .

1590,

JOHN BEAUMONT, 'baptized at @roton, 1st September, 1886 married iirstlp Judith, who was buried at Boxford 22nb April, 16171 he married secondly JudithHatoh, at Whatfield, Suffolk, 14th July 1618. Issue by first wife:

I. Elisha, baptized 29th May, 1616, called Elye in his

grandfather's will, d.8.p. 11. John, baptized 1617.

111. Jane, by his second wife, baptized 1619.

IV. Judith, baptized 26th November, and buried at Boxford, 18th December, 1620.

V. Judith, baptized at Boxford, 2nd. December, 1621.

VI. Mary, baptized at Boxford, 1st January, 1622/3.

VII. Thomas baptized and buried at Boxford in 1627. VIII. Susan baptized at Boxford, 14th December, 1628.

IX. Thomas, heir.

T H O U S W W O N T , baptized at Boxford, 21st November, 1630 married 16th April, 1672 at IEdwardBton to Susan Holton, of Nayland, Suffolk where she was buried in 1689.
He had issue:
I. Jonathan.
11. Thomas, 8.e.p.

JONATHAN OF NAYLAND, baptized at Nayland 30th November, 1672, and buried 22nd January, 1743, left a house in
Fenn Street Nayland, t o his wife For life and then t o his two sons Thomas and Jonathan. He married 27th July, 1697, at Stoke by Nayland, Johanna Edwards. They had issue:

11. Jonathan, baptized at Nayland 27th December, 1699.

111. Hannah, buried at Nayland 3rd April, 1712.

THOMAS, baptized at Nayland 25th May 1702, buried there 16th June 1778, married Martha who was buried at
Nayland 30th April 1781,

Issue:

I. John, heir.
11. Thomaa, died 1824.

111. Jonathan, born 1736, died 2nd February, 1807, he bequeathed 8 house in Nayland to his brother Thomas.

IV. Elizabeth. V. Johanna. VI. Mary.

VII. Martha.
VIII. Samuel. XI. Robert.
Lived in his own house at Nayland. JOHN, died 1804. He married there 2nd February 1733, Mary Wink, issue:

I. Mary, born 6th June , 1773.

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11. Martha, born 16th July, 1774.

111. Susannah, born 12th September, 1775.

IV. John, born 2nd April, 1777, d.s.p.

V. Thomas, born 16th September, 1778, d.s.p.

VI, Jonathan, born 11th May, 1780, d.3.g.

1111. Samuel, born 12th July, 1781, d.s.p.

VIII. Robert, born 30th November, 1783, d.3.p.

IX. Elizabeth, born 30th September, 1785, d.e.p.

X. Joseph, heir.

XI. Benjamin, born 17th June, 1792.

JOSEPH 3F COLCHESTER, born 12th November, 1787, married Sarah, daughter o f John and Diuaa Rootsey. Issue :

I. Joseph, heir.
11. Sarah, died in infancy.

111. Fanng.

IV. John Rootseg, died a. 1849.

V. Dinah, died 1880.

VI. S a d , died 1886.
VII. Mary, died 1854.

JCSEPR OF COGGEBHALL, born at Colchester 4th March 1827, died 18th July, 1889. He was Lord of the Manors of Beaumonds i n Lindsey, Glemsford, Methwold, Haughley, and Abbotts Hall, Stowmarket. He mar*ried in1854 Elizabeth Polley of SoLthminster, Essex, she died nt Coggeuha.11 1903 leaving issue :

I. George Frecleriak, heir.

I1 Mary Louisa, born 27th March, 1858, married 18th February, 1879, the Right Reverend John Phillips Allcot Bowers, D.D., Bishop of Thetford.

111. Percg Munro, born 27thAugust. 1861.

He matriculated

at 6. John's Cambridge in 1880 ana afterwards became an associate Member I C E . . . Married Agnes Maria Hamilton daughter o f General George Forbes Hogg C.B.

IV. Oertrude Helen, born 12th January, 1865, married 26th January1886, the Reverend 6eorgeJohnson Scott, son of Deputy Surgeon General J.E. Gcott, M.D.

V. YinaFlorenoe, born 2nd April, 1868, went out to Maseru, Basutoland, as a missionary.
VI. Joseph William, born 27th November,1869 married 28nd November 1893, Qertrude Charlotte Grieve of Btoney Creek, Hamilton, Canada.

GEORGb: FRBIDERICK, the lawn Coggeshall born 20th July 1856, a f3OliCftOr and a F.S.A. and Lord of the Manor o f Beaumonds. Author of A HISTORY OF COGGESHALLJ A DESERTED PRIMITIVE VILLAGE and THE SITE OF CAMULODUNUN, OR COLCEDBTH3a V W S U S CHESTICRFIELD, and an article on "Early Man" in the ESSEX VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY (I. 261). Also oneon "A Roman Coffin found at Braintree" in the Easex ARUH. SOC. TRANSACTIONS (VII. 401); formerly Secretary ofthat Society. He married 31st August, 1882, Amy daughter of Thomas Phillips,
of Kenerton Court, Gloucester and had issue three sons and two daughters.

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c n E R XVI.
T a SUTFOLK BEAUMOMTS

- THE DUNWI

'We are not born to sue but to

Shakespeare, RICHARD 11, hc-

A Beaumont o f Dunwich had issue;

I I Robert. I Job.
l

Thomaa . John

Henry. Margerg. roan. John o f Southwold. Thomas,

Isabel

.
I

Robert. Thomas, Margery.

and other girls,
_ I _

I Katherine.
I

I I 1 I

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Richard. Mi chael. John. Gregory. Thomas. Robert. Peter. Mar- Rose. I garet .
~~

Elizabeth. Mary. Susan. ldargaret.

I. Thomas Beaumont eldest son of a Beaumont of Dunwich. Thomas' will was proved c. 1444 (Ipswich Registry fol. 263).
11, John, made his will in 1446 (ibid fol. 49).
Married

Joan Beaumont of Pakefield, Suffolk, widow, she made her will

10th June 1469, which was provad 14th March, 1469/70, in whiah she named Roger Beaumont of' Alby Norfolk, 8 6 Executor. Issue:
( 1 ) Henry, who marriedMargery .....n d had issue: a

Joan.

he made his will 10th March, 1471/2 and named Eenry Beaumont, senior hie and wife Agnes, executors. He married Agnes, sister of William Pyers, she married secondly Lee of Southwold, her will was executed 13th May, 1501 and proved on the following Z18t of September. She held lands at Woodbriage. Thomas and Agnss had issue :

T H O U S OF DUNWICH, died 1472/3;

I. Robert, heir.
11. Henry, alive in 1471.
111. Margery, married

- Rose.

She was alive in 1471.

8he was alive in 1471.

IV. Joan, married

1608,

- Benton.

V. John, o f Southwold, his will was proved 6th October, Joint heir of hi6 brother Thomas. He married Agnes who survived her husbmd, they had issue:
(1) Robert, heir, of Southwold.

(2) Thoma~iof Norwich.

(3) Margery.

ROBslRT 3F SOUTKWOLD, Wenhaston and Uggeshall, Suffolk. He was a large ship owner and married Agnes a daughter of Richard Bishop, of Yarmouth (see p. 209). Richard's will was proved 27th November, 1540, he left money to Robert and $ t o John Beaumont. 2 4 Robert and Agnes had issuer
la.
2a.

Richard, alive in 1642, d.s.g.

Michael alive in 1648, d.s.p.

3a. John alive in 1542, d.8.p. who died 1699 (see p. 1.

? Is this John,

48.

aregory alive in 1642, d.s.p,

255.
5a. Thomas, his will is dated 8th November, 1582 and proved 22nd April 1583, it reads:

I Thos. Beaumonde, citizenand alderman of Norwich make this my last will and testament, this 8th. daye o i November 1582. I desire to be buried in S. Andrews I give to Anne my Church, nere unto my pewe there. wife my capitall messuage which dwell in and my orchard I cslld St. Cuthberts and lands and tenements in Carrowe. To my daughter Blizabeth and to Thomas, Richard and Elizabeth her children, t o Marie and Elizabeth Nods, children o f my daughter Marie Nods deceased, to Susan my daughter now ye wife of' Robert Playforde and to eaeh of her daughters, Anne and Cecilie, to Margaret BeRumont my daughter m y lease in howses in Norwich, in Holme St, O of the E A ~ and~ Corporation, Anne my wife t o be her guardian. To Thomas Lowen my sonne in lawe and to Eliazbeth his daughter, to Peter Beaumond, my brother, and to Thomas Barrer my brother I bequeath unto Thomas Beaumond sonne of Richard Beaumont my brother and t o his heirs for ever, my lands in Southvold in the countie o f Suffolk, and of this will I ordeyne Anne my wife t o be the sole executrix.
Proved in the Consistorial Court of Norwich on t h e 22nd day o f April 1583 by the oath of the executrix.
He was buried in S. Andrew's Church, Norwich, he was an

aldermAn of that city.

He married Anne

- and had issue!

lb. Elizabeth, alive in 1582, married Thomas Lowen? and had issue:

la.
2c.
3c.

Thomaa .
Riohrd.
Blizabeth.

2b. Mary, died before 1582, married Nods, and had a son and two daughters, Marie and Elizabeth.
3b.

Susan, married Robert

Playford, issue:
Thomas Beaumont, of

Ic. Anne, married Rochester (see infra).

20.

Cecilg.

4b.

Margaret.

Son of Robert, ROBERT, OF L3ND3N, heir. bee p 255, married Mcrrg daughter of William . Massingbred o f Co. Lincoln see p. 209, issue!
6a.

lb. Thomas o f Rochester, who married Anne daughter o f Robert Playford possibly his cousin, 889 p. 255.
7a.
8a.

Peter.
Margaret, under seventeen in 1542. Rose under seventeen in 1642.

9a.

OF SOI~THWOLD, d. S. p. Son of Thomas p. 254 His will was proved on the 4th December 1501. His property went t o his two brothers, Robert a n d John.

VI.

TBoblAs

R ~ B ~ R T , S3uTHWOLD his will wa8 provea 24th January OF 1536. He held landsat Pakefield, Carlton and Kirkley, Suffolk, He married Catherine Beaumont of Lowestoft, widow, her will was proved 22nd July, 1555, she bequeathed her real estate to her eldest son. They had issue:
I, John, heir.
11. Isabel, married William Goddill.

JOHN,

Payne in 1560.

sold lands at Carlton and Kirkley, t o Richard He married Helena . They had issue:

I. Katherine.
11. Other children?

A Richard Bettumont, son o f Anthony, was baptized at Southwold 8th September, 1606.
A Thomas Beaumont married Joan Gentlemans, at Southwold 8th November, 1628,

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THB( YOEESHIRN BEAUMOWTS

- THE WHITLEY AND K I R m A T O N FAMILY.

Beaumont and Fletcher.

"Deeds not Worda''.

THE LOVERS PROQFUSS, 111. 6, last line.
Coat of Arms, GU. a lion rampant arg. 1a.ngued and armed az. within an orle o f nine crescents of the second.
Crest: btto:

a bull's head erased quarterly arg. and gu.

Fide sed cui vide.
"Trust but s e e whom you trust".

Genealogical Chart c. l150

1905.

Willism

William de Bellomonte, died 1218, possibly decended from I William, brother o f Robert and Henry William? (see p, 7). He probably had R son who was father to the next mentioned. I

Richard, Willjam. Olodfrey John. Adam d.s.p. Ell%. Isolda. Alice. heir, 1 d.s.p. I d.8.p. I I

Robert. WilSiam.

I I 1 John. Thomas. William.

I I
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Richard. John. Adam. Alice. Adam. Henry. Nicholas.

I Robert.
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i
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Jois. Christine.

I I

Richard. William. Superstes. Agnes.

I-

John Robert Henry. Roger, Thomas. d.8.g. b.s.p. \ Henry. Roger. Robert. John. William. Richard. Adam. Richard, d.s.p. l I Henry l Bounder of the I l Lascelles Hall Family (see p.315 I for continuation). I

- . - - I l I

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1
Henry* l

I I
John. Lawrence. Founder o f Bretton Family (see p.297 for continuation.)

I I I I

I I Adam. I 1 I I
1

I I I II
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Nicholas. Joan. Thomas. Richard. James.

I John. I
Adam.

Johanna. Elizabeth. Henry.

Alice.

Ilizabeth.

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1

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Joan.

Elizabeth. Isabella.

Thomas. Robert. Chris- Richard. William. Joan. Eliza- Alice. Son.

topher.

beth.

Son.

I Daughter,
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Robert. Richard. Edwsrd. William. John. Ann. Elizabeth. Alice.

d.6.p.

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Roger. Robert. George. Elizabeth. Cecilia. Johanna.

1 1

I
1 l

Richard. Elizabeth.

Richard. Edward. Rosamund. Thomas. Alice. d.s.p. I --I Edward . l l I I I I I I Richard. Tho- Ma- Susan- Kath- Grace. Alice. I l mas . ry. na. erine Richard. d4B.p.

I I

I I I 1 Grace. Mar- I garet. I

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Ri ohard .
Thomas inherited the Whitley $states.

Adam. John. Rich- Will- Thomas. Ann. Eliza- Mar- Maria. Sarah, Vita. ard . iam. beth, garet. Pro. Patria. I
p I _ -

I --I

I I I I I I I I I l I I I 1 Tho-Rich- Will- Tho- Adam Jo- Adam. Son. Eliza-Ann. Ma- Ann. 8on. I mas. ard. iam. mas. d.s.p. hn. beth. d s p ry. ... l 1 l 1 I I Richard. Elizabeth. Ann. l I I I l I I I Richard Adam Frances Thomas Mbsry I d.s.g. d.s.p. d.s.g. b.s.p. d.s.p. I I l l l I I I I I I I l l 1 I
1 9 1

Rich- Tho- Hen-Rich-Frizn- Ann Ann. Sus-Su-Eli-E o . MR. Hen-CharCharard mas 1-y ard. ces. d.s.p. an. San. za- er- ry. ri- lotte lotte d.s.g.d.s.p. d.s.p. I nah beth. ilda. etta d.s.p. d8p ... ds9 ... I

Richard Charles Thomas John. Elizabeth, Henry. d.s.p. d.8.p. I d. 5.P" I

Charles Richard. Charlotte. Elizabeth.

I I

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l

Richard Henry. Martha. Richard Charlotte. Bdary Sarah. d.s.p. leaving his Henry John. Ann0 . Bstates t o his godson Henry Frederick son of Henry Ralph (see p.298) .
Henry Richard Maria Ernily Maria. Dora May Bred- Everildal Ralph. Henry. Catherine. Diana. Maria. rica Maria. Maria.

Diana. Dulce. Evalyn.

Margaret Octavia Ha dee Louisa Maria. Maria. Maria.

I daughter.

860. The Park at Whitley is in the parish o f Upper Whitley, near Huddersfield. The handsome mnsian is pleasantly situated on a lofty eminence well wooded in groundf3, with about two hundred acre5 of Parkland, The family owns in addition
lands at Kirkheaton, Kirkburton, Mirfield and Crosslands, Yorks. These eatates have been held by the Beaumonts from the days of Henry 11 in-the twelfth century, until the present time, Kirkheaton is t w o and a half miles from Huddersfield. The north aisle of the choir of the church belongs to, and is the usual burial placeof the family.

W I L L I A M DE BELLOMONTE, who died circ, 1218;

may

possibly have 'been descended from William, brother of Robert and Henry, who came over with the Oonqueror (Bee p. 7). He seems to have been the first o f ,the familyt o o w n lands in Yorkshire. He held one eighth parto f r?. Knight's fee of the honour of John, Earl of Lincoln circ. 1205, who granted him land at Whitley (CL3SE R3LLS). He received from Roger Laoi, de Constable o f Chester and Lord of Pontefract about A.D. 1206, twelvo Bovatea of land In Huddersfield, on condition that he supplied escortsfor Roger's despatchas, which the latter sent from time to time between his castles at Halton in Cheshire and Pontefract (T.D. Whitaker Loidis and Elmete p. 347).

He accompanied Richard I on the third Crusade in 1191 and was at the Siege 01. Acrs. In 1195 he witnessed certain deeds relating to a transfer of la.ld t o William son of Falk, who was Roger de Laci's Marshsl, he also witnessed the foundation dead of Mountjoy Priory.
He went to Normandy in 1204/6 and took part in the fruitless campaign w h i c h Fesulted in the loss of the Duohy. In those days there seems t o have been "8 restriction rent act" similar t o that in England during the late great luropean War, for we find thst King John sent an order to the Sheriff o f York "to respi5e Will.iam d e Bellomonte from the paymentof 1 0 marks which he owed to the Jews in that city, and to free him fromthe interest o f t h e debt, as long as he should remain beyond sea with horses and arms in the King's service, given at Northampton 23rd May 1205. The original is as follows.

%EX VIC EB3 Te. P'CIPIBIITi &D RESPCTU HRE FACIAS WILL0 DE BELLOMOTE DE X M. &A 6 IIEB2T JUDIS EBO T QUIET! BE FACIAL DE USUR ILL1 DEBITI. Q A DIU FIJIT ULTA MARE C EQUIS T ARMIS I SVICI3 NRO P PICEPTU NRM, T ME 1PO APD N O W XXIIJ DIE MAII. P. GST (1) CESTR." (2)
(I)
(2)

P
-

(The "thorn") ; a letter like a nine with curved tail used for Th. CL3SE RCLL 7, Rot-Jli LitterarvmClausarum, I. p. 33 John Memb. 26. S. Bentleyls EXCEPTA HIST3RICA p. 393.

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In 1213 he gave the King sixty marks in order t o obtain the austodg of Walter de Grandcourt, who was indicted for murder, but the latter was acquitted 1219 (RECTUS IN CURIA). in

On the 21st May, 1216, either he, or his son William, was made Constable of' Norwich Castle after the city had been besieged, czptured and plundered by Louis, the son of the King of F n n c e , who had invaded EZngland at the invitation o f the barono 0 1 0 m f i e l d ~ sNORFaLK, 111. 42.
There is at Drayton Norfolk, an old memorial or market crods, the inscription 1s now illegible, but in 1809 some portions remained which read:

"VOUS CHE PRIE PUR L'AN

WILLIAM DE BELLEAlONT ..... 3 H A E SA J AVE MARIA ... PARDON AVERA" DE BBMtAE. .... PATER N: ...,

(Blomefield's NORFOLK, X. 413). With the consent of his wife Joan, he granted three shillings rent ts the Cluniac Priory of Castleaore for the 6 0 U l of his son John.

He rnarriea in 1186 Joan, daugh:er o f Maurice de Barshaa, the latter was fined %40, for permitting the wedding, as Willlam, was also fined 223. 6s. 2 d , , had promised to marry the daughter o f Ralph d e Gedding. Presumsblg this was the Norman method o f settling cases of' this kind. He probably married secondly In i20,7 Alicia wldow of Jervaoe d e Bradfield daughter and c o - h d i r e s s o f Williarn d e Ijrayton, o f Dragton Hall, E a s t Dereham. iie had issue:I. William, heir.
W I L L I A I DE BELLOM63HTE sold lands at Icburgh. Norfolk. t o Giltert d e Langetot, 1240; he marFied Alice ' ,
daughter o f Sir Ralph le Strhnge;

she died 1333.

They had

issue!

I. Richard, heir.
11. William, heir to his brother.Richard.
111. Godfrey, d.s.p. September 1293. He was a tenant at Crigqlestone, Yorks, o f the Earl o f Warrenne. He and his two uncles, Jonn d e Crek m d Rdlph d e Berners, who married his rnotner's s i s t e r s , brought a writ or' riaht against Edmund, Abbot of Bury 8. Edmoncls fur the lordship of' Semer and Groton, Suffolk, to which t,he Abbot h8.a n o title. A duel resulted and the Abbot's champion was slain. In 1278 he and his wife Cecilia had a dispute with John Bigoa respecting the manor ot' Bugbrook, Northants. This estate rormed part of Ceoilia's weading dowry, and at her death it passed t o the

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Crown,

Godfrey claimad the Denham estate in 1276, and held lands at Huntingdon in 1278, and at Scarning, Norfolk in 1291 (Blomefield's NORFOLK, X. 409).

He mRrriea Cecilia daughterand heiress o f Hugonis, Xarl of Derby. He married secondly Eleanor, daughterand heiress of Robert de Farnriis, she died 1290. Bleanor brought suit against the'Bishop of Coventry, clcimirlg half the manors of Acton and Drsyton. John, who was Godfrey's heir, made a further cla.im on the Bishop for these same two manors.

IV. John, born 1263. Heir to his 'brother Godfrey He had lands at Lepton, and he inherited from John de ldontbegon the Whitley and Bretton estates, bothbeing descended on the female side from Adam Fitz Swein, o f Bretton. He married Alice, daughter O P Richard, she was alive in 1303, They had'
. )

iBSU0:

(1) Richard, d.s.p.

(2) William.
(3) SLperstes ( a witness), born 1297.

(4) Agnes. A Agnes daughter n of John gzve, Johanna wife o f John d e Gleaholt about this time, a11 the rnessuages and appurtenances called Gledholt in Huddersfield-

V. Adam.
VI. Ella, by second wife, married Sir Henry d e Strongbow, he was alive in 1260.

VII. Iaolda married John d e Belhouse. Through her Beaumont estates in Essex passed into the Thorp family.
VIII. Al.tce, married Sir J o h n d e Dagworth issue:
(1) Nioholas.

the

S I R RICHlQRD DE BELLGMONTB, died 21st December, 1293

and had a grant of' ianas in Huddersfield from Henry He marrie3 Annabella She was de Laei Earl o f Lincoln. alive in1297. He had no issue and his brother William succeeded him. We cannot trace when or why he was created a baron.

-.

S I R WILLIAM D E BELLOMONTE died probably cijrc. 1323. ': He lived at Dragton Hall and held lanas at Winch, Norfolk, in 1250 and Hud.dersfield; Meltham, and South Kirby,
Yorks.

He gave lands at Crosslands t o his son Robe'rt in 1303.

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He married Alicia, daughter and co-heiress o f Folcanis

d e Oyri? and afterwards married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress o f Richard d e Foss Crossland. She inherited her

father's estates in 1315.

Sir William had issue!

I. Robert , heir.
IT, William married and had issue
(I) Roger.
111. Richard. In 1307 a Richard Beaumont waa Rector of Drayton, Norfolk.

IV. John. He was living at Lepton 1297 and held lands there by 8 grant made by Thomas de Oawthorp dated 1319. A John exehsnged lands st Berkolt, Essex, owned by Ralph de Germon, for land at Lexden, Essex about this time.
V. Adam.
VI, Alice, married i n 1303 William d e Cory of Launceston, Cornwall. The records of sll the foregoing are conflicting and by no means clear, Lhey are thsrefore the author's conclusions %hereon .

He was murdered at Crossland Hall by SiraJohn d e Eland, High Sheriff o f Yorkshire, in 1341. The history of the murder is recorded in a ballad composed by an unknown author, probably in the days of Benrg VIII, and transcribed by a Mr. Hopkinson c i r c . 1650. It consists of one hundred and twenty-four stanzas and may be found in T.D. Whitakar's LOIDIS AND ELMETE, p. 396, he however only gives one hundred and twenty-three stanzas, the remsining one i3 recorded in J.H. Tumer's TKE ELAM, TRA5EDIES. In the latter the date is given as 24 Ed. I11 1351. This is an error, i t probably was 14 Ed. 111. (Yorks. Arch. Jour. XI, 1287. ) Four ot' the stanzas are as follows (Hunter's S3UTH YORKBHIRBI, 11. 231).
S I R ROBERT 3E BELL3M3NTE.
S. 16.

"To Quarmby Hall they came by night, And there the lord they slew, At that time Hugh of Quarmby Hight Before the country knew.

S. 17.

To Lockwood then the self same night

They came, and there they slew Lockwood of Lockwood, that wiiey wight, That stirr'a the strife anew.

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S. 18. When they had slain thus suddenly Sir Ro'bert Beaumont aide, Is To Crossland they camecraftily Of nought they were afraid. S. 24.
The lady cry'd, and shrieklit withal, When as from her they led Her dearest knight into the hall And there cut off his head."

t it Sir John Eland o f Eland H a l l is said o have teen stern with his neighbours. He w&s High ambitious man, ever at f'eud The quarrel with Sir Robert Btev:ar4 o f the Earl of WHrenne. E Beaunont arose through neighbour named x l e y , havingkilled a a nephew o f Sir John's, who ran for protection Sir Robert to at Crossland Hall. The quarrel extended, and Lockwood of Lockwood Hall and Eir Hugh Quarmby became involved in they it were both slain in one night by Sir John, who then proceeded to Crossland Hall, hoping to likewise kill 6ir Robert, but he found the drawbl'iage up and the house well guarded, so he with his retinue hid themselves near by. In the early morning when the servant letdown the drawbridge, the armed men rushed across and swiftly made their nag to the Knight's chamber, Sir Robert aefend,ed himself, o f no avail, he was dragged but from hiswife's presence and his head cut oft' with a sword in his own hall. They then ordered the servants to bring in breakfast and they summoned Robert's two sons to sit with Sir them, the younger came bu.t Adam refused. In the 'hallad Elazd, referring to thelatter, says

"See how this boy, said Eland see, His father's death can take, If any be, i t will be he That will revengement wrake .
.

Fifteen years passed by. The sons o f Lockwood, Quarmby and Robert had grown u p and they with Thomas de Laci, who also h:+d 5 quarrel with Sir John, joined together in R oonspiracy t o waylay him in Cromwell Bothan Wood. Sir John was on horseback, A d m de Beaurnont seized the bridle and threw the horse back on its ha.unches, Sir John jumped off, drew hls sword, but he stood no chance asainst. four young men Some gears again and he was soon left dead in the w o o d . passed, when the fourt e r m i n e d to take further vengeance and de on a Palm Sunday, they met Sir John's son as he was passing over Eland Mill dam on his way to Church with his wife f n id family; they shot himwith an arrow, and then ran into a wood pursued by the family retainers. Qual-mbg was killed in the fray, William de Lockwood eacsFed, and A d a m , he Joined the Knights of Rhodes and fought in Hungary againstthe Turks, in defence of the Christian. faith. W e are told that "he gave

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signal proofs of his great strength and courage." He was killed in one o f the engagements. (ROMANCE OF ARISTOCRACY, Sir B. Burke, 1855, I. 366 and John GVatson, Hist. of Halifax).

Sir Robert held property in Ruddersi'ield, Meltham, Crossland and South Kirbg, and was Coroner for the county
of York, but he was removed from that office 10th December, 1324, as he was not considered sufficiently qualified f o r the post. He was Commissioner of Array in 1323, and was summoned t o Parliament in that gear. He does not appear t o have taken any part in t h e barons' rebellion under the Earl of Lancaster againstBdward 11. In 1324 he gave lands n o m k as Arkil Croft, at Lepton, to. his son Thomas, and in the following year he sold to him for ten marks three messuages and land in Gaurthorp and Stages, hamlets o f Lepton, Yorks. In 1329 he save lands at Lepton to his sons, Nicholas, John and Robert.

He married first Gracia, aauqhter o f Sir Edward Crossland o f Crossland Hall, Yorks (J.W. CLxy, Dugd::le's VISITATION) m d secondly !:lrc. 1310 Agnes, daughter o f John de Quarmbg. She married secondly Henry Degvile. She was alive in 1346. Sir Robert had issue:
I. John, heir.
11- Sir Thomas. In 1325 he held the manor o f Brertwistle by grant of his father, also lands at Lepton, which he sold to Adam de Hopton. He also hnd property at Melthsm. He was at the siege of Cxlais in 1346 , and in 1355 way taken pri3oner In actionnear Grandserre inDaupniny, another Knight of the same name was also present at the siege. In 1347 he granted an annuity to Alice, wife of Thomas Bosville of Cawthorne and Ardsley, Yorks. He married and had issue:
( 1 ) Jois, married Sir Theobald Grenvile, of Calewioh,

Stafford.
(2) Christine, married Sir Hugh Hereward, o f Pebworth, Gloucestershire.

111. William, died 1326. He held landsat Kingston Bagpulse, Berks, 1324; he left no issue.

IV. Adam was probably killed in action when serving under the Black Prince in Spain 1367. He left no issue. In1360 he sold lands Adam Hopton, the deed to of transfer was witnessed by Sir John Eland, Knight and others.

V. Henry, died 1329, marrieCl circ. 1310, Agnes, daughter of John de Quarmby. She married secondly H e n r y d e Deyville.

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She

w36

alive in 1346.

VI. Nicholas, d.s.p. He was alive in 1329 when his father conveyed some of his property to him.
VII. Robert, died clrc. 1348. H e WCS alive 1329 when his father conveyed scme of his property t o him.

He was Rllvein 1360. In 1332 he gs-ve lands at Crosslandsto his brother Adam, and settled on his two sons John and Robert the manor of Crosslands, the deed was executed Sunday next after.the Feast o f Corpus on Christi, 1354. He married firstly Margaret, grand-daughter of Richard Radclyffe of Radclyffe Tower, Lancashire, and Issue: secondly Alice, daught.ero f John Southill.

S I R JOHN DE BELLOMONTE.

I. John, heir.
11. Robert, heir to his brother John.

111. Henry, heir to his brother Robert.

IV. Roger, alive June 20th, 1355.

V. Thomas , :?.live June 20th, 1355. A Thomas o f Whitley m:irried m . e , daughter of John Grantham of London about this time (M'ISCFLLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDICA, 1887, Vol. 11.)
S I R JOHN DE BELLOMONTE died 1355. He married "on Monday after the Conversion f S. Paul" 1348 Alicia, o daughter of Adam d e Hopton, of Mirfield. They had no issue.

In 1355 on coming into his brother's estate he relinquished his He claim on the manor of Crosslvnd t o his brother Henry.
had no issue.

S I R ROBERT DE BELLOMONTE die6 circ. 1371.

HENFtV DE BELLOM3NTE, heir to his brother Robert, d i e d 1405. His vtill i s dtzted 1396 snd in it he directed that his body should be buried at Almondbury. After leaving some lep~cies;he ordered that, his chattels shouldbe divided into two equal parts, and thjt his wife and children by her should hsve one part, and that his illegitimate children, his son Thomas, excepted - should have the other part. Johann,:. his 1 : f and Robert his son were appointed executors. iie He gave 1and.s at, Foss in his lifetime t o John path, Vicar of Huddersfield, and t o John Sayvell, of Shelley, Yorks.

In 1389190, he Wi-s tried at York, for the murder of J o h n son of Geoffrey Darcy of Clifton, which arose outof a quarrel which Henryhrd witn Sir John Aston, Knight, who took

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some o f his cattle by force ofarms? for which Henry sued him. John Darcy appears t o hsve been one o f Sir John's party when the expedition was undertaken. The indictment says that Thomas, son o f Henry Beacmont of Fosse, Crosslands, shot John DELI'C~ the back with an arrow and gave him a mortal wound, in and that Henry gave him another mortal wound with a sword on the leTt side of the head. Robert de Roulag was also impeached but they were all acquitted. (Cieo. Will. Tornlinson, WAPERTAKE OF AQBRIGG. )
He married Johanna, daughter of

- and had issue:

He married

I. Henry, heir.
11. Roger, of Crosslandfoss, alive in 1427. and had issue:
(1) John, heir, alive in 1483.

(2) Lawrence of the Oaks, see p. 299.

111. Robert, alive in 1431. Thare was a Robert living in Northumberland about this time, who bor5 arms: Azure a fesse a r g . between three leopards heads Or.
IV. John. His w i l l was da.ted 22nd December, 1468, and proved 16tn January following, in it he d i r e c t s that his body shall 'be buried in Kirkheaton Church. He married circ. 1425 Johanna daughter and co-lleirzss o f JohnLascells, of Lascells Hall, and had issue:
(1) Henry, founder cf the Lascells family (see p.316

) .

V. William.
VI. Rtchard. Possibly helr t n Lawrence, son o f John o f Crosslandfoss (see p. 299 ).

VII. Adam, o t' 1Jewsorne.

by the King for some or'r'ence.

He was granted in 1447 a free pa.rdon He died 1506.

He married and had issue:

( 1 ) Nicholcts, heir.

(3) Thomas, alive in 1457.

(.4) Richard 1ivi.ng at Mdi.dgeley, Yorks, in 1457.

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(5) James, o f Huddersfield, alive in1457. and had issue.

He married

la. Eliz:zbeth, who married JohnGreen of HorEforth, Yorks, was alive ir! 1465.
he was alive in 1447. 17th June, 1471. married Johanna daughter o f Thomas Hague. Issue:
(1)
mill
was proved on the

NICHOLAS, cf Newsome,
lb.

HIS He

John, heir.

2b. Johanna, married 26th September, 1477, Thomas Pylkyngton.

5b. Elizabeth, married at. the same time a8 her sister Hugh Rainsford. She wa8 alive in 1506.

An Alice daughter o f Nicholas, (John?) married John They had L'Estrange o f Hunstanton, the latter d.ied 1485. two sons.
lb. JOHN OF NEWSOME, born 1471, married 17th October 1601, Jane, daughter o f Lord Darcy, issue:

lc.
2c.
lc.

Adam, heir.
Henry, alive in 1506.
died before 1530.

ADAM NEWSOME, OF and issue :

had

He married

Id. Elizabeth, married firstly John Gomersall of Little Gomersall, secondly married John Cudworth, cf Newsome, Yorks, 1630.

2d. Isabella,married Beaumont, 1530.

3d. Joan.

Leonard

VIII. Riohard.

HTY aAfine a
Knighthood.

in

age 1392, died c. 1424. t o be released an from offer

Paid of

I. Richard.
R I C H A R D BEAUMONT, was buried as directed in his, will

269. in the choir o f Kirkheaton Church. The will was proved 20th September 1472. The arms of the Beaumonts and Mirfields were formerly in the Church, with the following inscription ]under "3RATE PRO ANABUS.. ....BEAMONDEl CBCILIE UX3RIS ME... n l' On the 15th 3ctober 1468 he 1:)btainea from the Archbishop of York, a licence to erect an oratory in his mansion, for a term o f three years.

He marrisd Cecilia daughter of

alive in 1457.

Issue:

- Mirfield,

She w i ts

I. Thomas, heir.
11. Robert. He was alive in 1489. His father granted him in 1457 twenty shillings yearly from his Huddersfisld property, the deed W ~ witnessed by Oliver Beaumont of' Mirfield, S A Robert was living in Kent in 1459.

111. Christopher. His Elizabeth

will was proved in 1496.

He married

IV. Richard, alive 1489. He or his father mtLrried Elizabeth daughter of Sir Robert Nevile o f Liversedge (J.W. Clay, Dugdale's VISITATION, Yorks).

V. William, alive 1489.

VI. Joan, under 10 years of age in 1436. Thomas Medley of.Thornhil1, Yorks.
Married 1472,

VII. Elizabeth, alive in 1471. Married John Wantworth of Elmsall and Bretton, Yorks,'and had .issue one son and one daughter:

VIII. Alice, alive in 1471.

Married Rotert Gargrave o f Gargrave and Nostel, Yorks. They obtained a licence from the Archbishop of York t o erect for a term of thres gears an oratory in their house. Issue:
(1) Thomas.

IX. Another son.

His will was proved at York 31ut expressed a wish t o be buried in Hettton Church. He gzve in 1478/9 t u his son Robert, lands and tenements in Crosal:-;nds, on paying four shillings to his father and Lhirceen shillings ana ft.)ur pence to his mother annuallg .
July, 1495,
i n ~ t ,he

THOMAS BEAUMONT.

He married 1456, Elizabeth,

daughtero f Sir Robert Nevile

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of' Liversedge, by Agnes his second wife, Elizabethwas alive in 1495. They had issue:

I. Robert, heir.
11. Richard, heir t o his brother.

IV. William, alive in 1513.

V. John,alive in 1631. JohnBeaumont of Pinkeis mentioned in his grandfather's mill, also a Henry Beaumont, but it does not state the relationship. A John Beaumont, probably this one or possibly one of the Cole 3rton family, actea as page at the coronation of Richard 111, 1483. The King gave him "a doublett of areene satyn, a gown of crymsyn velvet, lined with white sarsnet, a black bonnet, a pair of' hosen, 2 paire shoon, 2 paire slops, 1 paire botews of sprayngst leden." A John Beaumont who died in 1566 was Prebend o f the sixth Ste.11 in Pllestminster Abbey (Surtee Soa. l., 66/65.) VI. Ann married, 1483, Robert Lovell, of Skelton Grange, Yorks, iesue
(1) Robert, who had a daughter that Beaumont

married Richard

VII. Elizabeth married in 1485, Thurstan Qardiner, he died before 1493.

VIII. A l i c e married, 1496/7, T h o m w (Henry?) Savile of Copley, the latter died 28th July, 1535, Alice was buried at Halifax 8th December, 1582.
no issue and his property passed t o his brother. He married in 1479, Isabel, daughter of Richard Woodruffe f Woolley, Yorks, Esquire, o she married secondly George Trgstone, o f Normanton, andaas alive in 1496.

R O B E R T BEAUMONT, died 1495 leaving

R I C H A R D BEAUMgNT, died 10th December 1540 buried in

Kirkheaton Church; hi6 will being proved eleven days after, He bequeathed three shillings and l'our pence t o the high altar o f Heaton Church, one shilling and one penny t o the Poor fund and twenty shillings t o be divided amongst the poor at Easter. He granted t o his mother in 1494 lands ut Huddersfield and Crosslands. He resid-ed Tor some time in London. In 1606 ne paid ~ t . Yine o Y 8 5 in o r d e r to be released

from the honour of Knighthood o f the Bath, he was a gentleman usher to the King. In 1613 he took part i n the French campaign and was probably present on the 16th Auguet o f that y e w at "the battle of Spurs,
He n?arried firstly, 20th J:tnusr:r, 1488/9, Johanna daughter o f John S m d f o r d , of Thorp Salvin, Yorks, and secondly in 1507, Elizabeth daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Harrington, of Hornby Castle, Yorks, who was killed at the battla of Waker'ield, 31st December 1460, shn, was relict o f Sir John Stanley, of Melling, Lancashire? and Hondr'ord, who was an illegitimate son o f John Stanley, Bishop Ely. of She wrote to her husb-hnd soon after their marriage hinting at a dark deed in which the parson of Slaidburn, York was involved. (See Whitaker's HIST3RY OF WALLEY, 11. 508). She was born in 1456 and died, 1515/6 leaving no issue. Richard married thirdly, 23rd &larch 1522, Margaret, daughter f Robert Wyvill, of Ripon o and Little Burton, Yorks, she afterwards married Richard N e v i l e o f Stockbridge. Richard had issue by his first wife.

I. Roger.
11. Elizabeth, married in 1501/2, by special dispsnsation a n account of consanguinity, John Wodde o f Longley, he was

descended from J o m , daughter o f Aaam, seventh son o f Henry Beaumont of Crosslands. Fie was torn in 1458 and his will proved 7th June 1538.
111. Cecilia, married c. 1624 Rizhsrd Lockwood, o f Collersley, near Huddersfield. ;Si16 married secondly Kaye. Her father She had issue: left her in his will $6. 13s. 4d.

(I) Riuhard.
Issue by third wife:
IV. Robert, of Southampton, was alive 1551, when his father H e had a difficulty with a John gave him lands at Lepton. Randall, of Donctcster, respecting some land he was desirous o f purchasir-g 3.nd he wrote the undermentioned letter to him respecting it.

"Gudman Randoll

For 9 s m o c h as y 3 have sold your interest of your land in Gawkthorp to ThGmas Beaumont, and cannot gerforme your bargayne hich ye mzde with me, I can prozede no further wi th gcu concernyng thn premisses, but t,.j.ke O U most advantage Y of some other Iran wher ye think bzst. Thus Pare ye well. Yours. Robert Beaumont. TO my ffriend John Randoll o f Doncaster delyver this

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He married, 1551, Marianna daughter of

-.

V. George, alive in 1531, and under age in 1540 when he is mentioned in his fatherls will.
VI. Johanna, alive in 1540, mentioned in her father's will. She married Alvery Copley, o f Batley and Sprotbrough Yorks. He died 1598.

R O G E R BEAWONT, pre-deceased his f3,ther in 1527/'8, his son inherited the family estates. He married, 1520 Johanna, daughter of Arthur Pilkington, of Bradley, Yorks.
Issue :

I. Richard, heir to his grandfather ancl mentioned in his will.

11. Elizabeth, alive in 1540, mentioned in her grandfather's will.

RICHARD BEAUMONT, J.P. for the County o f Yorks, born at Heaton, Yorks 1519, died 11th March, 1573/4, buried at Kirkheaton. The following i s Y copy of 8 receipt which he received for rent paid to Richard Nevyille, his wife's It is dated 1666. brother or uncle.
"This bylle msyd the xxixth day o f June in the ffyrst and second yeris o f f the reyng of Phylype and Marye, by the grace of God Kyng i and Quyne off England, France, Napells, Jeru ) salem and Ireland. Defenders o f the fnythe. ) Princes off S p a m e and Cecele, Arche Duces off ) Avstrye, Duces of Melayne, Burgan and Braband, ) Countes o f Hysparge, Flanders Qnd Tyre11 ) XIli Wetnesseth that I Rychard N e w 1 1 had recaved ) XIIIs Off Mr Rychsrcl Bemount off Whytlaye hall. ) IIIId Esqyere ffor my halfe yers rentt dewe to me at ) Wetson daye last past, elleyne pounds thyrten ) shyllyngs and foure pens, knowlegyng my selfe ) to be fullye contentt and Fayd. Wher unto ) I haue sett to m y hand and sell the dayand yere Rychard Nevylle." above seyd
The following is a copy of a letter from Richard to his second cousin Robert.

I'Right Welbefouyd Cosyn

After hartie commandacions thies shal be t o signyfie unto you that John Wodd, youger, is amyndid t o bargaine and sell hie l ~ a s e ,which he hath o f your lands unto Thomtrs Beaumount

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of Mirfield and but for the special1 labour and Robert of me Crawshay, I suppose he had t:$kene money for the same before this tyme. Wherfore I desire you to sende me word in writynge with all spede possibla vihat y e thynke most convenyant and rewquisite to be d.one in the same, and what ye rold that I o r eny other frende should do therein and after yourmynde knowene I shaibe redg t o do the best that I can in settynge forward the same.

T wold re shud rernem'ber yourself and concidre that i f Johne Wodd should sell his lease o a man not beynge your frend, t it should greve you :+ndput you t o great displeasures dyverse ways, whiche thynge I suppose he will do except a.ne honest ordre be hade betwix you and hym werey shortly. Wherfore fale ye not, but send word hastelg what ye wold have done in the preymyssea. I thynke your tenant Thomas Ackgnson haue send you a letter declarynge to you no lesse then is above And thus I comauytt you t o the livynge God, money owed. whom always preserv? you in soodnes to his blessed pleasure. Prome 'JPhitley, the third o f Decembre a0 Dni 1549 By your lovynge cosyne Richzrd Beaumont Esquier Your tenant Robert Crawshay. T o Mr Robert Beaumont o f Southamptone delyer this with spade, Hast, Hast,".
ARichard wa3 admitted t o @rays Inn in 1542. A Richard of Nether Thong had a son Jonn, who was baptised at Almanbury 1562, Richard o r Whitley being sponsor,

He married 15421 Katherine,daughter o' Sir Robert Neville f of Liirersedge, and secondly Alice, daughter Robert (John?) of Nettleton or' Thornhill Lees, She married seconaly in 1577 Miles Burton. Issue by the first wife:
I. Richard d.3.p. buried at Rirkheaton 18th actobsr, 1561.
11. Edward, heir.

111. Rosanund, alive 1574, Married, 1567, Williarn 3eitumOnt, o f Thornes in Lepton, Yorks, and Castle Hall and afterwards o f Lascslls Hall, he ~'-1s the son of Richard and Katherine Beaumont or" Elmlsy Park and Moor House (see p. 319 ). 'dY this marriage the ,zstates at Whitley, Mirfield and Lascells WerP again unitzd, for on the death in 1631 o f Rosamund's nephew Sir Richard, they passed to her grandson Thomas..

IV. Thomas, by his second wife living in 1574. legacy of S10 Llnder his brother Edward's will.

He had a

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V. Aliae,

BEAUMONT, born 1551, died 3rd January, 1574/5, buried at Kirkheaton. His will was proved 2nd February 1674. He married, 16th October 1571at Almondbury, Elizabeth aaughter of John Ramsden, o f Longley Hall, Yorks. She married Issue: secondly Aloery Copley, of Batley, Esq.
I. Richard, heir.
11. Grace, baptized at Almondbury sevmth September, 1572. Sponsors William Beaumont, Alicia Bexumont and Dorothy Kaye. She died before 1611. She married Thomas Yilkington o f Stanley . Issuer

&WARD

(1) Richard.
111. Margaret, baptized 1573, buried at Sprotbrough,Yorka, 28th April 1611. She married at Almondbury 5th April1600, Christopher Wray, o f Cusworth, Yorks. Issue

(1) Lenard.
(2) Thomas, and two daughters.

S I R RICHARD BEAUMONT, baronet, born at Wnitley 2nd August and baptized Almondbury 5th September at 1574;
aponscrs John Ramsden, Alvery Copley and Rosamund Beaumont, he was only five months old at his fathers death. He died unmarried 20th October, 1631 and. was buried in the Beaumont Chapel in Kirkheaton Church, where there i s a panelled alabaster altar tomb, with recumbent figure a Knight, with of his head resting on a pillow, with long hair, moustache and beard, he is d e p i c t e d in the tassetperiod of armour withruff at the neck and wrists, trunk hose and jack bocts. The memorial is flanked by Corinthian columns, which support a canopy with cornice,and ornamentedstatuettes and shields. with The inscription reads:
"Bdemoriae sacrum.

Here lyeth interred the body of Sir Richard Beav-montof Whitley Hall, in ye Covntie o f Yorke, Knight and baronet, who 20th day o f October departed this life the Anno Domini 1631; Anno aetatis suae 56. Expecting a glorious resurrection, at the Coming o f Christ: who dyinge vnrnwried made Thomas Beav-mont, sonn and heire aparftnt, to Richard Beav-mont, Rexbrvgh,in ye countie of Yorke, Efsq: one of his fiecvtors and heira

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to his parke at Sandall and to his ancient in-heritance in Whitley Sovth Crosseland Meltham and Lepton lying in the said covntie who having performed ye tryst in him reposed, In memorie of his worthie kinseman, hath cavsad this memorial to erected. be Vilret post funera virtus .W
(1)

His will was proved 2nd August, 1632. He ltt his e' cousin Thomas two closes o f land for the deer, so that he might be the bntter prepared to his friends a peice ( s i o ) give of venison. H:? was one of' the Royal Progress Knights, receiving that dignity from King James at Whitehall 23rd July, 1603, he was areated baronet by Charles I, 19th August, 1628. The King a granted him lands at Enfield 30th November, 1617. He W R S made a J.P. 1618; Id.??. for Pontefract 1625. He was in cammarld o f a Kirkheston troop of soldiers 1626 and Treasurer in of a fund for disabled soldiers o f the West Riding. He left his $states including the Castle and Park at Sandal t o Major Thomas Beaumont, son af Rishard of Lascelle Hall ( s e e p. 320) and grandsonof his Aunt Rosemund, the barony however lapsed. He sent the t'ollowing letter o f advice to his heir. "Cosen Thomas Beaumont,

I received your letter of the 12th instant, whereby I understand that youe are tould there should be an evil1 rerort given o f youe before me and some other of goure ffrends. In ansvere whereof I assure youe there was never aine such thinge, nor will I, nor your ffrends easilie admitt of aine such beleife of youe; my hopes aze much bettero f goue. But o f t h i s itt rise, I askad John Lawsonwnen he came from London of' your health, he told me youe ! : r well; I asked him who were with youe, "ee he aagd he m e t t my cosen Wodroff'e wlth youe. I answered I would not have youe cornpanit: with him in London, and I hcd thought t o have writ to youe on this, t o take heed of little Judge JOSUES' coolpanis in that towne; but o f drunkenness there was no viord, nor ains tending t o your disgrace, but of good advict-; which I doubt not that youit will fo1lo:rje. Thus I cornmende my love to you, restinge wherein y?ue h3ve occasion touse me.
Your assured lovinge cosen,
Ric. Beaumont.
Whitley this 23rd
(1)
0 L August .'

1626.

J,B. Whit&er,

LC)IDIS AND ELMETE, p. 339.

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I have sent you hers enclosed a smale token, and remember this advise from me good cosen, take heed of ill companie for it is a dangerous t o m e .
Addressed

- To my Beaumont: att his chamber in the verie assured loving cosen Mr. Thos.
Middle Temple, give these.

Endorsed

Sir Rich. Beawnont t o Mr. Thomas Beaumont, afterwards Sir Thomas, 1626." therewere receivers of stolen

The following letter shows that goods in those days.

"Henry Grice to Sir Richard Beaumont 1623.

I have sent you here the examinacion of John Lord, and Lord himselfe with one Beeston, another of them which tooke the leade from your Castle, who as yow may heare confesseth the whole truth. They are two verie poore men, and nott able, I am affrayd to give such satisfacion R B thecause requireth. But ffor Enny Rishton (who bought most of the leade and noe doubt but knew that it was stolen) yow may please t o take your course with him by suite rather than way att Sessions, by There is anotherpoore man,one Stable, who (as appeareth by Lord's Examinacion) bought o f Lord soe much leade as he gave him I X s . for it; he profferreth satisfaction t o his abilitie without further troble. I have taken security of Lord and Breston for their apparance att the Sessions. And thus referring all t o your best iliscreaion I take leave and rest.
Yours ever at command,

Henry @rice.
Sandal this XIth o f April1 1623."

Sir Richard had two illegitimate daughters:

I. Isabellct Lees, unmarried in 1631.
11. Isabella Bromswood, she was alive in1641; and married Sir John Lambert of Yorkshire. She inherited g400 under her father's will.

M A J O R SIR THOMAS BEAUMONT, (see p.320 ), baptised at

Mirfield 26th January, 1605, died 30th May, 1668, buried at Kirkheaton 3rd June following. He was a member of the Middle Temple. In 1639 he sold Sandal Castle and

a77. Park, together with all quires and rooms in the Church, for 81100, to JohnPollard, servant o f Francis Nevile Chsveley, of

Cambs.
He took the Eioyalist side in the Civil War and in 1642 he was appointed Serjeant Major of Sir William Savilla's regiment. 3n the 21st January, 1643 he was appointed Qovernor of Sheffield Castle xnd held it for seven months. In May of that gear he receivad the following letter from Sir William Saville.
*Sir,

I received yonr letter by this bettrer and for the newes o f Sir Ralph Hopton, itt is v3rrjr true, he hsth overthrown all the Westerne forces, taken prisoners, 2000 16 peece ot' canon and doonemany wonderful1 thingesami Coll. Ledgerd is killed at Brigge, and that toune taken by Coll. Cavendish and 590 men killed and taken. All people are fortunate but (me?) yett as long as Shefield For the Castle houldeth out I think myselfe happy. Mach.. you write for, I shall shortly send you some, but I putt you in mind once more use your snaphance peeces to t o keep century with, for that will save our Mach. For Wm. Savile, i f you whould be quite o f him, send him t o me I am glad to heare you goe on so well with your work and I assure you, I will see no man shallbe loosen by itt. For pay or' officers, I have no time to say more than this, lett el.rery one be pleased, andfor Capt. Waterhouse, I pray you supply his wantes and send me by the next Y list of how many you are, both officers, soldiers and others. Remember me kindly to all m y friendes with you and I always remaine
Your faithful1 friendand servant,
Wil. Savile.
30th May 1643.

Todoaster.

Your commission is as mine i s , ahich ia to doe what y o u h a v e a mind to for the good service.

To Major Beaumont, Sheaffield Castle." In June Sir William wrote again.

Sir Wiiliam Savile to Major Thomas Beaumont.
Heath, 21st June, 1643.

'Sir, In the first place, I must intreate yow to make James Syll send by the nextmessingerwhat monies he hath leavied o f the great assesment, and whither constables any be them. refuse t c 1 x 1 ~ or noe, that course may taken with I desire likswise by the next, t o have retornd mee a mapp of the cestle, m d . alsoe a new survey of what victualls are now in itt. Your letter by this bearer I received, m d for matters of money I have 301i o f yours which I received in goold o f Mr. Denison. I pray yow take it againe of James Syll out ofmyparticularmonyes, and bee sure yow want not any money nether for your selfe, nor your Yriends, soe long as any Roundhead hath either f'ingers or toes left, within tenn myles of the Castle. For these goods that yow have left, if your wife please to send them to Pontefract Castle, they shall bee there with some of mine. I will send to your wife t o day, and knov: how she meanes to dispose of herselfe and children, wherein I shall doe her the best service I cann and send yow word of her resolucions. I have received the bulletts accordingas yow write and shall as herafter desire yow t o send me the sizes well as the number o f the bulletts. Wee are now upon our march towards Leeds and hoope shortlyto send yow good news. I For sll other things in your letter I shall take care, and, once (a.) gane entreate yow to plunder as many goods a6 to make yourselfe a savoir. So in haste I (am)
Your faithful1 friend and servant
Wil. Savile.
Send perticulars o f what moneys are payd. If you have a mind to send home, the way will bee cleare tomorrow."

After the defeat of the King at NIarston Moor, it ~6.6 clear that he could not hope for the siege to be raised. The Earl of Manchester, Commander o f the Puritan army, wrote to him demanding the surrender ofthe castle, in the followingterma.

"Sir,
Being in thege partes by command of the Parliament to reduce such places as yet refuse obedienceto their you this summons, that you deliver Commanders, I have sent up to mee the Castleof Sheffeild now in your possession, with the armes, ordnance and ammunition therein. In the performance whereof you may expect all civilitiea becoming a gentleman of your quality. If you make any doubt of my performance, if you. will come or send anyone

to me at Doncaster, you shall receiTre all satisfaction I desire (your sp) eedy answer and rest, therein.

Your servant,

Sir Thomas refused to surrender, whereupon General Cramford, who was in command of the Parliamentary troops round the town wrote.

' T o

Major Beaumont,

I am sent by the Earle of Manchester to reduce this place you hold, and therefor send you a summons, through my trumpett was shot at, against the lawes of armes the o+,her day. You may easily perceive I desire not the effusionof blood, otherwise I shouldhave spared myselfe this Ubour. If you thinke good to surrender it, you may pramise yourself all f7airerespecte befitting gentlemenand souldiers; otherwise youmust expect those extremities which they have thst refuse mercy. I desire your answer within one houre and rest,
Your servant,

'. Crawfurd L
'Sheffeild,

Aug. 4th 1644.

Addressed. For the Qovernor of Sheffield Castle, these." (Joseph Hunter, HISTORY OF HALLAMSHIRE, 138). The Major again refused to surrender and he held out f o r another week, but the capture of the castles or Zelmsley, Skipton, Tickhill and Krlaresborough led him to see that his chance o ' relief was a L'orlorn hope, and he offered to retire f on condition that he wa3 allowed to march out with his field officers, captains, lieutenants, and ensigns, together with their arms, ammunition, 'banners and drums, each with his own horse, saddle, sword andFistol, to PontefractCastle, o r such other place as they desired, with a sufficient convoy or p8.s~ for their security. The privates in like manner with their non-commissioned officers were t o be allowed also t o march out with their swords and pikes, each to his own home, or where else he gle3.Sed. This was agreed to by General Sir Thomas' pass was as follows: Crawford 10th August 1644.

'Pass from Major General

Crawfurd for Major Beaumont,

These are to pray and desire all commanders, officers and eoulhiere employed for the service of the King and Parliament to permitt and suffer the bearer hereof Major Thomas Bewmount employed to passe homeward to his house at Whitley Hall, and there reside without any of your letts or molestations either in body or goods; hee the said Major Thomas Beamont conforminge himself to all the ordnances o f Parliament and demeaninge himselfe as becomethe a good subjecrt.(3iven under my hnnd at Sheffeild this 13th day of August 1644.

"L Crawfurd. *
He was wounded auring the siege, and also againat the siege o f Pontefract, and these wounds prevented him from to London in the latter part of 1645, on business connected with some annuities payable out of his estate, viz. &5 to George Beaumont, a clerk in Holy Orders, $2 to Ann Beaumont and 21 to William Beuumont, of Tibneath End, his wife went so going

illerteed.

In 1645, he garrisoned Sandal Castle on behalf of the Eing placing Colonel Bonivant in charge, the Puritans laid siege t o it and when they sounded the drums for prayers, the Colonel did likewise, the Puritans then thought that they were secure from attack for some time, but we are told that "those within the castle dedicated themselves unto God with upright heart88 and religious praiers in breefe manor" and then made a sudden sortieand fell on the Puritans, taken who by surprise were forced to raise the siege with a loss of forty-two killed and over fifty prisoners (Nathan Drake, SIEGE 0 ' PONTEP'RACT) . 3
At the close of the first Civil W a r t h e Royalists estates were seized by the Puritans. Sir Thomas was charged "with being in armes against the Parliamte, Major of a Regimte of ffote and did keepe a garrison in Sheffeild Castle for the Kinge against the Parliamte. Thst he delivered up Sheffsild Castle in July 1644, to the Parliamteupon composic'onto goe and reside at his dwellinge and in soe infirme of body as that he is not able t o come upp in pereon to Londonto finish his composicyon, that he petic'oned heere the 7th ofNovember last ..... That he is eeized in ffee taile to him and the heires males o f his body in possession o f and in the mannor of Whitley, to which thereis oertain freehold tennants paying8 of divers meaauages landes and tenemts 15s 5d rents, and lyinge and beinge in Lepton, Crossland, Meltham, Kirkburton, Kirkheaton, of the cleere yerely value before theis troubles 283 li 168 5d for which his ffine is 667 1i 108 1Od. That he is seized of a like eetate taile in reversion of certaine other lands snd tenemtt, lyinge in the t o m e and fflelde of

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Murfeild, Co. Yorke o f the cleere yerely value before theis troubles 30li which i 3 to come t o him after the decease o f his father, for which his ffine is 301in. The sum total of the fine W B . ~8700 and this was paid 13th April 1646.

An inventory was also mad2 o f his personal estate at Whitley Hall. It was as follows:
3ne long ta'ble, two "In the Hall body. Imprimus. square tables one liyery cupboard, two formes, one cheare, XKXS one long settle one range.

The Dyning Room. Item. 1 table with carpet Xs. Item 2 square tables XIIs. VIIId. 'Item. 12 sets buffetts XIIs. Item. 1 Livery cnpboard, 1 long settle Xs. 2 cheares 111s.. 1 range with andirons Xs.

In the New Parlour, 1 bedstead with 5 curtaines, one feather bed, l paire o f shettes, 1 paira of blanketts, 1 rugg blue, 1 bolster, 1 pillow. -. S
1 square ta'blt?, 9 buffetts, 2 sett chenres, 1 livery cuppordXIIIs. carpet IIIId. with
1 littell trunk with one dozen of diper napkins, 1 table cloth of dgper, 1 chest with 1 dozen paire oralnsry sheetes, of' 1 range xxxxxs .

In the Hall Chsmber. 1 servants bed with a rugg, 1 coyerlett, l flock bed, 1 blanket, 1 paire of' sheetes VIS. VIIId.

1 great chest 111s. IIIId. 4 cheare frames and 1 old bedstead 1 old double table l square table VIS. VIIId.

In the Dyning Chamber. 1 double table with carpet XXgFIs. 1 livery cupboard, 1 squnre table XIIIs. IIIId. 4 bufrett, stoole sett, 1 cheare, 1 range with 1 paire of andirons. XIIIs, IIIId.
In the best Chamber. 1 canopy bud with 5 red curtaines 1 fether bed, 1 boulster, 1 rug, 1 paire sheetes, 1 paire blanketts XXXXs. 2 cheares, 2 stools, 1 livery cuppord with cugbord cloth VIS. VIIId.
In the Kitchen Chamber, 3 chests 1 presses
1 flocke bed, 1 pdire boulster, 1 chest
XXS

In the little Kitchen Chamber, 1 stand bed, 2 coverletts of sheets, 1 paire o f blanketts, 1 xvs

In the Kitchen Chamber, 1 bedstead, 1 livery cupboord, XVs. VIIId. 1 littell chest, 4 cheares, 4 buffetts

In the red bed chambers 1 canopy bed with one rea covering, 1 fe ther bed, 1 paire blanketts , 1 paire of sheetes, 1 boulster, 1 pillow, 1 livery cupboard, 2 cheires, 2 buffetts =S.
In the Gate house chamber, 1 stand bed, 1 fether bed, 1 rug, 1 boulster, 1 paire of blanketts XXS . 2 cheares, 2 stooles, 1 square table, 1 truckle bed 111s. IVd.

In the Mayds Chamber, 1 stand bed, 1 fether bed, 1 1 red boulster, 1 pillow, 1 paire sheets, 1 paire blankets rugg

xs x.

In the Kitching, 2 dresser tables, 1range, 1 cheire, 1 chest 4 littell potts 3 pans 2 priggs, 1 great pot 1 scommer, 1 laale, 3 brasve candlestickes, 2 pewter candlestickes, 17 pewter doublers, 5 porringgers, 4 sawcers, 1 paire of rackes, 5 spitts 1 dripping 1 pan range 1 V l i xIvs. v m a

In the buttery, 2 tables, 1 cheare, 1 chest, 1 flagon can of pewter 1 ben, 1 safe

1 forme,
=S.

In the barne, In otes and barly

lcgxx li.

In Rye Xxli. In cattle 2 stearea, 2 kine, I leane ox, 1 bul calfe, 2 why calfes, 2 foales VI11 li, Xs. In swine 4 piggs, and 1 brawne, XXVIs. VIIId.
Joseph Ramsden,

Robert Tillotson, 29th November, 1644,"

(BEAUMONT PAPEEtS, W.D. MacRay, p. 93).

Questions relating t o Major Beaumont's sequestration.

Queres
1.

If Mr. Thomas Beaumont fortune to be sequestered agrrine or taken prisoner and a ransome demanded for his enlargement, with what parts of his estate maye redeeme he himeelfe?

2.

In case Madam (Beaumont) die leaving issue 1-2 3 or more daughters, and that the s o m e of 21500 or 82000 be raised fortn of the estate in 3 or 4 yeares, to whom ehall this be paid? If Mrs. Elizabeth fortune to dye shortly after her-intendea husband, fortune to marry or

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an improvident husband w h a t .sssurance shall Major Beaumont have of the true payment f the said respective o sornmes to the said children?
3.

If any o f the said daughters shall fortune to dye in minoritye, what shall become o f her porcion?
If Mr. Adam or his intended wife shall fortune to dye shortly what. shall become of Whitley H&lland the 2100 per annum there dureing the life o f Mr. Thomas Beaumont (3EAUM9NT PAPERS, W.D. MacRay, p. 96).

4.

At the restoration in 1660, he entered on happier times,

a month after Charles I1 landed at Dover, he rewarded him for his past services to the Royalist causeby creating him a Knight 27th Jurle, 1600.

In 1666 Sir Thomas gave two silver candlesticks weighing fifty-three ounces t o York Minster. He was ,also gazetted 8 Lieutenant-Colonel in the YorkEhire Militia.
He married the 6th September 1626 (16293) at Hartshead, Elizabeth, daughter of Gregory Armytage, of Netherton, and Hartshead, Yorks. She was a grand-dwghter of Margery Beaumont who married John Armytage. He married secondlg18thAugust, 1656, k r y , relict of Richard Pilkinqton, 01' Dsw Green, Yorks, and daughter o f GCeorge Burdett of Denby Hall, Yorks, she was born in 1614 and died 8th November, 1682, and buried at Woolley (1). She gave a bell twenty-five inohea in diameter,to S. John's, York, 1678, also a pair of silver candlestickato.the Minster, these were eleven and a half inches high and nine inches in d i m e t e r at the base. Thomas only had issue by his first wife:

I Adam, heir. .
11. John, baptised at Kirkheaton 26th November, 1636 and buried there 22nd March, 1663, leaving no issue. A John Beaumont of Nether Thong purchased land in Honley from Sir Robert Stapleton in 1659.

111. Richard, of Lasoells Ball; born at Whitlegl?thApril, buried in Kirkheaton Church 3rd January, 1706, he was captain In Lord Castleton's regiment o f root, and served in Flanders in 1688. He married at Kirkheaton 21st May, 1666 Anne daugh%er o f Thomas Ramsden,ofHemsworth, Yorks, she was born 27th November, 1648 (10433) and died 33th November,
1698 and
(I)

There was a memorial in the church at Chapelthorge but it was probably destroyed in the middle ofthe eighteenth oentum, when the church was rebuilt, Surtees Soc. Vol. LXV.

B84.
1713 ( 3 1703).

Issue:
1667 and died

(1) Thomas, born at Hemsworth 8th July five days later, buried at Kirkheaton.
(2) Richard, heir

to the Whitley Hall estate, see p. 288.

(3) William, of Lepton, born 28th April, unmarried, buried at Kirkheaton 26th May, 1706.

1673 died

(4) Thornas, of London, born 7th May, 1675, hewas alive in 1693.
(6) Adam, born 26th May, 1676 died 6th

June in the

a ame year
(6) A son, buried 14th September, 1677.

(7) John, born 10th June, 1680, Lieutenant in the 6th Foot. He took part in the wars with Branue, under the Duke of Marlborough and was taken prisoner. On the 20th Iday, 1709, he obtained a licence from the FrenchKing to visit England for four months
( 8 ) Adam, born 28th October, 1686, Lieutenant32ndFoot, he was serving at Gibraltar in 1705.

John Jackson, she was

(9) Blizabeth, born at Hemsworth 8th June 1669, married alive in 1706.

(10) Anne, born 20th April, 1672, 1675, buried at Kirkheaton.

Yason, of HaliPax.

died 21st February,

(11) Mary, born 12th May, 1674, married in 1713 Matthew

(13) A stillborn son, buried at Kirkheaton 4th October

1em.

IV. William, baptised at Kirkheaton 11th June, 1640 and buried there 26th July, 1683, he died a bachelor, his will was dated 8th June 1689.

V. Thomas, baptised at Mirfield 19th March, 1660, buried

at Kirkheaton 30th March,1661.

VI. Anne, born at Kirkheaton, baptized at Hartstew3 10th April, 1633, died at Whitley Park, 20th December 1637, buried.

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at Etirkheaton.

VII, Elizabeth, baptised at Thornhill gctober, 1634, died May, 1657, married 25th April, 1665, to Gervasse, son of Pranois Nevile, o f Chivet, Yorks. Issue?
(I) Ellizabeth, born 1656, alive in 1661.

VIII, Margaret, baptized Izt Thornhill March 1643/4, married Henry Knight o f Knight; Hill and Brockholes Surrey, in Parish
of Lambeth.

IX. Maria, died young, and buried in the parish church of Sheffield 5th June, 1644. The register reads! "aria Fil. Thorn. Beaumont, Ar."
X. Sarah, baptised atKirkheaton19th September, 1646, died 13th September, 1717, buriedin Kemsworih Church. She married Robert Wrightson of Cusworth, Yorksgentleman. He died December, 1708, aet. 79. They had issue a aon Wflliam.
'

XI. and.XI1.

Also two daughters died in infamy.

A D A M BEAUMONT, born 17th March, baptised at Hartshead

31st Bllarch, 1631. He predeceased his h t h e r , dying in battle when opposing one of the Royalist risings against the Protectorate, 17th NoTember, 1655, he was at the time serving under his father in law, Ralph Asherton, one of the Puritan Commanders (Surtees SOC, WEST. YOREISHIREI, 1655). He was buried in Kirkheaton Church, a small and indifferently engraved braso thereiz, depicts a Knight in the armouro f t h e period, he is bare headed with iong waving hair, and weara a ridged breastplate, large e p m l i e r e s , small coutes, long tassets, small genouillisres, jack boots. His sword i a suspended on the right side from a long strap fastened to the top of the tassets, his son kneels at his Side. His wife stands facing him, w e a r i n g a veil headdress, gown with v e r y low bodice gnd a string 01' pearls round her neck, she is .holding a baby in her arms and a daughter stands behind her. The f-igures are surmounted by 8 shield bearing the Beaumont coat of arms impaling that of Asherton. The ins,criptionreads:

Wemoriae sacrvm. Here lyeth Adam Beavmont Esq. heire

apparent o f Whitla, South Crossland Me1 tarn, Leptons, Heaton a r Uyrfeild, who marrd rged Blizabeth y e dvvghter of Ralph Ashton of Middleton in y e covntie of Lancaster Esq. by whom hee had one son and two davghters (viz.) Richard, Elizabeth and Anne: Bee dyed in ye Lord 170 Sbris 1655; and of his age 25.

They bee bvt live not, who doe live in.sinne Thvs many when they end, have to beginne: If life bee measvrd by its goodness then Thovgh but a while hee was; he lived longe."

His will is dated 12th November, 1655, and was proved by his wife 26th February, 1655/6 (register Alchin fol. 60; Record Series IX. 90).
"Adam Beawnont of Whitley Hall, gent. Yy estate and goods to be divided into 3 equal parta, one part, I give to my wife Elizabeth, one part to my daughter Elizabeth and such other child as my wife goeth withall, and the other a8 followeth, viz. f give to my kind father, Thomas Beawnont Blsq, to my loving uncle 6ir John Kaye, to my loving brother in law, Ralph Ashton Esq. t o my grandmother Mrs. AnnKaye, to my loving mother in law Mrs Elizabeth Asheton and to the Lady Kaye 20/- each for rings. To every one of my own brothers and sisters, to every one of Sir John Kaye's and to my brother Asheton's children, to my brother in lawMr. John Asheton, my sister in law Mrs. Mary Aaheton and t o Mrs. Dorothy Carvill each 10/- for rings. To my good friend Mr. Hitch, minister of God's Word, one bay gelding whiah I had out of Lancashire, To the poor of Rirkheaton 810. To my uncle and aunt Aeheton 10/- each for rings. The residue of g.oods to my loving wife, she to be executrix. I do further give t o m y daughter Elizabeth &l000 i f it shall fall out that I shall depart this life not having any other issue female, if it shall please but (3od that my said wife ahall be delivered of another daughter, I give to my daughter Elizabeth, and such other daughter the sum of S1500 t o be divided betwixtthem, such sum to be raised out ofthe Manors or lordships of Lepton, Kirkheaton, Whitley, South Crossland and Ueltham. To my said father all my intereet in the goode of my late deceased grandfatheraregorie

Annitage.
An Adam matriculated at Sidney Su,sssxCollege CrrmbriBge in 1646/7. He married 6th October, 1661, Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Asheton, o f Ylddleton, Co. Laneashire, and had issue;

I. RicharB, heir to hi8 grandfather.

11. Elizabeth, baptised at Kirkheaton 6th August, 1662, married =ward Tidesley of Myerscough Forest, Lanmshire,

issue

(2) Elizabeth.

(4) Catherine. Ellizabeth married secondly Charles Woolsey, of Woolseg Bridge,

Staffordshire.
111. Anne, posthumus, born 31st January, 1655/6, married 27th February, 1676, t o Sir Peter Bold, of B o l d , Lancashire, he was born in 1654 (Whitaker's LEEDS, I, 338). They had i s m ?

I, Riohard.

R I C H A R D BEAUMaNT, baptised at Rirkhsaton 4th May, 1654, died on the 1st and buried in the church at Kirkheaton on the 7th March 1691/2. A white marble slab, with a bust of a man and woman over it nnd a child in the centre, with
an urn behind and torch and mantling, records:
"Here lies the body of Richard Beaumont o f Whitley Ball Esq; vho married Frances the .Daughter of Sr William Lowther of Great Purston in York-shire; and had issue by her three sons m d two Daughters, or' whom the least that posterity ought t o know, is that his lire reflected the lustre o' his Birth, and f His virtue repaid the Honour he received from his family For he was a true friend, an usefull neighbour a kina master, a loyal1 subject An affectionate Husband and a tender father; Cheerfull without vanity, serious without formality, Wise without cunning, Religious without affectation; A sincere member of the Church of England, To whose principles in A most ficle age, he livd staddy and died with the decency and resignation of a Pious Christian; March the lat 1693 Anno aetatis suae 380.* (T.D. Whitaksr, L. AND E., p. 339).

His will was signed 19th February, 169112.

Re married 2nd gctober, 1676, Frances the daughter o f Sir William Lowther, o f Swillington andGreat Purst'on, Yorks; she died at Horsforth 8th F e b r w x y , 1717, and vias buried at Kirkheaton. Issue:

I. Richard, heir. in infamy.

Adam, Thomas, Frances, Mary;

all died

R I C H A R D BEAUMONT, born 2nd September, baptised 2nd

church;
October, 1677, died 27th June, 1704, b w i e d in Kirkheaton an inscription therein reads:

"Near this place Lye8 interrd the body o f Richard Beaumont of Whitley Hall, Bsqr. grandson of Sir Thomas Beaumont, and only son and heir of Richard

Beamont late
of the same place, Bsqr: by Frances his wife, daughter of Sir W i l l i m Lowther of Qreat Purston, Knt. He married Katherine, the only daughter of Thomas, Stringer of Sharleston Esq. and dyed the 27th June 1704 Without i6SUe. She afterwards W A S married to the Right Honble. Thomas Bar1 of Weetmoreland who after he.r death (which happend on the A of Feby. 17287'30) by the direction of her last will, hath caused this monument to be made and put up for the said Richard Beaumont EBq. her first Husband anno U 3 1 II

(T.D. Whitaker, L. and E. p. 339.)

In his will dated 8th January, 1703, he left money to apprentioe elght poor boys for ever.
8

sum of

He graduated at University College, Oxford, 1694/'5 and married at Kirkthorp 11th June, 1699, Katherine, daughter and heiress, of Thomas Stringer, of Sharlston, Yorks, she married secondly, Thomas Fane, sixth Earl of Westmorland, she died 4th Bebruary , 1729/30.
On the death o f Richard without issue the estates passed by will to Richard Beaumont, of Lascells Hall, the eldest surviving son of his great uncle Richard Beaumont, o f Lascells (sse p. 284).
October Rnd baptised at Kirkheaton 19thOctober 1670. Died 14th November 1723, and buried at Kirkheaton. Served Captain in Lord under the Duke of Albemarle in Jamaioa. Castleton's regiment o f the 4th Boot from 1692 t o 1700. High Sheriff of the County o f Yorkshire 1713 (F. Drake, EBomcm, p. 355).
He married at Kirkheaton, 14th October, 1700 Susannsh, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Horton, o f Barkisland Hall, Yorks. She wa8 baptised 31stMay, 1683, ; m d died 19th January, 1730; an inscription in Kirkheaton Church reads:

*Hare lieth the body of Swsanna the relict of Biahd Beaumont Bsqe

late of Whitley Hall by whom ahe had four sons

and eleven daughters.

She waa one of ye daughters and coheiresses of Thomas Horton Esqe of Barkisland Hall and died the 19th or January l730 in ye 48th year of her age.*
3n her father's memorial slab in Elland Church, sha is mentioned as having married Richard Bold of Bold and her sister Elizabeth as having married Richard Betiumont. Issue:

1. Richard, baptised at Kirkheaton 10th December, 1702, in London, before his father, and was buried in S. Andrew'a, Eolborn,
died

11, Thomaa, baptised 22nd May, 1707, died before his father 1st December, 1708, buried at Kirkbeaton. 111. Henry, heir.

IV. Richard, heir to hi8 brother Henry.

V. Prances, baptised 6th July, 1704, died 14th April, 1736, buried at Darton; married at Kirkheaton 23rd April, 1723, to (3eorge Beaumont, of the Oaks, Darton see p. 303, Their desoendant Henry Frederick Beaumont inherited the Whitley estates under the will of Riohard Henry Beaumont in 1857 bee P0306
VI. Anne, baptised 7th August, 1705, buried at Kirkheaton 21st January, 1706.

VII. A m e , baptised 24th August, 1708 died 24th September, 1730 buried at Kirkheaton, married at Kirkhe8ton 2nd April, 1729, Francis Watts, of Colne Bridge Forge.
VIII. Susannah, baptised 15th October, 1709;dieh buried at Kirkheaton.
in nfancg

IX. Susan, bagtiaed at Kirkheaton 26th'Juntt. 1711, married there on the 17th July, 1729, to the Reversnd Ssmuel Allen, Rector o f Sandbach, Cheshire.

X. Elizabeth, baptised at Kirkheaton, 7th August, 1712, died 2nd April, 1780, married the Reverend William Smith, Reotor o f Bumham, Norfolk.

XI. Everilda, born in London, died February, 1772 buried at Kingston-on-Thames, married ReverendJghn Ball Rector of Milbourne Port, Dorset, she had no iesue.
XII. Marg, born in London, buried at Kirkheatonlfjth August,
1771, married there 4th May, 1742, t o John Brewer, M.D.

XIII. Henrietta, 'born in London, married at Kirkheaton 23rd April, 1745 t o John Kaye o f Kirkheaton and secondly married

Yainwaring, London.

XfV. Charlotte, baptiRed at Kirkheaton, on the 2nd Maroh, and buried there on the 17th March 1720.

XV. Charlotte, baptised at Kirkheaton, 7thJune, 1722, aied Payne of August, 1766, buried at Marylebone, married John London and Says Court, High Sheriff of Surrey.
baptised 16th January, 1716, died unmarried 14th October, 1743., (Lond. Mag. 569), buried ;rt Kirkheaton, matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford 1736/7. At his death the estates passed to hi8 brother Richard.

HNY N"olil', ER

R I C H A R D BWWONT, born at Whitley Park 24th January,

1719/'20, died a t w i t l e y , buried17thSeptember, ,1764, at Kirkheaton. Be matrioulated at University College, Oxford 1738.

He was an ardent Jacobite, and in anticipation of the 1746 rebellion and of Prince Charle's vieit to his house he ordered a handsome m i t e of chairs t o be made by Mamaring, one o f the best known predecessors of Chippendale, these were upholstered in the RoyalStuart Tartan. They are illustrated in "Country Life" 3uly 29th, 1922 and were then in the possession of Mr. H.R. Beaumont, Bee p. 298

He married firstly Judith, daughter of Thomas Ramsden, , o f Crawston, Yorks, she was buried at Kirkheaton 1746 m& left no issue. He married secondly, 31at January, 1747 at West Harewood, Yorks, Elizabeth, daughter Rnd heiress of William Holt, of Grizlehurst and Little Mitton, Lancashire. She inherited these manor8 at her father's death. She m s born 19th November, 1728, bapzised at Simington 3rd December z in the same year and died t t York 18th August, 1791. (Gents. Mag. 875.) Issue:

I. Riohard Henry, heir. SI. Ch8rle8, of Staples Inn, London, born. 3rd July, 1750, In London unmarried 11th July, 1774, busied at S Andrew'a, . Eolborn.
died

111. Thomas, born 13th July, 1761, died unmarried 10th November, 1782, buried at Kirkheaton, he was a Lieutenant in the 4th Dragoons.

IV. John, heir to his eldest brother. V. Blizabeth, born 19th Dctober, 1753, d.s.p. 5thJanuary, 1814, buried at MirPield, married in October, 1774, at S. Saviour's, York, to George Bernard of Heaton Lodge, Yorks, Colonel 84th Regiment, and aftsrwards Lieutenant General in Eis llajeaty'e forces.
R I C H A R D HBNElY BEAUMaNT, born 23th February, 1748/9 died _unmarried sf Whitley 22nd November, 1810, buried in the
Church at Kirkheaton; Bnglieh saript:

a plain brass plate records, in old

"Ricardus Renricus Beaumont armiger Obiit XXIIO D. Novbris A D .. KDCCCX Aetatis Suas LXII.m

(T.D., Whitdser, L. A N D E., p. 340). He matrioulated at Brasenose College, *ford 1767, Hon. M.A. 19th January, 1771; F.S.A., J.P. for West Riding; High Sheriff for Yorkshire 1793. In 1781 he catalogued the Dodsworth W S . at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He gave S103 toward8 the re-building a f Ledgard bridge over the river Calder in 1798. In 1778 George Romneg painted his portrait, with his brothera Charles and Thomas and his sister Elizabeth and her husband They a m full length figures and 1tYe size, the canvas measuring eight feet ten inches by six feet eight inches. Richard is standing on the left wearing a soarlet coat, white satin waistsoat and breeches and silk stockings. Thomas stands by his side in a claret coat, khaki waistcoat and breeahes, seated on a ahair a little t o the right of the centre is Blizabeth in a white satin dress, low at the neck and elbow length sleeves, pointing t o a portrait of their brother Charles, who died before the picture was painted, this is held by Lieutenant General Thomas Bernard husband of Elizabeth, he wears a scarlet miiitary coat, J o b leans over the back of the chair on which his sister is seated, he is shewn in. green coat, tan waistcoat and black velvet breeches. Captain Henry Ralph ZIerumont sold it in 1919 to the National Gallery for 213,000 ( A R T COLLECTION 3 3 NATIONAL GALLBRY, p. 1' 56). In 1802 he gave t o the Bodleian Library a painting of Queen Elizabeth, the size being three feet five inches by two feet seven Inches. It Is a full face half length figure garbed in a white satin dress cut low in front, lace ruffs, stomacher, farthingale, sleeves richly embroidered in gold red and blue, pearl necklace. This is hanging on the west

wall o f the Picture Oallery, the painter is unknown. The letter offering the picture will be found amongst the MSS, in the library (Adds. A. 64, fol. 32). When presenting it he
said, it was formerly the property o f his father in law, William Holt, of Little Mitton.

M. r

He also gave at the same time a painting by Jordan of Sussnnah and the Blders, size eight feet six inches by 8even feet two inches but that does not appear to be in the Bodleian. In 1805 he gave to the University, aportrait bySirNathanie1 Dance Bolland of Frederick North, Earl of Guildford, Chancellor of the University 1772, he is depicted in his robes of office with the ribbon of the @arter. This hangs on the northwall of the gallery at the Bodleian, size four feet by three feet three inches. At the same time he also gave a portrait, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1755, of Charles Bitzroy Duke of Grafton in the robes of a Knight of the Q)srter. This is now at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. It is seven feet nine inohes by four feat nine inches.
His friend Dr. Whitaker in his preface to the aecona edition of THE HISTORY OF CRAVEN, says that .... .....wHl~ peculiarities were great; and his prejudioes strong, he had a clear understanding and a tenacious memory, which after his return from Italy, were devoted principally to the study of English history and antiquities. Inheriting a fine estate, and having never married, he became through the ardour of this pursuit, an hermit in a palace, for m c h was his house at at Whitley. He took a great delight in his other mansion Little Mitton, he was wont t o say that he contended with the owls for possession. His apartments were not merelystrewed, but piled with 'books and papers of his own transcribing. No man living had taken the same pains with Dodsworth's MSS., or was so well qualified to make an index t o that confused but valuable collection. As a magistrate, he was skilful and upright, but very irascible and altogether irreconcilable to everything which he thought improper in the conduct of his brethren. He was a warm and faithful friend and more especially a literary friend,subject to fits of resentment, but which if he thought well o f the objects ofthem, on the whole were ea8ilyappeased. To his indigent acquaintance the large sums which he professed to lend were eventually given. His liberality t o his immediate relatives knew no bounds but the extent of his means, and scarcely even that. With an income o f little less than S10000 per and no personal expense (for he was remarkably imttentive both t o his o w n comfort and to external appearances) his estate was left somewhat in debt. He had all the pride of ancient descent, and with it a high sense of honour, which together with his good understanding would not permit him t o be either duped or flattered by the ascription o f alliances to which he had no

an n.

claim ...,..... such were the mixed qualities, such the head and heart of this singular m m , delineated at a distance of time sufficient to d l o w the first feelings of surviving friendship %o cool, withmt partiality therefore, but not without affection."

3n his death without issue his estates passed t o his brother John.
J O W BmUMONT, born 29th August, 1752, died 12th January, 1820, buried at Kirkheaton, an inscription in the Church

rsada :
*Joanne8 Beaumoat Armiger Obiit 12mo Die Januarii 1820 Aetat 67".
Another monument records:

@In memory of John Beaumont of Whitley Hall who died the 6th of Jany 1820 aged 67

also in memory of Sarah Beaumont his wife who died at York the 13th of March 1807 sged 30. This small tribute of dutiful srfectjon is placed hero by their
only surviving child.*
B Lieutenant in the 29thFoot, CaptainYork Volunteers, which was enrolled in 1778. In 1816 he in common with most Ruglish landowners received an allotment of waste land under +,he kclosure Act. : His share being B field o f two sores, two roods and f i v e perches situated at Harrybower, 7uhioh adjoined his Lepton eatate (P.A. Collins, Parish Register at' Efrkhmton, A m . ae.).

He was

He married, at, Lambeth in 1'778, Sarah daughter orgranddaughter of the Revgrend Humphrey Butler, Rector of Keir, HerePord, she died 13th March, 1807, they had issue:

I, Charles Richard, preaeceased his father (see infra).

11, Charlotte, born at Kensington 30th April, 1779, died 16th August, 1815. A marble monument depicting a rent tomb, reclites :

894.

"In memory of Charlotte McCumming eldest daughter of John Beaumont Esqr of Whitley Hall who departed this life 16th August 1816, aged 36 years

also

Of

Sarah Elizabeth McCumming who departed this life 2nd Feb. 1816 aged 6 years. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. For the trumpet shall souna and the dead shall be raised inoorruptible."

She married at Holy Trinity, York, 14thAprll. 1801John McCumming Captain 31st Foot, Seigneur of Grand Vall6e de Monte& Lower Canada. Issue:

John Beaumont McCumming, born 1st He assumed the Beaumont name by Royal Licence 5th June, 1857; m w r i e d 10th August, 1833 Elizabeth Marianne, born 17th August, 1807, died 17th September, 1876 daughter o f Captain John Kiroapp, 4th B8gimetlt O f Foot. Issue!
(1) Richard Henry
May, 1804, died 22nd September, 1874.

la. Richard Henry, Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineers, born 12th December, 1841, d.3.p. 31st January, 1884.

2a. Alexander Spink, CaptainRogal WelchFusiliers, born 24th June, 1843, died 4th September, 1913, married of 24th January, 1872 Caroline daughter Sir Eraamue H. Giffes-Williams, Baronet, Chancellor Canon of S. Davids, of Llwynwormwood Park,. Co. Carmarthen.
3a. Lindaay, of Crosaland, and Force, Kampston, Beds. born 8th June, 1848, J.P. for Co. Bedford, Captain Duke o f Cornwall's Light Infantry. He married 29th January 1870, Alice Gibbs, daughter of H. Brandreth Esquire, of Houghton Hall, Dunstable. Issuer

lb. Richard Henry born 23rd March, 1885, married 30th September, 1909, Lily Nstalie, daughter Nathaniel Hildyard, Esquire, of Great Yarmouth.

Issuel
lc. Thomas Hildyard, born 24th May, 1911.

2c.
1913,

Alexander Bryce. born 6th November, (Burke's HANDBOOK OF GBBTRY).

(2) Charlotte Beaumont, born 29th June, 1802.

(3) Mary Anne, born 9th June, 1806.

(4) Sarah Elizabeth, born

9th July, 1808, died

2nd

111. Blizabeth Sarah, born 31at May, 1781, married at Kirkheaton 2nd October, 1813, Joseph Thomas Taite o f Pockington and Deighton Grove, Yorks e

&SUJ3S RICRARD BBlAUMONT, died at Camden T o m 18th Yaroh 1813/14 and buried in Hackney Church Yard, admitted to Lincoln's Inn, May, 1795. He matriculated at Brasenosa College, Oxford, 1796, B.A. 1803, D.C.L., *on, 27th April, 1808. Ha was constituted tenant for life of the Whitley
estates after the death of his father and Aunt Blizabeth, with remainder to his heirs by the will of his Uncle Riahard

Henry Beaumont
He married, 9th April, 1802, Martha daughter of Steghen Hemsted, K.D., of Ilsley, Berks, she died December, 1827. Is0uet

I. Riohard Henry, heir to his grandfather

11. W r t h a , born at Peppard Green, 3rd October, 1803, married June, 1827 Patrick McMahon, o f Addlestone, Surrey.

111. Sarah, born at Kackney, 20th June, and died 11th July 1810 buried in Hackney Church Yard.

R I C H A R D HENRY BEAWONT, born at Camden Town 5th August, 1836, d.s.p. 1857, and buried in Kirkheaton Chumh,
where a flat marble slab on the south wall records:

"In memory of Riohard Henry Beaumont Esq. Born August 5th 1806 Died Pebruarg lst, 1857."
He lived at Clarence Lodge, Roehampton. He was a Captain of the West Yorks Militia, Sub-Lieutenant 2nd Life Guards. He left his estates t o his godson Henry Frederick, eldest son o f Henry Ralgh Bsaumont of Bretton (seep. 306).
He married, 3rd December, 1831, Catherine, daughter of Timothy (? Henry) Wiggin, U.S.A. She died 6th January, 1903.

I3[$NRY FREDERICK BEAIIYONT, D.Litt . J .P., M.P., born , 10th March, 1833, died ;it Ascot, 6th actober, 1913. Educated at Eton and matriculated at Trinity College, Uambridge 1852; M.P. for the Southern Division of the West Riding of Yorks in the Liberal interest 1865-74. For Colne Valley 1880-92. Hon. Colonel of the 2nd Volunteer Batl;., West Riding Division; Vice Pstron o f t h e Yorkshire Archaeological

Society 1915. He presented theBetlumont Park t o Huddersfield and in return was made a Freeman of the Borough. He @V8 an old Masonic MS. six feet long and eleven inches wide, dating not later than 1690 to the MR8OnS of the Provincial Wand Lodge of West Yorkshire, Leeds, and it wa8 in s,n excellent state o f preservation and legibility, it was accidentally The first two lines read: disaovered at Whitley. "The charge is yt you should be true men to Bod and his Holy Church, yt you vs8 no herecy

Nor errors in yt vnderstandinge to Distract mens Ceachinge."

He owned some five thousand acres in Huddersfield, and in addition Nas the chief landowner in Mirfielcl, and he held a country seat at Tetworth, Ascot, Berks. His ren3 roll wag about &l2,000.
He married 1st September, 1857, at S. Qeorge(8, Hanover SqLare, Yaria Johanna daughter of Captain William Garforth, R.N. of Wiganthorpe, Yorks. Issue:

I. Henry Ralph, heir and ten other children.

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CHAPTER XVIII.

TKE: YORLCSHIEtE BUUMONTS

- THE BRETTON, BYWELL HALL, HEXHAM

Beaumont and Fletcher, THE FALSE ONE, 11. 1. 169.

ABBEY AND THE OAKS, DARTON, FAMILY.

"Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven;"

Bretton Hall is six miles from Barnuleg, Bywell Hall fourteen miles from Newcastle, Hexham Abbey is in Northumberland, Darton three miles from Barnsley, Chapelthorpe three miles from Wakefield, Coat of arms: Gules a lion rampant within an orle of 7 crescents arg. charged on the breast with a mullet for difference. A bull's head quarterly arg. and gulee Crest: horned per fesse or. and of the first.

GENEALOGICAL CHART

C.

1420

- 1911.

Roger of Crosslandfoss (see p. 267).

I
l
John

John Lawrence of the Oaks.

Lawrence. John. Thomas Renry. William. Nicholas. George. of the l Oaks. I I Catherine. I John d.8.p. I

I l I

John
d.s.p.

Tames. John

I I

p -

I I

298.

I
Harmnond.

-l

I I

Thomas ? of Flocton if so he is father of George of the Oaks as under

Phineas. John. Franc is. Ann.

I I George I

John. Qeorge William. Sarah. Mary. l b3.p. 1 Helen l d.s .p. I

Georoe Thomas. Jonathan. Mary. Jane. Anne. Sarah. l d.s .p. d.8.P.
I I

~~

~~

Thomas, Gteorge, L.L.B. Susannah. I (see p. 310).

Thomas Richard

--I

Sir T h o m w William Wentworth. d.s.p.

Richard. Edward Blackett. Henry Ralph.

I 1 I I
f

I
Averil.

I I I
l

I
I

I _ . -

I I

i I

Prederick Sophia. Louisa. Lucg Matilda. Edward Blackett

I
I

I
I

t I

I
I

Henry Thomas George Fred- Richard d.s.p erick. d.s.p. Heir to

the Whitley

Emily. Marit% Diana. Mari- Sophia. Catherine. anne .

estates.

299.

Wentworth Walter. Somerset Dudley Emma Florence. Blacket t . Archibald. Zamoiski. Diana. 1st Baron
Allendale,

Wentworth Edward Herbert Margaret Violet Amy Cmnfng de Bray Qeorge Harriet Augusta. Virginia. Blackett. Blackett. d e Burgh Blackett. 2nd Baron Blacke tt Allendale.

I I

Wentworth Ralph Margaret Aline Mary Agatha Diana. Henry Edward. Hilda. d e Burgh. Violet. Cazlning 3rd Baron

I l

Allendale.

LAWRENCE BEAUMONT, c f the Oaks, was second son of Roger, of Crosslandfoss, Yorks, the latter being the second son of Henry de Bellomonte, of Whitley, (see p. 267). He
was alive in 1483.

He msrried and had issue, a son:

I. John.

JOHN OF CROSSLANDFOSS, was born 11th October 1443 and

was alive in 1483.

He married and had issue:

I. Lawrence. heir.
11. John, alive in 1483.
111. Thomas alive in 1483, of the Oaks.

IV. Henry alive jn 1483. He had a daughter, Catherine, who married William Armytage oPKirklees, Yorks, the grandson of the latter married Margwet daughter o f Richard Beaumont of Elmley Park, Yorks (see p.319 ) .
V. William, alive 1483. VI, Nioholas, alive 1483.

VII. Oeorge.
LAWRarCE BEAUMONT, alive in 1495, had issue, a son John.

I. John, aljve in 1515 and died without issue, his estate passed to Richard Beaumont, who was possibly the sixthson of Henry and Johanna (see p. 267).
probably the third son of John (see supra) and great grandson of Roger, of Crosslandfoss, married a daughter of Potter and had issue:

THOMAS BEAUMONT, of the Oaks,

I. John, died young.

11, James.

111. John, heir.

JOHN BEAUMONT of Cottingham, Yorks, married Blizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cockle, of Wakefield, Issue:

I. Hammond.
11. Thomas. This is possibly the same as Thomas of Flocton, near Kirkheaton, Yorks, who died 1664 (see infra).

H A M M O N D BWUMONT of Fangfoss, Yorks, alive 1612. Married

Priscilla daughter of Francis Nalton, of Walkington,

Yorks.

Issue:

I Phineas .
11. John, born 1605, died circ. 1612.
111. Francis.

IV, Ann.

TOA BEAUMONT of Blocton, possibly the secondothers. Ils supra), Td son of issue,
John ( w e
i f so he had

George and

GEORGE BEAUMONT of the Oaks was buried 29th April, 1664, at Darton; where there was a cast iron memorial in the church t o the memory o f himself and wife. He left 2230 yearly t o the poor o f Flocton. He married Sarah, who died in 1646.

They had issue:

I. John, of Wolley Moorhouse, Yorks, baptised at Darton 1622, died February, 1652, buried at Darton. He married Helen, daughter o f Thomas Townend, of Hoyland, Yorks, and had issue a daughter Helen who died in infancy.
27th March,

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She married secondly Matthew Wilkinson, o f Greorrhead, Yorks.

11. George, of York, born and baptised at DartonllthJune,

1633, died unmsrried 1699. He was a Danzic merchant. In his will he pro-Jided %l53 for a monLment to himself to be placed in Darton Church, %l000 t o found a school at Darton

and 2500 to the poor o '1 London 11. 573).

(Joseph Eunter, S3IJTH YORgSHId,

1x1. William, heir.

TV. Sarah, horn 1626, died 16th February, 1691, and buried at Peniston, Yorks, She married 18th October 1656, Josiah and thereby became an Wordsworth, o f Waterhall, Peniston ancestress o r the poet. Josiah died 18th February, 1739, aet.

82.

V. Marg, married 18th June, 1657, Jonathan Shaw, of Hull

Bank, Bradfield.
W I L L I A M BEAUMr)NT, baptised 5th September, 1638, buried
at Darton 18th December, 1713.
Married 26th June,
1662 J m e , daughter of William (? George) Milner, of Burton Grange, Yorks, and the Old Hall, Rocklsy, Yorks, she was born in 1651 and buried in the church at Darton 29th May, 1719. Issue :

I. Qeorge, heir.
11. Thomas, of Chapelthorpe Hall, born 1675, died 30th April, 1731, and buried at Darton, he left no issue. He bequeathed S100 t o the poor of the parish &nd e 0 for Communion 2 plate for the Church of S. Helen at Sandal Magna, Yorka. In the church is a cast iron memorial, with letters in relief, the inscrigtion reads:
"Infra hoc marmor conduntur cineres
Thomae Beatumont

Nuper d e Chapelthorpe, Generosi; Qui vitam suam Pietate, temperantia, Justitih, munificientiil, Omni denique virtute, coelebs, exornavit. Hinc sibi monumentum Hoc marmore perennius exegit. Pauperibus de Crigleston c l De Darton c. libras In perpetuum legavit Ob. 300 Aprilis, A.D., W C C X X X I A 0 Aetas 660."

Translation:
this marble are laid the ashes of Thomas Beaumont formerly o f Clapelthorpe, of noble birth, who, a bachelor, adorned his life with Piety, Temperance, Justice, munificence and lastly with every virtue. Hence he raised to himself a monument more lasting than this marble. He liberally endowed in perpetuity the poor of Crigleston e160 ancl of Darton. El00 He died the 30th April A D 1731 .. in the 56th year of his age." 'Under
111. Jonathrzn. A Jona.than married Mary Whitehead of Lavenhaq Suffolk, widow, 16th February 1747 at S. Georgs's Church, Eyde Park Corner.

IV. Mary married James Smith, Gent., of Manningham. left no issue. V. J a m , married Abraham Hall of Booth To?, VI. Anne, married Thomas Dobson of Bingley,
Halifax.

She

VII. Sarah, married Roger Coates, she was alive in 1732.

VIII. Others who died in infancy.

GBORGTf BEAUMOW, of Chapelthor-pe, Yorks, baptised 6th September 1663 predeceased his father, and buried at Dartoa 4th June, 1712. He married about 1691, Bertrude daughter of John (? Willimn) Bagshawe, of Litton, Yorkfl, and Wormhill and Hucklow, Co. Derby. She was buried at Darton
11th September, 1703, a memorial was placed They had ieeuer in the church.

I. George, heir to his grandfather.

11. Thomas, died 1770. left no issue.
Rector of Bulwell, NottR.

He

111. Jane, died 1743, married Abel Smith, banker of East Stoke, Botts, she was grandmother of the first Lord Carrington.

IV. Mary married John Grammar, o f Pledwick, Yorks.

V. Bertrude, died 1761; married the ReverendThomas Hall, of Carcolston, Notts, afterwards Rector o f Westborough, Linc8,

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where she was buried.

VI. Sarah, died 14th July, 1695.

VII. Elizabeth born at Sandal.

VIII. Hannah,married Reverend Andrew Burnaby of Bampton Manor House, Vicar of's. Mary's, Leicester and Prebendary o f Lincoln.
IX. Others died young.

GE3RGB BEAUMONT, of The 3aks, and Bridgford Hill

baptised at Sandal 24thAugust 1696, died27thJanuary 1735, buried at Darton. A monument recorda: (3eorgius Beaumont, Gen.

Ob. Jan. 27, A.D. 1735 Aetat 400.

He was married at Kirkheaton 23rd April, 1723,

to Prances daughter of Richsrd Beaumont, o f Whitley, see p. 289, she was baptised 6th July, 1734, and died 14th April, 1735, buried at Darton. A memorial records:

'n Eadem crypta recumbit I Francisca, filia Ricardi Beaumont De Whitley, armigeri, IJxor Clara Georgii Beaumont de Darton Infra nominati gbiit 140. Aprilis Ao. Dni. 1735 Aetatis 32."
They had isaue :

I. Thomas.
11. Qeorge, LL.B. (Bee. p. 311).
Rector o f Bingham, Notts.

111. Susannah, died June 1804, married Reverend John Walter, They had no Issue.

at Whitley 6th March 1723/4, died 6th February, 1785 and buried at Darton. He bequeathed &l00 to the poor of' the parish. He married 1751, Anna daughter and co-heiress o f Edward Ayscough of Louth, Lincolnshire, She was born 1st January baptised at Louth 8th o f June, 1735 and died 14th December, 1778, buried at Darton, a memorial records:
18th

TH~MASof The Oaks, Darton, born BEAUMONT February baptised at Kirkheaton

#In eadem crypta requiescat Anna Bilia tertia

Edwardi Aysche, d e Louth, in Corn. Lincoln,

Uxor Thomae Beaumont, d e Dorton, armigeri; Natu lmo Jan 1735; obiit 14 Dec 1778 In memoriam Thomae Beaumont Armigeri, de Darton, comitatu EborAcensi Qui obiit 6to die Februarii. Anno Domini 1785 Aetatis,61."

Translation1
In the same crypt rests Anna 3rd daughter of Edward Ayscough of Louth in the county of Lincoln, the wife o f Thomas Bezumont o f Darton, gentleman, born 1st January 1735 died 14th December 1778. In memory of Thomas Beaumont gentleman of Darton in the ancient County of York, who died 6th day February A.D., 1785, aged 61.

On the road t o Staincross, on high ground, a little distance from Darton, is a lofty column with the following inscription:
"In memoriam Annae uxcris Thomae Beaumont de Darton hoc monwnentum Stat erectum, pro amore in optinam Conjugen cordatissirno Fuit una inter filias Edwardi Ayscoughe De Louth, in Corn. Lincoln. Nata lmo Jan. 1735 Denata 14 Dec. 1778.@ Translation:
"In memory o f Anna wife of Thomas Beaumont of Darton; this monument was erected f o r his dear love to his best wife; she was one o f the daughters of Edward Ayscough of Louth in the county of Lincoln, born 1st January, 1735 died 14th December1778."

They had issue:

I. Thomas Richard.
T H O M A S RICHARD BEAUMONT, o f the Oaks, Bretton Hall, Hexham Abbey and Marylebone, born 29th April, 1758, died :it Bretton Hall 31st July 1.829, his will was proved for S60,OOO. He matriculated :it Oxford 1777, Lieutenant Colonel 21st Light Dragoons, M.P. for Northumberland 1795 to 1818. He ma.rried in 1786 Biana, daughter and neiress of Sir Thomas Wentworth Blackett, Baronet, Bre,r,ton of Hall and Hexham A'bbey. The Hall was built by Sir William Wentworth in 1720. On the

death o f her father in 1792, she inherited these estates, together vlith lead mines in Northumberland and Durham. On the 24th September 1818 the Abbey was burnt down, it was rebuilt and is probably second to none in the county, with the exception of Alnwick Castle. She died at Bret%on Hall 10th August 1831 aet 68. They had issue:

I. Thomas Ventworth, heir.

11. William, born 1795, died anmarried 1872. Educated at S. John's College,Cambridge;admitted to Lincoln's Inn 26th February, 1813; B.A. in the same year.
111. Richard, entered the Royal Navy 1811. S e r n d onH.M.S. 'Venerable" oI'f Brest and the north coast of Spain1813, also in the West Indies. In 1825 he was in commaact of H.Y.S. "Weazle" in the Mediterrsnean. He married, 9th Bebruary, 1832 Honourable Susan Hussey Bosmell, daughter o f Major General Issue: Godfrey third Baron Macdonald.

(1) Averil, born 1834, married 10th November, 1870, Henry Hussey Vivian, first Baron Swansea.
(2) Richard, born 1836. Cambridge, B.A. 1859.

Matriculated Trinity College

(3) Son, born 1843.

IV. Edward Blackett, of Darfield, Yorks, and Woodhall, Lincs; F.R.A.S., F.R.S.,, D.L., J.P., born 28th June 1803 died at 33 Norland Square, Nottinq Hill, 7th June, 1878.
Captain 9th Lancers. Married at Dsrrington,Yorks, 25th April, 1825, Jane, daughter o f William Lee, of Grove Hall, near Ferrybridge, Lincs, and grand-daughter o f Sir Thomas Ventworth Blackett.

(An Edward Blackstt Beaumont of Woodhall married, 14th October, 1863, Lucy Matilda, daughter o f William George Margesson of Battle (? second marriage)). Issue:
(1) Prederick Edward. Blackett, born 22nd 3ctober. 1833 Educatad at Harrow and Woolwich, served in the Crime3 1855-6 and the Indian Muting 1857-8. 1859; M.P. f'or South Durham1868-1880. Colonel Royal Engineers
died 20th August, 1899.

(2) 60phia, born at Brettenham, Suffolk20th April 1828, and baptised there. Married at Darfield 20th April 1852 the Honourable and Reverend Percival Uleorge Willoughby o f 6 Edgerton Gardens, London and Rector o f Sandy, Notts. She died at Inglewood, Woking, 15th January and buried in S. John's Churchyard on the 18th January 1898.

306.

(3) Louise died 1913 aet. 82. Will proved &26135. Married 23rd August 1871, Samuel Warren, &.C.
(4) Lucy Mbatilda, married George Margesson of Vann and Oakhurst, Surrey, and Wooldringfold, Sussex, Esq.

V. Henry Ralph, of Newby Park, Ripon, born 1807, died 28th June 1838, matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 1824. He married 19tn May, 1831, Catherine, iiaughter o f Sir George Cayleg, Baronet, of Brampton, Yorks, she died 1887. Issue:
(1) Henry Frederick, 1 5 7 (see pp. 289, 295). 8'
inherited the Whitley estates in

(2) Thomas Richard, d.s.p.

(3) George, died young.

(4) m i l y , married 19th June 1855, the Reverend Richard Cholmondeley, Vicar o f Leeton, Salop.

(5) Maria Catherine.

(6) Diana, died unmarried.

(7) Midarianne, o f Portman Square, London died February 1858, married 21st September, 1837, to Edward Booth of Norwich, at S. Mary's, Marylebone.
(8) Sophia.

Married Baron

Botiel.

S I R THOMAS WENTWORTH BEAWONT, born at Old Burlington Street, London 15thNovember, 1792, died at Bournemouth 20th December, 1848. Educated at Eton, Commoner St. John's College, Cambridge, 1809; B.A. 1813; M.P. for Northumberland 1818-26, and lost his seat under circumstances which led to a duel on Bambourg Sands,with Mr. Lampton, afterwards Earl of Durham; M.P. for Stafford 1830-37. R e waa in Parliament a prominent reformer, and oneo f the founders of the WESWINSTER REVIEW, also a minor poet; some of his verses are found in W E A E ETONENSES , In 1809 he purchased the Bywell Castle estates containing about five thousand acres, and built a bridge over the Tyne there which cost a'bout &16,000. Henry VI took refuge at this castle, after the defeat of his army at the battle of' Hexham, the 15th May, 1464.

He married at Ripley, 22nd November, 1827, Henrietta Jane Emma Hawks, daughter o f J. Atkhson, Esquire, o f Maple Eages, Co. Stafford. She died22nd. November, 1861. Issuet

I. Wentworth Blackett, heir.

11. Walter, born 1836.

111, Somerset Archibald of Shere, Guildford, F.R.G.S., born 1836, his will was proved in 1922 for 42121,265. Educated at Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1854 he took his D.L. 3ne of the founders of the Anglo Austrian Bank. 1.. for Newcastle 1860-65, and Wakefield 1868-74. IP

IV. Dudley Zamoiski, born 1837, matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, i855, B.A. 1860; student at Lincoln's Inn 30th August 1860, called t o the Bar 6th June 1863. Married twice and had issue.

V. Emma Diana, d i e d 1874. She married in 1857 at S. Jmes's Church, Westminster, the Reverend Stopford Augustus Brooke, LL.D., incumbent o f the then very fashionable Church o f S. James, York Street, cvhere his eloquence and piety attracted large congregations. In 1872 he mas appointed Chaplain in Ordinary t o the Queen. In 1876 he removed to Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, and carried t h e whole congregation withhim. He seceded from the English Church in 1883. His son Stopford Brooke, born 1859, wa3 Liberal M.P. for Bow and Bromley 1906-13. A daughter married Doctor L.P. Jacks, of Manchester College, Oxon.
VI. Florence, married j n 1858 at S. James's, Piccadilly, George F. Marsh Esquire. She mItrried secondly 16th July, 1866, Baron ViccuzoPalumbo.

W E N T W O R T H BLACKETT BEAUM3NT, 1st Baron Allendale, born 11th April, 1829, died 1907, his estate was Yalued at Ed,50C,000. Educated at Hdrrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; D.L., J.P., Libera1M.P. for SouthNorthumberland 1852-85, M.P. for Tyneside division of Northumberland1886-92. He vas created a Baron 20th July 1906. He owned fourteen thousand two hundred and seventy nine acres of land in
Northumberland 01' the annusl value of 215076; nine thousand and fifteen acres in Yorkshire annual value 5218634 and eight hundred and four acres in Durham, annual value g960.

He married firstly 6th Marzh, 1856, Lady Margaret de Burgh, daughter of the first Marquis 0.f Clanricarde, she died 31stMarch, 1888, and he married secondly17thFebruarg, 1891, Edith Althea relict of Major General Sir George Pomerog Colley, K.C.S.I., and daughter ot' Major General Meade Hamilton,C.B. Her will was proved in 1927 (for 2.51647) 11927. Issue:

I. Wentworth Ann Blackett, heir11. Edward d e Grey Blackett, born 2nd March, 1862, died 1915-1918. 1907 Captain 16thLancers, Majcr Lancashire Hussars

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111. Eurbert George de Burgh Blackett, of Aylesbury J.P., bcrnin London 6thApri1, 1864, and died August 1922, his will was proved at &137,222. Bducatea at tilton m d Charterhouse, matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, B.A. 1886, 4th Mod. Hist., Liberal M.P. for Eastbourne 1906-10; High Sheriff 1919-20. During the great war he was Assistant Commissioner of the Red Cross in Italy. Married 26th May 1900, Eliza Mercedes daughter of Michael Paul Grace o f Battle Abbey, and Belgrave Square, London. She died 10th August, 1917. 18sue I
(1) Michael Wentaorth, born 6th February 1903. Married 29th, February, 1924, at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks the Honourable Faith Pease, younger daughter of Lord and Lady Grinford o f the Coldatream Guards and Votton House Aylesbury.

IV. Margaret Harriet Blackett, born 1859. Marriea 19th .May 1881 t o Copleston Richard George, 3rd Baron Poltimore.

V. Violet Augusta, died 1862.

VI. Amy Virginia married November 1880, Edward, 2nd Baron Brabourne .
wE2lTWORTR CANNING BLACKETT BRAUMaNT, 2nd Baron
Allendale, and created Viscount July 5th1911. Born at Bywell Hd.11 2nd December 1860, died 12th December 1923. His will w:is proved for 82,765,000. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, B-A. 1884; M.A. 1887; D.L., J.P. for West Riding and also for Northumberland; Liberal M.P. for Hexham 1895-1937; Vice-president of Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1876. Vice-chamberlain to the Royal Household 1905-7; Captain Royal WelchFusiliers and Yorkshire Yeomanry. Captain of' the Yeoman of the Guard 1907. Lord in Waiting t o King Edward 1911. His estates in 1873 consisted or some twenty four thousand acres and an annual value o f &34,000.

He married 12th November, 1889, Lady Alexandrine Louisa k u d daughter of Sir George Vane Tempest, 5th Marquis of Londonderry. Issue:

I. Wentworth Henry Canning.

11. uaraaret Helen, born 1892: Viscount Evrington.

married 8th February 1917,

111. Aline Mary d e Burgh, born 1895.

IV, Ralph E d m r d Blackett , born 12th

Feb-wsry, 1901, married

Christine daLghter of Brigadier General Cecil Wray 22nd March 1926.

V. Agathtt Violet, born 1903, met with an accident in the hunting field, 1925.
VI. Diana died 1897.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE YORKSHIRE BEAUMONTS

- THE BRIWFORD HILL FAMILY,

These are not dead their spirits never die.

East Bridgford is ten miles from Nottingham.

WNEALOGICAL CHART

1726-1856.

Qeorge, LL.B., second son of Georqe o f Bretton (see p. 303).

II Thomas. I
M8ry

Qeorge. Richard Walter. Henry. Abel. Frames. Charlotte. I Henry -I

Elizabeth.

I I I I

I l

Mary Elisabeth

I I

Henry Beorge, heir j to his Unole I I Thomas. Jamea Taylor.

iI

I I I I

Richard Qeorge. John Henry. Thomas Anne Charlotte. Henry. I Walter 1 Elliot.

I I

I \
II

iI
l

H e ~ aeorge. y
8tewart.

il
I

I I I I I

1I

C h a r Rich- Wal- Fran- Rupert Claude Gear- Cathter cis RenFred-inserine Henry Noel dall erick Annie Everilb8. l e ' . srd

I I

Son. Arthur Charles ter Leslle Emlyn. Qlynne

WRb

_ _ c .

--.-

II

adorge Her- Edward Robert Montagve Mary Florence Robert bert Thomas. Bullen. James CathI Blaakett. erine.

Rugert
c__-

Francis. Charlotte. J a m . Gusan. Mary. Elverilda. Ann d.s.p. Blisabeth.

BEAUM3NT, L.L.B., Cambridge, 1751, second son of George and F r a m e s of Bretton, (see p. 303), born 1726 died 17th May 1773. (Gents Mag. 303). He had an estate at Sandall. Rector of S. Nicholas, Nottingham. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Green, a merchant in Leeds. She was born in 1732, and died 26th November, 1792, buried in S. Nicholas Churoh (ibid 1153). Isaue:

&RGB

I. Thomae, heir.
11. George, o f C r o s e l m d s Hall, near Leeds; married Ann daughter of Francis Ridsdale o f Leeds. Issue:
(1)

Frvnces died unmarried in 1793.

(2) Charlotte died unmarried in 1797.

(3) Jane died unmarried 1793.

(4) Susan diea unmarried.

(5) Mary, died unmarried.
( 6 ) Everilda died unmarried 1864.

(7) Ann Elizabeth, marrieU at Gedlinq, Co. Nottingham 10th April, 1828 to Lieutenant General H. Huthwaite, R.A.

111. Richard Henry, of Astan, Warwiakshire, born 1761 died 1828, C a p w i n 84th Regiment, married in 1795 Ann daughter of glilliam Walford, of Penn Bank, Stafford. Issue:
(1) George, heir to his uncle Thomas, (see infra).

(2) Henry o f Edgbaaton, born 9th March, 1801, married 1st September, 1823, Elizabeth, daughter o f James Taglor,

Blsquire, o f Birmingham.
la.

Issue:

James Taylor, born 4th July, 1831.

IV. Walker, borr, 1767, died 12th April, 1841. He an8 his wife were buried in East Bridgford Church, where, a monument He married Csroline Clarkeon; she exists to their memory. was born in1772 at Loudwater, High Wycombe, 4th Maroh, 1861.
Imeue:
(1) Mary Elizabeth.

V. Henry, died young. VI. Abel, bsptiRed 23rd September, 1793, d.3.g. at Bridgford

Hill, 24th Januerg, 1858. A monument to his and his wife's memory is in the church. He married Jane Waite, she was born in 1792 and died 26th October,1834.

VII. Frances, born 28th April, 1756, married William Elliot Esquire, of Gedling House, Nozts.

VIII. Charlotte, born

John Swete, of Oxton.

9th December, 1765, married Reverend

T B o M A s BEAIJMONT, M.A., J.P., for county of Notts Clerk in Holy Orders, born 1754 died 25th August, 1835, there is also a monument to his memory and that of his wife in Blast Bridgford Church. He was Curate-in-Chargethere from 1792 1827. Educatea at Jesus College, Oambridge, B.A. 1778, M.A. 1826; ordained deacon 16th December, 1776 by the Bishop cf Peterborough in the chapel of Trinity College 1779. A Thomas was rector o f Cambridge,andpriestin lfreenfield and Branston Co. Leicestsr, 1793. He died without issue and his estate went to his nephew Seorge, son of his brother Riohard Kenry. He let't 2200 to the poor of the parish. During his residence i n Bridgford he built a house there, which was sold in 1907. He married In 1777, Charlotte, daughter o f William Huthwaite, o Nottingham, she died 9th Issue: November, 1830.

I. Mary Blizabeth, born 1777, died 19th July,(? January) 1786. She was buried in the chancelof S. Nicholas, Nottingham and commemorated by a memorial i n the churah East Bridgford. at

GE3RGB BEAUMaNT, born 1796 died 26th March1882, there

is likewise a marble monument in the churuh to hia and his wife's memories. He married firstly in 1821 Ana daughter of John Shilcoak, of Redmile Co. Leicester. She was born 1797, and died26th July, 1870 and secondly he married Theodoeia daughter of the Reverend Henry Hough, Recrtor of Redmile. died She 1870. Issue:

I. Richhrd Henry, heir.

11. George, of Old Hall, East Bridgford, bornlst December,, 1825, died 17th March, 1899. He and his wife are also COmrnemOrRted in the Church. He married in 1861 Ernmca, daughter o f the Reverend C. Heycock, Pytahley House, Northants. She was born in 1839 and died 16th July 1907, issue:
(1) Uharles, born 1808.
(2) Riohard Henry, born 1866.

(3) Walter Noel, born 1867.

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Prancis, born December, 2867, died February, 1868.

Rugert Kendall born 1870.
Claude Frederiok, born 1 ' 1 87. Georgina Ann.

Catherine Everilda.
111. John Walter born 1828, died unmarried 1848.

IV. Henry, born 28th June 1830, Town Clerk for Qrantham, Mzrried firstly 25th September 1868, Blizabeth daughter of John Stuart EdwardE, of Stanton Laceg, Salop, she died 1869, he married secondly 0th June, 1872, Elizabeth Anne, daughter o f James Lewis, o f Aigburth, Liverpool. Issue!
(l!

Henry Stuart, born 25th September 1868.

(2) George WalterQlgnne, born 4th January 1860, married Roee Osgodby, issue Dorothy,

(3) Son died In infamy.

(4) Arthur Leslie, born 6th August 1866.
(6) Charles Emlyn, born 21st May 1869. (6) Daughter died in infancy.

V. Thomas Elliot, o f Kenwood Bark, Yorks, born 1838. Educated at Trinity College Cambridge, B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864;
married 1882 Elizabeth Maria daughter of William J o b Rundle, Y.D., Gosport. Elhe died 1886,

VI. Theodosia, she died unmarried, 1850.

VII, Frames, died unmarried.

VIII. Anne Charlotte, married 15th September 1859 at East Bridgford, Fredsrick Ward of Park House, Stafford.
RICHARD m N R Y BEAUMONT of 31d T m f f o r d , Lsnoashire, born 1824, married 1864 t o Mary Purcell daughter of Robert Crofts BLllen of-' Ballgthomas House, Cork, Rsquire,
J,P.
Issue:

I. Qeorge Robert, heir, born 1856.

11. Herbert Blackett, born 9th December 1859.

514.

111. Edward Thomas, born 2lst January, 1861.

IV. Robert Bullen, born 27th January 1865.

V. Montague, born 27th JanuRry, 1865 VI. J a m s , born 33th September 1871.
VII. Marg Constance.

- twins.

VIII. Florence,
&ROE
R O B W T BEAIJMONT born 27th June, 1856.

Issue:

I. Rupert.

Living at East Bridgford January 1922.

THE YORKSHIRB: BEAUMONTS

THE LASCELLY HALL A N D MIRFIELD FAMILY.

"Our deede still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are."

aeorge Eliot, MIDDLBllbARCH, Ch. LXX.

Laaoells Hall is olose t o Kirkheaton.

@ENEALOGICAL CHART, circ. 1400-1668.

Henry B e a m o n t of Lascells Edll, eldest son of John fourth I of Henry and Johanns, see p. 2 ' . 67 l John. William. Adam. Robert. Thomas. Lawrence. Yargaret.
82 01

John

I I

Thomas
William.

I I

Henry.

I I I I I I I I Thomas. Niokolas. Richard.. Edward. Henry. Eliaa- Isa- Agnes beth. bella. I I 1 I I I Richard. Jane. Edward. Isabel. Alice. Founder I

I
Phillipa.

II

of the Calton Family. B O B g. 322.

William. Thomas. Richard. Marqa.ret. J o m . Thomas. Yary. Susannah. Katherine. Grace. Alice. John. Richard. William. Jane. Ilizabeth. Mary.

I I I Richard. I

I
I

Major Sir Thornas Rich- George. Ros:-t-Eliza- Anne. Winifred. Edary. inherited the ard. mund. bet h. Whitley estates, 888 p 276.

I I

-I

Qeorge, cousin t o Major Sir Thomas.

Charles. Margaret. Elizabeth. Prudence.
Thomas of Castle Hill Mirfield.

- I I

John. Richard. Edwbtrd. Anne? Yary?

H E N R Y BEAUMONT o f Lascells Hall, the eldest son o f
John, who was the fourth son of Henry and Johanncl of Whitley Park, 8ee p 267, . His will was proved 16th January 1468/9; he WELS buried in Kirkheaton Churchyard. He married circ. 1425 Joan, daughter and co-heiress of John Lascells, of Lascells Hall. She wae alive in 1448. Issue:

l 1

I. John, heir.
11. William, alive 1465.
111. Adam, alive 1466.

There was a Robert in IV. Robert, alive in 1468. Z Northumberland about this time, Arms A . a fesse arg. between three leopard8 heads Or.

V. Thornas, alive in 1465.

VI. Lawrence, alive in 1468.
VII. Marglzre+,, alive in 1484 Huddersrield.
She married John Hague o f
1483 Elizabeth, daughter

J3m BEAuMONT. He married of Cooke , Iasue:

I. John, heir.
11, Thomas had two sons.
(1) William.

(2) Henry.

JOHN B W U M O N T , died c 1642. In his will dated 1537, he "bequeathed his soule to Almighty God, and hie blessed
mother and Virgin Ladie Sancte Marie, and

all the cornpanye

of heaven, and his bodie to be buried i n the parish Church of Mirfield, To the High Altar 111s IVd.' He ordered his

goods t o be divided intothree parts Bone t o bring him forth another to Aliue hi8 Wyff and the 3rd to his Sower sons." It was proved lat o f January 154213. He bought 4th Outober, 1510, Castell Hall from John Oascoigne. It had previously belonged to the Mirfield and Heaton families,

He married at Yirfleld 20th June 1483, Alioe, daughter of John Sothill, or Sothill Hall, Yorks. Her dowrywas &30, ahe m alive in 1535, 9 They had issue:

I. Tharnas, heir,
11. Niaholas, alive 1633.
111. Riuhard alive 1633.

IV. Edward alive 1553.

V. Henry, alive in 1538.

VI. Bliaabeth a l i m in 1631.

VIII. Agnes alive in 1537, married Robert BZxrness,

IX. Philippa,
THOMAS B W W O N T of Lascells Hall and Heaton, buried in Mirfield Church 30th July, 1561. In 1642 he commenced the rebuilding of Castell Hall; it adjoirled the
west end of the church, w h e w stood a conical mound used in the defence of the Hall. An old gives its history in rhyme.

MS.

"In times of yore a Knight did dwell At Castell Hall, m a r Chagpel Well;
And Sir John Heton waa his name,

A worthy baron great in fame; Lord of this town, as story tells, When Chappel stood at Chappel Walls; He got this Church, parochial made,
And the foundations o f it laid. In the same place where now it stands Upon a portion of his own lands: Behind the house a mount appears, A lasting monument of gears; It was created by the Danes, And piled up with wondrous pains" A Saxon Lord possessed the same Before the Norman princes came,

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The Normans, next possession took, As doth appear by Domesday book, The Beaumonts did the plaoe command When Henry Tudor ruled the land, The house rebuilt, which ages stood, And Yront adorned with oarved wood, By Thomara B. the owners name Who lived and died in the same; Bells t o the Church %he living call, And t o the grctve they summon all, And when by death, one gets a fall He's neighbour then to Castell Hall".

(1)

(J. W, Whitaker, L. AND E , p. 366.) .

He married first, 3rd June 1533 Johanna, daughter an8 co-heiress of William Turton, of Yorkshire. She was alive In 1637; and secondly he married Agnes daughter o f Richard in 1593. Langley, she was born at Calton, and buried there

Issue l

I. Richard, heir.
11. Edward, Founder of the Calton famiiy see p. 322.
111. Jane married Richard Langleg Raysthorpe Hall, York6, of she had t w o children; her father's will was provedlst July, 1539 by his wife Agnes.

IV. Isabel, married cira. 1584 Richard Yorks, she had five children.

Darleyof Buttercramde,

V. Alice, married September 1660, Mirfield, Thorn28 Green, at of Barnby on Don.

R I C H A R D BEAUM3NT, of Lascells Hall, Xlmleg Park and Moor House, Elmleg, buried in Mirfield Church 4th April, 1570. He married 3rd o f June, 1633, KatherJne daughter of John Gascoigne of Lssincroft and Aberford, Yorka, Esquire. Her dowry was ninatg marks. She was buried in Mirfield Church Qth,January, 1578. Issue:

I. William, heir.
11. Thomas of.Nether Haugh, Yorks, living in London in 1584. 111. Richard, alive in 1569.
(I)

A local saying owing t o the Hall being so close t o the

Ohurahgard.

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IV. Margaret had two husbands the sesond being John Arrnytage of KirkleesandKerresforthHall. He was grandson o f Catherine daughter o f H e n r y B e w m o n t of Crosslands see p. 299. Iesue three 8on8 and one daughter.
V. Joan, was buried at Darton, her will was proved 23rd February, 1616/16. She married firstlyin 1669 Robtart Kolmes, of Barnby on Don, and aecondly Cordel Saville, of the same place.
Thornes in 'Lepton, born 3rd Deaembar, 1646, died before 9th April, 1621. He married 30th July, 1667, Rosamund daughter o f Richard Beaumont of Whitley, see g. 273. She was alive in 1674. Iasue:

I. Riehard, heir.
11. Thomas, o f Colne Bridge and Tibnether, near Kirkheaton, died before 9th Deoember 1646. In 1604 he was an officer in the Dutch asrvioe. He married Jennettdaughter o f Thomas Stafford, of Kirkheaton, she died 1041. Issuer

(1) John, heir, alive in 1668.

(2) Richard, died before gthDecernber, 1646. ARichard Kirkheaton 22nd A u p s t , 1637. Sgkes Beaumont died at
(3) William, alive in 1668.

(4) Jane, married Edward Hanson, of Nether Woodhouse, Yorks, he was born In 1621. She wlzs buried at Elland 28th March 1669.

(5) Elizabethmarried 9thDecember1646 (Roger?) Swallow.

(6) Mary married 9th December, 1646 Francis Blland o f Leeds. She was alive in 1668

111. Mary, married 16th February,

lWli2, at Mirfield,

John Burton.

IV. Susannah, married 5th January, 1601/2, at Mirfieid, GabrielHemsworth,ofGarforth. She was alive in 1612. Her son Gnbriel was one of the Commissioners aggointed by Major Thomas Beaumont t o treat for the surrenaer of Sheffield, t3ee p. 280.
V. Kntherine, died c i r c . 15th February 1632/3, her will She married Holt. was proved the following 5th July.

VI, Grace, married firstly Francis Saville and secondly

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Ralph Carr of Hague Hall, Yorks.

VI. Alice, married Robert Gargrave.

R I C H A R D BEACJMONT, of Rexbrough Hall and Castell Hall,

born15th January 15'70/1, buried rt Kirkheaton 14thMay 1656. He married firstly at Mirfield, 1st February, 1602, Anne daughter o f Robert Kage of' Wakefield. She was buried at Mirfisld Z3rd of May, 1616. He married secondly Elizabeth, daughter. of Michael Wentworth, of' Woolley and wldon o f Thomas Old field of WaalRnds. She was born circ. 1600 and was alive in 1657. Her T'ather died in 1041. Richard had issue by his first wife only:

i. Thomas, heir, he inherited the Whitley estates.

11. RichKrd, bagtized alive in 1632.

at Mirfiela 10th February, 1606,

111. George, baptized 19th March, 1611, buried at Mirffeld 14th Outober 1614.

IV. Rosamund, baptized 22nd August, 1603, buried at Mirfield 3rd December, 1617.
V. Elizabeth, baptised at Mirfield 3lst August, 1607, married there 18th June, 1637 t o John son of Vincent BeTerley of Great Smeaton, Yorks, d.6.p.
VI. Anne, was alive in 1654. She married firstly Joseph Binns o f Binns, secondly she married at Horbury 10th of December 1643 Anthony Loraine O F Horbury, thirdly married Wetherell o f Wakefield. She had issue by her first husband

only.

VTI. Winifred, alive in 1668, married 9th January 1628 at Darton, William Ashton, of Stanton, Notts.
VITI. Mary, baptised at
Mirfield 16th February, 1616 and buried there 23rd o f May, 1616.
M A J O R SIR THOMAS BEAUM3NT, born 1606, died 1668. Inherited the Whitley estates see p. 276 for the remainder of the history of the family. cousin of the above, probably son o f Richard, see p. 320. ( A George matriculated at Magdalene College, Cambridge1623, B.A. 1626/7, M.A. 1630). He was Rector of South Kirbg near Pontefract, having been presented to the living by John Armytage. In February 1648/9

GEORQE BEAUMONT, M.A.,

during the siege of Pontefract by the P u r i t m a , he kept up a correspondence with the Royalist garrison, under Major Morris by means of letterinoypher. He wasdetected by the Roundheads, imprisoned and loaded with irons and eventually hanged before the walls of the Caetle, one of his relative8 being forced t o assist at his execution. Yajor-General Lambert was in command of the Puritans at the time. The notice of the interment in the parish register reads: "1648 Yebruary 18, Mr. Beaumont, Vicar of South Kirby," William Winstanleg in his "Loyal1 Martyrology" 1665 p. 27, says "Master Beaumont a Reversnd Divine belong to the Garrison of Pomfract, who for his Loyal1 Endeavours towardsthe Restoration of his Majesty in holding Correspondencp in CyFher with some Active Royalists, wasby those Murdering Miscreants,who spared none, either for their Age or Function, most barbourously murdered Peb. 15. 1648." An engraving is shewn in the frontispiece of the book. He married Isabel who was buried 21st Hovember, 1657. Issue :

(1) Margaret, baptised 9th September, 1640. (2) Elizabeth, baptised 19th February 1642/3.
(3) Prudence, baptised 22nd April, 1645.

(4) Charles, 'baptised 28th January 1647/8. Hunter's S3UTH YORKSHIEIE, 11. 449).

(Joseph
had issue:

T H O M A S BEAUMONT of Castla Hill, Mirfield,

(2, Richard.

(3) Bdward.
(4) Anne, baptised at Mirfield 25th February, 1609,
marriep there 9th November, 1630 t o William Cates, of Woodside, Yorks. She died 1663.

CHAPTER XXI .
THE YORKSHIRE BEAIMONTS
YFeLme is
&B

- THE CALTON FAMILY

incense borne uponthe wind."

FIRST EPIBTTB ON HAPPINESS, p. 6. Thomas Parnell, D.D.

Calton is about seven miles from York and one mile from Stamford Bridge.
GENEAL3C+ICAL CHART circ. 1535-1610. Bldward second son of Thomas and Johanna o f LElsoells Hall I see p. 318.

Chris- Thomas. Francis. Mar- Anne. Iea- El.iza- bughter. Alice t opher . gsret . bella. beth.

Richard. Edward. Elizabeth. Marg. JHne. Anne? Dorothy.

-II

EDWARD BEAUMONT, of Calton, W A S the second son of Thomas and Johanna, of Lascells H ~ 1 1 . He was under age in 1556 and died in 1596, buried at Calton. He married at Mirfield
3rd August, 1671, Elizabeth,, daughter o f Christopher Hopton of Armleg. She was buried at Mirfield 24th July, 1588. issue:

I. Christopher, heir.
11. Thomas, of Selby, baptised at Mirfield 23rd February 1580, died 1615, and buried in Calton Church.
111. Brancis, buried at Mirfiela 24th November 1578.

IV. Margaret, buried at Mirfield 26th April 1580. V. Anne, bsptised at Mirfield 7th April 1577, she married Michael Portington of Portington, Esquirs in1612. They had four chilUren.
VI. Tsabelln, baptisedat Mirfield 17thAugust1578, married Richard Darley of Butterscombe.

VII. Elizabeth, baptized

at Mirfield 10th December 1681.

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VIII. Daughter, buried at Mirfield 8th April, 1585.

IX. Alice, baptised at Mirfield 25th December 1586, married Thomas Green, of Barnby.
CHRISTOPHER BEAUMONT o f Millinqton and Calton, baptised at Mirfield 7th August, 1575, buried at Calton 16th April, 1613, he married 20th October 1612, Elizabethdaughter and heiress o f Roberr Day, o f Elmsall, Yorks. Issue:

I. Richard, heir.
11. Edward, alive in 1629. 111. Elizabeth, alive in 1630.

IV. Mary, married 19thDecember, 1630,William Thornbrough.

V. J a m , married, 1629, Henry Leeds.

VII. Dorothy, of Sutton, married in 1627 or 1630, Marmaduke

Pool9

RICHARD BEAWOBT,

born 1610.

A Riuhard Beaumont married a daughter o f Robert Lovell, of Skelton, Yorks, somewhere about this period.

U e T i e ended; but my hopes and feara begin: Nor utan It be imputed as a sin In me, to wish it favourDa
Epilogue, TfE COXCOME 11. 907.

Beaumont and Fletaher, 1839 ebition.

This has been the work of odd moments together with uncounted hours of researeh extending over many years; the difPicultiea whiuh at times have been great lead UEI to sympathiee with Anthony Wood, the Antiquarian, when he wrote (EIBT. AND ANTIQ. UNIV. OXON.) "A painefull worke it is I l 'l a8sure you, and more than dirfioult wherein what toyle hath been taken, as no man thinketh, a.0 no man believeth, but he that hath made the triallDu
It has nevertheless had its aompensations, Por It has been a faecinating work of oonstantly growing and engrossjng We now send it forth into what we realise may interest. prove to be a cold domain, where it will be critiuised and
eventually possibly lost in the baukwater of the literary world; in so doing we ask "Is this task done?" and as we listen, a, distant voice replies "'Tis scarce as yet begun" (LIVES OF THE LINDSAYS, Lord Lindsay). We therefore leave it as anheritage t o some member of a succeeding generation of the family to take up, feeling assured that further researoh will reveal more and more information on the deeds of our gallant anosstora.
W e oonsole ourselves with the thought, that our hours will not have 'been spent in vain, if they have theraby made more available information, which otherwise many uould not have obtained., andall such will we think agree, that

"The plan Is laudable, e'en though the aim Our humble power, may ne'er at length attain, In diligenue and toil there wanted nought." (1) In conclusion we would sum up our work, in the wordra of Thomas Hill, in his work "THE PR3E'FITABLE ARTE OF QAEiDRNINGBw, 1568. *Thus rudely haue I ended my booke... .... and yf' to some (U Goethe, T3RQUATO TASSO, Aot IV. Sc. 4 (Des Voeux Translation).

men I shal seeme not fullye t o haue satisfied their deWref3 herein, acoordinge t o their exgeotation, Or notSO C-inglYe haue handeled the same, as the matter itself0 offereth and is worth18 of......then I rererre my selfe wholye t o ye learned correction of the wise, desyrgnge thenu frendelYe to geeve knowledge t o the printer, or to me, and beinge detetrted o f my faulte, wyll wyllynglge correct and amende the same: for welle I wotte, that no treatise can alwaies 80 workemanly be handeled, but that some what sometimes may fallout amiase, oontrarie both t o the minde of the wryter and contrarie to the exgeotation of the reader. Wherefore my petition to the gentle reader is, t o accept these my treuails, with that minde I do offer them t o thee, and t o take gentelge that I geeve gladly, in 80 doinge I shal thinke my pagnes well bestowed and shal be encouraged hereaftar to trust more vnto thy ourteeye . . . ...
and therefore gentle reader once againe I crave at thy handee the thankfull aooegting of these rude labours of myne, and thus, the favour of Bod bee with thee

slwayes.

"Their bodies are buried in peace4

but their name liveth for mole-slasticus xliv. 14.